| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 55 |
Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelik... |
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| 6 | 129 |
Luckily I did immediately as he had advised, fixing my grip deep in the long black hairs that covered his thorax, for Nar suddenly raced to a nearby swamp tree and scuttled high into its branches. |
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| 6 | 139 |
In an instant I had splashed into the marsh at the foot of the tree and raced toward the tharlarion, my sword raised. |
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| 6 | 154 |
Accordingly, carrying the sword in my hand, I waded back to the foot of the swamp tree and climbed the small, dry knoll at its base. |
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| 6 | 161 |
Exhausted, I sat with my back against the tree, my hand never leaving the hilt of my sword. |
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| 8 | 176 |
"Suppose I chain you to that tree," I suggested. |
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| 9 | 71 |
Then, carrying the chain, which was still attached to her ankle, she walked to a nearby tree, bent down, and looped the loose end of the chain around the trunk. |
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| 9 | 73 |
I gave them to her, and she placed the bracelets through two links of the part of the chain that encircled the tree, snapping them shut and handing me the key. |
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| 10 | 123 |
Primarily, this is done by constructing the tree of the saddle in such a way that the leather seat is mounted on a hydraulic fitting which actually floats in a thick lubricant. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 130 |
I felt it could have felled a small tree with a single blow. |
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| 8 | 10 |
Even men of a caste as low as that of the Tarn-Keepers were intolerably proud of their calling, for who else could raise and train those monstrous birds of prey? I supposed Zosk the Woodsman was proud in the knowledge that he with his great broad-headed ax could fell a tree in one blow, and that per... |
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| 17 | 106 |
Ost might as well have been chained to a tree. |
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| 21 | 26 |
She knelt, her back against a slender, white birchlike tree to which she was chained naked. |
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| 21 | 27 |
Her hands were joined over her head and behind the tree by slave bracelets. |
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| 21 | 28 |
Her ankles were similarly fastened by a short slave chain which encircled the tree. |
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| 21 | 33 |
There was an iron brazier near the tree, which was filled with glowing coals. |
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| 21 | 64 |
At the sight of the glowing metal the girl uncontrollably screamed, pulling at the slave bracelets, at the shackles that held her to the tree. |
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| 21 | 86 |
It passed through the ankle ring of each and, at each end, encircled a tree to which it was padlocked. |
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| 21 | 109 |
The girl shrank against the tree, her back against its white, rough bark. |
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| 21 | 110 |
Her wrists and ankles pulled at the chains that fastened them behind the tree. |
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| 21 | 242 |
Clutching me by the elbow, he guided me back to the tree where the blond girl knelt chained. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 12 |
The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, ... |
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| 7 | 90 |
For all I knew, a Priest-King could wait like a stone or tree, nerveless until necessary. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 36 |
Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o... |
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| 19 | 2 |
Indeed, coming down the segmented trunk of the flower tree, I almost landed on top of him. |
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| 19 | 3 |
He was sitting with his back to the tree, puffing, resting. |
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| 19 | 7 |
I leaned back against the tree, breathing heavily. |
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| 19 | 33 |
And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia. |
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| 19 | 34 |
I looked at the lovely, dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hung from the curved branches of the tree. |
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| 19 | 203 |
In a short while Harold, carrying the struggling Hereena, and I had retraced our steps to the central hall and descended the steps of the porch and returned by means of the curving walks between the shrubs and pools to the flower tree by means of which we had originally entered the Pleasure Gardens ... |
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| 20 | 9 |
Making our way up the flower tree with Hereena, who fought like a young she-larl, was not easy. |
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| 20 | 10 |
I went part way up the tree and was handed the girl, and then Harold would go up above me and I would hoist her up a way to him, and then I would pass him, and so on. |
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| 20 | 11 |
Occasionally, to my irritation, we became entangled in the trailing, looped stems of the tree, each with its richness of clustered flowers, whose beauty I was no longer in a mood to appreciate. |
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| 20 | 12 |
At last we got Hereena to the top of the tree. |
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| 20 | 15 |
Although the wall was several feet from the top of the tree I managed, by springing on one of the curved branches, to build up enough spring pressure to leap to where I could get my fingers over the edge of the wall. |
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| 20 | 18 |
I was about to respond when I heard a stifled scream of horror and saw that Harold had hurled Hereena in my direction, across the space between the tree and the wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 226 |
The most typical and famous tree of these forests is the lofty, reddish Tur tree, some varieties of which grow more than two hundred feet high. |
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| 13 | 205 |
The Gorean woodsman, it might be mentioned, before he will strike a tree with his ax, speaks to the tree, begs its forgiveness and explains the use to which the wood will be put. |
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| 3 | 492 |
I stood with my back against a tree, my hand before my mouth. |
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| 3 | 513 |
I collapsed at the foot of a tree, gasping, each muscle in my body crying out. |
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| 9 | 28 |
One of the girls scrambled up a nearby tree. |
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| 11 | 824 |
I tried to rub through the binding fiber that held my wrists, rubbing it against the trunk of a fallen tree, but I could not loosen it, or rub through it. |
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| 12 | 313 |
I saw that the domed top of Verna's cage was set with a ring, so that the cage might be, if one wished, hung from the branch of a tree, or suspended from some supporting structure, for public viewing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 157 |
I sat them about the tree, their backs to it, and fastened them in the star, the left wrist of the first girl bound to the right wrist of the next, and so about the tree, until the star was closed by binding the left wrist of the fourth girl to the last untethered wrist, the right wrist of the first... |
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| 15 | 501 |
I fastened it about a small tree, thus tethering the entire chain of girls to the tree. |
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| 15 | 828 |
"Go to that tree," said the red-haired girl, indicating a slender-trunked tree at the edge of the camp clearing. |
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| 15 | 894 |
I went to the tree about which had been fastened the length of chain extending from the first girl's Harl ring, that tethering the girls to the tree. |
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| 18 | 362 |
I tied each wrist separately, tightly, against the tree, looping the binding fiber about the tree twice, and twice over the outjutting branch. |
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| 2 | 736 |
Then, where the forest begins, look for a Tur tree, blazed ten feet above the ground, with the point of a girl's spear. |
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| 2 | 737 |
From this tree, travel generally north, seeking similarly blazed trees, a quarter of a pasang apart. |
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| 2 | 743 |
Then look for a Tur tree, torn by lightning. |
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| 2 | 744 |
A pasang north by northeast from that tree, again look for blazed trees, but now the blazing is, as before, high on the trunk, and made by a girl's spear. |
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| 6 | 91 |
"Why not follow the tree blazings, and such?" asked Thurnock. |
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| 6 | 261 |
It had taken the better part of the morning, but Rim and I, and Thurnock, had found the blazed tree, blazed with a spear point, several feet high on the trunk. |
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| 6 | 262 |
We had then found the next tree, to establish the line. |
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| 7 | 12 |
Somewhere, far off, but carrying through the forest, was the rapid, staccato slap of the sharp beak of the yellow-breasted hermit bird, pounding into the reddish bark of the Tur tree, hunting for larvae. |
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| 7 | 133 |
The arrow struck the trunk of a tree not inches from my face. |
10 |
| 7 | 192 |
She had been pinned to a tree by the shoulder. |
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| 7 | 216 |
I snapped off the rest of the arrow, and, with a knife, shaved it to the tree, that it might not attract attention. |
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| 7 | 221 |
When I was satisfied that I had carried her sufficiently far, so far that I was confident that she would not be within earshot of any to whom she might wish to call, I set her down on the ground, leaning her against a tree. |
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| 7 | 224 |
Now she was conscious, and sat, leaning against the tree, her eyes glazed, regarding me. |
10 |
| 7 | 277 |
"Climb," I told her, indicating a nearby tree. |
10 |
| 7 | 287 |
"Edge out on the limb," I told her, "and lie down upon it, on your back, your head to the trunk of the tree". |
10 |
| 7 | 316 |
I eased myself upward into the branches of a tree, whence I might command a better view. |
10 |
| 8 | 37 |
More than one Gorean poet has sung of the leaf of a Tur tree. |
10 |
| 8 | 301 |
I fell against a tree, and again struggled to my feet. |
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| 9 | 248 |
"We saw you pin her to the tree, and bracelet her. |
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| 10 | 40 |
"It is for that reason," said Marlenus, "that I do not have you now hung upon a tree". |
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| 14 | 2 |
I stood on a strong branch, against the trunk of a tree, some forty feet above the ground. |
10 |
| 14 | 89 |
I stood on a strong branch, against the trunk of a tree, some forty feet above the ground. |
10 |
| 14 | 144 |
The moons, the three white, dominating moons of Gor, were now rearing over the tree tops. |
10 |
| 14 | 156 |
I had then found a suitable, thick-trunked tree. |
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| 14 | 213 |
* * * * On the branch of the tree, high, in the darkness, crouching, I saw the man of Tyros, with his leather glove, reach to the handle of the slave iron, protruding from the brazier. |
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| 15 | 283 |
It may be used to chain a girl to anything, the ankle ring closed on her ankle, and the locking device at the termination of the device being easily fastened, looped, say, about a tree, or stanchion, or the ankle of another girl, and then locked about its own chain, or through one of the links of it... |
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| 15 | 284 |
The chain, of course, may also be looped about, say, a tree, or a pillar in a public building, and the locking device snapped into the welded ring on the back of the girl's own ankle ring. |
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| 15 | 315 |
It may be used, of course, to fasten the entire chain about, or to, some suitable object, a pillar, a stanchion, a wagon wheel, a tree, a column in a market colonnade, a post in a bazaar, one of the heavy slave rings, set in the ground, usually found at the edges of a square in a Gorean city. |
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| 15 | 407 |
* * * * I stood on the branch of a tree, concealed in foliage. |
10 |
| 15 | 460 |
I had tied them to a small Tur tree. |
10 |
| 15 | 508 |
She was standing with her back against the trunk of a tree, her hands behind her back. |
10 |
| 15 | 834 |
She clutched the base of the tree's trunk. |
10 |
| 15 | 839 |
I strode to the tree and, with two short lengths of binding fiber, tied Ilene's wrists to the branch. |
10 |
| 16 | 108 |
Ilene I had left with the other prisoners, chaining her, belly to a tree, by slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 18 | 334 |
I snapped off a large branch, extending from a fallen tree, with the flat of my foot. |
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| 18 | 355 |
At the fringe of the forest, overlooking the sloping beach, covered with its stones, and, lower, with its sand, I found a strong, slender tree, with an outjutting branch some five feet from the ground, the branch facing away from the water. |
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| 18 | 359 |
I shoved her back against the tree. |
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| 18 | 363 |
She stood, thus, facing the sea, her wrists tied back, against each side of the tree. |
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| 18 | 364 |
With another length of binding fiber I jerked her belly back against the tree, tying it there, tightly. |
10 |
| 18 | 377 |
I also secured her by the neck, by means of a thong, to a nearby tree. |
10 |
| 18 | 388 |
I looked at Tina, tied, back against the tree, my slave. |
10 |
| 18 | 403 |
She was asleep even before I had thonged her neck to the tree. |
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| 18 | 474 |
In the legends of others they appear as blond giants, breathing fire, shattering doors, giants taller than trees, with pointed ears and eyes like fire and hands like great claws and hooks; they are seen as savages, as barbarians, as beasts blood-thirsty and mad with killing, with braided hair, clad ... |
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| 18 | 498 |
I tied her wrists together behind her back, about a small tree. |
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| 18 | 508 |
In the darkness I took her, suddenly, by the arms and thrust her rudely up against a tree. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 183 |
There was a great log there, from a fallen tree. |
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| 8 | 77 |
It contained as well the separated oil of the Thentis needle tree; an extract from the glands of the Cartius river urt; and a preparation formed from a disease calculus scraped from the intestines of the rare Hunjer Long Whale, the result of the inadequate digestion of cuttlefish. |
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| 17 | 47 |
Clouds would be strangers to them; rain an inconvenience; snow a nuisance; a tree an anachronism; a flower an oddity, cut and frozen in a florist's refrigerator. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 58 |
The nomads, when camping at a watering place, commonly pitch their tent near a tree; this affords them shade; also they place and hang goods in the branches of the tree, using it for storage. |
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| 5 | 113 |
His hand was on her body, and she, writhing, weeping, with her heels, pushing herself, back scraping on the bark, climbed almost a foot up the slanting trunk, before he, taking her in his arms, through her veil, kissed her, fiercely, again and again, with the rape-kisses of a master, impressed on th... |
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| 5 | 121 |
Indeed, women are sometimes tied in much the same fashion, kneeling back against such a post or tree, their hands tied together over their head and behind the post or tree. |
10 |
| 2 | 29 |
A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. |
10 |
| 4 | 423 |
I chained her, arms over her head, back against the trunk, to a flahdah tree. |
10 |
| 4 | 426 |
They tickled her with the lanceolate leaves of the tree. |
10 |
| 5 | 107 |
She staggered backward, frightened, stumbling, until she was backed against the backward-leaning trunk of a flahdah tree. |
10 |
| 5 | 115 |
She stood with her back against the tree, angry, trying to reach the knots behind her. |
10 |
| 5 | 118 |
She then, weeping, in misery, inched down the trunk of the tree until she knelt with her back against it, leaning back, and tried to reach behind her, again trying to undo the knots. |
10 |
| 5 | 119 |
This was not an easy task for, again, she could not see the knots, they being behind her, on the other side of the tree. |
10 |
| 5 | 137 |
Aya was not pleased to find the girl hair-tied by the tree, the bag of churned verr milk lying to one side in the dust. |
10 |
| 10 | 48 |
It takes years for such a tree to grow to the point at which it will bear fruit. |
10 |
| 11 | 517 |
I saw a palm tree falling. |
10 |
| 14 | 592 |
"The right ear," said the next man, grasping the long, slim lance, eight feet Gorean in length, marked with red and yellow swirling stripes, terminating in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, and lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree. |
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| 17 | 148 |
Wisdom decrees that the tree of thought must not be planted where it cannot bear fruit. |
10 |
| 22 | 80 |
It was long, slim, some eight foot Gorean in length; it was marked with red and yellow swirling stripes; it terminated in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 606 |
When I had cried out with anguish, bound on the inclined trunk of the white-barked tree, two men rose from near the fire and, as though they had been waiting for some such cry on my part, evidence that I now, to my horror, understood truly what I was, that I had now, in my own heart, and to my own m... |
10 |
| 2 | 829 |
He lifted me in his arms, so lightly that it startled me, and carried me to a tree. |
10 |
| 2 | 830 |
As he tethered my right ankle to the tree I, bound as I was, overcome with exhaustion, fell asleep. |
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| 2 | 841 |
My right ankle, by a short length of black leather, was tied to a small, white-barked tree. |
10 |
| 2 | 842 |
I rose to my hands and knees, my back to the tree. |
10 |
| 2 | 844 |
I then sat with my back against the tree, my legs drawn up, my chin on my knees, my hands about my knees. |
10 |
| 2 | 867 |
I bent to untie the dark leather which fastened me to the white tree. |
10 |
| 2 | 869 |
But a sharp word from him, and a gesture, indicated to me that I must first remove the tether from about the trunk of the small tree. |
10 |
| 2 | 1069 |
Then, as moonlight fell through the tree branches in a pattern across its snout and neck, I saw not scales, but rippled fur, long and thick. |
10 |
| 2 | 1244 |
He had not tied me to a tree, for sleen to devour. |
10 |
| 3 | 225 |
There was a white-barked, fallen tree close at hand, within the camp enclosure. |
10 |
| 3 | 355 |
The white-barked tree, fallen, within the camp enclosure, broken off some four feet from the ground, the trunk then inclining to the ground, was near. |
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| 3 | 363 |
They pulled me up by the arms and took me to the white-barked tree. |
10 |
| 3 | 364 |
They threw me on my back, my head down, on the tree. |
10 |
| 3 | 367 |
They were fastened, behind my head, out of my vision, to the tree. |
10 |
| 3 | 370 |
I felt my body being tightly roped to the tree. |
10 |
| 3 | 376 |
The men stepped back; I was fastened to the tree. |
10 |
| 3 | 433 |
The men then left me and I continued to lie, head down, roped and helpless, on the broken, inclined trunk of the white-barked tree. |
10 |
| 3 | 480 |
I lay on the white-barked tree trunk, head down, weeping. |
10 |
| 3 | 493 |
I felt the smooth, brittle bark of the white-barked tree beneath my back, on the interior of my thighs, tied as I was. |
10 |
| 3 | 586 |
Again I lay alone on the inclined trunk of the white-barked tree. |
10 |
| 4 | 6 |
I saw the long, horizontal peak of the striped tenting above me, extending on either side from the leather cord that served as its roof tree. |
10 |
| 4 | 837 |
A nature, like the growth of a tree, the shape of a bush, may be clipped and thwarted. |
10 |
| 5 | 709 |
The location of the lady herself I did not know, but I had little doubt she was in a safe place, probably blindfolded, gagged and chained to a tree somewhere. |
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| 7 | 67 |
Less than a pasang from the camp we had come to a small tree. |
10 |
| 7 | 68 |
The Lady Sabina, in her robes of concealment, stood with her belly to this tree, her wrists fastened about it, locked in the steel of slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 7 | 108 |
She then stood barefoot, her small feet in the crushed leaves and twigs at the foot of the tree. |
10 |
| 7 | 157 |
He then ripped the sleeves from the undergarment, and they hung about her wrists, loose, kept from falling by her wrists and the slave bracelets confining her at the tree. |
10 |
| 7 | 168 |
She seethed at the tree. |
10 |
| 7 | 169 |
She pulled at the bracelets, tearing at the bark of the tree. |
10 |
| 7 | 203 |
She put her cheek against the bark of the tree. |
10 |
| 7 | 212 |
The girl pressed her cheek against the rough bark of the tree and moaned, and wept, staining the bark with her tears. |
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| 7 | 471 |
At the cache camp, the first night of our arrival, the Lady Sabina had been stripped and thrown on her back, head down, on the inclining, white-barked tree trunk, to which she had then been, as I had been before her, helplessly roped. |
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| 9 | 1409 |
There they held my wrists about a tree and, striking many times, put me under rope-discipline. |
10 |
| 9 | 1410 |
Held against the tree, feeling its bark with the side of my cheek, weeping, shuddering under the blows of the coiled rope, I wondered what I had done to them that they should be so cruel to me. |
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| 9 | 1618 |
He can be like a rock or a tree. |
10 |
| 10 | 67 |
My tether he tied to a tree. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 279 |
"Yes, Master," she cried happily, running to where I had indicated, a place beside a small tree some fifty yards from the pond. |
10 |
| 6 | 378 |
She spread the furs on the grass by the tree, and then lay on them, on her belly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 432 |
"It is wrong for the tree to be a tree, the rock a rock, the bird a bird?" I asked. |
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| 27 | 107 |
The results of our trading had been two baskets of dried fish, a sack of meal and vegetables, a length of bark cloth, plaited and pounded, from the pod tree, dyed red, a handful of colored, wooden beads, and, most importantly, two pangas, two-foot-long, heavy, curve-bladed bush knives. |
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| 29 | 16 |
Kisu, with a knife, was cutting a length from the rough, red-dyed cloth, plaited and pounded, derived from the inner bark of the pod tree, which we had obtained in trade some days ago at the fishermen's village. |
10 |
| 29 | 115 |
Alice, her wrists bound now behind her, tethered by them to a tree, to which Tende lay similarly secured, lay asleep. |
10 |
| 29 | 125 |
"Go sit by the slave post," I said to her, referring to that slim tree to which the other girls were secured, which served us as slave post, "and cross your wrists behind you". |
10 |
| 29 | 128 |
I then tied the free end of the tether about the slave post, or tree, fastening her to it. |
10 |
| 32 | 154 |
Tende and Alice were already, hands tied behind them, wrist-tethered to the small tree which served us as slave post. |
10 |
| 32 | 191 |
These layers are marked off by divergent tree heights. |
10 |
| 32 | 201 |
Monkeys and tree urts, and snakes and insects, however, can also be found in this highest level. |
10 |
| 32 | 230 |
It knifes through the water by day and, at night, returns to its nest, built from sticks and mud in the branches of a tree overlooking the water. |
10 |
| 34 | 172 |
They might be tied over her head or before her body, usually about a small tree". |
10 |
| 34 | 518 |
"I note that this night," she said, "you did not fasten me to a small tree, as to a slave post, but that you prepared a slave stake". |
10 |
| 35 | 4 |
By a leather thong looped about her right forearm he fastened her to a small tree a few feet from our fire. |
10 |
| 35 | 45 |
She knelt a few feet from us, her hands bound behind her, a line running from her bound wrists to the same tree to which Tende was tethered. |
10 |
| 40 | 5 |
Her hands were tied behind her, a line running to the small tree which served us in the camp as slave post. |
10 |
| 41 | 11 |
The trap, weighted, just below the surface, is activated by two vine ropes, slung over tree branches, ropes which are drawn taut when two logs, to which they are attached, one on each shore, are rolled or dropped from a concealed scaffolding. |
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| 43 | 65 |
"Perhaps she was tied about a tree," said Janice. |
10 |
| 46 | 12 |
I then released the blond girl from the palm tree and, tying her ankles, threw her with the rest. |
10 |
| 46 | 19 |
The little men then tied a vine collar on the throat of each girl and, by the arms, dragged them, one by one, to a long-trunked, fallen tree. |
10 |
| 46 | 20 |
About this tree, encircling it, were a number of vine loopings. |
10 |
| 46 | 23 |
The forty-three girls then knelt, naked, hands tied behind them, ankles crossed and bound, at the trunk of the fallen tree, their heads tied down over it. |
10 |
| 46 | 24 |
They could not slide themselves free sideways, moving the vine loopings, because of the roots of the tree at one end and its spreading branches at the other. |
10 |
| 46 | 25 |
They were well secured in place, their heads over the tree trunk. |
10 |
| 48 | 119 |
Please, please, let me try to earn my life!" There were cries of consternation and astonishment, and rage, from the kneeling, tethered talunas at the tree, their heads down. |
10 |
| 48 | 121 |
But instantly several of the small men leaped forward and threw the hair of more than one of the prisoners forward over the trunk of the tree, and laid the edge of the rusty pangas at their necks. |
10 |
| 48 | 127 |
Turgus untied the ankles of the dark-haired girl and freed her vine collar from the loop on the trunk of the tree. |
10 |
| 48 | 278 |
"Please," she begged, "please!" Both the girls still wore the vine collars on their throats, which the small people had affixed on them, that they might be fastened more easily at the fallen tree. |
10 |
| 49 | 27 |
About a hundred yards beyond the first body, on the same side of the river, it, too, suspended from a tree branch, hung by the neck, dangling over the water, was a second body. |
10 |
| 53 | 187 |
I saw the height of a slender tree trunk suddenly protruding against the sky, leaning against the wall from the outside. |
10 |
| 53 | 197 |
I saw one thrust back another tree trunk. |
10 |
| 53 | 306 |
Then others brought forth two of the slender tree trunks they had been using to scale the walls. |
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| 53 | 383 |
I raced along the wall's top and thrust back one of the tree trunks put against it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 160 |
"I should put a pin through your ankles, Taphris," cried the mistress, "and hang you up by the heels from a Tur tree, smeared with your own blood, for the jards!" "Did you hear all, Mistress?" begged Taphris. |
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| 32 | 8 |
The tether was fastened to a tree which I could reach out and touch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 116 |
Who would wish to risk his life, it is said, to carry off a woman who might, when roped to a tree and stripped, turn out to be as ugly as a tharlarion? Slave girls, by contrast, are almost never permitted veils. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 147 |
"Please, Master," begged the girl who had spoken earlier to the young man, "when we camp, tie my neck to a tree and untie my ankles. |
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| 4 | 156 |
"My neck, too, can be tied to a tree, and my ankles, too, can be untied, Master," said another of the girls, addressing me. |
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| 11 | 11 |
Last night the coffle had been taken four times about a small, sturdy tree and then the collar of the first girl had been fastened to the collar of the last girl. |
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| 13 | 1579 |
Your neck, of course, might always be tied to a stake, or bound to a tree". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 79 |
"It is the tree!" suddenly cried Cancega, rushing to the tree and striking it with the medicine wand. |
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| 1 | 134 |
It is also used more broadly for a gash, such as an ax might cut in a tree, or for a cut or scar. |
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| 2 | 243 |
Such cradles, too, vertically, are often hung from a lodge pole or in the branches of a tree. |
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| 2 | 244 |
In the tree, of course, the wind, in its rocking motion, can lull the infant to sleep. |
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| 3 | 33 |
"The young men, more than a hundred of them, selected from the bands, sent ahead days ago, as soon as the Pte were sighted, have ridden for the tree". |
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| 3 | 37 |
The first five men who strike the tree, with their hand, or with a canhpi, a lance or coup stick, obtain high coups". |
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| 3 | 73 |
The focal point of this dance, which wove back and forth, in a fanlike motion, before it, was a high, white-barked tree. |
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| 3 | 74 |
Cancega repeated, over and over, carrying the medicine wand, and dancing, "It is the tree". |
10 |
| 3 | 78 |
I could see the marks of various weapons in the bark of the tree where, perhaps two or three days ago, the young men had charged to it, to be the first to reach it, in their race for coups. |
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| 3 | 93 |
She began, under the direction of Cancega, and others, to strike at the lower portions of the tree. |
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| 3 | 95 |
Could it be that something was to occur which was regarded as not being suitable, perhaps, for the sensibilities of free women? Winyela continued to chop at the tree. |
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| 3 | 96 |
It was some twenty-five to thirty feet in height, but it was not, really, a large tree. |
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| 3 | 111 |
In a moment there was a cracking noise, and then, after a few more blows, a splintering, rending sound as the tree tipped, and then, its branches striking the earth, fell. |
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| 3 | 118 |
Several of the men, now, under the direction of Cancega, began to remove the branches and bark from the felled tree. |
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| 3 | 122 |
The slim trunk of the tree, with its forks, stripped of its bark, was now long, smooth and white. |
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| 11 | 112 |
In the center of this space was the pole which had been formed, some days ago, from the tree which Winyela had felled. |
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| 11 | 115 |
In the lower fork, rolled in a bundle, were the jewelry and clothes Winyela had worn when she had cut down the tree. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 37 |
The cage was slung now not from the ring on the wagon beam but from a rope which had been thrown over a high stout branch of a large tree. |
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| 14 | 90 |
I felt a hand at my back and I was conducted from the area of the tree and the suspended cage. |
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| 14 | 94 |
My left upper arm, now that we had left the area of the tree and cage, under the cloak, was in the custody of the man on my left. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 894 |
That is much like thinking that the fruit cannot be enjoyed if it has not first begged to be plucked from the tree. |
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| 25 | 811 |
They then untied me, but only to string me up by the ankles to a tree branch. |
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| 25 | 1499 |
On the porcelain, very delicately done, in red, was the representation of a Tur tree. |
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| 25 | 1503 |
It had the Tur tree, emblem of Turia, in the southern hemisphere, on the porcelain "stone". |
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| 25 | 1724 |
It can tie wrists and ankles, and it may also be used as a temporary tether, fastening the slave to a ring, or, say, to a small tree. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52 |
To be sure, she might not seem so to a crocodile or a tree but she should seem such to a male of her species, and that was what counted. |
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| 26 | 227 |
But I would be scarcely less helpless if I were in a tiny slave cage, through the bars of which he might thrust with his sword, perhaps a hundred short, sharp times, or, similarly available to him, for whatever he might choose to do to me, chained with my belly to a tree, my ankles and wrists fasten... |
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| 32 | 290 |
That I could have done anywhere outside the camp, chained to a tree, if necessary. |
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| 34 | 11 |
It fastened me to a nearby tree, a yard or so from our blankets. |
10 |
| 34 | 76 |
I wore his love chains, and the chain on my neck fastening me to the nearby tree. |
10 |
| 34 | 89 |
He then, too, freed the neck chain from the tree, and then, in a moment, from my neck as well. |
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| 34 | 477 |
He rose to his feet and held both of my hands together in one hand, and, a moment later, thonged my wrists together and tied them over my head, to the branch of a small tree. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 54 |
I had then tied a rope on her left ankle, looped the rope about another tree, a yard or so away, before the first tree, as she faced it, and brought it back, to tie about her right ankle. |
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| 9 | 53 |
I had, accordingly, before these excursions, sat her down, closely, before a small tree, her legs on either side of it. |
10 |
| 9 | 56 |
I then pushed her belly against the bark and braceleted her arms about the tree. |
10 |
| 9 | 61 |
The location of the tree was close enough to the road that she might, if I had not returned by morning, call out, attracting attention to herself, thus saving herself, even if, at the same time, making it almost certain that soon thereafter her thigh would know the fiery kiss of a slave iron, and he... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 54 |
A needle tree provided practical cover from the sky. |
10 |
| 17 | 66 |
Usually the limbs of a tree are muchly hacked off and then, on this scaffolding, captured arms and such are hung. |
10 |
| 19 | 228 |
Once I fell but took refuge beneath a tree trunk in the marsh, washed down from the Vosk. |
10 |
| 21 | 42 |
For example, it is difficult to dislodge it, as it is fastened below the chin, tied or buckled about the neck, by, say, rubbing it against a wall or tree. |
10 |
| 31 | 60 |
He was facing a tree, leaning meditatively against it, his arms outstretched, his hands braced against the trunk. |
10 |
| 31 | 146 |
"Let us dismember him, and hang his limbs from the branches of a tree, as a warning". |
10 |
| 31 | 169 |
Then, he turned, facing the tree again, beside which he stood. |
10 |
| 31 | 173 |
Then, suddenly, in an instant, his face contorted with rage, uttering an animal-like cry, he tore at the tree, gouging the wood, tearing bark from it, scattering it about. |
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| 32 | 20 |
We were near a Tur tree. |
10 |
| 32 | 21 |
"I am sure of it," Titus called down, from the branches of the tree. |
10 |
| 32 | 138 |
"Hist!" said Titus, from the branches of the Tur tree. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 19 |
There were meets, and local championships, with awards, such as fillets of the wool of the bounding hurt, dyed different colors, and for champions, crowns woven of the leaves of the mighty Tur tree. |
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| 17 | 25 |
It is rather, if one may so speak, the stalk of grass, the rooted tree, the flower. |
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| 28 | 24 |
It is, more like a tree, or the world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 968 |
The latter hypothesis was an interesting one, as water urts sometimes secure prey under the water, saving it for later, rather as certain predatory beasts will bury a kill, or place it in a tree, to be finished later. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 187 |
She herself, when her chores were done, gathering grass for bedding, spreading blankets, preparing food and serving it to the men, and such, was chained by an ankle to a tree. |
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| 20 | 205 |
That day, too, as might be expected, her left ankle bore as before its encircling metal impediment, by means of which, with its attached chain, she was secured to a small tree. |
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| 20 | 477 |
"We could keep her in the forest, chained to a tree, or in our hideout cave, but sooner or later someone would suspect, or find her. |
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| 26 | 1556 |
A breeze ruffled the leaves of a nearby tree. |
10 |
| 26 | 1615 |
"Squirm in them, by yourself, cold and miserable, alone in the woods, tied by your neck to a tree". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 16 |
He had selected, one evening, in the dusk, two likely branches from a young Tur tree, a tree which is found on Gor, a reddish tree which, when mature, is lofty and broadly leaved, and had shaped them to his purpose. |
10 |
| 39 | 27 |
He then, with the leash, pulled her head back against the tree, and looping the leash about the tree, fastened it back, against the tree. |
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| 14 | 21 |
One, too, dug him tubers, wild suls, and the other brought him tree fruit, kernelled pods which dangle from the Bar tree, native, as we understand it, neither to Earth or Gor. |
10 |
| 39 | 26 |
"Oh!" He had thrust her back against a tree and then fastened her hands again together, behind her, but now about the tree. |
10 |
| 18 | 82 |
Before engaging in this endeavor he had, within the forest, placed his prisoner, still leashed and gagged, on her belly in the leaves before a lofty Tur tree, and knelt across her body. |
10 |
| 18 | 85 |
With the second strand of the leash he improvised a sling and, with one loop under her arms and the other behind the back of her knees, and she behind him, he began to climb the tree. |
10 |
| 18 | 86 |
On a high branch, some seventy or eighty feet above the ground, he sat her back against the trunk of the tree, and, with the second strand of the leash, fastened her in place, by the feet, belly, and neck. |
10 |
| 18 | 105 |
Cabot then descended the tree and set about creating a trail that would take even sleen some Ahn to negotiate. |
10 |
| 18 | 137 |
He watched with some fascination as beads of water formed on the leaves of rock-climbing Turpah, a parasitic but edible growth commonly adhering to the bark of the Tur tree. |
10 |
| 18 | 209 |
"We braceleted her hands behind her back, about a tree, and hung the key about her neck". |
10 |
| 19 | 78 |
The larl, no more than the sleen, reacted to the machine as a living thing, no more than it might have to a rock or tree. |
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| 20 | 133 |
From hunters who pursued me I learned they were contemplating feasting on her, and had left her secured, that her meat be fresh, fastened to a tree near the shuttle port, her arms braceleted behind her, the key to the bracelets on a string about her neck". |
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| 32 | 202 |
"Too, there is the raft, from which she dares not escape while it is on the lake, and when we come to shore, it is a simple matter to put her on a rope, and, at night, I chain her to a tree". |
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| 36 | 3 |
"You see that tree?" asked Cabot, pointing. |
10 |
| 36 | 12 |
"Ai!" exclaimed Cabot, muchly pleased, for the garland rested upon the long, quivering shaft, deep in the tree. |
10 |
| 39 | 96 |
And you hung Lita's garland nicely on the tree as well. |
10 |
| 40 | 4 |
The slave had been freed from the tree, and the bracelets, and the leash, and had been put to work, preparing a meal, and a small camp for Cabot and Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 40 | 32 |
"With your hands before you, so you will be comfortable," he said, "lying down, with your hands fastened about a small tree". |
10 |
| 40 | 36 |
"Did you enjoy being braceleted to the tree," he asked, "neck leashed to it, unable to speak, gagged?" "You touched me," she said, "when I was helpless, and could not resist! Then you left me to writhe in need!" "It is a common way to heat a slave," said Cabot, "to make her helpless, and then touch ... |
10 |
| 49 | 15 |
The forest panther sometimes drags its prey into a tree, presumably to keep it safe from smaller predators, or from scavengers. |
10 |
| 50 | 59 |
In moments the slave, stripped, her wrists crossed and bound, and fastened over her head, to a stout, overhanging branch, that her beauty might be protected, that she might not be dashed against a post or tree trunk, was in whip position. |
10 |
| 51 | 70 |
"And tied naked to a tree?" "Of course," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 51 | 120 |
"She wished to accompany us, but the chain on her left ankle, she holding out her hands to us, and sobbing, held her to the tree". |
10 |
| 70 | 62 |
It could move the trap, his leg bleeding in the grass and leaves which had concealed the trap, only to the end of the chain, which encircled a nearby tree, and was locked about it. |
10 |
| 72 | 1 |
The Treachery of Flavion Cabot flung himself to the leaves and fired twice, and one blast struck a tree, cracking it open, setting it afire, as if it might have been smitten with lightning, and the other charge took off the head of a Kur. |
10 |
| 75 | 59 |
He then fastened her to a tree by the chain leash, bade her recline, and placed a blanket over her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 111 |
There I thrust her back against a small tree and, pulling her arms behind her, fastened her wrists together, behind the tree, so that she stood before me, fastened in place. |
10 |
| 1 | 467 |
There I thrust her against a tree, belly against the bark, and flung the free end of the strap over a branch. |
10 |
| 4 | 9 |
He regards himself, rather, as a part of her, as much so as a leaf, or tree, but an unusual part, of course, a part which knows itself a part. |
10 |
| 4 | 197 |
I smoothed down the tunic, on both sides, and she pressed back, against the slim trunk of the tree, and turned her head, angrily, and looked to the side. |
10 |
| 4 | 430 |
I untied her hands and she pulled away from the tree, weeping, and fled back some yards into the forest. |
10 |
| 7 | 281 |
Later, we separated the slaves, and tied the leash of each about a tree. |
10 |
| 8 | 56 |
He took little note of the girls, other, I suppose, than to note that their wrists were bound behind them, and each, by the neck, was fastened to a tree. |
10 |
| 16 | 160 |
Too, despite who holds the field, who decorates the trophy tree at the day's end, a general engagement is often lost, in effect, by both sides. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 854 |
This chain ran behind me, where it was padlocked about a tree. |
10 |
| 10 | 68 |
Why is it she was never aware of this glory before? Surely wind had always whispered in the tall green grass, and stirred the shimmering leaves of the Tur tree. |
10 |
| 13 | 40 |
Men on ropes, in shifts, for days now, had scraped and tore away the tendrils which had begun to clutch at the hull, and sought to climb it, as Tur-Pah the Tur tree. |
10 |
| 21 | 319 |
They, too, longed to go ashore, to feel water about their ankles, to feel sand beneath their bared feet, to touch a stone, grass, a living tree. |
10 |
| 37 | 280 |
The vertical chain may function independently, as well, as a chain leash, or a tethering device, by means of which the slave might be secured to a slave ring, a tree, a stanchion, or such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 54 |
But these were chained to a tree, off in the shadows, a guard set over them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 117 |
What tree woman can understand what it is to surrender themselves wholly, to abandon themselves unqualifiedly to love and service, asking nothing but hoping to give all? But perhaps, I thought, many tree women can understand this, some surely, for what is a tree woman but a slave, lacking her collar... |
10 |
| 27 | 33 |
I put my hands out, and, in a moment, felt the bark of a tree, a Tur tree. |
10 |
| 33 | 126 |
But wines, as is well known, may be derived not only from the clustered fruits weighting the branches of the ka-la- na tree in the autumn, but, as on my former world, from vine fruit, tree fruit, bush fruit, even from some types of leaves. |
10 |
| 38 | 208 |
The wigs of many tree women are often from the hair of slaves, though it is certified as having had a tree origin. |
10 |
| 42 | 15 |
As it was fastened, Tula, had she desired to do so, could not reach the tree to her left to undo the knot, as the rope, knotted about the tree to her right, would not permit her to do so; similarly, I could not, had I desired to do so, reach the knot to my right to undo it, as the far knot on the le... |
10 |
| 46 | 135 |
I was sure I could wedge myself between the rocks and the tree, but, upon investigating, I found, to my delight, behind the tree, something much better, an open, narrow space between two large rocks. |
10 |
| 8 | 114 |
The slave is not a tree woman, who may be as she wishes. |
10 |
| 11 | 20 |
As I lay, I could see, on the trunk of a nearby tree, a yellowish stain, at about what would be the eye level of a large man. |
10 |
| 11 | 186 |
I was kajira! But, I wondered, are tree women, really, so different? How many, I wondered, in their loneliness, sob and twist within their coverlets, moan, and pummel their silken, tear-dampened pillows with frustration? It was late. |
10 |
| 14 | 24 |
The wood of the Tur tree is closely grained. |
10 |
| 14 | 102 |
Four more strokes, and there was a gross splintering, a breakage of wood, and the tree fell crashing to the earth, half obscured by a rising cloud of dust and leaping, shimmering leaves. |
10 |
| 14 | 276 |
In passing, one might mention that the offerings in the slave house were often flavored with former tree women of Ar, often once of high caste, importance, power, and wealth. |
10 |
| 14 | 328 |
"As I said," he said, "there are no tree women in camp. |
10 |
| 15 | 297 |
"You were never a tree woman". |
10 |
| 15 | 686 |
Perhaps this evaluation, insofar as it might pertain to anyone, pertained only to certain tree women of the high cities, and, perhaps then, of the higher castes. |
10 |
| 15 | 690 |
On the other hand, many, it is said, "court the collar," and it seems to be the case that "tree captures," in their hundreds or thousands, as in the wars, the raids of slavers, the seizures of caravans, the depredations of pirates, the fall of cities, and such, once collared, once owned, find fulfil... |
10 |
| 15 | 771 |
Never again could I be a tree woman. |
10 |
| 21 | 90 |
One blow from that huge, long-handled, broad- bladed, double-bladed device might have felled a small tree. |
10 |
| 22 | 55 |
This may have something to do with the animosity with which the Gorean tree woman commonly regards the female slave, who, obviously, has been found collar¬ worthy. |
10 |
| 25 | 298 |
She is not a tree woman. |
10 |
| 25 | 394 |
A tree woman on an alien world I had almost fallen to my knees before him, my head lowered, placing myself before him, even in so public a place, in what could only be understood as a slave's submission. |
10 |
| 27 | 54 |
Once I screamed with fear when lightning, like an ax of light, split half a tree from its trunk, not yards away. |
10 |
| 27 | 68 |
The Tur tree is tall and hardy, and the common host to Tur-Pah, but Tur-Pah, interestingly, does not thrive on all Tur trees. |
10 |
| 27 | 69 |
The difference apparently has to do with the grades and natures of the soil in which the tree is rooted. |
10 |
| 29 | 57 |
There was nothing here of layered, shimmering veils, of golden sandals, of cloaks, hoods and scarves, of jeweled purses, of the rich, flowing, colorful, intricately draped robes of concealment, common to the Gorean tree woman. |
10 |
| 29 | 58 |
Too, there was nothing here of the grace, and beauty, and femininity, of the provocative softness, of the promise of secret delights, of the implicit, whispered needs, of the typical Gorean tree woman, obvious even in, and perhaps even enhanced by, the robes of concealment. |
10 |
| 29 | 204 |
"Take her into the woods," said one of the women, "and bind her to a tree, gagged, for the beasts". |
10 |
| 41 | 58 |
So, too, might a tree woman. |
10 |
| 41 | 210 |
It was permissible; there was already a collar on my neck! In the cities, I had heard that even tree women sometimes knelt before a given male, and begged his collar. |
10 |
| 42 | 14 |
A long rope had been looped and knotted about our left ankles, and then the rope was tied at each end to a tree. |
10 |
| 42 | 26 |
In addition to their ankles remaining shackled, and their neck-cofifle being fastened to a tree, their wrists were bound behind their backs. |
10 |
| 42 | 122 |
The prisoners were then taken to the edge of the camp where they relieved themselves, and then their neck rope was fastened to its tree, and they were put prone to the ground and had their hands tied behind their backs. |
10 |
| 43 | 659 |
And why should women not be vain, as they are so precious, desirable, and beautiful? How can men not lust for them, and make them slaves? What pallid, inert fool would not wish to own one? Whose blood would be so weak that he would not see them as the natural property of men? And what woman was more... |
10 |
| 43 | 949 |
She has obviously been too tree with her smiles. |
10 |
| 43 | 1212 |
Genserich spun about, startled, twisting to the side, Donna screaming, and the blade of the flung javelin, a flash of steel, tore through the collar of his tunic, leaving a tatter of cloth and a line of blood between his neck and shoulder, and lodged twenty paces beyond, quivering in a small Tur tre... |
10 |
| 46 | 96 |
Soon, about the trunk of a tree, one of two so adorned, or afflicted, I saw, at a height I could reach, thick and coiling, a nest of Tur-Pah. |
10 |
| 46 | 134 |
From where I stood, in the dusk, I could see a large, fallen tree, its trunk black in the light, its exposed roots extended like claws, lying athwart a low sloping outcropping of rocks. |
10 |
| 47 | 3 |
So she had sported with me, humiliating me before Genserich and his men, even before slaves! So then I would sport with her, and she would not soon forget the sport, might I find her! Twice she had fled! Did she think such things might be done with impunity? Did she think the band about her neck, lo... |
10 |
| 47 | 57 |
How dared she, a slave, so conceal herself? Surely she should have been stripped and lashed! Why did those of the polluted world not assess their women, and divide them into the slave and tree, and see to it that those who were slaves, and should be slaves, were dressed accordingly, as what they wer... |
10 |
| 47 | 58 |
Why should they be permitted the audacity of indiscriminately mingling amongst tree women? Did they not know they were slaves? But then are not all women slaves, bred so over a thousand generations? But I gathered she did not know at that time that she belonged in a tunic and collar, in which she wo... |
10 |
| 49 | 1 |
I leaned back against the tree, and listened to the crackle of the small fire, in the tiny camp on the way back to Shipcamp. |
10 |
| 50 | 7 |
At night my wrists would be braceleted about a small tree, I placed either on my belly, my arms forward about this living stanchion, or on my back, my arms back, above and behind me. |
10 |
| 50 | 304 |
"Please, tree me, Master!" I said. |
10 |
| 50 | 620 |
But what more, I asked myself, could a slave expect of a tree man? Even in my training we had been taught that we were nothing, only slaves. |
10 |
| 52 | 1007 |
"Stand before that tree," he said, "face me, and do not move". |
10 |
| 52 | 1008 |
"This tree?" I said, uneasily. |
10 |
| 52 | 1010 |
"Should I not face the tree," I asked, "and my arms be bound about it, that I may be conveniently whipped?" "You are not to be whipped, kajira," he said, "at least not at the moment, however richly your smooth skin invites the lash". |
10 |
| 52 | 1028 |
I opened my eyes just long enough to catch sight of the handle still vibrating, a hand's breadth from my throat, and then, I fear, I slumped into unconsciousness at the foot of the tree. |
10 |
| 53 | 5 |
My left ankle was shackled, and a light chain ran from the shackle ring to a small tree, about which it was locked. |
10 |
| 53 | 39 |
My ankle was still clasped in its close- fitting shackle, the shackle chain running to the small tree, about which it was fastened. |
10 |
| 53 | 142 |
He strode to his pack, tore it open, and drew forth the whip, shaking its blades tree. |
10 |
| 54 | 116 |
What tree woman can understand this, I wondered. |
10 |
| 54 | 128 |
"You are too slave to tree," he said. |
10 |
| 54 | 140 |
He then threw me to my knees, again, and, with the free end of the thong, tied it about the base of a tree, a yard or so away. |
10 |
| 54 | 151 |
After that he put me to my back and drew me, by the ankles, from the base of the tree, so that my bound wrists were high above my head, following which I was used for slave pleasure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 21 |
Instead I had prevailed upon him to demonstrate his prowess, and the seriousness of the weapon, on a young tree, whose trunk had been half severed, as though with the single blow of an ax, which tree, at the behest of Lord Akio, had been subsequently replaced. |
10 |
| 4 | 112 |
"The leaf torn from the tree suffers no dishonor, nor the grass crushed beneath a passing boot". |
10 |
| 6 | 36 |
The tree, the rock, the sharpened blade are themselves. |
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| 11 | 71 |
They strive for the perfections, the nuances, of shades, of colors, which only they can see, of notes which only they can hear, seeking the perfect drawing on silk, the tree that is living, the never-to-be forgotten cloud, the cascading tumble of sparkling water descending a hill, the perfect line o... |
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| 15 | 106 |
Lord Akio removed the device from the tree, and, shortly thereafter, it might have been again mistaken for a fashionable accessory. |
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| 15 | 107 |
"Replace this tree," said Lord Akio to the gardener. |
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| 21 | 27 |
"The petals of the golden cup are open," he said, "the zar swarm is not aflight, the lavender leaves of the scent tree do not curl". |
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| 23 | 83 |
"I dissuaded Lord Akio, and he, agreeably enough, if somewhat reluctantly, substituted a small tree". |
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| 30 | 267 |
The light chain, some two or three feet in length, ran from her neck to the trunk of the small tree about which it was fastened. |
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| 45 | 171 |
What could we do to damage such a monstrous thing, let alone destroy it? It would be like trying to pull a Tur tree up by the roots, like pounding on a mountain with one's fists". |
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| 46 | 318 |
"One sees the hurrying of the leaf, the crash of the tree, but not the wind," said the magician. |
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| 60 | 206 |
The blow of the field sword can fell a small tree, or cut away the head of a glaive. |
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| 60 | 325 |
I had seen the motion, the preparation before, the grace and power of that movement, long ago in the garden, when Lord Akio, forgoing a living target at my behest, as I was a guest of the shogun, had demonstrated the effectiveness of the war fan on a young tree, close by the side of the gardener, Ha... |
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| 60 | 364 |
"In this very garden, Lord Akio gratuitously slew a lovely tree, in the shimmering glory of its youth". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 47 |
Ar, I gathered, was a typical "high city," with its noisy, colorfully garbed, bustling crowds, its affluent quarters and its sorrier districts, some of which were not to be frequented at night; here were places of lofty towers, often linked by graceful, narrow, arching, railless bridges, which I fea... |
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| 47 | 13 |
I was sure it might, with a single blow, delivered with the strength of a Kur, fell a small tree or shatter a wall. |
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| 55 | 2 |
For a moment afterwards it seemed I could hear nothing, as though lightning had struck near me, shattering a roof or tree, so frightening and deafening had been the sound. |
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| 57 | 91 |
Thus, in a night camp, even a hobbled girl is likely to be chained to a tree, or, by the neck, to the foot of her master. |
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| 63 | 243 |
The wagon rolled from the Viktel Aria, and stopped in the shade of a Tur tree, some yards from the well. |
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| 64 | 77 |
Sometimes, in the wild, when she would bathe in a stream or pool, she does so on a chain fastened about her neck and padlocked about a nearby tree. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 170 |
It was as though he, steadying himself, had grasped a small tree. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 |
When one wishes to steal fruit from a tree one does not destroy the tree. |
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| 20 | 145 |
At this range it could sink several inches into the trunk of a full-grown Tur tree. |
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| 46 | 89 |
"Even the mighty Tur tree," said a man, "if denied sunlight, minerals, and water, if poisoned, can be stunted and enfeebled". |
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| 48 | 26 |
They are like the mighty Tur tree, rooted in place, slow to grow, and slow to change". |
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| 48 | 28 |
"Should the Tur tree anger and draw up its roots, it is much to be feared". |
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| 48 | 58 |
At first I had taken it to be a stunted tree, with thick, uneven branches, then a trophy pole. |
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| 48 | 63 |
If a tree is available, suitably situated, and of an appropriate size, it is cleared of bark, leaves, and smaller branches, and then used as a mount or frame on which to hang paraphernalia proclaiming the victory, usually helmets, shields, insignia, banners, standards, broken weapons, and such, take... |
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| 48 | 65 |
If a tree is not available, a trimmed, barkless pole may serve the same purpose, which is then denominated a trophy pole. |
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| 48 | 150 |
Do not tides come and go, and seasons change; does not water rush over rocks, and snow fall and melt; does not night follow day and day night? It is not unusual for a woodsman to ask forgiveness of the tree he intends to fell; or a hunter to respect the animal he hunts, or which hunts him. |
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