| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 18 | 235 | She can scarcely whisper, hoarsely, View more quotes about piteously">piteously, begging for mercy. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 18 | 232 | I heard no screaming. |
| 18 | 233 | A girl cannot scream under the lash. |
| 18 | 234 | She can scarcely breathe. |
| 18 | 235 | She can scarcely whisper, hoarsely, piteously, begging for mercy. |
| 18 | 236 | In Port Kar I had seen the fingernails of girls torn to the quick as they scratched at stones against which they were tied. |
| 18 | 237 | If she is bound against a wall her entire body may be injured, cut, scoured, cruelly abraded, as she tries to escape the whip. |
| 18 | 238 | For this reason a girl to be whipped is often suspended from a ring or a pole. |