| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 114 |
I struggled to my feet and staggered to the laving bowl on the table and splashed some water in my face. |
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| 15 | 77 |
He lit the small hanging tent lamp, a wick set in a copper bowl of tharlarion oil, and in its flickering light turned to the sleeping mat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 42 |
His eyes were almost covered with a white, shaggy, inverted bowl of hair, matted with twigs and leaves. |
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| 4 | 58 |
Yes, and by now I should have been challenged a dozen times by Ko-ro-ba's night patrols! A monstrous chain of lightning exploded in the night about me, deafening me with the shock and roar of its thunder, splitting the darkness in violent fragments, breaking it to pieces like a clay bowl struck with... |
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| 10 | 90 |
By one wall there was a large bowl of burning coals, from which protruded the handles of several irons. |
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| 10 | 91 |
A rack of some sort was placed near the bowl of coals. |
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| 14 | 181 |
And there were how many more, yoked and unyoked, bound and free, in the mines, on the Great Farms, in the city itself who suffered the misery of Tharna and her laws, who were subject to the crushing weight of her traditions, and knew at best nothing better in life than a bowl of cheap Kal-da at the ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 22 |
On the pedestal there was a silver bowl, filled with water, a vial of oil and a towel. |
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| 2 | 23 |
He dipped his fingers in the bowl, poured a bit of oil on his hands, dipped his fingers again and then wiped his hands dry. |
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| 5 | 33 |
She then moved her hand past a glass disk in the wall and water emerged from a concealed aperture and curved into the shallow bowl. |
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| 5 | 34 |
She rinsed the bowl and refilled it, and then took another towel of soft linen from a carved chest against the wall. |
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| 5 | 35 |
She then again approached the stone platform and knelt before me, lifting the bowl. |
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| 5 | 38 |
She then gathered up the shaving knife, the towels I had used, and the bowl and went again to one side of the room. |
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| 5 | 40 |
She rinsed the bowl again and set it against the wall to drain dry. |
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| 8 | 48 |
"Quickly!" I shouted, and she fairly leapt to fetch the bronze bowl. |
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| 8 | 49 |
I seized the bowl from her hand and hurled it underhanded up against the bulb which, though it had apparently burned out, shattered with a great flash and hiss of smoke and sparks. |
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| 14 | 98 |
Inside the cube there were canisters of Mul-Fungus, a bowl, a ladle, a wooden-bladed Fungus-Knife; a wooden-headed Fungus-Mallet; a convenient tube of Mul-Pellets, which discharged its contents one at a time following my depressing a lever in the bottom of the tube; and a large, inverted jar of wate... |
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| 14 | 103 |
I had naturally supposed the fluid to be simply water which it closely resembled in appearance, and once had tried to fill my bowl for the morning meal there, rather than ladling the water out of the water pan. |
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| 27 | 96 |
There, from a great golden bowl, about five feet deep and with a diameter of perhaps twenty feet, setting on a heavy tripod, he would take a bit of whitish liquid, undoubtedly Gur, in his mouth. |
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| 27 | 97 |
He took no more than a taste and the bowl, though the Feast of Tola was well advanced, was still almost brimming. |
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| 27 | 124 |
Together, in silence to human ears but to the swelling intensities of scent-music, in stately, stalking procession the two Priest-Kings approached the Mother, and I saw Misk, first, dip his mouth to the great golden bowl on its tripod and then approach her. |
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| 27 | 127 |
Now did Sarm, the First Born, approach the Mother and dip his jaws too to the golden bowl and stalk to the Mother and place his antennae gently on her head, and once again the old creature's antennae lifted but this time they seemed to retract. |
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| 27 | 350 |
Amazed, I stepped away from her and went to the great golden bowl on its heavy tripod and took out a few drops of the precious liquid in the palm of my hand and returned to her. |
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| 32 | 261 |
He began to try to stuff the tobacco into the bowl of the pipe. |
10 |
| 32 | 265 |
Parp glanced up from the pipe, holding his thumb over the bowl to prevent the tobacco from floating out of it, and smiled. |
10 |
| 32 | 267 |
He was trying to thrust more tobacco into it but was having difficulty because the tiny brown particles tended to lie loosely about a quarter of an inch above the bowl. |
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| 32 | 268 |
At last he wadded enough in for the pressure to hold it tight and, using the silver lighter, sucked a stream of flame into the bowl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 69 |
In the center of the wagon there is a small, shallow fire bowl, formed of copper, with a raised brass grating. |
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| 5 | 70 |
Some cooking is done here, though the bowl is largely to furnish heat. |
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| 9 | 65 |
This would be impractical, naturally, save for the detestable device of the golden bowl and tufted banquet stick, dipped in scented oils, by means of which the diner may, when he wishes, refresh himself and return with eagerness to the feast. |
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| 12 | 109 |
"But would that not be a great deal of trouble," asked Kamchak, "and might one not stain the rug?" "Perhaps we could mash them in a bowl," I suggested. |
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| 12 | 110 |
"But then a bowl would have to be washed," said Kamchak. |
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| 12 | 134 |
Elizabeth and Aphris entered, carrying the kettle between them, which they sat on the brass and copper grating over the fire bowl in the wagon. |
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| 12 | 512 |
He held a small torch, lit from the fire bowl within the wagon. |
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| 25 | 2 |
Within, a girl, across the wagon, beyond the tiny fire bowl in the center of its floor, standing on the thick rug, near a hanging tharlarion-oil lamp, turned suddenly to face me. |
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| 25 | 39 |
I walked about the fire bowl to approach the girl. |
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| 25 | 121 |
Elizabeth looked up, the tiny ring glinting in the light of the fire bowl. |
10 |
| 25 | 195 |
"Let us celebrate your freedom," I said, pouring her a small bowl of wine. |
10 |
| 25 | 196 |
She took the bowl of wine and smiled, waiting for me to fill one for myself. |
10 |
| 25 | 200 |
I drained my bowl. |
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| 25 | 207 |
I refilled my wine bowl. |
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| 25 | 212 |
"Drink your wine," I said, pushing the bowl in her hands toward her. |
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| 25 | 219 |
Her eyes were looking at me over the rim of her bowl as she drank. |
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| 25 | 228 |
"Oh," she said, looking down into her bowl of wine, smiling. |
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| 25 | 244 |
"Can it be," she asked, "that the commander of a Tuchuk Thousand does not know what to do with a girl such as I?" I reached toward her, to take her into my arms, but I found the bowl of wine in my way, deftly so. |
10 |
| 25 | 279 |
"Good!" I sat down beside the fire bowl, and stared at the floor. |
10 |
| 25 | 326 |
She had arisen and rinsed out the bowl and replaced it. |
10 |
| 25 | 413 |
I stood up and threw the wine bowl to the side of the room. |
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| 25 | 487 |
I went across the rug and sat down cross-legged near the fire bowl, and looked at the girl. |
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| 25 | 617 |
How every bit of her seemed alive with challenge! Her eyes, her stance, the sound of her voice! I saw the tiny nose ring, barbaric, glinting in the light of the fire bowl. |
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| 25 | 862 |
She lay on her back, her eyes open, looking at the top of the wagon, at the hangings, the shadows thrown on the scarlet hides by the light of the fire bowl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 34 |
Not a paga bowl was lifted nor a hand moved. |
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| 2 | 58 |
At a gesture from the proprietor, the grimy man in the tunic of white and gold, one of the serving slaves, with a flash of her ankle bells, hurried to the Assassin and set before him a bowl, which she trembling filled from the flask held over her right forearm. |
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| 2 | 60 |
Kuurus took the paga bowl in both hands and put his head down, looking into it. |
10 |
| 2 | 62 |
Putting the bowl down he wiped his mouth on his forearm and looked at the Musicians. |
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| 2 | 74 |
The little thing, misshapen with its large head, scrambled limping and leaping like a broken-legged urt to the counter behind which stood the man in the grimy tunic, who was wiping out a paga bowl. |
10 |
| 2 | 123 |
Kuurus, with his left hand, pushed to one side his bowl of paga. |
10 |
| 2 | 156 |
He lifted his paga bowl and drank. |
10 |
| 2 | 157 |
Kuurus had not finished the bowl of paga when he sensed a man approaching. |
10 |
| 2 | 211 |
Kuurus lifted his paga bowl and drank. |
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| 2 | 219 |
The heavy man, sitting cross-legged, opposite the Assassin, began to sweat, fiddled with the damp blue and yellow silk covering his knee, and then with a nervous hand lifted a shaking bowl of paga to his lips, spilling some down the side of his face. |
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| 2 | 262 |
Portus hastily pushed his paga bowl up to his mouth, and swilled again, his eyes wary of the Assassin across from him. |
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| 5 | 237 |
Elizabeth had agreed but was startled when placed on a long table, actually of a size for a Priest-King, and found her head enclosed between two curved, intricate devices, rather like two halves of a bowl. |
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| 10 | 94 |
"Why is it?" I asked Ho-Tu, whom I felt I had come to know somewhat better in the day, "that when others have Ka-la-na and meat and bread and honey you eat only this porridge?" Ho-Tu pushed back the bowl. |
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| 10 | 97 |
The horn spoon snapped in his hands, and he angrily threw the pieces into the bowl. |
10 |
| 11 | 70 |
One of the smiths from below was summoned with a bowl of slave porridge, which he mixed half with water, and stirred well, so that it could be drunk. |
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| 15 | 219 |
The foods given them also changed with the advance in their training, and the desire to have varied, tasty fare, and sometimes a small bowl of Ka-la-na with their supper, drove them to perform well. |
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| 15 | 348 |
Elizabeth would regularly bring her efforts back to the compartment, and the nights were not infrequent when I longed for the simple fare at the table of Cernus, or perhaps a bowl of Ho-Tu's gruel. |
10 |
| 15 | 390 |
The horn spoon lay to the side of the empty gruel bowl. |
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| 17 | 386 |
Then, angrily, Virginia Kent picked up Ho-Tu's bowl of gruel and, turning it completely upside down, dumped it suddenly on his head. |
10 |
| 17 | 389 |
Ho-Tu sat there with the porridge bowl on his head, the gruel streaming down his face. |
10 |
| 17 | 395 |
He took the bowl from his bald head and wiped his face with his forearm. |
10 |
| 17 | 463 |
"You there, little White Silker," said Ho-Tu, "who are so adept with the porridge bowl, hasten to the Waiting Cells. |
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| 17 | 493 |
"And you are very dangerous with a bowl of porridge". |
10 |
| 17 | 499 |
"And dangerous with a bowl of porridge," I reminded him. |
10 |
| 17 | 628 |
She looked at me blankly, and then, still clutching the doll, put out one hand, trembling, to take the bowl of wine from me. |
10 |
| 17 | 631 |
Then, when she had lowered the bowl, I took my drink, that she should have drunk first. |
10 |
| 17 | 638 |
She placed her bowl on the floor near me and then went back to the chest where the doll had been kept. |
10 |
| 17 | 642 |
She lifted her bowl again to her lips and drank. |
10 |
| 17 | 665 |
I refilled her bowl. |
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| 24 | 146 |
They were perhaps the doors to the compartments of slaves, housing little more doubtless than a straw mat, a washing bowl, and a small box in which might be kept some slave livery and perhaps simple utensils, a plate and a cup. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 171 |
She struck together, over a copper bowl, a bit of steel and flint, the sparks falling into some dried petals of the rence. |
10 |
| 4 | 173 |
The bit of stem took the fire and with it she lit a tiny lamp, also sitting in a shallow copper bowl, which burned tharlarion oil. |
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| 4 | 178 |
There was another bowl and a cup or two, and two or three gourds. |
10 |
| 4 | 179 |
Some utensils were in the bowl, a wooden stirring stick and a wooden ladle, both carved from rence root. |
10 |
| 4 | 237 |
Then, kneeling on the mat, she bent to the small lamp in its copper bowl on the flooring of the hut. |
10 |
| 5 | 222 |
I did so, fumbling in the darkness, striking together the flint and steel, sparks falling into the small bowl of dried petals of the rence. |
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| 5 | 223 |
In this tiny flame I thrust a bit of rence stem, from a bundle of such, and, with it, lit the tiny tharlarion-oil lamp set in its copper bowl. |
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| 5 | 224 |
I put the bit of rence stem back, as I had seen Telima do, in the small bowl of petals, where, with the flaming petals, it was soon extinguished. |
10 |
| 9 | 430 |
Trembling she fumbled with the flint and steel, to strike sparks into the moss bowl, whence by means of a Ka-la-na shaving the lamp might be lit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1393 |
I poured some of the wine into the small copper bowl, and set it on the tripod over the tiny fire in the fire bowl. |
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| 15 | 1404 |
I poured the wine from the small copper bowl into the black, red-trimmed wine crater, placing the small bowl in a rack to one side of the fire. |
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| 7 | 177 |
Now, chained, kneeling in a circle, we passed about, one to the other, a bowl of hot soup; then each of us was given a sixth of a round yellow loaf of bread, which we ate with our hands; then, before each of us, on the grass, the guards threw a large piece of cooked meat. |
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| 11 | 330 |
I had scarcely touched the stew in the wooden bowl. |
10 |
| 11 | 337 |
I reached into the bowl. |
10 |
| 12 | 65 |
Each of us had then been forced to eat a large bowl of heavy slave gruel. |
10 |
| 14 | 205 |
Over the coals, on a tripod, there was, warming, a small metal wine bowl. |
10 |
| 15 | 290 |
A bowl of water was nearby, and a fire, over which, on an iron plate fixed on stones, there were, heating, five, small, flat-bottomed, rounded, wooden-handled Gorean irons. |
10 |
| 15 | 458 |
He then, from his own cup, poured some wine into a small bowl, which he handed to me. |
10 |
| 15 | 1367 |
There was a small fire in the fire bowl in the tent, and the tiny tripod set above it, where wine might be warmed. |
10 |
| 15 | 1388 |
He turned from me and went to sit down, cross-legged, some feet behind the tiny fire in the fire bowl. |
10 |
| 15 | 1392 |
I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-trimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire. |
10 |
| 15 | 1395 |
After a time I took the copper bowl from the fire and held it against my cheek. |
10 |
| 15 | 1402 |
Again I took the bowl from the fire. |
10 |
| 15 | 1403 |
It was now not comfortable to hold the bowl, but it was not painful to do so. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 717 |
I noted that Sheera, carrying a bowl, standing nearby, did not seem much pleased. |
10 |
| 6 | 734 |
Sheera knelt before me, her head down, resting back on her heels, her arms extended to me, proffering me, in the manner of the Gorean slave girl, the wine bowl. |
10 |
| 6 | 748 |
I held forth the wine bowl that Sheera, from a large wine crater, might refill it. |
10 |
| 6 | 756 |
"There are men of Tyros in Laura," said Rim, looking down into his small wine bowl, cradled in the palm of his right hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 380 |
I fought, but two girls held my head, and Mira, laughing, with a small bowl of lather and a shaving knife, shaved the two-and-one-half-inch degradation stripe on my head, from the forehead to the back of my neck. |
10 |
| 11 | 257 |
There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us. |
10 |
| 11 | 279 |
He dropped the flower back into the shallow bowl, among other, unthreatened, buds. |
10 |
| 11 | 861 |
I saw, to one side, a bowl of scarlet, five-petaled flaminiums. |
10 |
| 15 | 493 |
Swiftly, frightened, she finished the bowl of slave meal and the piece of salted, dried meat. |
10 |
| 15 | 890 |
When the slaves pass you, give each half a bowl of meal". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 101 |
The jewelry and coins which he took he hurled into a golden sacrificial bowl, which one of his men carried at his side. |
10 |
| 3 | 249 |
These coins had now been placed in a large, single bowl. |
10 |
| 3 | 313 |
Ivar Forkbeard reached out his hands and took from one of his men the bowl of coins which the poor had brought as their pitiful offerings to the temple of Kassau. |
10 |
| 3 | 320 |
Then, with a great, sweeping gesture, Ivar Forkbeard emptied the bowl of coins, scattering them in a shower of copper and iron over the men. |
10 |
| 4 | 254 |
The slender blond girl, who had been giving the men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bondmaids. |
10 |
| 4 | 297 |
He reached out and took the bowl from the blond girl. |
10 |
| 4 | 303 |
Ivar Forkbeard approached Aelgifu with the small bowl of gruel. |
10 |
| 4 | 321 |
He thrust the contents of the small bowl into her mouth. |
10 |
| 6 | 491 |
Though the hall of Ivar Forkbeard was built only of turf and stone, and though he himself was outlaw, he had met me at its door, after I had been bidden wait outside, in his finest garments of scarlet and gold, and carrying a bowl of water and a towel. |
10 |
| 6 | 493 |
I had washed my hands and face in the bowl, held by the master of the house himself, and dried myself on the towel. |
10 |
| 21 | 124 |
"Bid them welcome," said the Blue Tooth, and he himself left the table, taking a bowl of water and towel to meet the guests at the portal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 514 |
He turned to the man beside him; he dropped the shaving knife into the bowl, wiped his hands on a towel. |
10 |
| 3 | 81 |
That night, when our repast had been finished, and a clothed, bangled slave woman, the property of Farouk, had rinsed our right hands with veminium water, poured over our hand, into a small, shallow bowl of beaten copper, I drew forth from my robes a small, flat, closed Gorean chronometer. |
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| 8 | 84 |
When it dropped, the heavy wooden bowl, more than a foot deep and eighteen inches in diameter, tipped. |
10 |
| 13 | 151 |
He picked a grape from a bowl of fruit on a small table near him, and, holding the veil from his face, as do the men of the Char, put the bit of fruit into his mouth, and bit into it. |
10 |
| 13 | 157 |
"She is an excellent tool," said the man on the dais, finishing the fruit, rinsing the fingers of his right hand in a small bowl of veminium water, and drying them on a cloth to his right, "but only, when all is said and done, a woman. |
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| 14 | 630 |
In the distance, below, perhaps five pasangs away, in the hot, concave, white salt bleakness, like a vast, white, shallow bowl, pasangs wide, there were compounds, low, white buildings of mud brick, plastered. |
10 |
| 18 | 157 |
We stopped once, on the height of the great shallow bowl which encloses Klima, to look back. |
10 |
| 24 | 57 |
Bars on a window, a coiled chain, a bowl on the floor, such things, all, have their auspicious, comforting psychological effects upon a beauty. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 612 |
Next to me, she knelt before my captor; she put one bowl down before me; then, holding the other bowl, she handed it to my captor; one of the men pulled my head up by the hair, so I could see clearly what was being done; my captor took the bowl of gruel from Eta, and then, saying nothing, handed it ... |
10 |
| 3 | 615 |
I picked up the bowl of gruel, with both hands, and, kneeling, handed it to my captor. |
10 |
| 3 | 616 |
He took the bowl. |
10 |
| 3 | 619 |
I knelt, shaken, the bowl of gruel in my hands. |
10 |
| 3 | 648 |
Furtively, I looked at the man over the edge of the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 3 | 654 |
I put down the bowl of gruel. |
10 |
| 25 | 251 |
I could hear the oil crackling in the bowl of the tiny lamp on its stand near us. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 468 |
With water, poured into a bowl, and fur, I cleaned myself. |
10 |
| 2 | 176 |
The girl watched, horrified, as one of the guardsmen took the clothing and, piece by piece, threw it into a wide copper bowl of burning coals. |
10 |
| 2 | 566 |
"What is it?" He gestured to a guardsman to bring a lamp, for we were far from the light of the bowl of coals now, and of various torches set in the walls. |
10 |
| 3 | 311 |
I purchased from him, for a copper tarsk, a bowl of soup, thick with shreds of hot bosk and porous chunks of boiled sul. |
10 |
| 3 | 315 |
I handed him back the soup bowl. |
10 |
| 4 | 418 |
The bowl of the amphitheater rocked with sound. |
10 |
| 23 | 395 |
She carried a bowl of dried berries. |
10 |
| 23 | 396 |
Their eyes met over the bowl as she lifted it to him. |
10 |
| 23 | 397 |
He, without taking his eyes from her, thrust his hand into the bowl and scooped out a large handful of berries. |
10 |
| 24 | 16 |
I sipped my Bazi tea, and looked at him, over the rim of the bowl. |
10 |
| 28 | 278 |
Arlene looked at me over the rim of her bowl. |
10 |
| 34 | 78 |
We were in a wide place, almost a shallow bowl, some hundred yards or so in diameter. |
10 |
| 34 | 91 |
I looked about at the shallow, moonlit bowl, in whose center we stood, the sled between us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 |
On the tray, too, was the metal vessel which had contained the black wine, steaming and bitter, from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enameled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on ... |
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| 7 | 141 |
The rooms were small but adequate, with a mattress, spread upon the floor; a sea chest at one side of the room; a low table; a tharlarion oil lamp; a bowl and pitcher of water; and, at the foot of the mattress, a stout slave ring. |
10 |
| 10 | 6 |
He put these two tiny coins in a small, shallow copper bowl before him. |
10 |
| 19 | 9 |
He carried a small lamp, with a shallow bowl, which burned tharlarion oil. |
10 |
| 27 | 76 |
A small fire in a clay bowl dimly illuminated the interior of the hut. |
10 |
| 27 | 81 |
Kisu and I sat opposite one another, across the clay bowl with its small fire. |
10 |
| 27 | 111 |
He leaped across the fire bowl toward her and savagely struck her head to the left with a fierce blow of the flat of his hand. |
10 |
| 27 | 138 |
I sat beside the clay bowl with its small, glowing fire, thinking. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 |
On the table was a bowl of cheap wine, some wedges of yellow bread and a wooden bowl containing vegetables and chunks of meat. |
10 |
| 13 | 159 |
The fountain had two levels, a great bowl and, lower, near the walk level, a shallow bowl. |
10 |
| 1 | 549 |
She placed a quarter in the small wooden bowl on the counter. |
10 |
| 7 | 17 |
I chewed on a piece of meat and drank from the shallow, chipped bowl of clay which contained the wine. |
10 |
| 7 | 89 |
I took another piece of meat from the wooden bowl. |
10 |
| 7 | 190 |
"May I feed?" I took a piece of meat from the bowl on the table. |
10 |
| 7 | 198 |
Then I placed the bowl on the floor and she, putting her head down, her hands braceleted behind her, biting and licking, addressed herself to its contents. |
10 |
| 7 | 224 |
I crumbled the rest of the bread, which I had not eaten, which had been on the table, into her bowl, mixing it with the vegetables and meat which still remained there. |
10 |
| 7 | 233 |
The bowl was clean. |
10 |
| 7 | 234 |
I picked up the bowl and carried it to the side, where I placed it on a small shelf. |
10 |
| 7 | 263 |
Meanwhile I put the wine, that in the shallow, chipped clay bowl, on the shelf to one side. |
10 |
| 7 | 394 |
Unbidden, she went to the shelf where I had placed the shallow, chipped clay bowl of cheap, dark wine, fit for slaves. |
10 |
| 7 | 395 |
She then, holding the bowl, knelt again, gracefully, before me. |
10 |
| 7 | 398 |
She, holding the bowl with two hands, pressed it back against her belly, low, below the navel. |
10 |
| 7 | 399 |
I looked at the edge of the bowl, containing the wine, pressed back, into her flesh. |
10 |
| 7 | 400 |
Then she lifted the bowl before her and, gently, turning her head, placing her lips softly upon it, kissed it. |
10 |
| 7 | 401 |
She then, with two hands, head down, proffered to me the chipped, shallow bowl. |
10 |
| 7 | 403 |
I took the bowl of wine from her. |
10 |
| 7 | 406 |
I drank then, holding the shallow bowl with two hands. |
10 |
| 7 | 407 |
Then, after a bit, I lowered the bowl from my lips and looked down at the beautiful slave. |
10 |
| 7 | 412 |
Then I placed the bowl, containing its residue of wine, behind me on the table. |
10 |
| 7 | 534 |
The bowl was behind me, on the table. |
10 |
| 7 | 536 |
I had drunk from the bowl which she had proffered to me. |
10 |
| 7 | 699 |
I held the chipped bowl, and the girl, frightened, finished the wine. |
10 |
| 7 | 700 |
I put the shallow, chipped bowl on the table. |
10 |
| 10 | 32 |
Then a man brought a pan of water and a bowl of moistened slave gruel. |
10 |
| 11 | 24 |
"When the Mistress was finished with you," asked the girl, "did she not remove your chains and place a bowl of meal for you at the foot of her couch?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 12 | 203 |
She then walked to the side of the platform and discarded the tie in the shallow bowl of burning wood. |
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| 12 | 259 |
I placed the T-shirt I had removed from my body in her hand and she went to the shallow bowl of burning cubes of wood and discarded it. |
10 |
| 12 | 411 |
I saw the Lady Tima throw what garments I had just torn from my body into the shallow bowl of burning wood. |
10 |
| 13 | 160 |
From this shallow bowl slaves might drink. |
10 |
| 13 | 236 |
I went to the fountain, which was only a few yards away, and, getting down on my hands and knees, putting my head down, from the lower bowl, from which slaves and animals might drink, satisfied my thirst. |
10 |
| 13 | 388 |
I went to the fountain and, from the lower bowl, scooped up a brimming, double handful of water which I carried, carefully, to the girl. |
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| 18 | 274 |
"An extra round of rations," said Kenneth, expansively, "some pastry upon occasion, sometimes with even a bowl of cheap wine". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 11 |
"That is ten copper tarsks," had said the man last night, placing before me a bowl of sul porridge. |
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| 4 | 209 |
"There is little but sul porridge, but I could order you a bowl," I said. |
10 |
| 7 | 68 |
Then I heard a tarsk bit thrown into the copper bowl beside her. |
10 |
| 8 | 148 |
The fellow who stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a tarsk bit in her mouth, and she fled back to the counter where, under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit the coin into a copper bowl. |
10 |
| 13 | 39 |
I went to a bucket of water in the corner of the room and, uncovering it, and using a bowl, dipped out water which I then used for washing my hands and face. |
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| 25 | 183 |
She placed the tray on the table, and removed three plates of bread and meat from it, a dish of assorted cheeses, a bowl of dates, a pitcher of water, a pot of black wine, steaming, and tiny vessels of sugars and creams, and three goblets. |
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| 25 | 185 |
Finger towels, then, and a silver finger bowl, too, she placed upon the table. |
10 |
| 25 | 186 |
The bowl was also of Tharnan silver. |
10 |
| 32 | 28 |
He thrust five, low, flat coffers of coins across the tiles, and put beside them a tangle of jewelry and a bowl of pearls. |
10 |
| 32 | 105 |
How futile, how ineffective, was the expedient of the chain! Kliomenes regarded the flat coffers of coins on the tiles before his dais, the jewelry, the bowl of pearls, and the girl. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 121 |
I watched the long, looping trajectory of a bowl of flaming pitch, trailing a streamer of smoke, near us, and then fall with a hissing splash into the water nearby. |
10 |
| 5 | 148 |
A looping bowl of flaming pitch traced its trajectory off our starboard bow and fell into the water. |
10 |
| 5 | 155 |
"It is thus that Callimachus commands!" "The Portia is off the starboard bowl" called an officer. |
10 |
| 6 | 43 |
A bowl of flaming pitch, streaming smoke behind it, looped toward us, flung by a ship near the chain. |
10 |
| 8 | 245 |
This candle was set in a shallow, silver bowl. |
10 |
| 8 | 246 |
She had lifted the bowl upward, off the shelf. |
10 |
| 8 | 248 |
This spike had been sitting in an aperture cut in the shelf, that the bowl might sit evenly on the wood. |
10 |
| 8 | 250 |
She set the spike into this hole and, again, the silver bowl rested evenly on wood. |
10 |
| 8 | 408 |
I then broke loose a board from the wall, a shelf, some two feet in length, with spike holes in it, to accommodate projections such as that on the silver candle bowl on the table. |
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| 20 | 1569 |
Some men buy such girls and cart them about in wagons in the morning, leaving them at various corners with a copper bowl and a crust of bread, collecting them again in the evening. |
10 |
| 21 | 180 |
I then put a shallow porcelain bowl of water on the floor, and pointed to it. |
10 |
| 21 | 194 |
Too, I had brought up a small bowl of powdered bosk milk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 355 |
She then, like the others, after having been issued her slave gruel, and after having finished it, and washed the wooden bowl, would be assigned her chores for the day. |
10 |
| 1 | 1365 |
Kog hurled the shield towards us and, like a great, shallow, concave bowl, it skimmed through the air, between us, and broke boards loose behind us. |
10 |
| 8 | 148 |
The auctioneer signaled to an attendant who, from a side of the hall, brought forth a shallow copper bowl, some two feet in diameter, filled with slender cylinders of oil-impregnated wood. |
10 |
| 8 | 199 |
He then drew the large, triangular-bladed knife from the beaded sheath on his belt and slashed the straps and uppers of the sandals, discarding them then in the flaming copper bowl at the side. |
10 |
| 8 | 213 |
With a gesture of disgust the auctioneer flung the pretentious, offending object, that necklace of false pearls, amongst the cylinders flaming in the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 13 | 1365 |
You thus begin again, anew, your struggle to convince a master that there may be some point in keeping you about, that there may be some point in putting a bit of gruel in a bowl, or hollowed stone, for you, or thrusting a crust of bread in your mouth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 595 |
Is it not enough to look in a mirror, or glance at one's image in a bowl of water, a still pool? And yet I wondered if many of them understood not only how beautiful they were, but how attractive, how desirable, how exciting, they were. |
10 |
| 40 | 170 |
Mira knelt near me, head down, her arms extended, proffering me a bowl of the Waniyanpi porridge. |
10 |
| 40 | 197 |
Mira returned to our vicinity now and knelt near Hci, proffering him a bowl of porridge as she had to Cuwignaka and me. |
10 |
| 40 | 216 |
The two girls who had gone to the porridge line, the dark-haired girl and the blond girl, had returned a bit before, each with their bowl refilled with porridge. |
10 |
| 40 | 223 |
"Yes," he said, taking her bowl. |
10 |
| 40 | 224 |
"Here," said the blond girl, kneeling down near Cabbage, pressing her bowl of porridge towards him. |
10 |
| 40 | 238 |
I handed the residue of my porridge, in its wooden bowl, back to Mira. |
10 |
| 40 | 249 |
She now, with her fingers and tongue, was wiping the bowl clean. |
10 |
| 44 | 116 |
"They were lifted only a bit, at irregular intervals, I think, to permit the placing of food in our mouths, the holding of a wooden bowl of water to our lips. |
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| 47 | 132 |
My lance took a rider from his mount, tearing him back out of the girth rope, and then he was spinning, wildly flailing, screaming and turning, growing smaller, journeying with terrible, accelerative force, seemingly eccentrically, to the turf below, it seeming to rock and shift with my movements, l... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 24 |
He had received a bowl from Speusippus which was purportedly silver, a bowl seemingly stamped with the appropriate seal of Ar. |
10 |
| 30 | 80 |
It had two bowls, an upper bowl and a lower one, closer to the walking level, the water from the upper bowl spilling over into the lower. |
10 |
| 2 | 309 |
Hold it in your hands, as a bowl". |
10 |
| 2 | 318 |
I drank from the cup, holding it as a bowl, as I had been commanded. |
10 |
| 2 | 326 |
Then I, again, sipped coffee from the cup, holding it in both hands, like a small bowl. |
10 |
| 3 | 198 |
There was, on the tray, a plate of fruit, some yellow, wedge-shaped bread, and a bowl of hot, rich-looking, dark-brown, almost-black fluid. |
10 |
| 3 | 872 |
I lifted the small, handleless bowl in two hands. |
10 |
| 3 | 878 |
I then sipped from the bowl. |
10 |
| 4 | 25 |
The bowl upon inspection, the merchant becoming suspicious as to the weights involved, had turned out to be merely plated. |
10 |
| 17 | 301 |
A Corcyran merchant had brought charges against him, a matter having to do with a bowl, purportedly silver, but only plated, and one bearing a forged mark, misrepresenting it as the work of the silversmiths of Ar. |
10 |
| 23 | 63 |
In a few moments he returned with a small wooden bowl filled with dried, precooked meal. |
10 |
| 23 | 65 |
I was then handed the bowl. |
10 |
| 23 | 74 |
I then, with my fingers, and putting the bowl even to my lips, fell eagerly upon that thick, bland, moist substance. |
10 |
| 23 | 75 |
By the time Durbar had returned I had finished, even to the desperate wiping and licking of the bowl, that I might secure every last particle of that simple, precious, vitalizing provender. |
10 |
| 23 | 79 |
The bowl was taken from me. |
10 |
| 30 | 81 |
Free persons might drink from, or draw water from, the upper bowl. |
10 |
| 30 | 82 |
The lower bowl was for animals and slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 374 |
I placed a tarsk bit in the bowl of the Brigella. |
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| 6 | 1312 |
"If I had anything to do with them," I said, "to which I do not admit, of course, let us consider them merely as copper-bowl coins, coins such as might be gathered in the pursuit of your normal activities". |
10 |
| 10 | 694 |
I slid a bowl against her leg. |
10 |
| 14 | 71 |
Much of this stone, in its great surrounding, irregular alignments, seemed almost to form the serrated ridge of some vast, ancient, natural bowl, now muchly crumbled and weathered. |
10 |
| 14 | 322 |
It reverberated in the area, striking against the nearby cliffs, the stones and outcroppings, rebounding, resounding, again and again in that natural bowl, torturing the ear, tearing and shocking the air, seeming as though it must affright and terrify even the clouds themselves, which seemed to flee... |
10 |
| 14 | 474 |
I then turned, and climbed through the broken, serrated edges of this natural stone bowl, found myself in the open fields, and began to run, with the long, slow warrior's pace, that pace in which warriors are trained, that pace which may be maintained, even under the weight of weapons, accouterments... |
10 |
| 16 | 24 |
It had rolled there, across the sparkling cloth, when it had been dislodged from its position in its shallow, golden bowl in the blonde's transit. |
10 |
| 21 | 495 |
I went to the side and removed a bowl from its padded, insulating wrap. |
10 |
| 21 | 513 |
Then, in a bit, I took the bowl, the spoon in it, to where the girl lay. |
10 |
| 21 | 516 |
I then took bits of vulo from the bowl and held them out to the girl. |
10 |
| 21 | 528 |
I then put the bowl aside. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 295 |
I put a copper bowl on the ground, beside her, at her left. |
10 |
| 11 | 305 |
The coin rattled into the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 11 | 310 |
Hurtha happily shook the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 16 | 293 |
"Why is it that so many of them, owning not even a bowl for their food, or their rags and collars, seem to be among the happiest of women, so radiant and fulfilled?" "They have masters," she said. |
10 |
| 16 | 1257 |
A great transformation had come over her since the night before last, since she had been put on her back, her wrists tied to the spokes, a copper bowl resting on the dirt beside her. |
10 |
| 21 | 295 |
"You drink from the lower bowl, like other animals, like sleen and tharlarion". |
10 |
| 21 | 347 |
She knelt on all fours before the lower bowl of the fountain, her head down, drinking. |
10 |
| 21 | 369 |
She looked lovely, on all fours, at the lower bowl of the fountain, where, drinking, as a collared, briefly tunicked beast, she belonged. |
10 |
| 22 | 425 |
You were intending to drink from the upper bowl of the fountain, that reserved for free persons". |
10 |
| 25 | 21 |
I put a tarsk bit into the copper bowl on the small table near her. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1047 |
Delving deeply into the bowl she lifted up handfuls of ostraka again and again, each time letting them fall like showers back into the bowl. |
10 |
| 9 | 3 |
Gloria, ahead of me, was squatting over the bowl. |
10 |
| 9 | 9 |
A man slid the bowl back to me. |
10 |
| 9 | 11 |
I squatted shamed, over the bowl. |
10 |
| 9 | 24 |
I was still squatting over the bowl. |
10 |
| 9 | 25 |
I looked up and met the eyes of the other fellow, he who had slid the bowl back to me, he who had ordered me to relieve myself. |
10 |
| 9 | 31 |
The bowl, incidentally, is not an improper precaution. |
10 |
| 9 | 36 |
The bowl, however, is better. |
10 |
| 9 | 37 |
I stepped away from the bowl. |
10 |
| 11 | 371 |
Each of them carried a deep copper bowl. |
10 |
| 11 | 372 |
Aynur's bowl was empty. |
10 |
| 11 | 529 |
Aynur's bowl was no longer empty. |
10 |
| 11 | 575 |
When a fellow had paid his tarsk bit Mirus would reach into the copper bowl carried by Tula and draw forth from it one of the small, about three inches long and an inch wide, thin, flat, brittle, glazed, baked-clay ostraka. |
10 |
| 11 | 579 |
I winced as Mirus snapped one of the ostraka in two, giving half to the purchaser and throwing the other half into Aynur's bowl. |
10 |
| 11 | 1031 |
"Let us have the drawing!" Hendow nodded to Mirus, and Mirus summoned Aynur to the center of the floor, and near the front, with her copper bowl, laden with the halves of broken ostraka. |
10 |
| 11 | 1045 |
Aynur shook the bowl of ostraka. |
10 |
| 11 | 1094 |
I felt myself drawn to my feet, and, by the upper left arm, pulled forward, half dragged, to the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 77 |
About my neck hung a copper bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 78 |
It was suspended by a thong, threaded through a small hole in the bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 174 |
I took the copper bowl from about my neck and put it beside the pallet. |
10 |
| 17 | 177 |
I knelt beside the bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 234 |
I heard a small coin, a tarsk bit, ring in the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 237 |
I heard another coin strike in the bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 247 |
There were several coins in the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 249 |
One normally leaves enough in the bowl to act as an invitation to others, but not so much as to suggest that there is no need of more, if only to keep the others company. |
10 |
| 30 | 80 |
I suddenly hated being a slave! Was this possible? That I should be so casually put, so cordially put, in the liberality of a Gorean host, at the disposal of guests? But of course it was possible! I was only a slave! But why would he do this to me, to me? Was I truly to him only this, only another s... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 339 |
Then she put the bowl of porridge, with a spoon, before me. |
10 |
| 5 | 361 |
She appeared through the swinging door, carrying a bowl in her chained hands, desperately moving toward me in short, careful, frightened steps. |
10 |
| 5 | 401 |
"I shall take this other bowl away," she said. |
10 |
| 5 | 410 |
Then I picked up the original bowl of porridge and held it in the palm of my left hand and took her firmly at the back of her head, by the hair, with my right. |
10 |
| 5 | 413 |
I held the bowl firmly, pressed upwards. |
10 |
| 5 | 414 |
I held her head firmly, pressing her face down into the bowl. |
10 |
| 5 | 418 |
"I'm choking!" Then I thrust her face again into the bowl. |
10 |
| 5 | 426 |
I supposed it was possible someone could drown in a bowl of porridge. |
10 |
| 5 | 430 |
Then I put the bowl on the floor before her and put her to her belly before it, and put my foot on her back, so that she could not rise. |
10 |
| 5 | 431 |
Her face was at the bowl. |
10 |
| 5 | 433 |
She put her head down over the bowl and, lapping, and biting at the substance, fed. |
10 |
| 5 | 437 |
I then kicked her with the side of my foot, and, as she addressed herself again to the contents of the bowl I settled myself before the low table, cross-legged, and returned to my own repast. |
10 |
| 5 | 441 |
Frightened, she again lowered her face to the bowl. |
10 |
| 5 | 445 |
"Lick your bowl," I said. |
10 |
| 5 | 448 |
"It doubtless overflowed the sides of the bowl when you pressed your face into it. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 558 |
"Have one of the men bring me a bowl of water, and salt," said Labienus. |
10 |
| 28 | 562 |
"Your captain wishes a bowl of water, and salt," I said, "and wood, logs, branches or such, with bark on them". |
10 |
| 28 | 611 |
I saw the soldier bring to Labienus a bowl of water, and a sack of salt. |
10 |
| 28 | 664 |
He now had the bowl of water resting upon his knees. |
10 |
| 29 | 92 |
To one side there was a bowl of water and salt. |
10 |
| 31 | 324 |
We watched Ina going to the well hole, dug in the sand near the shore earlier, into which marsh water might filter, and there kneel down, to fill a small metal bowl. |
10 |
| 31 | 341 |
"Do you think she was much like that one?" I asked, indicating Ina, who had now filled the bowl. |
10 |
| 31 | 356 |
"What of that one?" I asked, indicating Ina, now approaching us, holding the bowl, carefully. |
10 |
| 31 | 373 |
Ina now came before us and knelt, before us, close to us, with the bowl of water. |
10 |
| 31 | 394 |
She made certain her knees were widely spread in the sand, and then she extended her arms, her head down, between them, the bowl held out to our young guest. |
10 |
| 31 | 396 |
He took the bowl from her and, not taking his eyes off her, drank. |
10 |
| 31 | 454 |
The youth thrust the last of the hard bread in his mouth, took another swig of water from the bowl, put it down, leaped up, and seized Ina by the hair, and then, holding her by the hair, her head at his waist, dragged her, she gasping, into some nearby shrubbery. |
10 |
| 31 | 456 |
I myself then finished the hard bread and also the water in the bowl. |
10 |
| 37 | 4 |
A small copper bowl was beside her. |
10 |
| 37 | 8 |
Beside her, too, on the ground, was a small copper bowl. |
10 |
| 46 | 286 |
A slaver's man with a bowl of lather and a razor was shaving her, completely. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 42 |
Indeed, at least in my second usage of her, purchased with a second tarsk bit placed in the shallow copper bowl beside her, she had been put through fierce, severe, uncompromising slave paces. |
10 |
| 3 | 57 |
As I left, slinging about me my accouterments, I heard a new coin entered into the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 14 | 31 |
"We caught her drinking from the top bowl of the fountain," said one, pointing to a nearby fountain. |
10 |
| 14 | 59 |
What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip... |
10 |
| 14 | 267 |
"I drank from the high bowl," she said. |
10 |
| 14 | 274 |
"Thirst may be quenched at the lower bowl as well," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 328 |
"What difference does it make," she asked, "what bowl of a fountain I drank from? It is a small thing!" Anger coursed through the men present. |
10 |
| 14 | 390 |
"You have drunk from a high bowl," I said, "and more than once you have spoken untruthfully, for example, in denying that you sensed slave feelings in yourself". |
10 |
| 14 | 451 |
She had been taken to the lower bowl of the fountain. |
10 |
| 14 | 471 |
She now, slowly, painfully, crawled to the fountain, between the men, and then, putting her head down, and as was fitting for her, and as she should have done earlier in the afternoon, drank from the lower bowl. |
10 |
| 14 | 476 |
I saw the girl placed on her belly over the stone lip of the lower bowl of the fountain. |
10 |
| 14 | 524 |
"Have you learned to drink from the lower bowl?" I asked. |
10 |
| 18 | 72 |
I drew my blade and put it to the bowl of the lamp, on its small shelf in the hall. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 15 |
The water bowl did have a tiny run-off which might carry excess fluid away, presumably toward some drain, but the amount of water was so small in the bowl, and took such time to accumulate, that the run-off was not used. |
10 |
| 16 | 336 |
He then poured some water from a small pitcher into a shallow bowl, and put the bowl upon the tiles. |
10 |
| 19 | 390 |
They might, however, drop a coin into the proffered bowl from a gloved hand, touching neither the bowl nor the Initiate. |
10 |
| 2 | 60 |
Near me, as I brushed aside straw, I discovered two shallow, bowl-like depressions in the floor. |
10 |
| 4 | 10 |
The depression for the water, like a sunken bowl, was replenished from a slender, flat trickle of water. |
10 |
| 8 | 401 |
Of the two to one side, the yellowish vessels, one was a flattish bowl, which contained a crust and some meal; too, within it I was pleased to see what I thought were some slices of dried fruit; such things are often included in our diet; they are precious to us; in the other vessel, of the two to o... |
10 |
| 8 | 954 |
I groped about in the cell and touched with my finger the rim of the shallow bowl of water. |
10 |
| 8 | 968 |
I did not know how long it had stood in the bowl. |
10 |
| 8 | 994 |
The food bowl was cracked. |
10 |
| 8 | 995 |
The larger bowl, for wastes, was of some porcelaintype substance. |
10 |
| 8 | 1044 |
When I was sure it was gone I went again to my belly, and to the food bowl. |
10 |
| 8 | 1061 |
Had there not been three slices of dried fruit in the bowl? But I had seen the great bird, I had seen the prowling beast, that fearsome guardian of narrow ledges. |
10 |
| 10 | 269 |
There had been slices of fruit in the food bowl. |
10 |
| 13 | 716 |
I could hear the brunet slave, to one side, pouring some meal into a dish or bowl. |
10 |
| 13 | 721 |
I heard the brunet slave, behind me, at the table, pouring some water into a bowl. |
10 |
| 13 | 864 |
"Feed, barbarian," she said, placing a shallow bowl of gruel before me. |
10 |
| 13 | 867 |
But, too, from time to time, head down, pausing in my feeding, from licking at the sides of the bowl, the gruel about my mouth, I trembled. |
10 |
| 16 | 41 |
At his indication I held forth the tiny golden finger bowl, and he dipped his fingers within it, and then dried them on the napkin. |
10 |
| 16 | 42 |
I replaced the finger bowl and the napkin on the small table. |
10 |
| 16 | 338 |
I knelt before the bowl, and, my hands on the floor, put down my head and drank. |
10 |
| 17 | 108 |
I, on my knees, gathered in the food and water bowl of the prisoner. |
10 |
| 18 | 288 |
"That is what we must drink," I had informed her, noting with satisfaction the expression on her face as she had lifted up the bowl, filled with the foul brew, and had smelled it. |
10 |
| 18 | 299 |
Then she lifted the bowl to her lips. |
10 |
| 18 | 301 |
Then, scarcely pausing to take a breath, she drained the bowl. |
10 |
| 18 | 308 |
She put the bowl down, unsteadily. |
10 |
| 19 | 252 |
Each carried, before him, a golden bowl. |
10 |
| 19 | 392 |
The man behind me put a coin in the golden bowl. |
10 |
| 19 | 399 |
I did note that the fellows who were engaged in this raillery did, all of them, however, place their coins in the bowl. |
10 |
| 19 | 401 |
What if, for example, as an outside possibility, but one they were not willing to discount, there might be some mysterious connection between the Initiates and the Priest-Kings? Why not, then, put a coin in the bowl, particularly if it were not too valuable a coin? As far as I can determine, most pe... |
10 |
| 41 | 110 |
Too, she had a small, shallow bowl of wine. |
10 |
| 41 | 123 |
She then gathered up the dish and bowl and left. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 244 |
In his other hand he held a small metal bowl. |
10 |
| 16 | 245 |
When she had finished the bread, he put one hand behind the back of her head and held the small bowl to her lips. |
10 |
| 17 | 1151 |
What manner of place can this be? What animals, what beasts, what creatures, could be kept here, so high? As she explored, with her body, legs and fingers, behind her, as she could, hooded, her small wooden-floored, straw-strewn housing, which seemed clearly to be some sort of stall, she discovered,... |
10 |
| 17 | 1157 |
The presence of the bowl there, and the ring in the floor, with the chain and collar, suggested that this small housing, or stall, had been prepared for, and was intended for, the keeping of a slave and, presumably, given its openness, a female slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 1159 |
Gratefully, she squatted over the bowl and relieved herself. |
10 |
| 17 | 1160 |
Though it had surely been with pleasure that she had discovered the bowl within the reach of her chain, and she was grateful for the relief of her distress, it was shortly thereafter that she considered the simplicity, rudeness and directness of this arrangement, adequate it seemed for a lowly slave... |
10 |
| 17 | 1209 |
It is they who will decide if I will be given a bowl of gruel or a crust of bread. |
10 |
| 25 | 488 |
"Get the bowl between your legs!" "Please!" begged the former free woman, looking about herself, in misery, wildly. |
10 |
| 25 | 491 |
Reddening, the former free woman, tears running down her cheeks, squatted miserably over the bowl. |
10 |
| 25 | 499 |
It was a pleasant vengeance in its way, to watch this once-haughty creature, now reduced to a shamed slave, squatting over the porcelain bowl, performing this homely act upon command. |
10 |
| 25 | 502 |
Ellen took the bowl from the adjacent lane, and squatted over it. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1099 |
Even in a normal household the master takes the first bite from the bowl proffered to him by the slave. |
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| 1 | 1103 |
Sometimes, he takes what he wishes, and then, later, puts the bowl on the floor for her and she then feeds, head down, on all fours. |
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| 4 | 30 |
The interlocutor had then, in its shambling way, put down the bowl of food and the bota of water. |
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| 4 | 48 |
Interestingly he had put the bowl of food and the bota beyond her reach. |
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| 56 | 22 |
They were in a broad, shallow valley, rather like a gentle, expanded, wide bowl of grass. |
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| 67 | 100 |
There were some vessels about, one of them an overturned, dented metal bowl. |
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| 74 | 86 |
To one side, where she could reach it, through the bars, was a small bowl, in which lay a piece of fruit, and a crust of bread. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 23 | 77 |
It was warm, in its small bowl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 98 |
The bowl had suddenly jerked, and broth had leapt in the bowl, some of it running down the side of the bowl, some spilling to the wood. |
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| 32 | 18 |
A fire bowl was ignited, I think by the rider of the lead tarn, it flown, I suspected, by Tarl Cabot himself, and the bowl, trailing its tiny flag of fire, descended gracefully toward the stone flooring of the trail, before the defensive barricade, and splashed into the combustibles put there on the... |
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| 1 | 75 |
A bowl lamp did glow at the serving table, near the kitchen gate, near the paga vat, near the goblets. |
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| 1 | 250 |
The tavern was muchly dark, but we could see her outline at the serving table, in the light of the tiny bowl lamp. |
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| 3 | 92 |
In her two hands she bore a bowl. |
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| 3 | 94 |
"There," I said, brushing some straw aside, and indicating where she might place the bowl, before me. |
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| 3 | 102 |
She placed the bowl before me. |
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| 3 | 206 |
I picked up the bowl of broth, and sipped some. |
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| 3 | 208 |
I regarded her over the brim of the bowl. |
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| 3 | 477 |
I put the bowl to the floor, beside me, with its residue of fluid. |
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| 3 | 764 |
I swirled the bit of broth remaining in the metal bowl. |
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| 3 | 1295 |
I took the last sip of broth, and put the bowl down beside me, at my right knee. |
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| 3 | 1543 |
"Do not forget this," I said, throwing the metal bowl which had held the broth, ringing, to her feet. |
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| 7 | 17 |
One, the slave girl, Alcinoë, once the high lady, Flavia of Ar, confidante even of the former Ubara, Talena, had been sent to me in my cell, barefoot and tunicked, to humbly serve me, to bring me, in her abject servitude, a free man, now unspeakably above her, she now less than the dust beneath h... |
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| 13 | 56 |
It was some forty feet in height, and surmounted by what I took, despite its unusual appearance, bowl-like, but with a grated cover, to be a ship's lamp or lantern. |
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| 13 | 65 |
He thrust up the grating on its hinge, and, clinging to the mast with one hand, wiped his other hand within the bowl, and his hand, withdrawn, was moist, and glistened where soot had been rubbed away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 40 |
In most Gorean houses, I had learned, to my interest, there is a mixing bowl, in which the stronger, or "hard," ka-la-nas are mixed with water, the proportions determined according to the household, the occasion, the wishes of guests, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 746 |
The bowl was small, of plain, unglazed, baked clay, and was chipped, and there had been very little in it, presumably by the gowned slave's intent, and part of what there was had been removed with the bowl. |
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| 8 | 227 |
For the girl I ordered a bowl of slave gruel, to be placed on the floor beside the table, from which she would feed, head down, without the use of her hands. |
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| 8 | 229 |
Their masters did permit them to hold the bowl with both hands, but were not otherwise permitted to use their hands. |
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| 8 | 230 |
One of them smiled at me, over the rim of the bowl, but then lowered her eyes, and then lowered her head, to feed, shyly, humbly. |
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| 33 | 75 |
Tuza angrily thrust the fourth bowl into the pack. |
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| 33 | 104 |
I again lifted the small porcelain bowl to my lips. |
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| 33 | 110 |
I am told that in public eating houses, not brothels or taverns, slaves, when admitted, and not chained to rings outside, may kneel beside their master's bench, and while he eats from the plates, and such, on the table, if it be his will, may be given a bowl of slave gruel, which will be placed eith... |
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| 41 | 221 |
For example, if a slave should spill a beverage, or drop a utensil, while serving, let alone break a plate or a bowl, she may expect a whipping. |
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| 42 | 54 |
Master," I said, and rose to my feet, backed away, and then turned, and went again with the bowl ladle, its handle wrapped in cloth, to the cauldron over the fire. |
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| 42 | 78 |
"Mercy!" "Stay as you are!" snapped Donna, "as you are, on your back, hands at your side!" Donna then threw down her switch and seized up the fallen bowl-ladle and made her way to the cauldron. |
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| 42 | 83 |
Then the scalding contents of the brimming bowl- ladle were dashed onto her body, and she shrieked in misery. |
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| 42 | 129 |
I held the bowl in my left hand and went to the river to rinse it. |
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| 42 | 183 |
There was a stirring in the camp above, and so I turned about, and, carrying my now-rinsed gruel bowl, climbed up the slope to the camp. |
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| 49 | 194 |
"Is that why one slave sells for more than another, why one slave's price might purchase a ship, and another a wooden bowl and spoons, why one slave is bartered for a city, and another for a she-tarsk, why one girl is purchased to be chained at the foot of a Ubar's throne and another to carry water ... |
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| 50 | 687 |
"But do not make me do this! Do not so humiliate and insult me, I beg of you! I am a high slave! I was of high caste! I might bring gold! I would be worthy of sandals!" "Fetch a bowl," he said. |
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| 50 | 693 |
In a few Ehn, obviously fuming with displeasure, but holding a small bowl, which she had dipped briefly and angrily into the feed trough, the gowned slave, apparently named 'Ubara' as an insult or joke, entered the kennel. |
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| 50 | 707 |
"There," said the gowned slave, placing the bowl on the planks before me. |
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| 50 | 741 |
The gowned slave put her hand behind my head, holding it in place, and thrust the small bowl to my lips. |
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| 50 | 744 |
"There," she said, "it is done," and drew the bowl away. |
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| 50 | 745 |
I recalled the quick, superficial descent of the bowl into the feeding trough. |
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| 50 | 747 |
She stood up, and, with her finger, several times, wiped some gruel from the bowl, which adhered to her finger, which she would then suck away. |
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| 50 | 748 |
Then she turned away to return the bowl somewhere outside. |
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| 50 | 766 |
"A full bowl, as commanded! I did not eat her food". |
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| 50 | 920 |
She carried the small, simple bowl which had been earlier carried by the slave who had been gowned. |
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| 50 | 921 |
She held it to my mouth that I might feed, and, with a finger, as I could not do so, wiped what had clung to the bottom and sides of the bowl into my mouth. |
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| 50 | 923 |
She then returned the bowl to the feed trough in the clearing, and returned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 148 |
By now the fellow who had rushed away for the bowl of rice had returned, apparently with a vendor's man, who held, cushioned by layers of cloth, a large bowl of steaming rice in two hands. |
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| 20 | 392 |
I scooped up a handful of rice paste from the shallow bowl to my right, and held it out, across the table. |
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| 20 | 481 |
Pertinax reached into his shallow bowl of rice paste, to his right, and gathered some of this into his palm. |
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| 29 | 20 |
He carried, in one hand, a small lamp, a bit of tallow, with a wick, in a shallow bowl. |
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| 36 | 6 |
"Enjoy your millet," I encouraged Tajima, wiping the last bit of grain out of the wooden bowl with my finger. |
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| 36 | 18 |
"There is little danger of that," I said, "given what is in your bowl". |
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| 45 | 244 |
"A beggar," he said, "a mountebank, a gambler, a madman, who will wager his head against a bowl of rice". |
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| 45 | 246 |
"It is said, one bowl a day," said Haruki. |
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| 46 | 96 |
I am wagering, a bowl of rice against a head". |
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| 46 | 121 |
"Bring the bowl of rice!" cried the peasant. |
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| 46 | 160 |
"I have earned the bowl of rice. |
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| 46 | 277 |
The vendor's man approached with the bowl of rice. |
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| 46 | 465 |
The magician then indicated that the girl should rise from her knees, for she had not been given permission to break position, pick up the large bowl of rice, and accompany us. |
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| 50 | 43 |
I have a bowl of rice on this. |
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| 50 | 54 |
"Remember the bowl of rice". |
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| 50 | 55 |
"It is not our bowl of rice," said the first Ashigaru. |
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| 50 | 68 |
"There is a bowl of rice at stake," said Tajima. |
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| 50 | 77 |
"If even you do not know," said Tajima, "then I have neither won nor lost my bowl of rice, nor the other his". |
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| 55 | 107 |
In some cases there was a half-eaten bowl of rice near a mat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 283 |
Then, still holding me by the hair, he thrust my head down into the other bowl, that of water, and, my hands on the floor, on either side of the bowl, I drank, lapping the water, as I could, being shown the beast, and slave, that I was. |
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| 57 | 169 |
A girl's food bowl and water bowl are often kept on the floor of the kitchen, in a corner, sometimes in the vicinity of the master's couch. |
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| 6 | 540 |
I was at the fifth bowl, counting from the right, as I faced the line of bowls. |
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| 6 | 543 |
Then one of the masters was before me, between me and the metal bowl, in which was a few ounces of some moist, warm, granular substance, provender, slave provender. |
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| 6 | 554 |
"Biscuit and meat," he said to his fellow, and, to my delight, I saw a biscuit and a bit of meat tossed into my bowl. |
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| 7 | 82 |
The last thing I remembered was kneeling, in the cell, with the others, and being handed a small metal bowl, which I was to hold in both hands. |
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| 14 | 1 |
I ladled the grain and vulo soup, seasoned with brown, ground tur-pah, carefully into the bowl. |
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| 30 | 274 |
He then took me by the hair, and forced my head down, holding it over the bowl of gruel, now little more than cold mush. |
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| 30 | 276 |
My face was then thrust down into the bowl, deeply. |
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| 30 | 282 |
Then he wiped the inside of the bowl with my face, and bade me, with my tongue, to waste no gruel. |
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| 30 | 285 |
When I had drunk my fill, I lifted my head from the bowl. |
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| 30 | 287 |
He then, as I knelt, reached to a cloth to the side, of the sort that might serve diversely, as a bond, as a gag, as a blindfold, and dampened the cloth in the bit of water remaining in the bowl, and then, as I kept the palms of my hands down, on my thighs, in position, he gently dabbed my face dry ... |
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| 42 | 233 |
"While waiting," she said, "perhaps you would care for a handful of slave pellets or a bowl of slave gruel?" "Mercy, Mistress," I said. |
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| 45 | 6 |
He thrust a food prong into the bowl, lifted forth a drenched tospit slice, and, nibbling, savored it. |
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| 45 | 9 |
He then thrust the prong once more into the bowl, secured some three or four more slices, and slid them onto his plate, which was already laden with parsley, steamed rice, fried verr, and roast bosk. |
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| 45 | 67 |
He had just rinsed his hands in a hand bowl. |
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| 45 | 68 |
He now had his hands lifted from the bowl, water falling from them. |
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| 45 | 196 |
Sometimes she may feed with him, from her plate or bowl, kneeling beside the small, low table, where he sits, cross-legged. |
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| 45 | 205 |
There was no hand bowl at his immediate disposal. |
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| 58 | 5 |
"As you can see, noble Albus," said Kurik, "the bowl has been licked clean". |
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| 58 | 11 |
That the bowl was licked clean was to be expected. |
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| 60 | 21 |
One had a broken bowl near it. |
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| 64 | 124 |
I had been permitted, earlier, to hold a small sullage bowl in my hands, and, head down, feed from it. |
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| 68 | 98 |
"Lift up the bowl, and hand it to her". |
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| 68 | 107 |
"I do not hesitate," she said, quickly, handing me the bowl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 67 |
The girl smiled; her anxieties melted away like a spoonful of snow in a bowl of steaming black wine. |
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