| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 19 | 78 |
The Supreme Initiate of Ar himself stood forth, separating himself disdainfully from the cowering knot of white-robed figures that cringed behind him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 53 |
There was a knot of people who had gathered, standing a safe distance away on the sidewalk. |
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| 7 | 6 |
Our blades had not crossed six times when he, too, lay at my feet, crowded into a knot of pain, clutching at the grass. |
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| 7 | 31 |
His hair was long, and bound in a knot behind his head in Mongol fashion. |
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| 24 | 160 |
Two strands of hair still marked his chin in parallel streaks and on the back of his head his long hair was still bound in a Mongol knot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Outcome of Spear Gambling The Tuchuk warrior lifted the lance in triumph, in the same instant slipping his fist into the retention knot and kicking the roweled heels of his boots into the silken flanks of his mount, the animal springing towards me and the rider in the same movement, as if one wi... |
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| 7 | 19 |
Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 72 |
His own knot was a sixty-two turn knot, his father's was seventy-one; one of his brothers used a hundred-and-four turn knot, which, as I recall, Andreas thought a bit pretentious". |
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| 5 | 59 |
In tying such a knot, with the cord looped on the inside about the latch bar, and the knot too large to slip through the hole, I would have fastened the bar down. |
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| 5 | 74 |
"Yes," I said, "each man has his own knot, as distinctive as a signature, and each knot is his own secret. |
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| 5 | 79 |
"The owner of the compartment," said Elizabeth, "returning to the compartment and untying the knot can tell immediately whether or not it is his own knot". |
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| 5 | 83 |
"Sometimes," I added, "someone enters the compartment and has a confederate on the outside attempt to duplicate the knot, that the man inside may surprise the occupant on his return, but commonly this stratagem is unsuccessful, because of the difficulties of duplicating the knot". |
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| 5 | 87 |
"The Gordian Knot," I said, "was quite possibly just such a knot". |
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| 5 | 625 |
It is perhaps surprising, but I think there would have been little difficulty telling which knot had been tied by a man and which by a woman; moreover, though this was much subtler, Elizabeth's knot did, in its way, remind me of her. |
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| 5 | 630 |
I went over to her knot and she went over to mine, and each began, carefully, movement by movement, to check the other's knot. |
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| 5 | 631 |
Elizabeth's knot was a fifty-five-turn knot. |
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| 5 | 646 |
Moreover, if you have a knot, I should have a knot". |
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| 5 | 688 |
"There is even more security," I said, "in this tie," untying her wrists and flipping her on her stomach, crossing her wrists behind her and using the same knot, with an additional knot, binding her wrists behind her back. |
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| 5 | 719 |
"How could the knot of a mere girl, and one who is only slave, compare with the knot of a man, and one who is free, and even of the Caste of Warriors?" "Then you acknowledge my knots are superior to yours in all respects?" I asked. |
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| 5 | 39 |
"This permits," I said to Elizabeth, indicating the small hole below the latch bar, "the complex knot". |
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| 5 | 54 |
"Suppose," I said, "I now tied a relatively fair-sized knot with these two ends of the cord". |
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| 5 | 60 |
"But someone could untie the knot," she pointed out, "and enter". |
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| 5 | 68 |
I then took the two dangling cords and began to tie what must have seemed to her an incredible knot. |
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| 5 | 69 |
"Actually," I informed her, as I continued to weave the cords together in an ever larger and more complex fashion, "this is only a fifty-seven turn knot. |
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| 5 | 73 |
"It is always the same knot though," said Elizabeth. |
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| 5 | 75 |
Only he can tie it, and, more importantly, only he knows the reverse turns by which that knot, provided it has been untouched, is untied". |
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| 5 | 76 |
"Anyone then," said Elizabeth, "could untie the knot". |
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| 5 | 78 |
"The problem is to reconstruct the knot after it has been untied". |
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| 5 | 84 |
Elizabeth then watched in silence while I, trying to recall the intricacies of my signature knot, worked the boskhide cords. |
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| 5 | 86 |
"It is a regular Gordian Knot," she said. |
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| 5 | 90 |
I then untied the knot, slipped the cords through the hole below the latch bar, swung the door shut and set the two beams in place, securing it. |
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| 5 | 92 |
"I will teach you the knot," I said. |
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| 5 | 95 |
"I should have my own knot, too," she said. |
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| 5 | 96 |
"Surely," I said, apprehensively, "we can use the same knot". |
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| 5 | 97 |
It is, after all, not much fun to learn a signature knot. |
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| 5 | 98 |
"If I am going to learn your knot," she said, "there is no reason why you cannot learn mine". |
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| 5 | 104 |
"My knot will be quite as complex as yours," she said. |
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| 5 | 106 |
"It will be quite enjoyable to invent a knot," she said, "but it must be feminine, and it must reflect my personality". |
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| 5 | 621 |
* * * * "I've got it now," said Elizabeth, who, kneeling before the slave ring, had been practicing my signature knot, using the ring as a post. |
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| 5 | 623 |
I myself had been spending some time mastering the knot she had invented, which, I was forced to admit, was suitably ingenious. |
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| 5 | 624 |
I examined her knot, which I had tied about the handle of one of the chests near the wall. |
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| 5 | 629 |
"You might check this knot," said Elizabeth. |
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| 5 | 633 |
She had threatened to invent a knot with more than fifty-five turns but when I had threatened to beat her she had yielded to reason. |
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| 5 | 635 |
Upon reflection, it did seem to me there might be some purpose in Elizabeth's having her own knot, apart from her delight in inventing and utilizing one. |
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| 5 | 636 |
For example, sometime on Gor, she might have her own compartment or her own chests, and such, and might have a use for her own knot. |
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| 5 | 637 |
She could have used mine, of course, even in such cases, but, seeing her knot and how it differed from mine, I had little doubt she would find her own more felicitous, more pleasing, it being more feminine, more personal to her. |
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| 5 | 640 |
Further, having her own knot might have some occasional value, even in our present circumstances. |
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| 5 | 641 |
For example, passing the door and seeing her knot in place I would know that she was not in the compartment. |
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| 5 | 643 |
It seemed to me, all things considered, though it was a bother for me, a good thing that Elizabeth had her own knot. |
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| 5 | 644 |
Besides, perhaps most importantly, she had wanted her own knot. |
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| 5 | 645 |
"Every girl," she had informed me, loftily, "should have her own knot. |
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| 5 | 648 |
"Well, Kuurus," said she, from the side of the room, "it seems you have tied my knot correctly, though perhaps somewhat more clumsily than I would have done". |
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| 5 | 652 |
"Your tying of my knot," I said, a bit disgruntled, "if one is to be critical, was somewhat daintier than I myself would approve". |
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| 5 | 656 |
"I cannot help it," she said, "if I tie your knot more neatly than you". |
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| 5 | 667 |
I then illustrated, she cooperating, several other common knots, among them the Karian anchor knot, the Pin hitch, the double Pin hitch, the Builder's bend and the Builder's overhand. |
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| 5 | 674 |
I did not tell her, of course, but Warriors are trained to tie that knot, and most can do it in less than three Ihn. |
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| 5 | 678 |
"It is an interesting knot," she said, examining her bound wrists. |
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| 5 | 679 |
"What do you call it?" "It is a Capture Knot," I said. |
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| 8 | 4 |
"I suppose not," she grumbled, slipping her slave livery over her shoulders, tying the slip knot on the left shoulder, and then, grimacing, rubbing her wrists and ankles. |
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| 8 | 144 |
Breakfast finished we returned to the compartment, where I untied my signature knot, with which I had closed the door. |
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| 8 | 189 |
She would tie her signature knot on the outside of the door. |
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| 8 | 190 |
On the inside we had cut the loop and with a simple knot tied the two cords together, so that, when we wished, we might let ourselves out of the compartment without cutting the cord on the inside. |
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| 12 | 369 |
At one corner in the descending ramp there was a small knot of young men, weavers by their garments, who were gambling with the inked knucklebones of verr, shaking them in a small leather cup and spilling them to the stones. |
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| 24 | 276 |
My eyes regarded the signature knot securing the humble portal. |
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| 24 | 278 |
My fingers scarcely seeming mine, scarcely able to move, touched the knot. |
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| 24 | 279 |
It was an intricate knot, feminine, complex, with playful turnings here and there, small loops. |
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| 24 | 282 |
It was a beautiful knot. |
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| 24 | 283 |
I touched it, and, trembling, scarcely breathing, carefully, began to untie the knot, counting each bend and turn, each delicate twist and motion of the cords. |
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| 24 | 284 |
I had untied only a bit of the knot when I leaped to my feet with a cry and turned, running as though demented, crying out, down the corridors once more to the court of the Ubar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 86 |
Unsteadily she stood up and, with fumbling fingers, untied the knot that bound the five coils of the collar of marsh vine about my neck. |
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| 18 | 133 |
The boy, his feet braced on a knot in the swaying rope, his hands clenched on its fibers, swung below me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 134 |
The knot fastening the sheet to the railing above me slipped a little. |
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| 11 | 873 |
As my hands were braceleted before me, and held in place by the binding fiber there, and the loose ends of the binding fiber had been knotted behind my back, by no movement could I bring the back knot within reach. |
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| 12 | 664 |
My fingers fought at the knot, futilely, picking at it. |
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| 12 | 667 |
"I cannot see to untie the knot," cried Ute. |
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| 13 | 32 |
Ute crawled over to me, and began to work, with her small strong fingers, at the knot that bound the collar on my throat. |
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| 13 | 34 |
After a time, she managed to undo the knot. |
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| 14 | 642 |
She knotted one end of this about my neck, tightly enough that I felt the knot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 23 |
The baker had tied the sack about her neck, with a baker's knot, fastened behind the back of her neck. |
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| 5 | 24 |
The girl is not supposed to be able to see to undo the knot. |
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| 5 | 27 |
Naturally the sack may not be opened unless the knot has been undone. |
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| 5 | 28 |
The baker's knot is supposed to minimize the amount of pilfering of pastries, and such, which might otherwise be done by slave girls. |
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| 5 | 87 |
But now, about her neck, tied with the baker's knot, fastened behind the back of her neck, was a sack of two loaves of Sa-Tarna bread. |
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| 6 | 603 |
Rim tugged the knot loose. |
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| 8 | 62 |
We crawled to the gate, and there, quietly, I studied the knot that held it, so, if necessary, I could retie it. |
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| 8 | 63 |
It was not a difficult knot. |
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| 8 | 64 |
It was not a signature knot. |
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| 8 | 66 |
I untied the knot and, one by one, we slipped within the palisade. |
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| 15 | 437 |
Grenna's neck knot was tied as tightly as that of any of the other girls; her wrists were confined no less securely behind her back. |
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| 16 | 148 |
The last knot was fastened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 640 |
The bondage knot is a simple looped knot tied in the girl's hair and worn at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. |
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| 1 | 638 |
There is, first, the bondage knot. |
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| 1 | 641 |
The girl approaches the master naked and kneels, the bondage knot soft, curled, fallen at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. |
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| 2 | 347 |
Each knot, by a girl, a free woman, is tied individually by hand. |
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| 11 | 93 |
Then he would knot her skirt over her head, confining her arms within it, and throw her, she laughing, to his men, and to me, for our sport. |
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| 24 | 912 |
"The bondage knot," she whispered, disbelievingly. |
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| 24 | 924 |
She looked at me, tears in her eyes, sitting, bound, the loosely looped bondage knot at the side of her face, at the right cheek. |
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| 25 | 337 |
The knot was under her jaw on the right, turning her head to the left. |
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| 26 | 421 |
If the slave's heat is on her, she may tie the bondage knot in her hair, beg to serve wine, squirm a bit, dare to turn her palms upward a little on her thighs, and such things. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1064 |
The fellow on the platform then jerked loose the knot at the blonde's right hip, which held the wrap-around tunic closed. |
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| 35 | 274 |
With the barrel of the tubular weapon I tore open the loose knot holding the pleasure silk together at her navel. |
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| 35 | 645 |
"Note the slip knot on the sandal string," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 519 |
'See its knot and disk,' he asked, 'the distinctive slave knot, and the disk, that identifying the master?' 'Yes,' I said. |
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| 5 | 138 |
If the feet are tied to the collar the knot is always in the front, so that the pressure will be against the back of the girl's neck and not the front. |
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| 6 | 517 |
He made a loop in the line, passed the free end through the deck ring, brought the end up through the loop, about the line, and down through the loop again, then tightened the knot. |
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| 6 | 519 |
The knot at the ring was a simple bowline, familiar to all who know the sea, brought to Gor perhaps hundreds of years ago by mariners who had once sailed the Aegean or the Mediterranean, perhaps who had once called not such ports as Schendi or Bazi their own, but Miletus or Ephesus, or Syracuse or C... |
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| 11 | 174 |
The fellow who had been called Kunguni crouched before the girl and, quickly, jerked loose the knot which held her bound hands, which were still tied, tethered at her collar. |
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| 32 | 531 |
On her throat was the neck belt of bondage, doubtless tied shut with a slave knot, and, fastened to it, identifying her, the disk of the master. |
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| 32 | 910 |
' He then put the neck belt on me, tying it shut with the thong, with what I knew must be a slave knot. |
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| 43 | 64 |
Too, it is common to loop a wrist binding, and use a single knot, rather than tie each wrist separately". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 249 |
Then two guards, gigantic fellows, brawny, stripped to the waist, their heads shaven save for a knot of hair behind the crown, stood behind the barred gate to the cell. |
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| 11 | 300 |
"Where is the clothing?" She went to the side of the room and picked up a bag, fastened with a drawstring, the knot on the string sealed with a wax plate, the plate bearing the imprint of a stamp. |
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| 11 | 311 |
"Do you think perhaps it is not clothing?" I broke the seal, breaking it away from the knot. |
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| 11 | 312 |
I undid the knot. |
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| 26 | 323 |
I shall take the strap up then to your wrists, so that the knot will be where you can reach it neither with your fingers or teeth". |
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| 32 | 9 |
The knot was under her chin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 210 |
I then jerked her to her knees before me, her chin pulled up by the knot so that she must look at me. |
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| 21 | 379 |
As she knotted each she kissed the knot, and then, when finished with both, put her head to my feet in a graceful gesture of submission. |
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| 22 | 75 |
Numbly, slowly, lifting her arms, the blade between her arms, her fingers trembling, she tied the bondage knot in her own hair. |
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| 22 | 186 |
I had seen her kneel naked before a pirate and, his blade at her throat, with her own hands, tie the knot of bondage in her hair, in full view of hundreds of her fellow citizens. |
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| 23 | 215 |
She had tied the knot of bondage in her own hair. |
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| 23 | 370 |
In her own hair she had tied the knot of bondage. |
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| 24 | 89 |
She reached out and, gently, first touching my chest, her hands lingering there for a moment, found the knot in the belt of soft cloth with which I had closed the casual tunic I had donned. |
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| 24 | 90 |
She undid the knot and parted the tunic, kissing me at the belly. |
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| 30 | 14 |
She, nude, kneeling, the blade of the pirate at her throat, had tied the knot of bondage in her own hair. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 409 |
I then dragged him, half strangling him, up the sloping deck to the starboard rail, where, with a swift knot, I tied him to one of the uprights supporting the rail. |
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| 20 | 2181 |
She then stood, and, bending over, her hands helplessly chained behind her, bit and pulled at the knot in the cord that belted my tunic. |
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| 20 | 2182 |
When she had freed this knot she went behind me, first to my left shoulder, and then to my right shoulder, and, with her small, fine teeth, drew the tunic from my body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 62 |
Furthermore the collar is fastened by what is, in effect, a signature knot, a complex knot, within a given tribal style, whose tying is known only to the individual who has invented it. |
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| 1 | 1018 |
Too, they are often undecorated, save perhaps for a knot of the feathers of the yellow, long-winged, sharp-billed prairie fleer, or, as it is sometimes called, the maize bird, or corn bird, considered by the red savages to be generally the first bird to find food. |
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| 13 | 1595 |
For example, under observation, you cannot very well employ your right hand in the attempt to undo the knot on your left ankle. |
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| 14 | 63 |
It is thus, for most practical purposes, impossible to remove and replace such a collar without the master, in his checking of the knot, by untying and retying it, being able to tell. |
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| 17 | 60 |
This knot cannot, of course, be drawn back through the small drilled hole by the girl. |
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| 17 | 64 |
Again, of course, this knot, a heavy one, prevents the thongs from slipping back through the narrow aperture. |
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| 17 | 469 |
And then, when the knot is jerked tight, she knows she is Kajira. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 43 |
She wore a brief halter of Waniyanpi cloth which, by design, did little to conceal the beauty of her breasts; about her waist a string was tied; two pieces of Waniyanpi cloth, about a foot wide and two feet long, were thrust over and behind the string, one in front and one in back; these two pieces ... |
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| 40 | 730 |
Tie some knot in it which is yours, so that if men find me they may say, 'Here, see this knot. |
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| 43 | 282 |
I then pretended to secure that knot with a second knot, to prevent slippage. |
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| 43 | 284 |
The stressing and jerking of the straps, which Iwoso could feel through the back of her neck, was the result, merely, of my looping part of one strap about the other and then jerking against it, the second strap end, of course, falling free as soon as I released it, leaving only the first knot in pl... |
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| 1 | 324 |
This is done, in effect, with a signature knot, in a given tribal style, known only to the tier. |
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| 1 | 325 |
This gives him a way of telling if the knot has been untied and retied in his absence. |
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| 9 | 136 |
She then, again, aligned it, setting the central knot under her chin. |
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| 33 | 242 |
The point of the collar is to mark the woman as a slave and, in many cases, by means of devices such as a particular kind of knot, a tag, an engraving on metal, or a plate attached to it, to identify the master, not to cause her discomfort. |
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| 34 | 325 |
He jerked the two loose ends, sharply, snapping them in contrary directions, making the knot tight. |
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| 34 | 326 |
A narrow, inverted triangle of flesh showed between the first two coils of the collar, wrapped closely about her neck, and the knot. |
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| 34 | 327 |
He released the two loose ends of the collar, below the knot, and they fell lightly, dangling, as was the case with Mira's collar, between her breasts. |
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| 34 | 334 |
I would later explain to him the identificatory aspects of the collar, and he might then, if he wished, change it, or personalize it in some way, perhaps with a special knot, tag or ornament. |
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| 37 | 570 |
With some of the tether, close to the knot on her right ankle, I tied her hands together behind her back. |
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| 39 | 348 |
"Yes, Master," she said, and knelt down on one knee, her hands at the knot. |
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| 39 | 355 |
She was now sitting in the grass, her fingers fighting the knot. |
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| 39 | 364 |
"I cannot undo the knot," she said, tears in her eyes. |
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| 39 | 368 |
"I have tried! Please, do not whip me!" I unfastened the knot. |
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| 39 | 480 |
I then checked the slave's rope, that it was securely bound on the left travois pole, looking forward, and that a similar, uncompromising security was manifested in the neck-knot, at the other end of the rope, under the girl's chin. |
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| 39 | 494 |
When my hands were at the knot she suddenly, desperately, licked and kissed at my wrists. |
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| 40 | 261 |
She reached to the knot at her left hip. |
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| 40 | 505 |
He jerked shut the last knot, decisively. |
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| 43 | 279 |
I then fastened the straps together behind her neck with a simple over-and-under knot. |
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| 43 | 285 |
The security knot, as far as Iwoso could tell, was in place. |
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| 44 | 40 |
I then jerked tight the knot, the rope secure in its notch, behind the post. |
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| 48 | 6 |
She fumbled with the knot on Bloketu's collar, removing it from her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 54 |
His head was shaven, except for a swirling knot of jet-black hair just behind and below the crown. |
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| 30 | 281 |
Then the knot was jerked tight, quite tight. |
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| 36 | 1269 |
There are, as you may well imagine, many ways in which a girl may make known her needs, and desires, to her Master, and many of these are unvocalized, even by moans and whimpers, involving such things as tying the bondage knot in one's hair, lifting thongs piteously to him, touching and kissing his ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 39 |
I noticed that it was now secured with a capture knot, a knot of a sort commonly used in securing captives and slaves. |
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| 2 | 40 |
He undid the knot. |
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| 2 | 187 |
She must then do other things, such as putting a bondage knot in her hair, offering them wine or fruit, dancing naked before them, or kneeling before them, whimpering and whining for attention, licking and kissing at their feet and legs. |
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| 2 | 1681 |
In such an arrangement the apparent security of a nether closure is a sham, of course, for the string is fastened with a slip knot at the left hip, convenient for a right-handed man, who may then strip the woman, commonly a slave, utterly, with as little as a casual, insolent tug. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 565 |
Some was fetched, a length of some five feet, or so, and, in a moment, with one end of the fiber, with a few loops and a knot, her wrists crossed, her hands were secured behind her back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 60 |
"I would tie the bondage knot in my hair for you," I said. |
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| 20 | 96 |
I then, slowly, gracefully, kneeling before him, looking up at him, tied the bondage knot in my hair, it then hanging beside my right cheek. |
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| 28 | 238 |
It was a slip knot, such that masters might remove it at a tug. |
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| 31 | 117 |
He had watched the stranger place, pull tight and knot the cords. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 398 |
I had refastened it in a simple bowknot, a sort of knot which on Gor, in certain contexts, as in the present context, is spoken of as a slave knot. |
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| 15 | 914 |
"Do not concern yourself with her," said the fellow, finishing with the knot, jerking it tight, on Lady Publia's ankles. |
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| 17 | 133 |
Suddenly, on the approach from the right, a fellow, breaking away from a knot of embroiled fighters, raced up the stairs, toward me, sword drawn. |
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| 17 | 711 |
The result is that her hands are held apart, on opposite sides of her body, and that neither hand can reach a knot, either at a wrist or behind the back. |
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| 21 | 1204 |
The curla and chatka, of course, because of the nature of the knot, may be removed with as little as a brief tugging on the curla, or cord. |
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| 21 | 1218 |
The tunic, short, loosely draped, flowing, is fastened by a single, soft, narrow strap at the left shoulder, opportunely situated for the right-handed master, which strap, given the nature of the knot, may be undone with a casual tug, this dropping the garment to the slave's ankles. |
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| 21 | 1220 |
It is a common game or prank of mischievous young rowdies on the streets or in the marketplaces to suddenly, unexpectedly, tug the knot free. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 16 |
In this way one cannot reach the knot which fastens the strap in place. |
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| 27 | 325 |
"I can!" There are many ways in which a female slave can beg for sex, for example, the bondage knot, offering the master wine, holding up to him fruit, next to her body, kneeling, licking, kissing, and so on. |
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| 28 | 11 |
It was fastened with a bow knot on her left. |
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| 28 | 12 |
The knot, being on the left, was not only convenient for her, reaching across her body, perhaps at a captor's or master's command, but was readily at hand, as well, for the attentions of a right-handed captor or master. |
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| 28 | 13 |
In either case, the bow knot, of course, loosens with a casual tug. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 383 |
He then, whipping a short length of binding fiber from his pouch, with two simple loops, and a double knot, a warrior's capture knot, tied her hands together. |
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| 4 | 88 |
I pulled him from the knot of men, to the side. |
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| 8 | 1038 |
Her tiny fingers began to fumble with the knot of the slave girdle, before her, beneath her breasts. |
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| 8 | 1039 |
Then she had the knot loose and pulled away the girdle. |
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| 14 | 421 |
Perhaps the weak masters, unable to satisfy them, will weary of seeing the bondage knot in their hair, will weary of their importunities, their moans and whinings in the night, their beggings for use, and either give them, or sell them, to another. |
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| 14 | 509 |
Whereas it had confined her with perfection, she had not been able, of course, to reach either of the ends by means of which the knot could be expeditiously undone. |
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| 19 | 146 |
"Is it not the same as the wearing of the bondage knot in the hair, the offering of fruit, the serving of wine, the moaning, the prostrations, the obeisances, the gentle, supplicatory licking of the feet?" "Yes, Master!" she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 561 |
"Knot your hair behind your head, that it not drag in the water. |
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| 23 | 25 |
She had jerked the knot yet more tight. |
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| 24 | 767 |
And then they were a small, writhing knot of terrified women, each trying to hide behind the other. |
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| 24 | 934 |
They often then, self-collared, knot a rag about their hips, to conceal that they have no brand, and hurry into the streets, to surrender, as a slave, to one of the conquerors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 522 |
Had he been her master, in private compartments, she would not have hesitated to permit such an inadvertence, or she might have tied the loose bondage knot in her hair, on the left, as a mute plea for attention. |
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| 27 | 2859 |
The knot was jerked tight. |
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| 27 | 3271 |
It was tightly knotted, and she could not, of course, see the knot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 109 |
He wrapped one about the neck of each, three or four times, and then fastened it, jerking it tight with a warrior's knot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 368 |
It is tied with a slip knot, which may be loosened with a casual tug, at the left hip, as most masters are right-handed. |
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| 11 | 21 |
It is fastened with a slip knot that it may easily, with a tug, be undone. |
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| 16 | 11 |
A simple knot in each strap prevents it from slipping back through one of the saddle rings. |
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| 17 | 74 |
Above, in the sky, suddenly, the gigantic, tumbling, fighting knot of birds and men broke, like a burst of alarmed jards, startled in their feeding, and hundreds fled. |
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| 27 | 65 |
In this way, when the rope is knotted about the neck of each girl, save for the first and last girl, there being no free end, there is no access, save perhaps by a knife, or such, to a means of undoing the knot. |
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| 32 | 35 |
He had a rolled knot of hair at the back of his head, as did Lord Nishida. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 777 |
Whereas anyone may untie the knot the tying of the knot is a secret, difficult to duplicate except by one familiar with the knot. |
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| 1 | 167 |
It was closely belted, as required, a bow knot at the left hip, where it would be convenient to a right-handed master. |
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| 1 | 178 |
Slowly, carefully, kneeling, the girl undid the knot at her left hip. |
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| 1 | 457 |
The bondage knot, for example, might be looped loosely in her hair. |
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| 21 | 111 |
The hair of each was drawn behind the head and fastened in a ball or top knot. |
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| 35 | 70 |
His hair was drawn back on his head, and fastened in a knot, behind the back of his head. |
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| 37 | 773 |
"That is not my signature knot". |
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| 37 | 776 |
To enter the door, one simply unties the knot and frees the door. |
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| 37 | 778 |
If, say, the proprietor returns to the dwelling and discovers the knot is missing or different, that suggests that the area has been entered without authorization. |
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| 37 | 780 |
In some dwellings, of a somewhat better sort, such as mine, the signature-knot fastening is combined with a latch or bolt arrangement, in which the drawing of a latch string, put through a small hole in the door, moves the latch or bolt. |
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| 37 | 786 |
Callias undid his knot, drew the latch string, freeing the latch, and opened the door. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 72 |
He then checked the signature knot on the small sack tied about my neck, the signature knot of the Lady Bina. |
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| 4 | 516 |
It is slipped over the head, and belted snugly, commonly with a double loop of thong or binding fiber, this fastened with a slip knot at the left hip, that it may be convenient to a right-handed man. |
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| 4 | 518 |
The slip knot at the waist of the camisk is similar to the disrobing loop at the left shoulder of some slave tunics, by means of which the garment may be conveniently removed, a simple tug loosening it, permitting it to fall gracefully about the ankles of its occupant. |
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| 4 | 664 |
Do the masters truly not understand the slave's uneasiness, her whimpering, her sidelong glances, the bondage knot in her hair, her kneeling before him, the pathetic way she presses her lips to his feet, hoping to call herself to his attention? Surely the strongest chain on a slave is her nature and... |
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| 5 | 159 |
He jerked the knot tight. |
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| 10 | 480 |
He pulled off the kerchief, and freed it of its knot. |
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| 18 | 350 |
I saw one fellow knot the wrists of a slave behind her and thrust her toward an alcove. |
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| 21 | 38 |
It is easy enough to knot a cloth about one's neck and use it to wipe away sweat, and men, for some reason, seem to find sweat-wet hair, loose about a kajira's features, attractive. |
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| 27 | 272 |
The knot is to be a simple bowknot, so that it may be easily loosened by a man's casual tug. |
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| 30 | 61 |
Another subtle device is the simple bondage knot, loosely tied in the hair. |
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| 49 | 285 |
I have tied it shut, with my signature knot. |
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| 49 | 291 |
Presumably that will be done with the signature knot of Amyntas. |
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| 50 | 28 |
To my apprehension, particularly at first, I would deliver and receive these messages as I had at first, when I had been robbed on my way to the wine shop of Amyntas, that robbery which had placed false information in the hands of the conspirators, namely, with the sack tied about my neck, closed wi... |
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| 50 | 75 |
Satisfied with the knot, he undid it. |
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| 50 | 76 |
He would, of course, when he later closed the sack, do so with his own signature knot. |
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| 50 | 105 |
The sack was then, with its new signature knot, tied about my neck. |
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| 51 | 106 |
Lord Grendel produced the small sack from a pouch at his harnessing, and the Lady Bina undid the knot. |
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| 51 | 107 |
"It is the signature knot of Amyntas," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 15 |
As it was fastened, Tula, had she desired to do so, could not reach the tree to her left to undo the knot, as the rope, knotted about the tree to her right, would not permit her to do so; similarly, I could not, had I desired to do so, reach the knot to my right to undo it, as the far knot on the le... |
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| 15 | 677 |
"One day," he said, "you will crawl to men, begging, the bondage knot in your hair". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 14 |
His hair, as with many of the warriors, was bound in a knot at the back of his head. |
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| 42 | 149 |
Another way a slave may supplicate the master's attention is to place the bondage knot in her hair. |
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| 46 | 191 |
"I did not understand that! If a nondescript peasant, a lowly one, can do it, so can anyone! Bring another grain of rice!" The magician, with one movement of the field sword, severed the knot of hair which held the slave's head back, against the post. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 490 |
"Please, please release me, now!" He stood up, towering over the knot of slave at his feet. |
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| 13 | 125 |
Often I had tied the bondage knot in my hair, and knelt to lick the ankles of a master, or of one of his men. |
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| 19 | 24 |
Certainly he must have noted the simple loop of the bondage knot I had tied in my hair. |
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| 30 | 307 |
I wanted to loop the bondage knot in my hair, but I did not dare remove my hands from my thighs. |
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| 30 | 308 |
As I was right handed, I would commonly put the knot at my right shoulder. |
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| 49 | 306 |
When such a knot is undone by a master, and the hair, loosened, falls about her shoulders, the slave is in little doubt that she will soon serve to slake, and well slake, her master's lusts, and as the obedient, comely beast she is. |
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| 62 | 141 |
There are many begging signals, from things as simple as tying the loose bondage knot in one's hair to kneeling and kissing and licking the master's feet, whimpering in need. |
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| 68 | 526 |
As I followed him, I tied the loose, simple bondage knot in my hair. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 9 |
How often one hopefully ties the bondage knot in one's hair! How often one kneels, frustrated and whimpering, at a male's feet, fearing to speak, hoping to be caressed! Once one's slave fires are kindled what can one be from then on but a begging slave? And do the beasts not know this, when they, to... |
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| 12 | 82 |
It had a light belt of yellow cloth, supported by four loops, which belt, fastened by a slip knot, might be easily undone, allowing the folds of the tunic to be delicately or rudely parted. |
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| 35 | 49 |
I would tie the bondage knot in my hair, whimper, and put myself to his feet, kajira. |
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| 37 | 253 |
Similarly tying the loose bondage knot in her hair may bring discipline. |
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| 41 | 36 |
With two quick loops of thong and a knot jerked tight, my wrists were fastened behind my back. |
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| 47 | 140 |
If he dallied, I would tie the bondage knot in my hair. |
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| 47 | 272 |
"Is that not the bondage knot in your hair?" he asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 226 |
It, like the soft bondage knot in the hair, is a way in which the slave may appeal to be noticed, may beg for attention, may mutely make known to her Master the desperation of her need. |
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| 18 | 84 |
A paw becomes a hand; a cell sensitive to light becomes an eye; the enlargement of a knot on a spinal cord becomes a brain. |
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