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| 3 | 249 |
My first impression was that of a rush of wind and a great snapping sound, as if a giant might be snapping an enormous towel or scarf; then I was cowering, awe-stricken, in a great winged shadow, and an immense tarn, his talons extended like gigantic steel hooks, his wings sputtering fiercely in the... |
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| 3 | 284 |
The next thing I knew his beak was open; I caught a brief sight of his thin, sharp tongue, as long as a man's arm, darting out and back, and then, snapping at me, he lunged forward, striking at me with that monstrous beak, and I heard the Older Tarl cry out in horror, "The goad! The goad!". |
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| 4 | 2 |
I seized it, using it like a puny stick, striking at the great snapping beak that was trying to seize me, as if I were a scrap of food on the high, flat plate of the cylinder's roof. |
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| 6 | 49 |
I placed the Home Stone in the saddle pack, snapping the lock shut, and then reached down to haul in the mounting ladder. |
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| 9 | 73 |
I gave them to her, and she placed the bracelets through two links of the part of the chain that encircled the tree, snapping them shut and handing me the key. |
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| 12 | 129 |
He lit on the ledge, snapping his beak. |
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| 14 | 132 |
He asked no more if he should kill me, but rose to his feet and walked away, under the snapping wing of one of the tarns, and waved farewell. |
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| 18 | 84 |
He then reached his beak out to an apparently blank wall and withdrew it, repeating this three or four times, and then began to walk back and forth, snapping his wings impatiently. |
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| 4 | 80 |
I withdrew my arm from the weak, aimlessly snapping jaws. |
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| 14 | 212 |
And so for an instant stood the tarn, its head and beak extended, its wings snapping, its prey locked in its grasp, and uttered the terrifying capture scream of the tarn, at once a scream of victory, and of challenge. |
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| 25 | 76 |
I clung to the neck to avoid the snapping jaws, those three rows of sharp, frenzied white lacerating teeth that sought to bury themselves in my flesh. |
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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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| 28 | 191 |
"Then we shall do it," said Misk, snapping his antennae. |
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| 29 | 136 |
His abdomen now dragged on the ground but he pushed himself toward me, jaws snapping, by means of the two forward supporting appendages and the remains of his posterior appendages. |
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| 4 | 7 |
I thrust with the spear, trying to force back the snapping jaws of the screaming animal. |
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| 8 | 339 |
By the time Kamchak had cuffed the girl from the animal's neck and struck the kaiila's snapping jaws from her twice-bitten leg and returned to the circle, he had used thirty-five beats. |
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| 8 | 492 |
Her hands were out, trying instinctively to maintain her balance; the bola weights were still snapping about her ankles in tiny, angry circles; in an instant she would fall to the grass; racing past I seized her by the hair and threw her over the saddle; scarcely did she comprehend what was happenin... |
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| 13 | 119 |
It had not struck back at him swiftly enough to please him, and there were only four needlelike scratches in the arm guard before Kamchak had managed to leap back and the kaiila, lunging against its chain, was snapping at him. |
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| 14 | 66 |
One could not step without breaking and snapping them. |
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| 5 | 114 |
Then, eyes closed, not moving, except the heel of the right foot, which beat the rhythm, she began to hum a Tuchuk slave song; on the second measure, her hands came to her hips and she opened her eyes, looking at me; on the third measure, her body began to move and, to the melody, she began to sway ... |
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| 5 | 691 |
"And this," I said, "provides even greater security," lifting her to the foot of the couch, sitting her down there and snapping the heavy chain and collar, attached to the slave ring fixed there, about her throat. |
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| 13 | 326 |
Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,... |
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| 21 | 176 |
I heard the snapping of a whip. |
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| 22 | 346 |
It stood there, its head extended, snapping its wings. |
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| 22 | 407 |
The tarns, with the exception of my own, hurled themselves screaming, wings snapping, from the perches and streaked for the first of the side rings. |
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| 22 | 430 |
This warned the rider of the eighth bird, a Gold, and he, bent low in the saddle, looked behind him to see, piercing the rings, eyes blazing, wings snapping, the great black tarn. |
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| 8 | 505 |
Furious at her mockery, I leaped from the chair of the oar-master and struck her with the back of my hand, snapping her head to one side. |
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| 9 | 14 |
I heard the snapping of the whip, her cries. |
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| 9 | 394 |
"Surely I am wholly submitted! Surely your conquest of me is complete! You are my total master! You have had me branded! I am in your collar! I must pleasure you at the snapping of your fingers! What have I more to give! What more could be required of me!" "Do you think you are free? There is always... |
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| 11 | 91 |
On a line running from the forward starboard mooring cleat to the stem castle, furnishing cover for archers and spearmen, there flew a flag, snapping in the wind. |
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| 12 | 22 |
One of the men, hit by the arrow, spun away, rolling across the tiles, snapping the shaft. |
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| 13 | 428 |
Obediently the oars slid outboard, and suddenly, all along the starboard side there was a great grinding, and the slaves screamed, and there was a sudden ripping of planks and a great snapping and splintering of wood, the sounds magnified, thunderous and deafening, within the wooden hold. |
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| 13 | 430 |
Others were snapped off or half broken, the inboard portions of their shafts, with their looms, snapping in a stemward arc, knocking slaves from the benches, cracking against the interior of the hull planking. |
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| 13 | 615 |
There was a movement of the knife and the binding fiber whipped from my body and, in the rushing wind, the camisk began to tug, snapping away from me, and then it was high, about my throat, pulling at my neck, flapping and snapping. |
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| 8 | 368 |
The wind driven by their pounding, snapping wings, with hurricanes of dust and small stones, could hurl a man from his feet. |
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| 10 | 110 |
It howled and lunged for me, jaws snapping, great black, furred arms grasping. |
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| 10 | 516 |
He jerked me back, cruelly, on my knees, and I saw the jaws snapping at me, saw the curved teeth, the hideous tongue and eyes. |
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| 10 | 619 |
The head of a sleen, eyes blazing, its long needlelike teeth snapping, thrust through the small, broken window, the shutters splintered to the side. |
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| 12 | 368 |
* * * * Angrily, in the field, in the sunlight, more than a pasang from the wagons, on the route to Ar, I picked berries, snapping them from their twigs and throwing them into the bucket. |
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| 13 | 634 |
Then, with a jolt to my back, and with a scattering of dust and a snapping of wings, the tarn alit. |
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| 13 | 873 |
The tarns then, rearing up in the sky, facing one another, began to tear at one another with their beaks and talons, and then, talons locked, they began, beaks snapping and tearing, to twist and roll, turning, locked together, falling, climbing, tumbling, wings beating, screaming in rage. |
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| 16 | 253 |
The snapping of the leash, jerking against itself, or the leash's collar ring, is a common preparatory signal. |
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| 17 | 94 |
Then, snapping one bracelet about each wrist and snapping the remaining bracelet through a convenient link of the chain, I fastened them in the coffle. |
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| 2 | 546 |
In such a sea literally, in spite of their beams and chains, they can break in two, snapping like the spines of tabuk in the jaws of frenzied larls. |
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| 5 | 366 |
Then the sail fell, snapping and tugging, and took its shape, billowing before the gentle wind from Thassa. |
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| 15 | 293 |
I closed the heavy metal ankle ring about her ankle, snapping it shut, and extended its chain, with its locking device, to her right. |
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| 18 | 229 |
I then heard, again and again, the fierce, snapping crack of the slave lash. |
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| 22 | 6 |
At their anchors, fore and aft, some quarter of a pasang from shore, swung the Rhoda, in her yellow, now dim in the grayness of the morning, and the Tesephone, on her flag line, snapping, an ensign bearing the following device, the head of a bosk, in black, over a field of white, marked with broad s... |
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| 22 | 967 |
I could hear the snapping of the tarn sail of the Tesephone. |
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| 3 | 373 |
The red-and-white striped sail, snapping, unfolding, was dropped from the spar. |
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| 5 | 175 |
At the same time the sail, with its red and white stripes, in its full length, fell snapping from the yard. |
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| 11 | 282 |
It seized it, ripping it from the man, and, with a single snap of its teeth, bit the shaft in two, snapping it like I might have broken a dried twig. |
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| 17 | 195 |
Then two of the sleen fell in behind her and, snarling and snapping at her heels, drove her before them. |
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| 17 | 202 |
It was to this pen that the daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar, running before the snapping, snarling sleen, was driven. |
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| 20 | 156 |
I took it behind her neck, and then, closing it about her throat, thrust the large, flattish bolt, snapping it, into the locking breech. |
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| 22 | 215 |
The great red and white striped sail fell, opening, snapping, from the spar of needlewood. |
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| 11 | 401 |
Then he released her, snapping his fingers and pointing to his feet. |
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| 11 | 467 |
The innkeeper turned to face me, his face white; he fell rolling to the floor, snapping off the shaft of the arrow. |
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| 14 | 407 |
She would have heard the bolts being slid into place, the snapping of the locks. |
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| 16 | 204 |
Then, suddenly, hurling itself from the water, the great body, thrashing, fell across the raft, twisting, the mighty tail flailing and snapping. |
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| 17 | 205 |
The Old One turned, its vast sicklelike tail snapping across the beams. |
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| 2 | 994 |
How furious, how jealous, would the boys have been had they seen how perfectly the haughty, beautiful girl they could not even interest or impress now responded swiftly, eagerly, even to the snapping of fingers of another, of a true man. |
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| 5 | 672 |
Interestingly, the man snapping the wrist rings on the girls' left wrists did not put the first girl in the first ring, but the second. |
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| 8 | 116 |
It ran behind me, snapping and snarling. |
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| 13 | 288 |
Then, suddenly, snapping the whip, he said, harshly, "On your back, one knee lifted, the other leg extended, hands over your head, wrists close, as though confined in slave bracelets". |
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| 18 | 29 |
The line, uncoiling, snapping, hurtled past me, upward. |
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| 22 | 182 |
I set the light harpoon into the notch on the throwing board and, even mittened, an instant before the beast turned toward me, grunted, snapping the throwing board forward and downward, speeding the shaft toward the enraged animal. |
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| 22 | 273 |
It attacked again, laterally in the water, fangs snapping, and I pressed it away with the lance. |
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| 26 | 260 |
I leaped over the low wall and ran to him, driving the lance into the animal, then holding it down on the ice, it snapping at the lance, while Imnak, his furs torn, leaped up. |
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| 26 | 339 |
In a raging, vicious tangle of whirling fur and snapping jaws the two animals fought. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 375 |
Tiny tharlarion, similar to those in the swamp forest south of Ar, dropped, snapping, from the bared hook. |
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| 4 | 289 |
One of the guards cuffed her across the mouth, snapping her head back. |
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| 4 | 832 |
Ulafi then, pushing her head down, fastened the sturdy, steel shipping collar on her throat, snapping it shut behind the back of her neck. |
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| 5 | 2 |
She spun from facing him, and lifted her chin, turning her head to the left, placing her wrists behind her, as though for the snapping of them into slave bracelets. |
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| 20 | 42 |
But he, holding his shield and stabbing spear with his left hand, struck her twice, snapping her head back and forth, with his right hand. |
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| 23 | 271 |
I had little doubt that soon, perhaps in moments, with sufficient leverage, we could lift and break the log, snapping it apart, breaking through the remaining inches of the wood. |
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| 24 | 260 |
There would then be a sudden lunge, and the snapping of the great jaws, the fighting for the prey. |
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| 24 | 284 |
The tharlarion were quick to follow, snapping and bellowing. |
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| 24 | 288 |
He hurled more fish to another tharlarion, which, with a snapping, popping noise, clamped shut its jaws on the salty provender. |
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| 34 | 94 |
I cuffed her, snapping her head to the right. |
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| 44 | 49 |
It lunged forward, snapping. |
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| 53 | 288 |
The beast sank to its knees and snapping crawled toward the retreating askari for more than a dozen feet until it collapsed on the stones. |
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| 4 | 5 |
She took the manacles from her belt and expertly, almost casually, in one motion, threw them on me, snapping them shut. |
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| 12 | 396 |
The Lady Tima, suddenly, cracked her whip, the blades, loud, snapping in a staccato burst of leather, almost at my ear, the crowd instantly still, its attention arrested, stunned, alert. |
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| 27 | 157 |
Instantly I crouched beside her and, with the chain and ring in the stall, snapping the chain lock about the ring on her collar, fastened her in place. |
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| 4 | 657 |
Another man was snapping a leash on her collar. |
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| 10 | 157 |
The thought passed my mind that it might be nice to have Miss Henderson, not in some simple sense, merely, say, that of a transitory physical conjunction, but in a full proprietary sense, that of an uncompromised and absolute ownership, thus one in which not only all physicalities, and possessings, ... |
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| 21 | 280 |
With the older slave girl, one who has already learned something of the meaning of her collar, a mere snapping of the fingers or a small, imperious gesture can have a similarly devastating, triggering effect on her sexuality. |
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| 31 | 116 |
"Do not slack, you Sleen," said the pirate, snapping his whip. |
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| 1 | 9 |
I saw oars snapping. |
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| 1 | 135 |
We rode over the first longboat, shattering it, its bow and stern snapping upward, its crew screaming and leaping into the water. |
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| 1 | 149 |
I heard the hiss and snap of our catapults, the twisted ropes snapping loose. |
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| 4 | 133 |
Flags, torn by the wind, snapping, sped to our stem-castle lines. |
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| 5 | 122 |
We heard oars of the enemy snapping against our hull. |
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| 8 | 182 |
The whip cracked forth, lashing, snapping, whipping about her startled wrists, binding them together, causing her, crying out with pain, to drop the leaden sheets. |
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| 9 | 121 |
Near me I heard the snapping of an oar, it breaking under the force of the four men using it as a lever. |
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| 12 | 1 |
We Bid Welcome to the Voskjard's Fleet; The Courier of Ragnar Voskjard; The Fleet of Policrates "There must be fifty ships in the channel," said Callimachus, snapping shut the glass of the Builders. |
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| 16 | 294 |
There was a grating, shearing noise and snapping oars. |
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| 16 | 297 |
Scarring and ripping timber, snapping oars, it scraped and scored its way toward me. |
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| 19 | 359 |
She knows, too, that she may now be summoned to perform sexually, and fully, by as little as the merest snapping of the master's fingers. |
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| 20 | 626 |
Sometimes, however, the slaver, when the woman's legs are bared, will use a bola, the cords and weights then snapping about her calves and ankles, throwing her to the ground. |
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| 20 | 1148 |
"I love you!" Tasdron, with a snapping of his fingers calling Peggy to her feet, removed his collar from about her neck, and she ran to stand, head down, deferential and bound, near Callimachus. |
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| 4 | 2 |
I heard, ahead, the crying out of the driver, the snapping of his long whip over the backs of the two draft tharlarion harnessed to the wagon. |
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| 8 | 1015 |
Then he took Evelyn's hair in his left hand and with his right hand lashed her face twice, with the palm and then the back of his hand, snapping it from side to side. |
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| 9 | 76 |
The coffle, then, to the snapping of the whip, led by the terrified red-haired girl, the former Millicent Aubrey-Welles, from Pennsylvania, began to move ahead. |
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| 13 | 38 |
At as little as a snapping of my fingers, she must strip herself and hurry naked, licking and kissing, to my arms. |
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| 13 | 283 |
If necessary she may be whipped until she juices at so little as a snapping of his fingers. |
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| 20 | 82 |
Over our head there was the snapping and cracking of a thousand thunders. |
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| 34 | 325 |
He jerked the two loose ends, sharply, snapping them in contrary directions, making the knot tight. |
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| 39 | 449 |
I slapped her, snapping her head to the side. |
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| 42 | 68 |
The birds, wings snapping and striking, their backs almost vertical, the men leaning forward on them, were an impressive sight. |
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| 43 | 485 |
I extended my hands and thrust my arms through the rope netting, it dangling from the girth rope of my tarn, and whipping and snapping, too, at the surface of the rock it skimmed. |
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| 44 | 214 |
One of the next things she is taught to do, in her training chains in a furred alcove, is to make love instantly, at so little as the snapping of fingers or the barking of a command. |
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| 47 | 125 |
The feathers on my tem-wood lance lashed backwards, like flags snapping in the wind. |
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| 7 | 188 |
Then, suddenly, I felt the two bracelets flung about my wrists, striking them, encircling them and snapping shut. |
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| 8 | 215 |
"Kiss it, caress it, love it!" commanded the trainer, snapping the whip. |
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| 15 | 193 |
Then I heard the snapping on of slave bracelets. |
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| 15 | 318 |
I heard the snapping of wings. |
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| 15 | 323 |
I crawled forward and, as the men were concerned with the tarn, it moving about and occasionally stretching and snapping its wings, crawled into the last basket. |
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| 33 | 539 |
I heard the snapping of its jaws. |
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| 36 | 247 |
I must now ready myself for him, and please him fully, at as little as a glance or a snapping of fingers. |
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| 36 | 879 |
He may, of course, also command what he wishes, at as little as the snapping of his fingers. |
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| 2 | 1491 |
The sound of a chain cast to the tiles, the sight of a whip, the snapping of fingers, a simple word of command, such things, however one has conditioned her, will loosen and open the slave for pleasure. |
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| 14 | 406 |
One climbed over the bodies of the closely packed urts, snapping and snarling. |
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| 16 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Feasting Hall "Here," I said, snapping my fingers. |
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| 1 | 149 |
Roughly, unceremoniously, I placed it on her neck, snapping it shut, locking it. |
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| 18 | 67 |
Can she mistake the snapping shut of locks, the clasping of the iron? Within them she will be held with perfection. |
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| 6 | 120 |
There was also the snapping of a whip. |
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| 6 | 785 |
A moment or two later, it briefly snapping and flapping, it was under control. |
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| 10 | 211 |
"And at so much as the snapping of my fingers, you will bring yourself running to me, obediently and warmly, desperate to please me". |
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| 10 | 301 |
Then I heard a succession of wild, startling sounds, like the snapping of great sheets, and it seemed I was in the midst of a whirlwind, mad, choking dust swirling up and about me. |
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| 10 | 332 |
I heard great snapping sounds. |
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| 11 | 609 |
"She is a virgin," averred Mirus, snapping another ostrakon, not even looking about. |
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| 13 | 708 |
We could be "gotten" as easily as by a snapping of the fingers. |
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| 27 | 95 |
I felt slave bracelets flung, snapping shut, on my wrists. |
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| 34 | 681 |
But she is there, kneeling to the side, waiting, ready, unable to take her eyes from him, swiftly summonable at a word or a snapping of fingers. |
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| 8 | 914 |
How amusing are free women! Slaves learn to be in the "mood" instantaneously, at so little as a glance or a snapping of the fingers, and a pointing to the floor. |
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| 9 | 41 |
The ears of the delicate Phoebe must have burned as she heard the snapping of wings near us and the shouting of ribald, raucous jests, of which her beauty and its probable disposition were the subject. |
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| 16 | 107 |
Still the ram might attempt its entry there, pounding through the brass facing riveted into the thick beams of the gate, punching, driving it back, snapping the crossbars, forcing back, blow by blow, even the rock and sand behind. |
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| 19 | 76 |
These upswirling discolorations marked places, I supposed, where, below, unseen, a few yards beneath the surface, the long fish, pulling and fighting, snapping and tugging, stirred the mud. |
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| 20 | 141 |
I sought the flag tugging and snapping on the stem line, run between the bow and the stem castle. |
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| 4 | 7 |
It backed away, propelled by its heavy, diamondshape, paddlelike appendages, its tail snapping behind it, splashing water. |
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| 4 | 10 |
We heard the snapping of the backbone of the fellow in the air. |
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| 27 | 429 |
Her reflexes were almost as instantly activatable as those of a female slave, most of whom, in virtue of their condition and training, juice readily, often at so little as a glance or a snapping of fingers. |
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| 39 | 66 |
There was then, suddenly, the snapping of a slave lash, and the "hunters" swiftly stripped themselves, cast aside their staffs and knelt with the prisoner. |
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| 45 | 12 |
If someone were to approach the camp in the darkness, not looking for them, unaware of their presence, he would presumably step on one or more of these small alarms, crushing it or snapping it, thus alerting me to his presence. |
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| 46 | 281 |
On the way to the infirmary I passed a mat area where a girl on her stomach, to the snapping of a whip, was being taught to lift her body placatingly. |
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| 1 | 213 |
"Up," said Marcus irritably, snapping his fingers. |
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| 10 | 395 |
She is freed of the burdens of the games free women must play with men; she must obey and serve, and at as little as a snapping of fingers. |
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| 12 | 237 |
She was struck to the ground with the force of the blow and at a snapping of his fingers, and his gesture, she struggled again to her knees before us, her mouth bloody. |
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| 24 | 47 |
The slave must be instantly ready to serve the master, and at so little as a whistle, a gesture or a snapping of the fingers. |
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| 3 | 22 |
Such things can be changed, of course, at so little as a word, or the snapping of fingers. |
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| 4 | 731 |
"Harta!" But we were hurrying! How could we go more swiftly? Again came the terrible crack of that snapping coil! Gasping, crying out, sobbing, we moved even more swiftly! We were terrified by the very sound of those supple implements. |
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| 6 | 55 |
I heard the snapping of fingers. |
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| 8 | 329 |
Too, I knew, somewhat to my chagrin, that it could be ordered from me with so little as a snapping of fingers. |
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| 8 | 672 |
I had thought I had heard great snapping sounds, doubtless now the beating of wings, and certain cries, doubtless, now, of such a creature, or of one somewhat like it, utilized for draft purposes. |
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| 8 | 874 |
I think it might have taken ropes or chains to pull me to them, or the snapping of the fingers of a rights holder. |
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| 11 | 1454 |
When then one is summoned to further service, by perhaps so little as a glance or a snapping of fingers, one leaps up and hurries forward, perhaps then, on one's knees, to clear, or perhaps to fetch and then serve, again kneeling, the tiny cups of strong coffees, or black wines, the shallow silver b... |
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| 13 | 313 |
They, gathering force, swimming swiftly in ever widening, preparatory circles just under the water, would plunge down, yards from the cage, and then ascend rapidly, spearing upward, snapping, from the water. |
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| 13 | 942 |
To be sure, I must yield it at so little as the snapping of fingers. |
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| 17 | 30 |
I heard the snapping of the pit master's fingers. |
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| 24 | 704 |
How amusing to have such a woman as a slave, to have her serve his meals, to order her, at so little as a snapping of fingers, to pose or dance, or to strip and hasten to the furs! But, sooner or later, one supposed, or might hope that, for her sake, her past would tend to be forgotten, and she migh... |
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| 34 | 87 |
The bows had served, in their way, as shields, the urts snapping at them, clinging to them, permitting the defender to draw and hack at their stretched necks with his sword. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 130 |
Why did they not let her, too, kneel, or stand, inconspicuously aside, scarcely noticed, deferent, ready to be summoned, at so little as a snapping of the fingers of the free? "Girl!" snapped her master. |
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| 11 | 940 |
A mere snapping of the fingers will suffice. |
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| 13 | 257 |
She fought the laundry shaking and snapping in the wind about her. |
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| 14 | 112 |
Another, at the mere snapping of fingers or an imperious gesture, receives from she whom he has never taken the time or interest to truly know, she whom he has never questioned as to her depths and needs, she to whom he has never intimately and truly spoken, she whom he has never attempted to unders... |
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| 15 | 799 |
Already you grovel at the snapping of fingers, and lick and kiss the whip with not only skill, but eagerness. |
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| 17 | 629 |
"A strong hand and a quick whip and she will writhe at a snapping of the fingers," said Targo. |
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| 17 | 1100 |
At last he had ascended to a level, some level, and, the winds whirling and blasting about them, and the leather of the hood snapping about her face, she was placed again on her feet. |
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| 17 | 1225 |
Mirus, Mirus, she thought, now your vengeance on me is complete! There was suddenly a titanic snapping in the air yards away, and it seemed that a mighty wind exploded in the area, scattering and whirling dust and straw. |
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| 18 | 4 |
Sometimes the slave is instructed, even commanded, to the snapping of a whip, but at other times she is permitted to display herself, as it moves her to do so. |
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| 19 | 565 |
In a moment the tarn had leapt from the platform, spread its wings, soared for a brief moment, swooping downward, and had then, with a sudden snapping of those mighty wings, begun to fly. |
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| 20 | 981 |
Too soon, for her desires, though perhaps not now for those of her enchained sisters in bondage, the order to rise was received, emphasized by the snapping of a slave whip. |
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| 21 | 25 |
She hears the chains, the snapping shut of the locks, and so on. |
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| 24 | 379 |
Then there was, from outside on the sand, the sudden sound of a snapping whip. |
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| 27 | 1032 |
His hands were on the shaft, and he broke it, it snapping with a sharp sound, but then, his eyes glazed, blood running from his mouth, and from about the splintered shaft lodged in his throat, he sank to the grass. |
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| 27 | 1484 |
Perhaps she will be permitted, at a snapping of fingers, to crawl to the master, bringing him the whip in her teeth. |
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| 30 | 122 |
She heard a snapping of fingers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 18 | 267 |
The other sleen was at Cabot's feet, snapping, when Cabot thrust the homely spear through its spread jaws, the point tearing through the left cheek of the beast. |
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| 19 | 116 |
There was a flash of metal plating and joints as the device leapt past Cabot, pouncing on the startled, suddenly rearing sleen, its weight striking against it, then half crushing it, and then the machine, rising up slowly, pinned the sleen in place with its left forefoot and the right forefoot of th... |
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| 21 | 89 |
One reached it first, and thrust his muzzle into it, tearing it, ripping out gluts of meat, and gorging them, but then the other sleen was upon it, and the two animals rolled in the sand, in a frenzy of snapping, and clawing, and in moments the jaws of each were bloody, and gouts of fur had been tor... |
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| 33 | 209 |
He struck at it, and the ax was seized in the snapping jaws, and, with a wrench of the great head, flung away, into the water. |
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| 44 | 178 |
He then arranged the trembling, shaken female before him, held her up with one paw, for she might, in terror and weakness, have fallen, and, with his other paw, lashed her face back and forth, snapping it from side to side. |
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| 55 | 337 |
Such crimes cannot be ignored, or eradicated, by something as simple as the snapping shut of a close-fitting metal circlet". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 22 | 98 |
At a snapping of the fingers, she must hasten to assume whatever attitudes or positions you wish. |
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| 22 | 667 |
It was not important, it seems, that a snapping of fingers might have once brought the lips of a low-born lass to a knight's boot. |
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| 27 | 145 |
And so, bidden with as little as a snapping of fingers, she quickly kneels and presses her soft lips to his whip, and rejoices, and is alive. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 233 |
She speaks to you in the creaking of her timbers, in the snapping of her sails, and the cracking of her lines. |
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| 5 | 359 |
I heard the snapping of canvas overhead. |
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| 7 | 18 |
Others, in groups, in good weather, had been exercised on the open deck, performing their movements in unison, to the cries of their keeper, sometimes, shuddering, to the snapping of his whip. |
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| 8 | 59 |
One even now struck the deck, its wings snapping, soon to be led below. |
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| 9 | 337 |
One of the monsters backed into the cage, beak snapping with menace, and the tarnkeeper at the gate swung it shut, hooking the latch in place. |
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| 17 | 35 |
Was she now concerned to pretend that that had never happened, or that it had been of negligible consequence? Did she dare now attempt to assume the airs, the attitude, of a free woman? Did she not know that at a mere snapping of fingers she must tear away her tunic and prostrate herself? I was not ... |
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| 20 | 170 |
She must now respond to the snapping of fingers of Aeacus, who seemed somewhat taken with her, after she had been half stripped by Alcinoë. |
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| 21 | 782 |
Such dances are often taught to the snapping of a whip. |
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| 32 | 40 |
I heard a flood of canvas loosed from a yard, with a great, snapping noise, and then another. |
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| 37 | 352 |
I thought the slave was right, that the Lady Flavia of Ar was gone, that she had vanished, with the snapping of a collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 674 |
But now I was a slave, and would probably belong to a man, one who might exact from me, at a mere snapping of fingers, everything that a frightened, docile slave might give. |
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| 8 | 963 |
The auctioneer then gestured, annoyed, to his man, who seized the former Lady Persinna by the hair, to hold her in place, and then he, carefully, measuredly, cuffed her, twice, once snapping her head to the right, and then to the left. |
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| 10 | 1345 |
Too, of course, the slave may be commanded to serve her master in a medley of modalities, at so little as a hand sign or a snapping of fingers. |
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| 11 | 174 |
There it performed simple tricks, to the snapping of a whip, jumping up and down, rolling over, turning about, climbing on boxes, and such. |
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| 15 | 285 |
I had heard no snapping of a neck or spine. |
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| 48 | 120 |
I heard the snapping vibration of the cables of the crossbows, again and again. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 145 |
I heard one girl scream, and begin to cry out, and then I heard an unmistakable sound, though one I had not heard before, the snapping of a lash on flesh, twice. |
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| 5 | 166 |
Had I not earlier heard the snapping of a whip? I feared it, and did not wish to feel it. |
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| 6 | 340 |
One expects total pleasingness from her, deference, and subservience, instant and unquestioning obedience, and, at a word or the snapping of fingers, the provision of ecstatic gratification. |
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| 11 | 64 |
Suddenly, briefly, we heard a succession of thunderous snapping noises from above the canopy, and we looked up, and leaves fluttered about us, and we were cast into a flight of shadows, as though swift, fierce, jagged clouds would blot out the sun, one following another, but these shadows were cast ... |
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| 50 | 476 |
A simple word, a gesture, a snapping of fingers may command us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 92 |
Its talons were like hooks; its beak like snapping, severing sabers. |
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| 10 | 9 |
As tarns alit several emitted tarn cries, as though to announce their arrival and claim for their own the ground on which, wings snapping, dust in the wind, they stood. |
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| 13 | 33 |
"I am now needful!" "It is interesting," I said, "on Earth you could use the mere suggestion of sex, with its smiles and movements, as a weapon, a tool, as a device of business, use it in the interests of sales, contracts, and accounts, in the interests of opportunity, promotion, and advancement, an... |
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| 14 | 32 |
"We might have brought him down, with arrows," said Lord Akio, nervously, snapping the fan open and shut. |
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| 14 | 71 |
"Two approach!" cried Akio, the fan snapping open. |
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| 17 | 210 |
With a blast of dust, and a snapping of wings, Tyrtaios brought the tarn down some forty or fifty paces away, at the far end, to the right of the archery court. |
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| 25 | 3 |
"Certainly not," said Lord Akio, snapping his fan open and shut. |
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| 25 | 261 |
"It is an assassin!" cried Lord Akio, snapping open his war fan to shield the shogun. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 360 |
The second man held a small digital camera, and was, apparently, snapping a number of pictures. |
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| 15 | 326 |
There was suddenly a great crack, as of the smiting of wind, like the crack of sails, like the snapping of a mighty banner, or whip, and the very basket in which I was held shook, and then, suddenly, the ropes were taut, and the basket, as I screamed in fear, thrown back, helpless in my bonds and st... |
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| 39 | 162 |
In the south it is used for lances, it can bend almost double before snapping". |
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| 39 | 174 |
I heard not only a crackling of flame, nearby, but a snapping sound, almost beneath my feet. |
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| 52 | 126 |
She juices at the snapping of my fingers and crawls to my feet, whimpering, begging, like a she-sleen in heat. |
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| 64 | 281 |
He held Eve back, off the ground, by the arms, she squirming, snapping, hissing, and snarling at the distraught, imperiled Lyris. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 63 |
Is it so strange that a lightly-clad, collared, owned animal, sexual and beautiful, exciting and needful, her slave fires kindled by the will and doings of men, might be found, however undeservedly, of interest to men? What man would wish, save for social or economic advantage, to indefinitely pursu... |
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| 1 | 141 |
One does not forget the snapping shut of the lock. |
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| 7 | 251 |
Commonly a slave is to be at hand, ready to serve at so little as a glance or a snapping of fingers, but is not to be obtrusive. |
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| 8 | 916 |
On it, shaking and fluttering, snapping in the wind, was figured the head of a massive, fearsome, horned beast. |
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| 8 | 956 |
The long, slanting yard turned on the mast, and the open, dropped sail, with a snapping of canvas, responded, swelling and tautening, curving, and was filled to the "brim," as the mariners sometimes put it, with the "wine of the wind". |
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| 33 | 551 |
At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q... |
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| 43 | 129 |
Almost at the same time there was a hideous wrenching and scraping of wood, a snapping and splintering of oars, and the cries of startled, angry, dismayed men. |
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| 43 | 246 |
Its drenched sides were shaking and snapping in the wind, and water must have seeped under its curtains. |
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| 45 | 68 |
How their life is changed! Will they be given permission to speak? Will they be given a rag to wear? Will they be fed? When they were free, did they ever anticipate that they would one day crawl to a master, a switch in their teeth? They soon learn, as we all do, to throw their legs apart at a snapp... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 51 | 133 |
There was a sound as though of snapping sticks. |
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| 56 | 105 |
Once more, the enormous living weight of the Brigand Island exploded up from the sea and then, from some sixty to eighty yards above the surface, plunging downward, it fell athwart the retreating corsair ship, snapping it in two. |
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