| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 110 |
"She is probably the daughter of a goat keeper". |
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| 10 | 71 |
Her father was a goat keeper by the swamp forests of Ar, and I did steal her, but she begged me to take her from the village. |
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| 10 | 75 |
For a moment I was afraid Talena was going to announce that she was the daughter of the Ubar Marlenus, preferring possible impalement to the insult of being considered the offspring of a goat keeper. |
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| 10 | 177 |
"Or the daughter of a goat keeper," I added. |
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| 15 | 51 |
I tossed a silver tarn disk to the tarn keeper and ordered him to care for the bird, to groom and feed it and see that it was ready on an instant's notice. |
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| 17 | 106 |
I tossed the tarn keeper a golden tarn disk. |
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| 17 | 111 |
I climbed the mounting ladder and fastened myself in the saddle, telling the keeper that the coin was his. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 62 |
It was a giant urt, fat, sleek and white; it bared its three rows of needlelike white teeth at me and squealed in anger; two horns, tusks like flat crescents curved from its jaw; another two horns, similar to the first, modifications of the bony tissue forming the upper ridge of the eye socket, prot... |
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| 12 | 77 |
The singer was thought to have an unusual skill, but so, too, were the tarn-keeper and the woodsman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 40 |
"I will be your keeper," I said, "and I am bringing you as a new female Mul to the breeding cases". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 245 |
There had been, fortunately for him, a Year Keeper who had recalled the family. |
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| 26 | 137 |
As one animal they turned and pulled their keeper by the chain leashes to what appeared to be a solid wall, where they rose on their back two legs and set their other four legs against it, snarling, whimpering, hissing. |
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| 26 | 256 |
He then waved them, and the others, with the exception of Harold and myself, and the sleen keeper and his animals, back several yards. |
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| 26 | 261 |
"I will shatter the golden sphere!" Slowly Kamchak, and Harold and I, and the sleen keeper, dragging the two sleen, moved backwards. |
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| 26 | 309 |
The sleen keeper stood nearby, the chain leashes loose in his hands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 104 |
There was a Builder, two Saddle Makers, a Baker, and a Tarn Keeper, a fellow who wore on his shoulder a green patch, indicating he favored the Greens. |
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| 3 | 203 |
"Aii!" I cried, though the outburst was scarcely in keeping with the somber black I wore, and an instant later the Tarn Keeper and the Saddle Maker cried out, and began to stamp their feet in the dust, and pound their fists against their left shoulders. |
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| 3 | 222 |
As he did so I heard some of the bystanders, the Saddle Maker and the fellow who was the Tarn Keeper, he who wore the patch of the Greens, discussing the game. |
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| 3 | 230 |
The Tarn Keeper, breaking away from the Saddle Maker, came over to us. |
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| 4 | 151 |
How offensive she must find some slave keeper's notion of the pretty hurrying of a slave girl. |
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| 5 | 697 |
"When you returned to the House of Cernus," I asked, "and told the Keeper what had theoretically happened to you, as I instructed you, what happened?" Elizabeth smiled. |
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| 5 | 728 |
"Ho-Tu, Master Keeper," came the response, muffled, scarcely audible, behind the heavy beams of the door. |
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| 7 | 104 |
He motioned for Ho-Tu to enter the basket and the Master Keeper did so. |
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| 8 | 3 |
"It did not seem desirable," I informed her, tongue in cheek, "that I show you particular solicitude in the presence of Ho-Tu, Master Keeper". |
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| 11 | 156 |
The Master Keeper turned to me. |
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| 12 | 186 |
Flaminius, apparently moved by their entreaties, told them he would speak to Cernus, master of the house, and to Ho-Tu, Master Keeper. |
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| 13 | 132 |
She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade... |
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| 13 | 195 |
Upon leaving the baths I encountered by chance the Tarn Keeper whom I had met briefly when observing the game outside the tavern of Spindius, that fought between the blind Player and the Vintner. |
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| 13 | 206 |
"And so it was," said the Tarn Keeper, "so it was". |
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| 13 | 208 |
"True," said the Tarn Keeper, "and that is what must be kept in mind". |
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| 13 | 224 |
The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese. |
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| 13 | 226 |
Mip was a chipper fellow, and a bit dapper considering his caste and his close-cropped hair, for his brown leather was shot with green streaks, and he wore a Tarn Keeper's cap with a greenish tassel; most Tarn Keepers, incidentally, crop their hair short, as do most Metal Workers; work in the tarnco... |
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| 13 | 236 |
The tarncot in which Mip worked was the largest and, I was pleased to note, he was the senior Tarn Keeper in the place, though there were several employed there. |
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| 15 | 76 |
During the season of the races I had often attended them, and, on several occasions, had met the small Tarn Keeper Mip afterwards, with whom I had occasionally sat table. |
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| 16 | 255 |
The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon. |
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| 16 | 262 |
"Greetings, Mip," said I, mounting to the platform, seeing the small Tarn Keeper. |
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| 17 | 48 |
One was a Warrior, the other a handsome young Tarn Keeper. |
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| 17 | 92 |
I opened the door and, not to my surprise, discovered that the Warrior and Tarn Keeper, preventing the girls from escaping, and having freed themselves in the moment of surprise and tumult in which I had seized the long-legged girl, had, probably one by one, while the other girls had looked on miser... |
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| 17 | 120 |
I heard one of the girls bound in the line whisper to the Warrior, and another to the Tarn Keeper, "Do not let me escape, Master". |
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| 17 | 122 |
The Warrior, the Tarn Keeper and I remained the greater part of the day with the girls of the Street of Pots. |
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| 17 | 127 |
The Warrior, followed by the Tarn Keeper, was moving down the line of bound girls, lifting their heads, taking their final wages for the sport, saying "Kajuralia," to each and moving to the next. |
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| 17 | 129 |
"Kajuralia," I said to her gently, and turned, and with the Warrior and the Tarn Keeper, arm in arm, with garlands of talenders, which had been several times replaced, woven about our necks, left the Street of Pots. |
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| 17 | 165 |
"He has sponsored many games," said a Tharlarion Keeper. |
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| 17 | 814 |
"The Master Keeper in the House of Cernus?" I asked, smiling. |
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| 18 | 94 |
"But when I thought of him with you," sobbed the Master Keeper, "I wanted to kill—to kill". |
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| 18 | 110 |
"A Master Keeper begging the forgiveness of a slave for touching her with a slave goad!" Ho-Tu looked down at the square of silk, the tumbled vials and beads. |
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| 22 | 53 |
"The little Tarn Keeper?" I asked skeptically. |
10 |
| 22 | 62 |
"And Mip," I said, "though he knows much of racing is but a Tarn Keeper". |
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| 22 | 243 |
"One might have thought him more than a simple Tarn Keeper". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 181 |
He had rented them from a tavern keeper in Laura, a man named Hesius. |
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| 12 | 204 |
I recalled, with savage understanding, with an understanding as sudden and terrible as that of a lightning flash over Torvaldsland, that this Hesius, this tavern keeper of Laura, had, free of charge, as a gesture of good will, included wine with the shipment of girls to my camp. |
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| 15 | 572 |
She wore the collar of Hesius of Laura, a tavern keeper in that city. |
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| 18 | 41 |
And in the hold of the Tesephone were numbers of my men, captured at the camp on the Laurius River, due to the treachery of a tavern keeper of Laura, by name, Hesius, and four paga slaves. |
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| 18 | 670 |
How long was it since they had held the naked, perfumed, collared, responding body of a female slave in their arms? Since the rough port of Laura? Since semi-civilized Lydius, at the mouth of the Laurius? How long would it have been since they had witnessed the swaying body of a chained girl in a pa... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 254 |
He was met by his men, and, high among them, by his holding's keeper, and the keeper of his farms. |
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| 4 | 262 |
The girls, including the slender blondish girl, emptied their bowls, even to licking them, and rubbing them with their saliva-dampened fingers, that no grain be left, lest Gorm, their keeper in the ship, should not be pleased. |
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| 7 | 2 |
In the mornings, under the eye of Ottar, keeper of the Forkbeard's farm, I learned the ax. |
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| 7 | 40 |
An Ahn later the Forkbeard, accompanied by Ottar, keeper of his farm, and Tarl Red Hair, now of Forkbeard's Landfall, inspected his fields. |
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| 9 | 374 |
Even now she was, kneeling on his furs, being fettered by the keeper of Ivar Forkbeard's farm. |
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| 18 | 126 |
"Do not permit Kurii to escape to the south," said Svein Blue Tooth to Ketil, keeper of his high farm, who had been famed as a wrestler. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
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| 5 | 724 |
Sarpedon, a tavern keeper from Lydius, had bought her from Panther Girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 446 |
He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 974 |
"These are new slaves?" asked the tarn keeper. |
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| 3 | 982 |
"A barbarian," said the tarn keeper. |
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| 3 | 984 |
"And the others?" asked the tarn keeper. |
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| 3 | 986 |
The dark-haired girl, seeing the tarn keeper's eyes upon her, shrank back. |
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| 3 | 987 |
The tarn keeper turned and walked away. |
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| 23 | 237 |
"In Lydius," he said, "Sarpedon, the tavern keeper, and several others, like myself, newly arrived from the wall, suddenly and without warning, fell upon Sarpelius and his henchmen". |
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| 35 | 383 |
"Our keeper has it, Master," she said. |
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| 35 | 385 |
I had not attempted to kill or detain their keeper. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 193 |
I recalled she had had an honest bid on her once at the market of Vart, once Publius Quintus of Ar, in Port Kar, a bid from the tavern keeper, Procopius, of forty copper tarsks. |
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| 8 | 74 |
What if the beggar had made a serious purchase of the girl on behalf of the tavern keeper? What if she were merely being delivered here to be trained as a mere paga girl? I glanced around. |
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| 8 | 76 |
Perhaps the tavern keeper only wanted another white girl, to add variety for his clientele. |
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| 20 | 39 |
"She was sold to a tavern keeper in Schendi," called the girl, "one called Filimbi". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 35 |
"Keeper," said the woman who had been examining me. |
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| 13 | 800 |
When she returned to the house of her master I had little doubt but what she would kneel to the nearest keeper and beg to be used, perhaps to be given for an Ahn, hooded, to the male slave of his choice. |
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| 14 | 45 |
"Better keep the slave girls away from this one," she had said to a nearby keeper, indicating me. |
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| 15 | 50 |
I had been tied, expertly, by a keeper. |
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| 15 | 65 |
He was a short, powerful man, Kenneth, a free man, a keeper and the first groom in her stables. |
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| 15 | 85 |
"Is he to be beaten further?" asked Kenneth, the keeper and groom. |
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| 18 | 1 |
The Inspection of the Stable Slaves "The stable slaves are ready for inspection, Lady Florence," said Kenneth, head keeper of the Mistress' slaves. |
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| 18 | 24 |
"Stop!" It had been the voice of Kenneth, the head keeper of my mistress' slaves, the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 19 | 99 |
It was the voice of Kenneth, master keeper of the slaves of the Lady Florence. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 24 |
"Keeper!" I called. |
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| 12 | 84 |
"There will be no iron between a keeper and his kept woman," I said, "unless it be by his will, such as a collar for her, or shackles or the bars of a cell". |
10 |
| 12 | 86 |
"A keeper must always have access to his kept woman," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 126 |
"There will be no iron between a keeper and his kept woman," I said, "unless it be by his will, such as a collar, or shackles for her, or the bars of a cell". |
10 |
| 12 | 129 |
"A keeper must always have access to his kept woman," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 149 |
"Of course, Keeper," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 183 |
"I am grateful, Keeper," she said, acidly. |
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| 14 | 358 |
A keeper must always have access to his kept woman". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 130 |
"Please, please, do not so demean me! Please do not so shame me!" "Are you a slave?" inquired her lovely keeper. |
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| 17 | 150 |
"What are you here?" "I am a slave, a slave!" "And are you aught else?" "No, Mistress!" "Perhaps you recall that a command was addressed to you," said her keeper. |
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| 17 | 153 |
"Need a command be repeated?" inquired her keeper. |
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| 18 | 78 |
Such curtains, without ceremony, may be thrust aside, startling the slave and revealing the keeper or master. |
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| 18 | 102 |
The girl who was serving as keeper went to a large chest at the side of the room. |
10 |
| 18 | 107 |
The girl who was serving as the small brunette's keeper withdrew from the chest, and shook out, a flimsy, tiny, diaphanous snatch of yellow pleasure silk. |
10 |
| 18 | 117 |
"In the presence of your Master," said the girl who was serving as her keeper, "you will find yourself grateful for even these few threads". |
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| 18 | 122 |
"It is a slave's reflex," sneered the girl who was serving as her keeper. |
10 |
| 18 | 124 |
"It is nearly time for you to be belled," said the girl who was serving as her keeper. |
10 |
| 18 | 127 |
The girl who was acting as the lovely slave's keeper then went again to the chest and, with a sensuous jangle, withdrew from it bellings suitable for a slave. |
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| 18 | 172 |
The other girl, who was serving as her keeper, and had now retrieved her switch, thrust her forward. |
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| 18 | 182 |
Lola, too, of course, had been her keeper as a Coin Girl when I had, as Jason of Victoria, by apparent accident, encountered her on the Street of the Writhing Slave. |
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| 18 | 551 |
"I shall proceed to do so, fully cognizant that the lovely slave who serves as my keeper in this house has doubtless already made you a full report". |
10 |
| 18 | 555 |
"Yesterday afternoon," she said, "locked in the chain collar of a Coin Girl, with the bell and coin box, on the leash of my keeper, I was conducted forth from the house. |
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| 18 | 574 |
Then I would feel the leash stinging against the back of my legs and my keeper would order me up, and ahead, to try harder, warning me of the displeasure of my master, should I return with an empty coin box. |
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| 18 | 601 |
My keeper, of course, would have none of that. |
10 |
| 18 | 646 |
In any event, yesterday I found myself put into the streets, under a keeper's watch, to earn coins for you, my Master. |
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| 20 | 16 |
The address of their master, who was residing in an inn nearby, was given to her by their keeper. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1594 |
"Whereas this tie," I said, "is not good for general security, it is quite adequate for specific security, namely, security in a specific situation, in this case, in the presence of the master or a keeper. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 23 |
My keeper, a fellow from the agency, had then, in his quarters, freed me of these bonds and turned me over to him. |
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| 31 | 579 |
It must have been my keeper coming for me, I thought. |
10 |
| 33 | 480 |
In this fashion, if a keeper should be slain, or change the locus of his employment, or something along those lines, the beast need not be killed. |
10 |
| 33 | 528 |
I saw the keeper, too, take the intimate garments, wadded in his hand, and thrust them beneath the animal's snout. |
10 |
| 33 | 540 |
Could the keeper judge the distances unerringly? Could he hold the animal? What if the chain broke? I opened my eyes. |
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| 33 | 703 |
"The identification is made," said Claudius, and, with a wave of his hand, signaled the sleen keeper to divert and pacify his beast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 157 |
Even though he was their keeper and they were doubtless trained to obey him, and perhaps only him, it was not easy for him to regain the garment. |
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| 14 | 163 |
Flaminius then threw me the garment he had taken from the sleen keeper. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 259 |
"Replace your tunic and kneel straightly," said her keeper. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 744 |
In them, usually, the only women to be found would be collared slaves, generally belonging either to the tavern keeper or the guests, who may have brought them in, to avail themselves of the facilities of the alcoves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 13 |
"You are paid by the keeper of the house," I said. |
10 |
| 2 | 178 |
"The keeper's desk, and the paga room," said he, "are in the building to the right". |
10 |
| 2 | 344 |
Some of them then, after visiting the keeper's desk, doubtless those with insufficient funds, left the inn". |
10 |
| 2 | 557 |
But I proceeded under the overhang to the open space between the two parts of the inn, the covered way there, with its high roof, that which it shared with the two parts of the inn, and then across it, to the right portion of the inn, in which the porter had informed me was the keeper's desk. |
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| 3 | 1 |
The Inn I struck the keeper's desk twice. |
10 |
| 3 | 6 |
I struck the keeper's desk twice more. |
10 |
| 3 | 30 |
In many inns, depending on the season, to be sure, and the readiness of the keeper to negotiate, one can stay for as little as two or three copper tarsks a day, everything included, within reason, of course, subject to some restraint with respect to paga, and such. |
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| 3 | 40 |
If one is particular about one's food, one sometimes brings it with one, and instructs the keeper how it is to be prepared. |
10 |
| 3 | 42 |
After all, one cannot always count on a keeper's man knowing how to prepare Turian vulo or Kassau parsit. |
10 |
| 3 | 67 |
"The keeper, believe me, I know, is a resolute and greedy fellow". |
10 |
| 3 | 108 |
"Even in these hard times, the keeper, who has his congenial, noble side, has refused to surrender space lines". |
10 |
| 3 | 126 |
"The keeper is a scoundrel," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 132 |
I wondered if I might not have greater success with the keeper himself. |
10 |
| 3 | 177 |
"It is hard for me to believe that the keeper is as adamant as you portray him," I said. |
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| 5 | 1 |
The Paga Room; I Stop at the Keeper's Desk "Stand here," I said. |
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| 5 | 28 |
This must be she, then, of whom the keeper had spoken. |
10 |
| 5 | 136 |
"When our evasions failed to satisfy the attendants ropes were put on our necks, over our robes and veils, and we were brought to the keeper's desk. |
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| 5 | 151 |
The cage was then wheeled back, by the keeper's desk. |
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| 5 | 154 |
We even found ourselves looked upon, in the cage, as though we might be slaves! At the fifteenth Ahn we were removed from the cage and knelt down, to the side, to the left of the keeper's desk. |
10 |
| 5 | 161 |
"At the seventeenth Ahn," she said, "the keeper, it seems, grew weary of our pleas and protestations. |
10 |
| 5 | 168 |
"The keeper," she said, "is not a gentleman". |
10 |
| 5 | 176 |
From what I had seen of the keeper, I supposed that his main interest in these matters would be to obtain his fees, if not in one way, then in another. |
10 |
| 5 | 215 |
"How did the keeper seem when he ordered you shackled and put in the paga room?" I asked. |
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| 5 | 243 |
Yes, I thought to myself, that was probably the main reason she had been put here, that is it, not because it was an accident, the luck in a lot of six, or even really, mainly, because she owed more than the others, but because she had not been found pleasing by the keeper. |
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| 5 | 315 |
I had not, of course, expected any such luck, particularly after my conversation with the keeper. |
10 |
| 5 | 480 |
"The check is to be paid, or put on the bill, I gather, at the keeper's desk," I said. |
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| 5 | 481 |
One had to pass the keeper's desk after leaving the paga room. |
10 |
| 5 | 495 |
I would pick up the ostrakon, with the blankets, at the keeper's desk. |
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| 5 | 552 |
It seemed for a moment she was going to request his order on her feet, almost as though in defiance, but then, looking back at me, she suddenly knelt and performed obeisance and then knelt back on her heels, in a waitress's proper deference, to receive the orders of the keeper's customer. |
10 |
| 5 | 576 |
"Where is the keeper!" cried the fellow. |
10 |
| 5 | 613 |
That must be one of the keeper's best girls, I thought. |
10 |
| 5 | 614 |
Indeed, perhaps she was the keeper's preferred slave, sent by him to the customer from his own furs. |
10 |
| 5 | 776 |
Surely the keeper would wish her to observe proper amenities. |
10 |
| 5 | 806 |
I must remember to pick up the blankets with the ostrakon at the keeper's desk. |
10 |
| 5 | 812 |
I then made my way to the keeper's desk. |
10 |
| 5 | 813 |
The keeper was not up now, but an attendant was there. |
10 |
| 5 | 819 |
Before I left the keeper's desk, I also had the attendant add a tarsk bit to my bill. |
10 |
| 6 | 11 |
My space, as I discovered, was not as bad as the keeper had suggested. |
10 |
| 6 | 24 |
The keeper was probably balancing out the advantages of reasonably sized sleeping spaces, a yard or so wide, in keeping with his concept of the first-class inn, for the area, with the largest number of them he could put in a given area. |
10 |
| 6 | 27 |
Doubtless that convenience could considerably strengthen the keeper's case that he was maintaining a first-class establishment, at least for the area. |
10 |
| 6 | 46 |
I blamed the keeper as much as anything, three copper tarsks for a girl, for a quarter of an Ahn, was outrageous. |
10 |
| 6 | 201 |
I was not too pleased with the keeper. |
10 |
| 6 | 306 |
"Do you think the keeper's man anticipated that the thong might be removed?" she asked. |
10 |
| 6 | 355 |
"If you have paid only a tarsk bit for my use, it will take me, at that rate, months to earn my redemption from the keeper". |
10 |
| 6 | 363 |
"The usual arrangement in such matters," I said, "which doubtless obtains, unless you have been informed differently, is that the money you are earning, you are earning not for yourself, but for the keeper. |
10 |
| 6 | 367 |
"In this way the keeper gets some good out of you. |
10 |
| 6 | 495 |
"Yet I am at the mercy of the keeper! I am a free woman! Yet I was made to serve at the tables! Now I have been 'delivered' to a guest, as though I might be a slave!" "Your bills have not been paid," I reminded her. |
10 |
| 6 | 511 |
"If I were the keeper," I said, "such would certainly be my decision". |
10 |
| 6 | 527 |
I thought the keeper's man must be due soon. |
10 |
| 6 | 579 |
Originally I had assumed it was the keeper's man, but the tread, now, seemed heavier. |
10 |
| 6 | 646 |
"You would not be thinking of leaving, perhaps to complain to the keeper, would you?" asked the newcomer. |
10 |
| 6 | 649 |
I frankly doubted that the keeper would be keen to mix into such an altercation, particularly one involving an armed mercenary, a fellow of the company of Artemidorus. |
10 |
| 6 | 660 |
"I think the time must be nearly up, and the keeper's man should be along presently". |
10 |
| 6 | 742 |
"The keeper might do that," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 749 |
If the keeper did decide to shave off, or crop, the hair of the Lady Temione, and, for that matter, the others, the Lady Amina, the Lady Rimice, and so on, he would presumably sell it to suppliers to the Cosians. |
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| 6 | 779 |
"The keeper's man will be along presently," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 789 |
"So I shall be pleased to return her to the keeper's desk," he said. |
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| 6 | 794 |
"Oh!" said Lady Temione, lifted now, backwards, to the shoulder of the keeper's man who, unnoticed, had approached. |
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| 6 | 797 |
"That is my intention," said the keeper's man. |
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| 6 | 801 |
Lady Temione briefly struggled in frustration on the shoulder of the keeper's man, squirming there doubtlessly more deliciously than she knew, and pulling helplessly at her bound wrists. |
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| 8 | 772 |
As I briefly hovered there, over the court, I could see, too, partly to my irritation, and partly to my amusement, to one side, some additional evidence of the business acumen of the keeper. |
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| 10 | 7 |
Klio's head had been shaved by the keeper, or one of his men, at the Crooked Tarn. |
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| 10 | 8 |
Her hair had probably brought the keeper as much as five copper tarsks. |
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| 17 | 166 |
One, tearing itself free, heedless of the cries and blows of its keeper, ran blindly back toward the city, the men among the engines breaking apart, or climbing on the engines, to let it pass. |
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| 23 | 190 |
"It is my keeper," she said, clinging to me. |
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| 23 | 213 |
Immediately, before her keeper, she put her head down to the deck. |
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| 24 | 176 |
"Stand," said the keeper of the two slaves, one of the fellows of Port Cos, on the bow deck, to the two slaves. |
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| 24 | 292 |
The whip was in the hand of the fellow from Port Cos who, on the journey downriver, had acted as the keeper of the two slaves. |
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| 24 | 300 |
"Publia," said the keeper. |
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| 24 | 403 |
"Publia, Claudia!" said their keeper. |
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| 24 | 417 |
"Your movements for the most part," said the keeper, "will be slow and sensuous, but terribly meaningful, sexually. |
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| 24 | 432 |
"Well done, girls," said the keeper. |
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| 24 | 437 |
"It has been decided, slaves," said the keeper to them, "that you will be sold at auction. |
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| 24 | 455 |
"There," said the keeper, gesturing with his whip, as we drew alongside the pier. |
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| 24 | 475 |
"I am such a girl!" cried Publia, fervently, seeing the keeper turn toward her. |
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| 24 | 486 |
The keeper turned back toward Claudia. |
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| 24 | 516 |
"There!" said the keeper, pointing out a fellow with the coiled whip. |
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| 24 | 520 |
"I need a collar and a man!" "There is another," said the keeper. |
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| 24 | 528 |
"What manner of slaves are those?" called a fellow on the pier, apparently, by his garb, a Cosian, to the keeper on the bow deck. |
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| 24 | 529 |
"Are they common slaves?" "They are as common as you will have them!" shouted back the keeper. |
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| 24 | 531 |
"They are not collared!" "Such details will be soon attended to," laughed the keeper. |
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| 24 | 537 |
Who knows the nature of the bondage in which she will find herself, other than the fact that it will be absolute? Who knows the nature of the man who will buy her, other than the fact that he will be her unqualified master, and that his power over her, and his ownership of her, will be absolute? "Mo... |
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| 24 | 545 |
"Writhe—writhe—more slowly," said the keeper to them. |
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| 24 | 548 |
"Stop," said the keeper to the two slaves. |
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| 24 | 551 |
The keeper then, with his coiled whip, in two expansive gestures, one to port, one to starboard, indicated, and called attention to, the lineaments of the figures of the two lovely slaves. |
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| 24 | 554 |
"Are they not worthy to be at the prow?" asked the keeper. |
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| 24 | 560 |
"But perhaps, too, there is another reason!" hinted the keeper. |
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| 24 | 562 |
"This one we call 'Publia,'" said the keeper, "and this one 'Claudia. |
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| 24 | 567 |
"They were both free women of Ar's Station," continued the keeper. |
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| 24 | 570 |
"And that none would know she was wealthy!" said the keeper. |
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| 24 | 577 |
"She was determined to survive the fall of Ar's Station, whatever might prove to be the fate of her sisters in the city," said the keeper. |
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| 24 | 581 |
"And thus," said the keeper, lifting the whip, "we think it is only appropriate that her planning not have gone for naught. |
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| 24 | 586 |
"Perhaps, then," said the keeper, "yours will be the collar she will wear!" "Perhaps," he laughed. |
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| 24 | 587 |
"And this one," said the keeper, indicating Claudia, "betrayed her compatriots, declared for Cos and took Cosian gold for treason!" "But she is a slave now?" called a man. |
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| 24 | 588 |
"Yes," said the keeper. |
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| 24 | 590 |
Claudia looked wildly at the keeper. |
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| 24 | 594 |
"And I am only a slave now! Please have mercy on a slave!" "She, too," said the keeper, "is to be sold to a Cosian". |
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| 24 | 616 |
"It was a good voyage," said the keeper, reaching out with a staff and hook to draw Publia, by the chain from which her harness was suspended, close to the rail. |
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| 24 | 620 |
"I gather," said the keeper, "that you have had some relationship, or something to do, with these two slaves". |
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| 24 | 622 |
"Slaves," said the keeper. |
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| 24 | 625 |
"You may bid him farewell," said the keeper, "in a manner suitable for slaves". |
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| 24 | 637 |
The keeper was now crouching by Publia. |
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| 24 | 677 |
Was Publia, who was first, thought most beautiful, and thus led the chain, or was it perhaps that Claudia's crime, treachery, the betrayal of a Home Stone, and such, was thought most heinous, and that this explained her position, perhaps that of greatest degradation and shame? "I am curious," I said... |
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| 24 | 688 |
"Do not be concerned," said the keeper to Publia. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 |
It had been shaved off some weeks ago by the keeper of the Crooked Tarn, to be sold as raw materials for catapult cordage. |
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| 1 | 42 |
It was rather analogous to that of the slave, for, as I recalled, the keeper of the inn appropriated her earnings, ostensibly to defray the expenses of her keeping. |
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| 1 | 49 |
"But before our redemption our heads were shaved by the keeper, for catapult cordage". |
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| 1 | 198 |
'Keeper!' cried he. |
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| 1 | 199 |
'Keeper!' Ephialtes, who had been called forth by the commotion, was present. |
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| 1 | 214 |
"The keeper of a paga enclosure, a man called Philebus, saw me the next day. |
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| 1 | 587 |
Their bills unpaid, and their evasions not satisfying the inn's attendants, they had been taken, ropes on their necks, before the keeper. |
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| 1 | 591 |
At the seventeenth Ahn the keeper, perhaps tiring of their presence near his desk, and despairing of them being immediately redeemed, had had them cleared away. |
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| 1 | 614 |
Fortunately the keeper's man arrived in time to prevent an altercation. |
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| 1 | 615 |
After the keeper's man had shouldered the Lady Temione and carried her off, head to the back, as a slave is commonly carried, presumably to a chaining ring or kennel for the night, I had not seen her until she, with others, blindfolded, were kneeling before me, naked and in coffle, in the camp of Co... |
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| 1 | 619 |
Before the arrival of the keeper's man the burly fellow had much scorned and abused Lady Temione, intimidating and terrifying her. |
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| 10 | 28 |
"That is for your keeper to do," said he, "not me". |
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| 10 | 80 |
After a time my keeper, chewing, came near to me. |
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| 11 | 25 |
The fellow behind me on the raft, he acting as my keeper, laughed. |
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| 11 | 52 |
Could my conjectures, my suppositions, my suspicions, be so profoundly awry? "Pull!" said my keeper. |
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| 11 | 54 |
"Pull!" commanded the keeper. |
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| 12 | 1 |
It is Thought That There are the Cries of Vosk Gulls "There is one who would see you," said my keeper. |
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| 12 | 14 |
"Do you want a cloth for his loins?" asked my keeper. |
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| 12 | 31 |
My keeper checked the manacles on my wrists and the length, stoutness and fastening of the neck-rope. |
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| 12 | 356 |
Give him ten lashes, of suitable severity!" "It will be done, lady," said my keeper. |
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| 12 | 358 |
"Yes, lady," said the keeper. |
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| 12 | 361 |
"Kneel to the whip," said the keeper. |
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| 12 | 371 |
"We shall, lady," my keeper assured her. |
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| 13 | 13 |
"Do not move," whispered my keeper, he lying on his stomach now, on the raft. |
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| 13 | 24 |
"Go ahead, sleen," whispered the keeper behind me, his knife at my throat, "try to warn your fellows. |
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| 13 | 49 |
"Steady, steady," whispered my keeper. |
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| 13 | 53 |
The keeper was far more surprised, I am sure, than I was. |
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| 13 | 64 |
My keeper put a rope on my neck and then freed me from the harness. |
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| 13 | 79 |
My keeper, my leash in his grasp, clambered aboard, after me. |
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| 13 | 96 |
"Wrap his leash about the yoke," said the officer to my keeper. |
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| 13 | 98 |
The keeper wrapped the rope leash about the yoke, behind my arm. |
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| 13 | 197 |
"It was as though the rence were alive!" I emerged onto the stern deck, blinking against the sun, where my keeper, who was waiting for me, unlooping the rope leash from the yoke, and, keeping me on a short tether, about a foot Gorean in length, the remaining portion of the leash coiled in his hand, ... |
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| 13 | 201 |
Following my keeper, who, too, was curious, I went to the rail. |
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| 13 | 422 |
This was done by my keeper. |
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| 13 | 425 |
"He feared only for his own skin," said my keeper. |
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| 13 | 434 |
My keeper then, pushing on the back of the yoke, thrust me over the rail of the barge, and I fell heavily, yoked, into the water and mud. |
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| 13 | 455 |
"Face away from me," said my keeper. |
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| 13 | 458 |
"Stand still, draft beast," said my keeper. |
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| 13 | 474 |
I looked down at the keeper. |
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| 13 | 497 |
It was that of my keeper. |
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| 13 | 507 |
"Put iron on his wrists," said my keeper. |
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| 13 | 516 |
My keeper was now behind me, on the raft. |
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| 13 | 519 |
"Turn about, draft beast," said my keeper. |
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| 13 | 521 |
"Hurry!" said the keeper. |
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| 14 | 1 |
The Attack "You see," said my keeper, thrusting a bit of raw fish in my mouth, "there is no danger". |
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| 14 | 12 |
"Eat," said my keeper. |
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| 14 | 26 |
The keeper had not been sparing with his whip. |
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| 14 | 28 |
Then he said to my keeper. |
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| 14 | 31 |
As soon as the keeper had moved away a few yards the officer crouched down beside me, and looked at me, intently. |
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| 14 | 170 |
He lifted his hand, summoning my keeper. |
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| 14 | 172 |
The keeper removed the wadding and binding from my neck rope. |
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| 14 | 210 |
"The spy wishes us to bring in our pickets," said my keeper, to another fellow. |
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| 14 | 239 |
My keeper left me, to rush to the aid of his fellows. |
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| 15 | 3 |
It had been a supposition of my keeper that I might, somehow, be able to communicate, perhaps by glances or such, with rencers. |
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| 16 | 106 |
In a few moments my keeper moved toward me. |
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| 17 | 1 |
Flies "Hold, draft beast!" called my keeper. |
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| 18 | 111 |
Plenius was the name of the fellow who had been my keeper. |
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| 18 | 150 |
"Give it to him!" "Never!" said the keeper. |
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| 18 | 152 |
"Never!" said the keeper. |
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| 18 | 154 |
"No!" said the keeper. |
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| 18 | 163 |
"Let him first free you," said Plenius, the keeper. |
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| 18 | 170 |
The keeper smiled. |
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| 18 | 195 |
I saw Titus try to restrain him, but the keeper, a much larger, stronger man, thrust him away. |
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| 27 | 63 |
Then, angrily, I extended it toward the soldier of Ar, Plenius, who had been my keeper. |
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| 27 | 477 |
Too, given what I told our friend, Plenius, the fellow I saved from the sand, my former keeper, they will be unlikely to associate you with the Lady Ina. |
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| 43 | 15 |
The rental is a single tarsk bit but you give the keeper two tarsk bits, the second of which serves as a deposit, held against the return of the key. |
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| 44 | 67 |
Since I was taking her off the premises, and I was not personally known to the keeper, I would leave the key to Ina's slave box with him, as security. |
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| 44 | 70 |
I had hoped to reach our new camp and then return to the slave camp, to return Philomela to her keeper and retrieve Ina, all without incident. |
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| 44 | 156 |
"Oh!" I would soon return Philomela to her keeper, and she would be attached to the processing chain. |
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| 44 | 194 |
It was now late in the evening of the same day on which I had returned Philomela to her keeper. |
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| 46 | 192 |
Her knees were pulled up, and must remain so, at her keeper's pleasure. |
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| 48 | 458 |
"I should give you to a tharlarion keeper," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 510 |
"To all fours," said her keeper. |
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| 14 | 512 |
"Describe a circle, of some five paces in diameter, on all fours, as you are now," said her keeper, "and return to this place". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 456 |
It is not pleasant to have one's face nearly thrust into one's wastes and then, on all fours, be dragged by the hair to the back, right-hand corner of an area, where the keeper points meaningfully to the appropriate place of deposition. |
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| 8 | 474 |
I had not seen a guard, or keeper. |
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| 10 | 44 |
I flung a pleading, helpless glance at its keeper, and perhaps mine. |
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| 10 | 650 |
The keeper, or jailer, looped the leash coils about my neck, rather closely, tucking in the loose end to hold them in place. |
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| 14 | 288 |
Still, I was her keeper. |
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| 14 | 1568 |
The stranger will presumably assume that you are supposed to be denied the information or you would have already obtained it from your master or keeper. |
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| 14 | 1572 |
One might, of course, merely be told that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira, which, I had learned, is something of a saying on this world, but, more likely, one might be cuffed or beaten, and then one might have one's hands bound behind one and one's question written on, say, the interior of one... |
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| 19 | 955 |
"When you return to your kennel tonight," he said, "you are to tell your keeper what you have done today". |
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| 19 | 961 |
"Are you going to tell your master, or keeper?" she asked. |
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| 28 | 11 |
Indeed, it was I who, in my office as keeper for the state of the free woman, had led her here, she leashed and back-braceleted on the way. |
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| 29 | 431 |
"Beg if you wish," he said, "to be the girl of a keeper of tarsks, to be the property of a sewer master, to be sold for the cleaning of tharlarion stables, but you are destined rather for the house you so defrauded, for the house of those you so wronged, for the house of your most dire enemies! You ... |
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| 29 | 879 |
"You may begin," she said, "by removing these horrid bracelets and this obscene leash!" "They are the devices," said he, "of your current keeper, a warden of the city". |
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| 46 | 7 |
"They wanted one to attend upon a prisoner, one who would be utterly ignorant of the affairs of our world, one who could be depended upon to innocently and naively discharge the duties of a keeper, relieving free men of that responsibility, thus, too, enabling the contacts with the prisoner to be th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 6 |
"Out, out!" had said the keeper. |
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| 25 | 17 |
"Stand straight," said a voice, that of another keeper, and Ellen straightened her body. |
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| 25 | 21 |
Each was bent over, held in leading position, both in the handling of one keeper. |
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| 25 | 135 |
"This is your lane," said a keeper. |
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| 25 | 156 |
"You will later be fed and watered, and permitted to relieve yourselves," said the keeper. |
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| 25 | 158 |
The keeper then turned away, and, later, returned with another chain. |
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| 25 | 475 |
Near the keeper was a slave with water, and a dipper. |
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| 25 | 487 |
"Stand," said the keeper to the slave across from Ellen, the former free woman. |
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| 25 | 501 |
"117," said the keeper, reading Ellen's lot number. |
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| 27 | 1535 |
"We want the gold, tarn keeper," said he. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 33 |
"It is hideous!" had said the brunette, when their keeper, or keeper's helper, had departed. |
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| 1 | 297 |
Her master or keeper in the meantime might have made good his escape, or perhaps failed to do so, was apprehended by Priest-Kings, and routinely destroyed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 18 |
Others, in groups, in good weather, had been exercised on the open deck, performing their movements in unison, to the cries of their keeper, sometimes, shuddering, to the snapping of his whip. |
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| 9 | 536 |
"He, and he," cried a tarn keeper, "killed tarns". |
10 |
| 21 | 433 |
Others were put in painful leading position, one in each hand, their heads held at the hip of their keeper of the moment. |
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| 26 | 83 |
They had been insufficiently prompt in service, or insufficiently deferent, I gathered, to a keeper, or a free person, and had thus been brought down to the village and put on their chains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 162 |
"Then, one day, when it was to be fed, it reached through the bars and seized a keeper's arm, and broke him against the bars, and tore at his belt, where dangled his keys, but others intervened with spear butts, striking at the beast, and it, roaring, tore away the keeper's arm, and fed on it, and t... |
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| 17 | 544 |
I think all there were surprised, the Lady Bina, Master Desmond, Astrinax, and Lykos, and the keeper of the pair on the chain, with his switch, who was in his holiday regalia, that of the Slavers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 61 |
"Those selected will be washed, and placed in clean tunics before being bound and led to the palace," said the Ashigaru keeper. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 19 |
It is doubtless unpleasant to be switched or whipped when straining in a harness, doing one's best, under the tyranny of a merciless keeper, one of several, soft, slight, two-legged draft animals. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 32 |
I crawled from the ladder, onto the gently rolling deck, and, on all fours, approached the keeper. |
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| 8 | 36 |
When I reached the keeper I put my head down, and licked and kissed his feet. |
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| 8 | 59 |
The keeper was commonly generous in permitting the slaves time on deck. |
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| 8 | 63 |
I did not think the keeper was my master. |
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| 8 | 640 |
The keeper had recently returned from the vicinity of the helmsmen, and was standing near me. |
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| 8 | 660 |
"It is a corsair," said the keeper, "undoubtedly". |
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| 8 | 683 |
"Surely you note that the corsair has positioned itself between us and the shore," said the keeper. |
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| 8 | 698 |
"We will now," said the keeper, "seem to flee". |
10 |
| 8 | 701 |
"Note," said the keeper, "the helmsmen have turned us toward the shore, but briefly. |
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| 8 | 707 |
"But note," said the keeper, "as we turn to the open sea, we draw the corsair behind us". |
10 |
| 8 | 714 |
Does not such distress call itself to the attention of various marine predators, such as sharks? How avidly such then would hasten to inquire! "Now," said the keeper, "at last, you see the signs of confusion, and terror". |
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| 8 | 732 |
"The stranger falls back!" I said to the keeper, pleased. |
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| 8 | 738 |
"Of course," said the keeper. |
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| 8 | 740 |
"Not enough," said the keeper. |
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| 8 | 761 |
"Master?" I said to the keeper. |
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| 8 | 767 |
"As we are now overtaken, helpless, and unable to run," said the keeper, "it is now time, I conjecture, to show our desperation". |
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| 8 | 769 |
"Is it not time to repel boarders?" asked the keeper. |
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| 8 | 772 |
"Let us intimidate them," said the keeper, "displaying the formidable odds they would face, should they dare such a venture, a reckless boarding. |
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| 8 | 786 |
"There," said the keeper. |
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| 8 | 849 |
The keeper then left my side. |
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| 8 | 850 |
"Soon," whispered Euphrosyne, "we will be in better chains!" "I do not understand the keeper," I said to her. |
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| 8 | 925 |
The keeper was standing near me. |
10 |
| 8 | 960 |
"Into the hold, lovely kajirae," said the keeper. |
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| 8 | 966 |
The keeper followed us and our left ankles were soon shackled to the common ring. |
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| 8 | 967 |
The keeper then ascended the ladder and the hatch was closed and battened down. |
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| 9 | 61 |
I hoped that they would dance her naked, with a whip-bearing keeper at the edge of the floor, to assure that she would please the patrons, to see that she would well "dance her collar," so to speak. |
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| 11 | 665 |
On the square of dancing sand, Adraste would dance, a keeper standing nearby, his whip ready to be used on her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 93 |
What of a paga tender, a floor master, a keeper of a coin box?" "Noble Statercounter," said Archelaos, "can you recognize he who uttered the remark about an attack on Nicosia?" "I am not sure," I said. |
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