| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 50 |
"She's beautiful," Talena would say of one as the auctioneer would tug the single loop on the right shoulder of the slave livery, dropping it to the girl's ankles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 19 | 180 |
The auctioneer, as though desperately, tried to do his best for the girl, but soon jeers were forthcoming from the crowd, hissings and shoutings; when her blanket was removed from her, gracefully by the auctioneer, as though removing an expensive wrap from a lady of pearls and sophistication, she sl... |
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| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
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| 19 | 134 |
In a moment or two, behind her, a powerful man in a short blue and yellow tunic, the auctioneer, carrying a slender slave goad, almost a wand, climbed to the surface of the block; seeing him the girl turned to flee, and having nowhere to go, fell to her knees weeping at the center of the block, wher... |
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| 19 | 135 |
Then the auctioneer briefly and expertly displayed the girl, with deft touches of the wandlike slave goad, and began, simultaneously, to raise the first block calls. |
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| 19 | 136 |
"Verbina, she is," called he, "who so fears a man that she would flee him, at the risk of death and torture, White Silk and never before owned, yet certified ready for the chain of a master who would use her as she so richly deserves!" The crowd roared with amusement, enjoying the sport of the aucti... |
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| 19 | 155 |
Then taking the whip from the whip slave the auctioneer stepped to the disconsolate girl; suddenly, without warning, he administered to her the Slaver's caress, the whip caress, and her response was utterly, and uncontrollably, wild, helpless. |
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| 19 | 158 |
Suddenly she threw herself, screaming hysterically, on the auctioneer, but he cuffed her to one side and she fell to her knees weeping. |
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| 19 | 167 |
Occasionally, during the evening, the auctioneer had dropped certain disparaging remarks about barbarians, comparing some of the beauties on the block to such. |
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| 19 | 169 |
I supposed the auctioneer had received his instructions from the House of Cernus. |
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| 19 | 170 |
The auctioneer was to appear skeptical, cynical. |
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| 19 | 171 |
I myself, in spite of my predicament, found myself being awestruck, again and again, by the beauty, the performances, the dances of the girls who were, lot by lot, brought before us; how beautiful are women, how fantastic, how tormenting, how superb, how marvelous, how excruciatingly maddening, and ... |
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| 19 | 181 |
The auctioneer, apparently losing his temper, responded angrily to some critics in the first tiers, and was himself hooted and decried. |
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| 19 | 185 |
The auctioneer seemed beside himself. |
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| 19 | 186 |
The auctioneer, subtly, or apparently so, then administered the Slaver's caress to her, but she scarcely noted the touch. |
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| 19 | 191 |
"What am I offered for this slave?" called the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 195 |
The auctioneer, as though in the throes of misery, almost threw the poor girl back down the stairs of the block, kicking her bit of dark blanket angrily after her. |
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| 19 | 198 |
"Barbarians are nothing!" The auctioneer conferred with a market official, who kept lists of lot numbers and confirmed the bids and final sale with the buyers or their agents at the side of the block. |
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| 19 | 199 |
The auctioneer looked dejected when he returned to the center of the block. |
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| 19 | 204 |
They screamed imprecations on the auctioneer, on the Curulean, even some of the braver ones, anonymous in the pressing throng, on the House of Cernus itself. |
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| 19 | 212 |
The auctioneer sprang to the block and, from the darkness at the foot of the steps, was hurled a chain leash, and then two more. |
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| 19 | 221 |
They stood near the center of the block, their leashes in the hands of the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 222 |
"These are three barbarians, two White Silk, one Red Silk," called the auctioneer, "all from the House of Cernus, whom it is our hope you will find pleasing". |
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| 19 | 224 |
"They are so certified," responded the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 226 |
At the auctioneer's command the slaves led the girls about the block, and then brought them again to its shining, shallowly concave center. |
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| 19 | 227 |
"What am I offered?" called the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 230 |
"I hear three," called the auctioneer, "do I hear four?" As he said this, he moved to one of the girls and threw back her hood. |
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| 19 | 237 |
"What of ten?" asked the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 239 |
The auctioneer then threw back the hood of the second girl, Phyllis. |
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| 19 | 246 |
"What of thirty?" called the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 248 |
The auctioneer laughed and approached the third girl. |
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| 19 | 251 |
As the auctioneer reached for the hood of the third girl, she turned away and suddenly, though chained by the wrists, darted toward the stairs; the slack in the chain was taken up in her flight and, on the second or third stair down, she was spun about and thrown to the steps, half on them, half on ... |
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| 19 | 254 |
The auctioneer, with his foot on her belly, held her in place. |
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| 19 | 255 |
"Shall we have a look at this one?" the auctioneer inquired of the crowd. |
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| 19 | 261 |
The auctioneer thrust his hand beneath the hood and, with his fist in her hair, drew her to her knees before the buyers. |
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| 19 | 277 |
The auctioneer then, with his key, removed the left slave bracelet from the wrist of each, permitting it to dangle from the right wrist. |
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| 19 | 292 |
The auctioneer then motioned to the whip slave who stood behind Virginia. |
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| 19 | 297 |
The auctioneer then signaled the whip slaves and the girls rotated their position, bringing Phyllis to the front of the block. |
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| 19 | 301 |
"It appears," said the auctioneer, "that this was once a wench of Tuchuks". |
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| 19 | 304 |
"Can you guess," asked the auctioneer, "which of the three slaves is Red Silk?" The crowd roared with amusement. |
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| 19 | 305 |
"Doubtless," called the auctioneer, "her Tuchuk master used her well". |
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| 19 | 307 |
At this point, savagely, Elizabeth spat into the face of the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 308 |
The crowd screamed with amusement, but the auctioneer did not seem much pleased. |
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| 19 | 322 |
The auctioneer looked into the crowd. |
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| 19 | 331 |
The auctioneer bowed low to Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar. |
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| 19 | 344 |
Again the auctioneer looked to the box of Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar. |
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| 19 | 345 |
"Does noble Samos now care to express interest?" inquired the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 347 |
Again the auctioneer bowed to Samos. |
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| 19 | 349 |
"Shall Pleasure Silks be brought?" inquired the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 355 |
Then they, breathing deeply, stained with sweat, stepped back on the block, and the auctioneer stepped forward. |
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| 19 | 361 |
The auctioneer turned then to the box of Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar. |
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| 19 | 373 |
The auctioneer smiled and bowed low. |
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| 19 | 376 |
"I am offered five hundred and forty gold pieces for these hot-blooded barbarian beauties," called the auctioneer, "only five hundred and forty gold pieces for this exquisite set of animals, in prime condition and superbly trained to tantalize you, to torment you, to drive you wild with pleasure! Do... |
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| 19 | 379 |
The auctioneer looked from face to face, and there were no more bids forthcoming. |
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| 19 | 390 |
Imagine her, noble men of Ar, chained to your slave ring! She alone is worth five hundred pieces of gold!" The crowd roared its approval and the auctioneer dropped his hand and stepped back, perhaps as surprised as any in that room. |
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| 19 | 430 |
The auctioneer signaled to the Musicians again and once more, to the shouts of the crowd, while he held open his hand, not yet closing it, taking bids, the girls performed the last moments of Ar's dance of the newly collared slave girl, who dances her joy at the thought that she will soon be in the ... |
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| 19 | 432 |
The auctioneer waited for some minutes for the acclaim of the crowd to subside. |
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| 19 | 436 |
The auctioneer called out to the crowd, now silent. |
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| 19 | 438 |
Deferentially the auctioneer regarded the Slaver of squalid, malignant Port Kar, mistress and scourge of gleaming Thassa. |
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| 19 | 440 |
"What is the Curulean bid?" inquired the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 443 |
The auctioneer stepped back, astonished. |
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| 19 | 449 |
The fist of the auctioneer closed, as though grasping a handful of golden coins. |
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| 19 | 454 |
"Let us see more barbarians!" "You shall!" cried the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 483 |
I heard the auctioneer making his call for the first bid. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1127 |
Sometimes an auctioneer commands the girl to market herself, and woe to her if she does not obtain a good price. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 499 |
A high price for a male is a silver tarsk, but even a plain wench, of low caste, provided she moves well to the touch of the auctioneer's coiled whip, will bring as much, or more. |
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| 2 | 504 |
Such men tend to be sold in women's auctions, closed to free men, with the exception, of course, of the auctioneer and such personnel. |
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| 15 | 763 |
I imagined her ascending the block, turning for the buyers, presenting her beauty for their consideration, responding to the deft guidance of the auctioneer's coiled whip. |
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| 15 | 774 |
The auctioneer, in his skill, would have demonstrated undreampt-of latencies in the wench on sale, that her desirabilities were not merely placid and visual, but organic, reflexive and sensual, that she, properly handled, was the sort of woman who, as the Goreans say, could not help but kiss the whi... |
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| 15 | 778 |
The auctioneer, I expected, would close his fist on a price of ten gold pieces for her. |
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| 16 | 321 |
In the hands of a skilled auctioneer she is forced to reveal, incontrovertibly, her passionate latencies, the suppressed pleadings of her womanhood for a master's touch. |
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| 16 | 322 |
Before the auctioneer closes his hand on a price for her, it will be clear to all in the market, including the woman, that her beauty is truly for sale, and fully. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 286 |
Many times I have seen them, on their feet, shudder and tremble at the auctioneer's slightest touch. |
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| 1 | 291 |
I have seen girls whom the auctioneer had to beat from him with his whip, merely in order to display them adequately. |
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| 24 | 82 |
For her it would not be dark, heavy, rude chains, biting into her flesh, the auctioneer's whip, the sawdust of the slave block. |
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| 26 | 30 |
A great deal of planning, and organization, and hard work must take place before she first lifts her head to the buyers, looking out upon them, one of whom will own her, and she hears the first call of the auctioneer, he lifting his coiled whip behind her, "What am I bid?" In the march were Kavars, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 629 |
Girls are usually sold under a name, it being easier then for the auctioneer to refer to them; too, for some reason, the intensity of the bidding often increases when a named girl is being vended; it makes, I suppose, the buying and selling much more exciting and personal; "See, Generous Buyers, the... |
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| 13 | 115 |
"Girl 128," called the auctioneer, from the height of the block. |
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| 13 | 118 |
The auctioneer came to the edge of the block. |
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| 13 | 184 |
"Stand straight," said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 189 |
The auctioneer took my hair in his hand and, cruelly, bent me back, standing. |
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| 13 | 197 |
"I hear two tarsks," said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 212 |
The auctioneer stood very near me. |
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| 13 | 215 |
"She wears the Dina," said the auctioneer, indicating to the crowd my brand, the slave flower. |
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| 13 | 225 |
"Stand straight, suck in your belly, turn your hip out," said the auctioneer to me, under his breath. |
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| 13 | 228 |
"Note," said the auctioneer, indicating me with his coiled whip, "the turn of her ankle, the sweetness of her thighs, the tightness of her belly, the pleasure of her figure, the delicacy of her throat, awaiting your collar, the delicacy, sensitivity and beauty of her features". |
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| 13 | 232 |
"Six tarsks," repeated the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 239 |
"Note the fluidity and grace of her movements," said the auctioneer, "the sweetness of her figure, the straightness of her back, the proud carriage of her head. |
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| 13 | 241 |
"Walk well, little Dina," cautioned the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 244 |
"Stand proudly, little Dina," said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 246 |
"Buy her and put her to work for you," challenged the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 250 |
"Ten tarsks," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 252 |
"Eleven," said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 262 |
I hated them! I did not wish to be looked upon, but they did not look upon me! "Examine this beauty," said the auctioneer, indicating me with his whip. |
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| 13 | 266 |
"Fourteen!" cried the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 268 |
"Fifteen," said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 271 |
The auctioneer doubtless knew this; doubtless it was entered on my records. |
10 |
| 13 | 272 |
The auctioneer looked at me. |
10 |
| 13 | 286 |
"You will be prompt, obedient and beautiful, 128," said the auctioneer to me, softly. |
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| 13 | 290 |
Then he began to put me rapidly through the paces of the exhibited female slave; he held me in each position for the sweet instant that well revealed me, tantalizingly, in that attitude or posture, and then barked forth a new command, to a new position or attitude; the sequence of these moves was no... |
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| 13 | 293 |
"Eighteen," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 298 |
The leather of the auctioneer's whip, loosely coiled, was near my back. |
10 |
| 13 | 304 |
"Twenty," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 308 |
"I have a bid of twenty copper tarsks for this lovely little beauty," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 313 |
"Twenty-one," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 320 |
What is the cost of gruel and a whip? "I have heard a bid of twenty-one tarsks," called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 325 |
I had done my best to obey the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 328 |
"Stand, Collar Meat," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 330 |
"It seems," said the auctioneer, "that we must let this little beauty go for a mere twenty-one copper tarsks". |
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| 13 | 374 |
The auctioneer had caught me by surprise. |
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| 13 | 393 |
"I have heard from the agent of the Silver Cage," called the auctioneer, "a bid of eighty-five copper tarsks. |
10 |
| 13 | 396 |
"There is a bid of one silver tarsk," said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 404 |
"The Belled Collar has given us a bid of one silver tarsk," called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 422 |
Mostly I suspect the women were furious with me because I had been responsive to the touch of the auctioneer's whip. |
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| 13 | 432 |
"Stand, little Dina," said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 437 |
"I have from the tavern of the Belled Collar," said the auctioneer, "a bid of one silver tarsk. |
10 |
| 13 | 440 |
"Sold to the Belled Collar for a silver tarsk!" said the auctioneer. |
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| 26 | 94 |
I had no doubt that Elicia Nevins, on the block, naked, under the auctioneer's whip, would sell for at least a piece of gold. |
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| 28 | 5 |
At your side is the auctioneer with his whip. |
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| 28 | 21 |
You smile, you turn, you walk, you lift your arms, you kneel, you lie upon your back at the auctioneer's feet, your knee lifted, your arms over your head as though braceleted, you roll to your stomach, you look up at him, over your shoulder; you respond to him, instantly, setting forth for the view ... |
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| 28 | 25 |
If you falter, or are in the least displeasing, the auctioneer's whip will sharply instruct you in your error. |
10 |
| 28 | 30 |
The auctioneer's fist closes. |
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| 28 | 95 |
Toward the end I would be spun almost free of them and then, in the end, I would be ordered, exposed save for the final silk, concealing my breasts and thighs, to lie supine at the auctioneer's feet. |
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| 28 | 100 |
I was to follow the commands of the auctioneer from that point. |
10 |
| 28 | 125 |
For one thing, it meant that the auctioneer would be in a good humor and that, thus, he would probably be less cruel with us on the block. |
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| 28 | 126 |
We fear the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 28 | 137 |
I could not yet hear the calls of the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 28 | 181 |
I could now hear the calls of the auctioneer quite clearly. |
10 |
| 28 | 219 |
"What have we here?" cried the auctioneer. |
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| 28 | 239 |
The girl in the house tunic, seemingly not yet broken in, not yet humbled and trained to the collar of pleasure, might have whetted the appetite of the buyers for an even more virginal, innocent form of merchandise, but, on the block, as I gathered from the remarks of the auctioneer and the response... |
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| 28 | 246 |
The auctioneer seemed puzzled, too, but only momentarily. |
10 |
| 28 | 265 |
The auctioneer's hand trembled. |
10 |
| 28 | 273 |
The auctioneer was clearly disturbed. |
10 |
| 28 | 279 |
The auctioneer, puzzled, finally removed from my person the bands of silk. |
10 |
| 28 | 284 |
The crowd turned, and I, and the auctioneer, looked as well. |
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| 28 | 290 |
"Master?" inquired the auctioneer. |
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| 28 | 293 |
The auctioneer indicated me, taking his attention from the figure who had recently entered the hall. |
10 |
| 28 | 307 |
"You were not given permission to speak!" cried the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 28 | 311 |
"Yes, Master," said the auctioneer, white-faced, lowering his arm, frightened, backing away. |
10 |
| 28 | 321 |
"She is yours, Master," said the auctioneer to Clitus Vitellius. |
10 |
| 28 | 325 |
"Your whip," said Clitus Vitellius to the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 28 | 328 |
The auctioneer placed his whip in the hands of Clitus Vitellius. |
10 |
| 28 | 341 |
Surely not! "I would not wish you to take a loss on her," he was saying to the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 28 | 344 |
"The gratitude of the house, Master!" cried the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 28 | 356 |
"Master is far too generous," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 28 | 364 |
"Gladly," cried the auctioneer. |
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| 28 | 448 |
"We have surely delayed the sales of the Curulean too long," said Clitus Vitellius, to the auctioneer. |
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| 28 | 449 |
The auctioneer bowed, the pouch of gold in his hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1256 |
She was directed by the auctioneer, responding to his voice commands and the light, deft, guiding touches of his whip. |
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| 3 | 1263 |
Her hands were braceleted behind her and the auctioneer, his whip in his belt, controlled her by the hair. |
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| 15 | 761 |
"On the block, of course," I said, "the girl is under the control of the auctioneer, who functions as her master while she is being sold. |
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| 15 | 763 |
A good auctioneer is very valuable to a slaver's house. |
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| 15 | 777 |
"Sometimes it is necessary to whip such a woman from the feet of the auctioneer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 7 |
The auctioneer did not strike her with his whip. |
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| 2 | 12 |
By the hair the auctioneer pulled her head up and back so that her features might be observed by the men. |
10 |
| 2 | 13 |
"Another loot girl taken by our noble Captain, Bejar, in his brilliant capture of the Blossoms of Telnus," called the auctioneer. |
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| 2 | 17 |
"A blond-haired, blue-eyed barbarian," called the auctioneer, "who speaks little or no Gorean, untrained, formerly free, a purse not yet rent, a thigh not yet kissed by the iron. |
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| 2 | 19 |
"I hear one tarsk," called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 21 |
The slaves at the windlass tensed, but the auctioneer did not tell them to move the chain, removing the blond girl and bringing forth the next item on the chain. |
10 |
| 2 | 22 |
"Surely I hear more?" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 48 |
"Do I hear two tarsks?" asked the auctioneer. |
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| 2 | 49 |
If a woman truly is, in her secret heart, a man's slave, how can any female who is not a man's slave be truly a woman? And how can any woman who is not truly a woman be happy? Can a woman be free only when she is a slave? Is this not the paradox of the collar? "Come Masters, Kind Sirs," called the a... |
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| 2 | 58 |
The auctioneer was now calling off her measurements, and her collar, and wrist and ankle-ring size. |
10 |
| 2 | 60 |
"Will not an urt hunter give me at least two tarsks for her?" called out the auctioneer good-humoredly, but with some understandable exasperation. |
10 |
| 2 | 65 |
"Perhaps you are right," called out the auctioneer, agreeably. |
10 |
| 2 | 71 |
The auctioneer, too, seemed amused. |
10 |
| 2 | 80 |
The auctioneer took handfuls of her long blond hair, from the right side of her head, rolled it into a ball between his palms, and thrust it in her mouth. |
10 |
| 2 | 84 |
"I am afraid that you are almost worthless, my dear," said the auctioneer to her, in Gorean. |
10 |
| 2 | 100 |
"I am afraid you are almost worthless, my blue-eyed, blond-haired prize," said the auctioneer to the girl. |
10 |
| 2 | 107 |
The crowd watched the auctioneer, who stood close by the girl. |
10 |
| 2 | 110 |
The auctioneer made certain her hands were clasped tightly behind the back of her neck. |
10 |
| 2 | 116 |
She looked at the auctioneer, in terror, but dared not release her hands from the back of her neck. |
10 |
| 2 | 126 |
The auctioneer then, holding her, brought the coils near her again. |
10 |
| 2 | 150 |
"What am I bid?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 214 |
"I have heard a bid of forty tarsks," said the auctioneer, Vart. |
10 |
| 2 | 231 |
"Yes, Master?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 233 |
"Yes, Master?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 243 |
"What is Master's bid?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 247 |
"What is Master's bid?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 252 |
"Forgive me, Master," then said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 258 |
"A silver tarsk?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 269 |
"I shall close my hand," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 272 |
The girl looked at the closed fist of the auctioneer with horror. |
10 |
| 2 | 274 |
The auctioneer went to her and pulled the hair from her mouth, then threw it back over her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 2 | 279 |
The auctioneer turned to the buyer. |
10 |
| 2 | 282 |
"We are truly honored," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 2 | 288 |
He threw a silver tarsk to the auctioneer, who caught it expertly, and slipped it into his pouch. |
10 |
| 2 | 289 |
"It will be done, Master," promised the auctioneer. |
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| 34 | 819 |
I once saw a girl in her chains dragged from the very market block and raped in the aisle for no other reason, apparently, than that the auctioneer had mentioned that her name was Helen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 817 |
"I was considering how you might look on a slave block," I said, "being exhibited by an auctioneer who knew his business". |
10 |
| 1 | 837 |
The auctioneer showed you off with a whip". |
10 |
| 12 | 435 |
Has not your lovely auctioneer, the Lady Tendite, well prepared him for his sale?" "Six tarsks!" I heard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 4 |
I heard the auctioneer's calls fading behind me. |
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| 7 | 1 |
I Arrive in Victoria; I Hear of the Sales Barn of Lysander "What am I offered for this girl?" called the auctioneer. |
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| 9 | 1 |
What Occurred at the Sales Barn of Lysander "This red-haired beauty," called the auctioneer, "is a catch of Captain Thrasymedes. |
10 |
| 9 | 12 |
"What am I offered for this blonde?" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 35 |
"And here," said the auctioneer, "we have another blonde. |
10 |
| 9 | 39 |
"Down, Wench, and kiss the whip!" ordered the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 47 |
"Sold to Targo, of Ar!" announced the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 75 |
"Sold to Vart, of Port Kar!" called the auctioneer, and a redhead was taken from the platform. |
10 |
| 9 | 76 |
"And here," called the auctioneer, "we have one of the catches of Kliomenes, taken near Lara". |
10 |
| 9 | 79 |
"A cold, prissy little Earth slut," called the auctioneer, "and yet one not without interest, as you can see". |
10 |
| 9 | 82 |
"She is already branded," said the auctioneer, "but has served primarily as a display slave, and not a use slave". |
10 |
| 9 | 90 |
"Does she not appear ready for taming and heating?" inquired the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 93 |
"What am I bid?" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 96 |
"Six!" "Seven!" "Nine!" "Eleven!" "This is an exquisite little slut!" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 101 |
"Twelve!" "Thirteen!" "She was beautiful enough to be a display slave," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 103 |
"Now you can have her for your own work and use slave!" pointed out the auctioneer. |
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| 9 | 107 |
"Do I hear only sixteen tarsks for this exquisite little bargain?" inquired the auctioneer, incredulously. |
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| 9 | 109 |
The auctioneer spun to face the girl. |
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| 9 | 113 |
"On your feet," barked the auctioneer. |
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| 9 | 118 |
The auctioneer shook out the coils of the whip. |
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| 9 | 182 |
She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no... |
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| 9 | 203 |
The auctioneer stepped back from the girl, the whip in his hand. |
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| 9 | 209 |
"I have ninety-four tarsks," called the auctioneer. |
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| 9 | 211 |
"I prepare to close my hand," called the auctioneer. |
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| 9 | 215 |
"Ninety-eight, I have ninety-eight," called the auctioneer. |
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| 9 | 217 |
"I prepare to close my hand," said the auctioneer. |
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| 10 | 365 |
"The auctioneer, the beast, caught me off guard. |
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| 24 | 669 |
"Buy Beverly, please!" I have also seen girls attempt to influence their sales in public auctions, while being exhibited naked on the block, trying to present themselves particularly to a given man, but this disposition is usually curbed by the auctioneer's whip. |
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| 24 | 677 |
She can then influence her sale, guided by the auctioneer's whip, only in such a way as to present herself as the most luscious slave meat she can, hoping thereby to improve her price, that she may be purchased by a more well-to-do master. |
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| 24 | 679 |
Often when the hand of the auctioneer has been closed a girl will not know to whom she has been sold. |
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| 17 | 816 |
"Other than in training and in the hands of an auctioneer, when I was being sold?" she asked. |
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| 20 | 161 |
It seemed to me not impossible, upon reflection, that the voluptuous Shirley, put upon the block, exhibited by a skilled auctioneer, might bring the very fine sum of ten silver tarsks. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 139 |
"Even clothed," laughed the auctioneer, "is your interest not whetted?" "That it is!" laughed more than one man. |
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| 8 | 147 |
"A fair-skinned, red-haired barbarian beauty," called the auctioneer, "highly intelligent, exquisitely refined and of delicate sensibilities, a woman on her own world doubtless of class and station—but on this world, our world of Gor, only a meaningless piece of slave meat, a girl who will le... |
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| 8 | 148 |
The auctioneer signaled to an attendant who, from a side of the hall, brought forth a shallow copper bowl, some two feet in diameter, filled with slender cylinders of oil-impregnated wood. |
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| 8 | 153 |
"But, of course!" called the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 162 |
"Shall we begin?" inquired the auctioneer of the crowd. |
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| 8 | 165 |
The auctioneer knew his business. |
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| 8 | 166 |
"But first," said the auctioneer, "behold the absurdity of these garments. |
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| 8 | 182 |
"Are these the garments of a free woman or of a slave?" asked the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 188 |
"She came to us this way," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 191 |
"I wonder if she is any good," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 193 |
"Of course!" laughed the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 208 |
"Further," said the auctioneer, lifting the pearls, "these pearls have been examined. |
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| 8 | 213 |
With a gesture of disgust the auctioneer flung the pretentious, offending object, that necklace of false pearls, amongst the cylinders flaming in the copper bowl. |
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| 8 | 214 |
"What should be her punishment?" asked the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 216 |
"She is already a slave," said the auctioneer, "though perhaps she does not yet know it". |
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| 8 | 218 |
"Is that agreeable?" asked the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 264 |
"No," she said, "no, no!" But one by one, slowly, the auctioneer's knife was cutting the buttons from the long, frontal closure of her dress. |
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| 8 | 290 |
These were severed and then, cutting and ripping from the back, the auctioneer loosened the slip. |
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| 8 | 294 |
This slit, affording an exciting glimpse of the girl's calf and lower thigh, was, of course, drawn to the attention of the audience by the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 302 |
"Excellent," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 319 |
The auctioneer freed her stockings from the hooks and buttons on the four garter straps. |
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| 8 | 320 |
In a moment the auctioneer had drawn the stockings from her legs, slipping them underneath the ropes on her ankles and discarding them in the flames. |
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| 8 | 333 |
"Of course," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 340 |
Then the auctioneer turned her so that she was, again, helplessly, exposed frontally to the crowd. |
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| 8 | 348 |
"Excellent," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 357 |
The auctioneer was conferring with an attendant, to the side. |
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| 8 | 362 |
The attendant, to whom the auctioneer had been addressing himself, took his exit. |
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| 8 | 380 |
"Don't! Please!" The auctioneer was behind her. |
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| 8 | 403 |
"But, Gentlemen," called the auctioneer, turning the girl on the rope, turning her left thigh to the crowd, "restrain your bids! Can you not see that she has not yet even been branded?" "Mark her! Mark her!" called more than one man. |
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| 8 | 408 |
At the same time the auctioneer was freeing the ankles of the girl from the ropes. |
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| 8 | 410 |
As it did so the attendant to whom the auctioneer had earlier addressed himself, now returned, supported the girl. |
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| 8 | 414 |
The auctioneer then jerked the remainder of the rope through the overhead ring. |
10 |
| 8 | 430 |
Dismayed and sobbing she was freed of the rack and put on her knees, head down, at the auctioneer's feet. |
10 |
| 8 | 432 |
The girl then, naked and kneeling, her hands bound behind her, at the auctioneer's feet, lifted her head and looked wildly out at the crowd. |
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| 8 | 440 |
The auctioneer then removed the long, supple kaiila quirt from his belt. |
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| 8 | 448 |
"Train her yourself," called the auctioneer, "to your own pleasures". |
10 |
| 8 | 452 |
"Good! Good!" called the auctioneer, displaying the slave. |
10 |
| 8 | 456 |
"Train her like a sleen or a kaiila, on her hands and knees," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 459 |
"In what way, Noble Sir?" inquired the auctioneer, obligingly. |
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| 8 | 462 |
"Imagine her in your collar!" challenged the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 464 |
The auctioneer then knelt the girl near the front of the central block. |
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| 8 | 475 |
"Five seven!" repeated the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 496 |
I had noted, during the course of the evening, that more than one of the attendants about, and the auctioneer, too, had noted the presence of the two tavern girls in the crowd. |
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| 8 | 506 |
She now, trembling, lay on her belly, licking and kissing at the auctioneer's kaiila boots. |
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| 8 | 508 |
The auctioneer pulled her to her feet by the hair and turned her about, facing the crowd. |
10 |
| 8 | 511 |
The auctioneer, his quirt now hooked on his belt, stood behind the red-haired girl. |
10 |
| 8 | 522 |
The lovely new slave, even freshly branded, had, in the hands of the auctioneer, betrayed herself. |
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| 8 | 534 |
The auctioneer looked to the back of the room, angrily. |
10 |
| 8 | 540 |
"Gentlemen!" cried the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 605 |
"The first man who attacks," said the auctioneer, from the height of the central platform, "is a dead man". |
10 |
| 8 | 618 |
"One moment, young ladies," called the auctioneer, pleasantly. |
10 |
| 8 | 620 |
"Perhaps not," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 632 |
"Who is your master?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 635 |
"No, pretty little slaves," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 638 |
"You have been nuisances long enough," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 640 |
"Two days ago you were purchased from your respective masters," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 643 |
"Your time of being bothers to the house of Ram Seibar is now at an end," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 645 |
"Remove their collars," said the auctioneer to an attendant. |
10 |
| 8 | 649 |
"Get your clothes off," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 658 |
"We have here, for sale," laughed the auctioneer, "two of the prettiest tavern girls in Kailiauk. |
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| 8 | 662 |
"We are willing to consider any bid over a silver tarsk for them," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 718 |
"Let us now have a bid on the two tavern girls," called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 752 |
"Do I hear a bid on the tavern girls?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 765 |
We saw the auctioneer remove the kaiila quirt from his belt. |
10 |
| 8 | 789 |
Wildly the red-haired girl tried to attain her feet but the auctioneer, his hand in her hair, twisted her and threw her on her belly before him. |
10 |
| 8 | 800 |
"Oh!" cried the girl, in pain, again quirted by the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 816 |
I saw the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, behind Ginger and Evelyn, make a sign to the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 817 |
"If there is no one here now who wishes further to examine the tavern girls, prior to their sale, I will have them removed to a holding area," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 819 |
As no one spoke, the auctioneer nodded to two of the attendants. |
10 |
| 8 | 823 |
When the heavy door had closed behind the tavern girls, he said to the auctioneer, "One five apiece". |
10 |
| 8 | 824 |
"Are there any other bids?" inquired the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 827 |
"One five," agreed the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 840 |
"We have a bid on the slave of six nine," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 845 |
The auctioneer then removed his boot from the prone body of the slave and, by the hair, pulled her up to her knees. |
10 |
| 8 | 847 |
The auctioneer then, by the hair, pulled the girl to her feet. |
10 |
| 8 | 852 |
The auctioneer seemed hesitant. |
10 |
| 8 | 854 |
This, I took it, was the bid the auctioneer had been waiting for. |
10 |
| 8 | 856 |
"Are there any other bids?" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 858 |
Too, I did not think the auctioneer expected any. |
10 |
| 8 | 865 |
"Deliver her to the holding area," said the auctioneer, addressing himself to an attendant near the foot of the block. |
10 |
| 8 | 867 |
"She is yours," said the auctioneer to the man in the broad-brimmed hat. |
10 |
| 8 | 871 |
"That," said the auctioneer, "concludes the final auction of the evening. |
10 |
| 8 | 881 |
"To the side blocks, please, Noble Sirs," invited the auctioneer, with an expansive gesture of his open hand, "to the side blocks!" The men began to drift to the side blocks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 934 |
I understood then better than ever before how it was that some women could tear at the walls of their kennels with their fingernails, how they could reach out through the bars, begging piteously for the least touch of a rude guard, how they could, under the deft touches of an auctioneer's whip, scre... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 336 |
For example, it requires a venue, the services of an auctioneer, which do not come cheap, ideally a large amount of merchandise, adequate holding facilities, and much organization, planning, staging, and policing, and preferably a good deal of advertising. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 302 |
The auctioneer lifted his whip, cracked it, and called for the first bid. |
10 |
| 9 | 318 |
The auctioneer walked about me. |
10 |
| 9 | 339 |
The auctioneer put his whip on his belt, held me by the left arm in his right hand, and, with his left hand, reaching up, lifted the chain between my manacles off the lower hook of the short chain, that attached to the strand of the double chain overhead. |
10 |
| 9 | 370 |
To my surprise the auctioneer removed a key from his belt and removed the manacles from me. |
10 |
| 9 | 373 |
The auctioneer cracked his whip. |
10 |
| 9 | 391 |
The auctioneer stood back, the whip lowered, startled. |
10 |
| 9 | 394 |
"What is wrong?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 403 |
"Two!" "Two!" repeated the auctioneer, holding up two fingers. |
10 |
| 9 | 404 |
"Two!" The auctioneer did not sound angry at this bid. |
10 |
| 9 | 409 |
The auctioneer stepped a little away from me, and turned to face me. |
10 |
| 9 | 460 |
The auctioneer was now behind me and to my left. |
10 |
| 9 | 462 |
I think the ambiguities in my performance, if that is what they were, may have puzzled several in the crowd, as well as the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 470 |
"Am I bid only two," inquired the auctioneer, "for this luscious merchandise?" I felt the whip touch my flank and waist, on the left. |
10 |
| 9 | 526 |
Thus, even though I had been taken unawares by the sudden movement of the auctioneer's whip, and had moved suddenly, inadvertently, in a manner which might have suggested to some that I was a pleasure slave, I knew that the fullness of what I conjectured would be my typical response to such a touch ... |
10 |
| 9 | 532 |
"Two and fifty!" "Two and fifty!" called the auctioneer, pleased. |
10 |
| 9 | 536 |
"Shall I close my hand?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 550 |
"The barbarian is yours!" said the auctioneer, closing his hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 560 |
I heard the auctioneer behind me, calling for a bid on a new girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 717 |
Similarly, an auctioneer, vending beauties, may inquire, "What am I offered for this slut?" This is a way of suggesting that the slave is worthy of that description, and may be counted upon to please in the way of the collared slut, namely, inordinately. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 381 |
"And if she were reluctant to do so, or hesitated for a moment, I am sure any lingering scruples would be promptly dissipated by the auctioneer's whip". |
10 |
| 14 | 59 |
What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip... |
10 |
| 14 | 630 |
The whip, incidentally, is often used by an auctioneer as a wand, or pointer, to guide the slave in her movements or to call attention, here and there, to aspects of interest. |
10 |
| 21 | 520 |
"If she were a captured Ubara," I said, "and auctioned before Ubars, doubtless her price would be high, perhaps thousands of tarn disks, but if she were unknown, and only one slave on a chain with others, and it were she alone, the girl alone, only herself, so to speak, who was to ascend the block, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1342 |
I wondered if she wondered, beneath her robes, and veil, walking across the terrace, what might be the feel of slave iron on her limbs, what it might be to feel the sawdust of the slave block beneath her bared feet, what it might be to hear the call of the auctioneer, proposing her for the considera... |
10 |
| 24 | 316 |
It seemed likely that she would, in a neck chain, on a block, obedient to the instructions of an auctioneer's whip, have stimulated spirited bidding. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 904 |
The auctioneer's assistant then raised his hand, and called out, "Four!" "Four, from my colleague!" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 518 |
They could hear the calls of the auctioneer, bids, shouts. |
10 |
| 25 | 523 |
In this way there would be no doubt of their slavehood on the block, of their vulnerability and terror, nor of their eagerness to obey the auctioneer's slightest suggestion or gesture. |
10 |
| 25 | 547 |
There seemed to be at least one attendant on the block, with the auctioneer, who, Ellen supposed, might upon occasion lend him assistance, perhaps posing a girl, or carrying one from the block who might be unable to walk, perhaps having succumbed to terror or having fainted. |
10 |
| 25 | 576 |
"I shall close my hand! I shall close my hand!" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 589 |
"Ten copper tarsks for this slut!" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 596 |
What the auctioneer had said about the slave's sexual experience tallied, of course, with what she had told Ellen, in their earlier conversation. |
10 |
| 25 | 601 |
"Kind sirs!" She would then, it seemed, dare to address the crowd! The auctioneer, somewhere on the surface of the block, was suddenly silent, doubtless taken aback, perhaps momentarily not even comprehending. |
10 |
| 25 | 612 |
Fellow citizens, give me succor! I am in grievous distress! I call upon some noble, gallant citizen of Brundisium to rescue me! Please, please!" "Well," called the auctioneer to the crowd, "it will take at least thirty-five copper tarsks to rescue her!" There was laughter from the crowd. |
10 |
| 25 | 617 |
That had been the auctioneer's suggested opening bid. |
10 |
| 25 | 619 |
"No," responded the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 621 |
"You affirm," said a man, "that she has been properly embonded, and that all legal proprieties have been satisfied?" "Yes," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 627 |
"She came alone, unguarded, of her own choosing, to the camp," responded the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 631 |
"Someone, please, save me!" "Do you beg to be purchased, my dear," said the auctioneer, solicitously, but in a voice which could easily be heard well out into the crowd. |
10 |
| 25 | 634 |
"Only slaves beg to be purchased," the auctioneer informed her. |
10 |
| 25 | 636 |
"On your knees, slave girl!" snapped the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 642 |
"You then acknowledge yourself a slave?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 646 |
"Do you mean, repay in coin?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 648 |
"Yes, Master!" "Surely you know," said the auctioneer, "that you no longer have economic means at your disposal, no more than a kaiila or tarsk. |
10 |
| 25 | 651 |
"No, no!" "Pose her," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 652 |
Ellen, huddled with the others beside the block, at its foot, and at its right, as one would face the crowd, heard a cry of misery from the woman, and supposed that she had been pulled to her feet, probably by the auctioneer's assistant. |
10 |
| 25 | 653 |
"Consider the line of her body," the auctioneer advised the crowd. |
10 |
| 25 | 657 |
"You will indeed, of course, my dear," said the auctioneer to the woman on the block, "repay your purchaser for purchasing you, as will any slave. |
10 |
| 25 | 666 |
"Let us see if she is vital," called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 668 |
"Stand facing the masters," said the auctioneer, "stand straight, straighter, legs spread, more widely, clasp your hands behind the back of your head, head back, hold that position!" In a moment Ellen heard the woman shriek. |
10 |
| 25 | 669 |
"Hold position!" said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 671 |
"Hold her," said the auctioneer, doubtless to his fellow. |
10 |
| 25 | 672 |
"Steady, steady, little vulo," said the auctioneer, soothingly. |
10 |
| 25 | 674 |
"Now to your belly, curvaceous little slut," said the auctioneer, "and you may beg the masters to be purchased. |
10 |
| 25 | 705 |
And it seemed, as far as Ellen could gather, that she was not, as the auctioneer had speculated, unfamiliar with the way in which this might be done. |
10 |
| 25 | 750 |
That given, their interest seems to be in the pleasures which I seem to promise! She heard herself described in some detail, by the auctioneer's assistant, who read from papers, presumably extracted from scribes' records. |
10 |
| 25 | 789 |
"Apparently, she has some skill in slave dance," called the auctioneer's assistant. |
10 |
| 25 | 857 |
"What is your name?" inquired the auctioneer of Ellen. |
10 |
| 25 | 859 |
"It is acceptable," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 884 |
"What was highest bid?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 891 |
"Two and a half!" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 898 |
In a moment, it seemed the auctioneer had his invited bid of two and three-quarters, and, a moment later, three. |
10 |
| 25 | 899 |
Ellen, frightened, backed toward the auctioneer's assistant. |
10 |
| 25 | 907 |
"I rule my colleague may bid, subject to review by the camp polemarkos," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 911 |
The auctioneer lifted his hand for a moment's respite, and turned to his assistant. |
10 |
| 25 | 913 |
"Do you want her for yourself?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 916 |
"Did you want her for yourself?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 920 |
"Then we shall let the matter stand," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 922 |
"Buy something as good, for less, when the crowd is smaller," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 924 |
"And there may be leftovers, to be distributed," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 927 |
The auctioneer then turned to Ellen. |
10 |
| 25 | 930 |
"We have a bid of five!" called the auctioneer, "a mere five tarsks for this exquisite little barbarian bauble. |
10 |
| 25 | 934 |
But the eye of the auctioneer was quick. |
10 |
| 25 | 949 |
"More? More?" inquired the auctioneer, though it seemed he did not, really, expect more. |
10 |
| 25 | 956 |
They are far too bold for a slave! There must be a mistake, a mistake of some sort! "Here, kajira," snapped the auctioneer, behind her. |
10 |
| 25 | 962 |
"Place your wrists behind you, crossed," said the auctioneer, and Ellen, the slave, complied, bound by the will of the master. |
10 |
| 25 | 969 |
"Is there more?" called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 974 |
"More?" inquired the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 980 |
"No!" Then she lay on her left side in the sawdust, facing away from the crowd, her knees drawn up, her head covered with her hands, at the feet of the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 981 |
"Did I hear a bid of twenty?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 983 |
"This is a barbarian, not fully trained," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 986 |
"Kneel, facing the men," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 988 |
"Position," said the auctioneer to Ellen. |
10 |
| 25 | 990 |
"I have twenty," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 995 |
"I will now close my hand!" said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1001 |
The fellow who had halted the auctioneer was plainly clad, in a simple brown tunic, and was surely of low caste, perhaps of the peasants, or a drayman of sorts. |
10 |
| 25 | 1010 |
"The bid was of twenty silver tarsks," called the auctioneer, "not twenty copper tarsks". |
10 |
| 25 | 1013 |
"You have a bid?" asked the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1015 |
"I do not understand," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1023 |
"Certification of caste is not a prerequisite for bidding," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1025 |
"With all due respect, good sir," said the auctioneer to the fellow back in the crowd on Ellen's right, "all in all, under the circumstances, I think that a fair request". |
10 |
| 25 | 1028 |
"I have a bid of twenty silver tarsks," called the auctioneer, "and I am preparing to close my hand!" "Wait!" cried a man, pointing to the plainly clad fellow. |
10 |
| 25 | 1033 |
The auctioneer gestured to the side of the block and one of the assistants there hurried through the tiers. |
10 |
| 25 | 1056 |
"I have a bid of five tarn disks," called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1065 |
"I have a bid of five tarn disks," called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1067 |
"I am sorry, good sir," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1076 |
Could it be that they had, for some reason, wished Mirus to be successful in his bidding? "I have a bid of five tarn disks," called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1078 |
"To be sure," said the auctioneer, "that is a high price to pay for this little piece of slave meat". |
10 |
| 25 | 1084 |
"No," said the auctioneer, "she is a barbarian, semi-trained, a relatively common piece of chain goods, nothing particularly out of the ordinary, a fairly typical item of fleshstock. |
10 |
| 25 | 1086 |
"I am preparing to close my hand," called the auctioneer, well pleased. |
10 |
| 25 | 1089 |
"Do not sell me! Not to him! Please, no! No, please! No!" The auctioneer looked down at her, startled. |
10 |
| 25 | 1092 |
"May I speak?" The auctioneer scrutinized the stripped slave at his feet. |
10 |
| 25 | 1097 |
"Sell me to anyone but him, Master!" "Ah," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1133 |
So let us all, slaves, whatever might be our origins, strive to please our masters! "No, Master, no, Master!" cried Ellen, and turned about, on her knees, clasping the knees of the auctioneer in piteous supplication, looking up at him, her eyes bursting with tears. |
10 |
| 25 | 1134 |
"Do not sell me to him, not to him! To anyone but him! Not to him, please, Master!" The auctioneer thrust her back. |
10 |
| 25 | 1136 |
"I hate him!" "And he you?" inquired the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1138 |
"He holds me in contempt, and hates me!" "It is not inappropriate to hold barbarians in contempt," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 25 | 1144 |
"Speak," said the auctioneer. |
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| 25 | 1146 |
"Ah," said the auctioneer. |
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| 25 | 1149 |
"Doubtless that will add an interesting flavor to your relationship," said the auctioneer. |
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| 25 | 1151 |
"Do not have me put in that collar! I do not want to wear his collar!" "Be silent," said the auctioneer. |
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| 25 | 1161 |
Had she learned nothing as to what she was on this world? She felt the bootlike sandal of the auctioneer resting on her back. |
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| 25 | 1165 |
"Five tarn disks!" called the auctioneer. |
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| 25 | 1172 |
The auctioneer removed his bootlike sandal from her back. |
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| 25 | 1176 |
She had been sold! She now belonged, in the full meaningfulness of Gorean servitude, to her new master, Selius Arconious! The auctioneer's assistant half dragged her to the stairs, and there handed her down, into the arms of another assistant. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 677 |
"Perhaps you fear being exhibited naked, under the torches, standing in the sawdust of the block, being bid upon, being displayed by the auctioneer?" "Perhaps, Master," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 189 |
Most likely, the auctioneer has just called it to the attention of the bidders, at a moment he deems propitious, that she is a "pierced-ear girl". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 90 |
Often the happiest moment in the life of one of them, to that point, is when the auctioneer closes his hand, and they realize that, exposed and desired, exhibited and bid upon, they have been sold. |
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| 8 | 123 |
What do they need then, but the chain, the block, the auctioneer's cry? She turned about, frightened, the vessel of steaming black wine, wrapped in its thick cloths, from the wool of the bounding hurt, held in two hands. |
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| 12 | 126 |
How desperately they strive to please the auctioneer, to present themselves as superb merchandise, as goods well worth bringing home! How they strive to win a buyer! It is not pleasant to be returned to the cage, unsold. |
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| 19 | 64 |
After a few days as a red-silker, I could imagine her crying out publicly, even before free women she had known, on an auction block, even in Ar, in misery and gratitude, at the deft, gentle, demonstrative touch of the auctioneer's whip. |
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| 37 | 843 |
"It is not simply that she is beautiful, that she is exquisite, that she is delicate, that she has deep, profound eyes, lips made for kisses, small wrists and ankles, that her body is rich in slave curves, in the many turnings and planes which the auctioneer's whip calls to our attention. |
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| 37 | 1334 |
"I found myself turned about, and positioned, delicately, expertly, by the auctioneer's whip, exhibited as merchandise, displayed, as a slave, while men cried out, and called bids on me". |
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| 37 | 1336 |
"And then," she said, "the auctioneer touched me, unexpectedly, and I leaped with a cry of misery, in piteous response, which delighted the men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 760 |
For all I knew I was still owned by the house, and I was merely being vended through this outlet, and the small fellow might be merely a professional auctioneer, hired for each sale. |
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| 8 | 846 |
"The finest beads drawn from the finest of the slavers' necklaces, each worthy of the central block of the Curulean, each fit for the Pleasure Garden of a Ubar," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 849 |
"Have you not, several of you, examined these beauties earlier in the morning, and pondered your bids?" "Yes," said a fellow, "a copper tarsk for the lot!" "You may ask," said the auctioneer, "how is it that such goods, goods of such quality, could be offered here?" "No other market would have them!... |
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| 8 | 850 |
"It is true, noble Masters, that our modest market, as the slave shelves, is noted for its bargains," said the auctioneer, "but that is your good fortune and our pleasure, to serve you better. |
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| 8 | 852 |
"Slaves," called the auctioneer, "come to the bars, smile, press against them, reach out to the noble masters. |
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| 8 | 861 |
"You may plead, needful beauties, to be purchased," the auctioneer informed the girls. |
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| 8 | 874 |
"Enough!" called the auctioneer, suddenly, sharply. |
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| 8 | 881 |
The slaver's man entered the cell, took one of the brunettes by the wrist, and drew her from the cell, through the short passage, and led her to the block, where she stood, small, seeming isolated, much alone, though the auctioneer was near, on the red carpet. |
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| 8 | 888 |
"A choice item," the auctioneer was saying. |
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| 8 | 895 |
"See her, noble Masters," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 924 |
The auctioneer, in his introduction of the item which was the girl from Tabor, had mentioned her origin on Tabor, and inquired if there might be any from Tabor present. |
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| 8 | 926 |
The auctioneer then remarked that her slavery then would doubtless be far easier. |
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| 8 | 936 |
"May she serve her goblets well, and nicely grace the chains of your alcoves," had said the auctioneer to her buyer, while his man led her down the steps to the street, into his keeping. |
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| 8 | 940 |
"I am a free woman, a free woman!" "What is it that she is saying?" asked the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 942 |
"I am free!" "Ah!" said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 948 |
"It seems we have here only another slave," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 949 |
The former Lady Persinna fell to her knees before the auctioneer, holding the sheet closely about her. |
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| 8 | 951 |
"'Do not sell me' what?" inquired the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 958 |
The auctioneer surveyed the crowd. |
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| 8 | 961 |
"Surely more!" laughed the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 963 |
The auctioneer then gestured, annoyed, to his man, who seized the former Lady Persinna by the hair, to hold her in place, and then he, carefully, measuredly, cuffed her, twice, once snapping her head to the right, and then to the left. |
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| 8 | 964 |
"Be silent!" said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 967 |
"We have an unusual slave here," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 974 |
"Behold her," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 979 |
How then, I wondered, could it be that the former Lady Persinna was even now on that simple cement platform, before buyers? "You know her sycophancy," said the auctioneer, "her privileges, her position in the court of the hated Talena, false Ubara! You know the favors she received, the contracts acc... |
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| 8 | 981 |
"She was on the proscription lists," said the auctioneer, "but she has been saved for your pleasure". |
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| 8 | 983 |
The auctioneer lifted the hair of the slave, displaying it. |
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| 8 | 986 |
"Consider it as a sheet of pleasure, which might be spread about your body," said the auctioneer, "or its value as a bond, fastening her wrists behind the back of her neck". |
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| 8 | 992 |
"Come now, noble Masters," said the auctioneer, "regard her ankles, her calves, her small hands, so tight on the sheet, the exquisite delicacy of her features". |
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| 8 | 994 |
"What are we offered for this traitress?" called the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1032 |
The auctioneer stood on the surface of the platform. |
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| 8 | 1034 |
The auctioneer and the slaver's man, and some of the others, as well, now turned about, were witnessing the departure of the former Lady Persinna, naked on her leash, and her master. |
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| 8 | 1080 |
And what would be done with me if I failed to please him, and fully, and as a slave? The slaver's man was on the street level, and the auctioneer, on the surface of the block, looking down, conferred with him. |
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| 8 | 1099 |
We are all women, and, being women, might we not be, all of us, appropriately, the slaves of men, the slaves of our masters? The auctioneer stood up, and the slaver's man ascended the steps of the block, and disappeared into the short passage to the left. |
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| 8 | 1102 |
In a moment she appeared on the block before the small crowd, and the auctioneer began her sale. |
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| 8 | 1107 |
I could, of course, hear the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1136 |
I became aware, suddenly, that the auctioneer was no longer taking bids. |
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| 8 | 1171 |
Then I felt the switch of the auctioneer beneath my chin, and I lifted my head, and opened my eyes, looking over the heads of the men. |
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| 8 | 1173 |
At times I did not even understand the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1175 |
My native tongue is called "English," and I am not sure that I would have allowed myself to understand the auctioneer even had he been speaking in that tongue. |
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| 8 | 1179 |
The auctioneer was not cruel with me. |
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| 8 | 1209 |
"Behold this barbarian vulo," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1213 |
"Speculate," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1217 |
"Let us see!" "Part your tunic, my dear," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1220 |
"Gracefully," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1224 |
"Posture," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1227 |
"Perhaps you suspect," said the auctioneer, "that this is her first sale". |
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| 8 | 1230 |
"Turn about," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1232 |
"A bit slender perhaps," said the auctioneer, "but not, I think, disagreeably so". |
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| 8 | 1236 |
Were they unaware of my feelings? Did they not realize what was occurring? I was a female! I was a slave! I was being sold! "The tunic, my dear," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1239 |
"Consider her," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1245 |
"Turn about, slowly," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1246 |
"Surely worth something," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1259 |
"I am now prepared to accept bids," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1262 |
"Begin, begin, begin," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1265 |
The auctioneer occasionally held my upper left arm, steadying me. |
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| 8 | 1274 |
"Twenty-five, twenty-five, thirty," was saying the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1276 |
The auctioneer's hand steadied me. |
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| 8 | 1304 |
"Forty, forty," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1327 |
The coins being counted into the palms of the auctioneer were neither of gold nor silver. |
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| 8 | 1332 |
"Forty-two copper tarsks," confirmed the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1334 |
"A splendid buy," the auctioneer assured the buyer. |
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| 8 | 1337 |
"We had hoped to get fifty for her," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1339 |
"I trust she will prove satisfactory," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1342 |
"Twenty," speculated the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1344 |
"Enough," said the auctioneer. |
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