| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 53 |
In Ar, for example, early in the day, a member of the Builders will go to the roof on which the Home Stone is kept and place the primitive symbol of his trade, a metal angle square, before the Stone, praying to the Priest-Kings for the prosperity of his caste in the coming year; later in the day a W... |
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| 19 | 153 |
In affairs of the sword, there is a place for outguessing the opponent, but there is no place for anxious speculation; it paralyzes, puts you on the defensive. |
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| 1 | 38 |
We agreed to meet again in three days at the same place. |
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| 2 | 147 |
Then, after a long moment, not looking at me, he said, "It is rumored there is such a stone, but it lies in the Sacred Place and is the source of the Priest-Kings' power". |
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| 2 | 172 |
"The Priest-Kings," said my father, "maintain the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains, a wild vastness into which no man penetrates. |
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| 2 | 173 |
The Sacred Place, to the minds of most men here, is taboo, perilous. |
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| 2 | 262 |
"Surely you know," he laughed, "one must distinguish between the data to be interpreted and the interpretation of the data, and one chooses, normally, the interpretation that preserves as much as possible of the old world view, and, in the thinking of the Earth, there is no place for Gor, its true s... |
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| 2 | 269 |
* * * * I now inform you that what I write of my own experience I know to be true, and that what I have accepted on authority I believe to be true, but I shall not be offended if you disbelieve, for I, too, in your place, would refuse to believe. |
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| 2 | 271 |
In fact, there is so little probability that this tale will be believed that the Priest-Kings of Sardar, the Keepers of the Sacred Place, have apparently granted that it may be recorded. |
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| 2 | 276 |
Perhaps there is humor in the Sacred Place, or irony. |
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| 3 | 151 |
One of the first lessons I was taught on Gor was that concern for a slave was out of place. |
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| 3 | 153 |
I did learn, casually from a Scribe, not Torm, that slaves were not permitted to impart instruction to a free man, since it would place him in their debt, and nothing was owed to a slave. |
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| 4 | 141 |
On the other hand, I objected to the Initiates being in the place of honor, as it seemed to me that they, even more than the Warriors, were nonproductive members of society. |
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| 5 | 60 |
The girl, Sana, whom I carried on the saddle before me, would dress in the heavy robes and veils of the Ubar's daughter and return in her place to the interior of the cylinder. |
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| 5 | 140 |
They are diurnal hunters and eat only what they catch themselves, usually one of the fleet Gorean antelopes or a wild bull, taken on the run and lifted in the monstrous talons to a high place, where it is torn to pieces and devoured. |
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| 6 | 52 |
I folded the ladder and fastened it in its place at the side of the saddle. |
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| 7 | 122 |
I half-carried, half-floated it, shoving it toward the place where the daughter of the Ubar had slipped under the water. |
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| 10 | 40 |
"Kazrak of Port Kar," said Mintar, "do you agree to surrender the balance of your hiring price to Tarl of Bristol if he takes your place in my service?" "Yes," responded Kazrak. |
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| 10 | 176 |
"I suppose," she said, attempting to save face, "it would perhaps be appropriate for a tarnsman to place his collar on the captive daughter of a rich merchant". |
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| 12 | 69 |
The image of the treacherous, beautiful Talena, in her dancing silks, as she had lain in my arms, tormented me—she who would gladly give her kisses to the cold Pa-Kur for a place on the throne of Ar, she whose implacable hatred had sent me to this terrible death, not even permitting me the ho... |
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| 14 | 75 |
It would be forced into my body, and I would then be lifted, with it, into place. |
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| 15 | 29 |
One aspect of the siege which I knew would exist but which I obviously could not witness would be the sensitive duel of mine and countermine which must be taking place between the camp of Pa-Kur and the city of Ar. |
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| 15 | 31 |
Some of the most hideous fighting in the siege would undoubtedly take place far under the earth in the cramped, foul, torchlit confines of those serpentine passageways, some of them hardly large enough to permit a man to crawl. |
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| 16 | 13 |
Occasionally I would climb halfway up one of the siege towers under construction and observe the city of Ar and the skirmishes that took place between it and the first ditch. |
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| 16 | 44 |
On the twentieth day of the siege there was great rejoicing in the camp of Pa-Kur, because in one place the wires had been cut and a squad of spearmen had reached the main siege reservoir, emptying their barrels of toxic kanda, a lethal poison extracted from one of Gor's desert shrubs. |
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| 17 | 16 |
If this had not yet taken place, it was momentarily expected. |
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| 18 | 56 |
"The execution will take place as soon as the girl can be presented". |
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| 18 | 64 |
I had managed to bring down the tarn wire of Ar; I had learned that Marlenus still lived and held a portion of the Central Cylinder, and I had found out when and where the execution of Talena was supposed to take place. |
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| 18 | 93 |
There seemed to be no place in which a lever or handle might be concealed. |
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| 18 | 168 |
Much of what took place then is jumbled in my memory, like the fragments of some bizarre, incomprehensible dream. |
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| 19 | 163 |
For each enemy who fell, it seemed three sprang up to take his place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 |
He asked me, and I am certain he was serious, to meet him at the same place in three days. |
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| 1 | 104 |
It shattered into a million sporadic gleaming fragments, shocking the place into a moment of supreme silence. |
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| 2 | 17 |
The Priest-Kings, Keepers of the Holy Place in the Sardar Mountains, seeming knowers of all that occurred on Gor, masters of the hideous Flame Death that could with consuming fire destroy whatever they wished, whenever they might please, were not so crudely motivated as men, were not susceptible to ... |
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| 2 | 39 |
It is not simply a place, a geographical location in which men have seen fit to build their dwellings, a collection of structures where they may most conveniently conduct their affairs. |
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| 2 | 43 |
When a Gorean says, for example, that he is of Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, he is doing a great deal more than informing you of his place of residence. |
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| 3 | 82 |
Whereas I was of high caste and he of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own Home Stone. |
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| 3 | 83 |
Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of his own Home Sto... |
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| 5 | 24 |
I could not place the difference, yet it seemed there was something in him or about him that set him apart from the other members of his caste. |
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| 6 | 44 |
I was startled to see her alone in this wild, deserted place, far from roads and cities. |
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| 6 | 66 |
If she were a free woman and not unfortunate, to be alone in this place was unwise and foolish. |
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| 6 | 79 |
He returns to his place among the tables that line the low-ceilinged chamber, hung with glowing brass lamps. |
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| 8 | 32 |
This was simply a drab place in which to buy food and exchange goods. |
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| 8 | 91 |
"There is no place in Tharna for an outlaw. |
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| 9 | 59 |
The two giant beams that barred it were in place, beams that could only be moved by a team of broad tharlarion, draft lizards of Gor, or by a hundred slaves. |
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| 9 | 80 |
"What is your business?" asked the proprietor of the place, a small, thin, bald-headed man wearing a short-sleeved gray tunic and slick black apron. |
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| 9 | 85 |
"This is not a place," said the man, "for one of High Caste". |
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| 9 | 93 |
I did not much care for the prospect of emerging again into the cold, rainy night, of tramping once more through the streets, miserable, chilled to the bone, looking for a place to eat and sleep. |
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| 9 | 111 |
The men of Tharna who were crowded in that place looked upon me as though I might be mad. |
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| 9 | 115 |
It was a dreary place, but the Kal-da had already made it appear somewhat more promising. |
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| 9 | 121 |
It was, I suppose, the Kal-da, but I like to think, too, it was just impatience with the males of Tharna, the intemperate expression of my exasperation with this gray, dismal place, its glum, solemn, listless inhabitants. |
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| 10 | 95 |
It was an ugly place. |
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| 12 | 4 |
The place was lit by a small, foul tharlarion-oil lamp set in the wall near the ceiling. |
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| 12 | 35 |
There was no sound in that dark, cold place. |
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| 12 | 85 |
"A handful of bread for a song," was a common Gorean invitation extended to members of the caste, and it might occur on the lips of a peasant or a Ubar, and the poet took great pride that he would sing the same song in both the hut of the peasant and the halls of the Ubar, though it won for him only... |
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| 13 | 26 |
The surface of the area, white sand, perfumed and sparkling with mica and red lead, added to the colorful mien of the place. |
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| 13 | 28 |
It seemed that all the glorious colors of Gor which had been denied the buildings of Tharna were lavished on this place of its amusements. |
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| 14 | 112 |
Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S... |
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| 14 | 119 |
It had not been forged in place inasmuch as it would be removed in the confines of the tarn cot, to allow the bird its perch, its exercise. |
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| 14 | 120 |
Luckily it had not been locked in place. |
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| 15 | 10 |
Moreover, even if it had been the case that the bird had been inadvertently conditioned in that short a time, it was not possible that it would still retain the memory of that casual imprinting, which had taken place more than six years ago. |
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| 15 | 75 |
Her hands, still in their gloves of gold, went to the golden mask, as if she feared most that it might not be in place. |
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| 15 | 262 |
"Turn around," I said to the Tatrix, "and place your hands behind your back". |
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| 16 | 4 |
It was not a bad place for the exchange of prisoners, and offered an almost ideal situation from the point of view of avoiding ambush. |
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| 17 | 6 |
I heard four bolts being shoved into place. |
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| 17 | 23 |
Andreas said to me, "For those who are not fond of life, this place has many conveniences". |
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| 18 | 71 |
That night, when we were herded into the long cell, and the bolts were shoved in place, I spoke to the men. |
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| 18 | 97 |
When the iron door was shut and the bolts shot into place, I heard the Whip Slave laugh. |
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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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| 22 | 146 |
In those days it had been a portion of the Rites of Submission, as practiced in Tharna, to strip and bind the captive with yellow cords and place her on a scarlet rug, the yellow of the cord being symbolic of talenders, a flower often associated with feminine love and beauty, the scarlet of the rug ... |
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| 22 | 147 |
He who had captured the girl would place his sword to her breast and utter the ritual phrases of enslavement. |
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| 24 | 72 |
"I have come to place Lara once more on the throne of Tharna," I said. |
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| 26 | 45 |
It is a place where friends meet, arrange dinners, exchange invitations, discuss politics, the weather, strategy, philosophy and the management of slave girls. |
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| 26 | 71 |
Thus each silver mask will in time belong to a beast, though at first she is given some opportunity to determine whose yellow cords she will feel, on whose rug the ceremony of submission will take place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 30 |
"For example, a cushion would not be out of place on such a throne, do you think, Cabot?" "On such a throne it would be out of place," I said. |
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| 1 | 58 |
The contests I mentioned which take place at the fairs are, as would be expected, peaceable, or I should say, at least do not involve contests of arms. |
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| 1 | 61 |
Contests of arms, fought to the death, whereas they may not take place at the fairs, are not unknown on Gor, and are popular in some cities. |
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| 1 | 96 |
I myself had traveled in a ship of the Priest-Kings which had twice carried me to this world; I had seen their power so subtly exercised as to alter the movements of a compass needle, so grossly demonstrated as to destroy a city, leaving behind not even the stones of what had once been a dwelling pl... |
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| 2 | 84 |
One among them, an old man who had originally been one of the party that had captured the animal, identified the place. |
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| 3 | 34 |
The place in which I found myself was considerably wider than the path on which I had trod, for the path had given suddenly onto a fairly large circular area in which I had found the chained larls. |
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| 3 | 53 |
Tobacco is unknown on Gor, though there are certain habits or vices to take its place, in particular the stimulation afforded by chewing on the leaves of the Kanda plant, the roots of which, oddly enough, when ground and dried, constitute an extremely deadly poison. |
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| 7 | 37 |
My Chamber Slave's accent had been pure High Caste Gorean though I could not place the city. |
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| 8 | 121 |
If they were it was surprising that tarnsmen from all the cities of Gor would not have descended on the place, as the saying goes, to try chain luck. |
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| 11 | 91 |
Muscular contractions in the abdomen take place with the result that air is sucked into the system through four small holes on each side of the abdomen, the same holes serving also as exhalation vents. |
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| 12 | 14 |
I would learn later that his agitation was principally due to his fear of contracting filth in this public place. |
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| 13 | 111 |
"The Slime Worm has earned its place in the Nest," said the other. |
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| 13 | 118 |
"This is the place," said one of my companions. |
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| 14 | 140 |
We came upon a Golden Beetle though none had ever been seen in that place and I wanted to go to the Beetle and I put down my head and approached it but the girl seized my antennae and dragged me away, thus saving my life". |
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| 15 | 43 |
In the front of this assembly, one by one, thin metal disks would snap into place, a light would flash as some energy transaction occurred, and then the disk would snap aside, immediately to be replaced by another. |
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| 15 | 114 |
How else could learning take place? This device is merely a comparatively considerate, swift and efficient means to an end that is universally regarded as desirable by rational creatures". |
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| 16 | 72 |
"The Voyages of Acquisition," said Misk, "take place normally when we need fresh material from Earth, for our purposes". |
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| 16 | 136 |
"But I returned to the same place I had fled from," I said. |
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| 19 | 30 |
"They are worn on Tola by all Priest-Kings in memory of the Nuptial Flight, for the Nuptial Flight takes place above the ground in the sun and there on the surface there are many things which are green". |
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| 20 | 4 |
"We are further instructed," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "to help you dispose of the body in a place of which we have been informed". |
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| 20 | 62 |
In the cylinder, save for her head which was held in place by a circular opening in the top of the cylinder, was a girl, clad in the traditional robes of concealment, even to the veil, whose gloved hands pressed helplessly against the interior of the cylinder. |
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| 20 | 96 |
Her final scream was muffled as the attendant adjusted the heavy globe over her head and locked it in place. |
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| 20 | 99 |
While the globe did its work, and held the girl's head in place, the attendant at the cylinder unlocked the five latches which held it shut and swung it open. |
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| 22 | 5 |
When I reached the ceiling I saw, to my relief, that further bars projected downwards from the ceiling and that the bottom of each was bent outwards in a flat, horizontal projection that would afford me a place to put my feet. |
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| 22 | 86 |
"Yes," said Mul-Al-Ka, "find yourself some secret place and stay, and perhaps someday Sarm will succumb to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle and you can emerge in safety". |
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| 24 | 19 |
It seemed clear the creature did not yet understand what had taken place within its cavern. |
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| 25 | 20 |
But now it was important to get her from the tunnels, to find her a place of refuge and safety where I hoped she might recover from the venom of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 25 | 21 |
I worried, for where could I find such a place? By now it might be well known to Sarm that I had refused to slay Misk and the Nest would no longer be safe for me, or for anyone associated with me. |
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| 25 | 27 |
"No," I said, "the Golden Beetle has not made a kill in this place". |
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| 25 | 30 |
I had been long enough in this place. |
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| 26 | 23 |
The grille snapped back into place. |
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| 26 | 24 |
I was rather pleased with the discovery of the network of ventilator shafts, for it suggested to me almost a private and extensive highway to any place in the Nest I might wish to reach. |
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| 26 | 42 |
"Breeding cases?" "Remove your clothing," I commanded, "and place your hands behind your back". |
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| 26 | 55 |
On the orders of Sarm shave her and clothe her suitably and place her in a breeding case, alone and locked. |
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| 26 | 93 |
I could see that not only did she not wish to stay in this place but that she was terrified to do so. |
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| 26 | 168 |
"You have had your joke, Cabot," she said, "now let us leave this place, for I do not like it". |
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| 26 | 223 |
"No!" I slid the plastic door down and clicked it into place. |
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| 26 | 261 |
As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ... |
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| 27 | 54 |
Well, I said to myself, this is the right place. |
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| 27 | 101 |
He would then back away and return to his place where he would stand as immobile as before. |
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| 27 | 127 |
Now did Sarm, the First Born, approach the Mother and dip his jaws too to the golden bowl and stalk to the Mother and place his antennae gently on her head, and once again the old creature's antennae lifted but this time they seemed to retract. |
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| 27 | 262 |
I returned to the place where I had struck the blow. |
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| 28 | 228 |
When one lifts the craft it seems the earth moves from beneath one; when one moves it forward it seems as though the horizon rushed toward one; if one should place it in reverse, it seems the horizon glides away. |
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| 28 | 235 |
I gathered it would be something like a man being forced to lie on his back when something of importance is taking place. |
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| 29 | 6 |
Misk's compartment was gone, only powdery stains marking the place where the walls had been. |
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| 29 | 60 |
Even now two of the ships were moving their place, one to cover the area beneath the small fleet and the other above. |
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| 30 | 6 |
My arms and legs were bound with bands of steel to a flat, narrow, wheeled platform; my throat and waist were similarly locked in place. |
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| 30 | 90 |
With a cry of rage I struggled in my chains to my knees, pulling against the metal collar that held me to my place. |
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| 30 | 190 |
But not long after this took place other Priest-Kings, startled by the decision of Kusk, began to speak of ending the War, and some others too began to cross the lines. |
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| 31 | 1 |
Sarm's Revenge The place of meeting was arranged. |
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| 31 | 31 |
I stood ready now to receive the blast of Sarm's silver tube which he had whipped from its place of concealment and trained on my breast. |
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| 31 | 179 |
It did not seem to me a bad place to die. |
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| 31 | 183 |
I imagined the panic in the cities of Gor, the pitching ships at sea, the stampedes of animals, and only I, of all humans, was at the place where this havoc had begun, only I was there to gaze upon the author of the destruction of a world, the golden destroyer of a planet. |
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| 32 | 65 |
They met perhaps a hundred yards from where I stood and I saw the Priest-King place a foreleg on the shoulder of each and together they stood and waited for the final crumbling of the Nest. |
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| 32 | 273 |
The throne tilted and then fell back into place again. |
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| 33 | 51 |
"I come from the place of the Priest-Kings," I said, raising my voice so that as many could hear as possible. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 72 |
In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure... |
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| 8 | 4 |
The herds would circle Turia, for this was the portion of the Omen Year called the Passing of Turia, in which the Wagon Peoples gather and begin to move toward their winter pastures; the second portion of the Omen Year is the Wintering, which takes place far north of Turia, the equator being approac... |
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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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| 2 | 21 |
But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for Priest-Kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a... |
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| 6 | 18 |
She would have fallen except for the lance that kept her in place. |
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| 6 | 33 |
She lifted her head and seeing the wild, fearsome scarred face that stared into hers, she suddenly screamed hysterically, and tried to jerk and tear herself away, but the lance held her in place. |
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| 6 | 94 |
She stood held in place by the lance, her throat bound to it with the wood behind her neck, her wrists thonged behind her back. |
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| 7 | 139 |
What place is this? Where am I?" And then she had seen the faces, and had screamed. |
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| 7 | 152 |
Kamchak returned to his place where he again sat down cross-legged, putting the cut collar on the rug in front of him. |
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| 8 | 16 |
I wondered on what Kamchak had called the games of Love War, said to take place on the Plains of a Thousand Stakes. |
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| 8 | 31 |
I had learned, to my surprise, that trade did occasionally take place with Turia. |
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| 8 | 290 |
A rider beside it, on a kaiila, marked its place. |
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| 9 | 1 |
Aphris of Turia There was little doubt that I, in the worn, red tunic of a warrior, and Kamchak, in the black leather of the Tuchuks, seemed somewhat out of place at the banquet of Saphrar, merchant of Turia. |
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| 9 | 19 |
Merchants also, in effect, arrange and administer the four great fairs that take place each year near the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 9 | 46 |
"Perhaps," he suggested, "you would like a piece of roasted bosk meat?" I replaced the golden eating prong in its rack beside my place, shoved back the glittering dish in which lay several theoretically edible objects, carefully arranged by a slave to resemble a bouquet of wild flowers sprouting fro... |
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| 9 | 135 |
Indeed, the cloth, once loosened, may, if one wishes, be taken up and used as a slave hood, held in place by cords, secured about the girl's neck. |
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| 9 | 233 |
Aphris of Turia, pleased with herself, assumed her place between the merchant and Kamchak, kneeling back on her heels in the position of the Gorean free woman. |
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| 9 | 237 |
"Two years ago," said Kamchak, "in such a place at such a time—you recall it was then you called me a Tuchuk sleen". |
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| 9 | 399 |
"Give it to me!" "Very well," said Kamchak, "but I must ask to place it on you myself". |
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| 9 | 403 |
"You may place it on me yourself". |
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| 10 | 20 |
When I had come to this place I set her on the grass. |
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| 10 | 76 |
"There is no place," I said. |
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| 10 | 99 |
I laughed and wheeled the kaiila and raced from the place, leaving the riders of the ponderous tharlarion far behind. |
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| 10 | 337 |
"Place your wrists in the rings," said the judge, "or it shall be done for you". |
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| 11 | 195 |
"The first southern migrations of meadow kites," he said, "have already taken place. |
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| 11 | 196 |
The migrations of the forest hurlit and the horned gim do not take place until later in the spring. |
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| 11 | 239 |
I was a bit reminded of some of the loose, tumbled rocks I had once glimpsed in certain abandoned portions of the Place of Priest-Kings, far beneath the Sardar. |
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| 11 | 291 |
"You will fight for your place! Excellent!" "She can be first girl if she wishes," sniffed Aphris. |
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| 15 | 21 |
There was, after all, no place on the prairies to hide the wagons or the bosk, and tarnsmen could easily reach them anywhere within a radius of several hundred pasangs. |
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| 16 | 39 |
More disturbing to me was the prospect of bringing the golden sphere down the rope and under the water and through the underground stream to the place where we had embarked on this adventure. |
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| 16 | 114 |
In the meantime it seemed reasonable to while away some time and the baths of Turia seemed as good a place as any to do so. |
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| 16 | 160 |
Trembling with rage, the hooded figure resumed his place on the dais. |
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| 16 | 305 |
The Others—those of power, not Priest-Kings, must, to some extent, understand or sense the politics, the needs and policies of the remote denizens of the Sardar—they were probably not altogether unaware of the business of Priest-Kings, particularly not now, following the recent War of ... |
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| 16 | 308 |
But in a Place of Priest-Kings there is only one bearer of young, the Mother, and she had died shortly before the War. |
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| 16 | 309 |
Thus, the Others might well infer that there was one, or more, concealed eggs, hidden away, which must now be secured that the new generation might be inaugurated, but hidden away quite possibly not in the Place of Priest-Kings itself, but elsewhere, out of the home of Priest-Kings, beyond even the ... |
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| 16 | 319 |
The attempt on my life took place one night and the raid on Kutaituchik's wagon the next. |
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| 21 | 19 |
Slowly, wagon by wagon, the long columns of the Tuchuk retreat were formed, each wagon in its column, each column in its place, and, covering pasangs of prairie, the march from Turia had begun. |
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| 21 | 119 |
Dina had lived for a time on the savings of the family, but had then taken them, sewn in the lining of her robes, and purchased a place on a caravan wagon bound for Ar, which caravan had been ambushed by Kassars, in which raid she herself, of course, had fallen into their hands. |
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| 22 | 11 |
It was from this place that he directed the occupation of the city. |
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| 22 | 22 |
No assault of the place had yet begun. |
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| 22 | 32 |
I then wished to proceed immediately to the palace of Phanius Turmus, where Kamchak had set up his headquarters, to place myself at his disposal, but Harold insisted rather on trooping about the city, here and there examining pockets of Turian resistance. |
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| 22 | 40 |
"What place is this?" I asked. |
10 |
| 22 | 125 |
He hardly seemed aware of what was taking place. |
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| 23 | 21 |
He did not, on the other hand, approve of the fact that the raid had taken place during the Omen Year, which is a time of general truce among the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 23 | 56 |
Hundreds of the wagons were burning and fighting was taking place among them. |
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| 25 | 516 |
Then, her back still arched, with a half-smile, she stretched even more, and, as though weary, she slowly turned her head to one side, with her eyes closed, and then opened them and with a small, lazy motion of her hands threw her hair back over her head, and with a tiny motion of her head shook it ... |
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| 25 | 618 |
I saw the place on her thigh where not many days before the fiery iron had been so cruelly pressed, leaving behind it, smoking for the instant, deep and clean, the tiny mark of the four bosk horns. |
10 |
| 25 | 659 |
It dropped into place. |
10 |
| 26 | 65 |
It seemed to me that a full storming of the compound would take place within the Ahn. |
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| 26 | 156 |
Sitting in the place of honor, cross-legged, calm, on the merchant's cushions, on his personal dais, applying a bit of oil to the blade of his sword, sat the lean, scarred Ha-Keel, once of Ar, now a mercenary tarnsman of squalid, malignant Port Kar. |
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| 26 | 166 |
"There is the business of men afoot in this place". |
10 |
| 26 | 170 |
The young man did not move from his place, but set himself to take the charge of the Tuchuks. |
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| 26 | 342 |
He struggled to move in the glistening, respiring, sparkling substance of the Yellow Pool, but could not change his place. |
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| 26 | 346 |
The golden droplets which Saphrar wore in place of eyebrows fell unnoticed into the sluggish fluid that slowly rose about him, inching itself upward, thickening itself about him. |
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| 26 | 414 |
We turned the kaiila from the courtyard of the burning House of Saphrar and, abreast, rode from that place. |
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| 26 | 469 |
"In your place, I think I might well have done the same thing". |
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| 27 | 66 |
At last only a few remained in that place, some commanders and some leaders of Hundreds, and Kamchak and Aphris. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 503 |
My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Older Tarl, Maste... |
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| 12 | 197 |
She said nothing but stood there, wrists braceleted behind her back, locked in place, watching the approach of the iron, observing the graceful, white-hot character at the iron's termination; she screamed uncontrollably when the iron marked her, firmly, decisively for about three Ihn; and then she s... |
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| 1 | 9 |
He had been called to this place. |
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| 2 | 6 |
The city had fallen and Pa-Kur, though of low caste, had aspired to inherit the imperial mantle of Marlenus, had dared to lift his eyes to the throne of Empire and place about his neck the golden medallion of a Ubar, a thing forbidden to such as he in the myths of the Counter-Earth. |
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| 2 | 28 |
At a paga tavern, one near the great gate, cheap and crowded, dingy and smelling, a place frequented by strangers and small Merchants, the Assassin took the girl by the arm and thrust her within. |
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| 2 | 78 |
"They want to kill Hup!" "There is no place for beggars in Glorious Ar," growled one of the men at the tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 85 |
He kept whimpering and screaming, and running one place or the other. |
10 |
| 2 | 291 |
"The number of barbarian women they place on the block," said Portus. |
10 |
| 2 | 298 |
"True," said Portus, "but commonly such raids take place on cylinders in given cities—the distances beyond the cities are great, and the prices paid for mere barbarian girls are less". |
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| 2 | 360 |
I mumbled something, but she would hear nothing of it, and suddenly feeling her in my arms I laughed and held her to me, and she laughed, and whispered, "I love you, Tarl Cabot," and I said to her, "Kuurus, Kuurus—of the Caste of Assassins," and she said, "Yes, Kuurus—and poor Vella of... |
10 |
| 3 | 24 |
Capturings of individual pieces and continuations take place much as in chess. |
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| 3 | 55 |
In Ar, the high bridge near the Central Cylinder, housing the palace of the Ubar and the meeting place of the city's High Council, was held, and had been for four years, by the young and brilliant, fiery Scormus of Ar. |
10 |
| 3 | 193 |
The capture of the Player's Home Stone would take place on the next move. |
10 |
| 3 | 246 |
He then turned away, and began to grope his way from the place of the game. |
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| 4 | 1 |
Cernus "Place your first sword before me," I said, "that I may kill him". |
10 |
| 4 | 146 |
She ran rapidly to a place before the stone platform, before the curule chair of Cernus, where she fell to her knees in the position of pleasure slave, head bowed. |
10 |
| 4 | 210 |
"Stand straight and place your hands behind your head, head back". |
10 |
| 5 | 35 |
Such a demand might seem importunate or to evince a concern for secrecy not in place in a house where I, supposedly, had taken gold for the use of my steel. |
10 |
| 5 | 90 |
I then untied the knot, slipped the cords through the hole below the latch bar, swung the door shut and set the two beams in place, securing it. |
10 |
| 5 | 284 |
"Sometimes it takes a quarter of an Ahn before the initial adjustments take place, basically the recognition that the sounds they spontaneously associate with the marks are actually the words of their language. |
10 |
| 5 | 603 |
He would set a central bar, running lengthwise in the wagon, in place, locking it in. |
10 |
| 5 | 641 |
For example, passing the door and seeing her knot in place I would know that she was not in the compartment. |
10 |
| 7 | 21 |
"Who would dispute my place?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 36 |
In your place I too should think such. |
10 |
| 7 | 43 |
If the guidance attachments are in place, then the tarn is seldom saddled, but wears only basket harness. |
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| 7 | 174 |
Their wrists had been tied behind them, a loop running through the heavy wicker to hold them in place. |
10 |
| 7 | 177 |
Even if a girl should manage somehow, incredibly, because certain important knots are outside the wicker, to free herself, she would still be held in place by the loops on her throat. |
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| 8 | 51 |
I closed the door and set the beams in place. |
10 |
| 8 | 145 |
We entered, and I closed the door, put the beams in place, and took off my sword belt. |
10 |
| 8 | 192 |
At last, about the seventeenth hour, she returned, set the beams in place and lay down beside me, putting her head on my shoulder. |
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| 11 | 4 |
Other rows of cells were rather more ornate, with heavy intricate grillwork taking the place of bars, hung with red silks, floored with furs and perhaps lit by a small tharlarion-oil lamp set in a barred recess. |
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| 11 | 54 |
They had doubtless been watched, without their knowledge studied and investigated, their habits noted, their common movements and routines recorded, for months prior to the strike of the slaver at a predetermined place and time. |
10 |
| 11 | 248 |
"There is no such place!" cried Phyllis. |
10 |
| 12 | 121 |
I arose and turned away, leaving my place on the tier, that I might not be seen by Hup, should he approach the man. |
10 |
| 12 | 196 |
At a signal from Ho-Tu the guard carried Virginia to the branding rack and placed her in the rack, spinning the lever that locked her thigh in place. |
10 |
| 13 | 101 |
In a secluded place, among the planted grasses and ferns, sheltered from view, I had lifted Nela from the pool and placed her on a large piece of orange toweling on the grass, near which I had left my clothes and pouch. |
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| 13 | 215 |
Take me to this place". |
10 |
| 13 | 221 |
And, instead of racing, many were discussing the case of the daughter of the Hinrabian Administrator, speculating on her whereabouts, arguing about how the abduction, if abduction it was, could possibly have taken place within earshot of dozens of Taurentian guardsmen. |
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| 13 | 236 |
The tarncot in which Mip worked was the largest and, I was pleased to note, he was the senior Tarn Keeper in the place, though there were several employed there. |
10 |
| 13 | 292 |
On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap... |
10 |
| 14 | 9 |
I entered the compartment, closed the door and put the beams in place. |
10 |
| 15 | 121 |
Four times Claudia Tentia Hinrabia had attempted to kill one of the girls but the others would easily overpower her; and the Hinrabian must endure her bath and her perfuming; when finished the girls would lock her raiment in a chest and then draw a slave hood over her head, locking it in place, and ... |
10 |
| 15 | 411 |
Surely to come to this place, the house of his enemy, must have been a last recourse in some fearful set of events, to throw himself on the mercies of Cernus, claiming Caste Sanctuary. |
10 |
| 16 | 184 |
"There is no place to run," said Ho-Sorl. |
10 |
| 16 | 186 |
"Yes," she said numbly, "there is no place to run". |
10 |
| 17 | 228 |
Processions took place on the bridges; there were tournaments of the game organized; poets and historians vied in praising the day, each more ecstatically than the last; but, perhaps most importantly, holiday was declared, and great games and races were sponsored without cessation for the next sever... |
10 |
| 17 | 345 |
He threw her bodily over his shoulder, her small fists pounding on his back, and carried her to Ho-Tu's place. |
10 |
| 17 | 370 |
"Kajuralia!" laughed Ho-Sorl and turned, and, to the laughter of all, returned to his place at the table. |
10 |
| 17 | 508 |
The woman stumbled to the place before the table of Cernus, where she stood. |
10 |
| 17 | 526 |
I understood to some extent what was taking place. |
10 |
| 17 | 639 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you have such a doll?" She said nothing, but returned the doll to its hiding place, beneath some silks and jewelry, at the back of the chest, in the right corner. |
10 |
| 17 | 804 |
"But then," she said, "I shall place my Ubara's Scribe at Ubar's Initiate Three". |
10 |
| 17 | 826 |
I could not place the roar, the noise. |
10 |
| 18 | 285 |
It seemed to draw it open, and then, wildly, to thrust it back, keeping the door locked; and then I heard the bolt rattling in its brackets as though something had seized it and trembling was trying to hold it in place. |
10 |
| 18 | 293 |
Then, when I was far down the corridor, I fixed the bandage again in place, shoved down my sleeve, and looked back. |
10 |
| 18 | 294 |
The thing behind the door was no longer making noise, and the door was no longer pressing against the beams; from where I stood I could hear the bolt on the inside being thrust back in place, locking it from the inside. |
10 |
| 18 | 327 |
I could see the bread ovens in one wall; the long fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but, here and there, I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal; aside from this, the light in the room came from on... |
10 |
| 18 | 346 |
I passed through the level on which interrogations take place, the level of the kennels, and went lower in the cylinder, now far below ground, past even more iron pens and levels. |
10 |
| 18 | 402 |
I could smell wet straw in the place, and the excrement of urts and a human being. |
10 |
| 19 | 1 |
The Curulean The sale of Elizabeth Cardwell, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, with that of Cernus' other trained barbarians, did not take place on the first night of the Love Feast, though they had been transported to the cages of the Curulean early in the first day. |
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| 19 | 22 |
It was hot in the slave hood, of several layers of thick leather, stifling, locked under my chin and about my throat; further, this hood, like many, was so constructed as to ensure silence in a prisoner; I could not spit out the thick leather wad that was packed in my mouth nor, because of the strap... |
10 |
| 19 | 254 |
The auctioneer, with his foot on her belly, held her in place. |
10 |
| 19 | 392 |
"Place your hands behind the back of your head, Slave," ordered Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 20 | 111 |
He then returned to his place on the dais. |
10 |
| 20 | 360 |
I tried to place the boy, his features. |
10 |
| 21 | 92 |
I could not place the voice. |
10 |
| 21 | 189 |
I permitted myself to be apparently driven to a place before the box of the Ubar. |
10 |
| 21 | 191 |
I noted other men, apparently miserable wretches in blind helmets, being driven to a place before the box. |
10 |
| 21 | 261 |
"Men die in this place". |
10 |
| 21 | 280 |
This permits the men in reserve to move into the forward line to form a solid line, or, if the first line withdraws, to have space to take its place. |
10 |
| 21 | 281 |
It allows a great deal of mobility and, on the level of squad tactics, has its affinity to the Torian Squares; the space allows the swordsmen, of course, room in which to handle their weapons, room in which to properly attack or defend themselves; in this case I expected the center man to engage me,... |
10 |
| 21 | 305 |
Attempting to remain together they wheeled, each in place. |
10 |
| 22 | 298 |
On a large board, against the dividing wall, on which the day's results were tallied, and lists and odds kept of the coming races, I saw them place as the winner of the eighth race Green Ubar, and his rider Melipolus of Cos. |
10 |
| 22 | 610 |
Once again the thousands in that place began to sing. |
10 |
| 23 | 185 |
In the larger room I smelled the odor of a tarn, mixed with another odor I could not place, but animal. |
10 |
| 24 | 382 |
I strode forward to the place before the throne. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 107 |
And now, in this very afternoon, my glories had been climaxed in the chamber of the Council of Captains, in which had taken place the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder, in which had taken place the commendation of the Council for my deeds and the awarding of its mos... |
10 |
| 15 | 291 |
Many of the singers wander from place to place, selling their songs for bread and love. |
10 |
| 15 | 590 |
Doubtless she had expected to receive that kiss standing in the swirling love silks of the Free Companion, beneath golden love lamps, beside the couch of the Ubar of Cos; but it was not in the white, marbled palace of the Ubar of Cos that that kiss was to take place; and it was not to be received as... |
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| 1 | 18 |
It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident... |
10 |
| 1 | 31 |
Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a... |
10 |
| 3 | 75 |
Wild marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their lif... |
10 |
| 5 | 67 |
I had also been used to carry heavy kettles of rence beer from the various islands to the place of feasting, as well as strings of water gourds, poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks, and baskets of the pith of rence. |
10 |
| 5 | 94 |
Most of these took place in the marsh. |
10 |
| 6 | 198 |
In the distance I could see, across one of the bridges formed of rafts for transporting rence, one of those I had helped to place earlier that very morning, stripped rencers, men and women, being herded by spears toward our island. |
10 |
| 6 | 205 |
There were no rencers there and, doubtless because of that, none of Port Kar, though I did see many torches, going to the place on the island where we had shortly before stood; then the torches there divided, half going to the left, half coming to the right, our direction. |
10 |
| 6 | 207 |
"Get the girl! I want the girl!" I came to one of the raft bridges I had helped to fasten in place that morning, shortly after dawn. |
10 |
| 7 | 18 |
I supposed that had Telima been taken, that place might have been hers. |
10 |
| 7 | 76 |
I had not wished to place a limb in the marsh, particularly in this area, though, to be sure, it seemed clearer now. |
10 |
| 8 | 77 |
And then none would dare take the place of the oar-master. |
10 |
| 8 | 118 |
I heard men running from both sides toward the place from which came the cries of the slaves. |
10 |
| 8 | 154 |
With a last length of marsh vine, doubled and looped about her throat, its free ends tied about the up-curved stern, I secured her in place. |
10 |
| 8 | 204 |
I did place over my features the curved helmet, with its Y-like opening, of the Gorean warrior. |
10 |
| 8 | 253 |
I expected that some of those dead on the barges had been, by their own kind, denied such a place. |
10 |
| 8 | 261 |
She was curved over the prow nude, her wrists cruelly bound behind it, and was further held tightly in place by binding fiber at her ankles, her stomach and throat. |
10 |
| 8 | 318 |
I now could place that the sound came from the second barge. |
10 |
| 8 | 539 |
I was such that might make a place for himself in a city such as Port Kar. |
10 |
| 8 | 592 |
The tip of my blade still pointed inexorably to a place on the deck. |
10 |
| 8 | 600 |
"Now," said I, "place your hands upon my thighs". |
10 |
| 8 | 675 |
Thurnock then took the same long length of binding fiber, one end of which I had fastened about Midice's neck, and, without cutting it, looped and knotted it about the neck of the large, blond, gray-eyed girl, handing the coil then to Clitus, who indicated that the short rence girl should take her p... |
10 |
| 8 | 779 |
To my amazement she slipped out of her rence cloth tunic and took a place behind the third girl in the coffle, the shorter rence girl, Ula. |
10 |
| 9 | 155 |
Raids of one upon the other, involving a few dozen ships, were not infrequent, whether on the shipping of Port Kar, or beaching on Cos or Tyros, but major actions, those which might involve the hundreds of galleys possessed by these redoubtable maritime powers, the two island Ubarates and Port Kar, ... |
10 |
| 10 | 68 |
He may have seen me that night, among the rencers on the island, but he did not place me, one who now sat on the Council of the Captains of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 10 | 149 |
The next matter for consideration was the negotiation of a dispute between the sail-makers and the rope-makers in the arsenal with respect to priority in the annual Procession to the Sea, which takes place on the first of En'Kara, the Gorean New Year. |
10 |
| 10 | 175 |
Beyond this, lastly, it might be mentioned that Gorean society, on the whole, tends to be tradition bound, and that there is little questioning of the wisdom of one's fathers; in such a society individuals usually have an identity satisfactory to themselves, and a place in which they feel comfortabl... |
10 |
| 10 | 204 |
He had then returned to Port Kar, his fortunes exhausted, no place left to him in the arsenal. |
10 |
| 11 | 25 |
I went to the place before the thrones. |
10 |
| 13 | 136 |
"When will the gathering take place?" I asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 520 |
It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my flagship, the Dorna of Tharn... |
10 |
| 14 | 87 |
The important thing, as I saw it, was not so much the absolute numbers of ships involved as the numbers of ships that could be applied at a given place and given time. |
10 |
| 14 | 101 |
Similar preparations, of course, were taking place on my own ships. |
10 |
| 15 | 102 |
In this very afternoon the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder had taken place in the chamber of the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 15 | 122 |
A similar consolidation and unification had taken place, of course, in the realm of inspections and taxations, penalties and enforcements, codes and courts. |
10 |
| 15 | 184 |
I looked at the boy, absently, as though I could not place him. |
10 |
| 16 | 196 |
We had not expected the launching of the fleet to take place until the spring. |
10 |
| 17 | 122 |
I called the lookout down from the basket, that I might climb to his place. |
10 |
| 17 | 380 |
As one set of birds hovered over the deck and their men dropped to its planks, the birds darted away, and another set took their place. |
10 |
| 17 | 398 |
Chenbar tried, groggily, to get up, but my foot on his neck held him in place. |
10 |
| 18 | 6 |
"I expect," said the oar-master, "that in the rag of a slave he will eventually find his place at the bench of an arsenal round ship". |
10 |
| 18 | 117 |
How else, I asked myself, had he been able to take an oar on the longboat in the canals when I had gone to the hall of the Council of Captains, or been able to board the Dorna, or taken his place in the longboat that had ferried me to the round ship? I, too, was not unfond of the boy. |
10 |
| 18 | 167 |
There, kneeling on the tiles, back to back, their wrists bound behind their backs, by the same leather, it passing through a slave ring, holding them in place, were two girls. |
10 |
| 18 | 173 |
Not speaking, I motioned that he should take his place at the side of the entryway to the great hall, where he might not be seen. |
10 |
| 18 | 229 |
At the entryway we stopped and threw shut the doors, dropping the beams into place. |
10 |
| 18 | 309 |
And yet I would not have chosen, at this time, to be any place other than where I stood, on the height of my keep, in the holding I had made mine own in Port Kar. |
10 |
| 18 | 328 |
Before nightfall doubtless more assaults would take place, and, in the first, or the second, or in another, we would surely fall. |
10 |
| 18 | 643 |
"It is the place of my Home Stone," he said. |
10 |
| 18 | 705 |
He turned to run, but there was no place to run. |
10 |
| 18 | 833 |
"The dungeon of the hall of captains scarcely seemed the place to discuss the business of Priest-Kings". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1112 |
They would know only that they were slaves in this place but would not know where this place in which they were slaves might be. |
10 |
| 15 | 222 |
It was convenient to pass by the tent, you understand, for it was in the center of the camp, and thus often lay on the shortest route from place to place within the palisade. |
10 |
| 2 | 14 |
Only a small, heavy lock, and a place where a tiny key might fit. |
10 |
| 2 | 17 |
Someone had been in the room to place the band on my neck. |
10 |
| 3 | 49 |
The larger man spoke with a definite accent, but I could not place the accent. |
10 |
| 3 | 168 |
The knife, its handle braced against my sweating back, slipped four times, but each time I put it again in place and addressed myself again to my task. |
10 |
| 4 | 1 |
The Slave Capsule The man holding me guided me from where I stood to a place at one side of the clearing. |
10 |
| 4 | 194 |
The steel ramp swung upward and locked in place, shutting me in the ship. |
10 |
| 4 | 195 |
A sealing door then slid across the closed ramp, it, too, locking in place. |
10 |
| 4 | 203 |
Fixed in these racks, held in place by belts, their long axes parallel to the floor, were large, transparent cylinders, or tubes, perhaps of heavy plastic. |
10 |
| 4 | 206 |
Then I was held in place. |
10 |
| 5 | 149 |
I had not found bodies, though I had found, in one place, on a cot, a stain of blood. |
10 |
| 5 | 172 |
In one place I found some strands of woman's hair. |
10 |
| 6 | 258 |
I was puzzled how there could be so many in this one small place. |
10 |
| 6 | 290 |
I had put him in his place. |
10 |
| 6 | 361 |
There were buckled straps on her wrists, fastening her in place. |
10 |
| 7 | 545 |
It was a common mark, placed in the usual place. |
10 |
| 7 | 571 |
Targo did not wish to remain too long in this place. |
10 |
| 8 | 69 |
Behind us I heard one of the bargemen slam the heavy iron door and slide the heavy iron bolt into place. |
10 |
| 8 | 74 |
Behind me I could hear the two wagons being rolled onto the barge and then, with chains, being fastened in place. |
10 |
| 8 | 404 |
In this he would place slides, containing drops of blood and urine, flecks of tissue, a strand of hair. |
10 |
| 8 | 562 |
It seemed to me a simple, wild, lovely place, with the glorious air and sky, the forest to the north, the river to the south. |
10 |
| 9 | 110 |
"The place of which of these," asked Verna, "will you take?" "I do not understand," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 119 |
"Whose place will you take?" asked Verna. |
10 |
| 9 | 243 |
It was no accident that we had stopped at this place. |
10 |
| 9 | 307 |
"Place your hands above your head," she said. |
10 |
| 9 | 534 |
The door shut behind me, two beams falling into place, barring it. |
10 |
| 10 | 55 |
He suddenly snapped his fingers and, in the swift double gesture of a Gorean master, pointed to a place on the dirt floor before him, almost simultaneously turning his hand, spreading his first and index fingers, pointing downwards. |
10 |
| 10 | 147 |
The beast now lay curled in its place, on straw. |
10 |
| 11 | 42 |
"No!" A guard dragged the distraught Lady Rena of Lydius, a slave girl, back to her place in the line. |
10 |
| 11 | 46 |
She wept, and was dragged back to her place in line. |
10 |
| 11 | 71 |
I smiled as Lana was dragged, weeping, by a guard to her place in line. |
10 |
| 11 | 395 |
On Earth, Elinor Brinton had enjoyed teasing and tormenting men, arousing them, for her amusement, and then leaving them dissatisfied, but here, on this world, in this place, one must be very careful about such things. |
10 |
| 11 | 523 |
"Place your hands behind your backs," recommended Ute. |
10 |
| 11 | 671 |
He then took Inge to the opposite side of the cage, put her standing against the wall of bars there, facing me, and similarly fastened her in place. |
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| 11 | 873 |
As my hands were braceleted before me, and held in place by the binding fiber there, and the loose ends of the binding fiber had been knotted behind my back, by no movement could I bring the back knot within reach. |
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| 11 | 1100 |
And, the Priest-Kings willing, a coin that is lost today, or a woman, may, at a later time, in a more convenient place, be found, and more! A woman who escapes your collar this afternoon may, by nightfall, find herself chained at your feet. |
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| 11 | 1166 |
It was in that place that there were to be found the highest placed, richest buyers of Gor. |
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| 11 | 1202 |
"You may return to your place," said the man. |
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| 11 | 1213 |
"Return to your place, Slave," said the man. |
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| 11 | 1219 |
"Return to your place, Female Slave," said the man. |
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| 11 | 1415 |
With every other girl, as far as I knew, in our cage, and further along the tier of cages, as far as I could hear, he had either spoken with them, or dismissed them, or told them to return to their place. |
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| 12 | 57 |
Girls are given only about a foot of chain fastened to their ankle rings, which is looped about the central bar, locked in place, in the slave wagon. |
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| 12 | 70 |
The central slave bar was then locked in place. |
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| 12 | 73 |
He then slipped from the wagon, and lifted up the back gate of the wagon, shoving its bolts in place, securing it. |
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| 12 | 262 |
Standing below this pole, obviously exhibited as a trophy of the hunt, alone on the cart, her skins knotted about her neck, her wrists bound behind her back, her hair fastened over the pole, holding her in place, was a beautiful panther girl, stripped, her weapons, broken, lying at her feet. |
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| 12 | 377 |
I was Elinor Brinton, wealthy, beautiful, refined, civilized, but by some mysterious incomprehensible set of events here, in this place, here, with a mark in my left thigh! I moaned, inwardly. |
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| 13 | 483 |
I expected that they would beg me, in Ute's place, to permit myself to be adopted as their daughter. |
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| 13 | 1016 |
He is not interested in treating her as a pretended equal, but in putting her to his feet, before him, in her place, naked and chained. |
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| 13 | 1026 |
How could we respect a man who is too weak to keep us in line, to keep us in the place we desire to be? "You sought me?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 1166 |
I did not want to be red and raw, and wind-burned, and awakened before dawn and worked until dark, and be kept in such a place. |
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| 14 | 81 |
Ena, the high girl, who wore the garment of white, had not been much pleased that I did not have a caste, and could not claim a familiar city as my place of origin. |
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| 14 | 184 |
They dominated us and exploited us! I found, in one place in the camp, a grassy area, on a slight hill. |
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| 14 | 187 |
In another place I found a horizontal pole, itself set on two pairs of poles, leaning together and lashed at the top. |
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| 14 | 196 |
In one place I found a long, low shed, formed of heavy logs. |
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| 14 | 510 |
She takes her place upon them. |
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| 14 | 633 |
"Place your hands behind your back and cross your wrists," said Ena. |
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| 15 | 68 |
"Perhaps they might even have adopted you, in my place, as their daughter," suggested Ute. |
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| 15 | 220 |
Several of my workmates were sold, and others, captured, brought in on tarnback, took their place, perhaps to be sold as well in their turn. |
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| 15 | 291 |
I had been kneeling before the board, ironing the tunics, which I would then fold and place to one side. |
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| 15 | 474 |
Rask clapped his hands once, and four musicians, who had been waiting outside, entered the tent, and took a place to one side. |
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| 15 | 521 |
"How is she?" asked Verna, who had now again resumed her place, seating herself cross-legged by Rask of Treve's side. |
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| 15 | 810 |
Crouching inside the box, I saw the door shut, and heard the two heavy, flat bolts sliding into place. |
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| 15 | 811 |
I then heard the click of two padlocks, securing them in place. |
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| 15 | 1197 |
Another girl, with jeers, was driven from the sand, and another took her place. |
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| 16 | 139 |
I would then be gagged, and have my wrists taken behind me, and bound there, together, behind the post, to the tying ring, that I might not even be able to rise to my feet, that I might be well held in place, on my knees, until it might please masters to free me, perhaps to work, perhaps to be beate... |
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| 16 | 218 |
"My place is in the northern forests". |
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| 16 | 387 |
Yet I knew, suddenly, that, if I lied, he would indeed whip me, and quite possibly place me again in the hated slave box. |
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| 16 | 464 |
When I leaped up, laughing, shaking my head and hair, he again offered to place his cloak about my shoulders, that my body might be covered when I went to the shed for the work slaves. |
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| 17 | 29 |
The same strap, passing in and out of the wicker, similarly fastened the other girls in place. |
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| 17 | 165 |
And for such a slave, I am sure, there was no place in the war camp of Rask of Treve. |
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| 10 | 416 |
Then, we again continued on our way, leaving the place of the platform, the place of Gunnhild's triumph, where she had received a pastry, and where her master, the Forkbeard, had made a silver tarn disk on her beauty. |
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| 4 | 58 |
The nomads, when camping at a watering place, commonly pitch their tent near a tree; this affords them shade; also they place and hang goods in the branches of the tree, using it for storage. |
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| 14 | 188 |
He cannot see to escape; he can not see to attack; he cannot be sure, usually, even of the number and position of his captors, whether they face him, or are attentive, or such; sometimes a hooded prisoner, even unbound, is told simply to kneel, and that if he moves, he will be slain; some captors, t... |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 35 |
Could I, here, in this place, I wondered, be such that men might so look upon me? I gathered that I might indeed, here, in this place, be such that I might be so looked upon. |
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| 3 | 332 |
I watched while third place and fourth place were won. |
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| 12 | 312 |
"No," said the prisoner, "but there is a time and a place for speaking, as there is a time and a place for steel". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 8 |
When she had broken the ice from a place on the boot, she would place her mouth over that place, breathing upon it, softening and melting the residue of ice there. |
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| 2 | 458 |
Every bound you set him will show him a place beyond which he can place his foot or hand". |
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| 4 | 379 |
He could place the Home Stone, of course, in two moves, if he would place it at Ubar's Tarnsman One, or Ubar's Scribe One, or Ubar One, or Ubara One, or Ubara's Tarnsman One. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 53 | 71 |
Given the habits of the fish I had little doubt but that this place was an ancient mating ground for them, for the grunt populations tend to return again and again to the places of their frenzy, wherever, usually in a lagoon or shallow place in a river, they may be. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 |
I indicated a place on the straw, at the wall of the food tent, a clear place, between other couples. |
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| 23 | 142 |
Kliomenes returned to his place, and I, replacing the table to its original position, returned, too, to my place. |
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| 28 | 310 |
Yet to live and work in a place, and to be of a place, are, in Gorean thinking, quite different things. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 444 |
Lastly, many animals wear collars; that is not a matter of simple happenstance; the throat is the natural place, for a variety of reasons, on which to place an animal's identificatory control and guidance device; all owners and trainers agree on that; and the slave girl, too, of course, is an animal... |
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| 19 | 808 |
Each sex has its place, and neither will be happy until it occupies that place. |
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| 19 | 809 |
The place of man is master; the place of woman is slave. |
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| 20 | 295 |
For example, the girls are branded and collared, and their world is one in which the institution of slavery is accepted and respected; there is, in effect, no place for them to run, no place for them to go. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 93 |
To place a woman in the device or remove her from it, the forward plank is freed and slid forward; to fasten her within the device, it is moved backward and secured in place. |
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| 2 | 97 |
The planks are further reinforced between each girl with a narrowly curved iron band, the open ends of which are pierced; this is slid tight in its slots, in its metal retainers, about the boards, and secured in place with a four-inch metal pin, which may or may not be locked in place. |
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| 8 | 696 |
"What manner of place is this," begged the girl, lifting the chain on her collar, "and is this how they treat all women?" "I shall not expatiate on what manner of place this is," said Ginger, "for you, yourself, shall soon learn, and well. |
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| 9 | 88 |
They would learn soon enough what it might mean, in such a place, in the place of the kailiauk and the high grasses, to be a white female. |
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| 14 | 709 |
"I can see where some might regard sexual relations between partners of opposite sexes as being demeaning for the woman," I said, "for in such relations she is often handled, owned and put in her place, but, on the other hand, if she belongs in her place, and it is her natural destiny to be owned an... |
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| 19 | 549 |
It is the place for you to follow his kaiila, the place of a slave". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 36 |
"You think, then," I said, "that girls are either to be brought to this place, or are to be taken from this place?" "Yes," said Cuwignaka, "and judging from the tie, which does not suggest that they are soon to be marched away, I would think they are being brought to this place". |
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| 1 | 360 |
Female slaves among such peoples quickly learn their place, a place in which they are kept with perfection. |
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| 7 | 219 |
"Yes," I said, "your place, your place in the order of nature, that of a female at the feet of her master". |
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| 12 | 416 |
Needless to say, the girl scurries to the couch, regards it, in effect, as a place of possible refuge, in spite of the fact that her sexual exploitation and domination will clearly take place upon it, and, for the time limits set, whatever they may be, fears to leave it. |
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| 40 | 29 |
Where there is no place for difference it is natural that difference will have no place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 693 |
How far this place seemed to me from the culture with which I was familiar, and yet how close was this place to my dreams. |
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| 34 | 56 |
The female, his, kneels before her master, in her place, and he stands before her, in his place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 1 | 64 |
With their wagons and tents, often little more than a skip and a jump ahead of creditors and magistrates, they roam from place to place, rigging their simple stages in piazzas and squares, in yards and markets, wherever an audience may be found, even at the dusty intersections of country crossroads. |
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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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| 15 | 98 |
She should be put in her place, the place of the female, kneeling and serving. |
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| 16 | 284 |
Too, the theft took place just shortly before we left the city, thus permitting them to be in the place of the crime itself, and then giving them time to flee the city. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 484 |
He angrily returned to his place on the wagon box and with an angry cry and a fierce snap of the whip put his ponderous draft beast once more into motion, taking his place between two other wagons. |
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| 19 | 368 |
The so-called Philebus seemed as though he might desire to withdraw from our vicinity now and then, even giving up his place in line, particularly when Hurtha would come to an often-repeated, stirring refrain, but my hand on his collar kept him in his place. |
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| 24 | 476 |
You have now discovered your antecedents and connections, so to speak, and your exact place, or, perhaps better put, your exact lack of a place, in civil and social relationships". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 167 |
Too, there seemed something meaningful, something rich and almost symbolic, perhaps even defiant, about dancing here, in this place where I worked, with its whispers, its sedateness, its cerebral pretensions, to dance here, in this place, in such a place, as a woman. |
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| 3 | 288 |
There was no place to hide! There was no place to be safe! These men, I feared, came from a place where perhaps no woman, or no woman of certain sorts, was fully safe. |
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| 8 | 218 |
He well knew how to keep us in our place, did he not? And what a rich joke, I had thought, this was doubtless supposed to be, that I would find myself here, his "modern woman," in a place where really, more appropriately, and usually, not women, but tarsks, were sold! It was this place, I had surmis... |
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| 6 | 277 |
I wondered if the thought of this, too, amused him, that he had brought me, his despised "modern woman," as a helpless slave, to this place, this place where I might find myself defenseless within the ambit of such fury. |
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| 9 | 323 |
I thought how amused Teibar might have been, to have thought of me, his hated "modern woman," as he thought, being sold, and being sold in this place, a place fit for her, a sales barn, where tarsks, four-legged, and two-legged, like herself, were sold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 309 |
She had not said "my place," which might suggest she had a right to it, but "a place," which was compatible with it merely being a place she took, with or without title, so to speak. |
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| 5 | 71 |
Perhaps most important, interestingly, is the inward transformation of the girl in bondage, the profound changes which take place within her having to do with her sexual and emotional liberation, the deepening of her mental and emotional attitudes, these things freeing her to be herself, too, the lo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 167 |
He then slapped her bared left thigh, high, close to the hip, familiarly, in the place, or about the place, that a slaver or iron worker would be likely to place his iron. |
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| 1 | 967 |
Men whistled at the price he was willing to put out for the slave, particularly in a time and place where there was no dearth of beautiful women, a time and place in which they were plentiful, and cheap. |
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| 3 | 543 |
There is perhaps a certain vanity in this, but they are beautiful there, and I suspect, we have all known women whom we would not have minded putting in such a place, women who would quite appropriately occupy such a place, and indeed, would look very well there. |
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| 46 | 368 |
She would probably think in terms of a more feminine hiding place, a smaller, more-closed-in, more-sheltered, safer-seeming place, a closet, a cabinet, a trunk, a box, a cage, a wagon, a sack, such places, or else to think in terms of putting herself where it might seem to her that she belonged in a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 82 |
It is the sort of place, far enough from the broad avenues of central Ar, where assignations, or triflings, might take place. |
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| 9 | 722 |
"It is necessary only to put them in their place," he said, "the place of females. |
10 |
| 9 | 723 |
The woman of Ar, in her place, the place of a female, is as hot and helpless, as eager and obedient, as devoted and dutiful, as any other slave". |
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| 12 | 48 |
This is a special place, and a well-understood place. |
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| 19 | 349 |
It would not have been difficult to head her off or turn her back, or to have her between us in sport, like some object in a game, a terrified, confused quarry, buffeted, or struck to the ground, again and again, until perhaps she lay quietly in the dust, trembling, and the tharlarion would come and... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 241 |
Here I had found myself put in my place, not my political place, but my true place. |
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| 7 | 283 |
Sometimes, on flatbed wagons, we are chained to frameworks, or kept in metal containers, roped in place, or in sacks, tied, too, in place. |
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| 7 | 443 |
Already I was within the throes of the helplessness, that helplessness which precedes the yielding, which heralds its proximity, which warns of its imminence, that helplessness which sometimes seems to hold one fixed in place, where one, as though chained to a wall, knows that there is no escape, wh... |
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| 7 | 864 |
And then, the sandals fetched, she had been returned to her place, denied the opportunity to place them upon his feet. |
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| 8 | 231 |
Would it not have been better then to have awakened between my own sheets, in my own bed, as I had so many times before, in those familiar surroundings? Was that world not, for all its lies, its hypocritical cant, its ludicrous, wearying pretenses, its tedious self-congratulatory self-righteousness,... |
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| 11 | 193 |
There are many such behaviors, traditions, ceremonies, and such, and there is, apparently, a considerable variety in such matters from place to place. |
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| 11 | 1336 |
I was, I had learned, a property of the state in this place, whatever place it might be. |
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| 12 | 61 |
It is thus that we find our place, and have our place, in the design of nature, whatever may be her mysterious purposes. |
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| 12 | 664 |
'We have a place in mind for you, an excellent place, one for your safekeeping, where no one will ever find you. |
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| 13 | 481 |
What manner of place was this? How could it be that my hands were tied behind my back, how could it be that I could not straighten up, that my head was held down, how could it be that there was a collar on my neck! How far away were the malls! But, yet, too, how vanished here were the confusions, th... |
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| 13 | 1316 |
It was she, it seemed, who was slept at his feet, but, as the whim might seize him, I was sure he might have availed himself of any of the women in this place, state slaves, but here, in this place, as his own slaves. |
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| 16 | 546 |
Might I not be able, sometime, to so serve, in some such place? Was I so inferior to them? Could I not serve wine, and tend to the cleaning, and polish silver, as well as they? How much better to be slave in a place such as this than in the pits! And how much better, too, I thought, might it be to b... |
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| 34 | 20 |
In the case of the second man, it seemed that he had neglected to lock two small rods in place, toward the center of the bridge, before sliding it out, into place, without which action, it buckles and turns, as on a hinge. |
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| 40 | 18 |
It was at the place where the plank had been run out, near the place where I, bound hand and foot, had been once held in the arms of the jailer, Tenrik, he standing on the wall itself, the winds blowing against us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 268 |
More importantly, there was no place to go, no place to hide, no place to run. |
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| 29 | 262 |
"That is our place! That is our place in nature! We long to be in our place in nature! We belong at your feet! We beg our collars! We lift and kiss our chains in gratitude! We ask only to kneel, to be used, and to serve!" "But do not speak of caring!" cried Selius Arconious. |
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| 15 | 225 |
She was aware of the startling transformation which had taken place, and was taking place, within her. |
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| 17 | 1121 |
She now knew that this was a place in which she would well obey, a place in which she must strive with every fiber of her being to be as pleasing as possible. |
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| 18 | 307 |
So, too, the sight of a place she remembers, a grassy knoll, a place behind a shed, a ditch, a stall, the surface of a long, narrow wooden bench, the floor, fur-strewn, at the foot of the master's couch, she not permitted on its surface, that privilege usually reserved for free companions, or perhap... |
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| 19 | 642 |
Better a collar on Gor than a throne on Earth! How glorious to be a woman and live upon a natural world, a world in which I must occupy my rightful place in the order of nature, my place at the feet of masters! The beat of the tarn's wings above her was steady, and smooth. |
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| 20 | 249 |
Sex must be kept in its place, which was a small place. |
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| 24 | 537 |
Had it been real? Had it truly taken place? Had she once been there, actually lived there, in such a place? Could it be? She listened to the music outside the area of preparation, the cries of the men. |
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| 27 | 3187 |
"We will find a suitable place, a green place, with stones about, where the wind and rain can find him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 262 |
This supposed learning, as it is spoken of, took place, it seems, in a place where cattle were once wont to ford. |
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| 1 | 265 |
The female, who is intelligent and quite articulate, at least until she was taught silence and the appropriateness of petitioning for an opportunity to speak, was also a supposed learner, or student, in that very same place, though not exactly in the same place. |
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| 22 | 91 |
Well would she be enshackled in them! How much they would place her at the mercy of masters! For the first time in her life, other than in the joy of her dreams, she understood how a woman could kneel before a man, and place her lips tenderly, humbly, gratefully, submissively, to his feet, thanking ... |
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| 35 | 28 |
Each of these putative pendants later, of course, might be fitted into the leading end of a missile, or arrow, held in place on two sides by the slit wood, and lashed firmly in place, by means of the indentations, and a stout cord. |
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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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| 55 | 5 |
The groups then, unless otherwise informed, would meet at the place designated, which was a broad, sloping, shallow place known as the Vale of Destruction, from an incident which had occurred there more than a hundred years ago, between rival factions for the Theocracy, adherents of the Tenth and th... |
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| 57 | 61 |
"Afterward," said Statius, "they withdrew to their place of ignominious gathering, the place of ropes or knives, and we could not follow up our victory". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 353 |
In that place, she is from a place called England". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 178 |
Several days ago, an altercation had taken place between this Tyrtaios and a man named Decius, with respect to a bench-place in the mess. |
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| 7 | 181 |
Durbar, not speaking, took the place at the second pump, that place vacated by Tyrtaios. |
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| 12 | 517 |
This was secured in place, and something was pulled over my head, like a sack, and I could not see, and I felt a cord knotted at my throat, this securing the covering in place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 519 |
That place, I gathered, quiet and secluded, with its soft grass and flowers, might be a private place, a very private place, one reserved for a master's different feasting. |
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| 5 | 428 |
"There is no such place! There is no such place!" Then the van had stopped, I had no idea where. |
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| 12 | 7 |
This difference takes place over generations, as right-handed persons tend to brace the right hand on the rim while leaning over to drink, and left-handed persons tend to place their weight on the left hand as they lean forward to drink. |
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| 15 | 23 |
Why was I obeying the beast? Why was I moving, as I could, toward the market of Cestias? Would it not have been better to flee anywhere else? Why would he want me there, rather than somewhere else? Was it in the market, near the praetor's platform that he wished to apprehend me? Was I proceeding bli... |
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| 30 | 103 |
"What is one more, or less?" "He may have influence in a far place, an important place," I said, "one from which support would be solicited". |
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| 32 | 19 |
There were already some twenty Kurii in the room when Grendel entered and took his place, a prominent place, near the front of the room, before the dais. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 9 |
Why did I not book passage for Daphne, where the spring rendezvous was to take place? The gray sky ship does not linger long, even in that remote place. |
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| 16 | 54 |
I suppose that is why she had been less than pleasing in the first place, and, in the second place, naively thought to avert her discipline. |
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| 41 | 257 |
It is easy to tip the bottle in such a net, which supports it, and the sling allows it to be carried about, from place to place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 164 |
Was this not a possible place of wealth, and power? From such a place might not one command, govern, and rule? Might one not find here a suitable aerie for tyranny? From such an ensconcement might one not descend with fire and sword, and to such a place might one not withdraw, with immunity, laden w... |
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| 1 | 109 |
It is a hidden place, a secret place, where the remainder of the cavalry will be safe until needed". |
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| 49 | 184 |
Surely, eventually, an inquiry would take place when the Ashigaru who had conducted the slave to my chamber failed to report back to his station, but I did not expect this to take place immediately. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 32 |
"Surely he does not expect us to believe that there is such a place, supposedly another planet, supposedly another world!" "Your serious training will take place in one of several houses," he said. |
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| 7 | 294 |
Could I be in my place, my rightful place, kneeling before a man? Surely not! "What do you want of me?" I whispered. |
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| 8 | 295 |
And yet I feared I had a place on such a world, a natural place, one for which I might be fitted, and one in which I belonged. |
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| 17 | 48 |
Here I became acquainted with a splendid civilization, a colorful, intricate, complex civilization, a high, thriving civilization which, as most high civilizations, had a place for slaves, that place in which I found myself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 57 |
"I know a place," I said, "where it has taken place, again and again. |
10 |
| 25 | 8 |
I could see beyond the fairgrounds, to the west, the place where the long tent had been pitched, and later burned, the house of a meeting which, we had agreed, had never taken place. |
10 |
| 30 | 36 |
"A number of bowmen changing their places of fire," said Thurnock, "the enemy being likely to assume, naturally enough, that each place of fire means a bowman still at that place". |
10 |
| 32 | 21 |
What I did expect to take place, and what did take place, with various disorganized groups of the raiders, other than simple, precipitate flight, was either forming shield rings, circles of shields, which, in effect, immobilizes the group, or counterattacks in which the beleaguered group rushes into... |
10 |
| 41 | 177 |
"And even so," I said, "siege towers can be at but one place at one time and, at that place, and time, can be faced". |
10 |
| 48 | 144 |
The world is what it seems to be, one place, its own place, mighty and glorious. |
10 |
| 60 | 226 |
I did not know if he were frozen in place, paralyzed with fear, or was merely afraid to move, unsure of where to place his feet, where or how to move, or that any movement, the thing so close, so agitated, so distraught, might trigger a blind, defensive, attack reflex. |
10 |