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| 8 | 48 |
It was an intelligent precaution for Tharna to take, to keep an eye on the stranger, lest her hospitality be abused. |
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| 8 | 69 |
With one hand he held the folds together, lest the wind should lift the cloth and reveal his face, and with the other hand, he clutched the rail on the bridge, as if uncomfortable, uneasy at the height. |
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| 12 | 76 |
He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and death... |
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| 22 | 37 |
Almost imperceptibly she bit it to control its movement, lest I should see. |
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| 14 | 121 |
"No," said Misk, "when a pet Mul dies the case is always destroyed, lest there be contamination". |
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| 16 | 109 |
"Your father was instructed to call you Tarl, and lest he might speak to you of the Counter-Earth or attempt to dissuade you from our purpose, he was returned to Gor before you were of an age to understand". |
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| 3 | 109 |
"Beware," I warned, "lest I take your words as insult". |
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| 8 | 481 |
It is dangerous, of course, to approach any but a naive, straight-running, perhaps terrified, girl at full speed, for should she dodge or move to one side, one will have to slow the kaiila to turn it after her, lest one be carried past her too rapidly, even at the margins of bola range. |
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| 18 | 115 |
Angry, I sped about the dome, not wishing to silhouette myself against the sky on its curve, lest there be enemy bowmen within range. |
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| 20 | 78 |
I then flung the two bars in position, which locked the door, lest men on ladders from the ground attempt to force it. |
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| 20 | 83 |
"Let us proceed," I said, "lest the tarns be flown from the roof and we be isolated in the tower". |
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| 25 | 677 |
I had little doubt that I could bring Miss Cardwell around quickly enough, if she thought me in earnest, for example, by a stroke or two of the slave lash, and would then have her crawling to me, to fearfully kiss the whip, lest she once more feel it, crawling to me aghast, petitioning to kiss that ... |
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| 2 | 37 |
Some fled from the tables, lest, unknown to themselves, it be they for whom this man wore the mark of the black dagger. |
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| 2 | 111 |
Indeed, some, particularly those of low caste, even have use names, concealing their true names, lest they be discovered by enemies and used to conjure spells against them. |
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| 9 | 10 |
Often in these matters, conducted under supervision, both slaves are hooded, in order that they not know who it is with whom they are forced to mate, lest they might, in their moment of union, in their common degradation, care for one another, or fall in love. |
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| 12 | 114 |
Some of the men angrily gestured for the little fool to hurry from their area, lest he spoil the races for their women. |
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| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 550 |
Swiftly, lest I be beaten, I knelt again on the rock and returned to my washing. |
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| 15 | 1128 |
"And here," said Ute, "lest the ardor of the men become too strong, this!" The girls laughed. |
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| 15 | 1132 |
"Do not laugh," smiled Ute, "for you, too, will be so marked, lest Raf and Pron, huntsmen of Treve, in a careless moment, devour my two other white-silk pretties". |
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| 17 | 112 |
I sometimes thought of many of the girls I had known on Earth, whose names I will omit, lest somehow, sometime, somewhere, they read these pages, who would surely look well, stripped and collared, kneeling before masters, their knees perforce widely spread, their tiny, lovely wrists confined behind ... |
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| 17 | 421 |
And surely it would be preferable, to the plans of some, my enemies, that you not be in this city when Rask of Treve arrives, lest they fail to capture him and he finds you, and carries you away". |
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| 17 | 423 |
"Were you in a place where they could have you when they wished, and yet not seem to own you, nor risk identifying themselves with you prematurely, lest others take note?" "For months," I said, "I served as a slave in a paga tavern". |
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| 2 | 65 |
Such ships are not meant for cargo, lest it be treasure or choice slaves. |
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| 2 | 604 |
I could see the anxiety in their eyes, lest they not be fed more. |
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| 4 | 262 |
The girls, including the slender blondish girl, emptied their bowls, even to licking them, and rubbing them with their saliva-dampened fingers, that no grain be left, lest Gorm, their keeper in the ship, should not be pleased. |
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| 14 | 204 |
I saw Kurii, methodically, blow after blow, striking the fallen, lest any might have sought to hide among the dead. |
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| 17 | 43 |
Men would soon be up and about their duties, hurrying from one nothing to another, to compromises, to banal degradations, anxious lest they fail to be on time. |
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| 17 | 51 |
Is grandeur so fearful that men must shield themselves with pettiness from its glory; do they not understand that in themselves, and in perhaps a thousand other intelligences, reality has opened its eyes upon its own immensity; do they shut their eyes lest they see gods? We could see now a glimmer o... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 461 |
When the search is discontinued, after success or failure, these markers are destroyed, lest they be taken by travelers for water arrows, markers indicating the direction of water holes, underground cisterns or oases. |
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| 7 | 98 |
Women are not permitted at Klima, lest men kill one another for them. |
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| 7 | 643 |
Before your men you were forced to conduct your charade of complicity in their schemes, lest your true loyalties be discovered. |
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| 26 | 975 |
"And lest you be misled by my apparently speaking to you intimately of important things, disabuse yourself of any presumption of standing in my estimation. |
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| 26 | 1213 |
It is, in defense of their tyranny, their despotism, you see, after all, lest you think too badly of them, their habitat as well. |
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| 2 | 121 |
I was terrified lest, inadvertently, I might do something to displease them. |
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| 4 | 822 |
Suppose men, suspicious, would turn me over to free women, that my body might be, without compromise to my dignity lest I be free, examined by them. |
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| 11 | 168 |
"Speak softly, lest you be whipped," cautioned Sucha. |
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| 20 | 583 |
And as Earth spoke in me, I felt reflexively, dutifully, what I had been told I should feel, what I had been taught I ought to feel, what it had been programmed into me I must feel if I were to satisfy pre-established cultural criteria, if I were to be smiled upon and commended, too, lest I bear the... |
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| 22 | 497 |
"If the Master is pleased, why should he whip his slave? To be sure, we may occasionally be bound and lashed, lest we forget that we are slaves, to remind us that we are slaves". |
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| 26 | 42 |
At other times my mistress would shop and I would follow her, deferentially, to carry her purchases, eyes cast down, lest I should be caught so much as looking upon a man. |
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| 26 | 193 |
I removed it carefully, lest it contain a needle or other device of which I might be unaware. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 168 |
Thistle, the dark-haired girl, who had once been the rich Audrey Brewster, hurried, too, lest it would be her own back which next would feel the lash. |
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| 15 | 1136 |
And do not importune me so again, lest I put you to the whip". |
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| 22 | 122 |
"Do not move too swiftly," said Imnak, "lest he charge and kill you". |
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| 35 | 1063 |
"Stand back from the hatch," I said, "lest they blow it in towards us". |
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| 38 | 210 |
"Slave girls should beware of speaking their dreams," I said, "lest they be overheard by a master". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 594 |
Coils of rope slung over the side cushioned the strakes of the ship, lest she grate herself on the boards of the wharf. |
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| 6 | 655 |
If only they could see themselves but once through a man's eyes, would they not be terrified to leave the house, lest they be stripped and put under the iron, and collared, by the first man who sees them? Perhaps it is well for women not to know how desirable they are. |
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| 12 | 585 |
"Try to do as well as the black slaves," said Msaliti, "lest you be slain". |
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| 32 | 294 |
Do not presume, in your insolence, lest you be cut to pieces, to compare yourself with her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 177 |
Then she said, "Beware how you speak, lest you be lashed and burned with irons". |
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| 7 | 577 |
I was well aware of the definitions of my manhood, and how well I must fulfill them, that I must be gentle, solicitous, feminine, and sweet, and obedient to the whims of females, lest I be a brute. |
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| 22 | 163 |
"Come back, Lady Melpomene," called the Lady Florence, "and hurry, lest we become displeased". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 167 |
No longer did she move about a campus in a prescribed garmenture, anxious lest her femininity and her true needs be suspected. |
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| 11 | 544 |
"Watch your tongue, Girl," I said, angrily, "lest it be slit". |
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| 22 | 1 |
What Occurred at the Wharves; What Occurred in the Vicinity of the Tavern of Tasdron "Stand back, lest you be hurt!" cried a man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 334 |
I pulled it from her, lest she, in her fear, be tempted to draw it about her, ever so little. |
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| 19 | 10 |
It is slaves who must be careful of their behavior, lest free persons find it displeasing. |
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| 19 | 1007 |
She must do her best, now little different from thousands of others, many regarded as more beautiful than she, to make herself something special to a master, lest she prove less than fully pleasing, and be fed to sleen. |
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| 20 | 1593 |
Most free women, for example, do not need to ask permission to leave the house, need not explain their intentions and itinerary, nor need to report back by the sounding of a given ringing of the city's time bar, lest they risk a monitory lashing. |
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| 20 | 1847 |
From my point of view, I would prefer, lest she become vain, or think that she is now somehow important, that her discipline should be simply maintained. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 353 |
"Be quiet, Siptopto," said Hci, "lest I consign you to the pleasure of warriors". |
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| 5 | 102 |
"Beware," I said, "lest your secret dream come true". |
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| 7 | 131 |
"I suggest you rid yourself of it, immediately, lest it become the occasion of further discipline". |
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| 9 | 293 |
Too, this position, so open and exposed, can be of service in reminding me, lest I be tempted to become arrogant or proud, of my lowliness, my purposes and condition". |
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| 16 | 45 |
"He must beware," I said, "lest he become weak". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 27 | 62 |
The girl who wears this must watch her step, lest the master grow impatient with her. |
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| 33 | 881 |
"Remove the former first minister of Corcyrus from our presence," said Claudius, "lest I be tempted to betray the pledge of my city. |
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| 36 | 873 |
Sometimes they must be cuffed from one's feet, lest their pleading and insistence, however softly piteous, become too annoying. |
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| 16 | 36 |
"Back, even in your vast numbers, you warriors and foes," cried Petrucchio, grimly, "lest I slice you like roast tarsk, lest I shred you like tur-pah and peel you like suls!" Chino and Lecchio, understood as two simple travelers on the road, come unexpectedly on Petrucchio and his companions, looked... |
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| 6 | 2 |
"Pull down your skirt, you slave, you brazen hussy!" "Pray, do withdraw, noble sir, for you surprise me arriving as you did I all unawares, and of necessity I must improvise some veiling, lest my features be disclosed," cried the girl upon the stage, Boots Tarsk-Bit's current Brigella. |
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| 6 | 485 |
"Higher, lest I be tempted to peep over its rippling, shimmering horizon, daring to look upon what joys lie beyond. |
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| 6 | 499 |
"I had best not permit him more than the briefest of peeps," she said, to the audience, "lest he perhaps in rapture go out of his senses altogether". |
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| 6 | 1008 |
I dare not mention it lest you faint in fear". |
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| 6 | 1062 |
"Be off, you scurvy scamps, lest I feed you to your own sleen!" "I did not know we had any sleen," said Lecchio to Chino. |
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| 16 | 447 |
"I am a free woman! I am not a slave!" "Perhaps you should consider being silent," suggested Chino, "lest you be whipped for lying". |
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| 21 | 399 |
She must now expect to be held in contempt, as a despicable object and worthless animal, and must strive mightily to please, lest she be lashed, or slain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 138 |
Scarcely had I sold them the poems than they all hastened away, covetous, lucky, greedy fellows, lest I change my mind. |
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| 11 | 358 |
We would, similarly, in deference to her feelings, keep Feiqa and Tula under the blanket for a time, lest their eyes suddenly, inadvertently, meet hers, and women read in one another's eyes truths which might be deeper than speech. |
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| 13 | 80 |
There searches are made, lest it be attempted to carry valuables from the city". |
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| 19 | 24 |
The theory is not only that it is well to practice the draw frequently, as the first to draw may be the first to strike, but also to be familiar with it on a daily basis lest its parameters alter from time to time, due to such things as contractions and swellings of the leather, these having to do w... |
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| 19 | 350 |
I kept an eye on the so-called Philebus, lest he take this opportunity to take to his heels. |
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| 25 | 423 |
If she had ever been a free woman, doubtless she had been warned to keep those lips veiled, lest they attract the attention of slavers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 881 |
"Take her out of my sight," he said to Taurog, "lest I be tempted to kill her". |
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| 20 | 92 |
"Spill garbage, or refuse, upon the stones, for I am a slave and am worth less than even it, and have no value lest it be to serve a master, and put me upon it. |
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| 26 | 4 |
Very little I would think could stand against their charge, lest it be a terrain of pits, a forest of peeled, inclined, sharpened stakes. |
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| 34 | 675 |
Had I forgotten that I was only a slave? The slave, it seems, must conceal her love from the master, lest he find it embarrassing, or even offensive. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 304 |
You made my garments such that they were mere covers, strips and pieces, such that I dared not move, lest I be lying naked in a public place, such, too, that they might be lifted from me at a man's pleasure". |
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| 21 | 796 |
Lest some not understand their fury, let it be said, simply, that they were Goreans. |
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| 21 | 1082 |
Why are the men of Gor so different from the men of Earth? Why are they not diffident, not apologetic? Why do they not turn their eyes aside, lest they cause the smallest modicum of unease to the fair? Why do they not pretend not to notice? Why are they not like the typical man of Earth? But soon, a... |
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| 21 | 1271 |
Too, as women commonly desire clothing, particularly when in public, and given the master's options with respect to their clothing, most slaves strive to be pleasing, lest they be publicly exhibited, perhaps fastened nude in slave yokes and driven about the city by children with switches. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 308 |
"Beware," she said, "lest I be truly cruel to you, lest I truly torment you, lest I lower my veil and permit you to glimpse, ever so briefly, my beauty, a beauty which you will never possess, which you will never kiss or touch, a brief glimpse which you must then carry with you, recalled in frustrat... |
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| 1 | 529 |
That is one reason it is often carried on a loop over the left shoulder, that it may be immediately, lest it prove an encumbrance, or present an encircling strap an enemy may seize, the blade drawn, discarded. |
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| 3 | 64 |
I assumed he must have left the camp expeditiously, as would have been wise, lest his putative affiliation with me be recalled, and then, after perhaps waiting a few Ahn in the vicinity of Teslit, not making his presence known, had hastened southward, that he might convey his intelligence speedily t... |
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| 19 | 150 |
But what if they do not share a Home Stone? And what if another, such as he, from elsewhere—? Well, let her guard herself, lest she find herself in a distant place, one unfamiliar to her, on a large, rounded block, stripped, ankle deep in sawdust, being vended to the highest bidder. |
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| 19 | 533 |
"Beware of your language," I said, "lest you inadvertently speak words of self-enslavement". |
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| 27 | 93 |
I stepped back, lest he lunge at me with the dagger. |
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| 32 | 92 |
To be sure, it might be to her advantage, in such a case, to make certain that men are not watching, lest she must then redo the work, again and again. |
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| 36 | 169 |
Had she actually been of Cos I might have had to protect her from him, lest he kill her. |
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| 40 | 63 |
Wisely, of course, Myron also left many troops about the city, and in special strength near the gates, lest Dietrich attempt to outwit him, by sallying forth and breaking free". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 356 |
A free woman drew back her robes, hastily, frightened, lest they touch an Initiate. |
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| 3 | 262 |
"Beware, lest you speak treason," said one of the men. |
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| 3 | 407 |
Perhaps he wants to keep a flow of slaves in his house, lest he grow too attached to one, always a danger. |
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| 3 | 563 |
Does her master lift his whip? She must then redouble her efforts to please, lest she be lashed. |
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| 4 | 62 |
In any event, most of those in the city, surely the largest part, by far, of its population, had no practical way to leave the city, lest it be on foot. |
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| 10 | 346 |
"And lest you return home too quickly," I said, "we shall do this". |
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| 10 | 398 |
She is keenly sexual, which she is usually wise enough to conceal from the free woman, lest she be bound and mercilessly whipped, but the free woman suspects this only too well. |
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| 11 | 284 |
We must keep the verr pacified, lest they learn how they are milked and shorn". |
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| 17 | 137 |
"Beware, lest one might be listening!" "I think that I shall speak with her, and plead with her to be a better slave girl," said the fellow. |
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| 24 | 104 |
She may then be wary of moving, at all, lest she should inadvertently make of herself an allurement, one of irresistible interest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 972 |
Too, might she not attempt bribe guards, or such, promising rich rewards for her release? But let her not be apprehended in such an intrigue, lest her lofty status vanish by morning, and she find herself in the garden then no more than another such as we. |
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| 10 | 325 |
Perhaps they did not wish them torn off by the beast! In the pens we kajirae, kneeling or crouching down, had sometimes put our hands through the bars of our kennels, trying to touch a guard, to call ourselves, whimperingly, to his attention, but this experience suggested, uneasily, a quite differen... |
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| 12 | 467 |
I knew little or nothing of the Initiates, but I had heard that such as I were not allowed in their temples, lest we profane them. |
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| 31 | 312 |
I fear lest the Home Stone be stained". |
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| 43 | 63 |
Let her beware then lest the house master should in his check lift back the sheets and not find her naked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 345 |
Secondly, it is useful to keep in mind that the cultures of this supposed world have not been affected by the development of certain vast, far-reaching, centralizing, reductive, dehumanizing, mechanistic technologies; they have not been affected by, for example, global industrialization, socially en... |
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| 11 | 1056 |
Too, after she has been chained to the wall, she may notice that, dangling from the ceiling, before her, just out of her reach, is the sack of diamonds We do not want her to be able to reach them lest she should attempt something foolish, such as trying to hide some of them in her body. |
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| 13 | 323 |
"He has a free woman!" Clutched in the talons of the tarn, fearing to struggle lest she fall, but nonetheless helplessly held, held as though gripped with iron, was a human figure, though it seemed little more now than a pathetic bundle, trailing shreds of robes and veils. |
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| 16 | 409 |
She, kneeling, facing away from him, head down, hands clasped behind her neck, had learned what she was, and would be, to him, nothing, lest it be an object of derision and scorn. |
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| 17 | 830 |
Ellen did not look at them, for she feared free women, and, as most slave girls, avoided meeting their eyes directly, lest they be thought insolent and be punished. |
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| 24 | 628 |
"I cannot let him see me in this way! Not in this way!" She stopped dancing for a moment, confused, but tried not to look at Selius Arconious, lest their eyes meet. |
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| 25 | 715 |
But let them beware, lest they find themselves sharing her fate. |
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| 25 | 1105 |
Let the woman beware, whether slave or free, who has betrayed a Gorean male, lest she come later into his power. |
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| 26 | 278 |
Why has he tied me like this, she asked herself, but dared not move, lest the answer be made even more clear to her. |
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| 26 | 1382 |
"We must not give the Cosians time to collect their wits before the camp breaks up, lest they close the camp. |
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| 26 | 1683 |
"Beware," said he, "lest I send you to give pleasure to the entire camp". |
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| 27 | 32 |
"Beware," said he, "lest it be further shortened, or removed entirely". |
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| 27 | 106 |
* * * * Or was it that a lashing might be no more than merely another prosaic mnemonic device, one among many, reminding the slave, lest she might forget it, that she was truly a slave. |
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| 27 | 682 |
Slaves, incidentally, as other animals, verr, tarsks, and such, are not permitted within the precincts of the temples, lest the temples be profaned. |
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| 27 | 905 |
He did not wish even to speak aloud, lest he inadvertently cut his own throat, so close against his throat was set the narrow edge of Arconious's blade. |
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| 28 | 26 |
On Earth women guard their bellies with fervor, lest they succumb to what they know lies within them, the ready tinder which might be ignited by the torch of bondage. |
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| 28 | 267 |
"No," said Selius Arconious, "lest she inadvertently, by signs of uneasiness, alert the beasts as to such suspicions". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 372 |
Who has not seen the difference in the behavior of even veiled free women when in the presence of men, how they stand, how they hold their heads, how they speak, with such pretended, insouciant indifference? And, too, who has not seen the even more obvious competitions amongst the girls on a slave s... |
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| 2 | 177 |
Lest we be led to think the less of the Kurii in these matters, it is only fair to point out that most of the meat eaten in the Steel Worlds is not human. |
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| 18 | 277 |
Cabot thrust at him with the pointed stick but the Kur grasped it and drew on it, and Cabot released it, lest he be dragged from the ledge. |
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| 21 | 9 |
Perhaps to protect you, lest some here be displeased with your testimony at the trial". |
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| 21 | 397 |
He wished, doubtless, to remain in the vicinity of the pet, lest the attacker might the more easily slip past him. |
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| 26 | 99 |
"I think it is important in these matters, too," said Peisistratus, "not to treat our selections from Earth otherwise than as common slaves, which they are of course, lest too much curiosity be aroused, and so, thus, we have recourse to the coffle, the wheeled cages, the chaining of their ankles abo... |
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| 33 | 190 |
"There is blood! These things can smell that from a pasang away!" Grendel stood, the ax ready, lest the large aquatic predator approach anew. |
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| 57 | 98 |
"You need not fear, my dear Flavion, that such a tunic will conceal a weapon, lest it be, and surely to no more than a tiny, almost mocking extent, the beauty of the female herself". |
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| 70 | 79 |
"Yes, yes," screamed Flavion, then daring not move, lest he further injure his gripped limb. |
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| 78 | 105 |
"Doubtless they do, and cruelly," said Corinna, "but one would dare not even suggest such a thing, lest they would see to it that the flesh were lashed from our bones". |
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| 79 | 594 |
"Yet," said the slave, "she sits upon the throne?" "Uneasily, I trust," said Cabot, "in terror, lest her secret be discovered". |
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| 81 | 139 |
"I owe it nothing, lest it be the bitterest of enmities". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 157 |
She may fall in love with him, but she should be wary of letting him suspect this, and surely should not speak of it, lest she be peremptorily sold. |
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| 4 | 72 |
If such murders had taken place I did not think that Kurii would have risked entrusting Constantina or Pertinax with a cognizance so dreadful and solemn, lest it be betrayed by some careless word, some inadvertent expression, a surprising hesitation, some gauche, unwary phrase, or pause. |
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| 4 | 153 |
"Yes," she said, "that is it!" "But you feared to be caught, unengaged in labors, lest Pertinax, your master, beat you for dalliance?" "You have found me out," she said, sadly. |
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| 5 | 239 |
"I think it best to keep the whole intact, lest inquiries arise". |
10 |
| 5 | 856 |
Some of the girls, careful to retain the posture in which they had been placed, lest they be struck, wept. |
10 |
| 5 | 914 |
We would not want reconnoitering tarnsmen, flighted from Ar, to suspect that they might be refugees from the proscription lists, lest determined efforts be made to recover them". |
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| 5 | 1110 |
There was little, as far as we knew, beyond Tyros and Cos, some small islands, of course, usually spoken of as the Farther Islands, but nothing else, lest it be the World's End, the edge of the sea, supposedly the plunge into the abyss, nothing. |
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| 13 | 306 |
She became frightened of food and drink, lest, perhaps, it might be drugged, or poisoned. |
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| 18 | 82 |
We had not been on the track for more than a handful of Ihn, however, moving rapidly but circumspectly, lest crossbowmen be about, when we heard shouts before us, and we saw some dozen or so of the Pani Ashigaru, with their glaives, approaching. |
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| 19 | 13 |
Ashigaru accompanied them, lest fugitives be encountered. |
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| 19 | 186 |
Once withdrawn I stationed my men about the stable, encircling it fully, lest any makeshift exit be attempted. |
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| 20 | 40 |
It had been easy to determine this, first from startled witnesses to his perfidy, and a later call of the roll, to confirm the matter, lest the witnesses were confused, mistaking one uniform for another in the haste, the commotion, and turmoil of the moment. |
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| 27 | 49 |
Ashigaru prowled the edges of the road, lest any of Lord Nishida's minions, primarily mercenaries, be tempted to avail themselves of an unobstructed highway to another prince, one with perhaps a deeper purse. |
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| 27 | 72 |
Here and there, as another such wagon passed, it, too, with its coffle of beauties, I noted a switch-bearing Ashigaru in attendance, doubtless lest one of the slaves be tempted to look about, or be so foolish as to attempt to communicate, or even whisper, to another of the "beads on the slaver's nec... |
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| 28 | 117 |
Bedded, they were kept on their neck-ropes, but their hands were retied, behind them, lest any be so foolish as to try to address themselves to the knots at the ends of the coffle rope. |
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| 28 | 118 |
Their ankles were not bound, lest men, late at night, might be inconvenienced in the darkness. |
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| 40 | 127 |
When not serving she will usually kneel in the background, at hand, ready, particularly if a free woman is present, lest she be summoned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 754 |
I heard the hideous noise of the pulsating pods sucking blood, pumping it to the roots, and, screaming, I tore the fangs from my leg and fled away, and then stopped, afraid to move, lest there be more such things about, lest I stumble and fall into a writhing patch of such plants. |
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| 28 | 290 |
One must thus be careful lest one begin to care for them, lest one begin to succumb to their charms. |
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| 1 | 103 |
None of us had noticed them, lest it was the stranger. |
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| 5 | 30 |
A strict discipline must be maintained on board, as in a cage of sleen, lest they tear one another to pieces. |
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| 7 | 12 |
The unusual men, the Pani, spoke little, lest it be amongst themselves. |
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| 7 | 147 |
The answer to an unhappy, dissatisfied woman is a master, whom she must hope to please, lest she be lashed. |
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| 9 | 473 |
He was one of those who would not sleep lest such a blade lay at his side. |
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| 12 | 55 |
Sails had been quickly reefed, lest, by a rare, larger stone, they might be cut. |
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| 21 | 130 |
The kajirae, even more than the men, avoided him, fleeing at the sound of the tap and scratch of the crutch, hastening away, lest his large, awkward shadow fall upon them. |
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| 26 | 302 |
"Yes," she said, "lest she cast the spell of her smiles over you, the magic of sparkling eyes, the sorcery of a trembling lip". |
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| 30 | 36 |
Outside the trail walls, Pani archers had been stationed, lest any, held inside, attempt to scale the walls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 736 |
And how unfree then should she feel herself if she sensed what it might be, so held, to be owned and mastered? How she must resist her body, her dispositions, her inclinations, her desires, her emotions, her feelings, lest they betray her, lest they threaten treason to her dignity and personhood. |
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| 10 | 244 |
I myself would have been afraid to lift my hand to him, lest it be bitten off. |
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| 10 | 594 |
In particular, slaves are not permitted within the precincts of temples, lest these edifices be considered defiled by their presence. |
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| 10 | 635 |
And it would be well that such suspicions were not entertained, lest they provoke the interest of the unscrupulously acquisitive. |
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| 10 | 637 |
Had the aforementioned ruby been their last? They had no new source of income of which I was aware, lest it might be from investments in the Street of Coins, but I knew of no such investments, and I suspected they would not wish their principal to be tethered to a particular location, nor, perhaps, ... |
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| 10 | 1122 |
They would avoid my face, I was sure, lest I be permanently marked or damaged. |
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| 11 | 203 |
"Dawdle not then," he said, "lest your collars be read". |
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| 13 | 63 |
Many Goreans, too, I understood, particularly of the lower castes, had "use names," to conceal their real names, lest their real names, it seemed, might supply ill-wishers with grist for spells and sorceries. |
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| 17 | 356 |
After he had saved me from the girls of the house of Daphne, he had dealt with me at his leisure, and as he pleased, my hands incapacitated, unable to interfere, held over my head, balancing the laundry, my fingers, as he went about his inquiries, clawing into that large, soft bundle of sparkling sh... |
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| 18 | 1034 |
Please, oh, Master, I thought, let me speak, let me speak! I have so much I want to say, so much I want to tell you, so much for which to beg forgiveness! Yes, I so wanted to be permitted to speak, and yet, now, some days since my sentencing, I feared even to beg mutely for the restoration of that c... |
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| 20 | 114 |
But how frightful that one might not dare to express this, lest one be beaten or sold! Desmond of Harfax, I was sure, thought me incapable of love. |
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| 46 | 83 |
Others needed be restrained by chain leashes, lest they leave the block, rushing to prostrate themselves before one fellow or another to be purchased, their lips pressed to his sandals or boots. |
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| 52 | 515 |
Often must her mouth be covered lest her cries, those of an uncompromisingly ravished, exploited chattel, annoy the neighborhood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 335 |
"Now," I said to the free women, "be away, lest I call for a switch, and have you switched like slaves from the i nn ". |
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| 21 | 131 |
"Too, it would be well for us to soon return, in darkness, as well, lest our absence be noted". |
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| 21 | 238 |
We must soon return to Shipcamp, lest our absence be noted". |
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| 23 | 101 |
Supposedly these slaves were so extraordinary that one did not dare put them amongst the men, lest discipline be lost, and sedition and chaos ensue, men killing one another to possess them I did not believe this, but I was willing to suppose that the slaves might be of high quality, such as might do... |
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| 34 | 69 |
"Let us proceed, lest he become annoyed at the delay". |
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| 43 | 537 |
"It would be well for the slaves to be fed," said Axel, "lest they lag on the trail, or faint". |
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| 43 | 1228 |
Do not approach it, lest you, too, be seized and torn". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 84 |
That is one reason many warriors require a captured free woman to strip herself, lest they run afoul of concealed devices, a scratch from which might prove fatal. |
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| 2 | 114 |
They would be posted here to guard the desolate encampment, to report lest it be reoccupied, to intercept and deal with possible survivors from the attack, perhaps to provide a shelter and retreat, a headquarters, for the patrols and kill squads before they set again about their work. |
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| 12 | 291 |
A slave, of course, would not speak the name of a free man, lest it be soiled on her lips. |
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| 25 | 180 |
"But it is well known she is delicate, and sensitive, as a flower," said Lord Akio, possibly attempting to mitigate his former observation, lest the shogun be displeased. |
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| 25 | 197 |
"Proceed," said one of the two Ashigaru on the platform to the distraught criminal on the narrow wooden path, "lest the shogun become impatient". |
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| 29 | 12 |
"Be silent," said Haruki, "lest you be gagged". |
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| 39 | 77 |
"Ichiro," he said, "watches near the compound of Lord Akio, camp lord here, lest Tajima be moved". |
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| 60 | 319 |
I prepared to cry us from the bridge, to regain the land, to fight amidst our foes, that archers must have patience, confronted with moving, confusing targets, that they must be cautious and often hold their fire, lest they strike allies. |
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| 61 | 862 |
"You are a fool of Earth, as all the others of that smug, feeble orb! You have been nurtured into futility from the cradle! You are sweet, kind, sensitive, thoughtful, understanding, weak, stupid, and manipulable! Beware, lest I shed a tear, or reproach you for ambition, pride, vulgarity, bullying, ... |
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| 61 | 892 |
"No dire fate will be imposed upon you by Lord Temmu as a consequence of my decision, lest the cavalry retaliate". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 510 |
"Dare not obstruct the path of a free woman, not so much as brushing her sleeve, lest I summon the guardsmen of Ar and have you remanded to the nearest pole of impalement! Aside, all of you, now! I have business here! Stand aside, aside!" Men moved aside, even officers, lest her robes be touched. |
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| 9 | 377 |
"I dare not repeat it, lest I swoon with shame". |
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| 11 | 214 |
"Can you not see she is spent? Pity her, lest she perish at the pole!" "If she perishes at the pole," said the first girl, "it will be my doing!" The switch then rained down upon my back, and legs, and neck, and I scrambled to my feet, sobbing, seizing the pole. |
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| 35 | 8 |
"Come to the side, lest free women pass," she said, delightedly, but anxiously, looking about. |
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| 41 | 87 |
One must be careful of meeting the eyes of free persons, particularly free women, lest one be deemed insolent. |
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| 42 | 73 |
"But, Mistress, her message?" "Doubtless," said the Lady Bina, "it is the same as yours, entrusted to two couriers, lest one be too confused, frightened, or distraught to deliver it properly, or comprehensibly. |
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| 46 | 371 |
I wanted to cry out my love for him, for my master, but I dared not do so, lest I be whipped, and sold. |
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| 49 | 371 |
How excited and pleased we were to be slaves, free to rejoice in our attractiveness, free to revel in our beauty and its power, well aware of its effect on ourselves and others, no longer permitted, lest we be whipped, the curbs and checks, the ten thousand constraints and inhibitions, of the free w... |
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| 49 | 429 |
Stand, wait for the nod, and then pour, deferentially, and carefully, very carefully, and then step back, head down, lest one's eyes meet those of a free person, in particular those of a free woman. |
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| 53 | 235 |
"You beware," said Surtak, "lest I find you displeasing". |
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| 53 | 267 |
"Beware," he said, "lest you be found displeasing". |
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| 63 | 213 |
What pursuit could it possibly elude? Too, two kajirae, afoot, were chained behind the wagon, and the wagon, thus, must monitor and regulate its speed, lest, secured as they were, they be dragged, and injured, perhaps their necks broken. |
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| 65 | 352 |
Indeed, I do not care to stain my ax with your blood, lest the blade be dishonored". |
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| 67 | 62 |
He did not dare let her out, into the street, lest she would have sought you out, and perhaps irreparably impaired your value on a slave block". |
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| 68 | 81 |
What better loot can one have than the women of the enemy, naked, and chained at your feet as slaves? "I should think," I said, "that men would fear to eat here, lest the waitresses, who may have access to materials in the kitchen, say, knives, might attack them". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 167 |
I dared not be curt, lest I be whipped, or unduly synoptic, lest Brindlar and Leander later compare notes. |
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| 3 | 255 |
I dared not reveal it, lest I be ridiculed and scorned. |
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| 3 | 357 |
The larl must pretend to be a verr, lest it be devoured by swarms of urts. |
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| 10 | 123 |
Another, I supposed, anxious and disturbed, might fling his jacket about me and, red-faced, looking down and away, lest he see me as I am, hasten me from the tavern. |
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| 11 | 234 |
"I have heard that she has been seen in Tabor and Anango, and in Bazi, and in the valley of the Ua, and in far Skjern, and that she has been apprehended by a dozen bounty hunters who scheme to keep her capture secret, lest she be stolen from them, before she can be brought to Ar. |
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| 13 | 173 |
"You must not even mention this to Adraste, lest she collapse in dismay, fearing her discovery". |
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| 14 | 156 |
"Let us continue our work, lest we attract the attention of the kitchen master". |
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| 25 | 71 |
"And it was desirable to keep secret the true identity of the slave, Luta, lest ambitious felons obtain her and not free her, but use her to extort riches from her family, threatening to otherwise make her shame publicly known. |
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| 27 | 56 |
"Do not approach us, disgusting, hideous creature, lest you spoil our appetites," said one of the men. |
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| 33 | 478 |
"Release her hair," said Pa-Kur, kindly, "lest you cause her discomfort". |
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| 36 | 61 |
I soon desisted, lest it be suspected I was a spy. |
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| 40 | 324 |
But, I thought, to preserve the charade that she had attempted to flee the tavern, a beating might be in order, lest suspicions be aroused otherwise. |
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| 42 | 27 |
"So," I thought to myself, "the intruders within the canal gate are no longer content to wait, watching the portal, lest Adraste be ushered through to safety in the city. |
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| 44 | 16 |
Give no sign of this, lest the men on the pier suspect my action. |
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| 45 | 109 |
"Are you unaware you are tunicked? Are you unaware of the declamatory mark characterizing your thigh, informing the world of what you are, a purchasable beast? Are you unaware of the collar on your neck, that you are a mere property? Run, to the longboat, now, lest, as you deserve, you be publicly s... |
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| 47 | 42 |
"Beware," he said, "lest you be beaten". |
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| 47 | 255 |
Indeed, as you are quite likely to betray yourself sooner or later by some slip, linguistic or otherwise, it would be wise not to permit any doubt about the matter, lest you be subjected to some appropriate chastisement. |
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| 47 | 291 |
"I did fall into the power of Decius of Venna, briefly, in Brundisium," I said, "when slaves were being removed from the House of Anesidemus, lest they perish in the spreading of a great dock fire". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 41 |
"They were forbidden by Cos, lest they be misused, lest the population be endangered". |
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| 3 | 122 |
"There are slaves, as well, some eager to please lest they be lashed, others, whose slave fires have been kindled, they then the helpless victims of their needs, begging to please, even for the slightest caress". |
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| 6 | 256 |
"Observe," I said to the kneeling slave, who had stiffened and was trying to draw back, but was careful to keep her wrists, crossed, behind her, lest I have her lashed for "breaking position". |
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| 34 | 59 |
"Certainly," said Thurnock, "lest an attack be made on the beach". |
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| 35 | 26 |
After the success of this tactic, I had had the ditch refilled, lest its existence excite curiosity, and seem to call for an explanation. |
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| 43 | 32 |
"Too, the inner ditch is a more secure location, more so than the outer ditch, one easier to defend, lest an excursion take place from within the walls of Mytilene". |
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| 45 | 112 |
Thrasymedes and I had distributed Mytilene's common supplies amongst three well-separated storage areas, three lest one or two areas become accessible to enemies during street fighting, should the walls be successfully breached. |
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| 46 | 27 |
"Let the butchers beware," said Thurnock, "lest, in their carelessness, it be they who are butchered". |
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| 49 | 145 |
"At first sight of them, lest landing parties should disembark and trap us ashore, we put to sea, intent on fighting our way to open water". |
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| 53 | 63 |
I mention this lest it seem surprising, or improbable, that portions of the Dorna's crew were outboard, attempting to free their ship from the shore of the living island. |
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