| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 14 |
The shadows of the pasang stones had grown long, and, judging by the angle of these shadows, for the stones are set in such a way as to serve also as sundials, it was past the fourteenth Gorean Ahn, or hour. |
4 |
| 3 | 15 |
The Gorean day is divided into twenty Ahn, which are numbered consecutively. |
4 |
| 3 | 16 |
The tenth Ahn is noon, the twentieth, midnight. |
4 |
| 3 | 17 |
Each Ahn consists of forty Ehn, or minutes, and each Ehn of eighty Ihn, or seconds. |
4 |
| 17 | 79 |
The working day is fifteen Gorean hours, or Ahn, which, allowing for the slight difference in the period of the planet's rotation, would be approximately eighteen Earth hours. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 262 |
"Fifteen Ahn," she said. |
4 |
| 5 | 264 |
The Gorean day is divided into twenty Ahn. |
4 |
| 7 | 72 |
I had walked perhaps an Ahn and was deep inside one of the long, dimly lit passageways which led in the direction of her chamber when I seemed somehow to sense a presence behind me. |
4 |
| 7 | 91 |
I had waited perhaps better than an Ahn and I was covered with sweat. |
4 |
| 12 | 50 |
He spent perhaps an Ahn in this activity and then, exasperated, turned to face me. |
4 |
| 14 | 143 |
In an Ahn of course I no longer wanted to go to the Beetle and I knew then she had saved my life. |
4 |
| 25 | 97 |
For perhaps an Ahn I carried her through the network of ventilation shafts, sometimes walking on the level, sometimes climbing. |
4 |
| 27 | 3 |
It was almost eight Gorean Ahn, or about ten Earth hours, since I had separated from Misk and Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta early this morning. |
4 |
| 29 | 69 |
For half a Gorean Ahn we hung there, none of us moving. |
4 |
| 29 | 70 |
Then for a full Gorean Ahn did we remain there, motionless above the complex. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 |
There is also a system of latitude and longitude figured on the basis of the Gorean day, calculated in Ahn, twenty of which constitute a Gorean day, and Ehn and Ihn, which are subdivisions of the Ahn, or Gorean hour. |
4 |
| 23 | 90 |
"It will take the rider, if he gets through, seven Ahn to reach Turia and even if Kamchak rides with his full force the moment the rider comes to the gates of the city, it will be eight Ahn before their vanguard can reach us—and by then it will be too late". |
4 |
| 26 | 560 |
Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo... |
4 |
| 25 | 156 |
I spun about and to my astonishment saw that Elizabeth Cardwell had arisen and stood proudly, defiantly, angrily before me, as though she might have been a freshly collared slave girl, brought in but an Ahn before, bound over the saddle of a kaiila, the fruit of a slave raid. |
4 |
| 6 | 14 |
I was astonished, for this girl was dressed not as a Gorean, not as a girl of any of the cities of the Counter-Earth, not as a peasant of the Sa-Tarna fields or the vineyards where the Ta grapes are raised, not even as a girl of the fierce Wagon Peoples. |
4 |
| 7 | 254 |
How she had challenged him, how she had walked, how insolent she had been! Perhaps in that moment she thought how amused the man might be could he see her now, that proud girl, now in the Sirik, her head to the pelt of a larl, kneeling to barbarians, begging to be a slave girl; and if she thought of... |
4 |
| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
4 |
| 23 | 6 |
Thundering behind each of us was a Thousand, which would continue on toward the main Tuchuk encampment, several Ahn away. |
4 |
| 23 | 47 |
Within perhaps the Ahn a grim, angry Harold brought his tarn down between the two columns, that of his Thousand and of mine. |
4 |
| 24 | 4 |
Some Ahn after departing from the Tuchuk camp I encountered the wagon that carried my tarn, and its guard, still advancing toward the camp. |
4 |
| 24 | 6 |
I left the kaiila with the Tuchuks and mounted my tarn, and, in less than an Ahn, saw the shimmering walls of Turia in the distance, and the veils of smoke rising over the city. |
4 |
| 25 | 579 |
"I should have told you, I suppose," I remarked, "that a woman kisses well only when fully aroused, after at least half an Ahn, after she is helpless and yielding". |
4 |
| 25 | 845 |
"Slave," she wept, "slave, slave, slave—I am a slave!" It was more than an Ahn later that she lay in my arms on the rug and looked up at me, tears in her eyes. |
4 |
| 26 | 17 |
He hadn't moved in a quarter of an Ahn. |
4 |
| 26 | 65 |
It seemed to me that a full storming of the compound would take place within the Ahn. |
4 |
| 26 | 92 |
At last, perhaps an Ahn after daylight, no more men came from the compound and the gates were left open. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
4 |
| 17 | 744 |
In less than an Ahn we had set up our board and pieces, and I had shown Sura the placing of the pieces and their moves, and had explained some of the elementary techniques of the game to her; in the second Ahn she was actually negotiating the board with alertness, always moving with an objective in ... |
4 |
| 11 | 179 |
The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w... |
4 |
| 2 | 365 |
"Be silent, Slave Girl," I warned her, and she heeded my injunction, for she then, for better than an Ahn, served in a silence that was exquisite, broken only by our breathing, her small moans and cries. |
4 |
| 5 | 15 |
In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually... |
4 |
| 15 | 175 |
The first week, surprisingly, consisted of nothing but the girl kneeling before the great mirror, in the position of a Pleasure Slave, for several Ahn a day. |
4 |
| 15 | 216 |
During the next weeks and months the lessons of Flaminius were never again touched upon, except occasionally, for her amusement, by Sura, who would suddenly cry to one of the girls, at the same time brandishing the slave goad, such a query as "What do you want more than anything?" to which the girl,... |
4 |
| 20 | 199 |
"Would you dare to contend with a mere slave girl," I asked, "one who has learned the game but a day or two ago, who has played but an Ahn or so?" "Whom do you mean?" inquired Cernus. |
4 |
| 5 | 139 |
At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl... |
4 |
| 13 | 132 |
She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade... |
4 |
| 1 | 42 |
The men and women of Ko-ro-ba stood circled about the pyre, neither moving nor speaking, for better than two Ahn. |
4 |
| 1 | 43 |
After about half an Ahn the pyre, still fearful with heat and light, had collapsed with a roar, forming a great, fiercely burning mound of oil-soaked wood. |
4 |
| 2 | 65 |
Scarcely a quarter of an Ahn had passed and the men who drank in that room had forgotten, as is the way of men, that a dark one sat with them in that room, one who wore the black tunic of the Caste of Assassins, who silently drank with them. |
4 |
| 4 | 50 |
I had little doubt but that in an Ahn the story would be in all the paga taverns of Ar, on all the bridges and in all the cylinders. |
4 |
| 4 | 65 |
I myself felt bitterly about a poorly lit bridge in the vicinity of the Cylinder of Warriors—and about a certain hour on a certain day—for it was on that bridge that a young man, of the Warriors, had walked perhaps not more than a quarter of an Ahn before I myself would have passed tha... |
4 |
| 5 | 252 |
Kusk and I discussed various matters then for about an Ahn, primarily having to do with the extent to which the surveillance and control devices of the Nest had been restored since the Nest War, the increasing role of humans in the Nest, and the difficulties of working out a set of social arrangemen... |
4 |
| 5 | 284 |
"Sometimes it takes a quarter of an Ahn before the initial adjustments take place, basically the recognition that the sounds they spontaneously associate with the marks are actually the words of their language. |
4 |
| 5 | 288 |
"When I look at it," said Elizabeth, excitedly, holding the sheet of plastic, "I just know what the sounds are—I just know!" "Of course," said Kusk, "but it grows near the Ahn of the fourth feeding. |
4 |
| 5 | 754 |
"In a quarter of an Ahn," said Ho-Tu, slapping the slave goad at his side, "I could have her begging to be fed from your hand". |
4 |
| 7 | 6 |
About an Ahn following the eerie cry we had heard in the hall Ho-Tu had arisen from the table and gestured for me to accompany him. |
4 |
| 7 | 51 |
We flew for perhaps an Ahn and then, following a lead tarnsman, dipped and, one at a time, the others circling, landed on a rocky shelf on the side of a steep cliff, apparently no different from dozens of other such shelves we had already passed, save that this shelf, due to an overhang of the cliff... |
4 |
| 7 | 54 |
We stood there in the night, in the cold, for perhaps better than two Ahn. |
4 |
| 7 | 156 |
"They will not awaken now," said the man with the Thief's scar, "for better than an Ahn". |
4 |
| 8 | 2 |
She was, of course, precisely where I had left her, though she had managed to lie on her side on the stones and get one or two Ahn sleep that night. |
4 |
| 8 | 167 |
An Ahn later, however, I had my vengeance. |
4 |
| 11 | 86 |
"We permit them," said Flaminius, deigning to offer a bit of explanation, "five Ahn of varied responses, depending on when they recover from the frobicain injection. |
4 |
| 12 | 173 |
For about fifteen days Virginia and Phyllis, while the other captive Earth girls had been removed to an iron pen, remained in the tiny cement, iron-gated cages, so constructed that the inmate cannot at any one time fully stretch her body; over a period of time this builds up a considerable amount of... |
4 |
| 12 | 366 |
"Have them sent to my training room at the sixth Ahn," she said, and turned, and walked away, the slave bells flashing on her ankle. |
4 |
| 12 | 381 |
She was leashed and her master, who wished to rent her for the quarter Ahn, held the chain with its leather loop wound in his fist. |
4 |
| 16 | 27 |
The great bars suspended about the walls of the city then ring out for more than an Ahn with their din, and the doors of the city burst open and the people crowd out onto the bridges, clad in the splendor of their finest, singing and laughing. |
4 |
| 17 | 358 |
"I hate him! I hate him! I hate him!" "I wager," said Ho-Sorl, "I can have her leaping to my touch in a quarter of an Ahn". |
4 |
| 17 | 431 |
"Between the tenth and the fourteenth Ahn," she pointed out, "we can be examined nude in the cages". |
4 |
| 17 | 747 |
We played yet another Ahn and, even in that short amount of time, her moves had become more exact, more subtle, more powerful. |
4 |
| 18 | 182 |
We devoted our time, those Ahn in the day in which we could work, to study, research, test and experiment. |
4 |
| 18 | 327 |
I could see the bread ovens in one wall; the long fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but, here and there, I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal; aside from this, the light in the room came from on... |
4 |
| 19 | 78 |
I supposed that now Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, would be in the holding cells beneath the ground level, perhaps being fed, some two or three Ahn prior to the sale; later they would be moved, with others, to the tunnel of ready cells, which leads to the block; there they would be adorned, ma... |
4 |
| 19 | 92 |
Hooded, my wrists locked in steel, my throat chained to the chair of my enemy, I knelt for perhaps two Ahn. |
4 |
| 20 | 479 |
At last, after perhaps no more than half an Ahn, Scormus stood up. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 433 |
An Ahn later, perhaps a bit more than an Ahn before dawn, the oil in the lamp of love had burned low. |
4 |
| 10 | 164 |
Two Ahn for lunch and stopping an Ahn early for paga and talk in the late afternoon are not uncommon. |
4 |
| 1 | 46 |
It was late in the afternoon, the fourteenth Gorean Ahn I would have guessed. |
4 |
| 5 | 99 |
At last, after an Ahn or so, the group, the girls, the men watching, the judges, turned their several rence craft toward the island, beaching them and fastening them on the woven-mat shore. |
4 |
| 7 | 6 |
Later, about an Ahn before dawn, the two other rence islands, tethered to the central island, were similarly set afire, their fugitives, too, being driven to the nets and binding fiber of the men of Port Kar. |
4 |
| 8 | 15 |
I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar. |
4 |
| 8 | 187 |
We waited for an Ahn or so and then I told her to move to the sixth barge. |
4 |
| 9 | 498 |
It was about an Ahn, I conjectured, before daylight. |
4 |
| 10 | 155 |
The next item on the agenda dealt with the demand of the pulley-makers to receive the same wage per Ahn as the oar-makers. |
4 |
| 10 | 160 |
The average working day is ten Ahn, or about twelve Earth hours. |
4 |
| 13 | 318 |
We had rowed for several Ahn this morning. |
4 |
| 13 | 319 |
It was now something better than an Ahn past noon. |
4 |
| 13 | 345 |
I heard, about a half an Ahn later, Tenrik call up to the lookout. |
4 |
| 13 | 358 |
About a quarter of an Ahn later I heard what I had been waiting for. |
4 |
| 13 | 473 |
Within the Ahn I wish to set course for Port Kar". |
4 |
| 14 | 135 |
It seemed probable, with a decent start, which we had, we could stay ahead of the pursuing ram-ships, if we chose, either indefinitely, or, if they were faster, which I doubted, at least for several Ahn. |
4 |
| 14 | 141 |
In another quarter of an Ahn I could count thirty ram-ships engaged in our pursuit. |
4 |
| 14 | 150 |
After two Ahn, sometimes increasing the beat, sometimes decreasing it, depending on whether or not we wished to avoid being actually overtaken or we wished to encourage our pursuers, we had spread them behind us in a long, straggling line, its spacing an index to the speed of their individual ships. |
4 |
| 14 | 159 |
It was the twelfth Ahn before the commander of the first pursuing ship understood either that he had been tricked or that he was not likely to overtake our ships. |
4 |
| 14 | 230 |
But after about an Ahn and a half, when I again raised the glass, I saw that she was not much farther away than she had been when last I had looked. |
4 |
| 14 | 243 |
After a quarter of an Ahn, in the distance, I could see her, at last, come about. |
4 |
| 14 | 284 |
Using, on the whole, elementary triangle tactics, wherein an attack by two ships, from different quadrants, is made on a single ship, which can face but one of the attackers, my ships had, in a short time, less than an Ahn, destroyed seven of the ten ram-ships left behind at the treasure fleet. |
4 |
| 14 | 331 |
In an Ahn I stepped across the plank thrown from the rail of the Dorna to that of the flagship of the treasure fleet. |
4 |
| 14 | 451 |
Within the Ahn we were ready to sail for Port Kar. |
4 |
| 14 | 480 |
In a quarter Ahn my vessels were aligned for battle. |
4 |
| 15 | 215 |
"And beginning tomorrow," I said, "if his work in the kitchen improves to your satisfaction, and only under that condition, he is to be permitted one Ahn a day to train with weapons". |
4 |
| 15 | 217 |
"And that Ahn," I said, "is to be made up in extra work in the evening". |
4 |
| 17 | 2 |
It was a very beautiful sight, the great lines of ships in the distance, extending to the ends of the horizons, the sails like yellow and purple flags, in their thousands, in the sun of the ninth Gorean hour, an Ahn before noon. |
4 |
| 17 | 41 |
Each of my fifty sets of attacking tarn ships would be followed, by some half of an Ahn, by another pair of my tarn ships, which, hopefully, would be able to take a number of these come-about ships of Cos and Tyros from the rear. |
4 |
| 17 | 49 |
The first two waves of my attack consisted, thus, of fifty task forces of sixteen tarn ships apiece and, following each of the task forces, at an interval of half an Ahn, another pair of tarn ships. |
4 |
| 17 | 56 |
My third wave, following the second by an Ahn, would consist of a long extended line of round ships, some fourteen hundred. |
4 |
| 17 | 76 |
My fourth wave consisted of fifty tarn ships, instructed not to lower their masts, which would follow the round ships by an Ahn. |
4 |
| 17 | 80 |
My fifth wave, following the fourth by half an Ahn, consisted of two fleets of forty tarn ships apiece, one attacking from the north and the other from the south. |
4 |
| 17 | 105 |
"Call me in half an Ahn". |
4 |
| 17 | 177 |
Following the fourth wave, its own attack timed to occur half an Ahn after that of the fourth wave, would come the fifth wave, the two small fleets of tarn ships, of forty ships apiece, masts down, who would initiate their pincers attack from the north and the south. |
4 |
| 17 | 193 |
* * * * For better than three Ahn I had sat in the basket at the masthead of the Dorna, whipped by the wind, my fingers numb on the glass of the builders, observing the battle. |
4 |
| 18 | 813 |
"Perhaps an Ahn till dawn," I said. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 752 |
Ahn after Ahn, the tarn flew. |
4 |
| 13 | 915 |
Then, after perhaps a quarter of an Ahn, I asked, "May a girl speak?" "Yes," he said. |
4 |
| 3 | 320 |
I was only a terrified girl, fleeing from what she knew not, a bewildered, confused girl, a terrified girl, one with a mark on her left thigh, a circle of steel locked snugly on her throat. |
4 |
| 15 | 1291 |
How pleased I was in my power! As the music changed so, too, did the dancer, and she became as one with the music, a frightened girl, new to the collar, a timid girl, delicate and submissive, a lonely slave, yearning for her master, a drunken wench, rejecting her slavery, a proud girl, determined to... |
4 |
| 11 | 839 |
I followed the stream for an Ahn, sometimes stopping to lift my head to overhanging branches, to nibble at hanging fruit. |
4 |
| 11 | 963 |
In the late afternoon, we rested for an Ahn. |
4 |
| 13 | 28 |
We had run for perhaps an Ahn, when, gasping, exhausted, scarcely able to move, we had reached the edge of a large Ka-la-na thicket. |
4 |
| 13 | 651 |
"Give her to us, Warrior," said a man, "for a quarter of an Ahn, for a switching". |
4 |
| 13 | 656 |
Give her to us for a quarter of an Ahn, that we may switch her". |
4 |
| 14 | 623 |
For better than a quarter of an Ahn I knelt, waiting. |
4 |
| 15 | 299 |
About a quarter of an Ahn later, kneeling behind the board, ironing, I became aware of someone standing before me. |
4 |
| 15 | 614 |
The fire was quite hot, and it had apparently been heating for some two or three Ahn, perhaps even from the time we had gone forth to pick berries. |
4 |
| 15 | 1354 |
For more than two Ahn we sat in the kitchen shed. |
4 |
| 17 | 32 |
In the fashion of Gorean huntsmen, both girls had then been freed and given a head start of four Ahn, that they might escape, if it were in their power. |
4 |
| 17 | 33 |
After four Ahn, Raf and Pron, running lightly, carrying snare rope, left the camp. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 747 |
In the night it had taken a full Ahn to an Ahn and a half to bring her to the point of yielding. |
4 |
| 14 | 68 |
The left ankle of the front girl was then tied to the right ankle of the back girl, and the right ankle of the front girl was lashed to the left ankle of the back girl. |
4 |
| 15 | 697 |
And when in another half of an Ahn she yielded it was with the helpless, uncontrollable yielding of the utterly vanquished Gorean slave girl. |
4 |
| 14 | 157 |
I sat them about the tree, their backs to it, and fastened them in the star, the left wrist of the first girl bound to the right wrist of the next, and so about the tree, until the star was closed by binding the left wrist of the fourth girl to the last untethered wrist, the right wrist of the first... |
4 |
| 3 | 294 |
"And I had witnesses!" "It took an Ahn to catch her," said another man, laughing. |
4 |
| 3 | 441 |
I did not wish to deny Rim his lovely Tendite, nor Thurnock his Ahn with the luscious wench, chained, who had writhed before us on the sand. |
4 |
| 5 | 150 |
But where was Rim? It was near the ninth hour and, soon, almost within an Ahn, I wished to cast off the mooring ropes. |
4 |
| 5 | 154 |
It would breast at the tenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 6 | 255 |
I had seen, an Ahn earlier, before we had reached this camp site, a tawny movement in the brush, some fifty yards in front of us, and to our left. |
4 |
| 6 | 357 |
In half an Ahn, it would be dusk. |
4 |
| 6 | 375 |
Within the Ahn, hungry, nocturnal sleen would slip from their burrows to hunt. |
4 |
| 6 | 379 |
* * * * About the twentieth Ahn, the Gorean midnight, we heard a sound, beyond our defensive perimeter. |
4 |
| 6 | 582 |
We had returned to the camp by the river but within the Ahn. |
4 |
| 6 | 669 |
You may steal in this camp where and when you wish, but within the Ahn you are to return what you have stolen". |
4 |
| 6 | 706 |
"If I do not return, within the Ahn, what I steal," she asked, "what will be done with me?" "For the first offense," I said, "your left hand will be removed". |
4 |
| 6 | 966 |
I struggled with myself for several Ahn, fighting myself. |
4 |
| 7 | 108 |
It was now near the twelfth Ahn. |
4 |
| 7 | 147 |
The attacker kept well ahead of me, for more than an Ahn. |
4 |
| 7 | 176 |
I studied the shadows for a quarter of an Ahn. |
4 |
| 7 | 220 |
I then lifted her lightly in my arms and carried her, gagged and bound, down our back trail, for some quarter of an Ahn. |
4 |
| 7 | 268 |
In another Ahn or two it would be dark. |
4 |
| 7 | 314 |
An Ahn before darkness I found the camp. |
4 |
| 7 | 401 |
"We shall awaken two Ahn before dawn. |
4 |
| 8 | 176 |
"That will be more than two Ahn," grumbled another man. |
4 |
| 8 | 185 |
The panther girls, in all probability, would not return for another Ahn or two. |
4 |
| 8 | 215 |
It was more than an Ahn until dusk. |
4 |
| 10 | 226 |
After an Ahn Marlenus said. |
4 |
| 11 | 92 |
Marlenus, with two huntsmen, had taken her within the Ahn. |
4 |
| 11 | 104 |
After her beating, she had been left bound to the post for two Ahn. |
4 |
| 11 | 955 |
I later returned to my blankets, to get an Ahn's sleep, if I could, before the camp became too much astir. |
4 |
| 13 | 146 |
Within the Ahn all were unconscious. |
4 |
| 15 | 696 |
In half an Ahn she was wild, moaning, weeping, submissive in my arms. |
4 |
| 15 | 699 |
An Ahn later, as she lay in my arms, she looked at me, helplessly. |
4 |
| 16 | 29 |
After I had felled the eight men at the beginning of the column I had withdrawn to the forest, where I slept for an Ahn. |
4 |
| 16 | 296 |
It would be dawn in four Ahn. |
4 |
| 16 | 300 |
Mira had, under Vinca's strict questioning, told us that it would render a man unconscious for several Ahn, usually a half a day. |
4 |
| 18 | 221 |
And I would, for some Ahn, sleep. |
4 |
| 18 | 222 |
* * * * I awakened after some two or three Ahn, judging by the flight of the moons. |
4 |
| 18 | 428 |
The moonlight would not last for more than an Ahn. |
4 |
| 18 | 607 |
Within half of an Ahn I had left her again, lowering myself over the side. |
4 |
| 21 | 51 |
In the very Ahn he had lost his victory, his certain triumph. |
4 |
| 21 | 158 |
She had, in a matter of Ahn, found the place where Sarus had left several men of Marlenus, and some of my men, chained. |
4 |
| 21 | 194 |
In time, in a half of an Ahn, his men had returned. |
4 |
| 22 | 164 |
Within the Ahn Sheera had taken Mira, and, in the darkness, bent over, hand in her hair, she had returned Mira to my men. |
4 |
| 22 | 231 |
In an Ahn, the girls of Verna knelt before her on the beach. |
4 |
| 22 | 445 |
On the other hand, it was regarded as permissible to slay a male thief or take a female thief slave if the culprit could be apprehended within an Ahn of the theft. |
4 |
| 22 | 446 |
After an Ahn the thief, if apprehended and a caste member, was to be remanded to the police of the arsenal. |
4 |
| 22 | 994 |
I had, for an Ahn, at that place, recollected my honor. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 108 |
Incidentally, for what it is worth, though the southern girl is, I expect, worked less hard than the northern girl, who is commonly kept on an isolated farm, she is more often than her northern sister put to the switch or whip; I think she lives under a harsher discipline; southern masters are harde... |
4 |
| 13 | 396 |
She was now only another girl whose belly lay beneath the sword, a property-girl, a collar-girl, a slave, a bondmaid. |
4 |
| 1 | 590 |
"Within four Ahn," said Ho-Hak. |
4 |
| 4 | 41 |
In a day, a full Gorean day of twenty Ahn, with a fair wind they can cover from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pasangs. |
4 |
| 4 | 317 |
An Ahn on the oar is usually more than sufficient to make the coldest and proudest of females an obedient, eager-to-please bondmaid. |
4 |
| 5 | 194 |
For a quarter of an Ahn the Forkbeard himself held the helm of his ship. |
4 |
| 5 | 195 |
But after a quarter of an Ahn, grinning, the Forkbeard surrendered the helm to one of his men, and came to join me amidships. |
4 |
| 5 | 201 |
After another quarter of an Ahn Forkbeard bade his men rest at their oars. |
4 |
| 5 | 218 |
I discovered, to my instruction, an Ahn later, that Singer to Ax Two, followed by Jarl to Ax Four, is insufficient to counter the Jarl's Ax's Gambit, as it is played in the north. |
4 |
| 7 | 40 |
An Ahn later the Forkbeard, accompanied by Ottar, keeper of his farm, and Tarl Red Hair, now of Forkbeard's Landfall, inspected his fields. |
4 |
| 9 | 73 |
She had not been on the oar for half an Ahn when she had begun to beg her release; a few Ehn later, she had begun to beg to heel the Forkbeard. |
4 |
| 9 | 271 |
I would let her smolder for another Ahn or two. |
4 |
| 9 | 274 |
I would use her twice, the second time in the lengthy use of the Gorean master, that use in which, over an Ahn, the female slave or bondmaid is shown no mercy. |
4 |
| 9 | 280 |
"For more than two Ahn," said the boy, grinning. |
4 |
| 9 | 357 |
After half of an Ahn I saw her, delicately, eyes frightened, lift her head and put her lips to his shoulder; softly, timidly, she kissed him; and then looked into his eyes. |
4 |
| 9 | 362 |
Within an Ahn, Hilda the Haughty, to the jeers of men, the taunts of bondmaids, on her hands and knees, head down, hair falling forward, crept to the circle of the bondmaid, which Ivar Forkbeard had drawn in the dirt of the hall floor, between the posts. |
4 |
| 9 | 455 |
We lay together, silently, I holding her, she against me, chained, for something like half of an Ahn. |
4 |
| 9 | 471 |
It was two Ahn before dawn. |
4 |
| 9 | 472 |
In one Ahn Ottar and the Forkbeard would be up, arousing the men. |
4 |
| 10 | 51 |
"I should have known!" Though I attempted to console him, he remained much put out with himself, and for more than an Ahn afterward. |
4 |
| 13 | 172 |
Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea... |
4 |
| 13 | 249 |
For more than two Ahn gold was weighed, on two pairs of scales, one furnished by the Forkbeard, the other by the house of Svein Blue Tooth. |
4 |
| 14 | 47 |
Men came before them and threw themselves to their knees, that they might be spared, even were it but for the Ahn, but these, like others, no differences drawn between them, were cut down, destroyed by strokes of the swift axes. |
4 |
| 15 | 154 |
It had taken the Forkbeard and I an Ahn, wading through crusts of snow, to reach our present position. |
4 |
| 15 | 174 |
It was now the twelfth hour, two Ahn past the Gorean noon. |
4 |
| 15 | 192 |
It must have been about the fourteenth Ahn when Ivar reached down and helped me to a ledge. |
4 |
| 15 | 277 |
After perhaps half an Ahn, I looked back. |
4 |
| 18 | 273 |
"We shall do so in one Ahn. |
4 |
| 22 | 178 |
Whereas it commonly takes a third of an Ahn to arouse a free woman, a female slave is often responsive from almost the first touch of the master. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 272 |
* * * * It was the next day, at the eleventh Ahn, one Ahn past the Gorean noon, that we arrived at the Oasis of Red Rock. |
4 |
| 17 | 37 |
They had been with the raft now for better than an Ahn, appearing some quarter of an Ahn after we had steadied the sluggish vessel in place. |
4 |
| 26 | 356 |
The Gorean day consists of twenty Ahn; the Gorean Ahn, or hour, of forty Ehn, or minutes; the Ehn consists of eighty Ihn, or seconds. |
4 |
| 2 | 159 |
For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ... |
4 |
| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
4 |
| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
4 |
| 2 | 306 |
This might occur for aesthetic reasons, as, for example, if her measurements, which are generally carefully kept, should minutely depart from her master's conception of her ideal curvatures; sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends, totally, for her very life; sometimes as a training or... |
4 |
| 11 | 92 |
Then, after the stars would be high for an Ahn or so, he would, suddenly, laughing, seize the girl by the arms and throw her on her back on the mats, thrust up her dress and rape her as the mere slave she was. |
4 |
| 1 | 298 |
Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must ... |
4 |
| 4 | 444 |
One of the kinsmen of Farouk went to the kurdahs of slave girls, hobble chains at his saddle pommel; he would rein in before a kurdah, throw the girl the hobble and order her, "Shackle yourself"; he would wait the moment it took for the girl to snap the small ring about her right wrist and, behind h... |
4 |
| 9 | 126 |
When free women and slave girls are chained together, it is common to respect the distinction between them by chaining them somewhat differently; in this case the free girl's hands were braceleted before her body, the slave's were fastened below her right leg; it is common for the slave to be placed... |
4 |
| 3 | 86 |
There are twenty hours, or Ahn, in the Gorean day. |
4 |
| 4 | 397 |
We would stop in an Ahn or two for camp. |
4 |
| 5 | 77 |
She had applied herself eagerly, for several Ahn a day. |
4 |
| 7 | 386 |
She was interrogated for Ahn, all through the night. |
4 |
| 7 | 439 |
In an Ahn she begged to tell us all, and did". |
4 |
| 7 | 627 |
I was thus not surprised when, an Ahn later, that same moonlight night, before I was to be taken to Klima in the morning, two men, hooded, cloaked, furtive, appeared in the hall outside the cell door. |
4 |
| 7 | 674 |
I had a special reason for wishing to delay my escape some quarter of an Ahn. |
4 |
| 7 | 731 |
If it had been drugged with a quick-acting agent, the quarter of an Ahn I had purchased, delaying my escape, in demanding that the collar be removed, rather than the links broken, would have given the drug time to be evident in the behavior of the beast. |
4 |
| 7 | 733 |
Ibn Saran would not have cared to risk giving me an Ahn's start on a fast kaiila. |
4 |
| 10 | 113 |
One begins approximately an Ahn before the time of arrival. |
4 |
| 10 | 202 |
It was two Ahn before dawn. |
4 |
| 11 | 61 |
Within an Ahn after the cessation of the rain, the sun again paramount, merciless, in the now-cloudless sky, the footing was sufficiently firm, the water lost under the dust and sand, to support the footing of kaiila. |
4 |
| 11 | 72 |
In less than four Ahn, twittering, fluttering, small, tawny, sharp-billed, following the black clouds, came flights of zadits. |
4 |
| 13 | 159 |
You were little more than twenty Ahn in her keeping". |
4 |
| 14 | 36 |
An Ahn before dawn I had been aroused. |
4 |
| 14 | 144 |
* * * * An Ahn before dawn I had been aroused. |
4 |
| 14 | 188 |
He cannot see to escape; he can not see to attack; he cannot be sure, usually, even of the number and position of his captors, whether they face him, or are attentive, or such; sometimes a hooded prisoner, even unbound, is told simply to kneel, and that if he moves, he will be slain; some captors, t... |
4 |
| 14 | 419 |
Time seemed measured in steps, the blows of the whip, the slow turning of the sun, over the Ahn, from one shoulder through the heat to the other. |
4 |
| 16 | 128 |
For more than a quarter of an Ahn we did nothing. |
4 |
| 16 | 197 |
More than a quarter of an Ahn passed. |
4 |
| 16 | 203 |
We drifted for more than an Ahn in silence, in the darkness. |
4 |
| 16 | 263 |
An Ahn later he found the man. |
4 |
| 17 | 193 |
We did not see him for more than a quarter of an Ahn. |
4 |
| 19 | 122 |
Two Ahn earlier the sun's rim had thrust over the horizon, illuminating the crests of the thinning dunes. |
4 |
| 19 | 123 |
An Ahn earlier Hassan had said, "It is now time to dig the shelter trench". |
4 |
| 21 | 23 |
He would, in an Ahn, awaken me, and point to the sun. |
4 |
| 21 | 38 |
An Ahn later, nostrils distended, head to the ground, he became excited. |
4 |
| 21 | 44 |
I realized, several Ahn later, that he was following an animal trail, the odors of which my senses were not keen enough to detect. |
4 |
| 21 | 265 |
In an Ahn he tried to rise, but could not. |
4 |
| 21 | 362 |
I waited, for more than a quarter of an Ahn. |
4 |
| 24 | 577 |
We then heard the beginning of the sounding of the house bar, tolling the Ahn. |
4 |
| 24 | 579 |
"It is the twentieth Ahn. |
4 |
| 24 | 606 |
It was, accordingly, the twentieth Ahn. |
4 |
| 26 | 487 |
It was perhaps two Ahn later, our deliberations then concluded, that I recalled her. |
4 |
| 26 | 510 |
It is not pleasant to hold the whip between your teeth for Ahn, awaiting the master's pleasure. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 446 |
He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,... |
4 |
| 4 | 189 |
It gave me pleasure to assume this posture before my master, who had full body rights to me; it gave me less pleasure, in the beginning, to assume it before free men generally; yet, eventually, I did it naturally, and pleasurably; it is a position that not only makes the girl more attractive to the ... |
4 |
| 20 | 1 |
A Slave Girl's Revenge I walked in the morning, an Ahn before noon, on the wharves of Telnus. |
4 |
| 3 | 602 |
Then, overwhelmingly, irresistibly, like a cry of anguish, it welled up within me; I could no longer ignore, suppress or repudiate it; no longer could I, like a foolish girl of Earth, deny and flee my reality; the comprehension, insistent and explosive, overpoweringly, erupted within me; I was naked... |
4 |
| 4 | 23 |
A girl who has not been owned perhaps cannot grasp the feelings of one who is owned, truly owned; but perhaps such a girl, even if only dimly, can sense the joy of the slave girl. |
4 |
| 4 | 35 |
Even lipstick and eye shadow, which a girl may wash off and reapply, a girl wishes to be perfect; how much more so then the brand, which is always worn! The girl wishes a brand of which she can be proud. |
4 |
| 4 | 506 |
Anger in a slave girl is futile, meaningless, though sometimes masters encourage it in their girls, to see them flush and assume an interesting demeanor, but it is in the end always insignificant for, in the end, as both the girl and master know, it is the master and not the girl who holds the whip. |
4 |
| 4 | 608 |
He had ravished me, and now I must serve him, and as a naked slave girl! Did he not know I was from Earth? Had he not been told? Did he think I was a Gorean girl? Did he think such things were right for me? Had he no concern for my feelings? But he saw me doubtless as no more than a girl with a mark... |
4 |
| 4 | 821 |
Could there be a true escape, on a world such as this, for a branded girl? Would that mark not continue to say, to anyone, and all, softly, persistently, each instant, each moment, every hour of the day and night, when anyone might care to glance upon it, "Here is a slave"? Could there be an escape,... |
4 |
| 7 | 945 |
Perhaps this was only a slave girl's alertness to the master, an alertness natural enough in a girl who is owned by a man, whose well-being and very life may depend on how well she pleases him; I do not know; that is an alertness which any rational girl strives to cultivate; but I wondered if it mig... |
4 |
| 9 | 804 |
I did not know what he would want! Would he want a quiet, timid girl, one to throw to his feet and abuse? Would he want a lascivious wench, begging to reach him with her tongue? Would he want an angry, defiant girl, to be brought to her knees in docility and surrender? Or would he want, perhaps, a c... |
4 |
| 13 | 392 |
And I knew that I was not being sold merely as a beautiful girl, for such a girl might have gone for twenty-one tarsks, but as something more, as a beautiful slave girl. |
4 |
| 7 | 935 |
For more than an Ahn I lay quiet in the furs. |
4 |
| 10 | 148 |
In an Ahn we had come to the great gate. |
4 |
| 12 | 51 |
I think few of us did on the average more than two or three Ahn of light labors on a normal day. |
4 |
| 12 | 92 |
We are slaves—and we are to be full and perfect slaves every Ahn of the day, every day of the week, wherever we are, and certainly not only when we are under the eye of our own master or his agents. |
4 |
| 14 | 440 |
There were fewer now in the tavern, and in another Ahn or two we would close the doors. |
4 |
| 16 | 31 |
Their virginity usually does not last more than an Ahn beyond their first sale. |
4 |
| 16 | 145 |
"You each," he said, "in your turn, will have half an Ahn on the deck". |
4 |
| 16 | 167 |
Then each of us, for the remainder of our time on deck, the precious half of an Ahn, was chained in a kneeling position, our hands before our bodies. |
4 |
| 22 | 507 |
Then we felt the ship, perhaps half of an Ahn later, suddenly veer to one side. |
4 |
| 22 | 512 |
About a quarter of an Ahn later, suddenly, we heard the screaming of men and, not more than three or four Ihn afterwards, to our horror, the wall of the hull, opening into the hold, with a wrenching sound of rupturing wood, suddenly burst inward, toward us. |
4 |
| 28 | 60 |
It would take some five or six Ahn to sell us, if the bidding was brisk. |
4 |
| 28 | 61 |
On a slow night it could take as much as eight Ahn, the sales extending into the early morning hours. |
4 |
| 28 | 150 |
Often the seats are not entirely filled until the second Ahn of the sale. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 121 |
There was a movement among some of the younger players to divide the sand in such a way that each player would have one Ahn for the first twenty moves, and one Ahn for the second twenty moves, subject to the same forfeiture conditions as the two-Ahn clock. |
4 |
| 3 | 1095 |
He looked from one girl to the other, to the stripped, chained blonde, to the cowering dark-haired girl, her neck cut by the collar, from its movement, to the third girl, sobbing and looking up at him, to the fourth girl, lying on her side, her legs drawn up, crying. |
4 |
| 3 | 841 |
The blond girl gasped and shrank back when the slaver's man, joining the girl on the platform, jerked loose the cord at her right hip and, with two hands, standing behind the girl, held back the tunic, well displaying her to the gaze of the inquirers. |
4 |
| 3 | 901 |
"Wicked girl! Wicked girl!" cried the girl on the end. |
4 |
| 10 | 145 |
We were served gruel, mixed with thick chunks of boiled tabuk, by the blonde, she who had once been Barbara Benson, now Thimble, and the dark-haired girl, who had once been the rich girl, Audrey Brewster, now the slave girl, Thistle. |
4 |
| 38 | 44 |
It was a double coffle line; the last girl is placed on it first; the double line is knotted about her neck and then the two strands are taken forward; the fifth girl was next neck-knotted into the line and the two strands taken forward again, and so on; when the first girl is put in the coffle, the... |
4 |
| 1 | 153 |
In a quarter of an Ahn her beauty squirmed helplessly; my arms bled from her fingernails; her eyes were wild and piteous. |
4 |
| 2 | 655 |
Also, some winter under the ice, remaining generally dormant, rising every quarter of an Ahn or so to breathe. |
4 |
| 3 | 451 |
"Finish it," I said, "and then, for an Ahn, lie on your belly". |
4 |
| 3 | 695 |
A slaver's man, pounding on a bar with a metal rod, called that the sales in the pavilion would begin within the Ahn. |
4 |
| 4 | 118 |
There are two Ahn of sand in each player's clock. |
4 |
| 4 | 122 |
The point of this, I was told, would be to improve Kaissa in the second Ahn. |
4 |
| 4 | 123 |
It was true that many times even masters found themselves in time pressure in the second Ahn, having perhaps only a few Ehn sand left for eight or ten moves. |
4 |
| 4 | 127 |
He is thought by many better able to govern his own play when there is only a single time pressure to be considered, that of the full two Ahn. |
4 |
| 6 | 20 |
Usually this can be done within the Ahn. |
4 |
| 7 | 92 |
In less than a quarter of an Ahn we had come to the tavern of Sarpedon. |
4 |
| 9 | 45 |
"It seems," said he to me, "that you will live, if only for an Ahn longer". |
4 |
| 10 | 15 |
"In a quarter of an Ahn," he said, "I had her screaming herself mine". |
4 |
| 11 | 74 |
"I hope, for your sake, Sorgus," I called, "that they return within the Ahn". |
4 |
| 11 | 81 |
"You and your men may depart in peace now," I said, "or die within the Ahn". |
4 |
| 11 | 160 |
You shall be relieved in two Ahn". |
4 |
| 13 | 39 |
We had been on our bellies for more than an Ahn trying to approach the animals. |
4 |
| 15 | 723 |
Her degree of heat, in such a situation would also be listed, of course, among her other properties, on her sales sheet, posted in the vicinity of the exhibition cages, available twenty Ahn before her sale. |
4 |
| 15 | 778 |
At the very least she will beg to serve a master within the very Ahn, either a buyer or one of the slaver's men, to achieve closure on the arousal which has been inflicted upon her". |
4 |
| 24 | 246 |
I do not know how long we slept, but it was perhaps no more than two or three Ahn. |
4 |
| 26 | 352 |
In less than an Ahn Imnak, to my amazement, left the half-constructed shelter, and, walking among gorged sleen, and feeding sleen, and dead sleen, went to the drift and began to carry blocks back to the shelter. |
4 |
| 27 | 76 |
It died an Ahn later, while still following us. |
4 |
| 27 | 115 |
Later, some Ahn later, Arlene lay within my arms. |
4 |
| 28 | 169 |
I think it is well over an Ahn". |
4 |
| 34 | 5 |
The complex was more than an Ahn behind us. |
4 |
| 34 | 54 |
Half of an Ahn later, weary, my legs heavy, my back sore, I turned once more to see the beast. |
4 |
| 34 | 199 |
At last, on the return to the complex, some four Ahn later, it died. |
4 |
| 35 | 98 |
It took more than a quarter of an Ahn to descend the shaft. |
4 |
| 35 | 399 |
And yet, nude, or in their silks, would they last more than an Ahn outside in the polar night? There were probably many such girls in the complex, now helplessly chained, beautiful, secured slaves. |
4 |
| 35 | 1304 |
"Three Kur Ahn," he said. |
4 |
| 35 | 1308 |
'That is a little more than five Gorean Ahn," I said. |
4 |
| 35 | 1315 |
"But I would advise you to be better than a Kur Ahn afoot away before the time of destruction," he said. |
4 |
| 36 | 2 |
In two Ahn we were ready to withdraw from the complex. |
4 |
| 36 | 262 |
"In two Ahn this place will be no more". |
4 |
| 37 | 14 |
We then saw, I, and the others, and the People, on the pack ice more than an Ahn's trek from the complex, a blast of light which, in the darkness of the polar night, made us cry out with pain, half blinded. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 386 |
The swing bridges are normally fastened back, except from the eighth to the tenth Ahn and from the fifteenth to the seventeenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 14 | 371 |
It was now the sixteenth Ahn, several Ahn after I had taken the slave's virginity. |
4 |
| 23 | 169 |
It was about an Ahn after the late evening rain, somewhere about the twentieth Ahn. |
4 |
| 6 | 502 |
Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris... |
4 |
| 57 | 134 |
It had not taken the original fetch-and-carry girl more than an Ahn at the oar, incidentally, before she, too, had begged to be relieved of its pain, that she might be taught lighter duties, even those involving perfumes and silks, more fitting, more suitable, to the bodies and dispositions of femal... |
4 |
| 3 | 91 |
"When I want a slave girl," I said, "I will have a real slave girl, not a free woman pretending to be a slave girl". |
4 |
| 32 | 856 |
On the occasion of that feast it was my intention to teach the girl who she was, truly, to free at long last the hidden slave which was her secret self, her true self, that girl which, hitherto, had been permitted to emerge only in the disguise of clandestine dreams, that piteous girl, denied and su... |
4 |
| 33 | 51 |
"Do you truly think that Bila Huruma," I asked, "who owns or is companion to perhaps hundreds of women would pursue you into the jungle at great risk to himself and his empire to get back one girl, a girl whom he doubtless realizes has by now been reduced to slavery, and has thus been rendered polit... |
4 |
| 4 | 2 |
"Over an Ahn," said a man. |
4 |
| 4 | 95 |
According to the tide tables the first tide would be full at six Ehn past the seventh Ahn. |
4 |
| 4 | 379 |
It would be less than an Ahn until the fullness of the tide. |
4 |
| 4 | 606 |
"In less than half an Ahn it will be full". |
4 |
| 4 | 658 |
"We have twenty Ahn". |
4 |
| 6 | 224 |
Last night, an Ahn after she had been put in her cage, I had once glanced upon her. |
4 |
| 6 | 306 |
A quarter of an Ahn later I held and kissed her, gently, letting her subside at her own rhythms. |
4 |
| 8 | 114 |
In another Ahn some musicians arrived. |
4 |
| 12 | 158 |
"Tomorrow evening, at the nineteenth Ahn, meet us in this place. |
4 |
| 14 | 724 |
It was now near the eighteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 15 | 3 |
"It is past the nineteenth Ahn," he said. |
4 |
| 15 | 35 |
"Keep her under the blanket for an Ahn after I have left," I had told Sasi. |
4 |
| 16 | 60 |
A message may be conveyed by means of drum stations for hundreds of pasangs in less than an Ahn. |
4 |
| 23 | 267 |
It must have been for the good part of an Ahn. |
4 |
| 24 | 5 |
More than an Ahn ago we had passed the point at which the prison raft, from which we had escaped, had been anchored. |
4 |
| 24 | 24 |
"It must be about the eighth Ahn," he said. |
4 |
| 24 | 44 |
It had rained heavily about the ninth Ahn, but we, drenched, had not ceased to push the raft toward the western shore of Ngao, somewhere ahead of us. |
4 |
| 24 | 225 |
We paddled on, not speaking, for a quarter of an Ahn. |
4 |
| 24 | 305 |
After a quarter of an Ahn Kisu laid aside his paddle. |
4 |
| 26 | 63 |
In half of an Ahn the island was on our left. |
4 |
| 27 | 30 |
It lay only an Ahn beyond the first island, one of several, we had encountered. |
4 |
| 29 | 114 |
It was some two Ahn before dawn. |
4 |
| 32 | 157 |
There are commonly two large rains during the day, one in the late afternoon and the other late in the evening, usually an Ahn or so before midnight, or the twentieth hour. |
4 |
| 32 | 158 |
These rains are often accompanied by violent winds, sometimes, I conjecture, ranging between one hundred and ten and one hundred and twenty pasangs an Ahn. |
4 |
| 33 | 153 |
If she is thought to have been sufficiently pleasing she may be auctioned, for the period of an Ahn, to the highest bidder. |
4 |
| 34 | 117 |
We had proceeded into the rain forest for better than two Ahn before we had come upon the tarsk. |
4 |
| 34 | 831 |
It was perhaps an Ahn before dawn. |
4 |
| 34 | 908 |
In a quarter of an Ahn she felt me move against her thigh. |
4 |
| 39 | 11 |
There is often a night rain in the jungle, usually occurring before the twentieth Ahn. |
4 |
| 43 | 135 |
In less than a quarter of an Ahn we had considerably lengthened our lead on our pursuers. |
4 |
| 43 | 138 |
In half an Ahn the canoes of the pursuers had fallen far back. |
4 |
| 48 | 354 |
Then, in an Ahn or so, we would put our hands upon them and, holding them by the hair and the braceleted wrists, thrust them half over the side, immersing their heads and torsos in the river, that they might be awakened. |
4 |
| 49 | 6 |
An Ahn later we could still hear the drums, both behind us and before us. |
4 |
| 49 | 63 |
Within the next Ahn we passed more than sixty bodies, dangling at the side of the river. |
4 |
| 49 | 111 |
Finally, after a half of an Ahn, the last of the canoes had disappeared down the river. |
4 |
| 57 | 127 |
Before the first Ahn was out many were sweating and moaning with pain, begging that they might be released, to be taught the more typical, softer labors of the female slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 869 |
Usually after only five Ahn in close chains a girl is ready to serve delightfully and willingly. |
4 |
| 7 | 856 |
Then, after perhaps an Ahn, I heard her moan, and saw her twist under the blanket. |
4 |
| 10 | 31 |
I lay there, alone, miserable, I conjecture, for some Ahn. |
4 |
| 13 | 800 |
When she returned to the house of her master I had little doubt but what she would kneel to the nearest keeper and beg to be used, perhaps to be given for an Ahn, hooded, to the male slave of his choice. |
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| 13 | 827 |
Do you not know I have been finished shopping for a quarter of an Ahn!" "No, Mistress," I said. |
4 |
| 13 | 961 |
"We will leave the city within the Ahn," she said, "by the great gate". |
4 |
| 16 | 65 |
"At the fifteenth Ahn," she said, timidly. |
4 |
| 16 | 66 |
"It is now the fourteenth Ahn," he said, casting a meaningful glance at the water clock on the counter to his right. |
4 |
| 16 | 70 |
"Return at the fifteenth Ahn, and not before," he said. |
4 |
| 16 | 80 |
"Will the perfume of the Lady Kita be ready at the fifteenth Ahn?" Turbus called back to someone in the shop. |
4 |
| 16 | 169 |
It was five Ehn to the fifteen Ahn. |
4 |
| 16 | 170 |
The Gorean noon is the tenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 16 | 206 |
It was now shortly after the fifteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 16 | 235 |
"You could risk slavery," he said, "expose yourself to possible capture, walk the high bridges at lonely Ahn, picnic in the country, go to paga taverns alone, take dangerous sea voyages". |
4 |
| 19 | 100 |
The bar for the tenth Ahn, the Gorean noon, had already been struck. |
4 |
| 21 | 117 |
"We are going to chain them, with the exception of Taphris, by the fifteenth Ahn today," Barus had told me. |
4 |
| 21 | 137 |
Barus, after the ringing of the bar for the fourteenth Ahn, had looked occasionally out the window, judging the position of the sun. |
4 |
| 21 | 269 |
Barus, after the ringing of the bar for the fourteenth Ahn, had looked occasionally out the window, judging the position of the sun. |
4 |
| 21 | 274 |
It had then been shortly before the fifteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 21 | 306 |
They would be in the kennels well before the fifteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 21 | 354 |
On the way to the incubation shed, I heard the ringing of the bar which signified the arrival of the fifteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 23 | 92 |
"Tomorrow," said he, "meet her in the tunnel, near the junction between the central tunnel and the side tunnel to Storage Shed Four, at the fifteenth Ahn". |
4 |
| 23 | 98 |
It was near the fifteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 24 | 2 |
"Go to the tunnel at the fifteenth Ahn," had said Kenneth. |
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| 24 | 10 |
"May I ask, Master," I inquired, "as to why I am to go to the tunnel at the fifteenth Ahn?" "Because you are told to do so," he said. |
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| 24 | 22 |
I thought it must now be the fifteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 24 | 106 |
"You are then mine, for an Ahn or two," I said. |
4 |
| 24 | 143 |
"I am then, for an Ahn or two, your master," I said. |
4 |
| 25 | 280 |
* * * * We had been some two Ahn upon the road, returning to the lands of the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 27 | 42 |
We had remained hidden in the sand for several Ahn, and probably long after the brigands had departed. |
4 |
| 27 | 43 |
About the seventeenth Ahn I had eased myself from the sand and reconnoitered. |
4 |
| 27 | 186 |
"I think it must be about the second Ahn," I said. |
4 |
| 28 | 78 |
Though I did not think the guardsmen would arrive for several Ahn, even if they arrived today, I did not wish to risk encountering them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 7 |
It was the eighteenth Ahn, two Ahn before the twentieth Ahn, the Gorean midnight, when we would hold our secret meeting in the back room of Tasdron's tavern. |
4 |
| 27 | 1 |
What Occurred on the Wharves, Shortly before Midnight It was now the nineteenth Ahn, an Ahn before the twentieth Ahn, the Gorean midnight. |
4 |
| 31 | 53 |
One girl, more than any others, appeared in my own dreams, she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, though she now appeared generally in my dreams not as the lovely, free Earth girl, Miss Henderson, but, under a variety of names, as a Gorean slave girl. |
4 |
| 6 | 176 |
"We leave within the Ahn," he said. |
4 |
| 7 | 47 |
I had come to the town an Ahn ago. |
4 |
| 11 | 443 |
"In the past Ahn," she said, "you commanded me as casually and thoughtlessly as you might have any Gorean slut in a collar. |
4 |
| 13 | 1 |
The Topaz I returned to the house near the fifth Ahn. |
4 |
| 15 | 188 |
"An Ahn or two, I expect," I said. |
4 |
| 20 | 13 |
Then, after two Ahn of searching, I had found her here, near the wharves, unattended, in the tavern of Hibron, a miserable tavern, a low place, called the Pirate's Chain. |
4 |
| 21 | 242 |
"It is not yet even the Twentieth Ahn, Master," she said. |
4 |
| 23 | 386 |
"I will have her sent to your chambers within the Ahn". |
4 |
| 25 | 51 |
He will come to this place at the twentieth Ahn". |
4 |
| 26 | 9 |
I intended to walk until the twentieth Ahn. |
4 |
| 28 | 1 |
Two Captains Come to the Tavern of Tasdron; We Prevent Bloodshed "It is the second Ahn," said Callimachus. |
4 |
| 28 | 14 |
If he wished information as to its location he was to come to the tavern this night at the twentieth Ahn". |
4 |
| 28 | 15 |
"You yourself," said Tasdron, "did not return until the first Ahn". |
4 |
| 28 | 16 |
"I did not even find Aemilianus," she said, "until near the twentieth Ahn". |
4 |
| 28 | 75 |
They should have been here more than an Ahn ago". |
4 |
| 29 | 18 |
It was now near the twentieth Ahn, the Gorean midnight. |
4 |
| 29 | 178 |
"You would ask some forty men to stand against them, holding the sea gate for perhaps two Ahn?" "Surely," said Callisthenes. |
4 |
| 31 | 119 |
Then, yesterday, the gate had been open for some four Ahn. |
4 |
| 31 | 147 |
Yesterday the gate had been open for some four Ahn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 546 |
"Please, Mistress," begged the girl whom I had just enjoyed, scrambling to her knees and putting her head to the feet of the other girl, "do not yet untie my leash!" "It is well past the nineteenth Ahn," said the girl who was apparently the new girl's slave supervisor and trainer. |
4 |
| 17 | 207 |
"We have been out for Ahn," said the girl with the leash, "and we have passed many masters, not one of whom would deign to have her". |
4 |
| 19 | 136 |
The same girl who, fed by hand, is lengthily ravished over a period of Ahn, or even of a day or two, may, at another time, be merely told to stretch herself over a table. |
4 |
| 17 | 9 |
Sometimes a new girl is sent into the streets on a leash, with an older girl, that she may learn how a Coin Girl behaves. |
4 |
| 17 | 233 |
I went to deposit the coin in the coin box on the kneeling girl's neck chain, but the hand of the other girl, she who held the kneeling girl's leash, interposed itself. |
4 |
| 19 | 929 |
Woe to the Earth-girl slave who finds herself in a situation, perhaps in a pleasure garden or tavern, or laundry or mill, in which a Gorean slave girl is "first girl" over her. |
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| 20 | 1896 |
"You took me in the Street of the Writhing Slave as a Coin Girl, a mere rent girl, a street girl, a gutter wench, and you have taken me, I a helpless slave, I not knowing you, in the guise of my unknown Gorean master, but this will be the first time that you have had me, so to speak, in your own nam... |
4 |
| 1 | 64 |
The fog now, in the eighth Ahn, had muchly dissipated. |
4 |
| 1 | 173 |
It was near the tenth Ahn, the Gorean noon. |
4 |
| 2 | 95 |
The longboat had been put down across the chain, the Tina abeam of it, a quarter of an Ahn ago. |
4 |
| 2 | 132 |
"They must have been working here about a quarter of an Ahn," I said. |
4 |
| 4 | 57 |
In an Ahn your floating fortress of wood could be a wreckage, awash, of timbers and chains". |
4 |
| 11 | 127 |
Close chains, even after only two or three Ahn, build up a considerable amount of body pain. |
4 |
| 14 | 17 |
Only recently, I gathered, surely only within a few Ahn, had the Voskjard become apprised of the fate of so many of his ships. |
4 |
| 17 | 4 |
The girls of the day, designated by a coiled whip pressed against their left shoulder, wearing their neck chains, with the attached bell and coin box, are sent into the streets in the late afternoon and expected to return before the nineteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 17 | 18 |
Such girls, now, as it was late, past the nineteenth Ahn, would surely, at least for the most part, be chained in their basement kennels, lying on their straw mats, trying to sleep, clutching their thin blankets about their nude bodies. |
4 |
| 17 | 220 |
"It is past the nineteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 17 | 617 |
* * * * It was an Ahn later. |
4 |
| 18 | 576 |
Ahn passed. |
4 |
| 18 | 777 |
Lola would follow, in an Ahn. |
4 |
| 20 | 54 |
Only when she has sufficiently pleased a man is she permitted to crawl from the dancing circle to the cushions of her master for the Ahn. |
4 |
| 20 | 116 |
Two of the men at the table had been signatories to the treaty of the Vosk League, solemnly signed under festive canopies on the wharves of Victoria yesterday at the tenth Ahn, Glyco, who had signed on behalf of Port Cos, and Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria, who had signed on behalf of Victoria. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 15 |
A given girl, then, by thongs on her collar, is tied to the left ankle of the girl on her left, and to the right ankle of the girl on her right; similarly, the girl on her left is thonged, by thongs passing about her collar, to the given girl's left ankle, and the girl on the given girl's right is t... |
4 |
| 8 | 25 |
"Side-block girl," in the argot of the slave girl, like "pot girl" and "kettle-and-mat girl," is a term of disparagement. |
4 |
| 8 | 147 |
"A fair-skinned, red-haired barbarian beauty," called the auctioneer, "highly intelligent, exquisitely refined and of delicate sensibilities, a woman on her own world doubtless of class and station—but on this world, our world of Gor, only a meaningless piece of slave meat, a girl who will le... |
4 |
| 2 | 200 |
One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no... |
4 |
| 11 | 236 |
"Is the slave girl also, any slave girl," asked the red-haired girl, looking about meaningfully at her chain sisters, "at the sexual mercy of her master?" "Absolutely, and fully, and in every way," said Ginger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 52 |
It is tiring, Ahn in and Ahn out, standing, chained, by the loom, operating it. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 72 |
One girl was beaten fearfully for that, only an Ahn ago". |
4 |
| 6 | 104 |
In a little longer while, of course, neither sort of girl, the Gorean girl or the Earth girl now sensitive to the subtler implications of facial exposure, thinks anything more about it, or at least not normally. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 51 |
"An Ahn, perhaps two Ahn ago," he said. |
4 |
| 28 | 23 |
"The other girl had a name, or thought she did," she said, "the false girl, that assumed identity, she who the disguised, hiding slave was pretending to be, but that name was taken from her, stripped away like her clothing, leaving behind only the real girl, the depth woman, the basic animal, the sl... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 722 |
Too, it can be dangerous for the girl, as she is usually under the obligation, at least by the seventh Ahn, if he has not penetrated to the heart of the matter by then, which is usually the case, to inform the use master of her master's jest, which intelligence he might or might not appreciate. |
4 |
| 6 | 65 |
The extension on the neck chain of the first girl, who was also hooded, serves as a leash for her, guiding her, and her chain guides the second girl, and the second girl's guides the third, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 29 |
I recalled that he had told me that although the use of an inn girl would cost me, in these times, three copper tarsks for only a quarter of an Ahn, I might have the free woman working in the paga room for an Ahn for only a tarsk bit. |
4 |
| 6 | 46 |
I blamed the keeper as much as anything, three copper tarsks for a girl, for a quarter of an Ahn, was outrageous. |
4 |
| 6 | 198 |
"The price for an inn girl here," I said, "is three copper tarsks for the quarter of an Ahn". |
4 |
| 18 | 533 |
Accordingly, though I might put a girl into thumb cuffs for an Ahn or so, perhaps early in her training, perhaps in the process of informing her as to the nature of various bonds, their textures, and such, I generally do not use them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 293 |
The swelling from such stings usually appears almost immediately, and peaks within an Ahn, and then subsides in anywhere from a few Ahn to two or three days. |
4 |
| 19 | 617 |
These marks, in an Ahn or two, or a few Ahn, would disappear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 353 |
In these cities, there are ten Ahn in the day, and ten Ahn in the night, and, as the days are longer in the summer and shorter in the winter, so, too, are the Ahn. |
4 |
| 24 | 43 |
Accordingly the master, and presumably two magistrates, who would act as official witnesses and be officers versed in certain matters, would wish to arrive early, presumably about half past the sixth Ahn, or, at any rate, at a decent interval before the seventh Ahn. |
4 |
| 25 | 349 |
The fifth Ahn marks the midpoint of the morning, betwixt the Gorean midnight and noon, as the fifteenth Ahn marks the midpoint of the evening, between noon and midnight. |
4 |
| 25 | 355 |
The day as a whole, of course, including both day Ahn and night Ahn, comes out to the same overall length as it would in one of the high cities. |
4 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 175 |
It was not necessary for one such as I, I thought then, to be leashed, perhaps for a free woman, or a new girl, or a naive girl, or an ignorant girl, but not for one such as I, who had some understanding of the world on which she found herself, and what she was upon it. |
4 |
| 10 | 609 |
Was a leash necessary? Surely not! But what manner of place was this? What was I to see? This leashing was surely not for purposes of display, not here, not now, but now, I understood, of girl management, of girl control! Or perhaps girl instruction! I knew a female could learn much on a leash. |
4 |
| 11 | 574 |
In other cases, it seems clear that wearing an Earth-girl name, whether one which was once her own, now put on her as a slave name, or another Earth-girl name, now also, of course, only a slave name, can have similar effects on a girl from my world, she now recognizing herself as, and being, in effe... |
4 |
| 19 | 766 |
"I am only a chained girl! I am only a chained girl! Now, please, please give me even a part of one of your apricots!" "Why should we give anything so precious to one who is only a chained girl?" inquired one of the slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1127 |
"Two Ahn, two and a half Ahn, something like that," said Portus Canio. |
4 |
| 19 | 702 |
How kind he is to a lowly barbarian, a mere Earth-girl slave! After an Ahn or so, she went again to her knees, holding the blanket clasped about her, and reached out for, and picked up, the small, round, flat loaf of bread which lay on the wicker flooring with the tiny bota. |
4 |
| 27 | 3377 |
Three or four Ahn of intermixed waitings, feedings, quiescences, touchings, strugglings, caressings, and such, are likely to be informative, even to a new girl, of the nature of her condition and various of its aspects. |
4 |
| 16 | 982 |
Remember you are a slave girl, precisely a slave girl, and only a slave girl". |
4 |
| 20 | 940 |
Indeed, she had been obviously taken in the streets of Ar as merely another lovely, briefly tunicked Gorean slave girl, as no more than another Gorean slave girl, and then she thought, this thought muchly pleasing her, that there was nothing unfitting or surprising about that, for that was what she ... |
4 |
| 22 | 347 |
So why could I not compete with a Gorean woman, even with a Gorean slave girl? Am I not now, too, Gorean; and am I not now, too, no more than a slave girl, and a Gorean slave girl? How vain I am, she thought. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | 152 |
It is said that some can take a pot girl, a kettle-and-mat girl, a mill girl, a laundress, or such, and return a needful dream of a pleasure slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 7 |
Toward the tenth Ahn, the Gorean noon, after we had emerged from the Alexandra earlier, in the morning, some three days ago, at, say, the fifth Ahn, the ship had changed course, radically. |
4 |
| 23 | 193 |
This lesson a girl can learn in a single night, perhaps even within an Ahn or two of her purchase. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 53 |
The first watch begins with the commencement of the day's first Ahn, the second with the sixth Ahn, the third with the eleventh Ahn, and the fourth with the sixteenth Ahn. |
4 |
| 21 | 332 |
Can she endure this shame, this humiliation, this uncertainty, being the one who does not know, while others look upon her, and perhaps remember, and know? Is not a paga girl, in an alcove, serving her master of the Ahn, more fortunate? She is likely to be well aware of who it is who is putting her ... |
4 |
| 34 | 232 |
I had spoken to her for many Ahn, telling her of Gor, for what is a paga girl likely to learn of Gor, serving paga, serving pleasure, in an alcove? And she, in her turn, often nude at the slave ring, or before me, stripped, kneeling, hands braceleted behind her, had told me much of her world. |
4 |
| 37 | 1357 |
"If he found me of slave interest," she said, "why was it that he never snapped his fingers, summoning me to his table, why did he not bind me, and thrust me before him to an alcove?" "I did not want you thusly," I said, "a girl for a coin, to be relinquished after some Ehn or an Ahn, or so, to be c... |
4 |
| 8 | 274 |
"Well, perhaps," I said, "as much as yours would be beyond that of a typical copper-tarsk girl, a pot girl, a kettle-and-mat girl". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 34 |
When I thought of Gorean time, as it might be measured by a chronometer, I always thought of it analogously to the chronometers of my former world; thus, in my mind I would think of the Fifth Ahn as to the right of the Twentieth Ahn, rather than, as you would think of it, as to the left of the Twent... |
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| 44 | 85 |
Perhaps you might leave the Cave a few Ehn before the Ninth Ahn and walk to the Sixth Ahn". |
4 |
| 44 | 100 |
"How can I walk for so many Ahn," I asked, "if I leave before the Ninth Ahn?" "You will only have to walk a little," he said, "only a few Ehn". |
4 |
| 45 | 21 |
Clearly, as he had told me to walk for only some Ehn, he had not meant that I should try to walk for several Ahn, until it was again the Sixth Ahn, almost a day later. |
4 |
| 52 | 235 |
"Can you imagine the torture," he said, "what it was to be with you, each day, day in and day out, Ahn by Ahn, so close, wanting to get my hands on you, wanting to seize you, and ravish you, again and again, to take your meaningless pettiness in hand, and make it cry out, and moan, and leap spasmodi... |
4 |
| 8 | 561 |
So what did it matter, if it were near the Tenth Ahn, noon? Was that, in some way, important? One girl, one of the brunettes, went to stand near the bars, sideways, fingering her hair. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 2 |
Although my burden was not heavy, it seemed to become so, as we trekked on, Ahn after Ahn. |
4 |
| 48 | 51 |
I had occasionally sensed I might have shared the forest with some unseen companion, like a shadow amongst the trees, but I had dismissed this apprehension as, Ahn after Ahn, even following investigations, I had detected nothing. |
4 |
| 27 | 10 |
I had heard there was no escape for the slave girl on this world, no escape for the Gorean slave girl, and I knew myself a Gorean slave girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 91 |
"I expect that the dragon, if urgency were involved, could manage the matter in less than two Ahn, perhaps in a single Ahn". |
4 |
| 30 | 406 |
What of slave shelves, public cages, sales racks, sales wagons, exhibition poles, and such? Is not any slave in a coffle or on a rope exhibited? What of leashed slaves on promenade? What of those chained to the throne of a Ubar? Is not any girl fastened to a public slave ring exhibited? What of the ... |
4 |
| 61 | 1145 |
She might, on the block, I thought, bring as much as two silver tarsks, sold, of course, as a girl, only as a girl, as nothing but a girl, not as an item of perhaps political interest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 456 |
"How is it," I asked, "that we depart the Slave Whip at the nineteenth Ahn and claim the object at the first Ahn? That is two Ahn, and surely more than is required to reach the house of Flavius Minor, be it at the southern piers". |
4 |
| 14 | 81 |
Toward the nineteenth Ahn, an Ahn before midnight, the free women withdrew to their waiting palanquins. |
4 |
| 29 | 125 |
"The 'object', as you called it," he said, "is to be received at the twentieth Ahn tomorrow, at the house of Flavius Minor, and is to be claimed precisely at the first Ahn". |
4 |
| 30 | 446 |
"The delivery, the package, the object, or such," I said, "is to be received at the twentieth Ahn, and is to be claimed at the first Ahn". |
4 |
| 53 | 97 |
In such a location, certainly at such an Ahn, the appearance of two small parties, each with its supposed guard beast, would not be likely to produce the same stir as would be likely to be the case, even at such an Ahn, on a better-known, more frequented bridge, such as the Cloud Bridge or the Bridg... |
4 |
| 32 | 124 |
But, surely, I thought, if my master can assume some guise, why not I? But why, I asked myself, that of a paga girl? Did my master so think of me? Did he think of me as no more than a paga girl, if that? Who could look at me, and think I was a mere paga girl? But then I realized that any master, eve... |
4 |
| 7 | 285 |
"Yes," he said, "a slave, a pot girl, a kettle-and-mat girl, perhaps not even a kettle-and-mat girl. |
4 |
| 19 | 139 |
And what then of me, poor thing that I might be, assessed as a copper-tarsk girl, a pot girl, a kettle-and-mat girl? What had I to hope for, on this beautiful, perilous world? How subject we are to our masters! The whip is theirs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 21 |
But I was not an Ahn girl, and the Golden Chain did not supply Ahn girls. |
4 |
| 35 | 22 |
An Ahn girl, usually a paga slave, is delivered to a given address for an Ahn or so, or even an evening, a morning, or a night, and is then, later, picked up and returned to her master, a tavern or such. |
4 |
| 46 | 650 |
An Ahn girl is one who may be taken from the tavern and used elsewhere, for an Ahn, or more, or even overnight, or longer. |
4 |
| 20 | 104 |
The Twelfth Ahn is two Ahn past the Gorean noon. |
4 |
| 30 | 31 |
"Things can change from day to day, from Ahn to Ahn. |
4 |
| 20 | 96 |
Its contents were as follows: To the slave Zia, Paga Girl at the Golden Chain, Slave of Ho-Tosk, of Port Kar: You are herewith instructed to be on the Walkway of the Thieves' Way South, between the Scroll Shop of Brindlar, of Port Kar, and the paga tavern, the Whip and Chain, on this day, that of th... |
4 |
| 35 | 20 |
"She is an Ahn girl," I had heard cry, and more than once. |
4 |
| 46 | 649 |
"I am not an Ahn girl!" I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 46 |
Do you truly think that you, even now, in your present condition, could fight your way, outnumbered ten to one, to the beach, to join your fellows? If so, withdraw, consult with your high officers, and then, within the Ahn, charge bravely forth, and die, by the end of the same Ahn". |
4 |
| 37 | 228 |
If you finish before the Twentieth Ahn, you will each get an additional tarsk-bit, even though you did not finish before the Sixteenth Ahn". |
4 |