| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 46 |
It seemed probable that food and water would soon be scarce in the city and that the Initiates, whose resistance had been unimaginative and who were apparently unable to protect the city, would be forced to face a hungry and desperate population. |
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| 18 | 81 |
In desperate, frustrated haste, I examined several of them; some were shallow, little more than scooped-out depressions in the wall, but others were more extensive, containing two or three chambers connected by passageways. |
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| 1 | 61 |
I seemed to answer a desperate need for human fellowship in that lonely man, and, for my part, I was more than happy to count myself his friend, unfortunately perhaps, his only friend. |
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| 14 | 191 |
It was truly a tarn of tarns, my Ubar of the Skies! It was a desperate plan I had seized upon, no more than one chance in a million, unless the great tarn could tip the scales in my favor. |
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| 19 | 54 |
No! We climbed to the second mine! How terrible those moments for the guards and Whip Slaves, to suddenly see, unchained and irresistible, the avalanche of wrath and vengeance that broke in upon them! Dice and cards and game boards and drinking goblets scattered to the rocky floors of the guard cham... |
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| 23 | 205 |
We could read the sullen defiance, the resolve, the capacity to kill in those eyes, bloodshot with loss of sleep, the desperate carriage of those gray-clad bodies, hungry and vicious with the strain of street fighting. |
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| 23 | 210 |
What of Lara? What would be her fate at the hands of this pack of maddened, desperate men? I regarded my ragged foes, some of whom had been wounded. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 27 | 166 |
I wondered if Sarm, considering Misk's desperate condition and plight, would offer quarter. |
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| 27 | 174 |
Though the translator which still hung about Sarm's neck with the string of silverish tools was not turned on I would not have needed it to interpret the desperate odor-signal emitted by the First Born. |
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| 28 | 87 |
Before her head fell I had read in her eyes the silent, desperate plea of the rightless, helpless slave girl that her master, he who owns her, he who holds her chain, might be pleased to be kind to her. |
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| 30 | 191 |
Growing more desperate, Sarm rallied his forces and armored six dozen transportation disks and swept into Misk's domain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 103 |
I gathered that those now high in Ar had good reason for such desperate attempts to locate and slay the former Ubar. |
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| 15 | 29 |
In the next phases of the dance the girl knows herself the Warrior's, and endeavors to please him, but he is difficult to move, and her efforts, with the music, become ever more frenzied and desperate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 227 |
It is scarcely worth the risk of crew and ship, unless desperate, to win a hold filled with lumber or stone. |
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| 15 | 356 |
How desperate she was to please me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 441 |
Goreans believe, or many of them do, that each woman carries a slave within themselves, but that the slave in some is more desperate for her release than in others. |
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| 10 | 474 |
And well I did so, for I had begun to suspect what it might be to be so needful, so helpless, so vulnerable, what it might be to desire with all one's being, submitted in the complementarities of nature, to love and serve a master, and even if one feared the master, or hated him, what it might be to... |
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| 10 | 578 |
On the sandal straps there were little stains, tiny dampnesses, where my lips had rendered their pathetic, desperate obeisance to a master. |
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| 11 | 603 |
But what if he should command her to perform? Would he not then be astonished to find what he had purchased, a girl suddenly forced to reveal herself as an eager, helplessly appetitious slave, one desperate to, and exquisitely trained to, please the senses of a master? I now saw Inge as a rival. |
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| 12 | 706 |
It had been a desperate measure, and one not willingly adopted by a merchant. |
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| 13 | 1052 |
I moaned with misery, for suddenly I understood the foolishness of my fantasies in the pens of Ko-ro-ba, and in the caravan of Targo, that I would conquer, that I might, by the withholding of my favors, or the fervor of my favors, reduce a master to bondage, turning him into a needful slave desperat... |
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| 16 | 421 |
I knew then what I had not understood before, what, for brief moments in the firelight, on the sand before his warriors and their slaves, my body had danced to him, my need, my desire for him, my readiness and my desperate plea for his touch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 18 | 671 |
The men would be desperate to hold the softness of a naked woman in their arms, to feel her touch, the caress of her lips and tongue, to hear her cry out their manhood and her femaleness in a single wild cry of pleasure. |
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| 22 | 194 |
She had saved his life in the stockade, interposing her body and weapon, the crossbow, between him and the maddened, desperate attack of Sarus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 391 |
"It remained yet my hope," said Samos, "to recall you to a lofty service, one dignified and of desperate importance". |
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| 10 | 506 |
This is another reason, incidentally, why Goreans favor the enslavement of desirable women; the slave girl knows that she must please her master, and that she will be punished, and perhaps harshly, if she does not; this makes her not only desperate to please the brute who fondles her, but also produ... |
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| 18 | 302 |
That there is an apparent avenue of escape serves to make the enemy think in terms of escape; a cornered foe, desperate, is doubly dangerous; a foe who thinks he may, by swift decision, save himself, is less likely to fight with ferocity; he is quicker to abandon his lines, quicker to give up the co... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 464 |
If it were not for the caravan bells, the slow moving, otherwise generally silent caravans, might, unknowingly, pass within yards of men in desperate need of succor. |
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| 2 | 306 |
This might occur for aesthetic reasons, as, for example, if her measurements, which are generally carefully kept, should minutely depart from her master's conception of her ideal curvatures; sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends, totally, for her very life; sometimes as a training or... |
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| 17 | 101 |
The control on the kennel master is the incipient rage and menace of his desperate charges. |
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| 21 | 65 |
It was becoming a desperate beast. |
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| 21 | 408 |
I knew it would be a determined, desperate beast. |
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| 25 | 505 |
They did not bargain, as might have a desperate free woman, "Anything for a sip of wine, Noble Sir!" for they were slave girls. |
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| 26 | 197 |
They were desperate and mighty men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 309 |
Of course I had been desperate to save my life. |
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| 2 | 312 |
That I had been terrified, and desperate to buy my life at any cost, had been the occasion, and an adequate justification, of my utterance, doubtless, but this terror could not explain the wild, uncontrollable acknowledgment, the shattering of inhibitions which I had felt, the torrential rapture, th... |
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| 4 | 1192 |
"Teach me, Eta," I begged, in a desperate whisper, "teach me tomorrow to be pleasing to men. |
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| 9 | 801 |
I was desperate to be exactly what he wanted. |
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| 9 | 1130 |
"Imagine her, collared, naked in your furs," said Melina, "rubbing against you, desperate to please you". |
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| 12 | 830 |
Who knew to what new chains one might be taken? Was it not even said that occasionally free women, lonely and miserable, their most profound needs unsatisfied, desperate for love, frequented high, lonely bridges at night, putting themselves in peril of capture and enslavement? Surely a slave girl wo... |
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| 12 | 835 |
But perhaps her captor, if she seemed slave-suitable, and was sufficiently desperate and zealous in her pleadings and prostrations, might be moved to keep her, she weeping and kissing at his feet, petitioning for this privilege. |
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| 20 | 237 |
I was beginning to feel desperate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1223 |
I will serve you well!" She called out in English, for she knew no Gorean, but there could be little misinterpretation of her intent or of the desperate, piteous nature of her entreaties. |
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| 15 | 635 |
They are only girls desperate to fight their femininity. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 320 |
"You seem desperate to leave Port Kar," said he. |
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| 13 | 251 |
"Yes?" "Yes, yes, I am prepared to submit—fully!" "The slave," I said, "if she knows what is good for her, will have a keen, a profound, even a desperate, intent to serve with perfection, to be as pleasing as possible. |
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| 22 | 8 |
The men with him, I suspected, or most of them, were members of his own caste, geographers of the scribes, perhaps, but men inured to hardships, perhaps men who had been with him in his explorations of Ushindi and Ngao, men he trusted and upon whom he could count in desperate situations, caste broth... |
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| 23 | 388 |
He, and his fellows, in the shelter, were then ringed with desperate men. |
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| 32 | 1159 |
"You were desperate to please him, for you knew that if you were not pleasing to him, you would be cruelly and horribly destroyed". |
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| 34 | 553 |
Her dance grew ever more desperate and, at times, I had to throw her from me. |
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| 48 | 155 |
A slave in tears fears she may have been found displeasing, and she is then fearfully desperate to redouble her efforts to please. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 465 |
How ambivalent may be their feelings, those of the subdued, helpless, utterly vulnerable slaves, properties only, resenting the chains that are locked unlovingly on their fair limbs, the cuffings and bruises that seem so unfair and unearned to them, the cruel and arduous labors assigned to them, the... |
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| 32 | 151 |
"I am in desperate need!" She looked at me, wildly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 23 |
The pirates made no effort to stop the desperate fellow who, meaninglessly, continued to strike it. |
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| 24 | 654 |
"How brazen we Earth girls are," she laughed, "how shameless, that we would beg to be purchased! How you must despise us, such lowly, desperate slaves!" I then entered Miss Henderson and she gasped, clutching me. |
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| 27 | 48 |
She lives in the desperate hope that her master will deign again to subject her to the those merciless storms of degrading, possessing, obliterating sensations available only to a slave in her collar. |
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| 32 | 136 |
"Are you so desperate for status among your fellow sleen," asked Kliomenes, "that you will risk such lies in this place?" I kept my head down. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 263 |
How tight, inhibited, and unhappy she had seemed there, in her politically prescribed pseudo-male attire; was that truly her world; did she not, truly, belong elsewhere, somewhere, say, in silk and a collar; how desperate she had been to subscribe to opinions imperiously imposed upon her by others; ... |
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| 8 | 382 |
Through a gap in the pirate fleet, I could see that the beleaguered, desperate ships of the defenders fought on, stoutly. |
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| 9 | 47 |
"She is desperate," said another. |
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| 9 | 347 |
"The captain is desperate," I said. |
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| 12 | 190 |
But, later, when the southern fleet of Port Cos did not support us in the battle, continually denying us her succor, in spite of our desperate need, I became at last fully confident of the justice of my suspicions. |
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| 18 | 568 |
"And I grew ever more desperate. |
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| 19 | 54 |
She was in terror, desperate to appease and placate the master. |
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| 19 | 594 |
How desperate she seemed to be, trying to understand me, the man before whom she knelt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 893 |
This is not, of course, to rule out that the man, in his quandary, and desperate straits, might not have welcomed a powerful ally". |
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| 13 | 45 |
The phrase which she had repeated more than once, "I have been sent to your blankets," for example, had not been spoken as a slave girl in full cognizance of its meaning, humbly making it clear that her nearness to the male was not illicit, and begging him to consider her for his pleasure-use, but r... |
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| 15 | 116 |
But perhaps, in lieu of discipline, the master will accept the performance of desperate placatory services on the part of the offending slave. |
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| 17 | 685 |
The entrenchment of eccentric beliefs is commonly perpetrated most successfully on the innocent and defenseless, even more successfully than on the ignorant and desperate". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 9 |
The desperate tensions of the strong male must be relieved, and well, else health must be replaced with illness, eccentricity or neurosis. |
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| 14 | 435 |
"I suppose, if a man were sufficiently desperate," she said, "he might find us of interest". |
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| 24 | 56 |
He would, if the Yellow Knife did not vary his pattern, have time to make his desperate connection. |
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| 26 | 115 |
"Do you understand what it means," I asked, "when a man finds a woman of interest?" She nodded, a tiny motion, but desperate, fervent. |
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| 40 | 757 |
And what man has truly understood a woman's profound, desperate and vulnerable need for intimacy, and his power to grant it or not, as he pleases, who is not her master? Seibar seemed satisfied with what he saw. |
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| 43 | 209 |
Iwoso uttered tiny, desperate, entreating noises. |
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| 43 | 221 |
Iwoso began to utter desperate noises, moving her head, the gag packed in her mouth. |
10 |
| 43 | 309 |
I heard Iwoso making tiny, desperate noises. |
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| 43 | 318 |
Iwoso was uttering tiny, desperate noises. |
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| 50 | 117 |
Her lips pressed again and again to his moccasins, covering them with pleading, desperate kisses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 554 |
It was unlikely that even her fiercest and most desperate signals would be audible more than a yard or so from her tiny prison. |
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| 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. |
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| 8 | 176 |
"Leave Drusus Rencius alone!" And how offensive that a woman should beg for love! Surely her intimate, desperate needs for attention, for affection and love were better concealed even from herself, if possible, and certainly, at least, from others! And if they must beg, the helpless sluts, did they ... |
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| 8 | 181 |
To be sure, one would expect such a confession only from a woman whose needs were both desperate and deep, a woman who had needs such as might characterize slaves. |
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| 17 | 219 |
He had not seemed eager, even desperate to please me, in spite of the fact that I was naked. |
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| 19 | 311 |
The marks did not seem to be connected with any desperate effort at escape. |
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| 22 | 27 |
"I am one who is hungry, and in desperate need of help," I said. |
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| 23 | 75 |
By the time Durbar had returned I had finished, even to the desperate wiping and licking of the bowl, that I might secure every last particle of that simple, precious, vitalizing provender. |
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| 33 | 84 |
"Yes," he said, "that is she! That is the infamous Tatrix of Corcyrus!" She uttered wild, tiny, desperate, muted sounds, shaking her head wildly. |
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| 33 | 88 |
She continued to make tiny, desperate, pleading noises. |
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| 36 | 432 |
The strong man can be bound only by himself; surely the weak and fearful, and hating, know that, and that is why they are so desperate to divide him, and make him of himself his own captor, and prisoner, and his own worst enemy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 393 |
"She comes to us, does she not," asked Boots, "at a peculiarly opportune time, at an instant when we are struggling in desperate straits, at a time when we find ourselves in agonizing and desperate need". |
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| 1 | 669 |
One of the strongest chains binding a slave, even to a hated master, is her need for sexual relief; she is, after all, a slave; frequently, and perhaps even to her misery, if the master is hated, she begins to sense her growing restlessness, her uneasiness and discomfort; she may fight it, but it is... |
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| 6 | 1265 |
"Show us mercy, Lady," said Boots, "we are a traveling company, a poor troupe in desperate straits. |
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| 14 | 108 |
"Instead it seems you are in desperate need of one". |
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| 20 | 201 |
"Should I walk over there, perhaps to some inconspicuous corner, and there engage in desperate swordplay, in order not to obviously share the field with you?" "That will not be necessary," it said. |
10 |
| 21 | 589 |
"How you had me thinking myself so clever! What you had out of me, what you made me do! How shameless and wanton I had to be! How you let me think that I was beguiling you, that I in a desperate female fashion was buying time for rescuers to appear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 195 |
After all, desperate men will resort to desperate measures. |
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| 2 | 172 |
She then clutched at her ankles and, putting down her head, began to cover her feet with desperate, placatory kisses. |
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| 3 | 32 |
Then, amusing himself, the driver tossed some bits of bread into the air and watched the desperate, anxious women crowd and bunch under it, pushing and shoving for position, and trying to leap upward, thrusting at one another, to snatch at it. |
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| 3 | 57 |
"No more!" Women now again, pathetic and desperate, robes now wrinkled and dirty from where they had knelt, and crawled and fought for the crusts and crumbs in the dirt, began to approach the wagon. |
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| 5 | 369 |
The slave has some defense against a vital powerful male, female submission behaviors, indeed, the piteous and desperate prostration of her beauty and service at the feet of his authority and lust. |
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| 11 | 239 |
"We are in desperate straits. |
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| 18 | 273 |
"Or of a very desperate one," said Boabissia, "perhaps one who has fought with herself for so long and so painfully that at last she can stand it no longer, and in piteous surrender and relief flings herself to the feet of a man, where she belongs". |
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| 21 | 192 |
Who could one trust? Indeed, one glimpse of the seal of the silver tarn on the letters might be less effective in procuring an audience with the regent than a rendezvous with desperate traitors. |
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| 25 | 467 |
"You would have yourself chosen not for my pleasure, but for your desperate need?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 1468 |
"I think the real reason," she said, "under everything, as you may have suspected, is that I was driven here, almost helplessly, a woman in desperate need of love, daring to enter this terrible place, but one where I knew men were, by my desire to meet a kindly man, by my loneliness". |
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| 26 | 308 |
I then heard a tiny, almost inaudible, desperate, protesting, whimpering sound. |
10 |
| 26 | 309 |
I heard, too, the desperate movement of bare feet, moving back and forth, and pounding, on the stones. |
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| 26 | 341 |
She whimpered, in desperate protest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 210 |
But surely men such as that no longer existed, and my recurrent longing for them, a needful, desperate longing, as I sometimes admitted to myself, must be no more than some pathetic, vestigial residue of a foregone era. |
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| 10 | 211 |
"And at so much as the snapping of my fingers, you will bring yourself running to me, obediently and warmly, desperate to please me". |
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| 11 | 650 |
How absurd then, and artificial, and unreal, suddenly, seemed Earth, with all its preposterous political myths, its subversion of nature, its insidious conditioning programs, its pretendings to deny the simple, obvious truths of aristocracy, its contrived trammelings of right and power, its desperat... |
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| 11 | 1624 |
Too, sometimes I had felt a desperate longing for them to continue, and had been eager for them, and others, some charming, and subtle, and some almost overpowering, making me feel weak, and held, to surface in me, like wonders, some bursting up, some rising slowly, in my depths. |
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| 13 | 178 |
"Because of you she is becoming more attentive and more desperate to please". |
10 |
| 13 | 179 |
"I am attentive and desperate to please," I said. |
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| 13 | 618 |
But this did not, of course, relieve in the least the desperate need I felt. |
10 |
| 13 | 697 |
No, I was not so desperate that I would have bellied to the first man I saw. |
10 |
| 13 | 698 |
At that time, I did not even realize I could ever be so desperate as to do that. |
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| 19 | 3 |
"I am in desperate straits," I whispered piteously. |
10 |
| 20 | 4 |
"Kind Master," I begged, "have pity on a female slave, desperate in her need". |
10 |
| 20 | 27 |
"Are you truly in desperate need?" he asked. |
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| 20 | 289 |
I must then try to seize an ankle, or knee, pleading desperate need. |
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. |
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| 24 | 322 |
It was my desperate hope to turn their wrath, and their desire for vengeance, seemingly at the beginning so adamant, so fierce and unrelenting, to interest, and desire, and passion. |
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| 24 | 332 |
It had been felt that the nature of my body lent itself to a more desperate, needful, lascivious form of dance. |
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| 24 | 343 |
Some may have been as innocent as those I had lured, and might have been lured by other girls, such as I, and others might have been murderers and brigands, suitably enchained for the expiation of sentences, their custody having been legally transferred to Ionicus, my master, at the payment of a pri... |
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| 33 | 242 |
In her heart she, the former Lady Liera Didiramache of Lydius, was now naught, you see, but an enamored slave desperate to return to the feet of a beloved master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 503 |
They have been seized, too, upon occasion by the remnants of defeated forces, as places in which to make desperate, perhaps last, stands. |
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| 5 | 637 |
"No! No!" The sudden, tense, almost hysterical ardor of her denial spoke of truths, and needs, and depths within her of the existence of which she must be only too keenly aware, and yet truths, depths and needs which, for some reason or another, she seemed almost tragically desperate to conceal and ... |
10 |
| 6 | 47 |
It was no wonder that some fellow, under the circumstances, might be forced to make do as he could, even having recourse eventually, if he was desperate enough, to a free woman. |
10 |
| 8 | 795 |
That might suggest that they had come into the keeping of an exploitable fellow, one in desperate need of funds. |
10 |
| 9 | 193 |
She cast us one wild, desperate glance, and then was dragged past. |
10 |
| 10 | 47 |
This is not to deny that blondes, suitably enslaved, and desperate to please, are not without interest. |
10 |
| 11 | 260 |
There were sounds of agreement, perhaps rather desperate ones, behind me. |
10 |
| 13 | 180 |
Too, days had passed and the hoped-for relief from Ar, the advance of which he had speculated might have precipitated so desperate and foolish a ruse, had not materialized. |
10 |
| 15 | 842 |
She uttered desperate, piteous, pleading sounds. |
10 |
| 18 | 311 |
On the other hand, the slave does have value and if one is in desperate need of coins, she may be sold. |
10 |
| 20 | 293 |
"So far west on the river," said Calliodorus, "we had not realized your straits were so desperate". |
10 |
| 20 | 297 |
There had been no dearth of intelligence as to the desperate situation of Ar's Station, however, in this vicinity, east on the river, and south towards Ar. |
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| 20 | 387 |
She had not received her opportunity to surrender herself to them, begging from them the desperate boon and privilege of reduction to absolute slavery. |
10 |
| 21 | 386 |
"What of the desperate need of cordage for catapults?" he asked. |
10 |
| 21 | 485 |
Also important, of course, at least in the eyes of some, might be her failures in the defense effort, her refusal to be shorn, contributing her hair for use as catapult cordage, in spite of the desperate need for such materials, and the fact that it was only after the imposition of a severe penalty ... |
10 |
| 21 | 828 |
In both cases such expressions, and the apparent anxieties, alarms, antipathies, and such often associated with them, were probably used to mask the female's desperate and deep-seated longing for sexual experience, and such experiences within the modalities of nature, the yielding of the conquered f... |
10 |
| 21 | 866 |
"Perhaps those who would foolishly call it so do so only in their attempts to dissuade themselves from their desperate fascination with it, and longing for it". |
10 |
| 23 | 239 |
Fear in a woman is stimulating to a male and also to the female, making her more desperate to please, more eager to feel, more zealous to yield satisfactorily. |
10 |
| 24 | 94 |
How complex and desperate had become the world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 99 |
Also, who knows, perhaps the creature is a pet, or might respond to certain words in Gorean, or, if one is desperate enough, clutching at whatever straws might present themselves, English, or Italian, or Finnish. |
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| 19 | 1258 |
She is dependent on him and is mortally desperate for his attentions. |
10 |
| 28 | 617 |
I saw she was desperate to speak. |
10 |
| 28 | 680 |
She looked up at me, obviously desperate again, to speak. |
10 |
| 47 | 82 |
Some fellows, desperate to get a particular woman, may pay almost anything. |
10 |
| 48 | 3 |
"I will be zealous to obey, I will be desperate to please!" she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 334 |
"I am a slave in desperate need," she said. |
10 |
| 3 | 361 |
"She is in desperate need of a man's touch," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 384 |
Desperate was she to please him. |
10 |
| 16 | 69 |
"Yes," said Marcus, grimly, "as the poor fellow is surely in desperate need of rescue". |
10 |
| 22 | 265 |
It was sensitive, lyrical, tender, poignant and touching, the desperate, pleading letter of a highly intelligent, profoundly feminine, extremely vulnerable, extremely needful woman hopelessly in love, one eager to abandon herself and to surrender all to the lover. |
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| 25 | 198 |
But I saw that he was desperate in this matter. |
10 |
| 26 | 288 |
She, as her needfulness increases within her, as she becomes more lonely and miserable, more desperate, is left muchly on her own, to wheedle and beg, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 137 |
Could one not plead with them, armed in all the vulnerable panoply of one's tears, of one's utter helplessness and need? Could one not beg them for mercy? Might one not even consider, in such a desperate predicament, the almost unthinkable option of kneeling before them, and lifting one's hands to t... |
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| 4 | 467 |
I lifted my hands to him thusly clasped, in desperate prayer, piteously. |
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| 4 | 510 |
I could not help it if I was vital! It was not my fault! I could not help it! And at that time, of course, I did not understand how such things could be brought about, even in those initially inert or anesthetic, how such things could be, and would be, suspected, discovered, revealed, and released, ... |
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| 7 | 1003 |
I had been overpowered by his authority, by my consternation, by my not knowing who he was, or his license to be here, by the hold he had over me, having seen me by the wall, by my own desperate, crying needs. |
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| 8 | 518 |
I was the only one! How special that made me feel! Oh, how I had wanted the guards! How prettily I had begged! And, if not soon satisfied, how rather desperate and plaintive had become my petitions. |
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| 8 | 850 |
Too, a girl must look out for herself! Too, I had desperate, peremptory needs, which required satisfaction. |
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| 22 | 49 |
And so, for whatever reason—whether he had understood and been forgiving of a slave's desperate concern to discover in what city she served, whether he had been tolerant of an Earth-girl slave's naive foolishness, whether he was fond in his rough way of her, and thought he would this time exc... |
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| 24 | 439 |
How terrible were these men, how desperate, how determined! One, or, at least, one who was free, who might know an entrance, it seemed, would have been well advised to reveal it. |
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| 24 | 950 |
How desperate had been those men. |
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| 29 | 307 |
I was pleased that I had given the Lady Constanzia some slave training in the pens, in answer to her desperate request that I do so. |
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| 41 | 35 |
They did not know, as did Tima and Tana, and Aynur, about the tall, long-haired man who had come to the garden, who had commanded me, he to whom I had fearfully, but eagerly and gratefully, surrendered, serving him with all the desperate, pleading needs of my body. |
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| 11 | 38 |
The slave cannot take the master for granted because he owns her, and she must be diligent in his service, and be desperate to please him. |
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| 17 | 807 |
He gave me no choice, she told herself, again and again, but she knew he had been willing to stop, and more than once, but when he had done so, she had begged for the persistence of his predations, answering to the desperate needs of her vulnerable, needful slavehood. |
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| 19 | 228 |
She was terrified to think of herself as a helpless slave at the mercy of such men, Gorean males, at the mercy of such virile, severe, demanding, untamed, bestial predators, and she realized that, in that desperate predicament, she would be choiceless, absolutely so, that she would be the vulnerable... |
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| 19 | 297 |
Her lips and tongue felt sometimes the sides of the pan, sometimes its bottom, so desperate were her efforts. |
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| 20 | 290 |
These were no irregulars, or guerrillas, no motley assemblage of defiant, desperate, courageous patriots. |
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| 20 | 663 |
She was furious with her slave needs, but, too, was desperate to placate them, to obtain the ecstatic relief to be obtained from their alleviation. |
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| 20 | 904 |
"Surely you would wish to be sent to the block desperate for a master. |
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| 24 | 695 |
Doubtless he had seen the dancing of many desperate, needful slaves, doubtless many more lovely than she. |
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| 24 | 754 |
The more intelligent she is, of course, the better slave she is likely to make; I assume that that is obvious; she is likely to be more aware of the subtlest and almost unspoken desires of her master; she is less likely to make errors which might displease him; and she is likely to be not only hot, ... |
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| 26 | 1146 |
How lordlike they are to their slaves! How much we are at their mercy! Men have made us dependent upon them, not only for our food and drink, for even a rag to wear, but, too, in other ways, ways far more profound, dependent upon them for the assuagement of cruel and desperate needs, needs routinely... |
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| 27 | 243 |
And let them cry out, if they would, if they could manage nothing better, in tragic, unsatisfied need, and clutch, and drench, their pillows with desperate tears, tears of helpless frustration, envying her, and wondering why they knew no men, wondering why no one would put a collar on them. |
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| 27 | 855 |
Then, without removing his gaze from that of Selius Arconious, whom he seemed to somehow sense might be the most dangerous, or the most desperate, or the most irrational, or the first to act, he uttered a succession of soft, low, almost gentle, growling noises. |
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| 27 | 2253 |
It is an interesting experience, doubtless, for a proud, cold woman who has loathed men to find herself now become a heated, dependent slave hopelessly in love with her master, so different from the men she had known, and in desperate need of his touch. |
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| 29 | 209 |
Then a desperate thought came to her. |
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| 30 | 532 |
But then, too, suddenly, it seemed, her entire body began to be suffused, more so than ever before, this startling her, almost frightening her, with an incandescence of surrender, of helpless heat, of overwhelming love, of total, unmitigated submission, of a woman's desperate, frenzied need to put h... |
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| 18 | 122 |
Accordingly, Cabot was not disposed to flee until, desperate and exhausted, perhaps after some Ahn, his muscles aching, his body shuddering, his lungs gasping for air, he would lie vulnerable and helpless in the path of his pursuers. |
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| 25 | 115 |
"Or perhaps the merest breath of a possible reluctance, the smallest suggestion of a mere hesitation in your desperate concern to be prompt and pleasing in all ways?" "No, no," she said. |
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| 30 | 122 |
"But after such a use," he said, "they are commonly desperate to be collared". |
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| 36 | 45 |
Its gatherings, sometimes before battles, or in the vicinity of lengthy, desperate marches, are often regarded with uneasiness, and some see it as a bird of ill omen. |
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| 53 | 246 |
"There are many of them, they seem the effect of desperate, agitated movement. |
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| 70 | 179 |
In desperate fury Flavion cried out with rage and flung the rifle at Cabot, who moved to the side, permitting it to pass, which it did, spinning into the brush. |
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| 73 | 190 |
Let her obtain this information from the actions of diverse, seemingly unconcerned, casual intermediaries, perhaps from guards, attendants, even passersby, in the vicinity of the cages, bit by bit, from, say, a word dropped here and there, to which she, in her cage, desperate for knowledge, would be... |
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| 78 | 144 |
Whereas it might be conjectured that Flavion would have defended himself with vigor, even in so desperate a situation, the fact was that he flung down his ax, turned about, and lurched to the gate of the compound, the gate which, as we recall, he had securely latched, and fastened, in such a way tha... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 206 |
Later, in the insurrection, he, and other sleen, as Agamemnon grew more desperate, uncertain, and frightened, had been freed, that they might hunt down, destroy, and devour his foes, in particular ill-armed humans who might be party to the rebellion. |
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| 5 | 765 |
"When the fighting began, and it became clear how desperate it was," said a fellow, "and how the city would be lost to us, we sought, in a brief surcease of battle, to sack up what coin we might, and other valuables, and prepared to fight our way toward the pomerium". |
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| 5 | 850 |
"But in moments, by their own small, desperate hands, their faces were bared to men, men neither of their families nor companionship". |
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| 6 | 44 |
What would it be, if she were truly a slave? Would that not be pleasant for a fellow? She did not object, of course, to the hooding and binding, as she was desperate to keep up her pretense of bondage before Pertinax. |
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| 7 | 370 |
In several Ahn I knew she would be even more needful and desperate. |
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| 11 | 152 |
How desperate, I thought, are slaves, once they understand their condition, to be found pleasing. |
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| 17 | 46 |
The Pani, I was sure, would be loyal to their lord, their daimyo, Lord Nishida, for that seemed to be their way, and a cornered mercenary, one with no hope of a higher fee or escape, much like the cornered seventy-pound canal urt of Port Kar, is a most desperate and dangerous foe. |
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| 19 | 170 |
I doubted that she would be in danger, as she was a slave, any more than a verr or kaiila, but it is hard to anticipate the actions of frightened, desperate men. |
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| 22 | 533 |
I sensed she was desperate, and had no idea when she might, again, if ever, have a moment with him. |
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| 25 | 106 |
Otherwise he is no more than a clumsy oaf, a failure, having accomplished no more than might have a desperate, simple, misguided fool. |
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| 25 | 132 |
Would they not now, scattered, defeated, haggard, desperate, frightened, half-starved, have sought flight? Too, they might well fear larls. |
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| 35 | 78 |
"I did not request this audience," I said, "to apprise you of the hopeless nature of your situation, for that is something of which you are doubtless aware, perhaps more so than I, nor to impress upon you the advisabilities of desperate strategies, nor to urge even the simplest and most modest wisdo... |
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| 38 | 214 |
"There is nothing contemptible in a slave's plaintive, desperate need. |
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| 3 | 328 |
"When it became clear that Talena was gone," she said, "Seremides and his men, finding their situation critical, took to desperate flight. |
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| 3 | 340 |
Within this chest, as a last, desperate resort, I had placed a slave tunic and collar, the key to which I might conceal in the tunic's hem. |
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| 3 | 632 |
They were not professional soldiers and I did not think they could stand before well-armed, desperate mercenaries, though they might hold them long enough for more effective troops, summoned by the bar and the horns, to arrive, even tarnsmen flighted from the city. |
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| 8 | 325 |
We were hundreds of pasangs from land, and who knew how far the ice might last, but, it seemed, even so woeful and improbable a scheme might have some appeal to forlorn, desperate minds, minds half crazed by the imprisonment of the ship, the silence, the darkness, the cold, the endless labor at the ... |
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| 9 | 161 |
"You would deal with desperate men, of either side, who will strike without hesitation or compunction". |
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| 9 | 186 |
It had been half hacked to pieces, probably in the frustration and rage of those desperate men in whose way he had so resolutely stood. |
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| 9 | 301 |
I had feared he might by now have departed the ship, in tarnflight, the slave, Alcinoë, bound belly up across his saddle, in some desperate attempt to reach Ar. |
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| 9 | 435 |
They were desperate, crazed, not thinking". |
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| 12 | 95 |
Some of those closest to him, and, I feared, in desperate league with him, such as Tyrtaios, in the service of Lord Nishida, might know him only as a master swordsman, Rutilius of Ar. |
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| 20 | 33 |
Whereas this sort of thing, frequenting the vicinity of a free man, is not unusual in an enamored slave, desperate to fall within the purview of a master's glance, hoping to be noticed, though she be only slave, it seemed unaccountable in the case of one who had once been the Lady Flavia of Ar. |
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| 20 | 302 |
"He may," I said, "if he wishes, for amusement, bring you patiently to the brink of a yearned-for relief, one for which you are pathetically, beggingly desperate, and then abandon you, leaving you alone to thrash in helpless frustration". |
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| 21 | 215 |
Slaves, of course, another form of treasure, however desperate they might be to set foot on land, however pathetically they might plead, would remain on board, as well. |
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| 22 | 176 |
A moment of panic, an unpredictable loss of nerve, can, in a moment, turn rows of desperate, brave men into disorganized, fugitive, vulnerable prey. |
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| 22 | 195 |
I now have little doubt that it was his firmness, and leadership, and those of his fellows, Pani and others, which had organized and stiffened that resolute defense behind which the frenzied withdrawal of our primary forces, apparently ambushed, charged, and outnumbered, was in desperate progress. |
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| 29 | 77 |
Surely he must understand the men were frightened, resolved, and desperate. |
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| 36 | 556 |
He had been denied passage on the River Dragon, which had been of desperate importance to him. |
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| 36 | 597 |
She made tiny, helpless, piteous, desperate noises, scarcely detectable outside the sturdiness of the gag, its tight, encircling leather perimeters. |
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| 37 | 70 |
Her body, its deliciousness, its vitality, its movements, its pressings and brushings, its piteous closures with, and its desperate touchings against, the master, its pleadings, did not suggest white silk. |
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| 37 | 1311 |
"I thought of myself, frequently enough, as a property, as owned, as a girl who must unquestioningly, fearfully, obey masters, who might dance for their pleasure, about campfires in lonely places, on streets in shabby districts, to a master's flute, on the decks of galleys, to the clapping of hands,... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 706 |
She retained our confiscated books, and might, we knew, at any time, initiate the proceedings which we were desperate to avoid. |
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| 7 | 128 |
I tried to speak, as I was desperate to do, but could not do so, for the bread. |
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| 7 | 146 |
I felt a desperate desire to prostrate myself before the unseen others, if they were there. |
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| 8 | 232 |
How strange they find it that men should prefer the helpless female slave, lovely, obedient, needful, desperate to please, to themselves! How could such a thing be? But it seems that it might be. |
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| 8 | 234 |
How detestable, think the free women, are slaves! How horrifying to want to be owned, to want to belong to a man, wholly, and desire to love and serve him, forever, abjectly, and unquestioningly, to the best of one's ability! And how terrible men are that they should unaccountably prefer a cringing ... |
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| 8 | 459 |
Perhaps she is desperate to speak. |
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| 10 | 1259 |
"But perhaps not yet," he said, "in frequent, desperate need". |
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| 18 | 1023 |
But I was desperate. |
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| 51 | 213 |
How could I sue for mercy? How could I perform the desperate placatory behaviors which I had learned in the house of Tenalion, behaviors which might mean the difference of life or death for a slave? "She cannot plead for mercy, Mistress and Masters," said Jane. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 63 |
Periodically, recurrently, helplessly, she would find herself in desperate sexual need. |
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| 6 | 69 |
If her efforts were unsatisfactory in such ways, or others, her grooming, her posture and grace, the care of a domicile, her shopping, or such, one might reduce, or deny her, the touch of the master, of which touch, at that time, she would be in desperate need. |
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| 35 | 34 |
Did she not know we were desperate to please her? She was so different from a man. |
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| 37 | 178 |
He was thus in desperate need of intelligence. |
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| 39 | 50 |
Surely it was natural for us, then, desperate and frightened, in our consternation, to wish to withdraw from what it might be, not clearly understood, so menacing, that was rushing upon us, but we were in our neck rope. |
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| 43 | 808 |
"That was a rather far-fetched, and somewhat desperate, plan," I said to Axel. |
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| 50 | 138 |
Some here, I speculated, might even be of the caste of Warriors, though in such a case, perhaps renegades or exiles, possibly men who had fared badly in city revolutions, even men who may have forsworn Home Stones or betrayed codes, desperate men, dangerous men. |
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| 1 | 102 |
With desperate courage they had attacked. |
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| 2 | 47 |
Might not some survivors, lost, miserable, desperate, cold, and starving, return, searching for food, perhaps hoping to be rescued? I should have been there. |
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| 7 | 34 |
Once her slave fires have been ignited, and, periodically, rage, in all their suffusive, global might, she finds herself, perhaps at first to her terror, dismay, and misery, their helpless, desperate captive and victim. |
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| 7 | 222 |
"We should have sallied forth when we had strength, weeks ago, risking all on a desperate charge," I said. |
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| 7 | 319 |
"There seemed no need," he said, "but now matters are desperate". |
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| 9 | 51 |
And officers, familiar with the manuals, sweating in the midst of fighting, exhausted, hoarse, their arm weary, looking about themselves, discover they are now surrounded by disorganized, swarming men, innocent of, or forgetful of, codes, excited, frightened, violent, celebratory, reckless men who h... |
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| 11 | 135 |
"The ultimate judge and lord of battle is men afoot, common men, marching, disciplined men, men who breach walls and force their way through gates, who can explore streets and enter rooms where desperate enemies lurk. |
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| 12 | 52 |
Yet, interestingly, such trivial things, a rag or such, can be of desperate importance to the little beasts, and they will often beg for a scrap of cloth, and labor zealously to obtain it, and to retain it, if it is allowed to them". |
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| 21 | 96 |
I had no reason to believe that Kurii, long confined to their steel spheres, and desperate to obtain a fresh, unspoiled world after they had ruined their own, would abide a negative result of the wager with equanimity. |
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| 21 | 196 |
"Escape was imperative," I said, "and the men impatient, and desperate". |
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| 21 | 251 |
I admired the latter, that he would abet his fellow, at much personal hazard, in that desperate venture. |
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| 25 | 174 |
Similarly, it is not unusual for trainers and keepers in Ar and Turia to withhold food from arena animals, that the torments of hunger might be sorely exacerbated, so cruelly heightened that the released animal will forgo the caution and probity of its ways in the wild to indiscriminately rush upon ... |
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| 30 | 317 |
"There is nowhere to go!" "Slaves are sometimes hysterical and desperate," he said. |
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| 31 | 166 |
It might be mentioned that it is not only hungry, desperate peasants, driven to extremities, who sell their daughters. |
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| 32 | 76 |
The two glaives and the knife, I was sure, could not withstand a concerted attack of several desperate men. |
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| 32 | 127 |
The man is a master!" Yasushi, now, was doing no more than playing with the desperate, half-frenzied Arashi. |
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| 38 | 109 |
Together, now!" At various points, to my left and right, for others, too, had made progress such as we, I heard the soft cries and utterances, sudden and forceful, of desperate and straining men. |
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| 39 | 34 |
"He set forth on some desperate adventure, one involving the worthless Sumomo. |
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| 56 | 6 |
In a time of peril even its hazards might seem preferable to those of the outer grounds or the open country, which might be roamed by raiding peasants, by bandits, by renegades, by hungry, desperate soldiers, like animals, freed of the rod of discipline. |
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| 57 | 53 |
Who would dare to attempt to hold, or stop, such desperate, frightened men? In the confusion, the chaos, and disorder, in the sudden disarrangements of power, in the lapse of authority, peasants rose, many following a charismatic leader named Arashi, himself of the peasants. |
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| 58 | 134 |
Clearly her situation was desperate. |
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| 61 | 154 |
What had begun as an unopposed march to claim an uncontested and inexpensive victory had suddenly, within an Ahn or so, turned into an apparently desperate situation, sustaining a possible siege without the benefit of suitable defenseworks against a foe which might be present in overwhelming numbers... |
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| 61 | 596 |
Eventually he was freed of his chains and, during the traumas and exigencies of the ensuing months, particularly once the islands had been reached, and the need for armed men became more desperate, he had been allowed to serve with our mercenary contingents, rather as though he had been originally r... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 331 |
I am one such as you, but in desperate need of succor". |
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| 15 | 308 |
And who was it from whom Tullius Quintus fled? How desperate he had been to escape! Whom did he so fear? Who had been our pursuer? Where was that pursuer now? Surely, by now, he was more than aware of my master's ruse, and the falsity of the track on which he had been set. |
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| 30 | 332 |
I wept in misery, pulling against the chains, twisting and turning, and then, my desperate efforts mocked by obdurate, clasping steel, I lay back in the furs, in helpless frustration, a slave, chained in place. |
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| 33 | 589 |
"Away!" said Kurik, waving his arm, dagger in hand, in what was clearly a violent, desperate, shunning, warning, gesture. |
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| 40 | 129 |
"It seems clear that desperate, unscrupulous men are about". |
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| 52 | 56 |
Surely he would be desperate to placate his mighty allies, to remedy matters to whatever extent possible, to redeem the plausibility of his house, to reassert the sturdiness of his allegiance and the value and reliability of his service. |
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| 53 | 55 |
Even so, even Goreans recognize that it is not likely to be much in one's best interests to negotiate the high bridges while in desperate need of sleep or profoundly drunk. |
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| 59 | 63 |
I was desperate to look, as I could, through the opened portal, that of the first door, leading outside, that through which the verr had been driven. |
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| 60 | 100 |
Decius Albus is desperate to please his dark allies. |
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| 61 | 87 |
Much attention was then focused on the second gate, that through which we had been hurried, from the girl chute, crowding to the outside, desperate to escape from the heated irons. |
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| 61 | 823 |
"Consider a desperate assault on the box of honor, where the noble Albus lies helpless, unconscious, unable to either flee or defend himself, an assault by several assailants. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 280 |
I suppose it must be pleasant for a man to own a beautiful woman, to have her in his collar and have absolute power over her, to be her absolute master, to have her at his feet, perhaps naked, perhaps in chains, desperate to please him, in all ways. |
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| 6 | 260 |
Yet I thought, as I had heard, how zealously they compete to please the masters! They were desperate to have about them the arms of masters, and those who might be less zealous would be whipped, until they, too, later, their slave fires kindled, and raging, would compete as well, and desperately, to... |
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| 8 | 716 |
"Now," he said, "we will recover, and begin our flight in desperate earnest". |
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| 8 | 981 |
"That is when I leapt from the ship, in a desperate and forlorn hope of attaining the shore". |
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| 13 | 42 |
Doubtless he had already suffered for days recalling his indiscretion, and was now desperate to beg my forgiveness. |
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| 18 | 32 |
"Their bellies flame; they become more pathetically needful; they become more desperate to please; they improve". |
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| 18 | 123 |
"But now that I find you in Port Kar I conjecture that he, perhaps having little to guide him and being desperate, thought that you, because of the change of sheets, might somehow be associated with Adraste. |
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| 23 | 92 |
I was desperate to speak, and could not do so. |
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| 33 | 256 |
"Bounty hunters are plentiful, frustrated seekers are desperate, human sleen await scent, failed soldiers of fortune despair of their fees," said the beast. |
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| 33 | 650 |
I was desperate that it not drift away, behind me, in the tide. |
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| 37 | 96 |
I broke into a wild, desperate run, away, anything to escape she who styled herself Dorna of Tharna. |
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| 38 | 86 |
I did not doubt that he had "found her flanks of interest," as the masters say, but I suspected her value to him went far beyond her desperate attempt to please him fully and perfectly in the furs. |
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| 42 | 101 |
"Rally, rally! Attack, attack!" But I gathered that Pa-Kur, buffeted and ignored, surrounded by frantic, desperate, running men, soon found himself deserted in the corridor. |
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| 45 | 38 |
But, ela, no way was open before us! We had scarcely sped three or four mad, wild, desperate yards when we were intercepted by the gathered men, seized by the arms, and faced back, toward the moored boat. |
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| 46 | 394 |
Euphrosyne, at the beginning, was desperate to please. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 140 |
We are helpless, and desperate! You cannot leave us here! We will drown or thirst to death! There are dangers in the water. |
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| 5 | 93 |
"What is the likelihood," I asked, "that in the wide and open waters of mighty Thassa one might encounter a tiny, listing fragment of a shattered vessel, with three passengers, free women, in desperate need of succor?" "Little likelihood, indeed," said Clitus. |
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| 7 | 38 |
"But your desperate attempt to set the noble Statercounter's mind at ease, and perhaps your own, with such an explanation is ill-founded. |
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| 13 | 54 |
Their release was a wild, desperate act, the last act of one of the raiders. |
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| 27 | 16 |
We had determined, at the time of the fair, at least to our satisfaction, that the 'Three Ubaras' were also utilized by the corsairs as decoy women, the supposed survivors of shipwrecks or piratical attacks, three pathetic free women seemingly in desperate need of rescue. |
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| 32 | 93 |
"Captain," said Xanthos, "they will surely, in one or two days, become desperate and rush forth, shields forward, in numbers we will be unable to resist or turn back". |
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| 32 | 101 |
"What do you think they will do, hungry, thirsting, and frightened," I asked, "before risking all on a final, desperate rush to freedom, losing themselves, perhaps to a man, against possibly insurmountable odds". |
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| 44 | 116 |
"But we must be ready," said Thrasymedes, "should the attack be massive, vigorous, and desperate". |
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| 48 | 117 |
"And the hapless Tarchon was at hand, to be deemed responsible, at the mercy of lawless, desperate, frightened, imperiled men". |
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| 49 | 205 |
"Who but the bold and desperate will risk Thassa in the darkness?" "It is light now," said Aktis. |
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| 50 | 1 |
Impact at Sea; Fog; A Situation is Desperate; Sakim's Proposal "Rudders right!" I cried. |
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| 51 | 159 |
It turned about and, the mercenaries with spears continuing to fend off desperate swimmers, began to make its way back toward the two unharmed corsair ships, waiting closer to shore. |
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| 58 | 140 |
There are commonly two justifications for so desperate a measure as to fire one's own ship. |
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| 63 | 73 |
It would be pleasant to see them on the block, piteous in their need, zealous to attract buyers, desperate to be purchased, by any male. |
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