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Book 1. (33 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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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...
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2 131 "Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
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8 14 The city is under martial law".
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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 ...
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9 20 "I will be the daughter of a rich merchant whom you have captured," she explained.
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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.
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9 102 "I am Kazrak of Port Kar," he said, "in the service of Mintar, of the merchant Caste".
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9 178 "It is the caravan of Mintar, of the merchant Caste," said Kazrak.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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10 37 "I am a merchant," said Mintar, "and it is in my code to see that I am paid".
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10 44 "Tarl of Bristol," he said, "do you take service with Mintar, of the merchant Caste?" "If I do not?" I asked.
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10 64 "I am," announced Talena proudly, "the daughter of a rich merchant, the richest on Gor, stolen from her father by this tarnsman.
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10 66 "I am the richest merchant on Gor," said Mintar calmly.
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10 68 "If your father is a merchant, tell me his name," he said.
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10 83 "I am an honest merchant," said Mintar, "and I would not cheat you, but you do well to handle your own affairs".
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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14 130 "I myself, as one of the Afflicted, learned it from Mintar, of the merchant Caste.
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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.
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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.
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15 55 The compound of Mintar enclosed several acres of ground and was the largest merchant compound in the camp.
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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.
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15 108 It was one of the trusted strap-masters of Mintar, the man who guided the beasts that carried the merchant's palanquin.
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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.
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15 118 One was Mintar, of the merchant Caste, his great bulk resting like a sack of meal on the cushions.
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15 263 "Though you are of the merchant Caste, you are a brave man".
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15 264 "A merchant may be as brave as a warrior, young Tarnsman," smiled Mintar.
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17 61 Perhaps I alone of that vast horde, with the possible exception of Mintar, of the merchant Caste, felt like weeping.
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Book 2. (13 results) Outlaw of Gor

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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...
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1 35 By that time I had long ago saved the money I needed for law school and had not taught for three years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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11 55 "Does the law recognize beasts?" asked the woman whose name was Dorna the Proud.
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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.
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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...
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6 174 "They would use me and sell me, perhaps to some passing merchant, perhaps in the Street of Brands in Ar".
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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...
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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.
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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.
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21 169 My sword pushed a quarter of an inch into the belly of the merchant.
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Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 54 The fairs, incidentally, are governed by merchant law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged.
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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.
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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...
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17 152 "Of course," said Sarm, "he broke the law of Priest-Kings".
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17 153 "What right have you to make the law for him?" I asked.
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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...
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25 48 It was the law of Priest-Kings.
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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.
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Book 4. (60 results) Nomads of Gor

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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...
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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.
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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...
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11 52 "How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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9 21 "Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish".
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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9 171 Until then, I gathered, her means were in the doubtless capable hands of Saphrar the merchant.
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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.
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9 180 "Is she not worth the golden sphere?" asked the merchant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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11 62 "You do not even have a name," hissed the little merchant.
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11 83 "I do not speak to slaves," said he, and the merchant, on the palanquin, moved away toward the walls of distant Turia.
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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...
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12 21 Yet I knew that whatever Saphrar, merchant of Turia, might be, he was no fool.
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12 32 I supposed he was curious about me, not a Tuchuk, not a merchant or singer, yet among the Wagons.
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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.
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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.
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15 130 "I expect," I said, "it might be found here or there in the House of Saphrar, a merchant of Turia".
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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".
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16 131 The merchant wore his Pleasure Robes of white and gold and his sandals, too, were of white leather bound with golden straps.
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16 175 But know, Tarl Cabot, that I am a merchant and understand men and the meaning of gold—I no more object to Ha-Keel dealing with Tuchuks than I would to the fact that water freezes and fire burns—and that no one ever leaves the Yellow Pool of Turia alive".
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16 196 "The little urt was trying to pick my pouch!" "You were not always a merchant, then?" I asked Saphrar.
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16 204 "How then are you a rich merchant?" I asked.
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16 211 "In fact," continued the small merchant, "it was he who arranged my fortunes and sent me, some years ago, to Turia".
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16 216 Though raised in Tyros and successful in Turia, Saphrar the merchant thought of himself as one of Port Kar.
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16 256 Then the little merchant stood up and clapped his hands twice.
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19 33 And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.
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20 156 I was elated that we had managed to escape alive from the House of Saphrar, but I knew that I must return to the city, for I had not obtained the object for which I had come—the golden sphere—which still resided in the merchant stronghold.
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21 43 My hair was concealed in the hood of a thin, ankle-length rep-cloth garment, a dirty white through which ran flecks of golden thread, a fit garment, in my opinion, for an insignificant merchant.
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21 76 "Stop that man! Stop him! I know him! He is Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba! Stop him!" I stumbled in the long robe of the merchant and cursed and leaped up and ran again.
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21 112 There I dyed my hair black and exchanged the robes of the merchant for the yellow and brown tunic of the Bakers, to which caste her father and two brothers had belonged.
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21 115 Her father had refused to sell the shop to Saphrar's agents, and take his employment under the merchant.
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21 140 This pleased her, as I guessed anything would which was contrary to the interests of the Turian merchant, for whom she entertained the greatest hatred.
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21 183 "Look," I said, "there comes a single merchant wagon—it must be safe now on the plains".
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21 190 I watched the merchant wagon, large and heavy, wide, with planked sides painted alternately white and gold, covered with a white and gold rain canvas.
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21 191 It was drawn not by the draft tharlarion like most merchant wagons but, like some, by four brown bosk.
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21 206 The heavy merchant wagon was near the main gate now and it was being waved forward.
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21 215 This train of thought was interrupted by the sounds of an altercation below, the shouting of an annoyed guardsman at the gate, the protesting cries of the driver of the merchant wagon.
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26 131 We passed through the banquet hall, where long before we had been entertained by the fleeing merchant.
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26 132 We passed through kitchens and galleries, even through the private compartments of Saphrar himself, where we saw the multitudinous robes and sandals of the merchant, each worked predominantly in white and gold, though often mixed with hundreds of other colors.
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26 156 Sitting in the place of honor, cross-legged, calm, on the merchant's cushions, on his personal dais, applying a bit of oil to the blade of his sword, sat the lean, scarred Ha-Keel, once of Ar, now a mercenary tarnsman of squalid, malignant Port Kar.
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26 251 Kamchak regarded the merchant.
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26 276 The Paravaci was much stronger than the fat, tiny merchant and he soon had his hands well on the sphere and was tearing it out of the smaller man's clutching hands.
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26 344 The merchant was covered with sweat.
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26 357 Then Saphrar, merchant of Turia, struggled, pounding against the caked material near to him, to prevent his being drawn under.
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26 363 "Remember Kutaituchik," said Kamchak, and the filamentous fibers about the merchant's legs and ankles drew him slowly downward.
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26 365 Then the merchant's hands, still extended as though to grasp the vines overhead, with their scarlet fingernails, the robes eaten away from the flesh, disappeared beneath the sparkling, glistening surface.
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26 384 He added, "As you said, we did not fire on him for he did not have with him the merchant, Saphrar of Turia".
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26 389 He draws his sword only in the name of gold, but I expect that now, Saphrar dead, those who employed the merchant may need new agents for their work—and that they will pay the price of a sword such as that of Ha-Keel".
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Book 5. (18 results) Assassin of Gor

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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...
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2 197 "There seems little law now," said Portus.
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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...
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15 403 Gorean law, however, does not so regard them.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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18 170 Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
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24 450 "Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the Home Stone?" I gasped.
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24 456 "As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the Home Stone of Ar".
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24 472 "If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" "None," said I.
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3 225 "You are a merchant?" asked the Player.
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15 400 The Slavers, incidentally, are of the merchant Caste, though, in virtue of their merchandise and practices, their robes are different.
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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".
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19 285 "Two hundred gold pieces," said a merchant from Cos.
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19 416 "You!" cried Elizabeth, pointing to a merchant in rich robes in the fifth tier.
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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.
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21 239 The Physician must heal; the Builder build; the merchant buy and sell.
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Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

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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.
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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.
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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, ...
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15 121 Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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10 37 Port Kar's merchant Foot, like her "Stone," is kept in the arsenal, in the same building as her "Stone".
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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.
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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...
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11 591 The possibility of peace on Thassa was an attractive one to me, a merchant.
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17 301 I had met Ha-Keel at a house in Turia, the house of Saphrar, a merchant.
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Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

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12 440 The stockades are governed under merchant law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
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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...
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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.
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14 467 Gorean law is on his side, not hers.
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14 468 Indeed, as an animal, she has no standing whatsoever before the law.
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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.
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18 38 By Gorean law the companionship, to be binding, must, together, be annually renewed, pledged afresh with the wines of love.
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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.
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7 159 The two wagons he bought were merchant wagons, with red rain canvas.
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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.
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12 85 Indeed, other wagons, we gathered, merchant wagons and those of peasants, too, were blocked in the streets.
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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.
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12 448 Five days out of Ko-ro-ba, we had stopped at one of these merchant Fortresses.
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12 706 It had been a desperate measure, and one not willingly adopted by a merchant.
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Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

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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.
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12 87 Indeed, there were many important merchants who had daughters, for example, the first merchant of Teletus and the first merchant of Asperiche.
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1 97 It was true that the Companionship, not renewed, had been dissolved in the eyes of Gorean law.
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1 321 The Gorean slave, in the eyes of Gorean law, is an animal, with no legal title to a name.
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9 163 In law, and in the eyes of Goreans, Talena was now without family.
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11 60 In the eyes of Goreans, and Gorean law, the slave is an animal.
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Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 259 At that point, in Gorean law, the companionship had been dissolved.
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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.
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6 393 Most lived in ships, the steel wolves of space, their instincts bridled, to some extent, by Ship Loyalty, Ship law.
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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".
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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.
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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...
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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,...
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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.
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Book 10. (11 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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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".
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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.
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5 762 The collar, by Gorean law, canceled the past.
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9 86 "More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.
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10 12 The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.
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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...
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13 76 He holds within his territories the right of law and execution.
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17 34 His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law.
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17 94 One must speak carefully whose words become law.
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24 806 "Men on Earth," she cried, "will be dethroned by law!" "Earth has a complex and intricate political history," I said.
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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...
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Book 11. (13 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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5 198 Some cities are governed by a Ubar, who is in effect a military sovereign, sometimes a tyrant, whose word is law.
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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...
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7 227 The slave is not a person before Gorean law but a rightless animal.
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9 934 If it were true, in Gorean law, it could be no slander.
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9 959 If this were true, it was, in Gorean law, no slander.
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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...
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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.
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Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 75 It is here that merchant law is drafted and stabilized.
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15 486 Gorean law, of course, is complex and latitudinous on these matters.
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Book 13. (9 results) Explorers of Gor

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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...
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27 154 Too, it is in accord with merchant law.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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18 44 Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
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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".
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32 341 In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal.
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34 259 "Technically," I said, "in the eyes of Gorean law you are not an object but an animal".
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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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.
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27 372 The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by merchant law.
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2 75 You are not yet a legal slave, a slave under law.
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2 79 You will eventually find that you are, fully and legally, under law, a slave, totally a slave, and only a slave".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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27 296 "There is a breakdown of law and order".
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34 157 Her position is sanctioned in law.
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
7 10 "I have heard the topaz is being brought east," said a merchant, speaking to another merchant.
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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".
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22 255 "I have seen Glyco, a merchant, a high merchant, of Port Cos, these several days in earnest converse with you.
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

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8 315 But the former, the slave girl, is owned with all the power and authority of law.
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12 161 This was in full accord with Gorean law.
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17 793 "It is against the law," she said.
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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.
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20 1684 She was shielded by law.
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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.
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21 63 "On this world, the law even, as I am a slave, in all its force, puts me in your total power".
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Book 17. (15 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
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.
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13 671 "merchant law," I said, "is the only law common to many Gorean cities".
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13 669 "And such things, like the brand, are recommended by merchant law".
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1 1286 "Due process of law, as you may see," said Kog, "was strictly observed".
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1 1302 "All law exists to serve the interests of the dominant powers," said Kog.
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1 1305 law which is not a weapon and a wall is madness".
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2 357 It is a felony in Gorean law to forge or falsify such papers.
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10 61 A law, imposed on white men entering their lands by red savages, had been violated.
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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".
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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...
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18 174 "Surely we have broken no law," I said.
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18 176 "I do not think they need more law than that".
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18 181 "Surely there is no law to the effect that you should not be freed," I said.
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18 182 "There is no law specifically to that effect," he said, "but I would not count on their being much pleased about it".
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18 186 "If there were such a law," asked the youth, "would you have broken it?" "Yes," I said.
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 130 The collar is recommended, of course, and branding, by merchant law, for obvious reasons.
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7 184 It is almost like a law of nature.
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14 591 "It is against the law," I said.
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40 655 You could be returned to a master as such in a court of law.
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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.
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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.
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54 313 In Gorean law allegiances to a Home Stone, and not physical structures and locations, tend to define communities.
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Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 337 "It is in accord with the recommendations of merchant law".
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3 338 "merchant law?" I asked.
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23 345 It was a strong recommendation of merchant law that slaves be marked.
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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".
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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.
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14 45 But I was a free woman and would be subjected only to the cold and inhuman mercies of the law.
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28 38 In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.
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Book 20. (12 results) Players of Gor

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1 1099 This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.
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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.
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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.
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1 485 The law is clear on this.
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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".
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7 269 There was no law against two traveling it.
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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...
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9 413 Similarly, as I am sure you will recognize, at least upon reflection, you now have no standing whatsoever before the law.
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16 336 "I shall have you taken before the law for slander!" "Do you wish to have it done for you?" inquired Chino, meaningfully.
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16 443 "I shall have the law on you for this!" cried Rowena.
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16 444 "Slaves have no standing before the law," said Chino.
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18 297 "Martial law exists," said Belnar.
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Book 21. (9 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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14 55 "The city is under martial law," I said.
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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".
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19 195 He may even have been a scribe of the law.
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21 162 "I am not a scribe of the law," he said.
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22 84 "But it is also against the law".
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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.
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25 1419 In Gorean thought, and, indeed, Gorean law is explicit on this, what is owned is the whole slave.
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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".
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25 2307 Any such law is automatically null and void.
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Book 22. (16 results) Dancer of Gor

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4 388 "Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.
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24 19 His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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6 627 I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law.
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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.
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10 493 Even Gorean law makes it clear that it is the entire slave who is owned, not merely a part of her.
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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...
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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.
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17 104 The public buildings, the law court and the "house of the Administrator," the locus of public offices, were similarly structured and adorned.
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28 101 This point in Gorean law is apparently motivated by the consideration that a slave always have some master.
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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.
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29 1574 He held a steel sword, where such things made law.
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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".
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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, ...
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Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
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.
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9 214 The law, the culture, and such, are not set up to permit it.
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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...
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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.
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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 ...
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21 315 Few of them, accordingly, are eager to frequent law courts.
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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.
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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.
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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<...
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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...
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24 974 I was once, in the eyes of the law, a free woman".
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Book 24. (14 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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19 337 "It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well".
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26 190 Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves.
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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.
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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<...
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12 263 That is because they, though legally free, within the strict technicalities of the law, are yet slaves.
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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.
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19 160 Yet, I supposed, that such an absurdity, such an oversight of law, and civilization, was not irremediable.
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19 285 Against such fraud, needless to say, the law provides redress.
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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...
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26 58 In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave.
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28 645 "In this situation," I said, "in law, as well as in fact".
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39 21 "It is against the law," said the fellow.
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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.
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40 45 He was, I suspected, a scribe of the law.
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Book 25. (27 results) Magicians of Gor

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22 633 merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor.
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1 1 The Street "Surely you understand the law, my dear," he said.
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1 19 "I am sure you are familiar with the law," said the first fellow, flanked by two magistrates.
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1 24 It is a clear law".
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3 284 Surely she must have known the law.
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8 846 "It is against the law," he said.
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8 847 "Not our law," I said.
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9 95 "Are you a legal slave, my child?" asked one of the counselors, a scribe of the law.
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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 ...
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11 134 "I am a law-abiding man.
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14 263 The testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture in Gorean law courts.
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15 173 I supposed that the taverners must be much put out by the curfew law, and would have lost much business.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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22 227 "It is the law! We of Ar may not carry weapons".
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22 634 Such things do exist in municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local.
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26 477 "The principle here, I gather," said Marcus, "is that the Ubara is above the law".
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26 478 "The law in question is a serious one," said Tolnar.
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26 482 "I am Ubara!" "The Ubara is above the law?" asked Marcus, who had an interest in such things.
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26 483 "In a sense, yes," said Tolnar, "the sense in which she can change the law by decree".
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26 484 "But she is subject to the law unless she chooses to change it?" asked Marcus.
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26 487 "Whatever law it is," cried the netted woman, "I change it! I herewith change it!" "How can you change it?" asked Tolnar.
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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.
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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...
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27 740 "To uphold the law they have jeopardized their careers, they have entered into exile!" "There are such men," I said.
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Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
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 ...
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12 944 In the pits his word is law for us.
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24 971 Gone would be the protection of the law, of guardsmen, of the shared Home Stone.
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Book 27. (26 results) Prize of Gor

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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 <...
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11 161 "Not all," said Mirus, "though it is recommended by merchant law.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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1 100 The oddity, or anomaly, has to do in its way with law.
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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.
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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.
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1 112 And then, by law, she, totally unaware, became something she had not been before, or not in explicit legality.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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12 270 At their back was the full power of custom, tradition and law.
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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.
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14 119 On this world I am, in the full sense of the law, explicitly and perfectly, slave.
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22 695 She law light reflected in the eyes of one of the beasts, from the uplifted lantern.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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30 479 All details of contracts must be arranged, usually with the attention of scribes of the law.
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Book 28. (16 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
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...
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1 843 The most common site for such, recommended in merchant law, is high on the left thigh, under the hip.
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1 1178 Indeed, this is required by merchant law.
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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...
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80 279 To be sure, merchant law, in any case, prescribes the collar, the brand, distinctive garmenture, and such.
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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...
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1 217 Block measurements, taken presale, are commonly, and in some cities this is required by law, included in a female's sales information.
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19 169 "Lord Pyrrhus is not above the law," said the machine.
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19 170 "No one is above the law," speculated Cabot.
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19 172 "One is above the law".
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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...
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43 338 It would be a matter of law".
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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".
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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4 203 "It is an explicit recommendation of merchant law".
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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...
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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.
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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.
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19 279 "It is the law of Lord Nishida".
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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.
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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.
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26 293 Possession, particularly after a lengthy interval, is often regarded as decisive, by praetors, archons, magistrates, scribes of the law, and such.
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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.
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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...
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Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

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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.
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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.
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1 392 She was now without a Home Stone, a fugitive, no longer protected by law.
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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.
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5 135 The sword here did not seem to be a law unto itself, or at least his sword.
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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.
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12 503 Indeed, as you know, in a court of law, the testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture.
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34 54 The face of the slave, by law, must be naked.
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34 79 "In my view, and in that of most, and certainly in the eyes of the law, your status is clear".
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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.
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Book 31. (16 results) Conspirators of Gor

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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.
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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...
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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 <...
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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.
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8 1289 In that tiny world her word would be law.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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17 236 That is clear in law.
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17 496 They make us theirs, in reality, and law.
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18 700 "That goes far beyond law," I said.
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18 702 "It is in law, as well, that the whole slave is owned".
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26 212 "It is the law," said Astrinax.
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26 218 That is the law".
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35 25 I did know that testimony from a slave, at least in a court of law, is commonly taken under torture.
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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.
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Book 32. (13 results) Smugglers of Gor

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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...
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3 37 That is prescribed in merchant law.
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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.
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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.
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9 239 Custom and tradition, and sometimes law, are involved in these matters.
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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.
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22 149 "She knew the law," I said.
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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.
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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.
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46 54 Her nature, condition, and status are unquestioned in custom and institutionalized in law.
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46 115 An exception is when her testimony is to be taken in a court of law.
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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.
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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...
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Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

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13 237 "Such things, identifications in their way, are in accord with merchant law," I said.
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20 78 "Too, that location is commonly recommended in merchant law, on the continent".
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29 406 "On the continent," I said, "it is prescribed by merchant law".
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46 22 It is prescribed by merchant law.
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46 438 It is prescribed, as indicated earlier, by merchant law.
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13 256 law returned, in the form of the red sword.
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27 53 Such a practice is not likely to elevate respect for the law".
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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".
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31 226 There is no law without the bow and glaive".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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60 407 We need law, time to tend our fields, leaders, the protection of the mighty".
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Book 34. (16 results) Plunder of Gor

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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...
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49 75 merchant law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on Gor.
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10 278 merchant law recommends that female slaves be kept in their collars.
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69 104 You know that much from merchant law.
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9 363 "merchant! merchant!" cried the free woman.
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8 244 "Are they not against the law?" he asked.
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15 162 "By law, heavy drayage is confined to the hours of darkness".
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20 95 Would she not be punished for that? The law!" "That is no slave," whispered Lita.
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26 16 Similarly there is no international law.
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26 17 law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity.
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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...
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30 243 In Gorean law the slave is an animal.
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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.
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48 151 "In heart," she said, "but not in law.
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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 ...
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69 71 It was true, in full law.
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Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 188 merchant law requires that such as you be collared".
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1 304 Many other things, of course, keep us as we are, for example, markets and economics, law and custom.
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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.
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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...
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24 56 There might be tangles of law.
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32 17 I was sure the tavern's legal claim to me would be upheld by the scribes of the law.
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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.
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34 50 The matter is clear in the law".
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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.
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47 19 You are a slave, by nature, and now by law".
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Book 36. (16 results) Avengers of Gor

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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?" "...
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1 163 "Only those who recognized the advantages and power of ignoring the law".
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1 174 One wishes, of course, to obey the law.
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19 173 We knew that the bow had been prohibited to the Peasantry of the islands by Cosian law.
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19 176 Certainly he was aware of the law, and doubtless more so than we.
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19 192 "The laws are the laws of Cos, but the enforcers of the law need not be Cosians".
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20 35 "Deliver him to the law!" "Hear me, oh my caste brothers!" called Aktis.
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40 68 Impose martial law.
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48 125 In some cities it is against the law to deface a scroll or damage a musical instrument.
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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".
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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.
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63 179 "What need is there of a trial?" "Perhaps," I said, "that vengeance be decked in the colors of law".
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63 180 "The Ubar makes law," said Thurnock.
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63 181 "He is thus above the law".
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63 182 "Do you take the supremacy of law to be a myth?" I asked.
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63 183 "Who makes the law?" said Thurnock.
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