| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 350 | "No," said View more quotes about samos">Samos. |
| 19 | 351 | Again the crowd roared its pleasure. |
| 19 | 352 | The Musicians took up their instruments and, together, as three slaves, women who would be owned by men, the girls danced. |
| 19 | 353 | In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of others seemed terrified, and, shrinking, they looked from the block about themselves, suddenly fearing the men with whom they shared the tiers; I heard the tearing of a veil and heard a girl scream and turned to see her lips being raped by the kiss of a Warrior, and then she was yielding to him; the crowd went wild; here and there there was the cry of a woman in the throng who was seized by those near her; one girl tried to flee and was dragged screaming by the ankle to the foot of a tier; another woman, with her own hands, tore away her veil and seized in her hands the head of a man near her, pressing her lips to his, and in a moment she lay, robes torn, in his arms, weeping, crying with pleasure. |
| 19 | 354 | Four dances the girls danced while the crowd screamed and roared, and then, at an instant, their dances ended, they stood suddenly motionless, splendid, animal, magnificent, inciting. |
| 19 | 355 | Then they, breathing deeply, stained with sweat, stepped back on the block, and the auctioneer stepped forward. |
| 19 | 356 | He did not even call for a bid. |