| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 51 |
It held a calm, hazy blue radiance. |
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| 1 | 137 |
Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an in... |
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| 2 | 264 |
He rose and gripped me by the shoulders, held me for a moment and smiled. |
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| 4 | 29 |
My body lurched wildly, but the saddle belt held. |
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| 6 | 167 |
But across the marsh, with his swift prancing stride, came Nar, and in his mandibles, held gently but firmly, the daughter of the Ubar Marlenus. |
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| 7 | 24 |
She knelt in the green stagnant water, her hands held out to me, pleading, as if she suddenly realized the full horror of her plight, what it would mean to be abandoned in the swamp forest. |
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| 7 | 83 |
I held the daughter of the Ubar tightly as the insect righted himself, floating in the muck for a second, and then managing to free himself with his eight scrambling legs. |
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| 8 | 68 |
Talena had picked up his sword and struck off the hand that held the dagger. |
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| 8 | 71 |
Talena, naked, still held the bloody sword, her eyes glassy with the horror of what she had done. |
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| 9 | 77 |
I laughed and held her briefly in my arms. |
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| 9 | 164 |
The warrior, who held his shoulder, blood streaming down from his hand, smiled bitterly. |
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| 10 | 182 |
Then she held out her small hand imperiously. |
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| 11 | 12 |
If I could have, I would in that moment have rewritten the past, would have selfishly abandoned the quest for the Home Stone—yes, willingly would have left the scattered hostile cities of Gor to face, one by one, the imperialistic depredations of Ar, if it were not for one thing—the gi... |
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| 14 | 13 |
In his hands he held the Stone itself, that humble source of so much strife, bloodshed and honor. |
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| 14 | 14 |
He held it gently, as though it might have been a child. |
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| 14 | 85 |
I seized it, twisting it, and, using it like a bar held by the men, leaped into the air, kicking at them. |
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| 14 | 86 |
I heard two screams of pain and found that I held the lance. |
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| 14 | 101 |
"Has this warrior not earned his right to the tarn death?" "He has indeed," said one of the tarnsmen, who held a wadded lump of tunic over his slashed rib cage. |
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| 15 | 64 |
My luck held, and I scaled the interior corral wall and dropped to the trampled path between the corral and the tents of Mintar's men. |
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| 16 | 145 |
Perhaps it was something in the carriage of the muffled figure, something in the way the head was held. |
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| 18 | 64 |
I had managed to bring down the tarn wire of Ar; I had learned that Marlenus still lived and held a portion of the Central Cylinder, and I had found out when and where the execution of Talena was supposed to take place. |
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| 18 | 89 |
For several minutes I examined the blank wall, sure that it held the secret of Marlenus's entrance into the city. |
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| 19 | 218 |
We held one another, and her eyes, wet with tears, lifted to mine. |
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| 20 | 30 |
When I returned to Ko-ro-ba with Talena, a great feast was held and we celebrated our Free Companionship. |
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| 20 | 53 |
In my hand I held the ring of red metal, the ring that bore the crest of Cabot, the gift of my father. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
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| 1 | 159 |
At the doorway he held out his hand. |
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| 2 | 65 |
And now again I held it in my hand. |
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| 3 | 33 |
I had scarcely stepped from the stones of the road when, coming down the road, each step carefully measured and solid, I saw a wide, hunched figure, bending under a gigantic bundle of sticks, strapped to his back by two cords which he held twisted in his fists in front of his body. |
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| 3 | 131 |
Step by step, he approached me, the ax held over his shoulder with both hands. |
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| 4 | 6 |
An ost, I thought! But the fangs held fast, and I heard the popping, sucking sounds of the bladderlike seed pods of a leech plant, as they expanded and contracted like small ugly lungs. |
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| 4 | 13 |
I held the quivering plant up. |
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| 4 | 104 |
In that brief moment, in the tiny pool of blood I held, I saw not myself but a strange face, like a globe of gold with disklike eyes, a face like none I had ever seen, a face that struck an eerie terror into my heart. |
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| 5 | 79 |
He seemed ready to fall, and I held him. |
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| 6 | 4 |
Four times a year, correlated with the solstices and equinoxes, there are fairs held in the plains below the mountains, presided over by committees of Initiates, fairs in which men of many cities mingle without bloodshed, times of truce, times of contests and games, of bargaining and marketing. |
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| 6 | 182 |
I held her arm. |
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| 8 | 69 |
With one hand he held the folds together, lest the wind should lift the cloth and reveal his face, and with the other hand, he clutched the rail on the bridge, as if uncomfortable, uneasy at the height. |
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| 10 | 69 |
My wrists were held in position, and the device closed on my throat and wrists. |
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| 10 | 81 |
It was he who held the whip. |
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| 11 | 77 |
In her hand, covered with a glove of gold, she held a small, dark leather sack, half filled with coins. |
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| 11 | 121 |
Lara held up her gloved hand for silence. |
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| 12 | 39 |
Then, without speaking more, she picked up the bread from the pan, and held it for me. |
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| 13 | 38 |
Pure in its glove of gold it held a golden scarf. |
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| 14 | 126 |
It held. |
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| 15 | 91 |
Had I not known more of tarns, I might have guessed that it held me in some sort of affection. |
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| 15 | 112 |
I caught her wrists and held her fast. |
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| 15 | 227 |
In its talons it held a great piece of meat, bloody and raw, which had been torn from some kill, perhaps a bosk more than twenty pasangs away. |
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| 15 | 244 |
She held her robes about her and watched the flowers, like a yellow sea, roll and ripple in the wind. |
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| 16 | 23 |
I did not dismount, but held the Tatrix more firmly. |
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| 16 | 108 |
The warrior whose arm had been broken knelt on the marble flooring of the pillar, bent over, rocking back and forth, the injured arm held against his body. |
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| 17 | 91 |
Though he might never see the light of the sun, yet it was he who held the whip, he who was Ubar in this macabre dungeon. |
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| 18 | 31 |
"The tarn carried her off like a tabuk!" His laughter, which spread to the other slaves in the room, those chained to me, was uproarious, and I understood better than I had understood before the affection with which the Tatrix of Tharna was held in the mines. |
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| 18 | 103 |
I took the lamp and went, some of my fellow prisoners perforce accompanying me, and held it to the circular shaft, about two feet in diameter, down which the water would hurtle. |
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| 18 | 145 |
Once the second man slipped, dragging the first down with him, and causing the third to lose his grip, but by now there was a solid chain of men in the tunnel, and the fourth and the fifth men held. |
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| 19 | 30 |
I tried to press forward, but the men of the chain held firm. |
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| 19 | 103 |
He held that great hammer in his massive fists like a lance across his body. |
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| 20 | 1 |
The Invisible Barrier In my hand I held a sword, taken from one of the guardsmen in the mines. |
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| 20 | 8 |
Almost all of them had been broken into by the slaves, and whatever they held had been taken or scattered. |
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| 21 | 18 |
"Tal," I said to two guardsmen who crouched at the side of a fire, playing Stones, a guessing game in which one person must guess whether the number of stones held in the fist of another is odd or even. |
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| 21 | 64 |
At the sight of the glowing metal the girl uncontrollably screamed, pulling at the slave bracelets, at the shackles that held her to the tree. |
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| 21 | 201 |
"I paid a hundred silver tarn disks for her myself!" Behind Targo the grizzled man quickly held up his fingers, opening and closing them five times. |
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| 22 | 86 |
After this incredible outburst she went to the side of the tent, and held one of the hangings with her fist, thrusting her face against it. |
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| 22 | 199 |
Targo then dug into the pouch which he wore at his side and held out two yellow cords, about eighteen inches apiece. |
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| 22 | 227 |
Humbly she held the cords up for me to accept, her eyes bright, entreating, raised to mine. |
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| 23 | 53 |
I held her more closely. |
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| 23 | 202 |
Several of them held crossbows; at least four others had spears poised; some boasted swords; but many of them carried nothing more than a chain or sharpened pole. |
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| 23 | 232 |
The huge, scarred hands of a Metal Worker were held out to me. |
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| 24 | 244 |
I held this in the opening. |
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| 24 | 263 |
On the steps before the throne there stood a warrior, fully armed, who held in his hands the blue helmet of his city. |
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| 25 | 64 |
He held, leashed, the large, sleek white urt which I had encountered in the pit inside the palace door. |
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| 25 | 89 |
I heard his terrified command, the feeble cracking of that whip held in an arm almost paralyzed with fear, his abrupt almost noiseless scream. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2 |
I grasped the hand that held the sponge and found that I held a girl's wrist. |
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| 20 | 99 |
While the globe did its work, and held the girl's head in place, the attendant at the cylinder unlocked the five latches which held it shut and swung it open. |
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| 1 | 13 |
It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate... |
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| 2 | 73 |
Now hearing the growl of such a beast, I threw back my cloak, lifted my shield and held my spear ready. |
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| 3 | 4 |
One was thrown on its back, so violent was its rush, and the other stood wildly for a moment towering over me like a rearing giant stallion, its huge claws slashing the air, fighting the collar that held it from me. |
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| 6 | 34 |
The position of the Tower Slave, in which Vika knelt, differs from that of a free woman only in the position of the wrists which are held before her and, when not occupied, crossed as though for binding. |
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| 6 | 133 |
I held her shoulders more firmly and shook her to force her to speak. |
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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 | 51 |
Down from the cavity where the energy bulb had been there hung, blasted and smoking, a tangle of wires, a ruptured metal diaphragm and a conical receptacle which might once have held a lens. |
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| 8 | 53 |
Impatient, I seized her by the arm and yanked her to the platform and held her there in my arms. |
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| 9 | 188 |
My hands on her arms held her from me. |
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| 12 | 243 |
I approached him and held out my hand. |
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| 12 | 245 |
It took my hand and awkwardly held it, not knowing how to shake hands apparently. |
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| 12 | 247 |
He held his hand out with the back of his hand up. |
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| 14 | 1 |
The Secret Chamber of Misk The arms of the metal device seized me and I found myself held helplessly by the arms suspended some feet above the floor. |
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| 14 | 24 |
I was considering my next insult when the two arms which held me swung me over a metal cage with a double floor, the higher consisting of narrow bars set in a wide mesh and the lower consisting simply of a white plastic tray. |
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| 14 | 25 |
The metal appendages which held me suddenly sprang open and I was dropped into the cage. |
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| 14 | 110 |
In the beginning I held out for one shower a day as quite sufficient but poor Misk seemed so upset that I agreed to up my proposal to two. |
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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 | 45 |
I held the torch high and looked at the Priest-King, who was rather small for a Priest-King, being only about twelve feet long. |
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| 16 | 15 |
I rushed to the figure on the table, the torch held as though to strike it. |
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| 16 | 122 |
I still held the memory of the lonely, beautiful woman whom I had known so briefly in my childhood, who in those short years had so loved me. |
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| 16 | 210 |
I was silent and Misk did not speak and the only noise in that paneled metallic laboratory that was the cradle of a Priest-King was the soft crackle of the blue torch I held. |
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| 20 | 62 |
In the cylinder, save for her head which was held in place by a circular opening in the top of the cylinder, was a girl, clad in the traditional robes of concealment, even to the veil, whose gloved hands pressed helplessly against the interior of the cylinder. |
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| 20 | 113 |
The attendant on the disk had now broken open the blue plastic wrapper that held, fresh and folded, the garment of a Chamber Slave. |
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| 21 | 57 |
Many times was a golden vessel held for a Priest-King as it slowly yielded whatever had been stored in its abdomen to the Muls. |
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| 22 | 103 |
He placed his antennae lightly on my shoulders and then lifted them and I held up my arms and he touched the palms of my hands with the tips of his antennae, and once again we had, in so far as we could, locked our antennae. |
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| 23 | 3 |
I held the Mul-Torch over my head and beheld the foul cavern in which she lay on a bedding of soiled mosses and stems. |
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| 23 | 46 |
I returned and held the torch and her body was the same as before, the eyes fixed with the same expression of frozen horror, so I left the chamber. |
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| 23 | 48 |
I held my sword in my right hand and the Mul-Torch in my left. |
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| 23 | 60 |
I burst into the cavern of the Golden Beetle and held the torch high. |
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| 23 | 66 |
I held it to my ear. |
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| 23 | 72 |
I gathered her in my arms and held her against me. |
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| 25 | 2 |
They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag... |
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| 25 | 73 |
Then, gathering my strength, I leaped up and easily seized one of the rings inside the chamber shaft, held it for a moment and then released it and dropped back to the floor. |
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| 25 | 141 |
As she gazed upon me her eyes held a strange light which I did not understand. |
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| 26 | 218 |
I held her for a moment and kissed her and her kiss met mine wet and warm, sweet and hot and salty with the tears that had coursed down her cheeks and then I threw her back and she stumbled across the case and fell to her knees against the wall on the opposite side. |
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| 27 | 328 |
He drew out the syringe and held his antennae to hers for a moment. |
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| 27 | 348 |
The old antennae stretched forward, inching themselves toward me and I took them gently in my hands and held them. |
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| 28 | 137 |
I held Vika in my arms. |
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| 28 | 155 |
"Yes," said one of the Pasturers, who held a pointed goad as though it might be a spear. |
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| 30 | 90 |
With a cry of rage I struggled in my chains to my knees, pulling against the metal collar that held me to my place. |
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| 30 | 196 |
I struggled, enraged, against the chains and collar that held me a helpless prisoner while the issues of the day were being decided by fire in the streets outside. |
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| 31 | 15 |
I myself was forced to walk perhaps a dozen paces in front of Sarm, who held his grasping appendage near the control box which would, he supposed, activate the golden net he believed to be fused into the tissues of my brain. |
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| 31 | 51 |
Sarm had disappeared and with his disappearance, and presumed death, the opposition to Misk evaporated, for it had been held together only by the dominance of Sarm's mighty personality and the prestige that was his in virtue of being First Born. |
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| 31 | 174 |
"Primitive," said Sarm, regarding the club of steel which he held, and then he looked down at me, his antennae curling, "but fitting". |
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| 32 | 124 |
He and Kusk touched antennae quickly and held them locked for a moment. |
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| 33 | 38 |
Well could I suppose the terror and upheavals that had brought these men, normally so divided against one another in the strife of their warring cities, to the palisade, to the dark shadows of the Sardar—the earthquakes, the tidal waves, the hurricanes and atmospheric disturbances, and the un... |
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| 33 | 40 |
I wondered if the shaven heads, traditional for centuries with Initiates, held some distant connection, lost now in time, with the hygienic practices of the Nest. |
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| 33 | 61 |
Then he gestured to a subordinate, and the man, with a sword, opened the throat of the animal and it sank to its knees, the blood from its throat being caught in a golden laver held by a third man. |
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| 34 | 2 |
"My father!" I rushed to the arms of Matthew Cabot who, weeping, caught me in his arms and held me as though he might never let me go. |
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| 34 | 52 |
This time the Older Tarl lifted him up by the scruff of his robes and held him dangling, kicking, a foot from the ground. |
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| 34 | 120 |
I held her and kissed her again, gently, tenderly, and then wiped the tears from her eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 110 |
He held his ground, waiting for the others. |
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| 4 | 79 |
Suddenly the Tuchuk bent to the soil and picked up a handful of dirt and grass, the land on which the bosk graze, the land which is the land of the Tuchuks, and this dirt and this grass he thrust in my hands and I held it. |
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| 4 | 80 |
The warrior grinned and put his hands over mine so that our hands together held the dirt and the grass, and were together clasped on it. |
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| 5 | 80 |
"No fool," said Kamchak, "but Tarl Cabot, a warrior, one who has held in his hands with me grass and earth". |
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| 5 | 83 |
"He has held with me grass and earth," he said. |
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| 6 | 33 |
She lifted her head and seeing the wild, fearsome scarred face that stared into hers, she suddenly screamed hysterically, and tried to jerk and tear herself away, but the lance held her in place. |
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| 6 | 94 |
She stood held in place by the lance, her throat bound to it with the wood behind her neck, her wrists thonged behind her back. |
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| 6 | 161 |
He took the skin of wine from the boy and bit out the horn plug; he then, with the wineskin on his shoulder, held back the head of Elizabeth Cardwell with one hand and with the other shoved the bone nozzle of the skin between her teeth; he tipped the skin and the girl, half choking, swallowed wine; ... |
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| 7 | 7 |
But I did not enter the wagon, for Kutaituchik held his court outside the wagon, in the open air, on the flat-topped grassy hill. |
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| 7 | 34 |
When Kamchak had finished he held out his right hand and a man, not a Tuchuk, who wore the green robes of the Caste of Physicians, thrust in his hand a goblet of bosk horn; it contained some yellow fluid. |
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| 7 | 184 |
"He has held grass and earth with me," he said. |
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| 7 | 224 |
"Because," said he, "we have together held grass and earth". |
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| 7 | 246 |
"Are you zealous to please the fancy of Tuchuks?" The men who held the girl allowed her to fall to her knees between them. |
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| 7 | 259 |
He took the meat in his hand and gave it to Kamchak, who bit into it, a bit of juice running at the side of his mouth; Kamchak then held the meat to the girl. |
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| 8 | 74 |
I tensed, but Kamchak laughed, and held me back. |
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| 8 | 76 |
With the tip of his lance, stained with the tospit fruit, he cut the strap that held the cap on her head, and then brushed the cap off; then, delicately, with its tip, he lifted her chin that she might look at him. |
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| 8 | 206 |
She stood on tiptoes in her furred boots and held the stirrup. |
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| 8 | 222 |
As the day grew late points were accumulated, but, to the zest and frenzy of the crowd, the lead in these contests of arms shifted back and forth, first being held by Kamchak and myself, then by Conrad and Albrecht. |
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| 8 | 303 |
He held in his teeth a boskhide thong, about a yard in length. |
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| 8 | 556 |
It is essentially the same sport as lancing the tospit from the wand, save that the fruit is held in the mouth of a girl, who is slain should she move or in any way withdraw from the lance. |
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| 8 | 560 |
Elizabeth Cardwell took her position, standing sideways, the tospit held delicately between her teeth. |
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| 8 | 571 |
He held his saddle on his rearing kaiila. |
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| 9 | 135 |
Indeed, the cloth, once loosened, may, if one wishes, be taken up and used as a slave hood, held in place by cords, secured about the girl's neck. |
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| 9 | 153 |
I began to tremble, but held the table, and, I believe, betrayed no sign of my inward excitement. |
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| 9 | 255 |
She took one or two of these small bottles and held them under her nose, and then sprinkled them about the table and cushions. |
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| 10 | 54 |
I sprang from the saddle of the kaiila and kneeling beside her held her in my arms, pressing her head against my shoulder. |
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| 10 | 467 |
The urt is a loathsome, horned Gorean rodent; some are quite large, the size of wolves or ponies, but most are very small, tiny enough to be held in the palm of one hand. |
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| 11 | 244 |
He held out his hands and I tossed the object back. |
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| 11 | 308 |
He held it out in his hand. |
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| 11 | 311 |
"Certainly," she said and the proud Aphris of Turia, kneeling, bent forward, to eat the meat held in the hand of her master. |
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| 11 | 404 |
"Sleen! Sleen! Sleen!" I followed Kamchak down the steps of the wagon and, blinking and still sensible of the effects of the paga, gravely held open the large dung sack near the rear left wheel of the wagon. |
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| 12 | 13 |
It did not seem to me a worthy thing to betray the hospitality of Tuchuks by attempting to purloin an object which obviously they held to be of great value. |
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| 12 | 168 |
She brought it to Kamchak and held it out to him. |
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| 12 | 214 |
One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean... |
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| 12 | 309 |
I held her by the shoulders and suddenly she turned herself in my hands and, as I was sitting cross-legged, threw herself on her back across my lap, her right wrist still chained to her left ankle. |
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| 12 | 404 |
The warrior then turned from her and held out one hand. |
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| 12 | 512 |
He held a small torch, lit from the fire bowl within the wagon. |
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| 13 | 74 |
Coiled, in his right hand, Kamchak still held the slave whip. |
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| 13 | 128 |
Kamchak, as I had learned before, held a position of some importance with the Tuchuks. |
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| 16 | 128 |
The thick woven wire held well. |
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| 16 | 140 |
I recognized him, somehow in the build and the way he held his body. |
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| 17 | 22 |
Harold and I, though bound, were each held by two men-at-arms, and another four, with crossbows, had accompanied us. |
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| 18 | 14 |
I stood in the coagulating, tightening fluid, held fast a prisoner, and threw back my head in despair. |
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| 18 | 29 |
"You fat, filthy urt!" cried Harold, struggling in his bonds with the two men-at-arms who held him. |
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| 21 | 146 |
She held out her hands. |
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| 23 | 63 |
But then we could see, forming on the crest of a hill, thousands of Paravaci warriors, apparently held in readiness in case reinforcements should come. |
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| 23 | 103 |
The brunt of the Paravaci charge almost tipped and broke through the wagons, but we had lashed them together and they held. |
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| 23 | 112 |
Four times they charged thus and four times we held them back. |
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| 25 | 12 |
She held her hand before her face. |
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| 25 | 88 |
I held her lovely head with its soft dark hair in my hands, gazing on her face, her forehead, her dark, soft eyes, with tears, the marvelous, trembling mouth, and set in her fine nose, delicate and lovely, the tiny golden ring. |
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| 25 | 438 |
I approached her and gently held her by the waist, and looked down into her eyes. |
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| 25 | 573 |
My hands held her slender waist. |
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| 25 | 745 |
My grip on her ankle was not cruel but in all her womanness she knew herself held. |
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| 26 | 43 |
Very high in the sky, no more than a small speck, speeding toward the compound of Saphrar from the direction of the tower I believed held by Ha-Keel, we saw a tarn. |
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| 26 | 46 |
The men held their fire, and the tarn, almost at the center of the compound, as far from our encircling positions as possible, suddenly plummeted downward, its wings high, opening them only at the last minute to land on the top of the keep, beyond accurate crossbow range. |
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| 26 | 97 |
On Kamchak's right there walked a master of sleen, who held two of the vicious, sinuous beasts in check by chain leashes. |
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| 26 | 168 |
He held his sword ready. |
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| 26 | 254 |
Saphrar blanched and held the sphere again over his head. |
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| 26 | 353 |
Then, tears bursting from his eyes, he held out his hands to Kamchak of the Tuchuks. |
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| 26 | 378 |
For better than an hour it burned and then the basin of the pool, now black, in places the marble fused and melted, was empty, save for smears of carbon and grease, and some cracked, blackened bones, and some drops of melted gold, what had been left perhaps of the golden drops which Saphrar of Turia... |
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| 26 | 452 |
"Once you spared my life, and we held grass and earth together, and from that time, even had you been outlaw and knave, I would have died for you, but still, of course, I could not give you the egg. |
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| 27 | 3 |
On the last day before the withdrawal of the Wagon Peoples from nine-gated, high-walled Turia, Kamchak held court in the palace of Phanius Turmus. |
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| 27 | 37 |
Tears formed in the eyes of Phanius Turmus and he held the Home Stone of the city to his heart. |
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| 27 | 44 |
It was only at that time, as he held court in the palace of Phanius Turmus, that I realized he would permit the city its freedom, and its soul. |
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| 27 | 50 |
Behind them were some others, among whom I saw Albrecht of the Kassars, and behind him, to my astonishment, clad in brief leather, not collared, was Tenchika, who held a small bundle tied in cloth in her right hand. |
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| 27 | 58 |
"Kamchak, Ubar San!" Kamchak held forth his hands and the room was quiet. |
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| 27 | 77 |
"Here," said Tenchika, thrusting the small cloth sack she held into Dina's hands. |
10 |
| 27 | 86 |
I looked at the objects she held. |
10 |
| 27 | 218 |
He held his hand to the girl. |
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| 28 | 49 |
"Never forget," said Kamchak, "that you and I have together held grass and earth". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 114 |
The man who held the sniveling Hup held him with one hand and struck him with the other, and then threw him to one of his three fellows, who similarly abused him. |
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| 3 | 167 |
I held his hand for a moment and he held mine, and I felt his grip, and smiled, for I knew then, blinded and branded, weak and old, he was yet a man. |
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| 1 | 71 |
Only a bit of wood now, here and there, missed by the chilled wine, clung to flame; some of the logs, however, still smoked, and others held as though within themselves the redness of the fire they remembered; but most were simply charred, now dead, stained with the oil, wet from the wine. |
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| 2 | 23 |
It seemed she would turn to leave but his eyes held her where she stood. |
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| 2 | 58 |
At a gesture from the proprietor, the grimy man in the tunic of white and gold, one of the serving slaves, with a flash of her ankle bells, hurried to the Assassin and set before him a bowl, which she trembling filled from the flask held over her right forearm. |
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| 2 | 103 |
His tiny feet thrashed about, kicking at the man who held him. |
10 |
| 2 | 105 |
"This time he dies," said the man who held Hup. |
10 |
| 2 | 132 |
"Do not interfere," snarled the man who held the hook knife. |
10 |
| 2 | 160 |
He approached gingerly, his hands open, held from his body, ingratiatingly, smiling. |
10 |
| 2 | 360 |
I mumbled something, but she would hear nothing of it, and suddenly feeling her in my arms I laughed and held her to me, and she laughed, and whispered, "I love you, Tarl Cabot," and I said to her, "Kuurus, Kuurus—of the Caste of Assassins," and she said, "Yes, Kuurus—and poor Vella of... |
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| 3 | 55 |
In Ar, the high bridge near the Central Cylinder, housing the palace of the Ubar and the meeting place of the city's High Council, was held, and had been for four years, by the young and brilliant, fiery Scormus of Ar. |
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| 3 | 131 |
Late in the game, the Player seemed to rally, and the Vintner began to sweat, and rubbed his fingers together, and held his head in his hands, studying the board as though he would bore through it with his gaze. |
10 |
| 3 | 186 |
Under other conditions I would have left at this point, but as I held the gold piece in question I knew that I would have to remain until the end, which, as some consolation, would be but shortly now. |
10 |
| 3 | 213 |
I then pressed into the hands of the Player the tarn disk of gold, of double weight, and the man held it clenched in his hands, and smiled and rose to his feet. |
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| 5 | 165 |
Then he stood there, in his some eighteen feet of golden height, balancing on his four posterior, four-jointed supporting appendages, the two anterior, four-jointed grasping appendages, each with its four, delicate, tiny prehensile hooks, held lightly, alertly before his body in the characteristic s... |
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| 7 | 102 |
Almost immediately the first man, he who wore the tiny Thief's brand, returned to the panel and crouching down, held out a small, obviously heavy box, to Cernus, who, in spite of the fact that he was the master of the House of Cernus itself, took it in his own hands. |
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| 7 | 154 |
He injected a tiny bit of serum into each girl, entering the needle in the girl's back, on the left side between the hip and backbone, passing the needle each time into a small vial he held in his left hand. |
10 |
| 7 | 177 |
Even if a girl should manage somehow, incredibly, because certain important knots are outside the wicker, to free herself, she would still be held in place by the loops on her throat. |
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| 8 | 25 |
I stepped behind her and held her. |
10 |
| 9 | 24 |
Although there are some private show and sales rooms in the House of Cernus, and private auctions and exhibitions, intended to interest prospective clients, are held, most slaves, of the House of Cernus and others, are sold in one of the five public auction houses, licensed and taxed by the Administ... |
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| 9 | 46 |
One girl was dictating from a piece of record paper held in her hand and the other girl was copying it rapidly on a second piece of record paper. |
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| 9 | 49 |
One of them held the sheet up inspecting it, and I saw that it was a bill, which might be pasted against the wall of a public building, or on the public boards near the markets. |
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| 11 | 73 |
As the girl knelt the guardsman pulled back her head and held her nose while the smith, with thumb and forefinger, forced open her jaws and, spilling it a bit on her chin and body, poured a half cup of gruel into her mouth. |
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| 11 | 136 |
When Ho-Tu held his torch to the third cell from the end, above that of the girl below, the Italian, the girl inside cried out and scrambled to the back of the cage, weeping, pressing herself against the cement, scratching at it. |
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| 11 | 270 |
Phyllis screamed and held her head in her hands. |
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| 11 | 338 |
She regarded him, herself held. |
10 |
| 11 | 351 |
Flaminius then locked one on the girl's right wrist and then, her arms through the bars, bent her arms back, put the other bracelet around one of the bars in the gate, above the horizontal bar at the top of the gate, and, on the outside of the gate, about her other wrist, the left, snapped shut the ... |
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| 11 | 403 |
Phyllis, on her knees, her wrists braceleted outside the cage, held pressed against the bars, looked at us and then turned her face away. |
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| 12 | 38 |
Yellow held the lead, followed by Red. |
10 |
| 12 | 381 |
She was leashed and her master, who wished to rent her for the quarter Ahn, held the chain with its leather loop wound in his fist. |
10 |
| 13 | 127 |
I held Nela a bit more closely to me, and she looked at me, puzzled. |
10 |
| 13 | 356 |
He now held it by the tip. |
10 |
| 15 | 48 |
I glanced at Virginia Kent, who was now moving about the tables, in the incredibly brief silken slave livery, the pitcher on her left shoulder, held there gracefully with her left hand. |
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| 15 | 113 |
For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ... |
10 |
| 15 | 169 |
I held her head on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 332 |
One thing of that sort I recall is a trick where the girl feeds the master a grape held between her teeth. |
10 |
| 15 | 368 |
I gather his planning must have been successful, for sales generally in Ar during the first two months of the New Year were down somewhat from seasonal norms, as though Ar's gold for slaves was being held somewhat, in anticipation of the Love Feast. |
10 |
| 16 | 103 |
Phyllis turned about and held her braceleted hands to Ho-Sorl, her head irritably in the air. |
10 |
| 16 | 268 |
And then I held it, and pressed my cheek to its fierce surface. |
10 |
| 17 | 19 |
But, to her astonishment, coming up from behind, catching her by surprise, another male seized her about the waist and held her, while she screamed in mock fear. |
10 |
| 17 | 34 |
It was held in the hand of a black-haired girl, collared of course, long-legged, in brief slave livery. |
10 |
| 17 | 335 |
This was not unusual, however, for Ho-Sorl invariably demanded that the proud Phyllis, who professed to despise him, serve him as table slave, which service she would ultimately, irritably, head in the air, have to render him, whether it be merely the pouring of his wine or the offering of a grape h... |
10 |
| 17 | 537 |
I then moved into the center of the gambling men and, not speaking, as they looked up, angry at the intrusion, I took the metal goblet containing the knucklebones from the man who held it. |
10 |
| 18 | 51 |
I crouched down, the killing knife now held by the hilt in my hand. |
10 |
| 18 | 359 |
He took two or three more swallows, and then simply held the bottle, looking at it. |
10 |
| 18 | 428 |
I held the bottle to him. |
10 |
| 18 | 542 |
I hurled myself at Cernus but two men seized me, threw me back, then held my arms. |
10 |
| 19 | 22 |
It was hot in the slave hood, of several layers of thick leather, stifling, locked under my chin and about my throat; further, this hood, like many, was so constructed as to ensure silence in a prisoner; I could not spit out the thick leather wad that was packed in my mouth nor, because of the strap... |
10 |
| 19 | 43 |
Lana, whom Ho-Tu, who held considerable power in the House of Cernus, had decided to sell at the Love Feast, so arrived at the Curulean. |
10 |
| 19 | 51 |
I heard two girls laugh and I felt my ankles seized and held while small hands thrust on my back, taking me by surprise and throwing me heavily forward; I struck my shoulder on the back of the cart and the booted foot of a Warrior thrust me from the cart and I fell to my knees on the stones; when I ... |
10 |
| 19 | 72 |
Now, following Philemon, and surrounded by guards, one of whom held my heavy leash, we passed by the heavy, barred gate in the back of the Curulean, through which deliveries are made; some days ago Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, would have entered through that gate. |
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| 19 | 73 |
We passed tables on one side, and rooms where medical examinations could be held; there were also facilities for washing prisoners; here and there I saw the office of a market official; there were also rooms where I saw silks, cosmetics, vials of perfumes, chains and such. |
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| 19 | 110 |
I'm not sure what the seating capacity of the amphitheater was, theoretically, but I would guess that it would be in the neighborhood of four to six thousand; counting those crowded into the tiers, and standing and sitting in aisles, it might now have held twice that many; the air was hot with bodie... |
10 |
| 19 | 213 |
He held them for a moment and then, keeping them taut, stepped back. |
10 |
| 19 | 225 |
He then summoned three whip slaves to the block, and each held the chain of one of the girls. |
10 |
| 19 | 252 |
The whip slave who held her chain then hauled her cruelly, on her stomach, and then on her back, to the center of the block. |
10 |
| 19 | 254 |
The auctioneer, with his foot on her belly, held her in place. |
10 |
| 19 | 422 |
She held her wrists together and out to the crowd, as though they had been braceleted. |
10 |
| 19 | 430 |
The auctioneer signaled to the Musicians again and once more, to the shouts of the crowd, while he held open his hand, not yet closing it, taking bids, the girls performed the last moments of Ar's dance of the newly collared slave girl, who dances her joy at the thought that she will soon be in the ... |
10 |
| 19 | 459 |
When they had turned and were being led from the block by the whip slaves who held their leashes, Cernus spoke to two of the guards behind me. |
10 |
| 20 | 121 |
Claudia was held on her knees by two guards, her arms and wrists tied tightly behind her. |
10 |
| 20 | 151 |
She took Claudia's hair in her left hand and held the razor-sharp hook knife at her face. |
10 |
| 20 | 201 |
I held my breath. |
10 |
| 20 | 246 |
One retained a certain dignity, though he held his hands before him. |
10 |
| 20 | 366 |
My champion was Hup, a Fool, that of Cernus was the brilliant, fiery, competitive Scormus of Ar, the young, phenomenal Scormus, who played first board of the city of Ar and held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game, the master not only of the Players of Ar but doubtless of Gor ... |
10 |
| 20 | 462 |
"Surely you recognize," asked Scormus, curiously, looking up at him, "the Two Spearman variation of the Ubar's Scribe's Defense, developed by Miles of Cos and first used in the tournament at Tor held during the Second Passage Hand of the third year of the Administrator Heraklites?" Neither Cernus no... |
10 |
| 20 | 544 |
In one small hand he held clutched a tiny piece of yellow wood, the Home Stone of Cernus. |
10 |
| 21 | 321 |
The crowd began to press against the spears of the Taurentians in the tiers, who, at the edge of the tiers, at the top of the wall overtopping the sand, resolutely held them back. |
10 |
| 21 | 413 |
He held the reins of a common saddle tarn. |
10 |
| 21 | 419 |
"Hurry!" said the man who held the reins of the tarn. |
10 |
| 22 | 137 |
A tarn of the Reds, a large-winged bird, goaded almost to madness by a small, bearded rider, wearing a bone talisman about his neck, held the lead. |
10 |
| 22 | 188 |
Mip held the lead. |
10 |
| 22 | 277 |
I stood stunned, for Melipolus of Cos was indeed a legend in Ar and in the hundred cities in which races were held. |
10 |
| 22 | 356 |
But I remembered him only now as he had held the saddle of Green Ubar, dying, but his hands lifted, in victory. |
10 |
| 22 | 362 |
To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev... |
10 |
| 22 | 476 |
By the time there were seven tarn heads remaining on the poles I had caught up to the rider for the Blues, who held a poor fourth. |
10 |
| 22 | 502 |
My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak awa... |
10 |
| 24 | 186 |
Each held a five-foot chain leash that was snapped on her gray collar. |
10 |
| 24 | 291 |
Hup seized my hand and held me where I stood. |
10 |
| 24 | 324 |
He held her very gently. |
10 |
| 24 | 475 |
I held Elizabeth to me. |
10 |
| 24 | 496 |
But, proud of her beauty and glorious in her joy, she had boldly shortened the garments almost to the length of slave livery, and a light, diaphanous orange veil loosely held her hair and lay about her throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 141 |
He held the arrow up, pointing it into the sky, at an angle of some fifty degrees. |
10 |
| 3 | 155 |
"He will not escape," said the girl, putting her fingers in the ropes that held my throat. |
10 |
| 5 | 75 |
He had held the rence cake up to me and I bit at it, eating it. |
10 |
| 5 | 185 |
Then another girl, the tall, blond girl, she who had held the coil of marsh vine, stood before me, moving with excruciating slowness, as though the music could be reflected only from moment to moment, in her breathing, in the beating of the heart. |
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| 6 | 37 |
"Stop! There are nets! Nets!" But most of those with us, heedless, fleeing the trumpets and beating of spears on shields, ran wildly toward the nets, which suddenly emerged before them, held by slaves. |
10 |
| 6 | 40 |
Then the long, wide net, held by slaves, began to advance. |
10 |
| 6 | 67 |
She struggled, snared in two leather capture loops, held by warriors, tight about her waist. |
10 |
| 6 | 136 |
A warrior of Port Kar, in the light of a torch held by a slave, was binding a girl near me. |
10 |
| 6 | 155 |
The slave who held his torch looked at me, and stepped back. |
10 |
| 8 | 28 |
The oar-master cried out angrily and turned to the helmsman, he who held the tiller beam. |
10 |
| 8 | 57 |
My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body stood at right angles to the target line; my head was sharply turned to my left; I drew the sheaf arrow to its pile, until the three half-feathers of the Vosk gull lay at my jawbone; I took breath and then held it, sighting... |
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| 8 | 125 |
When the torch first flickered I put the arrow into the heart of the man who held it, and he and the torch, as though struck by a fist, spun and reeled off the far side of the barge. |
10 |
| 8 | 261 |
She was curved over the prow nude, her wrists cruelly bound behind it, and was further held tightly in place by binding fiber at her ankles, her stomach and throat. |
10 |
| 8 | 289 |
On the second prow of the six barges, only a few feet from the tiller deck of the first barge, it had been the tall, gray-eyed girl, who had held marsh vine against my arm, she who had danced with such excruciating slowness before me at the pole. |
10 |
| 8 | 411 |
I held the blade of the short sword at her throat. |
10 |
| 8 | 548 |
Then I looked to the second prow, and the third, where were tied the large girl, blond and gray-eyed, who had held marsh vine against my arm, and the shorter girl, dark-haired, who had carried a net over her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 8 | 587 |
She shook her head, and turned, and ran to the rail, and held it, looking over. |
10 |
| 8 | 721 |
Numbly he held the key, not believing that it was in his hand, staring down at it. |
10 |
| 8 | 844 |
I held Telima by the chin, regarding her. |
10 |
| 9 | 160 |
And how, even then, could Port Kar fall, for she was a mass of holdings, each individually defensible, room to room, each separated from the others by the canals which, in their hundreds, crossed and divided the city? No, I said to myself, Port Kar could be held a hundred years. |
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| 9 | 256 |
In the instant that our glances had met I had seen that she, whom I took as woman, would, if she had had the power, make men slaves, but in that same instant she had seen, in my eyes, that it was men who were the stronger, who held the power, and that it would be she, if any, who would be the slave. |
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| 9 | 474 |
I looked down at the golden armlet I held in my hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 542 |
In his arms he held, stripped, the bound body of a slave girl. |
10 |
| 9 | 634 |
To my surprise she went and knelt next to Surbus, and held his head. |
10 |
| 10 | 28 |
Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard "Stone" against it. |
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| 10 | 193 |
I recall men shouting, "Many men could not all sit through the stroke of an oar! Would you have them stand?" "So great an oar could not even be held by the hands of a man!" "Two masts with their sails could not be quickly removed before battle!" "You will slow the ship if you deepen the keel!" "If m... |
10 |
| 11 | 386 |
Another man behind him held his helmet. |
10 |
| 11 | 592 |
If Cos and Tyros could be convinced to make peace, and it could be held, my fortunes would considerably increase. |
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| 13 | 421 |
I held out my hand and the officer placed his sword in it, hilt first. |
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| 14 | 208 |
I had held my beat to half of maximum. |
10 |
| 14 | 396 |
"What makes you so certain," I asked, "that you will be held for ransom?" She looked at me, stunned. |
10 |
| 14 | 406 |
Already two men held her arms. |
10 |
| 14 | 422 |
Do not dare to stand so near to me! I am not a slave girl!" She was held by the two seamen. |
10 |
| 14 | 433 |
She, the proud Lady Vivina, then stood before me, held, helpless, face-stripped. |
10 |
| 14 | 445 |
"She is to be put at the prow," I said to one of the seamen who held her. |
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| 15 | 375 |
She held her arms down, and a bit to the sides. |
10 |
| 15 | 402 |
She turned and twisted and leaped, and sometimes seemed almost free, but was always, by the dark thongs, held complete prisoner. |
10 |
| 15 | 408 |
Then the men carried her before my table and held her bound before me. |
10 |
| 15 | 420 |
And I took her by the hair and held back her head, pouring the wine down her throat, some of it running down her face and body, under the slave collar and its bells. |
10 |
| 15 | 447 |
I held out my paga goblet, but it was not filled. |
10 |
| 15 | 474 |
I held out the paga goblet, and she refilled it. |
10 |
| 15 | 563 |
She held her face in her hands, bent over, weeping. |
10 |
| 15 | 573 |
But in a moment she again held her cheek to my left arm. |
10 |
| 15 | 592 |
He held her by the arms. |
10 |
| 15 | 612 |
Each was of double weight! "Paga!" I cried and held back the goblet and Telima filled it. |
10 |
| 15 | 857 |
We approached one another, and extended to one another our hands, and our hands touched, and I held her hands. |
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| 16 | 1 |
What Occurred One Night in Port Kar I held the sweet, loving, uncollared thing in my arms. |
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| 16 | 27 |
I held her. |
10 |
| 16 | 56 |
She ran this way and that, and dodged back and forth, laughing, but then I had her pinned in the corner of the room, her arms held down by the walls and my body, and snapped the collar again on her throat. |
10 |
| 16 | 59 |
I held her wrists down. |
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| 16 | 161 |
Strangely there was little in my mind as I walked to the great hall, where the feast had been held. |
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| 16 | 246 |
He held in his hand a sizable rock, somewhat bigger than my fist. |
10 |
| 16 | 252 |
Then I held out in my hand the rock. |
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| 16 | 253 |
I held it up so that the men could see. |
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| 16 | 260 |
I held up the rock. |
10 |
| 16 | 424 |
And then, suddenly, I lifted my right arm, and held in my right hand, high over my head, was the stone. |
10 |
| 17 | 239 |
Nigel, wise in the ways of sea war, had held back his ships, the wind pounding behind them, that the blades of the pincers might strike simultaneously, as though wielded by a single hand and will. |
10 |
| 17 | 288 |
I whipped my blade from its sheath, angrily, and held it to his throat. |
10 |
| 17 | 398 |
Chenbar tried, groggily, to get up, but my foot on his neck held him in place. |
10 |
| 18 | 251 |
I held her to me. |
10 |
| 18 | 364 |
I held her in my arms. |
10 |
| 18 | 376 |
I held her against me. |
10 |
| 18 | 418 |
I looked down, but held her. |
10 |
| 18 | 528 |
I caught sight of the boy, Fish, running past, a spear held over his head in both hands, and heard a horrible cry, long and wailing, ending with the abrupt striking of a body far below on the stones. |
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| 18 | 710 |
Ho-Hak, carefully, approached Henrak, who held a knife poised. |
10 |
| 18 | 924 |
I held her about the shoulders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 129 |
The girl, clad like the others in the skins of forest panthers, who had held my leash, and now again held it, she who had bound me, her sleen knife again in its sheath, thrust her face toward mine. |
10 |
| 12 | 503 |
I still held the stick with which I had poked the blond-haired girl, she who had held my leash in the forest. |
10 |
| 13 | 841 |
The other tarn streaked away, and its rider, standing in his stirrups, braced in the saddle, held to it by the broad safety strap, was redrawing his crossbow, a quarrel held in his teeth. |
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| 2 | 119 |
Perhaps I should have held it between my teeth but, in my panic, I did not think of it. |
10 |
| 3 | 109 |
As he held me I could not turn my head away. |
10 |
| 3 | 165 |
I held the knife but could not use it. |
10 |
| 3 | 182 |
I held them to me, breathing heavily. |
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| 3 | 187 |
She held something before her. |
10 |
| 3 | 283 |
He held open the door. |
10 |
| 4 | 19 |
"You may release her," said the man to he who held me. |
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| 4 | 203 |
Fixed in these racks, held in place by belts, their long axes parallel to the floor, were large, transparent cylinders, or tubes, perhaps of heavy plastic. |
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| 4 | 206 |
Then I was held in place. |
10 |
| 4 | 208 |
Here the man who held me from behind, by the arms, had stopped. |
10 |
| 5 | 54 |
I had held them in contempt. |
10 |
| 6 | 210 |
The men I now noted, held as I was, did not carry pistols and rifles, or even small weapons, such as my captor had had, or the silverish tubes, or wands, which had been carried by the men from the silverish ship. |
10 |
| 6 | 273 |
Further, I did not care for my wrists being held by the two men, one on each side. |
10 |
| 6 | 304 |
The two men who had been holding my wrists continued to do so, but they held them now apart and over my head, pressed down to the grass. |
10 |
| 6 | 305 |
Two other men came and held my ankles apart, they, too, pressed down to the grass. |
10 |
| 6 | 327 |
The two men who held my wrists pulled me up to my knees. |
10 |
| 6 | 335 |
I saw that he now held my clothing in one hand. |
10 |
| 6 | 353 |
I was seized from behind by the two men who had held my wrists. |
10 |
| 7 | 166 |
Each wagon held nine girls. |
10 |
| 7 | 212 |
Then, she leapt to her feet, to the center of the circle, and she cried out to Targo, oh so prettily, and held out her hands to him. |
10 |
| 8 | 73 |
I held the bars, and looked across the river to Laura. |
10 |
| 8 | 339 |
When they did they were held by two guards. |
10 |
| 8 | 783 |
I held the bars, and pressed my cheek against them, and wept. |
10 |
| 8 | 797 |
Others played "Stones," where one player guesses the number of stones held in the other's hand. |
10 |
| 8 | 810 |
The object of the game is simple, to guess the number of stones held in the other's hand or hands. |
10 |
| 8 | 812 |
Usually your opponent tries to outwit you, by either changing the number of stones held in his hand or, perhaps, keeping it the same. |
10 |
| 8 | 900 |
I could imagine the pleasure of being held, helpless, in their strong arms. |
10 |
| 8 | 1006 |
He dragged her back and pulled her up to her feet, where he held her by the arms, kicking and squirming. |
10 |
| 8 | 1009 |
The guard who held her then threw her to the grass at their feet. |
10 |
| 8 | 1019 |
He held it for Lana to drink, and then passed it to Ute and myself. |
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| 8 | 1048 |
No, something in me cried, no! I am Elinor Brinton! I am not a slave girl! I am not a slave girl! I tried to draw away, but his hands on my arms held me. |
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| 8 | 1050 |
I was held, his prisoner. |
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| 8 | 1064 |
He held me very tightly. |
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| 8 | 1087 |
The man who had held me leaped half to his feet, crying out, when something large and heavy struck him on the side of the head. |
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| 8 | 1116 |
In any case, they would free me! I would be free! But I stood there on the grass, gagged, my hands bound behind my back, a choke leash on my throat, held by one of the girls. |
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| 9 | 17 |
"Kneel," snapped the girl who held my leash. |
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| 9 | 23 |
The girl who held my leash looped it over my back. |
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| 9 | 37 |
"Scar her," said the girl who had held my leash. |
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| 9 | 115 |
"Fight me, Kajira!" hissed the girl who had held my leash. |
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| 9 | 125 |
The girl who had held my leash lashed them together, mercilessly. |
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| 9 | 192 |
With a cry of rage the girl who held my leash expertly, with a twist of her wrist, threw me choking from my feet. |
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| 9 | 251 |
Then Verna came to me and took my leash from the hand of the girl who had held it. |
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| 9 | 314 |
"Very well!" The first girl to leap to the center of the circle was she who had first held my leash. |
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| 9 | 378 |
"Let us kill her," said one of the girls, she who held my leash before, who had been the first to enter the circle of the dance. |
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| 9 | 385 |
The other girls followed her, with the exception of the blond girl, who had held my leash. |
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| 9 | 439 |
"Let us kill her," urged the blond girl, she who had held my leash. |
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| 9 | 512 |
"The girl fancies," said the blond girl, who had held my leash, "that she should have fetched a higher price". |
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| 10 | 125 |
In his arms he held a red-silk, full-length, belted lounging robe, with a high, throat-enclosing, figured, brocade collar. |
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| 10 | 128 |
He held the robe for me, as might have an escort. |
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| 10 | 517 |
Again and again the jaws snapped at me, once grazing my body, as I was held just outside the perimeter of the beast's chain. |
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| 10 | 526 |
In his hand he held an uplifted slave whip. |
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| 11 | 17 |
To each end of each of the rods he threaded a tiny steel disk, that the tiny rods might be held in the wounds. |
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| 11 | 127 |
Ute held her more closely. |
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| 11 | 143 |
She again held her and kissed her. |
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| 11 | 187 |
In his hand he held something which looked like a pair of pliers, except that the claws were extremely slender, and bent in such a way as to touch one another, at the tips scarcely more than a needle's width. |
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| 11 | 212 |
I, held by the leather worker, cast wild eyes on Targo. |
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| 11 | 217 |
"No!" Two guards held me by the arms on the platform. |
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| 11 | 226 |
Everything went black, but I did not faint, held in position by the guards. |
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| 11 | 228 |
As I was held he inserted the ring in my nose. |
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| 11 | 253 |
She held my head to her shoulder. |
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| 11 | 266 |
She held me more closely. |
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| 11 | 361 |
As I passed by a guard, as a slave girl passes a man, he seized me by the arm and held me, almost jerking me off my feet, pulling me to him. |
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| 11 | 637 |
A guard was now in the cage and had each of us, separated, bent over, held by the hair. |
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| 11 | 659 |
"He saw!" Held by the hair, bent over, my heart sank. |
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| 11 | 721 |
He took a hard candy from his pouch, and held it, outside of my reach. |
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| 11 | 824 |
I tried to rub through the binding fiber that held my wrists, rubbing it against the trunk of a fallen tree, but I could not loosen it, or rub through it. |
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| 11 | 872 |
The binding fiber, in its center, had been knotted about the chain of the bracelets, so that my hands were held close to my belly. |
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| 11 | 873 |
As my hands were braceleted before me, and held in place by the binding fiber there, and the loose ends of the binding fiber had been knotted behind my back, by no movement could I bring the back knot within reach. |
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| 11 | 1139 |
I held the bars. |
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| 11 | 1291 |
This time I needed not be bound hand and foot, nor held by guards. |
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| 11 | 1423 |
I had known myself helpless, held captive in the cage. |
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| 12 | 201 |
I was helpless, and held painfully. |
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| 12 | 283 |
The same strap that lashed their wrists, I saw, served, too, as their leash, that held in the huntsman's grip. |
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| 12 | 287 |
I saw the lash fall across the back of the blond girl, she who had held my leash in the forest, who had been so cruel to me. |
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| 12 | 477 |
I was particularly pleased to abuse the blond-haired girl, who had held my leash in the forest. |
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| 12 | 525 |
She held the bars. |
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| 13 | 599 |
Then, looking up, I saw the great talons of the tarn, held in against its body, above me. |
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| 13 | 602 |
Then he held me in his arms. |
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| 14 | 244 |
Ena held me. |
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| 14 | 246 |
I sat up and held her. |
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| 14 | 697 |
He held it before me. |
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| 14 | 711 |
"Yes!" Now, with his two hands, he held the collar about my neck, but he did not yet close it. |
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| 14 | 738 |
His arms held me from him. |
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| 15 | 170 |
I held the greasy pan. |
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| 15 | 195 |
And more than one was hauled to the saddle and well held and kissed before being thrown again to the ground. |
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| 15 | 269 |
She held the small, folded garment in her two hands. |
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| 15 | 352 |
Ena knelt down before me and lifted me, and held my arms. |
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| 15 | 389 |
I particularly feared that the blond girl, she who had held my leash, might be freed. |
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| 15 | 510 |
He held out his goblet and I, the meat on which I was feeding clenched between my teeth, filled it. |
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| 15 | 541 |
They again held out their goblets, and I again filled them. |
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| 15 | 682 |
"No, Master, no!" Four men held me, naked, near the brazier. |
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| 15 | 701 |
Still the men held me. |
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| 15 | 897 |
She hunted, and held converse with men. |
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| 15 | 1071 |
I then held it in my right hand. |
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| 15 | 1255 |
In his right hand, the lashes looped in his left, he held a slave whip. |
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| 15 | 1259 |
I leaped to my feet, my hands held over my head. |
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| 15 | 1280 |
I danced back, my hands held to him, as though I had been torn from him. |
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| 15 | 1395 |
After a time I took the copper bowl from the fire and held it against my cheek. |
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| 15 | 1407 |
I now, in the fashion of the slave girl of Treve, held the wine crater against my right cheek. |
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| 15 | 1418 |
I put my head down and, with both hands, extending my arms to him, held forth the wine crater. |
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| 15 | 1426 |
He put his hand in my hair and held my head back. |
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| 15 | 1430 |
I, my eyes closed, my head held painfully back, throat burning, swallowed it. |
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| 16 | 131 |
My left leg stretched taut behind me, held. |
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| 16 | 139 |
I would then be gagged, and have my wrists taken behind me, and bound there, together, behind the post, to the tying ring, that I might not even be able to rise to my feet, that I might be well held in place, on my knees, until it might please masters to free me, perhaps to work, perhaps to be beate... |
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| 16 | 304 |
* * * * Rask of Treve held my head in his two hands. |
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| 16 | 409 |
"Yes!" I held him. |
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| 16 | 427 |
I held him to me, my cheek at his waist. |
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| 16 | 458 |
He seized me in his arms, and, on the summit of the knoll, held me long, lovingly, in his arms. |
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| 17 | 171 |
He had held me, sadly. |
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| 17 | 198 |
It was he, now, who held absolute power over my life and body. |
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| 17 | 267 |
The small man held up a tiny packet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 155 |
It is important for the girl's thigh to be held immobile; sometimes it is held by more than one man; sometimes it is bound to a wagon wheel; sometimes, in the house of slavers, a heavy, vise-equipped metal branding rack is used. |
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| 4 | 348 |
Indeed it was in effect in one of the positions of obeisance, that in which the slave kneels with her head to the floor, with her hands held behind her, the wrists crossed, or the right wrist held in the left hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
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| 3 | 801 |
He held the lamp that I might, turning, examine the brand on my thigh; he held my leg with one hand, the thigh, turning it so that I might more clearly see the mark. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 29 |
It is held in one hand and beaten with a stick held in the other. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 329 |
Then her arms and legs were held, widely separated, each of her limbs, her small wrists and belled ankles, held in the two hands of a captor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 363 |
They were held perfectly, and would continue to be held perfectly, each a prisoner to the other, until masters might free me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 86 |
Instantly the girl was held down on the table, on her back, her arms and legs held apart, and several men crowded about her. |
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| 24 | 340 |
Held on my knees, my head held back, my nose pinched shut, my mouth forced open, slave wine was poured down my throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 5 |
Cuwignaka held his arm to mine, and then I held my arm to that of Hci, and then Hci, in turn, held his arm to that of Cuwignaka. |
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| 23 | 31 |
When a slave makes a man angry she knows that there may very well be consequences to her action, that she, vulnerable and owned, subject to discipline and punishment, may very well be held to account, and, indeed, is quite likely to be held to account, and strictly, for any dissatisfaction which she... |
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| 39 | 2 |
I held one end of the rope about the flopping bird's neck, keeping it taut, and Hci, on the other side, held the other. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 235 |
Well then was I, held helpless and penetrated, reminded who held the final power. |
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| 26 | 419 |
He held her against him with his left arm about her body and held her two hands, their wrists crossed, in his grip, captured, across his body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 741 |
I squirmed, but my master held me steady, by the collar and my left wrist, held back. |
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| 34 | 174 |
"It is incredible that there should be any," he said, "given the depth and extensiveness of the masculinist conditioning programs to which they are subjected, the values they are trained to accept, the seeking of which is reinforced, the models they are encouraged to emulate, the images which are he... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 59 |
He held a sack in one hand, containing, I supposed, his bath supplies, and, in the other, held by their straps, a scabbard and blade, and what appeared to be a flat, rectangular pouch. |
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| 6 | 54 |
Her hand, held back, held a small dagger, of the sort which some women think affords them protection. |
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| 16 | 306 |
The spear's point was now entered into the sheath, the sheath held in place behind the slave by her ropes, and the slave's body held against the sheath and spear by the ropes and belt. |
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| 21 | 803 |
"Indeed, had you not held the wall as long as you did, and the gate, and had you not aided in the evacuation of the landing, and had you not, with others, held the walkway until it could be destroyed behind you, I think there would be few of us here now who would be alive today". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 139 |
Such a woman would have hated her, and been consumed with jealousy, resenting her specialness and preciousness, the particular place she held in the camp, the regard in which she was held by the men. |
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| 36 | 168 |
She was, after all, a woman of Ar, for which city he now held little love, that city which had abandoned Ar's Station to her fate; too, she was a traitress and such tend, regardless of the side they have betrayed, to be treated with great contempt and severity by Gorean men; thirdly, she had spied f... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 453 |
Again and again was her head, held by the hair, forced down, held under the water and then jerked up again. |
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| 20 | 676 |
The man who has not held a helpless, gasping, pleading slave in his arms, has not, in my view, held a woman in his arms. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1143 |
Had he been rather as many other men, he might have seized her, lifted her, and held her to him, helplessly, her head held back by the hair, and then, placing his mouth over hers, permitted her to feed. |
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| 32 | 164 |
"I saw how you attempted to display yourself to this fellow in the container, how you turned, seemingly so innocently, to exhibit your figure, how you held your head, at this attitude or another, how you extended your legs, and held your arms, how you pointed your toes to curve your calves in that d... |
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| 55 | 222 |
Some of the herd held rocks, and three or four held branches, but none ventured to engage Lord Grendel. |
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| 79 | 253 |
He then held her from behind, by the arms, that she would not move, and would know herself held. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 391 |
She held the cup with two hands, as a Gorean cup is commonly held. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 205 |
Linguistic drift, at least on the continent, is managed by the standardization promulgated in scribal conferences held during the great fairs, held four times annually in the vicinity of the Sardar. |
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| 33 | 44 |
Commonly a slave is not so held, but she may be held so, to be the better displayed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1263 |
I did not dare release the laundry and yet, holding it, my arms were lifted and, in effect, held in place, as much as though they were at the sides of my head, held in shackles, chained to a ceiling ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 337 |
He then held the whip to her, and, weeping, she held it in both hands, and, head down, licking and kissing, lavished upon it the ecstasy of the submitted slave. |
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| 46 | 185 |
The sword, held in its double grip, held in both hands, was raised, until both hands were literally behind his head. |
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| 59 | 182 |
"Held too tightly the wrist locks, the blade is less nimble; held too lightly, the blade may fly away, like a startled vulo". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 192 |
The guard then undid the swathing of ropes which had held the treated cloth so tightly about her body, and put her, kneeling, she held by Miles, at the pole, her back to the pole. |
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| 46 | 254 |
He held a paga goblet in his right hand, and his left hand was knotted in Euphrosyne's hair, her body bent down, her head held at his left hip, in leading position. |
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