| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 235 |
There was another possibility I mentioned to my father—perhaps the planet had been in our system all the time, but had been undiscovered, unlikely though that might be, given the thousands of years of study of the skies by men, from the shambling creatures of the Neander Valley to the brillia... |
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| 6 | 97 |
"I do not think it is appropriate for rational creatures to speak loudly". |
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| 6 | 102 |
The Spider People do not hurt rational creatures". |
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| 6 | 108 |
If they were not rational creatures, we would fight them". |
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| 6 | 110 |
"The word has spread from the city, carried by all the rational creatures, whether they crawl or fly or swim". |
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| 12 | 90 |
Near one of the green stretches I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-colored and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair. |
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| 2 | 18 |
Their concern was with their own remote and mysterious ends; to achieve these ends, human creatures were treated as subservient instruments. |
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| 9 | 139 |
"Those creatures that float in the street behind masks of silver," I asked, "are they truly women?" "Truly," said one of the men, restraining a laugh. |
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| 13 | 147 |
The shrill rage of these masked creatures seemed to know no bounds, to verge on hysteria, on madness. |
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| 14 | 10 |
Like most members of my Caste, more than the monstrous tarns, those carnivorous hawklike giants of Gor, I dreaded such creatures as the tiny ost, that diminutive, venomous reptile, orange, scarcely more than a few inches in length, that might lurk at one's very sandal and then, without provocation o... |
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| 19 | 67 |
I could imagine the terror of those poor creatures cringing in those traps beneath the ground waiting to hear the distant rush of water through the tunnels. |
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| 21 | 228 |
They were vital, splendid creatures, many of them undoubtedly exquisitely trained to delight the senses of a master. |
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| 21 | 232 |
Were these marvelous creatures, each of whom already wore the graceful brand of the slave girl, any the less worthy than she? "No," I said to Targo. |
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| 26 | 20 |
These poor creatures were hunted from cylinder to cylinder, from room to room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 21 | 56 |
While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen Priest-Kings against the ceiling, began to fill their golden vessels from the... |
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| 1 | 3 |
I had arrived four days before on tarnback at the black palisade that encircles the dreaded Sardar, those dark mountains, crowned with ice, consecrated to the Priest-Kings, forbidden to men, to mortals, to all creatures of flesh and blood. |
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| 10 | 68 |
"Then there are creatures other than Priest-Kings who live here," I said. |
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| 10 | 78 |
"They are timid creatures," said the Priest-King, "and I am afraid they have never been able to accustom themselves to the sight of your kind". |
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| 12 | 3 |
The plaza was crowded, not only with Priest-Kings but even more with various creatures of other forms and natures. |
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| 12 | 220 |
"Kusk would surely be displeased if his creatures were to be destroyed," I said. |
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| 13 | 96 |
Indeed, even I myself, after my experience of the arthropod on the platform and the flat, sluglike beast on its transportation disk in the plaza, was growing accustomed to finding strange creatures in the Nest of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 13 | 110 |
"Yes," said the other, "and they are fond of it, and are themselves creatures of great reverence for tradition". |
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| 15 | 113 |
"All creatures who instruct their young alter their brains. |
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| 15 | 114 |
How else could learning take place? This device is merely a comparatively considerate, swift and efficient means to an end that is universally regarded as desirable by rational creatures". |
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| 21 | 51 |
I wondered at what manner of creatures they were. |
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| 21 | 54 |
Then to my amazement, one by one, the strange creatures, disdaining the bars near the door began simply to pad up the almost vertical walls to the Priest-Kings and then, astonishingly, began to walk upside down on the ceiling. |
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| 21 | 60 |
The Muls made no use of the bars and from this I gathered that they might have been placed where they were in ancient times before there were such creatures to serve Priest-Kings. |
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| 25 | 11 |
I wondered how many more such creatures might dwell in similar passages and caverns near the tunnels of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 25 | 113 |
There were several other creatures in the cases but I am not sure of their classification. |
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| 25 | 122 |
As I gazed on this strange assemblage of creatures in the tiered cases it seemed clear to me that I must be gazing upon one of the vivaria of which I had heard Sarm speak. |
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| 26 | 260 |
I wondered of the struggles of my own world as well as on Gor, struggles which over millennia had shaped the blood and inmost being of my species, perhaps conflicts over tunnels in cliffs to be fought with the savage cave bear, long dangerous weeks spent hunting the same game as the saber-toothed ti... |
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| 27 | 114 |
But on the platform before which these golden creatures stood there lay the Mother, perhaps blind, almost insensate, the large, feeble thing they revered, weak, brownish, withered, the huge worn body at last wrinkled and empty. |
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| 27 | 151 |
I knew the unusual strength of Priest-Kings and I could well imagine the stresses and pressures that throbbed in the frames of those locked creatures as they rocked back and forth, to one side and another, each pressing and seeking for the advantage that would mean death to the other. |
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| 27 | 153 |
I could now hear the sucking in of air through the breathing tubes of both creatures. |
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| 28 | 19 |
It was the carriers of Gur but far from the Gur Chamber and I watched with something of awe as the long procession of humanoid creatures, two abreast, marched along the ceiling of the tunnel until they stopped above me. |
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| 28 | 28 |
Al-Ka raised his arm and pointed to the creatures above us. |
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| 28 | 34 |
I saw that the creatures above me, whom I shall now speak of as Gur Carriers, for they were no longer Muls, still carried their sacks of golden leather. |
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| 28 | 37 |
"The Nest is dying," said one of the creatures hanging above me, "and we have determined that we will die free". |
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| 28 | 78 |
And her fears were not lessened as she looked beyond me to see the creatures, undoubtedly hideous to her eyes, who clung spiderlike to the ceiling of the Vivarium chamber with their glowing Mul-Torches. |
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| 28 | 179 |
And as they fought together they came, as creatures will, to respect one another and to rely on one another, becoming, incredibly enough, friends. |
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| 28 | 188 |
Rumor had it that the only Muls whom Sarm had not ordered slain on sight were the Implanted Ones, among whom would be such creatures as Parp, whom I had met long ago when first I entered the lair of Priest-Kings. |
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| 30 | 5 |
To one side I saw a brownish Priest-King, very thin and angular, wearing the appearances of age but yet his antennae seemed as alert as those of any one of the golden creatures. |
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| 30 | 16 |
Though I felt no pain nor any of the discomfort I would have expected, I now understood that these creatures had infused into the very tissues of my brain one of the golden control webs that could be operated from the Scanning Chamber of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 30 | 58 |
The translator was for the benefit of creatures such as Parp, who spent a good deal of time in the headquarters. |
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| 30 | 71 |
These creatures, perhaps two hundred or more, were loosed and by means of covered transportation disks, piloted by Priest-Kings using oxygen systems internal to the disks, were driven toward the quarters of the Nest controlled by the unsuspecting Misk and his forces. |
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| 30 | 80 |
Oddly enough, to human thinking, neither Misk nor Sarm would permit their humans to slay the Beetles, for Priest-Kings, for a reason which I will later relate, find themselves normally unwilling to slay or order the destruction of the dangerous, fused-winged creatures. |
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| 31 | 68 |
I could see that neither of them had the least intention of injuring one of the lovely creatures in their power. |
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| 31 | 217 |
The very globe and walkway seemed to lift and tremble but neither of the creatures locked together above me seemed to take the least notice. |
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| 33 | 124 |
And then with shame I realized how nearly I myself had come to betraying my fellow creatures. |
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| 35 | 56 |
He was one of the greatest creatures I had known, brilliant, courageous, loyal, selfless, dedicated. |
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| 35 | 93 |
"It is wrong to implant rational creatures," said Misk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 357 |
"Doubtless," said Misk, "but the interesting thing to Priest-Kings is that the Others, rational and advanced creatures presumably, have elected this primitive fashion of controlling their population". |
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| 5 | 407 |
"But humans are rational creatures," I said. |
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| 5 | 408 |
"On the ships," said Misk, "humans, and certain other organic creatures, are raised for meat". |
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| 5 | 410 |
"The Others," said Misk, "see humans, and most other creatures, either as feed or tools". |
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| 5 | 418 |
Further, innocent rational creatures might be destroyed. |
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| 12 | 218 |
She was one of the most rawly sensuous creatures on which I had ever looked. |
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| 15 | 200 |
She had learned on Gor that women are marvelous, but that they are not men, nor should they be; that they are themselves; that they are independent, magnificent creatures; that it takes two sexes for the human race to be whole; and that each is splendid. |
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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 |
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| 10 | 251 |
She is famed for her vart caves, and indeed, on that island, trained varts, batlike creatures, some the size of small dogs, are used as weapons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 161 |
Each was drawn by two bosk, large brown creatures with spreading, polished horns, hung with beads. |
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| 13 | 174 |
I, however, contented myself with nuts and fruits, and roots, and water creatures which resembled those with which I was familiar, and, of course, the flesh of small birds and animals. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 367 |
They regard, it seems, all women, slave or free, as soft, worthless creatures, so unlike themselves. |
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| 14 | 256 |
Proud, magnificent creatures. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 164 |
Yet who is to say who is the more correct? I envy sometimes the simplicities of those of Earth, and those of Gor, who, creatures of their conditioning, are untroubled by such matters, but I would not be as either of them. |
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| 11 | 34 |
"Fellow rational creatures!" called the Kur. |
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| 11 | 39 |
"Fellow rational creatures!" called the Kur. |
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| 11 | 47 |
They, like the first, were fearsome creatures. |
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| 11 | 111 |
You have, cruelly, and without compunction, hunted us and, when we sought comradeship with you as brothers, as fellow rational creatures, you have sought to slay us". |
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| 11 | 165 |
I could detect, however, that it more resembled the snarls and growling of larls than the converse of rational creatures. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 42 |
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of... |
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| 1 | 82 |
Western industrialized societies on Earth optimally would be manned by metal creatures, sexless, smoothly functioning, programmed to tend, preserve and replicate the metal society. |
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| 1 | 251 |
"But I think the Kurii, who are rational creatures, will not risk full war until reasonably assured as to its outcome. |
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| 1 | 759 |
Lights, in the Nest, were for the benefit of humans and other visually oriented creatures sharing the domicile. |
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| 1 | 770 |
Unfortunate though it might be, I doubted and, I think, realistically, that Priest-Kings, those large, golden creatures, so gentle and delicate seeming, so content to mind their own affairs, truly understood their enemy, the Kurii. |
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| 16 | 63 |
It swims slowly and smoothly, its fins moving the water very little, which apparently contributes to its own concealment in a blind environment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of its prey, any of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods. |
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| 16 | 95 |
These, in turn, become food for various flatworms and numerous tiny segmented creatures, such as isopods, which, in turn, serve as food for small, blind, white crayfish, lelts and salamanders. |
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| 17 | 50 |
It swims slowly, conserving its energy, not alerting its prey, commonly flatworms and tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods. |
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| 19 | 25 |
"Are they not mythical, creatures of stories?" "Kurii exist," I said to him. |
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| 21 | 291 |
The Priest-Kings, of course, would have been only puzzled; their response would have been curiosity, inquiry; it would never occur to them, rational creatures, what might be the enormity of the plan of Kurii. |
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| 21 | 292 |
I sensed there might be different parties among them, creatures so menacing, so fierce, so aggressive, so proud, so imperialistic, so uncompromising, factional and belligerent. |
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| 24 | 454 |
I do not even know if there are many masters on Earth, true masters, masters who know, treasure and love women, for what they are in themselves, not for their conformance to some images alien to their deeper nature, men who so desire and lust for such creatures that they are content with nothing les... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1157 |
The platforms were white, and carried on the shoulders of ten men apiece; the wagon was brown, and was drawn by two large, brown, wide-horned, shaggy, oxlike shambling creatures, conducted by two men. |
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| 2 | 1158 |
The men who carried the platforms and those who conducted the shambling oxlike creatures were dressed not dissimilarly from the others, those flanking the march and those in and about the march. |
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| 2 | 1225 |
The wagon which followed late in the procession, that drawn by the conducted, shambling oxlike creatures, carried, I conjectured, the supplies of the retinue. |
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| 5 | 119 |
Added to the one wagon which had been drawn by the shaggy, oxlike creatures were now four other wagons. |
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| 5 | 120 |
These wagons, too, apparently, were each drawn by a pair of the oxlike creatures, called bosk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 289 |
There were carvings of sea sleen, and fish, and whales, and birds, and other creatures, large and small, of the north. |
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| 15 | 524 |
Masculine women, those unfortunate creatures, in their frustration, exploit this weakness in the men of Earth. |
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| 21 | 215 |
"How outrageous that such lovely creatures as I must come into the power of such scoundrels," she said. |
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| 32 | 114 |
I thought of the lofty, delicate, golden creatures. |
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| 37 | 128 |
I took one last look at the distant, churning, steaming waters, erupting and boiling, where the polar sea, as though offended and startled, hissing in indignation, recoiled from the fiery touch of a mechanism contrived paradoxically by the wit of rational creatures. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 192 |
They have been brought here by men, or creatures, or beings of some kind, who can do with them as they please. |
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| 34 | 263 |
In another sense all living creatures are objects. |
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| 43 | 7 |
It was similar to the tiny lung fish I had seen earlier on the river, those little creatures clinging to the half-submerged roots of shore trees, and, as often as not, sunning themselves on the backs of tharlarion, those tiny fish called gints. |
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| 48 | 124 |
They knew themselves at the absolute mercy of the small creatures that for so long had elicited naught but their contempt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 798 |
How strange it then seemed to me that society should ever have developed in such a way that such delicious and desirable creatures should have ever been permitted their freedom. |
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| 12 | 123 |
Somewhere on Earth, here and there, I was certain, there were honestly strong men, in the historical and biological sense, men before women knelt as smaller and weaker creatures, and objects of intense desire. |
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| 21 | 276 |
How marvelous it is to be on a world where such lovely, delicious creatures may be owned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 353 |
We would remain men and women, only then, perhaps, mutilated and sickened men and women, useful tools in the schemes of others, of cunning and pathological frustrates, themselves often as confused and miserable as the uncritical creatures they would systematically delude. |
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| 13 | 173 |
"I envy the miserable creatures". |
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| 19 | 53 |
The dock eels, black, about four feet long, are tenacious creatures. |
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| 24 | 613 |
Petty, arrogant, smug, cold, proud, inert, frustrated, the women of Earth trod the sands of their native world; the men of Earth, I thought, did not begin to suspect the gold into which such pain and dross could be transmuted; how long, I wondered, before such creatures were brought naked to their k... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 928 |
How angry then are sometimes the Gorean women when they find that such contemptible creatures as Earth-girl slaves may sometimes be preferred by men to them, and even bring higher prices on the block. |
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| 20 | 1782 |
These small creatures were gathered up by mingling warriors and nursed, being warmed and fed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1339 |
To enter such a country and find him it seems to us useful to enlist the help of human beings, creatures of a sort which the red savages will understand to be of their own kind, creatures with whom they might be expected, for a price, to be cooperative. |
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| 1 | 260 |
Such stories, for they were very old on Gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most Goreans only as the Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 293 |
I could see now, in the light of the lantern, that the fur of one of the creatures was a darkish brown, and the fur of the other was almost black. |
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| 1 | 320 |
"Too," I said, "such things are proud, vain creatures. |
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| 1 | 324 |
"They, too," I said, "like all rational creatures, have their sense of propriety and etiquette". |
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| 1 | 344 |
I had, in my adventures on Gor, met several of the confederates of such creatures, both male and female. |
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| 1 | 393 |
Sinuously, slowly, the two creatures separated and then, slowly, seemed to rise and grow before us. |
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| 1 | 400 |
Such creatures are primarily nocturnal. |
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| 1 | 405 |
The creatures seemed to continue to grow before us. |
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| 1 | 408 |
Standing as they were, upright, the larger of the two creatures was some nine feet tall, and the smaller some eight and a half feet tall. |
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| 1 | 417 |
I looked across the table at the creatures. |
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| 1 | 428 |
I did not take my eyes from the creatures. |
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| 1 | 431 |
I was uncertain as to what alien protocols the creatures might expect us to observe. |
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| 1 | 432 |
The creatures stood upright now but they could function as well on all fours, using the hind legs and the knuckles of the hands. |
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| 1 | 435 |
In running, such creatures almost invariably, like the baboon, have recourse to all fours. |
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| 1 | 446 |
"It seems to have been an ancient belief among such creatures," I said, "that thought was a function of the blood, rather than of the brain, a terminology which has apparently lingered in their common speech. |
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| 1 | 470 |
There was a broad leather strap, too, running from the right shoulder to the left hip of the smaller of the two creatures. |
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| 1 | 476 |
"Such creatures are not noted for their patience". |
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| 1 | 489 |
"Such creatures do not care, usually, to be touched by humans," I said. |
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| 1 | 498 |
Then, slowly, the smaller of the two creatures began to move. |
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| 1 | 515 |
That the creatures had seen fit to utilize this convention, one of humans, was clear. |
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| 1 | 519 |
To be sure, however, it was only the lighter colored, and smaller, of the two creatures, that with rings in its ears, which had performed these actions. |
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| 1 | 525 |
It was thus placed, and oriented, in such a way that the Blood, which stood on the left, from their point of view, if it favored the right hand, or paw, as most such creatures do, rather like humans, could easily bend down and seize it up. |
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| 1 | 531 |
The lips of the smaller of the two creatures drew back, exposing the fangs. |
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| 1 | 539 |
"I do not trust such creatures," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 542 |
The smaller of the two creatures turned to the larger. |
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| 1 | 544 |
The speech of such creatures resembles a succession of snarls, growls, rasps and throaty vibrations. |
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| 1 | 549 |
The smaller of the two creatures then busied itself with the device on the table. |
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| 1 | 552 |
Shaking the head sideways, among rational creatures, may be taken as a negation of assent. |
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| 1 | 558 |
I had, once or twice, heard such creatures speaking Gorean. |
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| 1 | 601 |
The creatures, then, heard the name of Samos. |
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| 1 | 603 |
This is different, it should be noted, with the names of the two creatures, 'Kog' and 'Sardak'. |
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| 1 | 604 |
These names were given in Gorean phonemes, not in the phonemes of the creatures' own language. |
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| 1 | 607 |
Presumably Samos and I could not have pronounced the actual names of the creatures. |
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| 1 | 608 |
'Kog' and 'Sardak', however, doubtless correlated in some fashion, given some type of phonemic transcription found acceptable by the creatures, with their actual names. |
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| 1 | 611 |
I saw the lips of the two creatures draw back. |
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| 1 | 614 |
What would the Council of Captains know of such creatures, or of the warrings among worlds? He had not identified himself as being among the party of those forces arrayed against the ravaging, concupiscent imperialism of our savage colleagues. |
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| 1 | 634 |
We knew that divisions as to tactics, if not ultimate objectives, existed among parties of such creatures. |
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| 1 | 637 |
When Kog had made his response to the question I was, by intent, watching not him but the other of the two creatures. |
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| 1 | 647 |
Such creatures, I gathered, had no clear idea of the nature of Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 650 |
Priest-Kings, wisely, did not choose to directly confront such creatures. |
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| 1 | 651 |
Not a little of the hesitancy and tentativeness of the militaristic incursions of such creatures was, I suspected, a function of their ignorance of, and fear of, the true nature and power of the remote and mysterious denizens of the Sardar. |
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| 1 | 652 |
If such creatures should come to clearly understand the nature of the Priest-Kings, and the current restrictions on their power, in virtue of the catastrophic Nest War, I had little doubt but what the attack signals would be almost immediately transmitted to the steel worlds. |
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| 1 | 660 |
The larger of the two creatures, during this exchange, was watching me. |
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| 1 | 669 |
"Their race has not yet achieved species unification," said the larger of the two creatures, to his fellow. |
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| 1 | 674 |
Such creatures, being territorial, individualistic and aggressive, much like men, would not be likely to find the bland idealisms of more vegetative organisms interesting, attractive or practical. |
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| 1 | 676 |
All creatures are not the same, nor is it necessary that they should be. |
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| 1 | 697 |
The creatures, of course, would not be familiar with council procedures. |
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| 1 | 699 |
I admired the creatures. |
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| 1 | 711 |
I suspected that the two creatures did not believe Samos when he protested to them that he could speak only on behalf of himself. |
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| 1 | 789 |
Such creatures, perhaps thousands of years ago, had, it seemed, destroyed their own world. |
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| 1 | 1297 |
I knew there were factions among these creatures. |
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| 1 | 1312 |
I was truly amazed at the patience which the creatures exhibited. |
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| 1 | 1359 |
I saw the eyes of the two creatures glinting like fiery copper plates. |
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| 1 | 1367 |
"Fire!" With the titanic beating of wings the two tarns, the creatures mounted on them, took flight from the ruins of the tarn cot. |
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| 1 | 1372 |
I saw the creatures mounted on the tarns, silhouetted against one of Gor's three moons, fleeing over the marshes. |
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| 1 | 1376 |
What a titanic effort of will must have been necessary for them, creatures so ferocious and savage, to have controlled themselves as long as they had. |
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| 2 | 25 |
"That possibility would not be unlikely to occur to such creatures," said Samos. |
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| 6 | 53 |
It is a very large compound, probably because he also handles kaiila, and there must be running space for such active, agile creatures. |
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| 17 | 159 |
Had she been of Earth origin, of course, she would have been far less startled, for then such creatures would have been much more familiar to her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 175 |
Human females are such rich and wonderful creatures. |
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| 16 | 253 |
How delicious are such creatures. |
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| 33 | 322 |
What deep and wonderful creatures they are. |
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| 37 | 141 |
The standing position, of course, as is the case with bipedalian creatures, tends to increase their scanning range. |
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| 47 | 497 |
It would be a long time, I thought, before Kaiila or Yellow Knives would be likely to again take such beasts for supernatural creatures, visitants from the medicine world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 798 |
In many respects Priest-Kings seem to be tolerant and defensive creatures. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 699 |
And surely the luscious creatures, though no more than animals bearing brands in their lovely hide, are aware of their desirability, their attractiveness, their importance, and meaning to men. |
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| 2 | 765 |
"Luscious, vain creatures," I observed. |
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| 10 | 851 |
A Gorean saying has it that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira, but, of course, kajirae, as any member of their wonderful, beautiful sex, are extremely, delightfully inquisitive creatures. |
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| 14 | 249 |
No, it did not seem likely that even sleen could make it through such a dense thicket of large, vicious creatures. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 348 |
"I do not want to be one of those pathetic creatures who must wait on you and serve you!" "Are you an Alar?" I asked. |
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| 22 | 135 |
"They are charming as well as useful creatures. |
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| 25 | 316 |
"They are pleasant, meaningless creatures," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 21 | 1080 |
Little on Earth has prepared them to be so looked upon by men, so forthrightly, so unabashedly, so honestly, as females, as desirable females, as creatures of considerable sexual interest. |
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| 21 | 1083 |
They come to understand themselves at last as what they are, as what can no longer be denied, as living, desirable females, as sexual creatures, and that they are, perhaps for the first time in their lives, as such, of great interest and importance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 1188 |
And they, such deliciously vain creatures, know well how to use them, adorning themselves, enhancing their beauty, making themselves even more excruciatingly desirable! Among slaves a handful of glass or wooden beads may confer a prestige that amongst free women might not be garnered with diamonds. |
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| 10 | 5 |
He held the bit of rence stalk, still smoking from the fire, to one of the creatures on my back. |
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| 10 | 9 |
How much can one of those creatures, even given the hideous distention of its digestive cavity, hold? Yet there had been many during the day. |
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| 10 | 13 |
He had removed, by my count, eleven of the creatures. |
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| 12 | 234 |
Also, their presence, such scantily clad, collared creatures, might too severely test the discipline of the men". |
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| 18 | 249 |
Men are not, no more than for the tharlarion, the natural prey of such creatures. |
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| 18 | 251 |
To be sure, this is not worth depending on as these creatures, like others, differ, the one from the other. |
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| 19 | 1245 |
On Earth, as I recall, and I have no reason to suppose matters have much changed on that far, polluted, mad, hypocritical, unloving, hate-filled orb, though you would be better judges than I of such matters, women, in large numbers, tended to be aloof, inert, and calculating, creatures of judgment a... |
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| 19 | 1822 |
"Surely you object, and feel grief for them, such piteous creatures, so abused, so forced, so helpless, so rightless, who must unquestioningly bend their collared necks, and wills, to the lust of imperious masters?" I asked. |
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| 20 | 68 |
"In fishing for such creatures," I said, "one may, of course, use one's own body as bait". |
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| 20 | 81 |
"Did you detect the presence of further such creatures upon me?" she asked, frightened. |
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| 29 | 29 |
Accordingly, it was our practice to remove Ina from the path of such creatures before they could make any physical contact, even an exploratory bumping or brushing. |
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| 29 | 30 |
Not all such creatures can be depended upon to behave in the same fashion. |
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| 31 | 33 |
Nowadays, with the increasing numbers of female slaves in the delta, a development muchly resented by the free females, though for whatever reason it is hard to imagine, given their claims of superiority to such creatures, many of the men, those lucky enough to own a slave, are less frustrated and d... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 285 |
Too, of course, women, who are enormously sensitive, complex, marvelous creatures, can hope for, welcome, and respond to, such things as tenderness, gentleness, and softness. |
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| 12 | 395 |
How different she was from many of the free women we had seen earlier being led through the streets, piteous, overfed, stumbling creatures following behind on their leashes, their heads down, loudly bemoaning their fate. |
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| 14 | 183 |
To be sure, it would be remiss not to remark also that, as one would expect, some of the pettiest of jealousies, the most absurd of resentments, the vilest of acrimonies and the most inveterate of hatreds can obtain among these beautiful, vain, vital creatures, who are, after all, only females. |
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| 19 | 1102 |
To be sure, they are amongst the most inquisitive of creatures. |
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| 21 | 288 |
'Mere livestock to be bought and sold, mere creatures to be peddled about, and chained and herded. |
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| 27 | 910 |
"I do not think they would then long remain ignorant as to what to do with such lovely creatures," I said. |
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| 28 | 105 |
Such programs produce their puppets, legions of creatures convinced of values they have never reflected on, or examined in detail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 72 |
And could they be really such men? And, if so, what consequences might that entail for one such as myself? How could one such as I, given what I was, possibly relate to such creatures? In what modalities, on what conditions, would it be possible to do so? I put my hands about my body, again. |
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| 5 | 9 |
One could hear wagons passing, drawn by four-legged tharlarion, ponderous draft creatures of this world. |
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| 5 | 10 |
But not all the draft creatures of this world have four legs. |
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| 8 | 741 |
We were less than dirt before them; we were animals, things to be despised and held in contempt, things unworthy the notice of such lofty creatures. |
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| 9 | 16 |
I had also been warned by more than one guard that I should watch my step with particular care among such creatures, as they enjoyed being incredibly cruel, petty and vindictive towards those such as I, who, doubtless for reasons of their own, they regarded with utter contempt and hatred. |
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| 9 | 105 |
I sensed that she, as any hormonally normal woman, would despise such creatures. |
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| 9 | 201 |
Once, a large formation, consisting of perhaps two hundred such creatures, wheeled about in diverse aerial maneuvers, sometimes in abrupt, breath-taking turns, and ascents and descents, sometimes breaking into smaller groups and then reuniting, as though converging on aerial prey, to piercing whistl... |
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| 11 | 680 |
"No, no, Masters!" I had seen the six-legged creatures. |
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| 12 | 165 |
"You are in the power of these creatures as well?" she asked. |
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| 12 | 273 |
I did know that an impassable gulf separated me from such lofty creatures, an unbridgeable chasm, one of the same immeasurability that separated the lowliest of domestic animals, which slaves were, from the heights and glories of the free person. |
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| 13 | 302 |
They were not like the six-legged creatures I had seen before, that on the ledge, that on the surface of the tower. |
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| 13 | 501 |
It must have opened some access between the pool and the walkway, for I heard a scratching and sniffing and then saw, to my horror, on the other side of the bars of the passage gate, reflected in the torchlight, the blazing eyes of one of the large rodentlike creatures. |
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| 14 | 53 |
Specifically, I think it was useful to have had to explicitly, frequently, and humbly address the depth warden as "Sir," which practice apparently, in its present authentic form, began on that day, to know that she was not permitted to attempt to interfere with the latching of the cage, and might th... |
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| 14 | 280 |
Who would want to be thrown, for example, to those terrible creatures in the pool? The pit master then turned about, and began to withdraw down the corridor. |
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| 19 | 24 |
Once or twice one or another of these mighty creatures put back its head and screamed to the clouds. |
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| 19 | 814 |
Yet we are, I suspect, among the most inquisitive of creatures. |
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| 22 | 11 |
"Kajirae are such curious creatures," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 26 | 353 |
Perhaps one might also note something further, but hope, as well, that this further observation will not be found disturbing, or disconcerting, to free women, might these recollections and reflections, however unlikely, come somehow someday within their ken, that of creatures so noble and refined, s... |
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| 4 | 375 |
Too, even in old talkies, how beautiful, how feminine, were so many of the actresses! How poignant then to realize that these luscious, marvelous creatures would, by now, have so sadly changed, would by now have been mercilessly humiliated, ravaged, eroded into almost unrecognizable caricatures of t... |
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| 7 | 192 |
But now, for the first time, she realized that there might be special dangers on such a world for such as she, for lovely, vulnerable, perhaps even beautiful, creatures such as she saw reflected in the mirror. |
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| 12 | 324 |
It is a farce to claim that absolute sameness, for that is what equality means, could be imposed rationally on creatures as unlike as a man and a woman. |
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| 13 | 166 |
"But," said Ellen, "those are only in stories, they are mythological creatures, like the hith, the sleen". |
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| 13 | 204 |
Tharlarion, Ellen had been told, were reptilian creatures, some of which were allegedly quite large, and domesticated. |
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| 15 | 252 |
But how could a woman be more beautiful, she asked herself, delighted, than as that most exquisite, perfect and feminine of all creatures, the female slave? "You have given me a second chance at life," she said. |
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| 16 | 561 |
How could she even think of comparing herself with them? But are they, such lofty, proud creatures, happy, she wondered. |
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| 16 | 733 |
Slave girls, of course, are seldom reticent creatures. |
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| 17 | 205 |
They think that female slaves, in particular, are sly, petty creatures against whose ingratiating, clever wiles the master must be on guard. |
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| 17 | 399 |
Indeed, I hope to dispose of these lovely creatures by evening. |
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| 17 | 1151 |
What manner of place can this be? What animals, what beasts, what creatures, could be kept here, so high? As she explored, with her body, legs and fingers, behind her, as she could, hooded, her small wooden-floored, straw-strewn housing, which seemed clearly to be some sort of stall, she discovered,... |
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| 20 | 212 |
She recalled the saying that curiosity was not becoming in a slave girl, a saying which had always seemed ironic to her, because, to the best of her knowledge, amongst such eager, bright, lively creatures, an avid curiosity was endemic. |
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| 20 | 606 |
These creatures are utilized in some manner by the caste of physicians, not for indiscriminate bleeding as once on Earth, but for certain allied chemical and decoagulant purposes. |
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| 20 | 607 |
Such creatures may also be used, of course, for less benign purposes, for torture, the extraction of information, punishment and, in the extreme, executions. |
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| 20 | 609 |
These creatures are not to be confused with the leech plant, which supplements its photosynthetic activities with striking, snakelike, at passing objects. |
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| 21 | 49 |
White clouds, unhurried, insouciant, pursued their leisurely way inland, floating, drifting, in the currents of the wind, like ships on an invisible ocean, like remarkable, protean creatures risen majestically from the cold waters of gleaming Thassa, the sea. |
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| 22 | 498 |
The origins probably lie closer to the interests and desires of imperious, unconquered men, the pleasures and utilities to be found in the ownership and mastery of such delicious creatures. |
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| 24 | 45 |
Too, in retrospect, her momentary fear that the beasts might actually be intelligent creatures, and in communication with their masters, was dismissed, as an illusion of the contretemps, and her fear. |
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| 26 | 186 |
The natural human female, Ellen supposed, is not a social artifact, despite what she had been taught to mindlessly repeat, not a construct of social engineers who neither understand her nor care for her, creatures interested ultimately only in their own power and influence; she is not, ideally, a tw... |
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| 27 | 840 |
The beast called Kardok, the largest of the five monstrous creatures, looked toward the wagon and Portus Canio, and the others. |
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| 27 | 2422 |
She hoped they did not bring Gorean women to Earth, particularly slave girls, for that would be much like bringing lovely, warm-blooded, delicate creatures, vulnerable, natural and loving, to a wasteland, an arctic locale inimical to passion, a desert hostile to love. |
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| 27 | 2724 |
They were curled together, as she had seen them before, as though for warmth, a mass of heat and fur, innocent domestic animals, harmless trained beasts, gentle, massive, slothful creatures who might, prodded into movement by a ribboned wand, delight children at the fairs. |
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| 28 | 33 |
No wonder then that the human male, on Earth, often thought of the women of his species as being, however desirable, essentially sexless creatures, as being sexually minimal and torpid, as being above sex, or disinterested in it, as being, in effect, inert and frigid. |
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| 28 | 231 |
Such hateful creatures! He would pay heed to one of them, she thought. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 64 |
Free, they are without identity; free, they are meaningless and worthless; free, they are egotistical bothers, haughty nuisances, arrogant annoyances, self-alienated creatures removed from both biology and themselves, unhappy, pathetic, miserable, casting-about, frustrated creatures who do not even ... |
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| 1 | 5 |
Such things do not really much matter, with such creatures. |
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| 1 | 10 |
But is that which is named not more important? One does not know with such creatures. |
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| 1 | 654 |
For what reason was he now not alone in the container, and why with these two particular creatures? He had not been informed, of course, by Priest-Kings of his inadvertence, error or crime. |
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| 1 | 658 |
But in certain cases, with rational creatures, this lack of communication is deliberate, and calculated to unravel, so to speak, its victim, who, perplexed and frightened, is denied an accounting of his alleged faults or charges. |
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| 1 | 676 |
Perhaps, even, the container might have been slowly filled with mud or sand, or with fast-growing poisonous molds, or with dark water, in which swam the tiny, razor-teethed eels kept in large pools at the palatial villas of some Gorean oligarchs, both as a delicacy, and as a standing admonition to s... |
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| 1 | 857 |
That such creatures should be able to do this, that they should have a language, had been hitherto beyond her ken. |
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| 2 | 45 |
They were large-eyed, these creatures, now with verticalized pupils, in the light, pupils which could, as those of the sleen and larl, swiftly adapt themselves to anything short of total darkness. |
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| 2 | 76 |
But they had weaponry, surely, and if it could burn through walls, and blast steel apart, make doors where there were no doors, why should it not, cared they to do so, melt or cleave away the glassine walls which confined them? But were they of interest? And might they not perish in the destruction ... |
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| 2 | 244 |
She found them both attractive and repellant, such large, crude creatures. |
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| 13 | 27 |
One of these creatures came forward a little. |
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| 18 | 191 |
"Such creatures are pets, at best. |
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| 21 | 182 |
"What are those things?" From several of the lower gates a number of unusual creatures, crowded together, clumsy, heavy, confused, bleating and whining, were driven by cries and whips into the arena. |
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| 21 | 197 |
The cattle creatures were whipped to the center of the arena, where they stood crowded together, bleating. |
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| 21 | 200 |
The small shaggy forms, many no more than five feet in height, and perhaps no more than a hundred to a hundred and fifty pounds in weight, encircled the huddled, confused cattle creatures. |
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| 34 | 182 |
"Females are such vain creatures," said Cabot. |
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| 42 | 13 |
Cabot then went to one of the pens, in which there were several of the creatures. |
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| 42 | 17 |
He gestured to the creatures, encouraging them to leave, but they did not much note him, save to distend their nostrils, as though smelling for food, but, as Cabot did not bear the swill buckets with him, they turned away. |
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| 44 | 174 |
Such creatures could always attach themselves, in their parasitic way, to another female. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 227 |
They come to see free women as dangerous, but pathetically unhappy, repressed creatures. |
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| 12 | 122 |
Also, most Goreans, and Kurii, too, for that matter, despite their willingness to utilize such creatures, disapprove of liars, hypocrites, traitors, and such. |
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| 22 | 272 |
Slave girls, in their vanity, for they, as other women, are vain creatures, often compete on the slave block, each trying to bring a price higher than the others. |
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| 25 | 203 |
Would not creatures fall from the world if they ventured too far thence? Too, if they could somehow cling to the surface, and move about in such precincts, fugitives or madmen, adventurers or explorers, perhaps by means of ropes or nailed sandals, would not such a life be uncomfortable and dangerous... |
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| 29 | 91 |
She, I fear, had not yet accustomed herself to the beauties of a natural world, but still thought in terms of another world, a grayer world, a more tragic world, a world in which, incredibly, pollutants and poisons were routinely discharged into the atmosphere, into the very air its creatures, large... |
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| 44 | 118 |
They are lovely creatures to be owned and ruled, and worked, and put to the fullest of female uses, but are not to be treated with cruelty nor subjected, no more than any other animal one might own, to gratuitous pain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 116 |
Being newly amongst such creatures she may have become confused, bewildered, disconcerted, mad with fear". |
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| 26 | 143 |
Surely I would not have done well as a female fighting slave, those large, misshapen female creatures, some bred, who strike and mangle one another for the entertainment of bettors, and free women. |
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| 31 | 115 |
And for their part, Priest-Kings, whatever they may be, such passive, inert, aloof, sessile creatures, they may be ignored or, if one chooses, destroyed". |
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| 49 | 372 |
"I have heard, too," he said, "that they are disgusting creatures, helpless, marvelous slaves, who will pant, beg, and crawl for it". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 99 |
Accordingly, I supposed, evolution might provide a place on diverse worlds for birds, or birdlike creatures, creatures of keen eyesight, creatures which might attack, grasp, and tear, creatures not bound to the earth, creatures which might negotiate and traverse the very atmosphere itself. |
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| 6 | 286 |
Could they not see what they were, what they needed, what they wanted? Did they not understand them? Why did they deny them the ownership and domination without which they could not be fulfilled, without which they could not be women? Why did they not kneel them, and inform them that they were women... |
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| 15 | 133 |
When I turned back, the specks were no longer specks but clearly spread ranks of flighted creatures, at four levels, and, as I later determined, each rank was followed by its column, the ranks in these columns separated by some fifty yards, or so. |
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| 29 | 59 |
Yet I had little doubt that these unusual, different women, or creatures, I now looked upon were both Gorean and free. |
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| 33 | 32 |
Too, my chances of survival were much higher here than if I were alone, here with these armed, skilled, dangerous, and mighty women, almost like creatures of the forest themselves, who could detect sign and move with stealth, whose passage would be little marked by the forest floor, who could read t... |
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| 39 | 161 |
Then the knife continued its rude work and Emerald and Hiza lay at men's feet, no different from other free women, perhaps more refined, gentler creatures, who might, say, have been driven from sacked, burning cities, snared on bridges by soaring tarnsmen, netted on outings, lured into taverns, seiz... |
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| 39 | 308 |
"You would not dare to put us in such degrading garments, so enveloping, so cumbersome, so abundant, so hobbling, so layered, with hoods and veils, the garments of small, soft creatures of interest to men, educated, perfumed, pampered, and refined, meaningless, weak little animals, conforming little... |
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| 40 | 19 |
"Of the Slavers, yes," he said, "but surely you did not deal with barbarians, but with superior stock, Gorean girls, civilized, intelligent, lovely creatures to be captured, marked, and collared". |
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| 52 | 783 |
You should have been left to pine and languish in your shallow, tepid world, left, if anything, to the timid, polite, fumbling attentions of psychologically emasculated pseudomales, conditioned from infancy to disown their own nature, and deny their own blood, the creatures of a pathological world w... |
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| 53 | 53 |
Even now I suspect several who had, of necessity, some sense of these things, having been utilized in certain actions, deliveries, and concealments, have been done away with, even creatures other than ourselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 116 |
"There is not enough food here to sustain such creatures". |
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| 3 | 29 |
It is much the same with many wild creatures, certainly the sleen and larl. |
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| 3 | 45 |
Riders have their favorites, and perhaps, too, the mighty, winged creatures themselves, but it is important that the birds accept different riders. |
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| 20 | 189 |
"Who could have the least interest in such creatures?" she asked. |
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| 45 | 61 |
"Handsome, godlike creatures, like men," said Pertinax. |
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| 50 | 11 |
Some creatures, of course, have excellent night vision. |
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| 61 | 614 |
"The surrender of the tarn cavalry, its relocation, the replacement of its officers with his creatures, and such," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 305 |
Surely there was no danger of confusing such creatures with the occasional slave who sped past, tunicked, hurrying amongst the cages, sometimes hooted at by the stevedores. |
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| 10 | 231 |
"But you, exalted creatures, are women, too. |
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| 33 | 166 |
Are not such creatures esteemed trading goods, suitable plunder, desiderated loot, sought for, and fought for? While men are slain, are they not stripped and led away on their neck ropes? Will they survive, or perish? Surely those who, first, and best, learn the languages of their masters will, on t... |
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| 33 | 569 |
The arms of these creatures were long. |
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| 41 | 67 |
I supposed that a fellow might think carefully before he chose to acknowledge that he had failed to carry out a task set to him by creatures such as I had seen in Brundisium, in the house of Flavius Minor. |
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| 49 | 108 |
In any event, as the account goes, these warring armies were not the only creatures discomfited by the sudden, unexpected cruelty of the weather. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 373 |
The supposed free women of the slave world, such as this now-stripped barbarian before you, are exploitative, mercenary creatures bartering their beauty for gain!" There were cries of anger from the tiers. |
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| 8 | 163 |
To be sure, such creatures are most likely to be found in the vicinity of shallower waters, where the sunlight encourages the marine growth which lures in smaller fish to feed. |
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| 8 | 164 |
Such creatures, too, given their biological rhythms, are supposedly most active and dangerous early in the morning and toward dusk, in the morning after a night of hunger, one supposes, and, prior to the falling of darkness, to obtain enough nourishment to carry them through a foodless night. |
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| 38 | 96 |
What predator does not acquaint himself with the habits and gathering places of prey? Might not keen-eyed, shambling creatures before humans have looked in secret on one another, noted comings and goings, scouted numbers, weapons, and defenses; does the pleasant beast, feigning amity, have more in m... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 121 |
"Put aside thoughts of free women, greedy, troublesome creatures," I said. |
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| 4 | 87 |
"Creatures of the sea encircle them," said Thurnock. |
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| 4 | 141 |
Creatures stir. |
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