| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 23 |
This outcome struck me as being a pleasant if perplexing state of affairs. |
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| 1 | 149 |
It seemed clear to me that I was not insane, or if I was, that insanity was a state of mental clarity and comprehension quite apart from the torment that I had conceived it to be. |
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| 3 | 75 |
"The city-state," said my father, speaking to me late one afternoon, "is the basic political division on Gor—hostile cities controlling what territory they can in their environs, surrounded by a no-man's land of open ground on every side". |
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| 3 | 95 |
I nodded, imagining a palace, empty save for one man sitting alone on his throne, clad in his robes of state, waiting for the angry people outside the gates to break through and work their wrath. |
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| 6 | 227 |
So now the tarn was gone, returned to his natural wild state, the Home Stone was in the saddle pack, and I had failed, and the daughter of the Ubar had failed, and we stood facing one another on a green knoll in the swamp forest of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 188 |
Later, following another examination, I was admitted to the bar in New York State, and I entered one of the immense law offices in the city, hoping to obtain eventually enough experience and capital to open a small practice of my own. |
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| 2 | 4 |
In that state, as once long before, I had come to this world. |
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| 12 | 42 |
I supposed it indicated that she was a state slave of Tharna. |
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| 14 | 179 |
But I knew even as I cried out that I was not free, and I burned with shame that I had so bespoke myself, for how could I be free when others in that gray city were bound? There was the girl, warm-eyed Linna, who had been kind to me, whose auburn hair was knotted with coarse string, who wore the gra... |
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| 23 | 234 |
Behind Andreas, in the dress of a free woman, unveiled, her throat no longer encircled by the collar of a state slave, I saw the breathless, radiant Linna of Tharna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 4 |
The bars were apparently very old and had never been kept in a state of repair or replaced when defective. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 230 |
In the affairs of state she was now without value. |
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| 8 | 456 |
It might have been a good trick, but I was in no state of mind to relish it. |
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| 21 | 61 |
"And state your business". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 170 |
They wore the brief gray livery of the state slave of Ar, slashed to the waist, knotted with a gray cord; about their throats was locked the gray metal collar of Ar's state slave; they were barefoot; on the left ankle of each was the gray metal band, with its five gray bells, worn by the female stat... |
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| 2 | 182 |
Other Initiates wished to examine these omens, being read in the state of the bosk's liver, but Complicius Serenus, as though in terror, had cast the liver into the fire, presumably that such dark portents might be immediately destroyed. |
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| 5 | 369 |
I think there is little immediate and gross danger, provided the enemy does not learn our current state of weakness". |
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| 13 | 131 |
He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following the mandate of the law, to liq... |
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| 15 | 415 |
My house is confiscated by the state! I am nothing! I am nothing!" Cernus meditated his move, his chin on his two fists, one above the other. |
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| 16 | 2 |
He had purchased from the state the facilities and chattels of the House of Portus, at a comparatively small price. |
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| 16 | 6 |
Further, because of his services to the state, including the sponsorship of games and races, Cernus was, upon the petition of Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians, invested in the scarlet of the Warrior, thus honoring him with High Caste. |
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| 17 | 213 |
The citizens of Ar, generally, found it distasteful that the private fortunes of the Hinrabians should be in such poor state. |
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| 24 | 118 |
The female state slave of Ar wears a brief, gray slave livery, with matching gray collar. |
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| 24 | 123 |
One of the decrees of Marlenus, uttered at his victory feast, yesterday evening, to rounds of drunken cheers and applause, had been to decree a two-hort, approximately two and one-half inch, heightening of the hemline in the already rather briefly skirted livery of female state slaves; this morning ... |
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| 24 | 124 |
The hair of the female state slave of Ar, incidentally, is normally cut rather short and brushed back around the head; the common slave girl, on the other hand, normally has rather long hair, which is unbound. |
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| 24 | 171 |
Their hair, in state fashion, had been cut short, shaped, and combed back around the head. |
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| 24 | 180 |
Scribes at nearby tables endorsed and updated papers of registration, that the ownership of the girls be legally transferred from the state to individual citizens. |
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| 24 | 182 |
She was attired as were the others, in the brief livery of the state slave of Ar. |
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| 24 | 203 |
She trembled in the chains of the state slave. |
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| 24 | 220 |
"You will receive a pension from the state," said Marlenus, "ample to the needs of a woman of High Caste". |
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| 24 | 289 |
There, before the throne of the Ubar, stood, in the brief livery of the state slave of Ar, two girls. |
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| 24 | 348 |
"Or be returned to the pens of state slaves". |
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| 24 | 423 |
She wore the briefly skirted gray slave livery of the state slave of Ar, the gray collar, the slender band of gray metal with its five simple bells locked about her left ankle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
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| 10 | 35 |
It seems pertinent, however, in this instance, to state the ratios in Gorean feet, rather than translate into English measures, where the harmony of the proportions would be obscured. |
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| 13 | 13 |
As I spoke, the Ubar of Cos, Lurius of Jad, and the Ubar of Tyros, Chenbar of Kasra, the Sea Sleen, who was visiting Lurius on matters of state, sat unspeaking upon their thrones. |
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| 13 | 19 |
She had been brought to Cos that Lurius might look upon her and, should he find her pleasing, be proclaimed as his future companion of state. |
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| 13 | 23 |
Such, I thought to myself, are the affairs of state. |
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| 13 | 133 |
Following the ceremony of the companionship there will be a conjoining of our fleets, that we may soon thereafter pay Port Kar a visit of state". |
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| 17 | 124 |
I examined the state of the battle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 149 |
In the public pens, state slaves are kept as well as the merchandise of slave caravans passing through the city. |
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| 11 | 1015 |
How fearful! I feared I might become such that I would not for the world relinquish my condition, my state, my bondage, that my bondage would become more precious to me by far than my freedom had ever been. |
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| 11 | 1268 |
Certain of the tarnsmen of Ko-ro-ba boasted of having driven him from the lands of the state, but others, as I learned from guards, were only silent. |
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| 11 | 1279 |
Their weapons, for they were a goodly number of warriors from a distant state, were surrendered at the great gate, to be returned to them upon their departure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 73 |
"I am weary of affairs of state". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 45 |
After the restoration of Marlenus of Ar, in 10,119 Contasta Ar, from the founding of Ar, he had at his victory feast decreed a two-hort, about two and one half inches, shortening of the already briefly skirted garment of the female state slave. |
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| 8 | 47 |
Proving that I myself am not above fashion I had had this scandalous alteration implemented in my own house; surely I would not have wanted my girls to be embarrassed by the excessive length of their livery; and, in fact, I did the Ubar of Ar one better, by ordering their hemlines lifted by an addit... |
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| 10 | 565 |
"From what state?" I asked. |
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| 22 | 181 |
The collar itself, and the state of bondage, for no reason clear in my mind, commonly transforms even the tepid free woman into an orgasmic marvel of a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 245 |
One would not, surely, produce a state of apprehension and heightened awareness in the enemy prior to an attack". |
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| 1 | 288 |
They are then sent naked to the block to be sold, in this state of cruel frustration. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 21 |
I might, in my normal waking state, have recalled much of what had occurred there, even to the words spoken, but, in the unusual state of consciousness which Iskander, by means of his drug and his suggestions, had induced in me even the most trivial details, little things which a waking consciousnes... |
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| 1 | 192 |
The full consciousness of my waking state, and my awareness of truth, welled up within me. |
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| 4 | 955 |
More than one freed woman, because of pierced ears, has found herself again on the block, again reduced by strong men to the helpless state of bondage. |
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| 7 | 23 |
This created, for a strong state, such as Ar, defensively, a reasonably stable, secure border, and, with respect to her possible ambitions, an attractive, exploitable power vacuum. |
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| 9 | 894 |
Girls more beautiful than I often slaved in the kitchens of great houses or, in state tunics and chains, scrubbed the floors of public buildings at night. |
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| 9 | 1102 |
Seeing my state, he had used me immediately, and I had, my whole body, helplessly, to my amazement, responded instantly to him. |
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| 9 | 2294 |
Accordingly, on behalf of one who was of the village, who can no longer transact the affairs of business, having fallen into the unfortunate state of slavery, I, on behalf of that former person, now one of my beasts, tender you to him in payment for the powder". |
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| 14 | 219 |
She had been made worthless in the affairs of state. |
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| 14 | 224 |
Their companionship had been an intended match of state. |
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| 14 | 318 |
"You will only do him dishonor if you show him my present state". |
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| 16 | 193 |
Tyros and Cos, and Port Kar, remain to this day in a state of war with respect to one another. |
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| 18 | 78 |
What man, fortunate enough to own a slave, with all the rights and privileges of the mastery, holding all power over a beautiful woman, even as to how she will wear her hair and whether or not she will be clothed, having at his least beck and call her beauty and its services, and having at his dispo... |
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| 19 | 110 |
A strange state of consciousness seemed suddenly to come over me. |
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| 19 | 122 |
Strangely, as soon as the necklace had been taken from me, my natural state of consciousness returned. |
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| 20 | 577 |
I had rendered great service to the state of Cos. |
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| 25 | 15 |
"This will relax you," he had said, "and induce an unusual state of consciousness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 |
Their state at that time was sufficiently advanced technologically to construct small steel worlds in orbit, each some pasangs in diameter. |
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| 2 | 363 |
Perhaps that is because he is the victim of a more primitive state of consciousness; perhaps, on the other hand, we have forgotten things which he has not. |
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| 3 | 162 |
I did not know if the kurdah contained a free woman of high state or perhaps a prized female slave, naked and bejeweled, to be exhibited in a secret tent and privately sold. |
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| 4 | 101 |
The movements of the pieces are chalked on the left side of the board, in order; the main portion of the board consists of a representation of the Kaissa board and young players, in apprenticeship to masters, move pieces upon it; one has thus before oneself both a record of the moves made to that po... |
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| 15 | 991 |
There are state slaves who maintain public compartments, and work in offices and warehouses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 67 |
His properties were to be confiscated and divided, half to the widow and half, predictably, to the state. |
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| 18 | 93 |
His properties were to be confiscated and distributed, half to be given to members of his village and half to the state. |
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| 18 | 119 |
If it did not, he could forget her, leaving her neglected, a sequestered souvenir of state, another girl lost in one of the women's courts in the palace. |
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| 18 | 154 |
Aware of the wealth and mighty projects of the ubarate we desire to arrange the apparatus for commercial interaction with your state. |
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| 18 | 241 |
"I arranged that he appear guilty of a violation of state trust, and had him slain for treason against the ubarate". |
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| 23 | 10 |
Slowly the state platform was drawn toward us. |
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| 23 | 157 |
They then began to wade forward, drawing the canoes, with the platform of state affixed athwart them. |
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| 51 | 107 |
The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant Law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of free men, impress upon her her lowly status, and, interestingly, keep her in a state of sexual readiness, ... |
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| 57 | 84 |
To this day, as one may see upon the map, the land of Ukungu stands as a sovereign free state within the perimeters of the empire of Bila Huruma. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 41 |
Ebullius Gaius Cassius was also, as might be expected, the administrator of the city, or state, of Ti itself. |
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| 13 | 60 |
"I did not know, with the state of your finances, that you had managed to retain it," said the Lady Florence. |
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| 13 | 193 |
It was in that cylinder, as I understood it, that were housed many of the bureaus and agencies of Ar, many of the departments important to the functioning of the state; in it, too, met various councils; in it, too, were the private compartments of the Ubar of Ar, a man called Marlenus. |
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| 32 | 400 |
"Fear rather the actual state of bondage, and those who will be your masters". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 64 |
"Had you found the topaz," I asked, "what would have been done with me?" "You might have looked forward," said he, "if fortunate, to a lifetime chained at the bench of a state galley". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 275 |
But then few men of Earth had had the illuminating experience of seeing their precious women, their sexuality liberated by Gorean males, returned to the primitive natural state of biological women, crawling, collared, to the feet of masters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1450 |
' 'Glana' denotes the state or virginity and 'metaglana' denotes the state succeeding virginity. |
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| 13 | 1453 |
' 'Profalarina' designates the state preceding falarina, which is the state of the woman who has been penetrated at least once by a male". |
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| 13 | 1454 |
"Here," she said, "the state of virginity is regarded as one which looks toward, or has not yet attained, the state of falarina". |
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| 1 | 118 |
The brushing of the sides of the girl's neck by the dangling ornament is, in itself, a delicate stimulation of a sensitive area of her body, the sides of her neck beneath the ears; this area is quite sensitive to light touches; if the earring is of more than one piece, the tiny sounds made by it, to... |
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| 8 | 306 |
In certain other markets these girls, in their current state of barbarity and ignorance, might have brought as little as seven or eight tarsks apiece. |
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| 13 | 1451 |
Do you see the difference?" "Yes," she said, "in Gorean virginity is regarded as a state to be succeeded". |
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| 13 | 1456 |
"In the first case, virginity is seen as something to be succeeded, and, in the second, it is seen as something which is conceived of as merely antedating the state of falarina. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 4 |
It is even more pronounced, of course, when the speaker is excited or in an emotional state. |
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| 34 | 314 |
"You may freely enter into the state of bondage," I told her, "but you may not freely leave it. |
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| 37 | 254 |
She did not need the sip root, of course, for, as she had pointed out, she had had some within the moon, and, indeed, the effect of sip root, in the raw state, in most women, is three or four moons. |
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| 37 | 255 |
In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser, as suggested, for its remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the "second wine". |
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| 48 | 27 |
What is a girl to do, how is she to act, to whom is she to relate? In such a status she is an impersonal property, as of a state, clan or tribe. |
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| 54 | 308 |
Thus, first, those who had been Waniyanpi were now no longer slaves of the Kaiila and, second, they now maintained what amounted, for most practical purposes, to a small free state within the Barrens. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 170 |
It shows no particular, obvious signs of wear but its surface is less perfect than would be required to qualify it as being Uncirculated or as being in Mint State. |
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| 2 | 167 |
I was very conscious of my state of dishabille. |
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| 3 | 1064 |
"He worked long hours in the service of the state. |
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| 4 | 92 |
It was a state of unusual sexual excitement, and arousal. |
10 |
| 10 | 15 |
The people were supportive of the policies of the palace, loyal to the state and personally devoted to their beloved Tatrix. |
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| 12 | 4 |
I watched the glorious robes of state being placed about my shoulders. |
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| 12 | 23 |
"Put her in the veil of state," said Ligurious. |
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| 12 | 31 |
Hitherto I had generally worn veils only when intending to travel incognito in the city, and I had never worn them on official occasions of state. |
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| 13 | 29 |
Then he jerked away the veil of state from my features. |
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| 17 | 31 |
How far I was from the department store, from my apartment, from my world! And how far, too, I found myself from the luxury, the display, the ceremony and glory, the spectacle, of mysterious Corcyrus; how far from the corridors of a guarded palace, from the resplendent, cumbersome pomp of state robe... |
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| 30 | 24 |
This is usually the responsibility of those whose buildings face the street, the larger avenues, squares and plazas, and such, being cleaned by state slaves. |
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| 30 | 534 |
The experience which I had originally taken to be a dream, when I had been drugged, early in my stay in Corcyrus, I now understood had probably not been a dream at all, but my recollection of being inspected, in my half-conscious, drugged state, by Ligurious and Sheila. |
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| 32 | 73 |
In return for immunity I have volunteered to give evidence for the state of Argentum in the identification of the Tatrix of Corcyrus. |
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| 33 | 59 |
For months within her very government I strove to dissuade her from endeavors hostile to the great state of Argentum. |
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| 33 | 204 |
Would he have us believe that the true Tatrix was off somewhere, polishing her nails perhaps, while someone else was conducting the business of state in her place?" There was laughter. |
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| 33 | 587 |
He was the man whose life I had spared, when he had spoken out so forcibly against the Tatrix, on that day, so long ago, when I had been in the palanquin with Ligurious, that day in which, in the glory of a state procession, we had been carried through the streets of Corcyrus. |
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| 33 | 654 |
And I suspected that she, no more than I, even if permitted, could return to the simplicities, pretensions, abstractions, lies, and hypocrisies of our former state. |
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| 36 | 976 |
I supposed that now, technically, they might be the property of the state of Argentum. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 620 |
They will look well in state chains. |
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| 4 | 177 |
It is generally conceded, however, that had Clearchus had more men he might have turned out to be the founder of a state. |
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| 5 | 409 |
"They are state papers," she said. |
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| 5 | 410 |
"They must not fall into the wrong hands!" I assumed they were not state papers, of course. |
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| 8 | 142 |
Sleen, which tend to be fine hunters and splendid trackers, which are swiftly moving, aggressive, serpentine, generally nocturnal animals, particularly in the wild state, are less fastidious about their eating habits. |
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| 13 | 300 |
Indeed, it was for having stolen such fruit from a state orchard that he had been incarcerated. |
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| 14 | 259 |
Nim Nim, as I recalled, had been netted in a state orchard. |
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| 14 | 289 |
"I am staying here! I am not approaching! I will not hurt you! Do not enter the pack!" Nim Nim had been caught in a state orchard. |
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| 15 | 68 |
Now all changes! Now, fool, you will be the reason not only for my restoration to privilege and station in Brundisium, the reason for my new rise to favor in the court, in the eyes of Belnar, my Ubar, but the cause, as well, of my attaining there, in the palace and in the service of my Ubar, and the... |
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| 16 | 1026 |
"Forcing me to such an extremity," said Temenides, "could well be construed as a state insult in the lofty chambers of Cos". |
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| 18 | 122 |
"Citizens of Brundisium, and guests," called Belnar, rising to his feet, "I would have preferred for the Lady Yanina, that distinguished citizeness of Brundisium, known to you all, that true servant of our palace and state, that lovely courtier, my trusted agent, my beautiful operative, to conduct t... |
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| 21 | 66 |
"She was put in a state collar," said Flaminius, "with no specifications or restrictions. |
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| 21 | 239 |
"I am Saphronicus, general of Ar, envoy from the state of Ar," it said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 31 |
On the table, before him, resting on what appeared to be state papers, was a sword. |
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| 15 | 162 |
How odd it seemed that I should meet this man here, in such a place, rather than in a feast of state, on the ramparts of a fortress, or on a bloodstained field. |
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| 15 | 565 |
By means of her wiles and beauty she had ingratiated herself with him and there were few secrets of state to which she, in one way or another, was not privy. |
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| 15 | 836 |
Then he threw her on her belly on the desk, on the papers, and the various documents of state. |
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| 18 | 77 |
These rigidities and misfortunes, of course, are not permitted to her in the state of bondage. |
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| 21 | 185 |
"Commoners, then, can look upon the regent," I asked, "other than from afar, as in state processions or at official games?" "Of course," said the man. |
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| 22 | 360 |
I gathered that, whatever might be her interior state, or states, that she was no longer concerned to pretend to be a man. |
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| 25 | 1346 |
There is no doubt that slaves without private masters, say, slaves in work gangs, slaves in mills and factories, in the mines, in the laundries, in tower service, in street work, in great holdings, in large households, field slaves, state slaves, and such, may experience terrible loneliness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 264 |
The correlated term is 'metaglana', used to designate the state to which the glana state looks forward, or that which it is regarded as anticipating. |
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| 9 | 265 |
Though the word was not used of me I was also 'profalarina', which term designates the state preceding, and anticipating, that of "falarina," the state Goreans seem to think of as that of being a full woman, or, at least, as those of Earth might think of it, one who certainly is no longer a virgin. |
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| 5 | 81 |
It, like other aspects of our diet, the fruits and vegetables, and the cylindrical pellets we were given, seemed intended to slim our bodies and bring us to a peak state of health. |
10 |
| 24 | 329 |
Though I had had, because of the relatively advanced state of my dancing skills, for a new slave, very little instruction in dance in the house of my first training, I had been taught at least that much. |
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| 28 | 102 |
In the case of a master's death the slave, like other property, passes to the heirs, or, if there are no heirs, to the state. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 266 |
Seldom are they privy to the councils of state. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 485 |
"I charge you, in virtue of the authority of my commission in the forces of Ar's Station, colony to the state of Ar, to conduct us into the presence of Saphronicus, your commander, at Holmesk. |
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| 3 | 584 |
Interestingly, on the other hand, captive women are often kept together, that their suspicions, speculations, fears and apprehensions may reinforce one another, bringing them to a state of common ignorance and terror. |
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| 5 | 54 |
"Why?" "That you may see the unavailingness of your lies," he said, "that you may see us close with the sleen of Cos, that you may see the slaughter of your friends, your paymasters, that you may see wreaked upon them the vengeance of the state of Ar! Glory to Ar!" "Glory to Ar," repeated a nearby f... |
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| 14 | 54 |
"State your views," he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 4 |
Perhaps, too, they now desired to conceal from me the wretchedness of their state. |
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| 28 | 357 |
It sometimes takes a new slave weeks, for example, to convince a master that she is no longer really a citizeness of a foreign state but now only an animal who belongs to him, one who solicits his indulgence, one who begs his kindness, and one who hopes to serve and please him, her master, as much o... |
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| 31 | 563 |
"But you cannot leave me in this state!" she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 581 |
She had already donned the livery intended to resemble the state livery of Ar, and I had earlier put on her neck the collar designed to resemble a state collar. |
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| 22 | 117 |
Some state slaves, of course, usually girls of unusual beauty, are used at state banquets, to serve and entertain. |
10 |
| 22 | 185 |
As I have earlier indicated the state is generally heedless of the sexual needs of its state slaves. |
10 |
| 24 | 313 |
That was true enough, of course, as Lavinia, in the garment resembling that of a state slave, and in what seemed to be a state collar, had been in contact several times with the slave, carrying verbal messages, and arranging the details of the putative assignation of this morning. |
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| 6 | 15 |
These boards, however, were along the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, and were state boards, on which official communiqués, news releases, announcements and such, could be posted. |
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| 6 | 100 |
I suspected that he was at worst a dupe, a trusting man, perhaps even one of considerable talent, who had found himself, through no real fault of his own, a pawn in games of state, games in which there seemed to be no rules other than survival and victory. |
10 |
| 7 | 238 |
I recalled he had once been under the influence of the beautiful slave, Lucilina, even to the point of consulting her in matters of state. |
10 |
| 8 | 503 |
"Thus do they demonstrate their loyalty to the state," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 505 |
"The state of Cos," he said, angrily. |
10 |
| 9 | 276 |
Marlenus, upon his return to the throne, had freed her, even arranging for her support at state expense. |
10 |
| 9 | 337 |
"Should this woman's caste, and her lofty birth, and that she was the daughter of an administrator, a mere administrator, permit her to shirk her duties to the state?" "No!" cried men. |
10 |
| 9 | 338 |
"No!" "To the state of Cos?" inquired Claudia. |
10 |
| 9 | 360 |
"I regret that I cannot," said Talena, "despite my love for you, exempt you from your duties to the state". |
10 |
| 9 | 584 |
Sometimes the defeated administrator or ubar is forced to witness such a banquet, from a throne, clad in his robes of state, a throne set just below that of his conqueror. |
10 |
| 9 | 618 |
"Ludmilla, Lady of Ar, has been excused, because of her contributions to Ar, because of her service to the state". |
10 |
| 13 | 29 |
"To appear noble, well disposed, benevolent? To give the public baubles and toys, items of interest with which to beguile themselves? To create diversions, to distract Ar's attention from her defeat and sorry state?" "They did not do this before," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 108 |
It could be a caste, the state, a leader, many things. |
10 |
| 18 | 185 |
"The state of knaves, traitors, and cowards?" inquired the ponderous fellow. |
10 |
| 18 | 392 |
"You know that Ar refused to support Ar's Station in the north and that her loyalty to the state of Ar cost her her walls and her Home Stone?" "Yes," he said. |
10 |
| 20 | 241 |
It was a tunic resembling that of a state slave, done in the new fashion. |
10 |
| 20 | 242 |
The garmenture of the state slave, that of a girl owned by the city itself, some time ago, had been brief, sleeveless and gray, slashed to the waist. |
10 |
| 20 | 246 |
Currently, however, the garmenture of the state slaves, as one might have expected, given the defeat of Ar and the hegemony of Cos, had been considerably altered. |
10 |
| 20 | 255 |
The slave tunic of the state slave was still sleeveless, however. |
10 |
| 20 | 367 |
In some respects it was rather in the style set for the tunics of state slaves. |
10 |
| 20 | 400 |
They, too, it seemed, had not forgotten their state of but a few moments ago. |
10 |
| 21 | 6 |
"How dare I be seen before him," she asked, "as what I am now, a slave?" "You will be in the modest livery of a state slave," I said, "not even belled". |
10 |
| 21 | 19 |
She blushed, and quickly put down the garment of white wool, and fetched the gray garment of the state slave. |
10 |
| 21 | 22 |
In an instant she had drawn the tunic of the state slave over her head and was smoothing it down about her hips. |
10 |
| 21 | 27 |
I then fetched the collar, designed to resemble a state collar, from the flat leather box. |
10 |
| 21 | 582 |
Indeed, I had even a few days ago, stopped a state slave, to check her collar. |
10 |
| 21 | 591 |
I was pleased, for my own purposes, at any rate, that state slaves in Ar were no longer belled, a consequence of the misguided and unsuccessful policies of Cos to devirilize, and thus make more manageable, the men of Ar. |
10 |
| 21 | 592 |
Thus that the slave, Lavinia, beneath the cloak, was in state livery, you see, would not be suggested to any in the streets outside. |
10 |
| 22 | 25 |
She was, after all, even though in the seeming livery and collar of a state slave, still only a slave. |
10 |
| 22 | 106 |
"That was a state slave," he said. |
10 |
| 22 | 107 |
"A branded slut is a branded slut, even if she is owned by the state". |
10 |
| 22 | 111 |
"Do you think that at night when they are chained at their slave rings the state caresses them?" I asked. |
10 |
| 22 | 113 |
The lot of a state slave can be one of great deprivation. |
10 |
| 22 | 118 |
But even there the state not unoften utilizes trained feast slaves, rented from various establishments or, upon certain occasions, even the girls from a Ubar's own pleasure gardens. |
10 |
| 22 | 126 |
The fellow had taken Lavinia unquestioningly for a state slave. |
10 |
| 22 | 184 |
Too this might fit in with her guise as a state slave, for such are often not averse to such attentions, and have something of a reputation of provoking them. |
10 |
| 22 | 187 |
To be sure, what does it matter, as the women are only slaves? On the other hand, it might be noted that state slaves being sold into the private sector often bring good prices. |
10 |
| 22 | 203 |
"Interfering with a state slave," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 245 |
"To complain of your interference with the duties of a state slave," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 329 |
"This fellow," I said, indicating the free fellow with whom I had held brief converse but a moment or so ago, "interfered with the progress of a state slave". |
10 |
| 22 | 456 |
I could then renew my contact with them from a distance, discreetly observing the encounter between that party and a girl seemingly in the garments of the state slave. |
10 |
| 22 | 502 |
This girl who had been waiting was a state slave. |
10 |
| 22 | 690 |
The recent garments prescribed for state slaves, of course, as such things went, were quite modest. |
10 |
| 22 | 777 |
"These state sluts are all the same," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 22 | 795 |
In this fashion it was concealed that she wore a garment resembling that of a state slave and her legs, quite contrary to the intent of the statelength garment, were extensively and delightfully bared. |
10 |
| 24 | 427 |
If they were found yards apart, fully clothed, engaged in exchanging comments on the state of the theater in Ar under Cos, or something, I might as well forget my plans. |
10 |
| 25 | 483 |
"You noted when you saw her this morning, of course," I said, "that she was not in state garb". |
10 |
| 25 | 485 |
"Nor in a state collar". |
10 |
| 25 | 493 |
"It did excite me," he said, "to see her not in the drab state garb, but in the tunic she wore, with the disrobing loop". |
10 |
| 26 | 182 |
All communications between them other than these had been effected by Lavinia, to the Ubara in the guise of a slave of the house of Appanius, to Milo in the guise of a state slave, with the exception of their rendezvous this morning. |
10 |
| 26 | 347 |
In her, it seemed, might be revelations, discoveries, and enforcements that in her state of inert freedom could scarcely be conjectured. |
10 |
| 27 | 855 |
Most, seeing you participate in state ceremonies, holding court, opening games, and such, will think you are truly the Ubara. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 757 |
I belonged, I had learned, to the state, and in this place, I had learned, he was as the state. |
10 |
| 14 | 1477 |
"It is not a state collar," he said to me, "but, as she is in your custody, one gathers that she must be in the keeping of the state, for some reason, perhaps pending her sale". |
10 |
| 7 | 271 |
"I would suppose it would be hard to tell, in the state of consciousness you were in," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 620 |
"The collar is a state collar". |
10 |
| 11 | 621 |
That I had not counted on! I did not even understand what it might be, to belong to a polity, a city, a state. |
10 |
| 11 | 622 |
Who then owned me, the polity, it seemed, the city, the state. |
10 |
| 11 | 766 |
"To the state, Master," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 767 |
To be sure, I did not know what state. |
10 |
| 11 | 1252 |
Dorna then, clearly, was not a state slave. |
10 |
| 11 | 1336 |
I was, I had learned, a property of the state in this place, whatever place it might be. |
10 |
| 11 | 1488 |
I might be displayed with pride to a master's acquaintances, or perhaps, as a state slave, to foreign diplomats or merchants. |
10 |
| 11 | 1784 |
"Lift up the state slave," said he. |
10 |
| 12 | 340 |
It was a state collar, I had been informed. |
10 |
| 12 | 341 |
I was not eager to be owned by a state, of course. |
10 |
| 12 | 950 |
"The state is my master," I whispered. |
10 |
| 12 | 951 |
"Here," said she, "he is as the state". |
10 |
| 13 | 171 |
In slavers' raids they are not unoften surprised and discommoded in such a state of charming dishabille. |
10 |
| 13 | 210 |
Intelligent, she derives more from the uncompromising completeness of her state and the deliciousness of her domination. |
10 |
| 13 | 734 |
Sometimes, too, we must, as we can, if we can, state the reasons for the blows, if there are reasons for them. |
10 |
| 13 | 976 |
How low I was! "It is a state collar, is it not?" I asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 1316 |
It was she, it seemed, who was slept at his feet, but, as the whim might seize him, I was sure he might have availed himself of any of the women in this place, state slaves, but here, in this place, as his own slaves. |
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| 14 | 1457 |
"It is a state collar," he said. |
10 |
| 14 | 1764 |
Indeed, I suspect he read my collar to learn more of you, for example, you would be the slave Tuta who was in the keeping of the state slave, Janice, and so on". |
10 |
| 16 | 64 |
I lifted my eyes, pleadingly, to the male, who was to me, though I belonged to the state, in this time and place, as Master. |
10 |
| 16 | 268 |
It was a state collar. |
10 |
| 16 | 644 |
And so it seemed that I, a lowly slave, figured somehow, in no way I clearly understood, in some obscure affair of state. |
10 |
| 16 | 677 |
They were owned then not by the state but, presumably, by the officer himself. |
10 |
| 18 | 151 |
In some cities, as I understand it, the state involves itself in such matters; for example, in some cities it is a matter of public ordinance that slave tunics may not be longer than a certain amount; this ordinance is presumably motivated not only by a desire to draw a clear distinction between the... |
10 |
| 19 | 179 |
I was in a state collar with my name on it. |
10 |
| 19 | 451 |
It was a state collar. |
10 |
| 22 | 18 |
I am sure Fina was well aware of this, as well, and it was probably one of the reasons she was so much his slave, so to speak, though hers was a state collar, like mine. |
10 |
| 24 | 609 |
And I now understood, better than before, how a man might come to power on this world, and the sort of men that might rise to sit upon the chairs of state. |
10 |
| 28 | 11 |
Indeed, it was I who, in my office as keeper for the state of the free woman, had led her here, she leashed and back-braceleted on the way. |
10 |
| 29 | 107 |
I belonged to the state of Treve. |
10 |
| 29 | 242 |
But I must conduct my business! I must ransom the slut, Constanzia of Besnit! I must sign the letters of credit to the state of Treve to redeem her, rather than use them to negotiate for she who is to me beyond compare, who is to me above all others. |
10 |
| 31 | 11 |
"If you have come to take custody of a prisoner, as your orders state," said the pit master, "why have you no chains with you?" I had noted this, too. |
10 |
| 31 | 26 |
"Know that these women are the property of the state of Treve! You are within the walls of Treve. |
10 |
| 31 | 429 |
But I did not think the peasant, that violent giant, that simple, outraged behemoth of a man, in his present state of mind, in his agitation, in the singleness of his purpose, in this ferocious, puissant concentration of all of his force, his power, against iron and rock, was troubled by pain, or ev... |
10 |
| 37 | 52 |
The other is that the removal of the collar returns the beast to its state of natural savagery, that it removes from it any inhibitions which might have resulted from its familiarity with human beings. |
10 |
| 40 | 3 |
It was here that I had received the state collar of Treve. |
10 |
| 40 | 128 |
She is the property of the state of Treve. |
10 |
| 40 | 335 |
Even Fina, in a sense, will be sold, purchased from the state, but I will see that she comes within the keeping of the depth warden. |
10 |
| 41 | 52 |
I did know his name, and it was clear that he was very rich, which seemed unusual, I gathered, for the current state in the city, which was occupied, I gathered, by foreign troops. |
10 |
| 46 | 40 |
He could be used, you see, even in his current state, as a rallying point for resistance". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 23 |
Is that not what many vociferous proclaimers of her former ideology maintained that wives were, anyway, slaves? How silly that was, what infantile semantic slight of hand! Is there no better way to abolish the family and surrender children to the centrally designed, and centrally directed, condition... |
10 |
| 18 | 476 |
Does not the tunic make such things clear to her? In such a garment she is well aware of her vulnerability; she lives in a state of sexual awareness, and often, whether in despite of her wishes or not, she finds herself in a state of helpless sexual arousal. |
10 |
| 20 | 723 |
Another theory as to the usual choice of gray for state slaves is that it is a sop cast to the sensibilities of free women, who, resenting the usual effects of female slaves on free men, wished the state to limit or reduce the attractiveness of its slaves. |
10 |
| 25 | 235 |
It was not merely that it was a festival camp, for it was not that unusual to sell women on holidays, and at times of celebration, sometimes with special advertising on the public boards, and such; it had to do, rather, with the sales being conducted not by a private house, but by a state, in this c... |
10 |
| 26 | 752 |
"Now I surely acknowledge that the confiscation was within the letter of the law, given the current sorry state of Ar and the ordinances of the occupation; and I acknowledge further that she has been out of my hands for more than the number of days which, in Merchant Law, legitimate her seizure and ... |
10 |
| 1 | 101 |
The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such. |
10 |
| 4 | 117 |
How she would have terrified weak men, administrators, colleagues, and such, by the presentation of such a fierce mien, suggesting implacable resolution, and full readiness to have instant and embarrassing recourse to various devices, procedures, pressures, laws and institutions engineered to impose... |
10 |
| 7 | 234 |
On Earth there might have been many ways to respond to such attentions, a sneer, a chilling stare, a look of contempt, a scornful dismissal, a demeaning question, a nasty, caustic word, a haughty, supercilious shrug and a turning away, many ways to respond, and to all of these she had had recourse a... |
10 |
| 10 | 203 |
He put aside his ornate robes, as of state or office. |
10 |
| 11 | 317 |
To be sure, there are many ways of solving social problems, and Earth is clearly moving to imperialistic centralization, to statism, collectivism and authoritarianism, in which, to control matters, human beings will become in fact, if not in name, slaves of the state. |
10 |
| 11 | 325 |
The media will run like dogs to the whistles of their masters, whether it be their audiences, their advertisers or the state. |
10 |
| 16 | 882 |
To be sure, if one's political programs require the devirilization, and consequent destruction, of the docile, obedient, duped male, then one must do all one can to confuse, deny, blur, and eliminate sexual differences, in this project having recourse to whatever distortions, lies, misrepresentation... |
10 |
| 19 | 399 |
A tyrant state always attempts to disarm its citizens, invariably on the pretext of doing this for their own good. |
10 |
| 19 | 400 |
And thus are the necks of men bent to the yoke of the state. |
10 |
| 19 | 665 |
Perhaps she had departed on secret state business and had now returned to the palace, and was now again on the throne of Ar. |
10 |
| 20 | 78 |
These slaves were tunicked much as common slaves, briefly, and in a variety of colors, though, at the left hip, low, near the hem of the tunic, on the side, rather in the back, there was a small, vertical, rectangular, gray patch, which color is often used for the tunics of state slaves. |
10 |
| 20 | 716 |
Ellen, looking up, found herself before one of the Cosian camp slaves, this one a ravishing blonde, in a brief yellow tunic, with its small vertical, rectangular gray patch, in the vicinity of the left hip, that discreet emblem indicative of state ownership. |
10 |
| 20 | 717 |
Most state slaves in the cities, Ellen had heard, wore gray tunics. |
10 |
| 20 | 718 |
This made it easy, at a glance, to distinguish between state slaves and privately owned slaves. |
10 |
| 20 | 719 |
This distinction might occasionally prove to be of more than simply proprietary or identificatory relevance, for example, if one wished, in short order, to commandeer state slaves, to round them up and transport them, exchange them for goods or prisoners, and so on. |
10 |
| 20 | 720 |
Accordingly, for various reasons, a uniform color, or such, for state slaves, would doubtless be institutionally judicious. |
10 |
| 20 | 722 |
The color gray was probably chosen because it seems unpretentious, conservative, subdued, and sober, a color thus fitting for a girl who is a mere slave of the state, one lacking a private master whose collar she might wear and at whose slave ring she might kneel, and will fit in nicely enough with ... |
10 |
| 20 | 726 |
The state slaves with the march wore, as noted, a variety of tunics, and their status was marked out simply by the small, rectangular gray patches. |
10 |
| 20 | 727 |
Ellen doubted that there were many free women with the march, who might object to this latitude accorded the state's collar girls, saving perhaps those who might be behind the drawn curtains in the cage wagons. |
10 |
| 21 | 205 |
Naturally their owner, the state of Cos, would wish them to be exhibited at their best, to be clean, healthy, rested, presentable, attractive. |
10 |
| 22 | 602 |
Ultimately, however, in theory, the cost of the wine, as tabulated, and the cost of its distribution by such as Callimachus, was to be borne by the state of Cos, as the festival camp was organized on her behalf. |
10 |
| 23 | 32 |
"Who owns you?" "The state of Cos, Master". |
10 |
| 24 | 862 |
"How cleverly Selius Arconious demeans me! He knows I hate him, that I cannot stand him, that I loathe him! Now he whom I intensely despise chooses to interfere! From where has he come? Why is he here? By what right does he interpose himself betwixt a slave and an agent of her master, the state of C... |
10 |
| 25 | 483 |
She was thirsty, and she did not doubt but what this state was common on the chain. |
10 |
| 25 | 853 |
Unwilling though she might have been to reveal her arousal under such conditions, it had doubtless been clear enough from the state of her body. |
10 |
| 26 | 734 |
"I purchased a worthless slave with a plenitude of Cosian gold, thus felicitously insulting the state of Cos. |
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| 28 | 52 |
One supposes he would find this state of affairs unobjectionable. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 156 |
"It is a standard collar, Master," she said, "but one similar to a public collar, as that of a state slave". |
10 |
| 14 | 30 |
In its raw, unconcentrated state the effects of the root last some months, but gradually dissipate. |
10 |
| 18 | 123 |
He would prefer to deal with them, or be dealt with by them, while he was in a state of strength and acuity. |
10 |
| 20 | 245 |
"Goods and chattels were confiscated, thus becoming the properties of the state". |
10 |
| 20 | 287 |
"On Gor there are many slaves owned by the state, by institutions, businesses, and such". |
10 |
| 22 | 75 |
Even in her virginal state, her belly was muchly stirred. |
10 |
| 43 | 359 |
"That she cannot help but be sexually ready, and even, frequently, whether she wishes it or not, in a state of sexual arousal". |
10 |
| 46 | 42 |
"Too," said another, uneasily, "is it not forbidden, even heinous, to contend as we are, against the lawful state, against the Eleventh Face of the Nameless One". |
10 |
| 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". |
10 |
| 52 | 6 |
"The rebellion having been crushed," said Lord Grendel, "Agamemnon can return his attention to the affairs of state". |
10 |
| 55 | 236 |
Cabot was unwilling even to speak to him in his present state. |
10 |
| 61 | 98 |
In accord with the orders of Lord Grendel she had now been freed of the thick, broad, heavy, hammered-shut waist belt, with its heavy chains; had been cleaned, and brushed and combed; had been clothed, however excitingly and minimally; and had now been given an ample and nourishing diet, though one ... |
10 |
| 80 | 72 |
"We may all go in then, soon, to what I have had prepared, a state breakfast". |
10 |
| 80 | 148 |
"A state breakfast has been prepared," said another. |
10 |
| 80 | 300 |
"It is my understanding that you have had prepared a state breakfast". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 67 |
To guarantee a supply of valuable, suitable timber, for example Tur trees for strakes, keels, and planking, needle trees for masts, and tem wood, the rare yellow tem wood, for oars, the arsenal claims and badges selected trees within given ditched areas in the northern forests, which supplies, large... |
10 |
| 2 | 142 |
In one, we might suppose a given woman who, with some good fortune, might live a life of, say, some eighty to ninety years, and live to watch her interest and beauty fade, and observe her once lovely body submit to the slow degradations of age, watch it dry, wither, suffer, decay, and weaken until i... |
10 |
| 2 | 205 |
A state of war exists between Port Kar and the maritime ubarates of Cos and Tyros. |
10 |
| 3 | 557 |
"Few but hardy tarnsters, or tarnsmen themselves, would dare to approach them in their present state. |
10 |
| 5 | 582 |
A tyrant state always wishes to disarm the public, for it understands its secret intents with respect to that public, and wants it at its mercy. |
10 |
| 10 | 220 |
Indeed, the state might take her in hand, and brand and sell her. |
10 |
| 11 | 240 |
You are coming to a state of health scarcely suspected by a free woman. |
10 |
| 13 | 175 |
Indeed, I have learned from others that various women of your sort were merely publicly flogged and collared, some then to become state slaves, most to be sold out of the city, to be distributed with contempt amongst inferior markets". |
10 |
| 13 | 267 |
Indeed, Claudia's claim to stand high in Ar was far sounder than that of Talena herself, who had been disgraced, and sequestered shamefully, in effect imprisoned, in the Central Cylinder, while Marlenus carried on the business of the state, prior to his hunting trip to the Voltai, in which it had be... |
10 |
| 13 | 310 |
Imagine she, a Ubara, in a collar! What state would be powerful enough, clever enough, bold enough, to seize a Ubara? What Ubar mighty enough to have her naked, in chains, at the foot of his throne! It was strange, incomprehensible, the change that had come over her. |
10 |
| 13 | 437 |
The master may have many slaves, but the slave may, by law, have but one master, even if it be the state, or some corporate entity. |
10 |
| 16 | 161 |
Two such victories may destroy an army, and ruin a state. |
10 |
| 16 | 174 |
They, too, were in a state of apprehension, if not of consternation, as something, clearly, was amiss in the vicinity of the observation platform. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 326 |
Indeed, it was said that Talena, vain of her beauty, which was considerable, used hypocritical pretexts of state to eliminate many of her actual or alleged rivals. |
10 |
| 1 | 328 |
Hundreds of others were reduced to slavery merely that their wealth might be confiscated by the state. |
10 |
| 1 | 336 |
Shortages of goods and food became common in the city, except amongst those favored by the state. |
10 |
| 2 | 52 |
We were an embarrassment, visible tokens of a state's shame. |
10 |
| 3 | 233 |
It is important that the subject population be as helpless as possible, that it be unable to defend itself, that those sovereign in the state may thus impose their will, their exactions and abuses, with impunity upon it, having then nothing to fear from the weak, the disarmed, the unprotected, and d... |
10 |
| 3 | 273 |
"Why would he so shame the Ubara," I asked, "remove her robes of state, her veiling, and such?" I asked. |
10 |
| 3 | 446 |
"I would suppose," I said, "as confiscated goods, they would become the property of the state, later to be distributed, put on sale or such". |
10 |
| 3 | 567 |
'To the state of Ar,' I told him. |
10 |
| 3 | 947 |
Its auxiliary buildings, its stables, its stable yard, and such, like the main building, seemed similarly fallen into a state of forlorn desuetude. |
10 |
| 4 | 197 |
Indeed, how is a state to wax great save by the spear, the blade? If this is the way of Cos, is it not also the way of Ar, Turia, and a hundred other cities? How are trade routes, cities, fields, mines, slaves, and such to be conveniently purchased save by steel? The larl rules his domain; he does n... |
10 |
| 5 | 5 |
This was provided only for state mariners. |
10 |
| 35 | 74 |
The fellow on the ship did not exchange greetings, identify himself, or the ship, or state his business. |
10 |
| 37 | 1475 |
She used to approve the menus for banquets, for state dinners, for private suppers, and such". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 41 |
It was not a question of overthrowing a state, or relinquishing its intrigues and projected imperialisms, but appropriating a state with its established strengths. |
10 |
| 8 | 145 |
It is understood that the streets in a Gorean city, local bridges, and such, are the responsibility of those in the neighborhood, not of the city or state. |
10 |
| 8 | 146 |
The responsibilities of the city and state tend to be limited, mostly to protection, civil and municipal, and arbitration. |
10 |
| 8 | 150 |
As the city or state is managed by men, and is armed, it is feared. |
10 |
| 8 | 152 |
The city or state, on the other hand, which has properties, farms, and such, as well as it support from taxes, often supports public festivals, concerts, performances, and contests, competitions, for example, of strength, speed of foot, archery, javelin casting, riding, singing, drama, poetry, danci... |
10 |
| 10 | 362 |
But, from the lingering effects of my Earth conditioning, and my newness to the state of bondage, I was not yet the helpless victim of the raging slave fires which so frequently tormented and dominated the bellies and bodies of many slaves. |
10 |
| 12 | 150 |
"I am a state slave. |
10 |
| 12 | 151 |
I am owned by the state of Ar!" "Now," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 157 |
"There is doubtless an anonymity for you," I said, "being chained amongst state slaves". |
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| 17 | 248 |
We girls, muchly concerned, like all women, with enhancing our appearance, with being attractive, even beautiful, muchly approved this state of affairs. |
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| 18 | 778 |
For example, it is almost universal that the slave may not leave the domicile without requesting permission, and it is often required that she will state the purpose of her departure and make clear her expected time of return. |
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| 19 | 53 |
With the wagons there had been four slaves, former state slaves, as it turned out, purchased cheaply in Ar. |
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| 26 | 60 |
She is a state slave". |
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| 26 | 61 |
"State slaves are not camisked," said Astrinax. |
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| 26 | 64 |
"I was a state slave, in Ar," she said. |
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| 26 | 65 |
"Each month there is an auction of selected state slaves in Ar. |
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| 27 | 50 |
Four additional slaves had been brought to the Cave by Pausanias, girls bought at a state auction in Ar, amongst whom was Mina. |
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| 33 | 102 |
Certainly human history was filled with men who had betrayed a family, a party, a state, friends, allies, principles, honor, themselves, for the sake of an affair, a dalliance, a smile, a kiss. |
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| 46 | 81 |
I knew from the house of Tenalion that it was common to deny sex to a slave girl for four or five days prior to her sale, that she might be presented to buyers in a more needful state. |
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| 49 | 21 |
Indeed, Agamemnon might have lost his Kur body generations before Grendel was born, but it would have been easily possible for portions of his genetic material, his seed, samples of his hereditary coils, and such, to have been maintained in a viable state, and later utilized in the experiment in que... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 19 |
What are the credentials of a dictatorship which would review thought, circumscribe belief, and capture the coercive powers of a state in order to protect and propagate a favored orthodoxy? Yet, to be sure, such crimes are muchly precedent in the history of a world; they are perennially familiar to ... |
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| 5 | 190 |
How dare he not remember me! How could he forget? Was it not he who did this to me? Was it not he who brought me to my chains? Was it not he who is responsible for this radical transformation in my fortunes, my condition, and status, for my reduction and degradation? Should I not hate him! Should I ... |
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| 39 | 206 |
"I speak, I speak! We were sent to the forest to discover if rumors concerning a great ship being secretly built high on the Alexandra might be true, and, if true, to determine the location of this ship and its state of readiness to depart. |
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| 52 | 280 |
I supposed a keen ear could hear the whistle from across the width of the Alexandra, but those on this side of the river were apparently reading a flag signal, or such, informing them of the state of departure. |
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| 52 | 439 |
The length of the unconscious state is partly determined by the individual involved and partly by the amount of the drug administered. |
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| 52 | 440 |
The approximated weight of the individual involved and the desired length of the unconscious state are used to determine the dosage. |
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| 53 | 23 |
"It is gold, a double tarn, from the mint of the state of Ar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 171 |
I had taken but one step toward the tarn when it lowered its head, the feathers of the neck and crest spreading like a crackling war fan, this considerably enlarging an image which was formidable enough in its natural state, and glared into the dimness beyond the fire. |
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| 15 | 4 |
If a daimyo failed to respond at any time to a particular summons, or did not choose to honor his shogun with his presence at expected times, he was regarded, de facto, as placing himself in a state of rebellion, the likely consequence of which would be his execution, unpleasantly consummated, the e... |
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| 25 | 225 |
I supposed, assuming she had been psychologically capable of registering such things, even in a state of presumed terror and stress, she would have had a sense of the board's width before her blindfolding. |
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| 30 | 94 |
For example is it not surprising, if one stops to consider it, that something of value, say, a fukuro of rice, or a slave, might be exchanged for a tiny piece of metal, of whatever sort? I had heard of one city in which the state had issued small black leather packets sewn shut, which packets were a... |
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| 30 | 95 |
It was a capital offense in that state not to accept, and value, such a packet as containing a golden tarsk, and it was a capital offense, as well, to open such a packet, to see if it actually contained such a tarsk. |
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| 30 | 236 |
To be sure, the more intelligent the woman the sooner she understands this, that she is helpless and without resource, that she is utterly incapable of altering her condition, that she exists in, and only exists in, a state of categorical and unqualified bondage. |
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| 42 | 55 |
We left Haruki to bind and gag the four Ashigaru and the officer, as it was not clear how long they would remain in their state of inert serenity. |
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| 53 | 50 |
"What is a state without theater?" said Pertinax. |
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| 58 | 238 |
Were these not independent, powerful, sovereign species, under no shared law, subject to no common sovereign, capable of imposing its will, but rather stood opposite one another in a state of nature, rather as two larls might face one another, snarling, contesting territory. |
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| 59 | 3 |
The audience chamber, though I had not seen it before, probably because it was reserved for formal occasions, state functions, and such, was surely a centerpiece in the palace of Lord Yamada. |
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| 60 | 32 |
I had known Lord Yamada to lie, for strategic and state reasons, but I had never known him to boast. |
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| 61 | 442 |
Lord Yamada, obviously, even in the depleted state of his treasury, could offer much more. |
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| 61 | 501 |
"Let us inspect the state of the blue climbers," said the shogun. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 275 |
"I will ruin your reputation! I will force you, in misery, to lose your job, to change your work, perhaps to leave the city, and state!" "There is nothing shameful in being a woman, and having needs, and desiring to serve a master," she said. |
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| 7 | 419 |
They did not know me, of course, but they apparently took for granted their right to impose their particular values and views on me, and millions of others, by a variety of means, including those of the state. |
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| 8 | 28 |
I would later learn that Cos was a major state, somewhere to the east. |
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| 33 | 634 |
What sort of blow might be struck here? Surely that surprising beast we had interrogated did not constitute a threat to a family, a party, a state? But who knew? Perhaps. |
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| 51 | 202 |
How could you then expect, in a state such as Ar, rich and populous, to so simply ascend a throne? You lack family relations, connections, position, and power. |
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| 51 | 212 |
If Marlenus attempts to search for you, and recover you, with all the resources of the state, then you will know his suit is genuine. |
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| 56 | 52 |
What has Decius Albus to do with beasts, if I may use the expression, or beasts with the state of Ar? Might not the disclosure of certain secrets invite banishment, a denial of bread, salt, and fire, if not impalement? And we expect you will find the proposal of a hiatus congenial, for your associat... |
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| 63 | 104 |
Similarly, individuals with some official status, or official guests of the city, or such, may be furnished such conveniences at the expense of the state. |
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| 65 | 200 |
Too, it was rumored that Mintar had access to the resources of the state, as well. |
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| 65 | 201 |
Surely it was clear that he was highly placed in the estimation of the state. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 54 |
"Any state which fears an informed, armed citizenry," I said, "any state which wishes to own, manipulate, and exploit its citizenry with impunity". |
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| 1 | 176 |
"Have you not considered the possibility that your most dangerous enemy may not be thieves and brigands, bandits and killers, but Cos itself, the state?" "I do not understand," he said. |
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| 1 | 177 |
"Who will control the state?" I asked. |
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| 1 | 179 |
"The state has power," I said, "and the ambitious, covetous, and unscrupulous seek power. |
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| 1 | 180 |
Thus they gravitate to the state. |
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| 1 | 181 |
They seek the state. |
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| 2 | 53 |
"What state would be so mad as to deny the means of self-defense to its citizenry?" asked Clitus. |
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| 2 | 106 |
"State his strength, his resources," said Tab. |
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| 3 | 30 |
Who could allege, or know of, or confidently state, the destruction of a village or town prior to the event, unless one were somehow privy to the intentions of raiders contemplating such an attack? "How is Aktis doing?" I asked Thurnock. |
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| 10 | 78 |
It is common for a paga girl, a state slave, a laundry slave, a girl from the mills, to long for a private master. |
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| 17 | 299 |
"If the state will not act, men must," I said. |
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| 19 | 171 |
"The servants of the state?" I said. |
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| 36 | 12 |
"State your collars," I said. |
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| 48 | 140 |
One sees and breathes, but seldom does one notice or state that one is seeing or breathing. |
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| 63 | 95 |
"Few people understand," I said, "that the state is the most dangerous of enemies". |
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