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| 3 | 33 |
I had scarcely stepped from the stones of the road when, coming down the road, each step carefully measured and solid, I saw a wide, hunched figure, bending under a gigantic bundle of sticks, strapped to his back by two cords which he held twisted in his fists in front of his body. |
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| 3 | 37 |
I knew the support of that weight depended partly on the skillful use of the cords and back, but sheer strength was only too obviously necessary, and this man, and his caste brothers, over the generations, had been shaped to their task. |
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| 3 | 106 |
The great fists holding the cords of the bundle of wood turned white; the sticks rattled in the bundle. |
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| 3 | 110 |
His hands fumbled on the cords and the great bundle of wood loosened and clattered to the stone flooring of the road. |
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| 11 | 112 |
Slowly, every muscle straining to keep my balance, the cords in my legs and back like tortured cables, I reached out my hand to Ost's and, struggling in agony to keep my balance, added the weight of his yoke to mine as I drew him to his knees. |
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| 11 | 253 |
"So," she said to me, both hands clenched on the butt of the whip, "you would have me before you on the scarlet rug bound with yellow cords, would you?" I did not understand her meaning. |
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| 22 | 1 |
Yellow Cords When the girl had been unchained I lifted her in my arms and carried her into one of the domed tents that had been indicated to me. |
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| 22 | 140 |
"Though I was Tatrix of Tharna," she said, "I wanted to lie at your feet on the scarlet rug, I wanted to be bound with yellow cords". |
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| 22 | 141 |
I recalled that she had said something of a rug and cords in the council chamber of Tharna, when she had seemed consumed with rage, when it seemed she wanted to lash the flesh from my bones. |
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| 22 | 142 |
"What is the significance of the rug and cords?" I asked. |
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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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| 22 | 156 |
I have bound you with yellow cords. |
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| 22 | 184 |
Perhaps even to the scarlet rug and yellow cords. |
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| 22 | 199 |
Targo then dug into the pouch which he wore at his side and held out two yellow cords, about eighteen inches apiece. |
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| 22 | 202 |
"Ah well," said Targo, "how is one to know?" He tossed the cords to the rug before the girl. |
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| 22 | 225 |
She picked up the two yellow cords and, holding them in her hands, knelt before me in the position of the Pleasure Slave. |
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| 22 | 227 |
Humbly she held the cords up for me to accept, her eyes bright, entreating, raised to mine. |
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| 22 | 235 |
And so it was that I took the cords from her hand, and in the same night Lara who had once been the proud Tatrix of Tharna became according to the ancient rites of her city my slave girl—and a free woman. |
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| 26 | 48 |
One might also mention that the men of Tharna have formed the custom of wearing in the belt of their tunic two yellow cords, each about eighteen inches in length. |
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| 26 | 71 |
Thus each silver mask will in time belong to a beast, though at first she is given some opportunity to determine whose yellow cords she will feel, on whose rug the ceremony of submission will take place. |
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| 12 | 49 |
He pulled certain of these out from the wall and they seemed to be attached to slender cords which he passed between his antennae. |
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| 33 | 42 |
There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all castes, and even of castes ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 135 |
Indeed, the cloth, once loosened, may, if one wishes, be taken up and used as a slave hood, held in place by cords, secured about the girl's neck. |
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| 16 | 117 |
Immediately we heard the sound of several men leaping down to the street and the draw cords on the wire net—probably of the sort often used for snaring sleen—began to tighten. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 55 |
Elizabeth looked at the cords for a moment. |
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| 5 | 68 |
I then took the two dangling cords and began to tie what must have seemed to her an incredible knot. |
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| 5 | 69 |
"Actually," I informed her, as I continued to weave the cords together in an ever larger and more complex fashion, "this is only a fifty-seven turn knot. |
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| 5 | 84 |
Elizabeth then watched in silence while I, trying to recall the intricacies of my signature knot, worked the boskhide cords. |
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| 5 | 90 |
I then untied the knot, slipped the cords through the hole below the latch bar, swung the door shut and set the two beams in place, securing it. |
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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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| 24 | 283 |
I touched it, and, trembling, scarcely breathing, carefully, began to untie the knot, counting each bend and turn, each delicate twist and motion of the cords. |
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| 1 | 77 |
The root, which is woody and heavy, is used for certain wooden tools and utensils, which can be carved from it; also, when dried, it makes a good fuel; from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further, its pith is edible, and for the rence ... |
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| 3 | 174 |
And we do not have cords of strength enough to draw such bows". |
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| 11 | 228 |
The thing fastened on the rack threw back its head on the cords, screaming only with his eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 1 |
Silken Cords I stirred uneasily, shaking my head. |
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| 3 | 18 |
My ankles had been bound together with light, silken cords. |
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| 3 | 135 |
I pulled at the cords that bound me, and lost consciousness. |
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| 3 | 167 |
I began to saw at the cords with the knife. |
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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 | 137 |
It reminded me very much of the cords which had been used to bind me on my own bed in Manhattan. |
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| 7 | 139 |
Indeed, I suspect that the very cords which had been used for that purpose, and in which I had found myself so helpless, may have been exactly such, some lengths of Gorean binding fiber. |
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| 8 | 400 |
I could see neither cords nor battery cases. |
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| 15 | 1365 |
I turned and tied shut the flaps, with five cords, fastening myself in the tent with him. |
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| 17 | 117 |
At such times I could not engage him in tender discourse; rather, I would crawl to him, a needful slave, weeping, and beg him for chains and cords, even the whip; I must know myself uncompromisingly owned; how perdurable and encompassing, how totalistic, is the sexuality of the female slave! It suff... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 198 |
His feet and legs were bound in skins and cords. |
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| 7 | 325 |
Over to one side another girl worked on a slave net, reworking and reknotting the weighted cords. |
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| 8 | 254 |
Another, futilely, weakly, was fighting slave snares, held like a trapped animal in the cruel, taut cords. |
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| 11 | 197 |
I could see the hamstrings, the beautiful, resilient tendons behind her knees, now like tight, proud cords, holding her erect. |
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| 14 | 142 |
Here and there they tightened straps, and cords and binding fiber. |
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| 20 | 99 |
He then, regarding me, uttered a sound, a modulated emanation from the cords in its throat, which I could not duplicate. |
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| 6 | 24 |
The red-haired girl writhed on the cords. |
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| 12 | 325 |
There were, here and there, in coffers, scarves, and, from which the hangings depended, suitable cords. |
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| 12 | 523 |
Holding both her hands in my left hand I then dragged her from the couch to the side of the room where, with my right hand, I tore down some of the soft cords used to arrange the voluminous, decorative drapes and hangings which adorned the chamber. |
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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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| 12 | 573 |
She squirmed in the cords, writhing, enraged, then stopped suddenly, furious; in another move she would have stripped herself. |
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| 25 | 419 |
The wrist tether was from the cords holding the hangings in her room. |
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| 25 | 420 |
The cords were not such that they could be easily identified. |
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| 25 | 421 |
"Are these cords such that they are unique to your quarters?" I had asked her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 129 |
The sign of a man of Tharna is two yellow cords carried at the belt, suitable for the binding of the hands and feet of a female. |
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| 8 | 253 |
"Do you know what these muscles are?" he asked, touching the twin cords behind my right knee. |
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| 14 | 389 |
She then pulled me by the cords to the side of the room. |
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| 14 | 390 |
She sat me against the wall and, using the four cords of the net, tying them through a slave ring at the foot of the wall, fastened me, netted, to the wall. |
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| 20 | 239 |
I saw by her silk she was from the Cords of Tharna, an establishment competitive with the Chatka and Curla. |
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| 20 | 638 |
"There is a sailor here," said he, "who is drunk, from the Cords of Tharna, who is calling for you". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 134 |
At his belt, as did the men of Tharna, he wore two yellow cords, each about eighteen inches long. |
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| 11 | 21 |
Lashings, harpoon lines, cords and threads can be fashioned from its sinews. |
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| 23 | 480 |
At his back there was a horn bow and a quiver of arrows; in his hand there was a lance and, held by cords, a heavy sack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 487 |
I busied myself in the sea bag and, not obviously, drew forth a small strip of binding fiber; then I drew the bag shut by its cords. |
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| 9 | 28 |
"Let us not bother about that now," I said, knotting the cords on the sea bag. |
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| 24 | 120 |
He reached under the mud and seized the blond hair of a slave girl, cords of pierced shells looped about her neck. |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 9 |
They hung on cords from the ceiling. |
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| 27 | 118 |
The men of Tharna may be recognized in their city and abroad by the two yellow cords worn at the belt, each some eighteen inches in length, devices useful in tethering women, hand and foot. |
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| 25 | 46 |
They needed not know that he who had fallen had now risen; that once more the codes were kept with pride; that the cords with which he had once, with such pain and skill, bound himself, he had now sundered and torn from him, like an enraged larl emerging fiercely from a net now too frail to hold him... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 200 |
I had determined that she wore no cords, or belts, from which a weapon might be suspended. |
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| 11 | 187 |
In the Turian camisk, because of its snugness and adjustment cords, it is easy, as you might well imagine, to leave little doubt as to the girl's beauty. |
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| 11 | 213 |
In this sense slave garments may be as resplendent and complex as the robes of an enslaved Ubara, to be removed by the general who has captured her upon a platform of public humiliation, or as simple as the cords on a girl's wrists and a piece of rope knotted on her throat. |
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| 20 | 626 |
Sometimes, however, the slaver, when the woman's legs are bared, will use a bola, the cords and weights then snapping about her calves and ankles, throwing her to the ground. |
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| 20 | 1628 |
"Master?" "Poor female," I said, "how far you seem from Earth, tied with golden sandal cords. |
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| 12 | 111 |
In the lodges of Warrior Societies, for example, as a portion of the amusements accompanying a feast, a girl may be richly used in one, her hands tied behind the back of her neck, in the draw cords, looped once or twice about her neck, of the sack drawn over her head. |
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| 13 | 987 |
"And sometimes, too," I said, "you may have to serve in bonds, even cruel bonds, such things as thongs, and cords and chains". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 612 |
You have seen how they look at you, as though they had rawhide cords in their hands! That is nice. |
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| 14 | 236 |
Gray sacks had been tied over their heads, knotted with cords under their chins. |
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| 35 | 19 |
Lara, who had been Tatrix of Tharna, kneeling before me on a scarlet rug, in the camp of Targo, the Slaver, lifted, supplicatingly, holding them in her hands, two yellow cords to me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 291 |
"These other rings," I said, indicating the rings about the couch, "are they also slave rings?" "Yes," she said, approaching lightly, gracefully, "in their way, but most of them are only anchor rings, to which, say, chains or cords might be attached". |
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| 32 | 134 |
The hands of Ligurious fumbled at the cords on her ankles, and then on her hands. |
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| 33 | 153 |
In moments Sheila, freed of the gag and cords, wore chains. |
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| 36 | 667 |
How fortunate I was, only a girl of Earth, one amongst lonely millions, little different from myself, to have been brought to this world! How fortunate I was to have at last encountered true men, the masters of women! How few women do! How meaningful and joyful now seemed to me the auction blocks, t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 794 |
In these racks, if one wishes to secure the woman within the webbing, simple cords are used. |
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| 6 | 531 |
"They might be pleased to get their capture cords on a free woman". |
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| 8 | 46 |
Two cords are used. |
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| 8 | 255 |
The girls, slaves, kneeling, still bound helplessly, naked, their small hands jerking at the cords holding their wrists tight to their belly, screamed. |
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| 18 | 257 |
In a few moments I was then again making my way through the halls of the palace, dragging a slave sack by its cords behind me. |
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| 21 | 368 |
"Do not kill me!" cried Flaminius, twisting in the cords, seeing me approaching through the apartments, the steel of my sword bared. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 225 |
She had belted it snugly, and had, too, drawn its adjustment cording snugly from its loop about the back of her neck down to her breasts where she had crossed it and then taken it back, both cords, between and under her breasts, again to her belt, tying it closely at the sides of her body. |
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| 9 | 173 |
"Do not touch the cords," he said. |
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| 11 | 261 |
"Do not untie my ankles!" Hurtha dropped the ankle cords to one side. |
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| 13 | 174 |
"Forgive me, Mistress!" wept the new girl, her head down, her back bent forward, her small hands twisting helplessly in the cords that held them behind her back. |
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| 16 | 1496 |
This is usually done by engineers, with surveying cords. |
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| 16 | 1539 |
In the underside of the horizontal beam there was fixed a stout ring, from which cords dangled. |
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| 16 | 1540 |
In these cords, her wrists crossed and bound over her head, there was now a fair prisoner. |
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| 16 | 1550 |
The girl tensed in the cords, hearing us behind her. |
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| 16 | 1568 |
"A slave, Mistress," said the girl, trembling in the confining cords. |
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| 16 | 1626 |
Then the girl, punished, hung in the cords, gasping, weeping. |
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| 21 | 248 |
Too, it is in such a district that one will find a wide variety of other articles helpful in the identification, keeping, training, and disciplining of females, such things as collars, of the fixed and lock variety, leashes, of metal and leather, neck, wrist and ankle, ranging from simple guide thon... |
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| 25 | 30 |
Her brothels, if it is of interest are the Chains of Gold, supposedly her best, costing at any rate a copper tarsk for admission, and, all cheap tarsk-bit brothels, the Silken Cords, the Scarlet Whip, the Slave Racks, and the Tunnels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73 |
How many times I had awakened from sleep, moving against the coarse, narrow cords which had held me down, above and below my breasts and crossed between them, leaving their cruel marks on my body! How many times had I awakened, seeming still to feel the tight bite of cruel shackles on my wrists and ... |
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| 3 | 857 |
Could I be remembering it, I wondered, from a sunlit shelf in Memphis, from a patio in Athens, from a post in Rome or a ring, cords on my wrists, in a women's quarters in Bokara, Basra, Samarkand or Baghdad? Had I felt it before, somewhere, or in many places, and never, even through a succession of ... |
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| 10 | 645 |
He then went to the side of the room, where there dangled three or four cords. |
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| 10 | 647 |
He drew on one of these cords. |
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| 11 | 945 |
I examined in dismay the beads about my neck, the cords at my waist, my barbarically adorned ankles and wrists. |
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| 17 | 170 |
I loosened the cords which kept the pallet on my back. |
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| 29 | 106 |
One can usually recognize a man of Tharna by two yellow cords, each about eighteen inches long, thrust over the belt. |
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| 29 | 107 |
Such cords are suitable for binding a female, hand and foot. |
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| 29 | 108 |
In seeing such cords the woman understands that it is possible for them to be used to put her at a man's mercy. |
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| 29 | 109 |
The meaning of these cords has something to do, apparently, with the history of the polis of Tharna. |
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| 29 | 129 |
The small fellow, however, did not wear in his belt the two cords of Tharna. |
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| 30 | 9 |
Cords encircled my ankles. |
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| 30 | 22 |
She was secured identically as I was, a few feet to my right, her ankles fastened with cords, on the insides of two saplings, about a yard apart, her wrists braceleted behind her. |
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| 30 | 134 |
Tela was then freed of the cords on her ankles, holding her between the trees. |
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| 30 | 136 |
I was then freed of the ankle cords which had kept me in place, between the trees. |
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| 31 | 117 |
He had watched the stranger place, pull tight and knot the cords. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 84 |
Some veils are held not with pins but with hooks or cords, passing about the back of the head. |
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| 6 | 86 |
With the hood cords, which can fasten the hood more or less closely about the neck, like a cloak, I fastened the veil in place. |
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| 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. |
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| 8 | 896 |
But actual bonds, leather thongs, silken cords, shackles, neck chains, and such, surely, too, have their place. |
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| 9 | 75 |
They may be fastened by means of such devices as cords, straps and laces. |
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| 16 | 141 |
I then loosened the two ties of the gag and pulled the wadding out from her mouth, letting it hang over the loosened cords, putting the whole by her throat. |
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| 16 | 151 |
Then she cried out, suddenly, as I replaced the wadding in her mouth, tightening it in again, with the cords. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 63 |
It is in this ceremony, also, that they receive the two yellow cords commonly worn in the belt of a male Tharnan. |
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| 26 | 64 |
These cords, each about eighteen inches long, are suitable for the binding of a female, hand and foot. |
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| 26 | 68 |
They are then, by the young men, bound with the yellow cords, so that they will know their feel. |
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| 26 | 69 |
Afterwards, they are usually conducted home by one of the young men, often he whose cords have bound them, and who may be interested in their acquisition, on his leash, usually to the home of their mother's owner, usually their father, to whom, in virtue of such a ceremony, they now legally count as... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 622 |
They are, or were, I believe, the Chains of Gold, supposedly the best, or at least the most expensive, and then, all cheap tarsk-bit brothels, the Silken Cords, the Scarlet Whip, the Slave Racks and the Tunnels. |
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| 17 | 400 |
"Those poles are hollow," I said, "and within them there are cords and weights". |
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| 17 | 402 |
"The cords," I said, "are attached at one end to the weights within the poles and, at the other end, to the corners of a flat pallet at the bottom of palanquin, on which the girl reclines. |
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| 17 | 405 |
As the weights descend within the poles the cords move and draw the pallet up under the canopy". |
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| 19 | 351 |
In the south, the Wagon Peoples sometimes use the bola in such captures, the cords and weights whipping about the girls legs and ankles, pinning them together, hurling her to the ground, where, in an instant, before she can free herself, the captor, leaping from the saddle, is upon her. |
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| 19 | 1290 |
Too, a girl is sometimes given to field slaves that way, cords attached sometimes to the ends of the yoke, that she may be pulled about, turned this way and that, and, in general, moved about and controlled as the slaves wish, until they weary of the sport and choose to have their way with her. |
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| 20 | 472 |
As an illustration, she becomes very much aware, as a free woman would not be, of subtleties of texture, little things, such as the softness of fur, the feel of rep-cloth, the corrugation and weaving of a mat, the knap of a rug, the smoothness of tiles, the movement of silk upon a body, how a camisk... |
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| 25 | 9 |
I saw the two slaves within the heavy toils of the net, the reticulated pattern of cords close about them. |
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| 26 | 131 |
Why, then, should she not draw attention to herself , as she can, and in ways likely to be stimulatory not only to his sexuality but to hers, as well? Certainly slave garments, like bracelets, cords, ropes and chains, whips, the switch, hoods, blindfolds and gags, are arousing to the slave as well a... |
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| 26 | 461 |
"And you?" asked Tolnar of Lavinia, who was looking on the netted captive, indeed, a prisoner of the same cords which, months before, had held her with such similar perfection. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 751 |
The cords binding my wrists were freed from the ring, and then the cords were removed from my wrists. |
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| 4 | 403 |
These, with their heavy thongs, or cords, came high on the calf. |
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| 9 | 218 |
More than once, sometimes in twos and threes, sometimes in tens and twenties, I had seen riders returning with bulging saddle bags, and sacks tied behind the saddle, and about the pommels, and with golden vessels, and candelabra, flashing in the light, slung from the saddles on cords. |
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| 10 | 497 |
Sometimes a given warrior may have several women hurrying behind him, their leash cords grasped in his fist. |
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| 11 | 732 |
In one place the back of my wrist was wet where a tear had slipped between the cords. |
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| 11 | 1888 |
Closely meshed cords were now all about me. |
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| 12 | 2 |
About me the cords were tight. |
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| 12 | 4 |
I lay very quietly in the cords, moving only a little to change my position, to twist a bit to my side, to ease the attitude of my bound limbs. |
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| 12 | 10 |
Its cords were perhaps a half inch in thickness. |
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| 12 | 12 |
On the other hand, the cords were not coarse. |
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| 12 | 18 |
The softness of the cords doubtless had to do with the fact that some of the net's catches might be expected to be such as I. |
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| 12 | 42 |
The cords are commonly of silk and the mesh is normally fastened in diamonds or squares, some two inches, or so, in width. |
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| 12 | 998 |
How helpless I was! How tight the cords were! "Yes, Master," I said. |
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| 12 | 1033 |
My ankles fought the cords on them. |
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| 37 | 522 |
It would have been easy enough to do, as we were bound, and conveniently at hand, in our neck-cords. |
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| 37 | 1179 |
He freed her hands and feet, cutting the cords of twisted cloth, taken from her garments, which the peasant had used to bind them. |
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| 37 | 1191 |
The pit master then cut the cords, in the center, that held the pairs of slaves together. |
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| 44 | 283 |
He jerked the cords tight. |
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| 46 | 29 |
I pulled at the cords on my wrists. |
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| 46 | 64 |
I recalled how easily it had parted the cords on my ankles. |
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| 46 | 284 |
Then I cried out with relief, as I felt the knife part the cords on my wrists. |
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| 24 | 115 |
Others were intent on preparing for their summonses to the sand, adjusting their costumes, some tying cords of bells about their ankles, others having others tie such cords of bells about their wrists, regarding themselves in the mirrors, considering their makeup. |
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| 4 | 528 |
"No," she said, "no, no!" "I wonder what color cords would look well on you," he said. |
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| 4 | 534 |
"Cords? Bound?" He then drew from the center drawer of his desk a small, rectangular leather case, from which he withdrew a syringe, and a vial. |
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| 9 | 102 |
Sometimes the guards had bound her, with colorful cords, sometimes in exotic fashions, and had then ordered her to free herself, but she had been unable to do so. |
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| 9 | 105 |
She recalled the words of the young man, on Earth, now her master on Gor, that he had thought she would be very pretty in such cords, later, when she would be luscious, helplessly bound in them. |
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| 18 | 324 |
Such things, like cords and chains, perhaps partly for physical reasons, but surely, too, for psychological reasons, cruelly fan the flames of a woman's bondage. |
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| 26 | 1607 |
"In my training," she said, "the guards often bound me in pretty cords. |
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| 26 | 1611 |
Had she not seen herself in the mirrors, when ordered to struggle in them, and had she not noted the reactions of the guards? "You will tie me in pretty cords, will you not, sometimes, Master?" she wheedled. |
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| 26 | 1612 |
The sight of her helplessly bound in such cords, she hoped, might please him. |
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| 27 | 734 |
Even laces and cords could bind me, as well. |
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| 27 | 738 |
In her training she had often been bound, usually with colorful, soft cords. |
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| 25 | 73 |
She must stand so, for a time, waiting, for he removed the strings of rubies from his pouch, and freed the rubies from their cords, and deposited them in his pouch, and then, with one of the cords, not returned to the pouch, he fastened her wrists behind her. |
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| 27 | 11 |
In the alcove, as is often the case, were various devices, gags, blindfolds, shackles, coarse rope, silken cords, adjustable chains, a switch, a whip, such things, convenient to masters, not unfamiliar to slaves. |
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| 29 | 297 |
He did not respond to her, but in a moment, with two short cords, whipped free, she was trussed, hand and foot. |
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| 34 | 115 |
Her wrists were then fastened, bound, to her ankles, bound, and she could not lift her hands to her mouth, nor could she reach her wrist cords with her teeth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 24 | 220 |
But might not the blade of will, no matter how foolishly, lash out at the cords, and slash them, though the fabric itself be disfigured? Or is the slashing, the weeping, and grief, the anger, the fear, the resentment, only another element in the design? No, I thought, no. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 717 |
Those of Tharna wear in their belt the two yellow cords, each eighteen inches in length, suitable for binding females, hand and foot". |
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| 3 | 1108 |
"I drew against the cords on my wrists and ankles. |
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| 3 | 1123 |
Often they will beg to be unbound, rearing and twisting in their cords, that they may be permitted to please their master. |
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| 3 | 1128 |
'They,' I whispered, obediently, looking up, pulling a little at the cords, and sobbed, '—Master. |
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| 3 | 1207 |
I pulled against the cords. |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 59 |
She will speak of cities, and secret places, of a metal box, a Metal Worker, of beasts, large, hirsute, and dangerous, of an underground workshop, of pride, ambition, and devotion, of warriors and slaves, of gold and steel, of cords, and silk, of ships and worlds. |
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| 4 | 72 |
I twisted, and squirmed, and bucked and thrashed, wildly, jerking against the cords, fastened several times about my wrists and ankles. |
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| 4 | 544 |
"Your left ankles," she said, "will be encircled several times with small, colored cords, on which bells will be threaded. |
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| 8 | 377 |
She learns the blindfold, the gag, ropes, wrapped silken cords, thongs, bracelets, and chains. |
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| 18 | 352 |
The alcoves, I understood were furnished with a variety of conveniences, bracelets, chains, thongs, cords, scarves, hoods, switches, whips, and such, by means of which a girl might be encouraged to perform excellently, to do her best for one of her master's customers. |
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| 18 | 440 |
"Is that why the women of your world make such excellent slaves, why they lick and kiss our whips and feet, why they beg to be subdued and chained, owned and mastered, why they writhe in grateful ecstasy in the thongs and silken cords that render them helpless?" he asked. |
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| 18 | 523 |
Most masters, on the other hand, brought their own cords, bracelets, laces or thongs to a table. |
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| 20 | 92 |
It was not as though I was a free woman, amongst others captured in a city being sacked, and a captor had tied my wrists behind me with his own colored cords, different from those of his fellows, that I might be sorted out appropriately in the temporary slave pens outside the city. |
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| 36 | 38 |
Often even the cords and straps, the binding fiber, and such, and sometimes even the chains with which slaves are bound, are colorful. |
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| 46 | 159 |
Perhaps the cords were inexorably being drawn tight. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 50 | 295 |
These were no lovely, silken cords, supple, delightful cords, bright with color slave cords, suitable for the attractive binding of a secured, helpless slave, but were a common, coarse ropage, the same, it seemed, as that which tethered the boats in place. |
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| 5 | 180 |
But for what had we been found acceptable? When the cords were knotted about my wrists and ankles there could be little doubt about the matter. |
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| 6 | 271 |
Too, for the pleasure of knotting cords on the wrists and ankles of slave fruit, on luscious, bipedalian, barbarian cattle. |
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| 7 | 127 |
We knew the purpose of the cords, the strips of cloth, the long rope. |
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| 7 | 129 |
Why could we not be purchased for such places? But we recognized the cords, the strips of cloth, the long rope. |
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| 7 | 327 |
We had seen the use of the long rope, the cords, the strips of cloth, before. |
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| 8 | 464 |
"Oh!" she said, softly, startled, and jerked at the cords on her wrists, but, too, inadvertently or not, she had also lifted her head. |
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| 8 | 512 |
After the vessel was well underway, it seemed likely they would be taken to the base hold, the ceiling of which is waist high, which is floored with ballast sand, and there chained together by the neck, after which they would be freed of the wrist cords and blindfolds. |
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| 15 | 239 |
I pulled a little at the cords which held my hands behind my back. |
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| 25 | 124 |
My wrists fought the cords that held them. |
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| 29 | 148 |
Their wrists were not bound, by cords or thongs, but by the mistress ' will. |
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| 31 | 54 |
I would have preferred the mercy of cords, tying my hands together. |
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| 31 | 55 |
Men, who are kinder, would almost always have used cords. |
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| 33 | 155 |
In a few moments, with light cords, we had been bound for the night. |
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| 37 | 134 |
Tula, Mila, and I stood near our burdens, frightened, mere women, feminine women, so unlike the mighty Panther Women, so unlike that we could be to them as naught but despised slaves, women of the sort which men immediately think of in terms of a brand and tunic, women of the sort which men think li... |
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| 43 | 764 |
I struggled with the cords on my wrists. |
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| 43 | 787 |
Irons, knives, and cords are not the only means by which a helpless enemy may be tormented. |
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| 43 | 811 |
"Perhaps you might recommend that I have Tiomines chew through the cords?" said Axel, unpleasantly. |
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| 43 | 813 |
"Certainly," said Axel, "first rub the cords with tarsk grease, and then be prepared to lose at least one hand". |
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| 50 | 287 |
They were not equipped with the weights and cords, the water-tight cabinets for marking tools and charts, used by the fellows who regularly plotted, and sounded, the river's sometimes treacherous depths and channels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 51 |
Strung cords with their dangling slivers of metal tend to be less favored; they may stir in the wind, like prayer chimes in a temple, which signals a human presence, past or present, and perhaps a camp's periphery. |
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| 12 | 362 |
I tried, weakly, to pull against the cords, but was helpless. |
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| 14 | 41 |
"You expected to bear the brunt of a shogun's wrath," said Lord Yamada, "exquisitely expressed over weeks with cords and irons, with needles and clamps, with flaming splinters, perhaps culminating eventually in the horror of the straw jacket?" "I did not know what to expect," I said. |
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| 29 | 194 |
"You tarsk!" She struggled in the cords. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 232 |
The Lady Bina then undid the knots of the cords wound about my ankles, and put the cords to the side. |
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| 8 | 273 |
How can some, I wondered, pretend to be ignorant of the tensions, the cords of interest and desire, which attend the interactions of the sexes? Are they unaware of the radical centrality of sexuality to the human condition? Do they lie, or are they somehow ignorant, or inert, simply blind to the tur... |
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| 20 | 24 |
The leather of harnessing comes in various degrees of quality, and is often available, like slave cords, in different colors. |
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| 42 | 42 |
I was very much aware, for an instant, of the cords fastening my ankles together. |
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| 42 | 208 |
I turned about, sitting, my ankles now before me, and reached to undo the cords. |
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| 42 | 210 |
"Please, Mistress!" I wept, quickly removing my hands from the cords. |
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| 48 | 76 |
I watched Paula turn about, and, sitting, bring her feet before her, and address herself to the cords on her ankles. |
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| 50 | 47 |
There are ropes and chains, cords and laces, switches and whips. |
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| 61 | 541 |
Men of Tharna, when outside the city, are recognized by the wearing, in the belt, of two yellow cords, some eighteen inches or so in length. |
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| 61 | 542 |
Some women, gazing upon these cords, feel weak, and strangely stirred. |
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| 61 | 544 |
Two things might be noted about the "cords of Tharna". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 132 |
There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city; I am... |
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| 6 | 157 |
No sooner had I opened my mouth than a folded leather wadding was thrust into it, deeply, which expanded, as it was secured with cords, tightly, behind the back of my neck, over the sheet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 4 |
Those on the wall, above the gate, readied the unlit lamps and cords. |
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| 42 | 38 |
When I heard the second beam begin to move, slowly, and heavily, in its brackets, I called, "Lamps!" At this point a dozen men on the wall above the gate thrust the wicks of tharlarion-oil lamps into the flames of their then unshuttered dark lanterns, and lowered the lamps, on their cords to a heigh... |
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| 42 | 101 |
Let the net first be full; then draw its cords. |
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| 42 | 126 |
"Lamps!" Even before the lamps were lit, and dangling on their cords, the men of Mytilene, with cries of rage, rushed toward the gate, brandishing their miscellany of weapons, including those taken from the fallen mercenaries slain in our earlier action, stabbing and striking. |
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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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