| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 215 |
He entered my apartment, carrying a metal rod about two feet long, with a leather loop attached. |
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| 3 | 233 |
I took it from him, this time being careful to take it near the leather loop, which I fastened around my wrist. |
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| 7 | 212 |
She had scarcely removed a braided loop from its hook when her eyes suddenly lit with triumph and a sound of joy escaped her lips. |
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| 11 | 50 |
"She's beautiful," Talena would say of one as the auctioneer would tug the single loop on the right shoulder of the slave livery, dropping it to the girl's ankles. |
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| 16 | 93 |
With a heavy heart I watched Kazrak loop his sword belt over his shoulder and pick up his helmet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 48 |
In the half light, from the small tharlarion-oil lamps set in each end of the room, I saw the heavy, squat figure beside Ost loop his wrist chain silently about the creature's thin throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 87 |
I took off my sword belt and, rebuckling it, made a loop which I managed to hook over the closest ring in the shaft. |
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| 26 | 81 |
"Or are you not yet done with me?" I would have responded, in spite of my better judgment, to reassure her of my intentions to free her as soon as practicable, and to tell her that I believed her greatest chance of safety lay in the anonymity of a specimen in the Vivarium, but it would have been foo... |
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| 26 | 99 |
Her eyes were fixed on the key that dangled from the leather loop in my hand. |
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| 26 | 228 |
I slung the key on its leather loop around my neck. |
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| 27 | 23 |
I fingered the key to her case which hung on its leather loop about my throat. |
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| 28 | 69 |
I took the metal key from the loop around my neck and turned the heavy mechanism of the case lock. |
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| 32 | 126 |
"The components in the disrupter might be realigned," he said, "but there is little likelihood that the power loop could be satisfactorily closed". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 150 |
A loose loop of boskhide, wound twice about the right fist, helps to retain the weapon in hand-to-hand combat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 551 |
Ubar of the Skies did not hesitate but hurtled into their midst, beak rending, and then was clear; they turned in pursuit but four of them, caught in the wide loop of the Tuchuk rope, were cursing, cutting at it, while the tarns, suddenly startled, finding their movements inhibited, broke formation;... |
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| 4 | 166 |
Without a word Elizabeth did so, standing and pulling the loop at her left shoulder. |
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| 5 | 131 |
With a flourish I unrolled the furs, spilling Elizabeth out, who shrieked and began to crawl away, but my hand caught at the loop on the left shoulder of her garment and she turned suddenly, trying to sit up, her feet tangled in the garment and I kicked it away and took her in my arms. |
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| 7 | 174 |
Their wrists had been tied behind them, a loop running through the heavy wicker to hold them in place. |
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| 8 | 31 |
I began to nibble at the loop on the left shoulder of her slave livery. |
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| 8 | 41 |
She squared off against me, hitching up the loop on her left shoulder which I had loosened with my teeth. |
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| 8 | 190 |
On the inside we had cut the loop and with a simple knot tied the two cords together, so that, when we wished, we might let ourselves out of the compartment without cutting the cord on the inside. |
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| 9 | 31 |
Then, stripped, chained by the throat, in a long chain of girls, each separated from the other by about ten feet, secured not even by the dignity of a collar but only by a loop of the communal chain bolted or padlocked about her neck, each is dragged up the steps of the minor block, bid upon while a... |
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| 12 | 227 |
Elizabeth did so, drawing at the loop on the left shoulder of her garment. |
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| 12 | 381 |
She was leashed and her master, who wished to rent her for the quarter Ahn, held the chain with its leather loop wound in his fist. |
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| 13 | 18 |
It is one thing to drop a loop about a girl on a high bridge in streaking over the walls and quite another to pick up the daughter of an Administrator in her own quarters and make off with her. |
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| 13 | 258 |
The street seemed to loop and swing below me. |
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| 15 | 228 |
Later, in the eighteenth week of their training, they were given brief silken slave livery, sleeveless, fastened by the loop on the left shoulder. |
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| 16 | 54 |
Each of the girls would wear brief silken slave livery, sleeveless, the disrobing loop on the left shoulder. |
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| 17 | 107 |
Then she nodded her head, and, reached to the disrobing loop on her left shoulder. |
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| 17 | 119 |
"You will not escape," I told her, reaching to the loop on her left shoulder. |
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| 17 | 368 |
His hand moved to the disrobing loop and she shuddered, turning her head away. |
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| 17 | 369 |
But instead of tugging on the loop, he simply, holding her under the arms, lifted her up, and then dropped her on her seat in the sand, where she sat foolishly, bewildered, looking up at him. |
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| 17 | 523 |
The leash key was on a tiny loop of wire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 96 |
I had cut some marsh vine and had, from this, formed a loop. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 20 |
A loop of the silken cord had been fastened about my neck, and by it I was bound to the head of the bed. |
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| 3 | 154 |
Almost choking, from the loop on my throat, I slid half out of the bed and felt for the knife with my feet. |
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| 6 | 362 |
And about her body, in a broad loop, passing over her left shoulder and across her right hip, was a wide, heavy leather strap, which was bolted into the wagon tongue. |
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| 6 | 365 |
Over my shoulder, about my body, was passed a heavy loop of leather. |
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| 7 | 270 |
How beautiful they were in their brief slave tunics, with the loop on the left shoulder. |
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| 8 | 428 |
I gratefully donned the camisk, fastening it tightly about my waist with the double loop of binding fiber. |
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| 8 | 529 |
I felt the binding leather, in its double loop, tight against my body, tied at my right hip. |
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| 8 | 985 |
I took the hand of the guard near whom I knelt, and placed it at my waist, slipping his fingers inside the double loop of binding fiber that belted my camisk, that he might hold me. |
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| 8 | 986 |
His fist suddenly tightened the loop, and I gasped, being suddenly drawn toward him. |
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| 8 | 1007 |
Another of the guards, laughing, untied the double loop of binding fiber which belted her camisk and, drawing the fiber about her body, as she cried out, threw it aside. |
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| 8 | 1154 |
Ute was stripped of her camisk, and then she and Lana, with a loop of binding fiber fastened to the ankles of two of the guards, were tied by the throat at their feet. |
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| 11 | 855 |
Suddenly a leather loop fell about my neck. |
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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 | 1451 |
The leather loop suddenly dropped about me and jerked tight, pinning my arms to my sides. |
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| 12 | 731 |
The wide, swiftly closing loop of braided leather fell about her running body. |
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| 13 | 1 |
I Feel the Capture Loop I stood in the swift stream, the water coming to somewhat above my knees. |
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| 13 | 317 |
Swinging the loop of binding fiber, I walked along the trail. |
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| 13 | 586 |
The leather loop dropped about my body. |
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| 14 | 392 |
Even the common slave tunic often had a disrobing loop at the left shoulder, that it would be convenient for a right-handed male. |
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| 15 | 187 |
And most of all was I thrilled to witness the return of their leader, the mighty, laughing Rask of Treve, whose very capture loop I had felt on my own body, whose collar I wore, whose I was. |
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| 17 | 37 |
Their slave leashes, too, were formed of a loop of snare rope. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 279 |
Second, to the back of the ring, there is welded a closed loop. |
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| 15 | 280 |
Third, to the front of the ring, fastened through another closed loop, is about a yard of chain. |
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| 15 | 281 |
Fourth, this chain terminates in a locking device, which may then be snapped shut, if one wishes, through the welded, closed loop on the back of a second ankle ring. |
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| 15 | 285 |
This is called a closed Harl Loop. |
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| 15 | 295 |
I then took the locking device at the termination of the first girl's ankle ring and snapped it shut, through the closed, welded loop on the back of the second girl's ankle ring. |
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| 15 | 298 |
I then locked the third girl's ankle ring on her, and then snapped the locking device on the chain of the second through the welded, closed loop on the third girl's ring. |
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| 16 | 92 |
As my right hand did this the loop of panther skin, twisted in its center, fell from my hand across her face. |
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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 | 390 |
With his sleen knife he cut the knotted loop of coffle leather from her throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 429 |
They were fastened by a single chain, but it was not itself run through the projecting loop on their collars; rather, a heavy padlock, passing through a link of the chain and the projecting loop, secured them; in this way the chain, when a girl is taken from the chain, or added to it, need not be dr... |
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| 3 | 302 |
Forkbeard then, grinning, slung his ax over his left shoulder, dropping it into the broad leather loop by which it may be carried, its head behind his head and to the left. |
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| 3 | 303 |
This loop is fixed in a broad leather belt worn from the left shoulder to the right hip, fastened there by a hook, that the weight of the ax will not turn the belt, which fits into a ring in the master belt. |
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| 3 | 327 |
Then she cried out in misery, half choked by the coffle loop on her throat, as she found herself hurried, fettered and burdened with the others, through the workers of Kassau. |
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| 3 | 383 |
The coffle loop was on her throat. |
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| 10 | 435 |
He then lifted the chain and, by means of the padlock, passing it through the loop on her collar and a link in the chain, secured her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 180 |
Who would care to risk his life for a free woman, who, stripped, might prove disappointing, when, for less risk, he could get his capture loop on a known quantity, a girl who has quite probably been trained like an animal to deliciously satisfy the passions of a man, a girl who, responsive, helpless... |
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| 11 | 497 |
I saw a fire arrow loop in the sky over palms. |
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| 13 | 5 |
I fell, unable to break my fall because of the manacles confining my wrists at my waist, fastened to the loop of chain, burning in the sun, about my waist. |
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| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
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| 14 | 5 |
My hands clenched in the manacles, fastened at my belly by the loop of chain. |
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| 14 | 147 |
A loop of chain was placed about my belly. |
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| 16 | 35 |
Men at windlasses on the surface lift the sacks, which, when emptied, return on the slack loop. |
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| 16 | 36 |
The weighted loop cannot slip back because each hook, in turn, preceding the sack being emptied, engages one of several pintles in the machinery, which is so geared that it can turn in only one direction. |
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| 21 | 585 |
I caught its great shaggy head in the loop and drew it tight. |
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| 26 | 225 |
His hands were manacled to a loop of chain about his waist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 160 |
I could not see it, but it seemed formed, too, of heavy iron; it seemed simple, practical, not ostentatious; it gripped my throat rather closely; I supposed it was black in color, matching the chain; it had a heavy hinge on one side; the chain, by a link, opened and closed, was fastened to a loop; t... |
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| 2 | 65 |
I heard the small movement of the chain in the collar loop. |
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| 2 | 384 |
It bore a staple and stout loop. |
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| 2 | 385 |
One link of the chain was fastened about the loop. |
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| 2 | 386 |
The loop was circular, and about two and one half inches in width. |
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| 4 | 403 |
I felt the strap, black, narrow, loop my belly. |
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| 4 | 980 |
My master, with a spear and a loop of rope, under the torchlight, the torch held by one of his men, opened a passage in the thorn bush. |
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| 5 | 452 |
I felt a loop of leather put about my right wrist and drawn tight. |
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| 5 | 453 |
It was a double loop, drawn through itself, and tightened. |
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| 5 | 454 |
The other end of the closed loop, about a foot from my hand, was taken in the grasp of a soldier. |
10 |
| 5 | 607 |
My wrists were tied with the loop of thong which had bound my right wrist previously, when I had been brought to the tent. |
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. |
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| 7 | 872 |
Chanda's hands were now bound tightly behind her back, the wrist tether's handle loop having been used for this purpose. |
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| 9 | 1950 |
With an awl, brought by a man, he punched two holes, vertically, in the leather strap, and thrust the twin buckle-claws through the holes; he then took the long, loose end of the strap, for the sleen has a large neck, thrust it through the four strap loops, thick and broad, and then, with a knife, c... |
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| 12 | 630 |
It had a tiny hole in the wider end, in which, in a tiny loop, there was twisted a small wire. |
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| 12 | 680 |
I cried out, wincing, as the wire pierced the lobe, and then he threaded the wire through and, twisting the ends together, formed a tiny loop, from which the silver leaf dangled. |
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| 12 | 704 |
I turned my head to the side, and heard the small sound of the silver leaf, on its tiny loop, fastened in my ear, touch the stones of the flooring of the passage. |
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| 13 | 28 |
When the figure pertinent to my sale had been entered in the two ledgers the wire loop, from which dangled the silver leaf, had been cut from my ear. |
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| 17 | 12 |
The slave oval is a hinged iron loop which locks about a girl's waist. |
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| 19 | 128 |
It would loop at least twice about a girl's throat. |
10 |
| 22 | 25 |
If I so much as looked at a man, even a slave, I had no doubt she would tear the flesh from my bones with the delicately beaded, feminine slave whip which, by its slender leather loop, hung upon its peg in her bedroom, where I, her girl, might constantly see it. |
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| 24 | 301 |
Then, with another chain, looping it through the Sirik chain which fell from my Sirik collar to my braceleted wrists and confined ankles, he secured me to a heavy ring, passing one end of the looped chain through the ring and then, with a heavy padlock, closing the open end of the loop. |
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| 26 | 32 |
I glanced at the beaded, feminine slave whip, hanging by its loop upon the wall. |
10 |
| 26 | 322 |
He kept her on her stomach by the bath and slipped the leather loop of the leash over her head. |
10 |
| 26 | 323 |
Quickly his large, efficient hands shortened the loop, sliding the slip ring to a snug fit, then securing it in place, preventing its backward movement, with the snap lock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 756 |
This is the inactive position of the chain, lock at collar level, chain terminating with a closed loop, the loop about a foot off the floor, an arrangement permitting a girl to be quickly and conveniently put on the chain and permitting the chain, if no girl is upon it, to be slid in its track witho... |
10 |
| 1 | 202 |
It wore a leather sleen collar but there was no leash on the leash loop. |
10 |
| 3 | 698 |
There is a chain loop at the end of the control stick, which is about two feet in length. |
10 |
| 3 | 699 |
The loop goes about her neck and, by means of a trigger, may be tightened or slightly loosened. |
10 |
| 3 | 711 |
At the other end of the control stick there is a leather loop. |
10 |
| 3 | 769 |
Their ankles, now, for the chain running through the loop-rings was long, could be moved as closely together or as widely apart as they, or their masters, might wish. |
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| 3 | 1321 |
She wore on her throat a high, gold collar, with, in front, a large golden loop, some two inches in width. |
10 |
| 3 | 1322 |
Threaded through this loop loose, was a golden chain. |
10 |
| 3 | 1324 |
When the girl stands her hands may fall naturally at her sides, each in its bracelet, each bracelet attached to the same chain, which passes through the collar loop. |
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| 3 | 1355 |
This caused the chain to slip a bit through the collar loop. |
10 |
| 3 | 1373 |
I drew her right hand away from her body, until the slave bracelet on her left wrist was against the golden collar loop. |
10 |
| 3 | 1374 |
I then doubled the chain and formed from it a slip loop, which I dropped over her head. |
10 |
| 3 | 1376 |
Her wrists now, both, were held at the collar loop. |
10 |
| 3 | 1379 |
She moved her small wrists in the cuffs; she tried to move her hands; they were held, confined, at the golden loop. |
10 |
| 4 | 624 |
A confederate was there waiting and I felt the loop of the garrote drop about my neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 517 |
He made a loop in the line, passed the free end through the deck ring, brought the end up through the loop, about the line, and down through the loop again, then tightened the knot. |
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| 7 | 47 |
Each girl, on her left ankle, wears an ankle ring, with a loop of chain and a lock. |
10 |
| 7 | 48 |
By means of the loop of chain and lock she is attached to the central chain. |
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| 7 | 130 |
She, like the others, was, by the loop of chain and lock, run through the chain ring on the ankle ring, attached to the central chain of her shelter, that strung between the two heavy posts, one at each end of the shelter. |
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| 14 | 559 |
The wire loop, too, or rod, when it emerges from the ear and, by one device or another, fastens the ring upon her, may suggest her bondage. |
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| 16 | 227 |
His ankles were also chained, a loop of chain holding them close to the vertical beam. |
10 |
| 23 | 32 |
About Tende's right wrist, I noted, fastened to it by a loop, was a whip. |
10 |
| 23 | 143 |
Tende lifted her hand, her right hand, with the whip, on its loop, fastened to her wrist. |
10 |
| 23 | 234 |
I pushed them closely together, to drop the chain, in a loop, to the log floor of the extended raft. |
10 |
| 23 | 235 |
By feeling I dropped the loop between the ends of two logs and drew it back, about two feet in from the end of the log it was now looped beneath. |
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| 23 | 236 |
The bottom of the loop was then under water and about one log. |
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| 32 | 1080 |
She looped them twice and still they fell between her lovely breasts, one loop longer than the other. |
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| 32 | 1083 |
"Master," she asked, holding out to me the blue and yellow beads, "would you not, please, put this string upon me?" "Very well," I said, standing behind her, looping them twice, one loop smaller than the other, about her throat. |
10 |
| 32 | 1084 |
Each loop, as with the red and black beads, fell between her sweet breasts. |
10 |
| 43 | 64 |
Too, it is common to loop a wrist binding, and use a single knot, rather than tie each wrist separately". |
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| 48 | 3 |
The leader of the small people then untied the ankles of the blond girl and unbound the fastening that held her, by her vine collar, to the loop tied about the log. |
10 |
| 48 | 127 |
Turgus untied the ankles of the dark-haired girl and freed her vine collar from the loop on the trunk of the tree. |
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| 51 | 112 |
"Loop the tether about them, as though they were bound. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 713 |
He then attached that end of the chain which had been attached to the chain loop on the ankle ring to the chain loop on her collar, that it might serve, if he wished, as a leash for her. |
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| 1 | 875 |
I forced from my mind the thought that its lovely slimness would look well enclosed in a loop and ring. |
10 |
| 1 | 1100 |
It would look well, I thought, in a loop and ring. |
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| 2 | 295 |
I felt the wire loop tighten about my throat. |
10 |
| 11 | 313 |
I tore open the bag, thrusting back the loop of the drawstring. |
10 |
| 11 | 471 |
"We girls," she said, her voice soft, the fingers of her right hand touching the narrow, close-fitting metal loop at her throat, "must learn the language of our masters". |
10 |
| 13 | 154 |
At another, also sitting, fastened there by a two-loop fitting, running to a collar ring, was a silk slave. |
10 |
| 16 | 280 |
He took the loop of leather, with its tiny sack, from my head. |
10 |
| 19 | 242 |
Barus came to the wagon, handing Kenneth a stable collar, a light, hinged circle of iron, with an attached ring, that of the sort which is often used to loop the throats of stable sluts. |
10 |
| 21 | 307 |
* * * * I snapped the heavy lock, on its chain, on the collar loop of Tuka. |
10 |
| 22 | 17 |
On the throat of each was a lustrously polished silver collar, and on the left wrist of each, locked, with a chain loop, should one desire to secure them, a matching bracelet. |
10 |
| 22 | 216 |
From the box beside him he had taken a collar, with a chain loop, and a length of chain. |
10 |
| 22 | 229 |
The chain loop depended from the girl's collar. |
10 |
| 22 | 231 |
Tenalion snapped the lock at the end of the length of chain he carried about the chain loop on the girl's collar. |
10 |
| 22 | 233 |
Tenalion then snapped the lock-loop at the other end of the length of chain about the iron ring in the tiles. |
10 |
| 22 | 345 |
The chain fell to the ring from the chain loop on her collar. |
10 |
| 22 | 348 |
In a moment Tenalion had taken the chain from Melpomene, unlocking it first from the iron ring in the floor and, secondly, from her collar loop. |
10 |
| 22 | 350 |
It was the opposite, too, of course, of the order in which she had been originally secured, where the chain had been first placed on her collar loop and only then locked about the ring in the floor. |
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| 22 | 530 |
I saw the collar on her throat, with its chain loop. |
10 |
| 22 | 583 |
It had a chain loop. |
10 |
| 22 | 584 |
He then took the length of chain he had used before and snapped one end of it about the chain loop on her ankle ring. |
10 |
| 22 | 712 |
He removed his chain from the slave ring and also from the chain loop on her ankle ring. |
10 |
| 23 | 110 |
As the tunic had passed over her head I had heard the chain loop on her collar, with a small sound, lift and then fall back into place. |
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| 30 | 60 |
Many trainers, the leash loop about their left wrist, hold the leash in their left hand and their training whip in their right. |
10 |
| 31 | 6 |
Then I put her on her back and retied her hands, wrists crossed, before her body, holding them in place, at her belly, with a loop of strap. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 150 |
The loop of the body chain was some five feet in length. |
10 |
| 7 | 151 |
It was made to loop the throat of a woman several times, or, by alternative windings, to bedeck her body in a variety of fashions. |
10 |
| 23 | 204 |
Some, but not all, wore five steel loops on their body, a rounded, narrow collar loop, and, rounded and narrow, loops on their wrists and ankles. |
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| 23 | 342 |
Two silver chains ran from a large loop on her collar to her wrists. |
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 | 20 |
Among them was, opened, the rounded steel loop she had worn about her neck, earlier. |
10 |
| 24 | 30 |
The other chain terminated in a smaller loop of steel, an ankle ring, suitable for a girl's ankle. |
10 |
| 24 | 77 |
I jerked loose the disrobing loop at her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 24 | 153 |
I took the steel collar, the rounded, narrow metal loop, with its lock, which she had brought with her into the room. |
10 |
| 24 | 555 |
Crouching near her I toweled dry the steel loop on her throat. |
10 |
| 27 | 62 |
Indeed, it is often the case that a slave tunic will have a disrobing loop at the left shoulder, convenient to the hand of right-handed master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 410 |
Then, with more binding fiber, I improvised a towing loop for the board. |
10 |
| 8 | 411 |
This board, then, with its towing loop, and its cargo, the packet in the sealed, oil-cloth envelope, I placed near the window. |
10 |
| 8 | 571 |
I then passed the end of the loop about the board and packet. |
10 |
| 8 | 580 |
As she moved, the board, on its towing loop, cracked against her legs. |
10 |
| 9 | 431 |
His hands, in manacles, on a single chain passing through a loop on the collar, thrashed at the water. |
10 |
| 17 | 23 |
What free woman would dare to walk upon such a street, particularly at night? Her throat might suddenly feel the capture loop of a slaver and, by morning, branded, gag-hooded and chained, she might be fifty pasangs downriver, on her way to a market in Ven or Turmus. |
10 |
| 18 | 279 |
I hung the whip, by its handle loop, over the arm of the curule chair. |
10 |
| 18 | 536 |
I fingered the slave whip, thoughtfully, hung by its handle loop on the arm of the curule chair. |
10 |
| 18 | 670 |
I took the whip from where it hung by its handle loop on the arm of the curule chair and placed it, its blades folded back against its handle, across my lap. |
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| 20 | 1596 |
I recalled that, long ago, as I had lost consciousness, gassed, in a cab in New York City, it outfitted as a capture vehicle, I had glimpsed one of her lovely ankles, she already having lapsed into unconsciousness, and had thought, strangely enough, at the time, I suppose, that it would look well in... |
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| 20 | 2004 |
Its full loop is some five feet in length, and it can be wound and looped, and twisted and strung about a woman's body in a variety of intricate fashions. |
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| 21 | 2 |
About her throat, over the slender, identificatory collar, a heavy, thick iron collar had been locked, with a heavy chain, leading to the stout loop of the slave ring, some eight inches in width, fixed in the foot of the couch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 468 |
The girl understands what is being done, loop by loop. |
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| 1 | 1034 |
These lances are used in a great variety of ways, but the most common method is to thrust one's wrist through the wrist loop, grasp the lance with the right hand, and anchor it beneath the right arm. |
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| 1 | 1116 |
A heel over the animal's back and a fist in its silken neck hair, or an arm thrust through a leather throat loop, provide the leverage needed for these feats. |
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| 1 | 1119 |
Sometimes a strap dangles back for a few feet from the throat loop. |
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| 8 | 34 |
Her wrists were crossed and bound before her, in cruel loops of rawhide, and, by a tight loop encircling her body, cutting into her flesh, held tightly before her. |
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| 12 | 137 |
The most common form is a strap, or braided leather tie, placed below the tongue and behind the teeth, tied about the lower jaw, from which two reins, or a single double rein, a single loop, comes back over the beast's neck. |
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| 17 | 466 |
With each loop one may spell the word letter by letter—'K-A-J-I-R-A'—and then tie it shut. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 430 |
I then threaded one length of the rope through the handles on Bloketu's sack and tied the two ends together, drawing it up from the handles in such a way as to make a long, double loop, the two high portions of the loop well above the handles and adjacent to one another; I then, with the other lengt... |
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| 2 | 143 |
A metal collar, locked, whether it be a band, or a loop, or a circlet of chain, or whatever, leaves no doubt in the slave's mind that she is collared. |
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| 43 | 253 |
Then I began to loop the rope carefully, from its center, that the ends of which were attached to the handles of the girls' sacks. |
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| 43 | 460 |
I lifted Bloketu to her feet, holding her with my left arm, the double loop in my right hand. |
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| 43 | 469 |
I flung the double loop over the hook. |
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| 43 | 475 |
Then I had flung the double loop on her sack over the hook on Hci's tarn and she, her scream fading in the distance, was lofted away into the night. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 245 |
She reached inside and, from the interior of the door, where it had doubtless been hanging, from a loop on its handle, removed an object. |
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| 3 | 271 |
The girl went to a wall and, near the large door, by a loop on its butt end, hung it from a hook. |
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| 8 | 263 |
The higher portion of the chain, of course, would be at the collar loop. |
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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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| 32 | 108 |
Then, with a loop of thong, he crossed my ankles and tied them together. |
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| 36 | 9 |
In another moment, I felt his strong hands cross my ankles and loop them with binding fiber. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1026 |
Her fingers played teasingly with the disrobing loop at her left shoulder. |
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| 1 | 1028 |
She drew at the disrobing loop. |
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| 10 | 354 |
I then checked her collar, and the attachment points of the chain, both at the collar and at the double loop where it was fastened about the axle. |
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| 12 | 759 |
It is drawn on over the head and is normally belted snugly with a double loop of binding fiber. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 225 |
She had belted it snugly, and had, too, drawn its adjustment cording snugly from its loop about the back of her neck down to her breasts where she had crossed it and then taken it back, both cords, between and under her breasts, again to her belt, tying it closely at the sides of her body. |
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| 13 | 260 |
In a moment she was on the chain, kneeling, her throat snugly enclosed in a side-loop of the same chain, it fastened shut on her by a padlock. |
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| 16 | 25 |
This was attached to the collar by a small, closed-loop string. |
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| 26 | 1592 |
A common form of slave tunic, hanging loose and free about the body of the slave, is free of the right shoulder and held at the left shoulder by a disrobing loop. |
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| 26 | 1594 |
A tug on the disrobing loop drops the garment. |
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| 26 | 1595 |
The disrobing loop is at the left shoulder as most men are right-handed. |
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| 26 | 2052 |
The least bit of resistance on the part of the girl closes the loop. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 839 |
A long belt of cord, to which were attached numerous metal disks, suspended and shimmering, was then looped twice about me, the first loop secured high, and tight, at my waist, and the second loop, a larger loop, a framing loop, was secured in such a way, in the back, that it would hang quite low on... |
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| 3 | 826 |
A loop of the chain leash hung down by my neck, to the right, a foot or so, and then looped up to its attachment. |
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| 6 | 1 |
Transportation It is all part of the hood, the leather ball, the strap attached at the front of it, and the belt, with its double loop, on the outside, held in place by the hood's belt loops, at its opening. |
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| 6 | 6 |
It was then, by the double loop of the belt, passed twice about my neck, drawn shut. |
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| 11 | 1037 |
Sita removed the belt from me, with its double loop. |
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| 13 | 89 |
Some tunics, however, like some regular slave tunics, have a disrobing loop, usually at the left shoulder, where it may easily be reached by both a right-handed master and a right-handed slave. |
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| 13 | 90 |
A tug on the disrobing loop drops the tunic to the girl's ankles, also gracefully. |
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| 14 | 48 |
I reached to the disrobing loop at the left shoulder of the brief silken tunic I wore. |
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| 16 | 142 |
She reached to the disrobing loop, and dropped the tunic to the floor, about her ankles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 501 |
I did, however, loop a left strap about her left wrist, and tie it back to its ring, and loop a right strap about her right wrist, tying it back to its ring. |
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| 1 | 551 |
The chain moved a little through the loop ring above us. |
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| 17 | 718 |
From this dangled a looped, closed cord, the loop about eighteen inches in length. |
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| 21 | 1216 |
"The tunic must not have a disrobing loop!" "No, Master!" agreed Claudia. |
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| 21 | 1217 |
This was a reference to a loop at the left shoulder of some slave tunics. |
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| 21 | 1222 |
Many slave tunics are held by straps at the shoulders or a neck loop, because this bares the shoulders of the girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 529 |
That is one reason it is often carried on a loop over the left shoulder, that it may be immediately, lest it prove an encumbrance, or present an encircling strap an enemy may seize, the blade drawn, discarded. |
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| 31 | 568 |
I reached beneath her belly, in the sand, and put a loop of binding fiber about her. |
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| 41 | 18 |
I then drew loose the disrobing loop of the silk, at her left shoulder, and drew aside the silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 274 |
Marcus looped the cord and put it over her, so that the loop hung behind her back and two loose ends before her. |
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| 2 | 281 |
Marcus now, roughly, took the forward ends of the cord, where they dangled before her, and put them back, beneath her arms, through the back loop, and drew them forward where he tied them, snugly, beneath her breasts. |
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| 2 | 288 |
He then took the forward ends of the cord, again free, and this time crossed them, over the bosom, before placing them again through the loop at the back, drawing them forward and, once more, fastening them, perhaps more snugly than was necessary, before her. |
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| 19 | 1042 |
The contrast was attractive, like slave silk against flesh, or a narrow cord sustaining such silk at the shoulder, perhaps an inch from a disrobing loop, or the metal of slave bracelets locked on small, downy wrists, a rope on a waist, snug above a sweetly rounded belly, or a collar on the neck. |
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| 24 | 9 |
The tunic's fastening at her left shoulder was a disrobing loop. |
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| 24 | 419 |
I trusted that Lavinia would have time to throw off her cloak and get at the disrobing loop on her tunic before the door could be opened. |
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| 25 | 22 |
The position of her tunic suggested she had dropped it, doubtless by means of the disrobing loop, about her ankles, and then stepped from it. |
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| 25 | 493 |
"It did excite me," he said, "to see her not in the drab state garb, but in the tunic she wore, with the disrobing loop". |
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| 27 | 476 |
"Do not neglect the tunic with the disrobing loop!" Milo called to her. |
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| 27 | 1135 |
Will you fear to enter a room alone, or a corridor unescorted, for fear someone may be there, waiting? Will you fear dark places, or shadows? Will you fear high bridges, and roofs, and promenades, because you fear the loop of a tarnsman tightening on your body, dragging you into the sky, his capture... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 293 |
My hand moved to the loop at my left shoulder, and I drew upon the loop, and, in a moment, stepped from the silk. |
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| 4 | 665 |
The chain attached to the ring on the back of my collar, as the link turned, and given my position, lay diagonally over my back, behind my left shoulder, whence it descended, to loop up, to the front ring of the collar behind me. |
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| 6 | 128 |
I was unclothed, of course, but had I been silked the disrobing loop would have been at the left shoulder. |
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| 6 | 131 |
I moved my hand as though loosening the disrobing loop, and then, gracefully, stepped away from the silk which had supposedly fallen about my ankles. |
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| 7 | 1012 |
"The disrobing loop was drawn!" I said. |
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| 7 | 1013 |
"Who drew the loop?" asked Aynur. |
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| 7 | 1020 |
With his right hand he drew the loop. |
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| 7 | 1154 |
Aynur slipped the base loop of the switch over her left wrist. |
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| 7 | 1155 |
The base loop, in certain adjustments, supplies additional control and leverage to the user of the implement. |
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| 10 | 69 |
Two gestures then did he make, in quick succession, the first indicating the left shoulder where, had I been tunicked in that fashion, there would have been a disrobing loop, and the second indicating, fingers spread, palm down, the floor. |
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| 10 | 911 |
The loop fitted closely about my neck. |
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| 10 | 912 |
Perhaps there was something like a half inch of play in the loop. |
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| 10 | 913 |
He jerked the loop open, as far as it would go, to its limit, where it was stopped by the ring and guard. |
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| 10 | 914 |
I then had something like an inch of play within the loop. |
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| 10 | 918 |
Whereas the loop might widen to the point where I might have as much as a full inch between my throat and the leather, no limit, other than my throat itself, was imposed on its closure. |
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| 24 | 313 |
None came after her, with a rope or chain, or even a loop of fine wire. |
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| 42 | 11 |
I complied and, in an instant, with a double loop, they were corded together. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 19 |
At the left shoulder, where it would be convenient to a right-handed man, there was a disrobing loop. |
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| 10 | 196 |
She reached to the disrobing loop at the left shoulder and tugged it, dropping the garment about her ankles. |
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| 13 | 198 |
"It is a pleasure for a tarnsman to have his tarn seize in its talons a woman and carry her off, or he may prefer the use of a slave net or a capture loop. |
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| 13 | 229 |
That makes it hard to get you, hard for the tarn, hard for the net, hard for the capture loop". |
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| 13 | 275 |
It was, accordingly, a simple thing, to drop the capture loop about her standing body. |
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| 13 | 277 |
Then the tarn was past her and the resistance of her own body to the loop caused it to tighten about her. |
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| 17 | 1116 |
There, as she stood, her hands were tied before her body, with a leather strap, and she heard a loop of strap strike above her, as though thrown over a beam. |
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| 18 | 319 |
Selius picked up a loop of harness and held it in his hands. |
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| 18 | 440 |
"At its base is a tiny leather loop, not visible from the outside, by means of which it may be withdrawn. |
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| 18 | 453 |
Then from his pouch he drew forth a small message capsule, about a half inch in width and two and a half inches in length, with its screw lid and the loop of string by means of which it might be looped about, or tied to, a slave's collar. |
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| 18 | 672 |
She wore a light, yellow, brief tunic, with a disrobing loop at the left shoulder, as most masters are right-handed. |
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| 19 | 286 |
He pulled her by the hair to an upright kneeling position and held her by the hair with his left hand, the loop at the butt of the whip about his wrist, where it hung against her right cheek, and, reaching into the pan, took the last two biscuits and thrust them into her mouth. |
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| 20 | 375 |
One bird's wing was tangled in a loop of the line. |
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| 20 | 442 |
The third tarn, whose wing had been entangled in the line, turned by the motion of the second tarn had had the wing freed, the loop drawn forward and away, not without the loss of several feathers. |
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| 29 | 11 |
She stood straighter, but did not dare smile, for fear one of the riders might, on an impulse, loosening his rope, spur toward her and in a moment, as she fled, have his cast, tightening loop upon her. |
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| 30 | 510 |
But how easily they might suddenly sense a narrow cloth loop passing over their head and before their eyes, what is it, and then feel it jerk back tightly, cruelly, between their teeth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 1 | 931 |
Female slavery is quite common on Gor, for men enjoy owning women, as they might other domestic animals, but not every woman at every time stands for every man within the rights of the capture loop. |
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| 1 | 932 |
A female, for example, who is within the rights of the capture loop for one man may well not be within such rights for another. |
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| 1 | 952 |
To make this matter more clear, and to be fairer to the customs of Gor, it should be noted that any woman, any woman whatsoever with whom one does not share a Home Stone, is understood to be fair game for the capture loop. |
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| 15 | 17 |
One can see at least what piteously thrashes within the inescapable tightness of one's capture loop. |
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| 18 | 85 |
With the second strand of the leash he improvised a sling and, with one loop under her arms and the other behind the back of her knees, and she behind him, he began to climb the tree. |
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| 44 | 157 |
She stepped forward, and lifted a loop of the rope, to sling it about Lord Grendel's neck, but suddenly, his arms lifted, claws protruding, he uttered a roar that was unexpected, hideous, and terrible, like nothing that Cabot had ever heard, and Cabot fell back, startled. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 82 |
He withdrew a loop of leather from within the tunic, on which loop was fastened a golden ring. |
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| 1 | 409 |
Too, many are designed with a disrobing loop, by means of which the garment may be easily removed, to be swept from her, or dropped, to fall about her ankles, depending on the garment. |
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| 1 | 410 |
The loop is usually at the left shoulder, as most masters are right-handed. |
10 |
| 2 | 366 |
It is usually belted with a loop or two of binding fiber. |
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| 3 | 50 |
There was, accordingly, no disrobing loop at the left shoulder. |
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| 5 | 99 |
Sullius Maximus cast me the ring, on its leather loop. |
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| 5 | 165 |
I wondered if Sullius Maximus suspected that some significance, other than that which he had conjectured, might lie within the leather loop of the golden ring. |
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| 5 | 200 |
I put the ring, on its loop, down on the sand, and backed away from it. |
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| 5 | 208 |
He held it briefly to his nose, and then, with an expression of disgust, returned the loop and ring to a concealment within his tunic. |
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| 10 | 667 |
Similarly the disrobing loop of certain tunics is at the left shoulder, presumably for the same reason. |
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| 11 | 23 |
Sometimes the binding fiber, in its double loop, is looser, that it may ride low on the hips. |
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| 13 | 129 |
"Ah," I said, "I see you have thought of these things before, perhaps in your dreams, perhaps in the secrecy of your boudoir, perhaps in your imaginings, perhaps in putting the loop of a strap about your left wrist, and, suddenly, dramatically, drawing it tight". |
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| 23 | 255 |
Sometimes the slave's hands are bound before her body, and fastened closely to her belly by a loop of binding fiber. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 162 |
She wore the common camisk, a brief rectangle of cloth slipped over the head, belted with a double loop of binding fiber. |
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| 1 | 168 |
The double loop is to allow for an adequate length, enough for a variety of ties. |
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| 3 | 1156 |
"She wore a brief, revealing tunic, cut at the sides, with a disrobing loop. |
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| 26 | 48 |
One threads one or more such coins on a string, the string fastened about the bottom and top coin, or loops a string through several coins, and ties the loop shut above the top coin. |
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| 37 | 281 |
The length of the vertical chain, which may loop to the floor when the slave's hands are lowered, is also long enough to permit her, her hands lifted, to feed herself. |
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| 37 | 455 |
He then buckled the belt, so that it constituted a closed loop. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 516 |
It is slipped over the head, and belted snugly, commonly with a double loop of thong or binding fiber, this fastened with a slip knot at the left hip, that it may be convenient to a right-handed man. |
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| 4 | 517 |
The double loop provides enough thong or binding fiber to bind the occupant, helplessly, hand and foot. |
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| 4 | 518 |
The slip knot at the waist of the camisk is similar to the disrobing loop at the left shoulder of some slave tunics, by means of which the garment may be conveniently removed, a simple tug loosening it, permitting it to fall gracefully about the ankles of its occupant. |
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| 7 | 567 |
Its loose ends were then threaded through the loop, and I felt it jerked tight, against the collar. |
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| 8 | 1427 |
I, like the others, in such welcome opportunities to enter the eating hall, rare in my case, would hitch up my tunic, and be somewhat negligent in the adjustment of the disrobing loop. |
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| 8 | 1484 |
"Hitch up your disrobing loop, properly, pull down the hem of your tunic," said the free woman. |
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| 15 | 253 |
"Oh!" I said, startled, for a leash loop was dropped about my head, pulled close, and snapped shut. |
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| 18 | 168 |
The two slaves gratefully slipped into their tunics, drawn over their head, fastened at the left shoulder, with a disrobing loop. |
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| 27 | 228 |
About her right wrist, from its loop, dangled a switch. |
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| 41 | 87 |
I did note that the couch did contain a slave ring, with a loop of chain. |
10 |
| 41 | 170 |
While he worked my attention strayed to the slave ring, and its loop of chain, at the foot of his simple couch. |
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| 50 | 79 |
Usually I was tethered, kneeling, by a loop of chain slung about the ring and the linkage of my slave bracelets. |
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| 53 | 25 |
How much happier we are when we are permitted to express ourselves! Sometimes my master, when it pleases him, loosens the disrobing loop on my tunic, allowing it to fall to my ankles, ties my hands behind my back, and kneels me before him, while he reclines in a curule chair, allowing me to speak. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 329 |
The double loop of cord was put about my left wrist and jerked tight, and, a moment later, my wrists were secured in place. |
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| 8 | 447 |
The loop was loose, but it could not be slipped. |
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| 9 | 250 |
The notion here seems to be that a roving tarnsman, a raider, a slaver, a girl hunter, and such, given the choice between a prey of obvious interest, say, a scantily clad slave girl, and one of an unknown quality, say, a free woman in the robes of concealment, given the risks involved, and such, is ... |
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| 11 | 5 |
I became more and more conscious of the loop of rope on my neck, holding me in place. |
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| 13 | 20 |
They were not wrap¬ around tunics, nor the sort with a disrobing loop at the left shoulder, for the convenience of a right- handed master. |
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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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| 23 | 55 |
The disrobing loop, for I now wore one, was at my left shoulder, where it would be convenient to the hand of a right- handed man. |
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| 25 | 91 |
I shuddered, and better hitched up the disrobing loop at my left shoulder. |
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| 28 | 4 |
"I assume her tunic has a disrobing loop," I said. |
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| 29 | 61 |
Did they think they were men? They carried knives on a loop slung about their shoulder. |
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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. |
10 |
| 39 | 365 |
My own tunic, for example, like many, had a disrobing loop at its left shoulder. |
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| 41 | 74 |
Then I would fasten the disrobing loop, slowly, modestly, carefully. |
10 |
| 43 | 664 |
My hand moved to the disrobing loop on her tunic. |
10 |
| 46 | 48 |
I touched the disrobing loop at my left shoulder, all that kept the tiny garment on me. |
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| 48 | 170 |
His hand reached to the disrobing loop at my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 52 | 150 |
In a moment I had pulled on the tunic, and fastened the disrobing loop at the left shoulder. |
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| 54 | 137 |
To my consternation he pulled me to my feet, removed his jacket from me, and yanked loose the disrobing loop on my tunic. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | 85 |
"Loop the leash about her neck," I said. |
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| 61 | 910 |
It was about two feet Gorean long, supple, of medium width, with a loop at one end, which might go about a master's wrist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 24 |
Certainly he must have noted the simple loop of the bondage knot I had tied in my hair. |
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| 19 | 25 |
What master could overlook so simple a thing? This simple loop mutely pleads with the master for his attention. |
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| 30 | 307 |
I wanted to loop the bondage knot in my hair, but I did not dare remove my hands from my thighs. |
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| 40 | 183 |
Epicrates reached down and lifted the loop of string, with its pouch, over my head. |
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| 63 | 187 |
Commonly a marauding tarnsman uses the capture loop. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 71 |
If she is silked, she deposits the coins in a loop, basketlike, of her silk. |
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| 10 | 94 |
Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous voyages? In the high cities o... |
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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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| 35 | 23 |
I had had our some two hundred and fifty men, march in a closed loop, visible only at a certain point, as between two cliffs, or, in our case, between two hills. |
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| 35 | 24 |
Every part of the moving loop would be, in its turn, seen and then unseen, and then seen again, over and over, for, as some marchers were seen, other marchers would be circling back through a concealed ditch. |
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| 37 | 25 |
Their mooring ropes, fastened to shore cleats at stem and stern, with their conical or disklike urt guards, would, as they lifted and tightened, shed water in a rain of sunlit droplets, and then, again, relaxing, would loop downward, settling again into the water. |
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