Results

Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	66	Whereas the military camp is usually laid out in a set of concentric squares, reflecting the fourfold principle of military organization customary on Gor, the merchant camp is laid out in concentric circles, the guards' tents occupying the outermost ring, the craftsmen's, strap-masters...
2	131	"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
8	14	The city is under martial law".
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 ...
9	20	"I will be the daughter of a rich merchant whom you have captured," she explained.
9	82	"So," she said contemptuously, "that is how a Warrior tarnsman treats the daughter of a rich merchant?" I rolled onto the ground, turning away from her, unable to sleep.
9	102	"I am Kazrak of Port Kar," he said, "in the service of Mintar, of the merchant Caste".
9	178	"It is the caravan of Mintar, of the merchant Caste," said Kazrak.
10	7	As I stood tensely, ringed by the lances of the caravan guards, the wall of tharlarions parted to allow the approach of Mintar, of the merchant Caste.
10	12	The little eyes of the merchant swept the scene quickly, like a bird's, startling in their contrast with the plethoric giganticism of his frame.
10	13	"So," said the merchant, "Kazrak of Port Kar has met his match?" "It is the first challenge I have ever lost," replied Kazrak proudly.
10	37	"I am a merchant," said Mintar, "and it is in my code to see that I am paid".
10	44	"Tarl of Bristol," he said, "do you take service with Mintar, of the merchant Caste?" "If I do not?" I asked.
10	64	"I am," announced Talena proudly, "the daughter of a rich merchant, the richest on Gor, stolen from her father by this tarnsman.
10	66	"I am the richest merchant on Gor," said Mintar calmly.
10	68	"If your father is a merchant, tell me his name," he said.
10	83	"I am an honest merchant," said Mintar, "and I would not cheat you, but you do well to handle your own affairs".
10	176	"I suppose," she said, attempting to save face, "it would perhaps be appropriate for a tarnsman to place his collar on the captive daughter of a rich merchant".
11	24	I noted with satisfaction that Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, proud leader of perhaps the greatest horde ever assembled on the plains of Gor, had need of Mintar, who was only of the merchant Caste.
11	45	We watched in one stall a bronzed giant apparently swallowing balls of fire, in the next a silk merchant crying the glories of his cloth, in another a hawker of paga; in still another we watched the swaying bodies of dancing slave girls as their master proclaimed their rent price.
11	58	I wondered if, on my own planet, there was not a similar market, invisible but present, and just as much accepted, a market in which women were sold, except that they sold themselves, were themselves both merchandise and merchant.
11	59	How many of the women of my native planet, I wondered, did not with care consider the finances, the property of their prospective mates? How many of them did not, for all practical purposes, sell themselves, bartering their bodies for the goods of the world? Here on Gor, however, I observed ironical...
14	130	"I myself, as one of the Afflicted, learned it from Mintar, of the merchant Caste.
15	44	I stopped a hurrying slave girl and inquired the way to the compound of Mintar, of the merchant Caste, confident that he would have accompanied the horde back to the heartland of Ar.
15	53	I wandered about the outskirts of Mintar's compound, which was separated, like many of the merchant compounds, from the main camp by a tough fence of woven branches.
15	55	The compound of Mintar enclosed several acres of ground and was the largest merchant compound in the camp.
15	65	Normally, the merchant camp, like the better-organized military camps, not the mélange that constituted the camp of Pa-Kur, is laid out geometrically, and, night after night, one puts up one's tent in the same relative position.
15	108	It was one of the trusted strap-masters of Mintar, the man who guided the beasts that carried the merchant's palanquin.
15	110	"Will Kazrak and his guest, Tarl of Bristol, please accompany me to the tent of Mintar, of the merchant Caste?" asked the man.
15	118	One was Mintar, of the merchant Caste, his great bulk resting like a sack of meal on the cushions.

Book 2. (13 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
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.
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...
6	174	"They would use me and sell me, perhaps to some passing merchant, perhaps in the Street of Brands in Ar".
9	148	Soon, pounding the time on the table with the butt of my spear, I was leading a raucous round of songs, mostly wild drinking songs, warrior songs, songs of the encampment and march, but too I taught them songs I had learned in the caravan of Mintar the merchant, so long ago, when I had...
21	12	It was a peaceful scene, the cooking fires, the domed tents, the unharnessing of the animals, one I remembered from the caravan of Mintar, of the merchant Caste.
21	150	What could I tell this merchant, this specialist in the traffic of flesh, this businessman who stood well within the ancient traditions and practices of his trade? Could I tell him that I did not wish the girl to be hurt? He would have thought me a mad man.
21	169	My sword pushed a quarter of an inch into the belly of the merchant.

Book 3. (8 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 amus...
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.

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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 b...
9	211	Kamchak turned to the small, fat merchant and his scarred, furrowed face broke into a grin, bearing down on the round, pinkish face of the merchant.
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.
1	32	I crossed the Cartius on a barge, one of several hired by the merchant of the caravan with which I was then serving.
6	8	If, in the case of a singer, the song is rejected, or, in the case of a merchant, his merchandise is rejected, he is slain out of hand.
9	1	Aphris of Turia There was little doubt that I, in the worn, red tunic of a warrior, and Kamchak, in the black leather of the Tuchuks, seemed somewhat out of place at the banquet of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.
9	3	It was somewhat surprising to me that Kamchak and I, being in our way ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples, were entertained in the house of Saphrar, the merchant, rather than in the palace of Phanius Turmus, Administrator of Turia.
9	21	"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish".
9	27	"How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?" "I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish".
9	37	"How is it," I asked, "that a merchant of Turia has a war galley in Port Kar?" Saphrar reclined on the yellow cushions, behind the low table covered with wines, fruits and golden dishes heaped with delicate viands.
9	120	If there had been no women for us to view in the streets of Turia, Saphrar, merchant of the city, had determined to make that omission good at his banquet.
9	161	I and all others turned our eyes to a wide, swirling marble stairway in the back and to the left of the lofty banquet hall in the house of Saphrar the merchant.
9	171	Until then, I gathered, her means were in the doubtless capable hands of Saphrar the merchant.
9	174	The father of Aphris of Turia, Tethrar of Turia, had been the richest merchant in this city, itself one of the richest cities of Gor.
9	180	"Is she not worth the golden sphere?" asked the merchant.
9	233	Aphris of Turia, pleased with herself, assumed her place between the merchant and Kamchak, kneeling back on her heels in the position of the Gorean free woman.
9	464	It was something he would not buy with the golden sphere from Saphrar the merchant; it was something he was clearly capable of arranging, with Tuchuk cunning, by himself.
9	480	Thus, if Aphris of Turia, by some mischance, were to fall to Kamchak, and surely slavery, her considerable riches would be immediately assigned to Saphrar, merchant of Turia.
11	62	"You do not even have a name," hissed the little merchant.
11	83	"I do not speak to slaves," said he, and the merchant, on the palanquin, moved away toward the walls of distant Turia.
12	20	How was it that he, a merchant of Turia, knew of the golden sphere? How was it that he, a man of shrewdness and intelligence, seemed willing to barter volumes of gold for what he termed merely a curiosity? There seemed to be something here at odds with the rational avarice of mercantil...
12	21	Yet I knew that whatever Saphrar, merchant of Turia, might be, he was no fool.
12	32	I supposed he was curious about me, not a Tuchuk, not a merchant or singer, yet among the Wagons.
12	211	The fire, I was pleased to note, was not of bosk dung but wood, timber and planking, I was less pleased to note, torn and splintered from a merchant's wagon.
15	43	Now, to my chagrin, the sphere lay not in a Tuchuk wagon on the open prairie but, presumably, in the House of Saphrar, a merchant stronghold, behind the high, white walls of Turia.
15	130	"I expect," I said, "it might be found here or there in the House of Saphrar, a merchant of Turia".
15	131	"That is interesting," said Harold, "for I had thought I might try chain luck in the Pleasure Gardens of a Turian merchant named Saphrar".

Book 5. (18 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...
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	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.
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.
3	225	"You are a merchant?" asked the Player.
15	400	The Slavers, incidentally, are of the merchant Caste, though, in virtue of their merchandise and practices, their robes are different.
17	164	"He knows the business and needs of Ar," said the guard, "as would a merchant, but he is yet of the Caste of Warriors".
19	285	"Two hundred gold pieces," said a merchant from Cos.
19	416	"You!" cried Elizabeth, pointing to a merchant in rich robes in the fifth tier.
21	226	He who is a Singer must sing; he who weaves the beautiful rugs of Ar or Tor must weave; the Physician must heal; the Builder build; the merchant buy and sell; and the Warrior must fight.
21	239	The Physician must heal; the Builder build; the merchant buy and sell.

Book 6. (14 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, or other, ...
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.
9	101	Nominally beneath these Ubars, but in fact much independent of them, is an oligarchy of merchant princes, Captains, as they call themselves, who, in council, maintain and manage the great arsenal, building and renting ships and fittings, themselves controlling the grain fleet, the oil ...
9	117	I knew one of these mercenary captains, Ha-Keel, murderer, once of Ar, whom I had met in Turia, in the house of Saphrar, a merchant.
10	8	Accordingly I, who had been Tarl Cabot, once a warrior of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, sat now in the council of these captains, merchant and pirate princes, the high oligarchs of squalid, malignant Port Kar, Scourge of Gleaming Thassa.
10	36	As in the case of the official "Stone," so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, as I have called it.
10	37	Port Kar's merchant Foot, like her "Stone," is kept in the arsenal, in the same building as her "Stone".
10	259	I recalled I had once tried one, but had not cared for it, at a banquet in Turia, in the house of a man named Saphrar, who had been a merchant.
10	330	But how would he have come to know this? And how could he have come to understand that Bosk, fighting man and merchant, was the same as he who once had been a warrior of the towered city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning? Doubtless he wished to summon me to his presence, that he m...
11	591	The possibility of peace on Thassa was an attractive one to me, a merchant.
17	301	I had met Ha-Keel at a house in Turia, the house of Saphrar, a merchant.

Book 7. (20 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	440	The stockades are governed under merchant law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
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...
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.
1	1	The Brand The following account is written at the command of my master, Bosk of Port Kar, the great merchant, and, I think, once of the warriors.
7	159	The two wagons he bought were merchant wagons, with red rain canvas.
8	809	The "stones" are usually pebbles or beads, but in the cities one can buy small polished, carved boxes containing ten "stones," the quality of which might vary from polished ovoid stones, with swirling patterns, to gems worth the ransom of a merchant's daughter.
12	85	Indeed, other wagons, we gathered, merchant wagons and those of peasants, too, were blocked in the streets.
12	439	Various cities, through their own merchant Castes, lease land for these stockades and, for their fees, keep their garrisons, usually men of their own cities, supplied.
12	448	Five days out of Ko-ro-ba, we had stopped at one of these merchant Fortresses.
12	706	It had been a desperate measure, and one not willingly adopted by a merchant.
14	499	Often she begs to be sold to a foreign merchant.
15	525	"I acquired her about a year ago," said Rask of Treve, "from a merchant of Tyros, who was traveling by caravan overland to Ar, with the intention of returning her, for a recompense, to Marlenus of Ar".
15	527	"The merchant," smiled Rask of Treve, "was persuaded to give her to me, free of all costs, as a token of his esteem for the men and city of Treve".
17	262	Rask of Treve must not die! He must not die! "You will be placed in the house of Bosk, a merchant of Port Kar," he said.
17	400	"We found three bodies," said Bosk, merchant of Port Kar.
17	473	Bosk, I am told, set my price at twenty pieces of gold, that he might, as a merchant, take his profit on me.

Book 8. (28 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
12	87	Indeed, there were many important merchants who had daughters, for example, the first merchant of Teletus and the first merchant of Asperiche.
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.
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.
1	24	I wore a white robe, woven of the wool of the Hurt, imported from distant Ar, trimmed with golden cloth, from Tor, the colors of the merchant.
1	165	The curule chair at my high table was among the most honored and envied on Gor! What honor it was to be the woman of Bosk, merchant, admiral! And yet she had turned her back on this! She had displeased me! She had dared to displease me! Bosk! The marshes had nothing to offer her.
1	222	The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings, and ...
3	11	I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a ...
3	55	They did not appear to be merchant rowers.
3	260	Behind the wagon, in the white robes trimmed with gold and purple of merchant Magistrates, came five men.
3	379	"Let us see her!" called a merchant.
6	115	"I am a merchant," I said.
6	167	A merchant of Tabor, accordingly, fearing Tyros, would not be likely to return Talena to Marlenus.
6	389	"I am a merchant.
6	459	"This merchant," said the girl, "tells us that you are his slave.
6	500	Then she mused, "Verna told us that Marlenus of Ar would not approach us as you have done, and that he would not use a merchant to do his business for him".
6	532	In the morning, merchant, leave them".
6	544	"And, merchant," said she, "do not seek hereafter to mix in the affairs of Verna and Marlenus".
6	942	"Yes," she said, "or slay me—should it please you!" "But I am a merchant," I said, "I would not wish to take the loss.
11	360	"One of my men, unknown to her, pretending to be a merchant, arrived in the camp.
12	7	I would, from under the nose of Marlenus, preferably by trade, snatch Talena, thus evening the score for his banishment of me from Ar, thus regaining her, thus winning glory, thus setting my ladder against the political heights of the planet Gor, for, with such a woman at my side, there were few doo...
12	110	Too, many Ubars and Administrators might not wish to ally their house with that of a mere merchant.
14	151	The blood in me that I felt then was not that of the merchant.
15	333	"No merchant," she said, "could have taken us as you did.
17	125	The remaining eighty-four could be accounted for by reference to the jewels fastened on the slave chain of Bosk, a merchant of Port Kar.
22	101	Saphrar, a merchant of Tyros, resplendent in Turia, had similarly described the man who had enlisted his services in behalf of those who contested worlds with Priest-Kings.

Book 9. (15 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.
1	117	And so, Tarl Cabot gone, Bosk, merchant of Port Kar, had gone to the northern forests, to free Talena, once his Free Companion.
1	276	He sold me to a salt merchant".
2	232	I supposed her the daughter of a rich merchant.
2	262	The peasant tilled his fields, the fisherman went out in his boat, the merchant risked his capital.
6	209	The brand used by Forkbeard is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south, where the merchant caste, with its recommendations for standardization, is more powerful.
10	574	"I was sold in Ar," she said, "to a merchant from Cos.
10	624	I did not wish, incidentally, even if I could, to give him a gift commensurate with what he had, in his hospitality, bestowed upon me; the host, in Torvaldsland, should make the greatest gifts; it is, after all, his house or hall; if his guest should make him greater gifts than he makes the guest th...

Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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".
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...
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...
1	414	"This is Ibn Saran, salt merchant of the river port of Kasra," said Samos.
1	816	It was in this port that the warehouses of Ibn Saran, salt merchant, currently the guest of Samos of Port Kar, were to be found.
1	863	Ibn Saran, salt merchant of Kasra, did not rise from behind the table behind which, cross-legged, he sat.
2	191	His name was Achmed, and his father's name was Farouk, who was a Kasra merchant.
2	193	A merchant passed me, climbing the stones of the street.
2	413	Not five paces behind them I saw a ragged cutpurse cut the wallet of a merchant, dropping its contents into his hand and, bowing and whining, twist away in the crowd.
2	414	The merchant huffed away.
2	419	I went about Tor now as a traveler from Turia, a small merchant.
2	594	I had assumed the name Hakim, a Tahari name, one suitable for a merchant.
3	60	He was a merchant.
3	80	' "I would be much pleased," I told the merchant, "to dine with you this night".
3	98	Farouk, merchant of Kasra, smiled.
3	117	"I am a humble merchant," I said.
3	119	"You do not handle a sword like a merchant," smiled Farouk of Kasra.
4	441	I saw Farouk, merchant and caravan master, ride by, burnoose swirling behind him, lance in hand.
5	30	He was a salt merchant, from Kasra.
5	67	It was not unusual that a merchant might bring with him a dancing slave to a business meeting.
5	525	Moreover, with the dates purchased by these, I hoped to have a suitable disguise, as a merchant in date bricks, in moving eastward.
5	545	Ibn Saran, it seemed to me, exercised more influence at the Oasis of Nine Wells than one might have expected of a mere merchant of salt.

Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
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.
14	216	At one time a girl, the Lady Sabina, the daughter of a merchant, Kleomenes of Fortress of Saphronicus, high merchant of that city, had been pledged in Companion Contract to this Thandar of Ti.
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...
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.
3	268	The game of Girl Catch is played variously upon Gor; it can be played as informally and simply as it was in the camp of my captor, for the pleasure of his men, or it can be a fairly serious business, closely supervised and regulated in a sophisticated manner, as it is by merchant admin...
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...
5	124	The retinue was the betrothal and dowry retinue of the Lady Sabina of the small merchant polis of Fortress of Saphronicus bound overland for Ti, of the Four Cities of Saleria, of the Salerian Confederation.
5	135	The Lady Sabina, I learned from Eta, was pledged by her father, Kleomenes, a pretentious, but powerful, upstart merchant of Fortress of Saphronicus, to Thandar of Ti, of the Warriors, youngest of the five sons of Ebullius Gaius Cassius, of the Warriors, Administrator of Ti, this done i...
5	185	One lunar month from this date, by the phases of the largest moon, after days of preparation, the ceremony of the companionship was scheduled to be consummated in Ti, binding together as companions Thandar of Ti, son of Ebullius Gaius Cassius, Administrator of Ti, and the Lady Sabina, daughter of Kl...
5	212	From the point of view of his father the bargain was a good one for Thandar was the youngest and least important of five sons; it was not as if his first or second son had been matched with a merchant's daughter; besides the match was politically and commercially expedient; who knew ho...
5	703	"Comb the hair of the spoiled brat of a merchant, if you wish," said the first.
7	61	It had been his charge, I supposed, doubtless placed upon him by Marlenus of Ar, Ubar of that city, to prevent or disrupt the imminent alliance forming between Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria, an alliance to be confirmed and sealed in the companionship of Thandar of Ti, youn...
7	62	In a bold coup had my master carried off the merchant's daughter.
7	635	But Donna, though she had been adjudged fit for men and branded, was sold from the block in Ko-ro-ba to a visiting merchant, Kleomenes of Fortress of Saphronicus, who took her with him and gave her to his spoiled daughter, the Lady Sabina, as a woman's slave.
9	1131	"I am a merchant," said Ladletender.
10	28	It was a caravan of Mintar, the great merchant.
10	43	In the distance, even from the pool, I could see the white, looming walls of the merchant keep, Stones of Turmus, a Turian outpost, licensed for the storage of goods within the realm of Ar.
10	57	Cos, and the other major maritime Ubarate, Tyros, on the other hand, had traditionally conducted trade, through overland merchant connections, with these territories.
11	202	This is a merchant keep, under the banner and shield of Turia".
11	203	That the keep was under the banner of Turia designated it as a Turian keep, distinguishing it in this sense not only from keeps maintained by other cities but more importantly from the "free keeps" maintained by the merchant caste in its own right, keeps without specific municipal affi...
11	204	Similarly, the merchant caste, which is international, so to speak, in its organization, arranges and conducts the four great fairs which occur annually in the vicinity of the Sardar mountains.

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.
1	172	I had brought her back with me from the Tahari to the house of Bosk, captain, and merchant, of Port Kar.
1	384	"Did you not think such a gift strange for a merchant and mariner?" "Forgive a girl, Master," she said.
3	50	"Where are the merchant tables," I asked a fellow from Torvaldsland, with braided blond hair and shaggy jacket, eating on a roast leg of tarsk, "where the odds on the Kaissa matches are being given?" "I do not know," he said.
3	116	The Sardar fairs are organized, regulated and administered by the merchant Caste.
3	156	I decided it would be best to search for a merchant who was on the fair's staff, or find one of their booths or praetor stations, where such information might be found.
3	243	"Is this girl bothering you?" asked a merchant, one whose head bore the talmit of the fair's staff.
3	354	"Next," called the odds merchant.
3	358	"Who are you?" asked the odds merchant.
3	373	"Next," said the odds merchant.
3	395	Small signs fixed on the platforms identify the flesh merchant, such as 'These are the girls of Sorb of Turia' or 'These slaves are owned by Tenalion of Ar'.
3	1282	He wore, as I, merchant robes.
3	1328	She had been the slave who had followed me earlier in the day, who had bitten at my sleeve near the puppet theater, whom I had saved from a beating by the guardsmen under the aegis of the officer of the fair's merchant staff.
4	279	"No! No!" cried a merchant of Cos.
4	583	Inside, crouching over a fallen man, the merchant, was the attacker, robed in swirling black.
4	586	The merchant's assistant, the scribe, his face and arm bleeding, stood to one side.
4	594	"Or is it of the assassins?" The struck merchant, bleeding, thrust himself back from the attacker.
4	648	A man held the merchant in his arms.
4	664	I returned my attention to the struck merchant.
4	666	"Will I die?" asked the merchant.
4	673	Others might attend to the work of stanching the flow of blood from the wounds of the merchant.
4	679	Would one risk one's throat and blood for a toy of wood or an ivory carving? "In that, and that alone," said the merchant, pointing to the object which the thief had held, and which he had dropped in our struggle.
4	681	Men held cloth against the wounds of the merchant.
4	683	"Why would he not have bought it?" asked the merchant.
4	688	He began to attend to the merchant.
4	689	"You will live," he assured the merchant.
4	696	When the physician had finished the cleansing, chemical sterilization, and dressing of the merchant's wounds, he left.
4	700	Then only I remained in the booth with the scribe and merchant.
4	712	I indicated the merchant.

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 ob...
27	154	Too, it is in accord with merchant law.
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...
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.
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".
2	234	"I take him to be a merchant captain," said a man near me.
2	237	The fellow wore the white and gold of the merchant, beneath a seaman's aba.
2	238	It was not likely that a merchant would wear that garment unless he were entitled to it.
2	283	I knew Ulafi of Schendi only by reputation, as a shrewd merchant and captain.
3	42	I had then stayed for only two more sales, and had then left, those of a peasant girl, blond, from southwest of Ar, and a merchant's daughter from Asperiche.
3	43	The peasant girl brought eight tarsks; the merchant's daughter, to her indignation, brought only six.
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	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 then as moats.
4	859	"I am a merchant," he explained.
4	957	Ulafi, merchant and captain, stood upon the deck of the stern castle.
6	161	To be sure, one merchant ship, like the Palms of Schendi, could have made little effective resistance to the ships which had just passed us, nor could she, though swift for a round ship, have outrun them.
6	193	He was an important merchant and captain in Schendi.
6	325	"That will lead to the general merchant wharves.
6	328	"Yes, from the merchant council," he said.
6	528	There are more than forty merchant wharves at Schendi, each one of which, extending into the harbor, accommodates four ships to a side.
6	557	Many merchant houses, from distant cities, have outlets or agents in Schendi.
6	611	Schendi's merchant council, I supposed, could not be blamed for wishing to exercise due caution that a similar calamity did not befall their own port.
7	24	Uchafu's market was back of the merchant wharves, nearer the harbor mouth.
7	106	We are only a merchant port".
7	203	"Oh, misery, for a poor merchant," said he.
7	205	Misery! But I cannot now renege upon my word, sadly enough, for I am a merchant of well-known integrity.

Book 14. (13 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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	372	The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by merchant law.
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.
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".
34	157	Her position is sanctioned in law.
13	782	I now knew who owned her, Oneander of Ar, a merchant who apparently did business in Vonda.
32	332	It was a sense of honor less germane to the accountant and merchant than to the peasant or warrior, less germane to the lamb than to the lion.
34	227	"I know her owner, a merchant, one called Oneander, of your own city, Glorious Ar".
34	256	"Oneander," said Tenalion, "is a salt and leather merchant.

Book 15. (30 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	10	"I have heard the topaz is being brought east," said a merchant, speaking to another merchant.
21	113	"And it is said, too," she whispered, coming close to me, the chain on her neck touching my chest, as she put her head over me, "that Glyco is not only a merchant but stands high in the merchant council of Port Cos".
22	255	"I have seen Glyco, a merchant, a high merchant, of Port Cos, these several days in earnest converse with you.
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.
1	214	"He is a merchant," she whispered.
3	288	"It is dangerous for merchant caravans," a man was saying.
3	332	You know Zarto, the iron merchant?" "No," I said.
3	349	"Was one called Oneander, a salt and leather merchant, among them?" I asked.
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.
7	53	Another merchant brushed past me.
7	130	"Would you believe that she was once the daughter of a rich merchant?" he asked.
7	142	"The goods have already been sold," said the man, "at the merchant wharves".
16	26	"To what merchant?" I said, angrily.
19	29	"Two copper tarsks, one to each of you," said the merchant to two dock workers who stood nearby, "to apprehend and bind that fellow!" Swiftly the two dock workers set out after the thief.
19	30	Though men stood about none had attempted to steal the purse of the merchant, which lay nearby.
19	32	One of them handed the purse back to the merchant, who thanked him.
19	33	"What is your name, Fellow?" asked the merchant of me.
19	35	"Of Victoria?" asked the merchant.
19	56	The dock workers threw him to his knees before the merchant.
19	57	The merchant turned to me.
19	64	Several of the men about, striking their shoulders in the Gorean fashion, applauded the merchant.
19	75	The merchant then looked at the thief.
19	77	"Please, Master," said the thief, "do not deliver me to praetors!" "Are you so fond of your hands?" asked the merchant.
19	85	"No!" "What do you suggest?" asked the merchant of me.
19	87	"No, please, Master!" whined the thief to the merchant.
19	88	"He is yours," said the merchant.
19	96	"Surely you are a guardsman," said the merchant.

Book 16. (14 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".
4	19	Both had been merchant ships, acting in support of the ships of Port Cos.
9	277	"I was sold to a merchant from Tetrapoli," she said.
17	738	The palanquin of Oneander, a salt and leather merchant of Ar, had been passing.
20	19	"They are beautiful," said Glyco, the merchant of Port Cos to whom we owed so much.
20	23	Seven men, including myself, were present, Glyco, high merchant of Port Cos; Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria; Aemilianus, leader of the naval forces of Ar upon the Vosk; Calliodorus, captain of the Tais; and my friends, Callimachus and Miles of Vonda, who had brought with him his sl...
20	1714	I would not trade this lovely token of what I am for all the treasures in the house of Croesus, or the warehouses of Mintar, merchant of Ar.
21	593	The slave of a high-caste Builder, for example, is likely to look down on the slave of a wealthy merchant, who may have a hundred times the riches.

Book 17. (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".
13	669	"And such things, like the brand, are recommended by merchant law".
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	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.
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	114	The safest course for a merchant captain to follow, whether of Port Kar or not, if he is not moving in convoy, with attendant ramships, is to avoid all contact with other vessels between ports.
2	199	The merchant was chaining his girls on the broad, tiered, cement display shelves.
3	1	I Receive Information; I Will Travel Northward "Perhaps this one?" asked the merchant.
3	5	"She is not without her attractions," said the merchant.
3	17	"I think he has ventured north, along the perimeter," said the merchant.
3	84	The merchant regarded the girl at the wall.
3	108	"Excellent!" said the merchant.
3	123	"Have they names?" I asked the merchant.
3	124	"No," said the merchant, "I have not yet named them".
5	112	"We are sustained by the merchant council of Port Olni," said the woman.
8	24	The girl usually hopes that her master will pay enough for her to convince him that she is of at least minimal value, and will not pay so much that he will be angry with the merchant, for in such a case he is almost certain to take his dissatisfaction out on her lovely hide.
12	162	"A poor bargain from the point of view of a merchant," I observed.
14	116	I knew one of his names among the red savages was Wopeton, which means Trader, or merchant.
14	509	He was, after all, was he not, a merchant? Margaret was jerked to her knees and the Dust Leg tied his beaded collar on her throat.

Book 18. (8 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	135	Grunt, of course, was a merchant.

Book 19. (10 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.
23	345	It was a strong recommendation of merchant law that slaves be marked.
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.
28	38	In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.
4	23	A Corcyran merchant had brought charges against him.
4	25	The bowl upon inspection, the merchant becoming suspicious as to the weights involved, had turned out to be merely plated.
17	301	A Corcyran merchant had brought charges against him, a matter having to do with a bowl, purportedly silver, but only plated, and one bearing a forged mark, misrepresenting it as the work of the silversmiths of Ar.

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	1099	This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.
2	290	This being the case it is interesting to note that one actor's merchant is not the same merchant as that of another actor.
2	357	Soon he is demonstrating, even, with caresses and kisses, all in the name of the merchant, just how skillful the merchant would be.
1	485	The law is clear on this.
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	31	Sometimes, however, to distinguish it from differing forms of the game, it is spoken of as merchant Kaissa, from the role of the merchants in making it the official form of Kaissa for the fairs, Player Kaissa, from the role of the Players in its codification, or the Kaiss...
1	897	Procopius Minor is not to be confused with Procopius Major, who is an important merchant in Port Kar, one with interests not only in taverns but in paper, hardware, wool and salt.
2	283	For example, the Pompous merchant and the Wily Peasant are well known.
2	325	Chino, usually the servant of the Comic Father or the merchant, is willowy and mischievous, with a black half-mask, with slanted eye holes, with red-and-yellow diamond-figured tights and pullover.
2	347	In this one the principal characters were the Golden Courtesan, Chino, the merchant and the Pedant.
2	348	The merchant was played by the harassed, paunchy-looking fellow I had seen earlier.
2	350	In brief, the merchant, intending to visit the Golden Courtesan, sends Chino for a love potion.
2	352	The merchant takes the potion and visits the Golden Courtesan, with Chino in attendance.
2	353	Predictably, the merchant must continually interrupt his initial advances which, of course, are bumbling and clumsy, and not much to the liking of the courtesan, to rush hastily to the side of the stage where, conveniently, may be found a great pot.
2	354	Chino, meanwhile, exaggeratedly, in these interstices, is assuring the courtesan of the merchant's prowess as a lover.
2	355	He is so successful that the courtesan soon begins to pant and call the merchant, who, eagerly, rushes back, only in a moment, unfortunately, to be forced to beat a new retreat to the pot.
2	360	His conversation with the merchant provides ample opportunity for double-entendres and talking at cross-purposes.
2	361	The physician, in departing, puzzled that the potion has not yet taken effect, assures the merchant, sitting on the great pot, that he should allow it a little more time, that doubtless he will soon feel its effects.
2	362	The merchant, however, convinced that this is not his day, now hobbles home, clutching the great pot.
2	376	The paunchy fellow, his belly swinging, now out of character as the merchant, was informing the audience that a new round of farces, all different, would be performed within the Ahn.
4	176	Finally a large force of mercenaries, in the hire of the merchant caste, in a campaign that lasted several months, put an end to the spurious reign of Clearchus, driving him from the forest and scattering his men.
6	18	"Though I be impoverished and am clad in rags, in naught but the meanness of tatters," said the Brigella to Boots Tarsk-Bit, he on the stage with her, he in the guise of a pompous, puffing, lecherous merchant, "know, and know well, noble sir, that I am a free woman!" This announcement,...
6	42	"Are you truly free?" inquired Boots Tarsk-Bit, with exaggerated incredulity, in the guise of the merchant, of his Brigella.

Book 21. (21 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.
1	87	A merchant on his way to the gate of Tesius paused, to gaze upon her.
1	150	"Good," said the merchant, turning away.
3	224	Long ago I had ridden guard in a caravan of Mintar, a merchant of Ar.
6	177	"Probably you are a merchant, too," I said.
11	5	"I am a merchant, from Tabor," he said.
11	7	Indeed, it was the merchant from Tabor, that portly fellow who had been so inflexibly and boorishly determined to retrieve a gift, one which he had bestowed, of his own free will, as I had pointed out to him, on one of the fellows traveling with me, Hurtha, as I recalled.
11	55	The Tabor merchant was the fourth fellow who had come by to look me up.
11	57	"To me," said the merchant, "it seems merely strange, or perhaps, at best, unmitigated trash, but then I am a simple man of business, and not a scribe.
11	84	"Thank you," said the merchant.
16	1328	"Or a wagon number," I said, "if it was a large caravan, or, more likely, that of a merchant or company with many wagons".
19	255	He, appointed through the influence of Cernus, who was soon to ascend the throne of Ar, had replaced the venerated hero, Maximus Hegesius Quintilius of Ar, who had earlier expressed reservations concerning the investiture of Cernus, a merchant and slaver, in the caste of warriors.
24	408	"What is your business?" "I am a merchant of sorts," he said.

Book 22. (16 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	388	"Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.
24	19	His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.
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.
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, ...

Book 23. (14 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.
9	214	The law, the culture, and such, are not set up to permit it.
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 specified interval, as conferri...
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	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<...
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".
5	49	"Doubtless you followed Cosians," I said, "or their suppliers, smelling booty, lured by the possibilities of spoils, by the supposed imminent passage south of men laden with the plate and coin of Ar's Station, men who might succumb to your claims of need and plight, hoping perhaps even to contract a...
6	881	Too, he did not seem to have the refinement of a high merchant nor the roughness of the drover.
24	569	A Cosian merchant in the crowd cried out in anger.

Book 24. (22 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.
19	337	"It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well".
26	190	Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining 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	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.
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.
1	790	With his coiled whip Philebus, expansively, indicated the girls, like a merchant displaying wares, or a confectioner displaying candies, and, in a sense, I suppose, he was both.
1	1169	"You are a merchant," he said.
3	124	I would again assume the guise of a merchant.
26	74	I had heard, incidentally, a few months ago, in Port Cos, from a Tharnan silver merchant, that Lara had abdicated.
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...
47	8	The fellow was ahead of me tearing garments from pegs and dragging down ropes of clothes, trampling them underfoot, much to the consternation of the merchant.
47	9	I saw a girl flee out from behind the counter but she was a brunet and presumably the merchant's, probably used as a model, useful for fellows who did not have their own slave along, or perhaps wished to surprise her by flinging her a new outfit when he returned home, one which she mus...
47	34	"What of my curtains? What of my shop!" wailed the merchant.

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	633	merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor.
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	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.
1	159	"The handsomest man in all Ar," said the merchant.
1	166	"The appearance of Milo in a drama assures its success," said the merchant.
1	170	"Some men do not even care for him," said the merchant, and I gathered he might be one of them.

Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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 capacity to ...
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.
7	134	merchant practice, and social custom, tend to standardize such things.
12	477	Why should she feel herself entitled to raise caste? What was special about her? Why should a merchant's daughter aspire to a higher caste? With what justification? Why should she be permitted to raise caste? Why should she not look for love in her own caste, or in a lower caste? Why s...
29	138	Indeed, it is now the most prosperous of the merchant houses in Harfax.
29	194	The colors of the merchant caste itself are white and yellow, or white and gold.

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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 <...
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.
11	161	"Not all," said Mirus, "though it is recommended by merchant law.
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...
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 m...
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, o...
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	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...
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.
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	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.
12	205	It was said she had already been spoken for by a black merchant.
12	502	The black woman, with the chain collar and disk, who was awaiting her consignment to a black merchant, was now carrying the ewer.
17	222	"Do not let an unscrupulous merchant palm a barbarian off on you".
17	403	Too, they are not likely to stray, as they are well shackled, in accord with sound merchant practice.

Book 28. (17 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, ofte...
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...
80	279	To be sure, merchant law, in any case, prescribes the collar, the brand, distinctive garmenture, and such.
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.
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	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.
81	102	"Then perhaps that of a high general, or wealthy merchant," said Grendel, "until a Ubar may be found".

Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	203	"It is an explicit recommendation of merchant law".
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	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.
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...
2	231	The corsairs of Port Kar venturing at sea, prowling the merchant routes, unannouncedly visiting coastal towns, and such, often returned to port well freighted with various assortments of goods, fruits and grains, weapons, vessels, tools, leathers, viands and wines, precious metals and ...
10	617	When a female gift, or prize, is to be revealed to a master, a merchant, a captain, a Ubar, or such, the gift, or prize, as shy as she might be, is commonly revealed formally, gracefully, even ceremoniously.
10	736	A master may have many slaves, of course, a merchant, say, may have dozens, a Ubar hundreds, and so on, but the slave, in her needful femininity, commonly wants to be the single property of a master, whom she need not share with another.
13	54	Many of the larger merchant enclaves were found near the walls, within which were several warehouses.
13	293	A word from her could demote an officer of Ar, a phrase exile a councilor, or break or banish a merchant, and another could reduce another woman, even one of high station, to the collar.
20	227	"Then I may sell her to the first merchant I meet," he said.

Book 30. (21 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
36	12	It was a small thing, of course, a single voyage, but it is not unusual that the explorer is followed by the merchant, just as it is not impossible that the merchant might be followed by the soldier.
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".
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	8	"For paga," laughed a merchant.
3	730	Brundisium, as many merchant ports, large and small, was in theory neutral.
3	816	'A minor merchant of Brundisium,' I said.
3	910	In Brundisium we may pretend you have found a Flavius and have received a reward for my return, commensurate with what a minor merchant, our alleged Flavius, might afford.
5	232	A merchant, a laborer, a free woman might accept it, but I could not, not in honor.
13	127	"And the ships are merchant ships, apparently, and, one supposes, would be crewed accordingly, with complements sufficient to the vessel, and perhaps little beyond that".
34	48	"Linger about," I said, "sense the prices, the market, see what goods go for, question other slaves, ones who might speak to you, perhaps another barbarian, if you can find one, do not be afraid to thank the merchant, respectfully, and prepare to leave.
34	58	Accordingly, given the depth of their veiling, and the opacity of the common street veil, they cannot well prevail upon, or influence, the peddler or merchant, the fellow sitting behind his goods, spread upon a rug or cloth, or the stallsman, behind his counter, with the loveliness of ...
35	3	Brundisium is one of the world's largest, busiest ports, with one of the finest harbors on the planet, host to a hundred traffics, headquarters of a hundred merchant houses, but never, until now, had there been seen such a ship.
35	110	It is ruled by a merchant Council, with its day to day affairs managed by an executive committee, chief of which is the harbor master.
37	668	He was now a wealthy man, quite possibly the most wealthy man in Brundisium not of the merchant caste.

Book 31. (24 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
5	403	"You intend to sell me in the Middle East," I said, "to some sheik, some rich merchant".
10	206	The front of the first floor, facing the street, was the shop of a pottery merchant, Epicrates, who, with his family, lived in the rear.
10	1095	Lady Delia, companion of the pottery merchant, Epicrates, with coins received from the Lady Bina and the beast, later remunerated a number of customers who had lost their goods.
10	1182	"I am Allison," I said, "girl of the Lady Bina, who resides in the house of the pottery merchant, Epicrates".
18	197	I well recalled Lady Delia, the companion of the pottery merchant, Epicrates.
49	287	You will seek the shop of Amyntas, the wine merchant.
51	134	"'As agreed,'" read Astrinax, "'here are two silver tarsks, for full and clear title to the barbarian slave currently known as Allison, the property of the Lady Bina of Ar, resident in the house of Epicrates, pottery merchant, of Ar.
52	454	It became reasonably clear, in merchant councils, met at the fairs, that scattered, unusual purchases were being made, and that caravans were occasionally being embarked for obscure destinations, which would seem outside familiar markets.

Book 32. (21 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 Fa...
3	37	That is prescribed in merchant law.
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.
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.
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...
5	252	I am told the great merchant houses have sources of information which might be the envy of warring Ubars.
7	264	The girl before me had been, I had earlier gathered, of the merchant caste, even of the high merchants, whatever that might be.
14	124	"I am a mere merchant," I said.
14	126	"A merchant," I said.
14	147	"A merchant," said he, "is one concerned with profit".
38	116	In the first case, she was her own merchant.
38	117	In the second case, the merchant was another.
50	697	"The mad one, in her lovely gown, worthy of a high merchant's companion, is least amongst us!" said another.

Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	237	"Such things, identifications in their way, are in accord with merchant law," I said.
20	78	"Too, that location is commonly recommended in merchant law, on the continent".
29	406	"On the continent," I said, "it is prescribed by merchant law".
46	22	It is prescribed by merchant law.
46	438	It is prescribed, as indicated earlier, by merchant law.
13	256	law returned, in the form of the red sword.
27	53	Such a practice is not likely to elevate respect for the 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	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".
1	177	Men see land differently, the merchant in terms of profitability, the sage in terms of quietude, the poet in terms of mood, the painter in terms of beauty, the peasant in terms of home, in terms of soil, fertility, tillability, and yield.
1	185	As song to the poet and gold to the merchant would not this place, so lofty and beautiful, with its aspects and promises, call to the ruler, the leader, the soldier, the robber, the brigand, the warrior, the slayer, the commander, the Ubar? I thought so.
4	152	There is a considerable difference, of course, between being the slave of a peasant, peddler, or herdsman and that of a high merchant or Ubar, but both are identically slaves.
12	163	He was not a merchant, not a high officer, not a daimyo.
20	590	"Examine every man in my domain, whatever his rank, exalted or lowly, warrior or peasant, merchant or Ashigaru, fisherman or porter, whatever he may be, and bring to me any who bear on his left shoulder the sign of the lotus".
21	33	"It is common on ships," I said, "particularly round ships, merchant ships".
23	231	I learned this from a peasant, come to sell a daughter, for her welfare, to a contract merchant".
30	262	What innkeeper does not want patrons, what merchant does not want customers?" It was late afternoon.
31	50	Too, perhaps it is unwise to allow, say, a peasant, or merchant, to possess an object of such lethal beauty; who knows what may occur in the night, or if one should be careless in crossing an unfamiliar threshold? "You are Arashi, the bandit, are you not?" said the fellow, the warrior,...
35	45	Occasionally the master of a merchant wagon would trundle in, with a trove of silk, and clothing, sometimes a fine sword.
42	186	"The merchant Portal?" said Ichiro.
42	345	"The merchant Portal will be most closely scrutinized after dark.
42	346	It is my hope that few would expect us to depart through the merchant Portal, and in the full light of day".
43	1	We Reach the merchant Portal I cinched the harness straps on Cecily.
43	157	Pertinax and Ichiro, perhaps as much as three or four days ago, had apprised themselves of the location of the merchant Portal.
43	175	"The merchant Portal," I said.

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 par...
49	75	merchant law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on Gor.
10	278	merchant law recommends that female slaves be kept in their collars.
69	104	You know that much from merchant law.
9	363	"merchant! merchant!" cried the free woman.
8	244	"Are they not against the law?" he asked.
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.
9	578	The merchant class is undoubtedly the richest of the Gorean castes, which doubtless has played its role in its pretensions to constitute a high caste, but there are low merchants as well as high merchants, poor merchants as well as rich m...
9	580	Even a lowly peddler, I would learn, if a Home Stone is shared, thinks nothing of expecting a free meal and a night's lodging from a high merchant, who may own caravans, mines, and fleets.
26	172	"Our first girl," she said, "was not pleased to have been switched by Porus, the salt merchant".
26	193	"There is nothing for us to do now but return to the court, and inform the masters that Porus, the salt merchant, he who deals near the east gate, declined to weigh salt for us".
28	27	Indeed, a merchant who misrepresents his goods may have his business burned and his stock confiscated, may even be denied bread, fire, and salt, and be driven naked from the city.
48	110	"There is a free woman," I said, "in merchant garb, with a parasol.
48	184	Certainly I had gathered the intelligence I had been dispatched to obtain; the messenger of Decius Albus was not alone; two others were about, who might be watched for in the future, a free woman, in merchant colors, who stood high in the house of Decius Albus, in charge of whom was th...
49	20	Whereas most of those present were clad in variations of the merchant colors, the next group most prominent, or abundant, was the Scribes.
49	74	merchant routes link cities.
49	85	For example, a given merchant, such as Mintar, of Ar, may be the master of a thousand enterprises and another may be an itinerant peddler; and one scribe may be a city's most esteemed jurist, selling his advice for gold, while another ekes out a living on some street in the Metellan di...
49	134	Many merchant houses keep spies, to appraise themselves of the investments, plans, and ventures of competitors.
51	279	"Recently," said Kurik, "at the behest of Decius Albus, I, in the guise of a merchant envoy from a mythical city, Mytilene, was introduced in, and entertained in, the Commerce Court, one of the receiving courts of the palace, and there, in that guise, met numerous officiaries, administ...
57	139	"Do not neglect the black wine, flavored with Turian sugars," said a fellow in merchant robes, nearby.
61	373	What merchant would part with his goods while lacking the likelihood of recompense? What rational craftsman would sell his services without the assurance of gain?" My master looked to me, sharply.

Book 35. (16 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
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; I am...
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".
2	112	"I think," said the second man, "she was a woman of position and power, perhaps well known, say, the daughter of an administrator, high merchant, or judge, stolen by a disgruntled petitioner, a dissatisfied customer, an unsuccessful litigant, to be disposed of discreetly, as an act of ...
2	192	What merchant is not aware of such things? It is not unusual to display a plainer woman first, in order to dramatize the greater value of the subsequent merchandise.
3	244	Weights are standardized against official weights, so to speak, housed in a merchant fortress in the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains.
8	98	Our ship was a merchant vessel, called a "round ship," though its beam was not that much broader than that of a long ship, as I now know, with its ram and shearing blades.
13	236	"Should her identity be discovered," said the voice, "that she was the former Lady Julia Leta, might that not prove embarrassing to her master?" "Particularly," I said, "were her master of the merchants, and most particularly if he should be a merchant of Coins".
46	22	In addition, a convoy of merchant ships, the grain fleet, five ships from Brundisium, guarded by three longships, were moored in the arsenal harbor.

Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	44	"Could you recognize, again," I asked, "the small goods, trinkets and such, which you received in trade from the confederate of the raiders, the spy and scout of the intruders, he a merchant or in the guise of a merchant, and which were soon stolen back by the raiders?" "...
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	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.
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.
2	135	"But not with Kenneth Statercounter, merchant of neutral Brundisium, concerned for the safety of trade routes," I said.
3	28	It was there, in Sybaris, that I, in the guise of Kenneth Statercounter, merchant of Brundisium, in the tavern oddly named The Living Island, had heard the statement that Nicosia had been destroyed, several days before its actual destruction.
5	3	"It would compromise our guise as a merchant ship".
7	17	"You are supposedly a merchant of Brundisium".
7	127	What are six or seven ships against twenty, twenty naval vessels, manned by trained crews, vessels fierce and swift, like hungry sea sleen, armed with snouts of iron?" "By the Priest-Kings," said Archelaos, enthusiastically, his fist striking the table like a bird of prey, "let us give glad heed to ...
7	141	"What does a stranger, an insignificant merchant from Brundisium, perhaps a dealer in contraband, know of these things, of espionage and intrigue, of war at sea, of Bosk of Port Kar? Has he been cleared by the harbor authorities in Telnus? Is he authorized to trade in these waters?" "P...
7	150	"Let him, if he wishes, concern himself with idle inquiries, to assuage the suspicions of an unimportant stranger, a possible merchant from Brundisium.
10	4	It was in this establishment that I had first heard of the destruction of Nicosia prior to its actual destruction, and in which Aktis had noted baubles and trinkets on a dancer's belt much like those which had figured in the trade goods of the raiders' advance scout, he posing as an itinerant ...
10	101	I came here originally in the guise of a merchant from Brundisium, Kenneth Statercounter.
21	21	"I am a merchant of wines".
21	28	"I do not think you are a simple merchant," he said.
21	116	"Of course," he said, "you are a wine merchant, of great Brundisium, and no more need be explained to slaves than to other animals".
39	8	Thurnock was with me, and we were both in merchant robes, white and gold.
39	57	"Consider the Tesephone," I said, "disguised now as a merchant's vessel, painted in white and gold.