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| 8 | 52 | View more quotes about interestingly">Interestingly, the piercing of the septum, for the insertion of a nose ring, is regarded, generally, a great deal more lightly by female slaves than the piercing of the ears. |
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| 8 | 49 | At a feast Marlenus, as a special treat for his high officers, presented before them a dancer, a female slave, whose ears had been pierced. |
| 8 | 50 | She had worn, in her degradation, golden loops in her ears; she had not been able, even, to finish her dance; at a sign from Marlenus she had been seized, thrown to the tiles on which she had danced, and raped by more than a hundred men. |
| 8 | 51 | Ear piercing, from this time, had begun to spread rapidly through the north, masters, and slavers, often inflicting it on their girls. |
| 8 | 52 | Interestingly, the piercing of the septum, for the insertion of a nose ring, is regarded, generally, a great deal more lightly by female slaves than the piercing of the ears. |
| 8 | 53 | Perhaps this is partly because, in the far south, the free women of the Wagon Peoples wear nose rings; perhaps it is because the piercing does not show; I do not know. |
| 8 | 54 | The piercing of the ears, however, is regarded as being the epitome of a slave girl's degradation. |
| 8 | 55 | Any woman, it is said, with pierced ears, is a slave girl. |