| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 5 | 140 |
They are diurnal hunters and eat only what they catch themselves, usually one of the fleet Gorean antelopes or a wild bull, taken on the run and lifted in the monstrous talons to a high place, where it is torn to pieces and devoured. |
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| 6 | 133 |
In that instant I recognized the heavy brocaded robes, now mud-splattered and torn, of the daughter of the Ubar. |
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| 10 | 102 |
Her dress had been half torn from her. |
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| 10 | 144 |
A moment later the torn rag of blue silk flew out from behind the hanging. |
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| 12 | 86 |
I would have a few moments more of life, the same brief reprieve nature grants the mouse carried by the hawk to its nest; then on some barren crag my body would be torn to pieces by the beast whose prey I was. |
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| 14 | 104 |
"You will be torn to pieces," said Marlenus. |
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| 14 | 144 |
When the bird drew again, there was a sharp pain as flesh was torn from my hand, but the rope darted off into the darkness, and I was swinging by my ankles from the other ropes. |
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| 14 | 146 |
The first guess would be that my body had torn in two, and the darkness would conceal the truth for a moment, until the tarnsman himself would try the ropes, to test the weight of their burden. |
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| 18 | 136 |
The tarn-goad was torn from my hand. |
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| 18 | 162 |
They were drenched with sweat; their clothing was torn; their weapons, drawn, were red with blood. |
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| 20 | 50 |
I struggled to my feet, my heart torn with grief. |
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| 2 | 3 |
I rose slowly to my feet, my fibers alive in the wind, my hair torn by its blasts, my muscles each aching and rejoicing in their first movements in perhaps weeks, for I had again entered that silver disk in the White Mountains which was the ship of the Priest-Kings, used for the Voyages of Acquisiti... |
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| 2 | 14 |
So standing, the sun upon me, without thinking I raised my arms as in pagan prayer to acknowledge the power of the Priest-Kings, which had once again brought me from Earth to this world, the power which once before had torn me from Gor when they were finished with me, taking me from my adopted city,... |
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| 3 | 97 |
The rapport I had felt with him seemed suddenly gone, like a sparrow flown or a leaf suddenly torn from a branch. |
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| 4 | 102 |
It is said that if one sees one's visage black and wasted one will die of disease, if one sees oneself torn and scarlet one will die in battle, if one sees oneself old and white haired, one will die in peace and leave children. |
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| 13 | 87 |
One ear had been torn from his head. |
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| 13 | 142 |
I stood there, ankle deep in the sand, covered with sweat and sand, my back open from the lash of the race, my side torn from the driving horn of Kron's yoke. |
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| 14 | 17 |
My tunic had long since been torn to my waist and now I ripped it away to my belt, angry at the tattered cloth. |
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| 15 | 76 |
Only then did her hands try to arrange and smooth her torn robes. |
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| 15 | 227 |
In its talons it held a great piece of meat, bloody and raw, which had been torn from some kill, perhaps a bosk more than twenty pasangs away. |
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| 23 | 87 |
Had the tarn wished, with a wrench of its glorious head, it might have torn the limb from my body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 17 |
My cloak and garments were torn from my back by the stroke of the second larl's claws. |
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| 3 | 24 |
I examined my shield and saw ten wide furrows torn across its brassbound hide surface. |
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| 5 | 18 |
Her full, red lips, which could have torn the heart of a man, seemed to pout; they were sensuous, unobtrusively rebellious, perhaps subtly contemptuous. |
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| 6 | 93 |
I donned this, as my own had been torn by the larl's claws. |
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| 23 | 4 |
She wore only brief rags, the remains of her once long and beautiful garment, torn and stained by what must have been her terrified flight through these dark, rocky tunnels, running, stumbling, screaming, futilely trying to escape the pursuing jaws of the implacable Golden Beetle. |
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| 23 | 34 |
Her body and arms and legs, though cut and injured, were neither torn nor broken. |
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| 26 | 27 |
I regarded her garment which, however soiled and torn, was still recognizably that of a Chamber Slave. |
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| 28 | 248 |
My senses were reeling but now in the distance I could hear cries and shouts, the screaming of the dying, the unutterably horrifying noises of the broken, the torn and maimed. |
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| 32 | 32 |
"But he was a Priest-King," said Misk, and he touched the crushed, torn figure of Sarm gently with his antennae. |
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| 32 | 76 |
I saw that the last ship was preparing to take flight through the hole torn above in the ceiling of the complex. |
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| 32 | 81 |
I looked up into the huge, peering golden eyes of Misk, the left one lined with a whitish seam where Sarm's bladed projection had once torn it open in the battle in the Chamber of the Mother. |
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| 32 | 90 |
Some more tons of stone fell from the hole torn in the ceiling, raining down on the buildings beneath, breaking through the roofs, shattering to the streets. |
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| 32 | 333 |
The body of Parp, half torn apart, neck and limbs broken, fell from the jaws of the larl. |
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| 32 | 340 |
She lowered her head to the torn body, its blood staining the silks she wore. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 |
Seeing that I meant him no harm, he paused and lifted an arm, like a stick in a torn sleeve, and pointed backward. |
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| 3 | 131 |
Now, also, for the first time, I could clearly smell the herd, a rich, vast, fresh, musky, pervasive odor, compounded of trampled grass and torn earth, of the dung, urine and sweat of perhaps more than a million beasts. |
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| 6 | 27 |
Her brief dress was torn by being dragged through brush. |
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| 6 | 40 |
It was now, of course, torn and soiled. |
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| 8 | 565 |
The girl who had bitten the neck of the kaiila, and whose leg had been torn by its teeth, stood for Albrecht. |
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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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| 12 | 211 |
The fire, I was pleased to note, was not of bosk dung but wood, timber and planking, I was less pleased to note, torn and splintered from a merchant's wagon. |
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| 13 | 11 |
They would have torn the girl to pieces on the prairie in the light of the three Gorean moons. |
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| 14 | 59 |
Where they were not torn I saw that they had been pierced as though a knife had been driven through them again and again, only inches apart. |
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| 14 | 80 |
I saw here and there, among the rugs and polished wood bristling with white arrows, overturned boxes, loose jewels scattered, torn robes and tapestries. |
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| 18 | 67 |
It seemed that the living, amorphous globe of matter which I struck began to move away, slithering away in the yellow fluids, but I pursued it, one hand in the torn membrane and continued to slash and tear at it. |
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| 23 | 57 |
We found thousands of bosk slain in the grass, their throats cut, their flesh rotting, the golden nose rings chopped or torn away. |
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| 23 | 121 |
I looked to the left and right over the torn, bloody barricade of wagons, at the remains of my men, wounded and exhausted, many of them lying on the barricade or on the ground behind it, trying to gain but a moment's respite. |
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| 23 | 124 |
I stood with Harold on a planked platform fixed across the wagon box of the wagon at our center, whose domed framework had been torn away. |
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| 23 | 210 |
The covering on the framework had been torn in several places and the rugs ripped or carried away. |
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| 23 | 212 |
The hangings were torn down, the wood of the wagon scratched and marred. |
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| 26 | 409 |
"I suppose," I said, "it was torn to pieces by the crowds below—or lost with the other dead. |
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| 28 | 14 |
Elizabeth's Tuchuk leather had been half torn from her but Tuka, who had been clothed only Kajir, had fared not even this well. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 14 |
As I could I put these thoughts from my mind, but I could not fully escape them, for among them was the memory of a girl, she, Talena, the daughter of the Ubar of Ubars, Marlenus, who so many years before had been the Free Companion of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba, he who had been torn from her at t... |
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| 4 | 67 |
The Older Tarl, the Koroban master of arms, and myself had found the body, and near it, the patch of green caught in a crack in the grillwork of one of the lamps on the bridge, where perhaps it had been torn from the shoulder of a running, stumbling man. |
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| 12 | 100 |
Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;... |
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| 16 | 171 |
Phyllis, wild eyed, the clothing half torn from her, the iron belt revealed, was trembling by the iron banister on the ramp, on her knees shuddering, her left wrist braceleted to the railing, breathing spasmodically. |
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| 16 | 188 |
He found the ripped slave cloak and hood which had been torn from her and helped her to tie together the parts of her slave livery. |
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| 18 | 340 |
A realization that horrified me seemed to claw at the back of my brain, as the beast had torn at the door, unseen, in the corridor far above. |
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| 19 | 134 |
In a moment or two, behind her, a powerful man in a short blue and yellow tunic, the auctioneer, carrying a slender slave goad, almost a wand, climbed to the surface of the block; seeing him the girl turned to flee, and having nowhere to go, fell to her knees weeping at the center of the block, wher... |
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| 19 | 353 |
In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of oth... |
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| 20 | 14 |
The doll which she had so loved, which she had had from her mother, which she had so jealously protected in her compartment that she had attacked me with the slave goad at the Kill Point, lay on the tiles before her, torn asunder, destroyed. |
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| 20 | 205 |
He picked up the remains of the small cloth doll which lay torn before her and tore them more. |
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| 22 | 171 |
The bird of the Blues raked downward, with talons that could have torn Mip from the saddle, but Mip had judged the distance superbly. |
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| 22 | 246 |
He was dropped broken into the path of following tarns, torn, and fell again to the lower bar of the ring and then to the net. |
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| 22 | 527 |
The crowd's protest of fury must have torn its way to the very clouds in the calm, blue sky. |
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| 22 | 530 |
Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 76 |
The rence tunic had been half torn from her right shoulder. |
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| 6 | 212 |
I had torn loose six when I heard the shout, "Stop!" The nearby island was now burning ever more rapidly and wildly in the night and soon the entire area would be illuminated. |
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| 7 | 38 |
About the island there was much litter, the garbage from the feast, the remains of destroyed rence huts, broken boxes, torn rence sacks, shattered marsh spears, gourds, scattered marsh vine, spilled rence reeds, bodies. |
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| 8 | 335 |
They had cost me the concept that I had taken for my reality; they had torn from me a bright image, an illusion, precious and treasured, an unwarranted reflection of suppositions and wishes, not examined, which I had taken to be the truth of my identity. |
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| 8 | 336 |
They had torn me from myself. |
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| 11 | 217 |
"Very well," I said, "send a page, and a man with a torch, to conduct him hither, and give him guard, that he may not be torn to pieces in the streets". |
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| 11 | 229 |
Another notch and the bones of its arms and legs would be torn from their sockets. |
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| 13 | 429 |
Some of the oars were torn from the thole ports. |
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| 17 | 162 |
She had struck the line of Cos and Tyros, had torn her way through, and was now coming about, to strike again. |
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| 17 | 423 |
I briefly saw Tab, sweating even in the cold, in a torn tunic, a sword in his hand on the stern castle of the Venna. |
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| 18 | 231 |
He was sweating and the sleeve of his tunic was torn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 |
It had torn one of her slippers. |
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| 3 | 502 |
My blouse was torn. |
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| 3 | 508 |
I ran from it, forcing my way through the brush and trees, scraped and torn. |
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| 5 | 36 |
Some hundred yards or so from me I saw a mass of torn metal, a ruptured structure of black steel, half buried in the grass. |
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| 5 | 65 |
It was torn open, the steel plating split and bent, scorched and blistered. |
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| 5 | 101 |
It was, at the point at which I had entered, as the metal had been torn open, like steel petals, more than nine feet in height, a vast gash which, irregularly, on the left, tapered downward to a tear in the steel of only some four inches in height. |
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| 6 | 104 |
Its cover, of blue and yellow silk, was torn. |
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| 6 | 240 |
As I mentioned, over the wagon, its cover, of blue and yellow silk, was torn. |
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| 7 | 152 |
Moreover, it proclaims her slave, and begs to be torn away by the hand of a master. |
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| 8 | 950 |
Beyond the fire, in the distance, like an irregular margin, a torn, soft, dark edge hiding the bright stars of Gor, I could see the lofty, still blackness of the borders of the northern forests. |
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| 8 | 1011 |
Would she be beaten? "If you have so much energy," said the guard who had torn away the camisk, "you may dance for us". |
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| 10 | 34 |
The strike of those jaws could, with one wrenching twist, have torn away the shoulder of a man. |
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| 11 | 236 |
My wrists were not unbound, they fearing perhaps I would have torn at the ring. |
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| 15 | 1280 |
I danced back, my hands held to him, as though I had been torn from him. |
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| 15 | 1316 |
I picked up the bit of silk which had been torn from me and left the sand, holding it, as I could, about me. |
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| 15 | 1332 |
"See? This was torn from me". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 601 |
In moments the girls had torn the meat from the bones, and Rim and I threw the bones into the sea. |
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| 2 | 743 |
Then look for a Tur tree, torn by lightning. |
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| 6 | 439 |
Her brief white garment had been torn to her waist. |
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| 11 | 328 |
When her last garment had been torn away, there was applause in the court. |
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| 11 | 421 |
It was half torn from her. |
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| 11 | 511 |
"Ubar!" At a gesture from Marlenus the shreds of pleasure silk which still clung to her were torn from her by two huntsmen, they, too, like the others, cowled in the heads of forest panthers. |
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| 12 | 212 |
The sand, in many places, was torn, as though there might have been struggles. |
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| 14 | 14 |
It might have been torn from the neck of a panther girl in a struggle. |
10 |
| 14 | 70 |
From the slave silk of two of them, torn into strips for strap and wadding, I had improvised gags. |
10 |
| 14 | 297 |
Several had already, oblivious of the presence of the men of Tyros, torn away their skins to the waist, others completely. |
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| 14 | 334 |
"Brand him!" Several panther girls, their skins torn away in the dance, held the thigh of Marlenus. |
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| 15 | 432 |
I saw Cara and Tina, still in their white wool slave tunics, save that they were now dirtied and torn. |
10 |
| 15 | 789 |
I had torn the skins at her left thigh, that she might not forget she wore a brand. |
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| 18 | 196 |
In a moment, like a wind-torn explosion, flame leaped in a breadth of a dozen feet on the still shores, on that lonely beach, of Thassa. |
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| 18 | 236 |
In Port Kar I had seen the fingernails of girls torn to the quick as they scratched at stones against which they were tied. |
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| 18 | 475 |
It is said they appear as though from nowhere to pillage, and to burn and rape, and then, among the flames, as quickly, vanish to their swift ships, carrying their booty with them, whether it be bars of silver, or goblets of gold, or silken sheets, knotted and bulging with plate, and coins and gems,... |
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| 18 | 534 |
She had torn her tunic away from her left shoulder and ripped it to her waist on the left side. |
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| 18 | 590 |
"It would be too bad," said the leader, "if beauty such as yours were torn to pieces by sleen". |
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| 21 | 49 |
His tunic was torn. |
10 |
| 22 | 81 |
Doubtless it had been torn to pieces by the crowd. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 13 |
Her dress of green velvet, trimmed in gold, she still wore; it was torn back from the collar, as the Forkbeard had done in Scagnar, revealing the whiteness of her throat, hinting at the delights of her bosom; the gown, however, now, was discolored, stained and torn; much of the trip she had been fet... |
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| 1 | 193 |
I, Tarl Cabot, or Bosk of Port Kar, was torn between worlds. |
10 |
| 1 | 609 |
It would have been half eaten, torn apart. |
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| 3 | 108 |
Among them, of course, were the slender blond girl in the red vest and skirt, and the larger one, now in black velvet, torn, stripped of its silver straps, its brooches, the purse. |
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| 3 | 126 |
"It is true!" cried a man, the burgher in black satin, whose chain of office Forkbeard had torn from his neck. |
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| 3 | 374 |
Between the benches, amidships, among piles of loot, their wrists fettered behind them, sat the naked bondmaids, and Aelgifu, in her torn, black velvet. |
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| 7 | 222 |
We looked down at the remains of a bosk, torn apart, eaten through. |
10 |
| 7 | 302 |
One of the men touched its snout with the butt of his spear, and then thrust it into the beast's mouth; the butt of the spear was torn away; the bondmaids screamed. |
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| 8 | 180 |
Her throat, where Ivar had torn away the collar of the green gown, was now bared. |
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| 8 | 188 |
She stood, her arm held by my hand, in the fetters, in the dress of green velvet, it torn open at the collar to reveal her throat; she had been stripped of her rings, the bracelets, the chains; her hair was loose; her hose and shoes had been removed. |
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| 9 | 44 |
On the second day, it had been thrust up only that the spike of a water bag could be thrust between her teeth, and then replaced; on her third day the coverlet was torn away and, with the scarf, thrown overboard; Ivar Forkbeard, on that day, watered her and, with a spoon, fed her a bit of bondmaid g... |
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| 9 | 72 |
The second of the sea sleen it had been which, with its sharp teeth, making a strike, but falling short, had torn away her green velvet gown on the right side from the hip to the hemline; a long strip of it, like a ribbon, was in its teeth as it darted away. |
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| 9 | 155 |
She wore the dress of green velvet trimmed with gold, it torn from the collar, it ripped at the right side. |
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| 14 | 174 |
I saw one, suffering in the smoke and sparks, look up from feeding, and then again thrust his head down to the meat, clothes torn away from the chest, on which it was feeding. |
10 |
| 14 | 185 |
His garments were half torn from him but, still, about his neck, on its chain, was the tooth of the Hunjer whale, dyed blue, by which men in Torvaldsland knew him. |
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| 14 | 218 |
His long sword, now again in his hand, which he had recovered from the body of the Kur in which he had left it, was again bloodied, and freshly so; his left sleeve was torn away; there were claw marks on his neck. |
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| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
10 |
| 14 | 283 |
Swiftly, my arm scorched from the fire which had torn at my sleeve, heart pounding, breathing heavily, I followed him. |
10 |
| 15 | 108 |
The stake, to which the chains of the bondmaids had been fixed, had been torn from the ground. |
10 |
| 17 | 146 |
Kurii, in their past, at least, were apparently torn by internecine strife, disrupted by "racial" and "civil" wars among themselves. |
10 |
| 18 | 107 |
His shirt was half torn away. |
10 |
| 18 | 384 |
We stepped over broken axes, shattered poles, torn leather, from the lodges of the Kurii. |
10 |
| 18 | 497 |
Lying in the dirt, her legs drawn up, her wrists tied behind her back, was the deliciously bodied little wench, dark-haired, in gold silk, now dirtied and torn, in golden collar, and gold earrings, who had exchanged words with Ivar's wool-kirtled wenches at the Thing. |
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| 18 | 502 |
She wore a collar of gold, and earrings, and, torn and muddied, a slip of golden silk, of the sort with which masters sometimes display their girl slaves. |
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| 18 | 524 |
Thorgard of Scagnar, raiment torn, bloodied, a broken spear shaft bound behind his back and before his arms, his wrists pulled forward, held at the sides of his rib cage, fastened by a rope across his belly, herded by men with spears, stumbled forward. |
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| 22 | 93 |
That boy had died in the delta of the Vosk; in his place had come Bosk of Port Kar, ruthless and torn, but grown into his manhood; and now there was another, one whom I might, if I wished, choose to call again Tarl Cabot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 211 |
The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ... |
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| 1 | 475 |
He had torn off his clothing and drunk sand". |
10 |
| 1 | 551 |
When she does yield to the master, her guts half torn out with the love of him, then, of course, she is a more satisfactory slave. |
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| 2 | 5 |
There were sweat marks on his torn shirt, under the straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 240 |
Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head. |
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| 3 | 72 |
The leather would have torn at his forehead, ascending, over the bridge of the nose. |
10 |
| 4 | 25 |
It reveals, as much as conceals, yet it adds a touch of subtlety, mystery; slave veils are made to be torn away, the lips of the master then crushing those of the slave. |
10 |
| 7 | 142 |
Beyond, crumpled on the floor, I saw the remains of the guard, the head, awry, lying on its side, strung by torn vessels to the body, the back of the neck bitten through. |
10 |
| 9 | 7 |
The other girl, she who had torn at her hair when captured, knelt. |
10 |
| 16 | 207 |
I threw myself on my stomach into the remains of the splintered frame, clutching at torn wood. |
10 |
| 17 | 234 |
On the left leg of T'Zshal, where the cloth had been torn away, I could see, white and wide, jagged, descending, a long, irregular scar. |
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| 21 | 455 |
The howling of the wind screened the sounds of my movements; its swift, lacerating blasts must have torn the atmosphere of my scent to pieces, scattering it wildly about, affording the Kur only sudden, misleading, fleeting, confused sensations. |
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| 21 | 544 |
Its hand closed about my ankle and I felt myself torn from the piping. |
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| 22 | 88 |
He was unwary; his attention was fully focused on his target; did he think I was a slave girl on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, standing, a tospit in my mouth for his lance sport? I moved to the side and, with both hands, a yard behind the point, turning, caught the lance; the rider, crying out, w... |
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| 24 | 153 |
It was thin, brief, tattered, much torn; it was cheap rep-cloth, brown and coarse; it was stained with dirt, with grease. |
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| 24 | 980 |
She sat on the floor, bent forward, her wrists tied to her ankles; the rag she wore was well up her thighs; the pleasures of her breasts were not much concealed, as I had torn the garment; the calves of her legs, drawn up, were marvelous; her face, her hair, were beautiful. |
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| 25 | 177 |
The garments she wore were torn, and stained. |
10 |
| 26 | 171 |
The garment she wore was incredibly brief, a rag; it was of brown rep-cloth, stained with grease and dirt; I had found it in the kitchens of Ibn Saran; it had been used in the cleaning of pans; I had ripped it at the neck; I had torn it, lengthily, on the left side, to reveal the marvelous curve fro... |
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| 26 | 394 |
She did so, angrily, slipping the tiny, torn rag over her head and putting it to one side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 5 |
Its sleeves had been torn away; it had been rent at the side; it had been cut short, and later torn even shorter, until it hung high upon her thighs, exposing even the left hip; at the throat it had been ripped open down to the belly, two inches below the navel. |
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| 2 | 538 |
I knelt within the wide circle, torn by the blade of a spear in the turf. |
10 |
| 2 | 654 |
It was not my fault I could not speak to him! But then, as he looked about the field, and the rock, I, in that large, rude circle torn in the turf, put my head down, alone, miserable. |
10 |
| 2 | 676 |
I stood in the circle torn in the turf. |
10 |
| 2 | 683 |
"Don't leave me here alone!" I fled from the circle torn in the turf, running after him. |
10 |
| 2 | 1101 |
In a world such as this, without a man such as he to protect me, I might be simply hunted down, and torn to pieces by wild beasts. |
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| 3 | 10 |
It was fastened with two hooks, which might be swiftly broken and torn away. |
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| 4 | 148 |
The slit made the garment, a rather snug one, easier to slip into; the two hooks, when fastened, naturally increased the snugness of the garment, drawing it quite closely about the breasts and hips; deliciously then, from the point of view of a man, the girl's figure is betrayed and accentuated; als... |
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| 4 | 526 |
Another man, not a contestant, caught me and prevented me from plunging into the thick wall of thorn brush, in which I might have been half torn to pieces. |
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| 5 | 348 |
My robes were torn. |
10 |
| 5 | 434 |
It was as though my slip had been torn away by the invaders in my house. |
10 |
| 5 | 438 |
I turned my head to the side, with a wild sob, as the veil of the citizeness was torn away. |
10 |
| 5 | 511 |
It was only a token, but, when it was torn away, even the token would be gone. |
10 |
| 5 | 537 |
My mouth, now that he had torn away the veil, was fully exposed to his. |
10 |
| 6 | 96 |
I wore the scandalously brief, torn, hooked, sleeveless Ta-Teera, which so displayed a girl's charms. |
10 |
| 7 | 183 |
His hands were now at the shoulders of the garment, whence it might be simply torn from her. |
10 |
| 7 | 803 |
Her gown, too, was torn off. |
10 |
| 7 | 980 |
The Ta-Teera was torn from me. |
10 |
| 8 | 9 |
Had I run more slowly it would have caught me and torn me to pieces. |
10 |
| 8 | 67 |
The bit of a garment that she wore had also been torn by the beast who had pursued her. |
10 |
| 9 | 133 |
It seemed my guts had been torn out. |
10 |
| 9 | 1328 |
The master might not be pleased if it were torn or soiled. |
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| 9 | 1890 |
It had been torn by the claw of a sleen, in the hand of Thurnus; the same claw, in the hand of Ladletender, had marked the arm of Thurnus; their bloods had mingled, though they were of the peasants and merchants. |
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| 12 | 264 |
I bit at his tunic, which was torn, with my teeth. |
10 |
| 12 | 421 |
The wire had been cut, with bladed hooks, swung on long lines below tarns, cut, and torn from its posts. |
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| 12 | 465 |
The silk was half torn from me. |
10 |
| 12 | 620 |
With a swift movement it was torn away. |
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| 14 | 61 |
I had torn open her hand and thrust it in my mouth. |
10 |
| 14 | 176 |
I heard Helen cry out as silk was torn from her thigh. |
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| 15 | 204 |
* * * * I wept, the tunic torn away from me, my body red and helpless, writhing on the tiles. |
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| 18 | 126 |
Once, when a tarnsman snapped by, pursued by guardsmen, mounted, too, on tarns, she had torn the veils from her face and, boldly, supplicatingly, had lifted her robes, revealing her left thigh to the hip. |
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| 20 | 279 |
It had not been torn. |
10 |
| 20 | 515 |
Then two others sped to him, and then there was a sword at his chest, where the tunic of the sailor had been torn away. |
10 |
| 22 | 662 |
With his foot he kicked aside the rep-cloth which he had torn open. |
10 |
| 22 | 759 |
I was bound at his mercy, my bit of tunic torn aside, on a particle of wreckage on a great sea. |
10 |
| 24 | 5 |
He freed my collar of the ring and took the rope of twisted cloth, from my torn tunic, which had tied me at the ring, and crossed my ankles, and bound them together. |
10 |
| 27 | 684 |
I wished he had torn it open and would march me through the streets as an exposed slave, that other girls might see the strength of the man who owned me. |
10 |
| 28 | 228 |
It would soon be torn from her. |
10 |
| 28 | 233 |
I heard the tunic torn from the girl on the block, the roar of the crowd. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 518 |
The next girl, dark-haired, lovely, wore black, feminine slacks; these were apparently of some synthetic Earth material; the left leg of the slacks was torn from the knee downward; she also wore what had probably been a soft, red, turtle-necked pull-over; it, too, was rather feminine; perhaps that i... |
10 |
| 32 | 95 |
"Oh, I could have your mind torn open, and could break you, or kill you, as anything can be torn and broken, or killed, but, in the end I, at best, would know only what you believed to be true, and that may or may not be true". |
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| 1 | 230 |
Then it stood, enraged, the fur torn beneath its paws, snarling and hissing. |
10 |
| 1 | 254 |
It is said that if one sees oneself black and wasted in the blood, one will perish of disease; if one sees oneself torn and bloody, one will perish in battle; if one sees oneself old and gray one will die in peace and leave children. |
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| 3 | 534 |
Certainly the dark-haired girl in the torn red pull-over had no longer been permitted her brassiere. |
10 |
| 3 | 554 |
"Yes," whispered the girl in the torn red pull-over, shrinking back in her chains. |
10 |
| 3 | 562 |
"What will we do?" "Kiss them," said the girl in the torn red pull-over. |
10 |
| 3 | 774 |
"Do you think so?" asked the dark-haired girl, who had worn the black slacks and the soft, torn red pull-over. |
10 |
| 3 | 798 |
"You will note, of course," said the dark-haired girl, second on the chain, who had worn the torn pull-over, "the nature of the garments in which we have been placed". |
10 |
| 4 | 112 |
An official in such a situation insane enough to attempt to tamper with the record of the moves would be likely to be torn to pieces. |
10 |
| 4 | 436 |
Pieces were being torn away from the great board. |
10 |
| 4 | 437 |
One sleeve of the robe of Centius of Cos had been torn away from his arm. |
10 |
| 4 | 618 |
The canvas at the front of the booth was being torn away. |
10 |
| 4 | 726 |
The left ear of the beast, as indicated with the patient fidelity of the red hunter, was half torn away. |
10 |
| 9 | 166 |
The two girls were the slaves he had purchased at the fair, the Earth girls, one blond, the other dark-haired, who had worn the torn red pullover. |
10 |
| 10 | 157 |
Terrified, Thimble, her camisk half torn away, stumbled back, away from the chain. |
10 |
| 11 | 379 |
It was torn deeply but still serviceable. |
10 |
| 12 | 119 |
In my pouch was the small carving, in bluish stone, of the head of a Kur, one with an ear half torn away. |
10 |
| 12 | 345 |
I had not yet spoken to Imnak about the carving of bluish stone among my belongings, the carving of a Kur, with an ear half torn away. |
10 |
| 15 | 1127 |
"I am cast down, and torn, and vanquished! Can free women know such things?" "No," I said, "only the slave". |
10 |
| 17 | 3 |
It was the head of a Kur, in bluish stone, the ear at the left side of its head half torn away. |
10 |
| 17 | 45 |
"Was its ear thusly torn?" I asked. |
10 |
| 17 | 121 |
"You seek the beast with the torn ear? He is your enemy?" "Yes," I said. |
10 |
| 23 | 104 |
I saw it fling the dead, bloodied snow sleen, torn and half bitten through, from it. |
10 |
| 24 | 45 |
I drew forth from the interior of the pouch the carved head of a Kur, wrought in bluish stone, that savage head with one ear half torn away. |
10 |
| 26 | 10 |
The lart fur, with which it was trimmed, snapped against my face on the left, and was almost torn from the hood on the right. |
10 |
| 26 | 17 |
"We must stop!" I heard the sleen in the traces squeal ahead of us, the noise torn in the fierce snow and wind. |
10 |
| 26 | 177 |
It would be tragic indeed for that lovely body to be torn to pieces by the teeth of hunger-crazed sleen. |
10 |
| 26 | 244 |
If we were to die beneath the fangs of the sleen I would be torn apart as a free man, and she as a slave. |
10 |
| 26 | 260 |
I leaped over the low wall and ran to him, driving the lance into the animal, then holding it down on the ice, it snapping at the lance, while Imnak, his furs torn, leaped up. |
10 |
| 26 | 278 |
Arlene, screaming, reeled back from another animal, half over the wall, her sleeve torn open. |
10 |
| 27 | 200 |
Before the ears had lain back against the side of its head I had seen that one of them, the left, had been half torn away. |
10 |
| 33 | 9 |
If there were a search for me, or curiosity concerning me, it would terminate when the carcass, torn and frozen, was found. |
10 |
| 35 | 870 |
The six Kurii remaining, one with an arm dragging on the floor, hung to its body by torn shreds of muscle, scrambled backwards, snarling. |
10 |
| 35 | 1212 |
The resistance had been led by the giant Kur, whose left ear had been half torn away. |
10 |
| 37 | 11 |
One ear, the left, had been half torn from its head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 12 |
"Why is there this bother about an escaped slave," demanded a man, his clothing torn and blood at his ear. |
10 |
| 4 | 42 |
"What of those who robbed me!" cried the fellow with the torn clothing and the blood behind his ear. |
10 |
| 4 | 103 |
"It is she!" said the fellow in the torn tunic with the blood behind his ear, pointing at the small, dark-haired girl. |
10 |
| 4 | 188 |
"It was torn from me". |
10 |
| 4 | 334 |
"I myself," said a nearby guardsman, "stopped a girl answering the description, one in the torn rag of a she-urt, but when I forced her to reveal her thighs, she was unmarked". |
10 |
| 4 | 635 |
Her rag, the brown, torn tunic of the she-urt, stolen from she who had been Sasi, was then cut from her. |
10 |
| 6 | 567 |
During the rains of the rainy season seeds could be torn out of the ground and fields half washed away. |
10 |
| 8 | 2 |
He wore a dirty tunic; over it was a long, brown aba, torn and ragged. |
10 |
| 15 | 70 |
"I have no wish to be torn to pieces," he said. |
10 |
| 23 | 225 |
"They will then be torn alive out of the chain," I told him. |
10 |
| 24 | 287 |
Ayari, his paddle discarded, was reaching into the cylindrical basket of dried fish, torn open, which had been among the supplies of the canoe. |
10 |
| 32 | 542 |
Too, it was half torn away from snagging on thorns, and from the lashings of branches. |
10 |
| 33 | 152 |
In some cities if a dancer is not thought to have been sufficiently pleasing she is thrown to the patrons of the tavern to be torn to pieces or beaten. |
10 |
| 43 | 84 |
The garments are not ripped or torn. |
10 |
| 49 | 22 |
There was upon his body, half torn away, the blue of the scribe. |
10 |
| 51 | 14 |
Their damage and toll is torn not only from the heart, but from the tissues of the body as well. |
10 |
| 53 | 359 |
I drove the dagger, torn from my tunic, again and again into its chest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 358 |
My belt was loosened and torn from its loops. |
10 |
| 9 | 12 |
One's tunic had been torn to the waist on her left side. |
10 |
| 11 | 142 |
She wore the scandalously brief shreds of a tattered slave rag, sewn of brown rep-cloth, torn open at her thighs, I assume deliberately, held but by a single, narrow strap over her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 497 |
The Ta-Teera, as it had been torn, did not conceal the branding area on her leg. |
10 |
| 12 | 411 |
I saw the Lady Tima throw what garments I had just torn from my body into the shallow bowl of burning wood. |
10 |
| 13 | 775 |
Doubtless I attracted some attention, for I was bleeding and, as I discovered, the silk tunic I wore had been soiled from the street and torn at the left sleeve; too, it was stained with my blood; but no one said anything to me. |
10 |
| 13 | 841 |
"Your tunic is torn," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 857 |
Your tunic is soiled, and torn, and bloody. |
10 |
| 18 | 206 |
Kenneth did not wish me to be torn to pieces between tharlarion, driven in opposite directions. |
10 |
| 20 | 160 |
"It seems her tunic has been torn," said the Lady Florence, "and, too, it seems her hair has been cut". |
10 |
| 25 | 142 |
Fortunately we did not engage with knife gauntlets or his head might have been torn from him. |
10 |
| 26 | 9 |
Her right hand held her robes about her left shoulder, from which they had been torn. |
10 |
| 26 | 263 |
Hangings had been torn down. |
10 |
| 33 | 86 |
Her robes of concealment had been torn away to her waist. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 546 |
The Ta-Teera had been half torn from her. |
10 |
| 4 | 625 |
She was barefoot, in the torn Ta-Teera and collar. |
10 |
| 10 | 108 |
For a tarsk bit I purchased one of the discarded sheets torn from the slave beauties who were still being sold from the block. |
10 |
| 18 | 59 |
My tunic was torn down about my waist. |
10 |
| 19 | 49 |
The dock workers had torn off his clothes and, ripping his tunic, had made a rope of twisted cloth, with which they had bound his hands behind his back. |
10 |
| 22 | 54 |
Her veil was torn away. |
10 |
| 25 | 46 |
They needed not know that he who had fallen had now risen; that once more the codes were kept with pride; that the cords with which he had once, with such pain and skill, bound himself, he had now sundered and torn from him, like an enraged larl emerging fiercely from a net now too frail to hold him... |
10 |
| 26 | 93 |
Had I even suspected it I would have torn away my clothes and thrown myself to his feet, begging his collar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47 |
The wind had torn open a wide rift in the vapors of the fog. |
10 |
| 3 | 51 |
The starboard rudder of the enemy galley had been torn away in crossing the chain. |
10 |
| 3 | 73 |
We had now come about, but already the galley which had nearly torn us open was facing us. |
10 |
| 4 | 99 |
The point of the wedge, harmlessly, save for splinters and paint torn from our hull, was behind us. |
10 |
| 4 | 133 |
Flags, torn by the wind, snapping, sped to our stem-castle lines. |
10 |
| 5 | 10 |
The port shearing blade of the pirate vessel was torn, splintering strakes, from its hull. |
10 |
| 5 | 123 |
Then there was a crash and tearing astern as our port rudder was torn away. |
10 |
| 8 | 597 |
Then I secured it in place with a folded, twisted strip from the torn sheet. |
10 |
| 9 | 132 |
I joined the men on the other side, on the bar, where the great rent had been torn in her side three days ago by the ram of the Tais. |
10 |
| 10 | 27 |
Insignia had been torn from clothing. |
10 |
| 11 | 84 |
Lola's defense, I was certain, might leave the little brunette half torn to pieces. |
10 |
| 12 | 114 |
Suddenly, reeling, his sword bloody, I saw he who had been the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, his clothing torn, emerge wildly from the interior of the holding. |
10 |
| 12 | 133 |
Red attack flags, torn by the wind, snapped on their lines. |
10 |
| 16 | 174 |
Then, its mouth filled with rope, torn loose, it fell back into the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 250 |
The shearing blades locked and we felt timber being torn from the sides of the ships. |
10 |
| 16 | 474 |
I threw the strips, torn from the bottom of the tunic onto Kliomenes. |
10 |
| 16 | 493 |
I then, with the strips of cloth torn from the tunic, bound Kliomenes' hands behind his back, tightly. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 383 |
"Also, it would be deplorable, would it not, to be torn to pieces without even having discovered what was on their minds?" "Doubtless," said Samos, grimly. |
10 |
| 1 | 528 |
The shield straps, which had been displayed to us with the shield, the shield held convex side down, had not been torn away or cut, which would have rendered the shield useless. |
10 |
| 1 | 1370 |
The flames from the burning oil on the wall to my right leaped almost horizontally backwards, torn and lashed by the wind. |
10 |
| 12 | 229 |
I turned about in the saddle to view once more the torn, bloodied grass, the motionless figures, the insects and birds, the place where, yesterday, in brief compass, carnage had touched the prairie. |
10 |
| 14 | 1294 |
It was the image of a Kur, the left ear half torn away. |
10 |
| 16 | 32 |
It had either been torn away or burned. |
10 |
| 16 | 77 |
"Too," said he, "note the torn earth. |
10 |
| 19 | 280 |
He had shortened it earlier, and torn it at the side, to permit himself more freedom of movement in it. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 11 |
He had, a few days ago, torn away the sleeves. |
10 |
| 6 | 41 |
Its floor was torn with the passage of the animals. |
10 |
| 6 | 56 |
"It is torn apart, destroyed, trampled, scattered". |
10 |
| 9 | 177 |
She is not riven with conflict like the free woman, torn between being an imitation man and an authentic woman, between what she is not but is told she should be, and what she is told she should not be, but is. |
10 |
| 22 | 87 |
Pegged-down hides had been half torn up and trampled. |
10 |
| 22 | 256 |
In the center of the lodge, visible now through a hole torn in the brush, was the tall, slim, peeled, twice-forked pole which, days ago, Winyela had felled. |
10 |
| 22 | 260 |
From the sides of the dance lodge huge gouts of brush had been torn away. |
10 |
| 27 | 83 |
Two other birds hung in the netting, one with its neck broken and the other with a wing half torn away. |
10 |
| 34 | 465 |
The left ear had been half torn away. |
10 |
| 35 | 181 |
Some vision seekers, on the other hand, are torn to pieces by sleen. |
10 |
| 37 | 508 |
Almost at the same instant, flashing over the opening, I saw immense, extended talons closing, and the rushing passage of a huge, dark shape, the grass leaping up and seeming to be almost torn up, almost uprooted, following it. |
10 |
| 37 | 565 |
I returned to the pit, its roof now half torn away. |
10 |
| 39 | 16 |
Its roof was gone, torn away and scattered when the concealed hobbling log had been jerked upward through it. |
10 |
| 41 | 9 |
Leaves were torn from the trees in its passage!" "It is gone now," I said. |
10 |
| 42 | 92 |
I saw the lance lower, the Herlit feathers on it torn backward in the wind against the shaft. |
10 |
| 44 | 451 |
Impaled and torn, pressed from behind, filling the air with hideous noises, they reared and twisted, throwing riders and biting and clawing at one another. |
10 |
| 47 | 134 |
I saw tangles of intestines torn from the body of a tarn. |
10 |
| 47 | 177 |
Its rider's scream alerted the third rider, but, in a moment, the talons had locked upon him, his bird exhausted, struggling in the air, and he was torn upward from the girth rope. |
10 |
| 47 | 318 |
In a moment tarns had swept again from the ledge and then, seizing ropes and men in talons, at the very rock face itself, dragged dangling, screaming men from the sheer surface; ropes and men, tangled, were pulled away from the surface; ropes and men, torn loose from hand and footholds, unsupported,... |
10 |
| 47 | 346 |
The ears of the beast on the barricade, one half torn away, flattened themselves against the side of the head. |
10 |
| 51 | 8 |
The claws had been torn out of its feet. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 558 |
I heard a segment of sealing tape torn from a roll and then, apparently, the top of the carton was sealed shut. |
10 |
| 6 | 418 |
She did not know who it would be whom she would have to serve, who it would be to whom she would belong! The poor, soft, helpless chained thing! How callous and stupid are men! Too, I like she, as fortunes shifted in the matches, as points were won and lost, was torn back and forth in my conjectures... |
10 |
| 8 | 558 |
I was confused and torn. |
10 |
| 13 | 111 |
It was torn from me, before the very throne. |
10 |
| 15 | 414 |
I clutched the blanket, it being torn in the wind, more closely about me. |
10 |
| 33 | 231 |
I saw that Miles of Argentum did not wish to have Susan subjected to judicial torture, perhaps tormented and torn on the rack, even though it might validate her testimony and strengthen his case. |
10 |
| 36 | 864 |
But, too, there is little doubt that once these social conventions, cultural encrustations, and imprisonments, are shattered, are at last vanquished and torn away, she is then ready to feel, and be. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 267 |
In moments her clothing was half torn from her, and was down about her hips. |
10 |
| 6 | 836 |
"Doubtless they were torn from your body in a recent hurricane," said Chino. |
10 |
| 14 | 275 |
I knew that even strange urts were often torn to pieces when they attempted to approach a new pack. |
10 |
| 16 | 827 |
Rowena, gasping and writhing, crying out, the scarf torn from her, flung down among the tables, pressed back helplessly to the tiles, held down by the arms, kept in place, by two men, was already serving. |
10 |
| 18 | 273 |
"Ubar!" cried the Lady Yanina, the scarf torn away, the heavy, wet packing of the gag pulled with a finger from her mouth. |
10 |
| 20 | 7 |
The Kur, with that agility seemingly so unnatural and surprising in a beast of its size, descended from the ubar's box and interposed itself between me and the pathetic figure, now staring wildly upward, fallen, twisting and shuddering, moved this way and that, being pulled and shaken, being torn by... |
10 |
| 20 | 47 |
I moved my hands about, as I could, examining the body and torn clothing of Belnar. |
10 |
| 20 | 76 |
Then, in a moment, the torn, half-eaten body, shuddered wildly, and was limp. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 26 |
Sometimes, not unoften, these pieces of bread were torn away from the prettier, more feminine women by their brawnier, huskier, more masculine fellows. |
10 |
| 3 | 197 |
When the cavalry is disorganized, shattered and torn by missile fire, and turns about to retreat, the defenders, fresh and eager, initiate their own attack. |
10 |
| 6 | 35 |
I pondered the likely prices of a stuffed mushroom in a black-market transaction in a war-torn district, one turned into a near desert by the predations of organized foragers, in particular, the price of such a mushroom perhaps diverted at great hazard from the tables of Cosian generals. |
10 |
| 11 | 127 |
I saw then how terrible was the thing I had done, selling my poems, my own poems, my precious, priceless poems! They now belonged to another! Better I had torn my heart out and sold it for a tarsk bit!" "Perhaps," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 1406 |
To be sure, if one has time, the messages can be written on cloth within the linings, and then should elude search, unless the garment be torn open. |
10 |
| 25 | 2132 |
"At any rate," she smiled, "they gave me gentleness and respect, while I think they might have done better to have torn my clothing from me and thrown me to their feet. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 160 |
I had been almost consumed with anguish, and filled with contempt for them, and tortured and torn by loneliness, hatred and misery. |
10 |
| 11 | 50 |
The husk of the she-sleen, as it is said, can be torn away, never to grow again, leaving behind only the soft flesh of another slave. |
10 |
| 11 | 1301 |
He could have cuffed me and torn me open in an instant but he had not done so. |
10 |
| 16 | 203 |
Through no fault of my own I feared I might be torn to pieces. |
10 |
| 17 | 65 |
I was clad in a ta-teera, or slave rag, a brief bit of rep cloth, torn here and there, well revealing me. |
10 |
| 20 | 163 |
He returned to his native village, which was torn with war and strife. |
10 |
| 23 | 60 |
"I might be torn to pieces. |
10 |
| 24 | 477 |
"It was half torn to pieces," she said. |
10 |
| 28 | 224 |
She had then torn narrow strips from about the hem of the garment, tying some of them together. |
10 |
| 28 | 239 |
"Here," she said, handing me the strip of cloth she had torn from her bodice. |
10 |
| 29 | 3 |
The ear on the right side of his head had been half torn away. |
10 |
| 29 | 94 |
How I had squirmed, bound kneeling and helpless, the rail tight behind the back of my neck, my neck roped to it, under his touch! The work tunics of Mina and Cara had been thrust back, over their arms, and torn down. |
10 |
| 29 | 96 |
The remainder of the garments, in front, torn apart, hung low on their bellies, below their navels. |
10 |
| 29 | 581 |
"I find this," he said to me, "an acceptable and suitable vengeance, superior even to the sword, or to the thousand cuts, that you, my dear Doreen, or Tuka, or whatever masters now choose to call you, you stinking, worthless, curvaceous, treacherous slave slut, should be torn to pieces by a sleen!" ... |
10 |
| 29 | 862 |
This, I supposed, was a readiness response, making them less vulnerable, less likely to be torn or bitten. |
10 |
| 29 | 963 |
"Kill it!" he screamed to the bearded man, and to the other fellow, with the torn arm. |
10 |
| 29 | 1004 |
"Who were these two?" asked the fellow with the torn arm, indicating Hendow and Mirus. |
10 |
| 33 | 309 |
The tunic was torn from his back. |
10 |
| 34 | 221 |
"Sometimes a bit of clothing looks well on a female," he said, "if it is sufficiently revealing, and can be swiftly removed, or torn away". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 199 |
Men can be trampled by tharlarion, wagons can be torn apart. |
10 |
| 1 | 222 |
"No, let them be torn apart by them," said another. |
10 |
| 16 | 116 |
There, on a pole, defiantly, snapped a torn flag, bearing in yellow the single letter 'Ar' on a red background with, beneath it, a wavy yellow band. |
10 |
| 17 | 38 |
The second catapult cast its load, its boulder, into the midst of startled men and had it not been for their smitten bodies, dashed back, cushioning the blow would have torn its way free through the back of the tall, shedlike tower. |
10 |
| 17 | 279 |
Plates of facing buckled and were torn away. |
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| 17 | 668 |
I had hardly gone ten paces down the corridor, following the others, when I heard the rubble of masonry being torn away from the outside. |
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| 18 | 350 |
"They are pretty," I cried, "begging for their nose rings!" To be sure, many of the women had torn away their clothing, and were now kneeling on the landing, by the wall, some with their hands clasped, others with them piteously extended, in various attitudes of petition and supplication. |
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| 19 | 225 |
The piece of broken walkway which had been to the right was now back, a few feet from the torn end of the walkway, floating in the inner harbor. |
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| 21 | 701 |
It would take another moment or so to remove them completely, for them to be cut or torn from her, as they were now held on her by the chaining of the sirik, that of her wrists. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 14 |
I have heard, for example, that he was beset by a larl, far from its accustomed habitats, that he was torn to pieces by a tarn, and that his head was torn, or partly torn, from his body by a dozen madmen armed with hooks of steel. |
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| 17 | 305 |
I felt even the raft tip in the water and then the hood was torn half away. |
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| 19 | 215 |
The uniform of Ar was torn back in the blast. |
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| 19 | 790 |
It put back its head, lifting it, twisting it, and given the power of its body, the sword, fixed still in its jaw, was torn from my grasp. |
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| 19 | 813 |
It was lying there then, half submerged, its wing twisted and torn. |
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| 29 | 378 |
Looking about, we saw that Labienus had torn a large piece of bark from a stout branch, like a small trunk, which had been brought to him. |
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| 37 | 269 |
He was holding Torcadino with only some five thousand men, and that many, I thought, might subsist on produce grown within the city, in yards, in torn-up streets, in roof gardens, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 408 |
Many is the free female in such a city who has torn away her robes before enemies, confessed her natural slavery, disavowed her previous masquerade as a free woman, and begged for the rightfulness of the brand and collar. |
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| 2 | 186 |
He regarded her, torn with his love for her, and his hatred of the island of Cos. |
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| 3 | 565 |
Perhaps she wished for her robes to be torn off and to be collared, and to be thrust, in her turn, into the circle. |
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| 3 | 692 |
Any beautiful, natural creature can be clipped and cut, and formed into monstrous shapes, torn from nature, and then instructed to rejoice in its mutilations and misshapenness. |
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| 8 | 391 |
No sooner had he had Phoebe inside the door to our room in the insula than he had torn the sheet and veil from her and flung her on her belly to the straw-filled mat, then leaping upon her with a cry of joy. |
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| 8 | 466 |
"It is a joke of Lurius of Jad, I gather," said Marcus, "that the walls of Ar should be torn down to the music of flute girls". |
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| 9 | 613 |
More than once I had seen a begging, tearful slave torn from the arms of a beloved master, to be bound and led away on a Cosian leash. |
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| 10 | 201 |
One of the lads, their leader it seemed, clutched the woman's pouch, torn from her belt, and another held her veil. |
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| 11 | 168 |
The girl, crying out, shrieking, pulled half from the chest, had her veil and clothing torn from her. |
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| 18 | 590 |
"I would not wish him to be torn to shreds on the rack". |
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| 19 | 537 |
She put her hands up to her cropped hair, and then touched the tiny, torn brown rag she wore, and then, again, put her head down, and placed her hands on her thighs. |
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| 22 | 138 |
In a moment or two the palanquin had been set down on its legs, on the shady side of Aulus, near a wall covered with theater posters, many of them faded, tattered, overlapping and half torn away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 188 |
I, a woman from another world, a world not his, I, a woman removed from, torn from, my own world and brought as a mere captive, or less, to his, kneeling naked at his feet, fearfully, in chains, had looked up at him. |
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| 7 | 1011 |
"It does not seem to have been torn from your body". |
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| 8 | 173 |
I would never have donned such a garment! I would never have permitted myself to be seen so, so bared, so displayed, so exposed in such a scandalous garment! It was frayed, and torn. |
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| 8 | 177 |
And it was all I wore! I was outraged! I might have torn it from me, but it was all I had. |
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| 10 | 46 |
It could have torn me in pieces. |
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| 10 | 210 |
It is notoriously incapable of eluding hawks and other forms of predatory birds, by which it can easily be torn to pieces. |
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| 10 | 325 |
Perhaps they did not wish them torn off by the beast! In the pens we kajirae, kneeling or crouching down, had sometimes put our hands through the bars of our kennels, trying to touch a guard, to call ourselves, whimperingly, to his attention, but this experience suggested, uneasily, a quite differen... |
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| 12 | 526 |
They were, too, beneath the silk, torn away, of iron. |
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| 12 | 552 |
They were even torn at the knuckles. |
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| 12 | 847 |
Her robes of concealment seemed soiled and, at the hems, were torn. |
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| 13 | 308 |
Then it left the water, rushing upward from it, erupting from it, and I saw its full body, shedding water, its neck extended, its jaws open, its forepaws down against its body, streamlining its shape, its hind legs extended, it leaping upward, then yards above the surface of the torn, dark pool, and... |
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| 14 | 361 |
It was not as though I were a man, a brutal masculine captor, who had torn away her veil, that he might assess her promise for the collar. |
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| 14 | 442 |
Too, it was wrinkled, and faded, and torn. |
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| 17 | 28 |
I did not doubt but what the peasant could have torn my head from my shoulders. |
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| 24 | 906 |
It was little wonder, then, that he, torn by desire and love, in bitter rage, cursed the strictures of honor. |
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| 31 | 592 |
The block of stone, broken from the wall, torn out of it, still fixed to the plate and bolts, and chain, had burst forth, showering mortar in the room. |
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| 31 | 664 |
The bowman who had been struck lay to one side, his head awry, too far back, still in the helmet, half torn from the body. |
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| 37 | 130 |
"Scent! Hunt!" The blanket was literally torn from the grasp of the leader of the strangers, who then stood up, watching the sleen. |
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| 37 | 134 |
The two beasts looked up from the blanket, it torn in shreds beneath their paws. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 200 |
She had dreamed, more than once, that he had torn away her prim garmenture and put her on her back on the desk and raped her, while the class looked on, bemused. |
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| 8 | 52 |
The kennel was furnished, for amenities, with some loose straw and a small, short, torn, thin, threadbare blanket. |
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| 13 | 261 |
There was a wild cry, piercing, at hand, not more than fifteen feet above her, surely the loudest and most terrifying sound she had ever heard, as of some living, immense, monstrous creature, and she was in shadow and then not in shadow, in a shadow that moved and leapt and was shattered with bursts... |
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| 16 | 577 |
What if they should, in the rush of their blood, heat and need, turn upon her? How she might be used then, over and over, perhaps on her belly, robes torn away, on the pillows of her then-unborne palanquin! She trembled. |
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| 17 | 604 |
But is that not a true slavery, a true holding of oneself in bondage, a hypocritical slavery, a lying, worthless slavery, a slavery less worthy than confessing to oneself one's own self, and allowing it to speak openly? How much inner conflict might be thus avoided! But she lay very still, torn in h... |
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| 18 | 335 |
From those hooks, sometimes as they fluttered in the feeding area, feet from the floor, it would be torn by the feeding tarns. |
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| 20 | 379 |
The basket began to jerk in flight, and then it was held by only three ropes, as one of the anchoring ropes slipped loose, off the torn wicker. |
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| 20 | 383 |
Ellen cowered back, as pieces of the basket were torn away, flung out into the water, the wicked, bright eyes of the bird near her, not a yard away, the beak slashing at the wicker. |
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| 24 | 160 |
But Ellen did not want to be scratched or bitten, or thrown to the rug within the enclosure and have her hair torn from her head. |
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| 27 | 1618 |
His hand was so twisted in her hair she feared great gouts of it would be torn free. |
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| 27 | 1631 |
Before him stood Selius Arconious, his body bloody, filthy from war, his tunic torn and soiled, gasping for breath, regarding Mirus furiously, balefully. |
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| 27 | 1663 |
She saw the spokesman, his robes torn, drawing back. |
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| 27 | 2305 |
She was fortunate, not to have been seriously injured, as, in the turning of the wagon, an arm might have been torn from its socket or an arm or wrist broken. |
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| 27 | 2382 |
"Next," called the officer, and then, again, "Next!" If ever, Ellen would have wished to resist, but her body betrayed her, with its secretions and spasms, and then, moments later, despite herself, every last pathetic psychological possibility of defense was gone; every last brittle barrier of reser... |
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| 27 | 2997 |
Another's arm was torn from his body. |
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| 27 | 3001 |
A shield was torn from a soldier breaking an arm. |
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| 27 | 3042 |
Loquatus had been half torn apart in one of the attacks. |
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| 27 | 3167 |
The projectile, at this range, had torn through the body. |
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| 28 | 344 |
"But Bosk and his friend found there only bones, pieces of bones, splintered, gnawed, shreds of clothing, torn, cast about". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 89 |
One reached it first, and thrust his muzzle into it, tearing it, ripping out gluts of meat, and gorging them, but then the other sleen was upon it, and the two animals rolled in the sand, in a frenzy of snapping, and clawing, and in moments the jaws of each were bloody, and gouts of fur had been tor... |
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| 1 | 605 |
Indeed, she had expected a counterdisplay of hostility, and an exchange of hissings, and spittings, as with others, until they were beaten and torn, and fled away, bitten and bleeding. |
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| 1 | 903 |
He was to be torn then between his nature and his codes, between his passion and his honor. |
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| 2 | 174 |
Sometimes the head is bitten free and the spurting neck is covered with the predator's mouth, which is then drenched with the imbibed, flighted blood; another way is shared by certain other forms of predator, such as the larl or forest panther, in which the prey is seized, say, at the shoulder, and ... |
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| 2 | 323 |
One of them said something to his fellows, and several of them turned toward the burned, torn metal at the end of the hallway. |
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| 3 | 129 |
The slave, perhaps even roped or chained down, may be used in many ways, as the master might please, perhaps tantalized for writhing hours, until she begs for release, or perhaps, if he wishes, merely put to his purposes briefly, perhaps, her tunic torn away, simply flung to the floor, there to be s... |
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| 15 | 16 |
Does it not beg to be torn away? It is no wonder that slave raids in the high cities commonly target slaves. |
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| 16 | 46 |
How will Kurii regard her, after this evening? Will she be torn to pieces? Will she be dragged to the shuttle port and eaten alive? Will they remand her to the cattle pens, she fully aware, awaiting perhaps for weeks her turn on the slaughter bench? Perhaps they will give her to Peisistratus, for hi... |
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| 18 | 292 |
And now Cabot himself was netted, though not in the light toils of a weighted slave net, which he might have torn open and shredded, a net unsuitable for a man but inescapable for a female, but in a mighty net, stoutly woven, thickly stranded, cast by a Kur, a net that might have held a larl. |
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| 19 | 16 |
The arm was torn off, and the sleen shook it angrily. |
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| 19 | 81 |
Again, it was torn. |
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| 21 | 168 |
They regarded one another, frightened, and then looked piteously upon the torn, bleeding female. |
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| 23 | 98 |
"Show," she said, "for the crowds, otherwise they might have swarmed onto the sand and torn us both to pieces". |
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| 26 | 38 |
"Her tongue could be torn out. |
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| 29 | 153 |
"It may be easily torn from me," she said. |
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| 32 | 208 |
Grendel seemed torn, agonized. |
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| 32 | 232 |
"Some pieces torn from tharlarion," said he. |
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| 33 | 257 |
It must be another beast!" Suddenly the saurian rose from the water, as a whale might have breached, and one of the paddlelike appendages was a massive, bleeding stump, and its belly was torn open in a wound yards long, a wound so deep it might have reached the spine of the beast, and gut and blood,... |
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| 34 | 58 |
He felt it rip through his hands, pulled away, carried off into the wind-torn, rain-driven darkness, wound about some shifted, dislodged log. |
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| 41 | 10 |
"It may be wounded, torn, dying". |
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| 41 | 98 |
Cabot set his hands between the teeth of the trap and, sweating, straining, eased them a little open, and his hands were covered with blood and torn hair, and the sleen watched him, and Cabot, grunted, fighting for breath, and opened the teeth a bit more, and a little more, and then the sleen, with ... |
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| 43 | 443 |
"To be sure," said Cabot, "it seems a pity to think of that pretty little body disfigured and mangled, burned with irons, torn by hooks, coated with honey, and then put out, alive, staked out naked, helplessly, for the delectation of flocks of tiny, carnivorous song birds. |
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| 44 | 165 |
He had seen more than one Kur head torn from its body by that grip. |
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| 50 | 80 |
The other humans entered the camp, haggard, pale, filthy, with torn clothing, some bloodied, and bandaged, two supported by their fellows. |
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| 58 | 22 |
"It is not like Kurii to abandon fresh meat, not when it is torn, not when it is run to ground, weakened, exhausted, panting, hot and bloody," said Grendel. |
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| 61 | 245 |
"My tongue may be torn out". |
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| 63 | 29 |
Lord Grendel spun about and Cabot feared his arm would be torn from his body. |
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| 63 | 140 |
The leader of the herd pushed his confreres back with the club, and raised it high over his head, to strike the torn, and bloodied, piece of flesh at his feet. |
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| 63 | 141 |
The blow did not fall because the club was torn from his grasp and then Lord Grendel, the massive club in his hands, began to strike about him, and the cattle humans fled back before these blows, limping, arms dangling, faces a mass of bones and blood. |
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| 63 | 142 |
The leader of the cattle humans, blood about his teeth, where he had bitten his prey, was seized in the mighty paws of Lord Grendel, lifted high in the air, and then flung to the earth, this breaking the back and neck of the leader of the cattle humans, who was then, as Lord Grendel had not loosened... |
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| 63 | 156 |
Some of the Kurii were buffeted one way or another, but then the herd was muchly scattered, and Lord Grendel would not move from his place, which was near small, torn flesh, and Cabot walked to join him, presumably that they might die together. |
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| 63 | 175 |
Lord Grendel turned about and slowly made his way back to the insurrectionists' lines, the unconscious, torn body of the Lady Bina in his arms. |
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| 64 | 118 |
In Lord Grendel's camps, that of the forest, and that later within their lines, she had been terrified to protest her innocence or even to speak, as she had been warned that her tongue might be torn out. |
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| 67 | 111 |
He thought in sorrow of the beauty of the Lady Bina, and how she was now little more than a broken, torn, hideous, shapeless thing. |
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| 69 | 22 |
They knew they were such as might be hunted by them, and torn to pieces by them, or might be apprehended by them, and then returned by them, being driven, herded, mercilessly, relentlessly, back to the mercies of dreaded, waiting masters. |
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| 70 | 168 |
Cabot then, with much effort, lifted the teeth of the trap a few inches, and Flavion, with his hands, lifted his torn, bleeding leg free. |
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| 78 | 146 |
He had torn away some of the fastenings when Lord Grendel's ax, flung with considerable swiftness and accuracy, struck him in the back, rather parallel to the spine, on the left side. |
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| 79 | 110 |
"In this way they will not be bruised, or torn, as they might be, against a post, or a wall, such things. |
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| 79 | 244 |
She had been granted a veil and used it superbly, even tormentingly, until it was torn away by her master, Peisistratus, who had had enough, and he dragged her from the fire, into the darkness. |
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| 80 | 219 |
Cabot's heart was torn for his friend, and he, too, turned aside, that he might tender him some minim of comfort, however inadequate it must be. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 267 |
Too, if one makes a sudden movement in its vicinity, for example, a paw may, as by a reflex, lash out and a hand may be half torn from a wrist, or an arm may be shredded. |
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| 10 | 298 |
For example, if certain forms of distress occur, such as regurgitation, the gag should be torn free instantly. |
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| 12 | 272 |
Eventually the younger bird will grow stronger and fiercer and the older bird weaker and less fierce, and, sooner or later, a new Ubar, over the body of its torn, quivering foe, will scream its conquest, and its claiming of the flock. |
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| 22 | 713 |
"Oh!" she gasped, turned and twisted by the force of it, and her tunic had been torn from her. |
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| 23 | 231 |
Doubtless it had been torn to pieces by the crowd. |
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| 26 | 29 |
And at worst she might be torn to pieces by pursuing sleen or be hamstrung, to spend the rest of her life pulling herself about by her hands, being whipped, and living on garbage, and serving as an object lesson for other slaves. |
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| 28 | 416 |
At the same time, from within the trees, I heard a screaming, and a shaking and a tearing, as though an arm might be being torn from its shoulder. |
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| 38 | 458 |
Torn between her lingering pretenses of freedom and her slave needs, she had been found insufficiently pleasing by her masters, and was to be cast to eels in a pool in a Pleasure Cylinder, associated with a Steel World. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 241 |
I saw a head torn off, and, more than once, a body held down, grasped in talons, being torn apart, being eaten. |
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| 8 | 122 |
What male does not sense the vulnerable, inviting nakedness of a slave within a woman's assorted garmentures, no matter how contrived and pretentious? And do not even free women sense that men see them thusly, see them exposed beneath their robes, see them as they would be without them, as they migh... |
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| 9 | 49 |
Twice, riderless tarns had returned to the ship, their harnessing torn apart or missing, their beaks red with frozen blood. |
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| 12 | 203 |
The bread was placed not at my right hand, but insolently before me, half torn. |
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| 15 | 58 |
We saw yards of vines being torn from the sea. |
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| 18 | 44 |
In front it was torn to her belly. |
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| 20 | 95 |
Both were bloodied, and the brief tunic of each was half torn from her fair form. |
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| 20 | 135 |
Normally masters do not much mix in the squabbles of slaves but, in this case, damage had been done, slaves bloodied, and tunics torn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 66 |
Then they, and the others, their work done, the premises rummaged through, the decor torn, scratched, and ravaged, exited behind he before whom we knelt, who barred our way. |
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| 7 | 768 |
The tunic was then torn from me. |
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| 8 | 1419 |
My hair was jerked and twisted, short of being torn from my head, which would have been a punishable offense, and my body was much bruised, by small, angry fists, and, often enough, from the blows of ladles and stirring spoons. |
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| 9 | 81 |
I did know that men bet on tarn races, which could be dangerous at the rings, sometimes a body broken, a limb lost, a wing torn away, and that some cared for arena sports, sword games. |
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| 10 | 555 |
I rose to my feet, and tied up, as I could, the torn tunic, and replaced the kerchief. |
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| 10 | 1167 |
"Move," he said, and I saw the two slaves pass me, on the right, tied together, closely, head to head, by the hair, their tunics torn to the waist, their hands thonged tightly behind them, their backs and the back of their thighs richly striped from the blows of a switch. |
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| 10 | 1287 |
There was a faded, stained, half-torn poster, advertising a carnival, on the wall opposite. |
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| 10 | 1297 |
"Do not bite, of course, or your teeth must be torn from your head". |
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| 10 | 1362 |
On the wall opposite the back entrance, one of several, to Six Bridges, there was a faded, half-torn poster. |
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| 10 | 1366 |
Amongst the animals portrayed on the poster, snow larls, large, striped urts, snarling sleen, performing tharlarion, prancing kaiila, there was another, where the poster was half torn. |
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| 11 | 49 |
It sometimes seemed to me that he was almost human, and then I recalled his fangs, and how I might once, in a moment of rage, have had my head torn from my shoulders. |
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| 11 | 112 |
"Eight or ten men, some women, have been torn to pieces, in different places, in different districts". |
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| 11 | 156 |
I immediately recalled the faded, half-torn poster, the remains of which were affixed to the wall opposite one of the rear entrances to Six Bridges. |
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| 15 | 172 |
Suddenly the stall's frontage was torn away, from before me, and struck clattering to the side, and I saw the large shape there, intent, crouched down. |
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| 15 | 236 |
Wood was torn aside, and the thing was outside the stall. |
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| 15 | 237 |
There had been noise when it had torn away the frontage of the stall, a brief, clear shattering of the market's silence, which I trusted no one heard, and now, too, though less, when it tore away the gate and forcibly enlarged the threshold, that its bulk, paws extended before it, might exit frontal... |
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| 16 | 63 |
"Now put this on, and we will put you before men, and see if it should be shortened, or altered, a bit, perhaps slit at the hems, torn down some about the neck, such things". |
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| 17 | 106 |
After I had confessed so much of myself to him, so revealed who was in my collar, I had almost hoped I would hear the issuance of a disrobing order, or that his hands, at my neckline, would have torn away my tunic. |
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