| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 18 | 149 |
In the great hall I could hear the fearful noise of unnatural carnage, the screams of the men, the screams of the tarns, the hiss of arrows, the wild blows of wings and talons. |
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| 19 | 157 |
I began to press forward in attack, exposing myself more, but beating back his defense by the sheer weight and number of my blows. |
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| 19 | 40 |
We had soon come on the hammers that would strike our chains from us and, one by one, we filed past the great anvil where Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, with expert blows, struck them from our wrists and ankles. |
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| 25 | 140 |
The body of Dorna the Proud recoiled as if struck by five blows. |
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| 26 | 206 |
I could not understand why this assertion of mine should have troubled one of Vika's proud and treacherous nature but she seemed somehow more hurt than if I had administered to her when she had knelt the blows of a slave whip or the lashings of my sword belt. |
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| 34 | 183 |
Torm hit him several times with the scroll but the blows seemed not to faze him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 84 |
He tried, like a frantic animal, to crawl under one of the low tables but he only spilled the paga and the men pulled him out from under the table and belabored his back with blows of their fists. |
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| 15 | 23 |
Phyllis Robertson now lay on her back, and then her side, and then turned and rolled, drawing up her legs, putting her hands before her face, as though fending blows, her face a mask of pain, of fear. |
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| 16 | 167 |
I could now hear some angry cries of men, the sound of blows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 359 |
I struggled to my feet and, to the jeers of the rence growers, and blows, stumbled after the girl, she who owned me, my mistress. |
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| 4 | 29 |
Indeed, she used it to torment and shame me, using it, like blows and abuse, to increase my miseries. |
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| 4 | 283 |
I feared that she might hurt me, it was true, but the hurts I feared most were those of her insolence and contempt, those that more degraded me than bonds and blows. |
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| 5 | 69 |
I had stood at the pole the long morning, subject to the examination, the stares, and the blows and abuse of those who passed by. |
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| 8 | 44 |
I could hear the creak of the oars in the thole ports, hear the calling of the oar-master, the conversation of warriors at their leisure, the moans of bound slaves, soon silenced with the lash and blows. |
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| 13 | 289 |
He would mark the rowing stroke with blows of wooden, leather-cushioned mallets on the head of a huge copper-covered drum. |
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| 17 | 155 |
What would they think of me as they fell beneath the cold waters of Thassa or reeled from the blows of sword blades, their death's blood in their mouths? Would they sing me then? And what guilt must I bear for each of those deaths, for it had been my words, those of an ignorant fool, which had sent ... |
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| 18 | 688 |
Claudius, with a cry of rage, the cloak of white, spotted fur of sea sleen swirling behind him, leaped at the boy, sword high, raining blows upon him. |
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| 18 | 689 |
The boy smartly parried them, not striking his own blows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1086 |
There were blows, heavy blows from the darkness. |
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| 8 | 1082 |
Suddenly there was a rush about us of bodies, the sound of blows. |
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| 15 | 750 |
That way I would not swing much under the blows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 202 |
His head would have been placed across the anvil, and the metal curved about his neck with great blows. |
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| 9 | 449 |
Many of the blows would have been mortal. |
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| 9 | 453 |
Then the dance became progressively swifter and wilder, and the feigned blows became more frequent, and then, suddenly, with a wild cry, the swirling throng about me stood for an instant stock still, and then with a cry, each spear thrust down savagely toward my heart. |
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| 14 | 300 |
Their weapons leapt at the bound men, but never did the blows fall. |
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| 15 | 69 |
With two quick blows I stunned them. |
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| 16 | 114 |
She would sometimes flinch from blows that had not even fallen. |
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| 16 | 125 |
No more blows fell. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 233 |
Then, with great blows of the iron hammer, he riveted the iron collar about her throat. |
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| 6 | 293 |
The last blows of the smith's hammer rang out and Aelgifu, by the hair, was pulled from the anvil, wearing a collar of black iron. |
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| 7 | 157 |
It was not impossible that he would die under its blows. |
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| 9 | 143 |
The last five blows were delivered with her hanging in the binding fiber, her body against the post, her face to one side of it. |
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| 10 | 73 |
Blows are not to be struck at the Thing, but not even the law of the Thing, with all its might, would have the temerity to advise the man of Torvaldsland to arrive or move about unarmed. |
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| 10 | 150 |
Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he mus... |
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| 14 | 79 |
Behind me I heard the blows of axes. |
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| 18 | 43 |
Ottar pursued it, heedless of his safety, his eyes wild, killing it, cutting its body then in two with repeated blows of his ax. |
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| 18 | 222 |
The shields turn only for the blows of axes. |
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| 18 | 572 |
Once the sheer weight of the attacker's blows had turned and driven, interposed, his opponent's sword half through the man's own neck. |
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| 18 | 575 |
He accepted the driving blows, like iron thunderbolts, on his own blade, turning them aside. |
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| 18 | 578 |
Too, of course, the weight of such blows, particularly with the long, heavy swords of Torvaldsland, take their toll from the striking arm, as well as the fending arm. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 49 |
Prevailingly, the wind in the Tahari blows from the north or northwest. |
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| 14 | 419 |
Time seemed measured in steps, the blows of the whip, the slow turning of the sun, over the Ahn, from one shoulder through the heat to the other. |
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| 19 | 1 |
The Wind Blows From the East; We Encounter a Kur I heard Hassan cry out. |
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| 25 | 222 |
I fended her blows. |
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| 26 | 497 |
I fear that many felt the strap that day, and I understand that he was forced more than once to lay about him vigorously, but still, shrieking, crying out and clustering about, as I understand it, they would rush in, to strike their small blows, or, sometimes at a distance of no more than a yard or ... |
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| 26 | 749 |
The blows then had been measured, and the rhythm had been such that she could set herself for them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 511 |
The physical effect of the switch on a girl is not negligible, but, I think, its psychological effect, should the blows be placed on a certain portion of her body, thus cruelly humiliating her, may be even more bitter. |
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| 5 | 822 |
Chained as she was I might, if I chose, make the march a misery of unexpected blows and torments for her. |
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| 9 | 1410 |
Held against the tree, feeling its bark with the side of my cheek, weeping, shuddering under the blows of the coiled rope, I wondered what I had done to them that they should be so cruel to me. |
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| 9 | 1767 |
Blows, numerous and fierce, were struck and parried. |
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| 12 | 182 |
He scarcely flinched, though the blows were cruel. |
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| 22 | 387 |
My head moved, and twisted, with the blows, but, held by her hand in my hair, must remain essentially in place. |
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| 22 | 586 |
My blows became weak. |
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| 27 | 224 |
Bran Loort held the staff and, behind him, using half of the broken table, Thurnus protected him, fending blows and thrusting out, now and again, with the shattered table. |
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| 29 | 223 |
I began to respond to him, shuddering under the blows of his manhood, and surrendered myself then, content, to the delicious brutality of my ravishment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 564 |
The large upright tharlarion, or war tharlarion, are guided by voice commands and the blows of spears. |
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| 7 | 71 |
I watched while the heavy collar, shortened now to fit a woman, was curved expertly about her neck by blows of the hammer, and then, decisively, struck shut. |
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| 8 | 90 |
It was not pleasant, but she did not have the strength to make the blows tell. |
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| 8 | 163 |
I closed my eyes that I be not blinded by the blows of the whip. |
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| 9 | 188 |
He was struck to his knees by the blows of spears. |
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| 14 | 101 |
I thought I could probably avoid or fend its blows. |
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| 15 | 53 |
"Oh!" They recoiled from the blows, their hands before their faces, and then lay on their bellies, their hands covering their heads. |
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| 35 | 117 |
"It blows apart the meat, and there is no place to put a line on the point". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 699 |
Sometimes under the blows or in fearful anticipation of them she twisted or changed position, once sitting, sometimes crouching, once on her stomach; most of the blows were across her back, but two had been delivered frontally, and two to her left side, and one to her right side. |
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| 1 | 39 |
I remembered her from several months ago when I had first seen her, when she had had about her throat only a simple collar of iron, curved about her throat by the blows of a metal-worker's hammer. |
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| 4 | 735 |
Then she could scream no more but was twisting, gasping, on her stomach, and side and back, under the blows of the whip. |
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| 11 | 235 |
The girl in the black slacks struck her twice with the whip, and the suspended slave, striped by the blows, dangled, shaken, sobbing, before her. |
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| 20 | 121 |
I then, smartly, began to deflect and parry blows. |
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| 23 | 394 |
The collars, swiftly, were opened and the heavy bands, struck with sharp, expert blows, were bent wide. |
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| 34 | 474 |
But did not her mistress know that it was she herself who was the lovely, frightened slave? Did she not know that it would be only she herself who would feel the blows of such a whip, or she herself who would see again the iron door of the dungeon close above her head? The blond-haired barbarian, my... |
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| 41 | 14 |
Water from the wet vines, struck loose by our blows, showered upon us. |
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| 53 | 413 |
The blows had not been those of a warrior, but of a butcher. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 128 |
I recalled her many cruelties to me in my training, the many lashings of the quirt, the blows of the slave whip she had arranged for me, the blows of her small hands and fists, her kicks, her belittlings of me. |
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| 19 | 11 |
The blows thus, in a sense, compress and pack the beam, causing it to last longer, until it finally, after a few finishing blows, shatters. |
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| 22 | 281 |
Then, after a few blows, five blows, she stepped back, and threw aside the whip. |
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| 4 | 114 |
There were tears in my eyes, from the stinging of the blows of the quirt. |
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| 4 | 208 |
"Yes, Mistress," I said, clenching my body against the blow or blows to come. |
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| 5 | 53 |
My nights had often been filled with pain from the blows of her quirt. |
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| 5 | 118 |
Men could die under the blows of the snake. |
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| 7 | 129 |
I recalled, most of all, how she had spilled the wine in the training session, had accused me of it, and had prescribed twenty blows of the snake. |
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| 7 | 131 |
Twenty blows of the snake, I had little doubt, might cost some men their lives. |
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| 7 | 153 |
I did not think that Lola, in her cruelties, or when she had played the cruel trick with the wine, and had prescribed the twenty blows of the snake, had anticipated that she would, one day, be braceleted in my cell, at my mercy as a naked slave girl. |
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| 7 | 154 |
"Why twenty blows of the snake?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 156 |
"Twenty blows would not kill you. |
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| 7 | 333 |
It was she who had wished for me to receive twenty blows of the snake. |
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| 7 | 1025 |
Lola would understand the kicks of my feet, the blows of the whip. |
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| 8 | 72 |
I knelt, naked, miserable, under the blows. |
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| 13 | 122 |
The huge war tharlarion are commonly guided by voice signals and the blows of spears on the face and neck. |
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| 13 | 721 |
Twice more, brutally, he struck me, as I stumbled backward, and then I had seized him, holding him, trying to clear my head, trying not to let him gain again the leverage to strike such telling blows. |
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| 15 | 64 |
"He is strong, Lady Florence," said the man who had struck the blows. |
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| 15 | 67 |
I recalled that in the House of Andronicus I had once received five blows of the snake. |
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| 15 | 96 |
"Five more blows," she said. |
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| 15 | 120 |
I had received fifteen blows of the snake. |
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| 15 | 121 |
I knew that twenty blows of that fearsome whip could kill some men. |
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| 18 | 166 |
These are usually larger and more agile beasts than common saddle tharlarion and are smaller, of course, than either draft tharlarion or war tharlarion, the latter used almost exclusively in the tharlarion cavalries of Gor, huge, upright beasts, several tons in weight, guided by voice commands and t... |
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| 19 | 1 |
Taphris The training beam, about a foot Gorean square, sunk a yard deep in its wood-lined well, braced, too, within the wooden-floored, high-roofed barn, shook with the blows struck against it. |
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| 19 | 22 |
This permits maneuverability and reduces the opponent's opportunities to take advantage of a misstep or a momentary clumsiness in the distribution of one's weight; too, it provides greater impact for the blows which one strikes. |
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| 19 | 34 |
The ceiling of the high-roofed barn and its walls rang with the sound of the blows on the weakening wood. |
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| 19 | 36 |
I increased the number and speed of my blows. |
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| 20 | 37 |
Even to parry the blows of a strong man takes its toll. |
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| 20 | 55 |
The sweat and water on my body, I hoped, would tend to slide blows away, were they struck at oblique angles. |
10 |
| 20 | 87 |
Did not Kenneth hold the vial of sand? Blows it seemed I rained with an avalanche of lead on the reeling post shuddering in its braces. |
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| 22 | 282 |
The girl lay at her feet, sobbing, shuddering, her hands white on the ring, her back richly striped with the blows of the whip. |
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| 25 | 101 |
"After the first few blows," said Kenneth, "feign disorientation, then when another is struck, fall to the sand". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 314 |
Inhibitions have been shattered, some of them commanded from me by strong men and the blows of the whip. |
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| 5 | 30 |
"What lucky blows!" cried more than one man. |
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| 22 | 283 |
"At one time," he said, "I could strike a thousand blows, to the accuracy of a hair, I could thrust a thousand times, within the circle of half a hort, but now—now, see what has become of me". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 6 |
She started, and squirmed, on my shoulder under the blows. |
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| 19 | 211 |
I timed the blows mercifully, and uniformly. |
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| 19 | 212 |
I did not use a random timing, nor did I use a customized timing, in which the blows are indexed to the particular psychological and emotional condition of the individual slave. |
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| 19 | 742 |
She writhed, and screamed, and twisted, and turned beneath the whip, from her belly to her back, and to her sides, and to her back, and to her sides again, and back, trying to fend the blows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1220 |
The shields, too, are made of the hide of the kailiauk, from the thick hide of the back of the neck, where the skin and musculature are thick, to support the weight of the trident and turn the blows of other tridents, especially in the spring buffetings, attendant upon which follows mate selection". |
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| 4 | 73 |
Indeed, not even a blanket had been thrown into the wagon bed to soften the blows of the springless cart, or to shield the flesh of the bound beauties from the splintery roughness of the sturdy planks on which they rode. |
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| 14 | 858 |
I bent down and kissed her on the side, on one of the long welts raised by the whip stroke, one of the blows in virtue of which she was assessed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 101 |
Her hands were widely spaced on the ax handle, and her blows were short. |
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| 3 | 111 |
In a moment there was a cracking noise, and then, after a few more blows, a splintering, rending sound as the tree tipped, and then, its branches striking the earth, fell. |
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| 3 | 112 |
Five last blows were struck, cutting the last fibers and wood, and the trunk, freed, laid level, a yard above the ground, held in place by branches and foliage. |
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| 7 | 34 |
"That is so it will not cushion the blows which might fall on your back," I said. |
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| 9 | 431 |
"Do not whip me!" But I laid the quirt to her well, five times, first striking her from her hands and knees to the robes, and then, as she twisted and rolled, helpless to avoid the blows, lashed her upon them. |
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| 16 | 299 |
Among them I performed, on the whole, only the most menial of labors, commonly guided in my work only by cuffings and the blows of whips. |
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| 21 | 5 |
Hci and I stumbled backward, swept to the side by the strokes of the wing, the blows of the air. |
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| 23 | 72 |
This ankle tie, then, if she is to be moved in the near future, may swiftly be removed and she, already hand-bound, is promptly ready again for the tether or the blows of her herder. |
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| 28 | 218 |
If we warded blows of Yellow Knives we could not, at the same time, protect ourselves from aerial fire. |
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| 32 | 172 |
The slave cried out, squirming under the blows, but kept her position. |
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| 35 | 34 |
Blows fell. |
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| 35 | 113 |
Then lightning again illuminated the stormy sky and the driving torrents of rain, and then the lightning and rain were gone, and then there were great ringing blows, and the great hammer of Kron, of the metal workers, lifting and falling, smote on a mighty anvil, showering sparks in the night, which... |
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| 37 | 80 |
Also, of course, if, unfortunately, she should be seized, it might give us some time to encourage her captor, with blows, and lances and cries, to release her, before it could break and she could be carried off. |
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| 39 | 447 |
She had not needed to be hastened with blows. |
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| 39 | 506 |
If nothing else the neck tether and blows from Hci would see to it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 484 |
Then he struck her twice more, summary blows, instructive blows. |
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| 6 | 391 |
As they thrust at one another and fended blows, moving with great speed and skill, in their swift passages, under the watchful eye of the referee, backed by two independent scorers, I could scarcely conjecture what would be involved in actual swordplay, with steel unencumbered with sheaths. |
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| 8 | 362 |
I turned in time to see her on her side, in her chains, receiving the last few blows. |
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| 11 | 32 |
There were suddenly two blows on the door, loud knocks. |
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| 14 | 11 |
Because of the width of the wagon bed and the height of the cage, some five feet or so above the surface of the wagon bed, I had been reasonably well protected from the blows of whips, the jabbings of sticks. |
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| 36 | 148 |
I had awakened, held in a sitting position, my face, stinging, seeming to explode, being jerked, by blows, first with the flat of a hand, and then with its back, from side to side. |
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| 36 | 1138 |
If I had had any doubts about the wisdom of being pleasing to masters these blows, few and light though they might have been, would have dispelled them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 134 |
The blows were delivered with suitable force, with authority, but in an evenly spaced, measured fashion. |
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| 3 | 12 |
I, and others, had been awakened to the blows of spear butts three days ago. |
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| 9 | 418 |
I doubt that they would wish to see you again, unless perhaps it would be to return you naked and bound to your master, with the blows of a whip on your body, or perhaps, say, to have you serve them in a tavern, helpless in the modality that would then be yours, that of the total female slave". |
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| 10 | 91 |
"Back on your knees, Lady Telitsia," said Boots, sternly, "or you will add blows to your beating". |
10 |
| 10 | 122 |
He then, with a few blows, concluded her beating. |
10 |
| 10 | 124 |
Still he had placed the blows diversely and had varied their timing. |
10 |
| 16 | 497 |
He did give the girls actual, sharp, smart blows. |
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| 16 | 994 |
Let him rather be driven from the hall with the blows of belts like a naked slave for his presumption!" "Would the court not find such a contest amusing?" inquired Belnar. |
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| 20 | 54 |
The Kur then, snarling, scattered the reluctant sleen away with blows. |
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| 20 | 146 |
To beasts moved only by meat, and the pressure of blows, the hungers of higher and more terrible organisms will remain always exceedingly mysterious. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 231 |
They are usually controlled by voice commands and the blows of a spear. |
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| 3 | 457 |
Three blows fell upon her. |
10 |
| 3 | 459 |
Two more blows struck her. |
10 |
| 4 | 291 |
I blocked blows, not wishing to take advantage of his recklessness. |
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| 13 | 134 |
The blows were perfunctory, but, I suppose, to the one who receives them, they seemed intensely personal and meaningful. |
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| 24 | 641 |
And the poor women, too, are usually exposed to the hooting, the abuse, the spitting and blows, of the jeering crowds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 |
How many times had I, bound at their mercy, looked up at them? How many times had I recoiled from the blows of their whips, only to crawl then to their feet, piteous and contrite, begging to please them? I was a female. |
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| 4 | 345 |
"Are all women awakened here," I asked, "by the whip?" My body was still sore from the blows. |
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| 5 | 52 |
To be sure, the girls here from this world regarded themselves as immeasurably superior to us, those of Earth, and perhaps the men did, too, in some sense, but, as far as I could tell, that made their chains no lighter, nor the blows they received any the less severe. |
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| 9 | 160 |
I was frightened as I passed them, one by one, almost cringing, almost recoiling, from the fear of blows that might alight upon my body, knowing myself so much exposed, so much at their mercy, at their whim or caprice. |
10 |
| 9 | 237 |
I had never forgotten the feel of those informative, salutatory blows bidding me welcome to my bondage. |
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| 10 | 590 |
He had withdrawn it from my mouth only on the library table, when I had lain there before him on my back, before he had put the conical rubberized mask over my face, introducing the chemicals into it which had forced me to lose consciousness, a consciousness I had regained only on Gor, awakening to ... |
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| 23 | 13 |
With expert blows, on an anvil, these had been hammered shut, leaving only a fine line where the edges met. |
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| 31 | 222 |
Then I was on my back, and stomach, even, reacting as though I was struck, turning, twisting, as though in terror and pain to fend blows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 542 |
It leapt under his blows! "Waitress!" he called. |
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| 8 | 579 |
There were, too, if I am not mistaken, the sounds of blows, or, at least, sudden grunts and cries of pain. |
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| 8 | 614 |
I drew back, decisively, on the one-strap, and the tarn screamed and smote the air with its wings, and, my servant crying out in terror and clutching the pommel, was aflight! Those who are horsemen know the exhilaration of riding, the marvelous animal, its strength, its pacings, its speed, its respo... |
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| 12 | 350 |
She pounded her fists on the stone, the blows softened by the intervening straw. |
10 |
| 16 | 10 |
It seemed she cried out, softly, as the blows struck my moving, helpless, well-curved burden, almost as though she felt rather they should have been hers to endure. |
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| 17 | 166 |
One, tearing itself free, heedless of the cries and blows of its keeper, ran blindly back toward the city, the men among the engines breaking apart, or climbing on the engines, to let it pass. |
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| 17 | 271 |
I became aware then again of the blows of the ram below. |
10 |
| 17 | 276 |
This brought the blows of the ram high on the gate, presumably over the rocks and sand, and such, which had been heaped behind it by the defenders. |
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| 17 | 278 |
What effort it must have taken to force the long ram shed up this incline, how much more arduous must be the labor of those within the shed, hauling on the ropes, swinging the great ram upward! I could hear, too, between the heavy, periodic strokes of the ram, the blows of hammers and axes, and the ... |
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| 17 | 662 |
I heard the sound of mallets on wood behind me, heavy blows. |
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| 17 | 667 |
As I did so the final blows were struck at the props supporting the scaffolding of masonry and with a tumble of dust and stone the rocks fell. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 657 |
She was the sort of woman who might initially be tempted to give a master a bit of difficulty, but I did not think that this difficulty would be such that it could not be easily remedied, and prevented from reoccurring, with a few blows of the whip. |
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| 1 | 926 |
"I would well chastise him, and with blows, did he not retract his judgment, belabor him for his lack of taste!" In fairness to the burly fellow, it had been Temione the free woman against whom he had leveled that charge, not Temione, the slave. |
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| 12 | 75 |
"From various things," I said, "from blows, from ropes, from harness, from the slash of rence, from the bites and stings of insects, from the fastening places of marsh leeches". |
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| 12 | 258 |
Sometimes they vent their anger on the slave, with blows and lashings, though it seems to me the blame, if any, in such cases, is perhaps less with the slave than the master. |
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| 13 | 525 |
I turned about and, my feet slipping in the mud, my back burning from the blows, wet with blood, turned the raft. |
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| 15 | 5 |
So I struggled ahead, closed in the hood, manacled, harnessed, drawing the weighty raft through the marsh, through the rence, through the mud, now with several men upon it, some wounded and sick, little more, if anything, than a beast of burden, a despised beast subject to the frequent blows, the la... |
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| 15 | 21 |
As for myself I could concern myself with little but the weight of the raft, my footing, and the blows which drove me. |
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| 16 | 27 |
In the morning, after I had been again gagged and hooded, my hands would be again manacled before me, and fastened there with a strap, that my back might be more available for blows. |
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| 27 | 140 |
"I did not know, at the time I sought to assist the young officer, Marcus, of Ar's Station, in work for Ar, that Ar repaid her friends with ropes and the blows of whips". |
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| 28 | 350 |
I heard the sound of striking against her body, the subjection of it to the blows of a fellow's mastery and joy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 86 |
Other men rushed out to fall upon the former regent with blows but Taurentians swiftly, with proddings and blows of their spears, drove them back. |
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| 7 | 356 |
He fell twice in my view, after which incidents he was struck by spear butts and pulled rudely again to his feet, to be again hastened, with more blows, on his way south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 11 | 179 |
I will sign anything, anything!" The room rang with the blows of the hammers. |
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| 12 | 6 |
I then stepped back a bit and forcibly, with the flat of my foot, with four or five blows, kicked back the side of the chest, forcing it some inches inward, breaking it muchly from the ends, tearing it free of the nails and the lid. |
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| 12 | 7 |
I delivered similar blows to the two ends of the chest, splintering it loose of nails and the back. |
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| 12 | 97 |
This is not to deny, as suggested, that a slave may be subjected to numerous blows, commands and strictures in her training. |
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| 16 | 39 |
Indeed, many sudden and unexpected blows had I received in lusty sport from that device in his hands. |
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| 22 | 561 |
He then rushed to her and she curled up, frightened, making herself small, and he kicked her, twice, to which blows she reacted. |
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| 25 | 51 |
Seven or eight times the slave received heavy blows from the staff. |
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| 25 | 135 |
I myself had doubtless been responsible for a few of those blows, but then they had been appropriately administered. |
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| 25 | 678 |
Too, I recalled he had, to the best of his ability, attempted to shelter her from the blows of the irate Appanius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 732 |
It is so much harder then! Too, if we do not know the number of blows! It is most merciful when we know the number of blows and they are delivered with predictable periodicity. |
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| 2 | 34 |
They had apparently been simply closed about my limbs, closed by some considerable force, perhaps that of a machine, or even, perhaps, unthinkably primitive though it might seem, by the blows of a hammer on an anvil. |
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| 11 | 693 |
It is to be clearly distinguished from many other forms of whip, in particular, from the "snake," a terrible whip used sometimes on men, beneath the blows of which even a strong man might die. |
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| 13 | 185 |
The speaking, too, of course, may be directed by questions and commands, and, if necessary, with blows of the switch. |
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| 13 | 731 |
Sometimes we do not know when the blows will fall. |
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| 13 | 733 |
Sometimes we must, as we can, count the blows. |
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| 13 | 734 |
Sometimes, too, we must, as we can, if we can, state the reasons for the blows, if there are reasons for them. |
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| 13 | 787 |
He knew my name, that which I had been given, that on my collar, which, perhaps, had been worn by many others before me! I recalled that some of the guards in the pens did not care to administer a formal whipping to a woman, as opposed to some admonitory blows now and then, until they knew her name,... |
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| 13 | 814 |
"How many blows should you receive?" he asked. |
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| 13 | 834 |
The blows had been sharp, but clean. |
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| 24 | 762 |
One tried to stand, just a little, her knees flexed, her hands and arms raised to fend blows, but she was then, blow by blow, stroke by stroke, returned to her knees, and then when another blow fell she cried out for mercy, and threw herself to her belly, her hands over her head, sobbing. |
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| 46 | 531 |
"You will receive three blows, only," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 525 |
So, thought Ellen, it seems that there may be yet another reason, other than time, and impatience, for rushing the chains forward, weeping, crying out, begging for mercy, stumbling, under blows, herding them so cruelly with jabs and blows to the block, to their sale, that we may show ourselves as fr... |
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| 4 | 198 |
Indeed, in exchanges with him, she had often found herself confused, and reeling, almost as though from physical blows. |
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| 10 | 318 |
It had begun, of course, with anger and dismay, irritation, consternation, fascination, and then fear, when he had cuffed her about intellectually in the classroom, when he had indifferently and decisively refuted her again and again, when he had had her reeling from blows of logic and fact, until s... |
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| 10 | 370 |
Then the whip began to rain blows upon her. |
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| 10 | 371 |
She screamed and scratched at the marble, and turned from her stomach to her side, and back, and tried to fend the blows, weeping. |
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| 13 | 266 |
To be sure, how could he have hoped to make a catch when the girls were hidden by the laundry, protected by the lines, could take refuge under the racks, and such? Ellen was now on her knees amidst the lines, her hands lifted, as though she might fend away blows. |
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| 16 | 695 |
She received only six strokes, and the blows, while sharp, had not been heavy, surely not delivered with the full weight of a man's arm. |
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| 17 | 1011 |
Then, with his hammer and wedge, and with three blows, he opened the shackle on her ankle, and slipped her foot free. |
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| 17 | 1017 |
One false blow of the hammer and she knew that her head or throat, with such blows, could be broken as easily as one might crush an egg underfoot. |
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| 21 | 113 |
Their bodies were bruised, as though by the blows of clubs or spear hafts, and bore in lines of caked blood the marks of the lash, where the whip, perhaps the snake, had been put to them. |
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| 21 | 114 |
The snake is never used on women, for they might soon die under its blows. |
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| 21 | 222 |
It seemed that the miserable occupants of the chain could scarcely cry out in pain, or groan under the blows. |
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| 21 | 232 |
He seemed scarcely to react to the blows. |
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| 21 | 234 |
Two more blows, at a sign from the subcaptain, were laid upon Fel Doron. |
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| 21 | 239 |
I am clever! The wind blows. |
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| 22 | 79 |
She wondered if the woman's icy hauteur might not melt under the blows of man's whip. |
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| 22 | 114 |
But, in a moment, she had turned aside, and back, determined to kneel before the free woman and, risking the blows of masters, and risking punishment for speaking without permission, warn the cruel, harsh mistress of the risks she might be running. |
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| 24 | 438 |
But what shall I do now? Surely I am no more than the width of a strand of slave silk from the blows of the lash". |
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| 25 | 63 |
"Oh, please, masters, let me out!" Selius Arconious, she recalled, had suggested that she be confined "straitly," and the scribe, to whom he had given some fifteen tarsk-bits, buying her blows, had found this not only agreeable, but, given his earlier rancor, eminently fitting. |
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| 25 | 216 |
They carried sticks, and it was not without jabbings, pokings and blows, and impatient expostulations, that they sped their linked, disconcerted, intimidated charges, those lovely, chained she-animals, forward, presumably to a final staging area prior to their sale. |
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| 25 | 535 |
The blows and jabbings had perhaps not been necessary, but they had reminded her of what she was, and what could be done to her. |
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| 27 | 3393 |
Is it so strange that we make excellent slaves? Do they really think that our desire to please, and be found pleasing, is motivated by nothing but the fear of blows or worse? We wish to love and serve. |
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| 30 | 263 |
"He paid fifteen tarsk-bits! One for each blow! Thus, he spared me the blows!" "Yes," he said, "I purchased the strokes, but only, you see, in order that I might deliver them myself". |
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| 30 | 283 |
The blows were nicely predictable, and well measured. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 592 |
Perhaps she was trying to protect herself from blows, not yet delivered? The blonde could understand that. |
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| 5 | 108 |
Doubtless the blows stung. |
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| 11 | 292 |
As Cabot made ready to access the shuttle and return to his hillside villa on the Steel World, he heard the blows of a lash and the screams of a whipped slave. |
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| 13 | 68 |
Cabot spun about, not releasing his hold, to fend other blows, the jabbing of the sharpened sticks, but none of the others approached. |
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| 21 | 393 |
"The beating on the bar," said Cabot, "would in time weaken the arms of he who blocks the blows, surely by the third or fourth attacker". |
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| 21 | 519 |
A praetor now approached the seventh challenger, and placed in his huge paws a gigantic ax, some ten feet in length, and double-bladed at each end, an ax which, in the grip of one such as he, one of such strength, might have decapitated a larl, and perhaps even, with three or four blows, Gor's might... |
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| 26 | 16 |
But would you do it here, now, and die under the blows of my men, a moment later? I see no considerable advance in either of our fortunes from such a precipitance". |
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| 44 | 180 |
Blood was about her mouth, from the blows. |
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| 44 | 181 |
Such blows might easily have broken the neck of a human female. |
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| 55 | 81 |
Sticks struck them, sharply, and they recoiled in pain, trying to turn away from the blows. |
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| 63 | 141 |
The blow did not fall because the club was torn from his grasp and then Lord Grendel, the massive club in his hands, began to strike about him, and the cattle humans fled back before these blows, limping, arms dangling, faces a mass of bones and blood. |
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| 64 | 144 |
But then, suddenly, the switch, for he had now obtained such a device, useful for the control of women, of an angered Cestiphon fell amongst them, and they went to all fours, and cowered, sobbing under the blows. |
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| 64 | 145 |
"Master!" begged their leader, now on her knees, trying to fend blows. |
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| 78 | 149 |
He then, with two blows of the ax, smote away the left foot and the right foot of Flavion, and then jerked him upward, that the two bloody stumps would be placed in the dirt, where the flow of blood might be slowed, if not staunched. |
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| 79 | 39 |
"Do you recall the sting of those blows, even now?" he asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 350 |
I feared, rather, given the coming of winter and its season of storms, that the walls of this city, so to speak, would be shortly breached, that they would be unable to resist the raging blows of green Thassa, the blows of her towering, mountainous hammers, that the city must soon fall, succumbing t... |
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| 4 | 84 |
Thus they can interpret their "will" as they please, as the wind blows, so to speak, or, perhaps more accurately, as the gold depresses the scales. |
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| 5 | 804 |
It would be far preferable to being pilloried naked, subjected to the blows and abuse of irate citizens, being publicly, ceremoniously, whipped, and then being transported out of the city, naked, standing, wrists lashed to an overhead bar, on a flat-bedded, public slave wagon, to the jeers of free c... |
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| 5 | 886 |
Those were probably the first blows they had ever felt. |
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| 14 | 10 |
In this engagement no mortal blows were to be dealt, of course, and when a stroke which would have spelled death or disablement was held up short, the adjudicator pronounced his verdict, and one of the fellows would politely withdraw from the contest, in effect having been ruled dead or, one suppose... |
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| 32 | 4 |
I had little doubt that I might have eluded them easily, would not two swift, unexpected blows have sufficed, but there were others about, many others. |
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| 37 | 39 |
The blows of great hammers were striking away the chocks that held the ship of Tersites in place, on the great sloping frame. |
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| 38 | 593 |
"Two blows for each!" These were administered, the figures bent over, and cringing, each receiving its two prescribed lashes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 245 |
This was no sporadic thing, easily put down with a few blows. |
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| 3 | 381 |
And I then heard heavy blows against the wood, the striking of some tool". |
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| 3 | 1290 |
In this fashion the body is stretched, providing a convenient, practical, exploitable expanse for the whip's work, and the body can recoil and writhe, and pull away from the blows only to the extent that one realizes how little one can succeed in such an endeavor. |
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| 14 | 47 |
I am not sure that I would have accepted the blows of Seremides. |
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| 14 | 51 |
I supposed I would have accepted the blows. |
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| 14 | 52 |
Yes, I would have accepted the blows. |
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| 15 | 85 |
He tried to crawl toward the crutch but was kicked back, and then, the four of them, with belts, and ropes, apparently brought for the purpose, began to belabor him, fiercely, he at their feet, and Seremides began to whimper, and moan, and he folded his body on the deck, drawing up his knees, and co... |
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| 20 | 103 |
Had she truly thought that she, and her some two hundred collar sisters, on their chains, so beautiful, so vital, so carefully selected, had been brought across the breadth of mighty Thassa, all the way from continental, known Gor, merely to be tower slaves? I did not think it likely she would soon ... |
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| 20 | 152 |
"I remembered the blows," she said. |
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| 34 | 198 |
In moments, startled, disbelieving, she had rolled, twisting, and miserable, sobbing, crying out for mercy, under the blows of the switch. |
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| 37 | 1150 |
Free, of course, distracted, confused, uneasy, restless, discontented, suspicious, and unhappy, and not knowing why, their beauty was extremely dangerous, and could easily be misused to torment and divide men, to influence and manipulate them, to discomfort and afflict them, for not all wounds and b... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 686 |
She struck some more blows, lashing blows, on my arms, and calves, and back, and then, perhaps weary, returned to her place. |
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| 27 | 385 |
She then cried out in rage, and a storm of blows fell upon me, and I went, gasping and sobbing, to all fours, and then to my belly, trying to cover my head, and then, struck repeatedly, I was twisting on the floor, back to belly, then belly to back, and then to belly, again, and then the blows stopp... |
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| 4 | 685 |
Then, suddenly, I felt a stinging rain of leather cracking on my back, and then I was rolling on the floor, crying, turning about, trying to fend the blows which fell upon me, and then I struggled to my knees, and put my head down to the floor, covering it with my hands. |
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| 8 | 242 |
"Sluts! Sluts!" I heard the sound of more blows, cries of pain. |
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| 8 | 245 |
But this plea, I gathered, did no more than earn its source another two or three blows. |
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| 8 | 252 |
"She-tarsks! She-tarsks!" I heard the sound of more blows, cries of pain. |
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| 8 | 1419 |
My hair was jerked and twisted, short of being torn from my head, which would have been a punishable offense, and my body was much bruised, by small, angry fists, and, often enough, from the blows of ladles and stirring spoons. |
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| 10 | 8 |
Occasionally, caught in such a contretemps, I had seen a girl mercilessly switched, until she cowered, rolling under the blows, sobbing and crying out, and I scarcely dared to speculate what might occur when she was marched home to a whipping ring. |
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| 10 | 1167 |
"Move," he said, and I saw the two slaves pass me, on the right, tied together, closely, head to head, by the hair, their tunics torn to the waist, their hands thonged tightly behind them, their backs and the back of their thighs richly striped from the blows of a switch. |
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| 18 | 329 |
How I had been punished, so mercilessly, so richly, switched! I had then, groveling and weeping under the blows, sensed that I was a slave, and should be a slave. |
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| 49 | 322 |
"If you so much as raised your head in the streets, you would be lashed!" I recoiled under her blows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 429 |
I heard scuffling, and heavy blows, presumably of clubs. |
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| 8 | 103 |
The next blows were soon done, and she now lay on her belly, her hands stretched before her, fastened to the ring. |
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| 50 | 808 |
My assailant's blows, dealt with the sides of her fists, happily, had been administered only with a woman's strength, and my rescuers had been upon her almost as soon as she had hurled herself upon me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 4 |
Twice more I blocked the blows of the lashing, cord-wound bamboo. |
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| 12 | 447 |
I do not think it was very long as the sand clock, grain by grain, or the water clock, drop by drop, would have it, but, to me, prostrate and chained, my body fouled, and recoiling, shuddering, struck again and again, it was long enough, a time measured in the clock of pain, counted in terms of blow... |
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| 30 | 745 |
"I shall jolly them!" said the voice, and I heard some more blows, and protests, now, perhaps, from the other two Ashigaru. |
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| 49 | 74 |
I was satisfied, given the blows he had sustained, particularly the second, that he would be unconscious for some time. |
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| 58 | 180 |
Pertinax gave her two smart blows, one high on the left arm, the other, a back stroke, high on the right arm. |
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| 60 | 87 |
He then addressed a medley of blows to Nodachi so swift and fierce, so varied, and so deftly met that Tajima cried out in awe. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 444 |
None of the blows, of course, had touched me. |
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| 14 | 257 |
Who knows whence the wind blows? The leaf is lifted, flutters, and is gone. |
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| 15 | 180 |
Tullius Quintus began, desperately, to urge his beasts on, with cries and blows. |
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| 35 | 190 |
We sprang up, eager to escape her blows but the pursuing switch, hastening in our wake, struck each of us at least twice across the back of the thighs as we fled. |
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| 45 | 166 |
"To the kitchen, the kitchen!" "Yes, Mistress," I cried, and leapt up, and hurried toward the kitchen, running, trying to escape the repeated, stinging blows of the angry, pursuing first girl. |
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| 61 | 674 |
Strike blows for the noble Albus!" Men milled about. |
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| 61 | 831 |
"Kurii may be wary of my parasol," she said, "and we must consider the blows of two axes, the quarrels of a crossbow, the swords and spears of several fellows who would rather get their hands on kajirae than feed them to monsters, and so on". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 42 |
A slave tunic does little to soften the blows of a swift, hissing switch. |
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| 17 | 43 |
To be sure, free women often bestow their blows indiscriminately and a slave's bared legs and arms, the sides of her neck, and such, may not be exempt from attention. |
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| 33 | 663 |
Portions, from the impact and the blows of the struggle, the beating wings, had been splintered free. |
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| 35 | 195 |
"The tunic might mitigate to some extent the blows of the lash". |
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