| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 275 |
Never since the panic of the disoriented compass back in the mountains of New Hampshire had I been so frightened, but this time I refused to allow my fear the fatal inch it required. |
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| 12 | 67 |
My throat was parched, and, hanging only an inch or so above the Vosk, I burned with thirst. |
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| 18 | 87 |
I scrutinized every inch and ran my hands carefully over every portion of its smooth surface. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 87 |
Then, slowly, as they cursed helplessly, I drew them inch by inch over my shoulders, and threw them suddenly to the marble at my feet. |
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| 17 | 72 |
These mines are tortuous networks of tunnels worming themselves inch by inch irregularly through the rich ores that are the foundation of the wealth of the city. |
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| 18 | 133 |
We heard him in the shaft, grunting, gasping, the sounds of chains scraping on stones as he began the torturous inch by inch ascent. |
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| 18 | 149 |
Andreas, Kron and I were in the tunnel, but what of the poor wretches on the chain behind us? I looked up the long shaft, at the line of slaves moving upward, inch by inch. |
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| 1 | 40 |
He spun like a tiger with a sudden cry of rage in some strange tongue and I found myself seized in hands like steel and with great force hurled helplessly across his knee, my spine an inch from being splintered like kindling wood. |
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| 14 | 121 |
It had, however, been bolted, fastened with a heavy, square-headed bolt, much like an oversized machine bolt, the shaft of which was perhaps an inch and a half in diameter. |
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| 16 | 59 |
As soon as her wrists were free she was once again every inch the royal Tatrix of Tharna. |
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| 17 | 9 |
It was ventilated inadequately by a set of tiny circular apertures, about an inch in diameter, placed every twenty feet. |
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| 21 | 169 |
My sword pushed a quarter of an inch into the belly of the merchant. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 14 | 75 |
In the first meal, Mul-Fungus is ground and mixed with water, forming a porridge of sorts; for the second meal it is chopped into rough two-inch cubes; for the third meal it is minced with Mul-Pellets and served as a sort of cold hash; the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly some type of dietary supplement;... |
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| 22 | 12 |
Then the bar to which I clung moved an inch from the ceiling. |
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| 22 | 13 |
I moved a bit and it slipped another inch. |
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| 22 | 15 |
I hung there and it slipped a bit more, perhaps the fraction of an inch. |
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| 32 | 267 |
He was trying to thrust more tobacco into it but was having difficulty because the tiny brown particles tended to lie loosely about a quarter of an inch above the bowl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 108 |
I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri... |
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| 6 | 46 |
They had heels, a bit more than an inch high. |
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| 7 | 30 |
Now, from the right side of his mouth, thin, black and wet, there emerged the chewed string of kanda, a quarter of an inch at a time, slowly. |
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| 8 | 67 |
Kamchak then rode, and he, like Conrad of the Kassars, deftly took the fruit from the wand; indeed, his lance entering the fruit perhaps a fraction of an inch less than had Conrad's. |
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| 15 | 100 |
He was eating a piece of bosk meat in the Tuchuk fashion, holding the meat in his left hand and between his teeth, and cutting pieces from it with a quiva scarcely a quarter inch from his lips, then chewing the severed bite and then again holding the meat in his hand and teeth and cutting again. |
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| 17 | 67 |
If it were a school of fifteen-inch Gorean pike, for example, I might kill dozens and yet die half eaten within minutes. |
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| 18 | 10 |
If I could but reach it! With all my strength I moved towards it—an inch—and then another inch—my fingers stretched, my arms and back aching, until in another inch I might have grasped it and then, to my horror, as I reached in agony for the vine, it rustled and lifted itself ju... |
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| 18 | 43 |
Each inch I moved toward the center of the pool my journey became easier. |
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| 26 | 358 |
The eyes were bulging perhaps a quarter of an inch from the little round head and the mouth, with its two golden teeth, now emptied of ost venom, seemed to be screaming but there was no sound. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 174 |
For an instant it seemed as though the great creature could not stand, as though he might fall; then, as though by an act of will, moving inch by inch through his body, he straightened himself. |
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| 22 | 396 |
It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip... |
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| 11 | 179 |
The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w... |
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| 12 | 309 |
When the smith arrived, he took, from a rack in the wall, two narrow, straight bars of iron, not really plates but narrow cubes, about a half inch in width and fifteen inches in length. |
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| 12 | 311 |
First Virginia and then Phyllis laid their heads and throats on the anvil, head turned to the side, their hands holding the anvil, and the smith, expertly, with his heavy hammer and a ringing of iron, curved the collar about their throats; a space of about a quarter of an inch was left between the t... |
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| 18 | 393 |
It, like the others, was about six inches in width and about an inch high. |
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| 24 | 123 |
One of the decrees of Marlenus, uttered at his victory feast, yesterday evening, to rounds of drunken cheers and applause, had been to decree a two-hort, approximately two and one-half inch, heightening of the hemline in the already rather briefly skirted livery of female state slaves; this morning ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 |
It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident... |
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| 3 | 307 |
How straight she stood, each inch of her body alive and splendid in her vigor and freedom. |
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| 4 | 5 |
One holds the stem of the plant in the left hand and, with the right, with a small, curved, two-inch knife makes a diagonal upward stroke. |
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| 4 | 274 |
Then she drew back her head, and, in the darkness I could sense her, and her lips, but an inch from my own. |
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| 4 | 295 |
In the darkness I sensed her, and her lips, but an inch from my own. |
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| 4 | 325 |
Her lips, still, were but an inch from mine. |
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| 13 | 443 |
There, dented, its contents half spilled, itself floating in an inch or two of sea water, not yet drained down to the cargo hold, I found my pan of bread, onions and peas. |
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| 14 | 8 |
She is carvel-built, and her planking is fastened with nails of bronze and iron; in places, wooden pegs are also used; her planking, depending on placement, varies from two to six inches in thickness; also, to strengthen her against the shock of ramming, four-inch-thick wales run longitudinally abou... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 152 |
It was a painful, frustrating task, but inch by quarter inch, I moved it downward. |
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| 14 | 634 |
She had, in her hand, an eighteen-inch strip of purple binding fiber, about half an inch in width, flat, set with jewels. |
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| 14 | 665 |
In his belt I saw that he had thrust an eighteen-inch strip of black leather, binding leather; it was not jeweled; it was common leather; it was about three quarters of an inch in width; it was supple, that it might well encircle limbs; it was flat, that it might well fit against them; it was of a s... |
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| 15 | 869 |
On her hands and knees, painfully, inch by inch, she crawled from the box. |
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| 1 | 160 |
The mark itself was about an inch and a half high. |
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| 6 | 296 |
Every inch of me blushed red. |
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| 8 | 1047 |
My lips parted, paused but an inch above his. |
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| 10 | 498 |
The flame from the match was but an inch short of the cigarette. |
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| 11 | 1432 |
How he had appraised me, as I had stood helpless, naked, behind the bars, on the straw of the slave cage, his to be seen as he wished; how he had examined me, candidly, objectively, every inch of me, Elinor Brinton, female slave merchandise! How I hated him! How I hated men! How I hated most Soron o... |
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| 13 | 588 |
The grass rushed swiftly past below me, and I could not touch it with my feet, and then it fled from me, dropping away, and then suddenly, in the rushing air, as I twisted and turned, buffeted in the blasts of wind, a prisoner of the forces, the physics, of the braided leather rope and the accelerat... |
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| 13 | 589 |
The rope slipped another quarter of an inch on my body, and I screamed! Then the rope, pressing itself cruelly into my arms and body, lodged itself firmly. |
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| 13 | 883 |
I saw the broad blade of his sword but an inch from my face, for one terrifying instant of immobility, the other's blade, edge downward, resting on it, stopped. |
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| 14 | 192 |
One, near the top, was about seven inches in width and about a half inch in height; the other, its top formed by a rectangular opening in the bottom of the door, its bottom formed by the iron floor of the box, was about a foot wide and two inches in height. |
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| 14 | 405 |
A Gorean master commonly will know every inch of his slave, every curve, every crease, every wen, every pimple, every hair. |
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| 15 | 123 |
Under the dirt, an inch or so, and in some places exposed, was a heavy gridwork of bars. |
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| 15 | 687 |
It terminated in a small letter, about a half of an inch high. |
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| 15 | 813 |
I could see a tiny slit of the outside through the aperture in the iron door, about a half an inch in height and seven inches in width. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 205 |
But a Gorean master will know every inch, and care for every inch, of one of his slave girls. |
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| 10 | 211 |
He will want to know her completely, every inch of her body, every inch of her mind. |
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| 1 | 28 |
The man's head had, some weeks ago, been shaven, a two-and-one-half-inch stripe, running from the forehead to the back of his neck. |
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| 2 | 76 |
It is approximately an eighteen-inch crawl space, unlit and cold, and damp. |
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| 3 | 336 |
Its tip was a figure some inch and a half high, the first letter in cursive script, in the Gorean alphabet, of the expression Kajira. |
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| 5 | 209 |
About a half inch is left between each pair of boards, that men, glancing in, might be moved to interest, but would be able to fully satisfy their curiosity only by actually stepping within. |
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| 7 | 385 |
It was now almost impossible to detect where the two-inch strip had been shaved on his head, from the forehead to the back of his neck. |
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| 9 | 380 |
I fought, but two girls held my head, and Mira, laughing, with a small bowl of lather and a shaving knife, shaved the two-and-one-half-inch degradation stripe on my head, from the forehead to the back of my neck. |
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| 12 | 43 |
Each of us, including the mighty Bosk, wore the two-and-one-half inch swath on our heads, running from our foreheads to the back of our necks, making it clear to all who it was who had taken us in the forests. |
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| 13 | 34 |
At point-blank range the temwood shaft can be fired completely through a four-inch beam; at two hundred yards it can pin a man to a wall; at four hundred yards it can kill the huge, shambling bosk; it fires nineteen arrows in a Gorean Ehn, some eighty Earth seconds; a skilled bowman, and not an unus... |
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| 20 | 98 |
The spear, a Gorean war spear, its head tapered of bronze, some eighteen inches long, its shaft more than an inch and a half in thickness, more than six feet in length, sped from my grasp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 176 |
They consist of curved, hinged bands of black iron, three quarters of an inch in width and a quarter inch in thickness. |
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| 3 | 177 |
On one of each of the two curved pieces constituting a bracelet there is a welded ring; the two welded rings are joined by a single link, about an inch in width, counting both sides, each of which is about a quarter of an inch in diameter, and three inches long. |
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| 6 | 212 |
The half circle is about an inch and a quarter in width, and the diagonal line about an inch and a quarter in height. |
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| 7 | 8 |
Their eyes shone; their cheeks were flushed; each inch of them, each marvelous embonded inch of them, was incredibly alive and beautiful. |
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| 7 | 154 |
The snake is a single-bladed whip, weighted, of braided leather, eight feet long and about a half an inch to an inch thick. |
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| 9 | 153 |
Painfully, almost unable to stand, tears in her eyes, inch by inch, the girl drew on her garments. |
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| 10 | 10 |
Then my right wrist, to cries of wonder, began to lift and straighten; my arm was then straight, before my body; I began, inch by inch, to lower it, toward the ground; if he did retain his grip he would, at my feet, be forced to his knees. |
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| 3 | 386 |
She moved her wrists in the fetters; there was a small sound as the three-inch joining link moved in the welded rings of the fetters. |
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| 4 | 96 |
Their ankles were no longer bound; their wrists, now, those of most of them, were fettered before their bodies; about their necks, now, however, they wore not simple binding fiber; it had been replaced the first evening out of Kassau; they wore now, knotted about their throats, a coffle rope of the ... |
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| 4 | 228 |
The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width. |
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| 6 | 217 |
He opened the hinged collar of black iron, about a half inch in height. |
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| 6 | 223 |
The inside of the collar was separated by a quarter of an inch from her neck. |
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| 6 | 229 |
The holes in each, about three-eighths of an inch in diameter, too, of course, are perfectly aligned. |
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| 8 | 47 |
Proving that I myself am not above fashion I had had this scandalous alteration implemented in my own house; surely I would not have wanted my girls to be embarrassed by the excessive length of their livery; and, in fact, I did the Ubar of Ar one better, by ordering their hemlines lifted by an addit... |
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| 9 | 107 |
I had no objection to Hilda's ankles; I found them quite lovely; they would take a common girl-fetter nicely, with about a quarter of an inch tolerance. |
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| 10 | 495 |
To my surprise, he stopped before a dark-haired girl who sat with her legs drawn up, her arms about them, her ankles crossed; her cheek was laid across her knees; she seemed startled that the Forkbeard stopped before her; she looked up at him, frightened, and then put her face again down, across her... |
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| 14 | 163 |
At close range it can pierce a southern shield, shatter its point through a seven-inch beam. |
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| 16 | 193 |
Its shaft was almost an inch thick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 669 |
At a languid gesture from Ibn Saran, Alyena lifted herself from the scarlet tiles, gracefully turning from her side to her knees, and then, head back, hair to the floor, slowly, inch by melodic protesting inch, arms before her body, lifted herself to a kneeling position, erect, the last bit of her t... |
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| 2 | 200 |
She turned her head, briefly, to look at me; I saw her eyes, dark, through the tiny opening in the haik, through the tiny, black-lace screen, about an inch in height and four inches in width. |
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| 2 | 346 |
The hort is approximately an inch and a quarter in length. |
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| 2 | 555 |
In her hand she carried a long supple kaiila quirt of leather, about a half inch in width and a yard long. |
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| 3 | 201 |
We heard the heavy bar thrust up, and then creak, rotating, on its four-inch-thick pin. |
10 |
| 4 | 287 |
He was, however, an inch or so taller than the female slave. |
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| 6 | 64 |
He then took a narrow, eighteen-inch thong and bound her hands behind her back. |
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| 7 | 189 |
"Upon my signal," said Ibn Saran, speaking in swift Gorean, "attacking in a line, slash every inch of this room. |
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| 7 | 205 |
Even a light stroke of such a blade, falling across an arm, would drop through the flesh, leaving its incised record, a quarter of an inch deep, in the bone beneath. |
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| 12 | 227 |
I stood close to her, our lips but an inch parted. |
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| 17 | 235 |
It almost encircled the leg and ranged from a half of an inch to two inches in width. |
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| 18 | 67 |
I moved the stake, to which my right wrist was fastened, a quarter of an inch. |
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| 18 | 84 |
I moved the stake again, to which my right wrist was fastened, another quarter of an inch. |
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| 21 | 368 |
In its left thigh was one, and across its chest, were three holes, three-quarters of an inch in diameter. |
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| 21 | 383 |
It was an inch and a quarter in diameter. |
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| 24 | 910 |
I took a long set of strands of her dark hair, some inch and a half in thickness. |
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| 25 | 458 |
I thrust the cloth down, another inch on her hips. |
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| 26 | 943 |
Every inch of her was alive. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 529 |
It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely... |
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| 7 | 173 |
He, upon this remark, casually, from an inch or so below her left armpit ripped the garment open to an inch or so above her left hip. |
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| 11 | 103 |
Her own brand was the customary Kajira brand, the initial letter in cursive Gorean script, about an inch and a half high, and a half inch wide, of the expression "Kajira," the most common Gorean expression for a female slave. |
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| 12 | 784 |
Slowly then I made my way, inch by inch, through encumbrances, through the close, flame-lit darkness of the basket, the flickering light from outside oddly in small moving patches illuminating the flesh, the gold, within, to the edge of the basket, so that I might see out more easily through the int... |
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| 26 | 624 |
The brand with which she had been marked was the common slave brand for the Gorean female; incised deeply in her thigh, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, was the initial letter, in cursive script, lovely, of the expression 'Kajira,' the most common expression in Gorean for... |
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| 1 | 90 |
I hurt my hands; it moved not a quarter of an inch. |
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| 2 | 962 |
Sometimes, as she becomes animated, she rises a bit from her heels, sometimes her hands move on her thighs, her shoulders and belly move, her head moves, her eyes are live and vital, she speaks and laughs, and, radiantly, every inch, every bit, of her alive, converses lyrically and delightedly. |
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| 2 | 1245 |
He had not even lashed me to within an inch of my life. |
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| 3 | 219 |
It was a small flower, stylized; it was circular, about an inch and a half in diameter; it was not unlike a small rose; it was incredibly lovely and delicate. |
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| 3 | 422 |
The marking surface of the iron is some quarter of an inch in depth. |
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| 9 | 127 |
He laughed at me derisively and then, crouching beside me, threw my ankles into the stock and closed it, one of the two four-inch blocks of wood on each side of my ankles, and flung the hasp over the staple, which would hold the blocks shut. |
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| 9 | 796 |
"Present yourself to him well, you little slut," warned Melina, "or I will switch you to within an inch of your life". |
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| 9 | 1348 |
My fingers struggled to reach it, but an inch from its wool, clinging about my thighs. |
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| 13 | 231 |
"Would you not like her in a tunic and collar of your choice, on her knees before you? Would you not like the owning of every inch of her, she your slave, yours to command, hers to obey? Would you not like her serving you, responding swiftly and perfectly in all things to the least whim of your will... |
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| 18 | 87 |
They return to their masters; there is nowhere else to go; also, interestingly, a girl who is well mastered will often undergo great privations and hardships to return to the brute whom she cannot help loving with every slave inch of her. |
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| 22 | 4 |
I brushed back my hair, which was now about an inch and a half in length, with my two hands and closed my eyes, stretching. |
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| 23 | 95 |
He then, by means of this improvised rope, tied my collar close to the iron ring on the wreckage, no more than an inch from it. |
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| 26 | 462 |
Then he took the earrings I had brought, golden loops, an inch in diameter, and fastened them in her ears. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 261 |
Another hiss smoked past me and I saw, across the room, almost at the same instant, a six-inch dart sink part way into a steel wall and part of the wall, screeching, burst back, a four-inch hole, blackened, in it. |
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| 35 | 96 |
Thus began a slow and tortuous descent, inch by inch. |
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| 3 | 655 |
Their wrists, in the two-inch-high, steel cuffs, were small and lovely. |
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| 3 | 1034 |
They were placed in such a way as to be a quarter of an inch over the edge of the platform. |
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| 3 | 1166 |
He then unlocked and removed the two-inch-high steel cuffs which had held the hands of the girls behind them. |
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| 6 | 94 |
"I should have you lashed to within an inch of your life, Slave Girl," I had told her. |
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| 7 | 46 |
Ram directed the metal worker to saw away an inch and a half of the opened collar. |
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| 28 | 215 |
I saw the curved metal bars, rounded, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, emerging from the sides of her mouth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 |
The brand was the common Kajira mark of Gor, the first letter, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, in cursive script, of the expression 'Kajira', which is the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave. |
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| 19 | 18 |
Very slowly, inch by inch, every sense alert, I began to move toward the center of the room. |
10 |
| 31 | 76 |
On her knees, inch by inch, she moved toward me, until her wrists were extended behind her and she could approach no more closely. |
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| 32 | 731 |
"Struggling, trying to pull back, fighting the wrist leashes, screaming, inch by inch," she said, "I was drawn toward the pool. |
10 |
| 34 | 139 |
With a large rock, blow by blow, heavily, inch by inch, I drove the long, thick stake into the ground. |
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| 34 | 470 |
Then, slowly, inch by inch, she pressing upward, the door began to open; she could feel the stone of the stairs hard under her bare feet; her muscles ached; there was a heavy sound from the protesting, thick hinges; she cried out, thrusting upward; the door then, suddenly, opened, suddenly swinging ... |
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| 6 | 381 |
If she had not been, she might have been whipped to within an inch of her life. |
10 |
| 11 | 300 |
They then threw her to her stomach, untied her ankles, and snapped shackles on them, steel shackles, with about a six-inch run of chain. |
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| 14 | 378 |
They were of gold, about an inch in diameter. |
10 |
| 31 | 19 |
Unnoticed she drew the skirt down an inch or so on her thigh, to better conceal her own slave mark. |
10 |
| 32 | 740 |
He must have given a sign, perhaps raising his hand, for the wrist leashes, tight on my small wrists, no longer pulled me forward, but neither did they let me move an inch back. |
10 |
| 32 | 913 |
Threaded through the tiny hole in the disk was a small knotted, suspension thong, forming a closed circle of about half of an inch in diameter. |
10 |
| 34 | 132 |
About its top, about two inches from the end, I cut a groove, about an inch deep. |
10 |
| 34 | 460 |
It moved a quarter of an inch upward, and did not strike against its familiar bolts. |
10 |
| 34 | 464 |
An inch of light, narrow and straight, almost blinded her. |
10 |
| 47 | 79 |
Inside the stockade, given the feast of the village, the column would widen, spreading to cover in its crowded millions every square inch of earth, scouring each stick, each piece of straw, hunting for each drop of grease, for each flake of flesh, even if it be no more than what might adhere to the ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 164 |
As I lifted my head, miserable, cringing, my back and legs lacerated and bloody, I saw, truly noticing it for the first time, a deep mark, a lovely mark, about an inch and a half high and a half of an inch wide, incised in Lola's left thigh. |
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| 1 | 30 |
I have brown hair and brown eyes, am fairly complexioned, am six feet one inch in height, and weigh, I conjecture, about one hundred and ninety pounds. |
10 |
| 1 | 939 |
The slot was about an inch in width. |
10 |
| 2 | 219 |
There were two small, round holes, each about a half of an inch in width, in the upper half of the side of the crate which had served as its door. |
10 |
| 4 | 22 |
It was about a quarter of an inch thick. |
10 |
| 8 | 92 |
Each opening was about a half of an inch in diameter. |
10 |
| 21 | 483 |
I considered putting the hatchling down and turning on Taphris, raping her in the darkness of the tunnel to within an inch of her life. |
10 |
| 22 | 618 |
"Kiss his body," said the Lady Florence, "every inch of it". |
10 |
| 25 | 40 |
One of the referee's men whipped forth steel, a Gorean blade, short and wicked, and, leveling it, thrust it a quarter of an inch into the burly man's gut. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 108 |
A network of welded iron bars, set an inch or two beneath the surface, underlies the planking of the floor and the surface of the dirt. |
10 |
| 11 | 421 |
If she did not do well she would know that she might be whipped to within an inch of her life or fed, alive, to hungry sleen. |
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| 14 | 114 |
I hooked a link of the chain on the holding hook, lifting her a quarter of an inch higher, securing her in place. |
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| 24 | 799 |
Every inch of her was beautiful, and enslaved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 248 |
She took the staff of the whip, which is about an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in diameter, gently between her teeth, and looked up at me. |
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| 2 | 130 |
It was diagonal, and, at its deepest point, toward the link's center, about an inch in depth. |
10 |
| 8 | 249 |
There was a similar aperture, about a half of an inch in width, in the table. |
10 |
| 8 | 344 |
I drew the knife from my belt and thrust its point a quarter of an inch into her sweet, rounded belly. |
10 |
| 16 | 122 |
I tried to inch upward on the blade. |
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| 18 | 749 |
What is to be done to her? I then took the second object which Lola had brought into the room, an eighteen-inch length of Gorean binding fiber. |
10 |
| 19 | 67 |
Her heels were just a quarter of an inch off the tiles. |
10 |
| 19 | 94 |
Then, again, she stood as she had before, her heels a quarter of an inch off the tiles. |
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| 19 | 195 |
I observed the former Miss Henderson, chained in whipping position in my house, the tight bracelets holding her hands high above her head, at the termination of the chain, her heels a quarter of an inch from the floor, most of her face covered by the tightened slave hood. |
10 |
| 19 | 481 |
I took the hood with my two hands, and, keeping the edges under, getting a good grip on the sides, rolled it an inch or so upward on her face. |
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| 20 | 167 |
I threw him a narrow, eighteen-inch black strap. |
10 |
| 20 | 833 |
I threw Calliodorus an eighteen-inch black binding strap. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 303 |
One tends to be most comfortable with such things, generally, when they are in close chains, with inch-thick links, or behind close-set bars, some three inches in diameter. |
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| 2 | 97 |
The planks are further reinforced between each girl with a narrowly curved iron band, the open ends of which are pierced; this is slid tight in its slots, in its metal retainers, about the boards, and secured in place with a four-inch metal pin, which may or may not be locked in place. |
10 |
| 6 | 128 |
In my ride I had come to one place, sheltered among small hills, in which I had found scorched grass and several, rounded six-inch-deep impressions in the earth. |
10 |
| 13 | 698 |
He tightened the chain a quarter of an inch. |
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| 14 | 54 |
The female slave of the Dust Legs, kneeling by the kaiila, wore a beaded collar, about an inch and a half in height. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 382 |
The massive jaws of Zarendargar, inch by inch, Sardak held in his arms, forced the head forward. |
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| 1 | 317 |
It was about an inch and a half high. |
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| 5 | 56 |
"Say that again," said Wasnapohdi, pausing in her work, breathing heavily, "when you find yourself on your knees, stripped, your wrists bound before you, to the whipping stake, every inch of your body bared to the stroke of his quirt". |
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| 32 | 86 |
The ankles of the cooks wore six-inch tethers, keeping them close to their pots. |
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| 40 | 890 |
Then the tray was empty, save for one object, a segment of a dried root, about two to three inches long and a half inch wide. |
10 |
| 43 | 171 |
It was now impossible for them to inch or squirm their way free. |
10 |
| 44 | 797 |
His hand paused, but an inch from her face. |
10 |
| 46 | 124 |
He then bent down and picked up a small rock, about an inch in diameter, from the surface of our position. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 114 |
The object was about an inch and a half in diameter and about three eighths of an inch in thickness. |
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| 3 | 331 |
It was a delicate mark, almost floral, about an inch and a half high and a half inch, or so, wide. |
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| 14 | 48 |
Then, suddenly, I felt the cage drop an inch, and then another inch. |
10 |
| 15 | 257 |
The entire camp, then, and its vicinity, I did not doubt, would be subjected to an inch-by-inch search, one that it would be impossible to elude. |
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| 7 | 21 |
Only an inch of wood separated me from such a man. |
10 |
| 7 | 34 |
It was a gray, beltless, one-piece garment of rep cloth, with inch-wide straps over the shoulders. |
10 |
| 14 | 52 |
Then, after a time, it dropped another inch, and then another. |
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| 20 | 108 |
He had sheared me very closely, to within perhaps a quarter inch of my skin. |
10 |
| 30 | 674 |
Similarly it is no fun to be put on one's stomach and have one's feet, by the ankles, fastened over the six-inch-high, seven-foot-long metal tying bar, and then to have them spanked soundly with a light, springy board. |
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| 31 | 349 |
He would play it out, or draw it in, as it pleased him, varying his perspective, and my distance from him, as I squirmed, and writhed and posed, from as little as an inch or two to the full length of the leash, something in the neighborhood of a full fifteen feet. |
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| 31 | 622 |
"Yes," he said, "every inch, every hair, every freckle, every drop of sweat, every drop of intimate oil". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 223 |
The point was now an inch or so from his neck. |
10 |
| 9 | 295 |
Nudity, of course, is also helpful, as it dramatically increases her sense of vulnerability, and then every inch of her skin and body is exposed, and aware, and alive to even the slightest breath of air, the tiniest fold of a cloth surface, to the least and gentlest touch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 533 |
It seemed that this might be the first time that she had ever been subjected to such caresses, those which she must endure, whether she wished to or not, those possessive, insolent caresses appropriate to a meaningless slave, caresses which would irresistibly draw her, if the master pleased, and sol... |
10 |
| 2 | 155 |
Feiqa looked up angrily, tears in her eyes, and lifted herself an inch or two from the floor on the palms of her hands. |
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| 4 | 597 |
It was about an inch or so in diameter. |
10 |
| 16 | 445 |
Quickly she drew herself forward on the bench, frightened, an inch or so. |
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| 25 | 328 |
Indeed, preferably one does not put out any money until one has carefully examined every inch of her fair body. |
10 |
| 25 | 729 |
The bars in these cages are set about four inches apart, and are about an inch in thickness. |
10 |
| 25 | 1085 |
She moved the bracelets on her left wrist up her left forearm an inch or two. |
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| 26 | 1151 |
"Now inch forward," I said, "remaining low on your belly, and when you reach my feet, once again, as before, lifting your head a little, tenderly and humbly, and beautifully, as though you were a slave, lick and kiss them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 237 |
In the flattened, shaped part of the metal under my belly, about a quarter of an inch from my body, there was a curved slot about three inches in length and three-eighths of an inch in width. |
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| 6 | 113 |
They were heavy, about an inch or an inch-and-a-half thick, I would have supposed, and about three inches apart. |
10 |
| 3 | 608 |
There was only a half inch or so between its metal and my throat. |
10 |
| 6 | 106 |
I then heard a rattle of chain, the thrusting home of a heavy bolt and the closure of what sounded like a heavy, dangling padlock, one with a bolt perhaps a half-inch thick. |
10 |
| 6 | 578 |
The plates, I conjectured, judging from the apparent weight and solidity of them, must be an inch thick, at least. |
10 |
| 7 | 11 |
We had thrust up the canvas and silk, an inch or two, at the top edge of the wagon bed, and, turned and kneeling, some half sitting, half lying, eager, curious, our ankle chains twisted, were peeping out. |
10 |
| 9 | 228 |
I stood, it seemed, in a half inch or so of sawdust. |
10 |
| 11 | 389 |
It was about a foot long, and an inch and a half in width. |
10 |
| 11 | 575 |
When a fellow had paid his tarsk bit Mirus would reach into the copper bowl carried by Tula and draw forth from it one of the small, about three inches long and an inch wide, thin, flat, brittle, glazed, baked-clay ostraka. |
10 |
| 11 | 606 |
I went up an inch or two on the toes of my foot. |
10 |
| 11 | 749 |
I saw Inger inch a little closer to Tamirus, on her knees. |
10 |
| 11 | 1249 |
"Master!" His large hands were on me, gripping me, holding me an inch or two above the furs. |
10 |
| 13 | 480 |
But my breasts were but an inch from his broad, strong chest. |
10 |
| 19 | 50 |
I recalled, too, in my training, how one of my master's men had shoved the point of a dagger a quarter of an inch into my belly, below the navel, and informed me how he could spill my guts into his hand. |
10 |
| 29 | 971 |
The engaged beast, now that it was behind Borko, holding him, began to inch up his body, clinging to the fur with its claws and teeth. |
10 |
| 30 | 42 |
In the upper portion of the door there was a small aperture, about a half inch in height and six inches long, which was fitted with a sliding panel. |
10 |
| 33 | 333 |
The handle of the sword rose an inch or so, then, showing the blade, as the beast lay back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 271 |
I moved to my left, inch by inch. |
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| 9 | 254 |
Lay down the whip, and we will attack you, and undermine you, and use your own laws, institutions and rhetorics to destroy you, inch by inch. |
10 |
| 15 | 276 |
Yet I knew they often labored on such rags in such a way as to show an inch here, and conceal an inch there, in such a way that a masterpiece of sensitivity, vulnerability and provocation was achieved. |
10 |
| 2 | 537 |
They had all chosen, it seemed, more or less recently, to live dangerously, perhaps but an inch from the collar. |
10 |
| 17 | 640 |
I saw the great head inch forward and then back, and again stop. |
10 |
| 19 | 54 |
Some of these lengths had turned, and hewn pilings, in an inch or two of water irregularly moving about over the now-upturned undersides of the lengths, like heavy, coarse wooden points, jutted up. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1607 |
"On your knees, inch by inch," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 1611 |
I watched her make her way inch by inch to the destination I had set for her, and then, there in some grass, fall to her shoulder. |
10 |
| 1 | 463 |
I put down the cup of paga, and tested the draw, an inch or so, of my blade. |
10 |
| 1 | 527 |
A quarter of an inch, where hundredths of an Ihn are involved, can be a considerable advantage. |
10 |
| 9 | 70 |
It was some four inches long, a half inch thick. |
10 |
| 29 | 95 |
He also would have brought to him smaller branches an inch and a half, to two inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 37 | 226 |
As she is prepared to inch into the sack, the collar attached to the chain run through the bottom of the sack is locked about her neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 705 |
Her collar was typical of Gorean slave collars in the north, a light, flat, attractive, gleaming band, about a half inch to three-quarters of an inch in height. |
10 |
| 17 | 210 |
"It is true! She is not here!" He got down on all fours and looked under the trunk, and then he lifted up the front panel, running his hand about under the trunk bottom, which was, say, about an inch in thickness. |
10 |
| 19 | 1042 |
The contrast was attractive, like slave silk against flesh, or a narrow cord sustaining such silk at the shoulder, perhaps an inch from a disrobing loop, or the metal of slave bracelets locked on small, downy wrists, a rope on a waist, snug above a sweetly rounded belly, or a collar on the neck. |
10 |
| 20 | 479 |
There was about a quarter of an inch of slippage between the metal and her ankle. |
10 |
| 27 | 199 |
"I want to own every inch of her, every particle of her, every bit of her, totally, every hair on her head, every mark on her body, all of her, all of her! I want to own her, completely!" "Yes, Master! Yes, Master!" said Lavinia. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 579 |
I saw the chains straighten, the rings straighten; the plate on our right, the peasant's left, out from the stone, and the very stone in which it was fastened, too, drawn an inch or more out from the wall, and the other chain, too, I saw, it still fastened to its ring and plate, these tight on the s... |
10 |
| 45 | 72 |
Again I tried, inch by inch, to reach him. |
10 |
| 4 | 455 |
It seemed he would regard every inch of me. |
10 |
| 4 | 549 |
The coils were then but an inch from my lips. |
10 |
| 4 | 564 |
A whip, too, was within an inch of my own lips. |
10 |
| 7 | 335 |
They extended an inch or so beyond my lips. |
10 |
| 8 | 115 |
I had worn, almost from the first, a light, gleaming, about-a-half-inch-high, close-fitting steel collar. |
10 |
| 8 | 169 |
They were reinforced laterally with heavy crosspieces, an inch or so high, every foot or so. |
10 |
| 8 | 367 |
I had not really expected the gate to open, but I had thought I might be able to lift it a little, assuming some counterweights were engaged, at least an inch or so, until it was stopped by some device, say, some lock, or bolt or holding bar. |
10 |
| 8 | 368 |
But I could not move it, even an inch. |
10 |
| 8 | 852 |
Suddenly from my right emergent out of the dusk so quick so fierce so fast so large its head perhaps two feet in width the head large triangular its eyes blazing lunging toward the bars big the thing a hideous noise bars body pressing scratching I leaping back, screaming, it biting at the bars the f... |
10 |
| 9 | 166 |
I had tried the bars some days ago, to lift them even an inch or so, before they would strike the bolt, or locking device, but had been unable to do so. |
10 |
| 10 | 683 |
It was flat, narrow, about a half inch in height, and closely fitting, a common collar. |
10 |
| 10 | 808 |
At best, unconfined, under duress, I might have tried to inch across it on my belly, trying to balance upon it, clinging desperately to it. |
10 |
| 10 | 912 |
Perhaps there was something like a half inch of play in the loop. |
10 |
| 10 | 914 |
I then had something like an inch of play within the loop. |
10 |
| 10 | 918 |
Whereas the loop might widen to the point where I might have as much as a full inch between my throat and the leather, no limit, other than my throat itself, was imposed on its closure. |
10 |
| 12 | 10 |
Its cords were perhaps a half inch in thickness. |
10 |
| 13 | 1005 |
They must have been an inch in diameter and some three inches apart. |
10 |
| 13 | 1176 |
At the other end of the spectrum are heavy cages in which the bars may be two inches in diameter and spaced but an inch or so apart, in which the occupant can be barely discerned. |
10 |
| 18 | 208 |
She was perhaps a quarter of an inch or so taller than I. |
10 |
| 31 | 433 |
But almost at the same time there was heard the slippage of a bolt, and we saw, on his left, our right, as we looked upon him, the plate to which the ring was attached, jerk outward an inch. |
10 |
| 31 | 529 |
And the chain on his left wrist still went back to the metal plate, pulled out, though it was, an inch or so from the wall. |
10 |
| 37 | 6 |
They were leashed, the leashes going to rings on huge leather collars, four to five inches in width, an inch or two in thickness. |
10 |
| 37 | 167 |
The two sleen now turned about, then they crouched down, their bellies no more than an inch or so from the floor. |
10 |
| 44 | 273 |
I pulled a little and, in an instant, had come to the last of the slack, an inch or so, in the cord which fastened my wrists to my ankles. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 210 |
Then, inch by inch, she approached the dais, ascended the steps, and was then before him. |
10 |
| 18 | 838 |
There were also open slave sacks of woven, metal cable, cables a quarter of an inch in thickness, some silverish, some black, some steel-colored, with apertures in the form of two to four-inch diamonds, which could be padlocked shut at the top. |
10 |
| 27 | 2008 |
She shrank back a little, on her knees, an inch or so farther from the beast, an inch or so farther from the sandals of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3419 |
Most such collars range from a half inch to an inch in height. |
10 |
| 7 | 149 |
The first instructrix had fetched a supple, springy, flat stick, about a yard long, some two inches in width, and about a quarter of an inch thick. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
She wore black, figured stockings, rather decorative, and shiny, black pumps, with a narrow two-inch heel. |
10 |
| 10 | 103 |
It was some four feet, by four feet by four feet, formed of closely set metal bars, a half inch or so in thickness, except for the floor, which was of metal. |
10 |
| 10 | 105 |
The bars were somewhat narrow, one supposes, with that half inch or so in thickness, but they were fully and perfectly adequate for holding a female. |
10 |
| 12 | 238 |
This can be managed by pulling it down an inch or so at the waist, but then, of course, it can go only so far, being stopped by the width of the hips, which she had, more than once, abraded. |
10 |
| 12 | 273 |
It is not pleasant to wear close shackles or a double-padlocked six-inch chain joining one's ankles. |
10 |
| 15 | 611 |
It was about eight or ten inches long, an inch wide, and of red silk. |
10 |
| 18 | 320 |
The leather was black, and glossy, some half of an inch in thickness, and some three to four inches in width, and there were buckles attached, for its fastening on tarns. |
10 |
| 18 | 425 |
It was small, of course, no more than an inch or so in height, but she had seen the mark before, on a wall, a titanic mark scrawled there, as though angry and defiant, in dimensions of several feet. |
10 |
| 18 | 453 |
Then from his pouch he drew forth a small message capsule, about a half inch in width and two and a half inches in length, with its screw lid and the loop of string by means of which it might be looped about, or tied to, a slave's collar. |
10 |
| 19 | 539 |
It was woven of stout fibers, generally an inch or better in width. |
10 |
| 20 | 143 |
The collar, of iron, some half of an inch in thickness, was close about her throat. |
10 |
| 26 | 383 |
She felt strong, masculine hands thrust up the straps of the hood, exposing an inch or so of her throat. |
10 |
| 26 | 1170 |
Every inch of us is alive. |
10 |
| 26 | 1505 |
Please be kind to your slave!" He then reached to her hair and drew her painfully, forcibly, to his body, until her lips were but an inch from the heat of him. |
10 |
| 27 | 3418 |
The collar was a simple one, of a familiar type, particularly in the northern hemisphere, a band collar, about a half inch in height, closely fitting, locked at the back. |
10 |
| 29 | 271 |
I am going to master you, wholly, Earth slut, every hair of your head, every inch of you!" "Be kind!" she begged. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 494 |
Then Grendel drew the weapon closer and closer to himself, inch by inch. |
10 |
| 47 | 14 |
"Go back! Go back, while you can!" Inch by inch, he saw two of his fellows, flattened against the steel, moving downward. |
10 |
| 1 | 692 |
Several times she had awakened in her bed, from such dreams, twisted in the covers, heated and thrashing, tormented by sensations that seemed to enliven and enfire every cubic inch of her, and turn her skin into a mottled sheet of living flame. |
10 |
| 1 | 711 |
He then turned his attention to the brunette who, frightened, not meeting his eyes, flushing scarlet, every inch of her, turned frantically away from him, her side to the glassine barrier, covering as she could the sweetness of her bosom with her small hands. |
10 |
| 13 | 46 |
About their necks, wrapped several times, three or four times, were leather strips, about an inch wide. |
10 |
| 18 | 279 |
Cabot tried to roll free but one hairy foot held the net closed, and Cabot, his fingers in the strands, each better than an inch thick, was helpless. |
10 |
| 20 | 256 |
"Every inch of her, every hair on her head, every cell in her body, every bit of her," said Peisistratus. |
10 |
| 27 | 25 |
The collar was a common Gorean collar, of the sort favored in particular in her northern hemisphere, flat, light, sturdy, about a half to three-quarters of an inch in height, close-fitting, locked, the lock at the back of the neck. |
10 |
| 74 | 5 |
The ceiling and floor of the cage were of quarter-inch steel. |
10 |
| 74 | 6 |
The bars were something like three-eighths of an inch in diameter, quite enough to hold a female. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 |
The Gorean pace is very close to the English yard, but the stone is well over a pound and the hort is somewhat longer than an inch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 578 |
"It would be well," said the slave, "to open the lining carefully, and examine every inch of the tunic". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1088 |
Later, inch by inch, I crawled on my belly to the edge of the bridge and looked over the edge. |
10 |
| 7 | 705 |
Should I assume obeisance position, first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the tiles, hands to floor, perhaps second obeisance position, belly to the floor, palms down, beside my head, where one might reach inch forth, to press one's lips to his feet? How slave I felt, waiting. |
10 |
| 7 | 717 |
They delighted in each nuance, and inch, of them. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 206 |
I rolled away, to my left, and sat up, and tore the thorns from my leg, throwing them, and their pod and vine away The coils on my ankles drew tighter, and I rolled to my belly and, scratching at the ground, digging into it with my fingers, dragged myself away, inch by inch, pulling at the vines unt... |
10 |
| 11 | 154 |
My body flamed, each inch of it. |
10 |
| 28 | 17 |
There was a rustling in the growth, and two strands, thick and fibrous, began to inch toward us, pods lifted, swaying, like the heads of snakes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 41 |
A free woman, stripped and bound, watches the water, and then, when the large, narrow, triangular, dorsal fins of the sharks cleave the water, men lift her, to cast her into the sea; on other occasions, she might, suspended by the wrists, be lowered, bit by bit, into a pit of starving urts who will ... |
10 |
| 7 | 235 |
I put my hands to my neck, and felt the thick metal encirclement there, that close encirclement, perhaps two inches in height, and a half inch in thickness, within which my neck was clasped. |
10 |
| 39 | 165 |
I was sure it was little more than an inch in width, if that. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 657 |
By its means I obtained purchase, something anchored in terms of which I could press down and lift myself, inch by inch, upward, free of the grip of the sand. |
10 |
| 7 | 282 |
I realized that every inch of me was a slave. |
10 |
| 33 | 656 |
Given its breadth it moved only an inch or so into the sand. |
10 |
| 38 | 31 |
I was but an inch from his lips, held in place. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 168 |
"Yet, one spring," said Thurnock, "the stump, inch by inch, is drawn from the soil". |
10 |
| 17 | 97 |
I lifted her bound ankles an inch or two and let them drop, and then lifted her bound wrists some three or four inches and let them drop. |
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