It seemed unlikely that Pa-Kur would be so politically naive as to use the girl before she had publicly accepted him as her freecompanion, according to the rites of Ar.
19
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"If you will have me," I said, "as my freecompanion".
19
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"I accept you as my freecompanion".
8
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I Acquire a companion I lunged forward, but was checked by the point of the officer's sword.
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.
19
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The spear flashed through the air like a bolt of lightning and struck the oncoming magistrate in the chest, passing through his body and burying itself in the heart of his companion.
9
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free women on Gor do not travel attended by only a single warrior, not of their own free will.
3
109
Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter.
3
121
I met many Goreans, other than Torm, in these weeks—free Goreans, mostly of the Caste of Scribes and the Caste of Warriors.
3
123
I had seen few women, but knew that they, when free, were promoted or demoted within the caste system according to the same standards and criteria as the men, although this varied, I was told, considerably from city to city.
3
125
Apparently, after having been brought to the planet, they had simply been released, much as animals might be released in a forest preserve, or fish stocked free in a river.
3
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I did learn, casually from a Scribe, not Torm, that slaves were not permitted to impart instruction to a free man, since it would place him in their debt, and nothing was owed to a slave.
4
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If there were natural slaves and natural free men, as the Older Tarl had insisted, those girls were natural slaves.
5
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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
40
I felt that, somehow, in spite of her collar, she was free.
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.
5
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"You are free," I said.
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121
I realized that she had spoken to me as a free woman, using my name.
6
43
She was now clear of the roof, swinging free below the tarn, with the lights of Ar dropping rapidly into the distance below her.
6
45
I couldn't afford to carry the extra weight, but neither could I bring myself to cut the ladder free and send the girl hurtling to her death.
6
48
I passed the outermost cylinders of Ar and found myself free in the Gorean night, streaking for Ko-ro-ba.
6
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"I am from the free City of Ko-ro-ba".
6
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Many of the free women of Gor and almost always those of High Caste wear the Robes of Concealment, though, of course, their garments are seldom as complex or splendidly wrought as those of a Ubar's daughter.
6
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"I slipped free and ran under the wing and hid in the trees.
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"You are free now," I said.
7
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I held the daughter of the Ubar tightly as the insect righted himself, floating in the muck for a second, and then managing to free himself with his eight scrambling legs.
8
19
Now she, like all other members of the household of Marlenus, slave or free, would be subjected to the vengeance of the outraged citizens, citizens who had marched in the processions of the Ubar in the days of his glory, carrying flasks of Ka-la-na wine and sheaves of Sa-Tarna grain, s...
9
6
She was now a free though submitted person, at large on the plains of the empire.
Book 2. (30 results) Outlaw of Gor
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I rejoiced that in at least one city on Gor the free women were not expected to wear the Robes of Concealment, confine their activities largely to their own quarters, and speak only to their blood relatives and, eventually, the freecompanion.
6
126
More commendably, a free woman may herself, of her own free will, agree to be such a companion.
6
34
Indeed, in Ko-ro-ba, a woman might even leave her quarters without first obtaining the permission of a male relative or the freecompanion, a freedom which was unusual on Gor.
6
125
Surprisingly enough, a woman who is bought from her parents, for tarns or gold, is regarded as a freecompanion, even though she may not have been consulted in the transaction.
6
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One may have, at a given time, an indefinite number of slaves, but only one freecompanion.
7
5
I suddenly turned on the warrior on my right with the spear and with the swiftness of the mountain larl sprang at him, evaded his clumsy, startled thrust, and drove my blade between his ribs, jerking it free and turning just in time to meet the sword attack of his companion
8
28
Though on Gor the free maiden is by custom expected to see her future companion only after her parents have selected him, it is common knowledge that he is often a youth she has met in the marketplace.
20
78
The mountains of the Sardar were not such a vast, magnificent range as the rugged scarlet crags of the Voltai, that almost impenetrable mountain vastness in which I had once been the prisoner of the outlaw Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, ambitious and warlike father of the fierce and beautiful Talena, she who...
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But within that six months she is expected to find a man of Tharna to whom she will propose herself as a freecompanion.
5
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I longed for my city, and for my father, the magnificent Matthew Cabot, once Ubar, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and for my friends, the proud Older Tarl, my master-at-arms, and Torm, the cheerful, grumbling little scribe who regarded even sleep and food as part of a conspiracy to separate him from...
6
123
Such a girl, I thought, would surely have a master or, I hoped for her sake, a protector and companion.
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On this, Thorn and his warrior placed their wounded companion.
7
137
And then, as Thorn and the warrior picked up the litter with their wounded companion and began to depart, she said to me, "Good-bye, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba".
9
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He appeared to waver for a moment, then he briefly conferred with his companion.
9
21
Cautiously, his companion remaining behind, he edged out onto the bridge again.
6
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And it is not unusual for a master to free one of his slave girls in order that she may share the full privileges of a freecompanionship.
6
163
"You were free before," I said, "and you are free now".
8
13
Indeed, it was known that some free women actually envied their lightly clad sisters in bondage, free, though wearing a collar, to come and go much as they pleased, to feel the wind on the high bridges, the arms of a master who celebrated their beauty and claimed them as ...
14
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But I knew even as I cried out that I was not free, and I burned with shame that I had so bespoke myself, for how could I be free when others in that gray city were bound? There was the girl, warm-eyed Linna, who had been kind to me, whose auburn hair was knotted with coa...
15
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"Alas," she cried, "not even I can do that, but I can free your friends! I will free them! My freedom for theirs!" I appeared to think the matter over.
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I wondered on how many nights free women, bound captives, had been thrown to his feet to be assessed and purchased, how many free women had in his camp exchanged their rich garments for a camisk and an ankle ring on his chain.
25
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His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay.
26
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If he does not accept her as a freecompanion—and few men of Tharna will be in a mood to extend the privileges of freecompanionship to a silver mask—he may then, without further ado, simply collar her as his slave, or if he wishe...
4
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Coldly I took out my sword and hacked away the head of the beast and jerked the weapon free.
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
66
If she were a free woman and not unfortunate, to be alone in this place was unwise and foolish.
6
120
Gorean women, whether slave or free, know that their simple presence brings joy to men, and I cannot but think that this pleases them.
6
124
There is no marriage, as we know it, on Gor, but there is the institution of the freecompanionship, which is its nearest correspondent.
6
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She was free.
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"Would the Tatrix not free you?" "They would not take me to Tharna," she responded.
Book 3. (30 results) Priest-Kings of Gor
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This harsh treatment, incidentally, when she is thought to deserve it, may even be inflicted on a freecompanion, in spite of the fact that she is free and usually much loved.
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The privilege of using his name, of having it on her lips, is, according to the most approved custom, reserved for that of a free woman, in particular a freecompanion.
1
105
I have been unable to learn the fate of my father, my friends, my warrior companions, and my beloved Talena, she who was the daughter of Marlenus, who had once been Ubar of Ar—my sweet, fierce, wild, gentle, savage, beautiful love, she who is my freecompanio...
4
54
"What of the girl Talena, who was my freecompanion?" "I hope you had a good trip," said Parp.
6
39
It seems she thereafter, because of her embarrassment, would never see the warrior and he, at last, impatient and desiring her, carried her off as a slave girl, and returned to the city months later with her as his freecompanion.
9
7
Thus when she has been irritable or otherwise troublesome even a freecompanion may find herself at the foot of the couch looking forward to a pleasant night on the stones, stripped, with neither mat nor blanket, chained to a slave ring precisely as though she were a lowl...
9
17
The point of this restriction, I suppose, is to draw a clearer distinction between her status and that of a freecompanion.
9
18
At any rate the dignities of the couch are, by custom, reserved for the freecompanion.
9
53
"But my father," said Vika, "whose slave she was, and who was of the Caste of Physicians of Treve, loved her very much and asked her to be his freecompanion".
9
57
"Because she loved him," said Vika, "and did not wish him to take for his freecompanion only a lowly Passion Slave".
9
62
"But in the end," said Vika, "fearing he would slay himself she consented to become his freecompanion".
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"Are you not going to hunt down my father or my freecompanion and kill them if I do not serve you?" "No," said Misk.
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"My freedom," I said, "the restoration of the City of Ko-ro-ba, the safety of its people—to see my father again, my friends, my freecompanion".
26
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"In every woman," she said, "there is something of the freecompanion and something of the Slave Girl".
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I took the small stone in my hands and kissed it, for it was the Home Stone of the city to which I had pledged my sword, where I had ridden my first tarn, where I had met my father after an interval of more than twenty years, where I had found new friends, and to which I had taken Talena, my love, t...
34
83
She knew that I must search out Talena, spend my life if need be in the quest for she whom of all women I had chosen for my freecompanion.
34
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"Perhaps someday," she said, "I will find a freecompanion such as you".
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Perhaps she, my freecompanion, even now lay chained in one of the blue and yellow slave wagons, or served paga in a tavern or was a belled adornment to some warrior's Pleasure Gardens.
20
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His companion then snapped a switch at the wall panel and the globe seemed to come alive, humming and clicking, coils suddenly glowing and tiny signal lights flashing on and off.
20
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"Is your companion well?" asked the attendant at the wall.
20
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"See how he uses the instincts of humans against themselves," he said to his companion.
20
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On my old world when a woman is saved by a man she may, I understand, with propriety bestow upon him a grateful kiss and perhaps, if we may believe the tales in these matters, consider him more seriously because of his action as a possible, eventual companion in wedlock.
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He motioned his companion away.
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Now that it was not being controlled, it hovered where the second Priest-King, probably its pilot, had left it when he had come to investigate the fate of his companion.
34
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"Until you find Talena," he said, "your companion is peril and steel".
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 c...
1
89
They had thought to come to the Sardar as free women, discharging their obligation to the Priest-Kings.
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"When I am alone," she said, "I pretend that I am free, that I am a great lady, the Ubara of a great city, even of Ar—but when a man enters my chamber, then again I am only a slave".
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"With me," I said gently, "you are free".
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"Nonetheless," I said, "with me you are free".
Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor
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"There is no freer nor higher nor more beautiful woman," I said, "than the Gorean freecompanion.
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381
"Few of them," I said, "would be regarded in the cities as a freecompanion".
25
382
"I have never known a woman who was a freecompanion," said Elizabeth.
9
94
Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila ...
25
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His companion, as it is said, is peril and steel.
8
53
The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping,...
10
125
Kamchak! free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she t...
10
69
And indeed it was a free woman who cried those words, Dina, a free woman of Turia.
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67
"I think," roared Kamchak, "I will call her Aphris of Turia!" "free me, Saphrar," cried the girl piteously, "free me!" Saphrar laughed.
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When I had done so, I faced her and said, "To a free woman, one who has been strong, one who has been brave, to Elizabeth Cardwell, to a woman who is both beautiful and free".
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3
Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of Priest-Kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples, an object bestowed on them...
2
19
"But man must be free," I had said.
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 plains to the...
3
1
The Spear Gambling One, the Tuchuk, I might have slain with a cast of the heavy Gorean war spear; the others would have had free play with their lances.
3
114
Then, slowly, the four riders began to walk their mounts about the lance, watching it, right hands free to seize it should it begin to fall.
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6
It seemed scarcely had he passed than the kaiila had wheeled and charged again, this time given free rein, that it might tear at me with its fangs.
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She was a captive female, and must, naturally, submit to her assessment as prize; she must also be, incidentally, examined for weapons; a dagger or poisoned needle is often concealed in the clothing of free women.
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"No!" Then she tried once more to free herself.
8
27
I originally regarded the Omen Year as a rather pointless institution, but I came to see later that there is much to be said for it: it brings the Wagon Peoples together from time to time, and in this time, aside from the simple values of being together, there is much bosk trading and some exchange ...
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...
8
38
The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of t...
8
43
Thousands of the Wagon Peoples, free and slave, dug in the snow to find a handful of grass to feed their animals.
8
78
Slave girls, on Gor, address all free men as master, though, of course, only one such would be her true master.
8
108
I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri...
8
133
The Gorean girl is, even if free, accustomed to slavery; she will perhaps own one or more slaves herself; she knows that she is weaker than men and what this can mean; she knows that cities fall and caravans are plundered; she knows she might even, by a sufficiently bold warrior, be ca...
8
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Moreover, even if she is never enslaved, she is familiar with the duties of slaves and what is expected of them; if she should be enslaved she will know, on the whole, what is expected of her, what is permitted her and what is not; moreover, the Gorean girl is literally educated, fortunately or not,...
8
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I was pleased to see her that much free.
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255
Indeed, I knew that some among the wagons, the girl Hereena, for example, who seemed to bear him a great dislike, had insisted that he, though free, be forced to wear the Kes or the dress of a woman.
8
326
Could she free a hand or foot, or even loosen the thong, Conrad would be disqualified.
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A Tuchuk warrior slashed apart the thongs with his quiva and Tuka, only too pleased to be free of the circle, leaped up and ran quickly to the side of her master.
Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor
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"Keep me! Keep me!" "Would you consent," asked Relius, "to be the companion of a Warrior?" "companion?" she asked.
3
14
As I could I put these thoughts from my mind, but I could not fully escape them, for among them was the memory of a girl, she, Talena, the daughter of the Ubar of Ubars, Marlenus, who so many years before had been the freecompanion of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba, he who...
5
129
"I have heard," she said, smiling up at me, "that it is only a freecompanion who is accorded the dignities of the couch".
5
188
I must know of my city and its fortunes, and of she who had been my freecompanion, these many years lost.
17
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And surely no woman bred to the civilities and courtesies of Earth would care to remain on a world so barbaric, a world perhaps beautiful but yet threatening and perilous, a world in which a woman is seldom permitted to be other than a woman, a world in which even the exalted free<...
24
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"It is the hope of Relius," said he, "that the free woman, Virginia, might care for a simple Warrior, one who much loves her, and accept him as her companion".
24
367
Phyllis, radiant, opened her wrists, extending her hands to Ho-Sorl that he might now lift her to her feet as a free woman, to be his sworn and beloved companion.
5
509
Our eyes told one another, even in the joy of our meeting, that we, none of us, knew the whereabouts of Talena, once the companion, though she the daughter of a Ubar, of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba.
24
339
"And I will accept you as my companion!" Her face was radiant as she waited for him to unlock the steel that encircled her throat.
24
340
"companion?" asked Ho-Sorl.
24
341
"Of course, companion," said she, "you beast!" She spun to face him.
24
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I was once the companion of his daughter".
24
502
Elizabeth and I wished Relius and his companion, Virginia Kent, well.
5
503
My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Older Tarl, Maste...
13
14
The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securing of a female,...
16
111
The Gorean slave girl addresses all free men as "Master" and all free women as "Mistress".
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71
"Oh free me! free me!" She lifted her hands to Cernus.
20
76
"Noble Cernus," she whispered, "if you be my Master, free me, free me!" "Why?" asked Cernus.
24
218
"I free you," said Marlenus, "but I free you that you may be at liberty to go where you will, and do what you wish".
24
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The combination was devastating, tormentingly attractive, an achievement so tantalizing and astoundingly exciting that I would not be surprised if it were adopted throughout Ar by the city's free women, rebellious, proud of their bodies, at last determined to throw off centuries of res...
1
17
Then free women, veiled and in Robes of Concealment, each carrying a jar or canister, approached the structure.
1
31
Averting their eyes the Warriors threw back the scarlet leather that the body might lie free on the spears, open to the wind and sun.
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.
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99
The other three men, hired swords, perhaps once of the Caste of Warriors, laughed at the frantic efforts of the tiny, sniveling wad of flesh to free itself.
2
112
Similarly, slaves, on the whole, do not address free men by their names.
2
204
Moreover, the caravans of Merchants are now given large and free guard".
2
241
And much of the time you would be free, to hunt as you wished.
2
338
"I now understand," she said, "why it is that free women never enter paga taverns".
3
48
Many were the nights a master would be found rolled in robes in a paga tavern, where, for a bit of tarsk meat and a pot of paga, and an evening's free play with customers, he would be permitted to sleep.
3
91
That a slave should play is regarded as an insult to free men, and an insult to the game.
Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor
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Doubtless she had expected to receive that kiss standing in the swirling love silks of the freecompanion, beneath golden love lamps, beside the couch of the Ubar of Cos; but it was not in the white, marbled palace of the Ubar of Cos that that kiss was to take place; and ...
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494
I was no longer worthy of the love of two women I had known, Talena, who had once foolishly consented to be the freecompanion of one now proved to be ignoble and coward, and Vella, Elizabeth Cardwell, once of Earth, who had mistakenly granted her love to one worthy rathe...
9
210
And Talena, too, who had once been my freecompanion, years ago, I had lost.
14
386
"As you know," she said, "I am pledged to be the freecompanion of Lurius, Ubar of Cos.
3
130
The fellow handed his marsh spear to a companion and turned to the bow.
13
19
She had been brought to Cos that Lurius might look upon her and, should he find her pleasing, be proclaimed as his future companion of state.
3
166
"With such a bow," he said to that man, "we might live free in the marsh, free of those of Port Kar".
3
288
But a Gorean slave addresses all free men as Master, all free women as Mistress, though, of course, normally but one would own him.
10
212
My four commercial voyages had been among the exchange islands, or free islands, in Thassa, administered as free ports by members of the Merchants.
10
276
Those I did not wish, for one reason or another, to free, I sold to other captains, or exchanged them for slaves whom I might free, several of whom, when freed, also agreed to serve with me.
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83
freecompanions, on the Feast of their freecompanionship, commonly wear a garland of talenders.
18
360
"I would free you," I said, "but I think they might kill free women, if they found them".
18
395
I had friends among other girls in the house, who were also much free, though not as free as I.
18
485
Port Kar does not recognize the freecompanionship, but there are free women in the city, who are known simply as the women of their men.
18
632
Now, with weapons and courage, perhaps for the first time, they were truly free men, for they could now defend their freedoms, and those who cannot do this are not truly free; at best they are fortunate.
3
64
She stood proudly beside me, straight, her shoulders back, her chin high, as does a free woman beside a miserable slave, naked and kneeling.
4
60
"I am a free woman!" Then she hissed out, "Kiss my feet, Slave".
4
82
How could I face free men again, when in my own heart I could not even face myself? It was hot, and the coils of marsh vine about my throat were hot.
4
135
She would feel free to speak to me.
4
189
She disengaged the fillet and shook her hair free.
4
263
"Know you not," asked she, with sudden insolence and coldness, "that I am a free woman?" I said nothing.
4
264
"Dare you aspire to a free woman?" she demanded.
4
285
But she was free, and I only slave.
5
120
Then I stood free at the pole, save that I wore the collar of marsh vine she had fastened on my neck, and a garland of rence flowers.
5
234
Then she unbound her hair, shaking it free.
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167
"free me!" I heard.
6
169
"free me!" she cried.
6
170
"free me!" I lifted her to a sitting position.
7
5
Then the tetherings on the two burning islands were cut away with swords and they floated away, free, afire into the marsh.
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7
Then these two islands, too, were cut free and floated burning into the marsh.
Book 7. (30 results) Captive of Gor
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138
The freecompanion seeks for her companion, and the slave girl seeks her master".
8
137
"In every woman," said Ute, "there is a freecompanion and a slave girl.
11
275
"How can I ever hope to become a freecompanion," she wept.
13
87
He, and his companion, had cared for her, and had freed her.
13
94
"Do you wish the piece of gold?" asked the chief of the delegation of Initiates, of the leather worker and his companion.
13
99
Ute knew that the leather worker, and his companion, could well use this piece of gold.
13
108
The leather worker and his companion, reluctantly, yielding to her entreaties, accepted the piece of gold.
15
908
If she does not wish to prepare a meal, she and her companion may go to the public tables, or, should they wish, order a girl to bring them food from the central kitchens.
18
19
And I have now learned, from the narrative of the girl, Elinor, that Talena, once my companion, may well be in the northern forests.
18
34
"She was once my companion," I told Telima.
7
91
The bosk, unfortunately for Targo, had either broken free or been cut free.
7
402
A Gorean slave, incidentally, always addresses free men as "Master," and all free women as "Mistress".
8
115
"In many cities a slave girl is more free to come and go, and be happy, than a free woman".
8
1057
I am Elinor Brinton, I cried to myself! She is no slave! She obeys no man! She is free! free! The girl who had worn the black, buttoning, bare-midriff blouse, the tan slacks, who had owned the Maserati, who had had three quarters of a million dollars, who had had a pentho...
8
1116
In any case, they would free me! I would be free! But I stood there on the grass, gagged, my hands bound behind my back, a choke leash on my throat, held by one of the girls.
11
267
"Even free women in the south," she insisted, "the free women of the Wagon Peoples, wear nose rings".
11
1245
We had had trained into our bodies mysteries of movements of which even we, for the most part, were no longer aware, subtle signals of appetite, of passion and of obedience to a masculine touch, movements which excited the fierce jealousy, the hatred, of free women, particularly ignora...
11
1395
I wanted to be free of them! I wanted to be free of them! I did not need friends.
13
31
"I am afraid!" "Do you not understand," she whispered, her eyes filled with joy, "we are free! We are free!" "But what will we do?" I asked.
13
995
free women are never punished, but she is not a free woman.
14
424
One justification, incidentally, aside from a greater splendor of garmenture, and a greater dignity, and such, for the discrepancy between the garmenture of the free woman and the slave is that the difference is designed to lessen the dangers of predation amongst free wom...
14
426
Why risk one's life to obtain a free woman who might turn out to be as "ugly as a tharlarion" when one might, with no more risk, and perhaps less, because the pursuit is likely to be less fiercely pressed, pick up a lovely, easy-to-assess, well-curved slave whose selling price is almos...
15
320
She was free, obviously free.
15
901
free women often treat such girls with great cruelty, and the mere word of a free woman, that she is displeased with the girl's work, is enough to have the girl beaten.
17
103
How can a free woman even understand this? But I do not envy free women.
3
145
I must free myself! But after a few precious minutes of futile struggle I lay bound as perfectly as I had been earlier in the afternoon.
3
169
Then my wrists were free.
3
303
I had escaped! I darted about in traffic, swiftly, free.
3
477
I would get stuck, and would burn my way free.
3
524
I tried weakly to free myself but could not.
Book 8. (30 results) Hunters of Gor
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
6
1004
The companion seeks for her companion; the slave girl for her master.
1
93
"It is long since you have been the freecompanion of Talena, daughter of Marlenus," said Samos.
3
22
I sought Talena, who had once been my freecompanion, now said to be slave of the outlaw girl, Verna.
4
346
Virginia Kent had become the freecompanion of the warrior, Relius of Ar.
6
1003
The Goreans claim that in each woman there is a freecompanion, proud and beautiful, worthy and noble, and in each, too, a slave girl.
16
315
A free woman may go days or weeks without the touch of her companion.
1
166
Would she refuse the gold, the gems, the silks and silvers, and spilling coins, the choice wines, the servants and slaves, the security of the house of Bosk for the lonely freedoms and silences of the salt marshes of the Vosk's vast delta? Did she expect me to hasten after her, piteous...
10
172
Each of them is a known man, a sword companion, one of glorious Ar".
12
69
With her as companion one could be only rich.
12
79
Cos and Port Kar, of course, are enemies, but, if the companion Price offered to Lurius were sufficient, I would not expect him to hesitate in giving me the girl.
12
93
Other things being equal, I would, of course, prefer a beautiful companion.
12
98
Beauty in a companion, of course, is not particularly important.
12
109
It seemed clear that I should take unto myself as companion the daughter of some Ubar or Administrator, but few seemed appropriate.
5
40
Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, all free women as Mistress.
12
162
Might that one then not be the one who, in a tavern or brothel, he would order to a convenient alcove? And would it not be delightful should he discover in the alcove that the woman in his arms was none other than the former free woman, now no longer free, but now enslave...
20
76
"free us!" "free the women!" suddenly cried Sarus.
20
140
I placed my sword in the dirt before the gate and, turning the impaled body about, drew free the great war spear, pulling the shaft through the body, holding the body in place, beneath my foot, to free the shaft.
21
176
"Let me be free to carry the tools for him as a free woman!" But I had bound her as a slave.
1
50
The girl laughed, and continued on, to fetch paga for free men.
1
122
I recalled her from the fields near the Swamp Forest south of Ar, in the caravan of Mintar, at the great camp of Pa-Kur's horde, as she had been upon Ar's lofty Cylinder of Justice, as she had been in lamp-lit Ko-ro-ba, when, with interlocking arms, we had drunk the wines of the free <...
1
260
"You are free," I told the man.
1
274
You are free.
1
286
He now had a name, for he was free.
1
372
"Generosity," I said, "is the prerogative of the free man".
2
67
The oarsmen, as in most Gorean war galleys, are free men.
2
92
I wanted her free, some yards offshore.
2
163
"But I met, in a tavern," said Arn, "a brief-tunicked girl, though free, small, black-haired, black-eyed, named Tina, with a notched ear".
2
164
Some free girls, without family, keep themselves, as best they can, in certain port cities.
2
233
She pulled the woolen fillet from her hair, letting it fall free.
2
357
And these girls were free.
Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
10
155
A man, incredibly enough, may be challenged by such a fellow for his farm, or his companion, or daughter; if the challenge is not accepted, the stake is forfeit; if the challenge is accepted, of course, he who is challenged risks his life among the hazel wands; he may be slain; then, t...
10
365
free women view the platform with stern disapproval; on it, female beauty is displayed for the inspection of men; this, for some reason, outrages them; perhaps they are furious because they cannot display their own beauty, or that they are not themselves as beautiful as women found fit...
1
113
And was it not he who had been victor on the 25th of Se'Kara, in the great engagement of the fleets of Port Kar and Cos and Tyros? He had come to love Telima, and had freed her, but she, when he had learned the location of his former freecompanion, Talena, ...
1
117
And so, Tarl Cabot gone, Bosk, Merchant of Port Kar, had gone to the northern forests, to free Talena, once his freecompanion.
10
94
Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companion<...
1
258
"I was kept in great honor in Ko-ro-ba," she said, "respected and free, for I had been your companion, even after the year of the companionship had gone, and it had not been renewed".
10
82
When the war arrow is carried, of course, all free men are to respond; in such a case the farm may suffer, and his companion and children know great hardship; in leaving his family, the farmer, weapons upon his shoulder, speaks simply to them.
1
229
And so it was that she, Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, then disowned, once my companion, was ushered into my presence.
1
352
"As the daughter of Marlenus of Ar my companion price might be a thousand tarns, five thousand tharlarion!" "You are no longer the daughter of Marlenus of Ar," I told her.
1
406
"No," I said, "take it rather as a gift, as a token of a former affection, once borne to you by one who was honored to be your companion".
10
408
"Bera," said he, "the companion of Svein Blue Tooth".
10
516
Virginia Kent, whom I had known in Ar, years ago, who had become the companion of the warrior Relius of Ar, had been such a girl.
20
32
"Talena, once," I said, "was my companion".
21
19
Accordingly, to her astonishment, Bera, who had been the companion of Svein Blue Tooth, discovered suddenly that she was only one wench among others.
11
249
They were free men, and free men of Gor.
18
20
I wrenched free the blade of the ax, as it slumped down, breaking it free from its jawbone and shoulder.
1
172
The morality of Earth, from the Gorean point of view, is a morality which would be viewed as more appropriate to slaves than free men.
1
187
I know of no prouder, more self-reliant, more magnificent creature than the free Gorean, male or female; they are often touchy, and viciously tempered, but they are seldom petty or small; moreover they do not hate and fear their bodies or their instincts; when they restrain themselves ...
1
188
Many Earth moralities make people little; the object of Gorean morality, for all its faults, is to make people free and great.
1
241
"He is free," said Samos.
1
249
"Not of my own free will did I leave you," said I.
1
347
"free her," I said.
1
349
"Am I truly free?" she asked.
1
364
"I am free," she said.
1
383
"You betrayed your codes! You are a coward! A fool! You are not worthy of me! That you dare ask me if I could care for such as you is to me, a free woman, an insult! You chose slavery to death!" "Why did you tell her of the delta of the Vosk?" I asked Samos.
1
465
In an alcove, after I had used her, she had begged me to buy her, to free her.
1
719
"I am free," she whispered.
1
731
"The two females," I told him, "have recently been free.
2
34
Another was slain when an adder forced into his mouth tore its way free through the side of his face.
3
117
A woman, of course, need not enter the circle of her own free will.
Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
1
298
Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their fr...
9
126
When free women and slave girls are chained together, it is common to respect the distinction between them by chaining them somewhat differently; in this case the free girl's hands were braceleted before her body, the slave's were fastened below her right leg; it is commo...
1
555
Sometimes inert, esteemed Gorean free women cry out in rage, not understanding why their companions have forsaken them for the evening, to go to the paga tavern; there, of course, for the price of a cup of paga, he can get his hands on a silken, belled girl, a slave; the ...
2
175
Following me down the gangplank, clad in a black haik, could have been only my companion, the pitiful free woman who shared my poverty.
24
908
"free me! free me! There are men out there! free me, immediately! Are you a fool? Are you a fool? I demand it! free me, and hide me! You must! I demand it!" I decided that I would have her rebranded.
10
26
Her companion prize, whose name was Tafa, was bound similarly before the saddle of one of Hassan's men.
18
42
He retired to the canopy beneath which, with water, he sat, cross-legged, with his companion.
21
258
I did not question, nor, had I questioned, did I think my companion could have responded to me.
1
149
If you were free, and Gorean, you might be permitted by men to remain as you are, but you are neither Gorean nor free.
2
159
For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
9
178
Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, flowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, ...
14
98
The same girl who, joyously, would lasciviously writhe at the feet of the free male, begging him for his slightest touch, would often, confronted with male slaves, treat them with the contempt and coldness commonly accorded the men of Earth by their frustrated, haughty females; I have ...
24
238
With you I am always free! We can be to one another only as perfect equals, free and perfect equals.
24
410
Do you not remember me, me, Elizabeth Cardwell? Was she not the perfection of a free woman? How could one be more free than she? How could she have a "master"? How could one such as I have a "master"?" "Easily," I said.
24
528
Why should I permit her even a shred of slave silk to hide behind? She seemed desperately determined, of course, still, before me, a former man of Earth, however foolishly, to present the postures, pretenses, and attitudes of a free Earth woman, apparently hoping that I would somehow c...
1
15
I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in...
1
276
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...
1
293
Women who have not been previously owned, like free women, for the most part, even if naked and collared, do not yet understand their sexuality.
1
295
An unowned girl, a free woman, thus, can never experience her full sexuality.
1
297
Sexual heat, it might be mentioned, is looked upon in free women with mixed feelings; it is commanded, however, in a slave girl.
1
552
These indignities, of course, are not inflicted on free women.
1
668
"free her legs of the harness," said Samos to one of the guards.
1
677
Her legs were now free.
1
857
She who had once been Miss Priscilla Blake-Allen, a free Earth girl prior to her enslavement, struggled to her feet, her eyes wide with horror, trying to struggle backward, but the guards' hands on her arms, she now only a nameless slave, for her master had not yet given her a name, he...
1
885
"free it," I said.
1
886
"free it?" he asked.
2
93
The owners of these cafes, usually, would bring with them a chain of their girls, stripped, as free women in the Tahari districts may not be, purportedly a typical selection of the stock available.
2
157
Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd...
2
210
free women, in the Tahari, incidentally, usually, when out of their houses, also measure their stride.
2
213
free girls, not yet companions, but of an age appropriate for the companionship, sometimes signal their availability to possible swains by belling their left ankles with a single "virgin bell".
Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
27
460
She had once been promised to him in companion Contract, as a freecompanion; now he had purchased her as a slave.
22
356
The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo...
6
150
"Thurnus," said his freecompanion, a large, heavy woman, in a rep-cloth veil, kneeling to one side.
6
193
Angrily, Melina, who was the freecompanion of Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, rose to her feet and left the hut.
9
1068
"I am free and companion to Thurnus.
9
2039
"The love I bear you, Thurnus," she said, "is not the love of a freecompanion, but a hopeless slave girl's love, a love so deep and rich that she who bears it can be only her man's slave".
14
239
In looking upon one of us, upon one of two lowly, exquisite slaves, he had been looking upon she who had once been the Lady Sabina, of Fortress of Saphronicus, once intended to sit regally at his side, gloriously robed, his freecompanion.
28
323
He would now free me, and take me as his companion.
4
166
That a wife might wear a new dress and her husband not even notice it would be incredible, if not incomprehensible, to any Gorean, whether a proprietor or a companion.
4
606
He then, without looking at me further, turned to his cup companion on his left.
5
10
The street veil, worn publicly, is extremely bulky, quite heavy and completely opaque; the lineaments of the nose and cheeks are scarcely discernible when it is worn; the house veil is worn indoors when there are those present who are not of the household, as in conversing with or entertaining assoc...
5
135
The Lady Sabina, I learned from Eta, was pledged by her father, Kleomenes, a pretentious, but powerful, upstart merchant of Fortress of Saphronicus, to Thandar of Ti, of the Warriors, youngest of the five sons of Ebullius Gaius Cassius, of the Warriors, Administrator of Ti, this done in a comp...
5
142
The companion Contract, thus, had been duly negotiated, with the attention of scribes of the law from both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria.
5
143
The companion Journey, then, when the auspices had been favorable, as they promptly were, these determined by the inspection of the condition and nature of the liver of a sacrificial verr, examined by members of the caste of Initiates, had begun.
5
160
The Betrothal or companion Journey, ceremonially, included the circuit of the four villages, in each of which a feast was held, and from each of which a wagon of produce was procured, to be added to the dowry riches to be presented to Ebullius Gaius Cassius, father of Thandar of Ti, to...
6
162
She had become his companion.
6
172
"Thurnus," said his companion.
6
184
His companion, I supposed, was no longer attractive to him, or, perhaps, in the prides of her freedom, was too remote to be much in his attention.
7
415
Clitus Vitellius, in spite of the desires of the women of Ar, had never taken a companion.
8
56
Outside the low walls, several individuals observed the proceedings, the balance of the men of Clitus Vitellius, some villagers, including some peasant boys, and Melina, veiled, the slack, fat companion of the huge Thurnus.
8
59
I was a pretty slave girl who had been given to her companion.
8
199
The small crowd which had observed had now dissipated, with the exception of Melina, companion of Thurnus, and two or three peasant boys, who watched me.
9
11
His companion, Melina, had taken the Ta-Teera from me and burned it.
9
453
I had been stung twice across the back of the thighs, below the short tunic, by Melina, companion of my master, Thurnus, when she had hurried me to the kennel.
9
622
"Instead I am only the companion of a village leader.
9
725
"Remain behind, Dina," had said Melina, companion of Thurnus.
9
1001
Normally mating takes place among caste members, but if the mating is of mixed caste, the woman may elect to retain caste, which is commonly done, or be received into the caste of the male companion.
9
1158
From one of the many drawers in the wagon, Tup Ladletender gave into the keeping of Melina, companion of Thurnus, a tiny packet, such as might contain a medicine or powder.
9
1175
"Perhaps, pretty Dina," said Melina, companion to Thurnus.
9
1860
"Drink first, companion," said Thurnus.
Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor
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Sentence #
Quote
3
179
In it a fellow and his freecompanion bickered and struck one another with clubs.
3
427
She is no longer permitted the lofty dignities and proud postures of the exalted free woman; they are now behind her; she no longer now needs be concerned with the protection of, and defense of, and maintenance of, her laboriously, monstrously constructed image, with all its prescripti...
21
13
Because of the body heat of the companion it is much warmer to sleep with someone than to sleep alone.
33
85
"Perhaps then your companion," said Imnak, indicating the Kur with his head, "might enjoy something to eat.
3
404
"Scandalous," said a free woman, to another free woman, who was passing near me.
3
470
She then becomes wild, and free, and sexual, and cares not that she might be scorned by the free either for her miserable condition or helpless appetites; she knows she will be what she must; she has no choice; she is slave.
6
663
"I free you! I free you!" she said.
15
539
A true liberation of women might be desirable, one which would permit them to be themselves, whatever they might be, a liberation that would free a woman to be feminine rather than constrict her to the imitation of manhood, a liberation without preset images and goals, which would perm...
1
91
Perhaps that is why free women guard themselves so sternly against them.
1
93
Then she yields, as she must, and as a free woman may not, and her will is yielded in ecstasy to his.
2
158
What if she discovered that it were she, and not they, who must do now what was bidden, and with perfection? A woman who spoke in that tone to a Gorean man, if she were not a free woman, would find herself instantly whipped to his feet.
2
306
Her history as a free woman had terminated; her history as an embonded beauty had begun.
3
12
If she cannot free herself she counts as a catch.
3
20
The young women, who are free, if the rules permit, as they sometimes do not, commonly wear masks, that their modesty be less grievously compromised by the brevity of their costume.
3
64
It is for free individuals.
3
143
There are few free women in Tharna.
3
162
I did not know if the kurdah contained a free woman of high state or perhaps a prized female slave, naked and bejeweled, to be exhibited in a secret tent and privately sold.
3
405
"Yes," said the other free woman.
3
423
She, no longer free, now embonded, is no longer regarded in the same way by the entire culture.
3
425
She is no longer free; she is now owned; she is now property; she is now an animal, an owned animal, with a master.
3
472
The joy of the slave girl may seem incomprehensible to the free but it is a reality.
3
487
They were clumsy and tight, not yet liberated and free, not yet women.
3
529
Gorean free women often envied slave girls their pierced ears, though this would seldom be admitted.
3
1201
Purchased by a rich man might they not then have an easier bondage, perhaps in a great house, even in a mansion or palace; might they not then have lighter labors, a jeweled collar, exciting, beautiful silks, greater freedom to wander about by day, almost as though free, ...
4
353
This would free his Ubar's side's pieces for the attack on red's Ubar's side.
4
391
His tenth move was now free, to spend as he would.
4
484
free tarsk and roast bosk were being served, and Sa-Tarna bread and Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes of the Cosian terraces.
5
66
"I am a free soldier".
5
91
"I am a free captain.
6
28
A free woman, robed in white, veiled, was being carried in a sedan chair by four draft slaves.
Book 13. (30 results) Explorers of Gor
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
13
569
I thought of a girl once known, one who once had been my freecompanion.
34
801
From the Gorean point of view the wife of Earth occupies a status which is higher than that of the slave but lower than that of the freecompanion.
18
97
The next to appear before Bila Huruma were two members of the nobility, a man and his companion.
20
65
Certainly both had been promptly vended, Sasi to Filimbi, whom I had heard of, the owner of a paga tavern, and the blond-haired barbarian directly or indirectly to an agent of Bila Huruma, quite possibly with the immediate object in mind of being used as a component in a matched set of girls, white ...
23
23
They were among the gifts which Bila Huruma had sent ahead to his projected companion, Tende.
23
56
Now, on a rogues' chain, he digs in the mud for your future companion, the great Bila Huruma".
33
45
But now, as I have stolen Tende, his projected companion, I have lured him into the jungle.
33
51
"Do you truly think that Bila Huruma," I asked, "who owns or is companion to perhaps hundreds of women would pursue you into the jungle at great risk to himself and his empire to get back one girl, a girl whom he doubtless realizes has by now been reduced to slavery, and has thus been ...
33
81
"This is the woman, Tende, who was to have been your companion! I took her from you! I made her my slave!" Bila Huruma, of course, if he were with the flotilla, as we conjectured, could not have heard Kisu.
33
93
"She was to have been your companion! I took her away from you! I made her mine! I now exhibit her naked before you as my slave!" "He cannot see you or hear you!" shouted Ayari.
4
504
"We are free! free!" cried another.
4
516
"You can't just take us! We are free! free!" "We will call a guardsman!" cried another.
24
138
"free me! free me!" "I did not think you spoke to commoners," he said.
33
121
No free woman, for example, would dare to place herself in such a position before Gorean free men, unless perhaps, weary of her misery and frustration, she was begging them, almost explicitly, to put her in a collar.
33
163
He tied them both on her neck and then took the free end of one and tied it to a thwart forward of her position and the free end of the other and tied it to the thwart aft of her position, thus fastening her between these two thwarts.
34
320
free women, in being free, command attention when they speak.
34
732
"In a sense you are free and in a sense you are not free," I said.
34
796
A Gorean free woman does not change her name in the ceremony of the freecompanionship.
51
10
How flushed and excited was her face, how free of tension and tightness, how free of anxiety and stress.
1
129
The tile dance, for simple psychological and behavioral reasons, having to do with the submission context and the motions of the body, can piteously arouse even a captured, cold free woman; in the case of a slave, of course, it can make her scream and sob with need.
1
196
Schendi was an equatorial free port, well known on Gor.
1
482
Whereas most towns on the river are, in effect, free states, few are strong enough to ignore powers such as Cos and its major rival in these territories, the city of Ar.
1
509
"She was clothed as a free woman and was among the passengers," said Samos.
1
517
"Why would an Earth girl, almost totally ignorant of Gorean, unbranded, free, be traveling on a ship of Cos?" "I think, clearly, it has something to do with the Others, the Kurii," said Samos.
1
741
Schendi was a free port, administered by black merchants, members of the caste of merchants.
2
17
"A blond-haired, blue-eyed barbarian," called the auctioneer, "who speaks little or no Gorean, untrained, formerly free, a purse not yet rent, a thigh not yet kissed by the iron.
2
49
If a woman truly is, in her secret heart, a man's slave, how can any female who is not a man's slave be truly a woman? And how can any woman who is not truly a woman be happy? Can a woman be free only when she is a slave? Is this not the paradox of the collar? "Come Masters, Kind Sirs,...
2
90
Gorean free women, of course, may do what they wish.
2
165
The female slave, in the fullness of her womanhood, and helplessness, attains heights of passion from which the free woman, in her pride and dignity, is forever barred.
2
166
The free woman, you see, is not a man's slave.
Book 14. (30 results) Fighting Slave of Gor
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241
"I brought a large companion price to my companion," she said.
29
74
He will know, for example, that you have been much sought as a freecompanion by rich young swains of Vonda, but that you have held yourself too good for them, and have refused them all".
7
455
The slave, so unfree in some senses, even to the collar, is in other senses the freest of women, free to love, free to be submitted, free to be uninhibited, wild and sexual, free to be her deepest, most secret, most ...
9
15
"Slave! Slave!" called his companion.
9
40
"My companion would not even let me have a pet like you," said the other.
9
71
"Shame!" said her companion.
9
76
"But, if you were," asked her companion, "what sort of slave would you be?" "It is unthinkable that I should be a slave," said the first.
14
111
"I am advised, Jason," she said, "by certain of my friends to accept a companion".
14
113
"Many men, young and rich, have desired to become my companion.
14
119
"Yet more often than not I have seen the male companion keep sluts of slave girls on the side, and, I think, it is only those sluts he cares for".
14
121
"Why," she asked, "should a man forsake a noble companion, serene and beautiful, independent and regal, for a slut in a steel collar who will crawl to his feet and beg to lick them with her tongue?" I did not speak.
16
218
"You wished a perfume, did you not," asked Turbus Veminius, "to distract your companion from his slave sluts, did you not?" "Yes," she said.
16
224
If your companion bought you, naked and collared, in a market, he would doubtless prize you highly".
16
226
"But as his companion you are too much taken for granted," he said.
16
238
"But I might never again come into the possession of my former companion," she said.
28
124
I thought she would make a lovely traveling companion, for a portion of my journey.
16
230
"Yes," he said, "for you would still be free, and no free woman, because she is free, can truly compete for the attention and affection of a man as can a slave girl".
10
83
free men were to me as master, as free women were to me as mistress.
16
3
I, a slave, unaccompanied by a free person, would wait until free customers were waited upon and served.
17
184
If they were free, I, though a free woman, could scarcely dare conjecture my fate!" Again I struggled, and was again held helplessly and perfectly in the steel.
20
111
I pressed through people, slave and free, who pressed about me, congratulating me, many trying to touch me, even free persons.
25
229
Then the women, bond and free, fell back, crying and frightened, for all women, whether slave or free, understand the whip.
27
365
"Can you not see that I am a free woman?" "I know that you are a free woman," I said.
27
380
"Can you not simply look upon me and see that I am free?" "Perhaps if I saw you in the robes of concealment, and veiled, being carried in a palanquin through the streets of Vonda by slaves," I said, "I would think you free".
1
371
"If he, who is their author or editor, believes them to be fiction, you should feel perfectly free, it seems to me, to do likewise".
1
496
'Being troublesome and displeasing is acceptable in a free woman,' he said.
1
897
The women, now, were of a whole new breed, somehow magically different from all women of the past, free and independent.
1
942
"I am free.
1
955
"I am free and independent, and a person, and a true woman," she said.
1
972
"I am free and independent, and a true person, and a true woman," she said.
Book 15. (30 results) Rogue of Gor
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59
"I am a free woman!" "Are you his companion?" asked Kliomenes.
26
115
"I love Miles of Vonda!" "With the love of a freecompanion?" I asked.
20
2
Two blades, his, and that of a companion, were leveled at my breast.
4
147
Sometimes, incidentally, free young men wear masks and capture a free woman, taking away her clothing and forcing her to perform as a slave for them.
4
477
Thus, one supposes, when some free women meet a free male, even under the most innocuous and benign of conditions, at banquets, in the market, at public gatherings, at the song dramas, and so on, they must realize, doubtless uneasily somewhere beneath their cumbersome rob...
23
213
It was the free woman, or the woman who had been free, who had been ordered from the crowd on the wharves of Victoria.
24
274
To the Gorean free woman the joys of the slave girl, though they may be despised and disparaged, are at least culturally not unknown, and are the envy of such free women.
24
475
Surely she must be a free woman! She must be free! She was from Earth! But could everything that my blood, my instincts and impulses told me be wrong? But it must be, else a civilization structured upon, and predicated upon, pathologies must disintegrate and perish.
28
201
Thus, strangely, while least free, she is most free.
1
13
She was the woman, once free, who had been last on the coffle of Oneander long ago in Ar, the same coffle in which Miss Henderson had been secured.
1
25
"The slave in the street!" "I am now free," I said.
2
120
"We were put on the racks as free women," she said, "that we, the women of the enemy, be properly humiliated.
2
121
Too, is it not a rich joke for the men of Ar that more than a thousand of the free women of Vonda adorn their pleasure racks, fastened down like slave girls, their use available for a tarsk bit to the passers-by?" "Yes," I smiled, "it is a rich joke".
3
33
"It is not thus so unthinkable," I said, "that a man might desire to free your legs".
3
193
I can never go back, now, knowing what I do, to being a proud free woman".
3
219
I sat up and took the Lady Gina's free shackle and jerked her ankles closely together.
4
14
"You cannot put me out!" a free woman had been crying to the proprietor of the inn, at his counter to the side.
4
27
"I am a free woman of Vonda!" the woman at the counter was crying.
4
41
"I am a free woman of Vonda!" the woman at the counter was crying.
4
106
"I am a free woman of Vonda!" the woman at the counter had been crying out last night.
4
118
This, aside from having such utilities as reminding the girls that they are total slaves and giving pleasure to the men who look upon them, is supposed to make them, rather than free women, the desiderated objects of capture and rapine.
4
119
I think there is something to this theory for, statistically, it is almost always the female slave and not her free sister who finds herself abducted and struggling in the lashings of captors or slavers.
4
120
On the other hand, in spite of the theories pertaining to such matters, free women are certainly not immune to the fates of capture and enslavement.
4
122
Some slavers specialize in the capture of free women.
4
125
"You cannot put me out into the street!" had cried the free woman.
4
127
"I am a free woman of Vonda," she said, "a member of the Confederation".
4
150
Such a woman commonly begins to take risks inappropriate for a free woman.
4
154
"I am a free woman!" the woman at the counter cried.
4
173
The fellow came up behind the free woman and took her by the upper arms, holding her from behind.
4
182
"But she is a free woman," I said.
Book 16. (30 results) Guardsman of Gor
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220
He wanted me as his companion and I wanted only to be his slave.
9
230
I had little doubt that if I were but once taken into companionship by him I should be sequestered, and left untouched, that that would be my punishment for having shamed him; he would keep me as his official 'companion,' but he would not so much as put his hands on me; I...
17
63
An abrupt command was spoken to her by her fair companion, and she quickly put her hands down, at her sides.
20
527
Coins, and personal items, and such, are usually, by free persons, carried in pouches, which are usually concealed within the robes of a free woman, or slung about the waist, or shoulder, of a free man.
20
1586
It is they who have been found exciting enough, and beautiful enough, and desirable enough, to be sought, captured and chained; it is they who have been marked slave; it is they who have been bid upon in a competitive market; it is they who have been purchased, to serve and please; it is they, not <...
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 ...
8
125
Incidentally the reservations held by some Gorean seamen pertaining to free women on board, also, interestingly, do not hold of free women who are captives.
18
418
She revels in this new-found freedom; she exults in the bold appraisals to which she now finds herself subjected, those which free men may fittingly bestow upon a slave; she inclines her head submissively as she passes free men; should they stop her, perhaps...
18
685
"No, my Master," she whispered, "I do not mean either merely that he induced in me the spasm submissions of the bond girl, or that he enforced upon me the fullness of the humiliating, ecstatic slave orgasms, so far beyond anything attainable by the free woman, to which any free
19
9
Secondly, they were free persons, and free persons on Gor may do much what they please.
19
118
Most simply she sees it as a house, and knows it, as a house in which she is a slave, whereas the free woman sees it and knows it as a house in which she is free.
19
120
The free woman looks into a slave kennel but she, presumably, has never occupied it, the helpless prisoner behind its bars; the free woman may see chains but she, presumably, has never worn them; she may see the whip but she, presumably, has never felt it.
19
966
Those slavers who are natively Gorean expect arrogance and insolence from Gorean free women, who, after all, are free, but they do not find it acceptable in Earth women, whom they regard for the most part as uncollared slave stock.
20
197
She must now fear free men and free women.
20
403
"He intends to purchase fighting slaves," said Miles, "and then free them, and organize matches among free men.
20
596
More than one free woman has been taken trying to free herself from such platforms, or has been tripped by them, or slowed, perhaps dragging one, absurdly enough, behind her, still attached to an ankle.
20
600
Sometimes a free woman, the platforms discarded, will lift her ornate robes to the thigh, to free her legs to run.
20
634
One interesting difference between the Gorean free woman and the Earth woman is that the Gorean free woman is well aware of slavery and knows that it exists.
20
1815
Who would not want one or more? How is she then, this readily available, branded, collared slut, this animal, so very different from a free woman, to be viewed? She, the Gorean male feels, and the Gorean free woman surely agrees, is appropriately to be regarded as substan...
20
2136
free, she is enslaved, the prisoner of inhibitions, artifices and conventions; enslaved, she is free, liberated to the self-fulfillment of her deepest nature.
20
2137
free, she is enslaved; enslaved, she is free.
20
2153
The passions of the female slave are a mystery to many free women who, unaroused and sexually inert, never collared and owned, cannot even understand them; to most free women, of course, the passions of the female slave are not so much a mystery as a source of envy and fu...
20
2154
Sometimes, perhaps, twisting on her couch at night in frustration, the free woman may dimly sense what it is to be an aroused slave, a woman so much at the mercy of men, and so precious and beautiful to them; the free woman clenches her fists and moans; the slave may thro...
21
408
Did she not know she was neck-chained to a man's slave ring? "Suddenly," she said, "I see what you are doing! How amusing for you, to put what was once my own name on me as a slave name! How droll! How helpless his girl! How delightful, for that insensitive, uncaring, imperious beast, the master! Ho...
21
468
"To other girls in bondage, to free men, to free women, to male slaves, should you encounter them, to all, that is how you will be known, simply as 'Beverly'," I said.
21
504
It would be a very foolish slave who would carry herself before a free woman as she is expected to carry herself before free men.
21
508
What could a man see of interest, the free woman might ask herself, in such a frightened, confused, groveling drab? But, of course, too, the free woman is well aware of the appearance and demeanor of the slave when she is not accosted by them, or brought within the immedi...
21
514
None are likely to object to this, as the free woman is free, and may do much what she wishes, and the slave is only a slave.
21
515
Perhaps she jostled the free woman in a crowd or met her eyes, as though she might have been free.
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545
Too, she will be regarded with repulsion and horror by scandalized free women, with amusement by men, slave or free, who enjoy inspecting and appraising her publicly exhibited lineaments, and with contempt, as a worthless girl, by her sisters in bondage.
Book 17. (30 results) Savages of Gor
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265
This is quite different from the mental set taken by the free woman to the furs, of course, with attendant deleterious consequences for the free woman, in so far as any woman could be called free who is not surrendered and owned.
13
1071
"You see," I said, "you were still regarding yourself, implicitly, at least at the moment, as a free woman, or, perhaps better, more narrowly, as retaining at least one of the rights of a free woman".
13
1300
"All free men are my masters," she said, "as all free women are my mistresses".
17
300
I was a free woman! Never would I perform so hideous an act! Never would I be so debased, so humiliated! I was a free woman! He said another word and again, suddenly, I was much as I had been before, only now stripped, kneeling on the grass, my hands crossed and held befo...
1
113
On behalf of the nose ring, too, it should be mentioned that among the Wagon Peoples, even free women wear such rings.
1
119
It is easy to see why free women on Gor do not wear them, and why they are, commonly, only put on low slaves.
1
189
In a few Ahn, near dawn, men would come to the room and free her, and then, later, put her to work with the other women.
1
616
My lance, in such matters, so to speak, was free.
1
618
"I bring you greetings, too," said Samos, "from the free men of Port Kar.
1
950
At other times, if the point becomes dislodged in the body, it is common to seek it with a bone or greenwood probe, and then, when one has found it, attempt to work it free with a knife.
2
351
This is perhaps because many male silk slaves are chosen to be male silk slaves not because they are weak or like women, but because they are not; it is only that they are men, and often true men, who must serve women, totally, in the same fashion that a slave female is expected to serve a fre...
3
21
"That one," said the man, indicating the girl at the wall, "was formerly free.
3
26
It is usually felt that, after her capture, there is little point in permitting any possibility that she might be confused with a free woman.
5
156
As a free woman she doubtless hated slave girls, the lascivious, shameless sluts who drove men wild with such desire for them.
6
146
Then, in an instant, in their chains, they scrambled in the mud after the garbage, twisting and shrieking, caught and restricted in their chains, scratching, and rolling and fighting, for the least of the tidbits cast to them by a free man.
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33
This is presumably in deference to the delicacy and sensibilities of free women.
7
34
The brand draws a cataclysmic gulf between the Gorean free woman, secure in her arrogance, beauty and caste rights, and the stripped, nameless, rightless slaves, suitably vended as the mere lovely beasts they are in the flesh markets of this primitive, gorgeous world.
7
41
Patronize the house of Ram Seibar! free drinks! No purchase necessary!" I felt a small tugging at my sleeve, and then felt my arm delicately held.
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90
It was fitting that slave girls lived in terror of free men.
8
167
They seem to be a cross between the garments of a free woman and those of a slave".
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182
"Are these the garments of a free woman or of a slave?" asked the auctioneer.
8
514
But she could not free herself from his grip.
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598
My blade was free from my sheath before his knees began to sag.
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768
"Do you think free women would be so rudely stripped and brazenly displayed? We, and these others, are on sale! Do you doubt that we are slaves? See our brands!" She turned her left thigh to the central platform.
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32
The mobility afforded by the kaiila and the abundance of the kailiauk doubtless made this choice possible, the choice of the widely ranging hunter, the proud and free warrior, over the farmer, denied distant horizons, he who must live at the mercy of the elements and in bondage to his ...
10
70
"You came with me of your own free will, did you not?" he asked.
11
9
The collars and chains had been rearranged on the other girls, in such a way that, by an alternation of the position of snap locks and chain segments, a free collar was now at each end of the coffle.
11
249
The self-image of the noble, inaccessible free woman was to be replaced with the reality of the needful slave.
12
142
"We have been tied by red savages! We cannot free ourselves!" Grunt stopped his kaiila.
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Grunt, in any case, as I knew him, would not be interested in punishing her for that action, as it had taken place when she was free.
Book 18. (30 results) Blood Brothers of Gor
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112
Yesterday, early, Zarendargar and his companion had left the victory camp.
2
100
This is more seldom the case with Gorean free women than with the free women of Earth, but it is certainly not unknown amongst Gorean free women.
37
259
Indeed, he might even be freed, eventually, perhaps for training in a craft, or with weapons, for in the Gorean view, though this is seldom made explicit in deference to free women, there is a sense that the man, appropriately, should be free and the woman, ...
1
254
It has been my considered judgment that Canka, in doing this, had hoped to draw attention to the location, that he hoped by this device to attract others to the spot, who might free the lad, or perhaps to mark it for himself, that he might later, accepting exile and outlawry at the han...
16
124
Enslaved, you are free, interestingly and paradoxically, to be free".
23
30
Whereas a free woman may often make a man angry with impunity, she being lofty and free, this latitude is seldom extended to the slave.
26
31
For an instant I could not free it of the press of the animals and then I wrenched it free.
28
105
free women sometimes buy hair for wigs or falls, and, although the hair they purchase is always certified as coming only from free women, there is little doubt that it is often taken from female slaves.
28
122
Some Goreans think of the freecompanionship as being a form of contract slavery; this is not, of course, precisely correct; on the other hand, if more women took that definition seriously, I have little doubt but what freecompanionships would...
29
4
The hair that bound them hung free before the wrists, dangling from them, in jagged strands, marking where it had been hastily cut free from the hair of the girl before her in a holding coffle.
33
203
Also, you being a slave, too, perhaps you have been denied the use of women or deprived of their caresses, or perhaps, not being free, you have not been permitted to use them with the same liberal audacity as a free man, or as frequently as you might desire.
37
260
It might also be mentioned, however, that there is a market for handsome male slaves which caters to rich free women, and, to a lesser extent, to rich free men.
39
214
"If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headsman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act be...
43
348
I wondered if Iwoso had speculated on why their heads had been left uncovered, or why we had not enclosed one girl completely and left the head of the other free, why we had treated the slave and the free woman identically.
43
356
This kind of difference in binding, or shackling, in which the free woman wears easier or more comfortable bonds than the slave, is in deference to the status of the free woman.
1
332
In being Canka's slave I had a status and place in the Isbu camp which, in its way, sheltered me from the type of sportive attack to which a lone, free white man might be otherwise exposed.
1
347
For most practical purposes I was free in the village.
1
357
Bold speech, incidentally, is commonly accepted from free females of their own people by the red savages.
1
438
Hci, as would have been any other free person, had been fully within his rights.
2
52
The Gorean free woman, particularly those of high caste, is likely to be literate.
2
56
They may, of course, have recourse to scribes, some of whom are itinerant, or traveling merchants, usually peddlers, who, for a modest fee, or in the case of the merchants, or peddlers, sometimes for free, for good will, will read letters for them, write letters, and so on.
2
84
The transition then from free woman of Earth to slave girl of Gor is one likely to be not only radical and sudden for the Earth girl, but one astonishing and startling, disconcerting and alarming, one almost incomprehensible, and doubtless one profoundly emotionally traumatic.
2
102
On the other hand, statistically, Gorean free women, particularly of the lower castes, are less given to such adornments.
2
104
Thus it makes many Gorean free women, even those who would desire to wear one, uneasy to wear one.
2
106
Indeed, there is some speculation that the Gorean free woman who wears a necklace, or such throat adornment, is asking for the collar.
2
149
And, hopefully, she will not meet a free woman.
2
151
An encounter with a free woman is almost always unpleasant for her, and sometimes painful.
2
152
Little love is lost between the jealous, haughty, veiled free woman and the well-displayed beautiful slave girl.
2
421
But she is really almost free.
3
88
"This is no place for free women".
Book 19. (30 results) Kajira of Gor
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146
"You are very different from my noble and glorious freecompanion," he said.
24
149
I felt sorry for his freecompanion.
32
97
Meanwhile, of course, the true Sheila will be concealed in my quarters, later to be smuggled from the palace in the guise of a free woman, that of a companion of one of my retainers, supposedly an envoy from Turia.
36
690
What of the master's couch? In theory its surface is for the master and a freecompanion, and it is true that the slave is often chained at its foot, where she belongs as an animal, and is usually enjoyed on the furs there.
36
693
The freecompanion regards access to the surface of the couch as her undisputed right, and justifiably so.
36
694
How fortunate the fellow who has a freecompanion, one who, however reluctantly, and at whatever sacrifice to her self-esteem and dignity, deigns to share it with him, nobly, bravely permitting herself thereupon to be subjected to the embarrassing and brief unpleasantries...
17
133
"You are the sort for whom my companion forsakes me! You are the sort he runs panting after in the taverns, the sort whose bodies their masters sell for the price of a drink!" "No," I said.
25
140
The companion bracelet, on its three links of chain, was then closed about the right wrist of Emily.
6
464
Was it then because I was free? Were Gorean men spoiled for free women by those collared, curvaceous little sluts they had crawling about their feet, desperately eager to please them? Given such luscious alternatives it was natural enough, I supposed, that men would see l...
8
535
"I am free," I cried to myself, "I am free! free!" But I was half naked and my hands were braceleted behind me.
24
167
A consequence of this ordinance from the point of view of a female slave is that she cannot now even permit herself to be taken for a free woman by accident; her bondage is always manifest; it is helpful from the man's point of view, too; he always knows the status of the woman to whom...
3
517
"Is there more happiness in a society in which all are free," she asked, "than in one in which some are not free?" "I do not know," I said.
6
471
Perhaps he did not kiss me because I was free, or, I added, in my thinking, not truly understanding the qualification, because he thought I was free.
6
479
I am free! Of course, I am free! "Go now to the slave ring," a voice seemed to say to me.
7
113
I wondered if free men and free women ever met in such places, for affairs.
8
86
"No free woman, unless a capture, may proceed beyond this point unless she is in the charge of a free man who is responsible for her and has a current license for her.
8
87
This is a device to control the movements of free women in the house and a precaution against the attempted escape of slave girls pretending to be free women".
9
137
It is common, too, of course, more generally, for them to kneel whenever they find themselves in the presence of a free person, for example, if they are in a room and a free person enters.
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190
"I am free! I am free!" "Of course you are," he said.
13
30
I, though a free woman, had been face-stripped before free men.
17
114
"Where you come from," she said, "do slaves not address free women as 'Mistress'?" "I am a free woman, too," I said.
17
206
"Do you believe that slaves should serve free persons," he asked, "or that free persons should serve slaves".
19
76
But I was a free woman! On Gor, as on Earth, free women were seldom, if ever, no matter what they did, punished.
22
82
"I am a free woman!" "If you are a free woman, and are not from this area," said one of the slaves, "I think you should flee.
23
259
"Accustom yourself to calling free men 'Master' and free women 'Mistress,'" he said.
33
662
For whom could a man such as he entertain respect but a free woman? I thought of the noble, serene, contumacious, insolent, lofty free women of Gor.
36
512
"You are not a free woman, and even when you were a free woman, in some trivial legal sense, you were a natural slave, a woman who in her heart was a slave, a woman not only fit for the collar but one who belonged in it".
36
785
"Now, free me!" "Why should I free you?" he asked.
2
472
I then again wanted to scream, to cry out, to argue, to speak, to free myself.
3
389
"Why?" "That is the customary way in which girls such as I address all free women," she said.
Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor
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1
46
She, now a love slave, had once been the ward of Chenbar, Ubar of Tyros, and once had been intended to be the freecompanion of gross Lurius of Jad, the Ubar of Cos, thence to be proclaimed Ubara of Cos, which union would have even further strengthened the ties between th...
6
604
"I see, sir," said the newcomer, who was understood to be the free woman, the Lady Tipa, but was presumably Boots's Bina, usually the companion and confidante of the Brigella, "that you well know how to put a slave through her paces".
6
707
"But I suspect," said Boots suspiciously, musingly, regarding her, "that there may be that in you which is not really of the freecompanion".
6
753
"In any event, you are far too beautiful to be a mere freecompanion".
6
768
"Will you not then accept me as a freecompanion, noble sir?" called the Brigella to Boots, in his guise as the merchant.
21
31
No longer could she compare herself only with free women, but must now compare herself with slaves, as well; indeed, she should no longer think to compare herself with free women, at all, as she was now a slave; she should not even dare to harbor such a presumptuous compa...
2
142
With him was his lovely slave, Vina, who once had been intended to be the companion of gross Lurius of Jad, then, sharing his throne, to be proclaimed the Ubara of Cos.
6
697
"Accept me as a traveling companion," she urged.
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97
"Shhh," said Chino, admonishing his companion.
16
100
"Shhh," said Chino, again admonishing his companion to silence.
16
107
"Surely you have heard of this fellow, Lecchio," said Chino to his companion.
19
27
"He is right," volunteered the fellow's companion.
19
32
"He is perhaps right," said the fellow's companion.
1
370
"There is no more free woman left in me! The free woman is gone!" "Is it true?" he asked.
1
483
It had been within the context of his capture rights that she had, as a free woman, of her own free will, pronounced upon herself a formula of enslavement.
1
519
I did not know what true men were until I came to Gor, and was put in a collar! Here I am disciplined and trained, here I am owned and fulfilled! Here I am happy! I pity even my free sisters of Gor, who are so far above me, for they cannot know the overwhelming joys and fulfillments wh...
1
769
The free woman may speak whenever and however she pleases, for she is free.
2
161
"Herewith," she said, "I, though a free woman, gladly and willingly, and of my own free will, dare to grant you my favor!" She then thrust the light scarf through an eyelet on the collar of my robes and drew it halfway through.
2
177
One must understand, first, that they are given by free women and of their own free will.
2
181
In support of this interpretation are such considerations as the fact that these favors, in these games, are bestowed by females on males, that, generally, at least, strong, handsome males seem to be the preferred recipients of such favors, that there is competition among the females in the distribu...
2
807
The free woman, after all, is a free woman, and the slave is a slave.
2
1489
"Do you think I do not know when a woman's body is ready to give pleasure to a man—even that of a free woman?" Such receptivity is rarely achieved in so short a time with a free woman.
6
51
"This farce is an insult to free women!" cried the free woman in the audience, she in the blue of the scribes.
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135
"And I find it an insult to free women!" said the free woman.
6
523
"What you know nothing of," said the free woman to her, "is of being a free woman, meaningless slut".
9
68
"As she seems to be free," I said, "I will claim her, she in the modality of the free captive".
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43
Similarly her beauty has not, as yet at least, as you can see, been graced by the imprinting upon it of some delicate emblem indicative of the status of property, some device recollective of the unmistakable, transforming kiss of the blazing iron! As advertised, as proclaimed, as announced earlier, ...
21
142
Not only is a slave different in fact from a free woman, but they appear different from a free woman, and this difference is easy to detect.
21
157
It is one thing to look upon a woman as a free woman, when she is a free woman, and another thing to look upon her as a slave, when she is a slave.
1
9
She could not, of course, free herself.
Book 21. (30 results) Mercenaries of Gor
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134
It is not like having a foolish freecompanion, one who knows no better, who will patiently work with you for years, trying to help you become a woman".
25
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They want to know them with a depth, detail, and intimacy that it would be quite inappropriate to expect of, or desire from, a prideful freecompanion, whose autonomy and privacy is protected by her lofty status.
3
406
Too, with it, or its residue, she might be able to make her way to a distant village, far from the trekking of armies, where she could use it as a bride price, using it, in effect, to purchase herself a companion, a good fellow who could care for herself and her child.
15
527
To be sure, it is common knowledge that one man's haughty, critical, demanding, sexually lethargic, frigid, bored companion may be an eager, begging servitor of another man's whims and pleasures.
16
488
"My companion did not," she said.
25
427
At any rate, if there were to be any danger, it did not seem to me appropriate that I should enter my hearty companion of the road into it.
2
166
It is customary for Gorean slaves to address free women as "Mistress" and free men as "Master".
4
612
In a moment Feiqa, vital and sensuous, liberated now from the fear of the free woman, and having felt the whip, in that perhaps being reminded of what might be the consequences of failing to please free persons, addressed herself once more, eagerly and joyously, marvelous...
5
148
I did not want free women attacking the girl in rage, and perhaps tearing the objects free.
15
79
But then, again, a free woman is a free woman, and I supposed that should count for something.
16
16
Nearby, to her right, and my right, only feet away, almost at our elbows, some sitting, some lying down, crowded together, chained, huddled, in the half darkness, illuminated by a tiny lamp on the wall, against one wall of the Semnium, was a large group of choice free women, probably g...
18
250
Such a decision may be made of one's own free will, but it cannot be revoked by one's own free will, for, after it is made, one is then helpless to alter or influence one's new condition in any way.
25
203
She has the sense, sometimes tenderly and gently, sometimes tremblingly, sometimes shaking, with sobs and tears, that she has at last come home to herself, that she has at last discovered herself, that she is now, for the first time in her life, fully free, though she is helpless, thou...
25
1194
In any contest of desirability the free woman must always lose out to the slave, and if she does not seem to do so, then let her be enslaved, and see how she then, suddenly, in a moment, competing then with her former self, becomes ten thousand times more desirable than she ever was as...
25
1279
In passing one might note that the slave addresses all free men as 'Master' and all free women as 'Mistress'.
25
1335
It is normally only free folks among free folks who are lonely, each so separate from the other.
26
1343
"What does a free woman do," she asked, "when she learns she is a slave?" "You are free," I said.
26
1348
"The self-enslavement decision is an interesting one," I said, "for it is a decision which is freely made, being made by a free individual, but, once made, it is irrevocable, for the individual is then no longer free, but only a property".
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"You are, after all, a free woman, and free women are entitled to insult, and to attempt to demean and destroy men.
26
1592
A common form of slave tunic, hanging loose and free about the body of the slave, is free of the right shoulder and held at the left shoulder by a disrobing loop.
26
2031
And there are few things which more impress her bondage on a slave than realizing that her speech is ultimately at the discretion of free persons, that she may not speak without the permission, either implicit or explicit, of free persons.
1
3
"I am a free woman," she said.
1
6
She was free.
1
41
"A free woman may be bold," she said.
1
45
She was free.
1
129
"I am free!" she said.
1
171
To be sure, all free men are, in a sense, to her as master.
1
200
There are many points which might be made here, but I will limit myself to three, which may be succinctly recounted: First, exemplified by what had just occurred, a woman may wish to feel its stroke in order that the reality of her longed-for bondage be impressed upon her; one does not, of course, w...
1
219
Even free women tend to ponder this question to their pillow, whether or not they might be good enough to collar.
1
220
This may account, to some degree, for the great hatred felt by free women toward slaves, women who have proved beautiful enough to mark and collar, women who might then be thought superior in their sex to themselves.
Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor
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144
Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a
13
1148
He is having problems with his companion at home.
6
55
Here amongst masters and slaves were literally instituted the practices and relationships, and required of me, under the threat of terrible punishments, and even death, which in my heart I would have longed to bestow of my own free will on men, or at least men so free and...
6
636
Strictures of this sort, of course, do not apply to free persons, such as free women.
9
154
Slave girls seldom object to such treatment, vulgar though it might seem to free women, and even free women, I think, in spite of the scandal they profess to feel in its wake, do not really mind it.
11
212
If a "free woman," that is, one legally free, were to publicly perform such a dance on Gor she would probably find herself in a master's chains by morning.
20
41
Indeed, one of the major differences between the slave and her free sister is that the slave is generally far more sexually fulfilled than her free sister.
20
147
Supposedly these were free work chains, "free" in the sense of not utilizing slaves.
20
150
Most such work is generally done by the free labor of a given community, though this "free labor" may, upon occasion, particularly in emergencies, be "levied," the laborers then contributing their labor as a form of special tax, or, if you like, as having been "conscripte...
20
214
Two forms of work groups not localized to individual cities are the "free gang" and the "free" chain.
20
216
The "free gang" consists of free men who are in the hire of a contractor who rents their services, and his own, say, to various cities, organizations, and groups.
20
229
On the other hand, it usually tends to have a far more limited pool of skills than that of the "free gangs" and, accordingly, it is usually employed in ruder, less demanding labors, or even in labors which, because of their arduousness, or their onerous nature, would be distasteful to ...
27
147
No longer could she find it in her heart to pretend to be free, to play again the role of a free woman, to enact once again what, in her case, could now be only a hollow mockery, an empty farce of freedom.
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170
"To free me?" "Do you think you should be a free woman?" he asked.
34
672
The free woman was noble and glorious, was the lofty equal of the free man, and might even share a Home Stone with him.
1
98
What sort of woman, of her own free will, would put on such a garment? Surely no real woman.
1
192
In the sense in which a free person was priceless, she was worthless, but, too, in her way, I could see that she would have value, value as a pair of boots might have value or a dog.
3
113
Then suddenly she said to us, scornfully, "What is wrong? You are dancing tonight like free women.
3
321
I could not free the bells.
3
838
I saw the blade of the whip shaken free.
5
38
She was thus free, of course, for the uses of the guards, who did not fail to avail themselves of their privileges.
6
53
Such things, regardless of whether or not I might wish to bestow them of my own free will, would be simply commanded of me.
6
128
I wondered if there were any free women on this world.
6
316
It was the way I was supposed to kneel, and it was the way I would kneel, I decided, even before free women, if a man were present, unless he ordered me to kneel differently.
6
492
But the usual arrangement in these particulars, I had gathered, was a simple coffle chain, most commonly a neck coffle, but sometimes a wrist or ankle coffle; a slave cage, mounted on a wagon, in which the girls were free; or a slave wagon, within which, stripped, their ankles were cha...
6
524
She was, I was sure, free.
6
525
She must have been free, to have been permitted to scream like that, and carry on like that.
6
628
I had originally thought these rights referred to the acquisition of free women but I had later realized they must pertain, more generally, to the acquisition of properties in general, including slaves.
6
637
A free woman is entitled to try to escape a captor as best she can, and without penalty, even after her first night in his bonds, if she still chooses to do so.
6
643
This refers to the capture of women, either free or bond, viewed as a sport.
Book 23. (30 results) Renegades of Gor
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8
810
I had little doubt, accordingly, that the blond woman kneeling before the fellow with the whip was his freecompanion, or former freecompanion.
8
815
If she were still his freecompanion, it seemed she would now be kept in the modality of bondage, but perhaps she was now only his former freecompanion, and had been reduced to actual bondage, now being subject to purchase by anyone.
23
51
The astonished companion may then begin to suspect that his companion has not been fully open with him, that she may not always have been free, but, indeed, may once have been a slave.
8
819
The woman would now discover that her companion, or former companion, a fellow perhaps hitherto taken somewhat too lightly, one perhaps hitherto accorded insufficient attention and respect, one perhaps hitherto neglected and ignored, even despised and scorned, was indeed ...
23
52
Then, too, he may want more, and so on, and so on, and sometimes the poor lovely companion, in one way or another, finds herself actually, legally, reduced to slavery, brought under the whip, and being trained to delight her former companion.
1
516
Within the wagon, then, I supposed, there might be a fellow and his freecompanion.
1
517
Doubtless, unless it had been displeasing in some way, the location of the small figure beneath the wagon, huddling there in misery and cold, was a consequence of the presence of the freecompanion within it.
1
518
I did not doubt but what the small figure was far more beautiful and attractive than the freecompanion.
23
49
But sometimes a free woman will almost beg a slave, as though she might be a freshly branded collar-sister, for some little thing or another, psychological or otherwise, to delight or stimulate her companion, perhaps even to freshen or retain his interest, perhaps even to...
1
258
"I have a companion in my wagon, and two children.
1
521
I wondered if the fellow in the wagon had acquired the individual under it merely for his interest and pleasure, or perhaps, too, as a way of encouraging his companion to take her own relationship with him more seriously.
1
554
The fellow who owned the wagon, I supposed, was turning in his sleep, or was addressing himself to his companion.
1
601
"He bought me only to anger his companion, who is terribly cruel to me.
1
602
During the day, when my legs are open, he even rents me out to strangers for a tarsk bit!" "Does his companion grow more attentive and concerned?" I asked.
6
375
"Perhaps you will find some fellow willing to do so," I said, "who will then expect that you will fling yourself into his arms, agreeing to be his companion".
6
879
For example, he did not have a companion, or children, with him.
8
811
The girl who had been beneath the wagon last night, and whom Ephialtes had, hopefully, purchased for me this morning, had been formerly purchased, and primarily purchased, I had suspected, in an attempt, and perhaps a somewhat foolish, and somewhat misdirected, attempt, I thought, by the fellow to e...
19
123
"I would like to say good-bye to my companion," said one of the fellows.
20
427
There is an indefinability and preciousness about her, a mystique which informs her, an exceeding of what is seen, a nature and wondrous mystery, like that of a companion and lover, a creature and friend.
16
241
Can a free woman, truly, not understand how a slave rejoices to be owned, to belong to a man? Can a free woman, truly, not understand how a slave can be grateful for her domination, for her mastering? Can she not, then, sense the emotional depths of the slave? Let the ...
23
47
To be sure, unless the slave is a bred slave, most of this interest is on the part of the free women, for the slaves have usually, at one time or another, been free women, and have a very good idea of how narrow, dull, limited and mediocre is the sex life of the fre...
2
249
"I am a free woman!" "We are free women!" cried the woman next to her.
2
330
"Those tasks are for low free women," she said, "not for high free women such as we!" "Yet you are now at the wall, in shackles," I said, "and have upon you not so much as a veil".
2
418
It began as a free woman's kiss but, as I held her, and pressed her to me, and she then pressed herself to me, it ended as a kiss which, though doubtless still that of a free woman, hinted at unmistakable latencies within her, that she might, under suitable conditions of ...
8
945
"Am I yet legally free?" "Yes," I said, "but I think it will be well for you to accustom yourself to calling free men 'Master.
10
130
Too, many had been frustrated by free women, and free women in their own city.
15
23
Did the fellow not know the Lady Claudia was a free woman? It seemed to me he handled her rather roughly, given that she was free.
15
284
"The question may be easily enough decided, of course," I said, "by seeing whether or not these garments, unlike the garments of free women, can be easily, swiftly and provocatively removed, and, say, whether or not, in the typical fashion of free women, even of the lower...
16
169
"And now," she cried, "that you have won from her her confession that she was slave, and she has said the words themselves, enacting embondment upon herself, you would put her, now, not even in the dignity of the free woman, but in the misery and degradation of a shamed slave, upon the...
18
307
Whereas most of the slave girls in the crowd, recognizable by the brevity of their tunics and collars, in their terror and confusion, were simply fleeing, intermingled with the free persons, some, like the former Lady Publia, were well in the custody of free women.
Book 24. (30 results) Vagabonds of Gor
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383
"Where is it?" "If I am taken back to be forcibly mated," she said, "my companion may keep me in shackles".
26
58
In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave.
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114
"To be sure, she is still free, and free women, in this area, or at least free women of Ar, or those who speak with such an accent, are rare".
1
412
In the oasis towns of the Tahari, and in the vicinity of the great desert, sometimes even free women are belled, and wear ankle chains, as well, that the length of their stride may be measured and made beautiful, and perhaps, too, to remind them, even though they be free,...
2
102
"But I was free, free!" she pointed out.
2
105
She would now call all free men "Master," and, of course, all free women "Mistress".
19
1132
Many free women know more of the behaviors of slaves, and details of the relationships between them and their masters, than many free men give them credit for knowing.
19
1459
"I wish I was free to be sexual, that it was commanded of me, that I would have no choice! That I would be forced to be what I am! That I would be truly in my place, where I belong, helplessly, even institutionally, under absolute male dominance!" "But you are a free woma...
20
158
I had much touched her over the past few days, even though she was a free woman, as much for my relief, such as a free woman could provide, as for her instruction, usually when we had camped, sometimes before we slept, sometimes afterwards, or when I awakened and it pleas...
24
126
Similarly it might be opened, if one wished, say, to free the prisoner's hands for feeding or, if she is a free female, perhaps for the signing of papers".
26
154
"Even though I were a free woman?" "If you were in chains," I said, "you would presumably no longer be a free woman".
27
16
Of course, if no one is about, and one will otherwise inevitably sink, it makes sense to attempt to free oneself, by wading, or, in effect, trying to swim free.
36
58
"But as a free woman of high caste," she exclaimed, "to be put in the garment of a free woman of low caste is unthinkable!" "I see your point," I said.
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132
"I am a free woman! I am a free woman!" "We all have our faults," I said.
44
264
"You will address all free men as 'Master,'" I said, "and all free women as 'Mistress.
48
18
"I am nothing, worthless, only a slave! I must be shameless! No longer am I permitted to claim, profess, and attempt to retain, false dignities! That is for free women! No longer am I a free woman! That is behind me! It is gone, gone! I am now a slave! I am shameless! Yes...
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246
"free it! free it!" cried Marcus, covering her with kisses.
1
12
I noted that her hair had grown out somewhat, in the weeks since I had last seen her, a free woman on the chain of Ephialtes, a sutler whom I had met at the inn of the Crooked Tarn, on the Vosk Road.
1
30
That was because, at that time, she had been free.
1
36
The concept of "earning one's keep," in one sense, a strict legal sense, is more appropriate to a free woman than a slave.
1
69
"Though we were free women, six of us, as you recall, including myself, we were apparently to be marched naked, chained by the neck, in coffle behind a sutler's wagon".
1
74
"It was done by a terrible person, one named Liadne, put over us as first girl, though we were free and she a mere slave!" I remembered Liadne.
1
79
I had thought she would make an excellent first girl, to introduce her free sisters into some understanding of their womanhood.
1
81
I did not doubt but what Liadne would have kept them, arrogant, spoiled free women, under superb discipline.
1
93
"The next morning," she said, "when I awakened, two of our girls were gone, Elene and Klio, and there was a new girl, a slender, very beautiful girl, also free, like the rest of us, on the coffle".
1
100
Though this new girl, like the rest of us, save Liadne, was free, I think I had seldom seen a woman, so early in captivity, so ready, so ripe, for the truths of the collar".
1
107
"But you said she was free," I reminded her.
1
109
"She was not then, in a normal sense, proud?" "Not in ways typical of a vain free woman, at any rate".
1
126
It would not really do, of course, to whip her for such things, as she was free, and, even in the case of slaves, masters tend to be tolerant of such things.
1
145
free women, it might be noted, in passing, however, usually object to such names for slaves, as it seems, in their view, that such lovely names should be reserved for those of their own status.
Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor
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21
266
The surface of the couch is usually reserved for a freecompanion.
27
289
"She is a slave," I said, "not a freecompanion, who may not be touched, to whom nothing may be done, even if she turns your life into a torture, even if she drives you mad, even if she intends to destroy you, hort by hort".
1
85
My companion was Marcus Marcellus, of the Marcelliani, formerly of Ar's Station, on the Vosk.
9
130
"It might be wise to accustom yourself, even though you are legally free now," I said, "to addressing free men as "Master" and free women as "Mistress".
1
392
There was something in what the free woman had said, though in the frenzy of a sacking, the blood of the victors racing, flames about, and such, few occupants of a fallen city, I supposed, either free or slave, were altogether safe.
1
405
She, the free woman, a free person, might be trampled by tharlarion, or be run through, or have her throat cut, by victors.
1
408
Many is the free female in such a city who has torn away her robes before enemies, confessed her natural slavery, disavowed her previous masquerade as a free woman, and begged for the rightfulness of the brand and collar.
1
418
The slave could not see the face of the free woman, of course, but such locutions, "beautiful Mistress," and such, on the part of slave girls addressing free women, are common.
2
38
It was the sort of garment which free women profess to despise, to find unspeakably shocking, unutterably scandalous, the sort of garment which they profess to regard with horror, the sort of garment which they seem almost ready to faint at the sight of, and yet to Phoebe, and to other...
8
311
Too, what if a fellow were to bring in ten thousand free slaves? Then there would be little room even for free folk.
9
138
"Accord such titles of respect to all free persons, even the lowliest of free persons," I said, "for you will be more beneath them than the dirt beneath their sandals".
10
393
In many respects the slave is more free than the free woman.
10
398
She is keenly sexual, which she is usually wise enough to conceal from the free woman, lest she be bound and mercilessly whipped, but the free woman suspects this only too well.
10
400
How could the free woman forgive her that? Too, perhaps most grievously, she, slave clad and collared, owned, devoted and obedient, eager to please, is incomparably more attractive to men than her rigid, bundled, inhibited, socially constrained free sister.
12
134
It is regarded as preposterous for a free man, as unworthy of a free man.
12
141
How is it possible that a free man could come to care for a slave, a collared, half-clad curvaceous little beast who desires only to serve him, and love him, and please him, as her master? How incomprehensible! Why rather, does he not piteously sue for the inestimable regard of a lofty...
12
265
Some free women claim that this book, which is supposedly written by Dina, "a slave," which continues to appear in various editions and revisions, because of its intelligence and sensitivity, is actually, and must have been, written by a free woman.
12
407
In any event, this attack on the part of the free woman, which happily had been only verbal, as they often are not, and the abused slave in any event dare not protest or object, as they are at the mercy of free persons, was in its way a profound compliment.
14
36
A free woman, as long as she remains free, can stand to the fullness of her short, graceful height before men.
19
1030
Doubtless some women did, arrogating to themselves, as free women are free to do, the prerogatives of males.
20
682
How, too, this woman's life had changed! What a dramatic volte-face, from a free woman to a slave! How different she was from a free woman, this slave, hot, needful, beautiful, owned, obedient, begging.
21
337
She, in all her loftiness and pride, cannot begin to bear the thought of another learning that her throat, that of a free woman, such a free woman, is encircled by the slave band.
22
342
After all, on what grounds should they object to a legitimate command issued by a free person to one who, after all, was but a slave? "Attack him!" said the woman to the free men with her.
24
163
To be sure, Goreans tend to take their free women very seriously, though perhaps not as seriously as the free women are inclined to take themselves.
24
166
When all, or most, women are free, there is obviously not much of a contrast between the free and slave.
24
174
Contrariwise, I suppose it is reasonably clear why, given the nature of the culture, and the societal actuality of the contrast between free and slave, the status of the free woman on Gor is so high, so meaningful.
24
177
Another difference, of course, is that the free woman on Gor is almost certain to have a Home Stone, and the free woman of Earth will not.
27
563
One of the things which is a part of a Gorean free girl's education, once she has reached puberty, and particularly if she is of the upper castes, is the intricate couture of the free woman's wardrobe.
27
940
"How pathetic the men of Earth," she said, "they let their slaves run free!" "They may not always run free," I said.
27
949
"Once a man, any man," I said, "has tasted a slave, do you think he will ever again go back to free women?" "free women," she said, "are a thousand times better than a slave!" "Of course," I said.
Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor
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9
141
Her projected companion had preferred one such as I, an Earth-girl slave, to one such as she! Inferior goods, indeed! I wondered if the slave had simply been taken, or purchased, by the fellow, whether she wished it or not, or if she had smiled, and posed, and, finding him of great int...
18
181
In the wars between free women and slave girls woe to the slave girl who is the serving slave of the free woman! On such a woman the free woman may to her heart's content indulge her vanity, her arrogance, and her pettiness, and may inflict on her her animos...
9
139
"She was abandoned by her intended companion, who had become enamored with a lovely Earth-girl slave," said another.
24
826
Her companion, the scarlet-clad fellow, had removed his cloak.
37
182
His companion, to his right, did the same.
13
216
"I am a helpless free woman," said the free woman, wheedlingly, "and you are a free man.
8
294
I know now, of course, as I did not earlier, that there are many free women on Gor, and, indeed, that most women on Gor are free.
8
784
I felt wanton, and excited, and alive! Too, in spite of my brand, my tunic, the cell, the bars, I felt free, more free than I had ever felt before.
10
493
It is rumored they sometimes work in conjunction with free women who manage baths, and such, patronized by free women.
10
1002
How well I had been controlled by the leash, even though my hands were free! I lay there prone, trembling, sweating on the stone, the tunic tight between my teeth; he then put his foot on my back, holding me down, pressing me to the stone, and, leaning forward, pulled up the leash, the...
12
74
In such a situation, where a male might expect to continue the pursuit of a free woman, who is, after all, at that point, still a free person, he might not wish to tire himself pursuing a slave.
12
590
Doubtless he was free and could respect me, as I was free, as well.
13
68
"She told me she was a free woman!" said the free woman.
13
228
How different we are from free women! And yet, interestingly, how artificial, and how fragile, and how culturally precarious, is the distinction between the free woman and the slave.
13
229
Do the free women understand that that distinction is not part of nature, like dominance and submission, but that it depends merely on the will of men? Do they not understand that their lofty status requires the permission of males, and, in a sense, depends upon the whims of males? The...
13
741
Was I not to be beaten? The free woman would never know, of course! But I recalled that the monster had assured the free woman that I would be punished.
14
205
That is what I think of your condition, and what you really are, you free females! Take away your veils and robes, and we shall see what you are! There, see, you are no more than we, only more slaves! Yes, perhaps I had chanced to yield, to some extent, to the temptation to take a litt...
14
208
Perhaps he had not realized before that the free woman was actually an attractive and desirable female, at least for a free woman, one who had not yet learned slave softness, slave helplessness.
14
538
Somewhat to my surprise the pit master had been agreeable to the free woman's desire to bathe, and he permitted me, the next day, when the cistern was free, to take her there.
14
1080
I then, head down, avoiding their eyes, as a slave normally does with unknown free men, turned about and led the free woman up the stairs.
14
1226
She has forgotten everything! Does she not know how she is clad, that she is in a collar, that she is leashed! Woe! She is acting like a free woman! The free woman's eyes flashed above her veil.
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1474
She was a free woman! I could well conjecture her dismay, her discomfort, her fear, her wild sensations—she, a free female, being held so close to him, she half stripped, he fully dressed, so powerful, so masculine! "'Tuta'," he read.
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And it seemed, too, that, from the point of view of those on this world, that some grievous insult was intended as well, first, doubtless, the general insult that he, a free man, would be attended by a mere slave, an insult common to those in the pits, and, second, that he, a fre...
18
120
Sometimes, in a foreign city, a free woman will elude her guards and thrust her way into the precincts of a paga tavern, precincts within which free women are seldom, if ever, found.
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 clear distinction between the...
18
168
If free women were really beautiful, why would they not be already in collars? To be sure, most slaves were once free women.
18
202
On the other hand, I must grant that the "free woman," once she is no longer free, once she becomes a slave, and learns her collar—once she is no longer free—and has now become a slave girl—will have her value—on the block, and in...
18
215
I was a little apprehensive about matters, of course, for it seemed that the pit master had realized what I was doing with the free woman, using her, at least from my own point of view, to take out my little vengeances on my superiors, free women.
19
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'" "I am a free woman!" said the free woman.
19
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"But I am a free woman!" said the free woman.
Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor
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309
She had been free, and had been free and lonely, free and unwanted, free and unnoticed, free and undesired, free and terribly miserable.
30
804
I have been the most free of the free, or thought myself such, and am now amongst the most enslaved of the enslaved, and am yet, because of that, the most free of the free, the truly free, for I am no longer at war with myself.
13
386
"I asked this woman to be my freecompanion, but she refused.
16
745
Is it true, as sworn by Lila, that the Lady Celestina, the freecompanion of Publius Major, as though inadvertently, drew back her robe, revealing an ankle to his handsome young secretary, Torbo? What will be the recommended length for slave tunics in the Fall? And how wi...
19
592
A freecompanion would presumably not show herself naked to her lover, for such would not comport with her dignity.
19
599
But such things could be dangerous, for the freecompanion who is a man is still a man, and men are excitable, and brutes.
30
487
Sometimes a free woman, who fears that her feelings for a projected companion, to her dismay and scandal, are more intense, suffusive, overwhelming and passionate than is proper for one of her status will withdraw from the projected match.
2
36
He was chatting, it seemed, with a companion, a charming, but, she thought, a surely stupid looking female.
2
163
What was there, truly, for she, and others, such as she, to look forward to? Another honor, another paper published, another conference attended, another point made, another small dinner, prepared by herself, another lonely evening in the apartment? He was getting up now, and assisting his com...
2
175
It was probably dyed, false, dyed! She had no right to be with such a man! The young man had followed his companion into the aisle.
2
218
His companion was waiting some yards away, looking toward the exit.
2
251
The young man returned to his companion, and she must have said something to him, doubtless annoyed, for he looked in the direction of the older woman, who instantly looked away, pretending to busy herself with nearby posters, that their eyes not meet.
4
11
The blond-haired, blue-eyed woman, to whom the older woman had taken such an instant dislike, whom she had scorned as so simple, so unworthy of the male, the one who had accompanied him to the performances, and had been his companion in the limousine, she who seemed so vital, so alive,...
4
42
"That will be all," said the young man to the chauffeur, and then the chauffeur and his companion drew back, chastened, deferentially closing the door behind them.
4
167
To her delight, the couple, the young man and his companion, too, had had seats comparable to those of the first performance.
4
174
That had suited the older woman very well, who did not care in the least for the young man's companion, whom she viewed as obviously far beneath him, profoundly unworthy of him.
4
206
"You don't mind, do you?" asked the young man of his companion.
4
212
"You will have water," he told his companion.
11
28
The woman at the coffee table bantered lightly with the two men, her companion and Mirus.
11
89
"How is that" smiled her benign companion.
11
146
"And male slavery," said her companion, lifting his wine glass to her, as though toasting her.
11
150
"Female slaves, on the other hand, like our pretty little Ellen here," said her companion, "are usually set to less arduous labors, though perhaps to tasks commonly more repetitive and servile.
11
154
"They are slave girls," said her companion.
11
156
"Yes," said her companion, "absolutely, and instantly".
11
278
Her formally dressed companion, who had been muchly silent, but muchly, too, intent upon her, laughed.
11
289
Her companion seemed unable to take his eyes from her.
11
296
But several times during the evening, when his attentions were not completely absorbed by his charming companion, she had sensed his eyes, those of a powerful male, on her youthful, well-turned, stripped body.
11
332
"For all of us," said her companion, he, too, lifting his glass to her in a pleasant salute.
11
342
Ellen wondered if the woman was aware of her companion's gaze, of how his eyes seemed to glitter upon her.
11
367
"But supper is not yet over," said her companion.
Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor
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22
The next morning Cabot with his hunting companion made his way to a locale familiar to them both, but one the companion was reluctant to enter, except upon the most urgent, quiet bidding.
26
172
"Certainly his small, well-formed companion, the small, sleek beast of which he is so unconscionably fond, has the coin of advantage and survival well in hand, information of importance to Agamemnon, and would spend it instantly to procure not only her life but his favor".
34
73
"Here!" cried Cabot, in response, trusting that his companion's hearing, equivalent to that of a Kur, might detect the sound amidst the wash and roar of the storm.
34
75
Doubtless to Cabot and his companion, Lord Grendel, and his lovely beast, the slave, she who had been given the name 'Lita', it seemed a long while, perhaps even the night.
37
4
For two days Cabot and his companion had followed the shore of Lake Fear, and had then made their way toward the area of major habitats.
44
58
* * * * Lord Grendel, and his human companion, Tarl Cabot, were on patrol.
73
181
A moan, almost human, of rage, of grief, of helplessness, came from the shuddering, hirsute massiveness of Cabot's companion.
73
205
Often important events are not spoken of before her, even events which might affect her profoundly, raids, excursions, shortages, closings of trade routes, marches on cities, the approach of armies, and such, and even lesser things, as well, for example that offers have been made for her, perhaps by...
2
64
free, they are without identity; free, they are meaningless and worthless; free, they are egotistical bothers, haughty nuisances, arrogant annoyances, self-alienated creatures removed from both biology and themselves, unhappy, pathetic, miserable, casting-ab...
43
320
Many a blow, thus, has been prevented by the interposition of a free male between his slave and a free woman, to the fury of the frustrated free woman.
79
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"It can be a capital offense," said Cabot, "for a slave to present herself as a free woman, to pretend to be a free woman, to garb herself as a free woman, or such".
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"Am I not free, if the outlawry is lifted, free to return to my holding, free to go where I will, and be as I will?" "Perhaps," said Grendel.
1
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One thing that is apparently difficult for free Goreans to understand, and perhaps for others who are free, or enjoy the semblance of freedom, is the reveling of the slave in what they conceive of as her degradation.
2
338
A slave addresses free men as Master, free women as Mistress.
3
68
Did she not know she could be lashed for speaking in that tone of voice to a free man? Did she think she was a free woman.
5
240
"You will address free men as "Master," free women as "Mistress".
10
59
Commonly slaves are not permitted to call free men and free women by their names.
24
254
"I am a free woman!" "A free woman, on a rope," said Cabot.
36
282
He found this amusing, for most slaves were once free women, and, usually, only the most beautiful of free women were collared.
36
283
Accordingly, almost all slaves would be likely to be more beautiful than most free women, a fact not lost on free women.
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92
"Do not be cruel! Do not deprive me! My needs are a thousand times beyond those of a free woman! My needs are not those of free woman, but of a slave!" "An aroused slave?" "Yes!" "The needs are different?" he asked.
43
89
"free me, free me, you fools!" screamed the Lady Bina.
43
316
The Gorean slave girl is much at the mercy of free women, by whom she is likely to be resented and hated, and free women are not above petty exercises of power, ordering the slave to kneel, to serve her, to bare herself, to kiss her embroidered slippers, and such.
43
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"Oh!" Cabot had taken a doubled strand of slave cord, put it about her left wrist, drawn the free strands through the loop, jerked the loop thusly formed tight on her wrist, and then, with the free strands beyond the loop, twice encircled her right wrist, pulled the whole...
55
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She is a free woman and as a free woman must accept the penalties incurred by her crimes, crimes both obvious and grievous.
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143
It will be almost as though she were free, but she knows she is not free.
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In any event, these women clearly did not understand that the Lady Bina, for it was she whom they had entrapped, was a free woman, or, more likely, they had no concept at all of a free woman.
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28
This is sometimes spoken of as the "paradox of the collar," namely, that she who is least free may, interestingly, be the most free.
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62
"Perhaps you think you are a free woman?" "No, Master, I do not think I am a free woman!" "What are you, then?" "A slave, Master, a slave!" "Anything else?" "No, Master, only that! Nothing else.
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What master would admit that he is fond of so low and worthless a thing as a slave? Suppose a free woman should hear of it?" "We must fear free women?" "Terribly," whispered Corinna.
Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor
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28
Initially, I had wondered if her response might not have been more to be expected of an ill-tempered, unhappy wife of Earth, a common form of contractual partner, or a Gorean freecompanion, a pledged partner, should her husband, or companion, appear at supp...
10
98
The female companion's complacency in this matter, or her understanding, or her tolerance, is, one gathers, quite different from what would be expected in the case of, say, a Gorean freecompanion, who, commonly, would find these arrangements outrageous and ...
18
503
Sometimes overconfident forces do bring free women with them, camp followers, courtesans, and such, and, even, not unoften, highly placed free women, to companion high officers, preside over victory feasts, have the first chance to bid amongst the women of t...
11
25
The Gorean free woman, as I understand it, who often mates while gowned, commonly refuses to reveal her "slave belly" to her companion, because of the shame of it.
22
113
How could they, free women, hope to compete in interest with a slave? A slave, of course, came with no companion dowry, no land, no wealth, no social or mercantile connections, but men, nonetheless, somehow, enjoyed having them at their feet.
5
719
There are various reasons for this, as I understand it, for example, the slave learns that she is no longer a free woman, that her hair, its length, dressing, and such, is now at the disposal of masters, that the distinction between her and the free woman is to be clearly...
10
99
For example, she would not be likely, resignedly, without question, to pay a bill arriving at her domicile from a pleasure house, pertaining to a pleasant evening spent there by her companion.
13
434
She may be a delight to him, and be much as a companion, but at a mere word be naked before him, on her belly.
14
22
These were surrogates for several weapons, in particular the short sword, or companion sword, and the long sword.
15
181
"Oh, yes," he laughed, "anything to escape the stable, the collar! For that what sacrifice would she not make? Even that of becoming what she hitherto most despised, a wife, or companion!" "No, Master," said Cecily.
15
182
"She wants to be otherwise in your arms, not as wife or companion, but as slave".
18
58
"Nodachi," said Tajima, "could deflect a quarrel with the blade of even a companion sword".
19
76
In his belt, blades uppermost, were the two swords, the companion sword and the longer blade.
19
85
I had the sense he was without companion or slave, and by choice.
22
24
Present, too, at the celebration, was he whom she had sought to enlist on her behalf, a friend unbeknownst to her from the childhood of the male companion.
23
280
The Pani had largely placed their long swords in racks near the edge of the feasting area, but none who bore them had surrendered the companion sword.
23
282
A similar practice I would learn often obtains in houses and barracks amongst the Pani, a practice in which the long sword is often set to one side, stored or racked, in a hall or vestibule, but the companion sword is kept at one's side, even near the sleeping mats and blocks.
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462
He lacked the skill one would expect from a professional at dark work, and the other, he with the crossbow, did not risk a miss, preferring to leave the strike to the knife of his confederate, he himself then serving muchly as support, either for a second strike, or, more likely, to disconcert any w...
32
34
He carried the companion sword, with tasseled hilt, in the belt, blade uppermost.
35
16
In this belt was the companion sword, blade uppermost.
41
73
At the high rail of the stern castle I saw, now far behind, the small motion in the water, now scarcely visible, even with the glass, in the swelling waves, which marked the point beyond which our mysterious companion could not proceed, that point which marked for it the end of a journ...
1
454
"I do not wish to be free! But you must free me! You are not Gorean! You are of Earth, of Earth! You have no choice but to free me!" "I do not understand," I said.
4
332
I am free, a free woman! I am not to be touched! I am to be treated with respect and dignity! I am not a slave! I am a free woman!" I removed my hands from her garment, and stepped back.
9
280
"I am a free woman," said Miss Wentworth, "a free woman, a free woman!" "Of course," I said.
13
82
How like a stupid free woman was she still! Did the free woman not think there was nothing more to attracting a man than that she be a woman? To be sure, the hint of a bosom, the suggestion of the sweet width of hips, within the robes of concealment, was indeed attractive...
22
438
Thus, technically, in that time she should have been exhibiting deference to the free, addressing free men as "Master," free women as "Mistress," and so on.
27
146
I doubted Pertinax would have his rather disparaging comparison of the Gorean woman and the woman of Earth, in terms of dignity and such, had he ever met a Gorean free woman, particularly of high caste, compared to whom the free woman of Earth, less free tha...
1
193
They have a position and elevation in society which far transcends that of, say, the free woman of Earth who is usually not so much free as merely not yet enslaved.
1
396
Do not even free women sometimes inadvertently disarrange their veils? So, many slaves, at least in the absence of free women, before whom they are likely to grovel and cower, and wisely, to avoid being beaten, luxuriate and rejoice in their beauty and its display.
1
458
You have no choice but to free me! You must free me!" "You think so?" I asked.
Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor
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320
"Such honor," I said, "for a slave?" "Master?" "Do you think you would be a freecompanion?" I asked.
2
228
Then, the fog parting, momentarily, I saw, looming above me, passing, a large, painted eye, black on yellow, that behind the small galley's downward sloping, concave prow, such eyes that she may guard herself and see her way, for as those who follow the sea are well aware, the ship is a living thing...
3
1090
As I passed through the kitchen, we passed a sturdy, stocky woman in rags, clearly of a low-caste aspect, doubtless the companion of the Metal Worker.
14
42
He should coordinate his efforts with the draw of the companion galley, ours.
25
244
"She is now doubtless his companion," she said.
6
33
Even when she kneels before the free woman, in her mockery of a garment, fastened in a collar, her lovely hair in the dirt before the free woman's slippers, she knows herself special, and prized, in a way the free woman is not.
8
159
Did she truly think she might play with a free man? Did she truly think she might speak as a free woman? Did she not know she was a slave? Did she truly think that I, or any free man, would not put her to discipline? Let her learn differently.
3
466
The barefootedness of the slave also tends to draw a further distinction between her and the free woman, for the free woman, even of low caste, almost always has footwear of one sort or another, even if it is only a wrapping of cloth.
3
1037
'I am a free woman, a free woman!' I cried.
3
1074
How dared he, and I a free woman! Where were guardsmen that I might summon? Surely that was not such a kiss as might be given to a free woman! Might it not have been more appropriately imposed upon a paga girl or a brothel slut, fastened down for a man's pleasure? But I w...
6
41
How could she not feel superior, in her sex, as a female, to the free woman in her vain, shallow trappings of dignity and station? Many have been free women, and they know the grief, the sorrow, the frustration, the misery, and loneliness, so often concealed within those ...
6
42
The free woman often hates the slave; the slave, often, feels not only fear of, but also pity for, the free woman.
12
501
What do they do, such things, the collar, bracelets, and such, other than confirm her womanhood upon a female? To be sure, slaves, as free woman are not, are well advised to answer quickly and truthfully any queries of a free man.
18
36
I wondered if she still thought of herself as a free woman, or was trying to think of herself as a free woman.
21
330
Do other free women suspect how she is now different from them? Could they possibly know? That she, though a free woman, has been subjected to slave use? How they would shun and scorn her, if they knew.
21
734
Many may have had their hair shorn and begged retreating soldiers, of Tyros and Cos, and of the free companies, to take them with them, not as inconvenient, troublesome free women, but as begging, complaisant slaves.
24
180
Many free women, it is said, and perhaps all, as is hinted, are merely slaves who have dared to conceal themselves for a time in the habiliments of the free.
26
62
The Pani free women, incidentally, seem, except for the companions of high officers, and such, to have much lower status than the typical Gorean free woman, certainly one of upper caste.
26
329
Beyond that, do not insult a free man! Do not insinuate that a free man might be so foolish as to care for a slave.
28
40
Do they not suggest that the object within her collar has come to the attention of free men? Do they not portend the possibility of eventual caresses, for which she hopes, which she is zealous to earn? "Dear fellows," I said, "it is possible these two were once free women...
28
173
I supposed that free women speculated that private dinners amongst free men, to which they were not invited, were often so served.
37
442
The female serving slave of a free woman is likely to be modestly tunicked, whereas the slave of a free man is likely to be tunicked in such a manner as to make it clear to other men that she was worth buying.
37
517
free women have their vanity, sometimes extravagantly so, so why not a slave, as well? And, indeed, is not a slave even more entitled to vanity than a free woman? She, after all, has been looked upon by men, and found fit for collaring.
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Indeed, on her own world, I supposed she had been free, as free, at any rate, as such women could be, in such a world, where, I gathered, their values, views, attitudes, dress, behavior, and such were dictated, as nearly as I could tell, by lunatics who, in fear of themse...
1
171
The silks of tavern girls, of course, are quite unlike the silks of free women, which are cumbersome and concealing, even to veils.
1
173
There is no mistaking them for free women.
1
196
And certainly they were reminiscent of the multiply stranded, temporary collars, tied shut, sometimes put on captures, particularly on stripped free women, the stripping and collaring serving to make clear their transient status, prior to an appropriate marking and collaring.
1
304
Talena, freed, in contempt and arrogance, permitted to a free woman, ridiculed and scorned her benefactor, and insisted upon being returned to power and glory in Ar, which matter was arranged by this fellow, Bosk of Port Kar.
1
439
I thought it interesting that a girl who must have once been free would have had such hair.
1
442
I wondered if, in some corner of her mind, she had not, even when free, longed for masters.
Book 31. (30 results) Conspirators of Gor
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10
853
"A Ubar might companion a Ubara from another city, a coveted city, one of wealth and power, or companion the daughter of another Ubar, of such a city, such things".
7
270
You are a slave, not a freecompanion, lofty in her dignity, who may be as clumsy and inept as she wishes".
10
608
Secondly, if the household is small, and a freecompanion is in the household, she may not care to have a slave on the premises.
10
728
Delia, companion of Epicrates, a free woman, I was sure, would not be without one.
10
856
"Occasionally," said the beast, "a Ubar may companion the Ubara of a captured city, forcing companionship, however unwelcome, upon her, making of her free spoils, so to speak, thereby, as she is then companioned, entitling himself legally to th...
11
32
"The beauty of a free woman," she once said to me, perhaps having acquired such views from Lady Delia, downstairs, the companion of Epicrates, "is a thousand times beyond that of a mere slave.
10
159
Sometimes it seemed to me that I would like a weak master whom I might control, manage, and manipulate, rather as a typical female companion on my native world was accustomed, given the culture in question, to control, manage, and manipulate their male companions, rather ...
10
207
His companion, Delia, like himself, could read.
10
255
Certainly it was not taking lessons from the companion of Epicrates.
10
318
One reason I had been purchased, I gathered, was to have a companion for the Lady Bina when she left the house.
10
565
I feared that the Mistress was learning more of Gor each day, perhaps, in part, from Delia, the companion of Epicrates.
10
609
For example, Delia, the companion of Epicrates, was such a woman.
10
638
In any event, whether as a mere aspect of their disguise, or because the pittances of my earnings might actually be important to their economy, I found myself serving as a work slave, a laundering slave, several customers having been located on the public boards by Delia, companion of ...
10
818
Too, I had little doubt there were thousands of fellows about who thought that their companion or slave was the most beautiful woman on all Gor, for any woman, even ones whose appearance might frighten tharlarion, may appear beautiful when seen through the eyes of love.
10
843
Did she not know that a jungle, formidable and dangerous, exacting and competitive, existed in the streets of Ar, a jungle which, as in many communities, for all its reality, was invisible? "A Ubar, a great lord, a potentate," said the beast, "does not companion casually or lightly.
10
859
"No," said the beast, "for one may have but one companion, at one time".
10
1095
Lady Delia, companion of the pottery merchant, Epicrates, with coins received from the Lady Bina and the beast, later remunerated a number of customers who had lost their goods.
18
197
I well recalled Lady Delia, the companion of the pottery merchant, Epicrates.
22
38
Certainly she had carefully attended to the instructions of the Lady Delia, the companion of Epicrates, in Ar.
51
5
The Lady Delia, companion of Epicrates, had even assisted the Lady Bina with the menu, and the decorations.
52
131
What man truly, honestly, does not want a slave? "Perhaps Master finds me of companion interest," I said.
7
183
Might they not have escaped the lips of a frightened slave? And how naturally I had addressed a free man as "Master!" I recalled, from the party, that all free males were to be addressed as "Master," and all free females as "Mistress!" I was taken to a side ...
7
326
How can free women compete with her? The free man may find the free woman of interest, for example, in matters of family, position, power, and wealth, but is it not the despised, meaningless slave to whom he turns for pleasure? Is it not the slave which his ...
8
230
The free woman of a high caste and the free woman of a lower caste commonly have one thing in common which unites them, securely, as free women.
18
795
I was in a collar! I had failed it! Did I think I was a free woman? I was no longer a free woman, if I had ever been a free woman.
49
172
The free woman on Gor has a status and power which would astonish most of the putatively free women of my former world, but then the Gorean commonly thinks of the women of my former world not as free women, at least as he understands that, but rather as slav...
1
44
How free we are, then, animals, so different from their free women.
4
482
"As I understand it," I said, "kajirae are commonly clothed sedately, in long gowns, if with bared arms, at such feasts, that is, if free women should be present?" One scarcely dared conjecture how they might serve, if free women were not present.
4
574
"And remember," she said, "you are to address all free males as Master, and all free females as Mistress.
5
84
Can you, who are free, understand that? I suspect your free women can.
Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor
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29
183
The freecompanion wonders if his freecompanion will be in the mood this night; he will hope so; the master orders his slave to the furs.
29
182
The free woman is the equal of her freecompanion; the purchased female is the slave of her master.
8
295
"Do something!" said another free woman to her escort, or companion.
17
113
Why then do free men court the free woman and buy the slave? Why do they yield their place in the theaters and concert halls to the free woman, and drag the slave by the hair to a tavern's alcove? When the free woman is courted, she may be unce...
8
292
"Interfere!" said one of them to a fellow, standing, watching, he presumably her companion.
21
212
"What is the concern of your companion?" asked the beast with the device.
21
226
"Your companion is correct," said the beast with the device.
21
248
"Can you trust your companion?" inquired the beast with the device.
42
7
What if he were companioned? Might he buy me for his companion? Would she sense that I was his slave? How cruel she would be to me! Might he keep me to the side, in rented space, in a girl stable, to be used when convenient? Or would he want me, at all? Was I truly so inf...
48
51
I had occasionally sensed I might have shared the forest with some unseen companion, like a shadow amongst the trees, but I had dismissed this apprehension as, Ahn after Ahn, even following investigations, I had detected nothing.
50
697
"The mad one, in her lovely gown, worthy of a high merchant's companion, is least amongst us!" said another.
9
255
Most slaves, of course, were once free women, free insofar as a woman may be regarded as free, as not yet collared.
17
111
The Gorean free woman, on the other hand, understands that she is free in a manner which might dismay, and would surely far exceed, that of the allegedly free woman of Earth.
25
26
I was joyful! I was free, I thought, at last, free! free! Then I paused amongst the leaves, the trees, and shade.
29
171
Whereas the Panther Woman, or Panther Girl, as other free women, commonly holds the slave in contempt, and is cruel to her, she seems to hate her less, on the whole, than she hates either the free male or the typical free female.
3
7
Is it so strange that I, then humbled, then reduced, then subject to chains, the whip, the collar, was now free, at last free! It was a freedom in which I had had no decision, but one forced upon me, and I would not have had it otherwise.
4
250
The slave, of course, addresses all free men as 'Master', all free women as 'Mistress'.
5
71
Was I not legally free! I was free! I behaved so, as I did, you must understand, merely in order to mitigate my fears, to face, taunt, defy, and deny them, to ridicule them, to prove them groundless, only that.
6
92
Few free traitresses, or traitresses who long remained free, escaped the city.
6
323
Did she still think she was a free woman? Had she not yet learned she was a slave? Lying is permitted to the free woman, not the slave.
7
139
The free person knows himself free, and conceives of himself as such.
7
180
free women may move awkwardly, clumsily, stiffly, however they please, but you, you must keep in mind, are no longer a free woman.
9
201
It is said that a free woman might perish of shame if placed in a slave tunic, but, to a slave, such a garment, which she knows need not be accorded to her, may be a treasure, more precious to her than some assemblage of robes and veils to a free woman.
9
238
For example, if the free woman were to dress as a slave, she might soon be collared, and if the master were to dress his slave as a free woman, he would be jeopardizing her life.
9
242
The culture does deem it important, and free women insist upon this, that a clear distinction be drawn between the free woman and the slave.
9
250
The notion here seems to be that a roving tarnsman, a raider, a slaver, a girl hunter, and such, given the choice between a prey of obvious interest, say, a scantily clad slave girl, and one of an unknown quality, say, a free woman in the robes of concealment, given the risks involved,...
13
132
How is it that there is such a difference between the free woman and the slave, and then, again, that there is no difference? A radical distinction is drawn between the Gorean free woman, with caste and Home Stone, and the slave.
15
299
"As free as women on your world can be free!" she scoffed.
15
301
"You do not know what it is to be free," she said, "for you were never a Gorean free woman.
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487
All free males are Master; all free women are Mistress.
Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor
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205
In the pause which followed Nodachi's swift, almost casual, felling of Lord Akio's two men, that small, eager, ill-fated vanguard unwisely addressing themselves, woefully unsupported, to their foray, both he and Lord Yamada had replaced their companion swords in their sashes and drawn ...
47
255
But the shogun's attention was on Nodachi, bound, hands free, the companion sword in hand, awaiting the tenth arrow.
4
164
It was the shorter blade, the companion blade.
4
166
The field sword may be kept in its rack, in the hall, but the companion blade is commonly at hand.
4
250
"It is a fast little thing," I said, "rather like the companion sword".
15
27
I saw no reason to call this to the attention of my companion and guide.
17
169
Matters, of course, I anticipate, will proceed well, and our two young friends will return on tarnback with their companion to your camp, from which, thereafter, the cavalry will obey my orders".
20
259
I noted that his hand now rested on the tasseled hilt of his companion sword, an accouterment with which men of his station were seldom without.
20
537
Lord Yamada rose up from behind the table, his hand on the hilt of his companion sword, and strode angrily to Tatsu.
20
541
"There are no sons of the blood of the house of Yamada," said Lord Yamada, drawing from his sash the companion sword.
20
550
"And you shall not again!" said Lord Yamada, and the companion sword, with a movement of Lord Yamada's wide sleeve, entered the reader's heart, and then, as easily, with another motion of that sleeve, withdrew.
21
59
The outraged shogun, believing himself crossed in this dire manner, and doubtless feeling humiliated and betrayed before the company, apparently in a moment's consternation and rage, answered the unwelcome reading with the precipitous retort of the companion sword.
27
69
That would be the companion sword.
32
29
Unlike the companion sword or the shorter tanto, and unlike the typical Gorean gladius, they are not intended for close work.
32
112
Tajima, securing a companion sword from one of the fallen bandits, severed the bonds on my wrists.
40
62
"Leave the companion sword as it is, lying by the table," I said.
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49
Meanwhile Ichiro had entered the slave tent and had his companion sword, easily handled at close quarters, at the throat of the officer.
46
108
"It is a companion sword," said the skeptical warrior, scornfully.
46
130
The skeptical officer, and his companion, I think of higher rank, turned away.
46
138
"Do you call Izo, of the guard of the shogun, a liar?" asked the warrior, his hand on the tasseled hilt of his companion sword.
46
140
"Come away," said his companion, gently.
46
144
"He is a simple mountebank, an innocent fellow seeking rice," said his companion.
47
182
"Katsutoshi, captain of my guard," said Lord Yamada, "will remain at hand, to supply the companion sword".
47
209
"Arm him," he called to Katsutoshi, who then handed the companion sword to Nodachi, and stepped to the side.
47
222
He had struck the arrow away with a tiny flick of the companion sword.
47
283
Even as we cried out with astonishment and pleasure, and Lord Yamada, shaken, tried to grasp what had occurred, Nodachi thrust the companion sword amongst the ropes which fastened him to the post, and the ropes parted, darting to the sides, as though fleeing from the blade.
59
30
The other was Katsutoshi, whom I recalled from the village, where Nodachi had twice divided a grain of rice, once with the companion sword, and once with the field sword.
59
171
Both Tajima and Pertinax whipped out companion swords, taken from the trophy room, and stepped between Nodachi and Katsutoshi, who descended, lightly, from the dais.
59
191
He was no master of the companion sword, nor would he have been of the field sword.
59
214
"I am," I said, companion sword in hand, taken from the trophy room.
Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor
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36
The slave is not to be confused with a freecompanion.
22
37
The freecompanion, incidentally, as it has been explained to me, to protect her modesty, and make clear the difference between herself and a slave, is touched, if touched, only beneath the covers, she lightly robed, and in a dark room.
26
225
It was not my fault if I may have fallen favorably beneath the gaze of her freecompanion! That was not my doing! I had not even been aware of his regard.
34
276
"What if," I asked, "if she is a person, if she is free, she does not wish to companion herself with the monster?" "Then," said he, "as she is a female, she may simply be collared, and owned".
9
174
"No, no!" said the young man's companion, striking his fellow on the back, jovially.
9
180
"Inferior slaves!" said his companion.
11
139
For example, there are companies from which you can obtain a cook, or cooks, if you are planning a banquet, companies from which you can rent fine robes, or sandals, jewels for your companion, and so on.
14
41
The most beautiful seemed to be the dinner companion of Lysander himself.
14
57
Perhaps he had been invited late or had appeared unexpectedly and had had no time to either hire, or have hired for him, a companion.
14
82
The dinner companion of Lysander was reluctant to depart so soon, but was, eventually, gently, conducted to her palanquin by Faisal, Lysander's house manager, he who had fetched me this afternoon, for some reason, from the kitchen.
20
246
But then it had turned away, tamely following its companion.
21
14
The beast had not seemed to bear me ill-will, nor its companion, the lovely lady, but who can read what currents of thought might course unseen in dark places, what rivers might flow in the minds of brutes, what might lie behind unreadable eyes? I seized the hammer ring on the door and...
26
136
"Keep your eyes down," my companion whispered.
26
146
"Not really," said my companion.
26
160
"No," said my companion.
26
181
"Tal, noble Master," said my companion, kneeling.
26
185
"It is to be weighed out, carefully," said my companion.
26
187
"Give the noble master the sack, that he may weigh out the salt," said my companion.
26
190
My companion then rose and I, decidedly uneasy, for we had not been given permission to rise, rose to my feet, as well.
26
197
"The first girl will be pleased," said my companion.
34
260
"If all that was wished was to deprive the monster of a companion, a mate, or slave, or such, she could have been summarily killed in the house of Flavius Minor, perhaps even on the steel world, he being informed, of course, of what was done.
34
268
"The thing was made," I said, "to be the companion, or mate, of the monster".
40
14
In the back I could also see the portal that, probably, led to the living quarters of Epicrates and his companion.
40
76
"I am his companion," said the Lady Delia.
40
86
"Beware," said Lady Delia to her companion, Epicrates, "he wishes to steal your secrets".
40
95
"Perhaps, dear Delia," said Epicrates to his companion, "you might withdraw".
40
161
His companion is the Lady Delia.
40
198
My companion helped her learn to read, if you can imagine that.
40
233
"Demand ten silver tarsks, a gold tarsk!" "Ela, dear companion," he said.
43
57
Lady Delia, the companion of Epicrates, taught her to read Gorean.
Book 35. (30 results) Quarry of Gor
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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 somethin...
1
63
Is it so strange that a lightly-clad, collared, owned animal, sexual and beautiful, exciting and needful, her slave fires kindled by the will and doings of men, might be found, however undeservedly, of interest to men? What man would wish, save for social or economic advantage, to indefinitely pursu...
14
59
"Did you ever have a freecompanion?" I asked.
23
98
His efforts were rewarded, for a free woman, hastily veiled, her companion behind her, was soon framed in the portal.
23
128
Thanked, the free woman and her companion, together with the blanket, retired to their dwelling, perhaps to their breakfast.
47
162
"She was once his freecompanion, but that was long ago, and the companionship is dissolved if not renewed annually.
47
164
One cannot be both a freecompanion and a slave".
23
113
Her companion, Portus, even held the blanket high, gripped behind him.
23
125
Instantly the attitudes of her companion, and the two guardsmen, changed toward me.
11
419
"I know you! From Earth! From Earth! I know you! You know me! From Earth! From Earth!" He was here, on Gor! He was in the garb of the free! He would know me! He must have connections, relationships, power! He would free me! He would rescue me! He would save me! I would be...
40
312
How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had...
46
561
How utterly different is the movement of a slave from that of a free woman, how uninhibited, how free, how profound, how unapologetically, sinuously brazen, how radically and rawly female; the free woman dances her beauty, the slave, in all her beauty, dance...
1
64
Indeed, in a sense, no one is really free or not free.
1
293
All free men are addressed as "Master," of course, and all free women as "Mistress".
2
143
Did I not know I was a slave? Was it not clear enough, when I was released from the cage, and knelt, my head to the floor, my crossed wrists lifted high behind me for binding? Could there be any doubt about the matter when I knelt, bound, before the master, and, my head lifted, the whip was put to m...
2
154
"This is all a terrible mistake! Clothe me! Take this collar off my neck! I should not be here! This is not my world! I do not belong here! I cannot be sold! I am a woman of Earth! Of Earth! I cannot be sold! I am free, free!" He looked at me, puzzled.
3
172
Have we not seen even more deplorable behavior, upon occasion, in the first, or even the second, sale of a former Gorean free woman, taken, say, in a slave raid, or acquired as a part of the loot of a fallen city? If a first sale can be surprising, or trying, even for a mere barbarian,...
3
271
Lonely, and then angry, frustrated, arrant, and contemptuous, I had come to despise the males of Earth as weaklings, as little more than docile, pliant sources of gifts, books, flowers, candy, jewelry, free dinners, free entertainment, and such.
4
27
We are clothed, when clothed, in such a way as, in the opinion of the free women, to shame, humiliate, and degrade us, but, perhaps to the chagrin of free women, we soon grow fond of our tunics and collars.
6
306
How much they were at the mercy of free men, but are not all slaves at the mercy of the free? The curtain was open.
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...
11
155
I would tend to move well to the side, my head lowered, if passing a free woman, while, if passing a free male, I would tend to keep my eyes straight ahead.
11
189
One is under the scrutiny of the free, particularly that of hostile free women.
11
653
Let the free be free, and the slaves be slaves.
12
49
The slave is free to be uncritically, unquestioningly sexual, free to be her vital, natural, needful, uninhibited self.
20
7
How I was to taunt him, how I was to make him suffer, how I was to bend him to my will, how I was to manipulate him! All these aims and ambitions had vanished; how barren proved such absurd projects and programs; these tactics and formulas had evaporated; did I still think I was a free...
23
79
"These men and their glorious free women! He would be horrified to have the modesty of a free woman compromised, even so slightly, but they would think nothing of being served by a needful, begging slave, naked save for her collar!" "Hold," he said.
24
151
free women can speak sharply and unpleasantly to free men.
24
228
Why would the Lady Dorna, a free woman, want to have an innocent slave cast to tharlarion? Was she angry that I had not revealed secrets to her, that Adraste was the former Lady Julia Leta, scion of a minor banking family, the Claudian Marcelliani, their house on Ar's Street of Coins? ...
25
55
I seek to find her to free her, to return her to the glorious station of the free citizeness.
Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor
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Quote
63
165
"She was once my freecompanion," I said.
48
192
"He is anxious to rejoin his companion," said Thurnock.
4
139
"We are not slaves, we are free women, noble free women, of good caste, of Naxos.
6
148
The use of the expression 'Master' to a free man or 'Mistress' to a free woman is expected of a slave.
10
58
If one is a slave, why should one not be a slave? Let the free woman be free; let the slave be a slave.
17
208
Let the free be free; let the slave be slave.
17
358
If a free woman should pronounce herself a slave, she is, then, instantly, no longer a free woman but a slave.
19
103
free women, too, I have heard, from several slaves who were once free women, often feel the inclination, the impulse, the desire, the temptation, to kneel before a suitable male.
19
128
Most of the women were free, but some slaves were also in evidence, approximately one slave to every fifteen or twenty free women.
21
15
Along these lines, the trysts, liaisons, and affairs of free women may not be secrets as well kept as the free women are likely to believe.
28
52
"We are free women, noble and free!" cried Philomena.
29
75
"As I am a slave, I must call all free men 'Master' and all free women 'Mistress'".
36
95
"I am proud! I am now myself! I have never felt more free, I have never been more free!" "Slaves!" exclaimed Margot.
1
158
On the continent, there are thousands of villages, sovereign and proud, prosperous and free, too costly to attack, defended by flights of the birds of death".
3
115
"Yes," I said, "free women, some of whom decline veiling".
3
121
"Put aside thoughts of free women, greedy, troublesome creatures," I said.
3
123
"I am not to think of free women?" asked Aktis.
3
131
"free women are exalted and priceless," said Aktis.
3
134
A free woman is priceless because she has no price, and without a price she is worthless.
3
135
A woman has no value until she is a slave and her value then is what the free will pay for her.
4
55
"free women?" asked Clitus.
4
80
They are stranded, lost at sea, helpless, only women, three women, free women, perhaps even of high caste.
4
131
"We are free.
5
39
"But free minions, responsible minions," said Thurnock.
5
93
"What is the likelihood," I asked, "that in the wide and open waters of mighty Thassa one might encounter a tiny, listing fragment of a shattered vessel, with three passengers, free women, in desperate need of succor?" "Little likelihood, indeed," said Clitus.
6
79
It is harrowing for such a slave to be owned by a free woman.
6
101
"That I may please the free," she said, "instantly, unquestioningly, and in all ways".
6
110
"Perhaps you should be sold to a free woman," I said.
6
116
I supposed she feared that I, displeased, might purchase her, and then sell her to a free woman.
6
117
"It seems you have had some interactions with a free woman or women," I said.