Bearing a stigma

Usage examples of branded.

Some, I supposed, would have fled in terror, had I, a branded girl, been thrown to their feet.

How many of them, I wondered, would simply look down and see me at their feet as what I was, a branded girl?

Yet, now, branded, for the first time I was acutely aware of the fantastic strength and size of even such boys, not even men, not even Gorean men, compared to my own diminutive strength and stature.

I would not have believed, yesterday night, that a woman could have been branded.

Girls branded as I was were already spoken of on Gor, rather disparagingly, as "dinas.

Only now, for the first time, now that I was branded, did they show any interest in teaching me their language.

I suspected that I must now, now that I had been branded, address myself with great diligence to the acquisition of their language.

It had been he who had first taken Eta, when, the night before I was branded, I had watched her perform, bound, belied and hooded, in the same cruel sport in which I this evening had been so humiliatingly victimized, treated as though I might be only a slave.

The moonlight streamed down on the branded slave girl before her master.

I had no doubt that I was more beautiful, branded, than I had been before.

Could there be a true escape, on a world such as this, for a branded girl?

How she would have laughed had she seen Judy Thornton, her lovely rival, on her back in the dirt, a branded slave girl, squirming in the throes of submission to a male, so shamefully helpless in his arms, uncontrollably, not the mistress of herself, yielding to his manhood.

Too, they are branded, which further makes escape, for almost all practical purposes, an impossibility for them.

On Earth a free woman would not think of having herself branded, though it might improve her beauty.

On Earth, where slavery is practiced, commonly only troublesome girls are branded.