| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 39 |
Soon the great winches were in motion and, foot by foot, the frightful netting of tarn wire began to sag. |
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| 2 | 177 |
If one approaches the mountains, one must go on foot. |
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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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| 5 | 145 |
Ar had, for most practical purposes, surrounded itself with an invisible wall, a bleached region, forbidding and almost impassable to those on foot. |
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| 6 | 25 |
I lunged for the center of the platform, breaking under my foot a small ceremonial basket filled with grain, kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing the fermented red liquid across the stone surface. |
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| 6 | 139 |
In an instant I had splashed into the marsh at the foot of the tree and raced toward the tharlarion, my sword raised. |
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| 6 | 154 |
Accordingly, carrying the sword in my hand, I waded back to the foot of the swamp tree and climbed the small, dry knoll at its base. |
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| 7 | 38 |
One monstrous platformlike shoe had broken from her small foot and flopped beside her ankle, still attached by its straps. |
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| 7 | 44 |
She tried to rise, but one foot was, of course, some ten inches higher than the other. |
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| 7 | 216 |
I turned slowly, my hands away from my body, and found myself facing two of the foot soldiers of Ar, one of them an officer, the other of common rank. |
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| 9 | 74 |
She stood up and jerked her foot against the chain, demonstrating that she was perfectly secured. |
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| 10 | 120 |
When the high tharlarion moves slowly, its stride is best described as a proud, stalking movement, each great clawed foot striking the earth with a measured rhythm. |
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| 11 | 5 |
Talena ran to the foot of my tharlarion, and with my lance I hoisted her to the saddle so that she could see. |
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| 11 | 27 |
The venture might be risky, particularly if I had to steal the tarn and elude pursuit, but, all things considered, an escape on tarnback seemed to me far safer than trying to cross the Vosk and make our way on foot or tharlarion through the hills and wilderness to the distant cylinders of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 12 | 108 |
High on a sunlit mountain ledge, the sable tarn dropped me to the sticks and brush of its nest and set one steel-shod taloned foot across my body, to hold me steady as the great beak did its work. |
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| 12 | 113 |
And then, fool that I was, half demented with hunger and terror, I only then realized that the tarn was none other than my own! I shoved on the steel-shod foot that pressed me into the sticks of the nest, uttering my command with ringing authority. |
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| 12 | 114 |
The bird lifted his foot and backed away, still uncertain as to what to do. |
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| 13 | 35 |
As it moved, for all its speed, it placed each paw carefully on the ground, first the toes and then the ball of the foot, as silently as the wind might bend grass, in a motion that was as beautiful as it was terrifying. |
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| 16 | 133 |
It was perhaps a ten-foot cube, entirely enclosed. |
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| 18 | 126 |
Fortunately, almost at the foot of the stairs lay one of the gates of the tarn cot. |
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| 18 | 128 |
I climbed the stairs that led to the portal into the cylinder, turned the valve, and as soon as the portal began to move, raced down to the tarn cot and swung open that barred gate which lay nearest the foot of the stairs. |
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| 19 | 45 |
Lying on the ground, bound hand and foot, still clad in the white robe, was Talena. |
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| 19 | 166 |
During this time Talena, though bound hand and foot, had struggled to her knees, and she watched us fight, her hair and the folds of her robe blown by the wind that whipped across the roof of the cylinder. |
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| 20 | 19 |
Oddly enough, the body of Pa-Kur himself was never recovered from the foot of the Cylinder of Justice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 67 |
Savagely, our backs breaking, stinging under the frenzied lashing of our driver, cursing the colorful sands of the arena that mounted before the block as we dragged it foot by foot about the course, we managed to come first within the zone of the golden wall. |
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| 1 | 91 |
I became aware of his silence, and the light subdued patter of conversation at the bar, the clink of glasses, the sounds of a foot scraping, of liquid swirling into a small, heavy glass. |
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| 2 | 28 |
It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood. |
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| 3 | 19 |
The sun would soon be down, and the Gorean night is not without its dangers, particularly to a man on foot. |
10 |
| 3 | 29 |
One to be feared even more perhaps was the tiny ost, a venomous, brilliantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length, whose bite spelled an excruciating death within seconds. |
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| 3 | 111 |
Turning to run his foot slipped on one of the sticks and he fell. |
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| 11 | 22 |
One such helmeted warrior stood near the foot of the throne. |
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| 11 | 27 |
The warrior at the foot of the throne removed his helmet. |
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| 11 | 93 |
There was a whimpering and a scuffling from behind me, and, to my astonishment, one of the guardsman of the palace, the tiny silver mask blazed across the left temple of his helmet, flung Ost, the conspirator, yoked and sniveling, to the foot of the throne. |
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| 12 | 10 |
A food pan lay near my foot. |
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| 13 | 110 |
Suddenly the foot of Kron swept through the white perfumed sand, bright with mica and red lead, and kicked a broad sheet of particles toward my eyes. |
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| 14 | 19 |
I walked slowly to the foot of the golden wall, where lay the golden scarf of the Tatrix, that scarf whose fluttering signal had initiated the Amusements. |
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| 15 | 38 |
It would surely come, on foot and on tarnback. |
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| 18 | 66 |
And as time passed I learned from the food slaves that this revolution, as unannounced and silent as the foot of a larl, had begun to spread from mine to mine. |
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| 18 | 89 |
He seemed to injure his foot with the pick, and he pleaded so earnestly with the Whip Slave that the fellow removed him from the chain and, putting a collar on his throat, led him limping away. |
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| 18 | 96 |
"His foot requires care," said the Whip Slave, gesturing us toward the long cell. |
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| 19 | 46 |
The men crowded out onto the floor of the shaft, which lay only a foot below the opening of our mine, for our mine was the lowest of all. |
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| 20 | 120 |
I knew now that it was true, what I had been told, that those who entered the mountains would do so on foot. |
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| 24 | 155 |
When at last I stood unslain on the black cobblestones at the foot of the double rampart I knew that though Dorna the Proud might rule in Tharna, though it might be she who sat upon the golden throne of the city, that it was the word of a warrior that ruled on those ramparts above me. |
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| 25 | 16 |
I kicked the sword from the hand and turned over the body with my foot. |
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| 25 | 104 |
"Were you to stay and die at the foot of your throne we would follow you and die by your side," said the first warrior. |
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| 26 | 28 |
I myself had stood at the foot of the steps to the golden throne when Lara had commanded that the giant mask of gold which hung behind it be pried by spears from the wall and cast to the floor at our feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 79 |
It will be their sad lot to be stripped and fitted with the collars and chains of slave girls and forced to follow the wagons on foot to the fair, or if the caravan's tharlarions have been killed or driven off, they will carry its goods on their backs. |
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| 3 | 8 |
Their upper canine fangs, like daggers mounted in their jaws, must have been at least a foot in length and extended well below their jaws in the manner of ancient saber-toothed tigers. |
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| 4 | 73 |
I took the weapon and tossed it toward the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 4 | 76 |
At the foot of the dais there was a bit of soot and some droplets of melted bronze. |
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| 6 | 94 |
Vika had unrolled a straw mat which she placed on the floor at the foot of the great stone couch in the chamber. |
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| 7 | 24 |
She had risen from her mat at the foot of the couch unbelievingly, blinking and rubbing her heavy-lidded, ovoid eyes. |
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| 7 | 58 |
I wondered how many men had fallen at her feet, how many men she had forced to sleep at the foot of the great stone couch, in the shadow of the slave ring, while she herself reclined on the pelts and silks of the master. |
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| 8 | 3 |
She had been lying on the straw mat at the foot of the stone couch. |
10 |
| 9 | 2 |
This was unusual, however, for normally the Gorean slave girl sleeps at the foot of her master's couch, often on a straw mat with only a thin, cottonlike blanket, woven from the soft fibers of the Rep Plant, to protect her from the cold. |
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| 9 | 7 |
Thus when she has been irritable or otherwise troublesome even a Free Companion may find herself at the foot of the couch looking forward to a pleasant night on the stones, stripped, with neither mat nor blanket, chained to a slave ring precisely as though she were a lowly slave girl. |
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| 9 | 199 |
In that moment I sensed once more that slightly acrid scent which I had experienced in the corridors beyond the chamber, and I pressed my mouth hard into Vika's until her lips were cut by my teeth and I had pressed her back until only my arm kept her from falling to the stones of the floor, and I he... |
10 |
| 9 | 204 |
Vika crouched terrified on the slave mat at the foot of the couch, in the very shadow of the slave ring. |
10 |
| 9 | 213 |
I found myself tempted to break her head against the foot of the stone couch, for she was worthless, treacherous, seductive, cruel, vicious, worthy only of the collar, irons and the whip! She shook her head numbly as though denying charges I had not voiced. |
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| 12 | 85 |
Hardly had his delicate foot touched the button than a panel slid aside and two handsome men, of the most symmetrical form and features with shaven heads and clad in the purple, plastic tunics of slaves, entered the room and prostrated themselves before the dais. |
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| 16 | 165 |
"A hundred men," said Misk, "allowed themselves to be chained to the foot of her couch where she would upon occasion, that they might not die, cast them scraps of food as though they might have been pet sleen". |
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| 17 | 4 |
In fevered sleep it seemed I saw Sarm's great head with its powerful, laterally moving jaws hovering over me, that I heard the cry of larls and saw the burning pupils of Parp's eyes and his reaching toward me with instruments and a golden net, and I found myself chained to the foot of Vika's couch a... |
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| 20 | 118 |
He shoved the globe up and a foot or so to the side and then with a quick movement reclosed it in such a way that once again its floorside aperture described an opening of approximately six inches in diameter. |
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| 22 | 6 |
Still holding the Mul-Torch in my teeth because I wanted both hands free I began to make my way toward Misk, hand and foot, across these metal extensions. |
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| 22 | 53 |
The device hung from a hook about a foot out of Misk's reach. |
10 |
| 25 | 173 |
I have dreamed since first I met you of sleeping beneath the slave ring—chained at the foot of your couch". |
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| 27 | 193 |
Never before had a human set foot in this chamber and I knew not if I had committed sacrilege but I did not care, for my friend was in danger. |
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| 27 | 263 |
To one side I saw the bladed projection lying at the foot of one of the low stone tiers on which Priest-Kings stood. |
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| 27 | 323 |
The withered antennae trembled, and the thin brown threads on them lifted as though stirred by a chill wind, the passing foot of mortality. |
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| 29 | 39 |
Had it truly been Vika of Treve? I raced to the workshop of Misk and flung open the double doors and leaped into the ship and secured the hatch, and in a moment it seemed the floor dropped a foot beneath me and the doors rushed forward. |
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| 30 | 46 |
* * * * My prison was a rubber disk, perhaps a foot thick and ten feet in diameter. |
10 |
| 31 | 234 |
With my foot I tumbled its heavy body from the walkway and watched it slide down the side of the globe and fall like Sarm to the rubble below. |
10 |
| 32 | 203 |
Moving as though in a dream, my foot touching the ground only perhaps once in thirty or forty yards, I climbed the circling ramp upward toward the elevator. |
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| 32 | 292 |
He seemed to float down to the floor and, touching one sandaled foot to the ground only every twenty yards or so, began to leave the chamber in slow dreamlike bounds. |
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| 33 | 5 |
Several times, in fact, I had simply leaped from one portion of the trail to float more than a hundred feet downward to land lightly on another portion of the trail, a point which, on foot, might have been separated by more than five pasangs from the point above from which I had leaped. |
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| 33 | 21 |
It should take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice. |
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| 34 | 52 |
This time the Older Tarl lifted him up by the scruff of his robes and held him dangling, kicking, a foot from the ground. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 570 |
Then, foot by booted foot, Kamchak advanced toward him. |
10 |
| 4 | 39 |
Thrown low the long straps, with their approximate ten-foot sweep, almost impossible to evade, strike the victim and the weighted balls, as soon as resistance is met, whip about the victim, tangling and tightening the straps. |
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| 7 | 8 |
A large dais had been built, vast and spreading, but standing no more than a foot from the earth. |
10 |
| 8 | 53 |
The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping, ear-flapped c... |
10 |
| 8 | 216 |
I was most fond, perhaps, of the balanced saddle knife, the quiva; it is about a foot in length, double edged; it tapers to a daggerlike point. |
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| 8 | 321 |
Indeed she did, but in an instant I saw the leather flash of the bola, with its vicious, beautiful almost ten-foot sweep, streak toward the girl's ankles, and I saw her fall. |
10 |
| 8 | 326 |
Could she free a hand or foot, or even loosen the thong, Conrad would be disqualified. |
10 |
| 12 | 360 |
"I suppose," said Elizabeth, "I could hop all the way on one foot". |
10 |
| 12 | 391 |
Once at the foot of the stairs she stopped and stood for a long moment. |
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| 16 | 15 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup... |
10 |
| 16 | 27 |
A foot or so above the surface hung a huge, heavy drum, now tipped on its side. |
10 |
| 16 | 33 |
"The tiles must be periodically inspected," he said, "and for this purpose there are foot knots in the rope". |
10 |
| 16 | 36 |
The foot knots were done with subsidiary rope but worked into the fiber of the main rope and glued over so as to be almost one with it. |
10 |
| 16 | 116 |
We had scarcely cleared the portal and set foot in the street when we heard a swift rustle of heavy wire and, startled, looking up, saw the steel net descend on us. |
10 |
| 16 | 262 |
It was, at its widest point, about a foot thick. |
10 |
| 20 | 75 |
I struck again and the other rope burst from my stroke and the bridge swung rapidly back against the wall of the building opposite with a clatter of sticks and cries, knocking the remaining, clinging guardsmen from it, dropping them like wood senseless to the foot of the wall. |
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| 21 | 1 |
Kamchak Enters Turia I had now been in the city of Turia some four days, having returned on foot in the guise of a peddler of small jewels. |
10 |
| 21 | 41 |
I then, on foot, following for a time the tracks of the departing wagons, then departing from them, returned to the vicinity of Turia. |
10 |
| 21 | 45 |
I was hardly questioned by guards at the gates of Turia, for the city is a commercial oasis in the plains and during a year hundreds of caravans, not to mention thousands of small merchants, on foot or with a single tharlarion wagon, enter her gates. |
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| 21 | 194 |
"And on foot". |
10 |
| 21 | 198 |
"And you will be on foot," she said. |
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| 23 | 213 |
Most of the gold and jewels, and precious plate and cups and goblets, were missing, except where here and there a coin or stone might lie missed at the edge of the wagon hides or at the foot of one of the curved wagon poles. |
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| 25 | 752 |
"It means nothing!" I then began to kiss her foot, and the inside of her ankle, beneath the bone, and she trembled momentarily. |
10 |
| 25 | 754 |
But I only kissed her, holding her, my lips moving to the back of her leg, low where it joins the foot, where an ankle ring would be locked. |
10 |
| 26 | 95 |
Harold and I, on foot, accompanied him. |
10 |
| 26 | 142 |
Kamchak now gave his kaiila to a subordinate and, on foot, carrying torch and quiva, began to prowl down the passage, beside him the two snarling sleen, behind him Harold and I, and the rest of his men, several with torches, even the slaves with gold. |
10 |
| 26 | 496 |
I recalled he had moved it about with his foot, that once he had kicked it across the wagon for me to examine. |
10 |
| 27 | 172 |
He put one foot in the stirrup and mounted easily. |
10 |
| 28 | 18 |
Following this, she untied the thong from the root and permitted the girl, thong still streaming from her nose ring, wrists still bound behind her, to run for her master's wagon, but pursued her each foot of the way like a hunting sleen, administering innumerable stinging incitements to greater and ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 48 |
The urn was given to him who wore the robes of the Administrator of the City, who took it and slowly, on foot, withdrew toward Ko-ro-ba, followed by the large blond Warrior and the small Scribe. |
10 |
| 2 | 47 |
It gave her about a two-foot length of chain, fastened to a slave ring bolted into the stone. |
10 |
| 4 | 3 |
His large hands rested over the arms of the curved curule chair in which he sat, which was mounted on a platform of stone, about a foot high and twelve feet square. |
10 |
| 5 | 114 |
Then, eyes closed, not moving, except the heel of the right foot, which beat the rhythm, she began to hum a Tuchuk slave song; on the second measure, her hands came to her hips and she opened her eyes, looking at me; on the third measure, her body began to move and, to the melody, she began to sway ... |
10 |
| 5 | 580 |
"No, you will not," she said, with one foot kicking Relia's discarded Robes of Concealment from the bridge. |
10 |
| 5 | 607 |
She would then climb into the wagon where, with two ankle rings, joined by a foot of chain looped about the central bar, she would be fastened in the wagon. |
10 |
| 5 | 691 |
"And this," I said, "provides even greater security," lifting her to the foot of the couch, sitting her down there and snapping the heavy chain and collar, attached to the slave ring fixed there, about her throat. |
10 |
| 5 | 729 |
I gave Elizabeth a swift kiss and then jerked the slave livery to her waist and turned her about, putting her on her side at the foot of the couch, facing away from the door. |
10 |
| 5 | 730 |
She lay there on the stones, half-stripped, turned away, bound hand and foot, her throat fastened to the slave ring by the heavy collar and chain. |
10 |
| 6 | 96 |
She had been quite angry, kneeling there bound hand and foot, fastened to the slave ring by chain and collar, while I trotted off to have dinner with the master of the house. |
10 |
| 8 | 146 |
Elizabeth had gathered up the love furs which I had kicked across the room and had spread them at the foot of the couch. |
10 |
| 10 | 106 |
The slave who had won at hook knife the night before, I observed, was again eating at the foot of the table. |
10 |
| 11 | 79 |
Ho-Tu, with his foot, kicked her gruel pan toward her, which slid under the bars of the gate. |
10 |
| 12 | 50 |
Several were going about seeking the odds Merchants, several of whom wandered in the stands, but others of whom kept their tables at the foot of the stands, on the sand itself, almost under the nets beneath the rings. |
10 |
| 12 | 400 |
"Thank you, Master," whined the fool, leaping about from one foot to the other. |
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| 15 | 26 |
The music now became a moan of surrender, and the girl was on her knees, her head down, her hands on the ankle of the Warrior, his sandal lost in the unbound darkness of her hair, her lips to his foot. |
10 |
| 15 | 133 |
The training room was floored with wood, laid diagonally across beams for additional strength; one twelve-foot area of the room was a shallow pit of sand; against one wall were various chests of raiment, cosmetics and retention devices, for girls must be trained to wear chains gracefully; certain da... |
10 |
| 15 | 225 |
In the beginning, when moving about the house, the girls had been permitted only the garb customarily worn in the sweat and motion of the training, a rectangle of silk, about a foot long, thrust into a silken string knotted about the waist; Virginia and Phyllis would not even leave their cells so cl... |
10 |
| 16 | 106 |
Phyllis stamped her foot. |
10 |
| 16 | 277 |
I climbed to the saddle of the tarn, and when Mip unlocked the hobble from its right foot, took it to the starting perch. |
10 |
| 17 | 47 |
Against one wall there were two men, bound hand and foot. |
10 |
| 17 | 123 |
When I had finished with the long-legged girl I had bound her hand and foot and put her to one side. |
10 |
| 17 | 459 |
And surely no woman bred to the civilities and courtesies of Earth would care to remain on a world so barbaric, a world perhaps beautiful but yet threatening and perilous, a world in which a woman is seldom permitted to be other than a woman, a world in which even the exalted Free Companion sleeps u... |
10 |
| 17 | 597 |
"Be silent, slave," said I, poking about, and then I saw in the bottom of the chest, almost colorless, ragged, not more than a foot high nor a few ounces heavy, a small worn, tattered doll, dressed in faded Robes of Concealment, of a sort little girls might play with on the bridges or in the corrido... |
10 |
| 18 | 401 |
It had been nibbling at the scrapings of dried gruel caked in a tin pan near the prisoner's foot. |
10 |
| 18 | 423 |
I looked on that small, trembling, skeletal body, the straggly hair, the sores; the mutilated ear; angrily I rose to my feet and searched about, finding some loose stone which, with my foot, I wedged into the several crevices through which the urts had darted. |
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| 19 | 51 |
I heard two girls laugh and I felt my ankles seized and held while small hands thrust on my back, taking me by surprise and throwing me heavily forward; I struck my shoulder on the back of the cart and the booted foot of a Warrior thrust me from the cart and I fell to my knees on the stones; when I ... |
10 |
| 19 | 78 |
I supposed that now Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, would be in the holding cells beneath the ground level, perhaps being fed, some two or three Ahn prior to the sale; later they would be moved, with others, to the tunnel of ready cells, which leads to the block; there they would be adorned, ma... |
10 |
| 19 | 111 |
A number of Musicians now filed out from the door at the foot of the block and took their places about it, sitting cross-legged on the floor. |
10 |
| 19 | 212 |
The auctioneer sprang to the block and, from the darkness at the foot of the steps, was hurled a chain leash, and then two more. |
10 |
| 19 | 254 |
The auctioneer, with his foot on her belly, held her in place. |
10 |
| 19 | 353 |
In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of oth... |
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| 20 | 418 |
Cernus himself had not recognized them; perhaps none in the room had; the lame foot was perhaps the legacy of his misshapen father; but the boy was fine, and he was brilliant; he was the marvelous Scormus, youthful master Player of Ar. |
10 |
| 20 | 515 |
Hup began to dance on one foot, turning about. |
10 |
| 20 | 553 |
Cernus looked down on Elizabeth, chained at the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 22 | 77 |
It was at the foot of its perch. |
10 |
| 22 | 78 |
It was chained by one foot. |
10 |
| 22 | 145 |
I broke his neck and threw him to the sand at the foot of the dividing wall. |
10 |
| 22 | 379 |
"Bring me," I said, to the crossbowman, standing at the foot of the perch, "from the belongings of Gladius of Cos, kept in the compound of the Steels, the bola of the Tuchuks, the kaiila rope, the southern quiva". |
10 |
| 22 | 386 |
Another man, one of the Steels, who had ridden to victory earlier in the day, ran to the foot of the perch. |
10 |
| 23 | 170 |
At the head of the stairs, I at the foot, he turned. |
10 |
| 24 | 173 |
They were chained in long lines by the collars, five-foot lengths of chain being used, with a snap at each end, each end fastening to a given collar, each collar, save for those terminating a line, being fastened on two sides. |
10 |
| 24 | 186 |
Each held a five-foot chain leash that was snapped on her gray collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 33 |
The Gorean foot is, in my estimation, just slightly longer than the Earth foot; based on the supposition that each of its ten Horts is roughly one and one-quarter inches long, I would give the Gorean foot a length of roughly twelve and one-half inches, Earth measure. |
10 |
| 1 | 59 |
In many places it is too shallow to float even the great flat-bottomed barges and, more importantly, a path for them would have to be cut and chopped, foot by foot, through the thickets of rush and sedge, and the tangles of marsh vine. |
10 |
| 10 | 31 |
The Gorean foot, interestingly, is almost identical to the Earth foot. |
10 |
| 10 | 36 |
As in the case of the official "Stone," so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the Merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, as I have called it. |
10 |
| 14 | 40 |
The oars themselves usually weigh about one stone a foot, or roughly four pounds a foot. |
10 |
| 2 | 53 |
The girl stepped lightly onto my craft and stood with one foot on either side of my body. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 3 | 134 |
Ho-Hak looked at it and then set it against the instep of his left foot, taking the bow in his left hand and the string in his right. |
10 |
| 4 | 31 |
I had spent the night in the open, a foot or two from her tiny hut on the rence island, my wrists tied to my ankles, my neck tethered to an oar pole thrust deep through the rence of the island. |
10 |
| 4 | 32 |
Before dawn her foot awakened me. |
10 |
| 4 | 236 |
She hung the sack again in the corner, putting the scraps and strips of rence left over from her work at the foot of her sleeping mat. |
10 |
| 6 | 101 |
Near the oar pole to which I had been bound, some yards from what had been the circle of the dance, a number of rencers, stripped, men and women, lay bound hand and foot. |
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| 6 | 168 |
In the darkness I found a girl, stripped, bound hand and foot. |
10 |
| 6 | 225 |
I heaped more rence on the craft and then, with one foot, thrust off from the islands between which the raft had been fastened. |
10 |
| 7 | 36 |
One by one they were being taken from the net, the net being tightened again by slaves, and stripped and bound, hand and foot. |
10 |
| 7 | 62 |
I noted that they were no more than a foot above the water, so heavily laden was the barge. |
10 |
| 8 | 215 |
The slaves from the rence islands, lying between the rowers' benches, like fish, bound hand and foot, had their heads to the stern of the vessel. |
10 |
| 8 | 272 |
I indicated a coil of binding fiber that lay near the foot of the rail, below the tiller deck, on my left. |
10 |
| 8 | 310 |
Telima, haltered, bound hand and foot, kneeling on the second broad step of the stairs leading up to the tiller deck, looked up at me. |
10 |
| 8 | 426 |
Telima rolled and then, jerked up short, half choked, by the tether, she lay at the foot of the stairs. |
10 |
| 8 | 446 |
Thurnock, the peasant, and Clitus, the fisherman, approached, holding between them Ho-Hak, bound hand and foot, the heavy collar of the galley slave, with its dangling chain, still riveted about his neck. |
10 |
| 8 | 458 |
I nodded to Telima, who, head down, knelt at the foot of the stairs. |
10 |
| 8 | 560 |
My head, as I stood on the foredeck, was about a foot below her fastened ankles. |
10 |
| 8 | 695 |
Telima, haltered, bound hand and foot at the bottom of the stairs to the tiller deck, addressed herself to me. |
10 |
| 8 | 747 |
"When I found you," I reminded Telima, "you were lying on your stomach, bound hand and foot". |
10 |
| 9 | 615 |
They had been serving bracelets, with two lengths of chain, each about a foot long, which linked them. |
10 |
| 10 | 32 |
Both measures doubtless bear some distant relation to the length of the foot of an adult human male. |
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| 10 | 34 |
Normally, incidentally, in giving measures, the Earth foot, unless otherwise specified, should be understood. |
10 |
| 10 | 37 |
Port Kar's Merchant Foot, like her "Stone," is kept in the arsenal, in the same building as her "Stone". |
10 |
| 14 | 39 |
The Dorna used oars of varying lengths; her oars, like those of many tarn ships, varied by about one and one-half foot Gorean, oar to oar; the most inboard oar being the longest; the outboard oar being the shortest. |
10 |
| 14 | 41 |
The length of those oars on a tarn ship commonly varies from twenty-seven to thirty foot Gorean. |
10 |
| 14 | 42 |
A thirty-foot Gorean oar, the most inboard oar, would commonly weigh thirty stone, or about one hundred and twenty pounds. |
10 |
| 14 | 179 |
The iron-shod ram of the Dorna splintered into her stern a foot below the water line. |
10 |
| 14 | 473 |
"Yes, Captain," roared Thurnock, turning and crossing on the plank to the deck of the Dorna, then taking his way to the shielded flag racks at the foot of her stem castle. |
10 |
| 15 | 405 |
At last, bit by bit, as her fear and terror mounted, the men, fist by fist, took up the slack in the thongs that tethered her, until suddenly, they swiftly bound her hand and foot and lifted her over their heads, captured female slave, displaying her bound arched body to the tables. |
10 |
| 17 | 19 |
I had scarcely set foot on the deck when I saw, near the mast well, the boy Fish. |
10 |
| 17 | 335 |
I gestured and the tarn hobble, fastening the right foot of the great bird to a huge bolt set in the ship's keel, was opened. |
10 |
| 17 | 397 |
With the rope, taken from my belt, I tied the slave manacles to the right foot of the bird. |
10 |
| 17 | 398 |
Chenbar tried, groggily, to get up, but my foot on his neck held him in place. |
10 |
| 18 | 578 |
"Very well," I said, "then it will be necessary, before the next attack, to bind you to the foot of the ladder below". |
10 |
| 18 | 591 |
With a great cry the hundreds of men swarmed to the foot of the keep. |
10 |
| 18 | 615 |
Again and again the great line blasted shafts of pile-tipped tem-wood into those packed at the foot of the keep. |
10 |
| 18 | 617 |
And now archers were running down the side walls, and leaping to other roofs, that every point at the foot of the keep might be within the assailing orbit of the string-flung missiles, and the girls, and the men, too, flung stones from the top of the keep down on the men trying to hide behind it, an... |
10 |
| 18 | 653 |
At the foot of the keep we met Thurnock, Clitus and Ho-Hak. |
10 |
| 18 | 716 |
At the foot of the delta wall there would be tharlarion. |
10 |
| 18 | 806 |
They would return to their rence craft tied at the foot of the delta wall. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 129 |
I lowered myself in terror, foot by foot. |
10 |
| 12 | 86 |
Foot by foot we moved toward the Street of the Field Gate, and then, at last, came that street. |
10 |
| 13 | 595 |
I felt myself being pulled, foot by foot, upward. |
10 |
| 13 | 596 |
I felt the rope press even more cruelly into my body, and I felt myself, foot by foot, lifted. |
10 |
| 15 | 814 |
There was a somewhat larger opening at the foot of the door, about two inches in height and a foot wide. |
10 |
| 1 | 138 |
A stuffed toy, a fluffy koala bear, lay near the foot of the bed. |
10 |
| 1 | 172 |
It was more than a foot high, but it was the same mark that I wore on my thigh, that same graceful, cursive mark. |
10 |
| 2 | 137 |
Another foot. |
10 |
| 2 | 148 |
I lowered myself another foot, and then another. |
10 |
| 2 | 151 |
I lowered myself another foot. |
10 |
| 3 | 14 |
Two men, masked, stood at the foot of the bed, facing me. |
10 |
| 3 | 16 |
The two men who had been at the foot of the bed turned and left the room, going to the living room to join the others. |
10 |
| 3 | 162 |
At last I managed to get the knife to the foot of the bed. |
10 |
| 3 | 197 |
I threw it to the foot of the triple chest and plunged garments into it, and snapped it shut. |
10 |
| 3 | 457 |
My foot eased up on the accelerator. |
10 |
| 3 | 513 |
I collapsed at the foot of a tree, gasping, each muscle in my body crying out. |
10 |
| 4 | 181 |
At the foot of the ramp I trembled. |
10 |
| 5 | 16 |
I pressed my foot against the earth. |
10 |
| 5 | 98 |
One, rather on the bottom of the ship, was about five foot square. |
10 |
| 6 | 221 |
They wore heavy sandals, laced with thick straps, more than a foot up their leg. |
10 |
| 6 | 347 |
I took his sandal in my hands and pressed my lips down on his foot, kissing it. |
10 |
| 6 | 350 |
I kissed his foot again, trembling, sobbing. |
10 |
| 7 | 147 |
In a moment it may be removed, and she may be secured with it, leashed, or bound hand and foot. |
10 |
| 7 | 230 |
Then, when she was released she crawled rapidly to Targo, shuddering, thrust her head to his feet, seized his foot and began to cover his sandal with kisses. |
10 |
| 7 | 300 |
It is no surprise then that on this world men commonly, naturally, familiarly, immediately, innocently, taking such things for granted, not even thinking about it, it being part of their world, look largely upon women, even free women, in terms of their possible value as slaves, their possible value... |
10 |
| 7 | 388 |
My ankles, and those of the other girls, were still joined, of course, by about a foot of chain and two ankle rings. |
10 |
| 7 | 409 |
But, nudged by his foot, as the wagon approached, I lowered my head to the grass, as did the other girls. |
10 |
| 7 | 420 |
The guard's foot nudged me again. |
10 |
| 7 | 568 |
She was bound hand and foot and tied on her side, that she might not tear at her brand. |
10 |
| 8 | 1022 |
She threw the bottle to one side and put down her head, and then brought her head up and back, shaking her head back and forth, her hair flying, and she stamped down on her right foot. |
10 |
| 9 | 193 |
Then her foot was on the leash a few inches from my neck, pinning me, choking, to the ground. |
10 |
| 10 | 435 |
It was a small window, not more than a foot in diameter. |
10 |
| 11 | 117 |
She tried to pull them from her ears and the guard, angrily, cuffed her, and, with a foot of binding fiber, lashed her wrists behind her body. |
10 |
| 11 | 507 |
The knotted, double thong that fastened us together was only about a foot long. |
10 |
| 11 | 670 |
He stood me there, facing the interior of the cage, and took my hair and knotted it about one of the crossbars of the cage, about a foot above my head. |
10 |
| 11 | 919 |
He pushed me ahead with the flat of his foot. |
10 |
| 11 | 958 |
He pressed me forward again with the flat of his foot. |
10 |
| 11 | 1291 |
This time I needed not be bound hand and foot, nor held by guards. |
10 |
| 12 | 57 |
Girls are given only about a foot of chain fastened to their ankle rings, which is looped about the central bar, locked in place, in the slave wagon. |
10 |
| 13 | 856 |
I, bound, saw, suddenly, the bronze point, a foot of it, inches from my face, explode through the hide. |
10 |
| 14 | 16 |
He did not throw me to my belly or put his foot on the back of my neck, or force me to kneel. |
10 |
| 14 | 192 |
One, near the top, was about seven inches in width and about a half inch in height; the other, its top formed by a rectangular opening in the bottom of the door, its bottom formed by the iron floor of the box, was about a foot wide and two inches in height. |
10 |
| 15 | 748 |
I hung perhaps a foot from the ground. |
10 |
| 15 | 953 |
With his foot, he thrust me from his path, laughing, and continued on his way. |
10 |
| 15 | 1024 |
Similarly, when a girl is chained at the foot of her master's couch, she will usually be naked. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 27 |
The yard itself was then swung about, parallel to the ship and, foot by foot, lowered. |
10 |
| 20 | 305 |
Slowly, foot by foot, I thrust back the heavy beam. |
10 |
| 2 | 113 |
The Tesephone hesitated, backed a foot, and then, gently, rocked. |
10 |
| 2 | 141 |
He then put his foot on the branch, forcing their heads down to the sand. |
10 |
| 2 | 142 |
When he removed his foot, they remained as he had placed them. |
10 |
| 2 | 307 |
One of his men unbound the girls' necks from the branch, and, a hand in the hair of each, brought them a foot or two into the water. |
10 |
| 2 | 334 |
He hung about a foot from the ground. |
10 |
| 2 | 545 |
They are not made to lift and fall, to crash among fifty-foot waves, caught in the fists of the sea's violence. |
10 |
| 2 | 741 |
Again the trees are blazed, but now, at the foot of the trunk, by the mark of a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 5 | 88 |
She was escorted by the dock workers to the very foot of the gangplank of the Tesephone. |
10 |
| 5 | 240 |
Slave bracelets, then, with about a foot of chain, had been locked on their wrists, fastening them in place. |
10 |
| 6 | 21 |
Following in the wake of the Tesephone, to pick up litter or garbage thrown overboard, were two long-bodied river sharks, their bodies sinuous in the half-clear water, about a foot below the surface. |
10 |
| 6 | 426 |
With her foot she kicked the dropped weapons closer the fire, away from my men. |
10 |
| 6 | 566 |
I thrust her aside with my foot, furious. |
10 |
| 6 | 1048 |
She stepped back a foot in the sand. |
10 |
| 7 | 219 |
With my foot I scuffed dirt over the stains on the ground, where she had bled. |
10 |
| 7 | 392 |
"At the Tesephone," I said, indicating Grenna with my foot, "brand her, and fit her with a collar. |
10 |
| 9 | 231 |
She laughed, and thrust her foot against the side of my waist. |
10 |
| 9 | 349 |
At night, if fortunate, she might be favored, chained to his slave ring, at the foot of his couch. |
10 |
| 10 | 62 |
He indicated Verna with his foot. |
10 |
| 11 | 205 |
Commonly the slave girl, when not facing her master, if she is right handed, as are most girls, will have her weight on the ball of her left foot. |
10 |
| 11 | 461 |
With her foot, spurning her, Hura thrust her to the ground at the feet of Marlenus. |
10 |
| 11 | 711 |
She stood on the ball of her left foot. |
10 |
| 12 | 31 |
Economic power and political power are like the left and the right foot. |
10 |
| 13 | 160 |
She had a keel length of about one hundred and ten feet Gorean, and a beam of about twelve foot Gorean. |
10 |
| 14 | 116 |
His foot manacles were unsnapped and his two ankles were bound, widely apart, to two of the stakes. |
10 |
| 14 | 228 |
Her right foot was stamping. |
10 |
| 15 | 216 |
She would be thrown down, gagged, and bound hand and foot. |
10 |
| 15 | 469 |
I left them bound hand and foot, and gagged, near the trail, where I might get them later. |
10 |
| 17 | 61 |
I bound her, hand and foot. |
10 |
| 18 | 261 |
"Please, Master!" She knelt before him, holding his ankle, her lips pressed to his foot. |
10 |
| 18 | 334 |
I snapped off a large branch, extending from a fallen tree, with the flat of my foot. |
10 |
| 18 | 559 |
Again she fell to the sand at their feet, and pressed her lips to the foot of their leader. |
10 |
| 18 | 636 |
Tina was thrown to her stomach in the sand, and bound hand and foot. |
10 |
| 19 | 144 |
At a word from Sarus they might be enslaved, and would be then no different from the poor wenches, bound head to foot, lying behind them. |
10 |
| 19 | 241 |
The slave girls lay bound in the shadows, head to foot, behind the men of Tyros, the women of Hura. |
10 |
| 20 | 113 |
I left him at the foot of the wall. |
10 |
| 20 | 140 |
I placed my sword in the dirt before the gate and, turning the impaled body about, drew free the great war spear, pulling the shaft through the body, holding the body in place, beneath my foot, to free the shaft. |
10 |
| 21 | 151 |
"Bind them hand and foot," I told my men. |
10 |
| 22 | 79 |
I could see crowds milling at the foot of the cylinder. |
10 |
| 22 | 252 |
He threw her over his shoulder and walked to the sand at the foot of the beach. |
10 |
| 22 | 356 |
"This woman," said Marlenus, thrusting Hura with his foot to the sand, "I claim". |
10 |
| 22 | 357 |
He stood with his foot on the side of her neck. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 131 |
Then, by her fettered wrists, she moaning, her naked body twisting against the mast, foot by foot, she was drawn to five feet below the spar. |
10 |
| 6 | 519 |
At the foot of the ground level, which is the sleeping level, which lies about a foot above the dug-out floor, the long center of the hall, on the floor, against the raised dirt, here and there, were rounded logs, laid lengthwise. |
10 |
| 6 | 521 |
If one thinks of the sleeping level, on each side, as constituting, in effect, a couch, almost the length of the hall, except for the cooking area, the logs lie at the foot of these two couches, and parallel to their foot. |
10 |
| 9 | 55 |
Hilda, clothed, had been roped, hand and foot, and body, on her back, head down, to one of the nineteen-foot oars. |
10 |
| 14 | 282 |
I looked over and saw him, in the moonlight, making his way downward, hand by hand, foot by foot, using the clefts, projections and niches in the ornate carvings of the exterior corner beams of the Blue Tooth's hall. |
10 |
| 22 | 71 |
"Hurry," said the girl behind her, "or we will be beaten!" The girl moaned, and staggered to the gangplank, and, slowly, foot by foot, her bare feet pressed by the weight deeply into the rough boards, climbed, carrying her burden, to the deck of the ship. |
10 |
| 1 | 451 |
For it she might be suspended naked, bound by the wrists, on a forty foot rope from one of the high bridges, to be lashed by tarnsmen, sweeping past her in flight. |
10 |
| 2 | 160 |
The clinker construction allows the ship to literally bend and twist, almost elastically, in a vicious sea; the hull planking can be bent more than a foot Gorean without buckling. |
10 |
| 2 | 213 |
At the foot of the altar beasts were sometimes sacrificed, their horns held, their heads twisted, the blood from their opened throats caught in shallow golden bowls, to be poured upon the altar; too, choice portions of their flesh would be burnt upon the altar, the smoke escaping through a small hol... |
10 |
| 4 | 93 |
There is about a foot of space between the gunwales and the bottoms of the tented awnings, permitting a view to sea on either side. |
10 |
| 4 | 167 |
Below, some two inches deep, about a foot below the deck planking, about two inches over the keel beam, black and briny, shifted the bilge water. |
10 |
| 5 | 147 |
The blond, slender girl, lowered from the mast, collapsed at its foot. |
10 |
| 5 | 303 |
The Forkbeard threw off the fur, revealing the proud Aelgifu, bound hand and foot, gagged, lying in the bottom of the boat. |
10 |
| 6 | 73 |
Then the Forkbeard himself drained the remains of the tankard, threw it to the foot of the mast, and then, to my astonishment, leapt from the ship, onto the moving oars. |
10 |
| 6 | 330 |
The center of the hall, down its length, is dug out about a foot below the ground level. |
10 |
| 6 | 335 |
Thus, in a sense, the hall proper is about a foot below ground level, and the sleeping level, on each side, is at the ground level, where the walls begin. |
10 |
| 6 | 336 |
The sleeping level, which also can accommodate a man's gear, though some keep it at the foot of the level, is about eight feet in length. |
10 |
| 6 | 520 |
Each log is ten to fifteen feet long, and commonly about eight inches to a foot thick. |
10 |
| 6 | 565 |
She sat on the furs, her left ankle clasped in the iron fetter, which chained her to the log at the foot of the Forkbeard's couch, her wrists fastened behind her with her father's chain of office. |
10 |
| 7 | 13 |
It jerked in the earth, and another foot of it, splintering, flew from the ax. |
10 |
| 7 | 37 |
"Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ... |
10 |
| 7 | 270 |
I lay, stunned, at the foot of the wall, on the couch. |
10 |
| 7 | 295 |
Then, behind it I saw an uplifted ax, and the ax struck down, cutting its backbone a foot beneath its neck. |
10 |
| 9 | 255 |
Leave her there, bound hand and foot". |
10 |
| 9 | 297 |
She lay on her side, in misery, across great blocks of ice; she could lift her head and shoulders no more than six inches from the ice; she could draw her ankles toward her body no more than six inches; small chips of wood, in which the ice is packed, clung about her body; she was bound, hand and fo... |
10 |
| 9 | 413 |
She stood very still, facing the couch, at its foot. |
10 |
| 9 | 427 |
"To your belly," I said, "ankles a foot apart". |
10 |
| 10 | 68 |
In the morning we might find ourselves chained at the foot of cauldrons of boiling tharlarion oil. |
10 |
| 10 | 74 |
The man of Torvaldsland never leaves his house unless he is armed; and, within his house, his weapons are always near at hand, usually hung on the wall behind his couch, at least a foot beyond the reach of a bondmaid whose ankle is chained. |
10 |
| 10 | 151 |
The duel takes place, substantially, on a large, square cloak, ten feet on each side, which is pegged down on the turf; outside this cloak there are two squares, each a foot from the cloak, drawn in the turf. |
10 |
| 10 | 152 |
The outer corners of the second of the two drawn squares are marked with hazel wands; there is thus a twelve-foot-square fighting area; no ropes are stretched between the hazel wands. |
10 |
| 10 | 353 |
At the foot of the steps leading down from the platform, the Forkbeard stopped, and bowed low. |
10 |
| 10 | 476 |
Tarsk seized the length of chain in his right fist, about a foot from her fetter. |
10 |
| 10 | 483 |
"No, no!" He turned about, dragging her by the right wrist, his left hand on the chain about a foot from her wrist, and, almost running, pulled her, stumbling, crying out, after him. |
10 |
| 13 | 172 |
Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea... |
10 |
| 14 | 90 |
Surely at least two or three hundred lay dead, most at the walls, at the foot of the walls, under the weapons which, for the most part, they had been unable to touch. |
10 |
| 14 | 162 |
It had a shaft of seven foot Gorean, a head of tapered bronze, some eighteen inches in length. |
10 |
| 15 | 166 |
* * * * My foot slipped, and I hung by the hands, from the rocky ledge. |
10 |
| 15 | 172 |
"Move only one hand or a foot at a time," said Ivar. |
10 |
| 15 | 384 |
I saw, to my right, a small, dark opening, irregular, jagged, about a foot in width and height. |
10 |
| 16 | 152 |
At the foot of the couch were weapons; at its head, hanging on the wall, under a great shield, were two spears, crossed under it, and, to one side, a mighty sword in its scabbard. |
10 |
| 16 | 191 |
From among the weapons at the foot of the couch, from one of the cylindrical quivers, still of the sort carried in Torvaldsland, I drew forth a long, dark arrow. |
10 |
| 16 | 232 |
He crouched down, at the foot of the couch of Torvald. |
10 |
| 17 | 25 |
It had been carried to the Inlet of Green Cliffs, to Thorstein Camp, from Ax Glacier to Einar's Skerry; it had been carried to the high farms, to the lakes, to the coast; it had been carried on foot and by swift ship; a thousand arrows, each touched to the arrow of Torvald, had been carried, and whe... |
10 |
| 17 | 107 |
It is nothing for a warrior to cover ninety pasangs on foot in a day. |
10 |
| 17 | 194 |
A single snap could tear off a hand or foot. |
10 |
| 18 | 64 |
With my foot I thrust her, weeping, to one side. |
10 |
| 18 | 152 |
At its foot stood the mighty Rollo, striking to the left and right with his ax. |
10 |
| 20 | 12 |
The Skerry of Vars is roughly a hundred foot, Gorean, square. |
10 |
| 20 | 164 |
Then, by a length of binding fiber, looped double in the ring of her collar, tied her on her knees to the foot of the Kur. |
10 |
| 22 | 289 |
With my foot I nudged Leah, at my feet. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 120 |
Water for these gardens, by contract with slave masters, was carried by chains of male slaves and emptied into house cisterns, whence, later, by house slaves, it would be taken in cans and sprinkled carefully, foot by foot, throughout the garden. |
10 |
| 7 | 197 |
His right, booted foot stamped forward, his body turned to the left, minimizing target, his head to the right, maximizing vision, his rear foot at right angles to the attack line, maximizing leverage, assuring balance. |
10 |
| 12 | 659 |
I took her ankle, and crouching, kissed it, on the top, and then pressed my lips to the bottom of her foot, near the instep, then beneath and behind the shin, then again, twice, near the bottom of the foot, at the instep. |
10 |
| 14 | 135 |
Foot by foot, slowly, across the floor of the cell, she slipping, screaming, struggling, I drew her toward me. |
10 |
| 21 | 607 |
Hand over hand, not swiftly now, not easily, but foot by torturous foot, it climbed. |
10 |
| 1 | 59 |
To one side, stripped, bound tightly in black leather, hand and foot, straps crossing between her breasts and circling her thighs, to which her wrists were secured, in buckled cuffs, knelt a whitish-skinned girl, blond, frightened. |
10 |
| 1 | 287 |
Sometimes, unseen by the buyers, they are aroused at the foot of the block, but not satisfied. |
10 |
| 1 | 445 |
Only a foot or two below the surface, these temperatures are reduced by more than fifty degrees. |
10 |
| 1 | 459 |
The boy, for example, presumably, if he had his wits about him, would not follow the kaiila long enough on foot to place himself outside the "rim" of the "wheel". |
10 |
| 2 | 68 |
The men of the Tahari do not fight on foot. |
10 |
| 2 | 69 |
A man on foot in the desert, in warfare, is accounted a dead man. |
10 |
| 2 | 173 |
Bent over, carrying a grossly woven bag of kaiila-hair cloth, filled with accouterments, I set foot on the cracked boards of the Kurtzal dock. |
10 |
| 2 | 367 |
He uses his left hand and his right foot to guide the cutting tool. |
10 |
| 2 | 641 |
One foot struck him in the chest, the other snapped his head back. |
10 |
| 3 | 17 |
The warrior slipped from his saddle, and, on foot, approached me. |
10 |
| 3 | 146 |
But yet, for some reason, he had fought his way, presumably eventually on foot, dying, through the desert, toward civilization, to warn someone, or something, of a steel tower. |
10 |
| 4 | 250 |
She put her lips to my foot; I felt her hair over it. |
10 |
| 4 | 313 |
She made as though to turn to her back, but his foot, at the small of her back held her in place, prone. |
10 |
| 4 | 353 |
He put his foot before her, and she thrust her lips down, and kissed it. |
10 |
| 5 | 113 |
His hand was on her body, and she, writhing, weeping, with her heels, pushing herself, back scraping on the bark, climbed almost a foot up the slanting trunk, before he, taking her in his arms, through her veil, kissed her, fiercely, again and again, with the rape-kisses of a master, impressed on th... |
10 |
| 5 | 776 |
Had I had my wits about me I would have put a collar on her then and fastened her to the slave ring at the foot of my couch. |
10 |
| 6 | 5 |
Their ankles were roped to the foot of the device. |
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| 6 | 128 |
One of the male slaves lifted her from the rack and threw her to the foot of the wall, beside the other girl. |
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| 7 | 117 |
It is a narrow threshold, lying at the foot of a set of narrow, twisting, concave stairs. |
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| 7 | 274 |
"The blood! The blood!" I saw a stain of blood on the floor, and then a bloody print, of a heavy, clawed foot. |
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| 7 | 327 |
"There is the march to Klima," said he, "through the dune country, on foot, chained, on which many die". |
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| 7 | 573 |
"I often summon her to the slave ring at the foot of my divan," he said, "and it would doubtless amuse you mightily, given your earlier acquaintance with her, your recollections of her, to note how eagerly she hurries to me, and kneels naked before me, on the mat of submission, and begs to please me... |
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| 8 | 72 |
On foot, on the trail, they would have only enough water to reach the tiny oasis of the Lame Kaiila, where there would be for them doubtless sympathy, but little aid in the form of armed men. |
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| 8 | 84 |
When it dropped, the heavy wooden bowl, more than a foot deep and eighteen inches in diameter, tipped. |
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| 9 | 15 |
One of the men, from behind, put ankle rings on her, joined by about a foot of chain. |
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| 9 | 83 |
She stood before Hassan, relaxed, soft, though frightened, her right foot at a right angle with her left, turning her hip out, opening her beauty to him, as a slave girl. |
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| 10 | 129 |
She crouched there, under the torches, on the seven-foot scarlet marble circle, angry, frightened. |
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| 11 | 159 |
I, with my left hand under her foot, lifted her to her place. |
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| 12 | 42 |
The female prisoners were ranged, in coffle, between two riders, one at the head and one at the foot of the chain. |
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| 12 | 277 |
"Come," said she, "stand at the foot of my couch". |
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| 12 | 299 |
At its foot there was a slave ring. |
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| 12 | 525 |
I then put her on her knees, bound hand and foot, at the slave ring. |
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| 13 | 1 |
An Acquaintance is Renewed My left foot broke through the crust of salt. |
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| 13 | 32 |
On foot, among our captors, tethered by the neck to saddle rings, bound, we trudged to the larger of the pair of kasbahs, that other than Tarna's. |
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| 13 | 34 |
At the foot of the great gate we stopped. |
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| 13 | 102 |
At the foot of the great stairs, marble and spiraling, leading to the upper rooms, we, and our guards, those accompanying us, some dozen men, paused. |
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| 13 | 407 |
"As an Earth slut," I said, "I would have expected you to keep her in a cage, or kennel, doubtless low in the kasbah, or perhaps have your men occasionally chain her naked to the foot of your couch". |
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| 14 | 23 |
These had been fastened on us at the foot of the wall of the kasbah of the Salt Ubar. |
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| 14 | 159 |
* * * * We had stood, the salt slaves being readied for the march to Klima, at the foot of the wall of the kasbah of the Salt Ubar. |
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| 14 | 188 |
He cannot see to escape; he can not see to attack; he cannot be sure, usually, even of the number and position of his captors, whether they face him, or are attentive, or such; sometimes a hooded prisoner, even unbound, is told simply to kneel, and that if he moves, he will be slain; some captors, t... |
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| 14 | 315 |
Gracefully, it wafted downward, settling on the sand at the foot of the wall near us. |
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| 14 | 508 |
"March, Slaves!" I heard, and I began again the march, moving first with the left foot, then the right, that the march be uniform, that the chain be carried evenly. |
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| 20 | 53 |
I lifted the shaggy head, more than a foot wide. |
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| 21 | 95 |
I put one foot in front of the other, again and again. |
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| 21 | 121 |
I put one foot before the other, continuing to follow the Kur. |
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| 21 | 173 |
He was lame in his right foot. |
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| 21 | 513 |
Scarcely had I fallen into the lock than I heard, loud, over me, the concussions of the weapon, firing five times; almost simultaneously the Kur leaped from somewhere within, from a nest of piping, and scrambled past me; its foot pressed on my shoulder; it peered out into the storm; it spied the bod... |
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| 21 | 620 |
I saw the Kur not a foot below me. |
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| 22 | 80 |
It was long, slim, some eight foot Gorean in length; it was marked with red and yellow swirling stripes; it terminated in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree. |
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| 22 | 88 |
He was unwary; his attention was fully focused on his target; did he think I was a slave girl on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, standing, a tospit in my mouth for his lance sport? I moved to the side and, with both hands, a yard behind the point, turning, caught the lance; the rider, crying out, w... |
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| 22 | 102 |
I put my foot in the stirrup and swung into the saddle. |
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| 23 | 8 |
I had followed him for four days, using his trail, and then, when I had found him in the sand, delirious and weak, trembling, thirsting, unable even to move, I had stripped and bound him, hand and foot. |
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| 23 | 40 |
Some five hours from the field, I slashed the ropes that tied his ankles beneath the kaiila and, thrusting up on his left foot, sprawled him in the gravel, turning him then to his stomach. |
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| 23 | 118 |
In a Gorean engagement on foot, incidentally, assuming uniform lines, this drift is almost inevitable, because each man, in fighting, tends to shelter himself partially, as he can, behind the shield of the man on his right. |
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| 23 | 130 |
This is much more difficult to do in a cavalry engagement than in a foot engagement. |
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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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| 24 | 720 |
At the north gate, in the gate room, at the foot of the tower, ten guards struggled, come recently again to consciousness, finding themselves bound and gagged. |
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| 25 | 407 |
She could not rise more than a foot from the cushions. |
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| 26 | 238 |
In what had been the kasbah of Ibn Saran she had been thrown naked to the foot of the dais on which, cross-legged, sat the great Haroun himself. |
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| 26 | 430 |
She presses her lips to his foot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 58 |
Sometimes a coffle line is drawn in the dirt and the right foot of each girl is placed on it vertically, such that the line bisects the ball and heel of each foot. |
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| 28 | 235 |
The man with the tablet thrust me toward the foot of the block, and I stumbled to the place at the foot of its stairs. |
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| 1 | 82 |
The plate, with its ring, was attached near the center of the rock, low, about a foot above the grass. |
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| 1 | 173 |
I idly coiled it at the foot of the ring. |
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| 2 | 9 |
My hand went before my mouth; his foot, in a high, strapped sandal, heavy, almost an open boot, kicked my hand away. |
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| 2 | 488 |
Its head and a foot of its shaft had been driven into the turf. |
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| 2 | 669 |
He went to the spear thrust in the turf, upright, blade to the sky, and the concave shield at its foot. |
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| 2 | 1026 |
After a time, he moved about the small clearing and, with his foot, erased the slight signs of our camp, the few small signs of our sojourn in this tiny forest glade. |
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| 2 | 1214 |
They knelt, or sat, or reclined about the foot of a white, ornate curule chair set on the platform. |
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| 3 | 168 |
One night when I had laid near him, bound hand and foot, I had literally whimpered in my need, trying to put my head against him. |
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| 3 | 272 |
A girl is caught, stripped, bound hand and foot, and carried to the Girl Pit of the capturing city, into which she is thrown. |
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| 4 | 1122 |
I was tied hand and foot. |
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| 5 | 229 |
The two who had been touching leapt apart, the girl crying out with misery and throwing herself to her knees at the foot of her mistress; the man backed away, angrily, startled. |
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| 5 | 249 |
You were permitted to sleep in my own chamber, at the foot of my couch. |
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| 5 | 454 |
The other end of the closed loop, about a foot from my hand, was taken in the grasp of a soldier. |
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| 5 | 608 |
The captain turned me over with his foot. |
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| 5 | 887 |
We moved out, slave girls, on the left foot, that the pace of the march be uniform. |
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| 6 | 146 |
Two such staffs rested to one side, inclining upright against the wall, between a yellow box, about a foot high, and a roll of coarsely woven rep-cloth. |
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| 7 | 108 |
She then stood barefoot, her small feet in the crushed leaves and twigs at the foot of the tree. |
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| 7 | 260 |
"You will take your first step with your left foot," said Lehna, "upon my signal. |
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| 7 | 283 |
"On the left foot, on my signal," said Lehna. |
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| 7 | 286 |
With a cry of misery the Lady Sabina, moving first on her left foot, stumbled forward. |
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| 7 | 759 |
One of the other boys, who carried a ten-foot length of rope, with one end of the rope, crossed and tied together Donna's ankles, while she was still held on the shoulder of her captor. |
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| 7 | 773 |
Her captor took the end of the rope from the lad who had bound her and, holding it about a foot from her fastened ankles, pulled her feet some six inches into the air. |
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| 7 | 777 |
She rolled onto her back, her tied feet now held about a foot off the ground by the rope. |
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| 7 | 833 |
It was a wrist tether rope, knotted about her right wrist, with a handle loop, about a foot long, by which she might be led. |
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| 7 | 888 |
She was thus bound hand and foot. |
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| 7 | 929 |
She was roped hand and foot, at the ankles, at the thighs above the knees, her wrists behind her back, and about her upper arms and body. |
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| 8 | 234 |
The resulting tether was about a foot long. |
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| 8 | 297 |
That is not like lying lovingly in an ankle ring, or collar, at the foot of a beloved master's couch. |
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| 8 | 298 |
And what could one hope for? Perhaps at best to be slept at night in a hut, shackled, hand and foot, on a coarse mat? Surely I did not belong in a peasant village! I was not that sort of slave! Surely I was more the sort who should be an urban slave, lovely in a silken tunic, attracting the attentio... |
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| 8 | 344 |
He put his foot on the rope, pressing it to the ground. |
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| 8 | 345 |
Then, beneath his foot, he drew the rope to him. |
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| 9 | 56 |
Marla's right foot determined the line. |
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| 9 | 57 |
Each girl, with the exception of Marla, the line's leader, aligned her right foot with that of the girl before her in the line. |
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| 9 | 698 |
I lay at the foot of a slave cage. |
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| 9 | 1333 |
I did so, with the heel of my leashed foot. |
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| 9 | 1467 |
"Come out, Thurnus," called Melina, from the foot of the stairs below the hut. |
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| 9 | 1481 |
Bran Loort's heavily sandaled foot struck into my belly. |
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| 9 | 1485 |
He took up the slack in the neck rope, coiling it, holding my head a foot from his thigh. |
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| 9 | 1500 |
Swiftly Bran Loort then discarded the rope and, with his foot, thrust me to one side. |
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| 9 | 1630 |
Melina, eyes glittering, stepped back from the foot of the stairs. |
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| 9 | 2020 |
She took his right ankle in her hands and, holding it, pressed her lips softly down upon his foot, kissing it. |
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| 9 | 2425 |
There was about a foot of chain between each wrist ring locked on its handle and its matching ring which clasped my corresponding wrist. |
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| 11 | 301 |
Short of being chained on furs at the foot of a master's couch, what more could a girl desire? "Follow me," said Sucha. |
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| 11 | 369 |
I dared not move my foot, for fear I might cry out for a man. |
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| 13 | 7 |
I glanced down at the other girls, Sulda and Tupa among them, who sat huddled at the foot of the block, clutching their sheets about them. |
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| 13 | 35 |
"Hurry, Slave Girl," called the man at the foot of the stairs. |
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| 13 | 163 |
He looked down at me, and kicked me, lightly, with the side of his foot. |
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| 13 | 290 |
Then he began to put me rapidly through the paces of the exhibited female slave; he held me in each position for the sweet instant that well revealed me, tantalizingly, in that attitude or posture, and then barked forth a new command, to a new position or attitude; the sequence of these moves was no... |
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| 13 | 305 |
He removed his foot from my body and tapped me on the back with the whip. |
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| 13 | 444 |
At the foot of the block a man from the house took me by the wrist and pulled me to a chain. |
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| 13 | 446 |
He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,... |
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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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| 15 | 245 |
When Barus rose from my side, spurning me with his foot, I had been well used. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 299 |
The defenders, foot by foot, were being pressed back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 685 |
How did she know he had not come to pick fruit, to pluck flowers? How did she know that he might not leap at her, and seize her, and gag her, and bind her, hand and foot, and carry her to the wall? How did she know that she might not, bound hand and foot, squirming, in a net, or bound on a rope, be ... |
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| 10 | 392 |
I saw the jailer, below me, put his foot in the stirrup, his left foot, and at the same time grasp the rope with his left hand, above his head; and then the rope, too, bore his weight. |
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| 10 | 403 |
Foot by foot the rope moved upward. |
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| 10 | 652 |
Two men then, by means of the rings and the chain to which I was now attached, hoisted me upward, foot by foot, until I was suspended some thirty feet above the floor, some two thirds of the way to the ceiling. |
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| 10 | 738 |
I was lowered, foot by foot, to the floor. |
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| 13 | 285 |
The pit master then went to a wheel set in the wall and, turning it, bit by bit, foot by foot, lowered the cage toward the water. |
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| 13 | 286 |
"Sir, Sir!" screamed the free woman, as the cage, foot by foot, descended. |
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| 29 | 837 |
The pit guard then, holding to her ankle, lifted her foot, lifted it up so that the lower portion of the robe of concealment came forward, to lodgment behind the knee, this revealing something of her calf, and also, of course, her foot, the ankle in his grasp. |
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| 31 | 652 |
The one bowman, his foot locked in the stirrup, looked up only in time to see the great stone whipping toward him; the other was protected by his fellow who received the blow, but, he, too, his foot in the stirrup, fell awkwardly to the side. |
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| 39 | 40 |
When one is granted this privilege, one commonly kneels at the foot of the couch, at the left side, as one looks toward its foot, and kisses the coverlets or furs, and then enters upon its surface. |
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| 44 | 290 |
The slave box, by the first man, with his foot, was thrust before me and to my right, rather toward the foot of the stairs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 300 |
And then he put his foot gently on her body, not pressing with any weight, and moved it a bit, to let her have the feeling of a man's foot on her body, to let her feel herself, a female, beneath the foot of a man. |
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| 23 | 43 |
The position accentuates the breasts and, given the position of the hands, is provocatively emblematic; I think that even a male of Earth, one who, if there are any such, had never given a thought to the possibility of female slavery, or even of a particular woman, stripped, and bound hand and foot,... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 632 |
It then, slowly, foot by foot, heavy in the sand, approached Lord Pyrrhus, who made no move to flee, or to defend himself. |
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| 32 | 287 |
If she is permitted on the surface of the couch, there is often a ritual involved, in which she kneels at the foot of the couch, or toward its foot, on the side, and lifts the coverings, and kisses them humbly, and then, when permitted, crawls to the couch's surface, from the bottom, or near the bot... |
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| 34 | 77 |
In any event, whatever may have been the case, it was still dark when Cabot, fastened to the log, awakened, shuddering, and felt a graveled sand beneath his feet, and, then, exhausted, he thrust the log to which he had bound himself forward, foot by foot to the shallower water, and then he was on th... |
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| 78 | 149 |
He then, with two blows of the ax, smote away the left foot and the right foot of Flavion, and then jerked him upward, that the two bloody stumps would be placed in the dirt, where the flow of blood might be slowed, if not staunched. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 213 |
It was better to learn this while threatened with a ten-foot fall to the sand rather than a thousand-foot plunge to the ground". |
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| 12 | 258 |
It lifted its unhobbled taloned foot as though to rake the fellow from head to foot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 523 |
I saw the yard being raised, foot by foot, tackle creaking, followed, foot by foot, by its increasing expanse of unfolding canvas. |
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| 39 | 450 |
"Left foot, the first step is with the left foot! Do you know nothing? You are being marched. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 70 |
The bars of the pen were some three or four horts in thickness, and six horts apart; they reached from the wooden flooring of the shed to the low roof; they were reinforced with crossbeams lashed in place, one a foot Gorean from the ceiling, one a foot Gorean from the floor, and one, about three and... |
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| 25 | 227 |
On the other hand, it is extremely unlikely that one, bound, and blindfolded, in traversing such a board, foot by foot, could keep to an undeviating, centered, linear path. |
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| 43 | 142 |
"Many a night," he said, "I imagined her lying on the floor at the foot of my bed, naked, bound hand and foot, there if I should choose to make use of her". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 310 |
He sat on the foot of the bed, those heavily sandaled feet but a foot from me. |
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| 10 | 101 |
"Can you not conjecture," said the dealer, "what she would be in your arms, what she would look like on your chain, or roped hand and foot at the foot of your couch, in your furs, or kneeling before you, licking your ankles?" "What is this mark, on her shoulder?" asked the man. |
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| 22 | 13 |
I felt one of the furs fall across my foot, and I drew back my foot, quickly. |
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| 61 | 643 |
"Kill her!" "I will do so!" cried a soldier, whipping his sword from the sheath, and raising the weapon, but it fell, almost immediately, from a lost grip, as the man staggered back a foot or so, turned, and crumpled at the foot of the stands, the metal fins of a quarrel clearly visible, the bolt mu... |
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| 61 | 902 |
Surtak removed his foot from the back of Lyris, scowled down upon her, and thrust her rolling to the side with his foot. |
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| 65 | 346 |
"One blow," said Lord Grendel, "will take the right foot, a second blow the left foot, a third the right hand, a fourth the left hand". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 198 |
When she is not working, why do you not chain her at the foot of the steps to the stem deck?" There was a ring there, which might well serve such a purpose, as well as one aft, at the foot of the steps to the stern deck. |
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| 43 | 131 |
Then I said to my men, "Back to the ditch, back to the tunnel, back to Mytilene!" I moved away from the catapult at hand, as it seemed, foot by foot, to be painted with fire. |
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| 60 | 71 |
"Harbor sharks!" These are a breed of sharks which, as far as I know, are found only in the Farther Islands, small sharks, seldom more than a foot in length, but they can vary from three or four inches, a size one could hold in one's hand, to a foot and a half. |
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