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| 37 | 272 | One of the duties of these View more quotes about women">women, many of high caste, now enslaved, would doubtless be the tending of the soldiers' gardens. |
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| 37 | 269 | He was holding Torcadino with only some five thousand men, and that many, I thought, might subsist on produce grown within the city, in yards, in torn-up streets, in roof gardens, and such. |
| 37 | 270 | The civilian population, helpfully, had been for the most part expelled from the city shortly after its capture. |
| 37 | 271 | An exception had been made, of course, for enslaved women of interest. |
| 37 | 272 | One of the duties of these women, many of high caste, now enslaved, would doubtless be the tending of the soldiers' gardens. |
| 37 | 273 | This thought amused me, high-caste women as garden slaves. |
| 37 | 274 | To be sure, they would also serve as pleasure slaves. |
| 37 | 275 | "There is no escape for him," said Ephialtes. |