| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 188 |
A defenseless woman on the plains of Gor would not have much chance. |
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| 9 | 19 |
She explained to me what, in her opinion, would give us our best chance to travel the plains of Gor in safety. |
10 |
| 12 | 47 |
I should have known that the proud Talena, daughter of a Ubar, would leap at the first chance to return to power in Ar, even though it be at the head of a plundering host of brigands. |
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| 12 | 63 |
There was also the chance that a wild tarn might swoop down and feed on the helpless living morsel fastened to that degrading frame. |
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| 14 | 126 |
"She agreed to be the mate of Pa-Kur, the Assassin," he said, "in order that you might have one small chance of life, on the Frame of Humiliation". |
10 |
| 15 | 112 |
It was now dark, and as I wore my helmet, there was no chance of the casual observer determining my identity. |
10 |
| 15 | 231 |
"And rumor has it," said Mintar, not looking up from the board, "that she pledged herself to Pa-Kur only that some tarnsman she loved might be given a small chance of life". |
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| 16 | 48 |
I was certain that he had entered the city in some manner and was presumably waiting for his chance to strike at the Home Stones of the tributary cities, in order, if possible, to divide the horde of Pa-Kur. |
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| 17 | 104 |
Still, the days in the tarn cot, gigantic though it was, must have been confining for that Ubar of the Skies, my tarn, and I knew he would relish flight, the chance to pit his wings once again against the fierce winds of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 5 |
Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, had been to such fairs to trade scrolls with scholars from other cities, men he would never have seen were it not for the fairs, men of hostile cities who yet loved ideas more than they hated their enemies, men like Torm who so loved learning that they would ... |
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| 6 | 65 |
Slim though her chances might be to escape wild beasts or slavers, they would be greater than the chance of escaping the wrath of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 14 | 191 |
It was truly a tarn of tarns, my Ubar of the Skies! It was a desperate plan I had seized upon, no more than one chance in a million, unless the great tarn could tip the scales in my favor. |
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| 19 | 28 |
"You will have a better chance than you gave us," said the bull-like man from Tharna. |
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| 19 | 56 |
Mine after mine was freed, and as each mine was freed, its slaves, forsaking their own best chance of safety, poured into the mines above to liberate their fellows. |
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| 25 | 123 |
I knew that Dorna would have little chance alone on Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 61 |
"How often would a bred slave have a chance of freedom?" "Seldom indeed," I admitted. |
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| 9 | 200 |
Now it seemed to me that I understood but they had come too soon! She had not had a chance to do her work. |
10 |
| 16 | 156 |
"There is little," I said, "which was left to chance". |
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| 16 | 157 |
"Chance does not exist," said Misk, "ignorance exists". |
10 |
| 26 | 17 |
How convincing she had been in her role of the enamored slave girl, hopelessly, desperately mine, undoubtedly waiting her chance to betray me. |
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| 26 | 81 |
"Or are you not yet done with me?" I would have responded, in spite of my better judgment, to reassure her of my intentions to free her as soon as practicable, and to tell her that I believed her greatest chance of safety lay in the anonymity of a specimen in the Vivarium, but it would have been foo... |
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| 32 | 111 |
"Is there a chance the plant can become operational?" "No," said Al-Ka. |
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| 32 | 133 |
"Is there any chance at all?" I demanded of Misk. |
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| 32 | 135 |
"But in all probability," pointed out Kusk, "there is really no chance". |
10 |
| 32 | 139 |
"If there is any chance at all," I cried, "you must try!" Misk peered down at me and his antennae seemed to lift with surprise. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 128 |
Should I chance to see it I might pick it up and bring it back with me". |
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| 18 | 9 |
My heart leaped wildly at this chance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 140 |
Most girls, it might be mentioned, even extremely choice specimens, are never in the booths; generally the slaver has a chance at a higher price when there are many buyers bidding against one another in the heat of an auction. |
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| 12 | 104 |
This would swing some silver to Green surely, for men, though they have their factions, yet will purchase the tiles of the bird they feel has the best chance of winning. |
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| 13 | 195 |
Upon leaving the baths I encountered by chance the Tarn Keeper whom I had met briefly when observing the game outside the tavern of Spindius, that fought between the blind Player and the Vintner. |
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| 18 | 535 |
"I will see that you have a chance to see it". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 192 |
By this time the two ships ahead of us were well aware of their danger and, given the distances involved, neither captain elected to chance the dangerous maneuver of coming about to meet us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 73 |
I wondered what chance I might have of being rescued. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 572 |
I had given Verna, and her band, her chance. |
10 |
| 7 | 27 |
I had given Verna and her band their chance. |
10 |
| 7 | 360 |
They had had their chance. |
10 |
| 8 | 92 |
Still, I did not wish to take the chance that we might have missed them, or, even, that they might have withdrawn before our examination of the area, intending to return when we might be within the stockade. |
10 |
| 11 | 370 |
"She has no chance of escape," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 371 |
"She thinks, however," said Marlenus, "that she has an excellent chance. |
10 |
| 11 | 376 |
"She will think, then," I said, "that she has a chance, perhaps an excellent one, with her lead and the darkness, of escaping". |
10 |
| 11 | 378 |
"But she has no chance of escape," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 381 |
"She has no chance of escape". |
10 |
| 13 | 304 |
I wondered if Marlenus required warning, even had I the chance to deliver it. |
10 |
| 19 | 423 |
"You have no chance". |
10 |
| 22 | 773 |
I wondered if she might, sometime, trek to Ar, to call upon its Ubar or if he, attending to his hunting in the northern forests, might once more chance upon her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 379 |
The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child... |
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| 14 | 195 |
The chance of their finding their way back to the kasbah of the Salt Ubar, and thence, say, to Red Rock, would be small, even if they were not hooded; hooded, on the Klima march, of course, the chance, unhooded, of finding their way back at a later time would be negligible. |
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| 1 | 284 |
Had she knelt at the bars, knees thrust through, her body, her face, tear-stained, pressed against them, arms extended, letting her arms be switched for the mere chance of possibly touching the guard's body, then, perhaps, she would have been hot enough. |
10 |
| 2 | 86 |
Elaborate random selection devices, utilizing coins and sticks, and formulas, were sometimes used by merchants to assure that applying tenders and drovers were selected, if they were not known, by chance. |
10 |
| 3 | 148 |
On the other hand, I would have little or no chance of finding it by striking blindly out into the desert. |
10 |
| 5 | 714 |
I had once had a chance to buy her, but, like a fool, I had not done so, carrying her in chains to my ship, to be taken to my house. |
10 |
| 5 | 800 |
Should she not have taken the chance to escape to Earth, when it was offered? Perhaps. |
10 |
| 8 | 28 |
There was little chance of picking up a subtle trail by moonlight. |
10 |
| 22 | 91 |
He had missed his chance. |
10 |
| 25 | 327 |
"I might be slipped among them!" "It is a chance," admitted Hassan. |
10 |
| 25 | 399 |
"She cannot yet walk like, or truly seem, a slave girl," said Hassan, "for she is not yet a slave girl, but if little attention is paid, we may have a chance". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 740 |
I had been rescued by a chance male, armed and skillful, who had happened in the fields at the time. |
10 |
| 2 | 743 |
I had been part of a plan, a design, I suspected, which I did not understand, which had been, by a chance encounter, disrupted. |
10 |
| 8 | 155 |
If they can be taken within the first two months of their life, which seems to be a critical period, before they have tasted blood and meat in the wild, and made their own kills, there is apparently a reasonably good chance that they can be domesticated; otherwise, generally not. |
10 |
| 8 | 238 |
"I had no chance to escape, Master," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 240 |
"It is true," said he, "that you had no chance for escape. |
10 |
| 9 | 798 |
Indeed I would! When might come another chance to escape the slavery of the village? I would do anything to escape peasant slavery! Present myself well? Indeed! I would be a wonder to him of obedient, sensuous female flesh! Then suddenly I was afraid. |
10 |
| 9 | 1206 |
I so loved him, and hated him! If only I could have vengeance upon him! How sweet it would be to subject him to the revenge of a scorned slave girl! But what chance had a slave girl for revenge? She was only slave. |
10 |
| 14 | 360 |
"I shall take that chance," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 660 |
He left little to chance. |
10 |
| 29 | 43 |
She seemed very much alone there, naked, the light of the lamp on her, tethered, waiting for the first individual who might chance by. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 747 |
Would you buy a girl you had not had a chance to examine in detail? In the two hundreds Tenalion's platforms were numbered from two hundred and forty through two hundred and eighty, inclusive. |
10 |
| 3 | 908 |
But there seemed little chance of this for there appeared to be much more choice merchandise for sale upon those long, darkly varnished, slatted platforms. |
10 |
| 3 | 1190 |
"They have one chance for life," he said, "to obey with total perfection". |
10 |
| 3 | 1191 |
"But," I asked, "is that not every slave girl's one chance for life?" "True," he said. |
10 |
| 6 | 463 |
"I have one chance," he said. |
10 |
| 6 | 872 |
"It is the same chance," said he, "which I in your place would have had". |
10 |
| 11 | 478 |
"You will have little chance to survive," she said. |
10 |
| 15 | 480 |
"If women are true slaves, and men are true masters, and slave exchanges are frequent, there is a reasonable chance that a man may find his choice slave, and a girl her choice master". |
10 |
| 22 | 165 |
"Let us not take the chance," said Imnak. |
10 |
| 27 | 39 |
Our best chance, presumably, would be to have pack ice behind us. |
10 |
| 38 | 255 |
If you pass through many hands, and many slaveries, your chance of being acquired by one who will be to you your true love master is much increased". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 88 |
Why are the men of Gor different from those of Earth? Is it because poisoned minds were not brought to Gor? Is it that it is only a matter of chance, that on Earth and not Gor, due to a chance dynamic or a particular situation, the consequences of which were not understood, civilization developed no... |
10 |
| 8 | 32 |
I had not, of course, had a chance to read it. |
10 |
| 12 | 226 |
Nothing has been left to chance. |
10 |
| 19 | 29 |
They were odds, of course, which Msaliti had been given no chance but to accept. |
10 |
| 53 | 270 |
They might now have some chance to flee. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 570 |
It can be done with apparent innocence in the dialogue in a seminar, by an apparently chance remark at a coffee or tea, even by an expression or a movement of the body in a classroom or a hall. |
10 |
| 1 | 895 |
Was I not strong enough to be solicitous, sweet, gentle, tender and feminine? I hoped she would still like me, that she could still permit me a chance to try to please her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 146 |
If you did not know the location of the topaz it seemed obvious to me that you could not reveal its location, unless by some chance inadvertence. |
10 |
| 32 | 214 |
My only chance in this rapid, dark matter, as I saw it, was to enlist his vanity and, hopefully, a recklessness attendant upon it, in my own cause. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 187 |
"In a free battle, on the river, we will stand little chance against the swift ships of the Voskjard". |
10 |
| 17 | 56 |
The meeting, surely, was one of mere chance. |
10 |
| 18 | 399 |
If a magistrate should chance upon them in some alley he will commonly say, "Thigh," to them, and they will turn the girl, so that he may see if she is branded or not. |
10 |
| 20 | 52 |
In this way the men have a chance to inspect the women, and consider which ones interest them. |
10 |
| 20 | 595 |
In such a situation few women will choose measured, stately movement over a chance to scurry, however awkwardly, however gracelessly, to a defensive bastion. |
10 |
| 20 | 1113 |
"Do you have another binding strap," asked Callimachus, sheepishly, "something to take her home in?" "By some odd chance, I do," I said, grinning, and threw him such a strap. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1190 |
If her captors found her of interest, perhaps they would give her a chance, albeit perhaps only a slim one, to strive to save her life, by absolute and total submission, and pleasingness, as a slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 263 |
"Too," I said, "they would presumably not wish to give the infantry a chance to reform, to close its lines again and set up a solid perimeter". |
10 |
| 17 | 336 |
She had begged then, in effect, to be given a second chance to prove her suitability for slavery. |
10 |
| 17 | 337 |
This chance, in the mercy of her captors, had been given to her. |
10 |
| 19 | 174 |
"You have one slim chance for life," said Pimples. |
10 |
| 19 | 618 |
"They have given you this chance to escape". |
10 |
| 19 | 793 |
She had, in spite of this, after having been stripped, to determine if there might be any interest in owning her, been given a slim chance to save her life, prostrating herself and performing intimate acts at the feet of a master's kaiila. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 482 |
It is routine, but, too, it gives one a chance to bring the girl again within the reach of one's arms. |
10 |
| 40 | 360 |
"There is a chance!" said Radish. |
10 |
| 40 | 375 |
"Yes," said Radish, "but we would be spared! We would be alive! Do you not see? It is our only chance!" "We will not do this," said a man. |
10 |
| 40 | 595 |
"You have but one slim chance," said Mira. |
10 |
| 40 | 721 |
"You had your chance to go nobly into the Barrens, with the dignity of the free woman. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 438 |
I would give Drusus Rencius another chance to kiss me. |
10 |
| 14 | 44 |
I wished that I were a slave, that I might have a chance for life, that I might have an opportunity to convince a master somehow, in any way possible, that I might be worth sparing. |
10 |
| 15 | 327 |
I gave myself little chance to escape, but I could do nothing more. |
10 |
| 15 | 348 |
Our only chance is to turn them against themselves, and use them for our purposes. |
10 |
| 15 | 372 |
"I shall do so, unless perhaps I chance to fall asleep first," the newcomer assured the fellow. |
10 |
| 23 | 320 |
But what chance will I have, I asked myself, if I am branded and they put a collar on my neck, and I am subject to the whip, and to the uncompromising disciplines of Gorean masters? I must not permit them to light slave fires in my belly, I thought. |
10 |
| 29 | 147 |
"I fear she has little more chance than a slave". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 741 |
"I will give you another chance," he said, reaching behind his back, to where he had supposedly hidden the veil at the first sight of the supposed brigands. |
10 |
| 9 | 110 |
I wondered what chance she might have thought she had had. |
10 |
| 13 | 83 |
In this way, of course, there might actually have been several fellows here and there who, theoretically, if they had had the chance, might have recognized her. |
10 |
| 16 | 743 |
"I do not think we shall soon forget our chance encounter with the great Captain Petrucchio". |
10 |
| 16 | 854 |
She had been given not the least chance. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 279 |
To be sure, it did mean that there lay at their disposal some actual practical chance of escape, however slim that chance might be. |
10 |
| 6 | 136 |
"I do not mean to intrude," he said, "but, by any chance, do you know the fellow sitting over there by the fire?" "Why, yes," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 276 |
The listed females, under the particular circumstances currently prevailing in Torcadino, had little chance of escape. |
10 |
| 16 | 781 |
"What chance have I, then?" asked the girl. |
10 |
| 19 | 307 |
After all, how often does a common fellow like myself get a chance to put one over on a poet. |
10 |
| 25 | 94 |
"It is a matter of chance. |
10 |
| 25 | 1649 |
I considered giving her this option, this chance to save herself. |
10 |
| 25 | 1655 |
She had had her chance. |
10 |
| 26 | 183 |
Too often, darkness neutralizes skill; too often chance thrives in darkness. |
10 |
| 26 | 429 |
"I shall give you another chance. |
10 |
| 26 | 1021 |
"What if I am caught? What if slavers pick me up?" "I really do not think there is much chance of that," I said, "not at the present hour, with it getting light. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 406 |
Too, we have now done, presumably, with the fellows who would buy a chance on anything, as long as it is a chance, and, too, those fellows to whom a virginity in itself, regardless of whose it is, is of great interest. |
10 |
| 11 | 1678 |
"That will give you a chance to heal, if you need it, and, too, it will give you a chance to gather your thoughts together and to reflect upon your experiences". |
10 |
| 6 | 42 |
Like a cuffed, kicked bitch I would have crawled back to him, if I had had the chance. |
10 |
| 11 | 407 |
They would take a chance on the virginity of a tharlarion". |
10 |
| 11 | 1688 |
"Too," he said, "in the iron belt, and braceleted at night, and working in the kitchen, you will have a chance to simmer". |
10 |
| 24 | 285 |
He was giving me this chance! He must still care for me! "Thank you, Master!" I cried. |
10 |
| 26 | 255 |
I had little doubt he would await his chance. |
10 |
| 29 | 892 |
The leader of the beasts crouched near them, on all fours, circling them, wild-eyed, waiting its chance. |
10 |
| 29 | 1330 |
"We need only watch our chance, and kill it. |
10 |
| 31 | 186 |
But if he gave me a chance I would try, and desperately, through sedulous service and unstinting love, to make myself well worth remembering to him! Perhaps he had known many women, and really did not remember me? "Do you feel," he asked, "that you truly know how to dance—before men". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 238 |
In the morning, of course, the girls outside, at the wall, might have a better chance. |
10 |
| 16 | 132 |
Too, my words must have given her some hope that she might have, at my hands, at least some slim chance for life, albeit that it might have to be purchased at so alarming a cost as consigning herself by her own words to a fate no less than the degradation and categoricality of uncompromising Gorean ... |
10 |
| 19 | 216 |
Look for your chance. |
10 |
| 21 | 1246 |
One cannot suppose, of course, that just any who chance upon these passages, should such be the case, will understand the institutions and practices involved. |
10 |
| 24 | 693 |
Accordingly, in allotting decisions amongst slaves to chance a low-denomination coin is preferred, this symbolic of the slave's worthlessness, even if she is a high slave who might actually sell for golden tarn disks. |
10 |
| 24 | 713 |
Honor, you see, prescribes that the loser accept with good grace the edict of chance. |
10 |
| 24 | 719 |
Some cities have tiny, round copper "tarsk bits," but they are usually regarded as too small to be suitable in the sports of chance. |
10 |
| 24 | 737 |
But even if the image on the coin had been that of the swift, silken kaiila or the fierce, wide-winged tarn well might the slaves have understood that decisions pertaining to them had not even been left to the will of masters but rather to the winds of chance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 198 |
"We had no chance," wept a fellow from the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 53 |
"I would guess that the columns to the north have the best chance of success". |
10 |
| 16 | 91 |
Such I think, and, ideally, lone individuals, would have the best chance of escape. |
10 |
| 17 | 32 |
We were trampled with tharlarion! War sleen were set upon us! We had no chance. |
10 |
| 17 | 37 |
"We had no chance," wept the fellow. |
10 |
| 21 | 65 |
"And perhaps it was then, a few days later, by the council, that it was decided officially, and after due deliberation, after they had had a chance to assess your character with care, that you were not worthy of being a slave". |
10 |
| 28 | 197 |
"Do you think there is a chance?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 46 | 10 |
There might be a chance, I thought, though I was not sanguine about it, for Ina to slip away there, or hide, or lose herself amongst others. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 265 |
Phoebe, because of the nature of her acquisition and holding, and our movements, and such, had had very little chance to associate with, or meet, other slaves. |
10 |
| 3 | 82 |
One pays a tarsk bit for the chance to compete. |
10 |
| 3 | 425 |
I recalled he had thrust her into the circle, perhaps in this generously according her, though perhaps with some impatience, and misgivings, this chance to make amends for some perhaps unintentional, miniscule transgression. |
10 |
| 3 | 952 |
"A tarsk bit a chance!" he invited me. |
10 |
| 7 | 146 |
"It will give me a chance to slip a knife into a few of these fellows," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 17 | 23 |
Also the Gorean tends neither to view the world as a mechanical clockwork of interdependent parts, as a great, regular, predictable machine, docile to equations, obedient to abstractions, nor as a game of chance, inexplicable, meaningless and random at the core. |
10 |
| 17 | 151 |
"I think there is but one chance to recover my slave," he confided to the audience, "but I fear to risk it". |
10 |
| 23 | 59 |
The general is quite right! Let others have their chance, as well. |
10 |
| 25 | 362 |
"That this is all a matter of chance, and unexpected?" I asked. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 227 |
Our placement in line, I suspected, might not be a matter of chance. |
10 |
| 14 | 741 |
"And there would be even less chance of escape," I said, "if you were clad as a slave". |
10 |
| 37 | 127 |
If the bladder is cleared prior to the wound the chance of infection is considerably reduced. |
10 |
| 37 | 1108 |
He might have but one chance to loose it. |
10 |
| 38 | 51 |
"He has no chance," said the officer. |
10 |
| 46 | 495 |
"I give you one last chance," he said, "to leave this place, to fall into the hands of another". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 140 |
Whatever he wants, I want to give him, but I do not know what he wants! Does he want me to again refuse to beg, and will he then, proud of me, I having then proven my worth before him, that I am still much like a free woman, keep me for himself, or does he want me to beg? If I do not beg, will I the... |
10 |
| 15 | 252 |
But how could a woman be more beautiful, she asked herself, delighted, than as that most exquisite, perfect and feminine of all creatures, the female slave? "You have given me a second chance at life," she said. |
10 |
| 15 | 294 |
You have given me a second chance at life. |
10 |
| 15 | 716 |
You have given me a second chance at life. |
10 |
| 18 | 561 |
At the tower, as chance would have it, though she wondered if he were waiting for her, it was Selius Arconious who opened the interior door to admit her. |
10 |
| 20 | 89 |
In a sales coffle two policies tend to predominate: sometimes the most beautiful are saved for the end, which has led to the saying "rich enough to buy from the end of the chain," or, more often, the girls are mixed on the chain with various sales strategies in mind, for example, mixing skin colors,... |
10 |
| 21 | 200 |
How wonderful, thought Ellen, is the chance upon occasion to do something even as simple as washing one's body! How few people realize how precious so seemingly common and familiar an act can be at times! How grateful the slaves were for this opportunity to bathe! The rope on Ellen's ankle, as she h... |
10 |
| 21 | 203 |
Ellen was grateful to the masters for the chance to bathe, to wash away the misery and grime of the march, but she realized that the motivation underlying the provision of this welcome opportunity was surely unlikely to be simply that of generous impulse. |
10 |
| 27 | 1190 |
"You had your chance at the camp, at the tent," snarled the spokesman. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 168 |
This may have been a matter of chance. |
10 |
| 10 | 259 |
"Perhaps I will give her another chance," came from the translator. |
10 |
| 10 | 261 |
"I will give her another chance," came from the translator. |
10 |
| 12 | 91 |
"You have left little to chance," said Cabot. |
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| 12 | 99 |
"Little, indeed, has been left to chance," said Cabot. |
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| 43 | 135 |
"First," said Cabot, "we must free the living cattle, those on the hooks, and drive those in the shoot, and in the pens, into the open, where they might have a chance to live". |
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| 62 | 22 |
"Perhaps," said Flavion, "but many feel that it is now the only chance for victory, and despise Grendel for not ordering the assault". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 58 |
Many other possibilities enter into these things, but these remarks, hopefully, will give any who might chance to peruse these several sheets a sense of some of the prevailing customs in these matters. |
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| 5 | 652 |
"You will not have much of a chance to get your capture rope on her," said another. |
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| 18 | 503 |
Sometimes overconfident forces do bring free women with them, camp followers, courtesans, and such, and, even, not unoften, highly placed free women, to companion high officers, preside over victory feasts, have the first chance to bid amongst the women of the enemy for serving slaves, and such. |
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| 26 | 308 |
"You have had your chance! We shall find her!" I lifted the buckler free, swiftly, and interposed it between my body and the flash of steel which, with a spitting of sparks, caromed off the edged, wet, curved surface, disappearing in the night, over the neck of the tarn, to my right. |
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| 38 | 266 |
Perhaps unwisely, I had spared him at Tarncamp, that he might have some chance for life. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 318 |
My only chance would be to grasp his knife wrist, and I thought there was little chance of that. |
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| 23 | 21 |
Surely, to have the chance of defending oneself is to be preferred to the lack of such a chance. |
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| 9 | 166 |
"Do not let others seize our only chance to live!" cried a man. |
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| 15 | 230 |
There was little chance now he would bring her to Ar, and arrange her delivery to Marlenus. |
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| 15 | 231 |
Too, there was little chance now, as far as I knew, that he could locate Talena, and bring her to Ar, thereby winning not only her bounty but his own amnesty. |
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| 22 | 189 |
It was only later that I realized this was the attack of the doubled glaive, in which the first thrusts horizontally, and the second, on the chance that the defender's attention is distracted, strikes downward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 441 |
It will seem that it was merely your fortune, a matter of chance, that the lots fell as they did". |
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| 6 | 39 |
Our house was one of several on the Street of Chance in Ar. |
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| 8 | 2044 |
It is one of several on the Street of Chance. |
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| 9 | 12 |
How vulnerable we were, as slaves! But, had we been free women I did not doubt but what we would have been abandoned, left in the house, on the Street of Chance, to perish in the flames. |
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| 18 | 1197 |
"Yes," I said, "on the Street of Chance, in Ar". |
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| 19 | 226 |
I had already been mastered, and thoroughly, in the house of Tenalion, in the eating house of Menon, in the gambling house, on the Street of Chance. |
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| 26 | 191 |
The men were taking no chance that she would run. |
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| 35 | 90 |
"It has to do with your experience in the house of chance, in Ar," he said. |
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| 35 | 122 |
"Master has suggested that my presence here has to do with my having served in the house of chance, in Ar," I said. |
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| 35 | 223 |
"You served in a house of chance," he said. |
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| 35 | 227 |
"In the house of chance," he said, "there were games involving cards, were there not?" "In the back of the large room, at the far tables," I said, "but I did not attend on those tables. |
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| 35 | 343 |
"You served in a house of chance," he said. |
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| 36 | 36 |
The one difference in this deck of cards from the deck which I had earlier seen in the keeping of Desmond of Harfax was the attractive speckling on the edges of the deck, a sort of design with which I was familiar from the house of chance. |
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| 41 | 73 |
It did have the speckling about the edges of the deck, which I had seen in the Cave, but I had seen such cards, as well, in the house of chance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 36 |
So much had been gathered from chance remarks overheard. |
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| 11 | 166 |
How strange how a single moment, a chance encounter, can alter a consciousness and transform a life, reordering an existence and its meaning. |
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| 14 | 513 |
"One or neither then would be content, despite possible asseverations, pledges, and such," I ventured, "to leave the matter to chance". |
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| 21 | 151 |
I think it is madness to essay such a voyage, to embark so, thusly tempting the cruelties of Thassa, but those above me, higher in the rings, will risk much, even the cargo itself, which on this world is unique and invaluable, on the slim chance that the voyage will be successful. |
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| 26 | 113 |
"Let us chance the business," I said. |
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| 34 | 48 |
"He leaves little to chance," I said. |
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| 39 | 486 |
Did they not know we might bolt as quickly as graceful tabuk, disappearing amongst the trees? I must wait my chance. |
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| 42 | 141 |
What chance has a girl if a sleen is on her scent? I did not think they could catch me again, as, if all went well, there would be no sleen. |
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| 43 | 202 |
"You failed to cut their throats while you had the chance, while they were free". |
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| 44 | 38 |
But at the same time, given the consternation about, the commotion in the camp, the attack on Master Genserich, and his narrow escape, the attack of the sleen on the assailant, and the tearing and feeding of the sleen, the attention of all, or the thought of all, on such things, I realized that the ... |
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| 52 | 290 |
"He leaves little to chance," said my captor. |
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| 52 | 393 |
"This is your last chance," said Axel, menacingly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 260 |
' 'Of course, Tajima san,' I said, as though I might be according him some regard, awaiting my chance to cry out, but then a large hand was on the back of my neck, holding me, and I felt the blade of a knife on my throat. |
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| 27 | 189 |
"It is my understanding," I said, "that he arranges matters with care, and leaves little to chance". |
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| 61 | 593 |
Learning that he was to be crucified, and as I disapproved of ugly deaths and he had not injured the slave, I had given him a chance for his life, freeing him to flee into the woods. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 47 |
There must be no chance misfire". |
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| 33 | 542 |
"Cover yourself," he said, "that your ugliness not offend those who might chance to look upon you". |
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| 37 | 56 |
"And we met by chance?" I said. |
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| 62 | 18 |
There would be little chance we could be mistaken for free women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 66 |
Chance bestowed upon us a signal advantage, as, delightfully, an independent fire broke out on the wharves, originating in the house of Flavius Minor. |
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| 15 | 92 |
"Watching, waiting for a chance to make off with a scroll," said Brindlar, master of the scroll shop. |
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| 31 | 91 |
"I did not even feel it! It is a fluke, luck, chance, a mishap!" "You did not see the blade," said the judge. |
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| 44 | 23 |
When I am finished, be silent and wait your chance to run". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 72 |
"You have a plan?" "There is a chance, a slim chance," I said. |
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| 27 | 40 |
"Leave Aktis to learn the lessons of life, the mathematics of chance, even should the wheel be honest". |
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| 27 | 71 |
In the crowded room there were more than two dozen tables devoted to various games of chance. |
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| 27 | 81 |
In such an arrangement the odds are clearly unfavorable to the player who, mathematically, has only one chance in four of winning. |
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| 29 | 47 |
"You will have no chance. |
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| 52 | 44 |
"You might have had at least a slim chance of survival. |
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| 52 | 135 |
There may be a chance. |
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| 54 | 86 |
"It has to do with the 'chance'?" said Sakim. |
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| 54 | 88 |
"Would you tell me more of this chance?" asked Sakim. |
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