| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 247 |
It is a matter of blood and spirit, of beast and man, of a relation between two beings which must be immediate, intuitive, spontaneous. |
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| 4 | 11 |
If he had not been simply a winged beast, I would have believed him to be struggling with himself, a creature locked inwardly in mental torture. |
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| 6 | 75 |
I shuddered as the beast paused near me, and I felt the light stroke of its forelegs, felt the tactile investigation of the sensory hairs on its appendages. |
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| 6 | 137 |
It began to withdraw toward the mouth of the beast. |
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| 8 | 57 |
"You beast!" she hissed. |
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| 12 | 86 |
I would have a few moments more of life, the same brief reprieve nature grants the mouse carried by the hawk to its nest; then on some barren crag my body would be torn to pieces by the beast whose prey I was. |
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| 12 | 133 |
The beast had waited a moment too long; he had been too confident of his trapped quarry. |
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| 13 | 12 |
Shielded among the crags of the Voltai, invisible except from directly above, I saw four or five small cooking fires, such as might mark the camp of a mountain patrol or a small company of hunters, perhaps after the agile and bellicose Gorean mountain goat, the long-haired, spiral-horned verr, or, m... |
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| 13 | 52 |
Perhaps my sudden appearance had disoriented the beast or shaken its marvelous instincts, because it must have uttered its killing cry an instant too soon, or perhaps my muscles and nerves responded to my will more rapidly than it had anticipated. |
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| 13 | 53 |
When, twenty feet away, the great, bounding beast, fangs bared, leaped for its prey, it encountered instead only the slender needle of my spear, set like a stake in the ground, braced by the half-naked body of a warrior of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 13 | 56 |
The spear shaft snapped and the beast fell to the earth, rolling on its back, pawing at the air, uttering piercing, enraged shrieks, trying to bite the toothpick-like object from its body. |
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| 13 | 92 |
I feared the disease as I had not feared the larl, but I could not leave him here in the mountains to fall prey to one beast or another. |
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| 13 | 102 |
From perhaps a pasang away I heard the frustrated roar of a larl, probably one of the companions of the beast I had killed, puzzled about the failure of the hunt. |
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| 17 | 65 |
The beast was bejeweled and moved with a grave, regal stride. |
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| 18 | 100 |
I seized the tarn reins and drew the beast into the opening. |
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| 18 | 106 |
Without much success, by hand and voice, I tried to soothe the beast's apprehensions. |
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| 19 | 7 |
I climbed to the saddle of my own sable beast and brought it soaring into the air beyond the cylinder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 78 |
It was a thing I could see, could feel, could fight! With an eagerness and a lust that matched that of the beast itself, I rushed forward in the darkness and when I judged its leap I lunged forward with the broad-headed spear of Gor. |
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| 4 | 89 |
Coldly I took out my sword and hacked away the head of the beast and jerked the weapon free. |
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| 11 | 119 |
"Yet he is a fine beast, is he not?" asked one of the silver-masked women. |
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| 12 | 19 |
The yoke was not simply a device to secure a man, but to humiliate him, to treat him as if he were a beast. |
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| 12 | 115 |
"I knew then that I was no better than he, no better than a beast, worthy only to be a slave". |
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| 14 | 39 |
I saw the great wings snap, smiting the air, the hurricane from their blow spilling slaves into the sand, tangling chains, as the great beast, lifting its head and smelling the open air, struck it with his wings. |
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| 14 | 59 |
He turned away, eager to be unchained and led like a beast to the safety of the dungeons. |
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| 14 | 79 |
"A hundred tarnsmen have tried to mount this beast, and one hundred tarnsmen have died. |
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| 14 | 109 |
There could be no emotion, of course, in such a beast. |
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| 15 | 40 |
The man of Tharna, taught from birth to regard himself as an unworthy, ignoble and inferior creature, at best a dull-witted beast of burden, did not, on the whole, make a good tarnsman. |
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| 15 | 184 |
"Only a beast". |
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| 15 | 267 |
Then, holding her in one arm, and fastening one hand deep in the quills of the tarn's neck, I called "One-strap!" and the beast sprang from the ledge and began climbing. |
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| 16 | 71 |
"Fool!" she laughed, "do you not know by now that one does not make pacts with an animal, that one does not bargain with a beast?" "You gave me your word!" I shouted. |
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| 20 | 39 |
I had seen its shadow and feared it was wild, and had prepared to sell my life dearly, but the great beast, my own plumed giant, who may have haunted the Pillar of Exchanges for weeks, settled on the plains no more than thirty yards from me, its great wings shaking, and stalked to my side. |
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| 20 | 104 |
Through the beast's back I could feel the straining of his muscles, sense the mad pounding of that unconquerable heart. |
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| 20 | 108 |
Then mercifully I called "Four-strap!" I feared the courageous beast would kill himself before surrendering to the unseen force that blocked his path. |
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| 20 | 125 |
The beast did not stir. |
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| 20 | 127 |
I think, though it may be absurd, that the beast felt that he might have failed me, that he had not carried me into the mountains. |
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| 21 | 244 |
She could not go with me into the Sardar, of course, and when I abandoned her, she, alone and unprotected, would soon fall prey to a beast or find herself on yet another slaver's chain. |
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| 22 | 69 |
"Would I not please—a beast?" she asked. |
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| 22 | 116 |
And when I could dance no more he took me in his arms and like a beast forced me to serve his pleasure". |
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| 22 | 132 |
It suggested to me that I, even the Tatrix, might share the unworthy nature of the beast". |
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| 23 | 82 |
It lit some fifty yards from us and we ran to its side, I first and Lara after me, she still apprehensive of the beast. |
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| 25 | 101 |
"Insolent beast!" she screamed at him, then she ordered the other warrior to slay the first. |
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| 26 | 71 |
Thus each silver mask will in time belong to a beast, though at first she is given some opportunity to determine whose yellow cords she will feel, on whose rug the ceremony of submission will take place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 73 |
Now hearing the growl of such a beast, I threw back my cloak, lifted my shield and held my spear ready. |
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| 2 | 85 |
I advanced, my spear ready for its cast, my shield ready to be thrown over my body to protect it from the death throes of the thrashing beast should the cast be successful. |
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| 2 | 93 |
This allows each man to have a clean cast at the beast and provides some protection once the spear is thrown. |
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| 2 | 98 |
Last Spear must remain standing, and if the beast still lives, receive its charge with only his drawn sword. |
10 |
| 2 | 109 |
I had not yet seen the beast whose growl I had heard. |
10 |
| 2 | 122 |
My heart sank for I heard another growl, that of a second beast. |
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| 6 | 78 |
Had I now become so much the Gorean warrior that I could disregard the feelings of a fellow creature, in particular those of a girl, who must be protected and cared for? Could it be that I had, as the codes of my caste recommended, not even considered her, but merely regarded her as a rightless anim... |
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| 8 | 158 |
It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered beast, long-haired and spiral-horned. |
10 |
| 9 | 173 |
"It is a female of the human kind," she said, "but bred like a beast for its beauty and its passion". |
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| 13 | 96 |
Indeed, even I myself, after my experience of the arthropod on the platform and the flat, sluglike beast on its transportation disk in the plaza, was growing accustomed to finding strange creatures in the Nest of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 33 | 62 |
While I waited impatiently two more men cut a thigh from the slain beast and this, dripping with grease and blood, was ordered cast upon the fire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 8 |
Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea... |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Outcome of Spear Gambling The Tuchuk warrior lifted the lance in triumph, in the same instant slipping his fist into the retention knot and kicking the roweled heels of his boots into the silken flanks of his mount, the animal springing towards me and the rider in the same movement, as if one wi... |
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| 4 | 26 |
Yet, at a close range, I had no doubt that I could slay the beast. |
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| 8 | 75 |
The rider's kaiila was now rearing over the girl, and he brought the beast to rest. |
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| 13 | 117 |
He did not buy the kaiila near the wagon of Yachi of the Leather Workers though it was apparently a splendid beast. |
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| 13 | 118 |
At one point, he wrapped a heavy fur and leather robe about his left arm and struck the beast suddenly on the snout with his right hand. |
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| 13 | 120 |
"Such a slow beast," said Kamchak, "might in battle cost a man his life". |
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| 14 | 41 |
"We are fools! Fools!" I drew back the reins on my kaiila to keep the beast quiet. |
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| 15 | 10 |
In the field the Tuchuks would counter the tarnsmen by breaking open the Hundreds into scattered Tens and presenting only erratic, swiftly moving targets; it is difficult to strike a rider or beast at a distance from tarnback when he is well aware of you and ready to evade your missile; and, of cour... |
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| 17 | 23 |
"What is the nature of the beast in the pool?" I asked. |
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| 21 | 315 |
In an instant another five and then another and another had repeated this maneuver and soon, sometimes with squealing of kaiila and dismounting of riders as one beast or another would be crowded between the gates and the others, a Hundred and then another Hundred had hurtled howling into the city, b... |
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| 24 | 170 |
"Properly so," remarked Harold and leaped to his kaiila, untethering the beast and springing to its saddle. |
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| 25 | 582 |
"You are a beast, Tarl Cabot," she cried. |
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| 25 | 583 |
"And you, too," I laughed, "are a beast—a beautiful little collared beast". |
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| 25 | 585 |
"Array yourself in Pleasure Silk, Little Beast," I said, "and enter my arms". |
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| 25 | 910 |
"What a cruel beast he was," said the girl. |
10 |
| 25 | 912 |
"The little slave girl," said the girl scornfully, "is now madly in love with the beast". |
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| 26 | 442 |
The reins moved in my hands and the beast shifted nervously. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 379 |
"I hate you, you beast, you big beast!" Amidst the laughter of the court of the Ubar Ho-Sorl carried his prize from the chamber, the lovely, squirming slave girl, Miss Phyllis Robertson. |
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| 4 | 243 |
"Hateful beast!" wept Elizabeth. |
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| 5 | 721 |
"You are a beast," said she, laughing, "Tarl Cabot". |
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| 6 | 129 |
"He was fed to the beast," said Ho-Tu. |
10 |
| 6 | 130 |
"What beast?" I asked. |
10 |
| 8 | 79 |
She was generally intrigued, though frightened when I spoke of the thing called the beast, and distressed when I mentioned the girls brought from Earth, to be sold as slaves from the House of Cernus. |
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| 8 | 177 |
"You big beast!" she laughed. |
10 |
| 8 | 179 |
"You have always been able to make me eat out of your hand, Tarl Cabot," said she, "you big beast". |
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| 10 | 110 |
"The thing you call the beast," I said, "lies through that door". |
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| 10 | 117 |
"You know nothing of the beast?" I asked. |
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| 10 | 120 |
"Do not be curious, Killer," said he, "for commonly those who look upon the beast do so only in death". |
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| 10 | 130 |
"Fear of the beast keeps good order in the House of Cernus," said Ho-Tu. |
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| 11 | 345 |
"You beast!" cried out the second girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 346 |
"You beast!" Flaminius suddenly reached into the cage and, taking the girl by the wrists, jerked her against the bars, painfully so, holding her at arm's length cruelly against them. |
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| 14 | 31 |
"You are a sweet beast," she said. |
10 |
| 14 | 36 |
"You beast," she smiled, kissing me. |
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| 14 | 112 |
Once as I walked about I heard the wild cry, a howling roar, of an animal, apparently large and fierce; I supposed it to be the Beast of which Ho-Tu, and others, seemed so frightened; they seemed to know as little of it as I; when I heard the cry an involuntary shiver coursed my spine; I felt the ha... |
10 |
| 17 | 116 |
I then took the cup from her and threw it to the side of the room, and took her into my arms, that lovely, long-legged, black-haired beast, provocative in the brevity of her slave livery, and kissed her, and well, and at length. |
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| 17 | 332 |
A moment later another guard leaped into the pit of sand and, to the amusement of the girls, began a dance of larl hunters, joined by two or three others, in a file, dancing the stalking of the beast, the confrontation, the kill. |
10 |
| 17 | 821 |
"That is since the beast came to the house," she said, looking down. |
10 |
| 17 | 822 |
"The knives are sheathed now that the loser will survive to be fed to the beast". |
10 |
| 17 | 823 |
"What manner of beast is it?" I asked. |
10 |
| 17 | 830 |
"Is it only those who lose at hook knife who are fed to the beast?" I asked. |
10 |
| 17 | 832 |
"Anyone who displeases Cernus might be given to the beast. |
10 |
| 17 | 836 |
I remembered that the slave who had lost in hook knife had been wounded slightly before being taken to the beast. |
10 |
| 17 | 840 |
"But let us forget the beast," she said. |
10 |
| 18 | 260 |
Curious I opened the door off the hall, through which the slave taken to the beast had been led. |
10 |
| 18 | 273 |
I would have thought it would have been bolted shut, for fear of the beast locked within. |
10 |
| 18 | 340 |
A realization that horrified me seemed to claw at the back of my brain, as the beast had torn at the door, unseen, in the corridor far above. |
10 |
| 19 | 324 |
There, slumped in a marble chair, was an indolent figure, yet indolent as is the satisfied beast of prey. |
10 |
| 19 | 389 |
"Here," said she, tauntingly, "is a slim beauty, lithe and swift, White Silk, intelligent, curious for the touch of a man, who for the right man would be the most abject and servile wench a beast could wish. |
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| 20 | 36 |
"Feed him to the beast," said Cernus. |
10 |
| 20 | 45 |
"The beast has been fed," said Cernus, chuckling, drinking wine, spilling some of it down his face. |
10 |
| 20 | 164 |
"In ten days, bloody them and bind them back to back, and feed them to the beast". |
10 |
| 21 | 185 |
The man was one of those slaves who, garbed in black, armed with iron hooks, drag the dead, human or beast, from the sand. |
10 |
| 22 | 86 |
The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst... |
10 |
| 22 | 139 |
Then followed Green Ubar, Mip one with the winged beast, high stirrups, his small body hunched down, not giving the bird its head. |
10 |
| 22 | 142 |
Its feathers lacked the fiery sheen of the young tarn; its beak was not the gleaming yellow of the other birds, but a whitish yellow; its breathing was not that of the other birds; but its eyes were those of the unconquerable tarn, wild, black, fierce; gleaming with pride and fury; determined that n... |
10 |
| 22 | 231 |
He stretched out his hand toward the bird and I lifted him, carrying him to the side of the inert, winged beast. |
10 |
| 22 | 408 |
"Hold!" I had cried, and the great beast I rode, though it trembled, eyes blazing, did not leave the perch. |
10 |
| 23 | 165 |
He looked over his shoulder, saw the door from the hall which led to the stairs and passage leading to the chambers of the beast. |
10 |
| 23 | 181 |
When I had come to the room, sword ready, the beast was gone. |
10 |
| 23 | 219 |
"The beast is gone. |
10 |
| 24 | 29 |
Marlenus was like a god and a beast among men, inspiring the most fanatic loyalties, the most intense of enmities. |
10 |
| 24 | 137 |
"He is now, chained, on his way to the Sardar, along with the materials taken from the room of the beast and what had been brought in from the black ships. |
10 |
| 24 | 341 |
"Of course, Companion," said she, "you beast!" She spun to face him. |
10 |
| 24 | 344 |
"Beast!" she cried. |
10 |
| 24 | 345 |
"Beast!" "Do you wish this slave?" asked Marlenus, from the throne. |
10 |
| 24 | 375 |
"Beast!" she cried. |
10 |
| 24 | 513 |
"Your master is a beast, Slave," Virginia informed Phyllis. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 |
Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a... |
10 |
| 1 | 66 |
I recalled Samos, slumped in his marble chair at the Curulean in Ar, seemingly indolent, but indolent as might be the satisfied beast of prey. |
10 |
| 3 | 233 |
"That rightless he should serve the Growers of Rence as a beast of burden?" "Let us rather throw him to tharlarion," said the man with the headband of the pearls of the Vosk sorp. |
10 |
| 3 | 308 |
And how worthless and miserable was the beast, the slave, that knelt, naked and bound, at her feet. |
10 |
| 11 | 261 |
The somnolent beast of a man regarded me. |
10 |
| 14 | 430 |
"Beast!" she cried. |
10 |
| 17 | 206 |
The sea was now growing high, and the darkness in the north was now half the sky, looming like a beast with wild fur rooting and sniffing for its prey. |
10 |
| 18 | 263 |
She had a don't-you-dare-you-beast-you look in her eyes. |
10 |
| 18 | 747 |
"Beast," smiled Telima. |
10 |
| 18 | 937 |
"When you lost your images of yourselves, and learned your humanity, in your diverse ways, and shame, you abandoned your myths, your songs, and would accept only the meat of animals, as though one so lofty as yourself must be either Priest-King or beast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 409 |
His eyes seemed to meet those of the beast, and the beast seemed to look at him. |
10 |
| 10 | 680 |
I, forgotten by the beast in its feeding, inched toward the door, and then, hearing the feeding of the beast behind me, fled, naked and bound, into the darkness. |
10 |
| 17 | 231 |
It was the small man, who had touched me intimately when I had lain bound in my own bed on Earth, the small man who had threatened me in the hut in the northern forests, who had been the mountebank, the master, I had thought, of the strange beast, the terrible beast. |
10 |
| 8 | 664 |
During this time his beast slept, or seemed to sleep, behind him, curled on the grass, a guard holding its chain. |
10 |
| 8 | 667 |
"Stand straight!" The beast frightened us. |
10 |
| 8 | 669 |
Slowly the beast lifted itself to its hind legs, and lifted its paws and opened its mouth. |
10 |
| 8 | 684 |
It also had claws on its hindlegs, or feet, which were retractable, as the mountebank demonstrated, issuing sharp voice commands to the beast. |
10 |
| 8 | 693 |
Then, again, they were simple and vacant, those of a mountebank's performing beast. |
10 |
| 8 | 695 |
With the other girls I applauded, striking my left shoulder in Gorean fashion, as the mountebank put his beast through its paces. |
10 |
| 8 | 705 |
Sometimes the mountebank would give pieces of meat to the girls to throw to the beast. |
10 |
| 8 | 709 |
The beast frightened me. |
10 |
| 8 | 715 |
But then I saw that they were again vacant and stupid, those of a beast. |
10 |
| 8 | 723 |
The beast then rose to its hind legs, sleepily, and regarded us. |
10 |
| 8 | 745 |
How clever they thought they were! They were beasts, all of them! I suppose they were big, brave men, with their spears and swords, and if the beast charged at them, they would just stand there and kill it, while we, only women, fled like screaming children. |
10 |
| 8 | 750 |
We had fled like women! We were women! I was still terrified of the beast, even separated from it by bars. |
10 |
| 8 | 771 |
"You are a Kajira, an animal, an item of livestock, only a pretty little, purchasable beast". |
10 |
| 9 | 53 |
"She was fed by hand, like a beast". |
10 |
| 10 | 10 |
The beast looked at me, and yawned. |
10 |
| 10 | 27 |
I could not take my eyes from the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 108 |
Terrified, because it brought me nearer the beast, I did so, trembling. |
10 |
| 10 | 109 |
"Attack!" he shouted in Gorean to the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 147 |
The beast now lay curled in its place, on straw. |
10 |
| 10 | 376 |
"Perhaps feed you to the beast," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 402 |
Suddenly the beast made a noise. |
10 |
| 10 | 408 |
The man, and I, watched the beast, I, frightened, he, alert, cautious. |
10 |
| 10 | 419 |
The beast now crouched on the straw, its nostrils wide in the leathery snout, its eyes bright and black, the ears lifted. |
10 |
| 10 | 423 |
The beast growled menacingly. |
10 |
| 10 | 440 |
He gestured with his head to the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 441 |
"Also, he may smell the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 444 |
This was answered by a throaty snarl from the collared beast within. |
10 |
| 10 | 446 |
"He may smell the beast," said the man. |
10 |
| 10 | 513 |
He bent down and seized me by the hair and the left arm and thrust me toward the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 515 |
I screamed, thrust toward the wide, fanged jaws of the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 517 |
Again and again the jaws snapped at me, once grazing my body, as I was held just outside the perimeter of the beast's chain. |
10 |
| 10 | 520 |
"Do not feed!" he cried to the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 539 |
"Perhaps I shall feed you to the beast," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 621 |
The beast at the side of the wall went wild. |
10 |
| 10 | 625 |
The beast bellowed in fury, leaping up. |
10 |
| 10 | 626 |
The man, as though brought to his senses by the maddened cry of the beast, picked up the slave whip and ran to the window, striking the sleen, trying to drive it back through the window. |
10 |
| 10 | 643 |
The beast roared at him and he turned, terrified. |
10 |
| 10 | 646 |
It was almost as though the beast had commanded him to remain. |
10 |
| 10 | 648 |
Then to my horror I observed the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 655 |
The beast seized it about the throat, its great jaws biting at the throat and vertebrae. |
10 |
| 10 | 657 |
Then, with a horrifying snap of bone and tearing of flesh and fur the jaws of the beast bit through the back of the sleen's neck. |
10 |
| 10 | 660 |
The beast turned to regard us. |
10 |
| 10 | 663 |
The beast looked at him, uncomprehendingly, and I was suddenly terrified. |
10 |
| 10 | 665 |
Then the beast threw back its head and uttered a wild, horrifying scream, and fell to feeding on the sleen's carcass. |
10 |
| 10 | 667 |
"Do not feed! Do not feed!" The beast raised its head, half buried in the sleen's body, meat hanging from its jaws. |
10 |
| 10 | 670 |
The beast was in its feeding frenzy. |
10 |
| 10 | 674 |
The beast looked at him, eyes blazing, its face drenched in blood. |
10 |
| 10 | 676 |
"Obey your master!" The beast looked at me. |
10 |
| 11 | 776 |
My thoughts strayed back to that terrible night, when I fled from the hut, into the darkness, leaving the beast feeding on the carcass of the destroyed, bloodied sleen. |
10 |
| 11 | 785 |
The man, too, fearing the beast in its feeding frenzy, had fled. |
10 |
| 11 | 786 |
I most was afraid that the beast itself might follow me. |
10 |
| 11 | 808 |
The forest panther is a proud beast, but, too, he does not care to be distracted in his hunting. |
10 |
| 11 | 820 |
The rain would wipe out my trail! I might escape the beast! I doubted that even a sleen, Gor's most perfect hunter, could follow my trail after such a downpour. |
10 |
| 11 | 848 |
They might even return me to the man and the beast in the hut, for more arrowpoints! I did not know what to do. |
10 |
| 11 | 885 |
There was a beast. |
10 |
| 11 | 986 |
I wondered about the man in the hut, and the beast. |
10 |
| 11 | 990 |
I supposed that the man and the beast would look for me, if at all, in the vicinity of Laura, or northward, or even in the forest. |
10 |
| 13 | 1031 |
Even when I had thought myself most free, after the escape from Targo, after betraying Ute, and escaping in the Ka-la-na thicket, this beast, with his laugh, his leather rope, and his slave collar, had been upon my trail. |
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| 16 | 365 |
"That is true," he said, the beast. |
10 |
| 17 | 60 |
A man is a strange beast I think, for he both desires one woman and many women, and perhaps most he desires one woman who will be to him many women, others, delicious others, and yet always, too, herself. |
10 |
| 17 | 241 |
The small man was there, and the beast, squatting, shaggy, regarding me, and, too, to my surprise, Haakon of Skjern. |
10 |
| 17 | 403 |
The third body was strange, that of a large, and, I fear, most unpleasant beast". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 218 |
The sharpened stone clutched in the hand of a shambling beast is a delicate instrument compared to the clumsy noises, these piteous vocabularies, with which we, unwary men, dare to speak of realities. |
10 |
| 11 | 180 |
"Beast," she hissed. |
10 |
| 12 | 137 |
Noble, great Ubar! And who would remember Talena, and her shame, after Marlenus, astride a mighty tharlarion, would have his triumph in the streets of Ar, panther girls in tiny cages slung on poles carried by huntsmen, and, walking beside his beast, naked and chained to his stirrup, their former lea... |
10 |
| 19 | 266 |
"Beast!" screamed Hura. |
10 |
| 19 | 267 |
"Beast!" "Put them in coffle," I told Sarus. |
10 |
| 22 | 469 |
"Yes," she said, "you beast! You will! You will!" He took a step toward her, and she stumbled away, and fell against the longboat, and then climbed into it, laughing, watching him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 270 |
But the beast we had seen was not an isolated, degenerate, diseased beast, of the sort we had encountered at Forkbeard's Landfall. |
10 |
| 14 | 127 |
I darted to one side, the ax buried itself in the dirt, I found myself within the beast's guard, I thrust the blade, to its hilt, into the chest of the beast. |
10 |
| 1 | 594 |
"There was a tarn and a beast. |
10 |
| 1 | 598 |
The tarn took flight, low, over the rence, the beast upon it, hunched, shaggy. |
10 |
| 1 | 605 |
I wondered if the beast had struck for hunger. |
10 |
| 1 | 606 |
Such a beast in the house of Cernus had fed on human flesh. |
10 |
| 1 | 611 |
"Why did you not kill the beast, or strike the tarn?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 625 |
"Describe the beast," I said to the rencer. |
10 |
| 1 | 635 |
"Do you surmise, Samos," I asked, "that the beast killed for hunger?" "Speak," said Samos to the rencer. |
10 |
| 1 | 636 |
"The beast," he said, "had been seen earlier, twice, on abandoned, half-rotted rence islands, lurking". |
10 |
| 1 | 641 |
"The beast struck once, and once only?" I asked. |
10 |
| 3 | 353 |
How fantastic, how strange, I thought, is the blood of beasts, and I realized, too, that I was a beast, and wondered on what might be the nature of those instincts which must be my own. |
10 |
| 4 | 245 |
"Then, Beast," said she, "do not touch me!" "I am not touching you," said he, and got to his feet. |
10 |
| 7 | 250 |
"At least the beast is gone," said Gautrek. |
10 |
| 7 | 282 |
The beast stood there, blinking, bent over the body. |
10 |
| 7 | 302 |
One of the men touched its snout with the butt of his spear, and then thrust it into the beast's mouth; the butt of the spear was torn away; the bondmaids screamed. |
10 |
| 7 | 327 |
Then he bent to the beast. |
10 |
| 8 | 272 |
"What has such a beast to do with Thorgard of Scagnar?" I asked. |
10 |
| 8 | 273 |
"What has Thorgard of Scagnar to do with such a beast?" smiled Ivar Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 9 | 419 |
Deep in the belly, too, of every female is a desire, more ancient than the caves, to be forced to yield to the ruthless domination of a magnificent, uncompromising male, a master; deep within them they all wish to submit, vulnerably and completely, nude, to such a beast. |
10 |
| 11 | 20 |
The nostrils of the beast drank in what information it wished, as they, like its eyes, surveyed the throng. |
10 |
| 11 | 29 |
The beast was approximately nine feet in height; I conjectured its weight in the neighborhood of eight or nine hundred pounds. |
10 |
| 11 | 63 |
But, too, its anatomy permits it to function, in flight and attack, much as a four-legged beast. |
10 |
| 11 | 175 |
"Let us negotiate such fees," said the beast, "when such negotiations are apt". |
10 |
| 11 | 263 |
"I thank the great Jarl," said the beast, "and fine grain it is. |
10 |
| 11 | 285 |
The roar of the beast must have carried even to the ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 154 |
I saw Ivar Forkbeard, his sword gone, lost in the body of a nearby Kur, his knife in his hand, one hand thrusting away and upward the jaws of a Kur, repeatedly plunge his knife into the huge chest of the beast. |
10 |
| 14 | 203 |
Screaming, stumbling, helplessly, the caught, leashed women followed their beast master. |
10 |
| 15 | 44 |
We had seen the beast from the darkness, from our longboat, when we were escaping Scagnar, Thorgard's daughter hooded and secured, wrists fettered behind her, ankles crossed and lashed together, lying between our feet. |
10 |
| 15 | 92 |
"Foolish beast, stupid animal," said Ivar, brandishing his scarf, "can you not see the yellow scarf?" He then brushed past the Kur. |
10 |
| 16 | 34 |
"It is a representation of a man riding a mythological beast, doubtless an illustration based upon some saga with which I am unfamiliar". |
10 |
| 17 | 112 |
Two such "hands," with their "eyes," constitutes a "Kur," or "Beast". |
10 |
| 17 | 294 |
In his stead there stood a beast. |
10 |
| 18 | 247 |
Not a beast moved. |
10 |
| 18 | 346 |
She watched the two beasts, contesting her, the Kur and the human beast, terrible with the bloodied ax, Wulfstan of Kassau. |
10 |
| 18 | 365 |
Wulfstan lifted Thyri by one arm and threw her before the beast. |
10 |
| 18 | 368 |
Then the beast, snarling, half-charged her, stopping short, hissing, eyes blazing. |
10 |
| 18 | 369 |
"Wulfstan!" cried Thyri, backing away from the beast, shaking her head. |
10 |
| 18 | 372 |
The sleen snapped at her, and, weeping, she turned and fled to the pen, the beast hissing and biting at her, driving her before it. |
10 |
| 18 | 425 |
It was the only ornament the beast wore. |
10 |
| 18 | 666 |
The Kur is a tenacious beast. |
10 |
| 19 | 12 |
To the astonishment of all the beast did not address itself to the two leaders. |
10 |
| 19 | 16 |
The lips of the beast drew back from its teeth. |
10 |
| 19 | 20 |
Then the beast went to Svein Blue Tooth and Ivar Forkbeard, and there, from the ground at their feet, lifted again the two parts of the ax. |
10 |
| 20 | 86 |
"Are you Tarl Cabot?" asked the beast. |
10 |
| 20 | 117 |
With his left paw the beast brushed her, rolling and sprawling, twenty feet across the stone. |
10 |
| 20 | 121 |
Then the beast stopped, puzzled. |
10 |
| 21 | 101 |
I wondered if man could be so great a foe, if he in his own terribleness, his ferocity, his intelligence, could match such a beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 105 |
Could man be a match for such a beast? I wondered on what might be the magnitude of man. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 467 |
Some twenty of them, with Farouk, and certain guards, began to work their way down the caravan, beast by beast, checking the drovers and kaiila tenders. |
10 |
| 7 | 747 |
"My thanks," I said, and, kicking the beast in the flanks, sand scattering back from its claws, I pressed the beast to the north. |
10 |
| 1 | 328 |
The beast sat back against the wall, watching us. |
10 |
| 1 | 331 |
Once before, in the ruins of a hall in Torvaldsland, surmounting a stake, he had seen the head of such a beast. |
10 |
| 1 | 336 |
"As nearly as we can determine," said Samos, "it is only a beast, and not rational". |
10 |
| 1 | 350 |
The beast sat, somnolent, regarding us. |
10 |
| 1 | 357 |
"Perhaps this one, as perhaps some of the others, is simply a dangerous beast, nothing more". |
10 |
| 1 | 358 |
I looked into the beast's eyes. |
10 |
| 1 | 368 |
"What was your mission?" The beast said nothing. |
10 |
| 1 | 598 |
"Further," said I, "into your keeping has come a captive beast, clearly a Kur". |
10 |
| 1 | 600 |
"Only a beast". |
10 |
| 1 | 610 |
The beast had been taken southeast of Ar, while moving southeast. |
10 |
| 1 | 800 |
"Yet the beast was alone". |
10 |
| 1 | 801 |
"I suspect," said Samos, "that the beast's destination lay not on the other side of this area, but within it". |
10 |
| 1 | 883 |
I referred to the beast in the dungeons of Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 894 |
Sooner or later the beast would become aware of the pursuit. |
10 |
| 3 | 1 |
I do not Participate in What Occurs in a Courtyard; I Recover a Silver Tarsk The war kaiila, its claws, however, sheathed, lunged at the other animal, its clawed back feet thrusting with an explosion of sand away from the ground, its fanged jaws, bound shut with leather, striking at the man astride ... |
10 |
| 3 | 20 |
Then he gestured to the boy, that the boy should remove the claw sheaths of the beast. |
10 |
| 3 | 21 |
He did so, carefully, the beast moving, nervous, shifting in the sand. |
10 |
| 3 | 25 |
The beast reared, its claws raking the air, and threw back its head, biting at the sun. |
10 |
| 4 | 11 |
It is carried by a pack kaiila, strapped to the beast, and steadied on both sides by braces against the pack blankets. |
10 |
| 4 | 70 |
Once she had dared to say to me, "But Aya makes me do all her work!" I kicked the kaiila toward her, and she was buffeted from her feet rolling in the gravel, and then lay, hands shielding her face, on her back beneath the very paws of the beast, it hissing and stamping, scratching at the gravel abo... |
10 |
| 5 | 149 |
"Was he not a terrible beast?" asked Alyena. |
10 |
| 5 | 150 |
"Yes, a terrible beast," I agreed. |
10 |
| 5 | 163 |
"He was a terrible beast, was he not?" she asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 495 |
"He is a beast! He is a terrible person! Did you not see how he abused me?" "In his arms," I laughed, "he would treat you only as a slave". |
10 |
| 7 | 149 |
I sensed that the beast stood. |
10 |
| 7 | 213 |
"Such a beast," said he, "must not be found within the cell. |
10 |
| 7 | 278 |
I heard two more howls of rage, for twice more had they struck the beast. |
10 |
| 7 | 281 |
The men now circled where the blood fell, which marked the path of the beast. |
10 |
| 7 | 706 |
You have saved me this afternoon from the beast's attack, and tonight you free me, rescuing me from the brine pits of Klima. |
10 |
| 7 | 725 |
I hoped that the beast had not been drugged. |
10 |
| 7 | 729 |
The reflexes of the beast seemed fit. |
10 |
| 7 | 731 |
If it had been drugged with a quick-acting agent, the quarter of an Ahn I had purchased, delaying my escape, in demanding that the collar be removed, rather than the links broken, would have given the drug time to be evident in the behavior of the beast. |
10 |
| 7 | 741 |
He put his hand on the bulging water bag, which hung behind the saddle, on the left side of the beast, balanced by another on the right. |
10 |
| 8 | 41 |
One of the burdens tied among others on the back of one of the pack kaiila was transferred to another beast, one whose rein was held by the rider. |
10 |
| 8 | 66 |
Two of the men held the reins of two pack kaiila; another man, by the rein, pulled another beast, shambling after him. |
10 |
| 8 | 300 |
I saw it was his intention, not dismounting, to ride the kaiila against and through the tent, it striking against the beast's forequarters. |
10 |
| 11 | 160 |
"The little beast!" whispered Alyena to me, in English. |
10 |
| 11 | 429 |
Ibn Saran had told me the beast had been slain. |
10 |
| 11 | 629 |
He, mounted on his kaiila, urged the beast forward. |
10 |
| 12 | 461 |
"You are a beast," she said. |
10 |
| 17 | 172 |
I thought then rather of the beast, the foe, and the hunt. |
10 |
| 17 | 257 |
Further, the reflex instinct of the beast would be to hold, not to release the quarry. |
10 |
| 17 | 260 |
I seized the lateral fin on the right side of the beast. |
10 |
| 17 | 266 |
Then the beast swept upward and I, clinging to the fin, erupted with it, eyes and nostrils stung with salt, half blinded, more than ten feet into the air. |
10 |
| 17 | 282 |
Madly did the great marine beast thrash; its jaws distended, trying to disgorge its victim, but it was held by the teeth; it tried to bite through the body in its jaws but the body was wedged well within the jaws and it could exert little leverage. |
10 |
| 19 | 14 |
"A beast," he said. |
10 |
| 19 | 15 |
"A large beast. |
10 |
| 19 | 26 |
"No such beast could live in the desert," said Hassan. |
10 |
| 19 | 27 |
"No," I said, "such a beast could not live in the desert". |
10 |
| 19 | 30 |
I found no sign of a beast. |
10 |
| 19 | 100 |
I realize now that this was why the beast was pacing us. |
10 |
| 19 | 174 |
We crouched down, trying to keep our balance, the ditch between us and the standing beast. |
10 |
| 19 | 180 |
I slipped into the ditch and slowly, in order not to provoke the beast to attack, lifted the two bags to the surface. |
10 |
| 19 | 181 |
Hassan took them and, when I was clear of the ditch, we backed away from the beast, watching it. |
10 |
| 19 | 183 |
The beast did not move but remained, its eyes, half-shut, rimmed with sand, fixed upon me, its great arm pointing toward the dune country. |
10 |
| 19 | 187 |
The beast did not pursue us. |
10 |
| 20 | 36 |
Samos had bought it as a beast from hunters. |
10 |
| 20 | 50 |
"It is a rational beast," I said. |
10 |
| 20 | 55 |
The paws of the beast reached up, slowly, and placed themselves on the bag. |
10 |
| 20 | 117 |
Ibn Saran told me the beast had been killed. |
10 |
| 21 | 19 |
Surely he knew that one should move only at night, and yet the beast seemed tireless, and would press me on, as though I needed neither food nor sleep. |
10 |
| 21 | 65 |
It was becoming a desperate beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 185 |
It had been an admirable, mighty beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 188 |
Its flesh seemed to hang upon its huge frame, a shrunken reminiscence of the former mightiness of the beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 199 |
It, proud beast, had pitted itself against the desert. |
10 |
| 21 | 201 |
What prize, I wondered, could be worth the risk the beast had been willing to take, the price it had been willing to pay, its own life. |
10 |
| 21 | 205 |
The beast rolled to its feet, and shook the sand from its fur. |
10 |
| 21 | 210 |
The beast lifted its long arm and pointed to the sun. |
10 |
| 21 | 215 |
The beast, with one of his digits, rubbed about its lips and tongue. |
10 |
| 21 | 219 |
The beast regarded me for a long time. |
10 |
| 21 | 225 |
The beast turned away from me and bent his head over his cupped hands. |
10 |
| 21 | 228 |
Four times did the beast do this. |
10 |
| 21 | 229 |
It was water from the last large water hole we had visited, where the half-eaten tabuk had been found, held for days in the beast's storage stomach. |
10 |
| 21 | 231 |
Again did the beast try to give me water, but then there was none left. |
10 |
| 21 | 242 |
But the beast motioned now that I should rest. |
10 |
| 21 | 252 |
I did not think it an ill or unworthy thing to die in the company of such a beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 298 |
I found myself struggling to keep up with the beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 307 |
Though it was in the heat of the Tahari noon the beast did not pause. |
10 |
| 21 | 386 |
The beast lay in the sand. |
10 |
| 21 | 391 |
The sand beneath the beast grew red. |
10 |
| 21 | 393 |
The beast pushed me away. |
10 |
| 21 | 408 |
I knew it would be a determined, desperate beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 435 |
The beast emerged from the sand. |
10 |
| 21 | 469 |
The opening must once have been the outer opening of a lock; it was rectangular; the exterior hatch was missing; there was twisted metal at the side of the opening, as though it had been wrenched away from rusted hinges; the beast crouched in the lock, peering into the storm. |
10 |
| 21 | 506 |
I counted slowly, five thousand Ihn, that the reflexes of the Kur within be drawn to a hair-trigger alertness, that the whole nervous might of the beast might be balanced on a razor's edge of response, that every instinct and fiber in his body would scream to press the trigger at what first might mo... |
10 |
| 21 | 603 |
The beast seemed indomitable. |
10 |
| 21 | 612 |
The beast was nearer now, and still climbing. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 353 |
He was demanding me! He was telling them to give me to him! The bold beast! How I hated him, and how pleased I was! The men laughed. |
10 |
| 2 | 580 |
This added to the distinct and unwelcome impression that I was being assessed as an animal, assessed as no more than a young, lovely beast. |
10 |
| 2 | 607 |
I must resist him! He is a beast! I was sitting now, my face turned to one side, trying to push back, but his left arm, behind my back, held me. |
10 |
| 2 | 1076 |
The man spoke soothingly to the beast. |
10 |
| 2 | 1080 |
Then the beast disappeared in the shadows. |
10 |
| 2 | 1084 |
He had not acted as though he particularly feared the beast. |
10 |
| 2 | 1086 |
The beast had not been hunting us. |
10 |
| 2 | 1087 |
Commonly such a beast scouts prey, surreptitiously, and then, unless suspecting a trap, as with a tethered victim, perhaps a staked-out girl, used as a lure, makes its swift, unexpected strike, its kill charge. |
10 |
| 2 | 1088 |
The beast had been on another scent, probably that of tabuk, a small, single-horned antelopelike creature, its common game, and, on its trail, we had constituted only a distraction. |
10 |
| 2 | 1089 |
Such a beast is a tireless and single-minded hunter. |
10 |
| 2 | 1094 |
Fortunately ours had not been the first scent that night which the beast, upon emerging from its lair, had taken. |
10 |
| 2 | 1123 |
I wanted to please the dominant beast. |
10 |
| 2 | 1130 |
I was eager to carry his shield, to have its heavy weight placed across my small back, that I might serve him again, as I had before, as his lovely beast of burden, heeling him, but he did not again stagger me beneath that ponderous weight. |
10 |
| 4 | 84 |
When the first man, yawning, sleepy and bleary-eyed, the lazy beast, stumbled to the cooking fire, we were ready for him. |
10 |
| 4 | 722 |
I pressed my lips long to its side, then humbly proffered it to the magnificent beast whose girl I was. |
10 |
| 7 | 1044 |
What a beast he was. |
10 |
| 7 | 1277 |
What a beast he was, me so naked, so helpless in his arms. |
10 |
| 8 | 4 |
The snout of the beast thrust viciously part way between the bars. |
10 |
| 8 | 17 |
The bars were wet where it had bit at them; the ground, too, about the cage was wet where the beast's saliva, in its frenzy, its lust for killing, had dampened the clawed dust. |
10 |
| 8 | 22 |
The beast became pacified. |
10 |
| 8 | 67 |
The bit of a garment that she wore had also been torn by the beast who had pursued her. |
10 |
| 8 | 85 |
I saw her stumble once, and the beast seize her leg, and she screamed, and then she was again on her feet, running, her hands extended before her. |
10 |
| 8 | 104 |
It was a precisely trained beast, but no training is perfect. |
10 |
| 8 | 107 |
The beast, at the nearness and intensity of my scent, was becoming uncontrollable. |
10 |
| 8 | 122 |
The beast was well trained. |
10 |
| 8 | 134 |
The beast tried to reach me, but could not do so. |
10 |
| 8 | 189 |
The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after cu... |
10 |
| 9 | 584 |
It was not the five-bladed slave whip, invented for the full and perfect punishment of an erring slave girl, but only a light, one-bladed bosk whip, little more than a switch of leather, a mere incitement and encouragement to better performance on the part of a slacking plow beast, but it struck my ... |
10 |
| 12 | 748 |
The man grinned, and leapt to the ladder leading to the high saddle of the great beast. |
10 |
| 20 | 79 |
He was handsome and doubtless knew it, the beast, and that I was only a slave girl. |
10 |
| 22 | 599 |
Dimly I was aware of movement near me in the water, something other than the beast that held me. |
10 |
| 22 | 604 |
Then the beast, suddenly, startling me, twisted, and swam a tight, angry circle, its long tail thrashing, and then the water seemed suddenly different, somehow more viscous and greasy. |
10 |
| 22 | 605 |
The beast thrashed angrily. |
10 |
| 22 | 613 |
I saw the beast which had gripped me now below me. |
10 |
| 26 | 419 |
"You are a beast and a barbarian!" she cried to him, drawing back. |
10 |
| 26 | 610 |
"The beast put the iron well to my body," she said, angrily. |
10 |
| 26 | 757 |
"Beast," she wept, "how long will you sport with me?" Many times he brought her to the verge of surrender, teeth clenched, eyes shut, and then let her subside, retaining yet, to her cruel disappointment, a shred of her Earth-girl dignity. |
10 |
| 29 | 97 |
It is, I suppose, one of nature's utilities, reducing the female's effectiveness in self-defense or flight, putting her all the more at the mercy of the stronger beast. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 357 |
"Imnak," she whispered, "you may do what you want with a beast, and a beast must do, fully, what you want". |
10 |
| 23 | 99 |
The Kur who is only a beast is less dangerous in most situations than the Kur who is more than a beast. |
10 |
| 24 | 7 |
"Are you sure," I asked Ram, "that this is the head of the beast who attacked you?" "Could there be more than one such beast," he asked, "with rings in its ears?" "It does not seem likely," I admitted. |
10 |
| 29 | 52 |
The rings of gold in the ears of that ice beast were smaller and lighter, I think, than those in the ears of this beast. |
10 |
| 29 | 66 |
"Considering all these things, and the obvious fraud of the severed head, which you purported was that of the infiltrating ice beast, it seemed clear that you were in league with Kurii, and that, indeed, you and the first beast had presumably been traveling together. |
10 |
| 29 | 179 |
"I was captured by an ice beast, or something like an ice beast," she said. |
10 |
| 34 | 62 |
My major fear had been that the beast would have swallowed the meat into its storage stomach, in which it would not be digested until, at the beast's will, it was disgorged into the true stomach, or chemical stomach. |
10 |
| 1 | 44 |
But the Kur, like the shark and sleen, is a cautious beast. |
10 |
| 1 | 186 |
The snout of the beast thrust first softly through the opening, moving the door back. |
10 |
| 1 | 210 |
I did not think it had been loose from its cage long, for it would take such a beast, a sleen, Gor's finest tracker, only moments to make its way silently through the halls to this chamber. |
10 |
| 1 | 211 |
The beast did not take its eyes from me. |
10 |
| 1 | 221 |
The beast watched me closely. |
10 |
| 1 | 229 |
I heard the beast snarling and squealing, casting aside the fur with an angry shaking of its body and head. |
10 |
| 1 | 235 |
It was a truly brave and noble beast. |
10 |
| 1 | 239 |
The ax caught the beast transversely and the side of its head struck me sliding from the great blade. |
10 |
| 1 | 256 |
I had looked into the blood, cupped in my hands, but had seen nothing, only the blood of a beast. |
10 |
| 1 | 276 |
"The beast?" asked Clitus. |
10 |
| 1 | 318 |
"No," she said, "no, Master!" "The beast must have been put upon my scent," I said. |
10 |
| 1 | 416 |
"Enough time," I said, "to press it between the bars of the sleen cage and whisper to the beast the signal for the hunt". |
10 |
| 2 | 224 |
Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a... |
10 |
| 3 | 672 |
Scormus, it was said, walked the tiers of the amphitheater, alone, restlessly, eagerly, like a pacing, hungry beast. |
10 |
| 3 | 1032 |
Did he not know what the beast, in passing, had done? He looked away. |
10 |
| 3 | 1180 |
Two sorts of beasts are kept in domestication in the north; the first sort of beast is the snow sleen; the second is the white-skinned woman. |
10 |
| 4 | 723 |
It was a carving, rather roundish, some two pounds in weight, in bluish stone, done in the manner of the red hunters, a carving of the head of a beast. |
10 |
| 4 | 726 |
The left ear of the beast, as indicated with the patient fidelity of the red hunter, was half torn away. |
10 |
| 6 | 601 |
Too, as I determined later, his tracks had been, for the most part, obscured by the tracks of the beast of his lovely huntress. |
10 |
| 6 | 799 |
I had already saddled the beast. |
10 |
| 8 | 46 |
She unwrapped from its fur the carving, in bluish stone, of the head of a beast. |
10 |
| 8 | 49 |
"The head of a beast," she said. |
10 |
| 8 | 80 |
"Beast!" she screamed. |
10 |
| 8 | 224 |
"On your feet, Beast," she said. |
10 |
| 8 | 229 |
"Come, Beast," she said, leading me leashed from the room. |
10 |
| 9 | 172 |
The owner of the beast may be determined from the knotting of the strings. |
10 |
| 11 | 57 |
The arrow flighted from a diving tarn, allied with gravity and the momentum of the winged beast, can sink a foot into solid wood. |
10 |
| 11 | 221 |
"You are a beast!" she said. |
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| 12 | 5 |
At the left hip they bore the sign of the looped binding fiber, sewn in them with red-dyed sinew, which identified them as the garment of one who was an owned beast. |
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| 12 | 170 |
"I see you, too, have a beast," he said, looking beyond me to the lovely Arlene. |
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| 12 | 509 |
"How is the auburn-haired slave beast?" I asked him. |
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| 14 | 156 |
"It is a poor beast," said Poalu. |
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| 14 | 160 |
"It is a poor beast," said Poalu. |
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| 14 | 165 |
"Surely you do not expect me to ride behind so poor a beast?" inquired Poalu. |
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| 14 | 342 |
But I did not think, ever, that I would be your beast". |
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| 14 | 347 |
"Your beast is not discontent," she said. |
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| 15 | 458 |
"Beast," she said. |
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| 15 | 864 |
"Beast," she said. |
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| 17 | 41 |
"Imnak," I said, "have you ever seen such a beast as is represented in that carving?" "Yes," he said. |
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| 17 | 56 |
It had probably been a young beast, an offspring of ship Kurii, stranded long ago on Gor. |
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| 17 | 58 |
"But it was not an ice beast," he said. |
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| 17 | 120 |
"The beast?" he asked. |
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| 17 | 121 |
"You seek the beast with the torn ear? He is your enemy?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 18 | 3 |
It was not that he had been consciously counting, but rather that he had, doubtless from his experiences in such matters, a sensitivity to the rhythms involved, and the increase in their intensity, given the stress of the beast. |
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| 18 | 14 |
One would not risk a woman in our current work, even a slave beast. |
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| 18 | 32 |
The beast, grunting, expelling air, fell downward into the water. |
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| 18 | 52 |
I held the line, keeping the umiak at the beast's side, so that the hunters could thrust into it at point-blank range. |
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| 21 | 423 |
"You are a monster, a beast," she said. |
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| 22 | 15 |
I tried to keep the stem of the kayak pointing roughly toward the beast in the water. |
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| 22 | 182 |
I set the light harpoon into the notch on the throwing board and, even mittened, an instant before the beast turned toward me, grunted, snapping the throwing board forward and downward, speeding the shaft toward the enraged animal. |
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| 22 | 195 |
I held the line being towed by the beast somewhere below the water. |
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| 22 | 200 |
I was determined not to lose the beast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 470 |
They know themselves as no more than his sleek, amorous beast, and pet, but, even so, can they not hope, even against hope, to attract his interest, to win a modicum of acceptance and affection? But, alas, he may care more his pet sleen than his lovely, collared she-beast. |
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| 26 | 412 |
"Beast, beast!" she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 321 |
A splendid way for her to learn that her life had changed, that she was now a beast, that she was now no more than an owned, degraded, servile beast, that she was now no more than another white female of red savages. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 24 | 513 |
"But this thing, I think," she said, "is not such a beast, not a human beast, not a man in the full power of his intelligence, vitality and animality, but some other sort of beast, something perhaps similar somehow, but very different, too". |
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| 27 | 254 |
It was a beast, and a terrible one, that much I could tell even in the terror of the darkness, but, too, I sensed, from its control, and patience, and the way it had rendered me helpless, it was in some indefinable way, some terrifying way, other than a beast, too, or more than a beast. |
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| 34 | 689 |
Why could they not recognize this? Why could they not explicitly acknowledge this truth, so patent a truth? Because the slave was merely a slave, nothing, only a silken beast and a shapely property! And how foolish a slave to hope that a master might care for one so worthless and despicable as she! ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 267 |
"Beast! Beast!" she said. |
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| 8 | 628 |
There is the wind, the sense of the beast, the speed, the movements, now in all dimensions, the climb, the dive, soaring, turning, all in the freedom of the sky! There is here, too, a oneness of man and beast. |
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| 15 | 314 |
"Beast! Beast!" Then her fury turned to fear, timidity and docility as I held her veil. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 27 | 685 |
"Beast, beast, beast!" she said. |
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| 15 | 5 |
So I struggled ahead, closed in the hood, manacled, harnessed, drawing the weighty raft through the marsh, through the rence, through the mud, now with several men upon it, some wounded and sick, little more, if anything, than a beast of burden, a despised beast subject to the frequent blows, the la... |
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| 44 | 130 |
"Let me go! Beast, beast!" "You are an attractive little she-tarsk," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 11 |
I saw the beast there, the low, large, long, heavy beast, the six-legged monster, with the triangular viperlike head. |
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| 36 | 70 |
"He is a beast, a mad and dangerous beast". |
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| 37 | 188 |
The leader of the strangers struck wildly down at the first animal, slashing its jaw and the side of its face, turned to orient its jaws to its prey, cutting into it, with his blade, and the force of its charge struck him back and the beast, shoulders hunched, was on him, he on his back, screaming, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 28 | 136 |
"If you will not use me," she said, angrily, "sell me to one who will! Sell me to one who is a man!" He turned then angrily, suddenly, to the slave but, at the same moment, there was a great roar splitting the silence of the camp and a dark, monstrous, violent shape leapt into the camp and Fel Doron... |
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| 23 | 11 |
How could it be, she asked herself, that a beast might speak? She was sure the utterance of the beast had been intelligible in some sense. |
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| 25 | 220 |
"In his eyes I was no more than a tethered beast!" Then she recalled, angrily, that that was all she was, in truth, a beast, an animal, a domestic animal, a small, sleek, exquisite, curvaceous domestic animal, who might be bought and sold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 113 |
They are more beast than man, and more man than beast. |
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| 4 | 174 |
"Beast! Beast!" she said. |
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| 4 | 179 |
"But what would a beast, such a beast, know about female beauty?" she asked. |
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| 19 | 57 |
At first he understood this to be a reference to the beast feeding below, but this conjecture was instantly belied by the feeding beast, for it raised its head suddenly and snarled, menacingly, possessively. |
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| 24 | 102 |
"Beast! Beast!" she cried. |
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| 24 | 244 |
"Beast, beast!" she screamed at Cabot. |
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| 33 | 257 |
It must be another beast!" Suddenly the saurian rose from the water, as a whale might have breached, and one of the paddlelike appendages was a massive, bleeding stump, and its belly was torn open in a wound yards long, a wound so deep it might have reached the spine of the beast, and gut and blood,... |
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| 36 | 400 |
"You are a beast of burden, true," said Cabot, "but scarcely one accountable as a mere beast of burden". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 196 |
"Beast, beast!" she said. |
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| 22 | 395 |
Beast by beast, over the past Ahn, several of the stampeded tharlarion, now slowed or milling, even grazing, many hemmed in by trees, and snared by brush, had been gathered in. |
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| 26 | 329 |
The chasm on Gor between the free woman and the slave girl is momentous and unbridgeable, the difference between a person and a property, between an honored, awesome personage, the exalted possessor of a Home Stone, and an animal, a beast, a mere beast, a form of stock purchasable in a market. |
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| 28 | 282 |
One supposes the master's victimization of his property will eventually subside, one certainly hopes so, when he no longer sees her as a scion of, and in terms of, hated foes, but comes to understand that she is no longer a proud, exalted free woman of the enemy toward whom a sword may be legitimate... |
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| 42 | 3 |
I kicked my way to the surface, and was thrown yards to my right by the wash of water, and went under, and came up, again, and gasped for breath, half blinded by the water, still clinging to that massive, furred neck, and the beast's head was then, too, out of the water and I heard an explosive exha... |
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| 43 | 75 |
Why should he, a mere beast, and a land beast, too, have essayed so long, dubious, and dangerous a journey? It made no sense. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 735 |
It is difficult, I supposed, to regard oneself as an equal to, or a superior of, a male when one is smaller, softer, and weaker, and finds oneself clasped in the arms of such a beast, helpless, unable to free oneself, its prisoner, one's softness clasped forcibly, mercilessly, to its hardness, the b... |
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| 10 | 683 |
From the throat of the beast their emanated a low sound, scarcely audible to me, though doubtless quite audible to the beast. |
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| 10 | 686 |
Then I was frightened, for I suddenly feared that the beast, though only a beast, might be familiar with how slaves were to be treated. |
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| 10 | 762 |
He was, of course, a beast, only a beast. |
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| 21 | 147 |
I saw blood on the hump, running in the dust with which the beast was covered, and the beast then, with an enraged squeal, charged the nearest hunter. |
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| 45 | 92 |
The beast was fully aware of it, for its head turned in that direction, its ears inclined to that place, and its nostrils drew in the alien scent, and then the beast, with no further action, either of a monitory or preparatory nature, continued on its way. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 97 |
Despite the fearful roar of the larger beast, the smaller animal did not retreat, but, rather, came into view, fully, parting the grass, moving through it, and, to my uneasiness, came about me, not taking its eyes from those of the larger beast, and crouched down, tail lashing, growling, between the... |
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| 21 | 118 |
A tissue of noises which were far from human, but might rather have been the unintelligible emanations of a beast of prey, of a lari, or sleen, emerged from the throat of the beast who held the tiny box, or that which seemed tiny in its grasp. |
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| 29 | 186 |
They are more likely to see her as a mere slave, as a work beast, a convenience, a beast of burden, an object which may be sold for a profit. |
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| 48 | 71 |
It was clearly vicious, and determined, this beast, but, too, it was smaller than the beast which had appeared from the side of the river. |
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| 48 | 72 |
The larger beast roared, again, but the smaller beast held its ground, crouched down, snarling. |
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| 48 | 78 |
And, in following me, the smaller beast had strayed into the range of the larger beast. |
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| 48 | 98 |
Then, to my further bewilderment, and trepidation, the larger beast moved about me, so that, now, it was behind my position, between me and the forest, and the smaller beast now placed itself between me and the river. |
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| 48 | 118 |
Suddenly the larger beast, as though some spring in that great body had been released, charged, scrambling, through the center of the circle, and I was buffeted, spinning, to the side, for it struck me in its passage, I felt its ribs, and it hurled itself on the smaller beast which was rolled to its... |
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| 48 | 120 |
Then I saw the larger beast rear up from that loose, spattering tangle of fur and blood, its jaws on the throat of the smaller beast, and, itself rent, torn, and bloody, its flanks and shoulders red with the furrows of claw marks, it lifted the smaller body half from the ground, and shook it, and sh... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 517 |
"Perhaps," he said, "but a free beast, as opposed to an owned beast, a domestic animal which may be penned, given away, or sold". |
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| 54 | 119 |
"And then," said Pertinax, "after the fire and the wind, the prowling and rending, the beast returns to its den, and once more there are only peasants, the beast forgotten, and the cycle begins again, the begetting and feeding, the living and dying, the planting, the tending, and harvesting". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 160 |
One might compare the picture of a beast, with the beast met, unexpectedly, alive, in the wild. |
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| 9 | 423 |
For an insult to take place there must be a commonality of levels, free to free, person to person, citizen to citizen, even slave to slave, even beast to beast, but levels cannot be crossed. |
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| 15 | 117 |
The latter beast, I had gathered, in its varieties, was less likely to be utilized as a draft beast than as a mount. |
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| 33 | 28 |
"It is a beast, a large, live beast," said the fellow with the lantern. |
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| 33 | 240 |
In the following, I shall proceed largely as if these exchanges occurred between the beast and myself, or between others and the beast, facilitated by my mediation. |
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| 33 | 339 |
"Why, Beast," he said, "do you think so little of yourself? Why do you regard yourself as a monster, as a thing ill-begotten, and ill-constituted?" "Look at me," it said, and the bitterness of its response was clear, even in its rude approximations to the phonemes of Gorean, even in that rude, issua... |
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| 33 | 488 |
That simple beast, a mere beast, a thing that was crated, was free, a person, and I was not! It was on my neck, not hers, that there was a collar! But, of course, I was a mere woman of Earth, an object, a suitable property for the men of this world! "Nothing, Master," I said. |
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| 40 | 154 |
A free woman might be slain, mayhap, for she is free, but who would destroy a domestic beast, a kaiila, or a domestic beast as vital, as silken and soft, as helplessly inflammable, as a kajira?" "Yes, Master," I whispered. |
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| 44 | 165 |
"But, ela," he said, "I, too, am a beast, naught but a beast!" I did not feel I could honestly gainsay that. |
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| 65 | 158 |
"Where is Grendel, the beast, the beast, Eve, the loathsome humans?" demanded Lucilius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 678 |
How dared he treat me so? How dared he treat me as a beast! And then I recalled that I, as a slave, was a beast, only a negligible beast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 46 |
The iron-shod ram, mounted in such a way as to withstand the grievous shock of tearing through reinforced planking, cut a short, sharp, linear, bloody furrow in the hide of the living island and then, as it was riding over the beast, the beast, reflexively, reared upward, like a hill of muscles, as ... |
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