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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 41 Whereas there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the growls of animals
3 125 Apparently, after having been brought to the planet, they had simply been released, much as animals might be released in a forest preserve, or fish stocked free in a river.
4 120 I remembered, too, the girls in the last tavern, if it was a tavern, lascivious in their dancing silks, pleasure slaves bred like animals for passion.
8 184 "Alone," she said, "I will be eaten by animals or found by soldiers".
12 92 Had we done so, I might have seen the war horde of Pa-Kur on its way to Ar, with its marching columns, its lines of tharlarion riders, its foraging cavalries of tarnsmen, its supply wagons and pack animals.
13 24 But tonight a pride of larls was hunting, and the cries of the three beasts were driving cries, herding the prey, usually several animals, toward the region of silence, herding them in the direction from which no cries would come, the direction in which the remainder of the pride waite...
13 39 For whatever reason, the larl will always prefer ruining a hunt, even one involving a quarry of several animals, to allowing a given animal to move past it to freedom.
13 40 Though I suppose this is purely instinctive on the larl's part, it does have the effect, over a series of generations, of weeding out animals which, if they survived, might transmit their intelligence, or perhaps their erratic running patterns, to their offspring.
13 41 As it is, when the larl loses its hunt, the animals which escape are those which haven't tried to break the circle, those which allow themselves to be herded easily.

Book 2. (8 results) Outlaw of Gor

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4 19 They are primarily dangerous to children and small animals, but a grown man who might lose his footing among them would not be likely to survive.
10 89 From some others I heard the shuffling and squealing of animals, perhaps more of the giant urts.
14 42 I know this sounds strange, but I believe some animals have pride, and if any did, I knew that this monster was one of them.
17 30 Before we had been ushered into the cell, outside, in a broad, rectangular chamber, two of the mine attendants had poured a tub of bread and vegetables into the feed trough fixed in the wall, and the slaves had rushed upon it, like animals, screaming, cursing, pushing, jostling, trying...
17 113 "You are not animals," I said.
20 30 Some wisps of dust swirled past like animals sniffing about the feet of the bodies.
21 12 It was a peaceful scene, the cooking fires, the domed tents, the unharnessing of the animals, one I remembered from the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste.
21 269 On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names.

Book 3. (14 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 7 None of the animals of Gor, as far as I knew, could enter the Sardar.
1 73 I passed among wines and textiles and raw wool, silks, and brocades, copperware and glazed pottery, carpets and tapestries, lumber, furs, hides, salt, arms and arrows, saddles and harness, rings and bracelets and necklaces, belts and sandals, lamps and oils, medicines and meats and grains, ani...
2 59 I encountered no animals, nor any growing thing, nothing save the endless black rocks, the black cliffs, and the path cut before me in the dark stone.
2 65 The resemblance is, I suppose, due to the mechanics of convergent evolution, both animals having been shaped by the exigencies of the chase, the stealth of the approach and the sudden charge, and by the requirement of the swift and devastating kill.
2 66 If there is an optimum configuration for a land predator, I suppose on my old world the palm must go to the Bengal tiger; but on Gor the prize belongs indisputably to the mountain larl; and I cannot but believe that the structural similarities between the two animals, though of differe...
3 3 Both animals were jerked up short as mighty chains, fastened to steel and bejeweled collars, terminated their vicious charge.
10 3 The slightly acrid odor I had noticed tends to be a common property of all such signals, much as there is a common property to the sound of a human voice, whether it be that of an Englishman, a Bushman, a Chinese or a Gorean, which sets it apart from, say, the growling of animals, the ...
11 71 "Do the men below the mountains do as much for their animals?" asked Misk.
11 73 "But men are not animals".
11 76 "Then they are animals," said Sarm.
17 156 "But those are not rational animals," I said.
17 165 "But those animals," I said, "are not rational".
25 109 In a vast low case, on the floor of which apparently grew real grass, I saw a pair of shaggy, long-horned bosk grazing, and in the same case but in a different corner was a small herd, no more than five adult animals, a proud male and four does, of tabuk, the single-horned, golden Gore...
31 183 I imagined the panic in the cities of Gor, the pitching ships at sea, the stampedes of animals, and only I, of all humans, was at the place where this havoc had begun, only I was there to gaze upon the author of the destruction of a world, the golden destroyer of a planet.

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

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13 143 The animals sacrificed, incidentally, are later used for food, so the Omen Taking, far from being a waste of animals, is actually a time of feasting and plenty for the Wagon Peoples, who regard the Omen Taking, provided it results that no Ubar San is to be chosen, as an o...
23 79 It was the vengeance of the bosk and the frightened, maddened animals thundered into the Paravaci lines goring and trampling both kaiila and riders, and the Paravaci who could manage turned their animals and rode for their lives.
1 18 In the distance, to one side and the other, I could see other human beings, running, carrying burdens, driving animals with sticks, fleeing.
1 39 For some minutes I stood silently observing the animals and the men who pressed toward Turia, invisible over the brown horizon.
1 43 I looked into the distance, from which these fleeing multitudes, frightened men and stampeding animals, had come.
1 46 Too in the distance I saw dust, rising like a black, raging dawn, raised by the hoofs of innumerable animals, not those that fled, but undoubtedly by the bosk herds of the Wagon Peoples.
1 55 Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.
1 60 Now there seemed to be fewer men and animals rushing past, scattered over the prairie; only the wind remained; and the fires in the distance, and the swelling, nearing roll of dust that drifted into the stained sky.
2 44 These animals, trained prairie sleen, move rapidly and silently, attacking upon no other provocation than trespass on what they have decided is their territory.
2 45 They respond only to the voice of their master, and when he is killed or dies, his animals are slain and eaten.
2 74 * * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wa...
2 107 The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded, probably an adaptation to the environment which occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaptation, actually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it wishes under ...
3 119 I could now see the herds quite clearly, making out individual animals, the shaggy humps moving through the dust, see the sun of the late afternoon glinting off thousands of horns.
3 123 Soon the animals would be turned in on themselves, to mill together in knots, until they were stopped by the shaggy walls of their own kind, to stand and graze until the morning.
3 126 The wagons are said to be countless, the animals without number.
5 7 That of the animals is heavy and of gold, that of the women also of gold but tiny and fine, not unlike the wedding rings of my old world.
5 66 The wagon is guided by a series of eight straps, two each for the four lead animals.
5 67 Normally, however, the wagons are tied in tandem fashion, in numerous long columns, and only the lead wagons are guided, the others simply following, thongs running from the rear of one wagon to the nose rings of the bosk following, sometimes as much as thirty yards behind, with the next wagon; also...
6 13 Between the two animals, stumbling desperately, her throat bound by leather thongs to the lance behind her neck, ran a girl, her wrists tied behind her back.
7 28 I gathered that once, in his earlier years, he might have been a rider of the kaiila, that he might have been skilled with the bow and lance, and the quiva; such a man would not need ceremony; I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water a...
8 37 From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls...
8 42 The animals began to die and the keening of women, crying as though the wagons were burning and the Turians upon them, carried over the prairies.
8 43 Thousands of the Wagon Peoples, free and slave, dug in the snow to find a handful of grass to feed their animals.
9 70 On the pack animals were strapped boxes of precious plate, gems, silver vessels, tangles of jewelry, mirrors, rings, combs, and golden tarn disks, stamped with the signs of a dozen cities.
11 66 Indeed, in the eyes of Gorean law, unfortunately, slaves are animals, utterly and unqualifiedly at the disposition of their masters, to do with as he pleases.
13 140 There were a large number of tethered animals about the outer edge of the circle, and, beside them, stood many haruspexes.
13 142 Among the animals I saw many verr; some domestic tarsks, their tusks sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila, even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled male slaves, if such were to be permitted; commonly, I understood from Kamchak, the Tuchuks, Kassar...
13 169 I could now see the other haruspexes of the peoples pouring with their animals toward the altars.
13 170 The Omen Taking as a whole lasts several days and consumes hundreds of animals.
14 33 With these he hurriedly conferred and then I saw him lift his arm and red war lanterns were moved on ropes to the top of poles, and, to my amazement, aisles seemed to open in the densely packed bosk before the men, herdsmen and herd sleen moving the animals back to clear long grassy pa...

Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 281 I know this business well, the costs of information, organization, planning, acquisition, transportation and security, the care and feeding and training of the animals, the guards, the costs of the auctions, the taxes on sales, the deliveries to distant cities—and the staff of t...
12 178 They were fed and watered as animals, which in Gorean eyes, being slaves, they were.
15 100 Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or ar...
18 196 "Before the next passage hand," said he, "armed men broke into the Cylinder of Physicians; the floors we worked on were burned; the Cylinder itself was seriously damaged; our work, our records, the animals we used were all destroyed; several of my staff were slain, others driven away".
18 206 "I had," he said, "shortly before the fire developed a strain of urts resistant to the Dar-Kosis organism; a serum cultured from their blood was injected in other animals, which subsequently we were unable to infect.
18 217 "Everything was gone," said Flaminius, "the records, our equipment, the animals; several of my staff had been slain; those who survived, in large part, did not wish to continue the work".
19 376 "I am offered five hundred and forty gold pieces for these hot-blooded barbarian beauties," called the auctioneer, "only five hundred and forty gold pieces for this exquisite set of animals, in prime condition and superbly trained to tantalize you, to torment you, to drive you wild wit...

Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 34 For example, I had even heard arguments to the effect that peasants used the long bow only because they lacked the manufacturing capability to produce crossbows, as though they could not have traded their goods or sold animals to obtain crossbows, if they wished.
3 336 It is herded below the Gorean equator by the Wagon Peoples, but there are bosk herds on ranches in the north as well, and peasants often keep some of the animals.
6 56 Most, panic-stricken, knowing themselves no match for trained warriors, fled like animals, crying out in fear before the hunters of Port Kar.
17 322 I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds.
18 937 "When you lost your images of yourselves, and learned your humanity, in your diverse ways, and shame, you abandoned your myths, your songs, and would accept only the meat of animals, as though one so lofty as yourself must be either Priest-King or beast.

Book 7. (28 results) Captive of Gor

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6 69 I saw no animals.
6 99 There were no animals at the wagon.
6 236 I wondered where the draft animals, presumably oxen, were, who would draw the heavy wagon.
8 59 They were controlled by a bargeman, with a long whipping stick, who was ensconced in a leather basket, part of the harness, slung between the two animals.
10 442 Sleen are sometimes curious, and not infrequently resentful of the intrusion of strange animals into what they choose to regard as their territory".
10 636 In its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor.
10 653 The two animals locked in combat.
10 656 The two animals rolled in the small hut, twisting, squealing, hissing, scattering the benches and table.
11 795 As I fled I sometimes startled small animals, and once a herd of tabuk.
11 829 I was like an animal without hands, a four-footed animal, save that I had no hide to protect me, but only the softness of my flesh, and I did not have the delicate senses, the smell and the hearing of such animals to protect me, and I did not have their swiftness, the fleetness of thei...
11 1092 It was because of him that El-in-or, the barbarian girl, with the other girls, had been harnessed to his one remaining, partially burnt wagon, and had been forced, and under the switch, to draw it, as draft animals.
12 142 How proud and fine seemed the huntsmen, with their animals and slaves.
12 258 The horizontal pole was a trophy pole, now with its stanchions; the pole, peeled, was formed of a straight branch, like the other trophy poles, higher, from which had hung the skins of slain animals.
12 606 I am not precisely sure why this is, but I suppose it must have to do with the understanding of ourselves as animals, as properties, and such.
13 169 She had also shown me how to make shelters of various sorts and use a small, curved stick for striking down birds and tiny animals.
13 174 I, however, contented myself with nuts and fruits, and roots, and water creatures which resembled those with which I was familiar, and, of course, the flesh of small birds and animals.
13 187 Over her shoulder she had two small, furred animals, hideous forest urts, about the size of cats, and in her left hand she carried four small, green-and-yellow-plumaged birds.
13 204 This affection and respect, unfortunately, is seldom extended to domestic animals, such as bosk and slaves.
13 210 "Clean the animals," said Ute.
13 219 "Then clean the animals," she said.
13 226 With a sharp rock and a stick I started to work on the animals.
13 249 When we had cleaned the animals, and the birds, and the fish, which latter job I left to Ute, for I did not like to touch the creature, Ute bent over the fire drill.
13 529 Some animals fled past me, away from the din, tabuk and brush urts.
14 397 This is appropriate, as they are animals.
14 455 She is now an animal, and animals have no city.
14 459 Would you free a tarsk? animals are not to be freed.
16 200 Too, I gathered that she had been given to Verna, and, of course, only animals, slaves and such, can be so given.
17 50 The huntsman lives a free and open life, as wild and swift, and secret, as the beasts he hunts, and his slaves, whom he insists on accompanying him, must, too, learn the ways of the forests, the flowers and the animals, the leaves and wind.

Book 8. (13 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 113 "Marlenus, on a hunting expedition, with other animals, captured Verna, and her girls.
2 355 But they did not acknowledge their sisterhood with such animals as she.
6 231 We would now make camp, putting sharpened stakes about our camp, to protect us from animals, and the nocturnal attacks of panther girls.
6 352 It was quite possibly the same camp he had used several months ago, when, as recreation from the duties of the Ubar, he had gone hunting in the northern forests, a sporting trip in which he had captured a large number of animals, and, as well, Verna, a famed outlaw woman, and her entir...
8 65 Its purpose was only to hold the gate against the pushings and shoulderings of animals.
13 55 Further, the lead animals are then unaware that others have fallen behind them.
15 15 They despise them, and hunt them like the animals they are.
15 905 They were animals in her charge.
18 186 This shelter would protect them from arrows, should they come, from the forest, and, by means of the fires, should discourage the too-close approach of either panthers or sleen, which animals, in any case, seldom leave the forest, seldom prowl on the beach.
18 190 By means of these, protected by their flames, in case animals should approach too closely, the great beacon could be fed.
18 271 But, too, they feared the forest, the darkness, the animals.
21 160 Vinca and her cohorts had built fires about the men, protecting them from animals, and had been feeding them and bringing them water.
22 707 In Gorean thinking man and woman are natural animals, with genetic endowments shaped by thousands of generations of natural and sexual selection.

Book 9. (26 results) Marauders of Gor

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17 97 Near the center of the camp, but somewhat to the south and east of the center, like the verr, the tarsk, the bosk, was another herd of Kurii animals; it, too, resided in its pen, a wide pen, more than a quarter of a pasang in diameter, formed of poles and crossbars, lashed together; th...
1 632 If Samos were correct that 'Kurii' was a Gorean corruption of the name of such animals for themselves, and that the word was used in Torvaldsland as a designation for beasts, then it seemed not unlikely that such animals were not unknown in Torvaldsland, at least in certa...
14 251 Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
17 124 A March thus consists of 2,160 animals, or, counting the commanders of each Band, too, 2,172 animals.
17 156 The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others ar...
2 259 There were the golden bowls used to gather the blood of the sacrificed animals; cups used to pour libations to Priest-Kings; vessels containing oils; lavers in which the celebrants of the rites might cleanse their hands from their work; there were even the small bowls of coins, brought...
6 55 The sheds I saw would accommodate many more animals.
7 323 Humans, like other animals, I knew, are regarded by those of the Kurii as a form of food.
9 109 He examined her with great care, as he had his Sa-Tarna, and his animals, when he had inspected his farm.
9 421 Technology and social structures, following their own dynamics, integral to their development and expansion, have left behind the pitiful, rational animals who are their builders and their victims.
11 66 Few animals, which have not been trained, have, or need, stamina.
11 216 It was possible, too, of course, that the Kurii had become gentle beasts, fond of farming, renouncing their warlike ways, and turning humbly to the soil, and the labors of the earth, setting perhaps therein an excellent example for the still half-savage human animals of Gor, so predato...
14 208 The Kurii, I realized, were efficient; they were, of course, intelligent; they were, of course, like men, rational animals.
14 211 Men, it seemed to me, could be no match for such animals.
15 45 Kurii are land animals, not fond of water.
15 50 Kurii, as I have indicated, are rational animals.
16 187 "There are no bones of animals here, or of thralls, or urns, or the remains of foodstuffs, offerings".
17 89 I could see the white herd of verr, hundreds of the animals, penned in the northwest quadrant of the camp; in the northeast quadrant were the tarsk pens.
17 111 A typical Kurii foraging squad consists of six animals, called a "hand," with its "eye," or leader.
17 122 This has one hundred and eighty animals, including subalterns and leaders, and is itself commanded by a "Blood," whose rank is indicated by two rings on the left arm.
17 171 Human prisoners of Kurii, incidentally, are usually stripped; Kurii see no reason to give animals clothing.
17 192 Where else she turned she was met with the fangs and hisses of the accompanying animals.
17 210 The herd, indeed, consisted of sleek, beautiful animals, fair and two-legged.
18 115 Several fell in the mud and filth of the verr pens themselves, the bleating animals, frightened, darting about, leaping over the bodies.
18 293 His charge was unleashed while the last of the bosk were still striking the western edge of the square, and other animals were streaming, bellowing, goring, through it.
18 364 One of the animals must have been within a hundred yards for it came immediately.

Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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4 42 The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
1 462 The caravan kaiila, incidentally, both those which are pack animals and those used as mounts for guards and warriors, are muchly belled.
1 463 This helps to keep the animals together, makes it easier to move in darkness, and in a country where, often, one cannot see more than a hundred yards to the next dune or plateau, is an important factor in survival.
1 489 Skeletons, unless picked by birds or animals, are seldom found in the desert.
2 37 The herds of these animals are found in the desert.
2 40 No grass grows about these water holes because many animals are brought to them and graze it to the earth.
2 47 The animals are too precious for their trade value, and their hair and milk, to be often slaughtered for food.
2 50 The animals mean little to them and come to them cheaply.
4 2 I turned my kaiila, and, kicking its flanks, urged it down the long line of laden animals.
4 149 History on Earth, long ago, had taken a turning away from the body, from nature, from the needs of men and women, from genetically linked psychobiological realities; this turning away, ultimately and inevitably, had produced an unloved, exploited, polluted planet swarming with miserable populations ...
4 200 The diet of the slave girl was regulated with the same attention and care as that which a man of Earth would bestow on his prize hunting dogs, or otherwise esteemed domestic animals.
4 399 The kaiila would be put in circles, ten animals to the circle, and fodder, by kaiila boys, would be thrown into the center of the circle.
4 435 Their burnooses whipped behind them as they mounted the crest of the hill and, the animals half sliding, descended the other side, approaching us.
5 338 Kavars rode down the caravan line, ordering drovers to hurry their animals into lines.
5 369 There was dust about, raised by the paws of the animals.
5 560 I supposed she saw in him her "rich man," who would guarantee her a life in which she might be protected from the labors of the free woman of the Tahari, the pounding of grain with the heavy pestle, the weaving of cloth, the churning of milk in skin bags, the carrying of water, the herding of ...
8 29 It was impractical to begin again, the men and animals exhausted, until morning.
10 39 When sand flies and other insects, emergent after rains, infest kaiila, they frequently alight on the animals, and remain on them for some hours, hunting insects.
11 7 He would have defended the small animals with his life.
11 46 Small animals, in effect, swim in it.
11 62 The animals were unhooded, we mounted, and again our quest continued.
11 285 Our burnooses lifted behind us, slowly, swelling, over the flanks of our animals.
11 340 Two of Hassan's men went with them, to see that the animals were well cared for.
11 512 Hassan's men threw their burnooses over the heads of the animals.
11 564 The bars were withdrawn; the gates swung wide; the burnooses were thrown from the heads of the animals, and the kaiila bolted from the blazing stable yard into the suddenly illuminated street.
11 631 The animals squealed and grunted.
11 632 None of us, because of the animals, could get a good stroke at the other.
15 44 The salt in the normal Tahari fresh water, incidentally, is not without its value, for, when drunk, it helps to some extent, though it is not in itself sufficient, to prevent salt loss in animals and men through sweating.
15 47 This has something to do with the normally graceful, almost languid movements of the nomads and animals of the area.
22 104 He neglected the pack animals.

Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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8 189 The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run l...
2 21 They were mighty, and like animals.
2 1085 It was not simply that he was brave, and had hunted such animals, but, as I later understood, that he was familiar with the habits of such beasts.
2 1097 I had not known such animals could exist.
2 1196 Obviously these men held women in proper respect, regarding them with rightful reverence, not treating them like animals.
3 15 Roughly as we were situated, some two thirds of the camp was closed in by projecting sides of the canyon; roughly, then, about a third of its perimeter was closed by a thick wall of recessed, cut thorn brush, some eight feet high and ten feet thick, a defense against animals.
3 80 I was a girl raised in a culture predicated on the denial of primate biological realities, a girl from a world in which hypothetically cogent animals denied, denounced and hysterically strove to suppress their own animality, a world in whose social insanity even sexuality had now come ...
3 153 There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I...
3 455 Only animals wore brands.
3 587 What could be my status on this world? Only animals were branded.
5 122 Several animals, those called bosk, ten or more, hobbled, browsed among the trees on the other side of the camp.
6 166 There the animals had forded the river.
8 55 Within the ring, too, were some eight sleen, tied on short tethers to stakes, at the sides; and a rack of meats, and poles, and ropes and whips, used in the training of the animals.
8 70 The men discussed the animals, and their merits.
8 74 We had been held by men while the animals had taken our scent.
8 194 There are many uses to which such animals are put.
9 27 They were sleek, lovely animals.
9 110 The first team of bosk was hitched up, two of the great animals, broad, shaggy, with polished horns.
9 676 Some of the animals I grew to know.
9 849 We know that we are animals.
9 1755 "It takes many years to learn them, the weather, the crops, animals, men.
9 1779 The animals strained against the leashed collars, trying to creep forward, their eyes blazing, saliva loose and dripping from their jaws, the wet fangs shining in the firelight.
9 1961 At a gesture from Thurnus, Sandal Thong, surrendering the sleen leashes to a man, who took the animals from the clearing, came to the cage and, with two hands, flung down the metal gate to the cage, locking her former mistress within.
10 25 Often the animals wore belled harnesses.
12 653 They are domestic animals.
12 781 Was this to make it difficult to conceal weapons, or to assist in their summary assessments of the catch? Or was it merely because they were raiders and we were woman? To be sure, we were slave girls, animals.
12 782 Why should animals be permitted clothing? I tried to move a little.
12 804 It is not so different, I thought, Indeed, it is the same! We, too, slaves, were properties, animals.
12 805 We were such that we, too, being animals, could be run off, carried away, driven away, stolen, simply stolen.
13 94 On Earth animals were given inoculations by farmers to protect them from diseases; on Gor it would be a matter of course, provided the serums were readily available, to administer them to slaves.

Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor

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10 257 Sometimes, too, animals at the wall were forced against it, pinned against it, by the weight of animals behind them.
14 223 Sometimes men took the form of animals, and animals the form of men.
31 141 "They think of themselves as civilized animals, and yet they are only animals with a civilization.
2 140 It would be like trying to write down the noises of animals.
2 366 The man of Earth thinks of the world as being essentially dead; the Gorean thinks of his world as being essentially alive; one utilizes the metaphor of the blind machine, the other the metaphor of the living being; doubtless reality exceeds all metaphors; in the face of reality doubtless all metapho...
2 605 The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen.
2 606 Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals.
3 418 As a sidelight on the Gorean world it might be noted, in passing, that this sort of fellow, as he was working on a slave, who is an animal, would also be expected to be an expert in matters pertaining to the needs of other animals, as well, for example, bosk, kaiila, verr, tarsks, and ...
3 422 As the slave is an animal it is not surprising that her medical needs, if attended to, will be usually attended to by one who specializes in the care and treatment of animals.
3 1143 For another thing the hunters of the north, though a generally kind, peaceable folk, except with animals, think little of killing.
3 1147 These were brown, the summer coats of the animals.
3 1179 The red hunters are generally a kind, peaceable folk, except with animals.
3 1186 Such women were used as draft animals.
4 38 The red hunters are not gentle with their animals.
7 143 If the herd of Tancred had indeed emerged from the forests why had it not yet crossed Ax Glacier? Surely hunters, even in great numbers, could not stay the avalanche of such a herd, which consisted of doubtless two to three hundred thousand animals.
9 13 "The slaughtering," she said, "takes place largely at the ends of the wall, to prevent animals from taking their way northward".
9 22 Most of the animals we leave for the larts and sleen, and the jards".
9 47 He turned away, to look out over the railing on the platform, and out over the high wall, to the thousands of animals, like cattle, beyond.
9 117 On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one-half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length.
9 171 In such a way the red hunters identify their animals.
10 256 The animals, frustrated, sometimes tended to press against the wall.
10 259 The animals did not understand this obstruction in their path.
10 389 They fell and some, even, on the backs of the closely massed animals, were carried for dozens of yards, wood floating and churned, tossed on that tawny, storming river, that relentless torrent of hide and horn, turned toward the north.
11 27 He looked about, at the slaughtered animals.
12 161 Some animals, doubtless, have better dispositions than others.
12 169 The red hunters, though a genial folk, keep their animals under a firm discipline.
12 192 "You are animals, aren't you?" called Arlene to them.
12 272 animals do not dress their hair and slaves, generally, do not either.
12 335 It, or thousands of its animals, fleeing the drivers, pour toward the large, open end of the funnel.
12 337 The animals seem generally unwilling to break the imaginary boundary which might be projected between cairns.

Book 13. (15 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
32 333 In a rather different sense of 'animal', we sometimes draw a distinction between human beings and animals, that is, we take the category of animals and divide it in two, calling one sort of animals, ourselves, human beings, and letting what is left over, the...
6 547 They are usually carved in the shape of tiny panthers, but sometimes other animals are found as well, usually small animals or birds.
5 598 These animals are short-trunked and tawny.
7 103 Those walls were built to keep back animals and bands of brigands, not an army of thousands of men.
27 201 In a way they must be precious, though they are on a chain, as animals.
31 44 He says there are hostile tribes, dangerous waters, great animals, monsters, and talunas, white-skinned jungle girls".
32 213 In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found, also, small animals, such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels, four-toed leaf urts, jungle varts and the prowling, solitary giani, tiny, cat-sized panthers, not dangerous to man.
32 231 I listened to the noises of the jungle night, the chattering, and the hootings, and the clickings and cries, of nocturnal animals, and birds and insects.
32 331 The word 'animal' may be used in various senses, not all of them complimentary to animals.
32 337 "Also," I said, "if you are interested in these matters, you are not simply an animal in the literal sense, in the biological sense of 'animal', but in the sense that persons, individuals with rights before the law, are distinguished from animals".
34 10 Such animals are best hunted from the back of kaiila with lances, in the open.
34 401 "animals have needs," she said.
34 803 Their names are simply given to them, as the names of animals.
35 115 Whereas rivalries among men can be serious and dangerous, the most that rivalries among slave girls can be is petty and vicious; that is to be expected; they are, after all, only small, lovely animals.
47 89 I hoped there were no tethered animals in the camp.

Book 14. (23 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
3 167 I heard the raging of the animals.
3 184 The animals leaped for it, some of them thirty or more feet into the air.
3 186 There was a stink in the place of the animals, and the noise of their snarling, their hissing, their squealing and challenge screams was ear-piercing and horrifying.
3 195 I could sense the animals below me, their large size, the fetid smell, almost overwhelming, swirling upward, their energetic stirring, their twisting in and about one another.
3 205 The animals were now much more frenzied, save for some, here and there in the enclosure, in small groups, snarling and scratching, tearing apart meat already lowered into the pit.
3 216 The animals, then, began to leap upward.
3 229 Two men placed a large piece of meat on the hook from which I had been removed and, in a moment, on the system of ropes, had hoisted it over the barrier, out over the enclosure, and down to the animals.
3 236 I could hear the animals tearing apart the meat below.
3 265 "The animals you have seen are called sleen," she said.
3 268 That is the purpose, incidentally, for which the animals you have just seen have been trained".
6 32 We were being examined by these women as what we were, animals and slaves.
7 251 Men, not so long ago, I recalled, had not even been permitted to recognize that they were animals.
7 252 Now, it seemed, although they might be granted a token permission to recognize their animality, they were refused permission to recognize the sort of animals they were.
11 79 They are only animals.
13 236 I went to the fountain, which was only a few yards away, and, getting down on my hands and knees, putting my head down, from the lower bowl, from which slaves and animals might drink, satisfied my thirst.
15 130 Women think little of speaking intimately to their silk slaves, for such are only their animals.
18 6 These colors tend to be cultural for Goreans with respect to housings for domestic animals.
18 188 We had worked hard, the last two days, preparing the stables and the animals for the inspection of the mistress.
18 268 They are only animals".
18 270 Slaves, both male and female, are animals.
22 484 Such men, though mostly they deal with collared wenches, must know the handling of the larger and more dangerous animals, the Kajiri.
34 161 Gorean slave girls, on the other hand, do have a significant role in the Gorean economy, rather as domestic animals in general.
34 164 Their values, of course, as that of other domestic animals, tend to fluctuate with market conditions.

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
10 161 Indeed, a good slave, like many domestic animals, should anticipate the interests and desires of the master.
11 163 They are animals.
24 405 Owned animals, that is what we would be! You are a man, Master, so perhaps you cannot understand, or fully understand, how exciting it is for a woman to be owned, to find herself a slave.

Book 16. (10 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
8 300 They are slave animals, completely.
8 554 Slaves, like many domestic animals, can often recognize the step of their master.
18 206 It is not only that I am afraid of being fed to your animals, or of being whipped and tortured, if I am not pleasing.
19 395 Women desire, in their hearts, to be beautiful, helpless, conquered animals, owned and dominated by masters.
19 444 Lastly, many animals wear collars; that is not a matter of simple happenstance; the throat is the natural place, for a variety of reasons, on which to place an animal's identificatory control and guidance device; all owners and trainers agree on that; and the slave girl, too, of course...
20 406 "They are not animals".
20 1612 There is a plenitude of such lovely animals available in the Gorean markets, then, selected with different tastes and interests in mind.
20 1789 On the other hand, interestingly enough, the Gorean's fondness and tenderness for terrain, and for grass, and winds and clouds, and flowers and small animals, does not extend, or at least not obviously, or not professedly, to one particular form of animal—a particularly deliciou...
21 497 Those of Earth have doubtless seen sleek and superb animals, certain dogs and horses, for example, exhibited or paraded, accompanying their owners, and so on.
21 498 Perhaps you remember how striking were such animals, and how you enjoyed seeing them, and admiring them.

Book 17. (30 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
13 640 There is no need to clothe animals, of course, and slaves are animals.
14 44 There, with the animals, there knelt a white female slave of the Dust Legs, another of their animals, a two-legged one, and lovely legs they were indeed, doubtless by the paws of her master's beast.
1 122 Many domestic animals on Gor wear them.
1 160 Slaves, no more than other animals, do not have names in their own right.
1 256 Besides, if one had not seen such things, who would believe stories as to their existence? They would be regarded as mythical or as existing only in stories of wondrous animals, such as the horse, the dog and griffin".
1 575 Similarly no greetings do I bring you from our domestic animals, those who are human and otherwise.
1 622 Slaves on Gor are domestic animals, of course.
1 649 Like burned animals they were wary of them.
1 724 In soft tanning, the fleshed hide must be saturated with fats, and with oils and grease, usually from the brains of animals.
1 998 Such animals are not uncommon in the Barrens.
1 1124 In hunting kailiauk the hunters usually scatter about, each selecting his own animals.
2 163 Slaves may buy and sell in the name of their masters, but they cannot, of course, buy and sell for themselves because they are only animals.
6 35 Besides these major herds there are several smaller, identifiable herds numbering in the hundreds of thousands of animals.
6 36 Beyond these, as would be expected, there are many smaller herds, the very numbers of which are not even calculated by the red savages themselves, herds which often range from a few hundred to several thousand animals.
8 713 "Yes," said Ginger, "and worth less than most animals".
8 948 This is appropriate, as they are animals.
8 1105 "Pack animals," he said.
8 1106 "They are pack animals".
8 1131 Why have you not purchased some Gorean girls for your pack train?" "For pack animals it is surely more appropriate to use meaningless barbarians than Gorean girls," he said.
8 1143 They, like the animals they were, must go where their masters pleased.
9 38 Various goods were borne by our pack animals, both of the four-legged and two-legged varieties.
9 40 Grunt's goods, on the other hand, of course, were distributed over his eleven beasts of burden, the kaiila and the ten other pack animals.
11 76 "Like animals!" protested a girl.
11 77 "You are animals," said Ginger, "and the sooner you understand that, the easier it will be for you.
11 78 You are beautiful, owned animals".
12 143 "Exposure on the prairie, to die of thirst, or hunger, or of the predations of animals, is what they deserve," he said.
13 533 They are animals, and merchandise.
13 675 "And several of its provisions," I said, "have to do with domestic animals".
13 1094 She had seen animals of this sort in the streets of Kailiauk, in the dawn of the day following her sale, when she and the others had been marched out towards the Ihanke.
13 1096 Ginger and Evelyn had identified the animals for them.

Book 18. (30 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 109 The movement of this group of animals had been reported in the camp of the Isbu Kaiila, or the Little-Stones band of the Kaiila, for more than ten days now, in a rough map drawn to the east of the camp, with notched sticks, the notching indicating the first and second day, and so on, o...
1 75 The animals were now some three to four pasangs away, below us.
1 78 We could now smell the animals clearly.
1 88 Individual kills on such animals, incidentally, are commonly made from distances where one can almost reach out and touch the beast.
1 100 "I will inspect the animals," said Cuwignaka.
1 102 We watched Cuwignaka move his kaiila down the slope and toward the animals.
1 110 Scouts of the Sleen Soldiers, a warrior society of the Isbu, had been keeping track of the animals since they had entered the country of the Kaiila more than two weeks ago.
1 182 Indeed, is it not that in dreams one may even enter the medicine world itself? In dreams is it not the case that one might sit about the fires of the dead, conversing with them? Is it not the case that in dreams one may understand the speech of animals? And is it not the case that in d...
1 257 Grunt had brought a coffle of white slave girls into the Barrens with him, as pack animals and trade goods.
1 470 Indeed, I could not even, yet, see the end of the great, long, moving mass of animals.
1 471 Even at the speed at which the animals were traveling, it could take them between four and five Ahn to pass a given point.
2 45 For example, she is likely to be familiar with collars on other forms of domestic animals.
2 73 To be sure, these shapely little beasts are among the most inquisitive of all animals.
2 233 Exploit markings and luck signs were painted on the flanks and forequarters of their animals, and ribbons and feathers were fixed in the braided, silken manes.
2 273 "The two-legged, female animals here are mostly blond," I said to Cuwignaka.
5 106 From where we stood I could see at least a dozen fallen animals, their bulk, like dark mounds, dotting the plains.
6 32 Cuwignaka and I, then, not more than a few yards ahead of the animals, which, in a body, buffeting and storming, tridents down, their heads low, as the kailiauk runs, came streaming, flooding, bellowing, torrentlike, about that bend in the draw, raced to safety.
6 36 The mass of the animals which, stampeded, had come running through the draw, was now better than a pasang away.
6 37 Here and there single animals roamed.
6 41 Its floor was torn with the passage of the animals.
6 43 "The animals were probably isolated in the other end of the draw," said Cuwignaka.
6 47 "Sometimes animals take shelter in a draw, or, running into one, begin to mill, and, for a time, will stay there, sometimes until morning".
13 121 Some of the other animals regarded her with envy, and wonder.
13 177 It helps to remind them that they are domestic animals, and that they are dependent for their very food upon their master.
26 31 For an instant I could not free it of the press of the animals and then I wrenched it free.
26 48 I saw a white female slave, nude, terrified, running, buffeted, among the men and animals.
27 20 Many of the animals were covered with dust to the belly.
27 25 Some called upon their medicine helpers for assistance, usually birds and animals.
28 132 At such times slaves, like other animals, must be strictly controlled.
33 398 "It is probably a good idea for animals like you to be given names," I said.

Book 19. (22 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
3 460 It thus becomes a question as to which among these animals own and which are owned, which, so to speak, count as persons, or have standing, before the law, and which do not, which are, so to speak, the citizens or persons, and which are the animals".
3 451 "Where Mistress comes from," said the girl, "it is not illegal to own animals, is it?" "No," I said.
3 458 "Biologically, of course," she said, "we are all animals.
3 462 "Is it wrong to own other animals?" she asked.
3 466 "It would seem inconsistent," she said, "to suggest that it is only certain sorts of animals which may be owned, and not others".
3 470 I did not know those sorts of animals.
3 474 "Where I come from it is wrong to own human beings but it is all right for other animals to be owned".
3 475 "If other animals made the laws where you come from," she said, "perhaps it would be wrong there to own them and right to own human beings".
3 787 animals do not have names, except as their masters might choose to name them.
5 249 "You speak as if slaves were mere animals!" I said.
9 207 This made sense, of course, considering that, like the shameless, little slut, Susan, they were animals.
26 241 animals, for example, are not veiled.
29 89 "I, my men, and the animals".
29 93 "Kassim, the rebel pretender to the throne of Tor, whom my animals tore to pieces, was no slave," said Hassan.
30 82 The lower bowl was for animals and slaves.
30 88 I saw no signs now of the crowd and the animals.
30 92 I saw no signs of the crowd and animals.
30 99 Then, from some two hundred yards away, I heard the shrill, excited squeal of one of the animals.
30 348 I stumbled on, down the street, before the animals, before the hunters, before the eager crowd.
30 446 Hassan moved swiftly between the animals and took the woman by the arm and flung her against the wall of the house.
36 644 Similarly sandals, utensils, stalls, plates, clothing, wagons, carts, the trappings of animals, and such, are often decorative and attractive.
36 691 The secret, however, which seems to elude many free women, though perhaps they suspect the truth, to their fury, is that preferred slaves, or favored slaves, though no more than owned animals, perhaps purchased in a market, as might be goods of any sort, do sometimes share the surface ...

Book 20. (29 results) Players of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 1087 It is the same with all animals? "Though you have been spared, at least for now, do not grow complacent," said Samos.
2 699 And surely the luscious creatures, though no more than animals bearing brands in their lovely hide, are aware of their desirability, their attractiveness, their importance, and meaning to men.
4 80 If it were acceptable to discuss sensitive matters before his slaves, women like herself, but reduced to a status as negligible as that of furniture or animals, then surely it should be similarly acceptable to discuss such matters before a male, she must have reasoned, one who shared h...
6 279 The jungles of the Anangoan interior serve as the setting for various fanciful tales, having to do with strange races, mysterious plants, and fabulous animals.
8 142 Sleen, which tend to be fine hunters and splendid trackers, which are swiftly moving, aggressive, serpentine, generally nocturnal animals, particularly in the wild state, are less fastidious about their eating habits.
8 154 Such animals, however, are inferior to sleen for such purposes.
8 193 "You shall be led as befits slaves, as befits animals, as chattels," said the leader to the girls.
8 334 They, after all, were usable, beautiful, salable animals.
12 641 On what artifices, on what weaknesses, did it count? How bravely tiny animals may conduct themselves in the presence of caged larls! But how stupid are larls who will lock themselves in cages, being told to do so.
12 644 How the little animals would scurry if the larl emerged from its cage! Did she not know how easy it would be for her to be stripped and returned to her place in nature, at his feet? Did she in her heart fear the larl might one day say, "The joke is finished.
14 30 The sleen is one of the least fastidious of Gorean animals.
14 78 It must have contained four or five thousand animals.
14 231 Most of the animals did not pay me any attention.
14 241 It contained a very large number of animals.
14 256 "The people do not hurt Nim Nim!" I wondered if somewhere in that vast pack of animals there might be other representatives of the urt people.
14 298 Then the animals seemed to draw apart about him and he was left standing as though in a dry pool, an empty place, an isolated, lonely place surrounded by tawny waters, waters which seemed somehow, inexplicably, to have drawn back about him, waters with eyes and teeth, ringing him.
14 307 The animals, I could see, were becoming more and more excited.
14 312 In an instant, almost like an electric shock, a movement seemed to course through the animals in the circle.
14 314 Its passage's swift route was actually visible in the animals, like a wave spreading along, and registered in, their backs and fur, in their sudden stillness, then in the sudden alertness of them, then in the quivering agitation which seemed to transform the entire pack, hitherto seemi...
14 319 Several of the other animals began to press eagerly toward the sound, some even crawling and scrambling over the backs of others.
14 327 The animals then charged, swarming in upon him.
14 331 He could not now fall, however, because of the animals pressing about him.
14 353 The hideous squeal which was so terrifying, so shrill and piercing, which had such an effect on the other animals, was presumably something like a stranger-in-our-midst signal, a stranger-recognition signal, so to speak.
14 361 Perhaps they wanted me to have a bit more time to think about things, a bit more time to anticipate what might occur to me, before they released the animals.
14 460 The animals now returned to their business.
14 461 Again was the pack tranquil, save where some animals, here and there, fed on sleen.
14 466 Again, then, I could see only the animals.
20 244 Suddenly, at the utterance of a hissed syllable, coupled with a fierce, directed gesture from the beast, a movement almost like throwing a weapon violently underhanded, one of the animals, fangs bared, lunged fiercely toward the men.
21 27 On the other hand when the "free woman" finds herself just such an animal, a slave, she finds herself subject to the same objective assessments with which men, keepers and trainers, buyers and sellers, and such, regard all sorts of animals.

Book 21. (22 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
2 145 "They are salable animals, properties.
2 208 Secondly, it is not unusual either for many peasants to keep animals in the house, usually verr or bosk, sometimes tarsk, at least in the winter.
2 209 The family lives in one section of the dwelling, and the animals are quartered in the other.
2 238 The tarsk are gone, but sometimes a bit of feed remains, fallen between the cracks, or missed by the animals, having been trampled into the mud.
3 208 He then utilized, for the first time in Gorean field warfare, first at Rovere, and later at Kargash, mobile siege equipment, catapults mounted on wheeled platforms, which could fire over the heads of the draft animals.
3 309 Such animals were probably extremely rare now, at least within one or two day's ride of the march.
4 11 They are ranged in a closed circle, or concentric, closed circles, draft animals, and women and children within.
4 19 The needs of these animals, on which the Alars depend for their existence, are taken to justify movements, and sometimes even migrations, of the Alars and kindred peoples.
4 53 In the cities, normally one needs only to close the gates and wait for them to go away, compelled eventually to do so by the needs of their animals.
5 488 It is not unusual to tie animals behind carts, and so take them with you.
5 491 And so, too, then, would Feiqa and Tula, as both being slaves, both were animals.
5 513 It was fitting, of course, as indicated, that they followed on their tethers, as both were domestic animals.
13 67 So, too, I supposed, might have been tharlarion and sleen, other forms of animals, if they, too, were aware of such things, or saw fit to consider them.
13 69 They had, objectively, little more to fear than other domestic animals.
16 747 There you will be evaluated, bid upon and purchased, as different animals, as separate properties, merely as independent items up for sale, solely on your own merits.
21 295 "You drink from the lower bowl, like other animals, like sleen and tharlarion".
22 44 Several of the insulae we had investigated did not allow animals, which meant, of course, that we could not keep Feiqa with us.
24 95 It is a culture more at ease with itself, one less frenetic, one whose sense of time is more indexed to the sun and seasons than the periodic movements of mechanical devices, one with more in common with grass and flowers, and the grazings of animals, and the combing of a girl's hair, ...
24 394 "I could have starved, or perished of exposure, or have been eaten by animals," she said.
24 638 These harnesses are similar to, but are not to be confused with, various other forms of harness which may be used with girls serving as draft animals, for example, fixed between the handles of a peddler's cart, or drawing, say, a conqueror's chariot.
25 1133 They are animals".
26 1434 She is, like other such domestic animals, not a person, but a property.

Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
9 2 We could see it on the other side of the barred gate, the narrow, wooden ramp, with the low, wooden walls, open at the top, with the two gates, one for the shoot itself, to control the number of animals entering it, the other, slanting, behind which men might stand, which, when closed,...
6 603 We might have been animals kept waiting, horses, or pigs or dogs! Then I recollected that that was what we were, animals, slaves.
8 436 That made sense, as doubtless tarsks, those of the four-footed variety, those bristly, squat, grunting animals, as opposed to the two-footed variety, those soft, smooth, shapely animals, were often conducted through it.
29 1665 We followed them, of course, docilely, like tethered animals! But, of course, we were tethered animals.
4 123 "No," he said, "they are trapped more easily than the small animals you call rabbits.
4 355 It is the same with other domestic animals".
6 479 We were not passengers, of course, who might inquire, perhaps impatiently, into the nature of delays, perhaps even demanding explanations; we were only animals, being shipped; we were cargo.
6 622 We might then, like other animals or goods, be subject to theft! We might be stolen! Thus it made sense that, if for no other reason, we might occasionally find ourselves kept, in effect, under lock and key.
6 635 Analogies are that it is not permitted to animals to challenge the tethers on their necks, or flee the posts within which they find themselves penned, that money must retain its value, and buying power, regardless of who has it in hand, and so on.
8 17 There was, too, very strong, the smell of animals in this place.
8 65 Still later that afternoon some groups of small, fat, grunting, bristly, brindled, shaggy-maned, hoofed, flat-snouted, rooting animals had been herded in, also with pointed sticks, and they, too, had been guided into identical cages.
8 388 But then animals are often handled on such a basis, slapped on the flanks, and such.
9 48 It was really made, like this facility, as a whole, it seemed, for the vending of four-footed animals, primarily, I supposed, tarsks.
10 704 "We are both your animals, Master," I said.
11 294 The breeding of slaves, like any sort of domestic animals, and particularly valuable ones, is carefully controlled.
11 296 It is the same as with other animals.
13 649 We may be totally at the mercy of masters, and as mere animals, and even to our lives, but just as it is within the power of these uncompromising brutes who own us to do as they wish with us, so, too, it is within their power, when it pleases them, to grant us transport to ineffable ra...
13 982 The performance, responses, and such, of slaves, may be discussed openly, as those of other animals.
16 130 "Surely you know that animals are not allowed to own money," he said.
17 25 Slaves, like other animals, are not allowed within.
17 118 Yet in spite of such things I would not have traded the beautiful world of Gor for anything, even though on such a world I was only the lowliest and most meaningless of its animals.
17 190 I recalled in particular the lofty Tatrix on her throne, in the beginning of the frieze, and later, the procession of those who came suing for peace, bearing conciliatory gifts, animals, riches, women and such.
22 77 I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ...
24 320 animals do not have caste.
24 486 Such animals are supposedly very dangerous".
28 278 "And so, too, do they with their tharlarion, their tarsks, and their other animals".
29 184 For example, animals of all sorts, such as tarsks and verr, as well as slaves, do not have Home Stones.
29 311 "These things are animals, beasts!" "Yes," said the small fellow.
29 382 There are stories of such beasts on the trail of something actually running between, or among, other animals, and even men, and paying them no attention.
29 384 "They prefer isolated animals".

Book 23. (18 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 7 When groups are traveling together the wagons are often arranged in a circle, end to end, tongues inward, narrowing gaps between the "sections" of the improvised rampart, and chained together, the front axle of one wagon chained to the rear axle of the next, the camp, and the draft animals...
2 287 This is particularly true of the slave, of course, who, like other goods, or domestic animals, has an ascertainable, finite value, whatever free persons are willing to pay for her.
2 456 Slaves, of course, are casteless, as are other animals.
3 48 With older birds, on the other hand, captured wild tarns, for example, the training usually takes the form of tying fresh meat on live animals, and then, when the tarn is accustomed to eating both, effecting the transition to the prepared meat.
5 728 "I do not see what men see in such despicable, curvaceous, half-naked animals".
6 883 On the journey there they would be with their animals, probably verr or tarsk.
8 366 Free women, being persons, are far more likely to be killed than slaves, who are animals.
15 219 The normal master is muchly concerned to protect his animals, his girls, his sleen, his verr, and so on.
17 118 Too, sometimes such animals may be found calmly standing about, or grazing, while the fiercest of fighting surges about them.
18 527 The slave, too, is a domestic animal, and like other domestic animals, has a specific value.
21 313 Slaves, of course, being animals, are not entitled to trials, though, of course, they may figure in trials, for example, as disputed properties, or as witnesses, and such.
21 593 "Do you think it is acceptable for properties, for animals, to pretend to the status of persons?" "No, Master!" she said.
21 936 Slaves, as properties, and animals, may be named, if one cares to name them, as one wishes.
21 977 Some men take their girls with them about the city, in their peregrinations and promenades, commonly leashed, as domestic animals, for companionship, to show them off, and such.
21 1021 It might be mentioned that coffles often run a gauntlet of men, women and children who gather to see the new animals being brought in.
21 1076 This is in accord with their status as domestic animals, and, too, it enables their slightest, most fleeting expressions to be read by their masters.
21 1104 Too, of course, it is not unusual for domestic animals to be belled.
24 576 Even the lowest of castes is then undreamt-of heights above them, for in such houses, as in any house, they are only animals.

Book 24. (12 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 37 The slave, for example, cannot earn anything in her own name, or for herself, but only, like other domestic animals, for her master.
1 136 Slaves, as they are animals, may be named anything.
1 414 This is probably because bells are so beautiful on them, and so brilliantly and insightfully symbolic of their status as domestic animals, that they are properties, that they are in bondage.
14 223 In such drives, the ring growing smaller and smaller, hundreds of animals can be brought together at a given point.
14 225 Sometimes, too, animals desired for the arena are hunted in this fashion, usually to be driven, at last, by fire and spears into nets or cages.
14 255 These animals had not ascended the bar in aggression or menace.
19 1214 I did not want rencers, or animals, to be attracted to the island.
20 114 It might attract rencers, Cosian patrols, even animals".
26 191 Too, out of them grew some of the criteria for the standardization of the female slave as a commodity, for example, how, in virtue of her scarcity, her training, and such, she is to be figured as an item of tribute, for example, in terms of other domestic animals, given their current m...
32 245 "They have been hunting us, like animals," he said, bitterly.
46 330 You would not expect, for example, to find animals clothed in a zoo or menagerie.
47 114 It was now past noon and, the animals having been for the most part fed and watered, and groomed, and the camp now open, there were several visitors, onlookers, guests, dealers, customers, and such, about.

Book 25. (22 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 401 Slave girls, as they are domestic animals, are, like other domestic animals, of obvious value to victors.
2 48 She, a slave, and not entitled to clothing, any more than other animals, was, by the generosity of her master, to be permitted a garment.
3 701 How well she swayed! How beautiful are women! Slaves are animals.
3 702 And what a beautiful animal she was! As animals it is fitting that they be bought and sold, given away, or kept, as one pleases.
3 703 As animals it is fitting that they be collared.
8 14 Indeed, most deliveries, as of produce from the country, not borne on the backs of animals of peasants, are made at night or in the early morning.
8 38 Too, in some cases, it may be applied to tolls, drinking water, provender for animals, and such.
9 601 As is probably well known, females on Gor, like gold and silver, and domestic animals, and such, commonly count as legitimate loot.
10 379 They diet and exercise them; and they keep them well-rested, healthy, clean and well-groomed, as other domestic animals.
10 390 How deplorable, how disgusting, how perfect! Does this not in itself convey to them what they are, that they are not persons, but that they are goods, that they are properties, that they are meaningless, that they are animals.
14 62 Slaves, of course, like other animals, are expected to drink from the lower level of a fountain, and, generally, on all fours.
14 196 And she added, quickly, seeing my eyes still upon her, "And animals!" "Yes!" said the girl beside her, she who had spoken second earlier.
14 212 To be sure, she was in need of training, and improvement, but so, too, are many sorts of animals.
18 276 The names of slaves, of course, may be given and taken away at will, as the names of other sorts of animals.
19 7 As one might suppose, the blood lines of the racers are carefully kept and registered, as are, incidentally, those of many other sorts of expensive bred animals, such as tarsks, sleen and verr.
19 1105 Too, it is useful in reminding them that they are only animals and slaves.
19 1419 "Perhaps it is motivated by your well-known kindness toward animals," I said.
20 183 You are both only slaves, only animals!" Phoebe struggled, angrily, in his arms.
24 178 That, too, gives the Gorean free woman status, and its lack on the part of a woman of Earth places her much on the level of animals and slaves.
24 212 On Gor they discover men such as they did not know existed, human men, but lustful, powerful men, men of intellect and unswerving will, strict, uncompromising men, men who will literally own them, men who will keep them for themselves, literally possess them, as the lovely animals they...
27 369 Slaves, as other animals, may be named, or renamed, as the masters please.
28 34 And then, too, sometimes I think that they are kept, on the whole, so simple, because this is a way of saying that everything is important, and precious, and beautiful, the small stones by the river, the leaves of trees, the tracks of small animals, a blade of grass, a drop of water, a...

Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
4 241 Perhaps they are animals! Or, perhaps, to them, I am an animal! I did not want to be eaten! But I did not think they were animals.
8 447 Too, I thought, it would hold animals, even large animals.
13 454 Their use, I think, if they are used at all, should be reserved for fierce animals, such as the six-legged beasts I had seen, or perhaps for powerful warriors, or brawny, recalcitrant male slaves in the quarries or mines, captives or animals whose control may require such...
4 358 I did not think they were animals.
5 12 Sometimes, too, I could hear the snarl of animals, doubtless leashed.
8 448 I wondered if animals were ever kept in it.
8 449 animals other than, of course, the sort that I was.
8 453 One is taught, I, and animals, too, of other sorts, to use such things, corners of cells, boxes, drains, and such.
8 741 We were less than dirt before them; we were animals, things to be despised and held in contempt, things unworthy the notice of such lofty creatures.
8 898 It is said that it need not be wasted on animals.
8 899 It is also said that this helps us to understand that we are animals.
9 216 Perhaps animals could be kept there, down in the valley, or even back among the mountains, in lofty, remote meadows, in which summer pasturage might be found.
10 106 These men keep their animals under perfect discipline, as is their way, but they also, on the whole, treat them well.
10 465 On this world, as I have mentioned, we, women such as I, are animals.
11 438 The breeding of slaves, like that of most domestic animals, is carefully supervised.
11 1619 Outlaws are thought to have relinquished caste, and, in a sense, thus, to be "out of caste," and slaves, of course, as animals, are "below caste," or, perhaps better, "aside from caste" or "apart from caste".
12 33 There is also a variety of capture nets, designed with different animals in mind.
12 273 I did know that an impassable gulf separated me from such lofty creatures, an unbridgeable chasm, one of the same immeasurability that separated the lowliest of domestic animals, which slaves were, from the heights and glories of the free person.
12 468 Normally, if our masters attended their services, we would be chained, or penned, outside, along with other animals.
14 410 It would be the same with other animals".
14 411 "animals!" she breathed.
14 517 "animals".
14 1171 The upper basin is for citizens and folk of honor, the second basin is for resident aliens and common visitors, the third basin, the lowest basin, is for animals".
14 1667 Indeed, on this world, there are many places in which slaves, as other animals, may not be taken.
19 42 They are not only rugged and precipitous, but are apparently alive with animals, such as rock panthers and sleen.
19 113 To be sure, these slaves were hooded, and hooded slaves, like other sorts of animals, are less likely to bolt.
24 59 And, indeed, women such as I, slaves, as we were domestic animals, constituted booty in a most uncontroversial, immediate and obvious sense, a form of booty as taken for granted here, as, on another world, cattle to Huns, horses to Indians.
24 351 These women, these slaves, though animals, were being herded along, shoulder to shoulder, frightened, with the free individuals.
24 932 In the sacking of a city, slaves, like other domestic animals, other valuables, and such, are often saved, while free folk may be put to the sword.
29 333 Too, of course, as we are only slaves, and animals, we are grateful to be spoken to.

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
16 10 These were not the sounds of animals, the roars, and growls, the bleating, bellowing, shrieking, howlings, and hissings of animals, nor the sounds of nature, nothing like the dashings of branches against one another, lashed by the wind, nothing like the pattering of rain,...
17 1149 Large animals, or many animals.
26 1544 "Are not masters concerned for their animals? Are not masters kind to their animals?" "To some, perhaps," he said, "but you are a special sort of animal, a human female animal, a slave.
27 1974 "They are trained animals, performing animals".
28 313 What beasts men are, thought Ellen, to openly compare the limbs of slaves! Are we animals? And then, of course, devastatingly, the obvious thought came to her that yes, of course, they were animals! "Get busy!" snapped Selius Arconious.
6 61 Too, they spoke to her of animals and plants, and their properties, and values and dangers.
6 63 In the case of certain of the animals she dismissed the accounts and pictures as a portion of the mythical background of the world to which she had earlier been exposed.
9 123 Not all animals, you see, are collared.
9 124 The collar is for special animals.
10 153 She did not believe that the animals called "sleen" existed, thinking them part of the mythology of the world, and she had not heard of "leech plants," but the tenor of his remarks was sufficiently clear.
11 661 This is common, of course, in a variety of other domestic animals, as well.
13 187 Caravans in forests often keep verr or tabuk with them, tethering them in the camp at night, as the agitation of such animals sometimes gives warning of the presence of sleen in the vicinity.
13 201 Surely that would be more prestigious than picking up someone like you or me, who are merely domestic animals, livestock.
15 576 But how vulgar had been his compliment! Yet could she deny that she was pleased? But in what a shameful position she had been placed! She thought of the rude, efficient, coital positions of many animals.
16 800 Some men may not have had employment, or desired such, and now, like nocturnal animals, they came furtively from their insulae, like urts from their holes.
17 1147 There is the smell of animals in this place, she thought.
17 1151 What manner of place can this be? What animals, what beasts, what creatures, could be kept here, so high? As she explored, with her body, legs and fingers, behind her, as she could, hooded, her small wooden-floored, straw-strewn housing, which seemed clearly to be some sort of stall, s...
18 170 She did not know if this was because those of Earth, both men and women, tended to live unwittingly in eccentric, unnatural cultural prisons, products of monstrous, lingering historicalities, denying themselves and their natures, submitting mindlessly, uncritically, to pathological, stunting, life-s...
20 117 Dirt and gravel flew up from the animals' passage, pelting, stinging the startled, chained girls, who shrank back, whimpering, and a rising, thick, floating cloud of dust, bright in the hot sun, lingered and swelled behind, enveloping the line.
20 1026 Drovers called out to their animals, whips cracked, wagons creaked.
21 208 If these were sobering thoughts, the girls, oblivious of such considerations, and with all the innocence of the lovely, curvaceous animals they were, laughed and chatted, and sported about in the water, splashing and playing, the heat and dust of the march put now behind them.
22 255 In the Gorean theory, as slaves are animals, they may be managed by any free person, or, indeed, any designated slave.
22 271 Too, there were animals to be vended, other than human females, such as verr, bosk and tharlarion.
22 272 Ellen had even seen, or partly seen, for the crates were muchly closed, gigantic, furred animals of a sort she did not recognize.
24 78 On the other hand, it is thought that following on the left is generally a position of less dignity, and thus appropriate for animals, including slaves.
25 216 They carried sticks, and it was not without jabbings, pokings and blows, and impatient expostulations, that they sped their linked, disconcerted, intimidated charges, those lovely, chained she-animals, forward, presumably to a final staging area prior to their sale.
25 682 They are only meaningless slaves, only domestic animals".
26 296 And are not animals suitably collared? And so then, might not the slave girl, who is an animal, be suitably collared? Certainly.
26 1082 "And the animals," said another.
26 1301 Do you think they do not know that when a city falls and they are led forth in their chains, herded along, perhaps cruelly prodded, with other domestic animals, that they are esteemed the most luscious of booty and loot, the most relished of prizes and treasures? Can they not see the e...

Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
41 15 Many sleen are clever animals, and it is not unknown for some, particularly older animals, to pretend to be disabled or incapacitated, in order to encourage curious animals to approach them, often to their subsequent instruction and sorrow.
1 184 Thus, not all domestic animals are slaves, but all slaves are domestic animals.
1 302 Clever animals, but animals.
1 332 The girl from the Steel Worlds, of course, was no more than an animal, but she was doubtless familiar with, if contemptuous of, human males, whom she knew, of course, too, as animals, speechless animals like herself.
2 28 Both were in their way small animals, small, lovely animals.
13 16 They wore skins, which reassured Cabot he was not dealing with simple prey animals but animals which were, in their turn, fully capable of predation.
16 16 Certainly she held the human animals of the forest, prey animals, as worthy of little respect, saving how they might constitute for her a dreadful imperilment.
1 97 The instincts of many caged animals, on the other hand, are more healthy.
1 178 Also, they are legally, and in the eyes of all, animals.
1 182 They are simply domestic animals.
1 185 Too, many Gorean men seem to be as fond, or even more fond, of their slaves than of, say, their sleen or kaiila, animals commonly much more expensive.
1 239 This seems to have been done first by taking the skins and fur of other animals, with which the Nameless One, if it was concerned at all with such matters, had refused to provide them, and later particularly by the utilization of plant fibers, and such.
1 290 She was hitherto from one of the Steel Worlds, one of the animals kept there, she for the purpose of grooming her master.
1 301 Absent a species for a single generation from socialization and we have not even barbarians, only animals.
1 317 The same thing is done routinely with other domestic animals.
1 396 As she was essentially an animal she, as most animals, accepted her surroundings rather as a given, as no more or less explicable than a great number of other possible givens.
1 445 animals, such as she, and others, were incapable of such things, just as they were incapable of building pens, making rooms light and dark, burning objects at a distance, and such.
1 450 She was unfamiliar with larger animals who had been turned against themselves, who were hampered, crippled, neutralized and vitiated by the knives of social engineering.
1 931 Female slavery is quite common on Gor, for men enjoy owning women, as they might other domestic animals, but not every woman at every time stands for every man within the rights of the capture loop.
2 183 Too, it should be noted that much of the meat available in the Steel Worlds is not obtained in the hunt or live kill, but is processed from slaughtered animals, the meat of which is then dried, salted, or frozen, for future consumption.
2 203 Many animals are reluctant to enter small confines with which they are unfamiliar, confines which do not have a clear second exit, confines in which unseen dangers might lurk, confines in which they might be trapped.
3 8 It was an enclosure such as might have been used for the bedding of animals, and perhaps, in its way, it was.
3 403 Slaves, as domestic animals, are normally bred only as the masters please.
4 37 "animals! Beasts!" said the brunette.
6 50 Surely they would prefer for their humans, their pets, their cattle, and such, to remain without speech, to remain simple speechless animals.
6 101 "But they might retain uses," speculated Cabot, "as food animals, and such?" "One supposes so," said Grendel.
11 279 "animals of various sorts," said Peisistratus.
11 286 "Unusual humans?" "They have been bred to be elusive, dangerous prey animals.
12 21 "They would make poor game animals," said Pyrrhus.
13 15 From the Kur point of view they were ideal game animals, highly intelligent and extremely dangerous.

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
18 107 "As animals?" "Of course," I said, "as the lovely animals they are".
25 50 Is it honor and the codes, I wondered, which separate us from animals, or, rather, is it they which bring us closer to the innocence of the animals.
1 59 "As animals, whom you use as you wish?" she said.
1 125 "There are animals?" she said.
1 177 "They view us as animals, as cattle," she said.
1 295 Humans, and other animals, too, of course, were commonly raised for food.
3 749 Some masters try to shame their slaves for what they cannot help, indeed for responses for which the master himself may have been significantly responsible, particularly if they have known them as lofty, frigid free women, now, by their will, reduced to begging animals.
5 919 They were attractive, domestic animals.
7 131 It was primarily a boundary, but it did, too, discourage the entry of animals into the reserve.
7 196 "There may be animals".
7 198 The oddity of the ditch discourages the entrance of animals, and, as there is little grazing here, there would be few herbivores, and there being few herbivores, there will be few carnivores.
8 350 The leash is considerably shortened, of course, if there is danger in the vicinity, say, animals, or uneven ground, or water about, or one is in a crowd, or such.
9 464 "It may be, I do not know, that they were not original with us, but one does, does one not, mark animals?" "Certainly," I said.
10 54 This is not surprising, of course, as they are animals.
10 126 "I would have left him behind, for animals, but Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, our guest, desired that he be permitted to accompany us".
12 277 It is hard not to show fear in the presence of the tarn, but it is extremely dangerous to do so, for the tarn, as many animals, can sense fear, and this stimulates its aggression.
14 99 There are, for example, war nets, so to speak, such as the nets of the "fishermen" in the arena, who are armed with net and trident, and capture nets, such as are used by hunters for small animals and by slavers for women.
16 280 If there were time many would be chained to rings, to await, as the lovely beasts they were, as might tarsks or kaiila, other tethered domestic animals, the outcome of the doings of men.
18 105 "They are animals?" said Pertinax.
18 108 "Speaking, feeling animals?" he said.
22 61 Why should he not? Would she not be thirsty, as well? Are animals not watered?" "Yes," said Tajima.
23 149 If slaves were truly worthless, they would not be fed, sheltered, guided, guarded, instructed, nurtured, prized, and such, to which attention and care they respond gratefully, as the animals they are.
25 47 animals are innocent, I thought.
25 147 To such animals scent not only detects prey, but can be informative as to its distance, movements, numbers, and sex.
25 149 The favoring of male prey, it is conjectured, tends statistically, over time, to increase the number of prey animals.
28 104 They are, of course, to be understood as, and treated as, the animals they are, that goes without saying, but this does not mean that one should not be concerned for their health, comfort, and safety.
28 105 After all, it is appropriate to care for one's animals.
28 109 Slaves, like other animals, respond well to kindness, provided it occurs within a context of a never-compromised, iron discipline.
28 346 One would seldom use so vulgar an expression, I supposed, in the case of a free woman, but it is often used in the case of animals, which makes it acceptable in the case of a slave, as she is an animal, a lovely form of domestic animal.
34 116 "Too," he said, "we will be taking other animals along, and the men will need their pleasures".

Book 30. (23 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 228 As such as the girl are domestic animals, they have no name in their own right, no more than other domestic animals, say, verr, tarsk, or kaiila.
4 93 This is not as surprising as it might seem, as the poison of the ost, as that of many poisonous snakes, is prey-selective, deadly against warm-blooded animals, such as tiny urts, its customary prey, or even larger animals, such as verr and tabuk, but harmless to other sna...
1 465 Second, this is not done with free women, of course, but only with slaves, as they are mere beasts, domestic animals, and it much improves them.
1 481 The punishment of slaves, as that of other animals, kaiila and such, is used sparingly, and seldom without clear justification.
3 938 To be sure, our progress would not be rapid, as our party included its animals, the six slaves, bound, tethered in their rope coffle.
10 12 Men are fond of their animals, verr, kaiila, slaves.
12 84 One may do much what one wants with animals, to improve them.
17 100 The case is similar with other animals, prize sleen, silken-coated kaiila, even saddle tharlarion.
19 157 The slave, as the verr or kaiila, and other such animals, has value.
20 219 How helpless are slaves, as other animals.
20 259 How I, and my kind, hated slaves, women in their fitting place in nature, who, in radiance, and contentment, so joyful, were fulfilled by masters! How we envied those degraded, pathetic, despicable things in their tiny tunics, their bodies so bared, and collars, so unslippable, so closely encircling...
21 507 And this was not, in my view, a simple matter of the carefully supervised regimen of diet and exercise routinely imposed on domestic animals of her sort, shaping, trimming, and vitalizing her figure, that it might be brought to the block as a superb stimulus to buyers.
24 81 The Pani free women must come to understand that they are no threat to them, no threat to their beauty, prestige, station, and power, but only animals, and slaves, work beasts and toys for their men.
24 137 In this way, controlled and herded as the animals they are, they are taught that they are inferior even to the children of their masters.
24 158 They are not likely to be slain, no more than other animals.
24 159 They may, of course, as other animals, easily change masters.
25 3 Slaves, of course, as other animals, are named as masters may please.
34 56 They are not to be confused with animals, with collared beasts.
34 235 Are they not like animals who would soil their own nest, like madmen who would poison their own air and water? Given a garden of loveliness, would they not burn it, and turn it to ash? She had now disappeared down the stairwell, on the way to the market.
36 371 It tends to draw predatory fish away from the piers, and it provides a convenient way of disposing of large forms of garbage, the bodies, say, of dead animals.
36 588 "They are animals, she-sleen! Keep them in collars.
37 96 The slaves, then, are bred with the same attention to lines, and properties, as other domestic animals, tarsk, verr, hurt, kaiila, tharlarion, and such.
37 461 "Surely you know that slaves, as many other sorts of animals, are trained".

Book 31. (30 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 44 How free we are, then, animals, so different from their free women.
1 48 We are trained, as other animals.
1 50 Too, they clearly enjoy owning us, as well as other sorts of animals.
3 26 I was brought here as most from my world, as animals for your markets, selected for qualities and attributes of interest to strong men, qualities and attributes for which strong men, historically, even on my old world, will bid and pay, those qualities and attributes so despised in us,...
4 634 Were not the blossoming subtleties of my body, and those of others, such that they had been carved out over countless generations by the lusts of men? Were we not delightful prizes, goods, like fruit and animals, to be seized and exploited? Had we not been selected to be delights to po...
5 49 What woman would be immune to such flattery, the flattery of chains, the tunic, the collar, the whip? What woman, in her vanity, would be insensible of the compliment paid to her, the compliment of thongs and bracelets? How could she be unaware of the tribute and honor paid to her, that she should b...
5 56 It is there, as that of your other domestic animals.
5 61 Indeed, who but a fool would free a slave girl? Deny this, if you wish, but I have discovered, on your world, that such as I are not only accepted, as your other animals, but are, in a way, prized.
5 63 Certainly we are muchly sought for? Is it not for us that citadels are stormed and caravans raided, that we may be coffled and led naked to your markets? Surely you cannot deny our importance, negligible though we may be? Are we not somehow special amongst your animals, though we commo...
5 77 Here we have a role and an identity, to be sure one inescapable and imposed upon us, whether we will have it so or not, for we are only animals, only slaves.
7 14 We had been saved, but only as animals.
7 334 What if she is found lacking? Will she not be thrown into the market, and another purchased? Are not animals such as she cheap? "Keep me, Master!" she begs.
7 424 "Love is for free persons, companions," said another, "not for animals and their masters".
8 198 These were draft tharlarion as I now realize, but I had not, at the time, seen such animals.
8 1315 The breeding of slaves, as you know, as other animals, is carefully controlled.
8 1738 "Yes, Master," I said, as if I had any choice! Slaves, as other animals, are seldom whipped on Gor.
9 14 We had been saved, but as what we were, only that, animals.
9 58 Was she a stranger, from some unusual city, away from civilization, unfamiliar with some sorts of animals, ones such as I? "They had better not be," said the man.
9 76 "The gambling," she said, "is not then done with lives, those of men and animals".
10 592 As slaves are animals it is easily understood that there are many places in which they are less than welcome.
10 850 Sleen, kaiila, verr, and such, other animals, too, have no Home Stones.
10 916 In larger houses, girls were sometimes slept in their cages, perhaps to help them keep in mind that they are animals, and thus suitably caged.
10 1366 Amongst the animals portrayed on the poster, snow larls, large, striped urts, snarling sleen, performing tharlarion, prancing kaiila, there was another, where the poster was half torn.
14 66 To be sure, men often chain their female slaves, perhaps because it pleases them to have their animals on a chain.
18 79 I then saw my friends, Jane and Eve, familiar from a thousand interactions on a former world, afresh, as they now were, as I had never thought of them before, as mere slaves, as lovely, exquisite, delicate animals, half naked, purchasable, timid under the eyes of men.
18 164 "Then we will unchain them and they may run off, if they wish, to be eaten by animals".
18 542 "They are belled, like animals," I said.
18 1154 "Those are rugged, powerful animals," said Lykos.
18 1166 I trusted such animals would not be in the vicinity of the wagons.
20 267 Certainly we did not wish to be eaten by animals.

Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
39 308 "You would not dare to put us in such degrading garments, so enveloping, so cumbersome, so abundant, so hobbling, so layered, with hoods and veils, the garments of small, soft creatures of interest to men, educated, perfumed, pampered, and refined, meaningless, weak little animals, con...
48 106 There are many animals, even animals commonly loyal, and friendly, between whom and their food it would be unwise, even dangerous, to place oneself.
1 15 It was as though we were not persons, but tethered animals.
3 49 Would it not be the same with horses and dogs, animals of my former world? We must hold our head up, and walk well.
5 177 Perhaps the best translation into English of 'La kajira', considering the contempt in which we are held, as we are vendible work and pleasure animals, might be "I am a slave girl".
5 218 Why should animals be given clothing? The chains are heavy.
7 13 I suppose I should have resented my nudity, and such constraints, and being exposed to frequent, open, public, appraisive scrutiny, as the men might wish, as the animals we now knew ourselves to be, and, sometimes, being forced to take food and water on all fours, from pans, not permit...
8 266 "animals look well in collars," said the other.
9 235 The free woman is a person, a citizen, and may possess a Home Stone; we are animals and properties, marked and collared as such, and we lack Home Stones, for such are denied to beasts.
13 8 As animals we need not be permitted clothing, but, I am informed, many cities recommend the clothing of slaves in public, assuming that the clothing makes it clear that we are slaves, which injunction the masters see to, to their satisfaction.
13 122 I knew that slave names were commonly simple, as one would expect, as they are the names for animals.
13 172 How natural that animals be leashed! "Position!" he snapped.
14 326 "But they hold themselves a thousand times above our slaves, who are branded and collared, and publicly exhibited as the helpless, lovely animals they are".
15 218 "We might as well be animals," I said.
15 495 The memories of men were long, particularly those who were veterans of the former occupational forces in Ar, and they wished to well impress upon the women that they were no longer proud, free, noble, and untouchable, but were now mere properties and animals, slaves.
15 697 What had freedom to offer, which might compare with the fulfillments of belonging to, of being possessed by, a master? I had heard of slaves, pathetic collared animals, mere properties, who had undertaken long journeys, undergone terrible hardships, and braved fearful dangers, to find ...
20 113 "There are animals," said another.
21 208 Many Goreans, I suppose, might seem callous, heartless, or cruel to many of Earth, but they commonly, as those of Earth often do not, love their world, love growing things, trees, grass, flowers, and the world itself, the day and night, the seasons, the wind and sky, the stars, the sound of water in...
23 83 And we, of course, our bodies muchly bared, our necks in collars, owned, helpless animals, are much at their mercy.
23 159 But they would be, as the lovely, helpless animals they were! But not I! I would not be so treated.
25 148 They, of course, are not animals to be bred or not bred as masters might choose.
25 162 They are lovely animals, round-eyed, and alert.
25 326 I found that surprising, for it is difficult to approach a tabuk, as they are alert, skittish animals.
25 335 I found them frightening animals.
25 360 Older animals, of course, may be reduced to hunting slower, less-desirable prey Where the sleen ranges, peasants, foresters, and such, commonly remain indoors at night, or, if venturing out, are likely to do so in armed groups.
26 37 As I did not know a great deal about sleen, and animals sometimes differ considerably in their habits and temperament, and one usually hires both a sleen and a sleen master, I was not adverse to what I took to be his offer.
27 46 But what I most feared, the animals, I had even glimpsed a sleen, would not be likely to be about in such a night.
29 68 Did they not have their vanity? They were clothed briefly, and not that differently from slaves, but they wore not rep-cloth, the wool of the bounding hurt, or silk, work silk or pleasure silk, but the skins of animals, of forest panthers.
29 222 "And what other pack animals would bear burdens for us?" said the leader.
30 86 "animals may have her by now," I said.

Book 33. (19 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
58 268 Slaves are animals, and animals need not be clothed.
61 1209 Surely she knew that though not all animals were slaves, all slaves were animals.
1 465 Slaves, having value, as other domestic animals, had little to fear in such altercations.
1 466 Their fate, as that of other domestic animals, would not be slaughter, but merely a change of masters, a change of owners.
7 113 "I do not know the names of animals, Captain san," he said.
7 335 "They are mere goods, merchandise, animals, beasts, slaves, and may be worked, tethered, chained, and penned, and enjoyed, as masters wish".
20 56 "They are animals".
20 183 "They are in collars, like animals," she said.
20 184 "They are animals," said Tajima.
21 403 "Slaves are animals," she said.
25 174 Similarly, it is not unusual for trainers and keepers in Ar and Turia to withhold food from arena animals, that the torments of hunger might be sorely exacerbated, so cruelly heightened that the released animal will forgo the caution and probity of its ways in the wild to indiscriminat...
29 267 Not all animals, of course, are named.
42 59 I suspect the reason for this division in the tent, by means of the canvas partition, was less to protect the slaves from roving, appraising eyes, for slaves are accustomed, as other animals, to being openly regarded, than to minimize the possibility of a particular slave being identif...
44 94 "I like your draft animals," he said.
50 69 "A treasure room?" "There are beasts," whispered the second Ashigaru, "large, shaggy animals, who come and go".
56 6 In a time of peril even its hazards might seem preferable to those of the outer grounds or the open country, which might be roamed by raiding peasants, by bandits, by renegades, by hungry, desperate soldiers, like animals, freed of the rod of discipline.
59 10 The images were of natural objects, such as trees, flowers, and animals, predominantly birds, and, amongst them, predominantly, of water fowl.
61 115 It, like the brand, proclaims its occupant a slave, and will normally, as most collars on animals, identify the beast's master.
61 1235 Do you think men are so willing to relinquish manhood, or so stupid as to submit like dumb animals to their impoverishment, belling, and slaughter? Even the mighty larl can be brought down by a swarm of squealing urts, but this does not prove the superiority of the urt to the larl, to ...

Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
20 201 Indeed, did not men and women on my former world occasionally, however irrationally, chat pleasantly to their animals, as though such animals might comprehend their words? Does not such persiflage please the master or mistress, and the beast, as well, welcoming such sound...
41 194 Here we are domestic animals, animals who belong to men".
5 68 If it is helpful, you may begin to think of yourselves as what you now are, objects, or animals, stock, only that.
5 120 There were also, here and there, some small kennels or cages, in which I would suppose dogs, or other animals, might be confined.
6 450 As you are now animals, you are doubtless well aware that you will be bred, if bred, as any other animal, at your master's discretion and convenience.
6 590 What could he mean, 'two-legged cattle'? Then I recalled that I and the others were now stock, beasts, animals, and so, I supposed, 'two-legged cattle'! I understood better then how we were viewed, what we were.
7 44 "The breeding of slaves is supervised," she said, "as is the case with other domestic animals".
9 348 I would later learn that slaves, no more than other animals, had Home Stones, no more than tarsks and verr, though they, like tarsks and verr, would often find themselves the properties of those who did.
11 21 How it pleases a man to have a slave at his feet, and how it pleases a slave to be at the feet of a master! I used such occasions to deepen and broaden my knowledge of Gor, of its castes, customs, terrains and cities, governances, Ubarates, clans, beliefs, plants, fruits and vegetables, trees and fl...
15 149 I heard a grunting noise, as of large animals, and, from the conversation in the tunnel, I knew these heavy, bestial sounds must have been emitted from tharlarion.
15 208 The draft tharlarion are quadrupedalian and, as all such animals, willing or not, borne up by their configuration, have no difficulty in negotiating a liquid terrain.
20 161 "We are animals.
32 40 A slave, as other animals, I suppose, is likely to be quite sensitive to the emotional states and moods of her master.
33 757 "The animals, the beasts," I said, "how fearsome they are, such terrible things".
41 110 Indeed, in many public buildings slaves are not allowed, no more than other domestic animals.
45 12 No food had yet been given to the animals.
45 206 "Feed the animals!" he called cheerily to the first girl, and she, with a wide, sweeping motion, scattered the scraps between the tables.
49 48 Some Initiates dabble in signs, omens, and such, the formations of clouds, the flights of birds, the eating habits of sacred fowl, the livers of sacrificial animals, and so on, but that work, which commonly pays less well, is usually surrendered to augurs, haruspices, and such.
51 77 But later, reveling in the freedom of their collars, and having no choice but to move as what they are, women, and slaves, they, now perfect and real, having found their identity, and rejoicing in it, brazen in the recognition of their uniqueness, their specialness, and desirability, move with a nat...
51 311 What a fool I had been! Did I not know that I was a slave? Did I not know that there was a collar on my neck, a brand on my thigh? Did I not know that slaves were worthless animals, that we were to be demeaned, scorned, exploited, worked, and ravished, that our purpose was to serve our...
53 132 It was my impression that the behavior of Kurii might be difficult to anticipate, at least for humans, as that of many other aggressive, predatory animals.
59 18 They are, after all, animals.
59 56 Most animals known as carnivores do not, or need not, restrict their diet to meat.
59 141 "Out! Move! Move, sluts! Move, two-legged animals! Move, branded, shapely beasts! Move, marked collar trash! Move! Move!" I heard another scream of pain behind me.
61 85 In the arena we put upon the sand only the finest of fighters, in the tarn races only the swiftest of tarns, and so, too, here, we do not stint on the quality of our prey animals.
61 320 They are goods, loot, pleasure animals.
63 19 It is doubtless unpleasant to be switched or whipped when straining in a harness, doing one's best, under the tyranny of a merciless keeper, one of several, soft, slight, two-legged draft animals.
63 60 "They, and we, are both domestic animals".
63 457 "For the washing of animals," I said.
64 61 Each wagon yard had its tiny corral, or pen, for the housing and feeding of draft animals, whether tharlarion, kaiila, or bosk, and a bricked fire pit.

Book 35. (26 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
4 8 And, of course, as slaves, we are animals, and is it not appropriate that animals be caged? In the distance, through the passages, I heard the gong sound.
1 34 Even slaves, when clothed, as we need not be, as we are animals, are commonly clothed in bright, attractive tunics, or less.
1 37 There are many differences in animals, as well, and in birds and insects.
1 61 I personally suspect that the motivations of the Gorean free women who object to our importings as cargo and merchandise, as domestic animals, are not so much a matter of fittingness or propriety as of personal animosity, even jealousy.
1 80 It does not take us long to learn that we are animals, and properties.
1 120 Do the stockmen in stockyards concern themselves with the inner life, the thoughts and dreams, the wants and needs, of the goods they deal with, with the beasts they handle? We were naked, as the animals we are.
1 182 You have been branded, as the animals you are.
1 211 Does the fact that you have been stripped, as the animals you are, mean nothing to you? You have been branded and your necks are collared.
3 83 In the wild, they are commonly burrowing animals and nocturnal.
3 87 No animals graze on leech plants.
3 196 Slaves, as other animals, may be named, if named, as the masters might wish.
4 102 "We are animals," I said.
5 148 "Move, soft, pretty animals," said a man.
8 628 "At least we are slaves," said Euphrosyne, joyously, "animals of value.
8 631 We need only wait to be put on our bellies and tied, as the animals we are.
8 834 I understood that in Gorean warfare the free were commonly slain, whereas animals, amongst them slaves, would commonly be spared, as loot.
8 973 "We are kajirae, animals," said another girl.
11 133 Outside the cloth worker's shop was a bin for irregular cloths, discarded patches, strips, shreds, and such; some masters, doubtless of a thrifty sort, avail themselves of such a trove to outfit their slaves; patches, even small patches, may be sewn together, to repair, or even form, a garment, say,...
12 6 He knows, and we know, that we are pleasure animals.
12 29 Had not slavers, discriminating professionals in such matters, selected me, included me on their cargo manifests, and shipped me, with others, like the animals we were, to the markets of Gor? Every bit of me was now a slave.
30 102 Breeding fees for champion animals can be exorbitant.
36 110 I had never seen a larl or sleen, but I had acquired a vicarious knowledge of such animals, and others, from various chain sisters, overheard conversations in the tavern, and such.
40 22 In the case of slaves, men, of course, like them naked under the table, as is appropriate for them, as the animals they are.
40 197 "And risk the welfare of fine animals, not to mention the wrath of sleen keepers?" said Miles.
40 289 Often slaves, as other animals, are not allowed on the furniture.
47 32 "animals need not be clothed; and they are often tethered, confined, or restrained, in one way or another, sometimes quite helplessly; brands are useful in keeping track of them; and collars and leashes are quite appropriate for them".

Book 36. (20 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
59 113 As is well known, slaves are animals, and, as animals, need not be clothed.
6 136 "animals are branded, are they not?" she said.
6 188 Master does not know those animals".
17 22 Indeed, slaves, as they are animals, need not be clothed, at all.
17 312 "Men often speak freely before a slave, as before other domestic animals," I said, "pet sleen, saddle tharlarion, and such.
18 77 As it was not herbivorous, one supposes it preyed on animals as small as the tabuk and as large as tharlarion, even carnivorous tharlarion, the encounters with which must have produced epic battles.
18 81 Interestingly, it seems likely, as such things have often occurred, that large animals, megafauna, are commonly brought to extinction by a smaller, seemingly unlikely foe.
18 128 Territoriality is biologically valuable to large animals.
21 116 "Of course," he said, "you are a wine merchant, of great Brundisium, and no more need be explained to slaves than to other animals".
29 104 The breeding of slaves, of course, as with other animals, is at the discretion of their owners.
29 142 They are to be looked upon as the animals they are.
29 232 Well they knew that slaves, as animals, had no right to clothing.
29 234 Slaves, of course, may be fed and exercised, trimmed and trained, as other animals.
36 73 "That is common with domestic animals," I said.
39 77 "In the fields, outside their walls," said Thurnock, "the townsfolk might perish, starving and thirsting, dying of exposure and beasts, driven away from palisades, forced into the wilderness, by hostile peasants, jealous of their lands and resources, their crops, animals, and stores.
44 38 These irons, more commonly used for driving animals and criminals onto the sands of arenas in large cities, such as Ar, were formidable defensive weapons, thrust into the faces, eyes, and bodies of men trying to climb over the wall onto the parapet.
51 109 "Large land animals, of which the hith was one once, given the amount of food needed to sustain a large organism, tend to be territorial".
51 124 The two enemy ships, given the sudden appearance of the hith, coiling about their fellow, had held up like frightened animals, and had then, frenziedly, and awkwardly, out of rhythm, begun to back oar.
54 112 "All domestic animals have some value and comely slaves are no exception".
54 138 It is used to control conception in female slaves for, obviously, the reproductivity of the female slave, as that of many other forms of domestic animals, is subject to the discretion of the owner.