| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 71 |
Then, carrying the chain, which was still attached to her ankle, she walked to a nearby tree, bent down, and looped the loose end of the chain around the trunk. |
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| 3 | 194 |
I would have supposed that armor, or chain mail perhaps, would have been a desirable addition to the accouterments of the Gorean warrior, but it had been forbidden by the Priest-Kings. |
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| 8 | 48 |
Without glancing at the common soldier, he ordered him to leash me, to fasten around my throat the leading chain often used on Gor for slaves and prisoners. |
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| 8 | 50 |
"This one I'll leash myself," he said, drawing a leading chain from his pouch and approaching the girl. |
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| 8 | 53 |
"That is for me to decide," said the officer, and laughed as he snapped the chain on the throat of the girl. |
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| 8 | 56 |
"I never thought that I would have my chain on Talena, the daughter of Marlenus," he said. |
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| 8 | 58 |
"I see that I must teach you to respect an officer," he said, putting his hand between her throat and the chain, drawing her to him. |
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| 8 | 84 |
"I ask your favor," said Talena, standing meekly by my side, her hands confined in front of her by the colorful slave bracelets, the leading chain still dangling from her throat. |
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| 8 | 88 |
I then removed her leading chain, and she removed mine. |
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| 8 | 176 |
"Suppose I chain you to that tree," I suggested. |
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| 8 | 203 |
To Talena's indignation, I snapped the slave bracelets on her wrists, hooded her, and put her on a leading chain. |
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| 9 | 2 |
Soon after we had left the glade, to Talena's amusement, I had removed her hood and, a few minutes later, her leading chain and slave bracelets. |
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| 9 | 70 |
"Here," she said, "I have it!" She took a lead chain from my pouch, wrapped it several times about her slim ankle and snapped it shut, placing the key in my hand. |
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| 9 | 73 |
I gave them to her, and she placed the bracelets through two links of the part of the chain that encircled the tree, snapping them shut and handing me the key. |
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| 9 | 74 |
She stood up and jerked her foot against the chain, demonstrating that she was perfectly secured. |
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| 10 | 77 |
"While in my service, you may keep her on my chain if you wish," he said. |
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| 11 | 88 |
She seemed to hesitate for an instant, then quickly gathered up the slave whip and a leading chain. |
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| 11 | 90 |
"If you wish," she said, "I will dance the Whip Dance for you, or the Chain Dance". |
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| 11 | 91 |
I threw the whip and chain to the wall of the tent. |
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| 14 | 12 |
Around his neck he wore the golden chain of the Ubar, carrying the medallionlike replica of the Home Stone of Ar. |
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| 15 | 129 |
A brief exchange followed, like a chain reaction, neither man considering his moves for a moment; First Tarnsman took First Tarnsman, Second Spearman responded by neutralizing First Tarnsman, City neutralized Spearman, Assassin took City, Assassin fell to Second Tarnsman, Tarnsman to Spear Slave, Sp... |
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| 17 | 76 |
A chain of gold was slung to Pa-Kur, who fastened it to the saddle of his tharlarion. |
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| 17 | 77 |
The free end of Pa-Kur's saddle chain was then secured to Talena's shackles. |
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| 18 | 110 |
Then, to my pleasure, instead of alighting, the tarn dropped a few feet down from the ceiling and began to streak through the tunnel, the energy bulbs flashing past me to form in my wake a gleaming chain of light. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 141 |
I set the second on the chain beneath him, and the third on the chain beneath the second. |
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| 19 | 4 |
He threw down the whip and tried to run, scurrying like an urt, but everywhere he turned, the chain of haggard, violent men confined him, and as the chain closed, Ost fell quivering to his knees. |
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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 | 101 |
I heard the winding of a chain on a windlass, and saw one of the barred gates leading from the chamber slowly lifting. |
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| 12 | 29 |
She wore only a single garment, a long, narrow rectangle of rough, brown material, perhaps eighteen inches in width, drawn over her head like a poncho, falling in front and back a bit above her knees and belted at the waist with a chain. |
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| 13 | 61 |
As he examined my yoke and chain, he said, "Dorna the Proud has wagered a hundred golden tarn disks on this block. |
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| 16 | 93 |
I heard the rattle of a chain and felt my limbs clasped in shackles. |
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| 17 | 41 |
I had been beaten by the Whip Slave for not contributing my share to the day's quota of ore required of the chain of which I was a member. |
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| 17 | 45 |
Perhaps it was because the quota had been increased the day that I was added to their chain. |
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| 17 | 48 |
In the half light, from the small tharlarion-oil lamps set in each end of the room, I saw the heavy, squat figure beside Ost loop his wrist chain silently about the creature's thin throat. |
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| 17 | 49 |
The circle of chain tightened, and Ost scratched helplessly at it with his fingers, his eyes bulging. |
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| 17 | 51 |
The chain tightened. |
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| 17 | 54 |
"As you wish, Warrior," said Kron, and dropped the frightened Ost, roughly disengaging his chain from the creature's throat. |
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| 17 | 57 |
With a rattle of chain and a roll of his great shoulders, Kron stretched himself out as well as he could in the cramped quarters. |
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| 17 | 71 |
Tharna has perhaps a hundred or more mines, each maintained by its own chain of slaves. |
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| 17 | 82 |
One fellow on my chain, little more than a toothless skeleton, boasted that he had drunk Kal-da three times in the mines. |
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| 17 | 90 |
The Whip Slave, another of the slaves of Tharna, but one in charge of the chain, was pleased with his task. |
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| 17 | 112 |
What consolation would it be to him if the entire mine were flooded, if he had first perished with my chain about his throat? I turned to the men. |
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| 18 | 1 |
We Are of the Same Chain Occasionally a bit of news filtered down into the mines, brought by the slaves who filled the feeding trough. |
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| 18 | 50 |
"Can you imagine!" he laughed, "Lara, the Tatrix of Tharna, in pleasure silk!" The chain of slaves laughed, all except myself, and Andreas of Tor, who regarded me questioningly. |
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| 18 | 55 |
Then I began to encourage them to speak to one another, and to call one another by their names, and their cities, and though there were men of different cities there, they shared the same chain and trough, and they accepted one another. |
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| 18 | 57 |
When one man was beaten, others would pass water from hand to hand that his wounds might be bathed, that he might drink though the chain did not allow him to the water. |
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| 18 | 58 |
And in time, each of us knew the others who shared his chain. |
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| 18 | 61 |
My chain of men worked well, and the quota was filled day after day, and when it was raised, it was filled again. |
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| 18 | 84 |
He dropped Ost, and the conspirator crawled to the length of his chain and huddled against the wall, trembling with fear. |
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| 18 | 89 |
He seemed to injure his foot with the pick, and he pleaded so earnestly with the Whip Slave that the fellow removed him from the chain and, putting a collar on his throat, led him limping away. |
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| 18 | 95 |
That night Ost was not returned to the chain. |
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| 18 | 125 |
"First on the chain!" I called. |
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| 18 | 144 |
Then the first man on the chain supported his own weight, and the second, chains rattling, began to ascend the vertical tunnel, supported by he who was third, who now stood on the back of the fourth man, and so it continued. |
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| 18 | 145 |
Once the second man slipped, dragging the first down with him, and causing the third to lose his grip, but by now there was a solid chain of men in the tunnel, and the fourth and the fifth men held. |
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| 18 | 149 |
Andreas, Kron and I were in the tunnel, but what of the poor wretches on the chain behind us? I looked up the long shaft, at the line of slaves moving upward, inch by inch. |
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| 18 | 154 |
The first man on the chain had now ascended the tunnel to the very source of the water, another tunnel. |
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| 18 | 168 |
I found those ahead of me on the chain. |
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| 18 | 173 |
At last each man of the chain was within the horizontal tunnel, though the last four men had of necessity been dragged to its level, for they hung limp in their chains. |
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| 18 | 176 |
The other slaves on the chain waited patiently, not one complaining, not one urging us to greater speed. |
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| 18 | 179 |
"We are of the same chain," I said. |
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| 19 | 10 |
"Is Ost of the chain?" asked Kron. |
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| 19 | 12 |
"He is not of the chain". |
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| 19 | 14 |
"I am of the chain". |
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| 19 | 30 |
I tried to press forward, but the men of the chain held firm. |
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| 19 | 34 |
Bodily the small conspirator was thrown from slave to slave down the length of the chain until the last man hurled him, headfirst, screaming for mercy, down that dark narrow channel which we had ascended. |
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| 19 | 37 |
Leading the chain of slaves in two lines behind me, we swept through the shafts like an eruption from the molten core of the earth. |
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| 19 | 39 |
Those not killed in the savage fighting, much of it in the darkness of the shafts, were locked into leg shackles and herded into storage chambers, and the men of the chain did not treat their former oppressors gently. |
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| 19 | 52 |
Determined dark shapes, agile with the fury of hope, began to climb the chain toward the moons above. |
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| 19 | 108 |
"We are of the same chain," he said. |
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| 21 | 28 |
Her ankles were similarly fastened by a short slave chain which encircled the tree. |
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| 21 | 80 |
To them she was just another wench on their chain, perhaps more poorly trained and less docile than most. |
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| 21 | 85 |
I almost did not notice the chain that lay hidden in the grass. |
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| 21 | 218 |
I could see that this did not please Targo, for apparently he wished to rid his chain of the blond girl. |
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| 21 | 224 |
He clapped his hands sharply twice, and there was a scurrying and tumbling of bodies and the sound of the long chain slipping through the ankle rings. |
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| 21 | 225 |
The girls now knelt, each in the position of the Pleasure Slave, in their camisks on the grass, in a line between the two trees to which their chain was fastened. |
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| 21 | 227 |
Many of them were beauties, and I thought that the chain, though small, was a rich one, and that almost any man might find thereon a woman to his taste. |
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| 21 | 229 |
And many of the cities of Gor were represented on that chain, sometimes spoken of as the Slaver's Necklace—there was a blond girl from lofty Thentis, a dark-skinned girl with black hair that fell to her ankles from the desert city of Tor, girls from the miserable streets of Port Kar in the de... |
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| 21 | 231 |
And as I paused before each beauty in that chain and met her eyes and heard her words, "Buy Me, Master," I asked myself why I should not buy her, why I should not free her instead of the other girl. |
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| 21 | 234 |
To my surprise a sigh of disappointment, even of keen frustration, coursed down the chain. |
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| 21 | 237 |
Upon reflection it seemed clear to me that the chain must, in the end, be a lonely place for a girl, filled with life, knowing that her brand has destined her for love, that each of them must long for a man to care enough for them to buy them, that each must long to follow a man home to his compartm... |
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| 21 | 240 |
They had wanted to be sold to me—or, I supposed, to any man who would take them from the hated chain of Targo. |
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| 21 | 244 |
She could not go with me into the Sardar, of course, and when I abandoned her, she, alone and unprotected, would soon fall prey to a beast or find herself on yet another slaver's chain. |
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| 22 | 70 |
"It would be victory for a man to have you on his chain," I said. |
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| 22 | 216 |
I wondered on how many nights free women, bound captives, had been thrown to his feet to be assessed and purchased, how many free women had in his camp exchanged their rich garments for a camisk and an ankle ring on his chain. |
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| 23 | 202 |
Several of them held crossbows; at least four others had spears poised; some boasted swords; but many of them carried nothing more than a chain or sharpened pole. |
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| 23 | 217 |
It was he who had been first on the chain in the mines, he who had of necessity been first to climb the shaft from the slave kennel to freedom. |
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| 24 | 87 |
"Are we not still of the same chain?" I asked. |
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| 24 | 89 |
Then regarding me evenly with those steel-blue eyes he said, "We are always of the same chain". |
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| 24 | 108 |
"She too has felt the chain and whip". |
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| 24 | 243 |
The rebel who had been first on the chain in the mines thrust a torch in my hands. |
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| 25 | 152 |
Indeed, if she managed to survive at all, she would be fortunate not to find herself wearing an ankle ring on some slaver's chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 84 |
This chain of reflections was occasioned in my mind by sight of some men of Port Kar, a savage, coastal city on the Tamber Gulf, who were displaying a sullen chain of twenty freshly branded girls, many of them beautiful. |
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| 27 | 183 |
Then to my horror I saw him remove the translator on its chain from his throat and wielding this like a mace and chain he rushed upon Misk and struck him viciously from behind. |
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| 2 | 24 |
On each side of the huge gate there stood a great windlass and chain, and to each windlass a gang of blinded slaves was manacled. |
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| 3 | 14 |
I lifted the shield, for, to my horror, in reversing his position on the chain he had suddenly added some twenty feet to the fearful perimeter of the space allotted to him by that hated impediment. |
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| 8 | 121 |
If they were it was surprising that tarnsmen from all the cities of Gor would not have descended on the place, as the saying goes, to try chain luck. |
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| 20 | 205 |
The Gorean man, as a man, cheerfully and dutifully attends to the rescuing of his female in distress, but as a Gorean, as a true Gorean, he feels, perhaps justifiably and being somewhat less or more romantic than ourselves, that he should have something more for his pains than her kiss of gratitude ... |
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| 21 | 9 |
In impatience I fingered the chain of the translator I had had the two Muls pick up on the way to Misk's prison. |
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| 21 | 71 |
A heavy chain, fastened to a ring in the ceiling, led to a thick metal band which was locked about his narrow trunk between the thorax and the abdomen. |
10 |
| 22 | 1 |
To the Tunnels of the Golden Beetle I slung the translator on its chain over my shoulder and went to the bars near the door. |
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| 22 | 55 |
"A key to my chain," said Misk. |
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| 22 | 64 |
"That is true," agreed Misk and with his forelegs removed the metal band from his trunk and let it dangle from the chain. |
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| 27 | 122 |
Misk of course lacked the wreath of green leaves and the chain of tools about his neck. |
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| 28 | 87 |
Before her head fell I had read in her eyes the silent, desperate plea of the rightless, helpless slave girl that her master, he who owns her, he who holds her chain, might be pleased to be kind to her. |
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| 30 | 48 |
Running from this ring was a heavy chain attached to a thick metal collar fastened about my throat. |
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| 31 | 58 |
They were joined together by a length of chain that had been, by means of two padlocks, fastened about their throats. |
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| 31 | 87 |
Then Al-Ka unlocked the throat chain worn by the female Muls and he went off in one direction and Ba-Ta in the other. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 13 |
There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla... |
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| 2 | 121 |
Beneath it, however, partially concealed by the cloth, was apparently a mask of chain, presumably not unlike that of the first rider, the chain depending from the helmet. |
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| 5 | 45 |
Another frequently heard expression is Sa-Fora, a compound word, meaning, rather literally, Chain Daughter, or Daughter of the Chain. |
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| 12 | 409 |
Then, to the music, the girl seemed to twist and turn and move away from him, as he played out the chain, until she stood wretched some twenty feet from him at the chain's length. |
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| 16 | 29 |
Two ropes led to the drum, a small rope to control its filling, and a large one to support it; the large rope, incidentally, has a core of chain; the rope itself, existing primarily to protect the chain, is treated with a waterproof glue made from the skins, bones and hoofs of bosk, secured by trade... |
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| 19 | 73 |
About her neck was a thick metal collar to which a heavy iron chain had been fastened; the chain itself was attached to a large iron ring placed in the floor. |
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| 25 | 45 |
Marching girls in coffle is usually done with either a throat chain or a wrist chain. |
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| 25 | 162 |
About her throat was the Turian collar with its chain, attached to slave bracelets and ankle rings, one of the latter attached to the chain running to the slave ring. |
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| 2 | 64 |
I could not see his face because of the net of chain that hung before it. |
10 |
| 2 | 113 |
He was dressed much as the first man, except that no chain depended from his helmet, but his wind scarf was wrapped about his face. |
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| 7 | 19 |
Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe... |
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| 7 | 47 |
I heard the small sound of a chain. |
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| 7 | 72 |
During all this time, and torches had been brought, the hours of the night being burned away, Elizabeth Cardwell was not permitted to move, but must needs retain the position of the Pleasure Slave, knees properly placed, back straight, head high, the gleaming chain of the Sirik dangling from the Tur... |
10 |
| 7 | 85 |
Piteously, with a rustle of chain, the girl's head and shoulders fell forward, and, though she still knelt, her head touched the pelt of the larl, her shoulders and back shaking, trembling. |
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| 7 | 261 |
Elizabeth Cardwell took the meat in her two hands, confined before her by slave bracelets and the chain of the Sirik, and, bending her head, the hair falling forward, ate it. |
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| 8 | 53 |
The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping, ear-flapped c... |
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| 8 | 87 |
Kamchak, that night, chained Elizabeth Cardwell in his wagon, rather than beneath it to the wheel, running a short length of chain from a slave ring set in the floor of the wagon box to the collar of her Sirik. |
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| 8 | 107 |
Once or twice that night, to Kamchak's annoyance and my own loss of sleep, she screamed, jerking at the chain, but we discovered that she had not awakened. |
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| 8 | 144 |
She did not sew well and it amused me to hear her cursing at the side of the wagon, bound now only by a collar and chain to the slave ring, time after time sticking the bone needle into her fingers as it emerged through the hide, or fouling the leather-threaded stitches, which would either be too ti... |
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| 8 | 159 |
Kamchak made her walk back and forth once or twice, and spoke to her rather sharply about her posture, then, to the surprise of both Miss Cardwell and myself, he did not chain her, but told her she might walk about the camp unattended, warning her only to return before dusk and the release of the he... |
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| 8 | 346 |
It was easy to see that she was bound to Albrecht the Kassar by more than a length of slave chain. |
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| 8 | 370 |
"Rejoice, Little Barbarian," said Albrecht, "tonight in Pleasure Silk you will dance the Chain Dance for Kassar Warriors". |
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| 9 | 130 |
It usually falls a bit above the knees in the front and back and is belted with cord or chain. |
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| 10 | 125 |
Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young ... |
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| 10 | 183 |
I would not tell Miss Cardwell but the rhythm was the drum rhythm of the Chain Dance. |
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| 11 | 380 |
"Surely," she said, "you will lock me in slave bracelets and chain me tonight?" "But it is rather early," pointed out Kamchak. |
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| 11 | 395 |
"Tonight," he said, "I will not chain you nor put you in the bracelets". |
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| 12 | 38 |
The little wench from Port Kar, whom Kamchak and I had seen in the slave wagon when we had bought paga the night before the games of Love War, was this night to perform the chain dance. |
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| 12 | 43 |
These arrangements irritated me somewhat, for customarily the chain dance, the whip dance, the love dance of the newly collared slave girl, the brand dance, and so on, are performed openly by firelight in the evening, for the delight of any who care to watch. |
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| 12 | 74 |
"Master," said Aphris, "is taking us tonight to see a Chain Dance, a girl from Port Kar". |
10 |
| 12 | 237 |
The slave hobble consists of two rings, one for a wrist, the other for an ankle, joined by about seven inches of chain. |
10 |
| 12 | 266 |
I heard a bit of chain and looked up. |
10 |
| 12 | 328 |
"You know," said Kamchak, "the Little Barbarian wears your chain well". |
10 |
| 12 | 346 |
"Why do you think I let you chain her?" asked Kamchak. |
10 |
| 12 | 405 |
Someone from the darkness threw him, coiled, the chain and collar. |
10 |
| 12 | 408 |
The chain to which the collar was attached was a good deal longer than that of the Sirik, containing perhaps twenty feet of length. |
10 |
| 12 | 410 |
She did not move then for a moment, but stood crouched down, her hands on the chain. |
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| 12 | 414 |
Then with a suddenness that almost made me jump and the crowd cry out with delight the music began again but this time as a barbaric cry of rebellion and rage and the wench from Port Kar was suddenly a chained she-larl biting and tearing at the chain and she had cast her black robes from her and sto... |
10 |
| 12 | 417 |
She circled the warrior like a captive moon to his imprisoning scarlet sun, always at the length of the chain. |
10 |
| 12 | 418 |
Then he would take up a fist of chain, drawing her each time inches closer. |
10 |
| 12 | 419 |
At times he would permit her to draw back again, but never to the full length of the chain, and each time he permitted her to withdraw, it was less than the last. |
10 |
| 12 | 420 |
The dance consists of several phases, depending on the general orbit allowed the girl by the chain. |
10 |
| 13 | 6 |
With misgivings I observed the two, six-legged, sinuous, tawny hunting sleen on their chain leashes. |
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| 13 | 119 |
It had not struck back at him swiftly enough to please him, and there were only four needlelike scratches in the arm guard before Kamchak had managed to leap back and the kaiila, lunging against its chain, was snapping at him. |
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| 15 | 131 |
"That is interesting," said Harold, "for I had thought I might try chain luck in the Pleasure Gardens of a Turian merchant named Saphrar". |
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| 16 | 15 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup... |
10 |
| 16 | 30 |
Even so the rope and chain must be replaced twice a year. |
10 |
| 22 | 89 |
"Do not add her to the chain," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 152 |
"Take them away," he said, "put them in the Kes and chain them—put them to work". |
10 |
| 23 | 134 |
Harold and I, and those of our men that remained, stood with the wagons, watching the nearing waves of warriors, observing the moment when the chain face guards of the Paravaci helmets were thrown forward, the moment when the lances, like that of a single man, were leveled. |
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| 25 | 3 |
I heard a rustle of chain. |
10 |
| 25 | 8 |
I could see a chain running across the rug from the slave ring to the sheet, beneath which it disappeared. |
10 |
| 25 | 9 |
I could not see the termination of the chain because of the yellow sheet, but I had little doubt that, in some fashion, she was secured. |
10 |
| 25 | 10 |
Had I not heard a rustle of chain? Did she think to conceal her bonds, her condition? Surely any Gorean, despite the sheet, would have instantly supposed her to be what she indeed was, a slave, tethered with obdurate metal. |
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| 25 | 30 |
She turned away, the chain moving with her. |
10 |
| 25 | 42 |
It was attached to a chain. |
10 |
| 25 | 43 |
I gathered the girl was in Sirik, the chain on the floor attached to the slave ring doubtless running to one of the twin ankle rings, probably to that on her left ankle. |
10 |
| 25 | 44 |
A single ankle chain is commonly run to a girl's left ankle. |
10 |
| 25 | 46 |
If a wrist chain is used it is normally fastened on the left wrist. |
10 |
| 25 | 47 |
If an ankle chain is used, it is commonly fastened on the left ankle. |
10 |
| 25 | 52 |
I could hear the chain move as she turned to face me. |
10 |
| 25 | 57 |
I could see now that her wrists were encircled with slave bracelets, linked to the collar chain, which then continued to the ankle rings. |
10 |
| 25 | 59 |
The second chain, that which I had first seen, fastened the Sirik itself, of course, to the slave ring, and, indeed, by the left ankle ring, as I had supposed. |
10 |
| 25 | 153 |
I heard a slight movement of chain. |
10 |
| 25 | 167 |
Lock by lock, fumbling a bit, I removed her chains, and threw the Sirik and ankle chain to the side of the wagon, under the slave ring. |
10 |
| 25 | 300 |
Indeed, even the Gorean woman, outside her city, without a defender, should she escape the dangers of the wild, is not likely long to elude the iron, the chain and collar. |
10 |
| 26 | 97 |
On Kamchak's right there walked a master of sleen, who held two of the vicious, sinuous beasts in check by chain leashes. |
10 |
| 26 | 137 |
As one animal they turned and pulled their keeper by the chain leashes to what appeared to be a solid wall, where they rose on their back two legs and set their other four legs against it, snarling, whimpering, hissing. |
10 |
| 26 | 262 |
The animals raged against the chain leashes, maddened as they were drawn farther from Saphrar, their prey. |
10 |
| 26 | 309 |
The sleen keeper stood nearby, the chain leashes loose in his hands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 31 |
Then, stripped, chained by the throat, in a long chain of girls, each separated from the other by about ten feet, secured not even by the dignity of a collar but only by a loop of the communal chain bolted or padlocked about her neck, each is dragged up the steps of the minor block, bid upon while a... |
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| 12 | 149 |
They were fastened together on a common chain, each by wrist rings, each by both wrists, each ring separated by about a yard of chain. |
10 |
| 15 | 118 |
And during such times, before the bracelets and chain were removed, a steel slave anklet would be placed on her left ankle, in order that there be no time that her body would be completely free of slave steel; this anklet she wore even in her bath; it would be removed only after the bracelets and ch... |
10 |
| 19 | 11 |
Hooded, a chain on my throat, my wrists in steel behind my back, I stumbled after a tharlarion wagon, to the back of which my throat chain had been bolted, through the streets of Ar. |
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| 19 | 217 |
Each of them had her wrists braceleted before her body, and each slave chain led to the slave bracelets of one of the girls; the lead girl, probably Elizabeth, was on a somewhat shorter chain than the two behind her, one on each side, doubtless Virginia and Phyllis. |
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| 2 | 45 |
There were one or two other girls there, kneeling, who drew back, with a sound of chain. |
10 |
| 2 | 47 |
It gave her about a two-foot length of chain, fastened to a slave ring bolted into the stone. |
10 |
| 2 | 329 |
Kuurus threw the silk and chain over his shoulder and motioned the girl to move ahead of him and, numbly, she did so, crossing the room, going between the tables, and stopping before the narrow ladder at the right side of the high wall, in which were found the ledges with their alcoves. |
10 |
| 2 | 337 |
Kuurus tossed the silk and the chain to one side of the alcove and grinned at her. |
10 |
| 4 | 19 |
Cernus wore about his neck, on a golden chain, a medallion which bore the crest of the House of Cernus, a tarn with slave chains grasped in its talons. |
10 |
| 4 | 185 |
"I had a Tuchuk girl once," said Cernus, "a wild girl of the wagons, of whom I was fond, but when she tried to kill me, I strangled her in the chain of the House of Cernus". |
10 |
| 4 | 186 |
He fingered the chain and medallion about his neck. |
10 |
| 5 | 166 |
About the tube that joined his head to his thorax, on a slender chain, hung the small, round compact translator. |
10 |
| 5 | 607 |
She would then climb into the wagon where, with two ankle rings, joined by a foot of chain looped about the central bar, she would be fastened in the wagon. |
10 |
| 5 | 691 |
"And this," I said, "provides even greater security," lifting her to the foot of the couch, sitting her down there and snapping the heavy chain and collar, attached to the slave ring fixed there, about her throat. |
10 |
| 5 | 730 |
She lay there on the stones, half-stripped, turned away, bound hand and foot, her throat fastened to the slave ring by the heavy collar and chain. |
10 |
| 5 | 735 |
About his neck he wore a rude ornament, a loose iron chain bearing, also in iron, a medallion, the crest of the House of Cernus. |
10 |
| 6 | 96 |
She had been quite angry, kneeling there bound hand and foot, fastened to the slave ring by chain and collar, while I trotted off to have dinner with the master of the house. |
10 |
| 10 | 17 |
"Then," said Ho-Tu, "they are strangled in the chain which bears the crest of the House of Cernus". |
10 |
| 10 | 21 |
"When using a woman," said Ho-Tu, "Cernus is in the habit of placing the chain about her neck". |
10 |
| 11 | 44 |
Hanging from the ceiling, worked from a windlass, dangled a chain, attached to which was a pair of slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 12 | 150 |
As they knelt the chain was over their calves, behind their backs. |
10 |
| 12 | 381 |
She was leashed and her master, who wished to rent her for the quarter Ahn, held the chain with its leather loop wound in his fist. |
10 |
| 13 | 43 |
Beneath the toweling Nela wore nothing; about her neck, rather than the common slave collar, she, like the other bath girls, wore a chain and plate. |
10 |
| 13 | 98 |
I turned her about on her back and put my hand in the chain about her throat, staying behind her. |
10 |
| 13 | 99 |
She tried to put her hands back but could not remove my hand from the chain. |
10 |
| 13 | 100 |
Then, slowly, in triumph, my hand in the chain, I towed her on her back, she helpless, to the other end of the pool. |
10 |
| 13 | 240 |
Food for the tarns, which is meat, for that is their diet, is thrust on hooks and hauled by chain and windlass to the various perches; it might be of interest to note that, when any of the birds are free, meat is never placed on the hooks or on the floor below; the racing tarn is a valuable bird and... |
10 |
| 13 | 289 |
Mip and I, moving the lock levers, removed the hobble and chain from the two birds and took the saddle. |
10 |
| 13 | 324 |
The judge's bar, hanging on its chain from a pole on the dividing wall, was silent. |
10 |
| 14 | 4 |
The collar and chain had been snapped about her throat. |
10 |
| 14 | 10 |
Elizabeth, with a rustle of chain, sat up, rubbing her eyes. |
10 |
| 14 | 23 |
I released Elizabeth from the slave ring, the chain and collar. |
10 |
| 14 | 149 |
The two bracelets were joined by a light, gleaming chain of perhaps a yard in length. |
10 |
| 14 | 151 |
"I want her," said Cernus, "to feel steel on her wrists, the weight of a chain". |
10 |
| 14 | 152 |
The girl spun about and threw her head back, staring wildly at the ceiling, throwing the chain back over her head. |
10 |
| 14 | 153 |
Then she sobbed in rage and flung the chain forward, striking it on the chests, on the divan, again and again. |
10 |
| 14 | 156 |
Then she sobbed and ran back to the center of the room, striking again and again the divan with the chain. |
10 |
| 15 | 117 |
The bracelets and chain on her wrists, during this time, save in dressing and in the bath, were never removed. |
10 |
| 16 | 59 |
The other two guards, who arrived carrying slave bracelets and slave leashes, the latter of light, gleaming chain, were Relius and Ho-Sorl. |
10 |
| 17 | 93 |
A long rope, or set of ropes knotted together, ran behind the kneeling girls, with which their wrists were bound; another rope, or set of ropes tied together, fastened them by the throat, as in a slaver's chain. |
10 |
| 18 | 410 |
Each of his limbs, and his throat, was separately confined, each chained individually to the wall, each chain running to a separate ring bolted in the stone; any one of the chains would have been sufficient to hold a man; I gathered that this prisoner must be unusual indeed; I observed, further, tha... |
10 |
| 18 | 482 |
"Chain him," said Cernus. |
10 |
| 19 | 19 |
Particularly was I angered by the occasional large, flat blocks of stone placed across the streets, low enough to permit a wagon to pass over them, and separated by enough distance to allow the passage of a wagon's wheels, but surely a threat to a tethered fool, shackled and hooded, led on a chain b... |
10 |
| 19 | 46 |
I stumbled again, on one of the large, broad, flat stepping stones, and fell forward and was jerked by the chain tearing at the back of my neck, and struggled again to my feet, hearing through the thick layers of leather in the slave hood the laughter of the guards, as though far away. |
10 |
| 19 | 49 |
The wagon stopped, and I felt the heavy, slack chain dragging at my collar. |
10 |
| 19 | 58 |
I heard my neck chain being unbolted from the back of the wagon. |
10 |
| 19 | 83 |
My throat chain was then locked to a heavy ring set in the side of the chair. |
10 |
| 19 | 136 |
"Verbina, she is," called he, "who so fears a man that she would flee him, at the risk of death and torture, White Silk and never before owned, yet certified ready for the chain of a master who would use her as she so richly deserves!" The crowd roared with amusement, enjoying the sport of the aucti... |
10 |
| 19 | 212 |
The auctioneer sprang to the block and, from the darkness at the foot of the steps, was hurled a chain leash, and then two more. |
10 |
| 19 | 225 |
He then summoned three whip slaves to the block, and each held the chain of one of the girls. |
10 |
| 19 | 251 |
As the auctioneer reached for the hood of the third girl, she turned away and suddenly, though chained by the wrists, darted toward the stairs; the slack in the chain was taken up in her flight and, on the second or third stair down, she was spun about and thrown to the steps, half on them, half on ... |
10 |
| 19 | 252 |
The whip slave who held her chain then hauled her cruelly, on her stomach, and then on her back, to the center of the block. |
10 |
| 19 | 253 |
There the whip slave stepped on the chain fastened to her slave bracelets about six inches from the bracelets, pinning her wrists to the block. |
10 |
| 19 | 468 |
Then, by the chain and bracelets, she was rudely turned about. |
10 |
| 19 | 470 |
Then, fighting the chain and bracelets, she was dragged stumbling down the steps. |
10 |
| 20 | 11 |
A few feet from me, wretched, dazed, chained like I before the dais of Ar's Ubar, knelt Elizabeth Cardwell, her only garment the chain of Cernus, with its medallion of the tarn and slave chains, about her throat. |
10 |
| 20 | 24 |
I looked across to Elizabeth, the chain of Cernus looped about her neck, staring numbly, woodenly, down at the tiles of the hall, half in shock. |
10 |
| 20 | 104 |
He then took the heavy chain with its medallion from the neck of Elizabeth Cardwell and placed it about the throat of the Hinrabian girl. |
10 |
| 20 | 110 |
He then took back from her his medallion and chain, and placed it about his own neck. |
10 |
| 21 | 100 |
I fought the heavy chain that bound me to the stone table on which I sat. |
10 |
| 21 | 142 |
One of the girls had found the key to the chain that bound me by the waist to the stone table. |
10 |
| 22 | 79 |
The run of the chain was perhaps twenty-five feet. |
10 |
| 22 | 88 |
I stepped forward, until I stood within the ambit of the tarn's chain. |
10 |
| 23 | 203 |
I saw on the part of a body lying among the bones the chain and medallion of Cernus, now stained with blood, the tarn, gold, slave chains in its talons. |
10 |
| 24 | 61 |
"They still wear their chain collars," said Hup, "and serve in the baths as slave girls". |
10 |
| 24 | 173 |
They were chained in long lines by the collars, five-foot lengths of chain being used, with a snap at each end, each end fastening to a given collar, each collar, save for those terminating a line, being fastened on two sides. |
10 |
| 24 | 179 |
When the men had taken their pick the girls were released from the common chain and the key, that which served to unlock collar, bracelets and anklet, was given to he who had chosen his prize. |
10 |
| 24 | 186 |
Each held a five-foot chain leash that was snapped on her gray collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 24 |
There was a rusted, heavy iron collar riveted about the neck of Ho-Hak, with a bit of chain dangling from it. |
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| 6 | 87 |
Ho-Hak, sweating, breathing deeply, wildly, his great ears flat against the sides of his head, the iron, riveted collar of the galley slave, with its broken, dangling chain, about his neck, clutching his oar pole, stood with his legs planted widely apart on the rence, at bay. |
10 |
| 8 | 214 |
There was only a rustle of chain. |
10 |
| 8 | 300 |
I heard not even the rattle of a chain. |
10 |
| 8 | 347 |
Both of his ankles were shackled to a beam running lengthwise of the ship and bolted to the deck; the chain on the shackles ran through the beam itself, through a circular hole cut in the beam and lined with an iron tube; the slaves behind him, as the beam, or beams, passed beneath their thwarts, we... |
10 |
| 8 | 446 |
Thurnock, the peasant, and Clitus, the fisherman, approached, holding between them Ho-Hak, bound hand and foot, the heavy collar of the galley slave, with its dangling chain, still riveted about his neck. |
10 |
| 9 | 21 |
"Yes, Master," she said and, with a rustle of chain, left my side. |
10 |
| 9 | 476 |
I braceleted the left wrist first, passed the chain through the ring, and then braceleted the right wrist. |
10 |
| 9 | 485 |
"Do not chain me," she wheedled. |
10 |
| 9 | 615 |
They had been serving bracelets, with two lengths of chain, each about a foot long, which linked them. |
10 |
| 10 | 144 |
On the other hand, whereas the round ships do not carry rams and are much slower and less maneuverable than the long ships, they are not inconsequential in a naval battle, for their deck areas and deck castles can accommodate springals, small catapults, and chain-sling onagers, not to mention numero... |
10 |
| 10 | 278 |
I would purchase a strong man from the market chain on the slave wharf, and then, saying nothing, set him free. |
10 |
| 11 | 253 |
With a rattle of cord and chain the wheels spun back and the thing on the rack began to jabber and whimper and laugh. |
10 |
| 13 | 48 |
"Put him in a market chain," said Lurius, "and sell him at the slaves' wharf". |
10 |
| 13 | 228 |
On the slaves' wharf I was, with little ceremony, added to the market chain. |
10 |
| 13 | 235 |
I was a bit irritated at being slapped and punched, and told to exhibit my teeth, but, in all honesty, these indignities were no worse than those heaped upon my chain mates. |
10 |
| 13 | 249 |
Unsteadily he went elsewhere, to examine others farther along the market chain. |
10 |
| 14 | 26 |
She also carried, on leather-cushioned, swivel mounts, two light catapults, two chain-sling onagers, and eight springals. |
10 |
| 14 | 340 |
The admiral, to one side, was being fitted with wrist and ankle irons, joined by a length of chain. |
10 |
| 15 | 62 |
"Take this lady," said I to them, "in a long boat to the largest of the round ships, one rowed by captured officers of the treasure fleet, and chain her there, with other treasures, in the rowing hold". |
10 |
| 15 | 270 |
Moreover, that my other scribes and retainers not be angered, I had had her put in slave bracelets, and about her neck had had fastened a chain, which was bolted into the heavy table. |
10 |
| 15 | 469 |
There was a rustle of chain and the Lady Vivina, to the pleasure of the tables, was conducted before me. |
10 |
| 15 | 603 |
"At night," I said, "chain them together". |
10 |
| 17 | 295 |
I speak of lean, scarred Ha-Keel, who wore about his neck, on a golden chain, a worn tarn disk, set with diamonds, of the city of Ar. |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
"Take this prisoner," I told an officer, "and chain him below decks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 66 |
This smaller ring can either be snapped into a particular link in a chain, thus allowing the girls to be spaced at certain intervals, or it can be closed about the chain as a whole, thus permitting the chain to run freely through the ring without injuring or burning the girl's ankle. |
10 |
| 7 | 67 |
In the "display chain" we were spaced on the chain, and the chain stretched rather taut and fastened at both ends, sometimes to trees, sometimes to two large metal screws, more than two feet in length, which screwed into the ground, beyond the reach on each end of the first and last girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 283 |
It may be used to chain a girl to anything, the ankle ring closed on her ankle, and the locking device at the termination of the device being easily fastened, looped, say, about a tree, or stanchion, or the ankle of another girl, and then locked about its own chain, or through one of the links of it... |
10 |
| 4 | 123 |
It, like the others, had, strung through it, a short length of chain, some five inches or so, each end of the chain terminating in an opened slave bracelet. |
10 |
| 8 | 294 |
I pulled at the chain, a heavy chain, concealed under leaves. |
10 |
| 11 | 885 |
I walked through the camp, until I came to the chain of Verna's girls, they in their skins, each chained by the left ankle, the long chain fastened between two stakes. |
10 |
| 15 | 400 |
I would hear the chain, and then a silence, and then the chain again. |
10 |
| 17 | 93 |
The remaining girls, eleven of them, I had placed on their stomachs, head toward the chain and their left arms extended, their wrists lying over the chain. |
10 |
| 17 | 139 |
The chain was moved, the bodies of other girls, still unconscious, like inanimate, beautiful weights, their left wrists imprisoned by the bracelet and chain, jerked to and fro. |
10 |
| 22 | 844 |
She then drew the chain between her legs and under her body and fastened the two ankle rings, attached to the chain, on her ankles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
10 |
| 10 | 429 |
They were fastened by a single chain, but it was not itself run through the projecting loop on their collars; rather, a heavy padlock, passing through a link of the chain and the projecting loop, secured them; in this way the chain, when a girl is taken from the chain, or added to it, need not be dr... |
10 |
| 13 | 172 |
Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea... |
10 |
| 10 | 435 |
He then lifted the chain and, by means of the padlock, passing it through the loop on her collar and a link in the chain, secured her. |
10 |
| 10 | 632 |
She was naked, except for the Torvaldsland collar of black iron on her neck, with its projecting ring, and the heavy chain padlocked about her right ankle; the chain was about a yard long; it secured her, by means of a heavy ring, to the block. |
10 |
| 10 | 640 |
I took it, from these indications, she had learned her collar in the south; probably originally it had been a lock collar, snugly fitting, of steel; now, of course, it had been replaced with the riveted collar of black iron, with the projecting ring, so useful for running a chain through, or for pad... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 218 |
This was a "common chain," sometimes called a "march chain" or "trekking chain"; it was not a "display chain"; in the "display chain," or "selling chain," the arrangement of the girls may be determined by a variety of considerations, aesthetic and psychological; for example, blondes may be alternate... |
10 |
| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
10 |
| 1 | 217 |
Usually the tallest girls lead the slave chain, the height decreasing gradually toward the end of the chain, where the shortest girl is placed. |
10 |
| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
10 |
| 4 | 410 |
When finished with her, I would cross Alyena's ankles and, with the walking chain, suitably shortened, chain them together. |
10 |
| 5 | 440 |
I would have led the slave chain!" "There would have been no chain," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 123 |
The collar, from behind, was put about her throat and locked; her head was jerked sideways as, by the collar chain, in the fist of one of Hassan's men, she was secured by the snap lock at the chain's free end, to the stake ring. |
10 |
| 12 | 43 |
A chain from the neck of the first, some ten feet in length, ascended to the pommel of the lead guard; a chain from the neck of the last, some ten feet in length, ascended to the pommel of the guard bringing up the rear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 446 |
He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,... |
10 |
| 20 | 135 |
One thing that was shown to me was the slave bridle; the male takes the light chain back between the teeth of the girl and holds it, together, behind her neck, thus, too, pinning her hands there, helplessly; he then controls her by means of the bridle; my own invention was the chain kiss; one clasps... |
10 |
| 7 | 494 |
The collar clasped her throat; a chain dangled from the collar; her small wrists were locked in the slave bracelets fixed on the dangling chain, and the dangling chain, itself, looped down to a short chain and pair of ankle rings, to which it was gracefully fastened at a sliding ring. |
10 |
| 1 | 160 |
I could not see it, but it seemed formed, too, of heavy iron; it seemed simple, practical, not ostentatious; it gripped my throat rather closely; I supposed it was black in color, matching the chain; it had a heavy hinge on one side; the chain, by a link, opened and closed, was fastened to a loop; t... |
10 |
| 20 | 134 |
When I had first been sent to the wharves, some weeks ago, my wrists had been braceleted behind me, and I had been accompanied by other girls; later I had been permitted to go alone, my wrists still locked behind my back; later I had been permitted to go alone to the wharves in wrist rings and chain... |
10 |
| 21 | 87 |
I stood, and felt ankle rings snapped on my ankles, joined by some twelve inches of chain; another chain, attached to this chain, was some three feet in length, and terminated with light manacles. |
10 |
| 24 | 301 |
Then, with another chain, looping it through the Sirik chain which fell from my Sirik collar to my braceleted wrists and confined ankles, he secured me to a heavy ring, passing one end of the looped chain through the ring and then, with a heavy padlock, closing the open end of the loop. |
10 |
| 1 | 76 |
Irrationally, madly, nothing in my consciousness but my fear and the chain, I turned to flee, and fell, hurting my legs, tangled in the chain. |
10 |
| 1 | 103 |
I wondered if the plate and chain were so situated in order that the chain's prisoner, such as I found myself to be, be protected from the wind. |
10 |
| 2 | 70 |
I felt the collar, weighted by the chain, pull down against my collarbone; the chain hung between my breasts; I felt its heavy links on my body. |
10 |
| 4 | 394 |
She lifted up some loops of chain; there were linked ankle rings and linked wrist rings, and a lock collar, all connected by a length of gleaming chain running from the collar. |
10 |
| 9 | 88 |
Perhaps she was at the rear of the chain because she was the most beautiful, and her beauty was being saved for last; thus the chain would have begun with the beautiful Marla and then, with a surprise, finished with a girl yet more beautiful than the first. |
10 |
| 13 | 31 |
A ring lock was placed through the Turian collar, which I wore at the time, and a link in the slaver's chain, and then snapped shut, securing me on the chain by the collar, with the others. |
10 |
| 13 | 316 |
I was very conscious of the sales disk at my throat; it was on a looped, close-fitting chain; I could not remove the chain; it was locked. |
10 |
| 17 | 17 |
My neck wore an iron collar, with its ring, behind my neck, through which a long chain passed, the chain, too, being held to the wall by its own rings. |
10 |
| 20 | 332 |
When I recoiled back from the hot wood the chain on his wrists had looped about me, and I was his, held to him by the chain about his wrists. |
10 |
| 20 | 540 |
Ankle chains were then placed, too, upon the warrior of Glorious Ar, and a chain ran, too, from his wrists to the chain on his ankles. |
10 |
| 28 | 172 |
Early in the sale, for the first twenty girls, the chain had been intact, one chain for us all. |
10 |
| 29 | 161 |
A chain and heavy collar lay at the foot of the ring, the chain attached to the ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 756 |
This is the inactive position of the chain, lock at collar level, chain terminating with a closed loop, the loop about a foot off the floor, an arrangement permitting a girl to be quickly and conveniently put on the chain and permitting the chain, if no girl is upon it, to be slid in its track witho... |
10 |
| 1 | 65 |
How incredibly beautiful and soft she seemed; she was curled in the furs; she was half covered by them; I lifted them away, that I might see her fully; she stirred; her hands moved a bit on the furs; she drew her legs up; she reached as though to pull the furs more about her but her hands did not fi... |
10 |
| 3 | 508 |
Their wrists were separated by some six inches of chain, their ankles by about a foot of chain. |
10 |
| 11 | 9 |
The men in the chain, of course, were not locked within, save for those at the end of the chain who had been former guards, now clad in the rags of laborers. |
10 |
| 35 | 202 |
If she were to stand under the sphere holding the chain above her in its track the chain would fall, gracefully looped, behind her, almost to the back of her knees, whence it would rise again to its lock point on her collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 717 |
Shoka pulled her down the gangplank and, near the ship, with a length of chain and a heavy padlock, running the chain through the sirik chain, fastened her to a ring. |
10 |
| 7 | 130 |
She, like the others, was, by the loop of chain and lock, run through the chain ring on the ankle ring, attached to the central chain of her shelter, that strung between the two heavy posts, one at each end of the shelter. |
10 |
| 1 | 457 |
"You would suppose, would you not," asked Samos, "that such a girl would have been discovered on some chain, after having passed through the hands of one or more masters, and simply bought off the chain, or purchased at auction". |
10 |
| 2 | 21 |
The slaves at the windlass tensed, but the auctioneer did not tell them to move the chain, removing the blond girl and bringing forth the next item on the chain. |
10 |
| 2 | 76 |
She stood there, in the collar, with the position chain attached to each side of it, the chain, on each side, over an upper arm, held in the crook of her arms, her hands clasped behind her neck. |
10 |
| 7 | 48 |
By means of the loop of chain and lock she is attached to the central chain. |
10 |
| 7 | 147 |
Shoka then freed her wrists of the wrist rings of the sirik and Uchafu locked a waist chain on her and then, about this chain, running the linkage of the bracelets behind it, braceleted her hands at her belly. |
10 |
| 14 | 21 |
She then, with a key, the same key which would open the chain lock, opened the chain's ankle ring. |
10 |
| 15 | 189 |
Shaba, the false ring on the chain, again fastened the chain behind his neck. |
10 |
| 15 | 219 |
Too, when he had turned the chain, I had made certain that the ring which he had surrendered to me had been the ring originally on the chain. |
10 |
| 20 | 10 |
I looked at the heavy linkage of the gold chain, slung over the iron collar and work chain I wore. |
10 |
| 23 | 233 |
I reached out and measured the chain at his collar, and slipped my hands down the chain until, about five feet later, it lifted to the collar of the next man. |
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| 53 | 241 |
I saw the six digits of the paw close on the chain about Shaba's neck, and then the digits released the chain and the beast slipped back, limply. |
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| 57 | 117 |
The left ankle of the extra girl, the fetch-and-carry girl, who was already in wrist rings, joined by a foot of chain, was then locked in one of two ankle shackles, joined by about eighteen inches of chain. |
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| 57 | 119 |
She was thus, by her lovely legs and body, and shackled ankles, literally fastened about the long chain, which served then as a slave's run-chain, permitting her movement, but strictly, by intent, controlling its scope. |
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| 57 | 123 |
'The river must be made safe," had said Bila Huruma, when the right ankle of the fetch-and-carry girl, the last girl to be chained, had been snapped in its shackle, fastening her by chain and body about the run-chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 96 |
I went to the side of the room and, loosening the chain, lowered the chain. |
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| 28 | 9 |
I thrust the key to the chain in the chain lock and opened it, pulling away the apparatus of the Coin Girl from her neck. |
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| 29 | 112 |
"A chain can be forged, a chain can be cut," I said. |
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| 29 | 133 |
"If that be the case," I said, "surely the forging of the chain, or at least its transport to Turmus, and later to Port Cos, and the time and effort spent in preparing its mountings, joining the lengths, and setting the chain in place, must have been known to the pirates". |
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| 32 | 31 |
Her ankles were joined by some two feet of graceful chain, and her wrists, too, were linked by some two feet of chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
There was a great sound, the hitting of the huge chain by the galley, a sound as of the striking of the chain, and then the grating sound, scraping and heavy, of the chain literally being lifted out of the water. |
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| 1 | 141 |
Once again the Tina approached the chain, swinging about now, broadside to the chain. |
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| 1 | 164 |
We slid along the chain, then, the oars on our starboard side striking loose the wicker shielding of another longboat, too close to the chain, and spilling men into the water. |
10 |
| 2 | 210 |
"We have encountered no further evidence of work at the chain," said a man, as we neared the location of the Tina, east of the chain, a single lantern swinging on one of her stem-castle lines. |
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| 3 | 1 |
The Chain has been Broken in the North The long galley, some eighty feet Gorean, sped toward the chain. |
10 |
| 4 | 38 |
The chain had held long enough, however, to permit us to draw southward along the chain and group. |
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| 6 | 150 |
That the new ships of the Voskjard were bearing down now upon us, and in such force, suggested that they had not been opposed, that either they had been permitted to cut the chain and advance unmolested, or, more likely, perhaps, that they had been permitted to circumvent the chain by the use of the... |
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| 10 | 58 |
Following the Tuka and the Tais, by prearranged plan, we in the Tina had then rowed southward along the chain until we came to the point where the northward-moving portion of the Voskjard's fleet, that which we had once mistaken for the support vessels of Callisthenes, had cut the chain. |
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| 19 | 157 |
She, then, feels the drag of the chain against her collar, and the chain, with its heavy links, between her bared breasts; she knows well that she is chained. |
10 |
| 19 | 421 |
When he leads his chain to market he wants it to be a chain of beauties. |
10 |
| 21 | 608 |
"Just keep me on your chain!" I lifted the chain, a little, near the collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 200 |
One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no... |
10 |
| 1 | 18 |
The chain ran from the slave ring at the foot of my couch, a heavy chain, to the thick metal collar fastened on her neck. |
10 |
| 8 | 970 |
"Put her on the chain," said the fellow, handing me another collar and length of chain. |
10 |
| 14 | 159 |
Grunt had now gone back to the coffle, where most of his girls huddled together, the chain on their necks, and removed Ginger, and Ulla and Lenna, the two Swedish girls, from the chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 117 |
A chain then ran from my collar to the chain on my wrist rings and from thence, the same chain, to the chain on my ankle rings. |
10 |
| 33 | 157 |
Another chain, on each of us, ran from the center of our wrist chain to the center of our ankle chain. |
10 |
| 6 | 823 |
There seemed, however, to be a longer chain, which was a base chain, and two smaller, subsidiary chains. |
10 |
| 6 | 824 |
At one end the base chain was attached to a rather small neck ring, but suitable for closing about a woman's neck; at the other end it was attached to one of the subsidiary chains, about a foot long, and terminating on each end with a ring; those rings looked as though they might fit snugly about a ... |
10 |
| 8 | 261 |
The long, slender, gleaming chain was fastened to this and, looping down and up, ascended gracefully to a wide chain ring on her collar, through which it freely passed, thence descending, looping down, and ascending, looping up, gracefully, to the left wrist ring. |
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| 13 | 118 |
My ankle-ring chain was about twelve inches in length, and my wrist-ring chain was about six inches in length. |
10 |
| 13 | 119 |
The central chain, where it dangled down from the wrist rings, lay on the floor before the throne, before it looped up to where it was closed about a central link of the ankle-ring chain. |
10 |
| 17 | 19 |
My shackle chain went through a ring, itself suspended from another chain and ring, fixed in an outjutting beam, extending forth at a right angle from the sturdy upright. |
10 |
| 20 | 78 |
My ankles were chained; some ten inches of chain separated them; the chain was fastened on them by means of two padlocks. |
10 |
| 20 | 81 |
Then, however, he would chain my wrists, a chain running from them then to the back of the wagon. |
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| 23 | 235 |
I saw a chain snapped onto the common chain of the women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 146 |
Now that we were closer I could see that the women were all on a single chain, fastened on it by side-loops, of the same chain, secured with sturdy padlocks. |
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| 13 | 234 |
In this fashion, the girls being added to the chain as captured, this chain, or any others, might have diverse numbers upon it. |
10 |
| 13 | 260 |
In a moment she was on the chain, kneeling, her throat snugly enclosed in a side-loop of the same chain, it fastened shut on her by a padlock. |
10 |
| 16 | 115 |
It was by means of these rings, one to each collar, at the right side of the collar, and a second padlock, the bolt of which passed through the ring and a link of the chain, that the collars were attached to the common chain. |
10 |
| 16 | 321 |
Why was this? Was it because I was naked, and kneeling, and my hands were tied behind my back? Was it because I then seemed a slave to myself? And when I understood that I had been found acceptable for the chain, that I would be put on it, I felt a sudden, inexplicable profusion of relief, a surge o... |
10 |
| 16 | 375 |
The ankle chain and wrist chain he left lying over the bench, in front of her. |
10 |
| 16 | 400 |
The other padlock, that which had held the collar to the chain, he left on the chain. |
10 |
| 25 | 1936 |
Many men give her even less chain, some only six inches or so, such adjustments being made with different length chains, and also, often with the same chain, by loopings, doublings and such, secured by fastening the padlocklike terminations through various links. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 |
The Whip I screamed suddenly under it awakening under it startled not believing it not expecting it the suddenness it was like lightning the cracking sound like the sky breaking the snap like fire my body wrenching I pulling upwards the chain on my neck I fell to my side I pulled at the chain then t... |
10 |
| 9 | 202 |
The man then slung his end of my short chain, that whose lower hook was about the chain on my manacles, over the chain extending upwards. |
10 |
| 9 | 339 |
The auctioneer put his whip on his belt, held me by the left arm in his right hand, and, with his left hand, reaching up, lifted the chain between my manacles off the lower hook of the short chain, that attached to the strand of the double chain overhead. |
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| 9 | 551 |
I heard a movement of chain above me and I was then, by the manacles and chain, over the hook on the short chain, drawn across the block and, suspended, lowered to the other side. |
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| 17 | 240 |
Sometimes in my dance I made use of the chain, sometimes pretending, to the music, to fight it, a fight which I had to lose, or not to understand it, looking to the men then, as though they might explain its meaning to me; they did, with raucous cries; sometimes I used it to caress me, with the soft... |
10 |
| 20 | 146 |
He had several, the "red chain," the "green chain," "the yellow chain," and so on, each of which boasted several hundred men. |
10 |
| 23 | 15 |
Another chain, some three feet in length, ran from the center of the ankle chain to the center of the chain joining the wrist rings. |
10 |
| 3 | 634 |
The long chain was then thrown back between my legs and I felt my ankles crossed and a proximate part of the chain wrapped about them. |
10 |
| 6 | 65 |
The extension on the neck chain of the first girl, who was also hooded, serves as a leash for her, guiding her, and her chain guides the second girl, and the second girl's guides the third, and so on. |
10 |
| 6 | 368 |
There was occasionally the tiny sound of the stirring of links of chain, from the chain on our necks. |
10 |
| 6 | 369 |
I moved a little, to feel the tiny metal tag, slung on its tiny closed chain, the chain closed about my collar, move delicately, lightly, on my skin, just below my neck. |
10 |
| 8 | 2 |
A chain was on my neck, an individual chain. |
10 |
| 8 | 55 |
A chain was on my neck, an individual chain. |
10 |
| 8 | 353 |
I sat there, waiting, small, helpless, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, as though they might be held together by a small chain, my left hand on my left ankle, my weight muchly on the palm of my right hand, a chain on my neck, running to its ring in the platform. |
10 |
| 9 | 190 |
The higher hook on the chain had been placed over one strand of the double chain overhead. |
10 |
| 9 | 423 |
He pulled down the short chain from the horizontal chain. |
10 |
| 9 | 427 |
The chain between my manacles was looped over the lower hook on the short chain. |
10 |
| 9 | 434 |
But I was a woman of Earth! This could not be happening to me! Then, as the higher chain, the strand of the double chain, took up its slack, my wrists were again pulled up, high, over my head. |
10 |
| 9 | 498 |
No man could change that! "Aii!" I cried, suddenly, startled, squirming wildly, leaping in the manacles, twisting, with a movement of chain, then my weight on them, the chain taut, my knees lifted, almost to my belly, my eyes shut, my teeth gritted. |
10 |
| 11 | 523 |
"Later," said Mirus, "when our lovely chain-daughters in attendance, Tupita, Sita and Ina, whom some of you well know, and intimately, and whom I recommend to you all, as I also do my lovely assistants, Aynur and Tula, have presented to you another chain-daughter, this lovely slut, their sister in b... |
10 |
| 13 | 769 |
"Then," said he, "I think we may now send you to your kennel, in a belly chain, its lock at your navel, your hands braceleted closely behind you, to the chain". |
10 |
| 23 | 88 |
"Which chain? Please, Masters, which chain?" But my importunities had earned me then only a cuffing. |
10 |
| 23 | 96 |
I had feared that we might be bound for Torcadino, a city currently under siege by Cosians, and their allies, where, employed in the siegeworks, digging investing trenches, raising earth walls, and such, labored the "black chain of Ionicus," that chain for which I had aided in the "enlistment" or "r... |
10 |
| 23 | 168 |
As each of us was removed from the coffle, we briefly crouched down, so that we might reach the upper part of our tunics with our chained hands, the chain joining our hands chained, in turn, to our ankle chain. |
10 |
| 24 | 16 |
The other chains of Ionicus, the "red chain," the "yellow chain," and so on, were at other locations, not in the neighborhood of Venna. |
10 |
| 24 | 41 |
Additional links had been interpolated into my wrist chain and my ankle chain. |
10 |
| 24 | 816 |
They were joined by chain, the chain half submerged in the sand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 106 |
At the end of the chain dangling from the collar, to which the wrist-ring chain was attached, was an ankle-ring chain, terminating at each end with an ankle ring, into which her ankles had been placed and locked. |
10 |
| 10 | 412 |
In a moment, lying on my stomach, on the walkway behind the parapet, I was stripped and chained, my hands manacled behind me, a chain running from the manacles down to join another chain, one strung between the shackles on my ankles. |
10 |
| 21 | 105 |
To this chain, near her waist, was attached another chain, terminating at each end with a wrist ring, into which rings her wrists had been placed and locked. |
10 |
| 21 | 112 |
She felt the ankle rings and the chain between them, and the neck chain, and then, with each hand, she tried to slip the wrist ring from the opposite wrist. |
10 |
| 21 | 494 |
From where I stood I could see the linked ankle rings on her fair ankles, and part of the long chain running from the ankle-ring chain up, before her body, to the staple on her collar. |
10 |
| 21 | 495 |
The wrist-ring chain, in front, was attached to the same long chain. |
10 |
| 24 | 230 |
There was a sound of chain, pulling against the beam ring, the links suddenly growing taut, and Publia, suspended from the beam, in her chain-and-leather harness, hung at the port side, out, about a yard from the rail, her feet now slightly below the level of the bow deck, over the water. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 284 |
The first girls on the chain were in tears and others, toward the end, were looking toward the beginning of the chain, apprehensively. |
10 |
| 46 | 378 |
The ankles of each were joined by about a foot of chain, and their wrists by about six inches of chain. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 350 |
A chain, about two feet Gorean in length, was put on his neck and attached to the short chain linking his shackles. |
10 |
| 9 | 483 |
The Hinrabian put down her head, and I took her wrist chain and, in a moment, with the joining ring, had attached her to the coffle chain. |
10 |
| 9 | 864 |
The blonde, however, at the end of the chain, given the length of the chain, did not move until at least two Ehn later. |
10 |
| 18 | 570 |
I could imagine her upstairs now, probably chained by the neck to a ring, probably stripped, given the heat of the higher apartments, probably lying on the floor, where she had been put, near the ring, her small hands on her neck chain, or her fingers on the ring, now and then moaning, and turning a... |
10 |
| 20 | 10 |
She drew back her left ankle and there was the sound of the links of chain rattling and scraping on the floor, that chain run betwixt her ankle ring and the stout slave ring, anchored in the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 492 |
In this way, it was, in effect, as though the chain was mounted at the head of the divan, rather than at the side, the hook would carry the weight of the chain, preventing it from drawing against the collar, the length of chain between the hook and collar would rest on the divan, and the amount of p... |
10 |
| 38 | 146 |
The sound had been the consequence mainly of the movement of the chain on her neck, the links moving against one another, and the terminal link pulling at the holding ring of the metal collar, but there had been, too, the movement of the links on the floor of the chamber, those of the chain which jo... |
10 |
| 4 | 371 |
He was to the left of the chain before me, almost at the shoulder of the preceding item on the chain. |
10 |
| 7 | 655 |
Even in the gardens are we not sometimes placed at the disposal of others, as he who holds total rights over us, perhaps in his astuteness, or liberality, may decree? And if we have not been pleasing, and if we have not well responded, as may be determined objectively, from the effects of such respo... |
10 |
| 8 | 282 |
In brief, the word sa-fora means "Chain Daughter" or "Daughter of the Chain". |
10 |
| 10 | 227 |
The common arrangement is a collar with dangling chain, to which are attached two smaller chains, the first with wrist rings, the second, at the termination of the dangling chain, with ankle rings. |
10 |
| 16 | 493 |
Thus, I would be, in effect, on a short chain run from the head of the divan, but, ultimately, on a long chain, run from the side ring. |
10 |
| 16 | 496 |
The amount of chain allotted to me from the hook would be about three feet, and from the side ring, if the chain were freed of the hook, about seven feet. |
10 |
| 29 | 829 |
With one hand, the chain of the leash dangling from it, he reached up and, within her hood, the chain trailing, touched the left side of her face. |
10 |
| 31 | 484 |
The peasant, his legs free, save for the shackles and a length of chain on each, now turned about and grasped, with both hands, the chain on his neck. |
10 |
| 31 | 494 |
Almost at the same time there was a snap of chain and the neck chain which was on the peasant dangled before him, from the ring on his collar, and he had turned about again, to face us, his eyes wild, saliva running at the side of his mouth. |
10 |
| 41 | 116 |
She opened the shackle and put it, on its chain, the chain running to the ring, to one side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 26 |
"I have a tunic! You are only a naked slave! You are naked! Naked! Only a naked slave, publicly marched on a chain, exposed on a common road!" The slave cast a furious glance at her but the fellow about whose pommel was looped the chain put back his head and laughed loudly, and gave the chain a litt... |
10 |
| 16 | 119 |
A large padlock, snapped about the dangling shackle ring, attached the chain to her shackle; another large padlock, at the other end of the chain, completed her securing, fastening her to the heavy ring in the cement. |
10 |
| 16 | 910 |
One of the girls in the coffle, she who was last on the chain, or slaver's necklace, turned about to cast a last contemptuous glance at the shelf, but the guardsman behind her struck her a sharp, stinging blow with the flat of his hand below the small of her back, which resounded throughout the mark... |
10 |
| 16 | 932 |
Had she not understood that she was chained? Did she think that those who had chained her did not know their work? Did she think she might simply remove the chain? Foolish slave! She pulled a little at the chain, tears in her eyes. |
10 |
| 16 | 1387 |
He then removed the ankle chain from her shackle, and put the chain with its padlock to one side. |
10 |
| 16 | 1389 |
In a moment Lydia then, too, her ankle chain removed, was neck-ringed to a floor ring by one of its padlocks, the chain put, too, to one side. |
10 |
| 18 | 443 |
From his pouch he withdrew a light belly chain, which hooked in front, with attached slave bracelets at the back of the chain. |
10 |
| 18 | 563 |
She pulled a little against the bracelets and there was a tiny sound of chain, emphasizing her helplessness and captivity, and her movements, too, of course, drew the belly chain back, more tightly, about her, reining in her belly, which, in emphasizing the narrowness of her waist, the contrasting f... |
10 |
| 20 | 3 |
A chain dangled from its back ring, its posterior ring, that at the back of her neck, to a girl behind her, and another chain ran from her collar's throat ring, or anterior ring, to the back ring, or posterior ring, of the next collar, which, a moment later, was closed about the lovely, slim neck of... |
10 |
| 20 | 89 |
In a sales coffle two policies tend to predominate: sometimes the most beautiful are saved for the end, which has led to the saying "rich enough to buy from the end of the chain," or, more often, the girls are mixed on the chain with various sales strategies in mind, for example, mixing skin colors,... |
10 |
| 20 | 396 |
Ellen was toward the beginning of the chain, surely amongst the first twenty or thirty on the chain. |
10 |
| 30 | 565 |
"Chain me! Chain me, please!" "What?" he cried. |
10 |
| 30 | 569 |
"But I want the chain! I beg the chain! I crave the shackle!" "What a slave you are!" he laughed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 411 |
Perhaps it is the chain, he thought, the chain, binding fiber, such things, which hasten such things, which bring a female so rapidly, so pathetically, so needfully, so openly and honestly, to her knees. |
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| 4 | 72 |
"Why?" "He might take you off your chain and eat you," said Cabot, "or eat you on your chain". |
10 |
| 36 | 273 |
"Yes," she said, "yes!" "When on my chain," she said, "I heard Master Peisistratus, assessing my lineaments and features, quite candidly as men will do, and which at the time was easily done, as I wore only a chain, commend me to another, ranking me above several of his girls". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 97 |
He sat me by the chain, removed the shackle from my right ankle, looped it about the chain, and fastened it on me again, thus tethering me to the common chain. |
10 |
| 48 | 235 |
There had been mutual protestations of some sort, in which perhaps the iron-chain Kur might have been denouncing the one with the silver chain, and the one with the silver chain might have been defending himself. |
10 |
| 48 | 237 |
The silver-chain Kur had then been slain, most unpleasantly, by Agamemnon, then housed in the large, crab-like metal body, and the silver chain, with garlands, had been awarded to former iron-chain Kur. |
10 |
| 7 | 107 |
Another chain, something like a yard in length, run from the belly chain, held me to the wall behind me. |
10 |
| 8 | 22 |
What terrible things might happen to her, were she to be mistaken for a free woman! I then felt another collar, a coffle collar, for one could sense the weight of the attendant chain, a light chain, for we were women, snapped about my neck. |
10 |
| 8 | 94 |
The coffle chain was a girl chain, and, accordingly, light. |
10 |
| 8 | 297 |
This was not pleasant, but, too, it was not much of a burden, as the chain was light, being girl chain. |
10 |
| 14 | 66 |
To be sure, men often chain their female slaves, perhaps because it pleases them to have their animals on a chain. |
10 |
| 14 | 171 |
"Chain me, chain me!" "Here are your instructions," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 5 |
I drew back, with a rattle of chain in the wagon bed, the chain sliding along the central bar. |
10 |
| 16 | 11 |
My ankles were shackled, and a foot of chain joined them, the chain looped about the central bar. |
10 |
| 16 | 289 |
"A single chain, run through their shackle chain, and fastened between trees, will secure the lot. |
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| 30 | 152 |
"I have seen high Kurii, whose translators are on golden chains, such as Lucius, Timarchos, and Lysymachos, and several silver-chain Kurii, and a great many iron-chain Kurii, but, as far as I know, I have not seen a Kur named Agamemnon". |
10 |
| 31 | 83 |
I think little love was lost between the iron-chain Kurii and the golden- or silver-chain Kurii. |
10 |
| 33 | 122 |
See! It is a golden chain!" Only four in the Cave wore the golden chain, Lucius, putatively first in the Cave, Timarchos, Lysymachos, and, of late, some days ago, Grendel. |
10 |
| 37 | 169 |
Following this two Kurii were presented to the machine, one a silver-chain Kur and one an iron-chain Kur. |
10 |
| 37 | 171 |
The silver-chain Kur was then slain, and his chain given to the other, who was also garlanded by Timarchos and Lysymachos. |
10 |
| 39 | 29 |
How I wanted to please him, as a naked slave! * * * * We had not anticipated a Kur revolt, the rising of several of the iron-chain Kurii against the silver- and gold-chain Kurii. |
10 |
| 39 | 44 |
If they could not wear a golden chain why should anyone? Let there be a golden chain for everyone, or no golden chains. |
10 |
| 48 | 234 |
It was the Kur who, when an iron-chain Kur, had stood before Agamemnon with another Kur in the audience chamber, a silver-chain Kur. |
10 |
| 49 | 146 |
Shortening the chain she was slept at his feet, lengthening the chain he could draw her to him, for his pleasure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 8 |
My shackle, with its short chain, was attached to the long chain, which was fastened at each end of the kennel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 323 |
He then crouched down, lifted the shackle on its chain, the chain running to the slave ring, and snapped it shut about the left ankle of the Lady Alexina. |
10 |
| 53 | 140 |
I followed Lord Grendel and Kurik, and then, of course, with a rustle of chain, the chain to her metal collar in my hand, I was followed by Lyris. |
10 |
| 55 | 16 |
The great chain, in its air-lacerating hiss, like a hurtling flail, an almost invisible scythe, each link an ax, struck two Kurii from the bridge, plunging, twisting, through the air, howling, to the street far below, and the four others fell back upon themselves, jumbled, half-fallen, impeding one ... |
10 |
| 63 | 11 |
A chain was fastened about each of our necks, each chain fastened to its ring, anchored in the back of the wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 23 |
Our crimson street tunics bore the small image of a golden chain at the left shoulder, and, elsewhere, in cursive script, one or more provocative snippets designed to appeal to potential customers, such as, I was told, "Find me at the Golden Chain," "I await you at the Golden Chain," "I hope to plea... |
10 |
| 1 | 135 |
This chain then, by a windlass, was drawn upward, before us, and our bound wrists were drawn high over our heads, so that we stood beneath the chain, our bodies stretched. |
10 |
| 20 | 44 |
"It was for you, the slender, dark-haired barbarian slave, Zia, floor slave in the Golden Chain, the property of Ho-Tosk, proprietor of the Golden Chain". |
10 |
| 20 | 96 |
Its contents were as follows: To the slave Zia, Paga Girl at the Golden Chain, Slave of Ho-Tosk, of Port Kar: You are herewith instructed to be on the Walkway of the Thieves' Way South, between the Scroll Shop of Brindlar, of Port Kar, and the paga tavern, the Whip and Chain, on this day, that of th... |
10 |
| 20 | 106 |
Had he recalled my spasmodic surrenders in the Whip and Chain and thought to amuse himself once more with my body, that of a helpless slave in his hands? But if he wished to do so, it would be much easier to avail himself of me at the Golden Chain, in a comfortable alcove where I might, stripped to ... |
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| 24 | 59 |
Did I not belong to Ho-Tosk, of Port Kar, proprietor of the Golden Chain? I wanted to be returned to the Golden Chain, and exonerated of any charges of being a fugitive slave. |
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| 32 | 15 |
What had he to fear? But, of course, if all went well, I might have been recognized, certainly at the Golden Chain, did he patronize it, or I could have, in some way, surely at the Golden Chain, did he wish to recruit within it, even at the risk of the lash, called attention to myself, created some ... |
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| 34 | 1 |
I am Again at the Golden Chain Brushed and combed, washed and rested, watered and fed, freshly tunicked, I knelt before Ho-Tosk, my master, proprietor of the Golden Chain, in his office. |
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| 34 | 44 |
Shortly after I had arrived at the Golden Chain, the Golden Chain's collar had been placed on my neck and Bruno of Torcadino's collar had been removed. |
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| 39 | 69 |
Do you think you are in an alcove at the Golden Chain? Do you truly think I would be interested in allowing myself to be served by so inferior a slave and slut as you, only another worthless Golden-Chain girl?" I struggled to my feet, keeping my mouth open, widely. |
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| 40 | 319 |
She must have awakened somewhere in Port Kar, and discovered herself in a tunic of the Golden Chain and a new collar, doubtless also of the Golden Chain. |
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| 36 | 229 |
There, chain them by the left ankle to the pleasure stake, and then remove their other bonds, the neck chain and their slave bracelets. |
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