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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	131	The ceiling was lit as if by stars, and the walls were of five colors, applied laterally, beginning from the bottom—white, blue, yellow, green, and red, caste colors.
4	133	These tiers shared the color of that portion of the wall behind them, the caste colors.
3	60	I sensed that a certain distrust existed between the caste of Scribes and the caste of Initiates.
3	84	But, similarly, if a child does not show the aptitude expected of his caste, whether it be, say, that of physician or warrior, he is lowered in caste".
3	121	I met many Goreans, other than Torm, in these weeks—free Goreans, mostly of the caste of Scribes and the caste of Warriors.
4	140	I was pleased to note that my own caste, that of the Warriors, was accorded the least status; if I had had my will, the warriors would not have been a High caste.
5	53	In Ar, for example, early in the day, a member of the Builders will go to the roof on which the Home Stone is kept and place the primitive symbol of his trade, a metal angle square, before the Stone, praying to the Priest-Kings for the prosperity of his caste in the coming year; later ...
20	18	Those members of the caste of Assassins, the most hated caste on Gor, who had served Pa-Kur, were taken in chains down the Vosk to become galley slaves on the cargo ships that ply Gor's oceans.
2	28	The building in which I found myself was apparently one of an indefinite number of towers, like endless flat cylinders of varying sizes and colors, joined by narrow, colorful bridges that arched lightly between them.
2	127	"These stones," said my father, "are various, of different colors, shapes, and sizes, and many of them are intricately carved.
3	258	The plumage of tarns is various, and they are bred for their colors as well as their strength and intelligence.
4	16	The reins are of different colors, but one learns them by ring position and not color.
4	37	The hills and plains of Gor were a blaze of colors far below me, and it may have been my imagination, but it seemed almost as if I could see the curve of the world.
6	175	The dominant colors of her Robes of Concealment were subtle reds, yellows, and purples, arrayed in intricate, overlapping folds.
19	35	I could see the white robes of Initiates and the variegated colors of soldiers, both of Ar and of Pa-Kur's horde.
20	32	Shimmering strings of bells pealed in the wind, and festive lanterns of a thousand colors swung from the innumerable flower-strewn bridges.
20	33	There was shouting and laughter, and the glorious colors of the castes of Gor mingled equally in the cylinders.
3	1	The Tarn "Ho!" cried Torm, that most improbable member of the caste of Scribes, throwing his blue robes over his head as though he could not bear to see the light of day.
3	52	"You must learn," Torm had said matter-of-factly, "the history and legends of Gor, its geography and economics, its social structures and customs, such as the caste system and clan groups, the right of placing the Home Stone, the Places of Sanctuary, when quarter is and is not permitte...
3	57	Religious matters on this world tend to be rather carefully guarded by the caste of Initiates, who allow members of other castes little participation in their sacrifices and ceremonies.
3	61	The ethical teachings of Gor, which are independent of the claims and propositions of the Initiates, amount to little more than the caste Codes—collections of sayings whose origins are lost in antiquity.
3	62	I was specially drilled in the Code of the Warrior caste.
3	77	"Rulers," he said, "are chosen from any High caste".
3	78	"High caste?" I asked.
3	80	"In fact, in the First Knowledge, there is a story told to the young in their public nurseries, that if a man from Lower caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin".
3	82	"The caste structure," said my father patiently, with perhaps the trace of a smile on his face, "is relatively immobile, but not frozen, and depends on more than birth.
3	83	For example, if a child in his schooling shows that he can raise caste, as the expression is, he is permitted to do so.
3	92	I had learned enough of Gor by now to know that one could not always count on the caste Codes being observed.
3	109	Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter.
3	123	I had seen few women, but knew that they, when free, were promoted or demoted within the caste system according to the same standards and criteria as the men, although this varied, I was told, considerably from city to city.

Book 2. (30 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	34	His stature and burden proclaimed him a member of the caste of Carriers of Wood, or Woodsmen, that Gorean caste which, with the caste of Charcoal Makers, provides most of the common fuel for the Gorean cities.
3	40	None of course would accept a lower caste, and there were lower castes, the caste of Peasants, for example, the most basic caste of all Gor.
12	74	After all, though the caste of Singers, or Poets, was not a high caste, it had more prestige than, for example, the caste of Pot-Makers or Saddle-Makers, with which it was sometimes compared.
8	8	Normally the caste colors of Gor would be in abundant evidence, enlivening the streets and bridges of the city, a glorious spectacle in Gor's bright, clear air.
24	10	The shop itself was now hung with perhaps half a hundred lamps and the walls were bright with the caste colors of the men who drank there.
26	33	In the streets of Tharna shortly after the end of the revolt the caste colors of Gor began to appear openly in the garments of the citizens.
8	109	Since the siege of Ar, when Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, had violated the limits of his caste and had presumed, in contradiction to the traditions of Gor, to lead a horde upon the city, intending to make himself Ubar, the caste of Assassins had lived as hated, hunted men, no ...
9	91	"You are of high caste, of the caste of Warriors," said the proprietor.
24	16	I wondered at this, for the caste of Musicians had been, like the caste of Poets, exiled from Tharna.
24	17	Theirs, like the caste of Poets, had been a caste regarded by the sober masks of Tharna as not belonging in a city of serious and dedicated folk, for music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame, and when men's hearts are aflame it is not easy to know where the ...
4	55	Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's fa...
8	59	They were scarcely distinguishable from one another, an aggregate of grays and browns, so different from the thousand gay colors that gleamed in most cities, where each cylinder in towering splendor lodged its claim to be the bravest and most beautiful of all.
13	28	It seemed that all the glorious colors of Gor which had been denied the buildings of Tharna were lavished on this place of its amusements.
2	36	In it I found the scarlet tunic, sandals and cloak which constitute the normal garb of a member of the caste of Warriors.
2	37	This was as it should be, as I was of that caste, and had been since that morning, some seven years ago, when in the Chamber of the Council of High castes I had accepted weapons from the hands of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and had taken the Home ...
2	44	The Goreans generally, though there are exceptions, particularly the caste of Initiates, do not believe in immortality.
2	75	There is nothing surprising in this inasmuch as each bird is trained, by the caste of Tarn Keepers, to respond to a different note.
3	8	Yet this road, for all the loving craft of the caste of Builders which had been lavished upon it, was only an unpretentious, subsidiary road, hardly wide enough for two carts to pass.
3	37	I knew the support of that weight depended partly on the skillful use of the cords and back, but sheer strength was only too obviously necessary, and this man, and his caste brothers, over the generations, had been shaped to their task.
3	39	In rare cases, one might have been permitted by the Council of High castes to raise caste.
3	77	It was hard to understand the words, for those of the lonely caste of Woodsmen do not often speak.
3	80	"Then, Warrior," said the man, issuing Gor's blunt invitation to a low-caste dinner, "share my kettle".
3	82	Whereas I was of high caste and he of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own Home Stone.
3	114	With the ax in his hands, suddenly he seemed to remember his caste, and he crouched in the road, there in the dusk, a few feet from me, like a gorilla clutching the broad-headed ax, breathing deeply, sucking in the air, mastering his fear.
4	4	Yet why was the road untended? Why had it not been traveled? Why had Zosk of the caste of Carriers of Wood acted as he had? Why did my shield, my helmet, my accouterments not bear the proud sign of Ko-ro-ba? Once I shouted in pain.
5	21	In the next flash of lightning I saw the white robes of an Initiate, the shaven head and the sad eyes of one of the Blessed caste, servants it is said of the Priest-Kings themselves.
5	24	I could not place the difference, yet it seemed there was something in him or about him that set him apart from the other members of his caste.
5	43	It was common, of course, for Initiates to claim to speak for the Priest-Kings; indeed, it was presumably the calling of their caste to interpret the will of the Priest-Kings to men.
5	46	"Are you truly of the caste of Initiates?" I asked.
5	74	I was now only in the presence of a man, a fellow human being even though he wore the sublime robes of the proud caste of Initiates.

Book 3. (30 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	120	I knew that Gorean caste lines, though largely following birth, were not inflexible, and that a man who did not care for his caste might be allowed to change caste, if approved by the High Council of his city, an approval usually contingent on his qualificat...
33	11	From where Vika and I stood together on the rocky trail, now scarcely able to keep our feet on the path, we could see vast crowds, robed in all the caste colors of Gor, clustered outside the remains of the palisade, looking fearfully within.
2	11	At the gate I was met by one of the caste of Initiates, a dour, thin-lipped, drawn man with deep sunken eyes, clad in the pure white robes of his caste.
7	31	The second girl was tall, fragile and willowy, with slender ankles and large, hurt eyes; she had dark, curling hair that fell about her shoulders and stood out against the white of her garment; she may have been of High caste; without speaking to her it would be hard to tell; even then...
10	59	In the depths of this canyon and on the terraces that mounted its sides were innumerable structures, largely geometrical solids—cones, cylinders, lofty cubes, domes, spheres and such—of various sizes, colors and illuminations, many of which even towered to the level of th...
27	49	The colors that are found in the Nest are always in the areas frequented by Muls.
1	14	I would stop briefly at the fair, for I must purchase food for the journey into the Sardar and I must entrust a leather-bound package to some member of the caste of Scribes, a package which contained an account of what had occurred at the city of Tharna in the past months, a short hist...
1	38	Further, members of castes such as the Physicians and Builders use the fairs for the dissemination of information and techniques among caste Brothers, as is prescribed in their codes, in spite of the fact that their respective cities may be hostile.
1	39	And, as might be expected, members of the caste of Scribes gather here to enter into dispute and examine and trade manuscripts.
1	40	My small friend, Torm of Ko-ro-ba, of the caste of Scribes, had been to the fairs four times in his life.
1	41	He informed me that in this time he had refuted seven hundred and eight scribes from fifty-seven cities, but I will not vouch for the accuracy of the report, as I sometimes suspect that Torm, like most members of his caste, and mine, tends to be a bit too sanguine in recounting his num...
1	43	In differences among members of my own caste, that of the Warriors, it is easier to tell who has carried the day, for the defeated one often lies wounded or slain at the victor's feet.
1	45	I do not hold this against the contests of scribes; rather I commend it to the members of my own caste.
1	64	Such contests, in which life is lost, used to be popular at Ar, for example, being sponsored in that city by the caste of Initiates, who regard themselves as being intermediaries between Priest-Kings and men, though I suspect that, at least on the whole, they know as little about the P...
1	66	It was not an action which was popular with the powerful caste of Initiates.
1	70	I had a friend once, Andreas of the desert city of Tor, of the caste of Poets, who had once sung at the fair and won a cap filled with gold.
1	77	This pilgrimage to the Sardar, enjoined by the Priest-Kings according to the caste of Initiates, undoubtedly plays its role in the distribution of beauty among the hostile cities of Gor.
1	102	I am of the caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes.
2	4	I knew his caste, and he knew mine, and it was enough.
4	5	There was nothing in the lighting of the passage, or its construction, to suggest that the Priest-Kings' caste of Builders, if they had one, was any more advanced than that of the men below the mountains.
5	154	I listened intently, knowing that the girl could, even if of High caste, understand little of what had happened to her.
6	78	Had I now become so much the Gorean warrior that I could disregard the feelings of a fellow creature, in particular those of a girl, who must be protected and cared for? Could it be that I had, as the codes of my caste recommended, not even considered her, but merely regarded her as a ...
7	35	Still wondering if she were of High caste, and smiling to myself, I continued down the passageway.
7	37	My Chamber Slave's accent had been pure High caste Gorean though I could not place the city.
7	38	Probably her caste had been that of the Builders or Physicians, for had her people been Scribes I would have expected a greater subtlety of inflections, the use of less common grammatical cases; and had her people been of the Warriors I would have expected a blunter speech, rather bell...
8	135	"My father," she said, "was of the caste of Physicians".
8	185	"Vika," I asked, "was your father truly of the caste of Physicians?" "Yes," she said, "why do you ask?" "It does not matter," I said.
9	53	"But my father," said Vika, "whose slave she was, and who was of the caste of Physicians of Treve, loved her very much and asked her to be his Free Companion".
9	118	"Oh how pleased I was when they beat him and he cried out," she said, "for I hated him—so much I hated him—for he was not a true man and even though of the caste of Physicians could not stand pain.
9	121	"Perhaps," I suggested, "it was because he could not stand pain that he remained a member of the caste of Physicians".

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

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9	50	I glanced at Saphrar, who was now leaning on his yellow cushions, in his silken pleasure robes, white and gold, the colors of the caste of Merchants.
9	82	I was pleased to see again, though often done in silk, the splendid varieties of caste colors of the typical Gorean city, to hear once more the cries of peddlers that I knew so well, the cake sellers, the hawkers of vegetables, the wine vendor bending under a double verrs...
9	20	I say "in effect" because the fairs are nominally under the direction of a committee of the caste of Initiates, which, however, largely contents itself with its ceremonies and sacrifices, and is only too happy to delegate the complex management of those vast, commercial phenomena, the ...
9	32	I have heard, though, there is a caste of Thieves in Port Kar, a strong caste which naturally protects its members from such indignities as ear notching.
21	164	The caste of Bakers is not regarded as a high caste, to which one looks for nobility and such; and yet her father and her brothers, outnumbered, had fought and died for their tiny shop; and this courageous girl, with a valor I might not have expected of many warriors, wea...
21	298	Also he was of the caste of Warriors and would not permit himself to be seen on his funeral pyre in the robes of so low a caste as that of the Bakers.
5	54	The wagons of the Wagon Peoples are, in their hundreds and thousands, in their brilliant, variegated colors, a glorious sight.
7	5	The hides that formed the dome were of a thousand colors, and the smoke hole at the top must have stood more than a hundred feet from the flooring of that vast platform.
9	162	Down the stairway, slowly, in trailing white silk bordered with gold, the colors of the Merchants, there regally descended the girl who was Aphris of Turia.
9	164	Her face could not be seen, for it was veiled, a white silken veil trimmed with gold, nor even her hair, for it was hidden in the folds of the free woman's Robes of Concealment, in her case, of course, done in the colors of the Merchants.
10	190	The stakes had recently been, I observed, brightly painted, each differently, in a delightful array of colors; further, each was trimmed and decorated variously, depending on the whim of the workman, sometimes simply, sometimes fancifully, sometimes ornately.
17	52	There seemed to be wound through its fluids ribbons and filaments and it was dotted here and there with small spheres of various colors.
17	72	Some of the filamentous streamers beneath the surface now seemed to roil beneath the surface and the colors of the spheres seemed to pulsate.
17	89	The filamentous strands seemed to go mad with movement and the spheres of various colors were almost phosphorescent, pulsating beneath the surface.
19	84	It was carpeted by a large red rug on which were several cushions of different colors, mostly yellows and oranges.
26	132	We passed through kitchens and galleries, even through the private compartments of Saphrar himself, where we saw the multitudinous robes and sandals of the merchant, each worked predominantly in white and gold, though often mixed with hundreds of other colors.
26	372	The yellows of the pool began to flicker and the filamentous fibers began to writhe, and the spheres of different colors beneath the surface began to turn and oscillate, and dart in one direction and then the other.
1	10	Though I was of the caste of warriors and he of peasants, and I armed and he carrying naught but a crude tool, I would not dispute his passage.
1	33	These barges, constructed of layered timbers of Ka-la-na wood, are towed by teams of river tharlarion, domesticated, vast, herbivorous, web-footed lizards raised and driven by the Cartius bargemen, fathers and sons, interrelated clans, claiming the status of a caste for themselves.
2	31	It is worthy of a warrior of the caste of Warriors, a swordsman of the high city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning.
3	105	"But I am of the caste of Warriors," I said, "of a high city and we do not stain our spears for the stones of men—not even such stones as these".
3	107	"You dare to tempt me," I said, feigning anger, "as if I were of the caste of Assassins or a common thief with his dagger in the night".
7	34	When Kamchak had finished he held out his right hand and a man, not a Tuchuk, who wore the green robes of the caste of Physicians, thrust in his hand a goblet of bosk horn; it contained some yellow fluid.
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, inks and pap...
9	6	The official reason, proclaimed by Phanius Turmus, the Administrator, and others high in the government, was that those of the Wagon Peoples were unworthy to be entertained in the administrative palace; the real reason, apparently seldom proclaimed by anyone, was that the true power in Turia lay act...
9	8	His presence at the banquet was felt in the person of his plenipotentiary, Kamras, of the caste of Warriors, a captain, said to be Champion of Turia.
9	12	It might be mentioned, for those unaware of the fact, that the caste of Merchants is not considered one of the traditional five High castes of Gor—the Initiates, Scribes, Physicians, Builders and Warriors.
9	15	There is a saying on Gor, "Gold has no caste".
9	17	Indeed, secretly among themselves, I have heard, they regard themselves as the highest caste on Gor, though they would not say so for fear of rousing the indignation of other castes.
9	33	In Saphrar's case, of course, he being of the caste of Merchants, the notching of the ear would be a coincidence, albeit one that must have caused him some embarrassment.

Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	65	From the outside it resembles several tiers of disks, surrounded by a circling portico with lofty, fluted columns; the predominant colors are blue and yellow, the traditional colors of the Gorean slaver; around the outside there are large numbers of well-wrought mosaics s...
1	20	He was surprised for, judging from the colors of the garments of those who marched, it contained men of many castes, perhaps all castes of the city, only that he did not see among them the white of the caste of Initiates.
12	372	There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca...
19	106	It was now packed with the various caste colors of Gor.
22	291	The caste colors of Gor seemed turbulent in the high tiers.
2	108	When charity is in order, as when a man cannot work or a woman is alone, usually such is arranged through the caste organization, but sometimes through the clan, which is not specifically caste oriented but depends on ties of blood through the fifth degree.
12	31	There were other favored areas, too, about the stands, in the front, each covered by awnings, in which there sat members of the numerous high families of the city; I noted that some of these areas were now occupied by Merchants; I had no objection to this for I have always thought higher of the Merc...
12	59	Generally, it was a small faction patch sewn on the left shoulder; the faction patches of the High-caste women tended to be fine silk, and tastefully done; those of low-caste women merely a square of crudely stitched, dyed rep-cloth; some of the masters had dressed their ...
15	421	"I give you the trade of Ar! I want only my life! caste Sanctuary! caste Sanctuary!" Cernus smiled at Caprus and then, unexpectedly, as though he had been teasing him, he placed his first tarnsman at Ubara's Scribe Two.
19	142	An extremely good price, under relatively normal market conditions, for a truly beautiful woman of High caste tends to be about thirty pieces of gold, though some go as high as forty, and fifty is not unknown; these prices, for women of low caste, may be approximately hal...
12	91	The carts were painted in faction colors.
19	60	Within, the hood was, to my satisfaction, removed; when the large wad of soured leather was removed from my mouth I threw up against one wall; the guards laughed and struck me; the lights, lamps, though they were feeble, seemed very bright, and ringed with many colors; the hood had bee...
22	308	Both boxes were draped with the colors of the Greens.
1	1	Kuurus Kuurus, of the caste of Assassins, crouched on the crest of the small hill, leaning with both hands on the shaft of his spear, looking down into the shallow valley, waiting.
1	8	His was the caste of Assassins.
1	24	And even Kuurus, of the caste of Assassins, knew that a city cannot die while its Home Stone survives.
1	35	There were three who stood near the pyre; one wore the brown robes of the Administrator of a City, the humblest robes in the city, and was hooded; another wore the blue of the caste of Scribes, a small man, almost tiny, bent now with pain and grief; the last was a very large man, broad...
2	1	Ar Kuurus, of the caste of Assassins, entered the great gate of Ar.
2	6	The city had fallen and Pa-Kur, though of low caste, had aspired to inherit the imperial mantle of Marlenus, had dared to lift his eyes to the throne of Empire and place about his neck the golden medallion of a Ubar, a thing forbidden to such as he in the myths of the Counter-Earth.
2	11	When he of the caste of Assassins has been paid his gold and has received his charge he affixes on his forehead that sign, that he may enter whatever city he pleases, that none may interfere with his work.
2	20	Kuurus was apparently the first of the caste of Assassins she had seen.
2	65	Scarcely a quarter of an Ahn had passed and the men who drank in that room had forgotten, as is the way of men, that a dark one sat with them in that room, one who wore the black tunic of the caste of Assassins, who silently drank with them.
2	79	Hup's rag might once have been of the caste of Potters, but it was difficult to tell.
2	99	The other three men, hired swords, perhaps once of the caste of Warriors, laughed at the frantic efforts of the tiny, sniveling wad of flesh to free itself.
2	109	If one, of course, finds oneself in effect without caste or clan, as was perhaps the case with the small fool named Hup, and one cannot work, one's life is likely to be miserable and not of great length.
2	111	Indeed, some, particularly those of low caste, even have use names, concealing their true names, lest they be discovered by enemies and used to conjure spells against them.
2	122	But his laugh died in his throat as he looked into the eyes of Kuurus, he of the caste of Assassins.
2	164	"Welcome, Killer," said the man, addressing the Assassin by what, for that caste, is a title of respect.
2	179	Kazrak had offended the caste of Initiates primarily by levying taxes on their vast holdings throughout the city and upon occasion upholding the rulings of the administrative courts over the courts of the Initiates.
2	190	Whereas it is only the men of high caste who elect members to the Council of the City, the gold of merchants and the will of the general populace is seldom disregarded in their choices.

Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

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1	31	Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being lit...
14	24	Tarn ships are painted in a variety of colors; the Dorna, of course, was green.
8	360	"What is your caste?" I asked.
8	684	The Rencers are often thought to be a higher caste than the Peasants.
8	686	"You are only a slave!" Slaves, of course, have no caste, no more than other forms of domestic animal.
9	105	There is even, in Port Kar, a recognized caste of Thieves, the only such I know of on Gor, which, in the lower canals and perimeters of the city, has much power, that of the threat and the knife.
9	106	They are recognized by the Thief's Scar, which they wear as caste mark, a tiny, three-pronged brand burned into the face in back of and below the eye, over the right cheekbone.
15	290	He wore the robes of his caste, the singers, and it was not known what city was his own.

Book 7. (29 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	125	Camisks may, however, be in a variety of colors, and the binding fiber, or leather, may be of matching or contrasting color.
8	197	Many were ornamented, particularly above the great double doors, with carvings and woodwork, painted in many colors.
7	7	At the mouth of the Laurius, where it empties into Thassa, is found the free port of Lydius, administered by the merchants, an important Gorean caste.
7	23	Unfortunately for Targo, village girls are not of high caste.
7	24	On the other hand, if worth a good deal less, they are much more easily acquired than a high-caste free woman.
7	25	When I was taken by Targo, he had only one high-caste girl on his chain, the tall girl, Inge, who was of the scribes.
7	27	A slave, of course, in one sense, has no caste.
7	28	In being enslaved, she is robbed of caste, as well as of her name.
7	55	Doubtless he would have received it many times, except that she had not been of high caste.
7	370	"I will speak high-caste Gorean," I told Inge.
7	454	One of the problems high-caste women had with such girls, I had heard from Ute, aside from finding one who was satisfactory, was their tendency to sneak away into the alleys, seeking furtive liaisons with male slaves.
8	363	She had been of high caste.
8	379	They were wild men, of the caste of Warriors, who spent much of their time in the taverns of Laura, fighting and gambling and drinking, while slave girls, excited and with shining eyes, served them and pressed about them, begging to be noticed and ordered to the alcoves.
8	397	On the first day the physician, a quiet man in the green garments of his caste, examined me, thoroughly.
8	614	Inge was second, even though she had been of high caste, Fifteen.
11	44	"I am of the scribes," she said, "of high caste.
13	81	Her father had been of that caste.
13	88	They had adopted her as their daughter, and had seen that she was trained well in the work of the leather workers, that caste which, under any circumstances, had been hers by right of birth.
13	89	On her nineteenth birthday, members of the caste of Initiates had appeared at the door of the leather-worker's hut.
13	90	It had been decided that she should now undertake the journey to the Sardar, which, according to the teachings of the caste of Initiates, is enjoined on every Gorean by the Priest-Kings, an obligation which is to be fulfilled prior to their attaining their twenty-fifth year.
13	401	She was, I reminded myself, of low caste.
13	1185	"I am Rask," he said, "of the caste of warriors, of the city of Treve".
14	81	Ena, the high girl, who wore the garment of white, had not been much pleased that I did not have a caste, and could not claim a familiar city as my place of origin.
15	271	"I was of high caste!" cried the Lady Rena of Lydius.
15	898	It could perhaps be mentioned that such work, cooking, cleaning and laundering, and such, is commonly regarded as being beneath even free women, particularly those of high caste.
15	1159	The music of those of the caste of musicians was heady, like the wine.
15	1467	"I am of the warriors," he told me, "which is a high caste.
16	208	Doubtless, to be so garbed would have constituted a considerable blow to the exquisite vanity of the high-born, high-caste Talena, even the daughter of a Ubar.
17	62	Sometimes I would be a new girl, frightened, young, much fearing him, as Techne might have been; sometimes I would be as though of the scribes, much as Inge might have been, refined, dismayed at her fate; sometimes as a fine lady, of wealth and position, of high caste, as Rena had been...

Book 8. (27 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	327	She, even if freed, without family, and, by the same act, without caste, would have a status beneath the dignity of the meanest peasant wench, secure in the rights of her caste.
22	440	Indeed, so jealous of their prerogatives were the caste of thieves that they often hunted thieves who did not belong to the caste, and slew them, throwing their bodies to the urts in the canals.
1	24	I wore a white robe, woven of the wool of the Hurt, imported from distant Ar, trimmed with golden cloth, from Tor, the colors of the Merchant.
5	210	The boards are alternately painted blue and yellow, the slavers' colors.
2	499	A high price for a male is a silver tarsk, but even a plain wench, of low caste, provided she moves well to the touch of the auctioneer's coiled whip, will bring as much, or more.
3	12	I overheard an argument, between a seller of vegetables and two low-caste women, in simple robes of concealment.
6	297	She was of low caste.
9	350	Even if freed, she would have no caste, no family.
11	63	She is without caste.
11	660	Even if she were freed she would not, in virtue of the disownment, have a caste.
11	661	The lowest peasant wench on Gor, secure in her caste rights, would be far above her.
12	22	With the daughter of a Ubar as consort there would be few who would dare to recall that I was not of high caste.
12	23	And, surely, with such a woman at my side, many cities, vying for my good will, would beg me to accept investiture as a warrior, a high caste, in their rolls.
12	70	Companionship with such a person, an ex-slave, one without caste, one without family and position, would be, politically and socially, a gross and incomparable mistake.
12	85	He was not even of high caste.
12	89	I wanted a woman of high caste.
19	161	His accent bespoke a low caste.
19	437	"Long ago," I said, "I dishonored my caste, my Home Stone, my blade.
22	431	"In Port Kar," said I, "there is a caste of thieves.
22	432	It is the only known caste of thieves on Gor".
22	434	"You will have little difficulty," I said, "in earning entrance into that caste".
22	438	The caste of thieves was important in Port Kar, and even honored.
22	441	Indeed, there was less thievery in Port Kar than there might have been were there no caste of thieves in the city.
22	444	The caste was too powerful.
22	446	After an Ahn the thief, if apprehended and a caste member, was to be remanded to the police of the arsenal.
22	898	"It is a high price for a wench without caste or family," I said.
22	926	Tell her that the woman brought a good price because, though she had neither caste nor family, she is very beautiful".

Book 9. (16 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	56	I thought that Andreas of Tor, a friend, of the caste of Singers, might have been pleased to learn that his caste was represented, and honored, on the boards of the north.
13	311	Her robes were marvelously wrought, subtle, soft, seeming almost in their sheens, like the jewels, to shift their colors in the light of the lamps and the flickering torches.
1	128	It was rather that I had, as a warrior, or one once of such a caste, set myself the task of his liberation.
1	313	"You are now without caste, without Home Stone, without family".
1	331	"Your status now, whether you know this or not, is less than that of the meanest peasant wench, secure in her caste rights".
1	444	No longer had she caste, no longer a Home Stone.
1	445	The meanest peasant wench, secure in her caste rights, would be more than Talena.
2	21	The religion of the Priest-Kings, institutionalized and ritualized by the caste of Initiates, had made little headway among the primitive men to the north.
2	84	The Initiates are an almost universal, well-organized, industrious caste.
2	87	They regard themselves as the highest caste, and, in many cities, are so regarded generally.
2	93	There are many texts, of course, which are secret to the caste, and not even available to scholars generally.
2	96	And many men, who suspect that the Initiates, in their claims and pretensions, are frauds, will nonetheless avoid coming into conflict with the caste.
2	104	He is also confronted with a socially and economically powerful caste that pretends to be able to intermediate between Priest-Kings and common folk.
4	63	The Forkbeard's game was much more varied, and tactical, than was that of, say, Marlenus of Ar, much more devious, and it was far removed from the careful, conservative, positional play of a man such as Mintar, of the caste of Merchants.
6	209	The brand used by Forkbeard is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south, where the merchant caste, with its recommendations for standardization, is more powerful.
21	158	His accent was not of high caste; it had been formed on the jetties of the island Ubarate of cliffed Tyros, where he had for years, I had learned, led gangs of ruffians; caught, he had been dragged before Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, for sentencing to impalement; rather, Chenbar had liked t...

Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	351	At various places in the bazaar, from poles laid between the buildings, numerous skeins of wool hung, dyed in various bright colors, drying.
8	96	These, made by the women, are often fringed, and of various colors, and beautifully decorated.
23	58	Behind each of the arrangements of lines were hundreds of tents, striped in different colors.
1	400	The member of the caste of physicians, a laver held for him in the hands of another man, put his hands on the girl's head.
10	207	Many low-caste Goreans have never held one in their hand.
13	397	Let who would, with steel, dispute my caste with me.
17	330	"You would not qualify as one of the caste of physicians," said a man behind me.
18	7	Men of the caste of physicians, slave, too, at Klima, stood about the couch.

Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	998	Whereas caste membership is commonly connected with the practice of an occupation, such as agriculture, or commerce, or war, there can be, of course, caste members who are not engaged in caste work and individuals who do certain forms of work who are not mem...
9	1001	Normally mating takes place among caste members, but if the mating is of mixed caste, the woman may elect to retain caste, which is commonly done, or be received into the caste of the male companion.
9	1008	The caste system is not inflexible and there are opportunities for altering caste, but men seldom avail themselves of them; they take great pride in their castes, often comparing others' castes unfavorably to their own; a Gorean's caste
9	487	On this table had been strands of thread and, in small cups, beads, slave beads, of various colors, red, yellow and purple, and other colors.
19	48	I saw that at the foot of the dais, before me, before where I now knelt, released by the men who had held me, there was a low table, and, on this table there were strands of thread and, in small cups, beads, wooden slave beads, beads of various colors, of many colors.
8	192	They are sometimes, too, used by assassins, though the caste of assassins itself, by their caste codes, precludes their usage; the member of the caste of assassins must make his own kill; it is in their codes.
9	1005	Though there are doubtless difficulties involved with caste structure the caste situation lends an individual identity and pride, allies him with thousands of caste brothers, and provides him with various opportunities and services.
9	994	"My master is Thurnus," I said, "caste leader in Tabuk's Ford, of the caste of peasants, one who makes fields fruitful and is, too, a trainer of sleen".
9	1002	caste membership of the children born of such a union is a function of the caste of the father.
9	1004	caste is important to Goreans in a way that is difficult for members of a non-caste society to understand.
9	2008	"And, too, this night," said Ladletender, "I drink to one with whom I do not share caste but that which is stronger than caste, the blood of brotherhood, Thurnus, he of Tabuk's Ford".
1	137	colors, too, seemed richer, deeper, more vivid.
9	2144	She finds herself in a world whose colors are deeper and richer than she ever knew they could be; she finds she hears sounds she never heard before; she smells smells she has never smelled before; she becomes aware of subtleties of taste which doubtless were there to be experienced, bu...
18	28	Those hair colors tend to bring higher girl-prices.
25	77	"See," said Bosk, who was examining the necklace, "the most frequent combination of colors is blue and red".
27	363	Indeed, he, my master, had kept me generally in plain colors, usually gray or white rep cloth, and in tunics that were, for such wear, rather modest, rather than blatantly, boastfully exhibitory, as is often the case with Gorean masters who are proud of their girls and wish to show the...
28	36	It is painted for the most part in blue and yellow, the colors of the slavers, and ornately carved, with many intricate patterns and projections.
3	529	It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely...
5	11	Veils are worn in various numbers and combinations by Gorean free women, this tending to vary by preference and caste.
5	12	Many low-caste Gorean women own only a single veil which must do for all purposes.
5	13	Not all high-caste women wear a large number of veils.
5	15	Rich, vain women of high caste may wear ostentatiously as many as nine or ten veils.
5	21	Some low-caste, uncompanioned, free girls do not wear veils.
5	38	I was veiled as might have been a rich Gorean free woman of high caste, perhaps bound for the song dramas of En'Kara.
5	143	The Companion Journey, then, when the auspices had been favorable, as they promptly were, these determined by the inspection of the condition and nature of the liver of a sacrificial verr, examined by members of the caste of Initiates, had begun.
5	190	Many of the daughters of merchants are proud sorts, for the merchants themselves, by virtue of their power, tend to vanity and pride, and agitate, justifiably or not, for the inclusion of their caste among the high castes of Gor.
5	191	Their pampered daughters, protected from work and responsibility, ostentatiously garbed and elaborately educated in caste trivia, tend to be spoiled and soft.
5	195	In taking companionship with one of the Warriors she would raise caste, for the Warriors on Gor are among the high castes, of which there are five, the Initiates, Scribes, Physicians, Builders and Warriors.
5	209	It was said she was much pleased to raise caste and would become, by this match, one of the high ladies of the Salerian Confederation, which was becoming powerful in the north.
5	212	From the point of view of his father the bargain was a good one for Thandar was the youngest and least important of five sons; it was not as if his first or second son had been matched with a merchant's daughter; besides the match was politically and commercially expedient; who knew how ambitious mi...

Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	420	The caste of physicians is a large, complex caste, and deals with a number of specialties which have to do with medicine and health.
30	85	Candidates for the caste are chosen with great care, and only one in ten, it is said, completes the course of instruction to the satisfaction of the caste masters.
3	151	He wore the colors of Tabor on his cap.
3	270	Before I left the fair I would inspect the major market, that beyond the smithies and chain shops, where the most numerous exhibition platforms were erected, near the great sales pavilion of blue and yellow silk, the colors of the slavers.
3	518	The next girl, dark-haired, lovely, wore black, feminine slacks; these were apparently of some synthetic Earth material; the left leg of the slacks was torn from the knee downward; she also wore what had probably been a soft, red, turtle-necked pull-over; it, too, was rather feminine; perhaps that i...
3	34	She had been of Rarn, probably of high caste, given the quality of her beauty.
3	57	Most Gorean cities now, at least in the south, had accepted a standard tournament Kaissa, agreed upon by the high council of the caste of players.
3	65	In most cities it is regarded, incidentally, as a criminal offense to enslave one of the caste of players.
3	66	A similar decree, in most cities, stands against the enslavement of one who is of the caste of musicians.
3	73	For example, they serve as a scene of caste conventions, and as loci for the sharing of discoveries and research.
3	116	The Sardar fairs are organized, regulated and administered by the Merchant caste.
3	139	The caste of initiates is rich on Gor.
3	182	Behind them came another of their caste, leading two milk verr which he had purchased.
3	344	The chief officer of the caste of players, with representatives of both Cos and Ar, would be waiting for them on the stone stage of the amphitheater, with the helmet.
3	417	A fellow in a green tunic, doubtless one of the caste of physicians, was cleaning her teeth.
3	419	His specialty within the caste of physicians would be what those of Earth would be likely to consider veterinary medicine.
3	421	For example, individuals those of Earth might consider doctors, nurses, medical technicians, nutritionists, surgeons, medical researchers, pharmacists, physicians' assistants, dentists, veterinarians, and so on, would all be physicians, or "of the caste of physicians," on Gor.
4	103	The official scoring is kept by a team of three officials, at least one of which must be of the caste of players.
4	105	Games are adjudicated, when capture of Home Stone does not occur, by a team of five judges, each of which must be a member of the caste of players, and three of which must play at the level of master.
4	114	I saw now upon the stage Reginald of Ti, who was the elected administrator of the caste of players.
4	143	Scormus of Ar reminded me of men of the caste of Assassins, as they sometimes are, before they begin their hunt.
4	155	The judge, Reginald of Ti, four others of the caste of players behind him, had finished speaking to Scormus and Centius, and the scorers.
4	169	Two young men, apprentices in the caste of players, on scaffolding, placed the plaque.
4	170	Another young man, also apprenticed in the caste of players, recorded this move, in red chalk, at the left of the board.
4	197	His games, in recent years, had seemed less battles, less cruel, exact duels, than obscure attempts to achieve something on the Kaissa board which even many members of the caste of players did not profess to understand.
4	288	He could have done what he did more subtly, a delicate, pretended miscalculation somewhere between the fortieth and fiftieth move, a pretended misjudgment so subtle that even members of the caste of players would never be certain whether or not it was deliberate, but he had not chosen ...
6	160	"I give you greetings of the caste of warriors," he said.
6	624	The Tina whom I had known was now free, an esteemed member of the caste of thieves in Port Kar, one of the most skillful in the city.
7	224	It is a matter of pride for members of that caste to avoid the use of poisoned steel.
9	183	Too, at certain of these fairs, the caste of scribes, accepted as the arbiters of such matters, stipulate that certain pronunciations and grammatical formations, and such, are to be preferred over others.

Book 13. (21 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	8	The men with him, I suspected, or most of them, were members of his own caste, geographers of the scribes, perhaps, but men inured to hardships, perhaps men who had been with him in his explorations of Ushindi and Ngao, men he trusted and upon whom he could count in desperate situation...
4	400	They wore rags of various sorts and colors; they had good legs; they were all barefoot.
6	329	White and gold, incidentally, are the colors of the merchants.
6	396	She flew the colors of Asperiche.
32	1086	"Are blue and yellow not the colors of the slavers?" she asked.
32	1092	In his best, a slaver will usually wear blue and yellow robes, or robes in which these colors are prominent.
1	741	Schendi was a free port, administered by black merchants, members of the caste of merchants.
4	810	He assumed I was, because of my garb, of his caste.
6	6	It was the fourth morning after the evening conversation which Ulafi and I had had, concerning my putative caste and the transaction in Schendi awaiting the arrival of the blond-haired barbarian.
9	31	"A girl likes to know the caste of her master," she said.
19	6	"Surely Shaba will have others of his caste with him, geographers of the scribes," I said.
19	128	"Are you of that caste called assassins?" he asked.
32	1032	Perhaps it has something to do with the decentralization of city states, the multiplicity of traditions, the diversity of the caste codes".
33	122	There are many stories of Gorean free women, sometimes of high caste, who, as a lark or in a spirit of bold play, dared to dance in a paga tavern.
53	45	"How hard it is for two who do not share caste to understand one another," he said.
53	132	If I have erred, I have erred in the cause of my caste and in that, more generally, of humankind".
54	103	"He was true to his caste," said Bila Huruma.
54	126	"He was true to his caste," said Bila Huruma.
57	54	I had delivered to him, and to two others of his caste, the maps and notebooks of Shaba.
57	58	They would then be distributed by caste brothers throughout the cities of civilized Gor.
57	322	If the magistrates do not apprehend you you might, in Port Kar, run afoul of the caste of thieves.

Book 14. (30 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	39	For example, some individuals have lost caste, or been deprived of caste; some individuals have been born outside of caste; certain occupations are not traditionally associated with caste, such as gardening, domestic service and herding; and, i...
20	70	There were, in favored seats, some upper-caste Goreans, recognizable by the colors and qualities of their robes, and among these, here and there, heavily veiled, erect and lovely, some upper-caste women.
6	17	They were predominantly blue and yellow in their colors, which are the colors of the slavers.
16	10	caste rights, of course, such as the right to caste support in time of need and caste sanctuary, when in flight, which are theirs by birth, remain theirs.
16	15	A notable exception to the generalization that women of a given caste normally do not engage in caste work is the caste of physicians, whose women are commonly trained, as are the boys, in the practice of medicine.
16	6	Though one is commonly born into a caste one is often not permitted to practice the caste craft until a suitable apprenticeship has been served.
16	8	It is possible, though it is seldom the case, that members of a caste are not permitted to practice specific caste skills, though they may be permitted to practice subsidiary skills.
16	11	The women of a given caste, it should be noted, often do not engage in caste work.
16	19	Concern for the future of the caste is thus evinced in this limitation by the physicians on the rights of their women to participate without delay in the caste craft.
16	30	caste is important to the Gorean in ways that are difficult to make clear to one whose social structures do not include the relationships of caste.
20	69	The crowd, mostly, was an excited and motley assortment of low-caste males, but, here and there, there were veiled women amongst them, generally these, too, of low-caste.
8	41	These things would be to them simply colors they could not see, sounds they could not hear, worlds which must remain to them forever beyond their ken.
16	42	They do have their own colors, blue and yellow, those of the Merchants being white and yellow, or white and gold.
18	6	These colors tend to be cultural for Goreans with respect to housings for domestic animals.
18	7	Blue and yellow, too, of course, are the colors of the slavers.
18	9	To be sure, in barns and such the color yellow usually predominates, whereas in the colors of slavers, exhibited in such places as in the blue and yellow of the canvas covering slave wagons or in the blue and yellow of the tenting of slave pavilions, the blue and yellow is, or tends to...
11	417	Also, it might be noted that most Gorean warfare is carried out largely by relatively small groups of professional soldiers, seldom more than a few thousand in the field at a given time, trained men, who have their own caste.
12	357	These are usually extraordinarily beautiful Gorean girls, once of high caste.
13	305	The Gorean soldier is commonly a professional soldier, usually of the caste of Warriors.
16	7	This guarantees the quality of the caste product.
16	13	caste membership, for Goreans, is generally a simple matter of birth; it is not connected necessarily with the performance of certain skills, nor the attainment of a given level of proficiency in such skills.
16	14	To be sure, certain skills tend to be associated traditionally with certain castes, a fact which is clearly indicated in caste titles, such as the leather workers, the metal workers, the singers, and the peasants.
16	17	The purpose of this is to retain a high level of intelligence in the caste.
16	18	Professional women, it is well understood, tend not to reproduce themselves, a situation which, over time, would be likely to produce a diminution in the quality of the caste.
16	20	The welfare of the caste, typically, takes priority in the Gorean mind over the ambitions of specific individuals.
16	31	In almost every city, for example, one knows that there will be caste brothers on whom one may depend.
16	32	Charity, too, for example, is almost always associated with caste rights on Gor.
16	33	One of the reasons there are so few outlaws on Gor is doubtless that the outlaw, in adopting his way of life, surrenders caste rights.
16	34	The slave, too, of course, has no caste rights.
16	37	It is said on Gor that only slaves, outlaws and Priest-Kings, rumored to be the rulers of Gor, reputed to live in the remote Sardar Mountains, are without caste.

Book 15. (13 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	27	"Where are the guardsmen, to apprehend him?" puffed the portly fellow, who wore the caste colors of the merchants, white and gold.
4	110	The woman at the counter had been veiled, as is common with Gorean women, particularly those of high caste and of the high cities.
4	463	This, of course, at least the binding part of it, had nothing to do with the slavers' caste, though they well know their business.
4	492	They are regarded as game, much as tabuk or wild verr might count as game, only in this instance as "slave game," and the men of one city, particularly those of the caste of warriors, often delight in the pleasure of "woman hunt," trying, as it is said, their "chain luck".
6	62	Ar's Station, incidentally, is near the site where there was a gathering, several years ago, of the horde of Pa-Kur, of the caste of Assassins, who was leading an alliance of twelve cities, augmented by mercenaries and assassins, against the city of Ar.
10	310	"They were very beautiful women," I said, "and some were of high caste, two were exquisitely trained pleasure slaves".
25	27	Then when he had recalled himself to the codes of his caste he had resolved to forgo the victories and the rights, and the joys and triumphs, of the mastership until certain serious, projected works had been accomplished.
25	44	Victoria knew him still as only a fallen man, one defeated, one lax in his caste codes, one inert and whining in traps of his own weaving.
25	47	He had recalled that he was Callimachus, of the Warriors, one entrusted with steel, one entitled to wear the scarlet of the proud caste.
25	138	I had a respect for caste honor.
33	26	Too, he is a captain of Port Cos, and of my own caste".
33	36	"He is not of my own caste," admitted Callimachus.
33	216	"Ten thousand years ago," he said, "in the mixings of bloods, and in the rapings of conquered maids, the caste has chosen you".

Book 16. (11 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	134	Signal cloths, pennons and squares, in mixed colors and designs, acknowledging these commands, ran fluttering and streaming onto the stem-castle lines of the Tais.
16	228	I saw the colors, there, of more than a dozen towns.
16	230	Too, among other pennons, I saw colors hailing from so afar east as White Water and Lara, at the very confluence of the Vosk and Olni.
16	364	"She flies, as I now see, the colors of Turmus".
19	912	Indeed, I think more so, as few women of Earth, for all their vaunted freedoms, would dare to manifest the imperious behaviors and arrogant demeanors of the typical Gorean free woman, particularly one of high caste, or of the merchants.
19	914	It, or caste, on the other hand, tends to be very explicit and obvious on Gor.
19	916	These things being as they are, the translation of a Gorean woman of high caste to the collar is likely to be in its way as grievous, or more grievous, a social dislocation in status for her as the reduction of an Earth woman, who has never even considered such a fate for herself, to t...
20	589	In certain cities, such as Ar, high platforms might be worn, particularly by high-caste women.
20	1804	The slave is without caste.
21	592	caste tends to be more important to most Goreans than riches.
21	593	The slave of a high-caste Builder, for example, is likely to look down on the slave of a wealthy merchant, who may have a hundred times the riches.

Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	767	"Consider the colors," said Kog.
4	189	They wore the colors of Thentis.
7	62	Within a given tribe the beading, in its arrangements and colors, identifies the particular master.
3	146	The fort now serves primarily as a trading post, maintained by the caste of Merchants, from Thentis, an interesting recollection of the origins of the area.
3	155	"You do not wear the garb of the dark caste, nor do you have the black dagger painted upon your brow".
7	10	His caste, even in the town of Kailiauk, was that of the slavers.
7	34	The brand draws a cataclysmic gulf between the Gorean free woman, secure in her arrogance, beauty and caste rights, and the stripped, nameless, rightless slaves, suitably vended as the mere lovely beasts they are in the flesh markets of this primitive, gorgeous world.
11	48	So, too, will such things as the fact that you have no Home Stone and no caste, and will be ignorant of a thousand things known to any Gorean.

Book 18. (9 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	319	The colors and design of the beading marked it as Canka's.
2	52	The Gorean free woman, particularly those of high caste, is likely to be literate.
2	59	Too, for example, many warriors, despite being of high caste, take great pride in being strangers to letters.
2	65	Some highly intelligent men who hold reading and writing in contempt, however unreasonably, enjoy buying a sophisticated, beautiful, literate slave girl, once of high caste, and take great pleasure in ruthlessly mastering every cell in her beautiful body; though literate, and doubtless...
37	255	In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser, as suggested, for its remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the "second wine".
37	265	Sometimes a member of the caste of scribes is also present, to provide certification on behalf of the city.
37	275	The active ingredient in the breeding wine, or the "second wine," is a derivative of teslik, a substance developed by the caste of Physicians to enhance fertility in verr and tarsks.
44	216	Sometimes the girls, particularly if they are of high caste and are unlikely to be familiar with such things, are put through a course of training involving such domestic duties as cleaning and cooking, laundering and sewing.
44	270	And thus must slaves obey, fully, unmitigatedly, of whatever background, caste or complexion.

Book 19. (22 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	220	Outside the establishments of slavers there often hung streamers and banners in these colors, and sometimes, on the walls, or doors, or posts near the doors, these colors, in diagonal stripes or slashes, were painted.
28	33	The only other caste on Gor which is generally considered, for most practical purposes, as immune from bondage is the caste of players.
31	65	"They have required a common language of us for their own purposes, that they may the more easily communicate with us, and, through the Initiates, a high caste, and those sleen think themselves the highest caste, make known to us their will".
2	38	You qualify with flying colors, as I had thought you would, on all counts".
6	139	I loved the markets and bazaars, the smells, the colors, the crowds, the quantities and varieties of goods, the tiny shops, the stalls, the places of business which sometimes were so small as a tiny rug on the stones, on which a peddler displayed his wares.
14	17	The colors of Argentum and of Ar, on ribbons and strips of cloth, dangled from windows and festooned, even being stretched between windows and rooftops overhead, the triumphal way.
14	18	Such colors, too, were prominent in the crowd, on garments and being waved, fluttering, by citizens and sometimes even by children, perched on the shoulders of adults.
24	192	White and yellow, or white and gold, are the colors of the merchants.
6	62	I wore the robes of a woman of high caste, today the yellow of the Builders.
6	105	Sometimes they are supported by rich citizens; sometimes they are supported by caste organizations; sometimes, even, they are sponsored by merchants or businesses, as a matter of goodwill and promotion; sometimes, too, they are subsidized by grants from a public treasury.
7	133	The formula, too, I had learned, at the insistence of masters and slavers, had been improved by the caste of physicians within the last few years.
14	73	He was skillful, and apparently a smith in such matters, perhaps a skilled specialist within his caste.
23	113	"But, those of the caste of physicians can do such things.
28	24	Musicians on Gor, that is, members of the caste of musicians, are seldom, if ever, enslaved.
28	27	This is a saying, however, which I suspect was invented by the caste of musicians, to protect itself from bondage.
28	28	For example, there are many musicians on Gor, not members of the caste, who are enslaved.
28	36	The general affection and respect which Goreans feel for the game of Kaissa is probably the explanation for the practical immunity from bondage commonly accorded the members of the caste of players.
29	43	Why could he not have wanted Claudia, or Crystal, or one of the other girls? He was the guest of honor at this feast, a feast held by Eito, an Oriental, a member of the caste of merchants, a citizen of Ar, a dealer in salt, one with connections with some of the towns near the Tahari.
31	55	"In any event, Priest-Kings, who have such power," said he, "have required that we on this world, for the most part, share a common language, the nature of which they left to us, and it has been composed, at least lexically, of many languages, and is regularly standardized at the great fairs, and el...
33	779	"That Earth is real is in the second knowledge," said one of the men, a fellow wearing the yellow of the Builders, a high caste.
33	782	The classical knowledge distinctions on Gor tend to follow caste lines, the first knowledge being regarded as appropriate for the lower castes and the second knowledge for the higher castes.
36	769	These things, doubtless in part because of his pride and self-image, his reluctance to accept tenderness, his fear of feeling and sentiment, his lofty conceptions of the attitudes and behaviors proper to his caste, had driven him half mad with frustration.

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	29	A major victory in this matter was secured a few years ago when the caste of Merchants, which organizes and manages the Sardar Fairs, agreed to a standardized version, proposed by, and provisionally approved by, the high council of the caste of Players, for the Sardar tou...
9	412	"The very thought of it! The outrage! The indignity! How dare you even think of such a thing! I am of high caste! I am of the scribes! Wait until I bring this matter to the attention of magistrates!" "As I may remind you, my dear," said Boots, patiently, "you are no longer of high <...
6	211	Did they truly confuse them with walls of stone and the forces of weaponry? Did they understand the differences between the lines and colors on maps and the realities of a physical terrain? To what extent did they comprehend the fictional or mythical nature of those castles within whic...
6	821	These two fellows, of course, were Boots's Chino and Lecchio, now largely garbed in tatters of yellow and white, the colors of the merchants.
1	28	The caste of Players, to its credit, has been attempting to standardize Kaissa for years.
2	82	Who was that fellow, for example, who poured paga on one's head? And who, the free woman might wonder, was that fellow who gave her so sudden, so unexpected, so fierce a pinch? Indeed, perhaps she is fortunate that her very veil was not lifted up and her lips pressed by those of a stranger, or was i...
2	89	Lower-caste gangs, engaged in similar pursuits, seldom affect masks.
2	427	He did not wear the red-and-yellow-checked robes of the caste of players.
2	428	He was not, thus, I assumed, of that caste.
2	430	They are quite proud of their caste.
2	546	"Perhaps he should apply for membership in the caste of players," I suggested.
4	176	Finally a large force of mercenaries, in the hire of the merchant caste, in a campaign that lasted several months, put an end to the spurious reign of Clearchus, driving him from the forest and scattering his men.
6	85	It must be understood, of course, to fully appreciate what was going on, that the public exposure of the features of a free woman, particularly one of high caste, or with some pretense to position or status, is a socially serious matter in many Gorean localities.
6	276	Anango, like Asperiche, is an exchange, or free, island in Thassa, administered by members of the caste of merchants.
6	389	I prefer my own caste, that of the warriors.
9	344	"I am of high caste, and am rich!" she said.
10	359	"It is procedurally recommended by the caste of slavers," I said.
10	675	Slave wines have been developed by the caste of physicians to regulate and control slave breeding.
10	889	An additional pleasure for me was that the Lady Yanina was no ordinary free woman, for example, one of low caste, accustomed to manual labors.
12	75	Many players of Kaissa, not even of the caste of players, incidentally, know several openings, in numerous variations, several moves into the game.
12	90	I had even, upon occasion, played with members of the caste of players, but never, never, had I played with anyone who remotely approached the level of this fellow.
12	419	"They are often used by the caste of players for the transmission of private messages, but they may, of course, be used by anyone.
12	420	Originally they were probably invented by the caste of players.
12	566	"I have sometimes played with members of the caste of players," I said.
13	331	Too, however, I knew the urt people could, and did upon occasion, as in their rare contacts with civilized folk, communicate in a type of Gorean, many of the words evidencing obvious linguistic corruptions but others, interestingly, apparently closely resembling archaic Gorean, a language not spoken...
16	81	Two or three cushions down, on Belnar's left, was a fellow in the robes of the caste of players, Temenides, of Cos.
16	82	It was interesting to me that a member of the caste of players should be seated at the first table, and particularly, in this city, one allied with Ar, one of Cos.
16	88	This saying is sometimes, too, applied to members of the caste of players.
16	162	"If you have not had the coins authenticated, my friend, Lecchio, here, is certified by the caste of Builders to perform the relevant tests".
16	269	"Perhaps to you it might all seem a coincidence," said Petrucchio, "but to one such as I, one of the caste of warriors, one trained in wariness and discernment, it seems there might be more to it".

Book 21. (20 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	36	There are various perquisites connected with membership in this caste, among them, if one is a professional thief, protection from being hunted down and killed by caste members, who tend to be quite jealous of their various territories and prerogatives.
20	30	Within the gamut of those gleaming walls, so lofty and mighty, rose thousands of buildings, and a veritable forest of ascendant towers, of diverse heights and colors.
2	103	"What is your caste?" she asked.
2	104	"Scarlet is the color of my caste," I said.
9	193	To be sure, manual labor was not exactly prescribed by my own caste codes either.
13	207	"Family, and caste?" he inquired.
14	78	"Perhaps you are even of the scarlet caste," he said.
15	7	"Perhaps you are of the scarlet caste?" he asked.
15	705	The scarlet of my caste is not easily come by, nor is it easily betrayed.
19	33	It marks the members of the caste of Thieves in Port Kar.
19	34	That is the only city in which, as far as I know, there is a recognized caste for thieves.
19	37	Because of the caste of thieves there is probably much less thievery in Port Kar than in most cities of comparable size.
19	255	He, appointed through the influence of Cernus, who was soon to ascend the throne of Ar, had replaced the venerated hero, Maximus Hegesius Quintilius of Ar, who had earlier expressed reservations concerning the investiture of Cernus, a merchant and slaver, in the caste of warriors.
19	447	It is my intention to seek caste asylum in Ar".
19	449	"I have documents certifying my caste standing," he said.
24	454	"But she was of low-caste origins, of course".
24	456	"But she had beauty beyond her caste," he said.
25	885	It is almost like once having been of high caste.
26	1704	The Earth girl usually finds this sort of thing, the shelter and mystique of the veil, and such, hard to understand, accustomed as she is to going about with her own face bared publicly, a behavior which a Gorean woman, particularly of high caste, would be likely to find scandalous, an...
26	1915	Such women, of course, are less likely to be picked up than lower-caste women or street girls.

Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	42	caste is extremely important to most Goreans, even when they do not all practice the traditional crafts of their caste.
10	441	Similar considerations apparently pertained to such matters as hair colors and body types.
11	705	I did not know at that time but this indicated he was of the caste of physicians.
11	706	That is a high caste.
11	707	If I had known he was of high caste I might have been a great deal more frightened than I was.
11	708	Most Goreans take caste very seriously.
11	712	Provisions for changing caste exist on Gor, but they are seldom utilized.
17	19	The only Gorean caste which, as far as I know, officially believes in an afterlife is that of the Initiates, and they believe in it, it seems, only for themselves, and seem to believe it is connected with such things as the performance of secret rites, the acquisition of secret knowled...
19	27	"I am of humble caste," I said.
19	29	For a slave to claim caste is a serious matter.
19	32	"What is your caste?" he asked.
19	33	His caste, as I could see from his garments, was that of the metal workers.
19	36	"We share caste," he said.
19	37	"Too," he laughed, "I may remind you that that is no humble caste.
19	38	Where would the dwellers of cities be without us?" This was a way of saying, in the parlance of the caste, that the utilities and workings of metal were essential for a high civilization.
19	41	To be sure, much charity, and fraternal organizations, and even outings, and such, are organized on caste lines.
19	68	"You are a free woman, and are of my own caste".
19	91	It was a question of overcoming his inhibitions, connected with my supposed station, that of the free woman, my caste, his own, and perhaps some reservations about seeming to take advantage of my presumed straits.
20	193	Usually, as it is their caste policy, the farmers or villagers seek new land, usually farther away, to start again.
20	195	Their caste codes discourage it.
20	196	Also, of course, they would generally not be citizens of the city and in the city there would be little opportunity for them to practice their caste crafts.
20	202	Accordingly some cities have been willing to offer inducements to farmers to remain in their vicinity, such as a liberalization of the requirements for citizenship, the performance of rural sacrifices, the holding of games in rural areas, subsidizing the touring of theatrical and musical troupes in ...
20	205	He thinks of his caste as "the ox on which the Home Stone rests".
24	143	He had been a metal worker and I had lied, pretending to be of his own caste.
24	311	"You were surely never of the metal workers!" laughed the fellow who had been of that caste.
24	313	"No woman of my caste could move like that!" he cried.
24	315	I saw sweat upon his forehead, and his fists clench as he perhaps recalled some women he had known, of that caste.
24	316	Surely the women of his caste, too, could be taught to dance, and to lick and kiss, and serve, and even superbly, such that they might drive a man wild with desire.
24	317	Were they not, too, in the final analysis, only females? I had known two slaves who had once been of his caste, Corinne, in the house of my training, and Laura, in Hendow's tavern.
24	319	To be sure, being slaves, they were no longer in his caste.

Book 23. (30 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
24	7	It was yellow and red, in horizontal sections, the colors of the Builders and Warriors, the Builders the caste that had supervised its construction and the Warriors the caste that maintained its facilities.
15	790	"Why are you not in the white and gold," he asked, "on this, of all days?" White and gold, or white and yellow, are the caste colors of the Merchants.
21	353	Surely some women even reserve the caste robes and colors for such things as formal occasions, and some even for ceremonial functions".
24	290	It seemed all the caste colors of Gor might be there.
2	372	Consider the glory of redeeming a woman of high caste!" "The slave," I said, "has no caste, no more than a verr or tarsk".
21	348	The Merchants often maintain that they are a high caste, and should, accordingly, be included in the councils of high caste.
24	574	A great deal, indeed, is expected in low-caste domiciles of slaves who were formerly of high caste.
8	617	And the legendary nature of the centaur, its appetites, its rapacity and power, harken back, too, perhaps, in the canny ways in which half-forgotten historical fact colors the fancies of tamer times, to the first perceptions of the horseman, and his ways, among those afoot.
20	143	"What are their colors?" asked a man.
20	315	From the stem lines of fifteen of the ships, as far as I could tell, for some were out in the harbor, and blocked by others, there flew no colors at all.
20	352	"Surely these ships with you, those surprisingly flying no colors, are not of the Vosk League".
21	7	Similarly, behind the main body of the flotilla, bringing up the rear, back a pasang or so, flying no colors, their markings concealed, were two galleys.
21	1125	Depending on the city, the master's preferences, and such, they may appear in a great variety of colors, materials, textures, and cuts.
1	202	"It is one of the scarlet caste," said a fellow to another.
1	611	Many Goreans, particularly those of low caste, on errands and such, carry a coin or coins in their mouths.
2	76	"You are of the red caste," said the fellow.
2	371	"I am of high caste.
2	452	"Though I am of high caste," she said, "I have permitted you to kiss me, and not merely upon a sleeve or gloved hand, but wholly upon my lips, and not even through a veil, no, upon my exposed and naked lips themselves, unveiled, almost as though I might be a slave! Therefore, in return...
2	454	"I am of high caste!" she said.
2	478	One had even begged explicitly, as I had seen to it she would, she who reputed herself to be of high caste.
2	534	"I am!" wept the second woman, who had reputed herself to be of high caste.
8	196	As I have indicated, the lips and mouth of a female are commonly regarded as extremely sensuous features to a Gorean, hence the concern of many free women, particularly of high caste, in the high cities, to conceal them.
15	217	Lastly it might be noted that many Gorean free women, particularly those of high caste, wear gloves outside the home, this shielding the softness of the palms, and concealing as well the lovely area at the wrist, between the hand and the forearm, where one might conveniently, and snugl...
15	254	"What is your caste?" I asked.
15	256	"That, on the whole, is a quite well-to-do caste," I said.
15	540	"Why, too," I asked, "did you, a wealthy woman, of the Merchants, choose to wear artful rags, as though you might be a simple low-caste maid?" She was silent.
15	788	"What is your caste?" he asked.
20	219	The reform of chronology is proposed by a small party from among the caste of scribes almost every year at the Fair of En'Kara, near the Sardar, but their proposals, sensible as they might seem, are seldom greeted with either interest or enthusiasm, even by the scribes.
21	322	"The charges, if you are a free woman," he said, "are several, such as the intent to deceive with respect to caste, the jeopardizing of fellow citizenesses by discarding traditional concealments and modesties, to your own advantage in the event of the taking of the city, for example, g...
21	344	"Surely many low-caste girls go about with only as much, or even less," she said.

Book 24. (20 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
36	58	"But as a free woman of high caste," she exclaimed, "to be put in the garment of a free woman of low caste is unthinkable!" "I see your point," I said.
3	312	Insignia such as armbands, scarves, ribbons and plumes, of given colors, serve to identify them, making clear their side.
3	313	Needless to say, such casual devices may be swiftly changed, the colors sometimes alternating with the tides of battle.
37	33	Wagons, of course, might be painted different colors.
46	235	The prefects are identified by five slash marks, alternately blue and yellow, the slavers' colors, on their left sleeve, the praetor himself by nine such stripes, and lesser officials by three.
47	35	I ducked under a rope of tiny rep-cloth slave tunics, of various solid colors, and was again outside in the main aisles.
3	346	This tends not to be practical among members of the caste of Players, of course, as their ratings are carefully kept, and are a matter of public record.
19	1245	On Earth, as I recall, and I have no reason to suppose matters have much changed on that far, polluted, mad, hypocritical, unloving, hate-filled orb, though you would be better judges than I of such matters, women, in large numbers, tended to be aloof, inert, and calculating, creatures of judgment a...
24	175	"Many women," I said, "prefer light duties in a rich man's house to heavy labors in a low-caste hovel".
26	215	Besnit, her walls breached, had been forced to surrender her slaves, and a selection of her high-caste daughters, to be made slaves, and trained under the women who had formerly been slaves in their own houses.
26	218	At this point the young high-caste women of Harfax had approached the high council of the city with a bold plan.
26	219	It had been to permit the men of Besnit to make a selection from among them, in the number of a hundred, the same number which had been that of the high-caste daughters earlier taken by the men of Harfax, this hundred then to be impressed into slavery, trained by slaves in the houses o...
26	221	Accordingly, and within a month, the high-caste young women of Harfax were privately stripped and examined by the members of a delegation from Besnit, including physicians and professional slavers.
36	47	"It is a lower-caste garment!" she said.
36	48	"I am of high caste!" Ina was, I had learned, of the Builders, one of the five high castes on Gor, the others being the Initiates, Physicians, Scribes and Warriors.
36	56	Thus might my captor amuse and delight himself, and shame and reveal me, and people might look upon me and say, 'What a beautiful, exposed captive! Perhaps she was of high caste, and now look at her.
37	272	One of the duties of these women, many of high caste, now enslaved, would doubtless be the tending of the soldiers' gardens.
37	273	This thought amused me, high-caste women as garden slaves.
42	113	"Besides how many could recognize the face of a free woman of Ar, one of high caste, one of lofty station, as they are customarily veiled?" "I think you are right," said Marcus.
48	508	I am of the scarlet caste.

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	475	The Gorean female, whether free or slave, whether of low caste or high caste, kneels.
8	506	"Many high-caste youths, on the other hand, work side by side with low-caste fellows, dismantling the wall".
8	675	Sometimes a ubar will even have his preferred slave serve in a low-caste hovel one day a year, under the command, and switch, of a low-caste free woman, performing her labors, and such, that she may be reminded that she is truly, when all is said and done, only a slave, a...
10	364	Although there is some variance from caste to caste, and city to city, it is common for free women to veil themselves in public.
19	899	Whereas members of the caste of slavers are slavers, not all slavers are members of the caste of slavers.
1	152	"Who is that?" I asked a fellow in white and gold, the colors of the merchants, when the handsome fellow had passed.
3	77	The nature of the ostraka, in virtue of such possibilities, was changed periodically, for example, taking different shapes, having different colors, being recoded, and so on.
13	17	Their colors were of both Ar and Cos.
13	19	There were meets, and local championships, with awards, such as fillets of the wool of the bounding hurt, dyed different colors, and for champions, crowns woven of the leaves of the mighty Tur tree.
13	216	"And, too, interestingly," he said, "it seems that some of those lads who were "Cosians" now wander about under quite different colors, now affecting beards and hair styles reminiscent of those once associated with veterans, hirsute and shabby, returned from the delta".
19	906	It does have its own colors, blue and yellow, whereas those of the merchants are yellow and white, or gold and white.
27	74	"Their reality transcends your indoctrinations, presented under the colors of reason, as though reason, itself, had content".
1	87	He, like myself, was of the caste of warriors.
1	108	To be sure, the lower caste black women of Schendi and the interior do such things commonly.
1	186	Free women in most of the high cities on Gor, particularly those of higher caste, go veiled in public.
3	539	Indeed, I suspect the hardy fellows upon occasion rather enjoy owning such elegant women, women who are likely in their loftiness to have hitherto disparaged or despised their caste.
3	599	In two or three days the women returned, mostly now barefoot, and many clad now humbly in low-caste garments.
4	6	"I do not fear to do so, even now," said a brawny fellow of the caste of metal workers.
6	42	Indeed, several fellows I have known, of the scarlet caste, take pains to conceal their literacy, seemingly ashamed of an expertise in such matters, regarding such as befitting scribes rather than warriors.
7	320	His accent was Cosian, of course, but it was a high-caste Cosian accent, intelligible to all.
8	201	The harness makers are members of the caste of leather workers.
8	666	Technically the lowest of free women, of the lowest caste, is immeasurably above even the highest of slaves, even the preferred slave of a ubar.
8	868	Did he think that the color of a fellow's garments was what made him a warrior? Surely he must realize that one not of the warriors might affect the scarlet, and that one who wore the grimed gray of a peasant, one barefoot, and armed only with the great staff, might be of the scarlet caste...
9	337	"Should this woman's caste, and her lofty birth, and that she was the daughter of an administrator, a mere administrator, permit her to shirk her duties to the state?" "No!" cried men.
9	343	"Look, she is silent!" Claudia, of course, was of high caste, and a member of the aristocracy.
10	447	What, if anything, will then, from this basic fiat of their relationship, develop between them? Will she, in and of herself, alone, aside from the trivia of her now-irrelevant history, become his special, unique slave? Will he, on his part, in and of himself, alone, aside from his antecedents, his s...
12	485	"I am of the Scarlet caste".
13	58	"Are you so fond of the unproductive, parasitic caste?" he asked.
13	108	It could be a caste, the state, a leader, many things.
14	365	"But I was of high caste!" said Filomela.

Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	477	Why should she feel herself entitled to raise caste? What was special about her? Why should a Merchant's daughter aspire to a higher caste? With what justification? Why should she be permitted to raise caste? Why should she not look for love in her own
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".
29	195	Needless to say, caste members do not always wear the caste colors.
12	469	"So," said she, "whatever his caste, assuming it was high, of course, it would be practical for us to contemplate a companionship, and if his caste should be thought higher than mine, however mistakenly, I could, in such a relationship, be thought to raise caste...
29	192	Blue and yellow are the colors of the caste, or subcaste, as the case may be, of the Slavers.
29	194	The colors of the merchant caste itself are white and yellow, or white and gold.
11	1613	For example, some rank the Merchants as a high caste, and some do not; and some rank the Slavers with the Merchants, and some see them as a separate caste, and so on.
12	289	So, if that is the case, and the Peasants is indeed the caste upon which the Home Stone rests, then it would seem, at least in my understanding, to be a very important caste.
19	272	Why would the Priest-Kings, I wondered, if they really required intermediaries, and were unable to deal directly with men, and, indeed, if there was any point in them dealing with men at all, have chosen to achieve this end with so eccentric and improbable a caste? Why would they not h...
19	345	But perhaps he would leave the caste before it was too late, if it were not already too late, before, say, he took his final vows, or performed whatever act or acts it might be by means of which his entry into the caste might be effected.
29	147	Was she not, after all, an honored member of our caste? And so we decided to ransom her, if her brothers would not, as an act, if nothing else, of caste solidarity and benevolence.
37	1145	"Accordingly," said the officer of Treve, "the blankets of the captain of those of the black caste and the prisoner might have been switched early the next morning, before those of the black caste arrived at the cell".
9	34	In that instant I saw her body stiffen with rage, and, over the colors of her veils, I saw her eyes were cold, and filled with hatred.
24	721	Depending on the box, it may also contain ink, or powdered ink, to be mixed with water, the vessel included, or flat, disklike cakes of pigment, to be dampened, and used as ink, rather as water colors.
7	78	He might, thusly, be of high caste.
11	1605	In many of the Gorean cities there is a caste structure which is significant not only socially but politically.
11	1606	The leather workers are a "low caste".
11	1612	There are some ambiguities in the caste structure.
11	1614	It is usually a very serious thing to lose caste in this society.
11	1615	To be sure, not everyone has caste.
11	1616	Priest-Kings, for example, whoever they may be, have no caste.
11	1617	They are said to be "above caste".
11	1618	Similarly, outlaws and slaves have no caste.
11	1620	To be sure, I think there are others who also lack caste, really.
11	1621	Some may not have been raised "in caste," some may decline or flee their castes before the initiations, and so on.
11	1622	Similarly, there are entire groups of people, as I understand it, barbarians, savages, and such, whose social arrangements are not based on caste.
12	184	"You must be of low caste!" I was silent.
12	234	"I am of high caste!" she cried.
12	255	"But what could one such as you, of low caste," said the voice, "know of one of my sensitivity and nature? How could one such as you understand the feelings of one such as I?" "Only with great difficulty, if at all, doubtless," said I, perhaps somewhat testily.
12	258	We are, after all, despite the discrepancies in our caste, sisters in sorrow, in misery and grief".

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
25	1003	Although the caste of Mirus might be unclear from the particular nature of his garmenture, Ellen supposed him of the slavers, which would be a subcaste of the Merchants, which caste was doubtless the wealthiest on Gor, and one which was often wont to view it...
24	341	There was a variety of caste colors.
16	869	Most upper-caste women, whereas they might be smug, haughty or cruel, are not vulgar, regarding vulgar language, allusions, gestures, and such as being incompatible with the dignity of their caste.
18	743	Many caste members, as you know, do not concern themselves specifically with caste business.
26	825	The "scarlet caste" was a way of referring to the caste of Warriors, the expression being suggested by the usual color of their tunics.
27	686	"Few would deny that the caste of Initiates are parasites," said Portus Canio, who held no great brief for that caste.
13	42	It was one of the "high cities," a forest of cylinders, a city of towering, spaced cylinders, many of them in bright colors, and, joining these cylinders, at various levels, like light curving, colored, rail-less traceries in the sky, were numerous bridges.
16	80	All this seemed to take place at the same time, and she opened her eyes wildly for an instant but, drawing back from the painful stabbing of sunlight, shut them in pain, but, in that moment, she had glimpsed a world about her, movements, colors, robes, stalls across the way, displayed ...
20	78	These slaves were tunicked much as common slaves, briefly, and in a variety of colors, though, at the left hip, low, near the hem of the tunic, on the side, rather in the back, there was a small, vertical, rectangular, gray patch, which color is often used for the tunics of state slave...
20	89	In a sales coffle two policies tend to predominate: sometimes the most beautiful are saved for the end, which has led to the saying "rich enough to buy from the end of the chain," or, more often, the girls are mixed on the chain with various sales strategies in mind, for example, mixing skin c...
22	182	There were several such circles in the camp, each with its flag on a wand at one edge of the circle, each flag being of a given shape, square, rectangular, forked, triangular, and so on, and color or mixture of colors.
26	1168	How alive the collar makes us! How welcoming and sentient we become in so many ways in this so sentient world! We welcome its myriads of sensations, its aromas, its colors, its sounds, its textures and tastes, the feel of wet sand beneath our bared feet, that of the wind on our bared a...
6	65	They also gave her some understanding of the social arrangements common in what were called the "high cities," in particular, the caste system, and the existence of codes of honor, and such, apparently taken seriously on this world.
12	24	The material was of high quality, and so the woman must be of reasonable station, if not of high caste.
12	28	High-caste women, in general, or those of the Merchants, she supposed, would not do their own laundry either, but they might have a slave, or slaves, in their own domiciles to attend to such work.
12	221	She supposed that women of low caste must do their own laundry.
15	427	They can provide a convenience to buyers and sellers, however, as they will provide a good deal of information, with respect to background, caste, education, languages, training levels, physical descriptions, collar sizes, ankle- and wrist-ring sizes, and such, on the slave in question...
16	801	There seemed more lower-caste women than before.
16	829	Though this was not known to Ellen at the time, the scarlet denoted the caste of Warriors, one of the five high castes of Gor, the others being the Initiates, Physicians, Builders and Scribes.
16	839	The Gorean slave girl, unlike free women, particularly those of lower caste, is not permitted to be vulgar.
16	865	Sometimes when low-caste women are enslaved they must be taught to be more ladylike, as their masters will have that of them.
16	870	This is not to deny that an upper-caste woman, say, recently enslaved, or any slave girl, for that matter, may not be commanded upon occasion to use the most vulgar language conceivable, in referring to herself, or in begging for use, and such.
16	960	As soon as you spot a fellow with a wallet, whether he is misshapen, lame or whatever, of any caste, and smell, who comes within five paces of the shelf, kneel, call out, lift your hands, smile, wriggle, make yourselves as pleasant and congenial as she-urts can.
17	829	Ellen could hear, too, now and then, the clack of high, wooden, platformlike, cloglike footwear, such as is sometimes worn by free women, particularly of high caste, which lift the hems of their gowns a bit from the ground, and serve to protect delicately slippered or sandaled feet fro...
18	352	Did they truly not know her worth, what she deserved? How was it then that she had been purchased by a tarnmaster, a fellow not even of high caste? She wondered what he had paid for her.
18	742	"My master is of the Warriors," she said, "but like many of that caste, he has done various works.
19	704	There was nothing untoward in this, or unique to her condition, which was that of slave, for Gorean women in the high cities, and particularly those of high caste, commonly eat kneeling, or reclining, at low tables, as Gorean men in the high cities, particularly those of the higher ...
20	606	These creatures are utilized in some manner by the caste of physicians, not for indiscriminate bleeding as once on Earth, but for certain allied chemical and decoagulant purposes.
22	205	For example, many Goreans of low caste are illiterate.
22	207	Interestingly, too, many of the warriors, and that is a high caste, pride themselves on an inability to read, seeing that homely, and somewhat magical, skill, as one not for them, if not actually beneath them.

Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	77	With a swirl from the czehar and kalikas, and a pounding of the tabors, the dancers prostrated themselves in the sand, as slaves, and then, as Peisistratus struck his hands sharply together, they leapt up, and fled from the room, exiting through a portal, it curtained with dangling strands of blue a...
1	1043	And one does not doubt but what a member of that other, though rarer, Gorean martial caste, though not held a high caste, the Assassins, might have done so.
79	619	"You are not a man," he said, "nor are you of my caste, the scarlet caste, nor are you Gorean".
51	67	Consider, for example, their sensitivity, their awareness of the subtlest colors, scents, and textures.
75	8	He was no longer in festive regalia, but a simple tunic, mottled with greens and browns, colors such as might be found in certain natural backgrounds, say, that of forest, a traveling cloak, similarly configured, and the bootlike sandals common to soldiers, and travelers.
1	101	This was in conformance, incidentally, with certain recommendations of his caste codes.
1	103	He was, as we learned, of what on Gor amongst humans is referred to as the scarlet caste.
1	104	This is a high caste, doubtless because it is armed.
1	105	Individuals of this caste are of great value to their cities, their employers, their princes, so to speak.
1	315	Some members of the caste of physicians, incidentally, concern themselves with such matters, for example, by implanting fertilized eggs in host mothers.
1	513	To many Gorean males this seemed almost incomprehensible, but, we note, many languages are spoken on Gor, though obviously, because of the standardizations agreed upon by the caste of Scribes, meeting at the great fairs, Gorean is the most common.
1	905	Then, humiliated, lost to honor, broken as a warrior and man, shamed and degraded, mocked, they might do with him as they pleased, perhaps doing away with him in some grisly, amusing fashion on some holiday, or even turning him loose, if they wished, naked in some wilderness, to live as he could wit...
1	947	It is supposedly delicious to capture a woman of the enemy, and enslave her, and publicly display and humiliate her, leashing her and marching her about, and such, this making clear that even the high-caste women of the enemy are worthy of no more than being abject slaves to the victor...
1	1055	If the Priest-Kings thought that his fellows in the caste of Warriors would scorn him for dealing with the goods in the container as one might expect, it seems to me they were incorrect.
1	1058	Whereas it is true that Warriors might scorn a fellow of their caste who had lost his honor, it is not at all clear that they would have regarded the usage of two females, neither of whom had a Home Stone, as it turned out, as in any way involving a loss of honor.
7	4	"How would you know that?" "You carry yourself as one of the scarlet caste," he said.
8	11	"Such a chamber would surely be more ornate, better lit, crowded with servitors and guards, furnished ostentatiously with precious vessels, statuary, display slaves, a sampling of nude chained beauties, preferably of high caste, ideally the daughters of Ubars, taken from conquered citi...
8	41	We are free men, of caste".
11	93	"To you?" "Not to one of my caste, surely," said Peisistratus.
14	31	In the high cities the caste of Physicians has produced a slave wine whose effects are terminated only by a counter substance, called the Releaser.
18	40	Indeed, one of the things most dreaded by a Gorean free woman, particularly of high caste, is that they will be face-stripped and their lips exposed to public view, as though they might be those of a slave.
18	158	He was gratified that they had chosen in this way to show respect for his caste.
26	15	"Those of your caste, as those of the Assassins, are skilled in such things.
27	117	"Goreans, of the caste of physicians," he said, "long regarded ageing not as a fatality to which they must be naively resigned, but merely as another malady to which their craft might be addressed, one to be remedied".
32	82	"Commonly free women, or certainly those of high caste, wear gloves with the Robes of Concealment.
43	484	"It is nothing," said Cabot, a scion of Gor's scarlet caste, the Warriors.
46	137	Cabot may have had in mind the caste of Initiates, on Gor, who claim to speak in the name of the Priest-Kings, to be privileged in such ways, and so on.
56	21	As Cabot and Lord Grendel, and others of their group, had arrived earlier, in the arranged dusk, he had assessed the terrain, rather as might have been expected of one of his caste.
70	1	Flavion It may be recalled, from some time ago, that Cabot, perhaps surprisingly, given that he stood high in the forest camp, and was of the scarlet caste, had tended to the grooming of the scout, Flavion, an office commonly attended to, amongst the lords, by clients and sycophants, ...
70	146	"As I am of the scarlet caste," said Cabot, "I do not care to haggle".

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	190	And, indeed, there are few caste members who are not convinced that their caste, somehow, is especially important, even that it may be, in some way, the most essential or the most estimable of all.
23	207	I recalled that those of the dark caste, the caste of Assassins, were often sober fellows, often denying themselves much of what most prized as giving meaning to life.
27	20	He owed that duty to his daimyo, as I might owe similar duties to captains in whose commands I might serve, or to those codes which did so much to define and clarify my caste, the scarlet caste, that of the warriors.
2	16	He did not have the blue and yellow chevrons which sometimes characterizes the lower-left-hand sleeve of the slavers, different, of course, from their more formal regalia, or robes, commonly blue and yellow, their colors.
2	18	The colors of the Merchants are yellow and white, or gold and white.
2	117	Slaves, too, of course, may be bred for a diversity of colors, peltings, facial features, and such.
7	26	colors in the Gorean high cultures, as in most cultures, have their connotations or symbolisms.
7	27	Too, in the Gorean high culture, certain colors tend to be associated with certain castes, for example green with the Physicians, red, or scarlet, with the Warriors, yellow with the Builders, blue with the Scribes, white with the Initiates, and so on.
10	301	These are the colors of the slavers.
26	57	Our signals, particularly such simple ones, might well be understood by means of espionage, but, on the other hand, the colors were in general accord with the color codes familiar in many cities.
37	16	The robes of concealment in winter are much like those of gentler weathers, save for darker colors, more absorptive of, and retentive of, heat, heavier materials, some additional layering, and such.
1	20	This is not unusual with those of my caste, many of whom, by choice, are contemptuously, pridefully illiterate, holding themselves superior to what they despise as trivial, vulgar learning.
1	21	The business of their caste, then, in their view, is not with the pen but with steel, not with ink, but blood.
1	23	But this is not for them, not for the Scarlet caste.
1	24	But, too, should not each caste concern itself with its own business, the metal worker with metals, the peasant with the soil, the mariner with the sea, and so on? I do not commend this view, but report it.
1	25	Too, in all honesty, it is not that unusual to find refined, literate members of my caste.
1	26	Some members of my caste are educated gentlemen, educated, distinguished, dangerous gentlemen.
2	17	Some view the Slavers as a caste, others as a subcaste of the Merchants.
2	91	One might mention, at this point, a word or two about the stabilization serums, which were developed centuries ago by the green caste, that of the Physicians.
2	93	The caste of Physicians, long ago, construed ageing as a disease, the "drying and withering disease," and not as an inevitability or fatality, and so set to work to effect, so to speak, its cure.
2	166	"How is it that a forester," I said, "claims as his the Home Stone of Port Kar?" "I once lived there," he said, "before I took caste.
2	179	"So you chose caste, that of the foresters, and came here, to serve the Home Stone hundreds of pasangs away?" "The Home Stone of Port Kar may be served here as well as at the gulf, as well as in the shops of the arsenal, as well as on the wharves, as well as on the decks and benches of...
2	182	"Most are born to their caste.
2	185	To be sure, it is not easy to change caste, nor is it frequently done.
2	188	In a sense they belong to their caste.
2	193	On the other hand, where would any of the other castes be, or civilization itself, were it not for my own caste, that of the Warriors? "You are pleased with the forests?" I said.
4	26	Too, their female agents could not be well integrated into Gorean society, with its orderings, its clan and caste arrangements, its rank, distance, and hierarchy.
4	41	There was nothing unusual in this, and the circumspection and alertness involved, the care taken in one's passage, would have been typical of one of my caste, and certainly in negotiating an unfamiliar and perhaps dangerous terrain.
4	83	Too, the caste of Initiates, which claims to mediate between humans and Priest-Kings, with their sacrifices, and such, would obviously prefer for Priest-Kings to remain as invisible and mysterious as possible.
5	51	"You are not even a caste or city champion," he said.

Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
36	178	There were many caste colors in the crowd, but clearly predominating were the yellow and white, or white and gold, familiar to the Merchants.
1	121	When hunting, it is common for members of the black caste, the caste of Assassins, to paint a black dagger on their forehead.
35	114	The Scribes is a high caste and the Merchants is the richest caste.
36	185	Many fellows, of course, do not wear their caste robes about, except when on caste business, and some don them only on formal occasions or holidays.
37	1404	"And," she said, "I think that Master may like me, forgive me, Master, as I could not help overhearing words which gave me such hopes, and surely he knows my antecedents and origins, my affinities, as he will have it, if he is correct, with the caste of Scribes, so lofty a caste<...
1	53	Members of the caste of Players are recognized by their red-and-yellow-checked robes, the worn board slung over their shoulder, the sack of pieces at their waist.
1	111	There are caste codes pertaining to such matters.
1	116	The newcomers cast down the bows and, together, reached within their robes to unsheathe blades, the common gladius, but the cloaks, hitherto so convenient in concealing their caste, their intent, their weapons, cost them an unencumbered draw, and the stranger was at them, table flung a...
1	129	"Who are you," asked a man, "that those of the black caste would come secretly, silently, upon you?" The stranger was silent.
1	280	To be sure, it was a high-caste name, rare amongst the lower castes.
1	281	But even so, it was not unknown in the lower castes, and I have encountered it even amongst the Peasants, the fundamental caste, the "Ox on which the Home Stone rests".
2	199	But such stories must be false, as they were denied by Initiates, the white caste, highest and worthiest of all the castes, as they were intermediaries between Priest-Kings and mortals.
3	164	"I was of high caste, of high family, of position and importance, of influence, wealth, and power, and now," she sobbed, "I have this!" Her eyes filled with tears, and she put the fingers of her right hand to the flat, sturdy, metal band which closely encircled her throat.
3	466	The barefootedness of the slave also tends to draw a further distinction between her and the free woman, for the free woman, even of low caste, almost always has footwear of one sort or another, even if it is only a wrapping of cloth.
3	1090	As I passed through the kitchen, we passed a sturdy, stocky woman in rags, clearly of a low-caste aspect, doubtless the companion of the Metal Worker.
5	69	Who else, when one is in mortal jeopardy, would one prefer to have at one's back? They are of the scarlet caste.
7	130	The free woman has much to bargain with, her wealth, her position, her caste, her possessions, but once enslaved what has she but her beauty, and that does not even belong to her.
8	113	Some of the women, doubtless those once of high caste, and not yet fully aware of their condition, that they were now no more than collared slaves, might, while grateful for their temporary release from the keeping areas and the greater latitudes of movement now permitted them, resent,...
8	375	"Yes," she said, "I am a slave!" Denial of the veil is one of the things, as noted, insisted upon by free women for the slave, this marking another dramatic difference between them, at least between those of high caste and the slave.
8	376	Low-caste women, in their work, not unoften do without veiling.
8	377	Good-looking girls of low-caste sometimes go about unveiled deliberately, hoping that they may catch the eye of a slaver, and perhaps be sold into a high household, or come into the chains of a handsome, well-to-do master.
8	383	But, after a time, even Gorean women, as well as barbarians, in bondage, think little of their lack of veiling, at least when not in the presence of a free woman, particularly of high caste.
9	446	"It is the way of my caste".
9	447	"He is of the scarlet caste," explained Lord Nishida.
12	20	As I suppose I have made clear, I am not by caste of the Mariners.
12	45	She is the love of the caste of Mariners.
17	142	For example, a woman of high-caste origin would be likely to sell for more than a similar girl of a humbler origin.
20	128	"And if," said Alcinoë, "the woman was free, and even of high caste, I would have arranged for her to be in a collar by nightfall, and, chained, hurried from the city, to some mean and distant market, from which, after piercing her ears, she would be sold for a pittance".
21	239	On continental Gor, green is the caste color of the Physicians.
21	699	"We are high slaves!" "Many of us were once of high caste!" said another.

Book 31. (30 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	393	"Goreans do not always wear their caste's colors".
4	435	Of what value, for example, was the Scarlet caste, the caste of Warriors, if not to protect the gold, the wealth, of the Merchants? "None of you," said Mrs.
8	222	Accordingly, each member of each caste is likely to have his caste pride.
8	230	The free woman of a high caste and the free woman of a lower caste commonly have one thing in common which unites them, securely, as free women.
8	1068	Interestingly, to me at least, a slaver who misrepresents merchandise, for example, claiming former high caste for a girl who was actually formerly of low caste, or who tries to pass off a dyed blonde for a natural blonde, may be banished and ruined, his goods confiscated...
10	602	Women of high caste seldom launder, but women of low caste often do.
18	183	I did not know the caste of Astrinax, but it seemed likely, if he had caste, that he was of the minor Merchants.
52	455	Some feared the prerogatives of our caste were being eroded, others that sources of gain were being ignored, or concealed from the caste, others that mysterious doings were afoot which might warrant some investigation.
8	84	At that time, hooded, I did not realize the striking beauty of a Gorean city, how so many of its buildings, the lofty towers and graceful bridges, the spacious porticoes, the splendid colonnades, and such, were bright with color, nor was I aware of the wealth of colors in clothing, bot...
8	85	I did realize, of course, from the house, that slave tunics came in a variety of cuts and colors, in samples of which I had been forced to pose before mirrors, but each was commonly of one color.
8	88	There are fashions in such things, of course, for both the free and the slaves, with respect to colors, textures, materials, cuts, hemlines, and so on.
8	757	Certainly he wore the colors of the Slavers.
13	30	Where might he be? Was he no more? Had he met his end on Clive? Who had been in those bloodied shreds of black and gray, the colors of the Metal Workers? Could it have been he? To be sure, what could he, a stranger, be to me, and what could I, a slave, be to him, a free man? Were we no...
17	3	"Hurry on!" I thought to myself, feverishly, with respect to the blue colors.
17	157	Far below, on the broad, level area, inside the rail, I saw two girls, in tunics of yellow and blue, the Slaver's colors, back-braceleted as other slaves, but also, interestingly, joined together, neck to neck, by a yard of chain.
17	220	As they had been in a blue-and-yellow livery, the colors of the Slavers, I supposed they might have been brought to the races to be offered.
17	538	Then, wisely or not, but unable to help ourselves, we rushed to one another, they in the brief blue-and-yellow tunics, the Slaver's colors, the chain on their neck, joining them, and I.
21	29	The colors depend on the customs of cities, the whims of particular masters, and such.
41	77	"But you can read cards, can you not?" "I can tell the colors," I said, "and recognize the pictures, the Tarn, the Sleen, and such".
3	22	The least of them, the weakest and most defective, armed with engineering, technology, and weaponry, could destroy the finest bands and prides of your Scarlet caste, could reduce the mightiest walls to rubble, burn your ships like kindling, demolish to dust the loftiest of your fortres...
4	355	Rawlinson, "but low-caste women, in public, commonly do so.
4	358	In such circumstances high-caste women commonly dispense with veiling".
4	368	"Would not everyone choose those of high caste, even those of Ubaras?" I asked.
4	391	"Their official caste robes," said Mrs.
4	400	I do not know why they are a high caste".
4	403	They are a high caste".
4	408	"That is in their caste codes," said Mrs.
4	416	"The caste has its traditions, and codes," she said.
4	417	"Such practices, and refrainings," I said, "seem an unlikely route to the prestige of a high caste".
4	433	I had little doubt that the Merchants was the wealthiest caste.

Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	284	If the Merchants are not a high caste, it is clear they are an important caste.
15	163	She had apparently once been of the Merchants, perhaps the high Merchants, and had even held herself to be of high caste, despite the fact that few Goreans accepted the Merchants as a high caste.
15	164	It was regarded as a rich caste, but that is not, in the eyes of many, the same as being a high caste.
25	142	Slave wine has been developed by the green caste, the caste of Physicians, one of the five high castes of Gor, the others being the Initiates, the Builders, the Scribes, and the Warriors.
50	793	"You may or may not have been born to high caste," I said, "but I see little of high caste about you.
37	40	There are some free women of the upper castes, wealthy women, who from childhood have never dressed themselves, who do not even know the intricate clasps and closures of the robes of concealment they wear, let alone their blendings and drapings, the best colors for the ti...
50	195	Consider the colors, the textures, the differences in the substances involved.
52	32	This tendency may be expressed in innumerable ways, from the design of cities to the bright colors of buildings and walls, and porches and pillars, from long garden paths, a pasang in length, characterized by a planned music of scent as well as a scenic melody of blossoms, to the shapi...
4	179	I was in robes suitable for my caste, dark, with the small blue and yellow chevrons low on the left sleeve.
6	210	"Much like the scarlet caste," I said.
6	211	"Or the black caste," he said.
7	137	The free individual has caste, clan, and Home Stone.
7	264	The girl before me had been, I had earlier gathered, of the Merchant caste, even of the high Merchants, whatever that might be.
7	270	"If she has caste," said another, "her thigh will be bare".
7	282	The Merchants regard themselves, with justification I would think, as a high caste, but few Goreans number them amongst the high castes, which, traditionally, are taken to be five in number, the Initiates, Builders, Physicians, Scribes, and Warriors.
7	283	None, I suppose, would dispute with the Warriors that they are a high caste.
7	314	What hormonally normal woman does not wish to kneel before a master? Is this not clear enough from their dreams, and their feelings? Who does not wish to be a man's belonging? Who does not wish to feel his bonds, his lips and hands on one's body, owning it, possessing it, subduing it, treating it as...
7	315	"I had no caste," I said.
7	320	"Barbarians do not have caste," said another.
9	277	"Of high caste?" asked a fellow.
9	278	"Many," said the newcomer, "for what women, if not of high caste, would be in a position to secure coin and power by serving the enemy, to reveal secrets, to supply information, to corner, manage, and horde goods, to wheedle concessions and arrange clandestine sources of supply and pri...
9	279	Women of lower caste could do little more than consort with the enemy.
10	24	How, I wondered, did he understand the Merchants, the Slavers? What was his caste? Was he an Assassin? I was not.
13	126	Such names will mark her as barbarian, and suggest that she is born for the collar, as opposed to a Gorean woman of caste and Home Stone, and may be treated accordingly.
13	132	How is it that there is such a difference between the free woman and the slave, and then, again, that there is no difference? A radical distinction is drawn between the Gorean free woman, with caste and Home Stone, and the slave.
13	152	To be sure, this surmise, or conviction, is seldom expressed openly to Gorean women, particularly to those of station, high caste, and such.
14	122	"My caste has something to do with these matters," I said.
14	131	"One supposes," he said, "one might expect courage from one of such a caste, perhaps a willingness, under certain conditions, to accept risks, perhaps serious risks, if the end in view might justify such an acceptance.
14	132	One supposes one of such a caste must be able to plan, to follow through with plans, or, if it seemed wise, to depart from a plan, even suddenly, to change or alter plans, even to withdraw, and plan anew, that one such must be not only bold, but subtle and shrewd, that one such must un...
14	276	In passing, one might mention that the offerings in the slave house were often flavored with former tree women of Ar, often once of high caste, importance, power, and wealth.

Book 33. (19 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	71	They strive for the perfections, the nuances, of shades, of colors, which only they can see, of notes which only they can hear, seeking the perfect drawing on silk, the tree that is living, the never-to-be forgotten cloud, the cascading tumble of sparkling water descending a hill, the ...
13	309	Surely much could be done with the robes of concealment, with their layerings and drapings, their bright colors, so ingeniously arranged, with veils slack or disarranged, even diaphanous, the street veil brazenly neglected, with loose, casual hoods from which strands of hair might esca...
20	71	"But slaves come in many colors," said Tajima, adding, "as do flowers".
20	380	As the lanterns were of diversely colored paper the room was aglow with a medley of illuminations, and yet the colors did not clash but each seemed to enhance the other.
32	131	He was far from the pleasantries, the colors and perfumes, of his garden.
58	272	The teeth of several had been dyed black, which, in the eyes of some, particularly high ladies, I had learned, is accounted a beautification, a fashionable and aristocratic embellishment, an enhancement of charms, rather, I suppose, like the drug-dilated pupils of Renaissance ladies, or, depending o...
61	1049	Behind him were two Ashigaru, and, between them, in their keeping, was a woman, shamefully unveiled, but otherwise decorously clad in the many folds and colors of the robes of concealment.
1	179	I was of the scarlet caste.
1	199	But I, I knew, though of the scarlet caste, preferred the sky, the terrain below, mountains, the wind, the surging flight of the tarn, the exhilarating rush of air tearing at the jacket, and, of course, the recreation of the tarnsman, the loot one gathers, so pleasant, the collared, ch...
1	470	Some free women, usually of high caste, if found too plain for a slave, might, to their humiliation, be kept for ransom.
16	39	If he were of the black caste, as I suspected, that would almost be taken for granted.
24	124	"On the continent," I said, "there is the caste of Assassins".
24	127	"But perhaps they conceal their caste," said the shogun.
24	129	I could think of at least one individual I was sure was a member of that caste.
25	335	I feared he would be an unlikely match for the dangerously skilled Tyrtaios, who, I was confident, was of the black caste, trained in tenacity and guile.
27	28	In this sense, in their way, they resemble the caste of peasants, masters of the great bow.
29	56	In many cities the caste is outlawed, but there are those, in such cities or elsewhere, who will pay for its services.
37	5	"On continental Gor," I said, "the Peasants is a proud caste.
44	171	"It was the word of one who is of the scarlet caste, the word of a warrior".

Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	127	In those days I could not even read the caste colors of Gor, not that all members of a caste could be depended on to appear only in caste robes, which, in many cases, were most likely to appear on caste holidays and city holidays.
9	131	For example, the colors of the Slavers were blue and yellow, but these colors were often displayed, when the slaver was not hunting, merely on the left sleeve, rather than in a full regalia.
33	460	In nature there are many colors, and from many colors one can paint many pictures, some of which are beautiful".
26	4	The caste is sometimes spoken of, when men dare to speak of it, as the black caste, or the sable caste.
60	15	On his right was Drusus Andronicus, long-armed, handsome, and stalwart, in suitable scarlet, betokening his caste, who stood high in the house, and, on his left, clad openly, brazenly, unapologetically, in the hues of the night, was Tyrtaios, of the caste whose members ac...
9	132	The colors of the Merchants, which merchants frequently claim to be a high caste, were white and yellow, or white and gold.
62	37	Slavers are often not forward in displaying their caste colors.
9	134	The caste structure apparently lends a great deal of stability to Gorean society, as most Goreans respect their caste and recognize the nature of, and the value of, its role in society.
10	172	"May I inquire your caste?" "The blue-and-yellow caste," he said.
16	142	Had he not been an unquestioned, accepted, and welcomed guest at the supper I had helped serve in the house of Lysander, Administrator of Market of Semris? Not all members of a caste, of course, are active in the crafts or professions associated with the caste.
25	78	"This is a chapter house," he said, "of the black caste, the caste of Assassins".
26	46	As I suppose is clear, the caste of Assassins is not a typical caste.
29	67	He is of the black caste!" "I thought," said he, "the black caste might be involved.
29	92	Do not loiter here! Run! He is of the dark caste! You are hunted! Neither dismiss nor ignore this threat! You are not dealing with an ordinary man! He is of the dark caste! He is one who has ascended the nine steps of blood".
31	158	Indeed, it is one of the occasional pleasures of a lower-caste male to obtain a slave who was once of a high caste, usually one who has been captured from another city, a prize in one of the many skirmishes, wars, and raids that characterize the municipalities of Gor.
49	76	Accordingly, many amongst the Merchants regard their caste as a high caste, and, it seems, with good reason.
49	79	For example, some regard the caste of Slavers as a subcaste of the Merchants, and others regard it as an independent caste.
7	123	One may mix hair and eye colors, heights, complexions, figures, slender, fuller, and so on.
9	129	The colors of the five high castes were white, yellow, blue, green, and red, for the Initiates, Builders, Scribes, Physicians, and Warriors, respectively.
20	24	The leather of harnessing comes in various degrees of quality, and is often available, like slave cords, in different colors.
25	13	It was muchly different from the bold and striking colors that, in bold display, characterize so many Gorean rooms, halls, and domiciles.
41	90	Her raiment was unusual for this district, for it was of shimmering white and yellow, colors of the Merchants.
48	184	Certainly I had gathered the intelligence I had been dispatched to obtain; the messenger of Decius Albus was not alone; two others were about, who might be watched for in the future, a free woman, in Merchant colors, who stood high in the house of Decius Albus, in charge of whom was th...
49	13	Most were in the colors of the Merchants as might be expected.
49	20	Whereas most of those present were clad in variations of the Merchant colors, the next group most prominent, or abundant, was the Scribes.
49	175	"True colors," said Kurik, "are those that clothe the heart".
51	135	The walls were painted with rich colors, which was often the case in a Gorean dwelling.
53	30	These towers, which are almost always brightly colored, as Goreans are fond of bright colors, inside and outside, in both private and public buildings, in fountains and walls, and so on, are often joined, as well, at different levels, by narrow, graceful, colorful, arching, railless br...
56	12	The Lady Bina, well robed, but unveiled, for she did not much care for veils, apparently suspecting they obscured her beauty, although, of course, some veils, in their way, suggest, and even enhance, beauty, knelt modestly near Lord Grendel, her knees closely together, as those of a free woman, and ...
60	2	To our left, as we emerged from the chute, and into the light, we saw a small set of tiers, on these tiers, bright with festive regalia, mostly in the colors of the upper castes, but subdued, and restless, were perhaps two hundred men, doubtless mostly those who had been ...

Book 35. (30 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
33	506	I had heard of the sable caste, of the black caste, but, until this night, I had never knowingly met a representative of the caste.
37	123	This exchange will be better understood if it is understood that many Goreans cannot read, particularly in the lower castes, and, interestingly, in the scarlet caste, the caste of Warriors, as well, a high caste.
10	234	Many Goreans, now and then, in one milieu or another, omitted caste colors, or insignia.
10	235	Indeed, some Goreans wore their caste colors primarily on holidays.
12	63	The caste colors of the Slavers are blue and yellow.
10	231	They might have belonged to any caste, or no caste.
10	233	Did they wish not to be identified by, or remembered by, caste? Did they seek, without apparent caste, to achieve a certain invisibility or anonymity? Then I castigated myself for my foolishness.
33	499	I am Pa-Kur, of the Black caste, the caste of Assassins, Master of a hundred Black Courts.
8	639	"A corsair," he said, "flying the colors of Cos".
10	22	On the other hand, this architectural feature, accompanied by darkness, shadows, warm colors, and dim lighting, also tends to produce a sense of comfort, intimacy, and security.
12	59	Generally it is taken that there are five high castes, the Initiates, Scribes, Physicians, Builders, and Warriors, whose colors, respectively, are white, blue, green, yellow, and red.
12	61	The colors of the Merchants are white and yellow, or white and gold.
15	148	"You can tell the colors of ribbons," he said.
30	124	The colors of the Gambles of Blades are red and yellow, red for blood, yellow for gold.
1	113	If not, one of the caste of metal workers can easily supply this lovely, light, identificatory device, nicely measured to your throat.
3	234	The values of Gorean currency, particularly to the annoyance of the caste of merchants, varies considerably from city to city, with respect to weight, to purity of metal, and even denomination.
4	57	"I was of high caste, noble, important!" she said.
4	58	"I had no caste," I said.
4	119	"I told you," she snapped, "that I was of high caste, that I was noble, and important!" "Yes," I said.
4	229	She, no more than a slave, puts on airs, carries herself as though she were free, and of high caste, too, and will hardly speak with us".
7	126	"I want his name, his caste, his city!" "The House of Anesidemus does not keep such records," said the man.
7	259	She was, I gather, if she was not lying, of high caste, and of some prominence.
8	332	"Even of low caste?" she inquired, archly.
8	334	"I am of high caste," she said, "as you can see through the hood".
8	341	"I am hooded!" It was my understanding that the Merchants was not considered, at least generally, as a high caste on Gor.
8	773	Have we not secret forces aboard, representatives of the scarlet caste itself, warriors in fee?" "No," I said.
8	787	"See how easy it is to recruit defenders, and of the scarlet caste itself".
8	808	No one, at this distance, will mistake slaves bedecked in scarlet, clutching staves, for those of the scarlet caste.
10	230	From their nondescript garb I was not clear as to their caste.
11	31	Port Kar, I have been told, is the only Gorean city in which there is an officially recognized caste of Thieves.

Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	131	Whereas the main colors about were the peasant browns, in their variations, brightened with pins, ribbons and sashes, the colors of several other castes were visible, as well.
20	1	The Meeting in the Long Tent "Dear friends," said Aktis, "caste brothers, members of the first and greatest of castes, members of the mightiest of castes, members of the caste upon which the Home Stone rests, be welcome".
59	22	"You are of the white and yellow caste, the gold caste," he said.
9	63	Similarly, on the voyage from Nicosia to Sybaris, after painting the Tesephone white and yellow, colors of the Merchants, so that it would stand out, and not be difficult to detect amongst the billows of Thassa, we had again failed to encounter the small, dark island.
13	128	"Bright colors," he said, "wide markings, plain, simple, broad designs".
27	213	"Had I played differently, more carefully, more astutely, had I chosen different colors and numbers, I would have won".
63	179	"What need is there of a trial?" "Perhaps," I said, "that vengeance be decked in the colors of law".
1	6	"How do I know you are of that caste?" he asked.
1	38	"You are of the scarlet caste," he said.
2	20	"He is too small to be of the great caste," said Thurnock.
4	80	They are stranded, lost at sea, helpless, only women, three women, free women, perhaps even of high caste.
4	139	"We are not slaves, we are free women, noble free women, of good caste, of Naxos.
6	192	"Perhaps Master is then of high caste?" she said.
8	14	"I have this from a caste brother," said Clitus.
8	78	The caste of Peasants, usually ensconced in remote, isolated settlements, tends to be wary and suspicious of other castes, commonly suspecting them of an impressive variety of ill doings, ranging from subtle deceit to outright chicanery, particularly in the spheres of fra...
11	69	"One who is of the Merchants, who deals in gold, or one who is of the Metal Workers, who crafts ornaments of gold, or some of those who are of the yellow caste, the Builders, could make the determination," I said.
19	45	"If the slave could read," said Clitus, "she was probably once of high caste".
19	49	"Even if she was once of high caste," sniffed Lais, "she is now no more than me, only another slave".
19	89	"Possibly of high caste," said Clitus.
20	35	"Deliver him to the law!" "Hear me, oh my caste brothers!" called Aktis.
20	65	That you will be defenseless and at her mercy! Every tyranny wishes to deprive the tyrannized of the means to resist! What tyranny would not seek to do so, what tyranny would not struggle to bring about a situation so much to its advantage? And meanwhile, the docile verr, so proud and jealous of the...
20	93	"Dear caste brothers," said Aktis, "it is late.
20	122	Few of the brown caste can read.
21	153	Blame it on the thrift of my caste, the desire to save a tarsk-bit wherever possible.
32	7	This suggested that there were few, if any, of the scarlet caste amongst the corsairs.
35	42	"Dozens of my caste brothers, from as many villages, recalling the fair at Mytilene, have come to Nicosia, for instruction in the making of bows.
39	78	Those of my caste look not benignly on crowds of dangerous, hungry refugees".
41	45	"It is the plainer cloth of a different caste," I said.
41	121	One sought to flee, thus reducing defenders and imperiling his fellows the more, a Peasant, one of my own caste, Aktis of Nicosia".
41	133	"He has betrayed our caste".