| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 62 |
Late in the day we glimpsed a solitary tarnsman high above the road, a lonely image that depressed both myself and Talena. |
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| 12 | 107 |
Soon my swift captor had reached his mountains, and the vague, distant smudge that I had seen had become a lonely, frightening, inaccessible wilderness of reddish cliffs. |
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| 12 | 165 |
I had no desire to die eventually of starvation in the lonely aerie of my tarn. |
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| 20 | 1 |
Epilogue It is time now for a lonely man to conclude his narrative, without bitterness but without resignation. |
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| 1 | 5 |
He was quiet and pleasant, though sometimes he seemed remote, or lonely, somehow unwilling to break through that protective shield of formality behind which the educated Englishman, at heart perhaps as sentimental and hot-blooded as any man, attempts to conceal his feelings. |
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| 1 | 61 |
I seemed to answer a desperate need for human fellowship in that lonely man, and, for my part, I was more than happy to count myself his friend, unfortunately perhaps, his only friend. |
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| 1 | 69 |
Outside there was a light snow falling, soft as colored felt in the lonely neon lights of the street. |
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| 1 | 128 |
Cabot, still half-drunk, looked about himself, at the brutal electric geometry of that great city, at the dark, lonely shapes that moved through the light snow, at the pale glimmering headlights of the cars. |
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| 3 | 77 |
It was hard to understand the words, for those of the lonely Caste of Woodsmen do not often speak. |
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| 14 | 111 |
I wondered if it too recalled the thunder of the wind, the clash of arms as tarnsmen dueled in flight, the sight of Gor's tarn cavalries wheeling in formation to the beat of the tarn drums, or the long, steady, lonely soaring flights we had known together over the green fields of Gor. |
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| 15 | 32 |
More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free. |
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| 15 | 153 |
I watched the clouds scudding across the darkening sky, listened to the wind whistling among those lonely ridges. |
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| 15 | 245 |
I thought she seemed a lonely figure, rather forlorn and sad. |
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| 16 | 2 |
It lay about one hundred pasangs northwest of the city, and was a lonely white column of solid marble, perhaps four hundred feet in height and a hundred feet in diameter. |
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| 20 | 28 |
The ugly grounds of the compound, its lonely wooden huts, its brown soil and bare hard rocks, were deserted save by the dead. |
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| 20 | 46 |
I wondered too at her treachery, her strange hatred of me, for somehow it seemed not to fit well with the lonely girl on the ledge, who had stood quietly gazing at the field of talenders while a warrior had gorged himself on the kill of his tarn. |
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| 21 | 237 |
Upon reflection it seemed clear to me that the chain must, in the end, be a lonely place for a girl, filled with life, knowing that her brand has destined her for love, that each of them must long for a man to care enough for them to buy them, that each must long to follow a man home to his compartm... |
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| 1 | 105 |
I have been unable to learn the fate of my father, my friends, my warrior companions, and my beloved Talena, she who was the daughter of Marlenus, who had once been Ubar of Ar—my sweet, fierce, wild, gentle, savage, beautiful love, she who is my Free Companion, my Talena, forever the Ubara of... |
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| 4 | 157 |
For some reason I laughed and my laugh was the laugh of a warrior of Gor, full and mighty, unafraid, and it roared in the dark and lonely Hall of Priest-Kings. |
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| 16 | 122 |
I still held the memory of the lonely, beautiful woman whom I had known so briefly in my childhood, who in those short years had so loved me. |
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| 16 | 187 |
They had been long, cruel, lonely years. |
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| 17 | 107 |
I wondered of the man through whose eyes I was now seeing, who he was, what he had been, that unknown Implanted One who now walked some lonely road somewhere on Gor, a device of Priest-Kings. |
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| 27 | 27 |
Yes, the hours would be long and lonely for the caged, shorn Vika of Treve. |
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| 27 | 90 |
I wondered if, among Priest-Kings, he would have helped her, or if there would have been others from the former Nest, or if she alone would have fallen to earth, to eat the wings that had borne her, and to burrow beneath the mountains to begin the lonely work of the Mother, the creation of the new N... |
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| 30 | 17 |
I recalled the man from Ar, met on the lonely road to Ko-ro-ba long ago, who like a robot had been forced to obey the signals of Priest-Kings until at last he had tried to throw over the net, and its overload had burned away the insides of his skull, giving him at last the freedom of his own mortal ... |
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| 34 | 142 |
It was a lonely road that I now had to walk, and I wished to set out upon it as soon as possible. |
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| 34 | 153 |
The probability of so beautiful a woman as Talena finding her way through the cities of Gor, over the lonely roads, among the open fields to at last return to Ko-ro-ba was not high. |
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| 1 | 42 |
Overhead a wild Gorean kite, shrilling, beat its lonely way from this place, seemingly no different from a thousand other places on these broad grasslands of the south. |
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| 12 | 503 |
For no reason that I am quite sure of I unwisely purchased another bottle of paga, perhaps for company in my lonely walk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2 |
I, and Cernus and Ho-Tu, and others, stood in the lonely darkness of a recessed ledge on a high peak in the Voltai, some pasangs northeast of Ar. |
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| 12 | 379 |
"I am lonely," said a kneeling slave girl by one of the booths, lifting her hands to me. |
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| 12 | 382 |
"Use her," said he, "the poor wench is lonely, only a copper tarn disk". |
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| 13 | 315 |
The painted, wooden tarn heads, used for marking laps of the race, stood lonely and dark on their poles. |
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| 14 | 113 |
I did not fear it, but, like Ho-Tu, I was pleased that it was doubtless safely caged; I would not have cared to meet it in the lonely halls of the House. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 179 |
It is often lonely on the rence islands, and festival comes but once a year. |
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| 7 | 44 |
I saw an Ul, the winged tharlarion, high overhead, beating its lonely way eastward over the marsh. |
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| 8 | 185 |
They seemed lonely and gray in the morning light. |
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| 15 | 854 |
"I am unhappy," I said, "and I am lonely". |
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| 15 | 856 |
"I, too," she said, "am lonely". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 |
I endured a succession of lonely years at boarding schools, and later at one of the finest women's colleges in the northeastern portion of the United States. |
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| 6 | 23 |
I was lonely. |
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| 6 | 32 |
They seemed lonely, too, high in the gray sky. |
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| 6 | 71 |
But I was very lonely. |
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| 6 | 83 |
But I was lonely. |
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| 6 | 88 |
Then I cried, for I was so lonely. |
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| 7 | 189 |
I was lonely. |
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| 7 | 243 |
I could not even tell her I was desperately unhappy, that I was lonely. |
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| 8 | 153 |
Once it had made me feel so lonely and restless that I had wept. |
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| 8 | 778 |
I had moaned, leaning against the bars, lonely. |
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| 11 | 1358 |
How lonely it was, to have only one friend. |
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| 12 | 173 |
I wondered, briefly, if these frustrated, lonely, empty women challenged men in order, on some subconscious level, to provoke, ultimately, a ferocious reaction, a putting of them, in one way or another, in the collars they needed, in the collars in which they belonged. |
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| 13 | 709 |
I realized that even I, Elinor Brinton, as I had been on Earth, might have, on Earth, knelt before such a man, and, in this realization, I realized, again, that even on Earth I had been no more than a lonely, dissatisfied, pretentious liar, a masquerading slave, another slave without a master, posin... |
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| 15 | 131 |
I was lonely and miserable. |
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| 15 | 1291 |
How pleased I was in my power! As the music changed so, too, did the dancer, and she became as one with the music, a frightened girl, new to the collar, a timid girl, delicate and submissive, a lonely slave, yearning for her master, a drunken wench, rejecting her slavery, a proud girl, determined to... |
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| 17 | 62 |
Sometimes I would be a new girl, frightened, young, much fearing him, as Techne might have been; sometimes I would be as though of the scribes, much as Inge might have been, refined, dismayed at her fate; sometimes as a fine lady, of wealth and position, of high caste, as Rena had been, who now must... |
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| 17 | 456 |
I could be lonely, and hunger for his touch, his mouth, his words, his hand on mine, but I knew he lived, so I could not be truly sad. |
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| 18 | 65 |
"I am lonely, Thurnock," I said. |
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| 18 | 66 |
"All men are, from time to time, lonely," said Thurnock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 166 |
Would she refuse the gold, the gems, the silks and silvers, and spilling coins, the choice wines, the servants and slaves, the security of the house of Bosk for the lonely freedoms and silences of the salt marshes of the Vosk's vast delta? Did she expect me to hasten after her, piteously begging her... |
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| 1 | 211 |
When they wearied of me, I was taken, leashed and manacled, to a lonely beach, at the edge of Thassa, bordering on the western edge of the forests". |
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| 11 | 875 |
I found myself lonely for Sheera. |
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| 14 | 252 |
It might have been a rite not of women, but of she-panthers! How starved must be the lonely, hating panther women of the forests, so gross is their hostility, so fierce their hatred, and yet need, of men. |
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| 18 | 3 |
He stood alone, high on the beach, his sandals on its pebbles, a lonely figure. |
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| 18 | 25 |
Beyond the breakers, and the white caps, there was only the calm placid line of gleaming Thassa, its vastness untroubled, meeting the bright, hard blue sky in a lonely plane, as unbroken and simple as the mark of a geometer's straight edge. |
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| 18 | 196 |
In a moment, like a wind-torn explosion, flame leaped in a breadth of a dozen feet on the still shores, on that lonely beach, of Thassa. |
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| 18 | 486 |
He must not miss the beacon, which, somewhere along this lonely, sandy shore, in its hundreds of pasangs, would mark the position of Sarus and his men, Hura, and her women, and their captive slaves. |
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| 18 | 668 |
They had been long at sea, doubtless not putting into land, save for supplies and water, and that in lonely places. |
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| 22 | 302 |
He had cared, he then understood, and we, too, for this lonely, proud, beautiful woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 20 |
On a distant world, lit by the same star, at a comparable time, men turned in their beds, mercury vapor lamps burned, lonely, heavy lorries rumbled down streets, keeping their delivery schedules, parts of yesterday's newspapers fluttered down lonely sidewalks. |
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| 10 | 514 |
They were often studious, quiet girls, keeping much to themselves, lonely girls, yet with brilliant minds, marvelous imaginations, and fantastic, suppressed latent sexuality. |
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| 17 | 175 |
We heard, below, the howling of a sleen, lonely. |
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| 22 | 82 |
The Forkbeard, who had sat near me through the hours of the lonely contest, clasped me about the shoulders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 547 |
"Most seem unhappy, lonely, frustrated, miserable, confused, petty, shallow, cold, inert, anesthetic". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 830 |
Who knew to what new chains one might be taken? Was it not even said that occasionally free women, lonely and miserable, their most profound needs unsatisfied, desperate for love, frequented high, lonely bridges at night, putting themselves in peril of capture and enslavement? Surely a slave girl wo... |
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| 1 | 121 |
Until one has breathed such air can one know the glory of being alive? But I was lonely, and frightened. |
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| 1 | 203 |
I was lonely, and frightened, and I wore a chain on my neck. |
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| 22 | 463 |
But then perhaps she preferred even such company, to the lonely terrors of a dark hold. |
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| 23 | 1 |
The Raft I lay in the arms of Clitus Vitellius, my master, under the bright stars of Gor, under the white moons and the black sky, on the rough wood, in the midst of that great, lonely sea. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 323 |
Some said that Thassa was endless, and there was no world's end, only the green waters extending forever, gleaming, beckoning the mariner and hero onward, onward until men, one by one, had perished and the lonely ships, their steering oars lashed in place, pursued the voyage in silence, until the ti... |
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| 5 | 75 |
I indicated the frozen north, the polar sea, the ice of the lonely pole. |
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| 6 | 684 |
"A lonely work," I said. |
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| 9 | 251 |
Is happiness important? If not, why not? And if it is important, why not look for it where it is incontrovertibly found? An individual who finds happiness in love, submission, obedience, and service, and in a guiltless, fulfilling, joyous, liberated sexuality, and such, is not obviously inferior to ... |
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| 15 | 372 |
What if I should not please him? Would he not then simply abandon me, leaving me behind, a masterless girl, a lonely, forlorn slave on a world empty of men strong enough to be a woman's master?" I supposed it was hard for one who was a slave to be in a world in which there were no masters. |
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| 22 | 351 |
"But then the world would be lonely". |
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| 22 | 352 |
"Perhaps the world is lonely," I said. |
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| 22 | 355 |
"No," said Imnak, drawing his kayak up on the shore, "the world cannot be lonely where there are two people who are friends". |
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| 23 | 462 |
Thus, presumably, it would have penetrated and passed through the territory in which Karjuk maintained his lonely outpost. |
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| 24 | 177 |
Often the superior woman searches, lonely and frustrated, for a man superior to herself, who can be a full man to the hidden woman in her. |
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| 33 | 18 |
Zarendargar, or Half-Ear, I think, was a lonely soldier, a true soldier, with few with whom he could speak, with few with whom he could share his thoughts. |
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| 36 | 37 |
"I am a lonely man". |
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| 38 | 17 |
He was no longer lonely of songs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 |
Port Kar seems a lonely place at such an hour. |
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| 9 | 11 |
I had made my way over several roofs until I had found a convenient and lonely place to descend. |
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| 13 | 302 |
"Have you never looked into the mirror, and seen a naked, lonely slave? Have you never knelt before the mirror, nude, and ready? Have you never longed for chains on your limbs, for binding fiber on your body? Have you never dreamed of lying naked, and helpless, locked in strong arms, mercilessly emb... |
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| 18 | 46 |
The days of the lonely ones, the walkers, and seekers, would then be at an end. |
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| 18 | 285 |
"Even east of Schendi," I smiled, "the throne is a lonely country". |
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| 19 | 193 |
The throne indeed is a lonely country. |
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| 23 | 139 |
If you do not wish to remain barren and lonely in your court you will learn to compete with them. |
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| 27 | 145 |
Did he think men would fear to pursue him upon its lonely waters, penetrating such a lush, perilous, mysterious region? Surely he must know that I, and others, to seek the ring, would follow him even into the steaming, flower-strewn wilderness of the Ua. |
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| 29 | 203 |
The lovely slave lying on the narrow, damp steps, hidden beneath the iron door, shut out again from the sun, cried in the lonely, quiet darkness, her existence once again denied. |
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| 32 | 1028 |
"In all cultures there are the lonely ones, the solitary walkers, those who climb the mountain, and look upon the world, and wonder". |
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| 54 | 22 |
"I am a lonely man," said Bila Huruma. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 37 |
Could it not understand that the environmental criminal was far more dangerous than the lonely madman or assassin, that his crime affected not isolated, tragic victims but communities, a planet, unborn generations. |
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| 14 | 75 |
"I am very rich, Jason," she said, "but, too, I am very lonely. |
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| 16 | 235 |
"You could risk slavery," he said, "expose yourself to possible capture, walk the high bridges at lonely Ahn, picnic in the country, go to paga taverns alone, take dangerous sea voyages". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 106 |
How lonely is the man who has not yet found his slave; how forlorn is the woman who has not yet found her master. |
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| 27 | 7 |
It was lonely there now. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 612 |
So she begins to wear her veils loosely, her robes above her ankles, to frequent lonely streets, to traverse high bridges at night, or perhaps in a slave tunic she begins to loiter about markets where women are sold, or decides to satisfy her curiosity as to the interior of a paga tavern, and see fo... |
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| 20 | 956 |
How long she has waited, in cruel frustration, unfulfilled and lonely, in her cell for just such a moment, that precious opportunity in which she, a mere slave, may be permitted to display and present herself for the consideration of her master. |
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| 21 | 812 |
"How could you expect an Earth girl, one literate, well-read, informed, educated, a student in a sophisticated discipline, and so on, to admit even to herself, let alone to another, that she is miserable and frustrated, and lonely, and sexually and emotionally starved, and fearfully unhappy—a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 228 |
It was lonely, and dark. |
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| 11 | 216 |
Doubtless, in your hearts, perhaps late at night, in bed, or in the morning, or at odd, lonely moments, in spite of your educations and conditionings, your trainings, you recognized the falseness of these teachings". |
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| 13 | 751 |
Then we were driving on dirt roads, dark and lonely, lined with trees. |
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| 17 | 747 |
Lonely and unfulfilled is the slave without a master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 250 |
He might then go to some lonely place, to seek a dream or vision, that he might know what to do. |
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| 25 | 138 |
"Do you see that lonely fleer in the sky?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 33 | 270 |
It was little wonder that even free women sometimes secretly affixed collars on their own necks and examined themselves in mirrors, perhaps speculating on what prices they might bring in a market or on how well one such as they might please a master, before hastening to remove them and, weeping, cas... |
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| 34 | 392 |
I stared, tremblingly, at the lonely pair of trees. |
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| 35 | 159 |
It is lonely in the vision place. |
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| 47 | 525 |
How content is the slave, once liberated from the lonely, cruel, externally imposed prison of the sexually inert, rigid, free woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 375 |
I had enjoyed these days with Drusus Rencius but, at night, returned to my quarters, I would often be restless and lonely. |
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| 36 | 667 |
How fortunate I was, only a girl of Earth, one amongst lonely millions, little different from myself, to have been brought to this world! How fortunate I was to have at last encountered true men, the masters of women! How few women do! How meaningful and joyful now seemed to me the auction blocks, t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 712 |
This seems a likely explanation, too, for the women who frequent lonely bridges at night, or dangerous areas of a city, or, say, publicly provoke and challenge strong young men, treating them badly, pretending to detest them, but perhaps, on some level, longing for their bonds. |
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| 14 | 298 |
Then the animals seemed to draw apart about him and he was left standing as though in a dry pool, an empty place, an isolated, lonely place surrounded by tawny waters, waters which seemed somehow, inexplicably, to have drawn back about him, waters with eyes and teeth, ringing him. |
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| 14 | 436 |
Then it seemed I stood in a clear place, an open place, an empty place, a central place, almost like a dry, lonely pool, separated out from, isolated in the midst of, those tawny bodies. |
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| 20 | 102 |
But where in such passages, presumably unguarded, lonely and seldom used, would a suitable place be found for such a deposit? No, it seemed more likely he would have carried them with him, away from the room on his person. |
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| 20 | 378 |
Its glory, if it had it, would have been its own, perhaps the splendor of a lonely moment that only the beast itself truly understood, a moment that was its own justification, and that needed no other, a moment that was sufficient onto itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 307 |
One feels sometimes sorry for free women, with their confusions, their unhappiness, the meaninglessness, the shallowness, of their forlorn psychological habitations, the lonely, empty corridors of their lives, their boredom, their hostilities. |
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| 16 | 245 |
I have been lonely. |
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| 16 | 246 |
I have been terribly lonely". |
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| 25 | 1075 |
"It can be lonely for a stranger," she said. |
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| 25 | 1303 |
"And, too," she whispered, "I am lonely". |
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| 25 | 1334 |
Are you lonely?" "Not particularly," I said. |
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| 25 | 1335 |
It is normally only free folks among free folks who are lonely, each so separate from the other. |
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| 25 | 1336 |
It is not easy for men to be lonely who have access to slaves. |
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| 25 | 1351 |
Too, it can doubtless be lonely in the house of a slaver, especially when the guards do not choose to amuse themselves with you, or have you perform for them, or, say, when you find yourself alone at night, perhaps a scrubbing slave, in the basement of a cylinder, chained in a cement kennel. |
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| 25 | 1353 |
"With you here," I said, "how could I be lonely?" "What a lovely thing to say," she said. |
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| 27 | 74 |
The woman rejected for bondage, she returned in scorn to the lonely garbage of her freedom, is often inveterately impatient with, and unconscionably cruel toward, the female slave, even more so than is common with the ordinary querulous, contemptuous Gorean free woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 64 |
How lonely and unbefriended, how frustrated, unfulfilled and doleful she was. |
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| 1 | 67 |
Surely she might better have cooked meat in the light of a cave fire, the thongs on her left wrist perhaps marking whose woman she was, or with sistrum and hymns, under the orders of priests, welcomed the grand, redemptive, sluggish flows of the Nile; better she had run barefoot on a lonely Aegean b... |
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| 1 | 132 |
I was lonely and miserable! I wondered if somewhere in nature there might lie not only an explanation for these needs, so seemingly mysterious and inexplicable, given my environment, my education, my training, my conditioning, so different from them, but also some dark complement to them, some respo... |
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| 11 | 1352 |
It was lonely and dark inside the hood, but his body was warm. |
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| 13 | 187 |
And, at times, recollecting, or seeming to recollect, such times and places, and their naturalness, and rightness, and their fulfillments and ecstasies, I, lonely and yearning, seemingly an exile in the sexual deserts of my own world and time, had wept. |
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| 20 | 55 |
"I am lonely, I am neglected, I am in need," I said. |
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| 24 | 459 |
"It is lonely here," she said. |
10 |
| 24 | 553 |
"It is too lonely here". |
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| 34 | 207 |
"In lonely areas," he said, "the mountains of Asia, the forests of the Pacific Northwest, and such". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 279 |
"I see, Lady Claudia," said a woman's voice, from behind the door, amused, "that you will not be so lonely now". |
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| 24 | 123 |
How lonely and unhappy she had been as a free woman! How right she looked, clad in the garments of a slave! Yet I had not enslaved her, but had kept her, to her frustration, merely as a full servant. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 13 |
It was lonely here. |
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| 37 | 168 |
Too, some people seem to think that is good for plants, and the way they should be, miserable, neurotic, unfulfilled, tortured, lonely, sick, and so on. |
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| 43 | 45 |
To be sure, he had had a difficult night, keeping his lonely, tense vigil in the alley behind the tavern, while I rested and sported about inside. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 943 |
Perhaps there is then a role for the lonely fellows on the wall, for the border guards, for the garrisons of far-flung outposts, for the guardsmen in the city treading their lonely rounds. |
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| 9 | 429 |
"In the Central Cylinder," said Claudia, "I have been lonely, more lonely than I ever knew a woman could be. |
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| 7 | 132 |
I was lonely. |
10 |
| 12 | 121 |
At night she will lie sleepless, red-eyed and miserable, lonely, neglected, grieving in her chains. |
10 |
| 22 | 784 |
"I suspect it is lonely for them, in their chains, at night," he said. |
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| 26 | 288 |
She, as her needfulness increases within her, as she becomes more lonely and miserable, more desperate, is left muchly on her own, to wheedle and beg, and such. |
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| 27 | 931 |
It occurred to me that there must then be on Earth many lonely, unowned slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 707 |
And the garden is lonely, with only the flowers, so beautiful, but meaningless and incomplete in themselves, and the glimpse, occasionally, of a guard. |
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| 8 | 1056 |
I was suddenly frightened, and lonely. |
10 |
| 10 | 588 |
No longer need I wait in some windy place, on some lonely bridge or busy street corner, hoping to meet myself. |
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| 18 | 84 |
It is not unusual that such a woman will afterwards take to wandering the high bridges and lonely streets, the hem of her garments hitched above her ankles, perhaps that she not soil them, her veils disarranged a bit, perhaps by the wind. |
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| 19 | 369 |
This is not to deny, of course, the expected and appropriate meetings of eyes in thousands of contexts and times, as in attempting to read one's fate in the eyes of the master, in examining them to learn if one is in favor or disfavor, in meeting them when commanded to do so, as when he examines us ... |
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| 29 | 860 |
"Do you think you might make good company for a lonely man on a long, cold night?" asked the guard, he holding her leash. |
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| 40 | 31 |
At such times perhaps one stands in crowds, the crowds of oneself, together with one's infancy, one's childhood, one's youth, one's past, one's present, one's weakness, one's strength, in the lonely, crowded, empty silence. |
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| 2 | 163 |
What was there, truly, for she, and others, such as she, to look forward to? Another honor, another paper published, another conference attended, another point made, another small dinner, prepared by herself, another lonely evening in the apartment? He was getting up now, and assisting his companion... |
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| 12 | 309 |
She had been free, and had been free and lonely, free and unwanted, free and unnoticed, free and undesired, free and terribly miserable. |
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| 21 | 186 |
whom she had been, she who had specialized in gender studies, she who had been so smug and haughty, she who had been so proud of her degree and her publications, she who had been respected, even esteemed, for her unquestioned political orthodoxies, she who had been invited to attend many conferences... |
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| 24 | 795 |
Come, collar me, my master!" She wondered how many slaves danced thusly in such small, lonely apartments, their slave needs starved, longing for a master. |
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| 25 | 403 |
"If your bondage is important to you, and you understand it as your one possibility to obtain your total fulfillment as a female, you may always again expose yourself to the risk of the collar, disarranging a veil, walking lonely bridges at night, lifting the hem of a garment, as though to avoid soi... |
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| 26 | 189 |
And there were countless millions, as the statistics would have it, who lived in a veritable sexual wasteland, in a parched, lonely erotic wilderness. |
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| 30 | 50 |
Some Goreans seem to prefer Earth women as slaves; others prefer native Gorean women; I would not think it would make much difference; they are all women; doubtless it depends on the particular woman and man, on the particular slave and master, on the particular "chemistry," so to speak; on the othe... |
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| 30 | 502 |
First, some free women, disconsolate and lonely, unhappy, miserable, deprived of sex, starved for love, distressed with the numerous circumscriptions and constraints which confine them, realizing the boredom, the emptiness, of their lives, "court the collar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 54 | 58 |
"I have a place in mind," said Flavion, "a shallow, lonely place, which will not be suspected, yet not far from the habitats, and within a brief march of the palace". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 250 |
"It is surprising to encounter one here, for the beach is lonely," I said. |
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| 3 | 204 |
I had encountered the tarn again, years later, in the Barrens, and we had again been one, but at the end of local wars I had freed him again, that he might again take his place as the master of a mighty flock, that he might be again awing in broad, lonely skies, be again a prince amongst clouds, a l... |
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| 4 | 390 |
Other situations are also regarded as ones in which the woman has voluntarily, or inadvertently, divested herself of the social and cultural mantles usually sufficient to protect her freedom and honor, such as walking the high bridges at night, undertaking dangerous expeditions or voyages, traversin... |
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| 14 | 186 |
It is lonely to be of the ronen. |
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| 30 | 124 |
This lonely genius, or madman, had become a laughing stock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 21 | 338 |
Such a woman, commonly, in her misery and loneliness, in her shame and humiliation, in her uncertainty and confusion, begins to roam the high bridges, frequent lonely streets, and wander unescorted outside the city gates. |
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| 37 | 1311 |
"I thought of myself, frequently enough, as a property, as owned, as a girl who must unquestioningly, fearfully, obey masters, who might dance for their pleasure, about campfires in lonely places, on streets in shabby districts, to a master's flute, on the decks of galleys, to the clapping of hands,... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 2053 |
It was lonely in my chains, at night. |
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| 10 | 100 |
I gather it is the name of a monster, a grotesque anomaly, a lonely thing of bogs, and marshes and wildernesses, unpleasant to look upon, hated and feared, perhaps the result of an experiment which turned out badly, so that seems appropriate". |
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| 15 | 140 |
It is lonely here, and dark, and cold, but, clearly, if something were to happen, it would have happened by now. |
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| 18 | 819 |
The country now was lonely. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 92 |
How strange that I, lonely, lost in my uncaring world, aching for the touch of a man, should have pretended to indifference, disdain, and contempt! I think I was closer to myself than many, and nearer to the feet of a master. |
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| 9 | 61 |
But beyond it I could see the forest, which seemed lonely and beautiful. |
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| 9 | 155 |
Considering that the coast is generally kept in view, it seemed unlikely it would have been lost at sea; considering how long it had been with us it seemed unlikely it would have encountered difficulties of which we would have been unaware; and now, considering our position, and how far north we wer... |
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| 11 | 45 |
I was puzzled why, in this lovely, lonely forest, with no one about, or I supposed no one was about, the men lit no fires. |
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| 11 | 103 |
The forest was dark, lonely, and beautiful. |
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| 11 | 163 |
One could see occasional clouds drifting past, solitary, lonely, unhurried, above, in the night. |
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| 17 | 25 |
How helpless I had been in their grasp! How angry I was with myself that I could not but respond as the least and most worthless of slaves! How I had leaped, and moaned, and whimpered, and begged for the least continuance of their touch! But how could this be? Was I not of Earth? And how lonely I wa... |
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| 33 | 30 |
Too, as I now understood, with much misery, the forest was dangerous, formidable, and lonely, and there was really nowhere to run. |
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| 41 | 317 |
We were deep in a lonely, and unsettled, wilderness. |
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| 46 | 43 |
But the forest seemed dark, lonely, and cold. |
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| 46 | 62 |
How lonely it was in the forest! Is it an escape, I wondered, to be dragged down by beasts, and eaten? Is it an escape, I wondered, if one starves, or freezes to death? Is it an escape, I wondered, if one manages to do nothing but change collars? I no longer feared being captured by Panther Women. |
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| 50 | 954 |
"How deprived, and lonely they must be," I said, "in their pride and misery". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 72 |
And this strange, short, thickly built man, so unprepossessing, so commonplace in appearance, so ragged in garments with hair so unkempt, this man so solitary, and lonely, so shy, so quiet, so dignified in speech, sought a kindred perfection, but it had to do with a finely honed blade, with skills, ... |
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| 19 | 219 |
Once I had lost my honor in that container, and become a ruination to myself, I am supposing the Priest-Kings would have executed me, or, if satisfied, merely returned me to some wilderness on Gor, where I might eke out a lonely, shabby existence, lost to myself, friendless, excluded, despised, impo... |
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| 25 | 323 |
Why do some undertake perilous journeys, wander outside guarded walls, frequent lonely streets in poor districts, insult strangers, as though it might be done with impunity, walk the high bridges unescorted in the moonlight, and such? This is sometimes spoken of as "courting the collar". |
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| 30 | 678 |
In such times roads are lonely and bandits grow bold. |
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| 45 | 222 |
I suspected he cared for little but lonely places, meditation, and steel. |
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| 60 | 36 |
What loyalty he had inspired, I thought, that Yasushi and Katsutoshi had stood with him on the dais, waiting, in that large, lonely, untenanted audience chamber. |
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| 61 | 294 |
"But I am called by the shores of far seas, by lonely forests, by remote mountains. |
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| 61 | 1235 |
Do you think men are so willing to relinquish manhood, or so stupid as to submit like dumb animals to their impoverishment, belling, and slaughter? Even the mighty larl can be brought down by a swarm of squealing urts, but this does not prove the superiority of the urt to the larl, to the lonely, pr... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 4 |
The "southern piers," as the district is spoken of, is lonely at night. |
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| 32 | 15 |
This absence of the usual diurnal clutter, such a massive jumble of goods, attendant on these obvious mercantile precautions, made the walkway and piers, of course, seem even more spacious, lonely, and frightening. |
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| 32 | 62 |
"And lonely," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 48 |
Surely one does not traverse the lonely seas between worlds with ships of wood. |
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| 3 | 271 |
Lonely, and then angry, frustrated, arrant, and contemptuous, I had come to despise the males of Earth as weaklings, as little more than docile, pliant sources of gifts, books, flowers, candy, jewelry, free dinners, free entertainment, and such. |
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| 10 | 94 |
Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous voyages? In the high cities o... |
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| 14 | 182 |
What do they understand of the feelings, hopes, needs, and desires of a lowly agent, an obscure, neglected, unimportant hireling, one afflicted with want, one impoverished, one deprived, one lonely and miserable, one laboring in the midst of gold she cannot touch, one encircled by the wealth of othe... |
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| 26 | 27 |
Slaves are property and property may be stolen; the marshes, at night, tend to be wide, lonely, and dark, and the rence in many places is high. |
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| 26 | 82 |
I think we must have remained better than two Ahn in that broad, sheltered, lonely, rence-encircled lakelike stillness. |
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| 37 | 84 |
This was surely not a busy district, at least at this time of day, but too, it did not seem lonely, unsavory, or dangerous. |
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| 40 | 316 |
It is lonely in a cage, and collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 18 |
In the presence of a stranger, in a lonely place, many Goreans will not step into the firelight. |
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| 12 | 1 |
I Obtain News of the Raiders "This is a lonely area," said Thurnock, looking about, down the long, gently curved beach. |
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| 13 | 1 |
We do Business, on a Lonely Beach on Daphna The fellow's eyes suddenly widened, and he made to spring up, from the shadow of the beached hull, against which he had been reclining. |
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| 25 | 10 |
They were vast, desolate, and lonely. |
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| 57 | 188 |
If one is fortunate, one might people a longboat, a small vulnerable craft, with limited water and food, on a wide, lonely sea. |
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