| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 20 |
Indeed, it seemed their confidence had been well placed, for now Ar, instead of being a single beleaguered city like so many others on Gor, was a central city in which were kept the Home Stones of a dozen hitherto free cities. |
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| 15 | 114 |
Hitherto I had worn the ring almost arrogantly, but now it seemed to me that discretion, to alter a saying, was the better part of pride. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 242 |
About its neck there hung a small circular device, a translator of some sort, similar to but more compact than those I had hitherto seen. |
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| 11 | 90 |
It was at this time that I first saw how Priest-Kings breathed, probably because Sarm's respiratory movements were now more pronounced than they had been hitherto. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 59 |
I missed his hitherto frequent proposals of contests, races and wagers. |
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| 17 | 73 |
The rhythm of the steam seemed to increase in tempo and I could now detect, or thought I could, more than simple moisture in that steam, perhaps some other subtle gas or fume, perhaps hitherto unnoticed but now increasing in its volume. |
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| 27 | 45 |
I had hitherto only understood that Turians might perhaps return to the city, and that its walls would be left standing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 624 |
I had not hitherto understood her as so beautiful, and desirable. |
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| 11 | 459 |
Surely these might then be dissuaded from becoming allies of Cos and Tyros, and perhaps might be inclined to offer their services to Port Kar? At the very least, the ships of Port Kar might, in such a situation, become suddenly welcome in ports that had hitherto been closed to them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 430 |
In his house, in this room, I had seen instrumentation which spoke to me of an advanced technology, so different from what I had hitherto encountered in what seemed to me a primitive, beautiful, harsh world. |
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| 14 | 501 |
Perhaps it is one whom she once spurned, or one who, hitherto, would not have dared to aspire to her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 264 |
On the map, later, in the stern castle, we had traced out, with greater accuracy than had hitherto been possible, following the directions of Tana and Ela, what should be the location of Verna's camp and dancing circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 469 |
I wondered at what manner of men they might be, surely like none I had hitherto known. |
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| 3 | 609 |
In the camp, hitherto, my captor had confined me to degrading handouts, which he would place in my mouth, or make me reach for, kneeling, not using my hands. |
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| 9 | 2144 |
She finds herself in a world whose colors are deeper and richer than she ever knew they could be; she finds she hears sounds she never heard before; she smells smells she has never smelled before; she becomes aware of subtleties of taste which doubtless were there to be experienced, but were never h... |
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| 13 | 82 |
The physicians of Gor, it seemed, had addressed themselves to the conquest of what had hitherto been a universal disease, called on Gor the drying and withering disease, called on Earth, aging. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 227 |
She would learn now to endure things hitherto inconceivable to her, vulnerabilities, passions, raptures, and desires. |
10 |
| 4 | 554 |
That the herd of Tancred, however, had not appeared in the north seemed to be a matter of fact, a puzzling anomaly which, in Gorean history, had not, as far as I knew, hitherto occurred. |
10 |
| 5 | 47 |
"None have hitherto done so, or have done so and returned," said Samos. |
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| 22 | 48 |
It had not hitherto occurred to me that one might like sea sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 371 |
"Ah," said Ulafi, "I see you have business in Schendi that you have hitherto concealed". |
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| 15 | 155 |
It had hung hitherto within the robes, concealed. |
10 |
| 32 | 856 |
On the occasion of that feast it was my intention to teach the girl who she was, truly, to free at long last the hidden slave which was her secret self, her true self, that girl which, hitherto, had been permitted to emerge only in the disguise of clandestine dreams, that piteous girl, denied and su... |
10 |
| 42 | 11 |
It was like a road to wonders, a shining, perilous, enchanted path leading into the heart of rich, hitherto unknown countries. |
10 |
| 48 | 139 |
I then untied the straps which had, hitherto, confined her wrists. |
10 |
| 51 | 78 |
"Nor I," said the blonde, "given what I have now learned, and hitherto had feared even to suspect, of the collar". |
10 |
| 53 | 109 |
Think not only in terms of crass profit, my friend, of the bounties there to hunters and trappers, to traders and settlers, to planters and physicians, but to all men who wish to understand, who wish to know, who wish to unveil hidden secrets and penetrate hitherto unsolved mysteries. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1067 |
"Do you, who are owned," I asked, "think to bargain with masters?" Did she not know that she, if her captors wished, was theirs in her entirety? Why had I been so angry with her? Why had such terrible words sprung up so wildly and spontaneously from hitherto unfathomed depths within me? I looked at ... |
10 |
| 7 | 417 |
Hitherto I had been impervious to the obvious, manifested displays of her need. |
10 |
| 7 | 418 |
Signs of which I had hitherto neglected to take active account now seemed clear to me, even the odor of her begging slave body. |
10 |
| 7 | 501 |
No, I had not, hitherto, realized the extent of her needs. |
10 |
| 7 | 509 |
That, I think, is the second reason I had not been hitherto alert to Lola's needs. |
10 |
| 11 | 518 |
The female slaves I have seen hitherto on Gor have been branded". |
10 |
| 19 | 427 |
What might have hitherto seemed implausible to me, even incredible, though I suppose it was obvious enough, at least to others, now seemed surely surprising, but also credible. |
10 |
| 22 | 117 |
On the other hand the smell of their sweat and labors, mixed with the stable smells and that of fresh, crackling straw, and sometimes fear, for it is easy for a woman to fear when she is on a chain, particularly if she may have hitherto displeased he who is now, doubtless to her apprehension, her ma... |
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| 27 | 289 |
Miles of Vonda, of course, would not be likely to recognize her, for, hitherto, he would have seen her only in the robes of a free woman and heavily and modestly veiled. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 45 |
"Victoria, hitherto at least, has been primarily Cosian in her sympathies". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 1021 |
She has displayed herself hitherto before him rather as an object in which, hopefully, he might take an interest. |
10 |
| 20 | 1445 |
She is to be thrown then as feed into a pool of restless, hungry eels, unless a given fellow, one she hitherto spurned as a free woman, and has tried to ignore at the banquet, will accept her as his slave. |
10 |
| 20 | 1456 |
Later, in his own domicile, after such an experience, now thoroughly conscious of her vulnerability, and the hitherto unsuspected strength of her new master, well now revealed to her, slave fires begin to burn in her belly. |
10 |
| 20 | 1458 |
"And have you hitherto been hot in your collar?" I inquired. |
10 |
| 20 | 1617 |
From the woman's point of view, of course, she finds herself at the mercy of men of assurance, power, and virility, of a sort of which she had scarcely dared hitherto to dream. |
10 |
| 21 | 381 |
"Do not forget, either," I said, "that you, who are an animal, a slave animal, were hitherto nameless, that before you had no name, that you were as nameless as any other animal, a verr, a kaiila, or tarsk, owned, not yet named". |
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| 21 | 383 |
"I am an animal, your slave, and hitherto I was an animal without a name". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 974 |
"I had not hitherto, before seeing this skin," said Samos, "realized that the savages wore such things". |
10 |
| 2 | 361 |
It has been found that intelligence, of a feminine sort, as opposed to the pseudomasculine type of intelligence often found in women with large amounts of male hormones, is commonly linked, apparently genetically, with these two hitherto mentioned properties. |
10 |
| 4 | 138 |
Earth girls, brought to Gor after years of sexual starvation on Earth, finding themselves suddenly subjected to total masculine domination, finding themselves absolute slaves, even to the market and the whip, the brand and the collar, the touch of an insolent master, finding themselves given no choi... |
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| 8 | 1009 |
An attendant, holding them by the arms, brought them forward, and then, at the indication of the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, knelt them down over the yellow line, in front of the hitherto first girl in the coffle. |
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| 13 | 464 |
Were self-serving and self-seeking to be no longer permitted to me? Must I now live not for myself but for others? My reality was now different, but seemingly a thousand times more real than what I had hitherto taken to be reality. |
10 |
| 13 | 1157 |
Beyond the sensations which you have hitherto experienced lie infinite horizons". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 125 |
And had she not been a slave hitherto she would then, in her collaring, have become a slave. |
10 |
| 7 | 263 |
"Hitherto, at any rate, he has treated you with great lenience. |
10 |
| 7 | 908 |
Never, hitherto, had she dreamed she could be the object of such passion. |
10 |
| 44 | 711 |
How absurd now seemed her words, uttered hitherto with such seeming authority, but they had been empty of authority. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 440 |
In all my life, hitherto, I did not think I had ever met a man, or knowingly met a man, who was a true master. |
10 |
| 3 | 676 |
It had been safe to displease the men I had hitherto known, or most of them. |
10 |
| 3 | 756 |
"Am I in Asia?" "Have you not noticed subtle differences in the gravity here," he asked, "from what you have been accustomed to? Have you not noticed that the air here seems somewhat different from that with which you have hitherto been familiar?" "I have seemed to notice such things," I said, "but ... |
10 |
| 12 | 31 |
Hitherto I had generally worn veils only when intending to travel incognito in the city, and I had never worn them on official occasions of state. |
10 |
| 15 | 30 |
I had hitherto avoided the more lit, busy portions of the camp, generally about the areas for tradesmen, suppliers and sutlers, and the storage, delivery and mess areas. |
10 |
| 20 | 158 |
That he had not done these things I had hitherto supposed was merely in accord with his avowed purposes of shaming and humiliating me, making me serve as a slave in spite of the fact that I was free. |
10 |
| 31 | 88 |
Suddenly a variety of things, linguistic and otherwise, which might have seemed genetic anomalies, or simply hitherto inexplicable, became very plausible, and made alarming sense. |
10 |
| 33 | 585 |
How startled I was! I now recognized, and clearly, the hitherto unknown guest. |
10 |
| 33 | 801 |
The beasts, it is my surmise, having hitherto failed to win Gor by overt conquest, attempt now to obtain power on this world by specific and detailed subversions, mixing in, and influencing, the politics and affairs of cities. |
10 |
| 36 | 860 |
The paradox of the collar is that the woman hitherto indoctrinated, and enculturated, to be self-incarcerated is then freed to be at last herself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 152 |
To a free woman considerable deference is due, particularly to one such as the Lady Rowena, one obviously, at least hitherto, of high station. |
10 |
| 1 | 320 |
Indeed, in this, I sense a possible fulfillment greater than any of which I have hitherto dreamed. |
10 |
| 2 | 1615 |
I gathered that any sexual experiences she had had hitherto would have been those merely of a free woman. |
10 |
| 9 | 420 |
"Hitherto you have sought to use men for your purposes," said Boots. |
10 |
| 10 | 904 |
And soon, I expected, she would learn to beg prettily for the restoration of the sack gown for which she had hitherto expressed such disdain. |
10 |
| 12 | 64 |
He could not take it with his Ubara, of course, sweeping down his Ubara's Tarnsman's file, because it was protected now by my other Rider of the High Tharlarion, that hitherto, seemingly innocent, seemingly uninvolved piece which had just happened, apparently, to be posted at Ubara's Scribe Two. |
10 |
| 12 | 820 |
"In my life, hitherto," he said, "I have been concerned primarily with Kaissa". |
10 |
| 13 | 182 |
Now, however, I found myself forced to abandon what had hitherto seemed a coercive hypothesis. |
10 |
| 14 | 314 |
Its passage's swift route was actually visible in the animals, like a wave spreading along, and registered in, their backs and fur, in their sudden stillness, then in the sudden alertness of them, then in the quivering agitation which seemed to transform the entire pack, hitherto seemingly so tranqu... |
10 |
| 15 | 104 |
"Because of you," she said, "my fortunes will be made in Brundisium! Because of you I will climb there to hitherto undreamed of heights!" "Perhaps," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 147 |
Because of you I will climb there to hitherto undreamed of heights". |
10 |
| 21 | 46 |
Let this communicate something to her of her loss of status; let it, too, unsettle her to some extent in her hitherto-unquestioned confidence in her own extraordinary beauty; let her become uncertain about it, confused, apprehensive; would this not encourage her to become a better, more avid, even m... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1400 |
A hitherto frigid woman, even one smug in her arctic hauteur, one evincing an icy disdain, one complacently proud of her cool, pinioned passion, one contemptuous of her less inert, more vital sisters, once collared, once mastered, undergoes a radical transformation, one startling to those who might ... |
10 |
| 3 | 209 |
From these engines, hitherto employed only in siege warfare, now become a startling and devastating new weapon, in effect, a field artillery, tubs of burning pitch and flaming naphtha, and siege javelins, and giant boulders, fell in shattering torrents upon the immobilized squares. |
10 |
| 4 | 578 |
It had been hitherto muchly concealed from detection by the leather and furs she had worn, though even beneath them its subtle and tantalizing lineaments had been clearly suggested. |
10 |
| 13 | 217 |
"—Now," he said, "—for a moment or two more you may think of yourself as Euphrosyne, as your mother was hitherto permitted for a time to think of herself as Aglaia. |
10 |
| 15 | 532 |
Hitherto I feared she had been something of an anomaly, little more than a free woman, in a way, in a slave's collar. |
10 |
| 15 | 800 |
There was apparently more danger in being the bearer of these messages than I had hitherto realized. |
10 |
| 19 | 297 |
I began to suspect that certain basic civilities, hitherto regarded as largely innocent, retained from my English upbringing, might not be wholly without occasional disadvantages. |
10 |
| 25 | 692 |
Such women, eager to serve, rejoicing in the achievement, at long last of this profound fulfillment, hitherto only dreamed of, ask little more than what to do, and how to do it. |
10 |
| 26 | 47 |
You choose to make me again such a helpless, squirming, screaming thing, so much outside of myself, so helplessly at your pleasure? Do so, then, for I am a slave! Ah, Master, I see that I am again, whether I wish it or not, to be carried into the countries of my helplessness, that you have decided i... |
10 |
| 26 | 1275 |
"A woman sometimes finds her first experience, of the sort you had before," I said, "before the last one, that is, one of unusual emotional impact, at least compared to what she has hitherto experienced". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 469 |
It seemed that I was, as I had hitherto suspected, of genuine interest to Gorean men, or at least to many of them. |
10 |
| 11 | 86 |
I had danced hitherto only before Teibar, and his men, at the library, and once or twice before the men in the house of my training, and, of course, here, in my lessons, before some men, in particular, the musicians, and some men from the house, who, from time to time, would pause to watch me. |
10 |
| 13 | 958 |
I had never hitherto guessed that the power of men over me could be so great. |
10 |
| 27 | 144 |
Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a free woman, as she had hitherto s... |
10 |
| 34 | 83 |
The legalities of simple slave claim, based on active proprietorship, had now superseded, with respect to that collar, the rights contestable by the sword under which I had hitherto been held, those of sword claim. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 819 |
The woman would now discover that her companion, or former companion, a fellow perhaps hitherto taken somewhat too lightly, one perhaps hitherto accorded insufficient attention and respect, one perhaps hitherto neglected and ignored, even despised and scorned, was indeed a man, and one who now would... |
10 |
| 8 | 668 |
I had not even hitherto known it was there. |
10 |
| 15 | 981 |
Hitherto the trumpets had been followed by great cheering. |
10 |
| 17 | 120 |
Sometimes, too, in a moment's lull, one notices little things, to which one has perhaps hitherto paid scant attention, the movements of an ant, how rain water irregularly stains a rock, moving and spreading, depending on the texture of its surface. |
10 |
| 21 | 400 |
With this detail I had hitherto been unacquainted. |
10 |
| 24 | 462 |
Apparently she had not hitherto understood the nature of the monitory leather, the nature of its counsel, the nature of its reprimand. |
10 |
| 24 | 503 |
At an end then were her vanities and her inhibitions, her reservations and hesitations, her reluctances and all the stultifying pretenses and falsities of her hitherto shackling, self-denying, alleged liberty, the burdensome equipages of meretricious, traitorous, self-betraying claims and dignities,... |
10 |
| 24 | 728 |
One supposes, as well, if it had not occurred to them hitherto, that in addition to the low denomination of the coin, so meaningful in itself, the image of the tarsk on the coin, as least as applied in such matters, was doubtless intended to be exquisitely informative to them, or to any slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 98 |
From the girl's point of view, of course, she whose sex has in effect been hitherto denied to her, and who has hitherto encountered only men of Earth, most of whom have been sexually reduced or crippled by negativistic conditioning programs, and instructed to rejoice in the fact, Gor comes as a reve... |
10 |
| 13 | 367 |
"Surely," I said, "you do not think the paucity of your tarn support in an area such as this, and even hitherto in the north, in the vicinity of Holmesk, is an accident?" "Kill him!" said another. |
10 |
| 36 | 154 |
"They would look well, as I have hitherto observed," I said, "in shackles". |
10 |
| 43 | 57 |
This time, of course, I assumed its purpose was in effect a rather dramatic one, to create a wall, or screen, from behind which something hitherto unseen might be brought. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 809 |
It was almost as though they, somehow, in some hitherto untapped portion of their brain, or in some hitherto concealed, or suspected, but perhaps not explicitly recognized, portion of their brain, were prepared for, and understood, certain relationships, relationships which might be exemplified by, ... |
10 |
| 3 | 539 |
Indeed, I suspect the hardy fellows upon occasion rather enjoy owning such elegant women, women who are likely in their loftiness to have hitherto disparaged or despised their caste. |
10 |
| 12 | 46 |
In it, as hitherto in most of the high cultures of Earth, slavery is an ingredient institution. |
10 |
| 12 | 90 |
Perhaps he may grant her clothing, if she has been hitherto denied it. |
10 |
| 12 | 388 |
But such points, as I recall, have been hitherto noted. |
10 |
| 22 | 590 |
I had never hitherto realized she was that beautiful. |
10 |
| 22 | 748 |
"Surrender, rather, as you now must, and wish to do, to your deepest needs and desires, to your most profound and helpless passions, to those truths hitherto concealed in the most secret recesses of your belly". |
10 |
| 23 | 45 |
Hitherto I had heard such sounds emanating only from larls and sleen. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 625 |
But it was the other fellow's whip which was now held before me! It was not that of he who had hitherto been nearest to me! I looked up, dismayed, startled, at he who had been nearest to me. |
10 |
| 8 | 265 |
I have hitherto been reluctant, as you may have noticed, perhaps even foolishly, to speak explicitly of my status, and condition, on this world, which remains so to this moment, but I suppose it has been evident to the reader—if this is permitted to come to the attention of a reader. |
10 |
| 11 | 1567 |
Why then was I not carried away, or conducted somewhere? Somehow, now, I was no longer so certain that my disposition, apparently already determined, would be as lofty and certain as I had hitherto conjectured. |
10 |
| 13 | 271 |
"You seem, hitherto, to have omitted that courtesy," he observed. |
10 |
| 14 | 399 |
"Doubtless," I said, "it is not what you were hitherto accustomed to". |
10 |
| 18 | 85 |
She then, so to speak, courts the collar, eager to reassure herself of her beauty, her desirability, her fittingness to be owned; she wants to prove to herself now that she does have some value, after all, as she had hitherto thought; had she been mistaken; had her arrogant surmise been no more than... |
10 |
| 18 | 158 |
I knew so little of this world! When I did understand it I became aware, more seriously than hitherto, of the nature of the men in this city—of their skill, ferocity and pride, and their sense of honor. |
10 |
| 28 | 98 |
They had not hitherto conducted tests, as the reputation of your house, prior to your accession as mistress of its enterprises, had been faultless. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1293 |
Whereas they may at first shudder in their pens and jerk helplessly, weeping, at their chains, they know, too, on some level, at least, and this appeals profoundly to their vanity, and to the yearning, secret slave within, perhaps hitherto fearing she might be valueless, perhaps hitherto fearing tha... |
10 |
| 1 | 122 |
But this reality was later made clear to her, by incontrovertible laws, and deeds, which did not so much confirm the hypothetical strictures of a perhaps hitherto rather speculative law, one extending to a distant world, as replace or supersede them, in an incontrovertible manner, with immediate, un... |
10 |
| 2 | 4 |
It is true however that such as she, and her sisters, so to speak, under discipline, are quickly brought into line, the gentlest and the sweetest, and those who hitherto, perhaps in their unhappiness and lack of fulfillment, in their vanities and impatience, and haughtiness, were not only permitted ... |
10 |
| 11 | 43 |
She supposed, serving, that such an arrangement would not merely freshen a stale marriage, not simply renew a flagging relationship, but that it would alter it utterly, transform it beyond recognition, catapult it into hitherto unsuspected, astonishing dimensions, replacing the wearying familiaritie... |
10 |
| 15 | 77 |
Sometimes the mere thonging or braceleting of a woman, even one hitherto reluctant or inert, is all that is required to release and ignite her slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 36 |
On Gor they are free to be the women they have hitherto been commanded to deny and conceal, the women they have always wanted to be, the women they have always been in their hearts. |
10 |
| 17 | 592 |
She had never hitherto thought of her body in this fashion, as one exhibiting slave curves. |
10 |
| 18 | 325 |
They tell her, you are slave, you are owned, you are mine, you have no choice, you will obey, you will yield, you will be punished, and terribly, if you hold anything back, you will have orgasms such that you have never dreamed of, orgasms that you have hitherto not understood were possible, you wil... |
10 |
| 25 | 1021 |
"I do not recall that being required hitherto, here or elsewhere". |
10 |
| 26 | 328 |
Let us now turn, as we originally intended, to matters which are interesting, at least in my view, but, I fear, which may be less obvious than those with which we have hitherto dealt. |
10 |
| 26 | 1295 |
Is she now so sure of her beauty? Would it be sufficient for that male, whom hitherto she has seen only in her dreams? But she is now penned, now on a chain. |
10 |
| 27 | 1066 |
Surely they would fear, at least, that these noises, these harms, were the effects of what they had only heard of in stories, the effects of instruments they might have hitherto supposed merely fanciful, the effects of forbidden weapons. |
10 |
| 27 | 1112 |
She has spoken of him hitherto by such expressions as "the first rider," in virtue of his having brought his tharlarion forward, in advance of his fellows. |
10 |
| 27 | 1260 |
He pointed to the rug, before him and she, scarcely understanding what she was doing, shaking with emotion, trembling with sensations hitherto experienced only in her dreams, those exotic corridors of truth, knelt before him. |
10 |
| 27 | 1328 |
He did not understand, she was sure, that he had, however unintentionally, and doubtless much against his will, brought her not to misery and ruin but to herself, to a happiness she had never hitherto realized could exist, brought her to a meaningfulness and a fullness of life which she would never ... |
10 |
| 27 | 2501 |
Whereas most slaves have a great deal of freedom, as hitherto mentioned, most will be expected to ask permission to leave the domicile of the master, and will be expected to return by a designated Ahn. |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 28 | 330 |
How different, thought the slave, the dagger, the sword, the spear, from the weapons with which Mirus had been hitherto familiar. |
10 |
| 28 | 332 |
Yes, they were different weapons from those with which Mirus had been hitherto familiar, but she suspected that here, on this world, he would learn them, such weapons, and perhaps master them. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 290 |
She was hitherto from one of the Steel Worlds, one of the animals kept there, she for the purpose of grooming her master. |
10 |
| 1 | 822 |
In any event, the fact that the female spoke his native tongue, as well as the hitherto noted excellencies of her face and figure, which seemed customized, so to speak, to his own tastes, informed him, as he had suspected, that her presence, and doubtless, too, that of the blonde, in the container, ... |
10 |
| 1 | 857 |
That such creatures should be able to do this, that they should have a language, had been hitherto beyond her ken. |
10 |
| 1 | 1208 |
He seemed to her stronger, and more powerful, than any male she had hitherto met. |
10 |
| 1 | 1246 |
She did not understand, of course, that he, despite his familiarity, as she had discovered, with her language, was unlike the men with whom she had hitherto been acquainted. |
10 |
| 1 | 1296 |
Looking at him, she drew it timidly to her mouth, and, putting her head down, began to lick at its palm, perhaps to obtain any residue of the gelatinous provender which it had hitherto held. |
10 |
| 1 | 1300 |
How would the males she had hitherto known react to this, those she had treated with such coolness, with such contempt and condescension, whom she had routinely disdained, belittled, and spurned, whom she had treated as so much beneath her, to whom she had postured herself as their lofty, haughty su... |
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| 2 | 353 |
At this point Cabot, who had hitherto for some time remained inert, seemingly crushed and defeated, reconciled to whatever might lie in store for him, in the grasp of his captor, suddenly lashed back with his elbow, striking sharply, heavily, as an ax, into the ribs of the Kur who held him, who, sta... |
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| 3 | 133 |
"Yes," he said, "a world, one quite different from that with which you have hitherto been familiar". |
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| 21 | 503 |
There was much silence in the stands, and then several of the Kurii smote their thighs, acknowledging this gesture of respect to one of their species, albeit from one hitherto deemed not Kur, but no more than a malformed thing, a misbred brute, an abomination, a monster. |
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| 22 | 74 |
She must be wanted! She needed to be wanted! She knew that she, if necessary, would beg to be wanted! Despite her pretences from Earth, you see, clung to hitherto so futilely, she was now muchly different from what she had been. |
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| 26 | 20 |
"Hitherto, perhaps," said Cabot. |
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| 44 | 40 |
It must be understood, of course, that the value of humans to the revolution was not as minimal or negligible as the hitherto-noted, disparaging assessment of Lord Grendel might suggest. |
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| 53 | 95 |
And it was two days before their return to their own camp, the return briefly remarked on hitherto. |
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| 67 | 59 |
But as recorded, shortly after the strange message heard within the world, Cabot became less concerned with the obviousness of his trail, hitherto so obviously broken through the snow. |
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| 74 | 18 |
The martial dances were more fascinating, particularly the convolutions of Kurii, which were hitherto unknown to him. |
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| 77 | 166 |
In time Cabot did not doubt but what many of the women of the killer humans, who were very lovely, would be indistinguishable on a slaver's necklace from their hitherto more-civilized sisters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 569 |
"As she has been treated this evening," he said, "I think she is more aware than hitherto that she is a female". |
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| 4 | 377 |
What had been hitherto no more than a dot on the horizon, perhaps no more than a sea bird resting on the waves, even sleeping, as they do, was now clearly, though still small, and far off, a sail. |
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| 5 | 344 |
Constantina, I had now discovered, was, as I had hitherto suspected, a free woman. |
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| 15 | 181 |
"Oh, yes," he laughed, "anything to escape the stable, the collar! For that what sacrifice would she not make? Even that of becoming what she hitherto most despised, a wife, or companion!" "No, Master," said Cecily. |
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| 20 | 183 |
Hitherto she had been lying on her belly in the straw, her head turned to the side, in bara, her wrists crossed behind her, with her ankles crossed, as well. |
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| 25 | 213 |
Is a far shore not always tempting? Who does not wish to cross a new river, to venture upon untrodden grass, to see a new sky, to glimpse a hitherto undetected horizon? And are there not an infinite number of horizons, after all. |
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| 26 | 166 |
Sometimes he discovers a girl he knew on Earth, one perhaps hitherto far from accessible to him, who is now a Gorean slave girl, whom he then buys for his own. |
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| 27 | 4 |
In two or three years I supposed the forest would reclaim these hitherto cleared areas, and there would remain few records and clues as to what had taken place here, where timber had been harvested and men trained for wars whose projected venues were unknown, and possibly remote. |
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| 28 | 11 |
The weather had been hitherto unusually warm for the season, even given the moderations in temperature, and the warmth, associated at this latitude with the current of Torvald, but now a chill snapped in the air. |
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| 34 | 122 |
I had refrained hitherto from directly confronting either Lord Nishida or Lord Okimoto with the matter of the supposed hold over me, in virtue of some woman. |
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| 38 | 158 |
And what might it be, they might wonder, which has won them this incredible, welcome reprieve, temporary as it might be, from the ax or torch? Could it be that it is their sex and beauty, their exquisite features and lovely slave curves, to which they may have hitherto given little thought, save for... |
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| 38 | 159 |
Had they been hitherto curious, perhaps idly so, as to what they might sell for in an open market, what price they might bring an owner who vends them, with others? They may now learn. |
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| 38 | 160 |
Had they considered, hitherto, what it might be to be in the arms of a master? They will now learn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 116 |
The newcomers cast down the bows and, together, reached within their robes to unsheathe blades, the common gladius, but the cloaks, hitherto so convenient in concealing their caste, their intent, their weapons, cost them an unencumbered draw, and the stranger was at them, table flung aside, daggers ... |
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| 1 | 343 |
Further, as a part of the conspiracy mentioned hitherto, it had been deemed necessary to reduce, even decimate, the military power of Ar. |
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| 10 | 76 |
But let her wear the collar and she will soon become aware of the preciousness of tiny things, wondrous, marvelous tiny things, longed for and hoped for, things which she might, hitherto, have held in disdain or contempt. |
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| 11 | 11 |
But they were unusual tharlarion, unlike those with which I had hitherto been familiar, prior to the last few weeks. |
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| 12 | 231 |
Two of the other slaves laughed delightedly, amused at the discomfiture of the hitherto arrogant Alcinoë. |
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| 14 | 267 |
I knew I was now in relatively open water, which suggested it was part of the road cut by the ship's boats through the vines, though it was much narrower now than hitherto, given the eddies, and the drifting of the vegetation. |
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| 26 | 68 |
Many are captured in war, some are bought in the girl markets, to which I have hitherto referred, and some, it seems, are bred for the market. |
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| 29 | 30 |
Why then might it not return? Too, who knew if the fleet of Lord Yamada might not soon appear on the horizon, and close the mouth of the cove, closing the door to escape and precluding the eventual exploitation of the hitherto garnered riches? I continued to press through the crowd, trying to reach ... |
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| 37 | 109 |
It seemed I had suggested to her a new dimension of being a slave, to which she had hitherto devoted little thought. |
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| 37 | 832 |
"Come now, dear friend," I said, "can you not recall something which I could not hitherto afford, something in a yellow camisk, with bells on her left ankle?" "The paga girl," he said, "the slender brunette?" "Of course!" I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 274 |
"Yes, Mistress," I said, and then addressed myself diligently to those tasks to which I had hitherto regarded myself as superior. |
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| 8 | 119 |
A new girl, sent into the streets naked, is well apprised of her bondage, and may soon be depended upon to be at her master's feet, zealous to improve her performance and service a thousandfold, that she may be granted a garment, some garment, even the brief, disgraceful tunic of a slave, perhaps hi... |
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| 8 | 220 |
Is it not, ultimately, in the mass that the power lies? Who else, at a word, might swarm into the streets, armed with paving stones and clubs? Woe to the former free Gorean woman of high caste who, enslaved, might fall into the power of her hitherto despised "inferiors". |
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| 10 | 150 |
It was a form of life, a fearful form of life, with which I was hitherto unacquainted. |
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| 10 | 855 |
As I knelt in the background, inconspicuous but at hand, I saw that the Lady Bina was not so much dissuaded of her astonishing ambition, as convinced that its realization might be less easily achieved than hitherto anticipated. |
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| 16 | 154 |
With two hands, he thrust open the canvas curtains at the head of the wagon and light, and fresh air, surged into that narrow, rectangular, hitherto oppressive wood-and-canvas enclosure. |
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| 41 | 35 |
To secure the very leader of the enemy was seemingly too great a prize to be ignored, and the machine, following its two scouts, abandoned its hitherto stately pace. |
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| 48 | 271 |
"No!" cried the Kur, and perished beneath two axes, those of the Kurii who had hitherto guarded the door to the audience chamber, who had then joined Lucius at the dais. |
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| 49 | 36 |
Grendel's many trips from the Cave, which had been hitherto noted, were mostly concerned to bring food to Tiresias. |
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| 51 | 271 |
He then put my wrists in slave bracelets, and then untied the binding fiber with which I had been hitherto secured. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 114 |
How horrifying it must be for one of these lofty free women, hitherto so exalted, privileged, and superior, hitherto so smug, petulant, arrogant, and demanding, hitherto so incomparably, so insufferably proud, if she should, to her horror, undergo a catastrophic reversal of fortune, if she should fi... |
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| 14 | 282 |
I supposed it was pleasant for some fellows to put such women to use, hitherto so far above them, to have her gasping, moaning, thrashing, and begging, and, as he saw fit to leave, to have her plead with him to linger, if but for a moment. |
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| 37 | 139 |
It was as though some image, some proud, contrived, clay encasement of a reality had finally broken apart, separating, revealing, hitherto hidden within, something quite unlike the image, or encasement, something not hard but soft, not artificial but real, not false but true, and needful. |
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| 52 | 421 |
"No ship has hitherto done so. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 73 |
At this signal hundreds of hitherto prostrate Pani, armed, sprang up, and began to fall on the looters, many of whom had cast away weapons, that they not be encumbered in bearing away their booty. |
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| 10 | 5 |
This was the longest train of its sort we had hitherto encountered. |
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| 12 | 236 |
I do not think I had hitherto understood, or taken with sufficient seriousness, the possibility that the shogun might credit the distribution of small objects spilled on a hardwood floor with such portent. |
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| 13 | 20 |
"I was hitherto, here, in my private quarters," I said, "served by two, both Pani, both collared". |
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| 16 | 120 |
It was a scent, and a sort of scent, with which I was hitherto well acquainted, from various venues, from the delta of the Vosk outside Port Kar, from the hills of bleak Torvaldsland, the wastes and oases of the Tahari, the expanses of the Barrens, the jungles of the Ua, such places, even from the d... |
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| 17 | 115 |
She had later been apprised of the bondage of which she had been hitherto unaware. |
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| 17 | 117 |
It was in Tarncamp that she had been given the name 'Saru', she having been hitherto, unbeknownst to herself, after her name had been entered on an acquisition list on Earth, only a nameless slave. |
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| 27 | 181 |
How quick I had been to suppose illegal deceit and even perilous, surreptitious dishonesty, a betrayal of principles and understandings, a departure from implicit rules without which a game, even a mighty game on which might depend worlds, would be forsworn and treacherously subverted! But I recalle... |
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| 31 | 178 |
And, although I may not have made this hitherto explicitly clear, amongst such commodities, as I suppose may be obvious, may be numbered women. |
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| 45 | 77 |
"To balance the matter," I said, "foreign mercenaries, and, more importantly, tarns, hitherto unknown in the islands, were to be supplied to Temmu". |
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| 46 | 229 |
"No!" said Izo, the hitherto skeptical officer, furiously, "no!" His field sword was still in hand, indeed, gripped in two hands. |
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| 57 | 71 |
This might, of course, be supplemented by deserters from the house of Yamada, new recruitings of Ashigaru from the northern villages, and, possibly, the pledges of hitherto uncommitted daimyos, and even, possibly, those of daimyos who, in the light of recent developments, might withdraw their suppor... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 254 |
I doubt that it was much more highly oxygenated than the air to which I was hitherto accustomed, air I had never hitherto questioned. |
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| 1 | 535 |
Certainly, hitherto I had never used any of these numbers. |
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| 6 | 112 |
We looked at one another, and then, suddenly, gratefully, words and cries, and sobs, like the issuance of hitherto blocked fountains suddenly freed, rushed forth, cascades of speech, torrents of confusion, fears, tremblings, threats, pleas, lamentations, and protests. |
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| 6 | 579 |
I think these strictures had two purposes; one was to punish us for our hitherto unruly behavior in the cell, regarded as inappropriate for kajirae, and, secondly, perhaps, to familiarize ourselves with a modality of discipline. |
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| 7 | 101 |
Hitherto, we had had nothing to drink but water. |
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| 9 | 229 |
The hitherto-crowded aisle, the linear center of the wharf, now seemed abandoned. |
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| 26 | 211 |
Any doubts I might have hitherto been tempted to entertain with respect to my possible attractions or the gusto and lust of the men of Brundisium were dispelled. |
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| 29 | 16 |
She is made to stand proxy for a thousand collar sisters hitherto resented and loathed. |
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| 34 | 4 |
We were in an alcove, of the Slave Whip, one other than that we had hitherto occupied. |
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| 40 | 206 |
Possibly you have never seen one hitherto. |
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| 40 | 260 |
I have not hitherto seen them so. |
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| 46 | 211 |
I could not understand the sternness, the lack of feeling, on the part of Lord Grendel, who had hitherto shown even me, a slave, consideration and kindness. |
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| 49 | 136 |
Even now I expect several of our friends are hastening to locate Mytilene, that they may investigate hitherto unnoted opportunities". |
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| 55 | 27 |
Their hitherto rapid pace had been arrested, abruptly. |
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| 59 | 80 |
How could he have given it to some, and not others? And what Kur, unacquainted with the beverage, curious, jubilant, in holiday mood, would refuse to accept a gift made so freely available, by so trustworthy and generous a host and ally? And so, in many cases, the amber swirl of liquid fire, for the... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 213 |
Is that so hard to understand? We have, hitherto, refrained from making explicit what you now are. |
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| 3 | 116 |
"But first let me call to your attention a hitherto unnoted fact, one perhaps implicit, to be sure, but not yet made explicit. |
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| 4 | 24 |
I had then realized more about free women than I had hitherto understood. |
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| 25 | 58 |
I sensed that my life was now in much greater danger than I had hitherto suspected. |
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| 25 | 95 |
What if it had not been a coincidence, as I had hitherto supposed, that you had been substituted for Adraste? What if it had been deliberate? What if there were some connection between you and Adraste, a connection that even you did not suspect? What if you were a barbarian, which it turned out you ... |
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| 33 | 35 |
"Success has not hitherto crowned our efforts," he had said, "but do not despair. |
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| 43 | 77 |
"Do so, and die," said Seremides, removing the hitherto concealed wicked short sword from beneath his cloak. |
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| 46 | 277 |
On the other hand, his obstreperous, ranting analysis of the situation did serve to apprise the tables of a hitherto generally unrecognized problem, one which might soon prove acute, particularly as a number of patrons were on the point of beginning, or continuing, their evening, rather than prematu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 343 |
"But they have failed hitherto even to encounter the fleet of the so-called Bosk of Port Kar," said Clitus, "let alone engage and destroy it". |
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| 10 | 1 |
I Return to a Tavern Hitherto Patronized; I Begin to Put my Plan into Effect "Buy me!" whispered Lais, softly, tensely, that no one would hear. |
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| 10 | 54 |
"On the other hand," I said, "I gather that, in your case, the mark and collar, and such, was no more than a suitable, public acknowledgement of a hitherto concealed inward truth, that you are a natural slave, a rightful slave, a woman who is a slave, and wants to be a slave". |
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| 11 | 6 |
She must now, in her manacle, on her chain, on her knees, smile, as hitherto, sparkle as she could, and once more present herself well. |
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| 21 | 10 |
And who does not wish to be thought important, and to be privy to knowledges unavailable to others, but which might, at sufficient urging, be shared with others? The slave often delights in intriguing other slaves, even tormenting them, with mysterious hints, and then delights in revealing their hit... |
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| 55 | 7 |
"The matter, hitherto speculative, is now clear," said Sakim. |
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| 57 | 65 |
Scarcely had I cried than the plank screens, hitherto unnoticed, were raised and set. |
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| 59 | 34 |
The Theran fleet under Nicomachos, anticipating land action on Chios near Mytilene, had embarked with numerous Cosian regulars aboard, which allowed frequent shifts of oarsmen, an advantage which the corsair fleet had itself hitherto exploited, this now, however, enabling the Theran fleet to equal, ... |
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| 59 | 319 |
"Perhaps," said Thurnock, "she has not been much hitherto in the hands of a true Master". |
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| 62 | 188 |
"I had not thought, hitherto," said Clitus, "that Archelaos was so great a hero". |
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