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| 12 | 235 | "In the View more quotes about vicinity">vicinity of tarns," said Tajima, "it is best for women to be hooded and bound". |
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| 12 | 232 | Another fellow, further along, had the harnessing in place, with the rings and straps, by which he moved the head of the bird, back, or down, or to the sides. |
| 12 | 233 | "I note no slave girls here," I said. |
| 12 | 234 | "I thought they might be used, to content the men, to cook, to fill the tank with water, such things". |
| 12 | 235 | "In the vicinity of tarns," said Tajima, "it is best for women to be hooded and bound". |
| 12 | 236 | "Doubtless on the whole," I said. |
| 12 | 237 | It was true that most women were terrified of tarns, and with good reason, particularly the more imaginative, intelligent women, well aware of the danger of the bird and their own slightness, weakness, and vulnerability. |
| 12 | 238 | Indeed the only experience many women had with tarns was to be slung naked as one of a pair, one on each side, fastened to a saddle ring, or to be, if a single quarry, hauled aloft by a tarnsman's braided, leather rope and then, their clothing cut from them, to be put on their back across the saddle, before their captor, their wrists crossed and bound to one ring, their ankles crossed and bound to another, their first writhing then, and crying out, to take place on the saddle, under the idle caresses of their captor, on the long flight back to his city or camp. |