| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 117 |
"Would you diminish the worth of my gift to you?" I asked, feigning anger. |
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| 5 | 119 |
"No, Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba," she said, "but you well know that I could do nothing that would diminish the worth of your gift to me. |
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| 8 | 199 |
"What is the submission of Talena, the daughter of the Ubar, worth?" I taunted. |
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| 9 | 165 |
"It was worth it," he said, his gaze sweeping over Talena. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 18 |
The peasant on Gor does not fear the outlaw, for he seldom has anything worth stealing, unless it be a daughter. |
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| 6 | 57 |
On the contrary, incredibly enough, their vanity is terribly outraged if they are not regarded as worth the risks, usually mutilation and impalement. |
10 |
| 7 | 110 |
The chase had apparently in his eyes been well worth it. |
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| 8 | 6 |
On the whole they seemed to me a pale and depressed lot, but I was confident they could accomplish what they set their minds to, that they might succeed in tasks which the average Gorean male, with his impatience and lightness of heart, would simply abandon as distasteful or not worth the effort, fo... |
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| 8 | 34 |
Indeed, upon occasion, in other markets, a buyer who had succeeded in winning the haggling would bestow five times as many coins on the seller as he had agreed to pay, humiliating him with a smug, "Because I wish to pay you what it is worth". |
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| 20 | 22 |
Perhaps not of great value, but worth taking. |
10 |
| 21 | 199 |
"I don't think she's worth very much," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 202 |
"I doubt," I said to Targo, "that she is worth more than fifty". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 159 |
Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one. |
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| 30 | 182 |
Now it was I who would go hungry, but I told myself, it was worth it. |
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| 33 | 125 |
I had intended to make use of that moment myself, pretending to have come with a message from Priest-Kings, to encourage man to live as I wished him to live, to respect himself and others, to be kind and to be worthy of the heritage of a rational animal, and yet of what worth would these things be i... |
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| 34 | 196 |
So then why have I written them? I do not know, save that I thought these things worth recording, whether they are to be believed or not. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 100 |
"Regard the worth of those stones!" he cried. |
10 |
| 8 | 57 |
Such a thrust was worth two points for us. |
10 |
| 8 | 66 |
His thrust was clearly, I acknowledged, worth three points. |
10 |
| 8 | 358 |
Some girls of the Wagon Peoples in fact, incredible though it seems, are trained exhaustively in the art of evading the bola, and such a girl is worth a great deal to a master, who uses her in wagering. |
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| 9 | 154 |
"I can arrange that she is chosen for the games," Saphrar was saying, "but it must be worth my while". |
10 |
| 9 | 180 |
"Is she not worth the golden sphere?" asked the merchant. |
10 |
| 10 | 161 |
"A girl such as Dina of Turia is worth more than a kaiila," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 60 |
"It should be worth the Courage Scar," said Harold from above, "don't you think so?" "What?" I asked. |
10 |
| 21 | 124 |
"I learned something of jewels," she said, "in the wagons of Albrecht and Kamchak—and there is scarcely a silver tarn disk's worth here". |
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| 23 | 17 |
I was nearly slain by arrows when I dropped the tarn amidst the startled blacks of the Kataii, but my black jacket with the emblem of the four bosk horns, emblem of the Tuchuk courier, soon proved its worth and I was led to the dais of the Ubar of the Kataii. |
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| 23 | 216 |
Some things, of little or no worth, but which I remembered fondly, were still about. |
10 |
| 26 | 214 |
"He knows! He knows!" "Does it truly make a difference," asked Kamchak of me, "whether or not he shatters the sphere?" "Yes," I said, "there is nothing more valuable on all Gor—it is perhaps worth the planet itself". |
10 |
| 26 | 267 |
I can give you half the riches of the Paravaci! Bosk and gold and women and wagons!" "I would suppose," said Ha-Keel, "that all that you have is not worth so much as the golden sphere—and that is Saphrar of Turia's". |
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| 27 | 117 |
"I would," said Elizabeth firmly, "I am worth many tarn disks". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 404 |
"Would it not be worth five hundred gold pieces," asked Elizabeth, "to put your leash on this one and lead her home, to teach her the worth of a man of Ar, if worth they have, and then send her weeping and aching to the kettles of the kitchen until she begs to sleep beneath your slave ring?" There w... |
10 |
| 11 | 388 |
In short I think they are both decidedly worth development, and should prove a quite profitable investment". |
10 |
| 13 | 48 |
The tarsk is a silver coin, worth forty copper tarn disks. |
10 |
| 16 | 40 |
Murmillius, in the games, returned with more brilliance than ever and, on the second day of En'Kara, with superb swordsmanship downed two foes, wounding them again and again, until even the crowd did not regard them as worth slaying, at which time Murmillius sheathed his sword, turned his back, and ... |
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| 18 | 534 |
"It should be worth seeing," said Cernus. |
10 |
| 19 | 390 |
Imagine her, noble men of Ar, chained to your slave ring! She alone is worth five hundred pieces of gold!" The crowd roared its approval and the auctioneer dropped his hand and stepped back, perhaps as surprised as any in that room. |
10 |
| 22 | 400 |
It seemed to me that combat on kaiilaback, and combat on tarnback, had much in common; I suspected that the small bow, though it had never been proven in battle on tarnback, might prove that it had worth in the Gorean skies as well as on the dusty, southern plains; I had further, in many nights of t... |
10 |
| 23 | 252 |
"The little that men have," I said, "is worth your love". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 511 |
There was nothing of worth in Port Kar, nor in all the worlds of all the suns. |
10 |
| 10 | 134 |
We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i... |
10 |
| 10 | 227 |
It is scarcely worth the risk of crew and ship, unless desperate, to win a hold filled with lumber or stone. |
10 |
| 10 | 275 |
The galley slaves I thought worth freeing, I freed, and found that many would stay with me, taking me for their captain. |
10 |
| 17 | 153 |
Is anything worth so much as a human life? Is not the most abject surrender preferable to the risk of its loss? Is it not better to grovel as a slave, begging the favor of life from a master, than to risk the loss of even one life? I recalled that I, once, in the far marshes of the delta of the Vosk... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 24 |
On the other hand, if worth a good deal less, they are much more easily acquired than a high-caste free woman. |
10 |
| 7 | 405 |
Her raiment might have cost more than any three or four of us together were worth. |
10 |
| 8 | 809 |
The "stones" are usually pebbles or beads, but in the cities one can buy small polished, carved boxes containing ten "stones," the quality of which might vary from polished ovoid stones, with swirling patterns, to gems worth the ransom of a merchant's daughter. |
10 |
| 9 | 504 |
"It is all that you are worth to him," said Verna. |
10 |
| 9 | 513 |
"I am worth more!" I pouted. |
10 |
| 10 | 195 |
One of my kisses, I told myself, that of Elinor Brinton, was worth more. |
10 |
| 11 | 852 |
Surely I was worth much more. |
10 |
| 11 | 1261 |
The trained girl is well worth her price. |
10 |
| 11 | 1392 |
She had captured me, and sold me for a hundred arrow points! How humiliating, and insulting! I was worth gold! Gold! Perhaps Marlenus, her captor, would choose to put her on the block! Perhaps she would sell for a hundred arrow points! But I would bring gold, much gold! I looked about at the slave f... |
10 |
| 13 | 1169 |
"I am worth gold," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 293 |
She now has a new, thrilling reality, perhaps a secret one, that enflames her, that makes her life worth living. |
10 |
| 16 | 294 |
She now has meaning, and worth, if only that of a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 263 |
"What do you conjecture they are worth?" asked Arn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 137 |
What marvelous beauties he saw, seventeen naked prizes, fettered and coffled, that might be his, could he but take them, and, dangling from the mast, perhaps the most exquisite of all, the slender, blond girl, perhaps herself worth five bondmaids of the more common sort. |
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| 10 | 108 |
Incidentally, for what it is worth, though the southern girl is, I expect, worked less hard than the northern girl, who is commonly kept on an isolated farm, she is more often than her northern sister put to the switch or whip; I think she lives under a harsher discipline; southern masters are harde... |
10 |
| 20 | 112 |
That you should stand first among such beasts as Kurii says much for your worth, the terribleness of your power, your intellect. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47 |
They glinted, but were of small worth. |
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| 2 | 95 |
But generally the men would proceed past these enticements, which were, from what I saw, far from negligible, and hurry toward their favorite cafes and hostels, whose wares, I gathered, did not need such blatant advertisement, whose worth, and capacities for total and complete satisfaction, were app... |
10 |
| 5 | 240 |
He was merely concerned to consider what they might, competitively, be worth. |
10 |
| 5 | 385 |
On Gor, sooner or later, she would be forced to face this fact; she would be forced to look deeply within herself; to confront herself, perhaps for the first time, with candor, and uncompromising honesty; I wondered if, at that time, seeing herself, truly, she would go mad, or if, boldly, with joy, ... |
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| 5 | 516 |
The true worth of the stones, which I had had appraised carefully in Tor, against their best information as to the date yields, was between sixty and eighty weights in pressed date bricks. |
10 |
| 5 | 730 |
She had cost me the tarn; it was worth ten times the cost of her body on a public block. |
10 |
| 9 | 110 |
"It is far more than you are worth," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 160 |
"What is she worth?" asked Hassan of the merchant. |
10 |
| 14 | 103 |
For what it is worth, though doubtless it is little pertinent, the men and women of Gor are, generally, whole and happy; the men and women of Earth, generally, if I do not misread the situation, are not. |
10 |
| 21 | 201 |
What prize, I wondered, could be worth the risk the beast had been willing to take, the price it had been willing to pay, its own life. |
10 |
| 24 | 310 |
Soon your life will be worth little among the agents of Priest-Kings". |
10 |
| 24 | 718 |
One man on the walls is worth ten in the desert. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 382 |
I had thought, before I was clearly apprised of the nature of Bina, cheap slave beads, that perhaps the men had supposed that I was to be chained at the rock, adorned with some rare and valuable necklace, worth perhaps a fortune. |
10 |
| 5 | 431 |
It can be worth the life of one to do so. |
10 |
| 7 | 230 |
Free, returned to them, I will be worth immense riches to you. |
10 |
| 9 | 1141 |
Surely I would be worth at least four or five copper tarsks in any market. |
10 |
| 9 | 2220 |
My freedom blinded me to your manhood and your worth. |
10 |
| 9 | 2299 |
Surely I was at least a few copper tarsks' worth of slave girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 29 |
It was my worth on Gor. |
10 |
| 11 | 56 |
All he had left behind was she who had been Judy Thornton, six copper tarsks worth of sold she-slave. |
10 |
| 24 | 78 |
If her master can afford it, and is interested, or if a slaver thinks she is worth the investment, she may even be sent to a school for training in the arts expected of a proficient female slave, both domestic and intimate. |
10 |
| 24 | 190 |
"The slut is not worth a copper tarsk-bit," said Clitus Vitellius, angrily, defensively. |
10 |
| 27 | 759 |
"Give me whatever you think she is worth," he said, "and send the coins to the compartments of Clitus Vitellius, in the Towers of Warriors". |
10 |
| 28 | 350 |
It was ten to a hundred times, or more, what I was worth. |
10 |
| 28 | 357 |
"This is far more than the slave is worth". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 307 |
"And that you may appear more worth keeping about, and to facilitate your pursuit of the men," I said, "I will take the liberty of shortening your tunics". |
10 |
| 11 | 494 |
I considered whether it would be worth while teaching her the collar. |
10 |
| 12 | 439 |
"Sometimes," he said, "it is hardly worth winning". |
10 |
| 15 | 5 |
She was worth having. |
10 |
| 15 | 174 |
She was worth having. |
10 |
| 37 | 74 |
What has Earth to offer that is worth more than joy and happiness?" "I may sell you," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 63 |
"She is not worth tying at the end of a rope and using in the water as a bait for urts," called out a man, the fellow who had first suggested that she be removed from the sales position. |
10 |
| 5 | 340 |
"Surely such a girl, a wench of only average beauty, a tense, tight girl, awkward and clumsy, one untrained, new to the collar, one who can hardly speak Gorean, a barbarian, is worth, at best, only two or three copper tarsks". |
10 |
| 5 | 358 |
"Is it worth a copper tarsk to you?" he asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 495 |
Who discards precious possessions, who surrenders treasures? If the slave girl were worth less perhaps she would be freed more. |
10 |
| 12 | 575 |
"In my opinion it is more than you are worth," said Msaliti. |
10 |
| 18 | 31 |
Such small things, I think, may be scorned by those who do not understand the nature of war or men, and be seen as manipulative and laughable, and yet such a small commendation, when warranted and sincere, is worth more to some men than the material treasures that might move those who hold themselve... |
10 |
| 27 | 200 |
For the first time then they begin to suspect that they are very different from men, truly different, radically different, and that they are somehow very special, and have a considerable value of a sort, indeed, a value of such a sort that they have been found worth bringing to this world. |
10 |
| 29 | 29 |
Interestingly the movement of the web in the air, as it is stirred by wind, does not activate the spider; similarly if the prey which strikes the web is too small, and thus not worth showing itself for, or too large, and thus beyond its prey range, and perhaps dangerous, it does not reveal itself. |
10 |
| 34 | 333 |
For what it is worth, the most intimate and deepest loves I have known have been between masters and their slaves, that between the love master and his love slave". |
10 |
| 35 | 56 |
My own view on the matter, for what it is worth, is that a pleasure slave becomes even more marvelous when she is forced to function also as a work slave. |
10 |
| 51 | 148 |
For what it is worth women tend on the whole to be unsuccessful in conforming to masculine images, and tend to take gracefully and naturally to feminine images, toward which they seem to have genetic predispositions. |
10 |
| 57 | 73 |
Ayari had proved his hardiness and worth in the journeys upon the Ua. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 451 |
Her desirability is then acknowledged and vindicated; she is worth collaring, worth owning. |
10 |
| 2 | 277 |
"Please!" "He is not worth a bullet," said the heavy man. |
10 |
| 10 | 235 |
"You are not worth whipping," she said. |
10 |
| 17 | 23 |
It was rather that I did not think you were worth sixteen tarsks". |
10 |
| 18 | 283 |
"With meaningless little things, trivialities, baubles, things of no account or worth," said Kenneth. |
10 |
| 22 | 744 |
It is more than she is worth". |
10 |
| 22 | 747 |
"What is she worth?" asked the Lady Florence, curious. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 346 |
She is thought to be more interesting, and more worth owning, for the Gorean master intends to, and will, own the whole slave, and as a whole slave. |
10 |
| 1 | 354 |
Such are surely worth their coins. |
10 |
| 10 | 229 |
"I am worth the tarsk bit," she said. |
10 |
| 10 | 311 |
"Surely I was worth more than any of them," she said, petulantly. |
10 |
| 10 | 314 |
"I am worth much more than ninety-eight copper tarsks". |
10 |
| 10 | 315 |
"I am not sure you are worth ninety-eight copper tarsks," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 317 |
"If you had been worth a silver tarsk in a Gorean market," I told her, "you would have brought a silver tarsk in a Gorean market". |
10 |
| 10 | 321 |
"I do not think you are worth two copper tarsks," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 299 |
"You are worth more". |
10 |
| 11 | 302 |
"I would say you are worth now at least two silver tarsks". |
10 |
| 26 | 84 |
"The gold was doubtless much more than I was worth," she said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 467 |
"A golden tarn disk! A golden tarn disk!" "No female is worth that much," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 469 |
"We are worth whatever men will pay for us!" she gasped. |
10 |
| 8 | 471 |
That was indisputable, the master, the market, decides the worth of the slave. |
10 |
| 19 | 297 |
"Please give me your collar! I know I am of Earth, and am thus unworthy of a Gorean slave collar, but still I beg it! And are we not put in them, and kept in them? Is it not why we are brought here, to wear your collars? Is it not right for us? How fortunate we are, to be accepted by the men of Gor ... |
10 |
| 19 | 882 |
Surely a slave is worth at least a little. |
10 |
| 19 | 920 |
She now finds herself helplessly a form of woman she has been taught to regard as less than human, as only a property, as no more than a vended animal, a form of woman she has been taught all her life, from her early girlhood on, to look down upon and despise, a form of woman scarcely worth her cont... |
10 |
| 19 | 941 |
"What do you think you are worth?" I asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 942 |
"Worth?" "In coin, of course," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 950 |
In a sense then the free woman, being priceless, is worthless, but the slave girl has a worth, what she will bring on the slave block. |
10 |
| 19 | 974 |
Surely the matter is worth careful thought. |
10 |
| 20 | 157 |
"She is worth at least ten silver tarsks," speculated Tasdron. |
10 |
| 20 | 1331 |
She was worth tying. |
10 |
| 20 | 1436 |
It will be noted, in passing, though I suppose it has been clearly implicit in these remarks, that whereas on Earth the male is commonly the pursuer and is frequently frustrated by the flight, inaccessibility, aloofness, disinterest, and frigidity of his quarry, a quarry commonly not worth pursuing,... |
10 |
| 20 | 1970 |
If one doesn't know if she will work out, or be kept, it is sometimes not thought worth the while to waste a name on her. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 79 |
"One such mercenary is worth a thousand half-naked savages". |
10 |
| 7 | 109 |
"But I am worth more now," she said. |
10 |
| 8 | 46 |
"Is she worth fifty tarsks to you?" asked the slaver's man. |
10 |
| 8 | 713 |
"Yes," said Ginger, "and worth less than most animals". |
10 |
| 8 | 1112 |
"She will be worth five hides of the yellow kailiauk to me," he said. |
10 |
| 12 | 163 |
"Do you think they might have some worth?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 13 | 282 |
A fellow, after all, is going to see to it that he gets his money's worth out of her. |
10 |
| 13 | 625 |
"Grunt thinks you are worth more," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 660 |
Many women are not thought worth a collar. |
10 |
| 14 | 633 |
"She might be worth four hides," said Ginger. |
10 |
| 14 | 660 |
"Do you think I might be worth four hides?" she asked. |
10 |
| 14 | 886 |
"Am I worth four hides, Master?" she asked, gasping. |
10 |
| 15 | 74 |
Most people, for what it is worth, regard Fleer and Kaiila as different languages. |
10 |
| 15 | 216 |
In the Barrens she might well be worth five hides of the yellow kailiauk. |
10 |
| 19 | 575 |
"Surely I am worth something". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 148 |
She wants to make it clear to all that she is well worth every coin her master paid for her. |
10 |
| 7 | 365 |
"You are supposedly worth even five hides of the yellow kailiauk," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 128 |
"It seems that any of these would be worth keeping," I said, admiringly. |
10 |
| 12 | 145 |
I had little doubt but what she might be worth two hides. |
10 |
| 12 | 349 |
"The Dust Legs," I said, "apparently originally conjectured that you would be worth a hide. |
10 |
| 12 | 450 |
Why are you worth so little?" "I do not know, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 15 | 142 |
"They are yours!" "I have nothing to give you worth twenty kaiila!" shouted Hci, in fury. |
10 |
| 39 | 58 |
I myself, however, for what it is worth, had not thought that it was bad at all. |
10 |
| 39 | 233 |
"How laughable and delicious would the little collared chits find it that I, who so scorned them, am not only now, too, a slave, but a low slave, one with only a leather collar, one not even permitted clothing, a cheap, inexpensive slave, thousands of pasangs from civilization, a meaningless slave i... |
10 |
| 39 | 442 |
"She may be worth as much as a kaiila". |
10 |
| 43 | 346 |
Surely that would be worth at least a feather or some sort of marking on a feather. |
10 |
| 47 | 504 |
"Doubtless they will find their journey worth their while". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 495 |
Susan, I recalled, had thought it possible that a man, some men at least, might find her of interest, really of interest, of sufficient interest to be worth putting in bondage, of sufficient interest to be worth owning. |
10 |
| 1 | 102 |
The coin, in a sense, is an object whose worth or weight, in standardized quantities, is certified upon it, and guaranteed, so to speak, by an issuing authority. |
10 |
| 3 | 1054 |
I would have been outraged, or something in me would have been outraged, if I had not been thought worth a chain. |
10 |
| 4 | 239 |
"They are not worth taking seriously. |
10 |
| 5 | 176 |
"It is about the worth of your Tatrix, I think, in so far as I am now able to assess her. |
10 |
| 6 | 657 |
Gorean men, I was sure, would see to it that they got their money's worth. |
10 |
| 7 | 52 |
"Surely, then," I smiled, "I would be worth at least a silver tarsk". |
10 |
| 14 | 44 |
I wished that I were a slave, that I might have a chance for life, that I might have an opportunity to convince a master somehow, in any way possible, that I might be worth sparing. |
10 |
| 19 | 129 |
By superb performances a girl might, I thought, encourage a master to believe that she was worth feeding, and, perhaps, even feeding well. |
10 |
| 20 | 147 |
"Are you so unskilled, so inert, so like a free woman that you are not even worth having?" "I do not think so," I said. |
10 |
| 31 | 653 |
"I am not worth anything like that," I said. |
10 |
| 31 | 657 |
"I will endeavor to see that you get your money's worth," I said. |
10 |
| 36 | 85 |
For what it is worth, literacy commonly increases the value of a slave. |
10 |
| 36 | 1355 |
I had been found worth collaring. |
10 |
| 36 | 1358 |
In its way it reassures her of her worth as a woman. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 534 |
"That way," he said, "they may take you for a mere slave, perhaps not worth the time it might take to put you in a noose and conduct you to a sales point, and me for a poor merchant, perhaps not worth robbing. |
10 |
| 1 | 547 |
They cost far less than many of their higher-priced sisters and yet, in the long run, are worth far more. |
10 |
| 2 | 513 |
No woman is worth anything until she is put in a collar. |
10 |
| 2 | 514 |
None of them have any worth until they are made worthless". |
10 |
| 6 | 225 |
It is then up to the girl to see that the man gets a thousand times his money's worth, and more. |
10 |
| 6 | 280 |
The "magicians of Anango," for what it is worth, seem to be well known everywhere on Gor except in Anango. |
10 |
| 6 | 306 |
"A thousand gold pieces worth?" he asked. |
10 |
| 7 | 300 |
His Kaissa games, for what it is worth, usually brought in a few coins. |
10 |
| 7 | 368 |
"There is at least a silver tarsk's worth here". |
10 |
| 8 | 19 |
"We shall then see if they are worth keeping or should be left here, with the others". |
10 |
| 8 | 30 |
"It is a piteous sum, not even worth taking. |
10 |
| 16 | 961 |
"Here is a hundred times what she is worth, and twice what you paid for her! She is now mine!" "No," said the player. |
10 |
| 16 | 1048 |
"I shall play you, but it shall be but one game, and upon one condition, that the game may be worth my while". |
10 |
| 18 | 42 |
"I am not worth so much!" "I will let you know in the morning," said Scormus. |
10 |
| 21 | 474 |
On it she had even performed placatory slave dances, on her feet, and knees, and on her back, and belly, and sides, dances of the sort in which the female tries to convince the male that she might perhaps be worth sparing, if only for the pleasure she might bring him. |
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| 22 | 16 |
I had no doubt but what she had now rendered ample proof to him that she was worth far more than the golden tarn disk he had arrogantly paid for her. |
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| 22 | 145 |
"Too, how could a mere literary image capture the essence of the living drama?" "Too, they are not worth writing down," said Lecchio. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 210 |
"Is it so hard to understand, or accept, that men might find your mother an attractive female, a desirable property, a lovely animal, a sex slut of interest, one whom they might think worth taking, or buying, or stealing, one they might think worth owning, one whom they might not mind having on thei... |
10 |
| 4 | 447 |
Hundreds of times calculated defenses and responsible tactics have proved their worth in the face of brawn and wrath. |
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| 9 | 148 |
"She is not worth so much as the slaves," said Hurtha, "but doubtless she would bring something". |
10 |
| 9 | 155 |
"Perhaps that is worth some consideration". |
10 |
| 15 | 409 |
Rings were brought to her worth the ransom of a Ubar. |
10 |
| 15 | 478 |
"Do you think I find this slut of any personal interest or worth?" "I can see how some men might," I said. |
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| 16 | 1042 |
"He plans on scouting out the territories of Ar, to see if they are worth seizing by Alars". |
10 |
| 18 | 35 |
"Such might be worth their weight in gold," he speculated. |
10 |
| 18 | 96 |
That her master chains her is, of course, an indication of his interest, and informs her not only that she is a slave, but that she is desired, and that she is regarded as valuable, as worth chaining. |
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| 25 | 106 |
"And perhaps that the coin will seem a comment on her worth". |
10 |
| 25 | 495 |
"It is not worth whipping her about," I said. |
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| 25 | 876 |
"You had better be worth it on the floor, Mina," said my hostess. |
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| 25 | 930 |
"The daughter of a ubar may bring ten thousand pieces of gold in a private sale," said the hostess, "but, as a woman, as a mere female on a chain, she may be worth far less than thousands of wenches one might lead home for a few copper tarsks". |
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| 26 | 496 |
"In short," I said, "the tarsk bit is far more than your use would be worth". |
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| 16 | 84 |
"What she is truly worth, or what I might think she is truly worth," said Tupita, "is of no importance. |
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| 1 | 191 |
I saw that she was worthless indeed, worth less than the dirt beneath the feet of gods, but that, too, in her way, she possessed incredible riches and power, in her beauty and femaleness, and in her dance. |
10 |
| 4 | 414 |
What is the virginity of a hateful modern woman, a despicable slut like yourself, really worth? Nothing. |
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| 6 | 308 |
She was from Fort Worth, Texas. |
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| 8 | 104 |
I, for what it was worth, whether it was meaningful or not, whether it was a tribute to my beauty, or an indication of my assumed esthetic inferiority to the others, or a matter of accident, of simple happenstance or original positioning, with no significance, or height or whatever, was again at the... |
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| 9 | 53 |
I was not even aware, really, of the monetary system here, or its units, or their worth. |
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| 10 | 402 |
You want to know what you are worth. |
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| 10 | 712 |
"He is worth more to me than ten thousand such as you". |
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| 11 | 1592 |
But if I wanted their touch why should I not ask for it, or beg for it? As a slave what else could I do? Too, even if my needs and my interests, and the incredible depth and intensity of my desires proved that I was "worthless" and without "merit," I did not care! Of course I was worthless, though, ... |
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| 12 | 76 |
Why, for example, does one man bid gold for a girl that another man would not buy with copper? Perhaps because one man sees that the girl is worth gold, and the other does not. |
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| 13 | 359 |
"I am not worth so much". |
10 |
| 13 | 371 |
"I am not worth five tarsks," I laughed. |
10 |
| 13 | 380 |
"I will show you that maybe I am worth five tarsks after all!" "Perhaps I will summon Tupita," he said. |
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| 16 | 80 |
"Our arrangement was for five," she said, "five!" "Do you truly think she is worth five?" asked the fellow. |
10 |
| 16 | 85 |
Perhaps she is not worth even a tarsk bit. |
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| 16 | 96 |
Although this varies from city to city, it is not unusual for a silver tarsk to be exchangeable for a hundred copper tarsks, each one of which can be worth anywhere from ten to four tarsk bits, usually eight. |
10 |
| 16 | 109 |
"I am only sorry that you are not worth more," she said. |
10 |
| 17 | 410 |
"Am I worth so much?" I asked. |
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| 20 | 92 |
"Spill garbage, or refuse, upon the stones, for I am a slave and am worth less than even it, and have no value lest it be to serve a master, and put me upon it. |
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| 20 | 162 |
He was told, however, that what they gave him was indeed worth far more than gold and silver, that it was a "Home Stone". |
10 |
| 20 | 165 |
"If the Priest-Kings say this is worth more than gold and silver," said a wise man, "it must be true". |
10 |
| 22 | 87 |
"For what it is worth," he said, "you have served longer than any other lure girl I have used in this area". |
10 |
| 24 | 335 |
"There is no garbage here, on which to make your bed," said one of the men, "and I have learned that, indeed, in any event, you are worth less than it". |
10 |
| 27 | 29 |
They had come to see if they thought it worth their while, in the spending of their evening, to wait about for a time, to see me dance, and then, perhaps, if they were pleased, to drop an ostrakon into the helmet. |
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| 29 | 28 |
"There is not one there who, stripped, would not bring high bids on the block! Is there one there whom a man would not dream of marching home naked before him, to fasten her to his slave ring! See those faces, those slave curves! There is not one of them who is not worth five tarsks!" "Three tarsks ... |
10 |
| 29 | 758 |
"She is worth more to me than ten thousand free women!" cried Mirus. |
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| 29 | 1079 |
"These have been well worth waiting for, have they not?" asked the bearded man. |
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| 29 | 1082 |
"And surely they are worth at least five silver tarsks apiece," said the small fellow. |
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| 29 | 1385 |
"Do you not understand? We are slaves, slaves! What do you think her life would have been worth if she had not been successful in her work? If she had even been suspected in her work would this, too, not have been dangerous for her masters?" "Get out of the way!" he cried. |
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| 31 | 185 |
If he did not remember me, then, I supposed, it was because there had been little about me of interest to him, or to make me worth remembering. |
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| 31 | 186 |
But if he gave me a chance I would try, and desperately, through sedulous service and unstinting love, to make myself well worth remembering to him! Perhaps he had known many women, and really did not remember me? "Do you feel," he asked, "that you truly know how to dance—before men". |
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| 32 | 201 |
I was unutterably beneath him, worth less than the dust beneath his sandals. |
10 |
| 33 | 256 |
One wonders if you can also understand that there is a complementarity here, and that a woman may rejoice to be so wanted, so desired, so lusted for, and so tenaciously and unmitigatedly sought, that she is thrilled to be claimed and collared, that she is thrilled to be found worth owning, and thril... |
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| 34 | 754 |
And, of course, what was a slave worth? A few copper tarsks, or silver tarsks, in a market? Or everything to someone, perhaps everything in the world to someone? I looked at my master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 273 |
"Mine is fifty," wept the last of the five women, "but I will make it well worth your while!" "In what way?" I asked. |
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| 2 | 350 |
"I will make it worth your while, handsome fellow". |
10 |
| 6 | 221 |
"It is doubtless a great deal more than you are worth," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 663 |
"That is far more than she is worth," he said. |
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| 6 | 718 |
"It would not be worth harnessing her," he said. |
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| 6 | 727 |
"You are not worth sleen feed," he said. |
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| 8 | 134 |
She was worth such. |
10 |
| 12 | 296 |
It was worth consideration, of course. |
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| 15 | 179 |
It was probably worth more to him than gold. |
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| 15 | 546 |
You wanted to be seen in terms of something well worth hunting and capturing. |
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| 16 | 408 |
It is usually thought however, for what it is worth, that the woman who does this sort of thing, for she knows the risks she runs and what is likely to be done with her, is actually, on one level or another, after long self-turmoil, seeking the collar. |
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| 21 | 55 |
In this act is symbolized his desire of her, that she is worth chaining and keeping. |
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| 21 | 1155 |
Too, they soon become proud to think of themselves as girls, in the sense of exciting, beautiful, needful, mastered slaves, for in this status they realize they are being recognized as, and praised as, of a worth and interest far above that accorded to the inhibited, suppressed, cumbersomely clad fr... |
10 |
| 21 | 1156 |
In short, whereas the term 'girl' has diverse connotations, most tend to be highly complimentary, at least in the Gorean sense, as suggesting a female well worth hunting down, or capturing, or buying and owning. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 192 |
For example, she might, at a given time, be worth five verr or three tarsks, but she might be worth only a fifth of a sleen or a tenth of a tarn. |
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| 1 | 31 |
She would be worth much more now, clearly. |
10 |
| 1 | 609 |
He had been somewhat rude to her, as I recall, referring to her as fat, stupid, a she-tarsk and not worth sleen feed. |
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| 1 | 710 |
He would ridicule and mock me! He threw me from him in disgust! He thinks of me as ugly, as fat, as stupid, as a she-sleen, as one who is not worth sleen feed, as one so ugly and disgusting that he would have me taken from his sight!" "But now," I said, "you are a slave". |
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| 1 | 921 |
"Alas," she lamented, "I am not worth even sleen feed!" "No!" cried the burly fellow. |
10 |
| 2 | 96 |
"He spoke of me as fat," she said, "as stupid, as a she-tarsk, as not being worth sleen feed!" "I recall," I said. |
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| 18 | 251 |
To be sure, this is not worth depending on as these creatures, like others, differ, the one from the other. |
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| 19 | 189 |
Better, I thought, that she might have said, "Flee, save yourself!" That would have been advice well worth considering. |
10 |
| 19 | 516 |
"I will make it worth your while," she said. |
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| 21 | 103 |
I assure you that while men may bet eagerly upon her they seldom regard her, personally, as the one most worth catching. |
10 |
| 21 | 104 |
Too, the woman who is hardest to catch is not always the one most worth catching. |
10 |
| 27 | 426 |
It is well worth waiting for them. |
10 |
| 27 | 591 |
Too, you are now well worth watching". |
10 |
| 27 | 592 |
"'Worth watching'!" she said. |
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| 37 | 158 |
Similarly the pervasiveness of bondage throughout human history is a sufficient demonstration that a diversity of cultures in a plenitude of times, for whatever it may be worth, if anything, have found its institutionalization convenient, practical, rewarding, beneficent, and desirable. |
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| 37 | 173 |
The anthropological point is simply one of fact, which, one supposes, is worth noting, but does not require extensive comment, namely, freedom, particularly of the social and political sort, however estimable it may be, is not a necessary condition for human happiness; two other factors are more imp... |
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| 37 | 454 |
"What do you think she is worth?" I asked. |
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| 37 | 458 |
"I am not worth so much!" "I am well aware of that," said Ephialtes, irritably. |
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| 37 | 465 |
"I doubt that your wagon and goods, and tharlarion are worth so much," I said. |
10 |
| 43 | 49 |
"I hope that it is worth waiting for," he said. |
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| 48 | 312 |
She knew, of course, something of the worth of women in the markets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 629 |
If something is worth playing, it is worth remembering, they say. |
10 |
| 2 | 367 |
"She is a delicacy," I said, "worth at least two silver tarsks, in any market". |
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| 3 | 302 |
One blow of the whip is worth six months of coaxing. |
10 |
| 4 | 57 |
Tharlarion, and such transportation, were now said to be worth their weight in gold. |
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| 7 | 83 |
These were the same ostraka, I supposed, which, a few days ago, would have been worth their weight in gold, permits, passes, in effect, to remain in the city. |
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| 7 | 139 |
"Ar is not worth such a price!" cried a man. |
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| 9 | 159 |
Three of them, I think, are worth mentioning. |
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| 9 | 375 |
Would the Hinrabian be suitable, did they think, as a conciliatory offering, or a partial reparation payment, to the offended Cosians? Would she be acceptable? Would she be adequate? Or would such an offering insult them, or offend them, in its lack of worth, in its paltriness? I smiled. |
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| 9 | 698 |
They have been found worth collaring. |
10 |
| 12 | 277 |
Also, it has been my personal experience, for what it is worth, that slaves are almost always more intelligent and sensitive than free women, who often, at least until taken in hand, tend to be ignorant, smug, vain and stupid. |
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| 13 | 70 |
What if some folks required lies, as the price of mental security? Should they be nonetheless denied their comforts, robbed of their illusions? Is their happiness worth less than that of others? Is it not better to tell them, if they are capable of no more, that the illusions are reality, that the l... |
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| 14 | 53 |
"He is liberated," she said, "and of the times! He knows my worth!" "You would not be insolent in Cos, or Anango, or Venna!" said a man. |
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| 14 | 215 |
Surely they are worth the effort. |
10 |
| 17 | 165 |
"It is worth a try," said a fellow. |
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| 17 | 259 |
"It is surely worth a try," said the first fellow. |
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| 19 | 490 |
Perhaps, however, for what it might have been worth, she might have managed to receive a woeful glance or two, or a kissing of her gloved fingers. |
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| 20 | 165 |
In a sense a woman is worth as much or as little as someone is willing to pay for her. |
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| 23 | 223 |
"Know that we, for what it is worth, and all those of Ar's Station," said Marcus, "appreciate your brilliance!" "Thank you," said Boots. |
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| 23 | 322 |
"She is worth ten thousand, and more," said Marcus, defensively. |
10 |
| 25 | 195 |
"What is it to my honor," asked Appanius, "if I have been betrayed by an ungrateful, worthless slave? It is scarcely worth noting". |
10 |
| 25 | 220 |
"To me," said Appanius, "he is worth less than the lowest pot girl". |
10 |
| 25 | 226 |
"No," said Appanius, "rather let him know my estimate of his worth". |
10 |
| 27 | 413 |
"Accept me! I will make it worth your while! I will give you thousands of gold pieces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 214 |
For what it is worth, as an economic sidelight on such matters, normally figured women, assuming, of course, that they are attractive and beautiful, tend, by far, to bring the highest prices. |
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| 7 | 570 |
But might not that suffice, for the little that it might be worth? I, his, in his arms, was in the garden. |
10 |
| 8 | 655 |
Indeed, what could be of importance here, what worth considering? I clung to the bars. |
10 |
| 9 | 232 |
On my old world, you see, I had been priceless, so to speak, and thus worth nothing. |
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| 11 | 176 |
"Perhaps not entirely without worth," he said. |
10 |
| 12 | 358 |
I know the worth of such objects. |
10 |
| 13 | 213 |
Too, for what it is worth, intelligent women are commonly better looking than less intelligent women, a feature which is not without its appeal to masters, and one which makes them more likely candidates for the slavers' ropes and irons; too, they also tend to be more helplessly responsive in the ar... |
10 |
| 14 | 1529 |
For what it is worth, that is the number which was impressed on me in the pens. |
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| 16 | 364 |
She is expected to be worth owning. |
10 |
| 24 | 276 |
Was a woman or two, a sack of plate, a handful of gems, worth their lives? Did they value their lives so lightly? It must be that, I thought, they must all be mad. |
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| 37 | 526 |
Is she not, it might be asked, a desirable, beautiful animal, worth saving for his pleasure? An Earth woman, incidentally, if rescued on Gor by a Gorean, might be surprised at the aftermath of her rescue. |
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| 38 | 167 |
Her treatment, her caresses, her rewards, and such, would then be more clearly a function of what she was in herself alone, more clearly a function of whatever intrinsic merit, quality, or worth she might possess in herself alone, as a female, as a slave. |
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| 42 | 161 |
Would it be worth her life, say, to retain the coins? Could she successfully hide them, if they were sought for? Could she dispose of them, without being found out? Would her denials be credited, if it were stated by some authority that she had taken them? Who were these men? Did they, perhaps, have... |
10 |
| 44 | 129 |
Either was doubtless worth more than many slaves, doubtless more than I and perhaps more even than Aynur. |
10 |
| 46 | 360 |
"My life," he said, absently, gazing at the ceiling, "is now worth very little". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1291 |
The slave tunic, and such garmentures, rather as the collar, too, proclaims its occupant a woman who has been found worth capturing, worth collaring, worth buying and selling, worth owning, and so on. |
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| 20 | 945 |
How few women are put upon a block and sold for what men find them to be actually worth! Do free women think they are so lofty and precious? Let them be put stripped on a sales block and see what they would bring! Let them then get some idea as to what they are truly worth! Thus, few women, she thou... |
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| 4 | 346 |
Accordingly, in many respects, not being afflicted by these processes, the human beings of our supposed world, that on which I am inviting you to conjecture, might tend in many ways to be healthier and happier, and to find their lives more rewarding and meaningful, more worth living, than many of th... |
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| 9 | 125 |
It was a visible statement that they were worth something. |
10 |
| 9 | 128 |
A terrible insult, on this world, to a free woman, is to tell her she is not worth a collar. |
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| 11 | 864 |
But would most not wish weak foes? Only Goreans, she supposed, desired strong foes, perhaps that they might be the better tested, that an ensuing victory might be the more worth winning. |
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| 13 | 10 |
To tread such a world, thought Ellen, is worth a brand and a collar, a thousand brands and a thousand collars. |
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| 13 | 203 |
Supposedly the tarnsman might thus be lured to the pursuit of an identifiably delightful quarry, something obviously worth owning, as opposed to a free woman who might, when stripped, prove to be as ugly as a tharlarion". |
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| 14 | 65 |
Some might be worth the ransom of a Ubar. |
10 |
| 14 | 140 |
Whatever he wants, I want to give him, but I do not know what he wants! Does he want me to again refuse to beg, and will he then, proud of me, I having then proven my worth before him, that I am still much like a free woman, keep me for himself, or does he want me to beg? If I do not beg, will I the... |
10 |
| 15 | 196 |
"I could, of course," he said, "have demeaned your beauty, disparaged it, caused you to doubt your own value, put you in consternation concerning your worth, and such, but I did not do so". |
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| 15 | 830 |
"You are not worth hating". |
10 |
| 16 | 284 |
"Pot girls, kettle-and-mat girls, worthless she-urts, all of you! Some slaves are worth a Ubara's ransom. |
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| 16 | 738 |
Certainly there are many things of interest, and worth talking about, or at least very pleasant to talk about, and delightful to talk about, other than problems of agriculture and engineering. |
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| 16 | 1199 |
In this way, too, she would be of less worth as a slave. |
10 |
| 16 | 1311 |
Any one of these is worth a Ubar's medallion, a thousand golden tarn disks, but I am a destitute man, who, due to personal exigencies am in sudden dire need of ready cash. |
10 |
| 17 | 593 |
Could that be? Could she be so excitingly attractive as that? Was she really so delicious as a female that she was worth, say, being put upon a block and being bid upon by eager men? One of the girls, she recalled, had said she would probably bring a decent price off a slave block. |
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| 17 | 628 |
"I do not think she is worth much," said the man. |
10 |
| 17 | 900 |
A man sees a girl he wants and his objective judgment as to the market worth of the given property can be clouded, perhaps by simple desire, a simple desire to buy and own, totally, a particularly delightful, curvaceous property, but perhaps by something else, too, mixed with desire, and powerful lu... |
10 |
| 18 | 133 |
The collar gave her a sense of belonging, a sense of security; too, it was, in its way, a proclamation of her value; it testified that men wanted her, that she had been found fair enough to collar, that she was desired as a female, that she had been found worth enslaving; too, it made it clear, to h... |
10 |
| 18 | 352 |
Did they truly not know her worth, what she deserved? How was it then that she had been purchased by a tarnmaster, a fellow not even of high caste? She wondered what he had paid for her. |
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| 18 | 363 |
This, doubtless, was what she was worth, in herself. |
10 |
| 19 | 762 |
Free women may be priceless, but, thus, they are worth nothing. |
10 |
| 25 | 39 |
Yes, long ago, on Earth, in my most secret dreams, in my most feared and forbidden, but persistent, exciting, delicious and fascinating thoughts, I wondered what it might be to be a slave! I had wondered, too, what I might be truly worth, if anything, what I might bring in an open market, sold raw, ... |
10 |
| 25 | 698 |
With what would you reward a man who betrays his manhood? What will you give him that is worth more than his manhood? And I do not even comment on the other side of the coin, except to say that it is one coin, and it has another side. |
10 |
| 25 | 732 |
Show them that you are worth a high price! There were twenty-one bids on you, even from the exhibition cage. |
10 |
| 25 | 734 |
Show them you are worth even more! She stood then before the men, apprehensive, but slave beautiful. |
10 |
| 25 | 740 |
Doubtless many Gorean women, and doubtless many of Earth, as well, have stood naked before a mirror, regarding themselves, and asked themselves if they were worth enslaving, if they were beautiful enough to be a female slave. |
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| 25 | 820 |
Show these rugged, virile brutes that your slightness and softness, on sale before them, are worth at least a silver tarsk! Earn yourself a rich master, Ellen! Perform, thought Ellen. |
10 |
| 25 | 953 |
I am not worth that much, she thought. |
10 |
| 25 | 954 |
To be sure, she told herself, it is men who will decide what you are worth, not you. |
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| 26 | 378 |
* * * * Surely, she thought, Selius Arconious knows something of these things! And he paid five pieces of gold, of gold, for me! Perhaps he had a hundred, and they were no more than tarsk-bits to him! What then does that make me worth? Must I not now reassess myself? Am I not again no more than a ch... |
10 |
| 26 | 476 |
"Perhaps you are worth a handful of silver tarsks". |
10 |
| 26 | 773 |
"She is pretty, but she is not worth that much," said a man. |
10 |
| 26 | 776 |
"You see, little vulo," he said, "you are worth that much". |
10 |
| 26 | 780 |
"Do you think you are worth that much?" he asked. |
10 |
| 26 | 796 |
"That is doubtless, objectively, what she is worth," said Portus Canio. |
10 |
| 26 | 875 |
"Then someone paid more for you than you are worth". |
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| 26 | 1293 |
Whereas they may at first shudder in their pens and jerk helplessly, weeping, at their chains, they know, too, on some level, at least, and this appeals profoundly to their vanity, and to the yearning, secret slave within, perhaps hitherto fearing she might be valueless, perhaps hitherto fearing tha... |
10 |
| 26 | 1294 |
Has not every woman wondered if she were attractive enough, or interesting enough, to be a slave? Even the most insolent and beautiful of women, one inordinately vain, one supremely confident of her worth and beauty, even inveterately, snobbishly so, in her customary interactions and relations with ... |
10 |
| 27 | 58 |
"But you are not worth twenty silver tarsks," he said angrily. |
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| 27 | 459 |
Ellen put her cheek against the spoke of the wagon wheel, better understanding her worth on this world. |
10 |
| 27 | 1519 |
Men bid silver upon me, silver!" "You are worth no more than a handful of tarsk-bits," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 27 | 3144 |
You might meet another woman worth taking". |
10 |
| 30 | 64 |
They are obedient vessels of sexual pleasure; they are subservient, lascivious beasts, anxious to please; they are summonable; they hope to be summoned; they are needful and zealous; one buys them for pleasure, and from them one will have one's money's worth, and a thousand times more. |
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| 30 | 115 |
"I think, Ellen," she said to herself, "that you are worth money, yes, money, serious money. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 47 |
They are then priced at what men will pay for them, some priced higher than others, as worth more coins, some priced lower than others, as worth fewer coins". |
10 |
| 76 | 14 |
Not just any woman is worth a collar; not just any woman is worth buying and selling, or having at your feet. |
10 |
| 1 | 356 |
Her own womanhood insists on this, as does her pride, her self-image, her concern for her own desirability, her sense of her own worth and value as a female. |
10 |
| 1 | 608 |
That pet, she was sure, would not be worth a collar. |
10 |
| 4 | 176 |
What woman has not wondered what she might be worth, what men would pay for her? If a female wishes to understand what she is, let her consult her fantasies, her dreams. |
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| 8 | 105 |
That is the way men prefer it and, too, of course, they must under no circumstances be confused with free women, who are of course infinitely beyond them in dignity and worth. |
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| 8 | 106 |
The slave is worth less than the dirt beneath the sandals of a free woman. |
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| 20 | 82 |
"If I am guilty of treason," he continued, "it is not treason against the species and the world, but against one who would betray the honor of the species and the world, a dissembler and deceiver, an opportunist and thief, a liar and seeker of power, a true traitor to worth, nobility, and valor". |
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| 20 | 99 |
"You are interested in abetting revolution, in spreading division in the Steel World?" "I suppose my life now," said Cabot, "will be worth little, if Lord Pyrrhus goes free". |
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| 24 | 76 |
"She is not worth your love," said Cabot. |
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| 24 | 77 |
"Not worth the love of a beast!" she scoffed. |
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| 24 | 79 |
"Not worth the love even of a beast". |
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| 24 | 134 |
He is not worth your stroke". |
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| 27 | 193 |
I may be worth as much as a silver tarsk". |
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| 32 | 138 |
"That is what she is worth," said the Lady Bina. |
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| 33 | 221 |
"I think you are clearly worth two tarsks," he said, "and, stripped, I think you would sell for such, in almost any market". |
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| 34 | 190 |
"Yes," said Cabot, "otherwise you would not be worth buying and selling". |
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| 36 | 212 |
"I have never seen a kaiila, Master," she said, "but I understand I am worth far less than one, let alone the great tarn of which I have been told, but, too, have not seen". |
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| 43 | 408 |
You, you lovely piece of goods, you delightful bit of merchandise, are worth coins". |
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| 64 | 164 |
Too, most female slaves are worth less than a sleen, certainly less than a good sleen". |
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| 70 | 102 |
"It is worth my life, is it not?" "She is worthless," said Cabot. |
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| 76 | 18 |
Is she not well worth chaining?" Thus, it is not surprising that many slaves, after a time, are not only well pleased with their collars, but find themselves proud to be collared. |
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| 79 | 228 |
This assures them of the nature of such women, that they are worthy only of wearing collars and serving their betters, and, thus, in the same way, in this, they find, inversely, evidence of their own incomparable worth and innate superiority. |
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| 79 | 308 |
She is profoundly reassured of her specialness, her worth, her importance, her identity, slave, her desirability, her womanhood. |
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| 79 | 373 |
"Show them you are worth owning!" called Cabot, laughing. |
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| 79 | 589 |
"Certainly worth a collar, as many others". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 440 |
What greater intimacy can there be between a man and a woman than that the woman is wholly his, that she is literally owned, that she is his possession, his slave? "Your body is well worth wanting," I said, "but if it were not animated, not living, not whole with feelings, emotions, and thoughts, it... |
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| 38 | 133 |
They must be aware that men are conjecturing their lineaments, curiously, even idly, appraisingly, wondering if, under all that paraphernalia, all those wrappings, there might be something worth putting to its knees, worth collaring, and owning. |
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| 3 | 76 |
It can be worth an arm to try to separate fighting sleen. |
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| 3 | 672 |
"To be sure," I said, "she will not be worth much on the block if she has been mauled by a sleen". |
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| 4 | 218 |
"They are certificates of their attractiveness, that they are of interest to men, that they have been found worth collaring". |
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| 4 | 317 |
"Then you will finally be worth something. |
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| 7 | 354 |
On the other hand, the sex lives of slaves are a thousand times richer and deeper than those of a free woman, if the free woman, with her hauteur and grandeur, has anything worth considering a sex life. |
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| 10 | 194 |
"'Gre-gor-e-white' and 'Mar-gar-et-went-worth'," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 10 | 573 |
How free she was then, kneeling at his feet, and how right, and perfect! Too, it betokened that she was a woman of value, that she had worth, that she could be bought and sold. |
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| 10 | 579 |
I have been found worth collaring". |
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| 15 | 27 |
"But now," I said, "she has no more than her slave worth, and that is very little". |
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| 15 | 152 |
"She is now a slave, and would be worth something, even if only a few copper tarsks. |
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| 18 | 152 |
In any event, the historical explanation, for what it is worth, is that Priest-Kings arranged their laws in such matters based on indulgently codifying what they took to be current human practices in such matters. |
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| 20 | 177 |
It took only a moment to see that Licinius Lysias was well worth his fee, which had doubtless been considerable. |
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| 22 | 264 |
"This one might be worth as much as a silver tarsk". |
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| 22 | 269 |
She then has a better sense of what she is worth, as what she is, as a collar property, to masters. |
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| 26 | 162 |
Even women who sell as pot girls and kettle-and-mat girls are often well worth looking at twice, and bidding on. |
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| 26 | 176 |
"Worth nothing, unexchanged. |
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| 26 | 281 |
"No woman is worth that much," said Seremides. |
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| 26 | 282 |
"Honor is worth much more," I said. |
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| 38 | 158 |
And what might it be, they might wonder, which has won them this incredible, welcome reprieve, temporary as it might be, from the ax or torch? Could it be that it is their sex and beauty, their exquisite features and lovely slave curves, to which they may have hitherto given little thought, save for... |
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| 38 | 448 |
She intuitively understood that as a free woman she was worthless, save perhaps as food to the beasts, but might, as a slave, have whatever worth a slave might have. |
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| 40 | 116 |
Would it not be pleasant to have her there, or one similar? Too, it is they, such slaves, who know what it is to be owned, and they will labor mightily, fearing to be deprived of their most profound fulfillments, to be found worth keeping. |
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| 43 | 104 |
"How can his sword be of great value," I asked, "if it has cost you six men?" "Is such a sword not worth six men?" asked Lord Nishida. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 105 |
Might one not be worth a galley, and might not one slave be worth several slaves?" "It would depend on the slave," I said. |
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| 3 | 700 |
Were such as I so common that we were not worth our pursuit? I was elated to be free of him, but frightened, as well, for who would now protect me? And, oddly, my vanity was offended. |
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| 3 | 1310 |
"Perhaps you now have a better understanding of your worth," I said, "as compared to other women". |
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| 3 | 1452 |
Yes, I thought, certainly well worth forty copper tarsks. |
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| 8 | 185 |
Too, interestingly, a slave may sometimes desire to be whipped, perhaps to reassure her of her master's attention, that she is still important to him, that he regards her as still his slave, that he regards her as still worth whipping, and perhaps, sometimes, she simply desires to be whipped, to be ... |
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| 8 | 493 |
But what might that be? Also, as she could recognize him, her death might be worth far more to him than the gold her delivery to Ar might bring. |
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| 10 | 82 |
To be sure, she would be worth much in Ar. |
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| 10 | 83 |
I wondered if she would be worth more at the foot of a man's couch. |
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| 12 | 126 |
How desperately they strive to please the auctioneer, to present themselves as superb merchandise, as goods well worth bringing home! How they strive to win a buyer! It is not pleasant to be returned to the cage, unsold. |
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| 12 | 548 |
Also, that there were clearly two men involved is worth noting". |
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| 15 | 128 |
So the dreaded master of the elite Taurentians had come to this? I wondered if he would be any longer regarded as worth the impaling spear in Ar. |
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| 21 | 22 |
"Please ponder their worth, noble lord," said Tyrtaios. |
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| 21 | 375 |
"Show that you are worth owning". |
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| 21 | 716 |
"But that is common with women whom men find worth putting on a chain". |
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| 24 | 247 |
It might be worth one's life to do so. |
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| 24 | 347 |
"It is worth what it is to you," I said. |
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| 25 | 358 |
How they, former conspirators, now helpless, hated one another! It occurred to me that the occupants of that tiny enclosure were worth a fortune. |
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| 25 | 368 |
She had become an excellent piece of collar meat, perhaps worth even two silver tarsks. |
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| 26 | 164 |
Her passage was such as might elicit soft whistles, the smacking of lips, explicit speculations as to her value off the block, or her worth in the furs. |
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| 26 | 321 |
"For what it is worth," I said, "I find you a hundred times more beautiful, and a thousand times more desirable, than the former Ubara of Ar". |
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| 28 | 83 |
Thus I was trying, for what it was worth, to conceal the identity of the two slaves. |
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| 29 | 42 |
They have sought your service, paid for it with good coin, which you accepted, and brought you here, in trust, across vast, green Thassa, to the World's End, that you may prove your worth and earn your pay, that you may teach those of these islands the honor, the prowess, and might of the archers, s... |
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| 31 | 54 |
"I know a slave," he said, "who would be worth gold in Ar". |
10 |
| 33 | 76 |
To be sure, this question was a test, as much as anything, to help me ascertain her depth, and worth. |
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| 33 | 180 |
Clearly the slave did not begin to be worth so much. |
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| 34 | 32 |
A female found worth being collared by men". |
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| 34 | 233 |
It seemed to me a complex, but sorry world, one crowded and polluted, one of noise, fumes, and smoke, of pushing and shoving, one of haste with few places to go, or worth going, one without much love, and one, clearly, without Home Stones, if one can conceive of such a world. |
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| 37 | 442 |
The female serving slave of a free woman is likely to be modestly tunicked, whereas the slave of a free man is likely to be tunicked in such a manner as to make it clear to other men that she was worth buying. |
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| 37 | 563 |
"And poor Alcinoë," she said, "as a gift, may be worth but, say, five silver tarsks". |
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| 37 | 575 |
"Now a gift of true worth," she said, "is presented by a slave to her master, with the affection and regard of Lord Nishida and Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu". |
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| 37 | 576 |
"You are the gift of true worth," said Callias to the slave. |
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| 37 | 591 |
"I knew, of course, that the garment contained such things," she said, "but I did not know how many or of what worth". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 79 |
Do you think slaves do not have natures, even though their natures may be scarcely worth noticing, and despicable? We do have our natures. |
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| 5 | 298 |
"I can give you money, much money! I can make it worth your while, very much so!" I recalled that a fellow in the house had said something like 'forty, perhaps sixty' in response to another's question. |
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| 5 | 391 |
"Doubtless they are worth far more than I would sell for," I said. |
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| 7 | 575 |
A week would not pass without my declining several offers for outings, afternoons or evenings, with such, while I would select from amongst such offers those few which I deemed suitable, those which might prove eventually to be to my advantage, those from suitably positioned young men, young men wor... |
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| 8 | 671 |
And is not flirting, I thought, even on my former world, an act of display, hinting, alluding, presenting oneself as something vivacious, attractive, sparkling, as something of interest, something worth investigating, and acquiring, an object of desire? I had muchly enjoyed such games, the suggestin... |
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| 8 | 747 |
"Are we worth so little?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 1246 |
"Surely worth something," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1338 |
"She is not worth so much," said the fellow. |
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| 8 | 2080 |
"She is not worth a silver tarsk," said Menon. |
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| 10 | 823 |
For some fellows, Goreans, having such a woman in a collar might be worth more than what she will bring in gold, thrown stripped and shackled to the foot of a Ubar's throne. |
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| 10 | 1181 |
Would that not be a rich Gorean joke, at the expense of a helpless slave, a joke worth recounting in the taverns? "You are Allison, the barbarian slut of the Lady Bina, are you not?" asked the voice. |
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| 15 | 103 |
Did it never occur to my mistress, or the beast, that I might be stolen, that someone might regard me as worth stealing? My own suspicion in these matters, of course, was that the public chaining of slaves was likely to have less to do with the dangers of slave theft, and more to do with the gratifi... |
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| 17 | 340 |
He had been cruel, but had I been found wanting? Was I so poor a slave, so unattractive a slave? Had my lips not been formed, at his command, as a slave's lips, readied for attention? Had I not, eyes closed, waited, until I had been ignored or rejected, and my pursed lips put to a stone wall, agains... |
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| 18 | 83 |
How different were things now, from my former world! How far were we all, now, from the banalities, the boredoms, the competitions, and trivialities of the sorority! How meaningless we had been, how worthless! We now had worth, some value, at least what coin we might bring. |
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| 18 | 170 |
When one is offering a woman, of course, one wants it to be clear that she may be worth buying. |
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| 20 | 29 |
What presumption, what insolence! Did she think she was a free woman, whose love was of inestimable value, a priceless gift, a love worth having? She was a slave. |
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| 21 | 88 |
How angry I was! How I hated Desmond of Harfax! Was I, the former Allison Ashton-Baker, worth so little? To be sure, she was now only kajira. |
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| 21 | 92 |
Sometimes this is done to try out a prospective slave, to see if she is worth buying. |
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| 21 | 101 |
"It is not that I think her worth that, of course," said Desmond. |
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| 21 | 102 |
"I would suppose her use worth would be something like a quarter or an eighth of a tarsk-bit, if that. |
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| 22 | 146 |
"It is worth a golden tarsk in Ar," said Trachinos. |
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| 26 | 370 |
"I love you!" "Of what worth is the love of a worthless slave?" he asked. |
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| 26 | 371 |
"Of no worth, Master," I said. |
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| 26 | 450 |
"Even a petty slave," he said, "of little worth, may bring a good price if she kicks, and squirms, and gasps and moans, and writhes well". |
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| 49 | 437 |
"Is this," she asked, looking at the coin, "all your use was worth?" "I had nothing to say about it," I said. |
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| 49 | 450 |
You are worth what men will pay for you". |
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| 49 | 451 |
"At least," I said, "we have some sense then of what we are worth". |
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| 52 | 285 |
"The pens are filled with slaves, well worth collaring, and training to one's taste". |
10 |
| 52 | 290 |
"I remain unimportant, and meaningless, of course, as I am a slave, Master," I said, "but I think I am different now from what I was, perhaps a little better, perhaps a bit more worth owning. |
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| 52 | 503 |
"See that you are worth keeping," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 110 |
I was surprised at the remark of the leader, as a sleen, a trained sleen, is commonly worth several slaves, just as a tarn is commonly worth several more. |
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| 4 | 117 |
What are its women worth, save to be slaves? Collar them, master them. |
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| 5 | 109 |
Do they not want us so? Surely an intelligent woman should bring a higher price, should be worth more in a collar, a slave collar. |
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| 5 | 257 |
The coin is worth only what it will buy This is obvious, but many on my former world, oddly enough, seem unaware of this. |
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| 6 | 95 |
Some of those vended in the recent sale I had attended were former high women of Ar, now naked properties worth only what men were willing to pay for them. |
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| 6 | 279 |
Why did they not better protect it? It can be worth a man's life to try to take a free woman from a Gorean city, even a slave. |
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| 6 | 440 |
"Making this worth our while," I said. |
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| 8 | 44 |
I did not think my sword was worth that much more than that of others. |
10 |
| 8 | 143 |
She was not worth a silver tarsk, but one does not always buy, or sell, with purely economic considerations in mind. |
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| 11 | 37 |
For what it was worth, the free men with the small caravan did not seem much better off. |
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| 21 | 161 |
Keep clearly in mind, it is worth gold and silver, and such, to you, only if it reaches its intended destination. |
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| 21 | 331 |
"It is worth nothing to you," said the beast. |
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| 22 | 90 |
"What do you think you are worth?" I asked. |
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| 39 | 640 |
"It is worth five, perhaps ten, of her". |
10 |
| 39 | 646 |
In the market I would be worth far less than such a beast. |
10 |
| 40 | 74 |
I suspected it would be worth someone's life to attack Axel, if Homines were about. |
10 |
| 43 | 469 |
"Clearly she is worth more now," he said. |
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| 43 | 705 |
Is she not worth regarding? Is she of so little interest? "Please approach," called Genserich to me, from across the camp. |
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| 43 | 1116 |
The mariners and their five mercenaries rummaged through the packs, and relieved the bound prisoners of their wallets and whatever paraphernalia they deemed worth gathering in. |
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| 52 | 559 |
"Far more than you are worth," snapped my captor. |
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| 52 | 560 |
"Not more than I was worth to Axel of Argentum," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 193 |
Is it worth the expenditure of blood and gold? Surely many believe so, certainly if others may be brought to pay the price. |
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| 12 | 12 |
"I wonder if she is worth a fukuro of rice," I said. |
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| 12 | 17 |
The collar does not diminish a woman's vanity; indeed, it may increase it, perhaps to her surprise, for not every woman is found worth collaring. |
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| 12 | 100 |
On the other hand, I found it worth noting that he had volunteered this information. |
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| 17 | 28 |
"It seems likely," I said, "your noble ally, the barbarian, Tyrtaios, reached the castle of Lord Temmu astride a tarn, secretly, by night, and likely, as well, that my tarn, for such beasts are of great worth, if it were practical, would have been acquired. |
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| 20 | 325 |
"She is not worth the cord that would bind her," he said. |
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| 21 | 108 |
It is perhaps worth mentioning, though it deals with a woman. |
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