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| 37 | 1109 | If she is View more quotes about accepted">accepted, the wrists are usually bound, and she is expected to follow her captor docilely. |
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| 37 | 1106 | There are many gestures of submission. |
| 37 | 1107 | The common submission of a free woman, usually rendered in terror of her life, as amidst the flames of a burning city, is to kneel before the male, and lift her crossed wrists to him, her head bowed between her arms. |
| 37 | 1108 | In this way her submission is clear, and she is hoping to buy her life with her beauty, the crossed wrists, ready for binding, indicating that she is pleading to be accepted as a slave. |
| 37 | 1109 | If she is accepted, the wrists are usually bound, and she is expected to follow her captor docilely. |
| 37 | 1110 | Sometimes, of course, after this gesture, she is put to her belly, her wrists are bound indeed, but behind her, and a rope is put on her neck, or, sometimes, a nose ring, on a cord, is affixed, such things functioning as a leash or tether. |
| 37 | 1111 | She continued, on her belly, bound, to tender a slave's deference to a free man. |
| 37 | 1112 | Looking down upon her, I thought how strange it was that she, from a far world, be here, thusly. |