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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	14	The Home Stones of the Twelve Tributary cities were returned, and those men who had served Pa-Kur from those cities were allowed to return to their cities rejoicing.
1	139	I think I will carry its simple, abrupt message burned into the cells of my brain until, as it is elsewhere said, I have returned to the cities of dust.
5	45	The Home Stone of Ar, like most Home Stones in the cylinder cities, was kept free on the tallest tower, as if in open defiance of the tarnsmen of rival cities.
8	152	"Ko-ro-ba is one of the few cities my father feared," said Talena, "because he realized it might someday be effective in organizing other cities against him.
16	84	"Why should not the free cities of Gor unite to defeat Pa-Kur?" "The cities never unite," responded Kazrak.
17	33	Needless to say, his claim was not acknowledged by the Chief Initiates of Gor's free cities, who regarded themselves as sovereign in their own cities.
20	27	The free cities of Gor appointed Kazrak, my sword brother, to be temporary administrator of Ar, for it was he who, with the help of my father and Sana of Thentis, had rallied the cities to raise the siege.
3	7	"Have I nothing better to do? Have I not a thousand scrolls gathering dust on my shelves, unread, unstudied?" "I don't know," I said.
3	240	Some dust blew against my face.
7	225	She paid her rescuers no more attention, treating them as if they were no more worthy of her gratitude than the dust beneath her feet.
16	38	One of Pa-Kur's towers was undermined, and it tilted crazily and they crashed into the dust, amidst the screaming of its doomed occupants.
19	55	The approaching swarm of Pa-Kur's horde was visible, and the dust rose a thousand feet into the air.
19	113	Not even a scream came from that fierce blue combustive mass that had been a human being, and in a minute the flame had departed, almost as quickly as it had come, and a dust of ashes scattered from the top of the cylinder in the wind.
2	121	"Later," said my father, "Home Stones were used for villages, and later still for cities.
2	128	Some of the largest cities have small, rather insignificant Home Stones, but of incredible antiquity, dating back to the time when the city was a village or only a mounted pride of warriors with no settled abode".
2	185	If they have found their immortality, none have confirmed it, for none have returned to the Tower cities".
3	75	"The city-state," said my father, speaking to me late one afternoon, "is the basic political division on Gor—hostile cities controlling what territory they can in their environs, surrounded by a no-man's land of open ground on every side".
3	76	"How is leadership determined in these cities?" I asked.
5	20	Indeed, it seemed their confidence had been well placed, for now Ar, instead of being a single beleaguered city like so many others on Gor, was a central city in which were kept the Home Stones of a dozen hitherto free cities.
5	23	My father, in his office as Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, had attempted to develop an alliance against Ar, but the free cities of Gor had, in their pride and suspicion, their almost fanatical commitment to protecting their own independent destinies, refused the alliance.
5	25	But, as my father knew, strife among the free cities would be the very madness which Marlenus of Ar would welcome most; better even that Ko-ro-ba should suffer the indignity of being thought a city of cowards.
5	50	This is a complex feast, celebrated by most Gorean cities, and the observances are numerous and intricate.
6	29	One of them must be the Home Stone of Ar, but which? How could I tell it from the others, the Home Stones of those cities which had fallen to Ar? Yes! It would be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na, that would be sprinkled with the seeds of grain! I felt the stones in frenzy, but ...
9	13	And, I supposed, a similar fate would await us in most Gorean cities.
9	15	Moreover, owing to the almost universal hatred borne to the city of Ar by most Gorean cities, it would be imperative in any case to keep the identity of my fair companion a secret.
9	114	"Now, while the men of Ar fight among themselves for the cylinders, an army is gathering from fifty cities, massing on the banks of the Vosk to invade Ar.
9	131	"The Home Stone is rumored to be in a hundred cities," he said.
10	6	It is a matter of caste, an expression of respect for those who share their station and profession, having nothing to do with cities or Home Stones.
11	4	The flags of a hundred cities flew above the tents, and, against the steady roar of the river, the sound of the great tarn drums reached us, those huge drums whose signals control the complex war formations of Gor's flying cavalries.
11	12	If I could have, I would in that moment have rewritten the past, would have selfishly abandoned the quest for the Home Stone—yes, willingly would have left the scattered hostile cities of Gor to face, one by one, the imperialistic depredations of Ar, if it were not for one thing...

Book 2. (30 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	73	"Returned from the cities of dust," gasped the warrior.
7	75	"Better you had gone to the cities of dust," said Thorn.
7	97	"Better to have gone to the cities of dust than to be Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," he said.
14	11	Among warriors, the bite of an ost is thought to be one of the most cruel of all gates to the cities of dust; far preferable to them are the rending beak, the terrible talons of a tarn.
22	26	Put the cities of dust from your mind".
2	46	Of course, as every Gorean knows, cities too are mortal, for cities can be destroyed as well as men.
6	5	Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, had been to such fairs to trade scrolls with scholars from other cities, men he would never have seen were it not for the fairs, men of hostile cities who yet loved ideas more than they hated their enemies, men like Torm who so lov...
8	57	This was perhaps because the cylinders were, on the whole, less lofty than those of other cities, and much broader, giving an impression of a set of squat, accumulated disks, so different from the lofty forests of sky-challenging towers and battlements distinguishing most Gorean ...
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 longer esteemed mercenaries ...
18	55	Then I began to encourage them to speak to one another, and to call one another by their names, and their cities, and though there were men of different cities there, they shared the same chain and trough, and they accepted one another.
3	7	What he builds he expects men to use until the storms of time have worn it to dust.
20	30	Some wisps of dust swirled past like animals sniffing about the feet of the bodies.
26	109	Who am I to challenge their power? I am nothing; not even a bit of dust, raised by the wind in a tiny fist of defiance; not even a blade of grass that cuts at the ankles of trampling gods.
2	47	And this perhaps makes them love their cities the more, for they know that their city, like themselves, is subject to mortal termination.
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.
5	6	An ancient poet, who incredibly enough to the Gorean mind had sung the glories of many of the cities of Gor, had spoken of Ko-ro-ba as the Towers of the Morning, and it is sometimes spoken of by that name.
6	4	Four times a year, correlated with the solstices and equinoxes, there are fairs held in the plains below the mountains, presided over by committees of Initiates, fairs in which men of many cities mingle without bloodshed, times of truce, times of contests and games, of bargaining and m...
6	7	The fairs do much to unite intellectually the otherwise so isolated cities of Gor.
6	25	As was wise, I avoided cities in my long journey, though I passed several, for to enter a city without permission or without satisfactory reason is tantamount to a capital crime, and the punishment is usually a swift and brutal impalement.
6	26	Pikes on the walls of Gorean cities are often surmounted with the remains of unwelcome guests.
6	33	To be sure, in certain cities, as had been the case in Ko-ro-ba, women were permitted status within the caste system and had a relatively unrestricted existence.
6	36	In the cities of Gor that I knew, with the possible exception of Tharna, women had been most free in Ko-ro-ba, but now Ko-ro-ba was no more.
6	44	I was startled to see her alone in this wild, deserted place, far from roads and cities.
6	55	Perhaps this institution, which on the surface seems so deplorable, is profitable from the standpoint of the race, preventing the gradual inbreeding of otherwise largely isolated, self-sufficient cities.
6	198	I admired the simple maneuver, executed without command, almost a matter of reflex, and sensed why Tharna, in spite of being ruled by a woman, had survived among the hostile cities of Gor.
8	12	I missed in the crowd the presence of slave girls, common in other cities, usually lovely girls clad only in the brief, diagonally striped slave livery of Gor, a sleeveless, briefly skirted garment terminating some inches above the knee, a garment that contrasts violently with the heav...
8	56	Tharna, though a city of cylinders, did not seem to my eye as beautiful as many other cities I had seen.
8	58	Moreover, in contrast to most cities, the cylinders of Tharna seemed excessively solemn, as if overcome by their own weight.
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.
9	33	Inns, as such, are not plentiful on Gor, the hostility of cities being what it is, but usually some can be found in each city.

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	100	He had won his freedom though it had, as the Goreans say, led him to the cities of dust, where, I think, not even Priest-Kings care to follow.
9	156	"Then," she gloated, "she is in the cities of dust".
1	35	I wished that I had had longer to visit the fair, for on another occasion at another time I should have sought eagerly to examine its wares, drink at its taverns, talk with its merchants and attend its contests, for these fairs are free ground for the many competitive, hostile Gorean cities
1	83	The fact that warriors of one city sometimes wear the insignia of cities hostile to their own when they make these attacks further compounds the suspicions and internecine strife which afflicts the Gorean cities.
33	112	Perhaps, if they were silent, they might return to the surface, but even then, probably not to their own cities, for the Initiates of their cities would undoubtedly recall that they had left for, and perhaps entered, the Sardar.
35	34	The ships that had sped from the Sardar had now returned, for, as I had feared, they were not made welcome by the cities of Gor, nor by the Initiates, and those who had ridden the ships had not been accepted by their cities.
35	36	In the end, those humans who wished to remain on the surface had landed elsewhere, far from their native cities, and scattered themselves as vagabonds about the roads and alien cities of the planet.
14	181	"I dug this chamber myself," he said, "and day by day over the lifetimes of many Muls I took a bit of rock dust away and scattered it here and there unobserved in the tunnels".
29	10	I could see no beam extend from these projections but where they pointed I saw material objects seem to shake and shudder and then vanish in a fog of dust.
29	108	I flashed my ship to the ground only an instant before the entire ship above me seemed to explode silently in a storm of metallic dust glinting in the light of the energy bulbs above.
30	17	I recalled the man from Ar, met on the lonely road to Ko-ro-ba long ago, who like a robot had been forced to obey the signals of Priest-Kings until at last he had tried to throw over the net, and its overload had burned away the insides of his skull, giving him at last the freedom of his own mortal ...
31	156	A drift of dust from the rubble obscured Sarm's figure for a moment.
31	215	More rock dust drifted between me and the pair locked in the embrace of death.
32	4	I looked to the body of Sarm, golden and broken, lying among the rubble on the floor, half covered in the powdery dust that hung like fog in the room.
32	91	Drifting dust obscured the complex and I drew the folds of Vika's robes more about her face that she might be better protected.
32	92	Misk's body was coated with dust and I felt it in my hair and eyes and throat.
32	95	I supposed the dust that clung to his thorax and abdomen, that adhered to the sensory hairs on his appendages might be distressing to him, more so perhaps than the fear that he might be totally crushed by one of the great blocks of stone that occasionally fell clattering near us.
32	153	At that moment, through the drifting rock dust, I saw the heavy, domed body of one of the Golden Beetles, perhaps fifty yards away.
32	159	Suddenly, through the rock dust, I could scent that strange narcotic odor.
32	177	He stood shuddering in the drifting rock dust, amid the crashings of distant rocks.
32	199	I wondered how long it would take before it broke apart and scattered in a belt of dust across the solar system, only to bend inward at last and spiral like a falling bird into the gases of the burning sun.
32	216	Vika still lay unconscious in my arms and I had folded her robes about her in order to protect her face and eyes and throat from the rock dust below.
1	36	It is little wonder then that the cities of Gor support and welcome the fairs.
1	37	Sometimes they provide a common ground on which territorial and commercial disputes may be amicably resolved without loss of honor, plenipotentiaries of warring cities having apparently met by accident among the silken pavilions.
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	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	56	Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant Law when pertinent, even against their own citizens.
1	61	Contests of arms, fought to the death, whereas they may not take place at the fairs, are not unknown on Gor, and are popular in some cities.
1	62	Contests of this sort, most often involving criminals and impoverished soldiers of fortune, offer prizes of amnesty or gold and are customarily sponsored by rich men to win the approval of the populace of their cities.
1	69	Other contests of interest pit choruses and poets and players of various cities against one another in the several theaters of the fair.

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	126	She was gasping and stumbling; her body glistened with perspiration; her legs were black with wet dust; her hair was tangled and thick with dust; her feet and ankles were bleeding; her calves were scratched and speckled with the red bites of rennels.
21	259	The narrow column, and probably the Tuchuk spacing, a Hundred and then the space for a Hundred, open, and then another Hundred, and so on, tends to narrow the front of dust, and the spaces between Hundreds give time for some of the dust to dissipate and also, incidentally...
2	90	It would not, of course, be to the benefit of Turia, or the farther cities, or, indeed, any of the free cities of even northern Gor, if the isolated fierce peoples of the south were to join behind a single standard and turn their herds northward—away from their dry...
1	46	Too in the distance I saw dust, rising like a black, raging dawn, raised by the hoofs of innumerable animals, not those that fled, but undoubtedly by the bosk herds of the Wagon Peoples.
1	60	Now there seemed to be fewer men and animals rushing past, scattered over the prairie; only the wind remained; and the fires in the distance, and the swelling, nearing roll of dust that drifted into the stained sky.
1	67	I began to walk toward the dust in the distance, across the trembling ground.
2	24	The dust rolled nearer, the ground seemed more to move than ever.
2	54	I was surprised at the distance I had been from the herds, for though I had seen the rolling dust clearly, and had felt and did feel the shaking of the earth, betraying the passage of those monstrous herds, I had not yet come to them.
2	56	The dust was now heavy like nightfall in the air.
2	59	Then for the first time, against the horizon, a jagged line, humped and rolling like thundering waters, seemed to rise alive from the prairie, vast, extensive, a huge arc, churning and pounding from one corner of the sky to the other, the herds of the Wagon Peoples, encircling, raising dust
2	65	I also noted, about his throat, now lowered, there was a soft leather wind scarf which might, when the helmet veil was lifted, be drawn over the mouth and nose, against the wind and dust of his ride.
2	107	The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded, probably an adaptation to the environment which occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaptation, actually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it...
3	101	I fished the necklace from the dust with the point of my spear and regarded it in the sun.
3	119	I could now see the herds quite clearly, making out individual animals, the shaggy humps moving through the dust, see the sun of the late afternoon glinting off thousands of horns.
3	121	The sun reflected from the horns in the veil of dust that hung over the herds was quite beautiful.
5	68	The interiors of the wagons, lashed shut, protected from the dust of the march, are often rich, marvelously carpeted and hung, filled with chests and silks, and booty from looted caravans, lit by hanging tharlarion-oil lamps, the golden light of which falls on the silken cushions, the ...
6	22	Her clothing was stained with dust and her hair hung loose and tangled.
6	163	Dazed, exhausted, covered with sweat, dust on her face and legs, wine on her body, Elizabeth Cardwell, her wrists thonged behind her and her throat bound to a lance, stood captive before Kamchak of the Tuchuks.
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...
10	83	When I had lifted her to her feet I noted, in the distance, a bit of dust moving from one of the gates of the city towards us, probably two or three warriors mounted on high tharlarion.
10	94	The dust was now nearing.
10	202	From the back of the kaiila I could now see dust from Turia.
21	20	Far beyond the wagons I could see the herds of bosk, and the dust from their hoofs stained the horizon.
21	65	It took him only a few moments to discover the value of the stones and, when he did, with a cry of disgust, he hurled them away from the gate into the dust, and the two warriors, while I pretended fright and pain, belabored me with the hilts of their weapons.
21	67	I hobbled after the stones, and fell to my knees in the dust, scrabbling after them, moaning and crying aloud.
21	74	I lunged forward seizing him by the legs and upended him in the dust and then leaped to my feet and ran, the hood flying off behind me.
21	77	The bolt of a crossbow splattered into a brick wall on my right, gouging a cupful of masonry loose in chips and dust.
21	224	Then I noted, across the prairie, hardly remarking it, a streak of dust in the sky.
21	231	The streak of dust was now more evident.
21	244	She, too, saw the dust.

Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	15	In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually...
17	137	Many cities celebrate it on the last day of the Twelfth Passage Hand, the day before the beginning of the Waiting Hand; in Ar, however, and certain other cities, it is celebrated on the last day of the fifth month, which is the day preceding the Love Feast.
19	68	The men of Ar, like those of most other Gorean cities, regard themselves as being the best and finest on Gor, and the women of other cities as being worthy of being only the slave girls of such men.
19	69	I would suppose that the Slavers, many of them sophisticated, rather cosmopolitan men, who come to Ar from many distant cities, must find such mosaics delightful; I am sure they have seen similar representations in their own cities, only there it is perhaps a wench of Ar ...
20	366	My champion was Hup, a Fool, that of Cernus was the brilliant, fiery, competitive Scormus of Ar, the young, phenomenal Scormus, who played first board of the city of Ar and held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game, the master not only of the Players of Ar but doubtless of Gor ...
2	24	He spit some seeds to the dust of the street within the gate.
3	203	"Aii!" I cried, though the outburst was scarcely in keeping with the somber black I wore, and an instant later the Tarn Keeper and the Saddle Maker cried out, and began to stamp their feet in the dust, and pound their fists against their left shoulders.
16	255	The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon.
17	79	My eye strayed to a room off the storeroom, in which I could see some boxes, much dust.
2	5	Pa-Kur, who had been Master of the Assassins, had led a league of tributary cities to attack Imperial Ar in the time when its Home Stone had been stolen and its Ubar forced to flee.
2	7	Pa-Kur's horde had been defeated by an alliance of free cities, led by Ko-ro-ba and Thentis, under the command of Matthew Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, the father of Tarl of Bristol, and Kazrak of Port Kar, sword brother of the same Warrior.
2	21	Her hair was dark, and fell to the small of her back; her eyes were dark; she wore the briefly skirted, sleeveless slave livery common in the northern cities of Gor; the livery was yellow and split to the cord that served her as belt; about her throat she wore a matching collar, yellow...
2	189	Moreover, Kazrak had been one of the leaders of the forces that had preserved Ar in the time of its troubles with Pa-Kur, master of the Assassins; as the tale was now told in the streets, the men of Ar themselves, alone, had overthrown the invader; Kazrak seemed a living reminder that Glorious Ar ha...
2	296	A caravan of common slave wagons would take a year to go beyond the cities and return".
2	298	"True," said Portus, "but commonly such raids take place on cylinders in given cities—the distances beyond the cities are great, and the prices paid for mere barbarian girls are less".
3	61	The Player was a rather old man, extremely unusual on Gor, where the stabilization serums were developed centuries ago by the Caste of Physicians in Ko-ro-ba and Ar, and transmitted to the Physicians of other cities at several of the Sardar Fairs.
3	68	At any rate, disease is now almost unknown among the Gorean cities, with the exception of the dreaded Dar-Kosis disease, or the Holy Disease, research on which is generally frowned upon by the Caste of Initiates, who insist the disease is a visitation of the displeasure of Priest-Kings...
4	5	Cernus of Ar wore a coarse black robe, woven probably from the wool of the bounding, two-legged Hurt, a domesticated marsupial raised in large numbers in the environs of several of Gor's northern cities.
4	183	It bespeaks the barbarian, the promise of pleasures so wild and fierce a man of the cities could scarcely conceive of them".
5	26	Some locks, on the compartments of rich persons, or on the storehouses of merchants, the treasuries of cities, and so on, are knife locks or poison locks; the knife lock, when tampered with, releases a blade, or several of them, with great force, sometimes from behind the individual at...
5	398	"It is apparently their intention," said he, "to acquire influence in cities, to win humans to their side, to equip and lead them in war on Priest-Kings".
5	415	"Have you discovered the contact points," I asked, "from which they hope to extend their influence in the cities?" "Only one seems clear," said Misk.
5	610	There are twelve twenty-five day Gorean months, incidentally, in most of the calendars of the various cities.
5	611	Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by...
5	612	Month names differ, unfortunately, from city to city, but, among the civilized cities, there are four months, associated with the equinoxes and solstices, and the great fairs at the Sardar, which do have common names, the months of En'Kara, or En'Kara-Lar-Torvis; En'Var, or En'var-Lar-...
5	742	The slave goad, unknown in most Gorean cities, is almost never used except by professional slavers, probably because of the great expense involved; the tarn goad, by contrast, is a simple instrument.
8	118	It is drunk in Thentis, but I had never heard of it being much drunk in any of the other cities.
9	22	Many of these, of course, are simply put in pens and retained there until removed for sale; some lots are wholesaled to minor slavers, usually coming in from distant cities to pick up merchandise, which tends in Ar to be abundant and, on the whole, reasonably priced.
12	75	Marlenus, who had been Ubar of Ar many years ago, had founded the Empire of Ar, and had extended the hegemony of luxurious Ar over several of the cities of the north.
12	375	He claimed over six thousand wins and was, in Ar and certain of the northern cities generally, a quite popular hero; he was said in private life to be cruel and dissolute, venal and petty, but when he climbed to the saddle of a racing tarn there were few who did not thrill to the sight...

Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	520	"I," said Thurnock, in a booming voice, "would follow you even to the cities of dust".
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 little more than ...
10	26	The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
1	13	In the calendar of Ko-ro-ba, which, like most Gorean cities, marks years by its Administrator Lists, it would be the eleventh year of the administration of my father, Matthew Cabot.
1	32	Peasants, incidentally, are seldom, except in emergencies, utilized in the armed forces of a city; this is a further reason why their weapon, the long bow, is less known in the cities, and among warriors, than it deserves to be.
1	39	In some cities, Port Kar, for example, the long bow is almost unknown.
1	42	cities vary.
1	65	I was in the delta of the Vosk, and making my way to the city of Port Kar, which alone of Gorean cities commonly welcomes strangers, though few but exiles, murderers, outlaws, thieves and cutthroats would care to find their way to her canaled darknesses.
1	86	A milled linen paper is much used, large quantities of which are produced in Ar, and vellum and grosser parchment, prepared in many cities, are also popular.
2	19	Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but particularly below Ar and above the equator; the cheap rep-cloth is woven in mills, commonly, in various cities; it takes dyes well and, being cheap and stro...
3	106	The women of rence growers, when in their own marshes, do not veil themselves, as is common among Gorean women, particularly of the cities.
4	42	"In the cities," she asked, "they have slave collars, do they not?" "Yes," I said.
7	160	It was a name not unknown in certain cities of Gor.
9	16	They are sought eagerly in the many cities of the planet.
9	64	There is more honesty in Port Kar, I thought, than in all the cities of Gor.
9	66	Here, in this city, alone of all the cities of Gor, men did not stoop to cant and prattle.
9	96	In Port Kar, incidentally, there are none of the towers often encountered in the northern cities of Gor.
9	107	One might think that Port Kar, divided as she is, a city in which are raised the thrones of anarchy, would fall easy prey to either the imperialisms or the calculated retaliations of other cities, but it is not true.
9	192	It is mine as much as yours!" It would be hard, certainly, for her to leave this world, beautiful, bright and green, but perilous, for the cities of Earth, to breathe again its air, to live in its cubicles, to move jostled among her uncaring crowds, to lose herself again in its mercant...
9	388	The Love Dance of the Newly Collared Slave Girl has many variations, in the different cities of Gor, but the common theme is that the girl dances her joy that she will soon lie in the arms of a strong master.
10	3	The Spring Equinox, in Port Kar, as well as in most other Gorean cities, marks the New Year.
10	217	These islands, with occasional free ports on the coast, north and south of the Gorean equator, such as Lydius and Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, make possible the commerce between Cos and Tyros, and the mainland, and its cities, such as Ko-ro-ba, Thentis, Tor, Ar, Turia, and many o...
11	434	"As you know," said Samos, speaking evenly, "Port Kar is not the most loved, nor the most greatly respected nor highest honored among the cities of Gor".
11	439	Port Kar, I told myself, was only too well understood by the other cities of Gor.
11	441	"Would it not be trebled if we were accounted, among Gorean cities, a city of love, of peace?" There was a guffaw of laughter at this, and men pounded the arms of the curule chairs.
11	458	And there were undeclared ports and cities to consider.
11	556	There are merchants of other cities, voyagers and captains, known to us, who will, for their fees, gladly conduct this business".
11	573	"Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intent...
11	593	Cos and Tyros themselves are important markets, not to mention their allies, and the ports and cities either affiliated with Cos and Tyros, or favorable to them.
13	6	There are four major cities on Cos, of which Telnus is the largest.

Book 7. (30 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	1259	They think commonly only in gross terms, such as her being trained in the dances of various cities, and in the arts of love, as practiced in various cities.
12	439	Various cities, through their own Merchant Castes, lease land for these stockades and, for their fees, keep their garrisons, usually men of their own cities, supplied.
3	441	Snarling and spurting the Maserati leaped into life, spitting stones and dust from its rear wheels, whipping about the corner of the bungalow.
6	128	The sandals were now covered with dust.
6	243	I did not even think him the sort who would be likely to walk, but his sandals, with the pearled straps, with certain of the pearls missing, were stained with dust.
6	436	But I was Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, of Earth! She had been rich, beautiful, smartly attired, tasteful, sophisticated; she had been well educated and traveled; she had been decisive, confident; she had carried her wealth and her beauty with élan; and she had deserved her position in society;...
8	368	The wind driven by their pounding, snapping wings, with hurricanes of dust and small stones, could hurl a man from his feet.
13	634	Then, with a jolt to my back, and with a scattering of dust and a snapping of wings, the tarn alit.
7	8	From Lydius goods may be embarked for the islands of Thassa, such as Teletus, Hulneth and Asperiche, even Cos and Tyros, and the coastal cities, such as Port Kar and Helmutsport and, far to the south, Schendi and Bazi.
7	38	Indeed, he had come all the way from the vicinity of Ar, buying and selling girls at various cities.
8	112	Perhaps they did not care for the ways of their cities with respect to women.
8	113	Who knows? In many cities a free woman may not even leave her dwelling without the permission of a male guardian or member of her family".
8	115	"In many cities a slave girl is more free to come and go, and be happy, than a free woman".
8	809	The "stones" are usually pebbles or beads, but in the cities one can buy small polished, carved boxes containing ten "stones," the quality of which might vary from polished ovoid stones, with swirling patterns, to gems worth the ransom of a merchant's daughter.
11	98	They also used very sweet, syrupy wines, which were now, in many cities, available.
11	99	The Turian collar, too, a looser ring of steel, large enough for a man's fist to grasp on the girl's throat, was occasionally seen now in the northern cities.
11	137	It was the best known of the Gorean cities below the equator, sometimes called the Ar of the south.
11	1287	He seemed truly to be arranging for supplies, and his men, in their leisure, gambled and drank in the inns and taverns of the city, spending their time striking up acquaintances with men here and there, other tarnsmen, mostly men like themselves, from other cities, now, too, by coincid...
12	314	Doubtless Marlenus had given orders that she be exhibited in various cities and villages on the route to Ar, his prize, that she might thus, this beautiful captive, an outlaw girl well known on Gor, considerably redound to his prestige and glory.
12	442	These forts do not differ much, except in size, from the common border forts, which cities sometimes maintain at the peripheries of their claims.
13	98	It is a custom of the Initiates of Teletus, and of certain other islands and cities, if the youth agrees to go to the Sardar when they request it, then his, or her, family or guardians, if they wish it, will receive one tarn disk of gold.
13	745	Other cities, to the north, of course, looked with apprehension on Marlenus' permitting the Margin of Desolation to recover its fertility and shade.
13	750	Of tradition, the northern shore of the Vosk was disputed by various cities.
14	124	Treve, I knew, was, nominally, at war with several cities.
14	125	Strife is common among the Gorean cities, each tending to be belligerent and suspicious of others.
14	210	cities and men, I thought, are so strange, so different.
14	338	In many cities, a slave might not even clothe herself without first having received the permission of the master, or one acting in his stead.
14	438	Most cities do not, incidentally, organize such lamentations.
14	445	It is interesting to note that a woman who has fallen slave, particularly an urban woman, particularly from one of the proud "high cities," is extremely likely to be kept a slave, even if she should, eventually, sale by sale, handed from master to master, chained in wagon after wagon, ...
14	483	Some cities will not accept a slave within their walls who was once a citizeness of their polity.

Book 8. (16 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	323	"Take him," said Samos, "to one of the large rooms, well appointed, in which we lodge slavers of high rank, of distant cities".
2	164	Some free girls, without family, keep themselves, as best they can, in certain port cities.
2	166	Ear notching is the first penalty for a convicted thief in most Gorean cities, whether male or female.
2	281	The early spring is the favored time, in order to have the girls partially trained and to market prior to the spring and summer festivals in many cities.
3	9	Some free girls, without family, I knew, kept themselves, as best they could, in certain port cities.
3	104	Lydius is one of the few cities of the north which has public baths, as in Ar and Turia, though much smaller and less opulent.
9	175	Further, documents proclaiming the disowning, officially notarized with the seals of Ar and Marlenus, will soon be posted in all the major Gorean cities".
9	340	And there might, in time, have been an alliance, in virtue of the companionship, between Port Kar and Ar, and other cities.
11	757	He was uncompromising; he was powerful; he was wealthy; he controlled cities and men; he was a tarnsman, master of the great, predatory saddlebirds of Gor.
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	80	The alliance, of course, would be understood, on all sides, as not altering the political conditions obtaining between the cities.
13	279	"How many of you," I asked, "are forest girls?" "We are of the cities," said the redhead.
14	130	Some cities, Treve, for example, have their own brands.
18	272	They were girls of civilized cities.
19	165	Most Gorean cities are, in effect, governed by the influence, direct or indirect, of several important families.
22	614	They would be given gold, and conducted in honor and safety to their cities.

Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
18	283	dust, like smoke, like the earth was burning, rolled into the air.
18	294	Screaming men, axes raised, emerged from the dust, running, falling upon the devastated Kurii.
2	16	In the northern villages, and in the forest towns, and northward on the coast, the women do not veil themselves, as is common in the cities to the south.
2	87	They regard themselves as the highest caste, and, in many cities, are so regarded generally.
2	120	For example, if they could fuse their superstitions and lore, and myths, with a genuine moral message, of one sort or another, they might appeal more seriously to the general population; if they spoke more sense people would be less sensitive to, or disturbed by, the nonsense; further, they should t...
4	83	Most Gorean cities use the Spring Equinox as the date of the New Year.
9	31	Pet sleen are taught to heel; so, too, sometimes, are bondmaids; I was familiar with this sort of thing, of course; in the south it was quite common for slave girls, in various fashions in various cities, to heel their masters.
10	305	In some cities, once a day, a girl must kneel and kiss the whip which, if she is not sufficiently pleasing to her master, will be used to beat her.
10	325	These cities are not on good terms but they, civilized men, both in the far north, conversed affably.
17	42	The distant light in the great cities, unknowing, soon to be occupied with the concerns of their days, piercing the haze of daily, customary poisons, first struck the heights of the lofty buildings, reflecting from the rectangular windows, like sheets of burnished copper reflecting the...

Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	60	But now, in the sun, and the dust, raised by the people in the streets, everything seemed drained of color.
2	174	Moments later I stood inland, ankle deep in the white dust.
2	624	What would I have him do, fill his bag with the white dust of Tor's higher terraces? I chose a side street, and another street from that, which terminated in a blind wall.
4	53	Underfoot there was much dust and gravel.
4	120	I shut my eyes against the reflection of the sun from the dust, the gravel and rocks.
4	443	I saw drovers, holding the reins of their beasts, shading their eyes, looking over the dust to the east.
5	137	Aya was not pleased to find the girl hair-tied by the tree, the bag of churned verr milk lying to one side in the dust.
5	333	The guards of Farouk, following his example, dropped their bucklers to the dust, thrust their lances, butt down, in the earth, took out their scimitars and, flinging them blade downward from the saddle, hurled them into the ground, disarming themselves.
5	340	One Kavar warrior, with the point of his lance, drew a line in the graveled dust.
5	369	There was dust about, raised by the paws of the animals.
5	371	There was dust on their ankles and calves and, lightly, on their bodies.
5	372	Their eyes were squinting, half shut, in the dust and sun.
5	374	Some of them shifted about, for the dust and gravel was hot on the soles of their small, bare feet.
5	401	"Fortunately," I said, "I see only dust rising in the east.
5	413	dust, like the blade of a dark scimitar, for pasangs, swept toward us.
5	453	With my lance tip I retrieved her veil from the dust, and put it to the side of her left knee.
5	457	I turned to look at the dust from the east.
5	503	The Aretai, from the east, and west, lances down, scimitars high, with much dust, crying out, shouting, swept into the caravan.
7	19	In the placid, diagonal beam of light, seeming to lean against the wall, ascending to the window, I saw dust.
7	282	Suddenly there was a scrambling sound and I saw the bars in the small window shake and scrape, one wrenching loose, with a shower of stone and dust from the wall.
8	47	He fell sprawling in the dust and rocks.
8	48	I saw a water bag being slashed, the water dark on the side of a kaiila, it shifting and rearing, the water falling, soaking into the dust.
8	56	The two girls now stood naked in the dust, stripped by the blade of their captor.
8	165	Far off I could see a subtle, almost invisible lifting of dust.
8	197	The dust was nearer now.
8	265	"I would lick the dust from his boots!" Suddenly she looked about.
8	266	She, too, now, saw the dust.
8	277	Alyena turned, and, with a cry, fled from the tent, toward the dust.
8	278	The length of chain, hurled from my hand, bola-like, caught her about the ankles, whipping about, and she, in a flurry of skirt and blond hair, sprawled, hands outstretched, to the dust.
9	4	One length of chain he retrieved from the dust, where I had hurled it, snaring the fleeing Alyena by her ankles.

Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	645	His tunic, too, I noted, was stained with the dust of the camp.
4	661	There was not a stain of dust on his tunic.
8	17	The bars were wet where it had bit at them; the ground, too, about the cage was wet where the beast's saliva, in its frenzy, its lust for killing, had dampened the clawed dust.
8	58	I did not meet her eyes, but looked down, into the dust.
8	309	I looked up, miserable, in the dust, the rope hanging from my neck.
8	322	Dragging the rope on my neck, on my hands and knees, through the dust of the hot, sunny street, I crawled past them.
8	346	My head was dragged from his knees to the dust at his feet.
8	350	I scratched in the dust and wept, beside the wheel of the wagon.
9	377	"If Thurnus would so much as look at me," she said, "I would crawl ten pasangs on my belly to lick the dust from his ankles".
9	718	The cart of Tup Ladletender was now disappearing in the distance, a bit of dust rising behind its wheels.
9	817	Such a rope might easily be looped on the back of a wagon, and I would follow, naked, barefoot, behind the wagon, in the dust.
9	1188	Left behind now was not even a bit of dust.
9	1427	My cheek was in the dust.
9	1713	He gestured to the fellow lying in the dirt, his face contorted with pain, scratching at the dust.
9	1766	dust flew about their ankles.
9	2417	I expected to be tied to the back of the wagon, that I might follow in its dust.
9	2438	Then more rain splashed into the dust.
11	356	My hair then I washed, and dried, and combed and brushed, taking from it the dust of the road leading to Stones of Turmus, and the sweat of the afternoon and early evening.
12	141	"I see dust there," I said, pointing to the road beneath, winding toward the fortress.
12	168	I, curious, stood idly by, watching, the emptied water bag over my shoulder, my ankles in the dust of the courtyard.
3	268	The game of Girl Catch is played variously upon Gor; it can be played as informally and simply as it was in the camp of my captor, for the pleasure of his men, or it can be a fairly serious business, closely supervised and regulated in a sophisticated manner, as it is by merchant administrators in t...
3	280	This sport of Girl Catch, interestingly, when matters of honor are not thought to be involved, has been used upon occasion by cities to settle boundary disputes and avert wars.
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...
3	531	That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
5	16	In certain cities, in connection with the free companionship, the betrothed or pledged beauty may wear eight veils, several of which are ritualistically removed during various phases of the ceremony of companionship; the final veils, and robes, of course, are removed in private by the ...
5	18	In some cities the girl is unveiled, though not disrobed, of course, during the public ceremony.
5	23	Neglect of the veil is not a crime in Gorean cities, though in some it is deemed a brazen and scandalous omission.
5	29	In some cities, and among some groups and tribes, it might be mentioned, though this is not common, veils may be for most practical purposes unknown, even among free women.
5	30	The cities of Gor are numerous and pluralistic.
5	124	The retinue was the betrothal and dowry retinue of the Lady Sabina of the small merchant polis of Fortress of Saphronicus bound overland for Ti, of the Four cities of Saleria, of the Salerian Confederation.

Book 12. (27 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	393	I could hardly see nor breathe for the dust.
11	425	A dust of snow had fallen in the night.
2	226	A richer world would await her as she trod barefoot in the cities and jungles of love.
2	529	The war persisted but now both players had been brought to the Sardar by armed men from their respective cities, under a special flag of truce, agreed upon by Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, and Marlenus of Ar, called the Ubar of Ubars, who ruled in Ar.
2	530	Hostilities between the two cities were suspended for the duration of the match.
3	3	He had won her in Girl Catch, in a contest to decide a trade dispute between two small cities, Ven and Rarn, the former a river port on the Vosk, the second noted for its copper mining, lying southeast of Tharna.
3	28	Strangely the girls of the cities are eager to participate in this sport.
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	79	Some sell trinkets and others the notes of cities.
3	82	Men of warring cities may meet here without fear.
3	704	Some cities give eight tarsk bits to the copper tarsk; others, most, I think, have the copper tarsk equivalent to ten tarsk bits.
3	705	In most cities the tarsk bit is the smallest Gorean coin.
4	497	Overhead, with some regularity, I saw tarns streaking from the fair, many with tarn baskets slung beneath them, men and women returning to their cities.
6	679	"I have been in many cities," he said.
15	293	* * * * "In the south," I said, "there are many cities.
15	294	Many of these cities consist largely of high cylinders, joined by traceries of high bridges".
15	297	"Are there many slave girls in these cities?" she asked.
15	411	"The girls who are kept slave in the cities," she asked, "are they happy?" "Many are blissfully happy," I said.
15	497	It is applied in such places as the quarries, the roads, the great farms, in certain types of cargo galleys, on the wharves, at the walls of cities and in the forests.
15	498	Male slaves are usually debtors or criminals; sometimes they are captives, taken in actions against enemy cities or facilities; sometimes they have merely accrued the displeasure of powerful men or families; some slavers, working in gangs, specialize in the capture of free men for work...
15	722	"How does one know, on the block," she asked, suddenly, "if a girl is any good?" "A certification of a girl's heat, in certain cities," I said, "is sometimes furnished, with the slaver's guarantee, among the documents of sale.
15	725	"Is that sort of thing done in many cities?" she asked.
15	729	"It is rather done in few cities because of the possibility of fraud on the part of the buyer.
32	75	"In twelve Kur hours, all cities on Gor can be destroyed," it said.
35	695	Her modesty had made it unlikely that many in the complex would recognize her body or features, which had, I gathered, been generally kept from view by the multitudinous robes and veils of concealment common to the Gorean free women of the high cities.

Book 13. (22 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
48	261	Such girls, with other slave girls, both of various cities and with the former free women of the conquered city, now collared slaves, too, will often be marched naked in chains in the loot processions of the conquering cities.
13	798	I examined, too, the dust of the alley, to see if it moved, or otherwise stirred, as it might have, if a foot had passed.
13	801	The dust did not stir.
31	29	I doubt that anyone in the village knew more than a few dozen words of Ushindi, but Ayari, with his Ushindi, his gestures, his quick wit and a stick, with which he drew in the dust of the village, not only conducted his trading in a brisk and genial fashion but managed to gather valuab...
32	212	The termite "dust," thereafter, by the action of bacteria, is reduced to humus, and the humus to nitrogen and mineral materials.
55	7	There was a vast, spreading billowing cloud of dust and leaves.
1	216	Who would have understood, of the cities, that they were not the same?" "Even the bargemen of the Cartius proper, the subequatorial Cartius, and those of the Thassa Cartius, far to the north, thought the rivers to be but one waterway".
3	61	Some free girls, runaways, vagabonds, girls of no family or position, live about port cities, scavenging as they can, begging, stealing, sleeping at night in crates and under bridges and piers.
5	581	Ear piercing, on Gor, is regarded in most cities as the most degrading thing that can be done to a girl.
6	557	Many merchant houses, from distant cities, have outlets or agents in Schendi.
12	320	Indeed, in some cities, the girl in training may not raise her eyes above the trainer's belt, unless, again, specifically accorded this permission.
32	992	Too, the kissing of the whip is a quite accurate detail, one practiced in many cities, but surely a surprising detail to occur in the dream of a girl ignorant of bondage.
33	149	I have been in many cities and in each I have found marvelous dancers.
33	150	The matter is further complicated by the buying and selling of girls and their shipment, as merchandise, among cities.
33	152	In some cities if a dancer is not thought to have been sufficiently pleasing she is thrown to the patrons of the tavern to be torn to pieces or beaten.
34	173	"Are girls secured at night, in the cities?" she asked.
34	176	The cities are walled.
48	295	The other girls are from various cities in the south".
57	58	They would then be distributed by caste brothers throughout the cities of civilized Gor.
57	168	Tharna is one of the few Gorean cities in which the great majority of its women are enslaved.
57	169	Normally only about one in forty or so Gorean women in the cities is enslaved.
57	328	"They are great cities," I said, "rich in opportunities for the shrewd and ambitious".

Book 14. (30 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
29	55	To his camp, I suspect, come not only the captures of brigands, and the stripped females from the outskirts of the Salerian cities, taken by the raiding parties of Ar, but, too, even women taken by the warriors of Cos and of the cities of Saleria.
17	53	There was dust on her bare feet, and on the floor of the room.
17	108	I looked about the room, lofty, but disreputable, covered with dust.
19	362	I watched the wagon departing, its wheels leaving tracks in the soft dust of the stable yard.
19	426	I looked to the tracks in the dust of the stable yard, left by the wagon which had borne Telitsia away.
21	465	I turned about, again, and saw her, drawing her tiny slave rag over her head, carefully descending the ramp, her small feet leaving prints in the incline's dust.
25	342	I then stood barefoot in the dust of the road.
11	398	Men of Earth think of cities as being within countries.
11	399	Men of Gor tend to think of cities and the lands controlled by them.
11	401	There can be, of course, leagues among cities and tangential territories.
11	415	They tend to involve, usually, only a few cities and their associated villages and territories, rather than gigantic political entities such as nations.
12	344	Female pleasure slaves, given slave raids and the sackings of cities, are relatively plentiful on Gor.
13	31	Vonda was one of the four cities of the Salerian Confederation.
13	32	The other cities of this confederation were Ti, Port Olni and Lara.
13	33	All four of these cities lie on the Olni River, which is a tributary to the Vosk.
13	34	Ti is farthest from the confluence of the Olni and Vosk; downriver from Ti is Port Olni; these were the first two cities to form a league, originally intended for the control of river pirates and the protection of inland shipping; later, downriver from Port Olni, Vonda, and Lara, lying...
13	42	The Salerian Confederation, incidentally, is also sometimes known as the Four cities of Saleria.
13	52	Jealousies and strifes, rivalries, even armed conflicts, tend often to separate Gorean cities.
13	54	In this milieu, then, of suspicion, pride, autonomy and honor, the four cities of Saleria represented a startling and momentous anomaly in the politics of Gor.
13	55	The league to protect shipping on the Olni, inadvertently but naturally founded in the common interest of four cities, had formed the basis for what later became the formidable Salerian Confederation.
13	56	Many cities of Gor, it was rumored, looked now with uneasiness on the four giants of the Olni.
13	322	The Lady Florence, of course, if I were identified as her slave, would by my collar presumably be recognized as a citizeness of Vonda, one of the cities of the confederation.
16	26	The woman of the Physicians, at the age of fifteen, in many cities, wears two bracelets on her left wrist.
16	102	Also, of course, there are hundreds of more standard perfumes, the preparation of which is widely understood by the perfumers of many cities.
16	137	There are, of course, shopping districts in all Gorean cities, where one may find clusters of shops, often specializing in different items.
16	141	Similarly most cities will have their "Street of Brands," on which street, or in which area, one would expect to find the houses of its slavers.
17	130	I owe the merchants of a dozen cities".
21	172	Small cities and towns, usually ruggedly independent, even belligerently so, along the river, such as Ven and Turmus, found themselves, to their discomfort, half coerced by armed might, half enticed with alliances and treaties, embroiled in the struggles of major powers.
22	47	He was known to the merchants of several cities.
23	75	In the last year heavy import duties had been levied by the high council of Vonda against the wines of certain other cities, in particular against the Ka-la-nas of Ar.

Book 15. (19 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	182	You will dust and clean the house, and keep it neat.
31	167	In it there danced a myriad specks of golden dust.
1	237	Similarly at that time hostilities with confederation cities had been limited to skirmishes with Vonda.
2	123	"And only after this, our profound humiliation," she said, "will the men of Ar, if it should please them, see fit to permit us to be divided into lots, and be branded and collared, and sold into slavery throughout the towns and cities of Gor".
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	469	Soon, too, at least in the high cities, they may be able to put away the tunic of boyhood and don their first robe of manhood.
4	490	It might be mentioned in passing that raids to obtain females, "woman raids," or "slave strikes," are not uncommon amongst Gorean cities.
4	491	The women of one city tend on the whole to be regarded by the men of other cities as attractive candidates for the collar, as potential "slave meat".
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.
6	79	The expression 'Tetrapoli' in Gorean, incidentally, means "Four cities" or "Four Towns".
6	118	How could one hope to find one girl among thousands, even tens of thousands, scattered throughout the cities and towns, the fields and villages, of Gor.
7	83	"Peasants are not too fond, generally, of free persons from the high cities," said one of them.
9	46	Many of the men at the sales barn were professional slavers, from other towns and cities, looking for bargains.
14	153	It is regarded, in some cities, including Victoria, as a way of making clear to her that the house in which she now finds herself is a house in which she is a slave.
19	68	Ten silver tarsks, usually, is regarded as the equivalent of one gold piece, of one of the high cities.
19	73	One of the central coins on Gor is the golden tarn disk of Ar, against which many cities standardize their own gold piece.
21	28	The third reason is a more Gorean reason; it is that many, perhaps most, slave raids, as opposed to major attacks on cities, have as their principal object not the acquisition of free women, who are commonly well protected, but rather of slaves.
21	35	That is often the way slaves are transported between camps and cities.
29	43	Too the chain will not make Port Cos popular with her sister cities".

Book 16. (19 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	614	What will it be? Will it be bound on her back over the saddle of a tarnsman aflight over green fields, or in a blue-and-yellow-canvassed slave wagon, her fair ankles chained about a central bar, or perhaps in a coffle being marched with a thousand others in heat and choking dust betwee...
18	433	Outside the gate, lying in the dust of the road leading from Venna, bound hand and foot, was the girl.
11	165	Camisks are favored in some cities.
11	195	Some cities do not wish girls in Ta-Teeras to be seen publicly on the streets.
18	110	In many cities it is a crime to bring such cloth into contact with the flesh of free women.
18	401	The unauthorized rape of slave girls, without the permission of their masters, is officially frowned on in most cities, but, too, it is as often winked at.
18	409	In many cities it is a capital offense for the slave girl to don such garments.
19	1083	The slave chains of Victoria, and some of the other river cities, were now heavy with luscious girl fruit.
20	372	They can be purchased for work chains, to be rented out by their masters, sometimes marched between cities, depending on the seasons and the work available.
20	375	"Second slave," I told her, which, among the river towns, and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of indicating that I would take the black wine without creams or sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by the "sec...
20	581	Outside, the surfaces on which she walks, the bridges, and such, are usually smooth, especially in the larger cities.
20	582	Too, Gorean cities are generally kept clean and unlittered.
20	585	But, for whatever reason, and this seems almost incomprehensible to one from Earth, the cities are thus, on the whole, respected, and beautiful.
20	589	In certain cities, such as Ar, high platforms might be worn, particularly by high-caste women.
20	886	It is done rather differently in different cities but the variations practiced in the river towns and, generally, in the Vosk basin, are, in my opinion, among the finest.
20	1582	Many have the run of cities and fields; they meet with friends, who, too, of course, will be in tunics and collars; they enjoy wandering about, frequenting the parks, at least those in which they are allowed, and long, winding, colorful streets; too, they are frequently, as they are wo...
20	1589	How could free women forgive them that? Why cannot a man see that they are nothing, only despicable sluts? Why should he prefer such an appetitious, shapely thing, a mere animal and property, obedient and submissive, desperately needful and helplessly sensual, fearing his whip, hoping to please him ...
20	1781	A war between two cities was once temporarily suspended to rescue flocks of small birds, migrating hurlits, which had fallen frozen, stricken, on the plains between armies, the victims of sleet and wind.
21	589	Whereas there are wealth discrepancies on Gor which would dwarf most of those on Earth, for example, merchants who own ten thousand slaves and a hundred villas, and whose resources can raise armies and intimidate cities, most Goreans are economically pretty much of a muchness.

Book 17. (30 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	8	Indeed, it was through the dust Legs that most of the goods of the interior might reach civilization, the dust Legs, in effect, acting as agents and intermediaries.
10	43	"To raise dust like that, in this terrain," said Grunt, "you must ride across draws, rather than avoid them, and you must ride in a cluster, where the dust will rise, cloudlike, rather than rise and fall, in a narrow line, swiftly dissipated by the wind".
10	48	"That dust," he said, "does not rise from the paws of the kaiila of dust Legs, nor of Yellow Knives nor Fleer.
1	1258	The object, then, through trade channels, would have come, I supposed, to one of the high cities, perhaps Thentis, the nearest of the large cities to the Barrens.
17	97	If there is a difference, it is that in the Gorean cities, or at least the "high cities," it is unusual for a slave to be nude publicly, unless she is being exhibited or sold, whereas in the tribal villages it is not that unusual.
1	1369	I half shut my eyes against the dust and debris which struck against my face.
3	144	The fort itself, incidentally, was twice burned, once by soldiers from Port Olni, before that town joined the Salerian Confederation, and once by marauding dust Legs, a tribe of red savages, from the interior of the Barrens.
4	18	"He speaks some dust Leg, and some of the talk of other tribes," said the fellow.
4	178	Ahead, on the road, there was a rolling cloud of dust.
4	190	They were covered with dust.
4	195	"dust Legs," said the officer with the men.
4	201	"It is unusual, is it not, for the dust Legs to be on the rampage?" I asked.
4	220	"I would not expect even dust Legs to resist this cargo".
4	235	"It is not like the dust Legs," he said.
5	72	I supposed such forces might indeed enter the Barrens and wreak some havoc, perhaps falling upon some dust-Leg villages.
5	94	"Urt, a dust Leg, a slave," said the officer.
5	96	He can speak with dust Legs, and knows sign".
5	101	"dust Legs," said the officer.
5	104	"You are not a dust Leg," I said to the boy.
5	142	They would surely have tried, at least in the beginning, to work through local traders or, say, dust Legs themselves.
5	154	There had been no slave wagons in the lines, nor, chained in throat coffle, trudging in the dust behind the supply wagons, any slave girls.
8	704	You are less than the dust beneath their feet".
8	950	Too, it saves on tunics or such, which, in the wind and rain, and heat and dust, might be ruined or soiled in the march.
10	1	I See dust Behind Us "You are aware, are you not," I asked Grunt, "that we are being followed?" "Yes," he said.
10	5	"Are we not yet in the country of the dust Legs?" I inquired.
10	7	Most trading was done with dust Legs.
10	12	Although small trading groups were welcomed in the country of the dust Legs, such groups seldom penetrated the more interior territories.
10	19	"They are not dust Legs," he said.
10	22	We observed the dust in the distance, some pasangs across the prairie.
10	26	"Observe the dust," he said.

Book 18. (30 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	20	Almost at the same time, suddenly, about a bend in the draw, turning, lurching, its shoulder striking the side of the draw, its feet almost slipping out from under it, in its turn, in the soft footing, covered with dust, its eyes wild and red, foam at its nostrils and mouth, some twent...
7	821	For example, although the dust Legs and the Fleer are enemies, as are the Kaiila and the Fleer, the dust Legs have dealings with the Sleen, and the Sleen, in turn, trade with tribes such as the Yellow Knives and the Fleer.
44	350	"But even now I tricked you," she said, "by distracting you from seeing the approaching dust, by pretending to sexual need!" "The dust," I said, "was visible long before you noticed it, before you initiated your clever, diversionary stratagem".
23	60	It is known to the slavers of the cities, and to the men of the cities, of course, as well as to the savages of the Barrens.
1	44	"That is dust, in the wind," said Cuwignaka.
1	84	Grit and dust settled about us.
1	90	"Is there always this much dust?" I asked.
1	151	Hci reined in his kaiila, squealing, kicking dust, before us.
1	178	This band, outside of the Kaiila, is often known as the Mazahuhu band, which is the dust-Leg word for bracelets.
1	244	The second time Cuwignaka had refused to go on the warpath he had been bound in his dress and traded to dust Legs, from whom, eventually, he was purchased as a slave by whites, in the vicinity of the Ihanke, the border between the lands of farmers and ranchers and the lands of the red ...
1	258	He had also acquired two prisoners, two former enemies of his, Max and Kyle Hobart, in effect as gifts from dust Legs.
1	267	Grunt's last slave, the dark-haired beauty, Wasnapohdi, or Pimples, whom he had acquired in trade for three hatchets from dust Legs, he was permitted to keep.
1	333	In another way, Grunt's familiarity to the Kaiila, for he had visited them last year, and was close to Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds, the civil chieftain of the Isbu, and his knowledge of their language, which closely resembles dust Leg, garnered him a similar protection.
1	337	This pleased the Kaiila, as it also did the dust Legs and the Fleer.
1	375	The dust from the paws of the kaiila was in my mouth.
1	469	I could no longer see Hci now, in the dust from the kailiauk.
3	180	One of the men, behind her, had thrown dust upon her.
3	181	"Oh!" she sobbed, as two men, rather in front of her, one on each side, tossed, each, a double handful of dust upon her.
3	182	She closed her eyes, blinking against the grit of the dust.
3	216	There was dust upon her hair and on her body.
4	268	"Twenty Pte will let out their water and roll behind me, dying, in the dust," he said.
4	393	dust lifted about the paws of their kaiila.
4	394	Then came the women, with the kaiila and travois, the poles leaving lines in the dust, and with them, joining them, came Cuwignaka and myself.
5	160	I doubted that this was true, from the tremors in the earth, the dust and the direction of the tracks.
5	222	Sometimes they will even paw down earth from the upper sides of washouts and then use the harder, exposed material beneath, dust scattering about, as a polishing surface.
6	26	The draw was now filled with dust.
6	57	Here and there I could see pieces of meat, trodden into the dust.
6	66	The carcass itself, most of it, had been moved several feet and flattened, and lay half sunk in the dust of the draw.
7	3	Swiftly she fell to her knees, and put her red hair to the dust.
7	66	Winyela squirmed angrily, on her knees in the dust, her small wrists bound tightly before her.

Book 19. (21 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
33	802	Indeed, in this way, perhaps they, too, hope to prepare the way for an eventual full-scale invasion, one which could then be supplied and supported by a number of strategically located cities, or leagues of cities.
36	650	On the other hand, I doubt that there is really much to choose from in this respect, that there is that much difference, really, at least amongst the high cities, or tower cities.
15	126	Then I must dust his goods, and clean and tidy his tent.
26	113	And you have not been brought here simply to dust and make beds.
31	718	What a tribute to their attractiveness, and their skills as a slave! How they must compete with one another, I thought, to become the favorite! But how much better, I thought, to be the single slave of one's master, and to learn him, and serve him, with heat and devotion, regularly, day in and day o...
36	1601	"A speck of dust," he said.
3	356	In most cities they are not used".
4	483	In many Gorean cities, when men go out at night, they carry their own light, torches or lamps.
5	23	About the throne, here and there, spilled on the steps of the dais, in the manner of Corcyrus and some other cities, was a tasteful display of riches, rich cloths, golden coins and some chained female slaves.
6	737	In some cities a slave can be slain for so much as touching a weapon.
10	3	The smaller streets of Gorean cities are often dark at night.
16	195	I did not want to identify myself with Corcyrus, of course, or any cities or towns in that area, even Argentum.
24	165	On the other hand, male slaves are not numerous, at least within the cities, as opposed to the great farms or the quarries, and they are, in fact, usually collared.
28	38	In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.
30	220	Some of these streets, like many streets in Gorean cities, did not even have regular names.
30	230	Street signs in Gorean cities, where they exist, incidentally, are not mounted on poles.
33	6	There were numerous other dignitaries there, as well, both from Argentum and from other cities.
33	680	They intend, perhaps, failing success in outward aggression, to subvert our world, city by city, or to form a league of cities, that may become dominant among our states.
33	801	The beasts, it is my surmise, having hitherto failed to win Gor by overt conquest, attempt now to obtain power on this world by specific and detailed subversions, mixing in, and influencing, the politics and affairs of cities.
35	59	Those of Cos and of Ar, and of certain other cities, are surely very fine.
36	649	Many cities vie in these matters, each claiming to have within their walls the most beautiful slaves.

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	488	In some cities, a woman may not, with legal recognition, submit herself to a specific man as a slave, for in those cities that is interpreted as placing at least a temporary qualification on the condition of slavery which condition, once entered into, all cities...
12	651	This was, of course, the residue of dust remaining on them, after she had, earlier in the afternoon, kicked dust upon them.
1	493	In other cities, and in most cities, on the other hand, a free woman may, with legal tolerance, submit herself as a slave to a specific man.
19	8	Many Gorean cities, in effect, are tiered cities.
19	9	Gorean urban architecture, in the high cities, tends to be not so much a matter of flat, spreading, concentric horizontal rings, as in many cities, as a matter of towers and tiered levels, linked by soaring, ascendant traceries.
6	1274	She spun about, and with a movement of her robes, lifting them a bit from the dust, took her leave.
10	90	"No! No!" she cried, springing to her feet, her bare feet raising dust, her bound wrists, of course, still tethered to the bar.
10	127	She fell to her belly in the dust and reached out, her wrists still bound, to touch his ankles.
10	128	She put down her head and, lying in the dust before him, pressed her lips, those of a slave, again and again, piteously, to his feet.
10	130	She then lay on her belly in the dust, collapsed, near the wooden bar to which she had been tied for her beating.
10	663	I need a girl to cook for me, and to dust, to launder and iron, and sew, to run and fetch, to perform menial chores, to gather wood, and water, to tend fires, to wash utensils, to tidy the wagon, and such".
12	156	She stepped back a bit, and then, deliberately, with her slipper, kicked dust onto his robes.
12	532	Behind him, barefoot and naked, bent under the burden of his purchases, which were strapped to her back, her legs filthy to her thighs with dust from the road, came one of his girls, Lady Telitsia.
12	650	"Your robes have dust upon them," she said.
12	679	I kicked dust upon them.
12	712	Bina lies on her belly before master! Bina acknowledges that she is less than the dust beneath his feet! Bina is only a slave! Be kind to Bina! Please be kind to Bina!" "The robes will dry," said the player.
12	722	She put her head up, the palms of her hands in the dust, looking at him; then she again lowered her head, trembling.
13	13	"What do they want?" Then, it seemed in a moment, while she cried out in misery, high tharlarion, some twenty of them, thundered suddenly about me, the earth shaking, dust rising in billows about me.
13	55	I saw tears fall from her eyes, moistening the dust between her knees.
13	133	"You were bringing grain back to your camp," said Flaminius, looking down at the sack of grain lying in the dust.
13	144	She knelt in the dust, small among the great, clawed hind legs of the shifting tharlarion.
13	234	He could tell this, I assumed, from the markings in the dust on the floor.
15	3	In a moment, led by Boots, running, puffing, at the side of them, with a swirl of dust from the paws of the tharlarion, they were in the camp, the riders.
15	6	I shook Chino and Lecchio violently in the swirling dust, my head down, almost dislodging them from me.
15	37	Her legs did indeed look well, covered with dust though they might be, shapely against the leather of the saddle, and the thick, scaled hide of the tharlarion.
16	616	"What do you suggest?" "I wonder what all that dust is over there," said Chino, looking off in one direction.
16	617	"I do not see any dust," said Petrucchio, anxiously.
16	775	"Is that dust upon the horizon? Or is it perhaps my imagination? It could be a group of verr, browsing in the fields.
16	786	It was, of course, the direction exactly opposite that in which he had, but a moment ago, fearfully, thought he might have discerned a movement of dust in the distance.
1	61	They had performed, it seems, in the high cities and before ubars.

Book 21. (30 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	58	It is located at the intersection of various routes, the Genesian, connecting Brundisium and other coastal cities with the south, the Northern Salt Line and the Northern Silk Road, leading respectively west and north from the east and south, the Pilgrims' Road, leading to the Sardar, a...
4	273	It flights one's arrows, increasing their range; it gives additional impetus to one's movements and charges; and whatever dust or debris it might carry is more likely to affect the enemy than oneself.
22	324	In it there drifted particles of dust.
24	18	As soon as we had entered through the shuttered gate into the insula's small, dim vestibule, there, in the light, the dust in it, we had seen Feiqa.
24	318	He untied the cord and blew some dust from the cover of the book.
1	77	She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental allies of the island ubarate of Cos.
3	191	His campaigns were studied in all the war schools of the high cities.
3	342	It is not difficult to infiltrate spies into mercenary troops, incidentally, where the men come from different backgrounds, castes and cities, and little is asked of them other than their ability to handle weapons and obey orders.
3	345	How different things seemed from the marches of the forces of Ar, and others of the high cities.
3	349	Later some became cities.
3	407	Peasants, unlike women of the cities, tend to be very practical about such matters.
4	21	Also, of course, their movements often, from a legal point of view, constitute actual invasions or indisputable territorial infringements, as when, uninvited, they enter areas technically within the jurisdiction or hegemony of given cities or towns.
4	48	Some cities use Alars in their tharlarion cavalries.
4	52	They know little, however, of politics, or of siege work and the taking of cities.
4	53	In the cities, normally one needs only to close the gates and wait for them to go away, compelled eventually to do so by the needs of their animals.
4	124	Tell us about the cities".
4	144	"The cities are always at war with us.
4	179	"Are there such women as these in the cities?" asked Hurtha, indicating Feiqa.
4	183	"Such women may be bought in the cities," I said, "in slave markets, from the houses of slavers, from private dealers.
4	366	"Indeed, you are quite possibly a female of the cities".
4	393	"It seems more probable to me that you are a woman of the cities," I said.
4	449	But let those of the cities tremble that among the hordes there might one day arise one who can unify storms and harness lightning.
4	506	"Such women," I said, "may be purchased in the cities".
5	128	Indeed, in some cities a free woman who might be found with bared legs is taken in hand by magistrates, tried, and sentenced to bondage.
7	9	"I had not known those of the cities could drink so much".
9	84	Many cities have a "Sun Gate".
15	290	"Had you used it earlier," I said, "it would now be a part of military history, of the lore associated with your name, something which all garrisons in appropriate cities would now anticipate and take steps to prevent".
16	1413	It is cultural for white-clad pilgrims from certain cities to carry such staffs, often entwined with flowers, in pilgrimages to the Sardar.
18	126	"Very well," I said, "but why Ar? Why not any one of a thousand other cities and towns?" I did not think that Boabissia would appreciate being informed that she was indeed not only unlike the usual Alar woman, but that she was of a quite different sort, a sort that many Goreans were fa...
19	23	This habit, unnecessary and trivial though it may seem, is one inculcated in warriors, in many cities.

Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
17	31	The Chief Initiate of Ar claims to be chief of all the Initiates of all the cities, but the other Chief Initiates, in the other cities, do not, it seems, at least on the whole, acknowledge this claim.
20	182	Whereas in the cities, where the rights of citizenship are clearest, where the sways of custom and tradition tend to be jealously guarded, where the influence of Home Stones is likely to be most keenly felt, free labor has generally held its own, the same cannot be said for all rural a...
6	136	Certainly they were often kept this way, I had been given to understand, on highway and road treks, if only to protect their tunics from sweat and dust.
6	514	And I did not care if it was from my knees, black with dust, a collar on my neck, naked, that I looked up to his glory.
10	301	Then I heard a succession of wild, startling sounds, like the snapping of great sheets, and it seemed I was in the midst of a whirlwind, mad, choking dust swirling up and about me.
10	334	I felt the pitting of dust against the hood and my feet.
32	201	I was unutterably beneath him, worth less than the dust beneath his sandals.
33	1	dust I knelt down, across the fire from him, in our small camp in the woods, not far from the meadow.
33	204	"Do you not recall," he asked, "that on each there was a sprinkling of dust?" "Yes," I said, puzzled.
33	209	"You do not understand the significance of that dust?" he said.
33	214	"The dust is ceremonial".
33	370	"You knew that it was about," I said, "because of the dust on the others, those in the meadow, their burial".
33	372	"The dust, of course, convinced me that my conjecture was correct".
33	376	"I shall take it to the meadow, and put it with the others," he said, "burying it, as it did them, with a handful of dust.
7	27	For example, they may be shifted to areas where women, perhaps because of large-scale raids or the falls of cities, may suddenly be abundant and cheap, and to areas, too, where there may be an unusual increase in retail demand.
7	30	On the other hand, they are usually located quite near cities, usually within the sight of their walls, and this tends to reduce to some extent the likelihood of such attacks.
7	32	These are generally both wholesalers and retailers, but primarily wholesalers, for retailers are usually indigenous to given cities.
7	33	These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often, also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many, for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcad...
7	111	However, I thought, it might be nice, other things being equal, to live in one of these lovely cities.
8	223	Many masters, though it tends to be rather associated, usually, with given cities, require this position of their girls, usually when they first enter his presence, or find themselves, as in a room which he has entered, in his presence.
10	285	Too, in Brundisium, as with most Gorean cities, kajirae are not allowed outside the city gates unless in the keeping of a free person.
10	413	Slavers grow more bold, even in larger cities.
10	414	Crowding, and the influx of refugees, too, in such cities as Ar, refugees who are often beautiful and defenseless, and easily taken, have contributed to the depression of the market".
11	1392	This was in accordance, of course, with the custom in Brundisium, and in certain other cities, that in the light of which I had been given my first ravishing.
13	536	In most cities, even the touching of money, unless in an authorized situation, is prohibited to slaves.
17	23	In some cities they are quite powerful, in others it seems they are largely peripheral to the life of the community.
17	56	Things such as races, and games, for the cities who can support them, particularly on a regular, or seasonal basis, usually occur in the afternoon, under natural light.
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	46	Kinship structures do not now figure strongly in Gorean public life, although in some cities divisions of the electorate, those free citizens entitled to participate in referenda, and such, remain based on them.
20	153	Besides, the free laborers share a Home Stone with the aristocracies of these cities, the upper castes, the higher families, the richer families, and so on.

Book 23. (30 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	960	I moved quickly toward him but then it seemed, suddenly, as though the world had burst apart, and I spun about, covering my head with my hands, and it seemed in that instant that the cell was filled with bursting stones and bricks, and there was a great sound, and Lady Claudia screamed, and one coul...
15	757	In a moment there was a cloud of dust in the corridor, some of which drifted into our cell.
15	763	The hood and shoulders, in particular, were covered with dust.
15	764	He struck some dust from his clothes and body.
15	965	He turned, in the dust, pointing back to the wall, startled, that he would apprise me of his discovery, not even seemingly suspicious, and met the stone in my hand, part of the wall I had seized up, and sank to his knees.
15	968	Both were covered with dust.
15	1027	I went to Lady Publia, who lay in the debris, covered with dust.
17	667	As I did so the final blows were struck at the props supporting the scaffolding of masonry and with a tumble of dust and stone the rocks fell.
1	12	There the wagons congregate almost to form wagon cities.
1	218	These structures are most common in harbor cities, near the wharves.
1	388	It suggested the sorts of names not uncommon in many of the Vosk towns, however, names reflecting the cultural mixtures of many such places, reflecting influences as diverse as those of the island ubarates, such as Cos and Tyros, on one hand, and those of southern cities, such as Venna...
1	472	That is why cities have walls, and such.
1	477	More towns and cities, I think, have fallen to trickery and bribery than frontal assaults.
2	81	I say 'in theory' because one of the charter cities in the Vosk League is Port Cos, which, although it is a sovereign polis, was originally founded by, and settled by, Cosians.
4	18	The baths, in many Gorean cities and towns, are convenient and popular gathering places.
4	48	Sometimes, in certain cities, free women, found guilty of crimes, are sentenced to the baths, to serve there as bath girls, subject, too, to the disciplines of such.
4	76	Most Goreans, in the baths, at least in their own towns or cities, do share tubs, of course.
6	665	"In many cities," he said, "one could have a coin girl for that".
6	682	The tarsk bit, of course, in most cities, is the smallest-denomination coin in common circulation.
6	694	Such training schools are normally found only in the cities.
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.
9	91	In many cities free women object to the marching of naked slaves through the streets.
10	131	It was a rare fellow who did not, from time to time, regard the women of his own city as quite as suitable for collaring as those of other cities.
11	211	Ar, too, in such a case, would be in effect undefended, her territories, if not herself, at the mercies of Salerians, Trevians, Tharnans, even men of small cities like Tarnburg and Hochburg".
11	233	"And such may be found in a hundred towns and cities," said Aemilianus.
11	274	"From cities interested in a Cosian victory," I said, "and, too, I suspect, from Ar herself".
17	400	Such things are common conveniences in Gorean cities, in public places, and such.
20	216	Different cities, perhaps in their vanity, or perhaps simply in accord with their own traditions, often have their own chronologies, based on Administrator Lists, and such.
21	452	"I do not think that other women, those of Ar's Station, or of other cities, under similar circumstances, would have behaved differently," she said.
21	479	In some cities the sentence of bondage is mandatory for such a woman.

Book 24. (30 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	417	It was only when the ground had shaken near me, and I had spun half about, almost buffeted by a saddle tharlarion, and saw the running mercenary caught between the shoulder blades with the point of the lance, thrown then to the dust, rolling and bloody, and saw the tharlarion trampling...
12	28	In some cities the veil is prescribed by law for free women, as well as by custom and etiquette; and in most cities it is prohibited, by law, to slaves.
1	384	This also affords them some protection from dust.
3	10	Not a stain of dust lifted from that long, brown surface, lying like a dry line between two vastnesses of dried grass.
3	29	Once I supposed that that placid road below, that ribbon of dust between the brown shores of grass, had run with blood.
3	243	More importantly, from this height, with the sun on the road, one could see the tracks in the dust.
3	397	He slipped to his knees, and fell to the dust in the road.
3	412	Moreover, there was dust about.
3	416	I heard a voice behind me, from the dust.
3	422	To one side, struck down by another lance, mangled, trampled in the dust, was the fellow who had been facing him.
3	423	One could scarcely make out the blue of the identificatory scarf, tied high on the left arm, with the blood, the dust.
3	444	He was covered with dust.
3	450	The men and beasts were covered with dust.
3	545	And you, beauty, reading this, consider yourself such: Stripped, back-braceleted, your feet in the dust, a chain on your neck, chained to a man's stirrup, at his mercy.
3	589	There was less dust there.
3	615	The dust rose like clouds, stirred by the heavy, clawed paws of the tharlarion.
13	110	To be sure, there was some debris about, much dust.
24	75	I saw the print of her small feet in the dust of the floor.
28	240	How marvelous are men that they can grow so great upon so little! And yet have not kingdoms risen from the mire, and ubarates from the dust, on no more? "We will leave with the coming of darkness," said Labienus, looking over our heads.
39	122	The leader of the mercenaries, and several of them, astride their tharlarion, wore wind scarves, rather like those worn in the Tahari, protecting themselves from the dust of the journey.
40	128	"In the tunnel, mixed in with the prints of the men, in the dust, were the numerous prints of small, bared feet".
42	132	I looked down at Ina's feet, so small and white, in the dust of the alley.
46	46	The fellow spit up blood, backed away, turned, and fell into the dust.
46	54	"He is dead," said one of the men, turning the fallen fellow over in the dust.
46	402	I picked up an iron rod fallen to the dust, which had become unhooked from the side of one of the cages.
46	414	I then discarded the rod in the dust of the aisle.
47	261	But then I saw the bowmen, ten or more of them, almost as though in a dream, turning and sprawling, sinking, stumbling, falling into the dust.
47	262	I was vaguely aware of quarrels slashing into the dirt, streaking like plows in the dirt, throwing up a spume of dust like water, others darting wildly upward, some lost overhead, passing somewhere, some skittering about, turning head over heels, then some bounding twenty or more feet ...
1	1234	There were five pieces of gold there, three staters of Brundisium and two of Telnus, eleven silver tarsks, of various cities, for such circulate freely, and some smaller coins.
3	120	In many cities, incidentally, a woman who is discovered doing such a thing may be remanded to magistrates for impressment into bondage.

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	375	They made two small furrows in the dust, and there was now a ridge of dust on the outside of each knee.
3	1006	The dust was reddened.
3	1048	I looked at the rent skin and the reddened dust.
6	138	To be sure, what might be visible from the walls now might be only smoke from fired fields or, more likely, dust from tharlarion cavalries.
11	232	"And it is a mark of the old Ar, the Ar I knew in war, the Ar of spears and standards, of rides and marches, of dust and trumpets, of tarns and tharlarion, the Ar of imperialism, of glory, of valor, and pride.
12	130	She, in her collar, is less than the dust beneath his feet.
19	15	dust rose up for feet about us.
19	17	Where our beasts trod the prints of their feet and claws remained evident in the dust.
19	334	In the softness of the dust, then amongst the vines, moving across the field, our tharlarion in stately gait, we approached the girl, she at the large wooden tank, filling the vessels which would be slung over her yoke.
19	337	She was barefoot and her feet and calves were white with dust.
19	349	It would not have been difficult to head her off or turn her back, or to have her between us in sport, like some object in a game, a terrified, confused quarry, buffeted, or struck to the ground, again and again, until perhaps she lay quietly in the dust, trembling, and the tharlarion ...
19	630	Again the whitish dust, a hort deep, was pushed to the sides, to bank against the outside of her knees.
19	1092	I looked down at her, she kneeling so far below us, in the hot, whitish dust.
19	1195	Then, with the last backhand stroke, I struck her from her knees, to her side, and she was lying on her side, twisted, her palms down in the white dust.
19	1262	The dust is cool there.
19	1264	Put me in the dust itself!" I did not speak.
19	1265	"If you wish," she said, "I shall serve you here, in the hot dust, in the glare of the sun".
19	1466	He wheeled his tharlarion about, and dust rose.
22	43	Doubtless they wished in their haste to avoid stirred dust, hoping to keep it from their robes.
22	78	It would be all I would need for Lavinia to be beaten by the bearers and the note lost somewhere in the dust of the alley.
22	79	I scuffed about for a time in the dust of the alley.
1	93	Most cities have a sun gate, sometimes several.
1	186	Free women in most of the high cities on Gor, particularly those of higher caste, go veiled in public.
2	43	Such garments, and such things, are often found among the belongings of women in captured cities.
3	14	In certain cities, tournaments are held.
3	581	In many cities, such actions, attempting to spy on masters and slaves, disguising oneself as a slave, garbing oneself as a slave, even in the supposed secrecy of one's own compartments, lingering about slave shelves and markets, even exhibiting an interest in, or fascination with, bond...
7	471	Temos is one of the major cities on the island of Cos.
7	519	"In many cities and lands, indeed, in most parts of the world," he said, "things will be surely much as they were before".
7	520	I considered such things as the difficulties of communication, the difficulties of maintaining supply lines, the lengths of marches, the paucity of roads, the isolation of cities, the diversities of cultures and such.
8	11	In Gorean cities it is often the case that many streets, particularly side streets, little more than alleys, are too narrow for wagons.

Book 26. (27 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
18	151	In some cities, as I understand it, the state involves itself in such matters; for example, in some cities it is a matter of public ordinance that slave tunics may not be longer than a certain amount; this ordinance is presumably motivated not only by a desire to draw a c...
7	287	If others should approach, say, a caravan, we commonly yield the road, kneeling beside it, facing it, in obeisance, until the dust, the bells, passes.
11	1160	"And did you not, even as a free woman, kneel in the dust beside the palanquin, your mask taken from you, and kiss and lick the blood from his sword?" "Yes," she said.
19	213	dust and tiny particles pelted us.
28	6	There were also, in the lofty, circular, sunlit room, the light coming through high, narrow windows, dust motes visible within it, two guards of the court.
6	71	"We have items from various cities, and from villages and districts, brought in from time to time, requisitioned, and such," said the fellow from the house.
8	952	She was to know nothing, it seemed, of its cities or countries, its geography, its history, its politics, such things.
10	494	In the conquest of cities, of course, or in elaborate raids, in which perhaps outlying villas, or cylinders, are struck, by several men, one may take more time, sorting out captures into field girls, kitchen-and-laundry girls, kettle-and-mat girls, tower slaves, pleasure slaves, and su...
11	1605	In many of the Gorean cities there is a caste structure which is significant not only socially but politically.
13	662	"In some cities they are popular," said another.
13	1039	"In many cities," she said, "such work is performed by free women of low caste, but here it is done by slaves.
14	731	One does not have free women from foreign cities wandering about above".
14	770	And I supposed that would hold for other towns and cities on this world, as well.
18	60	Indeed, sometimes cities compete in such modalities, each seemingly eager to stimulate the admiration, if not excite the envy, of her neighbors.
18	62	To be sure there is little need for covertness in these matters for there are many cities on this world, mostly small, but some quite large, and each city usually will have its quota of, or plenitude of, allies and enemies.
18	78	There seems, incidentally, to be a general view among hostile cities that the women of the enemy belong to them in some sense, that they are already in some sense their slaves—it is then just a matter of bringing them into their rightful collars.
18	143	Indeed, even in certain Gorean cities, it might have counted as such.
19	39	Cleared entrants, usually cleared in their own cities, flying under appropriate passage banners, report to them, for hooding and transport.
19	53	In many cities we are not permitted to touch money.
19	1106	The men of this world tend to be particular about their cities.
24	714	Might she not be anywhere? On this world were there not hundreds of cities and thousands of slaves? No, from him she would in all likelihood be safe, unless her present master, if she might prove somewhat displeasing, might decide, perhaps as a joke, to return her to him.
29	136	Much did the house of William suffer, in its resources, and more, in its reputation, in its very name, honored for generations in a dozen cities.
29	140	But, know that even now, now, in a time in which our fortunes have been recovered and more, in a time in which our name shines again, and more brightly than ever, in a dozen cities, in a time in which we have become first among the houses of our caste in Harfax, we still remember that ...
33	10	In some cities it is regarded as a capital offense to make or be found in possession of a city map.
40	338	"To be sold in different cities," he said.
42	70	Among many young men the theft of slaves, and even of free women, from enemy cities is regarded as a sport.
46	306	In many cities, it is a capital offense for a slave to touch a weapon.

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	1	Coffled Ellen, choking in the dust raised by the clawed feet of restless saddle tharlarion, stirring, grunting, snorting, coming and going, seemingly all about her, miserable in the heat, shutting her eyes against the dust and glare, the sun burning on her back, weeping,...
20	7	How hot the sun was! There was so much dust! It was hard to breathe, for the dust.
7	201	The duties she was taught were common to most women of her sort, of whatever variety, but tended to be especially associated with such as served in the towers, in the high cities, in the cylinder cities.
11	697	A rather different sort of slave, familiar in the "high cities," in the "cylinder cities," one more domestically oriented, is the "tower slave".
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 ...
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 from dust
17	1225	Mirus, Mirus, she thought, now your vengeance on me is complete! There was suddenly a titanic snapping in the air yards away, and it seemed that a mighty wind exploded in the area, scattering and whirling dust and straw.
18	533	There was much dust, everywhere.
18	534	She felt the dust, thick, deep, soft, beneath her bare feet.
18	536	She noted motes of dust adrift in the light.
20	51	She stood then in the dust and heat, her head bowed.
20	104	I can scarcely breathe for the dust, thought Ellen.
20	117	Dirt and gravel flew up from the animals' passage, pelting, stinging the startled, chained girls, who shrank back, whimpering, and a rising, thick, floating cloud of dust, bright in the hot sun, lingered and swelled behind, enveloping the line.
20	119	Then the dust settled, and Ellen felt it on her face, on her eye lashes, her breasts and body.
20	121	She could feel the dust on her lips, as though in cracks there.
20	126	Putting down her head, she tried to wipe her eyes, to free them, and her eyelids, of the dirt and dust, and powdered grit, which clung about them, and was lodged within them.
20	134	And so she stood there, her feet in the hot, thick dust, chained with the others.
20	158	Once again the air burned with a choking, agitated smoke of grit and dust.
20	169	She put her head down, under the merciless sun, in the dust and heat.
20	710	She was covered with dust.
20	771	Then she groveled in the dust, weeping, curling up, drawing up her knees, trying to cover her head and face, as she was whipped.
20	773	Ellen lay in the dust, on the chain, sobbing.
20	953	After their feeding and watering the girls were permitted to lie in the dust and rest.
20	980	Then, profoundly disturbed by this news of some victory by Cos, though its nature seemed uncertain, Ellen lay again down in the dust to seize what rest she might.
20	1027	There was the tread of the soldiers, the grunting, and scampering about, coming and going, scattering dust, of saddle tharlarion.
20	1039	Quickly, as she approached them, miserable, on the chain, covered with dust, she put her head down and brought her hair before her face, to conceal her features.
21	70	She was mere property! She was slave! How she was looking forward to the opportunity to clean her body, after the heat, the dust, the coffle! There was to be a festival camp, celebrating yet another victory of invincible Cos.
21	208	If these were sobering thoughts, the girls, oblivious of such considerations, and with all the innocence of the lovely, curvaceous animals they were, laughed and chatted, and sported about in the water, splashing and playing, the heat and dust of the march put now behind them.
27	1340	She remembered incidents in the house of Mirus, many in her training, her sometimes almost hysterical despair of ever being able to please her instructors, their impatience with her, her deferent and lengthy serving of formally clad diners, she naked and in a collar, her abuse at the hands of Mirus,...
30	90	Know what it is to actually wear a collar and be owned! Know what it is to kneel naked, chained, before your master! Know what it is to cast him shy, fearful glances, trying to read his moods! Know what it is to service his compartments, perhaps shackled, to make his couch, to dust and...

Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
80	199	The high cities, as it is explained to me, are usually larger cities, with many towers, and bridges amongst the towers.
2	32	It seems likely he would have shortly lost consciousness when he became aware, dimly, that one of the loose containers was suddenly moving about, and it seemed a wind of tiny particles, like a dry blizzard of dust and scraps, invaded the corridor.
39	46	Cabot, who had noticed the Kur who had seemingly issued the order, put him next to the dust, he spinning about, and falling against the wall.
39	92	Then, suddenly, and Cabot had not seen it, another of the Kurii spun about and rolled in the dust, scratching at it, an arrow through its neck.
51	14	There seem no marks in the floor dust".
61	156	They lay in the dust to one side.
61	163	Lord Grendel threw the killer human from him, he rolling yards away in the dust.
77	289	She turned her head aside, against the dust, and then, tears streaming down her face, turned again, to look with terror and horror upon the battle.
78	148	Following this cast Lord Grendel dragged Flavion, who was still alive, as Kurii are robust and tenacious of life, by his lamed, left leg, through the dust back to the center of the compound, where he turned him to his back, and looked down upon him.
78	150	The dust was like red mud, the stumps partly sunk into it.
78	154	Flavion lay in the dust, flopping and screaming.
78	162	Flavion managed to turn himself to his stomach and began to crawl on the bloody stumps, leaving prints and tracks of blood in the dust, toward the gate, but could approach it no more closely than some four or five yards.
1	105	Individuals of this caste are of great value to their cities, their employers, their princes, so to speak.
1	109	Let them laugh and fight, and drink and quarrel, and seek their slaves in conquered cities and taverns, and chain them and put them to their feet, and not inquire into the dark and mighty processes which have bred them, which have made them so real, and necessary.
1	217	Block measurements, taken presale, are commonly, and in some cities this is required by law, included in a female's sales information.
1	847	Various cities, too, have their brands, such as Treve, and Ar, and some populations, as well, such as those of the nomadic Wagon Peoples.
1	954	The cities need not be at war.
1	956	To be sure, some deference is usually accorded to allied cities, which, however, are few, as Gorean polities tend to be mutually suspicious of, and often hostile to, one another.
1	962	Travel between cities is usually accomplished in caravans, which affords some protection, both to goods, and females.
1	970	It is, in most cities, incidentally, a capital offense for a slave to impersonate a free woman.
3	160	At least that is so in those areas with which I am most familiar, and certainly it is so in the high cities".
3	161	"High cities?" "Ar," said he, "Turia, Ko-ro-ba, Thentis, Treve, Venna, and such".
3	162	"Those are cities?" "Yes," he said.
3	163	"Most are tower cities, but less so Turia and Venna".
3	164	"What are tower cities?" "The name is presumably because of the architecture of the primary defensive structures, keeps, usually reached by means of unrailed, narrow bridges".
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 cities
11	96	"If you accept the offer," said Peisistratus, "the medallion of a world's Ubar might be yours, power, hundreds of cities, rivers of wealth, innumerable pleasure gardens, exquisitely stocked with game and slaves".
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.
15	16	Does it not beg to be torn away? It is no wonder that slave raids in the high cities commonly target slaves.
26	219	"The gates of many cities have been unlocked with a key of silver," smiled Peisistratus.

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
25	102	They were not dupes, fools, madmen, too stupid to understand how they had been manipulated by others, young men drunk with the wine of death, who think they will somehow thrive in the cities of dust.
13	47	Interestingly there was no coin box on the necks of the slaves, as would be the case with "coin girls" in some cities, usually port cities, or coin dishes beside the mat, as in great camps, and such, in which coins might be left by clients or patrons.
16	159	A change of wind, a rising of dust, a prolonged battle, in which the angle of the sun changes, the loss of a commander, the loss of a standard, an unexpected, unpredictable wave of alarm in the ranks, an unfounded rumor of entrapment, the failure of a wing to hold, the hesitation or co...
16	251	It is a quiet business, without drums and trumpets, less apparent to the eye than wagons, bellowing tharlarion, the dust of marching columns, trains of cordaged artillery drawn through mud, and such, but I think it not less essential.
17	70	I saw another net fall gracefully, like a broad, circular, open veil, on a bird starting to climb from the plaza, and the bird fluttered back to the earth, screaming, protesting, rolling in the dust, the rider caught in the safety straps, and then the helmeted head was twisted about, a...
17	72	The tarnsman was carried a dozen yards before he slipped from the lance, to the stirred dust below.
18	11	dust swirled, raised by war and the beating wings of tarns, the gigantic, monstrous saddle birds of Gor.
18	14	I saw an Anangan dart lodge itself in a fellow's throat, who tried to pull it free, and, blood bursting from the neck, he sprawled into the dust, the vessel of the artery exposed, as it had caught behind the point of the dart, which point is broad, and barbed.
18	508	And later those in the camp rejoice, seeing the dust approaching, which they take for the rapid, joyful return of their forces, triumphant.
19	7	There was much dust about, like gray clouds, settling slowly, from the movements of the tharlarion.
2	126	Accordingly, this application of the stabilization serums is frowned upon in Gorean society, and in many cities is illegal.
2	234	Slavers, of course, come from various cities to bid.
2	369	The common camisk is seldom worn publicly, in cities.
5	56	cities had been lost in such matches, and slaves frequently changed hands.
5	571	More than once the surrender of cities has not been accepted, but they have been leveled and burned, simply because a banner had been unfurled.
5	586	There were always such, in all cities, attentive to the directions of shifting winds.
5	853	This is perhaps difficult for those unfamiliar with Gor to understand, one supposes, but the matter is cultural, certainly in the high cities.
7	101	Slaves, on the leashes of their masters, are a common sight in the high cities, in the streets, on the bridges, and so on.
8	351	In cities, sometimes display leashes are used, of colored leather, of beaded, even jeweled, leather, or of light, closely meshed lengths of chain, sometimes of silver or gold.
9	466	Those of the high cities are so elegant and efficient in these matters that it would do us great honor to recognize, if we did, the perfections which they have developed in their handling of women".
10	59	In the high cities "display slaves" are not uncommon.
12	38	This made sense to me, as whatever might be afoot in the forest would not be likely to be of sufficient size and potency to effect much success against Gorean cities with their own tarn forces, which might number in the hundreds and, as of old, in Ar, in their thousands.
12	240	"Some slaves work in the cots, in the cities," I said.
13	237	A capture and impalement of such consequence would surely have been noted, and broadcast, I thought, throughout a dozen cities and a hundred camps.
13	241	Too, I thought his capture would be a coup of considerable dimension, and one whose fame would be soon registered on the public boards of a dozen cities, whispered about a thousand campfires, even as far north as the forests, but, here, too, I had, as yet, heard nothing.
16	255	Is not deception another name for war? There are men, and cities, which gold can buy.
16	262	There are always jealousies, resentments, hatreds, and factions in cities, and the clever will exploit them to his own advantage.
16	268	How can the eye see itself, and even in water, or burnished plates, or bright mirrors, it sees but an image of itself, and who knows what lies behind it? "Tarnsmen," said Lord Nishida, "have been recruited from better than two dozen cities".
17	32	And what man does not want one at his feet? Lord Nishida had informed me that these tarnsmen had been recruited in more than two dozen cities.
18	525	"Why should a slave be granted even a moment of freedom?" I include, in passing, for those who might find it of interest, the following brief, ritual dialogue, in the form of a simple question and answer, which, in certain cities, is not unusual between a master and his slave.

Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
24	378	"Certainly you have sent many before you to the cities of dust," I said.
4	197	Indeed, how is a state to wax great save by the spear, the blade? If this is the way of Cos, is it not also the way of Ar, Turia, and a hundred other cities? How are trade routes, cities, fields, mines, slaves, and such to be conveniently purchased save by steel? The larl...
3	1145	I shut my eyes against the dust.
7	17	One, the slave girl, Alcinoë, once the high lady, Flavia of Ar, confidante even of the former Ubara, Talena, had been sent to me in my cell, barefoot and tunicked, to humbly serve me, to bring me, in her abject servitude, a free man, now unspeakably above her, she now less than the dust...
16	8	Oddly, however, once or twice, we had noted a dark cloud in the sky, from which a dust of ash had coated sails and fallen to the deck.
19	197	Her hair and body had been covered with soot and ash, her skin had been pelted with dust and scalding cinders, her tunic had been partly burned.
21	510	Doubtless she had thought to torment a common soldier, one farther beneath her than the very dust beneath her slippers.
21	511	But now, under the lamp light in the corridor, she stood before me, a slave, far less now the dust beneath the poor laborer's sandals, whose annual wages once might not have purchased one of her robes.
22	251	I saw more than one quiver empty, a last arrow spilled beside a fallen bow in the moist, scarlet dust.
24	72	Too, it saves on garmenture, which might be soiled in a long march, perhaps in dust, or mud.
32	1	Lines are Severed; Torches Fall Into the Sea dust was roiling in the courtyard from the beating of wings.
37	1325	I felt the dust of a road beneath my feet.
1	283	It was only after that time that some masters outside of Ar, in various far cities, and even as faraway as Cos and Tyros, in their contempt for the new Ubara, regarded as having betrayed her Home Stone, might place that now-contemptible name upon some slaves, usually deficient or tempo...
1	291	In the disruptions and chaos ensuing upon the loss of the Home Stone, leagues of cities, enemies to Ar, under the leadership of an Assassin, Pa-Kur, marched on the troubled, disunited city.
1	386	"Thousands before, hundreds even now, of bounty hunters," said a man, "in hundreds of towns and cities, in hundreds of hamlets and villages, seek the former Ubara, Talena of Ar".
2	202	They were celebrated by cities and villages.
3	22	I had feared that my captors might have been of cities hostile to Cos and Tyros, but now, as the accents of all, those of the islands and the continent, seemed those of free men, and lacked the softness, deference, and submissiveness of slaves, I gathered that my captors were of divers...
3	1130	'Search parties emanating from Ar and leagued cities use many such places as the village of Ragnar, scattered over thousands of pasangs,' he said, 'in their endeavors to track and apprehend fugitives.
8	387	The free woman regards such garments as a degradation, an unspeakable humiliation, a badge of shame, fit for natural slaves, say, women of alien or enemy cities.
9	190	Some spoke of them, as well, as the "cots," though they bore little resemblance to the common tarn cots, if only because of their vast dimensions, even to those which might be maintained by professional tarnsters in the high cities, specializing in freight and haulage.
9	194	Unlike many of the tarn cots in the cities, which are lofty and allow room for perches at various heights, the ceilings of these areas were not more than five yards in height.
10	32	Some cities have been attacked during the Waiting Hand, sacked, and burned, citizenries refusing to leave their homes, refusing to take up arms, at such a fearful, inauspicious time.
17	109	Another discouragement of slave theft, aside from commonalities of Home Stone, and such, is that slaves, particularly in the high cities, tend to be abundant, and cheap.
17	124	Thus it is preferred on the walls of cities, at bridgeheads, in the fields, on the decks of warships, and such.
20	257	I used my sex, as I could, bestowing cordialities, hinting at favors, to influence men who, entrapped in the conventions of the cities, refrained from tearing away my veils and robes and putting me, as I deserved, in the bracelets of a slave.
20	258	How natural then that they should seek the beauties of the paga taverns, that they should raid far cities to bring back women, much as I, naked, in coffles.
22	179	Indeed, in some cities, men returning with such wounds are put to death.
26	71	In some Gorean cities slaves are put in the padlocked neck chain, with the slave disk, identifying her master, and sometimes noting her current name, but the locked metal collar is far more common, indeed, almost universal.
26	73	Some cities use the slave anklet on the left ankle, which is attractive.
29	42	They have sought your service, paid for it with good coin, which you accepted, and brought you here, in trust, across vast, green Thassa, to the World's End, that you may prove your worth and earn your pay, that you may teach those of these islands the honor, the prowess, and might of the archers, s...

Book 31. (30 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
35	66	Given the limited numbers of Kurii on Gor at this time, they will begin by forging alliances with dissident elements in given cities, the resentful, envious, and jealous, those of thwarted ambition, and such, for there are always such, to bring them to power in their own cities
10	591	Such things are apparently common in Gorean cities, at least in the high cities, the tower cities, for the convenience of masters and mistresses.
35	213	"These concealments, of course," he said, "are intended to be of use to the conspirators in their communications within and between cities, between cities and the Cave, and so on".
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...
16	182	"The air, and light, is better forward, and there is not much dust".
17	14	Across the track it was hard to see for the dust.
18	1136	"dust," said Astrinax, shading his eyes.
18	1171	Far down the road, behind us, one could make out a darkness, some dust rising from the road.
21	121	dust was all about.
21	135	Then it was half turned about, in a swirl of dust.
21	147	I saw blood on the hump, running in the dust with which the beast was covered, and the beast then, with an enraged squeal, charged the nearest hunter.
21	154	The dismounted rider then regained his saddle and he, and the others, sped about the wagon, raising dust, following the first rider, and the running tarsk.
22	5	Surely the hunters had seemed concerned, even contrite, and had not made their own camp, but dragged, on ropes, through the dust, the bodies of two slain tarsk back to our wagons.
26	359	Perhaps you will not be thrown to sleen!" The dust, scattered and stirred, was wet with sweat and tears.
2	35	In this narrative I am to deal, at least largely, with certain dark matters, political and military, matters which few here suspect, matters certainly unbeknownst to the vast majority of you, you who, in your scattered communities, in your villages, your towns, and walled cities, inhab...
2	59	She will speak of cities, and secret places, of a metal box, a Metal Worker, of beasts, large, hirsute, and dangerous, of an underground workshop, of pride, ambition, and devotion, of warriors and slaves, of gold and steel, of cords, and silk, of ships and worlds.
3	6	On my old world, such things would buy cities and ransom Ubars.
5	58	Do we not serve in the paga taverns, sometimes nude and belled? Do we not, sedately tunicked, as serving slaves, assist free women with their complex ornaments, their perfumes, robes, and veils? Do we not gather gossip for them, and carry messages for them in their petty intrigues and assignations; ...
7	745	To be sure, much depends on the particular woman, the caste, the city, and sometimes, I understand, even the neighborhood or district within the city, as a Gorean city, as many cities, often contains a medley of subcultures.
8	1192	Violations of their weapon, transportation, and communication laws are often, when discovered, followed by sanctions of fearsome import, the destructions of cities, the seizures and flingings of tides, the melting of mountains, the geysers and floodings of fiery magma, inexplicable bur...
8	1198	Had I been born on Gor and you on Earth, would I not, then, be the Gorean and you the barbarian? It is not our fault if we do not know what you know, your caste customs, your legends, your political arrangements, the histories of your cities, your holidays, your famous generals, musici...
8	1826	It is in terms of those that one numbers her amongst the "high cities".
8	1832	I suppose that cities are similar, on whatever worlds they may be found.
10	282	Messages of great importance, such as might be transmitted between armies, or cities, are carried by free persons, and are sealed with wax, bearing the imprint of a signet ring.
10	598	Laundering is done variously in the cities.
10	599	Most cities have public laundries to which garments, sheets, linen, and such, may be taken, weighed, and washed, and, for an additional fee, ironed.
10	780	And, of course, there are hundreds of cities, mostly small, even in known Gor, and each would presumably have its emporium for collar-girls.
10	845	He companions to forge alliances, protect borders, acquire cities, extend dominions, obtain access to trade routes, a port on the shores of Thassa.
10	846	You are unknown, and unconnected, you bring no cities or armies into his grasp, no fleets, or cavalries of tarns.
14	38	The coin stalls were, in effect, exchanges, as, in a market of the size of that of Cestias, in a city such as Ar, buyers and sellers from diverse cities might mingle and carry diverse currencies.

Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
37	177	But even for his resources, this would be an expense which might ruin cities, and leagues of cities.
7	1	I, and certain others, had been kept in that basement, or dungeon, at the foot of the stairs, with the damp, soiled straw, and the dim light, filtering in from above, in its narrow, dust-sprinkled shaft of illumination, for days.
9	283	"And so," said the newcomer, "women who once would not have consented to speak to you through the curtains of their palanquins, women who would have scorned you in Ar, who held themselves so superior, who would have regarded you as less than the dust beneath their slippers, now, if suf...
14	102	Four more strokes, and there was a gross splintering, a breakage of wood, and the tree fell crashing to the earth, half obscured by a rising cloud of dust and leaping, shimmering leaves.
15	84	dust scattered about.
15	134	The fellow who had arrested our progress, then, with a snap of wings and a shower of dust, departed the field.
41	2	Tula, Mila, and I rejoiced to have the opportunity to clean our bodies, to wash away, even in the chill, moving water, the sweat, grime, and dust of the trekking.
4	152	Some auctioneers work in different markets, even in different cities.
4	195	In many cities, Ar, Besnit, Thentis, Ko-ro-ba, and such, the tarsk-bit is more valuable, there being most often eight or ten to a copper tarsk.
6	77	It was claimed by some that the work of the occupying forces was done, that Ar had been taught her lesson, her walls razed and her coffers looted, that she was now impoverished, docile, and subdued, and was no longer a threat to the civilized cities.
6	82	In any event, several of the coastal cities and towns, and, in particular, Brundisium, were now filled with what might, I suppose, be accounted refugees.
6	94	Many were currently being offered in the markets of Brundisium and other coastal cities.
6	102	It was said, too, that various towns and cities, even villages, in the island ubarates themselves were not enthusiastic about the turn of events, that they were less than willing to welcome the return of defeated, penurious veterans.
6	228	The staters of Brundisium are prized on the Streets of Coins in a hundred cities.
7	281	Membership in the Merchants, of course, might range from itinerant peddlers to the masters of great houses, dealing with a dozen cities.
7	285	It is said they own councils and sway law, that their gold hides and whispers behind thrones, that cities heed their words, that Ubars are often in their debt.
8	48	Surely there were no great cities, no wars, in the north.
11	9	This is particularly so within cities, where distances are short.
11	36	It was a far cry from the provenders I had been taught to prepare in the house, ranging from roasted, seasoned bosk and tarsk, and fresh plate breads, with honeys and butters, to frosted pastries and decadent, creamed sauces which, in some cities, were outlawed by sumptuary laws.
13	8	As animals we need not be permitted clothing, but, I am informed, many cities recommend the clothing of slaves in public, assuming that the clothing makes it clear that we are slaves, which injunction the masters see to, to their satisfaction.
14	72	"I know of no cities in the vicinity," I said, "no walls to raze, no palaces to pillage, no gold to seize, no trade routes to command, no women to collar".
14	462	"Ar is free, the island ubarates are quiescent, there are, as far as I know, only the usual raids and skirmishes amongst the cities".
15	188	This is more common in certain cities than in others.
15	686	Perhaps this evaluation, insofar as it might pertain to anyone, pertained only to certain tree women of the high cities, and, perhaps then, of the higher castes.
15	690	On the other hand, many, it is said, "court the collar," and it seems to be the case that "tree captures," in their hundreds or thousands, as in the wars, the raids of slavers, the seizures of caravans, the depredations of pirates, the fall of cities, and such, once collared, once owne...
25	19	In the cities, the tenth Ahn is commonly marked by the ringing of a great bar, or bars, which may be heard from wall to wall.
29	164	Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls.
33	16	In some cities it is a capital offense for her to do so.
37	176	Indeed, he had, in the absence of other intelligence, organized a small army, recruited from a dozen cities, to close the mouth of the Alexandra, to prevent the exiting of this ship, should it exist.
38	154	"One hunts women where there are women, where game is plentiful, in cities, towns, even peasant villages, on traversed roads, on caravan routes, on pilgrimages to the Sardar, and such, not in the wilderness of the northern forests, not on the scattered, rocky skerries of Torvaldsland, ...

Book 33. (29 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
29	56	In many cities the caste is outlawed, but there are those, in such cities or elsewhere, who will pay for its services.
10	9	As tarns alit several emitted tarn cries, as though to announce their arrival and claim for their own the ground on which, wings snapping, dust in the wind, they stood.
10	106	The mighty wings of my tarn struck the air, and I saw one fellow stumble, his forearm over his eyes, lost in a sheet of driven dust, and I was aflight.
11	3	It had been but a few Ehn since our lookouts had spotted the approaching tarn, which soon alit in a flurry of wind and dust, on the small assembly ground amongst the cots and tents of the new encampment.
13	278	You are less valued than the dust beneath the sandals of such a one.
17	210	With a blast of dust, and a snapping of wings, Tyrtaios brought the tarn down some forty or fifty paces away, at the far end, to the right of the archery court.
21	371	I heard a cry of pain, the snap of mighty wings, and dust carried even to where I stood, wavering, looking backward.
30	312	I could understand her desire to bathe, for her body bore not only some residue of Tajima's early ministrations in the camp where we had first made contact, his application of dirt, ashes, soot, and such, designed to confirm her status as a field slave, but now, as well, the stains and flakage of dr...
32	172	On continental Gor, girls are often coffled naked, which protects tunics against the dust of the trail, and such, and are usually chain-coffled, rather than rope-coffled.
44	224	The object had passed over us, and a moment later there was an explosion in the courtyard below and behind the parapets, and a geyser of dust sprang up behind us, and, almost at the same time, a twisting skewer of fire tore forth from what seemed a maw of the thing, and a segment of th...
44	227	The sight of this thing, the noise, the smoke, and flames, the spillage of rocks and the spumes of dust, brought the tarn cavalry wheeling about, to do battle, to protect the holding.
57	255	"We wish a woman to serve us, to look after us, to clean, dust, launder, prepare bedding, cook, and such".
61	177	Who would not investigate such an anomaly? The great wings snapped over my head, dust pelting me, flames roaring to the sides, as though driven by the wind, the tarn hovering, and I grasped the flung, uncoiling, knotted rope, and, in a moment, was swinging wildly beneath the climbing t...
2	92	In most cities it is a capital offense for a slave to touch a weapon.
9	74	At the same time more than a thousand mercenaries streamed forth from the barracks, sheds, ancillary buildings, and the castle itself, crying out a hundred war cries from a hundred cities.
12	421	Few Gorean cities are without their baths, public and private, which are sometimes extensive and luxurious, with shops, arcades, restaurants, gymnasiums, libraries, and such.
25	319	In the high cities, free women are not permitted in paga taverns.
27	19	Some cities maintain semi-military units, skirmishers, light bowmen, and slingers.
30	348	"In the high cities, on the continent, particularly on holidays, masters often promenade their slaves, on the boulevards, in the plazas, on the high bridges.
41	26	Large camps, transient cities of tents, attract their multitudes, rather as a flowering meadow its cloudlike swarms of tiny, four-winged zars.
42	306	They are not just chaining the women who flee from burning cities.
46	64	On continental Gor, it might be mentioned, women are often companioned similarly, but less so in the high cities, presumably for cultural reasons.
54	183	There have been numerous instances not only of the clash of armies before walled, besieged cities, sometimes almost daily, often involving challenges and conflicts of champions, but there is always the danger of destructive, nocturnal raids, designed to burn tents and spread panic, or,...
55	118	Indeed, in the frequent wars amongst cities, in the waxings and wanings of victories, in the advancing and receding tides of conflict, it is not unusual that a woman captured from one city and routinely enslaved may on another day, in the fortunes of raiding and war, fall into the hand...
58	148	"She," said Tajima, "is not one of your distant, exalted free women on the continent, one of mighty towers and high cities, resplendent in the rich, colorful robes and veils of concealment, one possessing a Home Stone.
60	310	Indeed, on some of the narrow, graceful, soaring bridges of the high cities of the continent, arching amongst lofty keeplike cylinders, there were many accounts of such high and dangerous passages being defended by one or two men against dozens.
61	639	She was garbed in the colorful robes of concealment common in the high cities, and gracefully veiled.
61	647	I suppose that it is difficult for one unfamiliar with Gorean culture to appreciate the social status of the Gorean free woman, at least in the high cities.
61	727	Such wealth would buy fleets, armies, and cities.

Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
53	4	The high cities of Gor are, for the most part, within the pomeriums, or legal boundaries, of the cities, tower cities.
61	872	Similarly, certain cities are allied, some cities are colony cities founded by emigrants from a mother city, and so on.
60	67	"How can one better approach the cities of dust," he said, "than with a light step and a laugh on one's lips?" "I shall plead on your behalf," I said.
60	259	"How better to go to the cities of dust?" he asked.
23	230	About his throat was a laborer's brown sweat scarf, which might be raised about the face, to protect one from dust, or conceal the features.
57	225	Such a splendid host, so eager to please his guests! How he would pander to the High Ones! He would pour oil, explosive dust, on fire!" "I do not understand," said Kurik.
8	19	The societal position of the Gorean free woman, incidentally, particularly in the high cities, is far higher than that of the average free woman of Earth.
8	228	cities may exchange slaves.
9	136	Also, allegiance to a Home Stone, and frequent internecine warfare, tends to keep the Gorean population decentralized, so that ambition and intelligence does not, over time, gravitate toward particular cities, say, larger, wealthier population centers, to the detriment of other municip...
9	543	cities have been bartered for a woman you might adjudge plain.
10	146	One need not risk one's life for them, raid caravans, fight wars, sack and burn cities, and so on.
10	158	In some cities, there are eight copper-tarsks to a silver tarsk, and, in others, as in Brun­disium, where many land and sea routes converge, and business tends to be brisk, one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk.
11	21	How it pleases a man to have a slave at his feet, and how it pleases a slave to be at the feet of a master! I used such occasions to deepen and broaden my knowledge of Gor, of its castes, customs, terrains and cities, governances, Ubarates, clans, beliefs, plants, fruits and vegetables...
11	38	Such things, I gathered, presented their greatest danger to captured free women, from enemy cities.
11	69	Indeed, I was told that it is outlawed on the streets of some cities.
13	7	Administrators, in the high cities, are usually appointed by the Council of Castes; to which body, in theory, they are responsible.
13	45	Indeed, in harbor cities, rich men, doubtless to their annoyance, are often expected to underwrite the repair of docks, the construction of galleys, and so on.
14	36	All wore chaplets of flowers, both men and women, which is not uncommon, I learned, in many Gorean cities and towns on festive occasions, holidays, celebrations, companionings, parties, and such.
14	50	It might be added that in many Gorean cities and towns, professional companions are outlawed, their presence being construed as violating sumptuary laws.
16	45	In some cities, even camisks and ta-teeras were outlawed on the streets.
23	189	Might he not be in a hundred cities, a thousand towns or villages?" "He is in Brundisium, now, or will be shortly," he said.
26	5	In many Gorean cities it is unwelcome, even outlawed.
26	12	In any event, it seems that "black courts" exist in a number of cities, though surely not all, either openly, as in Brundisium, or, one supposes, sometimes, where outlawed, secretly.
26	21	The nearest things to nations would seem to be the large island Ubarates, such as Tyros and Cos, where the sea forms natural barriers, or borders, so to speak, but even there power seems centered in particular cities, such as Kasra and Jad.
28	46	It bore no signs, but that is common in many Gorean cities.
32	8	In Brundisium, as in many cities, much may depend on where one is, and the time of day or night.
36	22	"You might bring that," he said, "in one market or another, where slave raids are infrequent, and the walls of cities have held".
37	157	On the other hand, in the law of Ar, and several other cities, the free woman who pleasures herself with a male slave risks her own enslavement, and becoming the property of the slave's master.
40	23	A reward had been posted for her capture and return to the city, ten thousand gold tarn disks, of double weight, a sum that might buy cities and fertile, well-­harbored islands.
40	80	Whereas most Gorean cities share in, and respect, Merchant Law, the only common law binding scattered, and often hostile, communities, there are no provisions in such law for securing protections against one party's appropriation of another party's methods, processes, formulas, techniq...

Book 35. (30 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	94	Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous voyages? In the high ci...
3	241	Many cities in the northern hemisphere, even cities hostile to Ar, supposedly, privately, use Ar's "Gold Tarn," the single Tarn, to rank, standardize, and value their own currency.
10	238	This sort of thing is more common in port cities than inland cities.
21	78	At that moment, there was a sudden noise, a bright, loud, unexpected, shocking, jagged flash of sound not a foot from my head, and a handful of stone and dust, and debris, gouged, burst forth from the wall.
46	528	Did it not bespeak his triumph and victory? Did it not remind me, by contrast, of my fathomless reduction and absolute subjugation, of my total meaninglessness, that I was now less than the dust beneath a free man's sandals, that I was now a slave? How he had smiled! He knew I could no...
1	18	We are commonly brought to the towns and cities in naked, scorned, marched coffles, subject to the impatient whips and straps of masters, or naked in slave wagons, our ankles shacked to a central bar, parallel to the sides of the wagon bed.
3	235	In many cities for example, there were only four or eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk.
4	133	They can learn even the moods of cities, the existence of disgruntlement and discontent, discover even the threads of plots and conspiracies".
5	51	"And in a hundred other cities, as well," said a slave.
6	131	Sometimes these cities are at war with one another, and the "truce of the port," rather like the "truce of the Sardar fairs," is occasionally sorely stressed.
7	146	"Why would you risk two staters of silver, weighty staters, staters of Brundisium, worth several silver tarsks of most cities, to recover a single slave?" asked he whom I took to be the leader of my abductors.
8	197	Each, I supposed, had its Home Stone, probably as much cherished there, in such a remote, humble place, as were those elsewhere, even those of mighty cities, such as Ar, Turia, or Brundisium.
8	239	I had gathered, from accents, remarks, and such, that they had come from different cities, and different walks of life.
11	32	To be sure, most of the thieving, I gather, is done outside the city, in other cities, Port Kar then affording a refuge to which successful members of that unusual caste may repair to enjoy the profits of their labors.
11	35	I have never been in a Gorean high city, a tower city, but I understand that the towers of such cities are often joined by graceful, narrow, arching bridges, often high above the street level, bridges which may be easily defended or destroyed in the case of an attack, this rendering ea...
11	110	In some cities, free women found guilty of criminal offenses are remanded to Port Kar, with the understanding that they will be branded and collared, and used as urt girls.
11	132	There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of ...
11	136	Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a scribe, perhaps to have a letter rea...
11	249	With such a sum, I understood, one might buy cities.
11	252	She was also said to be the most beautiful woman on Gor, but I am sure this appellation is one shared by dozens of daughters of Ubars and Administrators in dozens of cities throughout Gor.
11	261	She could be in a hundred cities, or remote villas or strongholds, incognito, well secure within the robes of concealment and multitudinous veils befitting her lofty station, as a free woman.
15	169	Tharlarion races in Venna were underway, Centius of Cos, guaranteed safe conduct, had won the kaissa garland in the Argentum competitions; an attempt to elevate and standardize cargo fees on the Vosk had failed; the migration of four-gilled parsit fish had begun; Rencers had raised the shelter price...
15	177	Should such wealth not suffice to purchase cities? At least it might form fleets and raise armies.
23	26	In some cities it can be a capital offense for a slave to don the garmenture of a free woman unless, for some reason, she is ordered to do so.
30	95	That is one of the swiftest, keenest swords I have seen in dozens of cities, or on the islands".
30	125	"Houses" often participate in, and are often featured in, the Gambles of Blades, which "Houses" are itinerant organizations which have no essential relationship to particular Home Stones, cities, regions, or districts.
31	118	"He is a knave, a killer, a fugitive from five cities, and a coward".
33	207	Men in a hundred cities scour mansions and high holdings, prowl roads and byways, follow hints and rumors.
33	251	"From four cities, and three towns," said the man, "from the darkness of forests and the caves of mountains, from dismal alleys and crowded insulae, from the camps of bandits and the lairs of pirates".
33	502	It knows no city as its own, and thus claims all cities.

Book 36. (23 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	39	"How many did you slay?" "And how many," asked Thurnock, "did the braver folks, the true men, of your village dispatch to the cities of dust?" "None that I know of," said Aktis.
3	18	The theory seemed to be that cities command the country and, thus, those who command the cities command the country.
32	68	The center of the column was shattered and, in moments, as corsairs fled, the road was empty save for dust, bodies, and loot bags.
41	1	Besieged It shattered sharp loud startling sudden debris leaping blossoming out and down then the gray waterfall of stone the narrow cascade of loosened rocks the width and weight of it the avalanche the tumbling and rolling of rock and then dust like dry rain choking hard to breathe ...
11	15	In passing it might be noted that, in many cities, it is a capital offense for a kajira to touch a weapon.
20	28	Many castes do tend to look down upon the Peasantry, particularly in the larger cities.
20	30	I had always entertained a high opinion of the Peasants, their wisdom, foresight, and astuteness, their understandings of seasons and weathers, their stalwart copings with winds and rains, droughts and floods, their somehow making fields rich and bountiful, their somehow bringing forth the harvests ...
22	122	"They claim to be exiled Ubaras, from three cities," he said.
26	5	Indeed, in many cities military exercises are timed and regulated by the flute.
29	69	In some cities a free woman foolish enough to enter the precincts of a tavern is arrested, stripped, branded, collared, and sold.
33	12	"We of the Peasantry do not always see things as you of the cities see them".
40	6	Corsairs do not have the numbers or strength to challenge towns or cities.
41	33	In the sieges of tower cities on continental Gor, it is not unknown for free women to shear their hair, offering it for use in the defense of their city.
41	171	That is one reason towns and cities have walls".
41	176	"This is not a war between great cities with enormous resources," said Thurnock.
44	18	It is no wonder that towns and cities are seldom overcome, save by treachery, subornation, or subterfuge.
44	38	These irons, more commonly used for driving animals and criminals onto the sands of arenas in large cities, such as Ar, were formidable defensive weapons, thrust into the faces, eyes, and bodies of men trying to climb over the wall onto the parapet.
44	58	Such things being the case, and their conviction, at least initially, that they were dealing with foes which need not be taken seriously, not formidable foes, but only with unprepared and naive townsfolk, led them to make mistakes which they would be unlikely to have committed at the walls and gates...
48	125	In some cities it is against the law to deface a scroll or damage a musical instrument.
59	32	"Due to the valor and skill of the noble Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, all hail to the sublime Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar, predator to shipping, burner of villages, ravager of towns and cities, has but rece...
60	249	In Sybaris, as in many Gorean cities, there were public baths which provided such amenities.
61	5	A trembling of the lip, a blinking of an eye, a trickling tear, will speak of crumbling walls, of cities in flame, of cosmic conflagrations, of ruined, lost, and dying worlds".
62	84	"Does he truly think that great Lurius of Jad, the glorious Ubar of Cos, would promote the fortunes of thieves and pirates for a mere percentage of their booty? Far more is afoot, cities and fleets, fields of diamonds, seas of gems, rivers of silver and mountains of gold".