| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 95 |
As I found a moment's respite, I spun to face him, hoping to have it out with the Ubar himself, but as I did so, the shackles that I had worn struck me forcibly in the face and throat, thrown like a bolo by Marlenus. |
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| 18 | 90 |
Then, in frustration, I backed slowly away, hoping to see some lever or perhaps some suspicious crevice higher in the escarpment, something that might play its role in opening the passage I was sure lay hidden somewhere behind that seemingly solid mass of stone. |
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| 1 | 188 |
Later, following another examination, I was admitted to the bar in New York State, and I entered one of the immense law offices in the city, hoping to obtain eventually enough experience and capital to open a small practice of my own. |
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| 20 | 40 |
It was for this reason that I had returned to the Pillar, hoping that perhaps the monster might linger in its vicinity. |
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| 20 | 48 |
Yet I found myself hoping that perhaps she had not been destroyed. |
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| 2 | 19 |
Sometimes these individuals are young idealists, rebels and champions of lost causes, who wish to protest to Priest-Kings; sometimes they are individuals who are old or diseased and are tired of life and wish to die; sometimes they are piteous or cunning or frightened wretches who think to find the ... |
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| 13 | 49 |
I found myself nastily hoping that he was the one who had been synthesized. |
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| 13 | 83 |
I stored this information away, hoping that someday it might prove useful. |
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| 23 | 19 |
I found myself almost hoping that she had not, for it would have been more than enough to have heard it following in the tunnels. |
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| 27 | 24 |
I found myself hoping that she might not be too distressed by her captivity, and then I scorned myself this weakness and insisted to myself that I welcomed the thought that whatever miseries she endured would be richly deserved. |
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| 27 | 251 |
I lifted my voice, hoping that the sound waves would carry to those transducers that were the translators of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 34 | 202 |
Systematically and persistently I questioned these men of various cities about the whereabouts of Talena of Ar, hoping to find some clue that might lead me to her, even if it might be only the drunken memory of some herdsman of a vision of beauty once encountered in a dim and crowded tavern in Cos o... |
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| 6 | 60 |
I was thunderstruck that a girl, apparently of Earth, who spoke English, should be brought to the Tuchuks at this time—at the time that I was among them, hoping to discover and return to Priest-Kings what I supposed to be a golden spheroid, the egg, the last hope of their race. |
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| 23 | 66 |
Raising my arm and shouting, I led the Thousand toward them, hoping to catch them before they could form and charge. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 21 | 291 |
Moving back warily I remained as close as I could to the picket, but out of reach, hoping to draw yet another Warrior prematurely into attack. |
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| 6 | 124 |
Rather might she almost die with terror hoping that he would find her pleasing. |
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| 11 | 170 |
I expected that there would be support for this position, both from men like myself, self-seeking men, wise in political realities, and from the inevitable and useful fools, abundant even in Port Kar, hoping simply for a saner and more efficient governance of their city. |
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| 14 | 293 |
I dispatched ten tarn ships abroad in search patterns, hoping to snare some of the seven missing round ships. |
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| 17 | 322 |
I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds. |
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| 7 | 54 |
We were hoping that she would be sold, but Targo was holding out for an extremely high price for her. |
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| 8 | 325 |
I was hoping my hair would grow swiftly. |
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| 13 | 808 |
I had revealed my interest in him, his attractiveness to me, that of a bound slave, obviously hoping that she might be found pleasing, that she might be found worthy of his collar. |
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| 14 | 314 |
"Yes!" I found myself hoping, though I did not admit the thought to myself, that my brand might be as attractive on my body. |
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| 15 | 856 |
I would spend hours at the slit in the door, hoping to see someone walk by. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 100 |
In a house such as that of Bosk there are always beautiful slave girls, eager to please, each hoping to become first girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 220 |
Here, hoping for others to do our work, we find only ourselves, and an arrow of war. |
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| 3 | 149 |
I would have to make contact with nomads, and others, hoping eventually to find one who had heard of, or knew of, the tower. |
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| 24 | 528 |
Why should I permit her even a shred of slave silk to hide behind? She seemed desperately determined, of course, still, before me, a former man of Earth, however foolishly, to present the postures, pretenses, and attitudes of a free Earth woman, apparently hoping that I would somehow commiserate wit... |
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| 24 | 621 |
Its occupants were doubtless in service elsewhere in the kasbah, hoping now to please ruder men than Ibn Saran and his high officers. |
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| 26 | 417 |
Many slaves, incidentally, assume this position joyously, brazenly and delightedly displaying his slave before the master, exulting in the rapture of their bondage, acutely aware of their desirability as a slave, flaunting their vulnerability, tempting their master, hoping to lure him to their use, ... |
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| 2 | 583 |
I found myself, interestingly, hoping that he would find them acceptable, that he would not be displeased. |
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| 9 | 2250 |
"Yes, Master," she said, "as an abject and meaningless slave—one hoping her master will take pity on her, and touch her". |
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| 12 | 727 |
They must cling as they could to the stirrups with their small strength; else, braceleted as they were, they must simply dangle far above the earth, painfully and helplessly, hoping that not a link in the bracelets would fail. |
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| 12 | 795 |
How magnificent, I thought, were the men! Surely we existed to serve such, hoping only that we might be found sufficiently pleasing. |
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| 22 | 332 |
I almost found myself hoping that my haughty holdmate might find herself stripped. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 131 |
I found myself hoping that he would indeed return Imnak's gifts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 519 |
"I have lain for paga attendants, hoping to be thrown a handful of garbage. |
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| 31 | 7 |
If that were known the bidding might be fierce upon her, the villagers being eager to capitalize on any dissatisfaction with her, hoping thus to acquire her as a cheap piece of trade goods, perhaps for transmittal into the interior. |
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| 34 | 641 |
"You understand," I asked, "that you are a meaningless slut, a despicable if a fascinatingly, interestingly curvaceous animal, fit to be treated with only contempt, that you belong at a man's feet, soft and piteous, licking and kissing, petitioning, hoping to, begging to, please, that you are an emb... |
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| 47 | 137 |
The villagers, however, in their departure, had closed it, hoping thereby to contain the ants. |
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| 48 | 168 |
He will have perfection from his slave, in movement, in position, in speech, in dress, if it is permitted, in obedience, in deference, in docility, in manifold service, and, in the furs, in the vulnerable, zealous application of her skills, those of an amorous slave hoping to please her master, and,... |
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| 53 | 162 |
"Msaliti would then have no alternative but to tell Bila Huruma of the ring, and then join with him in Bila Huruma's attempt to seize it, hoping later to secure it for himself". |
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| 7 | 466 |
Hating the master they find themselves hoping to hear his step outside the door; furious, they long to be ordered to their knees; angry, they hope that he will hold his whip to their lips, that they may lick and kiss it with grateful deference. |
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| 19 | 211 |
Sometimes a new girl will dare to be slightly displeasing or will slacken somewhat in her work, hoping to be thrown to male slaves as a "punishment". |
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| 20 | 121 |
Slave girls pattered behind, hoping for another look, but fearful now, away from the gate, of jostling free persons. |
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| 2 | 39 |
"Those of Cos, enemies to Ar, and merchants of Vonda," said the man, "have precipitated the war, hoping to engage the entire confederation". |
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| 10 | 158 |
Does one truly own a slave until she is at your feet diligently polishing your leather, looking up occasionally, hoping you will be satisfied; she does not wish to be beaten; until she is in your kitchen, preparing your food; until she is serving it, humbly, perhaps nude, as you might wish her then,... |
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| 10 | 219 |
But then, had she been suitably robed and veiled, one supposes the whole matter would not have arisen, and the slave would have been on her knees, not daring to speak, eyes cast down, if not on her belly, trembling, utterly silent, hoping not to be beaten, before Miss Henderson. |
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| 11 | 153 |
"And as what do you see yourself," I asked, "as an abused woman, hoping to be hastily freed, or as a slave, tied to rings, who hopes her master will see fit to linger over her?" "A slave," she smiled, "one fastened helplessly, tied to rings, who hopes that she will be found sufficiently pleasing tha... |
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| 24 | 677 |
She can then influence her sale, guided by the auctioneer's whip, only in such a way as to present herself as the most luscious slave meat she can, hoping thereby to improve her price, that she may be purchased by a more well-to-do master. |
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| 33 | 54 |
Doubtless she revealed our plans to the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, or to a pirate in Tasdron's tavern, perhaps while moaning with pleasure in his arms, perhaps hoping to win her freedom by her treachery". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 188 |
"I am only hoping," he said, "that the chain has not been cut south of us". |
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| 9 | 337 |
"Doubtless it has been waiting," I said, "hoping that other ships would join it". |
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| 17 | 5 |
And woe to the girl who does not return with a jangling coin box on her neck chain! Some girls, once designated, and locked in their accouterments, kneeling, weeping, scratch even at the insides of the stout gates of their masters' houses, hoping to be sent into the streets early, that their chances... |
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| 20 | 1589 |
How could free women forgive them that? Why cannot a man see that they are nothing, only despicable sluts? Why should he prefer such an appetitious, shapely thing, a mere animal and property, obedient and submissive, desperately needful and helplessly sensual, fearing his whip, hoping to please him ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 578 |
The girls had now sought me out, I realized, hoping that I might provide them with some sort of shelter, or protection. |
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| 13 | 458 |
But then I would try to go to asleep again, eagerly, immediately, hoping to continue the dream. |
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| 13 | 492 |
I recalled the tiles of a palace, the weight of obdurate, clasping chains, my nudity, the tiny movements of air upon my body, the feel of the flat, colored surface of the tiles beneath my knees, and, too, beneath my forehead, as I knelt, my hair spread upon them, betokening submission, humbly render... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 182 |
"Often," I said, "the girl merely fears the leather, or is wary of it, and, hoping to give it a wide berth, behaves herself accordingly. |
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| 25 | 145 |
"I was hoping that that would be the outcome," I said. |
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| 39 | 122 |
"If I were a slave in Ar," she said, "and I were permitted to do so, I think I should go to that pastry shop and, in my tunic and collar, kneel there with the other girls, hoping that I, too, might receive such a pastry". |
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| 44 | 208 |
These kisses, now, clearly, I saw, went beyond the feigned obedience ingredient in her stratagem; some of these kisses were like questions, after which she would wait to see how he might react; others were like tiny explorations or experiments, testings or tastings, to satisfy her female curiosity; ... |
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| 44 | 610 |
They were not the large, oval shields of Turia, or the large rounded shields common to Gorean infantry in the north, behind which a warrior might crouch, hoping for a swift surcease to the storm of missiles. |
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| 45 | 102 |
Some men released their hold altogether on the rock, hoping to risk less in the terrors of the slide downward than in facing the Kaiila arrows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 172 |
"Sometimes one tries different things," she said, "for example, about or on the furniture, on the floor, about their bodies, at their feet, on your back, on your belly, hoping to find something that they will respond to. |
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| 15 | 355 |
The conniving woman on Gor, she who would seek to control and manipulate men, is likely to soon find herself at the feet of her would-be victim, naked, kissing them, licking them tenderly, hoping fervently to be found pleasing, her throat closely encircled with a collar, a slave collar, his, locked. |
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| 21 | 50 |
I welcomed the rain, hoping it would diminish and wash away the scent my body and bare feet might be leaving behind me. |
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| 30 | 160 |
I had little doubt but what they might set upon me and bind me, and turn me over to guardsmen, hoping for some small reward. |
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| 31 | 716 |
Perhaps then, I hoped, he might set aside his suspicions, and keep me as what I was, only a slave, only another of his girls, perhaps hoping occasionally to be recollected, and summoned to his slave ring. |
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| 31 | 719 |
Might he not enjoy having her at his feet? Might that not be pleasant, she groveling before him, a cringing slave, hoping to be spared, fearing his whip? Might not such pleasures be preferable to simply having her humiliatingly and publicly executed, elevated, writhing and screaming, on an impaling ... |
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| 36 | 388 |
"Surely a girl cannot be blamed for hoping to do that," I said. |
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| 36 | 654 |
There is no doubt that numerous, lovely, scarcely clad slaves, in the streets and boulevards, in the plazas and parks, on the bridges and amongst the towers, perhaps hurrying on errands, perhaps casting shy glances over their shoulders at young men, perhaps visiting or shopping with their masters, a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 815 |
I saw other girls moving closer to the tables, subtly taking more prominent positions, hoping perhaps thereby to be more visible to the men. |
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| 13 | 225 |
The first day in this captivity I had lurked near the bars, hoping to be able to get my hands on the jailer. |
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| 21 | 178 |
"Apparently he turned back, hoping to be of assistance to you, or rescue you," said Flaminius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 164 |
Who knows where or when the eyes of the slavers are upon them? If they knew that would they flee behind locked doors, hoping vainly to escape their fate; would they crouch fearfully in closets, waiting for the doors to be opened; or would they stand differently and move ever more beautifully, hoping... |
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| 16 | 1526 |
To make certain that there are no possible confusions or misunderstandings involved in such cases the master usually gives the female a brief opportunity to speak, usually only a few Ihn, in which she must make her pleas, hoping to win his favor. |
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| 18 | 105 |
"If you are standing here, hoping for a first glimpse of Ar," I said, "you are a few days too early". |
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| 22 | 229 |
You, too, then, as much as she, would have to obey, responding swiftly, hoping desperately to please, while being put through your paces". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 33 | 240 |
Tela, Mina and Cara had planned to venture south, Mina and Cara hoping to be taken in hand by the scouts of Pietro Vacchi, and Tela hoping to find Aulus in the camp, before his return northward toward Venna. |
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| 3 | 228 |
They would be such as before whom a girl could quite properly, and, indeed, perhaps even in fear of her life, realistically dance, and dance desperately, hoping to be found pleasing, or acceptable. |
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| 6 | 827 |
I whimpered once, signifying my pleasure, my gratitude, hoping to encourage him. |
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| 17 | 143 |
Doubtless, at the next feast, she, too, naked, would serve and dance, hoping then like any other slave to be found pleasing by her masters. |
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| 29 | 287 |
"I had come there hoping to make cheap purchases of valuable loot, from the soldiers. |
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| 31 | 31 |
This simple domestic pleasure, preparing a small amount of food for particular masters, and hoping to please them by it, is not one paga slaves, or work slaves, often enjoyed. |
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| 34 | 407 |
I then swallowed, and looked up at him, hoping to find some particle of forgiveness or kindness in his eyes. |
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| 34 | 677 |
That is all! She may love, with all that is in her, but do not let her dare to speak of such grievous torments! Might not the master find them distasteful? Might not the master be annoyed by such presumptuous effrontery? Let her kiss tenderly the slave ring in his absence; let her claw at her blanke... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 36 |
They leave in the morning, of course, some of them doubtless to call on their patrons, hoping for a breakfast or an invitation to dinner. |
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| 5 | 49 |
"Doubtless you followed Cosians," I said, "or their suppliers, smelling booty, lured by the possibilities of spoils, by the supposed imminent passage south of men laden with the plate and coin of Ar's Station, men who might succumb to your claims of need and plight, hoping perhaps even to contract a... |
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| 5 | 584 |
She looked at me, wildly, hoping I had not noticed her behavior. |
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| 8 | 644 |
"You must now be seen not as a pretentious, lofty, secure, arrogant, sacrosanct free woman, shielded and sheltered in societal immunities, snug in status and privileges, but rather now as something quite different, rather, now, as exquisitely feminine, as radically and unutterably female, as lovely,... |
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| 15 | 473 |
Perhaps they learn it when first they carry the candles of their longing into the recesses of their being, hoping to free their deepest self and bring it into meadows of honesty and sunlight, when first they dare to open the doors of yearning, when first they sense somewhere a radiant and more fulfi... |
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| 15 | 529 |
"But yet you were preparing yourself quite carefully, hoping to be permitted to belong to one as a slave". |
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| 15 | 1034 |
It was my surmise that she had been hoping against hope to be ignored, or not to be noticed. |
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| 16 | 391 |
She might turn herself over to a praetor, hoping for mercy, as she had surrendered herself. |
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| 17 | 264 |
I had used him, and the other, he between the command post and the west, the other between the command post and the east, as messengers, hoping in this way to keep them within the semblance of interior lines, out of the thickest fighting. |
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| 17 | 358 |
Did he not know that Lady Claudia would have been quite as quick, if not quicker, to lift herself, hoping to please? "Who is it?" asked the lad. |
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| 18 | 289 |
I had little doubt that these were the results of the commands of Aemilianus, now out on the piers somewhere, hoping that they might, in their small way, aid in the evacuation of the landing. |
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| 21 | 306 |
Though she had not explicitly claimed to be free, it seemed clear that she was hoping to be taken as such. |
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| 21 | 1090 |
Sometimes slaves so clad are used as decoys, as in supposedly rich caravans, actually manned by guardsmen disguised as merchants, hoping to lure in bandits, or as substitutes for free women, as when it is thought important to divert pursuits or disguise the whereabouts or movements of free women, su... |
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| 21 | 1239 |
Interestingly, such girls often try to call themselves to the attention of men, hoping for an offer to be made for them. |
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| 23 | 236 |
Sometimes the woman is required to appear proud, even contemptuous, for there are then fellows who will, so to speak, lie in wait for her at her sale, and bid high for her, hoping to bring her within the scope of their power, to get her, who was proud and contemptuous, into their collar. |
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| 24 | 579 |
"Thus, by such means as provocative dress and habiliments, baring even her calves, hoping then to be taken for a lowly, beautiful, meaningless maid, by even refusing to cut her hair on behalf of the city's needs, an act by means of which she hoped to appear more attractive to strong men, more attrac... |
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| 29 | 316 |
I watched her holding them, and touching them, and caressing them, as though she feared she might be struck away, hoping to insert herself delicately into their attention, hoping to be found of interest, hoping to please them. |
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| 1 | 144 |
Indeed, many masters find this gratifying, as it suggests that one now has in one's collar what was once a lady, but is now become only a needful, placatory slave hoping to please her master. |
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| 13 | 299 |
An excellent example of this was Cos' backing of Port Cos' entry into the Vosk League, presumably hoping thereby to influence or control the league through the policies of her sovereign colony, while Ar refused this same opportunity to Ar's Station, thereby more than ever isolating Ar's Station on t... |
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| 25 | 141 |
She put her head down and kissed my feet, as eagerly and avidly as an ardent slave, hoping to please her master. |
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| 40 | 75 |
The seizure of these materials in Torcadino, which had been serving as a Cosian depot for the invasion force, had been the prime objective of Dietrich in taking the city, he hoping then to forestall the Cosian advance and give Ar time to prepare itself for war. |
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| 44 | 200 |
I was hoping that we would be the subject of no further inquiries, that the fellows whom I had encountered earlier would report to their superior, or superiors, that Ina was not in our keeping. |
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| 44 | 204 |
I was hoping that in virtue of what I had had done to her in the slave camp, she might no longer be of interest to her pursuers. |
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| 47 | 381 |
"I made it up, hoping to delay matters". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 201 |
She extended her arms a little, toward him, timidly, hoping to be permitted to embrace him. |
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| 3 | 395 |
Earth-girl slaves brought to Gor, for example, are often, particularly at first, understandably enough, I suppose, afraid to be sold, and accordingly, naturally enough, I suppose, sometimes attempt, usually in subtle ways, to discourage buyers, thereby hoping to be permitted to cling to the relative... |
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| 8 | 338 |
Some, of course, remained in the city, perhaps hoping to hire into the guardsmen. |
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| 8 | 671 |
It is not unknown for free men to cultivate a high slave, hoping that she will influence her master in their behalf. |
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| 8 | 711 |
Many was the time I had seen her so lift herself to Marcus, hoping to avert his wrath. |
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| 20 | 433 |
"I was hoping someone might be prevailed upon to provide a more convincing communication," I said. |
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| 21 | 542 |
Indeed, I thought it might be interesting to see both in slave silk, hurrying about, barefoot, perhaps belled, fearing the whip, striving to serve well, hoping to found pleasing by masters. |
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| 22 | 43 |
Doubtless they wished in their haste to avoid stirred dust, hoping to keep it from their robes. |
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| 28 | 86 |
How angry I was, even though I was not of Ar, that they had, for all their loyalty and sacrifice, for all their service, courage and devotion, received little but scorn and neglect from their compatriots, a scorn and neglect engineered by factions hoping to profit from the perversities of such polit... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 576 |
I lifted my lips timidly to his, gratefully, hoping to be permitted to touch them. |
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| 9 | 42 |
I lay before her, miserably, trembling, helpless, hoping that she would not have me beaten. |
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| 10 | 588 |
No longer need I wait in some windy place, on some lonely bridge or busy street corner, hoping to meet myself. |
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| 14 | 1809 |
"Rather like the prone slave's timid lifting of her derrière, facing away from the master, at his feet, hoping thereby to distract him, perhaps from punitive intentions, with thoughts of pleasure. |
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| 16 | 171 |
Could I do more than squirm, and writhe, and plead with my body, for mercy? But perhaps my desperation might amuse him? Perhaps he was merely interested in registering, with bemused tolerance, the inept, pathetic strivings of an Earth-girl slave to please him, hoping not to be beaten. |
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| 16 | 191 |
Were they not, too, men, and thus such as before whom it was appropriate that I present myself, hoping for their approbation? In the eyes of the musicians I read something that I had not expected to find, that they were not displeased with the sight of the slave before them. |
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| 16 | 281 |
Well, I conjectured, in our collars, obeying, hoping to please, striving desperately to please. |
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| 16 | 570 |
But I had been restless during the night, it had almost been as though I had been waiting for him, hoping for him. |
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| 18 | 176 |
Oh, I suppose there is some pleasure for a brute in unwrapping a free woman, so to speak, like a present, the suspense, the anticipation, and such, hoping to be pleasantly surprised, and so on, but what if he isn't? Then what? Perhaps he can get a few coins on her, as a laundress, or perhaps he migh... |
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| 45 | 3 |
I would smile, a timid smile, hoping to please him. |
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| 46 | 115 |
"I have been collared here, and made a slave here! Surely now I am of Gor! How could I be more of Gor, than as a Gorean slave girl, hoping like other Gorean slave girls to be found pleasing by her master?" "You do have a beautiful face," he said, "perhaps the most beautiful I have ever seen, and you... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 260 |
The older woman followed the couple from the theater discretely, hovering near them, hoping to hear an informative remark, or an address given to the driver of a cab. |
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| 13 | 730 |
Your expression! Are you humble? Does your expression say that you know that you are owned and must obey? Are you timid? Are you fearful? Are you apprehensive that you may be insufficiently pleasing? Are you joyful to see the Master? Are you hoping he will take you in his arms? Do you wish to be ord... |
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| 16 | 514 |
She scrutinized the crowd, hoping for a glimpse of her master. |
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| 16 | 1281 |
Ellen lifted her hands to the crowd, not daring to meet anyone's eyes, and hoping no one noticed her. |
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| 17 | 131 |
Did they really believe the absurdities of the antimenites? Were they interested, rather, in their own political futures, willing to be male camp followers, hoping to be permitted to share eventually in the loot of grants, appointments, and prestige? They had seemed so spineless, so ingratiating. |
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| 17 | 1103 |
She clenched her knees together, frightened, hoping that she might be permitted to be a tower slave. |
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| 18 | 226 |
"Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!" she had cried out, hoping he could hear. |
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| 19 | 722 |
He is so Gorean! He is not like the sweet, pleasant, conquered men of Earth! He does not respect women! He does not treat us with tenderness and gentleness, he does not give us our due of solicitation! He does not care for our feelings! He dominates and masters us! He is the sort of man who looks up... |
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| 26 | 1215 |
The slave prostrates herself before the master, her hair about his sandals, hoping he will be merciful, that he will take pity on her. |
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| 27 | 138 |
Portus Canio and the others, then, would presumably turn southeast, toward Ar, hoping to reach the great southern road, the Viktel Aria, Ar's Victory. |
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| 27 | 2639 |
"They may have caught the scent of the gray sleen, the hunting sleen," said another, "and surmised them to be tracking, and then followed, for days, hoping to share the kill". |
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| 29 | 91 |
Some tinier carts, some drawn by hand, followed the main column, though doubtless not associated with it, rather merely hoping in its shelter to shield themselves from brigandage. |
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| 30 | 90 |
Know what it is to actually wear a collar and be owned! Know what it is to kneel naked, chained, before your master! Know what it is to cast him shy, fearful glances, trying to read his moods! Know what it is to service his compartments, perhaps shackled, to make his couch, to dust and clean, and co... |
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| 22 | 212 |
And the slave danced, as she could, danced for fear of the whip, for fear of her life, danced for the pleasure of men, hoping to please them, hoping that they might see how beautiful and desirable she was, and would be kind to her, and then for the sudden desperation of her awakened needs, and dance... |
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| 1 | 772 |
She was, in effect, a slut he might pursue in dreams, and he was to her, too, in her dreams, one to whose feet such as she would hasten, to kneel, and press her warm, moist lips upon them, hoping to be found pleasing. |
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| 1 | 813 |
Then she spoke to him, hoping doubtless that she might somehow be understood. |
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| 1 | 854 |
To her misery and chagrin she found herself waiting and hoping that he, this unusual man, would touch her intimately, but he did not do so. |
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| 4 | 89 |
Cabot thought she would look well on her belly, licking and kissing a man's feet, hoping to be found pleasing. |
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| 18 | 288 |
Sometimes, too, house slaves, tower slaves, palace slaves, and such, unaccustomed to more demanding slaveries, will flee, hoping to avoid sharing the chains of more common slaves. |
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| 21 | 68 |
This was presumably an allusion to the use of drums, together with other instruments, we may suppose, in slave dance, a form of dance in which a type of human female, the female slave, helpless and vulnerable, as all female slaves, ornamented, and beautifully if scarcely clothed, dances her beauty, ... |
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| 31 | 29 |
Sometimes a slave, in attempting to flee a bondage of great cruelty, perhaps that of the laundries or mills, might don the garments of a free woman, hoping to elude recapture, but, to the alert, practiced eye, even beneath the cumbersome Robes of Concealment, and the veils, might be detected the bod... |
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| 36 | 246 |
Perhaps she had begun to sense the stirring, the begging, of her secret slave, the need of a woman to be such, her master's beast, his animal, on his chain, licking and kissing, hoping to please. |
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| 39 | 17 |
"Doubtless they were hoping to tender assistance to the beleaguered". |
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| 56 | 39 |
"I feel like a tethered verr," said he, "staked out by hunters, hoping to lure in a larl". |
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| 67 | 31 |
Plainer ones might be used for the scouring of sewers, the cartage of wastes, the scavenging of garbage, such things, or, if fortunate, be put to work in the pens, cleansing them, filling the feed troughs, and such, hoping that they would not themselves be sent to the ramps, for they would understan... |
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| 77 | 150 |
They could, of course, through the bars, attempt to interest one male more than another, hoping that he might then spend his coins accordingly. |
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| 3 | 80 |
Had she never served so, humbly, hoping to please, fearing the switch if she did not? "No, no," said Pertinax, soothingly. |
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| 5 | 546 |
Eager to escape the toils of her cruel mistresses, and hoping that she might be returned to civilization, and even freed, she had begged him to buy her. |
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| 9 | 78 |
They may have to request their master's permission to leave their domicile, and they may have to return at a stipulated time, subject to discipline, and, indeed, has one not seen them hurrying frantically through the streets hoping to cross their master's threshold before the ringing of the fifteent... |
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| 10 | 290 |
This attacks the vanity of the woman, with the consequence that she often becomes quite docile, hoping to be soon relieved of this indignity. |
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| 11 | 94 |
By the time she had learned her collar, and her skin would again sparkle, and her hair would be again a glory, and her eyes would no longer reflect terror but rather the eagerness of a surrendered slave, hoping to be found pleasing by her master, she would be worthy, I was sure, of having the vestit... |
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| 16 | 116 |
Too, I was hoping to train warriors, not butchers. |
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| 22 | 99 |
Indeed, she may assume them hoping that her master will see fit to caress her. |
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| 22 | 100 |
Usually she conveys her desires by kneeling and nuzzling, and making tiny noises and whimpering, and kissing the feet and legs of the master, looking to him, lips parted, hoping for attention, such things. |
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| 22 | 406 |
Perhaps she lifts her small wrists to you, hoping that you will bind, or bracelet, them. |
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| 24 | 112 |
I hurried hither, hoping to warn you, perhaps to save your life". |
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| 38 | 134 |
Are the men conjecturing what they might look like, on a chain, being exhibited to buyers, naked, as women are sold, and such, perhaps groveling on the furs in an alcove, hoping to be found pleasing, perhaps even tunicked, barefoot, being sent to a market, running along, lightly, collared, on their ... |
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| 38 | 254 |
Sometimes too, the women are kept off the market, sometimes for months, while their owners wait, hoping for better prices. |
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| 38 | 447 |
During the raid the English girl, hoping to avoid death, had declared herself slave. |
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| 40 | 81 |
She suspects, in fury then, on some level, at least, that the frightened, half-naked creature kneeling before her, collared, cringing, hoping not to be struck, is quite possibly her intellectual superior. |
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| 1 | 301 |
The shame of Talena infuriated proud Marlenus, obsessed with his name and honor, particularly as it became clear, later, in the northern forests, when Talena was put up for sale, that, hoping to be freed and returned to Ar, she had begged to be purchased, a slave's act, for in such an act one acknow... |
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| 2 | 117 |
Our common concern, or prey, were small boats, with a crew of four or five, tiny merchantmen, or smugglers, if you like, hoping to run the blockade to the farther islands. |
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| 7 | 145 |
It is a rare Gorean who does not speculate what even a free woman, bundled in her stiff, ornate robes, concealed within her layers of veils, would look like, stripped, collared, and at his feet, perhaps on all fours, looking up at him, frightened, the whip or switch between her teeth, hoping it will... |
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| 8 | 377 |
Good-looking girls of low-caste sometimes go about unveiled deliberately, hoping that they may catch the eye of a slaver, and perhaps be sold into a high household, or come into the chains of a handsome, well-to-do master. |
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| 13 | 33 |
One could almost walk upon the vines, but one could draw a small ship's boat, or raft, through them, hoping eventually to reach free water. |
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| 17 | 169 |
As it did not seem appropriate that I address him, I remained silent, hoping he might recognize me. |
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| 17 | 248 |
"If you were the admiral of the fleet of Lord Yamada," said Cabot, "and you outnumbered your enemy ten or more to one, would you not press on, hoping to bring about an engagement, even if weeks later?" "Yes," I said, "I would press on". |
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| 20 | 33 |
Whereas this sort of thing, frequenting the vicinity of a free man, is not unusual in an enamored slave, desperate to fall within the purview of a master's glance, hoping to be noticed, though she be only slave, it seemed unaccountable in the case of one who had once been the Lady Flavia of Ar. |
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| 20 | 222 |
"And you kissed it?" "Yes, Master," she said, "fervently, piteously, hoping that it would strike us no more". |
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| 21 | 387 |
One cannot, of course, ignite needs which are not there, cannot set fires where there is nothing to burn, where there is nothing ready to burn, nothing eager to burn, nothing hoping to burn. |
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| 22 | 53 |
I and the others were armed, as we had obtained weapons, in the issuance, hoping to go ashore in our turn. |
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| 33 | 127 |
"Being unable to help yourself, hoping to be touched, begging to be caressed, responding helplessly, is a sign of vitality, of health". |
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| 37 | 956 |
"Do you think she might look well, writhing before you, hoping to please her master, fearing your whip did she not do so?" "I would think she would look quite well," I said. |
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| 37 | 1108 |
In this way her submission is clear, and she is hoping to buy her life with her beauty, the crossed wrists, ready for binding, indicating that she is pleading to be accepted as a slave. |
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| 15 | 53 |
In the very sight of such men I felt it natural that I should kneel and bow my head, hoping that I might be noticed, might be found acceptable, might be found such that they might deign to snap their fingers and indicate that I might follow them, hoping to be eventually awarded their collar. |
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| 4 | 27 |
"Then proto-slaves," she said, "exhibiting themselves for prospective masters, displaying themselves brazenly, hoping that they might thereby come to the attention of masters". |
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| 4 | 664 |
Do the masters truly not understand the slave's uneasiness, her whimpering, her sidelong glances, the bondage knot in her hair, her kneeling before him, the pathetic way she presses her lips to his feet, hoping to call herself to his attention? Surely the strongest chain on a slave is her nature and... |
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| 6 | 44 |
In this, they may have been hoping to gain time. |
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| 7 | 18 |
It is for such a reason that free women, trapped in a burning city, a fallen city, being sacked, will not unoften steal collars from their girls, and fasten them on their own necks, hoping to be taken for slaves, to be spared as slaves. |
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| 7 | 72 |
I felt about in the darkness, hoping to find food. |
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| 8 | 692 |
Still, it is commonly to one's advantage, as noted, to present oneself well on the block, hoping thereby to obtain a richer master, a better house, lighter duties, and such. |
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| 8 | 1086 |
I smiled at her, timidly, bravely, wanting to be her friend, if only for a moment, hoping for some understanding, some small comfort, in our common plight. |
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| 8 | 1426 |
As you might suppose, girls are eager to escape the labors of the great kitchen, and make the most of their turns at serving the long tables, hoping to come to the attention of one or another of the guests. |
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| 10 | 675 |
Before a man, for example, I would have knelt, head down, waiting to be commanded, hoping, at any cost, to be found pleasing. |
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| 10 | 1105 |
Once more I was hoping to avoid the laundry slaves of the establishment of the Lady Daphne. |
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| 11 | 233 |
"Surely a manacle awaits," said the first guardsman, "hoping to be warmed by your slender, lovely ankle". |
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| 11 | 263 |
Too, it was not unknown for a neglected slave, if unconstrained, to prowl the streets, hoping for a secret tryst, to relieve her needs. |
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| 26 | 362 |
"And so," he said, "the slave performs before the loathed, hated master, frantically hoping to be found pleasing". |
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| 31 | 50 |
I think, 'Master this slave! Take her! She is yours!' When Master Kleomenes touches me, I am a lost slave, hoping that I will not be shown mercy. |
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| 38 | 16 |
Indeed, the slave, if encountering Panther Girls, might even have been foolish enough to call herself to their attention, perhaps hoping to elicit aid, perhaps hoping, even, to be enlisted as a member of their band, and not simply taken in hand as she would be, as the slave she was. |
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| 6 | 286 |
Could they not see what they were, what they needed, what they wanted? Did they not understand them? Why did they deny them the ownership and domination without which they could not be fulfilled, without which they could not be women? Why did they not kneel them, and inform them that they were women... |
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| 7 | 52 |
During my training, how often I had sneaked little glances about me, at the guards, the visitors, prospective buyers, trainers, physicians, and attendants, hoping to see him! I knew myself too poor a slave to be of interest to such a man, perhaps one of skills, position, and wealth, but, still, I ho... |
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| 17 | 37 |
I was waiting, each day, hoping to be sent to the edge of the camp, toward the wands, that I might search for roots, pick berries, or gather firewood. |
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| 29 | 164 |
Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls. |
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| 29 | 172 |
The animus borne to the slave by the typical free woman is doubtless motivated primarily by the fact that men commonly prefer the lovely, lightly clad slave, submitted and needful, docile, obedient, and passionate, hoping to please, to the proud, exalted free woman jealous of her thousand prerogativ... |
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| 37 | 10 |
Did she not know her efforts were useless? Had she not, often enough, put captured free women, or free women hoping to join her band, in just such impediments, before delivering them naked to buyers? "Where are my garments!" she cried. |
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| 37 | 44 |
It is also rumored that some free women purchase beautiful slaves in order to attract men to themselves, the fellow hoping to see more of the slave. |
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| 41 | 54 |
I would have loved to kneel beside his thigh, that master first seen on a far world, and so express my slave's devotion, hoping not to be cuffed away, to the side. |
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| 41 | 319 |
I blew very softly on the whistle, hoping that whatever sound it might make would be scarcely noticed. |
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| 42 | 5 |
I wanted to be at his feet, head down, naked and collared, my lips pressed to his sandals, hoping to be found acceptable, even pleasing. |
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| 43 | 754 |
I kiss and lick your thigh, hoping that you will forgive my mediocrity, my ordinariness, my lack of interest". |
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| 47 | 38 |
She seemed to serve well, at least others, as the slave she was, obedient, docile, compliant, attractive, beautiful, timid, hoping to please, realizing the lash might respond to the least imperfection of service. |
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| 50 | 11 |
I supposed even on Earth I would have been ready to yield to a master, hoping to be found pleasing. |
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| 54 | 117 |
What tree woman can understand what it is to surrender themselves wholly, to abandon themselves unqualifiedly to love and service, asking nothing but hoping to give all? But perhaps, I thought, many tree women can understand this, some surely, for what is a tree woman but a slave, lacking her collar... |
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| 1 | 199 |
But I, I knew, though of the scarlet caste, preferred the sky, the terrain below, mountains, the wind, the surging flight of the tarn, the exhilarating rush of air tearing at the jacket, and, of course, the recreation of the tarnsman, the loot one gathers, so pleasant, the collared, chained slave, a... |
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| 2 | 47 |
Might not some survivors, lost, miserable, desperate, cold, and starving, return, searching for food, perhaps hoping to be rescued? I should have been there. |
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| 6 | 10 |
Perhaps they had sought to arrange an attack there, hoping to duplicate the attack, so fearsomely successful, on the first encampment. |
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| 10 | 134 |
"I do not think there is enough rice for us to linger about, hoping to secure it," said Lysander, "and what there may be is heavily guarded". |
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| 12 | 130 |
"As appointed commander of the cavalry I was willing, under unusual circumstances, hoping to advance the cause of the house of Temmu, to exercise my own judgment, to act on my own initiative, to act independently of the chain of command, but all that was while I held the post and rank of commander, ... |
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| 13 | 122 |
"You were hoping to be his slave," I said. |
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| 13 | 277 |
You have never prostrated yourself before one, hoping not to be lashed. |
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| 19 | 217 |
When the Kur raid had taken place on the Prison Moon the English girl, hoping to avoid being eaten, had pronounced herself slave, after which pronouncement, whether she understood it well or not, she was slave. |
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| 20 | 271 |
"Men are often disarmed by charm and beauty," I said, "and may willingly, even eagerly, reveal to a woman, hoping to intrigue and impress her, matters which otherwise might be difficult to extract, even by the persuasions of ropes and irons". |
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| 47 | 169 |
It has been used both in courts of law as a procedure for deciding guilt or innocence, and, more commonly, as an amusing manner of execution, in which the naive subject tortures himself into hoping that he may survive. |
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| 52 | 102 |
Since the screens are not activated, namely, the dragon has not yet opened its eyes, I am hoping the dragon is free to fly, that the gate has been opened, or the roof rolled back, or such". |
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| 58 | 130 |
He was no longer the pathetic, diffident Gregory White who had crept about in the officious shadow of Miss Margaret Wentworth, now the slave, Saru, tentative and pliant, hoping to please. |
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| 61 | 927 |
She tenderly and lovingly, and humbly, kissed and licked the switch for a few moments, and then looked up, adoringly, at her master, hoping that he would be pleased. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 321 |
How dare he regard me so, regard me in that way, as he was! Is one a mere object? How horrifying to be regarded as an object, as something which might be assessed, and bought and sold! But how accustomed I would become to such an appraisal! And, in time, I would realize that I was an object, a senti... |
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| 8 | 159 |
I then addressed myself to this humble task, hoping that he would be pleased. |
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| 14 | 159 |
Then, my eyes on him, I kissed the goblet, submissively, as a slave, hoping to please, and then I lowered my head, between my extended arms, and held the goblet to him. |
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| 35 | 180 |
"Hiding in a doorway," she exclaimed, "hoping to avoid detection! I should bind you, hand and foot, and leave you for the rounds of guardsmen!" A slave is not permitted to resist her securing. |
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| 44 | 211 |
Does this practice not add a sauce to any dish? Consider the slave kneeling, proffering the dish, hoping the master will be pleased. |
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| 50 | 463 |
There she is, at his feet, curled, exquisitely desirable, needful, hoping for a smile, or a caress. |
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| 51 | 248 |
He commands, and we, hoping to be found pleasing, hasten to obey. |
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| 61 | 324 |
And many a free woman strips herself and, in the streets, before victors, as walls tumble and houses burn, performs obeisance, hoping to be spared for the coffle and market. |
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| 66 | 42 |
"Let her kneel to an Assassin, covering his feet with tears and kisses, hoping not to be beaten". |
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| 68 | 132 |
"Much must, in some cases, be broken through, gross husks to be peeled away, one after another, until the true woman, soft, vulnerable, open, needful, ready, hoping, is revealed". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 73 |
Her carriage bespoke not so much the supple, lithe beauty of the slave, so deliciously submissive, so aware of her collar, so hoping to please, as the arrogance of a free woman. |
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| 2 | 108 |
She is not yet the victim of slave fires, hoping for, and begging for, the least caress of even a hated master". |
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| 5 | 14 |
"What is wrong?" I called out, hoping someone would answer. |
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| 6 | 239 |
I wanted a kind, but firm, master, one who would fulfill my slave, that yearning, hoping, needful slave which was I. |
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| 6 | 260 |
Yet I thought, as I had heard, how zealously they compete to please the masters! They were desperate to have about them the arms of masters, and those who might be less zealous would be whipped, until they, too, later, their slave fires kindled, and raging, would compete as well, and desperately, to... |
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| 8 | 696 |
They had not used the drum until now, perhaps hoping that their presence had not yet been discovered. |
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| 10 | 9 |
How often one hopefully ties the bondage knot in one's hair! How often one kneels, frustrated and whimpering, at a male's feet, fearing to speak, hoping to be caressed! Once one's slave fires are kindled what can one be from then on but a begging slave? And do the beasts not know this, when they, to... |
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| 10 | 121 |
Would they not be the ones who hastily, in terror of recognizing even the suspicion of their own possible manhood, lift a hoping, kneeling woman to her feet and shame her, lecturing her on what she should do and be, as though they knew more than she what it was to be a woman, lecturing her on how sh... |
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| 11 | 226 |
So I knelt before Leander, hoping for a roll or bit of bread, and told him the latest gossip and rumors, the freshest scandals and stories, which had circulated amongst the patrons of the Golden Chain. |
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| 11 | 313 |
I had tried to delight and flatter him, hoping to be fed. |
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| 11 | 592 |
"When I had seen you on Earth," he said, "you dining with, and exploiting, one weakling or another, I had thought you might make an acceptable slave, naked, crawling under the table, at a man's knees, in your collar, hoping to be fed". |
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| 12 | 25 |
How I hated him, and had never forgotten him! Each night, in serving, I had scanned the customers, fearing to see him, dreading to see him, hoping to see him. |
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| 19 | 7 |
How long I had awaited this moment, hoping for it, dreading it, wanting it, fearing it. |
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| 24 | 61 |
I watched the passersby, hoping that someone from the Golden Chain might pass by, that someone, slave or free, even a customer, might recognize me. |
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| 32 | 78 |
So why then, when he returns, will he find you still here? Perhaps the slave thief is a rank amateur, hoping to find you unsecured, as slaves often are, or the keys conveniently about, in the apartment, perhaps in a drawer or chest, perhaps dangling just outside your reach? More likely, he was inter... |
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| 33 | 674 |
I found myself hoping, desperately, fervently, for no reason I understood, that he had survived. |
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| 40 | 35 |
I recalled that after Addison Steele had put me to his pleasure in the cheap, dingy tavern, the Whip and Chain, he had referred to seeing me on Earth, from time to time, dining with, and exploiting, "one weakling or another," and had thought that I might make an acceptable slave, naked and collared,... |
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| 42 | 103 |
His men fled, seeking stairwells, climbing, rushing, gasping, unopposed to the parapet, there hoping to avail themselves of the rope ladders by means of which the barges, were they still there, might be reached. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 192 |
What can a woman be to such men but a slave, hoping to be found acceptable, hoping desperately to please them, and as the slave she is?" "I suspect that there is very little difference, if any," I said, "biologically, between the men of Earth and those of Gor. |
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| 14 | 42 |
"Some others, mad with thirst, will wander crazily into the hills, hoping to find streams or wells," said Thurnock. |
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| 17 | 252 |
I waited a bit, hoping that her slave fires might soon burn lower, if not subside, at least for a time. |
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| 19 | 188 |
"And I you," I said, hoping it would not be necessary, later, to kill him. |
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| 21 | 71 |
But what is your purpose here, noble Statercounter?" "Much the same," I said, "hoping, of course, to convey my findings to the proper authorities". |
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| 26 | 112 |
"I was hoping we might deprive the enemy of one of their seven ships," I said. |
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| 29 | 125 |
I have felt the impulse to kneel before them, abjectly, and kiss their feet, hoping to please them, being ready to feel their whip if I did not. |
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| 43 | 84 |
I had expected him to run, which would have been his best option, in which case I would pursue him for a pace or two and launch my sword with an overhand hilt cast, hoping, if all went well, to penetrate his back below the left shoulder blade, after which one would hope to draw out the sword, turn t... |
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| 44 | 16 |
Indeed, if one had two defenders to one attacker hoping to scale the wall, at one time, the defenders would at that point, the point of military interest, outnumber the attackers two to one. |
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| 49 | 190 |
"You will dally some days," asked Tab, "hoping the corsair fleet will grow impatient and depart?" "Possibly," I said. |
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| 55 | 9 |
Accordingly, it follows ships, hoping to be fed". |
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| 55 | 11 |
"No," said Sakim, "but it is easy for them to follow the beast while it seeks a different vessel, hoping to be fed". |
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| 56 | 15 |
"I want it closer," I said, "and I want the mercenaries to mass together, crowded, shield to shield, intent on naught but war, each hoping for his place on a ladder, each eager for a kill". |
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