Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 389 | Ho-Tu's View more quotes about eyes">eyes were closed. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 386 | Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis had been shown its rudiments, as well as something about the lyre, but they had not been expected to become proficient, nor were they given the time to become so; if their master, at a later date, after their sale, wished his girls to possess these particular attributes, which are seldom involved in the training of slave girls, he himself could pay for their instruction; the time of the girls, I noted, was rather fully occupied, without spending hours a day on music. |
| 15 | 387 | The slave girl sitting on the furs, for the kalika is played either sitting or standing, bent over her instrument, her hair falling over the neck of it, lost in her music, a gentle, slow melody, rather sad. |
| 15 | 388 | I had heard it sung some two years ago by the bargemen on the Cartius, a tributary of the Vosk, far to the south and west of Ar. |
| 15 | 389 | Ho-Tu's eyes were closed. |
| 15 | 390 | The horn spoon lay to the side of the empty gruel bowl. |
| 15 | 391 | The girl had begun to hum the melody now, and Ho-Tu, almost inaudibly, but I could hear him, hummed it as well. |
| 15 | 392 | The door to the hall suddenly burst open and two guards, followed by two others, burst in. |
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Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis had been shown its rudiments, as well as something about the lyre, but they had not been expected to become proficient, nor were they given the time to become so; if their master, at a later date, after their sale, wished his girls to possess these particular attributes, which are seldom involved in the training of slave girls, he himself could pay for their instruction; the time of the girls, I noted, was rather fully occupied, without spending hours a day on music.
The slave girl sitting on the furs, for the kalika is played either sitting or standing, bent over her instrument, her hair falling over the neck of it, lost in her music, a gentle, slow melody, rather sad.
I had heard it sung some two years ago by the bargemen on the Cartius, a tributary of the Vosk, far to the south and west of Ar.
Ho-Tu's eyes were closed.
The horn spoon lay to the side of the empty gruel bowl.
The girl had begun to hum the melody now, and Ho-Tu, almost inaudibly, but I could hear him, hummed it as well.
The door to the hall suddenly burst open and two guards, followed by two others, burst in.
- (Assassin of Gor)