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| 5 | 82 |
"Women are seldom permitted to ride on the backs of tarns," she said. |
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It seemed we had little to fear, and we had passed several of the pasang stones that line the side of the highway without seeing anything more threatening than a line of peasants carrying brushwood on their backs, and a pair of hurrying Initiates. |
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As an act of charity, Initiates have arranged at various places Dar-Kosis Pits where the Afflicted may voluntarily imprison themselves, to be fed with food hurled downward from the backs of passing tarns. |
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| 13 | 67 |
Savagely, our backs breaking, stinging under the frenzied lashing of our driver, cursing the colorful sands of the arena that mounted before the block as we dragged it foot by foot about the course, we managed to come first within the zone of the golden wall. |
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| 18 | 112 |
Other slaves knelt beneath them, giving their backs that the two might rise higher. |
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| 26 | 51 |
They were herded, roped throat to throat, unveiled, wrists bound behind their backs, in long lines to the arena of the Amusements of Tharna. |
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| 1 | 79 |
It will be their sad lot to be stripped and fitted with the collars and chains of slave girls and forced to follow the wagons on foot to the fair, or if the caravan's tharlarions have been killed or driven off, they will carry its goods on their backs. |
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| 1 | 87 |
The girls were chained throat to throat, their wrists locked behind the small of their backs with slave bracelets, and they knelt in the customary position of Pleasure Slaves. |
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| 2 | 31 |
The blood vessels in their necks and legs and arms began to distend until I feared they might burst open through the tortured flesh; the agonized muscles of their straining knotted bodies, like swollen leather, seemed to fill with pain as if pain were a fluid; their flesh seemed to fuse with the woo... |
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| 20 | 8 |
Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta took up positions in front of me, but standing with their backs to me. |
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| 28 | 144 |
Some men from the Fungus Chambers carried on their backs great bags filled with choice spores, and others labored under the burdens of huge baskets of freshly reaped fungus, slung on poles between them; and those from the Pastures drove before them with long pointed goads huge, shambling gray arthro... |
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| 31 | 59 |
Their wrists were secured behind their backs by slave bracelets. |
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| 8 | 51 |
They did not, in fact, even cross the western Cartius, far from cities, which they often do, swimming the bosk and kaiila, floating the wagons, the men often crossing on the backs of the swimming bosk. |
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| 17 | 1 |
The Yellow Pool of Turia At the edge of the Yellow Pool of Turia Harold and I stood, now freed of the slave bar, but with wrists tied behind our backs. |
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| 19 | 33 |
And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia. |
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| 12 | 150 |
As they knelt the chain was over their calves, behind their backs. |
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| 19 | 216 |
Then, regally, in black cloaks, with hoods, three women, two girls and their leader, climbed the stairs to the block, backs straight, heads high, their features concealed in the folds of the hood. |
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| 6 | 199 |
Their wrists had been bound behind their backs and ropes had been tied about their necks. |
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| 11 | 42 |
Crossbow bolts flashed through the chairs, splintering their backs and sides. |
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| 13 | 370 |
Then, foolishly, they began to lash away at the sweating backs of the slaves. |
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| 15 | 482 |
They had been beautiful, in silver throat coffle, their wrists bound behind their backs in golden slave bracelets, kneeling as pleasure slaves among the jewels, the piled gold, and the heaps of silk and kegs of spices. |
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| 16 | 332 |
Everywhere dark figures, bundles on their backs, were scurrying along the sides of the canals. |
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| 18 | 167 |
There, kneeling on the tiles, back to back, their wrists bound behind their backs, by the same leather, it passing through a slave ring, holding them in place, were two girls. |
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| 18 | 202 |
I kept, as well as I could, near the girls, that the backs of the men would be, in turn, kept toward the entryway. |
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| 18 | 246 |
Their wrists, though no longer tethered to the slave ring, were still fastened behind their backs. |
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| 3 | 26 |
Through the open door, I saw the backs of two men, in police uniforms. |
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| 3 | 234 |
Through the crack of the closing door I saw the backs of two men, in the uniforms of police. |
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| 6 | 212 |
Two, over their backs, had slung something like a bow, except that it had a handle, much like a rifle. |
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| 8 | 118 |
The water was wet and glistening on the backs of the two tharlarion drawing the barge. |
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| 8 | 170 |
The men seemed small on the backs of the great birds. |
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| 8 | 564 |
And her men I liked, in their rough cloaks and tunics, vital, supple, strong men, large-handed and laughing, men who worked with their hands and backs in the clean air and on the river. |
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| 8 | 923 |
Our hands were bound behind our backs with binding fiber. |
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| 9 | 345 |
One by one the other girls, too, violently, threw themselves to the grass, rolling upon it and moaning, some even within the precincts of the square, then throwing themselves upon their backs, some with their eyes closed, crying out, others with their eyes open, fixed helplessly on the wild moons, s... |
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| 11 | 523 |
"Place your hands behind your backs," recommended Ute. |
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| 11 | 668 |
Our hands were tied behind our backs. |
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| 12 | 147 |
How straight walked the huntsmen, how broad their backs, how straight their gaze and high their head, how large their hands, how keen their gaze! They were masters! They had made slaves even of men! What would a mere woman be in their hands? I detested them. |
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| 12 | 279 |
We now heard the snap of whips again, but this time the leather blades fell upon the naked backs of girls. |
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| 16 | 8 |
I could see, some dozens of yards away, the backs of tents. |
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| 16 | 245 |
Then Verna, with the light chain leash, lashed her suddenly, sharply, across the lovely, rounded backs of her calves. |
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| 17 | 36 |
Their wrists were bound behind their backs with snare rope. |
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| 17 | 202 |
Our ankles were bound together at the center of the basket; our wrists were bound behind our backs, to the wicker; our throats were independently secured, the knots outside, keeping us in place. |
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| 2 | 134 |
Their wrists had been lashed behind their backs. |
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| 2 | 639 |
The seaman unbound their wrists from behind their backs, and filled two trenchers, steaming now with bosk and vulo, which he thrust in their hands. |
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| 2 | 684 |
"Tie their ankles tightly," I said, "and their wrists, too, behind their backs". |
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| 8 | 22 |
It was to besiege the girls in their stockade, cutting them off from food and water, and merely wait until they, hungering and thirsting, following our orders, threw down their weapons, stripped themselves and emerged, backing toward us, their wrists crossed behind their backs, one by one, at interv... |
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| 10 | 1 |
Marlenus Will Hold Discourse with Me The girls' hands were tied behind their backs. |
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| 10 | 37 |
The girls of Verna, with the exception of Mira, their hands tied behind their backs, were now, by a long strip of binding fiber, being fastened together by the ankle. |
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| 10 | 147 |
They stood, their hands bound behind their backs, fastened together by the long length of binding fiber, knotted about the left ankle of each. |
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| 11 | 177 |
The backs of her hands faced us. |
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| 13 | 236 |
Then, with the binding fiber I had earlier removed, I fastened their wrists behind their backs. |
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| 13 | 264 |
I regarded the slave girls, standing in the sand, in coffle, their wrists behind their backs, bound. |
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| 13 | 362 |
The girls again stood, backs straight, heads high. |
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| 14 | 81 |
I had then put them again in throat coffle, as before, their wrists bound behind their backs. |
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| 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... |
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| 15 | 71 |
Then, with binding fiber from their own pouches, I tied their hands behind their backs. |
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| 15 | 121 |
Two other long lengths, similarly captured from fair prisoners, served to lash the crossed wrists of each, bound behind their backs, and their throats. |
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| 15 | 274 |
At the site of the old camp I had the red-haired girl order the panther girls to their backs. |
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| 15 | 287 |
I looked at the panther girls lying on their backs, at the site of the old camp. |
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| 15 | 306 |
I looked at the girls, lying on their backs. |
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| 15 | 328 |
Their backs were straight, their heads were high. |
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| 15 | 422 |
Many supplies had been tied on the backs and shoulders of the male slaves. |
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| 18 | 211 |
Their wrists, of course, were still secured, with Gorean perfection, behind their backs. |
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| 19 | 258 |
Hura, and the others, struggled to their feet, stripped, wrists secured behind their backs. |
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| 21 | 17 |
Their wrists were still locked behind their backs. |
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| 22 | 877 |
Their hands were tied behind their backs. |
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| 2 | 49 |
It had been he, and his men, who had freed Chenbar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, from a dungeon in Port Kar, breaking through to him, shattering his chains from the walls with the blunt, hammerlike backs of their great, curved, single-bladed axes. |
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| 2 | 199 |
Their backs were often bowed, their eyes vacant. |
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| 3 | 92 |
"Females," he cried out, gesturing with the great ax toward the wall opposite the doors, "swiftly! To the wall! Stand with your backs against it!" Terrified, weeping, the men groaning, the females fled to the wall. |
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| 3 | 93 |
I saw, standing there, terrified, their backs against it, the blond girl in the scarlet vest and skirt, her hair in the snood of scarlet yarn, tied with filaments of golden wire; and the large, statuesque girl, too, in black velvet, with the silver straps crossed over her breasts, and tied about her... |
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| 3 | 172 |
Now they removed this chain of bracelets, and, one by one, removed the pairs, closing them about the small wrists, behind their backs, of the female captives, now bondmaids. |
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| 5 | 16 |
He began, one by one, fettering their hands behind their backs. |
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| 5 | 229 |
The wrists of the bondmaids were fettered behind their backs; their ankles were tied; they wore the coffle rope of the north; and their mouths, with waddings of sleen fur, and strappings of leather, were tightly gagged. |
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| 9 | 429 |
I then began to caress her, beneath the shins, on the inside, of her feet, behind the backs of her knees, at the sides of her breasts, high between her thighs. |
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| 14 | 98 |
At our backs was the western wall of the hall. |
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| 15 | 149 |
They had slung their shields and axes on their backs. |
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| 18 | 471 |
Their hands were tied behind their backs. |
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| 18 | 543 |
The Forkbeard gestured to the several captive slave girls, loot from Thorgard's tent, kneeling, wrists bound behind their backs, in their brief, mired silk, in throat coffle, those girls Olga, light-heartedly, had secured for him. |
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| 22 | 55 |
Aelgifu, or Pudding, passed me, and then Gunnhild and Olga, bent under boxes carried on their backs. |
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| 1 | 416 |
It was brought from secret pits and mines, actually, deep in the interior, bound in heavy cylinders on the backs of pack kaiila. |
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| 2 | 434 |
Their wrists, manacled, were behind their backs. |
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| 7 | 207 |
You will follow me swiftly, forming yourselves in a line, backs against the near wall". |
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| 8 | 93 |
It is at the backs that goods are stored. |
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| 11 | 13 |
Once, when a rising edge of blackness, whipping with dust, had risen in the south, we had dismounted, hobbled our kaiila and turned their backs to the wind. |
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| 11 | 640 |
Against the wall, kneeling, stripped, bellies pressed tight against it, points of the scimitars against their backs, between their shoulder blades, chins high, against the wall, hands high over their heads, palms pressed tight against the wall, were four beautiful girls. |
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| 13 | 31 |
Ropes were put on our throat; our hands were tied behind our backs. |
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| 15 | 5 |
Similarly, the heavy cylinders of salt, mined and molded at Klima, are carried on the backs of salt slaves from storage areas at Klima to storage areas in the desert, whence they are tallied, sold and distributed to caravans. |
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| 19 | 139 |
It was only as it approached that I understood it to be hundreds of feet in height, perhaps a hundred pasangs in width; the sky above it was gray, then black like smoke; then I could watch it no longer, that I might not be blinded; I shielded my eyes with my hands; I turned my back to it; I crouched... |
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| 19 | 165 |
We struggled to our feet, our feet buried in sand, swept into the ditch, our backs suddenly cut by the lash of the storm. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 2325 |
"Backs straight, hands on thighs, bellies sucked in, heads high," she said. |
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| 10 | 33 |
They were neck chained, and their wrists were fastened behind their backs with slave bracelets. |
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| 12 | 766 |
Our wrists were tied behind our backs. |
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| 17 | 126 |
Our hands were braceleted behind our backs. |
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| 28 | 97 |
When the crowd, fierce in its impatience, demanded it, he would, shrugging, roll me free of them, in two turns, I finishing, lying on my back again, knee lifted, hands over and behind my head, the backs of my hands on the block, the palms exposed, like the rest of me, helplessly. |
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| 1 | 438 |
She placed the backs of her hands on the tiles, so that the palms were up, facing me, at her sides. |
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| 3 | 759 |
Their wrists were now in steel cuffs behind their backs. |
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| 6 | 286 |
I then tied the hands of the two slave girls behind their backs and knelt them by the sedan chair. |
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| 9 | 160 |
The three prisoners, their hands bound behind their backs, were brought forward. |
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| 9 | 258 |
"Are you not Earth girls?" asked blue-eyed, auburn-haired Sidney Anderson of the two kneeling girls, in their short fur tunics, the strings on their throats, and tethers, their hands tied behind their backs. |
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| 10 | 389 |
They fell and some, even, on the backs of the closely massed animals, were carried for dozens of yards, wood floating and churned, tossed on that tawny, storming river, that relentless torrent of hide and horn, turned toward the north. |
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| 24 | 183 |
Also, the society backs the master. |
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| 25 | 81 |
"Do you want your wrists, too, bound behind your backs?" I asked Audrey and Arlene. |
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| 26 | 343 |
Two or three scrambled literally onto the backs of the feeders, trying to push down between them. |
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| 35 | 1091 |
From the backs and chests of several protruded arrows. |
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| 38 | 45 |
This is a useful coffle tie when the girls' hands are not tied behind their backs. |
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| 6 | 226 |
Her hands had been beside her thighs, their backs resting on the metal of the cage floor. |
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| 24 | 232 |
Their bodies, except for their eyes and nostrils, and some ridges on their backs, as they swam, were submerged. |
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| 29 | 224 |
Sometimes they even sun themselves on the backs of resting or napping tharlarion. |
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| 32 | 124 |
"Lie on your stomach, head to the left, with your legs spread, and your hands at your sides, backs of your wrists to the ground, palms facing upwards". |
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| 34 | 542 |
She then flexed her knees and lifted her hands, the backs of the wrists facing one another, gracefully over her head. |
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| 34 | 562 |
Immediately, frightened, she stood again before me, knees flexed, hands raised above her head, gracefully, the backs of her wrists facing one another, in one of the attitudes of the slave dancer. |
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| 43 | 7 |
It was similar to the tiny lung fish I had seen earlier on the river, those little creatures clinging to the half-submerged roots of shore trees, and, as often as not, sunning themselves on the backs of tharlarion, those tiny fish called gints. |
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| 50 | 70 |
One by one we tied their hands behind their backs, and then, with a long strap, put them in throat coffle. |
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| 53 | 357 |
"Get the wall to your backs!" Men streamed past me to take a stand by the wall. |
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| 53 | 454 |
The Kurii facing us then, snarling, watching us, not turning their backs, began to withdraw. |
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| 57 | 107 |
The hands of each girl are tied behind their backs. |
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| 57 | 143 |
They would be given balms for their backs and oils for their blistered hands, and taught the duties of slaves. |
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| 4 | 119 |
She threw her ankles apart and put her wrists to her sides, their backs to the tiles. |
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| 4 | 204 |
The hair of both Lola and Tela was long, falling well to the small of their backs. |
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| 7 | 306 |
Her hands were beside her, their backs to the table. |
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| 13 | 337 |
Their hands, too, were locked behind their backs in slave bracelets. |
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| 18 | 212 |
Besides the line of forty-two male stable slaves, with which my mistress was now concerning herself, there knelt to one side, backs straight and heads up, a line of five kajirae, who were stable sluts. |
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| 21 | 309 |
When I arrived there I found them waiting, kneeling on the boards of their kennels, before their chain rings, in the position of pleasure slaves, back on heels, heads up, hands on thighs, backs straight, knees wide. |
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| 21 | 336 |
I saw that either, at a snap of my fingers, would have thrown themselves on their backs on the boards before me. |
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| 34 | 246 |
"217, 218 and 219," said Tenalion, gesturing with the whip, "kneel by the back wall, facing me, backs straight, knees wide, hands clasped behind the back of your head". |
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| 7 | 81 |
Their hands were tied behind their backs. |
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| 14 | 371 |
In a few moments Lola lay on the furs, at the foot of the couch, on her belly, her hands at her sides, the backs of her hands to the furs, the palms of her hands vulnerably up, exposed. |
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| 23 | 313 |
Then, delicately, in a graceful gesture, she turned her hands, putting their backs to the floor, exposing her palms, and the soft flesh of her palms, to him, indicating her surrender, her submission, her vulnerability and her readiness. |
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| 5 | 28 |
As pirates swarmed toward our ship we cut at the backs of their necks. |
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| 17 | 7 |
Sometimes the girls are sent into the streets with their hands braceleted behind their backs. |
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| 17 | 739 |
To the rear of the palanquin, in a double coffle of briefly tunicked beauties, display slaves, their hands braceleted behind their backs, had been the girl who now knelt before me. |
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| 19 | 1256 |
She then crouched down and turned the girl's hands so that their backs rested on the tiles, and the soft, open palms were vulnerably exposed to me. |
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| 20 | 859 |
"No, my Master!" she cried, and gracefully flexed her legs, and lifted her hands, their backs to one another, above her head. |
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| 20 | 940 |
She leaps up, and backs against the wall of her pen. |
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| 20 | 1562 |
The backs of the knees were nice, too, so concave, and soft. |
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| 1 | 1132 |
The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe... |
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| 1 | 1152 |
"The two other hunters, with their lances across their backs, bolt away. |
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| 4 | 2 |
I heard, ahead, the crying out of the driver, the snapping of his long whip over the backs of the two draft tharlarion harnessed to the wagon. |
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| 4 | 36 |
He stood then and cracked the whip again over the backs of the tharlarion. |
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| 4 | 160 |
"Smoke!" Almost at the same moment he rose to his feet and cracked his long whip over the backs of the tharlarion. |
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| 8 | 894 |
They were barbarians, but they had been knelt in the position of pleasure slaves, back on their heels, knees wide, hands on their thighs, backs straight, heads up. |
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| 8 | 936 |
Two women, hands tied behind their backs, may thus be confined in a single pair of branches. |
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| 8 | 1085 |
Immediately the girls knelt back in the coffle, back on their heels, their knees wide, their hands on their thighs, their backs straight and heads lifted. |
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| 10 | 92 |
They had already felt that whip, through the thin brown cloth of their slave tunics or across the backs of their legs. |
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| 11 | 14 |
A common way is to bind their wrists behind their backs and then place them on the ground, supine, the head of one to the feet of the other. |
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| 12 | 89 |
Below us, half concealed in the tall grass, on their backs, lay the two fellows I recognized as the brothers, Max and Kyle Hobart. |
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| 12 | 90 |
They were stripped and their hands were thonged behind their backs. |
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| 14 | 514 |
Ulla and Lenna were now on their feet, their hands still tied behind their backs, their neck thongs tied to the high, decorative pommels of their masters' saddles. |
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| 14 | 1076 |
He then held both fists close to his chest, with the backs of his hands down and the index fingers curved. |
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| 14 | 1151 |
I then held my fists close to my chest, with the backs of my own hands down, my index fingers curved. |
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| 17 | 78 |
Their hands are usually tied behind their backs. |
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| 12 | 43 |
Lagging beasts were incited to new speeds, treated to the admonishments of hissing leather, falling across their backs, flanks and rumps. |
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| 12 | 94 |
"At night," said another lad, "to make it harder to steal them, we put them in twist hobbles and tie them together by the neck, in strings, their hands tied behind their backs. |
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| 25 | 155 |
Their hands were bound behind their backs. |
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| 27 | 84 |
The riders were pulled from their backs and hacked to pieces. |
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| 42 | 68 |
The birds, wings snapping and striking, their backs almost vertical, the men leaning forward on them, were an impressive sight. |
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| 43 | 147 |
Cuwignaka and Hci, swiftly, before the girls could react, had pressed into the lodge and seized them, throwing them to their backs and holding their mouths shut. |
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| 44 | 492 |
Men were struck from the backs of kaiila. |
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| 46 | 149 |
They carried lances strapped on their backs. |
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| 48 | 78 |
I then tied their hands together behind their backs. |
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| 49 | 4 |
"Surely! Certainly! Agreed!" The two women, kneeling before the men, the staff bound behind their necks, their hands tied behind their backs, trembled. |
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| 27 | 37 |
We all sat facing him, our backs against the wall of the training room. |
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| 27 | 93 |
We all sat facing him, our backs against the wall of the training room. |
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| 27 | 157 |
We all straightened up, sitting, facing him, our backs against the wall of the training room. |
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| 28 | 150 |
"On your backs, all of you, on the floor," said the whip master, "right knees raised, hands at your sides, palms of your hands facing upwards". |
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| 28 | 152 |
We felt the tiles on our backs. |
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| 30 | 14 |
In his good taste, Aemilianus did not require us to wear advertising on our backs. |
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| 3 | 14 |
Our hands were manacled behind our backs. |
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| 6 | 163 |
Indeed, no sooner had I settled one than it seemed that a thousand creditors, guardsmen at their backs, descended upon me, like jards upon an unwatched roast. |
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| 6 | 1104 |
They may also be marched in coffle, of course, usually neck-chained, sometimes with their hands bound behind their backs. |
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| 6 | 1220 |
But now both of them knelt identically before the audience, backs straight, back on their heels, chins up, stark naked in their collars, their knees spread, slaves. |
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| 8 | 37 |
He then twisted them about and flung them to their backs in the dirt, by the fire. |
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| 11 | 23 |
I desisted from buckling her right ankle in its place on the backboard while a fellow checked the backs of her legs. |
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| 14 | 314 |
Its passage's swift route was actually visible in the animals, like a wave spreading along, and registered in, their backs and fur, in their sudden stillness, then in the sudden alertness of them, then in the quivering agitation which seemed to transform the entire pack, hitherto seemingly so tranqu... |
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| 14 | 319 |
Several of the other animals began to press eagerly toward the sound, some even crawling and scrambling over the backs of others. |
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| 16 | 35 |
Before Petrucchio, as though just having entered into the same area, the object of his attention, were Chino and Lecchio, in the garb of cloth workers, and with packs on their backs. |
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| 20 | 34 |
Near it, one a few feet from it, the other a little further from it, the backs of their necks bitten through, lay two dead servitors of the ubar. |
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| 21 | 363 |
We had tied them, stripped, standing, their backs to the bars, their arms lifted and spread, wrists tied back to the bars, ankles, too, to the barred gate, then again dropped, which had originally prevented me from immediately following Belnar. |
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| 3 | 318 |
Near the pawing feet of the leader's tharlarion, in their tunics of white wool, there stood two stout peasant lads, bound, heavy sticks thrust before their elbows and behind their backs, their arms bound to these at the back, their wrists, a rope across their bellies, held back, tied at their sides. |
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| 13 | 4 |
Many folks had packs on their backs. |
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| 14 | 148 |
Both slaves went immediately to their bellies, their heads to the left, their wrists crossed behind their backs, their ankles also crossed. |
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| 15 | 229 |
They cannot pass under the horizontal spear, a weapon of their enemy, without lowering their heads and bending their backs. |
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| 16 | 1471 |
"Doubtless you will see many slave caravans," I said, "and, too, perhaps, the girls of poorer merchants, many women being marched on foot, chained in coffle, usually naked, sometimes with their hands tied behind their backs, sometimes gagged and blindfolded". |
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| 25 | 560 |
"If you care to wait," she said, "some of these other wenches, on their backs and bellies on the mats, will be relinquished". |
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| 25 | 1893 |
The backs of the wrists faced me. |
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| 25 | 1895 |
With the backs of the hands in this position it is easier to pull them together and tie them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 16 |
Our hands, too, those of all of us, were secured, braceleted behind our backs. |
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| 6 | 125 |
We were gagged and hooded; we were stripped, our brands thusly bared; our wrists were manacled behind our backs; and we were attached to one another, in coffle, by neck chains. |
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| 11 | 849 |
I stood before them with my hands lifted over my head, the backs of my hands facing one another, my knees flexed. |
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| 11 | 1232 |
Then he was kissing my hands, their backs, and kissing and licking in the palms, and then moving up the interiors of the wrists, and forearms. |
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| 24 | 278 |
I lifted my hands above my head, the backs of my hands facing one another. |
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| 28 | 267 |
We then sat down in the pit, on the dried leaves, on the gravel, quiet, subdued, our backs against the sides of the shaft. |
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| 29 | 49 |
We had been backed on our knees to a railing, until the backs of our necks were in contact with it. |
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| 30 | 126 |
Before they left they replaced the bracelets on the hands of two slaves, Tela and Tuka, so that their hands were again confined behind their backs. |
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| 31 | 347 |
She knelt on the backs of her heels, her hands on her thighs, looking up, happily, at Mirus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 117 |
"Kneel there," I told the three of them, "between the wheels, with your backs to the bottom of the wagon". |
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| 1 | 121 |
"I am thinking," I told him, "of tying you naked on your back, over the tongue of the wagon, and fastening your two fellows, on their backs, stripped, over the wheels. |
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| 1 | 130 |
I then tied their hands behind their backs. |
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| 1 | 174 |
"Put your backs to it," I told the captives. |
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| 8 | 169 |
I then checked several other brand sites, such as the insides of the forearms, the left side of the neck, behind and below the left ear, the backs of her legs, and her buttocks. |
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| 8 | 194 |
Even last night, once she must have realized how her hands were positioned, I recalled she had not quickly, shamed, turned them about, presenting their backs to me. |
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| 17 | 95 |
Their backs strained, turning the windlass, winding that huge torsion-powered device taut. |
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| 18 | 291 |
I could see, too, the backs and fins of sharks crowded about the lower edge of the walkway, near the landing. |
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| 18 | 496 |
Many were pushed up against the wall, in some groups facing it, in others with their backs to it. |
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| 18 | 504 |
Others were being lined up, their hands tied behind their backs, to form coffles, ropes being put on their necks. |
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| 21 | 920 |
Men adjusted the positions of the slaves, rudely, so that they knelt well, back on their heels, their backs straight, their knees spread. |
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| 24 | 21 |
In his way, he was a hero, and yet, for all he had done, he, and those with him, of Ar's Station, were coming to this town, once their greatest rival on the Vosk, as refugees, with little more than the clothing on their backs. |
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| 24 | 913 |
"Straighten your backs, get your knees wider". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 233 |
We could see the irregular backs of other beasts here and there breaking the water. |
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| 31 | 582 |
"Sometimes slave girls," I said, "are aroused and then put in their kennels with their hands braceleted behind their backs, held there with a belly chain, or a belly cord. |
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| 37 | 359 |
"On your backs, hands at your sides, palms up, slaves!" she said. |
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| 46 | 189 |
I looked into the backs of several slave wagons, most of which were empty. |
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| 47 | 262 |
I was vaguely aware of quarrels slashing into the dirt, streaking like plows in the dirt, throwing up a spume of dust like water, others darting wildly upward, some lost overhead, passing somewhere, some skittering about, turning head over heels, then some bounding twenty or more feet in the air, tu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 99 |
I saw a line of five slave girls, kneeling, abreast, their hands tied behind their backs. |
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| 3 | 382 |
She lifted her chained wrists above her head, palms facing outward, this, because of the linkage of the manacles, tightening it, bringing the backs of her hands closely together. |
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| 8 | 14 |
Indeed, most deliveries, as of produce from the country, not borne on the backs of animals of peasants, are made at night or in the early morning. |
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| 9 | 569 |
Perhaps he regarded her as the sort whom Cosians would enjoy having serve their banquets, moving among the tables, bearing platters of viands, or pouring wine, or such, or perhaps merely lying on their bellies or backs beside their small tables at such banquets, ready, too, to serve. |
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| 10 | 91 |
Some twenty men, stripped, in heavy metal collars, these linked by heavy chains, their hands behind their backs, presumably manacled, prodded now and then by the butts of guards' spears, were approaching. |
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| 10 | 119 |
Their hands, indeed, were manacled behind their backs. |
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| 14 | 382 |
The entire might of Cos backs your authority! Grind down the men of Ar, as you should. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 751 |
Perhaps, in my eagerness and curiosity to see them, for I had not seen free women of this world before, I had allowed some imperfection in my position, say, with respect to the angle of my body, the backs of my hands beside me, resting on the stone, the touching of the stone with my forehead? But th... |
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| 9 | 35 |
I returned instantly to my belly, fully, arms down and back, the backs of my hands on the stone, my forehead against the stone. |
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| 13 | 888 |
How absurd then suddenly seemed my earlier fear, when he had put me to my back! By what right might I have expected such a dignity! But how absurd even was this thought, for a slave! Is it likely that we would be thrown on our backs for our dignity? No. |
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| 13 | 891 |
Rather, on our backs, if our masters desire, our subtlest nuances of expression, our helplessness, our fear, our joy, our yielding, our vulnerability, what we hope for, what we beg for, may be read! They may with their triumphant gaze ravish our helplessly bared features, surveying the myriad subtle... |
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| 16 | 149 |
I swiftly flexed my knees, lifted my rib cage, and put my hands together, wrists crossed, over my head, the backs of my hands facing out, the palm of my right hand over the palm of my left hand. |
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| 16 | 438 |
His left arm was behind my back, his right beneath the backs of my knees. |
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| 19 | 115 |
The hands of those who had been front-shackled were now being back-shackled, shackled behind their backs. |
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| 19 | 327 |
Surely they were under no delusions as to who it was who fastened them on their backs over saddles, who thrust them naked into the cage baskets. |
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| 24 | 736 |
"Backs straight. |
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| 24 | 748 |
"Backs straight," cautioned the soldier. |
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| 24 | 962 |
Our hands had been braceleted behind our backs, to a belly chain, that we not be able to tear at the brand. |
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| 31 | 16 |
Our hands were bound behind our backs. |
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| 35 | 66 |
Are we blindfolded? Are we forbidden to speak? Are we gagged? Are our wrists tied behind our backs? Must we kneel naked before him? We are his. |
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| 37 | 40 |
Our hands, too, as before, were tied behind our backs. |
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| 41 | 170 |
Our backs must be straight. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 213 |
Their hands were tied together behind their backs. |
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| 7 | 218 |
One group of such were literally chained together by the neck, and their hands, behind their backs, were not tied, but held in metal cuffs. |
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| 16 | 809 |
She saw four women, their hands chained behind their backs, their necks fastened together with a chain, being prodded through the square by three armed men, helmeted and tunicked as had been the other two. |
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| 17 | 7 |
Following this Ellen had had to apply soothing oil to the backs of her sister slaves, to assuage the pain of their burns and give them some protection on the shelf. |
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| 19 | 502 |
He unbound her ankles first and then, kneeling across the backs of her thighs, undid the thongs which confined her wrists. |
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| 27 | 232 |
She felt the strength of his hand in the softness behind the backs of her knees, and his other hand at her back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 343 |
Sometimes, when her needs are muchly upon her, she may kneel muchly like that, save that her head may be lowered humbly, daring not to meet the eyes of the master, and the backs of her hands, not the palms of her hands, may be down on her thighs, which exposes the delicate palms of the hands to the ... |
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| 5 | 906 |
"Many were trod upon," said a man, "and sparks stung their backs". |
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| 5 | 1099 |
They are fastened to the poles in such a way that they dangle, swinging, from them, their bellies to the pole, their backs to the ground. |
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| 9 | 213 |
The palms of her hands are usually down on her thighs, and her head up, but, if she is petitioning caresses, as is not uncommon, the palms are usually up, the backs of the hands on the thighs. |
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| 9 | 215 |
The palms, then, so offered to the master, with their exposed, sweet, sensitive cupping, the backs of the hands down on the thighs, as though bound to them, as though not permitted to leave them without permission, present a sign not difficult to read. |
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| 12 | 268 |
At that sound the smaller bird, or younger bird, or less aggressive bird, usually backs away. |
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| 18 | 24 |
Here, however, my men, now well outnumbering their foe, withdrew before them, if on foot, only to circle them, suddenly, like pack sleen, and fire arrows into backs or sides, whatever area might be clear of the shield. |
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| 25 | 82 |
I was passed by some fellows returning to their quarters, some leading leashed slaves, their hands tied behind their backs. |
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| 25 | 83 |
Others passed, too, with slaves in custody, but differently, the slaves bent over, in leading position, their heads at the hips of free men, held there by the hair, these slaves' hands fastened, too, behind their backs. |
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| 27 | 66 |
The small wrists, too, of each girl were corded together behind their backs. |
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| 27 | 117 |
Following the summons and the concomitant instructions, Pertinax and I had tunicked Cecily and Jane and tied their wrists behind their backs. |
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| 27 | 122 |
We had then tied their hands behind their backs and prepared to turn them over to the nearby Ashigaru. |
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| 34 | 121 |
Some could always be fed by hand to the slaves later, as they knelt at hand, naked, hands clasped behind their backs, or thrown before them to the floor, which they might then delicately retrieve, heads down, on all fours, without the use of their hands. |
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| 38 | 261 |
Pani were now tying their hands behind their backs, and putting them on a long rope, which was strung from neck to neck. |
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| 38 | 410 |
In this tour we had tied their hands behind their backs and then tied them together by the neck. |
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| 38 | 567 |
Their hands were behind their backs, doubtless fastened together there. |
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| 38 | 608 |
Too, as their hands were doubtless fastened behind their backs, given the other arrangements, I supposed their hands would be fastened behind them not with thongs, cord, or rope, but metal, that their small wrists would be enclosed snugly in linked, steel circlets, in slave bracelets, designed to be... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 343 |
"Throw down your arms!" Some did, and were hastily bound by Pani, neck to neck, hands behind their backs. |
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| 15 | 167 |
Why then should the lash be put to the vulnerable, bared backs and legs of slaves? Their guilt, if guilt it was, was less. |
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| 20 | 59 |
I trust that after you were cleaned and tended, the backs of your pretty thighs were kissed with the switch for that". |
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| 21 | 435 |
Some cried out, hastened with the bow of a belt across the backs of their thighs. |
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| 21 | 688 |
"Backs straight," I said. |
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| 22 | 173 |
They knew that if they turned their backs, they would die. |
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| 31 | 18 |
Some had dared to voice their objections, and had been well switched, across the backs of the calves and ankles, by the Pani warriors charged with the care of the coffle, in this instance, as indicated, a treasure coffle, one used to transport carefully sealed, and marked, sacks and boxes from the s... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 70 |
In a natural order, a natural order refined and enhanced with the rituals, customs, and institutions of civilization, would there not be such as we? Is it not the natural right of a natural master, that he should have a slave, or slaves? And is it not the natural right of the natural, needful slave,... |
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| 5 | 112 |
"What are you doing here? May I help you?" Three of the men arranged chairs before me, the backs of the chairs facing me. |
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| 5 | 113 |
They sat on the chairs, their arms on the backs, regarding me. |
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| 8 | 102 |
For example, the slave bracelets we wore, which pinioned our wrists so helplessly behind our backs, were attractive. |
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| 8 | 1571 |
Two or three men stood up, angrily wiping gravy and hot meat from their backs and shoulders. |
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| 8 | 1640 |
Most, of course, would have had their backs turned to the aisle. |
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| 10 | 1154 |
I then heard some small, frightened sounds, as though limbs had been jerked about, behind backs, and then tiny noises, as though wrists had been thonged together, and not gently. |
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| 10 | 1167 |
"Move," he said, and I saw the two slaves pass me, on the right, tied together, closely, head to head, by the hair, their tunics torn to the waist, their hands thonged tightly behind them, their backs and the back of their thighs richly striped from the blows of a switch. |
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| 30 | 59 |
One merely changes the position of the hands, by turning the backs of the hand to the thighs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 67 |
So, cold, wet, and shivering, miserable, we went to "position," kneeling back on our heels, our backs straight, our heads up, looking ahead, our knees spread, as the slaves we were, the palms of our hands down on our thighs. |
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| 9 | 292 |
As the burdens were arranged, I soon realized why our hands had not been tied behind our backs. |
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| 9 | 298 |
Many others would be borne on the backs of the armsmen. |
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| 42 | 26 |
In addition to their ankles remaining shackled, and their neck-cofifle being fastened to a tree, their wrists were bound behind their backs. |
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| 42 | 122 |
The prisoners were then taken to the edge of the camp where they relieved themselves, and then their neck rope was fastened to its tree, and they were put prone to the ground and had their hands tied behind their backs. |
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| 43 | 24 |
Too, now, though it was well into the morning, their hands were still tied behind their backs. |
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| 52 | 224 |
"Keep moving," he said, "or I will use my belt across the backs of your thighs". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 |
I learned later of the nature of the attack, the silent, signaling smoke arrows coordinating the four prongs of the attack, from four passes, the following blasts of conch horns, and the rolling of drums, the streaming into the valley of armed men, the small, narrow, rectangular banners of Lord Yama... |
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| 19 | 284 |
"Do you not see what has been done to me? Take me out of this terrible place! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen! A pen! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen for slaves, for slaves! Do you not know what is done with us here, what is expected of us, what we must do! Do you not understand the dirt, ... |
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| 20 | 41 |
Their backs were straight and the palms of their hands were down, on their thighs. |
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| 31 | 4 |
Our hands were then tied behind our backs. |
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| 32 | 15 |
Haruki and I backed against the dragon screen which fell, and, stumbling, ruining it, fell behind it, and then struggled up, past the low table, our backs to the side of the inn. |
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| 35 | 59 |
Tied to the top, back railing of the cart was the coffle rope, with its seven occupants, their hands tied behind their backs, six in the tunics of inn slaves, and one, the last, in the tunic of a field slave. |
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| 42 | 148 |
The palms of her hands, I noted, were not down on her thighs, as is usually prescribed, but the backs of her hands were on her thighs, and the palms were exposed to Pertinax, almost pleadingly. |
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| 42 | 257 |
The three slaves then stood before us, gracefully, as slaves, their hands braceleted behind their backs, in a rope coffle, neck-fastened. |
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| 43 | 91 |
Near the wagon yard we had removed the slaves from the coffle and relieved them of the bracelets which had secured their hands behind their backs. |
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| 57 | 288 |
"Please lie on your stomach, Lady Kameko," I said, "with your hands at your sides, the backs of your hands on the floor". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 128 |
"Hands behind your backs, wrists crossed," said another master, a handful of laces dangling from his hand. |
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| 62 | 28 |
How many free women, I wondered, could match the slave in beauty? How many would dare to walk and stand, and move, as a slave, with such casual, unconscious ease, such assurance and womanly grace, the grace of a woman who knows herself so special and prized that she is collared and owned? Did they s... |
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| 62 | 132 |
Immediately we went to nadu, kneeling, back on our heels, our knees well spread, our backs straight, our heads up, the palms of our hands down, on our thighs. |
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| 62 | 134 |
"Keep your palms down, on your thighs, not the backs of your hands," warned Drusus Andronicus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 70 |
We all turned to face the voice, and knelt, back on our heels, our backs straight, our shoulders back, our heads lifted, the palms of our hands down, flat, on our thighs, our knees well spread. |
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| 18 | 61 |
Six other slaves were standing nearby, to the left of the heavy, colorful, beaded curtain, their backs to the wall, waiting to be picked out, or assigned to a table. |
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| 41 | 204 |
Too, how many might be behind the new arrivals? Who knew? Most of the intruders, confused and terrified, loot cast aside, turned their backs, and fled, seeking nearby exits. |
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| 42 | 128 |
There was a brief interval of swordplay and then weapons were being cast to the ground, and intruders were kneeling, head down, the backs of their necks exposed to the stroke of swords. |
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| 43 | 152 |
The oarsmen, their backs to the bow, sweating, strained at the oars. |
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| 46 | 538 |
I rose to my feet, lifting my hands over my head, the backs of my hands facing one another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 64 |
A bit later Clitus returned with six raiders, their hands bound behind their backs. |
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| 17 | 225 |
I noted that she had dared to turn her hands, putting the backs of her hands on her thighs, this exposing the beautiful open softness of her palms, the sensitivity of which tender, concave, living tissue is such that a mere touch can make her cry out in need. |
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| 20 | 3 |
Clitus, Thurnock, and I were to one side, our backs to the canvas. |
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| 22 | 141 |
"And why would our 'Three Ubaras' seal their tent, turning their presumably lovely backs on such a rain of wealth?" "I do not know," said Sakim. |
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| 23 | 88 |
We took to our fishing boats and fled to the Isle of Seleukos, the living island of which you seem to know, with little more than the clothing on our backs". |
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| 32 | 72 |
Subsequently they dug, largely with their helmets, a semicircular trench with the sea at their backs. |
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| 37 | 103 |
Backs aching, tunics soaked with sweat, and hands bleeding, we raised the block and set it on the low, sturdy, ten-wheeled cart. |
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| 47 | 16 |
Many others, hundreds, backs to the sea, shields lifted, must stay indefinitely in place, trusting to the return of the crews of the longboats, few of which, it seemed, cared, for their fees, to hazard a second trip. |
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