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| 16 | 579 | This practice was View more quotes about supposedly">supposedly useful in reducing restlessness in the pens. |
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| 16 | 576 | Perhaps the woman, wisely, had not chosen to surround herself with male slaves. |
| 16 | 577 | What if they should, in the rush of their blood, heat and need, turn upon her? How she might be used then, over and over, perhaps on her belly, robes torn away, on the pillows of her then-unborne palanquin! She trembled. |
| 16 | 578 | She had heard that slaves such as she, low slaves, were sometimes cast to male slaves in the pens, much as one might cast them food. |
| 16 | 579 | This practice was supposedly useful in reducing restlessness in the pens. |
| 16 | 580 | Sometimes, in the crowd, she saw a slave girl, collared and briefly tunicked. |
| 16 | 581 | What a striking contrast such small, lovely figures, with their tiny tunics, and bared limbs, afforded to the more common denominator of the large, massive, generally male, generally robed throngs through which they threaded their way. |
| 16 | 582 | How exquisitely, how utterly and beautifully feminine they were! How beautifully they walked and carried themselves. |