| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 34 |
Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 134 |
"Why have you dared to survive your city?" she asked. |
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| 14 | 112 |
Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S... |
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| 20 | 42 |
When it approached me and extended its head, I wondered if what I had dared not hope might be true, that the bird might have been waiting for me to return. |
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| 23 | 105 |
Not only slaves of the city raised the banner of defiance but men of low caste, whose brothers or friends had been sent to the mines or used in the Amusements, now dared at last to seize the instruments of their trade and turn on guardsmen and soldiers. |
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| 25 | 149 |
Dorna the Proud, thanks to the sacrifice of Thorn, her captain, had made good her escape, though to what fate I dared not conjecture. |
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| 26 | 5 |
I shall strike with my spear upon the gate and the gate will open, and as I enter I will hear the mournful sound of the great hollow bar that hangs by the gate, signifying that another of the Men Below the Mountains, another mortal man, has dared to enter the Sardar. |
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| 27 | 222 |
"How is it," asked Sarm, "that you have dared to come here?" "I do what I wish," I told him. |
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| 28 | 75 |
Yet as she stood there she seemed also to be frightened and to my surprise she dared not approach the door though it now stood open. |
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| 28 | 85 |
She dared ask no question but submissively knelt, as befitted her station, and bowed her head. |
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| 28 | 95 |
Vika's shoulders shook as she knelt before me, but she dared not raise her head to read her fate in my eyes. |
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| 30 | 55 |
I conceded the point in silence, amazed at the restorative powers of Priest-Kings, those redoubtable golden foes against which mere men had dared to pit themselves. |
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| 31 | 180 |
If I had dared to take my eyes from Sarm I might have looked about at the wonder of the Nest and the destruction in which it was being consumed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 149 |
"But it was the length of the leather dresses of the Tuchuk women," Elizabeth had dared to protest. |
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| 9 | 371 |
It had been at that time that she had called him a Tuchuk sleen, presumably because he had dared present her with a gift. |
10 |
| 9 | 449 |
I wondered if Kamras knew the meaning of the word which he had dared to address to one who wore the Courage Scar of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 106 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, who had been fixing the fire in the wagon, had been startled when I had returned without Dina, but had not dared to ask what had been done with her. |
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| 10 | 566 |
For more than a minute, while I scarcely dared to breathe and there was silence all about save for the ring of steel, I watched Kamchak stand there, heavy in his boots, his head seeming almost to sit on his shoulders, his body hardly moving save for the swiftness of a wrist and the turn of a hand. |
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| 13 | 107 |
He would do no more to Elizabeth Cardwell than was commonly done to female slaves among the wagons, even those who had never dared to speak back or disobey in the least particular. |
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| 15 | 75 |
The girl dared not speak. |
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| 18 | 1 |
The Pleasure Gardens At the very instant that Saphrar had called out there was a great blast of steam and fumes that seemed to explode from the fluid about me as though the monster in which I found myself had now, its prey satisfactorily entrapped, dared to respire and, at the same time, I felt the... |
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| 25 | 801 |
Then she scarcely dared to move. |
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| 28 | 28 |
She knelt beside him, and once when she dared to touch her cheek to his right thigh he good-naturedly cuffed the slave girl away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 6 |
The city had fallen and Pa-Kur, though of low caste, had aspired to inherit the imperial mantle of Marlenus, had dared to lift his eyes to the throne of Empire and place about his neck the golden medallion of a Ubar, a thing forbidden to such as he in the myths of the Counter-Earth. |
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| 2 | 106 |
"He has dared to speak the name of Portus and beg a coin from him". |
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| 4 | 87 |
We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ... |
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| 5 | 152 |
The Priest-King took a step toward me on its four supporting posterior appendages, and stopped, as though it dared not move more. |
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| 12 | 138 |
This race was a short one, only five pasangs in length, and one of the nonfaction birds won, much to the displeasure of the crowd, saving those who had dared to accept the long odds on such a bird. |
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| 17 | 156 |
Some of the best swordsmen of Ar, even Warriors of High Caste, eager to be the one to best the mysterious Murmillius, had dared to enter the arena against him, but each of these bold gentlemen he seemed to treat with more scorn than his common foes, playing with them and then, it seemed when he wish... |
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| 17 | 269 |
"If I thought it was you," growled Ho-Tu, "who dared to salt my porridge, you would spend the night sitting on a slave goad". |
10 |
| 20 | 210 |
"Have you dared to learn the game, Slave?" inquired Cernus, angrily. |
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| 24 | 211 |
The girl dared not lift her head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 190 |
He had dared to suggest a redesign of the standard tarn ship. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 138 |
I moved my feet, the tiny bit I dared, trying to reach for the railing on the waist-high wall of the terrace below. |
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| 5 | 201 |
When I dared I went back to the site of the wreck. |
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| 6 | 429 |
And yet we were struck! I dared not protest. |
10 |
| 7 | 408 |
I not only dared, but I was eager to do so. |
10 |
| 9 | 340 |
Sometimes she bit at another girl or struck at her, if she dared approach the square more closely than she. |
10 |
| 10 | 470 |
"Certainly not!" But I dared not let him suspect how his questions stirred me. |
10 |
| 10 | 586 |
So I dared not kneel now with the fearful presumption of the pleasure slave, that of a girl whose very kneeling position makes clear that she is expected to be of interest to men. |
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| 10 | 587 |
I dared not do that. |
10 |
| 11 | 425 |
He had been teasing me! He had dared to tease Elinor Brinton! To be sure, he might do so with impunity; she was now only a half-naked slave. |
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| 11 | 455 |
How dared she stand so well! Did she not know she was of the scribes! Changes were being wrought in her. |
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| 11 | 516 |
We dared not move. |
10 |
| 11 | 1013 |
But what most I now feared, and most hysterically rejected, was the suspicion that there might lurk in my deepest being a profound turning, a sudden, cataclysmic transformation of my consciousness, the possibility that I might admit to myself, confess to myself, a truth I dared not even articulate. |
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| 13 | 156 |
When I dared to open my eyes again, the creature was again at the farther fence of wands, motionless, facing me. |
10 |
| 13 | 387 |
She had dared to give me orders. |
10 |
| 13 | 388 |
She had commanded me, Elinor Brinton, though she was only an ignorant Gorean girl, had dared to act as the leader of a girl of Earth, and one such as I! She would learn better. |
10 |
| 13 | 403 |
Besides, she had dared to treat me as her inferior, ordering me about, instructing me. |
10 |
| 14 | 17 |
I dared not look at him. |
10 |
| 14 | 98 |
I had not dared to speak. |
10 |
| 14 | 501 |
Perhaps it is one whom she once spurned, or one who, hitherto, would not have dared to aspire to her. |
10 |
| 15 | 31 |
I dared not look up. |
10 |
| 15 | 236 |
And she had dared to put her cheek against his hand. |
10 |
| 15 | 1510 |
I dared not look into the eyes of my master. |
10 |
| 16 | 149 |
Then I dared to look again upon the vast, looming moons of Gor. |
10 |
| 17 | 69 |
He had cared for flowers, but had not dared to reveal this. |
10 |
| 17 | 81 |
I scarcely dared whisper to myself what might be the nature of those emotions. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 54 |
No one, after I had felled the first who had dared to lift his sword to such a purpose, had dared to threaten a slave. |
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| 1 | 165 |
The curule chair at my high table was among the most honored and envied on Gor! What honor it was to be the woman of Bosk, merchant, admiral! And yet she had turned her back on this! She had displeased me! She had dared to displease me! Bosk! The marshes had nothing to offer her. |
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| 4 | 71 |
She had dared to protest. |
10 |
| 13 | 298 |
It puzzled me, somewhat, that the men of Tyros had dared to approach the camp, with only some one hundred and fifty men. |
10 |
| 14 | 73 |
Tiny noises, had they dared to make them, could have been heard no more than a few feet away. |
10 |
| 15 | 618 |
She gasped, but dared not interfere. |
10 |
| 15 | 626 |
She dared not speak. |
10 |
| 18 | 348 |
Being slaves they had dared not inquire of me the intention of our efforts. |
10 |
| 19 | 194 |
"Who of Torvaldsland," I asked, "dared to free Chenbar of Tyros?" "A madman," laughed Sarus. |
10 |
| 22 | 148 |
The once-proud panther woman, the now-trembling slave dared not raise her head. |
10 |
| 22 | 350 |
None dared to speak. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 241 |
Ivar Forkbeard, the unregenerate, the raider, the pirate, he who had dared to make the fist of the hammer over his ale, would come at last, in death if not in life, humbly to the temple of Priest-Kings. |
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| 3 | 330 |
Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w... |
10 |
| 5 | 339 |
Their gags were removed, but they dared not speak. |
10 |
| 6 | 202 |
She had dared to pit her will against the iron. |
10 |
| 10 | 597 |
Honey Cake, when last I saw her, dared to cling to his arm, her head to his shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 230 |
Their kirtles of white wool, smudged and stained with grease, fell to their ankles; they hurried about; they were barefoot; their arms, too, were bare; their hair was tied with strings behind their heads, to keep it free from sparks; their faces were, on the whole, dirty, smudged with dirt and greas... |
10 |
| 13 | 367 |
"You have dared to collar the daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar!" cried Bera to Ivar Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 13 | 372 |
"To think," cried Bera, "that I expressed solicitude for a collar-girl!" Hilda dared not speak. |
10 |
| 14 | 135 |
Mere humans, they dared not set themselves against Kurii. |
10 |
| 14 | 144 |
I, one of the herd, of the cattle, had dared to strike one of the master species, a superior form of life. |
10 |
| 14 | 222 |
"Do battle! Do battle!" But no man dared to move. |
10 |
| 18 | 480 |
None of the girls even dared to lift her eyes to him. |
10 |
| 18 | 515 |
"How is it that you have dared to strip me!" demanded the girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 239 |
Miss Priscilla Blake-Allen had not dared to cry out. |
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| 4 | 70 |
Once she had dared to say to me, "But Aya makes me do all her work!" I kicked the kaiila toward her, and she was buffeted from her feet rolling in the gravel, and then lay, hands shielding her face, on her back beneath the very paws of the beast, it hissing and stamping, scratching at the gravel abo... |
10 |
| 8 | 70 |
Some dared to raise their fists. |
10 |
| 8 | 229 |
"I was punished twice," she said, "once, early in the tents, when I dared to be insolent, a second time when I was clumsy". |
10 |
| 11 | 552 |
She had dared to soil the name of her master by putting it on her lips which, though beautiful, were only those of a slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 32 |
How was it, he holding the precarious sovereignty of our kennel, that he dared to sleep among slaves, who might win his kaffiyeh and agal, though they were only rep-cloth, so simply as the dagger, slipped from his sash, might enter his throat? The kennel master, though slave, too, is Ubar, with powe... |
10 |
| 17 | 336 |
The lelts, as yet, had not even dared approach the shifting, buoyant carcass of the Old One. |
10 |
| 21 | 191 |
It dared to pit itself against the desert. |
10 |
| 21 | 628 |
* * * * When I dared to move, I left the ship. |
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| 26 | 239 |
She had not dared to raise her head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 32 |
How dared they! I was angry! But I dared not cover myself. |
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| 2 | 26 |
I dared not even speak. |
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| 2 | 37 |
I dared not meet his eyes. |
10 |
| 2 | 577 |
Never before had a man handled and touched me as he did; no man on Earth, I felt sure, would have so dared to touch a woman. |
10 |
| 2 | 899 |
Swiftly then did I reassume the position which I had dared to break, and again I knelt, though this time in an agony of terror, before the strange, mighty man, his legs spread, his arms crossed, who stood before me. |
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| 2 | 1242 |
Yes, I kissed his feet, as though I might have been no more than a beautiful, stripped, guilty, frightened slave! How natural, and necessary, and perfect, in such circumstances, seemed this act of timid abject obeisance! Would any girl of Earth, I wondered, so in the power of such a man, on such a w... |
10 |
| 3 | 25 |
Was I not in his power, so much so that perhaps I was even, in some sense, a sense I scarcely dared conjecture, "his"? Was I not physically attractive to him? Why had he not forced me to serve him as a woman? He kept me under his dominance, strictly, and then, when I obviously ached for his touch, h... |
10 |
| 3 | 449 |
I scarcely dared conjecture the nature of a girl who wore such a mark on her body. |
10 |
| 4 | 175 |
I shuddered, but dared not run. |
10 |
| 4 | 180 |
Now I scarcely dared move in it. |
10 |
| 4 | 899 |
I dared not move. |
10 |
| 5 | 253 |
"And yet," said the Lady Sabina, sadly, "how have I been repaid?" The girl dared not answer, but kept her head down, trembling. |
10 |
| 5 | 303 |
I scarcely dared to whisper, for fear of moving my throat beneath the knife. |
10 |
| 5 | 437 |
"Perhaps now, dear Lady," said the captain, "you will choose to speak, choose to reveal your name and city, and your business in this vicinity so late in the night?" I dared not speak. |
10 |
| 5 | 876 |
It was not that he had dared to be a man. |
10 |
| 7 | 407 |
The heat in my thighs made me want to run to him but I dared not leave the line. |
10 |
| 7 | 411 |
I dared not leave the line. |
10 |
| 7 | 744 |
We all envied Lehna, though, to be sure, on Earth, few women would have dared to appear publicly in such a garment. |
10 |
| 7 | 864 |
I dared not move. |
10 |
| 7 | 865 |
I scarcely dared breathe. |
10 |
| 7 | 924 |
In a few moments, when I dared, I looked out from the furs. |
10 |
| 7 | 958 |
Two days ago I had dared to follow him outside the palisade. |
10 |
| 9 | 150 |
I had wanted to call out after him, but I had not dared. |
10 |
| 9 | 1104 |
I dared not dream what my responsiveness would have been had the collar been not of rope, which I might cut or untie, but of true steel, in which I would be helplessly locked. |
10 |
| 9 | 2285 |
I saw she wanted to cry out to him, to beg him to return to her, but she dared not, for she was under discipline. |
10 |
| 9 | 2347 |
They dared not move a muscle. |
10 |
| 11 | 369 |
I dared not move my foot, for fear I might cry out for a man. |
10 |
| 12 | 377 |
How dared he adopt the attitude of a master toward me when he was only a chained captive? We had given him of wines, and of delicacies upon which to feast. |
10 |
| 13 | 357 |
I dared not remove my hands from my hair. |
10 |
| 13 | 446 |
He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,... |
10 |
| 13 | 448 |
We dared not. |
10 |
| 15 | 369 |
"At the college," she said, "you competed with me, you challenged me, you dared to set yourself up as a rival to me. |
10 |
| 20 | 30 |
Even had I been able to open it, I would not have dared to go through it. |
10 |
| 20 | 299 |
"He dared to look upon me," I said. |
10 |
| 24 | 129 |
When I dared to lift my head and look again at him, his gaze was still upon me. |
10 |
| 27 | 142 |
He dared not be seen in this place, performing the chores of a churl. |
10 |
| 28 | 408 |
"Too," said he, "I think you dared to protest this evening my purchase of a girl". |
10 |
| 29 | 110 |
Clitus Vitellius and I, though I would not have dared tell him, were so related. |
10 |
| 29 | 246 |
"You are a secret dream, which I scarcely dared dream, come true to me, Master," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 141 |
She had not dared so much as to raise her head. |
10 |
| 3 | 538 |
He stopped, surprised that she had dared to speak. |
10 |
| 6 | 501 |
The blond girl by my side, the slave, cried out with misery, and dared not meet the eyes of her free sister. |
10 |
| 11 | 150 |
How dared she protest? Did she not know she was now only a girl on Gor? Certainly she would soon learn. |
10 |
| 12 | 47 |
She stood as few Earth girls would have dared to, displaying her beauty, though she appeared to be completely disinterested in any such objective. |
10 |
| 23 | 402 |
When she dared, she turned once and looked at him, then put her head down, smiling. |
10 |
| 27 | 254 |
Any man might, if he dared, don the scarlet and gird himself with weapons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 116 |
She looked at the auctioneer, in terror, but dared not release her hands from the back of her neck. |
10 |
| 4 | 38 |
Had she been less ignorant of Gor she would not have dared to escape. |
10 |
| 12 | 467 |
But a few Ehn earlier you dared to touch a cup on the table of masters, as though it were your own, and would have, if not stopped, drunk from it. |
10 |
| 25 | 8 |
She dared not shirk, no more than the other slaves, in the heavy work set her. |
10 |
| 33 | 122 |
There are many stories of Gorean free women, sometimes of high caste, who, as a lark or in a spirit of bold play, dared to dance in a paga tavern. |
10 |
| 34 | 195 |
"If I had known then what I now know," she said, "I would not have dared to move". |
10 |
| 34 | 953 |
"If I dared," she said, "I would again beg to be taken". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 262 |
I dared not move in the slightest. |
10 |
| 2 | 52 |
I dared not even conjecture what might be my response should such a woman so address me, so utter such to me. |
10 |
| 3 | 252 |
I dared not answer her. |
10 |
| 4 | 161 |
"You will now be beaten twice," said the Lady Gina, "once for having, as a frightened, ignorant slave, dared to lie to your mistress, and once for having desired to take a beautiful girl in your arms". |
10 |
| 4 | 268 |
He is then useful to ambitious women who, at another time, might scarcely have dared to speak to him". |
10 |
| 6 | 144 |
She was the sort of woman a man of Earth would scarcely have dared to let enter his dreams. |
10 |
| 7 | 211 |
Is it not in the interest of slaves to prohibit kings from claiming their thrones? Then I was overcome with misery and guilt that I had even dared to think such thoughts! How wrong nature was! How wrong to be true to the deep themes of the animal kingdom! Did I truly need to be what I was? Why shoul... |
10 |
| 8 | 50 |
How then, once having dared to taste meat and blood, and victory, could I again surrender so preciously recollected a birthright? I knew that men must not be men. |
10 |
| 9 | 25 |
How insolent I had been, to have dared to speak to him. |
10 |
| 9 | 118 |
I scarcely dared to conjecture what tragic fate might have befallen her on this rude world. |
10 |
| 10 | 38 |
It was uncomfortably hot but I dared not object. |
10 |
| 12 | 218 |
"Do you think that any real slave girl would even have dared to think of acting as I did?" I said nothing. |
10 |
| 12 | 449 |
A true slave girl, I gathered, would not even have dared to think of behaving as she had. |
10 |
| 13 | 614 |
"Which of you wenches dared to speak to this slave?" he asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 934 |
"How is it then that you, a slave, dared to speak to a girl in coffle?" she asked. |
10 |
| 22 | 608 |
"Melpomene," said the Lady Florence to her new slave, who was now kneeling on the love furs, "when you were a free woman and dared to steal my silk slave for your pleasure, did you kiss him?" "Of course not, Mistress," she said. |
10 |
| 32 | 10 |
"How is it that you have dared to put me on a leash?" she asked. |
10 |
| 32 | 163 |
I wondered if she would have dared such provocations if she had understood the tumult and chaos she had wrought in the blood of strong, angry men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 363 |
How bold she was! I myself would not have dared to admit such a thing to another woman! What might she think of me? I had not even, scarcely, dared to admit to myself, or recall, that in the arms of the fifth man my body had clasped his, and my arms, and I had, in the darkness of the hood, a moaning... |
10 |
| 14 | 13 |
She would not have dared to speak so peremptorily before another male on Gor. |
10 |
| 14 | 155 |
"Too," I said, "earlier you dared to speak my name". |
10 |
| 24 | 276 |
Only in her wildest and most secret dreams had she dared even to suspect their existence. |
10 |
| 24 | 331 |
Did she not know she was from Earth! "Most of us, of course, including myself, dared not yet admit we were pleased with our brands. |
10 |
| 24 | 481 |
She was from Earth! But what if, even though she were from Earth, she were a true slave, as in accord with her own avowals? Could such a thing, she from Earth, be possible, even thinkable? I scarcely dared even consider this possibility, for then she, a slave, could be mine! I determined, cruelly, t... |
10 |
| 25 | 22 |
But she dared not make her feelings known to him. |
10 |
| 30 | 146 |
"One is that you are a man of Earth, and no man from that dismal, terrorized world, where men are mean and small, could have dared to enter this holding". |
10 |
| 30 | 289 |
On Earth I had scarcely dared to touch her hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 266 |
She, confused and fearful, as a consequence of that interview, it seemed, had begun to sense her femininity, had begun to sense that she had value of a sort, that she might be lusciously special in a way she scarcely dared to recognize, and feared to contemplate, that she might be such that men migh... |
10 |
| 18 | 415 |
On the other hand, there have been cases when a free woman, boldly, has donned such a garment and dared to walk in the streets and upon the bridges, masquerading as a mere slave upon an errand for her master. |
10 |
| 19 | 744 |
She had dared even to speak my name. |
10 |
| 19 | 813 |
Had you not been from Earth, I would not have dared to behave as I did. |
10 |
| 20 | 256 |
Sometimes her hand moved towards him but she, an Earth-girl slave, dared not touch him. |
10 |
| 20 | 488 |
"They would also be the garments in which, for the first time, to my knowledge, she had ever dared to explicitly express her femininity". |
10 |
| 20 | 770 |
"How could I take to my bed in honor one who had dared to confess her slave needs? Such girls I could buy at the market. |
10 |
| 20 | 773 |
That our honors might be protected, of course, yours that you had dared to confess your slave needs, and mine, that I had been the scandalized auditor of so shameful an admission, we remained silent". |
10 |
| 20 | 787 |
"You had dared to confess your slave needs, and this had shamed you, and it had scandalized me. |
10 |
| 20 | 794 |
You had dared, it seemed, to break the code of hypocrisy. |
10 |
| 20 | 1617 |
From the woman's point of view, of course, she finds herself at the mercy of men of assurance, power, and virility, of a sort of which she had scarcely dared hitherto to dream. |
10 |
| 21 | 817 |
"In any event," she said, "I dared to do what I did, make myself up so, dress myself so, and speak to you as I did". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 7 |
They looked up, some of them who dared to do so, at the men looking down at them, from about the circular railing, assessing their qualities as females. |
10 |
| 8 | 161 |
She knew little more than the fact that she was being displayed before men, though for what reason and to what end, I conjectured, she scarcely dared speculate. |
10 |
| 8 | 804 |
I think, lying there, she now began, more fully and explicitly than she had dared before, to comprehend the actuality of her condition, that she might be, in fact, what she seemed to be, a lashed, soon-to-be vended slave. |
10 |
| 8 | 1080 |
None of them, I noted, to my satisfaction, had dared to break position. |
10 |
| 11 | 222 |
At such times, perhaps, if you dared, you might have longed for the hands of a master on you, a magnificent, ruthless male who could fulfill you, who would put you to his feet and own you, who would answer your deepest needs, who would command you, who would dominate you, absolutely, and ravish you ... |
10 |
| 13 | 501 |
But they were not aware, of course, of the reason for my lack of promptitude, which reason, naturally, I dared not confess to them. |
10 |
| 15 | 114 |
For example, one might, in her eyes, read desire, and thus order her to perform an act which she, even though a slave, might not have dared to beg to perform, or, say, by looking into her eyes, one might determine if she has been up to something or has neglected something to which she should have at... |
10 |
| 19 | 372 |
"How is it that you have dared to return to the Barrens?" asked Canka. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 87 |
I scarcely dared to conjecture what it might be like to be even closer, say, within a few hundred yards of them. |
10 |
| 23 | 67 |
Neither of the girls dared to meet our eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 456 |
I dared not even think of the effect of such a posture upon a woman if she had been put in it by men who were truly in power over her. |
10 |
| 2 | 447 |
How dare they speak of me thusly? Surely I was not that, however it might be understood! Surely I did not deserve to be the subject of such an epithet! But I could not speak, not protest, even if I had dared. |
10 |
| 2 | 470 |
I dared not, at that time, follow this line of thought further. |
10 |
| 6 | 457 |
I had thrown myself at him like a tart, and had been rejected! How could I have done that? Was I only a little tart, or was I a desperate, needful woman, one who had dared to be true to her needs? How I hated him! I was a Tatrix, a Tatrix! He was only a soldier, a mere guard! I had power. |
10 |
| 6 | 458 |
I could have my vengeance on him! I could tell Ligurious that he had become fresh with me, that he had dared to try to kiss me. |
10 |
| 8 | 316 |
He might have remained crouching in his hole, thinking what thoughts he might, but I do not think he would have dared to touch me. |
10 |
| 8 | 564 |
I scarcely dared think it, let alone speak it. |
10 |
| 17 | 147 |
"You have dared to compare yourself with me, insulting me by calling to my attention that we are both females. |
10 |
| 18 | 51 |
I hardly dared speculate what I might feel like if it were actually put upon me and I were then to discover that, by a master's will, I had become "Lita". |
10 |
| 24 | 65 |
I dared not meet her eyes, and looked down. |
10 |
| 27 | 161 |
We dared not break position, so well trained we were, but we cried out with pleasure. |
10 |
| 29 | 172 |
I dared not resist that touch, and I was helpless under it. |
10 |
| 29 | 271 |
I scarcely dared move. |
10 |
| 30 | 190 |
I dared not lie to him. |
10 |
| 31 | 528 |
I would not have dared to do otherwise, of course. |
10 |
| 33 | 182 |
How dared he speak? "The captain from Ar is out of order," said Claudius. |
10 |
| 36 | 1244 |
To be sure, neither of us would have dared to be otherwise. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 25 |
She had not dared to again order me to her pleasure. |
10 |
| 6 | 609 |
She dared not emerge, of course. |
10 |
| 6 | 1232 |
Given the nature of their silk, which is usually diaphanous, and the general scantiness of their garb, and the publicness of their picking up the coins, there is little danger that they could conceal a coin, even if they dared to do so. |
10 |
| 10 | 153 |
She dared not speak. |
10 |
| 10 | 802 |
"You have dared to beg food," he said. |
10 |
| 12 | 103 |
Had I dared to take advantage of that misplay I might not have had to wait until now to win a game with him. |
10 |
| 18 | 134 |
"In this trunk, sacked and shackled, at our mercy, lies an enemy of Brundisium, an arrogant fellow who dared to displease our throne, a captain and slaver of Port Kar, one of whom you may have heard, the supposedly mighty and redoubtable Bosk of Port Kar!" called out Belnar. |
10 |
| 21 | 183 |
"Can you imagine that? A mere player, a member of a troupe, daring to cross swords with me?" "You have done well against one untrained in arms," I said, "one who dared to face you with only courage and a wooden sword. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 107 |
I could not have done so, even if I had dared to do so, which I would not in my life have dared to do. |
10 |
| 1 | 9 |
She had dared to brush back her hood. |
10 |
| 4 | 546 |
She looked at me, wildly, in fury, not believing I had dared to interfere. |
10 |
| 6 | 69 |
I dared not speculate at what time we might be leaving in the morning. |
10 |
| 16 | 57 |
I wondered if she, a free woman, not yet a slave, had dared to express less than total deference before a man, or if she were important. |
10 |
| 22 | 376 |
In any event, she now wore a dress, and, if I were not mistaken, had dared to cord it in such a way as to acknowledge, and perhaps to some extent flaunt, the loveliness within it. |
10 |
| 25 | 785 |
I was a free woman! I dared not protest. |
10 |
| 25 | 796 |
I dared not confess to him how distressed I was at the stoppage of his touch, at the cessation of those intriguing, unfamiliar, troubling sensations which seemed to irradiate through my entire body, seeming to change everything within me and my whole concept of myself. |
10 |
| 25 | 797 |
I dared not beg for more. |
10 |
| 25 | 1363 |
"It was more than that," she whispered, not looking up, as though she dared not raise her eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 |
Then, not looking back to the mirror, I crept in the candlelight and shadows to the dresser and there, from beneath several layers of garments, where I had concealed it, I drew forth a small bit of scarlet cloth, tiny and silken, with shoulder straps, a garment I had myself sewn weeks ago, one in wh... |
10 |
| 1 | 131 |
Such needs bespoke something deep within me, but I dared not consider what it might be. |
10 |
| 2 | 3 |
Never again, of course, had I dared to don the tiny silken garment. |
10 |
| 3 | 41 |
I do not think I could have dared to speak to a man of this sort of thing. |
10 |
| 3 | 423 |
I had not even dared to show myself thusly to common men, to banal, safe, inoffensive, trivial, conquered men, men of the sort with whom I associated, men of the sort I knew. |
10 |
| 3 | 438 |
It was the tiny garment which I had made for myself long ago, that which I had dared to wear only once, in the candlelit secrecy of my bedroom. |
10 |
| 3 | 816 |
I dared not meet those fierce eyes which so frightened me, which seemed somehow to look through me, burning through me like fire, bringing unwelcome, frightening torches to my secret darkness, penetrating to my deepest and most closely guarded secrets, to what lay in the most secret belly and heart ... |
10 |
| 4 | 94 |
I dared not meet his eyes directly. |
10 |
| 6 | 207 |
I would not have dared to do that. |
10 |
| 6 | 272 |
As that sort of thing was going on, we had scarcely dared move. |
10 |
| 10 | 533 |
As an Earth female I would never have dared to walk in such a way. |
10 |
| 10 | 758 |
I dared not move. |
10 |
| 11 | 200 |
I had been secretly thrilled, of course, but had scarcely dared, even to myself, to think of it as "belly dance," or, as the French have it, "danse du ventre," a term popular with some, with some perhaps as a euphemism, and with others as a sensuous way of expressing the matter, one with the same ob... |
10 |
| 16 | 90 |
Too, even if she could, she, a highly intelligent woman, and a slave, would never have dared to agree to anything in writing pertaining to such clandestine matters. |
10 |
| 17 | 242 |
I dared not meet her eyes, but, too, I did not falter in my dance, or beauty; indeed, I tried to show her, lovingly, as one woman to another, what a woman could be, even a lowly slave, especially a lowly slave. |
10 |
| 24 | 203 |
Even had I dared to rise, as I did not, I did not know if I, in my terror, could even have found the strength to do so. |
10 |
| 24 | 204 |
Too, even if I had dared to leap up, and had found the strength to do so, I could not have escaped them. |
10 |
| 24 | 299 |
Surely they should understand that! Of my own will I would never have dared to do such a thing! And now I danced before them, for my life, helpless, desperate to please them, in terror. |
10 |
| 25 | 134 |
They had imperiously, for their amusement and pleasure, summoned forth from me my latent slavery, a slavery which on Earth I had hardly dared acknowledge. |
10 |
| 26 | 203 |
I dared not look back. |
10 |
| 27 | 48 |
Far then I was from the shy, introverted girl of the library, she who had scarcely dared to admit, even to herself, even in the concealments of her most secret heart, that in her belly lurked the dispositions and nature of a pleasure slave! But now, openly, and whether she willed it or not, she was ... |
10 |
| 29 | 5 |
So disfigured one might doubt if he dared consort with his own kind. |
10 |
| 29 | 363 |
Would I be safe even there, or could such a thing tear off the plates, those bolted, iron plates which confined us so well within, in the darkness, to get at us? I had not been given permission to speak, and dared not ask it. |
10 |
| 29 | 433 |
For my blood he had dared even to follow so terrible a beast. |
10 |
| 29 | 1109 |
On Earth I had scarcely dared hope that such men might exist, so unabashed, so untrammeled, so powerful, so free, so sexual, such godlike men, men as they could be, men as they should be, true men, but here on Gor they did, and we were their slaves. |
10 |
| 29 | 1156 |
It was a weapon! I dared not even approach it. |
10 |
| 30 | 196 |
My escape would be impossible, even if I had dared to think of such a thing. |
10 |
| 33 | 268 |
I dared not speak. |
10 |
| 34 | 309 |
I scarcely dared to cope with even the thought of the serums. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 221 |
"I am a free woman!" "You dared to protest the treatment you received?" I asked. |
10 |
| 8 | 193 |
Yet now, in the morning, presumably by now fully aware of what she was doing, she dared to again so hold her hands before a man. |
10 |
| 8 | 304 |
You made my garments such that they were mere covers, strips and pieces, such that I dared not move, lest I be lying naked in a public place, such, too, that they might be lifted from me at a man's pleasure". |
10 |
| 9 | 172 |
Perhaps they had dared to be initially recalcitrant, at least to some small degree. |
10 |
| 9 | 174 |
Perhaps, free women, they had dared, at least initially, to think that they might be above such things. |
10 |
| 10 | 197 |
She dared not answer, and the men laughed. |
10 |
| 11 | 40 |
"She has dared to look upon you?" "No," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 164 |
"If you did know its contents," said Aemilianus, "I do not think you would have dared to bring it here". |
10 |
| 13 | 129 |
I scarcely dared conjecture what her responses might have been, had she known herself truly, helplessly, embonded. |
10 |
| 15 | 413 |
"But you never dared to kneel naked before a man, and say such things?" "No," she said, shyly. |
10 |
| 15 | 477 |
I dared not entertain them. |
10 |
| 15 | 572 |
Lady Publia's small fingers moved wildly, angrily, but she dared not close her hands. |
10 |
| 17 | 233 |
Some dared not move. |
10 |
| 18 | 320 |
It seemed to me then that most of the women who wished, or dared, to attempt the walkway had done so. |
10 |
| 20 | 260 |
I recalled she had been ordered to remind him to whip her the same night, for having dared to look upon me, when I had been brought in, as a prisoner. |
10 |
| 23 | 136 |
"And even a moment ago," she said, "I, a slave, dared to question your usage of me!" "That is more serious," I said. |
10 |
| 24 | 511 |
No longer does she wander in forlorn distress in fields alien to her very nature; in being wanted by a man, and belonging to him, she has come to that country which she has long sought, and never dared to enter, that of herself. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1004 |
She dared not respond, nor meet his eyes. |
10 |
| 3 | 258 |
They may have hurried southward as far as they dared, but are now returning north. |
10 |
| 28 | 322 |
She looked about herself, from face to face, as she dared, then, again and again, looked quickly away. |
10 |
| 31 | 216 |
I had hoped for something along these lines, but I had not dared to hope for anything this humbling to Ar, and yet in its way, so grand. |
10 |
| 37 | 380 |
"But in a moment," wept Rimice, "I did yield to it!" "But for a moment," said Liadne, "you dared to attempt to resist". |
10 |
| 46 | 61 |
They, however, hung about me, as closely, I gather, as they dared. |
10 |
| 47 | 104 |
But then, as soon as I had passed, they fell in behind me, and about me, as closely as they dared. |
10 |
| 48 | 242 |
She gasped, and uttered a joyous sound, but dared not speak. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 399 |
The girl winced, but dared not respond. |
10 |
| 3 | 192 |
I wondered if Phoebe had dared yet, in her need, to come close to him, on her leash, or even, perhaps, to brush against him, perhaps as though inadvertently. |
10 |
| 3 | 323 |
I gathered she must have dared in her need to brush hopefully or timidly against her master, or whimpered a bit more than he cared to hear. |
10 |
| 3 | 324 |
Indeed, perhaps she had even dared to importune him. |
10 |
| 3 | 603 |
At first the slaves were terrified of them but then, when it became clear that the women were not only truly serving humbly, as serving females, but that they now looked timidly up to the slaves, and desired to learn from them how to be women, and scarcely dared to aspire to their status, the fears ... |
10 |
| 3 | 821 |
Within them lay what danger, what treachery, what intrigue I dared not guess. |
10 |
| 13 | 222 |
Some had scorned them as embarrassments and failures, as defeated men and fools, tricked, humiliated and decimated in the north, men who had dared to return to Glorious Ar without the crown of victory. |
10 |
| 16 | 23 |
"Take me from them! Hide me! Glory to the Delta Brigade!" None in the crowd, it seemed, dared echo this sentiment, but there was no mistaking its mood, one of sympathy for the fellow, and of anger toward the mercenaries, and there was a very definite possibility, one thing leading to another, that i... |
10 |
| 20 | 208 |
It seemed she scarcely dared to breathe. |
10 |
| 21 | 170 |
I scarcely dared look at her. |
10 |
| 21 | 297 |
' "Even had I not been back-braceleted and leash-constrained, I would have dared not speak, Master. |
10 |
| 22 | 67 |
How had it slipped so? Then some of the more timid women who had not dared to approach the fellow hurried to him, one after another, to be alone with him, if only for a moment. |
10 |
| 24 | 150 |
"I gather," I said, "that you were not pleased to be carried publicly through the streets, doubtless as an example of what might befall a female who had dared to transgress the couching laws of Ar". |
10 |
| 25 | 74 |
I released the staff of Appanius, as the slave had dared to address the master by the master's name. |
10 |
| 26 | 81 |
"You dared to look upon me?" she asked. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 178 |
Who had dared to put me in this garment? Surely I had not done so! A sense of acute embarrassment, and then of fury, overcame me! What right had someone to do this, to take such liberties, to so garb me, in so little, so pathetically, and so revealingly, and publicly, to so dress me, to so demean, i... |
10 |
| 2 | 54 |
What had become of me? What was I now? I dared not conjecture, but knew. |
10 |
| 2 | 183 |
What was I, I wondered, that I wore such? I dared not conjecture, but knew. |
10 |
| 4 | 91 |
I would not have dared to make a sound. |
10 |
| 4 | 261 |
Too, where would one run? Most importantly, I knew that I would not have dared to leap up and run, even if I were not where and as I was. |
10 |
| 4 | 277 |
Suddenly I heard, beside me, the rattle of a chain, and before I could think of reacting, had I even dared, a metal collar had been placed about my neck and snapped shut. |
10 |
| 4 | 373 |
I dared not look up. |
10 |
| 4 | 734 |
But what kind could that be? Of what kind was I now, or had I been, and now was explicitly, openly? I dared not conjecture, but knew. |
10 |
| 6 | 272 |
I dared not meet his eyes. |
10 |
| 7 | 932 |
I was distressed, but dared not reveal my feelings. |
10 |
| 8 | 742 |
I recall wondering, however, as one passed me, and I saw the regal, swirling hem of that sparkling robe, if the concealed ankle within it would look well clasped in slave steel; I supposed that it would wear a shackle well; why not, was she not a woman? When they had passed, and I dared, I lifted my... |
10 |
| 8 | 748 |
I suspect she had noted, or sensed, that I had dared to lift my head and look after them. |
10 |
| 8 | 1033 |
For the moment I dared not breathe. |
10 |
| 9 | 44 |
I dared not move. |
10 |
| 9 | 45 |
I scarcely dared to breathe. |
10 |
| 9 | 64 |
I dared not move. |
10 |
| 9 | 94 |
I had not dared to meet her eyes. |
10 |
| 10 | 317 |
Perhaps that was the point of the gag, I thought, a kindness in its way, that not being able to protest or plead I need not be lashed for having dared to do so. |
10 |
| 10 | 613 |
Might I run, or bolt? Might I, in some imminent situation, overcome with terror, attempt irrationally, unable to help myself, to flee? But even if I wished to do so, and dared to do so, I could not. |
10 |
| 10 | 807 |
Even were I not confined as I was, I would not have dared to essay that narrow span, that long, terrifyingly narrow beam. |
10 |
| 11 | 230 |
How else would she have dared to exploit such latitudes of tolerance as seemed to be accorded to her? To be sure, she was a high slave. |
10 |
| 11 | 271 |
I crawled to him, and knelt before him, and dared to put my hands upon his left knee. |
10 |
| 11 | 913 |
Could they so read me? And could there be more? Could I be more helplessly theirs than I was now? And what were "slave fires"? I dared not speculate. |
10 |
| 11 | 1872 |
Might not treasures be safely herein committed? Perhaps a captive free woman dared entertain hopes of rescue, but she then finds herself, clad only in her slave bracelets, whirling helplessly downward, toward what fate she knows not, in the very bowels of the city. |
10 |
| 12 | 597 |
'No,' said another, 'and if she dared to do so, she would doubtless be remanded to the pens, for sale outside the city. |
10 |
| 13 | 19 |
I dared not look again on that monstrous head, with its hideous features. |
10 |
| 13 | 245 |
As none were paying me attention I dared to look up. |
10 |
| 13 | 379 |
It seemed she scarcely dared to stand on the floor of the cage, that constituting, too, its gate. |
10 |
| 14 | 56 |
Further, she began, aside from the courtesy expressed in the use of the expression "Sir," to address him with great deference, and to importune him, when she dared, in suitable humility. |
10 |
| 14 | 60 |
I recalled that once, in my training, one of the girls in my group had dared to say the word "Master" to one of the guards in such a fashion that it was clear she did not mean it, in such a fashion that it constituted, in effect, a sneer. |
10 |
| 14 | 589 |
"You are a free woman!" I dared not tell her the might of the desires of men such as these, of their mercilessness and their power. |
10 |
| 14 | 1256 |
She was a free woman! "It was she who stood in my presence," she said, "it was she who dared to speak back, it was she who did not look where she was going!" "Mistress, please," I begged. |
10 |
| 16 | 35 |
But here I was ravening, and I dared not speak. |
10 |
| 16 | 439 |
I dared to put my arms about his neck and kiss him, timidly. |
10 |
| 19 | 636 |
None of us would have dared to interfere, even if we had been so inclined. |
10 |
| 29 | 306 |
"How quickly she learns! She is clever, no doubt! Oh, yes, she is highly intelligent, but now her intelligence will have a different object, not that of seeking wealth and power, but that of pleasing a master! Scarcely has she been branded and the collar put on her than she hopes to sway me with the... |
10 |
| 29 | 934 |
"There, he who so insolently dared to touch me!" "Yes, Mistress," I said. |
10 |
| 32 | 29 |
We dared not meet his eyes. |
10 |
| 34 | 207 |
None of us dared to meet his eyes. |
10 |
| 38 | 207 |
It was he who had so initially terrified her in the chamber of the commercial praetor, who had placed his hands upon her hips and looked down upon her, who had reached within her hood to turn her face to his, who had dared to threaten the integrity of her veil, who had brushed up the hem of her robe... |
10 |
| 42 | 26 |
Even had I dared, I could have done little to make myself heard. |
10 |
| 44 | 286 |
I dared not cast a glance at my master. |
10 |
| 45 | 12 |
No longer dared I hope that he might be kind. |
10 |
| 45 | 122 |
I dared not lie to my master. |
10 |
| 45 | 130 |
Too, I dared not lie to him. |
10 |
| 46 | 420 |
I dared then not lift my head. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 84 |
Yet she would suppose, from her narration, that some will understand more than she has dared to write. |
10 |
| 4 | 171 |
Thus encouraged, feeling almost like a young girl, timid, shy, bashful, almost stammering, she had dared to approach them, ostensibly to chat, inconsequentially, about the performance. |
10 |
| 4 | 452 |
She had only dared once to wear them, to that class and none other. |
10 |
| 8 | 10 |
She dared not look, but wondered if some of her instructrices might not have been there. |
10 |
| 8 | 99 |
She dared not break position. |
10 |
| 11 | 295 |
After their eyes had met once, fully, she had not dared to look at him again, not so openly or directly. |
10 |
| 11 | 432 |
"The women, the debutantes, certain women who had dared to be critical of your life and behavior, certain gossips, certain rivals you disapproved of, those you called to our attention?" "Yes," she said. |
10 |
| 11 | 624 |
She dared not tell him that she loved to be in a slave collar, to be a slave. |
10 |
| 11 | 625 |
She dared not tell him that she had now come to recognize herself as a natural slave, who should, in all propriety, and in view of all rights whatsoever, wear a collar. |
10 |
| 11 | 728 |
"Your pretty little slave is upset!" She moved her head wildly, lifting it, seeing the ceiling, throwing it back and forth, but dared not lower it. |
10 |
| 12 | 327 |
She did know enough sociology, and enough history, to know, though she would not have dared to mention it in her classes, that human happiness, statistically, bears no essential relationship to freedom whatsoever, but is rather a function of doing what one feels like doing, with the reinforcement an... |
10 |
| 12 | 387 |
His grip was painful in her hair but, as a slave, she dared not protest. |
10 |
| 15 | 313 |
She dared not meet his eyes, his gaze was so fierce. |
10 |
| 15 | 324 |
But of course she dared not do so. |
10 |
| 15 | 467 |
Does that please him? She dared to look at her master. |
10 |
| 15 | 748 |
Indeed, in this very house, she had seen many women with whose beauty she would not have dared to compare hers. |
10 |
| 16 | 38 |
She had not dared to purchase, let alone wear, a subtle, rustling silken gown, or one of those tiny, revealing short gowns, one of those scandalous little things presumably eschewed even by prostitutes, who might wish to have a bit of respect from their clients, the sort of garment in which a master... |
10 |
| 16 | 381 |
Now let us suppose a girl, attempting to escape, has dared to disguise herself as a free woman, a most unwise thing to do, and is questioned. |
10 |
| 16 | 476 |
And, too, interestingly, though she scarcely dared accept this, it seemed in its way a fascinating augury, as might be the brief sight of a bird, the finding of a branch in the water, evidence of new worlds. |
10 |
| 16 | 791 |
How amused must be he who had been her master, for, after her beating, she scarcely dared to use his name in her thoughts, to know that she was here. |
10 |
| 18 | 42 |
Ellen dared not speak. |
10 |
| 18 | 257 |
This was in part, doubtless, a function of her newness to her bondage, and an understandable desire to tread softly, to wait and learn, to test boundaries, if she dared to test them at all, with great delicacy and care. |
10 |
| 19 | 136 |
She gasped, softly, reluctantly, stimulated, but she dared not resist or protest. |
10 |
| 19 | 516 |
And what if the narrow ropes by which the basket was suspended from the harness should break? She would not have dared to protest, of course, even if she had been permitted speech. |
10 |
| 20 | 28 |
She dared not turn her head. |
10 |
| 20 | 932 |
But she had not dared to do so. |
10 |
| 21 | 226 |
"So, the noble Portus Canio, of Ar, who dared conspire against the might of Cos, now carries water, as though he might be a slave, to replenish the contents of a cistern, one devoted to the drinking of tharlarion and the ablutions of slaves," said the subcaptain. |
10 |
| 22 | 459 |
She wanted to turn and flee, and seemed rooted to the spot, nor did it seem that she dared to approach. |
10 |
| 22 | 699 |
Why had the men dared to release these things? What manner of madness had overcome them? One of the men stood before one of the crates, and tapped it gently. |
10 |
| 23 | 242 |
Ellen dared not speak, but her heart raced. |
10 |
| 24 | 582 |
She no longer dared touch the veil. |
10 |
| 24 | 707 |
She dared to lift her head a little, but she saw neither Mirus nor Selius Arconious within the enclosure. |
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| 24 | 804 |
Ellen dared to look up, from her belly, half buried in the sand, into which it seemed she would crawl, as though to hide. |
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| 25 | 821 |
Perform! Ellen dared not call out to the crowd, of course, as she had not been given permission to speak, but her eyes spoke to the men, and her body. |
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| 25 | 932 |
She dared not, of course, protest. |
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| 25 | 1007 |
In any event, aside from any cultural ambiguity which might attend the station or status of the Merchants, Mirus would presumably concede nothing in caste merit to the fellow who had just, it seemed, dared to gainsay him. |
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| 26 | 40 |
She could not see behind her, and dared not turn. |
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| 26 | 107 |
But apparently you did not remember to wait until you had received that permission before you dared to speak. |
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| 26 | 278 |
Why has he tied me like this, she asked herself, but dared not move, lest the answer be made even more clear to her. |
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| 26 | 584 |
He must have confederates! Had not another brought her away from the holding area? But he must have risked much to have secured her, she thought, in open auction, and to have dared to use gold, whether that of Cos or no, to buy her. |
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| 26 | 1102 |
She dared not shrug it off, for it had been cast over her as it had, in that special way, by her master. |
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| 26 | 1245 |
Ellen wished desperately to speak, to urge flight, but she dared not do so. |
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| 26 | 1518 |
She dared to press her lips softly to his thigh. |
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| 27 | 280 |
She did not think she would wish to be the man, or woman, who might have dared to betray such a man. |
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| 27 | 314 |
She dared not speak. |
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| 27 | 2196 |
When Ellen dared again to look to Kardok, she saw, again, that his eyes were upon her. |
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| 27 | 2226 |
Soon, they cannot help themselves, even if they would, or dared. |
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| 27 | 2404 |
She dared not look at Selius Arconious. |
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| 27 | 2440 |
She dared not look at Selius Arconious. |
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| 27 | 3237 |
How could a slave girl not tempt a man, she asked herself delightedly, though she dared not speak out. |
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| 28 | 213 |
Then she dared to look up at him, again, briefly, furtively, and then, frightened, looked away, and down, fearing to look again into his eyes, those of a free man. |
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| 29 | 39 |
"She dared to toss her head at me, so I ran to her and called her attention to my tunic, that I was clothed, be it only so minimally, so revealingly, and to the fact that she was only a naked slave, only that, and one publicly marched on a chain, one blatantly exposed on a common road". |
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| 29 | 205 |
She moaned with misery, and fought the bonds, but dared not rise from her knees. |
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| 30 | 10 |
She dared not meet his eyes. |
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| 30 | 193 |
"Please forgive me!" Then, as she dared to lift her eyes, clutching his calves, and looking fearfully up at him, she suddenly felt an almost uncontrollable cry of need in her belly, one suffusing upward and downward throughout her small body. |
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| 30 | 542 |
He then put her hands down, to her sides, forcibly, and she dared not raise them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 161 |
"It gives me much pleasure to see you so," said the Lady Bina to the prostrate slave, "for in the container, on the Prison Moon, it seemed to me that you dared to compare yourself with me, and might even have dared to regard yourself as my superior". |
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| 1 | 876 |
And she had dared not protest. |
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| 1 | 1080 |
She had seen to it that they had not dared not do so. |
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| 2 | 332 |
Cabot!" How dared she, a slave, so speak a man's name? She was half lifted from the floor, facing him. |
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| 2 | 337 |
Cabot!" Again she had dared to use his name! A girl once collared would fear to do so. |
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| 5 | 105 |
This was true, as she had been, for most practical purposes, reared by nurses, maids, and governesses, none of whom would have dared risk their positions by more than a suggestion or a gently reproving word, easily ignored. |
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| 5 | 121 |
"Keep your hands on your thighs!" snapped Peisistratus, for she had dared to move to cover herself. |
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| 26 | 238 |
The slave at their feet, her head to the floor, her wrists bound together, behind her back, began to tremble, and sob, but dared not change position. |
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| 31 | 32 |
And one who has dared to attempt to pass herself off as one of their own exalted sisterhood! The hapless, terrified slave is then stripped, held down, and lashed. |
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| 34 | 154 |
She dared not meet his eyes. |
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| 35 | 132 |
"When soldiers of Agamemnon set forth upon intelligence furnished to them, to ensnare and punish conspirators, they dared delay no longer". |
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| 37 | 16 |
Cabot did not understand this at the time but these Kurii, as they had been defeated, and had yet dared to return to the world, had been refused admittance to the major habitats, and were awaiting their fates. |
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| 50 | 22 |
Scarcely had she dared hope for this that night when, to the double stroke of a whip, she was dragged in chains from the auction block. |
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| 53 | 39 |
"If she had learned her slavery in the pens, and on Gor, she would not have dared to think of such a thing". |
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| 57 | 105 |
The girl whimpered, negatively, but dared not speak. |
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| 61 | 177 |
"How dared you permit this!" said Lord Grendel. |
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| 64 | 16 |
It was on the twelfth day after her return to the insurrectionists' lines that she awakened, lay there awake, not moving, for a long time, and then dared to touch her fingers to her face, and she then cried out, a long, wavering wail, one of horror. |
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| 77 | 248 |
That she, a slave, had dared to speak, angered him. |
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| 80 | 269 |
"I seem to remember you from a container," said the Lady Bina, as though with some difficulty attempting to recall the matter, "when you naively, in your presumptuous and foolish vanity, dared to consider yourself a free woman". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 329 |
Had she not been hooded and had dared to open her eyes, she would have found herself, close on the leash, looking into his eyes. |
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| 10 | 353 |
"I could not believe that one had dared to lay a hand on me," she said. |
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| 13 | 327 |
"But I dared not speak". |
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| 18 | 253 |
"Doubtless for the same reason that the Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers would, if she dared, not treat Pertinax well," said Pertinax. |
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| 19 | 109 |
The perfection he sought, I gathered, was a simple one, one sought by many, and found by few, one which I, even of the Warriors, and others of my brethren in arms, would find harrowing, and almost incomprehensible, and to which we surely dared not aspire, a perfection of heart, eye, mind, and body, ... |
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| 22 | 694 |
Too, they dared to look at my legs and ankles! How could they help themselves? You have them bared, you brute! Then we were knelt and we must still cling to the rope! Ahn later our waists were encircled, and we were permitted to recline! Only then we were given gruel and water! I was the last to be ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1021 |
'You dared to draw back my tunic in my sleep, you dared to examine me?' I cried. |
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| 12 | 184 |
Naturally, puzzled, and somewhat irritated, I turned about to regard the slave who had dared to serve improperly, and she had dared to meet my eyes, angrily, and then look haughtily away. |
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| 1 | 375 |
She dared to shake her head, negatively, pleading. |
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| 2 | 283 |
How furious I was that they had dared to compare my helplessness with that of a bound female slave, a domestic animal, thigh-marked and neck-encircled, a man's purchasable, obedient, whip-fearing work beast and pleasure toy! My efforts were met with laughter. |
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| 3 | 346 |
I dared to look upon myself in the mirror, and I recognized, though not with my customary pleasure and composure, that I was quite beautiful. |
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| 3 | 509 |
I dared not move. |
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| 3 | 511 |
When I dared I turned to my side, and looked up, fearfully, and saw her, through tears, standing almost over me. |
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| 3 | 525 |
How slaves are looked upon! I dared not confront them. |
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| 3 | 526 |
I dared not reprimand them. |
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| 3 | 527 |
I dared not object. |
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| 3 | 779 |
' I could not speak in any event, my mouth held tightly shut, nor would I have dared to resist, or struggle, with the blade at my throat. |
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| 3 | 788 |
I scarcely dared to breathe, for fear I might cut my own throat. |
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| 3 | 1074 |
How dared he, and I a free woman! Where were guardsmen that I might summon? Surely that was not such a kiss as might be given to a free woman! Might it not have been more appropriately imposed upon a paga girl or a brothel slut, fastened down for a man's pleasure? But I was strangely, inexplicably, ... |
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| 7 | 6 |
Few dared to go on deck. |
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| 8 | 40 |
Aëtius, his confidante and loyal apprentice, in whose management was the day-to-day handling of the ship, dared to countermand his orders, this with the support of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, and the counsel of Tarl Cabot, admiral in Port Kar, member of the council of captains, and the war with ic... |
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| 8 | 173 |
She dared to look up, frightened. |
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| 8 | 354 |
"Did you not see many slaves in Ar? Do you still think of yourself as free? What of your own girls? What if one had dared to veil herself, even in play?" "I would have lashed her," she said. |
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| 12 | 175 |
Today she had dared to place a goblet before me held with one hand. |
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| 12 | 235 |
But she dared not move. |
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| 16 | 42 |
The scrolls allege that the bodies on the ship are those of criminals, men who were enemies of the shogun, men who conspired against him, who dared oppose his will, whose loyalty was suspect, who failed to pay their taxes, who tried to hide food, who failed to speak of him with sufficient reverence,... |
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| 17 | 19 |
Sometimes they clung together, frightened, as men closed in about them, but they soon realized it was forbidden to touch them, and then several of them dared to torment the men, with the movements, the posings, the expressions, and gestures of slaves. |
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| 18 | 47 |
She trembled in rage before me, but dared not raise her head. |
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| 20 | 89 |
Once Iole had dared to brush against me, as though inadvertently, and had then, as though in contrition and terror, knelt before me, begging forgiveness. |
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| 23 | 83 |
"And they have dared to return?" "They are Pani," said Cabot. |
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| 24 | 180 |
Many free women, it is said, and perhaps all, as is hinted, are merely slaves who have dared to conceal themselves for a time in the habiliments of the free. |
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| 24 | 293 |
Who, at one time, would have dared to think of striking Talena, Ubara of Ar? Now, a slave, she was subject to the whip of a child. |
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| 25 | 121 |
Too, soon in position, she had scarcely dared to do more than stare ahead. |
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| 31 | 18 |
Some had dared to voice their objections, and had been well switched, across the backs of the calves and ankles, by the Pani warriors charged with the care of the coffle, in this instance, as indicated, a treasure coffle, one used to transport carefully sealed, and marked, sacks and boxes from the s... |
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| 34 | 193 |
The little she-sleen had wished to reassure herself that she was truly a slave, and had dared to be lax in her duties, and, when questioned, had unwisely been curt, even insolent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 138 |
I did not understand how the authors, Tarl Cabot, and others, might have dared to write what they did. |
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| 4 | 224 |
How dared she call us "sluts"? Then, to our astonishment, she laughed. |
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| 4 | 250 |
We dared not respond. |
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| 4 | 482 |
"As I understand it," I said, "kajirae are commonly clothed sedately, in long gowns, if with bared arms, at such feasts, that is, if free women should be present?" One scarcely dared conjecture how they might serve, if free women were not present. |
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| 4 | 543 |
Clearly she had conceived a suitable punishment for such as we, a punishment fully appropriate, given our fault, having dared to read of a natural world. |
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| 6 | 11 |
We dared not change position, as we had not received permission to do so. |
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| 6 | 77 |
"We dared not inquire, Master," said Daphne. |
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| 7 | 664 |
I dared not cover myself. |
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| 7 | 667 |
Accordingly, I dared not cover myself. |
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| 7 | 721 |
At first I had been considerably disturbed at the frankness, the openness, the length, of such assessments, particularly if commanded, turned about, and posed, but of course, a slave, I dared not complain, nor evince, in any way, any objection to such detailed, candid perusals, even handlings. |
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| 8 | 499 |
I had dared to suppose then that I was the best, that saved for last. |
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| 8 | 1215 |
Rawlinson at the party on Earth, when I had been forced, as a part of my punishment, for having dared to read of your world, to serve the guests half-naked, as though I might be a slave. |
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| 8 | 1222 |
I dared not meet the eyes of any of the men. |
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| 8 | 1244 |
I dared not look into the eyes of any of the men. |
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| 8 | 1307 |
I dared not suppose it would have been forty-two pieces of gold, for I was new to my condition, had not been extensively trained, and had only recently been opened, in what I now had come to understand was the house of Tenalion, in Ar. |
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| 8 | 1356 |
I had not yet dared to look into the eyes of my master. |
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| 8 | 1794 |
I dared to look up and see the stranger. |
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| 8 | 2082 |
When the transaction had been completed, I dared to look up at Menon. |
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| 9 | 408 |
I scarcely dared raise my head. |
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| 10 | 8 |
Occasionally, caught in such a contretemps, I had seen a girl mercilessly switched, until she cowered, rolling under the blows, sobbing and crying out, and I scarcely dared to speculate what might occur when she was marched home to a whipping ring. |
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| 10 | 103 |
Might I have confused or deluded him? Would he even understand these things? I would not have dared such a stratagem with a native Gorean, of course, even in my terror, for fear of the frightful consequences attendant on being discovered in such a deception. |
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| 10 | 797 |
Yet somehow, though I scarcely dared admit it to myself, I had never felt so healthy, so alive, so excited, so meaningful, so female, as here. |
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| 10 | 829 |
I dared not speak to her of such things, even in hintings or allusions, as I was only a slave, and was now well aware of that, and her mind was muchly made up, and even the concerned, well-intentioned counsels of the beast were ineffective. |
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| 10 | 1281 |
I dared not turn my head. |
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| 13 | 32 |
And I remembered, too, the intimacy of the kisses forced upon me when I, as a slave, dared not, and desired not, to resist. |
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| 15 | 295 |
How dared he put me on a leash? But I was, of course, a slave. |
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| 17 | 147 |
I supposed it would then be difficult for them to pilfer small objects, dared they to do so. |
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| 17 | 356 |
After he had saved me from the girls of the house of Daphne, he had dealt with me at his leisure, and as he pleased, my hands incapacitated, unable to interfere, held over my head, balancing the laundry, my fingers, as he went about his inquiries, clawing into that large, soft bundle of sparkling sh... |
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| 18 | 488 |
"I have seen something like it," I said, "on my former world, but I scarcely dared look upon it". |
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| 18 | 511 |
But how dared she? I remained, of course, on my knees. |
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| 18 | 1066 |
Had they thought to sway a Gorean male? Had they no sense of the discipline under which their chain sister had been placed? How dared they think of interceding, of interfering? Did they not know the risk they undertook? I supposed not. |
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| 21 | 11 |
She, in the care of Lykos, had dared to speak without permission, when she had not received a standing permission to speak. |
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| 21 | 94 |
If she is bought, and is truly owned, she may be sure that her former rent master, now her owner, will see to it that she is now held to standards of performance which she had scarcely dared to conjecture might exist when she was a mere rent girl. |
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| 26 | 322 |
"I merely, as a pitying slave," I said, "dared to call attention to your cruelty, your heartlessness, the way you bound her wrists behind her". |
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| 26 | 373 |
I dared not meet his eyes. |
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| 27 | 352 |
"You dared to think of yourself as my equal, my rival," she said. |
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| 36 | 46 |
I never dared to do so again". |
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| 45 | 160 |
It was then I dared to look. |
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| 47 | 65 |
Too, even if they were not of Master Desmond's party, most might have been sympathetic to any band of men who, in the face of the Kurii, might have dared to secretly enleague themselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
I did not wish to be whipped, as had the other girl, who had dared to speak. |
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| 3 | 10 |
Since puberty I had sensed the radical difference between women and men, and had resented, but dared not rebel against, the lies, the pervasive, insisted-upon, venerated falsities with which I was regaled, and the pretentious, uncomfortable, alien roles which I was expected to assume. |
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| 5 | 4 |
How real it was! How simple it was to see, once looked upon, once dared to be looked upon. |
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| 5 | 114 |
I wondered how such dreams might have continued, had I dared to permit them to do so. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 303 |
But how had she dared to speak? Did she not know she had been cautioned to silence? And how dared she use the expression 'my master' to him, when she belonged to another, to Decius Albus? How tragic can be the lot of a helpless slave! In her heart she was the slave of Drusus Andronicus, but, in the ... |
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