| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 116 |
The Older Tarl and I had made a round of taverns in the various cylinders, and I recall toddling precariously, singing obscene camp lyrics, along different narrow bridges, about a yard wide without rails, and the earth somewhere below—how far I had no idea at the time. |
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| 9 | 40 |
It was customary to find diversions other than paga in the Paga Taverns, as well, but in gray Tharna the cymbals, drums and flutes of the musicians, the clashing of bangles on the ankles of dancing girls would be unfamiliar sounds. |
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| 9 | 48 |
"Is there no Paga Tavern near," I asked, "where I can find rest?" "There are no Paga Taverns in Tharna," said the man, I thought with a trace of amusement. |
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| 1 | 35 |
I wished that I had had longer to visit the fair, for on another occasion at another time I should have sought eagerly to examine its wares, drink at its taverns, talk with its merchants and attend its contests, for these fairs are free ground for the many competitive, hostile Gorean cities, and pro... |
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| 28 | 104 |
The women I had owned, Sana, Talena, Lara, and others of whom I have not written, Passion Slaves rented for the hour in the Paga Taverns of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, Pleasure Slaves bestowed on me in token of hospitality for a night spent in a friend's compartments, had known that I was master and that had b... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 155 |
I suppose, in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar, which claims suzerainty over the delta, exacting cruel tributes from the rence growers, great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves ... |
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| 21 | 203 |
It was almost certain they would be flying within minutes after an alarm was sounded, even though they need be summoned from the baths, the paga taverns, the gaming rooms of Turia, in which of late, the siege over, they had been freely spending their mercenary gold, much to the delight of Turians. |
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| 2 | 206 |
"Yes," said Portus, "but they do little—they are well paid, more than twice what was done before, but they spend the mornings in practices with arms, and the afternoons and evenings in the taverns, the gaming rooms and baths of the city". |
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| 2 | 338 |
"I now understand," she said, "why it is that free women never enter paga taverns". |
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| 3 | 53 |
The most favorable locations for play are, of course, the higher bridges in the vicinity of the richer cylinders, the most expensive paga taverns, and so on. |
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| 4 | 50 |
I had little doubt but that in an Ahn the story would be in all the paga taverns of Ar, on all the bridges and in all the cylinders. |
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| 17 | 195 |
While the men of Cernus did their work in the paga taverns, and on the streets and in the market squares, and on the ramps and in the tiers of the games and races, the gold of Cernus, and the steel of Cernus, was apparently plied elsewhere. |
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| 21 | 69 |
"We have let it be known in the taverns of Ar," said Vancius, "that Gladius of Cos, should he dare to ride, will die. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 106 |
The tributes exacted, when the small communities can be found, are customarily harsh, often whatever of value can be found; typically what is demanded is great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves in the taverns of the city. |
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| 10 | 206 |
A small pittance granted him by the shipwrights, of whom he had been one, was spent in the paga taverns of the city. |
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| 13 | 80 |
"I meant only," I said, "that your beauty reminded me of that of girls, serving slaves, nude and double chained in the paga taverns of Port Kar. |
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| 16 | 275 |
"Release all the slaves! Send them throughout the city, to the wharves, the taverns, the arsenal, the piazzas, the markets, everywhere! Tell them to cry out the news! Tell them to tell everyone that there is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" Men ran from the room to carry out my orders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 5 |
Laura is a small trading city, a river port, whose buildings are largely of wood, consisting mostly it seems of warehouses and taverns. |
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| 8 | 379 |
They were wild men, of the Caste of Warriors, who spent much of their time in the taverns of Laura, fighting and gambling and drinking, while slave girls, excited and with shining eyes, served them and pressed about them, begging to be noticed and ordered to the alcoves. |
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| 8 | 624 |
"Of all the slave girls sold, however," observed Inge, "very few are purchased for taverns". |
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| 10 | 220 |
I had heard of the paga taverns, the rent booths, the brothel restaurants, and of the streets, in which one might find coin girls, their coin box on a chain locked about their neck, and mat girls on their master's leashes. |
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| 11 | 1287 |
He seemed truly to be arranging for supplies, and his men, in their leisure, gambled and drank in the inns and taverns of the city, spending their time striking up acquaintances with men here and there, other tarnsmen, mostly men like themselves, from other cities, now, too, by coincidence within th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 7 |
She had perhaps grown up along the docks, and in the alleys behind the paga taverns. |
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| 3 | 134 |
"The taverns nearer the ship," I suggested, "are doubtless more crowded". |
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| 5 | 2 |
We had taken on supplies, and my men, on shore, in the paga taverns, had rested, and had muchly pleasured themselves with the lovely recreations of the port. |
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| 5 | 33 |
I noted that Rim, after our first day in Lydius, had not much frequented the paga taverns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 286 |
In the cafes, as in the paga taverns of the north, one learns the realities of a city, what is its latest news, what is afoot in the city, what are its dangers, its pleasures, and where its power lies. |
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| 26 | 205 |
"We will need taverns, cafes, at Klima," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 22 |
We could see villages here and there more frequently now; too, occasionally there were hostels and taverns on the road. |
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| 13 | 399 |
The recent bids had been by the agents of paga taverns. |
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| 13 | 401 |
The belled, silked girls of the taverns were well known in the cities of Gor. |
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| 13 | 428 |
To make matters worse the women in the tiers, because of the bidding, now saw me, and understood me, as a girl destined for the taverns, hot, spiced meat, delicious to men, a delectable accompaniment, like the music, to the tawny fire of paga. |
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| 18 | 62 |
Although most taverns are open and a girl might simply slip out the door and run, there is little prospect of her flight's being successful. |
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| 18 | 99 |
The Chatka and Curla, you see, did not resemble most paga taverns in their openness. |
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| 18 | 100 |
It was not possible there for a girl to even step outside for a breath of air as it is in most taverns. |
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| 20 | 180 |
I saw other girls, from other taverns, running down to its mooring. |
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| 24 | 61 |
Oh, I was sure that they were both excellent judges of women, yes, but of what sort of women, I asked myself, women stripped or lightly clad, women in collars or chains! And in what sort of venues had this superb taste in women been developed and honed? In the streets of Ar, seeing girls on leashes ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 264 |
How proud I was of her! She was for most practical purposes untrained and new to the collar and yet many girls whom I had had, even in paga taverns, I suspect, could not have equaled her performance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 170 |
In some months, in the proper collar, and at the right slave ring, I suspected she would become paga hot, hot enough to serve even in the paga taverns of Gor. |
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| 2 | 187 |
It was the voice of Procopius Minor, or Little Procopius, who owned the Four Chains, a tavern near Pier Sixteen, to be distinguished from Procopius Major, or Big Procopius, who owned several such taverns throughout the city. |
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| 2 | 197 |
Four other paga taverns in Port Kar alone used it. |
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| 2 | 199 |
These four taverns, if it is of interest, are the Veminium, the Kailiauk, the Slaves of Ar, and the Silver of Tharna. |
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| 2 | 203 |
Paga taverns were only one of his numerous interests. |
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| 4 | 373 |
"There are some girls behind the paga taverns, on the northern shore of the Ribbon's alley," she said. |
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| 4 | 377 |
It was a bit past dawn and the paga taverns backing on the smaller canal would be throwing out their garbage from the preceding night. |
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| 12 | 245 |
In most taverns no bottle is brought to the table but the paga is brought to the table, by the paga slave, a cup at a time, the cups normally being filled from a vat behind the counter. |
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| 12 | 255 |
"In many Gorean taverns," I said, "the paga slaves serve naked". |
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| 13 | 144 |
The girls in Pembe's tavern, as in many taverns, are not permitted to touch coins. |
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| 57 | 268 |
Sometimes, particularly in low paga taverns, the girl will be permitted to wear, besides her brand and collar, only perfume, or, if the proprietor wishes, perfume and chains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 235 |
"You could risk slavery," he said, "expose yourself to possible capture, walk the high bridges at lonely Ahn, picnic in the country, go to paga taverns alone, take dangerous sea voyages". |
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| 34 | 172 |
Not surprisingly then, slaves are a frequent and familiar sight on Gor, in the streets and markets, in the taverns and shops, in the fields and on the roads, and so on, almost everywhere, and certainly one expects to find them in private houses, engaged in domestic labors and deferentially serving. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 71 |
Gorean taverns can be dangerous places for free women. |
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| 7 | 86 |
"If they do not drink it up in the paga taverns first," said the second girl, bitterly. |
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| 8 | 120 |
He held himself above squabbles in common taverns, I gathered. |
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| 10 | 266 |
It no longer seemed a good way to make money by challenging fellows in the taverns. |
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| 12 | 48 |
"The girls are pretty at the paga taverns, aren't they?" she asked, pointedly. |
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| 13 | 3 |
I frequented various taverns in Victoria. |
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| 13 | 29 |
"You stink of the paga taverns," she said. |
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| 13 | 168 |
"Do you behave in this fashion with the sluts in the paga taverns?" she asked. |
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| 20 | 18 |
"If you may pleasure yourself in taverns," she said, "surely so, too, may I". |
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| 32 | 76 |
Little else, these days, it seemed, was spoken of in the taverns, in the markets, and on the wharves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 456 |
Excellent! Excellent! She was no different than the sluts in the paga taverns! I was very pleased with her. |
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| 17 | 528 |
"Yes, Master!" No, she, the former Miss Henderson of Earth, was not different from the sluts of the paga taverns. |
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| 18 | 108 |
It was the sort of garment which, commonly, would be worn only by the most lascivious of dancing slaves writhing before strong, rude men in the lowest taverns on Gor. |
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| 18 | 396 |
Before this, of course, he may have used house slaves or the girls in the paga taverns. |
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| 20 | 69 |
She might spend years in low taverns, or as a carnival dancer, or even as a street dancer, for provocation and use, on her leash, before her skills develop to a point at which she is good enough, as it is said, "to be permitted to dance before a Ubar". |
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| 20 | 1723 |
"Have me! Have me! Take me! Take me! Be ruthless with me! I am a woman, and your slave! Make of me naught but a despised instrument of your pleasure!" "Is that what you want?" "Yes, Master! Yes, Master!" Could this be the former Miss Henderson, of Earth? How she reminded me of the helpless sluts in ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 22 |
As would be expected it has several inns and taverns aligned along its central street. |
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| 6 | 72 |
I had sought this fellow in the various inns and taverns of Kailiauk. |
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| 7 | 92 |
"When they come," said another, "it is with a thirst for paga and the wenches of the taverns". |
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| 8 | 558 |
I deemed now that I better understood why the two girls had not been at their respective taverns, why they, it seemed, in effect, under the pretense of soliciting business for the establishments of their masters, had been hiding in the sales barn of Ram Seibar. |
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| 8 | 570 |
What was it to them if these two women were to be conducted back to their respective taverns, there to be returned to their intimate labors? The first of the young fellows turned about, and glared at me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 32 |
"Beware the quickness of your tongue," said Ligurious, "for you rant now not in one of Argentum's taverns but in Corcyrus, and before the throne of her Tatrix". |
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| 5 | 36 |
In the taverns of Argentum we of Argentum are indeed accustomed to speaking freely before women such as your Tatrix. |
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| 5 | 39 |
"Indeed," said he, "I have had many women far superior to your Tatrix in just such taverns. |
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| 5 | 101 |
Though I have had many women far superior to you, and even in the alcoves of taverns, I am not insensitive to your beauty. |
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| 6 | 697 |
"In most paga taverns," he said, "free women are not permitted. |
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| 6 | 709 |
"Slaves can enter taverns, can they not?" I asked. |
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| 10 | 11 |
I had even stopped in some of the more respectable taverns, those in which free women, without difficulty, might enter. |
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| 17 | 133 |
"You are the sort for whom my companion forsakes me! You are the sort he runs panting after in the taverns, the sort whose bodies their masters sell for the price of a drink!" "No," I said. |
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| 30 | 150 |
Slave girls, with the exception of coin girls, lure girls for taverns, and such, are generally not permitted to walk unaccompanied about the streets of a city after dark. |
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| 36 | 493 |
"And do you not make women respond like that," I said, "the girls in the taverns, the girls on their mats, the girls thrown to your feet, for your sport, at the house of a friend?" "Yes," he said, angrily. |
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| 36 | 581 |
I sought solace even in the taverns, and in the arms of others. |
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| 36 | 883 |
The man may, of course, frequent the paga taverns or, if he wishes, buy himself a girl, usually at an affordable price. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 690 |
Too, free women are not permitted in the paga taverns. |
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| 1 | 707 |
Certainly it makes good telling in the taverns. |
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| 1 | 708 |
It is little wonder that Gorean free women avoid paga taverns, and hurry past them. |
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| 1 | 897 |
Procopius Minor is not to be confused with Procopius Major, who is an important merchant in Port Kar, one with interests not only in taverns but in paper, hardware, wool and salt. |
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| 1 | 917 |
It, like other stories, seemed to circulate through the taverns. |
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| 5 | 124 |
Such chains are common in the alcoves of paga taverns. |
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| 5 | 292 |
Such things are common in the alcoves of inns and taverns on Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 126 |
"Very well," I said, "but why Ar? Why not any one of a thousand other cities and towns?" I did not think that Boabissia would appreciate being informed that she was indeed not only unlike the usual Alar woman, but that she was of a quite different sort, a sort that many Goreans were familiar with, a... |
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| 21 | 120 |
"Such voices are heard here and there," he said, "in the taverns, the markets, the baths. |
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| 24 | 636 |
Such things are occasionally used in the paga taverns. |
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| 25 | 49 |
Some of these brothels are really not that much different from certain paga taverns. |
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| 26 | 1596 |
This form of tunic may be found anywhere, but it is often encountered in paga taverns. |
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| 26 | 1659 |
This form of nudity is also the case in some low paga taverns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 820 |
Too, it is not unusual, in taverns, particularly lower taverns, as I would learn, for girls to be publicly naked. |
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| 11 | 73 |
Too, in the lower paga taverns it is not uncommon. |
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| 11 | 829 |
One would seldom see such dances in taverns. |
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| 11 | 1017 |
Women are on the whole not permitted in paga taverns, unless, of course, they wear collars. |
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| 12 | 37 |
"In the baths," he said, "I have seen the names of slaves and taverns scrawled on the walls". |
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| 13 | 69 |
In most paga taverns, of course, the girls are silked. |
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| 13 | 70 |
Usually it is only in the meanest, the cheapest and lowest of taverns that the girls serve naked, much as would the females of a conquered city at the victory feast of their conquerors, now, or soon to be, their masters. |
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| 13 | 71 |
Slave silk, and certainly that sort which is commonly worn in paga taverns and upon occasion in brothels, when the girls are permitted clothing there, is generally diaphanous. |
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| 13 | 86 |
Often, too, and as usually in paga taverns, it is worn in brief tunics. |
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| 13 | 742 |
This was not much different, incidentally, than what was the case in even the most prestigious paga taverns. |
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| 13 | 743 |
In such places, as also in the lower paga taverns, incidentally, free women were generally not permitted. |
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| 13 | 748 |
They were paga taverns. |
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| 26 | 116 |
We are useful not only in brothels, cabarets, taverns, public pleasure gardens, and such, but wherever there are strong men, wherever there are men who enjoy seeing a woman move before them excitingly, and beautifully, and as a total female. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 872 |
Certainly girls from high taverns and from low taverns seldom consort with one another. |
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| 3 | 34 |
For purposes of comparison, in many paga taverns, one may have paga and food, and a girl for the alcove, if one wants, for a single copper tarsk. |
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| 5 | 333 |
Such doors, single and double, are common in inns and taverns, as they may be negotiated by someone whose hands are occupied, as in bearing a tray. |
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| 5 | 334 |
Most often, however, on Gor, curtains, often beaded, are used to separate open from restricted areas in taverns, restaurants, and such. |
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| 21 | 833 |
He may, after all, have the girls in the paga taverns, luscious collar sluts or they would not be there, for the price of a drink, unless they are dancers, and then there is a small additional charge. |
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| 21 | 1098 |
This is not unusual in paga taverns. |
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| 24 | 37 |
Among these, too, I was sure there would be many girls in brief tunics and collars, waving and joyous, and not just girls released for the occasion from the taverns and brothels either, but from the shops, and the laundries and kitchens, and homes, from all over the city. |
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| 24 | 849 |
"Are all the paga taverns in Port Cos named for flowers or fruits?" I asked. |
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| 24 | 862 |
"There are many paga taverns in Port Cos, Master," said the first. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 638 |
The "parade of slaves," as it is sometimes called, commonly takes place in venues such as paga taverns and brothels. |
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| 22 | 70 |
"As you are from the paga taverns of Port Kar," she said. |
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| 38 | 5 |
"It may already be in the paga taverns," I said. |
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| 39 | 15 |
The tavern was the Jeweled Whip, one of a large number of such taverns on Dock Street in Brundisium. |
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| 39 | 127 |
I learned first what quarter of the city they had entered, and, later, what inns, hotels and taverns they might be patronizing. |
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| 47 | 197 |
If it is often difficult even in a Ubar's court, perhaps because of the shadings and distortions of reports from subsidiary cities and towns, to ascertain exactly what happened, one may well imagine the problems encountered by the populace in general, in the markets, the baths and taverns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 259 |
Too, of course, he would be familiar with the lovely properties encountered in paga taverns, and such places. |
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| 3 | 578 |
For example, they might attempt, perhaps disguised as lads, to gain entrance to paga taverns. |
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| 6 | 18 |
Too, posters, and such, usually hand-inked, are common in public places, usually put up by the owners or managers of palestrae, or gymnasiums, public baths, taverns, race courses, theaters, and such. |
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| 8 | 306 |
Indeed, sometimes masters, with their individual slave or slaves, and even owners of feast slaves, managers of slave houses, taverns, brothels, and such, will bring a chain of slaves to various events, such as races, contests, games or performances. |
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| 8 | 329 |
Some incidents had occurred nonetheless, such as the destruction of property in various taverns and the vandalization of certain buildings, for example, baths and libraries. |
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| 10 | 37 |
"Frequenting the taverns?" I asked. |
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| 12 | 461 |
"And surely you have been pleasured in various taverns by such," he said. |
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| 13 | 164 |
On the other hand the first straws testing the winds of Ar, cast in the streets, in the baths, in the taverns and markets, had been blown back with such fierceness that these castrative proposals had been almost immediately withdrawn. |
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| 14 | 657 |
Word of this will be in all the taverns by nightfall!" "Cos will not be pleased," warned a man. |
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| 19 | 155 |
"You dance better than many women I have seen in taverns," I said. |
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| 20 | 166 |
In typical markets, if it is helpful for purposes of comparison, an excellent woman, suitable, say, for the paga taverns, would sell for between one and three silver tarsks. |
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| 22 | 142 |
Some of these notifications, and such, perhaps inscribed by the proprietors of certain taverns or their agents, sing the praises of various slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 21 |
Too, one may hear men, or, often, boys, for it costs less to hire them, calling out the pleasures of various taverns, and the delights that may be found within. |
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| 7 | 106 |
It is one thing to writhe naked before guards, one's body obedient to the slightest tremor of the flute, and quite another, for example, to swirl in a belt of jewels on the dancing floor of one of the golden taverns, reached only from the high bridges. |
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| 7 | 654 |
Certainly the girls in the taverns and brothels are not expected to fulfill such a myth. |
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| 14 | 684 |
"Doubtless many men in your city own their own," I said, "or have access to them, perhaps in taverns or brothels". |
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| 19 | 470 |
But others, many others, I suspected, perhaps simpler men, or perhaps more intellectually insouciant or robust fellows, would conduct themselves otherwise, joyously frequenting the taverns, prowling the streets with torches, making loud the night, indulging in riotous thankfulness. |
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| 19 | 491 |
Sometimes superb slaves are sent forth to solicit for the taverns but then, when one arrives there, they hurry away, to find more customers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 603 |
Many free women, so garmenting themselves, as an adventure, thinking to have the run of the city, to go into areas forbidden to free women, to see the insides of paga taverns, and such, have, to their horror, found themselves, gagged and blindfolded, struggling futilely in the tight ropes of slavers... |
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| 14 | 68 |
This resembles the leather slave cuffs worn by some girls in paga taverns. |
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| 15 | 520 |
It was said that young men enamored of free women, perhaps having glimpsed an ankle, or a bit of throat or chin as the wind indiscreetly lifted a veil, sometimes sought out the girls in the paga taverns to lessen the pangs of love, to lessen their miseries. |
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| 16 | 299 |
Most owners of paga taverns are reluctant to let the girls out of the tavern, unless suitably chained and supervised. |
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| 16 | 301 |
In the taverns the girls normally come with the price of the drink. |
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| 18 | 71 |
"There are hundreds better in the paga taverns!" Ellen, who had lingered, did not care to hear this. |
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| 18 | 72 |
"The paga taverns are being emptied," said Portus, "the best girls being shipped to Cos and Tyros, to Brundisium, and elsewhere". |
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| 18 | 524 |
Bills, mostly advertising tharlarion races and paga taverns, adhered to the exterior walls, and, in two places, to the door itself. |
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| 18 | 579 |
"Seek provender at the taverns, at the brothels," said Portus. |
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| 28 | 40 |
Too, there are the paga taverns and brothels. |
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| 30 | 635 |
Some are forced to serve as naked paga slaves, belled and chained, in the taverns of what was, prior to their embondment, their own city. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 109 |
Let them laugh and fight, and drink and quarrel, and seek their slaves in conquered cities and taverns, and chain them and put them to their feet, and not inquire into the dark and mighty processes which have bred them, which have made them so real, and necessary. |
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| 1 | 964 |
For example, it is understood that free women are not permitted in paga taverns. |
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| 23 | 172 |
To be sure, they have a considerable advantage, as they may simply make use of slaves, in the taverns, and such". |
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| 43 | 159 |
Indeed, one of the pleasures of some paga taverns are the bells of the slaves, jangling, as they hasten about, serving their master's custom. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 222 |
"Were you there?" one seaman might ask another in the taverns of Port Kar, over kaissa or paga, the girl of his choice lying bound hand and foot by his table, waiting to be carried over his shoulder to an alcove, at his convenience, or wherever two fellows of that unusual polity might meet, perhaps ... |
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| 2 | 236 |
Many of these women, of course, on the other hand, are distributed as gifts by the captains or, more likely, retailed locally, for example sold to various local taverns. |
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| 5 | 206 |
"But I doubt the perfume would be popular in the paga taverns of Kasra". |
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| 5 | 496 |
Meanwhile, of course, the invaders tightened their controls and, for months, either randomly, as it pleased them, or systematically, in accord with the directives of the polemarkos, began to loot Ar of its wealth, its silver and gold, its jewelries and gems, its medical elixirs, its ointments and sc... |
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| 5 | 737 |
This is not as surprising as it sounds for free women are not allowed in paga taverns, and such places, and would seldom have an opportunity to observe what takes place between a female slave, particularly a pleasure slave, and her master. |
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| 5 | 961 |
"We had several nights to enjoy the taverns," said a fellow. |
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| 5 | 1103 |
They sell well, and some men seek them out, in the taverns. |
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| 13 | 435 |
There are the slaves of great houses, those ornamenting pleasure gardens, those chained behind palanquins for display, those sold to brothels and taverns, those of the fields, and mines, and laundries and mills, those of the stables and barracks, and inns, those belonging to regiments, to shipping l... |
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| 19 | 326 |
I had seen them in markets, awaiting their sale, and during their sale; I had seen them trekked in coffle, transported in slave wagons, reclining in cages, looking out at men who might buy them; I had seen them hurrying in the streets, bargaining with vendors, busy on the quays, laughing, and teasin... |
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| 23 | 210 |
Some, before the hunt, would use a woman, briefly, ruthlessly, unfeelingly, leaving her shuddering, crumpled, and broken, sobbing, at their feet, before honing the selected blade, one of six, before painting the dagger on their forehead, that crowds might part uneasily before them, that taverns migh... |
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| 28 | 134 |
It is a time rather for the taverns and halls, for fires and brew, for paga and kaissa, for brawls and slaves, and the waiting for En'Kara, when, one's resources likely having been depleted, one will seek out captains and merchants, and seek perchance a new bench, a new oar. |
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| 30 | 127 |
He had returned destitute to Port Kar, and had fed off garbage in the canals, and, on a pittance provided for him by the shipwrights, despised and derided, had begun to frequent the taverns of the city. |
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| 38 | 35 |
The men might pick and choose then from amongst what one might think of as on-board paga taverns. |
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| 38 | 37 |
Indeed, many a slave, with an envied private master, had begun her bondage, fresh from the block, in the taverns, no more than another belled slave, summonable to the whips and chains of an alcove, her use accompanying, if one wished, the price of the drink she brings to the table. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 43 |
The Sea Sleen was not one of the higher, larger taverns in the great port of Brundisium, such as that of the Diamond Collar, the Joys of Turia, the Dina, the tavern of Chang, that of Hendow, or such. |
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| 1 | 44 |
Her patronage was mostly that of ruffians, mariners between voyages, their coins now mostly spent, left in the higher taverns, drifters, wanderers, peddlers, exiles, some mercenaries, willing to unsheathe their blades for a bit of silver, or a fight. |
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| 1 | 51 |
This is not an unusual arrangement in taverns. |
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| 1 | 169 |
In the high taverns, girls are often silked, often belled, sometimes jeweled. |
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| 1 | 170 |
In low taverns they often serve nude, sometimes chained. |
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| 1 | 175 |
In the low taverns, the chaining, though perfectly secure, as all Gorean chaining, is largely for aesthetic purposes, the obduracy of chains, in their way, enhancing and setting off, by stark contrast, the softness and beauty in their clasp. |
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| 2 | 21 |
We at the oars, free men all, for our vessel was a long ship, low in the water, knifelike, fit for war, were looking forward to our winter leave, and the paga and girls of the taverns, The Silver Chain, the Beaded Whip, the Pleasure Garden, the Chatka and Curla, the Ubar's Choice, and others. |
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| 3 | 173 |
Other beauties of Ar were put in the taverns and brothels, several of which the Ubara owned and managed under the false name of Ludmilla. |
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| 3 | 280 |
Are not women beautiful, and desirable? Who has not seen them in the paga taverns, stripped or silked? Who has not admired them in an exposition cage, on the auction block, under torchlight? Is it not pleasant to see them slave clad and collared, in the parks, on the boulevards, in the markets? Is i... |
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| 5 | 13 |
Her steep, narrow streets, her lights, her taverns, her slaves, perfumed and painted, their wrists and ankles jangling with bells, with tender lips and well-rounded, warm arms, were far distant. |
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| 7 | 53 |
Needless to say, at the voyages' end, such mariners, starved for the scent of perfume and the clasp of warm arms, are likely to lose little time in seeking the comforts of the taverns. |
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| 10 | 53 |
I thought of Jad, her opulent streets, of the countryside, of the terraces of Cos, of her grapes, fresh, sweet, and full, of Ar, of glorious, imperial Ar, with its countless towers and its wide boulevards, of the occupation, of my squad, of the rising in the city, the flight to return, the welcome w... |
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| 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. |
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| 20 | 258 |
How natural then that they should seek the beauties of the paga taverns, that they should raid far cities to bring back women, much as I, naked, in coffles. |
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| 28 | 101 |
Both, of course, were to serve paga, but demurely, as one might serve another drink, not as it is commonly served in the taverns, or to a private master, in the privacy of his own quarters. |
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| 37 | 1311 |
"I thought of myself, frequently enough, as a property, as owned, as a girl who must unquestioningly, fearfully, obey masters, who might dance for their pleasure, about campfires in lonely places, on streets in shabby districts, to a master's flute, on the decks of galleys, to the clapping of hands,... |
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| 37 | 1338 |
'To the taverns with her!' I put my head in my hands, and bent over, and sobbed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 58 |
Do we not serve in the paga taverns, sometimes nude and belled? Do we not, sedately tunicked, as serving slaves, assist free women with their complex ornaments, their perfumes, robes, and veils? Do we not gather gossip for them, and carry messages for them in their petty intrigues and assignations; ... |
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| 8 | 233 |
Do the free men not attend the auctions, do they not scout the exposition cages, do they not saunter to the gates, to witness the arriving coffles, to see the former free women of another city being marched naked to local markets, do they not want a shapely collar slut trembling at their slave ring,... |
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| 8 | 1433 |
As is well known, free women are not permitted in the paga taverns or brothels, and it is dangerous for them to enter them, even for those bold enough to disguise themselves as slaves, but similar restrictions do not apply to the public eating houses. |
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| 8 | 1851 |
"Astrinax also," said Menon, "scouts and buys for the taverns and brothels, as well". |
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| 8 | 1861 |
But my body, too, had assured me that not all passion sluts would be in the taverns or brothels. |
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| 8 | 1866 |
"We are not thinking about the taverns or brothels," said Astrinax. |
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| 8 | 1885 |
So, if Astrinax was not thinking in terms of the towers, and was not thinking, at least at present, in terms of the taverns or brothels, in what terms might he be thinking? "You are a barbarian are you not?" asked Astrinax. |
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| 9 | 210 |
The streets of Ar were not the aisles of taverns, the vestibules and stairwells of insulae, the corridors in a military camp. |
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| 9 | 212 |
Indeed, in some of the lower paga taverns, the girls wore only their bells and collars. |
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| 9 | 213 |
Little kaissa was played in such taverns. |
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| 9 | 322 |
Clearly I would now be of little interest in the taverns, in the brothels, in the gambling houses, even in the towers, or inns. |
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| 10 | 1181 |
Would that not be a rich Gorean joke, at the expense of a helpless slave, a joke worth recounting in the taverns? "You are Allison, the barbarian slut of the Lady Bina, are you not?" asked the voice. |
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| 17 | 389 |
"The taverns are interested in such girls," said Desmond. |
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| 18 | 192 |
Astrinax would make one last try, it seemed, in one of Venna's larger, more popular paga taverns, The Kneeling Slave. |
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| 18 | 204 |
So I had learned, earlier in the day, that Astrinax would visit one of Venna's more patronized taverns, The Kneeling Slave, to search again for two or three fellows to join our small caravan. |
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| 18 | 231 |
"Free women are not permitted in paga taverns". |
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| 18 | 359 |
I could understand how it was that men would seek the paga taverns. |
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| 18 | 460 |
"Are all taverns like this, Master?" I asked Astrinax. |
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| 22 | 100 |
The men continued to converse, about many things, things of interest to men, techniques of hunting, the best seasons and terrains, the politics of mighty Ar, the taverns of Venna, the Vennan races, the breeds of tharlarion, the kaiila and slaves they had owned, and such. |
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| 46 | 92 |
The needs of such males, of course, often ignored by, and perhaps not even understood by, Gorean free women, at least in their intensity, were muchly assuaged by the presence of kajirae in their midst, available in the markets, the slave houses, the taverns, and so on. |
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| 49 | 320 |
"They like your sort in the paga taverns! Run to a paga tavern, grovel, and beg to be caressed!" "Please do not hurt me!" I begged. |
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| 49 | 469 |
"And in the taverns," said Lord Grendel, "a tarsk-bit will usually purchase a goblet of paga, and, if the customer wishes, the use of a paga girl. |
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| 52 | 460 |
"Master frequents taverns?" I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 126 |
The taverns would be open until shortly before dawn. |
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| 6 | 41 |
Paga was of little assistance, or the belled sluts of the taverns. |
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| 6 | 80 |
And some said that like a storm at sea, one without warning, the red waves of revolt had surged into the streets, pouring forth from hovels and sewers, from taverns and stables, from cellars and insulae, that thousands of citizens, many armed only with clubs and stones, had rushed forth, intent upon... |
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| 6 | 107 |
There must be two or three hundred of them in Brundisium, and perhaps many more in the north, in their unusual garb, with their dark, keen eyes, their black hair drawn back and knotted behind their head, men lithe and graceful, like panthers, taciturn, not mingling, avoiding the taverns, equipped wi... |
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| 6 | 136 |
But who is, say, to buy them in the north, and so many? To be sure, many men were taking ship north, and they might be intended for them, if not for outright purchasing, for brothels, slave houses, or taverns. |
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| 6 | 146 |
They frequented the taverns and the lower dock areas, and would approach a prospect, two or three at a time, often in the darkness. |
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| 10 | 50 |
It is one thing, of course, to engage in such games in a theater, a street, or plaza, and quite another on a ship at sea, far from taverns, the relief of paga girls, and such. |
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| 16 | 27 |
Surely we had all dismissed the rumors, the stories told in the taverns. |
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| 33 | 110 |
I am told that in public eating houses, not brothels or taverns, slaves, when admitted, and not chained to rings outside, may kneel beside their master's bench, and while he eats from the plates, and such, on the table, if it be his will, may be given a bowl of slave gruel, which will be placed eith... |
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| 37 | 182 |
Men talk much in their cups and I, posing as a free brothel mistress, shopping for brothel slaves, in various taverns, learned these things. |
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| 39 | 161 |
Then the knife continued its rude work and Emerald and Hiza lay at men's feet, no different from other free women, perhaps more refined, gentler creatures, who might, say, have been driven from sacked, burning cities, snared on bridges by soaring tarnsmen, netted on outings, lured into taverns, seiz... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 103 |
Most purchases had been from the markets and taverns of Brundisium. |
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| 25 | 319 |
In the high cities, free women are not permitted in paga taverns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 106 |
In paga taverns it is dipped from a vat, the goblet itself sometimes used as the dipper, and brought to the table by a paga girl. |
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| 23 | 167 |
"He trolled," he said, "casting his lines about, a word here, a word there, in the taverns, in the markets, words that would be meaningless to most, stray sounds, but telling to he who might have an ear for the name 'Phyllis', for the name 'Kurik of Victoria'". |
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| 26 | 84 |
On the other hand, he made little use of me, apparently busying himself, in various disguises, conducting inquiries in the city, attempting to garner useful gossip, or intelligence, at various taverns, and so on. |
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| 28 | 17 |
"I have seen worse in the taverns". |
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| 30 | 402 |
Did not all know that? Might one not be mocked for such a weakness? Would that not call forth laughter in the taverns and exercise yards? How that would lessen a man in his own eyes! How then could he respect himself? Did he fear some concession or compromise that might diminish or tarnish his cheri... |
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| 34 | 57 |
To be sure, attendants in paga taverns were not without experience in dressing wounds and keeping to their own affairs. |
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| 64 | 60 |
On the way through the wagons I noted several kitchens where food might be purchased, a clothing emporium, a barbering shop, two bakeries, four wine shops, two outlets of houses on the Street of Coins in Ar, sheds for wagon repair, an infirmary or clinic, under the green sign of the caste of Physici... |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 130 |
I can place them in houses and taverns. |
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| 6 | 132 |
Even putting aside municipal rivalries, wars, vendettas, blood feuds, and such, it is not difficult to understand, given that quarters are close on a ship, and discipline unquestioning and severe, sometimes for weeks or months at sea, that strong men, brawny, vital oarsmen, and such, come ashore, fr... |
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| 6 | 160 |
"This is to be a common slave, one off the streets, one out of the taverns". |
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| 9 | 4 |
I bent over the double basin, one of several in the large, low-ceilinged kitchen of the Golden Chain, one of the five or so prominent taverns in the city. |
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| 10 | 21 |
Many taverns, particularly in the north, are low-ceilinged, I suppose to conserve heat in the winter. |
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| 10 | 34 |
The Golden Chain was not one of those shabbier taverns where the paga slaves serve naked, and sometimes chained. |
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| 10 | 60 |
Most paga taverns will have their dancing floor, most commonly oval or square, the Golden Chain's was square, but not all can afford musicians, at least on a regular basis. |
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| 10 | 74 |
Some taverns do not have a dancing floor, but an area of sand, again, commonly, oval or square. |
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| 10 | 94 |
Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous voyages? In the high cities o... |
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| 11 | 220 |
The taverns, in their way, rather like the markets, provide a clearing house for reports and rumors, for facts and lies, for information and misinformation, and the paga girls, by default, so to speak, are likely to be amongst the best informed sources of information and misinformation in the city. |
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| 11 | 224 |
And even then what reaches the taverns and markets is likely to be only incomplete and garbled accounts, passed from to hand to hand, so to speak, and often founded, ultimately, I fear, on the ramblings of merchants and mariners, perhaps enunciated through the fumes of paga. |
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| 13 | 144 |
"I, and others, to be transported to Port Kar," I said, "for the taverns". |
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| 15 | 160 |
"What is the news from the taverns?" he said. |
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| 24 | 110 |
To be sure, taverns, brothels, eating houses, and some markets, slave markets, in particular, are open to the public at night. |
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| 30 | 23 |
I also saw two paga taverns and a kal-da shop. |
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| 30 | 99 |
Goreans bet on the outcomes of kaissa matches, not only at the great fairs or the city championships, but in the alleys, squares, taverns, and streets. |
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| 31 | 185 |
"I shall find them in taverns, some of which you know, the Golden Chain, and the Silken Rope". |
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| 33 | 48 |
I gathered that he had, some days ago, one night, visited various taverns and taken several men into fee, most likely cutthroats and brigands, men who saw no point in inquiring into the nature of an employment, if it paid well. |
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| 33 | 515 |
You know him, are familiar with him, are aware of his doings, his movements, his tastes, his preferences, his choice of taverns, his routes and itineraries, the precincts he frequents, and so on". |
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| 35 | 23 |
Ho-Tosk, and the proprietors of the better taverns, seldom furnished Ahn girls. |
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| 35 | 124 |
To be sure, not every girl was regarded as fit to be put on the floor of the Golden Chain, or, indeed, on certain others of the taverns of Port Kar. |
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| 37 | 101 |
Indeed, a ribald joke heard in the taverns, where no free woman is present, is to the effect that the point of the robes of concealment is not only to pique male curiosity but to render their occupant easier to apprehend. |
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| 43 | 286 |
"I have arranged free paga at one of the taverns here". |
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| 45 | 170 |
When the pier was less crowded, many of the men dispersing, some arm in arm with the newcomers, to the skerry's taverns, I looked to the far pier. |
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| 46 | 58 |
In the taverns, paga girls hear much. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 104 |
In Sybaris there is much luxury and wealth, broad, prosperous streets, many of which are lit at night, colorful bazaars and variegated, well-stocked markets, ample inns, and hundreds of shops, restaurants, and taverns. |
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| 3 | 106 |
Even at the First Ahn, taverns thrive, and, on the streets, crowds bustle about, and gamblers gather on corners, breathlessly attentive to the rattle of cast stones, while flautists play and silken slaves dance on their leashes, coin pans at hand". |
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| 6 | 241 |
In most paga taverns the dancer or dancers confine themselves to the square or oval dancing area, normally of polished wood or yellow sand, reminiscent of a camp or caravanserai. |
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| 11 | 21 |
The taverns of beautiful Sybaris, the slaves of Sybaris. |
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| 11 | 195 |
"Yes," cried Glaukos, "all gratitude to our noble benefactor, my dear friend, Fenlon, come from far Ti, who has so generously manifested his approbation of The Living Island, finest of the taverns in Sybaris, and its noble patrons". |
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| 15 | 1 |
Disturbing Reports have been Received; Tab Learns of the Fair of the Farther Islands; The Tesephone will Depart with the Tide In my tent, high amidst the crags of the Cove of Harpalos, I angrily thrust aside the reports of several selected men, chosen from the crews of the Dorna and Tesephone, thes... |
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| 17 | 260 |
"Much is said of him," she said, "in the tavern, The Living Island, and I am told elsewhere, in taverns and brothels, in bazaars and markets, at the wharves and in the streets, everywhere. |
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| 18 | 9 |
"Many in the taverns," I said, "do not credit your story". |
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| 18 | 12 |
"I was not always a drunken urt sleeping in alleys," he said, "slinking about the waterfront of Sybaris, pushing into taverns, in rags, unwelcome and mocked, begging, soliciting a goblet of paga. |
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| 22 | 13 |
In this city of canvas what could be bought and sold was bought and sold; copper met silver and silver met gold, and often enough, gold once more met copper; here, amidst concessions, exhibits, and emporiums, mingled with stalls, pens, brothels, taverns, markets, gambling tents, and theaters, friend... |
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| 27 | 87 |
At gambling houses, unlike taverns, free women, if escorted, were welcome. |
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| 29 | 263 |
"Think, too, of this from the point of the crew," I said, "men weary from the oar and starved for the sluts of the taverns. |
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| 35 | 32 |
Tales of a merciless Peasant army, one spread amongst the islands, circulate in the taverns. |
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| 45 | 174 |
"Our moment of glory," said Thrasymedes, "will never be forgotten; it will be recorded in the annals of war; it will be told in a thousand camps, sung in a thousand taverns, as long as fire burns and men drink". |
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| 46 | 19 |
This was not a time amongst men, the time of this banquet, for tenderness, but a time for distraction, for forgetfulness, not a time for regrets and sorrows, but a time for thrusting such things to the side, not a time for farewells and tears but a time for laughing and drinking, for the pounding of... |
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| 59 | 96 |
She was quite pretty and might do for one of the lesser taverns in Ar. |
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| 59 | 165 |
Interestingly, there was no float, at least as far as we now had noted, for The Living Island, which was surely one of the better-known taverns of Sybaris. |
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| 59 | 269 |
"I hope there is free food and drink in the taverns," said a man. |
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