| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 17 |
Aside from these things and two stone blocks, perhaps chairs, and a mat on one side, the room was bare; the walls and ceiling and floor were smooth as marble, and a classic white. |
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| 3 | 15 |
And always under his table a brazier filled with hot coals burned near the feet of the scribe, perilously close to the scholarly litter with which the floor was strewn. |
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| 4 | 90 |
There was a rush of wings outside the window of my apartment, and the Older Tarl flung himself across the room and dragged me to the floor. |
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| 4 | 134 |
The tier nearest the floor, which denoted some preferential status, the white tier, was occupied by Initiates, Interpreters of the Will of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 5 | 42 |
She had risen and walked across the room, her feet bare on the stone floor, and dropped to her knees before me, lowering her head and lifting and extending her hands to me, the wrists crossed. |
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| 14 | 7 |
I knelt on the granite floor of a shallow cave in one of the Voltai peaks, a sheltered fire on each side of me. |
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| 16 | 51 |
Marlenus and his men apparently had command of the top floor and roof of the cylinder, but there was little hope he could use the Home Stones that now lay within his grasp. |
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| 18 | 74 |
The giant landed on the rock floor of the circular pit, and I looked upward, my glance climbing the sheer, artificially smoothed sides of the pit, which stretched perhaps a thousand feet above me on all sides. |
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| 18 | 114 |
The floor of the tarn cot was littered with the bones of perhaps two dozen tarns. |
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| 18 | 130 |
In less than a few seconds the first of the scraggy tarns had lit on the floor of the cot and poked his ugly head through the door. |
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| 18 | 141 |
At that moment, to his own misfortune, a passing guardsman of Ar discovered the opened door that had mysteriously appeared in the wall of the first floor of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 18 | 154 |
Several tarns were dead; some were flopping about awkwardly on the marble floor, pierced by arrows. |
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| 19 | 4 |
He lifted a tile in the floor of the great hall and revealed a valve; with it, he closed the secret door through which the tarns had come. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 116 |
Some of the shot dropped to the floor and rolled under the tables. |
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| 6 | 80 |
He sits in the midst of his family, his closest well-wishers, his sword comrades, cross-legged on the floor in the Gorean fashion behind the long, low wooden table, laden with food, which stands at the head of the room. |
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| 10 | 46 |
Some twenty feet below the level of the door, in the absolute darkness, with brutal impact, I struck bottom, a stone floor covered with wet straw. |
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| 10 | 86 |
I looked about the room, which curved to a dome some twenty-five feet above the floor. |
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| 11 | 34 |
Thorn kicked my feet from under me, and, under the weight of the yoke, I crashed to the floor, helpless. |
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| 12 | 6 |
The floor and the walls were of black stone, quarried in giant blocks of perhaps a ton apiece. |
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| 12 | 7 |
The lamp dried the stone in its vicinity, but, on the floor and most of the walls, there was a dampness and the smell of mold. |
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| 12 | 8 |
Some straw was scattered on the floor. |
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| 17 | 8 |
There were pools of water here and there on the floor; the walls were damp; water in certain places dripped from the ceiling. |
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| 17 | 55 |
Ost lay on the damp floor, his hands on his throat, gasping for breath. |
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| 17 | 100 |
Some of them stumbled and fell, sprawling with a rattle of chains on the floor, dragging others down. |
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| 18 | 123 |
Suddenly the grating sprang free, and I and it fell clattering with a rattle of chains and metal to the floor. |
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| 18 | 134 |
"I'm slipping!" he cried, and rattled down the shaft and fell to the cell floor weeping. |
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| 19 | 46 |
The men crowded out onto the floor of the shaft, which lay only a foot below the opening of our mine, for our mine was the lowest of all. |
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| 22 | 3 |
The floor of the tent was covered with thick, colorful rugs, and the inside was decorated with numerous silken hangings. |
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| 24 | 31 |
Delightedly the man ducked and scrambled to pick it up from the floor. |
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| 24 | 245 |
The floor seemed solid, but this time I knew the dangers it concealed. |
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| 24 | 246 |
A long plank from the scaffolding of the barricade was brought and we laid this from the threshold across the floor. |
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| 25 | 8 |
Only an instant after myself Thorn's shield too was flung to the stones of the chamber floor. |
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| 25 | 45 |
I pointed to the girl on the floor. |
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| 26 | 28 |
I myself had stood at the foot of the steps to the golden throne when Lara had commanded that the giant mask of gold which hung behind it be pried by spears from the wall and cast to the floor at our feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 22 |
At last I moved the corner of the large grille sufficiently to allow me to slip through to the floor beneath and then Vika followed me and I helped her to the floor. |
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| 4 | 21 |
Our footsteps echoed hollowly across the great stone floor. |
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| 4 | 27 |
His sandaled feet did not reach to the floor, and he made a slight grimace as he settled himself on the throne. |
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| 4 | 32 |
Then, smartly, Parp cracked his pipe a few times against the side of the throne, scattering ashes and unsmoked tobacco about on the floor of the dais. |
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| 4 | 45 |
Tapping the floor with the butt of my spear, I finally stood where he had directed. |
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| 4 | 79 |
I removed my helmet and threw my shield to the floor. |
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| 5 | 20 |
Beside her, on the floor, rested a laver of polished bronze, filled with water, a towel and a straight-bladed Gorean shaving knife. |
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| 5 | 226 |
She slowly pulled the scarf from her throat and dropped it to the floor, and turned to face me. |
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| 5 | 289 |
Angrily she pulled the fillet from her hair and threw it to the floor, and turned away to busy herself with the preparation of my meal. |
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| 6 | 94 |
Vika had unrolled a straw mat which she placed on the floor at the foot of the great stone couch in the chamber. |
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| 7 | 61 |
My footsteps rang hollowly on the stones of the floor. |
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| 9 | 4 |
The stones of the floor are hard and the Gorean nights are cold and it is a rare girl who, when unchained in the morning, does not seek more dutifully to serve her master. |
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| 9 | 20 |
Then with his own hand he throws upon the stone floor of his chamber luxurious love furs, perhaps from the larl itself, and commands her to them. |
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| 9 | 199 |
In that moment I sensed once more that slightly acrid scent which I had experienced in the corridors beyond the chamber, and I pressed my mouth hard into Vika's until her lips were cut by my teeth and I had pressed her back until only my arm kept her from falling to the stones of the floor, and I he... |
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| 10 | 43 |
It moved with a certain deliberate, stalking movement; its tread was regal and yet it seemed almost dainty, almost fastidious; it was almost as if the creature did not care to soil itself by contact with the floor of the passage. |
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| 10 | 51 |
The floor seemed to drop beneath me and my hand grasped my sword. |
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| 12 | 183 |
He crumpled to the floor. |
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| 13 | 44 |
I watched her continue on down the passageway, listened to the slap of her bare feet on the floor. |
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| 13 | 94 |
* * * * We had not walked far when we passed a long, wormlike animal, eyeless, with a small red mouth, that inched its way along the corridor, hugging the angle between the wall and floor. |
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| 14 | 1 |
The Secret Chamber of Misk The arms of the metal device seized me and I found myself held helplessly by the arms suspended some feet above the floor. |
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| 14 | 10 |
The metal arms had locked on me and lifted me from the floor. |
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| 14 | 24 |
I was considering my next insult when the two arms which held me swung me over a metal cage with a double floor, the higher consisting of narrow bars set in a wide mesh and the lower consisting simply of a white plastic tray. |
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| 14 | 94 |
Actually the walls, ceiling and floor were covered with what, to a Priest-King, were excruciatingly beautiful scent-patterns. |
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| 15 | 1 |
In the Secret Chamber Holding the slender Mul-Torch over my head, I peered into the cavern now revealed in the floor of Misk's chamber. |
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| 15 | 2 |
From a ring on the underside of the floor, the ceiling of the chamber, there dangled a knotted rope. |
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| 15 | 13 |
Here and there a trickle of water traced its dark pattern downward to the floor where it crept along the wall and, continuing its journey, disappeared into one crevice or another. |
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| 15 | 31 |
"Somewhere here," he said, "but unscented and toward the floor, where a Priest-King would not be likely to find it, is a small knob which will look much like a pebble. |
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| 20 | 49 |
In the floor side of the globelike contrivance there was an adjustable opening which was now of a diameter of perhaps six inches. |
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| 21 | 56 |
While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen Priest-Kings against the ceiling, began to fill their golden vessels from the... |
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| 21 | 59 |
The strange procession to and fro up the walls and across the ceiling to Priest-Kings and back down to the floor continued for more than an hour, during which time the Muls who stood below, some of them having returned with a full vessel, never ceased to chant their mournful paean. |
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| 22 | 3 |
One or two of them, rusted through, broke away in my hands, and I was nearly plunged to the rocky floor beneath. |
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| 22 | 9 |
I heard the other bar drop with a great clang to the floor. |
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| 22 | 17 |
I heard the bar I had just left slide out and fall like its predecessor to the stone floor below. |
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| 22 | 81 |
Misk, the Muls and I now stood on the stone floor of the chamber near the door. |
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| 23 | 62 |
"Forgive me!" I fell to my knees beside her and thrust the Mul-Torch into a space between two stones in the floor. |
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| 23 | 64 |
With my sword I dug out the egg and crushed it and its occupant with the heel of my sandal on the stone floor. |
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| 24 | 7 |
Most strangely perhaps were several long, golden strands, almost a mane, which extended from the creature's head over its domed, golden back and fell almost to the floor behind it. |
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| 25 | 2 |
They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag... |
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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 | 59 |
Shivering and numb and disoriented, I crumpled to the floor beneath it. |
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| 25 | 65 |
Then I could no longer release the grille had I wanted to and I hung there agonized, a prisoner of the charges flashing through my body and the bolts wrenched loose from the ceiling, and I fell again to the floor, the grille clattering beside me, my fingers still hooked in its mesh. |
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| 25 | 73 |
Then, gathering my strength, I leaped up and easily seized one of the rings inside the chamber shaft, held it for a moment and then released it and dropped back to the floor. |
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| 25 | 84 |
I kissed her and lowered her gently to the floor. |
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| 25 | 108 |
I saw one humanoid creature, small with a receding forehead and excessively hairy face and body, bounding about in one case, racing along and leaping with his feet against the wall and then with the momentum established dashing along the next wall of the case and then dropping to the floor to repeat... |
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| 25 | 109 |
In a vast low case, on the floor of which apparently grew real grass, I saw a pair of shaggy, long-horned bosk grazing, and in the same case but in a different corner was a small herd, no more than five adult animals, a proud male and four does, of tabuk, the single-horned, golden Gorean antelope. |
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| 25 | 130 |
She struggled to her hands and knees, her head hanging down, her hair falling over her head to the floor of the shaft. |
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| 26 | 7 |
I began to move the grille at one corner to allow us to drop to the floor beneath in the Vivarium chamber. |
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| 26 | 102 |
Vika fell to her hands and slumped to the floor moaning, unable to stand. |
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| 26 | 108 |
Vika lowered her head to the floor again and moaned. |
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| 26 | 190 |
Terrified, she, as the expression is, knelt to the whip, assuming the position of the slave girl who is to be punished, her wrists crossed beneath her as though bound and her head touching the floor, leaving the bow of her back exposed. |
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| 27 | 93 |
It opened about thirty feet over the floor of the chamber and a bit to one side of the Platform of the Mother. |
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| 27 | 170 |
Then, with a force that might have been that of clashing, golden glaciers, Misk's jaws tightened and turned and suddenly Sarm was thrown to his back beneath him and in the instant Sarm struck the floor Misk's jaws had slipped their grip to the thick tube about which hung the string of Tola's silveri... |
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| 27 | 184 |
Misk's legs slowly bent beneath him and his body lay on the floor of the chamber. |
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| 28 | 20 |
"Greetings, Tarl Cabot," said a voice from the floor of the tunnel. |
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| 29 | 22 |
I passed a group of huddled humans, crouched behind the remains of a wall which had been sheared away about two feet from the floor for a length of a hundred feet. |
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| 29 | 23 |
I saw one man who lacked an arm, lying on the floor, groaning, the limb having been lost to the unseen beam of the ships above. |
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| 29 | 39 |
Had it truly been Vika of Treve? I raced to the workshop of Misk and flung open the double doors and leaped into the ship and secured the hatch, and in a moment it seemed the floor dropped a foot beneath me and the doors rushed forward. |
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| 29 | 43 |
I broke into the open and the floor of the complex shot away from beneath me and I hung near the energy bulbs at the very apex of the dome. |
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| 31 | 71 |
"Please don't!" said one, looking up, pleading, and the other pressed her head to the floor at Ba-Ta's feet. |
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| 31 | 98 |
We were considering these matters when suddenly the entire floor of the compartment in which we sat seemed to buckle and break apart. |
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| 31 | 99 |
At the same time two walls shattered and fell crumbling in rubble to the floor. |
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| 31 | 121 |
Another flash of fire burned near me, leaving a rupture of molten marble in the floor not five feet from where I stood. |
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| 31 | 155 |
One wall to the left began to crumble, fitted stone from its sides edging outwards and breaking loose to clatter down the ramps and tumble even to the floor so far beneath. |
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| 32 | 4 |
I looked to the body of Sarm, golden and broken, lying among the rubble on the floor, half covered in the powdery dust that hung like fog in the room. |
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| 32 | 88 |
We stood now on the uneven, shifting stones of the floor. |
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| 32 | 89 |
To one side, high in the domed wall some energy bulbs burst, emitting a cascade of sparks that looped downwards burning themselves out before striking the floor. |
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| 32 | 211 |
When the door opened I found myself once more in the Hall of Priest-Kings, though the great dome above it was now broken and portions of it had fallen to the floor of the hall. |
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| 32 | 251 |
"I never did get used to that business of sitting on the floor". |
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| 32 | 272 |
The floor buckled under my feet and I changed my position. |
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| 32 | 292 |
He seemed to float down to the floor and, touching one sandaled foot to the ground only every twenty yards or so, began to leave the chamber in slow dreamlike bounds. |
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| 33 | 21 |
It should take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 13 |
There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla... |
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| 8 | 87 |
Kamchak, that night, chained Elizabeth Cardwell in his wagon, rather than beneath it to the wheel, running a short length of chain from a slave ring set in the floor of the wagon box to the collar of her Sirik. |
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| 9 | 131 |
The Turian camisk, on the other hand, if it were to be laid out on the floor, would appear somewhat like an inverted "T" in which the bar of the "T" would be beveled on each side. |
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| 9 | 416 |
There was a firm snap of the heavy lock in the back of the collar and the throat of Aphris of Turia had been encircled with slave steel! At the same instant Kamchak lifted her startled to her feet and turned her to face him, with both hands tearing the veil from her face! Then, before any of the sta... |
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| 9 | 444 |
"You are challenged!" said Kamras, spitting to the floor at Kamchak's booted feet. |
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| 13 | 198 |
I glared down at the polished boards of the wagon floor. |
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| 15 | 90 |
Once he pounded the rug on the polished floor in front of him and cried out angrily, as though to remind himself of some significant and inalterable fact, "She is Turian! Turian!" The work of the wagon was done by Tuka and another girl, whom Kamchak hired for the purpose. |
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| 18 | 69 |
Now below me the fluid began to gel swiftly almost like a rising floor and it loosened and withdrew on all sides and suddenly my head broke the surface and I breathed. |
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| 18 | 76 |
One of the crossbowmen had leaped to the now dry floor of the marble basin and stood almost beneath me, his crossbow raised. |
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| 18 | 94 |
"Down!" cried Harold, and I fell to the floor barely sensible of the silverish quiva of the Paravaci speeding overhead. |
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| 19 | 73 |
About her neck was a thick metal collar to which a heavy iron chain had been fastened; the chain itself was attached to a large iron ring placed in the floor. |
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| 19 | 196 |
Harold then lifted her from her feet and, as I winced, simply dropped her on the floor. |
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| 19 | 198 |
She said something that sounded like "Ooof," when she hit the floor. |
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| 20 | 127 |
Harold dropped Hereena to the floor of the roof and strode to the first tarn. |
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| 21 | 113 |
Downstairs the wooden screens that had separated the shop from the street had been splintered apart; the counter had been broken and the ovens ruined, their oval domes shattered, their iron doors twisted from their hinges; even the top stones on the two grain mills had been thrown to the floor and b... |
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| 23 | 214 |
Many of the bottles of wine were gone and those that were not had been shattered against the floor, or against the wagon poles, leaving dark stains on the poles and on the hides behind them. |
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| 23 | 215 |
The floor was littered with broken glass. |
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| 23 | 217 |
There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar, dented in now and its contents scattered; and the large, gray leathery object which I had upon occasion seen Kamchak use as a stool, that which he had once kicked across the floor for my inspe... |
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| 24 | 59 |
Harold and I chewed on some bosk meat roasted over a fire built on the marble floor of the palace of Phanius Turmus. |
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| 24 | 68 |
After I had finished the bosk meat I lay back on the floor, a cushion beneath my head, and stared at the ceiling. |
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| 24 | 78 |
"A Tuchuk," he informed me loftily, "may—if he wishes—rest comfortably on even the horns of a bosk, but only a Koroban is likely to recline on a marble floor when he might just as well sleep upon the pelt of a larl in the wagon of a commander". |
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| 24 | 137 |
"I gathered not," said Harold, "seeing that you apparently spent the night after the battle comfortably resting on the floor of Kamchak's wagon—I looked around for you that night—but didn't find you". |
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| 25 | 2 |
Within, a girl, across the wagon, beyond the tiny fire bowl in the center of its floor, standing on the thick rug, near a hanging tharlarion-oil lamp, turned suddenly to face me. |
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| 25 | 7 |
It was a large sheet, voluminous, and came even to the floor. |
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| 25 | 43 |
I gathered the girl was in Sirik, the chain on the floor attached to the slave ring doubtless running to one of the twin ankle rings, probably to that on her left ankle. |
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| 25 | 279 |
"Good!" I sat down beside the fire bowl, and stared at the floor. |
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| 25 | 387 |
I pounded the floor of the wagon and Elizabeth jumped. |
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| 26 | 147 |
The floor of the passage had been dropped, by the release of a bolt, for an area of its width and for a length of about twelve feet. |
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| 26 | 157 |
On the floor below the dais were Saphrar of Turia, frantic, clutching the purple-wrapped object, and the Paravaci, he who still wore the hood of the Clan of Torturers, he who would have been my assassin, he who had been with Saphrar of Turia when I had entered the Yellow Pool of Turia. |
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| 26 | 174 |
He then threw, one after another, a dozen bags of gold to the floor. |
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| 26 | 278 |
The Paravaci suddenly cried out in uncanny fear and shuddered and, to my horror, the golden sphere, which he had succeeded in wresting from Saphrar, was thrown a dozen feet across the room, and shattered on the floor. |
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| 27 | 34 |
But he did not dash the stone to the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 160 |
Elizabeth, trembling, lowered her head to the floor and crossed her wrists under her, kneeling, as it is said, to the whip. |
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| 4 | 240 |
Elizabeth had her head down to the stone floor. |
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| 5 | 130 |
"True," I cried, bundling her in the furs and throwing the entire roll to the floor at the end of the couch, beneath the slave ring. |
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| 8 | 107 |
Elizabeth led me to a room off a kitchen on the third floor of the cylinder. |
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| 11 | 16 |
The only sanitation facility was an open metal mesh, supported by close-set horizontal bars, in the bottom of the cages, beneath which, some five feet below, was a cement floor, washed down and cleaned by slaves once daily. |
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| 11 | 32 |
There was a drum fire near the center of the room on the floor. |
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| 11 | 60 |
"Let's look at them," said Ho-Tu, picking up a small metal hand torch with a wick of twisted, tarred straw from the floor and thrusting it into the drum fire. |
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| 11 | 123 |
One was sullen and quiet, sitting hunched over in the back of the kennel; the other was curled on the floor, crying softly. |
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| 12 | 194 |
He shoved the heads of both to the stones of the floor. |
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| 13 | 239 |
Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ... |
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| 13 | 240 |
Food for the tarns, which is meat, for that is their diet, is thrust on hooks and hauled by chain and windlass to the various perches; it might be of interest to note that, when any of the birds are free, meat is never placed on the hooks or on the floor below; the racing tarn is a valuable bird and... |
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| 13 | 247 |
With an agility that could come only from years in the cots he clambered about the tem-wood beams, sometimes forty feet from the floor, checking this bird and that; perhaps because I was slightly drunk I followed him; at last we had come to one of the four great round portals which give access to th... |
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| 14 | 16 |
I turned up the lamp and noted that the floor of the compartment had been washed down with sponge and towel, that the chests and cabinets had been dusted and straightened, that cleaned furs lay neatly folded on the stone couch. |
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| 14 | 18 |
I think it was not so much I minded an occasional bit of silk lying on the floor as that I derived great pleasure from the fact that the lovely Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, slave in the House of Cernus, must keep my quarters. |
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| 17 | 298 |
Several of the men and girls at and about the tables approvingly observed the two girls rolling and scratching, biting and tearing on the floor, first White Silk on top, and then Red Silk, and then White Silk again. |
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| 17 | 525 |
Behind her the men began crying out, watching the tumbling of the knucklebones on the stones of the floor. |
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| 17 | 606 |
My hand closed on her wrist and she cried out in pain, the goad falling to the floor, rolling. |
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| 17 | 638 |
She placed her bowl on the floor near me and then went back to the chest where the doll had been kept. |
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| 17 | 741 |
"A pen, ink?" "I have silk," she said, "and rouge, and bottles of cosmetics!" In a short time we had spread a large square of silk on the floor between us, and, carefully, finger in and out of a rouge pot, I had drawn the squares of the board. |
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| 18 | 1 |
The End of Kajuralia I leaped across the rouged square of silk, scattering the vials and beads that were the pieces of our game, flinging Sura to the floor, pressing myself across her body that she might be protected. |
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| 18 | 2 |
In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr... |
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| 18 | 5 |
Ho-Tu fell heavily on the floor and I slipped free, rolled and had the sword from my sheath, standing. |
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| 18 | 15 |
There was an intense eruption of needlelike sparks and Sura screamed in pain and fell stumbling to one side, weeping, crying out on the stones of the floor. |
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| 19 | 65 |
From the outside it resembles several tiers of disks, surrounded by a circling portico with lofty, fluted columns; the predominant colors are blue and yellow, the traditional colors of the Gorean slaver; around the outside there are large numbers of well-wrought mosaics set in the walls, and on the ... |
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| 19 | 111 |
A number of Musicians now filed out from the door at the foot of the block and took their places about it, sitting cross-legged on the floor. |
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| 20 | 13 |
Near them, kneeling, her wrists and ankles bound with slender, silken ropes, knelt Sura, head forward, her hair touching the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 475 |
I put it on the floor and then, with the pair of slave bracelets I had removed from Midice, following her dance, I secured Telima to the kitchen's slave ring, fastened in its floor. |
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| 4 | 299 |
I put my head back to the woven rence that formed the floor of the hut. |
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| 10 | 286 |
A motion was on the floor that a new preserve in the northern forests be obtained, that more timber for the arsenal be available. |
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| 11 | 4 |
Papers were scattering to the floor. |
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| 11 | 17 |
A small fire was burning to one side, where a lamp with candle had been knocked to the floor, in the rush toward the door. |
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| 11 | 19 |
The floor was covered with papers. |
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| 11 | 32 |
I then, throwing papers to the floor, scattering ink, lifted the great table over my head. |
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| 11 | 179 |
Above us, in the chamber of the Council of Captains, I could hear feet moving about on the wooden floor, chairs scraping. |
10 |
| 15 | 764 |
In rage I hurled the blade away and it struck the stones of the wall thirty feet across the room and clattered to the floor, and I sank to my knees weeping, my head in my hands. |
10 |
| 18 | 706 |
Ho-Hak, solemn and large, removed his weapons, dropping them to the floor. |
10 |
| 18 | 712 |
Slowly Ho-Hak's great hand, strengthened from years at the oar, closed on Henrak's wrist, and the knife, as the men sweated and strained, dropped clattering to the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 53 |
I ran to the floor-length curtains before the huge window of my bedroom and flung them open. |
10 |
| 3 | 153 |
Once it fell to the floor and inwardly I cried out with anguish. |
10 |
| 3 | 222 |
There were two that were already rising, one at the seventh floor and one at the ninth. |
10 |
| 3 | 228 |
One stopped at my floor, the twenty-fourth. |
10 |
| 3 | 232 |
They looked at me strangely as I pushed at the main-floor button. |
10 |
| 3 | 238 |
When we reached the main floor I fled from the elevator but, in a moment, regained my control, checked myself and looked about. |
10 |
| 4 | 201 |
These racks were fixed to the curved metal ceiling at the top of the ship and the metal floor at the bottom. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 4 | 242 |
It had been the floor, but now it seemed as though it were a wall at my left, and he moved strangely on the wall. |
10 |
| 4 | 254 |
I was vaguely aware that now the ceiling and the floor seemed as they should be. |
10 |
| 5 | 82 |
Whatever force drove the ship must have been beneath it, reached perhaps through the floor plating. |
10 |
| 5 | 136 |
I would have to starve! Then I sat down on the floor of the steel galley and wept. |
10 |
| 7 | 172 |
Moments after lying down on the canvas, spread over the polished floor boards of the wagon, in spite of the movement and the bumping and jostling, I fell asleep. |
10 |
| 8 | 274 |
The floor was smooth. |
10 |
| 9 | 236 |
The floor of the forest was almost bare. |
10 |
| 9 | 281 |
The floor of the clearing was lovely grass, thick and some inches in height, soft, and beautiful. |
10 |
| 10 | 55 |
He suddenly snapped his fingers and, in the swift double gesture of a Gorean master, pointed to a place on the dirt floor before him, almost simultaneously turning his hand, spreading his first and index fingers, pointing downwards. |
10 |
| 10 | 559 |
It seemed I could feel the tiny grains, the grit, of the dirt floor on my body. |
10 |
| 11 | 160 |
Straw is spread on the metal plating which is the floor. |
10 |
| 11 | 560 |
Ute then took us to the bars at the front of the cage and, unknotting the thong, passed it around two of the bars and reknotted it, over one of the crossbars, about two and a half feet above the floor plating. |
10 |
| 11 | 757 |
I rolled onto my belly in the straw and picked up a bit of straw and poked at the floor with it. |
10 |
| 11 | 1074 |
I shrieked with misery and ran across the cage, flinging myself into its back wall, pounding on it, and then I sank to my knees by the wall and, in rage and frustration, weeping and screaming, pounded on the steel plating of the floor. |
10 |
| 11 | 1077 |
I lay on the floor, naked in the straw, a helpless slave girl, the property of men, who must do as they commanded her, and wept, and wept. |
10 |
| 11 | 1325 |
I went to Targo, trembling, and knelt at his feet, my head to the boards of the floor. |
10 |
| 11 | 1334 |
I crossed my wrists beneath me and touched my head to the floor, exposing the bow of my back. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 12 | 492 |
The floor of the cage was about six inches off the ground. |
10 |
| 12 | 505 |
The water ran over the small, circular floor of the cage, and some of it dripped out, falling to the ground. |
10 |
| 12 | 510 |
Behind the cage I reached in and stole the food she had in the cage, two larma fruit lying, split, on its metal floor. |
10 |
| 13 | 1165 |
At night, unclothed, when not being used, they were commonly chained in log kennels, small, low, sunken wooden kennels; the interior of these kennels would be a yard or so in height, and a yard or two in width; their length would be longer, to accommodate more girls; the girls would normally be mana... |
10 |
| 14 | 192 |
One, near the top, was about seven inches in width and about a half inch in height; the other, its top formed by a rectangular opening in the bottom of the door, its bottom formed by the iron floor of the box, was about a foot wide and two inches in height. |
10 |
| 15 | 121 |
The floor of the shed was dirt, but, here and there, under my feet, I felt a rounded metal bar. |
10 |
| 15 | 122 |
I fell to my hands and knees and, with my fingers in the dirt, felt the floor. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 |
We sat cross-legged on the floor, on the tiles, over the large board. |
10 |
| 4 | 4 |
He unfastened her, and she preceded him across the floor, between the tables. |
10 |
| 4 | 34 |
She was doubtless returning to the floor after her rest, to freshen her for further service. |
10 |
| 6 | 59 |
The chain dangled to the floor, where it lay, half coiled, near the ring. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 519 |
At the foot of the ground level, which is the sleeping level, which lies about a foot above the dug-out floor, the long center of the hall, on the floor, against the raised dirt, here and there, were rounded logs, laid lengthwise. |
10 |
| 13 | 151 |
At places, too, there were bowls, with oil and wicks, with spikes on their bottoms, set in the dirt floor, some six inches from the floor, others as high as five feet; this mode of lamp, incidentally, is more common in the private chambers. |
10 |
| 1 | 3 |
Before me, over the long, heavy table behind which I sat, I could see the large tiles of the hall floor. |
10 |
| 1 | 317 |
Her wrists were crossed under her, as though bound, her head was to the floor, the bow of her back was exposed. |
10 |
| 3 | 19 |
The people, obediently, began to kneel on the dirt floor of the temple, their heads down. |
10 |
| 3 | 90 |
He then drew with the handle of his ax a circle, some twenty feet in diameter, in the dirt floor of the temple. |
10 |
| 6 | 333 |
At the edges of the hall, at ground level, is a dirt floor, on which furs are spread. |
10 |
| 6 | 418 |
Another of the new girls was thrown over one of the benches; she lay on her back; her head was down, her dark hair, long, wild, was in the dirt and reeds, strewn on the floor of the hall; her head twisted from side to side; her eyes were closed; her lips were parted; I saw her teeth. |
10 |
| 8 | 15 |
"Such fools we were," I admitted, putting my head to the floor. |
10 |
| 8 | 61 |
I put my head to the floor. |
10 |
| 8 | 179 |
She looked to the floor; on it, scattered, lay her bracelets, her rings, the golden chains she had worn about her neck. |
10 |
| 8 | 195 |
She looked down at her jewelry on the floor. |
10 |
| 8 | 240 |
Outside the door of the compartment of her five bondmaids, curled sleeping on the floor, on their straw-filled mats, chained by their ankles, which area led into her own apartment, somnolent and bored, were four guards. |
10 |
| 9 | 319 |
The Forkbeard was sitting on the end of his couch, his boots on the floor. |
10 |
| 9 | 335 |
With his heel he drew in the dirt of the floor a bondmaid circle. |
10 |
| 9 | 362 |
Within an Ahn, Hilda the Haughty, to the jeers of men, the taunts of bondmaids, on her hands and knees, head down, hair falling forward, crept to the circle of the bondmaid, which Ivar Forkbeard had drawn in the dirt of the hall floor, between the posts. |
10 |
| 13 | 152 |
It was not unusual, incidentally, that the floor of the great hall, rich as it was, was of dirt, strewn with rushes. |
10 |
| 14 | 9 |
For an instant I was conscious only of the dirt floor, the reeds strewn upon it, the mad forest of running feet. |
10 |
| 14 | 107 |
I heard a scream from a height, and, looking up, saw a human thrown from the balcony which ringed the hall, some thirty feet above the dirt floor, some ten feet below the roof beams. |
10 |
| 14 | 189 |
Another beam fell, flaming and smoking from the roof, striking into the dirt floor, and leaning against the wall. |
10 |
| 14 | 197 |
"Red Hair," he cried, "the lamps!" Another beam from the roof, burning, dropped heavily to the floor of the hall. |
10 |
| 16 | 158 |
His torch lay on the floor, and, after some time, burned itself out. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 142 |
"Hands on hips! Be insolent! Hands behind back! Hands crossed before you, as though bound! Hands at throat, as though chained to collar, fingers before mouth! Fall to the floor! Kneel! Head down! Head up! Bend backwards! Farther! Roll to the floor, on your side, on your back, right leg high, now fle... |
10 |
| 7 | 10 |
My ankles, in close chains, were fastened to another ring, in the floor, before me, it, too, on a plate, bolted through the floor block. |
10 |
| 14 | 66 |
An urt skittered past her, having emerged from a crack in the floor between two stones and moved swiftly across the floor, along one wall, and vanished through the crack which had served as exit for its fellow a few moments earlier. |
10 |
| 1 | 2 |
The entire floor of the chamber, shining, richly mosaiced, broad, reflecting the torchlight, was a map. |
10 |
| 1 | 14 |
I regarded the vast map on the floor of the chamber. |
10 |
| 1 | 180 |
I saw the parted lips, the eyes wide with horror, of the kneeling, harnessed girl, through the light, yellow veil; then the dancer had drawn it away from her, and, turning, was again in the center of the floor. |
10 |
| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
10 |
| 1 | 373 |
* * * * The belled left ankle of the dancer moved in a small circle on the mosaiced floor, to the ringing of the bells, and the counterpoint of the finger cymbals. |
10 |
| 1 | 656 |
I jerked her to her feet and, half turning her, ripping her silk from her, hurled her to the map floor, where she half lay, half crouched, one leg beneath her, looking at me, stripped save for her collar, the brand, the armlets, bells, the anklets, with fury. |
10 |
| 1 | 659 |
"And do not rise from the floor, Slave," I told her. |
10 |
| 1 | 684 |
She lay on the map floor, her head turned toward us. |
10 |
| 1 | 689 |
Four times said I "No," each time my command forcing her head back, her body bent, to the floor, and each time, again, to the music, she lifted her body. |
10 |
| 1 | 700 |
Samos rose from behind the table and strode to the map floor. |
10 |
| 1 | 702 |
He stopped at a point on the smooth, mosaiced floor. |
10 |
| 1 | 705 |
I looked down at the intricately wrought mosaiced floor. |
10 |
| 1 | 812 |
It's mere representation, as earlier indicated, covered several square feet of the floor. |
10 |
| 1 | 836 |
Then, as the music suddenly stopped, she fell to the floor, helpless, vulnerable, a female slave. |
10 |
| 1 | 846 |
Her hair fell to the map floor. |
10 |
| 1 | 853 |
She cried out with misery as she was dragged by the ankle across the floor and thrown over two of the small tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 295 |
In two of the cafes I paid a use-coin to the floor master and, by the hair, conducted she who had pleased me most to an alcove. |
10 |
| 2 | 297 |
Miss Blake-Allen, head to the floor, knelt when I entered. |
10 |
| 2 | 440 |
"Stand here," I told Miss Blake-Allen, indicating a place in the center of the floor, before the desk of the slave master. |
10 |
| 3 | 24 |
Silk, dropped upon the scimitar of the Tahari, divided, falls free, floating, to the floor. |
10 |
| 4 | 228 |
I saw her eyes briefly close, relishing the feel of the stone floor, as she knelt back on her heels, on her knees and the tops of her toes; I saw her body straighten itself, exposing itself, drinking in the atmosphere of the room. |
10 |
| 4 | 348 |
Indeed it was in effect in one of the positions of obeisance, that in which the slave kneels with her head to the floor, with her hands held behind her, the wrists crossed, or the right wrist held in the left hand. |
10 |
| 4 | 553 |
She is not permitted merely to excite, and flee away; when, at the conclusion of the swirling music, she flings herself to the floor at the mercy of free men, her dance is but half finished; she has yet to pay the price of her beauty. |
10 |
| 5 | 4 |
Before us, on the smooth, scarlet, inlaid floor, stood the girl. |
10 |
| 5 | 559 |
Alyena threw herself to the floor before him, moving to the music. |
10 |
| 5 | 620 |
Then she finished the spins, and froze, hands over her head, body held high, stomach in, right leg flexed and extended, toes only touching the floor. |
10 |
| 5 | 669 |
At a languid gesture from Ibn Saran, Alyena lifted herself from the scarlet tiles, gracefully turning from her side to her knees, and then, head back, hair to the floor, slowly, inch by melodic protesting inch, arms before her body, lifted herself to a kneeling position, erect, the last bit of her t... |
10 |
| 5 | 811 |
Then she stopped, marvelously, motionlessly, as the music was silent, her head back, her arms high, her body covered with sweat, and then, to the last swirl of the barbaric melody, fell to the floor at the feet of Ibn Saran. |
10 |
| 6 | 63 |
He then threw her to the side of a wall, where another slave, pushing against the side of her neck, fastened a snap catch on her collar, securing her by a chain to a ring in the floor. |
10 |
| 6 | 130 |
He then, roughly, burning the side of her neck, slid the catch about her collar, to the front; there he jerked it against her collar; the chain then, which fastened her, like the other girl, to a ring in the floor, ran to her collar, under her chin. |
10 |
| 7 | 12 |
I sat on the stone, on straw, soiled, which was scattered on the floor to absorb wastes. |
10 |
| 7 | 13 |
I looked to the door, some twenty feet across the stone floor; it was of beams, sheathed with iron. |
10 |
| 7 | 17 |
Light reached it from a small window, barred, some twelve feet above the floor, in the wall to my right. |
10 |
| 7 | 142 |
Beyond, crumpled on the floor, I saw the remains of the guard, the head, awry, lying on its side, strung by torn vessels to the body, the back of the neck bitten through. |
10 |
| 7 | 204 |
On such a blade, I knew, silk dropped, should the blade be moved, would fall parted to the floor. |
10 |
| 7 | 237 |
The light fell from the barred window onto the gray stones of the straw-strewn floor. |
10 |
| 7 | 238 |
I looked at the men, the walls, the matted, dried kort rinds on the floor, near the metal dish. |
10 |
| 7 | 263 |
"Ho!" Across the floor, now wet with blood, and blood-soaked straw, the men, in their line, Ibn Saran remaining at the door, charged. |
10 |
| 7 | 274 |
"The blood! The blood!" I saw a stain of blood on the floor, and then a bloody print, of a heavy, clawed foot. |
10 |
| 11 | 358 |
It would doubtless be pleasant for her to be fed tidbits, dates and such, and to sleep on a rug, or polished floor, at the feet of her master. |
10 |
| 11 | 446 |
His men, too, were lodged on the second floor. |
10 |
| 11 | 467 |
The innkeeper turned to face me, his face white; he fell rolling to the floor, snapping off the shaft of the arrow. |
10 |
| 11 | 478 |
"To the roof!" I took the stairs four at a time, climbing to the second floor. |
10 |
| 12 | 412 |
I threw the kaiila crop to one side, to the floor. |
10 |
| 14 | 82 |
She half knelt, half sat, her head down, the palms of her hands on the floor of the cell. |
10 |
| 14 | 83 |
I picked up, where it lay on the stones, fastened to the plate and ring near mine, the chain which ran, looped, lying on the floor, to her collar, several feet away. |
10 |
| 14 | 135 |
Foot by foot, slowly, across the floor of the cell, she slipping, screaming, struggling, I drew her toward me. |
10 |
| 14 | 388 |
Furthermore, the small opening, approximately eighteen inches square, and set some ten inches off the floor, in the bars, with its small, heavy gate, can be easily negotiated only on the hands and knees. |
10 |
| 14 | 392 |
The alcoves are usually eight to ten feet deep, with a flat floor and rounded sides and ceiling, the sides about four feet wide at their widest, and the ceiling about four feet in height, at its highest. |
10 |
| 15 | 70 |
We sat on the floor of the shed, naked, together. |
10 |
| 16 | 18 |
The floor of the brine pit, in most places, is ten to fifteen feet below the surface of the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 83 |
The long, narrow legs also lift the salamander's head and body from the floor, enabling it, with its sensors, to scan a greater area for prey. |
10 |
| 24 | 57 |
Bars on a window, a coiled chain, a bowl on the floor, such things, all, have their auspicious, comforting psychological effects upon a beauty. |
10 |
| 24 | 865 |
I was on her in an instant and, taking her in my arms, put her on the floor, sitting. |
10 |
| 24 | 980 |
She sat on the floor, bent forward, her wrists tied to her ankles; the rag she wore was well up her thighs; the pleasures of her breasts were not much concealed, as I had torn the garment; the calves of her legs, drawn up, were marvelous; her face, her hair, were beautiful. |
10 |
| 25 | 300 |
Tarna, shuddering, wept, her head to the floor, my rope on her neck. |
10 |
| 25 | 428 |
Then I said to the girl, "Down, down on the floor, on your belly and back, roll". |
10 |
| 26 | 560 |
I opened the small square gate in a nearby alcove, set in the bars, some ten inches from the floor. |
10 |
| 26 | 809 |
I tied her small garment, which I picked up from the floor, about her neck, and her hands behind her back. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 833 |
Whether she is a treasured love slave or an ignored pot-and-floor wench depends much upon her. |
10 |
| 6 | 262 |
I knelt on the floor. |
10 |
| 6 | 265 |
I wanted to scratch at the mats on the floor with my fingernails. |
10 |
| 6 | 271 |
I wanted to roll on the floor and scream. |
10 |
| 7 | 837 |
"I was first to put her to the floor and get my rope on her," said the other. |
10 |
| 8 | 30 |
It is necessary to engage the locks not only because the animal follows so closely and the gate must be swiftly lowered, but because if the locks are not engaged, it will thrust its snout beneath the bottom of the gate, between the bottom of the gate and the floor of the cage, and, throwing its head... |
10 |
| 8 | 40 |
Though there is a wooden floor to the cage, the wood is placed over bars. |
10 |
| 9 | 156 |
I had dropped through the kennel door and, some feet below, struck the straw-strewn floor of the kennel. |
10 |
| 9 | 169 |
I dropped to the floor of the cage. |
10 |
| 9 | 1123 |
Sometimes, too, for the amusement of the master, candies will be thrown to the floor among several girls, to observe their struggle to obtain these prizes. |
10 |
| 11 | 8 |
The tips of my toes barely touched the stone floor. |
10 |
| 11 | 48 |
I fell to the stone floor at his feet. |
10 |
| 11 | 52 |
I half sat, half lay on the stone floor, my legs to the side, the palms of my hands on the stones, my head down. |
10 |
| 13 | 371 |
"Forty copper tarsks," I heard call from the floor, "from the Tavern of Two Chains". |
10 |
| 14 | 56 |
Busebius, our master, sometimes, before ordering us to bathe and prepare ourselves for the floor, scattered a handful of hard candies among us. |
10 |
| 14 | 70 |
"Hurry now to the baths," he said, "and thence to the room of preparation, for you must be soon upon the floor". |
10 |
| 14 | 162 |
* * * * It was well after the nineteenth hour, and again I was upon the floor. |
10 |
| 14 | 185 |
Holding its two handles with my hands, I fled back, with a jangle of slave bells, to the floor, to serve. |
10 |
| 14 | 383 |
She pulled my wrists behind my back and, swiftly, snapped together the leather cuffs; I twisted on the vanity table, and fell to the floor, my wrists confined by the linked snaps behind my back. |
10 |
| 14 | 448 |
Only one other girl was on the floor. |
10 |
| 16 | 82 |
The first tier is raised from the floor of the hold by some eighteen inches, providing a crawl space. |
10 |
| 16 | 84 |
The crawl space between the floor of the hold and the first tier is cleaned once a day. |
10 |
| 16 | 159 |
With four other girls, later, with buckets, I emptied the bilge, which lies below and at the center of the floor of the hold, under a removable wooden grille. |
10 |
| 18 | 12 |
I also wore a brief, open, sleeveless vest of black leather, the Kalmak; a patron parted it, holding it open, as I tried to move past him on the ramp; I stood, quietly, stopped helplessly, the tray held over my head; he kissed me twice; "Little beauty," he said; "A girl would rejoice if she were per... |
10 |
| 18 | 30 |
I knelt before the table on the second balcony, placing the tray on the floor and quickly, deferentially, placing its contents on the table, the assorted meats and cheese, the sauces and fruits, and wines and nuts. |
10 |
| 18 | 54 |
Strabo, the floor master, at a sign from Aurelion, the proprietor and master of the Chatka and Curla, hurried to the combative couple, thrusting them apart. |
10 |
| 18 | 148 |
A dancer, I supposed, had been sent to the center of the floor. |
10 |
| 19 | 37 |
"Kiss the floor, Slave," said one of the men. |
10 |
| 20 | 35 |
I left the alcove, to return to my duties on the floor, those of a paga slave. |
10 |
| 20 | 167 |
Afterwards he had, before leaving, thrown a candy to the floor before me which I, gratefully, in the manner of the Chatka and Curla, which was necessary, had picked up in my mouth. |
10 |
| 20 | 608 |
A pastry was thrown to the floor before me. |
10 |
| 20 | 616 |
On my hands and knees, as a punished slave girl, holding the pastry in my mouth, I crawled from the floor to the kennels, followed by Strabo. |
10 |
| 20 | 656 |
I could hear the fellow on the floor calling for me. |
10 |
| 26 | 187 |
She did so, and went to stand near the paper on the floor, her hands lifted. |
10 |
| 27 | 17 |
He thrust me from him, to the floor. |
10 |
| 27 | 35 |
His hand seized my tunic at the neck and shoulder and prepared to tear it from me, that I might be hurled to the floor at his feet, to be put writhing beneath the sharp discipline of his domination. |
10 |
| 27 | 69 |
She looked up, frightened, from the floor. |
10 |
| 27 | 448 |
Slave Beads slipped to the floor in a faint. |
10 |
| 27 | 602 |
He then, with his foot, spurned her to the floor. |
10 |
| 28 | 267 |
I thrust my right leg forward, lifting it, pointing the toes, touching only the toes of my right foot to the floor. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 305 |
When I stood up, and took the weapon from her mouth, she looked at me, startled; she half rose from the floor, turning on her left thigh, her right leg drawn up, the palms of her hands on the floor, her lovely body deeply mottled, a terrain of crimson, with the intense capillary activity which I had... |
10 |
| 1 | 240 |
I cut at it again on the floor, half severing the neck. |
10 |
| 2 | 34 |
It was the hall in which was to be found the great map mosaic, inlaid in the floor. |
10 |
| 2 | 553 |
He pointed to a place on the floor. |
10 |
| 2 | 579 |
"See," said Samos, crouching down, holding the lamp about a foot above the floor, "here is Kassau, and the Skerry of Vars". |
10 |
| 2 | 622 |
Samos put the lamp down on the floor. |
10 |
| 3 | 1247 |
"Four copper tarsks!" was a bid called from the floor. |
10 |
| 4 | 615 |
We rolled in the darkness, fighting on the floor of the booth. |
10 |
| 5 | 72 |
I rose to my feet and strode to the map mosaic on the floor of the great hall. |
10 |
| 7 | 45 |
Beside him, on the floor, knelt Tina, which was now her slave name. |
10 |
| 8 | 12 |
I lay on a wooden floor, of heavy, rough boards. |
10 |
| 11 | 292 |
I then put her ankles together, and, with a piece of rope, fastened them to the lower ring, that fastened in the floor of the whipping-frame platform. |
10 |
| 21 | 17 |
This is raised above the floor level. |
10 |
| 21 | 18 |
The platform is warmer than the floor level of the dwelling, of course, because of the tendency of warm air to rise. |
10 |
| 21 | 56 |
Then the woman was, as I determined by putting forth my hand, put down on her back, on the floor of the feasting house. |
10 |
| 21 | 69 |
I put her to the floor. |
10 |
| 21 | 96 |
In the fourth round I got my hand on Audrey's neck and threw her down to the floor. |
10 |
| 23 | 485 |
The man then put his weapons near the rear wall of the feasting house and walked, carrying the sack he had brought with him, to the clearing on the dirt floor. |
10 |
| 28 | 58 |
The floor of the room, too, was covered with fur. |
10 |
| 28 | 62 |
I tore back the furs on the floor, and there encountered steel plates, riveted together. |
10 |
| 28 | 66 |
The ceiling, uniformly, as did the floor, consisted of steel. |
10 |
| 28 | 219 |
She knelt before the gate of the cell and put her head to the steel floor. |
10 |
| 28 | 223 |
She then backed away, on her knees, and then again put her head to the floor, and then stood up and withdrew, backing away, her head down. |
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| 31 | 21 |
There appeared to be a shallow basin of water sunk in the floor to one side. |
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| 31 | 25 |
Looking up I saw above me, beginning some ten feet from the floor, a network of widely placed wood and steel rods. |
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| 31 | 26 |
Oddly, certain portholes, or apertures, or whatever they might be, were set high, too, some twenty feet from the floor, ringing the dome. |
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| 31 | 27 |
One could not, given their height, look through them from the floor. |
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| 31 | 28 |
By feel I determined that one of the walls, that to my right, as I had entered the room, as was the floor, was lined with some heavy ruglike substance. |
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| 31 | 61 |
It sat there for a moment, and then, lightly, swung from one pole to another, and then returned, dropping lightly, for an animal of its weight, to the floor before the platform. |
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| 31 | 91 |
It then, with its claws freed, opened its furs and, by feel, delicately, regarding me, fingered out various organs which it laid on the floor before it. |
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| 32 | 96 |
He dropped down to the floor, and I dropped down beside him. |
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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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| 35 | 502 |
It was dimly lit by five candles in a tall floor stand. |
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| 35 | 594 |
The third and fourth robe slipped to the floor, about her ankles. |
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| 35 | 755 |
The attached padlock, with its key, I snapped about a link of the chain, between some four and five feet from the floor. |
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| 35 | 756 |
This is the inactive position of the chain, lock at collar level, chain terminating with a closed loop, the loop about a foot off the floor, an arrangement permitting a girl to be quickly and conveniently put on the chain and permitting the chain, if no girl is upon it, to be slid in its track witho... |
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| 35 | 837 |
"We would all be killed, you fools!" I struck her back against the boxes, blood at her mouth, and she sank to the floor. |
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| 35 | 870 |
The six Kurii remaining, one with an arm dragging on the floor, hung to its body by torn shreds of muscle, scrambled backwards, snarling. |
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| 36 | 223 |
I threw another sirik to the floor before me. |
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| 36 | 232 |
I threw another sirik to the floor before me. |
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| 36 | 241 |
I threw the fifth of the six sets of chains which I held on my shoulder to the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 304 |
They looped it about a slave ring, set there in the wall, one of four, about a yard above the floor, and tied it there, the long, free ends falling loose, coiling, to the floor. |
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| 1 | 301 |
In one long corridor we passed two girls, naked, on their hands and knees, with brushes and water, scrubbing the stones of the corridor floor. |
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| 1 | 333 |
There were trickles of water at the walls here and, in places, water between the stones of the floor. |
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| 2 | 18 |
What am I offered?" "A copper tarsk," called a man from the floor, a fellow who rented chains of work girls. |
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| 2 | 50 |
"Can you not see the promise of this slender, blond, barbarian beauty?" There was laughter from the floor. |
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| 2 | 254 |
We have already on the floor a bid of forty tarsks". |
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| 5 | 385 |
The girl, very delicately, lifted her head a bit from the metal floor of the cage and, with her tongue, furtively, touched the bar. |
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| 5 | 391 |
The girl then lay there quietly again, her head resting on her left arm, it lying, flat, elbow bent, beneath her on the sheet-metal floor of the cage. |
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| 6 | 226 |
Her hands had been beside her thighs, their backs resting on the metal of the cage floor. |
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| 7 | 141 |
The rooms were small but adequate, with a mattress, spread upon the floor; a sea chest at one side of the room; a low table; a tharlarion oil lamp; a bowl and pitcher of water; and, at the foot of the mattress, a stout slave ring. |
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| 8 | 59 |
She lay down on the wooden floor. |
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| 8 | 67 |
I sat down, cross-legged, behind a low table, from which vantage point I could see the girl lying on the floor, she covered with the beggar's aba. |
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| 8 | 187 |
Paga was spilled upon the floor. |
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| 11 | 144 |
They can be closed by a rod from the floor, in the case of rain or during the swarming seasons for various insects. |
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| 11 | 182 |
"Please," she wept, "I've told you all I know!" At a signal from the man near her the two large fellows drew the girl from her feet, until she hung suspended some six inches from the floor. |
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| 11 | 209 |
The blond girl cried out with misery, twisting helplessly on the rope, her toes some six inches or so from the floor. |
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| 11 | 298 |
They lowered the blonde to the floor, and took the rope from her wrists by which she had been suspended. |
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| 12 | 139 |
I had taken a large room on the ground floor, behind a cloth-worker's shop, just off the Street of Tapestries. |
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| 12 | 365 |
She then went to where her clothing had been discarded, on the floor. |
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| 12 | 384 |
A rope, looped through her collar, tied her to a slave ring behind her, about a yard off the floor. |
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| 12 | 444 |
It was, like the others, about a yard from the floor. |
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| 13 | 43 |
I have not yet even put her on the floor". |
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| 13 | 49 |
"Bring the new paga slave to the floor," he said. |
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| 13 | 191 |
The chain is about a yard long and runs to a ring bolted in the floor. |
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| 13 | 192 |
There are similar chains in the four corners of the room, and in the center of the wall, near the floor, opposite the red curtains. |
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| 13 | 195 |
In the center of the wall, near the floor, opposite the curtains, the chain terminates with a collar. |
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| 13 | 581 |
Tables were being moved aside, that the floor might be cleaned. |
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| 13 | 642 |
I heard men moving about, outside, cleaning the floor. |
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| 13 | 685 |
She rose to her knees and knelt there, then, by the side wall, the steel ankle ring, with its chain, leading to the floor ring, still upon her ankle. |
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| 13 | 748 |
"You may now find this difficult to believe," I said, "but the time will come when you will find that you are unable to part these curtains and enter this alcove from the floor outside without being hot and wet. |
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| 14 | 135 |
"Oh," she said, "oh," suddenly, rudely, returning to a slave's reality, then understanding that she lay in straw, her back on a wooden floor, held in the arms of a man. |
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| 14 | 169 |
I put my lips, gently, to hers, and she lifted her lips to mine, tenderly, and kissed me, and then she put her head back to the straw and the floor. |
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| 14 | 591 |
"Lie down upon it," I told her, "on your back, your head to the floor". |
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| 19 | 127 |
One by one, slowly, almost tenderly, on their strings, Bila Huruma lifted the tiny osts from the floor of the pit and placed them, one by one, in the basket near the foot of the sleeping platform. |
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| 19 | 130 |
He held the last of the osts on its string, suspended, about five feet from the floor of the pit. |
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| 23 | 234 |
I pushed them closely together, to drop the chain, in a loop, to the log floor of the extended raft. |
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| 23 | 288 |
We then sat about, our heads down, some of us lying on the floor of the log raft. |
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| 32 | 199 |
We may perhaps, somewhat loosely, speak of this first zone as the "floor," or, better, "ground zone," of the rain forest. |
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| 32 | 214 |
On the floor itself are also found several varieties of animal life, in particular marsupials, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and ground urts. |
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| 32 | 217 |
On the jungle floor, as well, are found jungle larls and jungle panthers, of diverse kinds, and many smaller catlike predators. |
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| 32 | 234 |
Contrary to popular belief the floor of the jungle is not a maze of impenetrable growth, which must be hacked through with machete or panga. |
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| 34 | 35 |
She sat on the floor of the rain forest. |
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| 44 | 148 |
I extended the shaft of the spear to Janice and she, seizing it with one hand, her free hand, was drawn upward, out of the net, to the safety of the jungle floor. |
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| 46 | 11 |
Then, in a row, lying on the jungle floor, there were forty-two captives. |
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| 47 | 14 |
I saw now that the sound was the sound of millions upon millions of tiny feet, treading upon the leaves and fallen debris of the jungle floor. |
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| 47 | 56 |
He had thrown to the forest floor a portion of the slain tarsk. |
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| 48 | 69 |
He struck out at me and I blocked the blow and, striking him in the stomach and then across the side of the face, sent him grunting and sprawling to the debris of the jungle floor. |
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| 48 | 143 |
She threw up on the jungle floor. |
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| 51 | 135 |
The floor, save where it was cluttered, was generally smooth, save for certain drillings, through which chains might be passed. |
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| 51 | 158 |
She lay down on the stone floor. |
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| 57 | 226 |
I had purchased her last night, unbeknownst to herself, when she had not been on the floor of the tavern. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 191 |
When she was crying to be used, I could throw her to the floor, there to make her mine. |
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| 1 | 394 |
"It was on the fifth floor," I said, noting the apartment number. |
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| 1 | 1079 |
I was kneeling then on the floor of the cab. |
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| 2 | 6 |
The floor was cement. |
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| 2 | 14 |
I saw, from my position on the floor, five men. |
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| 2 | 227 |
I felt, along the floor, a flood of fresh air. |
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| 3 | 194 |
Helpless I felt myself lifted higher and, on the system of ropes, carried out over the sunken enclosure, the floor of which was some seventy-five feet below me. |
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| 3 | 213 |
I was now, squirming and crying, some forty feet above the floor of the pit below. |
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| 4 | 60 |
The Lady Gina turned her right hand, back down, to the floor, and lifted it slightly. |
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| 5 | 105 |
There, at the side of the room, I fetched cloths and water and returned, quickly, to clean the table and floor, where Lola had struck over the cup. |
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| 5 | 107 |
When I had cleaned the table and floor and replaced the water and cloths I again knelt before Lola. |
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| 6 | 7 |
They were fastened closely to a ring on the floor, near my feet. |
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| 6 | 66 |
Lola fled to the Lady Gina and knelt before her, putting her head to the floor. |
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| 7 | 5 |
On the floor, on straw, was a blanket which I had been given. |
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| 7 | 62 |
I lifted it from the floor by one of the legs, lifting it slowly, directly upward, until I held it at an arm's length. |
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| 7 | 198 |
Then I placed the bowl on the floor and she, putting her head down, her hands braceleted behind her, biting and licking, addressed herself to its contents. |
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| 7 | 334 |
I flung the table up and to one side, throwing her to the floor. |
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| 10 | 131 |
I removed the silken tunic I had been given and folded it, placing it on the floor. |
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| 10 | 237 |
She slipped the robe from her shoulders, letting it fall to the floor. |
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| 11 | 251 |
The girl faced them, making herself small, kneeling, the palms of her hands on the floor, her head down to the stones. |
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| 11 | 477 |
"Will you not put on this garment?" She held up the necktie which I had left on the floor. |
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| 11 | 603 |
Behind me I left the collar, opened, on the floor, and the chains, open and discarded, strewn about the ring. |
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| 17 | 53 |
There was dust on her bare feet, and on the floor of the room. |
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| 19 | 68 |
Her small, bare feet dislodged sawdust on the floor of the barn. |
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| 21 | 111 |
Commonly this is a pleasant time for the girls, kneeling on cloths on the wooden floor, sewing and chatting, but today they were quiet and, heads down, worked and did not speak. |
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| 21 | 320 |
"Scream, squirm, sob, bite at your chain, tear with your fingernails at the floor of your kennel, if you wish," advised Taphris, smiling. |
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| 22 | 253 |
Melpomene then, sobbing, knelt, her legs close together, her wrists held crossed under her, as though bound, her head down, touching the floor, the bow of her back exposed, a slave girl awaiting punishment. |
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| 22 | 299 |
She brought forth a pan of crusts and one of water, which she placed before Melpomene, on the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 16 |
This roof ranges from five to eight feet in height, from the surface level, as opposed to the interior floor level; it is formed of poles covered with sod; it is supported at the edges of the log walls, against which, on the outside, dirt is banked, and by log stanchions arranged in a circle on the ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 190 |
I looked at the rings on the couch, at the ring in the floor, and the two rings in the wall, one about a yard from the floor and one about six feet from the floor. |
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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 | 43 |
One was mounted in the wall about a yard from the floor and the other, about a yard to its left, was mounted in the wall, about six feet from the floor. |
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| 8 | 415 |
We had seen the baths and the sales yard, which is also used for exercise; we had seen various holding areas, ranging from silken, barred alcoves for superb pleasure slaves, through cells and cages, and such, of various sorts more fit for medium-priced women, to incarceration chambers that were litt... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 367 |
The mother rested now on her right thigh and hip, her hands on the floor of the Semnium, the girl on her left thigh and hip, her hands, too, on the Semnium's floor. |
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| 25 | 292 |
Presumably she would be fastened by her neck chain to a wall or floor ring within, until she was brought forth again, to the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 |
The Whip I screamed suddenly under it awakening under it startled not believing it not expecting it the suddenness it was like lightning the cracking sound like the sky breaking the snap like fire my body wrenching I pulling upwards the chain on my neck I fell to my side I pulled at the chain then t... |
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| 11 | 364 |
I looked up, and then, swiftly, the palms of my hands on the floor, the cuffs on my wrists, put my head to the floor before him. |
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| 11 | 689 |
"Obeisance!" I quickly knelt before the men and put my head to the floor, the palms of my hands, too, on the floor. |
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| 13 | 1059 |
"Do you want the slave sent out on the floor, or to your quarters?" "It was my understanding that in the schedules she was not to go on the floor this evening". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 132 |
I then, facing the strangers, the newcomers, knelt before them, in a position of obeisance, my head down to the floor, the palms of my hands on the floor, too. |
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| 13 | 517 |
Mostly I could see little but the floor of the passage at my feet, and the shadows, my own before me, and his, a misshapen, gliding thing, half on the floor, half on the wall, to the right of mine. |
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| 14 | 240 |
Instantly I knelt forward, the palms of my hands on the floor, my head to the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 26 |
There was no mat of woven fiber on the floor; the floor was bare, and hard, consisting of heavy blocks of fitted stone, such as those in the corridor. |
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| 10 | 242 |
Immediately, kneeling, she put her head to the floor, the palms of her hands on the floor, beside her head. |
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| 18 | 3 |
She put down her basket, heavy with layers of meat, and quickly, laughing, slipped the brief brown tunic over her head, it was all she wore save her slave collar, and went immediately to the floor, and, half kneeling, half lying, the palms of her hands on the floor, looked up at Arconious, expectant... |
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| 19 | 102 |
Ellen went to her belly and, across the wet floor, through the opened gate of the empty cage, across the dry, straw-strewn floor, squirmed to his feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 11 |
Release me!" She did not notice that the other slaves, of which there were several, like herself, naked and collared, were kneeling in their cages, heads to the floor, palms of hands, too, down on the floor, in first obeisance position. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 685 |
Then, suddenly, I felt a stinging rain of leather cracking on my back, and then I was rolling on the floor, crying, turning about, trying to fend the blows which fell upon me, and then I struggled to my knees, and put my head down to the floor, covering it with my hands. |
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| 6 | 8 |
All of us in the small room immediately went to our knees, and put our heads to the floor, the palms of our hands on the floor beside our heads. |
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| 7 | 463 |
Swiftly I knelt, my head to the floor, the palms of my hands on the floor, at the sides of my head. |
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| 7 | 705 |
Should I assume obeisance position, first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the tiles, hands to floor, perhaps second obeisance position, belly to the floor, palms down, beside my head, where one might reach inch forth, to press one's lips to his feet? How slave I felt, waiting. |
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| 10 | 205 |
The Lady Bina had rented the upper-floor of a small, two-floor, common-wall house on Emerald. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 421 |
Instantly, frightened, she went to her knees, her head to the floor, the palms of her hands on the floor, beside her head. |
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| 19 | 70 |
The bars of the pen were some three or four horts in thickness, and six horts apart; they reached from the wooden flooring of the shed to the low roof; they were reinforced with crossbeams lashed in place, one a foot Gorean from the ceiling, one a foot Gorean from the floor, and one, about three and... |
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| 20 | 195 |
Instantly the slave assumed first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the floor, the palms of her hands on the floor, beside her lowered head. |
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| 31 | 69 |
"You fellows," said Arashi, kicking one of the prone foragers, "why are you on the floor, so?" "We were commanded to the floor," said the leader, "that our heads might be the more easily taken". |
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| 49 | 60 |
Momentarily, she seemed about to cover her body with her hands, perhaps a reflex dating back to the time of her freedom, but withdrew her hands instantly, and swiftly, unbidden, frightened, knelt in first obeisance position, head to the floor, the palms of her hands on the floor, on each side of her... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 674 |
But the lantern was dashed to the floor, where it shattered in a spattering rainbow of glass and oil, and, a moment later, a hungry torrent of fire, raging, ever enlarging, began its bright feeding, racing across the boards of the floor of the house. |
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| 50 | 217 |
"I could not stand," said the Lady Alexina, "you bound me, you used my clothing to blindfold me, your leather bands denied me speech! You placed me, helpless, on the floor of the wagon bed, on the floor!" "Forgive me, Lady," said Kurik, "had I thought, I would have provided cushioning". |
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| 62 | 129 |
We both went to first obeisance position, kneeling, the palms of our hands down on the floor, beside our head, our heads to the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 31 |
As soon as I had heard the curtains parted I had gone to first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the floor, the palms of my hands on the floor, on either side of my head. |
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| 22 | 92 |
Did I not know that the response to a command is to be immediate and unquestioning? Did I think I was still a free woman? I assumed first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the floor, the palms of my hands on the floor, on either side of my head. |
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| 46 | 359 |
Will she be adequately pleasing to the crowd or not? Will the crowd be patient with her nor not? Will she be soon whipped from the floor, or later whipped from the floor, or will she finish her performance acceptably, or even to acclaim, her back, legs and arms untouched by the lash?" "Begin, begin!... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 308 |
It is not unusual to make a slave wait, bound helplessly, say, on the couch, or on the floor beside the couch, or on the floor, at its foot. |
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