| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 183 |
The tarn spun about and began to favor the injured wing. |
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| 7 | 63 |
"Do you ask my favor?" I asked, which, on Gor, was much like asking if the person was willing to make a request—more simply, to say, "Please". |
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| 7 | 67 |
"Stranger, I, the daughter of the Ubar of Ar, ask your favor. |
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| 7 | 139 |
"I ask your favor," she said. |
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| 7 | 192 |
"With all my heart, Warrior," she pleaded, "the daughter of a Ubar, on her knees, begs your favor. |
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| 8 | 84 |
"I ask your favor," said Talena, standing meekly by my side, her hands confined in front of her by the colorful slave bracelets, the leading chain still dangling from her throat. |
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| 12 | 37 |
"Wait," I said, "I ask your favor". |
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| 12 | 130 |
This time I had none of the careful conditioning of the tarn keepers working in my favor. |
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| 15 | 245 |
"May the Priest-Kings favor you," he said, and, inside the folds of the hood, I knew he was chuckling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 124 |
"I ask your favor," said Zosk, his voice thick with emotion. |
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| 7 | 127 |
But what then? Free her to the beasts of Gor, to another slaver? She would never accept my protection, and by her own actions she preferred Thorn and slavery to a favor from the man called Tarl of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 14 | 191 |
It was truly a tarn of tarns, my Ubar of the Skies! It was a desperate plan I had seized upon, no more than one chance in a million, unless the great tarn could tip the scales in my favor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 85 |
To these proposals he added the very definite considerations that his forces still substantially outnumbered those of Misk in both number of Priest-Kings and firepower, and that victory would be his inevitably, and that it would be well at such a time to be in his good favor. |
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| 32 | 129 |
"Yes," said Kusk, and his antennae dipped disconsolately, "the probabilities are not at all in our favor". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 123 |
After looking at the kaiila Kamchak visited a wagon where he discussed the crossing of one of his cows with the owner's bull, in exchange for a similar favor on his own part. |
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| 16 | 247 |
I recalled, with a certain amount of satisfaction, even in the House of Saphrar, that I had managed to resolve most of these disputes in my favor. |
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| 24 | 162 |
As I may have mentioned the Turians, on the whole, favor thick, sweet wines. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 105 |
Further, as might be expected, those who favor the games do not much go to the races, and those who favor the races do not often appear at the games. |
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| 1 | 90 |
The faction patches are worn in Ar by those who favor a given faction in the racing. |
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| 2 | 107 |
Goreans do not generally favor begging, and some regard it as an insult that there should be such, an insult to them and their city. |
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| 2 | 180 |
The Initiates, in their interpretations of sacrifices and in their preachments, primarily to the low castes, had led many of the city to fear that Kazrak might not long enjoy the favor of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 2 | 254 |
"Without the gold of this house, how could the Administrator and the High Initiate have sponsored the races and the games that won them the favor of the lower castes?" "But the lower castes do not elect the Administrator or the High Initiate," said Kuurus. |
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| 3 | 80 |
The odds, however, are in the favor of the recipient, and there are few Goreans who, if it seems they need the Serums, do not avail themselves of them. |
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| 4 | 106 |
"It is unlikely though," said Cernus, "for those who favor the Greens are numbered in the thousands and come from all the castes of Gor. |
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| 12 | 127 |
"I favor the Greens," I said, saying the first thing that came into my mind. |
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| 17 | 517 |
"I beg your favor," cried Ho-Tu. |
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| 17 | 771 |
"Some authorities," I told her, "favor Ubar's Initiate to Scribe Three at this point, others recommend the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover Ubar Two". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 200 |
If each of them could lure their two or three hounds astray, the odds of engagement at the truly critical points would be so much the more in my favor. |
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| 15 | 809 |
"You thought to win my favor," I said, "by coming here at this time". |
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| 17 | 153 |
Is anything worth so much as a human life? Is not the most abject surrender preferable to the risk of its loss? Is it not better to grovel as a slave, begging the favor of life from a master, than to risk the loss of even one life? I recalled that I, once, in the far marshes of the delta of the Vosk... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 194 |
But I did not grant the favor, of course. |
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| 13 | 125 |
I did not much favor the idea of living in a village. |
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| 15 | 146 |
Yet, in spite of these considerations, I was not treated preferentially! I had some consolation in the fact that certain other girls, who would try to be particularly pleasing to Ute, who would try to insinuate themselves into her favor, were treated with abrupt coldness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 702 |
They recognize the human being has a genetic endowment which may not be, scientifically, canceled out in favor of the predilection of theories developed by men incompetent in physiology. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 259 |
There were the golden bowls used to gather the blood of the sacrificed animals; cups used to pour libations to Priest-Kings; vessels containing oils; lavers in which the celebrants of the rites might cleanse their hands from their work; there were even the small bowls of coins, brought as offerings ... |
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| 9 | 460 |
"May a bondmaid beg one favor of her Jarl?" she asked. |
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| 10 | 506 |
This is another reason, incidentally, why Goreans favor the enslavement of desirable women; the slave girl knows that she must please her master, and that she will be punished, and perhaps harshly, if she does not; this makes her not only desperate to please the brute who fondles her, but also produ... |
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| 11 | 166 |
"What crop," asked Ivar Forkbeard, who wore a hood, of the platform, "do the Kurii most favor in their agricultural pursuits?" I saw the ears of the Kur lie swiftly back against its head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 527 |
I suspect they will favor a plainer, but more intelligent, girl over one who is less intelligent but less plain. |
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| 12 | 511 |
"I beg your favor," said she. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 722 |
If more than one girl is involved, she who follows most closely on the left is generally taken to be in highest favor; girls compete for this position. |
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| 6 | 19 |
She had risen swiftly in favor among the masters, displacing even Eta as favorite girl. |
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| 7 | 19 |
The growing power of the Salerian Confederation was not viewed with favor by the city of Ar, which, lying in Gor's northern hemisphere, is the major power between the Vosk and the Cartius, and between the Voltai Range and Thassa, the sea. |
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| 7 | 631 |
Her name, finding favor with masters, considering it a lovely slave name, would then have been given, from time to time, to other girls, perhaps some Gorean, perhaps some, like herself, of Earth origin. |
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| 7 | 1369 |
"If Dina has found favor with her master," I said, "she is pleased". |
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| 24 | 41 |
I basked in the favor of a free man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 15 |
"Kurii were ready once," said I, "or some party of them, to destroy Gor, to clear the path to Earth, a world they would surely favor less. |
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| 3 | 153 |
"Do you favor Scormus of Ar?" I inquired. |
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| 3 | 312 |
"Whom do you favor in the great match?" I asked. |
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| 3 | 326 |
If Centius drew yellow, I reasoned, the odds favoring Scormus might be reduced a bit, but probably not much; if Scormus, on the other hand, drew yellow, the odds might rise so in his favor as to preclude a rational wager. |
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| 11 | 48 |
Others, however, under the command of Sorgus, had boldly rallied to turn the tides of victory in their favor. |
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| 11 | 253 |
Both would now have to compete in absolute equality, beginning at the same point, neither with an advantage, as pure females, and as slaves, for the favor of men. |
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| 37 | 130 |
They favor the spear and the bow, the sword and the steel of the knife. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 302 |
"I will then stand higher in their favor". |
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| 18 | 156 |
We now wish, as doubtless will other merchant holdings, such as our sisters, Schendi and Bazi, to accord you our best wishes and to sue for your favor, that our shipping and merchants may be permitted to prove themselves of service in your future ventures". |
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| 19 | 28 |
The odds, had I the ring, would, I think, have been in my favor. |
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| 23 | 199 |
"There are other things in its favor as well," I said. |
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| 23 | 226 |
"I am not sure I am in favor of this," said Ayari. |
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| 31 | 6 |
It might tend to allay suspicion that she was not in favor. |
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| 57 | 321 |
I would advise you, however, should the ruling, as I would expect, be in your favor, to consider the adoption of an honest occupation. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 476 |
"I am in the mistress' favor! I am in the mistress' favor! I am a house slave, a house slave! I am not a stable slut! I am a house slave!" I continued down the tunnel. |
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| 25 | 204 |
"Odds of two to one in favor of Jason! Four to one? Ten to one in favor of Jason!" The bar then rang and the first fighting period was terminated. |
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| 19 | 252 |
"It seems you have fallen from the Mistress' favor, Taphris," said Kenneth. |
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| 19 | 276 |
"I have fallen from the favor of the Mistress. |
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| 19 | 405 |
Besides, it is said, why should a slave know how to read? "I do not think our little friend, Taphris," said Kenneth, "has fallen in the favor of the Mistress". |
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| 21 | 246 |
"You see in that a desire on the part of those in Vonda who favor war with Ar an artifice to provoke a full-scale conflict between Cos and Ar, a conflict in which Cos and the Salerian Confederation would then find themselves natural allies?" Barus looked at me, soberly. |
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| 23 | 8 |
"I have the favor of the Mistress," said Taphris. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 177 |
"Please, Captain, one favor," I begged, "one favor". |
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| 6 | 121 |
I had two things clearly in my favor. |
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| 11 | 571 |
"Perhaps such opinions subserve the purposes of ambitious and eccentric minorities," she said, "and that is doubtless an important point in their favor, but they do not seem to advance the cause of a civilization congenial to the nature of the human species as it is in actuality constituted". |
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| 29 | 41 |
"I am not personally in favor of the chain. |
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| 33 | 186 |
"Or, with the chain, perhaps in our favor?" said Callimachus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 69 |
The ships of Ar's Station could bring numbers to bear in our favor, but we did not regard them, ship for ship, as the match of either a galley of the Voskjard or of Port Cos. |
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| 3 | 186 |
"With them, in spite of the odds," said Callimachus, "the tide might be turned in our favor". |
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| 9 | 344 |
"The odds, even so, are decisively in our favor," said a man. |
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| 11 | 170 |
This is doubtless why they tend to favor the common camisk. |
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| 17 | 727 |
"I had set the price for this favor as my having of her". |
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| 18 | 565 |
I had sent men ahead of her, requesting that she be spurned and ignored, that as a favor to Jason of Victoria, dozens of men, my friends and fellow citizens of Victoria, good-naturedly cooperated in this ruse. |
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| 19 | 960 |
On the other hand, it is hard to tell, for Goreans tend to favor the natural female. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 205 |
"I think that I would favor granting the license," said Samos, "but that I would also insist on the restriction of the subsidy to such an amount that an attack by every mercantile subcaste in Port Kar on the public coffers will not be encouraged. |
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| 7 | 98 |
"That is a point in their favor," said another. |
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| 7 | 99 |
"A point in our favor," said another. |
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| 13 | 1 |
Blankets and Bonds; I Do a Favor for Grunt I lay on one elbow. |
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| 13 | 1714 |
It was nothing, merely a favor for Grunt, of course, opening one of his new slaves, for the pleasure of men. |
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| 13 | 1844 |
I had merely done a favor for Grunt, my friend, opening a slimly bodied, red-haired girl for him, one of his slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 422 |
Perhaps it is too obvious to mention but a point served by this original use of the couch is to break down the new slave's fear of the couch and encourage her to see it in a favorable light, indeed, as a place of relative safety, comfort and favor. |
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| 12 | 469 |
"I decided that I would permit them, certain ones of my careful choosing, of proper means and stations, to become acquainted with me, and that I might then, from among these, favor certain ones with the dignity and honor of my friendship. |
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| 28 | 311 |
Certain psychological factors, also, in this type of situation, tend to favor the attacker. |
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| 30 | 83 |
"If they did exist in the medicine world," said the first man, "they would not favor the Yellow Knives". |
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| 40 | 28 |
It is natural, accordingly, for certain sorts of authoritarianisms to favor such arrangements. |
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| 44 | 642 |
"Their commander, too," said Hci, "may favor holding them in reserve". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 7 |
"The men behind him," said Ligurious, "carry chests, filled with riches, to sue for your favor". |
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| 5 | 99 |
Let us see what gifts he proffers to Corcyrus, petitioning for our mercy and favor". |
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| 5 | 157 |
"In suit for the favor of Corcyrus, in deference and tribute to Corcyrus, Claudius, Ubar of Argentum," said Miles of Argentum, "sends this!" He flung open the great chest, and turned it to its side. |
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| 6 | 296 |
I was not a slave at his feet, half naked in a collar, fearful of his whip, piteously suing for the least sign of his favor. |
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| 14 | 184 |
"Already, in this," said the smaller man, "you have been granted more than a hundred times the lenience and favor that you deserve". |
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| 31 | 115 |
Whatever my civilization might favor or encourage, it did not seem to be humanity, or love. |
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| 33 | 1009 |
It seemed only fitting, then, that I might, if it were within my power, grant you some small favor in return". |
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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 | 174 |
This is suggested by the fact that, traditionally, the favor, or the symbolic token of the favor, is a handkerchief or scarf. |
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| 1 | 841 |
Slave girls commonly compete shamelessly for the favor of the master. |
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| 2 | 155 |
"Accept my favor, please!" she laughed. |
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| 2 | 161 |
"Herewith," she said, "I, though a free woman, gladly and willingly, and of my own free will, dare to grant you my favor!" She then thrust the light scarf through an eyelet on the collar of my robes and drew it halfway through. |
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| 2 | 169 |
It would have been churlish, I thought, to have refused the favor. |
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| 2 | 175 |
Sometimes a lady's champion, as I understand it, might have borne such a favor, fastened perhaps to a helmet or thrust in a gauntlet. |
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| 2 | 184 |
I wondered what the free woman whose favor I wore would look like, stripped and in a collar. |
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| 2 | 745 |
"Please take me to a rack!" "I see that you wear the favor of a free woman," observed the officer. |
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| 2 | 751 |
"I see that you, too, have accepted the favor of a free woman," I said. |
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| 2 | 753 |
The favor he wore was different from mine, both in border and color. |
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| 2 | 1622 |
"Also, it could provide you with a way of negating your self-alienation, so to speak, of resolving doubts, uncertainties, and confusions, of ridding yourself of self-conflict and self-division, of resolving the tensions within you, the results of an acculturation warring with and frustrating nature,... |
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| 2 | 1714 |
"I see that you have won the favor of a free woman," said a man. |
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| 2 | 1717 |
"That," he said, indicating the silken favor in the eyelet of my robes. |
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| 2 | 1720 |
I looked at the favor. |
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| 2 | 1725 |
"It must be nice to have won the favor of a free woman," he said. |
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| 2 | 1727 |
"That particular favor," he said. |
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| 4 | 170 |
This had considerably reduced the traffic on the road of Clearchus, now to its north, which had approached the fairs in such a way as to favor the traffic from the northwest, with the result that several of the establishments on the road of Clearchus had been abandoned or relocated. |
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| 4 | 312 |
But if you perform this service for me you might find favor in my eyes. |
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| 7 | 222 |
"Perhaps you would consider granting me a favor," I said. |
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| 10 | 898 |
The article I mentioned a moment ago was the light, colorful scarf which had signified the gift of her "favor" in Port Kar, that which had been used to identify me for her men, I, unwittingly, like a fool, wearing it, as a capture badge, about the carnival. |
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| 12 | 743 |
The removal of her footwear might have served to punish her for some flaw in her performance, such as a crookedly sewn seam or a poorly served meal, or might, say, have indicated some fall on her part from the favor of the master. |
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| 13 | 82 |
To be sure, after her fall in favor, probably to the amusement of those who had been her former men, face veiling had been denied to her, at least, I assumed, until her return to Brundisium. |
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| 13 | 105 |
"But she is not now in high favor with Belnar". |
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| 13 | 112 |
"She has fallen far from the favor of Belnar," he said. |
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| 13 | 118 |
It seemed the climb to favor in Brundisium would be, at best, a long and difficult one for the proud Lady Yanina. |
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| 15 | 67 |
"You were the cause of my loss of status in Brundisium, my descent from favor in the eyes of my Ubar, Belnar, the reason I have been denied the right to conceal my features, my right as a free female, the reason I have been placed in brief, shameful garments, forcing me to make clear to men my femal... |
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| 15 | 68 |
Now all changes! Now, fool, you will be the reason not only for my restoration to privilege and station in Brundisium, the reason for my new rise to favor in the court, in the eyes of Belnar, my Ubar, but the cause, as well, of my attaining there, in the palace and in the service of my Ubar, and the... |
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| 15 | 140 |
Doubtless she well recalled the usages to which she had been put in the camp, and, in particular, perhaps, the use of her bestowed "favor" from the carnival, she being forced to sometimes wear it in the camp, as a mere slave strip. |
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| 16 | 809 |
Since this evening was to be a great triumph for the Lady Yanina, celebrating her capture of me and her restoration to favor in Brundisium, I supposed that that place had been reserved for her. |
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| 21 | 150 |
If there is a battle of the sexes, or war of the sexes, which must inevitably be the case amongst competitive pseudoneuters, or dimorphic partisans culturally engineered to repudiate one of most obvious facts of nature, the complementarity of sexualities, it has been resolved on Gor, at least amongs... |
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| 21 | 667 |
"You remember, do you not," I asked her, "the scarf of the favor, that from the carnival in Port Kar, that by means of which you tricked me, that which identified me for your colleagues, and that which you wore later at my pleasure in the camp, though you were a free woman, as a slave strip?" "Yes, ... |
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| 22 | 220 |
"Most significant, perhaps," I said, "was the presence of Temenides in Brundisium, at a high table, obviously enjoying the favor of Belnar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 84 |
"While we are traveling together," I said, "mainly because I do not wish to be impaled, or fed in bits to sleen, I would appreciate it if, as a favor to me, if nothing else, you would consider refraining from the exercise of certain of your Alar rights". |
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| 13 | 278 |
This was their one advantage, albeit under the circumstances one which did not appear likely to shift the scales much in their favor. |
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| 15 | 397 |
Comfortably secure in the favor of her powerful and highborn master, esteemed and pampered, she, though only a slave, gathered power about herself". |
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| 15 | 405 |
Dozens, coming to understand her power, came soon to sue for her favor. |
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| 16 | 732 |
It might be interesting to see you competing for the favor of the same master. |
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| 16 | 1526 |
To make certain that there are no possible confusions or misunderstandings involved in such cases the master usually gives the female a brief opportunity to speak, usually only a few Ihn, in which she must make her pleas, hoping to win his favor. |
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| 16 | 1810 |
"Do you think you have the favor of your master?" I asked. |
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| 19 | 238 |
"They have been restored to favor," said a man. |
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| 21 | 44 |
He continued to consider her, perhaps now as she might look trembling, suing for his favor, in chains at his feet. |
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| 21 | 172 |
I myself favor him for he has remitted certain classes of debts. |
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| 24 | 141 |
She was in favor, I recalled, of stern treatment for slaves, particularly, it seemed, luscious female slaves, like the lovely nude struggling bound in the yoke, with its buckets, or Feiqa. |
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| 25 | 198 |
I personally favor having the female kneel and kiss the whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 337 |
In this culture it seemed that slavery, bondage such as mine, at least, was an essential ingredient, that it was unquestioned, or, if it had been questioned, that the questions had been resolved long ago, and in favor of the collar, that it was a matter of tradition, perhaps a tradition of thousands... |
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| 9 | 513 |
Too, what if, horrifyingly enough, I was not permitted resistance but must, under the sanction of terrible penalties, under the command of masters, open myself fully to feeling, if I were forced to yield, and fully, and was forced, thusly, to collaborate in my own conquest? There was one thing which... |
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| 13 | 1099 |
"You may have favor with Hendow," she whispered. |
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| 14 | 191 |
"You favor Tupita then," he said. |
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| 14 | 195 |
"Whom do you favor?" he asked. |
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| 14 | 362 |
How perceptive was this man! Earlier, weeks ago, once, and only briefly, I had considered, swiftly in fear putting the thought from me, that I might be able to use his interest in my favor, perhaps manipulating him, or, in virtue of it, somehow improving my lot. |
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| 14 | 420 |
I was under no delusion now that I might be in the favor of my master. |
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| 16 | 63 |
I shook my head, no, no, no! "You even informed on me when I was so kind as to bring you a pastry," she said, "for which I was beaten!" I shook my head wildly, no! "But I have made it now so that you will no longer have the protection and favor of Hendow, whom you have bewitched," she said. |
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| 24 | 376 |
And then again I danced, helplessly, piteously, suing for their favor, striving desperately to be found pleasing. |
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| 24 | 397 |
I had lured many of them, but now I danced before them, to please them, begging for my life, danced before them helplessly, at their mercy, submitted and dependent on their favor, for my very life, as much as though I might be their own slave. |
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| 24 | 405 |
Then, near the end of my dance, as it approached its climax, I was on my knees in the sand, writhing, bending forward until my hair was in the sand, bending back then, exposing the bow of my body, my thighs, my belly, my breasts and throat to them, my hands inviting attention to them, my hair back i... |
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| 34 | 530 |
Too, we tend to favor on the whole the natural woman, rather like yourself, in height and figure. |
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| 34 | 532 |
Too, which might surprise the men of your world, we tend to favor intelligence in women. |
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| 34 | 557 |
One tends to favor women with a rich, inner life, who read, who think and feel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 272 |
I hoped this would work in my favor. |
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| 18 | 531 |
Some masters favor them early in a girl's training, thinking that it hastens their progress. |
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| 21 | 659 |
On the piers, had Cosians swarmed over them, doing slaughter, and, where it pleased them, making slaves, her beauty, which was considerable, bared and submitted, might have found favor with conquerors. |
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| 21 | 744 |
"Ar looks not with favor upon the Vosk League," said Aemilianus. |
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| 21 | 1436 |
"I wonder if I might ask an additional favor of you," said Calliodorus. |
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| 24 | 755 |
Most Goreans, save for occasional sacrifices, observations, donations to temples, and such, called for by the caste of Initiates, who claim to mediate between men and Priest-Kings, live their lives without much concern for Priest-Kings, and seem to hope that the Priest-Kings will return the favor, w... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 148 |
My own preference in these matters is to favor, on the whole, like most Goreans, simpler, shorter names for slaves, names which, like the collar, help to remind them that they are slaves. |
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| 1 | 149 |
Such names seem more appropriate for them, and, interestingly, the slaves themselves often favor such names. |
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| 1 | 419 |
When a girl fears she may be out of favor with her master, she sometimes kneels before him and begs, "Bell me". |
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| 12 | 97 |
"That is because you favor Cos," she said. |
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| 29 | 186 |
Normally she would have responded warmly, affectionately, to such a caress, deeply appreciative, even joyful, to receive even so small a token of a male's favor, but now, I think, she was afraid. |
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| 29 | 276 |
"Surely that is a point in her favor," I said. |
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| 35 | 39 |
It was as though he had abandoned them in favor of transforming those parts of himself into some terrible tool, one for which there could be no conceivable purpose. |
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| 39 | 109 |
Even free men had shamefully courted her favor. |
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| 39 | 110 |
Her influence might be the difference between the favor and the disfavor of the Polemarkos, between advancement and neglect, between promotion and disgrace. |
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| 45 | 119 |
How shall they see one another, and how shall they be to one another? Is man an inexplicable particle, a magical mote, a surprising tune with no instrument, no history, no meaning, something independent of, and unrelated to, the world that gave him his substance, every atom in his flesh, his birth, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 270 |
We made them distrust themselves, and taught them to believe that their most basic instincts and elemental insights, the most essential and primitive promptings of their blood, were to be repudiated in favor of self-denial and frustration, in favor of vacuous principles, used by us as weapons agains... |
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| 3 | 865 |
Also, it might be mentioned that dice are sometimes tampered with, or specially prepared, to favor certain numbers. |
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| 7 | 240 |
Indeed, her influence over the polemarkos had been feared, and her favor had been courted even by free men. |
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| 7 | 362 |
This would almost certainly preclude not only his return to power, if he should manage to regain his freedom, but even the formation of a party that might favor this. |
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| 8 | 1067 |
She feared that she might have now, because of her earlier behavior, lapsed in his favor. |
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| 12 | 540 |
"He might have won much favor with Cos had he done so," said Marcus. |
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| 13 | 240 |
"Gross Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, and many of his ministers," I said, "are doubtless in favor of wielding it. |
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| 14 | 184 |
This is particularly the case within the same house where contests often rage, sometimes subtly and sometimes not, for the favor of the master, on which contests, needless to say, considerable shiftings in rank and hierarchy may hinge. |
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| 16 | 263 |
"Because of the popular support now rising in favor of the veterans," I said. |
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| 17 | 77 |
There are many points in favor of the collar, besides those of history and tradition. |
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| 17 | 249 |
"Yes! That is true!" "Perhaps the fellow from Anango, your friend," said the man, "who is perhaps a magician, heard you and did as you asked, as a favor". |
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| 18 | 97 |
"Or trifling with him moderately?" Marcus was still not well disposed toward most fellows from Ar, and did not seem prepared to make an exception in favor of the fellow on the landing. |
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| 18 | 293 |
Were I a member of the troupe I had no doubt but what he might have been persuaded to step aside, withdrawing from the role of bearer in my favor. |
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| 21 | 268 |
Accordingly, it is understood that it is a mark of considerable favor for a slave to be allowed on the couch. |
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| 21 | 414 |
And I think not many would have cared to be that slave who found favor with Milo, at least if the Ubara were to learn of it. |
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| 24 | 269 |
There is something to be said in favor of the swift disrobing in certain contexts, of course, aside from its more unusual employments, as in plans such as mine. |
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| 25 | 155 |
The slave had doubtless enjoyed too much power in the house, too much favor with the master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 434 |
And, indeed, who knew what further largesse one might obtain from such as he, particularly if one handled such matters cleverly, what further rare and precious encouragements such as he might lavish upon me, to woo my favor? My favor, I assure you, would not be easily won, if at all. |
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| 5 | 61 |
These all took me for granted, much as it is common to take for granted those in the gardens, saving perhaps one or another who might enjoy greater or lesser favor now and then. |
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| 5 | 79 |
It stood high, it seemed, in the favor of those who controlled the city. |
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| 8 | 615 |
But what if I had to compete for the favor of a master with them? That would be different. |
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| 8 | 805 |
I could compete for favor, and attention, and gifts, such as bit of food thrown to me where I was chained beneath a table, as we sometimes were in training, while the guards feasted, or the rough caress of a male hand, such things. |
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| 11 | 59 |
That was surely a point in my favor. |
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| 13 | 967 |
In a sense, are we not all rivals for the favor of masters? "May I speak, Mistress?" I whispered. |
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| 13 | 1127 |
"You will not compete with me for his favor?" she smiled. |
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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 | 885 |
"Not to feed me, not to help me, unknown to the others, in fear of me, or seeking my favor, but, like them, to torment me!" "I think you are little to be feared now, free woman," I said. |
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| 37 | 527 |
Half hysterical with relief, overwhelmed with gratitude, say, she is prepared to throw herself into his arms and grant him, even though he is a stranger, the inestimable favor of a kiss. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 533 |
But she might be sold in favor of Laura. |
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| 16 | 942 |
"That may work in our favor. |
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| 18 | 164 |
"How natural, how radiant, how free, how happy, they seem!" Many of the female slaves had long hair, as masters tend to favor such hair in slaves. |
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| 21 | 178 |
"Thank you, Master!" She kissed his feet gratefully, tears in her eyes, overjoyed to be shown this favor, permitted to touch her lips, though only those of a slave, to the feet of a free man, a master. |
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| 27 | 79 |
One might note, in passing, that the usual Gorean taste in women tends to favor the statistically natural or normal woman, the lovely, nicely figured woman of average height and weight, who as a slave fits nicely in a man's arms, as opposed to the more unusual "model types," who tend to be awkward, ... |
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| 28 | 185 |
Thus we stayed with you, unseen, that we might, if they should attack, act unexpectedly in your behalf, act with the element of surprise in our favor. |
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| 30 | 383 |
Her sale now seemed an option within the purview of her master, one he might plausibly view with favor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 521 |
On Earth it seems their sexual needs were suppressed in favor of various neuterisms and political expediencies, and sacrificed to a variety of peculiar societal imperatives. |
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| 1 | 1160 |
And so might a slave have been pleased, understanding that her beauty was such that it might meet with a man's favor. |
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| 1 | 1277 |
Must she not somehow compete for his favor? At this point, she seemed to speak to him, but in response she received only his smile, which disconcerted her. |
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| 10 | 290 |
"Because," said Peisistratus, "Pyrrhus is not in favor with Agamemnon". |
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| 26 | 172 |
"Certainly his small, well-formed companion, the small, sleek beast of which he is so unconscionably fond, has the coin of advantage and survival well in hand, information of importance to Agamemnon, and would spend it instantly to procure not only her life but his favor". |
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| 26 | 229 |
As most humans, and Kurii, favor the right hand, this grasping of hands is a token of respect or friendship, each surrendering, so to speak, the weapon hand to the other. |
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| 32 | 285 |
Indeed, often she is not permitted even on the surface of her master's couch, for that is understood as showing her great favor. |
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| 32 | 422 |
"You fell from his favor," she said, "but might regain it, if you exercise audacity and judgment". |
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| 37 | 26 |
"Some Kurii," said Lita, "favor the revolution, and have planned it. |
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| 37 | 29 |
"Many, the cattle," said Cabot, "might be neutral, others might favor the Theocrat of the World, and seek the emoluments he might offer for their allegiance". |
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| 40 | 202 |
"They are suspect," said Lord Grendel, "and if one kills them all, one will surely kill those who might favor the revolution". |
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| 44 | 255 |
"What cause do you favor?" inquired the Kur of Lord Grendel. |
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| 58 | 14 |
"And what are you to gain from all this?" "Incidentally, a meaningless slave, of course," said Cabot, "but more importantly the favor of Agamemnon, riches, power on Gor, such things". |
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| 62 | 20 |
"It seemed to me wise to appear to favor the cause of Grendel," said Cabot. |
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| 62 | 21 |
"You are aware that many favor a frontal assault on the habitats?" "That would be madness," said Cabot. |
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| 81 | 112 |
Peisistratus is amenable to this, as a personal favor to me". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 234 |
Perhaps Lord Nishida might purchase high favor by means of such a gift, a favor which might possibly exceed even that of a shogun's cousin. |
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| 2 | 97 |
Major truths, no matter what the evidence in their favor, are often, in the beginning, denied, then ridiculed, then battled, and then, if the cultural situation permits, and insufficient numbers of the heretics, or proponents, of the new views are imprisoned or executed, grudgingly accepted, and the... |
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| 2 | 134 |
Gorean masters, predictably, tend to favor young, luscious, female slaves. |
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| 3 | 718 |
It is a sign of favor with the master for a slave to be allowed to share the surface of the couch. |
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| 4 | 176 |
"A slave," I said, "should hope that she would be so looked upon, and should hope that she would find favor in a man's eyes". |
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| 5 | 93 |
The favor of Priest-Kings is not easily obtained, and Initiates, as other castes, must live. |
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| 5 | 925 |
We knew not whether they were allied with Ar, or merely seeking spoil, or trying to curry favor with great Marlenus". |
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| 8 | 289 |
Lord Nishida may then look upon him with kindness, perhaps even favor". |
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| 10 | 516 |
There were none I did not dazzle, and charm! All sought my favor, my smile. |
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| 16 | 134 |
On the other hand, the differentials in fire power, with respect to rate of fire, and duration of fire, clearly and considerably favor the fellow with the short bow, at least until an enemy would adopt similar measures. |
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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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| 18 | 184 |
For example, a warrior might win favor from his daimyo or shogun by garnering heads, this understood as a proof of prowess in war. |
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| 22 | 18 |
To be sure, a woman might be less innocent, and might partake of, say, wine, with a stranger, one on whom she hopes to employ her wiles to her profit, one from whom she might hope to win some favor or advantage; perhaps she regales him with some contrived tale of hardship or woe, designed to elicit ... |
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| 22 | 143 |
It is a small favor to ask. |
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| 23 | 16 |
I speculated that she might be in some danger if she were felt as a threat by the other girls, for the attention, and favor, of the master, but this sort of thing is not unusual in the slave quarters. |
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| 23 | 19 |
The favorite, incidentally, is not likely to be "first girl," that slave placed in charge of the others in the house, but she may nonetheless exercise considerable power, and candidates for "first girl" are likely to cultivate her favor. |
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| 25 | 148 |
Some predators, interestingly, will favor male prey over female prey, particularly in times of estrus. |
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| 27 | 11 |
"Are you out of favor?" he asked. |
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| 38 | 275 |
Perhaps I had done Licinius no great favor, considering he seemed ill equipped with forest craft, was seemingly unable to live off the land, hold a direction, elude pursuit, and such. |
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| 40 | 61 |
Some women take for granted a boon granted to them by men, unaware of the favor shown to them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 200 |
How wise they were, and how powerful they were, how sacrosanct and holy they were, to have the ear of Priest-Kings, to have at their disposal the prayers, the spells, the rituals, the devotions, and sacrifices by means of which Priest-Kings might be swayed, by means of which their favor might be gar... |
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| 3 | 712 |
I would avoid Ko-ro-ba and Thentis as they did not favor those of Ar. |
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| 3 | 1104 |
My affection for the Ubara had, of course, been cunningly feigned, to achieve power and wealth, but this might not be believed, and, even if it were, this pretense might not be seen as redemptive, or counting in my favor. |
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| 8 | 389 |
Might they not, too, be so attractive, were they so excitingly clad, so invitingly bared? And how angry they are that men, who should be above such things, look with such obvious favor on mere slaves! The slave, of course, may at first be miserably shamed to be so garmented, to be put in such a garm... |
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| 12 | 620 |
"Might not a slave find favor with Master?" she asked. |
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| 12 | 639 |
As is well known, it is a mark of great favor for a slave to be permitted on the couch of a master. |
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| 12 | 641 |
Such a mark of favor is not easily purchased. |
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| 16 | 216 |
I did not think he was ignorant, or a sycophant; I thought it rather that he was concerned to ascend in the favor of Lord Okimoto, steadily, relentlessly, for his own purposes. |
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| 20 | 75 |
What might a man favor more than gold, a slave at his feet? Perhaps, I thought. |
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| 21 | 108 |
The continental custom, on the other hand, makes it possible to draw the other off balance, and, obviously, if one is right-handed, one is more at risk from a fellow who might favor the left hand. |
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| 21 | 203 |
The common wisdom on such matters is that the Priest-Kings favor a common language, as a means to more easily communicate their views to humans, for example, with respect to the technology and weapon laws. |
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| 24 | 191 |
It is, so to speak, a favor to the master. |
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| 33 | 157 |
"Would that I might find favor in the eyes of Master". |
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| 34 | 61 |
They, too, as the kajirae, are women, and, accordingly, not above wheedling a favor, pleading a cause, or improving an occasion, by means of their sex. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 235 |
What is so special about their terrified, groveling rival, licking and kissing at her master's feet, with her marked thigh, and band-encircled throat? What could she, a slave, an animal, possibly have, or offer, that might begin to compete with the accorded favor of a free woman, standing on her dig... |
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| 8 | 1017 |
Perhaps the fellow had requested, or been granted, such a favor, that he would purchase the former Lady Persinna, to her humiliation, in a low market, for a handful of coins. |
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| 8 | 1793 |
"Oh, yes, Master," I said, "yes, Master!" It was for such a favor, such a delight, such a privilege, that I had plied the tables in my serving. |
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| 11 | 235 |
"A slave is pleased, if she finds favor with a master". |
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| 17 | 5 |
Perhaps, then, I thought, as I hated him, I should favor another color, say, yellow, or red, just so that it would be different, to spite him, though it would not do, of course, to call such a discrepancy to his attention. |
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| 17 | 418 |
"I," I said, "would favor red". |
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| 17 | 499 |
"Who would you favor in the next race?" he asked. |
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| 18 | 793 |
I so desperately wanted to speak to him, to return myself to his favor, such as it might be, to express my shame and sorrow at my overweening, unconscionable pride, my insolence. |
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| 24 | 130 |
"The odds," said Desmond, "are no longer heavily in your favor". |
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| 26 | 121 |
"Perhaps in this wilderness of danger and loneliness," said Lykos, "one might incur some favor, and generate some good will, were property to be returned". |
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| 26 | 231 |
"You hope to be welcomed, to incur favor, to generate good will, or such, by returning the slave!" "Certainly," he said. |
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| 42 | 84 |
I did not understand what was occurring, other than the fact that Grendel had apparently fallen from favor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 205 |
To be sent naked about one's errands, one's shopping and such, is usually regarded as an instruction, if the slave is new, or, if she is not, as a sign that she is out of favor with her master, perhaps having failed to be fully pleasing in some way. |
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| 15 | 165 |
It was, of course, a powerful caste, given its wealth, and even Ubars might court its favor. |
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| 22 | 137 |
"You think that is in her favor, here?" "I trust so," she said. |
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| 25 | 305 |
But I supposed rain would be in my favor. |
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| 25 | 356 |
Still, what if another should come across my scent? I would hope it would not commit to it, but would ignore it in favor of more familiar game. |
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| 29 | 172 |
The animus borne to the slave by the typical free woman is doubtless motivated primarily by the fact that men commonly prefer the lovely, lightly clad slave, submitted and needful, docile, obedient, and passionate, hoping to please, to the proud, exalted free woman jealous of her thousand prerogativ... |
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| 40 | 38 |
She often strives to perpetrate an externally imposed stereotype rather than acknowledge a reality, often preferring to ignore nature in favor of convention and artifice, often preferring lies to truth, slogans to history, cliches to biology, and ideologies to blood. |
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| 47 | 43 |
Doubtless I would have passed her over, in favor of other slaves, better slaves. |
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| 52 | 418 |
"And in whose favor?" he asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 78 |
If the dice fell in favor of the bestial Kurii, the Priest-Kings would surrender to their intrusion and habitation the surface of their world, and should the dice fall in favor of the Priest-Kings, the Kurii would withdraw to their steel worlds, to live in peace, or seek another star. |
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| 45 | 88 |
"Sometimes, from various things, I am sure that Kurii favor Temmu, even from Tarncamp, and, at other times, from various things, particularly here, in the islands, it seems clear they favor Yamada". |
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| 10 | 193 |
Let us fight in its favor, advancing its interests, independent of its chain of command, as best we can". |
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| 11 | 199 |
The point at the time, at least in terms of strategy, was to conceal the cavalry until its appearance, presumably at the turning point of a crucial battle, might have a devastating psychological effect on a startled, superstitious enemy, and turn the tide in favor of the house of Temmu. |
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| 12 | 353 |
"It does not solicit a surrender, which we would not give, but only a concession, in effect, a favor, a very little thing from which we will gain a very great deal". |
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| 21 | 91 |
Interestingly, I was unclear as to the gambling involved, in particular, who might favor which participant, Yamada or Temmu? For example, it seemed probable that the Priest-Kings had preserved the remnants of the forces of Temmu, but this did not imply that they favored that house. |
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| 45 | 89 |
"If the iron dragon utilizes gravitational technology, as you suggest, and that is within the provenance of Priest-Kings," said Pertinax, "then it is clear the Priest-Kings favor Yamada". |
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| 45 | 93 |
For example, though the iron dragon clearly incorporates the technology of Priest-Kings, it just as clearly violates the laws of Priest-Kings, and would thus, in countering the effect of the cavalry, seem to tip a balance in favor of Yamada". |
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| 45 | 110 |
"Then Kurii favor Temmu," said Pertinax. |
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| 46 | 66 |
Whereas much is obscure here, the selections involved seem to favor early maturity in the female which increases the length of her beauty, the length of her attractiveness, the length of her child-bearing years, and such, and to postpone maturity in the male until he is capable, in strength, agility... |
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| 58 | 233 |
Did Priest-Kings favor Lord Temmu or Lord Yamada? Which, if either, was favored by Kurii? Surely both Kurii, or some Kurii, and Priest-Kings, or some Priest-Kings, had collaborated in the readying of, and the flight of, the iron dragon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 13 |
Were the beautiful lines of the leaping, fleet tabuk not fashioned by the artistry of the larl, its claws and fangs; did the same blind, nameless gods not balance the swirling school of parsit fish against the strike of the swift-swimming shark; the keenness of the hawk's eye against the tiny urt's ... |
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| 7 | 67 |
You, on the other hand, we choose to favor. |
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| 9 | 492 |
I would later learn that the taste of Gorean men, rather as that of most men throughout Earth's history, given the evidence of mosaics, statues, paintings, and such, tended to favor the more familiar forms of womanhood, the statistically familiar woman, young, lovely, nicely curved, apparently the r... |
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| 11 | 23 |
I had also had it confirmed that the snakelike visitants that had so frightened and discomfited me in my tenure in the mostly submerged cage were not water snakes, which tend to favor still water, but eels, in all probability Vosk eels, a form of river eel. |
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| 11 | 78 |
They seem to favor them in order to humiliate and degrade the slave, and emphasize the difference between themselves, the free, and the slaves, while, at the same time, they seem to resent the attention and pleasure with which men regard slaves so clad. |
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| 25 | 29 |
"I favor the poisoned Anango dart," said another. |
10 |
| 25 | 30 |
"I favor," said Tyrtaios, "the confrontation, the sword". |
10 |
| 26 | 36 |
It does not favor competition, and wishes to maintain, in effect, its monopoly in that area. |
10 |
| 28 | 86 |
"May the Priest-Kings look upon you with favor," called out Tyrtaios. |
10 |
| 35 | 69 |
"My master's slave dressers favor a subtle discreetness, speculating slyly that it is more reserved, more provocative". |
10 |
| 44 | 52 |
In the dark history of the high ones I gathered that evolution, in virtue of whatever considerations, had tended to favor keenness of hearing. |
10 |
| 45 | 155 |
"It seems," I said, "he has looked upon you with favor". |
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| 53 | 185 |
Indeed, I think you are out of favor with the usurper. |
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| 58 | 22 |
Does nature not, in its thoughtless processes, in its blind, dark game, favor the organ sensitive to light, the organ sensitive to sound, the capacity to discriminate tastes and odors, the capacity to grasp, to feel, to think? Does it not, without thought or heart, fashion the wings of the tarn, the... |
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| 58 | 25 |
Would it not favor the man who would prize, seize, own, and master a woman, and the woman who would thrive joyfully at his feet, prized, seized, owned, and mastered? What man does not long for his slave, what woman does not long for her master? So I think there is a sense to the expression 'slave cu... |
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| 66 | 59 |
I was again overcome with misery and guilt, that Paula knew nothing of my indiscretion, or betrayal, when I had attempted to sway the manhood and lust of Drusus Andronicus in my favor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 137 |
"I direct them whom to cultivate, whose favor to win, whose confidence and trust to secure, whom to bed with, whom to interrogate". |
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| 37 | 89 |
Now who, I asked myself, would be likely to favor such an arrangement? And why, I asked myself, would I be here, doing what I was doing? And I was suddenly very afraid. |
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| 40 | 287 |
This is a sign of great favor, and often a slave must serve long and well before being granted so great a privilege and honor. |
10 |
| 47 | 268 |
"Do not be too zealous to conceal your barbarian origins," he said, "if only as a favor to me". |
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| 47 | 398 |
"How might he both curry favor with a fearful enemy, and obtain riches for himself and his Ubarate?" asked Addison Steele. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 75 |
On her former world, I expected that men would have vied earnestly, and expensively, for her favor. |
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| 18 | 83 |
But nature is not without its resources; amongst thousands of changes in form and behavior, small and otherwise, some favor the replication of genes and others do not. |
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| 32 | 75 |
That the corsairs were not aware of our numbers, or even who we were, were factors, however limited, in our favor. |
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| 37 | 108 |
It was easy to see from the first moment why our solicitous, cheerful fee-giver had left his hiring table, which was abandoned on the pier near the barge, in favor of sallying forth on his venture of personal recruitment. |
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| 58 | 228 |
"But, happily, Nicomachos departed with the entire fleet of the Farther Islands, eager to wipe the fleet of Bosk of Port Kar from the sea, and thereby restore himself to station and favor with Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos". |
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| 59 | 28 |
"May the Priest-Kings look with favor on the cheating and chicanery of your caste," he said. |
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