| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 45 |
Marching girls in coffle is usually done with either a throat chain or a wrist chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 675 |
Thurnock then took the same long length of binding fiber, one end of which I had fastened about Midice's neck, and, without cutting it, looped and knotted it about the neck of the large, blond, gray-eyed girl, handing the coil then to Clitus, who indicated that the short rence girl should take her p... |
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| 8 | 688 |
Clitus had already fastened the short rence girl in the coffle, the binding fiber looped and knotted about her neck, the remainder of the coil fallen to the deck behind her. |
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| 8 | 739 |
Midice, bound, leading the coffle, lifted her head. |
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| 8 | 762 |
She stopped in front of Midice, who led the coffle. |
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| 8 | 779 |
To my amazement she slipped out of her rence cloth tunic and took a place behind the third girl in the coffle, the shorter rence girl, Ula. |
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| 8 | 789 |
"Add me to the coffle," she said. |
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| 8 | 810 |
"Go to the coffle," said I, "Slave". |
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| 8 | 812 |
She stood there proudly, straightly, behind the short rence girl, Ula, and, wrists bound, and tethered by the neck, was added to the slave coffle, as fourth girl. |
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| 8 | 813 |
I looked upon my former Mistress, nude, bound in my coffle. |
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| 9 | 38 |
We no longer kept them in throat coffle. |
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| 9 | 316 |
Already Thurnock was putting them in coffle, binding the right wrist of each. |
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| 9 | 320 |
"And then," I cried, "we will return and make a feast!" Thurnock, Clitus and I once more clashed and emptied goblets, and then, leading Midice, first in the coffle, by the lead end of the binding fiber, I stumbled through the door, finding my way down the stairs, with the others, hunting for a smith... |
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| 15 | 482 |
They had been beautiful, in silver throat coffle, their wrists bound behind their backs in golden slave bracelets, kneeling as pleasure slaves among the jewels, the piled gold, and the heaps of silk and kegs of spices. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 389 |
As we left the wagon, each of us, one by one, we were thonged in a line, by binding fiber, in throat coffle. |
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| 7 | 470 |
They, like I, were only slaves, stripped, their ankles chained, their throats in leather coffle, branded girls, nothing before one who was free. |
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| 8 | 251 |
When we emerged from the cage, one by one, we were given our camisks, and placed in throat coffle, fastened therein with a long length of binding fiber, the fiber looped about the neck of each, knotted, and then passed on to the next girl. |
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| 8 | 255 |
We, in coffle, followed this road. |
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| 10 | 337 |
You were in coffle, throat-leashed, fetching supplies, with other slaves". |
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| 10 | 471 |
I had begun to sense, in the coffle, on the sales chain, in the girl cage, how bondage might enflame the sexuality of a woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 73 |
I fastened them again in the coffle, and moved the coffle forward, so that its last girl now stood where the first of the unconscious girls, lying on the grass, might now be conveniently shackled to her. |
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| 10 | 232 |
One by one, the girls, their wrists still bound behind their back, their left ankles still in coffle, were dragged before Verna. |
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| 10 | 238 |
Then the girls, in coffle, were led away into the darkness, herded by the butts of spears. |
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| 11 | 115 |
She had been branded eleventh, casually and insolently, in her turn, for that had been her place in the slave coffle when the camp had been reached. |
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| 13 | 18 |
They were in throat coffle, their wrists behind them, bound. |
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| 13 | 77 |
They stood in terror, barefoot in the sand, in the yellow silk, in throat coffle, their wrists bound behind their back, horrified with what they had seen. |
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| 13 | 231 |
I threw her to the sand with the other girls, and again fastened her, with them, in throat coffle. |
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| 13 | 264 |
I regarded the slave girls, standing in the sand, in coffle, their wrists behind their backs, bound. |
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| 13 | 339 |
I removed the knife from her throat, and she half collapsed in the coffle. |
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| 14 | 81 |
I had then put them again in throat coffle, as before, their wrists bound behind their backs. |
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| 15 | 138 |
They were in my coffle, bound, by nightfall. |
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| 15 | 175 |
The panther girl, shaking her head negatively, eyes frightened, shrank back in the coffle. |
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| 15 | 226 |
In my camp, bound in my coffle, they could contemplate it at their leisure. |
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| 15 | 233 |
Before I retired I saw them stripped and added to the coffle. |
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| 15 | 254 |
"Coffle them by the left ankle," I told the dark-haired girl and the blond. |
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| 15 | 273 |
About the neck of the last panther girl in the coffle were slung seven quivers of arrows, which I had taken from various prisoners. |
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| 15 | 363 |
The blond girl, weeping, seized up her burden and stood straight, in the coffle. |
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| 15 | 368 |
I regarded the coffle. |
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| 15 | 399 |
Behind me I could hear her quick, light steps, and, behind me, farther back, I could hear the chain of the slave coffle. |
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| 15 | 418 |
Following the men came a coffle of twenty-four slave girls. |
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| 15 | 433 |
To my surprise, also in a woolen slave tunic, in coffle, was Grenna, whom I had captured in the forest. |
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| 15 | 450 |
I suspected that, in the eyes of the men of Tyros, and those of the girls of Hura, her position in the slave coffle was regarded as, and intended as, a delicious cruelty. |
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| 15 | 452 |
They brought up the rear of the coffle. |
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| 15 | 843 |
The blond girl, tears in her eyes, shrank back in the coffle, shoulder stinging, and hid herself among the other girls. |
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| 15 | 967 |
"Coffle!" cried Vinca, striking two of the girls. |
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| 15 | 974 |
As the girls stood straight in the coffle, looking directly ahead, fearing not to, I, from behind, one by one, moving their hair aside, snapped a slave collar on the throat of each. |
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| 16 | 7 |
That meant that the male slaves now were fastened in their coffle only by their neck chains. |
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| 16 | 34 |
The men of Ar, led by Marlenus, began to sing in the coffle, a song of glorious Ar. |
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| 16 | 37 |
Even the panther girls in charge of the coffle of captive females struck them less now with the switch. |
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| 16 | 38 |
Verna now, in the coffle, walked well. |
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| 16 | 54 |
They struck the girls in the coffle less frequently now. |
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| 16 | 301 |
My own slave coffle, unknown to the men of Tyros and the girls of Hura, was camped not more than two pasangs away. |
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| 17 | 6 |
From our coffle we had separated eight girls and chained them in pairs, left ankle to right ankle, running the Harl-ring chain of one to the second welded ring on the Harl ring of the other. |
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| 17 | 12 |
The chained work slaves, under their switches, began to gather up the unconscious panther girls and carry them and place them on the grass in a line, their feet at, and vertical to, what would have been an extension of the coffle line. |
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| 17 | 68 |
"Return the work slaves to the coffle," I said. |
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| 17 | 69 |
The paga slaves and Ilene brought their work slaves back to the coffle. |
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| 17 | 89 |
I then, Harl ring by Harl ring, ankle by ankle, began to fasten the girls in the slave coffle. |
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| 17 | 91 |
With a long length of slave chain, however, and several sets of slave bracelets I completed the coffle. |
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| 17 | 94 |
Then, snapping one bracelet about each wrist and snapping the remaining bracelet through a convenient link of the chain, I fastened them in the coffle. |
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| 17 | 116 |
I had had, before the morning, twenty-five girls, captured, in the coffle. |
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| 18 | 70 |
The men of Sarus had controlled the slave chain of prize male slaves; the girls of Hura had controlled the coffle of beauties, each with her wrists still in binding fiber confined behind her body, each still fastened to her sisters in bondage by the strong, supple linking of the binding fiber knotte... |
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| 18 | 79 |
Now, behind them, led by bound, stripped Sheera, her body marked with scarlet stripes from the switch, came the coffle of enslaved women. |
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| 18 | 87 |
Now, unable to free herself, she stood disconsolately in the coffle, fastened as helplessly in it as any other woman would be. |
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| 18 | 89 |
Behind her came the balance of her girls, in panther skins, and behind them, concluding the coffle, slave girls who had belonged to Marlenus and had served him, and his men, in his camp. |
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| 18 | 90 |
They belonged in the coffle simply as captured property. |
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| 18 | 97 |
Mira went to the coffle of slave beauties and, about in its center, before Verna, seized the throat leather and pulled the girls in a "V" toward the shore. |
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| 18 | 161 |
Under the orders of Mira, the twenty-four slave girls in their coffle knelt on the sand, near the water's edge, in the position of pleasure slaves. |
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| 18 | 250 |
It was natural that the pairs had been arranged as they had, particularly that of Cara and Tina, given their location in the coffle. |
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| 19 | 267 |
"Beast!" "Put them in coffle," I told Sarus. |
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| 19 | 315 |
Sarus looked at the coffle. |
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| 19 | 319 |
The girls struggled in their bonds, in the coffle. |
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| 19 | 336 |
They stood helpless, bound in coffle. |
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| 19 | 394 |
The entire coffle, whipped, was on its knees, heads down, weeping. |
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| 19 | 409 |
The girls in the coffle looked up, tears in their eyes. |
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| 20 | 51 |
Cara and Tina were no longer in the coffle. |
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| 20 | 169 |
About the necks of most, knotted still, was a tight loop of binding fiber, though it had been cut on both sides, to free them from the coffle. |
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| 22 | 12 |
With them, coming slowly, too, across the sand, to where we waited for them, were Sarus and his men, chained, and, bound and in throat coffle, stripped, shivering, Hura's women. |
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| 22 | 13 |
Near them, similarly bound and in throat coffle, though still in the skins of panther girls, were Verna's women, who had been captured long ago by Sarus in Marlenus' camp. |
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| 22 | 14 |
Grenna, too, who had once been Hura's lieutenant, whom I had captured in the forest, was bound in the same coffle. |
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| 22 | 363 |
"One slave in my coffle is yours," said Marlenus. |
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| 22 | 367 |
"Cut her out of the coffle," said Marlenus. |
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| 22 | 369 |
The severed coffle leather was still knotted about her neck. |
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| 22 | 390 |
With his sleen knife he cut the knotted loop of coffle leather from her throat. |
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| 22 | 573 |
Then he, with his men, and slaves, Hura and Mira now added to his coffle, departed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 187 |
"Coffle the females," said Forkbeard. |
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| 3 | 189 |
Aelgifu, clothed, led the coffle. |
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| 3 | 264 |
"You will hurry, pretty little bondmaids, and you, too, my large-breasted lovely," said Ivar, indicating black-velveted Aelgifu, "or you will be cut out of the coffle by your heads". |
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| 3 | 327 |
Then she cried out in misery, half choked by the coffle loop on her throat, as she found herself hurried, fettered and burdened with the others, through the workers of Kassau. |
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| 3 | 375 |
They were still in throat coffle. |
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| 3 | 380 |
She alone of the women, though fettered and bound, and in coffle, did not seem unduly upset. |
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| 3 | 383 |
The coffle loop was on her throat. |
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| 4 | 96 |
Their ankles were no longer bound; their wrists, now, those of most of them, were fettered before their bodies; about their necks, now, however, they wore not simple binding fiber; it had been replaced the first evening out of Kassau; they wore now, knotted about their throats, a coffle rope of the ... |
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| 4 | 98 |
Some of the girls slept, some curled on the golden hangings of the temple; some sat or knelt, heads down; of the girls, four of them, though still held in the coffle, were no longer fettered. |
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| 4 | 144 |
"Free the first bondmaid on the coffle. |
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| 4 | 150 |
I looked upon the eyes of the first girl on the coffle, who was the slender, blondish girl, who had worn the red vest and jacket. |
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| 4 | 156 |
Roughly Gorm unknotted the coffle rope from her neck. |
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| 4 | 253 |
It will be my last in your keeping!" The girl who had prepared the bondmaid gruel had now been refettered and placed again in the coffle. |
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| 4 | 298 |
He said to Gorm, "Return her to the coffle". |
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| 4 | 299 |
Gorm took the blond girl back to the coffle. |
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| 4 | 300 |
He made her kneel and again snapped on her wrists the iron, single-linked fetters of the north, and then he tied her by the neck at the end of the coffle. |
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| 5 | 134 |
Then the other bondmaids, seventeen of them, were thrust to the rail, and, steadied by the hands of rowers, stood upon it, wrists fettered behind them, in coffle. |
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| 5 | 150 |
He then fastened her again in the coffle and, swiftly, lashed together her ankles. |
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| 5 | 229 |
The wrists of the bondmaids were fettered behind their backs; their ankles were tied; they wore the coffle rope of the north; and their mouths, with waddings of sleen fur, and strappings of leather, were tightly gagged. |
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| 5 | 307 |
"Put her in the coffle," he told him. |
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| 5 | 311 |
The coffle rope was looped about her throat, and knotted. |
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| 5 | 354 |
The coffle rope was on her throat. |
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| 5 | 356 |
"Welcome to the coffle," said he. |
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| 6 | 15 |
They were in throat coffle; their wrists were fettered before their bodies. |
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| 6 | 20 |
She was quickly removed from the coffle and unfettered. |
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| 6 | 96 |
He put her at the head of the coffle. |
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| 6 | 98 |
Gorm did not refetter the slender, blond girl, though he tied her by the neck in the coffle. |
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| 6 | 124 |
The coffle rope was untied from her throat. |
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| 6 | 128 |
Then they were, one by one, freed from the coffle, and hurried to the branding log. |
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| 18 | 472 |
They were fastened to one another by binding fiber in throat coffle. |
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| 18 | 543 |
The Forkbeard gestured to the several captive slave girls, loot from Thorgard's tent, kneeling, wrists bound behind their backs, in their brief, mired silk, in throat coffle, those girls Olga, light-heartedly, had secured for him. |
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| 18 | 551 |
Then Olga, much pleased, laughing, trotting beside them, herded the running, weeping, stumbling coffle toward the pen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 222 |
Then, about her left wrist, too, closed the wrist-ring, and she, too, was a girl in a coffle. |
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| 11 | 641 |
One of the men with sheathed scimitar was preparing to bracelet the first girl; the other man with sheathed scimitar was unlooping a light slave chain with snaplocks to put the lovely prisoners in throat coffle. |
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| 12 | 42 |
The female prisoners were ranged, in coffle, between two riders, one at the head and one at the foot of the chain. |
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| 14 | 429 |
Normally one would not attempt to move a coffle on the desert in the day, but the march to Klima is made in the sun, that only the strong will survive. |
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| 26 | 40 |
Each female slave group was a fifty-bracelet coffle. |
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| 26 | 42 |
Each girl was fastened by the left wrist, in wrist coffle in her group. |
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| 26 | 109 |
At the first group of fifty girls, nude, waiting in wrist coffle, I stopped. |
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| 26 | 159 |
Behind me, kneeling in the sand, in wrist coffle, fastened to others, on each side of her, I left a nameless slave beauty, who once had been Tarna. |
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| 26 | 204 |
Slave girls, in coffle, shrank back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 72 |
The left-ankle coffle and the throat coffle free the hands to carry burdens. |
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| 9 | 74 |
Such burdens are often carried by girls in ankle coffle or throat coffle, and are balanced on the head, usually steadied by the right hand. |
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| 5 | 656 |
One of the men carried a looped coffle chain, with wrist rings. |
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| 5 | 669 |
He placed the girl who had been whipped by the Lady Sabina first in the coffle line. |
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| 5 | 670 |
"Left wrist coffle," he said. |
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| 5 | 720 |
"Do you have pretty legs?" asked the man of the second gowned girl in the coffle. |
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| 5 | 766 |
"Rape her later," he said to the soldier who held the first girl in the coffle in his arms. |
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| 5 | 777 |
Under his eyes she stood very straight in the coffle. |
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| 5 | 789 |
Why did these men not hide their dominance; why did they not pretend it did not exist; why did they not suppress it; why did they not thwart and repudiate the birthright of their nature; why did they not make themselves miserable; why did they not torture themselves and diligently cultivate weakness... |
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| 5 | 791 |
Surely the coffle was not for me. |
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| 5 | 808 |
He turned away from the coffle and, moving the slashed silk of the rear wall of the tent with his hand, brushing it to the right, not looking back, disappeared into the darkness. |
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| 5 | 850 |
The soldier with the coffle, who was gathering jewelry into a scarf from various coffers in the tent, pretended that he had not noticed my action. |
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| 5 | 868 |
The soldier in charge of the coffle slung the scarf, loaded with jewelry from the coffers in the tent, over his shoulder. |
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| 5 | 878 |
"Attend me, Coffle," said he, "for bondage march". |
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| 5 | 889 |
As I passed the soldier, who stood behind, to follow the coffle, to guard it, I felt weak. |
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| 5 | 908 |
I, though a girl of Earth, was chained in coffle under three barbaric moons. |
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| 7 | 79 |
An open wrist ring stood at the head of our coffle chain, the place in the line before Lehna. |
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| 7 | 185 |
He turned to us, and motioned us forward, the five girls in the coffle. |
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| 7 | 187 |
"You will note, Lady Sabina," said my master, "that the first wrist ring of the coffle is empty. |
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| 7 | 208 |
She was now of the coffle, as were we. |
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| 7 | 214 |
She now led the coffle. |
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| 7 | 224 |
The Lady Sabina, at the head of the coffle, moaned. |
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| 7 | 243 |
"Lehna," said my master, "should the Lady Sabina dally or in any way attempt to delay the coffle, it will be your charge to hasten her". |
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| 7 | 257 |
One man remained behind, to follow the coffle, some yards to the rear. |
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| 7 | 269 |
"Were you given permission to speak in coffle?" asked Lehna. |
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| 7 | 280 |
The Lady Sabina then, choking back her tears, stood straight in the coffle, the posture accentuating the lovely lines of her chained beauty. |
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| 7 | 469 |
She was commonly chained before Lehna in the coffle, and it was under Lehna's supervision that she commonly performed her tasks. |
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| 7 | 636 |
Donna had been a virgin until she was raped in the coffle on the first night of the march by two of my master's men. |
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| 7 | 727 |
It may be recalled that both Lehna and I had been nude in the original coffle conducted from the raided camp. |
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| 7 | 733 |
Accordingly we had both been wrist-locked unclothed in the coffle. |
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| 9 | 46 |
"Coffle line!" snapped a guard. |
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| 9 | 47 |
Swiftly the girls fell into coffle line. |
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| 9 | 58 |
Sometimes a coffle line is drawn in the dirt and the right foot of each girl is placed on it vertically, such that the line bisects the ball and heel of each foot. |
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| 9 | 60 |
The guard, who was the blond soldier, Mirus, whom I found most attractive of the men of Clitus Vitellius, after he himself, unlooped the coffle chain from his shoulder. |
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| 9 | 66 |
Lehna, who was very beautiful, was the next locked in the coffle. |
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| 9 | 68 |
There are a large variety of coffle arrangements, given mixtures and combinations of materials and bonds, and aesthetic, physical and psychological considerations. |
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| 9 | 69 |
Coffle arrangements are seldom random. |
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| 9 | 75 |
Donna and Chanda were now added to the coffle. |
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| 9 | 90 |
Or, perhaps it was merely that the last wrist-ring had then been open, I being left in Tabuk's Ford, and thus there was no reason for her any longer to be excluded from the coffle. |
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| 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,... |
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| 20 | 142 |
They were in neck coffle. |
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| 20 | 147 |
He struggled again to his feet and continued on, in the coffle, trudging along the hot wharf. |
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| 27 | 89 |
I remembered the young, blond giant, Mirus, how he had put her on the coffle in Tabuk's Ford. |
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| 28 | 179 |
But when our nerves had eased and we might seem to breathe a bit more easily, the coffle, as a whole, would be ordered to its feet and moved ten spaces toward the end of the tunnel. |
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| 28 | 184 |
I was now in the point coffle, that at the end of the tunnel. |
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| 28 | 189 |
Then she was removed from the coffle, the collar, and the length of chain on her left, attaching her to me, placed to one side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 44 |
It was a double coffle line; the last girl is placed on it first; the double line is knotted about her neck and then the two strands are taken forward; the fifth girl was next neck-knotted into the line and the two strands taken forward again, and so on; when the first girl is put in the coffle, the... |
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| 3 | 756 |
There was about a yard of chain between the collars, fastening them in a four-girl coffle. |
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| 3 | 790 |
The next most valuable meat in the coffle was, in my opinion, the blonde, who was sweetly slung and exciting. |
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| 3 | 977 |
"These four wenches," said the slaver's man, expansively, indicating the small coffle, "are comely candidates for such a post". |
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| 10 | 241 |
Our right ankles, chained in coffle, followed. |
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| 10 | 276 |
The coffle, in virtue of the arrangements of chains and ankle rings, could be broken up into smaller work units. |
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| 10 | 287 |
"Yes!" The keys to our ankle rings were in the keeping of the chief guard, the master of our coffle. |
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| 36 | 3 |
Sleds were readied; prisoners, men of the complex, now in furs, some forty of them, were tied, their hands behind them, their necks linked by a long rope of rawhide, placing them in coffle. |
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| 36 | 211 |
Later, given garments, they would trek, in neck coffle, beside the sleds. |
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| 37 | 41 |
After the first camp we would remove the girls from sirik and use them; when we set out again they would be furred, and in neck coffle. |
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| 37 | 42 |
Sometimes I thought I might let Audrey lead the coffle, and sometimes Arlene. |
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| 38 | 42 |
Tied to the left-hand, rear upright of my own sled, too, was a coffle line. |
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| 38 | 45 |
This is a useful coffle tie when the girls' hands are not tied behind their backs. |
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| 38 | 47 |
The coffle line looped up to the neck of the first girl. |
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| 38 | 51 |
I went to the rear of the coffle line and took the last girl on the line gently in my arms. |
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| 38 | 64 |
I went to the fifth girl on the coffle, Belinda, whom I had obtained in the complex, whom I had first enjoyed in the steel corridors of the complex, while her throat was still chained to the overhead slave track. |
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| 38 | 83 |
I went to Constance, who was the fourth girl on the coffle. |
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| 38 | 135 |
I then went to the second girl on the coffle line, Audrey. |
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| 38 | 180 |
I went to Arlene, who led the coffle. |
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| 38 | 254 |
"There is in you, and in these other girls," I said, surveying the coffle, "a superb love slave. |
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| 38 | 281 |
She stumbled back, the double coffle line on her neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 53 |
We then, with two long lengths of leather, fastened them, all three, together, one strap putting them in throat coffle, the other in left-ankle coffle. |
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| 25 | 71 |
After the first two days we had, for another two days, kept them merely in left-ankle and throat coffle. |
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| 25 | 72 |
On the fifth day they were merely in throat coffle. |
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| 50 | 70 |
One by one we tied their hands behind their backs, and then, with a long strap, put them in throat coffle. |
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| 50 | 91 |
Her gag, no longer necessary on her as an instructional or disciplinary device, was that which now packed the pretty face of the dark-haired girl, she who had been her second in command, who now brought up the rear of the coffle. |
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| 51 | 161 |
Then I tied her neck to the neck of the dark-haired girl, using the coffle strap. |
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| 51 | 176 |
I then added her to the coffle strap. |
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| 51 | 177 |
She looked up at me, the coffle strap dangling from her throat, attaching her to Alice, and then to the dark-haired girl. |
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| 51 | 196 |
I looked back at Janice who, hands tied behind her back, fastened in the coffle, lay on her side. |
10 |
| 52 | 83 |
The girls in the coffle were now all awake. |
10 |
| 53 | 10 |
Kisu had kept our girls, with the exception of Tende, in coffle. |
10 |
| 53 | 513 |
She and the other girls, during the action, had, one by one, been caught by Kurii and put in throat coffle. |
10 |
| 53 | 514 |
The coffle had then been dragged to a corner of the fortresslike enclosure. |
10 |
| 53 | 515 |
There the girls, without being removed from the coffle, had been thrown on their bellies and bound hand and foot. |
10 |
| 57 | 101 |
The talunas, stripped, were being marched in tandem pairs, each pair fastened in the long coffle. |
10 |
| 57 | 108 |
Each pair, bound and fastened in the sticks, is then added as a unit to the coffle. |
10 |
| 57 | 110 |
Thus is the coffle formed. |
10 |
| 57 | 113 |
We relieved the caught beauties of the coffle and chained them, four to a bench, to certain of the thwarts of one of the galleys. |
10 |
| 57 | 141 |
They were then placed in wrist and throat coffle, their left wrists linked by one chain, their fair throats by another, and led away. |
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| 13 | 449 |
She was chained by the neck, in one of two eleven-girl coffles, between two other girls, each coffle chained separately to a bar at the back of the palanquin. |
10 |
| 13 | 492 |
She was in the nearest coffle of eleven girls, one of two coffles fastened to the bar at the back of the palanquin. |
10 |
| 13 | 493 |
She was the tenth girl in her coffle. |
10 |
| 13 | 494 |
The coffle chain had its own collars, rounded and rather loose, which lay below the common collars of the girls; they could not, of course, be slipped. |
10 |
| 13 | 593 |
"To whom do you belong?" asked a blond girl, she who was last in the coffle line. |
10 |
| 13 | 678 |
"Granus, Turus," said the man in the palanquin, that to which the girl's coffle was chained. |
10 |
| 13 | 749 |
I slipped, unnoticed by the man in the palanquin and his servants, behind the blond-haired girl, she who had told me she had once been free, who was the last in the right-hand coffle, that lovely string of chained women. |
10 |
| 13 | 753 |
"We are not permitted to speak in coffle," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 774 |
But, on an impulse, I followed, for a time, behind it and on its left, the double coffle. |
10 |
| 13 | 777 |
I followed the double coffle on its left, for it was on the left side of her body that the exquisite, dark-haired girl's short, loose silk had been hitched up, baring her branded thigh to the hip. |
10 |
| 13 | 778 |
I observed her in the coffle, neck-chained, her small wrists, above the rounded flesh of her palms and below the sweet, rounded flesh of her small forearms, locked in the steel of slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 13 | 789 |
I drifted about, to the right side of the coffle lines, and stopped, watching the lines, chained behind the palanquin, making their way down the street. |
10 |
| 13 | 790 |
I saw the blond-haired girl, the last one in the right-hand coffle line, turn about, in her chain and collar. |
10 |
| 13 | 932 |
"Was she in coffle?" she asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 934 |
"How is it then that you, a slave, dared to speak to a girl in coffle?" she asked. |
10 |
| 34 | 25 |
"Into the slave wagon," said a man, herding a set of girls in throat coffle. |
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| 1 | 13 |
She was the woman, once free, who had been last on the coffle of Oneander long ago in Ar, the same coffle in which Miss Henderson had been secured. |
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| 32 | 197 |
My fellows, now in close chains and ankle coffle, from the room of the windlass, were being brought out to observe what was to be done to me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 739 |
To the rear of the palanquin, in a double coffle of briefly tunicked beauties, display slaves, their hands braceleted behind their backs, had been the girl who now knelt before me. |
10 |
| 20 | 91 |
When they were finished they would be put naked in slave cloaks and, fastened together in throat coffle, conducted back to their holding cages near the spice wharf. |
10 |
| 20 | 614 |
What will it be? Will it be bound on her back over the saddle of a tarnsman aflight over green fields, or in a blue-and-yellow-canvassed slave wagon, her fair ankles chained about a central bar, or perhaps in a coffle being marched with a thousand others in heat and choking dust between cities, to a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 942 |
The most common form of coffle for long treks between particular markets is a throat coffle utilizing simple chain and collar iron. |
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| 14 | 915 |
Sales strategies, too, can enter into the formation of a coffle, as, for example, when a girl is put between two plainer girls to accentuate her beauty, or a superb girl is saved for last, and many other considerations, as well, can enter into the formation of a coffle. |
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| 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 |
| 5 | 154 |
There had been no slave wagons in the lines, nor, chained in throat coffle, trudging in the dust behind the supply wagons, any slave girls. |
10 |
| 8 | 919 |
This is a familiar form of coffle collar. |
10 |
| 8 | 922 |
Another common form of coffle collar has its hinge in the front and closes behind the back of the neck, like the common slave collar. |
10 |
| 8 | 925 |
An advantage of the first sort of coffle arrangement is that the chain may, as girls are added or subtracted, be shortened or lengthened. |
10 |
| 8 | 931 |
These are, of course, only two coffle arrangements. |
10 |
| 8 | 945 |
It is not easy to steal a girl from such a coffle. |
10 |
| 8 | 981 |
I then added another girl to the coffle, a short-haired, sturdy-legged brunette. |
10 |
| 8 | 985 |
I then, taking a collar and a length of chain from him, added the next girl to the coffle. |
10 |
| 8 | 995 |
She was then naught but another lovely component in the coffle. |
10 |
| 8 | 1009 |
An attendant, holding them by the arms, brought them forward, and then, at the indication of the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, knelt them down over the yellow line, in front of the hitherto first girl in the coffle. |
10 |
| 8 | 1019 |
I then, with materials supplied by the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, added Ginger and Evelyn to the coffle. |
10 |
| 8 | 1030 |
Rudely she was thrust down to her knees, where the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat indicated, at the head of the coffle. |
10 |
| 8 | 1085 |
Immediately the girls knelt back in the coffle, back on their heels, their knees wide, their hands on their thighs, their backs straight and heads lifted. |
10 |
| 8 | 1100 |
"Your coffle," I said, "is striking, an assemblage of chained beauties. |
10 |
| 8 | 1116 |
I looked at the red-haired girl in the coffle, the former Millicent Aubrey-Welles. |
10 |
| 8 | 1135 |
"These barbarian girls will march along in their coffle as ignorant and innocent as kaiila," he said. |
10 |
| 9 | 7 |
It came to the thighs of the slave girls, in brief one-piece slave tunics, of brown rep-cloth, with deep cleavages, in throat coffle, bearing burdens on their heads. |
10 |
| 9 | 58 |
He loosened the long, coiled whip fastened with a snap strap at the right of his saddle, and rode back towards us, along the right side of the coffle of barefoot, scantily clad, neck-chained beauties. |
10 |
| 9 | 61 |
He then rode about the rear of the coffle, and advanced, on his kaiila, along its left side. |
10 |
| 9 | 76 |
The coffle, then, to the snapping of the whip, led by the terrified red-haired girl, the former Millicent Aubrey-Welles, from Pennsylvania, began to move ahead. |
10 |
| 9 | 90 |
I looked at the red-haired girl, first in the coffle, the burden balanced with her small hands on her head. |
10 |
| 9 | 92 |
Yet, now, she, like the others, served as a mere pack animal, one of the beasts of his coffle, bearing his goods. |
10 |
| 9 | 95 |
The red-haired girl looked well in the coffle, moving in the grass, the chain on her neck, in the brief slave tunic. |
10 |
| 9 | 98 |
Grunt, I recalled, in urging his coffle forward, had not struck the lead girl, his lovely red-haired beast, with the lash, as he had several of the others. |
10 |
| 9 | 100 |
This was, I suspected, because he had something more in mind for her than a burden and a place in the coffle. |
10 |
| 9 | 117 |
I urged my kaiila forward again, after Grunt and the coffle. |
10 |
| 10 | 20 |
We wheeled our kaiila about, and the coffle stopped. |
10 |
| 10 | 90 |
He then rode his kaiila about the coffle of girls, cracking his whip, viciously. |
10 |
| 10 | 96 |
Then she, too, gasping, tears in her eyes, stood ready in the coffle, the burden balanced on her head. |
10 |
| 11 | 8 |
Ginger and Evelyn had been freed from the coffle, to gather wood and cook, and attend to the chores of the camp. |
10 |
| 11 | 9 |
The collars and chains had been rearranged on the other girls, in such a way that, by an alternation of the position of snap locks and chain segments, a free collar was now at each end of the coffle. |
10 |
| 11 | 11 |
Last night the coffle had been taken four times about a small, sturdy tree and then the collar of the first girl had been fastened to the collar of the last girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 61 |
You, there! On your belly!" The Swedish girl, frightened, she who had been struck previously, twisted in the coffle chain and put herself on her belly. |
10 |
| 11 | 205 |
Excellent!" The girls now knelt in the coffle, as instructed. |
10 |
| 11 | 237 |
The red-haired girl smiled, and looked at the others in her coffle, and then, rather pleased, kept her eyes ahead, innocently. |
10 |
| 11 | 252 |
Again the red-haired girl's coffle mates exchanged glances. |
10 |
| 12 | 181 |
"Do not put us in your coffle," begged Max. |
10 |
| 12 | 182 |
"You will be put at the end of the coffle," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 12 | 184 |
"You will surely admit that you are the least desirable of the elements in the coffle. |
10 |
| 12 | 193 |
"You will discover that there are some advantages to bringing up the rear of the coffle," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 13 | 26 |
Her throat was bare, having been released from the collar in the coffle. |
10 |
| 13 | 123 |
"In the coffle," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 124 |
"In the coffle, what?" I asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 1014 |
In the morning I wanted to make sure that the other girls in the coffle were perfectly clear on how she had spent the night and what had been done to her. |
10 |
| 13 | 1246 |
"They will teach you, and the other jewels on the coffle, all they can, and quickly," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 1692 |
She was then again in coffle. |
10 |
| 13 | 1840 |
She would stay there, on the coffle, where I had put her. |
10 |
| 13 | 1845 |
To be sure, she was pretty, and first on the coffle. |
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. |
10 |
| 14 | 171 |
Five of his girls were, now, not in the coffle, four of these being the red-haired girl, and Ginger, and Ulla and Lenna. |
10 |
| 14 | 308 |
Between where the men sat and the coffle, a bit to the right, was the spread-out kailiauk robe under which Grunt had put Margaret, naked, her legs drawn up. |
10 |
| 14 | 387 |
"Tonight," she said, "I beg to be taken from the coffle for your pleasure". |
10 |
| 14 | 390 |
And tonight, in the coffle, you will be bound, hand and foot. |
10 |
| 14 | 408 |
She saw the other kaiila, the men, Grunt, myself, the girls in the coffle. |
10 |
| 14 | 461 |
Grunt, a shrewd fellow, appeared to demur, and, indeed, even invited the fellow to examine the other girls on the coffle. |
10 |
| 14 | 566 |
Then he went to the coffle, where Ginger was waiting. |
10 |
| 14 | 607 |
She would not yet be entitled, of course, to use the common brush and comb allotted for the use of the coffle. |
10 |
| 14 | 611 |
The suspension of brush-and-comb privileges is also used, upon occasion, by the first girls as a disciplinary measure, within the coffle. |
10 |
| 14 | 701 |
"For the day of breeding the men, hooded and in coffle, are marched between the small communities. |
10 |
| 14 | 907 |
Grunt had shortened the coffle by two collars and chain lengths. |
10 |
| 14 | 909 |
This was the position of "Last Girl," which, fittingly, not counting the Hobarts, she would occupy, being the newest girl on the coffle. |
10 |
| 14 | 910 |
Coffle arrangements, incidentally, are seldom arbitrary. |
10 |
| 14 | 911 |
One common principle of arrangements is in order of height, with the tallest girls coming first; this makes a lovely coffle. |
10 |
| 14 | 914 |
It is for such reasons, perhaps, that the coffle is sometimes spoken of as the slaver's necklace. |
10 |
| 14 | 922 |
"More pleasing than I?" she asked, lying at my feet, her hands tied behind her, her ankles crossed and bound, her neck in the coffle collar. |
10 |
| 14 | 1171 |
Alfred, not stopping to trade, and moving swiftly, not slowed by a coffle of slaves, had, it seemed, made contact with the settlers. |
10 |
| 15 | 82 |
"Stand straight," called Grunt to the coffle, which now, in our pause, had put down its burdens. |
10 |
| 15 | 119 |
The Fleer warrior stopped his kaiila by Priscilla, the second to the last girl on the coffle, and lifted up her chin with the iron point of his lance. |
10 |
| 15 | 139 |
The Fleer moved his kaiila about, on the other side of the coffle, so that he might look at the girls, one by one. |
10 |
| 15 | 182 |
"Oh!" said the red-haired girl, first in the coffle, startled as the point of his lance had scraped the back of the black-iron collar on her neck. |
10 |
| 15 | 196 |
Curious he now returned his kaiila to the position of the last girl on the coffle, whom we were calling Pimples, the Gorean translation of her former name, originally given to her by a Kaiila master, 'Wasnapohdi'. |
10 |
| 15 | 267 |
I had, it must be admitted, derived much pleasure from the coffle, picking out one or another of them, when the whim or urge might strike me, for my slave use. |
10 |
| 15 | 287 |
"Perhaps we should ride well ahead of the coffle," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 14 |
The red-haired girl, first in the coffle, stood near us. |
10 |
| 16 | 295 |
The coffle, by now, had approached. |
10 |
| 17 | 81 |
There are few metal collars and coffle chains in the Barrens. |
10 |
| 17 | 83 |
It is pleasant, incidentally, to see women marched in coffle, whether it be in some primitive arrangement or in the chains of a professional slaver. |
10 |
| 17 | 84 |
They are very beautiful in coffle. |
10 |
| 18 | 227 |
With a rattle of chain the girls in the coffle, whimpering, huddled together. |
10 |
| 19 | 21 |
The coffle chains and the manacles which had bound the Hobarts lay discarded in the grass. |
10 |
| 19 | 707 |
Pimples put the discarded coffle chains, and the manacles which had bound the Hobarts, on the hides of the travois, fastening them about one of the tie ropes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 257 |
Grunt had brought a coffle of white slave girls into the Barrens with him, as pack animals and trade goods. |
10 |
| 1 | 266 |
Grunt's prize on the coffle, a beautiful red-haired girl, a former debutante from Pennsylvania, once Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, was selected out by Canka as a personal slave, one to run at the left flank of his own kaiila and wear her leather, beaded collar, placed on her by his command, for him ... |
10 |
| 1 | 483 |
She had been brought into the Barrens by Grunt, chained in his coffle, all the way from Kailiauk, near the Ihanke. |
10 |
| 28 | 144 |
This second form of hair tie, done in lines, incidentally, resembles a common coffle arrangement, achieved with a set of relatively short thongs, each about five feet in length. |
10 |
| 28 | 146 |
An advantage of this coffle arrangement is that women may be easily taken from it, and added to it. |
10 |
| 28 | 148 |
The last woman on the coffle, of course, has the neck ring attached to her own bracelets and chain locked about her own neck. |
10 |
| 29 | 4 |
The hair that bound them hung free before the wrists, dangling from them, in jagged strands, marking where it had been hastily cut free from the hair of the girl before her in a holding coffle. |
10 |
| 29 | 96 |
When Grunt had come into the Barrens he had had with him, among his other trade goods, a coffle of slaves. |
10 |
| 42 | 18 |
Her name, when Grunt had owned her, when she had been a member of his coffle, had been Lois. |
10 |
| 42 | 23 |
When the luscious, short-legged blonde had seen us, she who had been Lois when wearing a collar of iron in Grunt's coffle, she had turned about and fled back among the lodges, screaming, spreading the alarm. |
10 |
| 54 | 165 |
He had chained them in his coffle. |
10 |
| 54 | 166 |
They, though strong men, had been forbidden to so much as touch any of the scantily clad beauties who, neck-chained, as they, preceded them in the coffle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 185 |
At a sign from the coffle master, the larger of the two men, he who had not carried the loops of chain, we stepped forth with our left foot, as is common in beginning movement in a coffle. |
10 |
| 15 | 159 |
I could see women lining up down there, too, being put in wrist or throat coffle, each one doubtless reporting in, and in the proper position, to the appropriate slave master. |
10 |
| 28 | 177 |
I was in coffle. |
10 |
| 28 | 180 |
This completed the coffle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1104 |
They may also be marched in coffle, of course, usually neck-chained, sometimes with their hands bound behind their backs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 239 |
They are now in coffle. |
10 |
| 15 | 240 |
They will probably not be removed from this coffle until, in one way or another, they are to be, or have been, sold. |
10 |
| 16 | 1471 |
"Doubtless you will see many slave caravans," I said, "and, too, perhaps, the girls of poorer merchants, many women being marched on foot, chained in coffle, usually naked, sometimes with their hands tied behind their backs, sometimes gagged and blindfolded". |
10 |
| 24 | 142 |
We also saw a chain of female slaves, permitted tunics, but hooded, in neck coffle, and two slave wagons, with blue and yellow silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 492 |
But the usual arrangement in these particulars, I had gathered, was a simple coffle chain, most commonly a neck coffle, but sometimes a wrist or ankle coffle; a slave cage, mounted on a wagon, in which the girls were free; or a slave wagon, within which, stripped, their ankles were chained about a m... |
10 |
| 23 | 17 |
I was also in neck coffle, the fifth girl in the coffle. |
10 |
| 6 | 32 |
I thought, somewhat bitterly, how amused Teibar would have been to see me, chained and hooded, in coffle, the "hateful slut," the "modern woman," he had so despised, now in her place, now, at last, getting her due. |
10 |
| 6 | 35 |
We must be beautiful in coffle. |
10 |
| 6 | 66 |
I was last in the coffle. |
10 |
| 6 | 68 |
Sometimes the most exciting girl is put first on the coffle, and sometimes last. |
10 |
| 6 | 70 |
Sometimes the coffle is simply arranged in order of descending height. |
10 |
| 6 | 85 |
That is one of the disadvantages of being last in the coffle, incidentally. |
10 |
| 6 | 100 |
There was a girl on my right, linked to me by her neck chain, she who had preceded me on the coffle. |
10 |
| 6 | 102 |
I was the last on the coffle. |
10 |
| 6 | 125 |
We were gagged and hooded; we were stripped, our brands thusly bared; our wrists were manacled behind our backs; and we were attached to one another, in coffle, by neck chains. |
10 |
| 6 | 135 |
I had gathered that it was not really unusual, particularly in certain places, though in others it was apparently regarded as being tactless or vulgar, for slaves to be marched naked, in coffle, through the streets, for example, for their own edification or instruction, that they be helped to unders... |
10 |
| 6 | 152 |
I was thrilled to have been stripped, and gagged and hooded, and manacled, and put in neck coffle, by the will of men. |
10 |
| 6 | 177 |
That had really been foolish of me, standing in a slovenly manner in the coffle, when there might have been men about, and, indeed, had been one, and with a whip. |
10 |
| 6 | 309 |
She had been put on the coffle before me. |
10 |
| 6 | 670 |
For a moment it seemed I was the head of the coffle. |
10 |
| 6 | 673 |
I think, then, the lead girl was drawn around, and forward, properly orienting the coffle, and that I, though I was not sure of it, was again at its end. |
10 |
| 6 | 676 |
I did not know where I was, even with respect to the coffle. |
10 |
| 6 | 714 |
The coffle slowed. |
10 |
| 6 | 753 |
Something similar had been done, I supposed, at the other end of the coffle, utilizing the first girl's lead chain. |
10 |
| 6 | 754 |
The coffle was now, I supposed, secured on both ends. |
10 |
| 7 | 35 |
The group with which I now was contained had, as had the original coffle, ten girls. |
10 |
| 7 | 39 |
As soon as land had first been sighted, we had again, the original coffle of us, been subjected to our original securities, our hands back-manacled, our mouths gagged, our heads covered with heavy, opaque, buckled, locked hoods. |
10 |
| 9 | 583 |
They had preceded me in the coffle. |
10 |
| 23 | 90 |
"Whither are we bound, Master?" I had asked of the fellow who would fly the lead tarn, the others in a roped coffle behind him. |
10 |
| 23 | 105 |
We were also put in the chains we now wore, with the exception of the coffle chain. |
10 |
| 23 | 109 |
Once within the wire of the work camp we were taken from the wagon, one by one, and put in coffle. |
10 |
| 23 | 112 |
Some of them were still looking after our coffle. |
10 |
| 23 | 160 |
"Stop here," he called to the coffle. |
10 |
| 23 | 165 |
"You will be removed from the coffle, and taken before him, one by one," he said. |
10 |
| 23 | 167 |
One by one, beginning with the first girl, we were removed from the coffle. |
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 | 95 |
The men in the group, fifty of them, half-stripped, sweating, brawny, chained together in ankle coffle, turned to regard me. |
10 |
| 24 | 101 |
It was she who had been first in the coffle, she who had once been the spoiled, rich woman. |
10 |
| 25 | 12 |
I, like Tela, it seemed, who had once been the beautiful, spoiled, rich woman, Liera Didiramache of Lydius, in the north, on the Laurius, who had been first in the coffle, when I was fifth, had been found pleasing by Aulus, overseer of the black chain of Ionicus. |
10 |
| 29 | 389 |
I would have been zealously cooperative even if I had been a free woman, holding forth my limbs to be bound, putting forth my neck for the coffle collar, and not a mere slave. |
10 |
| 29 | 1456 |
"Coffle the sluts," said Fulvius to Callisthenes. |
10 |
| 29 | 1498 |
He had delayed in releasing the girls from the rail, to coffle them, apparently choosing to postpone his work until the resolution of the pending affray with Mirus. |
10 |
| 29 | 1647 |
After we had been fed, and Callisthenes and Sempronius, too, had partaken of food, the stranger directed them to put us in coffle, with the exception of Tupita. |
10 |
| 29 | 1648 |
He also specified the exact positions we would occupy in this coffle. |
10 |
| 29 | 1652 |
Though it was with joyful relief that I felt my ankles at last freed from my wrists and could get up, though in pain, and stretch my legs, my hands still bound behind me, it was with chagrin that I considered my position on the coffle. |
10 |
| 29 | 1653 |
I was last! Last! Did he think I did not recognize him in the mask? Did he not remember me? Did he not even know who I was, he of all men! To be sure, Tela was before me, and she had led a much larger coffle entering the work camp of Ionicus near Venna, that of the black chain. |
10 |
| 29 | 1655 |
And Mina was first on the coffle! How proud she seemed! Look at her, so beautiful, so proud to be first! Callisthenes and Sempronius supported Mirus between them, and helped him toward the woods. |
10 |
| 29 | 1663 |
We, Mina, Cara, Tela and I, in coffle, followed it. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 982 |
Some slavers bring the girls into the city naked, in coffle, as they would normally be kept outside the walls, to save the soiling of tunics, and such, and others sheet the girls, covering them substantially with a sheet thrown over the head, and fastened about the neck by the coffle collar. |
10 |
| 8 | 807 |
She would be made first girl over the coffle of "free women," the Lady Temione, and the others, that she might teach them something of discipline and the basic arts of giving pleasure to men, lessons which might soon make a serious difference not only with respect to the quality of their lives, but ... |
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| 9 | 424 |
"Tomorrow morning," I said, "your neck will be in a coffle collar". |
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| 9 | 430 |
Too, in this fashion, I am, to some extent, preparing you for the terrors and exposures of the coffle. |
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| 9 | 433 |
Too, it may also better prepare you for what you might experience on the coffle, the scrutiny and attentions of men, for example. |
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| 10 | 200 |
"Lady Elene, of Tyros, your friend, whom you remember from the Crooked Tarn, and the coffle," I said, "is even now in a slave collar". |
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| 13 | 159 |
"Perhaps you would look well, naked," I said, "in a coffle". |
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| 21 | 1018 |
A supposed advantage of the normal-coffle practice is that the women, being marched naked into a strange city look about themselves and feel themselves especially vulnerable and helpless. |
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| 21 | 1022 |
It is not unusual for the occupants of a coffle, of either sort, to be verbally and physically abused by free women and children, the children taking the behavior of the free women as a license authorizing their own tricks and pranks, to be spat upon, struck with switches, pelted with small stones, ... |
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| 21 | 1023 |
Men, on the other hand, content themselves with acclaiming or commenting on the coffle, applauding, whistling, jeering, and so on. |
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| 24 | 125 |
There I had had her put on the coffle of women he was holding for me, those whom I had redeemed at the Crooked Tarn. |
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| 24 | 770 |
It is common, incidentally, to coffle girls from behind, and usually while kneeling, to minimize bolting, and, I suppose, to increase trepidation, as the collars, with the snappings, and the tiny rustle of chain links, come closer and closer, until the girl, probably then to her relief, the suspense... |
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| 24 | 898 |
She reminded me a little of Phoebe, from Telnus, whom I had left on the coffle with the remainder of the debtor sluts I had redeemed, and obtained, at the Crooked Tarn, Temione, Amina, Rimice and Liomache. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 47 |
We were overjoyed, thinking to be freed, but found to our dismay that we were put in coffle, to be taken northward on the Vosk Road to the vicinity of Ar's Station". |
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| 1 | 69 |
"Though we were free women, six of us, as you recall, including myself, we were apparently to be marched naked, chained by the neck, in coffle behind a sutler's wagon". |
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| 1 | 84 |
"There we were kept naked, in coffle, and under discipline. |
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| 1 | 93 |
"The next morning," she said, "when I awakened, two of our girls were gone, Elene and Klio, and there was a new girl, a slender, very beautiful girl, also free, like the rest of us, on the coffle". |
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| 1 | 114 |
"The new girl would not speak the identity of her captor, but, I take it, it was you who brought her to the coffle of Ephialtes". |
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| 1 | 128 |
"Was it you, too, who took Elene and Klio from the coffle?" she asked. |
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| 1 | 168 |
"Tell me of Ephialtes, Liadne, the coffle, and such," I said. |
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| 1 | 225 |
"When you left the coffle, then," I said, "it contained only Amina, Rimice and Phoebe". |
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| 1 | 227 |
"I wonder if the coffle is still in the camp," I said. |
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| 1 | 615 |
After the keeper's man had shouldered the Lady Temione and carried her off, head to the back, as a slave is commonly carried, presumably to a chaining ring or kennel for the night, I had not seen her until she, with others, blindfolded, were kneeling before me, naked and in coffle, in the camp of Co... |
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| 13 | 183 |
Many slave girls, too, of course, are moved from one place to another on foot, in coffle. |
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| 17 | 60 |
Indeed, it is almost, interestingly enough, as though they were made for the coffle, and understood the appropriateness, the rightfulness, of their place within it. |
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| 32 | 256 |
In a few Ehn we were naked, manacled, hand and foot, chained by the neck in a coffle. |
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| 43 | 8 |
Women were still being brought into it, in various fashions, for example, in slave wagons, in flatbed wagons, with tiny, tiered slave cages, and on foot, in coffle. |
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| 46 | 283 |
Before reaching the infirmary I also passed an area where there was a coffle of girls. |
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| 47 | 318 |
He and his men were to be placed in throat coffle. |
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| 47 | 329 |
He looked at me, and then he was thrust several yards toward the gate, to be held there as more of his men were being added to the coffle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 595 |
They were then permitted to leave, though still bound and in coffle. |
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| 9 | 26 |
I inserted the bolt of a small, sturdy, padlocklike joining ring through a link in the coffle chain. |
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| 9 | 128 |
She lifted her chained wrists, and I attached her to the coffle with a joining ring. |
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| 9 | 263 |
But then another woman was selected, and subsequently manacled and, in due course, added to the coffle. |
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| 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. |
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| 9 | 644 |
It is common to coffle women from the back of the line forward, to minimize the temptation to bolt. |
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| 9 | 846 |
This was an oblique allusion to the "slaver's necklace," as a coffle of female slaves is sometimes called. |
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| 9 | 850 |
"Bring the extra chain back through the coffle," said the fellow with the ship. |
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| 9 | 852 |
We could probably have added forty or fifty more women to the coffle had we wished. |
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| 9 | 855 |
Then, in time, with the help of three or four other fellows, locating themselves along the coffle line, most of the weight being shortly borne by the wrist chains of the lovely "beads" themselves, we had doubled the chain, bringing it forward. |
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| 9 | 859 |
Coffle chains are usually adjusted, of course, to the number of women to be placed on it. |
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| 9 | 865 |
Some of the women at the front of the chain had probably had to be informed that the first step taken in coffle is with the left foot. |
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| 9 | 868 |
Among the people we did pass, or who were passing by, few seemed to take much interest in the coffle. |
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| 9 | 872 |
Some fellows in Turian garb did stand by a wall, their arms folded, considering the coffle, much as might have assessing slavers. |
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| 9 | 873 |
Twice some children addressed themselves to the coffle, jeering its captives, spitting upon them, stinging them with hurled pebbles, rushing forward, even, to lash at them with switches. |
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| 10 | 135 |
We watched the coffle of prisoners move away, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 21 | 518 |
Or suppose that she was paraded in a line, with other slaves, excellent slaves all, on all fours, in neck coffle, the chains going back under the slaves' bodies and between their legs, rising to the collar of the next in line, and so on, before a conqueror's chair. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 112 |
She is then part of the coffle. |
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| 19 | 550 |
The free woman was kneeling in coffle. |
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| 19 | 584 |
"Do you beg water?" inquired one of the dock workers of a woman some places earlier on the coffle. |
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| 19 | 742 |
The dock worker, his examination completed, now rose to his feet, and went to the next woman in the coffle. |
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| 19 | 817 |
"Perhaps you enjoy seeing free women in coffle, stripped and shackled," she said. |
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| 24 | 805 |
"Put your hands behind your back," said the soldier in charge of the small coffle. |
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| 24 | 810 |
"On your feet," said the soldier in charge of the small coffle. |
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| 24 | 811 |
"Left foot first, step! Step!" The coffle was then marched past me. |
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| 24 | 816 |
The fellow with the whip had followed the coffle. |
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| 24 | 955 |
I could see the bridge across the way, that across which the free women, in coffle, had been marched, their arms held up, closely behind them, the elbow of the left arm grasped by the hand of the right, the elbow of the right grasped by the hand of the left. |
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| 37 | 35 |
The members of each group were tied together by the neck, presumably not merely to control us, as a coffle chain might, but to keep us together, making our disposition as a shield, or wall, more effective. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 963 |
Am I not near the head of the coffle? As she lay there, her arms over her head, to protect it from the sun as well as she could, she became aware of a whispering in the coffle, proceeding toward her. |
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| 21 | 20 |
It went to the girl before her, about whose ankle it was already knotted, and would be extended behind her, to fasten the next three slaves in the ankle coffle, as she was, each such coffle consisting of ten slaves. |
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| 16 | 814 |
One of the women being herded through the square, she who was first in the coffle, turned angrily in her chains and seemed about to reply, but the man nearest to her raised his hand, palm open, menacingly, and she put down her head, cringing, and hurried forward, turning her head so that the pressur... |
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| 16 | 815 |
This jerked against the collar of the woman behind her, pulling her collar tight against the back of her neck, causing her to stumble forward, which movement was reflected in the motion of the third and fourth members of the small coffle, who must make hurried, awkward adjustments to retain their ba... |
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| 16 | 817 |
At this moment, to Ellen's dismay, and that of her companions, the lead guard, seizing the first girl by the upper arm, pulled the coffle through the crowd, bringing it to a place just before the shelf. |
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| 16 | 821 |
"These slaves," said the harsh voice, indicating the coffle in his charge, "are to be sold in the Curulean". |
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| 16 | 841 |
The virulence of the coffle, as it poured scorn on the shelf girls, was certainly clear, and its expressions vehement and explicit, but it utilized few, if any, expressions which would not have been in common use in the surrounding community. |
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| 16 | 898 |
With the two girls who had called out derisively he was most demanding, until he had them in tears praising the beauty and value of his coffle and confessing their own comparative worthlessness, that they were unworthy to act even as the lowliest of serving slaves to such beauties, and so on. |
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| 16 | 908 |
Then, mercifully, the Cosian dragged the lead girl in the coffle away from the shelf and began to conduct her, her chain sisters perforce behind her, through the crowd. |
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| 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... |
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| 16 | 1354 |
"You will move with the left foot first," said Barzak, who did not know if Ellen was familiar with shackled-ankle coffle procedure". |
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| 16 | 1422 |
In the coffle she had been between Lydia and Cichek, and she was now between them, as well, each neck-ringed to their respective floor rings. |
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| 17 | 56 |
In the morning, shortly after they had been brought in coffle to the surface of the shelf, thence to be chained as before to various rings, a boy, surely no more than ten or eleven years old, had come to stand before the shelf. |
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| 17 | 1190 |
Throughout most of human history, the "slaver's necklace," a coffle of chained beauties, was a familiar sight. |
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| 19 | 153 |
"I think she would look well, chained by the neck, being marched in a slave coffle. |
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| 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... |
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| 20 | 26 |
"I thought you would look well in coffle," said the voice. |
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| 20 | 65 |
It was he who had speculated that she would look well, chained by the neck, being marched in a slave coffle. |
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| 20 | 75 |
Not all the female slaves in the camp were in the coffle, of course. |
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| 20 | 76 |
Those not in the coffle were presumably camp slaves, associated with the camp, properties of the Cosian military, or perhaps, in some cases, of officers. |
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| 20 | 79 |
They looked upon the slaves in the coffle with contempt. |
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| 20 | 80 |
As far as Ellen knew all slaves not commonly associated with the march, except some high slaves, the latter in barred slave wagons, were in the coffle. |
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| 20 | 81 |
Ellen had no clear idea how many women were in the coffle. |
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| 20 | 83 |
Ellen estimated that there were between two hundred and fifty and three hundred women in her coffle. |
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| 20 | 85 |
Ellen was rather toward the head of the coffle, perhaps some twenty or thirty women from its beginning. |
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| 20 | 86 |
Curious, she determined that the coffle was not arranged in order of height, as are many smaller coffles. |
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| 20 | 87 |
In a marching coffle she knew that the most beautiful were often put at the beginning, and the least attractive put at the end. |
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| 20 | 88 |
Sometimes girls strove for a better coffle position, passionately trying to improve their attractiveness. |
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| 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,... |
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| 20 | 94 |
Ellen wondered if the coffle had been ordered in terms of beauty, at least as some men saw these things. |
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| 20 | 97 |
But then, again, the coffle might have been arranged in no particular order, or in an order in which beauty, or estimates of beauty, were irrelevant, an order of acquisition, or an order based on the night's chaining, or such. |
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| 20 | 101 |
Yet she was rather near the beginning of the coffle. |
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| 20 | 146 |
The only collar she now wore was that which fastened her in the coffle. |
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| 20 | 167 |
She recalled that the officer of Cos, in the loft, had speculated that she would look well, a chain on her neck, marched in a coffle. |
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| 20 | 394 |
The long coffle then began to move. |
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| 20 | 395 |
It was a large coffle, of perhaps some two hundred and fifty to three hundred girls, each stripped, each chained by the neck. |
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| 20 | 399 |
The march was a large one, and contained a great deal more than the coffle. |
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| 20 | 703 |
* * * * Toward noon, the coffle was halted, with the general halt of the march. |
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| 20 | 713 |
This is a common feeding and watering position for a coffle. |
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| 20 | 731 |
She was not, for example, in a coffle. |
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| 20 | 908 |
And, in the morning, when we leave, I will put you in the coffle". |
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| 20 | 909 |
"In the coffle, Master?" wept Ellen, in horror. |
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| 20 | 954 |
The coffle would not move for an Ahn. |
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| 20 | 964 |
It is forbidden to speak in the coffle, of course, but if no masters are about, or their representatives, such as switch slaves, it is certainly not unknown. |
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| 20 | 966 |
"Slave," she heard, from the girl who preceded her in the coffle. |
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| 20 | 978 |
Ellen turned about and whispered these tidings to the girl who would be behind her in the coffle. |
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| 20 | 982 |
Ellen could see that the coffle now was in higher spirits. |
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| 20 | 984 |
Perhaps it was they, under orders or not, who had dropped this information near the coffle, in conversation, knowing that it would, at the first opportunity, course like wildfire along the chain. |
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| 20 | 1001 |
I am near the front of the coffle, she reminded herself. |
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| 20 | 1028 |
The coffle, too, with its sound of chain, marched. |
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| 20 | 1035 |
She was certain that she recognized the two riders, neither of whom were concerned with the progressing coffle. |
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| 20 | 1040 |
And thus she passed them, unnoticed, no more than another slave in the coffle. |
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| 21 | 42 |
Ellen was no longer in the coffle, in which she and others, some hundreds it seemed, had been marched to this location. |
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| 21 | 43 |
She was pleased to be out of the heavy, sturdy coffle collar, with its weighty chain dangling before and behind her. |
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| 21 | 70 |
She was mere property! She was slave! How she was looking forward to the opportunity to clean her body, after the heat, the dust, the coffle! There was to be a festival camp, celebrating yet another victory of invincible Cos. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 18 |
Some had dared to voice their objections, and had been well switched, across the backs of the calves and ankles, by the Pani warriors charged with the care of the coffle, in this instance, as indicated, a treasure coffle, one used to transport carefully sealed, and marked, sacks and boxes from the s... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 109 |
I did not know my place in the coffle, other than the fact that I was neither first nor last, for I could feel the weight of the coffle chain on both the front and back ring of the coffle collar. |
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| 8 | 112 |
Therefore I was not only ignorant of the number of girls in the coffle, but of the construction of the coffle, as well. |
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| 8 | 295 |
As girls were removed from the coffle, their chaining, with the bracelets and coffle collars, was hung about the neck and shoulders of others. |
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| 8 | 501 |
I did not know my ranking in the coffle, nor if I had a ranking in the coffle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 169 |
"Master!" cried Nezumi, who was the last on a rope coffle, a neck coffle, its free end tied to the back of the laden rice cart. |
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