| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 33 | 59 |
Its shaggy coat had been oiled and groomed and colored beads were hung about its horns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 148 |
They were clearly enjoying themselves, and some were making bets, the stakes being pleasure beads from the contents of the jewelry and cosmetic box allotted to each, usually kept in her cell. |
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| 17 | 592 |
I poked around in the chest but I could find nothing, so far, but tangles of beads and jewelry, some silks. |
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| 17 | 743 |
Then, between us, we managed to find tiny vials, and brooches, and beads, to use as the pieces. |
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| 17 | 841 |
She smiled looking at the silk, the vials and beads. |
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| 18 | 1 |
The End of Kajuralia I leaped across the rouged square of silk, scattering the vials and beads that were the pieces of our game, flinging Sura to the floor, pressing myself across her body that she might be protected. |
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| 18 | 110 |
"A Master Keeper begging the forgiveness of a slave for touching her with a slave goad!" Ho-Tu looked down at the square of silk, the tumbled vials and beads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 164 |
Then the rence girls, vital, eyes shining, breathing deeply, barefoot, bare-armed, many with beads worn for festival, and hammered copper bracelets and armlets, stood all within the circle. |
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| 10 | 107 |
Midice now possessed a hundred pleasure silks, and rings and beads, which she might twine in her now-jeweled collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 161 |
Each was drawn by two bosk, large brown creatures with spreading, polished horns, hung with beads. |
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| 8 | 809 |
The "stones" are usually pebbles or beads, but in the cities one can buy small polished, carved boxes containing ten "stones," the quality of which might vary from polished ovoid stones, with swirling patterns, to gems worth the ransom of a merchant's daughter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 13 |
Bending over I found a string of cheap beads, formed from the shell of the vosk sorp, broken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 545 |
Importantly, there are also surfaces of various textures, a deep-piled rug, satins, silks, coarsely woven kaiila-hair cloths, brocades, rep-cloth, a tiled corner, a sleen pelt, cloths woven of strung beads, cloaks of leather, mats of reeds, etc. |
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| 5 | 648 |
I saw through the strings of hanging beads the collar on her throat. |
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| 5 | 650 |
Behind me, as I thrust apart the beads, I heard the pounding of the drum, the kaska, the silence, then the sound, as the flutist, his hands on her body, to the sound of the drum, instructed the girl in the line-length and intensity of one of the varieties of pre-abandonment pelvic thrusts. |
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| 12 | 94 |
I saw the other girl laying out a light tunic of red silk, and a necklace of yellow, rounded beads, which I supposed was for me. |
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| 12 | 172 |
The other girl, she who had laid out the red-silk tunic, the yellow beads, gasped. |
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| 12 | 334 |
"Orders I gave," said she, "that you were to be presented to me this night in yellow slave beads. |
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| 12 | 554 |
Near the red silk I had cast aside, when donning the desert garments of the guard, on the tiles, I saw the vulgar, wooden, rounded, yellow slave beads, the necklace, which I had not chosen to permit being placed upon me. |
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| 12 | 557 |
I scooped up the beads, which were in five strands, and, kneeling behind her, pulling down her gown a bit, from the shoulders, to better display them, fastened them tightly about her throat. |
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| 12 | 558 |
"Doubtless you know that these are slave beads," I said. |
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| 12 | 560 |
She shook her head, but could not, of course, dislodge the beads, for I had put them closely about her throat, nor could she, of course, remove them otherwise, bound as she was. |
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| 12 | 564 |
And how striking the beads were upon her. |
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| 12 | 567 |
She shook her head, trying to rid herself of the beads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 370 |
Bina, I then understood, were lesser beads, cheap beads, beads of little value, save for their aesthetic charm. |
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| 19 | 48 |
I saw that at the foot of the dais, before me, before where I now knelt, released by the men who had held me, there was a low table, and, on this table there were strands of thread and, in small cups, beads, wooden slave beads, beads of various colors, of many colors. |
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| 4 | 351 |
She carried, in her hands, several strings of beads, simple necklaces, with small, wooden, colored beads. |
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| 4 | 358 |
I then understood that 'Bina' was the expression for beads, or for a necklace of beads. |
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| 4 | 367 |
Then, from another box, Eta produced another necklace, one with cheap glass beads, and another with simple, small wooden beads. |
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| 9 | 487 |
On this table had been strands of thread and, in small cups, beads, slave beads, of various colors, red, yellow and purple, and other colors. |
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| 10 | 138 |
Too, once I had had a strange dream that dealt with slave beads, a meaningless dream I had not understood, in which I had been asked, strangely, to string such beads. |
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| 25 | 66 |
"From the fact that each third bead is yellow," said Bosk, "we may infer that the units of import consist of pairs of beads, separated by the yellow beads. |
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| 25 | 144 |
Great security was achieved, too, in the manner of releasing the behavior of stringing the beads and in the counter-suggestion that she be unable to recall the order of the beads without the appropriate trigger structure being reconstructed". |
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| 4 | 354 |
Then, with her finger, moving them on their string, she indicated the tiny, colored wooden beads. |
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| 4 | 359 |
The necklaces and beads which Eta produced for me were delights of color and appeal; yet they were simple and surely of little value. |
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| 4 | 372 |
The most exact translation of 'bina' would probably be "slave beads". |
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| 4 | 377 |
The Bina, or Slave Beads, had meant more to them than my life. |
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| 4 | 378 |
It was not I who had been important to them there but the beads. |
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| 4 | 382 |
I had thought, before I was clearly apprised of the nature of Bina, cheap slave beads, that perhaps the men had supposed that I was to be chained at the rock, adorned with some rare and valuable necklace, worth perhaps a fortune. |
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| 4 | 387 |
I was thrown into the greatest consternation by my new comprehension of the valuelessness of slave beads. |
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| 4 | 389 |
Of what importance could be a string of slave beads? Why might they have been put on me in the first place? And where, if they had been put on me, had they gone? Who would want them? And why should men come through a wilderness to obtain them? What could be their importance? What could be their secr... |
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| 7 | 1 |
Clitus Vitellius "Do not run me, Master," wept Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 3 |
Slave Beads stumbled to the long line scratched in the dirt in the village of Tabuk's Ford. |
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| 7 | 7 |
"Where will we run?" wailed Slave Beads to me. |
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| 7 | 10 |
"I do not want to be run as a slave girl," wept Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 13 |
"Yes, Mistress," said Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 38 |
Slave Beads stifled a sob. |
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| 7 | 56 |
I looked at Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 290 |
* * * * "I do not want to be run for the pleasure of boys," wept Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 292 |
"Yes, Mistress," said Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 301 |
"Oh," said Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 309 |
I looked over at Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 337 |
"You are crying," said Slave Beads to me. |
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| 7 | 458 |
I stood on the dirt line between Donna and, to my left, Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 460 |
"I do not want to be run for peasant boys," said Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 463 |
"You are slave now," said Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 465 |
"Does Slave Beads wish to be switched again?" called Lehna. |
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| 7 | 466 |
"No, Mistress," said Slave Beads, hastily. |
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| 7 | 467 |
Slave Beads feared Lehna. |
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| 7 | 491 |
The expression 'Bina' in Gorean means "slave beads". |
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| 7 | 492 |
"Put Slave Beads in a Sirik," said my master. |
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| 7 | 495 |
The ankle rings were then closed about the lovely ankles of Slave Beads, and locked. |
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| 7 | 505 |
"Greetings, Slave Beads," said my master. |
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| 7 | 510 |
"Perhaps you remember, Slave Beads," said my master, "that, on an evening, some days ago, a free woman harshly and at length punished a slave girl". |
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| 7 | 519 |
"Yes, Master," said Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 521 |
"Yes, Master!" said Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 524 |
"Yes, Master," said Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 526 |
"Yes, Master," said Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 529 |
"Oh, no! No, Master!" cried Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 531 |
"Who, Master?" asked Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 541 |
He turned again to Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 553 |
"Do not leave me with her, Master!" cried Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 555 |
He turned to leave, then turned again to face the kneeling, terrified Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 562 |
"My answer will be affirmative, Master," whispered Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 564 |
Later my master took Slave Beads by the hair. |
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| 7 | 572 |
"Please touch Slave Beads, Master," she begged. |
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| 7 | 574 |
We did not retire that night until Slave Beads, on her knees, had begged the touch of each of my master's men. |
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| 7 | 597 |
"There is no place to hide!" wept Slave Beads, who was near me. |
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| 7 | 605 |
A big red-haired fellow and a smaller dark-haired fellow had bet on which of them would take Slave Beads. |
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| 7 | 607 |
Slave Beads turned away from me and fled about the interior perimeter of the palisade. |
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| 7 | 616 |
Slave Beads, too, had fled elsewhere. |
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| 7 | 736 |
Slave Beads was clad in what the master had seen fit to leave her of her last, soft, clinging undergarment, which was, frankly, very little. |
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| 7 | 740 |
It was the intent of the master, it seems, that her garment or "gown" be considerably and obviously superior in quality, opacity and coverage to the scrap of silk permitted to Slave beads. |
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| 7 | 749 |
Slave Beads lived in terror of her. |
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| 7 | 926 |
Did they think she would escape? It was Slave Beads. |
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| 9 | 36 |
Slave Beads stood to one side, looking at me. |
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| 9 | 42 |
Slave Beads was no longer the Lady Sabina. |
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| 9 | 77 |
There was another snap of a wrist ring and the chain bore yet another jewel, the lovely, half-stripped Slave Beads. |
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| 9 | 512 |
Then my hands had reached toward the strands of thread on the table, and toward the cups of tiny beads. |
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| 9 | 641 |
Marla and Chanda and Donna and Slave Beads would have been no better! And I did not think Lehna or Eta would have been much better either! How I would have loved to have seen Marla try to pull the plow! She would have done no better than I! Angrily I hoed the suls. |
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| 9 | 1194 |
Men had demanded slave beads of me. |
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| 9 | 1217 |
Then my hands had reached toward the strands of thread on the table, and toward the cups of tiny beads. |
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| 10 | 123 |
He held up a string of slave beads. |
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| 10 | 128 |
He put the beads in his belt. |
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| 10 | 133 |
I assumed Tup Ladletender would rope the slave beads on my neck, fastening them behind my neck. |
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| 10 | 136 |
Once I had nearly had my throat cut for my lack of knowledge of "Bina," or slave beads. |
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| 10 | 140 |
Then, as I stood helplessly braceleted, Tup Ladletender roped the cheap beads about my neck. |
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| 11 | 55 |
He had taken the bit of sacking I had worn, and the slave beads, and the slave bracelets, which had confined my wrists. |
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| 11 | 445 |
I looked at the incredibly lovely girl in the mirror, she bedecked in a rope of red silk, made-up, perfumed, vulnerable, soft, with armlets and bracelets, golden beads intertwined in the Turian collar. |
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| 14 | 107 |
"You, too," I said, looking at Bina, Slave Beads, "are the only old friend I have here". |
10 |
| 14 | 225 |
Bina, Slave Beads, gazed upon the powerful, wondrous Thandar of Ti. |
10 |
| 15 | 327 |
"They wanted slave beads," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 49 |
I looked down at the low, wooden table, the beads in the tiny cups. |
10 |
| 19 | 113 |
I reached toward the strands of thread on the table, and toward the cups of tiny beads. |
10 |
| 19 | 125 |
I saw Belisarius looking carefully at the beads before him. |
10 |
| 19 | 126 |
I had strung the same order of beads more than once, to complete the necklace. |
10 |
| 19 | 133 |
"At last!" The men about him did not ask what significance he had found in the necklace, nor did Belisarius explain to them what he had seen in the arrangement of the beads. |
10 |
| 19 | 144 |
I could not remember the order of the beads. |
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| 25 | 1 |
The Message I lifted the strung beads to the square-jawed man with short, closely cropped white hair. |
10 |
| 25 | 9 |
I was naked, as I had been when I had strung beads for he called Belisarius in a house in Cos. |
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| 25 | 10 |
Samos put the beads before him on a tiny table. |
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| 25 | 31 |
What we must do is reconstruct the mechanism, which, in this case is a verbal structure, a dialogue, which will release, or trigger, the salient behavior, the stringing of the beads". |
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| 25 | 32 |
"Could she not simply be commanded to recount the order of the beads?" inquired Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 25 | 41 |
"You suspect then," asked Bosk, "that several arrangement orders of beads might be in her memory?" "Yes," said Iskander, "each of which, I suspect, would be correlated with a different message". |
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| 25 | 49 |
I lifted the strung beads to the square-jawed man with short, closely cropped white hair, Samos, of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 25 | 51 |
Samos put the beads on the small table before him. |
10 |
| 25 | 61 |
"Note," said he, "the frequency of yellow beads. |
10 |
| 25 | 163 |
"See the repetitions of the beads. |
10 |
| 25 | 179 |
"Copy down," said he, "on your paper the order of the beads, in widely spaced rows. |
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| 27 | 58 |
I saw Slave Beads serving men. |
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| 27 | 62 |
Various of the girls whom I remembered, and Slave Beads in particular, had, with the permission of Busebius, the tavern master, spoken with me and kissed me. |
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| 27 | 95 |
"Slave Beads, as you know," said Clitus Vitellius, "is now owned by Busebius". |
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| 27 | 146 |
I looked to Slave Beads. |
10 |
| 27 | 150 |
Her name was Slave Beads. |
10 |
| 27 | 416 |
They were being served by Slave Beads. |
10 |
| 27 | 420 |
Thandar of Ti was watching Slave Beads who, head down, was pouring him drink. |
10 |
| 27 | 423 |
He reached forth and, gently, touched Slave Beads about the throat, as she poured the drink. |
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| 27 | 430 |
I had little doubt that the small beauty, Slave Beads, was the reason. |
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| 27 | 432 |
Slave Beads shook with emotion. |
10 |
| 27 | 437 |
I thought Slave Beads might faint. |
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| 27 | 438 |
"I have taken a fancy," said Thandar of Ti to Busebius, who had hurried to the table, "to this little slut of a slave," indicating Slave Beads. |
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| 27 | 447 |
He had made a profit on Slave Beads whom he had had, I understood, for less than one silver tarsk in the market, and had yet retained the good will of Thandar of Ti, a valued customer. |
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| 27 | 448 |
Slave Beads slipped to the floor in a faint. |
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| 27 | 545 |
"Thank you, Master," said Slave Beads, now Sabina, to Clitus Vitellius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47 |
We had discovered this from an enciphered message, fallen into our hands, hidden in the beads of a necklace. |
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| 23 | 147 |
And I have mirrors, and beads and knives, and many other trade goods". |
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| 28 | 44 |
It was all she wore, save for a slave collar, like Arlene, and some beads, an armlet, and a barbaric anklet. |
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| 34 | 103 |
It froze almost immediately into beads and he broke them away from the fur about his jaw with a movement of his paw. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 1094 |
"Are blue and yellow beads then," she asked, "not appropriate for me, for I am a slave?" "They are very nice," I said, "but any simple, cheap beads, say, of wood or glass, will do as well for a slave". |
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| 8 | 121 |
I then gave my attention to the dancer, a sweetly hipped black girl in yellow beads. |
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| 8 | 122 |
She was skillful and, I suspected, from the use of the hands and beads, had been trained in Ianda, a merchant island north of Anango. |
10 |
| 8 | 123 |
Certain figures are formed with the hands and beads which have symbolic meaning, much of which was lost upon me, as I was not familiar with the conventions involved. |
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| 27 | 107 |
The results of our trading had been two baskets of dried fish, a sack of meal and vegetables, a length of bark cloth, plaited and pounded, from the pod tree, dyed red, a handful of colored, wooden beads, and, most importantly, two pangas, two-foot-long, heavy, curve-bladed bush knives. |
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| 28 | 19 |
In the box, jumbled, were rolls of wire, mirrors, pins and knives, beads, shells and bits of colored glass. |
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| 29 | 1 |
Bark Cloth and Beads We sat about the small fire, some half pasang inland from the river, in the rain forest. |
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| 29 | 89 |
He then, from a sack brought from the canoe, threw her two strings of colored wooden beads, blue, and red and yellow, which we had obtained in trade from the fishing village earlier. |
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| 29 | 90 |
"Thank you, my master," breathed Tende, and she then displayed herself before him, the brief bark cloth, scarlet, snug about her hips and the beads about her lovely throat. |
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| 29 | 118 |
I had also given her, as Kisu had Tende, two strings of wooden beads. |
10 |
| 29 | 232 |
I wondered if I should give the blond-haired barbarian an opportunity again to beg to perform, that she might earn a bit of cloth and a handful of beads. |
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| 32 | 1 |
Female Display Behaviors; A Slave Girl's Dream; Bark Cloth and Beads "Do not drop it," said Kisu, strained, sweating. |
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| 32 | 1073 |
I drew forth from it a handful of strings of beads. |
10 |
| 32 | 1074 |
I threw her a necklace of red and black beads, which I thought was nice. |
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| 32 | 1075 |
"Master," she asked, pointing, "may I also have that string of beads". |
10 |
| 32 | 1076 |
Tende and Alice each had two strings of beads. |
10 |
| 32 | 1078 |
I handed her the second string of beads and put the others back in the sack. |
10 |
| 32 | 1079 |
She had already put the first string, that of red and black beads, about her throat. |
10 |
| 32 | 1081 |
The second string of beads was blue and yellow. |
10 |
| 32 | 1082 |
Both strings were of small, simple wooden beads, suitable for slave girls. |
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| 32 | 1083 |
"Master," she asked, holding out to me the blue and yellow beads, "would you not, please, put this string upon me?" "Very well," I said, standing behind her, looping them twice, one loop smaller than the other, about her throat. |
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| 32 | 1084 |
Each loop, as with the red and black beads, fell between her sweet breasts. |
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| 33 | 78 |
Tende stood there, trembling, dressed only in her slave beads. |
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| 37 | 2 |
Kisu lifted beads before him, of purple glass, strung on wire. |
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| 44 | 189 |
At the lagoon I retrieved the girl's bark-cloth skirt and beads, which she had discarded while bathing. |
10 |
| 44 | 190 |
I slung the beads about her neck. |
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| 52 | 41 |
"You wear now the rags and beads of a slave," he said. |
10 |
| 52 | 45 |
"Rags and beads are more attractive on a woman than gowns, are they not?" he asked. |
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| 57 | 112 |
We bought the entire band of captive talunas for a crate of beads and five pangas. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 206 |
Their hoofs were polished; their horns were hung with beads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 156 |
It was decorated sensuously with colorful wooden beads, semiprecious stones and bits of leather. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 2003 |
She saw now that the chains had been the loops of a single, graceful body chain, sinuous and glossy, closely meshed and dark, ornamented with colorful beads of wood, semiprecious stones and bits of leather. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 41 |
My goods, substantially, consisted of blankets, colored cloths, ribbons, mirrors and beads, kettles and pans, popular in the grasslands, hard candies, cake sugar and chemical dyes. |
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| 14 | 7 |
I sat nearby, a blanket spread out before me, on which I had spread out various of the trade goods, mostly mirrors, dyes and beads this afternoon, which I had brought into the Barrens. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 221 |
The expression 'Siptopto' is a common expression for beads. |
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| 1 | 335 |
They prized many of the things of value which he might bring into the Barrens, the men relishing trinkets such as trade points and knife blades, and the women welcoming trade cloth, chemical dyes and drilled glass beads. |
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| 2 | 1 |
The Procession of the Isanna Wasnapohdi, or Pimples, naked, her dark hair loose and wild behind her, strings of glass beads about her throat, put there by Grunt, marking her as his, in the tattered lodge I shared with Cuwignaka, clutched me, gasping, half rearing under me. |
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| 2 | 38 |
The six strands of heavy, cheap glass beads about her throat glinted. |
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| 2 | 41 |
He had then knelt behind her and slowly, ceremoniously, encircled her throat six times with the beads, once for each letter of the expression 'Kajira', the most common Gorean expression for a female slave. |
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| 2 | 48 |
Most collars, of course, are not done with encirclements of strings, thongs, straps, beads or such. |
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| 2 | 117 |
What do you think? Do you not think I belong in a collar? Would you not like to have me in your collar?" He had then fastened the beads shut on her neck. |
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| 2 | 136 |
I am sure, if a good offer had been made, he would have traded off Pimples' collar, with its trade beads, for, say, a well-beaded parfleche or a sash of ornamented sleen skin. |
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| 2 | 232 |
Coins and beads hung from the reins. |
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| 2 | 234 |
Women, too, in their shirtdresses and knee-length leggings, and beads, bracelets and armbands, and colorful blankets and capes, astride their kaiila, riding as red savages ride, participated in this barbaric parade. |
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| 2 | 315 |
There were glass beads about her neck. |
10 |
| 2 | 323 |
She wore two necklaces of beads, and another on which were threaded tiny, heavy tubes and pendants, spaced intermittently, of silver and gold. |
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| 3 | 15 |
Necklaces of shells and beads, and ornaments and trinkets, and pierced coins, of gold and silver, hung about her neck. |
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| 4 | 243 |
It means "Beads". |
10 |
| 11 | 6 |
Too, he has given her beads and moccasins. |
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| 43 | 40 |
It contrasted markedly with the exquisite, almost white, soft-tanned tabukhide dress, with its beads and finery, worn by her mistress. |
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| 44 | 738 |
One recalls, bemusedly, the popularity of neck adornments in cultures which permit such things, collars, necklaces, chokers, strings of beads, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 254 |
It was white, and trimmed with yellow beads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 308 |
The word "bina" is generally used to designate very pretty beads, but beads which, nonetheless, are cheap, common, and simple. |
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| 1 | 14 |
It consisted of ten small, cylindrical wooden beads strung on a wire. |
10 |
| 12 | 491 |
It had been recorded in the ordering of a string of slave beads. |
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| 16 | 310 |
With such beads common slaves, if they are sufficiently pleasing, might hope to be permitted to adorn themselves. |
10 |
| 16 | 311 |
Sometimes slave girls fight fiercely over such beads. |
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| 16 | 312 |
The best simple translation of "bina" is "slave beads". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 233 |
Too, it is usually formed not of spears but of brooms, brought from the conquering city, and the horizontal bar is hung with dangling slave beads. |
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| 15 | 236 |
As they crawl beneath it, the slave beads touch their back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 226 |
She was naked, except for her collar, and some beads, colorful, cheap wooden beads, slave beads, and her bells, on her left ankle. |
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| 11 | 233 |
About my neck had been slung several strands of beads, large, colorful wooden beads, slave beads, of different lengths. |
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| 11 | 717 |
It had also been checked when I had arrived here, and again, this afternoon, before I had been bedecked in these beads I wore, slave beads. |
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| 11 | 230 |
I had a sheet about me! She wore only her collar, and a few beads, and slave bells! "You're naked!" I said to her, angrily. |
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| 11 | 646 |
Beneath it, save for a steel collar and some beads, I was naked. |
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| 11 | 679 |
I stood there, then, in collar and beads, displayed, a tavern slave, a paga slave, a public slave, naked on a Gorean dancing floor. |
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| 11 | 690 |
I heard several of the beads touch the wood. |
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| 11 | 841 |
With the slave beads I already wore I felt unutterably displayed, and barbaric. |
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| 11 | 842 |
I could not move now without the sounds of the beads, the anklets and bracelets, the shimmering belt with its two loops. |
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| 11 | 916 |
I teased them, dancing close to them, swaying, my belly alive for them, with the jangling metal pieces, the anklets clashing on my ankles, the bracelets sliding and ringing on my wrists, and then, as they attempted to seize me, drew back, backing away, or whirled, with a swirl of beads, away from th... |
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| 11 | 945 |
I examined in dismay the beads about my neck, the cords at my waist, my barbarically adorned ankles and wrists. |
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| 11 | 1050 |
Sita was lifting the strands of slave beads from my neck, placing them, too, in the box. |
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| 11 | 1054 |
Sita lifted the last strand of slave beads from about my neck and put it in the box. |
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| 11 | 1056 |
I felt very naked then, without even the beads to cover me. |
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| 11 | 1059 |
"Let me keep a strand of beads," I begged. |
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| 13 | 7 |
I also wore a triple necklace of coins, together with necklaces of slave beads, of both glass and wood. |
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| 13 | 517 |
You have the necklace, the belt! The other things, the ornaments, the slave beads, the bells, are in the box. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 24 | 817 |
"It is hard to suppose that you would not be pleased to see them dancing before you, in the beads and chains of slaves". |
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| 24 | 900 |
I had put down the sea bag and, crouching before her, lifted back the beads about her body. |
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| 24 | 977 |
I was sure she wished that she might reach up and bring the strands of beads, which I had lifted and thrown back, about her collar, that they might dangle behind her, obscuring the less my vision of her loveliness, back again before her, as though such tiny, colorful objects might protect her to som... |
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| 24 | 1063 |
Quickly, gratefully, she drew her beads again about herself, before her, and then leapt up and hurried after her friends. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 119 |
I had left some slaves beads in recompense, of course, pretty beads of cheap wood, such as are cast about in festivals and carnivals, sometimes even being seized up secretly by free women who put them on before their mirrors, in secret, as though they might be slaves. |
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| 1 | 1165 |
"Look," I said, reaching into my wallet and drawing forth a handful of slave beads, "are they not beauties?" He looked at them, in the moonlight. |
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| 1 | 1171 |
I there displayed the beads. |
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| 1 | 1185 |
Slave beads are commonly cheap, made of wood and glass, and such. |
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| 1 | 1186 |
Who would waste expensive beads, golden droplets, pearls, rubies, and such, on a domestic animal? Still they are very pretty, and slaves will wheedle and beg for them. |
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| 1 | 1188 |
And they, such deliciously vain creatures, know well how to use them, adorning themselves, enhancing their beauty, making themselves even more excruciatingly desirable! Among slaves a handful of glass or wooden beads may confer a prestige that amongst free women might not be garnered with diamonds. |
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| 1 | 1189 |
Slave beads, too, and such simple adornments, bracelets, earrings, cosmetics, slave perfumes, and such, are well known for their effect in arousing the passions not only of the women themselves, but, too, it must be admitted, sometimes of their masters. |
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| 1 | 1246 |
I did, before I left the tent, hang the slave beads I had shown the fellow outside over the nail in the tent pole to which Borton had attached his warning sign. |
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| 1 | 1248 |
I looked at the beads. |
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| 37 | 131 |
Indeed, as with necklaces, beads, and such, in general, it is their intent, one amongst several intents, of course, to bedeck and adorn, to embellish and ornament, to set off, and draw attention to, her loveliness, to make her even more beautiful. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 8 |
Sometimes beads are used, sometimes even gems. |
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| 3 | 600 |
Some had even wrapped necklaces or beads about their left ankle. |
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| 9 | 845 |
"The beads are on the string," said the second fellow, he who was checking the security of the chain. |
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| 9 | 848 |
To be sure, the women on this chain, as they were merely free women, had only been referred to, in rude humor, as "beads" and not "jewels". |
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| 9 | 855 |
Then, in time, with the help of three or four other fellows, locating themselves along the coffle line, most of the weight being shortly borne by the wrist chains of the lovely "beads" themselves, we had doubled the chain, bringing it forward. |
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| 17 | 477 |
How inexplicable and marvelous to a savage might appear a match, a handful of beads, a mirror, a stick of candy, a tennis ball. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 610 |
The beads of these, and the pendants, hung sometimes to their bared midriffs, moving against them, touching them. |
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| 19 | 120 |
As each line was completed, the captives, now beads on the "slaver's necklace," would be unhooded. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 186 |
To a native glass beads may appear strange. |
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| 26 | 305 |
Consider the zest and attention devoted by the women of Earth to lovely throat-encircling enhancements, beads, bands, chains, and such, with which to bedeck themselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 77 |
With a swirl from the czehar and kalikas, and a pounding of the tabors, the dancers prostrated themselves in the sand, as slaves, and then, as Peisistratus struck his hands sharply together, they leapt up, and fled from the room, exiting through a portal, it curtained with dangling strands of blue a... |
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| 18 | 137 |
He watched with some fascination as beads of water formed on the leaves of rock-climbing Turpah, a parasitic but edible growth commonly adhering to the bark of the Tur tree. |
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| 23 | 46 |
'Bina', in Gorean, is a common word for slave beads, usually of colored wood, with which a low slave might be permitted to bedeck herself. |
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| 36 | 111 |
They can treasure simple things, too, a ribbon, a bangle, a bracelet, a string of colorful glass or wooden beads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 413 |
Sometimes such properties, so linked, are spoken of as a "slaver's necklace," pretty beads, so to speak, on a common string. |
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| 5 | 1131 |
I put the tallest girl in front, as that is the usual way the slavers arrange their "beads". |
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| 27 | 72 |
Here and there, as another such wagon passed, it, too, with its coffle of beauties, I noted a switch-bearing Ashigaru in attendance, doubtless lest one of the slaves be tempted to look about, or be so foolish as to attempt to communicate, or even whisper, to another of the "beads on the slaver's nec... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 431 |
When I reached the vestibule I was horrified to see a number of slaves, doubtless from the lower floors, mostly tower slaves and sandal slaves, naked and on all fours, fastened together, like beads on a string, by a single long rope, successively tied and knotted about the neck of each. |
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| 21 | 344 |
What is the value? Is the stone in the box a pebble or a diamond, is the slave in the hood or sack a beauty or a she-tarsk? Hooded slaves may also compete in various games, as in locating objects scattered about a room, arranging objects by size or weight, threading beads, fitting puzzle pieces toge... |
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| 26 | 44 |
These could be exchanged for things in the villages, fish, rice, sake, a fermented drink made from rice, and such, and, in the stalls, beads, cloth, trinkets, and such. |
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| 26 | 55 |
One bargained, of course, with such things, much as one might with pieces of metal, or, in the Barrens, with beads, strips of leather, furs, blankets, arrowheads, bowstrings, slaves, and such. |
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| 33 | 222 |
Then she, unsteady, and rubbing her wrists, was taken by the hair, by the proprietor's man, was bent over, at the waist, and, in standard leading position, was conducted to the back of the tavern, and drawn through a thick curtain of layered, dangling, colored beads. |
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| 37 | 582 |
"Some coin," she said, "tiny golden tarsks, almost like beads, which are light and consume little space, but mostly pearls, and jewels". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 273 |
I thought it odd, as well, for 'bina' is a common word for beads, generally cheap beads, of colored wood, slave beads. |
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| 8 | 310 |
In the beginning, hooded, I did not know the number of beads on the small necklace. |
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| 8 | 846 |
"The finest beads drawn from the finest of the slavers' necklaces, each worthy of the central block of the Curulean, each fit for the Pleasure Garden of a Ubar," said the auctioneer. |
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| 16 | 98 |
Indeed, even in coffles the destination of the coffle is seldom made explicit to, so to speak, the "beads on the slaver's necklace". |
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| 18 | 470 |
At that moment there was an exciting skirl of music, a flash of bells, a burst of color, a jangle of beads, and a cry of enthusiasm from the patrons, and a dancer was on the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 17 |
What slave has not scrubbed floors, naked, in shackles? How weary I was, in my place, carrying my burden! Surely it was not for this that I had been taught in the house to cook, clean, launder, and sew, to tie a tunic, to move with grace, to speak as a slave, to kneel, belly, lick, and kiss, to eat ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 284 |
We were taught personal hygiene, and cleanliness, perfumes and cosmetics, the stringing of jewelries, the affixing of bangles, bracelets, and beads, the draping of tunics, the binding on of a camisk, the subtleties of the ta-teera, or slave rag, seemingly so artless, and yet so cunning. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 118 |
They liberally exchange their favors for coins, pins, badges, beads, medals, brooches, and such, which they commonly hang on their belts. |
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