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"scribe" "of" "law"

Book 1. (10 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 2 Out of the robes then popped the sandy-haired head of the scribe, his pale blue eyes twinkling on each side of that sharp needle of a nose.
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3 15 And always under his table a brazier filled with hot coals burned near the feet of the scribe, perilously close to the scholarly litter with which the floor was strewn.
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5 9 As I passed the cylinder in which Torm kept his scrolls, I was happy to catch a glimpse of the little scribe standing at his rough-hewn window.
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20 36 I was honored that the little scribe had separated himself from his beloved scrolls long enough to share my happiness, only that of a warrior.
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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 t...
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3 64 "You would never make a scribe".
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3 153 I did learn, casually from a scribe, not Torm, that slaves were not permitted to impart instruction to a free man, since it would place him in their debt, and nothing was owed to a slave.
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20 38 He clasped my hands, and, to my wonder, the little scribe was crying.
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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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Book 2. (10 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 86 Where my father had met me after more than twenty years of separation, where my warrior comrades and I had drunk and laughed together, where I had met and learned from my little friend, Torm, the scribe, there was home.
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5 11 I longed for my city, and for my father, the magnificent Matthew Cabot, once Ubar, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and for my friends, the proud Older Tarl, my master-at-arms, and Torm, the cheerful, grumbling little scribe who regarded even sleep and food as part of...
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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 6
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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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!"...
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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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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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Book 3. (19 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 46 I missed Torm and wondered if I would ever see him again, bounding about excoriating the authors of dusty scrolls, knocking the inkwell from his desk with an imperial sweep of the sleeve of his blue robe, leaping on the table in birdlike fury denouncing one ...
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1 48 I would not search the fair for him, nor if he were here would I make my presence known, for by the will of Priest-Kings no two men of Ko-ro-ba might stand together, and I had no wish to jeopardize the little scribe.
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2 2 It took not much time to purchase a small bundle of supplies to take into the Sardar, nor was it difficult to find a scribe to whom I might entrust the history of the events at Tharna.
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2 5 He could not read the manuscript, as it was written in English, a language as foreign to him as Gorean would be to most of you, but yet he would treasure the manuscript and guard it as though it were a most precious possession, for he was a scribe and it is the way ...
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7 43 It is the common property of the Administrator of Ar, a herdsman beside the Vosk, a peasant from Tor, a scribe from Thentis, a metal worker from Tharna, a physician from Cos, a pirate from Port Kar, a warrior from Ko-ro-ba.
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34 20 I looked down at the little scribe, Torm, who had stopped sneezing, and was now wiping his nose on the blue sleeve of his robes.
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34 57 He was, after all, a scribe, and had the proprieties of his caste to observe.
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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 t...
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17 152 "of course," said Sarm, "he broke the law of Priest-Kings".
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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...
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25 48 It was the law of Priest-Kings.
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13 15 As he said, I would never make a scribe.
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34 37 "Forgive me, Vika," I said, and introduced her to my father, to the Older Tarl and Torm, the scribe, and explained as briefly as I could what had befallen us in the Sardar.
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34 69 "And here, too, is Ko-ro-ba," I said, pointing to the proud giant, the Older Tarl, and the tiny, sandy-haired scribe, Torm.
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34 179 The Older Tarl roared with laughter and swept the little scribe under his arm.
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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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17 153 "What right have you to make the law for him?" I asked.
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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. (5 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...
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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...
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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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11 52 "How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".
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Book 5. (47 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 w...
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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 tu...
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1 48 The urn was given to him who wore the robes of the Administrator of the City, who took it and slowly, on foot, withdrew toward Ko-ro-ba, followed by the large blond Warrior and the small scribe.
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3 118 I supposed they were interested in seeing what the Player's response would be to yellow's fourteenth move, a move on which authorities disagreed sharply, some favoring Ubar's Initiate to scribe Three, and others the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover the vulnerable U...
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3 210 The crowd and I cried out with delight, marveling on it, the now-apparent simplicity of it, the attack which had been not so much mounted as revealed by the apparently meaningless moves, intended only to clear the board for the vital attack, coming from the improbable Ubara's scr...
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12 47 I looked to the area of the Administrator and saw the Hinrabian disgustedly turning away, dictating something to a scribe, who sat cross-legged near the throne, a sheaf of record papers in his hand.
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15 421 "I give you the trade of Ar! I want only my life! Caste Sanctuary! Caste Sanctuary!" Cernus smiled at Caprus and then, unexpectedly, as though he had been teasing him, he placed his first tarnsman at Ubara's scribe Two.
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17 765 To my astonishment, this time I began to see the Centian Opening unfold, developed years ago by Centius of Cos, one of the strongest openings known in the game, one in which the problems of development for red are particularly acute, especially the developme...
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17 771 "Some authorities," I told her, "favor Ubar's Initiate to scribe Three at this point, others recommend the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover Ubar Two".
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18 459 "Worthy of a scribe".
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19 14 On the seat of the wagon, which was drawn by a horned tharlarion, sat the driver and the scribe whom I had known as Caprus, whose real name, as I had been informed, was Philemon of Tyros, an island some hundreds of pasangs west of...
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20 405 Without looking at the board Hup poked a piece, I think a Ubar's scribe, with one of his swollen fingers.
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20 462 "Surely you recognize," asked Scormus, curiously, looking up at him, "the Two Spearman variation of the Ubar's scribe's Defense, developed by Miles of Cos and first used in the tournament at Tor held during the Second Passage Hand of the third ...
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20 488 "Only too late did I realize its position in your plan, the feint of the four-piece combination covering your transposition into the Hogar Variation of the Centian, striking down the file of the Ubara's scribe.
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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-...
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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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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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3 185 "Ubar's scribe to Ubara's scribe Six," said the Player.
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3 190 "Ubar's scribe to Ubara's scribe Six," repeated the Player.
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3 192 "My First Tarnsman," said the Vintner, "captures Ubara's scribe".
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3 209 "scribe takes Home Stone".
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4 32 At his right hand there was a scribe, an angular, sullen man with deep eyes, with tablets and stylus.
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4 127 "74673," said the scribe.
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4 130 Accordingly, I was not surprised that the scribe had her number ready for Cernus.
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4 143 "The girl!" cried out the scribe.
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5 454 "We have an agent in that house," said Misk, "a scribe, the chief accountant, whose name is Caprus".
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5 456 "No," said Misk, "as scribe and Accountant his movements are restricted".
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14 40 To this point the tall, angular, dour scribe had given us no information.
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15 370 It was rather late in the evening, but Cernus had remained long at table, playing game after game with Caprus the scribe.
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17 175 "Ar is at war with itself," said one man, who had not spoken before, a scribe.
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17 257 He was only a scribe, and yet what he had done had taken great courage, probably more courage than that possessed by many Warriors.
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17 336 I heard Caprus say, as though marveling, "I shall capture your Home Stone in three moves!" Cernus grinned and clapped his hands on the scribe's shoulders.
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17 773 "Ubar's Initiate to scribe Three is the better move," she said.
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17 775 I placed my Ubar's Initiate, a perfume vial, on scribe Three.
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17 779 "Now," she said, "you will find it difficult to bring your Ubar's scribe into play".
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17 804 "But then," she said, "I shall place my Ubara's scribe at Ubar's Initiate Three".
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18 460 "I am a scribe," said the man.
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18 468 In the background I could see the lean scribe whom I had thought for these many months to be Caprus.
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19 104 Cernus laughed to himself and turned his attention to his right, where stood Philemon, and conversed with the scribe.
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20 528 "Ubar's Tarnsman to Ubara's scribe Four!" Scormus smiled.
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20 537 "I have moved Ubar's Tarnsman to Ubara's scribe Four! What will you do now?" Hup returned to the table and, scarcely glancing at the board, picked up a piece and dropped it on a square.
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2 197 "There seems little law now," said Portus.
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15 403 Gorean law, however, does not so regard them.
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18 170 Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
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Book 6. (45 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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6 105 A scribe stood by with a tally sheet, marking the number of captures by each warrior.
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8 495 And, too, I was no longer worthy of the respect of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and of my teacher at arms, the Older Tarl, nor of he who had been my small friend, Torm, the scribe.
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10 12 Beside each empty throne there was a stool from which a scribe, speaking in the name of his Ubar, participated in the proceedings of the council.
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10 14 A scribe, at a large table before the five thrones, was droning the record of the last meeting of the council.
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10 44 The voice of the scribe droned on, reading the records of the council's last meeting.
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10 93 I had made her the chief scribe and accountant of my house.
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10 188 At a word from the scribe at the long table before the thrones of the Ubars, two men put Tersites from the chamber, dragging him away.
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11 9 And I saw, too, that the scribe who normally sat his attendance at the right arm of the empty throne of Henrius Sevarius, the Fifth, in the council chamber was gone.
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11 30 "Gather up and guard the book of the Council," I told the scribe who had been at the great table.
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11 184 "We have the reports on the damage to the wharves of Chung," said a scribe, pressing into my hands the documents.
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11 372 "I now ask the table scribe," said Samos, "to call the roll of captains".
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11 387 Sullius Maximus stopped before the table of the scribe, and regarded the council.
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11 497 "Let there be peace in the council," said the scribe behind the great table, that before the now-empty five thrones of the Ubars of Port Kar.
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13 258 "Very well," said the captain, gesturing to a scribe near him, with a wallet of coins slung over his shoulder, to pay the slave master.
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15 266 I looked down the long table, and, far to my right, sitting alone at the end of the long bench behind the table, was Luma, my slave and chief scribe.
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15 267 Poor, scrawny, plain Luma, thought I, in her tunic of scribe's cloth, and collar! What a poor excuse for a paga slave she had been! Yet she had a brilliant mind for the accounts and business of a great house, and had much increased my fortunes.
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16 350 The scribe, haggard behind the great table, sitting before the book of the council, looked up at me.
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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, 6
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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11 3 The scribe at the table before the thrones was on his feet shouting.
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11 20 The scribe at the central table, that before the empty thrones, stood numb behind the table.
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11 53 I gestured to the side door, through which Lysias and, I assumed, he who had been scribe for Henrius Sevarius, had escaped.
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11 187 I looked at the scribe.
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11 211 A scribe came to my side.
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11 214 "Yes," said the scribe.
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11 218 The scribe grinned.
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11 230 "What have you learned?" I asked the scribe, who stood with his tablet and stylus beside the rack.
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11 233 The scribe looked up at me.
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11 236 The scribe looked at me, puzzled.
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11 293 Then Samos addressed himself to the scribe near the rack.
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11 373 "Antisthenes," called the scribe.
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11 376 He took his sword from its sheath and plunged it through the scribe's papers, pinning them to the table.
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11 392 "Bejar," called the scribe.
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11 394 "Bosk," called the scribe.
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11 397 "Abstention," recorded the scribe.
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11 564 "Do you have a nomination?" asked the scribe at the center table.
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13 268 Tenrik, followed by the scribe, turned and left.
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16 360 "I petition," said I to the scribe, as though it might be an ordinary meeting, "to address the council".
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16 361 The scribe was puzzled.
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16 363 "Speak," said the scribe.
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16 402 "Bind that slave and beat him!" cried the scribe.
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16 403 Samos, with a gesture, silenced the scribe.
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15 121 Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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11 1197 "She has the intelligence, and education, of the scribe, and yet she is obviously an exquisite and well-trained female slave".
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17 40 No scribe it seemed would own Inge, but she would belong to a brutal and powerful huntsman, the handsome Raf of Treve; and Rena's captain of Tyros, he who had contracted for her capture, must now surely be disappointed, and his gold lost, for his lovely priz...
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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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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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11 601 I wondered if a scribe would buy her.
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11 1199 "She should be sold to a scribe," said the man.
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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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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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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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3 11 I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a ...
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22 67 And small Torm, in the blue robes of the scribe, lifted his cup, to salute the beauty of Talena.
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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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1 3 Carefully, I set the Ubar's Tarnsman at Ubar's scribe Six.
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1 61 He looked up at me, and defended his Home Stone by bringing his scribe to Ubar One whence it could control his Ubar's Tarnsman Three, controlling as well the killing diagonal.
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1 157 "Builder to Ubara's scribe Six," said Samos, moving a tall wooden piece toward me on the board.
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11 739 I responded to this with scribe to Ubara's Builder Two.
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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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Book 9. (15 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 22 It was Luma, the chief scribe of my house, in her blue robe and sandals.
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1 24 She was a scrawny girl, not attractive, but with deep eyes, blue; and she was a superb scribe, in her accounting swift, incisive, accurate, brilliant; once she had been a paga slave, though a poor one; I had saved her from Surbus, a captain, who had purchased her to slay her, she not h...
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1 39 Other captains, other merchants, seeing the waxing of my fortunes, and understanding the commercial complexities involved, had offered this scribe considerable emoluments to join their service.
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1 721 His hand closed on the arm of the thin blond scribe.
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16 67 To have a scribe's skills would tend to embarrass a man of arms, and tend to lower his prestige among his peers.
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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;...
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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, t...
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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-a...
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1 65 "Go," said I, "scribe.
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10 324 I saw, too, in the crowd, a physician, in green robes, from Ar and a scribe from Cos.
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1 259 At that point, in Gorean law, the companionship had been dissolved.
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Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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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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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 s...
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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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13 76 He holds within his territories the right of law and execution.
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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 ...
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5 836 He called a scribe to him.
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5 762 The collar, by Gorean law, canceled the past.
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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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Book 11. (12 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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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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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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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 t...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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. (27 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 678 It had occurred on the twenty-fourth move of red, played by Philemon, Physician to Physician Six, generally regarded as a flawed response to Ossius' Ubar to Ubara's scribe Five.
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4 403 Red controlled not one but four adjacent diagonals, unobstructed diagonals, each bearing on the citadel of yellow's Home Stone; the red Ubara threatened the Ubara's scribe's Spearman at Ubara's scribe Two; the Initiate threatened the Ubara's Builder at Build...
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4 280 Instead Centius of Cos had advanced his Ubar's scribe's Spearman to Ubar's scribe Three.
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4 308 Centius of Cos moved his Ubara to Ubar's scribe Four.
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4 345 The Ubara, of course, as I have mentioned, had been developed to Ubar's scribe Four.
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4 379 He could place the Home Stone, of course, in two moves, if he would place it at Ubar's Tarnsman One, or Ubar's scribe One, or Ubar One, or Ubara One, or Ubara's Tarnsman One.
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4 393 The two Home stones, at their respective locations, faced one another, each shielded by its several defending pieces, scribe and Initiate, one of the central Spearmen, a flanking Spearman, a Builder, a Physician, and a Rider of the High Tharlarion.
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4 708 His hands were larger than those of the scribe, and scarred and roughened.
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4 711 "Surely you jest," said the fellow in the robes of the scribe.
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4 736 "He disapproved of it," said the fellow in the robes of the scribe.
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15 486 Gorean law, of course, is complex and latitudinous on these matters.
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4 402 Red's Ubar's Initiate controlled the Ubar's Initiate's Diagonal; the red Ubara controlled the Ubar's Physician's Diagonal; the red Ubar controlled the Ubar's Builder's Diagonal; the Ubar's scribe controlled the Ubar's scribe's Diagonal.
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3 278 There was a thin scribe present, as well, behind the counter.
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4 343 I also noted, as I had not noted before, that red's Ubar's scribe was developed.
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4 366 No major piece had yet been moved by yellow, not an Initiate, nor a Builder, nor a scribe, nor a Tarnsman, nor the Ubar nor Ubara.
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4 378 It would also take three moves if he wished to place it at Ubar's Initiate One, or at Ubara's scribe One, Ubara's Builder One or Ubara's Initiate One.
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4 586 The merchant's assistant, the scribe, his face and arm bleeding, stood to one side.
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4 651 I looked to the scribe.
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4 654 "I tried," said the scribe.
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4 662 "He had a knife," pointed out the scribe.
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4 672 I regarded the scribe.
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4 682 "It is worthless," said the scribe.
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4 698 The scribe had paid the physician from a small iron box, taken from a locked trunk, a tarsk bit.
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4 700 Then only I remained in the booth with the scribe and merchant.
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4 704 "Trap?" stammered the scribe.
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4 716 "You said he was clumsy," said the fellow in the scribe's blue.
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3 75 It is here that Merchant law is drafted and stabilized.
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Book 13. (28 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
48 255 Technically, according to Merchant law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant law, the rescuer has no obligation to fr...
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6 604 Two men from the desk of the nearest wharf praetor, he handling wharves six through ten, a scribe and a physician, boarded the ship.
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49 22 There was upon his body, half torn away, the blue of the scribe.
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52 1 The scribe Tende fled from the feet of Kisu, running to Bila Huruma.
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53 7 The scribe had led us through the city, ascending and descending streets, making our way through various buildings, following various ancient avenues, flanked by the ruins of what must once have been an impressive grandeur.
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53 38 "I am a scribe, and a man of science and letters," said Shaba.
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53 193 "Remove these manacles!" I cried to Ngumi, the scribe at the side of Shaba, he who had conducted us to this place.
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53 259 The tribal stitching on his face, so startling and paradoxical in a scribe, a man of civilization, was identical to that on the face of Shaba.
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57 69 The importance of the work of Bila Huruma and Shaba, one a Ubar, the other a scribe and explorer, could not, in my opinion, be overestimated.
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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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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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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...
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6 605 The scribe carried a folder with him.
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6 612 The scribe, with Ulafi, went about his business.
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6 685 The scribe noted the physician's report in his papers and the physician, with a marking stick, initialed the entry.
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52 175 There, in blue rags, yet standing proudly, was a scribe.
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52 177 "That is known to me," said the scribe.
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52 184 "I will take you to Shaba," said the scribe.
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53 8 Bila Huruma and I had followed the scribe most closely.
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53 22 "Shaba is dying," had said the scribe who had conducted us to this place.
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53 93 "I did not know a scribe could be so courageous," I said.
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53 201 "Free me!" I cried, maddened, to the scribe.
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53 204 The scribe threw a wild look at Shaba.
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18 44 Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
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27 154 Too, it is in accord with Merchant law.
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Book 14. (15 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
34 123 "Ten copper tarsks," he said to a scribe at a small table nearby, with papers and a box of coins.
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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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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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27 114 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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34 124 The scribe counted out ten copper tarsks to a fellow at the table.
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34 202 "Give him ten," said Tenalion to the scribe.
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34 233 He went to the scribe and looked through his papers, noting numbers.
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34 235 "Pay him," he said, too, to the scribe.
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34 236 The scribe handed me ten silver tarsks.
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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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27 372 The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant law.
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34 157 Her position is sanctioned in law.
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
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...
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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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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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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 315 But the former, the slave girl, is owned with all the power and authority of law.
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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 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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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 1684 She was shielded by law.
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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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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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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 o...
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13 671 "Merchant law," I said, "is the only law common to many Gorean cities".
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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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13 669 "And such things, like the brand, are recommended by Merchant law".
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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

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
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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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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14 591 "It is against the law," I said.
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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

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 337 "It is in accord with the recommendations of merchant law".
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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, ...
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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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23 345 It was a strong recommendation of Merchant law that slaves be marked.
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3 338 "Merchant law?" I asked.
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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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28 38 In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.
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Book 20. (37 results) Players of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
12 37 On my second rank, I had a Spearman at Ubar's Builder Two, a scribe at Ubara Two, and another Rider of the High Tharlarion at Ubara's scribe Two.
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12 284 I now began to suspect that the placement of his Builder on that file might not have been an accident, no more than the rather irritating placement of his scribe at Ubara's scribe Four.
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12 303 I could not move the Home Stone to either Ubar's Builder One, Two or Three because of the coverage of these squares, all of them being covered by his Builder at his Ubar's Builder One, and Ubar's Builder One being additionally covered by his scribe...
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1 713 I moved my Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubara's scribe Three.
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1 828 I utilized the initial three-space option of the Ubar's scribe's Spearman.
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1 1055 I won both games easily, the first with a battering ram of Spearmen and Riders of the High Tharlarion on the Ubar's side, and the second with a middle-game combination of Ubara's scribe, Ubara and Ubar's Tarnsman.
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9 361 "Your body, as I now see," said Boots, "now that you are naked, now that the pesky, interfering, obscuring robes of the scribe have been totally removed from it, not inconceivably might be of interest to a male".
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12 36 The configuration of pieces on the board was as follows: On my first rank, my Home Stone was at Ubar's Initiate One; I had a Builder at Ubar's scribe One.
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12 41 His Spearman at Ubar's Builder Eight was supported by another of his Spearmen, posted at Ubar's scribe Seven.
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12 44 This alignment of the Ubara and scribe did not frighten me.
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12 52 "But you would then retreat to your Ubar's Initiate Seven, the Rider of the High Tharlarion then protected by your scribe at Ubara Two," he said.
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12 64 He could not take it with his Ubara, of course, sweeping down his Ubara's Tarnsman's file, because it was protected now by my other Rider of the High Tharlarion, that hitherto, seemingly innocent, seemingly uninvolved piece which had just happened, apparently, to be poste...
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12 69 His only defense would be the capture of the Rider of the High Tharlarion with his Ubara, at which point, of course, I would recapture with the scribe, thus exchanging the Rider of the High Tharlarion for a Ubara, an exchange much...
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12 261 I could not move my Home Stone in front of the Spearman, even if I had wished to do so, because of his scribe's coverage from afar of that square, Ubar's Builder One.
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12 263 I now began to suspect that what I had thought had been a rather weak, easily averted threat of capture of Home Stone, the earlier alignment of his Ubara and scribe on that crucial diagonal, might actually have had a somewhat different, more la...
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12 267 But, as it was, because of the scribe's coverage of Ubar's Builder One, my move was forced.
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12 431 Torm, my old friend, the scribe, might have expressed skepticism at the unqualified promptness and boldness of my asseveration, as I had always remained somewhat imperfect in writing the alternate lines of Gorean script, which are written from the right to t...
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1 1099 This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.
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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 6
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 ...
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1 829 I would then, later, bring the Ubar's Builder to Ubar's scribe One, to bring pressure to bear on the Ubar's scribe's file.
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12 43 This was backed by a scribe at Ubara's scribe Four.
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12 249 I could not move the Home Stone to Ubar's Builder One because that square was covered by his scribe at Ubara's scribe Four.
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12 288 I expected him rather, then, to take the Builder and then, with impunity, promote his Spearman to a Tarnsman at his Ubar's scribe Ten, my Ubar's scribe One.
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1 837 I brought the Ubar's Builder to Ubar's scribe One.
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12 38 On my third rank, I had a Spearman at Ubar's Initiate Three and another at Ubar's scribe Three.
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12 46 His scribe could recapture but he would have lost his Ubara, and for only a Builder.
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12 62 I now moved my scribe from Ubara Two to Ubara's Tarnsman Three.
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12 264 Similarly, even if his scribe had not been placed where it was, it would not have been rational in this specific game situation, though it would have been a possible move, to place my Home Stone at Ubar's Builder One.
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12 292 The game was still mine! "Spearman to Ubar's Initiate Ten," he said, moving the Spearman neither to Ubar's Builder Ten nor to Ubar's scribe Ten, taking the Builder.
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1 485 The law is clear on this.
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7 269 There was no law against two traveling it.
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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. (14 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
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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11 57 "To me," said the merchant, "it seems merely strange, or perhaps, at best, unmitigated trash, but then I am a simple man of business, and not a scribe.
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23 193 "Write down," said the regent to the scribe nearest him, "that we have received petitions from Tarl of Port Kar, who is lodging in the house of Achiates, which we will take under careful consideration".
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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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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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23 173 I drew back the letters, not handing them to the scribe.
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23 183 Another scribe moved toward me.
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23 184 He seemed dangerous, not like a scribe.
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14 55 "The city is under martial law," I said.
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22 84 "But it is also against the law".
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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

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
4 388 "Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.
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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...
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6 627 I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law.
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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 a...
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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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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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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 sl...
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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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6 634 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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24 19 His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.
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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 1574 He held a steel sword, where such things made law.
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Book 23. (1 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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Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
40 45 He was, I suspected, a scribe of the law.
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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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19 1772 "Perhaps a scribe would buy you to clean his chamber and keep his papers in order".
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Book 25. (15 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
9 95 "Are you a legal slave, my child?" asked one of the counselors, a scribe of the law.
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9 266 "Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, Lady of Ar," read the scribe.
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9 470 "Talena, Ubara of Ar," announced a scribe, "will now pronounce judgment on the traitress, Claudia Tentia Hinrabia".
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9 522 "Cornelia, Lady of Ar," said the scribe.
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9 615 "Ludmilla, Lady of Ar," called the scribe.
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9 87 "Lady Tuta Thassolonia," read a scribe.
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9 97 "You are then a legally free female?" asked the scribe.
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9 99 "It is then sufficient," said the scribe to Talena.
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9 218 "Next," called a scribe.
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9 524 Talena consulted a list held by a scribe near her.
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12 227 "What have we here," asked Marcus, "a little scribe?" "I am no stranger to scrolls," she said.
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12 258 Sometimes they are read aloud in training sessions by a scribe, a whip master in attendance.
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18 455 "To a scribe to read the public boards!" "No!" said Marcus.
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22 625 One hires a warrior for one thing, one hires a scribe for another.
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22 626 One does not expect a scribe to know the sword.
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Book 26. (6 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
19 531 The officers and the scribe had already passed her point in the line.
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24 718 One of the men with the officer, the captain, was clad not in the gear of war, but wore a blue tunic, and carried, on two straps, slung now beside him, a scribe's box.
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24 797 "Do you wish a record made of this, Captain?" asked the fellow in the blue tunic, he with the scribe's box, on its straps, slung at his left side.
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19 500 They were followed by a scribe with a tablet, who made jottings as they proceeded down the line.
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24 724 Other paraphernalia may also be included, depending on the scribe, string, ostraka, wire, coins, even a lunch.
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29 196 For example, a scribe would normally wear his blue when working but not always when at leisure.
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Book 27. (56 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
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 ...
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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 ...
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22 304 The matter was supervised by a scribe, with a clipboard, to which were attached several sheets of paper.
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24 349 She saw the scribe who had been in charge of her in the exhibition cage.
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24 728 She looked up and, meeting the stern eyes of the scribe, lifted away the skirt, folded it, and, head down, placed it, too, beside her.
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24 746 "According to my records," said the scribe, looming over her, tall in his blue robes, she could see but the hem of his robe and his sandals, "you responded negatively when queried as to your ability to dance.
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24 774 There was laughter, from the scribe, and from one of the guardsmen, and from the two whip masters who had now come forth from the area of preparation.
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24 838 "Whip!" The whip of the exterior whip master was handed to the scribe, who gave it to one of the attending guardsmen.
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24 858 The scribe distributed some of the coins to the attending guardsmen.
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24 885 "I will see that she is put into one of the tiniest of the slave cages," said the scribe.
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25 30 It was not the scribe she had known from the exhibition cage or the silken enclosure of the preceding evening.
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25 109 The scribe of the exhibition cages and silken enclosure, it seems, had certainly been wrong about one thing.
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25 305 "Did a scribe give you a name?" "of course not!" she said.
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22 219 "Can you dance?" she had been asked by the scribe.
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22 227 But I shall not be called upon to dance, she told herself, for I have informed the scribe that I cannot dance.
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22 539 She had been 'Auta' before, but the scribe had not cared for that name, and had given her the name 'Renata'.
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24 649 Ellen saw the scribe who had queried her earlier, in the exhibition cage, and, oddly, momentarily, was frightened.
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24 708 She did see, this frightening her, and she quickly put down her head, the scribe who had interviewed her in the exhibition cage, and three guardsmen, with him, not one but three, all approaching.
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24 711 "117, Kajira Ellen," said the scribe.
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24 713 "Dismiss your girls, save this one," said the scribe.
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24 717 "Strip yourself, completely," said the scribe.
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24 719 "Help her," said the scribe.
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24 729 "Bells," said the scribe.
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24 735 "On your belly," said the scribe.
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24 740 "Well, little Ellen," said the scribe.
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24 743 "But I thought it strange," said the scribe, "when I heard your number called in the camp, summoning you to a dancing circle, and, indeed, one so high as the ba-ta circle.
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24 766 She supposed that the question had been a trap, but, even had it not been, even if the scribe's question had been innocently, honestly, motivated, she thought it wisest to answer truthfully.
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24 768 "Then," said the scribe, "it appears that you are a lying slave".
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24 782 "You danced," said the scribe.
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24 784 "You had lessons?" said the scribe.
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24 788 "And surely, as a slave," said the scribe, "you upon occasion, naked, in secret, had swayed before a mirror?" "Yes, Master," whispered Ellen.
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24 796 "Then you have not only made observations, from which you perhaps learned something, but you have practiced," said the scribe.
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24 798 "I think I shall have you remanded for the liar's brand," said the scribe.
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24 802 "Who are you?" asked the scribe.
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24 806 It was Selius Arconious! "Perhaps you are right," said the scribe.
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24 809 "I did, as doubtless did we all, enjoyed her performance, and that should count for something, I suppose," said the scribe, "and I, besides, upon reflection, am inclined to grant that she may not have fully understood her latent talents in the matter".
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24 818 "Surely she should at least have qualified her answer, or have been more candid, or more speculative, with our fellow here," said Arconious, indicating the scribe.
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24 820 "I am inclined to forget the matter," said the scribe.
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24 824 "Inadvertently, unintentionally," suggested the scribe.
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24 826 "Granted," said the scribe.
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24 829 "We do not have that reputation," said the scribe, unpleasantly.
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24 835 "Yes," said the scribe.
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24 837 "We do not," said the scribe.
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24 841 "What do you think should be her punishment?" asked the scribe.
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24 853 "That is acceptable," said the scribe.
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24 863 I loathe him! I loathe him!" "You may belly," said the scribe, "and express your gratitude to your benefactor".
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24 869 "Kneel up, slut," said the scribe.
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24 878 Then she looked up, for her wrists were lifted, by the scribe, he checking the confining knots which bound them.
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24 879 "There is no more dancing or serving for you this night, 117, Ellen," said the scribe.
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25 27 "Is she more beautiful than I?" A scribe, with papers, was nearby, and, in a moment, began to course the chain.
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25 31 "Put your head up, girl," said the scribe.
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25 40 Now it seems I shall learn! The scribe was then well behind her, farther back down the line.
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25 63 "Oh, please, masters, let me out!" Selius Arconious, she recalled, had suggested that she be confined "straitly," and the scribe, to whom he had given some fifteen tarsk-bits, buying her blows, had found this not only agreeable, but, given his earlier rancor, eminently fitting.
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25 306 "What did the scribe put on your records?" "'Melanie'," she said.
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26 170 "Thank you for buying my whip strokes from the scribe, at the dancing circle," said Ellen.
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27 122 He bought my strokes from the scribe.
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Book 28. (2 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, <...
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79 518 And doubtless millions of female slaves have been picked out for others, matched to others, to the best of the purchaser's ability, a slave who sings and recites, and plays the lyre, for a fellow who loves poetry and music, a skilled dancer for a fellow who is fond ...
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 117 "Transients, like yourself, a coastal peddler, the arrival twice yearly of an inspector and scribe, to review the trees, to inventory the reserves".
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Book 30. (13 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 83 "Where will he go? What will he do?" asked a fellow, a scribe from his robes, of shoddy, faded blue.
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34 26 It would not hurt for idlers and passers-by to guess, from the color of her scrap of clothing, that she was a scribe's girl.
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34 239 When the fellows in the market saw the color of the tunic they would guess, I supposed, and correctly, that she was the property of a scribe.
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37 1215 "I think you are the sort of female who would appeal to a scribe," I said.
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37 1411 I am now the slave of a scribe, and the scribes is a high caste".
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37 1553 Calisthenes, office of the Registry, Harbor Administration, Port of Brundisium, scribe.
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37 1199 I removed the scribe's satchel, my purse, the scribe's robes, and lay upon the comforter and, on one elbow, regarded the slave.
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33 69 "He is a scribe," said the stranger.
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33 146 He is a scribe".
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34 1 A scribe's Interlude "Have you finished your work?" I asked my slave.
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37 1 A scribe Concludes an Account "Wine, Master?" said my slave.
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37 738 "I am a scribe," I said.
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37 1373 "I am a poor man," I said, "a low scribe, one who labors in the registry.
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Book 31. (6 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
35 290 "I think so," he said, "but what is the relevance of the order? What would it mean if, say, a Physician's Vulo is succeeded by a scribe's Tarsk?" "Perhaps that would stand for an entire message," I said, "something like 'Meet at dawn', 'Bring gold', 'Depart on the morrow'...
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17 152 I did not know if that were because her master favored the blue, or if he might be a scribe.
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35 147 For example, from left to right, on the first row, one would have the Ubara's Initiate, the Ubara's Builder, the Ubara's scribe, the Ubara's Tarnsman, and then the Ubara.
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35 148 Next comes the Ubar, and then, in order, the Ubar's Tarnsman, the Ubar's scribe, the Ubar's Builder, and the Ubar's Initiate".
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50 1 "scribe's Urt," had said the Lady Bina, and I located the card, and placed it on the pile.
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52 441 "It is what I wish it to be," he said, "a Metal Worker, a Forester, a Poet, or Singer, a Cloth Worker, a Peasant, a scribe, such things".
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Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 400 From the yard of a dark building, behind the wharves, through a double wooden gate, wide enough to exit a wagon, a scribe, in his blue work tunic, carrying a tablet, had emerged.
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8 487 Papers were being exchanged between the officer and the scribe.
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15 621 "Take her to the end of the dock and back," the scribe said.
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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 Fairs.
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15 629 The scribe and the other armsmenwere there.
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15 630 "Master," I begged the scribe, "may I speak?" "No," he said.
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Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
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 6
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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49 85 For example, a given merchant, such as Mintar, of Ar, may be the master of a thousand enterprises and another may be an itinerant peddler; and one scribe may be a city's most esteemed jurist, selling his advice for gold, while another ekes out a living on so...
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49 22 Some were standing, their scribe kits slung over their shoulders.
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Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
11 136 Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a sc...
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3 11 I heard the slaver's scribe, at his desk before the block, reading, droning, describing the next offering, my hair and eye color, my height and weight, my current name, my collar size, wrist-and-ankle-ring sizes, my training, of some weeks, which was largely...
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3 325 Too, why should he ask me this? Had not the slaver's scribe, below the block, earlier, in his description, alluded to my level of training? It was rudimentary at best, but, in it, I had learned I was where I should be, in a collar.
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3 522 "The next slave is Adraste," said the slaver's scribe, calling up from his position before and below the center of the block, "one of those brought in from the World's End".
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10 46 In the tavern merchants may conduct business over a drink; mariners may regale rapt auditors with accounts of fabulous voyages; slavers may confer on sales and projected raids; at another table, a scribe may sit, ready to write or read letters.
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30 24 of most interest, to most I gathered, were the large public boards covered with writing, which writing was occasionally changed by a scribe, walking back and forth on a platform, with a sponge and marking stick.
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37 126 So why should bakers and metal workers be expected to be skillful or adept at reading and writing, the expertise of the scribe? Indeed, some castes rather look down on the scribes.
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3 194 My name had been mentioned by the slaver's scribe before the sale, with my measurements, my collar size, my ankle-ring size, and such.
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3 251 That I was "red-silk" had been made clear when my hair and eye color, my measurements, my lineaments, and such, prior to my exhibition, had been made clear to the crowd by the slaver's scribe at his desk below the block.
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37 76 Too, later, a scribe went past, his kit on its strap over his shoulder.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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