| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 211 |
Sometimes bold individuals create or acquire such war materials and sometimes for as long as a year escape the Flame Death, but sooner or later they are struck down". |
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| 1 | 35 |
I sometimes wonder if he is curious about what happened to his camp gear or to Tarl Cabot. |
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| 1 | 112 |
I lay awake for a long time, feeling alone, yet not alone, as one sometimes does in the wilderness, feeling as if one were the only living object on the planet and as if the closest things to one—one's fate and destiny perhaps—lay outside our small world, somewhere in the remote, alien... |
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| 2 | 184 |
"Sometimes," said my father, his eyes still faraway, "when men are old or have had enough of life, they assault the mountains, looking for the secret of immortality in the barren crags. |
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| 2 | 260 |
"Yes," he said, "but since the hypothesis of another world is regarded as so incredible, this evidence has been interpreted to accord with other theories; sometimes even imperfections in instrumentation have been supposed rather than admit the presence of another world in our solar system". |
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| 3 | 69 |
Sometimes there was a surprising discrepancy between the two. |
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| 3 | 96 |
"But," said my father, "sometimes such a war chief, or Ubar, wins the hearts of his men, and they refuse to withdraw their allegiance". |
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| 3 | 257 |
In Gorean, these birds are sometimes spoken of as Brothers of the Wind. |
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| 5 | 149 |
Sometimes I guided my tarn by the stars, the same fixed stars I had seen from another angle above my head in the mountains of New Hampshire. |
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| 6 | 3 |
Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of t... |
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| 8 | 134 |
I then wondered if that might be due to the influence of my father, whose Earth ways sometimes seemed at variance with the rude customs of Gor. |
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| 10 | 200 |
She became interested in the caravan and would spend hours walking alongside the colored wagons, sometimes hitching rides with the strap-masters, wheedling from them a piece of fruit or a sweetmeat. |
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| 12 | 152 |
As nearly as I could determine from the map and my memory of the location of the Vosk and the direction I had been carried, I was somewhere in the Voltai Range, sometimes called the Red Mountains, south of the river and to the east of Ar. |
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| 13 | 72 |
They are, of course, warned to stay away from the habitations of men, and, if they approach too closely, they are sometimes stoned. |
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| 15 | 17 |
Also, half buried in the sands among the stakes and set in wooden blocks would be iron hooks, much like those used in ancient times on Earth and sometimes called spurs. |
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| 16 | 16 |
Sometimes the forces of Pa-Kur drove the warriors of Ar back to the very walls of the city, forcing them through the gates. |
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| 16 | 17 |
Sometimes the forces of Ar would drive the men of Pa-Kur back against the defensive stakes, and once they drove them to take refuge across the now constructed siege bridges spanning the great ditch. |
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| 16 | 43 |
These task forces seldom managed to return, but sometimes they were outstandingly successful. |
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| 18 | 78 |
I did know that sometimes the pathetic inmates of Dar-Kosis Pits, repenting their decision to be incarcerated, had managed to cut footholds in the walls and escape, but the labor involved—a matter of years—the death penalty for being discovered, and the very risk of the climb made such... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 49 |
In the Home Stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or granite—the... |
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| 26 | 83 |
She, like myself, and all of Ko-ro-ba, is an exile, and exiles sometimes find it hard to call a foreign city home; sometimes they regard the risks of the wilderness as preferable to the shelter of alien walls. |
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| 1 | 5 |
He was quiet and pleasant, though sometimes he seemed remote, or lonely, somehow unwilling to break through that protective shield of formality behind which the educated Englishman, at heart perhaps as sentimental and hot-blooded as any man, attempts to conceal his feelings. |
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| 5 | 6 |
An ancient poet, who incredibly enough to the Gorean mind had sung the glories of many of the cities of Gor, had spoken of Ko-ro-ba as the Towers of the Morning, and it is sometimes spoken of by that name. |
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| 8 | 39 |
The vendor would then hold up a higher number, sometimes bending his fingers at the knuckle to indicate a fraction of the value unit, which would be, presumably, the copper tarn disk. |
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| 11 | 218 |
"Sometimes, Stranger," she said, "it is hard to be First in Tharna". |
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| 12 | 74 |
After all, though the Caste of Singers, or Poets, was not a high caste, it had more prestige than, for example, the Caste of Pot-Makers or Saddle-Makers, with which it was sometimes compared. |
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| 14 | 171 |
I wondered sometimes if that bird, my Ubar of the Skies, that tarn of tarns, of a race of birds spoken of by Goreans as Brothers of the Wind, might have considered himself as above the goad, resented its shocks and sparks, resented that that puny human device would pretend to teach him, he, a tarn o... |
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| 15 | 67 |
Sometimes when the tarn strikes a tabuk, the animal's back is broken. |
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| 18 | 62 |
Sometimes even, the men would hum as they worked, the strong sound resonant in the tunnels of the mine. |
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| 20 | 66 |
The other is that sometimes cities are willing to add, in their records, beside their own dating, the dating of Ar, which is Gor's greatest city. |
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| 21 | 72 |
I knew tarnsmen sometimes silenced their captives in the same way. |
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| 21 | 101 |
Sometimes I think the iron is simply an anachronistic survival from a more technologically backward age. |
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| 21 | 229 |
And many of the cities of Gor were represented on that chain, sometimes spoken of as the Slaver's Necklace—there was a blond girl from lofty Thentis, a dark-skinned girl with black hair that fell to her ankles from the desert city of Tor, girls from the miserable streets of Port Kar in the de... |
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| 21 | 253 |
As I saw that, my rational resolve to abandon her dissipated, and I yielded, as I sometimes had in the past, to an act of sentiment. |
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| 22 | 179 |
I have wondered sometimes if a man, to be a man, must not master a woman and if a woman to be a woman must not know herself mastered. |
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| 23 | 103 |
Often indeed ambushes were laid wherein a small band of slaves would allow itself to be trailed into the rocky passes of the ridge country about Tharna, where their pursuers would be assailed by hidden cohorts; sometimes tarnsmen would descend to capture a slave only to meet the arrows of a hundred ... |
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| 23 | 196 |
Largely, the streets were deserted, save that here and there lay a body, sometimes that of a warrior of Tharna, more often one of its gray-clad citizens. |
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| 26 | 41 |
I have seen private apartments with tapestries from the mills of Ar upon the walls; and my sandals have sometimes found underfoot richly colored, deeply woven rugs from distant Tor. |
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| 26 | 114 |
I wonder sometimes if I would have gone to the Sardar had not my city been destroyed. |
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| 26 | 116 |
And I have wondered sometimes, and the thought awes and frightens me, if my city might not have been destroyed only to bring me to the mountains of the Priest-Kings, for they would surely know that I would come to challenge them, that I would come to the Sardar, that I would climb to the moons of Go... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 19 |
Sometimes these individuals are young idealists, rebels and champions of lost causes, who wish to protest to Priest-Kings; sometimes they are individuals who are old or diseased and are tired of life and wish to die; sometimes they are piteous or cunning or frightened wretches who think to find the ... |
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| 1 | 63 |
Sometimes these men are merchants who wish thereby to secure goodwill for their products; sometimes they are practitioners of the law, who hope to sway the votes of jury men; sometimes they are Ubars or High Initiates who find it in their interests to keep the crowds amused. |
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| 16 | 42 |
"Of course," said Misk, "their serums are not as effective as ours and sometimes do not function, and sometimes the effect wears off after only a few hundred years". |
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| 16 | 88 |
"Sometimes not," said Misk, "sometimes yes". |
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| 25 | 97 |
For perhaps an Ahn I carried her through the network of ventilation shafts, sometimes walking on the level, sometimes climbing. |
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| 1 | 37 |
Sometimes they provide a common ground on which territorial and commercial disputes may be amicably resolved without loss of honor, plenipotentiaries of warring cities having apparently met by accident among the silken pavilions. |
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| 1 | 41 |
He informed me that in this time he had refuted seven hundred and eight scribes from fifty-seven cities, but I will not vouch for the accuracy of the report, as I sometimes suspect that Torm, like most members of his caste, and mine, tends to be a bit too sanguine in recounting his numerous victorie... |
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| 1 | 81 |
The expeditions sent out from the cities are of course extremely well guarded, but pirates and outlaws too can band together in large numbers and sometimes, even more dangerously, one city's warriors, in force, will prey upon another city's caravans. |
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| 1 | 83 |
The fact that warriors of one city sometimes wear the insignia of cities hostile to their own when they make these attacks further compounds the suspicions and internecine strife which afflicts the Gorean cities. |
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| 2 | 18 |
Many men and sometimes women had entered these mountains but it is not known what they found. |
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| 2 | 50 |
Others were rather simple, and sometimes sad, such as "No food," "I'm cold," "I'm afraid". |
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| 2 | 67 |
The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's, can range from knifelike slits in the broad daylig... |
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| 2 | 71 |
Females of both varieties tend generally to be slightly smaller than the males, but are quite as aggressive and sometimes even more dangerous, particularly in the late fall and winter of the year when they are likely to be hunting for their cubs. |
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| 9 | 14 |
On the whole I find her more joyful than many of her Earth-inhabiting sisters who, theoretically at least, enjoy a more lofty status, although it is surely true that on my old world I have met several women with something of the Gorean zest for acknowledging the radiant truth of their sex, the gifts... |
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| 10 | 86 |
"It is something men sometimes do when they are amused," I said. |
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| 13 | 74 |
"Yes," he said, "I have sometimes wondered about that". |
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| 17 | 114 |
"Sometimes there is a struggle to resist the net or regain consciousness," said Sarm. |
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| 17 | 149 |
Sometimes we must wait until others are using the device for purposes of war and then destroy many men. |
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| 18 | 7 |
Sometimes on these excursions Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta would accompany me. |
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| 18 | 32 |
"Sometimes," I said. |
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| 18 | 88 |
"Sometimes this is spoken of as the Home Stone of all Gor," said Sarm, as we walked the long, winding, iron spiral that clung to the side of a vast, transparent blue dome. |
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| 18 | 106 |
Here and there Priest-Kings moved lightly about, occasionally noting the movements of scent-needles, sometimes delicately adjusting a dial with the nimble, hooklike appendages at the tips of their forelegs. |
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| 25 | 102 |
Some of these cases were occupied by Muls, male or female, sometimes both. |
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| 28 | 231 |
This is undoubtedly the effect of lacking the resistance of gravitational forces which normally account for the sometimes unpleasant, but reassuring, effects of acceleration and deceleration. |
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| 30 | 174 |
Sarm, who was normally in the room, seemed to take great pleasure in Vika's baiting me, for he would stand by, antennae curling, as she would insult me, taunt me, sometimes strike me with her small fist. |
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| 33 | 6 |
Sometimes I even neglected the trail altogether and leaped from one cliff to another in improvised shortcuts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 22 |
During the day and night, taking hours of sleep where we could, sometimes on the rugs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, sometimes on the stones of the streets by watch fires, Harold and I, at Kamchak's orders, performed a variety of tasks, sometimes joining in the fighting, sometimes acting as liaiso... |
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| 10 | 190 |
The stakes had recently been, I observed, brightly painted, each differently, in a delightful array of colors; further, each was trimmed and decorated variously, depending on the whim of the workman, sometimes simply, sometimes fancifully, sometimes ornately. |
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| 14 | 4 |
Those who are unfamiliar with the Wagon Peoples, or who know them only from the swift raid, sometimes think them devoid of organization, sometimes conceive of them as mad hordes or aggregates of wild warriors, but such is not the case. |
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| 1 | 29 |
Accordingly, the main divisions of the map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as our "north pole" the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move (Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first, Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (somet... |
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| 1 | 31 |
From the Sardar I had gone largely Cart, sometimes Vask, then Cart again until I had come to the Plains of Turia, or the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 4 | 40 |
Sometimes legs are broken. |
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| 5 | 49 |
The dour women of the Wagon Peoples, I saw, looked on these girls with envy and hatred, sometimes striking them with sticks if they should approach too closely the cooking pots and attempt to steal a piece of meat. |
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| 5 | 67 |
Normally, however, the wagons are tied in tandem fashion, in numerous long columns, and only the lead wagons are guided, the others simply following, thongs running from the rear of one wagon to the nose rings of the bosk following, sometimes as much as thirty yards behind, with the next wagon; also... |
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| 7 | 9 |
This dais was covered with dozens of thick rugs, sometimes four and five deep. |
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| 8 | 38 |
The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of the Wagons, del... |
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| 8 | 39 |
It might be added that there are two items which the Wagon Peoples will not sell or trade to Turia, one is a living bosk and the other is a girl from the city itself, though the latter are sometimes, for the sport of the young men, allowed, as it is said, to run for the city. |
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| 8 | 41 |
The winter came fiercely down on the herds some days before expected, with its fierce snows and the long winds that sometimes have swept twenty-five hundred pasangs across the prairies; snow covered the grass, brittle and brown already, and the herds were split into a thousand fragments, each with i... |
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| 8 | 97 |
She stopped moaning, but she continued to shiver, and sometimes she sobbed. |
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| 9 | 23 |
This fish is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound. |
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| 10 | 26 |
"Is it your wish," she asked, "that I run for the city?" She referred to a cruel sport of the young men of the wagons who sometimes take Turian slave girls to the sight of Turia's walls and then, loosening bola and thong, bid them run for the city. |
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| 10 | 396 |
Sometimes men fight among themselves for this honor, but such combat is frowned upon by both the Turians and those of the Wagons, being regarded as somewhat disgraceful, particularly in the presence of foes. |
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| 13 | 106 |
The punishment of a runaway slave is often grievous, sometimes culminating in death. |
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| 15 | 98 |
Elizabeth endured the insults as though paying no attention, but sometimes at night I could hear her sobbing. |
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| 16 | 14 |
Then he added, "Sometimes one of the girls, to discipline her, would be thrown amongst us—but we had no way of knowing if she were beautiful or not". |
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| 16 | 15 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup... |
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| 16 | 192 |
"Sometimes," said he, "it seems heavy". |
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| 16 | 245 |
For no rational reason I am sometimes angered when enemies or strangers speak of my hair. |
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| 17 | 27 |
It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised f... |
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| 18 | 4 |
I heard Saphrar remark, "It sometimes takes hours to be fully digested". |
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| 19 | 37 |
Besides the trees there were numerous shrubs and plantings, almost all flowered, sometimes fantastically; among the trees and the colored grasses there wound curved, shaded walks. |
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| 21 | 101 |
It was a Tuchuk tune, a wagon tune, sometimes sung by the girls with the bosk sticks. |
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| 21 | 170 |
Sometimes Dina and I, in our walking about the city, would ascend the high walls and look out over the plains. |
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| 21 | 307 |
"I sometimes wonder where old Tarl Cabot is," Harold said wistfully. |
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| 21 | 315 |
In an instant another five and then another and another had repeated this maneuver and soon, sometimes with squealing of kaiila and dismounting of riders as one beast or another would be crowded between the gates and the others, a Hundred and then another Hundred had hurtled howling into the city, b... |
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| 22 | 2 |
One makes a pretext of seriously besieging a city, spending several days, sometimes weeks, in the endeavor, and then, apparently, one surrenders the siege and withdraws, moving away slowly with the wagons and bosk for some days—in this case four—and then, the bosk and wagons removed fr... |
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| 22 | 36 |
At last it was night and we were making our way through the streets of Turia, sometimes between burning buildings. |
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| 22 | 118 |
Sometimes one of the serving girls would be seized by an ankle or arm and dragged screaming to the cushions among the tables, much to the amusement of the men and the Tuchuk girls. |
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| 26 | 497 |
"Sometimes," said Kamchak, "the way to conceal something is not to conceal it—it is thought that what is of value will be hidden, and so it is natural to suppose that what is not hidden will not be of value". |
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| 27 | 18 |
Beside me, clad not Kajir but in the brief leather of one of the Wagon Girls, though collared, stood Elizabeth Cardwell; similarly attired and collared, I noted, standing a bit behind Harold of the Tuchuks, I saw the fiery Hereena; she was perhaps the only one of all the girls of the Wagon Peoples t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 100 |
Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or armed slave girl... |
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| 15 | 139 |
I used it sometimes myself, but at other times, sometimes alone, sometimes with others, would enter the room and sit near the back. |
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| 3 | 38 |
The odds are usually one to forty, one copper tarn disk against a forty-piece, sometimes against an eighty-piece, and sometimes the amateur who would play the master insists on further limitations, such as the option to three consecutive moves at a point in the game of his choice, or that the master... |
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| 9 | 43 |
At such private auctions, conducted secretly, Gorean slavers sometimes find it convenient to dispose of important, High Caste women without trace, sometimes even from the city of Ar itself, perhaps women who have lived proudly, luxuriously, not more than a pasang or two from the rounded, wooden bloc... |
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| 19 | 146 |
Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these... |
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| 2 | 108 |
When charity is in order, as when a man cannot work or a woman is alone, usually such is arranged through the caste organization, but sometimes through the clan, which is not specifically caste oriented but depends on ties of blood through the fifth degree. |
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| 2 | 115 |
The crowd in the tavern reacted with amusement as the small, animal-like body was buffeted and thrown about, sometimes flung against the wall or on the tables. |
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| 3 | 37 |
There are competitions of Players, with purses provided by amateur organizations, and sometimes by the city itself, and these purses are, upon occasion, enough to enrich a man, but most Players earn a miserable living by hawking their wares, a contest with a master, in the street. |
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| 4 | 140 |
"The risk is too much, sometimes as much as ten gold pieces". |
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| 4 | 147 |
I was amused, for she had run as a slave girl is sometimes taught to run, with rapid short steps, her legs almost straight, her feet scarcely leaving the ground, back straight, head turned to the left, arms at her sides, palms out at a forty-five degree angle, more of a dancer's motion than a true r... |
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| 5 | 15 |
In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually... |
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| 5 | 26 |
Some locks, on the compartments of rich persons, or on the storehouses of merchants, the treasuries of cities, and so on, are knife locks or poison locks; the knife lock, when tampered with, releases a blade, or several of them, with great force, sometimes from behind the individual at the lock. |
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| 5 | 29 |
Another form of lock difficult to guard against is the pit lock, because of the natural crevices in Gorean tiling commonly found in corridors of cylinders; when tampered with a trap falls away beneath the individual, dropping him to a pit below, usually containing knives fixed in stone, but upon occ... |
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| 5 | 83 |
"Sometimes," I added, "someone enters the compartment and has a confederate on the outside attempt to duplicate the knot, that the man inside may surprise the occupant on his return, but commonly this stratagem is unsuccessful, because of the difficulties of duplicating the knot". |
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| 5 | 144 |
Sometimes I was forced to remind myself that she was Miss Elizabeth Cardwell of Earth, and not, as she lost herself uncontrollably in our pleasures, hands clutching at the slave ring, a Gorean slave girl, bred for the pleasures of a master. |
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| 5 | 284 |
"Sometimes it takes a quarter of an Ahn before the initial adjustments take place, basically the recognition that the sounds they spontaneously associate with the marks are actually the words of their language. |
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| 5 | 542 |
The girl screamed but no one came to her aid, and Elizabeth spun her about, peeling off layers of Robes of Concealment until, in a heavy pile of silk, brocade, satin and starched muslin the girl stood in a sleeveless, rather brief orange tunic, attractive, of a sort sometimes worn by free women in t... |
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| 5 | 616 |
It is true that if she, with other girls, were shipped by wagon to Ar, this schedule would not be met; but we knew that the House of Clark, in the case of select merchandise, under which category Elizabeth surely fell, transported slaves by tarn caravan to the markets of Ar, usually binding them in ... |
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| 9 | 13 |
Slavers are angry, incidentally, when a city does fall, for then the market is likely to be depressed for months, due to the influx of new slaves, sometimes numbered in the thousands. |
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| 9 | 42 |
I knew that in such places private auctions were sometimes conducted, discreetly, for favored clientele, many times slavers themselves. |
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| 9 | 105 |
On the other hand, sometimes the matter is much more subtle and sinister. |
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| 10 | 5 |
"Sometimes it is guarded, but now it is empty". |
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| 10 | 13 |
"Sometimes," he added, "Cernus amuses himself with the women kept in this room, leading them to believe that if they serve him well they will be well treated". |
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| 10 | 62 |
Sometimes they are even permitted, under guard, to leave the house, that they may be stimulated and pleased by the sights of Ar". |
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| 11 | 7 |
The expression "kennels" is sometimes used similarly, but more often it refers to a kind of small, cement cell, customarily about three feet by three feet by four feet, with an iron gate, which can be raised and lowered; similar cells, but entirely of bars, are also common, and are to be found in th... |
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| 11 | 22 |
Sometimes I supposed a girl might wander too close to the bars and be seized, but, because of the bars, little could be done with her. |
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| 11 | 145 |
"Sometimes," said Flaminius, "shock cannot be so easily prevented. |
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| 11 | 146 |
Indeed, sometimes the lash itself drives the girl into shock. |
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| 12 | 161 |
The racing fan of Ar commonly remains to the last race, and sometimes even later, discussing the races and commenting on how he would have flown such and such a race better than the bird's rider. |
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| 13 | 126 |
He had told me that sometimes a Bath Girl, to discipline her, is thrown to the slaves in the darkness. |
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| 13 | 239 |
Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ... |
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| 13 | 247 |
With an agility that could come only from years in the cots he clambered about the tem-wood beams, sometimes forty feet from the floor, checking this bird and that; perhaps because I was slightly drunk I followed him; at last we had come to one of the four great round portals which give access to th... |
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| 15 | 79 |
I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Blades, where me... |
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| 15 | 80 |
Sometimes in the races, in pressing through the rings, fighting for position, riders used goads on one another, or tried to cut the safety or girth straps of others; more than one man had been stabbed as the birds, jammed at the corner rings, had fought for passage and position. |
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| 15 | 81 |
Also, I had sometimes called at the Capacian Baths, even after the races were finished, seeing if Nela was available at that hour. |
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| 15 | 96 |
Sometimes men fight locked in iron hoods, unable to see their opponents. |
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| 15 | 97 |
Sometimes men wrestle to the death or use the spiked gauntlets. |
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| 15 | 98 |
Sometimes slave girls are forced to fight slave girls, perhaps with steel claws fastened on their fingers, or several girls, variously armed, will be forced to fight a single man, or a small number of men. |
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| 15 | 109 |
Murmillius always fought alone, never in teams, and in more than one hundred and fifteen fights, sometimes fighting three and four times in one afternoon, he had never lost a contest. |
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| 15 | 131 |
Sometimes, to while away the time I would watch the girls in training. |
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| 15 | 171 |
Indeed, sometimes the girls would be forced to compete among themselves, with small candies as prizes, and each would find herself, to her subsequent horror, striving eagerly to outdo the others, that it might be she to whom Sura would throw the sugared pellet. |
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| 15 | 172 |
Sometimes Sura would let the men observing determine which girl should receive the pellet, that they might learn how to win men's pleasure. |
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| 15 | 191 |
Elizabeth would sometimes, in these weeks, come back to the compartment and relate, with amusement, the subtle exchanges between Phyllis and Flaminius. |
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| 15 | 219 |
The foods given them also changed with the advance in their training, and the desire to have varied, tasty fare, and sometimes a small bowl of Ka-la-na with their supper, drove them to perform well. |
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| 15 | 222 |
At these times they would, as well as possible, converse in Gorean; Elizabeth taught them much; she did not permit them to know she spoke English; I would often leave the compartment at these times but sometimes I would remain. |
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| 15 | 355 |
For good measure she also taught them the independent dance, sometimes called the Dance of the Tuchuk Slave Girl, which I had once seen performed at a banquet in Turia. |
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| 15 | 365 |
But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a... |
10 |
| 16 | 217 |
Further, it is common among older factions not to hire riders who have ridden for the new factions, though sometimes, in the case of a particularly excellent rider, this practice is waived. |
10 |
| 17 | 433 |
"It is sometimes difficult to make an appraisal from the high tiers," she said. |
10 |
| 17 | 833 |
Sometimes it is a guard even, but normally a slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 835 |
But sometimes a girl is bloodied and fed to it". |
10 |
| 18 | 450 |
"Some days," he said, "I was not sure that I marked the wall, and then I would forget; sometimes I feared I had marked it twice". |
10 |
| 19 | 30 |
I fell down several times but the cart did not stop; each time I managed to regain my feet, though sometimes I was dragged for several yards before, nearly strangling, I managed to get up once more. |
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| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
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| 20 | 218 |
Her capacity, raw and brilliant, was simply a phenomenon, one of those rare and happy gifts one sometimes discovers, to one's delight or dismay, and she had caused me much of both. |
10 |
| 21 | 211 |
Men in these games, in actual blind helmets, often, not really knowing, exchanged opponents; sometimes several would join in a slashing melee. |
10 |
| 21 | 225 |
It is a gift I have sought not to exercise, a gift I have feared, and sometimes would put aside, but cannot do so. |
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| 24 | 106 |
At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 82 |
Between Se'Kara and the winter solstice, which occurs on the first of Se'Var, the rence will be sold or bartered, sometimes by taking it to the edge of the delta, sometimes by being contacted by rence merchants, who enter the delta in narrow barges, rowed by slaves, in order to have first pick of th... |
10 |
| 4 | 140 |
"It would be useful to have similar standards for rence paper, to sometimes harvest in common, to sometimes, in times of need, share crops, and, of course, to obtain a better price for our paper than we might if we bargained as isolated islands with the rence merchants". |
10 |
| 10 | 15 |
There are commonly about one hundred and twenty captains who form the council, sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less. |
10 |
| 12 | 47 |
I got the knife from between my teeth and, with it, sometimes half out of the water, sometimes beneath it, thrashing and twisting, thrust the blade a dozen times into its hide. |
10 |
| 14 | 150 |
After two Ahn, sometimes increasing the beat, sometimes decreasing it, depending on whether or not we wished to avoid being actually overtaken or we wished to encourage our pursuers, we had spread them behind us in a long, straggling line, its spacing an index to the speed of their individual ships. |
10 |
| 15 | 392 |
At last, sometimes immediately permitted, sometimes not, she had removed the pins from her hair. |
10 |
| 15 | 652 |
In fury, I rushed on, sometimes falling, sometimes striking against the walls. |
10 |
| 16 | 74 |
"Every woman," said Telima, "sometimes wishes to be loved as a Ubara, and sometimes as a slave girl". |
10 |
| 1 | 11 |
It was difficult to see more than a few feet ahead; sometimes I could see no further than the lifted prow of my small craft, as it nosed its way among the rushes and the frequent rence plants. |
10 |
| 1 | 29 |
It was true that the long bow is a weapon of peasants, who make and use them, sometimes with great efficiency. |
10 |
| 1 | 38 |
Marsh girls, the daughters of rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks. |
10 |
| 1 | 61 |
Port Kar, crowded, squalid, malignant, is sometimes referred to as the Tarn of the Sea. |
10 |
| 1 | 84 |
Sometimes rence merchants, on narrow marsh craft rowed by slaves, enter some pasangs into the delta to negotiate the transactions, usually from the western edge, that bordering the Tamber Gulf. |
10 |
| 3 | 14 |
Sometimes an entire island is abandoned, the community setting it afire and taking to the marsh in their marsh skiffs. |
10 |
| 3 | 75 |
Wild marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their lif... |
10 |
| 4 | 149 |
"The difference between the collector of taxes and the slaver is sometimes less than clear". |
10 |
| 5 | 83 |
And sometimes one or the other boy, or girl, would rush to the opposite line to strike at someone, laughing, and run back to the other line. |
10 |
| 5 | 176 |
There is some savagery in them, but, too, they have sometimes, perhaps paradoxically, stately aspects, stylized aspects, movements reminiscent of casting nets or poling, of weaving rence or hunting gants. |
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| 8 | 22 |
It is sometimes difficult for even a small rence craft to make its way through the tangles of rushes and sedge in the delta. |
10 |
| 8 | 90 |
Sometimes merely the movement of a tharlarion or the flutter of a marsh gant, something completely unrelated to us, would summon a great falling and hissing of bolts into the marsh. |
10 |
| 9 | 53 |
Other men, of those with Surbus, seized what paga girls they could, and what vessels of the beverage, and dragged their prizes toward the alcoves, sometimes driving out those who occupied them. |
10 |
| 10 | 120 |
Sometimes we were joined by Tab. |
10 |
| 11 | 24 |
Then, behind him, in groups of four and five, crying out, many bleeding from wounds, weapons brandished, and sometimes bloodied, there came those captains who could. |
10 |
| 14 | 38 |
The three oars are sometimes of the same length, but often they are not. |
10 |
| 14 | 328 |
The round ship, although she often carries over one hundred, and sometimes over two hundred, chained slaves in her rowing hold, seldom, unless she intends to enter battle, carries a free crew of more than twenty to twenty-five men. |
10 |
| 15 | 84 |
Sometimes slave girls, having been subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talenders in their hair, that their master may know that they have at last surrendered themselves to him as helpless love slaves. |
10 |
| 15 | 344 |
There were, in the end, only gold and steel, and perhaps the bodies of women, and perhaps songs, the meaningless noises that might sometimes be heard in the mouths of the blind. |
10 |
| 15 | 402 |
She turned and twisted and leaped, and sometimes seemed almost free, but was always, by the dark thongs, held complete prisoner. |
10 |
| 15 | 403 |
Sometimes she would rush upon one man or another, but the others would not permit her to reach him, keeping her always beautiful female slave snared in her web of thongs. |
10 |
| 15 | 791 |
"Perhaps the new girl," I said, "to please the boy Fish, will sometimes wish to use the comb". |
10 |
| 16 | 21 |
"How silly you sometimes are, my Ubar. |
10 |
| 16 | 83 |
"Yes," she said, "sometimes a singer comes to the rence islands. |
10 |
| 16 | 94 |
"When I was a girl on the rence island," she said, "and later, sometimes at night, when I was a slave, in my cage in my master's house, I would lie awake and think of the songs, and of heroes". |
10 |
| 16 | 96 |
"And sometimes," she said, "even often, I would think of the hero Tarl of Bristol". |
10 |
| 17 | 412 |
More tarns returned and more of my men, sometimes six and seven to a rope, were carried away from the ship. |
10 |
| 18 | 902 |
"It is only in such moments," said Samos, "that a man sometimes learns that all truth and all reality is not written in one's own codes". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1292 |
And, too, as I danced, I would sometimes dance toward a warrior, sometimes as though begging him his glance, sometimes as though seeking his protection in my plight, sometimes as though I could not help myself, but was drawn to him, helplessly, in the vulnerability of the female slave, sometimes, wh... |
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| 17 | 62 |
Sometimes I would be a new girl, frightened, young, much fearing him, as Techne might have been; sometimes I would be as though of the scribes, much as Inge might have been, refined, dismayed at her fate; sometimes as a fine lady, of wealth and position, of high caste, as Rena had been, who now must... |
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| 11 | 779 |
Sometimes I ran between the great Tur trees, on the carpeting of leaves between them, sometimes I made my way through more thickset trees, sometimes through wild, moonlit tangles of brush and vines. |
10 |
| 18 | 23 |
Sometimes she comes with me, to the great keep, which once we defended, and we look sometimes toward Thassa, the Sea, and I look sometimes towards the northern forests. |
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| 3 | 325 |
She was Elinor Brinton, rich, brilliant Elinor Brinton! For more than forty-five minutes I raced ahead of my pursuer, sometimes increasing my lead, sometimes losing it. |
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| 7 | 67 |
In the "display chain" we were spaced on the chain, and the chain stretched rather taut and fastened at both ends, sometimes to trees, sometimes to two large metal screws, more than two feet in length, which screwed into the ground, beyond the reach on each end of the first and last girl. |
10 |
| 8 | 1114 |
These were forest girls, sometimes called panther girls, who lived wild and free in the northern forests, outlaw women, sometimes enslaving men, when it pleased them to do so. |
10 |
| 15 | 436 |
Sometimes Verna would say, "Drink," and I would pour wine into her goblet, saying, "Yes, Mistress," and sometimes Rask of Treve would command me, saying "Drink," and I would then, similarly, serve him, saying "Yes, Master". |
10 |
| 15 | 633 |
"Sometimes the guard sees you, sometimes he sees the shadow, or he hears what you are doing, or he sees the different amounts in the buckets. |
10 |
| 17 | 90 |
Oh, when his need was upon him he would sometimes use me as the meaningless slave girl I was, just another wench from his chain, use me with harsh authority, sometimes even making me suffer under his domination, that is true. |
10 |
| 17 | 166 |
Sometimes we were master and common slave, and sometimes we were something else, that I dare not speak, but I feared now, much, that he would sell me. |
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| 1 | 34 |
I sometimes recollect with amusement the Dean of Students, the other instructor, my many other instructors, and so many others. |
10 |
| 1 | 70 |
I used to amuse myself with them, sometimes pouting, pretending to be angry or displeased, then smiling to let them know that I had forgiven them. |
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| 1 | 98 |
In the settlement of the estate my mother received most everything, but I did receive some three quarters of a million dollars, primarily in stocks and bonds, a fortune which fluctuated, and sometimes considerably, with the market, but one which was substantially sound. |
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| 1 | 118 |
I enjoy posing, though sometimes it is painful and wearying. |
10 |
| 1 | 119 |
The photographers and artists seemed intelligent, witty men, though sometimes abrupt. |
10 |
| 3 | 304 |
Other cars would sometimes slam on their brakes. |
10 |
| 5 | 78 |
Sometimes these small passages were half closed with bent pipes and tangles of wire erupted from the sides, but I managed to crawl where I wished to. |
10 |
| 7 | 58 |
Targo, and some of the guards, sometimes, would give her candies, and sweetmeats. |
10 |
| 7 | 123 |
However, most of the camisks that I have personally seen, and those we were given, were belted with black or brown binding fiber; sometimes, instead, a long, thin strap of leather, "binding leather," is used. |
10 |
| 7 | 268 |
With these caravans there were slave girls, who would sometimes come to look at us, with their masters. |
10 |
| 7 | 488 |
Sometimes they are permitted to cook. |
10 |
| 8 | 338 |
Sometimes they would try to pull away from him. |
10 |
| 8 | 344 |
I noted that girls who responded similarly were invariably selected, sometimes over their more beautiful sisters in bondage. |
10 |
| 8 | 367 |
Sometimes they tore at their hobbles and struck at their keepers with their great yellowish, scimitarlike beaks. |
10 |
| 8 | 372 |
Sometimes when one of the great birds screamed, several of them would scream, too, and run, huddling away against our bars, or flying into their log dormitory. |
10 |
| 8 | 503 |
Sometimes they would discover me looking upon them, and I, responding to their grin, would look down, swiftly, shyly. |
10 |
| 8 | 504 |
Sometimes I would be pleased when, among the other girls, they would throw me their leather or sandals to clean. |
10 |
| 8 | 559 |
Sometimes, when the other girls were not looking, I put my hand to my throat, as though his collar were there. |
10 |
| 8 | 569 |
I wondered if he would take me with him on journeys and sometimes, where no one could see, walking in the fields, though I were slave, hold my hand. |
10 |
| 8 | 700 |
Sometimes he would scold it, and withhold the meat. |
10 |
| 8 | 705 |
Sometimes the mountebank would give pieces of meat to the girls to throw to the beast. |
10 |
| 8 | 899 |
Sometimes, before falling asleep, or even in my dreams, I had fancied myself in their arms. |
10 |
| 9 | 10 |
Sometimes she would stop to listen, or lift her head, as though testing the air, but then she would resume her journey. |
10 |
| 9 | 340 |
Sometimes she bit at another girl or struck at her, if she dared approach the square more closely than she. |
10 |
| 10 | 19 |
He wore a common Gorean male house tunic, rough and brown, with leggings, such as are sometimes worn by woodsmen, who work in brush. |
10 |
| 10 | 267 |
"Yes," he said, "and sometimes men, too, if it should serve our purposes". |
10 |
| 10 | 422 |
"Sometimes the sleen will follow a quarry for pasangs, before making its strike, lurking, approaching, withdrawing, then at last, when satisfied, attacking from the darkness". |
10 |
| 10 | 442 |
Sleen are sometimes curious, and not infrequently resentful of the intrusion of strange animals into what they choose to regard as their territory". |
10 |
| 11 | 137 |
It was the best known of the Gorean cities below the equator, sometimes called the Ar of the south. |
10 |
| 11 | 159 |
The cages are strong enough to hold men, which, doubtless, sometimes they do. |
10 |
| 11 | 166 |
In the private pens we were given better food, lean meats and vegetables and fruits, and, if our group had trained acceptably, after the evening meal, before being returned, hooded, to the public pens, we would be given candies or pastries, or, sometimes, a swallow of Ka-la-na wine. |
10 |
| 11 | 347 |
Sometimes I was irritated by the instructor, herself a slave, when she would commend me. |
10 |
| 11 | 358 |
Interestingly, and sometimes not altogether to my pleasure, I found the training becoming effective. |
10 |
| 11 | 491 |
It is sometimes called The Towers of the Morning, and perhaps justifiably so. |
10 |
| 11 | 795 |
As I fled I sometimes startled small animals, and once a herd of tabuk. |
10 |
| 11 | 839 |
I followed the stream for an Ahn, sometimes stopping to lift my head to overhanging branches, to nibble at hanging fruit. |
10 |
| 11 | 914 |
"Sometimes he comes north, with some hundred tarnsmen, for the hunting in the forests," said the guard. |
10 |
| 11 | 1133 |
Of course I was a slave girl! I had been taught that! I knew it well! But I would be a superb one! Sometimes I thought angrily of girls on Earth, many of them, who, too, were slave girls, but who had not learned this, and who, presumably, would never do so. |
10 |
| 11 | 1146 |
I wished, sometimes, that such girls, of Earth, might find themselves, as I was, found out, and find themselves naked, branded, helpless in a Gorean slave cage, forced to be the slave girls they unknowingly were. |
10 |
| 11 | 1265 |
Even though a token collar might be locked on my throat, it would be I who would be master! Sometimes, at night, lying in the straw of the cage, I would think of Verna, and when I did so, knowing her captured, destined for brand and collar, I would laugh to myself. |
10 |
| 12 | 11 |
Sometimes free women fall desperately ill when brought to the pens. |
10 |
| 12 | 437 |
Sometimes, of course, and indeed, most often, the caravan must camp in the open. |
10 |
| 12 | 442 |
These forts do not differ much, except in size, from the common border forts, which cities sometimes maintain at the peripheries of their claims. |
10 |
| 12 | 449 |
Inside the interior wall, girls are sometimes permitted to run free. |
10 |
| 12 | 609 |
In my case, when on a leash, for example in training, on all fours, or upright, struggling to resist the sense of sexual uneasiness which it enforced upon me, I was sometimes afflicted with an irrepressible thought of exquisite irony. |
10 |
| 13 | 85 |
Sometimes, at night, Ute would moan the name of Barus, whom she had once loved. |
10 |
| 13 | 662 |
Sometimes the position can be alternated between these two settings. |
10 |
| 13 | 875 |
Sometimes it seemed I was standing as the tarn would veer, or hanging head downwards as it would veer, turning wildly, in another direction. |
10 |
| 13 | 1127 |
Sometimes an auctioneer commands the girl to market herself, and woe to her if she does not obtain a good price. |
10 |
| 13 | 1129 |
Sometimes one of the photographers would gasp or whistle. |
10 |
| 14 | 241 |
Ena, who had been sewing a talmit, a headband sometimes worn by tarnsmen in flight, came to me. |
10 |
| 14 | 282 |
"Though sometimes, for some reason, the mark of Treve is pressed into her flesh". |
10 |
| 14 | 284 |
"Sometimes, too," she said, "a girl may be branded as a punishment, and to warn others against her". |
10 |
| 14 | 401 |
Sometimes a new slave, thrown naked before her master, attempts to hide with one hand and arm the loveliness of her bosom, and, with the other hand, her features. |
10 |
| 14 | 422 |
It is said that some free women keep slave garments hidden in their compartments, and sometimes don them, before mirrors, or hold them folded against tear-stained cheeks. |
10 |
| 14 | 439 |
Such, it is sometimes feared, might alarm other free women. |
10 |
| 14 | 500 |
Better a collar anywhere, she weeps, than in what was once her own city! Sometimes a fellow of the city who knows her will find her there, in the paga tavern, only another girl, nude, kneeling, rising, hurrying to serve her master's customers. |
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| 15 | 180 |
Often during the day, and sometimes for days at a time, most of the tarnsmen of Rask of Treve would be aflight. |
10 |
| 15 | 216 |
Sometimes there were visitors to the camp of Rask of Treve, though, one gathers, these were men in the confidence of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 223 |
Sometimes I saw the dark-haired girl, in red silk with the two golden bangles on her left ankle, when I passed by the tent. |
10 |
| 15 | 224 |
Sometimes I saw other girls. |
10 |
| 15 | 406 |
"Have you seen the dark-haired girl, who sometimes tends his tent?" she asked. |
10 |
| 15 | 425 |
Sometimes, too, she would range beyond the palisade, beyond which other girls were not permitted, to walk and hunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 634 |
Sometimes he watches in the reflection of a shield hoop". |
10 |
| 15 | 931 |
Sometimes, when I would finish my work, I would help the other girls with theirs. |
10 |
| 15 | 954 |
Sometimes the other girls would trip me when I was carrying burdens, or dirty the work which I had done, that I must do it over. |
10 |
| 16 | 173 |
"Sometimes," said Verna, "it requires a man such as Rask of Treve to teach a woman this weakness". |
10 |
| 16 | 267 |
Sometimes, however, she may beg to be tied and whipped, for this reassures her that she is still of interest to, and important to, the master. |
10 |
| 16 | 277 |
Sometimes, too, she desires to be tied and whipped, if merely to remind her that she is a slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 20 |
Sometimes, to my fury, he had tried to put me from him, and had summoned other women to his tent, but often he would send them away again, and it would be I, El-in-or, who would again be summoned to the tent of scarlet canvas, red-silk lined, on its eight poles. |
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| 17 | 63 |
But, too, sometimes Rask of Treve, after touching me, would hold me, and kiss me, for long hours. |
10 |
| 17 | 84 |
Sometimes he would hold me in his arms, and gaze into my eyes, with such intentness and tenderness, with so soft a light in his eyes, that I, my head lifted, would be overjoyed, my love flooding forth to him, but then, frightened, I would put my head down, against his shoulder, in my collar. |
10 |
| 17 | 112 |
I sometimes thought of many of the girls I had known on Earth, whose names I will omit, lest somehow, sometime, somewhere, they read these pages, who would surely look well, stripped and collared, kneeling before masters, their knees perforce widely spread, their tiny, lovely wrists confined behind ... |
10 |
| 17 | 125 |
Sometimes I strove to distract him from seeing me as more than just another girl in his collar. |
10 |
| 17 | 132 |
Accordingly, I sometimes, to my agony, tried to destroy in him those very feelings which I most dearly hoped he might, however unwillingly, entertain for a lowly slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 133 |
Sometimes, then, despite the depth of my love for him, the aching of my needs, and the peril of the pretense, I would present myself to him as though I might now be a contemptuous, cold, hating, untamed girl, truly, who must, if he saw fit, and deigned to do so, be conquered, and thus I would provok... |
10 |
| 17 | 134 |
And well, and categorically, sometimes to my initial dismay, was I again conquered. |
10 |
| 17 | 156 |
I love you, my master!" But, too, despite my fears, sometimes we would love tenderly, and at sweet length. |
10 |
| 17 | 451 |
Sometimes, at night, the other girls would waken me, and scold me, for I had disturbed them, crying his name in my sleep. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 477 |
When dealing with men, however, the girls usually demanded, and received, goods of greater value to them, usually knives, arrow points, small spear points; sometimes armlets, and bracelets and necklaces, and mirrors; sometimes slave nets and slave traps, to aid in their hunting; sometimes slave chai... |
10 |
| 2 | 395 |
"Sometimes chain luck is with Verna, sometimes it is not". |
10 |
| 15 | 854 |
Even when she was not being struck Ilene would sometimes cry out, "No! Don't hit me!" Sometimes, waiting, unstruck, she would cry out as though she had been struck. |
10 |
| 1 | 231 |
"Sometimes," said he, "I plundered within them". |
10 |
| 2 | 71 |
In foul weather, if there is not high wind, or in excessive heat, a canvas covering, on poles, is sometimes spread over the thwarts. |
10 |
| 2 | 426 |
"I have heard," I said, "that Verna and her band sometimes roam north of Laura". |
10 |
| 2 | 434 |
Panther girls, when their suppressed womanhood becomes sometimes too painful, repair to such places, there to dance the frenzy of their needs. |
10 |
| 3 | 97 |
In such houses, too, sometimes among the other merchandise, there are pleasure slaves, trained girls, imported perhaps from Ar. |
10 |
| 3 | 203 |
Sometimes disputes, which otherwise might be settled only by ax or sword, are willingly surrendered to a game of Kaissa, if only for the joy of engaging in the game. |
10 |
| 4 | 164 |
"I knew that girls, sometimes, are free in them". |
10 |
| 5 | 218 |
Sometimes the passages between them were very narrow. |
10 |
| 6 | 336 |
Such things were sometimes done. |
10 |
| 6 | 1019 |
"Sometimes I am clumsy," she said. |
10 |
| 6 | 1021 |
There are skills required, sometimes delicate skills. |
10 |
| 7 | 45 |
Sometimes when I first moved below them, they would be silent, but then, seeing in a moment that I was moving away, would begin to cry out again, and dart about from branch to branch. |
10 |
| 7 | 257 |
"Sometimes a girl does not come back". |
10 |
| 8 | 35 |
They will sometimes stand and watch clouds. |
10 |
| 8 | 41 |
Sometimes it takes, according to the Goreans, a generation for the forest to forgive its injury, and return to men, gracious and forgiving, in all its beauty. |
10 |
| 10 | 148 |
He examined them carefully, walking about the entire line, then girl by girl, sometimes pushing up her chin with his thumb. |
10 |
| 11 | 14 |
His attack was fierce, devastating, sometimes reckless. |
10 |
| 11 | 30 |
The hand of Centius now sometimes shook, and it seemed his eyes did not see the board as once they did. |
10 |
| 11 | 314 |
Sometimes slavers use these differences to separate the two categories of Gorean female. |
10 |
| 11 | 315 |
Sometimes, when a city is being sacked, high-born free women, fearful of falling into the hands of chieftains of the enemy, have themselves branded and collared, and don slave tunics, and mix with their own slave girls, to prevent their identity from being known. |
10 |
| 11 | 523 |
Sometimes tavern keepers gather several such unfortunates together, enslave them, and keep their beggings for themselves. |
10 |
| 11 | 525 |
Sometimes the tavern keepers blind or mutilate them as well, that they be more piteous, and their earnings accordingly increased. |
10 |
| 11 | 782 |
Sometimes she looked away from the board. |
10 |
| 12 | 15 |
The first families of a city usually constitute one or more of such groups, sometimes competitive groups. |
10 |
| 12 | 159 |
Sometimes a girl is purchased, or sought out in a tavern or brothel, merely because she reminds a fellow of someone else. |
10 |
| 12 | 168 |
Sometimes it is hard to tell about women, except after a time, of course, if they are slaves. |
10 |
| 14 | 135 |
Another common expression for a female slave, incidentally, the initial of which, in cursive script, is sometimes used to mark a girl, is Sa-Fora, which means, rather literally, Chain Daughter. |
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| 15 | 1 |
Hunting is Done in the Forest Ilene, in a scrap of yellow pleasure silk, a barefoot slave girl, terrified, fled through the brush, breaking branches, head twisting, hair sometimes caught, breathing heavily, eyes wide, legs and body scratched and cut. |
10 |
| 16 | 70 |
Answering quarrels from crossbows, meaningless, sometimes fell among the branches and leaves. |
10 |
| 16 | 111 |
From time to time, when not satisfied with an answer, or, sometimes, for no apparent reason at all, she would, unexpectedly, strike the blindfolded, bound, cowering Mira with the switch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 230 |
These terms were sometimes best translated as "meat animal" and sometimes "cattle" or, sometimes, simply "food". |
10 |
| 7 | 37 |
"Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ... |
10 |
| 22 | 197 |
This command, sometimes implicit, sometimes a matter of the master's policy with his girl or girls, under which she is placed, to vocalize her pleasures, and abundantly, as well as, in her abandon, nudity, and beauty, manifest them physically, guides, accurately and surely, the master in the detaile... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 218 |
This was a "common chain," sometimes called a "march chain" or "trekking chain"; it was not a "display chain"; in the "display chain," or "selling chain," the arrangement of the girls may be determined by a variety of considerations, aesthetic and psychological; for example, blondes may be alternate... |
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| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
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| 2 | 159 |
For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ... |
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| 2 | 155 |
It is important for the girl's thigh to be held immobile; sometimes it is held by more than one man; sometimes it is bound to a wagon wheel; sometimes, in the house of slavers, a heavy, vise-equipped metal branding rack is used. |
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| 2 | 306 |
This might occur for aesthetic reasons, as, for example, if her measurements, which are generally carefully kept, should minutely depart from her master's conception of her ideal curvatures; sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends, totally, for her very life; sometimes as a training or... |
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| 1 | 106 |
About this imaginary pole, it constituting a hypothetical center of gravity, she moves, undulating, swaying, sometimes yielding to it in ecstasy, sometimes fighting it, it always holding her in perfect place, its captive. |
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| 2 | 21 |
These communities, sometimes quite large, numbering in hundreds, sometimes thousands of citizens, depending on the water available, are often hundreds of pasangs apart. |
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| 2 | 22 |
They depend on caravans, usually from Tor, sometimes from Kasra, sometimes even from far Turia, to supply many of their needs. |
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| 9 | 1379 |
They made me fall when they pleased, and as they pleased; sometimes they threw me forward, sometimes backward; sometimes they carried me, face up or face down, suspended between them; sometimes they dragged me by an ankle or a wrist on my back or stomach, or twisting; sometimes they dragged me or ma... |
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| 3 | 179 |
Yet, even then, had I been told how it is that girls of a certain sort, of a sort which I was soon to find myself to be, could sometimes in their need scream and writhe in the grass, could sometimes dance wildly beneath the moons, clawing at them, could sometimes tear their fingernails bloody scratc... |
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| 2 | 962 |
Sometimes, as she becomes animated, she rises a bit from her heels, sometimes her hands move on her thighs, her shoulders and belly move, her head moves, her eyes are live and vital, she speaks and laughs, and, radiantly, every inch, every bit, of her alive, converses lyrically and delightedly. |
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| 3 | 275 |
Sometimes this game is played with the winning side determined by its catches within a time limit, sometimes, in more brutal versions, by the first city which secures the hundred women of its enemy. |
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| 3 | 782 |
Female slaves, when bred, are commonly hooded and crossed with a male slave, similarly hooded, the breeding conducted under the supervision of their respective owners; a girl is seldom bred with a slave from her own house; personal relationships between male and female slaves are usually frowned upo... |
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| 22 | 46 |
Sharks, and sometimes marine saurians, sometimes trail the ships, to secure discarded garbage and rob the lines of the fishermen. |
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| 26 | 755 |
He toyed with her resistance, sometimes permitting it to become stronger, sometimes even letting her think she might be able to withstand him, but then again he would begin to induce in her, subtly, the surrender spasms of the female slave. |
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| 2 | 607 |
Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale. |
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| 12 | 221 |
'Faster! Faster!" He spoke sometimes to them in his own tongue, and sometimes in Gorean. |
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| 12 | 277 |
Sometimes she wore her hair up, and sometimes let it fall loosely about her shoulders. |
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| 15 | 102 |
Sometimes I won, and sometimes Imnak won. |
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| 15 | 498 |
Male slaves are usually debtors or criminals; sometimes they are captives, taken in actions against enemy cities or facilities; sometimes they have merely accrued the displeasure of powerful men or families; some slavers, working in gangs, specialize in the capture of free men for work projects; the... |
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| 22 | 89 |
Sometimes there is an affliction which affects those in kayaks though it is usually the case when it is clearly daylight and the rocking, the endless waiting, the reflections off the water, make one suddenly lose all sense of time and place, and one seems lost in nothingness, and then one must sing ... |
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| 29 | 61 |
The recognition and comprehension of a detail, sometimes subtle, can sometimes make a difference between life and death. |
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| 31 | 253 |
Sometimes it seems to happen for no obvious reason; sometimes it happens when a nondominant is humiliated and worked beyond his level of tolerance. |
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| 37 | 42 |
Sometimes I thought I might let Audrey lead the coffle, and sometimes Arlene. |
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| 33 | 5 |
There is the mightiness of the river, like a great road, twisting and turning, occasionally broken with green islands, sometimes sluggish, sometimes shattered by rapids and cataracts, sometimes interrupted by flooding cascades of water, sometimes a few feet in height and sometimes towering upwards h... |
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| 1 | 106 |
Sometimes a girl is given her own name as a slave name; sometimes she is given another name; it depends on the master's will. |
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| 5 | 507 |
Sometimes when a woman is freed, for one reason or another, as can happen upon rare occasions, she becomes, sometimes after an initial elation, restless, and later, miserable. |
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| 32 | 502 |
Too, I wore sunglasses, pieces of colored glass sometimes worn by those of Earth before their eyes, sometimes to guard their expressions and features, but usually to reduce the glare of a bright sun". |
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| 32 | 699 |
Sometimes under the blows or in fearful anticipation of them she twisted or changed position, once sitting, sometimes crouching, once on her stomach; most of the blows were across her back, but two had been delivered frontally, and two to her left side, and one to her right side. |
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| 34 | 174 |
"Sometimes," I said, "sometimes not. |
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| 34 | 1007 |
Sometimes such individuals know one another immediately, sometimes not. |
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| 16 | 41 |
Slavers, for example, sometimes think of themselves as being of the Merchants, and sometimes as being a separate caste. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 434 |
Sometimes we were ankle-deep in the water on the deck and, sometimes, near the port rail, we fought in water to our knees. |
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| 19 | 928 |
How angry then are sometimes the Gorean women when they find that such contemptible creatures as Earth-girl slaves may sometimes be preferred by men to them, and even bring higher prices on the block. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 553 |
Other forms of the nonassent gesture can be turning the head away from the other, sometimes with a gesture of the lips, indicating distaste, or even of ejecting an unwanted substance from the mouth, backing away, or lifting the head and extending the neck, sometimes baring the fangs and tensing the ... |
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| 1 | 1132 |
The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe... |
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| 30 | 180 |
We made our way then, through the shadows, sometimes running, sometimes crouching down, sometimes crawling, from the scene of the slaughter. |
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| 43 | 314 |
In such a lane sometimes young swains, on kaiilaback, in their paint and finery, parade before damsels; in such a lane sometimes are kaiila races held; and in such a lane, sometimes, slave girls, for humiliation or punishment, or sport, are dragged back and forth in sacks. |
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| 6 | 47 |
"Sometimes animals take shelter in a draw, or, running into one, begin to mill, and, for a time, will stay there, sometimes until morning". |
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| 9 | 582 |
Sometimes it is this way, and sometimes it is not. |
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| 12 | 685 |
"Sometimes he may, sometimes he may not," I said. |
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| 15 | 179 |
Sometimes a man bequeaths his story to his heirs; some stories, for example, have been in families for generations; sometimes, on the other hand, he will give it to someone who loves it, and whom he thinks, in turn, will tell it well. |
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| 32 | 68 |
How absorbed we can be sometimes in our own concerns, and sometimes, then, so little alert to the affairs of others. |
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| 32 | 89 |
Sometimes the girls were pulled into the shadows, and sometimes not. |
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| 43 | 110 |
"Do you know that sometimes they are looking at you?" "Sometimes, Mistress," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 105 |
Sometimes they are supported by rich citizens; sometimes they are supported by caste organizations; sometimes, even, they are sponsored by merchants or businesses, as a matter of goodwill and promotion; sometimes, too, they are subsidized by grants from a public treasury. |
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| 9 | 174 |
Sometimes they guide you, or help you, sometimes by the whip, sometimes by expressions or cries. |
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| 14 | 13 |
More than one man, pressing between the soldiers and clambering onto the wagon, sometimes unarmed, sometimes with a whip or stick, sometimes even with a knife, was seized and thrown back into the crowd by soldiers. |
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| 14 | 134 |
He was now wrapping a long piece of binding fiber about them, sometimes looping them both, sometimes taking it about only one ankle, sometimes snaking it about both ankles and securing it between both with tightly drawn loops. |
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| 6 | 96 |
The chorus, too, sometimes singing and sometimes speaking in unison, took roles in the drama, such as first the citizens of one city and then of another, and then of another, and so on. |
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| 6 | 204 |
"Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not," he said. |
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| 27 | 121 |
"Similarly," said the whip master, "do not forget to press your body sometimes against that of the master, sometimes seemingly inadvertently. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 224 |
Sometimes he who thinks he is brave learns he is a coward, and sometimes, too, I suppose, he who thought himself a coward learns that he is brave". |
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| 18 | 513 |
In a city the size of Brundisium, in an hour of confusion and tumult, with soldiers rushing about, coming and going with orders and reports, with agents sometimes in uniform and sometimes not, I did not expect to be easily recognized. |
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| 21 | 90 |
Arranged in various ways on these boards were letters, sometimes beginning from a word, sometimes from a random, or seemingly random alignment of letters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 25 | 1979 |
She moved then, and turned, upon the mat, sometimes on her belly, sometimes on her back, sometimes on her side, sometimes kneeling, sometimes sitting, sometimes curled up, sometimes bending backwards, pausing every moment or so, for a moment or so, stock-still, posing, that I might feast my eyes upo... |
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| 4 | 33 |
Indeed, sometimes they can make them their own, settling within them, sometimes turning to the soil themselves, sometimes assuming the roles and prerogatives of a conquering aristocracy, and becoming, in their turn, the foundation of a new civilization. |
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| 25 | 203 |
She has the sense, sometimes tenderly and gently, sometimes tremblingly, sometimes shaking, with sobs and tears, that she has at last come home to herself, that she has at last discovered herself, that she is now, for the first time in her life, fully free, though she is helpless, though she is knee... |
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| 1 | 293 |
Sometimes it does; sometimes it does not; in the name 'Feiqa' it does not. |
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| 5 | 129 |
After the judge's decision has been enacted, its effect carried out upon her, reducing her to the status of goods, sometimes publicly, that she may be suitably disgraced, sometimes privately, by a contract slaver, that the sensitivities of free women in the city not be offended, she is hooded and tr... |
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| 5 | 419 |
There were three rings there, the central ring, to which Tula had been chained, generally used for tethering, and two smaller, side rings, auxiliary rings, sometimes used for tethering, sometimes used for drawing a second wagon or cart. |
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| 16 | 1296 |
Sometimes, to be sure, commonly in serving at the parties of young men, certain objects, sometimes as part of a game, objects with prearranged significances among the young men, are thrown to the floor, and she must pick them up in a less graceful fashion. |
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| 16 | 1471 |
"Doubtless you will see many slave caravans," I said, "and, too, perhaps, the girls of poorer merchants, many women being marched on foot, chained in coffle, usually naked, sometimes with their hands tied behind their backs, sometimes gagged and blindfolded". |
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| 22 | 353 |
Sometimes walls give way; sometimes entire floors collapse. |
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| 23 | 127 |
Feiqa, too, who was heeling us, I gathered, from the men turning about, the occasional intakes of breath, the various comments and observations, and sometimes the literal sex calls, some of the bold, obtrusive, hooting sort by which young men impolitely signify that something of extreme sexual inter... |
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| 25 | 2152 |
It is sometimes pleasant, of course, to enforce such behaviors and performances on a woman, even when, and sometimes especially when, in the case of a certain woman, you know she is raging inside against you. |
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| 26 | 1706 |
And both the Gorean woman and the Earth girl, embonded, learning there is no escape for them and that they are irrevocably slaves, unless masters choose to free them, an act which is not only rare and foolish, but almost nonexistent, soon adjust to their new life and, sometimes to their surprise, an... |
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| 26 | 2026 |
Too, like all women, sometimes such endearing nuisances, sometimes so pertinacious and obtrusive, she is given occasionally to insistent questioning, the issuance of unwelcome, unsolicited, abundant observations and counsel, to prattle and wheedling, such things. |
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| 17 | 240 |
Sometimes in my dance I made use of the chain, sometimes pretending, to the music, to fight it, a fight which I had to lose, or not to understand it, looking to the men then, as though they might explain its meaning to me; they did, with raucous cries; sometimes I used it to caress me, with the soft... |
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| 31 | 232 |
Then, bit by bit, sometimes on my knees, sometimes as though I had tried to rise, and had then again been thrust to my knees, sometimes on all fours, sometimes as though trying to rise to my knees, and being forced again to all fours, I made my way to Mirus. |
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| 3 | 70 |
It was not necessary for them to know that sometimes, when we utilized costumes, other than our leotards and scarves, that that quiet Doreen, barefoot, in anklets and bracelets, with whirling necklaces, with her midriff bared, sometimes with her thighs stripped, swirled in fringed halter and shimmer... |
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| 6 | 68 |
Sometimes the most exciting girl is put first on the coffle, and sometimes last. |
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| 10 | 818 |
Sometimes this occurs in heated discussions of the relative merits of different masters' girls, and the girls are ordered to disrobe on the spot, sometimes then being put through slave paces, there, on the very tiles of the squares and plazas, the matter being left to the acclamations or votes of th... |
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| 11 | 80 |
Such names are sometimes given to Gorean girls, sometimes to inform them, to their horror, that they are now to be as low and succulent, and helpless, and luscious, as Earth females in Gorean bondage. |
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| 11 | 1623 |
Sometimes I had been confused by the unfamiliarity of these feelings, and sometimes delighted, and intrigued. |
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| 20 | 188 |
It is not unknown for both sorts to receive offers from agents of the "Great Farms," sometimes owned by individuals, and sometimes by companies, whose capital has been generated by the investments of individuals who are, in effect, stockholders. |
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| 24 | 34 |
Sometimes the guards, during such times of denying the men drink, would help themselves to the water before them, sometimes spitting it out, or pouring it over their heads and bodies. |
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| 29 | 155 |
Sometimes a slave wants very much to attract the attention of a man, but sometimes, too, she does not. |
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| 34 | 556 |
"The best slaves," he said, "are often those who on Earth are the quiet, soft, gentle, shy women, sometimes even those who fear they are unattractive, having imbibed absurd criteria from a mechanistic, pathological society, and do not know how exciting and desirable they are, the natural woman, sele... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 330 |
Too, from time to time, lightning shattered across the sky, suddenly bathing the road and countryside in flashes of wild, white light, this coupled almost momentarily, sometimes a little sooner, sometimes a little later, with a grinding and explosion of thunder. |
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| 1 | 590 |
Restraining the female, sometimes symbolically, sometimes in fashions which are literally physically coercive, making her absolutely helpless, for various reasons, psychological and physical, intensifies her orgasm. |
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| 8 | 487 |
Sometimes a woman does not learn for weeks, sometimes until, say, the very night of her sale, where she is, in what city she finds herself. |
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| 10 | 404 |
I continued upward, sometimes climbing hand over hand, feverishly, as I could, the rope momentarily arrested, at other times then, the rope moving rapidly upward, doing little more than clinging to it, sometimes, again, both climbing and being drawn upward. |
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| 15 | 838 |
Sometimes then we use the whip on them, and sometimes not. |
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| 19 | 36 |
When one understands these factors, and that battles often last several hours, and are sometimes renewed for two or three days, it is easier to understand certain things which might otherwise seem anomalous in this form of warfare, for example, the respites between assaults, the fluctuations of line... |
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| 24 | 658 |
Naturally these arrangement are clear to the girls, and they often compete for what are regarded as the favored positions on the chain, vying with one another to improve their position, in kissing and caressing masters, and such, and sometimes bitterly disputing such locations with one another, some... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 767 |
Then she put herself to the dirt before him in what, had she been a dancer, and on a different surface, might have been termed "floor movements," such things as turnings and twistings, rollings and crawlings, sometimes on her hands and knees, sometimes on her stomach; sometimes, too, she would be kn... |
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| 15 | 24 |
Bit by bit, from the reports of men from other units, sometimes coming across us, sometimes found wandering in the marsh, sometimes half mad, we had been able to build up a picture of what was occurring in the delta. |
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| 20 | 158 |
I had much touched her over the past few days, even though she was a free woman, as much for my relief, such as a free woman could provide, as for her instruction, usually when we had camped, sometimes before we slept, sometimes afterwards, or when I awakened and it pleased me, and sometimes, too, o... |
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| 1 | 907 |
Some slavers, with certain markets in mind, such as certain of the Tahari markets, deliberately fatten slaves before their sale, sometimes keeping them in small cages, sometimes even force-feeding them, and so on. |
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| 11 | 9 |
This same type of simple yoke, though much lighter, sometimes no more than a narrow board or branch, is sometimes used for female slaves. |
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| 19 | 767 |
I feared I might rip free and fall to the marsh below, sometimes a hundred feet below, sometimes as little as thirty or forty feet. |
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| 28 | 223 |
Sometimes one will crawl, on all fours, sometimes on the stomach. |
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| 29 | 264 |
Nowadays, too, as I have indicated, there are even branded slave girls in the rence, sometimes purchased at trade points, sometimes stolen. |
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| 31 | 81 |
It is sometimes used, and sometimes not. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 461 |
Here and there upon the walls, among those working, were silked flute girls, sometimes sitting cross-legged on flat stones, rather even with or even below the heads of workers, sometimes perched cross-legged on large stones, above the heads of workers, sometimes moving about among the workers, somet... |
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| 7 | 261 |
Sometimes they are marched naked at their stirrups, in chains; sometimes they are marched similarly but among slaves holding other loot, golden vessels, and such; sometimes they are displayed on wagons, or rolling platforms, caged with she-verr or she-tarsks, and so on. |
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| 3 | 8 |
Sometimes beads are used, sometimes even gems. |
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| 3 | 408 |
Too, of course, economic considerations sometimes become paramount, these sometimes dictating the selling off of chattels, whose value, of course, unlike that of a free woman, constitutes a source of possible income. |
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| 3 | 577 |
For example, sometimes free women attempt, sometimes even disguising themselves, to spy on the doings of masters and slaves. |
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| 8 | 33 |
It is true, of course, that sometimes wagons would congregate at meeting places near gates, the wagons, say, of various manufacturers and merchants, and then travel on the roads in convoys, as a protection against brigandage, but in such a case the wagons, having different points of origin, would no... |
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| 14 | 184 |
This is particularly the case within the same house where contests often rage, sometimes subtly and sometimes not, for the favor of the master, on which contests, needless to say, considerable shiftings in rank and hierarchy may hinge. |
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| 19 | 905 |
It, incidentally, is sometimes regarded as a subcaste of the merchants, and sometimes as an independent caste. |
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| 19 | 1290 |
Too, a girl is sometimes given to field slaves that way, cords attached sometimes to the ends of the yoke, that she may be pulled about, turned this way and that, and, in general, moved about and controlled as the slaves wish, until they weary of the sport and choose to have their way with her. |
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| 21 | 99 |
There are several double leashing arrangements, sometimes with two collars, and sometimes with a single collar, with leash rings on opposite sides. |
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| 26 | 4 |
One of the two magistrates, he who was senior, Tolnar, of the second Octavii, an important gens but one independent of the well-known Octavii, sometimes spoken of simply as the Octavii, or sometimes as the first Octavii, deputy commissioner in the records office, much of which had been destroyed in ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 923 |
"They are commonly used for dangerous male slaves," he said, "sometimes for new girls, sometimes for arrogant free women, that they may immediately cease to be arrogant, sometimes for ignorant girls, sometimes for stupid girls. |
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| 11 | 1836 |
It is sometimes called the "dance of the displayed slave," though it is not really a dance; sometimes it is called "block movements" or "circle movements," from the fact that such movements are sometimes called for on the sales block or within the exhibition circle; sometimes they are called "cage m... |
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| 9 | 201 |
Once, a large formation, consisting of perhaps two hundred such creatures, wheeled about in diverse aerial maneuvers, sometimes in abrupt, breath-taking turns, and ascents and descents, sometimes breaking into smaller groups and then reuniting, as though converging on aerial prey, to piercing whistl... |
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| 9 | 203 |
Sometimes I would see birds leaving or returning to whose harness were slung baskets, sometimes open, sometimes closed. |
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| 5 | 13 |
Too, sometimes one could detect the tramp of men, and, sometimes, too, they sang as they marched. |
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| 6 | 141 |
I moved before the men, first before one and then before another, approaching, withdrawing, sometimes as if unwilling, or shy, sometimes almost as if daring to be insolent or rebellious, but not quite, or not really, of course, for if such things are misunderstood one may quickly feel the lash. |
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| 7 | 443 |
Already I was within the throes of the helplessness, that helplessness which precedes the yielding, which heralds its proximity, which warns of its imminence, that helplessness which sometimes seems to hold one fixed in place, where one, as though chained to a wall, knows that there is no escape, wh... |
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| 7 | 655 |
Even in the gardens are we not sometimes placed at the disposal of others, as he who holds total rights over us, perhaps in his astuteness, or liberality, may decree? And if we have not been pleasing, and if we have not well responded, as may be determined objectively, from the effects of such respo... |
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| 8 | 702 |
"I want that silken scarf!" "No, it is mine to wear!" "Oh, you knelt prettily in your serving!" "I knelt as I must!" "No!" "Yes!" "Collar meat!" "Collar meat!" "Slave!" "Slave!" "It is I who will be taught to dance!" "But as a slave!" "Of course, little fool, what do you think we are?" "It was I who... |
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| 9 | 218 |
More than once, sometimes in twos and threes, sometimes in tens and twenties, I had seen riders returning with bulging saddle bags, and sacks tied behind the saddle, and about the pommels, and with golden vessels, and candelabra, flashing in the light, slung from the saddles on cords. |
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| 11 | 1879 |
Sometimes the descent was relatively slow, and sometimes it was more precipitous. |
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| 14 | 1272 |
He must then, I thought, be of the Slavers, sometimes regarded as a subcaste of the Merchants, sometimes as an independent caste. |
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| 14 | 1548 |
Sometimes they were kind to us and sometimes they were not. |
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| 24 | 688 |
How else explain the fascination that even a plain slave may sometimes exercise over the most powerful, rich, and handsome of men, to the puzzlement and dismay of beauties languishing in his pleasure garden? How else explain how a slave worthy of a ubar's palace may in a market, unbidden, throw hers... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 8 |
The streams of sound bubbling about her like water, sometimes breaking forth, sometimes soothing, rippling, sometimes rushing, must be intentionally formed. |
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| 24 | 493 |
It seemed she fled then about the circle, running here and there, sometimes coming close to the men, who sometimes reached for her, sometimes drawing back, as in fear. |
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| 26 | 1213 |
Does the free woman sometimes feel an uneasiness, is she sometimes restless, does she sometimes experience a discomfort, one perhaps not even fully understood? The slave can know agony. |
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| 9 | 102 |
Sometimes the guards had bound her, with colorful cords, sometimes in exotic fashions, and had then ordered her to free herself, but she had been unable to do so. |
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| 12 | 395 |
They could be turned from side to side, flung to their belly, thrown to a wall, forced to assume any number of positions, sometimes their bodies being seized and literally placed, limb by limb, in the desired position, handled with an imperious handling, sometimes conjoined with a sharp word of inst... |
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| 16 | 732 |
It is sometimes regarded as unseemly, and is sometimes, by free persons, deemed actually annoying. |
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| 16 | 1407 |
Surely it did not resemble the luxurious boudoirs she had heard of in her training, those sometimes permitted to high slaves, the pampered, perfumed treasures of Ubars and generals, sometimes said to even influence the policies and fates of states. |
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| 17 | 1072 |
For better than an Ahn she was led through the streets, and alleys, and between buildings, sometimes with passages, many of them steep, downward and upward, and sometimes so narrow that she might strike her shoulders, first on one side, then on the other. |
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| 18 | 397 |
We mention the matter of the interior door because, interestingly, usually in the evening, sometimes late at night, unidentified visitors, sometimes several of them, would arrive at the door, visitors who may not have, in their approach, availed themselves of the outside bridges. |
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| 19 | 297 |
Her lips and tongue felt sometimes the sides of the pan, sometimes its bottom, so desperate were her efforts. |
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| 24 | 492 |
Who could be tearing her veil away from her body? Could these be invisible assailants, of some powerful, but uncertain nature, or were they her own needs determined despite her conscious will to have their way with her, to reduce her brutishly, ruthlessly, to the denied, but beloved core of her bein... |
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| 24 | 660 |
Ellen, dancing, circumambulated the interior edge of the dancing sand, sometimes closer, almost within an arm's reach of the men, sometimes farther back. |
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| 26 | 572 |
Sometimes she sensed the smoke of fires, sometimes their warmth. |
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| 26 | 1104 |
Sometimes they are placed over the head and tied about the neck; sometimes they are placed over the head and tied about the belly, the woman's hands and arms within them. |
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| 26 | 1216 |
Does the free woman sometimes wonder what it would be to be a slave, to be utterly rightless and vulnerable, to have to serve and please? Does she wonder sometimes what it might be to find her beauty, perhaps stripped and collared, looked upon with interest and satisfaction, with approval and antici... |
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| 30 | 588 |
And many times that night, in many ways, sometimes abruptly, sometimes lengthily, was she put to his purposes and pleasures. |
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| 30 | 593 |
I am deeply grateful to my master for permitting me to write this, and to that unusual, complex gentleman, Bosk of Port Kar, scholar and warrior, master of weapons and slaves, sometimes so fierce and terrible, sometimes so thoughtful and gentle, uncompromising but understanding, for suggesting that ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 43 | 153 |
"Slaves are sometimes belled," said Cabot, "sometimes for custodial purposes, for they may be locked on a slave, sometimes to enhance their attractiveness, sometimes to remind them, with the bells' frequent jangling, consequent upon their slightest movement, that they are a slave. |
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| 21 | 295 |
This regimen or strictness is imposed upon them sometimes as a punishment or discipline, sometimes as a part of their training, or, sometimes, simply to remind them that they are a slave, their master's domestic animal. |
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| 51 | 69 |
"It is true that if you put them naked on certain surfaces, sometimes tiles, sometimes a rug, they find themselves, sometimes to their dismay, in a state of sexual arousal". |
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| 1 | 543 |
Sometimes, however, our human confederates, for their amusement, alert the quarry, sometimes months in advance, and perhaps hint by hint, of her ineluctable fate. |
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| 2 | 174 |
Sometimes the head is bitten free and the spurting neck is covered with the predator's mouth, which is then drenched with the imbibed, flighted blood; another way is shared by certain other forms of predator, such as the larl or forest panther, in which the prey is seized, say, at the shoulder, and ... |
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| 24 | 149 |
The master takes the first bite of shared food; if he should be seated, say, on a bench or chair, the slave commonly eats at his feet, kneeling beside him; sometimes she is fed by hand, particularly the first bites of food; sometimes she must eat from dishes on the floor, her head down, on all fours... |
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| 36 | 109 |
It is not unusual for slaves to bedeck themselves as they may, and to do so occasionally with flowers, sometimes a garland, sometimes with a mere blossom or two, fixed in the hair. |
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| 73 | 30 |
"It seems, Lord Grendel," said Cabot, "that in a human weakness is sometimes found a wisdom, and sometimes a strength". |
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| 79 | 229 |
Sometimes they will buy such a woman, to have her as a serving slave, or, as it is sometimes put, a sandal slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 40 | 106 |
She is attentive, and serves well; she is devoted; she is dutiful; she is sensitive to the master's moods and behaves accordingly; sometimes he wants her to speak, and sometimes not; sometimes he wants her naked, licking at his thigh, and sometimes not; always it is the master's will which determine... |
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| 2 | 240 |
If they are, they are taken aboard and chained, sometimes on deck, sometimes in the hold. |
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| 3 | 194 |
In the past domestic tarns were sometimes freed, to hunt in the wild, and later to return to their cots, sometimes to the blasts of the tarn whistle. |
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| 8 | 351 |
In cities, sometimes display leashes are used, of colored leather, of beaded, even jeweled, leather, or of light, closely meshed lengths of chain, sometimes of silver or gold. |
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| 16 | 187 |
In such cases there is not unoften a killing, and sometimes a woman, most often a slave, sometimes a seductive, manipulative, conniving slave who would, for her perceived advantage, or sense of power, set masters against one another. |
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| 38 | 254 |
Sometimes too, the women are kept off the market, sometimes for months, while their owners wait, hoping for better prices. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 1335 |
Sometimes an item which appears promising in the exposition cage may prove less interesting on the block, and sometimes an item scarcely noticed in the exposition cage will enflame a battle of bids, much to the pleasure and profit of the house. |
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| 4 | 13 |
I had seen such eyes before, sometimes on free men, sometimes on lovely slaves, but rarely. |
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| 8 | 11 |
On the stem castle, one could see the small, misshapen figure of Tersites, hidden in furs, pacing from side to side, sometimes howling in rage, sometimes pausing to shake small, gnarled fists at the thick, white expanse, like rock, that stretched about us. |
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| 8 | 160 |
Sometimes a master will allow his girl a bit of slack on her leash, so to speak, which is sometimes pleasant, but that only makes it all the more sweeter to bring her again to her knees before him, his slave. |
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| 8 | 185 |
Too, interestingly, a slave may sometimes desire to be whipped, perhaps to reassure her of her master's attention, that she is still important to him, that he regards her as still his slave, that he regards her as still worth whipping, and perhaps, sometimes, she simply desires to be whipped, to be ... |
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| 15 | 27 |
The border, so to speak, as far off as it might be in any case, tended to move, and with some periodicity; it was thus sometimes closer, sometimes farther away. |
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| 37 | 1110 |
Sometimes, of course, after this gesture, she is put to her belly, her wrists are bound indeed, but behind her, and a rope is put on her neck, or, sometimes, a nose ring, on a cord, is affixed, such things functioning as a leash or tether. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 645 |
Sometimes it was referred to as "the house of meaningless beauty," sometimes as "the harem," sometimes as "the slave market," which, I supposed, was a reference to a girl's judiciously selling herself, so to speak, to the highest bidder. |
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| 48 | 7 |
Sometimes the left-hand container seemed to speak, sometimes that in the center, and sometimes that on the right. |
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| 52 | 559 |
"Sometimes it begins as early as the block, your bare feet in the sawdust, the men bidding on you, you knowing that you are being sold, sometimes from as early as your first enclosure in a slave cage, you kneeling there, looking out, grasping the bars, sometimes with your stripping and the locking o... |
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| 8 | 104 |
I have wondered sometimes if free women do not sometimes wonder what it would be to find themselves in such "ornaments" or "jewelry," stripped and helpless within them. |
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| 8 | 113 |
Sometimes the most beautiful girl is first on the coffle, sometimes last. |
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| 8 | 1722 |
"Come along, Allison," said he, and began to make his way between the tables, and I, in the sullied, soaked tunic, stumbled along at his side, sometimes brushing into patrons, sometimes striking against benches, jutting out, in the narrow space between the tables. |
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| 8 | 2032 |
I had enjoyed such games, sometimes for gain, sometimes for sport. |
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| 11 | 260 |
"But sometimes," she said, "attacks are in the day, particularly in less frequented districts, and sometimes slaves are abroad at night". |
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| 17 | 216 |
Such races are apparently difficult to anticipate and analyze, presumably from the unpredictability of the beasts, which are sometimes refractory, and sometimes wayward and aggressive. |
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| 50 | 26 |
Sometimes Lord Grendel would deliver a message somewhere in person, and, sometimes, retrieve a message from some unknown source. |
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| 52 | 443 |
"It is sometimes convenient to be of one caste, sometimes of another". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 2 |
Why does one take one road, and not another? Sometimes curiosity, sometimes adventure, sometimes because it is a new road, on no familiar map. |
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| 4 | 53 |
How well they display the house's merchandise, sometimes subtly, so cleverly, sometimes brazenly, so boldly, invitingly, seductively! Many men who lack the coin to make a realistic bid frequent the emporia, the selling wagons, the shelves, the cages, the platforms, the camps, and barns, to gather th... |
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| 5 | 249 |
Sometimes one is bought to be kept, sometimes to be resold. |
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| 7 | 218 |
I had sometimes begun to sense how one's needs might sometimes be much upon us. |
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| 14 | 264 |
It was good to know the land, and good to be alone, sometimes, and good, sometimes, to have time to think. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 124 |
The hands on the kitchen clock moved, sometimes it seemed slowly, sometimes rapidly. |
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| 53 | 9 |
Sometimes the pomerium extends beyond a city's walls, and, sometimes, it is within the walls, and the same pomerium might be partly within the walls and partly outside. |
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| 65 | 385 |
And sometimes a man may be brave, and at another time not brave; sometimes a man may be honorable, and at another time not honorable. |
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