| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 157 |
I twisted, and the blade cut my tunic cleanly, creasing the skin with a line of blood as sharp as a razor. |
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| 5 | 153 |
The thought crossed my mind of giving up the project, turning outlaw, if you will, deserter, if you like, but of saving my own skin, trying to get out of this mad scheme if only with my life, and that only for a time. |
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| 6 | 13 |
He leaned over and tossed me a skin bag of paga, from which I took a long swig, then hurled it contemptuously back into his arms. |
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| 7 | 174 |
I saw magnificent olive skin and those wild green eyes and features that were breathtakingly beautiful. |
10 |
| 9 | 37 |
Her skin was radiant, the dried mire of the swamp forest at last washed away. |
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. |
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| 19 | 203 |
It slashed through my tunic, creasing the skin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 17 |
Asking no questions, as was suitable given the absence of insignia on my garments, they feasted me on my own kill, and gave me fiber, and flints and a skin of wine. |
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| 7 | 29 |
His face was heavy and yellowish, but mottled with patches of purple where small veins had burst under the skin. |
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| 8 | 97 |
I had caught a brief glimpse of a sallow face, with skin like a dried lemon and pale blue eyes. |
10 |
| 18 | 169 |
Like myself they were soaked to the skin and shivering, but alive. |
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| 21 | 92 |
In theory, if not in practice, when the girl finds herself branded like an animal, finds her fair skin marked by the iron of a master, she cannot fail, somehow, in the deepest levels of her thought, to regard herself as something which is owned, as mere property, as something belonging to the brute ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 25 | 2 |
They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag... |
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| 7 | 4 |
I could see her white garment and sense the pale beauty of her skin as she stood back from the portal in the semidarkened chamber. |
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| 23 | 21 |
Her skin seemed slightly dry but not desiccated. |
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| 23 | 38 |
These swellings, hard, round and smooth, seemed to lie just beneath the skin and to be roughly the size of one's fist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 161 |
He took the skin of wine from the boy and bit out the horn plug; he then, with the wineskin on his shoulder, held back the head of Elizabeth Cardwell with one hand and with the other shoved the bone nozzle of the skin between her teeth; he tipped the skin and the girl, half choking, swallowed wine; ... |
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| 5 | 78 |
Her skin was a light brown and her eyes, dark and fiery, were insolent, charged, and sparkling. |
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| 6 | 160 |
He signaled to a boy who carried a skin of Ka-la-na wine over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 6 | 162 |
When Kamchak thought she had drunk enough he pulled the nozzle from her mouth, pushed back the plug and returned the skin to the boy. |
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| 7 | 19 |
Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe... |
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| 8 | 224 |
She was a very exciting, vital, proud girl and the tiny golden nose ring, against her brownish skin, with her flashing dark eyes, did not detract from her considerable but rather insolent beauty. |
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| 8 | 602 |
There was a tiny stain of blood at its tip, and too there was a smear of blood on the skin of the small yellowish-white fruit. |
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| 9 | 28 |
Saphrar was a short, fat, pinkish man, with short legs and arms; he had quick bright eyes and a tiny, roundish red-lipped mouth; upon occasion he moved his small, pudgy fingers, with rounded scarlet nails, rapidly, as though rubbing the gloss from a tarn disk or feeling the texture of a fine cloth; ... |
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| 9 | 209 |
Over the veil I could now see two dark, deep, almond-shaped eyes; her skin, what I could see of it, was lovely and clear; her complexion was not so light as that of Miss Cardwell, but was lighter than that of the girl Hereena, of the First Wagon. |
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| 11 | 327 |
"Bring wine," he said to Elizabeth, who, her mouth filled with meat, went and fetched a small skin of wine and a cup, which she filled for him. |
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| 12 | 146 |
Aphris got up and fetched not a skin, but a bottle, of wine, Ka-la-na wine, from the Ka-la-na orchards of great Ar itself. |
10 |
| 12 | 400 |
I had seen her before, of course, as had Kamchak, but it was startling still to see her thus in the firelight—her hair was long and silken black, her eyes dark, the color of her skin tannish. |
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| 18 | 3 |
My legs began to tingle and sting, and I could feel the skin beginning to be etched and picked by the corrosive elements now attacking them. |
10 |
| 19 | 96 |
Her skin color was tannish, not too unlike the girl I had seen from Port Kar. |
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| 26 | 347 |
Beneath the surface we could see places where his robes had been eaten away and the skin was turning white beneath the surface, the juices of the pool etching their way into his body, taking its protein and nutriment into its own, digesting it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 113 |
Afterwards, Nela gave me the first rubbing, with coarse oils, loosening dirt and perspiration, and scraped me with the thin, flexible bronze strigil; then she gave me the second rubbing, vigorous and stimulating, with heavy toweling; then she gave me the third rubbing, that with fine, scented oils, ... |
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| 20 | 28 |
Portus, half wasted now, his skin hanging about his frame, was brought, manacled, stripped to the waist, to the square of sand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 310 |
We were passing a water skin about among us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 306 |
Verna took the length of binding fiber from her skin, that which had formerly bound my wrists. |
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| 12 | 107 |
He wore over his head, half covering his face, a hood formed of the skin of the head of a forest panther. |
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| 12 | 512 |
When we had finished the fruit, Lana and I discarded the skin and seeds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 58 |
Even in the flickering light I could see the beautiful mottlings on her body, on the sides of her breasts and body, red and white, still rich and subtle in her hot, blood-charged skin. |
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| 9 | 425 |
Mira now, the others following, crying out, tore away the scraps of panther skin that had yet concealed their beauty. |
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| 12 | 188 |
At my belt was a sleen knife; at my hip, in a verr-skin quiver, temwood sheaf arrows, nineteen of them, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the vosk gull. |
10 |
| 15 | 612 |
Her skin was very light. |
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| 16 | 17 |
Looped loosely about my right wrist, so that it would fall when my hand was held downwards, was a thick, wide strip of panther skin, twisted in its center. |
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| 16 | 92 |
As my right hand did this the loop of panther skin, twisted in its center, fell from my hand across her face. |
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| 16 | 183 |
Again I thrust the heavy wadding of fur deep in Mira's mouth, and tied it securely in place with the strip, twisted, of panther skin. |
10 |
| 16 | 222 |
They let the panther skin then hang about her neck and wound the wadding about it, that it might be soon replaced. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 726 |
I well remembered Sandra, with her black eyes, brownish skin and high cheekbones. |
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| 2 | 335 |
His skin seemed grayish. |
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| 4 | 220 |
She then went to one of the large, wooden, covered water buckets, roped to the deck, and in it submerged a water-skin. |
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| 4 | 221 |
I heard the bubbling as the skin filled. |
10 |
| 4 | 243 |
"Free!" "Would you not, my large-breasted beauty," said he, "like to spend the night with me in my bag of the skin of the sea sleen?" "No!" she cried. |
10 |
| 4 | 254 |
The slender blond girl, who had been giving the men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bondmaids. |
10 |
| 6 | 49 |
Some wore trousers of skin, others tunics of dyed wool. |
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| 6 | 495 |
Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel... |
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| 6 | 552 |
I looked to one side; there, at a bench, lethargic, somnolent, like a great stone, or a sleeping larl, sat Rollo, he of such great stature, with grayish skin. |
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| 10 | 35 |
"The talmit of skin of sea sleen is mine!" he laughed. |
10 |
| 11 | 114 |
"Even now," said the Kur, the skin drawing back from its fangs, "there are those among you who wish our death, who urge our destruction". |
10 |
| 11 | 118 |
Again the skin drew back from its fangs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 103 |
The looseness of the garments, acting as a bellows in movement, circulates air about the body, which air, circulating, over the damp skin, cools the body by evaporation; the close weave of the garment is to keep the moisture and water, as much as possible, within the garment, preferably condensing b... |
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| 1 | 548 |
The skin itself, in a trained girl, becomes an extensive, glorious, marvelously subtle sensory organ. |
10 |
| 2 | 12 |
The water flowed into the cup through a tiny vent-and-spigot device, which wastes little water, by reducing spillage, which was tied in and waxed into a hole left in the front left foreleg of the verr skin. |
10 |
| 2 | 13 |
The skins are carefully stripped and any rents in the skin are sewed up, the seams coated with wax. |
10 |
| 2 | 14 |
When the whole skin is thoroughly cleaned of filth and hair, straps are fastened to it, so that it may be conveniently carried on the shoulder, or over the back, the same straps serving, with adjustment, for either mode of support. |
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| 2 | 456 |
Her body stiffened, and she shut her eyes, as his hands, those of a Gorean flesh appraiser, informed, sensitive, professional, proficient, made swift assessment of the textures of her skin, varying at different points on the body, the tensilities of her musculature, the varying softness and firmness... |
10 |
| 4 | 80 |
Too, she was taught the churning of milk in skin bags. |
10 |
| 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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| 5 | 560 |
I supposed she saw in him her "rich man," who would guarantee her a life in which she might be protected from the labors of the free woman of the Tahari, the pounding of grain with the heavy pestle, the weaving of cloth, the churning of milk in skin bags, the carrying of water, the herding of animal... |
10 |
| 5 | 622 |
Her white skin, in itself, in the Tahari, would bring a good price. |
10 |
| 7 | 726 |
I lifted my hand near its eye; it blinked, even to the third lid, the transparent lid; very lightly I touched its flank; the skin shook, twitching, beneath the finger. |
10 |
| 12 | 289 |
Her complexion, her skin, was the light, lovely tan of the Tahari. |
10 |
| 12 | 565 |
They contrasted nicely with the yellow of her gown, the light Tahari tan of her skin, the darkness of her hair, the red silken sheets behind her. |
10 |
| 15 | 48 |
The heavy garments of the Tahari, too, have as two of their main objectives the prevention of water loss, and the retention of moisture on the skin, slowing water loss by evaporation. |
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| 16 | 213 |
Its skin was not rough, abrasive, like that of free-water sharks, but slick, coated with a bacterial slime. |
10 |
| 17 | 115 |
With his fingers, and some fresh water, from a skin, he rubbed his eyes. |
10 |
| 17 | 128 |
He then took fresh water from the skin and soaked the lacing. |
10 |
| 21 | 131 |
I felt skin on my tongue peeling. |
10 |
| 24 | 65 |
She feels the sun on her skin, and the wind, and the grass at her ankles. |
10 |
| 24 | 663 |
Masters tend to be fond of the bright, heated skin of their girls. |
10 |
| 25 | 342 |
"If Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, should hear of this, he might skin me alive". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 247 |
What rivals we had been! I felt the edge of the dagger anchor itself in the outer layer of skin on my throat, preparing for its slash. |
10 |
| 3 | 407 |
I felt the iron touch me and almost instantaneously, crackling, flash through my outer skin and then, firmly, to my horror, enter and lodge itself fixedly in my thigh. |
10 |
| 4 | 230 |
Eta then, to my surprise, with the point of her scissors, ripped the tiny garment a bit under my right breast, that a bit of skin might show, and again at my left hip, a larger rip. |
10 |
| 15 | 213 |
"Yes," said Tellius, "note her breathing, the mottling of her skin, how she moves, her eyes". |
10 |
| 22 | 356 |
The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 66 |
Her skin, she was very fair-skinned and dark-pelted, seemed very soft and reddish, subtly so, glowingly so, vulnerably so, in the light of the tiny perforated lamp. |
10 |
| 3 | 200 |
His skin was dark, reddish like copper; his hair was bluish black, roughly cropped; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold. |
10 |
| 8 | 127 |
There was a rug of sleen skin beneath the chair, and another before the dais. |
10 |
| 9 | 19 |
"Can you skin so many?" I asked. |
10 |
| 10 | 99 |
He who dares to pursue the twisting, sinuous dangerous sea sleen in the arctic waters, fended from the teeth and sea by only a narrow vessel of tabuk skin and his simple weapons and skill, does not care to be confused with a tradesman. |
10 |
| 10 | 217 |
The warming factor of the garment is a function of air trapped against the skin. |
10 |
| 11 | 20 |
Too they may be used for buckets and tents, and for kayaks, the light, narrow hunting canoes of skin from which sea mammals may be sought. |
10 |
| 11 | 235 |
From the furs and hides among the spoils at the wall they had cut and sewn for themselves stockings of lart skin, and shirts of hide, and a light and heavy parka, each hooded and rimmed with lart fur. |
10 |
| 18 | 8 |
Five men, besides myself, waited in the large skin boat, the umiak. |
10 |
| 22 | 39 |
With a tube he had blown air under the skin of the sleen and, with wooden plugs, closed their wounds. |
10 |
| 22 | 294 |
"Will you blow air under its skin?" I asked. |
10 |
| 23 | 419 |
There he threw off the lart-skin shirt he wore. |
10 |
| 25 | 50 |
But, too, a skin bag, filled with snow, placed within the clothing, next to the body, which causes the snow to melt, may also be used. |
10 |
| 25 | 54 |
He also used water from the skin bag he carried about his waist. |
10 |
| 35 | 621 |
With the back of the knife to her skin I moved the garment down and away from her, until it was at her ankles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 25 |
My worst physical symptoms were the irritation about my eyes and the genuinely nasty itchiness of my skin. |
10 |
| 13 | 7 |
"Your skin," said he, "is truly clear, and, too, your eyes". |
10 |
| 13 | 23 |
Even if one were not interested in her personally, given the color of her skin, one could always sell her. |
10 |
| 14 | 125 |
She stirred, troubled, sensing the difference in the temperature, the air, upon her skin. |
10 |
| 18 | 6 |
The robes were generally of animal skin, some marvelously marked. |
10 |
| 19 | 59 |
The flesh had turned a blackish orange and, in places, had broken open, the skin peeling back like burned paper. |
10 |
| 34 | 251 |
For example, a free woman is not collared, her skin does not exhibit the slave mark, she is under no obligation to obey instantly and with perfection, she need not fear chains and the whip, she need not kneel at a man's feet, and so on". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 208 |
I could see the woman with such white skin, she in the black leather, with the whip, at the height of the barrier. |
10 |
| 3 | 472 |
Her skin was very white. |
10 |
| 22 | 675 |
She was panting; her nipples were delicately rigid; her skin, from the dilation of capillaries, was a patchwork of red and white. |
10 |
| 26 | 48 |
"Do you think such things cannot be told from your breathing, the mottling of your skin, the condition of your nipples, the timbre of your voice?" "No," she said, "no!" Quickly she pulled up the robes about her body, holding them at her throat. |
10 |
| 34 | 155 |
Their scanty garmenture permits much air to reach the skin, and the slave well knows, or soon learns, that a clean body is an attractive body, and that if she does not keep herself in an attractive and hygienic condition she is subject to discipline, usually the whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1224 |
"The portion of the skin pertinent to the dream, or vision," said Kog, "is clearly distinguished from the portion of the skin which purports to be concerned with real events. |
10 |
| 1 | 720 |
In preparing rawhide the skin, suitably fleshed, is pegged down and dried in the wind and sun. |
10 |
| 1 | 728 |
The skin is then unrolled and by rubbing, kneading and stretching, hand-softened over a period of hours. |
10 |
| 1 | 766 |
"Does the skin seem to you old," asked Kog, "faded, brittle, cracked, worn, thin, fragile?" "No," I said. |
10 |
| 1 | 771 |
This hypothesis is corroborated by correlation data, in which this skin was compared to samples whose dating is known and independent historical evidence, the nature of which should be readily apparent". |
10 |
| 1 | 774 |
I had little doubt but what their physical and chemical techniques were quite adequate to supply the dating in question to the skin and its paints. |
10 |
| 1 | 792 |
"This is," said Kog, to Samos, "a story skin". |
10 |
| 1 | 807 |
"The story begins here," said Kog, indicating the center of the skin. |
10 |
| 1 | 808 |
From this point there was initiated, in a slow spiral, to be followed by turning the skin, a series of drawings and pictographs. |
10 |
| 1 | 809 |
As the skin is turned each marking on it is at the center of attention, first, of course, of the artist, and, later, as he follows the trail, of the viewer. |
10 |
| 1 | 825 |
I watched Kog slowly turn the skin. |
10 |
| 1 | 826 |
The drawings are first traced on the skin with a sharp stick. |
10 |
| 1 | 926 |
Kog then, with his dexterous, six-jointed, long digits, rotated the skin a quarter of a turn, continuing the story. |
10 |
| 1 | 974 |
"I had not hitherto, before seeing this skin," said Samos, "realized that the savages wore such things". |
10 |
| 1 | 1220 |
The shields, too, are made of the hide of the kailiauk, from the thick hide of the back of the neck, where the skin and musculature are thick, to support the weight of the trident and turn the blows of other tridents, especially in the spring buffetings, attendant upon which follows mate selection". |
10 |
| 1 | 1229 |
"The distances and the times, and the dating of this skin, the details of the representation, all these things, suggest that it is Zarendargar. |
10 |
| 1 | 1267 |
The skin, on the other hand, had apparently been traded. |
10 |
| 2 | 72 |
"It is your belief, then," said Samos, "that the skin is genuine". |
10 |
| 2 | 73 |
"Yes," I said, "and from what I know of the red savages, I would conjecture that this skin is from the very beast whose image is portrayed upon it". |
10 |
| 8 | 45 |
The black iron of her collar, and the chain, contrasted nicely with the lightness and texture of her skin. |
10 |
| 8 | 248 |
Her costume, like that of Ginger, the short, fringed, beaded shirtdress of tanned skin, with the beaded anklet, intended to resemble the garb in which red masters sometimes saw fit to clothe their white female slaves, if permitting them clothing, suggested its heritage of other times and other place... |
10 |
| 12 | 208 |
This may be of tanned skin but, not unoften, is of soft cloth. |
10 |
| 13 | 1177 |
Your stripping, particularly as it was done by a man, or at the command of a man, should put you in touch with certain female realities, such as your beauty, and its softness, and its subjectability to male domination; it should also, through exposure, and through various, subtle skin stimulations, ... |
10 |
| 14 | 45 |
She wore a brief garment of fringed, tanned skin, rent and stained, doubtless a castoff from some free woman's shirtdress, shortened to slave length. |
10 |
| 14 | 583 |
This is probably a function of the high degree of her skin sensitivity and the depth and vulnerability of her feelings. |
10 |
| 17 | 431 |
After all, should a free man be expected to apply his own oils, scrape the dirt from his own skin with the strigil, and rinse and towel himself? "You see," said Pumpkin to the captured girl, "your appearance, even if it were not so healthy looking, perhaps, can cause some of us to think certain thou... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 450 |
'Cancega', then, in a sense, could be taken to mean such things as "Kettle Skin," or "Pot Skin". |
10 |
| 2 | 36 |
Her skin was mottled deeply with red blotches. |
10 |
| 2 | 122 |
The whiteness of a girl's skin, not the brand, in particular, marks the girl as a slave. |
10 |
| 2 | 136 |
I am sure, if a good offer had been made, he would have traded off Pimples' collar, with its trade beads, for, say, a well-beaded parfleche or a sash of ornamented sleen skin. |
10 |
| 2 | 448 |
More literally, it is a skin stretched over a hoop. |
10 |
| 5 | 4 |
Wasnapohdi thrust her knife in behind the neck, to make the first slash, from which the skin would begin to be folded back, to expose the forequarters on each side. |
10 |
| 7 | 8 |
The most common distinction, of course, is skin color, the slaves almost always being white and the free persons almost invariably being red. |
10 |
| 7 | 837 |
I was afraid he would cut the skin. |
10 |
| 11 | 5 |
"He is permitting her a dress of soft tabuk skin," said Cuwignaka, "creamy white and soft-tanned, though, to be sure, of slave length. |
10 |
| 16 | 93 |
"Sometimes my entire skin seems suddenly suffused with warmth. |
10 |
| 16 | 177 |
How naive is the man who believes that having sex with a woman is so little or brief a thing as to fall within the parameters of a horizontal plane, the simple stimulations of a skin, the results attendant upon a simplistic manual dexterity. |
10 |
| 22 | 310 |
"He is only a child," said Cuwignaka, rocking the body, pressing his cheek against the affronted head, the exposed bone, the lacerated, bloody skin. |
10 |
| 23 | 135 |
"Do you see these discolorations," I asked, indicating irregular reddish splotches on her fair skin, "the results of capillary distention?" "Yes," he said. |
10 |
| 29 | 121 |
"Some of the skin has been restored," I said. |
10 |
| 43 | 17 |
They were probably administered to the bare skin, with the girl tied in such a way as to maximize their effect. |
10 |
| 43 | 335 |
Neither Iwoso nor Bloketu would sustain skin or body damage as a result of what was being done to them. |
10 |
| 47 | 383 |
Then with a sound of tearing muscle and skin, and crushed bone, Zarendargar's jaws closed. |
10 |
| 47 | 388 |
The head lay askew, to one side, held by vessels and skin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 164 |
Too, I felt the heat and the sun on my bared skin. |
10 |
| 15 | 330 |
The heavy fiber of the basket cut into my skin. |
10 |
| 15 | 430 |
The fiber of the basket would be temporarily imprinting its pattern on my skin. |
10 |
| 17 | 50 |
How dare they chain me as though I might be a slave! The sun was hot on my exposed skin. |
10 |
| 20 | 61 |
"How your skin must crawl when he forces you to his intimate service," she said, dipping a tunic in the water. |
10 |
| 20 | 108 |
He had sheared me very closely, to within perhaps a quarter inch of my skin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 806 |
She had high cheekbones, a tannish skin and a golden collar. |
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| 2 | 262 |
They are then well ready, acutely sensitized, every bit of their skin alive, beggingly docile, and grateful. |
10 |
| 7 | 8 |
It was covered with an intense, irregular geography of scarlet patches, the capillaries near the surface of the skin swelled with blood, the red color suffusing upward as though from a light within her, as though fires raged within her, just beneath her exposed, yielding, eager softness, witnessing ... |
10 |
| 9 | 295 |
Nudity, of course, is also helpful, as it dramatically increases her sense of vulnerability, and then every inch of her skin and body is exposed, and aware, and alive to even the slightest breath of air, the tiniest fold of a cloth surface, to the least and gentlest touch. |
10 |
| 14 | 382 |
Then, feverishly, with a will, I thrust it through its pelt and, pulling and tearing, using my hands, and teeth, as well, I began to remove its skin. |
10 |
| 14 | 388 |
I tore loose part of the skin. |
10 |
| 14 | 397 |
Part of the hide was still warm on my skin. |
10 |
| 14 | 456 |
It did not seem muchly concerned with the head of the urt, which was still, by the skin, attached to the pelt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1791 |
Some of the wrinkles would leave a mark on her skin for a time. |
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| 25 | 278 |
Its meaning has not yet soaked into her brain, her skin, her belly, even to the tips of her toes". |
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| 25 | 1143 |
It reminded me of the small lamps of love sometimes kindled in a fellow's compartments, the light from which has such an interesting effect on the skin of a slave chained to the couch ring. |
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| 25 | 1388 |
She was as yet alienated from the depth and richness of the extensive sexual tissues in her body; she did not yet understand how her entire skin, from her scalp to her toes, could awaken into life, startled and rejoicing, stimulated by the hot, surgent, wavelike irradiations emanating not only from ... |
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| 26 | 321 |
The object could feel it in contact with its skin. |
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| 26 | 1613 |
I supposed she would not be much used to the feel of air on her skin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 80 |
I felt on my skin its silken presence, almost nothing, little more than a whisper or a mockery. |
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| 6 | 369 |
I moved a little, to feel the tiny metal tag, slung on its tiny closed chain, the chain closed about my collar, move delicately, lightly, on my skin, just below my neck. |
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| 8 | 138 |
It is sometimes almost as though my entire skin was a single, extensive, sheetlike, marvelous tactile organ. |
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| 8 | 140 |
These types of skin sensitivity, of course, make us much more alive to our environment. |
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| 8 | 310 |
It traversed my skin easily, with little friction, though I was clearly aware of its downward pressure. |
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| 8 | 406 |
I supposed that we would be watered again, later, that we might again appear fresh, our skin with excellent tone, glistening and smooth, our bellies sweetly rounded. |
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| 9 | 514 |
My entire skin, and body, tonight, was much less responsive than it would normally have been. |
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| 10 | 113 |
Some had to do with skin blotching and nipple erection. |
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| 11 | 470 |
In a moment or two, as Mirus solicited further interest among the customers, I heard the sounds of the instruments, the czehar and kalikas being tuned, the flautist trying passages, the drummer's fingers light on the taut skin of his instrument, the kaska, then adjusting it, then trying it again, th... |
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| 11 | 948 |
The kaska player, alert to this, reduced the volume of his drumming, and then, five times, smote hard upon the taut skin, almost like the cracking of a whip, to which I reacted, turning to one side and another, as though such a disciplinary device had been sounded menacingly, on all sides, in my vic... |
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| 19 | 139 |
One of my master's men, from a skin, poured paga on the fallen figure. |
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| 25 | 165 |
Your skin is like a field of scarlet dinas". |
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| 27 | 175 |
Surely that was preferable to wearing chains and carrying water in a large, damp skin bag, struggling against its bulging, shifting weight, bent over, going back and forth, back and forth, wading in sand to the ankles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 180 |
I was soaked to the skin. |
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| 4 | 40 |
These are rubbed well into the skin and then removed with the strigil. |
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| 11 | 67 |
Should he really forget it, let her not be relieved, for he may well recall it a day or so later, and then woe to the beauty's skin. |
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| 17 | 700 |
A fellow there swiftly leapt up from a naked woman, one with richly blotched skin and helplessly erected nipples. |
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| 24 | 122 |
I recalled lovely Phoebe, of Telnus, so slim, with her very dark hair, her very white skin. |
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| 24 | 897 |
She had very dark hair and very light skin, and, for a girl who had once been of the Peasants, was surprisingly slim. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 6 |
I could feel it pulling out of my skin. |
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| 10 | 15 |
There are various ways in which they may be encouraged to draw out, not tearing the skin. |
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| 13 | 34 |
Spies are more concerned, as I understand it, with their own skin". |
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| 13 | 36 |
"But your skin, my Cosian sleen," said he, "belongs to Ar. |
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| 13 | 39 |
"Your skin, spy," said he, "belongs to Ar, as much as that of a slave girl to her master". |
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| 13 | 425 |
"He feared only for his own skin," said my keeper. |
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| 18 | 243 |
Its skin is very rough, surprisingly, I think, for an aquatic creature. |
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| 19 | 38 |
I had also seen then, as I had come closer, the small head of the creature, small considering the size of its body, and the span of its wings, lift up, above the rence, with its long narrow, toothed jaws, like a long snout or bill, with that long, narrow extension of skin and bone in the back, balan... |
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| 19 | 105 |
These are of skin and stretch from the jointed, hind legs, clawed, of the creature to an extremely long, fourth digit on its clawed hand. |
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| 19 | 734 |
Once I saw its entire body, moving with great speed, impelled by a snap of those huge skin wings. |
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| 19 | 766 |
My arm slipped down through the skin. |
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| 29 | 232 |
We saw the fingers, like iron hooks, disappear into the hide of the fish, and then, he stood, rearing up in the sand, lifting that great weight, and shook it, and the fish spun and rolled, and fell again into the sand, the skin, in a swath a foot wide, excoriated. |
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| 39 | 168 |
"Every bit of me is alive! Even now my skin is flaming!" "Do you know the perfume you wear?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 953 |
"Think of the whole skin of wine for you and your friends!" A skin of wine might bring as much as four or five copper tarsks. |
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| 3 | 81 |
He who manages to balance on it for a given time, usually an Ehn, wins both the skin and its contents. |
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| 3 | 83 |
It is extremely difficult, incidentally, to balance on such an object, not only because of the slickness of the skin, heavily coated with grease, but even more so because of its rotundity and unpredictable movements, the wine surging within it. |
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| 3 | 86 |
"Who is next?" called the owner of the skin. |
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| 3 | 87 |
This sort of thing is a sport common at peasant festivals, incidentally, though there, of course, usually far from a city, within the circle of the palisade, the competition is free, the skin and wine being donated by one fellow or another, usually as his gift to the festival to which all in one way... |
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| 3 | 838 |
One which is typical and interesting is the tendency of the skin to erupt in tiny protuberances, "goose bumps," when it is cold. |
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| 3 | 840 |
This eruption of the skin would then lift hair from the flesh, thusly forming an insulating layer against the cold. |
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| 3 | 900 |
He would not win the skin and its contents. |
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| 3 | 902 |
"Next!" called the owner of the skin. |
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| 3 | 904 |
I wondered if I could balance on the skin. |
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| 3 | 907 |
There was more laughter about the skin. |
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| 3 | 908 |
"An excellent effort," called the owner of the skin, "would you care to try again?" "No," said the fellow. |
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| 3 | 921 |
I watched another fellow being helped to the surface of the skin. |
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| 3 | 959 |
I then rubbed my feet well in the dirt near the skin. |
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| 3 | 964 |
I had not been able to get on the skin. |
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| 3 | 972 |
"How well you are doing!" he cried, at which point I slipped from the skin. |
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| 3 | 975 |
"Has he gotten on the skin yet?" asked another, a wag, it seems. |
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| 3 | 978 |
"Yes," said another, "he must have been on the skin for at least two Ihn". |
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| 3 | 980 |
To be sure, on the skin, an Ihn seems like an Ehn. |
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| 3 | 982 |
To be sure, some fellows do manage to stay on the skin and win the wine. |
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| 3 | 993 |
"One tries to stand upon the skin," said the owner. |
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| 3 | 1000 |
"One tries to stand on the skin," said the owner again, uncertainly. |
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| 3 | 1004 |
No one moved to stop him, but the large man, opening his cloak, drew a knife from his belt sheath and slowly, deliberately, slit the skin open. |
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| 3 | 1005 |
Wine burst forth from the skin, onto the ankles of the large fellow, and, flowing about, seeking its paths, sank into the dirt. |
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| 3 | 1008 |
The large fellow then sheathed his knife, and stood on the rent, emptied skin. |
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| 3 | 1010 |
"The skin is destroyed," said the owner. |
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| 3 | 1013 |
The owner of the rent skin was silent. |
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| 3 | 1018 |
"The skin is rent," said the man. |
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| 3 | 1031 |
"You have stood upon the skin. |
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| 3 | 1033 |
"But the skin is gone, the wine is gone," said a fellow. |
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| 3 | 1048 |
I looked at the rent skin and the reddened dust. |
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| 7 | 272 |
Talena, as I knew, was an exquisitely beautiful female, with that olive skin, and dark eyes and hair. |
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| 15 | 138 |
He had won the game of standing on the verr skin. |
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| 15 | 139 |
He had cut the skin. |
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| 15 | 141 |
He had stood upon the skin and regarded us. |
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| 19 | 380 |
Her skin was burned from the sun. |
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| 19 | 464 |
I regarded her short-cropped hair, the simple collar on her neck, her scanty rag, her reddened, roughened skin, blistered and burned, peeling and cracked, from exposure, from the sun, wind and heat. |
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| 19 | 589 |
This was also suggested to me by the condition of her skin, which had not yet browned, darkening and toughening. |
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| 19 | 1118 |
I regarded her short brush of hair, the brief, tattered rag, scarcely more than a ta-teera, which was her only garment, the simple collar, no more than a strap of black iron curved about her throat, its small, right-angled, pierced terminations flush to one another behind the back of her neck, held ... |
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| 20 | 45 |
"Her skin is blotchy," said Phoebe. |
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| 20 | 145 |
"Her skin is still blotchy," said Phoebe. |
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| 20 | 167 |
In such a market I thought that Phoebe would probably go for something like two or two and a half silver tarsks, and that the other girl, if her hair was grown out and her skin healed, for something like two silver tarsks. |
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| 20 | 384 |
"Your skin is blotchy," I said to Phoebe. |
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| 20 | 470 |
Some of this may have to do with something as simple and obvious as the greater amount of exposed skin, which is then much more aware of variations and subtleties in the atmosphere, and such, but it is rather, and primarily, a matter of the awakening of the entire, beautiful psychophysiological natu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1016 |
"She has smooth skin," he said. |
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| 14 | 1229 |
But she could not free her hands! They were confined behind her back! How helpless she was, helpless as a slave is helpless! Too, I think she became then much aware of how much she was exposed, of the softness, bareness, and vulnerability of her skin. |
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| 31 | 411 |
Suddenly the veins in the forehead of the giant seemed to swell with blood, like ropes under the skin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 548 |
Then she felt the entry into her body of the syringe, sharply and precisely penetrating the alcohol-cooled area, and there was a small, growing, painful, swollen fullness in her side, as the liquid was forced under the skin. |
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| 16 | 687 |
This time it terribly enlarged the pain she had felt, and intensified it, as her skin had been already enflamed and sensitized. |
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| 16 | 1421 |
She remembered the coolness of the house, the baths required, and the creams and lotions, designed to keep the skin of a slave girl soft, smooth and caressable, pleasing to the touch of a master. |
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| 17 | 8 |
Targo had perhaps realized that miserable slaves with roughened skin, scarcely able to move, red and peeling, would have less sales appeal. |
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| 18 | 602 |
"Dare never again to take me in your arms! I will complain to my master! I hate you! You are a vain, arrogant beast! You are a brute! You are ignorant, stupid and homely! You think you are so grand! You are not! You are only a tarnster! You are an ugly tarnster! You are nothing! I loathe your touch!... |
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| 20 | 89 |
In a sales coffle two policies tend to predominate: sometimes the most beautiful are saved for the end, which has led to the saying "rich enough to buy from the end of the chain," or, more often, the girls are mixed on the chain with various sales strategies in mind, for example, mixing skin colors,... |
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| 20 | 722 |
The color gray was probably chosen because it seems unpretentious, conservative, subdued, and sober, a color thus fitting for a girl who is a mere slave of the state, one lacking a private master whose collar she might wear and at whose slave ring she might kneel, and will fit in nicely enough with ... |
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| 22 | 290 |
Ellen held the vessel against her, to steady it, it feeling cool against her skin. |
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| 22 | 513 |
She saw another slave, such as herself, some yards away, stripped, her skin partly illuminated in the firelight, also with one of the two-handled, red-figured pitchers, serving. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 5 | 363 |
Arcesilaus shrugged, a movement of large muscles moving like living rope beneath the skin, moving the shimmering fur in turn like wind in the water. |
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| 13 | 71 |
One of the skin-clad animals approached Cabot, unarmed, and put his hand gently on Cabot's arm. |
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| 24 | 169 |
"She has heard, and to save her own skin, she will betray you, and Peisistratus, and Arcesilaus". |
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| 41 | 98 |
Cabot set his hands between the teeth of the trap and, sweating, straining, eased them a little open, and his hands were covered with blood and torn hair, and the sleen watched him, and Cabot, grunted, fighting for breath, and opened the teeth a bit more, and a little more, and then the sleen, with ... |
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| 51 | 68 |
Even their skin is alive, responsive to the slightest touch, to the least whispers and nuances of their environment". |
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| 53 | 222 |
Then there seemed a frenzy of activity within, an energetic wriggling, and the whole head and a shoulder emerged, ears laid back, all glistening and bloody, and blood began to run down the side of the womb, profusely, and Cabot stepped back, further, and then, suddenly, a small body emerged, and clu... |
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| 55 | 246 |
"They would have cut her with stones, thrust sticks into her, broke her with rocks and clubs, chewed the skin from her bones". |
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| 80 | 177 |
Does she, enclosed in those ornate blockades, wonder from time to time what it might be to feel a man's hands upon those stiff enwrapments, and wonder what it might be to feel them ripped from her, abruptly, imperiously, and feel the sudden flash of air upon lovely, startled skin? Does she wonder wh... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 679 |
Would the ultimate motivation of the conspirator not be the sanctity of his own skin? Frightened urts will turn on their fellows and lacerate them. |
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| 10 | 792 |
"Her yellow hair, blue eyes, and fair skin will be rare at home. |
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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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| 13 | 365 |
She seemed pathetic, in the darkness, kneeling on the small, striped straw mat, her skin so white, illuminated in the light of the taper. |
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| 18 | 212 |
From the mask, the stature, the carriage, the nature of his garments, the tone of the skin, I took him to be Pani. |
10 |
| 18 | 263 |
"The slave learns quickly to respond to its discipline, to its swift, informative, lashing sting, its sudden monitory caress on her soft, smooth skin". |
10 |
| 19 | 140 |
"His stroke can descend like lightning, cutting in two a grain of sa-tarna placed on the forehead of a man, without creasing the skin," said another. |
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| 23 | 14 |
Too, of course, given her coloring, of skin, hair, and eyes, she would make an unusual gift, perhaps one of great value. |
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| 26 | 38 |
Accordingly he may not, at least immediately, put her into the markets, but might keep her for himself, for perhaps months, to derive from her skin, so to speak, an ample compensatory retribution of servitude and pleasure, prior to having her led to a convenient market, hooded, braceleted, and leash... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 15 |
The coloring of the skin was unusual, at least to me. |
10 |
| 10 | 108 |
The Red Hunters, I had heard, hunt such beasts in skin boats. |
10 |
| 19 | 197 |
Her hair and body had been covered with soot and ash, her skin had been pelted with dust and scalding cinders, her tunic had been partly burned. |
10 |
| 20 | 176 |
She cries easily, she has little control over her emotions, her skin is much alive. |
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| 26 | 88 |
She apparently did not care for the two new slaves, with strange eyes, and light skin. |
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| 31 | 19 |
Were some slaves, truly, as might be suggested by the protests of the Pani slaves, objections promptly rebuked by the sting of switches, so appropriately despised, and so obviously inferior to others, that it was humiliating to share a coffle with them? Certainly there were differences amongst the s... |
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| 34 | 200 |
"Forgive me, Master!" she wept, her fair skin flaming with pain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 10 |
I bore no tray now, but a yoke, from each terminus of which was slung a skin of water and a haunch of tarsk. |
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| 45 | 212 |
Each took the hand of the other in his mouth, and I shuddered, as those massive, fanged jaws closed about the other's hand, but not even the skin was broken. |
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| 45 | 214 |
Each might have torn away the hand of the other, but not even the skin was broken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 85 |
It had gone through the tunic, and entered my skin, enough that I could clearly feel it, but not enough to do much more than break the skin. |
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| 4 | 200 |
The shading of their skin and the cast of their eyes suggested Tuchuk blood, but they were not armed as Tuchuks, and seemed, too, in so far as such things might be ascertained, unfamiliar with bosk, kaiila, and the terrains of the south. |
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| 21 | 319 |
The skin on the back of my neck seemed to rise, as I saw that small sack almost disappear in the latitudinal grasp of those long, encircling, multiply jointed six digits. |
10 |
| 29 | 167 |
Others, thought to have promise, were sent naked into the forest with a spear, to kill a panther, and return with the bloodied skin about their shoulders. |
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| 43 | 1222 |
Rorton's head hung by skin to a part of the body. |
10 |
| 47 | 4 |
Did she think the beauty mark on her thigh was only a beauty mark? It was a brand, as well, seared into her pretty skin, identifying her for all to see, as kajira. |
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| 49 | 54 |
"It is always a pleasure to see pretty slaves on the auction block, regardless of their skin color, their hair and eye color, and such". |
10 |
| 50 | 677 |
She had long, dark hair, and a smooth olive skin. |
10 |
| 52 | 1010 |
"Should I not face the tree," I asked, "and my arms be bound about it, that I may be conveniently whipped?" "You are not to be whipped, kajira," he said, "at least not at the moment, however richly your smooth skin invites the lash". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 370 |
"But your coloring," I said, "the blond hair, the blue eyes, the fair skin, would make you an unusual gift on the islands. |
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| 20 | 70 |
"By their skin color," said Sumomo. |
10 |
| 31 | 123 |
"One is clearly foreign, as may be seen from the eyes and skin, and the firelike hair. |
10 |
| 61 | 389 |
He slapped a switch down, sharply, on the table, and Nezumi flinched, as though the blow had fallen on her smooth, bared skin. |
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| 61 | 1143 |
I surveyed the greenish cast in those flashing eyes, the olive skin, the loose, black hair, rich and abundant about her shoulders, the delicacy of her features, so deliciously and exquisitely feminine, so exciting, the hint of a marketable figure beneath those clumsy robes of concealment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 179 |
And, Phyllis," she said, "you may rest assured it will be used on your pretty skin if you are in the least bit displeasing". |
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| 25 | 41 |
His skin seemed unusual, grayish, his eyes were as unexpressive as glass. |
10 |
| 28 | 148 |
Let us not hurry to strip and bind her, and apply the lash to her fair skin". |
10 |
| 41 | 162 |
The commonality for rationality is not determined by shape and size, by fur or skin, by hands or claws, but by cunning, by thought, by planning, by awareness". |
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| 44 | 6 |
As the rain fell, I could feel the thin, scant, damp rep-cloth against my skin. |
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| 52 | 262 |
As I lay at his feet, lashed, sobbing, my skin aflame, my greatest pain, by far, was my remorse, my bitter shame and grief, that he had seen fit to beat me. |
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| 60 | 29 |
The grass here and there had been soaked with blood, and parts of verr, organs and limbs, skin and heads, were scattered about the field. |
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| 67 | 60 |
She wanted to tear the skin from your body, pull out your hair, and scratch out your eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 288 |
Our senses, our skin, our bodies became alive, open to the richness and diversity of impinging sensation, so frequently unnoticed and neglected on our former world. |
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| 4 | 187 |
"Were I free," she said, "I would have the skin lashed from your bones!" "You are a woman," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 130 |
A myriad tiny needles seemed to penetrate my skin. |
10 |
| 22 | 132 |
Threads parted, and pulled away from my skin, bristling and curling, blackened, rising, twisting. |
10 |
| 27 | 66 |
"I see no dangling flesh, I see no bones protruding through your skin". |
10 |
| 33 | 472 |
It was hard to tell, in the light, the color of the skin. |
10 |
| 33 | 476 |
It was of no shade or color to be expected in human skin; it was of a shade and color to be expected only in fur, in the pelt of an animal, or in the hide of a shark. |
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| 42 | 174 |
"Perhaps you would betray me to Ar, for your own wretched skin," she said. |
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| 43 | 20 |
The man wore a short-sleeved jacket of sleen-skin and a mariner's cap of the same material. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 100 |
It came with my skin, teeth, bones, blood, and brain. |
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| 6 | 25 |
Its skin was black and slippery. |
10 |
| 16 | 53 |
But it was hide or skin, which I conjectured might be a foot or more thick. |
10 |
| 18 | 93 |
"Its skin was black and slippery," he said. |
10 |
| 41 | 120 |
"One sought to save his skin, and may have been successful in doing so. |
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