| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 103 |
The loose ends of the fiber were then attached by broad leather straps to two tarns, one of them my own sable giant. |
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| 2 | 18 |
Their concern was with their own remote and mysterious ends; to achieve these ends, human creatures were treated as subservient instruments. |
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| 5 | 65 |
"Did I not serve the Priest-Kings," I asked, "at the siege of Ar?" "The Priest-Kings used you for their ends, as it pleased them to do". |
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| 7 | 34 |
It was obvious that Thorn, unlike my old enemy Pa-Kur, who presumably had perished at the siege of Ar, was not a man above sensual vices, not a man who could with fanatical purity and single-minded devotion sacrifice himself and entire peoples to the ends of his ambition and power. |
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| 7 | 114 |
"Well, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," said Thorn, "it ends thus. |
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| 12 | 151 |
Through the door of the dungeon a yoked figure was thrust by the butt ends of two spears. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 32 |
No wonder the Priest-Kings hid behind their palisade in the Sardar and let the myths of the Initiates build a wall of human terror about them, no wonder they let their nature and ends be secret, no wonder they took such pains to conceal and obscure their plans and purposes, their devices, their inst... |
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| 15 | 4 |
"The workers of the Fungus-Trays," said Misk, "break off both ends of the torch and climb about on the trays with the torch in their teeth". |
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| 16 | 22 |
"No," said Misk, "he is alive and so are others of your city, but they are scattered to the ends of Gor". |
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| 33 | 86 |
"Now the Priest-Kings blow the breath of my sacrifice as a blessing upon you, letting it travel to the ends of Gor to speak of their wisdom and mercy!" There was a great cry of joy from the crowd and shouts of gratitude to the Priest-Kings. |
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| 11 | 234 |
When I had first seen this thing, heaped with other odds and ends in one corner of the wagon, some of the odds and ends being tankards of jewels and small, heavy chests filled with golden tarn disks, I had thought it merely a rock. |
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| 8 | 613 |
He then put a leather thong on the neck of each and tied the free ends to the pommel of his saddle. |
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| 26 | 64 |
It was now clearly light in the east, and I could see the faces of men below me, some of them carrying rope ladders with metal hooks at the ends, others scaling ladders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 311 |
First Virginia and then Phyllis laid their heads and throats on the anvil, head turned to the side, their hands holding the anvil, and the smith, expertly, with his heavy hammer and a ringing of iron, curved the collar about their throats; a space of about a quarter of an inch was left between the t... |
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| 24 | 78 |
"His ends are our ends," said Hup. |
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| 24 | 79 |
"The ends of Marlenus are the ends of Ar". |
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| 1 | 22 |
These men of Ko-ro-ba, he knew, when their city had been destroyed by Priest-Kings, had been scattered to the ends of Gor but, when permitted by Priest-Kings, they had returned to their city to rebuild it, each bearing a stone to add to its walls. |
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| 5 | 52 |
I then looped the cord over the latch bar and then put both ends of the cord through the small hole, so they dangled on the outside of the door. |
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| 5 | 54 |
"Suppose," I said, "I now tied a relatively fair-sized knot with these two ends of the cord". |
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| 12 | 134 |
The flight track itself, of course, is rather like a narrow, aerial rectangle with two rounded ends. |
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| 24 | 76 |
These things, together with the dissatisfaction of men with the governance of the city and the safety of their homes, coupled with the memories of Ar's greatness when Marlenus had worn the medallion of supreme office, of Ar's splendor when she had stood in his day feared, foremost, magnificent and g... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 36 |
Accordingly their inboard ends are farther aft than their outboard ends. |
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| 4 | 176 |
There was a bundle of clothing and a small box for odds and ends. |
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| 8 | 154 |
With a last length of marsh vine, doubled and looped about her throat, its free ends tied about the up-curved stern, I secured her in place. |
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| 11 | 271 |
It occurred to me then, with a shudder which I did not betray, that such a man could serve only the Others, not Priest-Kings, those Others, in the distant steel worlds, who surreptitiously and cruelly fought to gain this world and Earth for their own ends. |
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| 15 | 376 |
The ends of six lengths of binding fiber, like slave snares, were fastened on her, one for each wrist and ankle, and two about her waist; the men, then, each holding the free end of a length of fiber, stood about her, some six or eight feet from her, three on a side. |
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| 17 | 2 |
It was a very beautiful sight, the great lines of ships in the distance, extending to the ends of the horizons, the sails like yellow and purple flags, in their thousands, in the sun of the ninth Gorean hour, an Ahn before noon. |
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| 17 | 65 |
They are to be fastened at one end to the round ship and are intended to be dropped, with their ponderous spiked ends, into the deck of an enemy ship, thus nailing, or fastening, the ships together. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 67 |
In the "display chain" we were spaced on the chain, and the chain stretched rather taut and fastened at both ends, sometimes to trees, sometimes to two large metal screws, more than two feet in length, which screwed into the ground, beyond the reach on each end of the first and last girl. |
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| 10 | 282 |
They may be distributed or sold, as we please, to further our ends or increase our profits". |
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| 11 | 16 |
He then fixed two tiny steel rods, with threaded ends, through the wounds. |
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| 11 | 873 |
As my hands were braceleted before me, and held in place by the binding fiber there, and the loose ends of the binding fiber had been knotted behind my back, by no movement could I bring the back knot within reach. |
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| 16 | 292 |
That ends, of course, if she is placed in bondage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 120 |
It had ends free only at the first and last girl. |
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| 15 | 122 |
Again, free ends occurred, heavily knotted, only at the last and first girl. |
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| 15 | 413 |
At two ends, then, of a given length of chain, links had been opened, thrust through the welded rings, and then hammered shut again. |
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| 18 | 180 |
These cuttings they sharpened at both ends. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 18 | 436 |
He took the two loose ends of the binding fiber and, taking them under the body of the fallen Kur, dragged her wrists, elbows bent, over and above her head; he then, bending her knees, tied one of the loose ends about her left ankle, and the other about her right. |
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| 4 | 165 |
It has a straight, but rounded handle, carved smaller at the two ends, one where it adjoins the scoop, the other in back of the grip. |
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| 6 | 222 |
Over the anvil lay the joining ends of the two pieces of the collar. |
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| 18 | 434 |
He then, from his belt, took a long length of binding fiber and, doubling it, looped it, securing it, at its center to the ring, leaving two long ends. |
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| 20 | 182 |
Then, unlooping the binding fiber from my belt, but leaving it looped, double, in her collar ring, with its loose ends, I crossed Telima's ankles and tied them together. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 350 |
"The day at Klima," he said, "begins at dawn, and only ends at darkness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 680 |
I cried out, wincing, as the wire pierced the lobe, and then he threaded the wire through and, twisting the ends together, formed a tiny loop, from which the silver leaf dangled. |
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| 16 | 76 |
Mesh, too, heavy and sturdy, closes off the ends of the slave cubicles formed. |
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| 16 | 77 |
In the mesh at the ends of the cubicle formed, both the end at the girl's feet and that at her head, there is a tiny gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 13 |
"The slaughtering," she said, "takes place largely at the ends of the wall, to prevent animals from taking their way northward". |
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| 9 | 16 |
"The ends of the wall are curved, to turn the beasts back. |
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| 25 | 79 |
I then tied the two loose ends of the tethers about the base of the tabuk-horn upright at the rear, right-hand side of the sled. |
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| 27 | 46 |
He took a long strip of baleen, about fifteen inches in length, and, with his knife, sharpened both ends, wickedly sharp. |
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| 35 | 639 |
I looped the intimacy veil about the back of her neck and crossed it above her breasts and drew it to the sides, over her breasts, and then took both lengths around her body and behind her back, again crossing them, then looping them about the sandal string tight on her waist; I then took the two lo... |
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| 38 | 44 |
It was a double coffle line; the last girl is placed on it first; the double line is knotted about her neck and then the two strands are taken forward; the fifth girl was next neck-knotted into the line and the two strands taken forward again, and so on; when the first girl is put in the coffle, the... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 754 |
It was supported on a pole, the ends of which rested on their shoulders. |
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| 11 | 304 |
They looped it about a slave ring, set there in the wall, one of four, about a yard above the floor, and tied it there, the long, free ends falling loose, coiling, to the floor. |
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| 23 | 235 |
By feeling I dropped the loop between the ends of two logs and drew it back, about two feet in from the end of the log it was now looped beneath. |
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| 23 | 280 |
The log was parted, and the two roughened, splintered, ends could now be thrust down. |
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| 23 | 283 |
The water lifted the ends of the log, this buoyancy concealing the rupture in the wood. |
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| 23 | 339 |
Soon, leading the chain from the center, its ends behind and on either side of us, I, and Kisu, and some others between us, were wading westward, shovels in hand. |
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| 24 | 109 |
"He will do what he thinks is necessary to achieve his ends," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 111 |
Indeed, I had no doubt but what Bila Huruma would design a sober and judicious course, gentle, if necessary, harsh, if necessary, to bring about those ends which he might seek. |
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| 32 | 678 |
"My wrist leashes," she said, "were then slipped through the rings, the free ends of each in the hands of a standing man". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 185 |
It goes about the neck, down, low, and is drawn up, and snugly, usually quite snugly, between the legs, the beveled bar ends of the "T" then being folded closely forward about the girl's flanks and being tied, tightly, at her belly. |
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| 16 | 532 |
Then I pulled them to their feet and knotted together the two loose ends of the strap, thus again effectively putting them on a common leash. |
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| 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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| 18 | 759 |
Then, using the cord and eyelets, I laced the two ends of the broad, flat binding surface, to which, in the front and the center, the wadding was attached, tightly together behind the back of her neck. |
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| 20 | 518 |
The girl now wore a light white scarf twisted about her throat, the ends over her left shoulder. |
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| 20 | 661 |
Besides these two garments, intended, respectively, to suggest the brassiere and panties of an Earth girl, she still wore, of course, the light, narrow white scarf, this twisted and wound twice about her throat, the ends thrown over her left shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 97 |
The planks are further reinforced between each girl with a narrowly curved iron band, the open ends of which are pierced; this is slid tight in its slots, in its metal retainers, about the boards, and secured in place with a four-inch metal pin, which may or may not be locked in place. |
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| 3 | 73 |
The answer of the fool is the answer he has been taught to give, the answer he must continue to defend and beyond which he cannot see, an answer historically deriving from an ethos founded on the macabre superstitions and frustrated perversions of lunatics, an answer now co-opted to serve the intere... |
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| 8 | 263 |
"No," she said, "no!" The tie belt on her dress had then been jerked loose, its ends dangling, supported by their loops, beside her hips. |
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| 11 | 246 |
Refusals, dawdlings, reluctances, excuses, games, inhibitions, fencings, teasings, manipulations, bargainings, judgments, considerations, ponderings, coynesses, were no longer theirs to employ, either to attain their own ends, commercial or psychological, or to fulfill the requirements of a patholog... |
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| 12 | 106 |
In this latter sort of device the girl's ankles, fastened at the far ends of the pole or board, need not be untied and retied. |
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| 17 | 59 |
The two free ends of the short thong are then taken back through the hole and, once through the hole, are simply knotted, heavily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 40 |
She had looked up to see him, almost angrily, cutting and carving at a branch, notching it at the ends for thong-holds. |
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| 20 | 42 |
"To achieve his personal ends," said Cuwignaka, grimly, "even a good man can sometimes do great wrong. |
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| 33 | 247 |
I let the two loose ends of the braided, rawhide rope, some seven or eight inches in length, dangle between her breasts. |
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| 33 | 251 |
The ends dangled down, between her breasts. |
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| 34 | 141 |
"What is that on her neck?" she asked, referring to the narrow, dark, braided rawhide rope, looped three times about the slave's neck and knotted before her throat, the two loose ends dangling between her breasts. |
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| 34 | 323 |
He adjusted it so that it was snug and not too tight, and the ends were even. |
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| 34 | 324 |
He then tied the two loose ends together, closing the collar. |
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| 34 | 325 |
He jerked the two loose ends, sharply, snapping them in contrary directions, making the knot tight. |
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| 34 | 327 |
He released the two loose ends of the collar, below the knot, and they fell lightly, dangling, as was the case with Mira's collar, between her breasts. |
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| 37 | 53 |
She began to play with the narrow, dangling, braided-rawhide rope ends of her leather-rope collar, that which I had put on her in the vicinity of the compound of the Waniyanpi. |
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| 37 | 57 |
She looked at me, and, as though not knowing what she was doing, drew on the rope ends, holding them out a bit from her body. |
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| 37 | 58 |
This demonstrated, as though thoughtlessly, the possible leash function of the rope ends. |
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| 40 | 527 |
The ends of these straps, of which there were five, dangled then from his fist, some two feet or so in length. |
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| 43 | 253 |
Then I began to loop the rope carefully, from its center, that the ends of which were attached to the handles of the girls' sacks. |
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| 43 | 427 |
I then removed the rope's ends from the large, closed, high handles of the sacks. |
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| 43 | 430 |
I then threaded one length of the rope through the handles on Bloketu's sack and tied the two ends together, drawing it up from the handles in such a way as to make a long, double loop, the two high portions of the loop well above the handles and adjacent to one another; I then, with the other lengt... |
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| 44 | 718 |
On the other hand, who could deny that a beautiful slave has no means by which she might seek to achieve her ends? He who might deny this has never seen one dance, or kneel at his feet, or heard her whispers in the darkness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 413 |
Did I think they could be swayed? Surely such men were not to be lightly diverted from their ends, whatever those ends might be. |
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| 1 | 226 |
The ends of the blouse, where I had tied them together, high on my midriff, as the man had requested, fluttered backward. |
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| 1 | 261 |
Why should a girl not use her beauty to serve her ends, and to get ahead? "Now face the camera directly, with your left hand on your thigh and your right hand on your knee," said the man, "and assume an expression of wounded feelings. |
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| 2 | 373 |
I sat on the table, at one of the small ends, that nearest the dishwasher, puzzled, my feet dangling over the edge. |
10 |
| 4 | 618 |
The lower ends of the pins had been spread, beaten wide, so that they could not be forced upwards, freeing them. |
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| 6 | 154 |
This belt consisted of two major pieces; one was a rounded, fitted, curved barlike waistband, flattened at the ends; one end of this band, that on the right, standing behind the woman and looking forward, had a heavy semicircular ring, or staple, welded onto it; the other flattened end of the waistb... |
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| 7 | 191 |
They could move only to the ends of their short chain. |
10 |
| 8 | 148 |
They are occasionally rounded up, guardsmen appearing at opposite ends of an alley, trapping them, and collared. |
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| 14 | 139 |
Then, to my surprise, he placed the two loose ends of the binding fiber in my hands. |
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| 14 | 170 |
I was then sitting in the dirt, naked, with my ankles fastened together, the two ends of the fiber clutched in my hands. |
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| 36 | 876 |
On Earth the male sues for the favor of the female, and hopes eventually to receive some surcease, some assuagement, of his needs, doubtless doled out, bit by bit, if she wishes, in minims or grams, so to speak, at her pleasure, and perhaps in a way deliberately, even callously, calculated to achiev... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 130 |
This ticket is numbered on both ends. |
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| 6 | 152 |
Only yesterday I had to sell my golden courtesan, just to make ends meet". |
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| 6 | 1128 |
"I begin already," said the Brigella to the audience, "to sense that slaves may have ways and wiles wherewith to achieve their ends which are denied to free women". |
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| 14 | 243 |
I looked to the ends of the pack; they extended for about a quarter of a pasang on either side of me. |
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| 18 | 407 |
"Take reports from the guards at the ends of the corridor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 404 |
From the upper lip, on either side, the two ends of the mustache dangled back, as the head hung, on the sides of the neck, like two pieces of oiled string. |
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| 25 | 2194 |
The child, for example, who is not raised with firmness but with a misguided "kindness," not in its own long-term best interest, grows into the conceited, spoiled, selfish, obnoxious, irresponsible, self-complacent, degenerate adult, the demanding, petulant adult, still basically a child, impatient ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 133 |
Did they not belong in some organic whole, in some natural relationship, selected for throughout time and history? The bee's dances betokened an avenue to nectar; the fragrance of the flower, seemingly such a meaningless thing of beauty, called forth, luring the bee to its pollen; the swiftness of t... |
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| 6 | 754 |
The coffle was now, I supposed, secured on both ends. |
10 |
| 8 | 430 |
A leather strap, with snaps at both ends, joins the rings, usually the ring at the back of one collar to the ring at the front of another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 110 |
With one stocking I bound her hands together, behind her back, leaving two ends loose. |
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| 6 | 112 |
I looped one of the two loose ends from the stocking securing her wrists twice about her ankle tie and then tied it to the other loose end. |
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| 6 | 152 |
The two ends of the chain then, below the connected links, hung down in front, in an attractive tielike, cravatlike, arrangement. |
10 |
| 6 | 300 |
I did wrap the thong about her left wrist, tucking in the ends. |
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| 6 | 529 |
"Did I not yield?" The chain, its loose ends, the padlock, the small metal tarn tag, indicating she was in debt to the Crooked Tarn, clinked on her neck. |
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| 8 | 85 |
The front and back ends of this cloth hung evenly, and fell about midway between her knees and ankles. |
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| 17 | 60 |
Its two free ends were weighted, secured about heavy posts which were then toppled over the parapets, this causing at one time the tightening of the loops and the dragging of the catch not now into the air, where it dangles helplessly, upside down, awaiting the convenience of the huntsman, perhaps t... |
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| 17 | 710 |
The cord is then drawn back about her belly and the two free ends tied together behind her back, this being done in such a way that the bond is quite snug. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 31 |
Lately, however, I had given her a much more merciful tie, binding her ankles together with the center of a length of binding fiber, then bringing the two ends up and, still avoiding its ends, tying her hands together before her body, then pulling her hands back, close to her belly, and fastening th... |
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| 3 | 513 |
The other ends of the leashes were looped about the pommels of saddles. |
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| 11 | 15 |
The center of such a strap is tied about the chain of the manacles and the two ends of the strap are joined behind the back. |
10 |
| 13 | 513 |
My manacled hands were then tied at my belly, the center of the tie fastened to the linkage, the ends of the tie knotted together, behind my back. |
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| 17 | 371 |
They stopped almost immediately, at the ends of their brief, linked tether. |
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| 19 | 694 |
Her wrists were still encircled by thongs, of course, with the free ends of thongs dangling from each. |
10 |
| 19 | 1008 |
Her wrists, on each side of her, were still encircled with thongs, their dangling ends dark in the sand. |
10 |
| 19 | 1033 |
The thongs on the Lady Ina's wrists, the ends over, and down, beside her thighs, were lovely. |
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| 19 | 1586 |
The thongs were still about her wrists, with their dangling ends. |
10 |
| 19 | 1587 |
I tied these dangling ends together, fastening her wrists, thusly, behind her back. |
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| 20 | 128 |
I drew the free ends of the binding back, surely, firmly, considerably narrowing its internal loops, that they would be extremely close on her, that they would be back, deeply, between her teeth, so that she could not hope to dislodge them, so that the heavy, damp obstruction of the packing, or wadd... |
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| 24 | 30 |
I unknotted the binding fiber behind the small of her back, and then, with the two ends free, untied her hands. |
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| 26 | 16 |
At other times I had her tied as I usually slept her, her ankles crossed and bound in the center of the length of binding fiber, the same fiber, now in its double strand, being brought up and used to tie her hands together before her body, its separated ends then tying behind her back, to keep her h... |
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| 31 | 573 |
"I am tying your hands behind your back," I said, fastening them there, using the two free ends of the cord as a double cord. |
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| 44 | 284 |
It was a mere band of iron which had been put about her neck and hammered shut, the two ends evened to match one another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 86 |
How angry I was, even though I was not of Ar, that they had, for all their loyalty and sacrifice, for all their service, courage and devotion, received little but scorn and neglect from their compatriots, a scorn and neglect engineered by factions hoping to profit from the perversities of such polit... |
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| 2 | 274 |
Marcus looped the cord and put it over her, so that the loop hung behind her back and two loose ends before her. |
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| 2 | 281 |
Marcus now, roughly, took the forward ends of the cord, where they dangled before her, and put them back, beneath her arms, through the back loop, and drew them forward where he tied them, snugly, beneath her breasts. |
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| 2 | 288 |
He then took the forward ends of the cord, again free, and this time crossed them, over the bosom, before placing them again through the loop at the back, drawing them forward and, once more, fastening them, perhaps more snugly than was necessary, before her. |
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| 3 | 231 |
I saw a yoked slave girl, two buckets attached to the ends of the yoke. |
10 |
| 8 | 951 |
Why is it that some men seek wars, traveling to the ends of the earth to find them? It is because they have a taste for such things. |
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| 9 | 347 |
The Cosians, as many conquerors, made a point of enlisting class jealousies in their cause, utilizing them to secure their ends, for example, the replacement of a given aristocracy, or elite, with one of their own, preferably in as covert a fashion as is possible. |
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| 12 | 6 |
I then stepped back a bit and forcibly, with the flat of my foot, with four or five blows, kicked back the side of the chest, forcing it some inches inward, breaking it muchly from the ends, tearing it free of the nails and the lid. |
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| 12 | 7 |
I delivered similar blows to the two ends of the chest, splintering it loose of nails and the back. |
10 |
| 12 | 10 |
She lay there, terrified, amongst the splinters and nails, the sides and ends muchly loosened, collapsed about her. |
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| 13 | 229 |
I do not think Cos, in spite of their youth, will hesitate to impale them or have them at the ends of ropes". |
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| 14 | 509 |
Whereas it had confined her with perfection, she had not been able, of course, to reach either of the ends by means of which the knot could be expeditiously undone. |
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| 19 | 383 |
I glanced to the two vessels, to the side, now filled with water, and the associated yoke, thrice drilled, with slender leather straps wrapped about it, at the center and near the ends. |
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| 19 | 1290 |
Too, a girl is sometimes given to field slaves that way, cords attached sometimes to the ends of the yoke, that she may be pulled about, turned this way and that, and, in general, moved about and controlled as the slaves wish, until they weary of the sport and choose to have their way with her. |
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| 19 | 1432 |
She stood, unsteadily, the vessels swinging on the yoke ends. |
10 |
| 19 | 1442 |
But she could not, of course, free them, fastened as they were in place, by her wrists, widely separated, at opposite ends of the yoke, thonged back against the wood. |
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| 28 | 95 |
Perhaps it was only necessary to cloak the ends of Cos in moral rhetorics. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 340 |
Indeed, we had better be, if we knew what was good for us! If we were not sufficiently hot, or sufficiently pleasing, we could expect to be whipped, or worse! We were not the sort of women who could use our favors, or the coolness of our responses, to achieve our own ends. |
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| 7 | 591 |
It was tied shut with a tiny string, the ends of which are loose, that they might, with a casual tug, be freed, the vest then ready to be slipped away, to the back. |
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| 11 | 1826 |
I felt a rope passed before me and then under my arms, the loose ends behind me. |
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| 11 | 1852 |
As it pulled inward against me both the ends, behind me, must have been in the hands of one man. |
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| 11 | 1856 |
I could see, putting my head back, through a trap above me, the sky, the two ends of the rope behind me, and some of the men. |
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| 11 | 1862 |
I saw one of the ends of the rope released and it whipped downward under my left arm, across my body, half turning me, back under my right arm and upward. |
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| 19 | 441 |
The free ends of the strip, lovely, before and behind, were something like two feet in length. |
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| 40 | 263 |
Rather you were bringing about the very ends which it envisaged. |
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| 40 | 269 |
How often do we seek to do one thing and discover we have done another? How often we achieve ends which we do not intend. |
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| 43 | 38 |
The curve was regular; the two ends were flush. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 128 |
On their throats were heavy collars of black iron, the perforated ends of each curving about the neck to come together in front, in such a way that the collar curved closely about the neck behind the two perforated ends, and the two perforated ends extended forward. |
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| 2 | 19 |
One quickly learns to apply one's intelligence, per force, to new ends, in new spheres. |
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| 2 | 89 |
He then asked her if her general views on truth itself, its alleged subservience to political ends, its relativity, subjectivity, or such, were themselves true, or not. |
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| 7 | 175 |
Her wrists were then tied together, in the center of some fiber, and the two ends of the fiber were then taken behind her, and knotted behind her back, so that her wrists were held pinioned before her, at her waist. |
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| 8 | 216 |
Tutina's blond hair was bound back with a woolen ribbon, or fillet, which went completely about the head, across the brow, and was knotted behind the back of the head, two ends then dangling downward, each about six inches in length. |
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| 12 | 166 |
The two ends of the short chain are then drawn back, tightly, back between the teeth, this holding the packing in place. |
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| 12 | 167 |
The ends of the chain are then taken back about the sides of the neck and brought together behind the back of the neck where they are fastened together with a small padlock. |
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| 12 | 171 |
The rods, which are back, between the teeth, holding the packing in place, curve back about the sides of the face and meet behind the back of the neck, where the ends may lock together, or, if a padlock is used, be locked together. |
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| 12 | 416 |
It is not unusual for a slave girl, incidentally, to capitalize upon, utilize and exploit her own beauty, making use of it for her own ends. |
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| 12 | 430 |
The use of their sex, and desirability, to achieve their own ends is, of course, common with women generally, whether bond or free. |
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| 16 | 129 |
These jutting ends then, with their matching apertures, were hammered flat together. |
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| 16 | 131 |
Thus, in a sense, the collar was doubly closed, having not only been hammered shut, but also secured with the ring joining the two ends of the metal. |
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| 16 | 139 |
She could feel it, trace with her finger the closure, feel the extended ends, touch the heavy, dangling ring which had been put through the apertures and closed. |
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| 16 | 884 |
To be sure, its ends might be achieved more easily by destroying the offspring of all males who show evidence of virility or genetically engineering a new species, a more bovine or insectoidal form of life. |
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| 20 | 201 |
In this device, if the slave's hands are braceleted before her, the free ends of the device are closed and locked behind her, at the small of her back. |
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| 20 | 202 |
If the slave's hands are braceleted behind her, the free ends of the device are closed and locked before her, at her waist. |
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| 27 | 2502 |
The ambulatory freedom of the slave girl ends, however, at the city gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 66 |
"One might as well utilize bacilli to achieve one's ends". |
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| 23 | 116 |
She tried, again, to approach, to thrust her body against him, but he, again, thrust her back, to the ends of the chains. |
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| 27 | 173 |
"In your former culture," said Cabot, "only males were thought to have value, really, and thus the female was supposed to become a pretend male, with male properties and virtues, a counterfeit male, a facsimile male, and so arose all the nonsense of identity, a farce transparent even to children, bu... |
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| 40 | 156 |
"They are at the flat ends of the cylinder?" asked Cabot. |
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| 46 | 150 |
The ends of the world, then, were the flat caps, or poles, closing the cylinder, at each end. |
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| 46 | 166 |
It is interesting to note that if the ends of the world had been hemispherical, or conical, as in several of the worlds, the approach would have been, while still dangerous, yet more practical, as the rotational gravity would have pressed one against a resistant surface, it lessening, of course, as ... |
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| 53 | 225 |
"Is a human birth so different? Does not life begin in brutality, just as it often ends in such, as well?" "What of the womb, its rupture, its wound?" asked Cabot. |
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| 64 | 57 |
It had only recently become clear to Cestiphon that Flavion had put him to use, to further his own ends, to bring Lord Grendel hurriedly to the assistance of the Lady Bina, thus betraying his concern for a traitress, and, thus, he hoped, undermining and compromising his position in the camp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 96 |
"You, and others," she said, "fought against Agamemnon, furthering the ends of other Kurii, those opposed to him. |
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| 6 | 5 |
Agents of both Priest-Kings and Kurii were being applied, unbeknownst to themselves, it seems, to the ends of a third party, or, perhaps it might be better said that three stratagems were afoot, which were occasionally intertwined. |
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| 16 | 194 |
Decisions which are made on any other basis not only favor the ends of enemies, but constitute treason. |
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| 27 | 64 |
The ends of the tether were only at the ring, before the first girl, and behind the neck of the last girl. |
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| 28 | 117 |
Bedded, they were kept on their neck-ropes, but their hands were retied, behind them, lest any be so foolish as to try to address themselves to the knots at the ends of the coffle rope. |
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| 33 | 102 |
I then began to suspect that it was not in the toils of Priest-Kings that we labored, or in those of Kurii, to achieve their ends. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 216 |
"There is, too, the brink, the falling away place, where the world ends," said Thoas. |
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| 17 | 156 |
In their exercising, the two free ends of the rope were usually fastened about masts, commonly the third and fourth mast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 513 |
Would they not observe me, with certain ends in view? "You have much to gain in attractiveness," said one of the instructresses. |
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| 7 | 521 |
I knew that even cold women, and women who professed to hate men, wanted to be found attractive, if only to torment men, or further their own ends. |
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| 7 | 567 |
Its loose ends were then threaded through the loop, and I felt it jerked tight, against the collar. |
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| 8 | 1464 |
The route to these ends, the assurance of a future of comfort and influence, was obviously to contract a match with a suitable young man, one of wealth and family. |
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| 8 | 1915 |
"And to achieve your ends," said Astrinax, "you would do what seemed useful, flatter, pretend, flirt, intrigue, invite, and such". |
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| 10 | 14 |
Interestingly this reassurance of rationality did not allay my trepidation but increased it, for it bespoke no ordinary beast but one which might pursue its ends not blindly, or even merely cunningly, but patiently, wisely, calculatedly. |
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| 27 | 179 |
The fellow held the two handles rather at the ends, where the most leverage might be exerted. |
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| 33 | 95 |
Doing so, of course, would be to repudiate the ends and principles for which he had earlier fought, and to ally himself with the very forces which had sought to destroy him and his party. |
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| 37 | 215 |
Consider the terrible centrality of sensation in that brain, the enormity of ambition which might linger, the rage at the loss of its body, the force of a focused, extraordinary rationality, unwilling to accept compromise or limitation, a will determined to have its way, a ruthless mind resolved to ... |
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| 43 | 9 |
"It is from Grendel that we have learned of the conspiracy, its plans, and its projected ends. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 115 |
To me that seems strange, given the heartless, barbaric complexities of her world with its scramblings for wealth and power, the competitions to control the weaponry of states, that one may apply such ugly resources, under the pretense of legality, to the ends of one's own aggrandizement, a world of... |
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| 6 | 111 |
Some said they came from the World's End, but, as is known, the world ends at the farther islands, and beyond them is nothing. |
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| 10 | 11 |
But Tyrtaios was neither an idealist nor fanatic; he was well aware of the balance between means and ends, between resources and their limitations. |
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| 14 | 525 |
Surely wars can be exploited for one's own ends, even a war of gods". |
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| 25 | 245 |
Why had it seemed to me so false, and so alien, even on my former dismal, unhappy, polluted, awry world? What were its motivations, what ends did it seek, whose programs was it intended to promote? Surely not mine, surely none I recognized or found congenial. |
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| 25 | 364 |
This is not the case, however, with the domestic sleen, which are bred with different ends in view. |
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| 40 | 57 |
I glanced to the river, where the prisoners, each bearing two leather sacks of water, dangling from the ends of a curved-branch yoke on their shoulders, were climbing up toward the camp from the river bank. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 413 |
The thongs resided in the notches in the high ends of the stakes, so they could not slip. |
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| 60 | 321 |
With the drawing back of the men of Lord Akio, both ends of the bridge were now open. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 132 |
But then, I suppose, there are ends that might be well served even if there was no practical purpose in doing so. |
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| 61 | 314 |
"Discipline!" The two lines of soldiers, closing off the open ends of the field, wavered. |
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| 61 | 325 |
Decius Albus, his robes bloody, standing in the box, ax-bearing Lucilius wild and snarling at his side, while the field was broken into warring factions, men against Kur, Kur against men, men against men, Kur against Kur, remonstrated again and again with his men, "Peace! Peace! Do not threaten our ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 323 |
Yet what woman, slave or free, does not thrill to the curious, admiring scrutiny of a handsome, powerful male who one day might prove to be her master? Ambivalences warred within me, excitement, rage, joy, warmth, shame, humiliation, pride! How dare these monsters take for granted, so easily and una... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 101 |
"Given certain ends, who would do things otherwise?" I said. |
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| 36 | 35 |
Thus, they were bared to glare and heat, changes of temperature, wind and rain, even spray, and the waves that occasionally washed across the deck, flinging and rolling them to one side or the other of the ring, to the ends of their ankle chains. |
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