| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 3 |
At my command Vika demonstrated for me the manner of opening and closing the storage and disposal areas in her unusual kitchen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 39 |
I cannot simply go down to the kitchen like you and demand five vulo eggs!" I laughed. |
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| 8 | 107 |
Elizabeth led me to a room off a kitchen on the third floor of the cylinder. |
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| 8 | 124 |
The girl nodded and, rising gracefully, backing away a step or two, head down, turned and went to the kitchen. |
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| 11 | 29 |
The kitchen for the pens is on this level, and the infirmary, and certain facilities for smiths; Ho-Tu kept his chair of office on this level; also, discipline was administered on this level, I gathered, seeing certain racks and chains, certain stone tables with straps, certain carefully arranged in... |
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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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| 14 | 159 |
I turned and saw a female slave, in a rep-cloth kitchen tunic, stained with food, approaching, bearing a tray of fruit with a flask of wine. |
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| 14 | 164 |
The guard unlocked the door and the kitchen slave, deferentially, entered, her head down, and placed the tray of fruit and wine on a small low table near the divan. |
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| 14 | 169 |
"I do not know, Mistress," said the kitchen slave. |
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| 14 | 171 |
"I am not permitted to say, Mistress," whined the kitchen slave. |
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| 14 | 172 |
The girl in chains strode to her and seized her by the collar, at which point the kitchen slave began to whine and weep, trying to draw back, to turn her head away. |
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| 14 | 175 |
"Begone, Slave," she snarled, and the kitchen slave leaped to her feet and sped through the door, which was closed behind her and locked by the guard. |
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| 14 | 176 |
Outside Cernus gestured for the kitchen slave not to leave. |
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| 14 | 177 |
Immediately the kitchen slave knelt in the hallway, not speaking. |
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| 14 | 203 |
Cernus gestured for the kitchen slave to approach, and she did so immediately. |
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| 18 | 315 |
I turned suddenly into the kitchen in which the food for the hall of Cernus is prepared. |
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| 18 | 322 |
There was the odor of food in the kitchen, and of spilled drink. |
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| 18 | 327 |
I could see the bread ovens in one wall; the long fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but, here and there, I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal; aside from this, the light in the room came from on... |
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| 19 | 404 |
"Would it not be worth five hundred gold pieces," asked Elizabeth, "to put your leash on this one and lead her home, to teach her the worth of a man of Ar, if worth they have, and then send her weeping and aching to the kettles of the kitchen until she begs to sleep beneath your slave ring?" There w... |
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| 20 | 124 |
I recalled that in his kitchen, seemingly months ago, though only a handful of days past, I had seen a mutilated girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 154 |
"Normally," I said to the boy, "a kitchen slave petitions to enter his master's presence through the kitchen master". |
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| 15 | 163 |
I had no objection to this, but, of course, as master of the house, I intended to respect the prerogatives of the kitchen master, who, in the kitchen, must speak with my own authority. |
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| 15 | 211 |
"The slave boy, Fish," I said to the kitchen master, "has come unbidden into my presence and he has not, in my opinion, shown sufficient respect for the master of my kitchen". |
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| 9 | 302 |
She wore a brief tunic only of rep-cloth, already stained with grease and the spatterings of the kitchen. |
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| 9 | 410 |
"Go to the kitchen," said I, "Kettle Slave". |
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| 9 | 449 |
I went into the kitchen. |
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| 9 | 475 |
I put it on the floor and then, with the pair of slave bracelets I had removed from Midice, following her dance, I secured Telima to the kitchen's slave ring, fastened in its floor. |
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| 9 | 481 |
At the door of the kitchen I turned again to face her. |
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| 9 | 518 |
The girls, saving those who served still in the curtained alcoves, must have been somewhere chained for the night, probably in a slave room off the kitchen. |
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| 9 | 651 |
I bent and put the arm of the dying man about my shoulders and, lifting him, with the girl's help, went back through the kitchen of the tavern and, one by one, climbed the high, narrow stairs to the top of the building. |
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| 9 | 683 |
In the kitchen we met the proprietor. |
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| 9 | 692 |
We left the kitchen. |
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| 10 | 115 |
Telima I kept mostly in the kitchens, with the other Kettle Slaves, with instructions to the Kitchen Master that the simplest and least pleasant tasks be hers, and that she be worked the hardest of all. |
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| 13 | 104 |
"Many a fine lady," I said, "under the whip of the kitchen master, has found herself completely mistaken in such a conjecture". |
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| 13 | 106 |
"Do not fret," I said, "the kitchen master might find some use for you on the mat". |
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| 15 | 132 |
The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torchlight, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-pah. |
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| 15 | 143 |
The kitchen master had had to beat him often. |
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| 15 | 144 |
One day, after he had been three weeks slave in my house, the door to my audience chamber had suddenly burst open, and he had stumbled in, breathless, the kitchen master but two steps behind him, with a heavy switch. |
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| 15 | 145 |
"Forgive me!" cried the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 147 |
The kitchen master, in fury, grabbed him by the hair and raised his arm to thrash him. |
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| 15 | 149 |
The kitchen master stepped back, angry. |
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| 15 | 152 |
"Master!" corrected the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 158 |
"And I," said the kitchen master, "have refused him". |
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| 15 | 159 |
"What is his request?" I asked the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 160 |
"He would not tell me," said the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 161 |
"How then," I asked the boy, "did you expect the kitchen master to consider whether or not you should be permitted to enter my presence?" The boy looked down. |
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| 15 | 165 |
The boy looked angrily at the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 170 |
Even Tellius, the kitchen master, could say nothing. |
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| 15 | 175 |
The kitchen master snorted with the absurdity of the idea. |
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| 15 | 176 |
"You would do better," said he, "to learn the work of the kitchen". |
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| 15 | 177 |
"Does he do good work in the kitchen?" I asked. |
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| 15 | 178 |
"No," said the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 194 |
The kitchen master laughed. |
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| 15 | 195 |
"That is a proud name for a kitchen boy," I commented. |
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| 15 | 200 |
He had often, I had heard, sneaked away from the kitchen to observe the ships in the courtyard and the practices of men with weapons. |
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| 15 | 201 |
The kitchen master had had his hands full with the boy, there was no doubting that. |
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| 15 | 215 |
"And beginning tomorrow," I said, "if his work in the kitchen improves to your satisfaction, and only under that condition, he is to be permitted one Ahn a day to train with weapons". |
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| 15 | 218 |
"Yes, Captain," said the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 228 |
"Yes, Captain!" he cried and turned, followed by the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 240 |
The kitchen master looked at me and grinned. |
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| 15 | 278 |
"Fetch Ta grapes from the kitchen," I told her. |
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| 15 | 472 |
I did not doubt that she now had four or five welts on her back from the switch of the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 473 |
The thin rep-cloth tunic provides little protection from the kitchen master's switch. |
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| 15 | 537 |
"Kitchen Master!" I called. |
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| 15 | 602 |
I spoke to the kitchen master. |
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| 15 | 712 |
"Does the kitchen master know you are here?" I asked. |
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| 15 | 788 |
"One of the girls in the kitchen," she said, "has a broken comb, one that Ula threw away". |
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| 16 | 17 |
I felt her back, and the five weals left there by the switch of the kitchen master. |
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| 16 | 239 |
Fish would have been chained in the kitchen, side by side with Vina. |
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| 18 | 118 |
I saw in him, in this boy, wearing a collar, branded, clad in the garment of a kitchen slave, as most others would not, a young Ubar. |
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| 18 | 170 |
They wore the miserable garments of kitchen slaves. |
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| 18 | 254 |
He took her by the shoulders, turned her about and started her stumbling down the kitchen passageway. |
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| 18 | 772 |
And I do not doubt that the Lady Vivina would have found the couch of the Ubar of Cos less joyful than did the slave girl Vina the blanket and the mat of the kitchen boy, Fish, in the house of Bosk, a captain of Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 68 |
I ran to the kitchen, which I could see from the living room, and threw open a drawer. |
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| 8 | 858 |
She was doing kitchen work that night. |
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| 8 | 860 |
The kitchen was an open, roofed shed abutting on the log dormitory, outside the bars. |
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| 8 | 862 |
Then she was released to go to the kitchen, where, with some others of the northern girls, their arms immersed to the elbows in wooden tubs of heated water, she set about washing the pans. |
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| 8 | 863 |
Targo had not had his older girls subjected to this kitchen work. |
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| 11 | 1008 |
I could imagine her nude, in a kitchen, shackled, blissful, looking forward to her binding and use later in the evening, preparing supper for a master. |
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| 15 | 114 |
"There will be work for you tonight, in the kitchen shed. |
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| 15 | 149 |
She did not even sleep or eat with us, but in the kitchen shed, where she would be chained at night. |
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| 15 | 160 |
Once, however, she caught me, with a greasy pan, which I had not well scrubbed, but had returned, not clean, to the kitchen shed. |
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| 15 | 177 |
I turned and fled back to the kitchen shed, to clean the pan. |
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| 15 | 287 |
Behind the kitchen shed, I was ironing. |
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| 15 | 292 |
Behind the kitchen shed, I had not been able to see the alighting of the tarns. |
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| 15 | 296 |
I must remain behind the kitchen shed, working, while they were permitted to greet the men! I wondered if Inge would be there, perhaps smiling and waving to Rask of Treve! How furious I was! But I reminded myself that I hated him! In time the excitement, the cries and shouts, diminished, and I knew ... |
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| 15 | 348 |
That night I sneaked away, following my feeding, and before the time to be sent to the kitchen shed, to the tent of women. |
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| 15 | 607 |
The guard handed our buckets to other girls to be taken to the kitchen shed, and he then unleashed us. |
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| 15 | 1208 |
I fled into the darkness, toward the kitchen shed. |
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| 15 | 1227 |
"I must fetch wine," I said, and twisted away, running toward the kitchen shed. |
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| 15 | 1238 |
It was the fierce, bearded fellow, who had accosted me as I had fled to the kitchen shed. |
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| 15 | 1240 |
"Hurry!" With a cry of misery, spilling wine over the brim of the vessel, I slipped past the man in the doorway of the kitchen shed, and ran back to the firelight. |
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| 15 | 1323 |
I followed her to the kitchen shed. |
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| 15 | 1354 |
For more than two Ahn we sat in the kitchen shed. |
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| 17 | 57 |
The man who would fly the tarn then went to the kitchen shed, to have his lunch. |
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| 17 | 263 |
"You will be placed in the kitchen of that house, and you will be used to serve his table". |
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| 17 | 274 |
* * * * "Wine, El-in-or!" cried Tellius, master of the kitchen of Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 17 | 276 |
I went to the door of the kitchen, and went through the hallway, and stopped before the back entrance to the hall. |
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| 17 | 280 |
Tellius, the kitchen master of the house of Bosk, drunken, in a dicing match, in a paga tavern of Port Kar, had learned that there was an interesting girl, newly brought to the house of Samos, one who had been trained in the pens of Ko-ro-ba, one who wore the brand of Treve. |
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| 17 | 282 |
Tellius, who would, upon occasion, need new girls in the kitchen, as others were given away or sold, was intrigued. |
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| 17 | 283 |
I suspect he seldom had the opportunity to chain trained pleasure slaves to the wall of his kitchen after the completion of the evening's work. |
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| 17 | 304 |
"Hurry with the wine!" cried Tellius, from the kitchen, looking after me. |
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| 17 | 305 |
Then he disappeared in the kitchen. |
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| 17 | 306 |
I took the packet of poison from my rep-cloth kitchen tunic, and dissolved it in the wine. |
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| 17 | 367 |
Tellius ran forward, the kitchen master. |
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| 17 | 385 |
When I had spoken Bosk had said to me, "Go to the kitchen, for there is work for you there". |
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| 17 | 386 |
Numbly I had returned to the kitchen, where Tellius, himself astonished, gave me my work. |
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| 17 | 437 |
"Go to the kitchen," he said, "there is work for you there". |
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| 17 | 438 |
I went to the kitchen, and put myself at the disposition of Tellius. |
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| 17 | 440 |
"Where shall I find another kitchen master your equal?" he had asked. |
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| 17 | 460 |
"You have work in the kitchen," had said Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 17 | 461 |
I had returned to the kitchen. |
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| 17 | 488 |
He is a good kitchen master, and loves his captain, Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 17 | 491 |
Each night I must return to the kitchen, by the nineteenth hour, to be chained. |
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| 18 | 72 |
"It is time she was chained in the kitchen," said Thurnock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 562 |
In the stern quarter, behind the open kitchen, the girls were chained by the neck to the deck, to iron rings set in the heavy, sanded wood. |
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| 2 | 569 |
I sat before them, on a stool, between them and the open kitchen. |
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| 2 | 688 |
The girls, chained on the sanded deck of the stern quarter, fastened by their yard of chain, blocked by the kitchen area and behind crates and lashed boxes, could not see what transpired. |
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| 2 | 713 |
I, with Thurnock and Rim, went back to the kitchen area. |
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| 2 | 730 |
I sat, as before, on my stool behind the kitchen area. |
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| 4 | 13 |
In a few moments I saw the luscious, short-bodied dancer, in pleasure silk, hurry from the kitchen and climb to the eighth alcove. |
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| 4 | 33 |
She came through the kitchen door, in the tiny slip of diaphanous yellow silk allotted to paga slaves, bells locked on her left ankle. |
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| 4 | 43 |
She turned, and fled back into the kitchen. |
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| 4 | 50 |
"One of your slaves," I said, "just stepped from the kitchen, and then returned to it". |
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| 4 | 85 |
"Why did you return to the kitchen?" I asked. |
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| 5 | 55 |
Tina, on the other hand, had been kept in the slave strap and bracelets, except when she was working in the kitchen area, cooking, and peeling suls and such. |
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| 5 | 92 |
"Take it to the kitchen area," I told her. |
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| 6 | 730 |
Then, as the men laughed, she turned about and went to the kitchen area, they parting, permitting her beauty to pass between them unopposed. |
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| 11 | 153 |
She was taken to the kitchen tent, where she was given lessons, as a slave girl, in the preparation and serving of food. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 65 |
"Take it to the kitchen," said the Forkbeard. |
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| 9 | 161 |
"Go now to the kitchen of the hall," said he. |
10 |
| 9 | 286 |
He slept, chained, in the kitchen. |
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| 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... |
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| 22 | 264 |
Tellius, my kitchen master, I speculated, might find use for such a wench in his kitchens; after she had much pleased me, I would see that she was assigned to Tellius. |
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| 22 | 265 |
I had little doubt that the daughter, or she who had once been the daughter, of Marlenus of Ar, properly instructed by the switch, would make an excellent addition to the slaves of the kitchen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 379 |
It is pleasant to see beautiful women worked, at the command of men, carrying burdens, given leather to polish, put to the cleaning of floors, forced to launder and sew, ordered to the markets, sent to the kitchen to cook, such things. |
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| 11 | 479 |
The inn boy, terrified, fled through a door to the kitchen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 243 |
In many houses we would be kept with the kettles, as scullery and kitchen girls. |
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| 9 | 1083 |
They ranged from simple bands of iron, hammered about a girl's throat, her head held down on an anvil, to bejeweled, wondrously wrought, close-locking circlets befitting the preferred slave of a Ubar; such collars, whether worn by a kitchen slave or the prize beauty of a Ubar, had two things in comm... |
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| 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... |
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| 28 | 134 |
Most groups, however, are sold for field and kitchen work. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 251 |
"Bertram of Lydius has fled," cried Publius, the kitchen master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92 |
"Return the things to the kitchen," he said. |
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| 8 | 158 |
"I was in the kitchen," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 157 |
"What were you afraid of," I asked, "that I would tell you to go into the kitchen and cook?" "No," she smiled. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 39 |
Four of them rose up, one going to the side door, one to the door to the kitchen, and two to the main threshold. |
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| 8 | 102 |
Five musicians, who had been near the kitchen, hurried to their places. |
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| 10 | 158 |
Does one truly own a slave until she is at your feet diligently polishing your leather, looking up occasionally, hoping you will be satisfied; she does not wish to be beaten; until she is in your kitchen, preparing your food; until she is serving it, humbly, perhaps nude, as you might wish her then,... |
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| 12 | 18 |
There were two bedrooms upstairs, and there was a hall, living room and kitchen downstairs. |
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| 12 | 80 |
She then turned about and left the kitchen, where we had been talking. |
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| 12 | 91 |
I sat, cross-legged, behind the small table in the kitchen. |
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| 13 | 23 |
"There is some food in the kitchen," I said. |
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| 14 | 26 |
She descended the stairs, took some coins from the kitchen, unbolted the door, and left. |
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| 14 | 80 |
Lola rose to her feet and padded softly, barefoot, carrying the dishes, to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 14 | 274 |
When I had finished I permitted Lola to clear the table and address herself to the work in the kitchen. |
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| 14 | 313 |
"Yes, Master," she said, and went then, hurriedly, to the kitchen. |
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| 15 | 79 |
"The kitchen, I assume, was searched," I said to Lola, returning to the master bedroom. |
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| 15 | 83 |
"Go to the kitchen, Lola," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 389 |
Friends of her master will often bring their own girls with them, in visiting, and with these, after the men have been served, she may make friends, perhaps chatting in the kitchen. |
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| 20 | 39 |
Lola was in the kitchen, supervising the food and service. |
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| 20 | 86 |
Then, smiling, to another swirl of music, they turned and hurried from the room, going to the kitchen, where their master would be waiting for them. |
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| 20 | 89 |
In the kitchen they would be stripped of their costumes, which were not to be soiled. |
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| 20 | 175 |
"In the kitchen, I think, Master," she said. |
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| 20 | 176 |
"Well, then," he said, "run now to the kitchen". |
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| 20 | 177 |
"Yes, Master," she said and, leaping up, ran to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 20 | 224 |
Two girls emerged from the kitchen, the girl in bluish gauze, whom I had not yet named, and the girl in yellow gauze, whom I had called Shirley, who was now owned by Aemilianus. |
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| 20 | 273 |
For example, he can enjoy watching a slave putting on her tunic or taking it off; he can enjoy seeing a woman chained, and rechained, many times, in many ways, each time being exhibited in her helplessness; and he can enjoy watching his slave working naked in the kitchen, or, similarly, cleaning, or... |
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| 20 | 337 |
The two slaves had now left the pastries and custards upon the table, and had returned to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 20 | 401 |
I saw the two slaves returning now to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 20 | 442 |
I watched Aemilianus' slave emerging from the kitchen. |
10 |
| 20 | 448 |
She then hurried again to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 20 | 463 |
The girl emerged from the kitchen. |
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| 20 | 710 |
She then rose to her feet and hurried toward the kitchen. |
10 |
| 20 | 714 |
"Yes, Master," she said, and then, rising up, turned and hurried to the kitchen, there to render aid to Lola and the slave of Aemilianus. |
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| 20 | 720 |
"The liqueurs!" First from the kitchen, bearing her tray, came the voluptuous slave of Aemilianus. |
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| 20 | 728 |
From the kitchen there had emerged, in the robes of concealment, the figure of a woman. |
10 |
| 20 | 1260 |
I set the bars and bolts in place at the back door, leading from the kitchen. |
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| 21 | 169 |
I fed her some dates, by hand, putting them in her mouth, from a tray of food I had brought up from the kitchen. |
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| 21 | 193 |
I brought up from the kitchen, where I had been keeping it hot, a vessel of black wine, with sugars, and cups and spoons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 135 |
I had thought I had heard a noise on the other side of the bathroom door, from beyond the tiny hall outside, perhaps from the tiny kitchen or the combination living and dining room. |
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| 2 | 160 |
There were, I saw, three men in the kitchen. |
10 |
| 2 | 177 |
"Come along," he said, smiling, and getting up from behind the kitchen table. |
10 |
| 2 | 293 |
I hurried into the kitchen. |
10 |
| 2 | 295 |
The kitchen tiles felt smooth and cool under my feet. |
10 |
| 2 | 371 |
The man made a sign to his two assistants and they took the table and turned it, lengthwise, in the kitchen. |
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| 3 | 73 |
It had been locked on me in my own kitchen. |
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| 21 | 61 |
From these applications, they are sometimes referred to, naturally enough, as "kitchen girls," "laundry girls," "mill girls," and so on. |
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| 26 | 22 |
An Ahn or so earlier we had been in the kitchen. |
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| 26 | 91 |
Sometimes, too, I helped in the kitchen. |
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| 26 | 191 |
To be sure, one would not wish to be sent to the kitchen to be stripped, tied and switched, if only as a matter of principle. |
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| 26 | 271 |
I was pleased that she did not have a Do-not-forget-there-is-a-switch-in-the-kitchen look. |
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| 30 | 712 |
I then went down the corridor, to the kitchen, to get something to eat. |
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| 36 | 128 |
"What collar is it," I asked, "the collar of a scullery maid, of a kitchen slave?" I had not realized I had been so displeasing last night. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 498 |
Earlier I had taken Yanina to the kitchen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 |
The Kitchen My head was down, my hair over his feet. |
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| 10 | 851 |
"It is a kitchen tunic," he said. |
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| 10 | 853 |
"Take her to the kitchen," he said to Mirus. |
10 |
| 10 | 869 |
He would take me to the kitchen, where I would be put to work. |
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| 11 | 186 |
Sita then, with a sound of bells, went down a corridor, toward the kitchen. |
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| 11 | 268 |
Ina did not care in the least, really, I was sure, whether I called her "Mistress" or not, but we had both agreed, two weeks ago, when we had become friends, both of us in the kitchen, that it would be better for me to do so, as I was the newest girl. |
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| 11 | 456 |
The kitchen master, too, I knew had had his eye on me. |
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| 11 | 457 |
Usually, laboring there, on our knees, bending over the low, steaming tubs, our arms immersed in the suds to our elbows, cleaning pots and pans, he had had Ina and I remove our kitchen tunics. |
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| 11 | 460 |
Doubtless I would be put back in the kitchen from time to time. |
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| 11 | 876 |
Too, I could see others of Hendow's men about, come to see the dance, and now, too, to one side, the kitchen master. |
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| 11 | 1680 |
"You will spend your time during the day," he said, "as before, in the kitchen". |
10 |
| 11 | 1688 |
"Too," he said, "in the iron belt, and braceleted at night, and working in the kitchen, you will have a chance to simmer". |
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| 13 | 1183 |
"And I will bring you a pastry later from the kitchen," she said, "and put it on the floor of your kennel. |
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| 13 | 1191 |
She was as good as her word, and did not make the belly chain tighter than necessary, and, too, she brought me a pastry later from the kitchen. |
10 |
| 14 | 209 |
"The missing pastry was noted by the kitchen master," he said. |
10 |
| 14 | 210 |
"Only Tupita, first girl, other than staff, and assigned kitchen slaves, had had access to the area before it had been seen to be missing. |
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| 14 | 399 |
"Report to the kitchen," he said. |
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| 14 | 409 |
"And have the kitchen master put you at the tubs," he said. |
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| 15 | 41 |
"Do you want to spend longer in the kitchen?" she asked. |
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| 22 | 37 |
"I worked in the kitchen," I said. |
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| 31 | 32 |
It is a different matter altogether to labor in a tavern kitchen, at a narrow task, or to stir the cooking pots in a work camp, which must feed perhaps a thousand slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 590 |
"Quick," he cried, "back to the kitchen, slut! No! Do not rise! Crawl!" He then disappeared back through the kitchen door. |
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| 5 | 326 |
I then gestured her up with a casual motion of my finger and away, that she should hurry to the kitchen. |
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| 5 | 331 |
Then, rising, she hurried, as she could, angrily toward the door of the kitchen and, in a moment, disappeared through it. |
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| 5 | 358 |
Then, as swiftly as she could, falling twice more, partly crawling, weeping, she strove to reach the door of the kitchen. |
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| 5 | 372 |
In a moment or two she had regained the kitchen, and, an instant or two later, clutching a small, partitioned hand-rack of small vials and pots, each in its place, she again emerged into the public area. |
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| 5 | 492 |
Swiftly she performed obeisance, and then rose to her feet, and, moving carefully, with small steps, as she could, hurried to the kitchen. |
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| 5 | 543 |
"Waitress!" I heard the swinging of the kitchen door and a sound of chain. |
10 |
| 5 | 574 |
"I am free!" "Bring me a woman!" he cried toward the kitchen, still holding her helplessly before him. |
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| 5 | 575 |
"Bring me a woman!" "What is wrong?" asked a fellow, looking out from the kitchen, probably the night cook. |
10 |
| 5 | 588 |
"Immediately, Sir!" called the fellow from the kitchen door. |
10 |
| 5 | 608 |
She had scarcely attained the kitchen door before another woman emerged, swiftly, yet gracefully, drawing a diaphanous silken wrap about her. |
10 |
| 5 | 616 |
Now, emerging from the kitchen, came the Lady Temione, on all fours, as I had commanded. |
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| 5 | 800 |
She then turned about and began to make her way toward the kitchen. |
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| 5 | 816 |
It would be smoothed, thus erasing it, and would probably then be hung with others, on nails, in the kitchen, ready to be used again. |
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| 16 | 400 |
For example, when she kneels before him, his slave, perhaps he will then simply order her to the kitchen or to his furs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1789 |
"Perhaps yours would be a straw-filled pallet in a public kitchen or laundry, crawled to after a work day of fifteen Ahn". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 91 |
I had my kitchen master put her lengthily to the lowliest of tasks. |
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| 19 | 796 |
"Did you not see names written on the call boards in the kitchen?" "No," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 397 |
They had perhaps been discarded from some kitchen. |
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| 8 | 992 |
The smaller vessels may have been discards from some kitchen. |
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| 10 | 219 |
Others were clad in what appeared to be rags, some little more than castoffs, which might have been soiled even, from use in the kitchen, others in rags which, I think, were actually scandalous ta-teeras, artfully arranged rags, intended to well display the women placed in them. |
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| 10 | 494 |
In the conquest of cities, of course, or in elaborate raids, in which perhaps outlying villas, or cylinders, are struck, by several men, one may take more time, sorting out captures into field girls, kitchen-and-laundry girls, kettle-and-mat girls, tower slaves, pleasure slaves, and such. |
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| 18 | 202 |
On the other hand, I must grant that the "free woman," once she is no longer free, once she becomes a slave, and learns her collar—once she is no longer free—and has now become a slave girl—will have her value—on the block, and in the kitchen, and in the furs. |
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| 26 | 39 |
"Better a chain in a poor man's kitchen," she said. |
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| 41 | 32 |
I did not fear the needle, the broom, the kettles, the yards, the sheds, the kitchen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 8 |
That room gave access, as well, through a short corridor, to the kitchen. |
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| 11 | 9 |
A serving cart was used to bring the food from the kitchen, through the corridor and adjoining room, into the apartment. |
10 |
| 11 | 557 |
A broad, flat wagon was there, too large to fit flat through the smaller door, that leading from the room to the corridor and kitchen. |
10 |
| 11 | 559 |
Ellen had, of course, used the smaller door in her serving, that giving eventual access to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 11 | 561 |
That led to the corridor, and thence to the kitchen, and various other corridors, and to several areas more in the back of the house. |
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| 11 | 663 |
"Take the cart back to the kitchen". |
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| 12 | 402 |
Or perhaps one of the kitchen staff, who ladled gruel into the shallow depressions in the bins. |
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| 17 | 979 |
"Cosian spy!" "No!" "Who knows what may serve as a weapon," said a man, "a knife from the kitchen, a pointed stick, a stone". |
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| 18 | 91 |
There were also, these accessible from the larger area, some hallways, and a number of ancillary rooms, a kitchen, a pantry, living quarters, a workroom, sometimes used, the office of Portus Canio, and so on. |
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| 18 | 264 |
But as she attended to her work in the kitchen she felt that she now was, and realized that she now was, even more vulnerable than she had been before. |
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| 18 | 401 |
Portus Canio entertained these visitors in the kitchen, apparently about the table there. |
10 |
| 18 | 403 |
One morning, when Ellen was sweeping in the kitchen, she bent down and picked up what seemed to be a shard of white pottery. |
10 |
| 18 | 424 |
As she swept the floor of the kitchen, she recalled the design on the ostrakon. |
10 |
| 18 | 555 |
She restrained her impulse to run back to the Tower of Corridon, to seek the security of the loft, of her stall, of the kitchen. |
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| 18 | 623 |
He then, as the thought struck him, rather as an afterthought, seized her at the hips and briefly made use of her; he then, after a moment or two, freed her of the belly chain and bracelets and sent her to the kitchen, to prepare the men's supper. |
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| 19 | 86 |
They even went into the kitchen, and the rooms of Portus Canio and the others, emptying chests, pulling things down from shelves, scattering things about in the pantry, cutting into sacks. |
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| 19 | 272 |
He drew her to the kitchen and threw her to her knees. |
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| 19 | 360 |
They can do whatever they want with us! How fortunate, she thought, that this fact has been concealed from the men of Earth, that they, perhaps in their simplicity, perhaps in their lack of imagination, perhaps in their naively uncritical acceptance of imposed conditioning programs, are unaware of i... |
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| 19 | 401 |
Fel Doron passed her again, this time carrying supplies from the kitchen, bread, biscuits, dried fruit, a bulging sack of meal, which supplies he placed in a nearby tarn basket. |
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| 25 | 615 |
"Thirty-seven!" "I think I would rescue her for the kitchen!" called another man. |
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| 27 | 3289 |
Even on Earth, she had sometimes fantasized that she was in a room with men, sitting about, she the only woman, supposedly a peer, and that one of the men had looked up, and had told her to go into the kitchen and cook. |
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| 27 | 3290 |
And she had done so, alone in the kitchen, while they had continued their conversation. |
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| 30 | 124 |
"Bread," said Selius Arconious, gesturing toward the kitchen. |
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| 30 | 125 |
"Yes, Master!" she said, leaping to her feet and hurrying to the kitchen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 997 |
How could she, once their daughter, now a slave, do so? In the kitchen and halls, where she scrubs and cleans, she accepts as her due, as any other slave, her reprimands and switchings. |
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| 26 | 290 |
"There is a haunch of tarsk in the kitchen," said Peisistratus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 106 |
Otherwise one commonly invites chaos into the house, the kitchen, the gardens, the kennel area, and so on. |
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| 22 | 25 |
Drawn from the cage, she served her rival's feast, and, later, knelt before her, nostrils pinched shut, and head held back, was forced to imbibe not the festival wine, but bitter "slave wine," that she might, before her rival, be readied for slave usage, before being sent to the kitchen. |
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| 23 | 69 |
Whereas some slaves, indeed, say scullery slaves, garbage slaves, or such, may be clothed, if at all, in no more than a tiny rag, in any shred of cloth, perhaps one soiled from the soot and grease of the kitchen, to conceal their nudity, the subtler ta-teera is carefully tied or sewn. |
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| 23 | 111 |
More than once it had been replenished at the kitchen area, the suls withdrawn from the ashes of several "long fires". |
10 |
| 38 | 246 |
The majority of public slaves, or, perhaps better, the slaves without private masters, camp slaves, kitchen slaves, laundry slaves, girls selected for trading and selling, girls from the slave house, and such, would be soon conducted on board. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 |
A bowl lamp did glow at the serving table, near the kitchen gate, near the paga vat, near the goblets. |
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| 1 | 141 |
The taverner gestured to his man, and the man hurried away, going behind the serving table, passing through the gate to the kitchen. |
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| 3 | 1090 |
As I passed through the kitchen, we passed a sturdy, stocky woman in rags, clearly of a low-caste aspect, doubtless the companion of the Metal Worker. |
10 |
| 3 | 1092 |
'Hereafter,' she said, 'do not bring an animal through my kitchen. |
10 |
| 16 | 267 |
I had thought he would have cowered below decks, perhaps in a kitchen, or in the darkness of a storeroom. |
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| 24 | 211 |
"I know fellows in the kitchen," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 562 |
One would not wish you to be dragged to the kitchen by the hair, and enjoyed on the linoleum, would we?" "No," we whispered. |
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| 4 | 611 |
Rawlinson's instructions, we had been denied lunch, and, later, kept locked in a room behind the kitchen, until we had been brought forth, covered by a large sheet, and introduced into the common room, now arranged as a banquet hall. |
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| 4 | 616 |
Rawlinson's hands, we leapt up and hurried to the kitchen, to bring forth the fare, the sweets, the candies, the nuts, the bowls of fruit, the herbs, the bread, flat, circular loaves of bread, which would be divided into eight wedges, the many covered dishes of boiled vegetables and hot meat, the ve... |
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| 6 | 65 |
Two inspected our holding room, and two others rushed to the kitchen, and storage rooms. |
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| 8 | 1414 |
Several girls worked in the large kitchen, behind the eating hall, amongst whom I was placed. |
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| 8 | 1416 |
I was the only barbarian in the kitchen, and I was much abused. |
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| 8 | 1417 |
While the kitchen master occasionally put me to his use, I think he preferred others. |
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| 8 | 1420 |
When I put myself to my belly before the kitchen master, pressing my lips to his feet, and complaining, or simply begging to be protected, I would receive little comfort. |
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| 8 | 1424 |
The nearest thing to a first girl was Marcella, who did not care for me, and was the favorite of the kitchen master. |
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| 8 | 1426 |
As you might suppose, girls are eager to escape the labors of the great kitchen, and make the most of their turns at serving the long tables, hoping to come to the attention of one or another of the guests. |
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| 8 | 1458 |
"You are apparently eager to escape the kitchen," he said. |
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| 8 | 1507 |
There was a small, oval, bronze mirror in the kitchen, fixed on a wall, and I often regarded myself in its reflection, turning my face one way or another, brushing back my hair, arranging it, and such. |
10 |
| 8 | 1565 |
I did not really want the attentions of the kitchen master, even though he had, of late, discouraged the other girls from bullying me. |
10 |
| 8 | 1581 |
I recalled that one of the girls in the kitchen, who had spilled porridge, had been put under the five-stranded Gorean slave lash. |
10 |
| 8 | 1623 |
I had been several weeks in his establishment, but he seldom appeared in the kitchen. |
10 |
| 8 | 1707 |
"You will return to the kitchen, and return naked, with a pan of water, and no rags," he said, "and clean this mess". |
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| 8 | 1713 |
"Too," said he, "when this is done, you are to inform the kitchen master that you are to serve the tables daily for the next twenty days, but, in this period, you are not to be permitted clothing". |
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| 8 | 1715 |
"And as your hair will be soiled," he said, "you will have the kitchen master crop it short, as short as that of a mill girl". |
10 |
| 8 | 1778 |
"How would you like to leave the kitchen, the tables, Allison?" said Menon. |
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| 8 | 1956 |
"Allison," said Astrinax, "suppose that one of your sister slaves, in the kitchen, had been given a candy, perhaps as a tip from a customer, from waiting on the tables". |
10 |
| 8 | 2101 |
But, I thought, too, I am out of the kitchen, away from the tables. |
10 |
| 10 | 1311 |
I remembered the kitchen of the eating house of Menon, at night, late at night, how I had thrashed in my chains. |
10 |
| 11 | 62 |
I remembered the kitchen of the eating house. |
10 |
| 18 | 649 |
In the kitchen, at the eating house of Menon, we had our chains and mats. |
10 |
| 18 | 652 |
There was, of course, a whip in the kitchen. |
10 |
| 31 | 69 |
Am I to go to the kitchen first? Am I to carry him food or drink?" "He is not in the place of cells," she said. |
10 |
| 33 | 145 |
I then gathered up the tray, utensils, goblets, and the emptied bottle of ka-la-na, and made my way back to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 42 | 75 |
I had seized the yoke and crept away, and had then run down the hall, toward the kitchen where I had received the provender and drink. |
10 |
| 42 | 78 |
Before returning to the kitchen, that from which I had received the provender and drink, I heard harsh Kur sounds, and spun about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 11 |
Our kitchen was Kitchen Five. |
10 |
| 8 | 164 |
"I will visit your kitchen, as I will need some supper," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 70 |
"The kitchen is open now". |
10 |
| 23 | 10 |
Deliver it to our kitchen". |
10 |
| 23 | 12 |
Shipcamp, as Tarncamp, was divided into various sections, each with its own administration area, officers' quarters, barracks, dojo, eating halls, kitchen, slave kennels, and such. |
10 |
| 25 | 58 |
I had not dared to conceal food in the basket this morning, even had I been permitted in the vicinity of the kitchen, where I might have stolen some, and the storage sheds were chained shut. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 505 |
The kitchen master merely looked to the exit from the room, at the back, that leading to the hall, leading to the kitchen, and the three slaves hurried from the room. |
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| 20 | 38 |
They would kneel to receive their dishes or vessels from the table of the kitchen master, the serving table, toward the back and right of the room, rise, approach the guests' table, kneel, and, their arms extended, their head down between their extended arms, place the dish or vessel, held in two ha... |
10 |
| 20 | 405 |
I motioned that she should return to the vicinity of the kitchen master, which she promptly did. |
10 |
| 20 | 458 |
There were several Ashigaru about, and the kitchen master. |
10 |
| 20 | 503 |
Lord Yamada addressed himself to the kitchen master. |
10 |
| 30 | 734 |
Haruki indicated the kitchen entrance to the eating hall, through which we might exit, to rendezvous outside with Tajima and the slave. |
10 |
| 30 | 738 |
"Drunken tarsks! Two Ahn you are late at the checkpoint! Who will vouch for you? Who will bring you to the camp, and conduct you safely to the rice wagons? Your spoil is at the door, the cart is empty! Dally at an inn, will you! Do you not know there are bandits about?" I noticed the innkeeper move ... |
10 |
| 31 | 1 |
The Inn Has Visitors Haruki had scarcely confessed his apprehension when, suddenly, with boisterous shouts and a rushing of bodies, several men crowded into the inn, hurrying through both the main entrance and, I gathered, the rear entrance, as they emerged into the eating hall through the door lea... |
10 |
| 32 | 3 |
Some of the intruders plunged through the door leading to the kitchen, to seek the rear entrance of the inn. |
10 |
| 32 | 17 |
From our position we could see the eating hall, and partly into the kitchen. |
10 |
| 32 | 61 |
Some of the bandits were in the kitchen, by the rear entrance, which they had blocked. |
10 |
| 32 | 105 |
The four bandits in the eating hall, left of the seven, fled from the hall into the kitchen. |
10 |
| 56 | 7 |
It was the kitchen of an Ashigaru guard station within the palace itself. |
10 |
| 57 | 300 |
"A kitchen is not far away," I said. |
10 |
| 57 | 301 |
Indeed, it was in a kitchen that I had apprehended the fugitive, the hiding Lady Kameko. |
10 |
| 58 | 43 |
It had been necessary only to strike her twice across the back of the thighs with a switch, found in the kitchen, useful for encouraging scullery slaves, serving slaves, and such. |
10 |
| 58 | 73 |
As she, after enduring some threats, some shovings, some pushings, some kicks, and more than one blow of the kitchen switch, collapsed weeping on the tiles, Tajima, switch in hand, turned about, and regarded us, annoyed. |
10 |
| 61 | 238 |
"Rutilius of Ar, one perhaps of interest to you," said Lord Nishida, "now serves in the kitchen of the castle". |
10 |
| 61 | 384 |
"Go to the kitchen tent," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 166 |
"To the kitchen, the kitchen!" "Yes, Mistress," I cried, and leapt up, and hurried toward the kitchen, running, trying to escape the repeated, stinging blows of the angry, pursuing first girl. |
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| 13 | 138 |
"Is there a slave in the kitchen whose name is 'Phyllis'?" asked a voice, from somewhere behind me, at the portal to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 14 | 11 |
Being a kitchen slave, on the other hand, in a great house is not much different from being a kitchen slave in any large house. |
10 |
| 15 | 2 |
After the dinner at which I had served, I was not returned to the kitchen, to my housing chain in the pantry, with the other kitchen slaves. |
10 |
| 2 | 3 |
"Those are not nonsense," said Paula, pointing to the opened handcuffs lying on the kitchen counter. |
10 |
| 2 | 4 |
We were sitting about the kitchen table. |
10 |
| 2 | 92 |
She began where we were, in the kitchen, and then went to the living room, and then to the bedroom. |
10 |
| 2 | 130 |
We returned to the kitchen table. |
10 |
| 2 | 147 |
"Perhaps I should have left you in those," she smiled, nodding toward the handcuffs reposing on the kitchen counter. |
10 |
| 2 | 294 |
After a time, the bright, stirring aroma of coffee excited and charmed the kitchen. |
10 |
| 3 | 60 |
"There is coffee," said the second man, glancing into the kitchen, noticing the pertinent vessel. |
10 |
| 3 | 62 |
At a gesture Paula rose, hurried to the kitchen, and knelt beside the stove. |
10 |
| 3 | 63 |
The men then followed her, repairing to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 3 | 64 |
I was dragged by the arm onto the linoleum of the kitchen and thrust to one side, by the table. |
10 |
| 3 | 124 |
The hands on the kitchen clock moved, sometimes it seemed slowly, sometimes rapidly. |
10 |
| 3 | 125 |
The men played cards, at the kitchen table. |
10 |
| 6 | 43 |
In the kitchen, on the linoleum, I had been on my knees before the men, for a few moments, but this seemed quite different. |
10 |
| 13 | 4 |
I was one of four kitchen slaves, in the house of Lysander, of Market of Semris, he of the caste of Builders. |
10 |
| 13 | 22 |
"Hurry," said the kitchen master. |
10 |
| 13 | 29 |
I and the other girls wore kitchen tunics, brown, brief, ragged, stained. |
10 |
| 13 | 34 |
It is not pleasant to be a kitchen slave, a field slave, a mill slave, and such. |
10 |
| 13 | 50 |
"Finish more quickly," said the kitchen master. |
10 |
| 13 | 154 |
"Yes," responded the kitchen master. |
10 |
| 13 | 165 |
"There," said the kitchen master, doubtless indicating me. |
10 |
| 13 | 170 |
What then had I done? I did not think the kitchen master's favorite, Fina, would have been switched! I wondered if she gasped and leaped better in his arms than I. |
10 |
| 13 | 173 |
We, kitchen slaves, were all at his disposal. |
10 |
| 13 | 178 |
I had now recognized the voice of the fellow who had entered the kitchen. |
10 |
| 13 | 181 |
He rarely came to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 13 | 189 |
I saw that the kitchen master, and my sister slaves, even Fina, understood no more of this than I. |
10 |
| 14 | 82 |
The dinner companion of Lysander was reluctant to depart so soon, but was, eventually, gently, conducted to her palanquin by Faisal, Lysander's house manager, he who had fetched me this afternoon, for some reason, from the kitchen. |
10 |
| 14 | 242 |
"This work slave, Phyllis, one of my kitchen slaves, is the one?" asked Lysander. |
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| 15 | 303 |
Can she not see it in the eager eyes of the brute who has spent his coins on her, and expects to obtain a thousand times his money's worth? But why had I been obtained? Could I truly believe that Tullius Quintus was smitten with my charms, those of a work slave, those of a cheap kitchen slave? And m... |
10 |
| 19 | 20 |
It would be Ahn before I would be unchained and sent to the kitchen, to prepare breakfast for my master, a breakfast in which I, tunicked and kneeling beside him, often partook. |
10 |
| 26 | 78 |
In the meantime I was kept busy in the court, cleaning, scrubbing, laundering, assisting in the kitchen, and serving at the common meals. |
10 |
| 35 | 93 |
"Except for those who work in the kitchen and gardens, of course," she said, "or are being punished". |
10 |
| 37 | 44 |
"If you are so valuable, such a beauty," I said, "why are you loose, marketing?" "For weeks," she said, "I pleaded to be a common slave, to serve in the house, in the kitchen, outside in the garden, anywhere, but free from the misery and sadness of the display chain". |
10 |
| 39 | 76 |
He then swept me up, into his arms, and, shortly thereafter, climbing the narrow stairs leading up, from the kitchen, we had reached the roof. |
10 |
| 42 | 10 |
I looked to the door in the apartment, which led, I supposed, to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 42 | 35 |
She then turned to the side, toward the kitchen. |
10 |
| 42 | 37 |
I heard a scratching, I supposed, of claws moving on the wood of the kitchen floor, and then there was silence, but I saw the shadow of something large, but crouched, moving, on the jamb of the door. |
10 |
| 42 | 44 |
Then that mighty form, broad, and hirsute, ears lifted, was in the doorway of the kitchen. |
10 |
| 42 | 45 |
Now it crouched in the room, in front of the entrance to the kitchen, and regarded me. |
10 |
| 42 | 93 |
At this point there was a menacing growl from the beast crouched before the doorway to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 42 | 168 |
Who would dare to confront him with so painful a mockery? Would it not be most merciful to put such a horror out of its misery? Should it not beg to be terminated? What kindly fellow would deny it such a mercy? Should it not dash itself to pieces?" The beast crouched before the doorway to the kitche... |
10 |
| 45 | 4 |
How pleased I was that I had not, even in the kitchen, thrust so much as a finger into the syrup and licked it. |
10 |
| 45 | 78 |
My serving dish was shortly empty, and I knew I should withdraw to the kitchen, either to have it layered with more syrupped tospit slices, or supplied with another provender, perhaps rice, white, or brown, or red or purple, from Cos, or a plate of cheeses, from local dairies, served with warmed bre... |
10 |
| 45 | 254 |
"Haste, through the kitchen! You have but ten Ehn to relieve yourselves, wash, and crawl to your cages!" Drusus, of the service of Decius Albus, then released me, and I backed away, on my knees. |
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| 57 | 169 |
A girl's food bowl and water bowl are often kept on the floor of the kitchen, in a corner, sometimes in the vicinity of the master's couch. |
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| 62 | 183 |
How is she safe? What of the noble Lord Grendel and his friend, Eve? What is to become of them? What of Surtak, and minions loyal to him? Will they remain in the vicinity of Ar, or depart? What of dreadful Lucilius, who fled the box of honor, on the field? What has become of him? Has he joined force... |
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| 68 | 81 |
What better loot can one have than the women of the enemy, naked, and chained at your feet as slaves? "I should think," I said, "that men would fear to eat here, lest the waitresses, who may have access to materials in the kitchen, say, knives, might attack them". |
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| 68 | 143 |
There was a snap of a whip from the kitchen, and a cry of pain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 55 |
The kitchen, thus, can serve as a venue of reprimand as well as a simple kitchen. |
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| 9 | 69 |
A moment later a voice called out, sharply, from outside the portal to the kitchen, "Kajirae, about, nadu!" It was the voice of the kitchen master. |
10 |
| 9 | 71 |
The kitchen master then entered the kitchen. |
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| 10 | 138 |
I had lost no time in leaving the kitchen, climbing the stairs, and making my way to the office of the taverner, the tavern master, my master, Ho-Tosk, whose office is on the second basement level of the tavern, one level above the kitchen level, one level below the level of the main floor. |
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| 40 | 301 |
At last, the instructions for the kitchen master had reached the kitchen. |
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| 9 | 4 |
I bent over the double basin, one of several in the large, low-ceilinged kitchen of the Golden Chain, one of the five or so prominent taverns in the city. |
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| 9 | 8 |
There were ten of us in the kitchen. |
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| 9 | 10 |
My hands were immersed in the suds of the oven-heated water in the right-hand basin, its water, frequently replenished, heated on the long stove at the back of the kitchen. |
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| 9 | 27 |
To be sure, it was not pleasant in the kitchen. |
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| 9 | 36 |
It is not uncommon for a girl to begin in the kitchen, and, as time goes by, and girls are sold, to reach the floor. |
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| 9 | 39 |
I had dallied at the double basin one day and the kitchen master, holding me by the hair, had flung me down on the wet floor and used it on me. |
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| 9 | 50 |
I had felt it often enough, particularly in my first days in the kitchen. |
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| 9 | 52 |
I think that I had now been some fourteen or fifteen days in the kitchen. |
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| 9 | 54 |
I had also seen two girls brought to the kitchen from the floor, who had, I suppose, in one way or another, displeased one or more of the taverner's men. |
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| 9 | 67 |
Whereas most of the kitchen work, and the scullery work, in particular, was done by slaves, the cooking was done by free men. |
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| 9 | 74 |
"That is appropriate for kitchen slaves, is it not?" he asked. |
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| 9 | 76 |
"And you are kitchen slaves, are you not?" he asked. |
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| 9 | 82 |
"And that is appropriate for kitchen slaves, is it not?" he asked. |
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| 9 | 101 |
In the kitchen the shackle locks all respond to a single key. |
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| 10 | 109 |
Euphrosyne passed me, on her way to the kitchen, with an empty tray. |
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| 10 | 136 |
"Rise up," had said the kitchen master, "and report to Ho-Tosk". |
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| 10 | 139 |
Food is conveyed from the kitchen to the main floor by means of a dumb-waiter arrangement, platforms in a shaft, raised and lowered on pulleys. |
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| 10 | 156 |
"You have been in the kitchen for several days," he said. |
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| 14 | 3 |
We, with some others, were at work in the kitchen. |
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| 14 | 4 |
A girl may be demoted from the floor to the kitchen, particularly if she is seldom alcoved, this suggesting a lack of customer interest. |
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| 14 | 5 |
Kitchen work, too, is often a consequence of a customer's suspected dissatisfaction. |
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| 14 | 8 |
That would normally be followed by a whipping, that followed by an assignment to the kitchen, for a greater or lesser time. |
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| 14 | 11 |
For example, we were allowed kitchen rags and our ankles were not even shackled. |
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| 14 | 27 |
And what slave does not desire to be the single slave of a private master? Another reason, I suppose, for putting even a satisfactory girl in the kitchen might be to remind her that such or worse could always be her fate. |
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| 14 | 29 |
It is not so much that she does not want the drudgery of the kitchen as that she does want the opportunity to obtain a master, her own master. |
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| 14 | 156 |
"Let us continue our work, lest we attract the attention of the kitchen master". |
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| 14 | 166 |
"What is going on?" called the kitchen master. |
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| 14 | 190 |
"I think the kitchen master is watching," said Adraste, handing me a plate. |
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| 14 | 222 |
"Tonight," said the kitchen master, "the six of you, those tunicked, and not shackled, will be returned to the floor". |
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| 14 | 224 |
As we left the kitchen, Adraste and I did not look at one another. |
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| 20 | 122 |
"Zia," called Euphrosyne, up from the laundry room below, which is on the same level as the kitchen. |
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| 20 | 124 |
I went down the stairs from the level of Ho-Tosk's office to the kitchen. |
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| 20 | 132 |
Several of the small irons, heated from stoves in the kitchen, were waiting on the iron plate. |
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| 21 | 7 |
He indicated that I should follow him down the stairs, to the long pantry, adjoining the kitchen. |
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| 21 | 19 |
I no longer felt the flooring of the pantry or kitchen beneath my feet. |
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| 25 | 63 |
In the kitchen, she had literally admitted, however reluctantly, that she was herself the Lady Julia Leta of Ar. |
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| 38 | 282 |
I looked back once, and then hurried down to the kitchen. |
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| 40 | 258 |
Crawl to the kitchen. |
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| 40 | 259 |
I shall send instructions to the kitchen master". |
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| 40 | 299 |
How frightful if, at one time or another, they might not be aware of my presence! How bothersome that would be! Well, they had little to worry about now! I could not move a step without those bells marking my every move! As instructed, I had crawled, unfed, to the kitchen. |
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| 42 | 209 |
"She is a stray, a kitchen slave, picked up by the men of the holding of Bosk," said Vas of Anango. |
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| 42 | 211 |
We bell our kitchen slaves thusly". |
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| 46 | 467 |
I had little doubt but what she would prefer to be below in the kitchen or back in her cage. |
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| 47 | 50 |
Whereas there was some provision in the apartment for light cooking and cleanliness, elsewhere in the building one might find a public kitchen and general lavatory facilities. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 |
He replaced the knife, a kitchen knife, not finely ground, not hilted, not a war knife, not a killing knife, in his belt. |
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