| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 42 |
I was clad in some sort of tunic of a reddish color, which was tied at the waist with a yellow cord. |
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| 3 | 10 |
There was no square foot of the chamber that did not contain racks of scrolls, and others, hundreds perhaps, were piled like cord wood here and there. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 22 | 146 |
In those days it had been a portion of the Rites of Submission, as practiced in Tharna, to strip and bind the captive with yellow cords and place her on a scarlet rug, the yellow of the cord being symbolic of talenders, a flower often associated with feminine love and beauty, the scarlet of the rug ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 46 |
Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits over this cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the... |
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| 9 | 93 |
Among the Wagons, clad in a brief bit of cord and leather, branded, wearing nose ring and Turian collar, could be found many of the beauties of Turia. |
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| 9 | 130 |
It usually falls a bit above the knees in the front and back and is belted with cord or chain. |
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| 12 | 190 |
"I will show you how to wear a camisk," said Kamchak, taking the cord and adjusting it with two or three pulls and jerks that just about took the wind out of the Turian girl. |
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| 25 | 161 |
She wore the Sirik and was, of course, clad Kajir, clad in the Curla and Chatka, the red cord and the narrow strip of black leather; in the Kalmak, the brief vest, open and sleeveless, of black leather; and in the Koora, the strip of red cloth that bound back her brown hair. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 52 |
I then looped the cord over the latch bar and then put both ends of the cord through the small hole, so they dangled on the outside of the door. |
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| 15 | 19 |
A white silken cord had been knotted about her waist; in this cord was thrust a narrow rectangle of white silk, perhaps about two feet long. |
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| 2 | 21 |
Her hair was dark, and fell to the small of her back; her eyes were dark; she wore the briefly skirted, sleeveless slave livery common in the northern cities of Gor; the livery was yellow and split to the cord that served her as belt; about her throat she wore a matching collar, yellow enameled over... |
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| 5 | 46 |
"String," I said, "or cord, anything". |
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| 5 | 51 |
I now had, in effect, a piece of boskhide cord. |
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| 5 | 54 |
"Suppose," I said, "I now tied a relatively fair-sized knot with these two ends of the cord". |
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| 5 | 59 |
In tying such a knot, with the cord looped on the inside about the latch bar, and the knot too large to slip through the hole, I would have fastened the bar down. |
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| 6 | 45 |
To each, on furs, there was chained, by the left ankle, a bare-breasted girl about whose waist there was knotted a scarlet cord, in which was thrust a long, narrow rectangle of red silk. |
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| 7 | 127 |
"Where is the bow and cord?" he asked. |
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| 8 | 190 |
On the inside we had cut the loop and with a simple knot tied the two cords together, so that, when we wished, we might let ourselves out of the compartment without cutting the cord on the inside. |
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| 12 | 130 |
The judge's bar rang once and there was a cry from the crowd and all leaped to their feet as, with a flurry of beating wings, almost at the instant the white cord was whipped away from in front of them, the tarns took flight. |
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| 12 | 153 |
The garments had rather large sleeves and fastened with a cord under the chin. |
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| 17 | 509 |
A bit of scarlet cord had been knotted about her waist, into which was thrust a long rectangle of red silk; her hair had been unbound; her wrists were braceleted behind her back; the key hung on a string about her neck; the slave bells were still locked on her left ankle, but her finery was gone; no... |
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| 24 | 170 |
They wore the brief gray livery of the state slave of Ar, slashed to the waist, knotted with a gray cord; about their throats was locked the gray metal collar of Ar's state slave; they were barefoot; on the left ankle of each was the gray metal band, with its five gray bells, worn by the female stat... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 81 |
By that time most of the year's rence will have been cut, and great stocks of rence paper, gathered in rolls like cord wood and covered with woven rence mats, will have been prepared. |
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| 3 | 120 |
She seized the bow in her left hand and braced the bottom of it against the instep of her left foot, taking the hemp cord whipped with silk, the string, in her right hand. |
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| 3 | 178 |
"There is no Ka-la-na, no cord, no arrowwood," said another. |
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| 4 | 90 |
She had loosened the cord that laced the tunic, refastening it more loosely. |
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| 8 | 7 |
And there was, too, the great bow, of yellow, supple Ka-la-na, tipped with notched bosk horn, with its cord of hemp, whipped with silk, and the roll of sheaf and flight arrows. |
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| 9 | 285 |
Kneeling quite near him, holding cord for him, fiber on her throat serving as collar, knelt short, dark-haired Ula. |
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| 11 | 253 |
With a rattle of cord and chain the wheels spun back and the thing on the rack began to jabber and whimper and laugh. |
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| 14 | 339 |
He presented a folio-sized book, bound with golden cord and sealed with wax, bearing the impress of the Ubar of Tyros, Chenbar. |
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| 14 | 341 |
I broke the golden cord and the seal and opened the master cargo lists. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 29 |
The cord hung freely. |
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| 2 | 73 |
I cursed as I saw that the cord had been severed. |
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| 3 | 20 |
A loop of the silken cord had been fastened about my neck, and by it I was bound to the head of the bed. |
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| 3 | 170 |
I took the knife and slashed the cord at my throat and the cords at my ankles. |
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| 7 | 135 |
One form of binding fiber is a rounded, white silken cord. |
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| 7 | 136 |
I was startled the first time I saw such a cord securing a camisk. |
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| 11 | 105 |
Its single cord fastens the garment behind the girl's neck, behind her back and then, after passing about her body once or twice, ties in front. |
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| 11 | 107 |
The cord makes it possible to adjust the garment to a given girl. |
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| 11 | 108 |
Tightening the cord accentuates her figure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 592 |
I noted that she had, with a light cord, belted her brief woolen slave tunic. |
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| 6 | 601 |
The cord belt she wore, drawing the brief tunic tight about her, dramatized the small, sweet delights of her body. |
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| 6 | 693 |
I took up the cord with which she had bound in her slave tunic. |
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| 6 | 696 |
"Do you permit me the cord," she asked, "that I may more easily conceal what I steal?" "No," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 554 |
About his neck, looped, was a cord of woven, golden wire, with a golden pendant, in the shape of an ax. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 411 |
It is bound to the head by several loops of cord, the agal. |
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| 12 | 524 |
I then threw her to the slave ring and, with the cords, tied her wrists behind her back, and then, passing the cord through the ring, crossed and tied her ankles together, pulling them rather close to her bound wrists. |
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| 15 | 85 |
He was bare-chested, and hairy; he wore kaffiyeh and agal, though of rep-cloth, the cording, too, of rep-cloth, twisted into narrow cord. |
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| 24 | 664 |
A collar, a chain, a length of cord, slave bracelets, perhaps, such things, what more is required? To be sure, all a girl has to bring to the foot of the couch is her bondage. |
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| 26 | 52 |
The sheet is held in place with a piece of cord, looped twice about the neck and tied snugly. |
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| 26 | 1257 |
One of the men of the kasbah put the sheet over her, in her turn, fully, to protect her from the sun; her head was then completely covered as well as her body; the sheet was then fastened in place, that it might not slip, with a cord, twice looped, tied closely about her neck; thus she, as the other... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 15 |
Both wore tunics, red; each, at his left hip, had slung a blade and scabbard; each, at his belt, carried an ornamented knife; the man behind him who stood over me had slung over his back a shield, of layers of leather and brass, and carried a spear, beneath the blade of which was slung a helmet with... |
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| 4 | 6 |
I saw the long, horizontal peak of the striped tenting above me, extending on either side from the leather cord that served as its roof tree. |
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| 4 | 429 |
The cloth was thrown over my head and, with some loops of leather cord, four times encircling my neck, tied under my chin. |
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| 4 | 792 |
Then he placed the blanket over my head, and, with a length of cord, looping it several times about my throat, tied it tightly under my chin, so that again, as in the cruel game, I was hooded. |
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| 9 | 764 |
Then I added, hastily, "Unless it be Mistress's will!" She removed a bit of cord from her robes. |
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| 18 | 10 |
The red cord, or Curla, was knotted about my waist, tightly, the knot, a slip knot which might be loosened with a single tug, over my left hip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 800 |
It was held in place by a light, white cord, which passed through two loops and was loosely knotted at the right hip. |
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| 3 | 801 |
If the cord were jerked loose the garment would fall open and could be easily brushed aside, to fall back, loose, behind them, on their cuffed, chained wrists. |
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| 3 | 841 |
The blond girl gasped and shrank back when the slaver's man, joining the girl on the platform, jerked loose the cord at her right hip and, with two hands, standing behind the girl, held back the tunic, well displaying her to the gaze of the inquirers. |
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| 4 | 625 |
I thrust the man I held from me and spun about, the cord cutting now at the back of my neck. |
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| 18 | 11 |
The skins were stretched over a framework, lashed together with sinew cord, of driftwood and long bows of bone. |
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| 35 | 604 |
With the knife I cut the cord binding back her hair. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 61 |
Not a shackle or a cord is on her body. |
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| 24 | 315 |
I then removed the white shells and cord from the throat and left ankle of the blond-haired barbarian, and snapped the two cords in half. |
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| 24 | 317 |
The two remaining pieces of cord, with their shells, I gave to Kisu. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 153 |
A slave girl, sitting, her hands bound before her body with cord, by a shortened neck-leash, was chained at one of these rings. |
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| 13 | 218 |
Her small wrists were secured before her body with cord, fastened with cunning knots. |
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| 13 | 219 |
The cord, I supposed, had been woven about a core of wire. |
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| 16 | 347 |
Inside I saw a slave sack and, formed of wood, a small, stout, cord-bound, thick-barred slave cage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 259 |
It was bound with a braided yellow cord, strong enough to hold her wrists, should she be bound with it. |
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| 23 | 260 |
If the cord were jerked loose the hair would fall, unbound, to the small of her back. |
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| 24 | 32 |
Her hair was still coiffured high upon her head, and held, as before, with the braided yellow cord, stout enough to bind her with. |
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| 24 | 143 |
I jerked loose the yellow cord from her hair. |
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| 24 | 144 |
I then, with the cord, tied her wrists behind her back. |
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| 24 | 178 |
She pulled at the loops of braided yellow cord which held her well. |
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| 24 | 216 |
She squirmed in the loops of yellow cord holding her wrists behind her back. |
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| 24 | 243 |
But why would this be? What could I, a mere slave, have to say that might interest you?" She pulled at the cord loops. |
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| 24 | 318 |
She squirmed in the close confines of the loops of braided yellow cord. |
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| 24 | 447 |
She strained against the loops of yellow cord which confined her wrists behind her body. |
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| 24 | 491 |
Savagely I jerked her small hands behind her back and, with the yellow cord, tied them there, tightly. |
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| 24 | 528 |
She pulled against the cord loops on her wrists. |
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| 24 | 545 |
The cord loops, soaked, were still tight on her small wrists. |
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| 31 | 79 |
I then removed a black leather cord from my pocket and bound her small wrists behind her back. |
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| 31 | 80 |
The ends of the cord were long, and fell to the level of the back of her knees. |
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| 32 | 38 |
It was held on her by being tied under her chin and about her neck with a soft, braided scarlet cord. |
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| 32 | 41 |
And, indeed, does that mark not tell us that they are all, in a sense, from the homeliest pot girl to the embonded treasure of a Ubar, only common kajirae? The pirate behind the girl, who had thrust her forward, unknotted the cord from her throat, that which held the cloth over her head and kept it ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 759 |
Then, using the cord and eyelets, I laced the two ends of the broad, flat binding surface, to which, in the front and the center, the wadding was attached, tightly together behind the back of her neck. |
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| 20 | 627 |
A bit of binding fiber then, fastening her hands behind her back, and perhaps a painful nose ring and cord, will suffice to bring her instantly to slave heel. |
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| 20 | 2181 |
She then stood, and, bending over, her hands helplessly chained behind her, bit and pulled at the knot in the cord that belted my tunic. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 210 |
It commonly goes over the belt or cord in the back, and down and between the legs, and then comes up, drawn snugly tight, over the belt or cord in the front. |
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| 8 | 429 |
Her hands were freed of the restraining slave bracelets, only then to be tied with a cord behind her. |
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| 8 | 505 |
By now the red-haired beauty had been put through several slave paces, such as were feasible for her, her hands bound with the cord behind her back. |
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| 8 | 758 |
"Miss, oh, please, Miss!" called the red-haired girl, plaintively, on her knees, stripped, her hands tied behind her with the cord, from the central block. |
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| 8 | 940 |
And, obviously, if one is dealing with women, a simple rope, or cord, may be used. |
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| 12 | 209 |
It is held in place by a belt or cord. |
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| 17 | 465 |
It could be as simple as a narrow roll of knotted scarlet silk, or white, if the slave is at that time a virgin, or a piece of string or cord, or strip of leather, tied shut, perhaps looped six times about the throat, each time for one of the letters in the word 'Kajira', the most common expression ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 146 |
"How horrifyingly they tie us, and put us about, as though we might be cord wood". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |
To my left were the lights, the tangles of cord, the men. |
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| 3 | 85 |
The garment was belted, and rather snugly, with two turns of a narrow, silken, yellow cord, knotted at her left hip. |
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| 10 | 60 |
In a moment, with two or three loops of cord, they were fastened in place. |
10 |
| 14 | 84 |
The cord which had fastened my wrist to my ankle was then removed and I was drawn to my feet. |
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| 18 | 155 |
But then I felt my hands tied behind my back, with a wire-cored cord. |
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| 30 | 279 |
I felt my hands jerked behind my back and casually looped with cord. |
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| 30 | 287 |
I could feel one end of the cord dangling from my wrists brush against the back of my ankles. |
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| 30 | 324 |
He had taken the cord with him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 47 |
One cord fastens the first girl's left ankle to the other girl's right ankle, the same cord looped tight about both ankles, binding them closely together. |
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| 8 | 35 |
The hands of each, by a cord knotted about their waist, were tied before their bodies. |
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| 8 | 48 |
The other cord, similarly, fastens her right ankle to the other's left ankle. |
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| 15 | 43 |
The skirt she wore, though it came high on her thighs, and was cut at the sides, had a very high waist, its belting cord cinched just under her breasts. |
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| 21 | 365 |
We had lowered the gate this time from the outside, from the apartment side, by means of a cord which we attached to the drop lever and then passed through the bars. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 59 |
The cord had been cut and tied at its belly. |
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| 22 | 376 |
In any event, she now wore a dress, and, if I were not mistaken, had dared to cord it in such a way as to acknowledge, and perhaps to some extent flaunt, the loveliness within it. |
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| 24 | 302 |
It was tied shut with a cord. |
10 |
| 24 | 318 |
He untied the cord and blew some dust from the cover of the book. |
10 |
| 25 | 104 |
If they have been used, however, we tie their hands behind their back and, on a cord about their waist, suspend a punched tarsk bit on their belly". |
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| 26 | 374 |
Too, of course, they may be confined, if one wishes, in open brassieres of cord, or netting. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 770 |
My master went then to the cord which controlled the panel, and closed it. |
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| 11 | 839 |
A long belt of cord, to which were attached numerous metal disks, suspended and shimmering, was then looped twice about me, the first loop secured high, and tight, at my waist, and the second loop, a larger loop, a framing loop, was secured in such a way, in the back, that it would hang quite low on... |
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| 11 | 1044 |
With a jangle and shimmering of metal pieces the cord belt, in its length, was dropped by Sita into the box. |
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| 27 | 284 |
He then, as I looked up in the darkness, in disbelief, in consternation, tied it back in my mouth with cord, pulled back deeply between my teeth wrapped twice about my head, fastened under my left ear. |
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| 28 | 242 |
"I see that you know how to insert a slave strip in a belly cord," she said. |
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| 30 | 60 |
How tightly my ankles were bound with cord! How closely my wrists were enclosed in steel! He removed the belt and cloth I wore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 189 |
She still wore the garmenture so much like the curla and chatka, the cord at her belly and the long, single strip of cloth, the latter passing over the cord from the outside to the inside in front, and then up, and over it again in the back, moving from the inside to the outside, the whole then, abo... |
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| 9 | 373 |
I drew the long strip before the cord in front back over the cord so that it would no longer hang midway, or about midway, between her knees and ankles but was now about eighteen inches long. |
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| 9 | 376 |
I then moved her about and treated the garment similarly in the back, drawing the strip back over the cord so that it was now only about eighteen inches long, and then cutting it off a bit below and behind the cord. |
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| 17 | 708 |
The tie is accomplished as follows: One wrist is tightly encircled by the cord and bound within it, about eighteen inches in from one end of the cord. |
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| 17 | 709 |
The longer length of the same cord is then taken about her belly and the other wrist is then tied within it, on the other side of her body, leaving some eighteen inches of cord on the other side of the tie. |
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| 8 | 71 |
The suspension of the meat reminded me of the way peasant women sometimes cook roasts, tying them on a cord and dangling them before the fire, then spinning the meat from time to time. |
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| 8 | 72 |
In this way, given the twisting and untwisting of the cord, the meat will cook rather evenly, for the most part untended, and without spit turning. |
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| 8 | 80 |
Her hair was drawn back behind her head and tied there with a yellow cord. |
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| 8 | 82 |
A black cord was knotted about her waist. |
10 |
| 8 | 83 |
Tucked over this cord in front was a long strip, some seven inches wide, of heavy, opaque, yellow cloth. |
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| 8 | 84 |
It then passed under her body and was pulled up, snugly, and thrust over the cord in the back. |
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| 8 | 86 |
The effect was much like that of the curla and chatka, a portion of the garmenture, or livery, in which the wagon peoples of the south place most of their slave females, save that the curla, the cord, was black and not red, and the chatka, the strip, was of cloth and yellow, not of black leather. |
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| 8 | 87 |
She had nothing corresponding, of course, to the kalmak, or southern slave's brief, open vest of black leather, and the cord binding her hair was quite different from the koora, the red band of cloth commonly used to confine the hair of the southern slave. |
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| 9 | 90 |
To be sure, it is more common to throw a cloak or sheet, which might be of various lengths, over their heads, this usually being fastened on them by means of a cord or strap looped once or twice about the neck and fastened under the chin. |
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| 9 | 187 |
Her body was slim, her hair was long, bound behind the back of her head with the black cord. |
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| 9 | 375 |
I then cut the garment a bit behind and below the cord in front. |
10 |
| 9 | 377 |
She now wore two slave strips, each about eighteen inches long, one over the cord in front, one over it in back. |
10 |
| 9 | 396 |
"In the future," I said, "the cord will be tied in this fashion, or in some equivalent fashion". |
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| 9 | 402 |
"Now," I said, "it is possible not only to remove the pieces of cloth singly, but, if one wishes, one may easily, with a casual tug, remove the cord and, with it, both cloths together, simultaneously, expeditiously". |
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| 9 | 414 |
She looked in dismay at the strip of cloth which I had taken from the back of the cord, as it now flared, and then turned black and crumbled, in the fire. |
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| 9 | 419 |
I removed my hand from the strip of cloth tucked behind the cord, at her belly. |
10 |
| 9 | 474 |
She was lovely, kneeling before me, in the slave strip and cord, her hands clasped behind the back of her neck. |
10 |
| 9 | 521 |
"Reach now," I said, "to the cord at the left side of your waist". |
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| 9 | 524 |
She touched the cord. |
10 |
| 9 | 539 |
She removed her hands from the cord. |
10 |
| 9 | 579 |
"Shall I free the cord?" she sobbed. |
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| 9 | 583 |
I laid aside the cord and strip. |
10 |
| 15 | 428 |
Then, if I were fortunate, I suppose I would soon thereafter, my hands bound behind me, be following my master, on a cord and nose ring". |
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| 15 | 728 |
I then, with a knife, and a cord of rolled cloth, put through holes in the bottom of the cloth, made it into a rough hood, and tied it on her, fastening it behind the back of the neck. |
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| 16 | 153 |
I saw the slave's eyes regarding me, wildly, just before I drew the hood again, over her beautiful features, securing it in place, tying the cord at the back of her neck. |
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| 16 | 291 |
It is not unusual for a Gorean, many Goreans, but particularly a guardsman, or a warrior, to carry various items of restraint or control in his pouch, for example, thongs, binding fiber, slave bracelets, thumb cuffs, a leash and collar, a nose ring and cord, such things. |
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| 17 | 494 |
Too, if she were in the keeping of the wall's commander did this not, in itself, suggest that she might be worthy a cord and nose ring? Too, my sword was sheathed. |
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| 17 | 707 |
A single narrow cord bound her. |
10 |
| 17 | 710 |
The cord is then drawn back about her belly and the two free ends tied together behind her back, this being done in such a way that the bond is quite snug. |
10 |
| 17 | 718 |
From this dangled a looped, closed cord, the loop about eighteen inches in length. |
10 |
| 18 | 374 |
Some fellows fastened tags, or other devices, to the nose rings themselves, or to the looped cord dangling from the nose ring. |
10 |
| 18 | 375 |
With others, the cord itself is color coded. |
10 |
| 18 | 404 |
She, nose-ringed, looked up at her captor, its cord looping up then to his hand. |
10 |
| 18 | 553 |
The cord from her nose ring was lying beside her head on the stone. |
10 |
| 18 | 556 |
Then she was pulled to her feet by the cord on the nose ring and hurrying after her master. |
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| 21 | 1203 |
Too, it might be noted that few slave garments have a nether closure; two obvious exceptions to this are the Turian camisk and the curla and chatka, or cord and strip, of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 21 | 1204 |
The curla and chatka, of course, because of the nature of the knot, may be removed with as little as a brief tugging on the curla, or cord. |
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| 24 | 579 |
"Thus, by such means as provocative dress and habiliments, baring even her calves, hoping then to be taken for a lowly, beautiful, meaningless maid, by even refusing to cut her hair on behalf of the city's needs, an act by means of which she hoped to appear more attractive to strong men, more attrac... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 573 |
"I am tying your hands behind your back," I said, fastening them there, using the two free ends of the cord as a double cord. |
10 |
| 17 | 59 |
Often a mere cord tied about their necks, fastening them together, the one to the other, is all that is required for their control. |
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| 24 | 7 |
Also, I had not yet seen fit to accord her the luxury of clothing, such as I might manage, even so much as a cord and slave strip. |
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| 28 | 10 |
A cord was about her waist, snugly. |
10 |
| 28 | 14 |
Over the cord, in front and back, were two narrow slave strips. |
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| 28 | 586 |
The cord over which the slave strips had been inserted was still snug on her belly. |
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| 28 | 608 |
I gently pulled the folded cloths from Ina's mouth and, turning her to her side, repositioned them over the belly cord. |
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| 28 | 610 |
I considered her stripped thighs, her bared flanks, the accent of the belly cord at her waist, the linear excitingness of her rapturously, delectably exposed, from her feet to her head and shoulders. |
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| 31 | 40 |
These are usually kept in cord collars, with small disks attached to them, indicating the names of their masters. |
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| 31 | 570 |
I had pulled the cord snugly up, about her waist, and knotted it behind the small of her back. |
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| 31 | 582 |
"Sometimes slave girls," I said, "are aroused and then put in their kennels with their hands braceleted behind their backs, held there with a belly chain, or a belly cord. |
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| 36 | 44 |
She was, at that time, in a belly cord and slave strips. |
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| 37 | 497 |
She is, however, of course, as she is a free woman, to be presented in the modesty of a belly cord and slave strip. |
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| 37 | 498 |
The strip, however, is to be narrow and the cord no more than a lace, these things conforming to her status as captive and full servant". |
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| 43 | 61 |
From about the wagon, and about the concealing canvas, timidly, and yet beautifully, leashed, in a belly cord, a mere lace, and a narrow, yellow slave strip, her hands behind her, probably braceleted, came a beautiful young woman. |
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| 48 | 216 |
I bent down and untied the cord which, about her neck, held the center of the sheet, hoodlike, over her head. |
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| 48 | 217 |
I put the cord in my pouch. |
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| 2 | 9 |
Marcus took a long cord, some five feet or so in length, from his pouch, and tossed it over his shoulder. |
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| 2 | 24 |
The cord over Marcus' shoulder, of course, was the slave girdle, which is used to adjust the garment on the slave. |
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| 2 | 159 |
He whipped the cord, some five feet in length, from his shoulder. |
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| 2 | 189 |
The cord, of course, was not for such a purpose, though that was a purpose which it could surely serve. |
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| 2 | 239 |
"This cord," said Marcus, "may function as a slave girdle. |
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| 2 | 274 |
Marcus looped the cord and put it over her, so that the loop hung behind her back and two loose ends before her. |
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| 2 | 281 |
Marcus now, roughly, took the forward ends of the cord, where they dangled before her, and put them back, beneath her arms, through the back loop, and drew them forward where he tied them, snugly, beneath her breasts. |
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| 2 | 287 |
"And this," said Marcus, loosening the cord, "is perhaps the most common way of wearing the slave girdle". |
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| 2 | 288 |
He then took the forward ends of the cord, again free, and this time crossed them, over the bosom, before placing them again through the loop at the back, drawing them forward and, once more, fastening them, perhaps more snugly than was necessary, before her. |
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| 8 | 610 |
"Oh!" she said, as I pulled her silk muchly away, tucking it then in and about the slender girdle of silken cord at her waist. |
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| 9 | 641 |
The light cord, little more than twine, but strong enough not to be broken by a woman's strength, had been knotted about her neck and then carried forward to the woman before her, where it was tied similarly, and thence forward again, suitable lengths being unwound and cut from a long spool. |
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| 15 | 177 |
Indeed, we might as well have spent the evening in a paga tavern, enjoying the swaying, pleading bodies of former free women of Ar, and considering on the ankles of which, on the cord there, wrapped several times about the ankle, and tied, we would consent to thread a pierced metal token, five of wh... |
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| 15 | 178 |
At the time of the closing of the tavern these women were whipped if they did not have at least ten such tokens on their ankle cord. |
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| 18 | 99 |
"This," I said, indicating a cord and bar to one side, "is undoubtedly the alarm bar, to be rung in the case of emergency or fire". |
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| 19 | 1042 |
The contrast was attractive, like slave silk against flesh, or a narrow cord sustaining such silk at the shoulder, perhaps an inch from a disrobing loop, or the metal of slave bracelets locked on small, downy wrists, a rope on a waist, snug above a sweetly rounded belly, or a collar on the neck. |
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| 19 | 1476 |
"And perhaps some former free woman of Ar in such a place will have five pierced metal tokens, purchasable for so little as a tarsk bit, threaded on her ankle cord tonight?" "I shall race you to Ar!" I said. |
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| 22 | 359 |
Slave girls, on the other hand, commonly walk the streets barefoot, sometimes with something on an ankle, usually the left, a few loops of cord, an anklet, bangles, a tiny chain, such things. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 440 |
She wore a long slave strip, some six inches in width, also of scarlet silk, secured by a cord, the strip put over the cord in front, taken between her legs, drawn up snugly behind and passed over the cord in back. |
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| 7 | 1147 |
I heard the clink of the bracelets being removed from Tana's belly cord, where they had been over the cord, near her right hip. |
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| 8 | 311 |
The first was no more than a long, narrow silken rectangle thrust over a belly cord in front, taken down between the legs, drawn up snugly, and then thrust over the same cord in the back. |
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| 37 | 291 |
We were thrust a little down the passageway, the first group, that "cord" of five in front, the second group, the second "cord" of five, in which I was one, behind, and in the interstices of the first group. |
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| 37 | 710 |
The trigger cord, which would release the latch at the bottom of the cage, was intended to be drawn, if drawn, at all, from the level of the walkway, but the cord, itself, naturally, stretched across the darkness, as I have indicated, and came to the wall. |
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| 7 | 601 |
These silks, in their case, were hemmed over a belly cord, which was fastened at the left hip. |
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| 7 | 602 |
The cord must be tied in such a way that it may be easily tugged loose. |
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| 7 | 604 |
Such silks, however, are not always hemmed over the cord, or belt. |
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| 7 | 605 |
Often they must be merely thrust, before and behind, over the cord, or belt. |
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| 7 | 748 |
At her right hip, over the belly cord, hung a pair of bracelets, small, sturdy, pretty bracelets. |
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| 7 | 762 |
They then hung from the cord a little before her right hip. |
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| 10 | 496 |
One then may decide whether or not to put her on his rope or, in some cases, to bind her and then insert a nose ring, to which a leash cord may be attached. |
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| 11 | 1540 |
Then my ankles were crossed, and, with a separate bit of cord, lashed together. |
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| 13 | 264 |
A cord, coiled on the walkway, ran to the latch. |
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| 13 | 265 |
By drawing on this cord it seemed the latch could be released. |
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| 13 | 268 |
The pit master reached to the cord which controlled the latch. |
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| 13 | 278 |
He jerked the cord and it sprang the latch, and the bottom plate of the cage, she screaming with terror, I, too, crying out in terror, dropped down, on its hinge. |
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| 13 | 340 |
The pit master left the wheel and took the cord. |
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| 13 | 346 |
I saw the cord taut between the hand of the pit master and the latch. |
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| 13 | 347 |
The slightest tug on the cord would spring the latch, dropping the floor of the cage, which was its gate, plunging her helplessly to the cold, dark waters below, to the jaws of the waiting beasts. |
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| 13 | 371 |
The cord was still taut between his hand and the latch. |
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| 13 | 397 |
As the cage rose the various ropes, and the cord extending to the latch, uncoiled from their respective places. |
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| 31 | 102 |
Common cord held my wrists behind my back. |
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| 31 | 140 |
The keys are here! They are on a cord, about his neck!" The leader of the helmeted men reached inside the tunic of the pit master and pulled forth keys, on a string. |
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| 31 | 511 |
She lay there, her wrists bound tightly behind her back with simple, common cord, sobbing. |
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| 37 | 228 |
We were now again against the wall, put there by the men, backed against it, side by side, hands bound behind us, the cord on our neck holding us together, frightened. |
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| 37 | 233 |
The side of my neck hurt, where the cord had burned it. |
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| 37 | 391 |
That must be the Lady Ilene, whom I had met in the chamber of the commercial praetor, kept now, I knew, pending the arrival of her ransom, in the tiny cage suspended over the urt pool, that cage which had been for some time the residence of the Lady Constanzia, that cage which could be opened at the... |
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| 37 | 436 |
Indeed, we fell, or my "cord" did. |
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| 37 | 441 |
Certainly the cord on my neck, rasping, jerked upward. |
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| 37 | 444 |
The cord was still taut. |
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| 37 | 448 |
I was subject to the cord. |
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| 37 | 451 |
The rest of the "cord" rose, too. |
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| 37 | 452 |
I then heard another girl cry out with pain, perhaps Fina, kicked, and then that "cord," too, to the side of us, to our right, was on its feet. |
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| 37 | 497 |
Each girl in a pair was tied by the neck to the other with cord. |
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| 37 | 498 |
I was with Fecha, on her left, about two feet from her, that much latitude and no more permitted to me by the cord. |
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| 37 | 600 |
There was also the cord which went to the gate latch at its bottom. |
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| 37 | 662 |
"Illuminate the passage," said the lieutenant, thrusting Fina and her cord-mate before the gate. |
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| 37 | 709 |
The cord which went to the latch on the bottom of the cage over the pool went, with the other apparatus, chains and ropes, connected with the control of the cage, from the cage to the wall, over pulleys, and then down to the level of the walkway, where it, like the other devices, was secured. |
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| 37 | 1015 |
One of the girls on the other side of the pool, tied by her neck to her cord-mate, screamed, horrified. |
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| 37 | 1187 |
The light cord ran from the walkway, up, through its rings, over its pulleys, to the latch at the bottom of the cage, that securing its gate. |
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| 40 | 153 |
"I give you my word," said the officer, "within the rights of my code, and sworn in the name of the Home Stone itself, that if you shall accomplish upon yourself this injustice, I shall see that she will be free to follow you, whether it be from this ledge, or by the cord or knife". |
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| 42 | 103 |
But could they not, if this were their intent, strangle me first, utilizing some convenient string or cord, or smother me with a blanket or cushion, one easily found, perhaps one almost at hand, or even enter a blade swiftly, mercifully, into my heart? Surely that would not be difficult. |
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| 44 | 23 |
The cord was then run down to my ankles, which were crossed, bound together, and tied to my wrists. |
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| 44 | 272 |
I was acutely aware of my own helplessness, and bondage, how my ankles were crossed, one lying over the other, the two looped with cord and bound together, how my wrists were crossed, and bound. |
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| 44 | 273 |
I pulled a little and, in an instant, had come to the last of the slack, an inch or so, in the cord which fastened my wrists to my ankles. |
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| 44 | 282 |
He then, with cord, tied her wrists together. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 382 |
A man removed a cylindrical bundle, tied with cord, from the wagon bed, and undid the cord, spilling bladed weapons on the grass. |
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| 27 | 2322 |
There were bows bent taut, arrows at the cord, whipped with silk. |
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| 27 | 3318 |
Her gleanings of fuel from the grasslands near the camp, primarily cord and flower brush, had been supplemented with some of the wood carried in the wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 422 |
"Oh!" Cabot had taken a doubled strand of slave cord, put it about her left wrist, drawn the free strands through the loop, jerked the loop thusly formed tight on her wrist, and then, with the free strands beyond the loop, twice encircled her right wrist, pulled the whole tight, and then knotted the... |
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| 13 | 69 |
Cabot exerted further pressure, but did not snap the spinal cord. |
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| 18 | 128 |
Too, he had no metal blade with which to cut a throat, nor an ax, with which to sever a spinal cord, nor a true spear whose blade might cleave easily, even through inches of hide, hair, and flesh to a heart. |
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| 24 | 226 |
How delicious and perfect to the male is the female whom he finds in his bonds! How beautiful she is! And the bonds need not be of cord, nor of metal or leather, of such things. |
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| 34 | 104 |
"In my pouch, from Peisistratus," said Cabot, "I have some articles, among them slave cord". |
10 |
| 34 | 108 |
"Here is the slave cord," said Cabot. |
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| 34 | 114 |
Cabot then fastened the girl's wrists together, crossed before her, and took the same cord down and crossed her ankles, and fastened them together. |
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| 34 | 136 |
"Slave cord," said Cabot. |
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| 34 | 137 |
"I am familiar with such cord," she said. |
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| 34 | 146 |
She pulled a little at the slave cord, wrapped so securely about her small wrists and slender ankles. |
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| 35 | 27 |
In virtue of this hole, you see, the pendants might have been strung on a string or cord, for looping about the neck, or wrists, of their wearers. |
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| 35 | 28 |
Each of these putative pendants later, of course, might be fitted into the leading end of a missile, or arrow, held in place on two sides by the slit wood, and lashed firmly in place, by means of the indentations, and a stout cord. |
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| 36 | 195 |
The slave, unbidden, fetched a bit of cord, from which Cabot, with his knife, cut a strand of suitable length. |
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| 36 | 371 |
Rather, use slave cord. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 180 |
I did not think they would associate the ring, on its leather cord, with the box itself. |
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| 5 | 227 |
"If you find it offensive," I said, "you might clean the cord, wipe it free of scent—and blood". |
10 |
| 5 | 237 |
Whereas I was not sure the message was still readable, and I had no translator at my disposal, even if it were readable, I would have been concerned to retrieve the cord. |
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| 10 | 145 |
A colored cord dangled from the hilt, which terminated in a tufted blue tassel. |
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| 38 | 608 |
Too, as their hands were doubtless fastened behind their backs, given the other arrangements, I supposed their hands would be fastened behind them not with thongs, cord, or rope, but metal, that their small wrists would be enclosed snugly in linked, steel circlets, in slave bracelets, designed to be... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 625 |
I felt a cord being put about my ankles, and knotted. |
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| 3 | 646 |
I took the key to the collar, which I had hidden in my tunic, and, using it as a wedge, and then as a tiny saw, attacked the knots first, and then the cord itself. |
10 |
| 3 | 647 |
The cord was not the ropage which might be used to bind a man, but much smaller, and weaker. |
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| 3 | 651 |
Nature has made us theirs! But we have our beauty, our wit, our sensitivity, our intelligence! Have not more men been conquered with a kiss than steel? It is no wonder, I thought, that they make us their slaves! The key's teeth cut, frayed, and severed a bit of the cord, and I whipped it away from m... |
10 |
| 3 | 1003 |
He then went to the cord dangling from the bell which hung near the door leading from the shop, presumably to the private quarters of the Metal Worker. |
10 |
| 12 | 343 |
The weapon then would have to be retrieved before it could be used, say, from a neck cord, a shoulder sheath, or such. |
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| 12 | 478 |
I unknotted the cord holding the sacking over her head, and thrust it up enough to see her mouth, only that. |
10 |
| 12 | 517 |
This was secured in place, and something was pulled over my head, like a sack, and I could not see, and I felt a cord knotted at my throat, this securing the covering in place. |
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| 31 | 31 |
The boxes, on straps, and the sacks, on cords, were slung about the slaves, two to each slave, a balanced load, one strap or cord running from the left shoulder to the right hip, and the other from the right shoulder to the left hip. |
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| 33 | 31 |
They were fastened, with cord, about her left ankle. |
10 |
| 36 | 541 |
Her head was down, to the floor, and was held in place, in slave humility, by a short, taut cord which ran from her collar back, under her body, to her small, crossed, thonged ankles. |
10 |
| 36 | 595 |
He pulled his arm away from me, and the dagger swiftly parted the cord that held her head down, fastened to her feet. |
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| 37 | 775 |
Many doors in Brundisium, particularly in the more impecunious quarters, are tied shut, often by a leather cord tied about two staples, one on the door and the other on the jamb. |
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| 37 | 1110 |
Sometimes, of course, after this gesture, she is put to her belly, her wrists are bound indeed, but behind her, and a rope is put on her neck, or, sometimes, a nose ring, on a cord, is affixed, such things functioning as a leash or tether. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 729 |
There were cord marks on my wrists and ankles. |
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| 5 | 151 |
I did so, and, shortly, with two or three encirclements of cord, snugly knotted, my wrists were tied behind my back. |
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| 9 | 240 |
Why, I wondered, was I to be picked up after dark? Why would she not take me with her, from the market? The men could thong-bind my wrists behind my back and cord-leash me. |
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| 10 | 713 |
I am a slave, only a slave! I am not in need of discipline, Master! I will obey! I beg to obey!" "Cord," said the beast to the Lady Bina. |
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| 18 | 521 |
Before he left, he dropped a slender silken cord, short, coiled, on the table. |
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| 18 | 522 |
There was little doubt what such a cord was for. |
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| 18 | 530 |
Of course, I thought, angrily, she is a pleasure slave! But then are not all paga girls pleasure slaves? Was pleasure not what men paid for? Was it not with pleasure in mind, inordinate pleasure, that men put collars on such women? Kalligone did not neglect to glance at the cord, and smiled. |
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| 18 | 605 |
I glanced, frightened, at the coil of cord on the table. |
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| 18 | 608 |
I remained for a time, eyes closed, as I had been placed, but I felt no bit of cord whipped about my wrists, fastening them together. |
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| 19 | 79 |
"Enough," said Master Desmond, pleasantly, and pulled me back, and forced my head down, it held by the hair, again, to his right hip, and then, the slave in leading position, her hands fastened behind her, tied with a short cord, took his way from the fire. |
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| 22 | 148 |
Shortly thereafter he appeared in the firelight bearing a small flask, sealed with golden cord. |
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| 27 | 274 |
The length of the thong, or cord, or binding fiber, whatever is used, is intended to allow for a variety of slave ties, or tetherings, hand and foot, or whatever the master may please. |
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| 49 | 284 |
"I have here," she said, "a small sack, on its cord, which I will hang about your neck. |
10 |
| 52 | 601 |
"I doubt that you are, at present, aware of this," he said, "but the strongest bond on a female slave is not fiber, leather, cord, or iron. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 150 |
Loops of a light, silken cord, like lightning, were whipped about my wrists, and they were tethered together, and, a moment later, my ankles were similarly served. |
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| 7 | 121 |
Three fellows were descending the stairs; one held some short lengths of cord, and some strips of dark cloth, and another several loops of rope. |
10 |
| 7 | 329 |
The double loop of cord was put about my left wrist and jerked tight, and, a moment later, my wrists were secured in place. |
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| 43 | 706 |
In the hands of Genak, who stood beside him, with some others, there were two lengths of cord. |
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| 43 | 711 |
I submitted, similarly, and Genak, with the second length of cord, was tying my hands behind me. |
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| 43 | 726 |
I tried to tear apart my wrists, but the several twists of the cord only ground the more deeply into my wrists. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 299 |
He referred to a Pani bow generally anchored in a stout frame, and strung with a thick, oiled cord. |
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| 5 | 4 |
Twice more I blocked the blows of the lashing, cord-wound bamboo. |
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| 20 | 324 |
"Perhaps you would like to have your binding cord on her," I said. |
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| 20 | 325 |
"She is not worth the cord that would bind her," he said. |
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| 61 | 434 |
It seemed she bore some resemblance to one who had once been Lord Yamada's favorite wife, she who had been the daughter of Haruki, and the mother of, amongst others, Nodachi, whom Haruki had saved from the strangler's cord. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 14 |
Some are related to a plowed line, often attributed to a legendary figure; others might be determined, given the auspices, by a given number of hides that are cut into exceedingly narrow strips, these strips later being joined to form a cord, the cord then used to circumscribe a given area. |
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| 9 | 312 |
I could not see her features, for the public veiling, the long street veil wrapped about her head and features, and extending to the golden cord low upon her waist, from which dangled an ample, embroidered purse, but I trusted they would be understanding, and kindly. |
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| 11 | 67 |
It is drawn over the head, poncholike, pulled down, and belted with cord, or binding fiber. |
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| 13 | 28 |
My hair was tied back, behind my head, with a cord. |
10 |
| 23 | 229 |
He wore, as well, a wide, double-buckled belt, from which a dagger, in its sheath, was suspended, and ankle-high, cord-laced street sandals. |
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| 28 | 225 |
He then took the cup on its cord from about my neck and poured the coins into his wallet. |
10 |
| 42 | 2 |
I felt my crossed ankles tied together with a silken cord. |
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| 48 | 13 |
I crossed her ankles, and looped the cord three times about them, and yanked the knots tight, much tighter than was necessary. |
10 |
| 48 | 93 |
"How can you be calm, in proximity to that gigantic, fearsome beast?" She did not mention how I had dealt with her, in the matter of the loops of cord. |
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| 64 | 278 |
From this position the back of the neck can be conveniently bitten through, this breaking the connection between the spinal cord and the brain. |
10 |
| 68 | 459 |
Most free Goreans will carry a purse, or wallet, usually slung on a string, strap, or cord, commonly attached to a belt, or girdle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 180 |
It is often thrown over the slave's head and fastened in place with a cord or thong about her neck. |
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| 5 | 212 |
To my surprise, as I waited, I felt someone unknotting the cord from about my throat, that which held the sheet on me. |
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| 6 | 163 |
The sheet, its neck cord cut, was muchly pulled away. |
10 |
| 30 | 59 |
Even this early there were two hawkers in evidence, though they were now conversing and not yet moving about, one with small cups strung on a cord and a bulging shoulder-strap bota, now laid beside him on a bench, and another with a tray of assorted offerings, dried larma slices, nuts, dates, tastas... |
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| 31 | 78 |
The third judge held up a small hollow bar, on a cord, and took a light hammer in his hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 165 |
"Fetch a cord, and basket," I said to Clitus. |
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| 4 | 167 |
Very shortly thereafter, by means of the cord and basket, we had drawn the two bottles aboard. |
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| 18 | 84 |
A paw becomes a hand; a cell sensitive to light becomes an eye; the enlargement of a knot on a spinal cord becomes a brain. |
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| 60 | 218 |
I caught a flash of roiling color within it, saw teeth cutting at its fibers, saw part of a body, short, serpentine, and muscular, bulging and distending cords, and saw a cord severed and a triangular head, viperish, thrust through torn mesh, followed by half a body, when Clitus cried out, "Ho!" and... |
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