| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 19 |
It was rumored they used men as one might use pieces in a game, and when the piece had played its role it might be discarded, or perhaps, as in my case, removed from the board until it pleased the Priest-Kings to try yet another game. |
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| 10 | 15 |
For example, does a Priest-King have the same qualitative experience that I do when we are confronted by the same scent? I am inclined to doubt it, for their music, which consists of rhapsodies of odors produced by instruments constructed for this purpose, and often played by Priest-Kings, some of w... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 214 |
One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean... |
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| 12 | 217 |
There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious... |
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| 12 | 409 |
Then, to the music, the girl seemed to twist and turn and move away from him, as he played out the chain, until she stood wretched some twenty feet from him at the chain's length. |
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| 26 | 299 |
It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of Priest-Kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my friend Misk's life and its pur... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 28 |
I have suspected that chess, with its fascinating history and development, as played on Earth, may actually have derived from a common ancestor with the Gorean game, both of them perhaps tracing their lineage to some long-forgotten game, perhaps the draughts of Egypt or some primitive board game of ... |
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| 3 | 42 |
I myself, when Centius of Cos was in Ko-ro-ba, might have played him on the bridge near the Cylinder of Warriors for only a pair of copper tarn disks. |
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| 3 | 128 |
He was actually quite skilled, and would have played well among even gifted Goreans, to whom the game is almost second nature, but he was not of Player caliber, by far. |
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| 10 | 92 |
Later the Musicians played and a girl I had not seen before, whom I was told was from Cos, performed the collar dance, and creditably. |
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| 15 | 385 |
Sura, I knew, played the instrument. |
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| 15 | 387 |
The slave girl sitting on the furs, for the kalika is played either sitting or standing, bent over her instrument, her hair falling over the neck of it, lost in her music, a gentle, slow melody, rather sad. |
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| 17 | 579 |
There were several chests there, doubtless containing silks, cosmetics, jewelry; there were also rich furs, on which I gathered she slept; in one corner there leaned a six-stringed kalika, long-necked, with its hemispheric sound box; I knew she played the instrument; on one wall, some feet away, han... |
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| 17 | 747 |
We played yet another Ahn and, even in that short amount of time, her moves had become more exact, more subtle, more powerful. |
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| 17 | 749 |
"Are you sure you have never played before?" I asked. |
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| 17 | 754 |
I truly believe, also, that she had never played before. |
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| 17 | 766 |
"Are you sure you have never played before?" I asked, thinking it well to recheck the point. |
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| 17 | 789 |
I had played the game often and was considered, even among skilled Goreans, an excellent player; yet I found myself fighting for my life with my beautiful, excited opponent. |
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| 18 | 123 |
Smiling at him she then returned to the center of the compartment and sat down, cross-legged, for the instrument is commonly played that way, and bent over it. |
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| 20 | 1 |
A Game Is Played "This," cried Cernus, lifting his cup aloft, is a night for rejoicing and amusement!" Never had I seen the customarily impassive Slaver so elated as on this night, following the sales in the Curulean. |
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| 20 | 199 |
"Would you dare to contend with a mere slave girl," I asked, "one who has learned the game but a day or two ago, who has played but an Ahn or so?" "Whom do you mean?" inquired Cernus. |
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| 20 | 334 |
"I have never played to lose," said the young man, "never". |
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| 20 | 366 |
My champion was Hup, a Fool, that of Cernus was the brilliant, fiery, competitive Scormus of Ar, the young, phenomenal Scormus, who played first board of the city of Ar and held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game, the master not only of the Players of Ar but doubtless of Gor ... |
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| 23 | 40 |
About the room I saw some of the things with which we had played, the silk marked with the squares of the game, the small bottles, the vials. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 85 |
The smaller children played together, the boys playing games with small nets and reed marsh spears, the girls with rence dolls, or some of the older ones sporting with throwing sticks, competing against one another. |
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| 5 | 172 |
Then the man with the drum of hollow rence root began to drum, and I heard some others join in with reed flutes, and one fellow had bits of metal, strung on a circular wire, and another a notched stick, played by scraping it with a flat spoon of rence root. |
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| 15 | 262 |
To one side musicians played. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 796 |
Others faced one another, kneeling, and, with string and their fingers, played an intricate cat's-cradle game. |
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| 8 | 797 |
Others played "Stones," where one player guesses the number of stones held in the other's hand. |
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| 8 | 816 |
Ute, however, of all those I played with, I could not beat. |
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| 13 | 888 |
"I have played with you enough". |
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| 15 | 1144 |
I had enjoyed this sport, subtly played, on numerous occasions, on Earth. |
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| 16 | 478 |
She played no favorites. |
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| 17 | 325 |
I had loved the tiny animal, which had played with me, and had given me the affection, the love, which my parents had denied me, or had been too busy to bestow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 14 |
We played in the hall of Samos, a lofty room, with high, narrow windows. |
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| 2 | 348 |
The knife was in her hand, and, as she spoke, she played with it, and drew in the sand. |
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| 3 | 202 |
In halls, it is often played far into the night, by fires, by the northern giants. |
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| 3 | 358 |
The musicians, those who had played the drums and flutes, escorting the judges and the prisoner, had also left. |
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| 4 | 424 |
"She can be played like a kalika". |
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| 7 | 329 |
It is also played frequently in Torvaldsland. |
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| 9 | 125 |
She played with the knife, putting her fingertip to its point. |
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| 11 | 13 |
I had played Marlenus before. |
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| 11 | 16 |
Against him one played defensively, conservatively, positionally, waiting, waiting for the tiny misjudgment, the small error or mistake. |
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| 11 | 41 |
That he had once played a man such as Scormus of Ar or Centius of Cos is the sort of thing that a Gorean grandfather will boast of to his grandchildren. |
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| 11 | 254 |
Marlenus played a savage game. |
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| 11 | 717 |
Marlenus played a savage game. |
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| 11 | 800 |
Marlenus had played with ferocity, exactness and clarity. |
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| 12 | 53 |
He had played a savage game, crushing her, turning her into a slave girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 121 |
He had played to open position; I had played to direct position. |
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| 1 | 13 |
No musicians played; no cup companions laughed and drank, lifting their goblets; on the broad, flat tiles before me, under the torches, barefoot, collared, in scarlet silks, bells at their wrists and ankles, there danced no slave girls. |
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| 1 | 59 |
I had not played Kaissa since my return from the northern forests. |
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| 4 | 62 |
I had beaten him the third game, and he had then, delighted, ceased in his explanations and advice and, together, the board between us, each in our way a warrior, we had played Kaissa. |
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| 4 | 65 |
In the beginning I had played Forkbeard positionally, learning his game. |
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| 4 | 66 |
When I felt I knew him better, I played him more openly. |
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| 4 | 104 |
Two others, elsewhere, played Stones, a guessing game. |
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| 4 | 133 |
Kaissa is not played by mechanical puppets, but, deeply and subtly, by men, idiosyncratic men, with individual strengths and weaknesses. |
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| 5 | 43 |
He had, perhaps, seldom played it. |
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| 5 | 74 |
I still had not fathomed the devious variations of the Jarl's Ax's Gambit as played in the north. |
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| 5 | 85 |
"The serpent hunts us!" The Forkbeard and I played four more moves. |
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| 5 | 218 |
I discovered, to my instruction, an Ahn later, that Singer to Ax Two, followed by Jarl to Ax Four, is insufficient to counter the Jarl's Ax's Gambit, as it is played in the north. |
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| 10 | 62 |
There are various forms of ball game enjoyed by the men of Torvaldsland; some use bats, or paddles; in the winter, one such game, quite popular, is played, men running and slipping about, on ice; whether there is any remote connection between this game and ice hockey, I do not know; it is, however, ... |
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| 14 | 230 |
But I had played Kaissa with him. |
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| 14 | 232 |
We had played Kaissa. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 574 |
They played, until I, by lifting a finger, silenced them. |
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| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
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| 21 | 499 |
I did not think I played Kaissa with a fool. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 268 |
The game of Girl Catch is played variously upon Gor; it can be played as informally and simply as it was in the camp of my captor, for the pleasure of his men, or it can be a fairly serious business, closely supervised and regulated in a sophisticated manner, as it is by merchant administrators in t... |
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| 3 | 228 |
They were rough, strong men, who played cruel games. |
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| 3 | 275 |
Sometimes this game is played with the winning side determined by its catches within a time limit, sometimes, in more brutal versions, by the first city which secures the hundred women of its enemy. |
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| 14 | 16 |
Their leader was Andronicus, who played the czethar. |
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| 14 | 193 |
The musicians again played, and, again, Helen danced. |
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| 26 | 543 |
That the collar was locked did not simply mean that she could not remove it, a fact which played its important role in guaranteeing slave recognition and identification, but, perhaps even more importantly, was momentous in its significance of bondage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 179 |
Scormus of Ar, though almost universally a versatile and brilliant player, was particularly masterful in this opening; he had used it for victory in the Turian tournaments of the ninth year of the Ubarate of Phanias Turmus; in the open tournaments of Anango, Helmutsport, Tharna, Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba,... |
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| 3 | 55 |
Indeed, Kaissa was played variously on the planet. |
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| 3 | 56 |
For example, several years ago Kaissa was played somewhat differently in Ar than it was now. |
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| 3 | 678 |
It had occurred on the twenty-fourth move of red, played by Philemon, Physician to Physician Six, generally regarded as a flawed response to Ossius' Ubar to Ubara's Scribe Five. |
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| 4 | 100 |
Indeed, generally the great amphitheater is not used for Kaissa, and the Sardar matches are played in shallow fields, before lengthy sloping tiers, set into the sides of small hills, many matches being conducted simultaneously, a large vertical board behind each table serving to record the movements... |
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| 4 | 176 |
It is often played by tournament masters. |
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| 4 | 178 |
It is difficult to meet and in many of its lines has no clear refutation; it may be played accepted or declined; it would be red's hope not to refute but to neutralize in the middle game; if red could manage to achieve equality by the twentieth move he might account himself successful. |
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| 4 | 195 |
Scormus of Ar, no irrational fool, knew he played a fine master, one of the seven or eight top-rated players on the planet. |
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| 4 | 269 |
The Center Defense was not being played. |
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| 4 | 309 |
Did he not know his Rider of the High Tharlarion was en prise! Was he a child who had never played Kaissa? Did he not know how the pieces moved? No, the explanation was much more simple. |
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| 4 | 479 |
It was being played in dozens of variations that very night on hundreds of boards. |
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| 12 | 94 |
Arlene put the folded garments to one side in the tent, and, in fury, on her hands and knees, crawled to where we had played. |
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| 12 | 364 |
It is played not only by the red hunters, but in Hunjer and Skjern, and in Torvaldsland, and as far south as the villages in the valley of the Laurius. |
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| 13 | 30 |
I now began to suspect that the calories of the sugars also played their role in their popularity. |
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| 21 | 94 |
In the hours that followed this game was played again, and again, five times in all, interrupted by feasting. |
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| 21 | 208 |
"It is possible he has not played the game fairly," she smiled. |
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| 22 | 186 |
I played the line as I could. |
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| 27 | 165 |
The Northern Lights still spun and played in the sky. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 84 |
I played a game of Kaissa with another guest of the tavern. |
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| 12 | 299 |
It was a rich joke on the proud girl, one fitting to be played on an insolent slave. |
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| 16 | 61 |
Needless to say Bila Huruma had adopted and improved this device and it had played, and continued to play, its role in the effectiveness of his military machine and in the efficiency of the administration of his ubarate. |
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| 27 | 61 |
He had played his part well. |
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| 32 | 700 |
In all this I was conscious, in her movements, of how the two men with the wrist leashes, tightening or slackening them, toyed and played with her, as one sometimes does with a slave, skillfully managing her in her beating. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 153 |
I did not think that Lola, in her cruelties, or when she had played the cruel trick with the wine, and had prescribed the twenty blows of the snake, had anticipated that she would, one day, be braceleted in my cell, at my mercy as a naked slave girl. |
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| 7 | 906 |
"Speaking of jokes," I said, "what a splendid jest have we two tonight played upon our jailers". |
10 |
| 12 | 56 |
"But first," called the Lady Tima, "permit me to congratulate you, my lovely, and generous and noble clients, for cooperating so splendidly in the joke we played upon this poor slave. |
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| 12 | 58 |
He thought himself attempting to escape to freedom, abetted by a woman of his own world, which role was played by the lovely Lady Tendite". |
10 |
| 12 | 146 |
"You played your role well, pretending to be imperfectly tamed". |
10 |
| 21 | 253 |
"Kaissa," he mused, "is sometimes played for high stakes". |
10 |
| 22 | 404 |
The musicians now played more swiftly. |
10 |
| 25 | 262 |
"It is a grim Kaissa that is being played," said a man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 315 |
"You played your part well, Slave," sneered Aemilianus to Peggy. |
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| 30 | 88 |
I wondered if she knew the fire with which she played. |
10 |
| 31 | 129 |
This comprehension doubtless played its role in keeping order amongst us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 22 |
"You have thus far played a significant and handsome role in our business, Miles of Vonda," I said. |
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| 12 | 217 |
As children we played together in Port Cos. |
10 |
| 20 | 24 |
Earlier, as a portion of our entertainment, she had played on the lyre, and sung for us. |
10 |
| 20 | 93 |
The musicians now played unobtrusively in the background. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 600 |
For example, if one were to utter nonsense syllables into the device the same nonsense syllables, unless an accident or a coincidence occurred, would be played back. |
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| 1 | 1130 |
They will have known one another almost all of their lives; as children and boys they have played together and watched the kaiila herds in the summer camps together; they may even have shared in their first kailiauk hunt; now, as men, they have taken the warpath together; they are comrades, and frie... |
10 |
| 8 | 644 |
There was much laughter among the men at the rich joke played on the two slaves. |
10 |
| 14 | 495 |
Such a game they would not have played with a stranger. |
10 |
| 19 | 619 |
"They could doubtless follow me, tracking me, with strings of kaiila, until my own beast played out," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 796 |
What a rich joke was this played on the aroused and tormented woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 613 |
In sewing, commonly, among the red savages, a roll of rawhide string is held balled in the mouth, and played out, bit by bit. |
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| 44 | 397 |
"You have played your role well," said Hci. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 304 |
It is played, held across the lap. |
10 |
| 6 | 306 |
It had been played by Lysander of Asperiche. |
10 |
| 6 | 340 |
"I thought Lysander played well," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 293 |
What sport then, I thought, must Drusus Rencius have had of me in Corcyrus! What a clever joke he had played upon me, the beast! Was that not a pleasant vengeance to take upon she who had so frequently discomfited him, she whom he then believed to be proud Sheila, the arrogant tatrix of Corcyrus? I ... |
10 |
| 33 | 814 |
I played with his feelings. |
10 |
| 36 | 1296 |
Who but a slave might bear such a name? Was it not exciting? Did it not hint of the steel of slave bracelets, the smell of thongs, held against the face, the clash of bangles, the rustle of silk? What a delightful joke had Drusus Rencius played upon me, the beast, when he had thought me to be the Ta... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 90 |
I had even, upon occasion, played with members of the caste of players, but never, never, had I played with anyone who remotely approached the level of this fellow. |
10 |
| 1 | 26 |
Incidentally, there are many versions of Kaissa played on Gor. |
10 |
| 1 | 859 |
Samos played well, but he was not an enthusiast for the game. |
10 |
| 1 | 954 |
We played four more moves. |
10 |
| 1 | 962 |
We played another pair of moves. |
10 |
| 1 | 1026 |
Her fingers played teasingly with the disrobing loop at her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 1 | 1054 |
We played twice more that night. |
10 |
| 1 | 1171 |
I thought that I had played Kaissa well tonight. |
10 |
| 2 | 268 |
The role of the Golden Courtesan, incidentally, when it occurs in more sophisticated Gorean comedy is usually played, like the other roles in such comedies, and in most forms of serious drama, masked. |
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| 2 | 269 |
One possible reason for this, though I think tradition probably has much more to do with it, is that such roles in more sophisticated comedy, like roles in more serious drama, are generally played by men. |
10 |
| 2 | 312 |
Doubtless he needed the money, but what would he do without a Golden Courtesan? She probably also played the role of the Desirable Heiress. |
10 |
| 2 | 348 |
The Merchant was played by the harassed, paunchy-looking fellow I had seen earlier. |
10 |
| 2 | 461 |
I wondered if it had ever been seriously played. |
10 |
| 2 | 558 |
"Have you, yourself, ever played him?" I asked. |
10 |
| 2 | 1733 |
The game of favors can be played with any number of favors and contestants, but the usual number of favors distributed is ten. |
10 |
| 6 | 21 |
In serious drama or more sophisticated comedy, when women are permitted roles within it, the female roles usually being played by men, and the females are slaves, their collars are sometimes removed. |
10 |
| 6 | 1204 |
The Bina, then, in her garments of a free woman, she who had played the brief role of the Lady Tipa, the fellow villager of the Lady Phoebe, emerged onto the stage. |
10 |
| 7 | 287 |
Worse, perhaps, two of his company had joined another troupe, taking advantage of an opportunity at the fair, the fellows who commonly played the comic father and the comic pedant. |
10 |
| 12 | 6 |
In this time we had played numerous villages and towns, sometimes just outside their walls, or even against them, when we had not been permitted within. |
10 |
| 12 | 21 |
"Out of the several times we have played," I said, "never have I enjoyed so great an advantage in material". |
10 |
| 12 | 88 |
To be honest, I had never played with a better player. |
10 |
| 12 | 89 |
Many Goreans are quite skilled in the game, and I had played with them. |
10 |
| 12 | 366 |
"We must have played a hundred games," he said. |
10 |
| 12 | 548 |
We had played five games this afternoon. |
10 |
| 12 | 564 |
"Your Kaissa," I said, "is the finest of anyone with whom I have played". |
10 |
| 12 | 565 |
"You have probably not played with skilled players," he said. |
10 |
| 12 | 566 |
"I have sometimes played with members of the caste of players," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 355 |
Clearly, it played a role in calling forth the attack response, or in transmitting its message to the other members of the pack. |
10 |
| 16 | 50 |
Indeed, it was one of the more frequently played items in the repertory of Boots's company. |
10 |
| 16 | 51 |
The leading character in it, or the female lead, is played by the Brigella character. |
10 |
| 16 | 52 |
That role now, of course, was played by Boots's slave, "Lady Telitsia". |
10 |
| 16 | 1168 |
"Have you ever played before?" asked Temenides. |
10 |
| 21 | 110 |
On the other hand, it did not seem he often played. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1298 |
This game is sometimes played several times in the evening. |
10 |
| 25 | 971 |
Such a culture has its trajectories and its internal dynamics which must be played out, until it collapses from its own alien meaninglessness, succumbing to the rebellions of a denied biology, or worse, to the rebellions of an outraged irrationality, of mindless superstition, of subversion, corrupti... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1143 |
Accordingly, the parts of free women in Gorean dramas, even the song dramas, are always played by slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 34 |
The land, its fall and lie, wells, watercourses, their breadth and depth, their swiftness, fords, climate, time of year, visibility, precipitation, footing, and such, provide the four-dimensional board on which are played the games of war. |
10 |
| 19 | 1306 |
She may be brought up and down, as you please, at your will, at your mercy, and played like an instrument. |
10 |
| 27 | 363 |
Almost all female roles, accordingly, are played either by men, sometimes boys, or female slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 10 |
The game, as it is played on Gor, is not an idle pastime. |
10 |
| 3 | 219 |
There are many ways in which this game, or sort of game, is played. |
10 |
| 3 | 841 |
So, too, the sight of the moons, and their rhythms, and such, so interestingly approximating the periods of feminine sexual cycles, may at one time have played a role in mating cycles. |
10 |
| 3 | 852 |
There are many forms of dice games on Gor, usually played with anywhere from a single die to five dice. |
10 |
| 7 | 417 |
Seremides, too, and Myron, as well, I thought, had played their parts well. |
10 |
| 8 | 241 |
The performance, a pageant, had been called "The Glory of Cos" and the famed Milo, the city's most famous actor, though a slave, had played the part of Lurius of Jad. |
10 |
| 8 | 379 |
Too, I had to admit, in spite of misgivings on the subject, that Milo was a handsome fellow, and certainly played a part well. |
10 |
| 8 | 383 |
"Did you enjoy the fellow who played the wicked, conniving Gnieus Lelius?" "Of course," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 8 | 568 |
A flute girl was parodying, or accompanying, their efforts on the flute, the instrument seeming to strain with them, and then, when they rolled the stone down, she played a skirl of descending notes on the flute, and, spinning about, danced away. |
10 |
| 8 | 585 |
She played more determinedly, as though we might not understand her intent. |
10 |
| 9 | 666 |
The instrument which is played by the flute girls is a double flute, too, but I had little doubt that the player involved would not be a flute girl but someone associated with one or another of the theaters of Ar. |
10 |
| 11 | 404 |
"Well played," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 411 |
The board had a thousand sides, and surfaces and dimensions, the pieces were of an unknown number, and nature and value, the rules were uncertain, often you did not know whom you played, or where they were, often the moves must be made in darkness, in ignorance of your opponent's position, his piece... |
10 |
| 17 | 46 |
Indeed, in certain higher forms of drama, such as the great tragedies, rather than let women on the stage, either free or slave, female roles are played by men. |
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| 18 | 85 |
"Do you not remember? He is the owner of Milo, the handsome fellow, the actor who played the part of Lurius of Jad in the pageant, and is an agriculturalist, an impresario, and slaver. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 271 |
"You have played a clever game of double Kaissa," said the leader of the black-tunicked men, "leading us to believe, as though falsely, this was he whom we seek, when it was in truth he, but the game has been penetrated". |
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| 34 | 52 |
They had played very evenly, as I understood it, first one winning, then the other. |
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| 39 | 3 |
Terence, the officer of Treve, had not visited in the depths for several days, not since the last game of Kaissa he had played with the pit master. |
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| 40 | 224 |
The game, I realized, would never be played. |
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| 50 | 1 |
The Hand of Agamemnon is Played, But Perhaps Not Wisely "I am thinking," said Cabot to Lita, "of having you conducted to the theater of amnesty, in the habitats, where you might be spared, as the goods you are, later with others to be distributed or sold". |
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| 67 | 141 |
Is not each the artist and designer of the other? Does not each, in his way, make the other more beautiful? And thus are played out the dark games of the Nameless One. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 465 |
Some others understood her game only too well, and played the game with her, she not understanding how the player was being played. |
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| 5 | 391 |
Thus, in a sense, the game is played in the dark. |
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| 13 | 249 |
The preeminent musicians, of those who remained within the walls, played for us. |
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| 33 | 8 |
Did these things have to do with Priest-Kings or Kurii, each of which faction was skilled in utilizing humans as their instrumentalities? I wondered what kaissa was being played, and who were the gamesmen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 55 |
It was said that Centius of Cos had once played in Brundisium. |
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| 3 | 800 |
In a few moments the small fire had been rekindled, and I was permitted to kneel, where the firelight played upon me, the men, eleven as I now counted, sitting back from the fire. |
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| 5 | 351 |
"Philoctetes played his role well," observed Tarl Cabot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 406 |
My condition, my treatment, my training, my collar, my tunic, my brand, doubtless played some role in an awakening within my body that I sensed, day by day, was becoming ever more obvious and irresistible. |
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| 9 | 213 |
Little kaissa was played in such taverns. |
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| 19 | 91 |
Some were played at tables in the back". |
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| 45 | 218 |
Was he not pleased? Would he not be grateful? Had I not done well? Had I not played a part in saving his life, at least for the moment? I waited for him to speak. |
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| 52 | 333 |
"You have played your games enough," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 90 |
I think I played my role well. |
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| 6 | 441 |
"You played your part very well". |
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| 10 | 12 |
I was sure he would shepherd his men, and nourish them, but, as a dark player might, regarding not only the board, and a particular victory, but the larger game, a different game, one not played on a board. |
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| 10 | 72 |
She stood up, and played with her hair, annoyingly, tossing and spreading it, and then, with both hands, brushing it behind her. |
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| 47 | 66 |
It is played in the training of high officers, in Ar, in Treve, in Kasra, and Jad, even in far Turia. |
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| 47 | 67 |
It is played much like ordinary Kaissa save that there are two boards, separated by a vertical screen, precluding each player from seeing the moves of the other. |
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| 52 | 355 |
"So the game is to be played?" said my captor. |
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| 52 | 938 |
The men near the dock, who played the knife game, sometimes gambling on its outcome, threw not even half the distance. |
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| 6 | 29 |
But, I thought, if there should be something to this, that a strange, invisible game was afoot, it seemed unlikely to me that it would be a game fairly played, a game innocently played. |
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| 20 | 171 |
"I played my part well," she said. |
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| 21 | 439 |
"I played that role well," she said. |
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| 21 | 458 |
"But you played your role so excellently," I said. |
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| 44 | 335 |
"And a game, I suspect," I said, "not fairly played". |
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| 45 | 74 |
"This wager was to be played out far from the continent," I said, "rather, at the World's End, here, in the islands. |
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| 45 | 80 |
"A game played with living pieces," said Pertinax. |
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| 45 | 92 |
"I think one thing is quite clear," I said, "and that is, if we are indeed enmeshed in some game of giants, it is not a game which is being honestly played. |
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| 3 | 125 |
The men played cards, at the kitchen table. |
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| 9 | 578 |
The Merchant class is undoubtedly the richest of the Gorean castes, which doubtless has played its role in its pretensions to constitute a high caste, but there are low merchants as well as high merchants, poor merchants as well as rich merchants. |
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| 11 | 113 |
The tunes played by our flute girl were not lively, of course, for one does not turn a stone with grace and sprightliness, but were measured to our tread, as we thrust against the poles. |
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| 26 | 80 |
She played no favorites. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 380 |
How often I had played such games with men! "You did such things deliberately, and were petty, cruel, and worthless," he said. |
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| 46 | 38 |
Commonly, as her body is played upon, as a musical instrument, she is brought to successions of crescendos of ecstasy. |
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| 46 | 125 |
She had, although unwittingly, played her part well, misleading Florian and others as to the timing of the assault on the holding of Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 27 | 213 |
"Had I played differently, more carefully, more astutely, had I chosen different colors and numbers, I would have won". |
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| 62 | 167 |
"I played my part well, did I not?" asked Bombastico. |
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