| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 78 |
"There will be little cause for rejoicing". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 160 |
Had I won my freedom? Was it thus in the Amusements of Tharna? Or had the fierce, proud Tatrix now recognized the cruelty of the Amusements? Had that heart hidden in those cold, glistening robes of unfeeling gold at last relented, shown itself to be susceptible of compassion? Or had the call of just... |
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| 19 | 90 |
"In this cause," I said, "whether you are of the Caste of Peasants, or Poets, or Metal Workers, or Saddle-Makers, you must be warriors!" "We shall," said Kron of Tharna, his fist holding the great hammer with which he had struck off our shackles. |
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| 24 | 19 |
Almost as one they cried out, "Tal, Warrior!" "Tal, Warriors!" I responded, raising my arm, addressing them all by the title of my caste, for I knew that in their common cause each was a warrior. |
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| 26 | 17 |
As she ascended once more the throne no proscription notices were posted but a general amnesty was granted to all, both those who had espoused her cause and those who had fought for Dorna the Proud. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 189 |
* * * * One of the most marvelous ideas to further our cause was provided by Misk, who introduced me to what I had only heard rumored before, the Priest-Kings' mastery of the pervasive phenomena of gravity. |
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| 30 | 167 |
Sarm, one day, brought down from the Halls of the Priest-Kings above, all the humans who were quartered there, mostly Chamber Slaves, to aid his cause. |
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| 30 | 186 |
The most remarkable event was a delegation of Sarm's Priest-Kings, led by Kusk himself, who surrendered to Misk, pledging themselves to his cause. |
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| 30 | 189 |
Indeed, at that time, it seemed they had, almost unaccountably, for reasons of principle, joined a cause which was in all probability a lost one. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 230 |
I saw in his elevation a portion of the plan of Others being unfolded; with one of their own on the throne of Ar, they would have a remarkable base in Ar for the advancement of their schemes, in particular the influencing of men, the recruitment of partisans in their cause; as Misk had pointed out, ... |
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| 18 | 508 |
And here, while we have through the months advanced our cause you have stood by, patiently and cooperatively, a dupe and a fool, our guarantee that Priest-Kings would not send another". |
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| 18 | 510 |
"You speak of 'we' and 'our cause,'" I said. |
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| 18 | 538 |
"Do you not wish to see the little beauty presenting herself on the block? I expect she, with the others, will bring much gold to the House of Cernus, which we may then invest in our cause". |
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| 19 | 190 |
Doubtless, after this, the next lot would be his finest, and the comparison with this girl would be so startling as to cause men to forget the beauties who had preceded her; after this girl, a magnificent actress, the plainest of presentable women would have seemed brilliantly attractive; and a trul... |
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| 20 | 20 |
I could not understand why Relius and Ho-Sorl would make my cause theirs, nor why Sura, though I knew she cared for me, would so risk her life, now doubtless lost. |
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| 24 | 99 |
The cause of Priest-Kings had been advanced; the restoration of Marlenus to the throne of Ar had been accomplished. |
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| 24 | 388 |
"It is hard to know what would be fitting payment for the great services rendered by Gladius of Cos, in my cause". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 86 |
Hopefully, the terror of being taken in the flank might cause many captains, or even Chenbar himself, to have the fleet put about, and, if so, this would make their ships the most vulnerable to our own. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1146 |
It is so simple to cause men acute agony! It was so simple to manipulate them, and control them, by means of their needs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 167 |
I am sure that the capture of Bosk was one of the objectives of the Rhoda's northern expedition, but I suspected that the acquisition of an admiral of Port Kar, one whom they had good cause to remember, was not their single, nor prime, objective. |
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| 18 | 667 |
Besides, I expected that tonight there would be some cause for celebration on the two ships, and that they might be drawn together by lines. |
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| 21 | 113 |
Their heads, too, sore from the paga, will most likely cause them some displeasure". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 315 |
The conqueror, by his might and cunning, and victory, has won, by the right of the Tahari, a soldier to his cause. |
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| 11 | 330 |
A good fight, I have heard men of the Tahari say, licking their lips, justifies any cause. |
10 |
| 11 | 332 |
The cause of the war was forgotten, but its deeds are still recounted about the fires. |
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| 16 | 80 |
The long legs cause little water vibration. |
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| 20 | 123 |
I think, Hassan, strange though it may seem, that we hold a cause in common". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 112 |
I determined to give them no cause for anger. |
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| 5 | 586 |
That I did this did not cause him any pleasure. |
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| 22 | 360 |
The very sight of a female slave, particularly as they are likely to be garbed, and must move, would be likely to stun a man of Earth; nothing has prepared him to believe that such women exist; one of the things that would be most likely to startle him, if not trouble him, perhaps cause him initial ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 532 |
I admired this small, almost meaningless symbol of their femininity, this small, pathetic gesture protesting to the machine and the lies that they were really women; too, I recalled the undergarments of such girls; they, too, protested the cause of their beauty in the alien country of the machine. |
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| 8 | 133 |
"Do you understand the nature of the cause in which you work?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 135 |
"I labor in the cause of Sidney Anderson". |
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| 8 | 183 |
I supposed she had known only the men of Earth and, on Gor, those who were her subordinates in the discipline of the Kurii cause. |
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| 8 | 200 |
I was puzzled only that the Kurii would enlist such obviously feminine, genuinely feminine, even beautiful, women in their cause. |
10 |
| 8 | 234 |
"Now you will, in your humble way, contribute, if only by carrying stone and wood, to our cause". |
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| 24 | 468 |
Indeed, in a certain context a kind word can almost cause such a wench, collared and at your mercy, to faint with love. |
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| 35 | 125 |
"You want to cause an explosion?" asked Imnak. |
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| 36 | 7 |
I regarded fifteen women who had been in the complex, women being trained as Kur agents for work in their cause. |
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| 36 | 23 |
"And bring, too, the bravest and best of your hunters, who performed for our cause in this place the best and noblest works of war". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 185 |
"Do you think you are the only one upon Gor who labors occasionally in the cause of Priest-Kings?" asked Samos. |
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| 1 | 278 |
"Surely you suspected others, too, served, at least upon occasion, in the cause of Priest-Kings". |
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| 2 | 159 |
The selection of this woman for service in the Kurii cause now seemed clearer than it had before. |
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| 15 | 69 |
"Your concern for their cause is commendable," I said. |
10 |
| 53 | 132 |
If I have erred, I have erred in the cause of my caste and in that, more generally, of humankind". |
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| 57 | 23 |
"I do not think she will cause you trouble now," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 254 |
"Why do you not carry your cause outside the pens?" I asked. |
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| 30 | 64 |
Indeed, the leash, not uncommonly, can cause a woman to sexually blossom. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 293 |
"Perhaps this will cause the troops of Lara to return," said another, "to protect their own holdings". |
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| 11 | 571 |
"Perhaps such opinions subserve the purposes of ambitious and eccentric minorities," she said, "and that is doubtless an important point in their favor, but they do not seem to advance the cause of a civilization congenial to the nature of the human species as it is in actuality constituted". |
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| 32 | 214 |
My only chance in this rapid, dark matter, as I saw it, was to enlist his vanity and, hopefully, a recklessness attendant upon it, in my own cause. |
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| 33 | 41 |
"He is now east on the river, trying to raise support for our cause," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 215 |
These would have been sufficient to hold the fortress against a significant attack, but once the enemy, in numbers, as we were, were within, the defense of the holding would be a lost cause. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 858 |
The repetition of a direction or command is normally taken as a cause for discipline, but, as she was new to Gor, and frightened, and clearly eager to obey, and please, I decided not to beat her. |
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| 13 | 1247 |
"Failure will be cause for discipline—for severe discipline". |
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| 17 | 48 |
The function of the throat bands is to hold the girl's throat in the yoke, securely and perfectly, not to cause her discomfort, nor to strangle her. |
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| 17 | 431 |
After all, should a free man be expected to apply his own oils, scrape the dirt from his own skin with the strigil, and rinse and towel himself? "You see," said Pumpkin to the captured girl, "your appearance, even if it were not so healthy looking, perhaps, can cause some of us to think certain thou... |
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| 17 | 437 |
"And thus it is," said Pumpkin, "that your appearance can cause shame, and as it causes shame, it must be shameful". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 242 |
The point of the collar is to mark the woman as a slave and, in many cases, by means of devices such as a particular kind of knot, a tag, an engraving on metal, or a plate attached to it, to identify the master, not to cause her discomfort. |
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| 33 | 279 |
I saw that he, in the approved fashion of the Waniyanpi, would turn his manhood against himself, using it to frustrate himself, using it to cause himself suffering, denying it its fulfillment, its sovereignty and dominance. |
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| 56 | 87 |
"I suppose," I said, "as one who has upon occasion espoused the cause of Priest-Kings, I should attempt to slay you". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 67 |
He, I trust, may be expected to see reason and acknowledge, however reluctantly, the justice of our cause". |
10 |
| 17 | 36 |
Surely most would suppose, by now, that she had been rescued by adherents of her cause, and swiftly swept away to some safe haven, one far beyond the reach of a vengeful justice. |
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| 36 | 215 |
"Much misery did you cause me," he said, angrily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 377 |
I saw his eyes momentarily cloud and, glancing back, I think I detected a possible cause for his distress. |
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| 2 | 1171 |
"That you have betrayed the cause of Priest-Kings," he said. |
10 |
| 2 | 1172 |
"How can I have betrayed their cause?" I asked. |
10 |
| 2 | 1177 |
"In what way have I frustrated or jeopardized their cause?" I asked. |
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| 6 | 1235 |
For an unaccounted-for coin to be found in a slave girl's possession, or among her belongings, can be a cause for severe punishment. |
10 |
| 12 | 509 |
I was perhaps less of a pledged adherent in their wars than a free sword, a mercenary of sorts, one who accepted one cause or another, as it might please him to do so. |
10 |
| 12 | 511 |
There was some point, then, in my being at least somewhat well disposed toward their cause. |
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| 15 | 66 |
"You were the cause of my reduction in rank," she cried. |
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| 15 | 67 |
"You were the cause of my loss of status in Brundisium, my descent from favor in the eyes of my Ubar, Belnar, the reason I have been denied the right to conceal my features, my right as a free female, the reason I have been placed in brief, shameful garments, forcing me to make clear to men my femal... |
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| 15 | 68 |
Now all changes! Now, fool, you will be the reason not only for my restoration to privilege and station in Brundisium, the reason for my new rise to favor in the court, in the eyes of Belnar, my Ubar, but the cause, as well, of my attaining there, in the palace and in the service of my Ubar, and the... |
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| 16 | 155 |
"Though, to be sure, if it were not for my confidence in your acuity and unerring judgment, I would suspect there might be cause for serious alarm". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 359 |
Accordingly you are not to mutilate them or cause them permanent or serious injury unless they prove themselves to be, in some small way, at least, disobedient or displeasing". |
10 |
| 10 | 20 |
"Members of the high council, and lesser councils, and certain of their supporters," he said, "who favored the cause of Ar". |
10 |
| 14 | 24 |
She had also, in her position, I had gathered, and doubtless by her influence and acts, supported the cause of Cos. |
10 |
| 14 | 31 |
261, however, aside from all such considerations, was a citizeness of Torcadino, and Torcadino had been sworn to the cause of Ar. |
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| 25 | 694 |
"Did this one cause difficulty?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 2249 |
"The occasional existence of such love, and its possibility, however," I said, "and many men fear it, because of its momentous and binding nature, just as many women long for it, because of their desire to pair bond, should not cause us to overlook the many commoner prerogatives of nature, those nev... |
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| 26 | 680 |
"You may cause your bonds to cut into your limbs". |
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| 26 | 2049 |
This does not represent a relaxation of Gorean disciplinary practices, incidentally, for discipline may be, and will be, if there is the least cause for it, inflicted outside the strictures of the leash. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 470 |
Should I find pleasure in this, or a cause for alarm? Gorean men are generally such as to know how to handle women. |
10 |
| 11 | 503 |
He was proud of me! Too, there were conventionalized sounds, indicative of interest and approval, the intake of breath through saliva, certain sounds made with the tongue and lips, certain clickings and smackings, and such, of the sort that might cause a free woman to swoon with dismay, but are addr... |
10 |
| 11 | 1492 |
"In the case of a man, the repetition of a command is commonly a cause for discipline". |
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| 11 | 1511 |
In such cases the repetition of a command is not regarded as cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 11 | 1608 |
And failure to obey, and be pleasing, can be cause not only for grievous punishment, but death. |
10 |
| 14 | 222 |
"Apparently both Tupita and Sita wished to enlist your support in their cause," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 26 |
The striking of a piece of kindling on the tub, for example, rather on the left of the tub, seemed to cause distress to the bather. |
10 |
| 16 | 72 |
Perhaps, ideally targeted, launched from within a yard or so, one might cause a fellow to lose a grip on a ladder. |
10 |
| 19 | 31 |
In the early Ahn of battle a common cause of casualties, particularly with young warriors, is recklessness, and the failure to use the shield properly to protect oneself. |
10 |
| 19 | 32 |
In the late Ahn of a battle, however, an even more common cause of casualties, interestingly enough, is the simple inability to lift, control and maneuver the shield. |
10 |
| 20 | 444 |
I did not think that those of either Cos or Ar's Station had cause to regret what had been done there. |
10 |
| 21 | 564 |
It is a very serious "cause for punishment" on the part of a slave to conceal or deny her status. |
10 |
| 21 | 1082 |
Why are the men of Gor so different from the men of Earth? Why are they not diffident, not apologetic? Why do they not turn their eyes aside, lest they cause the smallest modicum of unease to the fair? Why do they not pretend not to notice? Why are they not like the typical man of Earth? But soon, a... |
10 |
| 21 | 1094 |
The very thought of donning the garments of a free woman can cause terror to a slave. |
10 |
| 21 | 1438 |
"When we enter Port Cos," he said, "I would like to do so in such a way as to make clear from afar that there is cause for rejoicing, that our business has been successfully conducted and that festivities are in order". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 325 |
"And you," grinned he, "are also loyal to the cause of Cos, as was clear from your presence in the Vosk camp". |
10 |
| 17 | 346 |
Speaking under conditions of imposed silence, of course, even so much as a word, is a cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 19 | 1797 |
"That you are sexually responsive, and could become significantly so," I said, "is no cause for dismay, or embarrassment or shame. |
10 |
| 25 | 24 |
Such impertinence can be a cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 28 | 82 |
Nonperformance of this ceremony, upon reaching intellectual majority, can be a cause for expulsion from the city. |
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| 44 | 351 |
"There was no point in selling one's life for such a slut, in a doomed cause," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 69 |
On the other hand, this cause, I suspected, was doomed. |
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| 9 | 347 |
The Cosians, as many conquerors, made a point of enlisting class jealousies in their cause, utilizing them to secure their ends, for example, the replacement of a given aristocracy, or elite, with one of their own, preferably in as covert a fashion as is possible. |
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| 12 | 102 |
On the other hand, it should be understood, and clearly, that to cause severe, unwonted, gratuitous pain is not Gorean. |
10 |
| 13 | 162 |
Naturally they were expected to accept their own castration, so to speak, as a cause for rejoicing, as a long-overdue improvement of their condition. |
10 |
| 18 | 554 |
"Do you think an entire gold piece, say, a stater, or a tarn disk, would be too much in a cause to perpetuate and enhance the arts on an entire world?" "Not at all," I said. |
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| 19 | 803 |
"But surely there would be no cause for secrecy about such a matter," I said. |
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| 19 | 1175 |
Already I have been shorn and put in the fields! If I gave him further cause for displeasure I do not know what he would do with me!" "You might be whipped?" I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 236 |
She was quite capable, I was sure, in their cause, of throwing caution to the winds. |
10 |
| 26 | 601 |
For example, the increasing resistance to Cosian rule in the city, the growing insurgency, the actions of the Delta Brigade, would surely have given her cause for apprehension, if not genuine alarm. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 525 |
I did not know the cause of the sound. |
10 |
| 14 | 958 |
"Failure to kneel properly, for one such as I," I said, "is cause for discipline". |
10 |
| 19 | 367 |
Brazenness can be cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 40 | 138 |
He put out his hand, but he was afraid to approach her, for fear she might leap down, or he might, inadvertently, cause her to lose her balance. |
10 |
| 46 | 38 |
"The danger then," he said, "is that you might identify him for others, for those favorable to the cause of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 428 |
"It was to escape boredom that I joined your cause, that I became a secret, unsuspected agent in your cause". |
10 |
| 4 | 224 |
She wondered if he might not, perhaps in the interest of some cause, be merely concerned to project a semblance of solicitude. |
10 |
| 4 | 230 |
She now believes that he ordered that drink for her for different reasons, first, to simply impose his will upon her, and that she might, on some level, understand that it was so imposed, and, secondly, that he might, in his amusement, cause her senses to swirl, thus producing a calculated, intended... |
10 |
| 9 | 49 |
There is little cause for such things, little interest in them, little place for them. |
10 |
| 12 | 19 |
Failure to do this promptly was cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 15 | 497 |
It may even cause her pain. |
10 |
| 17 | 508 |
Surely that must be a cause for rejoicing. |
10 |
| 17 | 880 |
Surely not all girls invariably ask their masters for permission to speak, but such could, in theory, be required, and the failure to ask for such permission could be a cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 18 | 783 |
"Take that!" And then she was frightened that she might break threads in the garment, or cause a tiny rent to appear in the fabric. |
10 |
| 19 | 534 |
The least hesitation or tentativeness is cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 19 | 562 |
"Did you learn the origin of the disturbance in the city, the cause of such shouting, of such commotion, in the streets?" "Yes," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 23 | 178 |
A movement, a glance, a word, a gesture which might cause no more than a moment's irritation or disgruntlement to a typical male of Earth, used to such abuse, might have different consequences altogether with another sort of man, a man less tolerant and less accommodating than those on whom she was ... |
10 |
| 24 | 254 |
Laxity in such matters is a cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 26 | 1171 |
Slave needs, of course, as any unsatisfied need, can cause suffering, who knows better than a helpless slave, but I would not be without such needs. |
10 |
| 27 | 2857 |
The least hesitancy can be cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 29 | 109 |
Certainly she did not wish for a command to be repeated, as that is a common cause for discipline. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 25 |
The cause of this disruption was, of course, at the time unknown to them, nor, at the time, would it have been of great interest to them. |
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| 21 | 651 |
"Lord Pyrrhus strikes a great blow thusly for his cause". |
10 |
| 44 | 255 |
"What cause do you favor?" inquired the Kur of Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 44 | 261 |
"What cause is yours?" he inquired. |
10 |
| 44 | 263 |
"Then that, too, is my cause," said the Kur. |
10 |
| 44 | 264 |
"It is a cause with ill prospects," said Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 46 | 30 |
"My smaller size," said Flavion, "facilitates my humble contributions, if contributions they be, to our cause". |
10 |
| 46 | 32 |
"To fight beside you, for our cause," said Flavion, "justifies any risk". |
10 |
| 46 | 35 |
Few, if any, could have proved more valuable to our cause". |
10 |
| 50 | 24 |
Has her master not, for example, of late become less patient and more strict with her, as though he might be fighting something within himself, something unwelcome, which he was unwilling to acknowledge? Surely she must now strive to do nothing which might cause him to rid himself of her. |
10 |
| 53 | 172 |
"It must cause great pain to the womb," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 56 | 89 |
To be opposed to so great an enemy does our small and lowly cause infinite honor. |
10 |
| 56 | 205 |
Who better in such a cause than a human warrior to bear to Kur warriors the ring of Arcesilaus, mightiest of Kurii, mightiest of the foes of Agamemnon?" "I think," said Cabot, ruefully, "that they might have been shamed to face a fellow Kur in such role, one still with pride and status, who did not ... |
10 |
| 57 | 40 |
"Glory to our cause!" In the threshold of the camp, startled, and seemingly jubilant, stood Flavion, who then rushed forward to embrace Lord Grendel, Cabot, Statius, Archon, and others, and then he bounded about, leaping into the air, uttering screeches of pleasure, and then, alighting, again and ag... |
10 |
| 60 | 1 |
The Ways of Kur "Our cause is lost!" exclaimed Flavion, entering the camp. |
10 |
| 60 | 28 |
If they are destroyed, all hope for our cause is doomed". |
10 |
| 60 | 43 |
The only thing clear is that we must surrender our cause, and place ourselves at the mercy of Agamemnon". |
10 |
| 61 | 23 |
"Agamemnon will not order such a charge," said Lord Grendel, "as he, in his wisdom, would well understand not only its futility, but its implicit fatality, the doom to which it would subject his own cause". |
10 |
| 61 | 135 |
Our very cause depends upon it". |
10 |
| 61 | 137 |
"Our cause is then lost," said Statius. |
10 |
| 62 | 20 |
"It seemed to me wise to appear to favor the cause of Grendel," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 65 | 15 |
"Perhaps one might die for a cause," said Cabot, "but surely not for a leader". |
10 |
| 65 | 36 |
"To die for a leader is to betray the cause," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 65 | 37 |
"The cause is the leader," said a Kur. |
10 |
| 65 | 38 |
"The leader is the cause". |
10 |
| 66 | 12 |
"I do not understand how my friends, my compatriots, and brothers, can contemplate the ruination of a cause for which we have long and well fought. |
10 |
| 69 | 86 |
"What then must be the might and worthiness of a cause so served, by adherents and partisans of such nobility?" said Archon. |
10 |
| 71 | 13 |
Cabot also scratched, in Gorean, on the collar: "I am Flavion, adherent of Agamemnon, traitor to the cause of Lord Arcesilaus". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 278 |
Such is cause for discipline. |
10 |
| 5 | 64 |
"I come to you in friendship," he said, "as partisans in a common cause". |
10 |
| 5 | 320 |
Presumably, too, assuming I was compliant to the will of Priest-Kings, I would now naively prosecute the machinations of Kurii, confident that it was in the cause of Priest-Kings that I labored. |
10 |
| 9 | 16 |
"Are we not, ourselves, in our way, guilty of betrayal? Did we not engage, enthusiastically and uncritically, in betrayal, pretending to be what we were not, engaging to deliver a stranger, whom we knew not, to an uncertain fate, one we did not understand, and which might, for all we knew, have prov... |
10 |
| 12 | 84 |
I gathered it did not make a great deal of difference to either Thrasilicus or Lord Nishida whether I took them, in fact, to be laboring in the cause of Priest-Kings or not. |
10 |
| 19 | 106 |
Some men are alone, essentially solitary, their lives given over unswervingly to an ideal, or dream, the search for a fact, the discovery of a cause, or planet, the unraveling of a mystery, the creation of a perfect poem. |
10 |
| 29 | 6 |
I saw Sumomo and Hana, shading their eyes, emerge from the portal on their closed wagon and, standing on its small porch, strain to see what might be the cause of the ebullition. |
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| 32 | 85 |
Our cause deserves them". |
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| 32 | 86 |
"What is your cause?" I inquired. |
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| 33 | 94 |
Lord Nishida shuddered, and I did not inquire the cause of his concern. |
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| 36 | 22 |
"What," I asked, "was the cause of his death?" "His health was poor, and for a long time failing," said Aëtius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 114 |
"Most rational men," I said, "will be reluctant to commit themselves to a lost cause, to expend themselves in such a cause, particularly if the cause is not their own. |
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| 3 | 25 |
Better put, they were lost men, scattered men, hunted men, men with few resources, outlaws, vagabonds, wanderers, many without a Home Stone, perhaps even having dishonored or betrayed it, rude men, rough men, dangerous men, mercenaries, of a sort, recruited by mysterious leaders, in an obscure cause... |
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| 3 | 145 |
The repetition of a command is often cause for discipline. |
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| 3 | 221 |
Failure to do so is cause for discipline. |
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| 3 | 552 |
The very suggestion of such a thing can be cause for discipline. |
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| 8 | 427 |
The repetition of a command is often a cause for discipline, and she was well aware of what that might involve. |
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| 9 | 228 |
Perhaps, I thought, they, in so small a number, will merely attempt to hold the door, to prevent mutineers, should things turn against them, from withdrawing through it, perhaps to discard weapons somewhere, and thence to lose themselves amongst hundreds of others, innocent others not involved in th... |
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| 12 | 222 |
Did she not know that such an attitude might be a cause for discipline? I supposed not. |
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| 18 | 35 |
Its may also be a cause for discipline. |
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| 20 | 28 |
The slave had often been in my vicinity, even when it seemed there was no cause for this proximity. |
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| 21 | 261 |
"Yes," said Lord Okimoto, "unusual, but scarcely a cause for concern". |
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| 24 | 379 |
"Never without cause," he said. |
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| 25 | 86 |
Crucifixion was a common punishment, and might be inflicted for so small a cause as an indiscreet expression, a careless word, a bow deemed insufficiently prompt or deep, insufficiently ingratiating. |
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| 30 | 47 |
Whereas the surrender was unconditional, the deserters realized, as well as others, first, that the Pani would not be likely to accept a grievous loss of armsmen which would be likely to jeopardize, if not ruin, their cause, and, second, that their brethren, their fellow armsmen, and their fellows o... |
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| 34 | 61 |
They, too, as the kajirae, are women, and, accordingly, not above wheedling a favor, pleading a cause, or improving an occasion, by means of their sex. |
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| 36 | 96 |
Perhaps most serious is the fact that many of our armsmen respect him as an astute leader, and surely favored, with him, the cause of desertion. |
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| 36 | 200 |
Neither wished to see it destroyed, wise though might have been its destruction to deter desertion, to convince armsmen that flight was impossible, and that they must now reconcile themselves and their fortunes to our cause". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 182 |
The shame of this expulsion would be general knowledge, and certain of our sisters, I thought I knew which ones, Nora, and others, would see to it that the cause of our expulsion would be well publicized. |
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| 10 | 948 |
It, and its bearer, were obviously the cause of much amusement. |
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| 27 | 148 |
We looked about ourselves, apprehensively, but there seemed little in the room to suggest a cause for alarm. |
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| 33 | 93 |
Those Kurii of the Cave, stubborn refugees of a putatively lost cause, impenitent and undissuaded, I had gathered, hoped to enleague themselves with one or more of the remote steel worlds, with the end in view of a conquest of Gor, and, perhaps eventually, if wished, of Earth. |
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| 33 | 114 |
How clever he was! His initial reluctance to further their cause, as one might see now, had been no more than a ruse to raise the stakes, presumably to the governorship of a world. |
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| 41 | 7 |
The fact that Lucius had been a golden-chain Kur, too, might have given some cause for reflection. |
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| 41 | 15 |
The law of gravity may be objectionable, but with what is it to be replaced? In any event, whatever might be the cause, most insurrections fail, and those that succeed seldom do more than restore the past with new bodies and different labels. |
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| 43 | 6 |
"He is a traitor to our cause," I said. |
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| 43 | 87 |
"Doubtless it was in such a ship," I said, "that he was to be envoyaged to the distant world, one of metal, where he was to plead the cause of Agamemnon, acquire resources, and enlist allies". |
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| 45 | 135 |
"Must a command be repeated?" is a question which strikes terror into a slave girl's heart, for a repeated command is commonly a cause for discipline. |
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| 48 | 214 |
It will manifest the success of our cause, the absoluteness of our victory. |
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| 49 | 23 |
It might have been a judicious fabrication, intended to better secure Grendel's allegiance to his cause. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 414 |
Others said that they were kept separate because they were so beautiful that their presence would cause disruption in the camp, that men would kill one another for them. |
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| 50 | 147 |
I trusted that lovely Asperiche would not be the cause of bloodshed between Master Axel and my captor. |
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| 51 | 102 |
"That she is a distraction, that she may compromise your value to our cause". |
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| 51 | 104 |
"The cause is all-important," said Tyrtaios. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 192 |
He will presumably take you for a deserter, one wise enough to recognize that the cause of Lord Temmu is a lost cause". |
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| 39 | 91 |
"Dying for a cause seldom does a cause much good". |
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| 45 | 135 |
One chooses a man, rather than a cause, or, perhaps, it is the man who is the cause. |
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| 6 | 99 |
I withdrew from your service only under the most powerful of moral incentives, my recognition of the righteousness of the cause of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands. |
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| 9 | 119 |
Would not the arrival of such monsters most easily be understood in terms of preternatural agencies? Indeed, Lord Temmu, shortly after the great ship of Tersites had been wharfed below the holding, had sowed the seeds of such alarms by means of spies, spreading rumors of terrifying winged beasts, de... |
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| 12 | 130 |
"As appointed commander of the cavalry I was willing, under unusual circumstances, hoping to advance the cause of the house of Temmu, to exercise my own judgment, to act on my own initiative, to act independently of the chain of command, but all that was while I held the post and rank of commander, ... |
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| 12 | 365 |
On the other hand, it did not cause me pain. |
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| 20 | 384 |
It is then my hope that the cavalry, in the light of the despicable treatment of their commander, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, betrayed into the hands of a putative enemy, but an actual friend, the dreadful perfidy of the house of Temmu, the righteousness of my cause, and the wisdom of an alliance, one bot... |
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| 30 | 283 |
So she is likely to behave in such a way that there will be little cause, or temptation, to use it on her. |
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| 31 | 124 |
I take him to be a deserter, a mercenary fled from the holding of Temmu, one forsaking a doomed cause". |
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| 31 | 137 |
On that score Arashi and his men had no cause for disappointment. |
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| 31 | 243 |
"The other is a deserter, and he who deserts one cause will as promptly desert another". |
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| 42 | 77 |
The repetition of a command is commonly a cause for discipline, unless there is a serious reason to suppose that the command has not been heard, or has not been understood. |
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| 42 | 268 |
A free woman is permitted whatever nasty indulgences, whatever flaws and faults, she pleases, but the least suggestion of such a thing in a slave can be a cause for discipline". |
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| 47 | 305 |
"Twelve arrows assert its right, twelve arrows plead its cause". |
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| 54 | 137 |
"First," I said, "the cause of Yamada must find itself beneath the shadow of its wings". |
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| 57 | 42 |
The iron dragon, it seemed, had withdrawn from the cause of Yamada and espoused that of the house of Temmu. |
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| 61 | 163 |
It was conjectured by some they had forsworn the service of Yamada and fled to the banner of Lord Temmu, apprising him of their secret, unswerving fidelity to his cause. |
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| 61 | 525 |
"It was feared," said Lord Nishida, "that you might be reluctant to join our cause, and we had much need of a tarn cavalry, that required to balance the numerical superiority of the troops of Lord Yamada". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 152 |
Also, any attempt to adjust, ease, or remove a bit or gag is cause for discipline. |
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| 19 | 133 |
The repetition of a command is often cause for discipline. |
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| 29 | 132 |
"Or those in whose cause I labor," he said. |
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| 33 | 588 |
"Go! Beware! Interfere not! We labor in the cause of Arcesilaus, Twelfth Face of the Nameless One, Theocrat of the World!" I understood nothing of this. |
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| 34 | 204 |
"Has this to do aught with the creature seized in the house of Flavius Minor, she carried away into the night?" "One of the mighty heroes who labored in the cause of Lord Arcesilaus," he said, "was the outcome of the aforementioned hideous experiment. |
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| 36 | 143 |
"If our friend, Decius Albus, is of the faction of Lord Arcesilaus," he said, "doubtless to welcome me to Ar, to offer me instruction, and abet my cause". |
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| 46 | 135 |
I am humbled by his estimation of my possible value to his cause, surely exaggerated, and I am overwhelmed by the remarkable generosity with which he is prepared to reward one who would doubtless prove an unworthy servitor". |
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| 60 | 41 |
"Surely you know that can be cause for discipline," he said. |
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| 62 | 140 |
Sometimes the tracing of a master's fingernail, so gently, delicately, in the soft palm of slave's hand, she forced to keep the back of her hand down on her thigh, fixed in place, can cause her to cry out in piteous need. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 134 |
The repetition of a command can be a cause for discipline. |
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| 7 | 268 |
I saw no cause for merriment in what I had said. |
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| 11 | 570 |
The repetition of a command is often cause for discipline. |
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| 13 | 36 |
Hesitation or reluctance can be a cause for discipline. |
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| 27 | 207 |
We must not cause them distress". |
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| 33 | 478 |
"Release her hair," said Pa-Kur, kindly, "lest you cause her discomfort". |
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| 40 | 75 |
"The cause is not clear at this point," said Florian. |
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| 43 | 111 |
If you cause the least difficulty, you will be slain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 65 |
"If you are truly the dreaded Bosk of Port Kar," said Aktis, "why do you object to intrusions and raids which cause you no harm and can do little but enhance your own reputation as a pillager and menace?" "Perhaps because I am pleased to do so," I said. |
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| 6 | 283 |
Repetition of a command is often cause for discipline. |
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| 8 | 47 |
"It seems our cause is advanced," said Clitus. |
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| 10 | 21 |
Carelessness in such matters can be a cause for discipline. |
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| 17 | 14 |
The breaking of position on the part of a slave can easily be cause for discipline. |
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| 29 | 78 |
That can be cause for swift and savage discipline. |
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| 29 | 189 |
She would soon learn that that indulgence can be a cause for discipline. |
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| 38 | 34 |
"Yes," I said, "but how and to what extent?" "It is absurd to try to enlist him in our cause," said Thurnock. |
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| 42 | 88 |
"One desires to confuse and unsettle the enemy, so that he will not know what is going on, will not know what to expect, or when; one wishes to reduce his confidence, to make him suspect the competence of his leaders, to make him doubt the value of his cause or the likely success of his efforts. |
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| 44 | 56 |
As most mercenaries fight for loot and pay, their allegiance is likely to be less to the cause of their lord than to his purse. |
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| 48 | 15 |
Who could be safe? Who could be sure the storm would not fall upon them? Doubtless probabilities suggested that one's own village would be spared, but what if it were not? Xanthos and I made our way to several villages, and soon, abetted by others recruited along the way to our cause, our message, o... |
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| 49 | 163 |
"When ships are lost," I said, "the cause is not always clearly understood". |
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| 58 | 114 |
The point of the parry is not to directly block a blow but to move it from its course, to cause it to deviate. |
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