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| 37 | 301 | It is one View more quotes about thing">thing, for example, to aesthetically and beautifully signify submission by bellying, perhaps on the furs at the foot of the couch, we being permitted upon them, and quite another to fling oneself down so that quarrels may be suddenly fired from behind one. |
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| 37 | 298 | There is a common command, familiar to all female slaves, "Belly," which brings us instantly to our bellies before he who commands us. |
| 37 | 299 | This particular command expression, however, was not used in this context. |
| 37 | 300 | I speculate that this was because the context of the two commands, and certainly their connotations, was so different. |
| 37 | 301 | It is one thing, for example, to aesthetically and beautifully signify submission by bellying, perhaps on the furs at the foot of the couch, we being permitted upon them, and quite another to fling oneself down so that quarrels may be suddenly fired from behind one. |
| 37 | 302 | Too, normally in a "belly command" one orients oneself toward he who commands, not away from him. |
| 37 | 303 | Gito hung back. |
| 37 | 304 | The lieutenant took him by the scruff of the neck and threw him some feet down the passageway, before us. |