| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 112 |
I lay awake for a long time, feeling alone, yet not alone, as one sometimes does in the wilderness, feeling as if one were the only living object on the planet and as if the closest things to one—one's fate and destiny perhaps—lay outside our small world, somewhere in the remote, alien... |
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| 1 | 143 |
Do whatever you think is in your own best interest, but the fate is upon you, and you will not escape. |
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| 1 | 228 |
My father's words recurred in my memory: "The fate is upon you". |
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| 2 | 196 |
This conjecture, the seeking of holiness, however, seemed to me to fit not well with the sickening fate apparently awaiting those who attempted the mountains. |
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| 5 | 18 |
Never defeated in combat, Ubar of Ubars, he had boldly refused to relinquish his title after a Valley War some twelve years ago, and his men had refused to withdraw from him, refused to abandon him to the traditional fate of the overambitious Ubar. |
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| 5 | 68 |
Surely there was enough to frighten any girl—the height at which she found herself, the savage mount on which she rode, the prospect of the terrible fate that she believed to await her at our journey's end. |
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| 6 | 192 |
"Where is the tarn?" I repeated, more interested at the moment in the fate of my fierce mount than in the ridiculous piece of rock I had risked my life to obtain. |
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| 7 | 4 |
"It pleased the daughter of Marlenus," she said, "to inform you and your eight-legged brother of the fate of your tarn and of the Home Stone you sought". |
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| 7 | 201 |
"If you had been a true warrior," she said, "you would have taken me on the back of your tarn, above the clouds, even before we had passed the outermost ramparts of Ar, and you would have thrown my robes to the streets below to show my people what had been the fate of the daughter of their Ubar". |
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| 9 | 13 |
And, I supposed, a similar fate would await us in most Gorean cities. |
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| 11 | 35 |
I did not tell her, but if that was decreed to be her fate and I could not prevent it, I knew she would not be impaled alone. |
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| 12 | 95 |
The flight of the tarn was serene, and I, grateful to be free at last of the painful Frame of Humiliation, found myself, strangely enough, almost reconciled to the savage but swift fate I knew awaited me. |
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| 14 | 22 |
I waited, kneeling at his feet, puzzled that he, like the others in his camp, evinced no interest in the fate of his daughter. |
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| 15 | 105 |
"In a hundred generations, among the thousand chains of fate," said Kazrak, "there is but one strand like yours". |
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| 16 | 47 |
The fate of Marlenus during these days was in doubt. |
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| 17 | 95 |
The shock of seeing her, of knowing the fate that awaited her had been too much. |
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| 18 | 5 |
Perhaps, mercifully, he did not know what was to be her fate. |
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| 18 | 53 |
The eyes of the man narrowed, and he regarded me with hatred, for he well knew what was to be the fate of the officers of Ar. |
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| 19 | 11 |
He swore violently when I told him of the proposed fate of Talena, yet refused to accompany me when I announced that I would attack the Cylinder of Justice. |
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| 19 | 96 |
I had heard of the Flame Death from my father and from the Older Tarl—that legendary fate which overtook those who had transgressed the will of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 19 | 253 |
"It seems I belong to you, bold Tarnsman," she said, "What are you going to do with me?" In answer, I hauled on the one-strap, and the great bird rose into the air, higher and higher, even into the clouds, and she cried to me, "Let it be now, Tarl," and even before we had passed the outermost rampar... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 21 | 263 |
But perhaps if I had better known the value of the stones? The girl's eyes looked into mine, perhaps trying to read in my eyes what would be her fate, for her fate was now in my hands, for I was her master. |
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| 5 | 71 |
Was it on my account that a city had perished? Was it I who had brought disaster to its people, to my father, to my friends and Talena? Had I been too foolish to understand that I was nothing before the power of the Priest-Kings? Was I now to wander the forlorn roads and fields of Gor in guilt and a... |
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| 6 | 139 |
She seemed to take no great interest in me, or her fate. |
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| 6 | 215 |
She stepped out from behind me, proud but resigned to her fate, ready to give herself over to these wretches to be collared and chained, stripped and sold in the markets of Gor. |
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| 11 | 186 |
"He accepted the coins," muttered Ost, looking at me malevolently, determined apparently that I would share whatever fate lay in store for him. |
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| 12 | 104 |
I followed him, until we were alone, and then I challenged him, informing him of the fate that lay before him". |
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| 14 | 3 |
Andreas of Tor tried to remain at my side, to share my fate, but he was beaten and dragged senseless from the arena. |
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| 18 | 44 |
"What," I asked, "do you surmise to be the fate of Lara, who was Tatrix?" The slave laughed, and so, too, did some of the others. |
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| 20 | 45 |
I wondered what had been her fate. |
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| 20 | 47 |
Then, again, my memory blackened with fury at the thought of her imperious gesture, that insolent command, "Seize him!" Whatever her fate, I insisted to myself that it would have been richly deserved. |
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| 23 | 111 |
The fate of those who had not escaped rebel hands was not clear. |
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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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| 25 | 149 |
Dorna the Proud, thanks to the sacrifice of Thorn, her captain, had made good her escape, though to what fate I dared not conjecture. |
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| 25 | 158 |
If this miserable fate were to be hers, the imperious Dorna the Proud, stripped and sweating, her back exposed to the ox whip, would learn in harness that a peasant is a hard master. |
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| 25 | 159 |
But I put from my mind these thoughts as to what might be the fate of Dorna the Proud. |
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| 26 | 25 |
Other Silver Masks had taken refuge in the mountains beyond the walls and these were hunted like sleen by converging rings of irate peasants, who drove them into the center of their hunting circles, whence, unmasked and bound, they were herded to the city to meet their fate. |
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| 26 | 50 |
On the twentieth day following peace in Tharna the fate of the silver masks was determined. |
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| 26 | 106 |
I have wondered about the Priest-Kings and their power, their ships and agents, their plans for their world and mine; but most importantly I must learn why my city was destroyed and its people scattered, why it is that no stone may stand upon another stone; and I must learn the fate of my friends, m... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 16 |
One gathers from Cabot's remarks above that he was, at the time of writing, not aware of the fate of the manuscript. |
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| 1 | 78 |
Whereas the males who accompany a caravan are often killed in its defense or driven off, this fate, fortunate or not, is seldom that of the caravan's women. |
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| 1 | 105 |
I have been unable to learn the fate of my father, my friends, my warrior companions, and my beloved Talena, she who was the daughter of Marlenus, who had once been Ubar of Ar—my sweet, fierce, wild, gentle, savage, beautiful love, she who is my Free Companion, my Talena, forever the Ubara of... |
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| 23 | 25 |
Though I had hated Vika of Treve I would not have wanted this fate to be hers, nor could I believe that any man, even those whom she had injured, could have wished it to be so. |
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| 23 | 28 |
She was of the human kind and whatever might have been her faults, she could not have deserved this grotesque, macabre fate, the jaws and cavern of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 28 | 89 |
I saw her shoulders tremble as she awaited my decision as to her fate. |
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| 28 | 95 |
Vika's shoulders shook as she knelt before me, but she dared not raise her head to read her fate in my eyes. |
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| 29 | 146 |
Now that it was not being controlled, it hovered where the second Priest-King, probably its pilot, had left it when he had come to investigate the fate of his companion. |
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| 31 | 90 |
"And what," laughed Vika of Treve, "is to be my fate?" "You are free," I reminded her. |
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| 31 | 91 |
"But my fate?" she asked, smiling at me. |
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| 33 | 111 |
Suddenly I was very sad, and I wondered what would be the fate of humans from the Nest, if they should attempt to return to their cities or the world above. |
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| 34 | 203 |
But in spite of my best efforts I was unable to uncover the slightest clue to her fate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 219 |
Kamchak, I knew, however, cared little for the slave, and would not be much concerned; yet her fate concerned me, and I hoped that she might live, that her beauty if not compassion or justice might have won her life for her, be it only as a Paravaci wagon slave; and then, too, I wondered again on th... |
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| 8 | 631 |
It was now, perhaps, I hoped, that I might learn the answer to the riddles which had not ceased to disturb me, that I might learn the answer to the mystery of the message collar, perhaps the answer to the numerous mysteries which had attended it, and perhaps, at last, find some clue, as I had not ye... |
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| 13 | 194 |
I resolved I would somehow release the girl, somehow protect her from the cruelty of the fate decreed for her by Kamchak. |
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| 23 | 206 |
Aphris had, according to the woman, fallen into the hands of the Paravaci who had looted Kamchak's wagon; Elizabeth's fate she did not know; I gathered, of course, from the fact that Elizabeth had been sent to another wagon that Kamchak had sold her. |
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| 23 | 218 |
I wondered on the fate of Aphris of Turia. |
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| 24 | 12 |
I knew that Kamchak was in constant touch, by means of riders, with the wagons of the Tuchuks, and so I did not speak with him of the looting of his wagon, nor of the fate of Aphris of Turia, nor did I deem it well to speak to him of Elizabeth Cardwell, for it seemed evident that he had sold her, an... |
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| 25 | 304 |
What then would be her fate? Moreover, I reminded myself of my work, and that a warrior cannot well encumber himself with a woman, particularly not a free woman. |
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| 25 | 544 |
"What is to be the fate of your beautiful, civilized slave?" she asked. |
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| 25 | 553 |
"Very well, Vella," said I, "I will give you but one chance—if you well please me the aforementioned miserable fate will not be yours—at least for tonight". |
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| 26 | 299 |
It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of Priest-Kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my friend Misk's life and its pur... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 11 |
The largest number of slaves, however, far larger than the bred slaves considered as a group, are those who have been born free and have fallen into slavery, a not uncommon fate on this cruel, warlike world, particularly for women. |
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| 18 | 524 |
"I have an amusing fate in store for you," said Cernus, "which I have considered these many months". |
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| 19 | 371 |
I would not admit to myself, even in speculation, that such a fate might befall the helpless prizes now upon the block of Ar, years of miserable, unrelieved servitude, to live at the beck and call of masters among the most cruel of Gor, existing only to give pleasure to one to whom they would be alw... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 199 |
"So," I asked, "what is to be my fate?" "We did not ask you here," said Ho-Hak. |
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| 4 | 326 |
"I will now teach you the fate of a pretty slave," she said. |
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| 9 | 422 |
And she danced superbly for me, every fiber of her beautiful body straining to please me, her eyes, each instant, pleading, trying to read in mine her fate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 478 |
Thus, her capture, preferably, is not regrettable, but, rather, in its way, upon reflection, an occasion for profound satisfaction, even rejoicing; one must be pleased, even jubilant, at the fate which has befallen her; since, indeed, it was her fate, and thus it appropriately befell her; and thus i... |
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| 4 | 260 |
She did not know what had been done to her, whither she was bound, or what her fate was to be. |
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| 8 | 245 |
What a fate for Elinor Brinton! I must not be sold here! I must not! One of the extra bargemen came and, with his heavy key, unlocked the large padlock that secured the gate of our slave cage. |
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| 11 | 1102 |
Flee though she might, that fate will be hers, and she, on the rugs spread over the sand, will be yours. |
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| 13 | 704 |
What would he do with me? What would be my fate? Here I wore a brand, here I was slave. |
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| 13 | 783 |
To have been taken by such a man, I had no idea what my ultimate fate would be, other, of course, than that it would be whatever he pleased. |
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| 13 | 945 |
"Warrior," I said, "I was truly, I confess, the favored slave of Haakon of Skjern, but I fled from him, so do not be cruel to me!" "What is the fate of a slave girl who lies?" he asked me. |
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| 14 | 480 |
And thus does fate, in its benevolence and wisdom, weed the worthless females out, turning them over to the collars they deserve. |
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| 14 | 526 |
What will be her fate? He will keep her in a collar, of course. |
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| 15 | 207 |
How I rejoiced that I did not share their fate. |
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| 17 | 62 |
Sometimes I would be a new girl, frightened, young, much fearing him, as Techne might have been; sometimes I would be as though of the scribes, much as Inge might have been, refined, dismayed at her fate; sometimes as a fine lady, of wealth and position, of high caste, as Rena had been, who now must... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 220 |
"What is to be your fate?" asked Samos. |
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| 6 | 30 |
"If you fell to panther girls," I asked, "what do you surmise would be your fate?" Inadvertently her hand touched the brand beneath her white woolen slave tunic. |
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| 9 | 221 |
"She now despises men," said Verna, "and yet she knows, too, that it will be her fate to serve them". |
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| 16 | 58 |
They suspected perhaps, in terror, that another fate might be theirs. |
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| 22 | 593 |
Had she done so her act would have constituted a demeaning insinuation, that he, a free man, a Ubar even, might have an interest in the fate of a slave. |
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| 22 | 804 |
"What should be her fate?" "That," said he, "is for my captain to decide". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 141 |
Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarries of Tyros? ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 614 |
Think of her smile, her pleasure, at your fate, which she helped to contrive. |
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| 7 | 615 |
How pleased she was! Think of how she, a mere slave, has been instrumental in your fate, how she, a mere slave, has helped to bring low the fearsome Tarl Cabot, she who helped to bring him to his present plight, he helpless in the chains of an outwitted fool". |
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| 12 | 100 |
"What," I asked the girl, "is the fate of the female slaves taken from Red Rock?" "Even now," she said, "under guard, in wagons, they are bound for the markets of Tor, where they will be sold". |
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| 24 | 1028 |
That had been her fate. |
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| 25 | 273 |
This is not an unusual fate for a captured Tahari female, but usually, of course, the garments removed are female garments, either those of free women or of slave girls. |
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| 26 | 602 |
I think then she began to suspect her fate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 698 |
"Shameless slave," cried the last girl in the line, she who had lamented the fate of her mistress, and who had called me "Dina," and kicked me. |
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| 9 | 1384 |
I was covered with sweat and dirt; I was gasping; I was trembling, shaken with muscular stress from the cruel march, as well as with fear, knowing myself fully in their hands, not knowing what fate they might choose to inflict upon me. |
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| 10 | 17 |
Another fate, I knew, he had in store for me. |
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| 20 | 152 |
It was a grim fate which awaited them, the confinement and pain of the benches, the weight of the long oars, the shackles, the whip, the drum of the hortator, the stench, the black bread and onions of the ponderous galleys. |
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| 20 | 153 |
Then I thought that such a fate was too good for them, for they were of Ar. |
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| 26 | 252 |
"Fate?" he asked. |
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| 27 | 563 |
"Too," she said, "I did not wish my fate, known, to dishonor you". |
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| 27 | 567 |
What is it on Gor that a girl is caught and branded, and made a slave? "But now, in honor, knowing my fate," she said, "you must free me". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 404 |
"Does not the fate of worlds weigh upon you?" asked Samos. |
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| 2 | 543 |
"If there was a crucial act to be done at a given time," said Samos, "and the fate of two worlds hung upon that act, and it interfered with a Kaissa match, what would you do?" I grinned. |
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| 11 | 322 |
"Those who brought you to Gor," I said, "doubtless had that fate eventually in mind for you". |
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| 36 | 86 |
"Do you know the fate for shaming the People?" he asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 168 |
I did not particularly wish to see him subjected to whatever Priest-Kings, or their human allies, might deem fit as the fate of a traitor. |
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| 32 | 557 |
The fate of the population was one of anthropology's mysteries. |
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| 32 | 821 |
That I not suffer so horrible a fate I knew that I must please him well, and as the slave which I had now been proven to be". |
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| 48 | 305 |
"Your entire band," I said, "will doubtless know no nobler fate". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 96 |
Your fate is in no way historically unique". |
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| 2 | 259 |
There must, then, be other girls, too, who were to share the sordid, horrifying fate of Miss Henderson. |
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| 3 | 80 |
What a miserable fate awaited the lovely Miss Henderson and, of course, her fellow captives, or slaves. |
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| 4 | 124 |
Then her struggles, it seemed, grew weaker, and she lay before me, as though awaiting whatever fate a master might choose to bestow upon her. |
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| 9 | 118 |
I scarcely dared to conjecture what tragic fate might have befallen her on this rude world. |
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| 10 | 216 |
I hoped, somehow, she had managed to escape the cruel fate of female slavery. |
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| 11 | 323 |
This was, of all things, my old clothing, the clothing I had worn on Earth the night on which Miss Beverly Henderson, a lovely quarry of Gorean slavers, had been abducted and I, unwittingly, had become implicated in her fate. |
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| 17 | 184 |
If they were free, I, though a free woman, could scarcely dare conjecture my fate!" Again I struggled, and was again held helplessly and perfectly in the steel. |
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| 28 | 41 |
"You saved me from brigands," she said, "and from the unspeakable fate of slavery". |
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| 29 | 36 |
"Surely you know what fate could befall me if I fell into the hands of soldiers of Ar," she said. |
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| 32 | 335 |
"If it did," I said, "what do you think would be your Gorean fate?" She stiffened, and turned pale. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 355 |
To be sure, sooner or later, this doom, or fate, or joy, is the lot of almost every slave girl, for slave fires, as it is said, are lit by cruel men in their bellies, fires which will rage frequently and may be quenched, if at all, by the kindness, and attentions, of the master. |
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| 2 | 86 |
"I do not know her fate". |
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| 4 | 76 |
"What do you conjecture," I asked, "to be the fate of your goods and slaves?" "They are no longer mine," he said. |
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| 4 | 79 |
"But what do you conjecture is to be their fate?" "It is not likely they could be sold in Lara, or northward," he said. |
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| 6 | 40 |
I think there is little doubt that the cessation of hostilities in the north was in no little part a function of the generosity of the men of Ar, a not impolitic generosity in my opinion, in sparing Lara the fate of Vonda. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 208 |
The fate of the river, I had learned, did not lie in the fate of the chain. |
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| 5 | 141 |
It seemed to me not unlikely that others of her galleys, as well, might by now have met a similar fate. |
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| 5 | 179 |
The Tina lying to, several of us stood upon our benches, that we might observe the Portia's fate. |
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| 14 | 17 |
Only recently, I gathered, surely only within a few Ahn, had the Voskjard become apprised of the fate of so many of his ships. |
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| 19 | 916 |
These things being as they are, the translation of a Gorean woman of high caste to the collar is likely to be in its way as grievous, or more grievous, a social dislocation in status for her as the reduction of an Earth woman, who has never even considered such a fate for herself, to the collar. |
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| 20 | 635 |
She also knows that given the almost constant warfare amongst the small Gorean states, and the frequencies of raids, even of lone tarnsmen out to try "chain luck," and such, that slavery, with all its helplessnesses and vulnerabilities, its degradations and miseries, is a fate which might actually b... |
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| 20 | 1614 |
She was delivered within the month, naked and chained, and found that she was now to share the fate of countless women in ancient cultures, women whose lot she had feared and secretly envied. |
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| 20 | 2095 |
"Granted, Master," she said, "but, as you must understand, in certain situations, as when a woman finds herself naked and chained before a man, a certain amount of curiosity on her part regarding her fate is almost inevitable". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 274 |
If this were the case I did not know the fate of the older generation, nor the nature of the new. |
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| 3 | 119 |
In this respect she has as little personal control over her fate as an inanimate, displayed object in an emporium on Earth. |
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| 12 | 75 |
Let them not be concerned, at least as yet, with what might be the fate of an enslaved white female in such a world. |
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| 13 | 322 |
"I wished to avoid the imminent and obvious fate of the debutante," she said, "to be bartered for position and power on the marriage market". |
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| 14 | 1173 |
I wondered as to the fate of the settlers and soldiers, and if any survived. |
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| 14 | 1236 |
It was important for me to determine the fate of the Kurii who had been with the mercenaries. |
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| 14 | 1309 |
I did not know what had been the fate of the Kurii who had been with the mercenary captain, Alfred, of Port Olni. |
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| 16 | 397 |
"And what, do you conjecture," I asked, "will be their fate?" "We do not dare speculate," said Pumpkin, looking down, confused and dismayed, hotly reddening. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 228 |
Her lips, opened, soft, those of a submitting slave, at first met mine timidly, and then, as she understood that she was not to be spurned, or struck, more fully, more boldly, until her kiss was deep, helpless and warm, and she seemed one with the kiss, and lost within it, and then, again, timidly, ... |
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| 18 | 45 |
She had no doubt as to what would be her fate. |
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| 18 | 196 |
In my intense awareness of this being the day of the great dance, probably a function of Cuwignaka's almost overwhelming concern about it, and in my concern over the fate of Canka, and my concern with the information obtained from Oiputake, I had forgotten that this day, too, was the day of a peace ... |
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| 25 | 109 |
I myself had little doubt as to the fate of the lovely, betrayed traitress. |
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| 28 | 137 |
It will be time enough later for them to learn their fate. |
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| 40 | 714 |
She looked up at him, shuddering, tormented by conflicting emotions, tears staining her cheeks, gratitude warring with terror in her eyes—trembling, trying to read her fate in his eyes—looked up at him, from her knees, naked, helpless, fearing, bound, she now a claimed slave, he now he... |
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| 40 | 720 |
"Do you think I do not understand," he said, angrily, "that you have made yourself a slave in the hope that you might thereby escape the fate of being put out into the Barrens?" "Whatever might have been my motivation," she said, "the fact remains, in any case, that I am now fully your slave, and ma... |
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| 48 | 25 |
Bloketu tried to read in the eyes of Cuwignaka, and Iwoso tried to read in the eyes of Hci, what was to be her fate. |
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| 54 | 159 |
Others, too, there were, whose fate I had learned, Max and Kyle Hobart, and the two former Earth girls, Ginger and Evelyn, who had been slaves in Kailiauk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 107 |
It is not regarded as the prerogative of an elite, nor is its fate left exclusively to the mercies of private patrons. |
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| 12 | 102 |
I was afraid as to what might prove to be my fate if a man such as Ligurious no longer had any particular or special use for me. |
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| 13 | 35 |
Any fate could now be inflicted on them that the conquerors might wish, including making them actual slaves. |
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| 13 | 73 |
She had tried to read in his countenance, in that brief, wild instant, before she was removed from the dais, her fate, but she had been unable to do so. |
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| 17 | 41 |
And in Corcyrus, and the camp of Miles of Argentum, thousands must have seen me! Muchly did I bemoan my fate. |
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| 20 | 183 |
What fate, then, I wondered, might Speusippus of Turia have in mind for me? I wrung out the last tunic, and rolled it up, and put it with the others. |
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| 25 | 104 |
It seems that fate has thrown us together". |
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| 30 | 571 |
I thought of the impaling spear and regardless of what she was, or might have been, or what she and Ligurious might have intended for my fate, I could not help but feel sorry for her. |
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| 33 | 921 |
"What fate do you intend for this woman?" asked Hassan. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 221 |
"What is to be my fate?" she asked. |
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| 1 | 239 |
"What is to be my fate?" she asked. |
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| 1 | 766 |
She searched his face fearfully, for the least sign of her fate. |
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| 3 | 163 |
"What, then, afterwards, is to be our fate?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 257 |
He then continued on his way, muttering about Brigellas, expenses, free women, fate, elusive wagons and the woes that sometimes afflict honest men. |
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| 7 | 361 |
What shall be our fate first, I wonder, to merely starve in simple dignity or to perish in shame from such humiliation?" "You are wrong about at least one thing, Boots," said Chino. |
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| 9 | 501 |
I did not doubt but what several of the impatient, annoyed men who had been in the audience at the recent performance, that with which she had so obtrusively and frequently interfered, would have been highly pleased to have learned of her fate. |
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| 14 | 161 |
"Are you not curious as to your fate?" he asked. |
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| 14 | 237 |
I was supposed to be spending that time, it seemed, agonizingly pondering which fate I would choose for myself. |
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| 1 | 246 |
Would they, I wonder, lament the fate of their former friends or acquaintances or would they, rather, I suspect, perhaps in idle moments, bitterly envy the good fortune of those imperious brutes who so casually, nonchalantly, and without a second thought, have precisely what they want of such women. |
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| 5 | 266 |
"That would be a fate a thousand times worse than death". |
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| 13 | 154 |
Her fate was already planned, and set. |
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| 13 | 164 |
Who knows where or when the eyes of the slavers are upon them? If they knew that would they flee behind locked doors, hoping vainly to escape their fate; would they crouch fearfully in closets, waiting for the doors to be opened; or would they stand differently and move ever more beautifully, hoping... |
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| 16 | 87 |
"It is a common fate for women," she said. |
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| 18 | 160 |
"Such a fate might have been yours," I said, "had we attempted to reach Ar across country". |
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| 18 | 275 |
"Such a fate is appropriate for natural slaves," said Boabissia scornfully. |
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| 24 | 646 |
That fate, too, of course, as indicated, awaits the women who have been used to draw the conqueror's chariot. |
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| 24 | 648 |
That is a not uncommon fate in general, of course, for the free women of a fallen city. |
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| 25 | 801 |
I wondered what my own fate would be". |
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| 25 | 917 |
Her fate would be bondage. |
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| 26 | 1049 |
"You have saved me from an unspeakable fate," she said, "one worse than death, that of a man having his way with me, against my will". |
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| 27 | 188 |
Accordingly they are often used on captive free women, that in their clasp they may begin to ponder their impending fate, and sense in their lovely bellies its meaning, perhaps while the iron is heating. |
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| 1 | 148 |
Yes, it is fortunate that men such as those in my dreams do not exist, I thought, for what then, beauty, would be your fate at their hands? I considered what I might look like, with a chain on my neck. |
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| 4 | 392 |
"And that is the fate you have decided for me," I said, "that I be a slave". |
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| 4 | 396 |
"That is why you did not take my virginity," I said, "because you had this fate in store for me". |
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| 4 | 416 |
Oh, it might be amusing, as an act of imperious arrogance, to take it from you, to rend it, to be the first to force you apart, to be the first to open you for the uses of men, but it is even more amusing to show you my disdain for that worthless bit of fragile, temporary tissue by which you set suc... |
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| 6 | 38 |
I should have rejoiced, I suppose, that he had gone his way, he who was so fierce and had hated me so keenly, doubtless never to lay eyes on me again, content doubtless now to merely ponder, upon occasion, with amusement, the fate to which he had consigned me, but, to be honest, I would not have min... |
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| 6 | 556 |
How amused he would be from time to time, I supposed, thinking of what he had done to me, the fate into which he had brought me. |
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| 9 | 135 |
My true fate, I conjectured, could not even begin to enter their speculations. |
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| 9 | 591 |
I considered my fate. |
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| 9 | 595 |
To what a delicious and amusingly appropriate fate he had consigned me! But no longer, now, really, was I a "modern woman". |
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| 16 | 204 |
A similar fate, of course, might befall Tupita. |
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| 23 | 89 |
It had not been until they were loading me, and four of the other girls, each of us tied within a tall, narrow leather sack, our heads exposed, the sack locked shut beneath our chins, into the cargo net, to be slung beneath a draft tarn, that I found out any specific information pertinent to my fate... |
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| 24 | 281 |
She must hope to be found pleasing, and that her fate will be only the brand, chains and the collar. |
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| 24 | 350 |
My fate was in their hands. |
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| 24 | 769 |
"How pained I was to discover his fate! Yet, too, how my heart leapt to know him near! He was so close, and yet so far! I love him so. |
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| 28 | 268 |
We did not know what our fate would be. |
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| 28 | 283 |
We did not know what our fate would be. |
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| 33 | 356 |
It was a release from the fear of death, it was a thanksgiving for fate and fortune, it was an affirmation of life, it was the cry of a wild verr in the mountains, the leaping of a fish in the sea, the roar of the larl, the hiss of the sleen, the scream of a tarn in the sky. |
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| 34 | 146 |
"Then," he said, "she has presumably been transported elsewhere, carried away in the chains of another, to a different fate, presumably never to see him again. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 167 |
They did not know in whose power they were, or what their fate might be. |
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| 11 | 299 |
"Do you really not know how long and bitter has been this siege? Do you not know how lengthy and terrible has been the fighting? Do you not know the losses of Cos, as well as ours? Do you really think we do not know what fate would await us if we opened the gates?" I was then held even more sternly,... |
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| 12 | 128 |
I rather doubted that she, who was slight, delicious and well-curved, would have had to fear that fate. |
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| 13 | 51 |
Well might she envy those whose fate would be merely a brand, a collar and the personally irreversible, universally honored, absolute helplessness of Gorean bondage. |
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| 13 | 119 |
At first the warder was much amused by the imperious and uncompromising treatment to which my fair cellmate found herself subjected, taking great pleasure in her fate. |
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| 14 | 48 |
Usually such a fate is visited only upon a free woman. |
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| 14 | 139 |
Too, given what you are, I think that such a fate would be quite appropriate for you". |
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| 15 | 543 |
You, on the other hand, by your disguise, so to speak, might hope to escape such a fate. |
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| 16 | 132 |
Too, my words must have given her some hope that she might have, at my hands, at least some slim chance for life, albeit that it might have to be purchased at so alarming a cost as consigning herself by her own words to a fate no less than the degradation and categoricality of uncompromising Gorean ... |
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| 16 | 313 |
The former Lady Publia shuddered, realizing what might as easily have been her fate. |
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| 16 | 521 |
Where was Aemilianus! How dispirited seemed the defenders! How listlessly they stood! How resigned to their fate! What preparations did they make for the towers? Did they think they now faced only fellows on ladders, fellows climbing ropes, the clinging, climbing, creeping, shouting swarms, stinging... |
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| 21 | 165 |
"What do you think was the fate of the women who brought you on board?" he asked. |
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| 21 | 432 |
Many a haughty dame, threatened with such a fate, becomes in a moment transformed, flinging herself to a man's feet, frightened, piteously groveling, desperately begging rather to be kept, if he will only permit it, as the lowest, most lascivious and zealous of his pleasure slaves. |
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| 21 | 436 |
Many free women, untutored, regard such a fate as unspeakably degrading, and as far worse than other bondages, but then they have not known the nature of alternative bondages. |
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| 21 | 730 |
"In the cell, yesterday morning," I said, it seemed a long time ago now, "I gathered that my fate was not to be inextricably linked to that of Lady Claudia, that you had perhaps not convinced yourself, and quite properly, of my guilt in the matter of espionage". |
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| 21 | 821 |
"Even a fate 'worse than death'?" he smiled. |
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| 21 | 863 |
"If it were truly a fate worse than death," I said, "or even so miserable or unfortunate a lot, it seems it would be very hard to understand their happiness, their emotional fulfillments, their ecstasies, their willingness to die for their masters". |
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| 21 | 864 |
"Perhaps then," he said, "for all its demands and duties, it is not truly a fate worse than death". |
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| 21 | 1033 |
To be sure, their fate was not unlike that of many women from Ar's Station. |
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| 23 | 231 |
"Free captures are often encouraged to volubly bemoan their fate, to appear tragically sorrowful, to beg mercy and lenience, to cover their bodies with tears, and so on, as they are carried prow-displayed, helplessly into bondage. |
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| 24 | 113 |
I wondered what should be her fate. |
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| 24 | 339 |
The fate of the Cosians in the north is a foregone conclusion". |
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| 24 | 577 |
"She was determined to survive the fall of Ar's Station, whatever might prove to be the fate of her sisters in the city," said the keeper. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 204 |
"So that was the fate of Liomache?" I said. |
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| 13 | 447 |
I must escape! Somehow I must avoid the fate into which they seemed bound to fall. |
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| 17 | 153 |
"Would you share the fate of the 7th, the 9th, the 11th, the 14th?" called a fellow. |
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| 19 | 1757 |
"What would be my fate?" she asked. |
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| 21 | 61 |
"But, at that time, most likely," I said, "your fate was still to be decided by a council". |
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| 28 | 98 |
To avoid this fate, of course, some barbarians take care to preserve their barbaric heritage, training their male youth in arms and hardship, and keeping themselves aloof from the subject population, that as befits its sovereign overlords, indeed, keeping the subject population much as herdsmen migh... |
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| 32 | 269 |
"He, though they found him bound in our camp, suffered a similar fate," said Claudius. |
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| 34 | 37 |
"If Cosians should happen by, they will find nothing here to suggest that fate which we have seen fit to impose upon these fellows. |
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| 36 | 168 |
She was, after all, a woman of Ar, for which city he now held little love, that city which had abandoned Ar's Station to her fate; too, she was a traitress and such tend, regardless of the side they have betrayed, to be treated with great contempt and severity by Gorean men; thirdly, she had spied f... |
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| 43 | 191 |
Perhaps it was before one such as he that she, in her most secret, exciting and beautiful dreams, knelt in her chains, as in his dreams, too, perhaps it was one such as she who, in appropriate chains, knelt before him, looking up at him, to read her fate in his eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 402 |
It helps them to understand that fate which is to be shortly theirs. |
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| 8 | 980 |
And I had little doubt that this fate lay eventually in store for many of the women of Ar. |
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| 8 | 992 |
Such a fate seemed to me fully appropriate for them, and in particular for some of them. |
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| 10 | 100 |
It would be as though the Central Cylinder wished to conceal the fate imposed upon them, as though they were afraid of its becoming public, as though it might not be legitimately defensible. |
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| 10 | 420 |
Doubtless she had witnessed, from a distance, the fate of her compatriot. |
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| 12 | 170 |
What fate, then, is hers? Gor is not Earth. |
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| 12 | 395 |
How different she was from many of the free women we had seen earlier being led through the streets, piteous, overfed, stumbling creatures following behind on their leashes, their heads down, loudly bemoaning their fate. |
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| 18 | 503 |
"On the rack, and under the fiery irons and burning pincers, should such be my fate, I shall derive much comfort from it". |
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| 26 | 224 |
Should it come to the attention of Seremides, or Myron, or the high council, or an archon of slaves, or perhaps even a guardsman, you may well conjecture what might be your fate". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 29 | 145 |
What then was to be her fate? If she were not simply fed to sleen, it would be, presumably, oh, miserable fate, the collar! Well, you can well imagine our reluctance to see such a fine lady, and one so special to us, being simply put upon a block, somewhere, and who would know where, and being sold ... |
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| 8 | 226 |
What was to be my fate? What was to be done with me? To what purposes was I to be applied? Why should I not at least be permitted to know where I was? What difference would it make, I wondered, if one such as I knew where she was? But such as I, I have learned, are commonly kept in ignorance. |
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| 8 | 467 |
I had been brought here, to this world, to this fate. |
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| 8 | 772 |
We would find ourselves separated, each from the other, each of us now with a different destiny and fate, each of us having now to relate to a man, and a different man, hopefully, and what might these men have in common, other than the fact that we were theirs, that they held total rights over us? B... |
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| 8 | 935 |
I shuddered, thinking what might be the fate of one such as I found outside the cell at night. |
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| 11 | 1124 |
Others might then learn from your fate a lesson. |
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| 11 | 1872 |
Might not treasures be safely herein committed? Perhaps a captive free woman dared entertain hopes of rescue, but she then finds herself, clad only in her slave bracelets, whirling helplessly downward, toward what fate she knows not, in the very bowels of the city. |
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| 12 | 324 |
"These men are brutes, powerful brutes! They may have another fate in store for you, one we dare not even think of!" "What?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 479 |
Too, I need not pity her too much, nor with fear and loathing bemoan the uniqueness of her fate, for the monster to whom she addressed the title "Master" was none other than that to which my own service and deference were due. |
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| 19 | 315 |
Or, even if she thought this a mere whim, or even an arbitrary decision on their part, merely to demonstrate their power, she might reconcile herself to it, indeed, soon joyously submitting to, and accepting, what she takes to be her decreed fate. |
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| 19 | 369 |
This is not to deny, of course, the expected and appropriate meetings of eyes in thousands of contexts and times, as in attempting to read one's fate in the eyes of the master, in examining them to learn if one is in favor or disfavor, in meeting them when commanded to do so, as when he examines us ... |
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| 19 | 465 |
One controls so little, if anything, of one's own fate. |
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| 19 | 497 |
I wondered if they realized that such a fate might, in time, be in store for them. |
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| 24 | 289 |
Then another was drawn forth, he, too, suffering, after a moment, the same fate. |
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| 24 | 667 |
There is the foolishly outraged and defiant nudity of the stripped free woman, in her capture noose, who does not yet know how she appears to men and what will be done with her; there is her trembling nudity when she lies upon her belly in a hunting camp, awaiting her shackling; there is the nudity ... |
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| 24 | 813 |
I felt sorry for the free women, in a way, but I think I sensed, and they sensed, as the men about perhaps did not, for I sometimes think men are very stupid, that the fate inflicted upon them was not as grievous as might be supposed. |
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| 24 | 814 |
To be a woman, a true woman, in its total dimensionality, is not only a not unenviable fate, it is a fulfilling, exciting, thrilling, profound, deep, beautiful, and glorious thing. |
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| 24 | 883 |
Her fate, though she was a free woman, was not that different, I conjectured, from that of many slaves. |
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| 28 | 131 |
"Do you not wish to protest, to cry out, to beg for mercy? Do you not wish to bemoan your fate, to tear your clothing?" "No, your honor," she said. |
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| 29 | 146 |
No, it seemed fitting to us that we should rescue her from such a fate. |
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| 38 | 159 |
I expected that it would eventually be her fate to ascend the slave block, to be auctioned. |
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| 38 | 160 |
Such a fate is quite common with those in her predicament. |
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| 43 | 131 |
With what joy and anguish must she have suffered, never knowing, too, what her fate was to be. |
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| 43 | 137 |
And I did not know, either, what my fate was to be. |
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| 44 | 175 |
"Desperately and fervently," she said, "in all the ways that a woman can please a man! I beg only the opportunity to show you!" "Let us leave her fate in the hands of the other slave," suggested the second man. |
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| 44 | 185 |
How helpless we are, bound! "So it seems fitting then," said the first man, "that your fate be now put in the hands of she whom you tricked, she whom you betrayed into our grasp". |
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| 44 | 186 |
"Do not entrust my fate to her, Masters!" wept Aynur. |
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| 44 | 302 |
Neither of us knew, truly, what her fate was to be. |
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| 46 | 492 |
"You realize that it is likely that I will be sought, and slain, and that you, too, if you are with me, would share that fate?" "Yes, Master," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 98 |
Surely I must warn her, thought Ellen, cruel and imperious as she is, of the danger in which she lies! Surely, as I, too, am a woman, I must warn her, that she not risk falling into the miserable fate, the helpless and terrible fate, in which I find myself implicated, that of a slave! Then Ellen lau... |
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| 30 | 602 |
I do not know the fate of this manuscript, or if it has a fate, so to speak. |
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| 7 | 195 |
What might then be their fate on such a world? Her lessons became somewhat more troubling later. |
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| 11 | 628 |
Thus, surely she must pretend to be a lamenting free woman inappropriately subjected, however categorically, to an unfortunate fate. |
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| 13 | 502 |
She did not know what Laura's fate might be. |
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| 13 | 531 |
This was not to take account of the fate of the Lady Temesne, for her abductor had been a spurned suitor from Brundisium. |
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| 16 | 382 |
It is likely that, judiciously questioned, she would almost instantly, unwittingly, identify herself as bond, with immediate consequences as to her fate. |
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| 16 | 562 |
She wondered, too, how many of them might one day find themselves chained in a market, or grasping the bars of a slave cage, or looking up fearfully, trembling, kneeling and bound, into the eyes of a master, to read their fate. |
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| 17 | 1186 |
She knew that her fate, or condition, was not, historically, that unusual. |
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| 19 | 227 |
The men of her world had not prepared her for such a fate. |
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| 20 | 46 |
"Perhaps you are curious to know the fate of your companions?" he said. |
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| 20 | 67 |
What was the fate of Portus Canio, Fel Doron and Tersius Major, she wondered. |
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| 22 | 410 |
What is to be my fate? I do not know. |
10 |
| 25 | 188 |
She suspected that her status, her condition, her situation, her fate, her fortune, her experiences and such, those of an Earth woman brought to Gor as a slave, were not unique to her. |
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| 25 | 715 |
But let them beware, lest they find themselves sharing her fate. |
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| 26 | 597 |
Certainly some unusually beautiful Earth woman, all unaware of such matters, and, like others, scouted without her least knowledge or suspicion, might find, upon her arrival on Gor, after her initial terror and consternation, discovering herself stripped and chained, a slave, that a rather different... |
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| 26 | 1028 |
What a lamentable fate, she thought, and smiled. |
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| 27 | 9 |
Whereas the fate of Tersius Major was at this time unknown, one supposed that, in an Ahn or so, the pursuit of the riderless tarns would be resolved, the tarns taken in hand, or, at least, that it would have been determined that most of them, for they would have scattered, had been riderless. |
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| 27 | 1472 |
And have not strong men always made slaves of their female prisoners? Is this not what she has hoped for? Were her provocations not intended, though she may have scarcely understood this at the time, to bring her to this very fate? Conquered, she, as other fair antagonists, awaits her brand and coll... |
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| 27 | 1925 |
"The fate of worlds!" "Prepare to run," said the officer. |
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| 27 | 2003 |
She knew they were sometimes sent after runaway slaves, usually with the kill command after an escaped male slave, commonly with the herding command for a female runaway, that she may be returned, stumbling, gasping, exhausted, helpless and driven, bleeding, scratched, lacerated, back to the feet of... |
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| 27 | 2763 |
"And how will you buy your rent space within the camp?" "I will speak! I know things! Things on which hang the fate of worlds! I can speak of gold beyond that which you sought! Gold compared to which that is a paltry sum! I can speak of weapons which can devastate cities in a moment, leaving no more... |
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| 28 | 62 |
And what if he, my master, followed and recovered me? What would then be my fate? She felt the wet grass on the side of her cheek. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 131 |
"What is the fate," asked Cabot of Peisistratus, "of the pet of Arcesilaus?" "Are you not more interested in the fate of another?" asked Peisistratus. |
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| 1 | 422 |
She was apprised of the usual fate of such. |
10 |
| 1 | 543 |
Sometimes, however, our human confederates, for their amusement, alert the quarry, sometimes months in advance, and perhaps hint by hint, of her ineluctable fate. |
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| 1 | 560 |
She does, of course, inquire into the nature of Gor, and begins to have a sense of the nature of the fate which might await her there, a young, beautiful female of Earth. |
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| 2 | 325 |
He remained motionless in the clutch of the Kur who held him, not struggling, passive, seemingly docile, seemingly resigned to his fate, whatever it might be. |
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| 20 | 231 |
"It is interesting to me," said Peisistratus, "that you have expressed no interest in the fate of another". |
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| 21 | 479 |
"He accepts his fate, and awaits it uncomplainingly," said Peisistratus. |
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| 32 | 480 |
"Or if I should survive," said Cabot, "you would then have me to answer to, would you not? And what do you think would then be your fate?" "Do you not love me?" "If I did not use you for bait on the beach," said Cabot, "I might sell you, or give you to Lita, as a serving slave". |
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| 52 | 7 |
"Where are the former inhabitants of the camps, those hundreds, those who waited to learn their fate, the forces defeated beyond the world, who came here in rout and dishonor?" "They will have been congregated, beyond the habitats," said Grendel. |
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| 52 | 12 |
Accordingly, the survivors of the defeat, or those amongst them who had been courageous enough to return to the world, to face the folk, and accept the consequences of their failure, had awaited their fate in a number of small camps. |
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| 57 | 125 |
"What could her own words do," asked Flavion, "other than seal her fate the more securely, other than serve to more fiercely heat the very irons which will burn her?" "Has she said nothing?" asked Cabot. |
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| 64 | 157 |
The Lady Bina was, you see, despite what might be her misfortunes or fate, a free woman, and thus a thousand times, and more, above them. |
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| 77 | 33 |
After the resolution of the war I was taken to the habitats, where I was caged, as was fitting for me, caged, to await my master, and my fate. |
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| 80 | 31 |
"Surely it has nothing to do with the triviality of his small pet's fate, anything so unimportant?" said Lord Arcesilaus. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 189 |
And, after that, I do not know what fate they might have planned for me, perhaps a hideous death, perhaps a wandering life of exile, beggary, and shame. |
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| 3 | 202 |
There had been a woman, Elizabeth Cardwell, whom I, for her own good, had hoped to rescue from the perils of Gor, and return to Earth, but she had fled with the tarn, to escape that fate. |
10 |
| 4 | 31 |
I was less certain of the fate of male agents, such as Pertinax. |
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| 4 | 308 |
"What would be my fate?" she asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 108 |
I did not inquire of Sullius Maximus the location or fate of an appropriate translator, for I was confident he knew nothing of such a device. |
10 |
| 5 | 505 |
"Where had he been, what had been his fate?" I asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 905 |
They must wait to learn their fate, which would by determined by men. |
10 |
| 5 | 1101 |
And she does not know, of course, to what fate she is being carried. |
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| 9 | 16 |
"Are we not, ourselves, in our way, guilty of betrayal? Did we not engage, enthusiastically and uncritically, in betrayal, pretending to be what we were not, engaging to deliver a stranger, whom we knew not, to an uncertain fate, one we did not understand, and which might, for all we knew, have prov... |
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| 10 | 641 |
For one such as you, bondage is not only a suitable fate, but one superbly fitting and apt". |
10 |
| 10 | 753 |
"Save me from this fate!" she wept. |
10 |
| 11 | 275 |
"Perhaps you think he would sympathize with you, would be horrified at the fate which is now yours?" I said. |
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| 11 | 277 |
"I suspect," I said, "he would think it a fate you have earned, and one which you richly deserve". |
10 |
| 12 | 123 |
Thus the fate to which the former Miss Wentworth was consigned was one intended for her from the very beginning. |
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| 13 | 309 |
It was as though she feared somehow, as absurd as it might seem, she being so secure, and being Ubara, that she might feel the capture rope upon her any instant, like a common or private woman, and be carried away into what fate she knew not, perhaps even one as frightful as the collar itself. |
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| 13 | 312 |
"What then," I asked, "was the fate of the Ubara?" "I do not know," said the slave. |
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| 13 | 453 |
"What is the Ubara, and her fate, to you?" "Curiosity," I said, "is not becoming in a kajira". |
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| 26 | 142 |
Later, appropriately collared, nicely become slave, a fate perfect for her, and one richly deserved, she became mine. |
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| 30 | 49 |
One of the dangers of ramming is the possibility of fixing one's ram in the victim and inadvertently sharing her fate. |
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| 30 | 128 |
He had then disappeared from Port Kar, and his fate had become unknown, at least to most. |
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| 33 | 79 |
"What of Tersites, and your fate?" I pressed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 37 | 1115 |
Or perhaps they would be amused, and think her fate one well deserved, a fate well deserved by one whom they suspected did not share their views. |
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| 1 | 311 |
The fate of Talena, however, seems more clear. |
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| 3 | 179 |
"Doubtless you know her fate". |
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| 3 | 205 |
"You do not know her fate?" "No," she said, "—Master". |
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| 3 | 588 |
What a pitiable fate had befallen them. |
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| 3 | 1140 |
Let the two of them then share the same fate, the collar. |
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| 4 | 1 |
I am Interviewed; My Fate is to be Soon Decided "Keep your head down," said the voice. |
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| 4 | 198 |
"Tomorrow, friend Callias," said Lord Nishida, "your fate will be decided. |
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| 5 | 90 |
He had not seemed much concerned, in the interrogation, with my fate, one way or another. |
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| 5 | 384 |
"I think," said Lord Nishida, "the fate of two worlds". |
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| 15 | 145 |
I let them remain that way for a time, waiting to learn their fate. |
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| 15 | 218 |
I did not know if she had heard of his fate or not, but, I think, clearly, this was the first time she had seen him, since the Vine Sea. |
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| 16 | 131 |
I shuddered, remembering the fate of the Metioche. |
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| 17 | 168 |
As I had frequently served with the commander, largely at his assignment, prior to the fate of Seremides, whom I no longer regarded as a threat, I decided to stand near to him, at the rail. |
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| 23 | 16 |
Though he did not so speak it, I think this may have had to do with the fate of the oarsman, Aeson, but more of that anon. |
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| 28 | 241 |
"Many were the civilized women, educated and refined, and barbarian females, illiterate and primitive, not even able to speak Gorean, brought, shackled, to the markets of Ar, lamenting their fate," she said, "but before Tor-tu-Gor had run half his course, they had only one thing in common, their sub... |
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| 33 | 130 |
"When you were engaged in your studies," I said, "I would suppose you did not anticipate your fate, that you would one day find yourself a slave on a far world, one you had perhaps heard of, but had not realized existed". |
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| 36 | 336 |
He is entitled to learn the fate of his emissary, and thus we, too, will have our small joke". |
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| 37 | 986 |
"We shall learn her fate," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 35 |
Rawlinson, whom I suspect is not unacquainted with my fate, and perhaps that of others. |
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| 8 | 1282 |
How, in her mind's eye, she must have smiled, considering the fate she was arranging for her lovely, vain, shallow, spoiled charges, the markets of Gor! In the beginning, we had looked down on her, she merely a house mother, an employee, a servant of sorts, far beneath us, a woman hired to manage th... |
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| 8 | 1671 |
"The master, of course," she said, "will decide, as he pleases, what is to be the fate of a neck-banded she-tarsk". |
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| 17 | 12 |
As I loathed him, what difference was it to me, his fate, his fortune? To be sure, it occurred to me that if he lost, he might be displeased, and I might be beaten. |
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| 24 | 68 |
"After that we will try to ascertain the fate of your band". |
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| 25 | 66 |
"What are you interested in?" "The fate of a world," he said, "perhaps two". |
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| 27 | 53 |
Trachinos, however, learning her projected fate, had cried out to Kleomenes, "No! I will buy her! Sell her to me!" Kleomenes arranged this matter with Lucius, and Lucius, who took little interest in the affairs of humans, turned the coin over to Kleomenes, a silver tarsk. |
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| 30 | 120 |
I thought of Lord Grendel's speculation with respect to the likely fate of Tiresias. |
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| 48 | 54 |
"He will be supplied with several possibilities, and assured that his fate will exceed them all". |
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| 49 | 78 |
The fate of Timarchos, Lysymachos, and Agamemnon is not known. |
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| 49 | 185 |
The fate of Agamemnon's conspiracy was not clear. |
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| 51 | 212 |
My fate was wholly in the hands of others. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 35 |
Perhaps I could laugh at her, spit upon her, strike her, and then contentedly dismiss her, sending her on her way, a meaningless slave, to whatever fate might await her. |
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| 9 | 266 |
"We all know of defeat and flight," he said, "the sorry fate of the occupational forces, of the rising of the men of Ar, of screaming crowds, diversely armed, of fires, of the decimation and disruption of troops, the desertion of officers, the stranding of units, of frequent withdrawals under fire, ... |
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| 15 | 730 |
Was it not he who brought me choiceless to this world, on which I was marked, collared, and sold! Was it not he who had brought me even to this chain, to this degradation, to this rude, primitive place, on a far world? What fate is this, I asked myself. |
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| 17 | 77 |
How horrifying that I should be here, on a remote world, a marked, half-naked, collared slave! How incomprehensible and lamentable was my fate! I looked after him, enraged, and hated him! It was he who had brought me to this, to the indelible marking of my body, to the shame and degradation of a col... |
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| 25 | 254 |
I understood that it might be the fate of a displeasing slave to find herself cast, naked and bound, to such hungry, alert growths. |
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| 37 | 100 |
"What is to be my fate?" "You will learn later," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 157 |
"Put her on her knees, that she may hear her fate," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 194 |
But somewhere, perhaps faraway, there is to be a contest, one on which the fate of worlds may hang". |
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| 39 | 212 |
"What is to be our fate?" asked Darla. |
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| 39 | 470 |
I supposed Emerald and Hiza would be the first to be put upon the block, if that were the fate in store for them. |
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| 42 | 181 |
Let him hunger for a slave who was indifferent to him, one he might desire but who did not desire him, one who would be forever beyond his grasp, one whom he would never have, one who loathed him, who despised him, who found him repulsive, who hated him, who scorned him, whose most dreaded fate woul... |
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| 43 | 147 |
That is the common fate of a female prisoner, and surely, now, it was clear that the Panther Women were such prisoners. |
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| 43 | 268 |
We will deliberate further on the fate of the slaves". |
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| 43 | 421 |
The cluster of men then broke apart, withdrawing from the place of deliberation, in which had been considered the fate of four women, who were no longer Panther Women. |
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| 52 | 50 |
Possibly elsewhere? What did she think might be done with her? Did she think her fate might be different from that of the others? Was there something special about her? Was she not merely another slave? "Where are you taking us?" cried a slave. |
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| 52 | 410 |
"It is rumored some contest is to take place at the World's End, on which may hang the fate of worlds". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 |
One recalled the ambush ship, and its lurking assailants, and the treacherous signals which had lured men ashore to the south, and the fate of the exploratory force, whose march and order, whose route, whose strength and weaponry, may have been as familiar to the enemy as to its own commanders. |
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| 1 | 466 |
Their fate, as that of other domestic animals, would not be slaughter, but merely a change of masters, a change of owners. |
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| 7 | 282 |
"You recall the wands, the perimeter, the guard larls, the fate of deserters," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 11 | 175 |
Following the disasters of the mutiny at sea, the ambush following the first landing, the fate of the exploratory force, the raid on the first encampment, and casualties of the siege, there were something less than thirty-five hundred men, Pani and barbarians, at the disposal of the house of Temmu. |
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| 11 | 193 |
"Recall the fate of the exploratory force," I said. |
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| 11 | 267 |
I did not know his fate. |
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| 19 | 283 |
"We are both from Earth! See what lamentable fate has befallen me! Why did you not come to see me in the stables at Tarncamp? Why did you not rescue me, and free me! Do you not understand? I have been marked! I am such as may be collared!" Pertinax was silent. |
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| 21 | 77 |
Accordingly, it was surmised, at least by some, that a wager had been made, with humans the cast dice on which the fate of the surface of a world might hang. |
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| 21 | 250 |
Still the projected schedule might have been satisfied, save for Tajima's concern to protect Sumomo from a fate of which she had no inkling, a concern apparently agreeable to, and accepted by, Pertinax. |
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| 21 | 276 |
I dared not contemplate that I might be consigned to an even more shameful fate". |
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| 21 | 481 |
"They thought of slaves," I said, "and it would not have been unusual if one, in terror, knowing not to what fate she was being carried, had squirmed in her blanket". |
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| 21 | 516 |
You were to be cast from the parapet at a time corresponding to your casting of the note below, but you were extracted from the holding of Lord Temmu, by Tyrtaios, that you be spared this fate, though only, I fear, to endure one more to the liking of the shogun". |
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| 21 | 519 |
"What fate?" she cried. |
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| 23 | 182 |
"You have heard of the projected fate of Sumomo," I said. |
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| 23 | 298 |
"You might also," said Haruki, "inform the house of Temmu of the projected fate of the beauteous Lady Sumomo. |
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| 23 | 307 |
"I shall convey the projected fate of the Lady Sumomo to the House of Temmu," I said. |
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| 25 | 89 |
From time to time, in one region or another, I supposed hundreds might have shared this fate. |
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| 27 | 199 |
"He is doubtless wary of the cavalry," he said, "but I do not think he now holds it to be the same dreaded, decisive unknown, on which the fate of islands might depend". |
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| 32 | 142 |
I did not know the fate of the bandits who had exited the inn through the rear entrance, nor, indeed, those whom the fellow I had taken for the innkeeper had failed to discern, when he had thought to inquire into the preparations for departure. |
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| 35 | 3 |
He will thus know me for the abducting tarnsman and will publicly announce her identity, and then I shall be put to death, doubtless without great haste, and Nezumi will be returned to Lord Yamada, to endure some fearful fate, perhaps the eels once more, though now, presumably, fed to them as a stri... |
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| 52 | 60 |
Priest-Kings do not care to share secrets on which the fate of worlds may hang. |
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| 56 | 41 |
"You inquire as to your fate?" I said. |
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| 57 | 65 |
Who would choose to hold ground or counterattack under a sky in which might suddenly appear the stern, beating wings of fate's implement, a gigantic dragon sprung alive from legend and myth, capable of palpable arson and destruction, appearing in a world where the canvas over one's head might burst ... |
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| 57 | 115 |
"What do you conjecture to be the fate of your ornaments, and, say, your silks?" I asked. |
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| 57 | 118 |
Let her, so situated and so clad, despite what trepidation she might feel, speak openly and clearly of these matters, of her fate at the hands of peasants, of what had been done to her, of her reduction, humiliation, and debasement, of her treatment as no more than a slave, knowing full well how fre... |
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| 57 | 171 |
What do you think the fate of its free women would be?" "They are lesser women," she said. |
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| 58 | 100 |
"True," I said, "but your fate would be that of a noble free woman". |
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| 61 | 636 |
Perhaps it would be a slave from Port Kar, or perhaps from Ko-ro-ba, where I had first donned the scarlet of the warrior, with whom I would be threatened, whose fate might be dire, unless I complied with the commands of Lord Temmu. |
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| 61 | 769 |
How could I speak to her of warring species, of Priest-Kings and Kurii, of fabulous weapons and technologies, of a fearful contest on which the fate of worlds might hang? "You are a despicable tarsk," she said. |
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| 61 | 825 |
"You are to comply with their wishes, or some lamentable fate is to be imposed on me?" she said. |
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| 61 | 892 |
"No dire fate will be imposed upon you by Lord Temmu as a consequence of my decision, lest the cavalry retaliate". |
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| 61 | 1190 |
"Doubtless thousands from Ar, and her environs, for a thousand pasangs about, will come to see you, to witness the fate of a traitor and false Ubara, to insult her, to jeer her, to mock and curse her, to spit upon her, to add their flaming twig or tiny splinter to her torments". |
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| 61 | 1202 |
"No," I said, "because I have no wish to subject a helpless, vulnerable animal to so fearful a fate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 385 |
"Do you know the fate of a slave named Paula?" "She would not be easy to miss," he said. |
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| 10 | 87 |
I thought, rather, they would be amused, even delighted, thinking it a well-deserved fate for their doubtless resented, smartly dressed, pretentious, vain, snobbish, shallow luncheon fellow. |
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| 53 | 230 |
"Surely you know the fate of many Kur females, females of the party of Lord Agamemnon, following the victory of the usurper, Lord Arcesilaus?" "What has that to do with me?" she said. |
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| 61 | 117 |
"It is the fate intended for us," I said. |
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| 61 | 355 |
Our fate was not in our hands. |
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| 61 | 438 |
She would know I had not left the group of my own free will, that I had not deserted it, that I had not tried to save myself, leaving the others to their fate. |
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| 61 | 671 |
It seemed one's fate lay at the mercy of a machine, one without the least awareness of, or interest in, what was ensuing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 535 |
"What fate could be so horrible," I asked, "that to it you would prefer so frightening, so terrible, a fate?" "I hoped to reach the shore," she said. |
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| 3 | 81 |
"And here, at my feet now," said the auctioneer, "is such a woman, guilty of such crimes! What should be her fate?" "Feed her to sleen!" cried a man. |
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| 4 | 22 |
One of the slaver's men once threatened to sell them to a free woman, and the two instructresses, so frightening to us, with their strictness and switches, and contempt of us, new, naked, collared slaves, had suddenly themselves become piteous, terrified, groveling slaves at the fellow's feet, beggi... |
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| 5 | 72 |
I knew nothing of Port Kar, but I gathered that it would be a terrifying fate to be a female slave in Port Kar. |
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| 10 | 90 |
In such cases, at the mercy of a presiding female judge, she stands naked in the dock, waiting to learn her fate. |
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| 14 | 27 |
And what slave does not desire to be the single slave of a private master? Another reason, I suppose, for putting even a satisfactory girl in the kitchen might be to remind her that such or worse could always be her fate. |
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| 33 | 671 |
I did not know the fate of the others. |
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| 33 | 693 |
That fate is also one which may be visited upon a slave who is found displeasing to her master. |
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| 42 | 71 |
"The city awakens! Men arm themselves! Can you not hear the ringing of the bars? What if they think you are threatening a Home Stone? What then will be your fate?" "Let us flee!" cried a man on the far side of the barricade. |
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| 45 | 65 |
This stripping of the free women, however it may be accomplished, helps them to better understand their imminent fate, that they will soon be marked and collared. |
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| 46 | 344 |
When stakes are placed and the fate of coins is uncertain, who thinks of paga? Courage, noble Ho-Tosk. |
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| 47 | 370 |
I suspect that more is involved here than riches, and the fate of cities. |
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| 47 | 371 |
I suspect, at times, that the fate of worlds may somehow be involved". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 186 |
And I suspect you know the common fate of street waifs, the brand and collar". |
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| 35 | 82 |
"We saw it, Thurnock, Clitus, and I, and others, when we had been a day or more away from the coast of Daphna, where we had supposedly left corsairs to an unpleasant fate. |
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| 49 | 41 |
"If so," said another, "to no stern fate. |
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| 51 | 173 |
That is a fate I would not envy them". |
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| 59 | 70 |
"What is to be his fate?" I asked. |
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| 62 | 114 |
"What is to be the fate of the Lady Talena?" asked Bombastico. |
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