| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 110 |
Suddenly the foot of Kron swept through the white perfumed sand, bright with mica and red lead, and kicked a broad sheet of particles toward my eyes. |
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| 25 | 4 |
She clutched about herself as well as she could a richly wrought yellow cloth, a silken yellow sheet. |
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| 25 | 6 |
It contrasted strikingly with the yellow of the sheet. |
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| 25 | 7 |
It was a large sheet, voluminous, and came even to the floor. |
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| 25 | 8 |
I could see a chain running across the rug from the slave ring to the sheet, beneath which it disappeared. |
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| 25 | 9 |
I could not see the termination of the chain because of the yellow sheet, but I had little doubt that, in some fashion, she was secured. |
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| 25 | 10 |
Had I not heard a rustle of chain? Did she think to conceal her bonds, her condition? Surely any Gorean, despite the sheet, would have instantly supposed her to be what she indeed was, a slave, tethered with obdurate metal. |
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| 25 | 31 |
She pulled the yellow sheet more closely about her. |
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| 25 | 56 |
I turned to face her and she put one hand before her face, the other holding the yellow sheet about her. |
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| 25 | 74 |
She did not speak but stood looking at me, in the yellow sheet, with one hand covering her face. |
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| 25 | 137 |
She leaned back on her heels, drawing the yellow silken sheet more closely about her shoulders, and looked at me, smiling. |
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| 25 | 159 |
Gracefully, insolently, the silken yellow sheet moved about and across her body and fell from her. |
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| 25 | 175 |
She had now picked up the yellow sheet and, with a pin or two, booty from Turia probably, fastened it gracefully about her. |
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| 25 | 477 |
I removed the two pins from the yellow silken sheet, and it fell from her, revealing her clad Kajir. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 36 |
In the House of Cernus, after the sheet, bracelets, leash and collar had been removed, agents of the House of Cernus had checked her fingerprints against those on the papers. |
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| 5 | 264 |
In his prehensile hooks, those on the right foreleg, he carried a sheet of plastic, on which was the Gorean alphabet, and some paragraphs in Gorean, in various scripts, some printed, some cursive. |
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| 5 | 288 |
"When I look at it," said Elizabeth, excitedly, holding the sheet of plastic, "I just know what the sounds are—I just know!" "Of course," said Kusk, "but it grows near the Ahn of the fourth feeding. |
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| 5 | 291 |
She seemed too excited to accompany us and kept reading the plastic sheet over and over. |
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| 9 | 49 |
One of them held the sheet up inspecting it, and I saw that it was a bill, which might be pasted against the wall of a public building, or on the public boards near the markets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 80 |
The paper is then attached, sheet to sheet, to form rolls, usually about twenty sheets to a roll. |
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| 1 | 79 |
Rence paper is made by slicing the stem into thin, narrow strips; those near the center of the plant are particularly favored; one layer of strips is placed longitudinally, and then a shorter layer is placed latitudinally across the first layer; these two surfaces are then soaked under water, which ... |
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| 6 | 105 |
A scribe stood by with a tally sheet, marking the number of captures by each warrior. |
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| 15 | 362 |
She stood wrapped in an opaque sheet of shimmering yellow silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 131 |
The wind tore at my body, at the taut, swaying, drawn, clenched sheet. |
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| 2 | 134 |
The knot fastening the sheet to the railing above me slipped a little. |
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| 2 | 135 |
I cried out with misery, clung the more tightly, the more miserably, to the sheet. |
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| 2 | 140 |
I feared I might lose my grip on the sheet. |
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| 2 | 141 |
Where was the railing! I twisted on the sheet. |
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| 2 | 142 |
Surely I had not passed it, as I swung about, it then behind me! The sheet would not reach to the next terrace. |
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| 2 | 144 |
I saw the railing on my terrace, the sheet tied to it. |
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| 3 | 151 |
On the satin sheet I struggled to move the knife, with my mouth and the back of my head, toward my bound hands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 150 |
When they came to a sheet of steep ice they did not go around it but, extending their claws, climbed it rapidly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1257 |
One of the men of the kasbah put the sheet over her, in her turn, fully, to protect her from the sun; her head was then completely covered as well as her body; the sheet was then fastened in place, that it might not slip, with a cord, twice looped, tied closely about her neck; thus she, as the other... |
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| 4 | 195 |
He thrust a sheet of paper to me. |
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| 4 | 209 |
Her entire body would, now, be alive, an organ of touch, a sheet of sentience and vitality. |
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| 26 | 52 |
The sheet is held in place with a piece of cord, looped twice about the neck and tied snugly. |
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| 26 | 1276 |
Beside me, at my stirrup, on a tether fastened to the pommel of my saddle, her feet protected in leather, her body covered with the white sheet, it serving as garment and head-enclosing hood, was a girl, a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1 |
I am Publicly Auctioned The sheet was ripped from me. |
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| 13 | 214 |
In the slave pens, of course, a girl's measurements are taken on a tape measure marked in horts and entered on her sheet of sale. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 360 |
"Done," said he, "Captain!" I signed his sheet with the sign of the bosk. |
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| 4 | 576 |
I thrust aside boxes and another sheet of canvas and stumbled into the adjacent street. |
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| 15 | 723 |
Her degree of heat, in such a situation would also be listed, of course, among her other properties, on her sales sheet, posted in the vicinity of the exhibition cages, available twenty Ahn before her sale. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 16 |
The praetor handed a sheet of paper to one of his guardsmen. |
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| 5 | 391 |
The girl then lay there quietly again, her head resting on her left arm, it lying, flat, elbow bent, beneath her on the sheet-metal floor of the cage. |
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| 5 | 789 |
"Yes, Master," she said, and curled up on the sheet-iron square which floored her cage. |
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| 6 | 228 |
When she had seen me look at her, she had looked up, quickly, at the square of sheet metal above her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 21 |
One girl rose from the bench, her left ankle pulling against the chain and shackle that held her with the others, and dropped the sheet to her waist. |
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| 9 | 77 |
He tore the sheet away from the girl on the block, throwing it to the side. |
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| 10 | 109 |
I hurried back to the girl and stood before her, the sheet in my hand. |
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| 10 | 113 |
I stepped more closely to her and, standing before her, held the sheet behind her, preparing to draw it about her. |
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| 10 | 115 |
"Cover me, quickly!" Swiftly I drew the sheet about her and she, from within it, clutched it even more closely about herself. |
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| 10 | 116 |
I could see, as she had gathered the sheet, the outline of her small fists beneath it. |
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| 10 | 130 |
"I cannot wear a sheet". |
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| 10 | 170 |
She drew the sheet more closely about her ill-concealed nakedness. |
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| 10 | 215 |
To be sure, the Gorean free woman is not accustomed to frequent the streets barefoot and unveiled, and clad in no more than a tiny sheet. |
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| 10 | 304 |
I considered tearing the sheet from her. |
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| 10 | 326 |
"I know! I have no Home Stone! You might just tear the sheet from me. |
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| 10 | 331 |
I seized her by the upper arms, under the sheet, and shook her, violently. |
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| 10 | 334 |
Quickly she pulled the sheet back about her. |
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| 10 | 408 |
My hands had tightened on her arms, under the sheet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 35 |
"Who are you?" she demanded, holding the sheet high about her. |
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| 8 | 36 |
"Lower the sheet to your shoulders," I told her. |
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| 8 | 46 |
"Discard the sheet," I told her. |
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| 8 | 70 |
She, kneeling in the berth, insolently, inattentively, looking to one side, as though bored, slipped the sheet to her knees. |
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| 8 | 74 |
She cast the sheet aside. |
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| 8 | 333 |
She knelt there, and reached down, frightened, to clutch at the scarlet sheet. |
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| 8 | 335 |
She would be absolutely naked in the berth, totally unshielded, even by so little as the sheet. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 | 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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| 8 | 597 |
Then I secured it in place with a folded, twisted strip from the torn sheet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73 |
I had not slept her naked on the tiles beside the couch, with only a sheet for warmth, nor naked at the foot of the couch, with only a chain for comfort. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 115 |
The baker, who was a kind-hearted man, would sometimes come out and, from a flat sheet, throw them unsold pastries". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 224 |
He drew away the sheet and folded it, horizontally, again and again, until it formed, with several folds, a thick, long, narrow band, about six inches in height and the sheet's length, about seven feet, in width. |
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| 10 | 42 |
He drew a sheet of paper from within his tunic. |
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| 10 | 43 |
"I have directions here, on a sheet of paper. |
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| 10 | 46 |
The fellow smiled and, slowly, in his fingers, wadded up the sheet of paper, and dropped it to the street. |
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| 12 | 54 |
A man, dressed rather in the fashion of Ligurious and the others, was lifting a sheet about her. |
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| 12 | 55 |
She clutched this sheet about her, drawing it even about her head, and held it together, before her face, effectively veiling herself with it. |
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| 12 | 66 |
I saw that the sheet, now, had been drawn completely over the woman, as though thrown over her. |
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| 12 | 69 |
It was almost as though, under the sheet, she might be naked. |
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| 12 | 71 |
Something was being fastened about her throat, over the sheet, under her chin. |
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| 13 | 145 |
The woman in the slave collar and on the leash, covered by the sheet, her bare feet and ankles visible beneath it, would presumably be assumed to be merely a naked captive. |
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| 24 | 71 |
"Common Kajira mark," he said, and made an entry on a sheet. |
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| 31 | 187 |
He then, from a chest at the side of the room, fetched forth a lovely, yellow, silken sheet. |
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| 31 | 209 |
Then he came over to the chair and, bending over, carefully adjusted the sheet about me. |
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| 31 | 262 |
I writhed, helplessly, uncontrollably, held in place by the tight band of the sheet, my fingernails digging into the arms of the chair. |
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| 31 | 279 |
I sat back in the chair, held helplessly there by the thick bond of the yellow sheet. |
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| 31 | 291 |
He then untied the sheet from the chair. |
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| 31 | 295 |
He folded the sheet twice and dropped it beside the chair. |
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| 31 | 487 |
He did leave me a sheet on the tiles. |
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| 31 | 500 |
At the foot of the couch, on the tiles, with my teeth I readjusted the sheet about me, as I could. |
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| 31 | 531 |
I twisted a bit on the tiles, carefully, so as not to dislodge the sheet. |
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| 31 | 583 |
Braceleted as I was, I could not keep the sheet on me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 737 |
It seemed then she withdrew modestly, frightened, behind the hair, drawing it like a cloak or sheet about her, as though by means of this piteous device she might hope desperately to conceal at least some minimal particle of her beauty from the rude scrutiny of masters. |
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| 12 | 361 |
Among some of these papers, which I would apparently use as a backing surface for the sheet on which I intended to record the moves, were the papers I had taken, long ago, from the Lady Yanina near the fair of En'Kara. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 673 |
I could not keep my hands on the sheet without opening the sheet myself. |
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| 2 | 135 |
Within it was a sheet of folded paper. |
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| 2 | 136 |
I opened the sheet of folded paper. |
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| 8 | 28 |
They had stout frames of metal, were floored with sheet metal, and roofed, sided and gated with heavy meshes of a chain-link-type metal, the links passed through, and clinched in, apertures in the frame. |
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| 11 | 1 |
The Raffle; The Alcove; The Kennel I waited, frightened, within the threshold, clutching the sheet about me. |
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| 11 | 22 |
I clutched the sheet more closely about me. |
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| 11 | 162 |
"Yes, Master," I whispered, holding the sheet about me looking up at him, I a slave in the presence of a free man. |
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| 11 | 225 |
She paused, looking down at me, kneeling there, clutching the sheet about me, frightened. |
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| 11 | 230 |
I had a sheet about me! She wore only her collar, and a few beads, and slave bells! "You're naked!" I said to her, angrily. |
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| 11 | 231 |
Swiftly she crouched down before me, and, with two hands, angrily, there in the hall, near the curtain, tore the sheet back, away from me, thrusting it back, and down, over my calves. |
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| 11 | 237 |
Hastily I pulled the sheet up and put it about me as closely as I could, holding it even, in my two fists, high, about my neck. |
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| 11 | 248 |
I knelt back, out of sight, near the curtain, frightened, clutching the sheet about me. |
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| 11 | 354 |
The sheet fell a little. |
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| 11 | 374 |
"Hold the sheet closely about you," said Tupita. |
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| 11 | 381 |
The sheet I clutched about me so desperately, came a little below my knees. |
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| 11 | 387 |
My master took the edges of the sheet I held about myself and pulled it a little to the side, and down, revealing my shoulders. |
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| 11 | 391 |
The ribbon, like the sheet, was of white silk. |
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| 11 | 429 |
I clutched the sheet more closely about me. |
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| 11 | 437 |
I clutched the sheet more closely about my neck. |
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| 11 | 484 |
I felt his massive hand moving the sheet as it closed itself, like a vise, about my upper left arm. |
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| 11 | 489 |
My fists still clutched the sheet high about my neck. |
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| 11 | 562 |
I came forward, in the cuffs and leashes, clutching the sheet, the girls with me. |
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| 11 | 573 |
I clutched the sheet up higher about my neck. |
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| 11 | 622 |
I must have turned red, all of me that was not covered by the sheet, my face and neck, and my calves, ankles and feet. |
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| 11 | 645 |
How they would make a woman obey them! And how they looked upon me, with such eagerness and interest, seeing me as what I was, a slave! I clenched my fists on the sheet. |
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| 11 | 662 |
She took hold of the sheet, at the shoulders, from behind, that it might be lifted gracefully from me. |
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| 11 | 674 |
Tears in my eyes I released the sheet. |
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| 11 | 675 |
Ina then, gracefully, drew the sheet away and, carrying it, withdrew from the floor. |
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| 11 | 758 |
I no longer had the sheet of white silk about me. |
10 |
| 11 | 1057 |
"Will I not be given the white sheet again?" I asked Ina. |
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| 11 | 1058 |
"No," she said, "the time of the white sheet for you is over". |
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| 11 | 1372 |
I then heard him pick up a sheet of paper and, seemingly, clean his thumb on the paper. |
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| 25 | 5 |
I had then been wrapped in a red sheet and carried to the tent of the overseer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 21 | 982 |
Some slavers bring the girls into the city naked, in coffle, as they would normally be kept outside the walls, to save the soiling of tunics, and such, and others sheet the girls, covering them substantially with a sheet thrown over the head, and fastened about the neck by the coffle collar. |
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| 9 | 90 |
To be sure, it is more common to throw a cloak or sheet, which might be of various lengths, over their heads, this usually being fastened on them by means of a cord or strap looped once or twice about the neck and fastened under the chin. |
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| 10 | 1 |
The Trenches; The Wall "Behold Klio, the free woman," I said, whipping the sheet from her. |
10 |
| 10 | 60 |
We had herded Klio before us, under the sheet, on all fours, encouraging her occasionally with a foot or the blow of the looped slave leash, not yet on her at that time. |
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| 12 | 121 |
They are then placed in the master's chambers, often through a panel in the door, the sheet remaining behind. |
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| 12 | 122 |
A girl normally makes the journey only once in a white sheet, of course. |
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| 18 | 127 |
The officer turned about and, drawing from beneath his cloak a white sheet, which he had apparently concealed there, lifted it, and approached the base of the wall. |
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| 18 | 144 |
He stepped back, the hand which held the white sheet lowered. |
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| 21 | 983 |
The sheet commonly reaches to the calves of the girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 103 |
The slave at the stake, moreover, was covered with a sheet. |
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| 48 | 214 |
I led him over to the stake, a few yards away, among other stakes, to which the female, tied kneeling, head down, covered with a sheet, was chained by an ankle. |
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| 48 | 216 |
I bent down and untied the cord which, about her neck, held the center of the sheet, hoodlike, over her head. |
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| 48 | 218 |
I then, perhaps somewhat dramatically, suddenly drew the sheet away from the bound girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 296 |
First we draped a sheet about her. |
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| 8 | 298 |
After this we drew the sheet up in the back and put it about her head, that it might also serve as a hood. |
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| 8 | 299 |
Phoebe herself, of course, held the sheet about her. |
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| 8 | 302 |
We did not think that Phoebe would relax her vigilance in clutching the sheet about her. |
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| 8 | 388 |
"But underneath the sheet naked," Marcus reminded me. |
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| 8 | 391 |
No sooner had he had Phoebe inside the door to our room in the insula than he had torn the sheet and veil from her and flung her on her belly to the straw-filled mat, then leaping upon her with a cry of joy. |
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| 8 | 395 |
There had been little difficulty, of course, in folks knowing that Phoebe was a slave, given, for example, that her primary covering was a sheet and that her feet were bared. |
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| 9 | 315 |
They brought you back in a sheet, with not even a tarsk bit to your name, and dishonored. |
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| 11 | 121 |
To be sure, they are sometimes granted a sheet or blanket for comfort or warmth. |
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| 14 | 683 |
"Glory to Ar!" I heard the ripping down of a sheet from the public boards and saw a young fellow casting it aside. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 668 |
It seemed an idle movement, prompted perhaps by no impulse more profound than might tempt one, in passing time, to doodle on a sheet of paper with some writing implement, but, of course, any such touch shook me profoundly. |
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| 7 | 84 |
He drew a sheet of paper from his wallet. |
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| 7 | 112 |
Was it not well known? What did he want? He returned the sheet of paper to his wallet. |
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| 7 | 351 |
I had often begged to be put forth for use, to lie chained between the tables for the use of guests, to be fastened even to a bench in the garden, my use a gratuity for those who worked there, or to be sent, gratefully, ecstatically, back-braceleted, a sheet over me, to the quarters of guards, but t... |
10 |
| 16 | 531 |
He tossed me a sheet. |
10 |
| 16 | 533 |
I then lay there, huddled in the sheet, on the tiles, my head toward the bottom of the divan. |
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| 16 | 709 |
A slave sheet was thrown over my head and body. |
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| 16 | 719 |
I was taken away covered in a slave sheet. |
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| 22 | 53 |
The pit master, as we have noted, had not been zealous in enforcing the edicts of the officer, he to whose compartments I had earlier been conducted, he whom I had served, he before whom I had danced, he who had several times made slave use of me, he at the side of whose couch, on the floor, on the ... |
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| 24 | 678 |
I wondered if he would grant her a sheet, as he had me. |
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| 39 | 44 |
I had been given a sheet. |
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| 39 | 45 |
I now sat up, holding the sheet about me. |
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| 39 | 56 |
I clutched the sheet more closely about me. |
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| 39 | 93 |
Rather he turned to one side, and, in a moment, cast me a sheet. |
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| 39 | 96 |
I was sitting up, on the tiles, the sheet clutched about me. |
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| 39 | 108 |
I knelt beside the divan, holding the sheet about me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 48 |
"I had thought you might have wrapped yourself in a sheet, or comforter, or such," he smiled. |
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| 13 | 148 |
Ellen, with the simple clothespins, attached a sheet to the line. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 128 |
The sheet was clutched in a such a way that the face was effectively hooded, the opening on the sheet sufficing for little more than a lowered head to survey the next patch of ground on which it might dare to tread. |
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| 1 | 692 |
Several times she had awakened in her bed, from such dreams, twisted in the covers, heated and thrashing, tormented by sensations that seemed to enliven and enfire every cubic inch of her, and turn her skin into a mottled sheet of living flame. |
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| 64 | 62 |
"It is my understanding," said Archon, "that she has begged a sheet, a covering of some sort, with which to conceal her face and body". |
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| 64 | 127 |
It was bent over and clutched a sheet about itself with closely braceleted hands. |
10 |
| 64 | 129 |
One of the women of the killer humans sprang to her feet and snatched at the sheet but the small figure hastily, frightened, drew back. |
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| 64 | 131 |
In a moment the small figure had cried out in misery, the sheet ripped from her, and she knelt in the dirt, cowering, covering her face with her hands, that none could look upon its horror. |
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| 64 | 132 |
Beneath the sheet she had been as naked as the women of the killer humans. |
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| 64 | 153 |
Cestiphon then picked up the sheet and threw it about the Lady Bina, who gratefully, with her small, closely braceleted hands, clutched it about her. |
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| 64 | 154 |
"Begone, beast, monster," said Cestiphon, angrily, and the Lady Bina, sobbing, clutching the sheet about her, fighting her shackles, moved away, as swiftly as she could. |
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| 64 | 172 |
"Lady," suggested Peisistratus, "draw the sheet about you". |
10 |
| 64 | 175 |
The Lady Bina carefully, closely, drew the sheet about her, and knelt beside them, her head down. |
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| 64 | 176 |
From time to time, from within the carefully arranged sheet, was heard a small noise, a soft noise, a sob. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 204 |
From the size of the figure and hints of the sheet it seemed clear that the figure within the sheet was that of a female, and, quite possibly, one who might stimulate spirited bidding. |
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| 10 | 258 |
Tajima then, carefully, lifted the sheet away from the figure's head, and it was, indeed, Miss Wentworth, who shook her head, angrily, as though to free her head even the more swiftly from the folds of the sheet. |
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| 10 | 611 |
"No, no!" She fought to cling to the sheet, to hold it together, before her, but her strength was nothing to that of the two men, and her fingers were pried from the sheet, and her arms were separated, and drawn to the sides. |
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| 7 | 323 |
Your body is not yet a sheet of awareness. |
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| 9 | 396 |
"Bring me something suitable!" "I have," said Tajima, who held, over his left forearm, what appeared to be, arranged in several narrow folds, a sheet of rep cloth. |
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| 9 | 416 |
He handed the rep-cloth sheet to Miss Wentworth, who seized it from him. |
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| 10 | 198 |
Shortly thereafter, a small figure, completely covered, from head to foot, wholly concealed in a large sheet of white rep-cloth, was conducted forward, a guard on each side of it, Pertinax a little before it, on its left, and Tajima in the background. |
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| 10 | 201 |
The small figure, as noted, was covered, from head to foot, in the rep-cloth sheet. |
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| 10 | 202 |
I supposed this must be Miss Wentworth, from the slightness of the figure and the rep-cloth sheet, but I would have expected Miss Wentworth to be quite urgent and vocal, now that she had been permitted within the pavilion. |
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| 10 | 205 |
I could see where the sheet was bunched, before her body, where she held it about her with two small fists. |
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| 10 | 244 |
And I suspected then that she, Miss Wentworth, had gratefully disdonned the tunic and had welcomed the sheet as a transitory salvation, pending the providing of a suitable garmenture. |
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| 10 | 245 |
Her concern to appear before Lord Nishida as soon as possible and demand her immediate return to Earth, before an additional and possibly greater delay might take place, had doubtless determined her to avail herself of any expedient at hand, and the sheet, if nothing else, was voluminous and, were t... |
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| 10 | 246 |
In any event, as nearly as I could tell, from the appearance of things, there was nothing beneath the sheet but Miss Wentworth herself. |
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| 10 | 253 |
Lord Nishida made a tiny motion with his right hand, and Tajima put his hands, gently, to that portion of the sheet which was wrapped about the head and face of the bundled figure. |
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| 10 | 254 |
As soon as she felt his hands at the sheet a series of urgent but unintelligible noises emanated from within the cloth. |
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| 10 | 260 |
She uttered a tiny noise of fear, and her legs gave out beneath her, but she was steadied by the two guards who held her in place, by the upper arms, beneath the sheet. |
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| 10 | 268 |
Miss Wentworth, desperately, clutched the sheet about her. |
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| 10 | 306 |
She continued to clutch the sheet about her, tightly. |
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| 10 | 308 |
There was a bruise on the left side of her face, and I noted some discoloration, dirt, I supposed, on the sheet. |
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| 10 | 318 |
"I can present myself!" she cried, angrily, clutching the sheet even more closely about her. |
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| 10 | 327 |
He then rearranged the hair of Miss Wentworth, first lifting it to the sides that its length and sheen might be noted, and then he put it carefully behind her back, spreading it nicely, evenly, behind the sheet. |
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| 10 | 356 |
That she had been knelt would account for the soiling of the sheet, in the vicinity of her knees. |
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| 10 | 362 |
"Then," she said, "when put to my feet and ready to be brought within, my head was covered in the sheet, completely, so I could not see my way!" "That is common," said Lord Nishida, "when one such as you is to be presented before a daimyo". |
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| 10 | 552 |
"Please draw down the sheet to her shoulders". |
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| 10 | 554 |
Tajima held the sheet in place. |
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| 10 | 653 |
Tajima had retrieved the sheet and had now refolded it, and held it over his arm. |
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| 11 | 94 |
By the time she had learned her collar, and her skin would again sparkle, and her hair would be again a glory, and her eyes would no longer reflect terror but rather the eagerness of a surrendered slave, hoping to be found pleasing by her master, she would be worthy, I was sure, of having the vestit... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 26 | 65 |
He then lifts away the sheet and considers her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1180 |
The sale proceeds in three phases, in each of which the girl is turned, and exhibited, first in the brief sheet, then, the sheet removed, in the tunic, and, lastly, neither in the sheet nor tunic. |
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| 34 | 49 |
When a large sheet is filled, the last letter or meaningless mark placed in the last square, one replaces the scraps of paper in the helmet, shuffles them about, jumbles them, and then, with a new large sheet, one begins again". |
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| 35 | 175 |
"As you cannot read," said Master Desmond, "this is not obvious to you, but the small sheet which seems to be a game's annotation and the large sheet, whose squares contain letters, or meaningless marks, are both numbered". |
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| 50 | 6 |
The recipient, then, who has the card sheet used for the particular message, places the cards in the order prescribed by the sheet, and, once again, the message is visible. |
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| 50 | 23 |
In receiving a message, which would have the cards in the normal order, as in the current case, the Lady Bina or Lord Grendel would read from the appropriate card sheet, and I would place the cards in the order prescribed by the card sheet, after which they would have the message, either in clear Go... |
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| 51 | 115 |
She then began to read the list of cards from the card sheet, and, as the deck was in order, the cards easily located, I quickly put the cards in the order called for by the card sheet. |
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| 4 | 611 |
Rawlinson's instructions, we had been denied lunch, and, later, kept locked in a room behind the kitchen, until we had been brought forth, covered by a large sheet, and introduced into the common room, now arranged as a banquet hall. |
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| 4 | 612 |
We had been knelt, and the sheet, swirling, lifted away, revealing us, camisked, collared, and belled. |
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| 8 | 438 |
Each of the girls wore a brief, wrap-around tunic, and each had, either about herself, or at hand, a short, white sheet. |
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| 8 | 439 |
What I held was such a tunic, and such a sheet. |
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| 8 | 466 |
I then clutched the sheet about me. |
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| 8 | 484 |
I folded the sheet, and put it about my shoulders. |
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| 8 | 564 |
Her sheet was at her ankles. |
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| 8 | 565 |
Another girl stood at the bars, her hands over her head, holding to the bars, her sheet about her shoulders. |
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| 8 | 570 |
Her sheet was beside her. |
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| 8 | 571 |
The dark blonde now reclined back, a few feet from the bars, on one elbow, on her sheet, her legs partly extended, one more than the other, looking out. |
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| 8 | 709 |
I clutched the sheet more closely about me. |
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| 8 | 890 |
Shortly, he removed the sheet which she had clutched about her, continuing to exhibit her. |
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| 8 | 938 |
She was clutching the short sheet closely about her, and was shrieking, and sobbing. |
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| 8 | 946 |
He then, with his left hand, drew up the sheet, and the hem of her tunic, to the waist. |
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| 8 | 949 |
The former Lady Persinna fell to her knees before the auctioneer, holding the sheet closely about her. |
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| 8 | 956 |
She clutched the sheet closely about her. |
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| 8 | 962 |
"Surely the sheet does not much hide the legs of this slave!" She threw back her head, sobbing. |
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| 8 | 975 |
The former Lady Persinna stood, miserable, small, a slave, the sheet clutched about her. |
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| 8 | 982 |
The girl held the sheet tightly about her. |
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| 8 | 986 |
"Consider it as a sheet of pleasure, which might be spread about your body," said the auctioneer, "or its value as a bond, fastening her wrists behind the back of her neck". |
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| 8 | 992 |
"Come now, noble Masters," said the auctioneer, "regard her ankles, her calves, her small hands, so tight on the sheet, the exquisite delicacy of her features". |
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| 8 | 996 |
The sheet was whipped away from the slave, half turning her about. |
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| 8 | 1077 |
Though muchly clothed, as such things go, for slaves, in the wrap-around tunic, and covered as much as possible by the sheet, I was uneasy at how I sensed myself being regarded. |
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| 8 | 1104 |
I clutched the sheet about me, tightly. |
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| 8 | 1110 |
The slave's sheet had been removed. |
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| 8 | 1207 |
The sheet was pulled from me. |
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| 9 | 302 |
* * * * I knelt under the sheet, it wrapped closely about me, sobbing, in an outer room, one with access to the street. |
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| 9 | 330 |
It was huge, the form muchly concealed within the ample, thick, sheet-like, hooded cloak it wore. |
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| 9 | 407 |
The sheet was removed from me and I was put to my belly before the beast. |
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| 10 | 1090 |
While I watched, a sheet was taken by a wind and swept from the lower bridge, whence it fluttered to the street below. |
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| 34 | 46 |
What one is to do is to take a paper from the helmet which bears a letter or the meaningless mark, and transcribe it onto one of the squares on the large sheet. |
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| 35 | 132 |
He then extracted a small sheet from the envelope. |
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| 35 | 154 |
"Now," he said, holding the small sheet removed from the leather envelope before me, "this resembles a game's annotation. |
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| 35 | 156 |
On the other hand, if one examines the sheet carefully, most of the later entries would be impractical, even illegitimate, in an actual game. |
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| 35 | 157 |
Accordingly, the first level of concealment is that the sheet is not what it initially appears to be, and might not attract particular attention, certainly not from those unfamiliar with kaissa, and probably not from your average player, who would not be likely to inquire into the annotation of a ga... |
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| 35 | 159 |
And even if he looked at the sheet he would presumably soon cast it away as some sort of hoax or joke, perhaps even a jibe from some critic of kaissa, who thinks too much time and attention is devoted to the game. |
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| 35 | 173 |
"It is only necessary that the sender and the receiver of the message use a corresponding sheet of squares, of which there could be an indefinite number, but which, to date, seems to consist of one hundred sheets". |
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| 35 | 174 |
"There must be a way," I said, "to know what sheet to use, as there are so many". |
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| 35 | 248 |
He produced another sheet of paper. |
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| 35 | 272 |
"Perhaps a single explanatory sheet, to which we lack access?" I suggested. |
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| 35 | 278 |
"I suppose you have arranged the deck in the order prescribed by the sheet," I said. |
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| 35 | 282 |
It tells no more than the sheet itself". |
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| 35 | 338 |
"Because we have the list," he said, tapping that small sheet of paper on the table. |
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| 41 | 82 |
He drew forth a small sheet of paper, with tiny writing on it. |
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| 41 | 91 |
The sheet of paper, one of several, which had been removed from the chest, had been taken not only from the tray, but from beneath a paper which had seemed to floor the tray. |
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| 41 | 93 |
He held the small sheet of paper which he had extracted from the tray before me. |
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| 49 | 405 |
Certain individuals have even permitted themselves to be bribed, to let a certain code sheet fall into certain hands. |
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| 49 | 407 |
The package stolen from you contained a code deck, whose message would be revealed by the purchased code sheet. |
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| 50 | 10 |
To be sure, the message could be in clear Gorean, inscribed openly on a sheet of paper, and it would have remained opaque to me. |
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| 50 | 21 |
After that, I would read the order of the cards that the card sheet might be prepared. |
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| 50 | 87 |
Doubtless he had a pertinent card sheet. |
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| 51 | 110 |
Lord Grendel then, also from his pouch, handed her a folded sheet of paper, which the Lady Bina opened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 106 |
The mighty wings of my tarn struck the air, and I saw one fellow stumble, his forearm over his eyes, lost in a sheet of driven dust, and I was aflight. |
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| 27 | 21 |
These are more dangerous than many understand, particularly at a short distance, and in great numbers, when a sheet of missiles in their thousands can strike foes as might a deadly hail. |
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| 61 | 317 |
"He will then transcribe it onto a sheet of silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 491 |
Perhaps I could draw something up about me? Perhaps I could adjust a sheet or blanket about me, and clutch it in place? I would manage. |
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| 3 | 170 |
There will be a sheet on the floor of the van. |
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| 33 | 638 |
But they struck her, those terrible, mighty things, until she whimpered and cringed, and then they hooded and bundled her in the very sheet of canvas in which Kurik had expected to conceal her, to take her through the streets of Brundisium in the night. |
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| 33 | 641 |
Then I saw a leash put about her neck, over the hooding sheet, its leather in the grasp of one of the monsters. |
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| 33 | 695 |
A sheet of flame then obscured the area. |
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| 69 | 190 |
"And," he said, "if, when you are worn and neglected, when you are scorned and humiliated, when you are chided and berated, when you are derided and mocked, when you are tired of sleeping on a rug or mat with only a sheet to cover you, when you are tired of slave gruel, lapped from a pan, in the sha... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 220 |
The fellow then fastened my sheet on Adraste, picked up the sheet which had been on her, and fastened it on me. |
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| 6 | 140 |
"The sheet," I heard, "consider the sheet". |
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| 7 | 98 |
"Here are the remains of the marked sheet," said he whom I took to be first amongst my abductors, at the same time drawing a goodly portion of the sheet from his pouch. |
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| 3 | 456 |
My body, I fear, was a scarlet sheet of flame. |
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| 5 | 137 |
Each of you will have a nice warm slave sheet". |
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| 5 | 140 |
A slave sheet is light. |
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| 5 | 177 |
The typical slave sheet is light, small, square, and cheap. |
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| 5 | 184 |
We, of course, were on all fours, and thus the sheet would be likely to do little more than hide the slave from sight. |
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| 5 | 186 |
Lastly, it might be noted that the slave sheet, when fastened about the head, not only conceals the slave's features, but, in its way, to some extent, hoods the slave, thus making her less aware of her surroundings and more manageable. |
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| 5 | 187 |
A sheet was put about the first slave in the coffle. |
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| 5 | 199 |
Then the next sheet was thrown over me, put over my head, fastened about my neck, and then draped back over my body. |
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| 5 | 212 |
To my surprise, as I waited, I felt someone unknotting the cord from about my throat, that which held the sheet on me. |
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| 5 | 213 |
The sheet was then drawn away. |
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| 5 | 218 |
I saw the sheet had been removed from Adraste, as well. |
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| 5 | 228 |
Even within the sheet, the smell of smoke was strong. |
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| 6 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Street; What Occurred Later, in an Alcove I followed the gentle movement of the rope on my neck, which rope, over the sheet, by my left side, went back to the throat of the girl behind me. |
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| 6 | 7 |
Given the sheet covering my head and fastened about my neck, I could see very little. |
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| 6 | 66 |
How helpless I felt, my head down, the sheet tied about my neck, hooding me, on the neck rope, one of several slaves so secured. |
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| 6 | 82 |
Beneath the sheet I was naked, as a beast and slave is naked, slave naked. |
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| 6 | 101 |
It was not particularly cold, but, as it grew later, I was grateful for the sheet. |
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| 6 | 119 |
This was none too soon for me, as the weather had freshened, and the sheet hooding me and draped over my back, afforded me small comfort. |
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| 6 | 135 |
Through the sheet I was aware of a lantern nearby. |
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| 6 | 142 |
At the same time a hand was pressed closely over the sheet, over my mouth. |
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| 6 | 145 |
Then I felt a knife blade thrusting into, and cutting through the sheet, by my throat. |
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| 6 | 155 |
The hand was suddenly jerked from my mouth, upward, and it thrust the sheet up, though not enough that I could see. |
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| 6 | 157 |
No sooner had I opened my mouth than a folded leather wadding was thrust into it, deeply, which expanded, as it was secured with cords, tightly, behind the back of my neck, over the sheet. |
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| 6 | 159 |
"Get rid of the sheet, as you can," said a voice softly. |
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| 6 | 163 |
The sheet, its neck cord cut, was muchly pulled away. |
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| 6 | 298 |
He brushed away the bit of the sheet which had been trapped within the hood. |
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| 7 | 68 |
Our confederates in the house of Anesidemus, suborned employees of the house, as directed, put your slave, Luta, toward the back of the coffle and put the marked sheet over her, that she be easily recognized. |
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| 7 | 95 |
"The hair is brown, not black, not like the sheen of sable tarn; the complexion is wrong; the eyes are wrong! That is not she!" "It was she who was covered in the marked sheet," said a man. |
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| 7 | 101 |
"This is she whom the sheet bedecked," said another man. |
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| 7 | 134 |
"Show me the sheet," said the one-legged man. |
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| 7 | 137 |
"It is the mark, it is the right sheet," said the one-legged man. |
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| 7 | 138 |
"The sheet was changed". |
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| 7 | 159 |
"We brought you the girl under the marked sheet," said a man. |
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| 18 | 20 |
"The sheet, the fire, the mistake," he said. |
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| 18 | 79 |
Our suborned contact in the house marked Adraste's sheet to facilitate her acquisition. |
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| 20 | 57 |
Euphrosyne unfolded the small sheet, and regarded it. |
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| 25 | 81 |
It was arranged, given the several Ahn of the dock fire, and its ferocity, and the imminent evacuation of the slaves from the house of Anesidemus, that a particular sheet, covertly marked, would identify Luta, now named 'Adraste', the former Lady Felitia Thaliana, of Besnit". |
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| 35 | 35 |
A sheet or cloth was then thrown over me. |
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| 47 | 292 |
"Your covering sheet," he said, "was replaced with that of Adraste," he said. |
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| 47 | 305 |
"It was Miles," I said, suddenly, "who changed the sheet!" "Yes," said Addison Steele. |
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