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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 228 My father's words recurred in my memory: "The fate is upon you".
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4 34 When he was near, he shouted to me, the words merry but indistinct in the rush of air.
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5 77 "You're not—frightened?" I asked, stumbling on the words, feeling stupid.
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11 100 She looked into my eyes, her lips trembling, the words stumbling but audible.
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12 38 The words came hard.
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19 92 Such words had never before been spoken on Gor.
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Book 2. (23 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 47 "Harrison Smith!" He lifted me easily to my feet, his words rapid and stumbling, trying to reassure me.
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1 100 "What does that mean?" I asked, my words fumbling a bit, blurred by the liquor, made unsteady by my fear.
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3 77 It was hard to understand the words, for those of the lonely Caste of Woodsmen do not often speak.
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5 75 He seemed to be struggling with himself, as though he wanted to speak his own words and not those of the Priest-Kings.
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5 77 One hand stretched out to me, and the words, his own, far from the ringing authority of his former tones, were hoarse and almost inaudible.
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8 44 When words were exchanged, they were whispered and curt.
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10 26 How would my word, the word of a stranger, weigh against the words of Ost, a citizen of Tharna and perhaps one of significance? Yet, incredibly perhaps, I looked forward to seeing the palace and the Tatrix, to meeting face to face the unusual woman who could rule, and rule well, a city of Gor.
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13 155 There was a tenseness in the air, as all waited for the words of the Tatrix.
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13 157 Her words were clear, unmistakable.
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14 78 "You will be dead soon enough," he said, stammering on the words.
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15 103 At last the words came out, slowly, carefully formed.
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15 130 Her words were like drops of acid.
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15 163 The words came hard to her.
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18 158 "Get them out of the cell!" But my last words were drowned in a hurtling plunging cataract of water that shattered on my body like a great fist, knocking my breath out.
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19 89 "Yes!" I cried, and such words had never before been spoken on Gor.
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19 158 The words of the man of Ar, he who had worn the robes of the Initiates, he who had brought me the message of the Priest-Kings on the road to Ko-ro-ba that violent night months before, rang in my ears, "Throw yourself upon your sword, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" But I knew then that I would not throw myself u...
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21 231 And as I paused before each beauty in that chain and met her eyes and heard her words, "Buy Me, Master," I asked myself why I should not buy her, why I should not free her instead of the other girl.
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21 249 The words were soft, but clearly and unmistakably spoken, "Buy me, Master".
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22 148 They were the last words she would hear as a free woman.
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24 40 Andreas, who was stuffing a piece of bread in his mouth, responded, his words a cheery mumble.
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25 20 "I have won," he said, the words spit out in a sort of whisper, a contorted grin on his face.
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26 32 "And add to the golden tarn disks," she had exclaimed, "tarn disks of silver to be formed from the masks of our women, for henceforth in Tharna no woman may wear a mask of either gold or silver, not even though she be Tatrix of Tharna herself!" And as she had spoken, according to the customs of Thar...
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26 75 I wondered at her words.
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Book 3. (31 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 12 And only with harsh words could I drive it away, and when it disappeared in the distance, puzzled, perhaps hurt, I wept.
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2 5 He could not read the manuscript, as it was written in English, a language as foreign to him as Gorean would be to most of you, but yet he would treasure the manuscript and guard it as though it were a most precious possession, for he was a scribe and it is the way of scribes to love the written wor...
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4 156 I recalled Parp's words: "until it is time for you to be destroyed".
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6 98 "You are not going to leave the chamber, are you?" asked Vika, the first words she had said to me since the meal.
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7 106 I remembered Vika's words: "When the Priest-Kings wish you, they will come for you".
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9 85 After a time she spoke, her words cruel with contempt.
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10 20 One must be careful of what one says in the tunnels of Priest-Kings, for one's words may linger after one, until they sufficiently dissipate to be little more than a meaningless blur of scent.
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10 31 I do not know whether there are more morphemes in the language of the Priest-Kings or in English, but both are apparently rich languages, and, of course, the strict morpheme count is not necessarily a reliable index to the complexity of the lexicon, because of combinations of morphemes to form new w...
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11 35 The translator, incidentally, supposing it to be turned on, would provide only the translation of what was said, and the words, unless the volume control was manipulated during the message, would always occur at the same sound level.
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11 36 An analogue to listening to a translator would be to imagine words as pictures which, in the same type face and size, flash serially on a screen.
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12 140 I wondered about what Misk meant by 'processing' but Sarm's words irritated me, as did the two grave, handsome fellows who had so spontaneously groveled before his dais.
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12 179 No sooner had these words been emitted from Sarm's translator than the two slaves leaped toward me to seize me.
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13 19 Certain juxtapositions of these phonemes and phoneme combinations, naturally, form words.
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21 39 The words were in archaic Gorean which I find very difficult to understand.
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25 19 Well could I imagine her fury upon the receipt of this announcement, a fury not diminished in the least by the knowledge that the words I spoke were simply and prosaically true.
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25 135 She looked up and her eyes were wide and her words were scarcely a whisper.
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25 171 The words were spoken very softly, very slowly, haltingly, painfully, and it must have cost the proud girl of Treve much to speak them.
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26 83 At these words Vika suddenly turned to face me, desperately, her back against the plastic side of the case, the palms of her hands against it.
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26 259 As the girl spoke and I tried to lightly dismiss her words, I wondered at the long processes of evolution that had nurtured over thousands of generations what had in time become the human kind.
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26 267 Yes, I said to myself, the words Vika spoke were perhaps not as strange as I had thought.
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27 195 Among the words I heard were "He must die," "Kill him," "Death to the Mul".
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27 233 "It is not done," he said, echoing words I had heard once from Misk.
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27 281 Suddenly, strangely carried on the many translators in the room, were the words, "I remember him—I have never forgotten him—in the sky—in the sky—he with wings like showers of gold".
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27 319 I could barely hear the words from the translator.
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28 121 "I love you, Cabot, my Master!" I knew the words she spoke could not be true but I did not rebuke her.
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30 2 I heard the words from somewhere, vague, distant, and I tried to move but could not.
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30 132 "Perhaps more power," said Parp, raising his voice so that his words might be carried by Sarm's own translator.
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32 214 When he had first spoken to me I knew now he would have been under the control of Priest-Kings, that his control net would have been activated and his words and actions dictated, at least substantially, from the Scanning Room below, but now the Scanning Room, like most of the Nest, was demolished, a...
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33 93 The words for "stranger" and "enemy" in Gorean, incidentally, are the same word.
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34 15 "We do not know," said the Older Tarl, for my father could not bring himself to say the words.
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35 123 "Howsoever I spoke," said Misk, "words cannot diminish men or Priest-Kings—for who cares what we are—if we can act, decide, sense beauty, seek right, and have hopes for our people?" I swallowed hard, for I knew I had hopes for my race, and I sensed how Misk must have them for his, only...
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Book 4. (14 results) Nomads of Gor

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7 74 Although there were risks involved I tried to translate as exactly as I could, letting Miss Cardwell speak as she would, though her words must often have sounded fantastic to the Tuchuks, for it was largely of a world alien to them that she spoke—a world not of autonomous cities but of huge n...
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2 41 The words for stranger and enemy in Gorean are the same.
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3 109 "Beware," I warned, "lest I take your words as insult".
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6 47 There was also lettering in the shoe, but the script and words would have been unfamiliar to Goreans.
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6 68 The girl's eyes looked at me, she scarcely believing the words she had heard.
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7 73 The translation, as you might expect, was a difficult task, but I attempted to convey as much as I could of what the girl, piteously, the words tumbling out, attempted to tell me.
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8 80 Of course, Kamchak had rented three Turian girls, slaves, to train her; they had done so, binding her wrists and leading her about the wagons, teaching her the words for things, beating her with switches when she made mistakes; Elizabeth had learned quickly.
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10 69 And indeed it was a free woman who cried those words, Dina, a free woman of Turia.
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10 101 When I had returned to the wagon Kamchak's first words to me had been, "I hope you got a good price for her".
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10 116 Kamchak's words had disturbed me as well.
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12 3 I knew that in that wagon, if the words of Saphrar were correct, there lay the golden sphere, doubtless the egg of Priest-Kings, which he had, for some reason, seemed so anxious to obtain.
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12 484 She was of Earth and knew not the flames which her words might have evoked in the breast of a Gorean warrior—nor did she understand herself truly nor the relation in which she, slave girl, stood to a free man to whom she had been for the hour given—I could not tell her that another war...
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13 202 He could never, like most native speakers of Gorean, properly handle the "w" sound, for it is extremely rare in Gorean, existing only in certain unusual words of obviously barbarian origin.
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25 370 "That is nonsense!" "I do not speak of the words that are used, or how men of Earth would speak of these things," I said, "but of what is not spoken—of what is implicit perhaps in what is said and taught.
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Book 5. (18 results) Assassin of Gor

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1 28 They are silent, for at such a time words mean nothing, and would demean or insult; in such a time there can be for Goreans only silence, memory and fire.
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5 170 There was rather only a set of odors, secreted from his signal glands, picked up by the translator and transduced into mechanically reproduced Gorean words, each spoken separately, none with emotion.
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5 242 Accordingly we developed this device, not too difficult with the single, rather simple brain of the human, which so orders the brain that it can recognize letters, in various forms, and words.
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5 263 "When can we start?" "We are finished," said Kusk, the words coming, even-spaced, from his translator.
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5 284 "Sometimes it takes a quarter of an Ahn before the initial adjustments take place, basically the recognition that the sounds they spontaneously associate with the marks are actually the words of their language.
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5 285 In a short time she will easily read the marks as words, and not as mere patterns associated with arbitrary sounds.
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5 450 Then the words came forth from the translator, spaced evenly, without expression.
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12 73 "There are those who might not care to hear such words".
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15 45 It was only on the third time that she managed to satisfy Ho-Tu, when her eyes, her lips, the carriage of her body, the words she whispered seemed to him adequate.
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15 224 I think she did not realize how true her words were.
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16 272 Vaguely I was aware about me of the sounds of men, tense, speaking curt words, mounting into the high saddles of tarns.
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17 407 And I, too, though the words nearly stuck in my throat, so acclaimed Cernus.
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18 520 I nodded once more, accepting his words.
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19 48 "This is the Curulean," I heard Philemon of Tyros say, the words sounding far off, blurred through the hood.
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21 94 I heard their words not plainly, his question, her asseverations of passion, mixed in the meetings of their mouths.
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22 355 I would miss Mip at my stirrup, his grin, his advice, the counsel, his cheery words, the last slap at my stirrup.
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22 480 The screams of the crowd were now deafening, though one could make out no words; the effect of the sound, as I flew through it, was, as I had often found it, a fascinating phenomenon, its pitch varying considerably, as one would expect, with my speed and position, particularly as I made the turns.
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24 325 She looked at him, unable to comprehend his words.
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Book 6. (13 results) Raiders of Gor

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3 252 It had seemed the words had scarcely been mine.
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3 253 "No, No," I said again, the words again seeming almost those of another.
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10 186 I recalled that the words of the seaman had been dismissed.
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11 320 "Henrius Sevarius, the Captain," said Samos, in measured words, "may, however, find that the council is less inclined to lenience than he".
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11 363 Even the page boys and the scribes, and minor captains, in the back of the room and about the sides, cried out these words.
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11 424 His words received grunts of affirmation from the assembled captains.
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11 447 And I think there were none then in that room who did not hold his breath for that moment, to hear the words of Samos.
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11 511 Let us consider his words with care, and favorably.
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11 573 "Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intent...
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15 852 And then the words that I spoke did not seem to come from me but from something within me that was deeper than the self I knew.
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15 853 Not since I had knelt bound before Ho-Hak on the rence island had such words come from me, so unbidden, so tortured.
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17 154 Surely there must be others more fitted than I to assume the responsibilities of such words, sending men forth to fight, to die or live.
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17 155 What would they think of me as they fell beneath the cold waters of Thassa or reeled from the blows of sword blades, their death's blood in their mouths? Would they sing me then? And what guilt must I bear for each of those deaths, for it had been my words, those of an ignorant fool, which had sent ...
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Book 7. (8 results) Captive of Gor

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7 258 Neither of the girls, however, spoke German, of which I had learned a few words, or French, which I can speak with some fluency.
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10 301 I could tell he would choose his words carefully.
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11 1134 I thought of them, dressing for men, trying to please them, though not much caring for them, to advance themselves in powers and luxuries, using their bodies and minds, their smiles, and glances and words, and touches, clumsily perhaps, not having been trained, to obtain their desires of foolish, st...
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11 1328 But I could not form the words, so frightened I was.
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13 805 "Will you—" I asked, "will you keep me for yourself?" I had resolved not to inquire into such matters, but the words came out.
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13 1183 I shall never forget the words he spoke, which so terrorized me.
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15 200 Yet I heard the words.
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17 456 I could be lonely, and hunger for his touch, his mouth, his words, his hand on mine, but I knew he lived, so I could not be truly sad.
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Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

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10 217 And I understood then that our simple words for emotions, such as pride, and hate, and fear, are gross and inadequate.
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11 563 The words that she had spoken stunned us, all save Marlenus.
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13 150 She put her head, too, to the sand, and spoke, rapidly, trembling, the words tumbling forth.
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16 14 I had heard fierce words being exchanged between them.
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16 269 "If any man of Tyros falls," he cried, "ten slaves will die!" Scarcely had his words been uttered when he, himself, fell, an arrow from the great bow lost in the yellow of his tunic.
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Book 9. (11 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 170 It is not that they have not learned but, having learned, they find they cannot tell what they know, for only words can be told, and what is learned in living is more than words, other than words, beyond words.
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1 171 We can say, "This building is beautiful," but we do not learn the beauty of the building from the words; the building it is which teaches us its beauty; and how can one speak the beauty of the building, as it is? Does one say that it has so many pillars, that it has a roof of a certain type, and suc...
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1 197 "Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which ...
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2 325 When the High Initiate finished his prayer, the other Initiates began to sing a solemn hymn, while the High Initiate, at the altar, his back turned to the congregation, began to prepare, with words and signs, the grease of Priest-Kings, for the anointing of the bones of Ivar Forkbeard.
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8 235 Words were exchanged.
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11 81 Still I regarded it unlikely that these Kurii were from as far north as his words might suggest.
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11 228 Among the Kurii, in their various languages, were words referring to edible meat, food.
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13 64 Many heated words were passed between them.
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14 179 I recalled its words on the platform of the assembly, in the field of the Thing.
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15 55 I could imagine the words on Misk's translator, one after the other, ticked off mechanically, "We have given our word".
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18 497 Lying in the dirt, her legs drawn up, her wrists tied behind her back, was the deliciously bodied little wench, dark-haired, in gold silk, now dirtied and torn, in golden collar, and gold earrings, who had exchanged words with Ivar's wool-kirtled wenches at the Thing.
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Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 143 "Listen carefully, for they may be the last kind words you will hear for a long time".
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4 129 The first Gorean words the Earth girl had been taught, and she had learned them in the pens of Samos of Port Kar, were "La Kajira," which means "I am a slave girl".
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10 379 The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child...
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16 173 I then understood, from his words, the meaning of the scarcity of food in the pit.
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17 94 One must speak carefully whose words become law.
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24 496 It was not I who spoke but something else, the words themselves".
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24 526 Indeed, my judicious, relentless tormenting of her, the cruelty of my questioning, had done much to confirm not only the words of Ibn Saran, but my own conjectures.
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24 602 "Is it not now time, woman of Earth," I asked, "for you to attempt to manipulate me by utilizing persuasive discourse, belittling expressions, scorn words, the abundant, pathetic panoply of cultural artifacts designed to confuse and dominate males.
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24 687 I might even, I thought, put her in the bondage of the she-sleen or she-tarsk, and deny her words, refusing to let her rise to her feet, and limiting her discourse to small sounds, whimpers and such, by which she might attempt, as she could, to make clear her wants.
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26 1135 "I want to love you as—let me speak it, if I may, my Master—as a helpless slave loves her master!" "Clever, cunning words," I said, "from a clever, cunning slut of a slave".
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26 1210 Priest-Kings, of course, who are accustomed to think directly in terms of realities and consequences, not words, had not permitted this same insane duplicity to be practiced upon their gullibility.
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26 1211 They do not shrivel before the moral fervor of fanatics; rather they seek to look behind words, discarding them as largely meaningless, to discover what is truly meant, what is wanted, what is being striven for, and, if these programs and policies are implemented, what will be the nature of the resu...
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Book 11. (34 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4 751 None in the camp save I myself understood my words, but, clearly, they were uttered in wildness, in hysteria, in rage; they were words, clearly, of protest, perhaps even of hysterical rebellion.
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9 1021 It would be difficult to put into words; indeed, it is perhaps impossible to put into words; I shall not try.
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1 119 Those who have never breathed the air of a clean world cannot understand my words.
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2 556 Why did he not speak to me? Any gentleman, surely, by now, speaking reassuring, soothing words, averting his eyes from my beauty, would have hastened to release me from my predicament.
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2 918 Never before had I so clearly, and profoundly, understood the meaning of those words.
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3 47 Call words were exchanged.
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3 472 Others, perhaps, stricken and confused, would have blubbered and stammered, looking away, covering me with their coats, speaking tumbled, incoherent, soothing words, solicitous and hypocritical.
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3 590 Before they had not even taught me the words for "Run" and "Fetch".
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3 595 The first words I had been taught were "Kajira," which my captor had addressed to me, and "La Kajira," which expressions I understood, from Eta's example, I must utter to my captor.
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3 602 Then, overwhelmingly, irresistibly, like a cry of anguish, it welled up within me; I could no longer ignore, suppress or repudiate it; no longer could I, like a foolish girl of Earth, deny and flee my reality; the comprehension, insistent and explosive, overpoweringly, erupted within me; I was naked...
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3 604 "Kajira" and "La Kajira" are often the first words a girl of Earth, carried to Gor, must learn.
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4 308 I repeated these words.
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4 312 Gorean, as I would learn, is rich in words borrowed from Earth languages; how rich it is I am not a skilled enough philologist to conjecture.
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4 315 Borrowed expressions, as in linguistic borrowing generally, take on the coloration of the borrowing language; in time the borrowings become naturalized, so to speak, being fully incorporated into the borrowing language; at this point they are, for all practical purposes, words within the borrowing l...
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4 316 How many, in English, for example, think of expressions such as 'automobile,' 'corral,' and 'lariat' as being foreign words? "Collar!" I said.
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4 504 It was not as though she were a free woman whose anger might have significance, might even issue in actions or words, free from the reprisals of discipline.
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4 691 They hung upon his words.
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4 1003 My master spoke to him, briefly, no more than four or five words.
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4 1009 I could not understand the precise meaning of the words addressed to me, but their import, as my heart sank, was clear.
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4 1194 Eta could not understand my words, but she could read my eyes, my looks, the movements of my body, my piteous needs.
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7 625 Many Gorean names, as words in the Gorean language, apparently have an Earth origin.
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9 240 Had I not been a "good little girl" of Earth, though they would scarcely, the manipulators and would-be controllers, have used those words? I thought so.
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9 1438 "See what I have for you!" My head jerked as Bran Loort, emphasizing his words, drew on the rope tied on my neck.
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9 2170 "Strange words from one such as you," he scoffed.
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11 454 I remembered the words of Thurnus.
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20 45 On the silk, in yellow, there were words, which Narla had translated for me.
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20 78 I was pleased to see that he understood my words not as a statement of the obvious, but, rather, as an "advertising girl's" expected hawking of wares, if not as a more personal invitation.
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22 347 '" "I?" she cried, "I? Slave naked! How dare you use such words of me! As naked as a slave! I? Slave naked!" "Yes, Mistress," I said.
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25 21 I might, in my normal waking state, have recalled much of what had occurred there, even to the words spoken, but, in the unusual state of consciousness which Iskander, by means of his drug and his suggestions, had induced in me even the most trivial details, little things which a waking consciousnes...
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25 85 "It is based upon letter counts," said Bosk, "over thousands of words in varieties of manuscripts".
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25 111 "A more complicated cipher, indexed to key words or key numbers, would presumably have required a wheel or table for its interpretation".
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25 127 It utilizes key words or numbers, but each message is further altered in a prearranged, random manner.
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25 205 Bosk looked angrily at the words on the paper before him.
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29 18 He took a blunt marking stick from his pouch and wrote Gorean words on her left shoulder.
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Book 12. (12 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 43 I think if they knew the truth in these matters the code words would flash between the steel worlds, the ports would open, and the ships would nose forth, turning toward Gor.
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1 102 Sex in a woman, as in a man, is not only richly biological but psychological, as well, and the words suggest a distinction which is somewhat misleading.
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3 1019 They did not understand his words, but his gesture was clear.
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11 551 "Do you know the meaning of your words, foolish girl?" I asked.
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11 555 I wondered at her words.
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12 251 I am pleased in some respects that words are less dangerous than arrows and daggers, else there surely would have been little left of me.
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14 32 They spoke in their own tongue and I could pick up but few of the words.
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16 20 They need no such words.
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16 21 Why should there be special words for men who find beauty in the world.
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24 299 Oh, I could speak to you of a woman's need for emotional fulfillment, security, excitement, romance, discipline; her need to relate, to be happy, to a strong male figure, one before whom she knows herself, truly, in the intimacy of herself to be a female, and his; the bankruptcy of egoism, ambition,...
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35 69 If my voice would not betray me surely my failure to produce code words or identificatory phrases would do so.
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35 123 "I do not know the words 'boom' and 'bang'," said Imnak.
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Book 13. (23 results) Explorers of Gor

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24 342 "I could see it in your movements, in your glances, in the carefully concealed words behind your words.
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32 776 I now knew what the words I had uttered before had meant, those words which had so horrified me, and which, yet, had come so naturally and spontaneously from me.
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1 417 "No more than a few words," said Samos.
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1 647 "I think it would be like lightning," he said, picking his words slowly.
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4 608 "Has not Vart been sent for," asked Ulafi, "to confirm my words?" "He has been sent for," said the praetor.
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6 69 I have chosen, however, to retain the inland words, as they are those which are commonly used.
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11 16 Her face and body, when she had protested her innocence to me, had belied her words.
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11 108 I recalled the words of Kipofu: "His back is crooked and it is not.
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12 534 I recalled that these had been the words the dark-haired girl had used to the blond-haired barbarian, still kneeling blindfolded, but now terribly frightened, to one side.
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12 542 These words, too, I recalled, had been used by the dark-haired girl earlier to the blond-haired barbarian.
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14 323 "Please do not use those words of me," she begged.
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22 33 Once again, as before, yesterday, my words were tendered to Kisu.
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23 77 "You twist words!" said Kisu.
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24 93 "Begone!" I do not think they understood my words but my meaning was clear.
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24 334 "Could I not see it in your looks, not sense it in words unspoken? Do you think a woman cannot sense the might, the lust, of a man?" He looked down upon her, supine before him.
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24 344 "Do you think your haughty demeanor, your proud words, your lofty glances, concealed from me, or from any man, what you were?" "Please," she protested.
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31 29 I doubt that anyone in the village knew more than a few dozen words of Ushindi, but Ayari, with his Ushindi, his gestures, his quick wit and a stick, with which he drew in the dust of the village, not only conducted his trading in a brisk and genial fashion but managed to gather valuable information...
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31 35 "That explains," I said, "how it is that some here know some words of Ushindi".
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32 742 'The girl begs to please her master!' I could scarcely believe that I had uttered those words.
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32 744 They were the words, surely, of a slave.
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44 234 Certain of the words, but very few of them, were recognizable.
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51 79 "I understand your words," said Janice, "and as clearly the feelings which prompt them".
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53 431 The words Bila Huruma had uttered were of course in the native tongue of Ushindi.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 107 One of the great utilities of these words, long since evacuated of most of their cognitive content, is that they make thought unnecessary.
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1 202 In our short conversations it became clear to me that you are one who thinks not in terms of words but in terms of things and realities.
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1 405 "Those were his words".
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1 1067 "Do you, who are owned," I asked, "think to bargain with masters?" Did she not know that she, if her captors wished, was theirs in her entirety? Why had I been so angry with her? Why had such terrible words sprung up so wildly and spontaneously from hitherto unfathomed depths within me? I looked at ...
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11 676 I recalled the words of the heavy man on Earth.
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12 223 From her few simple words I now understood more than I had before of the depth and significance of Gorean slavery.
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32 291 "At one time I could be easily manipulated by the words of a woman, led about, and made a fool of.
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32 299 "Do you truly think to manipulate me with words, to turn me aside with puffs of sound?" I asked.
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32 300 "Do you think to tell me my direction, which is your direction? Do you want me to guide my life by your compass, one aligned with a foreign star, one alien to my own?" I think that on Gor I had learned to think in terms of realities and not words.
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Book 15. (8 results) Rogue of Gor

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27 65 I want you now," are words familiar to a slave girl, and words she hopes to hear.
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3 262 "Did I not beg, Master?" "Again, slut," said he, "and well understand the words".
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3 264 "I shall enjoy hearing the words on the lips of a Vondan slut".
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11 540 You will see!" I smote my thigh, laughing, in the Gorean fashion, so preposterous were the urgent words of the lovely, kneeling slave.
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18 60 "My thanks, Tasdron," I said to him, "for your helpful words".
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24 362 My intimacies sprang aflame when I heard her words.
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24 379 The first words of Gorean I learned were 'I am a slave girl.
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28 42 I am only a slave girl!" She seemed to speak to Tasdron, but I knew well for whom her words were intended.
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Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

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11 196 Perhaps that, better than a few words, suggests the nature of the Ta-Teera.
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17 138 What sorry costs might attend such words! I wondered if truth was really so terrible.
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17 140 Yet was this not something, that bespoken in her scarcely audible words, the slave of her, her slaveness, that she was a slave, which I, on one level or another, had long sensed in the beauteous Miss Henderson, even on Earth.
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17 399 "Perhaps there are no such things as duties, and rights," she said, "perhaps there are only the words, used as the instruments of manipulative rhetorics, devices of conditioning, cheaper and more subtle than guns and whips".
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Book 17. (14 results) Savages of Gor

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1 579 These words, and word groups, came forth from the translator, following intervals between the creature's inputs.
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2 398 How could I explain to Samos the dark affinity I shared with one whom I had met only once, in the north, and long ago, with one who, clearly, was naught but a beast? I recalled the long evening I had once spent with Zarendargar, and our lengthy, animated conversations, the talk of warriors, the talk...
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4 30 "A few words and phrases.
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13 45 The phrase which she had repeated more than once, "I have been sent to your blankets," for example, had not been spoken as a slave girl in full cognizance of its meaning, humbly making it clear that her nearness to the male was not illicit, and begging him to consider her for his pleasure-use, but r...
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13 1467 ' Separate words, these, are used for the separate properties or conditions.
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13 1507 "We are not even entitled to the same words as free persons in such matters?" she asked.
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13 1510 "Even here, however," I said, "you will note that both words suggest a similar status.
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14 249 I, myself, though I had acquired a few words of Dust Leg, had little more idea, specifically, of what the youth was saying than the girl did.
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14 603 "'Wicayuhe', 'Itancanka'," she said, "words which mean 'Master'".
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14 1031 He had illustrated his words with the sign.
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17 613 Ultimately it is little more, if anything, than a concatenation of words, a verbal formula.
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19 126 Words, heated and proud, were exchanged between the two men.
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19 482 Several of his fellows, at these words, grasped their lances more tightly.
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19 527 Words were spoken.
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Book 18. (22 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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6 102 We knew that these words of Hci, to that extent, could be sworn to by Bloketu and Iwoso.
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9 77 As soon as the words are spoken, or her signature is placed on the pertinent document, or documents, she is no longer a free person.
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12 2 His words had a sibilant, explosive quality.
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13 134 They waved, acknowledging my words.
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17 126 Who would believe the words of a slave, and I had this cognizance, too, only from another slave.
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18 356 He spoke, and his words, for all of us, were translated by Iwoso.
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40 498 She half choked on the words.
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40 641 "Beware of the words you speak," said Seibar.
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40 643 Such words, in themselves, in the appropriate context, effected enslavement.
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40 645 The words themselves, in the appropriate context, are sufficient.
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40 647 Such words are not to be spoken lightly.
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40 649 "The words I speak, I speak knowingly," she said.
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40 680 But here, interestingly, she had pronounced herself slave, becoming in the utterance of those words a slave.
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40 688 "I made myself a slave, when I said the words," she whispered.
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43 180 She then, in fury, in frustration, was silent, her words having been so easily anticipated.
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44 274 "I love you," said Iwoso, frightened, not even seeming to understand the words she spoke.
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44 278 "Speak the words with more meaning," commanded Hci.
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44 711 How absurd now seemed her words, uttered hitherto with such seeming authority, but they had been empty of authority.
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44 712 Her words, pretentious, and without backing, had been as meaningless as leaves in the wind.
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47 351 Words were not necessary.
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50 87 "You understand, do you not," asked Mahpiyasapa of the girl, "that the words alone were sufficient, that in speaking them you became a slave, even if you were not a slave before?" "Yes, Master," she said.
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54 14 Cuwignaka's words were translated by the light-skinned, muscular lad.
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Book 19. (16 results) Kajira of Gor

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34 54 Doubtless the symbolism in this goes far beyond what might be suggested in mere words, for it is fundamental and primal, a thing beyond words, a thing having to do with biology and natural rightfulness, with evolutionary selections and justifications, to be sure, expressed within the aesthetically s...
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5 74 Ligurious inclined his head, acknowledging these words graciously.
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5 204 "I take great comfort in your words".
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5 209 At the words of Ligurious there was a small sound from the chain of Susan.
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11 152 "I will try to be less feminine, and thus more of a woman!" "Words from the insane asylums on Earth," he laughed.
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13 147 The words of Ligurious, that I would be come for, now took on a new and frightful meaning for me.
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18 118 I almost choked on the words.
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18 119 Too, the words themselves frightened me, terribly.
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18 121 How fearful it would be, I thought, to say such words and know that they were true, that one did belong, fully, to a man.
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20 151 I recalled his words to me at supper yesterday evening.
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31 116 And those, I knew, who made the most of such words tended to be the greatest of the haters and controllers.
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34 68 But these words are inadequate, so inadequate! Perhaps you can never understand these things, fully, unless perhaps you, too, have so knelt, stripped and collared, and have so enacted this ritual.
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34 78 But, as I suggested, the words pertaining to these things are inadequate, woefully inadequate, to even suggest what it is like to be involved in such a ritual.
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34 112 I recalled her words, two evenings ago, in the banquet hall, how she had said that she had made him dance like a puppet to her will, how she had deprived him of his leadership and manhood.
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36 235 I had, in a thousand ways, in glances, in small words, in smiles, in tiny gestures, in movements, in seemingly careless proximities, in seeming inadvertencies, tormented him.
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36 833 They have made me this way!" "So," said he, "slave fires have been lit in your pretty belly?" "Please do not use such words of me," I begged.
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Book 20. (17 results) Players of Gor

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9 298 I thought rather the palimpsest was within us, the languages not so much forgotten as sometimes denied, that one dealt here indeed with deep and profound matters, but not really with obscure encipherments; rather one was here dealing with a doctrine written indelibly and ineradicably, indisputably a...
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1 348 The words had been spoken.
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1 418 I saw that she, already, now a slave, deeply sensed the truth of his words.
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2 226 "As I am only a mere slave," she said, "I could not possibly begin to understand the words of Master".
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6 673 The free woman in the audience stiffened at these words.
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6 674 These words seemed to have some special meaning for her.
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10 88 '" The bound female groaned, hearing her own words.
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10 405 These words interested me.
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13 331 Too, however, I knew the urt people could, and did upon occasion, as in their rare contacts with civilized folk, communicate in a type of Gorean, many of the words evidencing obvious linguistic corruptions but others, interestingly, apparently closely resembling archaic Gorean, a language not spoken...
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14 83 I remembered his words in the cell.
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14 84 I had not immediately understood, I had then supposed that he meant to help me escape, as indeed, clearly, later, seemed to be the intent of his words.
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16 358 "Yes, Master," she whispered, her lips forming the words.
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16 410 At his words, of course, Lady Telitsia and Bina, too, wiggled, and, in Lecchio's grip, having little choice, wiggled well.
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16 1051 In his words there was an exactness, and a chill.
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18 75 He spoke words to a menial.
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18 145 I recalled her words to me earlier, in the camp of Boots Tarsk-Bit.
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21 96 Some of the lists had small marks after some of the words, seemingly casual, meaningless marks.
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 2 "Beware your words," I cautioned her.
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16 827 Appreciate such things, for you do not know when you will hear such words again".
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16 1520 Sometimes these are taught as functions of arbitrary sounds, so that she must learn them as any animal might, without the benefit of an earlier understanding of the words used.
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23 169 I supposed it was not unusual for a common citizen suddenly finding himself in the presence of one so great, to find words failing him.
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25 2184 "Beware of using such words to men," I said.
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25 2187 "Do you think to try to weaken us with such words?" I asked.
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26 778 Doubtless he would have enjoyed reporting on the manner and the words with which he had delivered the "message".
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Book 22. (15 results) Dancer of Gor

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5 160 There were still many words, even common words, I did not know, and sometimes I could not follow even elementary constructions.
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3 15 Thus I had hoped to put it from me, but I knew the thing had happened, that the words had been said, and had had their meaning, that which they had had at the time, and not necessarily that which I might now fervently desire to ascribe to them, and to such a man.
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3 390 '" "Say the words," he said.
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4 203 "They deserve to have us take their world from them, to be thrust aside with words and writs, to be superseded by contrived legalities, to be relegated by statutes and slogans to the peripheries of power, to become trammeled, and crippled, and incapable of action, like tied sheep, bleating contented...
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5 273 I think this was not so much a matter of the words, as of their seeming import.
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7 122 This word was the plural of 'kajira', which was one of the words, the most common one, for what we were.
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9 295 We had never been told, in so many words, that that was the sort of slave we were.
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10 616 The words 'slut' or 'slave' served well enough to summon me.
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13 1018 I did not want to say such words.
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13 1039 I shuddered to hear such words coming from me.
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17 228 Who will touch me?" These were words I had been taught to say, even, of course, the appropriate petition, that of a slave girl, to speak before masters.
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32 249 This was the first time I had ever spoken these words.
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33 306 "Your permission to flee," he said, speaking the words one at a time, slowly, "is revoked".
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34 749 There are many ways of speaking, and only a few require words.
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34 751 There are many ways of speaking, and not all require words.
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Book 23. (21 results) Renegades of Gor

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16 132 Too, my words must have given her some hope that she might have, at my hands, at least some slim chance for life, albeit that it might have to be purchased at so alarming a cost as consigning herself by her own words to a fate no less than the degradation and categoricality of uncompromising Gorean ...
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6 453 She trembled, her entire body, interestingly, responding to these words.
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8 705 A tactic in this procedure to help her become aware of herself as a sexual creature is to describe her to herself in terms she may have dreaded aforetimes, to use words to her which she may have been conditioned to avoid, and find offensive, and so on.
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8 708 A word, or words, then, as the woman learns, grows, and blossoms, while substantially retaining their original literal, unadorned, or cognitive, meaning, can alter their original emotive meaning.
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13 156 "Have you practiced how to tear your robes from your breasts, the words with which you will beg to be spared?" "Sleen!" said the warder.
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15 173 "Such words are appropriate for you, too, to say," I said.
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15 712 "Those may be the last words you ever speak," I said.
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15 750 "The spear, as I understand it," I said, trying to recall the words of our warder earlier to Lady Claudia, "is a solid piece of polished metal, very long, and less than a hort in width.
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15 1036 If she had heard us, I did not think she would have been able to make out our words, or, probably, even whose voices she heard, or their location, except with respect to her, she doubtless by now helplessly disoriented in the hood.
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16 2 "They are moving forward even now! The ram will be at the gate again in Ehn!" I lifted my right arm, acknowledging his words.
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16 138 "Do you beg permission," I asked, "to legalize the matter, to speak appropriate words of self-enslavement?" She nodded, vigorously, again.
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16 169 "And now," she cried, "that you have won from her her confession that she was slave, and she has said the words themselves, enacting embondment upon herself, you would put her, now, not even in the dignity of the free woman, but in the misery and degradation of a shamed slave, upon the spear!" "Do y...
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16 380 "She now knows herself a slave, having said the words.
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16 382 What will she make of these things? That, I take it, is your question?" "Doubtless she would pretend she had never said the words," she said.
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21 264 Clearly she suspected, or hoped, and nothing had as yet occurred to gainsay this suspicion or hope, that they did not know she was already a slave, that she had only yesterday spoken self-irreversible words of self-enslavement on the upper battlements.
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21 533 Wildly she must have been considering whether or not there might be any there who had heard her speak the self-irreversible words of self-enslavement on the upper battlements.
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21 588 "I confessed my natural slavery," she said, "and then spoke words of self-enslavement".
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21 913 It is fitting then, I suppose, that it should be I who say the words".
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21 1249 Accordingly, accepting the measured risk of some intrusiveness, I will append here, as it seems appropriate, rather than in a footnote, a few words by way of sociological amplification.
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24 752 Gorean, as might be supposed, given the voyages of acquisition, and such, contains numerous words from one Earth language or another, from many times and places, mostly ancient, some modern.
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24 794 "Because war is not all nodding plumes and the sun flashing from silvered shields?" I asked, recalling the words of Aemilianus.
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Book 24. (12 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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17 160 "Your words are treason!" cried a voice.
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19 99 Also, who knows, perhaps the creature is a pet, or might respond to certain words in Gorean, or, if one is desperate enough, clutching at whatever straws might present themselves, English, or Italian, or Finnish.
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19 533 "Beware of your language," I said, "lest you inadvertently speak words of self-enslavement".
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19 534 Such words, of course, are irrevocable by the slave because, once spoken, she is a slave.
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19 1486 "Please do not use such words to me.
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19 1767 But she did not deny my words.
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20 124 ' Such I believe were your words to me once".
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28 248 It seemed to me that there had been a strange note in his words, one I did not understand.
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28 378 I feared Ina might cry out in words, belying our posture of her muteness, but she did not do so.
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28 589 It was perhaps just as well or she might, considering the vigorous attentions to which she had been subjected, have been tempted to cry out in words.
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28 625 She spoke extremely softly, in an almost inaudible whisper, like a soft breath at my ear, but there was no mistaking the words.
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36 183 My words, of course, were a play on a common Gorean saying, that curiosity is not becoming in a Kajira.
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Book 25. (15 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 38 Her words puzzled me.
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9 414 "It is with a heavy heart and tearful eyes that I utter these words," said Talena.
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12 220 "I am young, but I am a woman, and alive! Do you think that intelligence and maturity are prerogatives only of such as you! No! I am quick at my studies! I am alert! I think much! I am dutiful! I want to make a man happy, truly happy, in the fullest dimensions of his being, not a part of him, leavin...
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14 104 "My master," she said, "is a kind, liberated, noble, enlightened master! He accepts such laws, or laws much like them, as much as if they had been proclaimed by the councils and promulgated by the Ubara herself!" "The actual words of the Ubara," I said, "or at least as reported on the boards, were t...
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18 367 It seemed I had heard these words recently.
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19 1232 "It seems so to you now," I said, "but in some months, when you are truly helpless under the lash of your needs, and you understand the prison in which they have placed you, you will better understand my words".
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20 645 "I will write the letter for you," mumbled Marcus, his words lost somewhere in Phoebe's neck.
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22 60 After a time the two men with the fellow, apparently with soft words, and certainly with gentle gestures, began to suggest that the fellow be permitted to continue on his way.
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25 449 "You well acted your role," said he, "for I, an enamored fool, well believed your words, your cries, that you were smitten with me, that you desired me, even that you loved me".
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25 453 I myself, despite my remarks to the male slave, had little doubt of the genuineness of Lavinia's words, her protestations, and such.
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25 454 The authenticity of a slave's words and responses, of course, are attested to by numerous bodily cues, many of which they are unaware of, and cannot control.
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25 455 A master who is alert to these can then determine, particularly over a period of time, whether or not the slave's words, feelings and responses are genuine or not.
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25 685 On this bracelet, in fine, tiny lettering, were the words "I belong to Tarl of Port Kar".
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26 344 In her last words her voice had almost broken.
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26 351 "Surely you understand the purport of my words," she said, angrily.
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Book 26. (34 results) Witness of Gor

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4 275 Such words, 'vulo' and 'tasta', I gathered, were words in their own language.
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13 126 Too, there were certain words, and combinations of words, in this language I found it impossible to pronounce like a native speaker.
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40 264 Do you think that the meaning of an oath is the words it wears? It is rather what it celebrates and intends, the meaning behind the meanings of the words.
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4 64 Too, I do not think it had to do merely with an accent, though they surely had such, an accent which appeared distinctively, oddly, in words they uttered in various languages, languages some of which I could recognize, though I could not speak them, as the doors were opened, and which, on the other ...
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4 160 To be sure, similar sounds need not mean similar words.
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4 562 I heard words.
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4 694 At that moment words were again spoken, farther ahead in the line.
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4 695 But there need not be exact translations for us all, for the import of these words was clear enough, from the actions of those first in the line, who understood, and from the movements of the whips in the hands of the men, gesturing forward.
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7 150 More than once I had, in my former places, bared it to a guard, in mute petition, calling thusly to his attention what I was and what I wanted from him, and what I hoped for from him, and what I needed from him, thusly pleading without words that he might deign to take pity upon me.
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8 274 You do not know these words.
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8 275 Aside from the words, of course, my condition, my status, is doubtless clear to you.
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9 145 I wanted to express my gratitude, my elation, at their words.
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10 92 That is one of the words in the language of the rights holders for women such as I.
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10 94 The first words I had been taught on this world were "La kajira".
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12 677 These words reminded me, of course, of my own, in the shop.
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13 258 I gathered that she might, from her words, have some conception as to what might be wrong.
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13 1224 One of the women there, sneeringly, with her blanket about her, formed words toward me.
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17 20 Certainly this had been expressed to me, and the pit master, as well, had heard words to this effect in the cell.
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19 326 Did they not think their own efforts had been efficacious in these matters? Who, after all, rode the mighty tarns, who did battle, who risked their lives, who, sword in hand, bestrode the corridors of burning palaces? And how must such words sound to the lovely captives? Surely they, if none others,...
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19 701 "You may, if you wish," he said, "speak two words".
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19 705 "Yes," she said, hesitantly, adding, "—Sir!" These were, I gathered, the two words which she was to be permitted.
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28 81 "It was kept on me until I came to this city, which I now learn, by your words, is Treve," she said.
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28 138 She is also to be gagged, for her words, her pleas, her remonstrations or such, will be of no avail, nor will they be of interest to those of the house of William, in Harfax.
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29 53 Her words, her pleas, her cries, her remonstrations, or such, as I recalled, would not only be of no avail, but were not even of interest to those of the house of William, in Harfax.
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29 86 He would also be, as I recalled, from the words of the praetor's officer this morning, the youngest and least of that house.
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29 271 Were you not informed? Do you not understand that your words, no matter how piteous, will be of no avail? The matter is now concluded.
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29 272 You are branded, branded, you perfidious, dishonest, corrupt, fraudulent slut—yes, at last, after all this time, branded, at last branded!—superb!—it is now done!—the slave mark is now on you, in you!—it has been burned deeply into your very body with the fiery iro...
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29 274 Perhaps later you will be permitted to speak, and you will be lashed if we are not pleased with your words".
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37 95 The larger beast suddenly squealed, hearing these words.
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37 484 But I was not greatly reassured by these words.
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40 265 Repudiated in words, it was revered in deeds.
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42 120 "I think we should assume words passed between them," said the other man.
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44 159 "Do you deny the words of free men?" inquired the second man.
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44 307 In what perfect custody we are kept! The newcomer, my master, and the two captors then exchanged further words, sotto voce.
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Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

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11 327 Falsity and absurdity can be defended, so why not truth and practicality? If certain words are offensive, those particular words need not be used; I prefer them because I like to speak plainly; I prefer 'master' and 'slave' to 'servant of the people' and 'citizen'".
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13 263 Above her, now darting away, was a gigantic bird, an enormous bird, a saddlebird, its wings with a span of thirty or more feet, and, seemingly tiny on its back, was a helmeted man! Ellen had heard an angry cry from the man above her, and words in Gorean she did not recognize, words that had certainl...
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16 377 Several words, and many of these not all that common among native speakers, are supposedly taught to the barbarians with pronunciations which are subtly different from the usual pronunciations of these words.
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5 29 The language apparently contained no words for hundreds of the most common objects on her former world, such as automobiles and radios.
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5 30 On the other hand, it contained many words for implements; artifacts, items of apparel, botanical forms, comestibles, and such, with which she was unfamiliar.
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5 72 "What were the first words you were taught to say on this world?" he asked.
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6 69 "How many words is she learning a day?" the young man asked the attendant, he who had conducted her into his presence.
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6 74 One does not object to a certain amount of ignorance and fitful illiteracy in such as she, an occasional misuse of words, and such, which can be charming, even amusing, but it is important that she attain a considerably high level of fluency, in order that she may understand, instantly and perfectly...
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7 196 For example, she was taught, in theory at least, how to bathe a man, the oils, the strigil, the sponges, the deferences, the touchings, the beggings, the handling of the towels, the words to be spoken at different times, the final grateful prostration of herself following the honor of having been pe...
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9 105 She recalled the words of the young man, on Earth, now her master on Gor, that he had thought she would be very pretty in such cords, later, when she would be luscious, helplessly bound in them.
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11 174 A common brand! But, of course, she thought, that is exactly the brand he would see to it that I would have! He is that sort of master! Ellen recalled that the first words she had been taught on Gor were 'La kajira'—'I am a slave girl.
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11 180 It was interesting, she thought, that these words had been required of her so early, so soon after her arrival on Gor.
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11 389 It was in English and so there was no difficulty in her following the words, only the meanings.
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11 759 She thought it well not to respond to his words.
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11 778 So many people blindfold themselves with words; so few look upon the world as it is, radiant and real, with its own nature.
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13 629 "I would watch my words, if I were you," said Ina, pleasantly, "or you will be subjected to the bastinado".
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16 78 Most of the words she heard about her, now, though not all, made perfect sense to her.
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16 357 For the moment I did not understand the words in the sense you meant.
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16 359 We have other words".
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17 475 "Please do not use such words of me," said Ellen.
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17 477 "No," said Ellen, "vulgar words like 'squirming well'".
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24 265 How different from Earth! They refuse to be confused, tricked, crippled, tamed, enfeebled! They think in terms of things and realities, not words.
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25 783 See life as it is, directly, in its beauty, if only for a sudden, startling moment, perhaps as men might have seen it before language, before the subtle, altering, translucent barriers of words, the invisible wall that so liberates, but yet confines and shapes, was interposed between the mind and ex...
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25 784 Would that there could be a new language, or new words, a lexicon of light that would allow us to see the world as it might be seen, in its innocence, profundity and glory".
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26 113 "Portus Canio and Fel Doron are in this camp, in chains," said Ellen, hastily, fearing to be interrupted, the words spilling out.
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27 579 "Now you have words for it.
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27 3210 And with those words he withdrew from Ellen and placed, as she turned and watched, from her side, the keys in the hands of Selius Arconious.
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30 206 She put her head down, remembering her own former words.
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30 345 "Are you so presumptuous, so arrogant, that you dare to speak such words to your master?" Slaves are often helplessly, hopelessly, in love with their masters, often pathetically so.
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30 664 These very words are being written in longhand, in the city of Ar, by one who was once much as you, but is now a collared slave.
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Book 28. (24 results) Kur of Gor

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4 49 Cabot wondered if the Kurii who had been on the Prison Moon had informed him of the brunette's words in the hallway, those words which had in no more than a moment changed her into marketable goods.
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5 130 "A few words, some simple sentences!" "What were your first words in Gorean?" he asked.
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1 1254 Did the blonde not even know enough to cover herself, as did the brunette, at least to the extent possible? Many facial expressions and bodily words, so to speak, in the human species are presumably genetically coded, at least with respect to their templates, as they are amongst other Earth primates...
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2 310 Had he heard what was said? Had she said that—what he had thought he had heard? "Please, Masters!" she screamed, "do not eat me! I will be your slave! Keep me as a slave! Make me your slave! I will be a slave! No, no, I am a slave! I am a slave! Keep me for yourselves, or sell me to men! Do n...
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2 312 The beautiful, curved, petty, snobbish thing is a slave! Excellent! Does she not know those words cannot be unspoken? She has bespoken herself slave.
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2 314 Does she understand that? The words have done it.
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3 176 "You must learn," he said, "five hundred words a day".
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3 180 "You are prepared to say your first words in Gorean?" "Yes".
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3 416 "But," said he, "we will try to do a thousand words a day".
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3 431 "Those are my first words in Gorean!" she said.
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5 175 "Repeat," he said, "firmly, and clearly, the first words you learned in Gorean".
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5 198 "The words were spoken.
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5 210 "The words were spoken.
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5 217 The words were spoken.
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5 321 The translator pronounced these words precisely, clearly, unemotionally, in accents of Ar, but Cabot could tell that Arcesilaus deemed this an intelligence of some moment.
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7 29 "Nor do I," said Peisistratus, "but the words flicker in the darkness, affording to some an illusion of understanding, a measure of comfort".
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20 17 "That question is to be ignored," said the judge, who was not visible, but whose presence was made known by a sound system, and whose words were picked up by the platform translator, set in the railing before Cabot.
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22 168 "Yes," said Cabot, "the words were spoken on the Prison Moon itself".
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22 270 "Paga can betray no one," said Cabot, patiently, forming the words very slowly.
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42 97 The throat of the Lady Bina, of course, was not constructed to utter Kur, nor would she know much of that language, saving perhaps to recognize some words addressed to her, and what Kurii might be in the facility would be unlikely to have translators, or, even, if so, would not be likely to have the...
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47 19 Already most had mastered a thousand or more words.
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48 4 The world rang with the words of Agamemnon, pronouncing peace and amnesty.
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57 125 "What could her own words do," asked Flavion, "other than seal her fate the more securely, other than serve to more fiercely heat the very irons which will burn her?" "Has she said nothing?" asked Cabot.
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77 25 In moments then, tears running down her cheeks, to her collar, and body, stammering, half-choked, words tumbling out one upon another, piteously, only half-coherently, she addressed her master, and as what she knew she was, a slave.
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Book 29. (13 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 283 These words, "I am a slave," were cried out in full consciousness.
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1 287 With those words, she had, by her own deed, become a slave.
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1 288 And such words cannot be unspoken.
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1 290 She is then helpless to qualify, reduce, diminish, or revoke the words, for she is then a slave.
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2 320 To be sure, the slave is to speak as a slave, and act as a slave, with suitable deference in words, tone of voice, physical attitude, and such.
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8 238 It was interesting to me that Tajima seemed to take no umbrage whatsoever at the attitude and words of Miss Wentworth.
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9 252 "Tell him that no true man would want a slave!" I thought it interesting, how words could be twisted about, and used as levers, as cudgels, as whips, and such.
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10 628 "You have been unwittingly a slave for months, even for some weeks when you were still engaging in your petty, deceitful games on behalf of your firm, plying your wiles and charms, seemingly so innocently, to wheedle and coax wealth from clients, pathetically dazzled males as you saw it, men whom, g...
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25 26 Some men move others with words, as others move the pieces on the red and yellow board of kaissa.
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25 240 I would have supposed that the owner of the voice might have moved, following his first words, but the voice had come again from the same quarter.
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38 435 She looked up at me, to attend my words.
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38 456 But how soon, after her declaration on the Prison moon, she had tried to unsay her confession! But the words once spoken are irrevocable, for the speaker is then a slave.
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44 45 The slave, of course, cannot unsay such words, for she is then a slave.
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Book 30. (20 results) Mariners of Gor

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5 184 The words of the tarnsman, I gathered, were words to which several present might attend.
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3 226 "You will not believe my words," she said.
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3 988 'Do you think I do not know the accents of Ar? You may deny being of Ar but you are belied by the very words in which you enunciate your denial, for they proclaim you of Ar.
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3 1278 I struggled to understand the words, though he must have been no more than one or two horts from me, whispering.
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3 1526 A woman is never the same, after having uttered such words.
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7 256 I did not understand his words.
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9 296 Wise men attended his words, intently, and graciously, spoke little in his presence, and would forbear to disagree.
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14 122 I had heard those words, sensed the eagerness in the voice before, more than a dozen times, in the early morning, in the dampness and cold, in a park, or in the Plaza of Tarns, long ago, in Ar.
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22 325 The flood stopped, and, like startled, turned verr, the enemy began to mill, and fearful words were carried to farther ranks, and men who could not even see us received reports so magnified that they must exceed the horror of reality.
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28 42 Thus, your words may not comport with the dignity of ones who were once such".
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28 182 Words rushed out of her, as though a stream had broken forth from behind some obstruction, sweeping debris to the side, and, released at last, it rushed forth, threatening its banks, in a churning, grateful torrent.
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29 45 "You cannot stop us with words," said a fellow, "you and four behind you".
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33 81 Would not such a one look well, bound before one? Would the lips of such a one, on her belly, not be pleasant on one's feet? "Surely you have noticed," I said, "that words from those languages, along with those of many other languages, are found in Gorean".
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36 252 No words had been exchanged, nor needed there have been.
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36 497 Swords, not words, rule cities, it is said.
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36 504 How can one be fully human without the dignity, glory, and power of the written word? Is it not to the world what memory is to the individual? By its means words spoken long ago and faraway may once more be heard.
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36 567 No words emerged.
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37 34 He mumbled something, but the words were blurred, as he had his mouth on the side of her neck, under her hair.
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37 182 "Such words fall delightfully on the ears of a slave," she said.
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37 243 But the simple words of Captain Nakamura, I thought, even more than a darkening cloud, had engloomed the chamber.
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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5 251 Yet, almost as soon as I had said the words, I wondered why I had used those particular words, in that particular way.
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18 58 Words burst forth amongst us, eager, wild, grateful words.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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50 658 Certainly I had found occasional words in Gorean which were words also in my native language, or very similar to such words, perhaps influenced by them or derived from them.
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2 3 Secondly, supine, they were more conveniently positioned for their first lesson, namely, that they were subject to discipline, symbolized by kissing the whip, and, second, enunciating their first words in what would be their new language, appropriate words.
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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6 41 "I bear, on behalf of my lord, and yours, Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands," said Tyrtaios, "welcome, merciful words, words of exoneration, and clemency".
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6 92 "We attend the words of noble Tyrtaios," said Lord Nishida, "words spoken on behalf of his lord, noble Yamada, claimant to the islands".
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31 222 "You think words are things," said Arashi, "but things are things, not words.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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52 208 "I can well imagine it," he said, "the words, the protestations, the pleadings, the movements, the soft looks, the earnest words! Doubtless you put yourself at his feet, closely, as well".
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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36 65 Who knows what might be heard, even by a slave? Too, it is well known that a jumble of words which is meaningless or of little import might, if joined with other words, be formed into coherent sentences.
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