| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 108 |
At last she took a relatively unsoiled undergarment, something blue and silk, bare at the shoulders, and drew it on, belting it with a strip of what had been her veil. |
10 |
| 9 | 36 |
She emerged a few minutes later, having washed her hair and the blue silk gown she wore. |
10 |
| 10 | 10 |
Seated inside on several pillows of tasseled silk was a mammoth toad of a man, whose head was as round as a tarn's egg, the eyes nearly lost in the folds of fat, pocked skin. |
10 |
| 10 | 89 |
Beside one of several long wagons of the sort covered with yellow and blue silk, I removed the bracelets from her wrists and turned her over to an attendant. |
10 |
| 10 | 133 |
We, with Talena, shared a tent, and, to Kazrak's amusement, I set aside a portion of the tent for the girl's private use, protecting it with a silk hanging. |
10 |
| 10 | 143 |
Her back straight as a tarn-goad, she disappeared behind the silk hanging. |
10 |
| 10 | 144 |
A moment later the torn rag of blue silk flew out from behind the hanging. |
10 |
| 11 | 45 |
We watched in one stall a bronzed giant apparently swallowing balls of fire, in the next a silk merchant crying the glories of his cloth, in another a hawker of paga; in still another we watched the swaying bodies of dancing slave girls as their master proclaimed their rent price. |
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| 11 | 47 |
This vast city of silk would surely have its Street of Brands. |
10 |
| 11 | 48 |
Reluctantly I took Talena to the great tent of blue and yellow silk, and we pressed in among the hot, smelling bodies of the buyers, forcing our way toward the front. |
10 |
| 11 | 71 |
Talena retired behind the silk partition, and I built up the fire in the center of the tent, not wishing to retire as yet. |
10 |
| 11 | 76 |
As I mused, Talena stepped forth from behind the silk curtain. |
10 |
| 15 | 115 |
Mintar's tent was enormous and domed, similar in shape to others in his camp; however, not only in size, but in splendor of appointment, it was a palace of silk. |
10 |
| 16 | 98 |
There, on a hillock overlooking the palisades that rimmed the rampart to the ditch, I saw the wall of black silk that surrounded the compound of Pa-Kur. |
10 |
| 16 | 116 |
Within the first wall of black silk, there was a second wall, but this time of iron bars. |
10 |
| 16 | 123 |
We stopped before a resplendent tent of yellow-and-red silk, some forty feet in diameter and twenty feet high at the dome. |
10 |
| 17 | 4 |
But the answer, when I received an answer, whether by virtue of a golden tarn disk or mortal fear, was always the same—that she was kept in the tent of red and yellow silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 102 |
"Soon, when you have been properly prepared, you will be dressed in costly pleasure silk, given sandals perhaps, scarves, veils and jewels, garments to gladden the heart of a maiden". |
10 |
| 10 | 24 |
I wondered if Thorn were in the city, and if Vera now wore her pleasure silk in his villa. |
10 |
| 13 | 27 |
Hanging over favored portions of the stands, which ascended on all sides, were giant striped awnings of billowing red and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 14 | 5 |
It stirred impatiently beneath the billowing silk of the awnings, rearranged its silken cushions, partook distractedly of candies and sweetmeats distributed by gray-robed figures. |
10 |
| 18 | 49 |
"Pleasure silk!" He rocked on the tub. |
10 |
| 18 | 50 |
"Can you imagine!" he laughed, "Lara, the Tatrix of Tharna, in pleasure silk!" The chain of slaves laughed, all except myself, and Andreas of Tor, who regarded me questioningly. |
10 |
| 20 | 74 |
Before the mountains, in a panorama of silk and flags, I saw the pavilions of the Fair of En'Kara, or the Fair of the First Turning. |
10 |
| 21 | 15 |
I saw that the cover of the tharlarion wagon, which had been rolled back, was of blue and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 21 | 134 |
From among the domed tents, wearing a swirling robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, with a headband of the same material, there approached a short, fat man, Targo the Slaver, he who was master of this small caravan. |
10 |
| 21 | 140 |
His hair, long and black beneath the band of blue and yellow silk, was combed and glossy. |
10 |
| 22 | 113 |
"And in his city," said the girl, her eyes bright, "he put bells upon my ankles and dressed me in dancing silk. |
10 |
| 25 | 153 |
Perhaps she would find herself confined within the walls of some warrior's Pleasure Gardens, to be dressed in silk of his choosing, to have bells locked on her ankles and to know no will other than his; perhaps she would be purchased by the master of a Paga Tavern, or even of a lowly Kal-da shop, to... |
10 |
| 26 | 61 |
No man who has seen a woman in Pleasure Silk, or watched her dance, or heard the sound of a belled ankle or watched a woman's hair, unbound, fall to her waist can long live without the possession of such a delicious creature. |
10 |
| 26 | 99 |
"And if the time should come, Warrior, when you should desire a slave girl, some girl to wear your silk and your collar, your brand if you wish—remember Lara, who is Tatrix of Tharna". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 5 |
Beneath me, twisted and tangled, lay heavy sleeping pelts, thick robes of fur, numerous sheets of scarlet silk. |
10 |
| 5 | 6 |
A cushion or two of yellow silk lay randomly on the platform. |
10 |
| 5 | 27 |
About her throat she had gracefully wrapped a scarf of white silk. |
10 |
| 8 | 199 |
Vika was a bandit princess, accustomed to be clad in silk and jewels from a thousand looted caravans, to sleep on the richest furs and sup on the most delicate viands, all purloined from galleys, beached and burnt, from the ravished storerooms of outlying, smoking cylinders, from the tables and trea... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 38 |
The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of the Wagons, del... |
10 |
| 4 | 52 |
To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up... |
10 |
| 7 | 12 |
About Kutaituchik there were piled various goods, mostly vessels of precious metal and strings and piles of jewels; there was silk there from Tyros; silver from Thentis and Tharna; tapestries from the mills of Ar; wines from Cos; dates from the city of Tor. |
10 |
| 8 | 370 |
"Rejoice, Little Barbarian," said Albrecht, "tonight in Pleasure Silk you will dance the Chain Dance for Kassar Warriors". |
10 |
| 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". |
10 |
| 9 | 56 |
He sat as a warrior, though in robes of silk. |
10 |
| 9 | 82 |
I was pleased to see again, though often done in silk, the splendid varieties of caste colors of the typical Gorean city, to hear once more the cries of peddlers that I knew so well, the cake sellers, the hawkers of vegetables, the wine vendor bending under a double verrskin of his vintage. |
10 |
| 9 | 139 |
A common light tunic, often of silk, because it moves easily on the body, fits loosely and has a single tie, at the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 9 | 162 |
Down the stairway, slowly, in trailing white silk bordered with gold, the colors of the Merchants, there regally descended the girl who was Aphris of Turia. |
10 |
| 9 | 221 |
She lifted her head, and I could see the lovely line of her nose beneath the veil of white silk trimmed with gold. |
10 |
| 9 | 407 |
I could see the quickness of her breath marked in the soft silk of her white and gold veil. |
10 |
| 9 | 487 |
The circle of steel gleamed on the silk at her throat. |
10 |
| 10 | 141 |
"Would you like to learn," asked Kamchak of the girl, "to wear silk and bells, to speak, to stand, to walk, to dance—to drive men mad with the desire to own and master you?" The girl said nothing but shuddered. |
10 |
| 10 | 320 |
I heard her laugh softly beneath the white veil, trimmed with silk. |
10 |
| 10 | 333 |
Aphris of Turia, at the request of one of the minor judges, irritably removed her gloves, of silk-lined white verrskin, trimmed with gold, and placed them in a deep fold of her robes. |
10 |
| 10 | 420 |
"Besides," said Kamchak, "you might look well in Pleasure Silk". |
10 |
| 11 | 179 |
"A bit of perfume and silk will be good for that wench," stated Kamchak. |
10 |
| 11 | 392 |
"Perhaps then," said Kamchak, "I should have sheets of crimson silk brought, and the furs of the mountain larl". |
10 |
| 12 | 414 |
Then with a suddenness that almost made me jump and the crowd cry out with delight the music began again but this time as a barbaric cry of rebellion and rage and the wench from Port Kar was suddenly a chained she-larl biting and tearing at the chain and she had cast her black robes from her and sto... |
10 |
| 19 | 82 |
At last we came to a largish room, but much smaller than the main hall, in which there were some seventeen beauties strewn about, all in Pleasure Silk. |
10 |
| 19 | 94 |
She wore yellow Pleasure Silk, and, beneath her long black hair, on her throat, I glimpsed a silverish Turian collar. |
10 |
| 19 | 98 |
She was a beauty, and the diaphanous Pleasure Silk that was the only garment permitted her did not, by design, conceal her charms. |
10 |
| 19 | 147 |
"She is—is she not—all things considered—a pretty little wench?" I could not help but regard the angry, collared Hereena, furious in the swirling Pleasure Silk. |
10 |
| 22 | 68 |
Further on down the wall there were great piles of cloth, mostly silk; I recognized them as Robes of Concealment. |
10 |
| 25 | 585 |
"Array yourself in Pleasure Silk, Little Beast," I said, "and enter my arms". |
10 |
| 25 | 649 |
My hands parted the Pleasure Silk and cast it aside. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 298 |
Several of the men and girls at and about the tables approvingly observed the two girls rolling and scratching, biting and tearing on the floor, first White Silk on top, and then Red Silk, and then White Silk again. |
10 |
| 2 | 328 |
"Use Twenty-seven," said the man, handing Kuurus a bit of silk, Pleasure Silk, wrapped about a set of slave chains. |
10 |
| 12 | 155 |
Some of the girls, judging by the stripes on the hoods and cloaks, were White Silk, and others Red Silk. |
10 |
| 14 | 11 |
She was attired in a brief gown of red Pleasure Silk, prescribed for her because she was a Red Silk Girl and in training. |
10 |
| 17 | 346 |
"I will pay," said Ho-Sorl, "the difference between what she will bring as Red Silk and White Silk". |
10 |
| 17 | 376 |
"Poor little White Silk slave," said another Red Silk Girl passing between the tables. |
10 |
| 17 | 741 |
"A pen, ink?" "I have silk," she said, "and rouge, and bottles of cosmetics!" In a short time we had spread a large square of silk on the floor between us, and, carefully, finger in and out of a rouge pot, I had drawn the squares of the board. |
10 |
| 19 | 222 |
"These are three barbarians, two White Silk, one Red Silk," called the auctioneer, "all from the House of Cernus, whom it is our hope you will find pleasing". |
10 |
| 2 | 32 |
The slave girls in Pleasure Silk turned and stood stock still, the paga flasks cradled over their right forearms. |
10 |
| 2 | 51 |
From where she knelt she could see the low-hanging tharlarion oil lamps of the main portion of the paga tavern, the men, the girls in silk who, in a moment, belled, would move among them, replenishing the paga. |
10 |
| 2 | 88 |
Then, a moment later, four men, armed, brawny men, with a streamer of blue and yellow silk sewn diagonally into their garments, burst through the door and entered the room. |
10 |
| 2 | 138 |
All eyes turned to face a paunchy man, in a robe of blue and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 2 | 159 |
The man was Portus, heavy, paunchy, in blue and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 2 | 170 |
"I must protect myself," said the man, smiling, as the blade of Kuurus lifted itself through the sleeve, parting the silk, revealing the sheath strapped to his forearm. |
10 |
| 2 | 219 |
The heavy man, sitting cross-legged, opposite the Assassin, began to sweat, fiddled with the damp blue and yellow silk covering his knee, and then with a nervous hand lifted a shaking bowl of paga to his lips, spilling some down the side of his face. |
10 |
| 2 | 246 |
He had known, of course, from the gown of blue and yellow silk that the man was a slaver. |
10 |
| 2 | 329 |
Kuurus threw the silk and chain over his shoulder and motioned the girl to move ahead of him and, numbly, she did so, crossing the room, going between the tables, and stopping before the narrow ladder at the right side of the high wall, in which were found the ledges with their alcoves. |
10 |
| 2 | 333 |
It was lined with red silk, and floored with love furs and cushions, the furs being better than some six to eight inches deep. |
10 |
| 2 | 337 |
Kuurus tossed the silk and the chain to one side of the alcove and grinned at her. |
10 |
| 2 | 363 |
I reached over and put the bit of Pleasure Silk under her, that it might be wrinkled and bear the stains of her sweat. |
10 |
| 3 | 2 |
A few moments later I emerged, descended the ladder and went to the proprietor of the shop, throwing the bit of soiled Pleasure Silk and the slave chains to the counter. |
10 |
| 4 | 8 |
The black of the garment of Cernus was broken only by three stripes of silk sewn lengthwise on his left sleeve, two stripes of blue enclosing one of yellow. |
10 |
| 4 | 136 |
"Our Physicians ascertained," said he, "that she is only a Red Silk Girl". |
10 |
| 4 | 137 |
"I scarcely supposed," said I, "that you would permit a White Silk Girl to go alone on the streets of Ar". |
10 |
| 4 | 207 |
"She is Red Silk but she knows almost nothing". |
10 |
| 5 | 127 |
"At least I am a Red Silk girl". |
10 |
| 5 | 138 |
The allusion was to certain practices having to do with the merchandising of Red Silk Girls, in private sales for individual and important clients of the House. |
10 |
| 5 | 139 |
At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl... |
10 |
| 5 | 141 |
"Very well, Red Silk Girl," said I, "perform". |
10 |
| 5 | 542 |
The girl screamed but no one came to her aid, and Elizabeth spun her about, peeling off layers of Robes of Concealment until, in a heavy pile of silk, brocade, satin and starched muslin the girl stood in a sleeveless, rather brief orange tunic, attractive, of a sort sometimes worn by free women in t... |
10 |
| 5 | 604 |
Then he would change the white and gold rain canvas to a covering of blue and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 6 | 66 |
These would be girls in training, some of them perhaps White Silk Girls, being accustomed to the routines and techniques of serving at table. |
10 |
| 6 | 87 |
"Of course," said Ho-Tu, "you may not have her tonight, for she is White Silk". |
10 |
| 6 | 109 |
The Musicians began to play, and the girls in Pleasure Silk, hands over their heads, lifted themselves slowly to the melody, their bodies responding to it as though to the touch of a man. |
10 |
| 6 | 119 |
Such a girl, after a dance, may snatch up dozens of gold pieces from the sand, putting them in her silk, scurrying back to her master. |
10 |
| 8 | 140 |
"Originally, doubtless beans were brought from Earth," I said, "much as certain other seeds, and silk worms and such, but I doubt very much that the ship I saw last night had in its cargo anything as trivial as the beans for black wine". |
10 |
| 9 | 48 |
Elsewhere in the room there were some free men, Scribes I gathered though they were stripped to the waist, who were inking, using a silk-screen process, large sheets of layered, glued rag paper. |
10 |
| 9 | 62 |
Both, interestingly, wore long, rather graceful white gowns, and had their hair bound back with bands of white silk. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
Then I stepped back for I noted, coming along one of the curving walks, two lovely girls, clad in white, their hair bound back with white silk; they were quite young; perhaps less than eighteen. |
10 |
| 9 | 76 |
The two girls strolled near the glass and one of them, lifting her hands behind her head, studied her reflection gravely in the mirror, retying the band of silk which confined her hair. |
10 |
| 9 | 113 |
"You mean they are White Silk?" I asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 151 |
"How many are white silk?" asked Ho-Tu. |
10 |
| 12 | 7 |
Their leader was a brown racing tarn, whose rider wore red silk, and whose small saddle and tight control straps were of red leather. |
10 |
| 12 | 20 |
"Oh Priest-Kings," cried a man nearby, a Leather Worker, "speed the wings of red!" Everyone in the crowd seemed to be on their feet, even those who sat in the marbled tiers beneath the awnings of purple silk. |
10 |
| 12 | 59 |
Generally, it was a small faction patch sewn on the left shoulder; the faction patches of the High-Caste women tended to be fine silk, and tastefully done; those of low-caste women merely a square of crudely stitched, dyed rep-cloth; some of the masters had dressed their slave girls in slave livery ... |
10 |
| 12 | 92 |
The rider rode on the cart beside his bird, dressed in the silk of his faction. |
10 |
| 12 | 156 |
The White Silk Girls, of course, having been released from the house, would have been placed in locked, iron belts. |
10 |
| 12 | 212 |
Watching us was a woman in Pleasure Silk, of remarkable beauty, yet with a certain subtle hardness and contempt about her. |
10 |
| 12 | 213 |
She wore a yellow collar, that of the House of Cernus, and yellow Pleasure Silk. |
10 |
| 12 | 327 |
Take the others to cells of Red Silk". |
10 |
| 12 | 328 |
"They are White Silk," said Ho-Tu. |
10 |
| 12 | 330 |
"Very well," she said, "to cells of White Silk. |
10 |
| 12 | 380 |
I looked at her, a comely wench in soiled Pleasure Silk. |
10 |
| 13 | 15 |
But I suspected that the lofty Claudia Hinrabia, of the Hinrabians, would not dance in pleasure silk at a Collaring Feast. |
10 |
| 13 | 218 |
The Pleasure Slaves who served wore green Pleasure Silk, and the tops of the tables and the walls were also painted green; even the curtains on the alcoves by one wall were green. |
10 |
| 14 | 12 |
Virginia and Phyllis, in their cells, would wear similar gowns, but of white silk. |
10 |
| 14 | 18 |
I think it was not so much I minded an occasional bit of silk lying on the floor as that I derived great pleasure from the fact that the lovely Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, slave in the House of Cernus, must keep my quarters. |
10 |
| 14 | 117 |
He wore his long, black, coarse, woolen robe, that which bore the three stripes of silk, two blue enclosing a yellow, on the left sleeve. |
10 |
| 14 | 140 |
Once again I found myself looking through the glass, which on the other side was a mirror, into the luxurious compartment, with wardrobe, chests of silk, rugs and cushions, a silken divan and a scented, sunken bath, now drawn. |
10 |
| 15 | 19 |
A white silken cord had been knotted about her waist; in this cord was thrust a narrow rectangle of white silk, perhaps about two feet long. |
10 |
| 15 | 30 |
A girl in a tunic of white silk, gracefully, carrying a large pitcher of diluted Ka-la-na wine, approached our table from the rear, and climbed the stairs, delicately, and as though timidly, head down. |
10 |
| 15 | 39 |
"She is White Silk, of course," said Ho-Tu. |
10 |
| 15 | 41 |
Another girl approached similarly, though she was attired in a tunic of red silk. |
10 |
| 15 | 225 |
In the beginning, when moving about the house, the girls had been permitted only the garb customarily worn in the sweat and motion of the training, a rectangle of silk, about a foot long, thrust into a silken string knotted about the waist; Virginia and Phyllis would not even leave their cells so cl... |
10 |
| 15 | 307 |
"Could such a man as Relius, do you think," she asked, "desire such a slave as Virginia?" "Doubtless," I said, as though irritated with her question, "were the slave Virginia not White Silk the man Relius would have asked for her long ago". |
10 |
| 15 | 309 |
It is, incidentally, one of the perquisites of employment in the house of a slaver that a member of the guard or staff may ask for, and generally receive, the use of whatever Red Silk Girls he pleases. |
10 |
| 15 | 311 |
"And," I said, rather loudly, looking at Phyllis, "were the slave Phyllis not White Silk she would have found herself used frequently, and well, by the man Ho-Sorl". |
10 |
| 15 | 359 |
The chair was enclosed and, under the blue and yellow silk which covered it, there was metal plating. |
10 |
| 16 | 10 |
That he was now of the Caste of Warriors did not change much with Cernus, of course, save that a strip of red silk, with those of blue and yellow, now adorned his left sleeve. |
10 |
| 16 | 98 |
"Besides," I said, "she is only Red Silk". |
10 |
| 17 | 147 |
I, masked in a leather hood, wearing bluish-gray silk, had again and again ridden the great black tarn for the Steels. |
10 |
| 17 | 278 |
"Let Lana serve Relius wine," said another girl, a Red Silk Girl, first to the guard, leaning toward him, lips parted. |
10 |
| 17 | 281 |
"Relius guards Virginia," the young slave girl from Earth informed collared Red Silk Lana. |
10 |
| 17 | 287 |
"Lana is Red Silk". |
10 |
| 17 | 290 |
She is Red Silk. |
10 |
| 17 | 327 |
Near the pit of sand several slave girls, dancers, in Pleasure Silk were kneeling back on their heels and clapping their hands with glee. |
10 |
| 17 | 349 |
"Don't you want to be Red Silk?" he asked Phyllis, who, from her position, could not see him. |
10 |
| 17 | 351 |
"By tomorrow night," pointed out Ho-Sorl, neatly, "she may be Red Silk anyway". |
10 |
| 17 | 353 |
"Where would you make her Red Silk?" asked Ho-Tu. |
10 |
| 17 | 356 |
"Would you not like Ho-Sorl to make you Red Silk?" asked Ho-Tu of Phyllis. |
10 |
| 17 | 374 |
"Don't look so disappointed," said a Red Silk Girl passing near her, carrying Ka-la-na. |
10 |
| 17 | 474 |
"What is your name?" demanded Ho-Tu of the Red Silk Girl. |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 17 | 527 |
It was merely another of the turnabouts of Kajuralia, but in it was perhaps more; Sura's pride and her position in the House, though she was slave, had been resented by many of the men and staff; perhaps even Cernus felt she had overstepped herself; surely he seemed pleased that she would now be hum... |
10 |
| 17 | 535 |
She was kneeling on the stones, bent over, her head down, the hair falling forward, clad only in the bit of red silk, her wrists braceleted behind her back. |
10 |
| 17 | 662 |
Sura went to one of the chests and drew forth a long cloak of red silk, which she drew on. |
10 |
| 17 | 688 |
"You are Red Silk," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 839 |
Then she looked down again at the board, that square of silk marked with rouge. |
10 |
| 17 | 841 |
She smiled looking at the silk, the vials and beads. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
The End of Kajuralia I leaped across the rouged square of silk, scattering the vials and beads that were the pieces of our game, flinging Sura to the floor, pressing myself across her body that she might be protected. |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr... |
10 |
| 18 | 110 |
"A Master Keeper begging the forgiveness of a slave for touching her with a slave goad!" Ho-Tu looked down at the square of silk, the tumbled vials and beads. |
10 |
| 18 | 237 |
I have much gold, and some power, and my pick of Red Silk Girls. |
10 |
| 19 | 70 |
How seriously the men of Gor understand these representations depends doubtless on the man; but even those who, upon reflection, laugh at them, I have found, do generally regard the women of other cities rather differently than they regard their own, thinking of them almost automatically, particular... |
10 |
| 19 | 136 |
"Verbina, she is," called he, "who so fears a man that she would flee him, at the risk of death and torture, White Silk and never before owned, yet certified ready for the chain of a master who would use her as she so richly deserves!" The crowd roared with amusement, enjoying the sport of the aucti... |
10 |
| 19 | 187 |
Then I understood what was going on, perhaps belatedly, for I knew the girl, Red Silk before the black ships, was extremely responsive, and had even been used in the hall of Cernus for the amusement of his Warriors and guards; she had known the caress would be given; she had been ready; she had perh... |
10 |
| 19 | 304 |
"Can you guess," asked the auctioneer, "which of the three slaves is Red Silk?" The crowd roared with amusement. |
10 |
| 19 | 389 |
"Here," said she, tauntingly, "is a slim beauty, lithe and swift, White Silk, intelligent, curious for the touch of a man, who for the right man would be the most abject and servile wench a beast could wish. |
10 |
| 19 | 477 |
Since she is Red Silk Samos will not object". |
10 |
| 20 | 46 |
A slave girl was brought, a slim girl, in yellow Pleasure Silk, with short black hair, dark eyes, high cheekbones. |
10 |
| 20 | 103 |
He parted the Pleasure Silk and threw it from her. |
10 |
| 20 | 296 |
Through the entryway, rather angrily, strode a young man, perhaps no more than eighteen or nineteen years of age, with piercing eyes and incredibly striking features; he wore the garb of the Player, but his garb was rich and the squares of the finest red and yellow silk; the game bag over his left s... |
10 |
| 21 | 391 |
Among them, shouting orders, were dozens of men, apparently of all castes, each with a scarf of silk of imperial purple wrapped about his left arm. |
10 |
| 21 | 412 |
When I reached the top there stood there a man with a purple scarf of silk, that armband indicating the imperial party. |
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| 22 | 138 |
He was followed by two brown racing tarns, their riders wearing the silk of the Blues and the Silvers. |
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| 22 | 159 |
Second in the race was now the rider who wore the silk of the Silvers. |
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| 22 | 164 |
Mip took advantage of this cutting in closely, following now the rider in blue silk. |
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| 22 | 167 |
I noted that the bird ridden by the rider in blue silk was tiring. |
10 |
| 22 | 366 |
I saw a Taurentian bring Menicius of Port Kar a container, wrapped in silk, which he thrust in his belt. |
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| 23 | 40 |
About the room I saw some of the things with which we had played, the silk marked with the squares of the game, the small bottles, the vials. |
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| 24 | 508 |
She wore dancing silk. |
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| 1 | 16 |
I had the Gorean short sword in its scabbard, my shield and helmet, and, wrapped in leather, a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows. |
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| 3 | 120 |
She seized the bow in her left hand and braced the bottom of it against the instep of her left foot, taking the hemp cord whipped with silk, the string, in her right hand. |
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| 5 | 33 |
It was the brand of a male silk slave, a male pleasure slave, one whose purpose in life is to serve, and give exquisite, lengthy, intimate pleasures, upon demand, to women. |
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| 8 | 7 |
And there was, too, the great bow, of yellow, supple Ka-la-na, tipped with notched bosk horn, with its cord of hemp, whipped with silk, and the roll of sheaf and flight arrows. |
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| 9 | 280 |
I had given her a brief tunic of silk, briefer even than had been the rence tunic she had worn when she had taunted me at the pole, and when she had danced before me, which had been taken from her by the slaver after she had been netted on the island. |
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| 9 | 286 |
She, too, wore a slight bit of silk. |
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| 9 | 289 |
I knew he had also found some bits of bosk horn, and some leather, and some hemp and silk. |
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| 9 | 294 |
She, too, wore binding fiber on her throat, and a bit of silk. |
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| 9 | 301 |
Of the four girls only she did not wear silk, for she was only a Kettle Slave. |
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| 9 | 319 |
I recall Midice standing there in her silk, the leather on her wrist, shaking, coughing, paga on her mouth, looking at me with fear. |
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| 9 | 384 |
And tore from her the bit of silk she wore. |
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| 9 | 415 |
And then Ula, boldly before Clitus, tore from her own body the silk she wore and danced, her arms extended to him. |
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| 10 | 314 |
He had long hair, and wore a tunic of red and yellow silk. |
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| 11 | 6 |
I saw pages scurrying about, in their red and yellow silk. |
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| 15 | 362 |
She stood wrapped in an opaque sheet of shimmering yellow silk. |
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| 15 | 369 |
She slipped the silk from her and knelt before the great table and chair, between the other tables, dropping her head. |
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| 15 | 482 |
They had been beautiful, in silver throat coffle, their wrists bound behind their backs in golden slave bracelets, kneeling as pleasure slaves among the jewels, the piled gold, and the heaps of silk and kegs of spices. |
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| 15 | 519 |
"Or," I asked, "should I call for the bells and the silk, and the perfumes, of a pleasure slave?" She smiled. |
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| 16 | 285 |
I turned away from them, and, with the stone, wrapped in its silk, strode from the room. |
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| 16 | 391 |
"They cry," said the boy, in his silk and velvet, "that in Port Kar there is a Home Stone!" "There is no Home Stone in Port Kar," said Antisthenes. |
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| 16 | 413 |
I slowly unwrapped the silk. |
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| 18 | 279 |
My large yellow bow of Ka-la-na, tipped with bosk horn and strung with hemp, whipped with silk, was at hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 341 |
"Haakon does not know which girl is red silk and which is white silk". |
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| 13 | 1155 |
"I am white silk! I am white silk!" I cried. |
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| 15 | 1224 |
"I am white silk! I am white silk". |
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| 2 | 47 |
I dropped it back onto the silk. |
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| 6 | 104 |
Its cover, of blue and yellow silk, was torn. |
10 |
| 6 | 105 |
Near the front of the wagon, too, was a short, fat man, clad in a robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 6 | 118 |
The small, fat, short man, he, plump and paunchy in the robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, scarcely looked at me. |
10 |
| 6 | 126 |
It was tied behind his head with a band of blue and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 6 | 240 |
As I mentioned, over the wagon, its cover, of blue and yellow silk, was torn. |
10 |
| 8 | 289 |
"It is hard for a white silk girl to be beautiful," said Targo. |
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| 8 | 472 |
"She is white silk!" said the other guard, laughing uproariously. |
10 |
| 8 | 618 |
"I do not object," I told them, loftily, "if my master chooses to dress me in silk". |
10 |
| 8 | 777 |
"You are white silk," he had said, and turned away. |
10 |
| 8 | 872 |
"Do not fear," said Ute, laughing at me, "you are white silk!" I looked down. |
10 |
| 8 | 901 |
But beyond this I had only the white-silk girl's dim sense of the changes they could bring about in my body, only the vague instinctual sensing, deep in my femaleness, of the fantastic pleasures to which a slave girl may be subjected by her master, pleasures by means of which he may, if it pleases h... |
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| 8 | 1000 |
"She is only white silk," said Lana. |
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| 8 | 1001 |
"Lana is red silk. |
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| 8 | 1041 |
"I am white silk," I whispered. |
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| 8 | 1055 |
They exploited us, they dominated us, they forced us to serve them, and do their bidding! They were cruel to us! They did not acknowledge our humanity! And mixed with my anger and terror were the instinctual fears of the white-silk girl, dreading to be made a woman. |
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| 8 | 1065 |
Then, too, to my dismay, I saw another look, which I, even white silk, understood. |
10 |
| 8 | 1080 |
"I am white silk!" I whispered. |
10 |
| 9 | 473 |
That body, attired in its evening gowns, its cocktail dresses, its chic tweeds, might perhaps have been more appropriately clad in the brief silk of a Gorean slave girl, fit only for the controlling touch of a master. |
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| 10 | 125 |
In his arms he held a red-silk, full-length, belted lounging robe, with a high, throat-enclosing, figured, brocade collar. |
10 |
| 10 | 333 |
I was not a slave! I sat there in the belted, red-silk lounging robe, with the high brocade collar enclosing my throat. |
10 |
| 10 | 569 |
Of what value, I wondered, is the virginity of a slave girl? Of what value is the virginity of a horse, or of a dog or cat, or pig? That I was a virgin, of course, that I was "white silk," was public knowledge. |
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| 10 | 606 |
He took the red-silk robe, and cast it into the fire. |
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| 11 | 417 |
"I am white silk," I whispered, now frightened, truly frightened. |
10 |
| 11 | 445 |
I am white silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 890 |
"I am still white silk," I told him. |
10 |
| 11 | 949 |
"I am white silk," I whispered. |
10 |
| 11 | 974 |
"We must join the wagons!" "White-silk she-sleen," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 975 |
"Wait until you are red silk!" I hurried ahead. |
10 |
| 11 | 999 |
I now knew that even on Earth, even when I had been rich, even when I had dwelled in Park Avenue, when I had owned the Maserati, even before I had been branded, I was a slave girl, a wench who, from the Gorean point of view, was fit only, and rightly so, for silk, and the whip. |
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| 11 | 1064 |
But I hoped she would be put in slave rouge, and silk, and bells! Let her know slavery! How I hated the proud Verna! How pleased I was that she, as I, had fallen prey to men! I looked about the cage, flushed, furious. |
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| 11 | 1158 |
Once, there was a visitor to the pens, a tall stranger, partially hooded, who wore robes of blue and yellow silk, those of the Slavers. |
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| 12 | 583 |
Some of the red-silk girls, finding themselves helpless in some of these binding arrangements, had soon begun to squirm, and lift their bodies plaintively, in supplication, begging use from the guards. |
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| 12 | 584 |
Even I, who was white silk, was rendered profoundly uneasy by more than one of these ties. |
10 |
| 13 | 337 |
"I hope she is red silk," said the other. |
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| 13 | 343 |
"Besides," pointed out the first, "do you really think Haakon expects us to return white-silk girls to his chain?" "Of course not," laughed the second, slapping his knee. |
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| 13 | 378 |
I had heard them talk of what they would do to a girl, even though she might be white silk! Ute had been a slave before. |
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| 13 | 820 |
"I am white silk". |
10 |
| 13 | 832 |
"I am white silk!" I cried. |
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| 13 | 833 |
"I will bring a higher price if I am sold white silk!" "You mistake me, Lady," said he, courteously, "if you think that I am interested only in gold". |
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| 13 | 919 |
And, further, since I am white silk, I should not be used. |
10 |
| 13 | 920 |
My price will be higher if I am sold white silk". |
10 |
| 13 | 921 |
"It is unusual, I would suppose," said the man, "for the preferred slave of a man such as Haakon of Skjern to be white silk". |
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| 13 | 1067 |
I remembered then, the tall figure in the blue and yellow silk, with the leather covering one eye. |
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| 14 | 202 |
Inside, through the opened tent flap, I could see the scarlet canvas was lined with silk. |
10 |
| 14 | 236 |
She wore brief, diaphanous scarlet silk. |
10 |
| 14 | 435 |
I recalled that I, in spite of wearing a brand, was still white silk. |
10 |
| 14 | 627 |
I gasped as they brought forth a long, exquisite garment, hooded, of shimmering scarlet silk. |
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| 15 | 198 |
"Why am I never belled and put in dancing silk?" I demanded of Ute. |
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| 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 | 223 |
Sometimes I saw the dark-haired girl, in red silk with the two golden bangles on her left ankle, when I passed by the tent. |
10 |
| 15 | 225 |
Once or twice I saw a stunningly figured blond girl in brief yellow silk. |
10 |
| 15 | 416 |
Always she wore only the brief garment of scarlet, diaphanous silk. |
10 |
| 15 | 538 |
The slave girl reached down and snatched up the bit of red silk she had dropped aside and, holding it, with a jangle of slave bells, fled from the tent of her master. |
10 |
| 15 | 566 |
"I suppose I must be placed in silk then," I had said to Ute, angrily. |
10 |
| 15 | 569 |
"Moreover, I do not wish to serve them clad revealingly in a bit of silk and the bells of a slave girl!" "Well," said Ute, "you may, if you wish, remain in the shed". |
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| 15 | 577 |
I wondered if, in silk and bells, Rask of Treve might notice me. |
10 |
| 15 | 578 |
How I hated him! "But," had said Ute, "if a man seizes you, you are not to yield yourself to him, for you are white silk". |
10 |
| 15 | 582 |
"Though I, if I were a man, would pay more for a red-silk girl". |
10 |
| 15 | 588 |
"Cry out," said Ute, "and the others will take you from him and get him a red-silk girl". |
10 |
| 15 | 1081 |
She went to a table and picked up a bit of silk, which seemed to be wrapped about something. |
10 |
| 15 | 1084 |
"No!" Ute threw me the bells and silk. |
10 |
| 15 | 1090 |
I stood there for several moments, in tumult, clutching the bit of silk against me, the bells within it. |
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| 15 | 1093 |
"Do you wish to be beaten?" I slipped on the bit of silk. |
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| 15 | 1096 |
It was Gorean pleasure silk. |
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| 15 | 1110 |
How exciting they were in their silk, their bells and cosmetics. |
10 |
| 15 | 1130 |
I had been marked white silk. |
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| 15 | 1132 |
"Do not laugh," smiled Ute, "for you, too, will be so marked, lest Raf and Pron, huntsmen of Treve, in a careless moment, devour my two other white-silk pretties". |
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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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| 15 | 1157 |
I, a slave girl, with a rustle of silk and slave bells, hurried to him, a master, to serve him. |
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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 | 1180 |
She was not clad in a bit of silk, a touch of cosmetics, a scent of perfume and the bells of a slave. |
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| 15 | 1182 |
"I am white silk!" I cried, shrinking back. |
10 |
| 15 | 1184 |
I tried to rise, but the man's hand was knotted in the silk. |
10 |
| 15 | 1187 |
"I am red silk," she murmured. |
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| 15 | 1188 |
"Touch me! Touch me!" His hand left my silk and I darted away. |
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| 15 | 1217 |
"I am white silk!" I cried. |
10 |
| 15 | 1219 |
About it, wrapped there by Ute earlier, was the ribbon of white silk. |
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| 15 | 1243 |
I felt a hand tear away the bit of silk I wore. |
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| 15 | 1288 |
I would make them suffer! I was white silk! It was safe to dance before them as I pleased. |
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| 15 | 1291 |
How pleased I was in my power! As the music changed so, too, did the dancer, and she became as one with the music, a frightened girl, new to the collar, a timid girl, delicate and submissive, a lonely slave, yearning for her master, a drunken wench, rejecting her slavery, a proud girl, determined to... |
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| 15 | 1316 |
I picked up the bit of silk which had been torn from me and left the sand, holding it, as I could, about me. |
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| 15 | 1331 |
"I will need new silk," I whispered. |
10 |
| 15 | 1350 |
"We will find you some new silk," she said. |
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| 15 | 1368 |
The interior of the tent was lined with red silk. |
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| 15 | 1387 |
I felt his large hands part the bit of silk that I wore and, gently, drop it about my ankles. |
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| 15 | 1506 |
I then felt, to my dismay, his hand tear the ribbon of white silk from my collar. |
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| 16 | 34 |
I pitied them in my way, for they were mere ignorant girls, white-silk girls. |
10 |
| 16 | 35 |
I was red silk! I jerked at my chained ankle, furious. |
10 |
| 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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| 17 | 62 |
Sometimes I would be a new girl, frightened, young, much fearing him, as Techne might have been; sometimes I would be as though of the scribes, much as Inge might have been, refined, dismayed at her fate; sometimes as a fine lady, of wealth and position, of high caste, as Rena had been, who now must... |
10 |
| 17 | 113 |
How would they look in slave silk? How well would they wear a tunic, or camisk? Many were the frustrations of the women of Earth. |
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| 17 | 229 |
I felt his hand on the bit of diaphanous yellow silk I wore in the tavern. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |
She was clad in a brief bit of diaphanous scarlet silk, slave silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 602 |
"Then put her in yellow pleasure silk," he said, "fresh silk, and place bells on her left ankle". |
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| 13 | 235 |
I then picked up the slave silk they had worn and, under the throat tether of each, thrust the silk. |
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| 1 | 137 |
A few yards away, on the tiles, in her brief silk, the two-handled, bronze paga vessel beside her, knelt the slave girl, waiting to be summoned. |
10 |
| 1 | 227 |
The slave girl, in her brief silk, stood, holding the two-handled bronze paga vessel, that she might look down upon him. |
10 |
| 1 | 294 |
She was very beautiful in the bit of slave silk. |
10 |
| 1 | 298 |
She had exciting legs, well revealed by the slave-height of her brief silk. |
10 |
| 3 | 239 |
She knelt there, in the darkness of the side of the room, in her yellow silk, her hands locked above and behind her head. |
10 |
| 4 | 2 |
She looked at him, in her yellow silk, kneeling in the darkness by the low wall, her hands braceleted above and behind her head. |
10 |
| 4 | 13 |
In a few moments I saw the luscious, short-bodied dancer, in pleasure silk, hurry from the kitchen and climb to the eighth alcove. |
10 |
| 4 | 18 |
There were the men at the tables, the girls, in slave bells, and yellow silk, serving them. |
10 |
| 4 | 33 |
She came through the kitchen door, in the tiny slip of diaphanous yellow silk allotted to paga slaves, bells locked on her left ankle. |
10 |
| 4 | 117 |
I saw the beauty of her body beneath the silk. |
10 |
| 4 | 191 |
"Of course!" she said, in the half darkness, squirming in the bracelets and silk. |
10 |
| 4 | 204 |
She was beautiful in the bit of yellow silk. |
10 |
| 4 | 260 |
I put my hand in the bit of silk. |
10 |
| 4 | 262 |
"Slave silk," she whispered. |
10 |
| 4 | 283 |
The bit of yellow silk, crumpled, soaked with sweat, lay to one side. |
10 |
| 4 | 348 |
I expected he still kept her in collar and silk, liking her that way. |
10 |
| 4 | 393 |
I noted, too, that, clad in yellow silk, belled on the left ankle, as another paga girl, the dancer, she whom Thurnock had sported with, too, carried a vessel of paga about. |
10 |
| 6 | 702 |
Her body, that of a white-silk girl, fresh to the collar, was terribly frightened. |
10 |
| 7 | 158 |
At the hemp string, whipped with silk, was a temwood arrow, piled with steel, fletched with the feathers of the Vosk gull. |
10 |
| 10 | 185 |
"You will wear slave silk," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 85 |
Her one garment was a brief slip of diaphanous yellow silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 122 |
Instead, she had been thrown slave silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 125 |
I noted, and I do not doubt but that it was detected, too, by Marlenus, that her body, as she drew the brief, exotic, degrading silk about her, subtly and unmistakably, was shaken by an involuntary tremor of sensuality. |
10 |
| 11 | 127 |
I suppose it was the first time her body had felt silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 128 |
I have often wondered at the excitement generated in women by the simple feel of silk on their bodies. |
10 |
| 11 | 130 |
Surely it would be difficult for a woman to wear silk and not, by that much more, be aware of her womanhood. |
10 |
| 11 | 131 |
But perhaps Verna's response was not simply to silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 133 |
It was not ordinary silk Marlenus had thrown to her. |
10 |
| 11 | 134 |
It was not ordinary silk which she then, for the first time, felt on her body. |
10 |
| 11 | 138 |
It was, of course, slave silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 139 |
I wondered if Verna had ever dreamed of herself in such silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 143 |
One cannot stand as a panther girl in such silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 147 |
That was perhaps one reason for putting her in slave silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 164 |
At her throat was his collar, in her thigh, burned, his brand, on her body his silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 218 |
Verna, in fury, reached down and snatched up the bit of slave silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 237 |
She will doubtless learn her silk and her collar". |
10 |
| 11 | 244 |
"What is it to me," he asked, "if she should, in months, of her own accord, come to understand her brand, her silk and her collar. |
10 |
| 11 | 275 |
Perhaps surprisingly, once conquered, once they have learned their brand, once they have learned their collar and silk, they make the most helpless, the most incredibly delicious slaves. |
10 |
| 11 | 357 |
He drew from it some bits of scarlet slave silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 361 |
He pretended he wished me to buy a consignment of pleasure silk for use in my pleasure gardens. |
10 |
| 11 | 420 |
Verna was clad only in the bit of yellow slave silk she had worn when she escaped. |
10 |
| 11 | 447 |
"Slave silk befits such a pretty little bird," said another girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 511 |
"Ubar!" At a gesture from Marlenus the shreds of pleasure silk which still clung to her were torn from her by two huntsmen, they, too, like the others, cowled in the heads of forest panthers. |
10 |
| 11 | 673 |
She wore a bit of yellow pleasure silk, very short and diaphanous. |
10 |
| 11 | 687 |
"Remove the silk," said Marlenus, "and face us". |
10 |
| 11 | 786 |
The slave silk clung to her the more closely. |
10 |
| 11 | 810 |
"Remove the silk," said Marlenus, "and come to my arms". |
10 |
| 11 | 811 |
Verna parted the slave silk, and dropped it to the side. |
10 |
| 12 | 160 |
Perhaps her curves, demeanor and accent, or the way she moves or wears her silk, reminds him of another slave, somewhere, at some other time. |
10 |
| 13 | 20 |
They wore yellow silk. |
10 |
| 13 | 77 |
They stood in terror, barefoot in the sand, in the yellow silk, in throat coffle, their wrists bound behind their back, horrified with what they had seen. |
10 |
| 13 | 106 |
Then, as they knelt very straight, I removed the pleasure silk from them. |
10 |
| 14 | 55 |
Doubtless they would first bring him so through the streets, between jeering throngs, chained to the back of a tharlarion wagon, white-silk maidens of Tyros dancing beside him, casting love blossoms upon him. |
10 |
| 14 | 70 |
From the slave silk of two of them, torn into strips for strap and wadding, I had improvised gags. |
10 |
| 14 | 79 |
I thrust the wadding again in her mouth, and fastened it tightly in place with the slave silk. |
10 |
| 14 | 176 |
The girls' gags and waddings, formed from the slave silk of the garments of two of them, I had set out on the grass to dry. |
10 |
| 14 | 323 |
He would march in their triumph, branded, naked, chained to the back of a tharlarion wagon, amid blossoms cast by white-silk maidens dancing beside him. |
10 |
| 15 | 1 |
Hunting is Done in the Forest Ilene, in a scrap of yellow pleasure silk, a barefoot slave girl, terrified, fled through the brush, breaking branches, head twisting, hair sometimes caught, breathing heavily, eyes wide, legs and body scratched and cut. |
10 |
| 15 | 60 |
She wore only the bit of pleasure silk. |
10 |
| 15 | 169 |
Ilene, in her silk, commanded, fled and brought her a switch. |
10 |
| 15 | 197 |
Ilene, in her yellow silk, was still kneeling at her feet. |
10 |
| 15 | 439 |
Then there came six panther girls, who had been of Verna's band, in their skins, and then, still in lipstick and earrings, still in her bit of slave silk, came Verna, and then, following her, came the other eight girls who had been of her band. |
10 |
| 15 | 443 |
One of the switches cut the silk on her body. |
10 |
| 15 | 507 |
I turned my head to one side and saw, some yards away, at the edge of our camp, in her yellow silk, Ilene. |
10 |
| 15 | 610 |
She stood in brief, diaphanous yellow slave silk, that of the paga slave. |
10 |
| 15 | 617 |
I strode to her and pulled away the bit of silk. |
10 |
| 15 | 630 |
I looked at her, standing in the clearing, the bit of silk at her ankles, beautiful in the light of the three moons. |
10 |
| 15 | 729 |
The bit of yellow pleasure silk, wet with dew, clung to her. |
10 |
| 15 | 745 |
She tore the pleasure silk back that there be less between us. |
10 |
| 15 | 881 |
I picked up the bit of yellow silk and threw it to her. |
10 |
| 15 | 898 |
The red-haired girl, to my satisfaction, but not asking me, took some of the silk we carried and cut it into strips, wrapping it in and around the ankle rings of her charges, and about the girls' ankles, that their ankles be protected in the march. |
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| 16 | 39 |
Even though she wore slave silk, and lipstick and earrings, she walked well. |
10 |
| 17 | 9 |
Even Ilene, in her slave silk, had a switch, and was given her pair of girls to command. |
10 |
| 18 | 85 |
The only remainder of the luscious slave silk in which she had been marched was a yellow tatter about her neck, caught in Marlenus' collar, which still she wore. |
10 |
| 22 | 184 |
She was in the care of Ilene, who now wore not slave silk, but a tunic of white wool, like that of Sheera. |
10 |
| 22 | 225 |
"Pierce their ears," she said, "and put them all in slave silk". |
10 |
| 22 | 232 |
Each wore only clinging, diaphanous slave silk. |
10 |
| 22 | 242 |
"You," challenged Verna, to the girl who had protested, "how do you like the feel of slave silk?" She looked down. |
10 |
| 22 | 362 |
I surmised she would look well in slave silk, in the pleasure gardens of her master, Marlenus of Ar. |
10 |
| 22 | 544 |
The women, hair loose, the slave silk wet and covered by sand, earrings in their ears, followed them, standing behind them. |
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| 22 | 678 |
I saw her, in the wet silk, her hair unbound, kneel before him, making herself his and his alone. |
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| 22 | 733 |
She had had them clad in slave silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 96 |
"A silk girl!' The expression 'silk girl' is used, often, among bondmaids of the north, to refer to their counterparts in the south. |
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| 13 | 312 |
The robes were hooded; she was twice veiled, once in white silk and, under it, in purple silk. |
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| 1 | 479 |
The girl Elizabeth Cardwell, once a secretary in New York City, was one of the most delicious little wenches I had ever seen in slave silk. |
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| 2 | 67 |
The trade is largely in furs from the north, exchanged for weapons, iron bars, salt and luxury goods, such as jewelry and silk, from the south, usually brought to Kassau from Lydius by ten-oared coasting vessels. |
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| 6 | 244 |
She stood then before us in a chemise of fine silk. |
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| 8 | 8 |
My assistant, a large fellow, but obviously stupid, smooth-shaven as are the perfumers, in white and yellow silk, and golden sandals, bent over, hurried forward. |
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| 8 | 62 |
I groveled in the white and yellow silk of the perfumers. |
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| 8 | 138 |
He tore away from his body, swiftly, the gown of the perfumers, that of white and yellow silk. |
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| 10 | 99 |
More literally, the expression tends to be based on the fact that the brief slave tunic of the south, the single garment permitted the female slave, is often of silk. |
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| 10 | 109 |
The silk girl was heeling her master, a captain of Torvaldsland. |
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| 10 | 110 |
She wore, indeed, a brief tunic of the south, of golden silk. |
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| 10 | 116 |
The silk girl, passing them, did not appear to hear them. |
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| 10 | 118 |
The silk girl turned, stricken. |
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| 10 | 319 |
I saw, too, four slavers, perfumed, in their robes of blue and yellow silk, come north to buy women. |
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| 10 | 342 |
At last only Gunnhild and the "silk girl," she who had worn the earrings, walked on the platform. |
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| 18 | 100 |
It tried to tear the silk, and it was at the wall of the tent that I caught it. |
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| 18 | 497 |
Lying in the dirt, her legs drawn up, her wrists tied behind her back, was the deliciously bodied little wench, dark-haired, in gold silk, now dirtied and torn, in golden collar, and gold earrings, who had exchanged words with Ivar's wool-kirtled wenches at the Thing. |
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| 18 | 498 |
She was the trained girl, the southern silk girl. |
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| 18 | 502 |
She wore a collar of gold, and earrings, and, torn and muddied, a slip of golden silk, of the sort with which masters sometimes display their girl slaves. |
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| 18 | 511 |
My master is truly powerful! Release me this instant! Fear him!" Olga, to the girl's outrage, tore away her golden silk, revealing her to the Forkbeard. |
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| 18 | 534 |
She then made her way to the pen, the bound silk girl, bent over, hurrying at her side. |
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| 18 | 543 |
The Forkbeard gestured to the several captive slave girls, loot from Thorgard's tent, kneeling, wrists bound behind their backs, in their brief, mired silk, in throat coffle, those girls Olga, light-heartedly, had secured for him. |
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| 22 | 68 |
I saw Honey Cake among them, and the Forkbeard's golden girl, the southern silk girl, too, she laboring as any other bondmaid. |
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| 1 | 25 |
A front corner of the silk was taken behind her and thrust, loose and draped, into the rolled silk knotted about her hips; a back corner of the silk was drawn before her and thrust loosely, draped, into the rolled silk at her right hip. |
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| 5 | 113 |
His hand was on her body, and she, writhing, weeping, with her heels, pushing herself, back scraping on the bark, climbed almost a foot up the slanting trunk, before he, taking her in his arms, through her veil, kissed her, fiercely, again and again, with the rape-kisses of a master, impressed on th... |
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| 10 | 4 |
It was called the Silk War because, at that time, Turian silk first began to be imported in bulk to the Tahari communities, and northward to Tor and Kasra, thence to Ar, and points north and west. |
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| 10 | 181 |
She wore a high, red-silk vest, swelling, fastened with a single hook; diaphanous red-silk chalwar, low on her hips, gathered at the ankles; two golden bangles on her left ankle; collar. |
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| 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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| 24 | 121 |
She had thrown me a token, a square of silk, slave silk, red, some eighteen inches square, redolent with the perfume fitted by some perfumer, on the order of her master, to her slave personality, her slave nature and slave body. |
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| 1 | 22 |
The girl wore Gorean dancing silk. |
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| 1 | 179 |
Then she regarded us, dark-eyed, over the veil; it turned about her body; then, to the misery of the blondish girl, she wafted the silk about her, enmeshing her in its gossamer softness. |
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| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
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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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| 1 | 656 |
I jerked her to her feet and, half turning her, ripping her silk from her, hurled her to the map floor, where she half lay, half crouched, one leg beneath her, looking at me, stripped save for her collar, the brand, the armlets, bells, the anklets, with fury. |
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| 3 | 24 |
Silk, dropped upon the scimitar of the Tahari, divided, falls free, floating, to the floor. |
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| 4 | 5 |
She sat within, her knees to the left, her ankles together, her weight partly on her hands, to the right, on the small, silk-covered cushion of the frame. |
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| 4 | 20 |
The light silk was held across the bridge of her nose, where, beautifully, its porous, yellow sheen broke to the left and right. |
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| 4 | 208 |
Now her skin would be much more aware of such tiny things as a change in air movement in a room, temperature, humidity, and such; also she would now be more keenly sensitive to differences in textures with which her body might come in contact, such as the granulation of the stones on which her feet ... |
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| 4 | 269 |
"Why are you not in slave silk?" I asked her. |
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| 4 | 368 |
Then the slave master said, "Put her in slave silk, and give her to male slaves". |
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| 4 | 414 |
When I had first informed her of this, she had said, "Thank you, Master," acidly, and put aside the tiny scrap of diaphanous yellow silk. |
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| 5 | 8 |
Low on her hips she wore, on a belt of rolled cloth, yellow dancing silk, in Turian drape, the thighs bare, the front right corner of the skirt thrust behind her to the left, the back left lower corner of the skirt thrust into the rolled belt at her right hip. |
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| 5 | 10 |
She wore a yellow-silk halter, hooked high, to accentuate the line of her beauty. |
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| 5 | 29 |
He, too, wore kaffiyeh and agal, a kaftan of silk. |
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| 5 | 46 |
From one side a slave girl, barefoot, bangled, in sashed, diaphanous, trousered chalwar, gathered at the ankles, in tight, red-silk vest, with bare midriff, fled to him, with the tall, graceful, silvered pot containing the black wine. |
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| 5 | 95 |
Earlier it would have been clearly visible through the yellow silk. |
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| 5 | 132 |
Yes, she was a pretty slave, and the small, diaphanous veil, now with its bit of blood in the silk, where the young nomad's teeth had cut her lip, given her nudity, was a delightful irony. |
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| 5 | 598 |
"Yes, Master," she whispered, gathering her silk about her and hurrying to the alcove. |
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| 5 | 646 |
She had slipped off her silk. |
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| 5 | 679 |
To the music she unhooked her slave halter of yellow silk and, as though contemptuously, discarded it. |
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| 5 | 694 |
She wore a high, tight vest of red silk, with four hooks; her midriff was bare; she wore the sashed chalwar, a sashed, diaphanous trousered garment, full but gathered in, closely, at the ankles; she was barefoot; her wrists and ankles were bangled; she was veiled; she was collared. |
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| 5 | 709 |
Alyena, now, slowly, disengaged the dancing silk from her hips, yet held it, moving it on and about her body, by her hands, taunting the reclining, languid, heavy-lidded Ibn Saran, to whom she knew, at his slightest gesture, she must bare herself. |
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| 5 | 808 |
Her bare midriff, long, between the high, hooked vest of red silk and the low-slung, sashed chalwar, about her hips, some inches below her navel, was quite attractive. |
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| 5 | 876 |
There was blood deep in the silk of the cushions. |
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| 7 | 204 |
On such a blade, I knew, silk dropped, should the blade be moved, would fall parted to the floor. |
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| 8 | 203 |
"In the night," I said, "you remove your slippers, and put on silk and bells". |
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| 10 | 1 |
Hassan Departs From the Oasis of Two Scimitars The oasis of Two Scimitars is an out-of-the-way oasis, under the hegemony of the Bakahs, which, for more than two hundred years, following their defeat in the Silk War of 8,110 C. |
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| 10 | 3 |
The Silk War was a war for the control of certain caravan routes, for the rights to levy raider tribute on journeying merchants. |
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| 10 | 189 |
Her haunches flowed beneath the silk, and then she had disappeared. |
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| 12 | 14 |
Hassan, in a brief, white-silk garment, sat cross-legged nearby. |
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| 12 | 94 |
I saw the other girl laying out a light tunic of red silk, and a necklace of yellow, rounded beads, which I supposed was for me. |
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| 12 | 163 |
She glanced at the males about, in their silk. |
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| 12 | 172 |
The other girl, she who had laid out the red-silk tunic, the yellow beads, gasped. |
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| 12 | 235 |
The other girl threw me the red-silk tunic and I slipped it on, dropping the yellow necklace inside the tunic. |
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| 12 | 284 |
She wore a soft gown, flowing, yellow, long, of Turian silk; it was sheer and, with its deep neckline, and about the hips, well betrayed her. |
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| 12 | 554 |
Near the red silk I had cast aside, when donning the desert garments of the guard, on the tiles, I saw the vulgar, wooden, rounded, yellow slave beads, the necklace, which I had not chosen to permit being placed upon me. |
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| 13 | 128 |
Though Hassan and I were stripped, she was more naked than we, for she wore Gorean slave silk. |
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| 13 | 208 |
About the dais, kneeling, waiting to serve, were slave girls, some in high collars, clad in strands of slave silk. |
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| 13 | 297 |
Aside from her jewelries, her bells, the oval and collar, the cosmetics, the heady slave perfume, she wore six ribbons of silk, yellow, three before and three behind, some four feet in length, descending from her collar. |
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| 14 | 303 |
Sometimes they even flaunt their beauty before them, in their walk and movements, to torture them, knowing that the male slave may be slain for so much as touching their silk. |
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| 14 | 314 |
Triumphantly she turned again to the window and dropped the silk from the aperture. |
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| 14 | 320 |
It was slave silk. |
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| 14 | 323 |
Hamid thrust and twisted the square of silk in the metal of my collar, and yanked it tight. |
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| 14 | 327 |
I looked up, the silk fastened in my collar. |
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| 14 | 379 |
Doubtless her silk had merely been taken from her and she had been locked in her quarters, or cell, as it might be. |
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| 14 | 451 |
There was a bit of silk, now doubtless bleached by the sun, thrust and wrapped in my collar. |
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| 14 | 461 |
There was a bit of silk, wrapped, fastened in the collar I wore. |
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| 14 | 524 |
The silk which was tied in my collar was removed. |
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| 14 | 526 |
I felt the silk in the circular wrist sore. |
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| 14 | 669 |
About my left wrist, knotted, bleached in the sun, was a bit of slave silk. |
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| 14 | 670 |
On it, still, lingered the perfume of a slave girl, one who, purchased, had been useful to Kurii, who had testified falsely against me at Nine Wells, who had, contemptuously, insolently, cast me a token of her consideration, a bit of silk and scent, to remember her by, when I served at Klima. |
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| 15 | 60 |
"Leave the bit of silk about your wrist in the crusts, hiding it". |
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| 15 | 62 |
"It is slave silk," he said, "and it bears, still, the scent of a woman". |
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| 15 | 65 |
I hid the bit of silk in the crusts, at the edge of one of the low, white plastered buildings. |
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| 18 | 1 |
I Retrieve a Bit of Silk; We Enter the Desert "What would you have for saving my life?" asked T'Zshal. |
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| 18 | 147 |
From the place in the salt crusts, where I had hidden it, I took the faded, cracked bit of silk that had been thrust in my collar on the march to Klima. |
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| 18 | 155 |
I tied the bit of silk about my left wrist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 120 |
Poalu was in brief yellow pleasure silk, and Audrey and Barbara in brief red pleasure silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 170 |
If Ulafi or Uchafu truly understood the nature of the girl's importance, that it had nothing to do with her being red silk or white silk, she would doubtless, by now, have been richly and abundantly raped. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 473 |
I examined, with wonder and pleasure, the girl who stood before me, her small feet, bare, and trim ankles, her calves and thighs, the delicious curves of her body in the loose, scant silk, the loveliness of her slender throat, locked in its collar, the delicacy and beauty of her features, the loveli... |
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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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| 23 | 116 |
It is she who should be the slave, not I! Indeed, one of the pleasures of having you as my silk slave will be that you were once her own silk slave. |
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| 23 | 117 |
I, a mere slave, use her former silk slave as my own silk slave! Thus do I demean her!" "I did not earlier this week," I said, "steal a kiss from Tuka nor did I, two days later, with two hands, intimately caress the leg of Peliope near the first feed shed". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 49 |
These two girls, Relia discarding her red silk and Tela opening her white silk, and throwing it back, hurried to kneel near me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 351 |
This is perhaps because many male silk slaves are chosen to be male silk slaves not because they are weak or like women, but because they are not; it is only that they are men, and often true men, who must serve women, totally, in the same fashion that a slave female is expected to serve a free mast... |
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| 2 | 352 |
To be sure, it is also true, and should be admitted in all honesty, that many male silk slaves are rather feminine; some women prefer this type, perhaps because they fear true men; from such a silk slave they need not fear that they may suddenly be turned upon, and tied, and taught to be women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 274 |
"Red Silk" will not do as a translation because corn silk, or the hair at the side of the head, is quite different from silk, the cloth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 268 |
Other common terms, used generally of slaves, are 'white silk' and 'red silk', for girls who have not yet been opened, or have been opened, for the uses of men, respectively. |
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| 14 | 49 |
It was opaque silk, for it was morning, and not the diaphanous silk we customarily wore in the evening, when on the floor, when serving our master's customers. |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 786 |
"Come, come," said Borton, gesturing with his left hand and the goblet in his right, "bring them all forward!" Philebus, with the whip, gestured the girls in the background forward and they hurried forward, in their silk, their feet soft in the dirt, and they knelt, in a semicircle behind, and about... |
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| 3 | 92 |
If this silk had been replaced with yellow silk it was safe to return. |
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| 41 | 18 |
I then drew loose the disrobing loop of the silk, at her left shoulder, and drew aside the silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 844 |
What matters it that the slave is white silk or red silk? Once purchased it is quite unlikely she will long remain white silk, unless perhaps she has been purchased for a resale. |
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| 19 | 1042 |
The contrast was attractive, like slave silk against flesh, or a narrow cord sustaining such silk at the shoulder, perhaps an inch from a disrobing loop, or the metal of slave bracelets locked on small, downy wrists, a rope on a waist, snug above a sweetly rounded belly, or a collar on the neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 588 |
My silk, that now clutched about me, with its irregular mottling of dampnesses, from where it had been held in my mouth, where it had served as my gag, stifling my cries, keeping me silenced, that silk bearing even in places the imprint of my teeth, where it had been desperately bitten upon, clenche... |
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| 7 | 593 |
She who was first amongst us, doubtless because of her standing, had, in her belly silk, low upon her hips, been permitted the rather modest Harfaxian drape, in which the silk is a rectangle, which fastens at the left hip. |
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| 7 | 1015 |
"He!" "And you were gagged with the silk?" "Yes!" "Why did you not cry out before the silk was removed?" asked Aynur. |
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| 10 | 241 |
A "white-silk girl" is a virgin; one who is not a virgin is sometimes referred to as a "red-silk girl". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 153 |
It would be a great insult to refer to a free woman as either "white-silk" or "red-silk". |
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| 24 | 538 |
"What was there, in that world," she wondered, "to compare with even the light wisp of silk I feel upon my thighs, with the bells knotted about my left ankle?" Dara thrust back through the parting in the silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 73 |
"A red-silk slave," he said, "is red silk even if naked". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 65 |
"I trust," I said to Pertinax, "you do not mind that she is red silk, that she is not white silk". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 448 |
"Is a slave white silk or red silk?" I asked. |
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| 37 | 63 |
"Are you white silk or red silk?" "White, white, white!" she said, continuing with her kisses, then licking at the shoulder of her master, thereby confessing herself the more his loving, begging beast. |
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| 37 | 72 |
If she were truly white silk now, it was interesting to speculate on what she might be if red silk, if become the victim of irresistible slave fires. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 604 |
"She says," I said, "that she is not red-silk, that she is white-silk". |
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| 10 | 448 |
"She is white-silk, white-silk!" I was much shaken by this experience, but I had learned something of the power of the slave, for she is not without her power. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 68 |
Did they not have their vanity? They were clothed briefly, and not that differently from slaves, but they wore not rep-cloth, the wool of the bounding hurt, or silk, work silk or pleasure silk, but the skins of animals, of forest panthers. |
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| 17 | 94 |
Many were silk slaves and did not know that they were silk slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 432 |
But I was in silk, and I was still in silk. |
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| 24 | 78 |
He carried a bit of cloth, a tiny scrap of black silk, and something wrapped within the silk. |
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