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| 11 | 78 |
Instead, she stood before me in the diaphanous, scarlet dancing silks of Gor. |
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| 11 | 96 |
She danced before me for several minutes, her scarlet dancing silks flashing in the firelight, her bare feet, with their belled ankles, striking softly on the carpet. |
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| 20 | 26 |
There, I suppose to this day, in that inhospitable vastness, he reigns; in the scarlet mountains of the Voltai, Marlenus still rules, a larl among men, an outlaw king, to his followers always the Ubar of Ubars. |
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| 22 | 146 |
In those days it had been a portion of the Rites of Submission, as practiced in Tharna, to strip and bind the captive with yellow cords and place her on a scarlet rug, the yellow of the cord being symbolic of talenders, a flower often associated with feminine love and beauty, the scarlet of the rug ... |
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| 2 | 36 |
In it I found the scarlet tunic, sandals and cloak which constitute the normal garb of a member of the Caste of Warriors. |
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| 2 | 78 |
I now dressed myself in the scarlet garb of a warrior of Gor. |
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| 4 | 102 |
It is said that if one sees one's visage black and wasted one will die of disease, if one sees oneself torn and scarlet one will die in battle, if one sees oneself old and white haired, one will die in peace and leave children. |
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| 6 | 70 |
That night, at a great feast, he displays the captive, now suitably attired by his sisters in the diaphanous, scarlet dancing silks of Gor. |
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| 6 | 87 |
Though she is clad only in the almost transparent scarlet dancing silks of Gor, her back is straight, her head high. |
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| 8 | 23 |
Some of these masks had turned to gaze upon me as I passed, my scarlet warrior's tunic having caught their eye. |
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| 8 | 52 |
After all, how many scarlet-clad warriors appeared from day to day in the drab streets of Tharna? I climbed one of the towers of Tharna, wanting to look out upon the city. |
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| 9 | 79 |
I must have seemed strange to them, a scarlet-clad warrior, bearing weapons, suddenly entering, a man from another city unexpectedly in their midst. |
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| 10 | 28 |
After we had walked for perhaps some twenty minutes through the drab, graveled, twisted streets of Tharna, its gray citizens parting to make way for us and to stare expressionlessly at the scarlet-clad prisoner, we came to a broad winding avenue, steep and paved with black cobblestones, still shiny ... |
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| 11 | 253 |
"So," she said to me, both hands clenched on the butt of the whip, "you would have me before you on the scarlet rug bound with yellow cords, would you?" I did not understand her meaning. |
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| 20 | 78 |
The mountains of the Sardar were not such a vast, magnificent range as the rugged scarlet crags of the Voltai, that almost impenetrable mountain vastness in which I had once been the prisoner of the outlaw Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, ambitious and warlike father of the fierce and beautiful Talena, she who... |
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| 22 | 140 |
"Though I was Tatrix of Tharna," she said, "I wanted to lie at your feet on the scarlet rug, I wanted to be bound with yellow cords". |
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| 22 | 157 |
I have placed you on the scarlet rug. |
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| 22 | 184 |
Perhaps even to the scarlet rug and yellow cords. |
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| 22 | 230 |
I saw that she knelt upon a scarlet rug. |
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| 23 | 9 |
It was a bright yellow and she had belted it with a scarlet sash. |
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| 23 | 12 |
It was scarlet. |
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| 23 | 129 |
His gray garment with its scarlet strip of cloth on the shoulder was stained with blood. |
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| 24 | 36 |
Kron clapped his hands again and to my surprise there was a sudden sound of bells and four terrified girls, obviously chosen for their beauty and grace, stood before our table clad only in the scarlet dancing silks of Gor. |
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| 25 | 11 |
Seemingly almost impassive, the golden-robed figure on the throne watched the two warriors moving backward and forward before her, one clad in the blue helmet and gray tunic of Tharna, the other in the universal scarlet of the Gorean Caste of Warriors. |
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| 2 | 31 |
The blood vessels in their necks and legs and arms began to distend until I feared they might burst open through the tortured flesh; the agonized muscles of their straining knotted bodies, like swollen leather, seemed to fill with pain as if pain were a fluid; their flesh seemed to fuse with the woo... |
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| 4 | 59 |
I began to feel all the hatred of all the years that I had nursed against the Priest-Kings now uncontrollably, slowly, violently growing in my body, wild, fierce, those foliating scarlet vines of my fury that now seemed to encircle me, to enfold me, to engulf me, swelling, steaming, now writhing afl... |
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| 4 | 75 |
I shook my head to drive out the scarlet stars that seemed to race before my eyes. |
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| 5 | 5 |
Beneath me, twisted and tangled, lay heavy sleeping pelts, thick robes of fur, numerous sheets of scarlet silk. |
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| 7 | 50 |
Lara's lips had been rich and fine, sensitive and curious, tender, eager, hungry; the lips of Vika were maddening; I recalled those lips, full and red, pouting, defiant, scornful, scarlet with a slave girl's challenge to my blood; I wondered if Vika might be a bred slave, a Passion Slave, one of tho... |
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| 8 | 82 |
Six times the hilt of my sword struck against the sensors and six times there was a hissing pop like the explosion of hot glass and a bright shower of scarlet sparks. |
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| 8 | 229 |
They were burned and still, shattered, and even the wall in their vicinity showed the seared, scarlet stain of their abrupt termination. |
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| 26 | 169 |
There was no scarlet moss in the case but there was a straw mat on one side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 76 |
She wore a brief leather skirt, slit on the right side to allow her the saddle of the kaiila; her leather blouse was sleeveless; attached to her shoulders was a crimson cape; and her wild black hair was bound back by a band of scarlet cloth. |
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| 7 | 46 |
I turned to see a stout man-at-arms step to the dais, carrying in his arms, folded in the furs of the scarlet larl, a girl. |
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| 7 | 48 |
The man-at-arms placed Elizabeth Cardwell before us, and Kutaituchik, and drew away the pelt of the scarlet larl. |
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| 8 | 402 |
"If you win for us," Albrecht said to her, grinning down from the saddle of the kaiila, "this night you will be given a silver bracelet and five yards of scarlet silk". |
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| 9 | 28 |
Saphrar was a short, fat, pinkish man, with short legs and arms; he had quick bright eyes and a tiny, roundish red-lipped mouth; upon occasion he moved his small, pudgy fingers, with rounded scarlet nails, rapidly, as though rubbing the gloss from a tarn disk or feeling the texture of a fine cloth; ... |
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| 9 | 297 |
Each of the women I had thought free did the same, until each stood before us, a collared slave girl clad only in the diaphanous, scarlet dancing silks of Gor. |
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| 10 | 14 |
The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,... |
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| 11 | 346 |
Dazed, holding her right arm, on which could be seen four encircling blazes of scarlet, she regarded him. |
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| 12 | 394 |
Now, in the background, scarcely to be seen, was the figure of a warrior in scarlet cape. |
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| 12 | 417 |
She circled the warrior like a captive moon to his imprisoning scarlet sun, always at the length of the chain. |
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| 19 | 36 |
Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o... |
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| 25 | 862 |
She lay on her back, her eyes open, looking at the top of the wagon, at the hangings, the shadows thrown on the scarlet hides by the light of the fire bowl. |
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| 26 | 162 |
He wore the scarlet of a warrior. |
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| 26 | 343 |
The fat hands with the scarlet fingernails seemed suddenly to be drawn and thin, clutching. |
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| 26 | 365 |
Then the merchant's hands, still extended as though to grasp the vines overhead, with their scarlet fingernails, the robes eaten away from the flesh, disappeared beneath the sparkling, glistening surface. |
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| 28 | 48 |
Now, diagonally, like a scarlet chevron coursing the flight of the cheek bones, there blazed on the face of Harold the Tuchuk the Courage Scar. |
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| 1 | 29 |
The procession was led by four Warriors, who supported on their shoulders a framework of crossed spears, lashed together, on which, wrapped in the scarlet leather of a tarnsman, lay the body. |
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| 1 | 30 |
Kuurus watched, unmoved, as the four Warriors carried their scarlet burden to the height of the huge, sweet-smelling, oil-impregnated pyre. |
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| 1 | 31 |
Averting their eyes the Warriors threw back the scarlet leather that the body might lie free on the spears, open to the wind and sun. |
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| 1 | 49 |
The ashes, Kuurus judged, since the body had been wrapped in the scarlet leather of a tarnsman, would be scattered from tarnback, perhaps over distant Thassa, the sea. |
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| 6 | 45 |
To each, on furs, there was chained, by the left ankle, a bare-breasted girl about whose waist there was knotted a scarlet cord, in which was thrust a long, narrow rectangle of red silk. |
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| 12 | 30 |
I could see him a few feet behind the throne, wrapped in a scarlet cloak, a tall, spare man, long-armed and narrow-faced, whose head moved restlessly, surveying the crowd. |
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| 16 | 6 |
Further, because of his services to the state, including the sponsorship of games and races, Cernus was, upon the petition of Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians, invested in the scarlet of the Warrior, thus honoring him with High Caste. |
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| 17 | 509 |
A bit of scarlet cord had been knotted about her waist, into which was thrust a long rectangle of red silk; her hair had been unbound; her wrists were braceleted behind her back; the key hung on a string about her neck; the slave bells were still locked on her left ankle, but her finery was gone; no... |
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| 24 | 2 |
It was fresh and clean, bright scarlet, pressed with hot, round irons warmed over fires. |
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| 24 | 97 |
The bright sunlight in the room, the scarlet of my tunic, the new leather, the metal embossings, seemed nothing to me. |
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| 24 | 381 |
Already Marlenus had ordered wines and slave chains, and dancing silks, of diaphanous scarlet, sent to the Warrior's compartment. |
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| 24 | 489 |
Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance. |
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| 24 | 509 |
It was scarlet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 37 |
They knew only that he had been alive, and then dead, and that his head now bore two unaccountable wounds, deep, opposed, centerless circles, each mounted at the scarlet apex of a stained triangle. |
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| 9 | 607 |
He lay there on his back, blood moving from his mouth, the chest of his tunic scarlet, fighting for breath. |
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| 10 | 52 |
I smiled to myself, looking upon the bearded, dour countenance of the officer, his long hair tied behind his head with scarlet string. |
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| 11 | 11 |
Then I saw Lysias, his hair tied behind his neck with the scarlet string, rise. |
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| 13 | 41 |
"It is denied!" screamed Lurius, his wide, bloated face scarlet with rage. |
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| 13 | 69 |
The girl, eyes flashing, scarlet beneath the white silken veil, too sprang to her feet. |
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| 13 | 164 |
He had long black hair, tied behind his neck with a scarlet string. |
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| 15 | 108 |
Even now, in my feast of celebration, hours after the meeting of the council, I still wore about my neck the broad scarlet ribbon with its pendant medallion of gold, bearing the design of a lateen-rigged tarn ship, the initials in cursive Gorean script of Council of Captains of Port Kar in a half cu... |
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| 15 | 249 |
I fingered the broad scarlet ribbon and the medallion, pendant about my neck, bearing its tarn ship and initials, those of the Council of Captains of Port Kar. |
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| 15 | 817 |
"You, too," she said, "wear a collar!" I tore away from my throat the broad scarlet ribbon, with its pendant medallion, with the tarn ship and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar. |
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| 16 | 153 |
I picked up the broad scarlet ribbon, with its medallion, that with the tarn ship and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 221 |
When I could, I would manage, in my daily tasks, to pass by the tent of Rask of Treve, that large, low tent, on its eight poles, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk. |
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| 15 | 1155 |
Angrily I, perfumed and rouged, belled and silked, turned and followed the other girls to the center of the camp, near the great tent of Rask of Treve, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk, on its eight poles. |
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| 1 | 171 |
It had been drawn in my most scarlet lipstick on the surface of the mirror. |
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| 11 | 1094 |
Rask of Treve, as a raider true to the codes of Treve, that hidden coign of vantage of tarnsmen, that remote, secret, mountainous city of the vast, scarlet Voltai range, had not, in these circumstances, much pushed pursuit. |
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| 11 | 1111 |
And even should they be dispatched to the walls, perhaps upon some servile errand, they could see, for looming, remote pasangs about them, only the wild, bleak crags of the scarlet Voltai, and the sickening drop below them, the sheer fall from the walls and the cliffs below to the valley, pasangs be... |
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| 12 | 589 |
How I flushed scarlet with shame, and tugged to free myself. |
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| 13 | 773 |
He wore scarlet leather. |
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| 14 | 201 |
I stood before a large, low tent of scarlet canvas, suspended on eight poles. |
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| 14 | 202 |
Inside, through the opened tent flap, I could see the scarlet canvas was lined with silk. |
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| 14 | 236 |
She wore brief, diaphanous scarlet silk. |
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| 14 | 603 |
I knelt, naked, on the scarlet rug in the tent of the women. |
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| 14 | 627 |
I gasped as they brought forth a long, exquisite garment, hooded, of shimmering scarlet silk. |
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| 14 | 662 |
I wore the long, scarlet garment, hooded, sleeveless. |
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| 15 | 416 |
Always she wore only the brief garment of scarlet, diaphanous silk. |
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| 15 | 1119 |
Ute went to the chest of silks and bells and brought forth five more slave bells, which she tied with bits of scarlet ribbon to my collar. |
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| 15 | 1162 |
On the sand, before the warriors, belled, in scarlet silk, the girl, Talena, danced. |
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| 15 | 1378 |
My bare feet sunk into the deep, soft, scarlet, intricately wrought rugs which floored the tent. |
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| 16 | 58 |
And then my face went white with suppressed fury, concealing the scarlet rage that burned in my body. |
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| 17 | 20 |
Sometimes, to my fury, he had tried to put me from him, and had summoned other women to his tent, but often he would send them away again, and it would be I, El-in-or, who would again be summoned to the tent of scarlet canvas, red-silk lined, on its eight poles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |
She was clad in a brief bit of diaphanous scarlet silk, slave silk. |
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| 11 | 257 |
There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us. |
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| 11 | 357 |
He drew from it some bits of scarlet slave silk. |
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| 11 | 861 |
I saw, to one side, a bowl of scarlet, five-petaled flaminiums. |
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| 15 | 874 |
Now her entire back burned scarlet. |
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| 18 | 79 |
Now, behind them, led by bound, stripped Sheera, her body marked with scarlet stripes from the switch, came the coffle of enslaved women. |
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| 22 | 855 |
The entire back of her body was hot and bright with the scarlet marks of the switch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 93 |
I saw, standing there, terrified, their backs against it, the blond girl in the scarlet vest and skirt, her hair in the snood of scarlet yarn, tied with filaments of golden wire; and the large, statuesque girl, too, in black velvet, with the silver straps crossed over her breasts, and tied about her... |
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| 1 | 5 |
No longer was it set with festive yellow and scarlet cloths, woven in distant Tor; no longer did it bear the freight of plates of silver from the mines of Tharna, nor of cunningly wrought goblets of gold from the smithies of luxurious Turia, Ar of the south. |
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| 1 | 13 |
No musicians played; no cup companions laughed and drank, lifting their goblets; on the broad, flat tiles before me, under the torches, barefoot, collared, in scarlet silks, bells at their wrists and ankles, there danced no slave girls. |
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| 2 | 9 |
Her hair was hung in a snood of scarlet yarn, bound with filaments of golden wire. |
10 |
| 2 | 11 |
She had a scarlet vest, embroidered in gold, worn over a long-sleeved blouse of white wool, from distant Ar. |
10 |
| 2 | 229 |
The scarlet vest, the blouse of white wool, the long woolen skirt, red, were fine goods. |
10 |
| 2 | 247 |
None, it seemed to me, was as excellent as the slender blond girl in the cape of white sea-sleen fur and scarlet vest. |
10 |
| 3 | 109 |
He ripped the snood of scarlet yarn from the slender blond girl's hair. |
10 |
| 3 | 140 |
Forkbeard looked then at the younger, blond, more slender girl, she with her hair now loose, the snood of scarlet yarn ripped away, in her red vest and skirt, and black shoes. |
10 |
| 6 | 64 |
In the fields I saw an overseer, clad in scarlet, with a gesture of his hand, releasing the thralls. |
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| 6 | 111 |
"Drink," said Ivar Forkbeard, thrusting the cup into the hands of the slender, blond girl, she who had, so long ago, in the temple of Kassau, worn the snood of scarlet yarn, with twisted golden wire, the red vest and skirt, the white blouse. |
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| 6 | 491 |
Though the hall of Ivar Forkbeard was built only of turf and stone, and though he himself was outlaw, he had met me at its door, after I had been bidden wait outside, in his finest garments of scarlet and gold, and carrying a bowl of water and a towel. |
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| 8 | 187 |
Ivar Forkbeard then bent to the girl's feet and pulled away her golden shoes, and, his hands at her legs, she, her eyes closed, removed from her, too, her scarlet, silken hose, of the style of Ar. |
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| 10 | 86 |
Their cloaks were usually scarlet or purple, long and swirling, and held with golden clasps. |
10 |
| 10 | 97 |
The expression reflects their belief that such girls are spoiled, excessively pampered, indulged and coddled, sleek pets, who have little to do but adorn themselves with cosmetics and await their masters, cuddled cutely, on plush, scarlet coverlets, fringed with gold. |
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| 10 | 381 |
Her kirtle was of the finest wool of Ar, dyed scarlet, with black trimmings. |
10 |
| 10 | 398 |
She lifted the hem of her kirtle of scarlet wool about the ankles of her black shoes and turned away. |
10 |
| 11 | 89 |
He wore a collar of fur, dyed scarlet, and a long cloak, over the left shoulder, of purple-dyed fur of the sea sleen. |
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| 13 | 211 |
Near him, beside the high seat, sat his woman, Bera, her hair worn high on her head, in a kirtle of yellow wool with scarlet cape of the fur of the red sea sleen, and, about her neck, necklaces of gold. |
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| 14 | 19 |
The white fangs seemed scarlet in the light of the fires from the roof. |
10 |
| 17 | 109 |
Few who have been invested in the scarlet of the warriors cannot match this accomplishment. |
10 |
| 17 | 332 |
The signal spear, in the hand of the frenzied Blue Tooth, its scarlet talmit wrapped at the base of its blade, was lifted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
It was scarlet, diaphanous. |
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| 1 | 570 |
All eyes were on the dark-haired dancer, the skirt of diaphanous scarlet dancing silk low upon her hips. |
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| 5 | 4 |
Before us, on the smooth, scarlet, inlaid floor, stood the girl. |
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| 5 | 669 |
At a languid gesture from Ibn Saran, Alyena lifted herself from the scarlet tiles, gracefully turning from her side to her knees, and then, head back, hair to the floor, slowly, inch by melodic protesting inch, arms before her body, lifted herself to a kneeling position, erect, the last bit of her t... |
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| 5 | 842 |
Alyena stood on the scarlet tiles, head back, sweating, breathing heavily, nude save for her ornaments and collar, the bangles about her ankles and wrists, the armlets, the several chains and pendants looped about her neck. |
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| 8 | 106 |
She wore a long, bordered skirt, with scarlet thread at its hem, which swirled as she turned; she wore a jacket, tan, of soft kaiila-hair cloth, taken from the animal's second coat, which had a hood, which she had thrown back; beneath the jacket she wore a cheap, printed blouse of rep-cloth, blue an... |
10 |
| 10 | 129 |
She crouched there, under the torches, on the seven-foot scarlet marble circle, angry, frightened. |
10 |
| 12 | 439 |
"Yes, Warrior," she whispered, again crawling upon the scarlet sheets. |
10 |
| 13 | 332 |
The men removed the scarlet veils. |
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| 13 | 396 |
Never had I been divested of the scarlet. |
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| 14 | 169 |
The scarlet sand veil of the men of the Guard of the Dunes concealed his countenance, and a length of it fluttered behind him as he rode, and the wide burnoose lifted and swelled behind him. |
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| 14 | 170 |
The cording of the agal, over the scarlet kaffiyeh, was gold. |
10 |
| 14 | 308 |
Then the girl, reaching within her silk, withdrew from her bosom a light square of silk, some eighteen inches square, scarlet, clinging, diaphanous. |
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| 23 | 172 |
In his right hand he held a high lance, from which fluttered a broad and mighty pennon, scarlet and white, that of Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars. |
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| 24 | 35 |
She knelt on broad, smooth scarlet tiles. |
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| 24 | 770 |
By the arm I thrust her again into the room where I had first found her, where there were the broad, scarlet tiles, the vanity, the mirror, now a single tharlarion-oil lamp at the side of the mirror. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 270 |
He, too, was clad in scarlet, as were the other two men. |
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| 2 | 418 |
They stood, not moving, each clad in scarlet, each helmeted, each similarly armed. |
10 |
| 2 | 479 |
His hands were clutched in the scarlet of his wet tunic, bunching it, at the half-severed belt. |
10 |
| 2 | 627 |
My head came only to his chest; the width of my body seemed but half the width of that mighty, scarlet-clad chest. |
10 |
| 2 | 657 |
In time, after scouting the terrain of the rock, perhaps searching for clues as to my meaning or identity, the tall man in scarlet returned to face me. |
10 |
| 2 | 742 |
By his own reactions I had gathered he knew nothing of the men he had met there, and had behaved as he might have with any others, similarly of his scarlet-clad, helmeted, armed sort. |
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| 2 | 1179 |
The tunics, scarlet, the helmets and shields, were not cut and formed, and decorated, as were those of the brute who held me by the upper arms. |
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| 2 | 1219 |
Beneath the final hem of the innermost robe I saw the toes of golden slippers, jeweled, and scarlet-threaded, sparkling in the torchlight. |
10 |
| 4 | 288 |
I then considered how I might appear, so made up, so perfumed, so adorned, but now in a snatch of brief silk, yellow or scarlet, clinging, diaphanous, fit for a man's pleasure girl. |
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| 4 | 343 |
The man in the scarlet tunic, from over the fields, had arrived. |
10 |
| 5 | 47 |
On my feet were scarlet slippers. |
10 |
| 11 | 296 |
Its furnishings were only a thin, scarlet mattress and a crumpled slave blanket of rep-cloth. |
10 |
| 14 | 158 |
I knelt before him, on the scarlet furs in the small alcove, in the light of the tiny lamp. |
10 |
| 18 | 40 |
Dancers in the Chatka and Curla, and there are several, move between and among the tables; sometimes a dancer, if she is indeed superb, is displayed solo in the center of the scarlet wooden flooring, within the painted, yellow ring of the slave circle. |
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| 21 | 62 |
On the height of the shield pole there was hoisted a scarlet disk. |
10 |
| 21 | 107 |
White smoke billowed from the platform near the shield pole, from whose height now swung a scarlet disk. |
10 |
| 26 | 122 |
He was tall and strong, clad in a warrior's scarlet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 337 |
In this match, however, a yellow Spearman and a red Spearman were to be placed in a helmet, covered with a scarlet cloth. |
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| 3 | 933 |
A tarnsman, in the scarlet leather of his war rights, tall, was moving through the crowd. |
10 |
| 4 | 75 |
That of Ar was on the right, for Scormus had won yellow in the draw; it had been his hand which, under the scarlet cloth, had closed upon the tiny, wooden, yellow spearman in the helmet, the possession of which determined the first move and, with it, the choice of opening. |
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| 6 | 5 |
She was very lovely and attractive in her hunting costume, brief tunic and long hose, brown, a scarlet cape and cap, the cap with a feather. |
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| 27 | 252 |
"You may think that to be a warrior is to be large, or strong, and to be skilled with weapons, to have a blade at your hip, to know the grasp of the spear, to wear the scarlet, to know the fitting of the iron helm upon one's countenance, but these things are not truly needful; they are not, truly, w... |
10 |
| 27 | 254 |
Any man might, if he dared, don the scarlet and gird himself with weapons. |
10 |
| 27 | 256 |
But it is not the scarlet, not the steel, not the helm of iron which makes the warrior". |
10 |
| 28 | 30 |
Her body was clad, if one may so speak of her garment, in a brief, obscenely luscious snatch of transparent, scarlet slave silk. |
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| 28 | 198 |
"I see you wear the scarlet of the warrior," he said. |
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| 30 | 53 |
There was now no doubt in my mind but what, before his exile in Teletus, despite his asseverations to the contrary, his tunic had been of scarlet. |
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| 13 | 295 |
"Beneath the glaciers of your ice, the brittleness of those preposterous defenses you insist upon," I said, "are churning, searing subterranean lakes, the delicate, apprehensive magma of latent worlds, ready to burst forth, are you truly unaware of them, these undisclosed, molten, searing seas, thes... |
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| 13 | 578 |
I wondered how she might look in scarlet silk, dancing as a slave before any men. |
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| 29 | 90 |
"Thank you, my master," breathed Tende, and she then displayed herself before him, the brief bark cloth, scarlet, snug about her hips and the beads about her lovely throat. |
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| 29 | 116 |
About her hips was the wrap-around skirt, tucked shut, of scarlet bark cloth, which she had well earned. |
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| 10 | 129 |
She was wearing golden sandals and a long, scarlet robe, with a high, ornate collar, fastened by a silver clasp. |
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| 13 | 276 |
The men wore scarlet tunics. |
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| 13 | 278 |
On their heads were scarlet caps, with yellow tassels. |
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| 14 | 11 |
She turned before me, the gown of sheer, scarlet silk, almost diaphanous, like slave silk, swirling about her. |
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| 21 | 228 |
The tarnsmen of Treve, over the snow-capped crags of the scarlet Voltai range, had turned back the squadrons of Ar. |
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| 22 | 65 |
Between the tables there was a large, tiled scarlet circle, some twelve feet in width, with an iron ring at its center. |
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| 22 | 172 |
Then she stood on the scarlet tiles, naked, near the iron ring. |
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| 22 | 234 |
The former Lady Melpomene of Vonda, now a nameless slave, collapsed to her belly, sobbing, on the scarlet tiles, chained by the neck to a slave ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 145 |
She knelt in the position of the pleasure slave, back in the alcove, on the scarlet furs, in the light of the small lamp. |
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| 8 | 93 |
I saw that the fellow wore the scarlet of the warrior. |
10 |
| 8 | 116 |
"I see that you still wear the scarlet, Callimachus," said a voice. |
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| 8 | 138 |
He does not know, as I do, that your eye is no longer as sharp as once it was, that your hand has lost its cunning, that you are now ruined and fallen, that the scarlet is now but meaningless on your body, naught but a remembrance, an empty recollection of a vanished glory". |
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| 22 | 341 |
"I know that the scarlet has been taken from you". |
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| 22 | 342 |
"No one," said he, "can take the scarlet from me, once it is granted, unless it be by the sword". |
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| 22 | 343 |
He tore open the tunic he wore, revealing beneath it, dark, blackish in appearance, in the moonlight, the scarlet. |
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| 23 | 1 |
I am Made Welcome in the Holding of Policrates; Kliomenes Makes Test of Me; I Select a Girl for my Night's Pleasure The naked slave girl, in her bells and jewels, writhed on the scarlet tiles of the floor before us. |
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| 23 | 83 |
Only her toes, with painted, scarlet nails, touched the floor. |
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| 25 | 47 |
He had recalled that he was Callimachus, of the Warriors, one entrusted with steel, one entitled to wear the scarlet of the proud caste. |
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| 32 | 37 |
Her head was covered with semi-transparent, scarlet cloth, the central portions of such a cloth which had been cast over her, a large cloth, which fell to her calves. |
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| 32 | 38 |
It was held on her by being tied under her chin and about her neck with a soft, braided scarlet cord. |
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| 8 | 28 |
She screamed, suddenly rising to a kneeling position in the berth, clutching the scarlet sheet about her throat. |
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| 8 | 333 |
She knelt there, and reached down, frightened, to clutch at the scarlet sheet. |
10 |
| 8 | 406 |
Accordingly, not speaking, I tore a broad strip from the scarlet sheet and, folding it five times, encircling her head with it, tied it tightly behind the back of her head, blindfolding her with it. |
10 |
| 8 | 425 |
I removed the folded, scarlet strip of the sheet which had covered the upper part of her head, and cast it to one side. |
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| 8 | 487 |
* * * * I pulled the portion of the wadded strip of scarlet sheet, wet and heavy, out of her mouth, a portion of the same, and still attached to it, that I had used earlier to blindfold her. |
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| 8 | 498 |
Again I thrust the portion of the scarlet sheet, wadded, into her mouth. |
10 |
| 8 | 514 |
I wadded the portion of scarlet sheet together in my hands and then, holding it between the thumb and fingers of my right hand, pushed it back in her mouth, deeply, behind her teeth. |
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| 8 | 541 |
I fetched the wadding of scarlet silk which I had earlier used to gag her and put it in my belt. |
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| 8 | 542 |
I also fetched the remains of the scarlet sheet from which, standing beside her, I tore what I needed, and then discarded the rest. |
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| 12 | 32 |
He was clad in a scarlet robe. |
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| 16 | 189 |
It seemed scarlet. |
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| 20 | 1042 |
"I must tie her!" Lola fled from the table to search out binding fiber and, in a moment, returned to the table and knelt before Callimachus, head down, handing him a generous length of soft, silken, scarlet binding fiber. |
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| 20 | 1263 |
I looked at the small slave, kneeling, head down, on the scarlet tiles, in the light of the lamps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 15 | 48 |
The scarlet circles on the feather indicate killings, the red marks on his legs, and on the nose of the kaiila, show coups". |
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| 17 | 465 |
It could be as simple as a narrow roll of knotted scarlet silk, or white, if the slave is at that time a virgin, or a piece of string or cord, or strip of leather, tied shut, perhaps looped six times about the throat, each time for one of the letters in the word 'Kajira', the most common expression ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 137 |
The three scarlet bands of paint were bright on the white pole. |
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| 3 | 138 |
Scarlet bands, in number from one to five, are commonly used by Kaiila warriors to mark their weapons, in particular their lances and arrows. |
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| 35 | 19 |
Lara, who had been Tatrix of Tharna, kneeling before me on a scarlet rug, in the camp of Targo, the Slaver, lifted, supplicatingly, holding them in her hands, two yellow cords to me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 20 |
The floor was of glossy, scarlet tiles. |
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| 3 | 22 |
At one point there was a large, scarlet pelt on the floor. |
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| 3 | 46 |
I felt the smoothness, the coolness, of the scarlet tiles on my feet. |
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| 26 | 29 |
We both wore scarlet pleasure silk. |
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| 33 | 505 |
"That one garment," said Miles of Argentum, indicating a scarlet robe, with a yellow, braided belt, "appears to be that in which she put her curves on the day of my audience with her, that having to do with the scrolls of protest". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 1247 |
Do you know the slave chains I have hanging behind the banner on the banner bar to the left of my threshold, where the bar meets the wall, those that have tied there with them a bit of scarlet slave silk?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 2 | 1248 |
"When it is safe for you to again appear publicly in Port Kar, when it is safe for you to again make contact with me, the scarlet slave silk will be replaced with yellow". |
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| 7 | 8 |
It was covered with an intense, irregular geography of scarlet patches, the capillaries near the surface of the skin swelled with blood, the red color suffusing upward as though from a light within her, as though fires raged within her, just beneath her exposed, yielding, eager softness, witnessing ... |
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| 16 | 488 |
An elongated, bright red mark was now upon her pretty white fundament, and now her entire cheek flared scarlet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 104 |
"Scarlet is the color of my caste," I said. |
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| 14 | 78 |
"Perhaps you are even of the scarlet caste," he said. |
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| 15 | 7 |
"Perhaps you are of the scarlet caste?" he asked. |
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| 15 | 705 |
The scarlet of my caste is not easily come by, nor is it easily betrayed. |
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| 25 | 30 |
Her brothels, if it is of interest are the Chains of Gold, supposedly her best, costing at any rate a copper tarsk for admission, and, all cheap tarsk-bit brothels, the Silken Cords, the Scarlet Whip, the Slave Racks, and the Tunnels. |
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| 27 | 7 |
The border of this circle, delineating it, was about seven or eight inches in width, and was formed of yellow stones set mosaiclike into the smooth scarlet flooring. |
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| 1 | 20 |
Then, not looking back to the mirror, I crept in the candlelight and shadows to the dresser and there, from beneath several layers of garments, where I had concealed it, I drew forth a small bit of scarlet cloth, tiny and silken, with shoulder straps, a garment I had myself sewn weeks ago, one in wh... |
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| 1 | 28 |
I dropped the bit of scarlet silk near my feet on the rug. |
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| 3 | 137 |
I smiled, hooking the scarlet halter before my belly and then turning it and putting my arms through the straps, pulling it up, adjusting it snugly into place. |
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| 3 | 239 |
My breasts heaved, as I struggled for breath, within the scarlet halter which confined them. |
10 |
| 3 | 448 |
Then I reached behind my back and unhooked the scarlet halter, and slipped it from me. |
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| 3 | 450 |
In the tiny bit of scarlet silk they had given me to wear, their form, and loveliness, if they were lovely, would be in little doubt. |
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| 9 | 386 |
And he had caught her in her dancer's costume, that in which no man had ever seen her before, and she had then, in swirling skirt and scarlet halter, and bells, danced in the darkened library, danced before him and his men. |
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| 13 | 2 |
I had scrambled on my knees for the coins flung to the floor, seizing them, thrusting them hastily, so many of them, with one hand, into the lifted, bunched portion, held by my other hand, of the dancing skirt, a lovely, swirling skirt, scarlet, open on the right, of diaphanous dancing silk. |
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| 13 | 3 |
I had been permitted a scarlet halter of the same material. |
10 |
| 22 | 4 |
I knelt before him on a circular scarlet rug, he in a curule chair looking down at me. |
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| 25 | 165 |
Your skin is like a field of scarlet dinas". |
10 |
| 34 | 583 |
He took out a tiny handful of scarlet silk, and opened it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 66 |
I let my cloak fall to the sides so that they could see the scarlet of my tunic. |
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| 1 | 202 |
"It is one of the scarlet caste," said a fellow to another. |
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| 2 | 60 |
"What are the numbers involved, and your speculations as to the outcome?" "It is you who wear the scarlet," he said. |
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| 12 | 120 |
For example, sometimes, when slaves are taken to Ubars, and such, they are stripped and wrapped in a scarlet sheet, if they are "red silk," and in a white sheet, if they are "white silk". |
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| 18 | 445 |
"You will need skilled swordsmen," said the grizzled fellow, "preferably those of the scarlet tunic". |
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| 24 | 864 |
There is the Cage, the Jewels of Telnus, Artemidorus' Cargo, the Secret Basement, the Hold, the Scarlet Whip, the Tavern of the Collar of the Two Chains, and many others". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 868 |
Did he think that the color of a fellow's garments was what made him a warrior? Surely he must realize that one not of the warriors might affect the scarlet, and that one who wore the grimed gray of a peasant, one barefoot, and armed only with the great staff, might be of the scarlet caste. |
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| 6 | 42 |
Indeed, several fellows I have known, of the scarlet caste, take pains to conceal their literacy, seemingly ashamed of an expertise in such matters, regarding such as befitting scribes rather than warriors. |
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| 8 | 866 |
"You are not in scarlet," he said. |
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| 9 | 622 |
They are, or were, I believe, the Chains of Gold, supposedly the best, or at least the most expensive, and then, all cheap tarsk-bit brothels, the Silken Cords, the Scarlet Whip, the Slave Racks and the Tunnels. |
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| 11 | 1 |
The Delka "Stop babbling, man!" ordered the guardsman, an officer in the scarlet of Ar, though his accent proclaimed him Cosian. |
10 |
| 12 | 485 |
"I am of the Scarlet Caste". |
10 |
| 19 | 901 |
Too, both Marcus and myself were of the warriors, the scarlet caste, and as such were not above taking slaves. |
10 |
| 21 | 135 |
The hangings were scarlet and magnificent. |
10 |
| 22 | 281 |
"Secondly," I said, "I do not want you to present yourself before our quarry with, say, a scarlet cheek, or a swollen, bloodied lip, such things. |
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| 22 | 598 |
The threat, however, had been sufficient to speed her on her way, and had she not leaped up and departed with suitable dispatch I did not doubt but what her lovely face in an instant, flashing and burning scarlet, might have suffered the sting, and perhaps more than once, of that ready, harsh mascul... |
10 |
| 25 | 30 |
Apparently but moments before it had been red with excitement, love and yielding, and had then, in the sudden surprise and shame of her discovery, flushed scarlet, blushing literally from head to toe, and then, almost instantly later, in the tumult, had begun in terror to drain of color, she suddenl... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1123 |
Was there such a difference between us? Was she so loftily garbed? Was she not in her way almost as naked as I? Was there truly so much more to her attire than mine, other than the necklaces, and the jewelry, the earrings, and such, richer than mine? Was there so much, for example, to the silk she w... |
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| 14 | 1406 |
It was the fellow in the scarlet tunic, with the scarlet cloak, whom I had originally noted in the vicinity of the balustrade, where we had been looking upon the mountains. |
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| 43 | 54 |
She was in her silks, again, the sleeveless, silken scarlet vest, tied shut with a mere string, and the belly silk, scarlet, too, in the Harfaxian drape, fastened at the left hip with a golden clasp. |
10 |
| 7 | 590 |
She who was first amongst us wore a sleeveless silken vest, scarlet, against which her beauty protested. |
10 |
| 7 | 592 |
Her two assistants wore scarlet halters, fastened in front with accessible hooks. |
10 |
| 7 | 619 |
Her assistants had common fillets, of scarlet silk. |
10 |
| 10 | 433 |
These men were in scarlet tunics. |
10 |
| 10 | 646 |
Inside there were some tables and benches, several men, in scarlet livery, and some chains dangling from the ceiling. |
10 |
| 11 | 29 |
She wore scarlet silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 41 |
His robes were largely of scarlet, lined with purple. |
10 |
| 11 | 139 |
I saw that the woman in scarlet silk, she kneeling at the left side of the thronelike chair, she who had been but moments before chained to it, was looking upon me with great anger. |
10 |
| 11 | 159 |
The woman in scarlet silk rose somewhat angrily. |
10 |
| 11 | 920 |
My entire body, I fear, was a rage of subsiding arousal, and scarlet shame. |
10 |
| 14 | 1159 |
Then she whispered, "Which one is he?" "The one over there," I said, "in the scarlet tunic, and cloak, looking this way". |
10 |
| 14 | 1193 |
She was doubtless trying to ascertain whether or not the fellow in the scarlet tunic was about. |
10 |
| 14 | 1200 |
My charge, doubtless in her concern to survey the terrace for the scarlet-clad figure, had, it seemed, struck into a free woman of the city. |
10 |
| 14 | 1577 |
I leaped up and the Lady Constanzia, not daring to look at the scarlet-clad stranger, rose, too, to her feet. |
10 |
| 14 | 1599 |
We could see the scarlet-clad figure striding fiercely across the terrace, not looking back. |
10 |
| 14 | 1646 |
The scarlet-clad figure had now left the terrace. |
10 |
| 14 | 1690 |
"Do you remember the fellow in the scarlet tunic and cloak, whom we met this afternoon?" she asked. |
10 |
| 18 | 283 |
I could also see, now, the scarlet-clad figure for whom she had been waiting making his way across the terrace, toward her. |
10 |
| 18 | 314 |
* * * * The scarlet-clad figure had now reached the Lady Constanzia. |
10 |
| 18 | 322 |
Also, the scarlet-clad figure had visited her there several times before and had never, in spite of what I suspected were certain provocations, forced her. |
10 |
| 18 | 327 |
But I thought there might be an even more grievous reason for the scarlet-clad figure's restraint in the matter of lovely, fetching "Tuta". |
10 |
| 18 | 329 |
I did not know on what business, incidentally, the scarlet-clad figure was in the city. |
10 |
| 19 | 439 |
"Consider his tavern!" Her breasts were haltered in scarlet silk. |
10 |
| 19 | 440 |
She wore a long slave strip, some six inches in width, also of scarlet silk, secured by a cord, the strip put over the cord in front, taken between her legs, drawn up snugly behind and passed over the cord in back. |
10 |
| 19 | 485 |
I saw the belled slave, she in the scarlet silk, leashed by one of the raiders. |
10 |
| 19 | 904 |
Do you think I do not know in what mountains I am? Do you think I cannot tell the coloration of the Voltai, the Scarlet Mountains? Do you think I am totally unaware of the distances and times I have traveled? Do you think I cannot recognize the accents of the men who brought me here? Do you think I ... |
10 |
| 23 | 100 |
A free man, thus, could not easily inquire of me, until the gag had been undone, the whereabouts of, say, a pretty slave and a fellow not of the city, a stranger, one clad in scarlet. |
10 |
| 23 | 104 |
"I love you!" She then kissed me and arose, and beamed down on me, she with her hand on the arm of the scarlet-clad fellow. |
10 |
| 23 | 175 |
I watched the scarlet-clad figure and the Lady Constanzia growing smaller, across the terrace. |
10 |
| 23 | 186 |
I did not think that the scarlet-clad figure, who seemed a man of honor, as seem most Gorean males, would take advantage of the lovely, slavelike creature. |
10 |
| 23 | 226 |
I thought of the Lady Constanzia and the scarlet-clad stranger. |
10 |
| 24 | 112 |
I wondered where the Lady Constanzia and the scarlet-clad fellow might be. |
10 |
| 24 | 373 |
I noted, startled, the brunette, long-haired, her legs muchly bared in brief scarlet silk, in a golden collar, who had been among the first to flee to the wall. |
10 |
| 24 | 378 |
The scarlet silk informed me, and all who might look upon her, that she was to be understood as a pleasure slave. |
10 |
| 24 | 442 |
"Oh!" cried the slave next to me, in pain, Dorna, kicked like a common slave, though she wore scarlet silk and a golden collar. |
10 |
| 24 | 642 |
I did not know if the Lady Constanzia and the scarlet-clad figure would come back for me or not, but this seemed the most likely, and honest, answer I could give. |
10 |
| 24 | 826 |
Her companion, the scarlet-clad fellow, had removed his cloak. |
10 |
| 24 | 837 |
The scarlet-clad fellow turned her about and took her in his arms. |
10 |
| 24 | 901 |
I almost wished that the Lady Constanzia was a slave, and had a private master, that the scarlet-clad figure might have approached her master with the intent of negotiating her purchase. |
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| 28 | 7 |
A broad, scarlet marble circle was before the high desk of the praetor's officer, and the Lady Constanzia was conducted to its center, the guards then withdrawing, moving back, several feet, leaving her there, alone, on the circle. |
10 |
| 28 | 122 |
The Lady Constanzia knelt in the center of the scarlet circle. |
10 |
| 28 | 129 |
She trembled, kneeling on the scarlet circle. |
10 |
| 29 | 2 |
Shafts of sunlight, like golden spears, fell through the high, narrow windows, illuminating the scarlet circle before the high desk. |
10 |
| 29 | 6 |
The high desk stood untenanted before the scarlet circle. |
10 |
| 29 | 14 |
He stopped in the vicinity of the scarlet circle. |
10 |
| 29 | 56 |
The fellow who had but recently entered, in such agitation, so angrily, who had considered, and signed, papers at the desk of the clerk, had, at the call of the clerk to the guard, turned his back and walked through, and outside, the scarlet circle, that before the high desk. |
10 |
| 29 | 126 |
She obeyed and he, for his part, went back to the edge of the scarlet circle, rather on our side of it. |
10 |
| 29 | 186 |
He then walked across the scarlet circle, past the kneeling slave, and handed the papers to Henry, who took them, and put them within his robes, as he had his copy of the earlier papers, the court papers. |
10 |
| 29 | 557 |
"Shameless," said the pit master to me, regarding the pair, she in his arms, on the scarlet circle. |
10 |
| 29 | 573 |
Her body was gorgeous with color, a mottled scarlet tapestry. |
10 |
| 29 | 578 |
He put her to her back on the scarlet circle. |
10 |
| 31 | 302 |
"Nor we of those of the scarlet caste," said the leader. |
10 |
| 36 | 16 |
He was of the scarlet caste. |
10 |
| 37 | 759 |
The water of the pool was scarlet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 13 |
She wore a brief, silken, scarlet, diaphanous gown. |
10 |
| 4 | 485 |
It seemed a strange landscape, in its way, with gentle yellow trees nestled in a valley, and, in the distance, a range of scarlet mountains. |
10 |
| 12 | 46 |
She could not see it, for there were no mirrors in the laundry, but she supposed that her face, as that of many of the other girls, particularly the fair-complexioned ones, such as she, was red, blotched with red, grossly mottled with red patches, irregular patches painfully, roaringly scarlet, from... |
10 |
| 16 | 827 |
The man's tunic was scarlet, and he wore a sword belt slung across his body, from the right shoulder to the scabbard at his left hip, facilitating the right-handed draw. |
10 |
| 16 | 829 |
Though this was not known to Ellen at the time, the scarlet denoted the caste of Warriors, one of the five high castes of Gor, the others being the Initiates, Physicians, Builders and Scribes. |
10 |
| 16 | 1125 |
A tall, broad-shouldered man in scarlet, massively handsome, had approached the shelf. |
10 |
| 24 | 169 |
She lifted a swirling skirt of diaphanous dancing silk, scarlet, and shook it out. |
10 |
| 24 | 202 |
Ellen's breasts were now closely haltered, in scarlet silk. |
10 |
| 24 | 564 |
But, too, of course, in examining the bells she had revealed her leg, the left leg, the brand leg, through the parting in the swirling skirt of scarlet slave silk. |
10 |
| 26 | 824 |
Our friends of the scarlet caste will then attempt to return to Ar by tarn, traveling at night, utilizing the cover of darkness". |
10 |
| 26 | 825 |
The "scarlet caste" was a way of referring to the caste of Warriors, the expression being suggested by the usual color of their tunics. |
10 |
| 26 | 826 |
Ellen had seen many scarlet tunics in Ar, mostly those of mercenaries and Cosian regulars. |
10 |
| 26 | 827 |
As Portus Canio had referred to Bosk of Port Kar and Marcus, of Ar's Station, as friends of the "scarlet caste," they must be then, thought Ellen, of the Warriors. |
10 |
| 26 | 830 |
They were not, however, now in the scarlet of their caste, but wore simple brown tunics. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 343 |
"It would be nice," he said, "had you a scarlet halter, earrings, bangles and bracelets, necklaces, a belt of coins, a scarlet skirt, one of Turian drape, such things, but you do not, and so you must do without, and do the best you can". |
10 |
| 1 | 103 |
He was, as we learned, of what on Gor amongst humans is referred to as the scarlet caste. |
10 |
| 1 | 711 |
He then turned his attention to the brunette who, frightened, not meeting his eyes, flushing scarlet, every inch of her, turned frantically away from him, her side to the glassine barrier, covering as she could the sweetness of her bosom with her small hands. |
10 |
| 7 | 4 |
"How would you know that?" "You carry yourself as one of the scarlet caste," he said. |
10 |
| 33 | 290 |
The jaws of the machine, and its rows of arrayed knifelike teeth, were scarlet, bearing traces of the work it had performed below the surface. |
10 |
| 43 | 484 |
"It is nothing," said Cabot, a scion of Gor's scarlet caste, the Warriors. |
10 |
| 67 | 107 |
He might have preferred a field on Gor, with long green grass, with the wind rising from the east, in the morning, or perhaps a crag in the scarlet mountains, the mighty Voltai, or perhaps the stem castle or helm deck of a lateen-rigged galley, perhaps the Dorna or Tesephone. |
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| 70 | 1 |
Flavion It may be recalled, from some time ago, that Cabot, perhaps surprisingly, given that he stood high in the forest camp, and was of the scarlet caste, had tended to the grooming of the scout, Flavion, an office commonly attended to, amongst the lords, by clients and sycophants, and, most ofte... |
10 |
| 70 | 146 |
"As I am of the scarlet caste," said Cabot, "I do not care to haggle". |
10 |
| 79 | 619 |
"You are not a man," he said, "nor are you of my caste, the scarlet caste, nor are you Gorean". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 |
But this is not for them, not for the Scarlet Caste. |
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| 1 | 280 |
Had she not been so, in one way or another, in her dreams, on the smooth, scarlet tiles of a conqueror's palace, on the deep-piled rug within the tent of a desert chieftain, on the deck of a pirate's vessel? In a pathological culture, of course, many things are kept concealed, often those which are ... |
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| 5 | 475 |
I thought the scarlet would not have ill become him. |
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| 5 | 1037 |
"Wait a little more," said one of his men, the fellow whom I had earlier conjectured might not have ill worn the scarlet. |
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| 5 | 1049 |
"We do not know he is a spy," said the fellow who might once have worn the scarlet. |
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| 5 | 1058 |
Those of the scarlet are trained in such a draw. |
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| 5 | 1073 |
I was not in the scarlet. |
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| 7 | 27 |
Too, in the Gorean high culture, certain colors tend to be associated with certain castes, for example green with the Physicians, red, or scarlet, with the Warriors, yellow with the Builders, blue with the Scribes, white with the Initiates, and so on. |
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| 22 | 528 |
I wondered what Saru would look like in armlets and anklets, in bangles, belled and necklaced, perhaps in a swirl of diaphanous, scarlet dancing silk. |
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| 27 | 20 |
He owed that duty to his daimyo, as I might owe similar duties to captains in whose commands I might serve, or to those codes which did so much to define and clarify my caste, the scarlet caste, that of the warriors. |
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| 34 | 43 |
"He sees you at his feet," I said, "scarlet and braceleted, illuminated in the flame of his lust". |
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| 35 | 15 |
He was resplendent, broad and leaden, now in a scarlet kimono, with a yellow obi, or belt. |
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| 43 | 168 |
Surely Lord Nishida was apprised of, and not unfamiliar with, scarlet allurements. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 69 |
Who else, when one is in mortal jeopardy, would one prefer to have at one's back? They are of the scarlet caste. |
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| 9 | 447 |
"He is of the scarlet caste," explained Lord Nishida. |
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| 20 | 178 |
It is, far beyond that of duller women, alive and helpless, aware of the tiniest differences of temperature and air, and acutely so if naked or in a tunic; it is aware of the smallest differences in textures and fabrics, in the feel of fur, in the weaving of a mat under bare feet, the coolness of a ... |
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| 22 | 251 |
I saw more than one quiver empty, a last arrow spilled beside a fallen bow in the moist, scarlet dust. |
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| 37 | 1469 |
We turned about, to join the slaves, one in a scarlet tunic, one in a blue tunic, waiting at the land end of the pier. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 22 |
The least of them, the weakest and most defective, armed with engineering, technology, and weaponry, could destroy the finest bands and prides of your Scarlet Caste, could reduce the mightiest walls to rubble, burn your ships like kindling, demolish to dust the loftiest of your fortresses. |
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| 4 | 435 |
Of what value, for example, was the Scarlet Caste, the caste of Warriors, if not to protect the gold, the wealth, of the Merchants? "None of you," said Mrs. |
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| 8 | 405 |
Already, in the scarlet swirl of memory, rising and falling like some warm fluid, I was uneasy. |
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| 8 | 428 |
To the left of the bars was a cement platform, at the same level as the floor of the cell, too, about four feet high, on which was spread a worn, soiled scarlet rug. |
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| 8 | 774 |
I wondered what she would bring, standing on that scarlet rug, on the platform, being displayed. |
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| 8 | 1169 |
Then the slaver's man had entered the cell, and, taking me by the left wrist, drew me after him, and I was beyond the portal, and in the short passage, and then I was in the sunlight, outside, and I felt the nap of the worn, faded, scarlet rug beneath my bare feet. |
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| 9 | 54 |
I saw no bared ankle, perhaps encircled with a locked ring, nor some loops of binding fiber, suitable for binding a girl, but the hem of a robe, a rich, scarlet robe, and glimpsed the toes of small slippers, yellow, beneath that hem. |
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| 10 | 66 |
Where, I wondered, would such a beast have learned such knots? Surely it was not itself a member of the Scarlet Caste. |
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| 10 | 227 |
Might it be, somehow, familiar with the scarlet codes? The beast had informed me that it was self-exiled, and had accompanied the Lady Bina to this world, from their former world, as a guard. |
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| 18 | 181 |
He was, as far as I knew, a mercenary, with a possible background in the Scarlet Caste. |
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| 18 | 190 |
It did not seem likely, however, that he would be successful, as few fellows, even of the Scarlet Caste, cared to enter the Voltai, particularly on some obscure mission which might prove to be of some indefinite duration. |
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| 24 | 54 |
These are not fellows of the Scarlet Caste. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 242 |
"Please, no, Master! Master!" He released her and she, her body a wracked, scarlet, sobbing hue, went to her knees in the sawdust, shaking her head, covering her face with her hands. |
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| 6 | 210 |
"Much like the scarlet caste," I said. |
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| 20 | 230 |
Many men at arms, for example, pride themselves on their illiteracy, regarding reading as a pursuit more appropriate to merchants and scribes than to those of the "scarlet caste". |
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| 37 | 272 |
She wore a brief tunic, of bright scarlet. |
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| 38 | 66 |
On a leash, held by one of the men was a tall, striking, dark-haired woman, her neck encircled with a typical band, clad in a brief, brightly scarlet slave tunic, slit at the sides. |
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| 38 | 120 |
Surely the leader of the strangers could not be serious, if he were suggesting a straight exchange, a single, kneeling, scarlet-clad beauty for a trained sleen. |
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| 38 | 165 |
He then looked down at the scarlet-tunicked slave. |
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| 38 | 288 |
"Bind her, hand and foot," said the leader, indicating the lovely, scarlet-clad slave, to one of his men. |
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| 38 | 304 |
"There is another reason I placed you in a scarlet tunic," he said. |
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| 39 | 187 |
Free us, immediately!" "You see, Master," said Donna, who was standing to the side, in the background, in her scarlet tunic, "it is the very group you seek. |
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| 39 | 216 |
The dark-haired, striking, scarlet-tunicked slave approached, and stood before the prisoners. |
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| 41 | 180 |
"They have been sent out again, with the scarlet-clad slave and two guards, to gather wood". |
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| 43 | 101 |
"And it was for that purpose," he said, briefly glancing behind him, and to his left, where Donna knelt, in her scarlet tunic, "that a given slave, a former Panther Girl, indeed, one once of your own band, was obtained, that she might abet our search". |
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| 43 | 124 |
"We put her in the scarlet tunic," said Genserich. |
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| 43 | 1015 |
"It is you who have brought us to this!" "Stop her!" cried Axel, and Donna had scarcely reached the edge of the camp, her scarlet tunic bright against the green, when she was seized. |
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| 48 | 121 |
It then lay down, its scarlet-flowing jaws still clenched on the throat of the smaller beast, whose body now lay across its paws. |
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| 50 | 44 |
He indicated a long, tapering, triangular swirl of bright scarlet silk. |
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| 50 | 271 |
North of the dock, amongst some of the shops, and workers' huts, I saw the high pole at which was flown the long, some yards long, unfurled, wind- whipped, scarlet triangle of silk, which I had been informed was the "ready banner," the banner that was put in place three days before departure. |
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| 50 | 390 |
I could detect the "ready banner" on its line, like a tiny, fluttering scarlet thread in the distance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 179 |
I was of the scarlet caste. |
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| 1 | 199 |
But I, I knew, though of the scarlet caste, preferred the sky, the terrain below, mountains, the wind, the surging flight of the tarn, the exhilarating rush of air tearing at the jacket, and, of course, the recreation of the tarnsman, the loot one gathers, so pleasant, the collared, chained slave, a... |
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| 2 | 68 |
How unworthy I was of the scarlet! The night continued to be muchly dark, but now and again, as occasionally before, the wind tore away patches of cloud, suddenly, and the mountainous terrain below would spring into view. |
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| 2 | 170 |
I was unworthy of the scarlet, I had betrayed my responsibilities and the remnants of my command. |
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| 10 | 125 |
Lysander, I was sure, though I had not pursued the matter, had once been of the scarlet. |
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| 44 | 171 |
"It was the word of one who is of the scarlet caste, the word of a warrior". |
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| 61 | 636 |
Perhaps it would be a slave from Port Kar, or perhaps from Ko-ro-ba, where I had first donned the scarlet of the warrior, with whom I would be threatened, whose fate might be dire, unless I complied with the commands of Lord Temmu. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 196 |
My body, I feared, was a raging storm of scarlet tissue. |
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| 13 | 100 |
How helpless we were on Gor! How much here, on Gor, were we at the mercy of men, our masters! How cool and superior to us were the exalted, refined, proud, serene, aloof free women! How they despised us for our needs! But did they not know we were collared? Would they be different, stripped and chai... |
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| 25 | 23 |
"Many warriors," I said, "wear the scarlet of their caste". |
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| 30 | 329 |
I caught the briefest glimpse of tanned legs in the sand, each ankle ringed with slave bells, and a swirling skirt of scarlet dancing silk. |
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| 43 | 114 |
How could I respond to that? "One," he said, "once did, on the steel world, in the time of the tribulations, in the time of dark troubles, a member of the scarlet caste". |
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| 48 | 140 |
"No," she said, "of the scarlet caste, the Warriors". |
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| 49 | 17 |
Some four or five present were clearly of the scarlet caste. |
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| 56 | 111 |
"You are of the Scarlet Caste, are you not?" "I am," said Drusus Andronicus. |
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| 56 | 112 |
"I know one of the Scarlet Caste," said Lord Grendel. |
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| 60 | 15 |
On his right was Drusus Andronicus, long-armed, handsome, and stalwart, in suitable scarlet, betokening his caste, who stood high in the house, and, on his left, clad openly, brazenly, unapologetically, in the hues of the night, was Tyrtaios, of the caste whose members acknowledge no Home Stone, the... |
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| 61 | 153 |
Aelius had climbed toward the box but, before he could enter it, Lucilius, two hands on the great haft, wielded the ax, and the sundered head of Aelius spun far away, a small, dark cloud raining blood, and blood from the decapitated corse, sped by the fierce pressure generated by the frantic poundin... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 808 |
No one, at this distance, will mistake slaves bedecked in scarlet, clutching staves, for those of the scarlet caste. |
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| 3 | 456 |
My body, I fear, was a scarlet sheet of flame. |
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| 8 | 773 |
Have we not secret forces aboard, representatives of the scarlet caste itself, warriors in fee?" "No," I said. |
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| 8 | 777 |
Scarlet cloths were brought and cast about us. |
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| 8 | 787 |
"See how easy it is to recruit defenders, and of the scarlet caste itself". |
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| 8 | 943 |
The scarlet cloths we had worn were drawn from us. |
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| 16 | 13 |
"Only one who does not know his blade could fail to fear him," said the fourth man, whose cap bore four tiny scarlet slashes. |
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| 36 | 111 |
"He may be of the scarlet caste," said Ina. |
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| 37 | 123 |
This exchange will be better understood if it is understood that many Goreans cannot read, particularly in the lower castes, and, interestingly, in the scarlet caste, the caste of Warriors, as well, a high caste. |
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| 41 | 1 |
How Events Proceeded In the Holding of Bosk of Port Kar It was late morning, the Ninth Ahn, when a stranger, in a scarlet scarf, bearded, sword drawn, kicked open the door to the room in which my cage was kept. |
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| 43 | 81 |
"I am of the mariners, not the scarlet caste". |
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| 46 | 465 |
"Behold," called Ho-Tosk, "the lovely Lais, graceful and lithe, eyes as blue as the skies of En'Kara, lips as red as the scarlet dina, hair as yellow as ripe sa'tarna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38 |
"You are of the scarlet caste," he said. |
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| 1 | 243 |
"They roundly and repeatedly proclaimed the glory of their vile, fierce, merciless, scarlet-haired captain," he said. |
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| 17 | 233 |
"At one time, I would have blushed scarlet, totally, to be so exhibited before a man. |
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| 32 | 7 |
This suggested that there were few, if any, of the scarlet caste amongst the corsairs. |
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| 41 | 47 |
"Scarlet," said another. |
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| 41 | 48 |
"The scarlet of the Warriors," whispered another. |
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| 44 | 139 |
"Mine is not the scarlet caste," he said. |
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| 45 | 170 |
"Such is not alone for the scarlet caste. |
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| 51 | 147 |
The boat seemed to float on a scarlet sea. |
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| 54 | 137 |
It is ground, and added to a brew of scarlet meal and water. |
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| 57 | 173 |
Instantly spreading fire, like a striking, scarlet snake, raged about the ankles and legs of the mercenaries. |
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| 57 | 200 |
"I do not understand the scarlet caste," said Thurnock. |
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| 63 | 9 |
"His codes were betrayed, his scarlet was soiled". |
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