| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 20 | 35 |
To my delight, even Torm, of the Caste of Scribes, appeared at the tables. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 116 |
Some of the shot dropped to the floor and rolled under the tables. |
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| 6 | 79 |
He returns to his place among the tables that line the low-ceilinged chamber, hung with glowing brass lamps. |
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| 9 | 37 |
I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the ye... |
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| 9 | 74 |
I descended three steps, and found myself in a warm, dimly lit, low-ceilinged room, cluttered with the low tables common on Gor, around which huddled groups of five or six of the gray-robed men of Tharna. |
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| 9 | 153 |
Many of the men had left, more had perhaps fallen by the tables, or lay along the sides of the room. |
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| 15 | 240 |
I saw the Tatrix shudder as I attacked the raw flesh, but I was famished, and the niceties of the low tables, for what they were, were abandoned. |
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| 24 | 11 |
Thick rugs had been thrown under the low tables and were stained in innumerable places with spilled Kal-da. |
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| 24 | 15 |
From behind three or four of the low tables, to the left of the counter, a band of sweating musicians sat happily cross-legged on the rug, somehow producing from those unlikely pipes and strings and drums and disks and wires the ever intriguing, wild, enchanting—beautiful—barbaric melo... |
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| 24 | 33 |
To be sure, the food on the low tables was not plentiful and was coarse, but one could not have known this from the good cheer of the men in the room. |
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| 24 | 34 |
It might have been to them food from the tables of the Priest-Kings themselves. |
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| 24 | 56 |
Other girls now appeared among the tables, clad only in a camisk and a silver collar, and sullenly, silently, began to serve the Kal-da which Kron had ordered. |
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| 25 | 155 |
She would be given a mat of damp straw and a camisk, leavings from the tables of the dining rooms above, and lashings if she should dare to leave the room or shirk her work. |
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| 26 | 64 |
Each silver mask would have six months in which she would be free to live within the city and be fed at the common tables, much as before the revolt. |
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| 26 | 126 |
I have found it at the tables of sword companions and in the clash of the metals of war, in the touch of a girl's lips and hair, in the blood of a sleen, in the sands and chains of Tharna, in the scent of talenders and the hiss of the whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 32 |
Perhaps if you can imagine yourself suddenly being forced to sit on rather high end tables you can sense the feeling. |
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| 8 | 199 |
Vika was a bandit princess, accustomed to be clad in silk and jewels from a thousand looted caravans, to sleep on the richest furs and sup on the most delicate viands, all purloined from galleys, beached and burnt, from the ravished storerooms of outlying, smoking cylinders, from the tables and trea... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 105 |
I observed the banquet tables, laid out in an open-ended rectangle, permitting slaves to enter at the open end, facilitating the serving, and, of course, allowing entertainers to perform among the tables. |
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| 9 | 121 |
There were several women present at the tables, free women, and several others, slaves, who served. |
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| 9 | 159 |
The acrobats who were at the moment performing fled from between the tables. |
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| 9 | 177 |
I could sense that she had almost immediately seen myself and Kamchak, strangers at the tables. |
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| 9 | 196 |
Now she descended the last three stairs and, stopping to nod her head and grace an eager fellow here and there along the tables with a word or gesture, she began to approach the head of the table. |
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| 9 | 197 |
The musicians, at a signal from the Feast Steward, took up their instruments again and the acrobats rushed back among the tables, tumbling and leaping about. |
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| 9 | 214 |
The girl now approached us, behind the tables, and Saphrar leaped to his feet and bowed low to her. |
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| 9 | 247 |
There was no sound at the tables. |
10 |
| 9 | 281 |
She gestured to the ladies at the tables, with their escorts. |
10 |
| 9 | 294 |
Then, to my surprise, the girl clapped her hands sharply twice and the women about the table stood, and, together, from both sides, moved swiftly to stand before us, between the tables. |
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| 9 | 318 |
Then she added, unpleasantly, "But beware—for if you cease to amuse me—you will not leave these tables alive". |
10 |
| 9 | 325 |
"Ho!" cried Aphris of Turia, summoning the Feast Steward to her, through the turning bodies of the girls dancing among the tables. |
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| 9 | 339 |
Several of the men had leaped from behind the tables, including Kamras, but they hesitated, seeing Kamchak so armed. |
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| 9 | 484 |
"Thank you, my guardian," said Aphris of Turia, and with one last vicious look at Kamchak threw back her head and with a swirl of her white gown, bordered with gold, walked regally from between the tables. |
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| 19 | 85 |
There was no fountain in the room but, against one wall, there were some low tables with fruits and drinks upon them. |
10 |
| 22 | 105 |
At the low tables, perhaps brought from various places in the palace, there sat many Tuchuk officers, and even some men without rank. |
10 |
| 22 | 116 |
The tables were served by naked Turian girls, from the highest families of the city. |
10 |
| 22 | 118 |
Sometimes one of the serving girls would be seized by an ankle or arm and dragged screaming to the cushions among the tables, much to the amusement of the men and the Tuchuk girls. |
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| 22 | 142 |
"She was our mistress!" cried one of the Tuchuk girls leading the Turian girl, and struck her sharply with the switch, at which information the Tuchuk girls at the tables clapped their hands with delight. |
10 |
| 22 | 144 |
These girls they forced to comb their hair and wash their feet before the tables, performing the duties of serving slaves. |
10 |
| 22 | 153 |
Phanius Turmus, Kamras and the others were dragged from the tables by their Tuchuk guards. |
10 |
| 22 | 158 |
Kamchak stood before the throne of Phanius Turmus, the purple robe of the Ubar over one shoulder, and looked at the overturned tables, the spilled cups, the remains of the feast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 55 |
She saw Kuurus go to the tables and sit cross-legged behind one, a table against the wall on her left, that there might be no tables behind him, but only the wall. |
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| 6 | 20 |
It had been expected, I gathered, that I would sit at one of the two long side tables, and perhaps even below the bowls of red and yellow salt which divided these tables. |
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| 23 | 63 |
I looked about me at the tables, at the tiled floors; at the slave rings by the wall; at the square pit of sand between the tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 29 |
Those in the tavern looked up from the low tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 37 |
Some fled from the tables, lest, unknown to themselves, it be they for whom this man wore the mark of the black dagger. |
10 |
| 2 | 52 |
In the center of the tables, under a hanging lamp, there was a square area, recessed, filled with sand, in which men might fight or girls dance. |
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| 2 | 53 |
Beyond the area of the sand and the many tables there was a high wall, some twenty feet or so high, in which there were four levels, each containing seven small curtained alcoves, the entrances to which were circular, with a diameter of about twenty-four inches. |
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| 2 | 78 |
"They want to kill Hup!" "There is no place for beggars in Glorious Ar," growled one of the men at the tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 84 |
He tried, like a frantic animal, to crawl under one of the low tables but he only spilled the paga and the men pulled him out from under the table and belabored his back with blows of their fists. |
10 |
| 2 | 115 |
The crowd in the tavern reacted with amusement as the small, animal-like body was buffeted and thrown about, sometimes flung against the wall or on the tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 135 |
The men in the tavern, and the girls, began to move away from the tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 322 |
He rose unsteadily to his feet, and staggered backwards, shaking his head, turned, and stumbled over one of the low tables, and fled from the room. |
10 |
| 2 | 329 |
Kuurus threw the silk and chain over his shoulder and motioned the girl to move ahead of him and, numbly, she did so, crossing the room, going between the tables, and stopping before the narrow ladder at the right side of the high wall, in which were found the ledges with their alcoves. |
10 |
| 6 | 15 |
A blue line appeared across the chest of one of the slaves fighting between the tables, on a square of sand some twelve feet in dimension. |
10 |
| 6 | 23 |
There was a shout from the men-at-arms and members of the House who sat at the tables as the second slave, he who had scored the first point, managed to leave a long streak of blue down the inside of the right arm of the first slave. |
10 |
| 6 | 26 |
I heard the odds changing rapidly at the tables as the men of the house of Cernus revised their betting. |
10 |
| 6 | 67 |
One of them carried a large pitcher of the diluted Ka-la-na wine and stepped behind us, climbing the two steps to the broad wooden dais on which our tables were set. |
10 |
| 6 | 102 |
But Elizabeth, rightly or wrongly, was banished from my mind for the moment because I heard, from a side door, the rustle of slave bells, and was pleased to note that seven girls hurried in, using the short, running steps of the slave girl, arms to the side, palms out, head to the left, eyes averted... |
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| 8 | 109 |
The tables were separate and small. |
10 |
| 9 | 131 |
She will be revived at the height of the Ubar's victory feast, commonly to find herself unclothed in a cage of male slaves set up among the tables". |
10 |
| 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 | 50 |
Several were going about seeking the odds Merchants, several of whom wandered in the stands, but others of whom kept their tables at the foot of the stands, on the sand itself, almost under the nets beneath the rings. |
10 |
| 12 | 140 |
Then, stumbling, and brushing through spectators, few of whom shared his pleasure, he was making his way down to the tables of the odds Merchants. |
10 |
| 13 | 218 |
The Pleasure Slaves who served wore green Pleasure Silk, and the tops of the tables and the walls were also painted green; even the curtains on the alcoves by one wall were green. |
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| 15 | 1 |
Portus Comes to the House of Cernus I observed Phyllis Robertson performing the belt dance, on love furs spread between the tables, under the eyes of the Warriors of Cernus and the members of his staff. |
10 |
| 15 | 48 |
I glanced at Virginia Kent, who was now moving about the tables, in the incredibly brief silken slave livery, the pitcher on her left shoulder, held there gracefully with her left hand. |
10 |
| 15 | 62 |
I noted Sura standing somewhat behind the tables. |
10 |
| 15 | 68 |
One of the men at the tables threw a pastry to Phyllis, which she caught. |
10 |
| 15 | 380 |
He had finished his gruel but he was sitting there listening to a slave girl, sitting on furs between the tables, playing a kalika. |
10 |
| 15 | 381 |
Several of the guards and staff had left the tables, retiring. |
10 |
| 15 | 408 |
The girl with the kalika had lightly fled from between the tables. |
10 |
| 17 | 298 |
Several of the men and girls at and about the tables approvingly observed the two girls rolling and scratching, biting and tearing on the floor, first White Silk on top, and then Red Silk, and then White Silk again. |
10 |
| 17 | 376 |
"Poor little White Silk slave," said another Red Silk Girl passing between the tables. |
10 |
| 17 | 405 |
Then all at the tables, and even the slaves who served, stood and lifted their hands, laughing, saluting Cernus. |
10 |
| 17 | 520 |
A number of men crowded between the tables then and some dice, inked knucklebones of the verr, were soon rattling in a metal goblet. |
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| 19 | 73 |
We passed tables on one side, and rooms where medical examinations could be held; there were also facilities for washing prisoners; here and there I saw the office of a market official; there were also rooms where I saw silks, cosmetics, vials of perfumes, chains and such. |
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| 20 | 5 |
The Warriors of Cernus sang at the tables. |
10 |
| 20 | 6 |
Roasted tarsks on long spits were borne to the tables on the shoulders of nude slave girls. |
10 |
| 20 | 120 |
There were shouts of commendation from the men at the tables. |
10 |
| 20 | 126 |
There was a shout of pleasure from the tables. |
10 |
| 20 | 173 |
"Since I am Ubar of Ar," said Cernus to me, "and of the Caste of Warriors—" There was mirth at the tables, but a look from Cernus silenced it in a moment. |
10 |
| 20 | 220 |
The men about the tables laughed. |
10 |
| 20 | 244 |
The tables roared with laughter, and the men pounded with their fists on the wood so pleased were they. |
10 |
| 20 | 275 |
He was now sneaking about the tables. |
10 |
| 20 | 384 |
Then Hup gave a wild yip and turned a backward somersault and bounded suddenly, squealing like an urt, after a naked slave girl, one of those who had served the tables. |
10 |
| 20 | 463 |
The tables were silent. |
10 |
| 22 | 317 |
I saw men from the betting tables conferring, some of them then approaching the board. |
10 |
| 23 | 141 |
We moved about the room, over the tables and behind them, across the square of sand. |
10 |
| 24 | 180 |
Scribes at nearby tables endorsed and updated papers of registration, that the ownership of the girls be legally transferred from the state to individual citizens. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 45 |
"Paga! Paga!" they cried, throwing over some tables they wished, driving men from them, who had sat there, then righting the tables and sitting about them, pounding on them and shouting. |
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| 9 | 1 |
Port Kar I watched the dancing girl of Port Kar writhing on the square of sand between the tables, under the whips of masters, in a paga tavern of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 9 | 54 |
Most, however, remained at the tables, pounding on them, demanding drink. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
There was a girl's scream and, from the alcove into which Surbus had dragged her, the girl, bleeding, fled among the tables, he plunging drunken after her. |
10 |
| 9 | 126 |
There was glass, and spilled paga about, and two broken tables. |
10 |
| 9 | 130 |
There was an occasional scream from the alcoves, bringing laughter from the tables. |
10 |
| 9 | 220 |
They fought in the square of sand among the tables. |
10 |
| 9 | 226 |
But these men were drunk and stumbling, and their brutal striking about, it seemed, was offensive to many at the tables, who disdained so crude an employment of a weapon of such subtlety. |
10 |
| 9 | 229 |
"Kill him!" But the other fellow, drunk and bleeding, to great laughter among the tables, stumbled backwards, turned, and fell unconscious. |
10 |
| 9 | 231 |
"Kill him!" But the other man, bleeding, shaking his head, had now crawled from the patch of sand and now, some yards off, had collapsed among the tables, quite as unconscious as the first. |
10 |
| 9 | 241 |
And I, whoever or whatever I might be, sat with them, at the same tables. |
10 |
| 9 | 245 |
And, as I watched, on that square of sand between the tables in a paga tavern in Port Kar, under the ship's lanterns, the movements of the body of a slave girl, the lights reflected in her chains, the rubies, the shimmering golden droplets, I grew slowly furious. |
10 |
| 9 | 246 |
Then she was among the tables, her slave body glistening, sensuous and swaying. |
10 |
| 9 | 515 |
Here and there some lay among the tables, their tunics soiled with paga. |
10 |
| 9 | 517 |
Some two or three still sat groggily at the tables, staring at goblets half-filled with paga. |
10 |
| 9 | 602 |
Several of the men around the tables, roused by the flash of steel, had awakened. |
10 |
| 9 | 618 |
None of the men had arisen from the tables, though many were of the crew of Surbus himself. |
10 |
| 11 | 43 |
"More tables!" I cried. |
10 |
| 11 | 44 |
Men, and scribes, and pages, too, came forward, four and six men to a table, adding the tables to our barricade. |
10 |
| 11 | 47 |
Four men fell reeling backward, tumbling down the chairs and tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 316 |
The hall was lit by torches, and by many lamps with candles, set on tables between curule chairs. |
10 |
| 15 | 261 |
It was crowded with the tables of my retainers, feasting. |
10 |
| 15 | 284 |
The tables grew quiet. |
10 |
| 15 | 348 |
"Send for Sandra!" There were cheers from the tables. |
10 |
| 15 | 369 |
She slipped the silk from her and knelt before the great table and chair, between the other tables, dropping her head. |
10 |
| 15 | 405 |
At last, bit by bit, as her fear and terror mounted, the men, fist by fist, took up the slack in the thongs that tethered her, until suddenly, they swiftly bound her hand and foot and lifted her over their heads, captured female slave, displaying her bound arched body to the tables. |
10 |
| 15 | 406 |
There were cries of pleasure from the tables, and much striking of the right fist on the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 438 |
I saw other slave girls, serving at the tables, cast looks of hatred and jealousy on her. |
10 |
| 15 | 446 |
There was laughter from the tables. |
10 |
| 15 | 469 |
There was a rustle of chain and the Lady Vivina, to the pleasure of the tables, was conducted before me. |
10 |
| 15 | 477 |
Even several of the slaves, about the edges of the room, behind the tables, had gathered to look upon her. |
10 |
| 15 | 531 |
There was great laughter from the tables. |
10 |
| 15 | 538 |
"Here, Captain!" cried Tellius, from behind the tables. |
10 |
| 15 | 548 |
"Where is the slave boy Fish!" "Here!" he cried, and came forward, from behind the tables, where, with other slaves, for some time, he had been watching what had been going on. |
10 |
| 16 | 345 |
Candles were lit on several of the tables. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 139 |
The books lay on their tables. |
10 |
| 8 | 303 |
Once we passed a paga tavern, and, inside, belled and jeweled, otherwise unclothed, I saw a girl dancing on a square of sand between the tables. |
10 |
| 15 | 908 |
If she does not wish to prepare a meal, she and her companion may go to the public tables, or, should they wish, order a girl to bring them food from the central kitchens. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 21 |
Similarly, at the tables parallel to the high-seat table, smaller tables flanking the long fire on both sides, the tables nearest the high seat counted as being above the salt, those farthest away being below the salt. |
10 |
| 6 | 331 |
In the long center are set the tables and benches. |
10 |
| 6 | 541 |
Men at the tables, mead spilling, chewing on meat, laughed at her. |
10 |
| 13 | 16 |
On the long sides of the hall, on the north and south, there were long tables, with benches. |
10 |
| 13 | 17 |
Salt, in its bowls on the tables, divided men into rankings. |
10 |
| 13 | 24 |
Thus, it was not the case that one at a long side table, who was above the salt, would be farther away from the high seat than one at one of the center tables, who was "below" the salt. |
10 |
| 13 | 30 |
The red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldsland. |
10 |
| 13 | 31 |
The arrangements of tables, incidentally, varies in different halls. |
10 |
| 13 | 38 |
Even those who sat commonly at the center tables, and were warriors, kept their shields and spears at the wall. |
10 |
| 13 | 39 |
At night, each man would sleep in his furs behind the tables, under his weapons. |
10 |
| 13 | 146 |
Splendid was the quality of the ale at the tables of the Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 13 | 200 |
The Forkbeard lifted his head boldly and, smiling, emerged from the side room, at the entrance to which he stopped and raised his hands, saluting the tables. |
10 |
| 13 | 207 |
At the tables, lifting ale and knives to the Forkbeard, were more than a thousand men. |
10 |
| 13 | 218 |
This elicited much laughter from the tables. |
10 |
| 13 | 221 |
The Forkbeard was, at one point, so furious at the ineptness of the musicians, that he informed me of his own intention to regale the tables with song. |
10 |
| 13 | 228 |
Male thralls turned the spits over the long fire; female thralls, bondmaids, served the tables. |
10 |
| 13 | 233 |
It would be then that the men might thrust back the tables and hand the bondmaids about. |
10 |
| 13 | 238 |
Generally only Kaissa and the songs of skalds can hold their attention for long hours, that and stories told at the tables. |
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| 13 | 247 |
Men left the back tables; men crowded about; even the thralls and the bondmaids, astonished, disbelieving, crowded near. |
10 |
| 13 | 445 |
"What is going on?" cried a man at one of the tables. |
10 |
| 21 | 73 |
"Charges appertaining thereto," roared the Blue Tooth, spilling mead, "are revoked!" There were more cheers among the ashes, the blackened, fallen timbers, of the Blue Tooth's razed hall, amidst which the benches and tables of the feast were set. |
10 |
| 21 | 112 |
Then, too, naked slave girls were ordered to the riches, to scoop up sapphires in goblets and carry them about the tables, serving them to the men, kneeling, head down, arms extended, as though they might be wine, and the warriors, laughing, reached into the cups and seized jewels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 |
Samos stepped from behind the low tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 407 |
He indicated to me a man who sat at a far end of one of the low tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 509 |
I then thrust her from me, before the tables, that she might better please the guests of Samos, first slaver of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 1 | 698 |
They struck the tables, and cried out. |
10 |
| 1 | 713 |
She continued to move before the low tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 830 |
The dancer turned from the tables and, hands high over her head, approached me. |
10 |
| 1 | 853 |
She cried out with misery as she was dragged by the ankle across the floor and thrown over two of the small tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 862 |
She, too, was thrown across the tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 82 |
There were many walled, guarded warehouses, requiring their staffs of scribes and guards, and, in hundreds of hovels, lived kaiila tenders, drovers, and such, who would, at the caravan tables, when their moneys had been exhausted, apply, if accepted, making their mark on the roster, once more for a ... |
10 |
| 2 | 107 |
At the end of this time, after a day or so of some physiological discomfort, usually violent nausea and blinding headaches, it is common to find the man again back at the tables, once more attempting to vend his services to the master of a caravan. |
10 |
| 2 | 252 |
When I had arrived in Tor I had, immediately, rented one of the small, hovel-like compartments in the plastered, mud-brick buildings near the street of caravan tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 393 |
"At the gaming tables of the Golden Kaiila," she wept. |
10 |
| 7 | 333 |
Others, the carriers, in the brine, must fill their yoke buckets with the erupted sludge, and carry it from the pits to the drying tables; others must gather the salt and mold it into cylinders". |
10 |
| 13 | 206 |
On the dais, with him, were several men, low tables of food, fruit, stews, tidbits of roast verr, assorted breads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 7 |
A girl in yellow silk, belled, danced her beauty among the tables. |
10 |
| 12 | 96 |
I brushed the silk of the girl who danced between the tables. |
10 |
| 12 | 113 |
In the time of desserts and wines we would crawl to their tables, slave girls. |
10 |
| 12 | 319 |
There was much laughter about the tables at the witticism of Borchoff. |
10 |
| 12 | 392 |
I, as other girls, had crawled among the tables. |
10 |
| 12 | 404 |
Borchoff, drunk, staggered to his feet between the tables. |
10 |
| 14 | 379 |
She seized me by the hair and threw me headlong across one of the vanity tables before the long mirror. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
The Slave Sack I moved carefully, the tray over my head, between the tables. |
10 |
| 18 | 25 |
If they are not pleased, the girls are informed; a slave ring, with thongs, is fixed in the edge of every table; we strive to wait the tables well. |
10 |
| 18 | 40 |
Dancers in the Chatka and Curla, and there are several, move between and among the tables; sometimes a dancer, if she is indeed superb, is displayed solo in the center of the scarlet wooden flooring, within the painted, yellow ring of the slave circle. |
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| 20 | 216 |
I had not yet found a guest for the tables of Aurelion. |
10 |
| 20 | 236 |
These things serve to synchronize chronometers in the port, and serve to regulate schedules and the utilization of the tide tables. |
10 |
| 20 | 505 |
Men leaped up from tables. |
10 |
| 25 | 131 |
"It requires that both sender and receiver have the deciphering tables at hand," said Bosk. |
10 |
| 25 | 146 |
"Add to this," said he, "the convenience of a simple substitution cipher, the absence of the necessity for a code book, the lack of need for cipher wheels or deciphering tables, and you have an arrangement of circumstances which maximizes not only security but, under the appropriate conditions, ease... |
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| 27 | 129 |
He leaped to his feet and he and Thurnus, who was carrying his great staff, met, embracing, among the tables. |
10 |
| 27 | 160 |
Several men about, at various tables, regarded him, most unpleasantly. |
10 |
| 27 | 171 |
"Silence!" cried a brawny fellow, some two tables away. |
10 |
| 27 | 191 |
I saw Bran Loort seize a man by the collar and loft him into the air, the fellow flying backward, then falling, crashing, skidding across two tables. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 50 |
"Where are the merchant tables," I asked a fellow from Torvaldsland, with braided blond hair and shaggy jacket, eating on a roast leg of tarsk, "where the odds on the Kaissa matches are being given?" "I do not know," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 124 |
It seemed to me that if I could find the fair's street of coins, that the makers of odds might well have set their tables there. |
10 |
| 3 | 246 |
Then I said, "Where are the tables for the gambling on Kaissa?" "They have been arranged but this morning," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 275 |
It was there that the tables for the odds on the Kaissa matches might be found. |
10 |
| 3 | 294 |
There were dozens of tables, and the lines were long at each. |
10 |
| 3 | 302 |
This lack, however, is supplied by numerous public kitchens and tables. |
10 |
| 3 | 377 |
I grinned, and left the vicinity of the tables. |
10 |
| 3 | 666 |
In the restaurant where I had eaten there were some two hundred tables, under tenting. |
10 |
| 3 | 668 |
There were many at the tables who were singing the songs of Ar. |
10 |
| 3 | 681 |
I saw a fellow several tables away, his back to me, leave the tenting. |
10 |
| 4 | 483 |
Tables were strewn about and sheets thrown upon the ground. |
10 |
| 7 | 110 |
Ram and I sat behind one of the small tables. |
10 |
| 31 | 14 |
There were some tables, and cabinets and shelves. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 95 |
According to the tide tables the first tide would be full at six Ehn past the seventh Ahn. |
10 |
| 8 | 75 |
There was only one other white girl in the tavern, a dark-haired girl, collared, in yellow pleasure silk, she, too, apparently a paga slave, like the black girls, waiting on the tables. |
10 |
| 8 | 186 |
Tables had been overturned. |
10 |
| 13 | 581 |
Tables were being moved aside, that the floor might be cleaned. |
10 |
| 34 | 262 |
They are not, for example, tables or rocks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 365 |
The mistress, she knew, could always send another spy to the tables, perhaps Pamela or Bonnie, other house slaves. |
10 |
| 22 | 10 |
In the hall was an open circle of small tables, at which a handful of guests, on cushions and mats, reclined. |
10 |
| 22 | 11 |
There were four men and two women at these tables, other than the Lady Florence, the hostess, and her guest of the past several days, the Lady Melpomene. |
10 |
| 22 | 12 |
The tables were covered with cloths of glistening white and a service of gold. |
10 |
| 22 | 20 |
There was polite applause, the striking of the left shoulder, from those at the tables, including the Lady Florence. |
10 |
| 22 | 37 |
She looked across the tables, across the space between them, to where three men sat, one of Venna, and two of Ar. |
10 |
| 22 | 65 |
Between the tables there was a large, tiled scarlet circle, some twelve feet in width, with an iron ring at its center. |
10 |
| 22 | 92 |
Pamela and Bonnie, incidentally, the two enslaved Gorean beauties in attendance on the tables, did not fetch or carry the documents about. |
10 |
| 22 | 132 |
They then turned the Lady Melpomene about and, she stumbling, they forced her back to a place between the tables. |
10 |
| 22 | 164 |
The Lady Melpomene hurried back to the tables, sobbing, and fell on her knees at the low table of the Lady Florence. |
10 |
| 22 | 581 |
Melpomene rose to her feet and stood by the ring, head down, while Pamela spread the love furs on the tiles between the tables. |
10 |
| 22 | 679 |
The Lady Florence came about the small tables to stand near the love furs, over her new slave girl. |
10 |
| 22 | 848 |
I saw Pamela and Bonnie attending to the tables. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 105 |
Then she was dancing, too, before others, and among the tables. |
10 |
| 3 | 282 |
"Yes, Master!" I left the two together, and began to thread my way through the tables, between the soldiers and merchants, and others, and the stripped, shackled women of Vonda, serving as waitresses, toward the opening in the food tent. |
10 |
| 4 | 7 |
I sat, cross-legged, behind one of the low tables in the room. |
10 |
| 8 | 61 |
I backed away, and then felt the tables behind me, against my legs. |
10 |
| 21 | 398 |
I turned about and made my way rapidly through the tables. |
10 |
| 23 | 111 |
The pirates, feasting at the low tables, stopped eating, and watched. |
10 |
| 23 | 117 |
Men murmured at the tables. |
10 |
| 23 | 162 |
Girls, some nude, some scantily clad, hurried about the tables, serving food and drink. |
10 |
| 23 | 183 |
Policrates gestured about himself, to the tables. |
10 |
| 23 | 203 |
I looked about, at the girls among the tables. |
10 |
| 23 | 305 |
He indicated the girl, among the tables, moving about, kneeling and serving fruit. |
10 |
| 23 | 314 |
There was applause, the striking of the left shoulder, from the tables. |
10 |
| 23 | 336 |
Together we looked about the tables, at the various girls, slaves, nude and partially clothed, who served there. |
10 |
| 31 | 83 |
She made her way between the tables. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 138 |
I could conceive of them, as I had seen them at other Gorean feasts, their bodies stained with food and drink, caught by the hair, thrown on the low tables and raped by masters, and then raped again. |
10 |
| 20 | 48 |
This was not the type of party at which, say, the free women of the enemy, captives, stripped, not yet even given the dignity of the collar, clad only in their hair and beauty, are forced to wash and lick the feet of victors, to serve their viands and pour their drinks, to wait upon and clear tables... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 867 |
Swiftly had the tables been turned on the beauty, putting her on the defensive. |
10 |
| 15 | 131 |
He wished, clearly, to swiftly depart from this place where, suddenly, the tables being turned, he found himself, he, Hci, the son of a chief, not only outdone but made to look foolish. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 6 |
It was done in the training room, with tables set up. |
10 |
| 30 | 616 |
Now, of course, that I was a slave, the tables had been well turned. |
10 |
| 33 | 3 |
The floor, between the tables, was cleared. |
10 |
| 33 | 4 |
The feast slaves had drawn back, behind the tables. |
10 |
| 33 | 5 |
At these tables were Claudius, the Ubar of Argentum, and members of the high council. |
10 |
| 33 | 10 |
Toward the back of the room, at one of the lesser tables, there was a hooded guest, a medium-sized man. |
10 |
| 33 | 235 |
There were cries of astonishment from those about the tables. |
10 |
| 33 | 313 |
"He, too," said Drusus Rencius, "could have been mistaken in this matter!" There was some laughter from some of the members of the high council, and from some of the others about the tables. |
10 |
| 33 | 515 |
There was laughter from the tables. |
10 |
| 33 | 605 |
Menicius came about the tables. |
10 |
| 33 | 641 |
The garments he was exhibiting to those at the tables were undergarments of sorts common to free women of Earth. |
10 |
| 33 | 644 |
There was some acknowledgment of this from the tables. |
10 |
| 33 | 667 |
Men at the tables looked at one another. |
10 |
| 33 | 787 |
Gorean libraries, like the tables of Kaissa tournaments, tend to be open to men of all castes. |
10 |
| 33 | 908 |
Hassan came forward, about the tables, to stand near the kneeling slave. |
10 |
| 33 | 994 |
The men rose from about the tables, saluting and applauding Hassan. |
10 |
| 36 | 662 |
Commonly one or more low tables are in evidence, which serve the usual purposes of such objects, conviviality, conversation, dining, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 |
Many of his men, sitting cross-legged at low tables, as we were, were about. |
10 |
| 1 | 507 |
"What do you think you are for?" "Like this!" cried a brunette, leaping away from the tables to the tiles, tearing away her silk. |
10 |
| 1 | 509 |
The brunette, terrified, seized up her silk, and shrank back behind the tables, into the shadows, where, huddled, knelt other slaves. |
10 |
| 1 | 531 |
Numbly, Linda rose to her feet and walked back about the tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 661 |
Doubtless, too, as the evening wore on, other girls, too, perhaps Tula, and Susan, and Linda, would be ordered to the floor, to dance before strong men, then perhaps, each in her turn, one by one, to be dragged to the tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 726 |
She moved between the tables, a slave, an owned woman. |
10 |
| 1 | 730 |
She was then again in the center of the tiles, among the tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 744 |
Then she was again dancing among the tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 815 |
I saw other girls moving closer to the tables, subtly taking more prominent positions, hoping perhaps thereby to be more visible to the men. |
10 |
| 1 | 850 |
She was on her back, thrown across one of the low tables. |
10 |
| 5 | 57 |
"I would now encourage my men to sit about the table, there," I said, indicating one of the large rough-hewn tables, with benches, in the main hall. |
10 |
| 16 | 29 |
Then I gave my attention to the performance in progress between the tables, on a small, raised platform. |
10 |
| 16 | 816 |
Men rushed forward and seized her bodily and carried her, lifted high among them, back to the tables. |
10 |
| 16 | 822 |
"Ask! Ask!" demanded dozens of men, laughing, pounding on the goblets and tables with utensils. |
10 |
| 16 | 826 |
Then Lady Telitsia, too, was seized from the stage and carried helplessly, held high above the heads of several men, others crowding about them, back to the tables. |
10 |
| 16 | 827 |
Rowena, gasping and writhing, crying out, the scarf torn from her, flung down among the tables, pressed back helplessly to the tiles, held down by the arms, kept in place, by two men, was already serving. |
10 |
| 16 | 903 |
Even the numerous naked slaves who were serving the tables and, as men wished them, the banqueters, stopped serving, and, carrying their vessels and trays, stood still, looking, too, to the stage. |
10 |
| 16 | 1073 |
These rings, when lowered, hung a few feet above the floor, some six or seven feet above it, in the open space between the tables. |
10 |
| 16 | 1075 |
These women, during the course of a victory feast, are caressed by whips, or beaten by them, until they beg, though free, to serve the tables as slaves. |
10 |
| 16 | 1078 |
The lowered ring dangled near the center of the hall, in the space between the tables. |
10 |
| 18 | 105 |
Naked slaves again scurried about, hurrying here and there amongst the tables, in their perfume and steel collars, bringing wine, delicacies and assorted exquisite viands, zealous to please masters. |
10 |
| 18 | 340 |
Men leaped to the tables. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 183 |
Indeed, skilled and famous captains, ones noted for their military skill and profitable campaigns, must often close down their enlisting tables early in En'Kara. |
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| 6 | 35 |
I pondered the likely prices of a stuffed mushroom in a black-market transaction in a war-torn district, one turned into a near desert by the predations of organized foragers, in particular, the price of such a mushroom perhaps diverted at great hazard from the tables of Cosian generals. |
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| 14 | 42 |
Within the hall were several soldiers, and several officers, at tables, conducting various sorts of business. |
10 |
| 14 | 47 |
I eyed the various tables. |
10 |
| 14 | 49 |
"Are we not to petition for these letters at one of the tables?" I asked, looking back. |
10 |
| 25 | 44 |
I followed her, threading my way amongst the small tables, and the mats, and the slave rings and clutching, moving, intertwined bodies, to a small table. |
10 |
| 25 | 54 |
The room was illuminated, insofar as it was, with a soft, flickering, reddish light, the result of the flames of tiny tharlarion-oil lamps set in narrow red-glass enclosures on certain of the tables. |
10 |
| 25 | 568 |
I indicated a nicely bodied woman, barefoot, in a calf-length, sleeveless white gown, with a low décolletage, moving among the tables. |
10 |
| 25 | 1020 |
I looked to one of the tables near my own. |
10 |
| 25 | 1570 |
She, the Earth-girl slave, nude and collared, hard to see in the flickering reddish light, carrying the tray over her head, was making her way back among the tables and mats to the bar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 57 |
There were some fifty tables in the room, tables at which, if not placed adjacently to one another, generally four men might sit. |
10 |
| 17 | 139 |
Naked maidens, doubtless of the vanquished, served at the low tables, and, in the open space between these tables, and among them, danced. |
10 |
| 3 | 156 |
On one of the tables in the reference section I had left my small tape recorder. |
10 |
| 3 | 252 |
Then suddenly I fled between the man before me and he on my right, running between the tables and toward the shelves. |
10 |
| 3 | 335 |
I darted between tables, toward the first-floor shelves on the east side of the building, where we keep most of our reference materials. |
10 |
| 3 | 399 |
The third man was in this area, near one of the tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 3 |
Beyond the threshold I could hear the conversation of men, sitting, cross-legged, at the low tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 54 |
I could see the men there, at the tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 196 |
Out there, among the tables, I had seen the dancing floor. |
10 |
| 11 | 247 |
Another man or two added to this din, by pounding their goblets on the tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 260 |
Perhaps those who had smote their goblets on the tables and called for me, had, as much as anything, been voicing a natural disgruntlement at the unwritten customs which seemed to govern such affairs, at the institution of a time to be set aside for the whetting of appetites. |
10 |
| 11 | 299 |
I could hear the striking of goblets more often now on tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 477 |
I heard the pounding of goblets on the tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 683 |
"Superb!" cried others, pounding with their goblets on the tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 756 |
I watched the attestation being handed about the tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 862 |
I wondered if they would lament my plight, deploring it with typical, whining, hypocritical cant, or if they, too, would sit there, at those low tables, their blood racing, their eyes alight, becoming men. |
10 |
| 11 | 981 |
As the music concluded I performed floor movements, and the eyes of the men blazed, and fists pounded on the tables, and then the music was done and I lay before them on my back, my breasts rising and falling as I fought for breath, my body sheened with sweat, my hands beside me, palms up, my knees ... |
10 |
| 11 | 985 |
There was a thunder of applause, the striking of the shoulders in the Gorean fashion, and, too, the crashing of goblets on the tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 1388 |
She must be being used so simply as having been flung across one of the tables, perhaps her hair and back in spilled paga. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 181 |
I myself was shackled, and put here, in the paga room, to serve at tables". |
10 |
| 5 | 317 |
He had, for example, put the Lady Temione naked at the tables. |
10 |
| 5 | 534 |
The fellow, I noted, had taken one of the larger tables, a double table, for himself. |
10 |
| 5 | 655 |
For example, she had been stripped and chained, and put to the tables. |
10 |
| 6 | 495 |
"Yet I am at the mercy of the keeper! I am a free woman! Yet I was made to serve at the tables! Now I have been 'delivered' to a guest, as though I might be a slave!" "Your bills have not been paid," I reminded her. |
10 |
| 10 | 94 |
In some cases, they might be loyal, as well, to their word, to their oaths and pledges, and, if they understood what they were marking at the recruitment tables, their contracts. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 569 |
Perhaps he regarded her as the sort whom Cosians would enjoy having serve their banquets, moving among the tables, bearing platters of viands, or pouring wine, or such, or perhaps merely lying on their bellies or backs beside their small tables at such banquets, ready, too, to serve. |
10 |
| 9 | 590 |
Then, huddled together on the floor between the tables, in the dancing space, frightened, exhausted from their writhing, their uses will be gambled for by their numbers, and then, as the lots fall, they will be dragged, one by one, to the tables, or the sides of the room, to give pleasure to their m... |
10 |
| 4 | 76 |
And, once one added to the reckoning of these dismal tables the skewing factor of treachery in Ar, and that her high general, Seremides, of Tyros, was traitorous to his oaths, as I had learned at Holmesk, in the north, Ar, I was sure, was doomed. |
10 |
| 5 | 2 |
"There were no recruiting tables," I admitted. |
10 |
| 5 | 134 |
"Doubtless that is why there were no recruiting tables," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 16 |
To be sure, there were many other entertainments on the street outside, in stalls, and set in the open, behind tables, and such, in which were displayed mostly tricks with small objects, ostraka, rings, scarves, coins and such. |
10 |
| 23 | 426 |
"I can double this overnight at the gaming tables," he said. |
10 |
| 25 | 390 |
Surely it is only fair that the tables have now been turned, and that it is you, so to speak, who now finds himself in the net". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 351 |
I had often begged to be put forth for use, to lie chained between the tables for the use of guests, to be fastened even to a bench in the garden, my use a gratuity for those who worked there, or to be sent, gratefully, ecstatically, back-braceleted, a sheet over me, to the quarters of guards, but t... |
10 |
| 7 | 655 |
Even in the gardens are we not sometimes placed at the disposal of others, as he who holds total rights over us, perhaps in his astuteness, or liberality, may decree? And if we have not been pleasing, and if we have not well responded, as may be determined objectively, from the effects of such respo... |
10 |
| 8 | 961 |
Sometimes, when we had been chained under the tables of feasting guards and food was thrown to us, we might use our hands and, at other times, we might not. |
10 |
| 10 | 646 |
Inside there were some tables and benches, several men, in scarlet livery, and some chains dangling from the ceiling. |
10 |
| 10 | 651 |
He then went to one of the tables, accompanied by the soldier. |
10 |
| 10 | 654 |
I swung there, waiting, while the jailer completed business at one of the tables. |
10 |
| 10 | 664 |
The jailer, and the soldier with him, were still before one of the tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 1453 |
When not serving one kneels deferentially, silently, well back, and to the side, of the low tables. |
10 |
| 14 | 414 |
The masters may feed us by hand, from their own plates, as we kneel by their tables, or throw us scraps, such things. |
10 |
| 16 | 203 |
Did I hear the striking of the shoulders in applause, the pounding of goblets on low tables, the urgent cries of men? What power, I thought, must a dancer, a true dancer, exercise over men! How she must arouse them, how she must drive them mad with passion! But what power, ultimately, is hers, for s... |
10 |
| 18 | 103 |
At the height of the feast she is put through her paces, between the tables. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 704 |
There was nothing untoward in this, or unique to her condition, which was that of slave, for Gorean women in the high cities, and particularly those of high caste, commonly eat kneeling, or reclining, at low tables, as Gorean men in the high cities, particularly those of the higher castes, commonly ... |
10 |
| 11 | 645 |
Now I must clear his tables, and such. |
10 |
| 24 | 110 |
Kneel there, before the cosmetics tables. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 967 |
If they would be in such a tavern, let them be so appropriately, bringing paga to the tables and serving in the alcoves, in their own collars, locked on their necks, slaves. |
10 |
| 9 | 6 |
Much of the food in the various valleys was prepared centrally, so to speak, and eaten at common tables. |
10 |
| 11 | 25 |
"The men about," said Cabot, looking about the tables, "seem in good spirits". |
10 |
| 74 | 50 |
Lord Arcesilaus sat on a dais, at the head of a hundred tables, with Lord Zarendargar, Lord Grendel, and Statius; and Archon, of the forest humans, and Cestiphon, of the killer humans, sat with them. |
10 |
| 80 | 1 |
They Will Soon to the Tables "My dear Cabot," said Lord Arcesilaus, "it is so good to see you again, here in the habitats. |
10 |
| 80 | 302 |
"Shall we then to the tables?" she asked. |
10 |
| 80 | 442 |
"Well then," said the Lady Bina, to Lord Arcesilaus, "shall we now to the tables?" "Yes," said he. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 252 |
Former free women of Ar, collared, but decorously attired, served the tables. |
10 |
| 18 | 497 |
"There will be many tables," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 23 | 2 |
She was some yards away, amongst the tables, clutching her vessel of ka-la-na. |
10 |
| 23 | 48 |
As mentioned, she was a bit away, some yards away, amongst the tables. |
10 |
| 23 | 65 |
The tables had been set in the open air, and the area was lit with the glow of torches. |
10 |
| 23 | 66 |
Four or five hundred men were at the tables. |
10 |
| 23 | 108 |
I caught sight of Cecily, four tables away. |
10 |
| 23 | 115 |
I watched Saru, across the tables. |
10 |
| 23 | 170 |
Is it not difference which takes one's attention, amongst snow sleen a darker fur, amongst the odor of penned verr, the suggestion, ever so slight, a whisper in the night, of the larl's scent? I might have called this to the attention of Lord Nishida but he had withdrawn from the tables. |
10 |
| 23 | 179 |
Another slave was between the tables, gasping, squirming. |
10 |
| 23 | 304 |
"Move!" said Pertinax to Jane and she hurried amongst the tables, to leave the feasting area. |
10 |
| 24 | 65 |
"I made certain," said Quintus, "almost face to face, across the tables, that Cabot knew his suspicions detected". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 143 |
Paga slaves, house slaves, pleasure slaves, and such, serve one way at the low tables common in households, inns, taverns, and such, and rather differently at the ship's tables, which are higher, and which are, as are the benches, fastened in place, this to prevent shifting in rough seas. |
10 |
| 36 | 5 |
In the warehouse, on several long tables, set in rows, stretching back, toward the rear of the room, were spread varieties of goods, and such goods, indeed, overflowing, found their way to mats and cloths spread on the floor, amongst the tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 32 |
Most had been extinguished, as tables were vacated. |
10 |
| 1 | 45 |
The stranger sat cross-legged at one of the small tables. |
10 |
| 1 | 73 |
The other tables were empty now, as their occupants had left, or had gathered with us, about the stranger's low table. |
10 |
| 5 | 4 |
For those remaining in Telnus, a refundable fee would have been deducted from our pay, this entitling us to housing in the port dormitory, and the right to a meal, once daily, at the common tables, this an insurance against an empty purse, a hungry stomach, and a lodging on a winter street. |
10 |
| 8 | 111 |
Some, like the women of the Red Hunters, repairing rent garments with thong and awl, or, with their lips, teeth, and tongue, softening leather, and attending to stiffened garments, melting and biting the ice away from the fur; and many others would attend to the small, common domestic pursuits of th... |
10 |
| 12 | 144 |
The benches anchor one in place, so to speak, as sitting cross-legged at the low tables would not. |
10 |
| 12 | 164 |
Given the height of the tables the girls serve while on their feet. |
10 |
| 12 | 172 |
Commonly the eyes of the slave, she serving in general, as at the long tables, will not meet those of a free man. |
10 |
| 12 | 201 |
Did she think it demeaning, rather than utterly appropriate, that she should be serving men? Did she still think of herself as she had in Ar, a woman of power and station, far superior to, say, a mere guard, a soldier, she still a fine lady who was now, inexplicably and unconscionably, set to menial... |
10 |
| 17 | 50 |
It is rather as though they were fruit in an orchard, to be scouted with circumspection, and only then, after careful consideration, the choicest of the choice, selected for the delectation of foreign tables. |
10 |
| 19 | 28 |
An interesting form of white-silker is the bred slave, raised in the sheltered gardens and housings of a gynaeceum, who is raised with no knowledge of men, until, say, unhooded, say, on an auction block, chained to a man's slave ring, cast amidst the tables of feasting warriors, or such. |
10 |
| 26 | 211 |
Slaves such as she, muchly controlled, largely sequestered in the keeping areas, not serving at the tables, not being privy to the casual discourse of masters, not being free in a city, to roam the streets, the shops and markets, and such, are likely to know very little of what is going on about the... |
10 |
| 27 | 136 |
A set of feasts were to be prepared, served in dozens of rooms, and barracks, and in the courtyard, at long tables, celebrating the victory of the exploratory force. |
10 |
| 27 | 180 |
"Will you sit at the long tables, in the courtyard?" asked Aeacus. |
10 |
| 28 | 3 |
Many were the savory odors which emerged from behind the screen, from sauces, stews, and soups, rich with shoots, herbs, nuts, spices, vegetables, and peppers, even tarsk and vulo, as well as parsit, crabs, and grunt, emanating from pots brought in from the central kitchens, which served the long ta... |
10 |
| 28 | 10 |
The diners, at the small tables, some fifteen, those who had held the high watches on the great ship, sitting cross-legged, slapped their left shoulders with their right hands. |
10 |
| 28 | 43 |
There was laughter at the tables. |
10 |
| 28 | 59 |
Some pounded their shoulders, others drummed on the small tables before them. |
10 |
| 28 | 81 |
First, I was much afraid that if the two slaves would, for example, have been assigned to the long tables, those in the courtyard, one or another fellow might have recognized them. |
10 |
| 28 | 102 |
I heard some striking on the tables, in the dining area. |
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| 28 | 108 |
"And that I," said Alcinoë, "who was second only to the Ubara herself should serve so, as well!" "Perhaps you would prefer to serve the long tables, in the courtyard," I said, "serve, say, Tarl Cabot, if he is there, and Seremides, who may well be there, and others?" "No, Master," said Adraste, q... |
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| 28 | 157 |
Others pounded on the small tables with pleasure. |
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| 28 | 270 |
It was dark outside now, but, under torches, there was still feasting at the long tables in the courtyard. |
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| 28 | 276 |
I stayed sometime on the parapet, for the most part, however, not looking over the wall, but looking back, down to the courtyard, where I might observe the tables. |
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| 28 | 277 |
As I feared, later, near the nineteenth Ahn, a number of men withdrew from the tables, and I saw them gather in a corner of the courtyard. |
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| 28 | 298 |
Many had now left the tables. |
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| 35 | 133 |
"Set the public tables!" called another. |
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| 36 | 164 |
He looked about, at the tables, at the goods, the swarming crowd, some idlers, some guardsmen, and listened, for a time, to the murmur of bargainings. |
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| 36 | 228 |
"I see one in the robes of the Merchants, but muchly hooded, who has entered, who looks about, but who does not seem concerned with the tables". |
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| 36 | 247 |
As I watched, uneasily, the stranger began to thread his way amongst the tables. |
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| 36 | 257 |
"Do you not think he would have been wiser to move differently amongst the tables, to feign interest, here and there, approaching ever more closely?" "I would suppose so," I said. |
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| 36 | 469 |
"Yes," said the stranger, looking toward the tables. |
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| 36 | 488 |
"Follow me," said Nakamura, captain of the River Dragon, who then began to move amongst the tables, toward the back of the room. |
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| 36 | 604 |
I had seen samples of it amongst the trading tables. |
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| 37 | 5 |
They served the wine well, kneeling beside the two small tables, behind which we sat, cross-legged, touching the goblet softly, tenderly, appropriately, to their body, then lifting it, and licking and kissing the goblet's rim, as they looked over the rim, into the eyes of their masters, then lowerin... |
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| 37 | 657 |
We then left the back room, and, a bit later, Callias had exchanged one of the tiny beadlike golden tarsks for nine silver tarsks, ninety-nine copper tarsks, and a hundred tarsk-bits, at one of the changing tables maintained in the warehouse by the harbor administration, to facilitate trading. |
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| 37 | 658 |
I might have been concerned here, but the warehouse seemed filled with bulging purses, and the counting boards on several of the long tables were so filled that coins lay loose, spilled beside them. |
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| 37 | 703 |
Already some of the tables were closing. |
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| 37 | 1222 |
One attended classes, one heard lectures, one participated in what are called seminars, smaller courses, more informal courses, where students might participate in discussions, commonly held about tables". |
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| 37 | 1483 |
Whereas the girls prepared and served the meal, we had them share it with us, as well, they kneeling at the small tables, at which we sat cross-legged. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1722 |
"Come along, Allison," said he, and began to make his way between the tables, and I, in the sullied, soaked tunic, stumbled along at his side, sometimes brushing into patrons, sometimes striking against benches, jutting out, in the narrow space between the tables. |
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| 35 | 227 |
"In the house of chance," he said, "there were games involving cards, were there not?" "In the back of the large room, at the far tables," I said, "but I did not attend on those tables. |
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| 4 | 437 |
"But," said Eve, "if we are of low caste, of the Metal Workers, the Cloth Workers, the Workers in Wood, the Leather Workers, the Bakers, the Tarnsters, or such, we would have to be placed lower at the tables". |
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| 4 | 439 |
Rawlinson, "you will not be placed at the tables, at all. |
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| 4 | 596 |
I think this did not much please several of our sisters, also at the tables. |
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| 4 | 639 |
I felt the tip of her switch beneath my chin, and, responsive to its pressure, I lifted my head, and then, on all fours, my head up, guided by the switch, by its gentle pressure, first on one side of my face and then the other, I was moved about, faced to the left, and then to the right, and then, a... |
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| 4 | 711 |
Eve, Jane, and I were permitted to remove our bells and were placed in maid's gingham uniforms, and set to clear the tables, tidy the room, and attend to the dishes. |
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| 6 | 23 |
I did not understand this, for the tables, the games, did not close until the early morning. |
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| 6 | 48 |
In a moment I sensed fire, and, through the door, saw wild shadows cast on the walls, of armed men, breaking tables, hurling them to the center of the room. |
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| 6 | 52 |
Smoke was now billowing from the flaming heap in the center of the room, the tables, the wheels, the boards, the boxes of gaming pieces. |
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| 7 | 22 |
Of course we were guilty! Did we not know of the manipulation of the tables' spins, of the dishonest stones, the fraudulent dice, the ostraka which, to the informed eye, could be read? Did we not invite in the patrons, at the door, with our smiles, the glances over our shoulders, our fingers lightly... |
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| 7 | 24 |
We would bring the gamesters paga and ka-la-na, and platters of meat and bread, and cakes and sweets, to keep them at the tables. |
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| 7 | 26 |
How we rubbed against them, so inadvertently, laughed, joked, touched their arms, and hands, applauded their boldness, pretended dismay at a loss, pretended chagrin and sorrow when they made to leave the tables. |
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| 8 | 1426 |
As you might suppose, girls are eager to escape the labors of the great kitchen, and make the most of their turns at serving the long tables, hoping to come to the attention of one or another of the guests. |
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| 8 | 1437 |
Long tables are commonly used in the eating houses, with benches, rather as in Torvaldsland. |
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| 8 | 1506 |
What fellow would want her in his bracelets? There is little room between the tables and one, making one's way, usually slowly, for the crowding, taking orders, carrying platters, and such, often brushes against the patrons. |
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| 8 | 1546 |
Too, of late, I had been more often assigned to the tables. |
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| 8 | 1713 |
"Too," said he, "when this is done, you are to inform the kitchen master that you are to serve the tables daily for the next twenty days, but, in this period, you are not to be permitted clothing". |
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| 8 | 1778 |
"How would you like to leave the kitchen, the tables, Allison?" said Menon. |
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| 8 | 1793 |
"Oh, yes, Master," I said, "yes, Master!" It was for such a favor, such a delight, such a privilege, that I had plied the tables in my serving. |
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| 8 | 1947 |
I thought of the free woman at the tables, who had caused me such discomfiture. |
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| 8 | 1956 |
"Allison," said Astrinax, "suppose that one of your sister slaves, in the kitchen, had been given a candy, perhaps as a tip from a customer, from waiting on the tables". |
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| 8 | 2065 |
"Slaves, there," said Menon, "exist to loosen the strings on pouches, urge fellows to shower gold on the tables, to risk much, beyond reason, to pout and look away if there is evidence of hesitation or circumspection, to cry out in pleasure if an extra tarn disk is put in the plate, another card dra... |
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| 8 | 2068 |
"Some will ply them with drink," he said, "and bring them food, to keep them at the tables". |
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| 8 | 2101 |
But, I thought, too, I am out of the kitchen, away from the tables. |
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| 9 | 75 |
"They encourage men to drink, to eat, to spend, to wager, to linger at the tables, to draw further cards, to cast the dice just one last time, and such". |
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| 10 | 193 |
You do much with mats, cushions, and low tables, about which men will usually sit cross-legged, and women kneel. |
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| 10 | 194 |
Whereas chairs, benches, and higher tables are familiar to you, as in the public eating houses, and common in the north, such things are much more common on my former world. |
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| 11 | 64 |
Too, in the gambling house, though seldom, for we were not to distract the men from the tables, I was put to a customer's pleasure, usually when it was feared he might be on the point of leaving. |
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| 11 | 65 |
At such times a copper tarsk was often put in my mouth, to be retrieved by the customer when done with me, a tarsk which might be redeemed for tarsk-bits, to be spent on the tables, tarsk-bits which might, soon, result in the loss of tarsks, even of silver. |
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| 17 | 69 |
He then departed, to seek the betting tables beneath the stadium tiers. |
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| 17 | 520 |
When the Lady Bina went below to the tables, the shops, or such, she was always accompanied. |
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| 17 | 524 |
Indeed, during the races, it is often crowded, for many prefer to watch from there, possibly for the better view of the beasts, and the greater proximity to the betting tables. |
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| 18 | 502 |
Others pounded on the tables. |
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| 18 | 553 |
Some others, too, at the nearby tables, were looking on. |
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| 18 | 1074 |
I recalled both Astrinax and Menon had thought I would be a good buy for such a place, a girl willing to wheedle and smile, to pretend to emotions of excitement and enthusiasm, one who could adroitly feign dismay and sympathy, one who would ply customers with drink, urge them to remain at the tables... |
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| 19 | 91 |
Some were played at tables in the back". |
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| 19 | 109 |
Our concern was to keep men at the tables. |
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| 35 | 105 |
"Ah, yes," he said, "you, with your smiles, your expressions, your laughter, your body movements, your inadvertent touchings, your little cries of pleasure and disappointment, would do very well at keeping a fellow at the tables, in prompting him to continue, even be it into penury or destitution". |
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| 35 | 228 |
Most of us attended on the gaming tables, with the wheels, and the dice, where most of the men were". |
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| 35 | 240 |
"But I did not, personally, attend on the far tables". |
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| 35 | 354 |
"Tell me about the tables, the play, everything," he said. |
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| 35 | 356 |
"They invite men to the tables, some seek them by themselves, games are suggested, drinks are brought, decks are produced, and opened, men divide the decks, disarrange the cards, distribute them to the players in certain fashions, depending on the game. |
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| 48 | 1 |
It was a distraught Desmond of Harfax who was led before the dais, for on the dais, on three tables, were three containers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 105 |
But beyond the influx of refugees, more streaming in each day, the crowding, the begging, the closing of hiring tables, the raiding of garbage troughs, the sleeping in cold, damp, dangerous streets, the discordant accounts of doings to the south and east, the racing about of rumors, it was clear tha... |
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| 6 | 145 |
For better or for worse, the agents of the Pani had not set up hiring tables, but conducted matters discreetly, if not secretly They made inquiries, as they could, and seemed to scout men. |
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| 8 | 228 |
At two of the other tables, slaves, kneeling beside the table, were also given slave gruel. |
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| 8 | 290 |
"Two are face-stripped!" Some of the free women, at the other tables, stood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 36 |
Three slaves attended on the tables, mostly head down, that they might not meet the eyes of free persons. |
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| 32 | 49 |
"We will bear tables," said Arashi, "and, so shielded, sustain the first volley, and then disappear in the darkness". |
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| 58 | 269 |
There were, I conjectured, more than two hundred heads in the trophy room, on shelves, on tables, suspended from the ceiling. |
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| 59 | 17 |
Perhaps they were intended to illuminate small tables about which one might sit, cross-legged. |
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| 59 | 18 |
But there were no such tables in the room now. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 30 |
I glimpsed the low tables, the hanging lamps, the fellows at the tables, cross-legged, conversing, drinking, gaming. |
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| 57 | 127 |
"By the tables, sometimes below the tables," said Kurik, "there are bowls of gruel". |
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| 6 | 566 |
If he sits cross-legged, at one of the low, small tables found in many Gorean domiciles, indeed, almost universally, she will also kneel, usually to his right, at the same table. |
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| 14 | 27 |
Free Goreans commonly eat at low tables, the men sitting cross-legged, and the women kneeling, their knees closely together within their robes. |
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| 14 | 30 |
On these couches, usually arranged in a square or rectangle, sometimes in a circle or oval, the guests recline and help themselves from the low, narrow tables, these set before the couches. |
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| 14 | 31 |
The height of these tables, a bit higher than the common Gorean table, is matched to the surface of the couches, for ease of access. |
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| 14 | 32 |
The serving, given the spacing between the couches, may be done from either outside or inside the parallel concentricity, so to speak, of couches and tables. |
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| 14 | 71 |
"Why then," she asked, "have you been sent to the tables?" "I do not know, Mistress," I said. |
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| 14 | 119 |
"Stand up, my dear," said Lysander, kindly, "there, between the tables, in the center". |
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| 14 | 142 |
Selena was filling the other goblets, which would be borne to the tables. |
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| 14 | 149 |
In a moment, from within the rectangle of low, narrow tables, set before the couches, I knelt before Tullius Quintus, he reclining, eyeing me, the table between us. |
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| 24 | 1 |
"You need not look," said Tyrtaios, lounging on the supper couch, on one elbow, looking to the circle of sand about which were arranged the tables. |
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| 25 | 1 |
"You need not look," said Tyrtaios, lounging on the supper couch, on one elbow, looking to the circle of sand about which were arranged the tables. |
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| 25 | 6 |
Two slaves, similarly clad and collared, but free of impediments, both exquisite, were serving the tables. |
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| 25 | 11 |
The men at the tables, those attentive, those bemused, those bored, those testing and savoring beverages and dishes, wore dark chaplets upon their brow, these woven from somber dark leaves, muchly different from the tangles of aromatic blossoms worn by many Goreans at festive suppers. |
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| 30 | 331 |
I heard men crying out, and pounding paga goblets on the tables. |
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| 45 | 17 |
There were several supper couches, with their narrow tables, aligned, facing one another, in two long lines, these two lines parallel to the walls, and oriented toward the end of the room, where there was a high dais. |
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| 45 | 18 |
There was a serving aisle between the couches and tables. |
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| 45 | 34 |
"To the noble Lord Grendel!" called a large, handsome, long-armed, reclining, red-robed fellow at one of the two tables closest to the dais, lifting a wine goblet toward the dais. |
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| 45 | 46 |
Perhaps he would not have cared to sit at one of the low tables, in his own house. |
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| 45 | 64 |
"He is not for you! See what he has chained behind his couch! That is the sort of slave he can command! Why would such a man want one such as you? Now, serve, serve, lazy slut!" "Yes, Mistress!" I said, and hurried again, amongst the tables. |
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| 45 | 80 |
I determined the first girl was not watching, and made my way about the tables, so that I might be behind the couches on the right, those nearest the dais. |
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| 45 | 206 |
"Feed the animals!" he called cheerily to the first girl, and she, with a wide, sweeping motion, scattered the scraps between the tables. |
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| 45 | 210 |
There was laughter from the men at the tables. |
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| 51 | 345 |
Knew I so little of Gor? What man would be fool enough to care for a slave? How he would be mocked by his peers! Would he not be the butt of many a merry jest? Chagrined he might, for a time, avoid the gymnasium, the baths, the gaming tables, the tarn races, the song dramas. |
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| 57 | 1 |
"Welcome, noble friends," called out Decius Albus, hurrying forward, under the shading latticework through which the afternoon sun stroked the laden tables with a melody of light and shade. |
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| 57 | 8 |
By one of the tables, heaped with viands and blossoms, I beheld a Kur, in festive harness. |
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| 57 | 18 |
After all, I was an animal, so why should I not be displayed as one? Why should he not, if he wished, display an animal he owned? Were the men of Earth not proud of their dogs? "Help yourselves from the tables," said Decius Albus. |
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| 57 | 24 |
Here and there you will note, placed on the ground, near or below the tables, bowls of slave gruel, and slaves may join the feast, feeding there, feeding, of course, as slaves". |
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| 57 | 30 |
There were several men about the tables, under the latticework. |
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| 57 | 239 |
The guests, most of them, had now drawn back in such a way as to have the tables between themselves and the Kur. |
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| 57 | 240 |
Then the Kur, angrily, suddenly, overturned one of the tables, spilling wine, cakes, and fruit, but it made no effort to more closely approach the guests, who had shrunk back even further. |
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| 57 | 242 |
We were still on the same side of the tables as the Kur, and it turned about, and regarded us. |
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| 58 | 69 |
Braceleted and leashed, is one not well aware that one is a property, an animal, a slave? Then the hobbles were off, and cast on one of the tables, amidst the residue of the feast. |
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| 59 | 6 |
Behind me I had heard the tearing of wood, the clatter of vessels flung from overturned tables, the howling of the beasts. |
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| 64 | 158 |
In taverns, and most domiciles, at least in the "high cities," the tables are low, and men sit about them cross-legged, and free women kneel at them. |
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| 68 | 493 |
"If I were you, I would have her wait on prime customers, serve at the better tables, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 243 |
I and my party, sometimes stopped, apparently passed through some men and, perhaps, tables. |
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| 6 | 307 |
I could see men and tables outside. |
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| 6 | 308 |
I saw a flash of silk and a lithe, collared beauty, bearing a goblet, moved past the opening of the alcove, and, having approached one of the tables, knelt before it, and, her head down between her extended arms, proffered the goblet to a fellow sitting cross-legged at the table, who took the cup, s... |
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| 10 | 44 |
In some of the relatively removed, more private sections there are tables in whose surface, inlaid. |
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| 10 | 98 |
I then turned about, to look again at the tables. |
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| 10 | 114 |
I looked out across the floor at the men sitting, cross-legged, at the low tables, and the girls serving, barefoot and tunicked, in the soft light of the dangling lamps. |
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| 18 | 167 |
With his great crutch, which must have been cored with lead, he smote tables, breaking them in two, struck lamps from their chains, swept shelves free of goblets. |
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| 18 | 171 |
Tables must have been replaced, lamps restrung, and such. |
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| 19 | 1 |
The Line I stood with the others, my back to the wall, near the paga vat, looking at the guests, the tables, the slaves, coming and going, the serving. |
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| 30 | 20 |
There were also restaurants where a more leisurely clientele could avail itself of tables. |
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| 30 | 28 |
Near these boards, at long tables, men stood in lines, paying money and receiving slips of paper in exchange. |
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| 30 | 29 |
Bruno of Torcadino passed these tables. |
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| 31 | 44 |
That could be done later at the guarded money tables, if one were able, if one were alive. |
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| 31 | 138 |
He had turned in his slips at the money tables and filled his purse. |
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| 36 | 77 |
"You had best return to the tables," said Portia. |
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| 38 | 229 |
The food was of the finest in the holding, from the tables of the masters themselves. |
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| 40 | 30 |
Perhaps it pleases us even more than the masters to find ourselves naked beneath their tables. |
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| 40 | 33 |
Indeed, it is in the nature of a privilege to be beneath the masters' tables. |
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| 46 | 2 |
Goblets were struck on the low tables. |
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| 46 | 4 |
Tables had been overturned. |
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| 46 | 60 |
Masters may not care for this, but facts, allusions, loose talk, rumors, and such, abound amongst the tables. |
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