| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 399 |
The girl's face was fixed in the dancer's stylized moan of terror, but she was beautiful. |
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| 4 | 147 |
I was amused, for she had run as a slave girl is sometimes taught to run, with rapid short steps, her legs almost straight, her feet scarcely leaving the ground, back straight, head turned to the left, arms at her sides, palms out at a forty-five degree angle, more of a dancer's motion than a true r... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 225 |
The girl, the dancer, eyes blazing with delight, fists clenched, was screaming encouragement to one of the contestants. |
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| 9 | 513 |
The musicians, and the dancer, had gone, long ago I supposed. |
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| 18 | 302 |
Also below were four girls, Vina and Telima, and Luma, the chief accountant of my house, who had not fled, and the dancer, Sandra, who had been afraid to leave the holding. |
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| 18 | 340 |
In one corner of the room I saw Sandra, the dancer. |
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| 18 | 552 |
Samos survived, and I, and the boy, Fish, and the three girls, and, beyond these, other than the dancer, Sandra, who had remained below, only five men, three who had come to my holding with Samos, and two of my own, one a simple mercenary, one who had once been a slave. |
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| 11 | 312 |
It was said that a year ago in Ar, Marlenus, Ubar of that city, had created a sensation at a banquet given for his high officers, by presenting a slave-girl dancer before them who, though she was not in his private pleasure gardens or compartments, he had had put in earrings. |
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| 15 | 1291 |
How pleased I was in my power! As the music changed so, too, did the dancer, and she became as one with the music, a frightened girl, new to the collar, a timid girl, delicate and submissive, a lonely slave, yearning for her master, a drunken wench, rejecting her slavery, a proud girl, determined to... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 434 |
"I," said Thurnock, "wonder about that dancer. |
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| 4 | 13 |
In a few moments I saw the luscious, short-bodied dancer, in pleasure silk, hurry from the kitchen and climb to the eighth alcove. |
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| 4 | 393 |
I noted, too, that, clad in yellow silk, belled on the left ankle, as another paga girl, the dancer, she whom Thurnock had sported with, too, carried a vessel of paga about. |
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| 4 | 399 |
I nodded with my head toward the dancer, now serving as a common paga slave. |
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| 6 | 277 |
Tana had concealed her skill as a dancer from Sarpedon, her master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 722 |
"Clitus," I said, "send Sandra, the dancer, to my couch as well". |
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| 8 | 49 |
At a feast Marlenus, as a special treat for his high officers, presented before them a dancer, a female slave, whose ears had been pierced. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 71 |
He indicated the Gorean dancer. |
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| 1 | 90 |
I pointed to the dancer. |
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| 1 | 99 |
The dancer was now moving slowly to the music. |
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| 1 | 101 |
I turned to watch the dancer. |
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| 1 | 108 |
An incredible, voluptuous tension is almost immediately generated, visible in the dancer's body, and kinetically felt by those who watch. |
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| 1 | 110 |
The dancer's hands were at her thighs. |
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| 1 | 164 |
The dancer moaned, crying out, as though in agony. |
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| 1 | 167 |
She stared at the dancer, her eyes wide with misery. |
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| 1 | 168 |
The hips of the dancer now moved, seemingly in isolation from the rest of her body, though her wrists and hands, ever so slightly, moved to the music. |
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| 1 | 174 |
Samos, with a snap of his fingers, freed the dancer from the slave pole. |
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| 1 | 180 |
I saw the parted lips, the eyes wide with horror, of the kneeling, harnessed girl, through the light, yellow veil; then the dancer had drawn it away from her, and, turning, was again in the center of the floor. |
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| 1 | 373 |
* * * * The belled left ankle of the dancer moved in a small circle on the mosaiced floor, to the ringing of the bells, and the counterpoint of the finger cymbals. |
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| 1 | 500 |
The dancer whirled near us, then enveloped me in her veil. |
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| 1 | 570 |
All eyes were on the dark-haired dancer, the skirt of diaphanous scarlet dancing silk low upon her hips. |
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| 1 | 628 |
I idly observed the dancer. |
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| 1 | 682 |
The dancer now lay on her back and the music was visible in her breathing, and in small movements of her head, and hands. |
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| 1 | 712 |
I glanced back, to regard again the dancer. |
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| 1 | 830 |
The dancer turned from the tables and, hands high over her head, approached me. |
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| 1 | 850 |
Delicately, timidly, the dancer reached out, with her two hands, to touch my ankle. |
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| 5 | 42 |
A fantastic intensity is achieved by this dancer's artifice. |
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| 5 | 75 |
Let me briefly say that her training had begun on the march, in the evenings, under the tutelage of a drover, who had been a tavern czehar player, and two of Farouk's dancing slaves, one of whom had been a brothel dancer in Ar. |
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| 5 | 548 |
It is not difficult for a female dancer, lightly clad, displaying her beauty, to detect where among those who watch her lies power. |
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| 5 | 556 |
Ibn Saran, languid, observed the dancer. |
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| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 165 |
Our finest dancer, Helen, a slim, blond Earth girl, tantalized the customers of Busebius in her silver chains. |
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| 14 | 207 |
Busebius conducted the visitors, his honored guests, to a private corner of the tavern from which, on the raised dais there, they might well view the room, the musicians, and the dancer. |
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| 18 | 40 |
Dancers in the Chatka and Curla, and there are several, move between and among the tables; sometimes a dancer, if she is indeed superb, is displayed solo in the center of the scarlet wooden flooring, within the painted, yellow ring of the slave circle. |
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| 18 | 148 |
A dancer, I supposed, had been sent to the center of the floor. |
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| 22 | 356 |
The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo... |
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| 27 | 64 |
"Do you need a slave girl, Master," asked Helen, the Earth-girl dancer at the Belled Collar. |
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| 27 | 86 |
She would be a marvelous dancer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 669 |
Does she have a high instep? A girl with a high instep is often a fine dancer. |
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| 15 | 766 |
If she is a dancer, she may be forced to dance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 128 |
Needless to say, the entire dance is observed by the master, and this, in fact, of course, is known to both the dancer and her audience, the master. |
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| 8 | 121 |
I then gave my attention to the dancer, a sweetly hipped black girl in yellow beads. |
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| 8 | 150 |
The dancer stood, still, on the sand, startled. |
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| 8 | 179 |
Suddenly the dancer on the sand threw her hands before her face, and screamed. |
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| 32 | 406 |
The contempt in which the exotic dancer on Earth is held, despite the richness of her music and beauty, is a symptom of this pathology. |
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| 33 | 151 |
A dancer has usually had many masters; her fair throat has been graced by many collars. |
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| 33 | 152 |
In some cities if a dancer is not thought to have been sufficiently pleasing she is thrown to the patrons of the tavern to be torn to pieces or beaten. |
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| 34 | 562 |
Immediately, frightened, she stood again before me, knees flexed, hands raised above her head, gracefully, the backs of her wrists facing one another, in one of the attitudes of the slave dancer. |
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| 34 | 677 |
Then, knowing well that it is she herself who is the dancer, she dances brazenly, boldly, before the mirror. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 22 | 398 |
Though doubtless Melpomene was untrained and lacked the thousand precisions and controls, the brilliancies and techniques, of the trained dancer, she was not unattractive on the tiles. |
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| 22 | 432 |
"How do you like my little dancer?" she asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 87 |
I did not take my eyes from the dancer. |
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| 1 | 99 |
"She likes you," said the man next to me, now paying some attention to the dancer. |
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| 1 | 109 |
"There was another dancer here previously," said the man next to me, "one called Helen. |
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| 1 | 122 |
I continued to watch the dancer, now some yards away, under the low ceiling. |
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| 1 | 126 |
The dancer now, as the music was mounting in crescendo, was again approaching me. |
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| 23 | 157 |
"Music," then he called, "and a new dancer, and wenches to serve! Let the feast continue!" The musicians then again began to play, the sensuous, melodious, exciting, wild music of Gor. |
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| 23 | 161 |
A new dancer came forth upon the floor and began, a tall brute near her with the leather, to perform a whip dance. |
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| 23 | 167 |
I took wine from her, and gave my attention then to the dancer, a luscious, dark-haired girl. |
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| 23 | 308 |
I turned my attention to the dancer on the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 20 | 69 |
She might spend years in low taverns, or as a carnival dancer, or even as a street dancer, for provocation and use, on her leash, before her skills develop to a point at which she is good enough, as it is said, "to be permitted to dance before a Ubar". |
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| 20 | 55 |
The lead dancer reminded me somewhat of the slave, Melpomene, who had once been the Lady Melpomene, of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 67 |
Having seen her dance I had little doubt but what she would be being used as a dancer. |
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| 20 | 68 |
It takes a long time, of course, for a woman to become a good dancer. |
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| 20 | 857 |
"I am not a dancer!" she cried. |
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| 20 | 872 |
"I thought she was not a dancer," said Glyco. |
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| 20 | 873 |
"I have never thought of her as a dancer," said Tasdron, puzzled. |
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| 20 | 874 |
"I have never used her as a dancer". |
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| 20 | 901 |
"She is not bad," said Tasdron, observing the dancer. |
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| 20 | 904 |
Lola, half kneeling, half lying, in the arms of Calliodorus, his hand in her hair, could not take her eyes from the dancer. |
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| 20 | 918 |
I observed the dancer, closely, the striking of her small, clenched fists on the tiles, the scratching of her fingernails at their smooth surfaces, the turning of a hip, the flattening of a thigh, the lifting of a knee, the turning of her head, the piteous scattering of her hair from side to side. |
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| 20 | 927 |
Swiftly she hurries about, in the graceful, frightened haste of the dancer, her hands seeming to trace the location of the obdurate barriers, those invisible walls which seemed to contain her. |
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| 20 | 1006 |
Soon, in chains and well ravished, they find themselves as much slaves as the dancer. |
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| 21 | 494 |
She must have the posture and grace of a dancer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 155 |
Too, they would be beneath the belt of an encircling dancer. |
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| 3 | 213 |
Its more accented beats, approached subtly but predictably, instructed the helpless, lovely dancer as to the placement and timing of the more dramatic of her demonstrations and motions. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 656 |
I supposed that if one were a dancer, and was then serving in an alcove, an additional price having been paid for one's use, one would have to strive to be particularly good. |
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| 9 | 167 |
"I am not a dancer, Mistress," said Susan, "nor are most who perform the dance. |
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| 31 | 654 |
For such a price one might get a fine dancer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 840 |
She might have been a nude, leashed, harnessed street dancer, one of the lowest forms of dancer on Gor. |
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| 1 | 445 |
Samos glanced at the dancer. |
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| 1 | 477 |
"Do you not know you are a slave? Do you not know you are owned?" A wild look, one of sudden, fearful insight, came over the face of the dancer. |
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| 1 | 715 |
The Gorean dancer is expected, usually, to satisfy the passions she arouses. |
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| 1 | 720 |
He was regarding the dancer. |
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| 1 | 816 |
Tula was Samos' finest dancer. |
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| 1 | 818 |
My own finest dancer was a wench named Sandra. |
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| 7 | 154 |
For example, a brown tag commonly signifies a low slave, such as a mere kettle-and-mat girl or a pot girl, little more than female work slaves, and so on, whereas a gold tag commonly signifies a much higher grade of slave, usually a trained pleasure slave or a dancer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 510 |
"In every female there is a dancer," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 141 |
My legs were short but shapely, excellent I think for a dancer, or at least a dancer of the sort I was, an ethnic dancer. |
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| 10 | 253 |
I knew then you were either a dancer, or had the makings of a dancer. |
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| 11 | 940 |
But she who is a dancer must be more than a dancer. |
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| 17 | 283 |
"She is an excellent dancer, for a street dancer," said the man. |
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| 3 | 166 |
Perhaps I enjoyed the contrast, known only to me, between quiet Doreen, the librarian, and Doreen, the secret Doreen of my heart, the dancer, or far worse. |
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| 3 | 172 |
A dancer, of course, does not simply begin to dance. |
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| 3 | 431 |
Never before, however, I think, had I been so suddenly and deeply struck with the meaning of this ending position, it following the beauty of the dance, its presentation of the dancer in a posture of submission. |
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| 3 | 904 |
I saw a pile of my things there on the carpet, the dancer's costume, my purse, my clothes, those I had worn to the library, and such, near the table. |
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| 9 | 386 |
And he had caught her in her dancer's costume, that in which no man had ever seen her before, and she had then, in swirling skirt and scarlet halter, and bells, danced in the darkened library, danced before him and his men. |
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| 9 | 388 |
I had performed the transition between two of the moves in the slave paces with the startling, sensuous agility of a dancer. |
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| 9 | 389 |
It then seemed that it was the dancer in the sawdust, on the block, she who had worn the skirt and halter, and bells. |
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| 10 | 58 |
"You are a dancer," he said, "and have in you the makings of a superb pleasure slave". |
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| 10 | 252 |
"I saw, too," he said, "the dancer, particularly in your transitions between the attitudes commanded of you in the slave paces. |
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| 10 | 456 |
"I saw in you the dancer, one I can use in the tavern. |
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| 11 | 94 |
Yesterday, at the conclusion of my last lesson, when in a swirl of music, I had lowered myself to the floor, in a dancer's posture of abject submission before men, I had heard several of them cry out with approval, and strike their left shoulders repeatedly, fiercely, with the palms of their hands. |
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| 11 | 132 |
How they had looked at me, so eagerly, so excitedly, relishing me, reveling in what they saw, and knowing that I, the dancer, was collared, that I could be owned. |
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| 11 | 201 |
To be sure, both terms are in a sense reductive misnomers, for in this form of dance, as in other forms of dance, the dancer dances with her entire body and beauty. |
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| 11 | 786 |
He had hopes for me, I had gathered, as a dancer. |
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| 11 | 913 |
But I think, too, more simply, that there are skills involved, and that I was an excellent dancer, even at that time. |
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| 11 | 1019 |
"She will be a dancer in my tavern," said Hendow. |
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| 11 | 1453 |
"You are a dancer. |
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| 12 | 61 |
I shall try the dancer, Doreen". |
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| 13 | 35 |
"You are finding yourself now as a dancer," he said. |
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| 13 | 332 |
"Too, you are a dancer," he said, "and this has undoubtedly improved your position. |
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| 13 | 751 |
"Perhaps it is better if we do not let them know that Doreen, the dancer, is such a hot slave". |
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| 13 | 756 |
"You are not that kind of dancer. |
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| 14 | 282 |
"You are a superb dancer," he said, "perhaps one of the best in Brundisium". |
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| 17 | 222 |
Such is the power of the dancer. |
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| 17 | 273 |
I was a street dancer. |
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| 17 | 288 |
When the street dancer becomes good enough, she may aspire, of course, to be purchased by a taverner. |
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| 17 | 294 |
"I think she was once a tavern dancer," said the man. |
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| 17 | 298 |
"I think she is a stolen tavern dancer," said the man. |
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| 20 | 364 |
"My current master does not use me as a dancer," I said. |
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| 24 | 269 |
"My current master does not use me as a dancer," I said. |
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| 24 | 289 |
Too, I was a skilled dancer. |
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| 24 | 300 |
What more then could they want, saving my zealous services, those commonly to be surrendered by a slave dancer to masters. |
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| 24 | 368 |
"She is an excellent dancer," commented a man, another whom I had lured in Argentum. |
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| 26 | 115 |
Still I was a dancer, and we tend to bring higher prices. |
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| 29 | 38 |
"And this one," said the small fellow, returning his attention to me, "is a dancer!" "Dancers are nothing," he said. |
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| 29 | 161 |
Too, I had been a fine dancer, one of the finest, I suspect, in Brundisium! If they could have seen me curling about a man's feet in an alcove, licking and kissing them, then inching upward, piteously, hopefully, then kneeling beside him, looking up, kissing, licking, pleading, I do not think they w... |
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| 31 | 169 |
"I understand, girl," he said, "that you are a dancer". |
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| 31 | 172 |
"Are you a dancer?" he asked. |
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| 31 | 174 |
"I am a dancer". |
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| 32 | 68 |
"Are you a belly dancer?" he asked. |
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| 32 | 71 |
"I am a belly dancer," I said. |
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| 32 | 77 |
I was a belly dancer! I was! And I did love to belly dance! How free I suddenly felt, and happy, that I had now said these things, that I had now confessed them to myself, honestly, openly, in my native language. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 218 |
Too, it is no disgrace to be inferior to the Lady Elene, who is quite attractive and, in time, might even make a dancer". |
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| 24 | 700 |
Let us suppose that two friends are supping in a paga tavern and are being served by a lithe, attractive slave, one whose bells and beauty heats them, and whose use, if she is not a dancer, commonly comes with the price of the drink. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 767 |
Then she put herself to the dirt before him in what, had she been a dancer, and on a different surface, might have been termed "floor movements," such things as turnings and twistings, rollings and crawlings, sometimes on her hands and knees, sometimes on her stomach; sometimes, too, she would be kn... |
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| 1 | 858 |
To be sure, Temione was not a dancer, not in the strict, or trained, sense, but she could move, and marvelously, and so, somehow, she did, swaying before him, and turning, but usually facing him, as though she wished not to miss an expression or an emotion that might cross his countenance. |
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| 1 | 876 |
Yes, I thought, there is, in the belly of every woman, somewhere, a dancer. |
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| 19 | 1759 |
"Perhaps you would become a dancer in a tavern in Brundisium". |
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| 40 | 3 |
A dancer had fled back behind a beaded curtain, dismissed by the czehar player, he who led the musicians. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 547 |
"That is an excellent dancer there," said a fellow. |
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| 3 | 633 |
"She is a dancer," said a man. |
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| 3 | 647 |
"She moves like a dancer," I said. |
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| 3 | 648 |
"She is a dancer," said a fellow. |
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| 3 | 663 |
Only too obviously was this a trained dancer, and yet, too, there was far more than training involved. |
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| 3 | 676 |
I had little doubt she might once have been a tavern dancer. |
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| 3 | 688 |
The dancer approached. |
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| 3 | 697 |
Then the dancer was before me, and I was awed with beauty. |
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| 3 | 700 |
How utterly marvelous are the Gorean females! How utterly different they are from the women of Earth! How impossible it would be for a female of Earth to match them! I watched the dancer then move to the next fellow, and turn about. |
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| 3 | 727 |
I attended again to the dancer. |
10 |
| 9 | 691 |
I recalled the dancer, the luscious slut, Tuka, seen earlier outside the wall. |
10 |
| 9 | 740 |
"She is not a dancer," he said. |
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| 12 | 159 |
Is she a dancer? Perhaps he should have her trained in dance, that form of dance appropriate for one such as she, slave dance. |
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| 19 | 362 |
This girl, however, I would have supposed, was not a dancer. |
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| 20 | 768 |
Nonetheless it is clear that the sexuality of the dancer is not uncommonly aroused. |
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| 20 | 773 |
"And your movements," I said, "suggested to me that you might make a dancer". |
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| 20 | 775 |
"You also have an excellent body for a dancer," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 203 |
Did I hear the striking of the shoulders in applause, the pounding of goblets on low tables, the urgent cries of men? What power, I thought, must a dancer, a true dancer, exercise over men! How she must arouse them, how she must drive them mad with passion! But what power, ultimately, is hers, for s... |
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| 7 | 108 |
But, in any event, I had not had special training, or, at least, no training more special than any one such as I would have, who is not intended to be, and sold as, a dancer. |
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| 16 | 141 |
"I am not a dancer!" I wept. |
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| 16 | 190 |
Were there hundreds present? Did they feast their eyes on this dancer? I went even to the musicians and moved, presenting myself as a slave, before them. |
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| 16 | 205 |
One might also mention that the dancer, in this form of dance, on this world, is commonly expected to satisfy the passions which she may have aroused. |
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| 16 | 506 |
"You are not a trained dancer, of course," he said. |
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| 18 | 108 |
And after this she is again returned to her serving, simply as might be another dancer, no more and no less. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 105 |
"It is a mistake! I am not a dancer! I am not a dancer! Please, no, Master!" But he drew her rapidly, mercilessly, through the crowds, she in tears, stumbling, painfully bent over, held in common leading position, her head at his hip, his hand cruelly twisted in her hair. |
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| 24 | 408 |
As an incidental observation, it is interesting to note that the grace of the dancer, though, of course, not the special training of the dancer, is expected of all slave girls, and most certainly of those who like Ellen must kneel before men in the spread-kneed position, that is, the pleasure slaves... |
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| 14 | 145 |
The erect, graceful posture of the slave, too, as she commonly carries herself, as a dancer, has a similar effect. |
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| 18 | 7 |
Then she enthusiastically and provocatively displays, with skills that might be the envy of a dancer, sometimes with seeming shyness, timidity, reluctance or fear, the well-curved, delectable merchandise which is herself. |
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| 18 | 632 |
Accordingly she was no dancer. |
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| 22 | 218 |
But Ellen had no expectation of being called forth to dance in any of the circles, as she was not a dancer. |
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| 22 | 234 |
But I am not a dancer. |
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| 22 | 247 |
Let her wear a collar! Let her be a naked slave! Let her grovel and fear free women! Yes, thought Ellen, and let her dance before masters, as a naked slave, and be lashed if not pleasing! I am pleased that I am not a dancer, thought Ellen. |
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| 23 | 276 |
"I am not a dancer," she said. |
10 |
| 24 | 91 |
I am not a dancer!" "Ai!" she cried, in pain, drawn along, at his hip. |
10 |
| 24 | 95 |
"It is a mistake, a terrible mistake! I am not even a dancer! Ai! Ai!" She had heard of the al-ka and ba-ta circles, named for the first two letters in the Gorean alphabet. |
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| 24 | 114 |
"Master," begged Ellen, going to her knees before the whip master, "I am not a dancer!" Two or three of the other girls turned to look at her. |
10 |
| 24 | 121 |
She had not been advertised as a dancer, of course. |
10 |
| 24 | 126 |
"You would not be here if you were not a superb dancer. |
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| 24 | 170 |
"I am not a dancer," said Ellen. |
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| 24 | 336 |
She could not see the outside whip master, but she had no doubt that he was there, appraisingly there, ready to snap the whip in warning, or, if necessary, or thought useful, to put it to the back of a dancer. |
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| 24 | 356 |
And as each is to dance thrice, it is not as though they will feel particularly cheated, for after me will come Ita once again, who is a fine dancer. |
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| 24 | 383 |
Then, only a moment or two later, she heard the whip again, twice, and this time cries of pain, doubtless from the exhibited dancer. |
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| 24 | 384 |
In a moment, clutching her silk about her, it parted by the whip, crying, the chastised dancer fled within the preparation enclosure. |
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| 24 | 469 |
Presumably, before Ellen's addition to the list, she had been the last dancer, and thus, putatively, the best, for the best is often saved for the last. |
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| 24 | 470 |
Perhaps that is why, at least in part, she had danced as she had the first time on the sand, because she was angered at having been unexpectedly supplanted in the favored position of last dancer. |
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| 24 | 545 |
It was not for nothing, Ellen surmised, that Dara had been originally scheduled as the last dancer. |
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| 24 | 546 |
Doubtless lovely Dara would bring a high price on the block, being valued not only for her skills as a dancer, but for her obvious possibilities as a common pleasure slave. |
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| 24 | 551 |
She knew she was the last dancer of the evening, at least in this circle. |
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| 24 | 586 |
It was clear now, if not in many ways earlier, that the character being portrayed by the dancer now understood herself to be no more than kajira. |
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| 26 | 580 |
She realized that, in the hood, it was not likely she could be recognized, either as the dancer of two nights afore, nor as the slave for whom, yesterday evening, such a surprising price had been paid. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 78 |
Another dancer, a single dancer, then entered the sand. |
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| 22 | 219 |
Surely they knew she was not a dancer, not a trained dancer, one whose smallest, subtlest motions might drive a man mad with desire. |
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| 11 | 84 |
The dancer was now kneeling in the sand, her head bowed, waiting for the first strumming of the kalika. |
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| 11 | 95 |
A whispering sentence of notes emanated from the kalika, and the dancer rose gracefully to her feet, her knees flexed, her head still bowed, her hands at her thighs. |
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| 11 | 112 |
At certain points in this dance the whip snaps and the dancer reacts as though she was struck with the whip. |
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| 11 | 174 |
There was a final, loud snap of the whip, and the dancer threw herself, half kneeling, half sitting, to the sand, and lifted one hand, piteously, to the fellow who had conducted his part of the whip dance. |
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| 11 | 185 |
"Too, it is not always the most technically flawless dancer whom men wish to conduct to an alcove," said Peisistratus. |
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| 11 | 186 |
"Perhaps a dancer who is too concerned with the assemblage of minute perfections," said Cabot, "forgets the point of the dance, which is to dance her slave before masters". |
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| 11 | 191 |
The dancer was now kneeling, and a chain was being put on her neck, some five feet in length, rather as a leash. |
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| 11 | 194 |
"I am told," said Peisistratus, "she is an excellent dancer". |
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| 11 | 200 |
"In any event," said Cabot, "putting aside her skills as a dancer, which are doubtless considerable, she is obviously a luscious piece of collar meat". |
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| 11 | 204 |
The dancer knelt before Cabot, and, with both hands, lifted the chain to him. |
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| 11 | 224 |
"Girl," said Cabot to the dancer, "return to your cage, or kennel". |
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| 28 | 33 |
She was a skilled dancer. |
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| 79 | 326 |
Other fellows then looked around, drunkenly, for another dancer. |
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| 79 | 389 |
"You are not a dancer," said Cabot. |
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| 79 | 518 |
And doubtless millions of female slaves have been picked out for others, matched to others, to the best of the purchaser's ability, a slave who sings and recites, and plays the lyre, for a fellow who loves poetry and music, a skilled dancer for a fellow who is fond of dance, a brilliant, informed, e... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 1300 |
"One does not expect every woman to bring a hundred pieces of gold as a dancer," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 470 |
At that moment there was an exciting skirl of music, a flash of bells, a burst of color, a jangle of beads, and a cry of enthusiasm from the patrons, and a dancer was on the floor. |
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| 18 | 473 |
Then the music began, softly, slowly, and the dancer, looking about herself, began to move, obedient to the melody of masters. |
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| 18 | 496 |
The dancer reacted, as though struck, but the blade had not touched her. |
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| 18 | 497 |
Occasionally it snapped again, and again, and, at the end of the dance, as is often the case in such dance, the dancer is prostrate, clearly submitted and owned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 66 |
The slave, like the dancer, is attentive to her posture, her carriage, her grace. |
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| 50 | 280 |
One would expect, for example, that an unusual dancer, a trained physician, the daughter of a defeated general, or such, might go for more than another slave, even if the other slave might, for most intents and purposes, be an equivalent, even a better, buy. |
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| 50 | 441 |
I suppose it is rather like a dancer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 49 |
The accompaniment for a dancer can vary considerably, from as little as a single flute, often the case with a street dancer, to several individuals and a variety of instruments. |
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| 2 | 225 |
I am a good dancer. |
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| 30 | 317 |
"A dancer!" he said, pleased. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 59 |
I had been told that she, on the side, was being trained as a tavern dancer. |
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| 10 | 56 |
No dancer was now performing. |
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| 10 | 62 |
It can cost a proprietor a goodly bit of coin to buy a fine dancer. |
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| 10 | 64 |
Many men will frequent a tavern for its dancer, or dancers. |
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| 10 | 65 |
To alcove a dancer commonly costs more than to alcove a common paga girl. |
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| 10 | 66 |
I am speaking, of course, of a trained, or fine, dancer. |
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| 10 | 70 |
The tarsk-bits are sometimes retrieved by the dancer herself. |
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| 46 | 187 |
"You need a dancer," said the fellow who had recently joined the group. |
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| 46 | 189 |
"You had a dancer on your want list, recently submitted to Samos, First Slaver," said he who had recently joined the group. |
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| 46 | 308 |
"The dancer?" said Florian. |
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| 46 | 429 |
Samos had not delivered a dancer, as yet, and, as noted, Ianthe and Aglaia, two plausible dancers, were unavailable. |
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| 46 | 431 |
There was, as yet, no sign of the dancer, Sandra, from Bosk's holding. |
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| 46 | 434 |
"I am not a dancer," I said. |
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| 46 | 443 |
Not only are you not a dancer, but, worse, you are an ignorant barbarian. |
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| 46 | 452 |
Does that not count for a great deal? To be sure, she was not a dancer, no more than the rest of us. |
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| 46 | 459 |
"Daphne, though beautiful, is not a dancer. |
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| 46 | 464 |
I trusted the paga would arrive, surely before the next dancer, or victim, or two, might be presented before the audience. |
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| 46 | 609 |
"Do you think you are a dancer?" he asked. |
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| 46 | 631 |
"I think she is the finest dancer in Port Kar," said Florian. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 36 |
"Where is the dancer?" I asked. |
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| 6 | 50 |
"The dancer," I said. |
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| 6 | 194 |
"I think the dancer will be soon on the sand," said Clitus. |
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| 6 | 200 |
"The dancer!" said Clitus. |
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| 6 | 202 |
"Observe the dancer and discover how beautiful and exciting a woman can be". |
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| 6 | 223 |
Almost at the same moment there was a bright skirl of music and the dancer, in her swirling silks and veils, her ankle bells, and bracelets and necklaces, began to perform. |
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| 6 | 228 |
"I think that dancer is new," said Thurnock. |
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| 6 | 233 |
"The dancer is now making her way amongst the tables," said Thurnock, approvingly. |
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| 6 | 240 |
The dancer now, under the dangling lamps, animate, seductive, vital, swaying, negotiating the tables, was but yards away. |
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| 6 | 241 |
In most paga taverns the dancer or dancers confine themselves to the square or oval dancing area, normally of polished wood or yellow sand, reminiscent of a camp or caravanserai. |
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| 6 | 242 |
The typical reason for this, one supposes, is to isolate the dancer in such a way that she can be well seen and is not likely to have her performance interrupted by grasping hands. |
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| 6 | 243 |
I noted that this dancer had, and more than once, eluded hands reaching out for her. |
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| 6 | 255 |
Then, in a flash of silks and veils, to the sparkle of bells, to the jangle of ornaments, the dancer was at the table, her beauty affronting and taunting the kneeling slave. |
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| 6 | 258 |
The dancer's hips rotated; her belly mocked the kneeling slave; her veil fluttered about the kneeling slave sometimes covering her. |
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| 6 | 261 |
The dancer, delighted, and triumphant, prepared to swirl away but Aktis, who had scarcely moved and whom she had scarcely noticed, suddenly cried out "There!" and lunged across the table his left hand clutching the belt, sweetly low on her hips, from which dangled rings, cheap, drilled coins, trinke... |
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| 6 | 262 |
The dancer cried out, startled. |
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| 6 | 318 |
"It is interesting, is it not," asked Clitus, "that the dancer wore such a belt, and danced so near our table?" "Yes," I said, "that is interesting". |
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| 7 | 77 |
In the same tavern, yesterday night, seeming loot from the raid of Nicosia was glimpsed, strung on a dancer's belt". |
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| 7 | 81 |
"And coins, trinkets, baubles, and such often adorn a dancer's belt, as bells her ankles and bangles and bracelets her limbs," said Nicomachos. |
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| 7 | 91 |
"We cannot hold him responsible for what a patron may jabber at a table, or for what a dancer may string on her belt. |
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| 10 | 4 |
It was in this establishment that I had first heard of the destruction of Nicosia prior to its actual destruction, and in which Aktis had noted baubles and trinkets on a dancer's belt much like those which had figured in the trade goods of the raiders' advance scout, he posing as an itinerant mercha... |
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| 58 | 219 |
"Aktis, from Nicosia, our valued oarsman and archer, was instructed to watch for a dancer on the street, one he recalled and had earlier found of interest, one who, as we learned, had been named 'Sylvia'. |
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| 58 | 230 |
"If all goes well," I said, "I will give him the dancer, Sylvia. |
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| 58 | 232 |
I did not think that Lais, who had been discomfited in the tavern by the dancer, would object to that. |
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| 59 | 89 |
"I know you," I said, "you are Sylvia, the comely dancer". |
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| 59 | 90 |
"Merely dancer!" she said. |
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| 59 | 92 |
"I am the finest dancer in Sybaris and the most beautiful woman in all the Farther Islands!" "You will do for the Farther Islands," I said. |
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| 59 | 93 |
"As a dancer you might not be noticed in Ar or Turia, or Brundisium, or Port Kar. |
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| 63 | 88 |
In the unlit, low-ceilinged hold of the Dorna, on the damp sand used as ballast, stripped, her ankles chained to parted rings, lay his slave, Sylvia, former dancer at The Living Island. |
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