| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 30 |
There were many things supposedly strange about Tharna, among them that she was reportedly ruled by a queen, or Tatrix, and, reasonably enough in the circumstances, that the position of women in that city, in contrast with common Gorean custom, was one of privilege and opportunity. |
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| 15 | 22 |
Forgive me if I say that I was happy, as I should not have been in the circumstances, but my feelings are those that a tarnsman would understand. |
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| 26 | 63 |
In its way, under the circumstances, the judgment of Lara was merciful—though it was greeted with wails of lamentation from the roped captives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 16 |
Communication by odor-signals can in certain circumstances be extremely efficient, though it can be disadvantageous in others. |
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| 22 | 51 |
And he added, "And under the circumstances I wish it could". |
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| 26 | 171 |
I looked about the case and it seemed that everything, considering the circumstances, was quite comfortable. |
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| 30 | 31 |
It seemed to me that under the circumstances, while I was still my own master, I should perhaps slay myself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 117 |
Looking at him she suddenly had the feeling, a strange one, that this man, in some circumstances and for some purpose or another, had assessed and judged many women. |
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| 8 | 101 |
I tried to talk to Kamchak and help him to understand the shock that the girl had undergone, the total alteration of her life and circumstances, unexplained—finding herself alone on the prairie, the Tuchuks, the capture, the return to the Wagons, her examination in the grassy avenue, the Siri... |
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| 10 | 455 |
The important point, however, in the circumstances was that Kamras had proposed the sword as the weapon of his encounter with Kamchak, and poor Kamchak was almost certain to be as unfamiliar with the sword as you or I would be with any of the more unusual weapons of Gor, say, the whip knife of Port ... |
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| 12 | 516 |
"But," he added, turning and looking at me, "I suppose under the circumstances it was just as well". |
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| 22 | 117 |
There were musicians present and they, to the best of their ability under the circumstances, attempted to provide music for the feast. |
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| 27 | 133 |
It was hard for me to believe that this marvelous, collared beauty in my arms was once a simple girl of Earth, that this astounding wench, Tuchuk and Gorean, was the same as Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, the young secretary who so long before had found herself inexplicably thrust into intrigues and circu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 640 |
Further, having her own knot might have some occasional value, even in our present circumstances. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 42 |
I recalled the Dorna, under similar circumstances, had done great damage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 32 |
The Dean of Students, as was his wont in such circumstances, refused to accept the grade. |
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| 11 | 1094 |
Rask of Treve, as a raider true to the codes of Treve, that hidden coign of vantage of tarnsmen, that remote, secret, mountainous city of the vast, scarlet Voltai range, had not, in these circumstances, much pushed pursuit. |
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| 13 | 88 |
They had adopted her as their daughter, and had seen that she was trained well in the work of the leather workers, that caste which, under any circumstances, had been hers by right of birth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 18 | 73 |
Each, incidentally, following a standard Gorean slave-keeping procedure under such circumstances, was tightly gagged at night. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 81 |
Against these considerations it was argued that not even the gods themselves could blame Svein Blue Tooth, under these circumstances, for not honoring a piddling oath, extracted under false pretenses; one bold fellow even went so far as to insist that, under these special circumstances, it was a sol... |
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| 13 | 237 |
I suspected this might have accounted somewhat for the ugliness of the men with the entertainers, not that the men of Torvaldsland, under any circumstances, constitute an easily pleased audience. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 688 |
Incidentally, perhaps, in passing, one might note that the more generic practice referred to above, that of requiring a slave to obtain permission before speaking, at least in normal circumstances, is a particularly excellent discipline for female slaves, for they are women and, as other women, if I... |
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| 2 | 189 |
It had entered my mind, too, that it might prove most profitable, under certain conceivable circumstances, to exchange her for information. |
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| 11 | 187 |
I was familiar with two sorts of mirages on the desert, of the sort which might be, and often were, seen by normal individuals under normal circumstances, not the mirages of the dehydrated body, the sun-crazed brain, not private hallucinatory images. |
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| 14 | 206 |
In such circumstances, one does not wish the processes of digestion to drain much needed water from the body tissues. |
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| 19 | 90 |
All things considered, the decision to attempt to reach Four Palms seemed the most rational decision in the circumstances. |
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| 24 | 684 |
Later, if I wished, I could make it clear to her that she was not, unless in extraordinary circumstances, to speak without having first obtained permission. |
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| 24 | 821 |
It may, in certain circumstances, be politically expedient to deny this truth, but that is a separate question and involves separate issues". |
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| 24 | 832 |
"Under these circumstances outlined then," I said, "neither a man nor a woman would have the right to be themselves". |
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| 24 | 834 |
"The circumstances I have outlined," I told her, "are reality. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1242 |
Yes, I kissed his feet, as though I might have been no more than a beautiful, stripped, guilty, frightened slave! How natural, and necessary, and perfect, in such circumstances, seemed this act of timid abject obeisance! Would any girl of Earth, I wondered, so in the power of such a man, on such a w... |
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| 16 | 233 |
In such circumstances, girls try to be wanted. |
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| 24 | 98 |
Accordingly, under normal circumstances, they are not permitted in Gorean courts. |
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| 25 | 146 |
"Add to this," said he, "the convenience of a simple substitution cipher, the absence of the necessity for a code book, the lack of need for cipher wheels or deciphering tables, and you have an arrangement of circumstances which maximizes not only security but, under the appropriate conditions, ease... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 327 |
Few people would accept a bet of even twenty to one under such circumstances. |
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| 5 | 106 |
It would be my hope, however, that you would not see fit, under the circumstances, to encourage useless strife. |
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| 6 | 168 |
"I am afraid, under the circumstances," I said, "that that is no longer possible". |
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| 23 | 328 |
I thought it true what she had said, not only from her asseverations and the fact that I had come to be able to read with facility her face and body in the months I had owned her, but from the general circumstances of the situation. |
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| 26 | 69 |
It was hard for me to believe, under the circumstances, that he could sleep. |
10 |
| 26 | 304 |
"In the strait circumstances in which we now find ourselves enmeshed, I gather," I said, "that you have no intention of dying". |
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| 34 | 89 |
It was foolish, in the circumstances, I supposed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 267 |
It is hard for her, in such circumstances, not to see them as her masters and herself, before them, as an exposed slave. |
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| 14 | 537 |
She knew, instinctively, in the circumstances, where she would stand. |
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| 14 | 541 |
Yet she knew readily, or instinctively, or intuitively, or naturally, or somehow, that she should be, in these circumstances, standing as she was before me, at a distance where I might, if I wished, without inconvenience, simply take her in my arms. |
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| 14 | 740 |
"You may find it convenient, in some circumstances, to remove your collar". |
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| 14 | 750 |
You may find it convenient, in some circumstances, to remove your collar". |
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| 15 | 134 |
"It is in our interest, in these circumstances, to bargain in good faith". |
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| 19 | 105 |
My false identity, that which Msaliti had constructed for me, as an envoy of Teletus would not then, in the circumstances, any longer protect me. |
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| 19 | 106 |
Any diplomatic immunity, so to speak, which I might have possessed would, in the circumstances, have been stripped away from me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1084 |
In the stress of our strait circumstances it had just welled up from within me, cruelly, insuppressibly, explosively. |
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| 20 | 194 |
Under such circumstances it is doubtless easy to feel emotion". |
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| 22 | 719 |
I conjectured that Tenalion thought it likely that the Lady Florence, too, under similar circumstances and conditions, might prove superb slave meat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 210 |
"One must make do in trying circumstances," she said, "with what there is". |
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| 11 | 422 |
Under such circumstances, girls learn quickly and well. |
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| 21 | 68 |
Indeed, many feel you were courageous to have even entered the tavern under the circumstances, to attempt to extract the unwitting little fool from the situation in which she had placed herself". |
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| 27 | 84 |
"Under such circumstances," I said, "I think you can easily understand that I might not be eager to surrender it to you". |
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| 28 | 120 |
Callisthenes, in the circumstances, to the thinking of Callimachus, had had no choice in the matter. |
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| 32 | 7 |
Yet, of course, such inhibitions, under any circumstances, are not permitted to slave girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 696 |
It seemed to me a suitable answer, under the circumstances. |
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| 1 | 1318 |
I had not the least idea, of course, of the significance of this gesture on the part of Kog, but I gathered, under the circumstances, that its import must be rather weighty. |
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| 2 | 52 |
"Few red savages live outside of the Barrens," I said, "and those who do would presumably be as unfamiliar with them as would be anyone else in their circumstances". |
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| 13 | 85 |
In such circumstances, the natural desire of women to be attractive to men is considerably augmented. |
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| 13 | 87 |
Under such circumstances sexuality is not only clearly understood, perhaps for the first time, but it is keenly felt, as well, undeniably so, even overwhelmingly so. |
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| 13 | 946 |
"Most girls, under the circumstances, find very little difficulty in becoming passionate female slaves. |
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| 19 | 253 |
"What did the Yellow-Kaiila Rider say to you," I asked, "after he had spoken to the youth, before he had returned to his place?" "That the youth was within his rights," said Grunt, "that he could claim her, under the circumstances, by right of slave capture". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 907 |
"Exceptions can occur under certain circumstances, of course," said the girl. |
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| 6 | 679 |
"In such circumstances, you would have to obey. |
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| 10 | 183 |
I certainly had no objections, under the circumstances, to heeling him like a slave. |
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| 18 | 15 |
"How did this delightful shift in your circumstances come about?" "I do not know what you are talking about," I said. |
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| 31 | 540 |
I rejoiced that I had been brought to a world in which I was free to fulfill, and, in certain circumstances, would have no choice but to fulfill, this implicit destiny. |
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| 32 | 185 |
Ligurious was truly a master; he had proved this with other women; similarly, in most circumstances, had he so much as snapped his fingers at me, I would have thrown my legs apart for him; this was not the modality though, for whatever reason, in which he related to this other woman; he seemed to se... |
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| 33 | 895 |
"You have, of course, under the circumstances, no choice". |
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| 36 | 429 |
But the men of Gor, if only the unwitting beneficiaries of an historical accident, were never confused and tricked out of their birthright of health; or, I wondered, was it only a statistical anomaly, a rare sort of historical accident, or misadventure, or wrong turning, that some cultures were twis... |
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| 36 | 1377 |
Thus, it was important, though it tortured me to do so under the circumstances, to accord you respect and dignity". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 253 |
This was now possible, of course, because I had had to open that file, taking the Spearman from it to capture his Ubara, the move forced in the circumstances. |
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| 12 | 262 |
Similarly, even if I had had the option in the circumstances, which I did not, I could not have brought my Builder to that square for defensive purposes without exposing it to the attack of the same piece. |
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| 14 | 132 |
Under such circumstances it would surely be difficult to conceal it from a crowd attending a public spectacle. |
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| 14 | 416 |
What had once been only a hint, a puzzling, intriguing thought which I had scarcely understood, had, in the thicket of circumstances, in the crisis of an instant, become a coercive modality of action, that path upon which one must boldly and irrevocably embark. |
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| 16 | 134 |
"I was merely wondering if such extreme exertions on their behalf might, under the possible circumstances, be fully justified". |
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| 18 | 503 |
But by the time it might occur to someone, recollecting my connections with the troupe of Boots Tarsk-Bit, that a trick of so devious a nature might be not only practical but, given the peculiar circumstances of my escape, likely, I did not expect to require the eccentric premises of my unusual hidi... |
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| 21 | 613 |
"And if I did not yield well," she asked, "would you whip me, or have your menials do so?" "Under certain circumstances, and in certain contexts," I said, "of course". |
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| 22 | 332 |
"Your confidence exceeds mine, particularly in the present circumstances," said Scormus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 82 |
Indeed, in certain circumstances the attempt to impose discipline upon them can be extremely dangerous. |
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| 13 | 276 |
The listed females, under the particular circumstances currently prevailing in Torcadino, had little chance of escape. |
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| 13 | 278 |
This was their one advantage, albeit under the circumstances one which did not appear likely to shift the scales much in their favor. |
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| 15 | 259 |
"It is difficult to move surreptitiously on a person under such circumstances. |
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| 16 | 1182 |
I did not think, under the circumstances, it would be necessary to beat her. |
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| 16 | 1194 |
I supposed if Hurtha had encountered Boabissia under somewhat different circumstances his relationship to her would have been considerably different, for example, if he had bought her in a slave market. |
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| 19 | 316 |
Then, observing herself the object of my scrutiny, she put down her head, quickly, even more humbly than was perhaps required under the circumstances. |
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| 24 | 523 |
"I assume," I said, "in the light of the special circumstances of her case, she is not to be treated as a runaway slave". |
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| 26 | 1898 |
They may have been led from cities in triumph as exquisite prizes, in slave lines as naked, luscious, collared loot, and then what would you have to say? That no one had found you pretty enough, or interesting enough, or desirable enough, to take you and bring you in for money? That you had to call ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 874 |
When a girl's most secret thoughts can be read as easily as slave numbers written on her breast her only viable option is total honesty, and as complete submission was required of Gorean slave girls her only practical recourse under such stringent circumstances is either to choose death or become in... |
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| 21 | 59 |
I hoped, even in this time, even in these circumstances, that I might gain from him a moment or two of relief. |
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| 23 | 156 |
"It would be quite high, under normal circumstances, for a normal work slave," he said, amused. |
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| 24 | 406 |
Such things I had been taught as long ago as the house of my first training, but I think, truly, even had I not had such training, I would, in the circumstances, have done much the same. |
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| 29 | 91 |
They had even seen fit, as, under the circumstances, would have seemed superfluous, to conduct, or seem to conduct, critical examinations of the merchandise. |
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| 31 | 259 |
Any other girl, one unknown, of course, I might have immediately suspected, particularly under the circumstances, the loneliness of the street, the absurdity of a key in your belt, and such". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 367 |
Similarly, circumstances can apparently make a great deal of difference. |
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| 6 | 47 |
It was no wonder that some fellow, under the circumstances, might be forced to make do as he could, even having recourse eventually, if he was desperate enough, to a free woman. |
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| 6 | 712 |
I would not have approved had he done this, but under the circumstances, considering my purposes, I would not have interfered. |
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| 6 | 835 |
A recruit, under the circumstances, could have felled him. |
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| 6 | 895 |
"He has a terrible temper," he said, "and, under such circumstances, it would be hard to blame anyone for being cranky". |
10 |
| 13 | 270 |
"I do not regret having known you, and having served you, and as you have made me serve you, even under these circumstances". |
10 |
| 15 | 78 |
If it were to rise again, which I did not really expect, or not significantly, under the current circumstances, presumably that would be shortly before their departure from the cell. |
10 |
| 15 | 388 |
"Under different circumstances," I said, "and if we had more time, it might be interesting to put you in a bit of slave silk, and teach you how to disrobe properly before a man". |
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| 15 | 1053 |
Too, in the present circumstances, it would be noisier than I thought judicious, the crack of the lash, and such, not that she, being gagged, could have made much verbal response to it. |
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| 20 | 63 |
"What do you think? Do you think I would have given an order I would not be willing, under similar circumstances, to obey? My body, as it is wounded, will serve as a shield in the fighting. |
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| 21 | 327 |
Shall she be brought forward to testify as to the circumstances in which, and the time at which, your hair was shorn?" "No, Commander," said the girl. |
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| 21 | 452 |
"I do not think that other women, those of Ar's Station, or of other cities, under similar circumstances, would have behaved differently," she said. |
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| 21 | 824 |
Yet I think they would have been quick enough, under appropriate circumstances, to spread their legs for force masters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1216 |
I did not think there was any point, under the circumstances, given my conversation with the fellow outside, and so on, in trying to keep it a secret that someone was within the tent. |
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| 2 | 119 |
"Under the circumstances, as it turned out, you had no choice," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 594 |
I, I supposed, was understood, naturally enough under the circumstances, to be his subordinate, or man. |
10 |
| 16 | 10 |
"Even if the motivations for the thoughts which I have confided to you were purely self-regarding," I said, "which, under the circumstances, I think, would be understandable, it was nonetheless appropriate that you consider their plausibility". |
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| 27 | 284 |
In this way, in the circumstances, I made her even more vulnerable to me. |
10 |
| 29 | 124 |
It was only she herself, in the circumstances, who could not have done so. |
10 |
| 31 | 103 |
I did not think these eager asseverations on the part of the lad, under the circumstances, were necessary. |
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| 44 | 202 |
I did not think it wise, under the circumstances, to leave Ina untended in the slave camp, or to dispose of her there, at least immediately. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 278 |
For example, whereas others, particularly on certain occasions, and in certain circumstances, may, and should discipline you, this did not seem to me to be such an occasion, or such a set of circumstances. |
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| 25 | 367 |
"You have been seduced," I said, "that you would be brought into circumstances of great compromise, circumstances the outcome of which would be to bring you to your present condition, as my slave". |
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| 1 | 21 |
The magistrates were ex officio witnesses, who could certify the circumstances of the capture. |
10 |
| 8 | 658 |
It was natural enough, in the circumstances, for Tafa to have addressed Phoebe as "Mistress". |
10 |
| 8 | 905 |
"Under the circumstances," I said to the guardsman, "I would nonetheless recommend a discretionary withdrawal". |
10 |
| 18 | 588 |
I could well imagine many Goreans leaping upon him with a knife under such circumstances, or, at any rate, looking him up later with that in mind, having discovered their loss in the meantime. |
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| 20 | 159 |
"That was under very special circumstances," I said. |
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| 20 | 286 |
"Then you think I might not, under certain circumstances, at least, be found displeasing by another man?" "No," I said. |
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| 23 | 275 |
"And few of Ar's Station are in Ar," said Marcus, "and of those of Ar's Station who might be in Ar, presumably few would approach their Home Stone under these circumstances, when expected to revile it". |
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| 23 | 317 |
"I shall not enter into the details of this," I said, "but in the north, last summer, in virtue of an unusual combination of circumstances, Marcus came into the possession of a large fortune, one hundred pieces of gold". |
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| 23 | 324 |
"There are special circumstances involved". |
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| 26 | 234 |
I myself, incidentally, did not think it impossible that the Ubara herself, in certain circumstances, might be so indiscreet as to write such notes. |
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| 27 | 116 |
Considering the circumstances I decided to overlook the matter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 642 |
What, under the circumstances, a pathetic, insignificant defense it constituted for my modesty! "What?" she screamed. |
10 |
| 10 | 102 |
And my outburst, under the circumstances, his sudden appearance, the noise, the beast, and such, certainly would have been an innocent enough one, a natural enough one. |
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| 11 | 401 |
Though a high slave it seemed she thought it wise, under the circumstances, to request this permission. |
10 |
| 11 | 839 |
"It may only be conjectured to what lengths she might be brought, given different circumstances, and more time". |
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| 11 | 1716 |
Too, I gathered that there was discipline in this place, and here I do not speak of such things as the correctives and admonitives, however sure, strict and severe, to which an errant slave might find herself subjected, but of sterner stuff, the discipline of the military, that of the Warrior, that ... |
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| 13 | 41 |
To be sure, it can be performed under many quite different circumstances and conditions. |
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| 24 | 715 |
But then, as an option, might he not, under the same circumstances, and perhaps preferably, and perhaps more amusingly, see fit to return her to Tharna? Dorna, I was sure, would do her best to please her master. |
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| 29 | 795 |
It was not thought that, under the circumstances, she required hose". |
10 |
| 38 | 171 |
"Any honorable fellow in these circumstances would hasten to resign". |
10 |
| 46 | 524 |
"To be certain," he said, "I am not unmindful of extenuating circumstances in both these cases, that in each case it was the welfare of your master which motivated you". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 32 |
To be sure, her most widely ranging, and far-flung, and ambitious speculations and conjectures, of necessity under the circumstances, must fail to prepare her for the reality without. |
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| 9 | 168 |
That sound was very meaningful to her, particularly under the circumstances, and she did not doubt but what it was similarly meaningful to him. |
10 |
| 11 | 657 |
To have asked would have seemed to her, in the circumstances, stupid, and she did not wish to appear a stupid slave before her master. |
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| 15 | 124 |
Men desire complete slaves, it seems, and this means total, vital, feeling, thinking females at their feet; that is apparently what one wants there; few if any men, it seems, desire a mere body, a puppet, a doll, an empty slave; who could be satisfied with such? Where would be the triumph, the pleas... |
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| 24 | 74 |
A slave girl's heeling distance is a function of a particular situation, of local circumstances, so to speak. |
10 |
| 25 | 1025 |
"With all due respect, good sir," said the auctioneer to the fellow back in the crowd on Ellen's right, "all in all, under the circumstances, I think that a fair request". |
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| 26 | 1405 |
Yet, had the same command been given again, under the same circumstances, she would have responded in the same fashion, or perhaps even with greater alacrity. |
10 |
| 29 | 210 |
She looked over her shoulder, and smiled, as prettily, as innocently, as, under the circumstances, she could. |
10 |
| 30 | 317 |
The value of the whip, you see, is not so much in its being used, as in the slave's knowledge that it can be used and, under certain circumstances, will be used. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 88 |
Under certain unusual circumstances the nondominant becomes a dominant. |
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| 1 | 309 |
One supposes, too, they were not placed with him in the container for purposes of breeding, for that would make little sense under the circumstances. |
10 |
| 1 | 503 |
It was not unusual, at any rate, for a civilized female, to the extent that such are civilized, suddenly confronted with a seemingly inexplicable transformation in her circumstances and condition, to behave in a manner which suggests bewilderment and alarm. |
10 |
| 1 | 828 |
But he was tolerant, at least for a time, of her effusive excesses, doubtless taking into consideration her confusion and dismay, given her presumably recent entrapment and her present circumstances. |
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| 3 | 233 |
"Miss Pym," he said, "seems somewhat inappropriate, perhaps a bit prim, perhaps even pompous, does it not, for someone in your current circumstances, one who is kneeling in straw, one whose entire ensemble consists of a collar and chain?" "Very well," she said. |
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| 8 | 60 |
"You were put on the Prison Moon, though a free man, and a Warrior, naked, in full view, in shameful, close confinement, and in circumstances clearly designed to strain your honor, after the loss of which you would presumably be disposed of, and doubtless in a lengthy, unpleasant fashion". |
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| 8 | 105 |
That is the way men prefer it and, too, of course, they must under no circumstances be confused with free women, who are of course infinitely beyond them in dignity and worth. |
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| 47 | 244 |
"The evidence, the incidents, the circumstances, a thousand details, are incontrovertible," said Statius. |
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| 52 | 10 |
This was not unusual, under the circumstances, and represented common Kur practice. |
10 |
| 79 | 554 |
"A considerable alteration in their circumstances," she said, "from the luxury of a court to the exposure of the auction block". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 52 |
Unless there should be some misunderstanding here, one might observe that such challenges are not frequent, and normally require almost a ritual of circumstances. |
10 |
| 2 | 56 |
Too, there may be economic constraints, as well, for if the challenge is not accepted, one is sometimes expected, depending on the city, the castes, and circumstances, to pay for the slave, with a purse several times her value. |
10 |
| 3 | 67 |
By this I mean, despite certain suitabilities of face and figure, she had something of the tightness, the apparent inhibitions, the uncertainties, and confusions, masked with the compensatory arrogance, nastiness, and insolence, of many Earth females, afflicted with the customary ambivalences toward... |
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| 5 | 570 |
'" The unfurling of a furled banner, in given circumstances, when this is accomplished deliberately, slowly, and ritualistically, is far more than a sign of war; it is a sign of unappeasable purpose, of unmitigated intent, of implacable resolution. |
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| 10 | 74 |
As was appropriate in the circumstances, she kept her knees modestly together. |
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| 10 | 444 |
She had probably met him only once or twice before, probably months ago, in very different circumstances, and in very different garb. |
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| 14 | 52 |
It would be, I supposed, primarily an auxiliary weapon, to which recourse might be had in special circumstances, those, for example, in which, on the ground, one might employ the quiva. |
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| 14 | 53 |
Such circumstances, those in which the quiva might be used, would commonly be in the swirl of close combat, where even the bow might be impractical. |
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| 26 | 139 |
As a free woman she had been placed with me in a containment capsule on the Prison Moon, in such a proximity and under such circumstances that no man might indefinitely resist the toils of nature in which men and women, helpless captives, had been enmeshed even before small hominids had grown wicked... |
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| 27 | 33 |
I doubted that, under similar circumstances, I would have trusted myself. |
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| 28 | 42 |
One could scarcely fail, under the circumstances, even in their helplessness and misery, to notice the excellence of their slave curves. |
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| 44 | 48 |
It had been done without thought, with indifferent and impersonal efficiency, precisely as it would have been done to any similar female in such circumstances. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 1416 |
"In similar circumstances," I said, "you would have betrayed her?" "Certainly," she said. |
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| 16 | 215 |
I doubted that Tyrtaios, under the circumstances, thought it well advised, given fire and our own troubles, to board the warning ship, but he failed to demur. |
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| 17 | 89 |
She then understood that he approved of her punishment, that he recognized its suitability, and that, in similar circumstances, she would receive no less at his hands. |
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| 30 | 47 |
Whereas the surrender was unconditional, the deserters realized, as well as others, first, that the Pani would not be likely to accept a grievous loss of armsmen which would be likely to jeopardize, if not ruin, their cause, and, second, that their brethren, their fellow armsmen, and their fellows o... |
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| 36 | 14 |
One supposed that Lord Yamada, in his less-straitened circumstances, would be less motivated to seek foreign goods, but, too, one supposed, if he were once apprised of tarns, as presumably he soon would be, and might now be, he would be eager to supply himself with so valuable a military arm. |
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| 36 | 97 |
In certain circumstances, then, it seems not unlikely they might once more look to him for leadership, and once more follow him". |
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| 36 | 443 |
"It had slipped my mind, doubtless in the press of circumstances, arranging matters with the harbor master, renting space, organizing goods, supervising trading, and such". |
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| 36 | 557 |
What then might compensate him for a loss so grievous? A valuable gift would have been, under the circumstances, cruel, or insulting. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 358 |
In such circumstances high-caste women commonly dispense with veiling". |
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| 4 | 633 |
How small I seemed, how degraded and mocked, and how worthless, how helpless! And my sense was not just one of meaningfulness, as profound as that sense might be, and as comprehensible as such a sense would be, given the circumstances, but, rather, startling me, and frightening me, one of fittingnes... |
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| 15 | 255 |
How I would have been terrified to hear those words, under different circumstances! But I needed not be taught to obey; the former Allison Ashton-Baker, on Gor, had well learned how to obey! "Flee, Master," I whispered. |
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| 18 | 726 |
Indeed, if I were to attempt to circumvent the discipline of Master Desmond by an appeal to Lord Grendel, I had no doubt he would lash me well, and if I were to attempt to appeal to the Lady Bina I was sure she would make inquiries as to what was appropriate under such circumstances, and then, when ... |
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| 18 | 1078 |
What intelligent girl with her wits about her would have forgone such an opportunity? What rational girl, in the conjectured circumstances, would not have done so? And Astrinax had doubtless brought he in whose charge I was, Master Desmond, into fee! "Put your head to the dirt," said Master Desmond. |
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| 20 | 263 |
Perhaps some of you feel that under the circumstances, so threatening and uncertain, I should have considered flight, but I did not do so. |
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| 27 | 37 |
Occasionally, under certain circumstances, physiological or social, perhaps the lack of a Dominant, the Nondominant may occasionally become a Dominant, in effect, a true male. |
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| 30 | 123 |
She might well suppose him jealous of such fortune, and that he would prefer to keep things as they were before, to keep her in modest circumstances, and to keep her muchly dependent upon him". |
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| 47 | 72 |
How then could one blame him in such circumstances? Would not the rational agent seize such an opportunity before it was seized by another? Should he not be praised for his initiative, and astuteness? Yet I was muchly discountenanced by his decision. |
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| 48 | 111 |
Presumably, under the circumstances, these would be supplied. |
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| 51 | 70 |
I did have a general permission to speak in the domicile, but, under the circumstances, I thought it well to inquire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 172 |
I did not know the meaning of the words 'La kajira\ but it was not difficult, under the circumstances, to speculate on their nature. |
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| 6 | 144 |
One might have supposed then, under the current circumstances in Brundisium, with the business to the southeast, the accompanying influx of refugees, and such, that the misery in Brundisium, the crowding and hunger, would have been muchly relieved, as men were taken into fee, but, unfortunately, tha... |
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| 33 | 19 |
How then is she to explain herself, to supply details which may have been overlooked, to call attention to extenuating circumstances, to explain how she was misunderstood, to make clear what she truly intended, or was trying to do, to wheedle, beg, cajole, solicit indulgence or mercy, and so on? It ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 32 |
Perhaps, I wondered, that had less to do with military considerations, for I would not have been likely, under the circumstances, to do much to alter an outcome there unless by some happy accident, than political considerations. |
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| 12 | 115 |
* * * Whereas I had been willing, under the force of circumstances, recognizing treachery in high places, and the lack of practical alternatives, to conduct the cavalry as a rogue arm, aflight on behalf of Lord Temmu, I was unwilling to transform it into what would be in effect a brigade of bandits ... |
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| 12 | 130 |
"As appointed commander of the cavalry I was willing, under unusual circumstances, hoping to advance the cause of the house of Temmu, to exercise my own judgment, to act on my own initiative, to act independently of the chain of command, but all that was while I held the post and rank of commander, ... |
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| 14 | 89 |
Thus I had only to inform them of your present satisfactory circumstances, and arrange the rendezvous that would confirm the matter". |
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| 19 | 207 |
What had happened to her? Where was she? What was going on? Who had done this? What was the meaning of this radical transformation in her circumstances, the meaning of her startling, unanticipated, terrifying incarceration? The other woman was the human pet of a Kur, for Kurii sometimes keep humans ... |
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| 21 | 7 |
Accordingly, I had little doubt that the attack had been coordinated with their silence, to be expected under the circumstances. |
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| 23 | 183 |
"It is merciful under the circumstances," he said. |
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| 47 | 78 |
"It is pleasant to see you in the palace once more," said Lord Yamada, "but one might have hoped for happier circumstances". |
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| 50 | 141 |
I did not envy them the experience, particularly under these circumstances, in the ill-lit corridor. |
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| 54 | 188 |
In short, under familiar circumstances, the almost impregnable security of the holding and the relative slightness of its garrison, one would expect a prolonged siege, perhaps for years, until hunger and thirst would force either the garrison to capitulate or the enveloping forces to withdraw. |
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| 54 | 190 |
But, as before, one cannot always count on familiar circumstances. |
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| 59 | 95 |
"You might find it within the perimeter of your honor to lift your sword in certain circumstances, say, to avenge a grievous insult to your house?" "Perhaps," said Lord Yamada. |
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| 61 | 421 |
My ultimate goal, naturally enough, under the circumstances, was to bring the situation between the rival houses of Temmu and Yamada to the point where neither house could achieve, or plausibly claim, victory. |
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| 61 | 505 |
He and Lord Yamada, for no clear reason, were to keep within their ancestral borders and, under no circumstances, to resume hostilities. |
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| 61 | 1075 |
"In the circumstances," said Lord Nishida, "you understand that the slave is no longer of interest, or importance". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 133 |
And, I was surely open to an improvement in my circumstances. |
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| 9 | 34 |
Thus, despite the fact that I had not behaved other than would have any other young woman of Earth in the circumstances, I am sure, I was, without my knowledge, added to a list in preparation, a slave list. |
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| 17 | 100 |
You will rue the Ehn you obstructed my way, and dared to lie to me!" "Forgive me," exclaimed a man, "but I am much smitten with your beauty!" I surely did not need such an appraisal at this time, however welcome it might have been at another time, under different circumstances, the free woman standi... |
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| 33 | 277 |
A nondominant may, in certain circumstances, become a dominant. |
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| 49 | 375 |
"I fail to understand," said the Lady Alexina, clutching the parasol, so anomalous an accoutrement under the circumstances, "what men can see in slaves. |
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| 50 | 302 |
And the prisoner in the basement, here and under these circumstances, could scarcely be the Lady Bina. |
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| 56 | 74 |
As suggested, their abstinence, under the circumstances, was not intended to be, nor was it regarded as, a slight. |
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| 61 | 14 |
With grievous reluctance and the keenest of sorrows, choiceless in the circumstances, I and Lucilius did what was called for, indeed, what was necessary!" Several of the Kurii bellowed agreement. |
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| 61 | 400 |
Given the circumstances they would have supposed me to have been, understandably enough, I suppose, frantic with fear. |
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| 65 | 245 |
Unless you are bent on pointless, gratuitous slaughter, which is, of course, your business, man business, I suggest, under the circumstances, you spare these fellows, provided they throw down their weapons, and hasten away, into the darkness". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 649 |
When I had hurried to Master Addison on the walkway, I had, as had seemed appropriate under the circumstances, he being of Earth, and such, and I being confused and startled, and emotionally in tumult, astounded at seeing him, mouthed expected, prescribed bromides about despair, misery, shame, deliv... |
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| 14 | 113 |
Under the circumstances I did not think that my interlocutor in the alcove, or his mysterious principal, would object. |
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| 34 | 24 |
"You revealed what you took to be the truth," he said, "as it was intended you would, should the circumstances arise". |
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| 38 | 78 |
As the result of a particular confluence of historical circumstances, which need not be recited here, the storms and flames of revolution unexpectedly burst forth, resulting in a radical transformation of Tharnan society. |
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| 41 | 140 |
He had not said where she had been his prisoner nor under what circumstances, nor what might have ensued. |
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| 46 | 222 |
Under these circumstances it is clear that it is in the best interest of the slave to do her best, to be as pleasing as possible. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 144 |
"What were the circumstances of your departure from Ti?" "They are not important," I said. |
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| 24 | 42 |
As ostraca, usually fragments of broken pottery, were less than practical in our present circumstances, we had resorted to the vote of two urns. |
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| 30 | 23 |
"Smaller forces, under special circumstances, can rout larger forces". |
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| 48 | 114 |
"I suspect that they, under the circumstances, as matters unfolded, viewed him as a spy for Mytilene, and, accordingly, to his dismay and horror, treated him as such". |
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