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| 12 | 199 | "Mechanical devices View more quotes about brand">brand too uniformly. |
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| 12 | 196 | At a signal from Ho-Tu the guard carried Virginia to the branding rack and placed her in the rack, spinning the lever that locked her thigh in place. |
| 12 | 197 | She said nothing but stood there, wrists braceleted behind her back, locked in place, watching the approach of the iron, observing the graceful, white-hot character at the iron's termination; she screamed uncontrollably when the iron marked her, firmly, decisively for about three Ihn; and then she sobbed, beside herself, while the guard spun the lever releasing her; he lifted her from the rack and put her on the stones at the feet of Ho-Tu and Flaminius; Phyllis' eyes were wild with fear, but she, like Virginia, did not so much as whimper as the guard lifted her, carried her to the rack and locked her in place. |
| 12 | 198 | "We still do hand branding," said Ho-Tu to me. |
| 12 | 199 | "Mechanical devices brand too uniformly. |
| 12 | 200 | Buyers like a hand-branded girl. |
| 12 | 201 | Besides it is better for a female slave to be branded by a man; it makes them better slaves. |
| 12 | 202 | The rack, however, is a useful device, preventing a blurred brand". |