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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	14	The city is under martial law".
5	47	Any attempt on the Home Stone was regarded by the citizens of a city as sacrilege of the most heinous variety and punishable by the most painful of deaths, but, paradoxically, it was regarded as the greatest of glories to purloin the Home Stone of another city, and the wa...
2	131	"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
14	34	Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ...
3	80	"In fact, in the First Knowledge, there is a story told to the young in their public nurseries, that if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin".
3	123	I had seen few women, but knew that they, when free, were promoted or demoted within the caste system according to the same standards and criteria as the men, although this varied, I was told, considerably from city to city.
4	79	I was surprised, for this was the first time I had known that my father had been War Chieftain of the city, or that he was even now its supreme civil official, or, for that matter, that the city was named Ko-ro-ba, a now archaic expression for a village market.
4	174	"And there," he said, poking downward with his finger, "is the city of Ar, hereditary enemy of Ko-ro-ba, the central city of Marlenus, who intends to be Ubar of all Gor".
5	20	Indeed, it seemed their confidence had been well placed, for now Ar, instead of being a single beleaguered city like so many others on Gor, was a central city in which were kept the Home Stones of a dozen hitherto free cities.
5	21	There was now an empire of Ar, a robust, arrogant, warlike polity only too obviously involved in the work of dividing its enemies and extending its political hegemony city by city across the plains, hills, and deserts of Gor.
5	34	The Older Tarl had told me that Thentis is a city famed for its tarn flocks and remote in the mountains from which the city takes its name.
7	95	"I do not ask your name, Warrior," he said, "nor will I repeat the name of your city before the Submitted One, but know that you and your city are honored by the Spider People".
15	4	Across the city, from the walls to the cylinders and among the cylinders, I could occasionally see the slight flash of sunlight on the swaying tarn wires, literally hundreds of thousands of slender, almost invisible wires stretched in a protective net across the city.
15	129	A brief exchange followed, like a chain reaction, neither man considering his moves for a moment; First Tarnsman took First Tarnsman, Second Spearman responded by neutralizing First Tarnsman, city neutralized Spearman, Assassin took city, Assassin fell to Second Tarnsman,...
15	173	"You are willing," I asked, "to turn the city over to Pa-Kur—that his horde should swarm into the cylinders, that the city may be looted and burned, the people destroyed or enslaved?" I shuddered involuntarily at the thought of the uncontrolled hordes of Pa-Kur amo...
16	46	It seemed probable that food and water would soon be scarce in the city and that the Initiates, whose resistance had been unimaginative and who were apparently unable to protect the city, would be forced to face a hungry and desperate population.
18	59	There are two systems of courts on Gor—those of the city, under the jurisdiction of an Administrator or Ubar, and those of the Initiates, under the jurisdiction of the High Initiate of the given city; the division corresponds roughly to that between civil and what,...
2	122	The Home Stone of a village was always placed in the market; in a city, on the top of the highest tower.
2	128	Some of the largest cities have small, rather insignificant Home Stones, but of incredible antiquity, dating back to the time when the city was a village or only a mounted pride of warriors with no settled abode".
2	137	"Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.
3	26	Incredible as it may seem, I did not doubt that he was the finest scholar in the city of Cylinders, as my father had said.
3	75	"The city-state," said my father, speaking to me late one afternoon, "is the basic political division on Gor—hostile cities controlling what territory they can in their environs, surrounded by a no-man's land of open ground on every side".
3	86	"The High Castes in a given city," said my father, "elect an administrator and council for stated terms.
3	94	The offending war chief is simply abandoned, left alone in his palace to be impaled by the citizens of the city he has tried to usurp".
3	122	The Scribes, of course, are the scholars and clerks of Gor, and there are divisions and rankings within the group, from simple copiers to the savants of the city.
3	270	No one in the city of Cylinders, as far as I knew, maintained tharlarions, though they were supposedly quite common on Gor, particularly in the lower areas—in swampland and on the deserts.
4	8	The tarn was circling the cylinder, uttering piercing cries; then he began to fly away from the city.
4	31	The tarn continued to climb, and I saw the city of Cylinders dropping far below me, like a set of rounded children's blocks set in the gleaming green hills.
4	41	The great tarn snapped his wings out, catching the air under them, and smoothly began to fly a straight course, his wings beating slowly but steadily in a cruising speed that would soon take us far beyond the towers of the city.
4	43	He pointed back toward the city, which was now several miles in the distance.

Book 2. (30 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	188	Later, following another examination, I was admitted to the bar in New York State, and I entered one of the immense law offices in the city, hoping to obtain eventually enough experience and capital to open a small practice of my own.
1	2	He was an instructor in English history and I, intending to work for some three years to save money toward law school, had accepted an appointment as an instructor in physical education, a field which, to my annoyance, Cabot never convinced himself belonged in the curriculum of an educ...
1	35	By that time I had long ago saved the money I needed for law school and had not taught for three years.
1	36	Indeed, I was then completing my studies at the school of law associated with one of New York's best-known private universities.
11	54	"Does the law of Tharna not give it the right to speak, Dorna the Proud, Second in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix, whose voice, too, was imperious and cold, yet pleased me more than the tones of she who wore the silver mask.
11	55	"Does the law recognize beasts?" asked the woman whose name was Dorna the Proud.
21	269	On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names.
26	32	"And add to the golden tarn disks," she had exclaimed, "tarn disks of silver to be formed from the masks of our women, for henceforth in Tharna no woman may wear a mask of either gold or silver, not even though she be Tatrix of Tharna herself!" And as she had spoken, according to the customs of Thar...
2	14	So standing, the sun upon me, without thinking I raised my arms as in pagan prayer to acknowledge the power of the Priest-Kings, which had once again brought me from Earth to this world, the power which once before had torn me from Gor when they were finished with me, taking me from my adopted
2	48	This love of their city tends to become invested in a stone which is known as the Home Stone, and which is normally kept in the highest cylinder in a city.
2	49	In the Home Stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or gran...
2	51	It is almost as if the city itself were identified with the Home Stone, as if it were to the city what life is to a man.
4	96	But how could it have known? How could it have known that I was Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, and that I was returning to my city? There is a Gorean proverb that a man who is returning to his city is not to be detained.
5	5	Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa bey...
12	65	"Of what city?" "Of no city".
12	87	Some had even sung their way from city to city, their poverty protecting them from outlaws, and their luck from the predatory beasts of Gor.
20	60	Chronology, incidentally, is the despair of scholars on Gor, for each city keeps track of time by virtue of its own Administrator Lists; for example, a year is referred to as the Second Year when so-and-so was Administrator of the city.
20	61	One might think that some stability would be provided by the Initiates, who must keep a calendar of their feasts and observances, but the Initiates of one city do not always celebrate the same feast on the same date as do those of another city.
26	10	They have destroyed a city, and in a sense they have restored a city.
26	107	But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and tower...
1	6	Young Cabot was rather tall, a good-sized man, well-built, with an animal ease in his walk that perhaps bespoke the docks of Bristol, his native city, rather than the cloisters of Oxford, at one of whose colleges he had obtained his later education.
1	128	Cabot, still half-drunk, looked about himself, at the brutal electric geometry of that great city, at the dark, lonely shapes that moved through the light snow, at the pale glimmering headlights of the cars.
1	129	"This is a great city," said Cabot, "and yet it is not loved.
1	130	How many are there here who would die for this city? How many who would defend to the death its perimeters? How many who would submit to torture on its behalf?" "You're drunk," I said, smiling.
1	131	"This city is not loved," he said.
1	142	It was a document pertaining to what Cabot called the Counter-Earth, the story of a warrior, of the siege of a city, and of the love of a girl.
2	13	From them, if this were true, I could gather my bearings for Ko-ro-ba, that city of cylinders to which, years ago, I had pledged my sword.
2	16	That I had been returned to Gor to seek out once more my city and my love was, I was sure, not the spontaneous gesture of generosity, or of justice, that it might seem.
2	25	Normally the Gorean shield is painted boldly and has infixed in it some device for identifying the bearer's city.
2	26	If this shield were intended for me, and I had little doubt it was, it should have carried the sign of Ko-ro-ba, my city.

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	54	The fairs, incidentally, are governed by Merchant law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged.
1	56	Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant law when pertinent, even against their own citizens.
1	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.
17	152	"Of course," said Sarm, "he broke the law of Priest-Kings".
17	153	"What right have you to make the law for him?" I asked.
25	18	I smiled to myself, for I could always tell her, and truthfully, that having saved her life she was now mine by Gorean law, so brief had been her freedom, and that it was up to me to determine the extent and nature of her clothing, and, indeed, whether or not she would be allowed cloth...
25	48	It was the law of Priest-Kings.
35	100	"If you should regain your power," I asked, "what do you propose to do with it? Will you still set forth the law in certain matters for men?" "Undoubtedly," said Misk.
1	81	The expeditions sent out from the cities are of course extremely well guarded, but pirates and outlaws too can band together in large numbers and sometimes, even more dangerously, one city's warriors, in force, will prey upon another city's caravans.
8	95	"My city is Treve," she said, for the first time telling me the name of her city.
16	10	"Because my city was destroyed!" "That is why your city was destroyed," said Misk, "that you would come to the Sardar".
17	93	Most of them were simply filled with the passing scenery of Gor; once I saw a city, but what city it was I could not tell.
34	65	"Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the city, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself.
1	2	It came about late in the month of En'Kara in the year 10,117 from the founding of the city of Ar that I came to the Hall of Priest-Kings in the Sardar Mountains on the planet Gor, our Counter-Earth.
1	14	I would stop briefly at the fair, for I must purchase food for the journey into the Sardar and I must entrust a leather-bound package to some member of the Caste of Scribes, a package which contained an account of what had occurred at the city of Tharna in the past months, a short hist...
1	23	Suffice it here to say that the current manuscript, like the others, was tendered to me by my friend, and now my lawyer, young Harrison Smith of the city.
1	24	Smith has had the pleasure of knowing Cabot personally, having originally met him several years ago in New England and having been able to renew the acquaintance briefly in New York city something over a year ago.
1	57	If they did not, of course, the fairs would be closed to the citizens of that city.
1	64	Such contests, in which life is lost, used to be popular at Ar, for example, being sponsored in that city by the Caste of Initiates, who regard themselves as being intermediaries between Priest-Kings and men, though I suspect that, at least on the whole, they know as little about the P...
1	65	These contests, it might be mentioned, were banned in Ar when Kazrak of Port Kar became administrator of that city.
1	70	I had a friend once, Andreas of the desert city of Tor, of the Caste of Poets, who had once sung at the fair and won a cap filled with gold.
1	83	The fact that warriors of one city sometimes wear the insignia of cities hostile to their own when they make these attacks further compounds the suspicions and internecine strife which afflicts the Gorean cities.
1	84	This chain of reflections was occasioned in my mind by sight of some men of Port Kar, a savage, coastal city on the Tamber Gulf, who were displaying a sullen chain of twenty freshly branded girls, many of them beautiful.
1	85	They were from the island city of Cos and had undoubtedly been captured at sea, their vessel burned and sunk.
1	96	I myself had traveled in a ship of the Priest-Kings which had twice carried me to this world; I had seen their power so subtly exercised as to alter the movements of a compass needle, so grossly demonstrated as to destroy a city, leaving behind not even the stones of what had once been...
1	97	It is said that neither the physical intricacies of the cosmos nor the emotions of human beings are beyond the scope of their power, that the feelings of men and the motions of atoms and stars are as one to them, that they can control the very forces of gravity and invisibly sway the hearts of human...
1	104	For some reason unbeknownst to me they have destroyed my city, Ko-ro-ba, and scattered its peoples.
2	8	My garments and my shield bore no insignia, for my city had been destroyed.
2	72	I had once killed a male red larl in the Voltai Range within pasangs of the city of Ar.
4	53	"What of the city of Ko-ro-ba?" My voice choked.

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
21	55	It is a nerve-wracking business, the negotiation of an enemy city, knowing that discovery might bring torture or sudden death, at best perhaps an impalement by sundown on the city's walls, a warning to any other who might be similarly tempted to transgress the hospitality...
9	18	There would be something, of course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating commercial agreements, among themselves developing and enforcing a body of Merchan...
9	479	It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative—or nearest relative if no adult male...
11	52	"How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".
11	65	A slave, not being a person in the eyes of Gorean law, cannot possess a name in his own right, any more than an animal.
11	66	Indeed, in the eyes of Gorean law, unfortunately, slaves are animals, utterly and unqualifiedly at the disposition of their masters, to do with as he pleases.
8	39	It might be added that there are two items which the Wagon Peoples will not sell or trade to Turia, one is a living bosk and the other is a girl from the city itself, though the latter are sometimes, for the sport of the young men, allowed, as it is said, to run for the city<...
8	243	The problem of the young man, and perhaps the reason that he had not yet won even the Courage Scar of the Tuchuks, was that he had fallen into the hands of Turian raiders in his youth and had spent several years in the city; in his adolescence he had, at great risk to himself, escaped ...
10	26	"Is it your wish," she asked, "that I run for the city?" She referred to a cruel sport of the young men of the wagons who sometimes take Turian slave girls to the sight of Turia's walls and then, loosening bola and thong, bid them run for the city.
16	67	On the other hand, I reminded myself, my own probabilities of success and survival were hardly better—and here I was, his critic—climbing up the drum rope, wet, cold, puffing, a stranger to the city of Turia, intending to steal an object—the egg of Priest-Kingsâ�...
16	74	The walls provide a means for defending the water and also, of course, considering the number of wells in the city, some of which, by the way, are fed by springs, provide a number of defensible enclaves should portions of the city fall into enemy hands.
22	2	One makes a pretext of seriously besieging a city, spending several days, sometimes weeks, in the endeavor, and then, apparently, one surrenders the siege and withdraws, moving away slowly with the wagons and bosk for some days—in this case four—and then, the bosk and wag...
22	8	The city was largely without leadership, though here and there brave Turians had gathered guardsmen and men-at-arms and determined civilians and sealed off streets, forming fortresses within the city against the invaders.
26	11	There were also, in the city, of course, hundreds of kaiila, though the main body of such mounts was outside the city, where game could be driven to them with greater ease.
27	5	Turia had been a rich city, and though much gold had been given to the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel and the defenders of the House of Saphrar, it was a tiny amount when compared with the whole, not even counting that lost by being carried by civilians through the gates Kamchak had designated as...
27	9	Kamchak, as a Tuchuk, could not bring himself to be quite as generous with the city's women, and the five thousand most beautiful girls of Turia were branded and given to the commanders of Hundreds, that they might be distributed to the bravest and fiercest of their warriors; the other...
27	32	"Bring the Home Stone of the city," commanded Kamchak, and the stone, oval and aged, carved with the initial letter of the city, was brought to him.
27	221	"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main...
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	30	The Cartius River incidentally, mentioned earlier, was named for the direction it lies from the city of Ar.
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 far city...
2	1	I Make the Acquaintance of the Wagon Peoples As I walked I asked myself why I did so—why I, Tarl Cabot—once of Earth, later a warrior of the Gorean city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, had come here.
2	31	It is worthy of a warrior of the caste of Warriors, a swordsman of the high city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning.
3	29	I was entitled to wear the marks of the city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, but I had not done so.
3	32	"What was your city?" he demanded.
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".
6	3	We suddenly emerged into the center of what seemed to be a wide, grassy street among the wagons, a wide lane, open and level, an avenue in that city of Harigga, or Bosk Wagons.
6	52	My home is in New York city".
6	86	I knew what must now pass, and it was what would have passed in any city or on any road or trail or path in Gor.
6	128	"She wishes to return to her city".

Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	131	He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following th...
17	160	Once in a paga tavern I heard a man, whom I recognized to be one of the guards from the iron pens, though now in the tunic of a Leather Worker, declaring that the city needed for its Administrator not a Builder but a Warrior, that law would again prevail.
2	197	"There seems little law now," said Portus.
11	325	The male of Earth is conditioned to be more timid, vacillating and repressed than the males of Gor; to be subject, to achieve social controls, to guilts and anxieties that would be as incomprehensible to the Gorean male as a guilt over having spoken to one's father-in-law's sister woul...
15	403	Gorean law, however, does not so regard them.
16	211	If a substantial proportion of races are not won in the first two seasons the law of the Stadium of Tarns discontinues its recognition of that faction.
17	206	Shortly thereafter Maximus Hegesius Quintilius was found dead, poisoned by the bite of a girl in his Pleasure Gardens, who, before she could be brought before the Scribes of the law, was strangled by enraged Taurentians, to whom she had been turned over; it was well known that the Taur...
18	170	Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
24	450	"Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the Home Stone?" I gasped.
24	456	"As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the Home Stone of Ar".
24	472	"If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" "None," said I.
1	22	These men of Ko-ro-ba, he knew, when their city had been destroyed by Priest-Kings, had been scattered to the ends of Gor but, when permitted by Priest-Kings, they had returned to their city to rebuild it, each bearing a stone to add to its walls.
1	35	There were three who stood near the pyre; one wore the brown robes of the Administrator of a city, the humblest robes in the city, and was hooded; another wore the blue of the Caste of Scribes, a small man, almost tiny, bent now with pain and grief; the last was a very la...
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	188	And since Kazrak was originally, perhaps surprisingly, of Port Kar, a city not on particularly good terms with Ar, or any other Gorean city, there was the hint of sedition in such matters.
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".
5	612	Month names differ, unfortunately, from city to city, but, among the civilized cities, there are four months, associated with the equinoxes and solstices, and the great fairs at the Sardar, which do have common names, the months of En'Kara, or En'Kara-Lar-Torvis; En'Var, ...
7	32	"So even the equanimity of an Assassin can be shaken! Yes, the Ubar of a city, and you may choose the city, any save Ar, on whose throne I, Cernus, will sit".
13	14	The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securing of a female,...
16	27	The great bars suspended about the walls of the city then ring out for more than an Ahn with their din, and the doors of the city burst open and the people crowd out onto the bridges, clad in the splendor of their finest, singing and laughing.
20	366	My champion was Hup, a Fool, that of Cernus was the brilliant, fiery, competitive Scormus of Ar, the young, phenomenal Scormus, who played first board of the city of Ar and held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game, the master not only of the Players...
24	28	I knew that men would, and had, deserted the Home Stone of their own city to follow him into disgrace and exile, preferring outlawry and the mountains to the securities of citizenship and their city, asking only that they be permitted to ride beside him, to ...
1	3	In the distance he could see the white walls, and some of the towers, of the city of Ko-ro-ba, which was being rebuilt.
1	5	Kuurus looked on the city.
1	19	Beyond the wood, toward the city, Kuurus could see the procession.
1	20	He was surprised for, judging from the colors of the garments of those who marched, it contained men of many castes, perhaps all castes of the city, only that he did not see among them the white of the Caste of Initiates.
1	24	And even Kuurus, of the Caste of Assassins, knew that a city cannot die while its Home Stone survives.
1	48	The urn was given to him who wore the robes of the Administrator of the city, who took it and slowly, on foot, withdrew toward Ko-ro-ba, followed by the large blond Warrior and the small Scribe.
1	54	Those who had come to the pyre had now withdrawn slowly toward the city.
2	3	Not for many years had the black tunic of the Assassins been seen within the walls of Ar, not since the siege of that city in 10,110 from its founding, in the days of Marlenus, who had been Ubar; of Pa-Kur, who had been Master of the Assassins; and of the Koroban Warrior, in the songs ...

Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	26	The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
15	210	In Gorean law a slave is an animal; before the law he has no rights; he is dependent on his master not only for his name but for his very life; he may be disposed of by the master at any time and in any way the master pleases.
11	358	"Be it known to you, Ubars," said he, "that Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, now proposes to the council that it take into its own hands the full and sole governance of the city of Port Kar, with full powers, whether of policy and decree, of enforcement, of taxation and law
15	121	Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
15	123	For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal.
10	40	It lay on the eastern edge of Port Kar, backing on the marshes; it opened, by means of a huge barred gate, to the canals of the city; in its courtyard were wharved his seven ships; when journeying to Thassa the great gate was opened and they were rowed through the city to...
13	520	It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my ...
18	43	I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city once called squalid and mal...
1	26	The Older Tarl, my former master-at-arms, had so spoken to me years before in Ko-ro-ba, my city, the Towers of the Morning.
1	32	Peasants, incidentally, are seldom, except in emergencies, utilized in the armed forces of a city; this is a further reason why their weapon, the long bow, is less known in the cities, and among warriors, than it deserves to be.
1	40	Similarly it is not widely known even in Glorious Ar, the largest city of known Gor.
1	41	It is reasonably well known in Thentis, in the Mountains of Thentis, famed for her tarn flocks, and in Ko-ro-ba, my city, the Towers of the Morning.
1	65	I was in the delta of the Vosk, and making my way to the city of Port Kar, which alone of Gorean cities commonly welcomes strangers, though few but exiles, murderers, outlaws, thieves and cutthroats would care to find their way to her canaled darknesses.
1	67	About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt;...
1	106	The tributes exacted, when the small communities can be found, are customarily harsh, often whatever of value can be found; typically what is demanded is great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves in the taverns of the city.
2	37	"What is your city?" she inquired.
3	30	"What is your city?" asked he.
3	225	"He is of Port Kar, or would be of that city".
3	237	Each hour with labors, and whips and thongs, let us show him our hatred for Port Kar and those of that city!" "How is it," I asked the girl, "that you so hate those of Port Kar?" "Silence, Slave!" she cried and thrust her fingers into the ropes about my neck, twisting her hand.
3	268	In my eyes in that moment it seemed I had lost myself, that my codes had been betrayed, Ko-ro-ba my city dishonored, even the blade I had carried soiled.
4	146	"Ah, yes, the collectors of the taxes, in the names of various Ubars, who may or may not have a current ascendancy in the city".
5	177	But, as I watched, and the young men shouted, the dances became less stylized, and became more universal to woman, whether she be a drunken housewife in a suburb of a city of Earth or a jeweled slave in Port Kar, dances that spoke of them as women who want men, and will have them.
8	166	I was no longer worthy of the red of the warrior, no longer worthy of serving the Home Stone of my city, Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning; it seemed to me then that there were only winds and strengths, and the motions of bodies, the falling of rain, the movements of bacilli, the bea...
8	358	"What city?" "The Isle of Cos," he said.
8	364	"Do you have a city?" I asked.
8	369	"Near what city," I asked, "did your holding lie?" "Near Ar," said he.
8	539	I was such that might make a place for himself in a city such as Port Kar.
8	864	"Then, Master," said she, "let us go to our city".
9	24	Four days ago, in the afternoon, after two days in the marshes, my party had reached the canals of the city.
9	40	Aside from this they were not, at the time we had entered the city, secured, save that a long length of binding fiber, knotted about the left ankle of each, tied them together.

Book 7. (30 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	721	It is a favorite sport of tarnsmen to streak their tarn over an enemy city and, in such a fashion, capture an enemy girl from one of the city's high bridges, carrying her off, while the citizens of the city scream in fury, shaking their fists at the bold one...
14	498	Her slavery is likely to be harder in her own city than it would be in an alien city, even an enemy city.
11	379	She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp...
12	440	The stockades are governed under Merchant law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
14	420	Perhaps one of the things that free women most envy in slaves is that they are not only permitted to reveal their beauty but that they must, even in the light of law, do so.
14	467	Gorean law is on his side, not hers.
14	468	Indeed, as an animal, she has no standing whatsoever before the law.
16	287	On Gor, of course, her relationship to the master is open, public, institutionalized, accepted, taken for granted, and celebrated, a matter of law.
18	38	By Gorean law the companionship, to be binding, must, together, be annually renewed, pledged afresh with the wines of love.
6	147	I live in New York city, which is a city on the planet Earth.
11	150	A master of the city, of course, who might be leaving the city temporarily, could also rent space in the public pens, to board his slaves there.
11	982	We were on our way to the city of Ko-ro-ba, where we would receive training, and from thence we would journey in a southeastern direction toward the great city of Ar.
13	91	If a city does not see that her youth undertake this journey then, according to the teachings of the Initiates, misfortunes may befall the city.
13	115	For four years, Ute, then a beauty, passed from one master to another, taken from city to city.
14	481	In a city, does one not clear away the trash, the rags and rubbish, the litter, debris and rubble? Rejoice then that worthless slave meat, which can, unfortunately, be found in any city, is detected, and hastened from its precincts.
14	494	Some cities, finding her again within their walls, rather than selling her out of the city, actually prefer keeping her in the city, that she might feel her bondage the more keenly, as a kind of object lesson, for her and others.
14	500	Better a collar anywhere, she weeps, than in what was once her own city! Sometimes a fellow of the city who knows her will find her there, in the paga tavern, only another girl, nude, kneeling, rising, hurrying to serve her master's customers.
14	688	"I, Miss Elinor Brinton, of New York city, to the Warrior, Rask, of the High city of Treve, herewith submit myself as a slave girl.
1	97	As far as I know my mother still lives in New York city, in a suite on Park Avenue.
2	54	I looked out on the city.
3	138	I could hear the noises of the city's night traffic through the door open to the patio and terrace.
3	160	Far below, in the streets, I heard the siren of a fire engine, and the other noises of the city night.
3	185	There I saw in the shadows, in the dim light in the room from the city outside, a girl.
3	296	And I might be detained in the city.
3	307	I had soon left the city, crossing the George Washington Bridge, and taking the swift parkways north.
6	112	"I live in New York city.
6	269	Surely someone would be found, if not here, in the next city, who spoke English, who could put me in contact with those from whom I might purchase passage in my return to Earth.
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 nam...
7	4	He was bound, traveling over the hills and meadowlands east and north of Ko-ro-ba, for the city of Laura, which lies on the banks of the Laurius river, some two hundred pasangs inland from the coast of the sea, called Thassa.
7	5	Laura is a small trading city, a river port, whose buildings are largely of wood, consisting mostly it seems of warehouses and taverns.

Book 8. (30 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	97	It was true that the Companionship, not renewed, had been dissolved in the eyes of Gorean law.
1	321	The Gorean slave, in the eyes of Gorean law, is an animal, with no legal title to a name.
3	41	The Merchants, who control Lydius, under Merchant law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than strictly policed.
9	163	In law, and in the eyes of Goreans, Talena was now without family.
11	60	In the eyes of Goreans, and Gorean law, the slave is an animal.
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.
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...
19	434	"My city," I said, "was the city of Ko-ro-ba.
1	164	I stood high in this city.
1	276	In the morning, from the house of Bosk, in the far city, bordering the delta, I shall leave for the northern forests.
1	288	I did not ask him his city, for he was outlaw.
1	289	Outlaws do not care to reveal their city.
1	326	Tor is an opulent city of the desert, well known for its splendors, its comforts and pleasures.
2	41	"Of what city?" I asked.
3	6	She was safe from enslavement in her own city.
3	50	Most ports and islands on Thassa, of course, are not managed by the Merchants, but, commonly, by magistrates appointed by the city councils.
3	65	Turia is a city of the far south, below the equator.
3	68	He might as well have used Tor, which is an oasis city in the deserts far below Ar, and to its east.
5	58	She knew the city of Lydius, and might be difficult to apprehend.
5	96	It did not seem necessary, for her instruction, to have her walk again as a slave girl in the streets of her own city.
5	114	Where could she flee? She could not even run to Lydius, her own city, for it was there, publicly, by judicial sentence, that the degradation of slavery, by the iron, had been burned into her body.
5	373	Tina could not lift her hands to bid her city farewell, for her wrists were locked in slave bracelets, fastened at her belly, strung through the ring of a slave strap.
5	376	"Bid your city farewell," I told her, "if you wish".
6	304	And who knew what political occurrences might take place in Port Kar? I was popular in the city.
7	118	Let him learn that one of Port Kar, one whom he once banished from his city, has swiftly, arrogantly, bettered him at his work.
9	158	"Yes," laughed Verna, "according to the codes of the warriors and by the rites of the city of Ar, no longer is Talena kin or daughter of Marlenus of Ar".
9	160	According to irreversible ceremonies, both of the warriors and of the city of Ar, Talena was no longer the daughter of Marlenus.
9	322	But now it did not seem that she would stand beside me among falling flowers on the bow of the Tesephone, on some great holiday declared in Port Kar, as we returned in triumph to that city, making our way through its flower-strewn canals, beneath the windows and rooftops of cheering th...
10	17	"I can take any city," said Marlenus, "behind whose walls I can get a tarn of gold".
11	38	Players, incidentally, are free to travel where they wish on the surface of Gor, no matter what might be their city.

Book 9. (28 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	259	At that point, in Gorean law, the companionship had been dissolved.
2	88	There is often a tension between them and the civil authorities, for each regards themselves as supreme in matters of policy and law for their districts.
6	393	Most lived in ships, the steel wolves of space, their instincts bridled, to some extent, by Ship Loyalty, Ship law.
6	433	"It was set so high," said he, "out of the reach of custom and law, against the protests of the rune-priests and his own men, that none, in his belief, could pay it".
10	73	Blows are not to be struck at the Thing, but not even the law of the Thing, with all its might, would have the temerity to advise the man of Torvaldsland to arrive or move about unarmed.
10	89	In the crowd, too, much in evidence, were brazen bondmaids; they had been brought to the Thing, generally, by captains and Jarls; it is not unusual for men to bring such slaves with them, though they are not permitted near the law courts or the assemblies of deliberation; the voyages t...
10	155	A man, incredibly enough, may be challenged by such a fellow for his farm, or his companion, or daughter; if the challenge is not accepted, the stake is forfeit; if the challenge is accepted, of course, he who is challenged risks his life among the hazel wands; he may be slain; then, too, of course,...
12	18	About them, some on the dais, and some below it, stood his high officers, and his men of law, his counselors, his captains, and the chief men from his scattered farms and holdings; too, much in evidence, were more than four hundred of his men-at-arms.
8	46	This was adopted immediately in Ar, and, city by city, became rather general.
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	261	"When Priest-Kings, by fire signs, made it clear Ko-ro-ba was to be destroyed, I left the city".
1	263	The population had been scattered, the city razed by the power of the Priest-Kings.
1	457	I thought then of Vella, once Elizabeth Cardwell, whom I had encountered in the city of Lydius, at the mouth of the Laurius River, below the borders of the forests.
1	479	The girl Elizabeth Cardwell, once a secretary in New York city, was one of the most delicious little wenches I had ever seen in slave silk.
1	503	He remembered well the city that had exiled him, keeping still its name as part of his own.
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.
1	510	When Sullius Maximus had fled the city, Iskander had remained behind.
5	64	"Your city," he asked, "what is it?" "You may think of me," I had said, "as one of Port Kar".
6	447	I did not mention to the Forkbeard that it had been I, as Bosk of Port Kar, admiral of the city, who had been responsible for the incarceration of Chenbar.
6	461	"My house is in that city," said I.
8	37	Ar, populous and wealthy, the greatest city of known Gor, was regarded as a symbol of quality in merchandise.
8	38	The stamp of Ar, a single letter, that which appears on its Home Stone, the Gorean spelling of the city's name, was often forged by unscrupulous tradesmen and placed on their own goods.
8	41	In my opinion the goods of Ko-ro-ba were as good, or better, than those of Ar but, it is true, she did not have the reputation of the great city to the southeast, across the Vosk.
10	100	Southern girls, incidentally, in my opinion, though scarcely as worked as their northern sisters in bondage, a function of the economic distinction between the farm and city, are often worked, and worked hard, particularly if they have not pleased their masters.
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	164	Eteocles had fled; I had known him last to be in terraced Cos, an advisor to her Ubar, gross Lurius, of the Cosian city of Jad.
22	138	It is seldom that they, if not protected by a city and a Home Stone, escape the slave collar, the brand, the chains of a master.

Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	786	Had they known the weakness of the Sardar, and the time required to restore the power source, regenerating itself now at inexorable concentration rates determined by natural law, they would have surely launched their fleets.
5	762	The collar, by Gorean law, canceled the past.
9	86	"More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.
10	12	The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.
12	168	Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backe...
12	300	"It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission".
13	76	He holds within his territories the right of law and execution.
17	34	His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law.
17	94	One must speak carefully whose words become law.
24	806	"Men on Earth," she cried, "will be dethroned by law!" "Earth has a complex and intricate political history," I said.
26	1208	Further, Gor was the true prize of the planets rotating about the sun, not the Earth, for, in the name of rights and liberty, and business, the fools of Earth, confused by the rhetoric of law and morality, shielding short-sighted greed and madness, had stood aside, permitting the poiso...
2	286	In the cafes, as in the paga taverns of the north, one learns the realities of a city, what is its latest news, what is afoot in the city, what are its dangers, its pleasures, and where its power lies.
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	392	The city's warriors, too, were paid a bounty on women captured from enemy cities, customarily a silver tarsk for a comely female in good health.
1	423	Samos was first in the Council of Captains of Port Kar, which body was sovereign in the city.
1	817	This city, too, was indicated in the cording of his agal, and in the stripes of his djellaba.
2	62	In such a city I was too conspicuous.
2	78	Tor was, as Gorean cities went, a rich, trading city.
2	81	Much of the city, of course, was organized to support the caravan trade.
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	117	An advantage of this municipal organization, of course, though it is scarcely a matter of intentional design, is that the water is in the most protected portion of the city, its center.
2	121	I was now in the lower part of the city.
2	215	Sometimes free girls, two or more of them, as a girlish lark, obtain slave bells and, chaining their ankles, dress themselves in their haiks and go about the city.
2	617	It struck me suddenly strange that he should be in the area of the bazaar, which, in the lower area in the city, is in the vicinity of the wells.
3	61	He was camping in the vicinity of the city while purchasing kaiila for a caravan to the Oasis of Nine Wells.
3	271	"You are new in Tor," said he, "and may not know the ways of the city.
3	317	Achmed, the son of Farouk, would be waiting for me at the south gate of the city.
4	501	I was pleased that I had spent some days in Tor, before engaging in the lessons of the scimitar, learning the city.
7	373	"The former Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, of New York city, of the planet Earth?" he asked.
7	423	On our records they matched those of Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, of New York city, Earth, who had been brought to Gor to wear the message collar to the Tuchuks".

Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	148	If a village markets in a given city, that city, by Gorean custom, stands as its shield, a relationship which, of course, works to the advantage of both the villages and city, the city receiving produce in its markets, the villages receiving th...
26	202	"You understand further, of course," said he, "that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement.
3	530	In the fall of the city of Turia, some years ago, thousands of its citizens had fled, many of them merchants or of merchant families; with the preservation of the city, and the restoration of the Ubarate of Phanius Turmus, many of these families returned; new contacts had...
3	481	The brand has on Gor legal, institutional status; that which it marks it makes an object; its victim has no rights, or appeal, within the law.
3	531	That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
5	142	The Companion Contract, thus, had been duly negotiated, with the attention of scribes of the law from both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria.
5	198	Some cities are governed by a Ubar, who is in effect a military sovereign, sometimes a tyrant, whose word is law.
6	55	I now saw them as unique, exciting masters, each different and incredibly individual, who might, for a word or gesture, have me; how could I not regard them differently from a free woman; and, too, doubtless, they saw me in a similarly immediate and intensely personal fashion, not as an object shiel...
7	227	The slave is not a person before Gorean law but a rightless animal.
9	934	If it were true, in Gorean law, it could be no slander.
9	959	If this were true, it was, in Gorean law, no slander.
22	358	The slave is seen as a lovely property which may be purchased or stolen, owned and mastered; she has no standing in the eyes of the law; she is rightless and vulnerable; she belongs to the master and must obey and serve him; she exists to please; that is her purpose; she must hope to w...
22	451	This not only has its profound erotic effect on the slave and others, but it usefully, from the point of view of merchant law, identifies her as a slave.
24	97	"And it is a civic matter, and you have been authorized to apprehend her and bring her before a slave praetor?" Slaves, as animals, lack standing before the law.
2	718	These things vary, I learned, from city to city, and depend, also, on such matters as context and conditions.
3	269	In one form there a hundred young men and a hundred young women of one city, the women selected for their beauty, enter the ring in competition with a hundred young men and a hundred young women of another city, similarly selected.
3	277	Women from the victorious city who may have been captured are, of course, upon the victory of their city, freed.
3	278	Women from the conquered city, on the other hand, are not; they are kept; they are turned over to the young males of the capturing city; in the game in which the first hundred captures decides victory this means there is a girl for each participating young man, usually on...
4	82	The original beans, I suppose, had been brought, like certain other Gorean products, from Earth; it is not impossible, of course, that the opposite is the case, that black wine is native to Gor and that the origin of Earth's coffee beans is Gorean; I regard this as unlikely, however, because black w...
4	83	Had I known more of Gor I would have speculated that my masters might have sworn their swords to the defense of Thentis, that they were of that city, but, as I was later to learn, they were of another city, one called Ar.
5	17	This sort of thing, however, varies considerably from city to city.
5	147	It is common, of course, for a city to protect those villages, whether they are tributary to the city or not, which make use of its market.
11	207	In a banner keep, or one maintained by a given city, preference, if not exclusive rights, are accorded to the merchants and citizens of the city under whose banner the keep is established and administered.
13	169	It had been a commercial raid, not an insult raid, nor a vengeance raid, in which, say, the free women of one city were taken to be the slaves of those of another city.
18	81	Even should she attain her own city, she will be kept there as a slave, for she is then a slave, or, more likely, she will be soon sold out of the city, after having been muchly lashed, that she bring no more shame upon it.
26	223	Further, the youth of Gor, in most cities, must be vouched for by citizens of the city, not related in blood to him, and be questioned before a committee of citizens, intent upon determining his worthiness or lack thereof to take the Home Stone of the city as his own.
28	165	If a Ubara of a conquered city, for example, were to be sold, it would, customarily, be in such a special sale, unless the victorious Ubar, he who had conquered her city and captured her, chose to have her sold, for his amusement, in a common sale and from an unimportant ...
3	272	A girl is caught, stripped, bound hand and foot, and carried to the Girl Pit of the capturing city, into which she is thrown.
3	274	Her own men may not enter the Girl Pit of the capturing city to free her.
3	275	Sometimes this game is played with the winning side determined by its catches within a time limit, sometimes, in more brutal versions, by the first city which secures the hundred women of its enemy.

Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	75	It is here that Merchant law is drafted and stabilized.
15	486	Gorean law, of course, is complex and latitudinous on these matters.
3	4	In the contest a hundred young men of each city, and a hundred young women, the most beautiful in each city, participate.
3	25	The captured women of the victorious city at the conclusion of the contest are of course released; they are robed and honored; the girls of the losing city, of course, are simply stripped and made slaves.
3	706	These things vary from city to city, depending on the coin, its weight, its fineness, and so on, but a hundred copper tarsks are normally equivalent to a silver tarsk.
15	847	This varies somewhat of course, from city to city.
1	271	"There will be a tarn in the city," I said.
3	10	When a girl is taken she is bound hand and foot and thrown to a girl pit, of which there are two, one in each city's end of the "field".
3	13	The object of the male is to remove his opponents from the field and capture the girls of the other city.
3	22	The tunics of the girls are not removed, however, except those of the girls of the losing city, when the match has ended and the winner decided.
3	23	The win is determined when the young men of one city, or those left on the field, have secured the full hundred of the women of the "enemy".
3	24	A woman once bound and thrown to the girl pit, incidentally, may not be fetched forth by the young men of her city, except at the end of the match, and on the condition that they have proved victorious.
3	29	Doubtless each believes her standard will be victorious and she will return in honor to her city.
3	59	For example, a piece which once in Ar had been called the "city" was now identified officially as the "Home Stone" even in Ar.
3	127	"Of which city?" he asked.
3	187	The Ubar discovers he cannot tax the bosk and the Peasant discovers his grain cannot grow on the stones of the city streets.
3	1201	Purchased by a rich man might they not then have an easier bondage, perhaps in a great house, even in a mansion or palace; might they not then have lighter labors, a jeweled collar, exciting, beautiful silks, greater freedom to wander about by day, almost as though free, delighted and zestul, though...
4	109	There was a man there from Ar, and one from Cos, and a player from Turia, Timor, a corpulent fellow supposed to be of indisputable integrity and one thought, at any rate, to be of a city far enough removed from the problems of Cos and Ar to be impartial.
4	179	Scormus of Ar, though almost universally a versatile and brilliant player, was particularly masterful in this opening; he had used it for victory in the Turian tournaments of the ninth year of the Ubarate of Phanias Turmus; in the open tournaments of Anango, Helmutsport, Tharna, Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba,...
4	180	In Ar, when Scormus had achieved capture of Home Stone, Marlenus himself, Ubar of the city, had showered gold upon the board.
4	181	Some regarded winning the city championship of Ar as tantamount to victory at the Fair of En'Kara.
4	477	His response to Ubara's Spearman to Ubara's Spearman Five, sequential, in its continuation, was now entitled the Telnus Defense, from the city of his birth, the capital and chief port of the island of Cos.
4	598	Seldom do they live long enough to be impaled upon the walls of a city.
6	624	The Tina whom I had known was now free, an esteemed member of the caste of thieves in Port Kar, one of the most skillful in the city.
7	35	I walked through the streets of Lydius until I came to the small metal-worker's shop, one out of the main ways of the city.
7	76	I tossed both girls a light, white rep-cloth slave tunic which I had purchased in the city.
7	85	"I will have her serve me paga, publicly, in her own city," said Ram.
9	284	Language and city, and caste, however, are matters of great moment to them, and provide a sufficient basis for the ubiquitous discriminations in which human beings take such great delight.
10	30	"But did you not make her serve you paga publicly in her own city, and as a slave girl?" "Of course," he said.
15	493	She may always dread, if she wishes, that in the night men will come again for her, hooding her, and carrying her to a distant city, to be again put on the block of a steaming market, that once again her throat will be encircled by a steel collar and that she will kneel at the feet of ...

Book 13. (30 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
48	255	Technically, according to Merchant law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl.
48	262	It is claimed they have shamed their former city by having fallen slave, and if they were good enough to be only slaves in the conquered city then surely they should be no more within the walls of the victorious city.
4	128	Also, of course, one standing before the desk must look up to see the praetor, which, psychologically, tends to induce a feeling of fear for the power of the law.
4	192	Then I was naked! Find her, if you wish to be busy with matters of the law! I was the victim of theft! It was stolen from me, my garment! You should be hunting her, the thief, not holding me here.
18	44	Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
27	154	Too, it is in accord with Merchant law.
32	337	"Also," I said, "if you are interested in these matters, you are not simply an animal in the literal sense, in the biological sense of 'animal', but in the sense that persons, individuals with rights before the law, are distinguished from animals".
32	341	In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal.
34	259	"Technically," I said, "in the eyes of Gorean law you are not an object but an animal".
51	107	The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of free men, impress upon her her lowly status, and, interestingly, keep her in a state of sexu...
4	385	This makes it possible for merchant ships, round ships, with permanently fixed masts, to move within the city, and, from the military point of view, makes it possible to block canals and also, when drawn back, isolate given areas of the city by the canals which function t...
12	325	There were many, actually, and they tended to vary from tavern to tavern, and from city to city.
32	551	The architecture of the city was identical to that of the ruins we had earlier visited, but this city was not in ruins.
48	254	Sometimes, in the fall of a city, girls who have been enslaved, girls formerly of the now-victorious city, will be freed.
50	1	The Lake; The Ancient city; We Will Enter the Ancient city "It is so vast," said Ayari.
1	482	Whereas most towns on the river are, in effect, free states, few are strong enough to ignore powers such as Cos and its major rival in these territories, the city of Ar.
1	571	In the sacking of his city, which took place some two years after his death, the rings were found".
2	14	He was also the slaver, Vart, once Publius Quintus of Ar, banished from that city, and nearly impaled, for falsifying slave data.
2	187	It was the voice of Procopius Minor, or Little Procopius, who owned the Four Chains, a tavern near Pier Sixteen, to be distinguished from Procopius Major, or Big Procopius, who owned several such taverns throughout the city.
3	19	It was a crowded city, built up from the marshes themselves, in the Vosk's delta, and space was scarce and precious.
3	30	Tyros is a city enemy to Port Kar.
3	69	I thought these might bring him out of hiding, with the Tahari ring, if I could not locate him by means of the blond Earth girl who had been purchased by Ulafi, captain of the Palms of Schendi, merchant, too, of that city.
4	66	I could not yet see the golden rim of Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone, rising in the east over the city.
4	265	If you are found within the limits of the city after sunset this day you will be impaled".
4	348	The markets were, for the most part, save the wharf markets, deeper in the city.
5	515	Such women often, eventually, take to walking the high bridges or frequenting exposed areas, sometimes outside the city walls.
6	556	Individuals of all races, however, Schendi being a cosmopolitan port, frequent the city.
6	558	Similarly sailors, from hundreds of ships and numerous distant ports, are almost always within the city.
7	104	We are not an armed city, not a fortress, not a land power.
9	13	Outside, from the wharves and from the interior of the city, I could hear the ringing of alarm bars.

Book 14. (30 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	75	You are not yet a legal slave, a slave under law.
2	79	You will eventually find that you are, fully and legally, under law, a slave, totally a slave, and only a slave".
12	32	Is it truly easier, I wonder, to adopt columns and arches, philosophy and poetry, mathematics and medicine, and law, than a rational mode of dress.
12	373	I have not mentioned, either, slaves with professional competencies, such as medicine or law, or fighting slaves, in effect gladiators, men purchased for use as bodyguards or combatants in arranged games.
24	82	These are the three standard marking places, following the recommendations of Merchant law, for the marking of Kajirae, with the left thigh being, in practice, the overwhelmingly favored brand site.
27	114	It has proven to be an especially viable social institution, contributing to the stability and practicality of society, and it is honored in mores and sanctioned in law.
27	296	"There is a breakdown of law and order".
27	372	The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant law.
34	157	Her position is sanctioned in law.
13	440	The pace of life in a Gorean city, even a large city such as Ar, does not tend to be swift.
22	382	In all fairness, though, one must note that there is a large variety of slave dances on Gor, and that there is some variation from city to city.
27	115	I know of only one Gorean city which did not, at least for a time, practice the institution of female slavery, Tharna, but apparently after a time of tumult and chaos, and revolution, the institution was established, or restored, in that city.
34	175	And just as it is not unusual for a given master to claim that, say, his slave is the most beautiful and desirable in the entire city, and he probably believes this, so, too, it is not unusual for a city to claim that its slaves are the most beautiful and desirable of all...
34	176	Certainly one of the great pleasures of visiting a new Gorean city is to gaze upon, consider, and appraise her slaves, comparing them doubtless to those of one's own city.
34	182	It is interesting to note, while on this topic, that on the occasion of the arrival in one city of an important delegation from another city it often seems as though special arrangements have been made in certain particulars.
1	16	Beverly Henderson was twenty-two years old and a graduate student in English literature at one of the major universities in the New York city area.
7	22	I did not even know the city in which I was kept.
9	3	We were at the edge of what appeared to be a square in a city.
9	21	"Please, Master," I called, "in what city am I?" He spit against the perforations.
9	95	"Beautiful Mistresses," I said, "can you tell me in what city I am?" "Be silent, Slave," said the first woman.
11	400	The crucial political entity for Goreans tends to be the city or village, the place where people and power are.
11	412	Such borders generally do not exist on Gor, though, to be sure, certain things are commonly understood, for example, that the influence of, say, the city of Ar, has not traditionally extended north of the Vosk River.
11	413	Another consequence of the Gorean's tendency to think of territory in terms more analogous to an area warmed or an area illuminated than an area laid out by surveyors once and for all time is that his territoriality tends to increase with nearness to his city or village.
13	38	The principal city, because the largest and most populous, of the confederation is Ti.
13	41	Ebullius Gaius Cassius was also, as might be expected, the administrator of the city, or state, of Ti itself.
13	57	The Salerian Confederation, it was rumored, had now come to the attention even of the city of Ar.
13	61	Venna is a small, exclusive resort city, some two hundred pasangs north of Ar.
13	76	"If hostilities should break out," said the Lady Melpomene, "it might not be well to be a woman of Vonda caught in this city".
13	260	"I am not of this city.
13	285	I gathered the men were leaving the city.

Book 15. (30 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
21	297	It is a complex, vital, bright, colorful, deeply sensuous civilization; it is a harsh, gorgeous world in which the slave girl has a special role and place; her condition is unquestioned and categorical; it is supported by history, by custom and law; there is absolutely no escape for he...
24	392	The fullest slave, of course, is she who is a natural slave, and then, beyond this, truly wears the collar, that slave who is a slave by nature and whose slavery, released, is then confirmed and fixed upon her openly, publicly, by all the sanctions of custom and law, for all the world ...
24	400	Beyond this, of course, we knew we were, categorically and absolutely, legal slaves, lovely properties which might be bartered and sold, and who might figure in transactions which would be upheld in any court of law.
26	101	In his treatment of her he is untrammeled by either conscience or law, and this she knows, and loves, and, accordingly, hastens to obey and be pleasing.
29	55	When a Gorean city founds a colony, usually as a result of internal overpopulation or political dissension, the potential colonists, typically, even before leaving the mother city, develop their own charter, constitution and laws.
1	18	I knew little more than that he was not now in the city.
1	498	I then turned my steps toward the Street of Tarns, that somewhere among its many shops and cots I might arrange transportation northward, toward the Salerian city of Lara.
2	3	"Do not hurt me!" The night sky was red with the glare of the burning city.
2	16	The city burns.
2	33	Ti was the largest and most populous city of the Salerian Confederation.
2	55	"By soldiers, in the city," she said, "with others".
2	66	"Did many of those of Vonda escape the city?" I asked.
2	70	"Yet some women must have escaped the city," I said.
2	146	This device, like some of the others, had doubtless been brought from the city, perhaps dragged forth by shackled men of Vonda hauling on wagon ropes.
3	316	I felt reasonably certain I could find some tarnsman, perhaps from a neutral city, who might, by a suitably circuitous route, get me into the neighborhood of Lara.
4	1	The city of Lara; I Renew an Acquaintance The girl stirred uneasily.
4	37	Too, here and there in the city, river pirates, with impunity, sought women and plundered.
4	42	"You cannot put me out!" Oneander of Ar, the salt and leather merchant, and some others, had worn masks at the loot camp outside the city of Vonda.
4	137	Others, perhaps, shamed by the fall of Vonda, or the necessity for their flight from the city, did not wish to be recognized in Lara.
4	158	River pirates may still be within the city.
4	245	The evacuation of the inn had been a portion of the evacuation of the entire city.
4	260	"In the main room of the inn of Strobius," I said, "in the city of Lara".
4	372	"The city has been evacuated," I said.
4	491	The women of one city tend on the whole to be regarded by the men of other cities as attractive candidates for the collar, as potential "slave meat".
4	492	They are regarded as game, much as tabuk or wild verr might count as game, only in this instance as "slave game," and the men of one city, particularly those of the caste of warriors, often delight in the pleasure of "woman hunt," trying, as it is said, their "chain luck".
4	511	"You were assistant to the Lady Tima of Vonda, a slaver of that city, of the house of Tima".
6	31	It was generally understood, or felt, that neither the Salerian Confederation nor the city of Ar desired a full-scale conflict.
6	44	When it had become clear, incidentally, that Ar had, for most practical purposes, spared Lara, the troops of Lara, not bothering to join with those of Port Olni and Ti, had returned to their city.
6	62	Ar's Station, incidentally, is near the site where there was a gathering, several years ago, of the horde of Pa-Kur, of the Caste of Assassins, who was leading an alliance of twelve cities, augmented by mercenaries and assassins, against the city of Ar.
6	78	The four districts of the city, as might be supposed, retain the names of the original towns.

Book 16. (30 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	315	But the former, the slave girl, is owned with all the power and authority of law.
12	161	This was in full accord with Gorean law.
17	793	"It is against the law," she said.
20	1642	If castration makes them happy, who could be so heartless as to deny them this gratification? But to apply the knife, through discourse, and teaching, and law, to the innocent and unwilling is indeed offensive.
20	1684	She was shielded by law.
20	1887	The bondage relationship explicitly, in civil law, is perhaps best understood as the acknowledgment of nature's work and its elaboration and enhancement within a complex civilized framework.
21	63	"On this world, the law even, as I am a slave, in all its force, puts me in your total power".
10	126	The dance was the sort that free maidens of a city might perform to honor and welcome visiting dignitaries, or the ambassador and his entourage, of a foreign city.
20	888	Not only can the dances differ from city to city, and town to town, and even from tavern to tavern, but they are likely to differ, too, even from girl to girl.
21	254	I trust that if I err in certain others which may be less familiar, or of which I am simply ignorant, for these things may differ from city to city, and town to town, and domicile to domicile, you will inform me of my error, and the nature of what is required, and spare t...
4	168	Again, and again, hunting as single marine predators, the Tais and her sisters, prowling the outskirts of that confused, sluggish city of wood, almost at will, almost fastidiously, selected their victims.
11	168	One city in which the common camisk is favored, generally, is Tharna.
17	113	And then she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, of New York city, of Earth, and was now Linda, knelt before me, on the rude stones of that narrow street in Victoria.
17	237	The kneeling girl, she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, once a graduate student in English literature at a major university in the New York city area, eyed the coin, fearfully.
17	734	I looked down upon her, she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, of New York city.
18	397	Indeed, in gangs of roaming youths, he may have caught and raped slave girls on errands in his own city.
18	426	When his caravan leaves the city she is carried away with it, another girl, another piece of merchandise, in chains, bound for a distant market, and a master.
18	432	The young men were banished from the city.
18	435	The young men were seen leaving the vicinity of the city leading the girl behind them, her hands bound behind her, on a neck-rope.
19	111	My mysterious master must, thus, be of Victoria, or of some other city in which are practiced the customs of the capture carry and the initiatory whipping!" The point of these customs, of course, is clear.
19	114	To be sure, whether in Victoria or not, or in a city with comparable customs, new girls, in one way or another, are usually reminded, promptly and effectively, that their slavery is uncompromising and actual, and that they are fully at the disposition of their masters.
19	456	How innocently, unthinkingly, and naturally, did the former Beverly Henderson of Earth, of New York city, of the university, of that restaurant, assume that position! She well knew herself on Gor.
20	92	Tomorrow, at noon, on the same ship on which their master had booked passage, they were to be shipped to Port Cos, and from thence, via Turmus, eventually to the island of Cos, in some city of which, probably Telnus, they would be put up for sale.
20	134	"To Victoria!" said Glyco, reciprocating the honor that Tasdron had shown his city.
20	139	"No," he smiled, "it is because Victoria is your city".
20	310	The brand and collar, though mighty in their significance, offer little actual impediment to a girl's action, unless, perhaps, she desires to pass alone and unchallenged through a city gate.
20	367	"We divided them among various wholesalers, with the understanding that no more than one of them will be sold in any given market, in any given city or town, or village or fair.
20	424	The maid, it seems, before the ceremony, had fled the city.
20	594	When a city is under attack these platforms are usually discarded, and quickly.
20	610	She does not want to be known at home, in her own city, as a compromised free woman, one who in terror unworthily, disgracefully, bared her body publicly.

Book 17. (30 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	107	They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of Priest-Kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port.
13	671	"Merchant law," I said, "is the only law common to many Gorean cities".
1	1286	"Due process of law, as you may see," said Kog, "was strictly observed".
1	1302	"All law exists to serve the interests of the dominant powers," said Kog.
1	1305	law which is not a weapon and a wall is madness".
2	357	It is a felony in Gorean law to forge or falsify such papers.
10	61	A law, imposed on white men entering their lands by red savages, had been violated.
13	669	"And such things, like the brand, are recommended by Merchant law".
13	1188	She is now, commonly, a collared, embonded beauty, properly marked as merchandise, effectively displayed and marketed, and owned in the full right of law".
17	446	Another approach might be to envision a world compatible with reality and congenial to human nature, a world in which science, even social science, might be free, a world in which truth would not be against the law, a world designed not for the crippling, distortion and torture of huma...
18	174	"Surely we have broken no law," I said.
18	176	"I do not think they need more law than that".
18	181	"Surely there is no law to the effect that you should not be freed," I said.
18	182	"There is no law specifically to that effect," he said, "but I would not count on their being much pleased about it".
18	186	"If there were such a law," asked the youth, "would you have broken it?" "Yes," I said.
8	8	To be sure, there is, it seems, from market to market, and from city to city, an almost infinite variety of ways in which women may be, and are, displayed and sold.
1	102	Then, in Ar, a city from which once I had been banished, I had caught and enslaved her.
1	138	"And while you were waiting for darkness, to escape the city, whiling away the time, you made me yield again and again".
1	140	I had then, after the fall of darkness, deeming it then reasonably safe, bound her naked, belly up, over the saddle of my tarn and, eluding patrols, escaped from the city.
1	237	Such barges, though with the slats locked shut, are sometimes used in the transportation of female slaves, that they may not know where in the city they are, or where they are being taken.
1	340	"That seems unlikely," said Samos, "over the city".
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.
2	110	There is a joke in the city that Port Kar must have the greatest merchant fleet on Gor, greater than even those of Cos and Tyros combined, given the frequency with which our corsairs encounter the vessels of alleged compatriots.
2	136	That year, incidentally, is also regarded as significant in the history of Port Kar because it was in that year that, as it is said, a Home Stone consented to reside within the city.
8	27	One might as well be sold off a slaver's public shelf, in a city, or out of a cage, or kneeling in the mud outside a village, from a "slaver's necklace".
13	361	I went to a great city.
13	550	Even many women brought from one city to another, perhaps as a result of raids or wars, take their new status and condition for granted.
13	552	They understand it, and, from their own city, are familiar with it.
13	777	"He would wish to have a means to return to the city and, of course, it would be important to abandon or dispose of the car far from the scene of the abductors' rendezvous".
17	380	"I am the Lady Mira, of the city of Venna!" I smiled to myself.

Book 18. (21 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	130	The collar is recommended, of course, and branding, by Merchant law, for obvious reasons.
7	184	It is almost like a law of nature.
14	591	"It is against the law," I said.
40	655	You could be returned to a master as such in a court of law.
44	715	Even in the entrapments of law it is by men that the sword is wielded, even when they are tricked into turning it against themselves.
54	300	The community was now, in effect, a small freehold in the Barrens, and yet, strictly, in the letter of the law, stood to the Kaiila as a leased tenancy.
54	313	In Gorean law allegiances to a Home Stone, and not physical structures and locations, tend to define communities.
2	50	Needless to say there are a large number of enslavement formulas and ceremonies; too, these things can vary interestingly from group to group, from area to area, and from city to city.
4	85	She lived now, free, but sequestered and dishonored, in the city of Ar, in the Central Cylinder itself, perhaps the most fortified, best-defended tower or keep in that huge city.
4	93	One day, I thought, perhaps, I might try chain-luck in the city of Ar.
4	100	And his place of business must be one of the worst in the city; it must be in the area of the lower canals; it must be stinking, dingy, squalid and cheap; and it must be busy, crowded often with boisterous ruffians, some just in from the sea, who are impatient with slaves.
19	45	A woman once of the high city of Ar, she had been captured by Dust Legs and suitably enslaved.
28	108	When a city is under siege, particularly if the siege is prolonged, even free women will often have their hair shorn, contributing it to the supplies for municipal defense.
33	252	This collaring arrangement, though not unfamiliar on Gor generally, particularly after the fall of a city, when metal collars may not be available in abundance, or in rural areas, is unusual in the Barrens, where leather, thong-tied beaded collars are almost universal.
37	265	Sometimes a member of the caste of scribes is also present, to provide certification on behalf of the city.
39	185	"Suppose you were a conqueror and found me in a burning city," she whispered.
39	198	She is a female of an enemy city.
39	210	Sometimes, however, the free woman in a captured city is not, say, simply stripped, thrown down and tied, later to be turned over to an iron master for the searing kiss of his white-hot metal.
39	241	"As a free woman," she said, "never did I suspect that one day I might actually aspire, from a far lower slavery, to wear such a tunic and collar and, like them, so helpless and subservient, serve in a city".
47	122	"Ko-ro-ba!" I cried, the name of the city to which I had first been brought on Gor, Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning.
54	315	Ar was not as popular with some of his fellows as it was with him, and that redoubtable municipality, the largest city in the Gorean north, was unfamiliar to many of them, even in hearsay.

Book 19. (30 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	337	"It is in accord with the recommendations of merchant law".
3	338	"Merchant law?" I asked.
3	460	It thus becomes a question as to which among these animals own and which are owned, which, so to speak, count as persons, or have standing, before the law, and which do not, which are, so to speak, the citizens or persons, and which are the animals".
6	613	This might be regarded as the civilized expression of the biological relationship, a recognition of that relationship, and perhaps an enhancement, refinement and celebration of it, and, within the context of custom and law, of course, a clarification and consolidation of it.
14	45	But I was a free woman and would be subjected only to the cold and inhuman mercies of the law.
23	345	It was a strong recommendation of Merchant law that slaves be marked.
28	38	In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.
26	245	It is almost a sport among Gorean young men, to hunt and capture a woman of a hostile city and bring her back to one's own city as a stripped slave.
26	248	It might be noted, lastly, that a woman who is stolen from a given city, if she has been enslaved, should she somehow find herself again in her native city, will still be a slave.
33	269	"You were, several months ago, were you not, found guilty of certain alleged commercial irregularities in the city of Corcyrus, and banished for a time from the city?" "Yes," said Speusippus.
33	679	How, except for such power, could a barbarian woman, such as Sheila, the former Tatrix of Corcyrus, come to power in a city such as Corcyrus? I suspect, also, that the true motivation of the attack on the mines of Argentum was not to fill the coffers of Corcyrus, already a prosperous <...
33	680	They intend, perhaps, failing success in outward aggression, to subvert our world, city by city, or to form a league of cities, that may become dominant among our states.
36	648	Young men occasionally travel from city to city, to assess the slaves.
1	192	"As far as I know," he said, "no city, kingdom, nation or civilization on Earth ever produced such a coin".
3	113	"In the city of Corcyrus," she said.
3	114	I had never heard of this city.
3	119	"That is the city," I said.
3	128	It is south-west of the city of Ar.
3	130	"Where is New York city?" I asked.
3	280	"Are there truly slaves here, in this place, in this city, or country?" "Yes, Mistress," she said, "and generally".
3	531	"My Master is Ligurious, of the city of Corcyrus," she said.
3	554	Her master was Ligurious, of this city, said to be Corcyrus.
4	8	Supposedly I was Sheila, the Tatrix of this city, Corcyrus.
4	30	Too, documents were found recording the purchase of quantities of slave hair, at suitable prices, some even within the city of Corcyrus itself.
4	240	Too, you will always be able to find frustrates who, excusing themselves, will seek to lay their failures and shortcomings not at their own door but at the gate of their city".
4	272	"From what city does Drusus Rencius derive?" I inquired.
4	354	But why would one be brought here to rule a city? Surely such positions of privilege and power these Goreans would reserve for themselves.
4	373	Ligurious, first minister of the city, even, had assured me of the reality of this dignity.
4	448	Surely it seemed more believable that such a woman might hold power in a city such as Corcyrus than I.
4	480	I then drew back and, my hands on the bars, looked out, across the rooftops of Corcyrus, to the walls of the city, and to the fields beyond.

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	485	The law is clear on this.
1	1099	This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.
2	1662	Similarly you do not have her socio-natural vulnerability, that of the legal slave, helplessly so, in a society in which the institution of slavery is accepted, ingredient, pervasive, and honored, an unshakable matter, for thousands of years, of policy, tradition, and law".
7	269	There was no law against two traveling it.
8	272	"Show yourself," he cried, "as befits your office, that of those who courageously do war with brigands, that of those who do nobly defend and support the law, or as plain honest men, if that you be, that I may ally myself with you, that we may then offer to one another, no, then pledge...
9	413	Similarly, as I am sure you will recognize, at least upon reflection, you now have no standing whatsoever before the law.
16	336	"I shall have you taken before the law for slander!" "Do you wish to have it done for you?" inquired Chino, meaningfully.
16	443	"I shall have the law on you for this!" cried Rowena.
16	444	"Slaves have no standing before the law," said Chino.
18	297	"Martial law exists," said Belnar.
1	487	Here the matter differs from city to city.
2	628	Coinage on Gor varies considerably from city to city.
12	520	I must soon, in the performances, I feared, hood the Lady Yanina, or perhaps, better, sell the wench to someone bound in another direction, and replace her altogether with another girl, presumably a slave, whom I might purchase somewhere, a girl it would be safer to take into Brundisium, one not fro...
16	44	Another advantage of choosing a distant city is that there are not likely to be citizens of that city in the audience, who might take exception to the performance, though, to be sure, most Goreans understand what is going on and tend to enjoy the farce immensely, even if ...
16	284	Too, the theft took place just shortly before we left the city, thus permitting them to be in the place of the crime itself, and then giving them time to flee the city.
21	240	"I have entered the city only within the Ahn, immediately ordering the city captain to report to me.
21	454	Too, I suspected that the city captain had now assumed authority in the city, now that Belnar had been killed.
1	69	There were now several such groups in the city.
1	80	At dawn on the day of the vernal equinox a ceremonial greeting of the sun takes place, conducted usually by the ubar or administrator of the city.
1	81	This, in effect, welcomes the New Year to the city.
1	83	The completion of this greeting is signified by, and celebrated by, a ringing of the great bars suspended about the city.
1	93	The fact that it was now only two days to the Twelfth Passage Hand, explained the presence of the unusual number of theatrical and carnival troupes now in the city.
1	94	Such troupes, incidentally, must petition for the right to perform within a city.
1	98	No troupe is permitted to perform within a city unless it has a license.
1	103	This is particularly the case when small committees are involved in the approvals or given individuals, such as a city's Entertainment Master or Master of Revels.
1	695	Sometimes, in some cities, discovered, these fair pranksters are turned over to guardsmen, to be led in public shame bound and naked through the city, under explanatory placards, and then taken back to their homes.
1	697	More often, however, in almost all cities, discovered, these fair pranksters are simply bound and gagged and smuggled out of the city, to be vended in distant markets.
1	699	Commonly the market they are sold in is one in a city enemy to their own.
1	712	This seems a likely explanation, too, for the women who frequent lonely bridges at night, or dangerous areas of a city, or, say, publicly provoke and challenge strong young men, treating them badly, pretending to detest them, but perhaps, on some level, longing for their bonds.
2	661	"He cannot, in any event, escape from the city," said one of the guards.

Book 21. (30 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	55	"The city is under martial law," I said.
18	260	"Yet, there are some I have heard of," I said, "who might deny a natural slave her bondage, even by law, no matter what might be the mental, emotional, and physical damage of this".
19	195	He may even have been a scribe of the law.
21	162	"I am not a scribe of the law," he said.
22	84	"But it is also against the law".
25	352	One of the glories of the Gorean culture is that it has a body of law, sanctioned by tradition and mercilessly enforced, pertaining, without evasion or subterfuge, to this relationship.
25	1419	In Gorean thought, and, indeed, Gorean law is explicit on this, what is owned is the whole slave.
25	2300	"They will attempt to use law," she said, "using men against men, using them as their dupes and tools, until the last man can be destroyed".
25	2307	Any such law is automatically null and void.
9	86	Once a Gorean city closes its gates it is usually difficult to leave the city.
1	77	She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental allies of the island ubarate of Cos.
1	119	"Remain in the city," I said.
1	138	"Go back now to the city, and be safe".
2	152	Doubtless many times she would have held herself a thousand times superior to the poor peasant women, coming in from the villages, in their bleached woolen robes, bringing their sacks and baskets of grain and produce to the city's markets.
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	352	The permanent garrisons of the fortified camps, too, of course, exercise a significant peace-keeping and holding role in the outer districts of a city's power.
4	20	Needless to say, these movements, particularly when they intrude into more settled areas, often bring the folk of the laagers into conflict with others, peasants and, of course, shortly thereafter, townsfolk and city dwellers who depend on the peasants for their foodstuffs.
4	27	They often find themselves temporarily within the borders of a town's or city's lands, usually about their fringes, but sometimes, depending on the weather and grazing conditions, much deeper within them.
4	360	It does not make for good relations with the city dwellers".
5	63	"Not outsiders, not city folks," he said.
5	129	After the judge's decision has been enacted, its effect carried out upon her, reducing her to the status of goods, sometimes publicly, that she may be suitably disgraced, sometimes privately, by a contract slaver, that the sensitivities of free women in the city not be offended, she is...
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.
5	476	In a city, after a few switchings, I was sure Feiqa would learn a common lesson of slave girls, namely, that compared to free women she was less than dirt beneath their slippers, less than garbage in the sewers, that she would learn to avoid them if at all possible, and, if addressed, ...
9	57	Torcadino, on the flats of Serpeto, is a crossroads city.
9	61	It is sometimes said that any city can fall behind the walls of which can be placed a tharlarion laden with gold.
9	66	The city was now used as a Cosian stronghold and staging area.
9	73	The natural wells of Torcadino, originally sufficing for a small population, had, more than a century ago, proved inadequate to furnish sufficient water for an expanding city.
9	81	"How long will it take to reach the city?" asked Boabissia.
9	90	To be sure, a given gate, the "night gate," is usually maintained somewhere, through which bona-fide citizens, known in the city, or capable of identifying themselves, may be admitted.
10	42	"But the sky over the city is crisscrossed with thousands of strands of tarn wire.

Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	388	"Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.
5	44	When she had been used before my kennel she had been under "gag law," as is common when the guards use a girl, forbidden speech, save for moans and whimpers.
6	327	How fearful it would be, I thought, if such a female, or such females, in all their hatred and frustration, should manage by lies, propaganda, misrepresentation, manipulation, distortion, chicanery and law, swiftly or gradually, perhaps almost unnoticeably, to bring about the ruination...
6	596	I had noted, with interest, that although they were from different worlds, they, in the throes of their intimate employments, at first submitting to and enduring, then accepting, then reveling in, and, at last, kneeling and licking, mutely begging and pleading for their ravishments, in their whimper...
6	627	I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law.
6	634	If I were to flee the thief, however, after he has consolidated his hold on me, for example, kept me for even a night, I could, actually in Gorean law, be counted as a runaway slave, from him, even though he did not technically own me yet, and punished accordingly.
10	493	Even Gorean law makes it clear that it is the entire slave who is owned, not merely a part of her.
11	214	It would soon be replaced, we may suppose, with a new and more appropriate status, that of being a slave legally, a status fixed on her then with all the clarity and obduracy of Gorean law, and fixed on her for all the world to see, fixed on her as plainly as the collar on her neck and...
13	796	Of course, I would call men "Master"! They were my masters, and not only in the order of nature, but here, too, in the order of law.
17	104	The public buildings, the law court and the "house of the Administrator," the locus of public offices, were similarly structured and adorned.
24	19	His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.
28	101	This point in Gorean law is apparently motivated by the consideration that a slave always have some master.
29	185	Too, anyone whose citizenship, for whatever reason, is rescinded or revoked, with due process of law, is no longer entitled to the protections and rights of that polity's Home Stone.
29	1574	He held a steel sword, where such things made law.
34	175	It is as though all the forces of communication, education and law had gone insane, with no better objective than to bring the sexes to ruin, destroy the human gene pool and doom the species".
34	632	"I am yours in the sight of law, yours, owned, in fullest legality, and doubtless you are well aware, as well, that I am helpless in your arms, and writhe helplessly there, and hasten to obey in all things, fearful of my master's wrath, and that I am your slave conquest, and property, ...
16	96	Although this varies from city to city, it is not unusual for a silver tarsk to be exchangeable for a hundred copper tarsks, each one of which can be worth anywhere from ten to four tarsk bits, usually eight.
20	196	Also, of course, they would generally not be citizens of the city and in the city there would be little opportunity for them to practice their caste crafts.
23	93	Venna is a small, lovely city, largely a resort city, north of Ar, on the Viktel Aria.
29	113	Tharnans seldom bring slaves into the city or, indeed, sell them out of the city.
29	1403	"I traveled from city to city.
7	22	We had apparently come into the keeping of our wholesaler outside the walls of this city, at a temporary slave camp.
7	25	Space outside of a city's walls is usually cheaper to rent than space within its walls.
7	29	A disadvantage of such camps is that they are more vulnerable to attack than if they were located in, say, housings or courts within a city's walls.
7	97	"We are coming to the gate! We are going to be leaving the city!" Three or four of the other girls, too, Goreans, all moaned in protest.
7	100	"Earth fool," said one of them, "you know nothing! You can wear your collar in a small town, in a camp, in a peasant village, if you want! I want to wear mine in a great city!" "Let Gloria pull a plow, let her hoe weeds, let her carry water on a great farm," said one of the girls.
7	104	"One has a much easier life, almost always, in a city," said one of the Gorean girls.
7	108	The most important thing was not whether you were in a city or not, but your master.
7	112	Also doubtless the labors of a slave in such a city would be easier on the whole than those of one, say, on a farm.
7	128	Apparently we had only cut through this city, which might be Brundisium, en route to somewhere else.

Book 23. (30 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	736	She was not, technically, at least at present, a slave in the eyes of the law, as an animal is an animal in the eyes of the law, a tarsk a tarsk, a vulo, so soft and pretty, a vulo.
16	393	Although there are various legal qualifications involved, which vary from city to city, effective, or active, possession is generally regarded as crucial from the point of view of the law, such possession being taken, no other claims forthcoming within a spe...
21	845	The rape of a free woman on Gor, however, it must be understood, if one shares a Home Stone with her, can be a very serious offense, even involving exile; in such a case, it is interesting to note that the woman often chooses to follow the man into exile, even though she must then, in law<...
9	214	The law, the culture, and such, are not set up to permit it.
20	220	Perhaps that is because the reconciliation and coordination of chronologies, like the diction and convolutions of the law, are usually regarded as scribal prerogatives.
20	310	"It must be clearly understood, by all," said Calliodorus, standing up, smiling, putting his half of the topaz into his pouch, "that the Vosk League, a neutral force on the river, one devoted merely to the task of maintaining law and order on the river, is certainly in no way involved ...
21	315	Few of them, accordingly, are eager to frequent law courts.
21	358	The legal problems connected with intent to deceive with respect to caste, of course, problems of the sort which presumably constitute the rationale of the law, usually come up in cases of fraud or impersonation, for example, with someone pretending to be of the Physicians.
21	776	"Surely a polity, even if it be one of pirates, if it is to survive, if it is to protect itself, must establish some forms of justice and law within its own precincts?" "One would suppose so," I said.
21	958	In the modality of master and slave is found the recognition of, and institutionalization of, within a civilized framework of law, custom and tradition, the ancient complementarity of the sexes, a complementarity consequent upon the extreme and beautiful dimorphism, physically and psyc...
24	974	I was once, in the eyes of the law, a free woman".
2	100	These had entered the city through aqueducts, literally over the heads of unsuspecting Cosian armies camped about the city.
15	88	Such customs, I supposed, would differ from city to city.
1	473	Usually, too, within a city, there will be a citadel to which defenders may withdraw, which is likely to be next to impregnable.
1	474	They are likely to be safe there even if the city is burned about them.
2	44	"Most were trapped in the city?" I said.
2	58	"Cosians, as far as you know," I said, "hold no part of the city itself".
2	89	The headquarters of the Vosk League is located in the city of Victoria.
2	90	I suppose there are special historical reasons for this, for Victoria is not centrally located on the river, say, between the delta to the west and the entry of the Olni into the Vosk on the east, which point, incidentally, is controlled by the city of Lara, a member of the Salerian Co...
2	99	I had been in Torcadino several weeks ago, indeed, at the very moment when the city, housing Cosian siege engines and supplies, serving as a depot and staging area for the eastward advance of Cos, had, in a daring stratagem, been seized by Dietrich of Tarnburg with no more than a few t...
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 been arrested, a...
2	166	Fires have occurred in the city, from saboteurs, from fire javelins, from flame baskets catapulted over the walls.
2	167	There is starvation in the city.
4	49	After a given time there, after it is thought they have learned their lessons, and those of the baths, they are, commonly, routinely enslaved and sold out of the city.
8	487	Sometimes a woman does not learn for weeks, sometimes until, say, the very night of her sale, where she is, in what city she finds herself.
8	504	Once before, long ago, in the vicinity of the city of Ar, I had been lax in doing that.
9	20	"It is said the city will soon fall," I said.
9	23	"You wish to gain entrance to the city," she said.
9	48	Had it not been for the strength of the bird and my start I might have been downed over the city.
9	94	It is sometimes very trying, though also perhaps very instructive, for a new slave, perhaps a woman of a conquered city, to be marched thusly through the streets, stung with pebbles, pinched and slapped, subjected to the most intimate forms of raillery, jocosity and abuse.

Book 24. (30 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	28	In some cities the veil is prescribed by law for free women, as well as by custom and etiquette; and in most cities it is prohibited, by law, to slaves.
1	891	Given this, it may be seen that, in a sense, the brand and collar, as lovely and decorative as they are, and as exciting and profoundly meaningful as they are, when they are fixed on a woman, and she wears them, and as obviously important as they are from the point of view of property law<...
12	263	That is because they, though legally free, within the strict technicalities of the law, are yet slaves.
19	147	Perhaps she is somewhat uneasy; perhaps she is curious; perhaps she wonders, if he is attractive, what it might be like to be at his feet, unclothed and bound, his, his by all the rules and law of capture.
19	160	Yet, I supposed, that such an absurdity, such an oversight of law, and civilization, was not irremediable.
19	285	Against such fraud, needless to say, the law provides redress.
19	337	"It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well".
19	341	Aside from questions of legality, compliance with the law, and such, I think it will be clear upon a moment's reflection that various practical considerations also commend slave branding to the attention of the owner, in particular, the identification of the article as property, this t...
26	58	In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave.
26	190	Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves.
28	645	"In this situation," I said, "in law, as well as in fact".
39	21	"It is against the law," said the fellow.
39	94	Now, however, she was not merely a natural slave, aware of herself, reduced, and self-confessed, begging the resolution and solace of the collar, but a legal slave, fully and perfectly embonded in law.
40	45	He was, I suspected, a scribe of the law.
12	71	I was Tarl, of Port Kar, city of the great arsenal, city of many canals, Jewel of Gleaming Thassa.
28	79	This was a reference to the citizenship ceremony which, following the oath of allegiance to the city, involves an actual touching of the city's Home Stone.
29	106	In this particular signal, one of several which, from city to city, might have similar import, the downward movement of the hand indicates that the girl is to kneel, the place where she is to kneel is indicated in effect by pointing, and the spreading of the fingers indic...
36	150	The streets are, after all, the streets of their city, and their city is, after all, the place of their Home Stone.
36	168	She was, after all, a woman of Ar, for which city he now held little love, that city which had abandoned Ar's Station to her fate; too, she was a traitress and such tend, regardless of the side they have betrayed, to be treated with great contempt and severity by Gorean m...
1	875	Many is the woman who has survived by dancing naked before conquerors in the hot ashes of a burning city, who, perhaps ostensibly lamenting, but inwardly thrilled, sensing the appropriateness and perfection of her imminent bondage, has put forth her fair limbs for the clasp of chains a...
3	600	One must distinguish between the slave girl who is put to a stirrup as a discipline, who might be taken into the country like this, even on dirt roads, to gasp and sweat, and struggle, at the stirrup, and the girl who, in a city, or on a smooth stone road, of great fitted blocks, serve...
4	51	He was later deposed by the popular Marlenus of Ar who, having returned to the city, was backed by the populace.
12	151	"Some of those most highly placed in the city are party to this treachery, among them Seremides, high general, and Saphronicus, to whose staff you are adjunct.
26	53	I had neither seen him nor heard of him since the revolt in the mines, that upon which the revolution in the city had been consequent.
26	75	Perhaps her abdication was in the best interests of the city.
26	77	Doubtless it ended something of a political tension in the city, and I take it that Tharna now, under the governance of its councils, and its administrator, Kron, has at last achieved a commendable political consistency.
26	78	As nearly as I could determine from the reports of the silver merchant Lara's abdication was not forced, nor even the result of extreme political pressures brought on her, but a voluntary act, one apparently regarded by her as being not only in the best interests of the city but in her...
26	185	"Indeed, wars have been fought to obtain the beautiful slaves of a given city".
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	225	After their training they were sold, some from the city, some within it, these decisions made by lottery.

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	1	The Street "Surely you understand the law, my dear," he said.
1	19	"I am sure you are familiar with the law," said the first fellow, flanked by two magistrates.
1	24	It is a clear law".
3	284	Surely she must have known the law.
8	846	"It is against the law," he said.
8	847	"Not our law," I said.
9	95	"Are you a legal slave, my child?" asked one of the counselors, a scribe of the law.
9	440	"It is one thing to be captured by a man and taken to his tent, and put to his feet and made to serve, or to be sentenced by a magistrate in due course of law to slavery for crimes which I have actually committed, and another to stand here publicly shamed, before my enemy, a woman, in ...
11	134	"I am a law-abiding man.
14	263	The testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture in Gorean law courts.
15	173	I supposed that the taverners must be much put out by the curfew law, and would have lost much business.
19	484	By such an act, the couching with, or readying herself to couch with, a slave, as though she might be a girl of the slave's master, thrown to the slave, she shows herself as no more than a slave, and in this act, in law, becomes a slave.
19	485	Who then should own her, this new slave? Why, of course, he to whom the law consigns her, the master of the slave with whom she has couched, or was preparing to couch.
19	1386	In this sense the slave is accorded some protection from free persons who do not own her in virtue of certain general considerations of property law.
20	728	How far we were from the cave and the stone knife, I thought, and yet, again, in a way, how close! Could one not see in the blade of steel, so much keener and more dangerous, the knife of stone? Could one not recollect in the spacious courts of the palace the dim recesses of limestone caves? And who...
22	227	"It is the law! We of Ar may not carry weapons".
22	633	Merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor.
22	634	Such things do exist in municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local.
26	477	"The principle here, I gather," said Marcus, "is that the Ubara is above the law".
26	478	"The law in question is a serious one," said Tolnar.
26	482	"I am Ubara!" "The Ubara is above the law?" asked Marcus, who had an interest in such things.
26	483	"In a sense, yes," said Tolnar, "the sense in which she can change the law by decree".
26	484	"But she is subject to the law unless she chooses to change it?" asked Marcus.
26	487	"Whatever law it is," cried the netted woman, "I change it! I herewith change it!" "How can you change it?" asked Tolnar.
26	572	The result of this examination, of course, was to produce a network of data which, to a statistical certainty, far beyond the requirements of law, would be unique to a given female.
27	367	I looked down at the new slave, whom I had decided to call 'Talena', which slave name was also entered on her papers, in the first endorsement, as her first slave name pertinent to these papers, and by means of which she could always be referred to in courts of law as, say, the slave w...
27	740	"To uphold the law they have jeopardized their careers, they have entered into exile!" "There are such men," I said.
4	11	"Curses upon Ar's Station," he cried, "city faithless and without honor, suborned ally, taker of bribes, refuge of scoundrels, home of cowards, betrayer of the mother city! Down with Ar's Station.
4	62	In any event, most of those in the city, surely the largest part, by far, of its population, had no practical way to leave the city, lest it be on foot.
7	262	Almost always they will be publicly and ceremoniously enslaved, either before or after the triumph, either in their own city or in the city of the conqueror.

Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
18	145	Men in this city, whatever city it was, whereas they might have regarded our tunics as "appealing," would certainly not have regarded them as scandalous; if anything, for this city, they might have seemed a bit decorous; indeed, many men in this city
19	311	The women of city A, for example, might be led to believe that it was the will of the Priest-Kings that they become the slaves of the men of city B, and the women of city B might be led to believe that it was the will of the Priest-Kings that they become the...
13	1043	I rather doubted that this token was likely to be interpreted by the prisoners in the same fashion that the judiciary of the city, or the free women of the city, whatever city this might be, had anticipated.
24	698	I had gathered, from various things I had heard, here and there, that she may once have been an important and powerful personage in some city, perhaps in the city of Tharna, the men of which city it seemed she much feared.
7	155	But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capaci...
12	944	In the pits his word is law for us.
24	971	Gone would be the protection of the law, of guardsmen, of the shared Home Stone.
13	476	Was the coinage of beautiful women so plentiful here, in this city of raiders and warriors, I wondered, that even specimens such as she, such gems as she, who might be the centerpiece of a collection elsewhere, who might be brought to the block at the climax of an auction, labored here...
13	507	They constitute almost a city beneath a city.
18	56	And certainly few men will visit an unfamiliar city, on business or otherwise, without comparing the girls of that city with the girls of their own.
18	64	A common recreation for a tarnsman, for example, particularly when not on duty, not on maneuvers or campaign, is to steal women from a "fair city," that is, one at war with, or on poor terms with, his own city.
18	69	Spies in one city ascertain, by rumor, and such, who are supposedly the most beautiful free women of a city.
18	77	Is she desirable enough, beautiful enough, to wear a collar in that city? One would not wish her to reflect poorly on the city, of course.
18	89	For example, let us suppose that several women of a given city, say, A, are now slaves in a given city, say, B.
18	95	Similarly, if a fellow captures a woman and carries her out of the city, and enslaves her, he may return with her to the city, she now his unquestioned slave.
19	127	It was a response to a presumed insult on the part of an administrator of a distant city, something to the effect that those of this city, whose name I did not yet know, were at best cowards and petty thieves, capable of no more than making off with an occasional slave.
24	22	Perhaps they had moved in stages, by night, coming closer and closer to the city, concealing themselves by day in ravines, now, at this time of day, making their dash toward the city.
24	217	But what if the tarnsmen of Treve, those in the vicinity, were in pursuit of the first flight? What if it had drawn them away? Could they hear the alarm bars behind them, in the city? Could they be recalled? Could a messenger catch up with them? How much time would it take to do so, an...
24	238	On the terrace, now discarded, lying among bodies, I saw some of the banners of this city, which had been displayed during the approach to the city.
24	897	The average man of this world would no more think of stealing a slave within his own city, or a host city, one which has extended the courtesy of its walls, than he would of any other act of illicit and dishonorable brigandage.
29	741	To be sure, the custom apparently varies from city to city.
33	8	"None exists in the city, by policy," said the pit master, "just as no map of the city, either, may be prepared".
5	5	The garden was within the city itself.
5	74	Times were hard in the city, I gathered, though I did not understand much of what was occurring.
5	79	It stood high, it seemed, in the favor of those who controlled the city.
5	81	To be sure, it was in its way an uneasy existence for us, in the garden, for we could hear what occasionally went on in the streets, on the other side of the wall, and we had gathered, from remarks of guards, overheard, and such, that not every house in the city, with such a garden, ha...
7	48	This sort of thing, I had learned, tends to depend on the city, and the man.
7	96	"It is the sign of the city".
7	159	There were doubtless many in the city, even thousands, I supposed, who wore the same, or a very similar, mark.
7	177	"In what city," asked he, "were you marked?" "It was done in the pens," I said, "shortly after my arrival here.

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	501	It is both historical and contemporary; it is honored in custom and tradition; it is honored in practice; it is pervasive, societally and culturally; it is familiar, recognized and unquestioned; it is ingredient in the law and enforced with all the sanctions of the law.
26	752	"Now I surely acknowledge that the confiscation was within the letter of the law, given the current sorry state of Ar and the ordinances of the occupation; and I acknowledge further that she has been out of my hands for more than the number of days which, in Merchant law,...
1	23	Too, this is, I conjecture, in my current reality, not altogether unfitting; indeed, it is altogether appropriate, for you see that is what I now am, categorically, explicitly, an object, and not merely in the eyes of the law, but such irremediably, incontrovertibly, in the very realit...
1	100	The oddity, or anomaly, has to do in its way with law.
1	101	The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such.
1	103	It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law.
1	112	And then, by law, she, totally unaware, became something she had not been before, or not in explicit legality.
1	122	But this reality was later made clear to her, by incontrovertible laws, and deeds, which did not so much confirm the hypothetical strictures of a perhaps hitherto rather speculative law, one extending to a distant world, as replace or supersede them, in an incontrovertibl...
10	122	But here on Gor, she thought, slavery is explicit, acknowledged, sanctified in tradition and law, and here men are the masters, at least of women such as she.
10	327	What concern had the law, in all its power and majesty, with such matters? Whether he loved her or he did not, whether she loved him or she did not, did not matter.
11	161	"Not all," said Mirus, "though it is recommended by Merchant law.
11	179	Not as his eyes had feasted upon her! Perhaps it was all a joke, or a dream? But then she heard the word, explicitly, and realized that slave was what she was, that that was now her absolute and incontrovertible identity, and that this identity, mercilessly imposed upon her, had behind it the full f...
11	241	Could it be she? It was she, she realized, it was! It could be no other! It was she! How the collar enhanced her beauty, in a thousand ways, aesthetically and psychologically, and how delicately, unmistakably, and beautifully, too, was her status, condition, and nature made clear, fixedly and absolu...
12	270	At their back was the full power of custom, tradition and law.
14	115	But here, on this world, thought Ellen, unlike such a woman, I am a slave not only by nature, and appropriately, but under explicit, recognized law.
14	119	On this world I am, in the full sense of the law, explicitly and perfectly, slave.
16	160	Not all masters brand and collar their slaves, but branding and collaring is strongly recommended in Merchant law, and it would be a rare slave girl who was not both branded and collared.
18	134	In its way, the collar has some of the symbolic aspects of the marriage ring, except, of course, that that ring is a symbol worn by a free woman who is the putative equal of a man, whereas the collar is worn by a slave, and, aside from such things as its identificatory purposes, important in Merchan...
22	695	She law light reflected in the eyes of one of the beasts, from the uplifted lantern.
24	485	On Gor, on the other hand, as you have doubtless by now gathered, this omission, or this practice, that of not wearing the veil, is common with, and, indeed, is usually imposed upon, and in many cities by law, slaves.
26	1313	The free woman is a person; she is a citizen; she has standing before the law; she has a Home Stone; she is noble, lofty, and exalted.
27	490	Thus, on the symbolic level, where human sexuality luxuriates, thrives and flourishes, and aside from the obvious identificatory conveniences of Merchant law, it was far more than a lovely piece of jewelry; it enhanced her beauty not only aesthetically but symbolically, overwhelmingly,...
27	2228	Too, society accepts them, and has a place for them and their nature, and reinforces their condition with all the irrefragable power of custom and law.
27	2652	That is to be expected in a natural society, a society in which a prized and essential ingredient is female slavery, a society in which it is an accepted, respected, unquestioned, honored tradition, an institution sanctioned in both custom and law.
27	3488	"For the love of Priest-Kings," cried Tersius Major, "give me something to drink, something to eat!" "You have broken the law of Priest-Kings," said Portus Canio.
30	479	All details of contracts must be arranged, usually with the attention of scribes of the law.
10	245	To be sure, this varies from city to city.
11	77	Gorean decor varies from latitude to latitude, from city to city, and home to home, but, in general, it tends to simplicity and openness, this presumably a heritage deriving from some remote tradition.
17	211	To be sure, chronologies, and such, can differ from city to city.
21	71	Merchants, dignitaries, soldiers, travelers, artisans, peddlers, tradesmen, citizens, peasants, villagers, townspeople and others were all making their way into the vicinity of the city, some setting up tents and camps, others renting space either within the city, or abou...

Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
80	290	Indeed, as earlier noted, this display, as certain others, is prescribed by Merchant law, which is a general, intermunicipal body of law regularly promulgated by the Merchant caste at the great fairs, and tending to be shared by disunited, often hostile, Gorean communitie...
1	106	Indeed, they are indispensable in their way; have they not, however unintentionally, secured the foundation of law; have they not, however unbeknownst to themselves, raised from the mire of brutishness, insecurity, and terror the towers of civilization? Surely it is they who must man t...
1	217	Block measurements, taken presale, are commonly, and in some cities this is required by law, included in a female's sales information.
1	843	The most common site for such, recommended in Merchant law, is high on the left thigh, under the hip.
1	1178	Indeed, this is required by Merchant law.
3	113	But does not the collar enhance the beauty of any woman, the contrast with her softness, its irremovability, and its meaning? It is little wonder, he thought, that Merchant law prescribes that the fair throats of female slaves will know the collar, that their fair throats be clasped wi...
19	169	"Lord Pyrrhus is not above the law," said the machine.
19	170	"No one is above the law," speculated Cabot.
19	172	"One is above the law".
27	173	"In your former culture," said Cabot, "only males were thought to have value, really, and thus the female was supposed to become a pretend male, with male properties and virtues, a counterfeit male, a facsimile male, and so arose all the nonsense of identity, a farce transparent even to children, bu...
43	338	It would be a matter of law".
55	146	And it is a matter not simply of time and tradition, you must understand, but of mores, customs, practices, an ethos, and abundant and tested law".
79	573	"How is she a slave?" "She fell afoul of a law, one of her own father's laws, that she who couches with, or readies herself to couch with, a slave, becomes the slave of the slave's master, the couching slave in this case, whom I had purchased in order to compromise and en...
79	574	Afterwards, as had been my intent, I freed him, but this, in accord with the law and my plan, left her my slave.
80	279	To be sure, Merchant law, in any case, prescribes the collar, the brand, distinctive garmenture, and such.
80	291	Even were it not for such law, of course, practical considerations would dictate some obvious ways of marking the distinction between the female slave and the free woman.
1	905	Then, humiliated, lost to honor, broken as a warrior and man, shamed and degraded, mocked, they might do with him as they pleased, perhaps doing away with him in some grisly, amusing fashion on some holiday, or even turning him loose, if they wished, naked in some wilderness, to live as he could wit...
1	944	When a city falls her women, stripped and chained, are herded to the conquering city, to be sold, or, if kept, to serve and please the victors.
1	982	Similarly, let us suppose a woman of a given city falls slave and eventually finds herself once more in her native city.
18	286	When a city falls, it is common for the slaves of the city to submit themselves to the conquerors, kneeling, head down, arms extended, wrists crossed, for binding.
32	72	She was unfamiliar with the cumbersome intricacies of the usual Robes of Concealment, their arranged foldings, the abundant drapings, and such, which vary from city to city, but she had simulated something akin to them, doubtless with the aid of Grendel, who would have be...
43	163	"Where is your city?" "I do not need a city," she said.
1	149	In any event Tarl Cabot, having returned from the Barrens, and having learned later of his putative outlawry, resolved to leave the maritime city of Port Kar, only to return when it might be safe to do so, this intelligence to be gathered from agreed-upon secret signals t...
1	714	Certainly her curves were worthy of an auction block, at least in a minor city.
1	951	They are relatively safe, usually, only within the walls of their city, and amongst those with whom they share a Home Stone, but not always, as suggested, even then.
1	983	There she will remain a slave, and may well be kept in a slavery more grievous than what was hers outside the city.
1	984	Her bondage, that she has served others, rendered obeisance to them, cried out and leapt, collared, in their arms, and such, has shamed her city.
1	1049	Cabot, however, as some Warriors, tended to generalize this recommendation to free women more generally, saving, of course, those who might be insolent or abusive, or of an enemy city.
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.

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
28	398	What hubris that a slave should dare to don the garments of a free woman, let alone take a place on a Ubara's throne! Would not each tiny particle of her flesh, one after another, have been publicly removed over weeks, or months, on a needle's point? I had seen to it that she was enslaved, in her ow...
5	801	To be sure, a woman of a city found enslaved within the city is commonly sold out of the city.
4	203	"It is an explicit recommendation of Merchant law".
5	139	I had little love for Priest-Kings, but theirs was the law and the rod which held in check the inventive and indiscreet aggressions of humans on this, their world.
13	437	The master may have many slaves, but the slave may, by law, have but one master, even if it be the state, or some corporate entity.
19	279	"It is the law of Lord Nishida".
22	278	The relationship of female slave and male master, though one established, sanctioned, and enforced by law, is founded obviously on one common in nature, that of, so to speak, the conquered, possessed female and the conquering, possessing male.
26	256	The former Ubara had been embonded in accord with the couching law of Marlenus of Ar, any free woman who couches with, or prepares to couch with, a male slave, becomes herself a slave, and the property of the male slave's master.
26	293	Possession, particularly after a lengthy interval, is often regarded as decisive, by praetors, archons, magistrates, scribes of the law, and such.
26	294	What is of most importance to the law is not so much that a particular individual owns a slave as that she is owned by someone, that she is absolutely and perfectly owned.
44	47	Later, on a far world, far beyond the Prison Moon, a Steel World, as there were slavers there, and her attractions warranted this, she had been simply taken in hand, and branded and collared, routinely so, they not even understanding at that time that she was already a slave, not that that would hav...
5	781	Those unfamiliar with the ways of Gor might suppose that a foregone consequence of the liberation of a city would be the freeing of certain slaves, say, those of the city who had been impressed into bondage.
13	55	This is convenient for the receipt of goods coming into the city, and for those being sent from the city.
17	21	Even if such a woman is recaptured by fellows of her former city she will be brought back to her former city as only another slave, and will be held there as a slave, and a low slave.
17	22	To be sure, she is likely to be soon sold out of the city, as her very existence in that city is regarded as an embarrassment, and a reminder of the dishonor she has brought to her fellow citizens, her Home Stone, her caste, her clan, and family.
30	74	Consider the difficulty of scaling the walls of a city, particularly if the city were at sea.
38	350	I feared, rather, given the coming of winter and its season of storms, that the walls of this city, so to speak, would be shortly breached, that they would be unable to resist the raging blows of green Thassa, the blows of her towering, mountainous hammers, that the city ...
2	56	Too, there may be economic constraints, as well, for if the challenge is not accepted, one is sometimes expected, depending on the city, the castes, and circumstances, to pay for the slave, with a purse several times her value.
2	174	"Can you conceive of a city, a town, a village, a hamlet, without a Home Stone?" "There are probably such places," I said.
3	91	In some cases their stock has been confiscated by the city and their establishment burned to the ground.
3	379	No longer carried in her sedan chair by slaves, for whom citizens must make way, she was now less than a tarsk in the city.
3	552	Thentis is a high Gorean city, east and north of Ko-ro-ba.
3	598	"She is from New York city," said Pertinax.
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 voyages, traversin...
5	51	"You are not even a caste or city champion," he said.
5	388	Sometimes high warriors, city masters, Ubars, generals, and such, play "blind kaissa".
5	467	"Fortunate it was for Tyros, Cos, and their allies," said a fellow, shuddering, "that Marlenus was absent from the city".
5	474	I wondered if he might not have been a banished warrior, from some city.
5	483	Many of the best forces of Ar, her finest troops, her best officers, by intent, to divert them from the defense of the city, had been earlier ordered to the vast delta of the Vosk, to engage there in an alleged punitive expedition against supposed incursions from Cos and Tyros.
5	490	Myron, polemarkos of the continental forces of Cos, he of Temos, cousin to Lurius of Jad, of Cos, was in command of the city, though he maintained a headquarters outside her pomerium.

Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	292	His "horde," as historians would come to speak of it, lay encamped outside her walls, poised to breach her defenses, ready to enter, sack, and burn the city; all seemed lost; but Marlenus, somehow abetted in his return by a figure now thought by many to be mythical, a Tarl of Bristol, ...
1	392	She was now without a Home Stone, a fugitive, no longer protected by law.
3	1265	I realized that I was now, in the eyes of the law, no longer the Lady Flavia but an animal that might be named as the free might please.
5	135	The sword here did not seem to be a law unto itself, or at least his sword.
5	242	"The animosity borne to me by your Rutilius of Ar has nothing to do with Cos and Ar, with politics or war, with defense or security, nor with justice or law.
12	503	Indeed, as you know, in a court of law, the testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture.
34	54	The face of the slave, by law, must be naked.
34	79	"In my view, and in that of most, and certainly in the eyes of the law, your status is clear".
36	177	In a couple of places on a platform, there was a harbor praetor, now indoors, in the warehouse, on his curule chair, as opposed to on the docks themselves, their usual station, who might clarify the Merchant law, interpret it, adjudicate disputes, and make rulings.
37	115	It is hard to be in a man's collar and, after a time, not come to be his slave, not merely in law, but in heart.
1	340	One of the greatest fortunes amassed in the city was that of a mysterious, shadowy individual supposedly named "Ludmilla," who owned, and, through subordinates, managed, a series of large, ornate slave brothels in the city.
2	50	I went first to Jad, city of my birth, city of great Lurius, our Ubar, where I had been enlisted and trained, but swords were plentiful there, and I was scorned, for my blade, with helmet and gear, was gone, having been bartered, in part, together with my last tarsk, for ...
1	56	"If you have a story to tell, for a drink," said the taverner, "why not tell it toward the upper city, against the outer walls, in a landward tavern, say, the Diamond Collar?" The stranger was silent.
1	290	It seems that long ago, during the Planting Feast of Ar, a bold tarnsman, thought to be from the north, seized the Home Stone of Ar, which catastrophe brought about the temporary downfall of the Ubar, who fled from the city with chosen men.
1	291	In the disruptions and chaos ensuing upon the loss of the Home Stone, leagues of cities, enemies to Ar, under the leadership of an Assassin, Pa-Kur, marched on the troubled, disunited city.
1	298	One may well suppose it was quite a coup for Rask of Treve to have his collar on the neck of the daughter of Marlenus, inveterate foe of his city.
1	320	Meanwhile, Talena, in her disgrace and fury, conspired with malcontents and traitors who, given the absence of Marlenus, and the unsettled conditions in the city, wished to come to power in Ar.
1	321	A conspiracy was formed, abetted by propagandas contrived to paralyze and confuse the citizens of Ar, propagandas promoting self-doubt and guilt amongst her citizens for the successes and glories of Ar's past, propagandas including belittlings of danger, and representations of enemies as allies and ...
1	324	Talena, smug with the spears of invaders behind her, sat regally upon her father's throne, and abused her power wickedly, using it to further reduce and diminish her city, and avenged herself rampantly, as she wished, upon numerous enemies, or putative enemies, or on anyone she might w...
1	331	Amongst her supporters, and numerous collaborators, battening on the misery of the city, corruption was rampant.
1	335	Gangs of youths, flaunting Cosian fashions, roamed the city, looting and vandalizing.
1	336	Shortages of goods and food became common in the city, except amongst those favored by the state.
1	355	To shorten the story, great Marlenus was recognized, it is said by a slave, in a line of Peasants, delivering suls within the city.
1	366	Within the city collaborators, their names posted on the public boards, were hunted down, room to room.
2	5	"It is a fortress, a city!" exclaimed the left helmsman.
2	138	In its holds it might carry the stores of a small city.
3	31	Surely it seemed they had their own world, their own city, a floating island of wood.
3	185	It might require negotiation, and the backing of a city.
3	236	It was as though the Delta Brigade had spread an anticipatory terrain of tinder and oil throughout the streets of Ar, into which great Marlenus, come somehow to the city, flung the torch of revolution.
3	251	"You were still in the city, on the fourth day of the rebellion?" I said.

Book 31. (30 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	745	To be sure, much depends on the particular woman, the caste, the city, and sometimes, I understand, even the neighborhood or district within the city, as a Gorean city, as many cities, often contains a medley of subcultures.
10	853	"A Ubar might companion a Ubara from another city, a coveted city, one of wealth and power, or companion the daughter of another Ubar, of such a city, such things".
5	50	The collar may be viewed as a simple contrivance, a device prescribed by Merchant law, identifying a slave and, if the collar is engraved, often her master.
8	387	Had I been capable of wondering, on Earth, if I were a slave, a rightful slave, a slave by nature? How foolish now seemed such abstract, idle ruminations! It was now confirmed upon me, that I, the former Allison Ashton-Baker, was a slave, and not only by law, however absolute that lega...
8	780	She was a mere barbarian, a scion of a primitive culture, and I was a civilized woman of Earth, of the upper classes, young, beautiful, educated, intelligent, sensitive, well-bred, refined, now somehow inexplicably entrapped in a barbarian world, a world where I was denied the protection of the <...
8	782	Thus, here, the law, in all its power and rigor, in all its weight and majesty, would be used not for me but against me, for example, to hunt me down and return me to a master.
8	1289	In that tiny world her word would be law.
8	1480	Men were still the masters, but now not subtly, almost invisibly, as on Earth, but now openly, visibly, in the full force of law.
10	163	I wanted to be his, his property, a helpless object, goods, possessed by him, in all the fullness of law, in all the fullness of culture, in all the fullness of nature.
16	150	And such relationships on Gor were institutionalized, fixed in law! I was collared! I sensed that I belonged on the block, stripped, before such men, who might, fittingly, purchase me as an object, or toy.
17	236	That is clear in law.
17	496	They make us theirs, in reality, and law.
18	700	"That goes far beyond law," I said.
18	702	"It is in law, as well, that the whole slave is owned".
26	212	"It is the law," said Astrinax.
26	218	That is the law".
35	25	I did know that testimony from a slave, at least in a court of law, is commonly taken under torture.
41	15	The law of gravity may be objectionable, but with what is it to be replaced? In any event, whatever might be the cause, most insurrections fail, and those that succeed seldom do more than restore the past with new bodies and different labels.
7	18	It is for such a reason that free women, trapped in a burning city, a fallen city, being sacked, will not unoften steal collars from their girls, and fasten them on their own necks, hoping to be taken for slaves, to be spared as slaves.
8	145	It is understood that the streets in a Gorean city, local bridges, and such, are the responsibility of those in the neighborhood, not of the city or state.
19	94	For the most part there is little standardization on Gor, and many things differ from city to city.
20	92	It was not as though I was a free woman, amongst others captured in a city being sacked, and a captor had tied my wrists behind me with his own colored cords, different from those of his fellows, that I might be sorted out appropriately in the temporary slave pens outside the cit...
20	248	I know of only one city in the Voltai, like a remote tarn's aerie, and that is the bandit city of Treve.
4	47	"It must be a fearful experience," she said, "when one's silk slave turns on one, perhaps binds one and disposes of one in a small market, taking the coins and departing the city".
4	484	Rawlinson, "particularly if the kajirae would be recent captures from an enemy city, or, say, enslaved rivals of the free women attending the feast, or such".
5	21	When a city falls, or a caravan is taken, one will usually add to one's chain what is at hand.
6	38	"I do not think they will escape the city," said Tela.
7	697	Perhaps much depends on the caste, or city.
8	70	"A city fell," said another.
8	84	At that time, hooded, I did not realize the striking beauty of a Gorean city, how so many of its buildings, the lofty towers and graceful bridges, the spacious porticoes, the splendid colonnades, and such, were bright with color, nor was I aware of the wealth of colors in clothing, bot...

Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
43	1171	Whereas cities have laws, and most castes have caste codes, there is only one law which is generally respected, and held in common, amongst Gorean municipalities, and that is Merchant law, largely established and codified at the great Sardar Fairs.
3	37	That is prescribed in Merchant law.
7	285	It is said they own councils and sway law, that their gold hides and whispers behind thrones, that cities heed their words, that Ubars are often in their debt.
9	239	Custom and tradition, and sometimes law, are involved in these matters.
9	240	The free woman may dress to please herself, but, too, it seems she is well advised to please herself by conforming, and strictly, to a variety of canons, canons of taste, custom, convention, and sometimes of law.
22	149	"She knew the law," I said.
23	127	But Laura could run! She could flee! I was not such a fool as to suppose I was not now a slave, for in the perfection of the law it was so, but I could run.
29	164	Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls.
43	1172	According to Merchant law an unclaimed slave, one legally subject to claimancy, may be claimed, and then is the property of the claimant.
46	54	Her nature, condition, and status are unquestioned in custom and institutionalized in law.
46	115	An exception is when her testimony is to be taken in a court of law.
48	27	Here it was so not only in the aching, longing reality of the heart, desiring to belong to and serve a master, but in the full, implacable reality of fact, truth, and law.
52	783	You should have been left to pine and languish in your shallow, tepid world, left, if anything, to the timid, polite, fumbling attentions of psychologically emasculated pseudomales, conditioned from infancy to disown their own nature, and deny their own blood, the creatures of a pathological world w...
14	278	Many had fallen slave following their flight from the city, females alone and defenseless in the fields, and many had purchased their conduct from the city from escaping mercenaries, at the cost of the collar itself, mercenaries unwilling to be burdened by free women.
22	33	Even should she manage to return to her own city, or family, she will be scorned, and kept as a slave, and subjected to the greatest cruelties and indignities, for her bondage has stained the honor of her city, or family.
23	146	It would be like a city at sea, a dangerous, armed city, walled with wood, with sails which might challenge clouds.
52	752	I knew there were considerable differences in coinages from city to city.
4	22	If it is learned that a given item was once a free woman of an enemy city, even a third or fourth sale may be terrifying.
6	79	Others claimed that the troops of Cos and Tyros, and the others, had marched from the city, over streets carpeted with blossoms, amidst shouts of joy and flung garlands, the tribute of a grateful populace, freed from the gross despotisms and tyrannies of the past.
6	84	Were it not for the ruination of her walls, thousands might have been unable to escape the city, to the open fields beyond.
6	86	As it was, men of Ar tried to prevent the remnants of the occupying forces fleeing and hundreds of sympathizers and collaborators from leaving the city.
6	87	Bands of mercenaries not quartered outside the city often had to fight their way to the countryside.
6	89	For pasangs about the city the fields were littered with feasting for scavenging jards.
6	90	Within the city long proscription lists were posted, and traitors and traitresses were hunted down, house to house.
6	92	Few free traitresses, or traitresses who long remained free, escaped the city.
6	122	What might be in the northern forests, or Torvaldsland, to warrant this mighty movement of men and supplies? Do they think to found a city at the mouth of some far river, say, the Laurius or the remote Alexandra? Such locations would seem remote and inauspicious.
6	124	Why would one require naval stores to found a city, or even a village? Other goods, one supposes, would suggest trading, or the raid.
6	279	Why did they not better protect it? It can be worth a man's life to try to take a free woman from a Gorean city, even a slave.
6	426	The lights of the tavern were soon behind us, and the wharf streets, in this section of the city, are narrow, crooked, and dark.
7	346	We did know that we were in Brundisium, apparently a large city, and a port.

Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
30	406	What of slave shelves, public cages, sales racks, sales wagons, exhibition poles, and such? Is not any slave in a coffle or on a rope exhibited? What of leashed slaves on promenade? What of those chained to the throne of a Ubar? Is not any girl fastened to a public slave ring exhibited? What of the ...
13	237	"Such things, identifications in their way, are in accord with Merchant law," I said.
13	256	law returned, in the form of the red sword.
20	78	"Too, that location is commonly recommended in Merchant law, on the continent".
27	53	Such a practice is not likely to elevate respect for the law".
29	406	"On the continent," I said, "it is prescribed by Merchant law".
30	70	"Fortunately for us," had said Tajima, "for times and roads are dangerous, and the protection of the great lord's law is welcome".
31	226	There is no law without the bow and glaive".
46	22	It is prescribed by Merchant law.
46	438	It is prescribed, as indicated earlier, by Merchant law.
46	449	"The peasant Eito," I said, "though seemingly well to do, and presumably peaceful and law-abiding, respectful of authority, and such, was clearly pleased at the slaying of the warrior, Izo.
47	169	It has been used both in courts of law as a procedure for deciding guilt or innocence, and, more commonly, as an amusing manner of execution, in which the naive subject tortures himself into hoping that he may survive.
58	238	Were these not independent, powerful, sovereign species, under no shared law, subject to no common sovereign, capable of imposing its will, but rather stood opposite one another in a state of nature, rather as two larls might face one another, snarling, contesting territory.
58	239	And who would presume to give law to the savage larl? She who had been the Lady Kameko was outside, in the corridor, kneeling, bent over, bound.
60	407	We need law, time to tend our fields, leaders, the protection of the mighty".
55	118	Indeed, in the frequent wars amongst cities, in the waxings and wanings of victories, in the advancing and receding tides of conflict, it is not unusual that a woman captured from one city and routinely enslaved may on another day, in the fortunes of raiding and war, fall into the hand...
61	803	"And even then," she said, "when Samos would have put me to the lash, even had me cast bound to the urts in the canals of the city, you did nothing, but requested that Samos deliver me to the city of my Home Stone, Ar, and to my father, Marlenus, as a free woman!" "He did...
2	145	"I am here! Greet me!" It would be doubtless unpleasant to return to one's city, routed and defeated, clad in ashes and rags, to face its councils, to be denied bread, fire, and salt, but better, I thought, that than flight, or falling upon one's sword, for then one might return to war...
12	37	Saru, the former Miss Margaret Wentworth, now far from the mahogany corridors of wealth and power, those which she had once frequented, in her small, manipulative way, in a far city on a distant world, wore a silken kimono, and obi, and figured sandals.
25	293	"One of the first missions of a young tarnsman," I said, "is to capture a young woman from an enemy city, one with an alien Home Stone.
27	18	On the continent, street contingents, raised in times of need to supplement a city's standing troops, commonly make do with knives, clubs, sharpened poles, and stones.
30	94	For example is it not surprising, if one stops to consider it, that something of value, say, a fukuro of rice, or a slave, might be exchanged for a tiny piece of metal, of whatever sort? I had heard of one city in which the state had issued small black leather packets sewn shut, which ...
30	102	The ultimate success or failure of this inventive economic adventure was never determined, as the city was attacked by several neighboring municipalities, was burned to the ground, and had salt cast upon its ashes.
30	372	"Such things are not only for the stripped high women of a conquered city serving the victory banquets of conquerors".
35	6	Sometimes a free woman, from a conquered, hated city, is cast naked into a cage or pen of male slaves.
44	99	Sometimes, wild and distraught, frantic, in a sacked, burning city, free women will even disguise themselves as slaves, that they may be spared.
54	182	Such sorties from a besieged holding, city, or such, providing a sufficient number of troops is available, are not that uncommon.
55	124	Normally, she will be sold out of her original city, unless perhaps someone, say, a formerly spurned suitor, wishes to buy her.
61	244	The bounty on Talena herself, who had been mysteriously removed from Ar, during the restoration of Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, was a fortune, such that it might purchase a city, ten thousand tarn disks of gold, each of double weight.
61	728	"I suppose it is little enough," I said, "for the apprehension of an arch villainess, who conspired with dissident elements in the city to betray Ar to her enemies, and would then rule, as a puppet, a false Ubara, under the aegis of Cos and her allies".

Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
40	80	Whereas most Gorean cities share in, and respect, Merchant law, the only common law binding scattered, and often hostile, communities, there are no provisions in such law for securing protections against one party's appropriation of another party's methods, ...
49	75	Merchant law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on Gor.
61	550	The awe with which the free woman of one's own city is regarded, reinforced by habit, training, custom, and tradition, does not at all apply to the free women of another city, unless perhaps a close ally, nor, indeed, does it even apply to a woman of one's own city<...
8	244	"Are they not against the law?" he asked.
10	278	Merchant law recommends that female slaves be kept in their collars.
15	162	"By law, heavy drayage is confined to the hours of darkness".
20	95	Would she not be punished for that? The law!" "That is no slave," whispered Lita.
26	16	Similarly there is no international law.
26	17	law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity.
26	23	Two further aspects of the Gorean way might also be considered, first, the suspicion and hostility obtaining amongst diverse polities, which militates against cooperation and assistance, and the limits of Gorean law, even within a polity, as Goreans tend to be radically independent and...
30	243	In Gorean law the slave is an animal.
37	157	On the other hand, in the law of Ar, and several other cities, the free woman who pleasures herself with a male slave risks her own enslavement, and becoming the property of the slave's master.
48	151	"In heart," she said, "but not in law.
61	303	But how had she dared to speak? Did she not know she had been cautioned to silence? And how dared she use the expression 'my master' to him, when she belonged to another, to Decius Albus? How tragic can be the lot of a helpless slave! In her heart she was the slave of Drusus Andronicus, but, in the ...
69	71	It was true, in full law.
69	104	You know that much from Merchant law.
10	157	This meant little to me at the time, but I would learn that coinages might differ considerably from city to city.
24	40	The road, rutted and pitted, was better graded as it neared the city, and, later, within the city, the metal-rimmed wheels would rattle over cobble stones.
26	26	Such men may, for example, pursue a fugitive from city to city with impunity, regardless of caste, warfare, and Home Stone.
26	155	Do not such slaves dress up a city? Indeed, when visiting dignitaries are about, citizens are encouraged to set their girls, attractively tunicked, wandering about the city, that a suitable impression may be conveyed to the visitors.
36	82	"Why do you think I ordered you, for three days now, to frequent the central portions of the city, the Central Cylinder, the Plaza of Tarns, the market of Cestias, and such?" "That I might become more familiar with the city," I said.
52	64	Lady Bina, in any event, as there was no sign of public concern or agitation at her removal from the House of a Hundred Corridors, as exhortations, alarms, proclamations, offers of rewards for her return or information leading to her return, and such, were not being broadcast throughout the ci...
63	51	The territory under the aegis of a particular city waxes and wanes with the power of the city.
68	74	He then explained to me that this city, in which was the restaurant, had been long at war, for generations, with another city.
68	103	"Say," said Kurik, to the slave, "'I, once a free woman, of the high city of —'," and here we omit the name of the city, "'now a slave, serve, as a slave, on my knees, another slave, a barbarian slave'".
2	275	"I will ruin your reputation! I will force you, in misery, to lose your job, to change your work, perhaps to leave the city, and state!" "There is nothing shameful in being a woman, and having needs, and desiring to serve a master," she said.
6	187	"It could be death for a free woman to fall into the hands of an enemy, unsated, wild, hot with killing, thirsting for blood, carrying fire and sword into a village, town, or city.
8	63	Turia, I would learn, was a large city in the southern hemisphere.
9	127	In those days I could not even read the caste colors of Gor, not that all members of a caste could be depended on to appear only in caste robes, which, in many cases, were most likely to appear on caste holidays and city holidays.
9	507	One of a young tarnsman's first ventures is to procure a free female from an enemy city and bring her home to his family and friends as his slave".

Book 35. (30 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	132	There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city...
1	188	Merchant law requires that such as you be collared".
1	304	Many other things, of course, keep us as we are, for example, markets and economics, law and custom.
6	59	"How then," asked a man, "could there be honor, order, civility, trust, respect, law, harmony, courage, and fellowship?" "I do not know," said another.
24	56	There might be tangles of law.
32	17	I was sure the tavern's legal claim to me would be upheld by the scribes of the law.
33	503	Without it, how could justice be done and wrongs righted? Where law fails and judges err, what but the blade and quarrel can speak? Let insult be answered and slander avenged.
34	50	The matter is clear in the law".
38	68	Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges.
47	19	You are a slave, by nature, and now by law".
3	234	The values of Gorean currency, particularly to the annoyance of the caste of merchants, varies considerably from city to city, with respect to weight, to purity of metal, and even denomination.
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	64	Much on Gor varies from city to city.
29	12	Some, misguided youths or itinerant killers, will venture from city to city, from village to village, to seek out one whose reputation they covet and would own.
41	101	I heard no alarm bars from the city, so I gathered that there was, as yet at least, no general awareness of the raid in the city.
1	325	It begins some months ago, in the coastal city of Brundisium.
3	172	Have we not seen even more deplorable behavior, upon occasion, in the first, or even the second, sale of a former Gorean free woman, taken, say, in a slave raid, or acquired as a part of the loot of a fallen city? If a first sale can be surprising, or trying, even for a mere barbarian,...
3	240	The double tarn, of gold, minted in the city of Ar, is usually accepted as the single, most valuable coin on Gor.
4	78	"It is the mark of the city of Treve," she said.
4	225	"A female administrator, commonly of a city," she said.
5	52	"They would not destroy the city for her," said another.
5	63	"To any city but Port Kar!" cried another.
6	225	The common procedure is to take the girl to another city, preferably far off, and sell her there.
7	126	"I want his name, his caste, his city!" "The House of Anesidemus does not keep such records," said the man.
7	295	Most often she will be sold to a far city, and all records of her past destroyed.
8	240	I did not doubt but what had brought them together, in one place or another, in one city or another, in one tavern or another, in one brothel, or another, was a sense of what they had in common, ambition, a lack of scruples, opportunism, and greed.
9	4	I bent over the double basin, one of several in the large, low-ceilinged kitchen of the Golden Chain, one of the five or so prominent taverns in the city.
9	5	I had no idea how many smaller such establishments might be in the city.
9	20	But that would be much the same in any Gorean city.
10	95	The free woman then, bound and gagged in a slave sack, is removed from the tavern, and transported out of the city, to some distant venue where she will be suitably marked, collared, and sold.

Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
63	163	"She was a traitress Ubara, a betrayer of her Home Stone, a subverter of law, an enemy to her own city, a puppet of foes, a duplicitous servant of blood enemies.
18	156	It is like a city of tents, with its own streets, water tanks and dumps, a city often larger than its host city".
1	163	"Only those who recognized the advantages and power of ignoring the law".
1	174	One wishes, of course, to obey the law.
19	173	We knew that the bow had been prohibited to the Peasantry of the islands by Cosian law.
19	176	Certainly he was aware of the law, and doubtless more so than we.
19	192	"The laws are the laws of Cos, but the enforcers of the law need not be Cosians".
20	35	"Deliver him to the law!" "Hear me, oh my caste brothers!" called Aktis.
40	68	Impose martial law.
48	125	In some cities it is against the law to deface a scroll or damage a musical instrument.
63	43	Already, today, I have been a pastry cook, a Ubar, a shrewd scribe of the law, a befuddled metal worker, and a sly, oily fellow soliciting patronage for a paga tavern".
63	179	"What need is there of a trial?" "Perhaps," I said, "that vengeance be decked in the colors of law".
63	180	"The Ubar makes law," said Thurnock.
63	181	"He is thus above the law".
63	182	"Do you take the supremacy of law to be a myth?" I asked.
63	183	"Who makes the law?" said Thurnock.
3	105	The city is brighter and more alive at night than in the day.
3	128	"It is a rich city," I said.
4	156	Its cost, it was claimed by some, might purchase a city.
5	21	"Such a vessel is not a holding, not a city," I said.
17	320	Even if a city falls and the free are put to the sword, the slave, like the kaiila and tharlarion, is spared.
19	208	"Sometimes," I said, "an ost is found even within the walls of a city".
22	13	In this city of canvas what could be bought and sold was bought and sold; copper met silver and silver met gold, and often enough, gold once more met copper; here, amidst concessions, exhibits, and emporiums, mingled with stalls, pens, brothels, taverns, markets, gambling tents, and th...
22	164	There are few things which may not be purchased somewhere in that city of tents which constituted the vast, transitory metropolis of a Fair of the Farther Islands.
37	52	There are two harbors at the port of Sybaris, the great harbor, serving the city, and much of Thera, and the smaller harbor, the naval harbor, base of the vessels of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.
39	10	Interestingly, they, as the officer of the guard himself, were not in the habiliments of Cosian marines or in those of the city guard of Sybaris.
39	90	"And he is absent from the city," said Thurnock, "presumably at sea, presumably for days".
40	61	"If you are determined to remain in the city," I said, "prepare its defenses.
41	33	In the sieges of tower cities on continental Gor, it is not unknown for free women to shear their hair, offering it for use in the defense of their city.
41	83	Next, the corsairs, as if regretting their grisly act, or perhaps, more likely, as if regretting its unforeseen consequence, its general stiffening of a will to resist amongst the besieged, offered an uncontested exit from the city to adult males.