| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 4 |
It is interesting, incidentally, that in the Gorean language, the word for stranger is the same as the word for enemy. |
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| 1 | 138 |
Even now I can remember the letter to the last word. |
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| 2 | 114 |
In all the languages of this planet, the word means Home Stone". |
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| 3 | 110 |
Interestingly enough, the word for meat is Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother. |
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| 3 | 129 |
Occasionally, however, an English word in Gorean, like "ax" or "ship," would delight me. |
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| 4 | 150 |
"I, Tarl, Swordsman of Ko-ro-ba, give my word that this man is fit to become a member of the High Caste of Warriors". |
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| 4 | 152 |
"No tower in Ko-ro-ba is stronger than the word of Tarl, this Swordsman of our city. |
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| 4 | 153 |
I, Matthew Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, accept his word". |
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| 4 | 154 |
Then, beginning with the lowest tier, each member of the Council spoke in succession, giving his name and pronouncing that he, too, accepted the word of the blond swordsman. |
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| 5 | 97 |
"Where are you going, Master?" The word "Master," though it had come appropriately enough from the girl, who was, legally at least, my property, startled me. |
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| 6 | 61 |
Helplessly, she seemed to stammer some incoherent word of gratitude and turned trustfully to me, putting her arms around my waist as though for additional security; I felt her trembling, innocent body against mine, her dependence on me, and then she suddenly locked her arms around my waist and with ... |
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| 6 | 110 |
"The word has spread from the city, carried by all the rational creatures, whether they crawl or fly or swim". |
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| 17 | 14 |
In addition to my own failures, I received no word from Kazrak, and reports from Ar on the stand of Marlenus in the Central Cylinder became obscure and contradictory. |
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| 18 | 30 |
At a word from the officer a hundred spears would have sought my heart. |
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| 18 | 35 |
"Obey the word of Pa-Kur". |
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| 18 | 59 |
There are two systems of courts on Gor—those of the City, under the jurisdiction of an Administrator or Ubar, and those of the Initiates, under the jurisdiction of the High Initiate of the given city; the division corresponds roughly to that between civil and what, for lack of a better word, ... |
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| 19 | 90 |
They feared the word, the curse, of this old man without weapons more than they would have feared the massed swords of a thousand foemen. |
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| 19 | 208 |
Then, without another word, he turned and leaped into space. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 26 |
How would my word, the word of a stranger, weigh against the words of Ost, a citizen of Tharna and perhaps one of significance? Yet, incredibly perhaps, I looked forward to seeing the palace and the Tatrix, to meeting face to face the unusual woman who could rule, and rule well, a city of Gor. |
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| 5 | 7 |
The actual word Ko-ro-ba itself, more prosaically, is simply an expression in archaic Gorean referring to a village market. |
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| 6 | 28 |
Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy. |
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| 9 | 116 |
"Talk, laugh!" I said to the men of Tharna, who had said not a word since my entrance. |
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| 10 | 10 |
"Have I your word that you will accompany me peaceably to the palace of the Tatrix?" asked the guardsman. |
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| 15 | 1 |
A Bargain is Struck The tabuk-cry is the only word to which a tarn is trained to react. |
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| 15 | 148 |
Her voice was cold, each word a crystal of ice. |
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| 15 | 213 |
"Yes," she said, not meeting my gaze, "you have the word of the Tatrix of Tharna". |
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| 15 | 214 |
I wondered if I could trust her word. |
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| 16 | 71 |
"Fool!" she laughed, "do you not know by now that one does not make pacts with an animal, that one does not bargain with a beast?" "You gave me your word!" I shouted. |
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| 17 | 89 |
The word had not yet been given which would allow them to fall upon it. |
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| 19 | 73 |
"Word of our deeds even now hurries to the Palace of the Tatrix," I cried. |
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| 19 | 145 |
I wondered why he had said this, for it is a word of greeting. |
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| 24 | 132 |
Word had swept ahead as if on the wings of tarns that the rebels, abandoning their tactics of ambush and evasion, were at last marching on the palace. |
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| 24 | 155 |
When at last I stood unslain on the black cobblestones at the foot of the double rampart I knew that though Dorna the Proud might rule in Tharna, though it might be she who sat upon the golden throne of the city, that it was the word of a warrior that ruled on those ramparts above me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 119 |
Who would believe them? Who would take the word of scattered vagrants against the word of the mighty Caste of Initiates? And, if he did believe them, who would dare to speak out that he did so? The Initiates, it seemed, had conquered. |
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| 2 | 5 |
He could not read the manuscript, as it was written in English, a language as foreign to him as Gorean would be to most of you, but yet he would treasure the manuscript and guard it as though it were a most precious possession, for he was a scribe and it is the way of scribes to love the written wor... |
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| 10 | 37 |
One English expression for which no natural "word" in their language exists is, oddly enough, "friendship," and certain of its cognates. |
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| 25 | 133 |
Her lips trembled but no word escaped them. |
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| 26 | 294 |
Had I not known how vicious and deceitful she was, how cruel and treacherous, I might have permitted myself a word of kindness to her. |
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| 27 | 6 |
The word of the two Muls by the portal might or might not carry weight with their Priest-King Masters. |
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| 28 | 105 |
On the other hand I have never truly objected to the title because I had not been long on Gor before I understood, for some reason that is not yet altogether clear to me, that the word "Master" can indescribably thrill a girl when she finds it on her lips, now those of a slave girl, and knows that i... |
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| 33 | 93 |
The words for "stranger" and "enemy" in Gorean, incidentally, are the same word. |
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| 34 | 77 |
"The word will spread," said my father, "and they will come in twos and threes from all corners of Gor, singing, each carrying a stone to add to the walls and cylinders of their city". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 14 |
I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ... |
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| 5 | 45 |
Another frequently heard expression is Sa-Fora, a compound word, meaning, rather literally, Chain Daughter, or Daughter of the Chain. |
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| 9 | 182 |
"I have the word of her serving slaves," insisted Saphrar. |
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| 9 | 196 |
Now she descended the last three stairs and, stopping to nod her head and grace an eager fellow here and there along the tables with a word or gesture, she began to approach the head of the table. |
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| 9 | 206 |
To a man here and there, however, she would nod her head or exchange a word or two. |
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| 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. |
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| 10 | 442 |
At this word the judge called out to clear the space between the stakes of Aphris of Turia and the lovely Kassar wench. |
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| 11 | 161 |
"And I shall see," said Kamchak, "that word of this reaches Turia!" He then bent over and started cracking his knees with his fists, so amused he was. |
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| 12 | 46 |
Kamchak, not a man to part easily with a tarn disk, had apparently received inside word on the matter. |
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| 21 | 94 |
Certainly word would soon be at the gates to watch for me. |
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| 23 | 163 |
"I regret only," I said, "that I sent word to Kamchak and even now he has withdrawn his men from Turia and is returning to the wagons". |
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| 23 | 166 |
"And of ours," said Conrad, "for we too sent him word thinking it well to keep him informed in these matters". |
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| 24 | 58 |
I feared, of course, that this addition to our armament might hasten Saphrar's departure, but, as it turned out, it did not, perhaps because the first word Saphrar had of our intentions was the tumbling of dying tarns behind the walls of the compound. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
It is an old word in Gorean, Ko-ro-ba, meaning a village market, though few considered its archaic meaning. |
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| 3 | 20 |
The word actually cried was "Kaissa," which is Gorean for "Game". |
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| 3 | 89 |
In the center of his forehead, there was a large brand, the capital initial of the Gorean word for slave, in block script. |
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| 4 | 166 |
Without a word Elizabeth did so, standing and pulling the loop at her left shoulder. |
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| 5 | 15 |
In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually... |
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| 6 | 101 |
I resolved that most of my problems in this matter might be solved if I simply refused to release Elizabeth until she had given her word, which she takes quite seriously, to be at least civil. |
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| 10 | 75 |
She replaced the scrolls in the pigeonholes of a scroll bin and Caprus slid the cover over the bin and locked it, and then, with a word to him, she lightly ran past us and disappeared down the hall. |
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| 12 | 176 |
The guard, under instructions, did not even address a word in Gorean to them. |
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| 15 | 156 |
Then they would make some small progress and be rewarded with a kind word, which they found they could not help themselves from receiving with joy. |
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| 18 | 183 |
Unfortunately, for spite and for gold, word of our work was brought to the High Initiate, by a minor Physician discharged from our staff for incompetence. |
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| 20 | 349 |
"Further, let no word of this shame be spoken outside this house". |
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| 20 | 551 |
I had known, of course, that Cernus would never free me, but it had given me great pleasure to see his charade of honor unmasked, to have seen him humiliated and publicly exposed as a traitor to his word. |
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| 22 | 309 |
I wondered if Cernus had yet received word of the events at the Stadium of Blades. |
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| 23 | 6 |
Word had apparently reached the House of the doings at the Stadium of Blades before it had come to the Stadium of Tarns, much farther away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 121 |
Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law. |
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| 2 | 34 |
In Gorean, incidentally, the word for stranger and enemy are the same. |
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| 3 | 287 |
The word came bitterly to me. |
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| 4 | 290 |
But most perhaps, incredible as it might seem, I feared that if I asked for a kindness, even a word or a gesture, it would be refused. |
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| 4 | 292 |
I think that if she, this proud woman, before whom I felt myself nothing, she my mistress, if she had but cared to speak a word of simple kindness to me I might have cried out with gladness, willingly serving her in all things she asked. |
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| 7 | 108 |
Only when I had unbound her had I noticed, on her left thigh, the tiny mark, which had been burned into her flesh long ago, the small letter in cursive script which was the initial letter of Kajira, which is the most common Gorean word for a female slave. |
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| 10 | 188 |
At a word from the scribe at the long table before the thrones of the Ubars, two men put Tersites from the chamber, dragging him away. |
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| 11 | 239 |
I had expected, that very day, or this night, to receive word that the fleets of Cos and Tyros were approaching. |
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| 11 | 305 |
"Earlier today," I asked, "did noble Samos send word to me that he wished to speak with me?" Samos looked at me. |
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| 13 | 127 |
"Yes," said Chenbar, "this morning I gave my word". |
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| 14 | 72 |
Doubtless, from hold to hold, over the months, the word has spread that Bosk not only would not sink a round ship, but that, when he took one, he freed her slaves. |
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| 14 | 425 |
Indeed, at a word, they must come to one's arms, must press their body to yours. |
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| 15 | 328 |
At as little as a word, or a gesture or glance, their pleasures must be proffered unquestioningly to masters. |
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| 16 | 48 |
"How dare you address such a word to your Ubara, Slave!" demanded she. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 764 |
"To begin," he was saying, "you will receive one stroke for each letter of the word 'Liar', then one stroke for each letter of the word 'Thief', and then a stroke for each letter of the word 'Traitress'. |
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| 6 | 179 |
He continued to speak, finally very slowly, word by word, very clearly. |
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| 3 | 35 |
The sound had been a word, doubtless of negation. |
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| 6 | 180 |
His efforts, of course, were not rewarded in the least, for I could understand not even a word of what he had said. |
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| 6 | 188 |
The fellow replied with a single word, apparently of negation. |
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| 6 | 190 |
I had heard that word before. |
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| 6 | 191 |
When the small man, in my penthouse, when I had lain bound on my bed, had touched me, the large man, abruptly, angrily, had said that word to him. |
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| 6 | 194 |
I had heard only a word or two of it before. |
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| 6 | 288 |
"I do not understand you," I told him, sounding out each word, with great contempt and coldness. |
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| 6 | 351 |
He must be pleased with me, he must be pleased with me! He spoke a brief word of command, and, with a swirl of his robe, turned away from me. |
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| 7 | 183 |
I was reluctant to enter the water but, at a word from Targo, I immersed myself, shuddering, teeth chattering, in the swift, chill stream. |
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| 10 | 228 |
She must, at so little as the least word or gesture, provide subtle, lengthy and complex delights, gratifications and pleasures to a master, rendering him services in her bondage of which a free woman could not even conceive". |
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| 12 | 380 |
I did not even own the camisk, the scandalous bit of cloth that had been granted me to cover my nakedness, and might be, at a word, taken from me. |
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| 13 | 672 |
She must then, if the master sees fit to grant her petition, at a word from him, run to the post. |
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| 13 | 710 |
At his least word or glance I knew that I, as a slave, must surrender myself to him, totally. |
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| 15 | 901 |
Free women often treat such girls with great cruelty, and the mere word of a free woman, that she is displeased with the girl's work, is enough to have the girl beaten. |
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| 15 | 904 |
Here again, the mere word of the free person, that he is not completely pleased, is enough to earn the miserable girl a severe beating. |
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| 17 | 118 |
Even performing small, homely tasks for a master, such as polishing his leather, laundering and ironing his tunics, cleaning his domicile, bringing him his sandals, crawling, in her teeth, can be sexually stimulating to her; she licks humbly the confining loops of leather on her wrists; she humbly l... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 93 |
With the men at the oars, ready, and others with the thrusting poles, she might be swiftly sped, if need should arise, at a word, into the deeper waters. |
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| 4 | 238 |
Did she think that a free man gave his word lightly on such matters? I regarded her. |
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| 4 | 333 |
Had the slave not heard my word, now twice reiterated? I considered beating her for her importunity. |
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| 6 | 810 |
One may also deflect the attention by a word, or a glance somewhere. |
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| 6 | 996 |
The word must have come hard from her. |
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| 7 | 122 |
Let official word then be sent to Ar that his daughter now sat safe at my side, consort of Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming Thassa. |
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| 7 | 258 |
Her lips formed the word. |
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| 9 | 126 |
"You may accept my word for it," she said. |
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| 9 | 209 |
"You may take my word for it," said Verna. |
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| 9 | 334 |
I might then, when it had pleased me, have had official word sent to Ar, that his daughter now sat safe at my side, my consort, the consort of Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming Thassa. |
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| 19 | 144 |
At a word from Sarus they might be enslaved, and would be then no different from the poor wenches, bound head to foot, lying behind them. |
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| 20 | 161 |
I knew then how in Tyros stood the word of Chenbar. |
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| 22 | 281 |
It meant that she would be the richest and most powerful woman on Gor, that armies and navies, and tarn cavalries, could move upon her very word, that the taxes of an empire the wealthiest on Gor could be laid at her feet, that the most precious of gems and jewels might be hers, that she would be th... |
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| 22 | 314 |
This is as the word of the Ubar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 629 |
"The word is a Gorean corruption of their name for themselves, for their kind," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 630 |
"In Torvaldsland," said Tab, "that word means 'beasts'". |
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| 1 | 632 |
If Samos were correct that 'Kurii' was a Gorean corruption of the name of such animals for themselves, and that the word was used in Torvaldsland as a designation for beasts, then it seemed not unlikely that such animals were not unknown in Torvaldsland, at least in certain areas, perhaps remote one... |
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| 2 | 237 |
This word had been brought from the wharves to the High Initiate. |
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| 2 | 240 |
Word had been spread. |
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| 13 | 94 |
He was a man of his word. |
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| 13 | 95 |
By his word he would stand, even though, as in the present case, any objective observer would have been forced to admit that his provocation to betray it, his temptation to betray it, must have been unusual in the extreme. |
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| 13 | 405 |
And I knew him, by this time, to be one who stood with his word, and stood well with it, and proudly. |
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| 13 | 406 |
His word was to him as his land, and his sword, as his honor and his ship; it would be kept; it would be neither demeaned nor broken. |
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| 15 | 55 |
I could imagine the words on Misk's translator, one after the other, ticked off mechanically, "We have given our word". |
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| 17 | 224 |
The word slipped from man to man. |
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| 19 | 39 |
Swiftly, Leah, the slave girl, obeyed the word of a free man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 298 |
Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must ... |
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| 1 | 764 |
Yet, in spite of their different evolutionary background and physiology, they had learned the meaning of the word 'friend'; too, I knew, they understood, if only in their own way, love. |
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| 2 | 166 |
She could, thus, do nothing to betray or confound, inadvertently or otherwise, by word or glance, our plans. |
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| 2 | 316 |
The delights of making her a true slave girl, completely, in the full sense of the word, I would accord to the fellow to whom I would give or sell her. |
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| 3 | 301 |
"The word has spread through Tor," I said. |
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| 8 | 74 |
By the time word of the raid reached Nine Wells the raiders might be thousands of pasangs away. |
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| 10 | 66 |
Surely, in but a few days, word that Aretai tribesmen had destroyed, or attempted to destroy, a well at Two Scimitars would spread like fire across the desert, inflaming and outraging men from Tor to the Turian outpost, merchant fort, and trading station of Turmas. |
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| 10 | 215 |
"Of course not!" "And what word," asked Hassan, "has been heard from Haroun, high pasha of the Kavars?" "Who knows where Haroun is?" asked the merchant, spreading his hands. |
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| 11 | 433 |
Indeed, to my surprise, word of the attack, putatively by Aretai, on the Bakah oasis of Two Scimitars, of some days ago, had not yet seemed to reach Red Rock. |
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| 12 | 168 |
Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backed by the power... |
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| 17 | 34 |
His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law. |
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| 23 | 140 |
The Tajuks had come for a war; at a word from their Khan they would, without a second thought, with good cheer, initiate this enterprise against the Zevar and Arani tribesmen. |
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| 24 | 499 |
"Please do not use that word of me," she said. |
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| 24 | 686 |
Also, she could be silenced with a word; she was not a free woman. |
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| 26 | 22 |
Already word had been sent ahead to Tor that preparations be made. |
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| 26 | 175 |
She had begged me to forgive her, as though a word from me would make all things right. |
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| 26 | 193 |
"Should you ever need aid," said T'Zshal, "send word to Klima. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 336 |
It is a good word, an apt word, an excellent word. |
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| 2 | 552 |
He must understand my terror! Was it not visible in my bound body, my complete vulnerability? I waited for him to speak some gentle word, something kindly, something to reassure me, a thoughtful, soft word to allay my fears. |
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| 4 | 476 |
I was Judy Thornton, a junior at an elite girls' college, an English major, a poetess, delicate and sensitive! A man near me called out a word, delightedly, a word I would later learn was "Quarry!" At the same instant I felt the flash of a switch on my body and I, weeping, fled from its sting. |
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| 2 | 341 |
The word he spoke I had heard before. |
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| 2 | 736 |
The word 'Bina' had often occurred in their demands. |
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| 2 | 744 |
But what did the word 'Bina' mean? There must have been something, I supposed, I was supposed to have, but, as nearly as I could determine, did not have, or something which was supposed to have been with me, but, as far as I could determine, had not been with me. |
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| 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. |
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| 2 | 896 |
I heard a word, of command. |
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| 2 | 954 |
At a sharp word from him I continued to stretch, luxuriously, brazenly, and fully relished doing so. |
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| 2 | 993 |
At his slightest word I would leap to serve him. |
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| 3 | 56 |
At a word from him, then, she leapt to her feet and he took her in his arms, as though he might own her, and she kissed him, too, as though she might be owned. |
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| 3 | 283 |
He cried out a word, which I would later learn meant "Quarry". |
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| 3 | 285 |
At the same time that he had cried out this word he had swung the switch and struck Eta a swift, stinging blow below the small of the back, making her cry out, identifying her original position and, with a jangle of bells, starting her into motion. |
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| 3 | 310 |
The referee called out a word, which I would later learn was "Capture," and slapped the man on the shoulder. |
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| 3 | 326 |
He again called the word I was later to learn was "Quarry," and again he put her into motion with the switch. |
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| 3 | 477 |
Before I had been able to put off boys with a glance, a gesture, a sharp word, but what if, now, they should see me as I now was, wearing a brand. |
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| 3 | 513 |
I had heard this word several times before on this world. |
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| 3 | 724 |
One of the men, at a word from my captor, untied me, and I crept to Eta, outside the circle of firelight, and hid in her arms. |
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| 4 | 310 |
"It is the same word in English," I cried. |
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| 4 | 550 |
I heard the word which, later, I would learn was "Capture". |
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| 4 | 565 |
Again I heard the word which, later, I would learn was "Quarry"; again I felt the sudden sting of the switch, inciting me to motion; again I ran. |
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| 4 | 599 |
My master had said a curt word. |
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| 4 | 906 |
Eta hurried over to me, but a curt word from my master hurried her back to her rest with dispatch. |
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| 5 | 198 |
Some cities are governed by a Ubar, who is in effect a military sovereign, sometimes a tyrant, whose word is law. |
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| 6 | 46 |
He emphasized the word 'drink. |
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| 6 | 55 |
I now saw them as unique, exciting masters, each different and incredibly individual, who might, for a word or gesture, have me; how could I not regard them differently from a free woman; and, too, doubtless, they saw me in a similarly immediate and intensely personal fashion, not as an object shiel... |
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| 7 | 726 |
Perhaps a word might be in order pertaining to Lehna's garment, or, as I have suggested, "gown". |
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| 8 | 51 |
At a word I had changed hands. |
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| 12 | 152 |
"But word had come to us that he had been making inquiries concerning the keep, its defenses, and such". |
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| 12 | 384 |
"Wait," said the first, his word muffled against the side of my throat, where his mouth and teeth, below my ear, half kissed, half held me. |
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| 16 | 138 |
All that she could possibly give was free to the master at his slightest glance or word. |
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| 17 | 96 |
The tall man removed a marking stick from his pouch and, on the interior of the left shoulder, on its softness, of the auburn-haired girl, wrote a word. |
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| 17 | 98 |
That was the word, I gathered, which he wrote on her shoulder. |
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| 22 | 63 |
Although the cargo officer, my first day on board, had warned me that I would not be treated easily, he had not been as good as his word. |
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| 22 | 324 |
"What a vulgar word!" I was silent. |
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| 22 | 325 |
The word did not seem vulgar to me. |
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| 22 | 334 |
I liked the word, and the fact that the free woman might object to it made me, perhaps, like it the more. |
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| 22 | 498 |
"Frightful," she said, but her voice belied her word. |
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| 25 | 26 |
"What does it matter," Samos had asked Iskander, "whether a word is spoken before or after another?" "It may matter much," said Iskander. |
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| 25 | 114 |
"In a code, a given character, or set of characters, will commonly correlate with a word, as opposed to a letter. |
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| 25 | 152 |
"If we should be able to seize him who is spoken of as Belisarius, do you think we could derive the cipher key from him?" "Perhaps," said Iskander, "but I suspect that a spoken word, uttered by Belisarius himself, would, by suggestion, remove the cipher key from his mind". |
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| 26 | 108 |
"I do not understand a word you are saying," she cried. |
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| 27 | 180 |
Thurnus, as good as his word, broke into wondrous song. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 87 |
We may call this type of shelter an igloo, or iglu, I suppose, for that is the word, an Innuit word actually, by which we would think of it. |
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| 35 | 649 |
I thought it would look well incised with the standard Kajira mark of Gor; it is the first letter, in cursive script, of the word 'Kajira', the most common word for a female slave in the Gorean lexicon; it is a simple, rather floral mark, simple, befitting a slave, lovely, befitting a woman. |
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| 1 | 462 |
"Word has come," said he, "from the house of Samos. |
10 |
| 2 | 136 |
"The word 'Zarendargar'," I said, "is an attempt to render a Kur expression into Gorean". |
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| 2 | 641 |
In a sense, English does, too, for the expression 'berg' is simple German for 'mountain', and the expression 'iceberg', then, is a composite word which, literally translated would yield 'ice mountain' or 'mountain of ice'. |
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| 3 | 98 |
It was true that in the north, by the word of Svein Blue Tooth, I had stood upon the shields as Jarl. |
10 |
| 3 | 254 |
At a word from me, she would have been lashed. |
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| 5 | 99 |
"Am I to understand," I asked, "that it is your intention to prevent me by force from leaving your house?" "I will cheerfully accept your word," said he, "that you will remain in Port Kar". |
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| 5 | 100 |
"I do not, of course, accord you that word," I grinned. |
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| 5 | 109 |
"I ask only your word, Captain," said Samos. |
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| 6 | 340 |
"You may now be slain for as little as an irritable word, or for being in the least displeasing. |
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| 8 | 151 |
"Do not use that word before me!" she said. |
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| 9 | 235 |
Perhaps a word or two might be in order pertaining to female bondage. |
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| 11 | 42 |
"We shall hold you to your word," said Sorgus, the hide bandit, uneasily. |
10 |
| 11 | 493 |
Tears might swiftly be brought to her eyes by a word, or fear to those lovely features, by as little as an imperious gesture. |
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| 12 | 128 |
With Imnak's help we would cross Ax Glacier and find the Innuit, as they called themselves, a word which, in their own tongue, means "the People". |
10 |
| 12 | 395 |
"She said a sharp word to me," said Thimble. |
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| 15 | 505 |
She must serve him with a perfection which would stun and startle other girls; if she should fail in any way, even in so small a way that the lapse might be overlooked in the case of another wench, or bring perhaps no more than a mild word of reprimand, she is likely to be tied at the slave ring and... |
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| 16 | 18 |
In the language of the Innuit there is no word for art or artist. |
10 |
| 21 | 391 |
Indeed, beautiful objects, in the usual sense of the word, are often more expensive than a slave. |
10 |
| 23 | 142 |
The word 'Naartok' in the language of the Innuit means 'Fat Belly'. |
10 |
| 24 | 84 |
Yet she knew that at my slightest word, should I speak it, she would have to serve him, fully, for she was slave. |
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| 24 | 194 |
Thus, when you find you simply will be given no alternative other than being a true woman, in the full sense of the word, designed by nature as a love slave for males strong enough to master you, you cannot help but be thrilled. |
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| 24 | 468 |
Indeed, in a certain context a kind word can almost cause such a wench, collared and at your mercy, to faint with love. |
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| 24 | 477 |
The truly kind master, I think, is he who treats the girl in such a way that she is forced to fulfill her needs in their radical depth and diversity; he gives her no choice but to be a woman, in the full meaning of this word, which is the only thing that can truly, ultimately, make her happy. |
10 |
| 24 | 489 |
The word 'Karjuk', incidentally, in the language of the Innuit, means 'Arrow'. |
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| 27 | 88 |
Yet in the language of the Innuit, or of the People, the word 'igloo' or 'iglu' designates more generally a dwelling or house. |
10 |
| 28 | 155 |
"This slave," she said, emphasizing the word, "was already here. |
10 |
| 28 | 157 |
"I do not understand why this slave," said Arlene, also emphasizing the word, "was put in with us". |
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| 33 | 19 |
I suspect there were few, if any, in that steel complex, even of his own breed, with whom he could converse warmly, excitedly, swiftly, in detail, as he did with me, where a word might suggest a paragraph, a glance, a lifted paw signify what might with a less attuned interlocutor require hours of co... |
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| 36 | 65 |
The word 'Neromiktok', in the language of the People, means 'Smooth-and-Soft-to-Touch'. |
10 |
| 36 | 122 |
Auyark is a word in the language of the People which means Summer. |
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| 38 | 229 |
"And then I would have to go to whom I am sold, and serve him—and as a complete slave, in the fullest sense of the word". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 34 |
The word 'askari' is an inland word, which may be translated roughly as 'soldier' or 'guardsman. |
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| 34 | 600 |
"When I am finished with you," I said, "you will understand the word 'Master' and you will understand the word 'slave', and you will know that I am master and you are slave". |
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| 1 | 173 |
I did not doubt his word. |
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| 2 | 40 |
The first word that an Earth baby learns is usually, "No". |
10 |
| 2 | 41 |
The first word that a Gorean baby learns is commonly, "Yes". |
10 |
| 2 | 296 |
At a word from Vart she stood with her hands behind her neck, arching her body proudly for the buyers. |
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| 6 | 58 |
Kamba, incidentally, is an inland word, not Gorean. |
10 |
| 6 | 60 |
Similarly the word Nyoka means serpent. |
10 |
| 6 | 67 |
It is also an inland word, of course. |
10 |
| 6 | 77 |
The word Schendi, as nearly as I can determine, has no obvious, direct meaning in itself. |
10 |
| 6 | 78 |
It is generally speculated, however, that it is a phonetic corruption of the inland word Ushindi, which, long ago, was apparently used to refer to this general area. |
10 |
| 6 | 79 |
In that sense, I suppose, one might think of Schendi, though it has no real meaning of its own, as having an etiological relationship to a word meaning 'Victory'. |
10 |
| 6 | 80 |
The Gorean word for victory is "Nykus," which expression seems clearly influenced by "Nike," or "Victory," in classical Greek. |
10 |
| 6 | 713 |
At a word from Ulafi her feet would have been cut off. |
10 |
| 6 | 743 |
Yes, she would be made to be a woman, and in the fullest sense of the word, that of a love slave to strong men. |
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| 7 | 205 |
Misery! But I cannot now renege upon my word, sadly enough, for I am a merchant of well-known integrity. |
10 |
| 11 | 120 |
As he had spoken, it had seemed to me that there might have been a slight, interesting emphasis on the word feigned. |
10 |
| 12 | 596 |
At a word from Msaliti the askaris thrust the sobbing slave ahead of them, from our presence, out into the anteroom. |
10 |
| 18 | 99 |
By one word and a stroke of his hand between them Bila Huruma dissolved their companionship. |
10 |
| 18 | 193 |
As soon as Shaba was slain you would have had the askaris, at a word, in the heat of the thing, slay me. |
10 |
| 23 | 220 |
"Pass the word down the chain," I said, "in both directions, in various languages, that we shall escape tonight". |
10 |
| 23 | 231 |
I am passing the word down the chain". |
10 |
| 26 | 47 |
In Gorean, as in certain Earth languages, the same word is used for both stranger and enemy. |
10 |
| 32 | 331 |
The word 'animal' may be used in various senses, not all of them complimentary to animals. |
10 |
| 32 | 639 |
Frightened, I supposed that these seeming animadversions, this obvious hostility, must be directed toward the fellow, obviously one in authority, whose intervention had interfered with the ceremony, indeed, at whose word the ceremony had come to an end. |
10 |
| 34 | 584 |
"You use the word 'Master'," I said. |
10 |
| 37 | 14 |
She would cry alone at night, secured to the slave post, until Kisu, by a word, or kick or blow, would silence her. |
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| 44 | 202 |
The word 'Mamba' in most of the river dialects does not refer to a venomous reptile as might be expected, given its meaning in English, but, interestingly, is applied rather generally to most types of predatory river tharlarion. |
10 |
| 48 | 341 |
And then, at a word, or glance, or curt gesture, when one is weary or has heard enough, or merely at one's whim, one may simply silence them, and put them to their knees. |
10 |
| 57 | 265 |
Filimbi was the name of the proprietor, but it is also an inland word for flute. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 37 |
How startled I was! How astonished I was! Should I not be furious? Was it not shocking, and deplorable, to hear that word, the word 'Master', on the lips of the proud Miss Henderson? Was it not horrifying that such a word should escape her lips! Those pure, soft, vulnerable, kissable lips, which I h... |
10 |
| 2 | 41 |
Dreadful, dreadful! But how exciting, too, it was for me to hear the proud Miss Henderson, she to whom I would scarcely dare aspire, she of whom I would scarcely dare dream, address that word to a man! Indeed, to be perfectly honest, I was thrilled to hear that word, that beautiful, socially exquisi... |
10 |
| 1 | 104 |
"The expression is a 'signal word,' a word selected for its emotive connotation, not its cognitive meaning. |
10 |
| 1 | 737 |
Or the word might be conveyed to the new department that I was not, truly, of the right kind". |
10 |
| 2 | 38 |
And under that heel and domination how could she be other than she was, so helplessly, so exquisitely feminine? The word had escaped her lips. |
10 |
| 2 | 40 |
The word 'Master'. |
10 |
| 2 | 50 |
What a bounder, and cad, I was! Was I so primitive and coarse, so deplorably insensitive, so unimproved, so unreformed, so masculine, as to relish the mere audition of the word 'Master' on the lips of a beautiful woman? Yet I could not repress my envy of the heavy man. |
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| 4 | 45 |
I heard the word 'Kajirus', which I would later learn was an expression for a male slave, and I heard the expression 'Jason', which was the name I had been given. |
10 |
| 4 | 47 |
The two slaves looked up at her, deferentially, attending to her every word. |
10 |
| 12 | 238 |
There is no specific Gorean word for this type of garment. |
10 |
| 13 | 374 |
I had, by an imperious word, put her there. |
10 |
| 13 | 794 |
I had made her use the word 'Master' to me. |
10 |
| 21 | 386 |
At his least word or gesture, the smallest token of his permission, she knew she would be raped. |
10 |
| 22 | 716 |
"Do you think she is good—oh, what is the word?—ah, yes, good—good slave meat?" asked the Lady Florence. |
10 |
| 30 | 18 |
"You are hurting me, Master! Please do not hurt me, Master!" How easily now that word seemed to come to her, so naturally and fittingly, so rightfully. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 84 |
"Besides, how do I know this is not a pirate trick to lure the fleet of Ar's Station into an ambush in cramped waters?" "You have my word on it," said Callimachus, "the word of a warrior". |
10 |
| 10 | 333 |
"The word 'Master' came easily from your lips," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 41 |
"Only the word and story of a free woman, whom he keeps," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 19 | 81 |
"He has had a rather hard day already," I said, putting in a word on the thief's behalf. |
10 |
| 23 | 49 |
"I had sent word to Ragnar Voskjard more than fifty days ago". |
10 |
| 27 | 94 |
"But what guarantee have I," I asked, "that you will abide by the terms of such a bargain?" "I give you my word," said he, "in it pledging my honor". |
10 |
| 32 | 239 |
At a word from him, of course, both would rush upon me, and then, perhaps, others. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 357 |
Perhaps a word or two pertaining to the matter would be in order. |
10 |
| 21 | 502 |
Perhaps a cautionary word might be in order having to do with the appearance and demeanor of the slave female in the vicinity of the free woman. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1127 |
'Maza' is the word for 'metal' and 'sapa' is the word for 'black'. |
10 |
| 1 | 579 |
These words, and word groups, came forth from the translator, following intervals between the creature's inputs. |
10 |
| 1 | 597 |
We did hear one Gorean word in the translation. |
10 |
| 1 | 1307 |
"Do you doubt the word of one who is of the Peoples?" asked Kog. |
10 |
| 2 | 295 |
At a word from the man the girl, the rope trailing behind her, dove into the canal. |
10 |
| 14 | 695 |
The word 'Waniyanpi' itself means literally 'tame cattle'. |
10 |
| 14 | 967 |
There is only one word in Gorean, incidentally, for stranger and enemy. |
10 |
| 14 | 1126 |
The word 'mazasapa', for example, literally means 'black metal'. |
10 |
| 15 | 78 |
This is the word in both Dust Leg and Kaiila for a trader, or merchant. |
10 |
| 17 | 284 |
A word was spoken. |
10 |
| 17 | 290 |
He said another word and, in a moment, I had been stripped before him, absolutely naked. |
10 |
| 17 | 300 |
I was a free woman! Never would I perform so hideous an act! Never would I be so debased, so humiliated! I was a free woman! He said another word and again, suddenly, I was much as I had been before, only now stripped, kneeling on the grass, my hands crossed and held before me by one man, the other ... |
10 |
| 17 | 465 |
It could be as simple as a narrow roll of knotted scarlet silk, or white, if the slave is at that time a virgin, or a piece of string or cord, or strip of leather, tied shut, perhaps looped six times about the throat, each time for one of the letters in the word 'Kajira', the most common expression ... |
10 |
| 17 | 466 |
With each loop one may spell the word letter by letter—'K-A-J-I-R-A'—and then tie it shut. |
10 |
| 17 | 591 |
"Theoretically a society could believe numerous false propositions and still, in normal senses of the word, be regarded as a sane, if, in many respects, a mistaken society". |
10 |
| 18 | 218 |
"Moreover, in both dialects, it is actually the word for a white woman's dress". |
10 |
| 19 | 633 |
"They will not expect a white man to keep his word," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 634 |
"Your word is respected in the Barrens, is it not?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 161 |
The expression 'kailiauk' is a Gorean word and, as far as I know, does not have an Earth origin. |
10 |
| 1 | 178 |
This band, outside of the Kaiila, is often known as the Mazahuhu band, which is the Dust-Leg word for bracelets. |
10 |
| 1 | 243 |
It is, moreover, the word for the dress of a white woman and, in this, given the contempt in which the proud red savages hold white females, commonly reducing them to fearful, groveling slaves, utilizing them as little more than beasts of burden and ministrants to their will, in all respects, it pos... |
10 |
| 2 | 47 |
After the last word the collar is fastened shut. |
10 |
| 4 | 26 |
Alerted by a code word in a seemingly innocent phone call, she prepares herself for her master. |
10 |
| 4 | 34 |
This is the Kaiila word for pemmican. |
10 |
| 4 | 261 |
'Akamda' is a word usually designating fringe, such as might occur on leggings or shirts. |
10 |
| 7 | 187 |
She can be thrown to sleen, at a word from him, if he wishes". |
10 |
| 7 | 758 |
This was the first time I had ever heard Iwoso use this word to Bloketu. |
10 |
| 9 | 209 |
At the merest word from one such as the former Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, from Pennsylvania, a free woman, a Gorean slave girl, such as Winyela, would have to grovel, lick her feet and serve her in any way that she might desire. |
10 |
| 13 | 70 |
"This is your last word on the matter?" asked Mahpiyasapa. |
10 |
| 15 | 30 |
More red savages, as if from nowhere, the word of Hci's visit to the lodge of Canka apparently having rapidly spread, appeared. |
10 |
| 16 | 31 |
"That is the word for a kiss," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 118 |
"When I give you the word," I said, "you will turn about and run to the lines of the Kaiila. |
10 |
| 28 | 182 |
She could not move from this position unless, at the word of a free person, she was freed from it. |
10 |
| 29 | 149 |
I had heard the way in which Wasnapohdi had said the word 'Master' to the young man. |
10 |
| 43 | 225 |
"Could I depend on your word in such a situation?" I inquired. |
10 |
| 47 | 226 |
Let it dawn on them that the tarn had obeyed my mere word. |
10 |
| 50 | 149 |
In Kaiila, the word 'cespu' means "wart". |
10 |
| 50 | 152 |
The word 'cesli' in Kaiila means "dung," that of either men or animals. |
10 |
| 54 | 333 |
"Word has come from the lodge of the dark guest," she said, "brought by Akihoka. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 873 |
I was excited that she had used the word "fetch". |
10 |
| 4 | 169 |
At his least word I would have stripped myself in the silken palanquin and presented myself publicly to him for his pleasures. |
10 |
| 5 | 202 |
You have my word on it". |
10 |
| 16 | 317 |
"The word sounds very natural on your lips, Lita," he said. |
10 |
| 18 | 192 |
"Say that word again," he whispered, "and more slowly, pronouncedly and beautifully". |
10 |
| 26 | 199 |
He can always, at a word or glance, bring her to her knees, and her lips to his feet. |
10 |
| 30 | 503 |
Eager, restless sleen who had not yet been distracted from her scent with the exact command word, and meat, were only feet away. |
10 |
| 31 | 51 |
"Have you heard of Priest-Kings?" "Not really, Master, the word, little else". |
10 |
| 31 | 96 |
"Surely you are familiar with the word," he said. |
10 |
| 31 | 100 |
"But you know the word?" "Yes, Master". |
10 |
| 32 | 171 |
I saw that he was only too eager to hear this word from her. |
10 |
| 32 | 172 |
What true man does not want to hear this word from a beautiful woman, one from whom it emanates appropriately? What true man does not desire the mastery, and absolute power over a beautiful woman? What true man does not wish to own, and fully, the most exciting woman he has ever seen, to have her at... |
10 |
| 32 | 191 |
Ligurious, to his fury, as a timid swain, would never get a hundredth from her of what Hassan, her master, might command with a casual word. |
10 |
| 33 | 490 |
A word was spoken. |
10 |
| 33 | 546 |
Then the sleen, with a word, was withdrawn, and thrown meat. |
10 |
| 33 | 704 |
A word was whispered. |
10 |
| 36 | 1219 |
And suddenly it seemed to me that I understood anew and ever more profoundly the word 'Master'. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 80 |
For example, she may be placed in a white hood bearing the word "Sold" in red letters, a red tag, bearing the inscription, "Sold," may be wired to her collar, or the word "Sold" may be simply written in grease pencil on her body, usually, by convention, on her left breast. |
10 |
| 1 | 210 |
"Doubtless you are aware that you could be stripped absolutely naked at my slightest word". |
10 |
| 1 | 770 |
On the other hand, the slave may be silenced by so little as a look or word. |
10 |
| 2 | 1491 |
The sound of a chain cast to the tiles, the sight of a whip, the snapping of fingers, a simple word of command, such things, however one has conditioned her, will loosen and open the slave for pleasure. |
10 |
| 4 | 210 |
"Perhaps you will then be good enough to transmit word to me, as to when you might find it appropriate to transact this urgent business". |
10 |
| 4 | 317 |
"What assurance have I," she asked, "that you will, whether successful or not, keep the rendezvous?" "You have my word on it," I said, "as a free man". |
10 |
| 4 | 321 |
"Word of your treachery will reach Port Kar," she added. |
10 |
| 4 | 337 |
I shall, in the meantime, send word to Flaminius to meet me there at the nineteenth Ahn. |
10 |
| 6 | 441 |
"You may take my word for it," she said, haughtily, "as I am a free woman". |
10 |
| 10 | 648 |
"I would not use the word 'prize,'" I said, "as that expression is commonly used in connection with a female slave". |
10 |
| 10 | 860 |
As kajirae are usually quite intelligent a word to the wise is usually sufficient. |
10 |
| 12 | 435 |
"Begin then, on the first square," said the player, "with the first letter of a word, or of a sentence, or even of a set of letters randomly selected. |
10 |
| 12 | 454 |
' A board key will commonly consist of a given word and a list of null squares. |
10 |
| 12 | 499 |
This would make travel and communication between them practical in a world where strangers are often regarded with suspicion, indeed, a world on which the same word is generally used for both "stranger" and "enemy". |
10 |
| 16 | 89 |
The saying is somewhat difficult to translate into English, for in Gorean, as not in English, the same word is commonly used for both "stranger" and "enemy". |
10 |
| 16 | 308 |
The word "bina" is generally used to designate very pretty beads, but beads which, nonetheless, are cheap, common, and simple. |
10 |
| 16 | 972 |
If this is not true, I should like to be informed, that word may be carried to Ar of this change in matters. |
10 |
| 18 | 306 |
The Lady Yanina, from the depths of her, in her terror, had cried out the word "Master". |
10 |
| 18 | 308 |
The word "Master," in her terror, had come from the depths of her. |
10 |
| 20 | 361 |
Suddenly, at a word of command, the men rushed forward. |
10 |
| 21 | 90 |
Arranged in various ways on these boards were letters, sometimes beginning from a word, sometimes from a random, or seemingly random alignment of letters. |
10 |
| 21 | 92 |
In a very simple case, for example, a given word, say, "Cibron," the name of a wood worker of Tabor, might occur. |
10 |
| 21 | 441 |
Did she not yet know that any slave must do anything, and everything, at the merest suggestion of a master, at his merest word, even at his slightest gesture, or glance? That is something that most girls learn quite quickly. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1107 |
This word, incidentally, is, in effect, the same word as 'Semnium', although in the western coastal dialects it is commonly pronounced as I have given the spelling here. |
10 |
| 5 | 262 |
He did not even mention, explicitly, the horrifying word "bondage". |
10 |
| 8 | 164 |
Even now word has probably been brought to the contingents ahead on the road". |
10 |
| 11 | 173 |
"Occasionally there is a line which is difficult to make out, and there seems to be a misspelled word here and there". |
10 |
| 15 | 403 |
A word from her, for or against a fellow, as she pleased, could found or ruin a career. |
10 |
| 16 | 390 |
A young girl, near her, gasped, hearing her mother use this word to a man. |
10 |
| 19 | 286 |
"There is only one word in the poem?" I began to suspect I had penetrated the secret of the poem's swift completion. |
10 |
| 19 | 347 |
For example, with respect to the word 'lines'". |
10 |
| 23 | 150 |
"Hail, Gnieus Lelius!" Most of the folks, as far as I could tell, however, received only a kind word from the regent, or an earnest assurance that their petitions would be examined with care. |
10 |
| 23 | 208 |
"I have waited for such word for a long time". |
10 |
| 25 | 1188 |
"A woman who is totally theirs, one who is fully in their power, one who must strive desperately to serve them perfectly in all things, one who is absolutely and helplessly at their mercy, one who must lick and kiss at their least word?" "I am afraid there are some men who do not object to that," I ... |
10 |
| 26 | 469 |
One can enflame them with a word". |
10 |
| 26 | 907 |
They must convey, at so little as a word or gesture, immediately and unquestioningly, whatever the master desires. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 952 |
By such men I could be silenced by a mere word, or a gesture or glance. |
10 |
| 5 | 203 |
In the latter range of our studies some of the girls were even instructed in the rudiments of what, perhaps for lack of a better word, might be described, using the Earth expression, as "ethnic dance". |
10 |
| 7 | 122 |
This word was the plural of 'kajira', which was one of the words, the most common one, for what we were. |
10 |
| 7 | 124 |
The brand on my left thigh was a cursive 'kef', the first letter in the word 'kajira'. |
10 |
| 9 | 265 |
Though the word was not used of me I was also 'profalarina', which term designates the state preceding, and anticipating, that of "falarina," the state Goreans seem to think of as that of being a full woman, or, at least, as those of Earth might think of it, one who certainly is no longer a virgin. |
10 |
| 11 | 37 |
Obediently it had withdrawn to its kennel at the word of my master. |
10 |
| 11 | 145 |
I could be brought to my knees at a word, and to my back at a gesture. |
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| 13 | 170 |
It could have been done as easily to her, at a word. |
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| 13 | 1191 |
She was as good as her word, and did not make the belly chain tighter than necessary, and, too, she brought me a pastry later from the kitchen. |
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| 29 | 188 |
He did not seem to me a likely candidate for an outlaw, at least in the fullest sense of the word. |
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| 34 | 681 |
But she is there, kneeling to the side, waiting, ready, unable to take her eyes from him, swiftly summonable at a word or a snapping of fingers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 20 | 93 |
"My word is sacred to me," said Surilius, "but so, too, are the terms of my word, and they require only that I do not permit you to fall, when you yourself could not avoid it, into the hands of Cosians. |
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| 1 | 24 |
Who knows the intentions or nature of the approaching stranger? In Gorean, as in many languages, the same word is used for stranger and enemy. |
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| 3 | 69 |
"Take my word for it, he is," he said. |
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| 5 | 704 |
Suddenly the girl on the table screamed aloud, again and again, half reared up, began to buck, but could not escape, so tightly and helplessly held she was, uttering the word "Master!" over and over. |
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| 5 | 724 |
"She is content!" "But she must fear," I said, "for she may be ordered from him by so little as a word or gesture, and she must obey in all things". |
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| 6 | 258 |
"The word 'debtor' is in large letters," she said. |
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| 6 | 766 |
The Lady Temione had used the word 'Master' to a man. |
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| 8 | 624 |
The very word for "Knight" in German is "Ritter," which, literally, means "Rider". |
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| 8 | 708 |
A word, or words, then, as the woman learns, grows, and blossoms, while substantially retaining their original literal, unadorned, or cognitive, meaning, can alter their original emotive meaning. |
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| 9 | 99 |
"When," she asked, "may I use the word 'Master' truly to you, in all honesty?" "But you are a free woman," I said to her. |
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| 10 | 94 |
In some cases, they might be loyal, as well, to their word, to their oaths and pledges, and, if they understood what they were marking at the recruitment tables, their contracts. |
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| 13 | 283 |
That was the first time she had used that word to me. |
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| 14 | 217 |
"How easily the word comes to your lips," I observed. |
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| 20 | 92 |
"Your word, Surilius," protested Aemilianus, turning again to the aide, his friend. |
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| 21 | 1118 |
Perhaps a word might be said about tunics. |
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| 21 | 1183 |
And she thinks to herself, in her native tongue, in English, or German, or Japanese, or whatever it may be, not yet knowing a word of Gorean, kneeling trembling, naked, chained, before a male, as she fearfully performs this tender, beautiful act of obeisance, "Please do not whip me, Master. |
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| 21 | 1302 |
She may not speak without permission, and she may be silenced with a word of gesture. |
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| 23 | 131 |
Sometimes after only a week in the power of such brutes a girl is almost willing to give her life to achieve a kind word, or a moment of intimacy. |
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| 24 | 751 |
Such might seem to constitute hubris, or, in Gorean, hybris, which word, I understand, is the same in Greek. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 620 |
He had even had her, though she was free, use the word "Master" to him. |
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| 1 | 622 |
It was apparently the first time she had ever used the word "Master" to a man. |
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| 1 | 626 |
Yes, doubtless, he was the first man to whom she had ever addressed the word "Master". |
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| 2 | 169 |
"It is well for you to remember," I said, "that the last word in these matters, in the nature of things, belongs not to the slave but to the whips, and the masters". |
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| 2 | 200 |
"Even in your freedom you had addressed to him the word 'Master,'" I reminded her. |
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| 9 | 85 |
I could hear cheers from far behind me now, so swiftly had the word spread through the rence. |
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| 16 | 29 |
A word, a careless sound, might be sufficient. |
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| 17 | 346 |
Speaking under conditions of imposed silence, of course, even so much as a word, is a cause for discipline. |
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| 19 | 1067 |
She walked before me, across the small island, and then, first hesitating, then urged forward with a curt word of command, waded into the marsh. |
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| 19 | 1131 |
I think it likely she knew this, for her substitution of the word 'captive' for 'slave' and 'captor' for 'master' suggested it. |
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| 19 | 1513 |
"That is so pale a word! It is like screaming in my body. |
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| 22 | 39 |
To be sure, occasionally, as she was still a mere free woman, she required a firm word, or a subtle warning, such as my touching my belt. |
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| 27 | 535 |
Even so they will often, in the pronunciation of a word or two, betray their Earth origin. |
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| 32 | 231 |
"It was given to him by rencers," said Claudius, "who took our word that he was Cosian, even though he himself denied it". |
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| 37 | 149 |
Perhaps a word or two might be inserted here pertaining to female slavery. |
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| 37 | 455 |
Liadne, on her belly, looked at us, hanging on every word. |
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| 39 | 144 |
Her body was ill concealed, clothed, if such be the word, in a bit of open-sided, diaphanous slave silk, suitable for a casual lifting aside. |
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| 45 | 4 |
It could, of course, at a word, be revoked. |
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| 47 | 57 |
The word must have spread about rather quickly, because there were now some ten or twelve fellows about, some I had not seen before. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 241 |
Her word or glance might mean the difference between advancement and neglect, between honor and disgrace. |
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| 8 | 80 |
Marcus, enamored even as he was with every glance and movement, every word and wisp of hair, of his slave, was determined, I was pleased to note, to keep her under perfect discipline. |
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| 8 | 669 |
Even the highest of slaves, upon the merest word of a free woman, may be chained and beaten, even slain. |
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| 10 | 125 |
The sign about his neck had that name on it, and also the word, "Traitor". |
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| 11 | 239 |
I did not doubt but what word of what had occurred had spread. |
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| 12 | 204 |
I suspected she had used that word to men before only in her imagination, or speaking it softly to her pillow in the night. |
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| 12 | 264 |
Perhaps a word is in order pertaining to the Songs of Dina. |
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| 14 | 657 |
Word of this will be in all the taverns by nightfall!" "Cos will not be pleased," warned a man. |
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| 22 | 222 |
"You dispute my word?" I said, eagerly. |
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| 27 | 515 |
"I meant every word of it," she said, looking up at him. |
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| 27 | 1100 |
"The word sounds well on your lips, slave," said I, "as it does on the lips of any woman. |
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| 28 | 22 |
It is not a word, or a sentence. |
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| 28 | 35 |
The word 'Gor', in Gorean, incidentally, means 'Home Stone'. |
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| 28 | 51 |
Well could I imagine Seremides storming about, striking subordinates, denouncing his staff, threatening his officers, and all Ar, overturning furniture, tearing down hangings, picking up the pen, putting it down again, spilling ink, shouting orders, rescinding them, issuing them again, and demanding... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 22 |
Such things can be changed, of course, at so little as a word, or the snapping of fingers. |
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| 4 | 159 |
At times I even thought I detected a word I knew. |
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| 4 | 318 |
I could hear them conversing, in their own language, whatever it might be, that language I could not place, that language which seemed so unfamiliar as a whole, and yet in which I detected, or seemed to detect, from time to time, like an image suddenly springing into focus, a familiar sound, perhaps... |
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| 4 | 711 |
"Harta!" Did he expect us to understand him? That must be a word in his language. |
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| 7 | 85 |
On it was a design, or a word, or name. |
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| 8 | 282 |
In brief, the word sa-fora means "Chain Daughter" or "Daughter of the Chain". |
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| 8 | 283 |
The word kajira, on the other hand, is by far the most common expression in Gorean for what I am, which is, as you have doubtless surmised, a female slave. |
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| 8 | 286 |
The plural of the first word is kajirae, and of the second kajiri. |
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| 9 | 163 |
To be sure, she did speak, in response to a pleading question from me on the day following her issuance of my directives, as I lay in the position indicated, facing the back of the cell, one additional word, "No". |
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| 9 | 284 |
Here I would be, whether I wished it or not, what I ultimately and most profoundly was, a female, in the fullest sense of the word. |
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| 10 | 93 |
Indeed, as I have suggested, it is by far the most common word in their language for women such as I. |
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| 10 | 819 |
I could not speak a word, for the gag which I clenched between my teeth. |
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| 10 | 977 |
At that time, though I was familiar with sleen, or at least the one who had patrolled the ledge, I did not know the word. |
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| 11 | 69 |
To be sure, such a permission may be instantly revoked, at so little as a word. |
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| 11 | 1092 |
"The word 'Master' sounds well on your tongue," he said. |
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| 11 | 1386 |
How astonishingly paradoxical seemed my situation! Here on this world, where men seemed so proud, so untamed, so unbroken, so free, so mighty, so hot-blooded, on this world seemingly so primitive, so splendid and barbaric, on this world of leather, and silk and iron, not of plastics and synthetic fi... |
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| 11 | 1727 |
How fearful it must be for any woman to be among such men, let alone one such as I, a slave! I felt as though I might be a delicacy, one which, had it not been for a word from he in the chair, would by now have been seized and devoured. |
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| 12 | 78 |
Does she not now have a new master? And is it not he? Must she not hasten to her place at his feet, summoned even as might be another form of domestic animal, perhaps by a mere word, or whistle? She dares not disobey. |
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| 12 | 944 |
In the pits his word is law for us. |
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| 13 | 743 |
The men of this world do not give their word lightly. |
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| 14 | 25 |
"In such a matter," I said, "your word would be taken over mine". |
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| 14 | 57 |
Too, as she now used the word "Sir" there could be no hint within it, as there might have been, as I understand it, before the day of her instruction at the pool, of irony or insult. |
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| 14 | 60 |
I recalled that once, in my training, one of the girls in my group had dared to say the word "Master" to one of the guards in such a fashion that it was clear she did not mean it, in such a fashion that it constituted, in effect, a sneer. |
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| 14 | 1423 |
That was the first time I had heard her use the word 'Master' to a man. |
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| 15 | 61 |
"I want only to obey, and be pleasing!" He had then, with a word, sent the sleen back to their pens. |
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| 16 | 28 |
I then began, in the manners of this world, as I had learned them in the pens, to serve, deferentially, self-effacingly, proffering drink and food, sensitive to, and obedient to, his least inclination, his least word or glance. |
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| 18 | 178 |
A word might be devoted to that. |
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| 19 | 622 |
Nor would she forget the word 'Sir'. |
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| 23 | 141 |
"Is there no word as to when you will be put up for sale?" he asked. |
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| 24 | 542 |
As she had said the word 'Master' it had not been simply as a customary form of deferential address, suitable for use in addressing any free man by a female slave, but in it, rather, it seemed that she had, to her relief, recognized, or thought she had recognized, the voice of her own master. |
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| 26 | 20 |
"I bring you word," I said, "which has but recently been received". |
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| 26 | 21 |
"Is it word from him?" she asked, looking up. |
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| 30 | 28 |
"You know?" "I have just received word". |
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| 31 | 583 |
"Shoot!" The hand of the leader of the strangers raised just a little, preparatory presumably to its sharp descent, doubtless to be consequent upon the issuance of a word of command. |
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| 37 | 508 |
On the other hand, it would presumably be less effective in blocking passages or in providing a barrier which could be, at a word, a command, raised and lowered, from behind which volley firing might take place. |
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| 37 | 669 |
"It is locked," he averred, confirming the word of the pit master, who stood by, his torch lifted. |
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| 38 | 197 |
I had seen that she had been frightened, but a moment after the utterance of the word 'Masters'. |
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| 40 | 103 |
"I am a traitor to my word, and to the city. |
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| 40 | 153 |
"I give you my word," said the officer, "within the rights of my code, and sworn in the name of the Home Stone itself, that if you shall accomplish upon yourself this injustice, I shall see that she will be free to follow you, whether it be from this ledge, or by the cord or knife". |
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| 40 | 324 |
"We have received word," he said, "that a delegation from Cos will arrive in Treve shortly". |
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| 41 | 148 |
He had wanted to know if I could read a certain word, which I could not, and if I could recognize a certain sign. |
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| 42 | 96 |
These perforations, in each set, were so arranged as to form a cursive kef, which is the first letter in the word 'kajira'. |
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| 42 | 160 |
Even so little as a word, or a veiled hint, to the house master, by someone, might call attention to her. |
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| 46 | 614 |
She must receive permission to cover herself from the master, even if it is by so little as a word or a glance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 361 |
"Do not those of your ideology dare to use that sacred, holy, terrible word, that word for nature's last and fiercest arbiter, that maker and unmaker of states, that creator and destroyer of cultures, singing songs of armies, and blood and steel, that ultimate and terrifying tribunal, with all the m... |
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| 7 | 234 |
On Earth there might have been many ways to respond to such attentions, a sneer, a chilling stare, a look of contempt, a scornful dismissal, a demeaning question, a nasty, caustic word, a haughty, supercilious shrug and a turning away, many ways to respond, and to all of these she had had recourse a... |
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| 17 | 728 |
"It seems to be a word for a male who subscribes to, and conforms to, codes of behavior requiring, among other things, substituting convention for nature, propriety for power, self-conquest for self-liberation, restraint for command, inaction and conformity for dominance and mastery, and, in short, ... |
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| 20 | 210 |
She did make out the word 'rendezvous', from which word she gathered that Portus, and perhaps unknown allies, would soon meet, to prosecute some plan or another. |
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| 2 | 229 |
She had been sometimes thought of as "dainty," but she hated that word, which seemed so demeaning, so minimizing. |
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| 4 | 26 |
The older woman did not understand the meaning of the reference to "discipline," but something in that word, seemingly in its very sound, terrified her. |
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| 4 | 75 |
Too, the older woman was alarmed, and troubled, by the sudden, prompt, immediate, graceful response of Tutina to the utterance "Anklet!" It was as though she had been trained to present the device for easy view, and immediately, gracefully, beautifully, upon the utterance of that word, which, it see... |
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| 4 | 416 |
In the language most commonly spoken on that world the word is "Gor". |
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| 4 | 480 |
"A nice word," he said. |
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| 4 | 492 |
In precisely the sense you had in mind when you used the word 'interesting'". |
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| 8 | 103 |
She saw that he was pleased to hear that word on her lips, addressed to him. |
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| 8 | 114 |
"Does that word cost you much?" he asked. |
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| 8 | 120 |
She was thrilled to address this word to him, and, too, to other males. |
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| 8 | 157 |
Perhaps it was merely your appearance, suddenly striking someone with a telling import, nothing you could have anticipated, or prevented, or how you moved, or how you spoke a given word, or phrase. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 189 |
"Yes," he said, "the word 'kajira' is a lovely word, with a beautiful sound". |
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| 60 | 79 |
"Word, word from Mitonicus!" cried a voice, gasping. |
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| 69 | 38 |
At another word they half knelt, half lay, the left leg beautifully extended, a common posture for exhibiting brands, but, Cabot noted, they were not yet slave-marked, and at another word they sat down, knees partly flexed, hands on their knees, heads lifted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 176 |
In a moment of crisis, in a time of confusion and terror, when a vulnerable Port Cos awaited the onslaught of the combined fleets of Tyros and Cos, the word spread, the startling mysterious word, a word like the flash of lightning, a word striking through the darkness, a word as mighty as the rallyi... |
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| 9 | 168 |
The word of the master, of course, takes precedence over the word of a free person who is not the slave's master or mistress. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 27 |
I knew enough of sleen to know that any well-trained animal, which I took Tiomines to be, could be set upon anyone but its master, or Use Master, with as little as a word, or gesture, whatever the "kill" command might be, usually a word, as a word need only be heard and a gesture must be seen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 90 |
And, of course, his word, should he wish to utter it, aside from possible formalities, ritual phrases and such, would be, in effect, the last word, the final word. |
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| 21 | 388 |
"You needed not have given your word to your captors," I said, "that word with respect to silence, obedience, and such". |
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| 40 | 98 |
"You have my word, the word of a warrior, of a daimyo". |
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| 44 | 171 |
"It was the word of one who is of the scarlet caste, the word of a warrior". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 21 |
The word in Gorean is 'tyrannos', and some tyrants do not eschew the word. |
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| 23 | 167 |
"He trolled," he said, "casting his lines about, a word here, a word there, in the taverns, in the markets, words that would be meaningless to most, stray sounds, but telling to he who might have an ear for the name 'Phyllis', for the name 'Kurik of Victoria'". |
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