| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 201 |
She even conversed delightedly with the inmates of the blue and yellow wagons, bringing them precious tidbits of camp news, teasing them as to how handsome their new masters would be. |
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| 14 | 83 |
"Damn your precious stinking honor!" Without realizing what I was doing, I had shaken the two restraining tarnsmen from my arms as if they had been children, and I rushed on Marlenus and struck him violently in the face with my fist, causing him to reel backward, his face contorted with astonishment... |
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| 14 | 155 |
Each moment was precious. |
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| 16 | 134 |
The heavy metal bars were coated with silver and set with precious stones. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 184 |
The cry of "Tabuk!" is used by the tarnsman on long flights when time is precious, and he does not wish to dismount and free the bird to find prey. |
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| 30 | 34 |
But under the circumstances—it seemed that I should perhaps surrender the gift of life, for there are some things more precious than life, and were it not so I think that life itself would not be as precious as it is. |
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| 2 | 5 |
He could not read the manuscript, as it was written in English, a language as foreign to him as Gorean would be to most of you, but yet he would treasure the manuscript and guard it as though it were a most precious possession, for he was a scribe and it is the way of scribes to love the written wor... |
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| 20 | 204 |
Also of course a Free Companionship might be refused, in all Gorean right, by the girl, and thus a warrior can hardly be blamed, after risking his life, for not wanting to risk losing the precious prize which he has just, at great peril to himself, succeeded in winning. |
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| 25 | 148 |
"Your vengeance must be very precious to you," she said. |
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| 27 | 100 |
She would extend her head to him and then with a delicacy hard to imagine in so large a creature he would transfer a tiny drop of the precious fluid from his mouth to hers. |
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| 27 | 350 |
Amazed, I stepped away from her and went to the great golden bowl on its heavy tripod and took out a few drops of the precious liquid in the palm of my hand and returned to her. |
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| 30 | 33 |
The thought of suicide has always horrified me, for life seems precious, and the mortal moments that one has, so brief a glimpse of the vistas of reality, it seems to me should be cherished, even though they might be lived in pain or sorrow. |
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| 30 | 84 |
To the females of Misk's forces he offered gold, jewelry, precious stones, delicious silks, the permission to allow their hair to grow, and male slaves, the latter again to be provided after the projected defeat of Misk's forces. |
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| 2 | 9 |
What is this object? One might speak of it as many things, the subject of secret, violent intrigues; the source of vast strifes beneath the Sardar, strifes unknown to the men of Gor; the concealed, precious, hidden hope of an incredible and ancient race; a simple germ; a bit of living tissue; the do... |
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| 2 | 69 |
It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance before their parents would consent to give him a name, for names are precious among the Wagon Peoples, as among Goreans in general, and they are not to be wasted on someone who is likely to die, one who cannot well ... |
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| 3 | 85 |
Last to approach me was the warrior of the Paravaci, with his hood and cape of white fur, and the glistening broad necklace of precious stones encircling his throat. |
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| 7 | 3 |
The hundred, rather than eight, bosk that drew his wagon had been unyoked; they were huge, red bosk; their horns had been polished and their coats glistened from the comb and oils; their golden nose rings were set with jewels; necklaces of precious stones hung from the polished horns. |
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| 7 | 12 |
About Kutaituchik there were piled various goods, mostly vessels of precious metal and strings and piles of jewels; there was silk there from Tyros; silver from Thentis and Tharna; tapestries from the mills of Ar; wines from Cos; dates from the city of Tor. |
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| 8 | 37 |
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap... |
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| 9 | 70 |
On the pack animals were strapped boxes of precious plate, gems, silver vessels, tangles of jewelry, mirrors, rings, combs, and golden tarn disks, stamped with the signs of a dozen cities. |
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| 16 | 265 |
"Surely he is entitled to a glimpse of our precious prize". |
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| 22 | 65 |
By this time I had followed Harold over to a corner of the courtyard wall, which was heaped high, banked into the corner, with precious metals, plates, cups; bowls of jewels; necklaces and bracelets; boxes of coins and, in heavy, wooden crates, numerous stacked cubes of silver and gold, each stamped... |
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| 22 | 115 |
Before them had been placed large golden dishes heaped with delicacies prepared by the kitchens of the Ubar, tall precious goblets filled with Turian wines, the small bowls of spices and sugars with their stirring spoons at hand. |
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| 23 | 213 |
Most of the gold and jewels, and precious plate and cups and goblets, were missing, except where here and there a coin or stone might lie missed at the edge of the wagon hides or at the foot of one of the curved wagon poles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 638 |
Also, as she was, legally, having submitted in the House of Cernus, a slave girl, any small thing she had or could do which was her own was doubtless rather precious to her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 294 |
It seemed to me that I had lost what might be more precious than life itself. |
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| 8 | 335 |
They had cost me the concept that I had taken for my reality; they had torn from me a bright image, an illusion, precious and treasured, an unwarranted reflection of suppositions and wishes, not examined, which I had taken to be the truth of my identity. |
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| 10 | 220 |
Accordingly I did not carry, in these first voyages, any abundance of precious metals or jewels; nor did I carry rugs or tapestries, or medicines, or silks or ointments, or perfumes or prize slaves, or spices or canisters of colored table salts. |
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| 13 | 517 |
But in all this time I had not forgotten the treasure fleet which was due to sail from Tyros to Cos, bearing precious metals and jewels for her coffers, and a lovely lady, Vivina, to grace the couch of her Ubar. |
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| 15 | 769 |
I had given her the richest of silks, the most precious of jewels. |
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| 18 | 299 |
The Ehn of sleep they could obtain were precious to them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1024 |
It is no wonder then that the masters refuse to relinquish their power; nor do we wish them to do so; we are women; our collars are too precious to us; it is precious to us to kneel and obey. |
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| 3 | 145 |
I must free myself! But after a few precious minutes of futile struggle I lay bound as perfectly as I had been earlier in the afternoon. |
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| 7 | 494 |
Ute was such a sweet, precious little fool. |
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| 8 | 788 |
How precious and delightful Ute was! Soon we were all laughing with her. |
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| 11 | 1015 |
How fearful! I feared I might become such that I would not for the world relinquish my condition, my state, my bondage, that my bondage would become more precious to me by far than my freedom had ever been. |
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| 13 | 413 |
Usually, in our night journeys, we carried with us only the precious binding fiber. |
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| 14 | 219 |
Against its far wall I could see great chests, heavy and bound with iron, filled doubtless with a raider's abundant booty, gems and golden wire, and necklaces and coins, and pearls, and jewelries, and bracelets and bangles, set perhaps with precious stones, which might serve to adorn the limbs of ex... |
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| 14 | 221 |
And I reminded myself that I, too, as much as any coin or precious cup in such a chest, or in this entire camp, was booty. |
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| 14 | 223 |
I wondered, too, if those chests might contain the light, precious chains of silver and gold, wrought by slavers so cunningly, to hold a girl in given positions, while she was subdued at a master's leisure. |
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| 14 | 411 |
I wondered how many couples might be so precious to one another. |
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| 15 | 879 |
I found it a very precious garment. |
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| 15 | 1373 |
I could see the glint of the precious metals, and the refulgence of gems, reflecting the light of the fire and the lamps. |
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| 16 | 278 |
Her bondage is precious to her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 941 |
It had served, with other properties, to distinguish her as a precious person, a unique individual, among all others on the planet Earth. |
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| 19 | 447 |
That honor, which was to me my most precious possession, was lost. |
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| 22 | 281 |
It meant that she would be the richest and most powerful woman on Gor, that armies and navies, and tarn cavalries, could move upon her very word, that the taxes of an empire the wealthiest on Gor could be laid at her feet, that the most precious of gems and jewels might be hers, that she would be th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 142 |
If they were shams, I thought them most precious shams. |
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| 5 | 267 |
Indeed, the men of the north think little of breaking apart objects which, in the south, would be highly prized for their artistic value, simply to obtain pieces of negotiable precious metal. |
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| 10 | 606 |
Surely the Gorean slave girl, kneeling naked before her master, knowing she will be whipped if she is not pleasing, cannot help but understand something of how special and precious she is to her master, cannot help but understand something of the satisfaction and pleasure, the joy, with which the ma... |
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| 11 | 236 |
"We do not ask for any of your precious free females," it said. |
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| 15 | 323 |
I had not conquered a mountain; the mountain, when I had paid its price, that I might understand the value of the gift, had lifted me to where I might see how insignificant I was and how beautiful and precious was reality and life, and the sun on a bleak, cold land. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 24 |
To the oases caravans bring various goods, for example, rep-cloth, embroidered cloths, silks, rugs, silver, gold, jewelries, mirrors, kailiauk tusk, perfumes, hides, skins, feathers, precious woods, tools, needles, worked leather goods, salt, nuts and spices, jungle birds, prized as pets, weapons, r... |
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| 2 | 47 |
The animals are too precious for their trade value, and their hair and milk, to be often slaughtered for food. |
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| 2 | 456 |
Her body stiffened, and she shut her eyes, as his hands, those of a Gorean flesh appraiser, informed, sensitive, professional, proficient, made swift assessment of the textures of her skin, varying at different points on the body, the tensilities of her musculature, the varying softness and firmness... |
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| 12 | 131 |
What man would want his collar on anything less precious? "Yet, Tarna," I suggested, "does not seem to be obtuse". |
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| 13 | 15 |
I lay still for a precious moment in the burning crusts. |
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| 13 | 64 |
There are areas on Gor where salt serves as a currency, being weighed and exchanged much as precious metals. |
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| 24 | 465 |
They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e... |
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| 24 | 475 |
Do you not think they tremble inside those bulky garments, their precious Robes of Concealment, when a handsome, strong man passes by? Do you not think they ever consider what it would be to kneel naked before him, the boards beneath their knees, feeling the slightest movement of air on their bodies... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 652 |
A slave girl is a delight to a man; she is extremely prized and precious; that the day of her acquisition should be celebrated each month with special ceremonies and rites is not surprising. |
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| 4 | 716 |
How precious a woman's bondage can be to her! I wondered if free women could understand that. |
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| 7 | 1014 |
She was surely more beautiful than I, but in such matters there are rightnesses which are reciprocal and subtle; it is rather like the matching together of pieces in a puzzle, the startling, unexpected fitting together of components, yielding a whole which is, in its wholeness, more precious than th... |
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| 9 | 231 |
What was I, truly? All the misery and shame of Earth suddenly swept through me! How unworthy, how contemptible, how despicable, how terrible I was! The negativistic conditioning of a world, of years of pathological conditioning, swept through me, that I might, as intended, be a stranger to myself, t... |
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| 9 | 371 |
My womanhood, though it puts me at the mercy of men, is now exquisitely precious to me. |
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| 9 | 1116 |
In the plain diet of a slave girl, such things are very precious. |
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| 9 | 2450 |
They are very precious. |
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| 14 | 57 |
They were very precious, and, on the tiles of the slave room, we fought for them. |
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| 16 | 167 |
Then each of us, for the remainder of our time on deck, the precious half of an Ahn, was chained in a kneeling position, our hands before our bodies. |
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| 16 | 199 |
It was precious being above deck. |
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| 18 | 96 |
Her collar is inordinately precious to her. |
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| 22 | 365 |
And so, I thought, it is not strange the free woman and the female slave are seen differently, the one with respect, and commonly with indifference, the other with keen interest; the one with courtesy and esteem, the other with desire and passion; one as a citizen, the other as a delicious animal; o... |
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| 24 | 51 |
No matter what the masters say, I am sure we are the most precious of their belongings. |
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| 27 | 359 |
How precious and glorious it is, she learns, to be a woman! And how joyfully and wondrously different it is from a man! At last she becomes true to herself and in this truth she rids herself of miseries, anxieties, conflicts, and fears; she is no longer a politically engineered social artifact, but ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 403 |
I found them precious foes. |
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| 3 | 192 |
Their castes are precious to them. |
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| 3 | 860 |
"Do you still think," she asked, "they will not 'dare' to look at your precious body?" The blonde shrank back, terrified in the chains. |
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| 8 | 115 |
"I meant only to indicate that women are inordinately precious and desirable". |
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| 9 | 243 |
This is not to deny the value of freedom, which is surely precious. |
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| 20 | 62 |
Songs, even simple ones, are regarded by the red hunters as being precious and rather mysterious. |
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| 20 | 149 |
It is only through you, my tiny, frail precious Imnak, and others like you, that I can lift my voice in song". |
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| 23 | 244 |
"Their information was not so precious to them that they preferred to retain it in the face of death by torture," said Ram. |
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| 38 | 178 |
Too, it was my speculation that she had in her the makings of the most precious of all slaves, the love slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 600 |
"I think the fifth ring would be too precious to be taken from the steel world on which it resides. |
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| 3 | 19 |
It was a crowded city, built up from the marshes themselves, in the Vosk's delta, and space was scarce and precious. |
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| 5 | 495 |
Who discards precious possessions, who surrenders treasures? If the slave girl were worth less perhaps she would be freed more. |
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| 6 | 542 |
Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vege... |
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| 6 | 545 |
One of her most famous, and precious, exports are the small carved sapphires of Schendi. |
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| 13 | 666 |
"Is not freedom inordinately precious?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 667 |
"Yes," she said, "but more inordinately precious to me is my slavery". |
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| 27 | 201 |
In a way they must be precious, though they are on a chain, as animals. |
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| 34 | 332 |
The owned girl is a valuable; she is precious; this makes her much different from a business partner. |
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| 54 | 42 |
"To a Ubar a friend is precious," he said. |
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| 54 | 72 |
"It must be very precious," said Bila Huruma. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 38 |
Was his profit so sacred, truly? Was it truly more precious than lives, and the future? The men of Earth congratulated themselves smugly on the power of their democracies, in which the people, purportedly, ruled. |
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| 12 | 378 |
A girl who seems to most men only a low-grade kettle-and-mat girl may be to a given man very precious. |
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| 13 | 198 |
Certain of the shops, usually those containing more precious goods, such as that of Philebus, are entered through a narrow door. |
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| 17 | 90 |
"But now," she said, "Jason, her precious silk slave, lies chained upon my couch". |
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| 19 | 217 |
How precious then do they find their occasional, helpless enfoldings in the arms of a strong man! They discover rapture on a chain, ecstasy in a stall. |
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| 34 | 185 |
And the girls themselves, of course, are well aware, those beauties in their collars, the luscious little beasts, that they are an important and precious, and valuable and beautiful, element in Gorean society, domestic animal or no, and accordingly they commonly walk with pride. |
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| 34 | 197 |
Surely they are Gor's most delicious commodity, her most precious merchandise. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 186 |
"Yes," she said, "it is precious, very precious. |
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| 4 | 498 |
The slave girl is delicious and precious. |
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| 11 | 182 |
"Is not freedom precious?" I asked. |
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| 11 | 185 |
"Is it not precious?" I asked. |
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| 11 | 225 |
Would you not like some delicious Earth woman as your total slave? If so, how are you so different from the brutes of Gor, who do with us as they wish? It is not our fault if, for whatever reasons, the men of Earth seem determined to turn us into men, and deny to us our precious and ancient natures. |
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| 19 | 69 |
To be sure, there is little standardization in these matters, for much depends on the actual weights of the coins and the quantities of precious metals, certified by the municipal stamps, contained in the coins. |
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| 26 | 48 |
"Your master must find you very precious," I said. |
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| 28 | 69 |
If they were slaves then they, too, I believe, would find it very precious. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 146 |
This had further confirmed my suspicion that she carried a cargo more precious than many understood. |
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| 8 | 156 |
"He would have been carrying an object, so precious that it would have been in his hands alone". |
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| 14 | 51 |
We were precious to him. |
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| 16 | 1 |
The Longboat "Have you a taste, Lads," called Policrates, "for precious wines and delicate viands?" "That we have, Captain," called a man. |
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| 18 | 275 |
But then few men of Earth had had the illuminating experience of seeing their precious women, their sexuality liberated by Gorean males, returned to the primitive natural state of biological women, crawling, collared, to the feet of masters. |
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| 20 | 273 |
For example, he can enjoy watching a slave putting on her tunic or taking it off; he can enjoy seeing a woman chained, and rechained, many times, in many ways, each time being exhibited in her helplessness; and he can enjoy watching his slave working naked in the kitchen, or, similarly, cleaning, or... |
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| 20 | 895 |
In one sense she is nothing, and is to be treated as such, but, in another sense, she is precious, and is everything. |
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| 20 | 956 |
How long she has waited, in cruel frustration, unfulfilled and lonely, in her cell for just such a moment, that precious opportunity in which she, a mere slave, may be permitted to display and present herself for the consideration of her master. |
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| 20 | 1638 |
"Bestow upon me, rather, if you will, in your kindness, your generosity, what is more precious to me than they, what is less demeaning than they, what is more germane to my needs, and more thrilling to my blood than they, my subjection to the mastery! Forget the reverences, the courtesies, you mista... |
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| 20 | 1713 |
How right that seems! My brand is precious to me. |
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| 20 | 2153 |
The passions of the female slave are a mystery to many free women who, unaroused and sexually inert, never collared and owned, cannot even understand them; to most free women, of course, the passions of the female slave are not so much a mystery as a source of envy and fury; she senses that they, de... |
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| 20 | 2154 |
Sometimes, perhaps, twisting on her couch at night in frustration, the free woman may dimly sense what it is to be an aroused slave, a woman so much at the mercy of men, and so precious and beautiful to them; the free woman clenches her fists and moans; the slave may throw herself to the feet of men... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
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| 1 | 1131 |
This explains some of the eccentricities of tribal warfare; first, actual war parties, though common, are formed less often than parties for stealing kaiila; in this sport the object is to obtain as many kaiila as possible without, if possible, engaging the enemy at all; it is a splendid coup, for e... |
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| 13 | 1170 |
It is something real and important in itself, something precious and wonderful". |
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| 13 | 1805 |
Is it not common for a master to care for what he owns? Is what he owns not special to him, and precious to him? Does he not relish it, rejoice in it, protect it, and guard it? Is it not possible then that a master might, in time, grow fond of an animal, if he owns it, and if it is pretty, and pleas... |
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| 16 | 241 |
"Do you have any use for it?" "Reason is very precious," said a fellow. |
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| 18 | 88 |
Why are others less special and precious than he? The moral stature of such an individual I leave to the conjecture of others. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 177 |
They like to think of them as being too precious to sell. |
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| 15 | 178 |
Thus, like all things precious, or priceless, they are either to be kept or given away, kept as treasures, or awarded, freely, as by a man whose heart sings, as gifts. |
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| 15 | 243 |
They are precious. |
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| 16 | 179 |
How much to learn have even her artists and poets! Women are so inordinately precious. |
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| 35 | 204 |
Such gifts, to the red savages, are very precious. |
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| 39 | 120 |
It was so precious to them". |
10 |
| 40 | 250 |
She did not eat now as might a rich, free woman, from a golden or silver service, with precious, lustrously polished utensils, softly glowing upon glistening linen, sumptuously, in some fine house. |
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| 42 | 70 |
Each moment was precious. |
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| 54 | 106 |
Such times of celebration, of festivals and peace, particularly among diverse tribes, are rare and precious. |
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| 54 | 192 |
"I thank you," she said, "for the most precious gift a man can give a woman". |
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| 56 | 45 |
Tarns were precious to them, particularly in connection with acquiring new tarns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 78 |
"Such coins were too precious perhaps," he said. |
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| 1 | 100 |
Yet, if one thinks about it, at least in the case of many coins, a coin is a way in which a government or ruler certifies that a given amount of precious metal is involved in a transaction. |
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| 3 | 525 |
"It denies some freedoms, and precious ones," said the girl. |
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| 3 | 526 |
"But, too, it makes others possible, and they, too, are precious". |
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| 4 | 153 |
It seemed they found them very precious. |
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| 6 | 48 |
"And did you get to see your precious Centius of Cos finish his final games?" I asked. |
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| 19 | 24 |
Even so tiny and despicable a scrap of clothing as a mere slave tunic, I then realized, can be a precious treasure to a woman. |
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| 23 | 75 |
By the time Durbar had returned I had finished, even to the desperate wiping and licking of the bowl, that I might secure every last particle of that simple, precious, vitalizing provender. |
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| 24 | 140 |
In their presence I had begun to sense what a wonderful and precious thing it was to be a woman, what a joyful, exciting, thrilling, meaningful thing it was to be a woman. |
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| 33 | 937 |
They have been the most precious of my life". |
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| 36 | 1037 |
To some, I suppose, it would have seemed a scandalous rag, unseemly and degrading, but I found it very beautiful, not only because of the lovely and sensitive way in which it enhanced and displayed the beauty of the female figure but because of memories with which it was associated, memories which, ... |
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| 36 | 1552 |
"The gold," said he, "is a precious metal, is thought perhaps fitting for a free woman, in particular for one of high station, and certainly for a Tatrix. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1435 |
"Do you think that I will respect you for falsifying your manhood," she cried, "for denying it, for pretending it does not exist! No! Ultimately I would only despise you for your self-betrayal! Is honesty too much to ask from men? If you will not be a man, how can I be a woman? If I were a man, I wo... |
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| 2 | 1476 |
"My use is precious!" "You squirm well," I said. |
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| 3 | 296 |
A free woman is inordinately precious. |
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| 6 | 112 |
No longer now do they aspire to the privileges and prerogatives of the free woman; let her continue to live in her house of inhibition and convention; let her have her frigidities, jealousies and shams; they have found something a thousand times more precious, their meaning, their significance, thei... |
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| 22 | 152 |
In this sense they are not only a part of its tradition and history, but are, humanly, for all their vulgarity and bawdiness, rich and precious. |
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| 22 | 164 |
"I found them precious. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 257 |
"Perhaps he has precious stones, rare gems, sewn in his clothing, for an emergency," I said. |
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| 11 | 127 |
I saw then how terrible was the thing I had done, selling my poems, my own poems, my precious, priceless poems! They now belonged to another! Better I had torn my heart out and sold it for a tarsk bit!" "Perhaps," I said. |
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| 13 | 299 |
Freedom is precious, but so, too, is love, and happiness. |
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| 15 | 408 |
Her jewel boxes began to brim with precious stones. |
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| 15 | 412 |
"Among these petitioners came one fellow bringing with him the promise of a gift of wine, a wine supposedly secret, the rare Falarian, a wine only rumored among collectors to exist, a wine supposedly so rare and precious that its cost might purchase a city. |
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| 15 | 421 |
"The wine, of course," he said, "was too precious to have been brought with him, but it is in his tent. |
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| 20 | 44 |
In such places were to be found the rare, precious habitats of culture, the astonishing, moving delights of art and music, the truths of theater and literature, the glories and allegories of architecture, bespeaking the meanings of peoples, man-made symbols like mountain ranges; in them, too, were t... |
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| 20 | 93 |
How precious it must be, that so many men are willing to pay its price. |
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| 21 | 330 |
But perhaps, even more, the cargo might be regarded as too precious to be risked in the vicinity of male slaves. |
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| 22 | 25 |
Space is precious in a crowded insula. |
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| 22 | 366 |
One supposes, even, that it may well be something more deliciously precious than being a man. |
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| 25 | 2246 |
"But," I said, "alas, such love, like any love, is rare and precious. |
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| 26 | 830 |
"For you have now discovered how inordinately precious and glorious it is to be a woman," I said. |
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| 26 | 1662 |
And that bit of clothing, you see, is likely to be very precious to her. |
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| 26 | 1841 |
"I want slavery!" "Is freedom not precious?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 1843 |
"To me it would be a thousand times less precious than my slavery". |
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| 1 | 104 |
Perhaps what I saw was not a real woman in some invented, artificial, contemptible, grotesque modern sense, but I thought she was a woman nonetheless and one in some even more profound sense, so small, so soft and curved, and desiring, and vulnerable, and helpless and needful, a sense not indexed to... |
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| 2 | 5 |
It brought out things too deep and marvelous, too shameful and terrible, too precious and beautiful in me. |
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| 6 | 553 |
Too, interestingly, in its way, it also made it seem much more precious to me. |
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| 9 | 491 |
I wanted to serve men, and give them pleasure, to be precious to them, to be loved and appreciated, to make them happy. |
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| 11 | 1330 |
How precious suddenly seemed such stuff to me. |
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| 14 | 75 |
I suppose this is in part, at least, the result of an understandable desire to appreciate and take pleasure in one's possessions, or what one might regard as one's precious objects, or treasures. |
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| 17 | 135 |
Among these offerings were unusual beasts, sheaves of grain, vessels and coffers filled with precious goods, and women, naked, and in chains. |
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| 17 | 395 |
Even the tiny slave tunics and the scandalous ta-teeras are precious to a girl. |
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| 33 | 248 |
Perhaps then you can sense how a woman can find her fulfillment at the feet of a master, and how a woman can go to great lengths to return to her master's collar, to obtain once more its precious and desiderated gift. |
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| 34 | 569 |
This fulfills the most precious of their secret dreams. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 305 |
"I have the privileges of my status! I am unique and precious! I am priceless!" "You may be unique and precious," I said, "one does not know about that, but I doubt that you are priceless". |
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| 16 | 536 |
"Life is precious," said a man, "but it is not that precious". |
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| 1 | 482 |
The gold expended, of course, may be later expeditiously recouped from the public treasury, and the sale of goods, such as precious plate, rugs, fine cloths, tapestries, inlaid woods, silver and gold wire, art objects, jewels, tharlarion, tarsks, and women. |
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| 5 | 668 |
I wondered if the free woman really thought that the subjection of slaves to orders ended with such matters as cooking and cleaning, the polishing of leather, and such, and that they would not be similarly subject to orders, and also absolutely, where the intimate, marvelous, precious, private, deli... |
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| 16 | 228 |
The fact that she can never be a man is not an occasion for a misplaced regret, however, but an occasion for recognizing gratefully, elatedly, that she is something else, something very different, something as unique, and precious and wonderful, a woman. |
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| 21 | 1414 |
I thought that there was something in the slave now called "Claudia" which would prove to be a precious, vulnerable, yearning love slave. |
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| 21 | 1455 |
I had little doubt that that flag was very precious to those of Ar's Station. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 325 |
Arrows, of tem wood, like the ka-la-na wood of their bows, not native to the delta, are precious to the rencers. |
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| 19 | 1138 |
She is likely to learn these things, so precious, intimate and secret, so profound, wonderful and rewarding, so fulfilling, to her astonishment and revelation, only when the collar is on her own throat. |
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| 27 | 337 |
Yet both may be exciting and precious to her. |
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| 27 | 731 |
"How precious is my sex! How wonderful it is! I love it! Now I never want to be anything else!" I kissed her again. |
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| 30 | 9 |
As I have mentioned, the arrows, of tem wood, are precious to the rencers, that wood not being indigenous to the delta. |
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| 37 | 195 |
It has become precious to them. |
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| 48 | 601 |
It would be very precious to her, even such a small thing as it was. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 38 |
It was the sort of garment which free women profess to despise, to find unspeakably shocking, unutterably scandalous, the sort of garment which they profess to regard with horror, the sort of garment which they seem almost ready to faint at the sight of, and yet to Phoebe, and to others like her, in... |
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| 10 | 366 |
Too, much of a woman's individuality and uniqueness is associated with her features, which are taken to be private to her, and personal to her, and precious to her. |
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| 12 | 144 |
So he is determined that she shall become the most precious and marvelous of his properties. |
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| 14 | 620 |
"Even such small attentions, as you will discover, now that you have become sensitized to your slavery, will be precious to you". |
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| 21 | 237 |
I suspected that that letter was too precious to the Ubara for her to destroy it. |
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| 27 | 177 |
"My slavery is precious to me," she said. |
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| 28 | 27 |
It is too important, too precious, to mean. |
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| 28 | 33 |
Sometimes I think that many Home Stones are so simple because they are too important, too precious, to be insulted with decoration or embellishment. |
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| 28 | 34 |
And then, too, sometimes I think that they are kept, on the whole, so simple, because this is a way of saying that everything is important, and precious, and beautiful, the small stones by the river, the leaves of trees, the tracks of small animals, a blade of grass, a drop of water, a grain of sand... |
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| 28 | 41 |
Ar was by now muchly looted, stripped of her gold and silver, her precious items, even of many of her women, and slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 150 |
They had suddenly become very precious. |
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| 5 | 32 |
There seemed nothing so unique, or different, or precious about me. |
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| 7 | 823 |
But it is one thing of course for one such as I to be permitted to bring sandals to one such as he in, say, the privacy of our precious intimacy, or before peers, where I might find myself honored before others, I and not they accorded this permission, or even in a public place, such as the baths, o... |
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| 8 | 205 |
These emotions, from the depths of me, burst upward, like light and lava, like the throwing open of shades and the risings of suns, like floods, like tides, like treasures, like hurricanes, like fire, powerful, irresistible, precious! No longer did I suffer the sense of loss. |
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| 8 | 279 |
In it I find my fulfillment, my happiness, my joy! Perhaps you think what I am is degrading, and perhaps it is, but, if so, it is a delicious, precious, joyful degradation which I treasure, and in which I thrive and prosper, and one I would not, at the expense of my very life, have otherwise. |
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| 8 | 401 |
Of the two to one side, the yellowish vessels, one was a flattish bowl, which contained a crust and some meal; too, within it I was pleased to see what I thought were some slices of dried fruit; such things are often included in our diet; they are precious to us; in the other vessel, of the two to o... |
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| 8 | 591 |
I thought of my old world, and its buildings, its streets, its roads, its signs, its crowding, its people, so many of them so wonderful, so precious, so many of them so miserable and sad, their mode of dress, now seemingly so unnatural, or eccentric, the vanities, the hostilities, the offensive, dis... |
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| 8 | 903 |
These things can be precious to a girl. |
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| 8 | 1018 |
Not before him, of all, he who was so precious and special to me, he who figured in my most helplessly lascivious and submissive dreams, he whose whip I had first kissed on this rude, beautiful world! Why did he hate me so? Why did he make me do this? Why did he wish to so grievously shame and humil... |
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| 8 | 1048 |
Such things, the slices of fruit, are very precious. |
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| 10 | 384 |
Too, it was my only clothing in this place, and that made it inordinately precious to me. |
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| 11 | 718 |
The feeding in the cell, and the watering there, that I had been fed and watered, and even that I had been given some bits of precious fruit were, it seemed, quite meaningless. |
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| 11 | 853 |
To be sure, I had emerged as something real, not mythical, something which found itself in a very real world, a world in which I learned I was a certain sort of thing, vulnerable, precious and beautiful, and not at all the same as certain other sorts of things which were quite as real as I, and the ... |
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| 11 | 1216 |
They liked us in our collars, and found us precious in them. |
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| 11 | 1351 |
Each wishes to be the most precious, the most costly. |
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| 12 | 143 |
On this world what had been written on me on my world, to obscure the underlying truths, had been scraped off, the dross scraped away to reveal the suspected, now-revealed, infinitely more precious message beneath. |
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| 12 | 260 |
"We have in common our precious freedom," she said. |
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| 12 | 434 |
And, indeed, who knew what further largesse one might obtain from such as he, particularly if one handled such matters cleverly, what further rare and precious encouragements such as he might lavish upon me, to woo my favor? My favor, I assure you, would not be easily won, if at all. |
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| 14 | 178 |
"Freedom is precious," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 363 |
Yet I was sure it would not have been lost upon her that she had had to remove her veil, that so precious thing to a free woman, at my command. |
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| 16 | 178 |
In few ways better than in such dance is it made more evident what an incredibly beautiful, marvelous, precious, wonderful thing a woman is. |
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| 18 | 125 |
She offers him her most precious gift, herself. |
10 |
| 19 | 527 |
Such things are precious to us. |
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| 19 | 766 |
"I am only a chained girl! I am only a chained girl! Now, please, please give me even a part of one of your apricots!" "Why should we give anything so precious to one who is only a chained girl?" inquired one of the slaves. |
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| 19 | 1006 |
"You will learn just how precious such small things may become," I said. |
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| 24 | 274 |
Had it not yet been fetched? And how would these goods, these loots, of precious metal, of soft flesh, of unusual fabrics, of rare spices, be transported whence these intruders derived? Did they think this would be easy? At any time the men of Treve might fall upon them! What an irrational and impro... |
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| 37 | 895 |
I had learned it at the hands of strong men, their precious gift to me, an inestimable treasure, men to whom I would be forever grateful. |
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| 40 | 26 |
Perhaps it was only offering its homage to the world, to the environing mystery, that immensity from which we derive, one which spawns us and then abandons us, the unfathomable, uncaring immensity, leaving us conscious in the loneliness, in the knowledge that our laughter and our tears are of no imp... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 374 |
"In the silent films might be seen many women of incredible loveliness and femininity, films made in a time in which these precious, marvelous attributes were celebrated, rather than castigated and belittled by an envious potato-bodied self-proclaimed elite of the plain and politically motivated. |
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| 4 | 377 |
Too, there were women in those days, true women, and two sexes, real sexes, not one blurred, androgynous pseudo-sex, and they were harmoniously interrelated, fitted closely and beautifully to one another as male and female, each inordinately unique and precious, not set at odds by the disappointed, ... |
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| 4 | 484 |
Surely she had gone too far! Was she feminine? She must not be feminine! Surely it would be wrong for her to be such, to be so female, so simply, so radically, so vulnerably female! Was such not a mere social artifact? But what if it were not a mere social artifact? What if it were something very di... |
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| 12 | 288 |
Freedom, in itself, while undeniably precious, and doubtless a value, and doubtless appropriate for males, whom she now understood, having met true men, were the natural masters of women, tended, in itself, to be an abstraction, a possibility, an emptiness, in its way. |
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| 12 | 318 |
Freedom was doubtless precious. |
10 |
| 13 | 101 |
How she resented at times being silenced, but how much more precious then was the opportunity to speak when it was seen fit to be granted. |
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| 13 | 226 |
And yet, what is the first thing they do with their exalted, aristocratic, noble, precious, prestigious free woman? They brand her, put her in a collar, and make her a slave, too!" "You are teasing me," said Ellen. |
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| 15 | 340 |
Thus, what a man wants in a woman is the most precious, coveted and treasured of all possessions, the female slave". |
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| 16 | 606 |
Understand at once how meaningless you are, small, soft, well-curved items of merchandise, but, too, how precious, special and wonderful you are! The tharlarion will be scrubbed, the kaiila combed. |
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| 16 | 746 |
Too, in what new ways might we more please our masters? Might we not be pleasantly surprised by his response, if we were sometimes to kiss his body, pressing our soft lips upon him humbly, intimately, fervently, tenderly, beseechingly, through the cascade of our loosened hair? What a precious and gl... |
10 |
| 16 | 783 |
She saw no stall that seemed to specialize in silk, or gold, or silver, or precious stones, or in weaponry, even simple cutlery. |
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| 18 | 261 |
It was extremely precious to her. |
10 |
| 18 | 266 |
The tiny garment, so precious to her, might be removed from her, at so little as a word from the master. |
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| 20 | 945 |
How few women are put upon a block and sold for what men find them to be actually worth! Do free women think they are so lofty and precious? Let them be put stripped on a sales block and see what they would bring! Let them then get some idea as to what they are truly worth! Thus, few women, she thou... |
10 |
| 21 | 200 |
How wonderful, thought Ellen, is the chance upon occasion to do something even as simple as washing one's body! How few people realize how precious so seemingly common and familiar an act can be at times! How grateful the slaves were for this opportunity to bathe! The rope on Ellen's ankle, as she h... |
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| 22 | 270 |
In the festival camp there were many forms of merchandise, other than the flesh loot, such as she, of Cosian conquests, merchandise such as produce, meat, leather and metal work, cloth, cabinetry, artifacts, tools, weapons, remedies, wagons, carts, precious stones, and such. |
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| 22 | 283 |
She found the vessel precious and beautiful, but here, of course, such things were thought little of; they were familiar, cheap and common. |
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| 23 | 83 |
"Even the life of an urt is precious enough to itself". |
10 |
| 24 | 10 |
"The wine! The wine! Slaves, here! To me, slaves!" The bung was drawn from the barrel and the precious ka-la-na, the barrel still on the cart, was released over the vat. |
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| 24 | 211 |
Each of us is precious, no matter what the beasts say. |
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| 24 | 619 |
I do not care! See her dance, as the slave she is! You sought to destroy her, to reduce and ruin her, but you have succeeded only in giving her the dearest, the most precious and greatest fulfillment a woman can know! I love being what I am, being joyfully, willingly, helplessly, given over wholly t... |
10 |
| 25 | 116 |
Would they relinquish the opportunity to own something as precious, as delicious and desirable as I am? Perhaps. |
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| 26 | 186 |
The natural human female, Ellen supposed, is not a social artifact, despite what she had been taught to mindlessly repeat, not a construct of social engineers who neither understand her nor care for her, creatures interested ultimately only in their own power and influence; she is not, ideally, a tw... |
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| 26 | 908 |
"I beg to give you such pleasures, and a thousand other intimate, and beautiful, and precious pleasures, my Master, no limit of pleasure for you, for I am yours, but I beg you, do not ask me to so serve! Not others! Recall that I was not only a woman of Earth, but a lady, a lady of Earth!" She hoped... |
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| 26 | 1206 |
We will be choiceless in these matters, but this choicelessness, as we are slaves, is precious to us. |
10 |
| 26 | 1430 |
Indeed, given the genuine opportunity to own her, what rational man would consider freeing her? She realized then, it startling her, that on this world she was too valuable, too precious, too desirable, to be free. |
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| 27 | 172 |
"They may be merchants, carriers of precious commodities, too rich to risk on the ground. |
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| 27 | 1254 |
Her femaleness seemed to her suddenly not only nonrepudiable but the most important thing about her, and it was precious, wonderful, and needful; she understood then, in his presence, as she never had before, what she was, undeniably, radically, and fundamentally, a female. |
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| 27 | 1373 |
They are a lovely and precious ingredient in Gorean civilization. |
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| 27 | 1889 |
Yes, yes, she thought, they speak truths, mighty truths, lovely truths, deep truths, incontrovertible truths, precious truths, yes, such as I are indeed for the entertainment of men, for the sport of men, of masters! It is that for which we exist, and desire to exist, the pleasure of men, the entert... |
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| 27 | 3305 |
Yes, she thought, cooking and such things well reminds me that I am a woman, but such things are only amongst thousands of other such things, other reminders which I welcome and in which I rejoice, such as my tunic, so unmistakably and publicly exhibiting my differences from men, my brand, marking m... |
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| 30 | 724 |
Doubtless on Earth, somehow, despite all, there are true men, masters, and rare and precious they must be, but such are abundant, indeed, almost universal, on Gor. |
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| 30 | 752 |
Do not let her know how important and precious she is to you. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1176 |
In certain cultures one supposes women might pay a great deal of money to obtain such a device, though perhaps one more akin to those one might expect to find on high slaves, say, colored, enameled, ringed, bejeweled, of precious metals, and such. |
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| 7 | 11 |
"In what tender?" "Power," said he, "and precious metals, and jewels, and slaves. |
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| 8 | 11 |
"Such a chamber would surely be more ornate, better lit, crowded with servitors and guards, furnished ostentatiously with precious vessels, statuary, display slaves, a sampling of nude chained beauties, preferably of high caste, ideally the daughters of Ubars, taken from conquered cities, and such". |
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| 34 | 177 |
Its meaning is that we are women, and exist to be desired and sought, and that we wish, and wish desperately, despite what we might claim, to be desired and sought, and that we exist to be beautiful, and loving, for men, and that we exist to please and serve men, that we are the complementary sex to... |
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| 36 | 334 |
Our brands, our collars, are precious to us. |
10 |
| 43 | 311 |
The slave, who as an animal is not entitled to clothing, and may be denied clothing altogether, if it be the wish of her master, is likely to find even a tunic, even a camisk, precious. |
10 |
| 53 | 99 |
Charges are precious, and, at the distances involved, would be unlikely of much efficacy. |
10 |
| 56 | 97 |
"Charges are precious," said Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 68 | 59 |
"There must have been something in the box, perhaps something precious, as it was handled. |
10 |
| 69 | 51 |
In any event, a skimpy, rent, castoff tunic may be more precious to a slave than a vast, expensive wardrobe to her free sister. |
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| 80 | 180 |
A common justification of slave garmenture, though surely not the only one, nor the primary one, is that it is supposed to make the slave the desiderated object of raiders, thus supposedly diverting attention from precious, priceless free women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 231 |
The corsairs of Port Kar venturing at sea, prowling the merchant routes, unannouncedly visiting coastal towns, and such, often returned to port well freighted with various assortments of goods, fruits and grains, weapons, vessels, tools, leathers, viands and wines, precious metals and stones, divers... |
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| 5 | 88 |
The gold is the symbol of that which is rare, is precious, is constant, and does not tarnish. |
10 |
| 5 | 862 |
How precious is the veil to the free woman; she is not a slave. |
10 |
| 9 | 75 |
They are precious. |
10 |
| 15 | 53 |
Cecily, incidentally, in the sense she had in mind, was quite good, even exquisitely, helplessly precious. |
10 |
| 15 | 160 |
You must understand how important this is to her, how precious it is to her. |
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| 18 | 511 |
Coffers are being forced open, and precious vessels, and handfuls of coins and jewelry, are being seized; silken hangings are draped on brawny arms; amphorae are unearthed; the odor of paga pervades the camp, and common warriors, perhaps for the first time, taste rare ka-la-na, guzzling it like kal-... |
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| 22 | 567 |
I supposed that the former Miss Wentworth, for years on Earth, had longed for what she felt was missing in her life, for the precious, incredible womanhood which she had only recently found, on Gor, and she was now, it seemed, to be shamed and punished for discovering on an alien world what had elud... |
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| 23 | 35 |
A slave is seldom subjected to cruelty so subtle and insidious, a cruelty which would seek to deny her to herself, which would seek to impose falsehood and pretense upon her, punishing her not only for what she cannot help but for that which is most precious in her, what makes her most herself. |
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| 27 | 149 |
Should the women of Earth, then, any more than the Gorean woman, be denied her womanhood, her most profound needs and desires, the right of the natural woman, in her heart desiring to be mastered and possessed, the right to be owned, and fulfilled, the right, so to speak, to be collared? Must they c... |
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| 28 | 274 |
Wars may be fought for arable land, for markets, for high ground, for defensible passes, for routes, for access to the sea, for olive groves and stands of timber, for orchards and vineyards, for precious metals, cloths, and jewels, for kaiila, tarsks, verr, many things. |
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| 30 | 187 |
"Do not fear," he said, "tarnsmen, tarnsters, and such are precious. |
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| 38 | 375 |
To an outsider, one unfamiliar with such things, I suppose that our cabins would have seemed miserably tiny and cramped, but space is usually precious on a ship, even a large ship. |
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| 40 | 58 |
It is only within the walls formed by the blades of men that their nobilities and privileges, their precious vanities and pretensions, can exist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1200 |
In any event, a female slave may, and must supply a man with inordinate pleasures; which makes her precious to him, whereas a female slave is likely to fall forever short of the exacting services required by her mistress. |
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| 3 | 1262 |
Too, had he not, already, in his pouch, a wealth of precious stones? 'My apologies,' said the leader. |
10 |
| 6 | 81 |
Many are astonished at the fulfillments attendant on the summoning forth, the commanding forth, of their deepest and most precious selves. |
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| 7 | 64 |
How inordinately precious and desirable they are! How inevitable it is to relish them, and strive to possess them! How comprehensible that they should be sought and secured, roped and chained, that they should be bought and sold, that they should be branded and collared, that there be no mistaking t... |
10 |
| 8 | 186 |
To the slave her bondage is inexpressibly precious. |
10 |
| 9 | 496 |
In battle each man on one's side is precious. |
10 |
| 12 | 69 |
Some slaves, high slaves, may have sandals, even slippers, set with precious stones, but a free woman is likely to order them to remove such presumptuous footwear in their presence, and sometimes to bring them to them, dangling from their mouths, humbly, head down, on all fours, rather as a pet slee... |
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| 13 | 28 |
The sea chests of many of our fellows were now heavy with pierced coins, pearls, and precious stones. |
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| 28 | 228 |
"It is an ancient and needful thing in my body, to belong, to be owned, to kneel, to revere, to submit, to serve, to please, to find myself at a master's feet, where I desire to be!" "Surely freedom is precious," I said. |
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| 34 | 57 |
The features of free women, presumably so exquisite, precious, and marvelous, are not to be exhibited to common view. |
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| 37 | 250 |
I sensed then that his memory swept him back to Ar, and that, for a moment, he saw before him not a loving, eager, precious possession, who might be sought even at the World's End, but a traitress and fugitive, one vain and treacherous, one who, when free, had betrayed her Home Stone, abused power, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 90 |
Why should the slave not be a slave, and the master a master? How long we waited for our masters! How we need our masters! How precious are our masters, and how we, trembling, hasten to serve them, to please them, and as a slave! I, for one, am content. |
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| 7 | 298 |
Doubtless it had been worn by others before me, but, to me, it was inordinately precious. |
10 |
| 8 | 1206 |
If you despise us for this I would suggest you put your precious, priceless, exalted, lofty free women at a slave ring and see if they are any different! Please, Master, do not beat me for this observation. |
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| 8 | 1967 |
"Thank you, Master," she breathes, licking and kissing the hand which has deigned to bestow so precious a gift upon her. |
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| 8 | 1970 |
Even today such a thing is meaningful to me, and my master may or may not grant it to me, as it pleases him, but, at that time, in the place of Menon, so small a thing seemed inordinately precious, and important. |
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| 10 | 842 |
What were her antecedents? What had been her experiences? Again, from what sort of world had she derived? It was as though she had been told of something important and precious, say, a particular jewel, and had decided she would have it. |
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| 27 | 16 |
On a shelf above and behind them there was a metallic box, which, I supposed, given the care with which it had been handled, and the watchfulness with which it was regarded, must contain some precious substance, a treasure of some sort, perhaps gold or jewels. |
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| 37 | 122 |
"A treasure perhaps, surely something very precious". |
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| 37 | 188 |
Without these illusions, these precious, invaluable, wonderful illusions, how could one exist? You open your eyes and see a world, but how could this be? The world somehow stimulates you in such a way that you produce a representation of the world. |
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| 52 | 252 |
How precious then must be a mere collar slut, marketable goods, to some men! Who then is slave and who is master? It becomes clear, of course, when the whip is removed from its peg. |
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| 52 | 330 |
I knew myself desired, and not as a free woman might be desired, in all her lofty, precious, august dignity, encircled with customs, codes, traditions, conventions, proprieties, and rights, but as a slave is desired, with all the raw, uncompromising, unmitigated lust with which a slave is desired, a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 79 |
Each particle is alive and precious. |
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| 6 | 72 |
Still, a hot slave is a precious possession. |
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| 9 | 201 |
It is said that a free woman might perish of shame if placed in a slave tunic, but, to a slave, such a garment, which she knows need not be accorded to her, may be a treasure, more precious to her than some assemblage of robes and veils to a free woman. |
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| 13 | 7 |
I suppose it scarcely rates the appellation of a garment, but it is precious to us. |
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| 13 | 15 |
It is a warm, precious, beautiful thing to be. |
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| 15 | 179 |
I think we had all tried to remove them, as well as we could, with the bit of precious oil we were supplied when, roped together, we were allowed to enter the shallow, washing pools. |
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| 17 | 116 |
Do they not have everything for which a woman might long, cultural elevation, standing, status, prestige, power, dignity, and respect, even awe? Why then are they so unhappy? And why are they so cruel to us, and hate us so? We are not interfering with their precious freedom. |
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| 19 | 11 |
"I do know there is a palisaded compound there, which presumably houses special supplies, and perhaps prize slaves, too precious to be risked amongst the men of Shipcamp". |
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| 21 | 157 |
"Compared to it gold or silver, precious ointments, coffers of jewels, and such, things that you regard as of value, would be no more than a spoonful of silt, a cup of sand or dirt". |
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| 33 | 9 |
They are denied one of the loveliest and most precious of their pleasures, and gifts. |
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| 39 | 349 |
Our garmenture is precious to us, and we strive to be worthy of it. |
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| 41 | 22 |
How different we are, I thought, from those precious, glorious free women, at least of the high castes, in the cities, of whom I had often heard, who might faint with mortification should a sudden breeze disarrange a veil, or attack a fellow suspected of considering an ankle, or hire public avengers... |
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| 43 | 659 |
And why should women not be vain, as they are so precious, desirable, and beautiful? How can men not lust for them, and make them slaves? What pallid, inert fool would not wish to own one? Whose blood would be so weak that he would not see them as the natural property of men? And what woman was more... |
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| 50 | 414 |
So, I thought, these are the special slaves, the precious slaves, those which might precipitate mutinies, which might cast woe and discord amongst the men of Tarncamp or Shipcamp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 95 |
It was felt that each sword was needed; would not each sword, when the major onslaught came, if it would come, be important and precious? Given the honor and discipline of the Pani, and their sense of propriety, even privately owned slaves had been placed in the indoor housing area. |
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| 7 | 254 |
"Contract women are refined, trained, and precious". |
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| 45 | 57 |
It is lovely, and precious. |
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| 58 | 273 |
The eyes of several of the heads had been replaced with jewels or precious stones, mostly, it seemed, jade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 95 |
Freedom is precious, but the collar is a thousand times more precious". |
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| 1 | 437 |
How could it not be of such consequence to others? Could it be they did not want it? Could it be that they had no interest in it, that it was not important to them? How could they regard as negligible so remarkable and precious a prize? How was it possible that they had not imposed their will upon m... |
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| 11 | 133 |
The arts are too precious for that. |
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| 17 | 30 |
Why do they wish to deny us even small pleasures, so important to women, such as those of sweet converse? Do they not themselves frequently indulge in such sweet delights, delights so natural and precious to our sex? Why should they deny them to us? Why do they hate us? Is it our fault that men pref... |
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| 46 | 203 |
Do you not find it unique, inestimably precious?" I saw fangs, suddenly, curved and white, at the side of the jaw of Lord Grendel. |
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| 49 | 383 |
How precious then, I thought, must be the beverage! "I shall not propose a toast," said Decius Albus, "as I am unsure we share a common sentiment, but let us drink, as might friends". |
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| 50 | 233 |
Exchange me for your precious Lady Bina". |
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| 52 | 335 |
I had not realized until then how much she had meant to me, and for so long, how understanding, devoted, and precious she was, how important she had been in my life. |
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| 53 | 166 |
"Ela," said Lord Grendel, "I did not know Lyris was so precious to you". |
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| 62 | 162 |
Yet, even so slight a garmenture, little more than a wisp of clinging, woven fog, can be precious, particularly in the streets. |
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| 64 | 55 |
I was not only content with my sex, but regarded it as deliciously, wonderfully precious. |
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| 64 | 285 |
"Steady, steady, my sweet, my gentle, precious beloved!" said Lord Grendel, softly, soothingly. |
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| 66 | 88 |
"Hush," she said, "dear, precious Phyllis, supper is to be prepared". |
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| 67 | 76 |
Even their weaknesses and faults become precious, and dear". |
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| 68 | 14 |
"Is freedom not precious?" he asked. |
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| 68 | 19 |
"My collar," I said, "is a thousand times more precious". |
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| 68 | 168 |
When one is a slave, small things can be important, and precious, to one. |
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| 69 | 133 |
"Freedom is precious, is it not?" he asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 247 |
To me, bondage seemed reassuring, rewarding, appropriate, precious. |
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| 1 | 298 |
Yet these tasks can be precious for us, as they are necessary and give us ways of pleasing our masters. |
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| 3 | 238 |
Given such vagaries, and the shaving of coins, particularly those of more precious metals, scales are often used in transactions, certainly in a polity's "Streets of Coins". |
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| 9 | 25 |
To us our bondage is precious, and we beg to be reassured of its reality. |
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| 11 | 133 |
Outside the cloth worker's shop was a bin for irregular cloths, discarded patches, strips, shreds, and such; some masters, doubtless of a thrifty sort, avail themselves of such a trove to outfit their slaves; patches, even small patches, may be sewn together, to repair, or even form, a garment, say,... |
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| 11 | 160 |
There is an incredible, precious freedom in the collar. |
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| 11 | 173 |
Might they not then faint in the street for dismay? They, after all, are high, precious, priceless, exalted, and free. |
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| 11 | 301 |
Or perhaps they merely regard a capacity to read as very precious and they wish to share it with others, even meaningless slaves. |
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| 29 | 14 |
So one man can kill another? Is that so important? Is that so precious an accomplishment, a guerdon to be so earnestly sought? Should one not turn one's back on so absurd a game, scorning its madness, and yet few Goreans care being denounced as cowards. |
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| 33 | 205 |
Each Ahn is precious. |
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| 33 | 453 |
How precious it is to a slave, so little. |
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| 33 | 572 |
How startling, precious, and welcome had been that insight! How grateful I had been to accept that recognition, so at odds with all I had been taught to profess and iterate! I did not want freedom but a strong, fine master whom I might submissively and helplessly love and serve, with my whole being ... |
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| 38 | 98 |
Knowledge is often more precious than gold, information more valuable than jewels. |
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| 42 | 238 |
Sweets are precious to a female slave. |
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| 46 | 37 |
How well she then understands herself a slave, and how precious is the release when granted! But, mercifully, such torment is rare. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97 |
They took even the trinkets, precious to us, for which we had traded". |
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| 7 | 21 |
"The least bit of real assistance we can garner, even the tiniest genuine clue we can obtain, is immeasurably precious. |
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| 30 | 24 |
"Luring them into treacherous terrain," said Thurnock, "as in the debacle of Ar in the Vosk's Delta?" "Or leading them into the Tahari, where water is precious and scarce, or into canyoned areas where passes are narrow, easily blocked, and can be fired on from cover," said Clitus. |
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| 46 | 54 |
"Yes," said another, "but what is more desirable, and precious, than a worthless slave?" "The women of the towns," said Thurnock, "are richly garmented, arrogant, proud, and spoiled. |
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| 54 | 133 |
The emotional freedom of love, service, and chains, and the fear of the whip, which will be assuredly used on them if they are not pleasing, is inordinately precious. |
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| 59 | 129 |
"How beautiful are women," I thought, "so extraordinarily different from men, almost another form of life, so precious, desirable, and exciting. |
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