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| 4 | 32 | We View more quotes about yield">yield them position, withdraw from their path, efface ourselves before them, dare not meet their eyes, and kneel, if addressed, or looked upon, commonly with our head to the ground. |
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| 4 | 29 | Perhaps they wish that they, too, were so clad, and under the eyes of proud, free, greedy, lustful masters, who well know how to look upon helpless, vulnerable slaves. |
| 4 | 30 | In any event, surely there is no mistaking us for free women. |
| 4 | 31 | Robes and veils are one thing; tunics and collars are another. |
| 4 | 32 | We yield them position, withdraw from their path, efface ourselves before them, dare not meet their eyes, and kneel, if addressed, or looked upon, commonly with our head to the ground. |
| 4 | 33 | We dare not raise our voice in their presence, and, if we are permitted the honor of speaking to them, will commonly do so softly, head down, with extreme deference. |
| 4 | 34 | The least suggestion, even imagined, of hesitation, impatience, unwillingness, presumption, recalcitrance, pertness, or sarcasm on our part is likely to bring a beating. |
| 4 | 35 | We are much at the mercy of free women. |