| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 73 |
I wondered, however, if the Second Knowledge, that of the intellectuals, might not be as carefully tailored to preclude inquiry on their level as the First Knowledge apparently was to preclude inquiry on the level of the Lower Castes. |
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| 3 | 117 |
I wondered at the possible antiquity of the Voyages of Acquisition I had heard my father speak of. |
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| 3 | 150 |
I wondered what had become of her, but I did not inquire. |
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| 6 | 159 |
I wondered how far she would get in the swamps before another tharlarion caught her scent. |
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| 8 | 134 |
I then wondered if that might be due to the influence of my father, whose Earth ways sometimes seemed at variance with the rude customs of Gor. |
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| 11 | 58 |
I wondered if, on my own planet, there was not a similar market, invisible but present, and just as much accepted, a market in which women were sold, except that they sold themselves, were themselves both merchandise and merchant. |
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| 11 | 59 |
How many of the women of my native planet, I wondered, did not with care consider the finances, the property of their prospective mates? How many of them did not, for all practical purposes, sell themselves, bartering their bodies for the goods of the world? Here on Gor, however, I observed ironical... |
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| 16 | 57 |
I wondered how long Marlenus could hold out. |
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| 16 | 127 |
My heart was beating so loudly I wondered that they didn't hear it. |
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| 18 | 67 |
I wondered if Pa-Kur might be curious to know who was the rider of that solitary sable tarn which flashed above his head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 65 |
I wondered upon occasion why Cabot did not speak to me more openly on certain matters, why he so jealously guarded the mystery of those months in which he had been absent from the college. |
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| 2 | 66 |
I wondered why, and knew only that the Priest-Kings had intended it so. |
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| 3 | 18 |
I wondered if it would be practical to continue my journey. |
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| 3 | 91 |
I wondered if it were a use-name, or his real name. |
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| 6 | 37 |
I wondered if I might be able to secure a tarn in the intriguing city of Tharna. |
10 |
| 6 | 116 |
I wondered if the girl approaching was beautiful. |
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| 8 | 9 |
I wondered if men in this city were not proud of their castes, as were, on the whole, other Goreans, even those of the so-called lower castes. |
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| 8 | 63 |
In spite of this conviction, incomprehensibly, I found myself depressed by Tharna, and wondered if it, in its way, were not somehow, subtly, more barbaric, more harsh, less human than its ruder, less noble, more beautiful sisters. |
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| 9 | 114 |
I wondered if men laughed often in Tharna. |
10 |
| 10 | 24 |
I wondered if Thorn were in the city, and if Vera now wore her pleasure silk in his villa. |
10 |
| 10 | 35 |
I wondered if within this stern, brutal fortress, this palace of the Tatrix of Tharna, justice could be done. |
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| 11 | 56 |
It was almost as if she challenged her Tatrix, and I wondered if Dorna the Proud was content to be Second in Tharna. |
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| 11 | 63 |
His voice stammered, and I wondered if, behind me, his burly frame trembled. |
10 |
| 11 | 78 |
I assumed they were the coins of Ost and wondered where the conspirator might be. |
10 |
| 11 | 100 |
I wondered what thoughts glittered behind that placid mask of gold. |
10 |
| 11 | 220 |
I wondered what sort of woman was the Tatrix of Tharna, what lay concealed behind that mask of gold. |
10 |
| 13 | 12 |
I wondered if I might be the reason that the Tatrix herself was present. |
10 |
| 13 | 153 |
I wondered if my death would be quick. |
10 |
| 14 | 64 |
I wondered if it had caught my scent. |
10 |
| 14 | 87 |
I wondered what thoughts passed behind the golden mask of Lara, Tatrix of the city of Tharna. |
10 |
| 14 | 88 |
I wondered if the bird would recognize me. |
10 |
| 14 | 110 |
Yet as its great round eyes regarded me I wondered what thoughts might course through its avian brain. |
10 |
| 14 | 111 |
I wondered if it too recalled the thunder of the wind, the clash of arms as tarnsmen dueled in flight, the sight of Gor's tarn cavalries wheeling in formation to the beat of the tarn drums, or the long, steady, lonely soaring flights we had known together over the green fields of Gor. |
10 |
| 14 | 171 |
I wondered sometimes if that bird, my Ubar of the Skies, that tarn of tarns, of a race of birds spoken of by Goreans as Brothers of the Wind, might have considered himself as above the goad, resented its shocks and sparks, resented that that puny human device would pretend to teach him, he, a tarn o... |
10 |
| 15 | 178 |
Indeed, as I thought of the cruel Tatrix, of what she had done, I wondered if, in fact, I should not take her to Ar and dispose of her on the Street of Brands. |
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| 15 | 214 |
I wondered if I could trust her word. |
10 |
| 15 | 256 |
"Of course," she said, "have you not wondered why there was no pursuit?" She laughed ruefully. |
10 |
| 16 | 60 |
I wondered if this could be the girl who had had the harrowing adventure, whose garments were tattered, whose body must still be wretched with pain from its sojourn in the claws of my tarn. |
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| 17 | 14 |
I wondered how many times, under the soil of Tharna, such a chamber had been flooded, how many chained wretches had been drowned in such dismal, sewerlike traps. |
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| 18 | 63 |
The Whip Slaves wondered, and began to fear us. |
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| 19 | 69 |
I wondered if they would understand that such an action was beneath the hand of a truly free man, and that the men who fought them—who had conquered on this windy and cold night, who had fought like larls in the darkness of the tunnels below, who had not sought their own safety but the libera... |
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| 19 | 139 |
Perhaps both of us wondered that friendship should exist between members of such different castes, but perhaps both of us knew, though we did not say so, that in the hearts of men arms and song are never far distant. |
10 |
| 19 | 145 |
I wondered why he had said this, for it is a word of greeting. |
10 |
| 20 | 34 |
I wondered if it had been noticed by the slaves. |
10 |
| 20 | 42 |
When it approached me and extended its head, I wondered if what I had dared not hope might be true, that the bird might have been waiting for me to return. |
10 |
| 20 | 45 |
I wondered what had been her fate. |
10 |
| 20 | 46 |
I wondered too at her treachery, her strange hatred of me, for somehow it seemed not to fit well with the lonely girl on the ledge, who had stood quietly gazing at the field of talenders while a warrior had gorged himself on the kill of his tarn. |
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| 20 | 49 |
I wondered what vengeance would have satisfied the hatred borne to Lara, the Tatrix, by Dorna the Proud. |
10 |
| 20 | 52 |
I knew the hatred of men is but a feeble thing compared to the hatred of women, and I wondered how much it would take to slake the thirst for vengeance of such a woman as Dorna the Proud. |
10 |
| 21 | 52 |
I wondered why those piteous eyes looked upon me with such fear. |
10 |
| 21 | 61 |
I wondered if it would. |
10 |
| 21 | 89 |
I have wondered upon occasion why brands are used on Gorean slaves. |
10 |
| 21 | 230 |
I wondered how many of them were bred slaves, and how many had once been free. |
10 |
| 22 | 179 |
I have wondered sometimes if a man, to be a man, must not master a woman and if a woman to be a woman must not know herself mastered. |
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| 22 | 180 |
I have wondered how long nature's laws, if laws they are, can be subverted in Tharna. |
10 |
| 22 | 216 |
I wondered on how many nights free women, bound captives, had been thrown to his feet to be assessed and purchased, how many free women had in his camp exchanged their rich garments for a camisk and an ankle ring on his chain. |
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| 24 | 16 |
I wondered at this, for the Caste of Musicians had been, like the Caste of Poets, exiled from Tharna. |
10 |
| 24 | 22 |
I wondered what impression the Kal-da shop would have on the true Tatrix of Tharna. |
10 |
| 25 | 21 |
I wondered what he might mean. |
10 |
| 25 | 114 |
I wondered how it was that Thorn had given his life for this woman. |
10 |
| 25 | 157 |
I wondered, if this happened, if she would bitterly recall the Amusements of Tharna. |
10 |
| 26 | 75 |
I wondered at her words. |
10 |
| 26 | 105 |
For more than seven years I have wondered at the mysteries concealed in those dark recesses. |
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| 26 | 106 |
I have wondered about the Priest-Kings and their power, their ships and agents, their plans for their world and mine; but most importantly I must learn why my city was destroyed and its people scattered, why it is that no stone may stand upon another stone; and I must learn the fate of my friends, m... |
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| 26 | 116 |
And I have wondered sometimes, and the thought awes and frightens me, if my city might not have been destroyed only to bring me to the mountains of the Priest-Kings, for they would surely know that I would come to challenge them, that I would come to the Sardar, that I would climb to the moons of Go... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 261 |
As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ... |
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| 1 | 46 |
I missed Torm and wondered if I would ever see him again, bounding about excoriating the authors of dusty scrolls, knocking the inkwell from his desk with an imperial sweep of the sleeve of his blue robe, leaping on the table in birdlike fury denouncing one scribe or another for independently redisc... |
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| 2 | 53 |
I wondered who had written it, and when. |
10 |
| 2 | 126 |
I wondered how many men might have turned back at this point, and I remembered the innumerable white, frozen bones on the cliffs below. |
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| 4 | 121 |
I wondered why I had been allowed to reach the Sardar, to find the Hall of Priest-Kings, to stand before this throne. |
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| 4 | 148 |
I wondered why Parp had seemed to fear the coming of night, the sound of the gong. |
10 |
| 5 | 211 |
I wondered how many men had failed. |
10 |
| 6 | 23 |
I wondered why there was only water to drink, and none of the fermented beverages of Gor, such as paga, Ka-la-na wine or Kal-da. |
10 |
| 6 | 41 |
I wondered what had become of them. |
10 |
| 7 | 46 |
Then I wondered if my having been brought to her chamber, and not to that of one of the others had been simply my good fortune. |
10 |
| 7 | 50 |
Lara's lips had been rich and fine, sensitive and curious, tender, eager, hungry; the lips of Vika were maddening; I recalled those lips, full and red, pouting, defiant, scornful, scarlet with a slave girl's challenge to my blood; I wondered if Vika might be a bred slave, a Passion Slave, one of tho... |
10 |
| 7 | 53 |
I wondered if Vika herself had been instructed by Priest-Kings to subdue me. |
10 |
| 7 | 58 |
I wondered how many men had fallen at her feet, how many men she had forced to sleep at the foot of the great stone couch, in the shadow of the slave ring, while she herself reclined on the pelts and silks of the master. |
10 |
| 8 | 120 |
I wondered if many of Treve's women were as beautiful as Vika. |
10 |
| 8 | 210 |
I looked into those blue eyes and they looked into mine, and I wondered how many men had been burned, and had died, in that smoldering, sullen fire. |
10 |
| 9 | 33 |
I wondered how I should speak to her, for I must disabuse her of the illusion that there could be love between us. |
10 |
| 9 | 100 |
"I have often wondered about that". |
10 |
| 10 | 64 |
I wondered what would be the function of the structures, probably barracks, factories, storehouses. |
10 |
| 10 | 88 |
I wondered to myself. |
10 |
| 11 | 4 |
I wondered if men of my species would have difficulty telling Priest-Kings apart. |
10 |
| 12 | 140 |
I wondered about what Misk meant by 'processing' but Sarm's words irritated me, as did the two grave, handsome fellows who had so spontaneously groveled before his dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 73 |
"But surely," I said, "you must have wondered about that?" One of the men smiled at me. |
10 |
| 13 | 74 |
"Yes," he said, "I have sometimes wondered about that". |
10 |
| 14 | 49 |
Idly, not feeling well, I wondered if there were any particles. |
10 |
| 15 | 24 |
I wondered for a moment what was to be done but then it seemed I sensed what he wanted. |
10 |
| 16 | 41 |
"I have noticed," I said, "and I wondered on this". |
10 |
| 17 | 25 |
I wondered if Sarm had much idea of the meaning of the expression "friend" or if it were merely used because he calculated that it would produce a favorable impression on me. |
10 |
| 17 | 107 |
I wondered of the man through whose eyes I was now seeing, who he was, what he had been, that unknown Implanted One who now walked some lonely road somewhere on Gor, a device of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 17 | 111 |
Once again I looked into the observation cube, and wondered about that unknown man, or what had been a man, through whose eyes I now looked. |
10 |
| 18 | 124 |
I wondered if hurling my weight against Sarm I might have tumbled him from that platform to his death far below. |
10 |
| 19 | 15 |
I wondered if the compartments of all Priest-Kings were so similar, or if he had investigated it at various times in the past. |
10 |
| 19 | 16 |
I wondered if he knew about the chamber which lay beneath my case. |
10 |
| 19 | 19 |
I calculated the distance between myself and Sarm and wondered if I could reach him and kill him before he could bring his jaws into play, or those formidable blades on his forelegs. |
10 |
| 20 | 98 |
I wondered if the girl knew that a plate of her brain traces was being prepared, which would be correlated with the sensors guarding the quarters of a Chamber Slave. |
10 |
| 20 | 198 |
I have wondered upon occasion about this practice, so different on Gor than on Earth. |
10 |
| 21 | 51 |
I wondered at what manner of creatures they were. |
10 |
| 23 | 6 |
I wondered if her collar had been the same as that placed on the girl I had seen. |
10 |
| 23 | 9 |
I wondered if the removal of the collar meant that Vika had been freed before being closed within the tunnels of the Golden Beetle. |
10 |
| 23 | 18 |
I wondered if in the darkness she would have been able to see what had attacked her. |
10 |
| 23 | 32 |
I wondered if it were possible that she had died of fear. |
10 |
| 23 | 42 |
I wondered if I could bury the body somewhere, but dismissed the thought in view of the stony passages I had just traversed. |
10 |
| 23 | 54 |
How was it that she had been captured only so recently by the creature? And if it were true that she had been captured only recently how would she have managed to live in the caverns for those days? Perhaps she might have found a sump of water but what would there have been to eat, I wondered? Perha... |
10 |
| 23 | 55 |
And how was it, I asked myself, that the Golden Beetle had not already feasted on the delicate flesh of the proud beauty of Treve? And I wondered on the five strange protuberances that nested so grotesquely in her lovely body. |
10 |
| 24 | 53 |
I wondered at the nature of the Beetle's pursuit of his prey. |
10 |
| 25 | 11 |
I wondered how many more such creatures might dwell in similar passages and caverns near the tunnels of the Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 25 | 17 |
I wondered how proud Vika would have responded to that. |
10 |
| 26 | 198 |
I wondered if this were perhaps the first time in her life in a matter of importance to her that she had not had her way with a man. |
10 |
| 26 | 258 |
I wondered at the things she said to me for they seemed strange, perhaps more so to my ears than they would have to one bred and raised from infancy as a Gorean, one as much accustomed to the submission of women as to the tides of gleaming Thassa or the phases of the three moons. |
10 |
| 26 | 259 |
As the girl spoke and I tried to lightly dismiss her words, I wondered at the long processes of evolution that had nurtured over thousands of generations what had in time become the human kind. |
10 |
| 26 | 260 |
I wondered of the struggles of my own world as well as on Gor, struggles which over millennia had shaped the blood and inmost being of my species, perhaps conflicts over tunnels in cliffs to be fought with the savage cave bear, long dangerous weeks spent hunting the same game as the saber-toothed ti... |
10 |
| 27 | 28 |
I wondered what had become of Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta. |
10 |
| 27 | 32 |
I wondered about the young male Priest-King in the secret chamber below Misk's compartment. |
10 |
| 27 | 85 |
I wondered if she were blind. |
10 |
| 27 | 90 |
I wondered if, among Priest-Kings, he would have helped her, or if there would have been others from the former Nest, or if she alone would have fallen to earth, to eat the wings that had borne her, and to burrow beneath the mountains to begin the lonely work of the Mother, the creation of the new N... |
10 |
| 27 | 91 |
I wondered why there had not been more females. |
10 |
| 27 | 157 |
I wondered how long it would take to kill a Priest-King. |
10 |
| 27 | 166 |
I wondered if Sarm, considering Misk's desperate condition and plight, would offer quarter. |
10 |
| 27 | 311 |
I wondered how long the scent-message, whatever it was to be, would linger in the air before fading into an unrecognizable blur of scent to be drawn through the ventilator system and dispelled somewhere far above among the black crags of the treeless, frozen Sardar. |
10 |
| 28 | 88 |
I wondered if I should take her from the case. |
10 |
| 29 | 52 |
I wondered if they were in communication with one another. |
10 |
| 30 | 18 |
I was horrified at what had been done and I wondered what the sensations would be or even if I would be aware of what I was doing when under the control of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 30 | 171 |
I supposed that there was reason for her hatred of me but still I wondered at its depth and fury. |
10 |
| 31 | 9 |
I wondered what Sarm would say if he knew that Parp and Kusk had not actually implanted me. |
10 |
| 31 | 144 |
I wondered what more Sarm could do now. |
10 |
| 31 | 146 |
I wondered if he regretted wasting a large part of his weapon's charge on firing at me. |
10 |
| 31 | 223 |
I wondered if the hairs of the Golden Beetle, heavy with the droplets of that narcotic exudate, offered adequate recompense to a Priest-King for the ascetic millennia in which he might have pursued the mysteries of science, if they provided an acceptable culmination to one of those long, long lives ... |
10 |
| 32 | 199 |
I wondered how long it would take before it broke apart and scattered in a belt of dust across the solar system, only to bend inward at last and spiral like a falling bird into the gases of the burning sun. |
10 |
| 33 | 40 |
I wondered if the shaven heads, traditional for centuries with Initiates, held some distant connection, lost now in time, with the hygienic practices of the Nest. |
10 |
| 33 | 111 |
Suddenly I was very sad, and I wondered what would be the fate of humans from the Nest, if they should attempt to return to their cities or the world above. |
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| 33 | 153 |
I looked at the Initiate for a long time, and wondered if he spoke the truth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 16 |
I wondered on what Kamchak had called the games of Love War, said to take place on the Plains of a Thousand Stakes. |
10 |
| 8 | 29 |
How was it, I wondered, that Kamchak was going to Turia in the spring? I sensed him to be a man of importance with the wagons. |
10 |
| 8 | 99 |
I was surprised that he had not used it, and wondered why. |
10 |
| 8 | 167 |
I wondered who she might be. |
10 |
| 8 | 484 |
I wondered how it could be that such a girl had never been taken in less than thirty-two beats, that she had reached the lance forty times. |
10 |
| 8 | 531 |
I wondered what was the matter with her. |
10 |
| 9 | 62 |
I wondered how the stomach of Kamchak could sustain the delightful injuries he was heaping into it with such gusto. |
10 |
| 9 | 322 |
I wondered what she meant. |
10 |
| 9 | 332 |
I wondered if Kamchak would rise to do war in the very room. |
10 |
| 9 | 449 |
I wondered if Kamras knew the meaning of the word which he had dared to address to one who wore the Courage Scar of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 10 | 273 |
I wondered how many of the proud beauties of Turia would this night tearfully serve barbarian masters; and how many of the wild, leather-clad girls of the Wagons, like Hereena, would find themselves this night naught but bangled, silken slaves locked behind the high walls of distant, lofty Turia. |
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| 10 | 495 |
"I have always wondered," he said, "what it would be like to hold a sword". |
10 |
| 11 | 134 |
I wondered how many of the girls in her New York office could have run as she beside the stirrup of a Tuchuk warrior. |
10 |
| 11 | 153 |
I had wondered why Kamchak had not treated Elizabeth Cardwell as any other enslaved wench of Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 12 | 14 |
I wondered if any in the camp of the Tuchuks realized how actually great indeed was the value of that golden sphere, containing undoubtedly the last hope of the people called Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 12 | 18 |
I wondered if Saphrar himself might be the key to the mysteries that confronted me. |
10 |
| 12 | 82 |
I wondered casually why Kamchak was taking the girls, for the proprietor of the slave wagon would surely want his fee for them as well as us. |
10 |
| 13 | 228 |
I wondered if I could meet Kamchak's price. |
10 |
| 16 | 156 |
"I have often wondered," said Harold, "where the Paravaci obtained their riches". |
10 |
| 16 | 241 |
I wondered what death he might have in mind for me. |
10 |
| 17 | 17 |
I wondered what I was expected to meet in the pool. |
10 |
| 20 | 158 |
As we sped high over the prairie I wondered at how it was that Kamchak was withdrawing the wagons and bosk from Turia—that he would so soon abandon the siege. |
10 |
| 21 | 13 |
I wondered that such men as Kamchak and these others would so willingly abandon the siege of Turia. |
10 |
| 21 | 48 |
As I entered I regarded the lofty double gates, and wondered how long it would take to close them. |
10 |
| 23 | 54 |
Indeed, as we rode together, we wondered that Kamchak had even sent us on an errand so unlikely of success, an errand in its way, considering the temper of the Wagon Peoples, so foolish. |
10 |
| 23 | 140 |
I wondered how many Paravaci there could possibly be. |
10 |
| 23 | 207 |
I wondered who her new master might be and hoped, for her sake, that she would well please him. |
10 |
| 23 | 218 |
I wondered on the fate of Aphris of Turia. |
10 |
| 23 | 219 |
Kamchak, I knew, however, cared little for the slave, and would not be much concerned; yet her fate concerned me, and I hoped that she might live, that her beauty if not compassion or justice might have won her life for her, be it only as a Paravaci wagon slave; and then, too, I wondered again on th... |
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| 24 | 46 |
But as I left I wondered at his comparative lenience. |
10 |
| 25 | 293 |
I wondered what would become of Miss Cardwell. |
10 |
| 25 | 319 |
I wondered indeed that Kamchak had given the girl to me. |
10 |
| 25 | 321 |
I wondered why it was that Kamchak had put the ring on this girl, had had her branded and collared and clad Kajir—was it truly because she had angered him, running from the wagon that one time—or for another reason—and why had he subjected her, cruelly perhaps, in my presence to... |
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| 25 | 685 |
I wondered what Miss Cardwell would look like, helpless, squirming and thrashing, gasping, kicking, tears in her eyes, hot tears running on her body, streaming about her enslaved flesh, begging for a man's touch. |
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| 26 | 22 |
I wondered if I would see her again. |
10 |
| 27 | 134 |
Whatever she might have been before, a clock number, a set of records in a personnel file, an unimportant employee, with her salary and benefits, under the obligation to please and impress other employees, scarcely more important than herself, she was now alive, and free in her emotions though her f... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 119 |
I wondered if the golden tarn disk, that of Portus, which I had given to him at the tavern had been used to buy a vending license. |
10 |
| 13 | 24 |
I wondered what it was that would bring him to Glorious Ar. |
10 |
| 13 | 29 |
But still I wondered what had brought him to the city. |
10 |
| 13 | 279 |
I wondered why the bird, as is usual, it now being rather old, surely past its racing prime, had not been destroyed. |
10 |
| 19 | 94 |
I wondered if Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, were yet in the ready cells, being prepared; I judged it unlikely, for they would probably be sold late, and would not be prepared until the sales were in progress; the last touches of their makeup might not even be made until minutes before they as... |
10 |
| 19 | 126 |
I wondered how much the girls would be able to see from the block. |
10 |
| 20 | 232 |
I wondered if Cernus would have him slain on his return. |
10 |
| 20 | 257 |
I wondered at her response. |
10 |
| 20 | 343 |
I wondered who the young man might be if Qualius, whom I knew to be a superb player, did not even speak as though he might force a draw with him. |
10 |
| 20 | 423 |
I had sensed the marvelous raw power of Sura, her amazing, almost intuitive grasp of the game; and I wondered of Hup, who could be the father of so brilliant a boy as Scormus of Ar; perhaps Hup, the Fool, was no stranger to the game; I looked to one side and saw Qualius of Ar, the blind Player; unno... |
10 |
| 22 | 140 |
I wondered at the bird. |
10 |
| 22 | 309 |
I wondered if Cernus had yet received word of the events at the Stadium of Blades. |
10 |
| 22 | 381 |
"I wondered," he said, "when you would understand that you ride to war". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 96 |
I wondered what in particular there might be to spy about on the rence islands. |
10 |
| 4 | 123 |
"How is it," I asked, "that so many of the rence islands are now gathered together?" I had wondered about this. |
10 |
| 5 | 184 |
I wondered if it might be she who was my mistress. |
10 |
| 9 | 132 |
I wondered if, now that the canals were barred, slaves escaped from Port Kar. |
10 |
| 9 | 465 |
I wondered how she had, whether in her escape or afterwards in the islands, removed her first collar. |
10 |
| 11 | 486 |
I wondered what the interests of Samos in Cos and Tyros might be. |
10 |
| 11 | 538 |
I wondered if Samos himself might be tired. |
10 |
| 13 | 113 |
"Surely you have wondered, lovely lady," I said, "what it would be to be a slave, to be owned, to kneel naked before a man, in chains, a brand on your thigh, a collar on your neck, knowing you are his, and must obey him completely and perfectly—and in all things, all things, completely and pe... |
10 |
| 16 | 91 |
I wondered again how she had come by an armlet of gold. |
10 |
| 16 | 168 |
I wondered why they were in this room. |
10 |
| 17 | 142 |
I wondered how many men would die. |
10 |
| 17 | 146 |
I wondered if my plans had been good ones, and I told myself I did not know that, either. |
10 |
| 17 | 215 |
I wondered if I should have trusted the Ubars Nigel and Chung. |
10 |
| 18 | 44 |
I wondered how many men would claim to have fought on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, abroad on Thassa. |
10 |
| 18 | 72 |
I wondered if my holding still stood. |
10 |
| 18 | 562 |
I wondered why he had called me Warrior. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 470 |
How would she fare, I wondered, stripped, with a mark on her thigh, submitted to men! I wondered if she would ever meet her master, and kneel before him. |
10 |
| 5 | 170 |
I wondered how long the year might be. |
10 |
| 6 | 33 |
I wondered if they, too, were hungry. |
10 |
| 6 | 73 |
I wondered what chance I might have of being rescued. |
10 |
| 6 | 236 |
I wondered where the draft animals, presumably oxen, were, who would draw the heavy wagon. |
10 |
| 7 | 148 |
I wondered why Targo permitted us camisks. |
10 |
| 7 | 332 |
I wondered what it would be like to belong to a man. |
10 |
| 8 | 178 |
I wondered what manner of men such men might be, that they could master such winged monsters. |
10 |
| 8 | 537 |
I wondered what man would tear it from me. |
10 |
| 8 | 565 |
I wondered if I might, as I had seen other girls, ride beside them on their wagons, or, as I had heard, fish with them at night with torches on the river. |
10 |
| 8 | 566 |
I wondered if I could bargain shrewdly with his coins at the market, if he would like my cooking. |
10 |
| 8 | 569 |
I wondered if he would take me with him on journeys and sometimes, where no one could see, walking in the fields, though I were slave, hold my hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 396 |
I wondered if it were the same animal which Verna, and one of the other girls, had detected earlier. |
10 |
| 9 | 474 |
I wondered if men had realized that. |
10 |
| 9 | 476 |
But I hated men! I wondered what price my body would bring in a market. |
10 |
| 9 | 477 |
I wondered what price I would bring. |
10 |
| 10 | 65 |
I wondered if I, too, so to speak, was a born pleasure slave. |
10 |
| 10 | 569 |
Of what value, I wondered, is the virginity of a slave girl? Of what value is the virginity of a horse, or of a dog or cat, or pig? That I was a virgin, of course, that I was "white silk," was public knowledge. |
10 |
| 11 | 389 |
What man would prefer a free woman, I wondered, to one of us, helpless and gasping, yielding, begging, in his arms. |
10 |
| 11 | 601 |
I wondered if a scribe would buy her. |
10 |
| 11 | 986 |
I wondered about the man in the hut, and the beast. |
10 |
| 11 | 1003 |
I wondered how many of these women understood that they were slaves, and should be slaves. |
10 |
| 11 | 1389 |
I wondered what a man would pay to own me. |
10 |
| 11 | 1390 |
I wondered what I would bring on the great block at Ar, when I stood there naked for the buyers, Elinor Brinton, a nude female slave to be auctioned to the highest bidder. |
10 |
| 12 | 157 |
I wondered if he had cared for her, at least a little. |
10 |
| 12 | 161 |
I wondered if he had cared for her. |
10 |
| 12 | 173 |
I wondered, briefly, if these frustrated, lonely, empty women challenged men in order, on some subconscious level, to provoke, ultimately, a ferocious reaction, a putting of them, in one way or another, in the collars they needed, in the collars in which they belonged. |
10 |
| 13 | 118 |
I wondered if he had wanted her to help in the shop. |
10 |
| 13 | 803 |
I wondered if I had known him, somehow, or met him before, somewhere. |
10 |
| 14 | 86 |
I wondered how often, on this rude world, I would have the opportunity to so refer to myself. |
10 |
| 14 | 194 |
I wondered what could be kept in such a box. |
10 |
| 14 | 218 |
I wondered what it would be like to lie within such a tent, naked and collared, on its soft rugs, in the light of the small fire, the tent flaps tied shut, completely at the mercy of its master. |
10 |
| 14 | 223 |
I wondered, too, if those chests might contain the light, precious chains of silver and gold, wrought by slavers so cunningly, to hold a girl in given positions, while she was subdued at a master's leisure. |
10 |
| 14 | 225 |
And I wondered, too, if they might contain nose rings, and if one would be put on me. |
10 |
| 14 | 407 |
Indeed, I wondered if the husbands would dare to know their own wives so thoroughly, that thoroughly, as a slave girl is known. |
10 |
| 14 | 408 |
I wondered if the wives would be terrified, to be so known. |
10 |
| 14 | 409 |
Would they then feel "too slave"? I wondered how many husbands kept their wives as slaves within their marriage, how many wives stripped and knelt upon command, how many served unquestioningly, how many begged for pleasure chains, how many were subject, if found displeasing in any particular, to bin... |
10 |
| 14 | 410 |
I wondered how many couples related in this manner, man dominant, the master, woman submissive, slave. |
10 |
| 14 | 411 |
I wondered how many couples might be so precious to one another. |
10 |
| 15 | 296 |
I must remain behind the kitchen shed, working, while they were permitted to greet the men! I wondered if Inge would be there, perhaps smiling and waving to Rask of Treve! How furious I was! But I reminded myself that I hated him! In time the excitement, the cries and shouts, diminished, and I knew ... |
10 |
| 15 | 577 |
I wondered if, in silk and bells, Rask of Treve might notice me. |
10 |
| 15 | 1142 |
I wondered, could that have been true, really. |
10 |
| 16 | 106 |
I recalled, long ago, how, in a motel on Earth, I had regarded myself naked, branded, collared, in a mirror, and had wondered, frightened, what it would be like to lie in the arms of a barbarian, helpless, so stripped, so marked, so collared. |
10 |
| 16 | 241 |
Was that because Verna was a woman, I wondered. |
10 |
| 16 | 390 |
I wondered if I could have felt so much his, so completely surrendered, if he had not possessed this complete power over my life and body. |
10 |
| 17 | 271 |
I wondered how it was that they could so hate this man, he called Bosk of Port Kar. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 432 |
I wondered why she resisted her slavery, for she was a slave, clearly, a natural slave, one who could fulfill herself totally only in the collar. |
10 |
| 6 | 270 |
I wondered how she would relish her new duties. |
10 |
| 6 | 271 |
I wondered if Sarpedon would have beaten her, for concealing from him her skills. |
10 |
| 7 | 78 |
I wondered what the paga slaves now in the camp would think of such wild captives. |
10 |
| 7 | 354 |
I wondered how it was that Hura had under her command so many girls. |
10 |
| 11 | 128 |
I have often wondered at the excitement generated in women by the simple feel of silk on their bodies. |
10 |
| 11 | 139 |
I wondered if Verna had ever dreamed of herself in such silk. |
10 |
| 11 | 745 |
I wondered at women. |
10 |
| 12 | 71 |
I wondered of the daughters of Ubars. |
10 |
| 13 | 304 |
I wondered if Marlenus required warning, even had I the chance to deliver it. |
10 |
| 15 | 760 |
I wondered what she would bring me on the block. |
10 |
| 20 | 189 |
I wondered where in the stockade were Sheera and Verna. |
10 |
| 22 | 498 |
I wondered if, in the telling of that story, there would be mention of one called Bosk of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 22 | 732 |
I wondered if, in the forest, she had expected any of them to return to her. |
10 |
| 22 | 744 |
I wondered if, at times, she would lie in the darkness, clutching the ring of Marlenus, and twist, and weep. |
10 |
| 22 | 762 |
I wondered if any, as her wrists were drawn together behind her back and fastened together, regretted her decision. |
10 |
| 22 | 773 |
I wondered if she might, sometime, trek to Ar, to call upon its Ubar or if he, attending to his hunting in the northern forests, might once more chance upon her. |
10 |
| 22 | 777 |
I wondered if Verna knew that she who wore that ring about her neck was the Ubara of Ar. |
10 |
| 22 | 969 |
I wondered if Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, yet lived. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 141 |
Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarries of Tyros? ... |
10 |
| 1 | 153 |
I wondered how men should live. |
10 |
| 1 | 434 |
I wondered how to live. |
10 |
| 1 | 475 |
I wondered if it were true or not. |
10 |
| 1 | 488 |
I wondered how to live. |
10 |
| 1 | 490 |
I wondered, too, on the nature of my affliction. |
10 |
| 1 | 549 |
I wondered if what Iskander of Turia had conjectured was correct or not. |
10 |
| 1 | 550 |
I wondered if such a poison, if it existed, could be overcome. |
10 |
| 1 | 605 |
I wondered if the beast had struck for hunger. |
10 |
| 2 | 223 |
I wondered what might become of the religion of Priest-Kings, if Priest-Kings should ever choose to make themselves known to men. |
10 |
| 3 | 353 |
How fantastic, how strange, I thought, is the blood of beasts, and I realized, too, that I was a beast, and wondered on what might be the nature of those instincts which must be my own. |
10 |
| 8 | 47 |
Proving that I myself am not above fashion I had had this scandalous alteration implemented in my own house; surely I would not have wanted my girls to be embarrassed by the excessive length of their livery; and, in fact, I did the Ubar of Ar one better, by ordering their hemlines lifted by an addit... |
10 |
| 8 | 117 |
I wondered if I had, in my life, seen ever so scornful, so proud, so cold a woman. |
10 |
| 8 | 305 |
But I wondered what it might be doing in the holding of Thorgard of Scagnar. |
10 |
| 9 | 393 |
I wondered if the fires in Olga which, earlier, had burned so deeply, so hotly, could be truly out. |
10 |
| 9 | 394 |
I wondered if they might be rekindled. |
10 |
| 10 | 43 |
Sometimes I wondered if the Forkbeard might be mad. |
10 |
| 10 | 445 |
I wondered that she would deny the young man this pleasure. |
10 |
| 10 | 519 |
Ho-Sorl, doubtless, was more experienced in the handling of females; I wondered if Virginia, to her astonishment, perhaps after a quarrel or after a night of depriving Relius in order to obtain some whim of hers, had awakened one morning recollared, again the slave of a master. |
10 |
| 10 | 572 |
Accordingly, I supposed, this very night, on Earth, there were completely unsuspecting beautiful girls, thinking it a night like any other, who would undress themselves and snap off the light, and retire, not knowing that they had been, perhaps for weeks, scouted by slavers; I wondered if they would... |
10 |
| 10 | 605 |
I wondered how many of the women of Earth had even an inkling of what it would be to be so desired, so wanted, so lusted for, as a Gorean slave girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 76 |
I wondered if it were only the darker-furred Kurii that roamed southward. |
10 |
| 11 | 78 |
I wondered if they might be from the steel ships, either recently, or within too few generations for a snow-adaptation pattern to have been developed. |
10 |
| 11 | 119 |
I wondered if this were an attempt to simulate a human smile. |
10 |
| 11 | 126 |
I wondered if the stomach or stomachs of the Kurii could digest vegetable food. |
10 |
| 11 | 130 |
I wondered if it understood laughter. |
10 |
| 11 | 137 |
I wondered rather in what sort of situations it might find its object. |
10 |
| 13 | 369 |
I wondered what Bera would say if she knew that Hilda had been put at the oar, and taught to heel; that she had been whipped, and taught to obey; that she had been caressed, and taught to respond. |
10 |
| 15 | 351 |
"Kur," I wondered, "are you my brother?" The great ax swept toward me. |
10 |
| 15 | 427 |
I wondered how many who had learned that had lived. |
10 |
| 15 | 433 |
I wondered how deep might be this little cave. |
10 |
| 16 | 40 |
I wondered on the man who had carved it. |
10 |
| 17 | 52 |
I wondered how many men would die. |
10 |
| 17 | 53 |
I wondered if I myself, this morning, in Torvaldsland, in bleak light, would die. |
10 |
| 17 | 176 |
I wondered if Kurii dreamed. |
10 |
| 18 | 132 |
I wondered if they knew his real intent had been elsewhere. |
10 |
| 18 | 659 |
I wondered what plans, alternate plans doubtless formed years or centuries ago, would now be implemented. |
10 |
| 20 | 27 |
I wondered if she were wise, to stand so beautifully before a Gorean warrior. |
10 |
| 21 | 97 |
I wondered if men, truly, knew how great their enemies were. |
10 |
| 21 | 98 |
And I wondered if men, in ways so weak, so puny, were adequate to such foes. |
10 |
| 21 | 101 |
I wondered if man could be so great a foe, if he in his own terribleness, his ferocity, his intelligence, could match such a beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 105 |
Could man be a match for such a beast? I wondered on what might be the magnitude of man. |
10 |
| 22 | 260 |
I wondered if, somehow, somewhere, we might once again encounter one another. |
10 |
| 22 | 263 |
I wondered how she might feel, the gag hood drawn over her head from behind, locked shut behind her neck, stripped, thrown on her back over the saddle of a tarn, bound, swept away, with a beating of wings, into total bondage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 798 |
Can one not hear the boots of totalitarianism approaching, ringing ever more clearly, ever nearer, on the terrified, deserted streets? Was a woman, I wondered, really better off on Earth? Was she happier there, I wondered, posing as a pseudo-male, amidst the remnants of ruined men? I wondered how ma... |
10 |
| 1 | 558 |
I wondered what the trainer would prescribe for her. |
10 |
| 2 | 318 |
After a week I wondered what she would be like. |
10 |
| 3 | 209 |
I wondered if any had escaped. |
10 |
| 4 | 547 |
Doubtless she had, from time to time, wondered what it would be like, a collared slave girl, to dance naked in the sand, in the light of the campfire, laboring vulnerably under whip-threat to please Gorean warriors. |
10 |
| 5 | 62 |
I wondered if she belonged to Suleiman or Ibn Saran. |
10 |
| 5 | 385 |
On Gor, sooner or later, she would be forced to face this fact; she would be forced to look deeply within herself; to confront herself, perhaps for the first time, with candor, and uncompromising honesty; I wondered if, at that time, seeing herself, truly, she would go mad, or if, boldly, with joy, ... |
10 |
| 5 | 544 |
I wondered if he had been waiting for Ibn Saran. |
10 |
| 5 | 702 |
I wondered who owned her. |
10 |
| 5 | 795 |
Of what other accomplishments could they boast? I wondered if she could have found her fulfillment there, could she have been happy there? Gor was perilous, and beautiful, and primitive. |
10 |
| 5 | 797 |
Was this so fearful for a woman, I wondered, for a real woman, a natural woman, a feminine woman? Could they truly believe biology, and millions of years of evolution, were socially constructed artifacts that might be swept aside with impunity, without consequences, in order to promote self-serving ... |
10 |
| 7 | 691 |
I wondered how far I was supposed to get. |
10 |
| 10 | 52 |
I wondered that he should feel so deeply about such matters, he, a bandit. |
10 |
| 10 | 131 |
I wondered how another slave girl, Vella, once Miss Elizabeth Cardwell of New York City, of Earth, who had betrayed Priest-Kings, would look thrown nude upon such a circle. |
10 |
| 10 | 370 |
I wondered how scandalized, how embarrassed and shamed the former Miss Priscilla Blake-Allen would be to hear her needs and her performance so boldly and publicly spoken of. |
10 |
| 11 | 426 |
I wondered on the Kur which had entered, invisible, my cell at Nine Wells. |
10 |
| 12 | 314 |
"I have wondered, sometimes," said she, "what it would be like to be a woman". |
10 |
| 12 | 319 |
"But I have wondered sometimes," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 269 |
How was it then, I wondered, that lovely Alyena stood here, on these tiles, slave? "Then, most peculiarly," said the man, "when apparently safe, escaped with her escort, she, suddenly, turned her kaiila about, returning, fleeing back to Red Rock". |
10 |
| 13 | 360 |
I wondered who had sent the message, "Beware Abdul". |
10 |
| 14 | 98 |
The same girl who, joyously, would lasciviously writhe at the feet of the free male, begging him for his slightest touch, would often, confronted with male slaves, treat them with the contempt and coldness commonly accorded the men of Earth by their frustrated, haughty females; I have sometimes wond... |
10 |
| 14 | 458 |
I wondered if I could endure another day. |
10 |
| 16 | 141 |
I wondered how one might escape from Klima. |
10 |
| 16 | 176 |
Further, I wondered at the salt shark, blind, living in total darkness. |
10 |
| 17 | 29 |
I wondered if he had once been of the Warriors. |
10 |
| 17 | 31 |
I wondered why it was that none killed him, to become kennel master in his place. |
10 |
| 17 | 33 |
How is it, I wondered, that such a man can survive a night, that such a man dare turn his back upon the fierce, envious sleen among whom, with whip, and laughter, he walks. |
10 |
| 17 | 36 |
How is it, I wondered, that men survive at Klima, and that they do not die at one another's throats? I looked at the heads of the lelts, and, scattered among them, the heads of the pale salamanders, thrust from the dark water, attracted by the movement, or the awareness of the light or heat, of the ... |
10 |
| 17 | 52 |
I wondered if it was capable, somehow, of a dim awareness of the phenomenon of light. |
10 |
| 17 | 89 |
I had wondered why men did not kill T'Zshal, and the other kennel masters, why the societal arrangement was as stable as it was. |
10 |
| 17 | 176 |
I wondered that he had said this. |
10 |
| 17 | 244 |
I wondered how many men of T'Zshal had been killed by the Old One. |
10 |
| 21 | 190 |
I wondered at what drove it, why it strove so relentlessly in its mission, whatever that might be. |
10 |
| 21 | 201 |
What prize, I wondered, could be worth the risk the beast had been willing to take, the price it had been willing to pay, its own life. |
10 |
| 21 | 202 |
I wondered if it could rise again to its feet. |
10 |
| 21 | 255 |
I wondered if either Priest-Kings or men could be worthy of them. |
10 |
| 21 | 333 |
But is it here, I then wondered. |
10 |
| 24 | 85 |
I wondered if she entertained Ibn Saran, upon occasion, on the broad, lovely surface. |
10 |
| 26 | 190 |
I wondered if it were wise to have armed the men of Klima and put them in the saddles of kaiila. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 473 |
How many of them, I wondered, would do what they truly wanted, as I had little doubt Gorean men would do? How many of them, I wondered, would simply look down and see me at their feet as what I was, a branded girl? I wondered how many would look down upon me, laugh with pleasure and say, "I have alw... |
10 |
| 4 | 831 |
I knew I was a slave girl, legally, irrefutably; the brand told me that; but I wondered on a deeper question, one beyond legalities and institutions; I wondered if I were truly, in my heart, a female slave. |
10 |
| 1 | 102 |
I wondered if the wind was a prevailing one. |
10 |
| 1 | 103 |
I wondered if the plate and chain were so situated in order that the chain's prisoner, such as I found myself to be, be protected from the wind. |
10 |
| 1 | 162 |
I wondered who held the key to that collar. |
10 |
| 2 | 35 |
Could I, here, in this place, I wondered, be such that men might so look upon me? I gathered that I might indeed, here, in this place, be such that I might be so looked upon. |
10 |
| 2 | 66 |
I wondered what could be the status of women on this world, on a world where there were such men. |
10 |
| 2 | 81 |
I wondered what could be the status of women on this world, on a world where there were such men. |
10 |
| 2 | 318 |
I wondered then what was the nature of women. |
10 |
| 2 | 469 |
I wondered at what manner of men they might be, surely like none I had hitherto known. |
10 |
| 2 | 856 |
I wondered if it would be possible to work out a meaningful relationship with him. |
10 |
| 2 | 916 |
I wondered, frightened, if it were at the feet of men, or at least at the feet of such men as this, that women belonged, if that might be the unperverted order of nature. |
10 |
| 2 | 985 |
I wondered at what sort of girl I was. |
10 |
| 2 | 1002 |
But I wondered if I would have the opportunity to give myself. |
10 |
| 2 | 1176 |
I wondered how I had come here, and what I might be doing here. |
10 |
| 2 | 1242 |
Yes, I kissed his feet, as though I might have been no more than a beautiful, stripped, guilty, frightened slave! How natural, and necessary, and perfect, in such circumstances, seemed this act of timid abject obeisance! Would any girl of Earth, I wondered, so in the power of such a man, on such a w... |
10 |
| 3 | 500 |
I wondered what could be my status on this world, now that I had been marked. |
10 |
| 4 | 207 |
I wondered if there was much to choose from between such a garment and being nude; I supposed the garment gave the men something to tear away. |
10 |
| 4 | 236 |
I wondered if the men knew, or suspected, the female cunning that went into the making of a slave rag. |
10 |
| 4 | 637 |
I wondered at what might be the nature of the camp in which I found myself. |
10 |
| 4 | 649 |
I wondered if he had had me first, or second, or third or fourth. |
10 |
| 4 | 650 |
I wondered which had been he. |
10 |
| 4 | 654 |
I wondered how many hundreds of slave girls he had had. |
10 |
| 4 | 716 |
How precious a woman's bondage can be to her! I wondered if free women could understand that. |
10 |
| 4 | 839 |
I wondered what might be the nature of men, and what might be the nature of women. |
10 |
| 4 | 948 |
I have wondered sometimes if free women on Gor might not be happier if their culture permitted them to be somewhat more like the slave girls they so heartily despise. |
10 |
| 4 | 1080 |
I wondered why my master had opened the corridor in the thorn brush; did I really mean nothing to him; was it nothing to him whether I remained in the camp, or fled into the darkness, to starve, or be devoured by beasts, or to fall into the hands of others? I suspected that, truly, it did mean littl... |
10 |
| 5 | 173 |
I wondered how long it had been since one of them had had the hands of a man on her body. |
10 |
| 5 | 427 |
I wondered what these men would do with me if they discovered I was not even a free woman. |
10 |
| 5 | 681 |
I wondered if the camp would be fired. |
10 |
| 5 | 710 |
I wondered if she had been permitted to retain her clothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 838 |
I wondered why I had forgiven her. |
10 |
| 6 | 283 |
I wondered if he had, in his openness with me, been testing my master, to learn him better. |
10 |
| 7 | 387 |
I wondered if such a girl, braceleted, pulled away from him on her leash, regretted her choice. |
10 |
| 7 | 413 |
I wondered if I, though a girl of Earth, were a natural slave. |
10 |
| 7 | 945 |
Perhaps this was only a slave girl's alertness to the master, an alertness natural enough in a girl who is owned by a man, whose well-being and very life may depend on how well she pleases him; I do not know; that is an alertness which any rational girl strives to cultivate; but I wondered if it mig... |
10 |
| 9 | 233 |
But surely I who had been Judy Thornton could not be a pleasure slave! But was I a pleasure slave? But if so, even then, surely I could not admit that I was so inconsequential and low a thing as that, a pleasure slave! But even on Earth I had occasionally looked upon my body in the mirror and wonder... |
10 |
| 9 | 465 |
If even the large, strong Sandal Thong so feared the whip, I wondered what it would do to me. |
10 |
| 9 | 723 |
I wondered if I would see him again. |
10 |
| 9 | 933 |
How grievously had the women of Earth been slandered! Did they not know I was a woman of Earth? Of course they knew! How casually, how unthinkably, they spoke in the presence of a slave! But I wondered if it were true. |
10 |
| 9 | 968 |
I wondered if all the women of Earth were slave meat. |
10 |
| 9 | 1199 |
I wondered if he ever called to mind the girl he had so casually, contemptuously, discarded. |
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. |
10 |
| 10 | 72 |
I wondered how much I would bring. |
10 |
| 12 | 771 |
I wondered who had taken them. |
10 |
| 12 | 833 |
But, I wondered, would this truly displease her? To be sure, it is not pleasant to feel the lash. |
10 |
| 12 | 879 |
I wondered how many slave girls, helpless and bound, a tiny silver leaf dangling from their ear, had been carried by the men of Treve in this basket, and how many more in the future would find themselves its captive. |
10 |
| 13 | 411 |
Were the women comparing their beauty with mine, perhaps unfavorably? Were they wondering, perhaps, if they might give a man more pleasure than I? I wondered why now, for the first time, they looked upon me with such resentment, such anger. |
10 |
| 13 | 446 |
He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,... |
10 |
| 14 | 76 |
Yet I wondered if in his heart he was free. |
10 |
| 15 | 54 |
"I wondered what the boys ever saw in you". |
10 |
| 15 | 143 |
I wondered when the measurement could have been taken. |
10 |
| 19 | 52 |
I wondered if I had ever knelt in such a place as this before, or if it were merely the figment of a slave girl's dream. |
10 |
| 19 | 54 |
I wondered if it were in some odd sense a recollection or anticipation. |
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| 20 | 193 |
I wondered if she were slave or free. |
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| 22 | 459 |
Perhaps she has wondered what she would look like—in a collar, or chained". |
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| 26 | 63 |
I wondered what the girl had done. |
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| 26 | 93 |
I wondered at her curiosity concerning such matters. |
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| 27 | 139 |
I wondered on what business it was that he had come to Ar. |
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| 28 | 371 |
I wondered what men saw in her. |
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| 29 | 48 |
I wondered about the service of how many girls I would have to render to him. |
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| 29 | 210 |
I wondered if she were as happy in the arms of her master as I in the arms of mine. |
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| 29 | 212 |
I wondered if now she truly understood, perhaps for the first time, the nature of the institution of slavery. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 127 |
I wondered if I had been tempted to weakness. |
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| 1 | 132 |
How I relished the owning of every bit of her! I wondered if I had been tempted to weakness. |
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| 2 | 748 |
I wondered if she seized the bars of her cage, pressing her face against them, trying to understand what had happened to her. |
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| 2 | 758 |
I wondered if she would learn swiftly to be pleasing to a master. |
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| 3 | 205 |
I wondered if he knew this. |
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| 3 | 335 |
I wondered if his patriotism would last all the way to the betting table. |
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| 3 | 520 |
She and the last two girls would have been extremely similarly attired; they all wore, or had worn, the male-imitation uniform which I gathered must be popular among such girls, girls apparently striving to copy a masculinity which hormonally and anatomically would be forever denied to them; better ... |
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| 3 | 631 |
I wondered if these girls had been in the same shipment as the girl I had met in the house of Samos. |
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| 3 | 671 |
I wondered what thoughts occupied these giants of Kaissa on the eve of their confrontation. |
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| 3 | 966 |
I wondered if they had ever been as beautiful on Earth as here, on sale, in their light tunics and chains. |
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| 4 | 287 |
I wondered how much gold Centius of Cos had taken that he would so betray Kaissa and the island of his birth. |
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| 4 | 325 |
I wondered who had bought the honor of Centius of Cos, to whom he had sold his integrity. |
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| 4 | 520 |
I wondered if the wily fellow had chuckled well to himself when placing the tarsk bit in his fur pouch. |
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| 4 | 560 |
I wondered if its design was sound. |
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| 6 | 511 |
I wondered at the hatred which free women seem to bear to their embonded sisters. |
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| 7 | 16 |
I wondered at who he might truly be. |
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| 9 | 80 |
I wondered if she would change her opinion as to the intelligence of slave girls when she herself wore the collar. |
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| 9 | 269 |
—What are you?" I wondered if it was as clear to them as it was to me that they had little hope for understanding, pity, or succor from the stern, regal figure before whom they knelt, which regarded them with such ill-concealed disdain. |
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| 11 | 555 |
I wondered at her words. |
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| 12 | 51 |
I wondered if she knew she was being brought along slowly as a slave. |
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| 12 | 517 |
I wondered what she would look like in a snatch of a slave silk, and a true collar. |
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| 12 | 598 |
Then she said, "Yes, I have wondered about her". |
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| 12 | 600 |
"Even as a girl," she said, "lying alone in bed, I wondered what it might be like to lie soft and small, perfumed, helpless, in the arms of a strong man, knowing that he would treat me as he wished, doing with me whatever he wanted". |
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| 22 | 88 |
I wondered if I had been on the water too long. |
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| 24 | 362 |
"I wondered if you would do that," she said. |
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| 26 | 73 |
I wondered how far Ram had continued on. |
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| 26 | 75 |
I wondered where Barbara was. |
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| 35 | 404 |
I wondered how long was the track in which the chain slid. |
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| 35 | 608 |
I wondered if she realized that women of her paleness and beauty had, in effect, like certain other types, been sexually selected for, over generations, even on her native world, a world which seldom consciously thought of itself as a world breeding slaves. |
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| 37 | 132 |
I wondered from what shaggy Prometheus, long ago, Kurii had accepted fire. |
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| 37 | 133 |
I wondered at what it might mean, fire kindled in the paw of a beast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 96 |
I wondered if Ulafi would sail without the blond-haired barbarian. |
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| 4 | 464 |
I wondered if she knew how exciting she was. |
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| 4 | 472 |
I wondered if she knew that slaves sometimes lay thusly before their masters, and ate fruit, or pastries, or crusts of bread. |
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| 4 | 864 |
I wondered how much Ulafi knew. |
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| 10 | 77 |
I wondered at the nature of the man, the mention of whom might have caused this reaction in the shrewd Kipofu. |
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| 13 | 575 |
I wondered if he had made her yield well as a slave, when he had owned her. |
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| 13 | 578 |
I wondered how she might look in scarlet silk, dancing as a slave before any men. |
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| 14 | 705 |
"Have you never wondered," I asked, "what it might be like, men with whips standing near you, to dance naked in the firelight, your feet striking in the sand, before warriors?" "Yes," she said. |
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| 14 | 706 |
"I have wondered about that". |
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| 27 | 142 |
Why, I wondered, had he fled to the Ua. |
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| 29 | 232 |
I wondered if I should give the blond-haired barbarian an opportunity again to beg to perform, that she might earn a bit of cloth and a handful of beads. |
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| 32 | 383 |
I wondered if she were fully conscious of what she did. |
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| 32 | 390 |
I wondered if women knew how beautiful they were. |
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| 34 | 67 |
Did she not realize that she had seen in Schendi, in those brief moments, the slave she had for so long concealed within herself, that she had seen then, frightened, scarcely daring to recognize her, her own self? What cruelties could men inflict upon women, I wondered, which could half compare with... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 324 |
I wondered, if there were Gorean slavers, if she might indeed not be the sort of woman they regard as suitable for their chains. |
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| 1 | 585 |
I wondered if there were a world anywhere where women, or at least a certain sort of woman, would have no choice but to be totally feminine, and all the time. |
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| 1 | 643 |
I wondered if there were such things as natural slaves. |
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| 1 | 782 |
I wondered why they should be so concerned, so frequently and intensely, in denying that they were slaves. |
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| 1 | 797 |
I wondered what she might look like, her clothing removed, standing on the tiles of a palace. |
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| 1 | 1101 |
I wondered what would be done with me. |
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| 4 | 54 |
Looking upon the girls I wondered if it were not a madness that any woman is let out of the collar. |
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| 4 | 55 |
Are they not all, truly, property, the property of men, as I had once wondered? Should they not all, truly, be owned by men? One of the girls, Lola, asked a question of the Lady Gina, to which she promptly replied. |
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| 6 | 40 |
"I wondered if it might not be," said the woman. |
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| 7 | 41 |
Who, I wondered, were the true kings? Or, perhaps there were no kings, truly, only the madness of the untended machine. |
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| 7 | 230 |
Was I not of Earth? Was I not a true man, capable of conquering myself? Why, I wondered, should I conquer myself? Why should I not allow myself to be victorious? Then, again, chagrined, embarrassed, I thrust such thoughts from my mind. |
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| 7 | 253 |
I wondered if there could be a politics which did not betray truth. |
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| 7 | 521 |
I wondered if the girls of Gor were truly incredibly different from the girls of Earth. |
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| 7 | 544 |
I wondered if it were so wrong to feel magnificent and powerful. |
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| 7 | 545 |
Was it truly unworthy of a man to feel magnificent and powerful? Why, I wondered. |
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| 8 | 15 |
I had wondered about you. |
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| 9 | 70 |
"I have wondered what price I might bring". |
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| 9 | 72 |
"Have you not wondered about that?" asked the second. |
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| 9 | 92 |
I wondered how many men of Earth were silk slaves and did not realize it. |
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| 10 | 144 |
I wondered if any of those papers were pertinent to me. |
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| 12 | 10 |
Were those of Earth really so ashamed and fearful of their bodies as such garments suggested, I wondered. |
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| 12 | 24 |
I wondered if the aesthetic judgment of the women who hastened to don such garments was as stereotyped and thoughtless as that of the men who wore them as a matter of course. |
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| 12 | 104 |
Was that what they desired, I wondered, a master in their boudoir? But if that were true surely they knew that then they, in their own boudoir, would be only slaves. |
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| 12 | 126 |
I wondered if more than a handful of men on Earth would ever recollect their manhood. |
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| 13 | 212 |
I wondered if she were pretty. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 134 |
I wondered if they ever wondered what had become of me. |
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| 9 | 274 |
Was that all my training in the house counted for, I wondered, rising so early, retiring so late, the busy days, the long lessons, their frequency, variety and intensiveness, administered to us morning, noon and night? I then wondered if this, like the claims made with respect to my Gorean, were int... |
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| 30 | 221 |
I wondered if he were going to leave with the slave wagon in the morning, and I would be transported helplessly in it, or if he was going to stay here for a time, in the woods, and, if so, for how long? I wondered, too, for how long, whether it left the woods or not, I would be kept in the slave wag... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 682 |
I wondered if they wondered, sometimes, what had become of me. |
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| 14 | 1342 |
I wondered if she wondered, beneath her robes, and veil, walking across the terrace, what might be the feel of slave iron on her limbs, what it might be to feel the sawdust of the slave block beneath her bared feet, what it might be to hear the call of the auctioneer, proposing her for the considera... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 117 |
Had he wondered what she would look like, long ago, when she was his teacher, she wondered, if she were to so dance before him, barefoot, in a bit of swirling silk, in necklaces and coins, in armlets, with bracelets on her wrists and bangles on her ankles, to the flash of ringing zills, summoned, co... |
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| 25 | 39 |
Yes, long ago, on Earth, in my most secret dreams, in my most feared and forbidden, but persistent, exciting, delicious and fascinating thoughts, I wondered what it might be to be a slave! I had wondered, too, what I might be truly worth, if anything, what I might bring in an open market, sold raw, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 39 |
I wondered if Lord Nishida was truly loyal to his shogun, and, if so, I wondered if his shogun was such as to deserve such loyalty, or might he, rather, in his way, regard lightly the feudal pledges which would bind a lord and vassal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1076 |
What might it be, I wondered, to be vulnerably, helplessly, legally, subject to such abuse? What might it be, I wondered, to be in a man's arms, owned by him, to be choiceless, to have no option but to feel and yield. |
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| 4 | 29 |
I wondered if he knew the former Lady Flavia was on this ship, and I wondered if she knew that Seremides, now calling himself Rutilius of Ar, co-conspirator and traitor, he who had abandoned her on the roof of the Central Cylinder, was also aboard. |
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| 9 | 265 |
How tiny a man is on the back of such a beast! What sort of men, I wondered, might once have caught, tamed, and trained such monsters! Indeed, what men, even today, I wondered, would have the courage to come within yards of such a monster, let alone command it from a saddle! Cabot bent down and retr... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1269 |
I wondered if some of the young men I had known might have wondered how I, so aloof, so superior, so unapproachable, might have appeared on an auction block, reduced, rightless, stripped, a slave displayed for the perusal of buyers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 62 |
How lonely it was in the forest! Is it an escape, I wondered, to be dragged down by beasts, and eaten? Is it an escape, I wondered, if one starves, or freezes to death? Is it an escape, I wondered, if one manages to do nothing but change collars? I no longer feared being captured by Panther Women. |
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| 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. |
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| 35 | 42 |
I had wondered about this, and even wondered if it was the case, but I had then fallen asleep. |
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