| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 90 |
She turned her head away again and looked, unseeing, at the head of the great tarn as he plowed the wind. |
10 |
| 7 | 62 |
Then she angrily snapped, "You need not have made me say that!" She had lifted her head in fury, and she looked up into my eyes for an instant, and then suddenly lowered her head again, trembling with rage. |
10 |
| 1 | 55 |
My hair rose on the back of my head; my eyes widened. |
9 |
| 2 | 3 |
I turned my head, without pain or discomfort. |
9 |
| 3 | 1 |
The Tarn "Ho!" cried Torm, that most improbable member of the Caste of Scribes, throwing his blue robes over his head as though he could not bear to see the light of day. |
9 |
| 3 | 2 |
Out of the robes then popped the sandy-haired head of the scribe, his pale blue eyes twinkling on each side of that sharp needle of a nose. |
9 |
| 3 | 4 |
"Yes," he cried, "I deserve it!" Back went the head into the robes. |
9 |
| 3 | 6 |
"Why must I, an idiot, be always afflicted with idiots?" Out came the head. |
9 |
| 3 | 54 |
Occasionally Torm would cry out in horror as I made a mistake, incomprehension and disbelief written large on his features, and he would then sadly take up a large scroll, containing the work of an author of whom he disapproved, and strike me smartly on the head with it. |
9 |
| 3 | 165 |
His whole body, his carriage, the holding of his head bespoke the warrior, a man who knew his weapons and, on the simple world of Gor, knew that he could kill almost any man who might stand against him. |
9 |
| 3 | 283 |
His enormous head turned toward me, and his round, wicked eyes blazed in my direction. |
9 |
| 4 | 4 |
He drew back his head again, spreading his beak, preparing to slash downward again. |
9 |
| 4 | 125 |
I shook the thought from my aching head, made an unsuccessful effort to muster a decent sense of shame, failed, and was belting my tunic when the Older Tarl entered the room. |
9 |
| 4 | 156 |
About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head. |
9 |
| 5 | 5 |
Bound in the saddle in front of me, drugged, her head completely covered with a slave hood buckled under her chin, was a girl. |
9 |
| 5 | 42 |
She had risen and walked across the room, her feet bare on the stone floor, and dropped to her knees before me, lowering her head and lifting and extending her hands to me, the wrists crossed. |
9 |
| 5 | 65 |
The girl before me groaned and shook herself, her hands, unsteady, going to the slave hood, which was buckled over her head. |
9 |
| 5 | 149 |
Sometimes I guided my tarn by the stars, the same fixed stars I had seen from another angle above my head in the mountains of New Hampshire. |
9 |
| 5 | 156 |
They apparently had no intention of taking me prisoner, for an instant after the shout the sharp hiss of a bolt from a crossbow passed over my head. |
9 |
| 6 | 7 |
At last, satisfied, he brought his wings against his body and remained still, except for the alert movements of his great head and the flash of those wicked eyes scrutinizing the streams of men and women on the nearby bridges. |
9 |
| 6 | 134 |
Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarion poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth swung open. |
9 |
| 6 | 142 |
Then it splashed on its back in the water, rolled quickly onto its legs, and began to move its head in rapid scanning motions. |
9 |
| 6 | 201 |
"Do you wish her head?" asked the mechanical voice of Nar. |
9 |
| 6 | 220 |
I last saw him at the head of the tarn flock". |
9 |
| 7 | 48 |
When she stood up, now barefoot, her head came only a little higher than my chin. |
9 |
| 7 | 74 |
What was it she thought I was waiting for? Then, to my astonishment, the daughter of the Ubar Marlenus, daughter of the Ubar of Ar, knelt before me, a simple warrior of Ko-ro-ba, and lowered her head, lifting and extending her arms, the wrists crossed. |
9 |
| 7 | 118 |
Then the muck crept upward to her horrified eyes, and her head slipped under the greenish waters, her hands clutching wildly at the air. |
9 |
| 7 | 154 |
But she dropped her head shyly, shaking it. |
9 |
| 7 | 191 |
She rose to her knees before me, putting her head to my feet. |
9 |
| 7 | 194 |
I threw back my head and laughed. |
9 |
| 7 | 199 |
She lifted her head and looked at me wonderingly. |
9 |
| 7 | 204 |
She tossed her head back and snorted. |
9 |
| 8 | 40 |
She raised her head and said quietly, "The Home Stone was in the saddle pack of his tarn. |
9 |
| 8 | 129 |
She tossed her head back and laughed. |
9 |
| 8 | 195 |
"Like this," she responded, kneeling before me, lowering her head and lifting her arms, the wrists crossed. |
9 |
| 9 | 7 |
The wind shook her hair and tore at her gown, and she would throw back her head, exposing her throat and shoulders to its rough caress, drinking it in as though it were Ka-la-na wine. |
9 |
| 9 | 38 |
She knelt and spread her hair to dry, letting it fall forward over her head and shoulders. |
9 |
| 9 | 144 |
He threw back his fine head and laughed, his teeth white in his bushy beard. |
9 |
| 9 | 174 |
She endured this in fury, her head in the air, not watching me. |
9 |
| 9 | 175 |
I had scarcely finished bandaging his wound when I was aware of a ringing on metal, and, lifting my head, I saw myself surrounded by mounted spearmen, who wore the same livery as Kazrak. |
9 |
| 10 | 10 |
Seated inside on several pillows of tasseled silk was a mammoth toad of a man, whose head was as round as a tarn's egg, the eyes nearly lost in the folds of fat, pocked skin. |
9 |
| 10 | 141 |
She tossed her head haughtily. |
9 |
| 11 | 80 |
My head swam at the sudden intoxicating scent of a wild perfume. |
9 |
| 11 | 83 |
She bent her knees ever so slightly and raised her arms gracefully above her head. |
9 |
| 11 | 111 |
She sobbed, shaking her head, her lashes wet with tears. |
9 |
| 12 | 3 |
I turned my head, sick to my stomach, and threw up into the turbid waters of the Vosk. |
9 |
| 12 | 7 |
I cleared my head as best I could, and into my uncertain field of vision moved a dark object, which became the black helmet of a member of the Caste of Assassins. |
9 |
| 12 | 47 |
I should have known that the proud Talena, daughter of a Ubar, would leap at the first chance to return to power in Ar, even though it be at the head of a plundering host of brigands. |
9 |
| 12 | 111 |
He tilted his head to one side quizzically. |
9 |
| 12 | 136 |
Head jerking and eyes glassy, the bird twitched and trembled uncontrollably—a cluster of spasmodic reflexes. |
9 |
| 12 | 171 |
The antelope's back had been broken, apparently in the tarn's strike, and its neck and head lolled aimlessly to one side. |
9 |
| 13 | 26 |
It paused, lifted its wide, fierce head, some two or three feet in diameter, and uttered the hunting scream once more. |
9 |
| 13 | 28 |
It appeared ready to resume its pace when suddenly it stopped, its head absolutely motionless, its sharp, pointed ears tense and lifted. |
9 |
| 13 | 34 |
Its ears were lying back, flat against the sides of its wide head. |
9 |
| 13 | 57 |
With a convulsive shudder, the great head rolled to one side and the eyes half closed, leaving a milky slit of death between the lids. |
9 |
| 13 | 114 |
He laughed a mighty, roaring laugh and threw his head back, causing the hood to fall to his shoulders. |
9 |
| 13 | 115 |
I saw a massive, lionlike head, with wild long hair and a beard as unkempt and magnificent as the crags of the Voltai itself. |
9 |
| 14 | 6 |
I forced my head up and kept my back straight, my eyes granting my captor no satisfaction. |
9 |
| 14 | 29 |
The eyes of Marlenus stared over my head, into the darkness outside. |
9 |
| 14 | 89 |
One tarnsman leveled a crossbow, and in that instant I hurled the lance and he toppled backward, the shaft of the weapon protruding from his chest, the bolt from his crossbow ricocheting from the rock above my head with a flash of sparks. |
9 |
| 14 | 96 |
I choked, and shook my head to clear the blood from my eyes, and in that instant was seized by three or four of the Ubar's tarnsmen. |
9 |
| 14 | 169 |
I waited uneasily until he thrust his head past me, over my shoulder, extending his neck for preening. |
9 |
| 15 | 101 |
Kazrak and I sat in his tent, and I recounted my adventures to him, while he listened, shaking his head. |
9 |
| 15 | 120 |
He sat cross-legged, his back straight and his head high, in the fashion of a warrior. |
9 |
| 15 | 140 |
Mintar bowed his head in mock ceremony, a wry smile on his fat face, and with one short finger delicately tipped his own Ubar, causing it to fall. |
9 |
| 15 | 159 |
"True," said Marlenus, shaking his head, "but thusly did I win". |
9 |
| 15 | 205 |
We faced each other for a long, terrible moment; then Marlenus threw back his head and laughed his great lion laugh, slamming his sword back into its sheath. |
9 |
| 16 | 64 |
Another plan entered my head, but I dismissed it as too far-fetched, as unworthy of consideration. |
9 |
| 16 | 87 |
"The cities never unite," repeated Kazrak, shaking his head. |
9 |
| 16 | 145 |
Perhaps it was something in the carriage of the muffled figure, something in the way the head was held. |
9 |
| 16 | 147 |
Had she been injured or drugged? Did she not recognize me? I stood before the cage and lifted my helmet from my head. |
9 |
| 17 | 62 |
Pa-Kur rode at the head of the garrison troops, ten thousand strong. |
9 |
| 17 | 89 |
My head swirled, and I stumbled backward through the ranks of soldiers watching the procession. |
9 |
| 17 | 93 |
Then my hands clutched the mat, and I shook my head savagely to clear it of the uncontrolled tumult of emotion that rocked it. |
9 |
| 18 | 7 |
How much I would have given to have had Marlenus and his men at my side, few though they might be! Then, as if the pieces of a puzzle had suddenly, unexpectedly, snapped into shape, a plan sprang into my head. |
9 |
| 18 | 67 |
I wondered if Pa-Kur might be curious to know who was the rider of that solitary sable tarn which flashed above his head. |
9 |
| 18 | 83 |
After I emerged from one of these caves, I was surprised to see my tarn across the pit, his head tilted to one side, as if puzzled. |
9 |
| 18 | 109 |
My helmet protected me as my head was roughly dragged against the granite of the ceiling. |
9 |
| 18 | 130 |
In less than a few seconds the first of the scraggy tarns had lit on the floor of the cot and poked his ugly head through the door. |
9 |
| 19 | 18 |
He lowered his helmet onto his head and loosened his shield and spear. |
9 |
| 19 | 107 |
Then, before anyone could stop him, he seized a sword from the scabbard of an Assassin and rushed to Talena, holding it over his head with both hands. |
9 |
| 19 | 226 |
The Ubar went to his daughter and took her fine head in his great hands. |
9 |
| 19 | 227 |
He turned her head from side to side and looked into her eyes. |
9 |
| 20 | 12 |
Perhaps the Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be, reasoned that such a man was dangerous, that such a man might in time raise his own banner of dominion; perhaps they realized that I, of all on Gor, did not revere them, would not turn and bow my head in the direction of the Sardar Mountai... |
9 |
| 20 | 47 |
I sat alone in the mountains, my head in my hands. |
9 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 73 |
"Sorry, Sweet Wench," said the grizzled man, giving the girl's head a friendly shake, "but we don't want Targo coming over here with his whip and beating the tharlarion oil out of us both, do we?" Sobbing silently the girl's head fell down again on her breast. |
10 |
| 22 | 10 |
Then she knelt at my feet and put her head to the rug, throwing her hair over her head, exposing her neck. |
10 |
| 1 | 77 |
He shook his head, and continued to watch the snow. |
9 |
| 2 | 27 |
The spear was a typical Gorean spear, about seven feet in height, heavy, stout, with a tapering bronze head some eighteen inches in length. |
9 |
| 2 | 28 |
It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood. |
9 |
| 3 | 49 |
His head lifted. |
9 |
| 3 | 139 |
Zosk sank down and sat cross-legged in the road, his gigantic frame shaken with sobs, his massive head buried in his hands, his thick, guttural voice moaning with distress. |
9 |
| 4 | 28 |
My head turned imperceptibly as I scanned the rocks and bushes about the road. |
9 |
| 4 | 62 |
I shook my head. |
9 |
| 4 | 76 |
I had hardly moved another step when, in a flash of lightning, I saw the sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its ears straight against its pointed head, its fur dark, slick with rain, its fangs bared, its wide nocturnal ... |
9 |
| 4 | 89 |
Coldly I took out my sword and hacked away the head of the beast and jerked the weapon free. |
9 |
| 4 | 97 |
Was the sleen not familiar with that saying? I shook my head, to clear it of the wild thoughts. |
9 |
| 5 | 21 |
In the next flash of lightning I saw the white robes of an Initiate, the shaven head and the sad eyes of one of the Blessed Caste, servants it is said of the Priest-Kings themselves. |
9 |
| 5 | 76 |
He seemed to shake with pain, his hands pressed against his head, trying to speak to me, trying to tell me something. |
9 |
| 5 | 88 |
He shook his head. |
9 |
| 5 | 95 |
His eyes seemed to begin to burn in his head. |
9 |
| 5 | 98 |
It seemed as though the entire inside of his head began to burst and burn, to bubble like some horrid viscous lava inside the crater of his skull. |
9 |
| 5 | 109 |
I placed a large flat rock near the head of the cairn and, with the tip of my spear, scratched this legend on it. |
9 |
| 6 | 61 |
The thought ran through my head, no stone may stand upon another stone. |
9 |
| 6 | 80 |
He sits in the midst of his family, his closest well-wishers, his sword comrades, cross-legged on the floor in the Gorean fashion behind the long, low wooden table, laden with food, which stands at the head of the room. |
9 |
| 6 | 87 |
Though she is clad only in the almost transparent scarlet dancing silks of Gor, her back is straight, her head high. |
9 |
| 6 | 103 |
She approaches the young man and kneels before him, her knees in the dictated position of the Pleasure Slave, and, head down, she proffers the wine to him. |
9 |
| 6 | 132 |
Her head was down. |
9 |
| 6 | 138 |
Her head lifted and her eyes, fine gray eyes, dulled with sorrow and perhaps hunger, regarded me. |
9 |
| 7 | 31 |
His hair was long, and bound in a knot behind his head in Mongol fashion. |
9 |
| 8 | 99 |
The sallow-faced man, clutching the folds of the hood about his face, twisted his head to the left and the right to see if anyone might be near, if anyone might have observed. |
9 |
| 9 | 118 |
I took another long swig of Kal-da and shook my head to throw the swirling fire from eyes and brain. |
9 |
| 9 | 154 |
Even the proprietor slept, his head across his folded arms on the counter, behind which stood the great Kal-da brewing pots, at last empty and cold. |
9 |
| 10 | 43 |
I glanced once more at the spears, smiled grimly at the guardsman, turned and, lowering my head, entered the small door. |
9 |
| 10 | 84 |
The man was stripped to the waist, a brawny fellow wearing buckled leather wrist straps, his hair bound back on his head with a band of gray cloth. |
9 |
| 11 | 200 |
Thorn threw back his head and laughed. |
9 |
| 12 | 15 |
In spite of the yoke I struggled to a cross-legged sitting position, and shook my head. |
9 |
| 12 | 27 |
Her hair, which was reddish brown, was bound behind her head with a coarse string. |
9 |
| 12 | 29 |
She wore only a single garment, a long, narrow rectangle of rough, brown material, perhaps eighteen inches in width, drawn over her head like a poncho, falling in front and back a bit above her knees and belted at the waist with a chain. |
9 |
| 12 | 47 |
"I thought women were free in Tharna," I said, gesturing with my head toward the gray metal collar she wore. |
9 |
| 12 | 106 |
She dropped her head shyly. |
9 |
| 12 | 139 |
She lowered her head. |
9 |
| 13 | 87 |
One ear had been torn from his head. |
9 |
| 13 | 94 |
The yellow, short-cropped head glared at me, almost without comprehension. |
9 |
| 13 | 116 |
I shook my head wildly; my hands, yoked helplessly, tried vainly to reach my eyes, to tear the blinding particles from my vision. |
9 |
| 13 | 146 |
Standing, screaming, shaking their silver-gloved fists at me, they hurled their frustration, their invective and abuse on my head. |
9 |
| 14 | 39 |
I saw the great wings snap, smiting the air, the hurricane from their blow spilling slaves into the sand, tangling chains, as the great beast, lifting its head and smelling the open air, struck it with his wings. |
9 |
| 14 | 62 |
Its head was high, alert in the leather darkness of its hood. |
9 |
| 14 | 89 |
A nimble slave, wasting no time, and held on the shoulders of a fellow slave, loosened the belts that held the beak of the tarn and the hood that bound its head. |
9 |
| 14 | 92 |
It shook its head, as if to throw water from its feathers, and the leather hood was thrown far into the air and behind the bird. |
9 |
| 14 | 115 |
It lifted its huge, terrible head, scrutinizing the stands. |
9 |
| 14 | 149 |
The tarn thrust its head over me and uttered a piercing, fierce scream, a terrible cry of rage that must have shaken the hearts of all within the confines of the arena. |
9 |
| 14 | 192 |
Its wicked eyes gleamed, scanning the ground, its head and beak thrust forward, its wings still, gliding silently in great sweeps, lower and lower, over the gray towers of Tharna. |
9 |
| 14 | 212 |
And so for an instant stood the tarn, its head and beak extended, its wings snapping, its prey locked in its grasp, and uttered the terrifying capture scream of the tarn, at once a scream of victory, and of challenge. |
9 |
| 15 | 171 |
Her head was shaking. |
9 |
| 15 | 180 |
"Warrior," she said, her head lifting piteously, "must you exact so terrible a vengeance on me?" I smiled to myself. |
9 |
| 15 | 209 |
"All," I cried, "—or the block at Ar!" Her head dropped. |
9 |
| 15 | 263 |
Her head in the air, the Tatrix did as she was told. |
9 |
| 16 | 32 |
The Tatrix acknowledged the salutation of Dorna the Proud with merely a regal nod of her head. |
9 |
| 20 | 42 |
When it approached me and extended its head, I wondered if what I had dared not hope might be true, that the bird might have been waiting for me to return. |
9 |
| 20 | 129 |
The great head moved quizzically and dipped to the ground, rubbing against my leg. |
9 |
| 20 | 132 |
When I had said Ubar of the Skies, the bird had lifted its head, now more than a yard above my own. |
9 |
| 21 | 27 |
Her hands were joined over her head and behind the tree by slave bracelets. |
9 |
| 21 | 31 |
She began to shake uncontrollably and her head fell forward in despair. |
9 |
| 21 | 69 |
It immediately expanded, and before she could spit the hair out, he had looped more of her hair about her head and tied it, in such a way as to keep the expanded ball of hair in her mouth. |
9 |
| 21 | 187 |
Targo, with his short, rolling steps, went to the girl and placed one thumb, wearing a large ruby ring, under her chin, pushing her head up. |
9 |
| 21 | 190 |
Behind Targo I could see the grizzled man shaking his head negatively. |
9 |
| 21 | 210 |
"Preposterous!" said Targo, shaking his head vehemently. |
9 |
| 21 | 247 |
Then, strangely, the girl's head lifted and she looked into my eyes. |
9 |
| 21 | 273 |
She smiled and shook her head. |
9 |
| 22 | 40 |
I shook my head to drive away the thought that I wanted with my tongue to taste the blood on her lips, to kiss it from her mouth. |
9 |
| 22 | 55 |
I put my arms around her slender shoulders and to my amazement she who had worn the golden mask of Tharna, she who had been Tatrix of that gray city, put her head upon my chest and wept. |
9 |
| 22 | 139 |
Her head fell and her voice became almost inaudible. |
9 |
| 22 | 186 |
To my surprise Lara dropped to her knees, placing them in the position of a Pleasure Slave, and dropped her head submissively. |
9 |
| 22 | 219 |
"Take your pick, Master," he said, and backed out of the tent, shaking his head. |
9 |
| 23 | 39 |
I shook my head. |
9 |
| 23 | 51 |
She put her head against my shoulder. |
9 |
| 23 | 64 |
Holding her head in my hands I looked into her eyes. |
9 |
| 23 | 87 |
Had the tarn wished, with a wrench of its glorious head, it might have torn the limb from my body. |
9 |
| 23 | 134 |
As he felt the wind on the walls reach his head he opened his grayish blue eyes. |
9 |
| 23 | 186 |
No sooner had we reached the spiraling stone stairwell which led down from the wall than the six spears, their points describing a circle of perhaps a yard in diameter, struck the wall over our head with a splintering of rock. |
9 |
| 24 | 1 |
The Barricade I ducked my head and shoved open the heavy wooden door of the Kal-da shop. |
9 |
| 24 | 27 |
From time to time as one of them regarded her too boldly she dropped her head and blushed. |
9 |
| 24 | 79 |
Andreas shook his head as if trying to comprehend what I might mean. |
9 |
| 24 | 130 |
At the head of that splendid, ragged procession five marched; Kron, chief of the rebels; Andreas, a poet; his woman, Linna of Tharna, unveiled; I, a warrior of a city devastated and cursed of the Priest-Kings; and a girl with golden hair, a girl who wore no mask, who had known both the whip and love... |
9 |
| 24 | 142 |
On the roof of the palace beyond the double rampart I could occasionally see the head of a tarn and I heard their screams. |
9 |
| 24 | 160 |
Two strands of hair still marked his chin in parallel streaks and on the back of his head his long hair was still bound in a Mongol knot. |
9 |
| 24 | 222 |
Yet another man took from his head the blue helmet. |
9 |
| 25 | 5 |
The bronze head of the spear had cut through the brass loops on the shield and pierced the seven hardened concentric layers of bosk hide which formed it. |
9 |
| 25 | 9 |
My spear had been driven a yard through it and the head had passed over his left shoulder as he crouched behind it. |
9 |
| 25 | 18 |
The head rolled sideways on the stones. |
9 |
| 25 | 23 |
Slowly, numbly, she descended the throne, step by step, and then to my amazement she fell to her knees beside Thorn and lowered her head to his bloody chest, weeping. |
9 |
| 25 | 30 |
The girl lifted her head and the golden mask faced me. |
9 |
| 25 | 43 |
Once again her head fell to the stained chest of the Captain of Tharna and her body shook with sobs. |
9 |
| 25 | 71 |
My blade entered the roof of its mouth, pushing its head up and away from my throat. |
9 |
| 25 | 87 |
One ear had been slashed away from its head and fur on its left side was soaked with spurting blood. |
9 |
| 25 | 127 |
Dorna threw back her head and laughed. |
9 |
| 26 | 26 |
Most of the silver masks however, when it was understood their battle had been lost and the laws of Tharna were irrevocably shattered, came of their own free will into the streets and submitted themselves in the traditional fashion of the captive Gorean female, kneeling, lowering the head, and lifti... |
9 |
| 26 | 90 |
Her head was against my shoulder. |
9 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 213 |
I found myself tempted to break her head against the foot of the stone couch, for she was worthless, treacherous, seductive, cruel, vicious, worthy only of the collar, irons and the whip! She shook her head numbly as though denying charges I had not voiced. |
10 |
| 20 | 117 |
The globelike object which had been fastened over her head now stopped humming and flashing, and the attendant on the disk opened it, releasing the girl's head. |
10 |
| 25 | 130 |
She struggled to her hands and knees, her head hanging down, her hair falling over her head to the floor of the shaft. |
10 |
| 27 | 125 |
As his antennae touched her head her antennae lifted and seemed to tremble and the ancient, brownish creature lifted her head and on her ready tongue from his own mouth Misk, her child, delicately and with supreme gentleness placed a glistening drop of Gur. |
10 |
| 27 | 171 |
In that instant I saw the bladelike projections disappear from the tips of Sarm's forelegs and he folded his forelegs against his body and ceased resistance, even lifting his head in order to further expose the crucial tube that linked thorax with head. |
10 |
| 29 | 144 |
Did it wish me to comb the antennae? Was it conscious? Was it mad with pain? I stood not understanding and then the Priest-King did what he wished: with a toss of his great golden head he hurled his antennae against my blade, cutting them from his head, and then, after a moment, having closed himsel... |
10 |
| 1 | 88 |
When a possible buyer would stop in front of one, one of the bearded scoundrels from Port Kar would poke her with a slave whip and she would lift her head and numbly repeat the ritual phrase of the inspected slave girl: Buy me, Master. |
9 |
| 2 | 67 |
The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's, can range from knifelike slits in the broad daylig... |
9 |
| 2 | 118 |
The larl's skull is an even more difficult cast, for its head is almost continually in motion. |
9 |
| 3 | 13 |
Only an instant later did I understand what was happening, for, suddenly turning, he threw himself on his side and, his head facing in the other direction, hurled his hind legs at me. |
9 |
| 3 | 49 |
His cheeks were red and his head bald. |
9 |
| 4 | 75 |
I shook my head to drive out the scarlet stars that seemed to race before my eyes. |
9 |
| 5 | 25 |
She bowed her head. |
9 |
| 5 | 30 |
I shook my head to clear it of sleep. |
9 |
| 5 | 51 |
When she raised her head again I curtly gestured her nearer. |
9 |
| 5 | 53 |
I, still remaining cross-legged on the platform, reached forward and took her head in my hands, drawing it to mine. |
9 |
| 5 | 56 |
I removed my hands from her head but she left it where I had placed it. |
9 |
| 5 | 99 |
She collapsed at my feet, shaking and whimpering, and put her head to my knee. |
9 |
| 5 | 115 |
She shook her head. |
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| 5 | 131 |
She lowered her head in submission. |
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| 5 | 153 |
"Here in the Sardar," she said, turning to face me, trembling, "they took me into the tunnels and locked over my head a hideous metal globe with lights and wires and when they freed me they showed me a metal plate and told me that the patterns of my brain, of my oldest and most primitive memories, w... |
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| 5 | 170 |
She shook her head sadly. |
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| 5 | 227 |
She lifted her head arrogantly and I saw that the collar was very beautiful on her throat. |
9 |
| 5 | 282 |
Almost instantly, reddening, Vika regained her composure and straightened herself, tossing her head and brushing back a melody of blond hair which had fallen across her forehead. |
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| 7 | 34 |
She shook her head vigorously, No. |
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| 8 | 8 |
I strode to her and held her head in my hands, looking at her eyes. |
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| 8 | 12 |
She lowered her head, and then looked up shyly. |
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| 8 | 203 |
Insolently she approached me, slowly, gracefully, as silken in her menace as the she-larl, and then to my astonishment when she stood before me, she knelt, her hands on her thighs, her knees in the position of the Pleasure Slave, and dropped her head in scornful submission. |
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| 8 | 204 |
She raised her head and her taunting blue eyes regarded me boldly. |
9 |
| 8 | 219 |
When she saw what I intended she shook her head slowly, numbly. |
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| 9 | 105 |
She shook her head bitterly. |
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| 9 | 198 |
"Very well, Cabot," she said, "then I shall conquer you!" And she seized my head in her hands and pressed her lips to mine. |
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| 9 | 210 |
I seized her by the hair and twisted her head to face me. |
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| 9 | 226 |
She lowered her head to the stones and wept. |
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| 9 | 229 |
I watched Vika and suddenly she seemed too to know and her head lifted and her eyes widened with horror and she crept to her knees, her hands before her face as though to shield herself and she shuddered and suddenly uttered a wild, long, terrible scream of abject fear. |
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| 9 | 233 |
It was not more than a yard wide but its head nearly touched the top of the portal and so I would judge that, standing as it did, it must have been nearly eighteen feet high. |
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| 9 | 234 |
It had six legs and a great head like a globe of gold with eyes like vast luminous disks. |
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| 9 | 238 |
From its head there extended two fragile, jointed appendages, long and covered with short quivering strands of golden hair. |
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| 9 | 263 |
I shook these thoughts from my head and continued down the passageway. |
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| 10 | 48 |
He lifted one foreleg high over his head and touched something high in the wall which I could not see. |
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| 10 | 95 |
And then to my amazement the creature, resting back on its posterior appendages, began to shake, beginning at its abdomen and continuing upward through its trunk to its thorax and head and at last its antennae began to tremble and, curling, they wrapped about one another. |
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| 11 | 19 |
His head turned, his laterally opening jaws opened and closed slowly, his shoulders rustled and the two antennae twitched once as though in irritation, and then idly they began to examine the roof of the dome. |
9 |
| 12 | 40 |
Although her head was shaved she was pretty and the brief plastic sheath she wore did not conceal her charms. |
9 |
| 12 | 182 |
His head snapped to the side and his knees buckled. |
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| 12 | 184 |
Before the other could regain his balance, I had leaped to him and seized him in my hands and lifted him high over my head and hurled him on his back to the stone flooring of the long chamber. |
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| 13 | 37 |
Down the hall running towards us, not frantically but rather deliberately, at a steady pace, came a young human female, of perhaps eighteen years of age, with shaved head and clad in the brief plastic tunic of a Mul. |
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| 13 | 41 |
She had brown eyes and, I thought, in spite of her shaved head, was attractive. |
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| 14 | 44 |
"They left the threadlike growths on your head," said the other. |
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| 14 | 66 |
I closed my eyes again and shook my head. |
9 |
| 14 | 127 |
Misk said nothing for a long time, and then he dejectedly lowered his head, delicately extending his antennae to me for grooming. |
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| 14 | 130 |
"She wanted to let the threadlike growths on her head emerge, for she was not bred in the Nest". |
9 |
| 14 | 140 |
We came upon a Golden Beetle though none had ever been seen in that place and I wanted to go to the Beetle and I put down my head and approached it but the girl seized my antennae and dragged me away, thus saving my life". |
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| 14 | 141 |
Misk lowered his head again and extended his antennae for grooming. |
9 |
| 14 | 144 |
It was the same day that Sarm ordered her given five record-scars for the growths on her head and had her destroyed". |
9 |
| 15 | 1 |
In the Secret Chamber Holding the slender Mul-Torch over my head, I peered into the cavern now revealed in the floor of Misk's chamber. |
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| 15 | 14 |
When I arrived at the bottom of the rope, some forty feet below, I held the torch over my head and found myself in a bare, simple chamber. |
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| 15 | 25 |
I thrust the torch I carried into a crevice in the wall and, standing before Misk, I raised my arms over my head, extending them towards him. |
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| 15 | 36 |
Scarcely were we inside when Misk touched a button I could not see several feet over my head and the door swung smoothly closed. |
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| 16 | 2 |
I could see the disklike eyes in that golden head above me and see the flicker of the blue torch on their myriad surfaces. |
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| 16 | 54 |
I shook my head sadly. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 516 |
Then, her back still arched, with a half-smile, she stretched even more, and, as though weary, she slowly turned her head to one side, with her eyes closed, and then opened them and with a small, lazy motion of her hands threw her hair back over her head, and with a tiny motion of her head shook it ... |
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| 1 | 54 |
It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. |
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| 4 | 52 |
To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up... |
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| 7 | 85 |
Piteously, with a rustle of chain, the girl's head and shoulders fell forward, and, though she still knelt, her head touched the pelt of the larl, her shoulders and back shaking, trembling. |
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| 7 | 101 |
"Lift your head," he said, and she did, her chin high, the lovely, angry head set proudly on her aristocratic delicate neck. |
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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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| 10 | 10 |
At the head of our line, on a huge kaiila, rode Kutaituchik, his eyes closed, his head nodding, his body swaying with the stately movement of the animal, a half-chewed string of kanda dangling from his mouth. |
10 |
| 10 | 14 |
The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,... |
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| 18 | 18 |
"I have even seen them reach for vines a spear's length above their head and think they could reach them!" Saphrar's two golden teeth, like yellow fangs, showed as he put back his head and howled with pleasure, his fat little hands pounding on the wood of the shield. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 58 |
Her head went farther back, as her hands moved on the arms of the Warrior, as though once to press him away, and then again to draw him closer, and her head then touched the furs, her body a cruel, helpless bow in his hands, and then, her head down, it seemed she struggled and her body straightened ... |
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| 16 | 269 |
The tarn, that predator, gently lowered its head, and I put my head against its head, below its round, gleaming right eye, and, within the leather hood, unseen, I wept. |
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| 4 | 210 |
"Stand straight and place your hands behind your head, head back". |
10 |
| 4 | 260 |
I threw back my head and laughed, and Cernus threw back his head and laughed, pounding on the arms of the curule chair, and the men-at-arms, too, roared with laughter. |
10 |
| 5 | 177 |
I lifted my hands over my head, and he, delicately, in the fog splendid with the sun, the smooth texture of his golden body gleaming, gently lowered his body and head, and with the tips of his antennae, covered with their sensitive, glistening golden hair, touched the palms of my hands. |
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| 6 | 102 |
But Elizabeth, rightly or wrongly, was banished from my mind for the moment because I heard, from a side door, the rustle of slave bells, and was pleased to note that seven girls hurried in, using the short, running steps of the slave girl, arms to the side, palms out, head to the left, eyes averted... |
10 |
| 14 | 152 |
The girl spun about and threw her head back, staring wildly at the ceiling, throwing the chain back over her head. |
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| 19 | 52 |
Then another Warrior, with his two hands, thrust my hooded head to the sandal of one of my unseen tormentors; I heard her laugh; then my head was jerked up and thrust down again, to the sandal of another; I heard her laugh. |
10 |
| 19 | 99 |
The hood was peeled over my head and I shook my head and hair, gasping for breath. |
10 |
| 24 | 314 |
Her head was down and he, with his hand, lifted her head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 182 |
Suddenly, before me, hands over her head, swaying to the music, I saw the dark-haired, lithe girl, she with such marvelous, slender legs in the brief rence skirt; her ankles were so close together that they might have been chained; and then she put her wrists together back to back over her head, pal... |
10 |
| 15 | 388 |
Then, still kneeling, she raised her hand, head back, insolently to her hair, to remove from it one of the ornate pins, its head carved from the horn of kailiauk, that bound it. |
10 |
| 15 | 781 |
"Midice!" Then I rose to my feet, and stood there, and shook my head, and wiped the sleeve of my tunic across my eyes and then, catching my breath, I walked to the bottom of the stone couch and sat down, my head down. |
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| 18 | 250 |
Telima approached me timidly, head down, and then, looking up, smiling with her eyes, put her head against my right shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1022 |
She threw the bottle to one side and put down her head, and then brought her head up and back, shaking her head back and forth, her hair flying, and she stamped down on her right foot. |
10 |
| 2 | 5 |
I was going mad! I threw my hands to my head, and shook my head. |
10 |
| 2 | 19 |
With my head down, hair falling to the rug, on my hands and knees, I shook my head. |
10 |
| 3 | 101 |
I shook my head, no, no! He took my chin in his hand, and turned my head toward him, so again I must face him. |
10 |
| 5 | 226 |
I threw back my head, my hands to the sides of my head, and screamed. |
10 |
| 8 | 56 |
One dipped its head under the surface and, moments later, the head emerged, dripping, the eyes blinking, a silverish fish struggling in the small, triangular-toothed jaws. |
10 |
| 8 | 353 |
She would sit against the wall, knees drawn up, head down, the leather slave hood, with its gag, drawn over her head and features. |
10 |
| 8 | 501 |
One would carry his head in a certain way; another laughed well, openly, heartedly; another had sturdy legs; another had long, fine arms and strong hands, a fine chest and head. |
10 |
| 11 | 276 |
"What man would want a woman with the pierced ears of a slave girl? And if I were not veiled, anyone might look upon me, and laugh, and scorn me, seeing that my ears had been pierced, as those of a slave girl!" I shook my head, and again pressed my head into her shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 285 |
When she returned, she threw back her head, and placed her hands behind her head. |
10 |
| 12 | 107 |
He wore over his head, half covering his face, a hood formed of the skin of the head of a forest panther. |
10 |
| 14 | 45 |
Rask of Treve threw back his great head, like the head of a larl, and laughed. |
10 |
| 17 | 84 |
Sometimes he would hold me in his arms, and gaze into my eyes, with such intentness and tenderness, with so soft a light in his eyes, that I, my head lifted, would be overjoyed, my love flooding forth to him, but then, frightened, I would put my head down, against his shoulder, in my collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 234 |
"Hands behind your head, head back, and turn," said Rim. |
10 |
| 9 | 380 |
I fought, but two girls held my head, and Mira, laughing, with a small bowl of lather and a shaving knife, shaved the two-and-one-half-inch degradation stripe on my head, from the forehead to the back of my neck. |
10 |
| 21 | 81 |
His head had not had the stripe of degradation shaven in it, as had my head, and those of my men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 302 |
Forkbeard then, grinning, slung his ax over his left shoulder, dropping it into the broad leather loop by which it may be carried, its head behind his head and to the left. |
10 |
| 6 | 418 |
Another of the new girls was thrown over one of the benches; she lay on her back; her head was down, her dark hair, long, wild, was in the dirt and reeds, strewn on the floor of the hall; her head twisted from side to side; her eyes were closed; her lips were parted; I saw her teeth. |
10 |
| 11 | 16 |
They lifted from the side of its head, listening, and then lay back against the furred sides of the head. |
10 |
| 13 | 172 |
Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea... |
10 |
| 13 | 450 |
It threw back its head and opened its jaws, eyes blazing, and uttered the blood roar of the aroused Kur; then it bent over, regarding us, shoulders hunched, its claws leaping from its soft, furred sheaths; it then laid its ears back flat against the sides of its great head. |
10 |
| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
10 |
| 18 | 616 |
She put her head softly to his feet, and then lifted her head and, tears in her eyes, looked up at him. |
10 |
| 20 | 175 |
I lifted the head of the Kur in my right hand over my head. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 324 |
I looked at the flat, leathery snout, the black-pupiled, yellowish-corneaed eyes, the ears flat back against its head, the wide, fang-rimmed orifice of a mouth, large enough to bite the head from a man. |
10 |
| 2 | 8 |
He wore a head scarf, the wrapped turban, wound about his head. |
10 |
| 5 | 575 |
At the same time, too, Alyena froze in the sand, her right hand high, left hand low, at her hip, her head bent to the left, eyes intent on the fingers of her left hand, as though curious to see if they would dare to touch her thigh; then she broke the pose, and threw back her head, breathing deeply. |
10 |
| 5 | 669 |
At a languid gesture from Ibn Saran, Alyena lifted herself from the scarlet tiles, gracefully turning from her side to her knees, and then, head back, hair to the floor, slowly, inch by melodic protesting inch, arms before her body, lifted herself to a kneeling position, erect, the last bit of her t... |
10 |
| 10 | 137 |
"Head back! Hands behind head! Bend backwards! Farther! Farther!" He turned to us. |
10 |
| 10 | 142 |
"Hands on hips! Be insolent! Hands behind back! Hands crossed before you, as though bound! Hands at throat, as though chained to collar, fingers before mouth! Fall to the floor! Kneel! Head down! Head up! Bend backwards! Farther! Roll to the floor, on your side, on your back, right leg high, now fle... |
10 |
| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
10 |
| 19 | 143 |
I put my head on my arms, my head down, my arms on my knees. |
10 |
| 25 | 271 |
She then knelt on the tiles, naked, her head down, her head in her hands. |
10 |
| 26 | 518 |
She had come through the corridors from the audience chamber on her hands and knees, carrying the whip, head down, in her teeth, between two lines, moving with her, of slave girls, girls running, when she had crawled by them, to be again at the head of the line, to have again their lashing stroke, t... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 895 |
I thought my head would fly from my neck, with such swift savageness was I struck! The blow was open-handed, taking me on the left side of the face, but it must have been clearly audible for a hundred and fifty yards about; I rolled, stinging, crawling, for more than twenty feet; I threw up in the g... |
10 |
| 2 | 194 |
I did not even lift my head, but lay, weeping, my hands still over my head, the chain running between my legs, and under my body, to the collar. |
10 |
| 2 | 560 |
Then I felt my head drawn up and back, and back, until, his right hand on my knee, his left hand in my hair, I knelt bent backward, my head on the ground, my back bent painfully, my eyes looking up, frightened, at the sky. |
10 |
| 3 | 578 |
Bound as I was I could not well incline my head to him, but, instinctively, I had turned my head to the side, exposing my throat vulnerably to him. |
10 |
| 5 | 386 |
I kept my head down, but he, with his hand, lifted my head up, that the moonlight might fall upon my veiled face. |
10 |
| 8 | 14 |
I knelt head down, shuddering, my hands over my head, in the center of the tiny cage. |
10 |
| 13 | 290 |
Then he began to put me rapidly through the paces of the exhibited female slave; he held me in each position for the sweet instant that well revealed me, tantalizingly, in that attitude or posture, and then barked forth a new command, to a new position or attitude; the sequence of these moves was no... |
10 |
| 18 | 177 |
The sack was drawn up, over my body; I sat, doubled up; my head was pushed down a bit; the sack was drawn shut over my head and, with a snap, locked shut. |
10 |
| 20 | 265 |
She threw herself over me and held my head down, locking her right arm about it; she held her legs about my body, preventing me from using my arms; with her left hand she shoved up, as she could, the collar at my throat; then her head was pulled back and away, suddenly, from me; the sailor had her b... |
10 |
| 20 | 412 |
He lifted my head and brushed back the kerchief on my head. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 599 |
The assailant's hand, that bearing the object of his quest, some curio wrapped in fur, flashed upward, and I turned my head aside as flaming oil from the lamp splashed upon me, the lamp itself struck loose from its tiny chains and flying past my head. |
10 |
| 15 | 1161 |
Imnak lifted his head quickly, and then, understanding the nature of the noise, shook his head and reached over and seized Poalu. |
10 |
| 17 | 3 |
It was the head of a Kur, in bluish stone, the ear at the left side of its head half torn away. |
10 |
| 22 | 185 |
In moments the harpoon shaft and foreshaft bobbed to the surface, but the bone harpoon head, its line taut, turning the head in the wound, held fast. |
10 |
| 24 | 45 |
I drew forth from the interior of the pouch the carved head of a Kur, wrought in bluish stone, that savage head with one ear half torn away. |
10 |
| 24 | 132 |
"Look," I said to her, taking her head and turning it, so that she might see, in the dim light of the lamp, the head of the Kur. |
10 |
| 28 | 223 |
She then backed away, on her knees, and then again put her head to the floor, and then stood up and withdrew, backing away, her head down. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 155 |
The girl, shuddering, standing as she had, her hair in her mouth, her hands behind her head, put her head down, miserably. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 105 |
Immediately the girl placed her hands behind her head and threw her head back, arching her back and body, legs flexed, before me. |
10 |
| 7 | 163 |
She lifted up her head, her head pressed back against the bars. |
10 |
| 11 | 346 |
I lowered my head, gently, to kiss her, but she turned her head away, looking down. |
10 |
| 11 | 640 |
I lowered my head to her, to kiss her, but, again, she twisted her head away. |
10 |
| 21 | 79 |
Then she lifted the yellow side of the gourd to her lips and, lingeringly, turning her head, kissed it; then she lifted it to him with both hands, her head down between her extended arms. |
10 |
| 21 | 378 |
She looked at Barus, and then she knelt before me, and pressed the half-gourd into her naked belly, head down, then lifted it to her lips, and lingeringly kissed it, then proffered it to me, kneeling, arms extended, trembling, head down between her arms. |
10 |
| 24 | 237 |
I reached to her hair and, holding her head with one hand, with the other jerked a few hairs from her head. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 228 |
Then she tried to crawl no more, but knelt, her head down, her head in her hands, weeping, at the side of the berth, a whipped slave. |
10 |
| 8 | 406 |
Accordingly, not speaking, I tore a broad strip from the scarlet sheet and, folding it five times, encircling her head with it, tied it tightly behind the back of her head, blindfolding her with it. |
10 |
| 18 | 542 |
She put her head down, swiftly, to the deep piling of the carpet, her hands beside her head. |
10 |
| 18 | 764 |
Then I took the attached hood and pulled it up and over her head, and then jerked it down, that her head be fully covered. |
10 |
| 19 | 475 |
She put her head down, the slave hood loose on her head. |
10 |
| 20 | 479 |
I saw that her hair, severely drawn back on her head, was fastened behind the back of her head in a bun. |
10 |
| 20 | 928 |
She then stood and faced us, and put her head in her hands, bent over, and then straightened her body, her head and hair thrown back. |
10 |
| 21 | 770 |
Then, kneeling back on her heels she put down her head and, humbly, her arms extended, her head down between them, proffered me the goblet. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 415 |
Other common methods are to hold the victim and tear away the throat from between the head and body, or to bite away the head itself. |
10 |
| 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 |
| 8 | 105 |
She knelt now on the block, back on her heels, her knees spread, her back straight, her head back, her hands behind the back of her head. |
10 |
| 13 | 8 |
I put my hands under the back of my head, on the folded saddle blanket beneath my head. |
10 |
| 13 | 771 |
My head then, by the hair, was placed in this box, and it was closed, enclosing my head, and shutting snugly about my neck. |
10 |
| 19 | 31 |
She then quickly went to the red-haired girl and knelt her, with her hands behind the back of her head and her head back. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 74 |
"The head is there," said Cuwignaka, indicating the head of the beast we had skinned, and had been fleshing. |
10 |
| 9 | 627 |
Had he not examined her, she exhibited, kneeling, hands behind her head, head back, in a familiar posture of slave assessment? Had he not put her to the paws of his kaiila almost immediately, thus utilizing her as the animal of his animal, and thus, in effect, declaring her to be of interest, and cl... |
10 |
| 12 | 256 |
She lifted her head, turning her head so that the side of her neck faced me, that I might touch it, if it pleased me. |
10 |
| 43 | 168 |
Each sack, further, has two sturdy leather handles which come up, high, quite high, one on either side of the occupant's head; if these handles are held together, or tied together, the closure between them will usually be twelve to eighteen inches over the girl's head. |
10 |
| 47 | 93 |
I then, as it lowered its head, took its head in my hands and wept. |
10 |
| 47 | 485 |
Iwoso then closed her eyes, in misery, turning her head away, her head held in place by the ropes under her chin. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 540 |
The head is usually kept raised; this precludes the necessity of a specific command to lift the head; in the head-lifted position she has no choice but to bare her facial beauty to the viewer; too, her least expression may be read; too, of course, she can see who is in the room with her and is thus ... |
10 |
| 8 | 14 |
It was in this fashion, my head down, his hand in my hair, my head turned to the side, hair, too, about my face and features, obscuring them, that Drusus Rencius had chosen to convey me past strangers in the alleys, coming and going to the house of Kliomenes. |
10 |
| 28 | 49 |
I lowered my head and body, from the waist down, humbly, and then, slowly, gracefully, lifted my body and head to where I might look up into the eyes of the aide. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 736 |
She drew the hair from her mouth, drawing some of it, in loosening it, deeply back between her teeth, with her head back, as though she might have been in the constraint of a gag strap, all this to the music, and then her hair was free, and, with a movement of her head and movements of her hands, be... |
10 |
| 6 | 574 |
Kneel now, and straighten your body, putting your head back, clasping your hands behind the back of your head. |
10 |
| 10 | 627 |
I then knotted it with itself, over her head, thus enclosing her head within it. |
10 |
| 12 | 709 |
She took his sandaled foot in her small hands and, putting her head down, placed it on her head. |
10 |
| 12 | 722 |
She put her head up, the palms of her hands in the dust, looking at him; then she again lowered her head, trembling. |
10 |
| 16 | 812 |
She put her head back, her hands clasped behind the back of her head, and arched her back, her legs bent. |
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| 20 | 303 |
"The head is the head of Belnar!" cried a man, crouching down near it. |
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| 3 | 437 |
The beast grunting, slowed, dragging the girl's weight; she clung fiercely to the halter; it moved its head about, pulling her about, from side to side, shaking her; it tossed its head impatiently upward, lifting her literally from the ground. |
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| 16 | 881 |
I lifted her head up by the hair, and turned her head, with both hands. |
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| 25 | 255 |
Put your head to the floor, pull your tunic up over your head!" Frightened, the woman did as she was told. |
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| 25 | 905 |
When we appeared before her cage, she put her head down to the blanket, the palms of her hands on the floor of the cage, beside her head. |
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| 25 | 1869 |
She lay there then, on her belly, mostly stripped, her arms extended over her head, her head turned to the side, her wrists crossed and bound tightly together, lashed to the slave ring, his purse about her neck. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Whip I screamed suddenly under it awakening under it startled not believing it not expecting it the suddenness it was like lightning the cracking sound like the sky breaking the snap like fire my body wrenching I pulling upwards the chain on my neck I fell to my side I pulled at the chain then t... |
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| 4 | 72 |
"Put your hands, clasped, behind the back of your head, and put your head back," he said. |
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| 10 | 858 |
Quickly I fell to my knees before Hendow, he in the great chair on the dais, and put my head to the carpet, the palms of my hands, too, on the carpet, beside my head, performing slave obeisance. |
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| 15 | 67 |
She then pulled the hood of the cloak up and put it about my head, and pulled it down before me, fully over my head, and tied it, as she had the strings, earlier, about my neck. |
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| 16 | 63 |
I shook my head, no, no, no! "You even informed on me when I was so kind as to bring you a pastry," she said, "for which I was beaten!" I shook my head wildly, no! "But I have made it now so that you will no longer have the protection and favor of Hendow, whom you have bewitched," she said. |
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| 22 | 113 |
One of his men then put a gag in my mouth, attached to a slave hood, fastened it in place, and then pulled the hood up behind my head, and then down, over my head, and buckled it shut about my neck. |
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| 29 | 519 |
Then, oddly enough, it put its front paws, of its six legs, up on the well, and thrust its head over the upper wall of the well, and then lowered its head, apparently peering within. |
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| 24 | 105 |
The head of Claudia was turned to the left, her head between her arms; the head of Publia was turned to the right, her head between her arms. |
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| 8 | 396 |
The tarn opened and closed its wings, and she lowered her head, turning it to the side, and shrank down, frightened, cringing, so low that her head was but inches from the ground. |
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| 15 | 188 |
I then went to stand near our warder, lying on her stomach in the straw, her head to the wall, her legs spread, her head covered with her hands and arms. |
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| 15 | 601 |
Then, seeing my eyes on her, she wept and put down her head, kneeling low, her hands still over her head. |
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| 15 | 1046 |
There are numerous ways in which such fraud may be terminated, for example, to throw the woman into water, to hold her head under water for a bit, to see if she tries to free her head, sputtering and begging for mercy, to put her under the whip, to use the bastinado on the soles of her feet, to claw... |
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| 21 | 323 |
"But you can see, Commander," she said, suddenly lifting her hands to her head, "that my hair has been cut, and shortly, too!" She rubbed her hand over the brush of hair on her head. |
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| 1 | 2 |
"Yes, Master," she said, lifting her head a little from the dirt, where, before me, in the camp of Cos, on the south bank of the Vosk, north of Holmesk, she knelt, head down, the palms of her hands on the ground. |
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| 1 | 767 |
Then she put herself to the dirt before him in what, had she been a dancer, and on a different surface, might have been termed "floor movements," such things as turnings and twistings, rollings and crawlings, sometimes on her hands and knees, sometimes on her stomach; sometimes, too, she would be kn... |
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| 18 | 50 |
I saw with satisfaction the men of Ar take what shelter they could, digging into the sand, pulling blankets about them, covering themselves with rence, wrapping cloths about their head and eyes, burying their head in their arms, doing whatever they could do to prepare themselves for the imminent arr... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 19 | 476 |
She put down her head, her head in her hands, and sobbed. |
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| 22 | 518 |
When near him she lifted her head slightly, hardly daring to meet his eyes, and then she knelt before him, as before a master, doing obeisance onto him, her head down to the stones before his golden sandals, the palms of her hands, too, on the stones. |
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| 22 | 557 |
Was the handsome fellow in some sort of danger? Were there risks involved which might be clear to them, if not to others? She then put her head to the side, brushing up the purple tunic with the side of her head, kissing and licking at his thigh beneath the tunic. |
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| 37 | 1064 |
But it might have been to his advantage had he paid closer attention to the figure in the water for suddenly the thing behind Abnik rose up in the water and, at the same time, we saw the quarrel of a bow emerge and the cable snapped forward and the quarrel took the lieutenant in the side of the thro... |
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| 11 | 991 |
Then she returned both hands to my hair and, still holding it up, over my head, twisted my head to the left, and back, thus exposing now the right side of my head to the chair. |
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| 3 | 7 |
I turned, of course, immediately, and fell to my knees, putting my head down to the lavender grass, as was its color here, in this portion of the garden, the palms of my hands down, too, on the grass, beside my head. |
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| 7 | 931 |
"Head up!" I now knelt before them, as Aynur had commanded, positioned, my head up. |
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| 8 | 852 |
Suddenly from my right emergent out of the dusk so quick so fierce so fast so large its head perhaps two feet in width the head large triangular its eyes blazing lunging toward the bars big the thing a hideous noise bars body pressing scratching I leaping back, screaming, it biting at the bars the f... |
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| 11 | 985 |
She turned my head to the right and held it back, exposing the left side of my head to the chair. |
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| 16 | 562 |
He lifted me in his arms, and turned me about, so that my head was toward the head of the divan. |
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| 29 | 177 |
Put your head to the tiles!" She, kneeling, in the outer robe of concealment, in the hood, in the veil, thrust her head down to the tiles. |
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| 29 | 218 |
No, do not dare to lift your head, hated slave!" The slave kept her head down. |
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| 43 | 22 |
Even the filings from the saw had been gathered in a silken napkin, laid under my head and neck, my hair tied up, over my head. |
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| 43 | 104 |
She was sitting at the wall, naked, on the straw, her knees drawn up, her head down, hair before her face, her wrists up, tied together, over her head, fastened to a ring in the wall. |
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| 28 | 144 |
He called Bosk of Port Kar, that fearful larl of a man, drew then his blade and went behind the beast, seized the fur of its head, thus holding the head, and then, with two terrible strokes of that small, wicked weapon, cut away the head. |
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| 8 | 216 |
Tutina's blond hair was bound back with a woolen ribbon, or fillet, which went completely about the head, across the brow, and was knotted behind the back of the head, two ends then dangling downward, each about six inches in length. |
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| 10 | 221 |
Slowly, head down, she crawled to him, and then, after crawling up the steps of the dais, she lifted her head to him. |
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| 10 | 242 |
Immediately, kneeling, she put her head to the floor, the palms of her hands on the floor, beside her head. |
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| 15 | 111 |
As soon as the bracelets were removed Ellen, unbidden, went to first obeisance position, head down to the rug, the palms of her hands now on the rug, on either side of her head. |
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| 15 | 433 |
She was then kneeling on the rug before the dais, on which reposed the curule chair, her head to the rug, the palms of her hands on the rug, too, on either side of her head. |
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| 15 | 681 |
She moved a little closer to him, and then, suddenly, beggingly, impulsively, as if she scarcely knew what she was doing, put her head to his right knee, turning her head and resting the side of her face, her left cheek, on his knee. |
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| 16 | 814 |
One of the women being herded through the square, she who was first in the coffle, turned angrily in her chains and seemed about to reply, but the man nearest to her raised his hand, palm open, menacingly, and she put down her head, cringing, and hurried forward, turning her head so that the pressur... |
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| 17 | 997 |
Then she was aware of something dark being lifted over her head, and then it was pulled down, over her head. |
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| 18 | 431 |
Ellen clasped her hands behind the back of her head, and held her head up and back, in this position looking rather at the height of the great portal, leading into the barn area, from the platform outside. |
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| 20 | 963 |
Am I not near the head of the coffle? As she lay there, her arms over her head, to protect it from the sun as well as she could, she became aware of a whispering in the coffle, proceeding toward her. |
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| 23 | 4 |
Ellen swiftly went to the first obeisance position before Mirus, and then crawled forward a foot, her head still down, and pressed her lips fearfully to his sandals, then backed away a few inches, and kept her head down. |
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| 24 | 412 |
I am that sort of woman, she who is, and knows herself to be, a man's slave, only that! Please do not beat me! Then she rose to her feet and put her veil about her head, wrapping it closely about her head and shoulders, concealing even her face. |
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| 25 | 668 |
"Stand facing the masters," said the auctioneer, "stand straight, straighter, legs spread, more widely, clasp your hands behind the back of your head, head back, hold that position!" In a moment Ellen heard the woman shriek. |
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| 26 | 1104 |
Sometimes they are placed over the head and tied about the neck; sometimes they are placed over the head and tied about the belly, the woman's hands and arms within them. |
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| 27 | 2982 |
They are ruthless! They will stop at nothing! I can arrange an alliance with them! Their headquarters is in the city of—" A moment before this instant the camp was unexpectedly shattered by a great roar of fury, of howling, unbridled ferocity, and at the same time the great mound of beasts, h... |
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| 30 | 159 |
She screamed, and put down her head, and was struck again, and raised her head and put it back, sobbing, and was again struck. |
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| 29 | 310 |
In the tiny bit of light remaining she detected a large head, perhaps a yard across, wet, glistening from the water, on a long, thick neck, wet, glistening, the head some fifteen feet away, moving on the neck, weaving almost as might have the head of the giant hith, Gor's mightiest constrictor. |
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| 33 | 193 |
Another head, the shorter, wider head, on the shorter neck, emerged behind Cabot and he, alerted by the tiny sound, spun about, and, crouched down, jabbed at the head, over the slave's prone body, and the point of the stick, blackened, and fire-hardened, but perhaps over sharpened, intended not for ... |
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| 1 | 832 |
At one point, she shook her head wildly, and then, a few moments later, apprising herself of the gravity, and more clearly of the nature of her surroundings, she threw back her head and apparently screamed in misery and terror, though one could not hear her outside the container. |
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| 1 | 1258 |
He shook her head, good-naturedly, and she put her head gently against him. |
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| 3 | 102 |
She did not remove her arms and hands from her body, but she straightened her body, and lifted her head, and shook her head a little, to throw her hair behind her. |
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| 11 | 183 |
"I feel that those who judge too exactly, too critically, of such matters," said Peisistratus, "the position of the hands, the perfect framing of the head and body with the arms, the angle of the head, the lightness or moderation of a stamping foot, such things, miss much of the pleasure of the danc... |
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| 19 | 1 |
The Intervention of the Steel Larl There was suddenly above Cabot a rushing sound and a torrent of fire and Cabot turned his head away, half blinded, and was barely aware of the gigantic, headless trunk above him, the parts of arms, striking about him, and the charred particles of parts of a blacke... |
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| 19 | 91 |
The machine seemed to lift its head, and turn it in one direction, and then its head, on the mechanical neck, rotated to another direction, opposite. |
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| 19 | 105 |
The head of the machine, as it sat, like a larl, was several feet above his head. |
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| 30 | 95 |
Most commonly it is no more than the placing of herself before him as his slave, perhaps putting herself to her knees, her head down, contritely, to his feet, perhaps ministering to them with her lips and tongue, perhaps placing his foot gently upon her head, perhaps approaching him penitently, on a... |
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| 32 | 101 |
She laughed, merrily, and then, as though first noticing the slave, she said, "What have we here?" "Head down," said Cabot to the slave, and she lowered her head. |
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| 32 | 109 |
Then she said to the slave, "Lift your head, girl!" The slave lifted her head, quickly, frightened, looking straight ahead. |
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| 33 | 186 |
A large head had lifted itself out of the water and was reaching, head turned, for Grendel, who struck its jaw with the ax. |
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| 33 | 252 |
But its advance was oddly, abruptly, arrested, and its gigantic paddlelike appendages churned in the water, but they did not move the tons of massive body forward, and then most of the body disappeared beneath the surface, almost as though drawn back, and down, and its head, on the long neck, rose u... |
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| 40 | 217 |
The slave put down her head and gently kissed her master's foot, and then lifted her head to regard him. |
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| 43 | 420 |
Cabot, from behind, carefully placed the strip of narrow cloth over the eyes of the free woman, and then, drawing it back, wrapped it about her head, and then again, and then secured it at the back of her head. |
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| 53 | 222 |
Then there seemed a frenzy of activity within, an energetic wriggling, and the whole head and a shoulder emerged, ears laid back, all glistening and bloody, and blood began to run down the side of the womb, profusely, and Cabot stepped back, further, and then, suddenly, a small body emerged, and clu... |
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| 57 | 81 |
The Lady Bina crawled slowly, painfully, from the tiny shelter, against the weight of the chains, lifted her head briefly, saw Lord Grendel, cast a look of terror at him, and then knelt shuddering before the group, her head down, to the dirt, as commanded. |
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| 63 | 142 |
The leader of the cattle humans, blood about his teeth, where he had bitten his prey, was seized in the mighty paws of Lord Grendel, lifted high in the air, and then flung to the earth, this breaking the back and neck of the leader of the cattle humans, who was then, as Lord Grendel had not loosened... |
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| 75 | 19 |
She lifted her head a little, saw his eyes, and then put her head down, again, quickly. |
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| 76 | 50 |
The slave fought the bracelets; she turned her head back and forth, in frustration, in the chain leash that held her head back, against the post. |
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| 77 | 294 |
Flavion's great blade again swung in a mighty arc and Cabot caught it on the double head of his own ax, and a blast of sparks burst into the air, and the head of Cabot's ax hung in its bindings, loose, against the haft of his ax. |
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| 77 | 295 |
Cabot lifted the ax, again, the head dangling, and a second blow broke the haft of his ax, and tore it from his hands, and Cabot, defenseless, the head of the ax, and the parts of the ax, in the dirt, yards away, stood at bay. |
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| 10 | 258 |
Tajima then, carefully, lifted the sheet away from the figure's head, and it was, indeed, Miss Wentworth, who shook her head, angrily, as though to free her head even the more swiftly from the folds of the sheet. |
10 |
| 10 | 68 |
In first obeisance position, often assumed by a slave in the presence of a free man, she kneels with her head to the ground, and the palms of her hands down on the ground on either side of her head. |
10 |
| 11 | 326 |
"With lowered head?" "Yes," she said, putting her head down. |
10 |
| 12 | 231 |
When it flung its head about, it was struck a terrible blow on the side of the head. |
10 |
| 12 | 284 |
The tarn raised its crested head to the sky, and then lowered its head, again, for the pleasure of the fellow's touch. |
10 |
| 12 | 357 |
He who writes poetry and sips tea, and waits expectantly for a flower to blossom, may, in a frenzy, on the field of battle, take head after head. |
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| 15 | 3 |
"Get on your knees, put your head to his feet!" She went to her knees before Pertinax, her head to the floor of the hut. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 1064 |
As I lay, supine, and backward sloping, my head low, my wrists over my head, behind my head, on each side, in the clamps, my ankles higher, on each side, in their clamps, my left thigh held immobile in its double clamps, he took my hair in his hand. |
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| 1 | 432 |
She, perhaps from the silence, perhaps sensing his gaze, lifted her head, but, seeing his eyes upon her, quickly put down her head, again. |
10 |
| 3 | 146 |
She leaned forward, and, as I gestured, even more so, and I took her chin gently in my hand and then, I, too, leaning forward, lifted her head, and then turned her head from side to side. |
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| 3 | 884 |
As a man, you probably do not know what it is for a woman to kneel before a man, to be at his feet, to lift your head, to look up at him, or to keep your head down before him, if commanded. |
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| 8 | 130 |
She put the black wine to the side on the deck, and put her head to the boards, before me, her hands beside the sides of her head. |
10 |
| 12 | 81 |
Sometimes she had lifted her head, her face white and rain-streaked, to look up at me, but I had paid her little attention, and she would soon put her head down, again. |
10 |
| 28 | 13 |
Both then went to first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the floor, palms of the hands down on the floor, at the sides of their head. |
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| 35 | 70 |
His hair was drawn back on his head, and fastened in a knot, behind the back of his head. |
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| 37 | 1104 |
"Now," said Callias to the kneeling girl, bent over, her head down to the floor, "to your belly, and wriggle across the floor, to your master, and then put your head down, and lick and kiss his feet, until you are permitted to stop". |
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| 4 | 639 |
I felt the tip of her switch beneath my chin, and, responsive to its pressure, I lifted my head, and then, on all fours, my head up, guided by the switch, by its gentle pressure, first on one side of my face and then the other, I was moved about, faced to the left, and then to the right, and then, a... |
10 |
| 7 | 463 |
Swiftly I knelt, my head to the floor, the palms of my hands on the floor, at the sides of my head. |
10 |
| 7 | 705 |
Should I assume obeisance position, first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the tiles, hands to floor, perhaps second obeisance position, belly to the floor, palms down, beside my head, where one might reach inch forth, to press one's lips to his feet? How slave I felt, waiting. |
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| 8 | 915 |
To my right, the Lady Persinna, still kneeling, head down, was weeping, her head again in her hands. |
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| 10 | 1167 |
"Move," he said, and I saw the two slaves pass me, on the right, tied together, closely, head to head, by the hair, their tunics torn to the waist, their hands thonged tightly behind them, their backs and the back of their thighs richly striped from the blows of a switch. |
10 |
| 17 | 265 |
I felt my head pulled back by the hair, and I was then, head back, facing upward, toward the billowing, striped awning, which I could not see. |
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| 17 | 423 |
I was turned about, and the blindfold, retrieved from his belt, where he had placed it, keeping it at hand, was again wrapped about my head, twice, and knotted, behind my head, and I was, as before, securely and perfectly blindfolded. |
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| 27 | 168 |
As soon as we saw that the entrant was male we went to first-obeisance position, kneeling, head to the floor, hands, palms down, at the side of our head. |
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| 27 | 385 |
She then cried out in rage, and a storm of blows fell upon me, and I went, gasping and sobbing, to all fours, and then to my belly, trying to cover my head, and then, struck repeatedly, I was twisting on the floor, back to belly, then belly to back, and then to belly, again, and then the blows stopp... |
10 |
| 37 | 144 |
It had jointed metal legs, and a metal torso, but no obvious head, unless the head and torso were one. |
10 |
| 45 | 307 |
He then put a great paw in my hair, and shook my head, affectionately, as one might the head of domestic sleen. |
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| 41 | 65 |
I thrust my wet hair back about my head, and, keeping my hands behind my head, put my head far back, and lifted it to the late-afternoon sky, my back arched, the water streaming from my body, sparkling in its droplets falling to the river. |
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| 7 | 169 |
He then straightened up, angrily, and, she crying out in pain, jerked her to her feet, and held her beside him, bent over at the waist, her head tight against his hip, her head down, facing the floor, she then in leading position. |
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| 8 | 306 |
Each had long hair, and, by the hair, I fastened them together, knotting them, head to head, close to one another. |
10 |
| 8 | 442 |
The opaque cloth of the blindfold had been wrapped twice, snugly, about her head, and knotted in place, behind her head. |
10 |
| 13 | 26 |
Shortly after having arrived at Tarncamp, after our collaring, and before we were given tunics, we were put in examination position, standing, feet spread, head back, hands clasped behind the back of our head. |
10 |
| 15 | 483 |
"Head up," he said, and I was permitted to lift my head. |
10 |
| 26 | 210 |
The head was fixed to the shaft, not detachable as is often the case with the military javelin, which is likely to be socketed in such a way that after a strike the missile cannot be drawn free whole, to be immediately reused, perhaps by an enemy The head, of course, can be resocketed later. |
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| 39 | 37 |
Then, after a time, he pulled her head up, out of the water, and she looked at him, turning her head as she could, sputtering, coughing, water in her eyes, his hand tight in her hair, gasping for breath. |
10 |
| 39 | 648 |
I bent down quickly and put my head down to the dirt, and my hands on my head. |
10 |
| 41 | 110 |
I had not even obtained a good look at the sleen's use master, let alone his fellow, as by the time of his arrival, I was kneeling, bent down, my head to the dirt, my hands over my head, expecting the momentary attack of the sleen. |
10 |
| 41 | 466 |
"Kneel, put your head to the dirt!" Instantly, I knelt, my head to the dirt. |
10 |
| 43 | 291 |
Axel put his head down, close to the shaggy, massive head of the beast. |
10 |
| 48 | 38 |
Again, as I had long ago, on the first day of my escape from Shipcamp, I thought I saw a beast's head in the shadows, looking at me, a large, broad, motionless head. |
10 |
| 52 | 121 |
We stopped several paces from the gate, and I sank to my knees, gasping for air, on the grass between the stockade gate and the head of the stairway leading down to the river, and he was crouching beside me, his head down, coughing. |
10 |
| 52 | 826 |
"Fetch it," he said, "as a whip is fetched!" I crawled to the whip on all fours, and put down my head, and took the long handle, it is made to be held in two hands, just behind the blades, in my teeth, turned about, and returned to him, on all fours, and lifted my head to him, the whip between my te... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 421 |
Instantly, frightened, she went to her knees, her head to the floor, the palms of her hands on the floor, beside her head. |
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| 19 | 259 |
Before him, fallen to her knees, her head to the floor, her hands still clasped behind her head, was a dark-haired slave. |
10 |
| 20 | 195 |
Instantly the slave assumed first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the floor, the palms of her hands on the floor, beside her lowered head. |
10 |
| 21 | 339 |
She lifted her head to him, and he bent down, and, forcing her head back against the saddle apron, crushed her lips beneath his, with the master's kiss, that possessive kiss, wholly at his will, subjected to which the slave well understands his will is all, and she is owned. |
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| 42 | 144 |
Whereas most commonly the head is raised, that the master may observe the beauty of her features and read her tiniest expression, and note how beautifully her throat is encircled with his collar, some masters prefer the slave's head to be lowered, submissively. |
10 |
| 42 | 156 |
She went gratefully, unbidden, to first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the ground, palms of her hands beside her head. |
10 |
| 49 | 60 |
Momentarily, she seemed about to cover her body with her hands, perhaps a reflex dating back to the time of her freedom, but withdrew her hands instantly, and swiftly, unbidden, frightened, knelt in first obeisance position, head to the floor, the palms of her hands on the floor, on each side of her... |
10 |
| 61 | 18 |
He rubbed that large, triangular head against my leg, and I fondled his head, roughly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 689 |
The cold waters of the river plunged through the bars, and swirled about me, and then, as I tried to rear up, and lift my head, as I could, it swirled about my head, and over my head. |
10 |
| 9 | 721 |
But it was painful to kneel so, my head turned as it was, the right side of my head, and then the left side of my head, held closely against the steel ceiling of the cage. |
10 |
| 7 | 243 |
"Kneel, bitch," said a voice, "head down, head to the floor, in your appropriate collar and chain. |
10 |
| 10 | 75 |
I had been taught two or three of the most common examination positions in the training house, one of which I assumed, a bit unsteadily, feet widely spread, hands clasped behind the back of the head, head up, and back, looking upward. |
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| 11 | 208 |
Then, as though with great effort, my head down, I struggled to a kneeling position, and knelt behind and below the pole, my wrists raised, on either side of my head, held in the manacles. |
10 |
| 14 | 60 |
Selena had, in the time at her disposal, coached me in certain niceties of serving, that there was an order to utensils and courses, that one should serve from the left, that there was a way to pour, that free women were to be served first, that one should keep one's head down, and eyes lowered, tha... |
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| 15 | 10 |
I went to the first obeisance position, kneeling, my head down to the furs, my hands, palms down, at the sides of my head. |
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| 19 | 52 |
I thought it might be a head but it was surely too broad for a head. |
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| 24 | 43 |
Putting my head back, in the hood, I could feel canvas behind my head. |
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| 24 | 76 |
After a time there was a tapping on the kennel gate, and I rose to my knees, and put my head down, to the floor of the kennel, the palms of my hands beside my head, in first obeisance position. |
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| 25 | 43 |
The head, a large head, had moved a little, gently swaying, as he had entered, scanning the room. |
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| 41 | 83 |
I sensed a movement to my left, turned my head, and immediately knelt, humbly, submissively, head down, for it was a free woman. |
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| 65 | 339 |
Lucilius roared with rage and leapt at Lord Grendel, with a mighty stroke of the great ax, but Lord Grendel crouched down and, lifting his own ax, gripped in two hands, or paws, struck upward, bringing the blade of his own ax into play, against the higher end of the shaft of the descending ax, and t... |
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| 65 | 372 |
The blanket partly about me, I went to the first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the ground, the palms of my hands at the sides of my head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 143 |
Did I not know I was a slave? Was it not clear enough, when I was released from the cage, and knelt, my head to the floor, my crossed wrists lifted high behind me for binding? Could there be any doubt about the matter when I knelt, bound, before the master, and, my head lifted, the whip was put to m... |
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| 10 | 264 |
The newcomer then turned toward me and I instantly lowered my head, hair falling about my face, pressed the goblet back, low, firmly, against my body, feeling the metal pressing into my belly, and then I lifted it to my lips and kissed it, deferentially, and then, my head down between my extended ar... |
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| 13 | 31 |
As soon as I had heard the curtains parted I had gone to first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the floor, the palms of my hands on the floor, on either side of my head. |
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| 22 | 92 |
Did I not know that the response to a command is to be immediate and unquestioning? Did I think I was still a free woman? I assumed first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the floor, the palms of my hands on the floor, on either side of my head. |
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| 33 | 410 |
He then straightened my body, shook my head, cruelly, roughly, burning my scalp with pain, and thrust my head under water. |
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| 39 | 172 |
I turned my head piteously toward him, but he thrust my head, held by the hair, back to the panel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 97 |
She put her head to the floor, the palms of her hands down, beside her head. |
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| 6 | 145 |
"Resume your former position, hands beside your head, head to the floor". |
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| 10 | 18 |
First-obeisance position is more common, where the girl kneels, head down, with her hands, palms down, beside her head. |
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| 60 | 218 |
I caught a flash of roiling color within it, saw teeth cutting at its fibers, saw part of a body, short, serpentine, and muscular, bulging and distending cords, and saw a cord severed and a triangular head, viperish, thrust through torn mesh, followed by half a body, when Clitus cried out, "Ho!" and... |
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