| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 160 |
I pulled on my boots and coat, rolled my sleeping bag, and fixed the pack. |
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| 3 | 99 |
My father's eyes were hard and seemed fixed in thought. |
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| 4 | 15 |
The tarn is guided by virtue of a throat strap, to which are attached, normally, six leather streamers, or reins, which are fixed in a metal ring on the forward portion of the saddle. |
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| 5 | 149 |
Sometimes I guided my tarn by the stars, the same fixed stars I had seen from another angle above my head in the mountains of New Hampshire. |
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| 6 | 143 |
Almost immediately its eyes fixed on me; its mouth, now filled with a colorless scum, opened, revealing its teeth ridges. |
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| 6 | 169 |
Nar pranced onto the knoll and set her down before me, his pearly luminescent eyes fixed on me like blank, expressionless moons. |
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| 11 | 54 |
It was, of course, far more desirable to bring a high price, thereby guaranteeing that one's master would be well-fixed. |
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| 14 | 152 |
In a moment, given the wild motion of the bird, the entire saddle, to which the tarnsman was fixed by the saddle straps, slid from the bird's back and flew wildly into the depths below. |
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| 15 | 16 |
Indeed, several of the spaces between the stakes were probably occupied by covered pits, more sharpened stakes being fixed in the bottom. |
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| 15 | 33 |
Given the depth of the foundations of Ar's mighty walls and the mantle of rock on which they were fixed, it would be extremely unlikely that her walls could be successfully undermined to the extent of bringing down a significant section, but it was surely possible that if one of the tunnels managed ... |
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| 16 | 11 |
Across the left temple of the black helmet I fixed the golden slash of the messenger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 33 |
Even the bargaining that went on, for there are no fixed prices in a Gorean market, seemed dreary, grim, lacking the zest and rivalry of other markets I had seen, the glorious expletives and superlative insults traded between buyer and seller with such incomparable style and gusto. |
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| 10 | 93 |
In certain of the walls chains were fixed, and here and there, other chains dangled from the ceiling. |
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| 13 | 52 |
More chains fixed each team to its own block. |
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| 14 | 161 |
These pass from the throat strap to the main saddle ring, which is fixed on the saddle. |
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| 17 | 30 |
Before we had been ushered into the cell, outside, in a broad, rectangular chamber, two of the mine attendants had poured a tub of bread and vegetables into the feed trough fixed in the wall, and the slaves had rushed upon it, like animals, screaming, cursing, pushing, jostling, trying to thrust the... |
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| 17 | 92 |
The slaves tensed, their eyes fixed on the trough. |
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| 21 | 196 |
The girl fixed her eyes on Targo. |
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| 25 | 66 |
The reins of the tarn were fixed to a ring in the front of the basket. |
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| 25 | 88 |
It now had its eyes fixed on the man with the sword, he who had struck this new blow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 30 |
Their blind eyes were fixed on nothing. |
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| 4 | 60 |
I lifted the spear and my eyes which must have been terrible in the apertures of my helmet were fixed on the heart of the man who sat upon the throne. |
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| 5 | 8 |
The walls were of plain dark stone with energy bulbs fixed in them; the furnishings seemed to consist mostly of two or three large chests against one wall. |
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| 5 | 50 |
When she looked again my eyes fixed on hers and we looked into one another's eyes for a long time until her lip trembled and her eyes fell before mine. |
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| 5 | 284 |
She fixed on me a look of the most lofty disdain and, standing against the wall, lifting her arms behind the back of her neck, she prepared to replace the fillet. |
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| 6 | 87 |
* * * * Although it was late, according to the chamber chronometer, fixed in the lid of one of the chests, I prepared to leave the room. |
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| 8 | 76 |
Once again I examined the six red, domed sensors, three on a side, which were fixed there. |
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| 12 | 215 |
My eyes were fixed however on Sarm and Misk. |
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| 13 | 117 |
Looking up I saw beneath the square of scent-dots fixed high on the steel door the stylized outline picture of what was unmistakably a human being. |
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| 17 | 79 |
"We use random scanning patterns," said Sarm, "for we find in the long run, over centuries, they are more effective than following fixed scanning schedules. |
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| 17 | 85 |
"The projection points for the Flame Death are located in the surveillance craft," said Sarm, "but the coordinates are fixed and the firing signal is relayed from this room. |
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| 19 | 26 |
It was obvious that the compartment was being fixed in such a way as to suggest that it had been broken open. |
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| 20 | 226 |
I thought about things for a moment or so and then I shrugged and fixed on them both a look of what I hoped would be a somewhat poignant disappointment. |
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| 22 | 91 |
Misk drew himself up to his proud, almost eighteen feet of height, save that he inclined slightly forward from the vertical, and fixed on us with his antennae what I had come to recognize in the last few weeks as a look of rather patient, gentle reproach. |
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| 23 | 17 |
She was unmoving and her eyes seemed fixed on me with all the horror of the last moment in which the jaws of the Golden Beetle must have closed upon her. |
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| 23 | 46 |
I returned and held the torch and her body was the same as before, the eyes fixed with the same expression of frozen horror, so I left the chamber. |
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| 25 | 53 |
In the vicinity of the portal itself I remembered, when I had had the Mul-Torch, seeing a ventilation shaft some twenty or thirty yards inside the passage and fixed in the ceiling of the passage some nine feet from the floor. |
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| 25 | 178 |
My hand fixed itself in her hair and gently turned her face up to mine. |
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| 26 | 99 |
Her eyes were fixed on the key that dangled from the leather loop in my hand. |
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| 27 | 51 |
"You are undoubtedly the Noble Guard of the Chamber where I may have my tunic fixed with scent-marks," I called jovially. |
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| 27 | 103 |
I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vinelike plants with huge, rolling leaves raised under square e... |
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| 28 | 111 |
But as I looked upon her sternly she turned her palms again to her thighs, knelt back on her heels and dropped her head, holding her eyes as if by force of will fixed on the plastic beneath my sandals. |
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| 33 | 16 |
There was a great shout from the crowd when they saw us, and then there was enormous quiet and every pair of eyes in that teeming throng was fixed upon us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 74 |
* * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, i... |
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| 5 | 59 |
Inside the wagon box, which is square, there is fixed a rounded, tentlike frame, covered with the taut, painted, varnished hides of bosks. |
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| 5 | 61 |
The rounded frame is fixed somewhat within the square of the wagon box, so that a walkway, almost like a ship's bridge, surrounds the frame. |
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| 5 | 77 |
Like the other women of the Wagons she wore no veil and, like them, fixed in her nose was the tiny, fine ring that proclaimed her people. |
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| 6 | 11 |
A lance was fastened between them, fixed to the stirrups of their saddles. |
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| 7 | 2 |
Beside the wagon, on a great pole fixed in the earth, stood the Tuchuk standard of the four bosk horns. |
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| 8 | 54 |
* * * * On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches ... |
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| 8 | 289 |
A black lance was fixed in the prairie about four hundred yards away. |
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| 8 | 304 |
The saddle of the kaiila, like the tarn saddle, is made in such a way as to accommodate, bound across it, a female captive, rings being fixed on both sides through which binding fiber or thong may be passed. |
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| 9 | 28 |
Saphrar was a short, fat, pinkish man, with short legs and arms; he had quick bright eyes and a tiny, roundish red-lipped mouth; upon occasion he moved his small, pudgy fingers, with rounded scarlet nails, rapidly, as though rubbing the gloss from a tarn disk or feeling the texture of a fine cloth; ... |
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| 9 | 126 |
The women in bondage present, who served us, each wore four golden rings on each ankle and each wrist, locked on, which clashed as they walked or moved, adding their sound to the slave bells that had been fixed on their Turian collars, and that hung from their hair; the ears of each, too, had been p... |
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| 12 | 399 |
The girl's face was fixed in the dancer's stylized moan of terror, but she was beautiful. |
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| 12 | 498 |
I might, of course, and would, encourage Kamchak to sell her to a good master, but Kamchak, cooperative to a point, would undoubtedly have his eye fixed most decisively on the price to be obtained. |
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| 17 | 12 |
A slave, at a sort of panel fixed with wires and levers, stood at one side. |
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| 21 | 6 |
Somewhere in the wagon, fixed in a sitting position, weapons at hand, was Kutaituchik, who had been Kamchak's friend, and who had been called Ubar of the Tuchuks. |
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| 23 | 124 |
I stood with Harold on a planked platform fixed across the wagon box of the wagon at our center, whose domed framework had been torn away. |
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| 24 | 206 |
Beside it, fixed in the earth, on a pole, there was a standard of four bosk horns. |
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| 26 | 560 |
Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 54 |
Seven narrow ladders, each about eight inches in width, fixed into the wall, gave access to these alcoves. |
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| 4 | 178 |
Tuchuk women, both slave and free, have fixed in their noses a tiny ring of gold, small and fine, not unlike the wedding rings of Earth. |
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| 5 | 17 |
In the most common variety there are two sets of matching pins, one fixed on a wooden spatula-like key and the other set, movable, falls into the bolt, securing it. |
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| 5 | 29 |
Another form of lock difficult to guard against is the pit lock, because of the natural crevices in Gorean tiling commonly found in corridors of cylinders; when tampered with a trap falls away beneath the individual, dropping him to a pit below, usually containing knives fixed in stone, but upon occ... |
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| 5 | 147 |
The ship did not move, but remained as stationary in the sun and the whipping wind as though it were fixed on some invisible post or platform. |
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| 5 | 691 |
"And this," I said, "provides even greater security," lifting her to the foot of the couch, sitting her down there and snapping the heavy chain and collar, attached to the slave ring fixed there, about her throat. |
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| 9 | 21 |
Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record... |
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| 12 | 49 |
The crowd was now engaged in various pursuits, no fixed center now holding their attention. |
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| 13 | 334 |
When we were finished I stepped again out onto the perch extending from the portal in the cot, that perch fixed far above the street below. |
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| 18 | 293 |
Then, when I was far down the corridor, I fixed the bandage again in place, shoved down my sleeve, and looked back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 209 |
Then I began to tear loose the rence-rope fastenings, fixed to stakes thrust through the rence. |
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| 8 | 277 |
With the first length of binding fiber I tied her wrists behind her back; I then carried her and placed her, on her knees, on the second of the broad steps leading up to the tiller deck, two steps below that in which is fixed the chair of the oar-master; she now knelt below that chair, and to its le... |
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| 10 | 195 |
These are huge quarter-moons of steel, fixed forward of the oars, anchored into the frame of the ship itself. |
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| 14 | 28 |
These blades, mentioned before, are fixed on each side of the hull, abaft of the bow and forward of the oars. |
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| 14 | 49 |
They, while rowing, are protected, incidentally, by a parapet fixed on the rowing frame. |
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| 17 | 233 |
The man on the height of the prow, his builders' glass slung about his shoulder, standing, his feet fixed in ropes, was waving his cap in the air. |
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| 18 | 583 |
They stood away, feet fixed apart, in the garments of slaves, obdurate, rebellious. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 201 |
These racks were fixed to the curved metal ceiling at the top of the ship and the metal floor at the bottom. |
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| 4 | 203 |
Fixed in these racks, held in place by belts, their long axes parallel to the floor, were large, transparent cylinders, or tubes, perhaps of heavy plastic. |
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| 4 | 210 |
I could see that there were two small hoses, one at each end, fixed in each tube. |
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| 4 | 211 |
They led into a machine fixed in the wall. |
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| 8 | 616 |
It is not only prestigious to be high on the chain, but, of course, then one's price is commonly higher as well, and, accordingly, one's master is somewhat more likely to be well fixed. |
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| 9 | 345 |
One by one the other girls, too, violently, threw themselves to the grass, rolling upon it and moaning, some even within the precincts of the square, then throwing themselves upon their backs, some with their eyes closed, crying out, others with their eyes open, fixed helplessly on the wild moons, s... |
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| 10 | 238 |
"A handle, containing the heating element, is fixed into the back of the marking surface. |
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| 11 | 16 |
He then fixed two tiny steel rods, with threaded ends, through the wounds. |
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| 11 | 60 |
Ute had now had her left, as well as her right, ear lobe pierced, and had had the tiny steel rods and disks fixed in her ears. |
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| 11 | 72 |
The Lady Rena of Lydius now left the platform, the rods fixed in her ear wounds. |
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| 11 | 181 |
Then it occurred to me that he must want to check the rods in my ears, to see that they were fixed properly. |
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| 11 | 308 |
Further, they knew that with their ears pierced, they might bring a somewhat higher price, and thus, perhaps, obtain a somewhat better-fixed master. |
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| 11 | 338 |
No one ever need know that Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, had once had a steel ring fixed in her nose. |
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| 11 | 1372 |
I lay awake in the straw, looking up at the steel plating above me, dim, metallic, in the flickering of a lantern hung outside the cage, on a peg fixed into the wall on the opposite side of the corridor. |
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| 12 | 255 |
On the cart, as there had been on others, there was an exhibition structure; it consisted of a horizontal pole, parallel to the axles, this one about five feet above the floor of the cart, and its supports, fixed in the sides of the wagon. |
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| 12 | 331 |
Her head was still in the air, her body straight, her gaze level and fixed. |
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| 13 | 252 |
Ute worked for more than fifteen minutes, bowing the drill, sweating, her eyes fixed on that tiny, blackened pit in the wood. |
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| 13 | 570 |
I knelt down on one knee in the grasses, my eyes fixed on the speck. |
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| 14 | 186 |
It was fixed in a heavy stone, buried level with the grass. |
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| 15 | 290 |
A bowl of water was nearby, and a fire, over which, on an iron plate fixed on stones, there were, heating, five, small, flat-bottomed, rounded, wooden-handled Gorean irons. |
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| 15 | 975 |
No matter what brands might be fixed in my flesh, nor what the leather might do to my back or the tiny dimensions of the slave box to my body, I knew I did not have their weaknesses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 152 |
But it would once have burned, and that was fixed, undeniable, a part of what had been, that it had burned; nothing could change that, not the eternities of time, not the will of Priest-Kings, the machinations of Others, the willfulness and hatred of men; nothing could change that it had been, that ... |
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| 2 | 166 |
In some such ships, the men sit not on benches but on their own large, locked sea chests, fixed in place, using them as benches. |
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| 3 | 303 |
This loop is fixed in a broad leather belt worn from the left shoulder to the right hip, fastened there by a hook, that the weight of the ax will not turn the belt, which fits into a ring in the master belt. |
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| 4 | 90 |
It rests on four poles, with two long, narrow poles, fixed in sockets, mounted in tandem fashion, serving as a single ridge pole. |
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| 10 | 352 |
She fixed it as it had been before, low on her hips, hitched above her calves. |
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| 15 | 108 |
The stake, to which the chains of the bondmaids had been fixed, had been torn from the ground. |
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| 15 | 345 |
The Kurii fixed on their left arms the heavy, rounded iron shields, took the great axes, seven feet in length, grasped some two feet from the bottom of the handle, in their massive right fists. |
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| 20 | 123 |
It tottered, eyes wild, not understanding, then understanding, the hilt protruding from its chest, stopped only by the guard, the blade fixed in the vast eight-valved heart. |
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| 21 | 207 |
We wished the poison to work, to be truly fixed within his system. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 |
Their hands were at their sides, but ropes were attached to them, and fixed on the axle of the windlass, above their heads. |
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| 7 | 7 |
To the heavy collar of iron, to each of its two, heavy welded rings, one on each side, there was fastened a short chain, fixed to a ring and plate, bolted through the drilled stone. |
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| 11 | 675 |
We saw in the light of the moons, and in the light of a torch, fixed in a wall behind us and to our right. |
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| 14 | 148 |
My wrists were manacled before me, the manacles fixed with a ring in the chain. |
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| 19 | 183 |
The beast did not move but remained, its eyes, half-shut, rimmed with sand, fixed upon me, its great arm pointing toward the dune country. |
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| 24 | 44 |
Another arrangement is to use a bracelet-collar or a two-ring collar, which collars have, respectively, either two bracelets or two rings fixed at the sides. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 49 |
There were scenes of hunting, of caravan raiding, of girl taming; scenes were fixed there of the great bosk herds and the strings of the wagons of the fierce plains nomads; in one place there was fixed a painting of the walls and towers of Turia, and riders of the Wagon Peoples on hills, looking tow... |
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| 2 | 444 |
The spear, caroming from the shield, flew more than a hundred feet away, dropping in the grass, where it stood fixed, remote and useless, the butt of its shaft pointing to the sky. |
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| 2 | 955 |
He watched me as I moved my body, and rubbed my legs, that their full circulation might be restored; they were stiff and cramped, as was the rest of my body, after the fixed position in which I had been kept, as that discipline sequent upon my cuffing. |
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| 2 | 1185 |
His left hand, large and heavy, was firmly fixed across my mouth. |
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| 5 | 509 |
The captain's hand fixed itself in the sheen of the last veil, the fifth veil. |
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| 7 | 423 |
"When it is fixed in the soil, you will have two hundred beats of a slave girl's heart". |
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| 7 | 494 |
The collar clasped her throat; a chain dangled from the collar; her small wrists were locked in the slave bracelets fixed on the dangling chain, and the dangling chain, itself, looped down to a short chain and pair of ankle rings, to which it was gracefully fastened at a sliding ring. |
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| 7 | 583 |
Already the torch had been fixed in the ground. |
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| 15 | 382 |
It would be foolish to leave it fixed in your body, would it not, to arouse the puzzlement of the curious, perhaps even to identify you as our message girl to the agents of the enemy?" "Yes, Mistress," I said. |
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| 18 | 25 |
If they are not pleased, the girls are informed; a slave ring, with thongs, is fixed in the edge of every table; we strive to wait the tables well. |
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| 22 | 79 |
He stood, barefoot, on the lookout platform, high on the tall, single mast, well above the long yard and the billowing, triangular sail; the lookout platform is a wooden disk, fixed on the mast; his hands were on a ring, also encircling the mast. |
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| 22 | 158 |
Round ships, I knew, commonly had two masts, fixed, and permanently rigged. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 65 |
How incredibly beautiful and soft she seemed; she was curled in the furs; she was half covered by them; I lifted them away, that I might see her fully; she stirred; her hands moved a bit on the furs; she drew her legs up; she reached as though to pull the furs more about her but her hands did not fi... |
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| 3 | 395 |
Small signs fixed on the platforms identify the flesh merchant, such as 'These are the girls of Sorb of Turia' or 'These slaves are owned by Tenalion of Ar'. |
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| 3 | 492 |
Most of the wagons were common slave wagons, with a parallel bar running down the center of the wagon bed, about which the ankles of the girls were chained; others, however, were flat wagons fixed with an iron framework; two lines of girls kneel back to back on such a wagon, their ankles and necks l... |
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| 4 | 552 |
I thought again of the herd of Tancred, which had not appeared in the north, and of the "mountain that did not move," the great iceberg which seemed, somehow, independent and stable, maintaining its position, fixed and immobile, in the midst of the restless, flowing waters of the polar sea. |
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| 10 | 267 |
"With the permafrost," I said to Ram, "the logs of the wall cannot be too deeply fixed". |
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| 10 | 268 |
"They are deeply enough fixed," he said. |
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| 12 | 206 |
It was in that northern, or polar, sea that there was said to exist, if it were not myth or invention, the "mountain that did not move," that iceberg which, in defiance of tide, wind, and current, stood immobilely fixed. |
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| 15 | 690 |
"Those are usually for a well-fixed clientele, known to the slaver," I said. |
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| 18 | 44 |
The other hunters in the boat, discarding their buckets, seized up their lances, slender hunting tools, with fixed heads, commonly used not in throwing but in thrusting. |
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| 20 | 30 |
Its frame is generally of wood and its cover, of hide, usually tabuk hide, is fixed on the frame by sinew. |
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| 20 | 44 |
The ulo, or woman's knife, with its semicircular blade, customarily fixed in a wooden handle, is not well suited to carving. |
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| 25 | 46 |
A coating of ice on the earthen plaster, fixed on the runners, reduces friction. |
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| 35 | 85 |
It was fixed into the metal, welded therein. |
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| 35 | 100 |
The grille at the lower end, some seven feet above a steel floor, and opening into a hall, was not fixed as solidly as the one above. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 229 |
Shaba's nine boats had fixed at their masts the tufted shields of the officialdom of Bila Huruma". |
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| 2 | 228 |
On his head he wore a cap on which were fixed the two golden tassels of Schendi. |
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| 4 | 19 |
It hung from a projection on a pole, the pole fixed upright on the roof of a nearby warehouse. |
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| 4 | 90 |
The masts of round ships are usually permanently fixed; those of long ships, usually single-masted, are removed before battle; most Gorean ships are lateen-rigged; this permits sailing closer to the wind. |
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| 4 | 385 |
This makes it possible for merchant ships, round ships, with permanently fixed masts, to move within the city, and, from the military point of view, makes it possible to block canals and also, when drawn back, isolate given areas of the city by the canals which function then as moats. |
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| 6 | 191 |
Her wrists then were tied to another line, it strung through the gold-painted ring fixed in the right ear of the kailiauk head at the prow. |
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| 14 | 557 |
And when she wears the earrings, he can see the metal disappearing in the softness of her ear, literally fixed within it. |
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| 18 | 49 |
I contented myself with the thought that deeds had been done, which now, whether recollected or not, or however viewed, were irrevocably fixed in their fullness and truth in the fabric of eternity. |
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| 21 | 49 |
The shafts of the oars, where they rested in the open, fixed-position, U-shaped oarlocks, had been wrapped in fur, that they might make no sound as they moved against these fulcrums. |
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| 23 | 442 |
"What is going on here?" asked Mwoga, returning from the eastern edge of the platform of planks fixed over the four canoes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 194 |
Her head was first drawn back and fixed in place. |
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| 12 | 74 |
Then, again, they held me firmly fixed between them. |
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| 21 | 132 |
"They are doubtless well fixed and can afford armed escorts". |
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| 23 | 186 |
Kenneth then led Taphris down the tunnel, his left hand fixed in her hair, his right hand holding aloft the torch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
I knew, too, that no fixed military formation could meet the phalanx on its own terms and survive. |
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| 24 | 392 |
The fullest slave, of course, is she who is a natural slave, and then, beyond this, truly wears the collar, that slave who is a slave by nature and whose slavery, released, is then confirmed and fixed upon her openly, publicly, by all the sanctions of custom and law, for all the world to see. |
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| 31 | 10 |
I pressed against the heavy metal pole, or bar, almost five inches in diameter, fixed now, like a spoke, in the shaft of the windlass. |
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| 32 | 41 |
And, indeed, does that mark not tell us that they are all, in a sense, from the homeliest pot girl to the embonded treasure of a Ubar, only common kajirae? The pirate behind the girl, who had thrust her forward, unknotted the cord from her throat, that which held the cloth over her head and kept it ... |
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| 33 | 129 |
I looked over the starboard rail, and saw the great, curved shearing blade, fixed in the side of the vessel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 138 |
I saw then that their action had been diversionary, to occupy us while other longboats, fixed with wicker shields, of the sort used for naval bowmen, lay along the chain. |
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| 8 | 255 |
Most ships' furniture, of course, berths and such, are fixed in place. |
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| 9 | 125 |
The great weight of the Tuka, so dark, so heavy, so obdurate, so seemingly resistant and fixed in place, suddenly, unexpectedly, straining, with a heavy, sliding noise, the keel like the runner of a great sled, leaving a line in the sand, thrust by our forces, moved by the water, slipped backward, s... |
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| 11 | 140 |
Her brand, of course, fixed in her very flesh, deep and lovely, is always worn. |
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| 20 | 311 |
Chains, on the other hand, permit her only certain latitudes of movement or keep her fixed in a given place. |
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| 21 | 2 |
About her throat, over the slender, identificatory collar, a heavy, thick iron collar had been locked, with a heavy chain, leading to the stout loop of the slave ring, some eight inches in width, fixed in the foot of the couch. |
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| 21 | 584 |
"But surely the slave would prefer a well-fixed master," I said. |
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| 21 | 591 |
For example, as Goreans go, given the recent events on the river, I would count as being very well fixed, and yet I did not think that my position or resources were such as to seem outrageously out of the ordinary. |
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| 1 | 78 |
She lay on her left elbow, on the couch, the chain running from her collar to the surface of the couch, and thence to the slave ring fixed deeply in its base. |
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| 1 | 110 |
Some slave girls, of course, are fixed for both. |
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| 2 | 90 |
These planks are supported by, and fixed in, the iron framework. |
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| 2 | 91 |
One plank is fixed in place, and the other, in its runners, can slide about a foot backward and forward. |
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| 2 | 92 |
Thus, when the moving plank is slid back against the fixed plank, the device provides, in virtue of the matching semicircular openings, five sturdy, wooden enclosures for the small, lovely throats of women. |
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| 5 | 18 |
On a curule chair, fixed on the high cart, under a silken canopy, proud and graceful, bedecked with finery, garbed in the ornate Robes of Concealment, veiled, sat a woman. |
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| 8 | 21 |
Occasionally fixed prices are set on them. |
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| 8 | 31 |
She was one of the few girls on whom Ram Seibar had set a fixed price. |
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| 8 | 354 |
There there were women, much like herself; they, fixed in place, wearing collars and chains, she could not help but note, were absolutely naked. |
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| 13 | 1181 |
In the institution of female slavery we find this basic relationship recognized, accepted, clarified, fixed and celebrated. |
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| 17 | 103 |
Her neck and wrists, then, of course, helplessly, are fixed in place. |
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| 17 | 226 |
Gorean infantry, with staggered lines and fixed pikes, their butts anchored in the earth, could usually turn an attack of light cavalry. |
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| 18 | 105 |
It was then fixed in place. |
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| 19 | 62 |
He now struggled to his feet and went to the lance, fixed butt down in the turf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 233 |
Exploit markings and luck signs were painted on the flanks and forequarters of their animals, and ribbons and feathers were fixed in the braided, silken manes. |
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| 2 | 237 |
These cradles, most of them, are essentially wooden frames on which are fixed leather, open-fronted enclosures, opened and closed by lacings, for the infant. |
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| 2 | 247 |
When a child is about six, if his family is well-fixed, he will commonly have his own kaiila. |
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| 4 | 44 |
The whole, then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat, subsequently, usually, being divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes. |
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| 11 | 113 |
Fixed in the earth, buried to a depth of about seven or eight feet, and supported, too, with a circle of heavy stakes, to which it was bound, it was about twenty-two feet in height. |
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| 12 | 33 |
It was now, in effect, a small, relatively fixed, directionless, milling mass. |
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| 21 | 62 |
This was the same lance which had been fixed, butt down, in the turf beside Cuwignaka near the scene of battle several weeks ago. |
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| 22 | 160 |
The pigment is fixed in kailiauk grease. |
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| 28 | 315 |
This type of formation is generally not useful against an enemy which is protected by breastworks, pits or stakes, or a settled infantry, its long pikes set, fixed butt down in the turf, the weapons oriented diagonally, the points trained on the breasts of the approaching mounts. |
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| 32 | 92 |
Most of the girls, on their left breast, fixed there in black paint, wore a mark. |
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| 43 | 152 |
With these, looped about and then drawn back tightly between the teeth, and then looped about again, and again drawn back tightly between the teeth, and then tied behind the neck, the packing of hide and fur was inflexibly, unexpellably, fixed in place. |
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| 43 | 444 |
Her gag was still fixed as firmly, as perfectly, in her mouth, as the first moment it had been put there. |
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| 47 | 112 |
I fixed the reins upon it. |
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| 54 | 234 |
"The price was put on me as a fixed price". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 395 |
The apparatus was then fixed upon me. |
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| 3 | 41 |
At one point on the floor there was, fixed in the floor, a heavy metal ring. |
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| 3 | 555 |
I looked to the barred window, to the soft expanses of that great, barbaric couch, to the chain at its foot, to the rings fixed in it, and elsewhere, to the whip on its hook, to the door which I could not lock on my side. |
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| 6 | 243 |
That way I might get a master who was less well fixed. |
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| 14 | 123 |
The fees for their use are not contractually controlled, as are those of the regular camp slaves, but the fees of the camp slaves, of course, being fixed and almost nominal, tend to exert a considerable, informal influence on the market; they set competitive standards, ensure realistic pricings and ... |
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| 17 | 19 |
My shackle chain went through a ring, itself suspended from another chain and ring, fixed in an outjutting beam, extending forth at a right angle from the sturdy upright. |
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| 22 | 20 |
This cover was placed over a frame which consisted of five poles; two of these poles, braced, crossed and tied together near the top, were at the front of the wagon; a similar pair was fixed at the back of the wagon; between these two pairs of poles there lay, across them, parallel to the long axis ... |
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| 28 | 172 |
Then the man was ahead of me, pulling back the left wrist of the woman ahead of me, her eyes, too, fixed forward. |
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| 36 | 1094 |
The long end of the strap was tossed up, through a ring fixed in a beam, and then put through another ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1098 |
They would be fixed visibly and clearly upon her. |
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| 4 | 190 |
The notion of the fixed and absolute border is not a typical Gorean notion. |
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| 14 | 49 |
"Nim Nim not strong enough!" I fixed my hands about the bars of the grating. |
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| 18 | 243 |
The packing was still well fixed in her mouth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 411 |
Beside the road, on the right, a human figure, head and legs dangling downward, on each side, was fixed on an impaling stake. |
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| 8 | 5 |
The gag which I had fixed on her somewhat after the noon hour, shortly after we had begun our day's journey, I had, after an Ahn or two, loosened and pulled free. |
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| 13 | 52 |
It was fixed in the side of a building, fastened to its bolted plate, about a yard above the level of the street. |
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| 14 | 43 |
To one side, permanent fixtures, immovable and sturdy, their supports fixed in the floor, were several rows of long, low, marble benches. |
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| 15 | 356 |
She was kneeling on the platform, about a yard high, on which this "T" was fixed. |
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| 16 | 40 |
Her wrists were similarly secured, the length of chain running under the heavy, fixed-position marble bench. |
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| 16 | 395 |
Then her ankles were shackled, the chain running under the heavy fixed-position bench. |
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| 16 | 1538 |
Outside the entrance to this enclosure, where the girls could see it, coming and going, was a simple structure of three heavy, squared timbers, two of which were upright, and the third fixed upon them, crosswise, in the manner of a lintel. |
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| 16 | 1539 |
In the underside of the horizontal beam there was fixed a stout ring, from which cords dangled. |
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| 21 | 248 |
Too, it is in such a district that one will find a wide variety of other articles helpful in the identification, keeping, training, and disciplining of females, such things as collars, of the fixed and lock variety, leashes, of metal and leather, neck, wrist and ankle, ranging from simple guide thon... |
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| 24 | 638 |
These harnesses are similar to, but are not to be confused with, various other forms of harness which may be used with girls serving as draft animals, for example, fixed between the handles of a peddler's cart, or drawing, say, a conqueror's chariot. |
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| 25 | 1856 |
There was a heavy slave ring there, too, fixed in the floor. |
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| 26 | 799 |
There I put my captive on her knees, her back to a slave ring, fixed in a wall a foot or so above the level of the pavement. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 214 |
It would soon be replaced, we may suppose, with a new and more appropriate status, that of being a slave legally, a status fixed on her then with all the clarity and obduracy of Gorean law, and fixed on her for all the world to see, fixed on her as plainly as the collar on her neck and the mark on h... |
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| 2 | 101 |
It was almost as though I was held in place, standing there, before him, by a fixed collar, mounted on a horizontal rod, extending from a wall. |
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| 3 | 482 |
It was near the western edge of the parking lot, by the sidewalk, fixed there, mainly, I suppose, to illuminate the street running at the side of the library. |
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| 3 | 885 |
It was apparently not a ring where the chain was attached but, it now seemed, some sort of fixed-position, heavy, welded-in metal staple. |
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| 6 | 234 |
Similarly, as the candy is held in its fixed position, it may, in spite of its nature, be eaten, or bitten, or licked or sucked, as swiftly, or slowly, and as much at one's leisure as one might please. |
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| 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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| 6 | 492 |
But the usual arrangement in these particulars, I had gathered, was a simple coffle chain, most commonly a neck coffle, but sometimes a wrist or ankle coffle; a slave cage, mounted on a wagon, in which the girls were free; or a slave wagon, within which, stripped, their ankles were chained about a m... |
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| 6 | 564 |
I could belong to anyone, to anyone who could pay for me! Surely that was wrong for a woman of Earth! How could it have come about that I was now only a lowly slave? I had been a woman of Earth! Of Earth! How could it have come about then that I was now, on this world, only a collared animal, stripp... |
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| 8 | 312 |
And then, in a moment, the object was withdrawn, the marking fixed upon me. |
10 |
| 9 | 258 |
If it is of interest, however, and we are speaking of fixed-ring sizes, I would take a number-two wrist ring and a number-two ankle ring. |
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| 11 | 1252 |
They only held me fixed in place. |
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| 14 | 78 |
Similarly, if it seems understandable that, say, a high magistrate, a general, a ubar, or such, might enjoy sitting in his pleasure gardens and inspecting his women, having them before him naked, or clothed according to his preferences, it is just as understandable that a less rich or well-fixed per... |
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| 24 | 223 |
My eyes fixed on him before whom I had last knelt. |
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| 24 | 326 |
Some of these tend to have rather fixed forms, sanctioned by custom and tradition, such as the stately "Contrition Dance" of Turia. |
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| 24 | 334 |
Most placatory dances, however, are not fixed-form dances, but are "free" dances, in which the slave, exquisitely alert to the nuances of the situation, the particular master, the nature of his displeasure, the gravity of her offense, and such, improvises, doing her best to assuage his anger and beg... |
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| 29 | 452 |
The beast then again fixed its gaze on the small fellow, and the small fellow stepped back, in trepidation. |
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| 29 | 1621 |
Mirus scratched a board, taken from the ruins of the buildings about, which he fixed on the common grave of Borko and Hendow. |
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| 29 | 1668 |
I could see the hilt of Hendow's sword there, and, behind it, the narrow board fixed in the earth by Mirus, that simple, crude marker, not bearing much of a message, really, little more than the data that Hendow had been of Brundisium, and had had a friend. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 245 |
I wished that I had had one of the tridents or one of the sharpened, steel crescents fixed on a metal pole, useful in such work. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
I saw the brand, tiny and tasteful, yet unmistakable, fixed in her thigh, high, under the hip. |
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| 1 | 757 |
And yet she was, in a sense, the same woman, only now fixed helplessly in bondage. |
10 |
| 1 | 888 |
Borton moaned in desire, scarcely daring to move, his eyes glistening, fixed on the dancing slave. |
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| 1 | 891 |
Given this, it may be seen that, in a sense, the brand and collar, as lovely and decorative as they are, and as exciting and profoundly meaningful as they are, when they are fixed on a woman, and she wears them, and as obviously important as they are from the point of view of property law, may be vi... |
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| 1 | 1142 |
Too, there seemed some small boats in the water, torches fixed in their bows, much as are used for hunting tabuk and tarsk at night, from behind blinds. |
10 |
| 1 | 1204 |
Like most Gorean campaign tents, at least those set up in large, fixed camps, it was circular, with a conical roof. |
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| 1 | 1222 |
Also, fixed on the center pole there was a piece of paper which said, "Beware, this is the tent of Borton". |
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| 10 | 120 |
Some torches were fixed there, at intervals, near the water's edge. |
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| 18 | 77 |
One is a heavy blow below the base of the skull, as with fists or a foot, another is a blow with the heel of the hand, or the foot, forcing the head to the side, particularly with the body fixed in a position where it cannot move with the blow, as, say, when it is being held immobile. |
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| 19 | 790 |
It put back its head, lifting it, twisting it, and given the power of its body, the sword, fixed still in its jaw, was torn from my grasp. |
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| 24 | 122 |
I then found the front board and fixed it in place. |
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| 43 | 124 |
Then, helpless, drawn by the leash, she was turned by force, and drawn, stumbling, after Liadne, behind the wagon, behind the canvas screen which had been fixed there. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 |
It was then fixed on her, buckled shut, beneath her chin. |
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| 13 | 96 |
The fellow fixed a fearless gaze upon us. |
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| 21 | 319 |
"It would be as fixed upon her as upon me! She would be as helpless in it as I! She would be no more able to remove it from her neck than I!" "No," I said. |
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| 22 | 59 |
She was standing so close to the wall that she might have been attached to it by a fixed neck ring. |
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| 22 | 80 |
The woman in the palanquin must indeed be wealthy, or well-fixed, or something. |
10 |
| 23 | 32 |
His gaze was intense, fixed and fierce. |
10 |
| 27 | 5 |
Near her, but not yet fixed upon her, were the makings of a gag. |
10 |
| 27 | 42 |
Lavinia put down her head, as it had been she upon whom his eyes had been fixed when he had uttered his recent expression of enthusiasm. |
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| 28 | 128 |
I heard the handle of the door, a lever handle, fixed crosswise in the door, move. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 480 |
The slave's position in society is fixed, as fixed as the collar on her neck. |
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| 4 | 85 |
I put up my chained wrists, suddenly, frantically, wildly, and, as I could, on one side and then the other, fixed my hair. |
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| 7 | 443 |
Already I was within the throes of the helplessness, that helplessness which precedes the yielding, which heralds its proximity, which warns of its imminence, that helplessness which sometimes seems to hold one fixed in place, where one, as though chained to a wall, knows that there is no escape, wh... |
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| 7 | 1122 |
Did not Aynur wear a collar, too? Did her collar not fit as well as mine? Did it not proclaim its message on her neck, as mine did on mine? Was it not well fixed there, and was she not as incapable of removing it as I was of removing mine? "Naked collared slut!" cried Aynur. |
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| 10 | 372 |
The jailer fixed the folded tunic in my mouth, more carefully. |
10 |
| 10 | 938 |
He fixed the ring differently. |
10 |
| 12 | 843 |
There, a few feet to my right, there hung, suspended from a heavy chain, fixed in the ceiling, a narrow, conical-topped, cylindrical cage. |
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| 13 | 698 |
I sensed this, seeing how some knelt back trembling, quivering, against the wall, and others lifted their fingers to their ear lobes, as though, even now, they might feel adornments fixed there. |
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| 16 | 490 |
By means of the lock clip he fastened the chain to a ring fixed in the divan, one near the floor, on the right, as one faced the divan. |
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| 19 | 1133 |
"You will keep your eyes fixed forward. |
10 |
| 19 | 1140 |
"You will keep your eyes fixed forward. |
10 |
| 19 | 1158 |
She, like the others, kept her eyes fixed forward—absolutely. |
10 |
| 29 | 484 |
The leash, fixed on her, fell to the floor. |
10 |
| 31 | 262 |
A gasp escaped me, and several of the other girls, too, for, on the forehead of the leader, fixed there, presumably this morning, was the image of a black dagger. |
10 |
| 31 | 451 |
But the gaze of the bowmen seemed fixed, in awe, on the straining giant. |
10 |
| 31 | 559 |
The entire block of stone in which the plate and ring was fixed on the peasant's left, our right, had inched out. |
10 |
| 31 | 592 |
The block of stone, broken from the wall, torn out of it, still fixed to the plate and bolts, and chain, had burst forth, showering mortar in the room. |
10 |
| 37 | 172 |
The eyes of the first sleen, the larger, the more aggressive, fixed on the leader of the strangers. |
10 |
| 39 | 36 |
Most usually there is a slave ring fixed in the couch itself, or on the floor, at the foot of the couch, to which the slave is chained. |
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| 46 | 634 |
This fixed the cloak in position. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 168 |
Perhaps she had met such gazes before from such as the older woman, gazes, and stares, and such, perhaps of envy, hatred, and hostility, the cold, fixed gazes and stares of women whose youth and beauty were behind them, and who seemed to wish to do little now but resent and castigate, and scorn, the... |
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| 16 | 102 |
There were seven sockets behind the shelf in the wall of the building, overhead, in which horizontal poles might be fixed, and there were matching sockets near the front of the shelf, into which vertical poles might be placed, from which arrangements of poles, joined together and reinforced by addit... |
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| 17 | 993 |
She did not turn about, and kept her eyes fixed on the wall before her. |
10 |
| 18 | 348 |
She fixed another piece of meat in place. |
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| 20 | 1034 |
As Ellen, on the chain, marching with the others, approached them, they relatively fixed at the side of the march, she was startled, terribly shaken. |
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| 23 | 297 |
The lantern was fixed on a short pole, at the front, left side of the cart, as one would look forward from the cart. |
10 |
| 24 | 42 |
But it had surprised her that Mirus, whom she knew was well fixed on Gor, should have been a member of their party. |
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| 24 | 376 |
She might as well have been chained hand and foot, and neck, to a heavy ring fixed in the bottom of a narrow, cement, well-like slave pit, looking up at the iron grating yards above her head. |
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| 25 | 227 |
You should obtain a well-fixed master. |
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| 25 | 579 |
The former free woman raised her eyes piteously to the attendant who held her left upper arm in a grip of iron, perhaps then understanding what it was to be a woman and a slave, but he was not even aware of this, keeping his gaze fixed on the attendant toward the top of the stairs. |
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| 25 | 688 |
Ellen recalls that many of her former female colleagues seemed obsessed with decrying women as slaves and chattels, and such, even when the women were obviously among the best fixed, the most comfortable, the richest and most free of the population. |
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| 27 | 2897 |
Mirus fixed his eyes upon the slave. |
10 |
| 27 | 3033 |
The sleen had seemed not even aware of him, so intent, so fixed, they were on their business. |
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| 30 | 217 |
She kept her gaze fixed squarely ahead. |
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| 30 | 434 |
And the perfection of this complementarity, as societally recognized, as socially articulated, as culturally enhanced and celebrated, and fixed into the matrix of custom and legality, is the relationship of master and slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 75 |
"What are you doing!" Cabot fixed the wadding and straps. |
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| 16 | 17 |
Surely she remembered the pointed stick, and how she might have been fixed by it to the earth of a primitive camp. |
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| 36 | 109 |
It is not unusual for slaves to bedeck themselves as they may, and to do so occasionally with flowers, sometimes a garland, sometimes with a mere blossom or two, fixed in the hair. |
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| 42 | 100 |
A high ladder was there, fixed against the wall, which must have been a hundred or more feet high, and led, it seemed, to a closed ceiling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1138 |
This form of lading is particularly lovely in the case of female slaves because the hands are thus fixed in position over their heads, almost as though chained, and the breasts are nicely lifted. |
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| 10 | 285 |
The gag fixed on Miss Wentworth, in contrast, allows a good deal of noise, and would not do for the usual considerations of security. |
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| 10 | 446 |
Too, he had been rather in the background, and her attention had been much fixed on Lord Nishida, who occupied the center forefront of the platform. |
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| 13 | 187 |
"The Kef has been fixed in my thigh, the steel is on my neck". |
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| 22 | 276 |
Often, interestingly, the plainer girls purchased by the less well-fixed masters enjoy a bondage which, though strict and absolutely uncompromising, as is the Gorean way, might be the envy of many slaves who went for higher prices. |
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| 30 | 14 |
"The masts are fixed, permanent?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 129 |
The ship had six masts, apparently fixed, which suggested it was a round ship, which has fixed masts, and often more than one, say, two or three, though never so many as six. |
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| 1 | 50 |
The trenchers had been gathered in, and the kaissa boards had been folded and put away, the red and yellow pieces in two shallow drawers, fixed in the board, one on each side, one for each color. |
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| 3 | 1034 |
It was now fixed on me with the same understated, flawless efficiency with which it might have encircled the neck of a slave. |
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| 3 | 1098 |
"Shortly thereafter the two young men brought me to one of several slave posts, thick, sturdy stakes, some four feet high, fixed in the abandoned stable yard behind the closed Inn of Ragnar. |
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| 8 | 21 |
There it would be weighted, its back rings fitted with draw chains, and the whole fixed in its pulleyed frame, to be dropped and raised, again and again, and, by means of the draw chains, pulled against the ice. |
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| 12 | 127 |
Too, if they sell for more money, they are likely to have a better-fixed master, a prettier collar, a better kennel, a better diet, an easier life, perhaps even sandals. |
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| 13 | 12 |
It had a high stem-castle, and two fixed masts. |
10 |
| 19 | 143 |
Fixed in place, there would have been little to do but die. |
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| 35 | 80 |
Two of the Pani, at the height of the gangplank, had instantly removed the longer of their two swords from their sash, and, two hands fixed on the long, tasseled handle, drew back the weapons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 90 |
Doubtless there were setters of trends, say, highly placed officials, wealthy Merchants, Actors, Singers, and Poets, certain women of noble family and high caste, and such, but why should one option rather than another succeed in being adopted, however transiently? Perhaps the higher, better fixed, ... |
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| 8 | 679 |
"Disgusting! Disgusting!" It is a received wisdom that the higher the price for which one goes the more likely it is to obtain a richer, better-fixed master, and to find oneself in a larger, better-appointed, wealthier household where the labors are likely to be lighter and less frequent. |
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| 8 | 1409 |
And then I realized that I did wear a bond, two bonds, the most inescapable bonds of all, a mark fixed in my thigh, and a collar, locked about my neck. |
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| 8 | 1507 |
There was a small, oval, bronze mirror in the kitchen, fixed on a wall, and I often regarded myself in its reflection, turning my face one way or another, brushing back my hair, arranging it, and such. |
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| 16 | 150 |
And such relationships on Gor were institutionalized, fixed in law! I was collared! I sensed that I belonged on the block, stripped, before such men, who might, fittingly, purchase me as an object, or toy. |
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| 27 | 19 |
Rather it had certain projections fixed in its surface, and what appeared to be screens or lenses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 45 |
That fearful moment, the interval of our interaction, brief but seemingly prolonged, which had seemed oddly fixed in time and space, must be swept away, and forgotten as soon as possible. |
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| 8 | 160 |
I had a knife, as well, in its sheath, fixed laterally on my waist belt, behind my back. |
10 |
| 15 | 650 |
I wore a heavy metal collar, to which was attached a chain, fixed to a stout ring, anchored at the side of my mat. |
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| 26 | 210 |
The head was fixed to the shaft, not detachable as is often the case with the military javelin, which is likely to be socketed in such a way that after a strike the missile cannot be drawn free whole, to be immediately reused, perhaps by an enemy The head, of course, can be resocketed later. |
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| 35 | 104 |
You collaborated with Darla, to oust Donna, that you should receive the gift of the lieutenancy!" Tuza fixed her eyes on Hiza. |
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| 46 | 61 |
It is as clear and fixed as the collar on her neck, the mark on her thigh. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 17 |
But when the soldiers of Lord Yamada, with the first light, with fixed banners and brandished glaives, crying out, swarmed to the shore, they found the beach empty. |
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| 6 | 221 |
His gaze was fixed on Tyrtaios. |
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| 13 | 503 |
They were sturdy, and well fixed. |
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| 17 | 179 |
Oddly, for a moment it seemed as though it might be still, fixed in the sky, and the clouds were flowing behind it. |
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| 30 | 420 |
"She whom I once knew as Sumomo was a free woman, delicate and refined, as fragile, soft, and exquisite as the petal of a veminium, but, too, petty and unpleasant, cruel and deceitful, arrogant and haughty, impatient and short-tempered, clad in rich garmenture, with silken slippers, with long hair, ... |
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| 32 | 69 |
Yasushi had his eyes fixed on Arashi. |
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| 42 | 62 |
They were in a single line, held on a common chain, anchored at each end to a large ring fixed in a heavy, trunklike piling, of which a foot or so was visible above the ground. |
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| 52 | 10 |
Toward the rear of the chamber, fixed in the wall to the right, as one would enter, Pertinax had located a small metal object, circular, less than a hort in diameter, covered with a mesh of fine wire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 25 |
The northern long ship, or "dragon ship," on the other hand, seldom seen this far south, has a fixed mast and a fixed, square sail, and is single-ruddered, the steering board, or starboard, on the right side. |
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| 7 | 249 |
The chain from my collar ring, about a yard long, ran to another ring, a heavy ring, which ring was fixed in the stone couch. |
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| 24 | 3 |
There was a chain on my neck; it was fastened to a ring fixed in the stone floor. |
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| 25 | 3 |
There was a chain on my neck; it was fastened to a ring fixed in the stone floor. |
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| 27 | 21 |
The masts of round ships, or cargo ships, are commonly fixed. |
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| 30 | 65 |
Here and there, mostly fixed to rings, were collars, chains, and shackles. |
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| 33 | 681 |
It fixed its gaze on a barrel, one amongst several, hurried to it, and broke it open, splintering its lid with a blow of its paw. |
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| 39 | 154 |
"You cannot see it from where you are," he said, "but I have fixed a narrow beam in the outside wall, which leads up to the adjacent roof". |
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| 49 | 171 |
"At least," said Kurik, "he does not have the dagger fixed upon his brow". |
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| 50 | 65 |
Her eyes were fixed on Lord Grendel. |
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| 60 | 33 |
At the height of the tiers, on a separate platform, raised above the last tier, there was a helmeted fellow in the garb of the House of a Hundred Corridors, who stood near a stand on which there was fixed a large trumpet. |
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| 62 | 27 |
The brand and collar, of course, are indisputable marks of quality, as might be the stampings on plates and vessels, the tags sewn into the rugs of Tor, and the labels fixed on the cloaks of Turia. |
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| 62 | 140 |
Sometimes the tracing of a master's fingernail, so gently, delicately, in the soft palm of slave's hand, she forced to keep the back of her hand down on her thigh, fixed in place, can cause her to cry out in piteous need. |
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| 63 | 169 |
"Yes," I said, jerking at the slave bracelets that fastened my hands behind my back, shaking my neck in the chain that bound me to the ring fixed in the back of the wagon, "we belong to men!" "Do you object?" she asked. |
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| 68 | 220 |
This beam extended, fixed in braces, from a window in the third story of the insula we were passing. |
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| 68 | 222 |
These were fixed in the outer wall, one on each side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 165 |
Too, my scalp burned, and his hand was still fixed tightly in my hair. |
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| 5 | 101 |
He then suspended his lantern from a dangling hook, its chain fixed in the ceiling. |
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| 5 | 171 |
On Gor there seem to be few fixed prices, for vegetables, for boots, for slaves. |
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| 8 | 26 |
The mast was fixed, which is common in round ships. |
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| 8 | 91 |
At the foot of the ladder, below the closed hatch, I, and the two other girls, on our ankle chains, fastened to the ring fixed in the floor of the hold, had strained to hear. |
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| 8 | 820 |
Surely, if, at the sturdy, narrow bow of the corsair, invisible, just below the surface of the water, fixed in place, there was a beak or snout of metal, it would have some purpose. |
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| 11 | 147 |
There are few fixed prices on this world. |
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| 17 | 114 |
On the sloping canal landing, bordering the market, I saw several of the small rence craft tied to rings fixed in the landing, sometimes more than one craft to a single ring. |
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| 26 | 14 |
In this way a rence community, a homeland or capital, a depot, camp, or outpost, so to speak, is not a fixed target. |
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| 33 | 104 |
But then why were the oarsman and he beside him not similarly garbed? Then he who had been sitting by the oarsman, cloaked and hooded, rose to his feet, steadied himself with a hand on a stanchion, one of four to which a canopy might be fixed, and pushed back his hood. |
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| 39 | 86 |
There were two rings near the bottom of the aperture, one on the left, one on the right, fixed in the stone. |
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| 39 | 250 |
"You have seen enough," said Florian, undoing my leash from the ring fixed in the stone beneath the observation panel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 177 |
"On Earth," I said, "were you well-fixed, say, affluent?" "Yes, Master," she said, "so much so that I was indifferent to wealth". |
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| 29 | 253 |
"Leave us here!" "I have had a sturdy slave ring fixed in the main deck of the Tesephone," I said. |
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