Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 6 | Most of the women I had seen following the wagons, at any rate, knew enough by now to approach them only bareheaded, as female supplicants, too, to be more pleasing to the men who might possibly be persuaded to feed them, with their hair as visible and loose as that of slaves. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 3 | "—if you would be fed!" he added. |
| 3 | 4 | These women must be new, I thought. |
| 3 | 5 | Probably they had come only recently to the wagons, probably trekking overland from some contacted village, perhaps one from as far away as fifty pasangs, a common range for the excursions, the searches and collections of mounted foragers. |
| 3 | 6 | Most of the women I had seen following the wagons, at any rate, knew enough by now to approach them only bareheaded, as female supplicants, too, to be more pleasing to the men who might possibly be persuaded to feed them, with their hair as visible and loose as that of slaves. |
| 3 | 7 | Similarly, most had already discarded or hidden their veils, even when not begging. |
| 3 | 8 | They did not even wear them in their own small, foul, often-fireless makeshift camps near the wagons, camps, to be sure, to which men might sometimes come. |
| 3 | 9 | It had been discovered that a woman who is seen with a veil, even if she has lowered the veil, abjectly and piteously face-stripping herself, is less likely to be fed than one with no veil in evidence. |
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"—if you would be fed!" he added.
These women must be new, I thought.
Probably they had come only recently to the wagons, probably trekking overland from some contacted village, perhaps one from as far away as fifty pasangs, a common range for the excursions, the searches and collections of mounted foragers.
Most of the women I had seen following the wagons, at any rate, knew enough by now to approach them only bareheaded, as female supplicants, too, to be more pleasing to the men who might possibly be persuaded to feed them, with their hair as visible and loose as that of slaves.
Similarly, most had already discarded or hidden their veils, even when not begging.
They did not even wear them in their own small, foul, often-fireless makeshift camps near the wagons, camps, to be sure, to which men might sometimes come.
It had been discovered that a woman who is seen with a veil, even if she has lowered the veil, abjectly and piteously face-stripping herself, is less likely to be fed than one with no veil in evidence.
- (Mercenaries of Gor, Chapter 3)