| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 112 |
I suppose it was a gesture, nothing but a gesture, but, pitiful though it might be, it pleased me, and, to be honest, I did not expect to live to spend the coin. |
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| 2 | 56 |
We shook hands, on my part rather stiffly, yet this gesture of our common homeland somehow reassured me. |
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| 5 | 11 |
He lifted his blue-clad arm in a gesture of farewell—rather sadly, I thought. |
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| 5 | 43 |
The ritual significance of the gesture of submission was not lost on me; her wrists were offered to me, as if for binding. |
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| 7 | 101 |
As Nar raced backward, he lifted a foreleg in a gesture that I interpreted as an attempt to wave. |
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| 12 | 27 |
Pa-Kur raised his hand with an imperious gesture. |
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| 15 | 138 |
Then, with an imperious gesture, Marlenus swept his Ubar into the file opened by the movement of Mintar's capturing Spear Slave. |
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| 17 | 36 |
This gesture is a military convention employed by commanders on Gor when calling for a parley or conference. |
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| 19 | 102 |
But this time the gesture was less grand; it seemed a bit hysterical; it seemed pathetic. |
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| 19 | 143 |
That, in its way, had been a rhetorical gesture on the part of Pa-Kur. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 30 |
It was a thoughtful gesture but I wish instead that he had stopped to see me. |
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| 1 | 94 |
As he performed this gesture, he uttered some formula in that strange tongue I had heard but once before—when I had nearly perished at his hands. |
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| 1 | 108 |
He repeated the gesture. |
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| 1 | 110 |
The bartender lifted the truncheon in a menacing gesture. |
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| 2 | 16 |
That I had been returned to Gor to seek out once more my city and my love was, I was sure, not the spontaneous gesture of generosity, or of justice, that it might seem. |
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| 11 | 175 |
Dorna repeated the gesture, slowly, cruelly. |
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| 11 | 176 |
But the hands of Lara were extended, palms up, and she lifted them slightly; it was a gracious gesture that spoke of mercy. |
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| 13 | 140 |
Everywhere I saw the silver masks, and heard the shrill command, "Slay him!" On every side I saw the merciless gesture, the extended right hand, palm turned inwards, the cruel, downward chopping motion. |
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| 18 | 163 |
Above, whoever worked the valve must have grown impatient and thrown it open completely, or perhaps the sudden torrent of water had been intended as a gesture of mercy to drown any survivors quickly. |
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| 20 | 47 |
Then, again, my memory blackened with fury at the thought of her imperious gesture, that insolent command, "Seize him!" Whatever her fate, I insisted to myself that it would have been richly deserved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 59 |
Vika made a gesture of disgust. |
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| 12 | 210 |
He lifted his foreleg with a gentle, permissive gesture, almost a benediction. |
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| 19 | 102 |
I lifted my right arm somewhat ironically to return the gesture. |
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| 26 | 199 |
At a gesture from me she rose timidly to her feet. |
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| 26 | 215 |
This gesture seemed to shake Vika and her entire frame suddenly trembled with all the panic of a beautiful, trapped animal. |
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| 26 | 231 |
Then to my amazement she smiled and wiped back a tear, and shook her head as though to throw the hair from her eyes and smiled at the foolishness of the gesture. |
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| 29 | 143 |
There was something piteous in the gesture. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 347 |
At a gesture from Kamchak Elizabeth Cardwell stepped into the circle of the whip. |
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| 9 | 71 |
These were brought as gifts to the Turians, largely as a rather insolent gesture on the part of the Wagon Peoples, indicating how little they cared for such things, that they would give them to Turians. |
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| 9 | 196 |
Now she descended the last three stairs and, stopping to nod her head and grace an eager fellow here and there along the tables with a word or gesture, she began to approach the head of the table. |
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| 12 | 434 |
He threw up his right hand in an expansive gesture. |
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| 26 | 199 |
At a gesture from Kamchak Harold stepped back, angry, a quiva in his hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 58 |
At a gesture from the proprietor, the grimy man in the tunic of white and gold, one of the serving slaves, with a flash of her ankle bells, hurried to the Assassin and set before him a bowl, which she trembling filled from the flask held over her right forearm. |
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| 3 | 195 |
There seemed something grand about him in that moment, as though it were a gesture of magnanimity worthy of a victorious Ubar. |
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| 7 | 49 |
At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa... |
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| 13 | 26 |
Further, abducting a wench from the Hinrabians, if a rather arrogant gesture, would not have brought Marlenus closer to the throne of Ar, nor would it have much hurt the city. |
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| 24 | 415 |
I did not draw my weapon, but my mere gesture had caused a hundred swords to leap from the sheath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 290 |
But most perhaps, incredible as it might seem, I feared that if I asked for a kindness, even a word or a gesture, it would be refused. |
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| 9 | 382 |
At a gesture from Clitus, Ula, too, leaped to her feet. |
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| 11 | 457 |
And what better gesture than this mission of peace to the hereditary enemies Cos and Tyros? If the burden of maintaining the conflict were clearly on them, it was possible that allies of theirs might be influenced to diminish or, perhaps, withdraw their support, or, perhaps, pledge it even to Port K... |
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| 11 | 460 |
And who knew what trading ships might make their way to Port Kar, if they thought her a fair and honest city? The estimate of Samos, that such a gesture on Port Kar's part might eventually result in a trebling of her trade, seemed to me possibly conservative. |
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| 15 | 328 |
At as little as a word, or a gesture or glance, their pleasures must be proffered unquestioningly to masters. |
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| 16 | 403 |
Samos, with a gesture, silenced the scribe. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
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| 10 | 67 |
It was all I could do to avoid clenching my knees together, as though that pathetic little gesture would provide any defense against the forceful, dividing, booted sandal of a master. |
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| 10 | 228 |
She must, at so little as the least word or gesture, provide subtle, lengthy and complex delights, gratifications and pleasures to a master, rendering him services in her bondage of which a free woman could not even conceive". |
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| 10 | 581 |
Again he made the swift, almost ferocious, imperious gesture, that to assume position, of the Gorean master. |
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| 18 | 91 |
I saw the helmeted figure rear up in the saddle, and with an imperious gesture fling a dark, heavy object to the stone walk behind the wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 49 |
He made the universal gesture for trading, gesturing as though he were taking something from us, and then giving us something in return. |
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| 2 | 53 |
"I hate them!" I returned the trading gesture, and the man on the shore lifted his arms, acknowledging my sign, and turned back, walking again, heavily in the sand, back up the beach. |
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| 11 | 511 |
"Ubar!" At a gesture from Marlenus the shreds of pleasure silk which still clung to her were torn from her by two huntsmen, they, too, like the others, cowled in the heads of forest panthers. |
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| 12 | 77 |
They had been returned, though still wearing the chains of slaves, as a gesture of good will, by Kamchak, Ubar San of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 12 | 204 |
I recalled, with savage understanding, with an understanding as sudden and terrible as that of a lightning flash over Torvaldsland, that this Hesius, this tavern keeper of Laura, had, free of charge, as a gesture of good will, included wine with the shipment of girls to my camp. |
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| 16 | 166 |
Before me Mira performed the gesture of submission. |
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| 16 | 252 |
I took her by the arm and, nearing the camp, by gesture, showed her the placement of the two guards. |
10 |
| 21 | 169 |
Marlenus returned the gesture. |
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| 22 | 263 |
I had not seen so tender a gesture in the Ubar. |
10 |
| 22 | 585 |
It was a gesture, was it not, worthy of a Ubar? As for the second objective, the freeing of the woman Talena, that was no longer important to him, no longer a worthy aim of a Ubar's act. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 320 |
Then, with a great, sweeping gesture, Ivar Forkbeard emptied the bowl of coins, scattering them in a shower of copper and iron over the men. |
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| 6 | 64 |
In the fields I saw an overseer, clad in scarlet, with a gesture of his hand, releasing the thralls. |
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| 8 | 157 |
At a gesture from the Forkbeard, I released her mouth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 695 |
With a gesture I permitted her to rise to her feet. |
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| 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... |
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| 5 | 709 |
Alyena, now, slowly, disengaged the dancing silk from her hips, yet held it, moving it on and about her body, by her hands, taunting the reclining, languid, heavy-lidded Ibn Saran, to whom she knew, at his slightest gesture, she must bare herself. |
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| 9 | 29 |
At a gesture from Hassan, one of the men, from a small coffer to one side, drew forth a golden tarn disk, and gave it to the girl. |
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| 12 | 300 |
"It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission". |
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| 24 | 651 |
Perhaps I might utilize Vella, and perhaps Zaya, who had also testified at Nine Wells against me, later as serving slaves, kneeling to one side, in chalwar and vest, and bangles, attending to black wine, and its sugars, and fruits and pastries, summonable by so little as a languid gesture, while I e... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 869 |
But a sharp word from him, and a gesture, indicated to me that I must first remove the tether from about the trunk of the small tree. |
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| 2 | 1025 |
I was merely there, subject to him, should he speak or gesture. |
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| 2 | 1145 |
Why had he not taken me in the glade? Had he no regard for my feelings? Had I not been sufficiently pleasing to him? He turned about, and, with a gesture, cautioned me to immobility and silence. |
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| 3 | 477 |
Before I had been able to put off boys with a glance, a gesture, a sharp word, but what if, now, they should see me as I now was, wearing a brand. |
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| 3 | 478 |
Would they simply laugh now at my silly glance, my gesture, my protest. |
10 |
| 4 | 122 |
One of the men, obviously, as his looks and gesture indicated, asked him about me. |
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| 4 | 181 |
At a gesture from my master I knelt. |
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| 6 | 55 |
I now saw them as unique, exciting masters, each different and incredibly individual, who might, for a word or gesture, have me; how could I not regard them differently from a free woman; and, too, doubtless, they saw me in a similarly immediate and intensely personal fashion, not as an object shiel... |
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| 7 | 376 |
If he was not displeased he would gesture to the tiles before him where there waited a goblet of slave wine which she, kneeling before him, would eagerly drink. |
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| 7 | 788 |
He now held her ankle leash, and stepped back, bowing and displaying the half-stripped Lehna with an expansive gesture. |
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| 9 | 1538 |
"Had you asked of me my permission, Bran Loort," said Thurnus, indicating me with a gesture of his head, "willingly and without thought, gladly, would I have given you temporary master rights over her". |
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| 9 | 1961 |
At a gesture from Thurnus, Sandal Thong, surrendering the sleen leashes to a man, who took the animals from the clearing, came to the cage and, with two hands, flung down the metal gate to the cage, locking her former mistress within. |
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| 9 | 1968 |
At a gesture from Thurnus Radish, Turnip and Verr Tail ungagged me and freed me from the heavy stock. |
10 |
| 12 | 372 |
I was permitted this gesture of insolence. |
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| 15 | 29 |
Smiling, with a graceful gesture, the woman lifted back her veil, revealing her face. |
10 |
| 26 | 632 |
It seemed an uncharacteristic gesture for she who had been Elicia Nevins. |
10 |
| 29 | 49 |
He had cast aside the virginal girl, arrogantly, in a warrior's gesture, leaving her for whomsoever might find and desire her. |
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| 29 | 126 |
At a gesture from Clitus Vitellius I reclined upon the furs, at the foot of the couch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 518 |
The next girl, dark-haired, lovely, wore black, feminine slacks; these were apparently of some synthetic Earth material; the left leg of the slacks was torn from the knee downward; she also wore what had probably been a soft, red, turtle-necked pull-over; it, too, was rather feminine; perhaps that i... |
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| 3 | 532 |
I admired this small, almost meaningless symbol of their femininity, this small, pathetic gesture protesting to the machine and the lies that they were really women; too, I recalled the undergarments of such girls; they, too, protested the cause of their beauty in the alien country of the machine. |
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| 3 | 1019 |
They did not understand his words, but his gesture was clear. |
10 |
| 4 | 141 |
Such a simple gesture might weaken his intensity, the height of his hatreds, his readiness to do battle. |
10 |
| 6 | 39 |
Then, at a gesture from the robed figure in white, it proceeded again. |
10 |
| 6 | 219 |
This was done, and, at my gesture, the girl freed the draft slaves. |
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| 11 | 493 |
Tears might swiftly be brought to her eyes by a word, or fear to those lovely features, by as little as an imperious gesture. |
10 |
| 14 | 361 |
At his gesture, she, frightened, pressed her lips to his boots, and then looked up at him, waiting to be commanded. |
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| 35 | 783 |
But she never thought that such a gesture would be used to her. |
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| 35 | 839 |
She put her head down, trembling, frightened, an instinctive gesture for a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 524 |
Ulafi, graciously, lifting his hand, palm open, acknowledged the gesture. |
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| 32 | 590 |
Then, by nodding his head, and a simple gesture, he indicated his approval. |
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| 48 | 341 |
And then, at a word, or glance, or curt gesture, when one is weary or has heard enough, or merely at one's whim, one may simply silence them, and put them to their knees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 802 |
It was a lovely gesture I thought, of a girl who knew herself inspected, a slave's gesture. |
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| 1 | 639 |
It was a very natural gesture. |
10 |
| 1 | 640 |
I supposed slaves might be taught such a gesture. |
10 |
| 2 | 76 |
You have not yet, for example, been branded, nor have you been put in a collar, nor have you performed a gesture of submission". |
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| 4 | 61 |
Both girls, obedient to the gesture, rose together to their feet. |
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| 13 | 587 |
I saw one of the servants, near the side of the palanquin, with a whip, gesture me angrily away. |
10 |
| 13 | 639 |
Then, at a gesture from the masters, the palanquins were lowered to the ground. |
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| 21 | 189 |
It had been a slave girl's gesture. |
10 |
| 21 | 386 |
At his least word or gesture, the smallest token of his permission, she knew she would be raped. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 491 |
I returned this gesture. |
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| 20 | 15 |
At a gesture from Kliomenes, who sat, cross-legged, beside her, a half-naked paga slave, whose left ankle was belled, refilled Miss Henderson's cup. |
10 |
| 21 | 280 |
With the older slave girl, one who has already learned something of the meaning of her collar, a mere snapping of the fingers or a small, imperious gesture can have a similarly devastating, triggering effect on her sexuality. |
10 |
| 21 | 379 |
As she knotted each she kissed the knot, and then, when finished with both, put her head to my feet in a graceful gesture of submission. |
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| 23 | 179 |
I then dismissed her with a gesture of my head and she rose lightly to her feet and left, to serve another. |
10 |
| 23 | 277 |
In her gesture, her offering of the fruit, it was clearly understood that she was offering to me as well the lovely fruits of her service and beauty. |
10 |
| 23 | 313 |
Then, delicately, in a graceful gesture, she turned her hands, putting their backs to the floor, exposing her palms, and the soft flesh of her palms, to him, indicating her surrender, her submission, her vulnerability and her readiness. |
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| 24 | 219 |
Who knows through what sales or changings of hands a girl who is mere property such as I might pass? You cannot risk that I might, someday, somewhere, if only by inadvertence, perhaps by a startled cry or gesture, or a too-eager licking at your feet, compromise your secret". |
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| 24 | 291 |
Was it a gentle gesture? She takes his hand and presses her lips, sobbing, fervently to it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 328 |
With a curt gesture I signaled she should flee to the captain's berth. |
10 |
| 10 | 98 |
It was a warrior's gesture. |
10 |
| 10 | 155 |
In this we may see a lovely gesture, one of both welcome and submission, and one in which the order of nature is beautifully and sensitively acknowledged. |
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| 18 | 192 |
"If I may not speak," she said, "by your least gesture or movement of irritation, warn me to silence. |
10 |
| 18 | 349 |
"Oh, Master," she said, "if my girlish prattle should displease you in the slightest, please indicate this by some gesture or expression. |
10 |
| 18 | 496 |
She tossed her head, the gesture, almost, of a free woman. |
10 |
| 18 | 533 |
I gave her no response, by voice, or expression or gesture. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 553 |
Other forms of the nonassent gesture can be turning the head away from the other, sometimes with a gesture of the lips, indicating distaste, or even of ejecting an unwanted substance from the mouth, backing away, or lifting the head and extending the neck, sometimes baring the fangs and tensing the ... |
10 |
| 1 | 550 |
Lowering the head is an almost universal assent gesture, indicating submission to, or agreement with, the other. |
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| 1 | 551 |
The dissent gesture, on the other hand, shows much greater variety. |
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| 1 | 1318 |
I had not the least idea, of course, of the significance of this gesture on the part of Kog, but I gathered, under the circumstances, that its import must be rather weighty. |
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| 7 | 17 |
"This little plum, juicy with pleasures for a master," he said, indicating the girl on the platform with him, with a gesture of his kaiila quirt, "is one of the sorriest of the lot". |
10 |
| 8 | 213 |
With a gesture of disgust the auctioneer flung the pretentious, offending object, that necklace of false pearls, amongst the cylinders flaming in the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 8 | 881 |
"To the side blocks, please, Noble Sirs," invited the auctioneer, with an expansive gesture of his open hand, "to the side blocks!" The men began to drift to the side blocks. |
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| 10 | 97 |
"On!" said Grunt, with a gesture of his whip, wheeling about on his kaiila. |
10 |
| 13 | 31 |
Did she not know it was a slave's garment? Did she not understand the statement that was made by that deep, V-shaped, plunging division in the tunic, terminating only at her belly, that the woman who wore it was owned by men, that she was a slave? At a gesture from me she removed her hands from the ... |
10 |
| 14 | 1101 |
I repeated the gesture twice more. |
10 |
| 19 | 283 |
They must be aware, I supposed, of this gesture on his part. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 48 |
Grunt pulled down his hat farther on his head, an interesting gesture, one about which he was apparently not really thinking. |
10 |
| 9 | 173 |
This is expressed in a thousand lovely ways, in speech, in gesture, in expression, in movement. |
10 |
| 12 | 249 |
This gesture displeased me. |
10 |
| 28 | 29 |
I had returned the gesture. |
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| 39 | 202 |
If the cities are long-time, hereditary enemies snap-lock, or pronged, tension-closed, earrings might be used instead of nose-rings, as a gesture of contempt, a pierced ear, or ears, on Gor, culturally, commonly, being regarded as the mark of the lowest, the most sensuous and the most despicable of ... |
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| 40 | 237 |
Radish tossed her head, which seemed an uncharacteristic, almost feminine gesture for her, and looked away. |
10 |
| 40 | 490 |
An expression, a gesture, even a tone of voice or a tiny movement, might reveal reservation or disobedience. |
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| 43 | 401 |
"That will be sufficient, Lady Iwoso," I told her, in Kaiila, and then, with perhaps an overly dramatic gesture, but one whose effect was not lost on the Yellow Knives, I threw aside the robe I had worn. |
10 |
| 47 | 307 |
I then, with a sweeping gesture, pointed to the east, that direction from which they had come. |
10 |
| 47 | 344 |
He moved his tentaclelike fingers on his chest, which gesture, I think, is a displacement activity. |
10 |
| 51 | 33 |
He pointed to the Kur, and then, with a sweeping gesture, indicated a direction. |
10 |
| 51 | 35 |
He then lifted his head and opened his mouth, as though baring fangs, and lifted at the same time his right hand, the fingers crooked like claws, in a threatening gesture. |
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| 54 | 49 |
It is only, rather, that it was a noble warrior's gesture". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 341 |
This is an extremely erotically charged gesture, of course, extending the delicate wrist, perfumed, to the male, with the tender, vulnerable palm upward. |
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| 2 | 388 |
I then saw it, with a casual, expert gesture, snapped shut about my left ankle. |
10 |
| 4 | 151 |
This was, I thought, a nice gesture. |
10 |
| 8 | 596 |
He then snapped his fingers and I leaped up and, at a gesture, preceded him into the inn, and up the rear stairs. |
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| 13 | 132 |
"Behold the Tatrix of Corcyrus," called Miles of Argentum, indicating me with a sweeping gesture, "helpless, and in chains!" There was a wild cheer from the crowd, almost a shriek, as though for blood. |
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| 31 | 749 |
Sometimes a slave girl does not understand the incredible power she exerts over men, what she can do to them with a kiss, with a glance, with a smile, a gesture, a touch. |
10 |
| 33 | 892 |
At a gesture from Claudius, Ligurious was conducted from the room. |
10 |
| 34 | 8 |
With a gesture he indicated that I might once again crawl onto the couch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 444 |
I do not know if the gesture, considered as a Gorean gesture, had an independent development, or if, specifically, somewhere in the remote past, it had an Earth origin. |
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| 1 | 234 |
He shook free, a small gesture, of her touch. |
10 |
| 1 | 342 |
At a gesture from Samos the fellow with the blade resheathed the weapon, and the two guards who had held the girl in position released her, standing up. |
10 |
| 1 | 352 |
At a gesture from Samos the two guards pulled the girl to her feet and held her before us. |
10 |
| 2 | 572 |
A meaningful gesture from the officer, pointing to a spot in front of him, brought the paunchy fellow alertly back into our presence. |
10 |
| 6 | 353 |
"Suppose then," she said, "that for your briefest of peeps you give me the ten thousand gold pieces of which you spoke, as a mere gesture of gratitude, of course, as the values involved are clearly incommensurate, and the veil, as well". |
10 |
| 6 | 545 |
Indeed, in some cities such things as kneeling before a man or addressing him as "Master" effects legal embondment on the female, being interpreted as a gesture of submission. |
10 |
| 6 | 779 |
"Go!" she said, grandly, with a gesture. |
10 |
| 6 | 1063 |
"Be gone, scamps, scoundrels, rogues!" cried Boots, with a vast, wild threatening gesture. |
10 |
| 7 | 443 |
This is a very natural gesture. |
10 |
| 7 | 447 |
The origin of that gesture, as far as I know, is uniquely Gorean. |
10 |
| 10 | 258 |
At a gesture from him she pulls her robes down, to the waist, or calves. |
10 |
| 12 | 221 |
"I am sure I am appreciative of the gesture," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 127 |
"Imagine this," cried Boots, expansively, with a great gesture, his eyes lighting up, "an incredible banquet, a glorious feast, a feast of victory, a triumphal feast, the most abundant and delicate viands, the finest of entertainment, and then, at the climax of this great feast, you bring forth a gr... |
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| 16 | 377 |
"Strip," commanded Chino, "now, totally!" "No!" cried the girls, but, at a menacing gesture from Chino, the meaningful lifting of his open right hand, suggesting that the least dilatoriness might be rewarded with cuffings, or worse, as though they might be mere slaves, they hastened to comply. |
10 |
| 16 | 731 |
"Do not even consider it," said Petrucchio, as though the astounding magnanimity of such a gesture could possibly be dismissed lightly. |
10 |
| 20 | 244 |
Suddenly, at the utterance of a hissed syllable, coupled with a fierce, directed gesture from the beast, a movement almost like throwing a weapon violently underhanded, one of the animals, fangs bared, lunged fiercely toward the men. |
10 |
| 20 | 250 |
Another sleen then, another living weapon, with another fierce syllable and gesture, was launched by the beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 441 |
Did she not yet know that any slave must do anything, and everything, at the merest suggestion of a master, at his merest word, even at his slightest gesture, or glance? That is something that most girls learn quite quickly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 240 |
It seemed a decent and generous gesture on the part of Genserix. |
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| 13 | 213 |
What a foolish gesture in one who was soon to be a slave. |
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| 21 | 232 |
It is named for the city in the southern hemisphere, incidentally, doubtless as a gesture of amicability on the part of Ar. |
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| 25 | 448 |
"Lale," said the woman with the whip, summoning forward, with a gesture of the whip, the last of the slaves before me. |
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| 25 | 906 |
It is a lovely gesture of obeisance, and required by many masters of their women. |
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| 26 | 907 |
They must convey, at so little as a word or gesture, immediately and unquestioningly, whatever the master desires. |
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| 26 | 1946 |
I did not deign to respond to this gesture. |
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| 3 | 952 |
By such men I could be silenced by a mere word, or a gesture or glance. |
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| 6 | 283 |
It had been a defensive gesture, bringing my knees together, tightly, because I was afraid. |
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| 8 | 33 |
Then, on her hands and knees, swiftly, at a gesture, she crawled, poked by sharp sticks, hastened by the cry "Quickly, she-tarsk!" to the first of the low, narrow cages and scrambled, weeping, within it. |
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| 8 | 157 |
Blankets, too, rough and brown, were there, in piles, and, permitted, at a gesture of the stick, we seized them up and clutched them gratefully about us, drying our bodies, and our hair. |
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| 9 | 105 |
At the gesture of one of the pointed sticks I went to all fours on the wooden ramp. |
10 |
| 9 | 396 |
A gesture of his whip informed me I should lie upon my back. |
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| 11 | 145 |
I could be brought to my knees at a word, and to my back at a gesture. |
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| 20 | 415 |
The first of my master's men then, unpleasantly, severely, impatiently, abruptly, as though he could not understand my dalliance, made an angry gesture across his lower belly. |
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| 24 | 124 |
Could I not be given a gesture of mercy, that I might turn about and flee back, scrambling up that loose sand to the comparative safety of the ridge, to seek shelter within the compass of the guard's whip and sword? The guard, however, made no motion. |
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| 24 | 244 |
The man in the palanquin made a small gesture with the lorgnon, hardly a movement. |
10 |
| 24 | 254 |
At a gesture from him, he who seemed to be their leader, I was drawn to my knees. |
10 |
| 24 | 262 |
But a small gesture from their leader, he before whom I knelt, silenced them. |
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| 29 | 586 |
But there had been little, if anything, of menace in the gesture. |
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| 29 | 1582 |
I swiftly, in response to his gesture, as I could, spread my knees before him. |
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| 5 | 133 |
The same fellow who will go to absurd lengths to please a free woman, and even make a fool of himself over her, will, even with the same woman, if she has been enslaved, simply gesture her with his whip, and without a second thought, to the furs. |
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| 5 | 606 |
I then indicated, with a gesture of my finger, that she should proceed on her way. |
10 |
| 5 | 724 |
"She is content!" "But she must fear," I said, "for she may be ordered from him by so little as a word or gesture, and she must obey in all things". |
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| 8 | 574 |
Giving such a coin, of course, was, in its way, I suppose, a bit of braggadocio on my part, something of a gesture or flourish. |
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| 11 | 276 |
Aemilianus made a small, negative gesture. |
10 |
| 15 | 38 |
I did not respond to her tiny, pathetic gesture. |
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| 16 | 199 |
It was a touching gesture, I thought. |
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| 18 | 142 |
"We ask terms!" The figure on the height of the wall lifted his hand, a small gesture. |
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| 18 | 146 |
At the gesture of the commander on the wall two of the fellows flanking him, crossbowmen, had set quarrels into their bows. |
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| 21 | 581 |
It was a placatory gesture, in its way an appeal for lenience, or mercy. |
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| 21 | 584 |
Too, she understood, clearly, from his gaze, that this gesture or attitude, or posture, was expected of her by Aemilianus. |
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| 21 | 1061 |
It was a small gesture. |
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| 21 | 1302 |
She may not speak without permission, and she may be silenced with a word of gesture. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 19 | 914 |
To be sure, this gesture had not been performed voluntarily by the woman at this time, in a typical reverence for the male, for nature, and for herself, and her meaning, but had been commanded by me. |
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| 19 | 915 |
Also, I had not commanded this gesture merely for my own pleasure, to see the beauty before me, so marvelously, so rightly, but I had commanded it of her for her own good, that she might clearly understand the nature of our relationship, that she would understand herself, in the deepest part of her ... |
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| 36 | 77 |
She did so, frightened, but, with a delightful, typically feminine gesture, adjusted and smoothed down the garment. |
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| 37 | 172 |
These are usually attended by, and embedded within, a panoply of psychological apparatus, such as gesture, expression, tone of voice, attempted intimidation, threats, innuendoes, policing the means of communication, power seizure, managing hiring policies, general oppression, pervasive censorship, c... |
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| 48 | 510 |
I could cast the gold away, as a gesture". |
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| 2 | 104 |
Given the anger in Ar at Ar's Station, and the fact that the Home Stone of Ar's Station had been sent to Ar, supposedly, according to the rumors, not for safekeeping, given the imminent danger in the city, but in a gesture of defiance and repudiation, attendant upon the supposed acceptance of a new ... |
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| 2 | 146 |
Yet, if somehow, in spite of all, I should obtain her it was not even my intention to keep her but rather, as a gesture, merely dispose of her, giving her away or selling her off as the least of slaves. |
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| 7 | 159 |
Talena then, now that the crowd, divided and confused, seemed more tractable, put her head down and to one side, and, lifting her arms, the palms up, made a gesture as of resignation and nobility, pressing back the crowd. |
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| 7 | 254 |
Myron, indeed, with a magnanimous gesture, had demurred to accept the weapon of Seremides, the high general of Ar. |
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| 8 | 584 |
A gesture of annoyance crossed her lovely features. |
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| 9 | 86 |
At a gesture from one of the guardsmen on the platform another woman in a white robe came forward, leaving the long line behind her, one extending across the platform to the small ramp on the other side, down the ramp, across the far side of the Plaza of Tarns, and thence down Gate Street, where I c... |
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| 9 | 184 |
"It would have been a tiny, if futile, symbolic gesture," she cried, "but I did not do it. |
10 |
| 9 | 217 |
Talena, with a small, reluctant, almost tragic gesture, indicated that Lady Fulvia might be taken to the side. |
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| 9 | 246 |
Talena seemed then prepared to dismiss another woman, for she had her hand half lifted, as though, with the customary small gesture, to do so, when one of her counselors, a Cosian, near her, in the uniform of a high captain, bent quickly toward her, his eyes glinting on the female in question, she s... |
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| 12 | 237 |
She was struck to the ground with the force of the blow and at a snapping of his fingers, and his gesture, she struggled again to her knees before us, her mouth bloody. |
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| 19 | 1069 |
Would you veil a she-tarsk, a she-sleen? "And so he saluted your beauty?" "Yes," she said, "with a beautiful gesture". |
10 |
| 19 | 1321 |
"Away, field slave!" I said, with a gesture. |
10 |
| 21 | 347 |
Does she falter? Does her hand inadvertently, in ever so small, so incipient, a gesture, lift toward her throat? Interestingly, many women who have had this experience, who have had the collar on their neck, will soon seek the companionship. |
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| 21 | 520 |
"If she were a captured Ubara," I said, "and auctioned before Ubars, doubtless her price would be high, perhaps thousands of tarn disks, but if she were unknown, and only one slave on a chain with others, and it were she alone, the girl alone, only herself, so to speak, who was to ascend the block, ... |
10 |
| 22 | 72 |
Did she think she was chained to the wall there? I made a tiny, almost imperceptible gesture. |
10 |
| 22 | 89 |
I made an impatient gesture to Lavinia. |
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| 24 | 47 |
The slave must be instantly ready to serve the master, and at so little as a whistle, a gesture or a snapping of the fingers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 383 |
He was human! He smiled and put his finger to his lips, a gesture that warned me that I was not to speak, a gesture with which I was familiar, from my own cultural background. |
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| 44 | 88 |
But the seated man made a tiny gesture, a negative gesture. |
10 |
| 4 | 670 |
Again, with a gesture, I was cautioned to silence. |
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| 7 | 810 |
She then looked up at him, but he merely indicated, with a gesture, that she should return to her place, which she did, kneeling between Tima and Tana. |
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| 8 | 663 |
But, of course, the gesture, given the brevity of the tunic, was futile. |
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| 10 | 753 |
Had I not yet learned my collar? I feared suddenly that he might one day make me pay dearly for that expression, that gesture. |
10 |
| 12 | 423 |
With a gesture, my swain summoned it for me. |
10 |
| 13 | 212 |
Our intelligence, interestingly, makes us more the properties of our masters, just as one will demand, and have, more from an intelligent animal than from one less intelligent; we are more easily controlled in a thousand ways by as little as a glance or gesture, because we grasp what is required; ou... |
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| 13 | 751 |
My gesture was no more than a tiny, futile, almost inadvertent protest. |
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| 14 | 954 |
"But," I said, "any slave might kneel so, for example, as a placatory gesture, to avert a master's wrath, to interest a man, to plead with him that he might have mercy upon her, and give attention to her needs, and such". |
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| 16 | 13 |
"Welcome, my dear," he called, and, with a gesture, invited me within. |
10 |
| 16 | 38 |
I handed him, at his gesture, a glistening napkin and he touched it to his lips. |
10 |
| 16 | 71 |
If anything my gesture might, for an instant, have rendered my features more visible to him. |
10 |
| 16 | 83 |
I removed the veil first from my features, opening it, and brushing it to the sides, and then, with almost the same gesture, I lifted it and put it back, behind me. |
10 |
| 16 | 99 |
Perhaps it was a vain gesture. |
10 |
| 19 | 356 |
The gaunt figure then turned a little to his left, to the crowd on his left, and made a wide circling gesture with his right hand. |
10 |
| 19 | 358 |
He then faced the crowd before him, directly, and solemnly repeated this gesture. |
10 |
| 19 | 359 |
This circular gesture, it seems, reminiscent of the circle surmounting the staff, the symbol of eternity, was the "sign of the Priest-Kings". |
10 |
| 24 | 411 |
An impatient gesture from the commander of the intruders ordered her, too, to the wall. |
10 |
| 29 | 73 |
It seemed she suddenly trembled, and might look up, but he cried out, "Do not dare to look upon me, you worthless slut, you now-nameless slave!" The fellow made an angry gesture to the clerk. |
10 |
| 29 | 779 |
The pit master turned to the two pit guards, by the portal leading to the outer hall, that leading thence to the outside, and, with a gesture, summoned them forward. |
10 |
| 30 | 10 |
"Fecha, Janice," said the pit master with a swift gesture, "to your kennels!" I quickly pulled my tunic off and hurried to the kennel, backing into it, pulling shut the gate after me. |
10 |
| 32 | 40 |
At a gesture of the pit master, discerned in a lamp from outside the door, held by one of the men, we filed out of the cell. |
10 |
| 37 | 875 |
"Space the light about the pool," said the lieutenant, with a gesture of his arm. |
10 |
| 39 | 62 |
It was a gesture which seemed tender for so strong a man, one so imperious and brutal. |
10 |
| 44 | 127 |
The newcomer made a tiny gesture, granting them such trivial objects. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 223 |
With a gesture she indicated the opened door, and her terrified charge quickly rose to her feet and went through the door, which Tutina closed behind them. |
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| 9 | 167 |
Twice he asked her to gesture, in such a way that he might hear the tiny sound of the two bracelets striking against one another, as though so accidentally. |
10 |
| 9 | 174 |
At a small gesture, she continued. |
10 |
| 9 | 189 |
She swept it back behind her with two hands, with a lovely gesture. |
10 |
| 11 | 1101 |
But with a small gesture he dismissed her. |
10 |
| 14 | 112 |
Another, at the mere snapping of fingers or an imperious gesture, receives from she whom he has never taken the time or interest to truly know, she whom he has never questioned as to her depths and needs, she to whom he has never intimately and truly spoken, she whom he has never attempted to unders... |
10 |
| 17 | 121 |
"Too," he said, "do not neglect to shift position, and pose provocatively, and call attention to your body, and its charms, extremely explicitly, by both word and gesture. |
10 |
| 19 | 114 |
Portus made a negligible gesture, as of regret. |
10 |
| 19 | 237 |
To be sure, her gesture might have been a bit more effective if she had had her tunic. |
10 |
| 22 | 178 |
Yet if the fingers were snapped, or the hands clapped, or the gesture made, lifting the palms upward, she knew she must dance, dance as any slave, and as a slave must dance, for men. |
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| 22 | 603 |
To be sure, Ellen had heard it rumored that she, Cos, might suggest that its donation, that of the wine, and the coverage of associated expenses, would be a welcome, suitable gesture of gratitude on the part of Brundisium for the many benefits she had received at the hands of Cos, and the alliance o... |
10 |
| 23 | 48 |
The fellow who had asked for the brand display then made a tiny gesture and Ellen, instantly, returned to first position. |
10 |
| 23 | 178 |
A movement, a glance, a word, a gesture which might cause no more than a moment's irritation or disgruntlement to a typical male of Earth, used to such abuse, might have different consequences altogether with another sort of man, a man less tolerant and less accommodating than those on whom she was ... |
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| 24 | 70 |
She then, at a gesture, put the pitcher on the bench, beside two others. |
10 |
| 24 | 353 |
Feike, smiling, sweating, breathing deeply, brushed back through the silk, and another slave, at a gesture of the interior whip master, hurried to the sand. |
10 |
| 25 | 523 |
In this way there would be no doubt of their slavehood on the block, of their vulnerability and terror, nor of their eagerness to obey the auctioneer's slightest suggestion or gesture. |
10 |
| 25 | 580 |
There was a sudden gesture, imperative, impatient. |
10 |
| 26 | 470 |
"The gold was meaningless," said he, "save as a gesture, as an insult to Cos, which I suspect that only now they comprehend". |
10 |
| 26 | 587 |
There would have been too much risk involved, surely, to justify a mere gesture, even for a Gorean. |
10 |
| 26 | 1420 |
The gesture was almost tender. |
10 |
| 26 | 1425 |
He touched the side of her collar with the fingertips of his right hand, a gesture which, to her surprise, seemed almost loving. |
10 |
| 26 | 1525 |
At his gesture, pointing, she took her place on the blanket, so that when he lay upon it, her head would be at his thigh. |
10 |
| 27 | 651 |
At a gesture from Mirus one of the men behind him dismounted. |
10 |
| 27 | 747 |
At a gesture from Portus Canio Selius Arconious stopped struggling, but he stood, trembling, dark with rage, between the two who had briefly held him. |
10 |
| 27 | 858 |
He made a gesture and the fellow who had Ellen's neck rope, the improvised leash, looped about the pommel of the saddle loosened it, and tossed it, grinning, to the grass near her ankles. |
10 |
| 27 | 874 |
The men, those mounted or not, those with Mirus, and those near the wagon, naturally, without much thinking of it, followed Arconious's gesture, turning, raising their eyes. |
10 |
| 27 | 1790 |
This was done and the spokesman then, at the gesture of one of the soldiers, with the point of a drawn knife, returned to the place near the wagon. |
10 |
| 27 | 1806 |
They looked away, as though failing to comprehend his gesture. |
10 |
| 27 | 1810 |
The subcaptain, with a gesture of contempt, waved him forward. |
10 |
| 27 | 2395 |
"To your back, slave!" "Yes, Master!" The last to use her, when he had regained his feet, kicked her with the side of his bootlike sandal, more a gesture of contempt than anything else. |
10 |
| 27 | 3071 |
"Perhaps the gesture," granted the officer. |
10 |
| 28 | 414 |
Then, at a gesture from Selius Arconious, she put down her head and humbly kissed his feet. |
10 |
| 30 | 222 |
Later, rising from her knees within, at a gesture from her master, the slave brought forth and served small glasses of Turian liqueurs. |
10 |
| 30 | 279 |
And then, at his gesture, she turned away again, groaning, her back to him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1302 |
It was a slave's gesture, a slave's act. |
10 |
| 1 | 1305 |
It, too, this gesture or act, is often used not simply as a device of placation, but as a way of petitioning to be caressed. |
10 |
| 2 | 199 |
Not surprisingly, however, this invitation was declined by the brunette, who shook her head negatively, wildly, a gesture which may have been surprising to the Kur but was clearly not an act of compliance. |
10 |
| 11 | 62 |
"Our friends," said Cabot, indicating with a slight gesture of his head the two crouching, hulking forms behind them, "do not seem much interested in the entertainment". |
10 |
| 13 | 62 |
It was clearly a gesture of peace, of acceptance, of friendship. |
10 |
| 13 | 107 |
At a gesture from Archon they both then stood before Cabot. |
10 |
| 13 | 110 |
At another gesture from Archon, they both knelt again before Cabot, and again kissed his feet. |
10 |
| 14 | 10 |
Archon smiled and again performed the gesture, as though wiping out marks in sand. |
10 |
| 14 | 12 |
Could it be that hunting sleen were not yet come through the shuttle port? Cabot tried to convey his apprehensions to Archon, but the leader of the group again made the gesture of denial, and led the way down from the high place. |
10 |
| 15 | 32 |
Cabot held the arm of the man with the rock, and made the gesture he had learned from Archon, that for negation. |
10 |
| 15 | 35 |
Archon then pointed to the blonde and pointed to the group about him with a sweeping gesture. |
10 |
| 18 | 11 |
It was a gesture not unlike one which a Kur pet might accord her master. |
10 |
| 21 | 288 |
At a gesture from Grendel, the blonde went to all fours, the chain then looped on the cement, save where it looped up to her collar. |
10 |
| 21 | 503 |
There was much silence in the stands, and then several of the Kurii smote their thighs, acknowledging this gesture of respect to one of their species, albeit from one hitherto deemed not Kur, but no more than a malformed thing, a misbred brute, an abomination, a monster. |
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| 22 | 224 |
"Paga," repeated Peisistratus, summoning the slave with a gesture. |
10 |
| 24 | 160 |
"Would you wish Peisistratus to risk his own life, and that of his men, to abet a brief, fruitless escape, a gesture of meaningless defiance, on your part?" "He is my enemy," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 55 | 85 |
The females then, presumably at the utterance of some command, or in response to some gesture, all went to all fours, in the grass. |
10 |
| 74 | 65 |
At a gesture from Peisistratus, his Corinna came and writhed before Cabot. |
10 |
| 76 | 68 |
She then, at a gesture from Cabot, lay swiftly down, for she well knew how a slave is to obey, immediately, and unquestioningly, and he threw a blanket over her. |
10 |
| 77 | 103 |
The slave, at a gesture from Cabot, scrambled, on all fours, to the side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 317 |
Such a permission, of course, at a word or gesture, may be revoked. |
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| 2 | 322 |
Sometimes a new slave thinks she may hint at insolence, or even manifest the barest glimmering, or thought, of disobedience, say, in a tone of voice, or a tiny gesture, or fleeting expression, but she is seldom going to repeat this infraction, even in the most transitory and petty manner. |
10 |
| 2 | 341 |
Too, the holding of the hands, and putting one's lips, and tongue, to the palms, humbly and gratefully, and kissing and licking them, is a lovely gesture. |
10 |
| 10 | 310 |
A small gesture from Lord Nishida, a lifted finger, indicated that the embarrassing impediment to her speech might be removed. |
10 |
| 10 | 321 |
But Lord Nishida smiled, and shook his head a tiny bit, negatively, and lifted his hand a little, in a benevolent, cautionary gesture. |
10 |
| 22 | 30 |
Is it a way of speaking, an expression, a hesitation, a gesture, a turning of the head, a shyness, a glance, a subtle, revealing, furtive unwillingness to make eye contact when a certain word is spoken, what? There are a hundred subtle cues, readable by the experienced and skilled. |
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| 22 | 519 |
She might, of course, at as little as an expression or gesture, have to reveal her beauty. |
10 |
| 24 | 99 |
Too, with a gesture, Lord Nishida released the two contract women and they, rising to their feet, with small steps, took their exit from the tent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 498 |
At a gesture from the stranger to the taverner's man the slave, nude, bound, and kneeling, was thrust back a little, a foot or two, rather outside the pool of light, rather into the shadowed darkness, presumably that her presence might be less obtrusive, and that she would better know herself for wh... |
10 |
| 2 | 40 |
Another gesture from the captain, this to the keleustes, increased the beat. |
10 |
| 21 | 102 |
Giving the weapon hand to the other is certainly a gesture of trust. |
10 |
| 24 | 130 |
What a difference between the unquestioned prerogatives of the free woman who may speak if and when, and as, she pleases, and the helplessness of the slave who may be silenced with a word or gesture, and may not speak without permission. |
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| 35 | 140 |
The stranger bowed, which gesture of greeting was returned by the officer, Nakamura. |
10 |
| 37 | 1110 |
Sometimes, of course, after this gesture, she is put to her belly, her wrists are bound indeed, but behind her, and a rope is put on her neck, or, sometimes, a nose ring, on a cord, is affixed, such things functioning as a leash or tether. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 614 |
Rawlinson, in her own robes, with an expansive gesture, and there had been much laughter, and some gasps, for even our sisters had not been apprised of how we would appear, and, too, there was some hooting from the young men, and vulgar noises, and an appreciative, even enthusiastic, clapping of han... |
10 |
| 8 | 368 |
I wanted to be so chained! How many ways a man has to conquer a woman I thought, the chain, the whip, the switch, the commanding her to her knees, her lips to his feet, a gesture, admitting no questioning, the casting to her of a rag, fit only for a slave, the ordering of her to her tasks, the maste... |
10 |
| 8 | 1139 |
I was struck with the courtesy, the solicitude, the apparent gentlemanliness, of this gesture. |
10 |
| 17 | 80 |
In any event, after he had eaten for a bit, I kneeling back, he signed me to all fours, a simple gesture, and indicated that I might approach, beside the small fire. |
10 |
| 18 | 343 |
* * * * "Now those are slaves," said Master Desmond, with an expansive gesture about the room, he in whose keeping I was. |
10 |
| 19 | 159 |
He could dominate me with a glance, a word, a gesture. |
10 |
| 22 | 62 |
What does it mean? Is her master, perhaps absently, distractedly, not noticing her, or no longer thinking of her as a slave, as his slave? Is she to be sold? Has she already been sold? Although I had not expected to be thanked, I had, looking up, hoped to have from him some acknowledgement of my exi... |
10 |
| 30 | 15 |
How meaningless that gesture was when camisked! "Turn," he said. |
10 |
| 30 | 58 |
Aside from the aesthetic aspects of the matter, namely revealing the small, sweet loveliness of a woman's hands, the small wrists, almost asking to be bound, and such, it facilitates a common begging gesture, one which is lovely and subtle. |
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| 45 | 134 |
He repeated the gesture and, again, I remained where I was. |
10 |
| 50 | 71 |
Late that afternoon I arrived at the shop of Amyntas, entered, knelt, put my head to the floor, then knelt up, and, at his gesture, rose to my feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 27 |
I knew enough of sleen to know that any well-trained animal, which I took Tiomines to be, could be set upon anyone but its master, or Use Master, with as little as a word, or gesture, whatever the "kill" command might be, usually a word, as a word need only be heard and a gesture must be seen. |
10 |
| 4 | 181 |
I dismissed her with a gesture, as a slave is dismissed. |
10 |
| 8 | 357 |
I finished the black wine, rose, and dropped a silver tarsk on the table, a rather insolent gesture, I suppose, as it would have purchased half a hundred such breakfasts, save for the black wine. |
10 |
| 21 | 318 |
The second beast then, though I think the gesture pleased him not, bent down, and, not taking his eyes from Tyrtaios, picked up the small sack. |
10 |
| 21 | 383 |
"It was a gesture of contempt, a transparent sleight, an obvious insult". |
10 |
| 33 | 61 |
Hiza then, with a gesture of her javelin, indicated that we should return to the camp. |
10 |
| 38 | 128 |
He then pointed to the sleen, and gestured to one of his men, a gesture of which Axel and I took uneasy note, and then turned to the fellow, Aeson, who had come from the direction of the river. |
10 |
| 39 | 76 |
Then Emerald, at a gesture from her captor, put herself in place, prone, beside Tuza and Darla. |
10 |
| 39 | 111 |
I thought it likely that it had been the leader, but it may have been the other, perhaps prompted by a cursory glance or gesture. |
10 |
| 39 | 434 |
A quick, abrupt gesture of the sword and she must disrobe, immediately, completely. |
10 |
| 39 | 446 |
Then, following a gesture of the switch, they began to move toward the side of the camp, away from the river. |
10 |
| 50 | 75 |
"Yes," said my captor, indicating with a gesture that Asperiche might rise. |
10 |
| 50 | 476 |
A simple word, a gesture, a snapping of fingers may command us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 238 |
"Might it not be a grander gesture to unsheathe the ritual knives, in their thousands?" asked Lord Okimoto. |
10 |
| 1 | 241 |
That would be a grand gesture, an act that would be retold about the fires for a thousand years". |
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| 1 | 513 |
Lord Okimoto returned this gesture of respect. |
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| 4 | 21 |
Lost in self-pity and self-reproach I had risked much for nothing, risked much for no more than a meaningless gesture. |
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| 6 | 168 |
At a gesture from Tyrtaios they brought the hampers forward, and placed them on the dais, across its front. |
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| 6 | 199 |
But now I feared it was too late, even for the flourish of a last, gallant gesture. |
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| 12 | 73 |
He, sitting cross-legged, the small table to his left, made a tiny gesture with his left hand, and Saru quickly backed from the room. |
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| 12 | 158 |
A more casual or less diligent observer might well have missed the quick, subtle gesture which may have sped some missive, probably with its ribbon, to the foot of the cliff on which the parapet was reared. |
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| 12 | 181 |
Does not he who is less in status bow first? Indeed, does not the lesser officer, by word or gesture, first acknowledge the presence of the senior, or higher, officer? "Greetings, Lord," I said. |
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| 13 | 33 |
"I am now needful!" "It is interesting," I said, "on Earth you could use the mere suggestion of sex, with its smiles and movements, as a weapon, a tool, as a device of business, use it in the interests of sales, contracts, and accounts, in the interests of opportunity, promotion, and advancement, an... |
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| 13 | 322 |
I well ensnared him on Earth, with a word, a gesture, a smile, and then, when he was hopelessly mine, devoted, complaisant, and managed, he would accompany me in my work". |
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| 25 | 23 |
Lord Yamada, with a gesture, indicated that she was to be taken to the height of the platform of execution. |
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| 25 | 203 |
The other Ashigaru was looking down, toward us, presumably waiting to see if a small movement by the shogun, a nod, a lifted hand, a dismissive gesture, would signal that the criminal would be dislodged, to plunge to the pool below. |
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| 58 | 157 |
A small gesture of my hand deterred him. |
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| 61 | 1198 |
It would be a splendid gesture, and would mean holiday, indeed". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 325 |
I looked away, a tight gesture, signaling annoyance. |
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| 3 | 62 |
At a gesture Paula rose, hurried to the kitchen, and knelt beside the stove. |
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| 6 | 66 |
"I am on my knees! I am on my knees!" At a gesture from the leader, the two fellows stepped back, being then as they had been before. |
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| 6 | 547 |
Two of the preceding girls, one the girl who had worn the expensive jacket and skirt and the other the girl who had worn the torn evening gown, apparently had not performed this gesture of obeisance promptly enough or satisfactorily enough, for each was forced to repeat the action, again and again, ... |
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| 9 | 379 |
He spread his hands widely in a gesture of apology, and futility. |
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| 20 | 180 |
"After that, unless he were deterred by a soft word or gentle gesture from his mistress, I would suppose he would tear him to pieces". |
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| 30 | 59 |
In any event, Kurik then indicated an opening in the wall, one of several such, and I, at his gesture, approached it. |
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| 30 | 299 |
It is a slave's begging gesture. |
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| 33 | 221 |
One can make nothing of a gesture language and then, suddenly, it is intelligible. |
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| 33 | 589 |
"Away!" said Kurik, waving his arm, dagger in hand, in what was clearly a violent, desperate, shunning, warning, gesture. |
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| 33 | 590 |
The meaning of such a gesture was easy to read. |
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| 45 | 11 |
With a gesture I was dismissed, and I rose, and backed away. |
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| 45 | 39 |
The long-armed, red-robed fellow who had first lifted his cup to Lord Grendel, initiating this gesture of recognition and esteem, signaling out and honoring him, was the same as he who had first cordially saluted him upon his entrance into this house, apparently one of several owned by Decius Albus. |
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| 46 | 22 |
It is a permission, of course, that, at a word or gesture, may be instantly revoked. |
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| 49 | 187 |
He removed his hand from the hilt, responding, however reluctantly, to a slight, dismissive, admonitory gesture from Decius Albus. |
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| 50 | 193 |
"Release me," she cried, "foul brigands! You do not know whom you have discomfited! I am Alexina, from the House of a Hundred Corridors, colleague of the mighty Decius Albus! You have judged unwisely, my fine fellows! Do not think you can hold one so important as I for ransom! Consider your error! T... |
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| 50 | 248 |
The merest suggestion, on her part, of a quick word or an impatient shrug, or gesture, may bring her the lash. |
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| 56 | 24 |
In a small house an overnight guest may, as a gesture of courtesy or hospitality, be offered the use of a slave, but he will commonly, while expressing his appreciation of his host's generosity, politely decline to accept the offer. |
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| 62 | 139 |
It is a begging gesture of an aroused slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 692 |
At a gesture from the captain, the hortator struck his drum with a resounding blow from one of his two mallets. |
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| 10 | 115 |
I saw one fellow, with a string, tie the hands of a girl behind her, and gesture her to the alcove in which she was to await him while he finished his conversation, and his meal and drink. |
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| 23 | 93 |
When they turned away, as I by gesture bade them do, I made certain to lag behind them, a step or two, to their left, heeling them. |
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| 33 | 111 |
About a quarter of the way into that lakelike clearing in the rence, the man in the bow indicated, with a slight gesture, that the oarsman should still his oar. |
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| 42 | 269 |
At a gesture from Seremides, Vas of Anango lifted me up, and, with a jangle of bells, cast me into the arms of a fellow on the canal boat. |
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| 46 | 23 |
"Away," said a fellow, with a gesture of his goblet, he sitting cross-legged, at the table, much engaged in conversation. |
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| 46 | 168 |
He then, with a hurried gesture, summoned one of his men, one with the jangling coin box at his belt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 185 |
Even if a trial is no more than a theatrical gesture designed to conceal a foregone conclusion, such a gesture, even a meaningless farce, even a lie, takes time". |
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| 11 | 104 |
The newcomer, with a subtle gesture of his head, motioned that Ctesippus might withdraw. |
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| 13 | 114 |
"Well done, Captain, noble gesture," said Lysis. |
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| 14 | 21 |
One waved, to which gesture we responded. |
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| 16 | 33 |
"Tal!" called some of the men, returning the gesture. |
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| 23 | 49 |
I returned the gesture. |
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| 29 | 88 |
As they did so I, as though inadvertently, with a casual gesture, slipped the wrapper of white linen down, away from the bottle. |
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| 29 | 93 |
At a gesture from me, Lais, frightened, restored order, replacing the goblets before the three women and pouring a small amount of wine into each goblet. |
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| 45 | 169 |
"It would be well to finish with a final, noble gesture," said Thrasymedes. |
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| 48 | 141 |
In any event, I can do little more than gesture or point at such things, with some clumsy, dull, haplessly inadequate words. |
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| 53 | 90 |
Thurnock brushed them a kiss from his fingertips as we withdrew, which gesture doubtless incensed them further. |
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