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| 1 | 27 |
I liked America very much, though I was quite busy the first semester, smashing through numerous texts in an undignified manner, attempting to commit enough English history to memory to keep at least a reign or so ahead of my students. |
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| 2 | 138 |
"I shall show you someday," he said, "my own small Home Stone, which I keep in my chambers. |
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| 2 | 141 |
"I shall keep the handful of earth you brought," he said, his voice very quiet, "and someday it may be yours". |
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| 2 | 239 |
It has the same plane of orbit and maintains its orbit in such a way as always to keep The Central Fire between it and its planetary sister, our Earth, even though this necessitates occasional adjustments in its speed of revolution". |
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| 4 | 14 |
I seized the short mounting ladder swinging wildly from the saddle and climbed it, seating myself in the saddle, fastening the broad purple belt that would keep me from tumbling to my death. |
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| 4 | 157 |
"Will you keep the Code of the Warrior?" asked my father. |
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| 4 | 158 |
"Yes," I said, "I will keep the Code". |
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| 5 | 132 |
Sana had insisted that I keep the pellet of poison which the Council had given her to spare her from the otherwise inevitable tortures that would follow the disclosure of her identity in the cylinders of Ar. |
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| 5 | 142 |
During the first day, sheltered in the occasional knots of trees that dot the border plains of Ar, I slept, fed on my rations, and practiced with my weapons, trying to keep my muscles vital in spite of the stiffness that attends prolonged periods on tarnback. |
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| 9 | 15 |
Moreover, owing to the almost universal hatred borne to the city of Ar by most Gorean cities, it would be imperative in any case to keep the identity of my fair companion a secret. |
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| 9 | 75 |
"There, bold Tarnsman," she said, "I will teach you how to keep a prisoner. |
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| 10 | 77 |
"While in my service, you may keep her on my chain if you wish," he said. |
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| 10 | 103 |
"Keep her in your tent," snarled the attendant. |
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| 10 | 124 |
Not only does this lubricant absorb much of the shock involved, but it tends, except under abnormal stress, to keep the seat of the saddle parallel to the ground. |
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| 10 | 184 |
"I will keep the key," I said. |
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| 11 | 21 |
That night we brought the caravan into the palisaded keep prepared for Mintar by Pa-Kur, the Master Assassin, who was the Ubar of this vast, scarcely organized, predatory horde. |
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| 13 | 38 |
One would suppose that the larl might be unconcerned with a single animal escaping its net of noise and fear and would neglect an isolated kill in order to keep the hunting circle closed, but that is not true. |
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| 14 | 131 |
Merchants must keep their friends on both sides of the fence, for who knows if Marlenus may not once more sit upon the throne of Ar?" I must have uttered a sound of joy, for Marlenus quickly placed his hand over my mouth. |
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| 14 | 139 |
Now and again there would be a moment's giddy respite from the pain as one or the other of the birds failed to keep the ropes taut. |
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| 15 | 180 |
They will never keep the city". |
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| 15 | 195 |
"Perhaps some of them fight for their freedom—for the right to keep their own Home Stone," I said. |
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| 16 | 59 |
I was confident that there would be cisterns and canisters of water in the palace, and I supposed that Marlenus, as an enlightened precaution, in view of the unstable politics of Ar, would have outfitted his cylinder as a keep, laying in stores of food and missile weapons. |
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| 16 | 76 |
"Pa-Kur will not destroy the city," I said, "and he will keep as much of his horde as he can". |
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| 17 | 48 |
Ubars have always employed the Initiates as tools, some of the boldest even contending that the social function of the Initiates is to keep the lower castes contented with their servile lot. |
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| 19 | 151 |
This led me to puzzle as to whether this was the weaker part of my defense and where his attack would come, or if it was a blind to keep my mind from another area until suddenly he drove through for the kill. |
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| 20 | 41 |
I have tried to keep that promise, and I know that she has done so as well. |
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| 20 | 66 |
I have even joined a fencing club, to keep my eye alert and my wrist strong, though the puny foils we use are sorry weapons compared to the swords of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 112 |
Slowly, every muscle straining to keep my balance, the cords in my legs and back like tortured cables, I reached out my hand to Ost's and, struggling in agony to keep my balance, added the weight of his yoke to mine as I drew him to his knees. |
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| 1 | 20 |
I returned at the determined time, but he failed to keep the rendezvous. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Sleen In the darkness I stumbled on toward the walls of Ko-ro-ba, striking the stones of the road with the butt of my spear, to keep on the road and to drive possible serpents from my path. |
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| 4 | 94 |
"Did you, Oh Dark Brother of the Night, think to keep me from Ko-ro-ba?" How absurd it seemed to me that a mere sleen should have stood between me and my city. |
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| 5 | 108 |
I piled rocks on the body, enough to mark the grave and keep predators away. |
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| 8 | 48 |
It was an intelligent precaution for Tharna to take, to keep an eye on the stranger, lest her hospitality be abused. |
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| 8 | 64 |
I determined that I should try to secure a tarn and proceed as quickly as possible to the Sardar Mountains, to keep my appointment with the Priest-Kings. |
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| 10 | 20 |
Ost scurried along behind us, puffing and gasping, his short, bandy legs struggling to keep pace with the stride of warriors. |
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| 13 | 31 |
Several were armed warriors, perhaps stationed there to keep the peace, but many must have been common citizens of Tharna. |
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| 13 | 124 |
My hand clutched his withdrawn fist and slipped off, unable to keep its grip from the sweat, his and mine. |
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| 14 | 21 |
"Keep it as a gift," rang a haughty voice from above me. |
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| 18 | 166 |
"Keep climbing!" I said. |
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| 20 | 61 |
One might think that some stability would be provided by the Initiates, who must keep a calendar of their feasts and observances, but the Initiates of one city do not always celebrate the same feast on the same date as do those of another city. |
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| 21 | 69 |
It immediately expanded, and before she could spit the hair out, he had looped more of her hair about her head and tied it, in such a way as to keep the expanded ball of hair in her mouth. |
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| 22 | 73 |
"Why would you not keep me for your own?" It was a bold question, strange to come from this girl, once Tatrix of Tharna. |
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| 25 | 79 |
I tried to turn the animal as well as I could to keep its scrambling body between myself and the man with wrist straps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 63 |
Sometimes these men are merchants who wish thereby to secure goodwill for their products; sometimes they are practitioners of the law, who hope to sway the votes of jury men; sometimes they are Ubars or High Initiates who find it in their interests to keep the crowds amused. |
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| 2 | 5 |
He could not read the manuscript, as it was written in English, a language as foreign to him as Gorean would be to most of you, but yet he would treasure the manuscript and guard it as though it were a most precious possession, for he was a scribe and it is the way of scribes to love the written wor... |
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| 3 | 6 |
I was struck with wonder, though I was careful to keep beyond the range of their chains, for I had never seen white larls before. |
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| 4 | 82 |
"I shall keep my sword," I said. |
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| 13 | 30 |
Most significantly however I suspect that the syllabary of Priest-Kings remains complex, and that experiments with unscented graphemes were never conducted, because, except for lexical additions, they wish to keep their language much as it was in the ancient past. |
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| 16 | 28 |
This teaches the lower orders the might of Priest-Kings and encourages them to keep our laws". |
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| 16 | 50 |
"We keep in touch with the earth," said Misk, "for it might, in time, become a threat to us and then we would have to limit it, or destroy it or leave the solar system". |
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| 17 | 15 |
"What are the duties of Misk which keep him from his chamber?" "In honor of the Feast of Tola," said Sarm, "he is now pleased to retain Gur". |
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| 18 | 11 |
One afternoon, as I judged by the feeding times, for the energy bulbs always keep the Nest of Priest-Kings at a constant level of illumination, Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta and I were swiftly passing through one tunnel on my transportation disk. |
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| 20 | 176 |
You have proved to me that Sarm does not intend to keep his promises, that he will betray me". |
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| 26 | 82 |
"I will keep her well fed and watered," said the Attendant. |
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| 26 | 302 |
"I will keep the female Mul well fed and watered," said the Attendant. |
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| 28 | 94 |
If no other choice seemed practical I supposed I could always keep her chained in my own case. |
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| 29 | 86 |
I tried to keep above the ship, staying away from the disrupter cone on its bow. |
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| 30 | 173 |
I ate because I wished to keep what I could of my strength, for I might have need of it again. |
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| 31 | 6 |
But I knew that Sarm had no intention of keeping his part of the bargain, and that he intended to slay Misk, destroying hopefully thereby the effective leadership of the opposition, and then either keep me as a slave for Vika or, more likely, killing me as well, even though that might disappoint the... |
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| 31 | 140 |
Twice more Sarm fired and twice more I scrambled about on the walkway trying to keep the two surfaces of the globe between myself and his weapon. |
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| 33 | 11 |
From where Vika and I stood together on the rocky trail, now scarcely able to keep our feet on the path, we could see vast crowds, robed in all the caste colors of Gor, clustered outside the remains of the palisade, looking fearfully within. |
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| 33 | 121 |
Others, perhaps, to keep the skies of Gor over their head, might confess to deceit; but I suspected there would be few of those; yet I was sure that there would indeed be confessions and admissions of guilt, from individuals never within the Sardar, but hired by Initiates to discredit the tales of t... |
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| 33 | 122 |
Most who had returned from the Sardar would, eventually at least, I was sure, try to gain admittance in new cities, where they were not known, and attempt to work out new lives, as though they did not keep in their hearts the secret of the Sardar. |
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| 34 | 30 |
How clearly Torm wished to keep caste lines and virtues demarcated. |
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| 34 | 110 |
"It is only, Cabot," she said, "because I love you so much that I do not fight to keep you". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 74 |
* * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, i... |
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| 7 | 40 |
"Are the quivas sharp?" "One tries to keep them so," said Kamchak. |
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| 7 | 41 |
"It is important to keep the axles of the wagons greased," observed Kutaituchik. |
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| 8 | 37 |
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap... |
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| 8 | 38 |
The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of the Wagons, del... |
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| 8 | 44 |
Wagons had to be abandoned on the prairie, as there was no time to train new bosk to the harness, and the herds must needs keep moving. |
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| 8 | 519 |
"I keep my bola, it seems," I said. |
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| 10 | 72 |
"But keep me a moment longer yours," she said. |
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| 12 | 451 |
'She is yours! Take her! Keep her until tomorrow! Return her in the morning—when you are finished with her!'" Head down she laughed and sobbed. |
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| 13 | 5 |
"I shall keep them leashed," he responded grimly. |
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| 13 | 130 |
"I can't keep her in a sleen cage forever," Kamchak said. |
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| 14 | 41 |
"We are fools! Fools!" I drew back the reins on my kaiila to keep the beast quiet. |
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| 14 | 76 |
"The quivas—I will try to keep them sharp. |
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| 15 | 105 |
"We try to keep them that way," he said. |
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| 15 | 106 |
"It is important," I observed, "to keep the axles of wagons greased". |
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| 16 | 236 |
"Why," I asked, "did he not permit you to keep the girl as a slave?" "She spoke a barbarous tongue," said Saphrar, "like yourself apparently. |
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| 18 | 27 |
"And that is why you were permitted to keep the quiva". |
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| 19 | 15 |
"You are aware, of course," I mentioned, "that the Pleasure Gardens of so rich a man as Saphrar of Turia may contain a large number of female slaves—not all of whom might be trusted to keep silent—and some of whom will undoubtedly notice something as unusual as two strange warriors wan... |
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| 20 | 1 |
The Keep "By now," said Harold, "guardsmen will have searched the roofs, so it should be safe to proceed across them to our destination". |
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| 20 | 5 |
"That would be," suggested Harold, "the keep". |
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| 20 | 7 |
The keep, in the private houses of Goreans, is most often a round, stone tower, built for defense, containing water and food. |
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| 20 | 32 |
Harold and I then got up and, with Hereena under one of his arms, we circumspectly made our way from roof to roof until we saw the keep, rising like a dark cylinder against one of Gor's three moons. |
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| 20 | 35 |
Indeed, it provided the only access, save on tarnback, for there are no doors at ground level in a Gorean keep. |
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| 20 | 42 |
From time to time a tarn would descend or take flight from the roof of the keep. |
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| 20 | 43 |
When we were sure there were at least two tarns on the roof of the keep I leaped down from the roof and landed on the light bridge, struggling to retain my footing as it began to swing under my feet. |
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| 20 | 48 |
Then Harold had sprung down beside me on the bridge, seizing the hand rope to keep from tumbling off. |
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| 20 | 56 |
Harold sped along the bridge, Hereena in his arms, and disappeared into the keep. |
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| 20 | 76 |
I leaped inside the door of the keep and swung it shut. |
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| 20 | 81 |
Then I emerged in the chamber below the roof of the keep and there found Harold, sitting on the bottom rung of the last ladder, breathing heavily, Hereena lying squirming at his feet. |
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| 21 | 296 |
I stepped back, getting my back to the wagon, trying to keep their steel from me. |
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| 22 | 27 |
The standing wall about the compound kept the Tuchuk bowmen far enough from the roof of the keep within that tarns might, without too great a danger, enter and leave the compound. |
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| 23 | 2 |
On one of these wagons, with the top removed, were the two tarns Harold and I had stolen from the roof of Saphrar's keep. |
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| 23 | 46 |
In a few Ehn I had overtaken my Thousand and given the tarn over to five men, who would keep it until its wagon should, following the tracks of the riders, reach them. |
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| 23 | 50 |
He had apparently, in the past several days since our escape from Saphrar's keep, been familiarizing himself with the saddle straps and the bird's habits and responses. |
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| 23 | 166 |
"And of ours," said Conrad, "for we too sent him word thinking it well to keep him informed in these matters". |
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| 24 | 47 |
He professed a cruel hatred of Turia and Turians, and yet he had, considering the normal practices of the Wagon Peoples, not noted for their mercy to helpless foes, treated the unarmed citizens of the city with unique indulgence, permitting them, on the whole, to keep their lives and freedom, though... |
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| 25 | 142 |
"You keep me chained up—like a slave girl!" I laughed. |
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| 25 | 171 |
"I shall try to keep it in mind," she said. |
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| 25 | 935 |
He decided, falling asleep, that he would keep them both slave for a few days, if only to teach them a lesson. |
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| 26 | 10 |
The tarns that Harold and I had stolen from Saphrar's keep several days ago had both been brought into the city and were nearby, for it was thought that such might be needed, if only to convey reports from one point to another. |
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| 26 | 46 |
The men held their fire, and the tarn, almost at the center of the compound, as far from our encircling positions as possible, suddenly plummeted downward, its wings high, opening them only at the last minute to land on the top of the keep, beyond accurate crossbow range. |
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| 26 | 245 |
"Not to keep it for yourself, nor for riches?" "No," I said, "not for that". |
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| 26 | 360 |
The fluid now had reached Saphrar's chin and his head was back to try and keep his nose and mouth above the surface. |
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| 26 | 437 |
"Yes," he said, "to keep for Priest-Kings". |
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| 28 | 33 |
"One tries to keep them that way," said Harold. |
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| 28 | 35 |
"It is important," I reminded him, "to keep the axles of the wagons greased". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 322 |
"Keep me! Keep me!" "Would you consent," asked Relius, "to be the companion of a Warrior?" "Companion?" she asked. |
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| 2 | 120 |
"Keep him on the sand!" warned the proprietor of the tavern. |
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| 3 | 49 |
Many of the Players dreamed of the day they might be nominated for intercity competitions at the Fairs of the Sardar, for a victor in the Sardar Fairs earns enough to keep himself, and well, for years, which he then would devote to the deeper study of the game. |
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| 4 | 254 |
"When she is not in training, 74673 will keep the quarters of the Assassin". |
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| 5 | 4 |
"And poor Vella, who must keep the quarters of the Assassin! Poor, poor Vella!" "Do not laugh so loudly," I cautioned her, smiling, while moving about the room. |
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| 5 | 30 |
Lastly it might be mentioned that it is a capital offense for a locksmith, normally a member of the Metal Workers, to make an unauthorized copy of a key, either to keep for himself or for another. |
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| 5 | 251 |
Kusk twiddled a knob, and Elizabeth said "Please," once more and then it seemed she could hardly keep her eyes open, and then she closed her eyes and was asleep. |
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| 5 | 294 |
It was all I could do to keep her from reading the scroll out loud. |
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| 5 | 745 |
"I see you know well how to keep a slave," he said. |
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| 5 | 753 |
"I will keep it in mind," I said. |
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| 7 | 16 |
"I like you, Killer," said he, "for you do not haggle, but you are silent; you keep your own counsel and then you strike". |
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| 11 | 2 |
In the cylinder there are several varieties of retention areas, ranging from the luxuriousness of the cell shown to me earlier by Ho-Tu, in which Cernus was accustomed to keep Special Captures, to the iron pens. |
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| 13 | 35 |
"It would be amusing," said she, rather bitterly, "if whoever captured her would collar her, and keep her as a slave". |
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| 13 | 292 |
On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap... |
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| 14 | 1 |
The Prisoner When I had returned to the House of Cernus I passed the heavy, bolted door which led to the hallway off which was the luxurious cell in which Cernus was accustomed to keep his Special Captures, which cell had been shown to me earlier by Ho-Tu. |
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| 14 | 17 |
I had insisted that the girl keep the compartment spotless. |
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| 14 | 18 |
I think it was not so much I minded an occasional bit of silk lying on the floor as that I derived great pleasure from the fact that the lovely Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, slave in the House of Cernus, must keep my quarters. |
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| 16 | 4 |
I would have expected the price of slaves to rise in Ar, but Cernus did not permit it, but continued, when necessary, to undersell the minor houses to keep the general prices in the range he wished. |
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| 16 | 176 |
I gather he had come on the men, who had apparently seized the girl, beaten them away, braceleted her to keep her there, and then turned to fight them again as they had regrouped and attacked. |
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| 22 | 467 |
These poles both keep the laps. |
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| 24 | 210 |
"Or perhaps," said Marlenus, "it might be more amusing to keep you as a Pleasure Slave in my Pleasure Gardens". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
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| 3 | 230 |
"Let us rather keep him as a miserable slave". |
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| 3 | 336 |
It is herded below the Gorean equator by the Wagon Peoples, but there are bosk herds on ranches in the north as well, and peasants often keep some of the animals. |
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| 9 | 266 |
The men of Port Kar, I said to myself, know well how to keep women. |
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| 10 | 91 |
"Can you keep accounts?" I had asked her. |
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| 10 | 289 |
Such preserves are posted, and surrounded by ditches to keep out cattle and unlicensed wagoners. |
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| 11 | 155 |
To be sure, many of the ships of the Ubars were similarly at sea, but men pretending to the Ubarate of Port Kar commonly keep a far larger percentage of their power in port than would a common captain. |
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| 11 | 295 |
"Take down these men," he said, "and keep them chained. |
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| 11 | 514 |
"If peace was made," challenged Samos, "which of you would not keep it?" He looked from man to man. |
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| 11 | 515 |
To my surprise none denied that he would keep the peace, were it made. |
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| 11 | 518 |
I was astonished but it was my sensing of the group that, if peace were made, Port Kar would keep it. |
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| 15 | 425 |
"Keep Sandra for yourself". |
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| 17 | 317 |
Whereas their instincts apparently tend to keep them within the sight of land, I did not know what would be the case if they were unhooded at sea, and there was no land to be found. |
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| 17 | 328 |
"If I can control the bird," I said, "follow me, and keep the instructions I have given you". |
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| 18 | 187 |
"At last," I commented, "someone has discovered a way to keep rence girls quiet". |
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| 18 | 237 |
"We are defending the keep near the delta wall," he said. |
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| 18 | 252 |
"So," Fish was saying to Vina, "you sneaked away from the keep". |
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| 18 | 257 |
"You, too," I said to Telima, "apparently left the keep unbidden". |
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| 18 | 275 |
The men about us laughed and, as comrades in arms, we made our way through the passageway, and then the kitchens, and the halls to the keep. |
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| 18 | 276 |
* * * * The next afternoon Samos and I stood together behind the parapet of the keep. |
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| 18 | 280 |
It had helped to keep besiegers at their distance. |
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| 18 | 286 |
Before my return to the holding, Samos, with his men and mine, had withstood eleven assaults on the keep, both by tarnsmen and besieging infantry. |
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| 18 | 289 |
"Why have you come to defend my keep, and my holding?" I asked Samos. |
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| 18 | 296 |
The keep is near the delta wall of the holding. |
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| 18 | 298 |
Our men, exhausted, lay below, within the keep. |
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| 18 | 309 |
And yet I would not have chosen, at this time, to be any place other than where I stood, on the height of my keep, in the holding I had made mine own in Port Kar. |
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| 18 | 320 |
His own life, like mine, had stood stake on the parapet of my keep. |
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| 18 | 325 |
I descended through the trap and climbed down the ladder to the first level beneath the keep's roof. |
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| 18 | 463 |
"You know," I said, "the keep will be overrun and most of us, the men, at least, will be slain?" "The fleet will come," she said. |
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| 18 | 469 |
"I brought it to the keep," she said. |
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| 18 | 505 |
"This I brought to the keep". |
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| 18 | 516 |
Telima had found it among my belongings, and had brought it to the keep, that it might be waiting for me there. |
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| 18 | 519 |
If one must die, how could one better die than with such a blade in hand? * * * * We fought on the height of the keep. |
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| 18 | 520 |
The last four arrows of the great yellow bow were fired, and four who threatened us fell from the delta wall beyond the keep, from which they were attempting to cover the climb of the besiegers. |
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| 18 | 523 |
We heard the striking against the walls of the keep of siege poles, like ladders with a single upright, rungs tied transversely on the single axis. |
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| 18 | 529 |
"Keep more from coming!" I cried to my men. |
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| 18 | 539 |
They picked up stones from the roof of the keep, and ran to the walls, to hurl them at point-blank range against the men climbing. |
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| 18 | 591 |
With a great cry the hundreds of men swarmed to the foot of the keep. |
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| 18 | 594 |
And across from the keep, on the delta wall, boldly, there stood crossbowmen, now without fear, for our arrows and bolts were gone, to cover the climbing men. |
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| 18 | 595 |
We heard the men nearing us, on the other side of the wall, the scraping of swords and spears on the vertical stones of the keep. |
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| 18 | 612 |
As one their arrows leaped to the string, as one the great bows bent, and I saw Ho-Hak on the height of the wall bring down his arm with a cry, and I saw, like sheets of oblique rain, the torrent of gull-feathered shafts leap toward the keep. |
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| 18 | 615 |
Again and again the great line blasted shafts of pile-tipped tem-wood into those packed at the foot of the keep. |
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| 18 | 616 |
And then the invaders began to scatter and run, but each archer picked his target, and few there were who reached cover other than the side of the keep away from the archers. |
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| 18 | 634 |
From the height of the keep, we could see over my holding, even to the canal and sea gate beyond the lakelike courtyard. |
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| 18 | 650 |
I then seized one of the ropes attached to a grappling iron wedged in one of the crenels and began to descend the outer side of the keep wall. |
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| 18 | 653 |
At the foot of the keep we met Thurnock, Clitus and Ho-Hak. |
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| 18 | 669 |
By now the three girls, Telima, Vina and Luma, had been lowered from the height of the keep, and were close behind us. |
10 |
| 18 | 735 |
"We found her hiding in your treasure room in the keep," said Thurnock. |
10 |
| 18 | 762 |
"It is Telima," I told her, "whom I will keep as a slave". |
10 |
| 18 | 814 |
"Bring cloaks," said Samos, "and let us climb to the height of the keep". |
10 |
| 18 | 815 |
We found cloaks, I that of the admiral, and we followed Samos from the room, across the tiled yard behind the great hall, and into the now-opened keep, and climbed behind him to its height. |
10 |
| 18 | 816 |
From the height of the keep we could see the men of Tab, from the Venna and the Tela, here and there on guard. |
10 |
| 18 | 853 |
Samos, on the height of the keep, regarded me. |
10 |
| 18 | 914 |
It was cold on the height of the keep. |
10 |
| 18 | 974 |
And then, on the height of the keep, looking out across the city, we watched the dawn, beyond the muddy Tamber Gulf, softly touch the cold waters of gleaming Thassa. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1026 |
How could we respect a man who is too weak to keep us in line, to keep us in the place we desire to be? "You sought me?" I asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 445 |
"Do not sell me! Keep me for yourself! Keep me forever for yourself!" I could not bear the thought of being separated from him. |
10 |
| 2 | 22 |
I must keep my wits. |
10 |
| 3 | 65 |
I tried to keep my eyes open. |
10 |
| 7 | 89 |
These were the ones he had managed to keep. |
10 |
| 7 | 493 |
If one was careful to keep the juices inside there was no telltale sign on the lips and chin. |
10 |
| 8 | 206 |
I expected Targo would keep her hooded and gagged in Laura, for it was possible she might be known there. |
10 |
| 10 | 588 |
Perhaps he might keep me, at least for a time, I thought, to clean and launder for him, to cook and sew. |
10 |
| 11 | 163 |
We are supposed to keep our own cage clean, but Lana and I let Inge and Ute do this work. |
10 |
| 11 | 372 |
I tried, as I could, to keep my side to him. |
10 |
| 11 | 392 |
But I did keep my ankles closely together, and flexed my knees slightly, and, of course, as I stood, the lineaments of my figure, happily somewhat concealed, if inadequately, in a common camisk, were his to survey. |
10 |
| 11 | 503 |
"Keep your hands at your sides," commanded Ute. |
10 |
| 11 | 827 |
I decided I had better keep moving. |
10 |
| 12 | 402 |
The only difference between myself and the kept girl of Earth, I speculated, was that I would not be able to choose who it was who would keep me. |
10 |
| 12 | 439 |
Various cities, through their own Merchant Castes, lease land for these stockades and, for their fees, keep their garrisons, usually men of their own cities, supplied. |
10 |
| 12 | 602 |
The point of the neck tether, of course, was to keep Ute and I together, certainly as there was only one guard. |
10 |
| 13 | 71 |
I could keep the thing in the trap. |
10 |
| 13 | 92 |
It is one of the tasks of the Initiates to keep rolls, and determine that each youth, if capable, discharge this putative obligation to the mysterious Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 13 | 788 |
I did not think he would keep me. |
10 |
| 13 | 790 |
This angered me, that it was unlikely he would keep me. |
10 |
| 13 | 805 |
"Will you—" I asked, "will you keep me for yourself?" I had resolved not to inquire into such matters, but the words came out. |
10 |
| 13 | 866 |
My captor was thrusting upward, to keep the bird away. |
10 |
| 13 | 1159 |
"I shall keep you for a time, I suppose," he said, "for my interest and sport, and then, when I weary of you, dispose of you". |
10 |
| 14 | 162 |
The interior wall, high and smooth, a quite effective barrier, served well to keep their slaves within. |
10 |
| 14 | 422 |
It is said that some free women keep slave garments hidden in their compartments, and sometimes don them, before mirrors, or hold them folded against tear-stained cheeks. |
10 |
| 14 | 452 |
Keep her in her collar. |
10 |
| 14 | 466 |
Her master, on the other hand, as she is property, has a right to keep her. |
10 |
| 14 | 526 |
What will be her fate? He will keep her in a collar, of course. |
10 |
| 15 | 532 |
"Your secret camp lies within the very realm of Ar itself! Splendid! And in this camp you keep the daughter of your worst enemy, the daughter of the Ubar of great Ar itself, as slave! Magnificent!" I watched the girl dancing, the slave. |
10 |
| 16 | 451 |
"More! I will give you everything! Everything! Keep me! Do not sell me! I love you! I love you!" I lifted my wrists to him, as though they wore slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 17 | 161 |
I did not doubt, of course, but what Rask of Treve would keep me in a collar. |
10 |
| 17 | 302 |
A Gorean girl, who has a first-rate man, and wishes to keep him, fights for him. |
10 |
| 17 | 317 |
I asked myself, would he, Haakon, such a mortal enemy, release Rask of Treve, even did I keep my bargain? I feared he would not, and yet what choice had I. |
10 |
| 18 | 23 |
Sometimes she comes with me, to the great keep, which once we defended, and we look sometimes toward Thassa, the Sea, and I look sometimes towards the northern forests. |
10 |
| 18 | 26 |
It is said he is shamed that she has been a slave, and that he intends to free her, and keep her sequestered in Ar, that her degradation not be publicly exhibited. |
10 |
| 18 | 60 |
"As my Ubar wishes," said Telima, and turned and left, leaving me alone on the top of the keep. |
10 |
| 18 | 62 |
Thurnock climbed the steps of the keep. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 123 |
"Keep us as women and slaves! Keep us as women and slaves!" "Submit," I told them. |
10 |
| 1 | 83 |
"Love or not," said Samos, studying the board, "he will keep her in a collar—for he is of Treve". |
10 |
| 1 | 86 |
Rask of Treve, though in love with her and she with him, would keep her rightless, in the absolute bondage of a Gorean slave girl—for he was of Treve. |
10 |
| 2 | 164 |
Some free girls, without family, keep themselves, as best they can, in certain port cities. |
10 |
| 2 | 525 |
"Keep them chained, but dress their wounds, and feed them. |
10 |
| 6 | 134 |
"But," said Thurnock, troubled, "have you considered that they, the panther women of Verna's band, might keep the girl we have released?" "I have considered that," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 400 |
"Keep the fire high," said the woman. |
10 |
| 6 | 401 |
"Keep it high," said I to Thurnock. |
10 |
| 6 | 668 |
"No!" "On the contrary," I said, "it is my wish that you keep your skills fresh. |
10 |
| 7 | 284 |
"Keep climbing," I told her. |
10 |
| 9 | 353 |
It would probably be kinder to her to keep her in bondage. |
10 |
| 11 | 523 |
Sometimes tavern keepers gather several such unfortunates together, enslave them, and keep their beggings for themselves. |
10 |
| 11 | 905 |
At times I had had to keep her mouth covered with my hand. |
10 |
| 12 | 12 |
The dominant and effective families thus take into themselves newcomers of energy and intelligence, who, in exchange for position and opportunity, when they themselves are allied with such families, help keep the families high and dominant in the society. |
10 |
| 13 | 377 |
I heard them behind me, weeping, piteously attempting to keep my pace. |
10 |
| 15 | 182 |
"Keep order in the camp," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 198 |
"Keep order in the camp," I told the red-haired girl. |
10 |
| 16 | 159 |
"Keep me as your slave!" "I do not want you," said Vinca. |
10 |
| 18 | 438 |
They had a rendezvous to keep. |
10 |
| 18 | 484 |
There was, of course, another reason why the commander of the Rhoda and Tesephone would keep within sight of the shore. |
10 |
| 18 | 493 |
"Keep the fire high," I told her. |
10 |
| 19 | 46 |
I had not anticipated that he might not choose to keep this scheduled rendezvous. |
10 |
| 19 | 68 |
"Keep watch," said Sarus. |
10 |
| 19 | 90 |
"We shall keep watch from within the stockade," he said. |
10 |
| 19 | 95 |
"Keep the beacon burning," he said. |
10 |
| 20 | 211 |
"Keep formation!" There was still only silence. |
10 |
| 20 | 238 |
"Keep your formation!" cried Sarus. |
10 |
| 22 | 94 |
"Keep him warm". |
10 |
| 22 | 921 |
"Will you not keep us as slave girls?" asked one. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 54 |
Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of twenty; he may,... |
10 |
| 1 | 447 |
I knew that Marlenus would keep her sequestered in the central cylinder, that her shame not reflect upon his glory. |
10 |
| 3 | 248 |
"Keep close to me the coins brought as offerings by the poor to the temple of Kassau," he said. |
10 |
| 4 | 85 |
The Spring Equinox, incidentally, is also used for the New Year by the Rune-Priests of the North, who keep the calendars of Torvaldsland. |
10 |
| 5 | 28 |
"Keep her stern to the wind," he said. |
10 |
| 6 | 188 |
Nearby, on a large, flat stone, to keep it from sinking into the ground, was the anvil. |
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 |
| 8 | 100 |
She, Hilda the Haughty, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar, would keep it for herself. |
10 |
| 8 | 107 |
"You thought to keep it from me, did you?" she laughed. |
10 |
| 9 | 476 |
He had there, in his opinion, an appointment to keep, with Svein Blue Tooth, a great Jarl of Torvaldsland, who had outlawed him. |
10 |
| 10 | 156 |
The motivation of this custom, I gather, is to enable strong, powerful men to obtain land and attractive women; and to encourage those who possess such to keep themselves in fighting condition. |
10 |
| 10 | 604 |
Indeed, it was so important to them that they would keep it for themselves, that they would own it, master it and treasure it. |
10 |
| 10 | 608 |
Oh, to be sure, he will keep her under strict discipline. |
10 |
| 11 | 244 |
They would elect to keep them for themselves. |
10 |
| 13 | 230 |
Their kirtles of white wool, smudged and stained with grease, fell to their ankles; they hurried about; they were barefoot; their arms, too, were bare; their hair was tied with strings behind their heads, to keep it free from sparks; their faces were, on the whole, dirty, smudged with dirt and greas... |
10 |
| 13 | 285 |
"It seems I must keep this treasure," said he, "and you remain outlaw. |
10 |
| 14 | 92 |
On her back, then on her side, then on her stomach, rolling and squirming, eyes wild, her fingers hooked inside the collar, trying to keep it from choking her, was dragged the bondmaid. |
10 |
| 15 | 212 |
I had suspected earlier that he knew the mountain, this facilitating our ascent, and that this explained why the pursuing Kurii, natively better climbers than men, could do little better than keep our pace, if that. |
10 |
| 15 | 303 |
They will wish to keep between us and escape. |
10 |
| 20 | 159 |
The girl must keep her chin up. |
10 |
| 21 | 120 |
"This pretty little trinket, this pretty little bauble, I keep for myself!" He then took Hilda in his arms and, holding her across his body, kissed her. |
10 |
| 22 | 147 |
Yes, I would, if it were commercially feasible, buy her, and keep her on Gor—as my own slave. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 1013 |
"Please keep me, keep me for yourself, Master!" she pleaded. |
10 |
| 1 | 463 |
This helps to keep the animals together, makes it easier to move in darkness, and in a country where, often, one cannot see more than a hundred yards to the next dune or plateau, is an important factor in survival. |
10 |
| 2 | 315 |
I wanted to keep her, save for some refinements, a free woman of Earth, wearing a collar, until she was sold. |
10 |
| 2 | 574 |
"Keep your tarsk," said the man, wryly. |
10 |
| 2 | 585 |
"Keep the tarsk," I said to the man. |
10 |
| 3 | 107 |
"But," said his father, "you may keep the gift". |
10 |
| 4 | 103 |
The looseness of the garments, acting as a bellows in movement, circulates air about the body, which air, circulating, over the damp skin, cools the body by evaporation; the close weave of the garment is to keep the moisture and water, as much as possible, within the garment, preferably condensing b... |
10 |
| 4 | 197 |
They were familiar exercises, slave-female exercises, designed to keep a girl supple, loose, vital, fit, for her master. |
10 |
| 4 | 584 |
Let her keep that bit of pride, I thought, until some master takes it from her, and she, shattered, prone on the tiles, or submission mat, knows then, truly, she is only slave. |
10 |
| 5 | 197 |
It will help to keep her figure trim". |
10 |
| 5 | 295 |
Rather he said, "Give me the stones, I will keep them safe for you. |
10 |
| 5 | 784 |
My only regret was that I had not bought her in Lydius, and returned her to Port Kar, to keep her as one of my own slaves. |
10 |
| 7 | 312 |
I would have expected such work to be done by nude female slaves, in work collar, chain and ankle ring, to keep them on their knees with their brushes, but it had not been; one of the administrative penalties of he who is sent to the brine pits of Klima is commonly to be deprived of the sight of fem... |
10 |
| 7 | 368 |
We keep our eyes open for good female flesh. |
10 |
| 7 | 391 |
We keep her slave". |
10 |
| 9 | 71 |
"Keep me as a slave girl!" she cried. |
10 |
| 9 | 73 |
"Please, Hassan," she wept, "keep me as a slave girl!" "But you are free," he said. |
10 |
| 9 | 88 |
"Keep me," she said. |
10 |
| 10 | 154 |
"Keep me, Hassan," she begged. |
10 |
| 10 | 158 |
"Keep me, Hassan!" she wept. |
10 |
| 10 | 378 |
One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea... |
10 |
| 10 | 379 |
The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child... |
10 |
| 11 | 48 |
I noted that Hassan's men had thrown blankets over the heads of the kaiila, to prevent them from seeing the storm, and keep rain from striking their faces, which phenomenon, frightening them, tends to make them unmanageable. |
10 |
| 11 | 363 |
Such things help one keep track of slaves. |
10 |
| 11 | 423 |
Abdul had been the lowly water carrier in Tor, a minor agent, presumably of Others, the Kurii, who had wished to keep me from the Tahari. |
10 |
| 12 | 256 |
"We must not keep the mistress waiting". |
10 |
| 12 | 455 |
One must keep them under perfect discipline". |
10 |
| 12 | 467 |
"Keep me under perfect discipline, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 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". |
10 |
| 13 | 453 |
"But I shall keep your suggestions in mind," he said, "should she grow lax in her attentions, and fail to be fully pleasing, in the least particular". |
10 |
| 14 | 48 |
"Do not keep me in this place!" screamed Tafa. |
10 |
| 14 | 196 |
This disorientation tends to keep men at Klima; fewer of them, thus, die in the desert. |
10 |
| 14 | 393 |
They are usually furnished with cushions, and comfortable, silken bedding, and they may contain a small chest, in which the slave may keep small articles whose use has been given to her, rings, bracelets, armlets, bangles, cosmetics, silks, such things. |
10 |
| 15 | 78 |
The rope had been placed on us when we had straggled in from the desert, to keep us together. |
10 |
| 15 | 114 |
"It is not easy to earn one's keep at Klima. |
10 |
| 16 | 16 |
The weight makes it easier to keep the pole, which is long, submerged. |
10 |
| 17 | 6 |
Even in the shadow of Klima's Keep itself, the squarish, stout, fortresslike building which houses the weaponry, domicile and office of the Salt Master himself, did we recruit our crew. |
10 |
| 17 | 7 |
On the height of the keep I saw, tight in the bright, hot wind, under the merciless sun, defiant to the pits and desert itself, the flag of Klima, the whip and scimitar. |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
"How is it," I asked, "that this interview takes place in the domicile of the Salt Master?" I stood on cool tiles, blue and yellow, in a vaulted room, in the keep of the Salt Master. |
10 |
| 19 | 174 |
We crouched down, trying to keep our balance, the ditch between us and the standing beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 298 |
I found myself struggling to keep up with the beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 325 |
I held to the fur at its arm, fighting to keep my balance. |
10 |
| 21 | 589 |
It tried to hold the wire, and climb on it, or relieve the pressure on its throat, but its great paws slipped on the slender strand; then its weight began to pull me upward; I, hands knotted in the insulated portion of the wire, kicked the Kur back as it reached for me; then I was above it, being dr... |
10 |
| 23 | 95 |
He did not spare the wretch, who struggled to keep his pace. |
10 |
| 24 | 350 |
There was nothing to keep the man from entering. |
10 |
| 24 | 465 |
They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e... |
10 |
| 24 | 676 |
"Keep on walking down this corridor," I said. |
10 |
| 25 | 243 |
I met her blade, high, forcing it down; she slipped to one knee, looking up, trying to keep the blade away; she wept; she had no leverage, her strength was gone; I thrust her back, and she fell on her back before me on the tiles; my left boot, heavy, was on her right wrist; the small hand opened and... |
10 |
| 25 | 373 |
"But why should they have been proud?" "They were proud of their bodies, their feelings, their desirability," said Hassan, "and proud, too, of their masters, who had the will and power to put them in a collar and keep them there, because it pleased them to do so". |
10 |
| 26 | 240 |
"I will keep this slave," he had said. |
10 |
| 26 | 302 |
"It did seem convenient to me, at that time," I said, "to purchase you, to keep you as a slave". |
10 |
| 26 | 630 |
The charade that you would keep me as a slave need not now be prolonged". |
10 |
| 26 | 1277 |
I was not sure what I would do with her, whether I would keep her for a time, or sell her. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 228 |
"I will do anything you want! Keep me! Keep me for yourselves! Keep me as your captive, your prisoner! Keep me as anything you want! Am I not beautiful? Could I not serve you? Could I not please you?" Then, suddenly, from deep within me, welling up, from somewhere so deep within me that I did not kn... |
10 |
| 2 | 968 |
It is one of the excruciating delights of the mastery to expose oneself fully to, and yet skirt, the dangers of the girl's beauty, to keep oneself strong, to draw the absolute fullness of pleasure from her, and yet to resist her wiles, to get everything from her, and yet to keep her on her knees, fu... |
10 |
| 11 | 203 |
That the keep was under the banner of Turia designated it as a Turian keep, distinguishing it in this sense not only from keeps maintained by other cities but more importantly from the "free keeps" maintained by the merchant caste in its own right, keeps without specific municipal affiliations. |
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| 11 | 207 |
In a banner keep, or one maintained by a given city, preference, if not exclusive rights, are accorded to the merchants and citizens of the city under whose banner the keep is established and administered. |
10 |
| 12 | 46 |
We girls in the keep were pleasure slaves, but it must be clearly understood, too, that we were the only girls in the keep. |
10 |
| 12 | 422 |
The tarnsmen had approached from the dark quadrant, away from the moons, low, not more than a few feet from the ground, hidden by the shadows of the world, and then had, without warning, little more than a quarter of a pasang from the keep, swept into the air, the first wave striking at the wire, th... |
10 |
| 3 | 482 |
Yet the most profound consequences of the brand seem to be less social than intensely individual, personal and psychological; the brand, almost instantaneously, transforms the deepest consciousness of a girl; I resolved to fight these feelings, to keep my personhood, even wearing a brand. |
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| 4 | 170 |
Its purpose may be to humiliate or brazenly and publicly display the girl, to discipline her, to keep her humble, to remind her that she is nothing, only a wench in bondage; it may be to reveal her beauty, of which he is proud, for the eyes of all, or for his own pleasure and that of his peers; it m... |
10 |
| 4 | 276 |
But what man would be so foolish as to sell such a beauty? Or, even to share her with another? Surely such a man would keep such a beauty for himself alone, not sharing her with others. |
10 |
| 4 | 470 |
"Please, Master," I cried, bound, closed in the hood, belled, "protect me! I love you! I love you! Keep me for yourself, Master!" I heard men laughing, talking, bets being made. |
10 |
| 4 | 993 |
"Keep me, Master," I begged. |
10 |
| 4 | 994 |
"Keep me!" I looked up at him, clutching his knees, tears in my eyes. |
10 |
| 4 | 1046 |
"Keep me, Master," I had begged. |
10 |
| 6 | 232 |
I tried to restrain myself, to keep from responding to the touch of Thurnus. |
10 |
| 7 | 127 |
"Keep me for ransom, Warrior," she said, frightened. |
10 |
| 7 | 130 |
"It would be irrational not to keep me for ransom," she said. |
10 |
| 7 | 229 |
"Keep me and sell me to the Confederation. |
10 |
| 7 | 386 |
Clitus Vitellius would commonly keep such a girl for a few days, and then discard her, usually giving her to a friend or selling her. |
10 |
| 7 | 419 |
He would always keep his girls in collars. |
10 |
| 7 | 846 |
I continued to keep largely under huts. |
10 |
| 8 | 181 |
Our masters keep us in heat constantly. |
10 |
| 8 | 328 |
"Keep me. |
10 |
| 8 | 329 |
Keep me, Master," I begged. |
10 |
| 9 | 223 |
"Keep your knees spread," she said. |
10 |
| 9 | 1727 |
"You should keep your guard up," said Thurnus to one of them, who immediately, warily, raised his staff. |
10 |
| 9 | 1730 |
"You, too, of course," he said to them, "should keep your guard up. |
10 |
| 9 | 2167 |
"Please keep me, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 9 | 2198 |
"Keep me, Master," she begged. |
10 |
| 10 | 43 |
In the distance, even from the pool, I could see the white, looming walls of the merchant keep, Stones of Turmus, a Turian outpost, licensed for the storage of goods within the realm of Ar. |
10 |
| 10 | 71 |
I looked up to the keep of Stones of Turmus in the distance. |
10 |
| 10 | 78 |
I continued to look at the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 11 | 201 |
"You are slave now within the Keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 11 | 202 |
This is a merchant keep, under the banner and shield of Turia". |
10 |
| 11 | 206 |
Space in a "free keep" is rented on a commercial basis, regardless of municipal affiliation. |
10 |
| 11 | 208 |
That the keep was also under the shield of Turia meant that it was defended by Turians, that its garrison was Turian. |
10 |
| 11 | 209 |
Sometimes a keep will fly a given banner but its garrison will be furnished by the city within whose territory it lies. |
10 |
| 11 | 210 |
It is not unknown for a keep to fly the banner of one city and stand behind the shield of another. |
10 |
| 12 | 8 |
I had been more than a month now in the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 11 |
I was a different girl now from the one who had been sold for six copper tarsks to Borchoff, Captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 40 |
There were twenty-nine girls now, however, in the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 41 |
The population in the slave quarters had changed somewhat; five girls had been sold to passing Turian merchants, affiliated with the keep, but, similarly, here and there, over the weeks, some six others had been acquired. |
10 |
| 12 | 48 |
Scrubbing must be done, and the sewing, and the washing and ironing of clothes, and the cleaning; too, we aided in the kitchen, usually in the preparing of vegetables and in the scouring of pots and pans; too, water must be carried to the men on the parapets; there was much work of a lowly and servi... |
10 |
| 12 | 114 |
"Fetch in the prisoner," called Borchoff, captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 115 |
This afternoon I had been upon the heights of the keep, carrying water to the men on the parapets. |
10 |
| 12 | 143 |
Two tharlarion, ponderous and stately, made their way toward the keep. |
10 |
| 12 | 145 |
More warriors, eight men from the keep, followed, bearing spears. |
10 |
| 12 | 152 |
"But word had come to us that he had been making inquiries concerning the keep, its defenses, and such". |
10 |
| 12 | 167 |
Borchoff, captain of the keep, came to inspect the prisoner. |
10 |
| 12 | 204 |
"Yes, Master," I said to Borchoff, captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 289 |
The prisoner was thrown to his knees before Borchoff, captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
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| 12 | 364 |
I was well learning, in the keep of Stones of Turmus, how to serve men. |
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| 12 | 624 |
Now I wore his binding fiber, and was alone with him, in a dark passageway deep below the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
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| 12 | 712 |
"The keep is afire," he said. |
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| 12 | 739 |
Below in the courtyard, chained together, I could see Borchoff, and the soldiers and staff of the keep. |
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| 12 | 749 |
I saw below that the great gate of the keep had been swung open. |
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| 12 | 785 |
I wanted to see, though I feared to do so, what was going on, the men who now owned us, their movements, the tarns, the ropes and chains, the slaves bound over saddles, and fastened at stirrups, the flames, the wild, racing, distorted shadows, the parapets and towers of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
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| 12 | 835 |
But perhaps her captor, if she seemed slave-suitable, and was sufficiently desperate and zealous in her pleadings and prostrations, might be moved to keep her, she weeping and kissing at his feet, petitioning for this privilege. |
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| 12 | 872 |
His tarn, screaming, departed the walls of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
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| 12 | 877 |
Our tarnsman drew the basket over the courtyard and, gaining altitude there, then departed the walls of the keep, following the others. |
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| 12 | 880 |
I could see the keep of Stones of Turmus in flames, dropping away below us. |
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| 13 | 67 |
"They will keep you much as you are," she said, "young and beautiful". |
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| 13 | 159 |
In the pens, to keep the apertures open, a bit of wire had been twice looped in each lobe. |
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| 13 | 194 |
I knew a master might keep me to such measurements, with the whip, if necessary. |
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| 14 | 74 |
He performed odd jobs about the tavern in return for his keep and a tarsk a week. |
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| 14 | 349 |
That in itself I knew would be enough to keep me a slave on Gor. |
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| 15 | 57 |
"Surely," I whispered, "you do not intend to keep me as a slave. |
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| 16 | 163 |
The girls in the deck cages are permitted to keep their hair. |
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| 18 | 63 |
She wears only a collar and a brand, and a bit of silk, and she flees into a society that will promptly return her to her owner, unless it chooses to keep her for itself. |
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| 20 | 590 |
Goreans tend to keep track of their properties, verr, kaiila, slaves, and such. |
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| 22 | 356 |
The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo... |
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| 22 | 384 |
"Put your arms down at your sides," she said, "and keep them there". |
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| 22 | 449 |
But the collar is pretty, and helps her to keep in mind, clearly, her status. |
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| 24 | 52 |
Why else would they keep us in the custody they do? Clitus Vitellius shrugged. |
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| 24 | 76 |
Too, of course, though these things are trivial compared to the emotional transformation wrought by bondage, the slave can always be trimmed, if one wishes, by diet and exercise; or fattened a little, if that is wished, to bring her to more appealing block measurements; be taught that a slatternly a... |
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| 24 | 243 |
"You wish to keep her for your discipline?" asked the man. |
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| 25 | 216 |
Since that time I had been the slave of Clitus Vitellius, of Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, of the Keep of Stones of Turmus, and of the Belled Collar. |
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| 26 | 715 |
Will he keep you for himself, or will he throw you to his men, or sell you or discard you?" She trembled. |
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| 27 | 560 |
"Because," she said, "I wanted you to keep me as a slave!" She looked down again, confused. |
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| 27 | 650 |
"Keep me!" I begged suddenly. |
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| 28 | 166 |
Normally, of course, the conquering Ubar would keep such a regal wench, now collared and debased to slavery, in his own pleasure gardens, as a delicious memento of his victory, and as a woman. |
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| 28 | 340 |
Could I be still a slave girl? Could he be serious? Was it his intention to keep me still as a slave? Surely not. |
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| 28 | 363 |
Could he truly mean to keep me as a slave? Could he truly be that strong? I could not believe it. |
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| 29 | 200 |
I will keep you as my slave". |
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| 29 | 242 |
"You keep me a slave?" I asked. |
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| 29 | 244 |
"I never knew I would meet a man who could lust for me and desire me so much," I said, "that he would keep me as a slave". |
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| 29 | 250 |
"Will you truly, though you care for me, keep me as full slave?" "Yes, Slave," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 976 |
"I need a wench," said the man, "one who will cost me little, one to keep in the cots by day, to shovel the excrement of tarns, one to keep in my stall by night, as a pot-and-mat girl". |
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| 36 | 99 |
"Keep me, Master! Keep me, Master!" begged the girl of Karjuk, sobbing. |
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| 1 | 182 |
The door to my chamber which, in my house, I did not keep locked, moved slightly. |
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| 3 | 595 |
To be sure, a stroke now and then helps them to keep in mind what they are. |
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| 4 | 16 |
It helps them keep in mind what they are. |
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| 4 | 435 |
I struggled to keep my place on the tier. |
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| 5 | 62 |
"I will keep faith with them in my own way," I said. |
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| 6 | 291 |
I would keep none of this. |
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| 6 | 303 |
"Beg them to keep you, and the riches you bear". |
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| 7 | 169 |
The frozen north, in its wind-swept desolation, was to keep its secrets in silence from men. |
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| 7 | 188 |
Keep them slaves. |
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| 9 | 85 |
This makes it much more amusing to keep them in bondage. |
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| 11 | 159 |
Keep watch. |
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| 11 | 333 |
"Do you think a woman as beautiful as you on Gor could long keep out of the collar?" She looked at me with horror. |
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| 12 | 169 |
The red hunters, though a genial folk, keep their animals under a firm discipline. |
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| 12 | 659 |
"How can you talk to me like this and yet keep me a slave?" she asked. |
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| 14 | 129 |
"You may keep them," said Imnak, expansively. |
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| 14 | 366 |
This is a device which helps to keep a slave girl quiet in her ecstasies. |
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| 15 | 249 |
"It is easier to keep track of a slave that way". |
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| 15 | 256 |
"It is only a mark to help keep track of you". |
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| 15 | 356 |
But to beware, for if he was pleased with me, he would take me away with him, to a far world, one very different from my own, where he could keep me as he wished, and would do so, as a slave". |
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| 15 | 358 |
"He encouraged me to try to resist him, that I might keep my pride and freedom". |
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| 15 | 402 |
' I realized then that he would only keep me for a time, and would then sell me. |
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| 15 | 602 |
"Do you think Imnak will keep me a slave forever," she asked. |
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| 21 | 193 |
Such cruel devices help to keep order among female slaves. |
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| 22 | 15 |
I tried to keep the stem of the kayak pointing roughly toward the beast in the water. |
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| 22 | 26 |
"You should keep it steady," said Imnak. |
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| 22 | 40 |
This served to keep the animals afloat. |
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| 24 | 95 |
Who else will chew the ice from our boots, and sew for us, and boil meat and tend the lamps, and keep us warm in the furs?" He rolled over in the furs. |
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| 24 | 150 |
"They would keep me as a slave?" she asked. |
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| 24 | 201 |
"Are you going to keep me, Master?" she asked. |
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| 24 | 263 |
It was all I could do to keep from crying out with pleasure and delight, and my pride in the skill of the slave I owned. |
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| 26 | 1 |
Imnak Makes a Camp; Poalu Boils Meat The wind howled about us, and I could hardly keep my footing. |
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| 27 | 242 |
"You need not keep the codes," she said. |
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| 27 | 251 |
"It is to keep the codes," I said. |
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| 28 | 248 |
"Too," I said, "it is my intention to keep by the sword what women should please me". |
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| 29 | 97 |
"I keep my post in my own way," he said. |
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| 29 | 130 |
"Why do you think they keep it so warm in here?" he asked. |
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| 29 | 144 |
"Maybe that is why they keep it so warm in here," speculated Imnak. |
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| 35 | 326 |
"Keep a close watch," said the fellow. |
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| 35 | 591 |
Keep your hands away from it". |
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| 36 | 100 |
"I beg of you to keep me, Master!" "No one wants you," said Imnak. |
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| 36 | 117 |
"Keep me, Master," she begged. |
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| 36 | 125 |
"I will keep you," he said, "but you must understand that you are kept as a slave, completely as a slave, and only as a slave". |
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| 38 | 96 |
"Will you not keep me?" she begged. |
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| 38 | 115 |
But perhaps I would keep her, for a time. |
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| 38 | 129 |
But perhaps I would keep her. |
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| 38 | 151 |
"I will keep you for a time, at least, in my collar," I said. |
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| 38 | 223 |
"Will you keep me?" she asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 694 |
Urt hunters help to keep the urt population in the canals manageable. |
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| 2 | 62 |
It would be easier to keep track of her that way. |
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| 3 | 107 |
Too, you should have the girl, in her diversion, keep her eyes closed. |
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| 3 | 163 |
Had I intended to keep her, I might have simply raped her, and then put the collar on her. |
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| 4 | 725 |
"We always keep an iron hot," said the metal worker. |
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| 5 | 163 |
"Not particularly," I said, "but I will expect you to keep yourself reasonably clean from now on. |
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| 5 | 659 |
Perhaps it served to keep order on some steel world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 272 |
Sometimes, to reward male slaves, or keep them content, or even to keep them from going insane, a female slave is thrown to them. |
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| 39 | 44 |
Girls in Port Kar will do almost anything to keep the rope off their neck and keep out of the canals. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 489 |
They might indeed serve to keep others out, perhaps climbing upward, or descending on ropes from the roof above, but they surely served as well, and as perfectly, to keep me within! What is this room, I asked myself, is it truly my protected quarters, or is it, rather, my cell? I walked back to the ... |
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| 20 | 110 |
I wondered if he would permit my hair to grow out, perhaps to cut it again in a few months, to add more of it to his stock, or if he would, perhaps for his amusement, or to keep my identity a better secret, keep me closely sheared. |
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| 31 | 718 |
What a tribute to their attractiveness, and their skills as a slave! How they must compete with one another, I thought, to become the favorite! But how much better, I thought, to be the single slave of one's master, and to learn him, and serve him, with heat and devotion, regularly, day in and day o... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 235 |
"He may want to keep me where he or his men can keep an eye on me". |
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| 17 | 147 |
Thus they may lower it when they will and raise it when they will, perhaps after a retreat, transforming the tower then into what, in effect, is a small, inaccessible, impregnable keep, with its moat of space, a keep, however, whose bridge might then, suddenly, at any moment of the day or night, dro... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 16 |
At other times I had her tied as I usually slept her, her ankles crossed and bound in the center of the length of binding fiber, the same fiber, now in its double strand, being brought up and used to tie her hands together before her body, its separated ends then tying behind her back, to keep her h... |
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| 48 | 499 |
"Do you know, slave," asked he of the prostrate girl at his feet, "why I shall choose to keep you?" "It is my hope," she said, "that you will keep me because you find me of interest". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 212 |
On Gor they discover men such as they did not know existed, human men, but lustful, powerful men, men of intellect and unswerving will, strict, uncompromising men, men who will literally own them, men who will keep them for themselves, literally possess them, as the lovely animals they are, who will... |
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| 14 | 377 |
"I see it on your armbands! It is your business to pacify the men of Ar, to keep them down, to suppress them, to keep them helpless, futile, confused, domesticated, tamed, subdued! Surely you have your orders to that effect. |
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| 14 | 388 |
"Defend me, us! I demand it! Release me! You must! I beg it! The men of Ar have been defeated! No longer are they men! No longer are they mighty and masters! They are now nothing, they are all weaklings! You are of Cos! You must keep them that way! It is important to you to keep them that way! Arres... |
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| 14 | 637 |
"What if he insists on keeping me, as he is, and as I now am? What if he will keep me only according to his own rules, and lights, and keep me from myself, denying me to myself, frustrating my deepest and most profound needs, as I am?" "Then," said I, angrily, "that is how it will be, for it is you ... |
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| 24 | 338 |
"Whip them and chain them, I say! Keep them in the kitchens and laundries, in the fields, put to labors as is fit for the little beasts! Keep them from honest men! Let honest men be protected!" "At any rate," I said, "it seems they have been seeing one another". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1194 |
In the crowd he had been behind me; I had feared to look upon him directly, for he was a free man; later, near the line, again behind me, he had ordered me to keep my eyes closed; then later he had bundled his cloak about my head; then I had later again been ordered to keep my eyes closed, until he ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 267 |
Surely Mirus of Ar, her master, would never let her out of his collar, really! Surely somehow he would keep her as his forever! Had he not remembered her? Had he not brought her to this world? Had he not restored her youth and comeliness? Had he not given her a beautiful name? Had he not put her in ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 399 |
The chaining arrangement, incidentally, is not only to keep the girls from tearing the mesh, which might allow the entry of urts into the space, but, also, to keep them from lacerating their own bodies, tearing at them to relieve the misery consequent upon the depredations of parasites, usually ship... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 105 |
To keep a slave chained at night then is not simply to keep her in place, to help her keep in mind that she is a slave, and to have her conveniently at hand if she might be desired, but, as well, to guard against the work of slave thieves. |
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| 12 | 181 |
The would-be assassin, perhaps discovering that she must keep both hands on, or, more likely, unwilling to keep both hands on, say, a vessel is reluctant, hesitant, or disconcerted. |
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| 24 | 52 |
On the other hand, such walls, serving to keep some out, serve as well to keep others within. |
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| 37 | 110 |
"Keep me, keep me for yourself alone," she begged Callias. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 123 |
She might well suppose him jealous of such fortune, and that he would prefer to keep things as they were before, to keep her in modest circumstances, and to keep her muchly dependent upon him". |
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| 44 | 32 |
"One might always negotiate, delay things, make promises, fail to keep them, make new promises, fail to keep them, and so on". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 212 |
"Please," I said, "keep Laura — keep her for yourself!" "I do not own you," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 126 |
"Keep on your belly," I said, "and keep your hands at your sides, the palms up". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 344 |
It is done on behalf of the free, that their slaves will retain their vitality, passion, youth, beauty, and health, this serving to keep them more attractive and appealing, which, of course, aside from a number of obvious advantages to the master, personal and aesthetic, has a number of economic con... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1 |
The Flight from Mytilene "Keep the beat, lads, keep the beat!" I called down from the stern deck. |
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