| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 267 |
Rings, comparable to those which are fastened on the legs of the young birds, are worn by the adult birds to reinforce the memory of the hobbling wire and the tarn-goad. |
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| 4 | 17 |
Each of the reins attaches to a small ring on the throat strap, and the rings are spaced evenly. |
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| 4 | 22 |
The throat-strap rings, corresponding to the position of the reins on the main saddle-ring, are numbered in a clockwise fashion. |
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| 14 | 148 |
In a few wild moments I had gained the saddle straps of the bird and hauled myself nearly to the weapon rings. |
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| 15 | 66 |
Whereas the military camp is usually laid out in a set of concentric squares, reflecting the fourfold principle of military organization customary on Gor, the merchant camp is laid out in concentric circles, the guards' tents occupying the outermost ring, the craftsmen's, strap-masters', attendants'... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 51 |
Then, with their whips, they drove us to a set of large blocks of quarried granite, weighing perhaps a ton apiece, from the sides of which protruded heavy iron rings. |
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| 21 | 136 |
His thick fingers were covered with rings, which glittered as he moved his hands. |
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| 21 | 209 |
In annoyance, looking over the rings of Targo and the sapphires which hung from his ears, I knew he would be a much better judge of their value than I. |
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| 21 | 224 |
He clapped his hands sharply twice, and there was a scurrying and tumbling of bodies and the sound of the long chain slipping through the ankle rings. |
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| 26 | 25 |
Other Silver Masks had taken refuge in the mountains beyond the walls and these were hunted like sleen by converging rings of irate peasants, who drove them into the center of their hunting circles, whence, unmasked and bound, they were herded to the city to meet their fate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73 |
I passed among wines and textiles and raw wool, silks, and brocades, copperware and glazed pottery, carpets and tapestries, lumber, furs, hides, salt, arms and arrows, saddles and harness, rings and bracelets and necklaces, belts and sandals, lamps and oils, medicines and meats and grains, animals s... |
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| 3 | 32 |
Then I heard the movement of chains and I saw that the two chains which fastened the larls were not hooked to rings in the stone but vanished within circular apertures. |
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| 22 | 82 |
I thrust the Mul-Torch which I still carried into a narrow iron receptacle, consisting mainly of two connected rings and a base plate, which was bolted to the wall. |
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| 25 | 60 |
In the flash of light I had seen the mesh clearly and the shaft beyond and the rings set in the shaft used by Muls who upon occasion clean the shafts and spray them with bactericides. |
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| 25 | 73 |
Then, gathering my strength, I leaped up and easily seized one of the rings inside the chamber shaft, held it for a moment and then released it and dropped back to the floor. |
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| 25 | 93 |
After perhaps two hundred feet of climbing the rings in the shaft I was pleased to reach two branching shafts which led horizontally from the vertical shaft which I had just ascended. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 13 |
There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla... |
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| 8 | 108 |
I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri... |
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| 20 | 142 |
The slave rings on the tarn saddle are similar to those on the kaiila saddle and in a trice Harold, using the thongs streaming from the slave rings, one on each side of the saddle, had bound the girl on her back across the saddle in front of him. |
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| 5 | 7 |
That of the animals is heavy and of gold, that of the women also of gold but tiny and fine, not unlike the wedding rings of my old world. |
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| 5 | 67 |
Normally, however, the wagons are tied in tandem fashion, in numerous long columns, and only the lead wagons are guided, the others simply following, thongs running from the rear of one wagon to the nose rings of the bosk following, sometimes as much as thirty yards behind, with the next wagon; also... |
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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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| 8 | 304 |
The saddle of the kaiila, like the tarn saddle, is made in such a way as to accommodate, bound across it, a female captive, rings being fixed on both sides through which binding fiber or thong may be passed. |
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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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| 9 | 126 |
The women in bondage present, who served us, each wore four golden rings on each ankle and each wrist, locked on, which clashed as they walked or moved, adding their sound to the slave bells that had been fixed on their Turian collars, and that hung from their hair; the ears of each, too, had been p... |
10 |
| 9 | 328 |
I heard the sound of slave bells attached to ankle rings, to locked wrist bracelets, to Turian collars. |
10 |
| 10 | 194 |
I noted some of the workmen still affixing small retaining rings to some of the stakes, bolting them one on a side, usually about five feet to five and a half feet from the ground. |
10 |
| 10 | 334 |
"The retaining rings," prompted the judge. |
10 |
| 10 | 337 |
"Place your wrists in the rings," said the judge, "or it shall be done for you". |
10 |
| 10 | 338 |
In fury the girl placed her hands behind her head, in the rings, one on each side of the stake. |
10 |
| 10 | 340 |
Aphris, not very obviously, moved her hands in the rings, tried to withdraw them. |
10 |
| 10 | 343 |
The key to the rings hung, of course, on a small hook toward the top of the stake; it was about two inches above her head. |
10 |
| 10 | 371 |
"You sleen! You filthy sleen! Come back! Come back!" I heard her pulling at the rings and kicking at the post. |
10 |
| 10 | 470 |
"Fight him, filthy Tuchuk!" screamed Aphris of Turia, pulling against the retaining rings. |
10 |
| 11 | 4 |
She threw back her head and moaned, wrists still locked in the retaining rings. |
10 |
| 11 | 26 |
Aphris suddenly pulled at the retaining rings, trying to rush to him, now oblivious of the riches of her beauty revealed even to the slaves who carried his palanquin. |
10 |
| 11 | 69 |
"You stinking sleen!" "Be careful," warned Saphrar, "how you speak to the richest man in Turia!" Aphris wept and pulled at the retaining rings. |
10 |
| 11 | 99 |
In short order then Kamchak took the key over the head of Aphris of Turia and sprang open the retaining rings. |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 12 | 237 |
The slave hobble consists of two rings, one for a wrist, the other for an ankle, joined by about seven inches of chain. |
10 |
| 23 | 32 |
"Yes," I said, "and cutting out the nose rings to sell in Turia after the Tuchuks withdraw". |
10 |
| 23 | 57 |
We found thousands of bosk slain in the grass, their throats cut, their flesh rotting, the golden nose rings chopped or torn away. |
10 |
| 25 | 43 |
I gathered the girl was in Sirik, the chain on the floor attached to the slave ring doubtless running to one of the twin ankle rings, probably to that on her left ankle. |
10 |
| 25 | 57 |
I could see now that her wrists were encircled with slave bracelets, linked to the collar chain, which then continued to the ankle rings. |
10 |
| 25 | 162 |
About her throat was the Turian collar with its chain, attached to slave bracelets and ankle rings, one of the latter attached to the chain running to the slave ring. |
10 |
| 27 | 79 |
Dina, wondering, opened the package and within it she saw the cups and rings, and pieces of gold, which Albrecht had given her for her victories in the runnings from the bola. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 136 |
Thus, in leaving the perches at the beginning of the race, the tarns pass first through three rectangular "rings," then come to the first turn, where they negotiate three round rings, two of which are at the corners; and then they encounter three more rectangular "rings" and then come to the second ... |
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| 13 | 326 |
Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,... |
10 |
| 12 | 135 |
The course is determined by twelve rings, hung on chains from great supporting towers; six of these "rings" are rectangular and six are round; the large rectangular "rings" are three on a side; the smaller, round rings are set at the corners of the dividing wall, and one at each of the narrowest por... |
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| 22 | 564 |
I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ... |
10 |
| 13 | 287 |
The major difference is the tautness of the reins between the two rings; the racing saddle, on the other hand, is only a slip of leather compared to the common tarn saddle, which is rather large, with saddle packs, weapon sheaths and paired slave rings. |
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| 15 | 79 |
I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Blades, where me... |
10 |
| 15 | 80 |
Sometimes in the races, in pressing through the rings, fighting for position, riders used goads on one another, or tried to cut the safety or girth straps of others; more than one man had been stabbed as the birds, jammed at the corner rings, had fought for passage and position. |
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| 22 | 376 |
I noted, to my surprise, that the padding on the rings had been removed by attendants, and replaced with bladelike edges, used not in races but in exhibitions of daring riding, stunts in effect, in which riders appear to court death at the rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 550 |
Then, suddenly before me, at the left side rings, closing the rings to us, hovered some ten tarnsmen, weapons ready. |
10 |
| 22 | 557 |
"Ubar of the Skies," cried I, "fly! Fly now as you have never flown before!" We flashed through the end rings and, on the straight-away, saw, ahead, the Yellow and the Red approaching the left side rings. |
10 |
| 4 | 4 |
In the base of the platform there were mounted six slave rings. |
10 |
| 4 | 14 |
Set in the wall to my left, as in the base of the stone platform, were slave rings, a dozen or so. |
10 |
| 4 | 161 |
One of Cernus' men-at-arms looked at him, to see if he wished him to secure her to one of the slave rings in the base of the platform for punishment. |
10 |
| 4 | 178 |
Tuchuk women, both slave and free, have fixed in their noses a tiny ring of gold, small and fine, not unlike the wedding rings of Earth. |
10 |
| 4 | 179 |
The ponderous bosk, on which the Wagon Peoples live, among which are numbered the Kassars and the Tuchuks, also wear such rings, but there, of course, the ring is much larger and heavier. |
10 |
| 5 | 24 |
The most common combination lock consists of a set of lettered rings which conceal a bolt. |
10 |
| 5 | 607 |
She would then climb into the wagon where, with two ankle rings, joined by a foot of chain looped about the central bar, she would be fastened in the wagon. |
10 |
| 6 | 44 |
At the wall on my right there were fifteen slave rings. |
10 |
| 7 | 45 |
The basket of Cernus and my basket both had guidance attachments, similar to those of the common tarn saddle, a main basket ring corresponding to the main saddle ring, and six leather straps going to the throat-strap rings. |
10 |
| 11 | 43 |
Slave rings were mounted on one wall. |
10 |
| 12 | 37 |
The birds were now flashing through the great rings before me. |
10 |
| 12 | 50 |
Several were going about seeking the odds Merchants, several of whom wandered in the stands, but others of whom kept their tables at the foot of the stands, on the sand itself, almost under the nets beneath the rings. |
10 |
| 12 | 137 |
If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt... |
10 |
| 12 | 149 |
They were fastened together on a common chain, each by wrist rings, each by both wrists, each ring separated by about a yard of chain. |
10 |
| 13 | 219 |
About the walls, here and there, were lists and records, inked on narrow boards; there were also, here and there, hanging on the walls, some memorabilia, such as saddle rings and tarn harnesses, suitably labeled as to their origin; there were also representations of tarns and some drawings of famous... |
10 |
| 13 | 286 |
The racing harness, like the common tarn harness, works with two rings, the throat ring and the main saddle ring, and six straps. |
10 |
| 13 | 314 |
The long net under the rings had been removed and rolled, placed with its poles near the dividing wall. |
10 |
| 13 | 325 |
Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at the end of the dividing wall. |
10 |
| 17 | 146 |
The great bird he rode was no racing tarn but its size, its swiftness, its sureness, its incredible power and ferocity made it a terrible foe in the wars of the suspended rings; indeed, never had it lost; many of the other tarns of the Steels, as well, were not bred racing tarns, but war tarns, ridd... |
10 |
| 17 | 412 |
And more than one was thrown to the love furs under the slave rings at the wall. |
10 |
| 18 | 316 |
Some startled slaves leaped up, each chained by one ankle to her ring; but most slept, drunk; one or two, too drunk to notice me, were sitting against the wall, their left ankles chained to their slave rings, a bottle of Ka-la-na in their grasp, their hair falling forward. |
10 |
| 19 | 325 |
About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer... |
10 |
| 21 | 58 |
The banded ost is yellowish orange and is marked with black rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 163 |
With a clear strike at the first of the end rings, however, the bird, headstrong, resenting the sudden pressure on the control straps, went wide. |
10 |
| 22 | 165 |
Menicius of Port Kar, riding for the Yellows, tearing at the control straps of his bird, tarn goad showering sparks to the sand below, tarn screaming, fought his way, birds buffeting, past the Silver trying to regain the center of the rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 176 |
There I saw a Taurentian, armed with a crossbow, lifting it, preparing to fire as Mip passed through the third of the far end rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 180 |
Mip was clearing the center ring of the end rings when the heavy leather-wrapped cable of the crossbow sprang forward and the quarrel hissed from the guide. |
10 |
| 22 | 182 |
Mip cleared the third of the end rings and streaked on. |
10 |
| 22 | 204 |
Suddenly Green Ubar, in the flash of the wings and the cries of the riders passing him, righted himself and with a cry of rage and pain burst toward the rings, Mip sagging in the saddle. |
10 |
| 22 | 245 |
In a given race, attempting the head pass, he misjudged the distance and was struck bodily from the saddle by the high bar of the first of the center side rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 249 |
He feared then the rings, the birds. |
10 |
| 22 | 407 |
The tarns, with the exception of my own, hurled themselves screaming, wings snapping, from the perches and streaked for the first of the side rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 430 |
This warned the rider of the eighth bird, a Gold, and he, bent low in the saddle, looked behind him to see, piercing the rings, eyes blazing, wings snapping, the great black tarn. |
10 |
| 22 | 431 |
To the crowd's astonishment, but not to mine, he wheeled his tarn, a rare, gloriously plumaged jungle tarn from the tropical reaches of the Cartius, to block the first of the right center rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 446 |
I could have forced my way past the nonfaction rider ahead of me but, with the edged rings, it would be at great risk to both of us, and to our tarns. |
10 |
| 22 | 448 |
It is one thing to force a bird or rider into the padded bars, and another against the great, swinging knives that were now the rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 511 |
There were still five tarn heads on the poles when he overtook, between rings, and passed the Silver. |
10 |
| 22 | 515 |
He attempted, in moving through the rings, to force us to the left, into the heavy edge, but before he could do so, we had passed him. |
10 |
| 22 | 533 |
"The race!" The tarn, to my amazement, turned from the fray in an instant and smote his way from the environing, reeling tarns and struck out again for the rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 535 |
In the time we had fought four tarns had passed us, though the rest were still behind, either fallen from the race or unable to pass the rings where tarnsmen still wheeled in disarray. |
10 |
| 22 | 541 |
When I came to the right center rings I again encountered tarnsmen, now regrouped. |
10 |
| 22 | 544 |
I heard an exultant shout from behind me and saw the leader of the tarnsmen signal his men across the dividing wall again, to meet me at the left center rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 545 |
We passed the Silver, and then the Blue, between the rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 546 |
I noted that the Red was gaining rapidly on Menicius, who was blocking him at the side rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 552 |
Now there was but one tarn head on the poles when I came again to the right center rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 558 |
Like an arrow, a black torrent, Ubar of the Skies flashed toward the side rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 561 |
"Faster! Har-ta! Faster! Faster!" Then, approaching the last of the left side rings, Ubar of the Skies, striking for the heart of the ring, burst between the startled Red and Menicius, who led him by perhaps four yards. |
10 |
| 23 | 63 |
I looked about me at the tables, at the tiled floors; at the slave rings by the wall; at the square pit of sand between the tables. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w... |
10 |
| 6 | 123 |
But this time I expected that her ankles would not be as though chained, her wrists as though braceleted; rather would they be truly chained and braceleted; she would wear the linked ankle rings, the three-linked slave bracelets of a Gorean master; and I did not think she would then conclude her dan... |
10 |
| 9 | 12 |
And she wore ankle rings, and linked slave bracelets, again with shimmering droplets pendant upon them; and a locked collar, matching. |
10 |
| 9 | 383 |
I put ankle rings on Midice, and then slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 9 | 399 |
I noted her slim ankles, enclosed in the ankle rings, and her lovely wrists, so closely linked together, clasped beautifully, snugly, in the steel of the bracelets. |
10 |
| 9 | 406 |
But this time her ankles were not as though chained, nor her wrists as though braceleted; rather they were truly chained and braceleted; she wore the linked ankle rings, the three-linked slave bracelets of a Gorean master; and I did not think she would now conclude her dance by spitting upon me and ... |
10 |
| 9 | 486 |
But, with the ankle rings, taken from her following the dance, I secured her. |
10 |
| 10 | 107 |
Midice now possessed a hundred pleasure silks, and rings and beads, which she might twine in her now-jeweled collar. |
10 |
| 11 | 266 |
His face was wide, and heavy, and muchly lined; it, like many of those of Port Kar, showed the marks of Thassa, burned into it by wind and salt; he had gray eyes; his hair was white, and short-cropped; in his ears there were two small golden rings. |
10 |
| 15 | 370 |
She wore five pieces of metal, her collar and locked rings on her wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 15 | 371 |
Slave bells were attached to the collar and the rings. |
10 |
| 18 | 409 |
Then my wrists were tied widely apart to wrist rings mounted in a stone wall, and I was whipped. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 52 |
Inside each, secured with heavy straps and buckles, attached to rings in the box, was a girl. |
10 |
| 6 | 130 |
On his small, fat hands, there were several rings. |
10 |
| 6 | 242 |
It then occurred to me that Targo had seemed haggard, apprehensive, and that, although he seemed to be the sort of man who might be vain about his appearance, judging from the earrings, the sandals, the robe, the rings, that he had not kept up his appearance. |
10 |
| 7 | 104 |
He also purchased certain articles of slavers' equipment, a display chain, various other sorts of chains, slave bracelets, ankle rings, neck collars, binding fibers, branding irons and whips. |
10 |
| 7 | 168 |
We were fitted with ankle rings joined by a short length of chain. |
10 |
| 7 | 388 |
My ankles, and those of the other girls, were still joined, of course, by about a foot of chain and two ankle rings. |
10 |
| 8 | 37 |
As we slid to the back of the wagon our ankle rings were removed. |
10 |
| 8 | 217 |
A man came forward and untied the straps leading to the nose rings of the bosk from the bosk ring on the deck. |
10 |
| 9 | 292 |
In its back, there were two heavy metal rings, one about two feet from the ground, the other about three and a half feet from the ground. |
10 |
| 9 | 303 |
Then she threaded the free end of the leash through the lower of the two rings, passed it about my belly, and rethreaded it again through the same ring, keeping it tight, fastening me at the waist to the post. |
10 |
| 9 | 309 |
She tied the binding fiber securely about my left wrist, took the fiber behind the post, threaded it through the highest of the two metal rings, and then, jerking my right wrist back, bound it, too, fastening me to the post. |
10 |
| 9 | 388 |
Then she untied the strap at my ankles, freeing them, and, drawing the strap about the post and through the two rings, released me from the post. |
10 |
| 11 | 263 |
"Nose rings are nothing. |
10 |
| 11 | 265 |
In the south even the free women of the Wagon Peoples wear nose rings". |
10 |
| 11 | 267 |
"Even free women in the south," she insisted, "the free women of the Wagon Peoples, wear nose rings". |
10 |
| 11 | 331 |
"We will wear the nose rings," said Ute, "until our training is finished. |
10 |
| 11 | 359 |
In the early evening of the day on which our nose rings had been affixed I was returning to my cage, after having run an errand for Targo in the pens. |
10 |
| 11 | 504 |
Lana and I had been thonged together by the nose rings. |
10 |
| 11 | 506 |
A thong had been passed through the two rings and then knotted. |
10 |
| 11 | 548 |
Lana was left bound, and we were left thonged by the nose rings. |
10 |
| 11 | 590 |
The nose rings would not be removed until the day before our departure from the pens. |
10 |
| 12 | 57 |
Girls are given only about a foot of chain fastened to their ankle rings, which is looped about the central bar, locked in place, in the slave wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 71 |
A guard then entered the wagon, with ten sets of chains and ankle rings over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 586 |
When I was sure no one was looking, and I lay bound in the rings, together, in a row, with some others, I, too, lifted my body, pleadingly. |
10 |
| 12 | 587 |
But who should have seen but Inge, who was waiting her turn, to be bound with her set, at the rings. |
10 |
| 12 | 720 |
They haul them to the saddle, in flight, there securing them, stripping them and fastening them to the binding rings. |
10 |
| 12 | 726 |
When he then unbinds her from the saddle rings, she, so devastatingly subdued, well knows herself his. |
10 |
| 13 | 628 |
I cursed my misfortune, that I had been driven from the thicket when a tarnsman had been in the sky! I pulled at my bound wrists, and ankles, fastened to the rings. |
10 |
| 13 | 683 |
She was different, higher, better, a woman of Earth! She was refined, educated, sensitive! She was too special, too delicate, to be beaten! Could he not see that? She was not a common slave! She should not be beaten! Could he not see that? But I felt the leather of the saddle beneath my arched back,... |
10 |
| 14 | 225 |
And I wondered, too, if they might contain nose rings, and if one would be put on me. |
10 |
| 14 | 511 |
Then, one by one, her limbs are chained in the rings. |
10 |
| 14 | 597 |
I had expected to be chained, heavily, and in short chains, fastened to rings, but I had not been. |
10 |
| 15 | 1485 |
My hands, inadvertently, went to the rings in my ears. |
10 |
| 16 | 188 |
She wore crossed ankle rings, not permitting her to rise. |
10 |
| 16 | 237 |
"I wish you well!" Verna did not turn again, but went to the kneeling girl and unsnapped the crossed ankle rings, and put them in her pouch. |
10 |
| 17 | 249 |
There, his wrists bound by ropes to rings, stood a bloodied man, head down, stripped to the waist. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 57 |
There were small, golden rings in his ears. |
10 |
| 2 | 11 |
Within each "A," her wrists bound by wrapped and taut leather to heavy rings set in the sloping sides, there hung a girl, her full weight on her wrists. |
10 |
| 2 | 15 |
Their ankles had been tied rather widely apart, each fastened by leather to iron rings further down the beams. |
10 |
| 2 | 562 |
In the stern quarter, behind the open kitchen, the girls were chained by the neck to the deck, to iron rings set in the heavy, sanded wood. |
10 |
| 2 | 571 |
They were still chained by the neck to the iron rings. |
10 |
| 2 | 661 |
Their chains dangled to the rings. |
10 |
| 2 | 731 |
They knelt, as before, near the rings to which they had been chained. |
10 |
| 5 | 214 |
On these girls were chained by the neck to rings, bolted into the planks. |
10 |
| 5 | 228 |
Along one wall, sitting, waiting for cage space, were many other girls, fastened by a long chain running through ankle rings, on the left ankle of each. |
10 |
| 6 | 628 |
It contained many small articles, some rings, trinkets, small mirrors, coins. |
10 |
| 9 | 11 |
I saw, to one side of the clearing, a short, stout slave post, with two rings. |
10 |
| 15 | 276 |
They were Harl rings, named for the slaver Harl of Turia, who is reported to have first used them. |
10 |
| 15 | 315 |
It may be used, of course, to fasten the entire chain about, or to, some suitable object, a pillar, a stanchion, a wagon wheel, a tree, a column in a market colonnade, a post in a bazaar, one of the heavy slave rings, set in the ground, usually found at the edges of a square in a Gorean city. |
10 |
| 15 | 318 |
One key, incidentally, serves for an entire set of ankle rings and locking devices. |
10 |
| 15 | 319 |
The key had been in the crate with its set of Harl rings. |
10 |
| 15 | 412 |
About the left ankle of each and the neck of each had been hammered a band of iron, each band with two welded rings. |
10 |
| 15 | 413 |
At two ends, then, of a given length of chain, links had been opened, thrust through the welded rings, and then hammered shut again. |
10 |
| 15 | 481 |
There the dark-haired girl and the blond girl, two of my paga slaves, stripped the new prisoners and I, with Harl rings, part of the freight carried by the panther girls, not speaking, fastened them in the slave chain. |
10 |
| 15 | 898 |
The red-haired girl, to my satisfaction, but not asking me, took some of the silk we carried and cut it into strips, wrapping it in and around the ankle rings of her charges, and about the girls' ankles, that their ankles be protected in the march. |
10 |
| 16 | 45 |
The large, delicate golden rings in her ears were stunning. |
10 |
| 17 | 44 |
They doubtless would be startled, upon awakening, to find themselves stripped, members of a slave chain, their fair ankles locked in Harl rings. |
10 |
| 17 | 90 |
There were not, however, enough Harl rings. |
10 |
| 18 | 141 |
Surely they had left behind, scattered, sprawled in helpless stupor, enough beauty to satisfy the Harl rings of almost any slaver's chain. |
10 |
| 19 | 185 |
With their axes they broke through to him, shattered the rings from the stones, and carried him safe to Tyros. |
10 |
| 22 | 136 |
Behind her, nude, proud, erect, golden rings in her ears, carrying a pointed stick, an improvised spear, came blond Verna, tall and beautiful. |
10 |
| 22 | 183 |
I saw the graceful metal at her throat, and on her wrists and ankles, the long, light chain dangling from the collar, to which the slave bracelets and ankle rings were attached. |
10 |
| 22 | 221 |
"You mocked me, too," said she, "when rings were fastened in my ears". |
10 |
| 22 | 791 |
Rissia stripped, her ankles, wrists and throat locked in the graceful chain and rings of the sirik, stumbled forward. |
10 |
| 22 | 844 |
She then drew the chain between her legs and under her body and fastened the two ankle rings, attached to the chain, on her ankles. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 126 |
The rings of rank are quite plain, being of some reddish alloy, and are to be distinguished from decorative rings, of which many Kurii are fond. |
10 |
| 1 | 11 |
No longer did the several torches, bristling and tarred, burn in the iron rings at the wall. |
10 |
| 1 | 563 |
"Put torches in the rings," said Samos. |
10 |
| 3 | 95 |
From some he took jewelry, bracelets, necklaces and rings. |
10 |
| 3 | 177 |
On one of each of the two curved pieces constituting a bracelet there is a welded ring; the two welded rings are joined by a single link, about an inch in width, counting both sides, each of which is about a quarter of an inch in diameter, and three inches long. |
10 |
| 3 | 386 |
She moved her wrists in the fetters; there was a small sound as the three-inch joining link moved in the welded rings of the fetters. |
10 |
| 5 | 166 |
At the neck and sides, attached by rings, usually hangs a mantle of linked chain. |
10 |
| 6 | 225 |
On one part of the collar are two, small, flat, thick rings. |
10 |
| 6 | 227 |
These rings, when the wings of the collar are joined, are aligned, those on one wing on top and bottom, that on the other in the center. |
10 |
| 6 | 495 |
Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel... |
10 |
| 8 | 53 |
Perhaps this is partly because, in the far south, the free women of the Wagon Peoples wear nose rings; perhaps it is because the piercing does not show; I do not know. |
10 |
| 8 | 64 |
Her hands wore many rings. |
10 |
| 8 | 127 |
Ivar Forkbeard quickly pulled the bracelets and rings from her wrists and fingers. |
10 |
| 8 | 179 |
She looked to the floor; on it, scattered, lay her bracelets, her rings, the golden chains she had worn about her neck. |
10 |
| 8 | 181 |
"Do you not want my rings," she asked, "my golden chains, my bracelets?" "It is only for you that I have come to this place," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 185 |
The golden chains, the rings, the bracelets, stripped from her, would be left behind. |
10 |
| 8 | 188 |
She stood, her arm held by my hand, in the fetters, in the dress of green velvet, it torn open at the collar to reveal her throat; she had been stripped of her rings, the bracelets, the chains; her hair was loose; her hose and shoes had been removed. |
10 |
| 10 | 88 |
Their men, too, often wore cloaks, and, about their arms, spiral rings of gold and silver, and, on their wrists, jewel-studded bands. |
10 |
| 13 | 150 |
Light was furnished from the cooking fire but, too, from torches set in rings on the wall, backed with metal plating; too, here and there, on chains from the beams, high above, there hung large tharlarion-oil lamps, which could be raised and lowered from the sides. |
10 |
| 14 | 229 |
The tharlarion-oil lamps, on their chains, hanging from rings on the roof beams! The apertures in the ceiling of the hall, through which smoke might pass! He had intended that I would escape. |
10 |
| 16 | 22 |
Along its edges, spaced some twelve feet from one another, on both sides, were torch rings, with unlit torches, which might be lit. |
10 |
| 16 | 50 |
Torches, unlit, in wall rings, were still illuminated as we passed near them. |
10 |
| 16 | 88 |
We lit new torches from the wall rings and discarded our old ones. |
10 |
| 16 | 90 |
Now, to one side and the other, we passed opened chests, in which we could see treasures, the spillings and tangles of coins and jewelries, rings, bracelets. |
10 |
| 17 | 122 |
This has one hundred and eighty animals, including subalterns and leaders, and is itself commanded by a "Blood," whose rank is indicated by two rings on the left arm. |
10 |
| 17 | 131 |
I further do not know the full significance of the rings. |
10 |
| 17 | 133 |
I do know that the rings are welded on the wrists of the beasts. |
10 |
| 17 | 140 |
Such a commander is said to stand "outside the rings". |
10 |
| 18 | 253 |
Many Kurii wear such rings, and necklaces and earrings. |
10 |
| 18 | 255 |
The leader of a Band wears two welded, reddish rings, the leader of the March, which contains twelve Bands, only one. |
10 |
| 18 | 326 |
It was a large Kur, brownish, with blazing eyes, rings in its ears. |
10 |
| 20 | 104 |
I have been trained in leadership, and have, in assuming such a leadership, killed for the rings. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
10 |
| 1 | 133 |
The straps, the rings, held her, of course, perfectly. |
10 |
| 1 | 220 |
She had heard the rustle of a looped chain, and the periodic click of the wrist-rings. |
10 |
| 1 | 263 |
I looked at the heavy, squarish face, burned by the wind and salt of Thassa, the clear eyes, the white, short-cropped hair, the small golden rings in his ears. |
10 |
| 1 | 277 |
We passed through two processing rooms; off one corridor was a medical facility, with mats and chains; we passed exercise rooms, training rooms; we passed the branding chamber; I saw heated irons within; we passed, too, the dreaded room of slave discipline; there were, in this room, suspended rings,... |
10 |
| 1 | 321 |
The chains jerked at the rings, again and again. |
10 |
| 1 | 325 |
I heard the rings groan in the stone. |
10 |
| 2 | 324 |
They are adjustable, with rings, from a length as small as two inches, for security, to a stride length of about twenty inches. |
10 |
| 2 | 432 |
Heavy collars, with rings, they wore about their necks. |
10 |
| 2 | 433 |
A heavy chain, running through the rings, linked them together by the throat. |
10 |
| 4 | 444 |
One of the kinsmen of Farouk went to the kurdahs of slave girls, hobble chains at his saddle pommel; he would rein in before a kurdah, throw the girl the hobble and order her, "Shackle yourself"; he would wait the moment it took for the girl to snap the small ring about her right wrist and, behind h... |
10 |
| 6 | 8 |
On my neck, hammered, was a heavy ring of iron, with two welded rings, one on each side, to which chains were attached, these chains in the hands of guards. |
10 |
| 7 | 7 |
To the heavy collar of iron, to each of its two, heavy welded rings, one on each side, there was fastened a short chain, fixed to a ring and plate, bolted through the drilled stone. |
10 |
| 8 | 124 |
If she had had objections doubtless they would have pertained to other matters, such as the fact that, against her will, her ears had been pierced; that she had not chosen the rings, but he; and that he, as a master, giving her no choice, not considering her feelings, because it had pleased him, had... |
10 |
| 9 | 15 |
One of the men, from behind, put ankle rings on her, joined by about a foot of chain. |
10 |
| 9 | 124 |
Her ankles were chained, snapped into the ankle rings; her right wrist was then locked in a slave bracelet; Hassan's man, reaching under her right leg, by the dangling bracelet, rudely jerked her right hand and wrist under her right leg; he then locked her left wrist in the bracelet, confining her h... |
10 |
| 13 | 32 |
On foot, among our captors, tethered by the neck to saddle rings, bound, we trudged to the larger of the pair of kasbahs, that other than Tarna's. |
10 |
| 14 | 393 |
They are usually furnished with cushions, and comfortable, silken bedding, and they may contain a small chest, in which the slave may keep small articles whose use has been given to her, rings, bracelets, armlets, bangles, cosmetics, silks, such things. |
10 |
| 20 | 31 |
I had seen rings of the sort worn on arms and wrists, and earrings, but no ring of the sort which might encircle a digit. |
10 |
| 24 | 44 |
Another arrangement is to use a bracelet-collar or a two-ring collar, which collars have, respectively, either two bracelets or two rings fixed at the sides. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 394 |
She lifted up some loops of chain; there were linked ankle rings and linked wrist rings, and a lock collar, all connected by a length of gleaming chain running from the collar. |
10 |
| 11 | 366 |
The rings were linked vertically at five places by tiny metal fastenings; each ring, opened, hinged, terminated on one end with a bolt and on the other with a tiny lock; I slipped the small bolts into the four tiny locks; there were four tiny snaps; the rings, linked together, fitted snugly; each ri... |
10 |
| 13 | 207 |
These run in separate series, the ankle rings being larger, of course, than the wrist rings. |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 5 | 656 |
One of the men carried a looped coffle chain, with wrist rings. |
10 |
| 5 | 668 |
There were six wrist rings on the chain he carried. |
10 |
| 5 | 672 |
Interestingly, the man snapping the wrist rings on the girls' left wrists did not put the first girl in the first ring, but the second. |
10 |
| 7 | 494 |
The collar clasped her throat; a chain dangled from the collar; her small wrists were locked in the slave bracelets fixed on the dangling chain, and the dangling chain, itself, looped down to a short chain and pair of ankle rings, to which it was gracefully fastened at a sliding ring. |
10 |
| 7 | 495 |
The ankle rings were then closed about the lovely ankles of Slave Beads, and locked. |
10 |
| 9 | 54 |
What beautiful legs she had! The girls extended their left wrists, for the rings to be locked upon them. |
10 |
| 9 | 76 |
Their left hands, now locked in wrist-rings, lay against their left thighs. |
10 |
| 9 | 2421 |
He removed two pair of wrist rings and chains from another drawer. |
10 |
| 11 | 6 |
My wrists were confined in wrist rings fastened to a chain, depending from a ring in the ceiling. |
10 |
| 11 | 7 |
My weight was borne mostly by the wrist rings and chain. |
10 |
| 11 | 47 |
He came to me and, with a key, unlocked the wrist rings. |
10 |
| 11 | 361 |
She threw a linkage of rings and bells to the tiles beside me. |
10 |
| 11 | 365 |
I extended my left ankle and, carefully, aligned the four rings. |
10 |
| 12 | 542 |
If I had had a tool to insert in the rings I might have done so. |
10 |
| 12 | 722 |
Over several of the saddles, bound, belly up, fastened to rings, was a stripped slave. |
10 |
| 13 | 139 |
From an assistant he took a board, with rings and papers. |
10 |
| 13 | 178 |
In the torchlight, I could see, in the rings of the amphitheater, ascending before me and above me, on three sides, the crowd. |
10 |
| 13 | 210 |
I could not slip a four ankle ring, of course; I could slip a four wrist ring, if it were set at four; most such wrist and ankle rings, however, are adjustable to 1, 2, 3 or 4. |
10 |
| 17 | 13 |
Two wrist rings, on sliding loops, are fitted on the oval. |
10 |
| 17 | 15 |
My wrists were locked in the wrist rings. |
10 |
| 17 | 17 |
My neck wore an iron collar, with its ring, behind my neck, through which a long chain passed, the chain, too, being held to the wall by its own rings. |
10 |
| 17 | 48 |
The merchant handed him the key that would unlock the wrist rings. |
10 |
| 17 | 52 |
I heard them unlock one of her wrist rings. |
10 |
| 20 | 134 |
When I had first been sent to the wharves, some weeks ago, my wrists had been braceleted behind me, and I had been accompanied by other girls; later I had been permitted to go alone, my wrists still locked behind my back; later I had been permitted to go alone to the wharves in wrist rings and chain... |
10 |
| 21 | 87 |
I stood, and felt ankle rings snapped on my ankles, joined by some twelve inches of chain; another chain, attached to this chain, was some three feet in length, and terminated with light manacles. |
10 |
| 22 | 442 |
There are many sorts of collars; some, for example, are bands of metal, some rings of metal, some chains of metal. |
10 |
| 24 | 61 |
Oh, I was sure that they were both excellent judges of women, yes, but of what sort of women, I asked myself, women stripped or lightly clad, women in collars or chains! And in what sort of venues had this superb taste in women been developed and honed? In the streets of Ar, seeing girls on leashes ... |
10 |
| 26 | 274 |
She pulled at the chain on the door, looped in rings, holding the bolt in place, and cut at the door with the knife, hysterically. |
10 |
| 29 | 11 |
Such rings are common in Gorean cities, in public places, and serve the convenience of masters in tethering their slaves. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 517 |
Her blond hair was loose and there were tiny rings in her ears. |
10 |
| 3 | 633 |
They wore now, as it was easy to see, only rounded ankle rings. |
10 |
| 3 | 767 |
A common chain ran though rings on the loops. |
10 |
| 3 | 769 |
Their ankles, now, for the chain running through the loop-rings was long, could be moved as closely together or as widely apart as they, or their masters, might wish. |
10 |
| 3 | 770 |
There were round, pierced metal balls at each end of the ankle chain, to prevent its slipping through the rings entirely. |
10 |
| 4 | 529 |
It is beautiful, too, to so fly, with a girl one has desired, bound over one's saddle, tied to the saddle rings, commanded to silence, her white belly arched, exposed to the moons. |
10 |
| 10 | 276 |
The coffle, in virtue of the arrangements of chains and ankle rings, could be broken up into smaller work units. |
10 |
| 10 | 287 |
"Yes!" The keys to our ankle rings were in the keeping of the chief guard, the master of our coffle. |
10 |
| 23 | 131 |
Before it had turned I had seen that it had worn in its ears two golden rings. |
10 |
| 23 | 173 |
"Did you not notice the rings in its ears". |
10 |
| 23 | 178 |
"It was by its own will, I believe," I said, "that those rings were put in its ears". |
10 |
| 23 | 487 |
In its ears were golden rings. |
10 |
| 24 | 5 |
He had cut the rings from the ears of the beast, and had given them, with Imnak's permission, to Poalu, who now wore them on her left wrist, as bracelets. |
10 |
| 24 | 7 |
"Are you sure," I asked Ram, "that this is the head of the beast who attacked you?" "Could there be more than one such beast," he asked, "with rings in its ears?" "It does not seem likely," I admitted. |
10 |
| 24 | 85 |
Karjuk looked at Poalu, in the two golden bracelets, which had been rings in the ears of the slain Kur. |
10 |
| 24 | 86 |
The rings, as bracelets, were pretty on her small red wrist. |
10 |
| 29 | 43 |
In its ears were golden rings. |
10 |
| 29 | 52 |
The rings of gold in the ears of that ice beast were smaller and lighter, I think, than those in the ears of this beast. |
10 |
| 29 | 63 |
"It was the head of an ice beast, earlier slain, in whose ears we had placed the golden rings". |
10 |
| 29 | 180 |
"It had rings in its ears. |
10 |
| 31 | 164 |
Great circles, rings of our people, would form in valleys, to watch". |
10 |
| 33 | 2 |
Near the circular, heavy door, now closed, stood the white-pelted Kur, that which had rings in its ears, that which had accompanied Karjuk, the traitor to his people. |
10 |
| 35 | 370 |
Their wrists, at the sides of their heads, in light manacles fastened to wall rings, were similarly secured. |
10 |
| 36 | 175 |
She picked up the chain, with its collar, and wrist and ankle rings. |
10 |
| 36 | 253 |
I locked the collar on her neck, and the two wrist rings, one after the other, on her small wrists. |
10 |
| 36 | 254 |
I then took the chain between her legs and, crouching behind her, snapped the two ankle rings shut on her fair ankles. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 1091 |
Sometimes their girls wear yellow-enameled collars, and yellow-enameled wrist rings and ankle rings, with chains with blue links. |
10 |
| 1 | 309 |
In another room I saw, on the walls, arranged by size, collars, chains, wrist and ankle rings. |
10 |
| 1 | 564 |
"Let me speak to you of the five rings," said Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 568 |
The invisibility rings were the product of a great Kur scientist, one we may refer to in human phonemes, for our convenience, as Prasdak of the Cliff of Karrash. |
10 |
| 1 | 570 |
He left behind him, however, five rings. |
10 |
| 1 | 571 |
In the sacking of his city, which took place some two years after his death, the rings were found". |
10 |
| 1 | 572 |
"What became of the rings?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 594 |
"That left two rings," said Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 602 |
"Perhaps they have now learned how to duplicate the rings," I ventured. |
10 |
| 1 | 605 |
Secondly, given the secretive nature of the rings' inventor, Prasdak of the Cliff of Karrash, I suspect there is an additional reason which mitigates against the dismantlement of the ring and its consequent reproduction". |
10 |
| 1 | 709 |
"It is curious," I said, "that the rings were never duplicated". |
10 |
| 4 | 61 |
This included, however, little more than her measurements and the sizes of the collar, and wrist and ankle rings that would well fit her. |
10 |
| 5 | 584 |
Indeed, among the Tuchuks, one of the Wagon Peoples of Gor, even free women wear nose rings. |
10 |
| 5 | 656 |
She, I felt, was the key to the mystery, that device whereby I might locate Shaba and the fourth ring, one of the two remaining light-diversion rings, the secret of which had apparently perished long ago with Prasdak, the Kur inventor, he of the Cliff of Karrash. |
10 |
| 5 | 662 |
The use of such rings, if their use were permitted by Priest-Kings, might well make it difficult or impossible for the Kurii to function on Gor. |
10 |
| 6 | 200 |
The golden metal rings, too, had been repainted. |
10 |
| 6 | 212 |
The girls knelt on the deck before the stem castle, their wrists bound before them, lines leading to the rings. |
10 |
| 6 | 392 |
Both were now ready to be put at the rings, the blonde at the left, Sasi at the right. |
10 |
| 6 | 539 |
They hung as splendid ornaments, two slave beauties, dangling over the brownish waters, from rings set in the ears of a beast. |
10 |
| 6 | 598 |
I saw two slavers stop at the wharf, looking up at the slaves suspended from the rings. |
10 |
| 6 | 616 |
Two slave girls, white, barefoot, in ragged brown tunics, with golden rings in their ears, one chewing on a larma, came to stand on the wharf near the prow. |
10 |
| 6 | 617 |
"How ugly you are!" called up one of them to the girls at the rings. |
10 |
| 6 | 644 |
Yes, rings would look well in her ears. |
10 |
| 6 | 647 |
Her ears, too, I decided, would look well with rings in them. |
10 |
| 6 | 648 |
She would soon have pierced ears, set well with golden rings, should she come into my ownership. |
10 |
| 7 | 147 |
Shoka then freed her wrists of the wrist rings of the sirik and Uchafu locked a waist chain on her and then, about this chain, running the linkage of the bracelets behind it, braceleted her hands at her belly. |
10 |
| 7 | 149 |
Shoka then removed the sirik collar from her, and the ankle rings, freeing her of the sirik. |
10 |
| 11 | 231 |
We were then carried below, where we were fastened to rings. |
10 |
| 12 | 443 |
They braceleted her wrists about one of the four slave rings in the wall, the one farthest from the blond-haired barbarian and closest to the door. |
10 |
| 13 | 194 |
At the far corners of the room, of course, the chains terminate with wrist rings. |
10 |
| 13 | 208 |
I then fastened her left and right wrists in their respective wrist rings. |
10 |
| 13 | 483 |
How piteous were her small hands, opening and closing, in the wrist rings. |
10 |
| 14 | 376 |
* * * * She put her fingers to her ears, and turned her head, from side to side, looking at the rings in her ears. |
10 |
| 14 | 508 |
Of course they would put us in steel collars, which we could not remove! Of course they could chain us to their walls and slave rings! Of course they would use the whip unhesitantly upon us if we were in the least displeasing!" She knelt before the mirror, shuddering. |
10 |
| 14 | 550 |
I looked at the tiny wires vanishing in the minute punctures and then emerging, looping her ears, as though in a slave bond, making them the mounting places from which, thus fastened upon her, by my will, dangled two golden rings, barbaric ornaments enhancing the beauty of a slave. |
10 |
| 14 | 560 |
Too, if the ring itself is closed, perhaps it suggests her susceptibility to the locked shackle, say, a wrist ring or slave bracelet; would there not, in the two rings, be one, so to speak, for each wrist? It is little wonder that Gorean free women never pierce their ears; it is little wonder that, ... |
10 |
| 15 | 217 |
I might have discerned this had he not appeared to be intent on misdirecting our attention, calling it to the simple warning system, that of the threads and peas, in the ceiling, presumably to effect a switch of the rings while our attention was diverted. |
10 |
| 15 | 220 |
The exchange of rings, of course, had actually taken place earlier, in privacy. |
10 |
| 18 | 28 |
Rings of gold and now insignia of rank, feathers and necklaces, were distributed. |
10 |
| 18 | 109 |
He presented gifts, skins and feathers, and brass rings and the teeth of tharlarion, to Bila Huruma, and swore to him the fealty of the Ukungu villages. |
10 |
| 32 | 595 |
'No!' I screamed, when I reached the top of the platform, for I then saw, before me, a large, oblong piece of stone, a massive, primitive stone altar, discolored with huge stains of dried blood, with iron rings. |
10 |
| 32 | 598 |
I was thrown on my back on the altar and my hands, by the wrist leashes, were fastened apart and over my head to iron rings. |
10 |
| 32 | 603 |
Men strung the thongs on my ankles through the iron rings at the foot of the altar. |
10 |
| 32 | 636 |
My wrist leashes were untied from the iron rings. |
10 |
| 32 | 673 |
"There were two rings before the stone, about five feet apart," she said. |
10 |
| 32 | 678 |
"My wrist leashes," she said, "were then slipped through the rings, the free ends of each in the hands of a standing man". |
10 |
| 32 | 709 |
"The men then thrust my wrist leashes back through the rings and, by means of them, dragged me to my feet. |
10 |
| 32 | 831 |
I could almost sense the torches, the pool of reptiles to one side, the rude altar, with its rings, in the background. |
10 |
| 34 | 214 |
"I have heard," she said, "that girls are often chained at night to slave rings at the foot of their masters' couches". |
10 |
| 50 | 32 |
On it were huge pillars, with iron rings, where vessels might be moored. |
10 |
| 53 | 360 |
The Kur had worn rings of gold in its ears. |
10 |
| 57 | 116 |
A long chain was run lengthwise in the galley and fastened to rings at both stem and stern. |
10 |
| 57 | 117 |
The left ankle of the extra girl, the fetch-and-carry girl, who was already in wrist rings, joined by a foot of chain, was then locked in one of two ankle shackles, joined by about eighteen inches of chain. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 178 |
These tharlarion rings are quite similar to slave rings. |
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| 25 | 305 |
Within the wagon, in low-sided, heavy stalls, we were chained to rings by the neck, wrists, and ankles, two rings at the back, one for the neck chain and one for the manacled wrists, and one at the front, for our shackled ankles. |
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| 1 | 428 |
' There were five rings on the outside of the goblet. |
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| 2 | 196 |
These two rings snapped together, holding her head back. |
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| 2 | 205 |
Her head, too, by the two rings, was held in place. |
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| 8 | 54 |
On its top it had two sets of rings, each set placed along an edge of the top, through which long carrying poles might be thrust. |
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| 8 | 93 |
I heard the two long poles being thrust through the sets of rings on the roof of the box. |
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| 8 | 96 |
I felt the box being lifted into the air, suspended by the rings and poles. |
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| 9 | 106 |
I then felt the slave box, on the rings and poles, again being lifted. |
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| 10 | 12 |
Prodicus gestured to the carrying slaves and they set their poles again through the rings and, in moments, they, carrying the box, preceded by Prodicus, had exited through an iron door. |
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| 10 | 172 |
I saw that there were chains, on rings, attached to it. |
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| 13 | 151 |
There were slave rings, a foot or so from the sidewalk, in the front wall of the shop of Philebus. |
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| 13 | 152 |
Such rings are common in public places on Gor. |
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| 13 | 153 |
A slave girl, sitting, her hands bound before her body with cord, by a shortened neck-leash, was chained at one of these rings. |
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| 13 | 180 |
They have this in common, of course, that they are both animal rings. |
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| 13 | 217 |
I glanced to the slave girl who was, by the shortened neck-leash, chained at one of the rings in front of the shop of Philebus. |
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| 18 | 310 |
Then, in a moment, in her swirling skirt, and hood and veil, and boots, quirt in hand, she stood before the five kajirae, members of her own sex, briefly tunicked, wearing feminine work collars, with rings, who knelt before her. |
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| 21 | 309 |
When I arrived there I found them waiting, kneeling on the boards of their kennels, before their chain rings, in the position of pleasure slaves, back on heels, heads up, hands on thighs, backs straight, knees wide. |
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| 22 | 824 |
Ronald, in one hand, carried the slaver's case, with its chains, and rings, and bracelets and collars, with him. |
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| 26 | 138 |
"Tie them to the saddle rings," said the first voice. |
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| 27 | 44 |
The brigands, indeed, had taken their departure, bringing their tarns to flight, their loot sacks bulging and, tied helplessly at their saddle rings, lovely, naked slaves. |
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| 29 | 129 |
"I saw various slaves, indeed, house slaves and stable sluts, fastened at the saddle rings of the brigands, but I knew them all. |
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| 33 | 5 |
We had seen a tarnsman, too, flying in this direction, four girls tied at his saddle rings. |
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| 34 | 27 |
About their ankles were close-fitting ankle rings, joined by a short length of chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 153 |
"And as what do you see yourself," I asked, "as an abused woman, hoping to be hastily freed, or as a slave, tied to rings, who hopes her master will see fit to linger over her?" "A slave," she smiled, "one fastened helplessly, tied to rings, who hopes that she will be found sufficiently pleasing tha... |
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| 6 | 110 |
In the log walls, at various heights, but usually less than a yard from the floor, there occur slave rings. |
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| 7 | 96 |
On the blanket, spread out, were dozens of pins and brooches, clasps and buckles, rings and necklaces, and bracelets and earrings, and bangles and armlets, and body chains. |
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| 7 | 105 |
Then she extended her right arm that I might see the armlets, bracelets and rings which scarcely permitted her flesh to be seen. |
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| 11 | 6 |
Her wrists, by several narrow loops of red leather, on each wrist, were tied to iron rings on each side of her body, a little below the level of her shoulders. |
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| 11 | 275 |
She leaned back, her wrists, bound, at the rings. |
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| 12 | 27 |
Such rings are commonly used for chaining slave girls, generally by the neck, or left ankle, to the foot of their master's couch. |
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| 15 | 46 |
Small rings, on either side of the couch, at the head and foot, anchoring the binding fiber, permitted this tie. |
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| 21 | 34 |
Some Goreans, interestingly, but understandably enough, unaware of the absence of an adequate atmosphere between worlds, as were most intellectuals of Earth for centuries, as well, suppose simply, and naturally enough, that these new crops of slave beasts have been brought in lashed in tarn baskets,... |
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| 24 | 54 |
I regarded the objects, with their tiny belts and buckles, with their attached, sewn in, metal snap rings. |
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| 26 | 12 |
In Tasdron's paga tavern, as in many, along one wall, there is a set of slave rings, to which one may chain or tie one's slaves while drinking or dining in the tavern. |
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| 26 | 43 |
Some girls have been raped at such rings, as helplessly as though they might have been chained to them, so great is the fear of their master, and so strict is the Gorean discipline to which they know themselves subject. |
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| 30 | 7 |
I had then been chained, hand and foot, on my back, to four iron rings set in the tiles, before the dais on which reposed his curule chair. |
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| 33 | 102 |
It was anchored to great rings on the pylons. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 226 |
Each girl carried a tray of desserts, and each wore two light, graceful, gleaming chains, one of which, some twenty inches in length, by means of ankle rings, joined her ankles, and the other of which, some eighteen inches in length, put confinement on her wrists, each fair wrist being clasped snugl... |
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| 8 | 374 |
She lay on her back, and by the brass rings, some two inches in diameter, and by the leather thongs, near her shoulders, and at the bottom sides of the berth, tied her upon it. |
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| 8 | 424 |
Her sweet wrists and slim ankles moved in the leather bonds which, tied to the brass slave rings, confined them. |
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| 15 | 7 |
"Not even the alarm bar rings," said Reginald, who had been the captain of the Tamira. |
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| 17 | 316 |
Usually, at such rings, slaves are on a short leash or chain, and are fastened to them on their knees. |
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| 19 | 443 |
For example, it can be useful in leading her about, either because of its ring, if it has one, to which a leash may be attached, or in connection with a leash with a snap lock, which can be placed about the collar itself; similarly it is useful, in connection with various forms of hardware, in faste... |
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| 20 | 237 |
On her tiny, lovely wrists, inflexible and close-fitting, were wrist rings, each securely locked. |
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| 20 | 238 |
Chain, under the tray, dangled between the rings. |
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| 20 | 308 |
The contrast of the unbreakable, merciless, interwoven metallic links, with their tasteful shackles, or cuffs and rings, with the confined, helpless softness of the slave is aesthetically interesting, providing, as it does, a lovely study in surfaces, textures and materials; too, of course, it is on... |
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| 20 | 1620 |
Yes, I thought those ankles would look well in loops and rings. |
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| 20 | 1701 |
She knew nothing of slave rings. |
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| 21 | 125 |
"I can tell you my measurements," she said, "and my collar size, and the sizes of the wrist and ankle rings that will fit me. |
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| 21 | 528 |
Nose rings, on the other hand, are given little thought on Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 921 |
Some were attached to the collar rings by the links themselves, opened and then reclosed about the rings, and some of them were fastened to the collar rings by snap rings. |
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| 1 | 451 |
"The left wrist of the larger animal bears two rings, rings of reddish alloy," I said. |
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| 1 | 1316 |
"I swear to you on the rings of Sardak," said Kog, putting his paw on the two rings of reddish alloy on the left wrist of Sardak. |
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| 1 | 112 |
It might be mentioned that nose rings are favored in some areas more than in others, and by some peoples more than others. |
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| 1 | 113 |
On behalf of the nose ring, too, it should be mentioned that among the Wagon Peoples, even free women wear such rings. |
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| 1 | 116 |
These rings, incidentally, those for the ears and for the nose, do not serve simply to bedeck the female. |
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| 1 | 456 |
"Two such rings designate the leader of a Band. |
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| 1 | 464 |
"The other," said Samos, "wears two golden rings in its ears". |
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| 1 | 466 |
"Such rings serve only as ornaments. |
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| 1 | 519 |
To be sure, however, it was only the lighter colored, and smaller, of the two creatures, that with rings in its ears, which had performed these actions. |
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| 1 | 568 |
I remember noting the glinting of the golden rings in its ears, and the moistness of saliva about its dark lips and on its fangs. |
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| 1 | 570 |
"I am below the rings. |
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| 1 | 571 |
With me is Sardak, who is within the rings. |
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| 1 | 572 |
I speak on behalf of the Peoples, and the chieftains of the Peoples, those who stand above the rings. |
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| 1 | 574 |
No greetings do I bring you from those unworthy of the rings, from the discounted ones, the unnamed and craven ones. |
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| 1 | 1271 |
"It is not tolerated on the steel worlds," said Kog, "not in one who is above the rings". |
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| 2 | 332 |
One does not forget a Kur such as Half-Ear, or Zarendargar, one who stood above the rings, a war general among the Kurii. |
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| 8 | 38 |
Uniformly they wore collars and chains, the chains some five feet in length and attached to the block rings. |
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| 8 | 125 |
The side blocks were now deserted, the men having drifted forward, except by their occupants, now forgotten, kneeling or crouching upon them, their necks in their collars, fastened by their chains to the block rings. |
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| 8 | 918 |
The collars had front and back rings, were hinged on the right and locked on the left. |
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| 8 | 924 |
Girls are spaced on such a chain, usually, by snap rings. |
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| 19 | 737 |
Each street and each square in such a city is likely to have its tether posts and whipping rings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 200 |
A warrior may secure such women with devices so simple as thumb-cuffs, like tiny, joined rings, and snap-lock, or pronged, tension-closed, nose-rings, with strands of wire, to fasten them together. |
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| 1 | 7 |
The vibration, clearly, was registered in the narrow, flat-based rings. |
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| 39 | 202 |
If the cities are long-time, hereditary enemies snap-lock, or pronged, tension-closed, earrings might be used instead of nose-rings, as a gesture of contempt, a pierced ear, or ears, on Gor, culturally, commonly, being regarded as the mark of the lowest, the most sensuous and the most despicable of ... |
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| 39 | 303 |
The common guidance apparatus for tarns in most cities is an arrangement involving two major rings and six straps. |
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| 47 | 353 |
Sardak, the two rings of reddish alloy on his left wrist, advanced to meet it. |
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| 47 | 396 |
The arm of Sardak, with its two rings of reddish alloy, hung limp. |
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| 56 | 72 |
"He has sworn it, by the rings," said Zarendargar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 291 |
"These other rings," I said, indicating the rings about the couch, "are they also slave rings?" "Yes," she said, approaching lightly, gracefully, "in their way, but most of them are only anchor rings, to which, say, chains or cords might be attached". |
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| 3 | 190 |
I looked at the rings on the couch, at the ring in the floor, and the two rings in the wall, one about a yard from the floor and one about six feet from the floor. |
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| 3 | 215 |
"What are these rings?" I asked, indicating the heavy ring in the floor, and the two rings in the wall. |
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| 4 | 104 |
There were more rings than there were women on the shelves, and there were rings, too, set at various heights, in the wall behind the shelves. |
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| 4 | 105 |
These rings, too, however, like many of the shelf rings, were not being used. |
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| 6 | 824 |
At one end the base chain was attached to a rather small neck ring, but suitable for closing about a woman's neck; at the other end it was attached to one of the subsidiary chains, about a foot long, and terminating on each end with a ring; those rings looked as though they might fit snugly about a ... |
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| 13 | 112 |
Then, when I was absolutely naked, a golden collar, to which a chain was attached, with wrist rings and ankle rings, was brought. |
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| 13 | 117 |
A chain then ran from my collar to the chain on my wrist rings and from thence, the same chain, to the chain on my ankle rings. |
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| 2 | 491 |
Inside were various straps, and rings. |
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| 2 | 529 |
I heard the movement of the two rings. |
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| 2 | 540 |
I heard the clink of the two rings. |
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| 2 | 550 |
Because of the rings and straps, and the closeness with which they held me to the wall, I could gain little leverage. |
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| 2 | 560 |
The two rings made a tiny sound. |
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| 3 | 42 |
I also saw, in one wall, two such rings. |
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| 3 | 49 |
Smaller rings, too, I noted, circling the couch, appeared at regular intervals about its perimeter, about every four or five feet, or so. |
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| 3 | 216 |
"They are slave rings, Mistress," said the girl. |
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| 3 | 555 |
I looked to the barred window, to the soft expanses of that great, barbaric couch, to the chain at its foot, to the rings fixed in it, and elsewhere, to the whip on its hook, to the door which I could not lock on my side. |
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| 4 | 101 |
Too, chains ran from heavy rings to their bodies, to perhaps a lovely neck, or a fair wrist or ankle. |
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| 6 | 43 |
There were several slave girls there, just outside the grounds, fastened to various rings and stanchions. |
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| 6 | 742 |
"Did you merely wish to see girls in the grated pits, or chained in their kennels, or at their rings," he asked, "or did you wish, perhaps, to gain also an idea of what goes on in such a house?" "What do you mean?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 270 |
Too, of course, the wrist rings, and the collar, are truly locked on her. |
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| 13 | 67 |
They can be tied about slave rings, fastened to other such thongs, and so on. |
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| 13 | 115 |
Almost at the same time my wrists, held closely together before me, were locked helplessly in the wrist rings. |
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| 13 | 116 |
In another instant my ankles, held, were helpless in the ankle rings. |
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| 13 | 119 |
The central chain, where it dangled down from the wrist rings, lay on the floor before the throne, before it looped up to where it was closed about a central link of the ankle-ring chain. |
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| 29 | 196 |
The most commonly worn wrist and ankle rings are the twos and threes. |
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| 33 | 1000 |
He took my hands and turned them over, looking at the snug wrist rings locked on them. |
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| 36 | 25 |
The canvas had not yet been put in place, to be tied down, stretched over the frame, to its rings on the outside of the wagon bed. |
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| 36 | 654 |
There is no doubt that numerous, lovely, scarcely clad slaves, in the streets and boulevards, in the plazas and parks, on the bridges and amongst the towers, perhaps hurrying on errands, perhaps casting shy glances over their shoulders at young men, perhaps visiting or shopping with their masters, a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 19 |
Jugglers performed awesome tricks with rings, balls and sticks. |
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| 2 | 888 |
I brushed aside the curtain and entered the booth, permitting the curtain, not much drawn on its rings, to fall shut behind me. |
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| 2 | 972 |
It is difficult to move such a curtain, heavy and lined as it is, customary in purple booths, without a rustle of fabric, or the scraping of one or more of the rings. |
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| 5 | 322 |
I clasped the ankle rings about her ankles, locking them. |
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| 5 | 323 |
I thrust the short, attached chain, attached to the ankle-ring chain at one end, and the wrist-ring chain at the other, and the wrist rings, on their short chain, between her legs and through the sturdy floor ring. |
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| 5 | 324 |
I then, close to the floor, locked her wrists snugly into the wrist rings. |
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| 5 | 348 |
Her wrists pulled upward, against the wrist rings, but her hands, chained as they were, could lift but a few inches from the floor. |
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| 5 | 369 |
"Among your belongings," I said, "there are also doubtless other things of interest, such as rings, and moneys, and such, pilfered from your captives. |
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| 6 | 1111 |
Binding or chaining to saddle rings or stirrups is usually used if there is more than one capture, as in, say, a successful raid or group hunt, these usually conducted by a coordinated pride of tarnsmen. |
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| 7 | 56 |
The girls were all on their hands and knees on the long, narrow platforms, uniformly positioned, facing outwards, a short chain on the neck of each, running down to individual rings anchored in the thick planks. |
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| 8 | 12 |
"Where are the keys to the ankle rings of your tent sluts?" inquired the leader of the brigands. |
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| 8 | 22 |
I saw another fellow start toward Boots's wagon, presumably to fetch the keys to Bina's and Rowena's ankle rings. |
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| 9 | 80 |
I dangled it, in its small, sturdy rings and four heavy, close-set links, before her eyes. |
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| 9 | 88 |
The ankle rings snug on her I removed the bonds of the brigands from her ankles. |
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| 10 | 910 |
Afterwards, at night, I would chain her by the neck to one of the two slave rings in the wagon, one at the foot of each bunk. |
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| 16 | 1073 |
These rings, when lowered, hung a few feet above the floor, some six or seven feet above it, in the open space between the tables. |
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| 16 | 1074 |
These rings may serve various purposes, such as the display of disgraced females destined for slavery, most likely debtors, or the public punishment of errant slaves, but their number is largely dictated by the occasional use of displaying captured, stripped free women of enemy cities. |
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| 18 | 213 |
She also wore, though they could not now be seen, as she stood in the trunk, a set of linked ankle rings. |
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| 18 | 214 |
These, too, were not portions of Boots's props but practical custodial hardware, rings of a sort common on Gor for the chaining of women, generally slaves. |
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| 18 | 264 |
There I put the ankle rings on her, put her in the slave sack, tied it shut and placed it in the trunk, through the rear panel. |
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| 18 | 331 |
I had my hands on one of the long poles, wherewith the giant vat, on its lifting rings, had been brought into the hall. |
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| 18 | 370 |
The corridor was long and seemingly empty, on both sides of the door, save for such things as closed doors, presumably locked, slave rings, niches here and there, vases, and decorative plantings. |
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| 19 | 9 |
Gorean urban architecture, in the high cities, tends to be not so much a matter of flat, spreading, concentric horizontal rings, as in many cities, as a matter of towers and tiered levels, linked by soaring, ascendant traceries. |
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| 20 | 322 |
I wondered if such rings were occasionally erected on the steel worlds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 403 |
Here, within the citadel, of course, such rings, though usually called slave rings, could serve a large variety of purposes. |
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| 21 | 625 |
Too, of course, one could see, in front, the dependent chain, the wrist rings and ankle rings, and such. |
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| 21 | 727 |
I assumed he would remove the Lady Claudia's wrist rings first, then affix the belly thong on her, fastening her hands behind her back, tightly, and then, and then only, remove the ankle rings and the collar, the remainder of the sirik. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 145 |
"The chain leashes attached to the leash rings on the metal collar I wore were fastened to rings on each side of me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 69 |
Similarly, some collars, leather or otherwise, have rings to which such snap rings may be conveniently fastened. |
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| 16 | 1393 |
The weight collars they wore, too, with the dangling rings, by means of which they were fastened to the floor rings, could not be removed either, except by tools. |
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| 21 | 22 |
This is particularly the case when chains and collars, or wrist rings, or ankle rings, are used. |
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| 25 | 751 |
Various measurements were iterated matter-of-factly, for example, those of her bosom, waist and hips, and those of her neck, wrists and ankles, the latter primarily of interest with respect to the dimensions of appropriate identificatory or custodial hardware, the collar, wrist rings and ankle rings... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 693 |
I wondered if, later, the wrist rings and ankle rings would be used. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 145 |
Lord Grendel's translator articulated, quietly, as the volume was set, "Yes, the Rings, the Rings". |
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| 64 | 229 |
"I want him in the rings," said Surtak, "in the rings". |
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