| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 111 |
I lay there beside the dying fire, looking up at the branch-lined sky and the mineral glory of the unconscious universe. |
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| 8 | 19 |
Now she, like all other members of the household of Marlenus, slave or free, would be subjected to the vengeance of the outraged citizens, citizens who had marched in the processions of the Ubar in the days of his glory, carrying flasks of Ka-la-na wine and sheaves of Sa-Tarna grain, singing his pra... |
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| 15 | 203 |
"What is it, Ubar, that you hold dearest—your city or your title? Do you seek the welfare of Ar or your private glory?" Marlenus leaped to his feet, hurling the yellow robes of the Afflicted from him, drawing his blade from its sheath with a metallic flash. |
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| 15 | 218 |
He will proclaim himself their liberator, their deliverer from the despotism of the Initiates, the restorer of the old order, the glory of the empire". |
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| 16 | 50 |
Marlenus and several men had entered the city, it seemed, but had been discovered—and sealed off in the very cylinder of the Home Stones—indeed, in that cylinder that had been his palace in the days of his glory. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 119 |
The Gorean is keenly susceptible to beauty; it gladdens his heart, and his songs and art are often paeans to its glory. |
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| 12 | 76 |
He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and death... |
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| 20 | 43 |
He offered no resistance, he showed no anger, when I leaped to his back and cried, as before, "One-strap!" at which signal, with a shrill cry and a mighty spring, those gigantic wings cracked like whips and beat their way aloft in the glory of flight. |
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| 26 | 123 |
And on this barbaric world I have seen it in all its beauty and cruelty, in all its glory and sadness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 142 |
"Precisely," said Sarm, "and yet there is one among us—himself incredibly enough a Priest-King—who could betray his own kind, who would be willing to see this glory vanish". |
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| 19 | 97 |
"In the accomplishing of this matter you do a great service to the Nest and to Priest-Kings, and thereby will you gain great glory for yourself and a life of honor and riches, the first of which will be the slave girl Vika of Treve". |
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| 32 | 46 |
And I understood as I had not before what must be the pain, the glory and the agony of the Nuptial Flight. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 99 |
I knew the former Ubar, still to his followers, years after the days of his glory, the Ubar of Ubars, was not in Ar for the sport of the races. |
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| 22 | 574 |
In the distance I heard singing, a song of Ar's glory; in the stands the song was picked up. |
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| 23 | 66 |
Here and there I heard snatches of the song of Ar's glory. |
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| 23 | 265 |
Outside I could hear the song of Ar's glory. |
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| 24 | 153 |
At his side and about the steps, in rough garb, stood Warriors who had been with him as long ago as his exile in 10,110, who had fled with him to the Voltai and shared his outlawry, and now shared the glory of his restoration. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 314 |
Doubtless Marlenus had given orders that she be exhibited in various cities and villages on the route to Ar, his prize, that she might thus, this beautiful captive, an outlaw girl well known on Gor, considerably redound to his prestige and glory. |
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| 15 | 379 |
"There would be glory in the capture of such a woman," said Ena, "and, surely, ignominy in her escaping". |
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| 17 | 143 |
"Please, no, Master!" And in her shame, writhing to his least touch, the once selfish, self-centered, haughty, spoiled Elinor Brinton, again conquered, found her joy, and glory, and then she again accepted herself as what she was, a slave girl, and in this acceptance, she lost all shame, and yielded... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 119 |
The glory that was to have been Marlenus' would now be mine. |
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| 8 | 14 |
There is more glory to take more slaves with fewer men. |
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| 9 | 333 |
The glory that was to have been Marlenus' would have been mine. |
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| 12 | 7 |
I would, from under the nose of Marlenus, preferably by trade, snatch Talena, thus evening the score for his banishment of me from Ar, thus regaining her, thus winning glory, thus setting my ladder against the political heights of the planet Gor, for, with such a woman at my side, there were few doo... |
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| 14 | 26 |
The men of Marlenus, celebrating the success of their expedition and the glory of their Ubar, would have been, in the manner of warriors, much in their cups. |
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| 14 | 241 |
It was he upon whom luck and glory had shone. |
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| 14 | 318 |
My hatred of Marlenus, and my envy of his glory and success, raged within me. |
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| 21 | 82 |
He would leave the forest as he had entered it, with his glory. |
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| 21 | 87 |
He would leave the forest as he had entered it, in glory. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 447 |
I knew that Marlenus would keep her sequestered in the central cylinder, that her shame not reflect upon his glory. |
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| 2 | 317 |
It is also used for workmen and artists, who may be employed to practice their craft within the rail, to the enhancement of the temple and the Priest-Kings' glory. |
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| 13 | 271 |
I had no doubt that the spilled glory heaped gleaming in the dirt of the hall of Svein Blue Tooth was what it seemed, true stones, and an incredible treasure. |
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| 17 | 51 |
Is grandeur so fearful that men must shield themselves with pettiness from its glory; do they not understand that in themselves, and in perhaps a thousand other intelligences, reality has opened its eyes upon its own immensity; do they shut their eyes lest they see gods? We could see now a glimmer o... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 67 |
I suppose, in the salt pit, one of our small lamps might seem to those who had in their lives known only darkness like the glory of a thousand suns. |
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| 21 | 413 |
They do believe, however, in glory. |
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| 24 | 533 |
But walls of cardboard, and chains of paper, however formidable in aspect, are easily rent, and discarded, by those who see beyond them the banquets, the beauties and glory of nature. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 121 |
Until one has breathed such air can one know the glory of being alive? But I was lonely, and frightened. |
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| 4 | 286 |
I extended my arms and wrists, and one of my legs, considering how they might appear, ponderous with such barbaric glory. |
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| 4 | 871 |
How ashamed I was! I asked myself what could it mean? Could the feelings which had overwhelmed me be denied? Could the sensate truth, the splendor of biological submission, so different from the truth of a man, which is that of domination, in whose glory I had been wrapped, be denied? I resolved tha... |
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| 9 | 1924 |
Each part bespeaks the glory and wonder and promise of the whole. |
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| 21 | 33 |
I loved him! I should have served him in the tavern, and then kissed him farewell, surrendering him to his glory and freedom, I remaining behind, forgotten, a girl whom once he had owned and discarded. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 |
We do know it is bloodthirsty, that it feeds on human flesh, and that it is concerned with glory. |
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| 3 | 482 |
The glory of the slave girl is that she is a slave; and the misery of the slave girl is that she is a slave. |
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| 15 | 123 |
Sexuality is a glory in a slave girl which sets her apart from free women, but it is also a force within her which she must fear, for it puts her so helplessly at the mercy of masters. |
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| 31 | 155 |
"Glory," it said. |
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| 31 | 160 |
"How is it that an animal without strong social instincts can be concerned with glory?" I asked. |
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| 38 | 32 |
No one climbs much higher than another, and no one can truly speak the glory and beauty of the mountain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 497 |
Too, what man who has known the glory and joy of a girl at his feet is likely to wish to exchange that for the inconvenience and bother of a free woman? No, slave girls, for all practical purposes, are not freed. |
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| 10 | 7 |
He was sitting, cross-legged, on a flat, rectangular stone, broad and heavy, about a foot high, at the western edge of the large Utukufu, or Glory, square. |
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| 17 | 19 |
"Gold is perhaps of less interest to him than glory," I said. |
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| 32 | 239 |
And yet here, in the rain forest, the natural architecture of sun, and shade, and growth, seems a vital celebration of life and its glory, not a consequence of aberrations and the madness of abnegations, not an invention of dismal men who have foresworn women, even slaves, and certain vegetables, an... |
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| 42 | 9 |
It is impossible to convey, in any brief measure, the glory and length of the river, and the hundreds of geographical features, and the varieties of animal and vegetable life characterizing it and its environs. |
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| 53 | 72 |
The grunt now schooling in the open moat, come in from the lake, could well be the posterity of grunt populations dating back to the time when the city was not in ruins but in the height of its glory and power. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 203 |
I fought against might and passion, and glory and joy, for I was a man of Earth. |
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| 13 | 424 |
I cried out with the glory of having her. |
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| 24 | 119 |
One accords the free woman her glory; she is welcome to it; but one derives from the slave the joys of the mastery, in accordance with the inexplicable decrees and mysterious equations of nature. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 138 |
He does not know, as I do, that your eye is no longer as sharp as once it was, that your hand has lost its cunning, that you are now ruined and fallen, that the scarlet is now but meaningless on your body, naught but a remembrance, an empty recollection of a vanished glory". |
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| 22 | 212 |
"Has it come to this," I asked him, "the glory, the codes, the steel?" "I want a drink," he said, sullenly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 310 |
The culture is a setting which transforms and enhances the simplicities and rudenesses of nature, ennobling her and exalting her, lending her glory and articulation, refining her, fulfilling her, rather than a sewer and a trap, in which she is kept half-starved and chained. |
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| 18 | 159 |
How she had contrasted the audacity and glory of that unknown Gorean master with the timidity and weakness of the males of Earth, such as, at that time, she took me to be. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1064 |
The more danger and risk that is involved in a deed, on the whole, the greater is the concomitant glory of accomplishing it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 462 |
But no longer, now, would Hci venture forth in such a fashion, displaying himself, and his kaiila and regalia, in the impressive glory of such a primitive promenade. |
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| 3 | 9 |
Even the daughters of chieftains, such as Bloketu, the daughter of Watonka, might have envied her the sumptuousness and glory of her raiment. |
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| 3 | 290 |
In the dance, as I chose to understand it, Winyela danced the glory of life and the natural order; in it she danced her submission to the might of men and the fulfillment of her own femaleness; in it she danced her desire to be owned, to feel passion, to give of herself, unstintingly, to surrender h... |
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| 23 | 126 |
"I did not know such pleasures could exist," he said, "such feelings! Such triumph! Such glory!" "There is no substitute for a slave female," I said. |
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| 27 | 108 |
"Where a smaller number attacks a larger number there is more glory". |
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| 27 | 112 |
If glory is more important to the enemy than normal military objectives, calculated in costs and units, then one, accordingly, is advised to make certain adjustments in one's thinking about him. |
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| 27 | 114 |
Surviving is more important than glory". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 228 |
"Behold the glory and mercy of the Tatrix!" he said. |
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| 4 | 387 |
How extraordinary and marvelous this was! Too, I was not insensitive to the emoluments and perquisites of this office, to the esteem and prestige that might attend it, to the glory that might be expected to be its consequence, to the wealth and power which, doubtless, sometime, would prove to be its... |
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| 17 | 31 |
How far I was from the department store, from my apartment, from my world! And how far, too, I found myself from the luxury, the display, the ceremony and glory, the spectacle, of mysterious Corcyrus; how far from the corridors of a guarded palace, from the resplendent, cumbersome pomp of state robe... |
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| 33 | 587 |
He was the man whose life I had spared, when he had spoken out so forcibly against the Tatrix, on that day, so long ago, when I had been in the palanquin with Ligurious, that day in which, in the glory of a state procession, we had been carried through the streets of Corcyrus. |
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| 33 | 970 |
"That you might see her humbled and helpless, and for my own glory," said Hassan. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 702 |
Can they be ignorant of the igniting appeal of their particular configuration on a male? Can they not understand how he sees them, how he notes, and responds to, and relishes, the smallness of their feet, the slimness of their ankles, the curves of their calves, the sweetness of their thighs, the wi... |
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| 9 | 213 |
"Are we a refuge for homeless waifs, a food wagon for improvident wayfarers, a training ground for amateurs, a nomadic inn for stage-struck aspirants, an itinerant shelter for every awed, hopeful bumpkin desirous of donning the thespic mantle, and on our stage, that of the theater's titans, of shari... |
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| 16 | 734 |
"Surely the glory of such an act must be long remembered in the songs of Petrucchio, Captain of Turia," exclaimed Chino. |
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| 20 | 139 |
"I smell glory," said the beast, looking about. |
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| 20 | 147 |
I know of no way to prove the existence of glory to those who lack the senses for its apprehension. |
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| 20 | 153 |
"There is no one here to recognize your glory". |
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| 20 | 368 |
"I smell glory," it had said. |
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| 20 | 372 |
Was there so much glory here, I wondered. |
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| 20 | 373 |
It did not seem a likely place for glory, the sand of a baiting pit, in a torchlit moonlight, in a country far from its own. |
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| 20 | 378 |
Its glory, if it had it, would have been its own, perhaps the splendor of a lonely moment that only the beast itself truly understood, a moment that was its own justification, and that needed no other, a moment that was sufficient onto itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 47 |
These feelings, like those of glory and victory, to which they are akin, are their own reward. |
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| 18 | 173 |
I cannot wait until I get to Ar, to claim my glory and wealth!" I did not respond. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 514 |
And I did not care if it was from my knees, black with dust, a collar on my neck, naked, that I looked up to his glory. |
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| 11 | 650 |
How absurd then, and artificial, and unreal, suddenly, seemed Earth, with all its preposterous political myths, its subversion of nature, its insidious conditioning programs, its pretendings to deny the simple, obvious truths of aristocracy, its contrived trammelings of right and power, its desperat... |
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| 33 | 352 |
We were alive, the two of us! We had survived! "Master!" I cried, impaled by, and submitting to, the beauty, the glory, the surgency of his eager, claimant, merciless, rejoicing manhood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 285 |
"Glory to Ar! Glory to Ar! Glory to Ar!" cried Lady Claudia. |
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| 15 | 107 |
He will be here soon! You will then be taken to the spear! You do not have long to wait! You will look amusing, wriggling on it! Glory to Ar! Glory to Ar!" "Glory to Ar!" wept Lady Claudia. |
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| 2 | 372 |
Consider the glory of redeeming a woman of high caste!" "The slave," I said, "has no caste, no more than a verr or tarsk". |
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| 8 | 956 |
"Because of the glory and victory of what I truly am, and now know myself to be!" she wept. |
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| 11 | 118 |
The pride and glory of their rank and elevated status precludes this; it would not be dignified. |
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| 12 | 280 |
"Glory to Ar!" cried Lady Claudia, frightened. |
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| 12 | 284 |
"Glory to Ar," said the woman behind the door. |
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| 12 | 289 |
"Glory to Ar," I said, three times. |
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| 12 | 306 |
"Glory to Ar!" said the voice behind the door, sternly. |
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| 12 | 307 |
"Glory to Ar!" cried Lady Claudia, three times. |
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| 14 | 11 |
"Glory to Ar!" whispered the warder. |
10 |
| 14 | 12 |
"Glory to Ar," moaned Lady Claudia. |
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| 14 | 20 |
"Glory to Ar!" whispered the warder. |
10 |
| 14 | 21 |
"Glory to Ar," sobbed Lady Claudia. |
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| 15 | 56 |
"Glory to Ar!" snarled the warder. |
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| 15 | 57 |
"Glory to Ar," wept Lady Claudia. |
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| 15 | 70 |
"Glory to Ar!" cried the warder. |
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| 15 | 71 |
"Glory to Ar," said Lady Claudia. |
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| 15 | 705 |
"Glory to Port Kar," I said. |
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| 15 | 707 |
"Glory to Port Kar," I said, regarding her, evenly. |
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| 15 | 708 |
"Glory to Port Kar!" she cried, desperately, fervently. |
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| 15 | 710 |
"Glory to Port Kar," she cried, thrice. |
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| 15 | 973 |
"Look at them," I said, "the soldiers, their glory, their strength!" "It terrifies me!" she wept, the wind moving the veil against her lips. |
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| 20 | 309 |
"Glory to the Vosk League!" whispered another man. |
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| 20 | 311 |
"Glory to the Vosk League," said more than one man. |
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| 20 | 445 |
Glory is its own victory. |
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| 24 | 281 |
Let this day rightfully redound to the glory of Port Cos, our brethren of the river, and let us rejoice with them, and with ourselves, for our deliverance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 441 |
"Glory to Ar!" "Glory to Ar!" said four or five of the fellows about, high above us, in their saddles. |
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| 5 | 54 |
"Why?" "That you may see the unavailingness of your lies," he said, "that you may see us close with the sleen of Cos, that you may see the slaughter of your friends, your paymasters, that you may see wreaked upon them the vengeance of the state of Ar! Glory to Ar!" "Glory to Ar," repeated a nearby f... |
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| 7 | 1 |
Glory to Ar "There!" cried a fellow. |
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| 7 | 35 |
"Glory to Ar!" cried a fellow. |
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| 7 | 36 |
"Glory to Ar!" called others. |
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| 14 | 330 |
Others think it has to do primarily with the desire of the men of the Barrens for glory, having to do with the counting of coup, and such. |
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| 15 | 22 |
"Glory to Ar!" cried out a man, somewhere behind me and to my left. |
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| 15 | 23 |
"Glory to Ar!" wept others. |
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| 17 | 148 |
"Glory to Ar!" called a man. |
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| 17 | 149 |
"Glory to Ar!" called others. |
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| 28 | 75 |
"Such sentiments," said I, "do not bespeak the spirit that made Ar the glory and menace of Gor". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 240 |
"Yes, yes," he said, "glory to them, glory to them all!" "Glory to a fat tharlarion!" I said. |
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| 11 | 39 |
Glory to Cos!" "Glory to Cos," growled the officer. |
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| 14 | 670 |
"If you are of Port Kar," said a man, "I say 'Glory to Port Kar!'" "Glory to Port Kar!" whispered another. |
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| 8 | 241 |
The performance, a pageant, had been called "The Glory of Cos" and the famed Milo, the city's most famous actor, though a slave, had played the part of Lurius of Jad. |
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| 8 | 945 |
Without them the glory is not possible. |
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| 8 | 954 |
In what other arena, and for what lesser stakes, can so much of man be summoned forth, man with his brutality, his cruelty, his mercilessness, his ruthlessness, his terribleness, these ancient virtues, and man with his devotion, his camaraderie, his fellowship, his courage, his discipline, his glory... |
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| 9 | 81 |
"Glory to Talena!" called another. |
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| 9 | 82 |
"Glory to Talena!" cried others. |
10 |
| 9 | 108 |
"Glory to Talena!" This cry was taken up by hundreds about. |
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| 9 | 363 |
"Glory to Talena!" cried a man. |
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| 11 | 76 |
"Glory to Cos," I said. |
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| 11 | 95 |
"Glory to Ar," said one of the men. |
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| 11 | 232 |
"And it is a mark of the old Ar, the Ar I knew in war, the Ar of spears and standards, of rides and marches, of dust and trumpets, of tarns and tharlarion, the Ar of imperialism, of glory, of valor, and pride. |
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| 11 | 263 |
"There was no glory here," he said. |
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| 12 | 270 |
No free woman could have sung of chains and love, and the lash, and the glory of masters as she. |
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| 12 | 669 |
"Glory to the Delta Brigade," he whispered. |
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| 12 | 670 |
"Glory to Ar," I said. |
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| 12 | 672 |
"Glory, too, to Ar's Station," said Marcus, angrily. |
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| 12 | 674 |
"Glory, too, then, to Ar's Station!" We then took our leave. |
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| 14 | 77 |
"Glory to Cos!" she said. |
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| 14 | 480 |
"Glory to the Delta Brigade," said a man. |
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| 14 | 673 |
"I am of Ar's Station! Glory to Ar's Station!" "The city of traitors?" asked a man. |
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| 14 | 677 |
"If you are of Ar's Station," said the fellow who had spoken before, "I say 'Glory, too, to Ar's Station!' " Marcus relaxed. |
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| 14 | 679 |
"Glory to Port Kar, and Ar's Station," said a man. |
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| 14 | 681 |
"Glory, too, to Ar," I said. |
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| 14 | 683 |
"Glory to Ar!" I heard the ripping down of a sheet from the public boards and saw a young fellow casting it aside. |
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| 14 | 686 |
"Glory to Ar!" he cried. |
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| 14 | 691 |
"Glory to Ar!" grumbled the lad, and sheathed the knife, and stalked away. |
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| 14 | 693 |
"Glory to Ar!" whispered men. |
10 |
| 14 | 694 |
"Glory to Ar!" I was pleased to see that not all the youths of Ar were in the keeping of Cos, that in the hearts of some at least there yet burned the fire called patriotism. |
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| 15 | 20 |
The papers had then been burned and the youths had withdrawn in triumph, singing songs to the glory of Cos. |
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| 16 | 23 |
"Take me from them! Hide me! Glory to the Delta Brigade!" None in the crowd, it seemed, dared echo this sentiment, but there was no mistaking its mood, one of sympathy for the fellow, and of anger toward the mercenaries, and there was a very definite possibility, one thing leading to another, that i... |
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| 17 | 24 |
His fundamental metaphor in terms of which he would defend himself from the glory and mystery of the world is neither the machine nor the die. |
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| 18 | 514 |
There is no risk there, no glory! That is not fair. |
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| 19 | 834 |
Beneath the thick, carefully shored up and dutifully tended ices of their station and glory surely there must stir the roiling depths of need and desire. |
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| 22 | 237 |
"No!" "Glory to Talena, Ubara of Ar," I said. |
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| 22 | 238 |
"Yes, glory to Talena, certainly!" he said. |
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| 22 | 239 |
"Glory to Seremides, first minister to the Ubara, high captain, commander of the Taurentians, to Myron, polemarkos of Temos, to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos!" I said. |
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| 28 | 88 |
Yet how unfair was this to the perceptive young, piercing the propaganda, scorning the public boards, recognizing without being told what was being done to them and their city, smarting with shame, burning with indignation, recollective of Ar's glory, the young in whom flowed the blood of their fath... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 615 |
"And many," he said, "in receiving their death strokes, cried out 'Glory to Ar!'" Dorna was silent. |
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| 31 | 587 |
"Glory to the black caste," said the leader of the strangers. |
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| 31 | 588 |
"Glory to the black caste!" said the black-tunicked men. |
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| 45 | 25 |
It is one thing never to acknowledge oneself; it is one thing to pretend and hide; it is one thing to avoid meeting oneself; but it is quite another to forget oneself once one has met oneself; one cannot, so to speak, then unmeet oneself; one may hide from the truth; one may attempt to avoid it; one... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 |
Such matters, recorded in the routes of a world about a star, calculated in the increments of calendars and clocks, constitute no more in themselves than the memoranda of convenience, taking their true significance only in their application to changes which might be noted with interest, the germinat... |
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| 10 | 361 |
"Do not those of your ideology dare to use that sacred, holy, terrible word, that word for nature's last and fiercest arbiter, that maker and unmaker of states, that creator and destroyer of cultures, singing songs of armies, and blood and steel, that ultimate and terrifying tribunal, with all the m... |
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| 11 | 442 |
A free woman, in her status, in her loftiness and power, in her glory and might, was another form of being altogether, quite different from herself. |
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| 13 | 38 |
What an honor, what a privilege, what an incredible gift, just to be able to see you, just to be permitted to be here! How unworthy are the women of Earth to know your glory and beauty! What could a woman such as I be on a world such as this but a slave? On such a world what else could we be? Oh, th... |
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| 13 | 522 |
"Glory to Ar!" said Ina. |
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| 13 | 523 |
"Glory to Ar!" said several of the others. |
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| 15 | 797 |
How that would have pleased me, your anger, your hatred, your misery, your frustration, your suffering, until, of course, eventually, perhaps years from now, in the arms of some master, a leather worker, a peasant, a sleen-breeder, your last psychological defenses would shatter and your womanhood, r... |
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| 16 | 560 |
And how different was she, she thought, from the free women, they in their robes, resplendent in the glory of their liberty, she a stripped slave, chained on a public shelf. |
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| 17 | 861 |
In those moments I became ecstatically one with the glory of the universe. |
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| 25 | 784 |
Would that there could be a new language, or new words, a lexicon of light that would allow us to see the world as it might be seen, in its innocence, profundity and glory". |
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| 25 | 1132 |
How wonderful it is to be tunicked and safely, securely collared, to be able to move freely about, to walk and run, to be open to the sun, to feel the air and wind on one's body, to see and feel the glory of this world, to revel in its vitalities and sensations, and, too, to know that one is excruci... |
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| 26 | 1239 |
How fine and noble, how lofty and exalted, are free women, thought Ellen, and how I am nothing before them, but for all their status and glory I would not trade my collar. |
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| 26 | 1731 |
"And I wonder," said he, "if any woman, or any slave, understands the glory of the mastery, truly, the rapture, the splendor, the joy of owning and commanding a woman". |
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| 27 | 1448 |
Will her hunter be satisfied with anything less than to lead her back to his camp, naked, back-braceleted, and leashed, and, now, of course, collared? What woman does not hope to inspire such lust? What woman does not wish to be so beautiful that she could inspire such tempestuous, raging desire? Wh... |
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| 30 | 637 |
Even if one day Ar should be returned to herself, and her former power and glory, these women would be kept as slaves, then simply being sold out of the city. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 |
Are we not the outward form of its inward horror, or essence? Are we not the choice fruits of its inward terrors, the splendid robes of its dark, shrieking soul? In us, it finds its fangs, and talons, its hunger, its indifference, its terribleness, its sublimity, its rage, its glory. |
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| 12 | 63 |
He would expend humans, swarming them into the Sardar to exterminate Priest-Kings, thus robbing Kurii of the glory of victory". |
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| 12 | 65 |
"But at the cost of glory," said Pyrrhus. |
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| 57 | 40 |
"Glory to our cause!" In the threshold of the camp, startled, and seemingly jubilant, stood Flavion, who then rushed forward to embrace Lord Grendel, Cabot, Statius, Archon, and others, and then he bounded about, leaping into the air, uttering screeches of pleasure, and then, alighting, again and ag... |
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| 61 | 198 |
"But that may wait until tomorrow, after our secret march, our assault on the palace, and the glory of our inevitable victory," said Flavion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 493 |
They must atone now for the erstwhile glory of Ar, regret her former might, influence, and power. |
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| 11 | 94 |
By the time she had learned her collar, and her skin would again sparkle, and her hair would be again a glory, and her eyes would no longer reflect terror but rather the eagerness of a surrendered slave, hoping to be found pleasing by her master, she would be worthy, I was sure, of having the vestit... |
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| 13 | 67 |
That she exists, in the glory of her freedom, that she is so different from the shameful female slave, that she adds luster to the city and its Home Stone, is enough; that she be dedicated to refined and tasteful pursuits, such as attendance at the theater, at song dramas, poetry readings, and such,... |
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| 28 | 190 |
In any event, from the Gorean point of view, chasms separate the free woman of Earth, in so far as she has not yet been legally embonded, from the dignity, nobility, and glory of the Gorean free woman. |
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| 40 | 158 |
There is efficiency in that, and it may be practical, or necessary, but little glory. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 42 |
Outside, away from the portal, down the slope a bit, if one listened, one could hear the water lapping against the pilings, where the vast glory of looming Thassa, in the darkness, deigned to touch the small works of men. |
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| 1 | 304 |
Talena, freed, in contempt and arrogance, permitted to a free woman, ridiculed and scorned her benefactor, and insisted upon being returned to power and glory in Ar, which matter was arranged by this fellow, Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 1 | 314 |
Accordingly, when she arrived in Ar, she was not returned to glory, to position and power, but removed from public sight, being sequestered, for most practical purposes, imprisoned, in the Central Cylinder. |
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| 4 | 194 |
I would not bend to diminish, nor cloud, the glory of Cos, but I did not regard her as unique amongst the communities of men. |
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| 10 | 68 |
Why is it she was never aware of this glory before? Surely wind had always whispered in the tall green grass, and stirred the shimmering leaves of the Tur tree. |
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| 12 | 44 |
In her cups you may find many things, the unalienable riches of moonlight on water, her whispering in long nights, against the hull, her unforgettable glory in the morning, the brightness of her noontide, the transformations of her sunset and dusk, her access to far shores, the sublime darkness of h... |
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| 36 | 504 |
How can one be fully human without the dignity, glory, and power of the written word? Is it not to the world what memory is to the individual? By its means words spoken long ago and faraway may once more be heard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 251 |
Who, it is said, would wish to risk his life for a tarsk? On the other hand, there is little doubt that the capture of a free woman, given the care with which they are guarded, the glory of capturing one, and such, is usually considered an estimable coup. |
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| 9 | 273 |
Riches and glory await you!" This aroused the attention of the men, all of the men, visibly. |
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| 35 | 31 |
Was she jealous of us, even though she had the glory of freedom on her and we were no more than docile, servile, collared beasts? Did it have to do with the fact that men found us of interest, and would buy us, and own us? Was it our beauty, if beauty it was, which so infuriated her? Why should she ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | 364 |
"In this very garden, Lord Akio gratuitously slew a lovely tree, in the shimmering glory of its youth". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 |
Were humans not essentially unreal, a fraud, unlike the lion and the hawk, more honest forms of life? Were human beings not a counterfeit currency of sorts, masquerading as a genuine life form? Were they not shallow sociological artifacts, nothing in themselves, only clay waiting to be shaped, simpl... |
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| 9 | 713 |
I must not breathe! I must not breathe! And then the cage broke the surface of the water and, sputtering, I expelled air, and sucked into my lungs the glory of an unpolluted world's air. |
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| 26 | 255 |
"Surely one of the dark caste would be a strange agent for one to choose," he said, "to deliver to another prestige, power, glory, honor, and wealth, such things". |
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| 40 | 70 |
But I saw little evidence in the shop of Epicrates, despite its pleasantness and attractiveness, of the higher reaches and glory of the potter's art. |
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| 49 | 201 |
What free man, looking upon a free woman of possible interest, does not, in his imagination, consider her as a slave, how she might look, barefoot in a tunic, a collar on her neck? Does he not idly ponder how she might look, bellied and bound before him? Does he not wonder, sometimes, what might be ... |
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| 60 | 122 |
He then called out, "May she soon have a Ubar worthy of her throne, worthy of her glory!" "Yes, yes!" called some in the stands, but most paused, and exchanged glances. |
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| 61 | 8 |
"Behold, cohorts, the cowardly rogue who would hold truce with the enemy, suspending hostilities, denying us the blood our due, the glory that should be ours. |
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| 61 | 460 |
How swiftly then, had I known these things, I would have hastened to my knees before the will, might, and glory of such a male, so different from the men I knew. |
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| 61 | 538 |
To be sure, the glory, might, and power, so to speak, of these fine ladies does tend to annoy men, who, upon occasion, perhaps, would like to collar the lot of them and put them to slave use. |
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| 65 | 218 |
"Glory to Mintar!" called another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 337 |
I wish to return to the city of my Home Stone in honor and glory. |
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| 33 | 349 |
"Nothing, of course," said Bruno of Torcadino, "other than the redemption of my name and the glory of contributing to so noble an end". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 243 |
Yet, too, you acknowledged the glory, if futile glory, of our endeavor, our 'worthy, noble task', as one of you put it. |
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| 59 | 380 |
"Archelaos declined to contribute to the triumph of Nicomachos, by implicitly saluting the glory of a rival, and Nicomachos did not wish his triumph diminished by implicitly accrediting any share of his glory to the governor". |
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| 1 | 243 |
"They roundly and repeatedly proclaimed the glory of their vile, fierce, merciless, scarlet-haired captain," he said. |
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| 4 | 114 |
"Mariners, noble mariners," cried one of the women, extending her hand piteously, "succor, succor!" "Glory to the Priest-Kings that you have seen us!" cried another. |
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| 21 | 61 |
"But," he said, "if I could achieve a master stroke, if I could ignite a blaze of glory visible across the seas, even to the towers of Cos, I could no longer be ignored. |
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| 23 | 25 |
From its decks he sees vast skies and the glory of the sea. |
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| 41 | 115 |
"Glory to the Home Stone of Mytilene," I said. |
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| 45 | 174 |
"Our moment of glory," said Thrasymedes, "will never be forgotten; it will be recorded in the annals of war; it will be told in a thousand camps, sung in a thousand taverns, as long as fire burns and men drink". |
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| 48 | 94 |
"They are unworthy to look upon the glory of the sky, even in death". |
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| 57 | 79 |
"Glory to the screens!" cried another. |
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| 59 | 37 |
"Is there no mention of the glory and prowess of the noble Archelaos, the governor?" asked the short fellow. |
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| 59 | 166 |
Too, interestingly, no float, at least as yet, had proclaimed the glory of the governor of Sybaris, Archelaos. |
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| 59 | 378 |
"In the parade," I said, "I saw no float proclaiming the glory of Archelaos, nor did I see one representing The Living Island". |
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