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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	16	How surprised I had been when she had appeared in the small room outside the Chamber of the council, after my father! She had knelt at his feet in the position of the Tower Slave as he had explained to me the plan of the council.
3	86	"The high Castes in a given city," said my father, "elect an administrator and council for stated terms.
3	144	A man who refused to practice his livelihood or strove to alter status without the consent of the council of high Castes was, by definition, an outlaw and subject to impalement.
4	128	The Chamber of the council is the room in which the elected representatives of the high Castes of Ko-ro-ba hold their meetings.
4	132	Benches of stone, on which the members of the council sat, rose in five monumental tiers about the walls, one tier for each of the high Castes.
4	163	"Then," said my father, placing his hands solemnly on my shoulders, "in virtue of my authority as Administrator of this city and in the presence of the council of high Castes, I declare you to be a Warrior of Ko-ro-ba".
20	21	Marlenus, in spite of his heroic role in the victory, submitted himself to the judgment of Ar's council of high Castes.
20	28	His appointment was confirmed by Ar's council of high Castes, and his popularity in the city is such that it seems probable that in the future the office will be his by free election.
4	88	The Lower Castes, incidentally, commonly believe that the names of the high Castes are actually use-names and that the high Castes conceal their real names.
4	126	"We are going to the Chamber of the council," he said.
4	154	Then, beginning with the lowest tier, each member of the council spoke in succession, giving his name and pronouncing that he, too, accepted the word of the blond swordsman.
4	165	I removed my helmet, feeling proud as I heard the approval of the council, both in voice and by Gorean applause, the quick, repeated striking of the left shoulder with the palm of the right hand.
4	166	Aside from candidates for the status of Warrior, none of my caste was permitted to enter the council armed.
4	171	With the Older Tarl I left the Chamber of the council and entered a room off the chamber to wait for my father.
5	19	The soldiers, and the council of his city, had succumbed to his blandishments, his promises of wealth and power for Ar.
5	24	Indeed, they had, in the fashion of Gor, driven my father's envoys from their council Chambers with the whips normally used on slaves, an insult which, at another time, would have been answered by the War Call of Ko-ro-ba.
5	32	I would not permit the plan of the council to be followed completely, not in her case, even though she had agreed to play her part in the plan, knowing it meant her life.
5	37	He, in accordance with the plan of the council, had need of a girl who would be willing to give her life to be avenged on the men of Ar.
5	55	Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of ...
5	59	According to the plan of the council of Ko-ro-ba, exactly at the time of the sacrifice, at the twentieth Gorean hour, or midnight, I was to drop to the roof of the highest cylinder in Ar, slay the daughter of the Ubar, and carry away her body and the Home Stone, discardin...
5	61	Presumably, it would be at least a matter of minutes before her identity was discovered, and, before that, she would take the poison provided by the council.
5	107	"Why?" What could I tell her? That I had come from another world, that I was determined that all the ways of Gor should not be mine, or that I had cared for her, somehow, so helpless in her condition—that she had moved me to regard her not as an instrumentality of mine or of the council...
5	132	Sana had insisted that I keep the pellet of poison which the council had given her to spare her from the otherwise inevitable tortures that would follow the disclosure of her identity in the cylinders of Ar.
10	3	Kazrak's remark was in accord with the strange warrior codes of Gor, codes which were as natural to him as the air he breathed, and codes which I, in the Chamber of the council of Ko-ro-ba, had sworn to uphold.
14	30	"I risked my life a thousand times and gave the years of my youth to the vision of Ar and its empire, that there might be on all Gor but one language, but one commerce, but one set of codes, that the highways and passes might be safe, that the peasants might cultivate their fields in p...
1	82	It was about twelve inches long and four inches high.
2	4	I seemed to be lying on some hard, flat object, perhaps a table, in a circular room with a low ceiling some seven feet high.
3	70	For example, the population as a whole, the castes below the high Castes, were encouraged to believe that their world was a broad, flat disk.
3	72	On the other hand, the high Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on on...
3	77	"Rulers," he said, "are chosen from any high Caste".

Book 2. (30 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	37	This was as it should be, as I was of that caste, and had been since that morning, some seven years ago, when in the Chamber of the council of high Castes I had accepted weapons from the hands of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and had taken the Home ...
3	39	In rare cases, one might have been permitted by the council of high Castes to raise caste.
11	19	On the broad steps leading to the throne, there were curule chairs, on which sat, I supposed, members of the high council of Tharna.
12	111	"The Caste of Physicians," she said, "under the direction of the high council of Tharna, arranges these matters".
12	126	"When he was safe," she said, "I did my duty, giving myself up, going before the high council of Tharna and confessing all.
12	129	"You should not have given yourself to the high council," I said.
26	77	Kron remains in Tharna, where he stands high in the council of the Tatrix Lara.
20	62	If the high Initiate of Ar should ever succeed in extending his hegemony over the high Initiates of rival cities, a hegemony which he claims he possesses already incidentally, a unified calendar might be introduced.
21	205	Perhaps I had once been in the trade? Actually, fifty silver tarn disks was an extremely high price, and indicated the girl was probably of high caste as well as extremely beautiful.
26	47	I had thought this pointless, and perhaps dangerous, but Kron had said simply, "Let those who fear to walk the high bridges not walk the high bridges".
22	110	"In these dreams I had been proud in my palace surrounded by my council and warriors and then, shattering the roof like glass, a great tarn descended, bearing a helmeted warrior.
22	111	He scattered my council and defeated my armies and took me and stripped me and bound me naked across the saddle of his bird and then, with a great cry, he carried me to his city, and there I, once proud Tatrix of Tharna, wore his brand and collar".
22	141	I recalled that she had said something of a rug and cords in the council chamber of Tharna, when she had seemed consumed with rage, when it seemed she wanted to lash the flesh from my bones.
2	29	With this weapon groups of men hunt even the larl in its native haunts in the Voltai Range, that incredible pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight feet high at the shoulder.
3	82	Whereas I was of high caste and he of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own Home Stone.
3	83	Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of hi...
5	4	Ko-ro-ba was not set as high and remote as, for example, was Thentis in the mountains of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, but it was not a city of the vast plains either, like the luxurious metropolis of Ar, or of the shore, like the cluttered, crowded, sensuous Port Kar on the Tamb...
6	64	I had seen a man die the Flame Death, the high Initiate of Ar on the summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, consumed in the sudden burst of blue fire that bespoke the displeasure of the Priest-Kings.
6	87	Though she is clad only in the almost transparent scarlet dancing silks of Gor, her back is straight, her head high.
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 his own.
8	54	It was railed, as most Gorean bridges, high or low, are not.
9	85	"This is not a place," said the man, "for one of high Caste".
9	91	"You are of high caste, of the Caste of Warriors," said the proprietor.
11	18	Beneath this mask, there was, on a high dais, a monumental throne of gold.
11	162	"I know," said Ost, "that the leader of the conspiracy is a high person in Tharna—one who wears the silver mask, a woman".
12	74	After all, though the Caste of Singers, or Poets, was not a high caste, it had more prestige than, for example, the Caste of Pot-Makers or Saddle-Makers, with which it was sometimes compared.
13	24	It was an oval enclosure, perhaps a hundred yards in diameter on its longest axis, and enclosed by walls about twelve feet high.
14	27	No sooner had I reached the center than one of the sections of the wall rolled back, revealing a portal almost as high as the wall and perhaps thirty feet in width.
14	62	Its head was high, alert in the leather darkness of its hood.
15	32	More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free.

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
33	67	I knew that the high Initiate of Ar, following the policies of the high Initiate before him, wished to claim hegemony over all other Initiates, and claimed to possess this already, but his claim, of course, was denied by the other high Initiates who regarded...
9	120	I knew that Gorean caste lines, though largely following birth, were not inflexible, and that a man who did not care for his caste might be allowed to change caste, if approved by the high council of his city, an approval usually contingent on his qualifications for the w...
14	157	The first five born of the Mother are the high council of the Nest.
7	31	The second girl was tall, fragile and willowy, with slender ankles and large, hurt eyes; she had dark, curling hair that fell about her shoulders and stood out against the white of her garment; she may have been of high Caste; without speaking to her it would be hard to tell; even then...
10	48	He lifted one foreleg high over his head and touched something high in the wall which I could not see.
13	3	We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a Priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots.
26	90	"Cabot," she said, "—what if my request were on the lips of a woman of high Caste and of one of the high cities of all Gor—could you refuse it then?" "I don't understand," I said.
33	50	He was, I gathered, correctly as it turned out, the high Initiate of Ar, he who had been appointed to fill the post of the former high Initiate whom I had seen destroyed by the Flame Death years earlier.
33	66	Let this sacrifice please your nostrils and now consent to hear our pleas! It is offered by Om, Chief among all the high Initiates of Gor!" "No!" cried a number of other Initiates, the high Initiates of various other cities.
33	140	"With most," he said, "it is as you think, and they are simple, believing members of my caste, and there are others who suspect the truth and are tormented, or who suspect the truth and will pretend—but I, Om, high Initiate of Ar, and certain of the high Initiates ...
14	160	"Then," I suggested, "he wants you to die so that he will be the only remaining member of the council and thus have absolute power".
1	13	It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbou...
1	63	Sometimes these men are merchants who wish thereby to secure goodwill for their products; sometimes they are practitioners of the law, who hope to sway the votes of jury men; sometimes they are Ubars or high Initiates who find it in their interests to keep the crowds amused.
2	115	The path was steep but its ascent, here and there, was lightened by high steps.
2	132	I hesitated for a moment and then the fierce war cry of Ko-ro-ba burst from my lips in the clear, chill air of the Sardar and I threw myself into the open, my spear arm back, my shield high.
3	59	If one had encountered him in the eighteenth century, one might have taken him for a jolly, snuff-sniffing, roisterous country squire, knowing himself the salt of the earth, not above twitting the parson nor pinching the serving girls; in the nineteenth century he would have owned an old book shop a...
4	19	In this great dome there was nothing save that at its very center there was a high dais and on this dais there was a large throne carved from a single block of stone.
4	50	He gazed up at the dome, so high above, and watched the smoke curl slowly upward.
5	11	There was no door on the room but there was a great portal, perhaps twelve feet wide and eighteen feet high.
5	154	I listened intently, knowing that the girl could, even if of high Caste, understand little of what had happened to her.
5	155	Those of the high Castes of Gor are permitted by the Priest-Kings only the Second Knowledge, and those of the lower castes are permitted only the more rudimentary First Knowledge.
6	32	Perhaps if you can imagine yourself suddenly being forced to sit on rather high end tables you can sense the feeling.
6	37	It was only with difficulty that she had been restrained from hurling herself in mortification from one of the high bridges.
6	45	In all these kneeling positions, incidentally, even that of the Pleasure Slave, the Gorean woman carries herself well; her back is straight and her chin is high.
7	16	Each, like mine, lacked a gate or door, and had for its entrance only that massive portal, perhaps some twelve feet wide and eighteen feet high.
7	35	Still wondering if she were of high Caste, and smiling to myself, I continued down the passageway.
7	37	My Chamber Slave's accent had been pure high Caste Gorean though I could not place the city.
8	140	"We have all the high Castes in Treve," she said, angrily.
9	116	"He locked me in my chambers, but the high Initiate of the City came with warriors and they broke into our compartments and beat my father until he could not move and I went gladly with them".
9	164	I turned to face Vika once more, and I no longer saw the girl to whom I had been speaking but a woman of high Caste, from the bandit kingdom of Treve, insolent and imperious, though collared.

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	7	Most of the high council of Turia, too, now reposed in Tuchuk chains.
22	123	"Neither did the Turians," remarked Harold, reaching over the shoulder of one of the high council of Turia and taking a candied verr chop.
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	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...
9	13	Most commonly, and doubtless unfortunately, it is only members of the five high castes who occupy positions on the high councils of the cities.
23	88	Taking council with Harold, we dispatched a rider to Kamchak in Turia, informing him of the situation, and that we had little hope of holding out.
1	14	"Run, you fool! Run for the gates of Turia!" Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples.
1	41	Even the autumn grass itself bent and shook in brown tides toward Turia, shimmering in the sun like a tawny surf beneath the fleeing clouds above; it was as though the unseen wind itself, frantic volumes and motions of simple air, too desired its sanctuary behind the high walls of the ...
2	31	It is worthy of a warrior of the caste of Warriors, a swordsman of the high city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning.
2	38	And if I should manage to seize it, how could I carry it away? I had no tarn, one of Gor's fierce saddlebirds; I had not even the monstrous high tharlarion, used as the mounts of shock cavalry by the warriors of some cities.
2	73	It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be high
2	103	The kaiila is extremely agile, and can easily outmaneuver the slower, more ponderous high tharlarion.
2	146	They are carried in the right fist, easily, and are flexible and light, used for thrusting, not the battering-ram effect of the heavy lances of Europe's high Middle Ages.
3	105	"But I am of the Caste of Warriors," I said, "of a high city and we do not stain our spears for the stones of men—not even such stones as these".
4	42	Thrown high the Gorean bola can lock a man's arms to his sides; thrown to the throat it can strangle him; thrown to the head, a difficult cast, the whipping weights can crush a skull.
6	31	There was, however, literally sewn about her neck, a thick, high leather collar.
6	46	They had heels, a bit more than an inch high.
6	93	Elizabeth Cardwell, I decided, would indeed bring a high price.
6	184	He had not seemed to show much interest in the high, thick leather collar that the girl had had sewn about her neck.
7	72	During all this time, and torches had been brought, the hours of the night being burned away, Elizabeth Cardwell was not permitted to move, but must needs retain the position of the Pleasure Slave, knees properly placed, back straight, head high, the gleaming chain of the Sirik danglin...
7	101	"Lift your head," he said, and she did, her chin high, the lovely, angry head set proudly on her aristocratic delicate neck.
7	131	She had been dressed precisely as she had been the morning she had gone to work save that about her throat she had found sewn a high, thick leather collar.
7	133	Then, after some hours stumbling confused, terrified, hungry through the high, brown grass, she had seen two riders, mounted on swift, strange beasts.
7	143	Terrified the girl straightened herself and again, knees placed, back straight and head high, knelt before us in the position of the Pleasure Slave.
8	6	I did manage, however, from the back of the kaiila, which I learned to ride, to catch a glimpse of distant, high-walled, nine-gated Turia.
9	6	The official reason, proclaimed by Phanius Turmus, the Administrator, and others high in the government, was that those of the Wagon Peoples were unworthy to be entertained in the administrative palace; the real reason, apparently seldom proclaimed by anyone, was that the true power in...
9	12	It might be mentioned, for those unaware of the fact, that the Caste of Merchants is not considered one of the traditional five high Castes of Gor—the Initiates, Scribes, Physicians, Builders and Warriors.
9	14	Nonetheless, as might be expected, the gold of merchants, in most cities, exercises its not imponderable influence, not always in so vulgar a form as bribery and gratuities, but more often in the delicate matters of extending or refusing to extend credit in connection with the projects, desires or n...
9	85	I suppose that life in high-walled Turia, for most of its citizens, went on from day to day in its usual patterns oblivious of the usually distant Wagon Peoples.
9	234	Her back was very straight and her head high, in the Gorean fashion.

Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	255	"The Administrator is appointed by the high council of the City and the high Initiate by the high council of the Initiates of the City".
17	227	Cernus had been proclaimed, as the Taurentians lifted their swords in salute and the members of the high council had stood on the tiers of the council Chamber and cried out and applauded, Ubar of Ar.
3	55	In Ar, the high bridge near the Central Cylinder, housing the palace of the Ubar and the meeting place of the city's high council, was held, and had been for four years, by the young and brilliant, fiery Scormus of Ar.
12	22	Near the finishing perches, nine of which were standing for this race, were the areas reserved for the Administrator, the high Initiate, and members of the high council.
16	14	It perhaps need only be added that now being a Warrior, and thus of high Caste, he was now eligible for a seat on the high council of the city, and even for the throne itself, whether it be that of Administrator or Ubar.
18	187	The Cylinder of the high Initiate then petitioned the high council of the City to stop our work, but they, on the recommendation of Marlenus, who was then Ubar, permitted our work to continue".
2	190	Whereas it is only the men of high caste who elect members to the council of the City, the gold of merchants and the will of the general populace is seldom disregarded in their choices.
5	586	Surely there had been scandalized mention of her in circles even as august as that of the high council of the City.
16	9	The high council, with scarcely a murmur, agreed to the investiture.
16	32	It was also the day that, before the high council and the Administrator, Cernus, of the House of Cernus, accepted the red of the Warrior from the hands of Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians.
17	202	Two members of the high council, who had spoken out against the influence of Merchants in the politics of Ar, presumably a veiled reference to Cernus, were found slain, one cut down by killing knife and another throttled and found dangling from a bridge near his home.
17	214	Then, as I would have expected, within the month, there were rumors of peculation, and an accounting and investigation, theoretically to clear the name of the Hinrabian, was demanded by one of the high council, a Physician whom I had seen upon occasion in the house.
17	220	The high council receiving the promise of Minus Tentius Hinrabius to depart from the city, did not inflict officially the penalty of exile.
18	184	The Cylinder of Initiates demanded that the high council of the Caste of Physicians put an end to our work, not only that it be discontinued but that our results to that date be destroyed.
2	53	Beyond the area of the sand and the many tables there was a high wall, some twenty feet or so high, in which there were four levels, each containing seven small curtained alcoves, the entrances to which were circular, with a diameter of about twenty-four inches.
2	254	"Without the gold of this house, how could the Administrator and the high Initiate have sponsored the races and the games that won them the favor of the lower castes?" "But the lower castes do not elect the Administrator or the high Initiate," said Kuurus.
19	142	An extremely good price, under relatively normal market conditions, for a truly beautiful woman of high Caste tends to be about thirty pieces of gold, though some go as high as forty, and fifty is not unknown; these prices, for women of low caste, may be approximately hal...
2	176	"It has been hard in Ar," said the man, "since the deposition of Kazrak of Port Kar as Administrator of the City, and since the murder of Om, the high Initiate of the City".
2	181	After the murder of Om, who had been on tolerable terms with the Administrator, the new high Initiate, Complicius Serenus, in studying the omens of the white bosk slain at the Harvest Feast had, to his apparent horror, discovered that they had stood against Kazrak.
2	198	"When one goes out at night, even on the high bridges, one must have men with one.
2	210	"Further," said he, "Merchants arm and train squads of such men and rent them, for high wages, to the citizens of given streets and cylinders".
2	250	"Those of this house stand near the Administrator, and the high Initiate," said Portus.
2	253	"The Administrator and the high Initiate," asked Kuurus, "owe their thrones to the gold of this house?" Portus laughed bitterly.
2	258	"And there are many in the high councils of the City who, if forced to decide between the steel of the hook knife and the feel of gold in their pouch, will choose gold to steel".
2	286	"I thought for a time," he said, "that they intended to sell at a radical loss until the other slave houses were forced to close, and then to recoup their losses with profit by setting their own prices—but then when I considered again the gold which sponsored the games and races honoring the ...
2	329	Kuurus threw the silk and chain over his shoulder and motioned the girl to move ahead of him and, numbly, she did so, crossing the room, going between the tables, and stopping before the narrow ladder at the right side of the high wall, in which were found the ledges with their alcoves...
2	331	The alcove, with its enclosing, curved walls, was only about four feet high and five feet wide.
3	11	Its walls, its countless cylinders, its spires and towers, its lights, its beacons, the high bridges, the lamps, the lanterns of the bridges, are unbelievably exciting and fantastic, particularly as seen from the more lofty bridges or the roofs of the higher cylinders.
3	22	The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a s...
3	38	The odds are usually one to forty, one copper tarn disk against a forty-piece, sometimes against an eighty-piece, and sometimes the amateur who would play the master insists on further limitations, such as the option to three consecutive moves at a point in the game of his choice, or that the master...

Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	368	"Further," said Samos, "let the council decree that any who fail to abide by the resolutions of the council, or act against it, be regarded, at the council's convenience, subject to her pleasure".
11	411	Also considered, though nothing was determined that night, were matters of taxation, the unification and revision of the codes of the five Ubars, the establishment of council courts, replacing those of the Ubars, and the acquisition of a sizable number of men-at-arms, who would be dire...
10	1	The council of Captains I took my seat in the council of the Captains of Port Kar.
11	338	"Now hear," said Samos, "the proposal of the council, that Henrius Sevarius and his regent, Claudius, lay down their arms, and divest themselves of all ships, and men and holdings, and all properties and assets, and present themselves, stripped and in the chains of slaves, before the <...
11	365	"Further," said Samos, "I propose that the council decree that all bonds among clients and patrons in Port Kar be now dissolved, to be reestablished only on the basis of mutual consent and explicit contract on the part of the parties involved, which documents, in copy, are to be placed...
11	414	It is true, of course, that the council already controlled a large number of ships and crews, but it must be remembered that these forces were naval in nature; the council already had its navy; the events of the afternoon had demonstrated that it would be well if it had a...
15	107	And now, in this very afternoon, my glories had been climaxed in the chamber of the council of Captains, in which had taken place the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder, in which had taken place the commendation of the council for my deeds...
15	108	Even now, in my feast of celebration, hours after the meeting of the council, I still wore about my neck the broad scarlet ribbon with its pendant medallion of gold, bearing the design of a lateen-rigged tarn ship, the initials in cursive Gorean script of council of Capta...
15	117	For one thing, they had now formed a council Guard, with its distinct livery, that was now recognized as a force of the council, and, in effect, as the police of the city.
16	418	They followed me, and I left the chamber of the council, and, in a few moments, stood on the top of the broad marbled steps leading up to the hall of the council of Captains.
10	8	Accordingly I, who had been Tarl Cabot, once a warrior of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, sat now in the council of these captains, merchant and pirate princes, the high oligarchs of squalid, malignant Port Kar, Scourge of Gleaming Thassa.
11	418	It was shortly past daybreak, and the gray light of Port Kar's dawn was filtering in through the high, narrow windows of the council of Captains.
16	381	Through the thick walls, and the high, narrow windows of the hall of the council of Captains, there came a great, rumbling cry, the thunderous mixture of roiling shouts.
15	361	She had high cheekbones, and flashing black eyes, and coal-black hair, now worn high, pinned, over her head.
4	130	"Ho-Hak," said she, "has called the nearby islands to a council".
4	134	"What is the purpose of the council?" I asked.
5	80	The men had sat in council with Ho-Hak, and there had been much discussion, much argument, even shouting.
5	86	After the council had broken up, one of the men who had been seated there came to regard me.
9	101	Nominally beneath these Ubars, but in fact much independent of them, is an oligarchy of merchant princes, Captains, as they call themselves, who, in council, maintain and manage the great arsenal, building and renting ships and fittings, themselves controlling the grain fleet, the oil ...
9	102	Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, said to be an agent of Priest-Kings, was, I knew, a member of this council.
9	148	But these islands were not united, and, indeed, the government of them was usually no more than a village council.
10	9	In the council, in effect, was vested the stability and administration of Port Kar.
10	11	The Ubars were represented on the council, to which they belonged as being themselves Captains, by five empty thrones, sitting before the semicircles of curule chairs on which reposed the captains.
10	12	Beside each empty throne there was a stool from which a Scribe, speaking in the name of his Ubar, participated in the proceedings of the council.
10	14	A scribe, at a large table before the five thrones, was droning the record of the last meeting of the council.
10	15	There are commonly about one hundred and twenty captains who form the council, sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less.
10	16	Admittance to the council is based on being master of at least five ships.
10	18	These five ships, pertinent to council membership, may be either the round ships, with deep holds for merchandise, or the long ships, ram-ships, ships of war.
10	29	The "Stone" of Port Kar, tested against the official "Stone" at the Sardar, reposed in a special fortified building in the great arsenal, which complex was administered by agents of the council of Captains.
10	44	The voice of the scribe droned on, reading the records of the council's last meeting.

Book 7. (30 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	208	Doubtless, to be so garbed would have constituted a considerable blow to the exquisite vanity of the high-born, high-caste Talena, even the daughter of a Ubar.
17	287	Both Samos and Bosk, it seems, were members of the council of Captains, the sovereign power in Port Kar.
17	472	On the piazza, before the Hall of the council of Captains, Rask of Treve confronted Bosk of Port Kar, demanding that I be surrendered to him.
17	480	This house has withstood a siege of thousands, within the last two years, in the time of the warrings of the Ubars and the council of Captains, and the great engagement between the fleet of Port Kar and that of Tyros and Cos, on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the...
1	159	It was high on the thigh.
1	160	The mark itself was about an inch and a half high.
1	172	It was more than a foot high, but it was the same mark that I wore on my thigh, that same graceful, cursive mark.
2	112	In the sun, the air stinging my eyes, particles of soot and ash falling on me, I knotted one end of the rope of sheets securely about a small iron railing that surmounted a waist-high wall around the patio and terrace.
2	138	I moved my feet, the tiny bit I dared, trying to reach for the railing on the waist-high wall of the terrace below.
2	149	Where was the railing! Then I felt it, the railing on the waist-high wall.
3	213	I buttoned the collar of the black blouse high about my neck, to conceal the steel band on my throat.
6	32	They seemed lonely, too, high in the gray sky.
6	436	But I was Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, of Earth! She had been rich, beautiful, smartly attired, tasteful, sophisticated; she had been well educated and traveled; she had been decisive, confident; she had carried her wealth and her beauty with élan; and she had deserved her position in society;...
7	3	Shortly before he made me one of his girls, some two or three days before, he had been attacked by outlaw tarnsmen, some four days journey north by northeast from the city of Ko-ro-ba, which lies high in the northern temperate latitudes of the planet Gor, which is the name of this worl...
7	19	Two gold pieces is a high price for a raw girl, delivered in Laura, but if the same girl can be brought safely to a large market city, she will probably bring five or more, even if untrained.
7	21	Beyond this, Targo had speculated that since no city had recently fallen, and the house of Cernus had been destroyed in Ar, one of the great slave houses, that the market would be high this spring.
7	23	Unfortunately for Targo, village girls are not of high caste.
7	24	On the other hand, if worth a good deal less, they are much more easily acquired than a high-caste free woman.
7	25	When I was taken by Targo, he had only one high-caste girl on his chain, the tall girl, Inge, who was of the scribes.
7	54	We were hoping that she would be sold, but Targo was holding out for an extremely high price for her.
7	55	Doubtless he would have received it many times, except that she had not been of high caste.
7	370	"I will speak high-caste Gorean," I told Inge.
7	454	One of the problems high-caste women had with such girls, I had heard from Ute, aside from finding one who was satisfactory, was their tendency to sneak away into the alleys, seeking furtive liaisons with male slaves.
7	542	The most common brand site is the left thigh, high, under the hip.
8	204	The new girl had been Rena of Lydius, of the Builders, one of the five high castes of Gor.
8	237	"You are high on the chain," said Inge to Ute.
8	312	The compounds are formed of windowless log dormitories, floored with stone on which straw is spread; the dormitory then opens by one small door, about a yard high, into the barred exercise yard.
8	363	She had been of high caste.
8	592	"You are high on the chain now," said Targo.
8	613	Lana was high girl, of course, Sixteen.

Book 8. (30 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	22	Indeed, he was First Slaver of Port Kar, and First Captain in its council of Captains, which council, since the downfall of the four Ubars is sovereign in Port Kar.
9	339	Who knew how high might have been raised the chair of Bosk? Perhaps there might even, in time, have been a Ubar in Port Kar, sovereign over even the council of Captains.
12	18	Subsequently, they are commonly awarded to high officers or men who have especially distinguished themselves in the taking of the city, perhaps an individual who has led a sortie which successfully stormed a gate, or the first man upon the enemy's walls, or one who has captured a membe...
14	325	Then, with music and ceremony, he would be presented before the high council of Tyros.
3	11	I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e...
1	23	I, too, was a member of the council of Captains, Bosk, of the House of Bosk, of Port Kar.
3	51	In Port Kar, my city, the utilization of the facilities of the port is regulated by a board of four magistrates, the Port Consortium, which reports directly to the council of Captains, which, since the downfall of the warring Ubars, is sovereign in the city.
6	303	In time I might become First Captain in the council of Captains.
8	110	"Let us sit down and take council," I suggested.
12	19	In the latter case, if the council member has a daughter, it is common to give her to the man who has captured her father.
12	27	And in Port Kar, I recalled, my political power, strictly, extended no further than my vote in the council of Captains.
12	28	I was not even first in the council.
14	54	It would be a great triumph in Tyros, to bring the great Marlenus, naked, in the chains of a slave, branded, before their council.
14	327	Sarus, leader of the men of Tyros in the forest, his captor, would then give him to the council.
14	328	He would then be pronounced, by the council, slave of Tyros.
18	478	Gods, meeting in council, decided to form a slave for themselves, for they were all gods, and had no slaves.
1	14	We played in the hall of Samos, a lofty room, with high, narrow windows.
1	92	I moved my Ubar's Rider of the high Tharlarion to command the file on which the Home Stone of Samos lay richly protected.
1	164	I stood high in this city.
1	165	The curule chair at my high table was among the most honored and envied on Gor! What honor it was to be the woman of Bosk, merchant, admiral! And yet she had turned her back on this! She had displeased me! She had dared to displease me! Bosk! The marshes had nothing to offer her.
1	323	"Take him," said Samos, "to one of the large rooms, well appointed, in which we lodge slavers of high rank, of distant cities".
1	377	We stood together in that lofty room, with its high, narrow windows, on the tiles, he in the robes of the Slaver, I in those of the Merchants, though beneath them the red of the Warriors.
2	2	"high on the beach!" His slave, Cara, in a brief woolen tunic, one-piece, woven of the wool of the Hurt, sleeveless, barefoot on the deck, graced by his collar, stood behind him and to his left.
2	7	high on the beach, I saw two pairs of sloping beams.
2	8	They were high, large and heavy structures.
2	51	Cara looked at the girls tied helpless in the frames, and at the man coming down to the shore, and at the others, high on the beach, behind him, behind the frames.
2	71	In foul weather, if there is not high wind, or in excessive heat, a canvas covering, on poles, is sometimes spread over the thwarts.
2	217	Their heads were high.
2	326	"He should bring a high price from a soft rich woman," the girl advised us.
2	331	The girls had set two poles in the sand, and lashed a high crossbar to them.

Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	314	We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
13	6	On each side of this high seat were two pillars, about eight inches in diameter, and some eight feet high, the high-seat pillars, or rightful-seat pillars.
1	112	He stood high in the council of Captains.
21	165	Nigel and Chung were in Port Kar, though now only as powerful captains, high in her council.
2	257	I looked again to the high Initiate, a cold, stern, dour man, hard faced, who sat in his high, white hat in his robes upon the throne within the white rail.
2	325	When the high Initiate finished his prayer, the other Initiates began to sing a solemn hymn, while the high Initiate, at the altar, his back turned to the congregation, began to prepare, with words and signs, the grease of Priest-Kings, for the anointing of the bones of I...
6	309	Indeed, the true hall, lofty, high-beamed, built of logs and boards, with its benches and high-seat pillars, its carvings and hangings, its long fires, its suspended kettles, was actually quite rare, and, generally, only the richest of the Jarls possessed such.
8	166	He went to the high window of her room, high in the wooden fortress, on its cliff, overlooking the dark bay below.
13	12	The high seat, though spoken of as "high," was the same height as the other benches.
13	20	At the high-seat table, that at which the high seat sat, all counted as being "above the salt".
13	21	Similarly, at the tables parallel to the high-seat table, smaller tables flanking the long fire on both sides, the tables nearest the high seat counted as being above the salt, those farthest away being below the salt.
13	143	Svein Blue Tooth, high jarl of Torvaldsland, followed by his woman, and high officers and counselors, and other followers, then took his way from the dais.
13	211	Near him, beside the high seat, sat his woman, Bera, her hair worn high on her head, in a kirtle of yellow wool with scarlet cape of the fur of the red sea sleen, and, about her neck, necklaces of gold.
13	436	He stood before the high seat of his house, standing before the long table; behind him, on each side, were the high-seat pillars of his house.
1	508	He had risen in the city, and had been for years the private physician of Sullius Maximus, who had been one of the five Ubars, presiding in Port Kar prior to the assumption of power by the council of Captains.
4	78	In the chronology of Port Kar, it was early in Year 3 of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains.
4	82	In that same year, in its spring, in Port Kar, the council of Captains had assumed its sovereignty, thus initiating Year 1 of its reign.
21	162	Sullius Maximus had been one of the five Ubars of Port Kar, whose reigns, dividing the city, had been terminated when the council of Captains, under the leadership of Samos, First Captain of Port Kar, had assumed the sovereignty.
21	166	They had fought against the united fleets of Tyros and Cos and, without their help, doubtless Port Kar could not have won the great victory of the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the reign of the council of Captains, in the year 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar.
21	168	The whereabouts of Henrius Sevarius, on whose head a price had been set, were unknown to the council of Captains.
1	80	Wounds had I at the shore of Thassa, high on the coast, at the edge of the forests, when one night I had, in a stockade of enemies, commanded by Sarus of Tyros, chosen to recollect my honor.
1	133	To be sure, carved in wood, high on the chair, was the helmet with crest of sleen fur, the mark of the captain, but I could not rise from the chair.
1	224	"Present her in the most resplendent robes you can find, as befits a high-born woman of the city of Ar".
1	228	"As befits," said I, "a high-born woman of the city of glorious Ar".
1	340	Yet, for a girl, late in the season, high on the coast of Thassa, it was a marvelous price.
1	451	For it she might be suspended naked, bound by the wrists, on a forty foot rope from one of the high bridges, to be lashed by tarnsmen, sweeping past her in flight.
1	726	I well remembered Sandra, with her black eyes, brownish skin and high cheekbones.
2	5	The high Initiate of Kassau, a town at the northern brink of the forest, sat still in his white robes, in his tall hat, on the throne to the right, within the white rail that separated the sanctuary of Initiates from the common ground of the hall, where those not anointed by the grease...
2	17	Kassau is the seat of the high Initiate of the north, who claims spiritual sovereignty over Torvaldsland, which is commonly taken to commence with the thinning of the trees northward.
2	35	I looked at the cold, haughty, pale face of the high Initiate on his throne.

Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
25	290	"Doubtless," said Hassan, "Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, and Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai, will pay a high reward to the man who brings Tarna before them".
1	113	Her arms were high, very high.
2	72	The buildings in Tor are seldom more than four stories high, which is about as high as one may build safely with beams and mud brick.
4	42	The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
10	142	"Hands on hips! Be insolent! Hands behind back! Hands crossed before you, as though bound! Hands at throat, as though chained to collar, fingers before mouth! Fall to the floor! Kneel! Head down! Head up! Bend backwards! Farther! Roll to the floor, on your side, on your back, right leg high
11	324	The high tribes need not, though often they do, support vassal tribes in their squabbles; the vassal tribes, however, are expected to support the high, or noble, tribes, in their altercations.
11	640	Against the wall, kneeling, stripped, bellies pressed tight against it, points of the scimitars against their backs, between their shoulder blades, chins high, against the wall, hands high over their heads, palms pressed tight against the wall, were four beautiful girls.
23	172	In his right hand he held a high lance, from which fluttered a broad and mighty pennon, scarlet and white, that of Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars.
25	196	Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, and Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai, are already within the walls".
25	286	Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, and Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai, are eager to see her".
26	237	It contained a slave girl, an exquisitely feminine girl, blond-haired and blue-eyed; she was richly veiled and bejeweled; it was said she was the preferred slave of the great Haroun himself, high Pasha of the Kavars; it was said her name was Alyena; she was of high statio...
26	1265	I rode between Hassan, Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, and, in the black kaffiyeh with white agal cording, Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai.
1	423	Samos was first in the council of Captains of Port Kar, which body was sovereign in the city.
1	595	It was currently in the late winter of Year 3 of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains in Port Kar, the year 10,122 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 Por...
1	34	Immediately the girl stood beautifully, alert, before us, her arms high, wrists outward.
1	116	Her left hand was at her thigh; her right high above her head; her eyes were on her hip; frozen into a hip sway; then there was again a bright, clear flash of the finger cymbals, and the music began again, and again she moved, helpless on the pole.
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	535	A stimulation cage is an ornately barred, low-ceilinged cage; it is rather roomy, except for the low ceiling, about five feet high.
1	734	"Misk, a Priest-King," said he, "one high in the Sardar, has asked Kurii for a further specification of details".
1	830	The dancer turned from the tables and, hands high over her head, approached me.
2	19	The sun was high.
2	26	Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet high.
2	74	These buildings, on the outside smooth and bleak, save for occasional narrow windows, high, not wide enough to admit a body, abut directly on the streets, making the streets like deep, walled alleys.
2	115	Tor, rather similarly, though few crops were grown within its walls, was built high, about its water, several wells in the deepest area in the city.
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, ...
2	188	We had little doubt that the men of the Tahari would pay high for the body and person of Miss Blake-Allen.
2	330	high in the house, through one of the narrow windows, I saw a girl, looking out.
2	597	Then I passed a shop where the high, light kaiila saddles were being made.
3	2	He thrust the jaws away with the buckler, and, rearing in the stirrups of his high saddle, slashed at me with the leather-sheathed curved blade.

Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	196	In many cities only members of the high castes may belong to the city's high council.
5	197	Most Gorean cities are governed by an executive, the Administrator, in conjunction with the high council.
9	1576	"I must then call the council," said Thurnus, "that we may consider what is to be done with you".
9	1579	"Only the caste leader may call the council," said Bran Loort.
24	26	"Clitus Vitellius of Ar, and his men," said the man, "by accounts rendered to me by Samos of Port Kar, of the council of Captains, participated creditably in the action of the day before yesterday on behalf of the Jewel of Thassa".
24	29	The city is under the governance of a council of Captains.
25	5	Beside the man before me, the man with white, short-cropped hair, who was Samos of Port Kar, chief among the captains of the council of Captains of Port Kar, was a slender, gray-eyed man, clad in the green of the caste of physicians.
27	491	"When the Companionship was under consideration by the council of the Confederation," he said, "I slipped away, on tarn, to Fortress of Saphronicus.
2	9	My hand went before my mouth; his foot, in a high, strapped sandal, heavy, almost an open boot, kicked my hand away.
2	63	My chin was very high, as the point of the dagger had left it.
2	80	In panic and misery, in a movement of collar and chain, I fled again to my place and again stood before them, so straight, my chin again high, precisely as I had been before.
2	103	I felt the side of the point of the bearded man's spear under my chin, and I lifted my chin, so that my head was high.
2	215	With his left hand, fastened in my hair, he drew my head back; with his right hand he thrust up, high on my neck, under my chin, the heavy iron collar I wore.
2	344	I knelt back on my heels, my back very straight, my hands on my thighs, my head high, looking straight ahead.
2	835	It was warm, and the sun, high, filtered through the branches of the trees.
3	9	I envied her the sleeveless body scrap of brown rag, short, high on her thighs, which briefly concealed her.
3	15	Roughly as we were situated, some two thirds of the camp was closed in by projecting sides of the canyon; roughly, then, about a third of its perimeter was closed by a thick wall of recessed, cut thorn brush, some eight feet high and ten feet thick, a defense against animals.
3	115	Behind me, the thorn brush, so thick and high, by means of hooked poles, was pulled into place, closing me in the camp with the men, and the girl.
3	762	The thorn-brush wall was some eight feet high, some ten feet thick.
3	782	Female slaves, when bred, are commonly hooded and crossed with a male slave, similarly hooded, the breeding conducted under the supervision of their respective owners; a girl is seldom bred with a slave from her own house; personal relationships between male and female slaves are usually frowned upo...
4	179	It had been a garment of Eta's measured high, but to her own longer legs.
4	182	I did so in the manner in which I had been taught, back on my heels, back straight, hands on thighs, head high, chin up.
4	292	She was not an ornamented high slave.
4	885	It was high and thick.
5	13	Not all high-caste women wear a large number of veils.
5	15	Rich, vain women of high caste may wear ostentatiously as many as nine or ten veils.
5	38	I was veiled as might have been a rich Gorean free woman of high caste, perhaps bound for the song dramas of En'Kara.
5	171	But they were obviously high slaves, judging by the fineness of their raiment.
5	185	One lunar month from this date, by the phases of the largest moon, after days of preparation, the ceremony of the companionship was scheduled to be consummated in Ti, binding together as companions Thandar of Ti, son of Ebullius Gaius Cassius, Administrator of Ti, and the Lady Sabina, daughter of Kl...
5	190	Many of the daughters of merchants are proud sorts, for the merchants themselves, by virtue of their power, tend to vanity and pride, and agitate, justifiably or not, for the inclusion of their caste among the high castes of Gor.

Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	57	Most Gorean cities now, at least in the south, had accepted a standard tournament Kaissa, agreed upon by the high council of the caste of players.
2	745	It loomed high and formidable, over the canal, a slaver's house, a high, dark, frightening fortress.
15	294	Many of these cities consist largely of high cylinders, joined by traceries of high bridges".
15	669	Does she have a high instep? A girl with a high instep is often a fine dancer.
5	92	Apprise yourself of the articles of the council of Captains".
1	46	Samos was much disturbed that the high Kur, it referred to as Half-Ear, was now upon the surface of this world.
2	135	"It is Half-Ear," said Samos, "high Kur, war general of the Kurii".
2	339	Its ram was carried high, out of the water.
2	345	Of what use is a ram which makes its strike so high? I was not a shipwright, but I was a captain.
2	349	It loomed high and awesome, mighty with its strakes, proud with its uprearing prow, facing the sea canal.
2	350	Standing beside the ship, on the ground, looking up at that high prow, so far above me, it seemed sometime that such a ship, if any, might embark upon that threatening, perhaps impossible voyage to the world's end.
2	632	Some of these are gigantic, pasangs in width, hundreds of feet high.
2	700	He ruled the high bridges of Ar with his Kaissa board.
3	34	She had been of Rarn, probably of high caste, given the quality of her beauty.
3	108	They had been driven from that bleak, rocky land by the mighty men of the high-roofed halls.
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	316	I feared the odds would be too high on Scormus.
3	636	Gorean slave girls, incidentally, almost always go barefoot; it is a rare girl, and a high girl, who is permitted sandals.
3	655	Their wrists, in the two-inch-high, steel cuffs, were small and lovely.
3	1135	It is about ten inches high and weighs between eight and twelve pounds.
3	1166	He then unlocked and removed the two-inch-high steel cuffs which had held the hands of the girls behind them.
3	1301	I climbed one of the high platforms there.
3	1321	She wore on her throat a high, gold collar, with, in front, a large golden loop, some two inches in width.
3	1323	This chain terminated, at each end, with high, golden slave bracelets.
4	33	Then I was among the high platforms near the palisade.
4	34	Tied by the neck to the foot of a post, one of several supporting one of the long, high platforms near the palisade, kneeling, naked, their hands tied behind them, were two slave girls.
4	146	Behind them, more than forty feet high, and fifty feet wide, was a great vertical board.
4	244	Yellow simply advances the Ubara's Rider of the high Tharlarion.
4	278	Red would now advance his Ubar's Rider of the high Tharlarion, to develop his Ubar's Initiate and, simultaneously, expose the yellow Spearman to the Initiate's attack.
4	294	I saw Reginald of Ti, high judge, shaking his head.

Book 13. (30 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
18	153	"I bring you greetings from the merchant council of Teletus, that council sovereign in that free island.
19	49	In the center of the room, on a high platform, some nine feet high, supported by eight poles, sitting, cross-legged, naked, save for the panther teeth about his neck, was not Shaba, but the ubar, Bila Huruma.
1	5	It was early evening in Port Kar, and I had supped with Samos, first captain in the council of captains, that congress of captains sovereign in Port Kar.
1	156	"I think Samos, first slaver of Port Kar, first captain of the council of captains, has grown fond of a blond Earth girl".
1	466	"He is a member of the council.
1	468	This was the date of a naval battle which took place in the first year of the sovereignty of the council of Captains in Port Kar.
1	471	It was, currently, Year 7 in the Sovereignty of the council of Captains, that year, in the chronology of Ar, which was 10,126 C.
1	472	On the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains, in the naval battle which had taken place on that date, the joint fleets of Cos and Tyros had been turned back from Port Kar.
6	328	"Yes, from the merchant council," he said.
6	611	Schendi's merchant council, I supposed, could not be blamed for wishing to exercise due caution that a similar calamity did not befall their own port.
10	41	It was said that even members of the merchant council occasionally took Kipofu into their confidence.
15	288	There was also an officer there of the merchant council of Schendi.
15	289	"Is this he?" asked the officer of the merchant council.
15	337	"You had the cooperation of the council of Schendi," I said.
16	174	In council they have deposed Kisu and placed their leader, Aibu, in power.
57	303	It is addressed to the council of captains, that body sovereign in Port Kar, of which I am a member.
57	305	It is my expectation that the council will rule favorably on the pardon.
57	309	"But why would the council rule favorably?" he asked.
1	10	She wore a one-piece tunic of rep-cloth, cut high at the thighs, to better reveal them, her steel collar, which was a lock collar, and her brand.
1	735	In Lake Ushindi, in certain areas frequented by tharlarion, there are high poles.
1	742	It was also the home port of the League of Black Slavers but their predations were commonly restricted to the high seas and coastal towns well north and south of Schendi.
2	25	I did not think she would bring a high price.
2	109	She did not seem, objectively, of quite the same high quality of beauty as most of the wenches brought by Kurii to Gor, either as agents or as simple, immediate slaves.
3	6	Here and there small lamps, set in niches, high in stone walls, or lanterns, hung on iron projections, shed small pools of light on the sides of buildings and illuminated, too, in their secondary ambiance, the stones of the sloping walkway on which I trod, one of many leading down to t...
4	4	We stood in the vicinity of the high desk of the wharf praetor.
4	43	"You are not the first," said the praetor, looking down at him from the high desk.
4	104	She stood before the high desk of the praetor, her wrists tied behind her back.
4	126	The praetor placed the coin on his desk, the surface of which was some seven feet high, below the low, solid wooden bar.
4	127	The height of the praetor's desk, he on the high stool behind it, permits him to see a goodly way up and down the wharves.
4	276	She seemed very small and helpless before the high desk.

Book 14. (30 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
23	75	In the last year heavy import duties had been levied by the high council of Vonda against the wines of certain other cities, in particular against the Ka-la-nas of Ar.
3	398	She then, with her foot, white in that high, bootlike, thonged sandal, slid both the pan of meat and the pan of water out of my reach.
4	72	Each, about her hips, wore a gray rag, knotted high on the left hip, to expose the left hip and thigh.
4	95	What fantastically attractive women they were, their lovely faces framed in cascades of dark hair, their throats, closely encircled by steel collars, their shoulders, their breasts, bared, their narrow waists and sweetly flared hips, the bit of rag they wore, their thighs, calves, ankl...
4	164	As I lifted my head, miserable, cringing, my back and legs lacerated and bloody, I saw, truly noticing it for the first time, a deep mark, a lovely mark, about an inch and a half high and a half of an inch wide, incised in Lola's left thigh.
7	923	It is interesting to note the high regard in which certain civilizations are held which, from the human point of view, from the point of view of human happiness, would appear to be obvious catastrophes.
10	129	She was wearing golden sandals and a long, scarlet robe, with a high, ornate collar, fastened by a silver clasp.
10	236	She put her hands to the high, ornate collar of her robes, undoing the silver clasp.
12	109	"His intelligence, which is quite high," she said, "is that of a man of Earth.
12	331	This was a high price.
12	357	These are usually extraordinarily beautiful Gorean girls, once of high caste.
13	40	The high administrator of the confederation is a man called Ebullius Gaius Cassius, of the Warriors.
13	89	Sixteen tarsks was actually a high price to pay for a male silk slave.
13	141	The sun was high now, and it was past noon.
13	249	Its rider was mounted in a high, purple saddle, with knives in saddle sheaths.
13	282	Their feet wore heavy, thick-soled sandals, which, almost like boots, with swirling leather, rose high about their calves.
13	441	Sometimes when there is an especially beautiful sky many people will close their shops and men will flock to the high bridges to watch.
13	448	The short, loose silk she wore was hitched high, at her left hip.
14	66	The three moons were now high.
14	140	I had given her much pleasure but she, a woman of lofty position, of high social station, rich and free, had never let me hold her.
16	17	The purpose of this is to retain a high level of intelligence in the caste.
16	76	Yet, in spite of the gruff, authoritarian way in which they might be handled, and the rude, peremptory fashion in which they might be addressed, women, and high-caste women, for no reason that was clear to me, flocked to his shop.
16	235	"You could risk slavery," he said, "expose yourself to possible capture, walk the high bridges at lonely Ahn, picnic in the country, go to paga taverns alone, take dangerous sea voyages".
16	256	"The price is high," he said, "a golden tarn disk".
16	336	About fifty yards down the alley was a high-sided tharlarion wagon.
18	143	She wore a full, beige skirt, the hem of which fell to within some six inches of the ground, and slim, high, black-leather boots; a beige blouse, and a beige jacket, belted, which fell to her thighs; too, she wore a loose hood, attached to the jacket by hooks, of matching...
18	184	I observed the Mistress' ankles, which, below the swirling hem of the beige skirt, were well turned in the high, slim boots.
18	199	I considered again the polished, black leather of her trim, high boots.
19	1	Taphris The training beam, about a foot Gorean square, sunk a yard deep in its wood-lined well, braced, too, within the wooden-floored, high-roofed barn, shook with the blows struck against it.
19	29	Gorean free persons of high caste, of course, tended to take little note of these matters.

Book 15. (30 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	37	"Even now Ebullius Gaius Cassius, of the Warriors, Administrator of Ti, meets with the high council of Ti".
21	113	"And it is said, too," she whispered, coming close to me, the chain on her neck touching my chest, as she put her head over me, "that Glyco is not only a merchant but stands high in the merchant council of Port Cos".
1	343	Perhaps that is because their own intelligence, on the whole, is high and they might be bored with their properties were the intelligence of the properties not similarly high.
4	110	The woman at the counter had been veiled, as is common with Gorean women, particularly those of high caste and of the high cities.
29	25	"The matter was important to the Merchant council," said Callisthenes.
29	69	"That is why I came to Victoria, to seek out Callimachus, that he might, in these dark times, with the topaz in transit, lend us his council, and his blade".
29	137	"We have even received a protest from Ven in the council".
1	342	Gorean men, as men of Earth seem seldom to do, prize high intelligence in women.
2	49	Fires, on high poles, illuminated the area.
2	62	I looked down the long rows of pleasure racks, aligned under the high torches.
3	167	"We do not bring high prices".
4	469	Soon, too, at least in the high cities, they may be able to put away the tunic of boyhood and don their first robe of manhood.
5	47	Haskoon carried his hands too high.
6	100	I saw tiny barred windows high in their outer walls.
6	103	In some of the warehouses, incidentally, those which seem to be but one story high, if that, the logged holding areas are substantially underground, as though in a log-walled, sunken room.
7	83	"Peasants are not too fond, generally, of free persons from the high cities," said one of them.
9	15	I left their sides and pushed through the crowd, making my way nearer the high, round, sawdust-strewn block.
10	310	"They were very beautiful women," I said, "and some were of high caste, two were exquisitely trained pleasure slaves".
11	65	"You wore black, low-cut shoes, with high heels, without strap or ties," I said.
12	19	Miss Henderson's bedroom had a porch, which overlooked a small garden, surrounded by a high wall.
12	107	She wore then only a light Gorean slip, white, which came high on her thighs.
13	19	It came high on her thighs.
19	68	Ten silver tarsks, usually, is regarded as the equivalent of one gold piece, of one of the high cities.
22	255	"I have seen Glyco, a merchant, a high merchant, of Port Cos, these several days in earnest converse with you.
22	262	"I gather you once stood high among the guardsmen of Port Cos," I said.
23	152	A high order of skill with steel is not easily purchased.
23	258	Her dark hair was coiffured loosely and high upon her head.
24	15	It was high on her thighs.
24	32	Her hair was still coiffured high upon her head, and held, as before, with the braided yellow cord, stout enough to bind her with.
24	255	Perhaps, then, you might have seen the tiny scarring high on my left arm.

Book 16. (30 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	1166	"The appointment was made earlier this afternoon, in a secret session of the high council of the Vosk League," said Tasdron, "that body sovereign in the league, composed of representatives drawn from all the member towns".
20	589	In certain cities, such as Ar, high platforms might be worn, particularly by high-caste women.
20	1191	In a few days we of the council of Victoria will go down to the river.
20	1216	"Tasdron," said I, "when the council arrives at the shore of the Vosk, it is my hope that I may be there".
3	20	"Ready!" We saw another galley from the west, too, its prow high, speeding toward the chain.
4	109	The strike was high, but water poured into her hold.
4	174	They were mounted on high platforms near the masts, one at each mast, and could be run out on rollers from the mast, to which they were fastened by adjustable lengths of chain.
8	8	These were high, and formed of a lacing of wood and glass.
8	35	"Who are you?" she demanded, holding the sheet high about her.
8	51	Did she not know she was in a collar? It had to do with, doubtless, being a captain's woman, being, I supposed, a high slave, and such.
8	79	She had doubtless been a high slave.
8	82	I saw that she would indeed bring a high price in a slave market.
9	278	"In Tetrapoli I was again sold, to an agent, who proved to be in the fee of Alcibron, one of the high captains of Ragnar Voskjard".
10	40	When freed on the Tina he had first expressed his desire to be put ashore, when possible, to make his way to Turmus, but, upon learning that a certain slave, one called Florence, was confined within the high walls of the holding of Policrates he had begged instead to be granted a place...
10	123	More than fifty slave girls, their hair coiffured high on their heads, clad in sleeveless, classic gowns of white silk, were aligned on the walk nearest the wall containing the iron door, that leading within to the halls of the fortress.
11	49	The walls were high and stern; the tiles were large and dark.
12	132	Men rose up on the walls, lighting fuses of oil-soaked rags, thrust into oil-filled clay vessels; a smoke bomb, trailing red smoke, was lofted from a wall catapult high over the marshes.
12	185	He was, too, one of us, and a high officer of Port Cos.
12	187	But then, again, because of his high position, and the confidence which you placed in him, I rejected this possibility.
16	123	Pressing my legs and arms against the blade I could move upward to my original position, but no further, because of the ropes on my ankles, catching on the bottom side of the blade fixture, and it was extremely difficult and painful to hold myself that high on the blade.
16	213	Another man struck down at me and I, slipped to the side, seized him about the chest with my right arm and hurled him back against the forward wall of the high stem castle.
16	344	I dragged him back by his ankles to the center of the small, high deck of the stern castle, where I put him on his belly.
17	75	Too, about her neck, under the chain, with its dangling articles, there was a high, tight leather collar.
17	240	"A Coin Girl," said the girl with the leash, "will struggle to please a man as much for a tarsk bit, as a high paga slave for a thousand gold pieces, to be paid by her master's customer for her use".
17	245	Too, it is not unknown for a master to sometimes send even an exquisitely trained, beautiful high slave into the streets, usually as a joke or a discipline.
17	317	If the slave is braceleted to the ring and the ring is in the neighborhood of a yard high her hands are braceleted before her face, and her belly faces the wall, or behind the back of her head, and her back or side faces the wall; with the lower ring her hands are braceleted before her...
17	393	"Rather," said I, "he has, beyond rights, duties, and high among his duties is his duty to be true to himself, his duty to be a man".
17	810	I then turned the collar, slowly, carefully, on her neck, for it was high, thick and close-fitting.
17	882	"No, Master," she said, "doubtless he has high and beautiful Gorean girls to serve him.
18	371	high intelligence is highly valued in a female slave.

Book 17. (30 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	1273	"Judgment was pronounced in accord with the statutes of the steel worlds," said Kog, "by the high council, composed of seventy-two members elected from among the representatives of the thousand cliffs".
1	7	The signet ring of Samos of Port Kar, first captain of the council of captains, was displayed.
1	331	He was, after all, an agent of Priest-Kings, and, indeed, the first captain of the council of captains, that body sovereign in the affairs of Port Kar.
1	610	"I bring you greetings," said Samos, "from the council of Captains, of Port Kar, Jewel of Gleaming Thassa".
1	614	What would the council of Captains know of such creatures, or of the warrings among worlds? He had not identified himself as being among the party of those forces arrayed against the ravaging, concupiscent imperialism of our savage colleagues.
1	693	"Can you speak on behalf of the council of Captains, of Port Kar?" asked Kog.
1	694	"Only on matters having to do with Port Kar, and then after a decision of the council, taken after consultation," said Samos.
1	697	The creatures, of course, would not be familiar with council procedures.
1	1274	"The same council was both judge and jury?" I asked.
1	1299	Too, I suspected some of the council, even if they were not of the party of Zarendargar, would have recognized his value to the steel worlds.
1	1306	"How do we know that you are truly appointed to fulfill the edict of the council?" I asked.
2	130	The only fully floating market authorized by the council of Captains occurs in a lakelike area near the arsenal.
2	132	On the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara in Year One of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains, the year 10,120 C.
2	193	"The council of Captains must meet in two days," said Samos.
2	208	Direct council support, for example, has never been petitioned by the Slavers".
2	264	"I shall see you at the meeting of the council in two days," he said.
5	112	"We are sustained by the merchant council of Port Olni," said the woman.
19	109	"Yes," said Grunt, "when last I was in the land of the Kaiila, I met him in general council, with Black Clouds, Mahpiyasapa, civil chief of the Isbu".
19	426	That was on the decision of the council of the Isbu, presided over by Mahpiyasapa".
1	37	"Ohh!" Now, as she lay, the small, fine brand high on her left thigh, just below the hip, could be seen.
1	202	At one time it had been a huge, convex, cagelike lacing of mighty branches, lashed together, a high dome of fastened, interwoven wood, but now, after years of disrepair, and the pelting of rains and the tearings of winds, little remained of this once impressive and intricate structure ...
1	369	"I," asked Samos, "first speak to such as they, I, who am first captain in the high city of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming Thassa?" "Correct," I said.
1	454	"He is then of high rank?" asked Samos.
1	460	"But not a high captain," said Samos.
1	1095	Similarly a man of the high cities would not expect to be publicly rewarded for having speared a tarsk or slain an urt.
1	1109	high among these is the rapidity with which it may be drawn and fired.
1	1132	The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe...
1	1143	The lofty, silken kaiila is an extremely alert, high-strung beast.
1	1258	The object, then, through trade channels, would have come, I supposed, to one of the high cities, perhaps Thentis, the nearest of the large cities to the Barrens.
2	68	Her tunic came high on her thighs.

Book 18. (30 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	96	"One would think that they would have been on their way to the council, if not within the council lodge, by then".
43	204	"The council of all the bands of the Kaiila, of the Isbu, the Casmu, the Isanna, the Napoktan and the Wismahi, of all the remnants of the Kaiila people, will take place at council Rock at the end of Canwapegiwi".
44	103	"The great council of the Kaiila, of all the remnants of the Kaiila," she said, "of the Isbu, the Casmu, the Isanna, the Napoktan and Wismahi?" "The council?" I asked.
44	346	"It is my doing! I told them! In my lodge I overheard this foolish slave mention the place and time of the council! I tricked him into loosening my gag! I managed later, before being dragged from the Yellow-Knife camp, to rid myself of it! I then, in Yellow Knife, informed my people of...
47	310	"Back to council Rock!" Soldiers had established a hold on the eastern ledges of council Rock, to which they had been climbing, those ledges opposite those above the trail, up which, slowly, medicine drums beating, medicine men dancing about the beasts, the procession of ...
18	269	Expected to attend such a council, of course, on the part of the Kaiila, were not only the civil chieftains of the various bands of the Kaiila but their high men, as well, the councils of the various bands, and trusted warriors, and men of probity and wisdom...
28	341	Suddenly, too, starkly plausible, became such untypical anomalies of the Barrens as the meretricious proposal of a false peace, the spurious pretext of a council in order to gather together and decimate the high men of the Kaiila, and even the unprecedented sacrilege of a...
34	10	In our passage we had seen, to our right, council Rock, rearing high, almost anomalously, out of the plains, prominent amidst a group of smaller, associated bluffs.
3	119	Two forks were left, one about eighteen feet high and the other about twenty-three feet high.
43	168	Each sack, further, has two sturdy leather handles which come up, high, quite high, one on either side of the occupant's head; if these handles are held together, or tied together, the closure between them will usually be twelve to eighteen inches over the girl's head.
43	345	Surely some sort of high coup would be involved, dragging a high lady of the Yellow Knives, one of their own proud free women, in a sack, up and down, back and forth in their own promenade lane, like a common slave girl.
1	400	Other checks and balances are such things as tradition and custom, the closeness of the governed and the governors, multiple-family interrelatednesses, the election of chiefs, the submission of significant matters to a council, and, ultimately, the feasibility of simply leaving the gro...
2	200	They came from the countries around council Rock, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River and west of the Snake, a tributary to the Northern Kaiila.
7	622	There will be a council on the matter".
7	659	"There is to be a council on the matter," said Bloketu.
12	358	This was around council Rock, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River and west of the Snake River.
16	279	"I saw the civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives at a council," she said.
16	282	"It seems too early for there to have been a council," I said.
16	283	"There was a council," she said.
16	285	I would have expected such a council to be correlated with the coming of the Pte and the gathering of Yellow-Knife bands for the great hunts.
16	289	"Do you know the topic or topics of the council?" "No," she said.
16	293	"Was the council before or after the raid?" I asked.
16	296	"You are certain that you do not know what the council was about?" "No, Master," she said.
16	304	"In this council," she said, "I saw the civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives.
18	178	"Why should he not be in the council?" she asked, not looking up.
18	184	"Might he be in the council?" "It is possible," she shrugged.
18	188	"If he is in the council," she said, "you will not be able to see him either".
18	196	In my intense awareness of this being the day of the great dance, probably a function of Cuwignaka's almost overwhelming concern about it, and in my concern over the fate of Canka, and my concern with the information obtained from Oiputake, I had forgotten that this day, too, was the day of a peace ...
18	197	I made my way rapidly towards the council lodge.
18	198	I did not know if I could draw Mahpiyasapa out of the council, or if it would be wise to do so, but I was confident that I could, somehow, if he were there, make contact with Grunt.

Book 19. (30 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
31	552	The sack was to be opened, and she was to be presented to Claudius, Ubar of Argentum, and the high council, and high citizens of Argentum, at the climax of a great feast, to be celebrated two days from now.
31	785	"Tomorrow night, at the great victory feast," he said, "you will be turned over to Claudius, my Ubar, and the high council".
32	82	This will be presented to Claudius, the Ubar, and the high council, as the clothing of the Tatrix of Corcyrus.
32	84	The work of Claudius and the high council, of course, will be made somewhat easier by the fact that when the golden sack is opened at the banquet it will be occupied not by the true Sheila, but by you, her dupe and double.
32	288	"It will be interesting, tonight, to compare you, when you are both, naked and in chains, side by side, presented to Claudius and the high council".
33	5	At these tables were Claudius, the Ubar of Argentum, and members of the high council.
33	19	Two soldiers, from a side room, dragged the golden sack across the floor and put it before the central table, that table where sat Claudius, the members of the high council and other significant guests.
33	222	The members of the high council and many of the guests looked about at one another, nodding.
33	313	"He, too," said Drusus Rencius, "could have been mistaken in this matter!" There was some laughter from some of the members of the high council, and from some of the others about the tables.
33	404	How could I make such a man weak? "The evidence is clear," said Miles of Argentum to the Ubar, Claudius, to the members of the high council, to the others in the room.
33	436	I recognize the right of Claudius and the high council to assurances in these matters.
33	464	"As you will note," said Hassan to Claudius and the high council, "the seal on this bundle has not been broken.
33	556	Members of the high council crowded about him.
33	569	"The descriptions tally with the garments brought to us by Ligurious," said one of the members of the high council.
33	571	"Menicius," said one of the members of the high council, looking up.
33	732	I am prepared now to be turned over, as a slave, the slave I am, to Claudius, the Ubar of Argentum, and the high council of Argentum, to face their justice".
33	935	"Are you prepared, now," asked Hassan, "to be turned over to Claudius and the high council?" "Yes, Master," she said.
33	942	"Do you truly think I brought you here," he laughed, "to turn you over to Claudius and the high council?" "Of course, Master," she said.
33	963	"It was never your intention, then, to deliver her to us?" asked a member of the high council.
33	1026	That responsibility was that of Claudius, the Ubar of Argentum, and the high council.
36	770	Yet, too, he had, with Menicius, risked his life in the camp of Miles of Argentum to free me, and he had sought desperately to protect and defend me in the inquiry with Claudius and the high council.
32	12	Tonight, at the feast, I was to be presented naked and in chains to Claudius, the Ubar of Argentum, and the council.
33	79	She was knelt then, bound hand and foot, naked and gagged, before Claudius and the council.
33	93	I think this was because of our very close resemblance, and, too, perhaps, because he found it almost impossible to believe that I was not the woman who had been drawn forth from the sack, who now knelt helplessly before Claudius and the council.
33	124	He then put Sheila again on her knees before the council.
1	62	It is not the product, for example, of a high-speed, automated coin press".
1	226	The ends of the blouse, where I had tied them together, high on my midriff, as the man had requested, fluttered backward.
3	323	"There is something on your left leg," I said, "high, on the thigh, just under the hip".
3	331	It was a delicate mark, almost floral, about an inch and a half high and a half inch, or so, wide.
3	600	The hem of the robe came high on the thighs.

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	95	Usually a sample performance, or a part of a performance, is required, staged before the high council, or a committee delegated by such a council.
1	82	In Port Kar this honor fell to Samos, first captain in the council of Captains, and the council's executive officers.
2	589	"In the license," said the officer, "there is the provision that girls associated with companies such as yours, if slaves, may be commanded to the apartments and service of whomsoever the council, or a delegated officer of the council, directs".
1	29	A major victory in this matter was secured a few years ago when the caste of Merchants, which organizes and manages the Sardar Fairs, agreed to a standardized version, proposed by, and provisionally approved by, the high council of the caste of Players, for the Sardar tou...
1	42	Squat, brilliant Chung and tall, long-haired Nigel, like a warlord from Torvaldsland, had fought with us against the fleets of Cos and Tyros, participating with us in the victory of the Twenty-Fifth of Se'Kara, in Year One of the council of Captains; they remained in Port Kar as ...
18	254	What could it be? There was some message, it seemed, come from Belnar, for her ears alone, something having to do with some emergency, something perhaps requiring immediate consultation, perhaps even a conference of the high council.
21	200	"Belnar, and other members of the high council," he said, "have been conducting negotiations with individuals in various states, in particular, Cos and Ar.
21	241	Here I find slaughtered ubars, chaos and fire! I have assumed command in the city until the high council appoints a new ubar.
21	457	He did have, presumably, through Belnar, connections with members of the high council of the city.
22	261	"Members of the high council of Brundisium, other than Belnar, are involved.
9	41	The most typical brand site is high on the left thigh, high enough, under the hip, to be covered even by the brevity of a typical slave tunic.
9	412	"The very thought of it! The outrage! The indignity! How dare you even think of such a thing! I am of high caste! I am of the scribes! Wait until I bring this matter to the attention of magistrates!" "As I may remind you, my dear," said Boots, patiently, "you are no longer of hig...
10	378	I have my gowns, my robes, even my veils, especially made for me by high cloth workers!" "I am not a high cloth worker," I said, "but I did make it especially for you".
12	69	His only defense would be the capture of the Rider of the high Tharlarion with his Ubara, at which point, of course, I would recapture with the Scribe, thus exchanging the Rider of the high Tharlarion for a Ubara, an exchange much to my profit.
12	285	If he did advance it in that fashion, promoting it presumably to a Rider of the high Tharlarion, to bring the Home Stone under immediate attack, and prevent me from advancing my own Rider of the high Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, finishing the game, I would take it ...
15	43	The skirt she wore, though it came high on her thighs, and was cut at the sides, had a very high waist, its belting cord cinched just under her breasts.
1	32	, Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar, or in Year 5 of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains, in Port Kar.
1	40	Soon it would be Year Eleven in the Sovereignty of the council of Captains, in Port Kar.
1	929	, or Year 3 of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains in Port Kar.
1	973	This had taken place in Year One of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains, in 10,120 C.
2	15	There might easily have been fifteen thousand people in the great piazza, the largest in Port Kar, that before the hall of the council of Captains.
2	118	"Do you not recognize him? That is Bosk, the Admiral, he of the council of Captains".
2	124	I myself had voted in the council for the checking of weapons before entering the piazza during carnival.
2	378	In the crowd was an officer of the Master of Revels, with two members of the council Guard.
2	569	Behind him were the two members of the council Guard.
5	475	Samos had been in their service before he had become the first captain in the council of Captains in Port Kar.
12	587	In the chronology of Port Kar, it was now Year Eleven, of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains.
21	458	Members of that council had doubtless been closely associated with Belnar in his various projects.
21	459	No new ubar, as far as I could tell, had yet been appointed by the council.
1	61	They had performed, it seems, in the high cities and before ubars.

Book 21. (30 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	5	These inert, suspended, desiccated weights, now little more than skulls and the bones of men, with some bits of cloth, fluttering in the air's stirrings, and threads and patches of dried flesh clinging about them, had been arranged in a line along the Avenue of Adminius, the main thoroughfare of Tor...
10	20	"Members of the high council, and lesser councils, and certain of their supporters," he said, "who favored the cause of Ar".
13	208	"Daughter of the matron Aglaia, Lady of Torcadino," she said, "of the Myrtos lineage, she high in the trade of spices, Confirmation Treasurer of the Spice council of Torcadino, she of the Merchants".
14	3	We were at the foot of the low, broad steps of the Semnium, the hall of the high council, which building, it seemed, might now serve as the headquarters of the new masters of Torcadino.
1	81	Her hands went to the stiff, high brocaded collar of her robes, the robes of concealment, to the numerous eyes and hooks there, holding it tightly, protectively, about her throat, up high under her chin.
4	29	It is a rare council or citizenry that does not breathe more easily once the wagons have taken their way out of their lands.
13	230	As her number was 437 and there were only some one hundred or one hundred and fifty or so females in the chain, near the wall, I assumed there was probably one or more collection points elsewhere, perhaps nearer the Semnium, the council Hall.
14	23	Her mother, before her capture, I had gathered, had been important, having been the confirmation treasurer of one of Torcadino's commercial councils, the Spice council.
19	252	In the chronology of Port Kar, it was Year 11 in the Sovereignty of the council of Captains.
1	169	She must see the man as her master not in the simple sense that he stands in some legal relationship to her, which she might recognize and acknowledge, but rather as, say, an animal might see a man as its master, provided the animal also had the high intelligence of a woman, and also h...
1	299	I set my eyes to the southeast, away from the high gray walls of Samnium.
2	133	Too, her thigh now bore a brand, the common kajira mark, high on her left thigh, just under the hip.
2	207	In the houses of administrators, in the domiciles of high merchants, in the palaces of Ubars, for example, slaves, and usually extremely beautiful ones, for they can afford them, are often abundant.
3	187	Dietrich of Tarnburg, of the high city of Tarnburg, some two hundred pasangs to the north and west of Hochburg, both substantially mountain fortresses, both in the more southern and civilized ranges of the Voltai, was well-known to the warriors of Gor.
3	191	His campaigns were studied in all the war schools of the high cities.
3	223	"Can you handle tharlarion?" "I can handle high tharlarion," I said.
3	230	That was not so much different from the high tharlarion, either.
3	299	On the summit of a small hill I saw some seven or eight riders, riders of the high tharlarion, the tharlarion shifting and clawing about under them, with tharlarion lances.
3	345	How different things seemed from the marches of the forces of Ar, and others of the high cities.
4	46	Their most common mount is the medium-weight saddle tharlarion, a beast smaller and less powerful, but swifter and more agile, than the common high tharlarion.
4	71	Genserix held the child up now, happily, it almost lost in his large hands, and then he lifted it up high over his head.
4	173	Rings were then brought, heavy rings of silver and gold, large enough for a wrist or arm, and Genserix distributed these to high retainers.
4	313	Free women, among the Alars, have high standing.
4	413	"Lift up the ax you carry," said Genserix, "high, over your head, as though to strike one with it.
4	450	I slipped to the side and, swinging the ax handle inward, caught Sorath in the solar plexus, that network of nerves and ganglia high in the abdominal cavity, lying behind the stomach and in front of the upper part of the abdominal aorta.
5	351	Feiqa had once been the Lady Charlotte, of Samnium, a high lady in that city, one of aristocratic birth and upbringing, from one of her finest families, one prominent on her Street of Coins.
6	3	"They were intended for the mess of the high officers, up the road," he said.
7	35	It was an interesting interpretative question, probably one calling for the attention of high councils.
9	29	The tents of commanders are usually placed on high ground near the center of the camp.
9	212	This came then, I conjectured, as high praise.

Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	186	To be sure, one of the reasons for permitting a hairdo of that sort to a slave is the master's pleasure in undoing it, in loosening it, thus reminding even the high slave that in his arms, ultimately, she, the high slave, is yet a slave, and as much or more than the lowes...
9	269	I suddenly wondered, wildly, my hands high, held fast in the manacles, if Teibar, my Teibar, might be out there somewhere among those men, perhaps high in the tiers, in the darkness, waiting to bid on me! Then I realized how foolish that would be.
1	67	Surely she might better have cooked meat in the light of a cave fire, the thongs on her left wrist perhaps marking whose woman she was, or with sistrum and hymns, under the orders of priests, welcomed the grand, redemptive, sluggish flows of the Nile; better she had run barefoot on a lonely Aegean b...
3	298	I tried to pick up one of the small armchairs, to smash through, and perhaps squeeze through, one of the high, narrow windows, but it was too heavy for me, and the man was now close behind me.
3	481	Here where we were light came through the high, narrow windows to my left, from the moon, and from a street lamp, about a hundred feet away.
3	554	"To be sure," he said, "it is a bit more ample than is necessary, not as snug as it might be, not cut as high at the thighs as it might be, not cut as deeply at the neck as it might be, and, surely, as I determined earlier, it is insufficiently diaphanous".
3	640	I was then jerked upward, and backward, half choked, but with the pressure substantially high on my neck, under the chin, doubtless by intent, and then lay before them on the low-piled, coarse carpet, so muchly trodden by our library patrons.
5	60	I had now been branded, a small, graceful mark burned into my left thigh, high, under the hip.
5	191	I do not know what the nature of Tina's brand was, as I never saw it, but I am sure it was there, probably high on the left thigh, like mine, beneath that brief skirt.
6	644	In war, of course, women on this world, slave and free, like silver and gold, rank high as booty.
7	9	The high, squarish framework of the wagon was covered with blue and yellow silk, under which was common canvas.
8	14	We had been lifted down from the wagon and placed on our feet in a high-walled courtyard.
8	26	Too, there were the tracks of wagon wheels there, and of sandals and boots, and of small, high-arched bare feet, doubtless those of girls.
8	71	I recalled the other footprints we had seen in the dirt, left over, probably, from the day before, those smaller, lovelier, daintier, high-arched prints, doubtless those of girls.
8	184	Upswept hairdos are usually reserved for free women, or high slaves.
9	51	I thought she might bring a high price.
9	95	It was about waist high to me.
9	168	Directly before me, and to my right, there was a low, wooden wall, about four feet high.
9	183	I could see the forward edge of a large, rounded block, about five feet high, set back on the dirt, a few feet within the railing.
9	221	I saw more rafters, too, high above me, almost lost in the darkness under the roof.
9	229	My wrists were still held high over my head.
9	290	What was I doing here? Why was I brought here, to this world? My wrists hurt, held up so high in the steel.
9	434	But I was a woman of Earth! This could not be happening to me! Then, as the higher chain, the strand of the double chain, took up its slack, my wrists were again pulled up, high, over my head.
9	500	When I opened my eyes again, my body now again stretched out, standing on its toes, my wrists high over my head in the manacles, I looked down, across the dirt area, over the railing.
10	90	"I have high hopes for you," he said.
10	180	The man who owned me might indeed be, as I had first perceived him, in Market of Semris, he free, looking up at the slave block where I, a naked slave, displayed in high manacles, was being vended, too corpulent, too broad of girth, too gross, too scarred, too loathsome, too hideous, b...
10	343	I had no idea as to how high we were.
10	362	I did not know how high I was.
10	418	"Even under normal conditions," he said, "a silver tarsk would be a very high price to pay for a semitrained girl".
10	451	"That seems a high bid," he said.

Book 23. (30 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
21	82	The body sovereign in the Vosk League, incidentally, at least as I understand it, is its high council, which is composed of representatives from the member towns.
8	196	As I have indicated, the lips and mouth of a female are commonly regarded as extremely sensuous features to a Gorean, hence the concern of many free women, particularly of high caste, in the high cities, to conceal them.
21	348	The Merchants often maintain that they are a high caste, and should, accordingly, be included in the councils of high caste.
8	542	Too, I recalled she had been contemptuous of me, and haughty and cruel to me, in Port Kar, scorning even the memory of my love, when I had been paralyzed, helpless to move from a chair, the victim of the poison of Sullius Maximus, once one of the five Ubars of Port Kar, before the Sovereignty of the...
20	218	The same year, in the chronology of Port Kar, if it is of interest, would have been Year 8 of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains.
21	83	This Callimachus, I gathered, then, whoever he was, would be the appointee of that council.
1	27	I had shortened the straps of the sword sheath, hitching it high, the hilt now before my left shoulder, under the cloak.
1	507	Too, though I did not think it was now lit, there might be a sheltered tarn beacon somewhere, usually under a high shed.
1	622	In a flash of lightning, illuminated clearly for a moment, I could see, over the palisade, hanging from its chains, from the crosspiece on the high pole, swinging in the storm, the huge sign with its emblematic representation of a bird, that with the vulturelike neck and the distorted,...
2	10	I then followed him through a high, shedlike tunnel, walled with wood, about forty feet long, to the interior gate.
2	104	In the intrigues of the time, and to divert suspicion, Gnieus Lelius, high councilor, and first minister of Ar, he who was acting as regent in the absence of Marlenus, Ubar of the city, had even had me brought to the Central Cylinder under guard, as though I might have be...
2	206	There was a place for a tarn beacon, on a platform under a high shed, but it was not now lit.
2	229	Their hands were shackled high over their heads, this lifting their bodies nicely.
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	331	"Nonetheless," said the second woman, "we are high free women, and women such as we do not 'earn our keep.
2	371	"I am of high caste.
2	372	Consider the glory of redeeming a woman of high caste!" "The slave," I said, "has no caste, no more than a verr or tarsk".
2	452	"Though I am of high caste," she said, "I have permitted you to kiss me, and not merely upon a sleeve or gloved hand, but wholly upon my lips, and not even through a veil, no, upon my exposed and naked lips themselves, unveiled, almost as though I might be a slave! Therefore, in return...
2	454	"I am of high caste!" she said.
2	478	One had even begged explicitly, as I had seen to it she would, she who reputed herself to be of high caste.
2	534	"I am!" wept the second woman, who had reputed herself to be of high caste.
2	557	But I proceeded under the overhang to the open space between the two parts of the inn, the covered way there, with its high roof, that which it shared with the two parts of the inn, and then across it, to the right portion of the inn, in which the porter had informed me was the keeper'...
3	3	They were quite high.
4	3	These were all large, shallow, round tubs, of clay, covered with porcelain, mounted on open-bricked platforms, each platform about a yard high.
6	3	In the light of a few dim tharlarion-oil lamps one could see the large numbers posted high on the wall, to the left and the back.
6	881	Too, he did not seem to have the refinement of a high merchant nor the roughness of the drover.
8	11	I glanced up, to my right, at the high shedlike structure which would shelter the tarn beacon.
8	480	I then, with a piece of scarflike cloth taken from my pouch, a wind veil, sometimes bound across the mouth and nostrils of a tarnsman, usually at high altitudes, blindfolded her.
8	516	Though she had been the daughter of a Ubar, and now, again, it seemed, stood high in Ar, she was, after all, only a female.
8	540	"No!" I again, briefly, considered the proud, haughty Talena, who had been the daughter of a Ubar, and who now, again, it seemed, stood high in Ar.

Book 24. (30 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
26	218	At this point the young high-caste women of Harfax had approached the high council of the city with a bold plan.
26	220	Although opposition to this plan was at first fierce the high council agreed at last.
31	212	"On behalf of Gnieus Lelius, regent in Ar, and the high council of Ar," said Labienus, "I, as their envoy de facto in the delta, express their regret for the misunderstandings between our states and peoples, and in particular for that resulting in a cruel and unprovoked a...
36	48	"I am of high caste!" Ina was, I had learned, of the Builders, one of the five high castes on Gor, the others being the Initiates, Physicians, Scribes and Warriors.
12	100	There had not been a major engagement since the battle of the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the sovereignty of the council of Captains in Port Kar, or, to use the chronology of Ar, 10,120 C.
21	61	"But, at that time, most likely," I said, "your fate was still to be decided by a council".
21	65	"And perhaps it was then, a few days later, by the council, that it was decided officially, and after due deliberation, after they had had a chance to assess your character with care, that you were not worthy of being a slave".
1	6	I saw the brand, tiny and tasteful, yet unmistakable, fixed in her thigh, high, under the hip.
1	53	It brings a high price in slave markets.
1	256	Its fencing was little more than symbolic, a matter of light railings, no more than waist high, set on tripods.
1	285	The girls filled their vessels, which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure.
1	356	Temione had now reached the vat, and was carefully dipping her narrow, high-handled serving vessel in the simmering paga.
1	586	She, like the others, however, when I had met her, probably due to the war, the scarcity of genteel travelers, the crowds of impoverished refugees, the high prices, and so on, had fallen on hard times.
1	673	They commonly bring high prices in the markets.
1	1009	"Do you think you are a special slave, or a high slave?" asked Philebus of the girl, moving the coils of the whip near her.
3	66	He was an excellent young officer, with a high sense of duty.
3	83	It had to do with treason in high places.
3	110	Yet that is what he had wanted, to inform the high command of Ar near Holmesk of the movements and position of the Cosian expeditionary force.
3	423	One could scarcely make out the blue of the identificatory scarf, tied high on the left arm, with the blood, the dust.
3	441	"Glory to Ar!" "Glory to Ar!" said four or five of the fellows about, high above us, in their saddles.
4	56	I had heard, of course, that a man named Seremides was now high general in Ar, but I had not supposed that this might be the Seremides of the time of Cernus.
5	46	"Of high family?" he asked.
9	75	I felt another such creature on my leg, high, in the back.
9	76	"Ho, hold!" cried a man, high on a platform, set on the bow of one of the barges.
9	95	The sun was high overhead now.
10	1	Morale is high "Lie still," said the fellow crouching next to me.
10	118	Morale this night was high among them.
11	3	The sun was high overhead.
12	27	She was veiled, as is common for Gorean women in the high cities, particularly those of station.
12	148	"These things must be conveyed to high officers," I said.

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	21	Gnieus Lelius, it seems, had been deposed, and Seremides, in a military coup he himself characterized as regrettable, had seized temporary power, a power to be wielded until the high council, now the highest civilian authority in Ar, could elect a new leader...
7	94	"It is Seremides, and members of the high council!" said a fellow.
7	95	Seremides, whom I had not seen this clearly since long ago in Ar, in the days of Minus Tentius Hinrabius, and Cernus, of Ar, with others, members of the high council, I gathered, now, from the side of the Central Cylinder, ascended the platform.
7	103	Then the high council stood to one side, and Seremides himself returned to the point on the platform where the rear ramp, that near the Central Cylinder, ascended to its surface.
7	337	"Peace, friendship, joy and love," called Myron, "to our brothers in Ar!" One of the members of the high council, presumably its executive officer, who would have had been directly subordinate to Gnieus Lelius, the regent, in a civilian capacity, as Seremides would have b...
7	347	I noted that while Myron and his fellows scattered these coins about, Seremides, waving to the crowd, and Talena, lifting her hand, too, and the high council, withdrew from the surface of the platform.
8	111	Seremides and most members of the high council were in attendance.
8	112	Certain other members of the high council were asserted to be indisposed.
8	502	"It is said that even numbers of the high council, as a token, have come to the wall, loosened a stone, and tumbled it down".
9	160	One of these was held by a member of the high council.
9	565	Talena was then ready to dismiss another woman, but something was called to her attention from the list held by the representative of the high council, and that woman, too, was consigned to the chain.
9	628	"Such work is trying," said the representative of the high council, solicitously.
10	15	At last, in view of the distinct unrest in the city, and the possible danger of riots and demonstrations, a communication was received from the Central Cylinder, jointly presented by Talena, Ubara of Ar; Seremides, captain of the guard; Antonius, executive officer of the high cou...
10	109	"I suspect," I said, "that these arrests are more the work of Seremides, and Antonius, of the high council".
10	127	"I assume," said Marcus, "that he is the Mirus Torus who was the executive officer of the high council before Gnieus Lelius, and later held the same office under the regency of Gnieus Lelius".
26	224	Should it come to the attention of Seremides, or Myron, or the high council, or an archon of slaves, or perhaps even a guardsman, you may well conjecture what might be your fate".
21	322	Occasionally, in certain of the high cities, a group of masked young rowdies, deplorable, high-spirited, boisterous, frolicsome young ruffians, hooligans, if you like, as a lark, will set upon a free woman and fasten her in a slave collar.
27	944	"Why not, just men? Certainly high men, in high civilizations, have held slaves, often beautiful, highly educated slaves, sophisticated, gifted women, well subdued, then trained in arts both intellectual and sensual, slaves who are fit properties for even Ub...
9	374	She turned to her advisors, as though troubled, as though seeking their council.
9	566	I gathered that she, or perhaps some relative of hers, had offended some member of the current council.
21	234	"'It could mean his death if it were so much as glimpsed by one of the council, or by Seremides, or Myron, or his master, or perhaps any free man,' she said.
1	186	Free women in most of the high cities on Gor, particularly those of higher caste, go veiled in public.
1	313	Dietrich, finally understanding the treason in Ar, in high places, had managed to effect a withdrawal from Torcadino.
2	51	It was, in my opinion, high time he had done so.
2	128	I was certain, however, from information I had obtained at Holmesk, at the winter camp of Ar, that the high general in the city, Seremides, of Tyros, was involved.
2	143	I thought of a woman, one now high in Ar, one for whom I had once mistakenly cared, a vain, proud woman who had once, thinking me helpless and crippled, mocked and scorned me.
3	729	high on her left arm there was a small, circular scar.
4	58	I had heard that certain rich men had exchanged as many as fifteen high slaves, choice "flowers" from their pleasure gardens, trained even to Curulean quality, for a single tharlarion and wagon.
4	76	And, once one added to the reckoning of these dismal tables the skewing factor of treachery in Ar, and that her high general, Seremides, of Tyros, was traitorous to his oaths, as I had learned at Holmesk, in the north, Ar, I was sure, was doomed.
5	64	She had been a slender, dark-haired beauty, with high cheekbones.

Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
28	4	He was, as I understood it, an officer in the business court, that under the jurisdiction of the commercial praetor, subject, ultimately, to the high council.
31	116	"Do you think no report will be made of this to the administration, to the administrator, to the high council?" "I do not have the keys," said the pit master.
11	231	But are not such, in the final analysis, owned every bit as much as we? And is not one man's high slave no more to another than the least of his bond maids, laboring shackled in his stables, her use a perquisite for rude grooms, and is it not the case that even for the very same man sh...
11	1608	The Initiates are sometimes thought of as the highest of the five high castes, and the Warriors as the least of the five high castes.
29	2	Shafts of sunlight, like golden spears, fell through the high, narrow windows, illuminating the scarlet circle before the high desk.
26	27	"The agreed-upon amounts have been lodged with the business council, the entire matter attested to by the commercial praetor.
1	23	The wall was some forty feet high.
1	58	And the wall was very high.
4	88	It was only a lantern held high in the threshold, but I was temporarily blinded.
4	403	These, with their heavy thongs, or cords, came high on the calf.
5	79	It stood high, it seemed, in the favor of those who controlled the city.
7	78	He might, thusly, be of high caste.
7	106	It is one thing to writhe naked before guards, one's body obedient to the slightest tremor of the flute, and quite another, for example, to swirl in a belt of jewels on the dancing floor of one of the golden taverns, reached only from the high bridges.
7	120	I drew up the silk on my left side, with the fingers of both hands, to the waist, as one does, this exposing the tiny, graceful mark there, high on my left thigh, just under the hip.
7	722	This, I think, was perhaps because some resented the possibility that I might, in chains upon a sales block, guided by the deft touches of the whip, responding helplessly, bring a high price, perhaps one even challenging theirs.
8	115	I had worn, almost from the first, a light, gleaming, about-a-half-inch-high, close-fitting steel collar.
8	166	It was some six or seven feet high and some seven or eight feet wide.
8	169	They were reinforced laterally with heavy crosspieces, an inch or so high, every foot or so.
8	371	It was in depth some twenty feet long, in width some fifteen feet wide, in height some eight or ten feet high.
8	808	They would bring high prices.
9	27	But how contemptuous, and how regal, they had appeared, and so beautifully robed and veiled! Many I was told, wore platforms of a sort on their feet, perhaps as much as eight to ten inches high, which would increase their apparent height, and, of course protect their slippers from bein...
10	344	There was the mountain there, rearing upward, and, high above, perhaps a hundred feet above, seeming to rise out of the rock itself, were the walls of the citadel.
10	412	I had not been this high before, at least unhooded.
10	538	The gates were heavy and high.
10	645	Within was a high, vaulted room, apparently a guard station.
10	798	I did not know how high we might be.
10	865	"We are in the vicinity of one of the high terraces," he said.
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 leather again...
11	68	I gathered that she must be a high slave, and that she had a general permission to speak.
11	227	Perhaps she presumed too much on the status of a high slave, which status, it seemed, must be hers.

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	704	There was nothing untoward in this, or unique to her condition, which was that of slave, for Gorean women in the high cities, and particularly those of high caste, commonly eat kneeling, or reclining, at low tables, as Gorean men in the high cities, particul...
12	24	The material was of high quality, and so the woman must be of reasonable station, if not of high caste.
17	829	Ellen could hear, too, now and then, the clack of high, wooden, platformlike, cloglike footwear, such as is sometimes worn by free women, particularly of high caste, which lift the hems of their gowns a bit from the ground, and serve to protect delicately slippered or san...
2	9	It does seem clear that their criteria include high intelligence.
2	10	If one's intelligence is high, they seem to find that arousing, literally arousing, perhaps unaccountably to one accustomed to the criteria prized on my first world.
2	107	She put her head down, and she knew that her face and under her chin, and the very upper part of her throat, and her hands, and the exposed parts of her body, all of it not covered by the tight, severe, mannish, professional garb she affected for teaching, the dark suit, and the severely cut white b...
3	19	The room itself seemed elegant, almost rococo, with a high ceiling.
5	9	It was thus impossible, for example, to try to barricade the door, to protect her privacy, or move it to the wall and attempt to use it to obtain a glimpse outside, through the small window, high there in the wall, well over her head.
5	33	They could not even begin to scratch at the foot of a high, majestic wall, beyond which there lay a world.
5	37	Her own ankle-length gown was of finer material, came high, modestly, about the neck, and had long sleeves.
6	2	Light fell upon her, from a high window.
6	25	Instead of the long, long-sleeved, ankle-length, white gown of fine material, coming high, modestly, about the neck, she now wore a simpler white gown, of less fine material, with half sleeves, and its hem came midway upon her calves.
6	65	They also gave her some understanding of the social arrangements common in what were called the "high cities," in particular, the caste system, and the existence of codes of honor, and such, apparently taken seriously on this world.
6	74	One does not object to a certain amount of ignorance and fitful illiteracy in such as she, an occasional misuse of words, and such, which can be charming, even amusing, but it is important that she attain a considerably high level of fluency, in order that she may understand, instantly...
7	3	The light, as before, from a high window, fell upon her.
7	109	Indeed, women of a status, or station, above her own commonly veiled themselves when appearing in public, particularly those of the high castes.
7	201	The duties she was taught were common to most women of her sort, of whatever variety, but tended to be especially associated with such as served in the towers, in the high cities, in the cylinder cities.
8	18	It came high on her thighs.
8	40	She had worn it high on her head, in a severe bun.
9	70	She wore a black, jacketed, skirted suit, with a cool, front-buttoned, rather severe, rather mannish white blouse, buttoned high about her neck.
9	175	She unbuttoned the blouse, beginning with the high collar, and then slipped it from her shoulders.
10	183	You will not bring a high price in markets.
11	163	Look high, just under the hip.
11	206	"It is high time," laughed another".
11	224	"She should bring a high price," commented another.
11	288	She was doubtless a woman of high intelligence and exquisite taste.
11	529	And whatever your problems might prove to be in the future, I doubt that boredom will rank high amongst them".
11	697	A rather different sort of slave, familiar in the "high cities," in the "cylinder cities," one more domestically oriented, is the "tower slave".
11	830	Gorean men, she had learned, prize high intelligence in a woman, and seek it in their slaves.
12	28	high-caste women, in general, or those of the Merchants, she supposed, would not do their own laundry either, but they might have a slave, or slaves, in their own domiciles to attend to such work.

Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
42	100	A high ladder was there, fixed against the wall, which must have been a hundred or more feet high, and led, it seemed, to a closed ceiling.
76	35	Following her return, the third time, he took her to a stout post, some six feet high, with two rings, one high, one low, at the side of the camp, one he had had placed there earlier, indeed, with she, the errant slave, in mind, knelt her before it and then braceleted her...
80	198	"Such things are common on Gor with free women, particularly with those of high caste, particularly in the high cities".
1	104	This is a high caste, doubtless because it is armed.
1	133	And, of course, few of the Kurii who ascend high in the rings will be without certain blemishes.
1	165	At that point presumably only carefully selected, high-quality merchandise would be brought to her shores.
1	268	She would have counted as having been of the high classes.
1	843	The most common site for such, recommended in Merchant Law, is high on the left thigh, under the hip.
1	947	It is supposedly delicious to capture a woman of the enemy, and enslave her, and publicly display and humiliate her, leashing her and marching her about, and such, this making clear that even the high-caste women of the enemy are worthy of no more than being abject slaves to the victor...
1	1014	Does she not know she is a debased, worthless creature, unworthy to lace a man's sandals? Does she not know she is a rightless, domestic animal, subject to buying and selling, her thigh branded, her throat encircled with its locked, debasing insignia of bondage? How is it that she can ...
1	1037	The Gorean civilization is a complex, high civilization, comparable to various others, and its height is not a little associated with the fact that it is on the whole compatible with nature, rather than incompatible with her; it constitutes less of a contradiction to her, than an accep...
1	1043	And one does not doubt but what a member of that other, though rarer, Gorean martial caste, though not held a high caste, the Assassins, might have done so.
1	1176	In certain cultures one supposes women might pay a great deal of money to obtain such a device, though perhaps one more akin to those one might expect to find on high slaves, say, colored, enameled, ringed, bejeweled, of precious metals, and such.
1	1218	She had always had her way with men, and, too, had she not sensed, though to her indignation, how he had viewed her while feeding her? She knew she was a female of high intelligence, and she was quite well aware that she was also one of unusual attractiveness.
3	160	At least that is so in those areas with which I am most familiar, and certainly it is so in the high cities".
3	161	"high cities?" "Ar," said he, "Turia, Ko-ro-ba, Thentis, Treve, Venna, and such".
4	67	"He is much like a Kur," said Cabot, "and many Kurii are of high intelligence".
4	117	"Something appropriate," she said, "indeed, a wardrobe, casual wear, street wear, sports wear, perhaps even evening wear, such things, a wardrobe of high quality, one compatible with my social position.
5	403	It was a typical pet collar, for such as she, high, to keep her head up, leather, closely fitting, locked in the back, with a ring in front, to which a leash might be attached, a chain, or such.
8	3	It was rounded and domed, and, high in its walls were narrow windows, through which the interior was dimly lit.
8	11	"Such a chamber would surely be more ornate, better lit, crowded with servitors and guards, furnished ostentatiously with precious vessels, statuary, display slaves, a sampling of nude chained beauties, preferably of high caste, ideally the daughters of Ubars, taken from conquered citi...
9	32	The pet collar, high and leather, set her off nicely.
9	36	The collar was, as noted, high, and she could not well lower her head without a movement of her entire body, though she could, of course, keep her eyes cast down.
10	16	A long, light chain, some thirty to thirty five feet in length, ran from a ring on the floor, near the box, to a ring on a high leather collar, which was closed closely about the neck of the small white figure, a pet collar.
10	101	The collar, like that of the blonde, was high, and she could not well lower her head.
11	23	"This might be a tavern in a high city," he said, "the counter, the vats of paga, the square of sand for the dancers, the polished wooden floors, the low ceiling, the hangings, the cozy dimness, the small lamps, the curtained alcoves, such things".
13	119	Might not both serve well in a high city? Perhaps even as lesser slaves at the feast of a Ubar? Yes, thought Cabot, they would sell well.
14	12	Could it be that hunting sleen were not yet come through the shuttle port? Cabot tried to convey his apprehensions to Archon, but the leader of the group again made the gesture of denial, and led the way down from the high place.
14	31	In the high cities the Caste of Physicians has produced a slave wine whose effects are terminated only by a counter substance, called the Releaser.
15	16	Does it not beg to be torn away? It is no wonder that slave raids in the high cities commonly target slaves.

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
43	88	A suggestion from Lord Nishida, of course, as might be an invitation from a high council or a Ubar, was not the sort of thing one would ignore.
16	8	Similarly, it may wheel to the high right and the low right, and to the high left and low left, by drawing on the appropriate straps.
17	16	A similar approach may be used on the high bridges or against unsuspecting loungers or sunbathers on the roofs of high cylinders.
18	512	The women, then, of whatever station, whether low-born or high, whether of high caste or low, together with camp slaves, are herded to the center of the blackened, smoldering camp, where all must, at a word, disrobe themselves, both bond and free, to be assessed, as thoug...
23	172	The typical Gorean male, particularly of what the high castes think of as the lower castes, tends to be direct, open, uninhibited, unrestrained, high-spirited, exuberant, and emotional.
44	32	Are they not commodities of high regard, goods of high esteem? They obey, and kneel, and serve, and kiss, and enrich a world.
2	213	On the 25th of Se'Kara, in Year One of the Sovereignty of the council of Captains, a great naval a battle was fought between Port Kar and the fleets of Cos and Tyros.
5	5	"Before the ascendancy of the council of Captains," I said.
5	545	There she had come within the cognizance of a slaver, Samos, first Captain in the council of Captains of Port Kar.
5	556	"But he asked, again, and again, in his slow, childlike way, who now, be it only in name, ruled in Ar," said one of the men on the beach, "and the partisans took council, and decided to risk the disclosure, though they knew not what effect it might have".
27	43	Perhaps if the caste and council democracies, so to speak, had taken a different turn such individuals might have constituted a constituency, so to speak, exploitable by the unscrupulous, but the several forms of democracy, of aristocracies, of oligarchies, of tyrannies, and such, amon...
30	121	I remembered having seen him long ago, from the council of Captains, which, at that time, was subordinate to the Five Ubars, competitive captains in the port.
30	122	Later the council itself had become sovereign.
30	123	He had tried to bring several of his proposals, dreams, and ideas, before the council, but they had been deemed too radical, even absurd, and had provoked much derision.
36	23	I recalled him from years ago, at the council of Captains.
1	469	I then drew her crossed, bound hands up, high, unpleasantly so, over her head, and fastened them in place, that by means of the same strap, it now tied beneath the straps on her wrist.
2	235	Port Kar is well known for the high quality of her "fresh collar meat".
2	237	The women are usually of high quality or they would not be taken.
2	441	Men, some clambering over the side, lowering themselves, others leaping, entered the water, which at that point was waist to chest high.
3	42	Her tunic seemed a bit ample for that of a slave, as the hem of its skirt came to her knees, and the neckline was modestly high, though open enough to show the collar.
3	292	Few slaves will happily bring a master his cloak if he is in no condition to walk the high bridges, or, more dangerously, enter for some reason unarmed amongst enemies.
3	378	Too, as she had been of high family in Turia, her public bondage, exposure in triumphs, and such, afforded the populace much delight.
3	383	One wonders why some women place themselves at risk, why they undertake hazardous journeys and voyages, why they walk the high bridges at night, such things.
3	496	"But talk of what?" At that moment, far over the roof, high, outside the hut, far overhead, there was a thunderous noise.
3	526	I then, with binding fiber, as she lay on her belly, lashed her wrists together behind her back, tightly, and so served her ankles, as well, which I then bound, high, to her wrists.
3	552	Thentis is a high Gorean city, east and north of Ko-ro-ba.
3	797	I supposed that the seas might have been high for two or three days, perhaps for hundreds of pasangs offshore.
4	390	Other situations are also regarded as ones in which the woman has voluntarily, or inadvertently, divested herself of the social and cultural mantles usually sufficient to protect her freedom and honor, such as walking the high bridges at night, undertaking dangerous expeditions or voya...
5	85	Such circles are often carried by high Initiates, on golden chains about their necks.
5	278	He stands on a small platform, and is usually roped to the mast, or has his place within a chest-high ring of metal.

Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	164	"I was of high caste, of high family, of position and importance, of influence, wealth, and power, and now," she sobbed, "I have this!" Her eyes filled with tears, and she put the fingers of her right hand to the flat, sturdy, metal band which closely encircled her throat...
9	306	And why should it be he, and not I, who would place the fugitive before Marlenus? The bounty on the high-born, beautiful, officious slut, now collared, was high.
16	134	In any event, hardly had Tyrtaios conveyed the order of Lord Okimoto, than we heard the high watch, from the platform and ring, high above, cry out, "Beware! There are a hundred ships! We are surrounded!" I had no doubt the ship we had encountered was a warning ship, and ...
20	234	This is common with high-grade slaves, delicate, well-formed, finely featured women, women of high intelligence, profound emotion, and active imagination, irremediably sensate, tactually enlivened women, women keenly alive, women profoundly stirred by the floor beneath th...
21	699	"We are high slaves!" "Many of us were once of high caste!" said another.
33	85	To be sure, high intelligence, sometimes quite high intelligence, was often found in barbarian kajirae, as masters preferred it in their slaves.
1	302	It seems she was purchased by Samos of Port Kar, First Captain of the council of Captains of Port Kar, and later came into the possession of another captain from Port Kar, Bosk of Port Kar, who freed her.
8	40	Aëtius, his confidante and loyal apprentice, in whose management was the day-to-day handling of the ship, dared to countermand his orders, this with the support of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, and the counsel of Tarl Cabot, admiral in Port Kar, member of the council of captains, and t...
35	110	It is ruled by a Merchant council, with its day to day affairs managed by an executive committee, chief of which is the harbor master.
1	159	"This is a high tavern".
1	165	The tavern, you see, was not truly a high tavern.
1	169	In the high taverns, girls are often silked, often belled, sometimes jeweled.
1	280	To be sure, it was a high-caste name, rare amongst the lower castes.
1	308	In any event, later, at the time of his mysterious disappearance, he was a noted, high captain in Port Kar.
2	120	Many high captains of both Tyros and Cos were wealthy men.
3	334	"The other women, knowing themselves not so highly placed as I, the high confidante of the Ubara, and thus less likely to be borne to safety, and there being no tarn baskets, as noted, had fled the roof, descending into the cylinder to meet whatever fates might be theirs.
3	360	On the fourth day of the uprising we were well aware of affairs in the streets below, and the proscription lists, and I had learned my name stood high on the lists, not far below those of Talena, Seremides, and others".
3	421	The standards for a lady's serving slave, you see, are quite high.
3	457	'high slave!' she sneered.
3	461	It was not that unusual for a favored slave, a high slave, a spoiled slave, or such, to be granted sandals.
3	497	Now let me pass!' 'You high slaves,' she said, 'think you are better than the rest of us!' 'We are superior,' I informed her.
3	517	I pulled down the tunic, for it had come high on my thighs.
3	550	The most common marking site on such as she is high on the left thigh, under the hip.
3	972	'You have holdings in Brundisium, treasure, high family,' he said.
3	1098	"Shortly thereafter the two young men brought me to one of several slave posts, thick, sturdy stakes, some four feet high, fixed in the abandoned stable yard behind the closed Inn of Ragnar.
3	1286	My arms ached, my wrists tied high, well over my head.
3	1289	In addition my ankles, uncrossed, had been tied to a ring set in the earth beneath the high ring, the over-the-head ring.
3	1329	It is not unusual for slavers to save the best merchandise for late in the sale, when late comers are present, the audience is settled in, interest has been whetted, emotions are running high, purses are most open, and so on.
3	1333	One may then note the goods of interest to one, by their lot numbers, usually inscribed in grease pencil on the left breast, and then wait until they stand in the sawdust, high on the block, exhibited to the house, under torchlight.
3	1505	You are the former Lady Flavia of Ar, and that name, as I understand it, remains high on the proscription lists, perhaps just beneath those of Talena herself, and Seremides".

Book 31. (30 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	972	Was it, in spite of its appearance, a high market? Perhaps, I thought, for how could one such as I be sold in any but a high market? Surely I was much too beautiful to be sold in any but a high market.
10	947	I had made clear my business, that I was to deliver a message to the Ubar, or to some high officer, who might then convey it to him, and the note was then taken from me by an officer, not of high rank, perhaps the commander of a ten, who read it, laughed uproariously, sla...
1	19	The collar might be removed, but that would make little difference, as we are marked, tastefully but unmistakably, most commonly on the left thigh, high, just below the hip.
4	113	What is the point of beauty, if not to open doors, to bargain, and to enhance one's prospects? Were we not prostitutes, in a way, ready to sell ourselves, high-priced merchandise, for power, position, station, and wealth? You have probably guessed the nature of the "inappropriate liter...
4	282	You are very special young women, young women of high intelligence, education, refinement, wealth, taste, and breeding.
4	358	In such circumstances high-caste women commonly dispense with veiling".
4	368	"Would not everyone choose those of high caste, even those of Ubaras?" I asked.
4	400	I do not know why they are a high caste".
4	403	They are a high caste".
4	417	"Such practices, and refrainings," I said, "seem an unlikely route to the prestige of a high caste".
4	436	Rawlinson, "will be of high caste".
5	19	We imports brought high prices.
5	303	"We take some who have little to commend them but their extraordinary beauty, their high intelligence, and latent, exploitable needs".
6	45	The doors burst open and there were heavy footsteps, as of high, military sandals.
7	276	It was large, high, heavy, and uncomfortable.
7	289	But then, at that time, I did not understand the general high quality of Gorean kajirae.
7	351	Did not I, and my acquaintances, laud our superiority to such things, in effect competing with one another in our alleged frigidities? To be sure, at least from high school on, I was alarmed at intrusive thoughts, thoughts so unlike me, so improper for me, which I tried to dismiss, and...
7	730	I was not encircled with conventions and formalities; I was not one for whom strong men were to step deferently aside, who might be carried in a palanquin, for whom ways were to be cleared, one who was expected, I gathered, at least if of high caste, to speak boldly, even sharply, and ...
7	731	I had gathered from the instructresses that such women, certainly those of high caste, of such exalted nobility, so taken with themselves, commonly prided themselves on their self-containment, their self-control, their freedom from many human weaknesses, their superiority to many of th...
7	734	Many, I gathered, particularly of high caste, held themselves superior to sex, which they professed to find demeaning.
8	8	This new house collar was quite different from the original house collar in which I had been placed, the high, heavy, iron collar, which had been hammered about my neck.
8	11	The new collar was not the light, lovely, secure embondment signification of the common collar but it was a considerable improvement over its high, weighty predecessor.
8	90	Doubtless there were setters of trends, say, highly placed officials, wealthy Merchants, Actors, Singers, and Poets, certain women of noble family and high caste, and such, but why should one option rather than another succeed in being adopted, however transiently? Perhap...
8	91	Doubtless each time a fashion changed at least the high Cloth Workers, masters of the foremost garment houses, would sell more garmenture, at least to the fashion conscious, to those who were concerned to keep up with the times, to those who feared to be pitied or ridiculed for being o...
8	93	And, of course, if masters and mistresses might be concerned with the garmenture of their kajirae, as simple and brief, and as revealing and demeaning, as it might be, one can well imagine their concern with their own garmenture, particularly if they were of high caste.
8	220	Is it not, ultimately, in the mass that the power lies? Who else, at a word, might swarm into the streets, armed with paving stones and clubs? Woe to the former free Gorean woman of high caste who, enslaved, might fall into the power of her hitherto despised "inferiors".
8	230	The free woman of a high caste and the free woman of a lower caste commonly have one thing in common which unites them, securely, as free women.
8	428	To the left of the bars was a cement platform, at the same level as the floor of the cell, too, about four feet high, on which was spread a worn, soiled scarlet rug.
8	489	This could be no high market.
8	529	"I was high in the Merchants!" said the light blonde.

Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	163	She had apparently once been of the Merchants, perhaps the high Merchants, and had even held herself to be of high caste, despite the fact that few Goreans accepted the Merchants as a high caste.
7	282	The Merchants regard themselves, with justification I would think, as a high caste, but few Goreans number them amongst the high castes, which, traditionally, are taken to be five in number, the Initiates, Builders, Physicians, Scribes, and Warriors.
40	31	"Barbarians are selected with several criteria in mind, surely beauty, and helpless responsiveness and passion, but also high intelligence, often quite high intelligence.
50	687	"But do not make me do this! Do not so humiliate and insult me, I beg of you! I am a high slave! I was of high caste! I might bring gold! I would be worthy of sandals!" "Fetch a bowl," he said.
50	793	"You may or may not have been born to high caste," I said, "but I see little of high caste about you.
2	18	All these things are indications of high intelligence in merchandise, and perhaps of something else, as well, something related, perhaps a welcoming, a readiness, a relief, an understanding, such things.
3	28	The mark is placed high on the left leg, on the thigh, just beneath the hip.
4	122	Unhappiness and misery is a high cost to pay for the denial of nature; it is well, I suppose, at least, that the victims are encouraged to think well of themselves, taking their unease, grief, and wretchedness as badges of rectitude.
4	186	Normally that merchandise adjudged the most likely to bring high prices will then be offered.
4	222	This bespoke high intelligence.
5	68	And so I gave attention to my figure, with diet and exercise, gave attention to my hair, improved my makeup, enlarged my wardrobe, and made it a point to dress flatteringly I was careful now with respect to my posture, my speech, and demeanor, and carried my head high, as might a lofty...
5	178	When I awakened on the wooden floor, in the high-ceilinged, spacious room, naked amongst others, and was positioned so that I might be conveniently bound, I realized that I, and these others, had been selected.
5	223	It is in me, high on my left thigh, below the hip.
6	95	Some of those vended in the recent sale I had attended were former high women of Ar, now naked properties worth only what men were willing to pay for them.
6	139	In some places, through the high, narrow, barred windows in the walls, through which light may filter, they would hear the calls of longshoremen, their loading chants, the rumble of wheels on the planks, the creak of timbers, the stirring of slack canvas on a round ship, the water wash...
6	197	It was not a high tavern.
7	126	Without a command, or the accompaniment of guards, we were not permitted on the stairs, those high, narrow, rail-less stairs, a wall at one side, at the height of which, giving access to the lower holding area, was the barred gate.
7	166	She leaped to her feet, darted with a scattering of straw past the fellow in blue, and, scrambling, sobbing, stumbling, falling once, leaping up again, fled toward the stairs, at the top of which, high above, was the dark, barred gate.
7	194	"I was of the Merchants," she wept, "the high Merchants!" "No longer," said the fellow in blue.
7	264	The girl before me had been, I had earlier gathered, of the Merchant caste, even of the high Merchants, whatever that might be.
7	265	Surely she had boasted amongst us that she was of the high Merchants.
7	283	None, I suppose, would dispute with the Warriors that they are a high caste.
7	284	If the Merchants are not a high caste, it is clear they are an important caste.
7	287	The girl before me might once, I supposed, if of the high Merchants, or such, as she claimed, have been wealthy.
7	330	A bit after that a length of the long rope was knotted about my neck, and then the two fellows proceeded forward, one fastening the wrists of the girl before me together, she who had claimed to have been of the high Merchants, and the other adding her to the coffle.
8	512	After the vessel was well underway, it seemed likely they would be taken to the base hold, the ceiling of which is waist high, which is floored with ballast sand, and there chained together by the neck, after which they would be freed of the wrist cords and blindfolds.
8	521	I had had some interaction, in a tavern, with the fellow who seemed to be the high officer of the armsmen on the second vessel.
9	277	"Of high caste?" asked a fellow.
9	278	"Many," said the newcomer, "for what women, if not of high caste, would be in a position to secure coin and power by serving the enemy, to reveal secrets, to supply information, to corner, manage, and horde goods, to wheedle concessions and arrange clandestine sources of supply and pri...
10	125	Tyrtaios then sprang over the rail, plunging into the restless, waist-high water.

Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
25	288	So high on her thighs was the disarranged garment that she might have been a scarcely clad slave, briefly tunicked, taken from a high bridge, awaiting her turning to her back.
30	348	"In the high cities, on the continent, particularly on holidays, masters often promenade their slaves, on the boulevards, in the plazas, on the high bridges.
30	420	"She whom I once knew as Sumomo was a free woman, delicate and refined, as fragile, soft, and exquisite as the petal of a veminium, but, too, petty and unpleasant, cruel and deceitful, arrogant and haughty, impatient and short-tempered, clad in rich garmenture, with silken slippers, with long hair, ...
58	180	Pertinax gave her two smart blows, one high on the left arm, the other, a back stroke, high on the right arm.
60	310	Indeed, on some of the narrow, graceful, soaring bridges of the high cities of the continent, arching amongst lofty keeplike cylinders, there were many accounts of such high and dangerous passages being defended by one or two men against dozens.
1	273	"The splendid officer, fearful Tyrtaios, so wise in council, so adept with the sword," said Lord Nishida, "has departed the holding, and placed his cunning and skills at the service of great Yamada".
6	131	I had only yesterday been summoned to this council.
25	78	Following the coming onto Port Kar of a Home Stone, the council of Captains had forbade this practice to its captains.
1	144	Several had been present, other than myself, and Lords Temmu, Nishida, and Okimoto, officers, high warriors, and scribes, even a reader of bones and shells.
1	182	high grass, a wood, may conceal foes.
1	183	If there is a marsh to the right, would the attack not be likely from the left? Has a frightened animal darted past? What has frightened it? Keep high ground on the shield side.
1	470	Some free women, usually of high caste, if found too plain for a slave, might, to their humiliation, be kept for ransom.
2	14	But, as it had turned out, the soundness of this military decision had been predicated on assumptions which did not include treachery, apparently in high places.
2	33	I ranked high amongst the mercenaries, and certainly, as least as I understood it, in the cavalry, regarded as so crucial to the strategic intentions of the shogun.
2	34	If doubt could be cast on my loyalty who might trust who? A suspicion of betrayal in high places, particularly amongst one's commanders, can shake and divide units, destroy confidence, undermine morale, threaten discipline, and induce timidity and hesitation.
4	152	There is a considerable difference, of course, between being the slave of a peasant, peddler, or herdsman and that of a high merchant or Ubar, but both are identically slaves.
5	37	"It is in high places," he said.
6	81	In any event, Lord Okimoto, like many of the high Pani, of family and station, seldom raised his voice.
6	85	One listens with care, of course, to high Pani, as softly spoken as they may be, for an expression, a measured word, a slight difference in an intonation contour, and such, may be quite as meaningful in their case as a shout or scowl might be in the case of another.
6	217	Like most high Pani, he was a proud man.
7	92	Might not a climber, dark in the night, as silent as a snake, attain the parapet, cut a throat, and set meager stores ablaze? Might not a rush to a gate, up one of the high trails, perhaps that from the wharves below, be too belatedly recognized? What if a thousand fire arrows should b...
7	96	For example, Lord Temmu himself had placed his own slaves amongst the others, as had other high officers.
7	97	The high Pani did not exempt themselves from the hardship and suffering, the long Ahn, the shortness of rations, the denials of pleasures, which they imposed on the men.
7	143	Her glistening black hair was high on her head, and held in place with a long comb.
8	11	The warehouses in which I was particularly interested were the small, concealed warehouses, scattered about, whose location was apparently unknown even to many of the high officers in the command of General Yamada.
8	22	"The morale of the men of Yamada is high," he said.
9	106	At the encampment, the tarns cotted and fed, I called my high officers, Torgus and Lysander, to my tent, that a vessel of paga might be shared.
10	205	"We have already noted," I said, "two things of interest, the likely inertia of a peasantry, which would allow limited defensive precautions on the part of Lord Yamada, and the lack of an authorization for raids, which I suspect is as well understood by General Yamada as by those who stand hig...
11	328	If there is a traitor in high places, it is surely Lord Okimoto, fat, sly, captious, suspicious, censuring, unpleasant, secretive Lord Okimoto, a bloated tarsk, cousin to the shogun, he who would have much to gain from treachery, he who is next in line for the shogunate".
12	38	Her hair was high on her head, and held in place by pins and an ornate comb.

Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	7	Administrators, in the high cities, are usually appointed by the council of Castes; to which body, in theory, they are responsible.
9	578	The Merchant class is undoubtedly the richest of the Gorean castes, which doubtless has played its role in its pretensions to constitute a high caste, but there are low merchants as well as high merchants, poor merchants as well as rich merchants.
17	48	Here I became acquainted with a splendid civilization, a colorful, intricate, complex civilization, a high, thriving civilization which, as most high civilizations, had a place for slaves, that place in which I found myself.
25	54	"Come, join me on the high couch," invited he on the high couch.
20	36	Its governance is in the hands of a council of Captains.
1	303	Also, the bruise on my thigh was high enough to be covered by the skirt of my white bathing suit.
6	85	You are now, as in the case of diverse high civilizations, ancient and modern, merchandise, goods, properties".
6	345	Indeed, one of the criteria in terms of which you were selected is high intelligence.
8	19	The societal position of the Gorean free woman, incidentally, particularly in the high cities, is far higher than that of the average free woman of Earth.
8	109	It had been placed high on my left thigh, just below the hip.
8	388	"Surely not," I said, "not simple, plain Paula!" "She will be disposed of in Ar," he said, "on a high block, at the Curulean, perhaps even from the Central Block.
9	129	The colors of the five high castes were white, yellow, blue, green, and red, for the Initiates, Builders, Scribes, Physicians, and Warriors, respectively.
9	132	The colors of the Merchants, which merchants frequently claim to be a high caste, were white and yellow, or white and gold.
9	135	In this way, self-esteem, pride, and high intelligence tends to be spread rather evenly throughout the population, rather than being drained, over generations, into a limited number of professions.
9	228	One figure, alone, high sandaled, clad in a black tunic, caped, a blade at his left hip, a black helmet cradled in his left arm, approached.
9	328	The sun was high, and I felt the warmth of the metal bars I grasped.
9	376	"One of high caste, with intent, could not have insulted me more grievously," she said.
9	580	Even a lowly peddler, I would learn, if a Home Stone is shared, thinks nothing of expecting a free meal and a night's lodging from a high merchant, who may own caravans, mines, and fleets.
11	1	I leaned against the heavy horizontal pole, chest high, inserted through the large, conical stone.
14	21	Too, of course, if one were to investigate, it would be discovered that our left thighs were marked, high, below the hip.
14	23	The first girl amongst us was Selena, who had been captured on Teletus by raiders from Hunjer, and, with others, sold in Brundisium, where prices seem to run high.
14	28	On the other hand, in certain high houses, and surely in the house of Lysander, often, particularly given the presence of guests, dining couches were employed.
14	40	The women, though lavishly and abundantly robed, were not veiled, as presumably they would be on the streets, and of them, though all fair, two, I thought, though free, might be beautiful enough to be slaves, perhaps even "high slaves".
14	116	I had been addressed by the high master himself.
15	139	The walls are high".
17	47	Ar, I gathered, was a typical "high city," with its noisy, colorfully garbed, bustling crowds, its affluent quarters and its sorrier districts, some of which were not to be frequented at night; here were places of lofty towers, often linked by graceful, narrow, arching, railless bridge...
19	13	I could well conjecture the light of the door lantern falling on the glistening cobbles, the water, reflecting the light, rushing down the gutters, the water diverted at the intersection by the stepping stones, high enough to protect a woman's robe hems and slippers, spaced widely enou...
19	74	"The window," he said, "is high above the street.
19	138	Then I had heard it said that she was the beauty of our shipment, and had heard it speculated that she might bring as many as five silver pieces, presumably silver tarsks, in a first sale, that she might be marketed on a high block in the Curulean, perhaps even from the Central Block.
20	57	On the other hand, such would be highly unlikely during daylight hours in any public place, and certainly so in a "high city," such as Ar.

Book 35. (30 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	54	The Palace of the council of Captains is the usual meeting place of the council of Captains, which body is sovereign in Port Kar.
12	58	On this day, in Year Eleven of the council of Captains, the Palace of Captains, actually a rather fortresslike structure, had been completed by the men of the Builders, one of Gor's high castes, the caste color of which is yellow.
36	56	He was said to be a paga fellow of Samos of Port Kar, who was First Slaver of Port Kar, and First Captain, or high Captain, in the council of Captains, which body, as earlier noted, was sovereign in Port Kar.
38	106	I think that I mentioned earlier, that the mysterious Bosk of Port Kar, a high captain in the council of Captains, he in whose holding I now wore my collar, was not now within the holding.
47	375	"From the house of Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, high Captain in the council of Captains," said Addison Steele.
10	94	Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous voyages? In the high
11	35	I have never been in a Gorean high city, a tower city, but I understand that the towers of such cities are often joined by graceful, narrow, arching bridges, often high above the street level, bridges which may be easily defended or destroyed in the case of an attack, thi...
12	60	The Merchants often claims to be a high caste, which claim, if accepted, would bring one to six high castes.
10	53	It is on Palace Street, on which street the Palace of the council of Captains is located, from which, I suppose, the name is derived.
12	67	The council of Captains, which body is sovereign in Port Kar, meets in the Palace of Captains.
17	34	Accordingly we had conspired that we would, after our individual releases from the tavern, meet near the steps of the Palace of the council of Captains, on Palace street.
17	77	"I will inform the council of Captains," said Ianthe.
17	117	On Palace Street, returning to the Golden Chain, we were crossing the square that fronts the broad steps leading up to the Palace of the council of Captains.
23	141	I was being conducted, as I learned, to the house of Samos, who was First Captain in the council of Captains.
23	142	On the other hand, I was not brought to Samos in connection with any business having to do with the council of Captains.
23	143	I was brought to him, rather, I gathered, because it was not clear what was to be done with me, and because Samos, aside from being First Captain in the council of Captains, was also First Slaver of Port Kar.
24	72	Some days ago I had been brought by two guardsmen to the House of Samos, of Port Kar, First Captain of the council of Captains, and First Slaver of Port Kar.
24	115	It might be remarked, in passing, that the council of Captains, when meeting, commonly meets at night.
35	57	It must belong then to an important person, perhaps even a member of the council of Captains, the body sovereign in Port Kar.
35	208	"The girls of the Golden Chain," he said, "should be stripped, shackled, and switch-driven to the steps of the palace of the council of Captains, there to be publicly whipped, that they may then the better learn that they are slaves".
35	218	"May I ask," I asked, "in what house I wear my collar?" "Of course," he said, "this is the house of Bosk, he of the council of Captains".
42	131	To your bellies, hands behind you! Await your chains!" "Open, open in the name of the council of Captains of Port Kar!" called a voice.
46	309	"Yes," said Ho-Tosk, "the property of noble Bosk, of the council of Captains".
1	134	Freshly branded and collared, we were unbraceleted and placed in a long line, before a long, waist-high chain to which our wrists, crossed, were bound.
1	135	This chain then, by a windlass, was drawn upward, before us, and our bound wrists were drawn high over our heads, so that we stood beneath the chain, our bodies stretched.
1	138	Our arms so positioned, held high over our heads, our breasts were lifted.
1	198	Were we so shabby and worthless as they suggested, we would not have been brought here, and would not now, naked, utterly helpless, our bodies stretched, be fastened to the high, overhead chain.
1	201	When the acquirers had populations of millions to choose from, and could choose as they wished, it was highly likely that the average shipment would be of high quality.
1	202	And surely then, ours was of high quality, as well.
2	112	"I think," said the second man, "she was a woman of position and power, perhaps well known, say, the daughter of an administrator, high merchant, or judge, stolen by a disgruntled petitioner, a dissatisfied customer, an unsuccessful litigant, to be disposed of discreetly, as an act of ...

Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
45	116	The 'Central Room' was what was left of the antechamber of the council Room where I had first addressed Thrasymedes and other members of the council of Mytilene.
8	50	We now know that one or the other, or both, of the high Officers of Sybaris, either the governor of Thera or the Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, or both, command the foe or are high in the command of he who does so.
20	30	I had always entertained a high opinion of the Peasants, their wisdom, foresight, and astuteness, their understandings of seasons and weathers, their stalwart copings with winds and rains, droughts and floods, their somehow making fields rich and bountiful, their somehow bringing forth...
38	5	He deems himself wrongfully denied the high Admiralty of Cos, the post of high Admiral of the Cosian naval forces.
13	24	Four of the raiders, disarmed, were now being returned disconsolately, apprehensively, down the beach by several men led by Tab, my cohort, of the council of Captains of Port Kar.
33	62	I can sway the council of Captains, that body sovereign in Port Kar, to enleague themselves with your faction.
40	22	"Rather," said a council member.
40	25	"Pirates!" exclaimed a council member.
40	38	"We are not such that we might be so easily fooled," said another member of the council.
40	44	"Arrest him," said a council member.
40	73	"He is mad," laughed a council member.
40	86	"Preposterous," said a council member.
40	97	Thrasymedes rushed to the exit of the council chamber.
41	25	"I think he be not Kenneth Statercounter," had said a council member, then in a begrimed tunic, bearing a basket of rocks to be carried to the parapet.
41	55	"You are mad!" exclaimed a council member.
41	57	"We shall consider the matter," said a council member.
41	60	"We shall vote," said another council member.
41	77	This overture was refused by Thrasymedes and his council, apparently on two grounds, first, their terror of the supposed Bosk of Port Kar and their awareness of the merciless depredations inflicted in his name on several villages, such as Nicosia on Chios itself, and, second, the accou...
41	78	On the fourth day of the siege, Thrasymedes and the council attempted to negotiate a withdrawal of the corsairs, offering them fifty stone of gold for their departure and a pledge never to return, and then, later, a hundred stone of gold for their simple departure.
41	81	The heads of the council's small negotiating party were catapulted over the wall of Mytilene.
41	86	One council member, however, benign Tarchon, skilled with the lyre, advocated its acceptance on two grounds.
41	89	As I later learned, not having been permitted to attend or address the council, the view of Tarchon was accepted.
41	257	"Tarchon, of the council, is skilled with the instrument, and, when not engaged in defensive duties, often plays it".
41	261	"No member of the council is on duty tonight".
42	9	I surmised, from the stealthy, furtive darknesses within the darkness, figures scarcely discernible, that there might be something like fifty in the party issuing forth from the domicile of benign Tarchon, amiable and respected member of the council of Mytilene.
1	123	"How came you here?" "A rumor, aflight in a tavern in Sybaris, high town of Thera," I said, "overheard nine days ago".
3	17	Indeed, in such towns, high administrative, military, and naval offices were largely staffed by Cosians.
3	35	I thought this a politic delay, as shipping tends to be heavier in the vicinity of a coast, and a high-masted sail, swollen with wind, is easily detected from a stem castle, even by eye, at more than five pasangs.
4	62	At this point, a narrow object, with a shrill whistle, its trail laced with smoke, ascended high into the air from the midst of the planks and timbers.
4	80	They are stranded, lost at sea, helpless, only women, three women, free women, perhaps even of high caste.