| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 188 |
Who knew the nature of the things or forces that were afoot that night in the mountains, things and forces that might perhaps smash me, casually, as one innocently steps on an insect without being aware of it or caring? I still had the compass, and that constituted a firm link to reality. |
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| 1 | 16 |
I was not, however, reconciled to ending up on the shelves of my aunt's shop, along with the cloth and ribbon, and so I embarked upon a wild, but not too wild, adventure, all things considered. |
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| 1 | 92 |
It resembled some now outdated English script, but I knew too little about such things to hazard much of a guess at the date. |
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| 1 | 112 |
I lay awake for a long time, feeling alone, yet not alone, as one sometimes does in the wilderness, feeling as if one were the only living object on the planet and as if the closest things to one—one's fate and destiny perhaps—lay outside our small world, somewhere in the remote, alien... |
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| 1 | 137 |
Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an in... |
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| 2 | 17 |
Aside from these things and two stone blocks, perhaps chairs, and a mat on one side, the room was bare; the walls and ceiling and floor were smooth as marble, and a classic white. |
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| 2 | 48 |
I felt like a child, knowing nothing, taken to some complex factory or store, unable to sort out his impressions, unable to comprehend the new and strange things that flash incessantly upon him. |
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| 2 | 66 |
Yet, somehow, in spite of these things, I found that I wanted to cross the room, to put my hand on his arm, to touch him. |
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| 2 | 90 |
I nodded, not wanting to speak, wanting him to tell me the thousand things I had to know, to dispel the mysteries that had torn me from my native world and brought me to this strange room, this planet, to him, my father. |
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| 2 | 154 |
We both sat down again, the stone table between us, and my father calmly and methodically explained many things to me. |
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| 2 | 205 |
It crosses your mind that there must exist minds on this world capable of designing such things as, say, rifles and armored vehicles". |
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| 2 | 206 |
"Surely these things must be produced," I urged. |
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| 2 | 273 |
I have seen things of which I must speak, even if, as it is said here, only to the Towers. |
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| 3 | 21 |
The Goreans I had seen in the past few weeks had tended to be meticulous in their dress, taking great pride in their appearance, but Torm apparently had better things on which to spend his time. |
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| 3 | 22 |
Among these things, unfortunately, was berating those like myself who were hapless enough to fall within the ambit of his wrath. |
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| 3 | 53 |
And I learned these things, or as much as I could in the time I was given. |
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| 3 | 155 |
I once talked to my father about the matter, and he merely said that there were many things on Gor worse than the lot of slavery, particularly that of a Tower Slave. |
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| 3 | 262 |
Tarns, who are vicious things, are seldom more than half tamed and, like their diminutive earthly counterparts, the hawks, are carnivorous. |
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| 7 | 47 |
"Why do you wear these silly things?" "The daughter of a Ubar must look down on her subjects," was the simple if extraordinary reply. |
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| 7 | 57 |
Naturally, I was not looking at things from precisely the Gorean point of view, but she would have no way of knowing that. |
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| 11 | 27 |
The venture might be risky, particularly if I had to steal the tarn and elude pursuit, but, all things considered, an escape on tarnback seemed to me far safer than trying to cross the Vosk and make our way on foot or tharlarion through the hills and wilderness to the distant cylinders of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 13 | 61 |
"There are more of these things about," I said. |
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| 14 | 32 |
"What can you, a simple tarnsman, know of these things?" he asked. |
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| 15 | 104 |
"Let us speak of things we know". |
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| 16 | 18 |
Still, there was little doubt that Pa-Kur's men had the best of things. |
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| 17 | 96 |
I must try not to be weak in the way of the things I love. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 59 |
We talked of dozens of things, but neither of us mentioned his abrupt response to my greeting, nor did we speak of those mysterious months in which he had disappeared in the mountains of New Hampshire. |
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| 1 | 154 |
"I want someone to know of these things," said Cabot simply. |
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| 1 | 174 |
I walked for some hours, in spite of my fatigue, thinking, puzzling about these strange things of which I had heard. |
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| 2 | 38 |
For the Gorean, though he seldom speaks of these things, a city is more than brick and marble, cylinders and bridges. |
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| 3 | 116 |
I could not understand his fear, but I was proud to see him master it, for fear is the great common enemy of all living things, and his victory I felt somehow was also mine. |
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| 6 | 30 |
There were many things supposedly strange about Tharna, among them that she was reportedly ruled by a queen, or Tatrix, and, reasonably enough in the circumstances, that the position of women in that city, in contrast with common Gorean custom, was one of privilege and opportunity. |
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| 11 | 137 |
"Has he confessed these things as well?" asked Lara. |
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| 15 | 224 |
"And I will need weapons, a saddle, money, gear, food, such things," I said. |
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| 16 | 36 |
"A saddle, weapons, money, supplies, such things," I answered, "and the freedom of Linna of Tharna, Andreas of Tor, and those who fought this afternoon in the Amusements of Tharna". |
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| 18 | 65 |
And, too, they told of the strange, new things that happened in the mine at the bottom of the central shaft, how men helped one another, and could find the time and will to remember a tune. |
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| 19 | 132 |
"Are you truly of the Caste of Poets?" "Never more truly than now," said Andreas, "for how could my songs be more important than the things they celebrate?" I marveled that he had said this, for I knew that the young Andreas of Tor might have given his arm or years of his life for what might be a tr... |
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| 21 | 81 |
If anything, they were merely impatient with her, and thought she made too much of a fuss about things. |
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| 21 | 83 |
I supposed even the other girls, the other freight of the caravan, might think she made a bit too much of things. |
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| 21 | 270 |
Indeed, from the Gorean's point of view, one of the most fearful things about slavery is that one loses one's name. |
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| 22 | 94 |
"Some things," I said, "are more compelling than even the beauty of a woman". |
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| 22 | 143 |
"In ancient days, in Tharna," said Lara, "things were different than they are today". |
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| 25 | 160 |
I had other things with which to occupy my mind. |
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| 26 | 7 |
From that point whether or not it survives will depend like so many other things in this barbaric world I have come to love—on the inscrutable will of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 26 | 11 |
What manner of things they are I know not, but I am determined to learn. |
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| 26 | 42 |
It is perhaps a small thing to see on the belt of an artisan a silver buckle of the style worn in mountainous Thentis or to note the delicacy of dried eels from Port Kar in the marketplace, but these things, small though they are, speak to me of a new Tharna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 68 |
Most of the contests involve such things as racing, feats of strength, and skill with bow and spear. |
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| 7 | 51 |
And as I pondered these things I sensed that it had not been an accident that I had been carried to Vika's chamber but that this had been part of a plan by the Priest-Kings. |
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| 7 | 89 |
If it were a matter of waiting I acknowledged that the Priest-King, if such it were, who followed me had had the best of things. |
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| 9 | 6 |
According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted Free Companions. |
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| 9 | 128 |
"You are the first of the men in this chamber," she said, "who have spoken to me of these things". |
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| 13 | 52 |
"He is interested in things like that". |
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| 14 | 86 |
One of the things I did was run the translator over the red plastic tunic I had been issued and listen to the information which had been recorded on it. |
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| 14 | 167 |
"You must not understand these things," said Misk, "in terms of what you know of men. |
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| 14 | 170 |
"These things," said Misk, "are deeper and greater than you know, than you can now understand". |
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| 15 | 123 |
"I do not know if these things are true," I said. |
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| 15 | 138 |
"Will he remember learning these things?" I asked. |
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| 15 | 139 |
"No," said Misk, "for his external sensors are now being bypassed, but he will understand that he has learned things in this fashion, for a mnemonic disk has been inscribed to that effect". |
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| 16 | 112 |
"Never did she speak to me of these things," I said. |
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| 16 | 200 |
I puzzled on the many things which Misk had told me, and then I looked up at him, lifting my torch that I might better see that great head with its rich, disklike, luminous eyes. |
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| 17 | 13 |
"It is near the Feast of Tola," said Sarm, "and it is a time of pleasure and hospitality in the Nest of Priest-Kings, a time in which Priest-Kings are well disposed to all living things, whatever be their order". |
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| 17 | 26 |
He might have asked Mul Translator Engineers for such an expression and an explanation of it, and I supposed they might have given him the expression "friend" and explained it for him, more or less adequately, in terms of the normal consequences of the relation designated, such things as tending to ... |
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| 17 | 39 |
"Perhaps these things can be arranged," said Sarm. |
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| 18 | 10 |
The visual mark was plain to human eyes but it would not be likely to be noticed by Priest-Kings, any more than a small, insignificant sound is likely to be noticed by a human who is not listening for it and is attending to other things. |
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| 18 | 46 |
"We know you are interested in things like that," said Mul-Ba-Ta. |
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| 18 | 76 |
"Teach us more about these things," said Mul-Al-Ka. |
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| 19 | 30 |
"They are worn on Tola by all Priest-Kings in memory of the Nuptial Flight, for the Nuptial Flight takes place above the ground in the sun and there on the surface there are many things which are green". |
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| 19 | 39 |
"Long ago," said Sarm, "in Nests long before this one, in times of which you cannot conceive, it was by means of these small things that my people began the journey that led in time to Priest-Kings". |
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| 19 | 41 |
"These things," said Sarm, "may even be older than the modifications of the net. |
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| 20 | 226 |
I thought about things for a moment or so and then I shrugged and fixed on them both a look of what I hoped would be a somewhat poignant disappointment. |
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| 26 | 258 |
I wondered at the things she said to me for they seemed strange, perhaps more so to my ears than they would have to one bred and raised from infancy as a Gorean, one as much accustomed to the submission of women as to the tides of gleaming Thassa or the phases of the three moons. |
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| 26 | 266 |
I smiled to myself as I thought of the small things on my old world that at such remoteness perhaps reenacted the ancient ceremony of the caves, the carrying of the bride over the threshold, perhaps as a prisoner, the tiny wedding bands, perhaps a small reminder of the primitive thongs that bound th... |
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| 26 | 301 |
I turned away, having more important things to attend to than the faithless wench from Treve. |
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| 30 | 34 |
But under the circumstances—it seemed that I should perhaps surrender the gift of life, for there are some things more precious than life, and were it not so I think that life itself would not be as precious as it is. |
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| 30 | 56 |
How much of what Sarm told me in those days was true I could not be sure but I was confident of a few things, and others I learned inadvertently from the reports of Priest-Kings and the few Implanted Muls who served him. |
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| 32 | 263 |
"Do you know of these things?" asked Parp, without looking up. |
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| 33 | 125 |
I had intended to make use of that moment myself, pretending to have come with a message from Priest-Kings, to encourage man to live as I wished him to live, to respect himself and others, to be kind and to be worthy of the heritage of a rational animal, and yet of what worth would these things be i... |
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| 33 | 154 |
These were the strangest things I had heard from the lips of an Initiate, most of whom seemed interminably embroiled in the rituals of their caste, in the arrogance and archaic pedantry of their kind. |
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| 34 | 195 |
Had I not lived these things, did I not know whereof I speak, I ask myself if I—Tarl Cabot himself—would accept them, and I tell myself frankly, in all likelihood, No. |
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| 34 | 196 |
So then why have I written them? I do not know, save that I thought these things worth recording, whether they are to be believed or not. |
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| 35 | 133 |
"But in the end," said he, "life is as real as death and there will be a return of the ultimate rhythms, and a new explosion will cast forth the primitive particles and we shall have another turn of the wheel, and someday, sometime, in eons which defy the calculations even of Priest-Kings, there may... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 14 |
I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ... |
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| 2 | 2 |
In the long years that had passed since first I had come to the Counter-Earth I had seen many things, and had known loves, and had found adventures and perils and wonders, but I asked myself if anything I had done was as unreasoning, as foolish as this, as strange. |
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| 2 | 9 |
What is this object? One might speak of it as many things, the subject of secret, violent intrigues; the source of vast strifes beneath the Sardar, strifes unknown to the men of Gor; the concealed, precious, hidden hope of an incredible and ancient race; a simple germ; a bit of living tissue; the do... |
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| 2 | 17 |
And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of Priest-Kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of Priest-Kings that so limited their development, their technology? Onc... |
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| 2 | 22 |
I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 3 | 30 |
Once, long, long ago, Ko-ro-ba and Ar had turned the invasion of the united Wagon Peoples from the north, and the memories of these things, stinging still in the honest songs of camp skalds, would rankle in the craws of such fierce, proud peoples. |
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| 7 | 156 |
I would have expected the message to have been written either on stout, glossy-surfaced linen paper, of the sort milled in Ar, or perhaps on vellum, or a grosser parchment, prepared in many cities and used commonly in scrolls, the process involving among other things the washing and liming of skins,... |
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| 7 | 254 |
How she had challenged him, how she had walked, how insolent she had been! Perhaps in that moment she thought how amused the man might be could he see her now, that proud girl, now in the Sirik, her head to the pelt of a larl, kneeling to barbarians, begging to be a slave girl; and if she thought of... |
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| 8 | 80 |
Of course, Kamchak had rented three Turian girls, slaves, to train her; they had done so, binding her wrists and leading her about the wagons, teaching her the words for things, beating her with switches when she made mistakes; Elizabeth had learned quickly. |
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| 8 | 102 |
I tried to explain to Kamchak that her old world had not prepared her for these things, for the slaveries of her old world are of a different kind, more subtle and invisible, thought by some not even to exist. |
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| 8 | 108 |
I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri... |
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| 8 | 135 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, of course, knew nothing of these things. |
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| 8 | 426 |
"I have given her several such things," said Albrecht. |
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| 8 | 427 |
I now gathered that the girl facing me was not a typical slave, and that there must be a very good reason why she should have such things. |
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| 9 | 71 |
These were brought as gifts to the Turians, largely as a rather insolent gesture on the part of the Wagon Peoples, indicating how little they cared for such things, that they would give them to Turians. |
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| 9 | 73 |
Kamchak told me, a sort of secret I gather, that some of the things he carried had been exchanged back and forth a dozen times. |
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| 9 | 117 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you know my name?" "One hears of such things," he said. |
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| 9 | 134 |
In donning the camisk the girl will tie the camisk behind the back of her neck; the rather vertical bar then falls before her, and she will then pull it to the sides, and tie it behind her back, this providing some shielding, though not much, for the beauty of her bosom; the farther part of the bar,... |
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| 10 | 462 |
I thought, all things considered, that the stipulation of Kamras regarding weapons was cruel and shameful. |
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| 11 | 235 |
Once, when rummaging through his things, Kamchak had kicked it across the rug for me to look at. |
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| 12 | 112 |
"All things considered," said Kamchak, "I think the fruit should be eaten". |
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| 12 | 218 |
These various things, from time to time, would be used not only by himself but by others in the group, probably the second kaska player and the third flutist. |
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| 12 | 254 |
It would not have been wise, of course, for even were she successful, her consequent hideous death at the hands of the Clan of Torturers would probably, all things considered, have made her act something of a bad bargain. |
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| 16 | 86 |
The Tuchuks, to my irritation, tended on the whole not to notice or mind such things. |
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| 16 | 251 |
They used wines in which, as a matter of fact, things could be and were, upon occasion, stirred—mostly spices and sugars. |
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| 19 | 142 |
"On the other hand," said Harold, "all things considered—she is a not unattractive little wench". |
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| 19 | 147 |
"She is—is she not—all things considered—a pretty little wench?" I could not help but regard the angry, collared Hereena, furious in the swirling Pleasure Silk. |
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| 21 | 39 |
I purchased these things from the man from whom Kamchak had, on a happier afternoon, obtained a new saddle and set of quivas. |
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| 21 | 40 |
I had seen many things in the man's wagon and I had gathered, correctly it seems, that he was himself a peddler of sorts. |
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| 21 | 137 |
"I shop for wealthy women," said she, "for pastries and tarts and cakes—things they will not trust their female slaves to buy". |
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| 22 | 64 |
"Korobans, though," remarked Harold, "are probably more impressed with such things than Tuchuks". |
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| 23 | 97 |
Shortly after dawn we discovered the Paravaci forming in their Thousands away from the herd, preparing to strike the wagons from the north, pressing through, slaying all living things they might encounter, save women, slave or free. |
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| 23 | 216 |
Some things, of little or no worth, but which I remembered fondly, were still about. |
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| 23 | 217 |
There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar, dented in now and its contents scattered; and the large, gray leathery object which I had upon occasion seen Kamchak use as a stool, that which he had once kicked across the floor for my inspe... |
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| 24 | 96 |
"At that time, of course," said Harold, "our wagons were not painted red, nor filled with booty and rich things, for we were not then commanders". |
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| 25 | 320 |
There were many things that seemed to me puzzling, and I thought of Gor, and of Kamchak, and the ways of the Tuchuks, so different from those native to Miss Cardwell and myself. |
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| 25 | 366 |
"I think we are talking about different things," I said. |
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| 25 | 370 |
"That is nonsense!" "I do not speak of the words that are used, or how men of Earth would speak of these things," I said, "but of what is not spoken—of what is implicit perhaps in what is said and taught. |
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| 25 | 376 |
"We are speaking of different things," I said. |
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| 26 | 296 |
I was only partly cognizant of these things, for I was overcome with grief, kneeling in Saphrar's audience hall before the shards of the shattered golden sphere. |
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| 26 | 410 |
Many things could have happened to it". |
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| 26 | 512 |
"And courage," added Harold, "and such things". |
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| 26 | 551 |
"Nonetheless, Cabot," remarked Harold, "do you not think, all things considered, he is on the whole—albeit unwise in certain matters—an excellent Ubar?" "On the whole," I agreed, "albeit perhaps unwise in certain matters—an excellent Ubar". |
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| 28 | 51 |
"And while you are remembering things," remarked Harold, "you might recollect that we two together won the Courage Scar in Turia". |
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| 28 | 59 |
"But," I protested, "there have been many things of much greater importance than those in these years—the Siege of Turia, the Taking of the City, the Election of the Ubar San!" "We choose most to remember Tarl Cabot," said Kamchak. |
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| 28 | 66 |
"We Tuchuks know of many things," he said, "—of more than we tell". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 76 |
These things, together with the dissatisfaction of men with the governance of the city and the safety of their homes, coupled with the memories of Ar's greatness when Marlenus had worn the medallion of supreme office, of Ar's splendor when she had stood in his day feared, foremost, magnificent and g... |
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| 1 | 26 |
The procession did not chant, nor sing, for this was not a time for such things, nor did it carry boughs of Ka-la-na, nor were the sounds of the sista or tambor heard in the sunlight that morning. |
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| 2 | 177 |
Kuurus had heard of these things. |
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| 4 | 45 |
"May I ask," inquired Cernus, "for whom you wear on your forehead the mark of the black dagger?" I would speak of these things, to some extent, with Cernus, for it was important, though perilous, that he should understand what purported to be my mission. |
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| 4 | 46 |
It was now time that certain things should be revealed, that they might leak into the streets of Ar. |
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| 5 | 189 |
Elizabeth was silent as I asked of these things. |
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| 5 | 351 |
"Surely the Others have these things, too," I said. |
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| 5 | 385 |
And, we suppose, the Others would suspect that only humans whose brains had been disposed to believe certain things, in virtue of our science, would be permitted to fall into their hands, once again as a move intended to draw them into a trap". |
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| 5 | 628 |
In all things, it seemed to me, we manifest ourselves, each differently. |
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| 5 | 643 |
It seemed to me, all things considered, though it was a bother for me, a good thing that Elizabeth had her own knot. |
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| 9 | 78 |
I looked suitably impressed, though of course, from Earth, I was familiar with the principles of such things. |
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| 11 | 355 |
"But there are other things in store for you, pretty slave". |
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| 13 | 185 |
"I could speak to you of things I have heard," she said, "but it is better that you not know of them". |
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| 14 | 21 |
Interestingly, one evening, after learning that she would be forced to do these things, and alone, she had been unusually submissive, responsive, passionate. |
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| 15 | 79 |
I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Blades, where me... |
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| 15 | 328 |
It had begun, following the period entirely consumed with exercises, with such small things as instruction on how to stand, to walk, to kneel, to recline, to eat, to drink. |
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| 15 | 331 |
Some of the things they were taught seemed to me very silly, but I, at the same time, found it difficult to object. |
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| 15 | 350 |
Elizabeth was, however, to my satisfaction, taught a large number of things which, to my mind, were more appropriate to the training of slave girls, including a large number of dances, dozens of songs, and an unbelievable variety of kisses and caresses. |
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| 17 | 240 |
All things considered, Caprus' plan seemed not only suitable, but ideal. |
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| 17 | 259 |
Things were working out. |
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| 17 | 411 |
Then the slave girls about the table began to go wild, throwing things and where possible pouring liquids on the heads of the guards and members of the staff, who, leaping up, seized them when they could catch them, kissing them, holding them, making them cry out with delight. |
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| 17 | 593 |
Sura certainly had a great deal of such things. |
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| 18 | 112 |
"He was teaching me to play the game," she laughed, "with such things". |
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| 18 | 302 |
But as I walked the halls it seemed to me that, on the whole, things were not proceeding badly, though I regretted the amount of time lost, apparently necessarily, in the House of Cernus. |
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| 22 | 392 |
"How is it," I asked, "that these things are ready?" "Mip," said the crossbowman, by way of explanation. |
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| 23 | 40 |
About the room I saw some of the things with which we had played, the silk marked with the squares of the game, the small bottles, the vials. |
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| 23 | 54 |
He put aside the things he had brought with him. |
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| 24 | 22 |
"Many things were essential. |
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| 24 | 62 |
"In the guise of Murmillius," I said, "Marlenus of Ar, as things went from bad to worse in the city, in the midst of corruption and crime, gathered about himself a following". |
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| 24 | 223 |
"See that she is in all things treated as the daughter of a former Administrator of Ar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 858 |
"All men," said Samos, "and all women, have within themselves despicable elements, cruel things and cowardly things, things vicious, and greedy and selfish, things ugly that we hide from others, and most of all from ourselves". |
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| 7 | 82 |
I saw the pole to which I had been tied, the circle of the feast, the ruins of huts, the litter and the broken things, and the scattered things, and the bodies. |
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| 9 | 263 |
She was tormenting, the collared she of her, and beautiful, but I laughed, for these things were not truly hers, but his, her master's, who had but shortly before put the whip to her back, for she was but a wench in bondage, one owned by a man, in all things his. |
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| 13 | 113 |
"Surely you have wondered, lovely lady," I said, "what it would be to be a slave, to be owned, to kneel naked before a man, in chains, a brand on your thigh, a collar on your neck, knowing you are his, and must obey him completely and perfectly—and in all things, all things, completely and pe... |
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| 3 | 40 |
These things lay between us. |
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| 3 | 61 |
"And I brought to the marshes with me," said he, "the memory of a dozen years on the galleys, and a hatred for all things of Port Kar". |
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| 3 | 179 |
"We might trade for such things," said Ho-Hak. |
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| 4 | 66 |
"If you do not obey me in all things, and swiftly," had said the girl, "I will have the men bind you and throw you to tharlarion. |
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| 4 | 210 |
"Pretty Slave must sleep, for tomorrow he will have many things to do. |
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| 4 | 292 |
I think that if she, this proud woman, before whom I felt myself nothing, she my mistress, if she had but cared to speak a word of simple kindness to me I might have cried out with gladness, willingly serving her in all things she asked. |
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| 4 | 293 |
But if I should but beg a kindness, humbly, I feared it might be refused, that she might reject me in this as she had in all other things, my manhood and my humanity. |
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| 5 | 23 |
"Yes," she said to the others, "all things considered, this is a good slave, a quite good slave". |
10 |
| 7 | 138 |
Before I left I noted, among the broken rence and other paraphernalia, some throwing sticks and such, the tunic of rence cloth which she had slipped off before me the night previously, before commanding me to serve her pleasure, before we had heard the cry "Slavers!" I picked it up and carried it, w... |
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| 8 | 195 |
I then took the helmet from my things on the rence craft, that without insignia, with empty crest plate, and lifted it until it cleared the side of the barge. |
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| 8 | 772 |
"Yes, Midice," she said, "all things considered, I think you will make an excellent slave". |
10 |
| 9 | 270 |
I do not recall as clearly as I might what occurred during that night, but certain things have remained with me. |
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| 10 | 178 |
This is not to say that they would have any objection to being rich; it is only to remark, in effect, that it has never occurred to them, no more than to most Goreans, to take very seriously the pursuit of wealth as their universal and compelling motivation; being ignorant, it seems, they, like most... |
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| 14 | 309 |
There are in the building of ships, as in other things, values to be weighed. |
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| 15 | 6 |
It stood for too many things, and its steel was deep with too many memories. |
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| 15 | 263 |
There was a clear space before my great table, in which, from time to time, during the evening, entertainments had been provided, simple things, which even I upon occasion found amusing, fire eaters and sword swallowers, jugglers and acrobats, and magicians, and slaves, riding on one another's shoul... |
10 |
| 15 | 686 |
"But I have given you many things," I wept. |
10 |
| 15 | 687 |
"And have I not given you great pleasure?" "Yes," she said, "you have given me many things". |
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| 16 | 93 |
But I did not speak to her of these things, for she was speaking to me, dreamily, remembering. |
10 |
| 17 | 334 |
These things I thrust in my belt. |
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| 18 | 388 |
I was treated well, and taught things that slaves are seldom taught. |
10 |
| 18 | 391 |
"And I was taught many other things, too," said she, "when I could read, even to the second knowledge". |
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| 18 | 828 |
"I bought you when you were a girl," said Samos, "with these things in mind". |
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| 18 | 891 |
"I will speak to you sometime," I said, "of these things". |
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| 18 | 918 |
"I have done cruel and despicable things," I told Samos. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 197 |
They called out things to the girls which made them squeak and fume, and the girls, laughing, called back things to them, uncomplimentary I gathered, which made them laugh, and slap their knees in amusement. |
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| 11 | 625 |
There are dozens of subtle movements, tiny things, almost indiscernible, but which one notices, almost without noticing, about the movements of a slave girl, things which, cumulatively, distinguish, and very obviously, her movements from those of a free woman. |
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| 11 | 1248 |
But many are more subtle, tiny, almost indiscernible movements, which yet, in their total effect, brand a female body as being incredibly sensuous, things like a way of glancing, a way of holding the head, subtle things like the almost invisible, sudden flexion of the diaphragm, the tiny fear moveme... |
10 |
| 13 | 1105 |
I occasionally, informally, wore little things, brief, elastic-waist shorts, simple single-color tank tops, such things. |
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| 1 | 35 |
How they strove to please me! And I recall, too, the men of Earth! How they strove to please women! Did they think the women respected them for that? Now, recalling such things, I laugh with chagrin. |
10 |
| 1 | 36 |
Here things are much reversed, and for women such as I, absolutely so. |
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| 1 | 154 |
Suddenly things went almost black. |
10 |
| 1 | 177 |
I knew almost nothing of these things, but there was no mistaking the lovely, deep, incised mark on my thigh. |
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| 4 | 136 |
They placed these things in the truck. |
10 |
| 4 | 245 |
I had lost all sense of direction, of what might be up or down, or even if, any longer, there were such things. |
10 |
| 5 | 171 |
Outside, looking about more closely, I found some trampled grass, as though things had been placed there, perhaps earlier in the morning, boxes and such. |
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| 6 | 86 |
I had found berries, and there were doubtless other things to eat, fruits and nuts. |
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| 7 | 9 |
And, from Lydius, of course, goods of many sorts, though primarily rough goods, such things as tools, crude metal and cloth, brought on barges, towed by tharlarion treading on log roads, following the river, are brought to Laura, for sale and distribution inland. |
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| 7 | 300 |
It is no surprise then that on this world men commonly, naturally, familiarly, immediately, innocently, taking such things for granted, not even thinking about it, it being part of their world, look largely upon women, even free women, in terms of their possible value as slaves, their possible value... |
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| 7 | 345 |
I soon found myself saying things in Gorean without thinking about it. |
10 |
| 7 | 439 |
Ute had informed me, though I had been aware of such things before, even on Earth, that the most desirable women are not always those of incredible beauty. |
10 |
| 8 | 455 |
I would be compliant, swift to obey and be pleasing in all things. |
10 |
| 9 | 365 |
I now knew myself superior to such women, to such despicable things, as these. |
10 |
| 11 | 352 |
I learned things of which I had not dreamed. |
10 |
| 11 | 356 |
I remained ignorant even of the arrangements of small rugs, decorations and flowers, things that any Gorean girl, slave or free, is likely to know. |
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| 11 | 386 |
How I hated Inge! Could she not see that these things were innocent, that they were mere accidents, that I had merely tripped! But, of course, I also mistrusted the guard. |
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| 11 | 395 |
On Earth, Elinor Brinton had enjoyed teasing and tormenting men, arousing them, for her amusement, and then leaving them dissatisfied, but here, on this world, in this place, one must be very careful about such things. |
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| 11 | 457 |
How pleased I was that I managed to remain immune to such influences, impervious to such things! I supposed that Inge might be attractive to men, to some men. |
10 |
| 11 | 875 |
Such things, I have been told, are even taught to male children, as part of their education. |
10 |
| 12 | 393 |
What other fortune or weapon has a slave girl, and even these things, really, belong to the master. |
10 |
| 12 | 581 |
In training I, and the others, among many other things, had been accustomed to being secured, fastened, bound, in a variety of fashions. |
10 |
| 13 | 203 |
The Goreans, often so cruel to one another, tend to have an affection for wildlife and growing things, which they regard as free, and thereby deserving of great respect. |
10 |
| 13 | 501 |
They might have been a source of protein, but rather than touch such things to my lips I would have preferred to starve! It was easier to steal meat, good bosk meat, from ignorant peasants! I lay on my back, drowsy, looking up at the bright sky between the interlaced branches canopied over my head. |
10 |
| 13 | 794 |
Fortunately he would not know I had committed other thefts, little things, pastries, candies, berries, and such, and he would not know that I was a liar, and he would not know that I had betrayed Ute, who was my friend. |
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| 13 | 796 |
So I resolved to be unfeeling, and cold, to make it clear to him that such things were indifferent to me, and that I did not find him of interest. |
10 |
| 13 | 801 |
So, as he would not want me, I would not want him! As though one could control such things! There seemed something familiar about the strong figure, he before whom I lay, so exposed and bound. |
10 |
| 13 | 996 |
She must know how, too, to do little things, like kiss a man's feet properly, how to bring him, on all fours, in her mouth, the slave whip, and such. |
10 |
| 13 | 1112 |
I had been, in my own view, though doubtless such things are subjective, the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, until I had found myself on Gor. |
10 |
| 14 | 343 |
I supposed it might contain napkins, towels, bedding, such things. |
10 |
| 14 | 420 |
Perhaps one of the things that free women most envy in slaves is that they are not only permitted to reveal their beauty but that they must, even in the light of law, do so. |
10 |
| 14 | 443 |
Other Goreans tend to be less tolerant about these things, and feel that if a woman is stupid enough to allow herself to be captured, then she should be a slave. |
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| 14 | 460 |
Other things are to be done with them. |
10 |
| 14 | 463 |
As both she may be penned, caged, roped, chained, harnessed, bound, herded, tethered, controlled, put to work, made to serve, and such things. |
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| 14 | 464 |
In all things she is merely an animal, a lovely animal, to be sure, but an animal nonetheless, an animal totally at the disposal of her master. |
10 |
| 15 | 243 |
If you do not obey me, exactly and promptly, in all things, you will be beaten". |
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| 15 | 844 |
Tiny things, with tiny sounds, moved, crawling over and about one another in it. |
10 |
| 15 | 896 |
Verna could not have done these things. |
10 |
| 15 | 948 |
I did not wish again to earn such punishment, not simply because I feared it, but because it seemed to me unworthy that I should have done the things for which I was punished. |
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| 15 | 1126 |
I now well understood the meaning of such things on Gor. |
10 |
| 15 | 1333 |
"Men enjoy such things," said Ute. |
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| 15 | 1461 |
What could he, an ignorant barbarian warrior, know of such things. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 374 |
I do not much understand these things. |
10 |
| 4 | 31 |
Things were going well. |
10 |
| 4 | 98 |
"Such things are the prerogatives of a free woman," I said. |
10 |
| 4 | 152 |
Such things are not worn by free women on Gor. |
10 |
| 4 | 415 |
"She taught me a couple of things. |
10 |
| 6 | 268 |
Things were going well. |
10 |
| 6 | 322 |
Things were going well. |
10 |
| 6 | 336 |
Such things were sometimes done. |
10 |
| 6 | 1008 |
But I was not much interested in these things. |
10 |
| 7 | 407 |
Who knew how high might be raised the chair of Bosk? Things were going well. |
10 |
| 10 | 183 |
"These things will be removed from you," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 198 |
"Disregard," said Marlenus, "the obvious things, her pride, her anger, the clenched fists". |
10 |
| 11 | 808 |
He had now set aside the things of men, and was ready for her, a woman. |
10 |
| 11 | 916 |
"All such things are in the past now, girl," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 93 |
Other things being equal, I would, of course, prefer a beautiful companion. |
10 |
| 13 | 157 |
Much now seemed more clear to me, things that the girls had not spoken. |
10 |
| 13 | 353 |
"You will, accordingly, obey me promptly and perfectly in all things," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 279 |
She knows she is a slave female, and, in all things, must be female and slave. |
10 |
| 15 | 563 |
"To be sure, some are bred, some seized for the nonpayment of debts, such things". |
10 |
| 19 | 175 |
I did not know, now, how things stood in Tyros. |
10 |
| 22 | 726 |
Similarly, of course, in so far as choice has been theirs, women have tended to select out men who are, among other things intelligent, energetic and strong. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 191 |
I sat in the darkness and thought on these things. |
10 |
| 1 | 433 |
I now sat in my own hall, in the darkness, thinking on many things. |
10 |
| 2 | 263 |
But the Initiate did none of these things. |
10 |
| 4 | 39 |
Even fog banks, and the feeding grounds of whales, and ice floes, in given seasons, in their own waters, give the men of Torvaldsland information as to their whereabouts, they utilizing such things as easily, as unconsciously, as a peasant might a mountain, or a hunter a river. |
10 |
| 7 | 78 |
"Bondmaids of the north must know how to do useful things," he told her. |
10 |
| 10 | 300 |
The girls wore their kirtles as they did not simply that the riches owned by Ivar Forkbeard might be well displayed, the better to excite the envy of others and brighten his vanity, but for another reason as well; the female slave, knowing she is slave, finds it stimulating to be exposed to the insp... |
10 |
| 10 | 365 |
Free women view the platform with stern disapproval; on it, female beauty is displayed for the inspection of men; this, for some reason, outrages them; perhaps they are furious because they cannot display their own beauty, or that they are not themselves as beautiful as women found fit, by lusty men... |
10 |
| 10 | 375 |
In the lowering of the woman, of course, a common consequence of her helplessness in the arms of a powerful male, her surrendering, her being forced to submit, she finds, incredibly to some perhaps, her freedom, her ecstasy, her fulfillment, her exaltation, her joy; in the Gorean mind this matter is... |
10 |
| 10 | 623 |
Long had I enjoyed his hospitality, and he had given me many things. |
10 |
| 13 | 57 |
"And by many other things as well," added the Forkbeard, unnecessarily to my mind. |
10 |
| 15 | 181 |
The Torvaldsberg is, all things considered, an extremely dangerous mountain. |
10 |
| 20 | 38 |
Then she said, "We have more important things to discuss". |
10 |
| 22 | 117 |
She turned and left the ship, going down the gangplank, to fetch more of my things. |
10 |
| 22 | 257 |
I thought of many things, of Ar, of Marlenus, of Talena, with whom I was not pleased. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 523 |
"I would suppose," he said, "criteria are diverse, doubtless, too, such things as intelligence, beauty, vitality, such things". |
10 |
| 8 | 207 |
"It is at night that I truly labor! Oh, the things he has made me do, things I would never have dreamed of!" "Are you happy?" I asked. |
10 |
| 24 | 479 |
How much she had bespoken herself, how much she had revealed! She had said such things before me, confessing such things, unburdening her mind and heart, as though I might have been a native Gorean. |
10 |
| 1 | 11 |
"There are many things I do not understand," said Samos to me. |
10 |
| 1 | 206 |
"But, with other things, it induces in me a certain apprehension". |
10 |
| 1 | 268 |
"Two things," said Samos. |
10 |
| 2 | 309 |
Few things so impress the dominance of a male on a woman, and her dependence on him, as his control of her food. |
10 |
| 2 | 467 |
It is one of the first things a good-looking woman, fallen slave, is taught on Gor. |
10 |
| 3 | 134 |
Things, it seemed to me, were proceeding well. |
10 |
| 4 | 208 |
Now her skin would be much more aware of such tiny things as a change in air movement in a room, temperature, humidity, and such; also she would now be more keenly sensitive to differences in textures with which her body might come in contact, such as the granulation of the stones on which her feet ... |
10 |
| 4 | 231 |
"What about such things," I asked the slave master, "as giving pleasure to men". |
10 |
| 4 | 232 |
"We have shown her some simple things," he said, "about all she is now capable of". |
10 |
| 4 | 556 |
"The whip," said the captain, "can teach a girl many things". |
10 |
| 5 | 79 |
There were many subtleties of slave dance, and many dances, of different cities, and such, that would be unknown to her, but she had mastered many basic things. |
10 |
| 5 | 771 |
"There are better things to do with a beautiful slave," I told him, "than throw her into the canals, to feed the urts". |
10 |
| 7 | 397 |
"What, in particular," I asked, "did you learn from the Earth slave girl, the former Miss Cardwell?" "Many things," said he, "but, doubtless of most importance, the weakness of the Nest". |
10 |
| 7 | 525 |
"Such things are of enormous importance". |
10 |
| 7 | 530 |
Such things as grace, and a smile, and a desire to love and serve, a desire to please another, can make a woman beautiful. |
10 |
| 7 | 580 |
Many things, in many ways. |
10 |
| 8 | 4 |
I patronized an unimportant, rather poor sort of establishment, whose proprietor, I suspected, would have had better things to do than attend trials at the chamber of justice. |
10 |
| 8 | 151 |
"My will must bend to his, perfectly, completely, in all things," she said. |
10 |
| 8 | 181 |
I must gather brush and kaiila dung and make fires; I must cook the stews and porridges, and clean the pans and the bowls; I must shake out the mats and sweep the sand in the tents; I must rub the garments and polish the boots, and leather; I must do the mending and sewing; I weave; I make ropes; I ... |
10 |
| 11 | 197 |
If it were not we could not move our physical bodies conveniently among physical objects, manage to put our hands on things we wished to touch, and so on. |
10 |
| 11 | 226 |
"I could not imagine these things," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 363 |
Such things help one keep track of slaves. |
10 |
| 11 | 379 |
It is pleasant to see beautiful women worked, at the command of men, carrying burdens, given leather to polish, put to the cleaning of floors, forced to launder and sew, ordered to the markets, sent to the kitchen to cook, such things. |
10 |
| 12 | 124 |
The slave raiders of the Kurii, the Others, as nearly as I could determine, selected, among other things, for high intelligence in their victims. |
10 |
| 13 | 204 |
"They must find other things of which to speak at the campfires," said the man. |
10 |
| 14 | 393 |
They are usually furnished with cushions, and comfortable, silken bedding, and they may contain a small chest, in which the slave may keep small articles whose use has been given to her, rings, bracelets, armlets, bangles, cosmetics, silks, such things. |
10 |
| 19 | 90 |
All things considered, the decision to attempt to reach Four Palms seemed the most rational decision in the circumstances. |
10 |
| 23 | 288 |
"How did things go in the dune country?" asked Haroun. |
10 |
| 24 | 47 |
Other purposes are such things as slave security and female arousal. |
10 |
| 24 | 57 |
Bars on a window, a coiled chain, a bowl on the floor, such things, all, have their auspicious, comforting psychological effects upon a beauty. |
10 |
| 24 | 159 |
"Such things are not for me," she said. |
10 |
| 24 | 265 |
"Having a slave's beauty, you are likely to be at somewhat less risk than you might be otherwise, other things being equal, considering what you are". |
10 |
| 24 | 448 |
"And such things are to be concealed from the men of Earth". |
10 |
| 24 | 484 |
There are better things to do with a slave than respect her". |
10 |
| 24 | 493 |
It cannot be I who said such things". |
10 |
| 24 | 586 |
"Perhaps things have changed in the affairs of the desert," I said. |
10 |
| 24 | 664 |
A collar, a chain, a length of cord, slave bracelets, perhaps, such things, what more is required? To be sure, all a girl has to bring to the foot of the couch is her bondage. |
10 |
| 24 | 689 |
Most masters, I have observed, incidentally, at least private masters, take great delight in listening to their female slaves; they love to hear them speak; indeed, I think that one of the pleasures of the mastery is listening to a sensitive, lovely, highly intelligent woman talk, delightfully, inti... |
10 |
| 24 | 690 |
One of the many pleasures of bondage from the point of view of the female, aside from such things as her pride in her master, her joy in serving, the ecstasies associated with her frequent and profound usage, and such, is understanding herself as, what she is, a feminine woman, a true woman, categor... |
10 |
| 24 | 693 |
Few things better than this help the girl to understand that she is a slave. |
10 |
| 24 | 712 |
"I think, in the north tower," I said, "they have other things now on their mind than a slave girl". |
10 |
| 24 | 876 |
Such things must be requested of the seraglio attendants, and then returned to them. |
10 |
| 25 | 479 |
For example, do they regard themselves as the equals of men, or their superiors? Or, have they been taught, forcibly and clearly, that they are not the dominant organism? Have they been put, helpless, beneath the will of a male? Have they learned their delicious vulnerability, that they are the male... |
10 |
| 25 | 614 |
Many things had changed for her. |
10 |
| 25 | 620 |
One can do such things with slaves. |
10 |
| 26 | 175 |
She had begged me to forgive her, as though a word from me would make all things right. |
10 |
| 26 | 199 |
"Things, now," I said, "I conjecture, will change at Klima". |
10 |
| 26 | 412 |
Such things tend to be important in their culture. |
10 |
| 26 | 421 |
If the slave's heat is on her, she may tie the bondage knot in her hair, beg to serve wine, squirm a bit, dare to turn her palms upward a little on her thighs, and such things. |
10 |
| 26 | 494 |
But her sisters in bondage, it seems, knew more of these things than she. |
10 |
| 26 | 934 |
"And yet, because of these things, I stand wonderfully and vulnerably in awe of you, and of men in general," she said. |
10 |
| 26 | 975 |
"And lest you be misled by my apparently speaking to you intimately of important things, disabuse yourself of any presumption of standing in my estimation. |
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| 26 | 989 |
Such things are immaterial to me. |
10 |
| 26 | 1124 |
"She must be open to him, in all things". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 2221 |
I saw you not for the things you were but for the things you might, enhancing my own person, become. |
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| 20 | 68 |
Too, sometimes the master wishes to talk about a thousand things, in depth and at length, and what a joy to him it is, it seems, to share these things, a thousand thoughts and observations, and intimacies, with his slave, she perhaps kneeling lovingly before him, naked, his, her hands thonged behind... |
10 |
| 20 | 134 |
When I had first been sent to the wharves, some weeks ago, my wrists had been braceleted behind me, and I had been accompanied by other girls; later I had been permitted to go alone, my wrists still locked behind my back; later I had been permitted to go alone to the wharves in wrist rings and chain... |
10 |
| 27 | 328 |
For example, there are numerous verbal formulas which may be used, ranging from such things as "May my Master's slave serve him wine?" or "May my Master's slave light the lamp of love?" to such things as "I beg use, Master" and "Please, my Master, rape your slave". |
10 |
| 2 | 306 |
I had said things which I had never dreamed could come from me, and they could not now be unsaid. |
10 |
| 2 | 589 |
Such tiny things can be used to determine Earth origin. |
10 |
| 2 | 718 |
These things vary, I learned, from city to city, and depend, also, on such matters as context and conditions. |
10 |
| 2 | 1092 |
Evolution, in its case, has, among other things, apparently selected for tenacity. |
10 |
| 3 | 251 |
Gorean men, the beasts, find such things amusing. |
10 |
| 3 | 640 |
Few things so impress a man's dominance on her, or her dependence upon him, than the control of her food. |
10 |
| 4 | 170 |
Its purpose may be to humiliate or brazenly and publicly display the girl, to discipline her, to keep her humble, to remind her that she is nothing, only a wench in bondage; it may be to reveal her beauty, of which he is proud, for the eyes of all, or for his own pleasure and that of his peers; it m... |
10 |
| 4 | 608 |
He had ravished me, and now I must serve him, and as a naked slave girl! Did he not know I was from Earth? Had he not been told? Did he think I was a Gorean girl? Did he think such things were right for me? Had he no concern for my feelings? But he saw me doubtless as no more than a girl with a mark... |
10 |
| 4 | 609 |
But, indeed, now, what else was I? And I realized now that such things were right for me, exactly right, and that my feelings were no longer of interest or importance; accordingly, no note would be taken of them, and appropriately. |
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| 5 | 733 |
"I am above such things". |
10 |
| 6 | 13 |
In moments things had gone black, and I had fallen unconscious. |
10 |
| 6 | 57 |
I suspect the changes in me, at least in part, had to do with two things, the gradual stripping from me of negativistic Earth conditionings and, on the positive side, the Gorean acculturations to which I, a bond girl, was being exposed. |
10 |
| 6 | 270 |
There were more important things for them to attend to than us. |
10 |
| 7 | 15 |
One of the first things that had been done with her after her branding was to be put in a Sirik and given over to Lehna for a disciplinary switching. |
10 |
| 7 | 647 |
She had been extremely helpful, teaching me many things I might never have discovered myself. |
10 |
| 7 | 1078 |
An intelligent girl can do many more things and do them better than a duller girl. |
10 |
| 9 | 242 |
That had changed many things. |
10 |
| 9 | 666 |
What idiots they were! There were better things to do with a beautiful slave girl than hitch her to a plow! "The village is not a good place for you, Dina," Turnip had once said to me. |
10 |
| 9 | 1022 |
I think this is one of the saddest things about the men of Earth, that they have no Home Stone. |
10 |
| 9 | 1083 |
They ranged from simple bands of iron, hammered about a girl's throat, her head held down on an anvil, to bejeweled, wondrously wrought, close-locking circlets befitting the preferred slave of a Ubar; such collars, whether worn by a kitchen slave or the prize beauty of a Ubar, had two things in comm... |
10 |
| 9 | 1084 |
In the matter of collars, as in all things, Goreans commonly exhibit good taste and aesthetic sense. |
10 |
| 9 | 1116 |
In the plain diet of a slave girl, such things are very precious. |
10 |
| 9 | 1377 |
Many are the clever things which may be done to a girl who is, as I was, fully limb-leashed. |
10 |
| 9 | 1544 |
"Before, too, you have done such things, you, and these others, though not to the degree nor with the intent of this day". |
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| 9 | 1636 |
Bran Loort, too, did these things. |
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| 9 | 1754 |
"The caste leader must know many things," said Thurnus. |
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| 9 | 2113 |
They are such that they are subject to such things. |
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| 9 | 2115 |
Profoundly, I suppose, these things have to do with nature and her lovely mysteries, encoded genetically into the very heritage of a species, yes, there, a thousand leagues beneath the superficial trivialities of politics and convention, with dominance and submission. |
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| 9 | 2122 |
But, too, these things to the slave are enormously stirring and provocative. |
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| 9 | 2126 |
To be sure, such things are lovely. |
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| 9 | 2145 |
These things, the wealth of sensations and realities, bring her alive and stir her belly. |
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| 9 | 2149 |
The master, on the other hand, while perhaps accepting, even enjoying, such amusements with a free woman, for after all he may already have a collar ready for her, does not accept such things in a slave. |
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| 9 | 2150 |
He does not argue with the slave, nor discuss things with her. |
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| 9 | 2449 |
It had been only a cheap hard candy but such things are rare in the lives of most slave girls. |
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| 11 | 317 |
"We are the least valuable things in the fortress," she said. |
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| 11 | 326 |
I was angry that Sucha had said we were the least valuable things in the fortress. |
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| 11 | 384 |
"A slave, Eta," I said, "in her kindness, once taught me simple things, that I might not be completely displeasing and would not be too often whipped". |
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| 12 | 217 |
But such things are not part of the life of the slave girl. |
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| 12 | 513 |
One of the most frightening things to a girl about the whip is the knowledge that the Gorean male, if he is not pleased with her, will use it, and without hesitation. |
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| 12 | 836 |
Much depended on many things. |
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| 12 | 837 |
Perhaps things would be better. |
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| 12 | 838 |
In any event, such things were not within our province to direct, influence or alter. |
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| 13 | 231 |
"Would you not like her in a tunic and collar of your choice, on her knees before you? Would you not like the owning of every inch of her, she your slave, yours to command, hers to obey? Would you not like her serving you, responding swiftly and perfectly in all things to the least whim of your will... |
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| 13 | 446 |
He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,... |
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| 13 | 456 |
Such things well convey to a girl her bondage. |
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| 14 | 310 |
You do not understand these things". |
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| 15 | 174 |
We must obey them in all things. |
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| 18 | 181 |
Things had gone very smoothly for him. |
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| 19 | 70 |
These things had been said, too, in the dream. |
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| 20 | 59 |
These things, of course, were sewn into my brief black silk, with yellow thread. |
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| 20 | 126 |
We cannot help reacting to such things. |
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| 20 | 236 |
These things serve to synchronize chronometers in the port, and serve to regulate schedules and the utilization of the tide tables. |
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| 22 | 313 |
It is difficult for a girl to speak of such things before a free woman. |
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| 22 | 360 |
The very sight of a female slave, particularly as they are likely to be garbed, and must move, would be likely to stun a man of Earth; nothing has prepared him to believe that such women exist; one of the things that would be most likely to startle him, if not trouble him, perhaps cause him initial ... |
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| 22 | 372 |
For all I knew she would look well on a chain, and, after she had been whipped a little, and had learned a few things, she might look very well there. |
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| 22 | 493 |
Few things so impress my bondage upon me as his right to lash me, and, of course, the stroke of the proprietary lash itself". |
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| 22 | 592 |
Things began to go black. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 523 |
During the night I had taught her some small things, some techniques, little, simple things, for her mouth and hands, and breasts, her hair, her lips, and feet, and tongue. |
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| 18 | 163 |
I gathered, from the looks of those about, that the sort of things I said were the usual sorts of things, mostly vacuous, which are said upon such occasions. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 347 |
"There are too many details, too," she said, "small things that would not occur to a fictional writer to include, pointless things like the construction of a saddle and the method of minting coins. |
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| 4 | 41 |
Surely their bodies were graceful, curvaceous and vital; surely they were both unusually, even incredibly, beautiful; surely, too, both had been limited in their raiment to the rags of half-naked slaves; yet it was not these things, strange as it may seem, which so set them apart from other women; i... |
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| 18 | 283 |
"With meaningless little things, trivialities, baubles, things of no account or worth," said Kenneth. |
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| 22 | 117 |
On the other hand the smell of their sweat and labors, mixed with the stable smells and that of fresh, crackling straw, and sometimes fear, for it is easy for a woman to fear when she is on a chain, particularly if she may have hitherto displeased he who is now, doubtless to her apprehension, her ma... |
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| 29 | 147 |
"But are not such things among the first things which are done to a female slave?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 140 |
Indeed, how can one practice honor in great things, if not in small things? "And later," said Tasdron, "it was the testimonies of Callisthenes which resulted in Callimachus' loss of command". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 831 |
"Many things are involved," she said, "and sometimes some things and not others". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 48 |
So, too, will such things as the fact that you have no Home Stone and no caste, and will be ignorant of a thousand things known to any Gorean. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 143 |
We might unknowingly live in the midst of dimensions and wonders, things beyond the touch of our tools, things beyond the reach of our imaginations and intellects, things too different to know. |
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| 9 | 237 |
"But how," I asked, "in what other way, other than in possible attractiveness and desirability, could a slave have more power than a free woman?" "If one can do things another cannot, and if one is permitted to do things which another, in effect, could not, then, I suppose, one has, in a sense, powe... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 466 |
If so, if that were natural, and was what I was, what was wrong with that? Why should one be ashamed of such things? Why should one be any more ashamed of vitality, health and need, than of one's complexion, or the color of one's hair or eyes? I suspected that he with whom I was most familiar well u... |
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| 3 | 493 |
"Many people may not like many things," she said, "which does not make those things wrong. |
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| 6 | 569 |
"Other things being equal, such things might somewhat improve your price," he admitted. |
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| 8 | 540 |
Even though I myself was surely not a slave my life, I knew, was a thousand times richer for having realized that such things existed, for having seen such basic, deep, human and real things. |
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| 33 | 763 |
These things of which we speak, I think, are things which can eat and bleed". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 141 |
Perhaps, too, she recalled how she had been left to be discovered by Flaminius at the Inn of Ragnar, her men strewn about, drugged, she chained naked, hand and foot, beneath a feasting table, in the fashion of a bond-maid in Torvaldsland, such things, various things. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 248 |
"I am many things," she said, "or have been many things". |
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| 16 | 875 |
You might even give her your impression, as far as your current understandings of such things might go, of such things as will soon be expected of her, of how a slave might respond to a master". |
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| 26 | 501 |
"But perhaps," I said, "it is a matter rather of the innate and signal superiority of the free woman, that she scorns such unspeakable vulgarities, that such things are not for her, that she is too lofty for them, that she is above such things". |
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| 26 | 1711 |
"But I suppose," she said, "if I were a slave, I might be given things much less than this to wear, and things far more revealing". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 181 |
I was now aware not so much of these first-glimpsed things, things which might occur to a stranger looking casually upon him for the first time, from a distance, as other things, things which became much clearer with closeness, closeness such as when one might be kneeling naked before him, so close ... |
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| 4 | 190 |
"But I see through your tiny tricks!" "Why do you think I am a modern woman, in some sense you despise," I asked, "because I can speak clearly, because I can think, because I have read a book? Do you not think that true women, loving, needful women, can do these things? Do you not think that what yo... |
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| 9 | 494 |
I must not allow myself to feel! But what, I asked myself, if I were not allowed to be my own mistress? What if men simply did things to me, forcing me to feel, as it pleased them, forcing me to yield, and melt, against my will, forcing me to feel, and experience, things which on Earth I had never e... |
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| 13 | 188 |
But regardless of the truth or falsity of such things, and regardless of the explanations or reasons for the things which lay so deep within me, whether they were recollective or merely the irrepressible fruits of genetic truths, so anomalous in my own time, so uncharacteristic of everything I had b... |
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| 13 | 460 |
I had recognized, of course, that such things as my garb, or lack of it, my brand, burned into my body, my collar, which I could not remove, placed on me by men, and such, and, above all, my condition, that of slave, had made me far more sexually stimulatory to men than I would otherwise have been b... |
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| 17 | 16 |
Some visit the temples, paying coins, buying incense and burning it, petitioning Priest-Kings for favors, such things as better crops and success in ventures, such things as luck for themselves and calamities for their enemies. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 599 |
"We have all considered such things, that, or similar things," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 650 |
I gathered that she might be trying to understand, and cope with, unusual things which had occurred in her body, perhaps for the first time, things which, even in their incipience, even in the first and most inchoate forms, had profoundly stirred her, things which had perhaps hinted at profound late... |
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| 1 | 126 |
It would not really do, of course, to whip her for such things, as she was free, and, even in the case of slaves, masters tend to be tolerant of such things. |
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| 24 | 185 |
"Many free women are curious about such things," I said, "what it would be like to wear chains, to be subject to a whip, to have a master, such things". |
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| 24 | 202 |
"But if you were," I said, "you would regard your susceptibility to such things, your subjection to such things, as quite suitable, as quite desirable, perhaps even proper and imperative?" "Yes!" she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 74 |
In the end few things are real, perhaps the weight and glitter of gold, the movement and nature of weapons, a slave at one's feet, and, too, perhaps in spite of all, if we will have it so, defiant, honor, responsibility, courage, discipline, such things, such baubles, such treasures. |
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| 19 | 600 |
"They did not teach you their secrets then," I said, "such things as how to please men?" There are hundreds of such things, of course, ranging from the dressing and care of the hair, the application of cosmetics, such as lipstick and eye shadow, commonly thought improper for free women, and the judi... |
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| 20 | 270 |
Did they really think that the excitingness of a slave could be reduced by such a triviality as the addition of a few horts of material to a tunic? Did they not realize it would still be the single garment she wore, the one piece of cloth she was permitted, and that it would have no nether closure? ... |
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| 20 | 705 |
"Even from such small things as keeping you in a certain position, checking your ankle ring and collar, touching you a little now and then, here and there?" "It is not just such things," she said. |
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| 25 | 274 |
I had, however, anticipated such things, and had brought, among several other things, some suitable garments with me, from the insula of Torbon. |
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| 28 | 15 |
They may, of course, somewhat simply, be thought of as symbolizing various things, and perhaps different things to different people. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 277 |
How, I wondered, did those who concerned themselves with such things, to whom they were doubtless a matter of business, assess such potentialities? Did they imagine me naked, or how I might look in silk, moving sensuously, or kneeling, in chains, such things? And how did they know about my secret he... |
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| 4 | 195 |
Things seem to fit, the nature of my incarceration, the simplicity of things, the architecture, the mode of dress, the iron on my wrists and ankles. |
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| 4 | 510 |
I could not help it if I was vital! It was not my fault! I could not help it! And at that time, of course, I did not understand how such things could be brought about, even in those initially inert or anesthetic, how such things could be, and would be, suspected, discovered, revealed, and released, ... |
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| 5 | 40 |
Betwixt there are many things, sheets of copper, plates of bronze, ingots of iron, tablets of silver, such things. |
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| 6 | 21 |
One of us who is trained will normally, other things being equal, be appraised more highly than one who is not; one who is superbly trained will normally, other things being equal, be appraised more highly than one who is merely well trained, and so on. |
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| 8 | 741 |
We were less than dirt before them; we were animals, things to be despised and held in contempt, things unworthy the notice of such lofty creatures. |
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| 9 | 184 |
There were so many things I wanted to know, where I was, and such, not just such small things as whether or not I might use my hands to feed myself. |
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| 11 | 513 |
Some apparently say things as simple as "I am the slave of so-and-so," "I belong to so-and-so," "I am the property of so-and-so," or "Return me to so-and-so," such things. |
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| 11 | 719 |
So, too, surely had been the blanket, and even the wastes vessel! Had I understood such things as evidence of a special status, of special treatment, of special consideration, either of myself personally, or, more generally, of my sort of woman in this place? Had I interpreted such things as signs o... |
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| 12 | 17 |
This mesh was thus capable not only of holding things of my size, and larger, but also things which might be considerably smaller. |
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| 13 | 868 |
Beyond the leather, I knew, even to the tiny extent that I now understood it, there were other things, things far more frightening and effective, to which I might be subjected, if it were the will of men. |
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| 14 | 1800 |
"But such things," I said, "might occur inadvertently, or without one's being aware of them, or without really paying them much attention, or one might forget about them promptly afterwards, as things that could not have happened". |
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| 39 | 57 |
I thought there were strange things going on in Treve, of late, things I did not understand, but which made me afraid. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 128 |
She was now being taught to do things, many things, rather than, primarily, to learn things, to apprehend and understand facts, lore, and such. |
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| 27 | 3305 |
Yes, she thought, cooking and such things well reminds me that I am a woman, but such things are only amongst thousands of other such things, other reminders which I welcome and in which I rejoice, such as my tunic, so unmistakably and publicly exhibiting my differences from men, my brand, marking m... |
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| 4 | 231 |
He knew many things about her, many things, she now realizes, and among them he doubtless knew that she drank seldom, if ever, and thus his joke of having her, of her own will, imbibe, to please him, for he knew she desired to please him, for nothing could have been more obvious, a drink much too st... |
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| 10 | 88 |
"I sense that there are many things I do not know, that there are many things that I am not being taught". |
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| 10 | 233 |
Some have suggested that there is more to the kissing of the whip, and many such things on this world, than may be readily visible on the surface, that such things, in their way, are meaningful, that they, in their way, have symbolic dimensions, that they, in their way, express truths, relationships... |
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| 11 | 193 |
Is it so obvious, she had asked herself, that I am a slave, that I should be a slave? But on a world such as this what could a woman such as I be but a slave? Is that not the purpose for which women such as I are brought to this world, to be the helpless, rightless slaves of absolute and sovereign m... |
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| 12 | 300 |
What if what might be best for one was not truly the best for the other? What was best for one, it seems, might depend, really, not on politics and conditioning, not on cultural accidents and the idiosyncrasies of an ephemeral historical situation, but on other things, say, nature, truth, fact, such... |
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| 17 | 534 |
She knew, of course, that she must kneel before men and perform obeisance, and such things, but now, more than ever before, such things seemed not only fitting to her, but called for. |
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| 19 | 86 |
They even went into the kitchen, and the rooms of Portus Canio and the others, emptying chests, pulling things down from shelves, scattering things about in the pantry, cutting into sacks. |
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| 20 | 316 |
Even my beauty might give me away, it seeming to be a beauty appropriately that of a slave, and little things, too, about how I move, things I am not even aware of. |
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| 27 | 2763 |
"And how will you buy your rent space within the camp?" "I will speak! I know things! Things on which hang the fate of worlds! I can speak of gold beyond that which you sought! Gold compared to which that is a paltry sum! I can speak of weapons which can devastate cities in a moment, leaving no more... |
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| 29 | 324 |
In deference to my background, my upbringing, my education, my refinement, such things should not be done to me! They are not for me! I am above them! I should not be subjected to such things. |
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| 30 | 712 |
The Gorean slave girl must be extremely careful about such things, even small things, such as the positioning of her collar lock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 242 |
"I think," said Lord Grendel, "the Nameless One is neither good nor evil, as you think of such things, but that he is beyond such things, or other than such things. |
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| 1 | 275 |
Is it appropriate to inquire into such things? If dogs or pigs had such studies, their anthropologies, or such, who could find them of interest? Perhaps a biologist? Perhaps a dog or pig? But such things are now behind the female. |
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| 3 | 411 |
Perhaps it is the chain, he thought, the chain, binding fiber, such things, which hasten such things, which bring a female so rapidly, so pathetically, so needfully, so openly and honestly, to her knees. |
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| 81 | 128 |
"When you spoke with Lord Zarendargar, on the day of the great breakfast, that night, did he not speak to you of these things?" "We spoke of many things," said Cabot, "of war and weapons, of beasts and ships, of stratagems, of honor, of codes, and such, and we again drank paga". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 428 |
It would not do, for example, on such a tour, to have them fussing about, rearranging objects, straightening things, folding things, picking up things, handling things, noting textures, and such. |
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| 15 | 401 |
One, I suppose, must sense things, infer things, expect things". |
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| 1 | 356 |
It was appropriate, of course, that she should have been apprised of such things, or several such things, even before her claiming. |
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| 15 | 425 |
"There are many things," said Pertinax, "many, many things". |
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| 18 | 479 |
He may not expect such things in a free woman, but he does expect such things in a slave. |
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| 22 | 29 |
One supposes more is involved in such things than the turn of a hip, the rounding of a calf, or forearm, the slimness of an ankle, the slenderness of a throat, such things. |
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| 38 | 415 |
Binding, thonging, chaining, and such, makes it exceedingly clear to them that they are such that such things may be done to them, that they are subject to such things, that that is what they are, slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 76 |
But let her wear the collar and she will soon become aware of the preciousness of tiny things, wondrous, marvelous tiny things, longed for and hoped for, things which she might, hitherto, have held in disdain or contempt. |
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| 37 | 285 |
She would that Captain Nakamura had not spoken of past things, of fearful things, of things long since regretted. |
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| 36 | 167 |
Things were placed in bags, and things were removed from bags. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 252 |
Rawlinson, a house mother in a sorority such as ours, dare call attention to such things? "Do you know what such things tell you?" asked Mrs. |
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| 8 | 1821 |
Your bridges, slender and graceful, are often arched and curved, almost like branches in a forest, for you have an aesthetic sense, it seems, in so much that you do, evinced in things as intricate as the soaring melody of a skyline to things as simple as the carving on an oar or a wooden spoon. |
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| 11 | 4 |
Perhaps my mistress, the Lady Bina, and her escort, or associate, or colleague, or guard, whatever he might be, the beast, Grendel, might know, but they had not spoken to me of such things, nor before me of such things. |
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| 18 | 489 |
"It spoke to you of things which stirred you, things for which you longed, but which you feared, spoke to you of a distant, or forgotten, world, one a thousand times more real, I suspect, than that which you knew. |
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| 21 | 113 |
I heard something, several things, seemingly large things, scrambling, and grunting and squealing, descending the hillside on the other side of the wagon. |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 18 |
All these things are indications of high intelligence in merchandise, and perhaps of something else, as well, something related, perhaps a welcoming, a readiness, a relief, an understanding, such things. |
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| 25 | 12 |
They are taught to estimate the time of day by the position of Tor-tu-Gor, Light- Upon-the-Home-Stone, rather as they are taught to recognize fruits and blossoms, trees and flowers, and a thousand small things within their environment, things which children of my world seldom notice, and in which th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 222 |
"You think words are things," said Arashi, "but things are things, not words. |
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| 58 | 38 |
"One is to look for many things, both small things and large things," said Tajima. |
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| 2 | 18 |
Perhaps if I had been at the camp things might have been different, but it is difficult to tell about such things. |
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| 17 | 49 |
"Why can there not be grace and beauty in all things," he said, "the curve of a spoon, the touch of ink on silk, the arrangement of flowers, such things?" "Perhaps even," I said, "in the flight of an arrow, the stroke of a sword". |
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| 17 | 71 |
"There are some beautiful things, even quite beautiful things, of which one might ask of what value would they be without use?" "The female slave," I said. |
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| 30 | 531 |
"What has the slave to say of such things? In all things she is subject to the master's pleasure. |
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| 44 | 324 |
If it were governed by an ensconced brain, I think the brain, housed in the object itself, would, in its own interest, have had things arranged in such a way that it could sense an attack, perhaps being aware of impinging sounds, or responding to vibrations following strikes on the surface, or fusel... |
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| 45 | 88 |
"Sometimes, from various things, I am sure that Kurii favor Temmu, even from Tarncamp, and, at other times, from various things, particularly here, in the islands, it seems clear they favor Yamada". |
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| 58 | 36 |
"'By means of small things one sometimes sees large things'," had said Tajima, with satisfaction. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 273 |
How can some, I wondered, pretend to be ignorant of the tensions, the cords of interest and desire, which attend the interactions of the sexes? Are they unaware of the radical centrality of sexuality to the human condition? Do they lie, or are they somehow ignorant, or inert, simply blind to the tur... |
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| 57 | 229 |
"There are ancient gates behind which lurk ancient things, things best shut away, things best left unstirred. |
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| 59 | 81 |
Who, knowingly, would give paga to a larl? Who, knowingly, would break through the thin crust concealing a seething volcano? Lord Grendel had spoken of ancient gates, behind which lurk ancient things, things best shut away, things best left unstirred. |
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| 1 | 436 |
Had they no interest in this? Could I believe that? Did they not want my virginity, but left it to me, perhaps contemptuously, rather as they had not stripped me, but left me clothed, as they had left my hands fastened before me, not behind? Were these things to show their scorn of me? Were these th... |
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| 15 | 322 |
Can one die of such things? How frightening, and amazing, it would seem to me, later, to understand that men, some rare, few men, dare to share the sky with such things. |
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| 33 | 611 |
How terrible, and fearsome, seemed that form of life! What could stand against such things? Might not such things rule worlds? My comprehension, and the horror of it, seemed far more grievous than the impact I had sustained. |
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| 57 | 115 |
"What do you conjecture?" "If it were night, indoors," said Kurik, "I would suppose any number of things, depending on the house, music, the kalika and czehar, the aulus and tabor, acrobats, jugglers, flute girls, eaters of fire, the reading of poetry, the chanting of histories, professional tellers... |
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| 61 | 347 |
"Surely, as men," called Drusus Andronicus, "you can think of better things to do with such goods, kajirae, can you not, than feed them to hungry beasts, better things to do with them than put them to the purpose of a beast's provender". |
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| 68 | 169 |
I suspected that a slave might value such things, small things, a pastry, a candy, a bit of honey cake, more than a well-to-do free woman, particularly of a high caste, might the expensive delicacies and sumptuous fare that were at her disposal, and to which she might be accustomed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 36 | 66 |
Sometimes small things, inconsequential things, say, pieces of a puzzle, may be assembled into meaningful wholes, say, pictures, or other things, things intended not to be seen or understood. |
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| 1 | 47 |
I have seen no firearms and very little technology, though I know such things, or similar things, must exist somewhere. |
10 |
| 25 | 33 |
I will get more good from you if you know certain things, and other things you need not know. |
10 |
| 38 | 124 |
What if he had been present? Would things have turned out differently? How could one know? Some men look deeper into things than others. |
10 |