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| 24 | 641 | And the View more quotes about poor">poor women, too, are usually exposed to the hooting, the abuse, the spitting and blows, of the jeering crowds. |
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| 24 | 638 | These harnesses are similar to, but are not to be confused with, various other forms of harness which may be used with girls serving as draft animals, for example, fixed between the handles of a peddler's cart, or drawing, say, a conqueror's chariot. |
| 24 | 639 | Sometimes in an ovation or triumph women of the enemy, four or more, naked, preferably of high birth, and ideally the daughters of the conquered ubar, not yet enslaved, are used to draw the chariot of the conqueror. |
| 24 | 640 | The conqueror holds the reins, and encourages his lovely team with the whip. |
| 24 | 641 | And the poor women, too, are usually exposed to the hooting, the abuse, the spitting and blows, of the jeering crowds. |
| 24 | 642 | This sort of thing is also sometimes done, though much less ostentatiously, and without the disparagement of angry crowds, by rich young men who have wooed unsuccessfully in a foreign city. |
| 24 | 643 | The scornful beauties, abducted, later discover themselves stripped and stabled in his city, and under the care of his grooms. |
| 24 | 644 | They will be used to draw his chariot, or carry his palanquin. |