| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 46 |
She spit the coins she carried in her mouth into her hand, and told me what I wanted to know. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 34 |
Indeed, upon occasion, in other markets, a buyer who had succeeded in winning the haggling would bestow five times as many coins on the seller as he had agreed to pay, humiliating him with a smug, "Because I wish to pay you what it is worth". |
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| 8 | 35 |
Then, if the seller is sufficiently outraged, he might give back the buyer the coins, including most of those he had agreed to pay, saying, with mock contrition, "I do not wish to cheat you". |
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| 8 | 43 |
If a sale had been made, the steward would take a number of pierced coins, threaded on a string hung about his left shoulder, hand them to the vendor, pick up his article and depart. |
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| 9 | 26 |
Then to my surprise he pressed a small, heavy leather sack of coins into my hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 29 |
"Come back!" I cried, holding the bag of coins out to him. |
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| 9 | 73 |
I smiled to myself, felt the sack of coins in my tunic, bent down and pushed the door open. |
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| 9 | 163 |
His hand darted to the table where the bag of coins lay, half spilled out in the dried puddles of Kal-da. |
10 |
| 9 | 164 |
"These are my coins," said the conspirator. |
10 |
| 9 | 170 |
"He gave me the coins". |
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| 10 | 25 |
I knew that if justice were done in Tharna I would be acquitted, yet I was uneasy—for how was I to know if my case would be fairly heard and decided? That I had been in possession of Ost's sack of coins would surely seem good prima-facie evidence of guilt, and this might well sway the decisio... |
10 |
| 11 | 77 |
In her hand, covered with a glove of gold, she held a small, dark leather sack, half filled with coins. |
10 |
| 11 | 78 |
I assumed they were the coins of Ost and wondered where the conspirator might be. |
10 |
| 11 | 79 |
"Confess that you stole these coins from Ost of Tharna," said the Tatrix. |
10 |
| 11 | 85 |
"I did not steal the coins," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 125 |
"Yet," said she, "you admit you did not steal the coins". |
10 |
| 11 | 127 |
"That is true," I said, "I did not steal the coins". |
10 |
| 11 | 178 |
"Thank you!" "Tell me, Serpent," said Lara, "did the warrior steal the coins from you?" "No, no," blubbered Ost. |
10 |
| 11 | 184 |
"You pressed the coins upon me and ran," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 186 |
"He accepted the coins," muttered Ost, looking at me malevolently, determined apparently that I would share whatever fate lay in store for him. |
10 |
| 11 | 189 |
"If I were a conspirator," I said, "if I were in league with this man, why would he have charged me with the theft of the coins, why would he have had me arrested?" Ost blanched. |
10 |
| 11 | 197 |
"How is it that Ost gave you the coins, Warrior?" asked the Tatrix. |
10 |
| 11 | 222 |
"As for you," said Lara, her mask glittering down upon me, "you admit that you did not steal the coins from Ost, and in this admission you admit that he gave them to you". |
10 |
| 11 | 227 |
With Ost's coins I could have purchased one and continued my journey. |
10 |
| 11 | 228 |
Should I have thrown them away?" "These coins," said Lara, holding the tiny sack in her hand, gloved in gold, "were to buy my death". |
10 |
| 11 | 229 |
"So few coins?" I asked skeptically. |
10 |
| 11 | 231 |
"The coins were a gift," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 137 |
About his neck, in the manner of a steward, he wore a set of pierced coins threaded on a silver wire. |
10 |
| 24 | 189 |
"Dorna the Proud wears a necklace of fifty silver tarn disks!" "Dorna the Proud is bold indeed," I cried, "to flaunt the very coins whereby her rival—your true Tatrix—was delivered into the chains of a slave girl!" There was a mutter of indignation, some angry shouts from the barricade... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 |
The commercial facilities of these fairs, from money changing to general banking, are the finest I know of on Gor, save those in Ar's Street of Coins, and letters of credit are accepted and loans negotiated, though often at usurious rates, with what seems reckless indifference. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 67 |
Some Gorean coins are drilled, incidentally, to allow stringing, the coins of Tharna, for example; Turian coins, and most others, are not. |
10 |
| 22 | 65 |
By this time I had followed Harold over to a corner of the courtyard wall, which was heaped high, banked into the corner, with precious metals, plates, cups; bowls of jewels; necklaces and bracelets; boxes of coins and, in heavy, wooden crates, numerous stacked cubes of silver and gold, each stamped... |
10 |
| 22 | 66 |
Incidentally, Gorean coins are not made to be stacked and accordingly, because of the possible depth of the relief and the consequent liberties accorded to the artist, the Gorean coin is almost always more beautiful than the machine-milled, flat, uniform coins of Earth. |
10 |
| 11 | 194 |
I fished some coins out of my pouch for the paga. |
10 |
| 12 | 131 |
I took out some coins from my pouch and handed them to Kamchak who slipped them in a fold of his sash. |
10 |
| 12 | 423 |
Kamchak and I, and others, threw coins of gold into the sand near the fire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 208 |
"Yes," said Portus, "and the rich Merchants, and the great houses, those on the Street of Coins, and on the Street of Brands, hire their own men". |
10 |
| 3 | 46 |
On the Street of Coins they found it difficult even to arrange loans. |
10 |
| 16 | 53 |
We met in Sura's training room and I, who was to be in charge of this expedition, given that I would let no other guard Elizabeth, was given a leather sack of silver and copper coins by Ho-Tu, for the expenses of the day. |
10 |
| 19 | 449 |
The fist of the auctioneer closed, as though grasping a handful of golden coins. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 619 |
I drank and then threw more coins and more coins about the room. |
10 |
| 13 | 258 |
"Very well," said the captain, gesturing to a scribe near him, with a wallet of coins slung over his shoulder, to pay the slave master. |
10 |
| 15 | 611 |
Men scrambled wildly, laughing and fighting for the coins. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 566 |
I wondered if I could bargain shrewdly with his coins at the market, if he would like my cooking. |
10 |
| 8 | 656 |
Then he would reach through the bars and pretend to find coins in the hair of the girls. |
10 |
| 8 | 1158 |
I shook my head in denial, No, No! Some of the girls were rifling in the wagons, gathering food, coins and drink, cloth, knives, whatever they wished. |
10 |
| 11 | 454 |
But I expected that the sight of Inge on a block would have the masters reaching for their coins. |
10 |
| 12 | 162 |
Could that be? More likely, I supposed, he would have wished to recoup at least a part of his investment, her purchase price, and wanted to make a handful of coins on her. |
10 |
| 14 | 219 |
Against its far wall I could see great chests, heavy and bound with iron, filled doubtless with a raider's abundant booty, gems and golden wire, and necklaces and coins, and pearls, and jewelries, and bracelets and bangles, set perhaps with precious stones, which might serve to adorn the limbs of ex... |
10 |
| 18 | 106 |
In the light of a torch I counted the coins. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 166 |
Would she refuse the gold, the gems, the silks and silvers, and spilling coins, the choice wines, the servants and slaves, the security of the house of Bosk for the lonely freedoms and silences of the salt marshes of the Vosk's vast delta? Did she expect me to hasten after her, piteously begging her... |
10 |
| 1 | 363 |
I tossed him the pouch of gold, from which I had drawn the coins to purchase his freedom, and the arrogant, slender, red-silked girl for him, to be his slave. |
10 |
| 4 | 9 |
I had had Thurnock give me some coins, which I had placed in my tunic. |
10 |
| 4 | 11 |
The coins were from the profit taken on Tana and Ela. |
10 |
| 5 | 21 |
The girl commonly carries the coin, or coins, in her mouth, for slave tunics, like most Gorean garments, have no pockets. |
10 |
| 6 | 628 |
It contained many small articles, some rings, trinkets, small mirrors, coins. |
10 |
| 6 | 864 |
She had cut the bottom of the purse, dropping the coins into her hand. |
10 |
| 12 | 163 |
And, in the morning, cowering before him, she must realize that he, willing to put forth some coins, might choose to purchase her for his own. |
10 |
| 18 | 475 |
It is said they appear as though from nowhere to pillage, and to burn and rape, and then, among the flames, as quickly, vanish to their swift ships, carrying their booty with them, whether it be bars of silver, or goblets of gold, or silken sheets, knotted and bulging with plate, and coins and gems,... |
10 |
| 22 | 911 |
I closed my hand on the coins. |
10 |
| 22 | 920 |
"Give her the coins". |
10 |
| 22 | 924 |
Give her the coins. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 345 |
With my right hand I reached into the pouch at my belt and drew out the coins. |
10 |
| 1 | 410 |
I held still the five coins in my hand. |
10 |
| 1 | 411 |
"Give me the coins," said Talena. |
10 |
| 1 | 414 |
Then she stood and faced me, the coins in her hand. |
10 |
| 1 | 421 |
She lifted the coins in her hand. |
10 |
| 1 | 431 |
She lifted the coins again in her hand. |
10 |
| 2 | 259 |
There were the golden bowls used to gather the blood of the sacrificed animals; cups used to pour libations to Priest-Kings; vessels containing oils; lavers in which the celebrants of the rites might cleanse their hands from their work; there were even the small bowls of coins, brought as offerings ... |
10 |
| 3 | 101 |
The jewelry and coins which he took he hurled into a golden sacrificial bowl, which one of his men carried at his side. |
10 |
| 3 | 248 |
"Keep close to me the coins brought as offerings by the poor to the temple of Kassau," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 249 |
These coins had now been placed in a large, single bowl. |
10 |
| 3 | 313 |
Ivar Forkbeard reached out his hands and took from one of his men the bowl of coins which the poor had brought as their pitiful offerings to the temple of Kassau. |
10 |
| 3 | 314 |
Then, smiling, by handfuls he hurled the coins to the right and to the left. |
10 |
| 3 | 316 |
One of those coins, of small denomination though they might be, was a day's wages on the docks of Kassau. |
10 |
| 3 | 317 |
More coins, in handfuls, showered to the street, to the sides of the men. |
10 |
| 3 | 320 |
Then, with a great, sweeping gesture, Ivar Forkbeard emptied the bowl of coins, scattering them in a shower of copper and iron over the men. |
10 |
| 3 | 325 |
Then the others, agonized, unable longer to resist, scurried to the left and right, their weapons discarded, and fell to their knees snatching coins. |
10 |
| 5 | 251 |
"If Ar were to produce debased coins," I said, "her trade would be reduced, if not ruined". |
10 |
| 5 | 262 |
The only mint at which gold coins were stamped within a thousand pasangs was in Lydius, at the mouth of the Laurius. |
10 |
| 15 | 106 |
We saw spilled coins. |
10 |
| 16 | 90 |
Now, to one side and the other, we passed opened chests, in which we could see treasures, the spillings and tangles of coins and jewelries, rings, bracelets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 |
Low on her hips she wore a belt of small denomination, threaded, overlapping golden coins. |
10 |
| 1 | 45 |
I regarded the coins threaded, overlapping, on her belt and halter. |
10 |
| 1 | 48 |
One dresses such a woman in cheap coins; she is slave. |
10 |
| 1 | 117 |
Men threw coins at her feet. |
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 |
| 2 | 418 |
My own coins I kept in belt pockets, within my robes, save for a small wallet at my side. |
10 |
| 10 | 203 |
The various prices and coins had totaled eleven tarn disks of Ar, and four of Turia. |
10 |
| 26 | 1109 |
"And make some coins on me!" "Yes". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 111 |
As I would later learn, the value placed on girls such as we were, a Judy Thornton or an Elicia Nevins, girls of our quality, would commonly be a tiny sack of copper coins, a few more, a few less. |
10 |
| 3 | 541 |
Collectors, for example, those who are rich, sometimes collect exotic brands, much as collectors on Earth might collect stamps or coins, populating their pleasure gardens not only with girls who are beautiful but diversely marked. |
10 |
| 12 | 802 |
We were all booty, as much as the coins, the plate, the cloth. |
10 |
| 26 | 40 |
Often she would send me shopping, my hands braceleted behind my back, a leather capsule, a cylinder, tied about my neck, containing her order and coins. |
10 |
| 27 | 759 |
"Give me whatever you think she is worth," he said, "and send the coins to the compartments of Clitus Vitellius, in the Towers of Warriors". |
10 |
| 28 | 345 |
He untied the strings of the pouch and, crying out with pleasure, spilled coins of gold to the wood. |
10 |
| 28 | 346 |
Swiftly he sorted the coins, expertly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 124 |
It seemed to me that if I could find the fair's street of coins, that the makers of odds might well have set their tables there. |
10 |
| 3 | 126 |
"Where is the street of coins?" I asked a fellow, in the tunic of the tarnkeepers. |
10 |
| 3 | 708 |
Many Gorean coins, if silver or gold, are shaved, or clipped, thus one justification for the scales. |
10 |
| 38 | 165 |
He would know his coins well spent. |
10 |
| 38 | 245 |
"You could, currently," I said, "be bought and sold for a handful of copper coins". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 633 |
Too, most importantly, there are letters of introduction here, and the notes for a fortune, to be drawn on various banks in Schendi's Street of Coins". |
10 |
| 3 | 66 |
The rounds of guardsmen are generally randomized, usually by the tossing of coins, different combinations corresponding to different schedulings. |
10 |
| 4 | 124 |
Ten such coins make a copper tarsk. |
10 |
| 4 | 146 |
It was opened by a guardsman, who sifted his hands through coins. |
10 |
| 10 | 6 |
He put these two tiny coins in a small, shallow copper bowl before him. |
10 |
| 13 | 144 |
The girls in Pembe's tavern, as in many taverns, are not permitted to touch coins. |
10 |
| 14 | 424 |
We had then eaten, from foods which she had, during my rest, I having given her a few coins, purchased in Schendi. |
10 |
| 14 | 734 |
Too, there are coins. |
10 |
| 15 | 142 |
"Kunguni the beggar," said Msaliti, "cannot well enter the edifices on Schendi's Street of Coins". |
10 |
| 15 | 260 |
"You must put men upon Schendi's Street of Coins," I said. |
10 |
| 20 | 67 |
Naturally there had been on the raft, besides the girls, a chest of riches for Tende, riches which, according to the askaris, with whom Ayari took pains to be on good terms, would include such things as bolts of cloth, jewelries, cosmetics, coins, and perfumes. |
10 |
| 48 | 170 |
She may then fear that she has lost the interest of her master, and that she is to be soon sold, that coins will change hands, and she will be hooded and led away, leashed, to some emporium devoted to the sales of such as she. |
10 |
| 57 | 38 |
I pressed into his hands the coins on which we had agreed. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 69 |
To be sure, there is little standardization in these matters, for much depends on the actual weights of the coins and the quantities of precious metals, certified by the municipal stamps, contained in the coins. |
10 |
| 1 | 354 |
Such are surely worth their coins. |
10 |
| 4 | 189 |
He swept the coins from the counter into his hand, and put them in his apron. |
10 |
| 5 | 6 |
The proprietor's man, an attendant in the tavern, held the coins. |
10 |
| 10 | 137 |
We heard the sound of a bell, and then, a moment later, that of coins in a metal box. |
10 |
| 10 | 236 |
The girl then fled with a sound of her bell and the jangling of the coins in the box. |
10 |
| 14 | 26 |
She descended the stairs, took some coins from the kitchen, unbolted the door, and left. |
10 |
| 19 | 70 |
Sometimes, too, coins are split or shaved. |
10 |
| 19 | 73 |
One of the central coins on Gor is the golden tarn disk of Ar, against which many cities standardize their own gold piece. |
10 |
| 19 | 74 |
Other generally respected coins tend to be the silver tarsk of Tharna, the golden tarn disk of Ko-ro-ba, and the golden tarn of Port Kar, the latter particularly on the western Vosk, in the Tamber Gulf region, and a few hundred pasangs north and south of the Vosk's delta. |
10 |
| 28 | 22 |
There were now several coins in it. |
10 |
| 32 | 28 |
He thrust five, low, flat coffers of coins across the tiles, and put beside them a tangle of jewelry and a bowl of pearls. |
10 |
| 32 | 105 |
How futile, how ineffective, was the expedient of the chain! Kliomenes regarded the flat coffers of coins on the tiles before his dais, the jewelry, the bowl of pearls, and the girl. |
10 |
| 32 | 114 |
"Put the coins, the jewelry, the pearls in the general coffers," said Kliomenes. |
10 |
| 32 | 115 |
The pirate before the dais signaled to some men and they removed the coins, the jewelry and pearls from before the dais. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 73 |
From the chain there hung two objects; the first was a narrow, bronze bell, flattish and tapering, with a flat top and ring; when she moved it would sound, calling attention to her whereabouts; the second was a metal coin box, which contained a slot for the deposition of coins; the coin box was lock... |
10 |
| 17 | 74 |
I had not heard coins sound, from within the coin box. |
10 |
| 17 | 990 |
"Yes, Master," she said, and then, turning about, stumbling and crying, the bell of the Coin Girl sounding, the coins jingling in the box on her neck, she fled up the street. |
10 |
| 18 | 646 |
In any event, yesterday I found myself put into the streets, under a keeper's watch, to earn coins for you, my Master. |
10 |
| 18 | 654 |
"Six times he had me," she wept, "six times, and he was merciless with me, casual and merciless! Then, when he was finished with me, he sent me from him, banishing me from his sight, our dealings done, the coins in the box on my neck". |
10 |
| 20 | 18 |
Tonight, however, he was pleased to make some coins on them. |
10 |
| 20 | 523 |
When shopping she carries the coins usually in her mouth or hand. |
10 |
| 20 | 527 |
Coins, and personal items, and such, are usually, by free persons, carried in pouches, which are usually concealed within the robes of a free woman, or slung about the waist, or shoulder, of a free man. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 398 |
It is, for example, not unusual for a Gorean coin pouch to contain parts of coins as well as whole coins. |
10 |
| 2 | 228 |
To be sure, we might then encounter resistance from the Street of Coins. |
10 |
| 8 | 394 |
Certain coins, such as the silver tarsk of Tharna and the golden tarn of Ar, tend, to some extent, to standardize what otherwise might be a mercantile chaos. |
10 |
| 8 | 397 |
This is sensible considering such things as the occasional debasings of coinages, usually unannounced by the communities in question, and the frequent practice of splitting and shaving coins. |
10 |
| 8 | 1022 |
I saw the coins change hands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 232 |
Coins and beads hung from the reins. |
10 |
| 2 | 278 |
I supposed the women understood clearly that they, like the silver pendants tied in the manes, like the coins fastened on the reins, like the saddles inlaid with gold, with golden wire wrapped about the pommels, were being displayed as portions of the wealth of the Isanna. |
10 |
| 3 | 15 |
Necklaces of shells and beads, and ornaments and trinkets, and pierced coins, of gold and silver, hung about her neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 150 |
From these sacks, from time to time, they would fling coins, and bits of coins, to the street. |
10 |
| 1 | 50 |
His task was not to appraise coins but to render an informed opinion on such matters as their type and origin, where this might be obscure, their grading, in cases where a collaborative opinion might be desired, and their genuineness. |
10 |
| 1 | 66 |
"That is a feature almost invariably present in ancient coins," he said. |
10 |
| 1 | 78 |
"Such coins were too precious perhaps," he said. |
10 |
| 1 | 86 |
"This, in its depth and beauty, reminds me of ancient coins," he said. |
10 |
| 1 | 87 |
"They are, in my opinion, the most beautiful and interesting of all coins". |
10 |
| 1 | 97 |
If this is done over a period of time, with many coins, of course, the individual could accumulate, in metal value, a value equivalent perhaps to one or more of the original objects". |
10 |
| 1 | 100 |
Yet, if one thinks about it, at least in the case of many coins, a coin is a way in which a government or ruler certifies that a given amount of precious metal is involved in a transaction. |
10 |
| 1 | 135 |
"No," he said, "aside, of course, from its obvious resemblance to ancient coins". |
10 |
| 1 | 141 |
As you perhaps know coins can be forged, just as, say, paintings and other works of art can be forged. |
10 |
| 1 | 161 |
It has been produced in a manner in which coins were often produced, at least long ago and in the classical world. |
10 |
| 1 | 162 |
It has been clipped or shaved, something that normally occurs only with coins which pass through many hands. |
10 |
| 1 | 174 |
Some minor imperfections, such as small nicks, are acceptable in this category for ancient coins". |
10 |
| 1 | 405 |
' He then pressed into my hand the round, heavy, yellowish object which I had later taken to the shop of a numismatist, and then, later, on the advice of the numismatist, to the office of a specialist in the authentication of coins. |
10 |
| 4 | 152 |
The people would scramble for these coins. |
10 |
| 4 | 220 |
One of the soldiers, one of those who had had a bag of coins, and coin bits, about his shoulder, came forward. |
10 |
| 5 | 23 |
About the throne, here and there, spilled on the steps of the dais, in the manner of Corcyrus and some other cities, was a tasteful display of riches, rich cloths, golden coins and some chained female slaves. |
10 |
| 5 | 111 |
"I see that there is gold in Corcyrus," he said, indicating the coins in their plenitudes, seemingly casually spilled about the steps. |
10 |
| 5 | 230 |
"What of the treasures here," I asked, "and Susan, and the other slaves chained here?" "Scribes from the treasure rooms will be along shortly," he said, "to gather in and account for the cloths and coins. |
10 |
| 6 | 140 |
Drusus Rencius had even permitted me, with coins, helping me, to bargain. |
10 |
| 10 | 20 |
"The Street of Coins is almost closed". |
10 |
| 33 | 660 |
But this, of course, I told myself, fearfully, must be concealed from Drusus Rencius! I must never let him learn that I was in my heart no more than a master's slave! How he would despise me if he knew me as no more than a slave, a girl suitable for collars and auction blocks, one appropriately to b... |
10 |
| 36 | 1172 |
"Presumably it would add a few coins to your value". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1229 |
At any rate, even when they had done this in Port Kar, they had not, of course, been handling or touching the coins, only the bowls in which the coins were collected. |
10 |
| 6 | 1312 |
"If I had anything to do with them," I said, "to which I do not admit, of course, let us consider them merely as copper-bowl coins, coins such as might be gathered in the pursuit of your normal activities". |
10 |
| 8 | 75 |
"In my wagon, in the right-hand corner of the tray in my trunk there is a knotted sock which contains coins and there are some coins, too, thrust in the toe of a slipper at the side of the trunk". |
10 |
| 2 | 45 |
But few coins were flung to the platform. |
10 |
| 2 | 55 |
Then, as the crowd cheered, and coins fell like rain on the platform, she, helped by the magician, stepped forth from the sack and trunk. |
10 |
| 2 | 421 |
Judging from the timing and the sounds of the coins bounding about inside the pot there was not much there. |
10 |
| 2 | 726 |
From within it came the unmistakable clink of several coins. |
10 |
| 2 | 732 |
Boots, his eyes wide, sorted through the coins in the pot. |
10 |
| 2 | 736 |
Boots counted out the coins and handed them to the officer. |
10 |
| 2 | 1068 |
"Perhaps he slew the individual from whom he stole the coins and then thrust the body into a canal," I suggested. |
10 |
| 2 | 1111 |
"All things considered, such as the coins in his wallet, robbery seems to me, at least, to be a very unlikely motive for this attack". |
10 |
| 5 | 371 |
Too, I think I may count on your having independent stores of coins and notes, and, given your apparent wealth and elegance, a suitable measure of costly cloths, gems and jewelries. |
10 |
| 6 | 1222 |
"Thank you, noble free woman and noble gentlemen! Remember poor Boots and his company! Be generous!" Some coins, mostly copper, rattled to the stage. |
10 |
| 6 | 1227 |
"Thank you!" The Chino and Lecchio gathered up the coins, handing them to Boots, who took them and deposited them somewhere inside his robes, perhaps into the lining or a hidden pocket. |
10 |
| 6 | 1230 |
The only female performers who customarily gather up the coins thrown to them for their masters are dancers, who usually perform alone, except for their musicians. |
10 |
| 6 | 1231 |
They tuck the coins in a bit of their silk, if they have been permitted any. |
10 |
| 6 | 1232 |
Given the nature of their silk, which is usually diaphanous, and the general scantiness of their garb, and the publicness of their picking up the coins, there is little danger that they could conceal a coin, even if they dared to do so. |
10 |
| 6 | 1234 |
This does not mean, of course, that they may not be sent to the market, and given coins for errands, and such. |
10 |
| 7 | 300 |
His Kaissa games, for what it is worth, usually brought in a few coins. |
10 |
| 7 | 366 |
I heard coins shaking in a metal kettle. |
10 |
| 9 | 96 |
I was given a small purse of coins, one sufficient for my projected expenses, and instructed to report back to my headquarters, alone and on foot". |
10 |
| 11 | 112 |
Who in the crowd would have been that interested, or concerned, or thrilled with horror, to see a slave in such jeopardy? What sort of take would that have brought in? Not many coins, I feared, would be likely to rattle in the kettle on behalf of so unimaginative an offering. |
10 |
| 12 | 168 |
"You do not bring us in enough coins to pay for your own suls. |
10 |
| 12 | 553 |
"Surely you can use the coins," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 162 |
"If you have not had the coins authenticated, my friend, Lecchio, here, is certified by the caste of Builders to perform the relevant tests". |
10 |
| 16 | 167 |
"It seems they are not eager for the coins to be tested," observed Chino, meaningfully, adding, "even though there would be no charge for the service. |
10 |
| 16 | 170 |
"By all means, then," cried Petrucchio, and, with difficulty, he sheathed his great sword, and drew three pieces of gold-colored metal from his wallet, stage coins, handing them to Lecchio. |
10 |
| 16 | 171 |
Lecchio held the coins up, one by one, holding up also, behind them, one or two fingers, as though he would see if he could peer through them. |
10 |
| 16 | 183 |
In a moment now he was clinking the coins carefully together. |
10 |
| 16 | 188 |
He bit into one of the coins. |
10 |
| 16 | 189 |
Then he drew forth from his pack a small vial filled with white crystals which he sprinkled on the coins. |
10 |
| 16 | 192 |
He then repeated the test, and bit each of the coins carefully, thoughtfully, expertly, not hurrying, as a connoisseur might sample varieties of Bazi tea or fine wines. |
10 |
| 16 | 199 |
Lecchio dropped the coins into his wallet. |
10 |
| 16 | 200 |
"If there should be anything wrong with the coins," said Rowena, "I assure you we have no knowledge of it. |
10 |
| 16 | 202 |
"Let us see your other coins," said Lecchio. |
10 |
| 16 | 218 |
Three more coins were produced for Lecchio. |
10 |
| 16 | 231 |
"These coins are genuine," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 281 |
"It was false coins they offered me in return for my services. |
10 |
| 16 | 295 |
Lecchio and Chino hastily poured the coins into their wallets. |
10 |
| 16 | 526 |
It is our intention to make a profit not only on their coins and clothing, but on them, as well. |
10 |
| 16 | 527 |
I think they should bring us a few coins. |
10 |
| 16 | 798 |
No coins rattled to the stage. |
10 |
| 16 | 894 |
He had probably not seen too many coins of that sort in his life. |
10 |
| 16 | 959 |
He snatched up the two coins. |
10 |
| 16 | 960 |
"Here, fool," he said to the player, lifting up the coins. |
10 |
| 16 | 963 |
Belnar, saying nothing, put three more coins on the table. |
10 |
| 16 | 965 |
Then five coins altogether, five golden tarn disks, and of Ar herself, as it was pointed out, were offered to the player for his Bina, lifted in the furious, clenched fist of Temenides, of Cos, one of the masters of the high boards of Kaissa in that powerful island ubarate. |
10 |
| 22 | 183 |
And how fortunate those who paid their coins for such women for they found them slaves, true slaves, and in them they would find a helpless female passion, vulnerable and pleading, matching, in its way, as its reciprocating female complement, their own, a wholistic passion, mental and physical, that... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1649 |
In my wallet there was a sack of coins, a plentiful supply of coins, though mostly of small denomination, such as would not be likely to attract attention. |
10 |
| 23 | 151 |
Several individuals, however, to be fair, did receive handfuls of coins, mostly copper, from the regent, who, smiling, would dip his hand into heaping coin bowls near him, and then spill coins into the outstretched hands of the grateful recipients. |
10 |
| 2 | 151 |
In Samnium she had been a rich woman, of a family well known on its Street of Coins. |
10 |
| 4 | 174 |
From the same box he then distributed coins among the others. |
10 |
| 5 | 7 |
"I sold it, in the camp," he said, "for some coins. |
10 |
| 5 | 27 |
"Half of my coins are yours," he said. |
10 |
| 5 | 33 |
"How many coins do you have?" I asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 351 |
Feiqa had once been the Lady Charlotte, of Samnium, a high lady in that city, one of aristocratic birth and upbringing, from one of her finest families, one prominent on her Street of Coins. |
10 |
| 9 | 205 |
"I have a few coins left," I informed Hurtha. |
10 |
| 11 | 311 |
In it were several coins. |
10 |
| 15 | 87 |
"But you would make only a handful of copper coins in that sort of thing," he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 803 |
"You may keep the coins," he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 807 |
"What is the cost, really, of some scraps of parchment and a few drops of ink?" "The coins," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 811 |
I thrust the coins in my wallet. |
10 |
| 16 | 6 |
I did not think I needed a mercenary's coins to buy my way there. |
10 |
| 16 | 1396 |
Certain coins and rings were found. |
10 |
| 16 | 1721 |
I had saved a silver tarsk, or its equivalent in smaller coins. |
10 |
| 18 | 174 |
"There is no telling, what with interest rates on the Street of Coins, the maturation of notes, and such, to what heights my fortune, in these several years, may have soared". |
10 |
| 19 | 165 |
It contained coins, but there were no letters within it. |
10 |
| 19 | 166 |
I poured the coins back into the pouch, and pulled shut its drawstrings. |
10 |
| 20 | 53 |
In such a place there were coins to be made. |
10 |
| 21 | 28 |
"If they do bother us," said Hurtha, "it is my hope that they are carrying coins". |
10 |
| 23 | 212 |
He poured coins into my hands, copper tarsks. |
10 |
| 29 | 50 |
Many, on the other hand, on errands, carry coins in their mouth. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 56 |
I gave that of coins to Mirus, which he put on top of the coins in the sack, and I put the others in the box which was on the floor, just within the curtain. |
10 |
| 29 | 327 |
"Take our coins! Leave us our lives!" He then removed his wallet and tossed it, hastily, timidly, onto the blanket, beside the other wallet, that which contained the coins from the two fallen men. |
10 |
| 1 | 67 |
Surely she might better have cooked meat in the light of a cave fire, the thongs on her left wrist perhaps marking whose woman she was, or with sistrum and hymns, under the orders of priests, welcomed the grand, redemptive, sluggish flows of the Nile; better she had run barefoot on a lonely Aegean b... |
10 |
| 6 | 560 |
Perhaps he had forgotten me! Perhaps I was now alone, totally alone, on this world, having been brought here for a price and then, having earned my coins for others, discarded, cast into the markets, set adrift in uncertain weathers, on trackless seas, to vanish from sight, to disappear tracelessly,... |
10 |
| 11 | 570 |
He dropped the coins into the sack at his belt. |
10 |
| 13 | 2 |
I had scrambled on my knees for the coins flung to the floor, seizing them, thrusting them hastily, so many of them, with one hand, into the lifted, bunched portion, held by my other hand, of the dancing skirt, a lovely, swirling skirt, scarlet, open on the right, of diaphanous dancing silk. |
10 |
| 13 | 6 |
I wore a double belt of threaded, jangling coins, one strand high, one low, as with the corded belt of metal pieces I had worn in my virgin dance, weeks ago. |
10 |
| 13 | 7 |
I also wore a triple necklace of coins, together with necklaces of slave beads, of both glass and wood. |
10 |
| 13 | 8 |
These coins, all of them, would be counted by Mirus when I disrobed. |
10 |
| 13 | 23 |
I emptied the coins from the dancing silk into the sack, and smoothed the skirt. |
10 |
| 13 | 140 |
I reached behind me to undo the double belt of coins, with its two loops, one high, one low. |
10 |
| 13 | 141 |
The coins on the belt, as well as those on the necklace, would be counted by Mirus. |
10 |
| 13 | 474 |
He took his hands from my hips and put them further about me, to remove from my waist the double belt of coins. |
10 |
| 13 | 490 |
I felt him disengage the large clasp at the back of the belt, to which both strands of coins, on each side, were fastened. |
10 |
| 13 | 492 |
He took the belt and dropped it into the nearby sack, with the coined necklace and the coins I had picked up and brought back from the dancing floor, weighty in my lifted silk. |
10 |
| 13 | 516 |
"You have the coins cast by masters on the dancing floor, which I gathered for you. |
10 |
| 13 | 529 |
Some girls, I had been told, sometimes try to swallow small coins but this is foolish. |
10 |
| 13 | 535 |
Also, if she should be found to be in possession of a coin or coins, for example, by a tradesman, guardsman, or any free person, she will be expected to have an excellent explanation for this anomaly, which is then likely to be checked with her master. |
10 |
| 13 | 546 |
"I trust all the coins are accounted for," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 1055 |
"Have you counted the coins?" asked Hendow. |
10 |
| 16 | 97 |
The only golden Gorean coins I had ever seen were the tiny ones, almost droplets, which had figured in the decorative jewelries of dancers' costumes. |
10 |
| 16 | 156 |
I turned a little and saw some of the tiny golden coins, such as adorned the dancers' costumes, spilled into the hand of the leader. |
10 |
| 16 | 160 |
Had Mirus still been with the tavern, I do not think she would have been able to secure the tiny coins. |
10 |
| 17 | 16 |
Some visit the temples, paying coins, buying incense and burning it, petitioning Priest-Kings for favors, such things as better crops and success in ventures, such things as luck for themselves and calamities for their enemies. |
10 |
| 17 | 247 |
There were several coins in the copper bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 351 |
I saw the coins, my price, change hands. |
10 |
| 19 | 70 |
"Some have made you serve as much, for their coins, haven't they?" he asked. |
10 |
| 26 | 37 |
"It is for that reason that I have brought coins with me, those in the wagon behind, under this guard of twenty men". |
10 |
| 26 | 38 |
"Perhaps I will take the coins, and be on my way, keeping the chains," said the fellow. |
10 |
| 26 | 168 |
"Bring your men, and do not neglect, too, to bring the wagon, with the coins!" "We are coming," called Aulus. |
10 |
| 26 | 195 |
The tharlarion began their trek again southward, toward the camp of Vacchi, the men of Aulus, and the wagon, with its box of coins, following. |
10 |
| 29 | 303 |
There it moved the coins about, in the palm of one broad paw, by means of a digit on the other paw. |
10 |
| 29 | 307 |
The beast then poured the coins back in one of the wallets, and threw it to the blanket, before the small fellow. |
10 |
| 29 | 339 |
He then, crouching down by the blanket, took the leader's wallet and removed several coins from it. |
10 |
| 29 | 1314 |
"Leave the blanket, and the coins upon it," said Fulvius. |
10 |
| 29 | 1660 |
The bodies, too, I gathered, of those who had been about had been relieved of what coins or valuables they might have carried. |
10 |
| 29 | 1661 |
The coins of Hendow the stranger had given to Mirus. |
10 |
| 32 | 21 |
Most of the coins and valuables which had fallen to the stranger as sword loot he had divided with Mirus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 74 |
I had given each of them a handful of coins that they might buy themselves a girl in Port Cos, coins from those taken from the looter, met in the corridor of the citadel, leading out to the landing. |
10 |
| 1 | 108 |
It contained several coins, the loot, probably, of better than several days' work. |
10 |
| 1 | 109 |
To be sure, most of the coins there were small, such as would be likely to weight only a threadbare purse. |
10 |
| 1 | 611 |
Many Goreans, particularly those of low caste, on errands and such, carry a coin or coins in their mouths. |
10 |
| 2 | 24 |
There were several coins within it. |
10 |
| 5 | 146 |
This yielded them some few extra coins. |
10 |
| 5 | 485 |
Too, in virtue of this arrangement, one need not entrust coins to debtor sluts, slaves, and such. |
10 |
| 6 | 463 |
Thanks, of course, to the coins from the brigands' coin box, taken from them by the road, if nothing else, my finances were currently in excellent order. |
10 |
| 6 | 668 |
And woe to the girl who returns without coins jangling in the box! To be sure, in some places, one might even have a paga slave, or a brothel slave, for as little as a tarsk bit. |
10 |
| 6 | 882 |
Drovers, flush with coins, would be here, of course, returning from Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 6 | 888 |
Coins, or letters of credit, might be concealed about a wagon, but it is not easy to conceal quantities of flour, salt, jerky, paga and such, not to mention the miscellany of diverse items for the field supply of which one can usually count on the sutlers, such things as combs, brushes, candles, lam... |
10 |
| 8 | 116 |
There, in the palm of her right hand, was a small sack, bulging, seemingly weighty for its size, from the look of it, a sack of coins. |
10 |
| 8 | 122 |
"You have stolen a sack of coins". |
10 |
| 8 | 125 |
To be sure, they might let her carry coins in an errand capsule, or an errand sack, tied about her neck, instructions to a vendor perhaps also contained within it, her hands braceleted behind her". |
10 |
| 8 | 148 |
"The coins are mine," she said. |
10 |
| 8 | 332 |
"I have now no more than what you see upon me, two slender black cords, and a strip of yellow cloth, and these coins!" She held them out. |
10 |
| 8 | 381 |
She held out the coins. |
10 |
| 8 | 385 |
She lifted the coins higher, pleadingly. |
10 |
| 8 | 450 |
"Then," said she, lifting the coins, "let me buy my captivity, and servitude". |
10 |
| 8 | 451 |
I took the coins from her, and put them in my pouch. |
10 |
| 8 | 455 |
I determined in a moment or two that she was not concealing any small coins or tiny jewels in her nostrils, her ears, her hair or mouth. |
10 |
| 8 | 575 |
On the other hand, I would not really miss it that much as I had extracted it from among the coins I had taken from the wallet of the fellow I had left in the tub, in the baths, the burly fellow who was of the company of Artemidorus. |
10 |
| 17 | 674 |
"Behold the glint of gold!" I took from the pouch I wore golden coins. |
10 |
| 17 | 675 |
These were the coins which had belonged to the former Lady Publia when she was free, when she could still own things. |
10 |
| 17 | 678 |
I then cast the coins behind the fellows, and to my left, into a side passage. |
10 |
| 17 | 683 |
Then he, and the others with him, backed down the passage down which I had flung the coins. |
10 |
| 17 | 690 |
One of the men with us closed the door of the passage down which I had flung the coins. |
10 |
| 18 | 311 |
On the other hand, the slave does have value and if one is in desperate need of coins, she may be sold. |
10 |
| 23 | 129 |
And the coins of such men, of course, have as much buying power as those of anyone else. |
10 |
| 24 | 711 |
Another use of coins is to decide who amongst captives will belong to which captor. |
10 |
| 24 | 746 |
Some coins of Port Cos, for example, have the pharos as the "head," and some of Ar the image of her central cylinder, and so on. |
10 |
| 24 | 750 |
As speculative images of the Priest-Kings themselves, in effect, the rulers and gods of Gor, are forbidden, or at least generally discouraged, I suppose it is not surprising that humans are wary of boldly bedecking coins with their own images. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1089 |
"It is he who stole the dispatches, he who so discomfited me, he who made off with my coins, my clothing, my gear, my tarn!" I supposed Borton could not be blamed entirely for his ill will. |
10 |
| 1 | 1233 |
With the point of a knife I dug there and found a small cache of coins. |
10 |
| 1 | 1234 |
There were five pieces of gold there, three staters of Brundisium and two of Telnus, eleven silver tarsks, of various cities, for such circulate freely, and some smaller coins. |
10 |
| 3 | 118 |
Too, Borton's economic problems were undoubtedly complicated by the fact that I had relieved him of his secret cache of coins in his tent. |
10 |
| 36 | 12 |
Our share of coins from the brigands had facilitated these acquisitions. |
10 |
| 47 | 204 |
It would not have been absurd if he had had with him not the gold, but only a note, to be drawn on one of the banks, like strongholds, on Brundisium's Street of Coins. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 936 |
This reader probably read coins. |
10 |
| 7 | 343 |
On the platform Myron then, and the fellows with him, now reached into the second package, seizing out handfuls of coins, even silver tarsks, and showered them into the crowd. |
10 |
| 7 | 347 |
I noted that while Myron and his fellows scattered these coins about, Seremides, waving to the crowd, and Talena, lifting her hand, too, and the High Council, withdrew from the surface of the platform. |
10 |
| 7 | 374 |
The coins cast forth, Myron lifted his arms to the crowd. |
10 |
| 10 | 309 |
"Give me the coins". |
10 |
| 10 | 339 |
I then took the pouch of coins in my hand and lofted it to the group of lads some forty yards away. |
10 |
| 17 | 16 |
To be sure, there were many other entertainments on the street outside, in stalls, and set in the open, behind tables, and such, in which were displayed mostly tricks with small objects, ostraka, rings, scarves, coins and such. |
10 |
| 23 | 369 |
It was not that I had difficulty in adding and subtracting, of course, but rather that I was not always as knowledgeable as I might be about the relative values of various coins, of numerous cities, which, of course, depended on such things as compositions and weights, and exchange rates, which migh... |
10 |
| 23 | 371 |
Many Gorean bankers, not only the fellows sitting on a rug in their booth on a street, their sleen about, but also those in the palaces and fortresses on the "Streets of Coins," work with scales. |
10 |
| 23 | 372 |
Too, sometimes coins are literally chopped into pieces. |
10 |
| 24 | 392 |
"Have you counted your coins lately?" asked Appanius. |
10 |
| 27 | 495 |
Some numerous coins, of smaller denomination than gold pieces, I thought, might be useful to him. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 384 |
The crowd, too, or, at least, many of its members, put coins, usually single coins, or coins of smaller denomination, in the bowls. |
10 |
| 16 | 301 |
I heard the clinking of what was doubtless a small sack of coins. |
10 |
| 18 | 176 |
Oh, I suppose there is some pleasure for a brute in unwrapping a free woman, so to speak, like a present, the suspense, the anticipation, and such, hoping to be pleasantly surprised, and so on, but what if he isn't? Then what? Perhaps he can get a few coins on her, as a laundress, or perhaps he migh... |
10 |
| 19 | 233 |
"They are here for their coins," said a fellow. |
10 |
| 19 | 382 |
I saw coins, and jewels, and jewelry dropped into the bowls. |
10 |
| 19 | 388 |
I heard coins dropped among others. |
10 |
| 19 | 399 |
I did note that the fellows who were engaged in this raillery did, all of them, however, place their coins in the bowl. |
10 |
| 24 | 724 |
Other paraphernalia may also be included, depending on the scribe, string, ostraka, wire, coins, even a lunch. |
10 |
| 28 | 89 |
"There was the cashing of letters of credit in Besnit, from the house of William, in Harfax, letters the House of William had drawn on the street of coins in Brundisium, to be used in the purchase of ingots in Esalinus, these to be melted down in Besnit and there, in Besnit, to be formed into the wa... |
10 |
| 28 | 101 |
In time the street of coins in Brundisium demanded repayment of its loans. |
10 |
| 42 | 135 |
I sensed that one of the men removed some coins from his wallet. |
10 |
| 42 | 139 |
I saw a hand poised over hers, as though to drop coins into her opened palm. |
10 |
| 42 | 140 |
"You are certain," asked the man, "that you wish these coins to touch your hand?" "Master?" asked Aynur, pulling back her hand suddenly, as though it might have been burned. |
10 |
| 42 | 146 |
Pleasure-garden girls are commonly forbidden to touch coins. |
10 |
| 42 | 147 |
Reasons for this are obvious, for example, that they might receive gratuities from guests and hide them; that they might take money from guards, or others, to further intrigues or to attempt to influence masters; that they be denied the power which coins might bring, in bribing guards or tradesmen, ... |
10 |
| 42 | 155 |
I saw the hand, presumably holding coins, withdrawn. |
10 |
| 42 | 161 |
Would it be worth her life, say, to retain the coins? Could she successfully hide them, if they were sought for? Could she dispose of them, without being found out? Would her denials be credited, if it were stated by some authority that she had taken them? Who were these men? Did they, perhaps, have... |
10 |
| 44 | 122 |
The captor did not even count the coins. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 185 |
You will be purchased, presumably, by low, ignorant fellows, for small coins, who will put you to repetitive servile labors. |
10 |
| 13 | 117 |
Had he wondered what she would look like, long ago, when she was his teacher, she wondered, if she were to so dance before him, barefoot, in a bit of swirling silk, in necklaces and coins, in armlets, with bracelets on her wrists and bangles on her ankles, to the flash of ringing zills, summoned, co... |
10 |
| 15 | 531 |
"But it pleased me," he said, "to have had you made as young as you are, to give you such a meaningless, trivial age, a mere lovely eighteen, though I cost myself some coins in the business. |
10 |
| 16 | 331 |
"How could you be more worthless than you are? Do you have the coins to rent an awning?" The woman shrank back in misery. |
10 |
| 16 | 784 |
It impressed her as a crowded, dirty, low market, presumably frequented primarily by the poor, or by those of the lower castes, individuals who must carefully guard even their smallest coins. |
10 |
| 16 | 905 |
She could not hope to bring the same coins to her master that any of them might. |
10 |
| 16 | 948 |
"I will need some coins," said Barzak. |
10 |
| 17 | 819 |
Too, to be sure, cosmetics, even slave cosmetics, were not free, but cost their coins. |
10 |
| 17 | 1041 |
She heard coins shaken, as in a hand. |
10 |
| 20 | 559 |
"Sell me for coins!" said Ellen. |
10 |
| 20 | 560 |
"Why should we not have coins and your use?" inquired the older lad. |
10 |
| 20 | 628 |
We can be back before morning, and no one will know, and we will have coins". |
10 |
| 20 | 801 |
"We want coins for her," said the older of the two lads, boldly. |
10 |
| 20 | 837 |
"We want coins for her," said the older lad. |
10 |
| 20 | 869 |
"I will find some coins for you, in the tent," said the slave marshal. |
10 |
| 20 | 927 |
Presumably they would not have so many coins at one time until they were responsible for their own fields, and the sale of their own crops. |
10 |
| 24 | 856 |
Ellen heard the tiny sounds of small coins. |
10 |
| 24 | 858 |
The scribe distributed some of the coins to the attending guardsmen. |
10 |
| 24 | 860 |
Such coins would buy more than one round of paga. |
10 |
| 25 | 556 |
Indeed, some, counting their coins, will doubtless be waiting for her to appear. |
10 |
| 25 | 1059 |
Indeed, no rational man, without guards, outside of a caravan, would carry about such wealth! I do not have the coins at hand, but I can give you a note, my note, for more!" There was a roar of laughter from the tiers. |
10 |
| 26 | 340 |
Men follow her about, in her errands and peregrinations, and look upon her, and admire and value her, and speculate upon her lineaments and the coins that might bring them to their slave ring. |
10 |
| 26 | 464 |
"But men may seek you, for you possessed gold, coins which, it seems, may have borne the quality and weight certifications of Jad, on Cos!" "Do not concern yourself with such matters," he said. |
10 |
| 26 | 473 |
"Thus one of Ar shows his contempt for the coins of Cos, that he uses them to buy no more than a worthless slave". |
10 |
| 26 | 626 |
And guardsmen might even now be seeking the mysterious stranger, the seemingly lowly fellow, who had had coins from the mint at Jad. |
10 |
| 27 | 1432 |
"Yes, you had to publicly buy her, openly, before an entire market, that she would know herself a purchased slave, yours completely, owned, and for no more, you thought, than a handful of coins". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 136 |
I won coins in this matter from Lord Peisistratus, and he generously threw her in, with the coins". |
10 |
| 45 | 47 |
They are then priced at what men will pay for them, some priced higher than others, as worth more coins, some priced lower than others, as worth fewer coins". |
10 |
| 21 | 90 |
Cabot saw necklaces of strung coins being exchanged in the tiers. |
10 |
| 21 | 307 |
"He has been offered more strings of coins than you and I would part with for a good slave". |
10 |
| 21 | 323 |
"I will wager a string of coins," said Peisistratus, "on the challengers". |
10 |
| 21 | 329 |
"So what should I put up, against your coins?" "One of your strings of rubies," suggested Peisistratus. |
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| 21 | 330 |
"A string of coins against a string of rubies seems a strange wager," smiled Cabot. |
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| 21 | 332 |
"I shall make it a dozen strings of coins, and throw in a pet". |
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| 21 | 336 |
"I think you are more aware of the value of rubies," said Cabot, "than I am of the value of your coins". |
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| 21 | 562 |
"I owe you a dozen strings of coins," said Peisistratus. |
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| 22 | 36 |
"Those are coins," said Peisistratus. |
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| 22 | 37 |
"For each use of her, after the red-silking of her," asked Cabot, "the coins then to her master?" "She is not a coin girl," said Peisistratus. |
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| 22 | 39 |
She would have no access to the coins". |
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| 22 | 40 |
"Why are there strings of coins about her neck?" asked Cabot. |
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| 22 | 42 |
Let her think of herself as, in effect, similar to the coins, an object, a property". |
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| 22 | 44 |
"There are twelve strings of coins, your winnings," said Peisistratus. |
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| 22 | 49 |
"I would throw her in with the coins". |
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| 22 | 63 |
How could this be? Had she heard aright? She was kneeling, she, who, quite possibly, had regarded herself as the most beautiful woman she had ever seen, she who had known herself excruciatingly desired, who had taken great pleasure in leading males on, and tormenting them, and then rejecting them, w... |
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| 22 | 102 |
"Would you rather I had strung the coins on a post?" asked Peisistratus. |
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| 22 | 127 |
"Move the coins to the side, with both hands," said Peisistratus, "so that we may examine your breasts". |
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| 22 | 206 |
"Make certain the coins jangle well". |
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| 22 | 220 |
The coins, dangling from her throat, made a tiny sound, on the flooring. |
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| 22 | 227 |
Doubtless the form of the slave, bedecked with coins, her only garment, swam before his eyes. |
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| 22 | 283 |
"Yes, Master?" "Get out!" "Yes, Master," cried the slave, and rose up, and, with a jangle of coins, fled from the table. |
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| 25 | 12 |
No longer were there strings of coins about her neck. |
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| 25 | 74 |
"Where are the coins won from Peisistratus?" he asked. |
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| 26 | 4 |
"You have coins of mine," said Cabot. |
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| 26 | 5 |
"Fetch the coins," said Peisistratus to a burly lieutenant. |
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| 26 | 197 |
It was he who had been dispatched earlier, shortly after Cabot's arrival in the cylinder, for the strings of coins, Cabot's winnings from the arena, which had once been strung loosely about the throat of an unclaimed cylinder slave, who, however unworthy, had been permitted to pose and dance for Cab... |
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| 26 | 199 |
He had the strings of coins looped over his left forearm. |
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| 26 | 200 |
Peisistratus took the coins and handed them, on their strings, to Cabot. |
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| 26 | 215 |
"Take the coins," said Peisistratus. |
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| 26 | 218 |
"Perhaps," said Cabot, thrusting the coins and strings into his pouch. |
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| 26 | 248 |
"I throw her in, with the coins," said Peisistratus. |
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| 34 | 105 |
"Coins, too," said Grendel, "even rubies?" "Yes," said Cabot, "worthless as they are, here no more than bits of metal, and pretty pebbles". |
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| 35 | 23 |
This lack, however, was well remedied by Lord Grendel who, several Ahn from the cave, muchly concealing his deformed hands, in a tiny habitat village, had encountered a small smithy, and, with some of Cabot's silver coins, obtained from Peisistratus in consequence of a wager, had arranged with the s... |
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| 36 | 356 |
Cabot would take few supplies with him, as he expected foraging would be available, and he retained, as well, some of the coins won from Peisistratus, and, of course, the rubies he had originally been given by Lord Agamemnon, prior to the trial of Lord Pyrrhus. |
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| 43 | 347 |
"Suppose you were a slaver or raider," said Cabot, "and you had to choose between a woman so clad, an indisputable beauty, one with an obvious sales value, one who might go for several coins, and an unknown quantity, a woman heavily robed and veiled, who, stripped, might be of little interest even t... |
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| 43 | 408 |
You, you lovely piece of goods, you delightful bit of merchandise, are worth coins". |
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| 51 | 18 |
To be sure, Cabot's last silver coins, from the wager of Peisistratus, had now been expended in this small market. |
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| 77 | 145 |
Killer humans, successful in the arena, were awarded coins, with which they might purchase women, commonly penned naked within their view, prizes awaiting the victorious. |
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| 77 | 150 |
They could, of course, through the bars, attempt to interest one male more than another, hoping that he might then spend his coins accordingly. |
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| 77 | 167 |
After the loosing of the killer humans in the revolution coins would be of less import as the women might then, man against man, or group against group, be fought for openly. |
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| 77 | 170 |
Coins, of course, were not now unknown, either, amongst the killer humans. |
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| 77 | 213 |
"But on Gor, you see, they will be unquestioned, and, on a street of coins, will have great value". |
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| 77 | 215 |
"Do not fear, we have the coins. |
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| 79 | 343 |
"It would be nice," he said, "had you a scarlet halter, earrings, bangles and bracelets, necklaces, a belt of coins, a scarlet skirt, one of Turian drape, such things, but you do not, and so you must do without, and do the best you can". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 407 |
When the slave shops, if she is permitted to use her hands, and is not sent out back-braceleted with a coin sack tied about her neck, she commonly holds the coins clenched in her fist, or, not unoften, either, holds them in her mouth. |
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| 3 | 788 |
Let them now be good for a little something further, say, whatever handful of coins they might bring on the block. |
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| 4 | 311 |
"It would amuse Kurii," I said, "that you would sell for a handful of coins". |
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| 9 | 70 |
Here was a female, however, who would not only look well in shackles, but, first, might be turned to the advantage of purposes extending far beyond the coins she might bring when taken from the block. |
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| 13 | 47 |
Interestingly there was no coin box on the necks of the slaves, as would be the case with "coin girls" in some cities, usually port cities, or coin dishes beside the mat, as in great camps, and such, in which coins might be left by clients or patrons. |
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| 13 | 52 |
She whom I sought, I had learned, upon inquiries, was the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers, an exclusive district, near Ar's Street of Coins, where were found most of the banking houses of the city. |
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| 18 | 511 |
Coffers are being forced open, and precious vessels, and handfuls of coins and jewelry, are being seized; silken hangings are draped on brawny arms; amphorae are unearthed; the odor of paga pervades the camp, and common warriors, perhaps for the first time, taste rare ka-la-na, guzzling it like kal-... |
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| 22 | 18 |
To be sure, a woman might be less innocent, and might partake of, say, wine, with a stranger, one on whom she hopes to employ her wiles to her profit, one from whom she might hope to win some favor or advantage; perhaps she regales him with some contrived tale of hardship or woe, designed to elicit ... |
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| 22 | 266 |
A man was conjecturing what might be her sales price, what might bring her into the hands of anyone, anyone whomsoever, who possessed the requisite coin or coins. |
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| 22 | 684 |
I trusted he would remember to retrieve his Jane, the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers, near the Street of Coins in Ar, from the rope circle. |
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| 23 | 199 |
How far she was now from the Serisii, and the Street of Coins. |
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| 32 | 28 |
There were many markets in which even one of those coins might purchase a tarn, five kaiila, ten lovely slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 48 |
One threads one or more such coins on a string, the string fastened about the bottom and top coin, or loops a string through several coins, and ties the loop shut above the top coin. |
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| 1 | 44 |
Her patronage was mostly that of ruffians, mariners between voyages, their coins now mostly spent, left in the higher taverns, drifters, wanderers, peddlers, exiles, some mercenaries, willing to unsheathe their blades for a bit of silver, or a fight. |
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| 1 | 70 |
"You have coins?" inquired the taverner. |
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| 3 | 378 |
And I supposed that she did not know that tunics were removed routinely and examined for such articles, jewels, rings, coins, keys, and such, as well as the body of the female. |
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| 3 | 982 |
He then ruthlessly demanded from me information upon information, information which would be common knowledge to anyone from Brundisium, things as obvious as to where lay her Street of Coins, her largest markets, how many gates she had, and such. |
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| 13 | 28 |
The sea chests of many of our fellows were now heavy with pierced coins, pearls, and precious stones. |
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| 17 | 95 |
Many masters, in their pride and vanity, and as evidence of their wealth, good fortune, or taste, enjoy displaying their slaves, much as owners of various goods, of various sorts, enjoy displaying other sorts of properties, statuary, rare coins, artworks, fountains, veminium gardens, classical czeha... |
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| 26 | 45 |
These shells were not typical Pani currency, which, for the most part, consisted of metal coins, of silver, gold, and copper, of various certified weights, struck by various shoguns. |
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| 26 | 47 |
Many of these coins, not all, were perforated in the center. |
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| 26 | 49 |
In this way the coins are kept together, perhaps tied about one's waist, under the clothing, or put about one's neck, under the clothing, or simply dropped into a pouch, usually of silk. |
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| 26 | 50 |
Lesser Pani sometimes, on errands, carry the coin or coins in the mouth, rather as slaves may on the continent, and on the islands, while marketing for their masters. |
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| 34 | 15 |
I watched her rise, and go to the chest at the side of the room, kneel there, and count some coins into her hand. |
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| 34 | 16 |
She turned, on her knees, to face me, the coins clutched in her hand. |
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| 34 | 237 |
She had clutched the coins in her hand. |
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| 36 | 308 |
"Keep it then," said the stranger, and returned the two coins, first one, and then the other. |
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| 36 | 352 |
"We saw the coins". |
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| 37 | 625 |
"I am not of the Street of Coins," I said, "but I think it is clear that you are a wealthy man. |
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| 37 | 658 |
I might have been concerned here, but the warehouse seemed filled with bulging purses, and the counting boards on several of the long tables were so filled that coins lay loose, spilled beside them. |
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| 37 | 1462 |
"You need not have shared so much with me," I said, "the coins, the jewels, the pearls". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 641 |
Delia would collect coins from some customers, the richer ones, and others, the ones less well off, would deliver the coins to the shop of Epicrates. |
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| 4 | 47 |
"It must be a fearful experience," she said, "when one's silk slave turns on one, perhaps binds one and disposes of one in a small market, taking the coins and departing the city". |
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| 6 | 100 |
I heard a clink of coins, and, shortly thereafter, I felt a rope looped about my left ankle, snugly, and knotted, tightly, and then passed to Midice, on my left, and thence to those beyond her. |
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| 8 | 131 |
One also heard of a Street of Coins, of which a similar observation would seem warranted. |
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| 8 | 1017 |
Perhaps the fellow had requested, or been granted, such a favor, that he would purchase the former Lady Persinna, to her humiliation, in a low market, for a handful of coins. |
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| 8 | 1018 |
Indeed, I wondered if the coins, even, were his. |
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| 8 | 1278 |
I heard coins, being rattled against one another, in the palm of someone's hand. |
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| 8 | 1322 |
I heard coins being counted out, one upon the other. |
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| 8 | 1327 |
The coins being counted into the palms of the auctioneer were neither of gold nor silver. |
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| 8 | 1440 |
One is usually in and out, without much ado, which usually means more coins per Ahn in the entry kettle. |
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| 8 | 1670 |
Menon dropped the coins into the palm of the free woman. |
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| 10 | 209 |
Indeed, thanks to her instruction, and a handful of coins, distributed over a few days, the Lady Bina was now passably literate. |
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| 10 | 228 |
I had, however, never noted coins passed between them. |
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| 10 | 584 |
I had accompanied the Lady Bina to the Street of Stones, actually a tiny district, only a few establishments, near the Street of Coins which, in effect, is itself not truly a street, but a district, where banking is done, credit extended, loans made, moneys changed, and such. |
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| 10 | 637 |
Had the aforementioned ruby been their last? They had no new source of income of which I was aware, lest it might be from investments in the Street of Coins, but I knew of no such investments, and I suspected they would not wish their principal to be tethered to a particular location, nor, perhaps, ... |
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| 10 | 1095 |
Lady Delia, companion of the pottery merchant, Epicrates, with coins received from the Lady Bina and the beast, later remunerated a number of customers who had lost their goods. |
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| 14 | 40 |
But coins of many cities circulated. |
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| 14 | 42 |
Some prized coins were the silver tarns of Jad and, on the continent, the golden staters of Brundisium. |
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| 14 | 44 |
One often encounters, for example, clipped or shaved coins. |
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| 14 | 47 |
Clipped coins are easy to identify but then, of course, one must bring forth the scales, and, not unoften, as well, rough silver or gold, unminted, is presented, perhaps melted droplets, or pieces cut from silver or golden vessels and goblets, which items will also require judicious determinations. |
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| 49 | 231 |
He had opened a day stall on the Street of Coins. |
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| 49 | 390 |
It is not unusual for a slave to carry a coin or coins in her mouth. |
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| 51 | 123 |
She drew forth from the sack two coins. |
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| 51 | 149 |
Coins have changed hands and now you are his". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 258 |
They demand a hundred coins and think themselves ten times advanced for they formerly had but ten, and refuse to notice that their hundred today buys only what five bought once. |
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| 6 | 228 |
The staters of Brundisium are prized on the Streets of Coins in a hundred cities. |
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| 6 | 351 |
"Do you let your girls touch coins?" I asked. |
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| 9 | 224 |
It is nice to know that one has some value, if only a handful of copper coins. |
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| 9 | 285 |
Many of those women, I supposed, would have been apprehended by fellow fugitives and sold in Brundisium One would make a coin where one could, and, I suppose, the making of some coins, more than others, can be exceedingly pleasant. |
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| 20 | 179 |
"But, too," said Relia, "coffers which might contain pearls, gems, jewelries, golden wire, weighty coins". |
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| 21 | 473 |
Tyrtaios then stood up, shouldering a large leather sack, in which he had placed a number of articles, coins, belts, buckles, accouterments, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 92 |
Valuable coins, of course, might also be debased, but if the coins are minted, struck by hammers from the molds, that is commonly done by a municipal authority, publicized or not. |
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| 31 | 132 |
"Here!" called one of the intruders, tearing the string of coins, not many coins, to be sure, from the neck of Haruki. |
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| 31 | 177 |
As I have suggested, most exchange in the islands is done not in terms of coins, or notes, from one establishment or another on some Street of Coins, but in kind, in terms of rice, millet, fish, cloth, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 161 |
This is sometimes done even when the coinage has been minted in the same city in which the transaction takes place, apparently because of the possibility of a private debasement of coins, the shaving of coins, and such. |
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| 68 | 457 |
A slave girl shopping, for example, will almost always carry the buying coins in her mouth, or clutched in her hand, perhaps wrapped in a handkerchief or, in the case of some coins, threaded on a string. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 136 |
Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a scribe, perhaps to have a letter rea... |
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| 3 | 238 |
Given such vagaries, and the shaving of coins, particularly those of more precious metals, scales are often used in transactions, certainly in a polity's "Streets of Coins". |
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| 12 | 65 |
Unfortunately, there is no common coinage, but two important coins, at least in the northern hemisphere, against which other coins are often measured, are the silver and gold tarn disks of Ar, and the silver and gold staters of Brundisium. |
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| 22 | 84 |
"Coins are coins," said Addison Steele. |
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| 24 | 146 |
His orders were clear! He disobeyed! He was to take you to the height of the delta wall and cast you over the wall, to the tharlarion below! And then I find you here! Coins are coins, I suppose! Greed! Irresponsible, stupid, dangerous, petty greed! What did he get for you, five copper tarsks?" The f... |
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| 27 | 42 |
And one coin properly invested, may become two coins, and two coins four, and so on". |
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