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| 12 | 395 | They could be View more quotes about turned">turned from side to side, flung to their belly, thrown to a wall, forced to assume any number of positions, sometimes their bodies being seized and literally placed, limb by limb, in the desired position, handled with an imperious handling, sometimes conjoined with a sharp word of instruction or admonishment. |
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| 12 | 392 | It could be done to her, and she had no recourse. |
| 12 | 393 | She was slave. |
| 12 | 394 | In her training she had learned that slaves could be handled casually, and with assurance, and roughly, and brutally. |
| 12 | 395 | They could be turned from side to side, flung to their belly, thrown to a wall, forced to assume any number of positions, sometimes their bodies being seized and literally placed, limb by limb, in the desired position, handled with an imperious handling, sometimes conjoined with a sharp word of instruction or admonishment. |
| 12 | 396 | The slave's body, for example, does not belong to her. |
| 12 | 397 | It, like the entirety of her, belongs to the master. |
| 12 | 398 | She then felt her body, her hair in his grip, his left hand on her left knee, bent backward, until she was helpless before him; the "slave bow," as the expression is, of her vulnerable, owned beauty thusly exhibited for his attention, or assessment. |