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Book 1. (10 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	2	Out of the robes then popped the sandy-haired head of the scribe, his pale blue eyes twinkling on each side of that sharp needle of a nose.
3	15	And always under his table a brazier filled with hot coals burned near the feet of the scribe, perilously close to the scholarly litter with which the floor was strewn.
3	64	"You would never make a scribe".
3	153	I did learn, casually from a scribe, not Torm, that slaves were not permitted to impart instruction to a free man, since it would place him in their debt, and nothing was owed to a slave.
5	9	As I passed the cylinder in which Torm kept his scrolls, I was happy to catch a glimpse of the little scribe standing at his rough-hewn window.
20	36	I was honored that the little scribe had separated himself from his beloved scrolls long enough to share my happiness, only that of a warrior.
20	38	He clasped my hands, and, to my wonder, the little scribe was crying.
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 ...

Book 2. (10 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	86	Where my father had met me after more than twenty years of separation, where my warrior comrades and I had drunk and laughed together, where I had met and learned from my little friend, Torm, the scribe, there was home.
5	11	I longed for my city, and for my father, the magnificent Matthew Cabot, once Ubar, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and for my friends, the proud Older Tarl, my master-at-arms, and Torm, the cheerful, grumbling little scribe who regarded even sleep and food as part of a conspiracy to sep...
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...

Book 3. (19 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	46	I missed Torm and wondered if I would ever see him again, bounding about excoriating the authors of dusty scrolls, knocking the inkwell from his desk with an imperial sweep of the sleeve of his blue robe, leaping on the table in birdlike fury denouncing one scribe or another for indepe...
1	48	I would not search the fair for him, nor if he were here would I make my presence known, for by the will of Priest-Kings no two men of Ko-ro-ba might stand together, and I had no wish to jeopardize the little scribe.
2	2	It took not much time to purchase a small bundle of supplies to take into the Sardar, nor was it difficult to find a scribe to whom I might entrust the history of the events at Tharna.
2	5	He could not read the manuscript, as it was written in English, a language as foreign to him as Gorean would be to most of you, but yet he would treasure the manuscript and guard it as though it were a most precious possession, for he was a scribe and it is the way of scribe<...
7	43	It is the common property of the Administrator of Ar, a herdsman beside the Vosk, a peasant from Tor, a scribe from Thentis, a metal worker from Tharna, a physician from Cos, a pirate from Port Kar, a warrior from Ko-ro-ba.
13	15	As he said, I would never make a scribe.
34	20	I looked down at the little scribe, Torm, who had stopped sneezing, and was now wiping his nose on the blue sleeve of his robes.
34	37	"Forgive me, Vika," I said, and introduced her to my father, to the Older Tarl and Torm, the scribe, and explained as briefly as I could what had befallen us in the Sardar.
34	57	He was, after all, a scribe, and had the proprieties of his caste to observe.
34	69	"And here, too, is Ko-ro-ba," I said, pointing to the proud giant, the Older Tarl, and the tiny, sandy-haired scribe, Torm.
34	179	The Older Tarl roared with laughter and swept the little scribe under his arm.
1	54	The fairs, incidentally, are governed by Merchant law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged.
1	56	Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant law when pertinent, even against their own citizens.
1	63	Sometimes these men are merchants who wish thereby to secure goodwill for their products; sometimes they are practitioners of the law, who hope to sway the votes of jury men; sometimes they are Ubars or High Initiates who find it in their interests to keep the crowds amused.
17	152	"Of course," said Sarm, "he broke the law of Priest-Kings".
17	153	"What right have you to make the law for him?" I asked.
25	18	I smiled to myself, for I could always tell her, and truthfully, that having saved her life she was now mine by Gorean law, so brief had been her freedom, and that it was up to me to determine the extent and nature of her clothing, and, indeed, whether or not she would be allowed cloth...
25	48	It was the law of Priest-Kings.
35	100	"If you should regain your power," I asked, "what do you propose to do with it? Will you still set forth the law in certain matters for men?" "Undoubtedly," said Misk.

Book 4. (5 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 body of Merchan...
9	479	It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative—or nearest relative if no adult male...
11	52	"How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".
11	65	A slave, not being a person in the eyes of Gorean law, cannot possess a name in his own right, any more than an animal.
11	66	Indeed, in the eyes of Gorean law, unfortunately, slaves are animals, utterly and unqualifiedly at the disposition of their masters, to do with as he pleases.

Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	131	He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, agai...
3	185	"Ubar's scribe to Ubara's scribe Six," said the Player.
3	190	"Ubar's scribe to Ubara's scribe Six," repeated the Player.
1	48	The urn was given to him who wore the robes of the Administrator of the City, who took it and slowly, on foot, withdrew toward Ko-ro-ba, followed by the large blond Warrior and the small scribe.
3	118	I supposed they were interested in seeing what the Player's response would be to yellow's fourteenth move, a move on which authorities disagreed sharply, some favoring Ubar's Initiate to scribe Three, and others the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover the vulnerable Ubar Two.
3	192	"My First Tarnsman," said the Vintner, "captures Ubara's scribe".
3	209	"scribe takes Home Stone".
3	210	The crowd and I cried out with delight, marveling on it, the now-apparent simplicity of it, the attack which had been not so much mounted as revealed by the apparently meaningless moves, intended only to clear the board for the vital attack, coming from the improbable Ubara's scribe, o...
4	32	At his right hand there was a scribe, an angular, sullen man with deep eyes, with tablets and stylus.
4	127	"74673," said the scribe.
4	130	Accordingly, I was not surprised that the scribe had her number ready for Cernus.
4	143	"The girl!" cried out the scribe.
5	454	"We have an agent in that house," said Misk, "a scribe, the chief accountant, whose name is Caprus".
5	456	"No," said Misk, "as scribe and Accountant his movements are restricted".
12	47	I looked to the area of the Administrator and saw the Hinrabian disgustedly turning away, dictating something to a scribe, who sat cross-legged near the throne, a sheaf of record papers in his hand.
14	40	To this point the tall, angular, dour scribe had given us no information.
15	370	It was rather late in the evening, but Cernus had remained long at table, playing game after game with Caprus the scribe.
15	421	"I give you the trade of Ar! I want only my life! Caste Sanctuary! Caste Sanctuary!" Cernus smiled at Caprus and then, unexpectedly, as though he had been teasing him, he placed his first tarnsman at Ubara's scribe Two.
17	175	"Ar is at war with itself," said one man, who had not spoken before, a scribe.
17	257	He was only a scribe, and yet what he had done had taken great courage, probably more courage than that possessed by many Warriors.
17	336	I heard Caprus say, as though marveling, "I shall capture your Home Stone in three moves!" Cernus grinned and clapped his hands on the scribe's shoulders.
17	765	To my astonishment, this time I began to see the Centian Opening unfold, developed years ago by Centius of Cos, one of the strongest openings known in the game, one in which the problems of development for red are particularly acute, especially the development of his Ubar's scribe.
17	771	"Some authorities," I told her, "favor Ubar's Initiate to scribe Three at this point, others recommend the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover Ubar Two".
17	773	"Ubar's Initiate to scribe Three is the better move," she said.
17	775	I placed my Ubar's Initiate, a perfume vial, on scribe Three.
17	779	"Now," she said, "you will find it difficult to bring your Ubar's scribe into play".
17	804	"But then," she said, "I shall place my Ubara's scribe at Ubar's Initiate Three".
18	459	"Worthy of a scribe".
18	460	"I am a scribe," said the man.
18	468	In the background I could see the lean scribe whom I had thought for these many months to be Caprus.

Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	26	The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
15	210	In Gorean law a slave is an animal; before the law he has no rights; he is dependent on his master not only for his name but for his very life; he may be disposed of by the master at any time and in any way the master pleases.
6	105	A scribe stood by with a tally sheet, marking the number of captures by each warrior.
8	495	And, too, I was no longer worthy of the respect of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and of my teacher at arms, the Older Tarl, nor of he who had been my small friend, Torm, the scribe.
10	12	Beside each empty throne there was a stool from which a scribe, speaking in the name of his Ubar, participated in the proceedings of the council.
10	14	A scribe, at a large table before the five thrones, was droning the record of the last meeting of the council.
10	44	The voice of the scribe droned on, reading the records of the council's last meeting.
10	93	I had made her the chief scribe and accountant of my house.
10	188	At a word from the scribe at the long table before the thrones of the Ubars, two men put Tersites from the chamber, dragging him away.
11	3	The scribe at the table before the thrones was on his feet shouting.
11	9	And I saw, too, that the scribe who normally sat his attendance at the right arm of the empty throne of Henrius Sevarius, the Fifth, in the council chamber was gone.
11	20	The scribe at the central table, that before the empty thrones, stood numb behind the table.
11	30	"Gather up and guard the book of the Council," I told the scribe who had been at the great table.
11	53	I gestured to the side door, through which Lysias and, I assumed, he who had been scribe for Henrius Sevarius, had escaped.
11	184	"We have the reports on the damage to the wharves of Chung," said a scribe, pressing into my hands the documents.
11	187	I looked at the scribe.
11	211	A scribe came to my side.
11	214	"Yes," said the scribe.
11	218	The scribe grinned.
11	230	"What have you learned?" I asked the scribe, who stood with his tablet and stylus beside the rack.
11	233	The scribe looked up at me.
11	236	The scribe looked at me, puzzled.
11	293	Then Samos addressed himself to the scribe near the rack.
11	372	"I now ask the table scribe," said Samos, "to call the roll of captains".
11	373	"Antisthenes," called the scribe.
11	376	He took his sword from its sheath and plunged it through the scribe's papers, pinning them to the table.
11	387	Sullius Maximus stopped before the table of the scribe, and regarded the council.
11	392	"Bejar," called the scribe.
11	394	"Bosk," called the scribe.
11	397	"Abstention," recorded the scribe.

Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	601	I wondered if a scribe would buy her.
11	1197	"She has the intelligence, and education, of the scribe, and yet she is obviously an exquisite and well-trained female slave".
11	1199	"She should be sold to a scribe," said the man.
17	40	No scribe it seemed would own Inge, but she would belong to a brutal and powerful huntsman, the handsome Raf of Treve; and Rena's captain of Tyros, he who had contracted for her capture, must now surely be disappointed, and his gold lost, for his lovely prize has been taken by another,...
11	379	She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp...
12	440	The stockades are governed under Merchant law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
14	420	Perhaps one of the things that free women most envy in slaves is that they are not only permitted to reveal their beauty but that they must, even in the light of law, do so.
14	467	Gorean law is on his side, not hers.
14	468	Indeed, as an animal, she has no standing whatsoever before the law.
16	287	On Gor, of course, her relationship to the master is open, public, institutionalized, accepted, taken for granted, and celebrated, a matter of law.
18	38	By Gorean law the companionship, to be binding, must, together, be annually renewed, pledged afresh with the wines of love.

Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	11	I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e...
1	3	Carefully, I set the Ubar's Tarnsman at Ubar's scribe Six.
1	61	He looked up at me, and defended his Home Stone by bringing his scribe to Ubar One whence it could control his Ubar's Tarnsman Three, controlling as well the killing diagonal.
1	157	"Builder to Ubara's scribe Six," said Samos, moving a tall wooden piece toward me on the board.
11	739	I responded to this with scribe to Ubara's Builder Two.
22	67	And small Torm, in the blue robes of the scribe, lifted his cup, to salute the beauty of Talena.
1	97	It was true that the Companionship, not renewed, had been dissolved in the eyes of Gorean law.
1	321	The Gorean slave, in the eyes of Gorean law, is an animal, with no legal title to a name.
3	41	The Merchants, who control Lydius, under Merchant law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than strictly policed.
9	163	In law, and in the eyes of Goreans, Talena was now without family.
11	60	In the eyes of Goreans, and Gorean law, the slave is an animal.

Book 9. (15 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	22	It was Luma, the chief scribe of my house, in her blue robe and sandals.
1	24	She was a scrawny girl, not attractive, but with deep eyes, blue; and she was a superb scribe, in her accounting swift, incisive, accurate, brilliant; once she had been a paga slave, though a poor one; I had saved her from Surbus, a captain, who had purchased her to slay her, she not h...
1	39	Other captains, other merchants, seeing the waxing of my fortunes, and understanding the commercial complexities involved, had offered this scribe considerable emoluments to join their service.
1	65	"Go," said I, "scribe.
1	721	His hand closed on the arm of the thin blond scribe.
10	324	I saw, too, in the crowd, a physician, in green robes, from Ar and a scribe from Cos.
16	67	To have a scribe's skills would tend to embarrass a man of arms, and tend to lower his prestige among his peers.
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.

Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	836	He called a scribe to him.
1	786	Had they known the weakness of the Sardar, and the time required to restore the power source, regenerating itself now at inexorable concentration rates determined by natural law, they would have surely launched their fleets.
5	762	The collar, by Gorean law, canceled the past.
9	86	"More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.
10	12	The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.
12	168	Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backe...
12	300	"It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission".
13	76	He holds within his territories the right of law and execution.
17	34	His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law.
17	94	One must speak carefully whose words become law.
24	806	"Men on Earth," she cried, "will be dethroned by law!" "Earth has a complex and intricate political history," I said.
26	1208	Further, Gor was the true prize of the planets rotating about the sun, not the Earth, for, in the name of rights and liberty, and business, the fools of Earth, confused by the rhetoric of law and morality, shielding short-sighted greed and madness, had stood aside, permitting the poiso...

Book 11. (12 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.
3	481	The brand has on Gor legal, institutional status; that which it marks it makes an object; its victim has no rights, or appeal, within the law.
3	531	That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
5	142	The Companion Contract, thus, had been duly negotiated, with the attention of scribes of the law from both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria.
5	198	Some cities are governed by a Ubar, who is in effect a military sovereign, sometimes a tyrant, whose word is law.
6	55	I now saw them as unique, exciting masters, each different and incredibly individual, who might, for a word or gesture, have me; how could I not regard them differently from a free woman; and, too, doubtless, they saw me in a similarly immediate and intensely personal fashion, not as an object shiel...
7	227	The slave is not a person before Gorean law but a rightless animal.
9	934	If it were true, in Gorean law, it could be no slander.
9	959	If this were true, it was, in Gorean law, no slander.
22	358	The slave is seen as a lovely property which may be purchased or stolen, owned and mastered; she has no standing in the eyes of the law; she is rightless and vulnerable; she belongs to the master and must obey and serve him; she exists to please; that is her purpose; she must hope to w...
22	451	This not only has its profound erotic effect on the slave and others, but it usefully, from the point of view of merchant law, identifies her as a slave.
24	97	"And it is a civic matter, and you have been authorized to apprehend her and bring her before a slave praetor?" Slaves, as animals, lack standing before the law.

Book 12. (27 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	403	Red controlled not one but four adjacent diagonals, unobstructed diagonals, each bearing on the citadel of yellow's Home Stone; the red Ubara threatened the Ubara's scribe's Spearman at Ubara's scribe Two; the Initiate threatened the Ubara's Builder at Builder Two, positi...
4	280	Instead Centius of Cos had advanced his Ubar's scribe's Spearman to Ubar's scribe Three.
4	402	Red's Ubar's Initiate controlled the Ubar's Initiate's Diagonal; the red Ubara controlled the Ubar's Physician's Diagonal; the red Ubar controlled the Ubar's Builder's Diagonal; the Ubar's scribe controlled the Ubar's scribe's Diagonal.
3	278	There was a thin scribe present, as well, behind the counter.
3	678	It had occurred on the twenty-fourth move of red, played by Philemon, Physician to Physician Six, generally regarded as a flawed response to Ossius' Ubar to Ubara's scribe Five.
4	308	Centius of Cos moved his Ubara to Ubar's scribe Four.
4	343	I also noted, as I had not noted before, that red's Ubar's scribe was developed.
4	345	The Ubara, of course, as I have mentioned, had been developed to Ubar's scribe Four.
4	366	No major piece had yet been moved by yellow, not an Initiate, nor a Builder, nor a scribe, nor a Tarnsman, nor the Ubar nor Ubara.
4	378	It would also take three moves if he wished to place it at Ubar's Initiate One, or at Ubara's scribe One, Ubara's Builder One or Ubara's Initiate One.
4	379	He could place the Home Stone, of course, in two moves, if he would place it at Ubar's Tarnsman One, or Ubar's scribe One, or Ubar One, or Ubara One, or Ubara's Tarnsman One.
4	393	The two Home stones, at their respective locations, faced one another, each shielded by its several defending pieces, scribe and Initiate, one of the central Spearmen, a flanking Spearman, a Builder, a Physician, and a Rider of the High Tharlarion.
4	586	The merchant's assistant, the scribe, his face and arm bleeding, stood to one side.
4	651	I looked to the scribe.
4	654	"I tried," said the scribe.
4	662	"He had a knife," pointed out the scribe.
4	672	I regarded the scribe.
4	682	"It is worthless," said the scribe.
4	698	The scribe had paid the physician from a small iron box, taken from a locked trunk, a tarsk bit.
4	700	Then only I remained in the booth with the scribe and merchant.
4	704	"Trap?" stammered the scribe.
4	708	His hands were larger than those of the scribe, and scarred and roughened.
4	711	"Surely you jest," said the fellow in the robes of the scribe.
4	716	"You said he was clumsy," said the fellow in the scribe's blue.
4	736	"He disapproved of it," said the fellow in the robes of the scribe.
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.

Book 13. (28 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
48	255	Technically, according to Merchant law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl.
6	604	Two men from the desk of the nearest wharf praetor, he handling wharves six through ten, a scribe and a physician, boarded the ship.
6	605	The scribe carried a folder with him.
6	612	The scribe, with Ulafi, went about his business.
6	685	The scribe noted the physician's report in his papers and the physician, with a marking stick, initialed the entry.
49	22	There was upon his body, half torn away, the blue of the scribe.
52	1	The scribe Tende fled from the feet of Kisu, running to Bila Huruma.
52	175	There, in blue rags, yet standing proudly, was a scribe.
52	177	"That is known to me," said the scribe.
52	184	"I will take you to Shaba," said the scribe.
53	7	The scribe had led us through the city, ascending and descending streets, making our way through various buildings, following various ancient avenues, flanked by the ruins of what must once have been an impressive grandeur.
53	8	Bila Huruma and I had followed the scribe most closely.
53	22	"Shaba is dying," had said the scribe who had conducted us to this place.
53	38	"I am a scribe, and a man of science and letters," said Shaba.
53	93	"I did not know a scribe could be so courageous," I said.
53	193	"Remove these manacles!" I cried to Ngumi, the scribe at the side of Shaba, he who had conducted us to this place.
53	201	"Free me!" I cried, maddened, to the scribe.
53	204	The scribe threw a wild look at Shaba.
53	259	The tribal stitching on his face, so startling and paradoxical in a scribe, a man of civilization, was identical to that on the face of Shaba.
57	69	The importance of the work of Bila Huruma and Shaba, one a Ubar, the other a scribe and explorer, could not, in my opinion, be overestimated.
4	128	Also, of course, one standing before the desk must look up to see the praetor, which, psychologically, tends to induce a feeling of fear for the power of the law.
4	192	Then I was naked! Find her, if you wish to be busy with matters of the law! I was the victim of theft! It was stolen from me, my garment! You should be hunting her, the thief, not holding me here.
18	44	Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
27	154	Too, it is in accord with Merchant law.
32	337	"Also," I said, "if you are interested in these matters, you are not simply an animal in the literal sense, in the biological sense of 'animal', but in the sense that persons, individuals with rights before the law, are distinguished from animals".
32	341	In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal.
34	259	"Technically," I said, "in the eyes of Gorean law you are not an object but an animal".
51	107	The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of free men, impress upon her her lowly status, and, interestingly, keep her in a state of sexu...

Book 14. (15 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
34	123	"Ten copper tarsks," he said to a scribe at a small table nearby, with papers and a box of coins.
34	124	The scribe counted out ten copper tarsks to a fellow at the table.
34	202	"Give him ten," said Tenalion to the scribe.
34	233	He went to the scribe and looked through his papers, noting numbers.
34	235	"Pay him," he said, too, to the scribe.
34	236	The scribe handed me ten silver tarsks.
2	75	You are not yet a legal slave, a slave under law.
2	79	You will eventually find that you are, fully and legally, under law, a slave, totally a slave, and only a slave".
12	32	Is it truly easier, I wonder, to adopt columns and arches, philosophy and poetry, mathematics and medicine, and law, than a rational mode of dress.
12	373	I have not mentioned, either, slaves with professional competencies, such as medicine or law, or fighting slaves, in effect gladiators, men purchased for use as bodyguards or combatants in arranged games.
24	82	These are the three standard marking places, following the recommendations of Merchant law, for the marking of Kajirae, with the left thigh being, in practice, the overwhelmingly favored brand site.
27	114	It has proven to be an especially viable social institution, contributing to the stability and practicality of society, and it is honored in mores and sanctioned in law.
27	296	"There is a breakdown of law and order".
27	372	The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant law.
34	157	Her position is sanctioned in law.

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
21	297	It is a complex, vital, bright, colorful, deeply sensuous civilization; it is a harsh, gorgeous world in which the slave girl has a special role and place; her condition is unquestioned and categorical; it is supported by history, by custom and law; there is absolutely no escape for he...
24	392	The fullest slave, of course, is she who is a natural slave, and then, beyond this, truly wears the collar, that slave who is a slave by nature and whose slavery, released, is then confirmed and fixed upon her openly, publicly, by all the sanctions of custom and law, for all the world ...
24	400	Beyond this, of course, we knew we were, categorically and absolutely, legal slaves, lovely properties which might be bartered and sold, and who might figure in transactions which would be upheld in any court of law.
26	101	In his treatment of her he is untrammeled by either conscience or law, and this she knows, and loves, and, accordingly, hastens to obey and be pleasing.

Book 16. (7 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".

Book 17. (15 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	107	They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of Priest-Kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port.
13	671	"Merchant law," I said, "is the only law common to many Gorean cities".
1	1286	"Due process of law, as you may see," said Kog, "was strictly observed".
1	1302	"All law exists to serve the interests of the dominant powers," said Kog.
1	1305	law which is not a weapon and a wall is madness".
2	357	It is a felony in Gorean law to forge or falsify such papers.
10	61	A law, imposed on white men entering their lands by red savages, had been violated.
13	669	"And such things, like the brand, are recommended by Merchant law".
13	1188	She is now, commonly, a collared, embonded beauty, properly marked as merchandise, effectively displayed and marketed, and owned in the full right of law".
17	446	Another approach might be to envision a world compatible with reality and congenial to human nature, a world in which science, even social science, might be free, a world in which truth would not be against the law, a world designed not for the crippling, distortion and torture of huma...
18	174	"Surely we have broken no law," I said.
18	176	"I do not think they need more law than that".
18	181	"Surely there is no law to the effect that you should not be freed," I said.
18	182	"There is no law specifically to that effect," he said, "but I would not count on their being much pleased about it".
18	186	"If there were such a law," asked the youth, "would you have broken it?" "Yes," I said.

Book 18. (7 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.

Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	337	"It is in accord with the recommendations of merchant law".
3	338	"Merchant law?" I asked.
3	460	It thus becomes a question as to which among these animals own and which are owned, which, so to speak, count as persons, or have standing, before the law, and which do not, which are, so to speak, the citizens or persons, and which are the animals".
6	613	This might be regarded as the civilized expression of the biological relationship, a recognition of that relationship, and perhaps an enhancement, refinement and celebration of it, and, within the context of custom and law, of course, a clarification and consolidation of it.
14	45	But I was a free woman and would be subjected only to the cold and inhuman mercies of the law.
23	345	It was a strong recommendation of Merchant law that slaves be marked.
28	38	In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	829	I would then, later, bring the Ubar's Builder to Ubar's scribe One, to bring pressure to bear on the Ubar's scribe's file.
12	37	On my second rank, I had a Spearman at Ubar's Builder Two, a scribe at Ubara Two, and another Rider of the High Tharlarion at Ubara's scribe Two.
12	43	This was backed by a scribe at Ubara's scribe Four.
12	249	I could not move the Home Stone to Ubar's Builder One because that square was covered by his scribe at Ubara's scribe Four.
12	284	I now began to suspect that the placement of his Builder on that file might not have been an accident, no more than the rather irritating placement of his scribe at Ubara's scribe Four.
12	288	I expected him rather, then, to take the Builder and then, with impunity, promote his Spearman to a Tarnsman at his Ubar's scribe Ten, my Ubar's scribe One.
12	303	I could not move the Home Stone to either Ubar's Builder One, Two or Three because of the coverage of these squares, all of them being covered by his Builder at his Ubar's Builder One, and Ubar's Builder One being additionally covered by his scribe, that posted at Ubara's scribe<...
1	713	I moved my Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubara's scribe Three.
1	828	I utilized the initial three-space option of the Ubar's scribe's Spearman.
1	837	I brought the Ubar's Builder to Ubar's scribe One.
1	1055	I won both games easily, the first with a battering ram of Spearmen and Riders of the High Tharlarion on the Ubar's side, and the second with a middle-game combination of Ubara's scribe, Ubara and Ubar's Tarnsman.
9	361	"Your body, as I now see," said Boots, "now that you are naked, now that the pesky, interfering, obscuring robes of the scribe have been totally removed from it, not inconceivably might be of interest to a male".
12	36	The configuration of pieces on the board was as follows: On my first rank, my Home Stone was at Ubar's Initiate One; I had a Builder at Ubar's scribe One.
12	38	On my third rank, I had a Spearman at Ubar's Initiate Three and another at Ubar's scribe Three.
12	41	His Spearman at Ubar's Builder Eight was supported by another of his Spearmen, posted at Ubar's scribe Seven.
12	44	This alignment of the Ubara and scribe did not frighten me.
12	46	His scribe could recapture but he would have lost his Ubara, and for only a Builder.
12	52	"But you would then retreat to your Ubar's Initiate Seven, the Rider of the High Tharlarion then protected by your scribe at Ubara Two," he said.
12	62	I now moved my scribe from Ubara Two to Ubara's Tarnsman Three.
12	64	He could not take it with his Ubara, of course, sweeping down his Ubara's Tarnsman's file, because it was protected now by my other Rider of the High Tharlarion, that hitherto, seemingly innocent, seemingly uninvolved piece which had just happened, apparently, to be posted at Ubara's scribe
12	69	His only defense would be the capture of the Rider of the High Tharlarion with his Ubara, at which point, of course, I would recapture with the scribe, thus exchanging the Rider of the High Tharlarion for a Ubara, an exchange much to my profit.
12	261	I could not move my Home Stone in front of the Spearman, even if I had wished to do so, because of his scribe's coverage from afar of that square, Ubar's Builder One.
12	263	I now began to suspect that what I had thought had been a rather weak, easily averted threat of capture of Home Stone, the earlier alignment of his Ubara and scribe on that crucial diagonal, might actually have had a somewhat different, more latent, more insidious purpose.
12	264	Similarly, even if his scribe had not been placed where it was, it would not have been rational in this specific game situation, though it would have been a possible move, to place my Home Stone at Ubar's Builder One.
12	267	But, as it was, because of the scribe's coverage of Ubar's Builder One, my move was forced.
12	292	The game was still mine! "Spearman to Ubar's Initiate Ten," he said, moving the Spearman neither to Ubar's Builder Ten nor to Ubar's scribe Ten, taking the Builder.
12	431	Torm, my old friend, the scribe, might have expressed skepticism at the unqualified promptness and boldness of my asseveration, as I had always remained somewhat imperfect in writing the alternate lines of Gorean script, which are written from the right to the left, but, clearly, I cou...
1	485	The law is clear on this.
1	1099	This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.
2	1662	Similarly you do not have her socio-natural vulnerability, that of the legal slave, helplessly so, in a society in which the institution of slavery is accepted, ingredient, pervasive, and honored, an unshakable matter, for thousands of years, of policy, tradition, and law".

Book 21. (14 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	195	He may even have been a scribe of the law.
21	162	"I am not a scribe of the law," he said.
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.
23	173	I drew back the letters, not handing them to the scribe.
23	183	Another scribe moved toward me.
23	184	He seemed dangerous, not like a scribe.
23	193	"Write down," said the regent to the scribe nearest him, "that we have received petitions from Tarl of Port Kar, who is lodging in the house of Achiates, which we will take under careful consideration".
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".
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.

Book 22. (16 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	388	"Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.
5	44	When she had been used before my kennel she had been under "gag law," as is common when the guards use a girl, forbidden speech, save for moans and whimpers.
6	327	How fearful it would be, I thought, if such a female, or such females, in all their hatred and frustration, should manage by lies, propaganda, misrepresentation, manipulation, distortion, chicanery and law, swiftly or gradually, perhaps almost unnoticeably, to bring about the ruination...
6	596	I had noted, with interest, that although they were from different worlds, they, in the throes of their intimate employments, at first submitting to and enduring, then accepting, then reveling in, and, at last, kneeling and licking, mutely begging and pleading for their ravishments, in their whimper...
6	627	I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law.
6	634	If I were to flee the thief, however, after he has consolidated his hold on me, for example, kept me for even a night, I could, actually in Gorean law, be counted as a runaway slave, from him, even though he did not technically own me yet, and punished accordingly.
10	493	Even Gorean law makes it clear that it is the entire slave who is owned, not merely a part of her.
11	214	It would soon be replaced, we may suppose, with a new and more appropriate status, that of being a slave legally, a status fixed on her then with all the clarity and obduracy of Gorean law, and fixed on her for all the world to see, fixed on her as plainly as the collar on her neck and...
13	796	Of course, I would call men "Master"! They were my masters, and not only in the order of nature, but here, too, in the order of law.
17	104	The public buildings, the law court and the "house of the Administrator," the locus of public offices, were similarly structured and adorned.
24	19	His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.
28	101	This point in Gorean law is apparently motivated by the consideration that a slave always have some master.
29	185	Too, anyone whose citizenship, for whatever reason, is rescinded or revoked, with due process of law, is no longer entitled to the protections and rights of that polity's Home Stone.
29	1574	He held a steel sword, where such things made law.
34	175	It is as though all the forces of communication, education and law had gone insane, with no better objective than to bring the sexes to ruin, destroy the human gene pool and doom the species".
34	632	"I am yours in the sight of law, yours, owned, in fullest legality, and doubtless you are well aware, as well, that I am helpless in your arms, and writhe helplessly there, and hasten to obey in all things, fearful of my master's wrath, and that I am your slave conquest, and property, ...

Book 23. (11 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".

Book 24. (15 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
40	45	He was, I suspected, a scribe of the law.
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	1772	"Perhaps a scribe would buy you to clean his chamber and keep his papers in order".
1	891	Given this, it may be seen that, in a sense, the brand and collar, as lovely and decorative as they are, and as exciting and profoundly meaningful as they are, when they are fixed on a woman, and she wears them, and as obviously important as they are from the point of view of property law<...
12	263	That is because they, though legally free, within the strict technicalities of the law, are yet slaves.
19	147	Perhaps she is somewhat uneasy; perhaps she is curious; perhaps she wonders, if he is attractive, what it might be like to be at his feet, unclothed and bound, his, his by all the rules and law of capture.
19	160	Yet, I supposed, that such an absurdity, such an oversight of law, and civilization, was not irremediable.
19	285	Against such fraud, needless to say, the law provides redress.
19	337	"It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well".
19	341	Aside from questions of legality, compliance with the law, and such, I think it will be clear upon a moment's reflection that various practical considerations also commend slave branding to the attention of the owner, in particular, the identification of the article as property, this t...
26	58	In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave.
26	190	Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves.
28	645	"In this situation," I said, "in law, as well as in fact".
39	21	"It is against the law," said the fellow.
39	94	Now, however, she was not merely a natural slave, aware of herself, reduced, and self-confessed, begging the resolution and solace of the collar, but a legal slave, fully and perfectly embonded in law.

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	95	"Are you a legal slave, my child?" asked one of the counselors, a scribe of the law.
9	87	"Lady Tuta Thassolonia," read a scribe.
9	97	"You are then a legally free female?" asked the scribe.
9	99	"It is then sufficient," said the scribe to Talena.
9	218	"Next," called a scribe.
9	266	"Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, Lady of Ar," read the scribe.
9	470	"Talena, Ubara of Ar," announced a scribe, "will now pronounce judgment on the traitress, Claudia Tentia Hinrabia".
9	522	"Cornelia, Lady of Ar," said the scribe.
9	524	Talena consulted a list held by a scribe near her.
9	615	"Ludmilla, Lady of Ar," called the scribe.
12	227	"What have we here," asked Marcus, "a little scribe?" "I am no stranger to scrolls," she said.
12	258	Sometimes they are read aloud in training sessions by a scribe, a whip master in attendance.
18	455	"To a scribe to read the public boards!" "No!" said Marcus.
22	625	One hires a warrior for one thing, one hires a scribe for another.
22	626	One does not expect a scribe to know the sword.
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	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".

Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	500	They were followed by a scribe with a tablet, who made jottings as they proceeded down the line.
19	531	The officers and the scribe had already passed her point in the line.
24	718	One of the men with the officer, the captain, was clad not in the gear of war, but wore a blue tunic, and carried, on two straps, slung now beside him, a scribe's box.
24	724	Other paraphernalia may also be included, depending on the scribe, string, ostraka, wire, coins, even a lunch.
24	797	"Do you wish a record made of this, Captain?" asked the fellow in the blue tunic, he with the scribe's box, on its straps, slung at his left side.
29	196	For example, a scribe would normally wear his blue when working but not always when at leisure.
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.

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	501	It is both historical and contemporary; it is honored in custom and tradition; it is honored in practice; it is pervasive, societally and culturally; it is familiar, recognized and unquestioned; it is ingredient in the law and enforced with all the sanctions of the law.
26	752	"Now I surely acknowledge that the confiscation was within the letter of the law, given the current sorry state of Ar and the ordinances of the occupation; and I acknowledge further that she has been out of my hands for more than the number of days which, in Merchant law,...
22	219	"Can you dance?" she had been asked by the scribe.
22	227	But I shall not be called upon to dance, she told herself, for I have informed the scribe that I cannot dance.
22	304	The matter was supervised by a scribe, with a clipboard, to which were attached several sheets of paper.
22	539	She had been 'Auta' before, but the scribe had not cared for that name, and had given her the name 'Renata'.
24	349	She saw the scribe who had been in charge of her in the exhibition cage.
24	649	Ellen saw the scribe who had queried her earlier, in the exhibition cage, and, oddly, momentarily, was frightened.
24	708	She did see, this frightening her, and she quickly put down her head, the scribe who had interviewed her in the exhibition cage, and three guardsmen, with him, not one but three, all approaching.
24	711	"117, Kajira Ellen," said the scribe.
24	713	"Dismiss your girls, save this one," said the scribe.
24	717	"Strip yourself, completely," said the scribe.
24	719	"Help her," said the scribe.
24	728	She looked up and, meeting the stern eyes of the scribe, lifted away the skirt, folded it, and, head down, placed it, too, beside her.
24	729	"Bells," said the scribe.
24	735	"On your belly," said the scribe.
24	740	"Well, little Ellen," said the scribe.
24	743	"But I thought it strange," said the scribe, "when I heard your number called in the camp, summoning you to a dancing circle, and, indeed, one so high as the ba-ta circle.
24	746	"According to my records," said the scribe, looming over her, tall in his blue robes, she could see but the hem of his robe and his sandals, "you responded negatively when queried as to your ability to dance.
24	766	She supposed that the question had been a trap, but, even had it not been, even if the scribe's question had been innocently, honestly, motivated, she thought it wisest to answer truthfully.
24	768	"Then," said the scribe, "it appears that you are a lying slave".
24	774	There was laughter, from the scribe, and from one of the guardsmen, and from the two whip masters who had now come forth from the area of preparation.
24	782	"You danced," said the scribe.
24	784	"You had lessons?" said the scribe.
24	788	"And surely, as a slave," said the scribe, "you upon occasion, naked, in secret, had swayed before a mirror?" "Yes, Master," whispered Ellen.
24	796	"Then you have not only made observations, from which you perhaps learned something, but you have practiced," said the scribe.
24	798	"I think I shall have you remanded for the liar's brand," said the scribe.
24	802	"Who are you?" asked the scribe.
24	806	It was Selius Arconious! "Perhaps you are right," said the scribe.
24	809	"I did, as doubtless did we all, enjoyed her performance, and that should count for something, I suppose," said the scribe, "and I, besides, upon reflection, am inclined to grant that she may not have fully understood her latent talents in the matter".

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, often hostile, Gor...
79	518	And doubtless millions of female slaves have been picked out for others, matched to others, to the best of the purchaser's ability, a slave who sings and recites, and plays the lyre, for a fellow who loves poetry and music, a skilled dancer for a fellow who is fond of dance, a brilliant, informed, e...
1	106	Indeed, they are indispensable in their way; have they not, however unintentionally, secured the foundation of law; have they not, however unbeknownst to themselves, raised from the mire of brutishness, insecurity, and terror the towers of civilization? Surely it is they who must man t...
1	217	Block measurements, taken presale, are commonly, and in some cities this is required by law, included in a female's sales information.
1	843	The most common site for such, recommended in Merchant law, is high on the left thigh, under the hip.
1	1178	Indeed, this is required by Merchant law.
3	113	But does not the collar enhance the beauty of any woman, the contrast with her softness, its irremovability, and its meaning? It is little wonder, he thought, that Merchant law prescribes that the fair throats of female slaves will know the collar, that their fair throats...
19	169	"Lord Pyrrhus is not above the law," said the machine.
19	170	"No one is above the law," speculated Cabot.
19	172	"One is above the law".
27	173	"In your former culture," said Cabot, "only males were thought to have value, really, and thus the female was supposed to become a pretend male, with male properties and virtues, a counterfeit male, a facsimile male, and so arose all the nonsense of identity, a farce transparent even to children, bu...
43	338	It would be a matter of law".
55	146	And it is a matter not simply of time and tradition, you must understand, but of mores, customs, practices, an ethos, and abundant and tested law".
79	573	"How is she a slave?" "She fell afoul of a law, one of her own father's laws, that she who couches with, or readies herself to couch with, a slave, becomes the slave of the slave's master, the couching slave in this case, whom I had purchased in order to compromise and en...
79	574	Afterwards, as had been my intent, I freed him, but this, in accord with the law and my plan, left her my slave.
80	279	To be sure, Merchant law, in any case, prescribes the collar, the brand, distinctive garmenture, and such.
80	291	Even were it not for such law, of course, practical considerations would dictate some obvious ways of marking the distinction between the female slave and the free woman.

Book 29. (11 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	117	"Transients, like yourself, a coastal peddler, the arrival twice yearly of an inspector and scribe, to review the trees, to inventory the reserves".
4	203	"It is an explicit recommendation of Merchant law".
5	139	I had little love for Priest-Kings, but theirs was the law and the rod which held in check the inventive and indiscreet aggressions of humans on this, their world.
13	437	The master may have many slaves, but the slave may, by law, have but one master, even if it be the state, or some corporate entity.
19	279	"It is the law of Lord Nishida".
22	278	The relationship of female slave and male master, though one established, sanctioned, and enforced by law, is founded obviously on one common in nature, that of, so to speak, the conquered, possessed female and the conquering, possessing male.
26	256	The former Ubara had been embonded in accord with the couching law of Marlenus of Ar, any free woman who couches with, or prepares to couch with, a male slave, becomes herself a slave, and the property of the male slave's master.
26	293	Possession, particularly after a lengthy interval, is often regarded as decisive, by praetors, archons, magistrates, scribes of the law, and such.
26	294	What is of most importance to the law is not so much that a particular individual owns a slave as that she is owned by someone, that she is absolutely and perfectly owned.
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...
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...

Book 30. (22 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
37	1199	I removed the scribe's satchel, my purse, the scribe's robes, and lay upon the comforter and, on one elbow, regarded the slave.
1	83	"Where will he go? What will he do?" asked a fellow, a scribe from his robes, of shoddy, faded blue.
33	69	"He is a scribe," said the stranger.
33	146	He is a scribe".
34	1	A scribe's Interlude "Have you finished your work?" I asked my slave.
34	26	It would not hurt for idlers and passers-by to guess, from the color of her scrap of clothing, that she was a scribe's girl.
34	239	When the fellows in the market saw the color of the tunic they would guess, I supposed, and correctly, that she was the property of a scribe.
37	1	A scribe Concludes an Account "Wine, Master?" said my slave.
37	738	"I am a scribe," I said.
37	1215	"I think you are the sort of female who would appeal to a scribe," I said.
37	1373	"I am a poor man," I said, "a low scribe, one who labors in the registry.
37	1411	I am now the slave of a scribe, and the scribes is a high caste".
37	1553	Calisthenes, Office of the Registry, Harbor Administration, Port of Brundisium, scribe.
1	392	She was now without a Home Stone, a fugitive, no longer protected by law.
3	1265	I realized that I was now, in the eyes of the law, no longer the Lady Flavia but an animal that might be named as the free might please.
5	135	The sword here did not seem to be a law unto itself, or at least his sword.
5	242	"The animosity borne to me by your Rutilius of Ar has nothing to do with Cos and Ar, with politics or war, with defense or security, nor with justice or law.
12	503	Indeed, as you know, in a court of law, the testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture.
34	54	The face of the slave, by law, must be naked.
34	79	"In my view, and in that of most, and certainly in the eyes of the law, your status is clear".
36	177	In a couple of places on a platform, there was a harbor praetor, now indoors, in the warehouse, on his curule chair, as opposed to on the docks themselves, their usual station, who might clarify the Merchant law, interpret it, adjudicate disputes, and make rulings.
37	115	It is hard to be in a man's collar and, after a time, not come to be his slave, not merely in law, but in heart.

Book 31. (22 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
17	152	I did not know if that were because her master favored the blue, or if he might be a scribe.
35	147	For example, from left to right, on the first row, one would have the Ubara's Initiate, the Ubara's Builder, the Ubara's scribe, the Ubara's Tarnsman, and then the Ubara.
35	148	Next comes the Ubar, and then, in order, the Ubar's Tarnsman, the Ubar's scribe, the Ubar's Builder, and the Ubar's Initiate".
35	290	"I think so," he said, "but what is the relevance of the order? What would it mean if, say, a Physician's Vulo is succeeded by a scribe's Tarsk?" "Perhaps that would stand for an entire message," I said, "something like 'Meet at dawn', 'Bring gold', 'Depart on the morrow', such things"...
50	1	"scribe's Urt," had said the Lady Bina, and I located the card, and placed it on the pile.
52	441	"It is what I wish it to be," he said, "a Metal Worker, a Forester, a Poet, or Singer, a Cloth Worker, a Peasant, a scribe, such things".
5	50	The collar may be viewed as a simple contrivance, a device prescribed by Merchant law, identifying a slave and, if the collar is engraved, often her master.
8	387	Had I been capable of wondering, on Earth, if I were a slave, a rightful slave, a slave by nature? How foolish now seemed such abstract, idle ruminations! It was now confirmed upon me, that I, the former Allison Ashton-Baker, was a slave, and not only by law, however absolute that lega...
8	780	She was a mere barbarian, a scion of a primitive culture, and I was a civilized woman of Earth, of the upper classes, young, beautiful, educated, intelligent, sensitive, well-bred, refined, now somehow inexplicably entrapped in a barbarian world, a world where I was denied the protection of the <...
8	782	Thus, here, the law, in all its power and rigor, in all its weight and majesty, would be used not for me but against me, for example, to hunt me down and return me to a master.
8	1289	In that tiny world her word would be law.
8	1480	Men were still the masters, but now not subtly, almost invisibly, as on Earth, but now openly, visibly, in the full force of law.
10	163	I wanted to be his, his property, a helpless object, goods, possessed by him, in all the fullness of law, in all the fullness of culture, in all the fullness of nature.
16	150	And such relationships on Gor were institutionalized, fixed in law! I was collared! I sensed that I belonged on the block, stripped, before such men, who might, fittingly, purchase me as an object, or toy.
17	236	That is clear in law.
17	496	They make us theirs, in reality, and law.
18	700	"That goes far beyond law," I said.
18	702	"It is in law, as well, that the whole slave is owned".
26	212	"It is the law," said Astrinax.
26	218	That is the law".
35	25	I did know that testimony from a slave, at least in a court of law, is commonly taken under torture.
41	15	The law of gravity may be objectionable, but with what is it to be replaced? In any event, whatever might be the cause, most insurrections fail, and those that succeed seldom do more than restore the past with new bodies and different labels.

Book 32. (18 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
43	1171	Whereas cities have laws, and most castes have caste codes, there is only one law which is generally respected, and held in common, amongst Gorean municipalities, and that is Merchant law, largely established and codified at the great Sardar Fairs.
8	400	From the yard of a dark building, behind the wharves, through a double wooden gate, wide enough to exit a wagon, a scribe, in his blue work tunic, carrying a tablet, had emerged.
8	487	Papers were being exchanged between the officer and the scribe.
15	621	"Take her to the end of the dock and back," the scribe said.
15	629	The scribe and the other armsmenwere there.
15	630	"Master," I begged the scribe, "may I speak?" "No," he said.
3	37	That is prescribed in Merchant law.
7	285	It is said they own councils and sway law, that their gold hides and whispers behind thrones, that cities heed their words, that Ubars are often in their debt.
9	239	Custom and tradition, and sometimes law, are involved in these matters.
9	240	The free woman may dress to please herself, but, too, it seems she is well advised to please herself by conforming, and strictly, to a variety of canons, canons of taste, custom, convention, and sometimes of law.
22	149	"She knew the law," I said.
23	127	But Laura could run! She could flee! I was not such a fool as to suppose I was not now a slave, for in the perfection of the law it was so, but I could run.
29	164	Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls.
43	1172	According to Merchant law an unclaimed slave, one legally subject to claimancy, may be claimed, and then is the property of the claimant.
46	54	Her nature, condition, and status are unquestioned in custom and institutionalized in law.
46	115	An exception is when her testimony is to be taken in a court of law.
48	27	Here it was so not only in the aching, longing reality of the heart, desiring to belong to and serve a master, but in the full, implacable reality of fact, truth, and law.
52	783	You should have been left to pine and languish in your shallow, tepid world, left, if anything, to the timid, polite, fumbling attentions of psychologically emasculated pseudomales, conditioned from infancy to disown their own nature, and deny their own blood, the creatures of a pathological world w...

Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	237	"Such things, identifications in their way, are in accord with Merchant law," I said.
13	256	law returned, in the form of the red sword.
20	78	"Too, that location is commonly recommended in Merchant law, on the continent".
27	53	Such a practice is not likely to elevate respect for the law".
29	406	"On the continent," I said, "it is prescribed by Merchant law".
30	70	"Fortunately for us," had said Tajima, "for times and roads are dangerous, and the protection of the great lord's law is welcome".
31	226	There is no law without the bow and glaive".
46	22	It is prescribed by Merchant law.
46	438	It is prescribed, as indicated earlier, by Merchant law.
46	449	"The peasant Eito," I said, "though seemingly well to do, and presumably peaceful and law-abiding, respectful of authority, and such, was clearly pleased at the slaying of the warrior, Izo.
47	169	It has been used both in courts of law as a procedure for deciding guilt or innocence, and, more commonly, as an amusing manner of execution, in which the naive subject tortures himself into hoping that he may survive.
58	238	Were these not independent, powerful, sovereign species, under no shared law, subject to no common sovereign, capable of imposing its will, but rather stood opposite one another in a state of nature, rather as two larls might face one another, snarling, contesting territory.
58	239	And who would presume to give law to the savage larl? She who had been the Lady Kameko was outside, in the corridor, kneeling, bent over, bound.
60	407	We need law, time to tend our fields, leaders, the protection of the mighty".

Book 34. (17 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
40	80	Whereas most Gorean cities share in, and respect, Merchant law, the only common law binding scattered, and often hostile, communities, there are no provisions in such law for securing protections against one party's appropriation of another party's methods, ...
49	75	Merchant law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on Gor.
49	22	Some were standing, their scribe kits slung over their shoulders.
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...
8	244	"Are they not against the law?" he asked.
10	278	Merchant law recommends that female slaves be kept in their collars.
15	162	"By law, heavy drayage is confined to the hours of darkness".
20	95	Would she not be punished for that? The law!" "That is no slave," whispered Lita.
26	16	Similarly there is no international law.
26	17	law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity.
26	23	Two further aspects of the Gorean way might also be considered, first, the suspicion and hostility obtaining amongst diverse polities, which militates against cooperation and assistance, and the limits of Gorean law, even within a polity, as Goreans tend to be radically independent and...
30	243	In Gorean law the slave is an animal.
37	157	On the other hand, in the law of Ar, and several other cities, the free woman who pleasures herself with a male slave risks her own enslavement, and becoming the property of the slave's master.
48	151	"In heart," she said, "but not in law.
61	303	But how had she dared to speak? Did she not know she had been cautioned to silence? And how dared she use the expression 'my master' to him, when she belonged to another, to Decius Albus? How tragic can be the lot of a helpless slave! In her heart she was the slave of Drusus Andronicus, but, in the ...
69	71	It was true, in full law.
69	104	You know that much from Merchant law.

Book 35. (20 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	136	Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a scribe, perhaps to hav...
3	11	I heard the slaver's scribe, at his desk before the block, reading, droning, describing the next offering, my hair and eye color, my height and weight, my current name, my collar size, wrist-and-ankle-ring sizes, my training, of some weeks, which was largely restricted to what were reg...
3	194	My name had been mentioned by the slaver's scribe before the sale, with my measurements, my collar size, my ankle-ring size, and such.
3	251	That I was "red-silk" had been made clear when my hair and eye color, my measurements, my lineaments, and such, prior to my exhibition, had been made clear to the crowd by the slaver's scribe at his desk below the block.
3	325	Too, why should he ask me this? Had not the slaver's scribe, below the block, earlier, in his description, alluded to my level of training? It was rudimentary at best, but, in it, I had learned I was where I should be, in a collar.
3	522	"The next slave is Adraste," said the slaver's scribe, calling up from his position before and below the center of the block, "one of those brought in from the World's End".
10	46	In the tavern merchants may conduct business over a drink; mariners may regale rapt auditors with accounts of fabulous voyages; slavers may confer on sales and projected raids; at another table, a scribe may sit, ready to write or read letters.
30	24	Of most interest, to most I gathered, were the large public boards covered with writing, which writing was occasionally changed by a scribe, walking back and forth on a platform, with a sponge and marking stick.
37	76	Too, later, a scribe went past, his kit on its strap over his shoulder.
37	126	So why should bakers and metal workers be expected to be skillful or adept at reading and writing, the expertise of the scribe? Indeed, some castes rather look down on the scribes.
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".

Book 36. (17 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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".
48	152	"Serve me well," says the assassin to his dagger, the woodsman to his ax, the fisherman to his net and trident, the scribe to his pen, the warrior to his sword.
59	20	"Noble merchant," said a short fellow, squinting up at the boards, "I am no scribe, no learned man, nor one familiar with figures and accounts, such as yourself".
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	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.