| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 20 |
One of his sandals had a broken strap that had been carelessly knotted back together. |
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| 16 | 42 |
Meanwhile, at several points in the city and at randomly selected times, picked tarnsmen of Pa-Kur, each of whose tarns carried a dangling, knotted rope of nine spearmen, dropped to the wires and the tops of cylinders, landing their small task forces of raiders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 179 |
But I knew even as I cried out that I was not free, and I burned with shame that I had so bespoke myself, for how could I be free when others in that gray city were bound? There was the girl, warm-eyed Linna, who had been kind to me, whose auburn hair was knotted with coarse string, who wore the gra... |
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| 20 | 33 |
Its straps were broken but they could be knotted together. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 31 |
The blood vessels in their necks and legs and arms began to distend until I feared they might burst open through the tortured flesh; the agonized muscles of their straining knotted bodies, like swollen leather, seemed to fill with pain as if pain were a fluid; their flesh seemed to fuse with the woo... |
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| 15 | 2 |
From a ring on the underside of the floor, the ceiling of the chamber, there dangled a knotted rope. |
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| 15 | 5 |
I had no mind to do this, but I did grasp the torch in my teeth with one end lit and, hand over hand, lower myself down the knotted rope. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 16 |
The Tuchuk, incidentally, like others of the Wagon Peoples, prays only when mounted, only when in the saddle and with weapons at hand; he prays to the sky not as a slave to a master, nor a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar; the women of the Wagon Peoples, it might be mentioned, are not pe... |
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| 22 | 141 |
They had found a long piece of rope and tied her hands behind her back and then had wound the same rope three or four times about the girl's waist, had securely knotted it, and were leading her about by it. |
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| 23 | 4 |
A tarn can, incidentally, without difficulty, carry a knotted rope of seven to ten men. |
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| 26 | 542 |
Kamchak's hands were like white clubs knotted on the reins of the kaiila. |
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| 28 | 15 |
Indeed, when Elizabeth finished, Tuka wore only the Koora, the red band that ties back the hair, and this band now knotted her wrists behind her back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 1 |
The Game When I deemed it wise to depart from Vella, I knotted her yellow slave livery about her neck and cried out, "Begone, Slave!" and then slapped my hands together at which juncture she let forth a howl as though she had been struck, and then, blubbering hysterically and crying out, she scrambl... |
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| 6 | 45 |
To each, on furs, there was chained, by the left ankle, a bare-breasted girl about whose waist there was knotted a scarlet cord, in which was thrust a long, narrow rectangle of red silk. |
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| 12 | 372 |
There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca... |
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| 15 | 19 |
A white silken cord had been knotted about her waist; in this cord was thrust a narrow rectangle of white silk, perhaps about two feet long. |
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| 15 | 225 |
In the beginning, when moving about the house, the girls had been permitted only the garb customarily worn in the sweat and motion of the training, a rectangle of silk, about a foot long, thrust into a silken string knotted about the waist; Virginia and Phyllis would not even leave their cells so cl... |
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| 17 | 93 |
A long rope, or set of ropes knotted together, ran behind the kneeling girls, with which their wrists were bound; another rope, or set of ropes tied together, fastened them by the throat, as in a slaver's chain. |
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| 17 | 509 |
A bit of scarlet cord had been knotted about her waist, into which was thrust a long rectangle of red silk; her hair had been unbound; her wrists were braceleted behind her back; the key hung on a string about her neck; the slave bells were still locked on her left ankle, but her finery was gone; no... |
10 |
| 19 | 325 |
About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer... |
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| 24 | 170 |
They wore the brief gray livery of the state slave of Ar, slashed to the waist, knotted with a gray cord; about their throats was locked the gray metal collar of Ar's state slave; they were barefoot; on the left ankle of each was the gray metal band, with its five gray bells, worn by the female stat... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w... |
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| 3 | 18 |
Two ropes of marsh vine, besides my other bonds, had been knotted about my neck, each in the hands of a man on either side of me. |
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| 3 | 100 |
Immediately the two loops of marsh vine knotted about my neck tightened, each taut, pulling against the other. |
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| 4 | 44 |
Then, looking up into my eyes, smiling, close to me, her arms about my neck, she insolently wound the vine five times about my neck, and knotted it in front. |
10 |
| 4 | 276 |
It was she who had fastened coils of marsh vine about my neck, and knotted them, putting me in the collar of a slave. |
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| 8 | 675 |
Thurnock then took the same long length of binding fiber, one end of which I had fastened about Midice's neck, and, without cutting it, looped and knotted it about the neck of the large, blond, gray-eyed girl, handing the coil then to Clitus, who indicated that the short rence girl should take her p... |
10 |
| 8 | 688 |
Clitus had already fastened the short rence girl in the coffle, the binding fiber looped and knotted about her neck, the remainder of the coil fallen to the deck behind her. |
10 |
| 9 | 39 |
But we had, about the throat of each, wrapped, five times, a length of binding fiber, and knotted it, that this, serving as collar, might mark them as slave. |
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| 9 | 40 |
Aside from this they were not, at the time we had entered the city, secured, save that a long length of binding fiber, knotted about the left ankle of each, tied them together. |
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| 9 | 279 |
About her throat were the five coils of binding fiber, knotted there in token of her slavery. |
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| 17 | 276 |
"Yes," said he, "and, as you asked, with each tarn a knotted rope and five of the seamen of Port Kar". |
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| 17 | 359 |
I saw tarns leaping to the decks of the round ships, and I saw the knotted ropes being attached to the saddles, and picked seamen, experts with the sword, five to a rope, taking their positions. |
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| 17 | 362 |
Soon, behind me, there were some hundred tarnsmen, and below each, dangling, hanging to the knotted ropes, were five picked men. |
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| 18 | 131 |
"Do you think you can cling," asked I, "to a knotted rope for hours?" "Of course, Captain," said he. |
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| 18 | 522 |
We heard grappling irons with knotted ropes fly over the parapet, scrape across the stones, and wedge in the crenels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 112 |
In the sun, the air stinging my eyes, particles of soot and ash falling on me, I knotted one end of the rope of sheets securely about a small iron railing that surmounted a waist-high wall around the patio and terrace. |
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| 2 | 157 |
It was knotted tightly behind the back of my neck. |
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| 8 | 251 |
When we emerged from the cage, one by one, we were given our camisks, and placed in throat coffle, fastened therein with a long length of binding fiber, the fiber looped about the neck of each, knotted, and then passed on to the next girl. |
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| 9 | 347 |
I pulled at the fiber that bound my wrists so cruelly back; my throat pressed against the straps on my throat, almost choking me; my belly writhed under its strap; my ankles moved against one another, helpless in the leather confinement of the knotted strap. |
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| 11 | 506 |
A thong had been passed through the two rings and then knotted. |
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| 11 | 507 |
The knotted, double thong that fastened us together was only about a foot long. |
10 |
| 11 | 670 |
He stood me there, facing the interior of the cage, and took my hair and knotted it about one of the crossbars of the cage, about a foot above my head. |
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| 11 | 870 |
A loop of binding fiber had been tied about my belly and knotted in back. |
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| 11 | 872 |
The binding fiber, in its center, had been knotted about the chain of the bracelets, so that my hands were held close to my belly. |
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| 11 | 873 |
As my hands were braceleted before me, and held in place by the binding fiber there, and the loose ends of the binding fiber had been knotted behind my back, by no movement could I bring the back knot within reach. |
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| 11 | 955 |
He came behind me and, lifting the shirt some inches, tucked it into the binding fiber that was knotted about my waist. |
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| 12 | 262 |
Standing below this pole, obviously exhibited as a trophy of the hunt, alone on the cart, her skins knotted about her neck, her wrists bound behind her back, her hair fastened over the pole, holding her in place, was a beautiful panther girl, stripped, her weapons, broken, lying at her feet. |
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| 12 | 284 |
Like the girls bound by the hair to the trophy poles, on the carts, these were stripped, their skins knotted about their necks. |
10 |
| 12 | 572 |
I put my finger under the wide strap knotted about my throat, which tethered me to her. |
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| 12 | 600 |
It was well knotted. |
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| 12 | 662 |
But, about the throat, the broad strap, for each of us, was perforated in two places, and it was by means of narrow binding fiber, passed several times through the perforations and knotted, that it was fastened on our throats. |
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| 12 | 663 |
The guard had knotted the binding fiber, tightly. |
10 |
| 14 | 642 |
She knotted one end of this about my neck, tightly enough that I felt the knot. |
10 |
| 14 | 649 |
It was thus not inappropriate that she should find herself so, as she was, tethered, about her neck, knotted, a simple length of camp rope, slender and coarse, fit for leading verr or girls. |
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| 15 | 1184 |
I tried to rise, but the man's hand was knotted in the silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 147 |
They stood, their hands bound behind their backs, fastened together by the long length of binding fiber, knotted about the left ankle of each. |
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| 10 | 260 |
Marlenus then took a length of binding fiber, of some eight feet in length, and knotted one end of it about Verna's throat. |
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| 15 | 122 |
Again, free ends occurred, heavily knotted, only at the last and first girl. |
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| 16 | 93 |
Swiftly, the twisted part deeply between her teeth, I knotted it with a warrior's tightness behind the back of her neck. |
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| 16 | 245 |
The bottles of wine, brought by one of the paga slaves, were slung, knotted, about her neck. |
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| 18 | 70 |
The men of Sarus had controlled the slave chain of prize male slaves; the girls of Hura had controlled the coffle of beauties, each with her wrists still in binding fiber confined behind her body, each still fastened to her sisters in bondage by the strong, supple linking of the binding fiber knotte... |
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| 18 | 475 |
It is said they appear as though from nowhere to pillage, and to burn and rape, and then, among the flames, as quickly, vanish to their swift ships, carrying their booty with them, whether it be bars of silver, or goblets of gold, or silken sheets, knotted and bulging with plate, and coins and gems,... |
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| 20 | 169 |
About the necks of most, knotted still, was a tight loop of binding fiber, though it had been cut on both sides, to free them from the coffle. |
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| 22 | 132 |
Her hair had been twisted about her throat, knotted, and then, with the two loose strands, thick, themselves twisted, looped about her wrists, her hands had been secured. |
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| 22 | 369 |
The severed coffle leather was still knotted about her neck. |
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| 22 | 390 |
With his sleen knife he cut the knotted loop of coffle leather from her throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 37 |
I saw the wild muscles of his bare arms bulging and knotted. |
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| 4 | 96 |
Their ankles were no longer bound; their wrists, now, those of most of them, were fettered before their bodies; about their necks, now, however, they wore not simple binding fiber; it had been replaced the first evening out of Kassau; they wore now, knotted about their throats, a coffle rope of the ... |
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| 4 | 114 |
The wooden ring is reached by climbing a knotted rope. |
10 |
| 4 | 260 |
One girl who did not care to feed was struck twice across her back by a knotted rope in the hand of Gorm. |
10 |
| 4 | 330 |
"They will beat us!" Gorm was then at her, and struck her five times with his knotted rope. |
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| 5 | 8 |
He climbed halfway up the knotted rope, halfway up the mast. |
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| 5 | 311 |
The coffle rope was looped about her throat, and knotted. |
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| 8 | 208 |
He threw the mantle over her head and, with the scarf, turned twice about her neck, and knotted tightly, tied it under her chin. |
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| 9 | 43 |
For a full day, too, the coverlet had been left tied over her head, fastened by the twice-turned, knotted scarf about her neck. |
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| 9 | 260 |
He had tied her there by ship's rope, knotted about her stomach. |
10 |
| 10 | 170 |
The knife had been removed from the sheath at her belt; she stood straight, but her head was down, her eyes closed; about her neck, knotted, was a rope, it fastened to a stake in the ground near the dueling square. |
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| 18 | 191 |
They bent to lift and support one of their sisters in bondage, whose leg was broken, binding fiber still knotted about the ankle. |
10 |
| 18 | 199 |
Severed binding fiber was knotted tight about her belly. |
10 |
| 18 | 484 |
She, too, like Pretty Ankles had severed binding fiber knotted about her belly. |
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| 18 | 525 |
A length of simple, coarse tent rope, some seven feet in length, had been knotted about his neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 |
A front corner of the silk was taken behind her and thrust, loose and draped, into the rolled silk knotted about her hips; a back corner of the silk was drawn before her and thrust loosely, draped, into the rolled silk at her right hip. |
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| 2 | 344 |
They are made on simple looms and the pile is knotted onto the warp and weft. |
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| 5 | 113 |
His hand was on her body, and she, writhing, weeping, with her heels, pushing herself, back scraping on the bark, climbed almost a foot up the slanting trunk, before he, taking her in his arms, through her veil, kissed her, fiercely, again and again, with the rape-kisses of a master, impressed on th... |
10 |
| 5 | 138 |
Aya made clear her displeasure by striking the girl several times, before she could free herself, with her customary instrument of instruction, the knotted kaiila strap. |
10 |
| 6 | 1 |
A Slave Girl Testifies The bodies of the two girls, stripped, lay on the narrow rectangles, networks, of knotted ropes, on the racks. |
10 |
| 6 | 53 |
Her body, now, was lifted from the network of knotted ropes and hung, suspended, between the two axles of the rack. |
10 |
| 6 | 60 |
The axle of the windlass at the girl's head spun back and her body fell into the network of knotted ropes. |
10 |
| 6 | 124 |
The girl's body fell into the network of knotted ropes. |
10 |
| 7 | 313 |
Often I had to force from my mind the look on the face of the second slave, she called Vella, of triumph, as she, small and lovely, luscious, freed of the rack ropes, had sat up on the knotted ropes, after her testimony had confirmed that of others, of Zaya, the other girl, and Ibn Saran, sending me... |
10 |
| 14 | 669 |
About my left wrist, knotted, bleached in the sun, was a bit of slave silk. |
10 |
| 21 | 153 |
I felt this, as I lay in the sand and grit, knotted about my throat. |
10 |
| 21 | 589 |
It tried to hold the wire, and climb on it, or relieve the pressure on its throat, but its great paws slipped on the slender strand; then its weight began to pull me upward; I, hands knotted in the insulated portion of the wire, kicked the Kur back as it reached for me; then I was above it, being dr... |
10 |
| 24 | 56 |
Such details are not only useful in discouraging a foolish girl from even thinking of escape, perhaps by lowering herself with knotted covers to the cruel desert below, where she would be almost sure to die, or be shortly recaptured, crazed and thirsting, but, I suspect, are even more useful in taci... |
10 |
| 24 | 867 |
The end of the tether I knotted in and about the leather on her wrists, so that she would be unable to reach it, even with the fingers of one of her hands. |
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| 24 | 911 |
I loosely knotted them at the right side of her cheek. |
10 |
| 25 | 293 |
I knotted the rope about the beauty's neck. |
10 |
| 25 | 406 |
At the head of the couch I tied the rope which was knotted on her neck. |
10 |
| 26 | 5 |
Leather was looped and loosely knotted about the high pommel of my desert saddle. |
10 |
| 26 | 45 |
As I moved the kaiila slowly along the line of chained girls, to examine them, the leather, looped and knotted about the pommel of my saddle, grew taut. |
10 |
| 26 | 450 |
She was naked except that about her right ankle was tied a rag, and, strangely perhaps, about her left wrist was knotted a bit of bleached slave silk. |
10 |
| 26 | 532 |
About her left wrist, knotted, was the bleached silk from Klima. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 432 |
About her throat, looped twice, knotted, was a length of coarse rope. |
10 |
| 7 | 833 |
It was a wrist tether rope, knotted about her right wrist, with a handle loop, about a foot long, by which she might be led. |
10 |
| 8 | 233 |
The other end of the rope was looped several times and the loops loosely knotted about a bar of the sleen cage. |
10 |
| 9 | 1314 |
I then stood before them, double wrist-leashed, ropes placed knotted on my wrists. |
10 |
| 9 | 1426 |
A rope, knotted, ran from my neck to his hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 2070 |
Thurnus wrapped the rope twice about her throat, and knotted it. |
10 |
| 18 | 10 |
The red cord, or Curla, was knotted about my waist, tightly, the knot, a slip knot which might be loosened with a single tug, over my left hip. |
10 |
| 18 | 137 |
I felt a knotted, double strand of leather looped about my left wrist and pulled tight. |
10 |
| 19 | 117 |
I knotted the end of the thread on the necklace. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 44 |
It was a double coffle line; the last girl is placed on it first; the double line is knotted about her neck and then the two strands are taken forward; the fifth girl was next neck-knotted into the line and the two strands taken forward again, and so on; when the first girl is put in the coffle, the... |
10 |
| 3 | 31 |
The girl's hair was still bound, knotted, on her head; it had not yet even been loosened, as that of a slave girl. |
10 |
| 3 | 800 |
It was held in place by a light, white cord, which passed through two loops and was loosely knotted at the right hip. |
10 |
| 3 | 1319 |
A string was knotted about her waist. |
10 |
| 6 | 837 |
He knotted the rags about her hips. |
10 |
| 6 | 862 |
She tried with her bound wrists to tear away the rags which she wore but they, because of the knotted belt strip, were perfectly fastened upon her. |
10 |
| 9 | 170 |
Under the tether on the throat of each there was tied an intricately knotted set of four leather strings. |
10 |
| 11 | 240 |
About their throats now, too, they wore again the four looped strings, each differently knotted, by means of which a red hunter might, upon inspection, determine that their owner was Imnak. |
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| 11 | 547 |
I knotted her hands behind her back. |
10 |
| 11 | 572 |
I took a length of binding fiber and knotted it, with capture knots, about her throat. |
10 |
| 12 | 268 |
Her hair was worn knotted in a bun on the top of her head, like that generally of the women of the red hunters. |
10 |
| 12 | 385 |
A leather strap is knotted about the girl's wrist, passed through the drilled hole at one end of the yoke, usually that on her left, taken up through the hole behind the neck, looped twice about her neck, threaded back down through the center hole, taken up through the other hole at the end, usually... |
10 |
| 20 | 69 |
"Imnak never sings," said Poalu, helpfully volunteering this information, forgetful apparently of the bondage strings knotted on her throat. |
10 |
| 28 | 41 |
The curla was a rope of twisted, yellow silk tied snugly about her belly and knotted, loosely, at the left hip. |
10 |
| 35 | 196 |
She wore a brief bit of transparent brown slave silk, gathered before her and loosely knotted at her navel. |
10 |
| 35 | 745 |
Her small wrists twisted futilely behind her in the encircling, knotted sandal string, that simple device which constituted her bond. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 86 |
I climbed some feet up the knotted rope, dangling by the mainmast, which led to the lookout's platform. |
10 |
| 13 | 530 |
My hands knotted in her hair, tightly, holding her helplessly to me. |
10 |
| 14 | 148 |
Then she again turned her face toward me, its upper portions obscured by the black, knotted blindfold. |
10 |
| 15 | 330 |
Two leash ropes were knotted on my neck. |
10 |
| 31 | 21 |
Her small hands pulled at the tightly looped, knotted strap that bound them behind her back. |
10 |
| 32 | 913 |
Threaded through the tiny hole in the disk was a small knotted, suspension thong, forming a closed circle of about half of an inch in diameter. |
10 |
| 32 | 1129 |
"Oh!" she winced, as I knotted her hands behind her back. |
10 |
| 34 | 381 |
I looked at her, kneeling there before me, the bit of bark cloth at her hips, the two necklaces, one red and black, one blue and yellow, about her throat, my tether knotted on her throat, fastening her to the slave stake. |
10 |
| 34 | 512 |
The tether, knotted on her throat, fastened at the other end to the slave stake, was about seven feet in length. |
10 |
| 43 | 14 |
Her hands were not bound together but, from each wrist, there hung a knotted rope. |
10 |
| 43 | 130 |
She still had the dangling ropes knotted on her wrists. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 72 |
Each, about her hips, wore a gray rag, knotted high on the left hip, to expose the left hip and thigh. |
10 |
| 6 | 70 |
I then realized that Lola's garb, so demure and modest for a female slave, so unlike the usual bit of rag knotted at her left hip, must be because of the presence of the woman slavers in the pens. |
10 |
| 7 | 100 |
At his left hip, cruelly bent over, his hand knotted tightly in her hair, he held a girl. |
10 |
| 21 | 433 |
If one encounters, as in side tunnels, approaching the main tunnel, a fully knotted, dependent wall of strings, then one knows that a left-and-right branching is imminent. |
10 |
| 23 | 131 |
Then I knelt across her body and, with the tharlarion snout strap I had had coiled to one side, knotted her hands behind her back. |
10 |
| 28 | 12 |
"Jason," she said, "why are you tying a strap on my throat?" I knotted the strap under her chin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 208 |
I took the rope from the side of the alcove and, folding it so as to make four strands, looped it several times about her throat and knotted it. |
10 |
| 1 | 209 |
I thus made a heavy rope collar for her, knotted under her chin, with heavy guide strands. |
10 |
| 8 | 21 |
More than one wore a handkerchief knotted about his head, in the manner of some oarsmen, that their heads be protected from the sun. |
10 |
| 21 | 379 |
As she knotted each she kissed the knot, and then, when finished with both, put her head to my feet in a graceful gesture of submission. |
10 |
| 23 | 364 |
They were fastened together, by the neck, by a knotted red strap some four feet in length. |
10 |
| 24 | 16 |
It was off her right shoulder and held loosely on her by a casually knotted, narrow disrobing loop, fastened over her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 24 | 65 |
It consists, commonly, of three pieces, usually two rounded pieces of soft felt, three to four inches in diameter, and the binding, which usually consists of two or more turns of a dark, thick, folded cloth, or scarf, knotted behind the head. |
10 |
| 24 | 68 |
The binding, some three turns of folded, opaque, thick black cloth, knotted tightly behind her head, held the eye coverings securely in place. |
10 |
| 24 | 535 |
I forced her to her knees in the water and then, holding her by the hair, not permitting her to leave her knees, I forced her head back until her dark hair, beneath where I had it knotted in my hand, was loose, floating in the water, and the bow of her exquisite slave beauty was well exposed to me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 213 |
In this sense slave garments may be as resplendent and complex as the robes of an enslaved Ubara, to be removed by the general who has captured her upon a platform of public humiliation, or as simple as the cords on a girl's wrists and a piece of rope knotted on her throat. |
10 |
| 15 | 62 |
Too, they had not been knotted by trained warriors or guardsmen. |
10 |
| 15 | 75 |
Though the ropes were thick and coarse, they were tight, and well-knotted. |
10 |
| 16 | 158 |
My left ankle, cut deliberately on the back of the blade, oozed blood, soaking the knotted ropes that held it. |
10 |
| 16 | 167 |
I feared I might lose my foot but the heavy ropes, doubled and twisted, and knotted, like fibrous shielding, muchly protecting me, served me well, keeping the teeth in large measure from fastening in my flesh. |
10 |
| 16 | 532 |
Then I pulled them to their feet and knotted together the two loose ends of the strap, thus again effectively putting them on a common leash. |
10 |
| 20 | 648 |
Too, between her breasts, this silk had been twisted and knotted, this making even more evident the sweet contours of her beauty, and the sturdy, silken restraint placed upon it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 44 |
The same thong is then taken behind the yoke and passed through the center hole, whence, after having been knotted, to prevent slippage to the left, and having been looped about the girl's neck, usually some five times, and having been knotted again, to prevent slippage to the right, it is returned ... |
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| 7 | 53 |
It was belted upon her with a doubly looped, tightly knotted rawhide string. |
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| 17 | 59 |
The two free ends of the short thong are then taken back through the hole and, once through the hole, are simply knotted, heavily. |
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| 17 | 63 |
Once through the aperture it is knotted together, heavily, with the other end of the thong. |
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| 17 | 465 |
It could be as simple as a narrow roll of knotted scarlet silk, or white, if the slave is at that time a virgin, or a piece of string or cord, or strip of leather, tied shut, perhaps looped six times about the throat, each time for one of the letters in the word 'Kajira', the most common expression ... |
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| 19 | 1 |
In the Distance there is the Smoke of Cooking Fires Evelyn cried out with misery as the tether was knotted about her neck. |
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| 19 | 196 |
Then she looked up at him, and backed away, his, stripped save for the beaded collar knotted at her throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 206 |
"The collar, as you have no doubt by now discovered, is truly knotted on your neck". |
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| 12 | 178 |
In the cities it is more common to use collars and leashes than looped tethers, or knotted tethers. |
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| 12 | 203 |
I thought they would look well in close-fitting leather hobbles, twist hobbles, knotted on the outside of the left ankle, which she, her hands bound behind her back, would be unable to remove. |
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| 14 | 161 |
The five women sitting near the shelter, in their drab garments, all had sacks tied over their heads, knotted under their chins. |
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| 14 | 236 |
Gray sacks had been tied over their heads, knotted with cords under their chins. |
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| 28 | 145 |
The first woman's hands are bound behind her back with one end of such a thong and then the other end is taken up and knotted about the neck of the woman behind her; this woman's hands are then bound behind her with another thong, its free end then being taken up and bound about the neck of the woma... |
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| 33 | 241 |
I then knotted it and ran my finger about, under the loops, making sure that they were unslippable and snug, but not in the least uncomfortable. |
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| 34 | 141 |
"What is that on her neck?" she asked, referring to the narrow, dark, braided rawhide rope, looped three times about the slave's neck and knotted before her throat, the two loose ends dangling between her breasts. |
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| 44 | 732 |
My eyes strayed to what I could see of the intricate, colorful beading on Bloketu's high, leather collar, knotted at her throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 85 |
The garment was belted, and rather snugly, with two turns of a narrow, silken, yellow cord, knotted at her left hip. |
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| 4 | 488 |
But I could not open them, or remove them, say, with knotted clothing or bedding, to lower myself to the levels below. |
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| 14 | 138 |
A loop or two, properly knotted, I did not doubt, would be adequate for the perfect accomplishment of such a task. |
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| 14 | 141 |
He had not knotted the tie. |
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| 31 | 232 |
My hands and arms were free but the thick, yellow band, knotted tightly behind the back of the chair, held me helplessly in place. |
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| 32 | 47 |
A heavy wadding was thrust into my mouth and secured there with a folded strip of cloth, drawn deeply back between my teeth, knotted tightly behind the back of my neck. |
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| 36 | 1096 |
He then looped and knotted the long end of the strap about a hook, on the side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 35 |
The hands of each, by a cord knotted about their waist, were tied before their bodies. |
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| 8 | 75 |
"In my wagon, in the right-hand corner of the tray in my trunk there is a knotted sock which contains coins and there are some coins, too, thrust in the toe of a slipper at the side of the trunk". |
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| 10 | 627 |
I then knotted it with itself, over her head, thus enclosing her head within it. |
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| 10 | 899 |
Folded, in its length, held in place by a knotted string, it would make an excellent slave strip, tucked over the string in front, drawn back and behind, and put over the string in the back, the whole then being yanked snugly tight. |
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| 12 | 761 |
Many other girls learn swiftly to be grateful for as little as a strip of cloth suspended from a knotted string about their waist. |
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| 16 | 789 |
The scarves which they had worn about them were now knotted about their hips. |
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| 16 | 790 |
They were knotted at the left hips, so that the opening was at their left thighs, where, on the thighs, could be seen the circular, adhesive patches they had worn during the play, those patches which, in the conventions of the theater, informed the audience that they were to be taken, for the purpos... |
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| 16 | 1008 |
Instantly Bina tore away the scarf knotted about her hips, that which had formerly been tied about her throat, concealing her collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 85 |
These I took to the sides and yanked back, drawing them deeply back between her teeth, and then knotted them tightly behind the back of her neck. |
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| 26 | 766 |
Then the thong was tied about her waist, knotted in the back, and the tiny coin, threaded on the thong, dangled at her belly. |
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| 26 | 800 |
I then slipped the extra binding fiber dangling from her wrists, that with which I had earlier tied her ankles up behind her, to her wrists, through the ring and then crossed her ankles and knotted it securely about them. |
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| 26 | 1654 |
Needless to say, many slaves are very attentive to their service, and strive zealously to please, that they may be found worthy of raiment, even so little as a knotted rag. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 103 |
Her work tunic, however, had been removed and a narrow rectangle of silk, thrust in a leather thong knotted about her waist, hung down before her. |
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| 24 | 364 |
It is such, it thrust over a leather thong knotted about the girl's belly, that it may be easily brushed aside, or pulled away. |
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| 25 | 11 |
I wore only my collar, that of Ionicus, and, about my waist, a knotted thong, in which was thrust a narrow rectangle of red silk. |
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| 34 | 25 |
Oh, masters, master us, yes, masters, please master us! It is that which we need! It is that without which we cannot know ourselves! It is that without which we cannot be ourselves! What is a woman without a collar, be it only a strand of leather knotted on her neck! "Oh, yes!" I cried, as his tongu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 242 |
If necessary, of course, it could be bundled and knotted at the back of her neck. |
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| 8 | 82 |
A black cord was knotted about her waist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 257 |
I then secured it in place with the first scarf, which I knotted tightly behind the back of her neck. |
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| 3 | 310 |
His two fellows, too, grinning, affixed identificatory insignia on their left arms, one an armband, the other a knotted blue scarf. |
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| 12 | 367 |
It was then fastened in place, the binding knotted behind the back of my neck, tightly, painfully. |
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| 13 | 513 |
My manacled hands were then tied at my belly, the center of the tie fastened to the linkage, the ends of the tie knotted together, behind my back. |
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| 20 | 130 |
I jerked tight the binding and knotted it securely behind the back of her neck. |
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| 31 | 570 |
I had pulled the cord snugly up, about her waist, and knotted it behind the small of her back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 |
Her fingers were in the knotted mesh. |
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| 9 | 641 |
The light cord, little more than twine, but strong enough not to be broken by a woman's strength, had been knotted about her neck and then carried forward to the woman before her, where it was tied similarly, and thence forward again, suitable lengths being unwound and cut from a long spool. |
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| 10 | 351 |
They were well bound, held within her removed, knotted veil. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 983 |
She then hurried down the stairs and, going behind me, seized my hair and held it up over my head, knotted securely in her grip, with both hands. |
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| 14 | 198 |
One lovely thigh, her left, as she knelt, emerged from the brown rag which had been knotted about her waist. |
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| 14 | 861 |
"Forgive me, Master!" Two days later, for the first time, I had knotted the rag about the hips of the Lady Constanzia and, as she had straightened her body, had cinched the halter on her. |
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| 14 | 968 |
I had knotted the brown rag low on her hips, so that their lovely flare might be the better noted. |
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| 14 | 1210 |
It was only then that the rags of a slave had been knotted on her. |
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| 23 | 21 |
She knotted the rag about my waist. |
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| 25 | 13 |
A bloody rag had been knotted about his upper body. |
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| 42 | 21 |
This she bound in place with a folded scarf, knotted behind the back of my neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 3274 |
At least, she thought, it is common rope, and not a leash of knotted leather, or knotted binding fiber, because she knew that knots in such materials might be drawn so tightly that her small, delicate fingers, those of a woman, might lack the strength to undo them. |
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| 7 | 175 |
Her wrists were then tied together, in the center of some fiber, and the two ends of the fiber were then taken behind her, and knotted behind her back, so that her wrists were held pinioned before her, at her waist. |
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| 8 | 216 |
Tutina's blond hair was bound back with a woolen ribbon, or fillet, which went completely about the head, across the brow, and was knotted behind the back of the head, two ends then dangling downward, each about six inches in length. |
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| 20 | 599 |
The rope was long enough to serve as well as a leash, and, moments after she had been ordered to her feet, some yard or so of it, rising from her confined wrists, had been looped and knotted about her throat, its free end then, some five feet or so in length, serving as a leash. |
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| 21 | 19 |
An attendant knotted a rope about her left ankle. |
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| 21 | 20 |
It went to the girl before her, about whose ankle it was already knotted, and would be extended behind her, to fasten the next three slaves in the ankle coffle, as she was, each such coffle consisting of ten slaves. |
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| 24 | 538 |
"What was there, in that world," she wondered, "to compare with even the light wisp of silk I feel upon my thighs, with the bells knotted about my left ankle?" Dara thrust back through the parting in the silk. |
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| 27 | 779 |
The rope was then lifted and a length of it looped twice about the slave's neck and knotted there. |
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| 27 | 2858 |
The soldier then took a length of rope and knotted it to the length of rope which was already on her neck, that which Mirus, in his attempt, during the fray, to make away with her, had slashed short, an attempt foiled by Selius Arconious. |
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| 27 | 3271 |
It was tightly knotted, and she could not, of course, see the knot. |
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| 30 | 218 |
Tears streamed down her face, and under the coarse rope knotted about her neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 47 |
These were knotted in front, with a variety of ties. |
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| 18 | 84 |
He had then, turning her again to her belly, with one strand of the double-braided leash, fastened her hands, already bound, closely against her belly, and knotted the holding strap behind the small of her back. |
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| 24 | 245 |
A length of rope was knotted about her throat. |
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| 43 | 422 |
"Oh!" Cabot had taken a doubled strand of slave cord, put it about her left wrist, drawn the free strands through the loop, jerked the loop thusly formed tight on her wrist, and then, with the free strands beyond the loop, twice encircled her right wrist, pulled the whole tight, and then knotted the... |
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| 58 | 46 |
A kind word, a hand knotted in the fur, affectionately, and shaken, is as effective, and seems more savored, I learn, than even roast tarsk". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 880 |
"Each then," said a fellow, "divested herself of her robes, stepped from them, declared herself slave, and hurried to Torgus, who knotted a length of a coarse, common rope about her neck". |
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| 7 | 79 |
Pertinax had jerked the strings on the hood against the back of her neck, and had then knotted them snugly under her chin. |
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| 16 | 98 |
For this purpose tarn baskets are sometimes used, but, if the journey is short, the tarn, even a common tarn, may carry a number of warriors, clinging to a knotted rope, some seven or so, to their destination. |
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| 22 | 391 |
Later, to be sure, Ahn afterward, if not extracted from the circle, the same rope is usually looped and knotted about the slave's waist. |
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| 27 | 65 |
In this way, when the rope is knotted about the neck of each girl, save for the first and last girl, there being no free end, there is no access, save perhaps by a knife, or such, to a means of undoing the knot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 431 |
When I reached the vestibule I was horrified to see a number of slaves, doubtless from the lower floors, mostly tower slaves and sandal slaves, naked and on all fours, fastened together, like beads on a string, by a single long rope, successively tied and knotted about the neck of each. |
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| 3 | 625 |
I felt a cord being put about my ankles, and knotted. |
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| 12 | 517 |
This was secured in place, and something was pulled over my head, like a sack, and I could not see, and I felt a cord knotted at my throat, this securing the covering in place. |
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| 14 | 34 |
"Pull, pull!" screamed Seremides, and I saw his knotted rope fall, again and again, amongst his oarsmen. |
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| 14 | 377 |
"Use this," said the rudderman, tossing me a length of knotted rope, which bore some reddish stains. |
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| 15 | 108 |
Thoas delivered another kick, from which the bent, cringing, knotted body of Seremides recoiled. |
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| 16 | 104 |
Some grapnels, on knotted rope, were slung upward from the galley, but fell short. |
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| 16 | 180 |
At that point a grapnel, attached to a length of chain, and that to a course of knotted rope, looped over the rail, struck the deck, scraped back across the deck, and was caught against the rail. |
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| 32 | 3 |
The great birds did not land, but hovered, some yards from the ground; long knotted ropes, fastened to their saddle rings, spilled to the earth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 151 |
I did so, and, shortly, with two or three encirclements of cord, snugly knotted, my wrists were tied behind my back. |
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| 5 | 158 |
He wound this twice about my throat, and then knotted it, closely, under my chin. |
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| 5 | 191 |
I was aware of the ribbon twice encircling my throat, knotted there, a ribbon of white silk. |
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| 5 | 281 |
I became much aware of the anklet fastened about my left ankle, the ribbon wound twice and knotted about my neck. |
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| 6 | 100 |
I heard a clink of coins, and, shortly thereafter, I felt a rope looped about my left ankle, snugly, and knotted, tightly, and then passed to Midice, on my left, and thence to those beyond her. |
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| 7 | 88 |
I must be a free woman! But what, I wondered, if I were not? What if I were a slave? What if I should be, as I had often feared, a slave, a rightful slave? From time to time, in the darkness, I felt the white ribbon which had been twice knotted about my neck in the sorority house. |
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| 7 | 281 |
But then, when the house collar was in place, a smaller ribbon, also white, had been looped and knotted about the house collar. |
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| 8 | 1428 |
It need not be drawn up too tightly, nor knotted too securely. |
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| 17 | 262 |
It was looped twice about my head and knotted in the back. |
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| 17 | 423 |
I was turned about, and the blindfold, retrieved from his belt, where he had placed it, keeping it at hand, was again wrapped about my head, twice, and knotted, behind my head, and I was, as before, securely and perfectly blindfolded. |
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| 17 | 451 |
The device, twice wrapped and then knotted, had been put about my head broadly, in the Gorean fashion. |
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| 27 | 271 |
We slipped the narrow rectangles of cloth, with their simple, centered, circular openings, over our heads, and then wrapped the long leather thong twice about our waist, and knotted it at our left hip. |
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| 27 | 302 |
I then drew the double thong more tightly about me, and knotted it, closely, at the left hip. |
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| 49 | 290 |
The message will be read, and a small package will be placed in the sack, which will be knotted closed. |
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| 49 | 333 |
A wad of cloth had been thrust into my mouth and tied there, with another band of cloth, knotted behind the back of my neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 159 |
I feared the strings of many purses were now knotted tight. |
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| 5 | 180 |
But for what had we been found acceptable? When the cords were knotted about my wrists and ankles there could be little doubt about the matter. |
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| 6 | 107 |
There must be two or three hundred of them in Brundisium, and perhaps many more in the north, in their unusual garb, with their dark, keen eyes, their black hair drawn back and knotted behind their head, men lithe and graceful, like panthers, taciturn, not mingling, avoiding the taverns, equipped wi... |
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| 7 | 330 |
A bit after that a length of the long rope was knotted about my neck, and then the two fellows proceeded forward, one fastening the wrists of the girl before me together, she who had claimed to have been of the high Merchants, and the other adding her to the coffle. |
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| 8 | 442 |
The opaque cloth of the blindfold had been wrapped twice, snugly, about her head, and knotted in place, behind her head. |
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| 8 | 446 |
It is looped about the neck and knotted, and then taken ahead to the next girl. |
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| 9 | 121 |
We were then, from the back to the front, being put in a rope coffle, the rope to be knotted about our necks, as it had been when we had exited the holding area in our port of departure. |
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| 9 | 126 |
Then the rope was knotted about my neck, and taken forward, to the next girl. |
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| 14 | 56 |
He was usually accompanied by Pani warriors, in their short robes, with the two swords, their hair pulled back and knotted behind the head. |
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| 15 | 240 |
I could feel the hemp loop knotted about my neck, which held me with the others. |
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| 15 | 615 |
The free end of the rope was then brought about, and looped twice and knotted about my throat. |
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| 29 | 94 |
In a moment I felt my wrists knotted together, behind me, with a light, leather thong. |
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| 29 | 250 |
My captor took a length of the rope which fastened the other two slaves together, by the neck, and I felt it tied, and knotted, about my neck. |
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| 33 | 136 |
Instantly we turned about in the neck rope, with its three knotted double loops, and went to our stomachs, our heads to the left, our wrists crossed behind us, and our ankles, as well. |
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| 35 | 5 |
I moved my neck a little in the coarse, knotted, double loop which encircled my throat, which held me to the others. |
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| 37 | 205 |
Then she said, "Relieve her ankles of the knotted talmit, with which we have bound them together". |
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| 39 | 173 |
It was with satisfaction, I am sure, that Tula and Mila, as well as I, observed our rope being knotted about the necks of the prone prisoners. |
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| 42 | 14 |
A long rope had been looped and knotted about our left ankles, and then the rope was tied at each end to a tree. |
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| 42 | 15 |
As it was fastened, Tula, had she desired to do so, could not reach the tree to her left to undo the knot, as the rope, knotted about the tree to her right, would not permit her to do so; similarly, I could not, had I desired to do so, reach the knot to my right to undo it, as the far knot on the le... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 53 |
One length I wrapped twice about her neck, and knotted it behind the back of her neck. |
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| 29 | 257 |
He now stood behind her, one fist knotted in her hair. |
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| 29 | 348 |
He also, interestingly, held in one hand some loops of knotted rope. |
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| 29 | 362 |
The loops of knotted rope dangled from Haruki's hand. |
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| 29 | 457 |
"Let us beat her," said Haruki, the cluster of knotted ropes once more dangling from his hand. |
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| 29 | 488 |
"As I recall, from the supper," said Tajima to the prisoner, the knotted ropes dangling from his hand, "you believed slaves should be whipped". |
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| 29 | 495 |
He then held the loops of knotted rope to her face. |
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| 47 | 160 |
Through this ring a rope was threaded, and knotted about each ring. |
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| 49 | 118 |
A moment later it was tied in place, with two broad loops, knotted behind the back of her neck. |
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| 61 | 177 |
Who would not investigate such an anomaly? The great wings snapped over my head, dust pelting me, flames roaring to the sides, as though driven by the wind, the tarn hovering, and I grasped the flung, uncoiling, knotted rope, and, in a moment, was swinging wildly beneath the climbing tarn, the camp ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 122 |
I felt the rope looped about my neck, knotted, and then passed on, to the next girl. |
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| 27 | 205 |
I regained my feet, and he pulled up the rent tunic and knotted its shreds over my left shoulder. |
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| 41 | 59 |
The rope was looped twice about my neck, knotted, and then dropped behind me, ready for the next to be its prisoner. |
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| 46 | 254 |
He held a paga goblet in his right hand, and his left hand was knotted in Euphrosyne's hair, her body bent down, her head held at his left hip, in leading position. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 178 |
"Clitus," I said, "thong the wrists of these slaves behind them, and then put them on a single rope, with three loops, each loop circled and knotted about the neck of one of them, Melete first, then Iantha, and then Philomena. |
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| 53 | 54 |
Several, here and there, fought, and slew one another, to attain a place, sometimes no more than a yard high and wide, on one or another of the modest prominences in the flesh of the beast, a footing on certain irregularities, corrugations, blemishes, sealed lesions, and layers of twisted, knotted s... |
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