| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 97 |
The attendant leaped into the back of the wagon with his strap, and there was added to the din the sound of his curses and the crack of the strap as he smartly laid about him. |
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| 3 | 20 |
One of his sandals had a broken strap that had been carelessly knotted back together. |
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| 3 | 272 |
He fastened himself in the saddle with a broad purple strap. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Mission I threw my right arm up to protect myself, the goad, attached by its strap to my wrist, flying wildly. |
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| 4 | 15 |
The tarn is guided by virtue of a throat strap, to which are attached, normally, six leather streamers, or reins, which are fixed in a metal ring on the forward portion of the saddle. |
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| 4 | 17 |
Each of the reins attaches to a small ring on the throat strap, and the rings are spaced evenly. |
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| 4 | 20 |
For example, to land or lose altitude, one uses the four-strap which exerts pressure on the four-ring, which is located beneath the throat of the tarn. |
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| 4 | 21 |
To rise into flight, or gain altitude, one draws on the one-strap, which exerts pressure on the one-ring, which is located on the back of the tarn's neck. |
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| 4 | 22 |
The throat-strap rings, corresponding to the position of the reins on the main saddle-ring, are numbered in a clockwise fashion. |
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| 4 | 28 |
I drew back on the one-strap and, filled with terror and exhilaration, felt the power of the gigantic wings beating on the invisible air. |
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| 4 | 30 |
I couldn't breathe for a minute, but clung, frightened and thrilled, to the saddle-ring, my hand wrapped in the one-strap. |
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| 4 | 39 |
Fortunately, before losing consciousness, I drew on the four-strap, and the tarn leveled out and then lifted his wings over his back and dropped like a striking hawk, with a speed that left me without breath in my body. |
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| 4 | 40 |
I released the reins, letting them hang on the saddle-ring, which is the signal for a constant and straight flight, no pressure on the throat strap. |
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| 4 | 92 |
I caught a glimpse of a black helmet through the port as a warrior, still clutching a crossbow and mounted on his tarn, hauled up on the one-strap and flew from the window. |
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| 5 | 7 |
I waved a farewell to the Older Tarl and to my father, drew back on the one-strap, and was off, leaving the tower and their tiny figures behind me. |
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| 5 | 8 |
I leveled the tarn and drew on the six-strap, setting my course for Ar. |
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| 5 | 64 |
Abruptly I changed course, drawing on the four-strap, guiding my tarn toward the blue, shimmering wave of a mountain range in the distance. |
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| 5 | 154 |
But an hour before midnight, on the day I knew was the Planting Feast of Sa-Tarna, I climbed again to the saddle of my tarn, drew back on the one-strap, and rose above the lush trees of the swamp forest. |
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| 5 | 172 |
As we crashed in the air, I sharply jerked back the one-strap, bringing the steel-shod talons of my war tarn into play. |
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| 5 | 185 |
I drew back on the one-strap, and when we had climbed to a height where my breath came in gasps, I leveled our course for Ar. |
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| 6 | 37 |
In an instant I had attained the saddle of the tarn and drew back savagely on the one-strap. |
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| 10 | 9 |
The beasts were halted by their strap-master, and after some seconds the curtains parted. |
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| 10 | 84 |
Mintar eased his great frame deeper into the silken pillows and motioned the strap-master of his tharlarions to close the curtains. |
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| 10 | 100 |
Her hair was in wild disarray; there were nail marks on her shoulder and four strap welts on her back. |
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| 10 | 111 |
In the evening the strap-masters and warriors would amuse themselves with stories and songs, recounting their exploits, fictitious and otherwise, and bawling out their raucous harmonies under the influence of paga. |
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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 | 176 |
I sat still for a moment and then decisively drew back on the one-strap. |
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| 13 | 11 |
As I was drawing on the two-strap, to guide the tarn to Ko-ro-ba, I saw something I did not expect to see, something directly below, which startled me. |
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| 13 | 19 |
Feeling that I had satisfied my curiosity and not wanting to risk a landing in the darkness, where a spear might dart from any shadow, I drew back on the one-strap and prepared to return at last to Ko-ro-ba, whence I had departed several days—an eternity—before. |
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| 13 | 45 |
Without bothering to think, I seized my spear and, dragging harshly on the four-strap, brought the tarn into a sharp, abrupt descent. |
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| 14 | 157 |
The sudden tug downward caused the bird to respond as I had hoped it would, as if pressure had been exerted on the four-strap. |
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| 15 | 66 |
Whereas the military camp is usually laid out in a set of concentric squares, reflecting the fourfold principle of military organization customary on Gor, the merchant camp is laid out in concentric circles, the guards' tents occupying the outermost ring, the craftsmen's, strap-masters', attendants'... |
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| 15 | 108 |
It was one of the trusted strap-masters of Mintar, the man who guided the beasts that carried the merchant's palanquin. |
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| 18 | 108 |
The first time I hauled on the one-strap, the bird would not move; the second time he lifted into flight, almost immediately scraping the ceiling of the tunnel with his wings, protesting shrilly. |
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| 19 | 253 |
"It seems I belong to you, bold Tarnsman," she said, "What are you going to do with me?" In answer, I hauled on the one-strap, and the great bird rose into the air, higher and higher, even into the clouds, and she cried to me, "Let it be now, Tarl," and even before we had passed the outermost rampar... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 7 |
In the whistling wind, as the need arose, I had called the straps to her, "One-strap!", "Six-strap!" and so on, and she would draw the strap. |
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| 5 | 2 |
The road was familiar, the long, relatively steep ascent to the crest of that series of ridges beyond which lay Ko-ro-ba, an ascent that was the bane of strap-masters of caravans, of bearers of burdens like poor Zosk, the woodsman, of all travelers afoot. |
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| 14 | 155 |
What I would have given for a tarn saddle and the broad purple strap that fastens the warrior in the saddle! As soon as it felt my weight, the tarn cried again and with an explosion of its broad wings sprang into the air, climbing in dizzy circles. |
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| 14 | 160 |
There is a throat strap to which, customarily, six reins are attached in a clockwise fashion. |
10 |
| 14 | 161 |
These pass from the throat strap to the main saddle ring, which is fixed on the saddle. |
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| 15 | 8 |
That was the only association between the voice of man and the arrangements of the strap harness which the tarn had known. |
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| 15 | 11 |
"Six-strap!" I cried. |
10 |
| 15 | 13 |
"Two-strap!" I called, and the bird now veered to the right, still climbing at the same angle. |
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| 15 | 14 |
"Four-strap!" I called, and the bird began to drop toward the earth, preparing to land. |
10 |
| 15 | 15 |
"One-strap!" I laughed, delighted, bursting with pleasure, and the plumed giant, that titan of Gor, began to climb steeply. |
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| 15 | 31 |
He continues to mount the birds, to climb to their saddle with a heart filled with joy, to draw upon the one-strap and, with a cry of exultation, to urge the monster aloft. |
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| 15 | 52 |
"Four-strap!" I shouted. |
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| 15 | 267 |
Then, holding her in one arm, and fastening one hand deep in the quills of the tarn's neck, I called "One-strap!" and the beast sprang from the ledge and began climbing. |
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| 16 | 17 |
"Four-strap!" I cried to the bird, to bring it down on the pillar. |
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| 16 | 19 |
"Four-strap!" I repeated, more severely. |
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| 16 | 21 |
"Four-strap!" I shouted, commanding it harshly to obey. |
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| 16 | 125 |
He hauled on the one-strap and the monster took flight. |
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| 20 | 43 |
He offered no resistance, he showed no anger, when I leaped to his back and cried, as before, "One-strap!" at which signal, with a shrill cry and a mighty spring, those gigantic wings cracked like whips and beat their way aloft in the glory of flight. |
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| 20 | 108 |
Then mercifully I called "Four-strap!" I feared the courageous beast would kill himself before surrendering to the unseen force that blocked his path. |
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| 20 | 112 |
Why did I not leap again to his back and once more cry "One-strap!" Why did we not try once more? I slapped his beak affectionately and, digging among his neck feathers with my fingers, scratched out some of the lice, about the size of marbles, that infest wild tarns. |
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| 21 | 6 |
Through the trees I could see tent canvas, a tharlarion wagon, the strap-masters unharnessing a brace of low tharlarions, the huge, herbivorous draft lizards of Gor. |
10 |
| 23 | 91 |
"One-strap!" I cried, and the tarn's monstrous frame addressed itself once more to the skies. |
10 |
| 23 | 130 |
I unbuckled the helmet strap and gently removed the helmet. |
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| 25 | 129 |
Her hand was wrapped in the one-strap. |
10 |
| 25 | 141 |
Her silver-gloved hands clenched in fury upon the one-strap and beneath those shimmering gauntlets I knew the knuckles, drained of blood, were white with rage. |
10 |
| 25 | 144 |
"Do not forget Dorna the Proud, for we have an account to settle!" The hands in their gloves of silver jerked back savagely on the one-strap and the wings of the tarn burst into flight. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 10 |
In spite of the agreement about arms, Sarm hung from the back of his translator strap, invisible from the front, a silver tube. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 52 |
To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up... |
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| 8 | 56 |
"Well done!" cried Kamchak as he saw the tospit, unsplit, impaled halfway down the shaft of the lance, stopped only by my fist and the retaining strap. |
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| 8 | 59 |
She carried, on a strap around her neck, a sack of tospits. |
10 |
| 8 | 76 |
With the tip of his lance, stained with the tospit fruit, he cut the strap that held the cap on her head, and then brushed the cap off; then, delicately, with its tip, he lifted her chin that she might look at him. |
10 |
| 8 | 302 |
Conrad freed his bola from the saddle strap. |
10 |
| 20 | 136 |
I then managed to get him to the saddle and made sure he fastened the safety strap. |
10 |
| 20 | 143 |
Then, without waiting, uttering a great cry, he hauled on the one-strap. |
10 |
| 20 | 150 |
As quickly as I could I then unhobbled the other bird and climbed to the saddle, fastening the broad safety strap. |
10 |
| 20 | 151 |
Then I hauled on the one-strap and seeing Harold's bird wheeling about in circles against one of the Gorean moons sped to his side. |
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| 23 | 43 |
I drew on the one-strap and took the tarn into the air, striking out across the prairie skies to intercept my Thousand on its way to the wagons of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 28 | 23 |
I would fasten about myself the broad safety strap, usually purple, which is an invariable portion of the tarn saddle. |
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| 28 | 68 |
"Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 292 |
On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap... |
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| 5 | 506 |
In an instant we were surrounded by Warriors on tarnback, the guard, and I raised my hand in the sign of the city, and drew on the four-strap, taking the tarn down. |
10 |
| 5 | 737 |
To this belt there hung the sheath of a hook knife, which was buckled in the sheath, the strap passing over the hilt. |
10 |
| 7 | 45 |
The basket of Cernus and my basket both had guidance attachments, similar to those of the common tarn saddle, a main basket ring corresponding to the main saddle ring, and six leather straps going to the throat-strap rings. |
10 |
| 7 | 109 |
Then, using the one-strap on the basket ring, Cernus signaled the tarn. |
10 |
| 10 | 3 |
A male slave stood near, a heavy band of iron about his throat, a whipping strap dangling from his right hand. |
10 |
| 10 | 109 |
There was a whipping strap looped about his belt, and in the belt, sheathed, was a hook knife, the hilt buckled down in the sheath, as was the case with that of Ho-Tu. |
10 |
| 12 | 110 |
His knobby hands were clutching a candy tray which was fastened behind his neck with a strap. |
10 |
| 13 | 42 |
Her blond hair was cut very short to protect it from the water; even so, in swimming, such girls often wrapped a long broad strap of glazed leather about their head, in a turban of sorts. |
10 |
| 13 | 297 |
Mip, scarcely seeming to touch the one-strap with his finger, almost a tap, took the old bird from the perch and in a whiplike flurry of its wings it struck the outside perch and stood there, its old head moving alertly, the wicked black eyes gleaming. |
10 |
| 13 | 306 |
The first time I attempted to use the harness, though I was aware of the danger, I overdrew the strap and the suddenness of the bird as it veered in flight threw me against the two narrow safety straps; the small, broad, rapid-beating wings of the racing tarn permit shifts and turns that would be im... |
10 |
| 13 | 307 |
With a tap on the two-strap I took the bird in a sudden breathtaking sweep to the high right and in an instant had joined Mip in flight. |
10 |
| 17 | 153 |
After each race Mip, in detail, would discuss my riding, making suggestions; before each race, he would explain to me what he knew of the habits of the riders and tarns I faced, which was almost invariably a great deal; he taught me to recognize for myself certain faults in other riders, certain exp... |
10 |
| 17 | 609 |
I let the goad, on its leather strap, dangle from my left wrist and then I went to the doll and picked it up. |
10 |
| 19 | 21 |
Occasionally, unexpectedly, I would be struck by a stone or a strap and hear a jeer or mocking cry. |
10 |
| 19 | 23 |
Another strap stung my legs, across the calves. |
10 |
| 19 | 36 |
"Slave!" I heard, and felt again the sting of a strap in someone's hand. |
10 |
| 19 | 37 |
And then the strap fell twice again. |
10 |
| 21 | 421 |
I hauled upon the one-strap and took the bird from the heights of the Stadium of Blades, streaking in a moment through the cylinders of Ar, leaving behind me men with whom I had fought, stained sand, and whatever we had together begun there. |
10 |
| 22 | 530 |
Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt... |
10 |
| 24 | 522 |
I drew on the one-strap and the tarn, wings beating, lifted itself beautifully from the cylinder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 233 |
"Kill him!" Then she screamed with pain, throwing back her head, as the lash of the five-strap Gorean slave whip cut into her back. |
10 |
| 10 | 117 |
Following the meal she would retire to my quarters which, on hands and knees, with brush and bucket, she would scrub to the satisfaction of a Whip Slave, with strap, standing over her. |
10 |
| 17 | 113 |
The strap to which it was attached ran from my right shoulder to my left hip. |
10 |
| 17 | 240 |
I let the builders' glass, attached to the strap about my shoulder, fall to my side. |
10 |
| 17 | 255 |
I took the glass of the builders, and its strap, from my shoulder. |
10 |
| 17 | 325 |
It screamed as I fastened the broad purple safety strap. |
10 |
| 17 | 336 |
I drew on the one-strap. |
10 |
| 17 | 341 |
I drew again on the one-strap and again the bird's wings snapped, and he was on the long, sloping yard on the round ship's foremast. |
10 |
| 17 | 346 |
I drew on the one-strap. |
10 |
| 17 | 351 |
And then, suddenly, I gave a cry and jerked on the one-strap and the bird, by training and instinct, flung itself into the sleeting wind and began to climb the dark, running sky. |
10 |
| 17 | 352 |
I was again on tarnback! The bird climbed until I released the one-strap and then it began to circle. |
10 |
| 17 | 369 |
I drew on the four-strap. |
10 |
| 17 | 437 |
"Fight!" I drew on the one-strap and the tarn, against the wind, took flight and Chenbar of Kasra, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, in the manacles of a common slave, swung free below us, helpless and pendant in the furies of the wind and the sleeting rain, the captive of Bosk, a captain of Port Kar, a... |
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| 18 | 144 |
Once the bird fell so low that the boy's feet and the bottom of the rope on which he stood splashed a path in the churning waters, and then the bird, responding to my fierce pressures on the one-strap, beat its way up again and again flew, but then only yards over the black, rearing waves, the roari... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 347 |
I pulled at the fiber that bound my wrists so cruelly back; my throat pressed against the straps on my throat, almost choking me; my belly writhed under its strap; my ankles moved against one another, helpless in the leather confinement of the knotted strap. |
10 |
| 9 | 388 |
Then she untied the strap at my ankles, freeing them, and, drawing the strap about the post and through the two rings, released me from the post. |
10 |
| 15 | 1107 |
Ute took the other slave bells and buckled one strap, with its two small buckles, like the ankle straps, except smaller, about my left wrist, and then buckled the other strap, with its two small buckles, about my right wrist. |
10 |
| 6 | 362 |
And about her body, in a broad loop, passing over her left shoulder and across her right hip, was a wide, heavy leather strap, which was bolted into the wagon tongue. |
10 |
| 6 | 371 |
The man began to adjust the strap on my body. |
10 |
| 6 | 383 |
The man cinched the strap on my body. |
10 |
| 6 | 406 |
I leaned against the leather strap, pretending to push. |
10 |
| 6 | 412 |
Her little body was straining at the strap. |
10 |
| 6 | 416 |
I threw all my weight against the strap, sobbing, pushing with all my might. |
10 |
| 6 | 460 |
Sobbing, crying out inwardly, I pushed against the broad leather strap with all my might. |
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 | 506 |
Her arms, over her resplendent robes, were bound to her sides with a broad leather strap. |
10 |
| 7 | 538 |
The strap was removed from her body, and her clothing cut from her. |
10 |
| 8 | 453 |
And the guard uses not the handful of leather straps with which Lana, only with her woman's strength, had struck me, but the five-strap Gorean slave whip, wielded with the full, terrible strength of a man. |
10 |
| 8 | 912 |
They were swifter than we, of course, so each of us, from our particular herdsman, one to each of us, before reaching the goal, would feel the strap several times. |
10 |
| 8 | 946 |
Soon I returned to the firelight, the heavy bota of paga, on its strap, slung over my shoulder, Ute and Lana, with theirs, behind me. |
10 |
| 8 | 949 |
I felt the rough fabric of the camisk on my body as I moved, the pull of the strap on my shoulder, the heavy, swaying touch of the bota as, in the rhythm of my walk, it touched my side. |
10 |
| 9 | 25 |
The girl bound my ankles cruelly, using the end of the choke leash, making the strap taut between my throat and ankles. |
10 |
| 11 | 642 |
I was terrified of having the full five-strap Gorean slave lash, wielded with the full strength of a man, used on me. |
10 |
| 12 | 21 |
I felt the pull of a strap on my throat, and opened my eyes. |
10 |
| 12 | 22 |
By a long, leather strap, some ten feet in length, I was fastened by the neck to Ute. |
10 |
| 12 | 283 |
The same strap that lashed their wrists, I saw, served, too, as their leash, that held in the huntsman's grip. |
10 |
| 12 | 418 |
Ute turned, in the strap, from picking berries. |
10 |
| 12 | 572 |
I put my finger under the wide strap knotted about my throat, which tethered me to her. |
10 |
| 12 | 597 |
The strap was broad, and a little damp, on the inside. |
10 |
| 12 | 599 |
In the sun, it was now hot under the strap. |
10 |
| 12 | 661 |
The straps we wore about our throats were broad, and the strap, too, that joined us. |
10 |
| 12 | 662 |
But, about the throat, the broad strap, for each of us, was perforated in two places, and it was by means of narrow binding fiber, passed several times through the perforations and knotted, that it was fastened on our throats. |
10 |
| 12 | 669 |
"I can't!" Ute pushed me away and began to chew at the leather strap, desperately, holding it with her hands. |
10 |
| 12 | 678 |
"It is Haakon of Skjern!" "Of course it is Haakon of Skjern!" said Ute, biting at the strap, tearing at it with her fingers. |
10 |
| 12 | 690 |
Ute was savagely tearing at the strap with her teeth. |
10 |
| 12 | 693 |
She jerked at the strap. |
10 |
| 12 | 709 |
"Come!" Ute pulled with both her hands on the strap that bound us together and I, stumbling, fled after her. |
10 |
| 12 | 745 |
The strap that bound me to Ute jerked on my neck, and I fell. |
10 |
| 13 | 27 |
"I'll come!" Dismayed, terrified, bound to her by the throat strap, I had stumbled after her. |
10 |
| 13 | 45 |
With this tool, wedging it between the strands, I managed, after a time, to loosen them, and removed Ute's throat strap. |
10 |
| 13 | 48 |
She coiled the heavy strap and put it about her shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 719 |
I felt the one-strap of the tarn harness jerk tight across my body, and, suddenly, taking my breath away, the great bird screamed and began to beat its wings, and the saddle pressed up against my back, and I, upside down, saw the conical huts of the peasants drop away below us, and the bird, stroke ... |
10 |
| 13 | 841 |
The other tarn streaked away, and its rider, standing in his stirrups, braced in the saddle, held to it by the broad safety strap, was redrawing his crossbow, a quarrel held in his teeth. |
10 |
| 13 | 846 |
If the other man had not been fastened in his saddle by the great strap the force of my captor's blow would have struck him from the saddle. |
10 |
| 13 | 860 |
With incredible strength, his sword dangling from its wrist strap, commonly used by tarnsmen in flight, I saw him withdraw the spear from the shield, but at the same time the other's tarn struck ours, and his blade, flashing downwards, struck the heavy shaft of the spear, splintering it, half severi... |
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| 13 | 999 |
If she does not do so she must expect the strap or lash. |
10 |
| 13 | 1145 |
He looked upon my bared, arched, supine, strap-restrained flesh with the objectivity of a Gorean. |
10 |
| 14 | 12 |
He then unbound the strap that lashed my wrists to the left-hand saddle ring, but he did not untie my wrists themselves. |
10 |
| 15 | 561 |
It was glorious to be outside the stockade, even though fastened by a leather neck strap to another girl. |
10 |
| 15 | 595 |
I now felt a tug on the neck strap. |
10 |
| 15 | 744 |
The free end of the strap was secured to one side. |
10 |
| 15 | 749 |
I felt my ankles lashed together, and then a strap tied them to the ring below, that set in the stone, which was buried in the ground. |
10 |
| 17 | 26 |
A heavy, long strap thrust through the wicker, behind me and to the left. |
10 |
| 17 | 28 |
I felt my throat jerked back against the wicker by the strap. |
10 |
| 17 | 29 |
The same strap, passing in and out of the wicker, similarly fastened the other girls in place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 49 |
She wore a slave strap, a heavy strap, buckling in the back. |
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| 5 | 50 |
In the front, at her belly, there was, fixed in the strap, a plate and ring. |
10 |
| 5 | 55 |
Tina, on the other hand, had been kept in the slave strap and bracelets, except when she was working in the kitchen area, cooking, and peeling suls and such. |
10 |
| 5 | 60 |
Yet, yesterday, I had sent her, in the slave strap and bracelets, for bread. |
10 |
| 5 | 95 |
She now stood beside me, in the white tunic, in the slave strap, her hands braceleted at her belly. |
10 |
| 5 | 133 |
And so it was that, in Lydius, while we remained in port, I kept her in slave strap and bracelets. |
10 |
| 5 | 347 |
To one side, two girls, Cara and Tina stood, both in their brief woolen slave garments, Tina's hands at her belly, where they were still confined by the slave strap and bracelets. |
10 |
| 5 | 373 |
Tina could not lift her hands to bid her city farewell, for her wrists were locked in slave bracelets, fastened at her belly, strung through the ring of a slave strap. |
10 |
| 5 | 374 |
I stepped behind her and unbuckled the slave strap. |
10 |
| 5 | 379 |
When she had done so, I again, from behind, pulled her hands to her belly, and buckled the slave strap behind her back. |
10 |
| 6 | 17 |
I removed the slave strap and bracelets from Tina. |
10 |
| 9 | 388 |
Mira returned with the whip, a five-strap Gorean slave whip. |
10 |
| 14 | 70 |
From the slave silk of two of them, torn into strips for strap and wadding, I had improvised gags. |
10 |
| 15 | 863 |
"Suppose," said the red-haired girl to the slave, "it was not a switch, but the five-strap Gorean slave whip?" Ilene closed her eyes. |
10 |
| 22 | 75 |
I drew on the one-strap of Ubar of the Skies, and the great bird, giant and predator, screamed and, together, we thrust higher, and higher, into the bright, sunlit skies of Gor. |
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| 1 | 692 |
I put over my left shoulder the scabbard strap. |
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| 6 | 105 |
He carried, on a strap over his shoulder, a tall, dark vessel, filled with liquid. |
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| 9 | 116 |
"I am a free woman!" "Bring the five-strap slave slash," said Ivar Forkbeard to Gunnhild. |
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| 14 | 141 |
The other strap was broken. |
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| 1 | 27 |
A veil concealed her muchly from us, it thrust into the strap of the coined halter at her left shoulder, and into the coined belt at her right hip. |
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| 1 | 177 |
Then she took it from her left shoulder, where it had been tucked beneath the strap of her halter. |
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| 4 | 78 |
But, too, Aya, with her kaiila strap, continued her lessons in Gorean. |
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| 4 | 121 |
I removed my slippers after a time, and thrust them under the girth strap. |
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| 4 | 208 |
Now her skin would be much more aware of such tiny things as a change in air movement in a room, temperature, humidity, and such; also she would now be more keenly sensitive to differences in textures with which her body might come in contact, such as the granulation of the stones on which her feet ... |
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| 4 | 335 |
He then, with the second strap, pulled her ankles up, high, and tied them closely to her wrists. |
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| 4 | 345 |
He then took the strap that bound her wrists to her ankles, leaving her wrists tied behind her, and took it under her and tied it tautly about the ring on her collar, this holding her head down, as she knelt. |
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| 4 | 346 |
She was then tied on her knees, her ankles crossed and bound, and fastened by a short length of strap to the ring on her collar. |
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| 4 | 369 |
She was freed of the strap binding her ankles to her collar ring. |
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| 5 | 138 |
Aya made clear her displeasure by striking the girl several times, before she could free herself, with her customary instrument of instruction, the knotted kaiila strap. |
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| 8 | 225 |
The soft, pliant, broad-bladed five-strap lash had been used. |
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| 8 | 287 |
With a length of strap I tied her hands behind her back, and, with another scarf, crossed and bound her ankles. |
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| 22 | 88 |
He was unwary; his attention was fully focused on his target; did he think I was a slave girl on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, standing, a tospit in my mouth for his lance sport? I moved to the side and, with both hands, a yard behind the point, turning, caught the lance; the rider, crying out, w... |
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| 24 | 299 |
By the leather strap I yanked her wrists, indicating to her that they were well tied. |
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| 24 | 385 |
This was an allusion to the Gorean five-strap slave whip, commonly used on girls because of the softness and width of its lashes. |
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| 26 | 456 |
He nodded, and, bending down, picked up a strap which lay nearby. |
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| 26 | 462 |
The strap or coiled rope he carries is used less often to hasten, in a humiliating fashion, a girl who might otherwise dally on the way to discipline, though it may serve this purpose, than it is to drive other girls from her. |
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| 26 | 463 |
Such a strap or rope, of course, can sting hotly through slave silk. |
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| 26 | 496 |
The strap of the caller, lashing about, is painful through slave silk, but many of the girls, it seemed, had risked even this, that they might dart in and abuse the crawling slave. |
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| 26 | 497 |
I fear that many felt the strap that day, and I understand that he was forced more than once to lay about him vigorously, but still, shrieking, crying out and clustering about, as I understand it, they would rush in, to strike their small blows, or, sometimes at a distance of no more than a yard or ... |
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| 26 | 528 |
Too, she had been a high slave, much above the other girls; that surely, as well as many other matters, would have elicited, if not justified, hatred, anger, and resentment; now, of course, she was fallen far below them; she was now a fit object only for their abuse and scorn, to be tempered only to... |
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| 9 | 1950 |
With an awl, brought by a man, he punched two holes, vertically, in the leather strap, and thrust the twin buckle-claws through the holes; he then took the long, loose end of the strap, for the sleen has a large neck, thrust it through the four strap loops, thick and broad, and then, with a knife, c... |
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| 2 | 51 |
I saw the black leather strap, wide, shiny, across his body, from which depended the blade slung at his left hip. |
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| 2 | 53 |
I knew that were he to seize me in his arms and crush me to his chest, with what strength must be his, that the mark of the strap, the coarse fibers, would be imprinted on my breasts. |
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| 3 | 691 |
Roughly he turned me about and, with a slender strap, tied my hands together behind my back. |
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| 4 | 403 |
I felt the strap, black, narrow, loop my belly. |
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| 4 | 1069 |
There, bending over me, he crossed my wrists and, with a narrow strap, tied them together behind my back; he then similarly fastened my ankles. |
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| 9 | 1922 |
They would take a plow strap well. |
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| 12 | 867 |
He drew back on the first strap of his tarn's harness. |
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| 14 | 18 |
I hurried to him, carrying the large bronze vessel of paga, on its strap about my shoulder. |
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| 14 | 180 |
I hurried to the counter and handed Busebius, who was beaming, the paga vessel and strap. |
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| 14 | 184 |
I did not even have time to slip the vessel on its strap over my shoulder. |
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| 17 | 124 |
Soon Narla and I, sharing a common neck leash, two collars, with a strap with center grip, stood outside the long, low room, in the corridor. |
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| 26 | 850 |
Some six inches of strap separated my bound wrists and bound ankles. |
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| 26 | 871 |
Swiftly he finished with me and, cutting a length from the loose end of the strap which bound my wrists, rebound my ankles. |
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| 6 | 857 |
I took the tarn straps in my left hand, the one-strap in my right. |
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| 6 | 901 |
The tarn, given the sudden force on the one-strap, reared and, smiting the air with his mighty wings, lifted itself into the air. |
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| 7 | 259 |
I was dimly aware of them removing my belt and pouch, and the strap with scabbard and sword. |
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| 9 | 163 |
The girls were on a common tether, the throat of each tied at a different end of a long strap; it served as their common leash, a guard grasping it in the center. |
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| 11 | 141 |
A given pressure on the handle tie, exerted through the strap at the back, permits it to function as a choke leash; a different pressure permits her to be hurried along on her toes. |
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| 11 | 144 |
The man had looped his fist twice in the strap, tightening it. |
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| 11 | 146 |
She was in the control of the man who held the strap. |
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| 11 | 353 |
I leaped into the saddle and dragged back fiercely on the one-strap. |
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| 11 | 356 |
I dragged back again on the one-strap, almost throwing the bird on its back, bringing its talons high. |
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| 11 | 366 |
The tarnsman to my left drew back on the one-strap to avoid fouling straps with his ally. |
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| 11 | 367 |
The fellow whose tarn was tearing at mine drew back, too, on his six-strap, and the bird swept upward and away, from my right. |
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| 11 | 377 |
I fastened the safety strap now. |
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| 11 | 386 |
I pulled back on the one-strap again. |
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| 12 | 385 |
A leather strap is knotted about the girl's wrist, passed through the drilled hole at one end of the yoke, usually that on her left, taken up through the hole behind the neck, looped twice about her neck, threaded back down through the center hole, taken up through the other hole at the end, usually... |
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| 21 | 113 |
"From the strap on my throat?" she said. |
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| 21 | 256 |
She touched the leather strap on her throat with her small fingers. |
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| 23 | 183 |
Arlene, naked, the strap of bondage on her throat, head down, knelt before Ram, lifting a plate of boiled meat to him. |
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| 24 | 381 |
I reached to her, and, by the strap on her throat, pulled her down beside me. |
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| 24 | 385 |
I held her by the strap. |
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| 26 | 46 |
He pressed a strap into my hand. |
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| 26 | 49 |
The end of the strap had been cut. |
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| 26 | 77 |
The strap which had held her had been cleanly cut. |
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| 26 | 128 |
In her hand she held the severed strap, that which had tethered Barbara before it had been cut. |
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| 26 | 129 |
She had awakened, crawled to the strap, understood its import, and screamed. |
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| 26 | 156 |
"The strap was cut," I said. |
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| 28 | 28 |
My strap was no longer on her throat. |
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| 28 | 204 |
Over his left shoulder, on a ringed strap, he wore a blade, the short sword. |
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| 35 | 62 |
I then took the sack of darts from the second man and threw it, on its strap, about my shoulder. |
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| 35 | 1232 |
I went to the shelves and, looping the dart-firing weapon over my shoulder, by its stock strap, poured two glasses of paga. |
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| 4 | 634 |
With the neck strap he pulled her head down and tied it down, fastening it to her ankles by means of the neck strap; the leather between her neck and ankles, which were now crossed and bound, was short and taut. |
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| 4 | 106 |
They were fastened together by the neck, by a guardsman's neck strap. |
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| 4 | 186 |
"Usually," smiled the praetor, "a free woman wears more than binding fiber and a neck strap". |
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| 4 | 274 |
The neck strap, now that Turgus was freed of it, looped gracefully up to her throat, held in the hand of a guardsman. |
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| 4 | 298 |
The strap, in the hand of the guardsman, grew taut at her throat. |
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| 4 | 560 |
The neck strap of a guardsman was on her throat. |
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| 4 | 625 |
"It is Vart!" The girl shrank back, miserably, her hands tied behind her back, the neck strap on her throat, before Vart, who had pushed through the crowd. |
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| 4 | 663 |
The guardsman removed his neck strap from her throat, freeing, too, her ankles. |
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| 4 | 867 |
Her hands were now bound before her body, and she already had his strap on her throat. |
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| 4 | 878 |
He took his strap off her throat, and unbound her hands. |
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| 5 | 25 |
Sasi enjoyed this, standing over the blond girl with a strap, striking her when she made mistakes. |
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| 25 | 53 |
We then, with two long lengths of leather, fastened them, all three, together, one strap putting them in throat coffle, the other in left-ankle coffle. |
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| 31 | 21 |
Her small hands pulled at the tightly looped, knotted strap that bound them behind her back. |
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| 33 | 156 |
He then, to her surprise, with a leather strap, as she stood on the rock overlooking the falls, tied her hands behind her back. |
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| 34 | 147 |
I tied a long leather strap on her neck and led her to the slave stake. |
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| 34 | 148 |
I tied the free end of the strap about the slave stake, using the prepared groove in the stake which I had earlier cut. |
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| 34 | 152 |
I had left her about seven feet of slack in the strap. |
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| 34 | 1076 |
I carried the long leather strap, that which had served as her tether, looped in my hand. |
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| 50 | 70 |
One by one we tied their hands behind their backs, and then, with a long strap, put them in throat coffle. |
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| 51 | 161 |
Then I tied her neck to the neck of the dark-haired girl, using the coffle strap. |
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| 51 | 176 |
I then added her to the coffle strap. |
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| 51 | 177 |
She looked up at me, the coffle strap dangling from her throat, attaching her to Alice, and then to the dark-haired girl. |
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| 52 | 86 |
Too, the blond-haired girl, who had been the leader of the talunas, was on her feet, where she was tethered, the strap going through the drilled stone at her feet. |
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| 28 | 12 |
"Jason," she said, "why are you tying a strap on my throat?" I knotted the strap under her chin. |
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| 3 | 36 |
On her belt, toward the back, on her right side, in a snap strap, hung a pair of steel manacles. |
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| 3 | 136 |
I saw the keys and the coiled chain which hung at her belt and, toward the back, on the right side, in their snap strap, the steel manacles she carried. |
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| 3 | 232 |
He then, with a key, removed them from me and replaced them in the snap strap at his belt. |
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| 11 | 142 |
She wore the scandalously brief shreds of a tattered slave rag, sewn of brown rep-cloth, torn open at her thighs, I assume deliberately, held but by a single, narrow strap over her left shoulder. |
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| 15 | 112 |
The strap which held my bound wrists was cut away from the ring to which it was tied. |
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| 21 | 407 |
"Snout strap," said Barus. |
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| 21 | 412 |
I looped the snout strap about its jaws and tied them shut. |
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| 23 | 131 |
Then I knelt across her body and, with the tharlarion snout strap I had had coiled to one side, knotted her hands behind her back. |
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| 25 | 248 |
Then the slave hood was drawn over my head and its strap looped twice about my throat and then buckled shut under my chin. |
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| 26 | 22 |
I then jerked loose the helmet strap and, by the crest, tore away the helmet, backward, almost breaking the fellow's neck. |
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| 26 | 296 |
With the other I tied her wrists together before her body, leaving enough strap to lead her by, as a wrist leash. |
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| 26 | 322 |
"I shall use the free end of the leash strap. |
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| 26 | 323 |
I shall take the strap up then to your wrists, so that the knot will be where you can reach it neither with your fingers or teeth". |
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| 26 | 396 |
I whipped loose the strap from her ankles. |
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| 28 | 13 |
I took the strap, then, and wrapped it several times about her throat, and then tucked in the loose end. |
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| 28 | 16 |
She struggled to a sitting position, her hands bound behind her, the dark strap wrapped several times about her throat. |
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| 28 | 23 |
Remove this horrid strap from my throat. |
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| 28 | 99 |
She held position, kneeling back on her heels, her knees wide, her back straight, her head high, her small wrists tied behind her back, the dark leather strap coiled about her throat. |
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| 29 | 65 |
"Yet you are bound, and have a strap on your throat," I said. |
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| 30 | 50 |
"Am I not to be led to the market on a strap, like a tethered she-tarsk?" "I shall use the leash after dark," I told her. |
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| 31 | 6 |
Then I put her on her back and retied her hands, wrists crossed, before her body, holding them in place, at her belly, with a loop of strap. |
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| 32 | 7 |
She was tethered by the neck beside me, by the strap which had earlier served as her leash. |
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| 32 | 29 |
I had then put her on her back again and unwrapped the long strap from her throat. |
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| 32 | 30 |
I had then, holding the coiled strap about two feet from her throat, jerked it twice, that she could feel the pull against the back of her neck. |
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| 32 | 43 |
The common Gorean leash, incidentally, unlike the simple strap I was using, has a lock snap and closes either about a collar or a collar ring. |
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| 34 | 125 |
"Brand her, common Kajira mark, strap-collar her and put her in Pen Six," said Tenalion to one of his men. |
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| 34 | 208 |
"Brand her," said he, "common Kajira mark, and strap-collar her". |
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| 7 | 49 |
She carried candies on a tray, held about her neck by a broad strap. |
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| 8 | 147 |
"Paga!" A blond girl, nude, with a string of pearls wound about her steel collar, ran to the table and, from the bronze vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder, poured paga into the goblet before the seated man. |
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| 11 | 65 |
"You wore black, low-cut shoes, with high heels, without strap or ties," I said. |
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| 14 | 86 |
I had tied her wrists together before her body, before the opened door of the house, leaving a dangling, loose strap of about a foot in length. |
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| 14 | 103 |
I tied her tethered wrists, by the free end of the strap, to the ring. |
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| 19 | 2 |
Darting away from him was a small, quick fellow, clutching in his hand a bulging purse, its strap slashed. |
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| 23 | 364 |
They were fastened together, by the neck, by a knotted red strap some four feet in length. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 1113 |
"Do you have another binding strap," asked Callimachus, sheepishly, "something to take her home in?" "By some odd chance, I do," I said, grinning, and threw him such a strap. |
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| 20 | 1141 |
With its strap he slung the small, lovely, curved, stringed instrument about her body, the strap over her right shoulder, the instrument behind her left hip. |
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| 8 | 66 |
Unclothed, for example, she finds even the snap of a strap to one side, a foot from her body, or the simple slap of a switch into one's palm, quite significant. |
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| 10 | 1 |
What Hung at Our Prows; How We Greeted Kliomenes I crossed the wrists of Lola and, with the dark strap, bound them tightly together, before her body. |
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| 16 | 531 |
With the sword blade I slashed the strap that bound the two men about the stanchion. |
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| 16 | 532 |
Then I pulled them to their feet and knotted together the two loose ends of the strap, thus again effectively putting them on a common leash. |
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| 17 | 81 |
It may be used, if one wishes, to bind the slave, and its long end, if one wishes, may easily serve as a whipping strap. |
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| 17 | 194 |
"On your feet, Slave," said the girl with the leash, giving her a yard of strap, that she might rise. |
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| 17 | 206 |
She then struck the girl twice about the legs with the strap. |
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| 18 | 765 |
Then, using its strap and loops, I tied the hood in place, securely shut, under her chin. |
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| 20 | 167 |
I threw him a narrow, eighteen-inch black strap. |
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| 20 | 171 |
The strap would be useful in tying her hands behind her back. |
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| 20 | 323 |
Imagine if they were put in them! The chain, like the rope and the strap, and the whip, even when they have no reason to believe they will ever be used on them, speak on some profound level to women. |
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| 20 | 833 |
I threw Calliodorus an eighteen-inch black binding strap. |
10 |
| 20 | 933 |
She then extends them before her as though the strap on them had been drawn taut. |
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| 20 | 1076 |
Off with the garment," said Aemilianus to the voluptuous slave, who had been Shirley, whipping out the binding strap I had given him earlier. |
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| 20 | 1089 |
She trembled, her wrists helplessly confined in the loops of the binding strap. |
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| 20 | 1178 |
On her knees beside him, her hands tightly bound behind her back in the black binding strap, Lola pressed her lips fervently against his leg, and looked up at him. |
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| 20 | 1465 |
I assure you that it was not amusing to me when a guard lashed me to silence with a strap in the slave pen. |
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| 20 | 1655 |
I have learned it in a collar, and in the bracelets of a slave, and at the end of a flashing strap". |
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| 1 | 170 |
I slung the scabbard strap over my left shoulder, in the Gorean fashion. |
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| 1 | 171 |
In this way the scabbard, the blade once drawn, may be discarded, with its strap, which accouterments, otherwise, might constitute an encumbrance in combat. |
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| 1 | 172 |
On marches, incidentally, and in certain other contexts, the strap, which is adjustable, is usually put over the right shoulder. |
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| 1 | 470 |
There was a broad leather strap, too, running from the right shoulder to the left hip of the smaller of the two creatures. |
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| 1 | 536 |
The creature then detached, from the broad strap which hung diagonally about its body, from its right shoulder to the left hip, an instrumented, metallic, oblong, boxlike device, which it placed on the table. |
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| 1 | 1119 |
Sometimes a strap dangles back for a few feet from the throat loop. |
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| 1 | 1120 |
This is to be seized by the warrior who may have been struck from his mount, either to recapture the beast or, using the strap, being pulled along, with the momentum of the racing steed, to vault again to its back. |
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| 1 | 1121 |
This strap, incidentally, is used more often in hunting than in warfare. |
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| 1 | 1131 |
This explains some of the eccentricities of tribal warfare; first, actual war parties, though common, are formed less often than parties for stealing kaiila; in this sport the object is to obtain as many kaiila as possible without, if possible, engaging the enemy at all; it is a splendid coup, for e... |
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| 2 | 160 |
She was, in her tunic and collar, kneeling on a white blanket, spread on the cement, with the brass container of verr milk, with its strap, near her, and the tiny brass cups. |
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| 8 | 178 |
On her feet were black, shiny, high-heeled dress sandals, each secured, apparently, by a single, narrow black ankle strap. |
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| 9 | 58 |
He loosened the long, coiled whip fastened with a snap strap at the right of his saddle, and rode back towards us, along the right side of the coffle of barefoot, scantily clad, neck-chained beauties. |
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| 12 | 137 |
The most common form is a strap, or braided leather tie, placed below the tongue and behind the teeth, tied about the lower jaw, from which two reins, or a single double rein, a single loop, comes back over the beast's neck. |
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| 14 | 29 |
The woman opened a rectangular hide envelope, a parfleche, slung on a strap over her shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 304 |
The one-strap is drawn for ascent, and the four-strap for descent, for example. |
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| 43 | 284 |
The stressing and jerking of the straps, which Iwoso could feel through the back of her neck, was the result, merely, of my looping part of one strap about the other and then jerking against it, the second strap end, of course, falling free as soon as I released it, leaving only the first knot in pl... |
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| 4 | 233 |
If the rider, then, is dismounted in the tumult of the hunt, he may, hopefully, by seizing this rope, sometimes a strap, retain control over his mount and, hastily, safely, regain his seat. |
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| 9 | 541 |
"That, I think," she said, "is where the whip, the quirt, the switch, the strap, the ropes, the collar, the blindfold, the gag, the chains, come in. |
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| 22 | 153 |
He then threw her to her stomach and, with a short leather strap, bound her ankles together. |
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| 28 | 180 |
Yet there was not a rope or a strap on her body. |
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| 33 | 282 |
Cuwignaka slipped from the broad, over-the-shoulder strap he had used to exert leverage on the travois and then helped the girl to adjust it on her body. |
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| 33 | 283 |
She then stood before the travois, very straight and beautiful, the strap on her body. |
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| 33 | 298 |
She lifted her head proudly, the strap about her body. |
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| 33 | 326 |
I cinched the strap closely on her body. |
10 |
| 33 | 351 |
I picked up the other strap, the rigged harness, the trace, and slipped it over my shoulder, about my body. |
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| 39 | 313 |
The tarn, besides its rude bridle, wore a girth strap. |
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| 39 | 317 |
The knees were thrust under the girth strap. |
10 |
| 39 | 331 |
"Remove the legs from the girth strap". |
10 |
| 39 | 333 |
He and Hci removed the legs from the girth strap and discarded them in the grass. |
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| 40 | 501 |
He then, with a strap, crouched down, before Radish. |
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| 40 | 503 |
He tied the strap about her right ankle and then, leaving her about six inches of slack, tied it also about her left ankle. |
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| 40 | 504 |
He then took the strap up, and forward, between her legs, where, crossing her wrists, he proceeded to bind them together, tightly, before her body. |
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| 40 | 511 |
She could not stand straight, as he had left her only some eighteen inches of strap between her left ankle and her bound wrists. |
10 |
| 40 | 745 |
Perhaps uses might be found for her, if only on a leash, or at the end of a strap. |
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| 43 | 280 |
This would hold for a time because of the tightness of it and the strap friction. |
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| 47 | 222 |
"One-strap". |
10 |
| 47 | 249 |
"One-strap," I said to Ubar of the Skies. |
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| 54 | 89 |
Among them, stripped naked, his hands tied behind him, riding backwards on a kaiila, his ankles bound together on a long strap, it running between them under the belly of the kaiila, rode the officer who had won the draw. |
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| 56 | 23 |
I took a long strap and tied it about her right ankle and then, drawing it tight under the belly of the kaiila, looped it twice about her left ankle. |
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| 27 | 2 |
The heavy belt, with the ring on it, through which the loose post strap passed, that strap looping the post and threaded through the belt ring, was put about my belly, and buckled shut, tightly, behind the small of my back. |
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| 2 | 504 |
A broad leather strap was then drawn tightly about me. |
10 |
| 2 | 543 |
The broad leather strap, buckled shut, pressed, too, deeply into my belly, holding me in place. |
10 |
| 2 | 563 |
This eased the pressure of the strap at my belly. |
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| 6 | 154 |
This belt consisted of two major pieces; one was a rounded, fitted, curved barlike waistband, flattened at the ends; one end of this band, that on the right, standing behind the woman and looking forward, had a heavy semicircular ring, or staple, welded onto it; the other flattened end of the waistb... |
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| 10 | 56 |
A narrow strap was then slung about my head and pulled back, deeply between my teeth, and tied tightly behind the back of my neck. |
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| 10 | 73 |
Then, feeling about my head, Drusus Rencius undid the strap that held my gag and hood in place. |
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| 12 | 73 |
There was a long strap connected with it. |
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| 15 | 371 |
"Do not neglect to fasten your safety strap," said a man. |
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| 19 | 4 |
I watched him put the pouch, on its strap, in a far corner of the room, with other articles. |
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| 27 | 3 |
I could now move easily about the post but, given the post strap and the belt ring, I could not be further than six inches from it. |
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| 30 | 423 |
It was hooked there, on the whip ring, the coils secured in the snap strap. |
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| 36 | 1091 |
I looked at him, startled, protestingly, as my wrists, with one end of a long leather strap, were lashed together. |
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| 36 | 1094 |
The long end of the strap was tossed up, through a ring fixed in a beam, and then put through another ring. |
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| 36 | 1095 |
Drusus Rencius then drew on the strap and my bound wrists were drawn up, above my head. |
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| 36 | 1096 |
He then looped and knotted the long end of the strap about a hook, on the side. |
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| 36 | 1101 |
The strap was dark on them. |
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| 36 | 1129 |
When he freed my hands of the strap I sank to my knees on the tiles under the ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 1440 |
I would take it twice snugly about her wrist and then, angling it, press the cap-topped stud at the end of the strap, from the bottom, up through one of the small, sturdy, suitable eyelets on the same strap. |
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| 1 | 736 |
She drew the hair from her mouth, drawing some of it, in loosening it, deeply back between her teeth, with her head back, as though she might have been in the constraint of a gag strap, all this to the music, and then her hair was free, and, with a movement of her head and movements of her hands, be... |
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| 1 | 879 |
He had tied her ankles together and pulled them up behind her body, fastening them there with a strap passed through a ring at the back of the slave harness. |
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| 2 | 793 |
There were two sorts, refined, adjustable strap racks, with beddings of flat, soft, crisscrossed straps, with sturdy stud-and-eyelet securing straps, and simple net racks, little more than sturdy wooden frames within which was slung a netlike webbing of rope. |
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| 2 | 797 |
The strap racks were all in use. |
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| 2 | 1304 |
It was one of the strap racks, not a simple net rack, or rope rack. |
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| 2 | 1438 |
It was a holding strap. |
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| 8 | 303 |
Then I resheathed the blade, in one of the seven sheaths sewn on the common, supple leather backing, slung now from its shoulder strap, at and about my left hip. |
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| 10 | 3 |
She knelt, her wrists tied together over her head, fastened by a short strap to a transversely mounted, sturdy wooden bar. |
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| 10 | 126 |
When Boots had finished he untied the strap that had fastened her bound wrists to the wooden bar. |
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| 10 | 628 |
I then, although it was not really necessary, put a strap twice about her throat, under her chin, and buckled it in back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 30 |
I slung it, on its strap, over my left shoulder. |
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| 19 | 18 |
"The blade was in the sheath, was it not," asked Boabissia, "and the sheath beside you?" "Yes," I said, "and the sheath was on its strap, slung about my shoulder. |
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| 26 | 2039 |
The leash strap had now been snapped on the leading ring. |
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| 26 | 2040 |
In one's pouch or pack the leash strap is normally coiled inside the collar, whether it is snapped on the leash ring or not. |
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| 27 | 11 |
I separated the collar and strap. |
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| 27 | 12 |
I coiled the strap, placing it within the collar. |
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| 29 | 174 |
The captain was in the lead, my sword in its sheath, slung on its strap, over his shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 15 | 61 |
This device would be secured in place by a broad, mouth-covering strap, with three smaller straps attached to it, one to secure the broad strap at the upper lip, another to secure it across the mouth, pulling it back between the teeth, and one to secure it at the chin. |
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| 20 | 279 |
He carried, on a strap over his left shoulder, the strap under his cloak, a sword. |
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| 3 | 858 |
On the other hand, I had little doubt that many women in the past, in such places, and in thousands of others, had had their behavior corrected with perfection by just such instruments and their kin, such as the switch, the strap, the bastinado. |
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| 6 | 1 |
Transportation It is all part of the hood, the leather ball, the strap attached at the front of it, and the belt, with its double loop, on the outside, held in place by the hood's belt loops, at its opening. |
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| 6 | 4 |
I then felt its strap, attached at its front, drawn back between my teeth, and buckled behind the back of my neck. |
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| 6 | 9 |
The belt was then buckled shut behind the back of my neck, as the gag strap, inside the hood, had been. |
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| 6 | 388 |
I moved the leather ball about a bit in my mouth, it held in my mouth by its strap, pulled back between my teeth, buckled behind the back of my neck. |
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| 8 | 430 |
A leather strap, with snaps at both ends, joins the rings, usually the ring at the back of one collar to the ring at the front of another. |
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| 10 | 556 |
I adjusted the strap on my right shoulder. |
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| 15 | 62 |
These straps were then pulled back tightly, and fastened, the top strap above my ears, behind the back of my head, and the two lower straps behind the back of my neck. |
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| 24 | 28 |
My body, and even my legs, ached from the weight of the water bag, slung on its strap over my shoulder. |
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| 24 | 52 |
"You know that he is down there, among the others," said the girl, near me, she, too, chained, standing in the sand, on the top of the small hill, her own water bag on its strap over her shoulder. |
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| 24 | 556 |
Too, I again put the water bag on its strap, on my back. |
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| 24 | 820 |
I carried a metal cup on a string about my neck, and the water bag, on its strap, over my shoulder. |
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| 26 | 206 |
Over its left shoulder, there had been slung a strap, from which had hung a scabbard, the attitude of which had suggested only too clearly that it was weighted with a blade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 501 |
I did, however, loop a left strap about her left wrist, and tie it back to its ring, and loop a right strap about her right wrist, tying it back to its ring. |
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| 8 | 744 |
She screamed, suddenly, flung to the left, as I drew the two-strap and three-strap at the same time, the tarn veering to the right. |
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| 21 | 1218 |
The tunic, short, loosely draped, flowing, is fastened by a single, soft, narrow strap at the left shoulder, opportunely situated for the right-handed master, which strap, given the nature of the knot, may be undone with a casual tug, this dropping the garment to the slave's ankles. |
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| 1 | 357 |
In the wagon ahead, briefly illuminated, I saw, swinging from its strap, slung over a hook on the rear axle housing, a narrow, cylindrical, capped "grease bucket," the handle of the brush protruding through a hole in the cap. |
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| 1 | 426 |
In another stroke of lightning, I caught sight, again, of the swinging "grease bucket," it filled presumably with tar and tallow, hanging on its strap from the axle housing of the wagon ahead of me. |
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| 5 | 502 |
He wore his sword, on its strap over the left shoulder. |
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| 5 | 504 |
In this arrangement the sword may be unsheathed and the scabbard and strap discarded in one movement. |
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| 6 | 866 |
I noted he wrapped the strap of the pouch he carried about his left arm, three or four times. |
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| 6 | 867 |
I supposed, like many such pouches, diplomatic pouches, so to speak, the strap would be cored with wire, and, inside, within the pouch itself, between the leather and a presumed lining, there would be a pattern of interlinked rings. |
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| 8 | 503 |
I then put the safety strap about myself, and buckled it shut. |
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| 8 | 614 |
I drew back, decisively, on the one-strap, and the tarn screamed and smote the air with its wings, and, my servant crying out in terror and clutching the pommel, was aflight! Those who are horsemen know the exhilaration of riding, the marvelous animal, its strength, its pacings, its speed, its respo... |
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| 8 | 725 |
Then she screamed, a long, wild wailing scream, as the tarn, responding to the four-strap, began a sudden, precipitous descent. |
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| 8 | 761 |
I did wave the pouch on its strap to him, cheerily, before proceeding onward, to make the second pass. |
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| 9 | 90 |
To be sure, it is more common to throw a cloak or sheet, which might be of various lengths, over their heads, this usually being fastened on them by means of a cord or strap looped once or twice about the neck and fastened under the chin. |
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| 15 | 816 |
Lady Publia struggled wildly, trying to pull her head up, against the thick collar and heavy strap. |
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| 17 | 309 |
I rebuckled the belt and put it about me, the strap over my right shoulder, the sheath at the left hip, as one wears it on the march. |
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| 18 | 501 |
I saw one girl cuffed, and another, one who had perhaps been slow to obey, lashed with a strap. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 15 |
The center of such a strap is tied about the chain of the manacles and the two ends of the strap are joined behind the back. |
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| 19 | 1622 |
I then lifted up one end, the loose end, of a long strap, also part of the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh, and tied it about the four turns of the strap on her neck. |
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| 19 | 1623 |
In this way the interior strap, given the pull of the lead strap, could not close on her throat. |
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| 19 | 1624 |
Similarly, the pressure of the lead strap, if it were transmitted to the turns of the neck strap, as in a slave leash on a girl front-led, would be at the back of her neck, not at the throat. |
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| 1 | 529 |
That is one reason it is often carried on a loop over the left shoulder, that it may be immediately, lest it prove an encumbrance, or present an encircling strap an enemy may seize, the blade drawn, discarded. |
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| 11 | 14 |
Sometimes during the day, out of the water, or in shallow water, I was permitted to wear them before my body, usually fastened closely to my belly with a strap. |
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| 11 | 16 |
In this way one cannot reach the knot which fastens the strap in place. |
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| 13 | 85 |
This was done, and wrapped about the leather strap looped twice about my neck, that threaded through the center hole in the yoke, behind my neck. |
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| 16 | 27 |
In the morning, after I had been again gagged and hooded, my hands would be again manacled before me, and fastened there with a strap, that my back might be more available for blows. |
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| 17 | 285 |
This I did in the area of the gag strap, beneath the hood, on the right, that I might, as far as it might prove possible, protect my face. |
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| 17 | 289 |
Then, my cheek burning, even beneath the gag strap, I began to saw the leather against the wood. |
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| 17 | 328 |
I hooked the side of my gag strap over the projection. |
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| 17 | 330 |
I loosened the strap a quarter of a hort. |
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| 17 | 331 |
Then, with the projection, and my tongue, I moved some of the wadding out, around the strap. |
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| 17 | 333 |
I threw my head back, even though the gag strap was still between my teeth, and breathed in deeply. |
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| 17 | 335 |
In one common form of such a gag the sewn-leather wadding, part of the gag itself, is commonly held in place by, and generally shielded from tampering by, a metal bar or strap, which locks behind the back of the neck. |
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| 17 | 336 |
In another common form the "wadding" is a metal sphere, usually covered with leather, through which passes the metal locking bar or strap. |
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| 17 | 358 |
I pulled at the strap holding the manacles close to my waist. |
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| 17 | 360 |
I tried to separate the strap holding the manacles close to me, drawing on it with my hands. |
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| 17 | 362 |
It was a stout strap. |
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| 17 | 363 |
I did not wish to use the pressure of the manacles themselves directly on the strap, as this drew it, sawing, painfully, in my back. |
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| 17 | 367 |
I crawled to the side of the raft and getting the strap about one of the projections there, and using my hands, moving it back and forth in small rapid movements, heating it, tearing at it, in a matter of Ehn, severed it. |
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| 17 | 376 |
I removed the gag strap from between my teeth. |
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| 19 | 1110 |
"You will follow, tied, on a strap," I said. |
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| 19 | 1194 |
Surely she remembered what I had told her, that she would follow, tied, on a strap. |
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| 19 | 1620 |
I then picked up a short, buckled strap, cut from the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh. |
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| 19 | 1625 |
The other end of this strap I had already fastened securely to the rear of the raft. |
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| 19 | 1641 |
I looked at her, in the light of the moons, sitting on the rough raft, her ankles crossed and bound, her hands tied behind her, in her improvised collar, on its strap. |
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| 19 | 1657 |
She stood there in the water to her waist, the strap going up to her collar. |
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| 19 | 1658 |
"I told you," I said, "that you would follow, bound, on a strap". |
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| 19 | 1662 |
"Oh!" I looked back and saw her following, on her strap. |
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| 19 | 1882 |
She moaned, and followed behind, on her strap. |
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| 20 | 13 |
The front of your collar is wet, and the strap, near the throat. |
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| 24 | 6 |
To be sure, the strap was still on her neck, keeping her in place as she waded behind the raft. |
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| 24 | 27 |
I unbuckled the collar, putting it, with the strap, on the raft. |
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| 26 | 11 |
Her hands were now free, but the collar and strap, fashioned from the harness I had once worn, was still on her throat, fastened to the raft. |
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| 26 | 19 |
In all these ties, of course, when she was on the raft, she wore the collar and strap. |
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| 26 | 235 |
She coiled the strap running to her collar once or twice, shortening her own tether. |
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| 26 | 305 |
She twisted about then, to her side, and then, there, lying in the sand, on her side, looked up at me, frightened, the blood at her lip, her hands tied behind her back, the strap on her throat. |
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| 26 | 315 |
Looping up to her buckled collar was the strap to her collar, that tethering her to the raft. |
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| 27 | 739 |
I regarded her there in the sand, naked, her hands bound behind her, the strap from the raft running to the improvised, buckled collar on her throat, which, as tether, would keep her in the vicinity of the raft. |
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| 46 | 96 |
The collar, simple as it was, little more than a strap of iron, was pretty on her. |
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| 46 | 212 |
"Have you seen a blond slave," I asked, "loose, in a slit-sided brown tunic, in a strap collar?" "No," he said. |
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| 46 | 270 |
"I am looking for a female," I said, "a blond girl, in a brown tunic, with a strap collar, who fled from me". |
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| 48 | 236 |
On her neck there was a common iron collar, a strap collar, hammered shut, as there had been on the neck of she who, until a few Ehn ago, had had the name 'Ina'. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 427 |
She had a common black, strap collar on her neck, no more, really, than a strap or plate of black iron. |
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| 19 | 137 |
Also I did not detect, beneath her dampened tunic, any sign of the close-fitting apparatus, no sign of either its horizontal component, usually a bar or metal strap tightly encircling the waist, nor of its vertical component, usually hinged to the horizontal component in front and swung up, then, be... |
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| 19 | 1118 |
I regarded her short brush of hair, the brief, tattered rag, scarcely more than a ta-teera, which was her only garment, the simple collar, no more than a strap of black iron curved about her throat, its small, right-angled, pierced terminations flush to one another behind the back of her neck, held ... |
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| 22 | 656 |
The scabbard and strap is then discarded, to be recovered, if practical, later. |
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| 24 | 130 |
She may even try to cover herself until the switch or strap informs her that such is not permitted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 46 |
There are also strap collars which are similar, in which a flattened strap of metal is beaten around the neck, usually also for similar purposes. |
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| 10 | 15 |
The metal pipe with which he had struck the bars he threw behind him, on a shoulder strap. |
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| 10 | 824 |
In any event he did not remonstrate with me, or order me to my feet, or lash me with the strap of the leash. |
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| 41 | 104 |
Indeed, if they are not pleased, we are likely to soon find out about it, at the receiving end of the leather, of a switch, or strap, or whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1116 |
There, as she stood, her hands were tied before her body, with a leather strap, and she heard a loop of strap strike above her, as though thrown over a beam. |
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| 17 | 1035 |
On the front of the hood strap, before the throat, there was a ring, for the attachment of a leash snap. |
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| 17 | 1057 |
Then, suddenly, Ellen felt a tug, a firm, no-nonsense tug, on the leash, and she stumbled forward in the direction of the taut strap. |
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| 17 | 1119 |
She then received ten lashes of the five-stranded Gorean slave whip, and she wept, and screamed, and protested, and begged, and pleaded, and turned, spinning, jerking, twisting, in the bonds, sometimes bending her knees, lifting her feet from the floor, her full weight then on the wrist tether, and ... |
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| 17 | 1120 |
The strap was then apparently freed from the hook or ring which held it over the beam and she fell, hands still bound before her, to her knees. |
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| 20 | 365 |
The bird had its talons on the man but could not pull him free, because of the safety strap. |
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| 20 | 733 |
A cloth strap ran over the blonde's right shoulder, to which was attached, near the left hip, but rather before her, a cloth sack, which apparently contained some form of sizable biscuits. |
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| 26 | 69 |
Briefly a leather strap brushed her right breast. |
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| 26 | 73 |
Then, guided by a pressure at the ring on the front of the hood's neck strap, she followed, as she must, as helpless as a tethered verr. |
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| 26 | 227 |
In this way she was not only helpless even to try to rise, but any movements of her bound ankles would exert pressure on her bound wrists, which would, in turn, exert pressure on the leash strap, which was attached to her wrists. |
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| 26 | 399 |
The strap had done its work well. |
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| 26 | 419 |
It was then before her, dangling from the strap ring at the front of her throat. |
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| 26 | 454 |
Ellen sensed that her master was then standing before her, the leash presumably in his hand, she gathering that from the tiny draw on the hood's strap ring. |
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| 26 | 616 |
But how the brute had tormented her with the leash strap! She had no doubt what she would be to him! In his casual, insolent way, he would well know how to handle, and keep, a slave. |
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| 26 | 633 |
As Ellen knelt she felt the leash strap between her breasts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 101 |
For example, I would occasionally have the men cry out, say, "one-strap" at the same time as drawing on the one strap. |
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| 16 | 277 |
I seized the mounting ladder of my tarn, hastened to the saddle, strung the ladder, fastened the safety strap, and yanked back on the one-strap, and, in a moment, the field of the training plaza, with its numerous, riddled targets, was falling away, beneath me. |
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