| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 51 |
The thought flashed through my mind that tarns should be trained to respond to voice commands as well as to the numbered straps and the tarn-goad. |
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| 5 | 2 |
My shield and spear were secured by saddle straps; my sword was slung over my shoulder. |
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| 5 | 31 |
As soon as we had taken flight, I had unfastened the restraining straps on her legs and wrists, leaving only the broad belt which lashed her securely to the back of the tarn. |
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| 5 | 72 |
The marks of the original restraining straps, which I had removed, were just visible. |
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| 5 | 96 |
"What are you doing?" She turned bodily in the straps, looking at me, her eyes wide. |
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| 6 | 14 |
In a moment he had taken flight again, bawling out some semblance of a song about the woes of a camp girl, the bag of paga, flying behind him, dangling from its long straps. |
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| 7 | 38 |
One monstrous platformlike shoe had broken from her small foot and flopped beside her ankle, still attached by its straps. |
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| 12 | 174 |
I then threw the saddle over the bird's back and crawled under its stomach to fasten the girth straps. |
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| 14 | 103 |
The loose ends of the fiber were then attached by broad leather straps to two tarns, one of them my own sable giant. |
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| 14 | 148 |
In a few wild moments I had gained the saddle straps of the bird and hauled myself nearly to the weapon rings. |
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| 14 | 151 |
Then, with one hand, while clinging to the talon, I loosened the girth straps. |
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| 14 | 152 |
In a moment, given the wild motion of the bird, the entire saddle, to which the tarnsman was fixed by the saddle straps, slid from the bird's back and flew wildly into the depths below. |
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| 14 | 171 |
Then I slapped his leg with affection, climbed to the saddle, dropped the dead tarnsman to the ground, and fastened myself in the saddle straps. |
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| 17 | 38 |
In surrender, on the other hand, the shield straps and the shaft of the spear are broken, indicating that the vanquished has disarmed himself and places himself at the mercy of the conqueror. |
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| 19 | 27 |
Once again alone, sick at heart, I loosened my spear and shield in their saddle straps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 84 |
The man was stripped to the waist, a brawny fellow wearing buckled leather wrist straps, his hair bound back on his head with a band of gray cloth. |
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| 11 | 7 |
With his whip, prodding me scornfully, the man in wrist straps directed me through one of these doors. |
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| 11 | 36 |
The burly man in wrist straps placed it in his hand. |
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| 11 | 59 |
"Has he still his tongue?" asked the Tatrix of the man with the wrist straps, who stood behind me. |
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| 11 | 62 |
The silver mask turned upon the man in wrist straps. |
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| 11 | 115 |
Thorn, in irritation, hurled the whip back into the hands of the man with wrist straps. |
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| 11 | 251 |
"Give it to me!" The man with the wrist straps hastily knelt before her, lifting it to her hands. |
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| 13 | 59 |
Our driver was the man in wrist straps, he from the Chamber of Urts, who had first brought me into the presence of the Tatrix. |
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| 13 | 91 |
The man with wrist straps circled us with the whip, his eye on the throne of the Tatrix. |
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| 13 | 103 |
"Begin," said the man in wrist straps. |
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| 13 | 108 |
The man in wrist straps cracked his whip. |
10 |
| 13 | 149 |
The first man to reach me was the man in wrist straps, his face livid with rage. |
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| 14 | 66 |
The man in wrist straps, the burly fellow who had so delighted in striking me, he with the band of gray cloth wound about his forehead, approached me, his whip lifted. |
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| 14 | 151 |
"Fools!" cried the voice of the man with wrist straps. |
10 |
| 14 | 169 |
He seemed to resent the goad, to fight it, to behave erratically when it was used; when struck with it he might even slow his flight, or deliberately disobey the commands of the tarn straps. |
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| 15 | 2 |
Beyond this it is all a matter of the tarn-straps and the tarn-goad. |
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| 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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| 20 | 33 |
Its straps were broken but they could be knotted together. |
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| 21 | 135 |
Targo wore purple sandals, the straps of which were set with pearls. |
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| 21 | 185 |
Targo and I regarded one another until the man returned, the leather bucket hung over his shoulder by its straps. |
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| 21 | 214 |
The sword itself I retained, knotting the scabbard straps and thrusting the blade into them. |
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| 22 | 6 |
On one side of the tent there stood, with its straps, a Pleasure Rack. |
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| 22 | 209 |
Targo squinted at the Pleasure Rack at the side of the tent, perhaps looking for perspiration stains on the straps. |
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| 23 | 132 |
The helmet straps, the leather inside, and the blond hair of the soldier were soaked with his blood. |
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| 25 | 7 |
Hardly had my shield been penetrated when my sword had leaped from its sheath and slashed through the shoulder straps of the shield, cutting it from my arm. |
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| 25 | 63 |
There were three men on the roof, two guardsmen and the man with the wrist straps, who had served as the master of the dungeons of Tharna. |
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| 25 | 69 |
"Kill!" cried the man in wrist straps, pointing the whip in my direction, and unleashing the urt, which charged viciously toward me. |
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| 25 | 78 |
The man with wrist straps had picked up the sword and with this, and his whip, circled us, waiting for an opportunity to strike. |
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| 25 | 79 |
I tried to turn the animal as well as I could to keep its scrambling body between myself and the man with wrist straps. |
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| 25 | 82 |
Then I turned so that it was my body that was exposed to the blow of the sword carried by the man in wrist straps. |
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| 25 | 85 |
It reached for me with a whiplike motion of its furred neck and I felt the long sharp white teeth rake my arm but at the same time I heard another squeal of pain and the grunt of horror from the man in wrist straps. |
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| 25 | 86 |
I rolled from under the animal and turned to see it facing the man with wrist straps. |
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| 26 | 40 |
On market day I saw a peasant, his sack of Sa-Tarna meal on his back, whose sandals were tied with silver straps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 39 |
Thrown low the long straps, with their approximate ten-foot sweep, almost impossible to evade, strike the victim and the weighted balls, as soon as resistance is met, whip about the victim, tangling and tightening the straps. |
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| 3 | 5 |
At the last instant, the lances of four riders but a hand's breadth from my body, the enraged, thundering kaiila, hissing and squealing, at a touch of the control straps, arrested their fierce charge, stopping themselves, tearing into the deep turf with suddenly emergent claws. |
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| 4 | 11 |
Then the animal seized my shield in its teeth and reared lifting it and myself, by the shield straps, from the ground. |
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| 4 | 37 |
It consists of three long straps of leather, each about five feet long, each terminating in a leather sack which contains, sewn inside, a heavy, round, metal weight. |
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| 4 | 41 |
It is often difficult to release the straps, so snarled do they become. |
10 |
| 4 | 46 |
The three weights at the end of the straps were now almost blurring in the air and he, his song ended, the reins in his left hand, quiva blade now clenched between his teeth, bola in his swinging, uplifted right arm, suddenly cried out and kicked the kaiila into its charge. |
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| 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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| 5 | 66 |
The wagon is guided by a series of eight straps, two each for the four lead animals. |
10 |
| 5 | 74 |
"Stand aside, you fool!" cried a girl's voice, and, to my astonishment, astride the saddle of the monster I espied a girl, young, astonishingly beautiful, vital, angry, pulling at the control straps of the animal. |
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| 6 | 57 |
"You are all mad!" screamed the girl, pulling at the straps that bound her, struggling in the bonds. |
10 |
| 8 | 489 |
I heard her startled cry as the weighted leather straps flashed about her thighs, calves and ankles, in an instant lashing them together as tightly as though by binding fiber. |
10 |
| 10 | 434 |
His large wrists had been wrapped in boskhide straps. |
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| 16 | 131 |
The merchant wore his Pleasure Robes of white and gold and his sandals, too, were of white leather bound with golden straps. |
10 |
| 20 | 137 |
As swiftly as I could I then explained to him the guidance apparatus, the main saddle ring and its six straps. |
10 |
| 20 | 152 |
"Release the straps!" I called to him. |
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| 23 | 50 |
He had apparently, in the past several days since our escape from Saphrar's keep, been familiarizing himself with the saddle straps and the bird's habits and responses. |
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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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| 2 | 171 |
Not taking his eyes from the man, Kuurus cut the straps on the sheath from the man's forearm, and with a small movement of his blade, threw the sheath and its dagger some feet to the side. |
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| 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. |
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| 11 | 29 |
The kitchen for the pens is on this level, and the infirmary, and certain facilities for smiths; Ho-Tu kept his chair of office on this level; also, discipline was administered on this level, I gathered, seeing certain racks and chains, certain stone tables with straps, certain carefully arranged in... |
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| 12 | 3 |
The tarn, screaming, its wing useless, tumbled uncontrollably from the edge of the large, open, padded ring suspended over the net on the track, plunging into the net, its rider cutting the safety straps and leaping from its back in order that he not be slain beneath the bird struggling in the net. |
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| 12 | 4 |
The other bird, which had buffeted it against the edge of the ring, spun awkwardly through, turned in the air, and under the savage command of its control straps, and responding to a yellow flash of the tarn goad, regained its control and sped toward the next ring. |
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| 12 | 7 |
Their leader was a brown racing tarn, whose rider wore red silk, and whose small saddle and tight control straps were of red leather. |
10 |
| 12 | 11 |
Its rider took the saddle and control straps from the still-quivering bird and dropped with them through the broad strands of the net, to the sand some six feet below. |
10 |
| 12 | 12 |
The other bird was apparently only stunned, and it was being rolled to the edge of the net where it would be dropped into a large wheeled frame, drawn by two horned tharlarion, onto a suspended canvas, where it was immediately secured by broad canvas straps. |
10 |
| 13 | 286 |
The racing harness, like the common tarn harness, works with two rings, the throat ring and the main saddle ring, and six straps. |
10 |
| 13 | 291 |
We fastened the safety straps. |
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 | 333 |
We removed the small saddles and control straps from the birds, and hung them on vertical beams, a portion of the perch framework. |
10 |
| 13 | 354 |
"This afternoon," I said, "at the races, I saw a rider cut the safety straps and free himself from a falling bird". |
10 |
| 15 | 80 |
Sometimes in the races, in pressing through the rings, fighting for position, riders used goads on one another, or tried to cut the safety or girth straps of others; more than one man had been stabbed as the birds, jammed at the corner rings, had fought for passage and position. |
10 |
| 19 | 22 |
It was hot in the slave hood, of several layers of thick leather, stifling, locked under my chin and about my throat; further, this hood, like many, was so constructed as to ensure silence in a prisoner; I could not spit out the thick leather wad that was packed in my mouth nor, because of the strap... |
10 |
| 19 | 28 |
Those who jeered me or sported with their straps and stones would have little reason for not thinking me slave. |
10 |
| 22 | 163 |
With a clear strike at the first of the end rings, however, the bird, headstrong, resenting the sudden pressure on the control straps, went wide. |
10 |
| 22 | 165 |
Menicius of Port Kar, riding for the Yellows, tearing at the control straps of his bird, tarn goad showering sparks to the sand below, tarn screaming, fought his way, birds buffeting, past the Silver trying to regain the center of the rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 198 |
Mip was thrown back in the two thin safety straps of the racing saddle and then sagged in the saddle, leaning to one side. |
10 |
| 22 | 221 |
With my sword I cut Mip free of the safety straps and drew him from the tarn. |
10 |
| 22 | 502 |
My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak awa... |
10 |
| 22 | 554 |
Again the tarn cut through and two of the tarnsmen were screaming, trying to shield themselves from the weighted straps, flying about them; the weights in the Tuchuk bola can crush a skull, the leather can strangle. |
10 |
| 22 | 563 |
The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f... |
10 |
| 22 | 565 |
With a curse he jerked savagely at the control straps of Quarrel and that fine bird instantaneously responded and together Quarrel and Ubar of the Skies passed through the final ring; with a snap of his great wings Ubar of the Skies struck the winner's perch, seized it in his steel-shod talons and t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 132 |
I put the blade in my scabbard, and wrapped the straps about the scabbard. |
10 |
| 17 | 249 |
One was unhooded, the straps that bound its beak unbuckled. |
10 |
| 17 | 354 |
I tested its responses to the straps. |
10 |
| 17 | 357 |
Already, below me, I saw tarns being unhooded, and the straps that bound their beaks being unbuckled, and cast aside. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 52 |
Inside each, secured with heavy straps and buckles, attached to rings in the box, was a girl. |
10 |
| 6 | 127 |
He wore purple sandals, the straps of which were set with pearls. |
10 |
| 6 | 221 |
They wore heavy sandals, laced with thick straps, more than a foot up their leg. |
10 |
| 6 | 243 |
I did not even think him the sort who would be likely to walk, but his sandals, with the pearled straps, with certain of the pearls missing, were stained with dust. |
10 |
| 6 | 318 |
The handful of slender leather straps was merciless. |
10 |
| 6 | 323 |
There was only the grass and the tears and the pain of the straps, striking again and again. |
10 |
| 6 | 338 |
In his other hand I saw, dangling, the handful of straps with which I had been beaten. |
10 |
| 6 | 341 |
I could not take my eyes from the straps. |
10 |
| 6 | 344 |
He lifted the straps. |
10 |
| 6 | 361 |
There were buckled straps on her wrists, fastening her in place. |
10 |
| 6 | 364 |
Buckled straps were placed on my wrists. |
10 |
| 6 | 378 |
If someone saw us, as we were, they might think that I was no different from the others, that I was the same as they! I jerked at the straps on my wrists. |
10 |
| 6 | 435 |
I sobbed in the straps, under the switch. |
10 |
| 7 | 120 |
I feared the straps terribly. |
10 |
| 7 | 353 |
I enjoyed the dream, but then it seemed Targo was coming for me, with the straps swinging in his hand. |
10 |
| 7 | 540 |
Her left thigh, particularly, was lashed tightly to it, with several straps of leather, binding leather. |
10 |
| 8 | 217 |
A man came forward and untied the straps leading to the nose rings of the bosk from the bosk ring on the deck. |
10 |
| 8 | 418 |
The guard took me and threw me, belly down, on the platform, fastening my wrists over my head and widely apart, in leather wrist straps. |
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 | 1017 |
Lana stood proudly beside the fire, her head back and arms down, and extended, at her sides, while the bells, mounted in their double rows, on their straps, were fastened on her wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 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 |
| 10 | 575 |
I kissed his feet, the straps of his sandals, fervently, fearfully. |
10 |
| 10 | 578 |
On the sandal straps there were little stains, tiny dampnesses, where my lips had rendered their pathetic, desperate obeisance to a master. |
10 |
| 10 | 598 |
"Only with a handful of straps," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 640 |
I had been beaten only once, when first enslaved, by Lana, with straps, at the side of the slave wagon. |
10 |
| 11 | 1098 |
Victorious, they roar with laughter and, hauling on the one-straps of their tarn harness, take flight. |
10 |
| 11 | 1179 |
I lowered my eyes to his sandals, which were of black, polished leathers with wide straps, and then, still smiling, tauntingly, lifted my head. |
10 |
| 12 | 33 |
The "skirt," too, in front and back, below the binding straps, or binding fiber, at least as permitted to Targo's girls, is quite short. |
10 |
| 12 | 281 |
A huntsman came now, holding in his hand five long leather straps, dragging behind him five panther girls. |
10 |
| 12 | 661 |
The straps we wore about our throats were broad, and the strap, too, that joined us. |
10 |
| 13 | 19 |
She had used the pieces of binding fiber which had, by means of the perforations, fastened our throat straps on us. |
10 |
| 13 | 659 |
"Let us switch her!" Upside down, fastened in the straps, I shook with fear. |
10 |
| 13 | 680 |
I pulled helplessly at the straps. |
10 |
| 13 | 781 |
I wanted to lift my body piteously, in its straps, to call myself to his attention. |
10 |
| 13 | 798 |
Too, I realized that with one caress he might have me leaping in the straps, begging him for use. |
10 |
| 13 | 839 |
In one moment, as I screamed, terrified, thrown rudely against my bonds, he had jerked his shield from the saddle straps and wheeled the tarn, with a cry of rage, a strange war cry, to face his foe. |
10 |
| 13 | 867 |
Then its talons locked over the shield and it smote its wings, ripping the shield straps, half tearing my captor from the saddle, and the tarn was away, the shield then dropping like a penny, turning, toward the field below. |
10 |
| 14 | 368 |
How beautiful I thought would have been Ena, in the straps, arched, supine, bound over the dark, oiled leather of a saddle, a tarnsman's prize, so tethered, so bared, so constrained, so helpless, so subdued. |
10 |
| 15 | 751 |
Once, long ago, I had been beaten by Lana, with a handful of straps. |
10 |
| 15 | 791 |
"The straps are too broad. |
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 |
| 16 | 191 |
Across the back of her dark hair I could see leather gag straps. |
10 |
| 16 | 250 |
As it was, only the tiniest sound of pain, little more than a startled gasp, forcing its way about the stoppage of the leather, the wadding and straps, escaped her. |
10 |
| 16 | 296 |
And I watched the proud Verna lead her humbled, chastened slave away, into the darkness, the gag straps tight over the back of her hair as she followed perfectly, beautifully, unquestioningly, frightened, on her leash. |
10 |
| 17 | 5 |
I felt the straps through the heavy wicker. |
10 |
| 17 | 184 |
Then my throat, by the straps, was drawn back tighter against the wicker, and this bond, too, was tightened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 321 |
I fastened the sword, with the sheath straps, to my belt. |
10 |
| 11 | 408 |
There were two short choke straps on her neck, each held by a different panther girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 446 |
"A lovely girl," said one of the panther girls, holding one of the choke straps. |
10 |
| 11 | 460 |
The choke straps were removed from Verna's throat. |
10 |
| 14 | 142 |
Here and there they tightened straps, and cords and binding fiber. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 170 |
But now they hung at the ship's sides, tied by their straps to the wooden bars inside the gunwales. |
10 |
| 2 | 250 |
She wore black and silver, a full, ankle-length gown of rich, black velvet, with silver belts, or straps, that crossed over her breasts, and tied about her waist. |
10 |
| 3 | 93 |
I saw, standing there, terrified, their backs against it, the blond girl in the scarlet vest and skirt, her hair in the snood of scarlet yarn, tied with filaments of golden wire; and the large, statuesque girl, too, in black velvet, with the silver straps crossed over her breasts, and tied about her... |
10 |
| 3 | 97 |
He tore away the purse from the large blond girl, and the silver straps, too, which had decorated the black velvet of her gown. |
10 |
| 3 | 108 |
Among them, of course, were the slender blond girl in the red vest and skirt, and the larger one, now in black velvet, torn, stripped of its silver straps, its brooches, the purse. |
10 |
| 3 | 306 |
It can also, of course, be hung, by its sheath and sheath straps, from the master belt, which is quite adequate, being a stout, heavy belt, to hold it. |
10 |
| 9 | 124 |
The Forkbeard touched her back with the whip; his fist held the handle and, too, beneath his fist, folded back, were the five straps. |
10 |
| 9 | 127 |
"Please, no!" We fell back to give the Forkbeard room, and he shook loose the straps and drew back his arm. |
10 |
| 14 | 76 |
The Kur who had taken the girl then took another leash from the interior of his shield, where there were several wrapped about the shield straps, and surveyed the hall. |
10 |
| 14 | 140 |
The shield arm was twisted in one of the straps. |
10 |
| 15 | 12 |
In one corner of the stockade, huddled together, their white bodies, now stripped, red in the light of the flames, were the bondmaids, in their leather collars, leashed, the straps in the furred fists of their master. |
10 |
| 17 | 163 |
Kurii burden the males heavily; they can think of little more than the weight they carry, and the next step; furthermore, their wrists are usually tied to the straps of their improvised backpacks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 14 |
When the whole skin is thoroughly cleaned of filth and hair, straps are fastened to it, so that it may be conveniently carried on the shoulder, or over the back, the same straps serving, with adjustment, for either mode of support. |
10 |
| 1 | 59 |
To one side, stripped, bound tightly in black leather, hand and foot, straps crossing between her breasts and circling her thighs, to which her wrists were secured, in buckled cuffs, knelt a whitish-skinned girl, blond, frightened. |
10 |
| 1 | 92 |
She shuddered, and squirmed in the straps. |
10 |
| 1 | 93 |
Her fists were clenched at her thighs, beside which they were held in the cuff straps of her harness. |
10 |
| 1 | 133 |
The straps, the rings, held her, of course, perfectly. |
10 |
| 1 | 139 |
"Never," she wept, fighting the straps. |
10 |
| 1 | 584 |
Her fists were clenched in the leather, buckled cuffs of her harness, held to her thighs by the thigh straps. |
10 |
| 1 | 669 |
The guard took the straps which had bound her ankles together, and, untying them, slipped them through the metal ring, glinting, sewn into the back of the leather collar of the harness, worn over the simple curved collar of iron which marked her, even should she be clothed, and her brand not visible... |
10 |
| 1 | 670 |
The straps had run from the sides of the collar to her ankles, holding her in a kneeling position. |
10 |
| 1 | 671 |
Two straps are used so that the master, if he wishes, may fasten each ankle separately. |
10 |
| 1 | 678 |
The ankle straps then, sewn to the sides of the collar, and now circled about the collar and crossing in back, and now run through the ring on the front of the collar, served as leash. |
10 |
| 2 | 3 |
He came to me, bent over, tattered, swarthy, grinning up at me, the verrskin bag over his shoulder, the brass cups, a dozen of them, attached to shoulder straps and his belt, rattling and clinking. |
10 |
| 2 | 5 |
There were sweat marks on his torn shirt, under the straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 554 |
She wore a halter of leather; she wore a belt of leather; two strips of leather girded her, falling to her knees; about her calves, crossing, leather straps bound heavy sandals on her feet. |
10 |
| 7 | 722 |
It was saddled; water bags were at its flanks; a scimitar sheath, with weapon, on straps, hung at a saddle ring on the right. |
10 |
| 7 | 723 |
I checked the girth straps, the kaiila rein. |
10 |
| 8 | 43 |
Their hands were bound at the end of long straps. |
10 |
| 8 | 296 |
Unlooping, swiftly, with his left hand, the tethers of the prisoners from his pommel, he threw the straps to one of his men. |
10 |
| 18 | 90 |
Then I freed my ankles of the straps. |
10 |
| 18 | 122 |
"You did not let me struggle in the straps," I said to the guard. |
10 |
| 26 | 481 |
She is spat upon, and struck, with hands and straps, and kicked, and much abused, but, of course, only within those limits set by the caller and guard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 293 |
Carrying the shield on his left arm, carrying the spear lightly in his right hand, the helmet hanging, too, by its straps, from his right hand, the newcomer approached casually. |
10 |
| 2 | 409 |
He slipped his shield on his arm, adjusting straps. |
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| 2 | 445 |
The stranger's spear had penetrated the shield of he who was one of my captors, and the stranger, bracing the shaft between his arm and body, had lifted his opponent's shield and turned, throwing it and his opponent, who had not the time to slip from the shield straps, to the ground at his feet. |
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| 2 | 448 |
He severed the shield straps of the opponent's shield, freeing his arm from them. |
10 |
| 2 | 504 |
The straps which had held the shield to his upper arm had been severed. |
10 |
| 2 | 506 |
I could see the severed straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 713 |
Then, adjusting the straps, he fastened the shield at my back. |
10 |
| 2 | 715 |
Then, carrying the helmet by its straps in his left hand and the spear, lightly, in his right, he turned and began to stride again through the grass. |
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| 3 | 153 |
There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I... |
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| 18 | 168 |
Suddenly I felt the wadding of the gag of a slave hood thrust in my mouth and, with its straps, secured. |
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| 19 | 5 |
The gag straps were loosened. |
10 |
| 19 | 160 |
The gag straps were drawn back, deeply, between my teeth; I winced; then, behind the back of my neck, they were cinched, tightly. |
10 |
| 29 | 57 |
He placed his shield upon the bridge, straps down, its convex surface like a bow facing the stars. |
10 |
| 29 | 59 |
With the straps, brought about the sides of the great shield he fastened my wrists apart, one on each side, about at shoulder level, at the edges of the shield. |
10 |
| 29 | 67 |
He dragged me upward to his pressing mouth, pulling me against the wrist straps which held my wrists at the shield's edges. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 12 |
The rawhide straps on the sacks were then drawn tight, looped about, and tied tightly behind the hoods; the women could not reach the straps; they were, thus, effectively imprisoned. |
10 |
| 6 | 817 |
I rolled the furs in which Constance had lain, and put them across the back of the saddle, fastening the two straps which held them. |
10 |
| 6 | 857 |
I took the tarn straps in my left hand, the one-strap in my right. |
10 |
| 7 | 213 |
Two woven canvas straps, some two inches in width, had been looped about the girl's throat and drawn close about it. |
10 |
| 7 | 215 |
Her fingers pulled futilely at the straps. |
10 |
| 7 | 217 |
The man behind her, the straps looped about his fists, tightened them slightly and instantly, terrified, eyes wild, she stopped all attempts to resist. |
10 |
| 7 | 220 |
The girl, rudely, the straps on her throat, was dragged into the darkness with us. |
10 |
| 7 | 247 |
I saw the wadding of a slave hood thrust deep in Constance's mouth and then, behind her neck, secured in place with two narrow, buckled straps. |
10 |
| 7 | 249 |
The fellow removed the straps from her throat. |
10 |
| 8 | 60 |
To this belt, on two small straps, hung a dagger sheath; the handle of the weapon was ornamented with red and yellow swirls. |
10 |
| 11 | 361 |
I tore the shield from its saddle straps and blocked the raking talons that furrowed the leather. |
10 |
| 11 | 366 |
The tarnsman to my left drew back on the one-strap to avoid fouling straps with his ally. |
10 |
| 11 | 381 |
I loosened it in its straps. |
10 |
| 14 | 297 |
Then she cried out, "It is Imnak who is first in his tent!" She shuddered in the straps that bound her. |
10 |
| 35 | 620 |
With my knife I cut the thin shoulder straps of the sheathlike garment of greenish silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 97 |
He began to undo certain buckles, attached to leather straps, within his own tunic. |
10 |
| 11 | 102 |
I saw to my surprise, that the man, he who had been called Kunguni, drew forth, from beneath his tunic, a sewn, padded mound of cloth, heavy, globelike, with dangling straps. |
10 |
| 12 | 594 |
It might afford you some protection from the straps and switches of the other girls". |
10 |
| 12 | 608 |
He had already slipped the padded hump beneath his tunic and adjusted the straps by which it was held in place. |
10 |
| 32 | 538 |
"What occurred next in this dream?" "That night, of course," she said, "I was captured, ruthlessly gagged and bound with black straps. |
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| 32 | 574 |
Then two straps were put on my neck and, by two men, the girls following, I was led forth. |
10 |
| 32 | 582 |
The straps were removed from my neck. |
10 |
| 32 | 991 |
"Strange," I mused, "that in the dream of a naive Earth woman such details should occur, details such as the differential tension of the wrist straps in a beating and the extra stroke, given sometimes to remind a girl that she is a slave. |
10 |
| 34 | 1080 |
"Faster, Slave Girl!" I struck her with the straps, a sharp blow, that she might understand that she was not to dally. |
10 |
| 48 | 137 |
Why else should they hate them so? I slipped the straps on the wrists of the blond girl a bit higher on her wrists. |
10 |
| 48 | 138 |
I then, below the straps, snapped her wrists into one of the pairs of slave bracelets from the loot of the taluna camp. |
10 |
| 48 | 139 |
I then untied the straps which had, hitherto, confined her wrists. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 184 |
On her feet were golden pumps, with a wisp of golden straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 172 |
Inside it were various straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 195 |
There was a ring on the back of the gag straps and a ring within the crate. |
10 |
| 13 | 207 |
One of these wagons had a cover of blue and yellow canvas, buckled shut with broad straps. |
10 |
| 13 | 886 |
It is at the height of the beast's back, cushioned, held there by straps. |
10 |
| 15 | 68 |
After the second I had hung in the straps, helpless, weeping, crying out for mercy. |
10 |
| 16 | 345 |
Then the wadding connected with the hood was thrust into my mouth; in a moment, by buckled straps, fastened behind my neck, it was secured in place. |
10 |
| 16 | 349 |
The hood was then drawn over my head and, by straps, buckled shut under my chin. |
10 |
| 19 | 232 |
I took the slave hood from the wagon bed and drew it over her head, adjusting the straps and buckling them under her chin. |
10 |
| 21 | 19 |
Snout straps, too, coiled, used to secure their jaws, also lay nearby. |
10 |
| 21 | 408 |
I picked up one of the long, leather, coiled snout straps lying at hand. |
10 |
| 26 | 293 |
I took two snout straps, those of the sort used to secure the jaws of newly hatched tharlarion. |
10 |
| 26 | 295 |
One of the snout straps I thrust, coiled, behind my belt. |
10 |
| 26 | 356 |
I sensed her squirming wildly in the straps. |
10 |
| 34 | 12 |
I heard the ringing of a metal-worker's hammer on metal, where simple straps of iron were being curved about the necks of beauties, their heads and hair over the anvil, these serving as temporary collars. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 273 |
I reached up to unbuckle the straps which held them closed. |
10 |
| 2 | 2 |
"Jason!" she said, struggling in the straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 6 |
She pulled back in the straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 73 |
The blonde a few racks away began to squirm and sob in her straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 107 |
Suddenly, a few racks away, the blonde, throwing her head back, and rearing helplessly in her straps, screamed her submission. |
10 |
| 2 | 140 |
"These straps seem to hold you quite well," I said. |
10 |
| 5 | 9 |
Among them, naked, in collars, were paga slaves, with their bronze vessels on leather straps. |
10 |
| 11 | 102 |
Her hands twisted in the straps. |
10 |
| 23 | 166 |
"Wine, Master?" asked a red-headed girl with two leather straps wound about her body. |
10 |
| 27 | 52 |
Besides such things the roughness of hemp, the weight of iron, the cruel, tight clasp of the closely encircling leather straps, are bonds as of gossamer. |
10 |
| 30 | 223 |
On her feet had been golden pumps, fastened with a lace of golden straps. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 566 |
The golden straps she had used to simulate the footwear which she had worn on Earth were golden binding straps. |
10 |
| 16 | 373 |
From the straps of his sword belt I improvised a short leash for him. |
10 |
| 18 | 488 |
In the restaurant she had worn golden pumps, with a golden wisp of straps. |
10 |
| 19 | 464 |
I then untied the straps of the slave hood. |
10 |
| 20 | 470 |
Twisted about her feet, over and under, were golden straps. |
10 |
| 20 | 553 |
She looked at me, and then, bending forward, removed the golden straps wound about and under her right foot. |
10 |
| 20 | 554 |
In the restaurant she had worn golden pumps, with wisps of golden straps. |
10 |
| 20 | 557 |
She cast aside the straps she had taken from her right foot. |
10 |
| 20 | 563 |
She then removed the golden straps from her left foot, and cast them aside. |
10 |
| 20 | 570 |
Such straps, incidentally, are commonly used to bind the hands and feet of women. |
10 |
| 20 | 1114 |
I had brought three such straps to the table, one for each of the girls who was to be awarded as a gift. |
10 |
| 20 | 1272 |
"You brought three binding straps to the table," she said. |
10 |
| 20 | 1290 |
She then retained this position, not having been given permission to break it, while I went to the tiles at the foot of the table and gathered up the two golden straps with which, earlier, she had simulated the footwear she had worn at the restaurant. |
10 |
| 20 | 1292 |
I then began to tie her, her wrists with one of the straps, and her ankles with the other. |
10 |
| 20 | 1408 |
"Is it not obvious?" she asked, weeping, twisting in the golden straps. |
10 |
| 20 | 1709 |
I have thrilled to the feel of ropes on my body, and straps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 503 |
We could see that the shield straps were in order. |
10 |
| 1 | 528 |
The shield straps, which had been displayed to us with the shield, the shield held convex side down, had not been torn away or cut, which would have rendered the shield useless. |
10 |
| 3 | 10 |
I felt her mouth and small, warm tongue between the straps on my sandals. |
10 |
| 4 | 181 |
They tossed their snouts in the nose straps. |
10 |
| 8 | 187 |
That she wore slave garments was probably also suggested to them by the transparency and sheerness of the coverings on her legs and, of course, from the Gorean view, her footwear, so slight and pretty, with the black ankle straps, was such that it would be likely to be affected only by a woman beggi... |
10 |
| 8 | 194 |
He then went to the suspended girl and, thrusting up the ropes on her ankles, unbuckled the narrow, ankle-encircling black straps of her high-heeled dress sandals. |
10 |
| 8 | 196 |
"Note the straps," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 197 |
"We are familiar with such straps, are we not?" Several of the men laughed. |
10 |
| 8 | 198 |
They resembled the small black straps, buckled, with which one occasionally binds the wrists and ankles of slaves, before, or while, one amuses oneself with them. |
10 |
| 8 | 199 |
He then drew the large, triangular-bladed knife from the beaded sheath on his belt and slashed the straps and uppers of the sandals, discarding them then in the flaming copper bowl at the side. |
10 |
| 8 | 289 |
I saw, then, that the slip had small, over-the-shoulder straps. |
10 |
| 8 | 319 |
The auctioneer freed her stockings from the hooks and buttons on the four garter straps. |
10 |
| 11 | 110 |
You will learn to love the ropes and straps with which you are bound, for they confirm your bondage upon you. |
10 |
| 17 | 68 |
Which is preferred may well depend on matters so trivial as the nature and lengths of the binding material available, for example, ropes, cordage, binding fiber, twisted silk, thongs or straps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 48 |
Most collars, of course, are not done with encirclements of strings, thongs, straps, beads or such. |
10 |
| 4 | 369 |
In such a case, of course, one must slash the travois straps, mount up, and make away as best one can. |
10 |
| 39 | 303 |
The common guidance apparatus for tarns in most cities is an arrangement involving two major rings and six straps. |
10 |
| 40 | 524 |
She pulled futilely at the straps. |
10 |
| 40 | 526 |
"I am not a woman!" Seibar, slowly, began to wrap leather straps about his right hand, that he might have them firmly in his grip. |
10 |
| 40 | 527 |
The ends of these straps, of which there were five, dangled then from his fist, some two feet or so in length. |
10 |
| 40 | 530 |
He swung the straps slowly before her eyes. |
10 |
| 40 | 735 |
He took one of the straps he had used in her whipping. |
10 |
| 43 | 257 |
She moved her head, lifting her mouth, with its heavy, sodden packing and its tight straps, toward me. |
10 |
| 43 | 277 |
I loosened the straps with my finger and then, putting my finger in her mouth, loosened the packing as well. |
10 |
| 43 | 278 |
Then, as though fearing I had been too lenient, I retightened the straps, closely, but not as tightly as they had been earlier. |
10 |
| 43 | 279 |
I then fastened the straps together behind her neck with a simple over-and-under knot. |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 44 | 491 |
Arms were broken in the shield straps. |
10 |
| 47 | 138 |
With a shake of its mighty head my tarn flung the shield from its beak, a hundred feet away, the arm still inserted in the shield straps. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 391 |
There were straps and buckles attached to this and, apparently, a heavy, slotted leather pad which went behind the back of my neck. |
10 |
| 2 | 392 |
I felt the leather rectangle drawn tightly back and felt, too, the apparently slotted leather pad, through which the straps apparently passed, one above, and one below, pressing against the back of my neck. |
10 |
| 2 | 393 |
Then I winced as I felt the straps drawn back, even more tightly. |
10 |
| 2 | 491 |
Inside were various straps, and rings. |
10 |
| 2 | 499 |
My left wrist, to my horror, was fastened back, and at my left side, by straps attached to a ring. |
10 |
| 2 | 525 |
I struggled in the straps, helpless. |
10 |
| 2 | 550 |
Because of the rings and straps, and the closeness with which they held me to the wall, I could gain little leverage. |
10 |
| 2 | 561 |
I became very conscious of the feel of the leather straps binding me. |
10 |
| 3 | 12 |
I remembered the men, the straps and the box. |
10 |
| 3 | 255 |
Depending from this handle, at one end, were five, pliant yellow straps, or lashes. |
10 |
| 3 | 441 |
The nearest I had come, I felt, were the men I had encountered before being brought to this place, those who had treated me as though I might be nothing, and had incarcerated me in the straps and iron box. |
10 |
| 6 | 721 |
I remembered how casually and efficiently they had handled me, how I had been injected with the contents of the syringe, how I had been secured with leather straps, helpless and gagged, in the heavy metal box, with air holes. |
10 |
| 7 | 34 |
It was a gray, beltless, one-piece garment of rep cloth, with inch-wide straps over the shoulders. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
10 |
| 2 | 1386 |
She lay back on the straps, and lifted her knees, and put her hands above and behind her, hooking her fingers in the interstices of the broad straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 1306 |
Frightened, she crawled upon it, and then lay on it, on her back, on the broad, soft, flat, smooth, comfortable interlaced straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 1332 |
If the straps are fastened upon you, it will be too late". |
10 |
| 2 | 1377 |
She twisted her head angrily, in frustration, to the side, on the surface of broad, soft, interlaced straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 1437 |
I reached to one of the straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 1439 |
These straps are adjustable. |
10 |
| 2 | 1444 |
The arrangement, thus, is not only such that the girl finds herself, when the straps are on her, held in perfect custody, but this custody, in virtue of the nature of the studs and eyelets, may be easily imposed or removed, a convenience to the handler. |
10 |
| 2 | 1462 |
"You are in the straps," I said. |
10 |
| 2 | 1466 |
You are now in the straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 1538 |
Then she lay back on the soft, broad straps, moaning. |
10 |
| 2 | 1554 |
"It would be easy enough for me to desert you now," I said, "leaving you in the straps". |
10 |
| 2 | 1571 |
Then she looked at me wildly, still held in the straps, disbelief in her eyes. |
10 |
| 2 | 1574 |
"Master! Master!" Then again she lay back on the straps, helpless. |
10 |
| 6 | 1113 |
This is usually done by means of straps, or a slave stirrup. |
10 |
| 6 | 1116 |
In the over-the-saddle carry, of course, there is no difficulty in the matter of support, as her body is arched over the saddle, and perfect security is obtained easily with wrist and ankle straps. |
10 |
| 11 | 55 |
Then she stood there in the straps, helpless, sobbing. |
10 |
| 11 | 78 |
She was now trembling, terrified, in the straps. |
10 |
| 11 | 109 |
She whimpered a bit, pulling at the straps. |
10 |
| 11 | 125 |
She tugged weakly at the straps. |
10 |
| 12 | 620 |
Lady Telitsia, now unburdened and relieved of the carrying straps, their marks still on her body, lay in the shade near the wheel of his wagon, gasping. |
10 |
| 18 | 223 |
The other fumbled with the straps to her hood, loosening the buckles under her chin. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 24 |
My right hand was on the hilt of my sword, my left on the sheath, its straps wrapped about it, to steady the draw. |
10 |
| 16 | 1789 |
The straps of my pack, which she bore for me, were wet and hot on her shoulders. |
10 |
| 16 | 1790 |
There were bands of sweat beneath the straps, and beneath them, too, the tunic was wet and wrinkled. |
10 |
| 24 | 637 |
Most such harnessing is not uncomfortable, and does not impede in any way the girl's movements, but there are commonly adjustments that may be easily made, with the snaps, straps, clips, and such, which will convert the harness into a device of restraint ranging from nothing much different from a si... |
10 |
| 25 | 1092 |
Could there be something wrong with it? She then, almost apologetically, adjusted one of the shoulder straps of the dress, pulling it up tighter and more to the side. |
10 |
| 26 | 253 |
In a moment two objects, presumably sheaths, though I doubted from the sound they contained knives, with some buckles and straps, came sliding along the tunnel floor, one from the right, the other from the left. |
10 |
| 26 | 1669 |
Some warriors enter battle with no more than their battle straps, and their shield, helmet, and weapons. |
10 |
| 29 | 121 |
I handed my blade, in its sheath, the straps wrapped about it, to him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
10 |
| 1 | 20 |
Then, not looking back to the mirror, I crept in the candlelight and shadows to the dresser and there, from beneath several layers of garments, where I had concealed it, I drew forth a small bit of scarlet cloth, tiny and silken, with shoulder straps, a garment I had myself sewn weeks ago, one in wh... |
10 |
| 3 | 137 |
I smiled, hooking the scarlet halter before my belly and then turning it and putting my arms through the straps, pulling it up, adjusting it snugly into place. |
10 |
| 3 | 992 |
It had straps, and a lock, at one end. |
10 |
| 5 | 113 |
Our arms were hooked over the horizontal post and fastened in front of us with straps and leather manacles, which buckled shut. |
10 |
| 6 | 71 |
I suddenly jerked, and almost fell, uttering, startled, a stifled sound, my head moving, the gag straps pulling at the back of my neck, the girl in front of me almost off balance, the snap of the lash, too, had startled me, the lash had stung my calves, sharply, cruelly. |
10 |
| 10 | 24 |
His feet and ankles were large, and the sandals had heavy straps on them. |
10 |
| 10 | 294 |
I was then gagged and hooded, utilizing the devices of the ball-gag, the straps, the leather covering, the buckles and lock, as I had been when first leaving the house of my training. |
10 |
| 10 | 324 |
I squirmed helplessly in the tight blanket, in the manacles, in the straps and ropes. |
10 |
| 10 | 513 |
It was a brief slave tunic, slit deeply at the hips, with narrow shoulder straps, little more than strings. |
10 |
| 10 | 521 |
Then, recollecting that I had been ordered to put it on, I pulled it over my head and put my arms through the straps. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 16 | 227 |
The gag was now packed well in her mouth, and secured tightly in place, by three sets of laces, however, rather than three straps, like mine. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 |
I had shortened the straps of the sword sheath, hitching it high, the hilt now before my left shoulder, under the cloak. |
10 |
| 4 | 59 |
He held a sack in one hand, containing, I supposed, his bath supplies, and, in the other, held by their straps, a scabbard and blade, and what appeared to be a flat, rectangular pouch. |
10 |
| 4 | 64 |
I did not know, but I suspected that on the peg outside, by its straps, there might hang a helmet. |
10 |
| 6 | 697 |
The harness he referred to was undoubtedly not a security harness but a training harness, a complex affair, consisting of numerous straps and rings. |
10 |
| 8 | 497 |
At the sides of the saddle there are various rings, and straps, which may be used in fastening things to it, or across it. |
10 |
| 8 | 580 |
I moved the harness, drawing the straps evenly, and the bird, anticipatory, alerted, stalked to the front edge of the landing platform, outside the portal of the tarn gate. |
10 |
| 9 | 75 |
They may be fastened by means of such devices as cords, straps and laces. |
10 |
| 9 | 80 |
Some hoods are open at the bottom, and fastened on the prisoner by means of thongs or straps, often looped about the thighs. |
10 |
| 17 | 174 |
He was half pulled from the ladder by the shield straps but he slipped down a foot or two, recovering himself. |
10 |
| 21 | 1222 |
Many slave tunics are held by straps at the shoulders or a neck loop, because this bares the shoulders of the girl. |
10 |
| 24 | 773 |
Then she was hooded, and the hood straps, beneath her chin, drawn snug, and buckled shut, behind the back of her neck. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 8 |
This was fastened on me by means of three straps, one about each wrist and one about my neck, these straps then being threaded back through the three holes, one behind each wrist and one behind the neck, each then being fastened in its respective place, bound about the wood. |
10 |
| 3 | 135 |
Better to be a perfumed love slave, licking and kissing, than a girl sweating and stinking in the dusty fields, under a lash, pulling against plow straps. |
10 |
| 11 | 18 |
I now, besides the yoke, wore a harness of straps which fastened me to the raft I drew. |
10 |
| 19 | 682 |
With one motion the straps flew apart. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 426 |
"In a sling of straps," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 429 |
"And once within the trunk, it then closed again, she could, of course, her hands being free enough in the sirik to accomplish this, undo the straps, and conceal them in the flooring of the trunk, in a slot prepared for the purpose". |
10 |
| 19 | 383 |
I glanced to the two vessels, to the side, now filled with water, and the associated yoke, thrice drilled, with slender leather straps wrapped about it, at the center and near the ends. |
10 |
| 27 | 1118 |
I adjusted the leather, and shook out the straps. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 252 |
I was fastened in the basket by straps, at my ankles and neck. |
10 |
| 7 | 254 |
I was muchly grateful for the straps which held me in place. |
10 |
| 8 | 85 |
A little later I was placed in some sort of large, heavy basket, in which I was fastened down by two straps, one at my ankles and the other at my neck. |
10 |
| 9 | 287 |
This one did not bear apparent booty, but bore, rather, it seemed, on long straps, dispatch cases. |
10 |
| 10 | 407 |
I felt no tearing of canvas, no breaking, or pulling away, of stout threads, one by one, from straps. |
10 |
| 10 | 606 |
The jailer snapped a light leash to a small ring on the sack straps, just below my chin. |
10 |
| 10 | 909 |
He then unclipped the leash ring from the ring on the straps, under my chin. |
10 |
| 10 | 910 |
He then, over the straps, pushed my chin up, and fastened the leash, by means of its own clip and ring, about my neck, a portion of the leash thus serving as its own collar. |
10 |
| 10 | 920 |
This was quite different from the earlier arrangement, when the ring had been attached to the sack straps. |
10 |
| 16 | 130 |
Tiny straps came over my shoulders. |
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| 19 | 133 |
Too, what room would there have been for slaves? The numerous baskets, the arrayed booty rings, the varieties of saddle straps, and such, were already "taken," so to speak—by free women. |
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| 24 | 718 |
One of the men with the officer, the captain, was clad not in the gear of war, but wore a blue tunic, and carried, on two straps, slung now beside him, a scribe's box. |
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| 24 | 797 |
"Do you wish a record made of this, Captain?" asked the fellow in the blue tunic, he with the scribe's box, on its straps, slung at his left side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 168 |
She drew her legs, painfully, from the bar, the straps untied. |
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| 9 | 179 |
She wore a white brassiere, which hooked in the back, and had two narrow shoulder straps. |
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| 9 | 195 |
She slipped the shoulder straps of the brassiere over her arms, where they hung for a moment, and then she pulled the brassiere down. |
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| 12 | 94 |
These three parts of the apparatus were then fitted together, the two side straps over a staple welded to the central portion of the device which had been lifted up between her legs and was now at the small of her back. |
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| 17 | 1001 |
Then she felt it drawn back, under her chin, with threaded straps, and fitted closely about her throat. |
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| 18 | 279 |
It was a large, smooth, glossy tarn saddle, with its straps and rings. |
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| 24 | 680 |
It is like straps and chains, it is like the sight of the whip. |
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| 26 | 228 |
Thus, in short, the leash ran from the ring at the front of her neck, the ring on the hood straps, down, tightly between her breasts, tightly between her legs, and tightly up to her crossed, bound wrists. |
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| 26 | 383 |
She felt strong, masculine hands thrust up the straps of the hood, exposing an inch or so of her throat. |
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| 27 | 3373 |
Accustom her early then to binding and chaining, to the helplessness of slave bracelets, and perhaps shackles, to the blindfold and the gag, to encircling ropes, and buckled slave straps, perhaps to a harness, such things. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 70 |
Cabot put out his hand and some fur and straps were placed in it. |
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| 15 | 75 |
"What are you doing!" Cabot fixed the wadding and straps. |
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| 15 | 84 |
He then followed Archon, and the blonde, unable to speak, for the straps and fur, her hands tied behind her, with a jangling of bells, followed Cabot, on her leash. |
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| 16 | 77 |
She awkwardly scrambled to her feet and lifted her face to him, uttering tiny, pleading sounds, that he might free her of the heavy, obdurate packing and straps which so effectively denied her speech. |
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| 18 | 94 |
She whimpered, a tiny sound, muffled within the fur and straps of her gag. |
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| 29 | 299 |
She then, in a moment, regarded Cabot, wide-eyed, the packing secured in her mouth, held in place with its straps. |
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| 75 | 10 |
On his back, slung in straps, was an ax, long-handled, but of a size manageable by a human. |
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| 75 | 17 |
They had thick straps, wound high about the legs, almost to the knees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 3 |
On the tarn's collar there are six rings, to which straps are attached, which straps ascend to the saddle, which, too, has six rings, corresponding to the collar rings. |
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| 16 | 9 |
If one wishes a lateral motion to the right one draws on both the two and three straps at the same time, and if one wishes a lateral motion to the left one draws on the four and five straps simultaneously. |
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| 16 | 10 |
Similar adjustments may be made by drawing on the one and two straps, on the three and four straps, and so on, about the ring. |
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| 1 | 469 |
I then drew her crossed, bound hands up, high, unpleasantly so, over her head, and fastened them in place, that by means of the same strap, it now tied beneath the straps on her wrist. |
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| 6 | 57 |
She responds well to blindfolds, hoods, gags, ropes, straps, collars, slave bracelets, chains, and such. |
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| 7 | 324 |
Are you even aware of the feel, the exact feel, consider it now, of the straps on your wrists?" She shuddered. |
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| 10 | 278 |
Her mouth was widely opened, as it must be, to accommodate the ball, which was fastened in place by straps buckled behind the back of her neck. |
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| 10 | 300 |
The ball in Miss Wentworth's lovely, but widely distended mouth was blue, and the straps which held it in place, buckled behind the back of her neck, were yellow. |
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| 12 | 232 |
Another fellow, further along, had the harnessing in place, with the rings and straps, by which he moved the head of the bird, back, or down, or to the sides. |
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| 16 | 8 |
Similarly, it may wheel to the high right and the low right, and to the high left and low left, by drawing on the appropriate straps. |
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| 16 | 82 |
I pulled the tarn up, further, and then, briefly, held it almost stationary in the air, drawing back on all the straps simultaneously, the bird then hovering, wings beating fiercely. |
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| 17 | 68 |
And unto this mass, from above, were hurled dozens of weighted nets, which tangled the birds, and riders, and dozens, half crippled, unable to fly, fell brokenly toward the earth, and some riders freed themselves of the safety straps and tried to leap to the saddle rings of other birds, and some fai... |
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| 17 | 70 |
I saw another net fall gracefully, like a broad, circular, open veil, on a bird starting to climb from the plaza, and the bird fluttered back to the earth, screaming, protesting, rolling in the dust, the rider caught in the safety straps, and then the helmeted head was twisted about, and the body wa... |
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| 22 | 1 |
Licinius Lysias Has Returned to Tarncamp; I Choose to Deal with Licinius Lysias in a Certain Manner; Saru is to be Taken from the Stable; I Return to my Hut, Followed Later by Pertinax Growling, enraged, struggling, now awakened, Licinius Lysias, he of Turmus, fought the straps which held him, hand... |
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| 22 | 109 |
Ropes, straps, and chains were not the only bonds to which the former Miss Wentworth was now subject. |
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| 22 | 122 |
He was well swathed with straps. |
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| 22 | 144 |
Did I not attempt to escape? Slay me, and then loosen and discard the straps. |
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| 22 | 293 |
I had slashed away the straps binding the ankles of Licinius, and he struggled to his feet. |
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| 26 | 321 |
I loosened the guide straps and the tarn extended its head, snapped its mighty wings, spraying water back, and sped toward the shelter of the cots. |
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| 30 | 94 |
Fortunately for us the tarns responded to their straps as though over land. |
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| 38 | 581 |
As the cry of pain had been audible the hoods must not be gag hoods, hoods furnished with internal straps and packing. |
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| 39 | 2 |
He cast the guide straps to a tarnster, who then conducted the bird, with its stately gait, toward the large descent way to the in-ship cots. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 198 |
In these areas, also, might be stored tackle, saddles, straps, reins, and such. |
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| 21 | 221 |
Aeacus, for example, I was sure, would not have minded having the lovely Iole squirming in his slave straps. |
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| 31 | 31 |
The boxes, on straps, and the sacks, on cords, were slung about the slaves, two to each slave, a balanced load, one strap or cord running from the left shoulder to the right hip, and the other from the right shoulder to the left hip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 |
Their feet were shod in sandal-like boots, open somewhat, but with leather straps about the leg. |
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| 8 | 303 |
"Remove their sandals," I ordered my slave, "and give me the straps". |
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| 21 | 37 |
The firelight shone on the broad straps. |
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| 29 | 118 |
In a moment I felt a heavy leather wadding thrust into my mouth, and then its straps were buckled together behind the back of my neck. |
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| 37 | 134 |
Tula, Mila, and I stood near our burdens, frightened, mere women, feminine women, so unlike the mighty Panther Women, so unlike that we could be to them as naught but despised slaves, women of the sort which men immediately think of in terms of a brand and tunic, women of the sort which men think li... |
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| 41 | 226 |
"Girl," he said, "go to my pack, at hand, that with two black straps. |
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| 52 | 972 |
The tarnsman drew on one of the straps, threaded through its ring, and the huge bird screamed, and smote the air with those great wings, scattering sand and pebbles about, and was into the air, low, several feet over the river. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 62 |
Again the mighty appendages found their beat, and the bird again sped, with no altered signal from the straps, on the course I had set. |
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| 2 | 70 |
The guide straps were cold in my hands. |
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| 2 | 73 |
I lifted my hands, the straps wound about them, to my mouth and blew on them. |
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| 2 | 74 |
With the leather of the straps I wiped snow from my eyes. |
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| 3 | 1 |
In the Vicinity of a Small Fire It was merely Ehn later when the tarn, responding to the straps, wings beating, hovering, descending, struck into the snow yards from the tiny fire, concealed amongst the rocks. |
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| 4 | 129 |
I feared he might die if I should lift him, or die in the pommel straps, if I could manage to get him to them. |
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| 16 | 19 |
The sleeve sheath was held by two straps. |
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| 30 | 401 |
As her hands were free, she could have undone the straps, but she was wise enough to stay as she was, sitting quietly on the grass, watching, waiting, unable to rise. |
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| 43 | 1 |
We Reach the Merchant Portal I cinched the harness straps on Cecily. |
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| 59 | 146 |
She had, thus, been placed in a variation of the most common slave tie, which is simply, usually with two short thongs, ropes, straps, laces, or such, to bind the slave hand and foot. |
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| 61 | 128 |
Ichiro then brought the four tarns, three on leading straps, to the grounds of the palace of Yamada. |
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| 61 | 574 |
The pack on her back was secured by two straps across her body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 560 |
His sandals were fastened with golden straps. |
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| 15 | 275 |
Tullius Quintus then inserted his knife, carefully, between the side of my neck and the gag straps, and cut away the gag. |
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| 20 | 21 |
In a lovely variation of such harnessing, the slave is knelt, with her hands fastened before her body, close to her waist, by the waist belt, and then, behind her back, by short, stout straps run from the waist belt, and ankle cuffs, she is held on her knees. |
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| 30 | 326 |
"Now," he said, turning about, reaching for the curtain straps, "I will see what a real woman is like". |
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| 34 | 5 |
To be sure, it was similarly lit, with the small tharlarion-oil lamp in its niche, and was similarly equipped, the chains, the straps, the materials for gags and blindfolds, the switch, a coiled whip, on its peg, various articles in the presence of which a slave would be in no doubt that she was a s... |
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| 45 | 108 |
The sandals were golden, with purple straps. |
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| 49 | 301 |
The sandals had golden straps. |
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| 61 | 549 |
If they had thought her of a foreign city she might not have made it past the capture straps of the first man at arms. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 |
We are commonly brought to the towns and cities in naked, scorned, marched coffles, subject to the impatient whips and straps of masters, or naked in slave wagons, our ankles shacked to a central bar, parallel to the sides of the wagon bed. |
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| 1 | 287 |
We must, too, become more aware of our surroundings, and their ambiences, of sunlight and shadow, of warmth and coolness, of air and moisture, of textures and surfaces, the feel of tiles or rugs to our knees, the feel of cloth on our bodies, however light or diaphanous, the sense of our body where i... |
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| 2 | 97 |
The fellow who had removed the straps from the dark-haired slave's wrists ascended the ramp to stand beside the fellow who had freed my wrists. |
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| 3 | 106 |
"But do not the pathetic sluts of that sorry world have something, after all, to commend them, their exquisite features, their smooth, cascading, glossy hair, their pretty necks, waiting for the collar, their soft shoulders, their bellies and breasts, their thighs and ankles, their luscious bodies s... |
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| 3 | 449 |
She may not have the sturdy limbs, and strength of some slaves, but not all slaves need carry weighty sacks of suls or pit their strength against the straps of plows. |
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| 11 | 145 |
I hurried quickly past a shop featuring binding straps, switches, and whips, many of the latter items colorfully beaded. |
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| 13 | 283 |
A moment or two later I heard the leather straps closing the alcove being undone. |
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| 27 | 105 |
A knife cut through the leash straps on my ankles, and I felt my ankles seized and parted, widely, painfully. |
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| 30 | 59 |
Even this early there were two hawkers in evidence, though they were now conversing and not yet moving about, one with small cups strung on a cord and a bulging shoulder-strap bota, now laid beside him on a bench, and another with a tray of assorted offerings, dried larma slices, nuts, dates, tastas... |
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| 34 | 112 |
I will buckle the straps". |
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| 39 | 80 |
Did I know him, had I ever seen him before? Was it someone who had merely looked upon me, whom I had never seen? How vulnerable and helpless are slaves! A wadding was thrust in my mouth and held in place by straps, these cinched behind the back of my neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 7 |
"One fellow removes his helmet, straps it to his side, and puts on some sort of wig," said Aktis. |
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