| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 111 |
I climbed the mounting ladder and fastened myself in the saddle, telling the keeper that the coin was his. |
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| 17 | 112 |
I suppose it was a gesture, nothing but a gesture, but, pitiful though it might be, it pleased me, and, to be honest, I did not expect to live to spend the coin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 94 |
I took a coin from the leather sack and threw it to the proprietor. |
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| 9 | 96 |
He examined the coin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 86 |
Kamchak, in his Tuchuk cruelty, would stand quietly to one side and, coin by coin, bit by bit, buy Saphrar of Turia. |
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| 22 | 66 |
Incidentally, Gorean coins are not made to be stacked and accordingly, because of the possible depth of the relief and the consequent liberties accorded to the artist, the Gorean coin is almost always more beautiful than the machine-milled, flat, uniform coins of Earth. |
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| 23 | 213 |
Most of the gold and jewels, and precious plate and cups and goblets, were missing, except where here and there a coin or stone might lie missed at the edge of the wagon hides or at the foot of one of the curved wagon poles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 191 |
Rather he looked about on the ramp until he found the small coin he had given her to buy him bread and honey, which coin she had dropped when the four men had seized her. |
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| 2 | 106 |
"He has dared to speak the name of Portus and beg a coin from him". |
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| 2 | 131 |
Hup wildly thrust a small, stubby, knobby hand into his pouch and hurled a coin, a copper tarn disk, to Kuurus, who caught it and placed it in one of the pockets of his belt. |
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| 2 | 137 |
Then a coin of gold struck the table before the Assassin, ringing on the wood. |
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| 2 | 141 |
Kuurus picked up the coin and fingered it, and then he looked at Portus. |
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| 2 | 150 |
Now the Assassin picked up the coin of gold and looked at the startled and sweating Portus. |
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| 2 | 151 |
Then the Assassin threw the coin to the feet of Hup the Fool. |
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| 2 | 153 |
Hup seized up the coin of gold and scrambled from the room, like an urt running through the open gate of a trap. |
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| 3 | 212 |
The Vintner pressed the copper tarn disk, which the Player had won from him, into the Player's hands, and the Player placed this coin in his pouch. |
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| 5 | 575 |
"You there," she said, "a coin for Ka-la-na". |
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| 5 | 576 |
Dumbfounded I reached in my pouch and handed her a coin, a silver Tarsk. |
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| 12 | 115 |
I did note that a young slave girl, however, perhaps about fifteen, with a coin given her by her master, did purchase a small candy from the little Hup. |
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| 13 | 48 |
The tarsk is a silver coin, worth forty copper tarn disks. |
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| 13 | 106 |
I motioned that the man should get the coin from my pouch and he did so. |
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| 13 | 107 |
I heard the coin drop into the metal box, and heard him leave. |
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| 16 | 138 |
Ho-Sorl, after several races, gave Phyllis a coin, ordering her to find a vendor and buy him some Sa-Tarna bread smeared with honey. |
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| 16 | 192 |
To her astonishment he gave her the coin. |
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| 17 | 15 |
I gave him a silver coin for more paga. |
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| 19 | 376 |
"I am offered five hundred and forty gold pieces for these hot-blooded barbarian beauties," called the auctioneer, "only five hundred and forty gold pieces for this exquisite set of animals, in prime condition and superbly trained to tantalize you, to torment you, to drive you wild with pleasure! Do... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 296 |
He had cut a throat for that coin, to buy silks and perfumes for a woman, but one who fled with another man; Ha-Keel had hunted them, slain in combat the man and sold the woman into slavery. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 220 |
I had heard of the paga taverns, the rent booths, the brothel restaurants, and of the streets, in which one might find coin girls, their coin box on a chain locked about their neck, and mat girls on their master's leashes. |
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| 8 | 659 |
It was the most expensive coin he found. |
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| 10 | 218 |
But here, on this world, Gor, it was not so! To be sure, on this world it was the case that men apparently had their pick of beautiful, helplessly arousable slaves, and for as little as a meaningless coin. |
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| 10 | 222 |
Inge had told me that a modest coin would buy her use, and that the common paga slaves came with the price of a drink. |
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| 11 | 1100 |
And, the Priest-Kings willing, a coin that is lost today, or a woman, may, at a later time, in a more convenient place, be found, and more! A woman who escapes your collar this afternoon may, by nightfall, find herself chained at your feet. |
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| 11 | 1101 |
If the coin is to be yours, argue such men, it will be; and if the woman is destined, some night, on this or another, in your tent, on your rugs, by the light of your fire, to feel your chains locked on her body, she will. |
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| 13 | 677 |
From a pouch he threw a coin to a man of the village, and another to another man, doubtless one of the other village, called Rorus. |
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| 14 | 221 |
And I reminded myself that I, too, as much as any coin or precious cup in such a chest, or in this entire camp, was booty. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 21 |
The girl commonly carries the coin, or coins, in her mouth, for slave tunics, like most Gorean garments, have no pockets. |
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| 5 | 67 |
I had placed the coin in her mouth. |
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| 6 | 688 |
I tossed Thurnock the coin. |
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| 6 | 783 |
Her first finger, followed by her thumb, had slipped within the neck of the pouch, forcing apart the strings which held it shut, and emerged, holding a coin. |
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| 6 | 788 |
She handed me back the coin, and I returned it to the pouch. |
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| 6 | 795 |
She handed me the coin a second time. |
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| 22 | 661 |
"He will serve our purposes well in telling and retelling, for a coin, the story of the vengeance of those of Port Kar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 321 |
Two more men reached down to snatch a coin. |
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| 3 | 323 |
"Fight!" The first man, scrabbling in the dirt, picked up another coin, and then another. |
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| 3 | 324 |
Then the second and third man found, each, another coin. |
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| 5 | 243 |
"Have you a coin you wish to check?" had asked Ivar, seriously, of me. |
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| 5 | 247 |
"Unfortunately," said he, "this coin is debased. |
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| 5 | 252 |
"Have you another coin?" he asked. |
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| 5 | 261 |
The ransom money of Gurt of Kassau would, doubtless, be largely composed of the stamped coin of Lydius. |
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| 10 | 543 |
"I had her for a broken coin," he said, "half a silver tarn disk of Tharna. |
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| 10 | 544 |
I will let you have her for a whole coin". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 295 |
In two of the cafes I paid a use-coin to the floor master and, by the hair, conducted she who had pleased me most to an alcove. |
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| 9 | 118 |
His hand, open, was poised over the coin. |
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| 9 | 120 |
His hand closed upon the coin; the transaction was completed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 378 |
In the morning, she, nude, would prepare and serve to him his breakfast, after which he would make fresh use of her; he would then send her from his presence, first pressing into her hand a coin, usually a copper tarsk or a silver tarsk, commensurate with the quality of her service. |
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| 7 | 383 |
Such a coin would buy several girls such as myself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 672 |
"He was given a coin," said Samos, "to speak of anything strange or unusual of which he might have heard". |
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| 2 | 673 |
"He well earned his coin," I said. |
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| 3 | 705 |
In most cities the tarsk bit is the smallest Gorean coin. |
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| 3 | 706 |
These things vary from city to city, depending on the coin, its weight, its fineness, and so on, but a hundred copper tarsks are normally equivalent to a silver tarsk. |
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| 6 | 113 |
Such a coin would fetch from the block a beauty fit for the gardens of a Ubar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 123 |
One of the guardsmen opened her mouth, not gently, and retrieved the coin, a rather large one, a tarsk bit. |
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| 4 | 126 |
The praetor placed the coin on his desk, the surface of which was some seven feet high, below the low, solid wooden bar. |
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| 4 | 132 |
"Give me back my coin!" said the girl. |
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| 4 | 230 |
"On the golden tarn taken from me," said the man, "I had scratched my initials, Ba-Ta Shu, Bem Shandar, and, on the reverse of the coin, the drum of Tabor". |
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| 4 | 231 |
The guardsman lifted the coin to the praetor. |
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| 4 | 240 |
"The coin was planted in my pouch," he said. |
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| 4 | 299 |
"This tarsk bit," said the praetor, lifting the coin which had been taken from her mouth earlier, "is now confiscated, and becomes the property of the port". |
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| 10 | 60 |
He weighed the coin in his hand and felt its thickness. |
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| 10 | 65 |
He had, too, pressed his thumb against the coin, on both sides, feeling the ship, and, on the reverse, the sign of Port Kar, its initials, in the same script that occurred on her Home Stone. |
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| 10 | 87 |
Kipofu pressed the coin back at me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 257 |
"I will pay it," she said, giving him the coin from a small, beaded purse she held in her hand. |
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| 20 | 108 |
It was not merely that his own champion had been defeated and that he had lost a goodly bit of coin on the wagering involved, but that he had been, in the past, like several other young swains in the vicinity, an unsuccessful suitor in the matter of the companionship, for the hand of the Lady Floren... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 192 |
"How shameful! How I hold such a one in contempt! What a pathetic creature, with a bell on her neck, and a coin box! It is clear that coin girls, as you call them, are amongst the most degraded, the lowest and most worthless of slaves!" "Perhaps you, lofty lady," said the coin girl, "are insufficien... |
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| 8 | 148 |
The fellow who stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a tarsk bit in her mouth, and she fled back to the counter where, under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit the coin into a copper bowl. |
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| 10 | 139 |
About her neck, chained, there was a bronze bell, hollow, flattish, with sloping sides, with a flat top and ring, and a slotted, metal coin box, locked. |
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| 10 | 158 |
Does one truly own a slave until she is at your feet diligently polishing your leather, looking up occasionally, hoping you will be satisfied; she does not wish to be beaten; until she is in your kitchen, preparing your food; until she is serving it, humbly, perhaps nude, as you might wish her then,... |
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| 10 | 178 |
I drew out a copper tarsk, and prepared to place it in the girl's coin box. |
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| 10 | 179 |
Swiftly the girl, before I could put the coin in the box, lay on her back, on the stones of the street, before me. |
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| 10 | 180 |
"You must use me first," she said, "and then put the coin in only if I please you". |
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| 10 | 189 |
"She is a lovely slave, and, indeed, pretty enough to be put out as a coin girl". |
10 |
| 10 | 190 |
"A coin girl?" "That is the expression," I said. |
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| 10 | 206 |
"Perhaps then, one day, you, too, will wear a bell and coin box," said the girl. |
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| 10 | 208 |
To be sure, I thought, if she were a slave, and put in such devices, and sent forth, she had best return with a jingling coin box. |
10 |
| 10 | 226 |
"I will not use you," I told the girl, "but I will give you the coin". |
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| 10 | 227 |
I made as though to place the coin in the box, which now, as she lay, back on her elbows, hung beside her left breast, swelling against the thin slave cloth. |
10 |
| 10 | 257 |
"You could always, I suppose, put a bell and coin box about my neck and send me into the streets," she said. |
10 |
| 10 | 305 |
I wondered what she would look like with a bell and coin box on her neck. |
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| 19 | 66 |
A silver tarsk is, to most Goreans, a coin of considerable value. |
10 |
| 19 | 72 |
Scales, and rumors, it seems, are often used by coin merchants. |
10 |
| 24 | 678 |
Yet most girls are sold for prices in similar ranges and there are few men who cannot, by spending an extra coin or two, secure the slave of their choice. |
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| 25 | 199 |
There was the sound of the metal clapper in the narrow, flattish, triangular-shaped bell, the rustle of the chain and lock, the sound of the small, metal, sturdy, rectangular, locked coin box. |
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| 25 | 200 |
I dangled the chain, the girl bell and the coin box before her eyes. |
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| 25 | 222 |
She who had once been Peggy Baxter, of Earth, then stood before me in the apparatus of a Gorean coin girl. |
10 |
| 25 | 224 |
"Now she will attract only the attention natural to a coin girl in the streets". |
10 |
| 25 | 228 |
Though the Gorean coin girl is commonly one of several girls, one of a stable thereof, so to speak, sent daily into the streets to earn money as the chattels they are for their master, under the penalty of whippings or tortures, or death, if their day's work does not prove sufficiently lucrative, it... |
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| 25 | 249 |
"But in the streets," she said, "seen as I am, what if others should wish to use me?" "You are in the guise of a Coin Girl," I told her. |
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| 28 | 4 |
The heavy chain, with the girl bell and coin box, was still locked on her neck. |
10 |
| 28 | 9 |
I thrust the key to the chain in the chain lock and opened it, pulling away the apparatus of the Coin Girl from her neck. |
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| 28 | 20 |
I wore the bell and coin box". |
10 |
| 28 | 21 |
I moved the coin box, on the chain, which I held. |
10 |
| 28 | 30 |
"Did he pay his coin?" asked Tasdron. |
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| 28 | 61 |
I put the chain, with the girl bell and coin box, on the low table. |
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| 28 | 63 |
He picked up the tiny bit of slave silk which we had, earlier, ordered her to remove, before disguising her as a Coin Girl and sending her into the streets to fetch Aemilianus to our meeting. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 290 |
"Please, Master!" "I recall a Coin Girl," I said, "from long ago, who suggested that you might be insufficiently desirable to be put out as a Coin Girl, and you retorted that you were beautiful, and she then speculated that you might then one day, too, wear a bell and coin box". |
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| 17 | 73 |
From the chain there hung two objects; the first was a narrow, bronze bell, flattish and tapering, with a flat top and ring; when she moved it would sound, calling attention to her whereabouts; the second was a metal coin box, which contained a slot for the deposition of coins; the coin box was lock... |
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| 17 | 155 |
Softly then did the bell of the Coin Girl sound, and the chain and coin box on her neck, as she who had once been Miss Henderson turned her head to the side, and began, with her small, fine white teeth, to bite and nibble at the hem of my tunic. |
10 |
| 17 | 233 |
I went to deposit the coin in the coin box on the kneeling girl's neck chain, but the hand of the other girl, she who held the kneeling girl's leash, interposed itself. |
10 |
| 17 | 251 |
"Please, please, Master," said the kneeling girl, tears in her eyes, "put the coin in my coin box. |
10 |
| 17 | 308 |
"Please, please, Master!" I dropped the coin into the narrow, metal coin box. |
10 |
| 17 | 431 |
I heard the bell, and the coin, my coin, in the small, narrow metal box on her neck chain. |
10 |
| 17 | 585 |
"What if I were not good?" "Then I would not have put another coin in your coin box," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 586 |
"What if I were not good the first time, after you had put a coin in the coin box?" she asked. |
10 |
| 17 | 601 |
"I put a second coin, did I not, in your coin box?" I asked. |
10 |
| 17 | 626 |
"The coin!" she cried, in misery, "the coin. |
10 |
| 17 | 634 |
I put another tiny coin in the coin box. |
10 |
| 17 | 773 |
Then I placed the tiny coin, a tarsk bit, into the coin box on her neck chain. |
10 |
| 17 | 936 |
Casually I inserted another coin in the coin box. |
10 |
| 18 | 160 |
Then, last night, on the rude stones of the Street of the Writhing Slave, she helpless in my arms, locked in the chain collar of a Coin Girl, with the flattish bell and coin box, I had instructed her, and thoroughly, in the respect due, did he but assume his mastery, to one who was once of Earth. |
10 |
| 18 | 555 |
"Yesterday afternoon," she said, "locked in the chain collar of a Coin Girl, with the bell and coin box, on the leash of my keeper, I was conducted forth from the house. |
10 |
| 17 | 1 |
The Coin Girl; I Dismiss Her It is called the Street of the Writhing Slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 3 |
It has its name from the fact that most renters of, and dealers in, Coin Girls in Victoria, keep their kennels on this street. |
10 |
| 17 | 4 |
The girls of the day, designated by a coiled whip pressed against their left shoulder, wearing their neck chains, with the attached bell and coin box, are sent into the streets in the late afternoon and expected to return before the nineteenth Ahn. |
10 |
| 17 | 5 |
And woe to the girl who does not return with a jangling coin box on her neck chain! Some girls, once designated, and locked in their accouterments, kneeling, weeping, scratch even at the insides of the stout gates of their masters' houses, hoping to be sent into the streets early, that their chances... |
10 |
| 17 | 9 |
Sometimes a new girl is sent into the streets on a leash, with an older girl, that she may learn how a Coin Girl behaves. |
10 |
| 17 | 10 |
I recalled that once, long ago, when I had purchased, and freed, Miss Henderson, we had encountered a Coin Girl on the way back to my inn. |
10 |
| 17 | 16 |
To be sure, Coin Girls are usually regarded as the lowest form of Gorean street slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 27 |
It was late, of course, for the sensuous peregrinations of a Coin Girl. |
10 |
| 17 | 74 |
I had not heard coins sound, from within the coin box. |
10 |
| 17 | 88 |
"I thought you were a Coin Girl," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 89 |
"She is a Coin Girl," said the girl who held her leash. |
10 |
| 17 | 91 |
"I am a Coin Girl," said the leashed girl, before me. |
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| 17 | 204 |
"Look!" She shook the coin box on the girl's neck chain and shook it. |
10 |
| 17 | 221 |
That you should be out now is even against the agreements of the renters of Coin Girls". |
10 |
| 17 | 229 |
"She need not return with the coin box empty". |
10 |
| 17 | 236 |
I drew back, holding the coin. |
10 |
| 17 | 237 |
The kneeling girl, she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, once a graduate student in English literature at a major university in the New York City area, eyed the coin, fearfully. |
10 |
| 17 | 240 |
"A Coin Girl," said the girl with the leash, "will struggle to please a man as much for a tarsk bit, as a high paga slave for a thousand gold pieces, to be paid by her master's customer for her use". |
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| 17 | 242 |
"The levels of skill in the Coin Girl, of course," said the girl with the leash, "are commonly much lower". |
10 |
| 17 | 244 |
Yet it must be mentioned that sometimes Coin Girls are extremely skillful. |
10 |
| 17 | 248 |
The girl with the leash drew back her hand, it then no longer shielding the opening on the coin box. |
10 |
| 17 | 289 |
"I beg you, I beg you to have me for a tarsk bit!" "I thought that you regarded Coin Girls as filthy, as terrible, as disgusting". |
10 |
| 17 | 294 |
"And did you not assert that Coin Girls were amongst the most degraded, the lowest and most worthless of slaves?" "Yes, Master," she whispered. |
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| 17 | 306 |
Tiny salty rivulets ran down her cheeks, and under the chain and collar, and some tears fell, too, upon the edges of her parted tunic, and on her small, soft, muchly exposed, proffered breasts, those of a pleading Coin Girl. |
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| 17 | 430 |
I brushed the flattish bell and the coin box over her left shoulder, and to the side of her neck. |
10 |
| 17 | 545 |
The girl who was the Coin Girl's leash holder then bent to untie the leash from the slave ring. |
10 |
| 17 | 550 |
The girl came then near to me, and leaned forward, that I might, from my reclining position, be able to reach the coin box chained on her neck. |
10 |
| 17 | 594 |
"Too," she said, "you would have been entitled to a refund, though I myself could not have given it to you, for the coin box is locked. |
10 |
| 17 | 599 |
The satisfaction of Coin Girls, in its way, is guaranteed, or one can receive one's money back. |
10 |
| 17 | 609 |
I thrust another coin into the small metal box on the chain. |
10 |
| 17 | 627 |
You have not paid the coin!" I smiled. |
10 |
| 17 | 628 |
"I am a Coin Girl!" she cried, miserably. |
10 |
| 17 | 629 |
"I may not be had without the coin!" "Oh," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 631 |
"Please pay the coin!" "Do you beg it?" I asked. |
10 |
| 17 | 646 |
"I do not know," she said, "doubtless some renter of Coin Girls. |
10 |
| 17 | 701 |
"It is not the bell of a Coin Girl," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 905 |
The woman was obviously only a branded, stripped slave, and a mere Coin Girl at that. |
10 |
| 17 | 946 |
I brushed back the bell, and coin box, and they lay then on the stones, beside the left side of her neck. |
10 |
| 17 | 954 |
In a moment she cried out, "Is it all that I am to you, a Coin Girl?" "What else could you be?" I asked. |
10 |
| 17 | 967 |
"Adjust the bell and coin box," I told her. |
10 |
| 17 | 990 |
"Yes, Master," she said, and then, turning about, stumbling and crying, the bell of the Coin Girl sounding, the coins jingling in the box on her neck, she fled up the street. |
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| 18 | 182 |
Lola, too, of course, had been her keeper as a Coin Girl when I had, as Jason of Victoria, by apparent accident, encountered her on the Street of the Writhing Slave. |
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| 18 | 543 |
"Yesterday," she said, "sent forth from the house as a Coin Girl, I made six tarsk bits for you, my Master. |
10 |
| 18 | 574 |
Then I would feel the leash stinging against the back of my legs and my keeper would order me up, and ahead, to try harder, warning me of the displeasure of my master, should I return with an empty coin box. |
10 |
| 18 | 589 |
I despised him as a weakling from Earth, so different from the masters of women, from men such as you, my Master, but now I must needs try to please him, and as a slave and Coin Girl! I opened my tunic to him. |
10 |
| 18 | 596 |
I did all that I could before him, as a piteous and lascivious slave, one begging his least touch, one helplessly his, should he but pay his coin, only a girl at his feet, one begging to be had, one supplicating her rape on the stones of the street. |
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| 18 | 600 |
He then was ready to place, in effect, as a gift, a coin in my box. |
10 |
| 18 | 645 |
It seems that at least a portion of your income is derived from the earnings of Coin Girls. |
10 |
| 19 | 942 |
"Worth?" "In coin, of course," I said. |
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| 20 | 1896 |
"You took me in the Street of the Writhing Slave as a Coin Girl, a mere rent girl, a street girl, a gutter wench, and you have taken me, I a helpless slave, I not knowing you, in the guise of my unknown Gorean master, but this will be the first time that you have had me, so to speak, in your own nam... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 392 |
The smallest Gorean coin is usually a tarsk bit, usually valued from a quarter to a tenth of a tarsk. |
10 |
| 8 | 396 |
Coin merchants often have recourse to scales. |
10 |
| 8 | 398 |
It is, for example, not unusual for a Gorean coin pouch to contain parts of coins as well as whole coins. |
10 |
| 14 | 1290 |
For such a coin one might easily buy five girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 148 |
She wants to make it clear to all that she is well worth every coin her master paid for her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 151 |
I did not have the common garb of such slaves, such as the bell and coin box chained about my neck, of the coin girl, or the tavern silk, with its advertising, of a tavern's lure girl. |
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| 35 | 131 |
How could he have respected me if he had known that I was so unworthy of him, that I was not the sort of woman who should take her place proudly at a man's side, but one who wished rather to kneel, submitted, loving, desiring to please and serve, at his feet? I supposed I had fooled him well! Had th... |
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| 1 | 48 |
* * * * "This coin, or medal, or whatever it is, is very puzzling," had said the gentle, bespectacled man, holding it by the edges with white, cotton gloves, and then placing it down on the soft felt between us. |
10 |
| 1 | 58 |
"Puzzling," he mused, looking down at the coin on the felt between us, "puzzling". |
10 |
| 1 | 62 |
It is not the product, for example, of a high-speed, automated coin press". |
10 |
| 1 | 69 |
"Then it is an ancient coin?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 71 |
"Yet the techniques used in striking this coin have not been used, as far as I know, for centuries". |
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| 1 | 72 |
"What sort of coin is it?" I asked. |
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| 1 | 80 |
"What sort of coin is it?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 81 |
"You see, however," he asked, "how the depth of the planchet allows a relief and contrast of the design with the background to an extent impossible in a flat, milled coin?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 1 | 85 |
"Can you identify the coin?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 88 |
"Is it an ancient coin?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 90 |
"What sort of coin is it, then?" I asked. |
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| 1 | 100 |
Yet, if one thinks about it, at least in the case of many coins, a coin is a way in which a government or ruler certifies that a given amount of precious metal is involved in a transaction. |
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| 1 | 101 |
It saves weighing and testing each coin. |
10 |
| 1 | 102 |
The coin, in a sense, is an object whose worth or weight, in standardized quantities, is certified upon it, and guaranteed, so to speak, by an issuing authority. |
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| 1 | 104 |
"Then the object is a coin?" I said. |
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| 1 | 105 |
"I do not know if it is a coin or not," said the man. |
10 |
| 1 | 123 |
He turned the coin on the felt, touching it carefully with the cotton gloves. |
10 |
| 1 | 143 |
To be sure, sometimes it is very difficult to tell if a given coin is genuine or not. |
10 |
| 1 | 145 |
Similarly the authentication of a coin can often proceed with more confidence if some evidence is in hand pertaining to its history, and its former owners, so to speak. |
10 |
| 1 | 146 |
One must always be a bit suspicious of the putatively rare and valuable coin which seems to appear inexplicably, with no certifiable background, on the market, particularly if it lacks the backing of an established house". |
10 |
| 1 | 157 |
"Do you think it is a coin?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 158 |
"It gives every evidence of being a coin," he said. |
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| 1 | 159 |
"It looks like a coin. |
10 |
| 1 | 169 |
If this were a modern, milled coin, it would be rated Extremely Fine. |
10 |
| 1 | 171 |
If this were an ancient coin, it would also qualify as being Extremely Fine, but here the grading standards are different. |
10 |
| 1 | 179 |
This he placed over the coin, and snapped on the desk lamp. |
10 |
| 1 | 183 |
"They are the result, usually, of the coin, or object, being kept with several others, loose, in, say, a bag or box". |
10 |
| 1 | 187 |
"Then all the evidence suggests that this is a coin?" I said. |
10 |
| 1 | 188 |
"The most crucial piece of evidence," he said, "however, suggests that it cannot be a coin". |
10 |
| 1 | 190 |
"That it fits into no known type or denomination of coin". |
10 |
| 1 | 192 |
"As far as I know," he said, "no city, kingdom, nation or civilization on Earth ever produced such a coin". |
10 |
| 1 | 193 |
"Then it is not a coin," I said. |
10 |
| 1 | 409 |
I assumed, from its shape and appearance, it might be some kind of coin. |
10 |
| 4 | 219 |
"Have him given a coin!" I said. |
10 |
| 4 | 220 |
One of the soldiers, one of those who had had a bag of coins, and coin bits, about his shoulder, came forward. |
10 |
| 4 | 225 |
I saw another man snatch up the coin. |
10 |
| 4 | 229 |
"What better evidence could we have of the falsity of the lunatic's accusations?" "Hail Sheila, Tatrix of Corcyrus!" cried the man who had snatched up the coin. |
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| 5 | 172 |
He held up the coin. |
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| 21 | 46 |
It would do his coin box little good if I fell to the chain of some burly huntsman from the foothills of the Voltai. |
10 |
| 23 | 149 |
Or was it the action of a terrified woman sensing she had no option, if she would live, merely the act of a woman desperately bargaining for her very life with the only coin at her disposal, her beauty. |
10 |
| 27 | 189 |
The other side of the coin of freedom is bondage. |
10 |
| 30 | 150 |
Slave girls, with the exception of coin girls, lure girls for taverns, and such, are generally not permitted to walk unaccompanied about the streets of a city after dark. |
10 |
| 35 | 125 |
I belonged in a collar! How disappointed, and cruelly so, must he be with me! How then could the coin be regarded as well lost? In a sense I had betrayed him. |
10 |
| 36 | 1391 |
"It was a coin then," I said, "which was well lost". |
10 |
| 36 | 1621 |
"What is the difference of a coin or two?" he asked. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 272 |
Given the superb acoustics of many of these theaters, however, in which a coin dropped on the stage is clearly audible in the upper tiers, I feel the practice is more closely connected with tradition, or jealousy, than acoustics. |
10 |
| 2 | 416 |
"How much have you taken in tonight?" asked the paunchy fellow, angrily, pointing to the copper, lidded pot, with the coin slot cut in its top, chained shut, near the low Kaissa table. |
10 |
| 2 | 424 |
He replaced the copper coin pot, chained shut, beside the Kaissa table. |
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| 2 | 678 |
The coin dropped into the pot. |
10 |
| 2 | 716 |
"It is no use, kind sirs," said Boots Tarsk-Bit, returning, carrying the two empty coin bowls. |
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| 6 | 233 |
"Yes," she said, "but do not expect a coin from me". |
10 |
| 6 | 1232 |
Given the nature of their silk, which is usually diaphanous, and the general scantiness of their garb, and the publicness of their picking up the coins, there is little danger that they could conceal a coin, even if they dared to do so. |
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| 6 | 1233 |
A slave girl, you see, is generally forbidden to so much as touch a coin without permission. |
10 |
| 6 | 1235 |
For an unaccounted-for coin to be found in a slave girl's possession, or among her belongings, can be a cause for severe punishment. |
10 |
| 7 | 207 |
A coin, pebble, or small object is supposedly placed beneath one of the cups. |
10 |
| 7 | 209 |
The odds are with the "house," so to speak, particularly if the coin or pebble is not placed under one of the cups. |
10 |
| 7 | 360 |
"Surely we are ruined! Surely we shall all starve! There are not two copper tarsks in the coin kettle! What hope is there these days for artists such as we! That the skilled and famous company of Boots Tarsk-Bit, actor, promoter and entrepreneur, that company whose performances are commanded by high... |
10 |
| 7 | 364 |
"There are more than two copper tarsks in the coin kettle". |
10 |
| 8 | 25 |
"Do you call this money?" asked the leader of the brigands, shaking the coin kettle under Boots's nose. |
10 |
| 16 | 185 |
Then he spit on each coin and, with his index finger, carefully rubbed the moisture into small, exact circles, observing their appearance. |
10 |
| 16 | 624 |
"Perhaps we could have a wager," said Chino, drawing out a coin. |
10 |
| 16 | 626 |
Chino flipped the coin, looked at it, and tucked it back in his wallet. |
10 |
| 16 | 628 |
"I did not see the coin!" said Petrucchio. |
10 |
| 16 | 629 |
"There," said Chino, fishing out the coin, and pointing to it. |
10 |
| 16 | 630 |
"Bottom," he said, indicating the coin's reverse. |
10 |
| 16 | 892 |
He placed a coin, a golden tarn disk, in the palm of Boots Tarsk-Bit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 298 |
It was the smallest, least significant Gorean coin, at least in common circulation. |
10 |
| 11 | 305 |
The coin rattled into the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 15 | 88 |
"It is not like receiving the weight of your sword in gold coin". |
10 |
| 23 | 151 |
Several individuals, however, to be fair, did receive handfuls of coins, mostly copper, from the regent, who, smiling, would dip his hand into heaping coin bowls near him, and then spill coins into the outstretched hands of the grateful recipients. |
10 |
| 25 | 106 |
"And perhaps that the coin will seem a comment on her worth". |
10 |
| 25 | 108 |
As the reader may have gathered, the tarsk bit is a coin of little value. |
10 |
| 25 | 109 |
Indeed, in most Gorean cities, as far as I know, it is the least-valuable coin in common circulation. |
10 |
| 26 | 438 |
I had located some binding fiber at the side, and a leather thong, with a coin, presumably a tarsk bit, threaded on it. |
10 |
| 26 | 445 |
"There is also a coin here, a tarsk bit, I think, threaded on a leather thong. |
10 |
| 26 | 447 |
I took the thong and coin and, putting my arms about her, tied the thong about her waist, fastening it behind her back. |
10 |
| 26 | 448 |
The coin was then at her belly. |
10 |
| 26 | 451 |
"This coin," I said, "when you were put out in the morning, if you were used tonight, was to be tied there. |
10 |
| 26 | 453 |
You are given the coin because you are a free woman. |
10 |
| 26 | 455 |
To be sure, it is the smallest-denomination coin in common circulation. |
10 |
| 26 | 493 |
"If there were a common coin more easily available than the tarsk bit," I said, "that would be the one punched and tied at the belly of one such as you. |
10 |
| 26 | 517 |
"Would you like to be relieved of this degrading thong," I asked, "which holds this tiny, humiliating coin at your belly". |
10 |
| 26 | 520 |
I removed the thong and coin from her waist. |
10 |
| 26 | 579 |
Would you like some clothing? Of course you would! I have some pretty binding fiber in there for you to wear and, if you have given pleasure to a man, as seems likely by now, a pretty coin to tie on your belly. |
10 |
| 26 | 766 |
Then the thong was tied about her waist, knotted in the back, and the tiny coin, threaded on the thong, dangled at her belly. |
10 |
| 29 | 48 |
A coin sack was tied about her neck. |
10 |
| 29 | 91 |
I pressed a coin into his hand. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 520 |
"Take me here, on the tiles, in the passageway! I am ready! I beg it!" "Coin check," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 525 |
He would not forget to subject me to coin check. |
10 |
| 13 | 530 |
The coin can be produced swiftly enough in such cases by emetics and laxatives. |
10 |
| 13 | 532 |
Too, even if she is successful in recovering the coin herself, there is usually little she can do with it. |
10 |
| 13 | 535 |
Also, if she should be found to be in possession of a coin or coins, for example, by a tradesman, guardsman, or any free person, she will be expected to have an excellent explanation for this anomaly, which is then likely to be checked with her master. |
10 |
| 13 | 543 |
"We have just completed coin check". |
10 |
| 13 | 586 |
"Perhaps I have concealed a coin in my halter," I said, "or in a fold of my slave silk". |
10 |
| 13 | 648 |
And complementary, of course, to the pain of such deep needs, the other side of the coin, so to speak, are the incredible fulfillments of having them satisfied, fulfillments in the light of which the anguish of the needs, terrible though it was, then seems negligible. |
10 |
| 14 | 76 |
For example, we would not think it strange if a fellow of Earth, once in a while, drew forth his coin or stamp collection and spent some time lovingly pouring over it, scrutinizing and inspecting its items, and such. |
10 |
| 16 | 95 |
Too, a silver tarsk is, after all, when all is said and done, a coin of considerable value. |
10 |
| 16 | 132 |
The leader dropped the coin into his wallet. |
10 |
| 17 | 234 |
I heard a small coin, a tarsk bit, ring in the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 237 |
I heard another coin strike in the bowl. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 609 |
She did so, and I drew forth a tarsk bit from my pouch, this one not a separate coin in the sense of a round or square coin, but a piece of such a coin, a narrow, triangular, chopped eighth of a copper tarn disk, and placed it in her mouth. |
10 |
| 6 | 667 |
Coin girls were a form of street slave, usually sent into the streets around dusk by their masters, who commonly own several of them, with a chain on their neck, to which would be attached, normally, a bell, to call attention to their whereabouts, and a small, locked coin box. |
10 |
| 24 | 728 |
One supposes, as well, if it had not occurred to them hitherto, that in addition to the low denomination of the coin, so meaningful in itself, the image of the tarsk on the coin, as least as applied in such matters, was doubtless intended to be exquisitely informative to them, or to any slave. |
10 |
| 1 | 107 |
I myself took the contents of a metal coin box removed from their wagon and emptied it into my wallet. |
10 |
| 1 | 611 |
Many Goreans, particularly those of low caste, on errands and such, carry a coin or coins in their mouths. |
10 |
| 1 | 615 |
In placing the coin in her mouth, I had not only, having discovered he was interested in such things, and the price was not too much, compensated her master for her use but had precluded further importunities on her part. |
10 |
| 1 | 620 |
She understood, the coin in her mouth, that she was now to be silent. |
10 |
| 2 | 4 |
I held the coin where he could see it but I did not put it through the aperture. |
10 |
| 5 | 49 |
"Doubtless you followed Cosians," I said, "or their suppliers, smelling booty, lured by the possibilities of spoils, by the supposed imminent passage south of men laden with the plate and coin of Ar's Station, men who might succumb to your claims of need and plight, hoping perhaps even to contract a... |
10 |
| 5 | 486 |
In this house I suspected that they would not be permitted to so much as touch a coin. |
10 |
| 6 | 463 |
Thanks, of course, to the coins from the brigands' coin box, taken from them by the road, if nothing else, my finances were currently in excellent order. |
10 |
| 6 | 665 |
"In many cities," he said, "one could have a coin girl for that". |
10 |
| 6 | 682 |
The tarsk bit, of course, in most cities, is the smallest-denomination coin in common circulation. |
10 |
| 8 | 127 |
"And few masters, indeed, I assure you," I said, "even if so lenient as to let her venture to a market with a coin or two in her mouth, on a specific errand, would permit her to scamper about with a trove such as that which now seems to be in your keeping". |
10 |
| 8 | 574 |
Giving such a coin, of course, was, in its way, I suppose, a bit of braggadocio on my part, something of a gesture or flourish. |
10 |
| 24 | 681 |
"I flipped a coin". |
10 |
| 24 | 691 |
It is not merely that it would be, in virtue of its commonness, the most likely coin for such a purpose, but, rather, that custom prescribed its use in such contexts. |
10 |
| 24 | 693 |
Accordingly, in allotting decisions amongst slaves to chance a low-denomination coin is preferred, this symbolic of the slave's worthlessness, even if she is a high slave who might actually sell for golden tarn disks. |
10 |
| 24 | 694 |
This symbolism, that of the low-denomination coin, would not be lost on the two girls, as both were Gorean. |
10 |
| 24 | 695 |
An Earth-girl brought to Gor, on the other hand, might be in her collar a year or more and have had perhaps two or three masters before she comes to understand the potent symbolism of this, that such a humble coin is used. |
10 |
| 24 | 702 |
Who will take her first to an alcove? It is not unusual that such a matter will be decided by the tossing of a coin. |
10 |
| 24 | 708 |
Would they come again? She had been allotted on a coin's toss. |
10 |
| 24 | 712 |
Needless to say, recourse to so convenient a random-selection device as a spinning coin has often prevented bloodshed. |
10 |
| 24 | 718 |
A coin smaller than the copper tarsk is the tarsk bit, but most do not lend themselves to gambling as they are usually triangular, being fashioned by cutting a copper tarsk into either four or eight pieces. |
10 |
| 24 | 736 |
It well deserves its coin, whether of copper or silver. |
10 |
| 24 | 737 |
But even if the image on the coin had been that of the swift, silken kaiila or the fierce, wide-winged tarn well might the slaves have understood that decisions pertaining to them had not even been left to the will of masters but rather to the winds of chance. |
10 |
| 24 | 743 |
The opposite of the "head," so to speak, which is usually "tarsk" or "tarn," depending on the coin, is not tails, so to speak, but "print". |
10 |
| 24 | 747 |
I have never seen a Gorean coin with the image of a human being on it. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 77 |
I had used her but had paid her master for her use, leaving a coin in her mouth. |
10 |
| 37 | 295 |
We heard a coin thrown into one of the copper bowls on the far side of the wagon. |
10 |
| 39 | 29 |
He took the coin. |
10 |
| 47 | 208 |
Certainly such things were not like a coin in their fist or a woman in their arms. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 |
An analogy is the coin given by a free person to a street girl, which coin, of course, does not then belong to the girl but to her master. |
10 |
| 3 | 805 |
"It is to a man such as you that I wish to belong!" I dragged her to her knees by the hair and, she sobbing, trying to hold me, thrust a coin, a tarsk bit, into the coin box. |
10 |
| 3 | 937 |
One, presumably without the knowledge of the reader or a confederate, selects one coin from several on a tray or platter, usually tarsk bits, and then, holding it tightly in his hand, concentrates on the coin. |
10 |
| 3 | 938 |
Then, after the coin has been replaced on the tray or platter, the thought reader turns about and, more often than not, far more than the probabilities would suggest, locates the coin. |
10 |
| 3 | 57 |
As I left, slinging about me my accouterments, I heard a new coin entered into the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 3 | 766 |
"Use me, Master?" said a coin girl. |
10 |
| 3 | 768 |
About her neck, over her collar, close about it, was a chain collar, padlocked shut, with its coin box, and slot. |
10 |
| 3 | 811 |
She had the coin box, on its chain, lifted in her hands. |
10 |
| 3 | 812 |
Her head was down, and her hair fell about the coin box. |
10 |
| 3 | 940 |
If the reader selects the wrong coin, one receives all the tarsk bits on the tray or platter, usually several. |
10 |
| 4 | 28 |
There we had backed her into a slave locker, reached by a catwalk, on all fours, inserted the coin, a tarsk bit, turned and removed the key. |
10 |
| 23 | 374 |
Every year at the Sardar Fair there is a motion before the bankers, literally, the coin merchants, to introduce a standardization of coinage among the major cities. |
10 |
| 23 | 377 |
I was not, after all, of the merchants, nor, among them, of the coin merchants. |
10 |
| 25 | 242 |
The tarsk bit is the smallest-denomination coin in common circulation in most Gorean cities. |
10 |
| 27 | 346 |
It seems there are usually eight tarsk bits in a copper tarsk, and that these are the result of cutting a circular coin in half, and then the halves in half, and then each of these halves in half. |
10 |
| 27 | 360 |
I showed the coin to Marcus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 401 |
What if, for example, as an outside possibility, but one they were not willing to discount, there might be some mysterious connection between the Initiates and the Priest-Kings? Why not, then, put a coin in the bowl, particularly if it were not too valuable a coin? As far as I can determine, most pe... |
10 |
| 11 | 915 |
I did not understand the allusion, but gathered that a silver tarsk was a coin, and might be a good price for me. |
10 |
| 11 | 1699 |
The man in the apron stood up, and caught a coin in one hand, tossed to him by the fellow who had conducted him hither. |
10 |
| 12 | 424 |
He gave a coin to the first bearer. |
10 |
| 12 | 454 |
The "silver tarsk," I supposed, was a coin, and being a "silver-tarsk girl" would presumably mean that I might be expected to bring as much as a "silver tarsk" to whoever sold me, but all this was not that illuminating as I had no clear idea of the values involved. |
10 |
| 19 | 390 |
They might, however, drop a coin into the proffered bowl from a gloved hand, touching neither the bowl nor the Initiate. |
10 |
| 19 | 392 |
The man behind me put a coin in the golden bowl. |
10 |
| 19 | 393 |
"You will see, I trust," said one of the fellows in the crowd, "that this coin is turned over to the Priest-Kings, and does not end up in the temple coffers". |
10 |
| 19 | 406 |
The twenty or so golden bowls which had come empty to the docking area were now leaving it heavy with coin, with jewels and jewelry. |
10 |
| 34 | 154 |
But then, too, on Earth, do not some men buy a certain car, or a certain house, or a certain painting, and such, largely to impress others? Too, on Earth some men will, in effect, purchase wives, so to speak, though the "exchange of coin" is less obvious. |
10 |
| 44 | 120 |
It was apparently filled with coin. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 698 |
With what would you reward a man who betrays his manhood? What will you give him that is worth more than his manhood? And I do not even comment on the other side of the coin, except to say that it is one coin, and it has another side. |
10 |
| 15 | 536 |
"And so," said he, thoughtfully, as though pondering some matter, "what would be the loss of a coin or two more?" "I do not understand what you are saying, Master," whispered the slave. |
10 |
| 15 | 538 |
"Why not? Yes, what is a coin or two, measured against the pleasure of teaching you what you now are, a worthless slave, of instructively demeaning you even further, of reducing your value yet again, even in a market, and thus exacting an even sweeter, richer, more delicious vengeance upon you?" "Ma... |
10 |
| 21 | 236 |
"You are no longer my coin giver. |
10 |
| 25 | 646 |
"Do you mean, repay in coin?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 897 |
For the common silver tarsk, the smaller tarsk, the coin pertinent to the bidding in question, the ratio was one hundred such tarsks to the golden tarn disk, at least that of Ar or Jad, on Cos, and certain other major cities, including Brundisium. |
10 |
| 25 | 1029 |
He was now holding up, over his head, a large coin. |
10 |
| 25 | 1034 |
He held the coin, and bit at it. |
10 |
| 25 | 1058 |
"I cannot at the moment match that bid in ready coin. |
10 |
| 25 | 1068 |
"We deal with coin in this camp". |
10 |
| 26 | 769 |
"Very well, I will ask twenty-one, in the coin of Ar". |
10 |
| 26 | 795 |
Portus took the coin and put it in the guardsman's wallet at his belt. |
10 |
| 26 | 797 |
"Alas," said Selius Arconious, "there is no smaller coin". |
10 |
| 27 | 3014 |
But the beast hesitated for, suddenly, the two gray hunting sleen, rented for mere coin at Brundisium, had placed themselves, crouching, shoulders hunched, ears laid back, snarling, between the sleenmaster and itself. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 293 |
One supposed it might have been a matter of bartering at an exchange point, between our humans and those of Priest-Kings, for such interactions occasionally occur, however illegitimately; or she may have been taken to the surface by our human allies as, so to speak, negotiable currency, to be there ... |
10 |
| 1 | 810 |
Her smiles had always proved a successful coin on her old world, easily purchasing accommodations and favors. |
10 |
| 1 | 943 |
Warfare among polities, not always declared, is common on Gor, and the women of one polity in such a case are regarded by those of the other as objects eminently suitable for apprehension, as prizes, as loot, they, as well as rugs, jewels, coin, art works, fine cloths, draperies, saddles, harnesses,... |
10 |
| 19 | 90 |
The gift of life is a loan, as the Kur commonly sees it, a loan for which one is grateful, a loan which, when due, is to be willingly repaid with the coin of death. |
10 |
| 22 | 37 |
"For each use of her, after the red-silking of her," asked Cabot, "the coins then to her master?" "She is not a coin girl," said Peisistratus. |
10 |
| 22 | 38 |
"If she were, the coin box would be chained about her neck and locked. |
10 |
| 26 | 172 |
"Certainly his small, well-formed companion, the small, sleek beast of which he is so unconscionably fond, has the coin of advantage and survival well in hand, information of importance to Agamemnon, and would spend it instantly to procure not only her life but his favor". |
10 |
| 29 | 110 |
"And many of these women, perhaps the less beautiful, were not taken into families, but merely thrown a coin, or cast aside". |
10 |
| 30 | 113 |
But in such a case the master might object, and take action, perhaps charging a coin for the girl's use, or perhaps killing the thief". |
10 |
| 54 | 24 |
"You are familiar with coin gambling?" said Cabot. |
10 |
| 54 | 27 |
"Suppose that the same face on a coin turned up repeatedly," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 54 | 29 |
"Would you deem it a remarkable fortuity?" "I would want to see the coin," said Statius. |
10 |
| 54 | 31 |
"And that is what I did this morning, examine the coin". |
10 |
| 72 | 14 |
Nor was there any sign of coffers, or sacks, which might have bulged with coin. |
10 |
| 77 | 142 |
"That cast was flung to a wall by a drunken rowdy, to test the balance of a throwing blade, offered to him by another rowdy, another drunken ruffian, for a coin, both killer humans. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 47 |
Interestingly there was no coin box on the necks of the slaves, as would be the case with "coin girls" in some cities, usually port cities, or coin dishes beside the mat, as in great camps, and such, in which coins might be left by clients or patrons. |
10 |
| 1 | 407 |
When the slave shops, if she is permitted to use her hands, and is not sent out back-braceleted with a coin sack tied about her neck, she commonly holds the coins clenched in her fist, or, not unoften, either, holds them in her mouth. |
10 |
| 5 | 765 |
"When the fighting began, and it became clear how desperate it was," said a fellow, "and how the city would be lost to us, we sought, in a brief surcease of battle, to sack up what coin we might, and other valuables, and prepared to fight our way toward the pomerium". |
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| 5 | 810 |
"They will bring good coin in the furs". |
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| 5 | 1044 |
If Cos and Tyros had paid these men good coin for their work in Ar, as I supposed they had, they would be skilled. |
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| 10 | 467 |
In any event, she brought large amounts of coin to her employers, and accordingly soon stood high, in arrogance, in her company, was welcomed into her establishment's chambers of power, and so on. |
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| 13 | 64 |
Free women take part in the commercial life of Gorean polities as men do, owning and managing businesses, lending coin, negotiating loans, organizing caravans, investing capital, conservatively, or risking it variously, in real estate, voyages, commodities, and such, in translating goods about to fi... |
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| 13 | 68 |
In essence, the free woman, aside from being regarded as a priceless treasure, so different from the slave who, as a beast, may be purchased for a given amount of coin, is considered an ornament to the city, an adornment to her polity. |
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| 15 | 190 |
"She is humanly worthless," said Pertinax, "even if not economically so, whatever coin she might sell for, whatever price might take her off a slave block, whether a silver tarsk or a copper shaving. |
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| 15 | 237 |
"If you do not want her, of course," I said, "there may be a price on her head as a former free woman of Ar, a bounty, and if that is the case you could always turn her in for a good bit of coin". |
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| 16 | 64 |
One expects the mercenary to fight for coin, not a Home Stone. |
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| 22 | 266 |
A man was conjecturing what might be her sales price, what might bring her into the hands of anyone, anyone whomsoever, who possessed the requisite coin or coins. |
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| 32 | 29 |
Many Goreans had never touched such a coin, let alone owned one. |
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| 32 | 101 |
I watched the mercenaries filing past the coffer, each receiving his coin. |
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| 26 | 48 |
One threads one or more such coins on a string, the string fastened about the bottom and top coin, or loops a string through several coins, and ties the loop shut above the top coin. |
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| 2 | 61 |
Where coin had been abundant, it was now scarce. |
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| 3 | 978 |
'I do not have family in Brundisium, but I have great wealth, placed with coin merchants!' 'Name them,' he said. |
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| 3 | 1192 |
Certainly they will pay valuable coin to bring them to the foot of their couch. |
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| 6 | 17 |
I thought she would bring good coin off the block. |
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| 7 | 83 |
To be sure, unless honor is thought to be involved, which may lead to blood and death, such matters are usually resolved amicably, perhaps by an apology and the payment of a use coin, A's putting one of his slaves, B's choice, at the disposal of B, or such. |
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| 19 | 206 |
I did not doubt but what she would bring good coin off the block. |
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| 20 | 8 |
Many men, were they now in Brundisium, in Venna, in Ar, would have been rich in coin, in silks, in perfumes, and jewels. |
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| 21 | 350 |
Sometimes a woman is sold, hooded and gagged, but this is rare, as a buyer usually wishes to see all of a slave, before risking coin. |
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| 21 | 748 |
"These are obviously beautiful slaves," I said, "high-grade merchandise, which would bring good coin off the block, but, as you have suggested, I see no particular reason for their hooding". |
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| 24 | 113 |
Too, of what value is a coin which cannot be spent? In any event, I was ashore, and much pleased that the slave, Alcinoë, was also ashore, and, obviously, for the time, at least, would be easy to keep track of. |
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| 26 | 50 |
Lesser Pani sometimes, on errands, carry the coin or coins in the mouth, rather as slaves may on the continent, and on the islands, while marketing for their masters. |
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| 29 | 42 |
They have sought your service, paid for it with good coin, which you accepted, and brought you here, in trust, across vast, green Thassa, to the World's End, that you may prove your worth and earn your pay, that you may teach those of these islands the honor, the prowess, and might of the archers, s... |
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| 33 | 306 |
One might see docksmen there, as well, looking to pick up coin. |
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| 35 | 89 |
I soon spent my coin. |
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| 35 | 120 |
The stranger, at the head of the gangplank, held out the sack of coin to the angular fellow, who had cast it to the feet of Demetrion. |
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| 35 | 121 |
"If this coin is what I think it is, from its weight," he said to the spare, angular fellow, presumably the captain, or a high officer, "it is too much". |
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| 35 | 122 |
"Give me the coin!" called Demetrion, from the pier. |
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| 35 | 130 |
The stranger then tossed the single coin which had been extracted from the sack to the planks at the feet of Demetrion, who swiftly reached down, and snatched it up. |
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| 35 | 131 |
He and his party then forced their way back through the crowd, some of whom had been close enough to see what the coin had been. |
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| 35 | 138 |
"Only silver, only a tarsk!" But that single, weighty coin had been yellow, like Tor-tu-Gor. |
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| 36 | 121 |
"No," said the captain, "at least not those of the Court of Brundisium, unless more coin is put forth. |
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| 36 | 171 |
Much was done with ink and paper, deliveries arranged to the ship, the coin to be paid at her side. |
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| 36 | 181 |
Commonly they do nothing for coin received, but, occasionally, they agree to bless the giver, and commend him to Priest-Kings. |
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| 36 | 309 |
Each returned the coin to his own purse, and then wiped from his forehead the dagger. |
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| 37 | 37 |
Are you listening to me? She is a well-formed slave, but you could probably trade her in, at a slave house, for a better, given an extra coin or two". |
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| 37 | 582 |
"Some coin," she said, "tiny golden tarsks, almost like beads, which are light and consume little space, but mostly pearls, and jewels". |
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| 37 | 830 |
"A sudden craving, yes, dear friend," I said, lifting my clenched fist, holding the tiny, beadlike coin, a golden tarsk, "but scarcely for paga". |
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| 37 | 918 |
Callias thoughtfully placed the coin in my purse. |
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| 37 | 1357 |
"If he found me of slave interest," she said, "why was it that he never snapped his fingers, summoning me to his table, why did he not bind me, and thrust me before him to an alcove?" "I did not want you thusly," I said, "a girl for a coin, to be relinquished after some Ehn or an Ahn, or so, to be c... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 391 |
"No coin, no coin, nothing!" I said. |
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| 8 | 137 |
On the other hand, notes are exchanged amongst various coin houses, or banking houses, without difficulty. |
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| 8 | 913 |
They are not out to coddle them, but to make coin on them. |
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| 8 | 1317 |
I took forty-two silver tarsks to be a considerable amount of coin, particularly for a new slave. |
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| 10 | 186 |
Was a coin box to be chained about my neck and I would be sent into the streets? Was I to be put at the disposal of guests when I had finished serving a supper? Was I to be rented out? To be sure, it is not unusual for a free woman to want her serving slaves to be attractive to men. |
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| 10 | 378 |
"But soon, soon!" "Where is your coin box, your pan?" he asked. |
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| 10 | 451 |
I am sure they made the instructresses pay later in the "coin of the furs," not that the instructresses would much mind that. |
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| 14 | 34 |
"Do you know the praetor's platform, by the coin stalls?" asked the beast. |
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| 14 | 37 |
One was near the coin stalls, and Sul Market, the other, rather across the plaza, not far from the Paga and Ka-la-na Markets. |
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| 14 | 38 |
The coin stalls were, in effect, exchanges, as, in a market of the size of that of Cestias, in a city such as Ar, buyers and sellers from diverse cities might mingle and carry diverse currencies. |
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| 14 | 45 |
The professional in shaving keeps the roundness of the subject coin as perfect as possible. |
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| 14 | 46 |
Sometimes it is hard to tell, by eye, that a coin has been shaved. |
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| 15 | 17 |
Why had I done that? I knew what I was to do, elude guardsmen, and go to the market of Cestias, near the praetor's platform near the coin stalls. |
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| 15 | 73 |
I would make my way, slowly, carefully, toward the coin stalls, now deserted. |
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| 15 | 84 |
It was close to that platform that the coin stalls, perhaps advisedly, were stationed. |
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| 15 | 118 |
I then began, again, my progress, bit by bit, toward the praetor's platform, and the empty coin stalls. |
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| 15 | 122 |
At last, to my relief, I came to the coin stall nearest the praetor's platform. |
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| 15 | 360 |
There would doubtless be some speculation as to the damage undergone by one of the coin stalls. |
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| 17 | 466 |
A coin passed from him to Astrinax. |
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| 18 | 83 |
How different were things now, from my former world! How far were we all, now, from the banalities, the boredoms, the competitions, and trivialities of the sorority! How meaningless we had been, how worthless! We now had worth, some value, at least what coin we might bring. |
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| 18 | 1160 |
"You have meat and paga, I trust, and we have coin, though doubtless your hospitality may be depended upon, and wagons approach, as well, doubtless well supplied". |
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| 19 | 16 |
"She is renting you out, to make coin," said a fellow. |
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| 21 | 84 |
Unfortunately there is no smaller coin. |
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| 21 | 89 |
A tarsk-bit is not unheard of for a use, but the use would presumably be brief, as, say, for a coin girl, used on the stones of a street. |
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| 24 | 43 |
We will merely take what you have, your coin, your supplies, your weaponry, the women". |
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| 24 | 137 |
"Give us your coin, and half the supplies," said Trachinos. |
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| 27 | 53 |
Trachinos, however, learning her projected fate, had cried out to Kleomenes, "No! I will buy her! Sell her to me!" Kleomenes arranged this matter with Lucius, and Lucius, who took little interest in the affairs of humans, turned the coin over to Kleomenes, a silver tarsk. |
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| 33 | 40 |
Who knew what clandestine gold might now have found its home in a new purse? Might the fellow beside you suddenly turn on you? Accordingly, much of the financing involved in such matters would doubtless be accomplished by means of drafts, notes, letters, and such, things mysterious, even unreal, to ... |
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| 45 | 14 |
Mina was to have been fed alive to Kurii until Trachinos had intervened with coin, purchasing her. |
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| 49 | 354 |
I could not then well speak, for the coin in my mouth. |
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| 49 | 359 |
He put out his hand and I dropped the coin from my mouth into his palm, "They did not make use of me," I said. |
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| 49 | 385 |
He then replaced the coin in my mouth. |
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| 49 | 390 |
It is not unusual for a slave to carry a coin or coins in her mouth. |
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| 49 | 393 |
In the domicile, I knelt before my Mistress, the Lady Bina, and dropped the coin at her feet. |
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| 49 | 396 |
I did not neglect to explain the origin of the coin. |
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| 49 | 431 |
"Someone by whose coin you would like to have been taken off the slave block," she said. |
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| 49 | 437 |
"Is this," she asked, looking at the coin, "all your use was worth?" "I had nothing to say about it," I said. |
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| 49 | 446 |
To give her a coin would be a great insult". |
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| 49 | 464 |
"As I understand it," said Lord Grendel, "a copper tarsk-bit is the usual price for a use, for example, to be placed in the pan beside a secured camp girl, to be put in the chained neck box of a coin girl, and such". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 453 |
"Here," said Axel, who drew from his wallet a small coin, a yellow coin, a gold tarsk, perhaps from Besnit or Harfax, where such coins are popular, and tossed it to my captor, who caught it. |
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| 4 | 53 |
How well they display the house's merchandise, sometimes subtly, so cleverly, sometimes brazenly, so boldly, invitingly, seductively! Many men who lack the coin to make a realistic bid frequent the emporia, the selling wagons, the shelves, the cages, the platforms, the camps, and barns, to gather th... |
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| 5 | 256 |
The face value of a coin is meaningless. |
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| 5 | 257 |
The coin is worth only what it will buy This is obvious, but many on my former world, oddly enough, seem unaware of this. |
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| 6 | 104 |
"Where is your shield," they might be asked, "where is your sword?" In Brundisium, on the other hand, a busy port, with access to the northern and southern coastal trade, and an access to the major island ubarates westward, Cos and Tyros, there was considerable prosperity, for the coin that leaves o... |
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| 6 | 238 |
I looked at the coin lying on the table. |
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| 6 | 240 |
"Some men have never seen such a coin," I said. |
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| 6 | 295 |
He replaced the coin in his wallet. |
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| 6 | 345 |
At his belt hung the coin sack. |
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| 6 | 353 |
He rustled the coin sack at his belt. |
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| 6 | 357 |
The coin box, with its slot, and lock, was behind him. |
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| 6 | 390 |
I removed a Brundisium tarsk-bit, which is a large coin, the size perhaps intended to compensate for the slightness of its value. |
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| 6 | 393 |
I placed the coin in her mouth. |
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| 6 | 395 |
The coin was far too large to swallow, and, held in her mouth, she could not speak. |
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| 7 | 83 |
An unusual market situation had accordingly come about, one in which goods were relatively abundant while prices, interestingly, remained relatively stable, this apparently because of buyers rich in coin who wished to conduct their affairs with dispatch, and be on their way. |
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| 8 | 165 |
"As you wish," said the proprietor, looking from the large coin in his hand to the blade at my hip. |
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| 8 | 281 |
I stood up, and slipped the coin in my wallet. |
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| 9 | 278 |
"Many," said the newcomer, "for what women, if not of high caste, would be in a position to secure coin and power by serving the enemy, to reveal secrets, to supply information, to corner, manage, and horde goods, to wheedle concessions and arrange clandestine sources of supply and private markets, ... |
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| 9 | 285 |
Many of those women, I supposed, would have been apprehended by fellow fugitives and sold in Brundisium One would make a coin where one could, and, I suppose, the making of some coins, more than others, can be exceedingly pleasant. |
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| 10 | 19 |
They kill for coin. |
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| 12 | 26 |
Probably I had come north for the coin, or for curiosity, or, at least, for adventure. |
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| 34 | 13 |
But if you were to find a coin in the sand, even one of modest value, you might stoop to pick it up, might you not?" "Of course," I said. |
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| 34 | 15 |
"Your stupid little barbarian friend is such a coin. |
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| 37 | 142 |
So, I thought, the sorry wallet has been opened, and it contains a coin of gold; the dingy wrapper has been unrolled, and within it we find rare silk; the uninspiring amphora has been unsealed, and within it we find a splendid wine, the sort men might prize, and for which they might bid, and heatedl... |
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| 38 | 158 |
"I find it hard to believe that you have come this far, surely at the cost of time and coin, for a handful of Panther Girls who, as they are Panther Girls, are likely to be less appealing than your average she- tarsk". |
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| 40 | 7 |
"They could not resist bending down and picking up a coin in the leaves". |
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| 41 | 137 |
"I would be well pleased if his coin could take me off the block". |
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| 42 | 6 |
Was I truly nothing but another slave to him, merely another piece of meaningless collar-meat, to be indifferently fetched from a pen, or block, by a coin? How I hated him! How I wanted his collar! Then I was afraid. |
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| 43 | 1163 |
He then handed Genserich a small but weighty sack of coin. |
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| 43 | 1165 |
"Our friends from the coast have done well enough here, in both coin and weaponry. |
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| 51 | 19 |
Angrily, he drew from his wallet a double tarn of gold, and hurled it against my jacket, where I caught it, and regarded it, incredulously Many Goreans have never seen such a coin, and some doubt that it exists. |
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| 52 | 462 |
How, I wondered, could my captor bring himself to give up that beauty, for any amount of gold? To be sure, she, as I, was a property and would go for whatever coin or coins might be agreed upon by masters. |
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| 53 | 17 |
"It is like a coin," I said, "but it is too large". |
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| 53 | 22 |
"It is a coin," he said. |
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| 53 | 24 |
He held out his hand, and I hastily, with relief, returned the coin. |
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| 53 | 28 |
There are merchants who have never had their hands on such a coin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 72 |
"We have a coin for rice," had said Haruki. |
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| 30 | 73 |
"A coin?" said the fellow, surprised. |
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| 30 | 76 |
"Let me see your coin," said the peasant. |
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| 30 | 88 |
A shaved coin is one from which a clip or filings of metal have been removed, which clips or filings, melted down in sufficient numbers, may be reformed into new coins, plates, or ingots. |
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| 30 | 107 |
"One coin for four fukuros of rice," said Haruki. |
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| 45 | 78 |
"So the die is honest and the coin fair," said Pertinax. |
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| 46 | 97 |
The peasant drew a thread of copper coins from his wallet, removed from it a single, tiny coin, and held it up. |
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| 61 | 189 |
The dice would disappear, the coin would vanish. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 226 |
"A coin is a coin," he said. |
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| 40 | 220 |
"Give me the coin!" Epicrates surrendered the coin and Lady Delia examined it, carefully. |
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| 68 | 424 |
Do you not think some of those men would wish to lead you home with them? Might not a man offer your master coin for you, coin that he would be unlikely to refuse?" "It is too late," she said. |
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| 3 | 30 |
"She should bring us good coin," said the brute, appreciatively, in whose arms I was helpless. |
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| 20 | 28 |
She spit a coin or two into the palm of her hand, for she was obviously on an errand of some sort for her master. |
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| 24 | 53 |
The driver received his coin, and the wagon rolled away. |
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| 26 | 127 |
Too, as far as I could tell, she had no coin, or coins, in her mouth, nor clutched in her hand. |
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| 28 | 37 |
The coin had been dropped into the cup by the fellow who had made the supposed bids of twenty and twenty-one copper tarsks for me. |
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