| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 |
It appeared to be a rectangular metal envelope, rather thin, not much larger than the normal envelope one customarily uses for correspondence. |
10 |
| 1 | 65 |
I widened my search, keeping that strange metal envelope with its blue ambience the center of my movements. |
10 |
| 1 | 79 |
These domestic activities slowed my pulse and succeeded in convincing me that I could be patient and was even not too much interested in the contents of the metal envelope. |
10 |
| 1 | 84 |
The color of the metal was blue, and something of its ambience continued to characterize it, but the glow was fading. |
10 |
| 1 | 97 |
Feeling rather foolish, I took out the can opener I had used on the chili can and attempted to force the metal point through the envelope. |
10 |
| 1 | 106 |
It, too, like the lettering, seemed a part of the metal, yet its ridges and lineaments were exceedingly delicate. |
10 |
| 1 | 123 |
An object fell from the envelope, a ring of red metal bearing the simple crest "C". |
10 |
| 1 | 145 |
Carry on your person the ring of red metal, and bring me, if you would, a handful of our green earth. |
10 |
| 2 | 15 |
It had a somewhat Y-shaped slot for the eyes, nose, and mouth in the nearly solid metal. |
10 |
| 2 | 45 |
I saw that the ring of red metal, with the crest of a "C," had been placed on the second finger of my right hand. |
10 |
| 2 | 180 |
My hand clenched on the metal goblet. |
10 |
| 2 | 209 |
"Like the envelope of blue metal?" "Yes," he said. |
10 |
| 2 | 255 |
I drained the last sip of the heady wine in the metal goblet. |
10 |
| 3 | 27 |
With annoyance, Torm poked through one of the enormous piles of scrolls and at last, on his hands and knees, fished out one skimpy scroll, set it in the reading device—a metal frame with rollers at the top and bottom—and, pushing a button, spun the scroll to its opening mark, a single ... |
10 |
| 3 | 215 |
He entered my apartment, carrying a metal rod about two feet long, with a leather loop attached. |
10 |
| 4 | 15 |
The tarn is guided by virtue of a throat strap, to which are attached, normally, six leather streamers, or reins, which are fixed in a metal ring on the forward portion of the saddle. |
10 |
| 5 | 53 |
In Ar, for example, early in the day, a member of the Builders will go to the roof on which the Home Stone is kept and place the primitive symbol of his trade, a metal angle square, before the Stone, praying to the Priest-Kings for the prosperity of his caste in the coming year; later in the day a W... |
10 |
| 6 | 6 |
The great bird opened and closed his wings, his steel-shod talons ringing on the metal perch as he changed his position, moving back and forth upon it. |
10 |
| 8 | 93 |
I decided to carry my own sword and the soldier's crossbow, which I unwound, relaxing the tension on the metal span. |
10 |
| 8 | 146 |
"The ring," she said, pointing to the red metal band that encircled the second finger of my right hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 175 |
I had scarcely finished bandaging his wound when I was aware of a ringing on metal, and, lifting my head, I saw myself surrounded by mounted spearmen, who wore the same livery as Kazrak. |
10 |
| 10 | 91 |
In the wagon there were some twenty girls, dressed in the slave livery of Gor, perhaps ten on a side, chained to a metal bar which ran the length of the wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 8 |
Slowly, with a stylized movement, the helmet was lifted, and I found myself staring up into a gray, lean, cruel face, a face that might have been made of metal. |
10 |
| 14 | 51 |
He lifted the weapon, wielding the heavy metal blade as though it were a straw. |
10 |
| 15 | 113 |
Before I left Kazrak's tent, I placed the ring of red metal, with the crest of Cabot, in my pouch. |
10 |
| 16 | 134 |
The heavy metal bars were coated with silver and set with precious stones. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
In the Central Cylinder As the tarn climbed, I saw the camp of Pa-Kur, the ditches, the double walls of Ar with siege engines like leeches fastened to the inner wall, and, approaching the city, Pa-Kur's long lines of chanting garrison troops, the morning sun flashing on their metal, their march mea... |
10 |
| 18 | 82 |
Some contained worn sleeping mats of cold, moldy straw, some contained a few rusted metal utensils, such as kettles and pails, but most were completely empty, revealing no signs of life or use at all. |
10 |
| 18 | 150 |
I heard someone shout, a weird, terrified cry, "Tarns!" An alarm bar, a hollow metal tube struck by hammers, began to ring in frenzy. |
10 |
| 20 | 53 |
In my hand I held the ring of red metal, the ring that bore the crest of Cabot, the gift of my father. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 150 |
It had been mentioned in the account, that simple ring of red metal, bearing the crest of Cabot. |
10 |
| 9 | 98 |
He bit against the metal, the muscles on his jaw bulging in the lamplight. |
10 |
| 11 | 1 |
Lara, Tatrix of Tharna I passed through the opening, and painfully began to climb a small, circular passage, staggering with each step under the weight of the heavy metal yoke. |
10 |
| 11 | 47 |
I was stunned, for if the yoke were truly of silver, the metal on my shoulders might have ransomed a Ubar. |
10 |
| 12 | 41 |
I noted her throat was encircled by a collar of gray metal. |
10 |
| 12 | 47 |
"I thought women were free in Tharna," I said, gesturing with my head toward the gray metal collar she wore. |
10 |
| 13 | 85 |
My opponent was not Andreas, but a squat, powerful man with short-clipped yellow hair, Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers. |
10 |
| 13 | 129 |
It was hot, like mine in the sun, and my hands burned on the metal. |
10 |
| 14 | 143 |
I could feel the muscles of my arm and back pitting their strength against the obdurate metal. |
10 |
| 14 | 147 |
It seemed the metal would tear the flesh from my hands, break the bones of my fingers. |
10 |
| 14 | 152 |
"The bird is chained! Attack! Kill them both!" In that instant the bolt gave, and the nut spun from the shaft! The tarn, as if it understood it was free, shook the hated metal from its leg and lifted its beak to the skies and uttered such a cry as must have been heard by all in Tharna, a cry seldom ... |
10 |
| 14 | 153 |
For an instant, perhaps an unworthy instant, I feared the bird would immediately take to the skies, but though the metal was shaken from its leg, though it was free, though the spearmen advanced, it did not move. |
10 |
| 17 | 50 |
"You will inform against no one," said a voice, which I recognized as that of the bull-like Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, he whose life I had spared in the arena during the Battles of Oxen. |
10 |
| 18 | 123 |
Suddenly the grating sprang free, and I and it fell clattering with a rattle of chains and metal to the floor. |
10 |
| 19 | 40 |
We had soon come on the hammers that would strike our chains from us and, one by one, we filed past the great anvil where Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, with expert blows, struck them from our wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 19 | 90 |
"In this cause," I said, "whether you are of the Caste of Peasants, or Poets, or Metal Workers, or Saddle-Makers, you must be warriors!" "We shall," said Kron of Tharna, his fist holding the great hammer with which he had struck off our shackles. |
10 |
| 19 | 102 |
The squat giant of the Caste of Metal Workers stood with his feet planted wide. |
10 |
| 21 | 64 |
At the sight of the glowing metal the girl uncontrollably screamed, pulling at the slave bracelets, at the shackles that held her to the tree. |
10 |
| 23 | 5 |
Even as we stood on the hill I could hear the slow ringing of a heavy, hollow tube of metal, which betokened that the black gate had opened. |
10 |
| 23 | 106 |
It was said the rebellion in the city was led by a short, powerful man with blue eyes and short-cropped hair, formerly of the Caste of Metal Workers. |
10 |
| 23 | 230 |
There, standing before the low doorway, I looked once more upon the squat, powerful figure of Kron, of the Caste of Metal Workers. |
10 |
| 23 | 232 |
The huge, scarred hands of a Metal Worker were held out to me. |
10 |
| 24 | 83 |
"Or a Metal Worker," added Andreas hopefully. |
10 |
| 25 | 107 |
Flee as a slave and you give up your right to command our metal". |
10 |
| 25 | 142 |
She looked once more at the rebels and soldiers and guardsmen and Lara with a loathing I could sense behind the impassive mask, and then that metal image turned once more upon me. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 153 |
"Here in the Sardar," she said, turning to face me, trembling, "they took me into the tunnels and locked over my head a hideous metal globe with lights and wires and when they freed me they showed me a metal plate and told me that the patterns of my brain, of my oldest and most primitive memories, w... |
10 |
| 14 | 8 |
Two circular metal plates in the wall beneath the shield had slid upward and suddenly long metal arms had telescoped outwards and reached for me. |
10 |
| 2 | 36 |
As I entered I heard the mournful tolling of the huge, hollow metal bar which stands some way from the gate. |
10 |
| 5 | 181 |
"It can see through metal". |
10 |
| 5 | 187 |
It can see through metal". |
10 |
| 7 | 43 |
It is the common property of the Administrator of Ar, a herdsman beside the Vosk, a peasant from Tor, a scribe from Thentis, a metal worker from Tharna, a physician from Cos, a pirate from Port Kar, a warrior from Ko-ro-ba. |
10 |
| 8 | 51 |
Down from the cavity where the energy bulb had been there hung, blasted and smoking, a tangle of wires, a ruptured metal diaphragm and a conical receptacle which might once have held a lens. |
10 |
| 8 | 228 |
She looked again at the sensors, which stared out of the wall like black, gutted metal eyes. |
10 |
| 11 | 12 |
I would learn later that in scent it wore its rank, caste and station as clearly on its body as an officer in one of the armies of Earth might wear his distinguishing braid and metal bars. |
10 |
| 14 | 1 |
The Secret Chamber of Misk The arms of the metal device seized me and I found myself held helplessly by the arms suspended some feet above the floor. |
10 |
| 14 | 4 |
It seemed to be bare except that at one end there were several metal disks in the wall and, high in the wall, there was a transparent shield. |
10 |
| 14 | 10 |
The metal arms had locked on me and lifted me from the floor. |
10 |
| 14 | 24 |
I was considering my next insult when the two arms which held me swung me over a metal cage with a double floor, the higher consisting of narrow bars set in a wide mesh and the lower consisting simply of a white plastic tray. |
10 |
| 14 | 25 |
The metal appendages which held me suddenly sprang open and I was dropped into the cage. |
10 |
| 15 | 43 |
In the front of this assembly, one by one, thin metal disks would snap into place, a light would flash as some energy transaction occurred, and then the disk would snap aside, immediately to be replaced by another. |
10 |
| 17 | 63 |
The disk flows on a tread of volatile gas and is itself lightened by its construction from a partially gravitationally resistant metal, of which I shall speak later. |
10 |
| 17 | 84 |
"Is that mechanism also in this room?" "Yes," said Sarm, indicating with one foreleg a quiet-looking metal cabinet to one side possessing several dials and knobs. |
10 |
| 19 | 6 |
To my surprise his head was crowned with an aromatic wreath of green leaves, the first thing green I had seen in the Nest, and about his neck there hung, besides the invariable translator, a necklace, perhaps of accouterments, perhaps of pure ornaments, small pieces of metal, some shallow and rounde... |
10 |
| 19 | 21 |
He bent it outward and downward and then, with one of the pieces of metal hanging from the necklace at his throat, he scraped at the front edge of the door and bent it a bit outward; following this he attacked the interior edge of the cabinet similarly. |
10 |
| 19 | 36 |
I approached Sarm and regarded the pieces of metal. |
10 |
| 20 | 50 |
Numerous wires extended from the globe along the metal extensions and into a panel in the ceiling. |
10 |
| 20 | 103 |
I lunged forward but Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta, sensing my intention, seized my arms and before I could shake them off I heard, muffled but agonized from within that terrible metal globe, the cry of a branded slave girl. |
10 |
| 20 | 125 |
The attendant on the disk then bent down and picked up the slender, graceful metal collar. |
10 |
| 21 | 71 |
A heavy chain, fastened to a ring in the ceiling, led to a thick metal band which was locked about his narrow trunk between the thorax and the abdomen. |
10 |
| 22 | 6 |
Still holding the Mul-Torch in my teeth because I wanted both hands free I began to make my way toward Misk, hand and foot, across these metal extensions. |
10 |
| 22 | 52 |
My eye fell on a metal device, a square rod with some tiny projections at one end. |
10 |
| 22 | 64 |
"That is true," agreed Misk and with his forelegs removed the metal band from his trunk and let it dangle from the chain. |
10 |
| 25 | 54 |
A metal grille had been bolted over the shaft but it was fairly light and I did not expect much difficulty in wrenching it loose. |
10 |
| 25 | 58 |
A shattering flash of energy seemed to explode in my face and burn through my body as my fingers touched the metal grille. |
10 |
| 27 | 25 |
I dropped the metal key back inside my tunic. |
10 |
| 27 | 41 |
His head was garlanded by a wreath of green leaves as had been that of Sarm, and also, like Sarm, there was about his neck, as well as his translator, the ceremonial string of tiny metal tools. |
10 |
| 27 | 130 |
The scent-music suddenly stopped and the Priest-Kings seemed to rustle as though an unseen wind had suddenly stirred the leaves of autumn and I heard even the surprised jangling of those tiny metal tools. |
10 |
| 27 | 149 |
Slowly the Priest-Kings began to circle one another in a ritual more ancient perhaps even than the Feast of Tola, a ritual perhaps older than even the days and objects celebrated by the string of metal tools that hung jangling about the neck of Sarm. |
10 |
| 28 | 69 |
I took the metal key from the loop around my neck and turned the heavy mechanism of the case lock. |
10 |
| 28 | 195 |
"It is," he said, "built with a partially gravitationally resistant metal". |
10 |
| 28 | 199 |
"Because," I said, "there is no such thing as a gravitationally resistant metal". |
10 |
| 28 | 205 |
"Therefore," I said, "there is no such thing as a gravitationally resistant metal". |
10 |
| 29 | 47 |
To my joy I saw the metal blacken and burst apart like swollen tin as I passed beneath it and began to climb rapidly toward the belly of the second craft which I ripped open with a sizzling burst of fire. |
10 |
| 30 | 48 |
Running from this ring was a heavy chain attached to a thick metal collar fastened about my throat. |
10 |
| 30 | 90 |
With a cry of rage I struggled in my chains to my knees, pulling against the metal collar that held me to my place. |
10 |
| 34 | 199 |
I regret that among them was not the dour, magnificent, yellow-haired Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, who had been my friend. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 37 |
It consists of three long straps of leather, each about five feet long, each terminating in a leather sack which contains, sewn inside, a heavy, round, metal weight. |
10 |
| 6 | 30 |
He was perhaps puzzled by the absence of a metal collar about her throat. |
10 |
| 7 | 12 |
About Kutaituchik there were piled various goods, mostly vessels of precious metal and strings and piles of jewels; there was silk there from Tyros; silver from Thentis and Tharna; tapestries from the mills of Ar; wines from Cos; dates from the city of Tor. |
10 |
| 8 | 33 |
The Wagon Peoples, though enemies of Turia, needed and wanted her goods, in particular materials of metal and cloth, which are highly prized among the Wagons. |
10 |
| 9 | 415 |
But it was a round metal ring, a Turian collar, the collar of a slave. |
10 |
| 9 | 428 |
"Send for one of the Caste of Metal Workers!" cried Saphrar. |
10 |
| 9 | 441 |
"Now, gentle Aphris," Saphrar was purring, "you must be calm—soon one from the Caste of Metal Workers will appear to free you—all will be well—return to your own chambers". |
10 |
| 10 | 216 |
The morning sun flashed from their helmets, their long tharlarion lances, the metal embossments on their oval shields, unlike the rounded shields of most Gorean cities. |
10 |
| 12 | 217 |
There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious... |
10 |
| 13 | 186 |
He bent to his tools, taking up a tiny, open golden ring, a heated metal awl, a pair of pliers. |
10 |
| 16 | 129 |
* * * * Harold and I had been fastened in a Turian slave bar, a metal bar with a collar at each end and, behind the collar, manacles which fasten the prisoner's hands behind his neck. |
10 |
| 16 | 146 |
Through the metal bar I felt a reaction on the part of Harold. |
10 |
| 19 | 73 |
About her neck was a thick metal collar to which a heavy iron chain had been fastened; the chain itself was attached to a large iron ring placed in the floor. |
10 |
| 21 | 359 |
The metal net that depended from his helmet had been thrown back and his eyes and face were fearful to behold. |
10 |
| 25 | 10 |
Had I not heard a rustle of chain? Did she think to conceal her bonds, her condition? Surely any Gorean, despite the sheet, would have instantly supposed her to be what she indeed was, a slave, tethered with obdurate metal. |
10 |
| 25 | 667 |
She felt the pressure of the rounded metal at the sides of her neck, on her bared shoulders. |
10 |
| 26 | 64 |
It was now clearly light in the east, and I could see the faces of men below me, some of them carrying rope ladders with metal hooks at the ends, others scaling ladders. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 396 |
It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip... |
10 |
| 18 | 396 |
The key box was about a yard to the left of the keyhole; and about four feet from the observation panel; it is a small, heavy metal box bolted to the stone of the wall; it opens and shuts to the left, by means of a round-knobbed screw, which must be turned several times before the small metal door o... |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 5 | 16 |
On Gor, though most locks are of metal, wooden locks are not altogether unknown. |
10 |
| 5 | 30 |
Lastly it might be mentioned that it is a capital offense for a locksmith, normally a member of the Metal Workers, to make an unauthorized copy of a key, either to keep for himself or for another. |
10 |
| 5 | 146 |
In the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains I had brought the tarn down on the quiet, flat, gray-metal, disklike surface, some forty feet in diameter, of the ship, some two miles above the surface of Gor. |
10 |
| 5 | 164 |
Bracing himself against the wind, the antennae struggling to retain their focus on me, he took one delicate step toward me across the metal surface of the disk. |
10 |
| 5 | 220 |
It consists of four circular metal bands, with facing flat plates, which fasten about the two wrists and two ankles of the slave. |
10 |
| 5 | 238 |
Her head was fastened in an exact position by metal clamps. |
10 |
| 5 | 239 |
Further, that she not become terrified and attempt to struggle or leave the table, she was secured to it by several broad metal bands, plus ankle, leg, wrist and arm clips. |
10 |
| 7 | 86 |
There, in the side, was a great smeared wrinkle of erupted metal. |
10 |
| 8 | 108 |
There were some men in the room, mostly men-at-arms but some staff members, a Metal Worker, two Bakers and a pair of Scribes. |
10 |
| 10 | 8 |
On our side of the glass there was a metal grillwork, with rectangular openings about twelve inches long and four inches high. |
10 |
| 11 | 12 |
On each cage we passed, as we took our way over it, I saw a thin metal plate covered with numbers. |
10 |
| 11 | 16 |
The only sanitation facility was an open metal mesh, supported by close-set horizontal bars, in the bottom of the cages, beneath which, some five feet below, was a cement floor, washed down and cleaned by slaves once daily. |
10 |
| 11 | 29 |
The kitchen for the pens is on this level, and the infirmary, and certain facilities for smiths; Ho-Tu kept his chair of office on this level; also, discipline was administered on this level, I gathered, seeing certain racks and chains, certain stone tables with straps, certain carefully arranged in... |
10 |
| 11 | 60 |
"Let's look at them," said Ho-Tu, picking up a small metal hand torch with a wick of twisted, tarred straw from the floor and thrusting it into the drum fire. |
10 |
| 11 | 409 |
We then, following Ho-Tu, retraced our steps on the iron walkway, descended the steps, and, taking our way between the metal branding rack and the glowing, perforated steel drum containing irons, left the room. |
10 |
| 12 | 126 |
"What is your faction?" asked the fellow whom I had sat down beside, a Metal Worker. |
10 |
| 12 | 295 |
"And you," she said to Phyllis, "you with the body of a Passion Slave, what of you?" Sura then took the slave goad, which was off, and moved it along the left side of Phyllis' body, touching her with the cold metal. |
10 |
| 12 | 296 |
Instinctively, even in her pain from the branding and with her aching limbs, Phyllis made a small noise and pulled away from the cold metal. |
10 |
| 12 | 311 |
First Virginia and then Phyllis laid their heads and throats on the anvil, head turned to the side, their hands holding the anvil, and the smith, expertly, with his heavy hammer and a ringing of iron, curved the collar about their throats; a space of about a quarter of an inch was left between the t... |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 13 | 64 |
She looked over to the side of the pool where a small man in a tunic of toweling was standing about, a metal box with a slot strapped over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 107 |
I heard the coin drop into the metal box, and heard him leave. |
10 |
| 13 | 226 |
Mip was a chipper fellow, and a bit dapper considering his caste and his close-cropped hair, for his brown leather was shot with green streaks, and he wore a Tarn Keeper's cap with a greenish tassel; most Tarn Keepers, incidentally, crop their hair short, as do most Metal Workers; work in the tarnco... |
10 |
| 13 | 325 |
Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at the end of the dividing wall. |
10 |
| 14 | 138 |
We found ourselves in the hallway giving access to the large one-way glass, backed by metal grillwork. |
10 |
| 15 | 359 |
The chair was enclosed and, under the blue and yellow silk which covered it, there was metal plating. |
10 |
| 15 | 394 |
Though he wore the robe of the Metal Workers, though now without a hood, he was not of that caste. |
10 |
| 17 | 520 |
A number of men crowded between the tables then and some dice, inked knucklebones of the verr, were soon rattling in a metal goblet. |
10 |
| 17 | 537 |
I then moved into the center of the gambling men and, not speaking, as they looked up, angry at the intrusion, I took the metal goblet containing the knucklebones from the man who held it. |
10 |
| 18 | 128 |
"The games of Kajuralia can be dangerous," remarked Flaminius, swiftly wrapping a white cloth about the wound, securing it with four small metal snap clips. |
10 |
| 18 | 391 |
Soon, in the flickering light of the torch, I could read the Forty on the tiny metal plate over one of the cells. |
10 |
| 18 | 425 |
I returned to him; beneath the iron on his ankles and wrists, and on his throat, there were scars, like white bands, pale shadows of the dark metal; it would take months to form such scars, superseding the fearful sores that must first have been inflicted. |
10 |
| 19 | 115 |
Slaves on catwalks opened metal, shuttered vents in the ceiling, which is domed, and in the curved walls; I caught a breath of the cool air; outside I could see stars in the black Gorean sky; I could not see any of her moons. |
10 |
| 19 | 193 |
Yet when he persisted, there were some token offers, perhaps by men who wished to obtain a kettle girl for next to nothing; I was not surprised to note that each time a legitimate offer was made, though small, it was topped slightly by a fellow in the robes of the Metal Workers, whom I knew to be a ... |
10 |
| 21 | 4 |
Within the heavy metal casque I could see nothing. |
10 |
| 22 | 181 |
I watched the dark, swift flight of the quarrel, like a black needle, and saw it drop into the back of the Taurentian, who suddenly stiffened, seeming inches taller, the metal fins of the bolt like a tiny dark triangle in the purple of the cloak, and pitched lifeless from the wall. |
10 |
| 22 | 459 |
I then recalled a conversation with Mip about such matters, the memory rushing through my consciousness like the flash of a metal bolt. |
10 |
| 24 | 97 |
The bright sunlight in the room, the scarlet of my tunic, the new leather, the metal embossings, seemed nothing to me. |
10 |
| 24 | 120 |
About her left ankle is normally locked a gray steel band, to which five simple bells of gray metal are attached. |
10 |
| 24 | 423 |
She wore the briefly skirted gray slave livery of the state slave of Ar, the gray collar, the slender band of gray metal with its five simple bells locked about her left ankle. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 142 |
Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the island by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans. |
10 |
| 3 | 6 |
It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to dri... |
10 |
| 3 | 173 |
"Besides," said another man, "we do not have metal for the heads of arrows, nor arrowwood, and Ka-la-na does not grow in the marsh. |
10 |
| 5 | 172 |
Then the man with the drum of hollow rence root began to drum, and I heard some others join in with reed flutes, and one fellow had bits of metal, strung on a circular wire, and another a notched stick, played by scraping it with a flat spoon of rence root. |
10 |
| 6 | 13 |
I heard what might have been a marsh spear splinter against metal. |
10 |
| 8 | 11 |
Both are metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers, from the wings of the Vosk gulls. |
10 |
| 8 | 76 |
And when some growth had been cleared and an oar-master would dare to take his seat to call the time for rowers he, too, like the helmsmen, would taste in his heart the touch of the metal-piled shaft. |
10 |
| 8 | 380 |
Inside was a cavity, containing some rags, and binding fiber, and, on a hook, a heavy metal key. |
10 |
| 9 | 11 |
She wore a delicate vest and belt of chains and jewels, with shimmering metal droplets attached. |
10 |
| 9 | 26 |
We had seen that the canal was guarded by heavy metal gates, of strong bars, half submerged in the water. |
10 |
| 9 | 221 |
The girl, who had danced there, she who had worn the delicate vest and belt of chains and jewels, with shimmering metal droplets attached, with the musicians, had withdrawn to one side. |
10 |
| 9 | 235 |
She, terrified, fled to the sand, with a jangling of her chains, and jewels and metal droplets, and stood there, tears in her eyes, knees flexed, arms lifted over her head. |
10 |
| 10 | 27 |
The official "Stone," actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar. |
10 |
| 10 | 36 |
As in the case of the official "Stone," so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the Merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, as I have called it. |
10 |
| 15 | 370 |
She wore five pieces of metal, her collar and locked rings on her wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 18 | 436 |
At that time the plate collar was opened by one of the metal workers and replaced with a seven-pin lock collar". |
10 |
| 18 | 605 |
Protruding from his forehead, its pile stopped by the metal helmet in the back, was the long shaft of an arrow, one that could be only from the peasant bow. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 201 |
These racks were fixed to the curved metal ceiling at the top of the ship and the metal floor at the bottom. |
10 |
| 2 | 45 |
Most of the weapon was a shapeless lump of metal. |
10 |
| 4 | 14 |
It was made of black metal. |
10 |
| 4 | 200 |
Then I was in a curved area, where, to my horror, I saw, crowded together, closely set tiers of metal racks. |
10 |
| 4 | 241 |
But shortly thereafter one of the men in a black tunic, wearing sandals with metal plates on the bottoms, stepped carefully, step by step, across the steel plating. |
10 |
| 5 | 36 |
Some hundred yards or so from me I saw a mass of torn metal, a ruptured structure of black steel, half buried in the grass. |
10 |
| 5 | 101 |
It was, at the point at which I had entered, as the metal had been torn open, like steel petals, more than nine feet in height, a vast gash which, irregularly, on the left, tapered downward to a tear in the steel of only some four inches in height. |
10 |
| 5 | 129 |
I screamed and began to throw the cups, which were metal, at the animal, hysterically. |
10 |
| 5 | 130 |
It snarled and, the cups banging behind it on the metal of the wall, darted past me. |
10 |
| 5 | 137 |
When I had cried, I went to the flat, metal container, that sprung open and exposed, that from which the ugly, terrible, silken animal had been feeding. |
10 |
| 5 | 203 |
But I could find nothing of the ship, not a bolt or a bit of quartz, not a thread of metal or a scrap of wire. |
10 |
| 7 | 9 |
And, from Lydius, of course, goods of many sorts, though primarily rough goods, such things as tools, crude metal and cloth, brought on barges, towed by tharlarion treading on log roads, following the river, are brought to Laura, for sale and distribution inland. |
10 |
| 7 | 67 |
In the "display chain" we were spaced on the chain, and the chain stretched rather taut and fastened at both ends, sometimes to trees, sometimes to two large metal screws, more than two feet in length, which screwed into the ground, beyond the reach on each end of the first and last girl. |
10 |
| 8 | 87 |
On these barges, moving upriver, I could see many crates and boxes, which would contain such goods, rough goods, as metal, and tools and cloth. |
10 |
| 9 | 131 |
She twisted her hand in the metal and leather choke collar. |
10 |
| 9 | 154 |
Again the metal and leather collar slid shut on my throat, and, with a gasp of anguish, wrists bound behind my back, not permitted clothing, I followed at my tether, not as they, the proud women of the forest, but only as I could be among them, Kajira. |
10 |
| 9 | 292 |
In its back, there were two heavy metal rings, one about two feet from the ground, the other about three and a half feet from the ground. |
10 |
| 9 | 300 |
Verna resnapped the leather and metal choke collar on my throat. |
10 |
| 9 | 309 |
She tied the binding fiber securely about my left wrist, took the fiber behind the post, threaded it through the highest of the two metal rings, and then, jerking my right wrist back, bound it, too, fastening me to the post. |
10 |
| 9 | 414 |
Then I felt the leather and metal choke collar again slide shut on my throat and, choking, I followed hurriedly at my tether. |
10 |
| 11 | 116 |
In her ears were the tiny metal rods. |
10 |
| 11 | 160 |
Straw is spread on the metal plating which is the floor. |
10 |
| 11 | 311 |
Craftsmen of the metal workers, men specializing in the working of gold and silver, were concerned to work out new forms of jewelry for slave females. |
10 |
| 12 | 475 |
Verna's girls, the fifteen of them, stripped, were housed, crouching and kneeling, in small, metal slave cages. |
10 |
| 12 | 510 |
Behind the cage I reached in and stole the food she had in the cage, two larma fruit lying, split, on its metal floor. |
10 |
| 13 | 601 |
I felt my body dragged against the side of the bird, and then I felt my shoulder rub against the metal and leather of the saddle, and a man's leg. |
10 |
| 13 | 618 |
My cheek lay against the metal of his helmet. |
10 |
| 13 | 640 |
I heard some clanging of pans, some seemingly celebratory, or congratulatory, pounding on kettles, perhaps with large metal spoons. |
10 |
| 13 | 840 |
He was met with another war cry, and suddenly, only feet from us, another tarn streaked past, and I heard the forcible, tearing scrape of a broad, bronze spear blade, its blow turned, sliding across the metal-bound, layered, boskhide shield of my captor. |
10 |
| 13 | 852 |
I again heard the terrible, startling scrape of the spear blade diverted by the seven-layered, metal-bound boskhide shield. |
10 |
| 13 | 863 |
I heard the blade of the other strike twice, ringing on the metal hoops of the shield that guarded me. |
10 |
| 13 | 968 |
I knew then that I, Elinor Brinton, of Earth, would wear the degrading, locked metal collar of a Gorean slave girl, this man's, the collar of this brute who had captured me, and that I, Elinor Brinton, though once a free human female of Earth, would soon belong to him, totally, by all the rights and... |
10 |
| 14 | 133 |
The ringing of the metal excited and frightened me, the swiftness and cruelty of it. |
10 |
| 14 | 185 |
There was a heavy metal ring there, near the top of the slight hill. |
10 |
| 14 | 205 |
Over the coals, on a tripod, there was, warming, a small metal wine bowl. |
10 |
| 14 | 601 |
For the first time on Gor I would wear the locked metal collar of a slave girl. |
10 |
| 15 | 121 |
The floor of the shed was dirt, but, here and there, under my feet, I felt a rounded metal bar. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 201 |
I could see the heavy metal collar hammered about the man's neck, not uncommon in a male slave. |
10 |
| 1 | 202 |
His head would have been placed across the anvil, and the metal curved about his neck with great blows. |
10 |
| 1 | 351 |
"And now, noble Samos," said Rim, boldly, "I would appreciate the arousal of one in your employ, a metal worker, to remove this collar". |
10 |
| 3 | 249 |
"What is going on?" I asked a fellow, of the metal workers. |
10 |
| 3 | 272 |
On the flat-topped wagon, fastened to one side on a metal plate, already white with heat, was a brazier, from which protruded the handles of two irons. |
10 |
| 3 | 314 |
The man who had brought her to the wagon now knelt before her, locking metal clasps on her ankles. |
10 |
| 3 | 323 |
He then locked her wrists in metal clasps, similar to those, though smaller, which confined her ankles. |
10 |
| 3 | 325 |
He then bent to metal pieces, heavy, curved and hinged, which were attached to the sides of the rack, and a bit forward. |
10 |
| 3 | 360 |
"Twenty-two copper pieces," called a metal worker. |
10 |
| 5 | 235 |
There was a bar set at the back of the compound, a metal bar, some two inches in width, fastened on stanchions. |
10 |
| 14 | 111 |
They carried it by means of two metal bars thrust through it, the bars held by gloves. |
10 |
| 14 | 126 |
Its coals were poked and stirred with one of the metal bars. |
10 |
| 15 | 278 |
First, there is a metal ankle ring, which snaps about the girl's ankle. |
10 |
| 15 | 293 |
I closed the heavy metal ankle ring about her ankle, snapping it shut, and extended its chain, with its locking device, to her right. |
10 |
| 18 | 444 |
From my wallet I took a small, smooth stone and a tiny, flat metal disk. |
10 |
| 22 | 183 |
I saw the graceful metal at her throat, and on her wrists and ankles, the long, light chain dangling from the collar, to which the slave bracelets and ankle rings were attached. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 200 |
The collars were of thick leather, some three inches high, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined; sewn into each collar, opposite the lock, was a large, welded metal ring; about this ring was closed the le... |
10 |
| 3 | 11 |
I heard golden sheets of metal being pried from the square pillars of the temple. |
10 |
| 5 | 267 |
Indeed, the men of the north think little of breaking apart objects which, in the south, would be highly prized for their artistic value, simply to obtain pieces of negotiable precious metal. |
10 |
| 6 | 230 |
The smith, with his thumb, forcibly, pushed a metal rivet through the three holes. |
10 |
| 6 | 341 |
Their shoulders were protected from the heat of the metal spit by rolls of leather. |
10 |
| 7 | 156 |
Sometimes it is set with tiny particles of metal. |
10 |
| 10 | 291 |
We passed one fellow whom we noted seized up two bars of red-hot metal and ran for some twenty feet, and then threw them from him. |
10 |
| 13 | 150 |
Light was furnished from the cooking fire but, too, from torches set in rings on the wall, backed with metal plating; too, here and there, on chains from the beams, high above, there hung large tharlarion-oil lamps, which could be raised and lowered from the sides. |
10 |
| 14 | 86 |
His sword was drawn, but it would prove of little efficacy against the great metal shields, the sweeping axes of the Kurii. |
10 |
| 15 | 408 |
It, too, with a sound of granite on metal, was fended away, this time by the shield of the second Kur. |
10 |
| 18 | 288 |
We heard the scraping of horns on metal, the screams of gored Kurii, the howls of Kurii fallen beneath the hoofs. |
10 |
| 20 | 157 |
The two edges of metal, bordered by the leather, fitted closely together. |
10 |
| 21 | 18 |
The fixing of the Kur collar, it had been decided by Svein Blue Tooth, was equivalent to the fixing of the metal collar and, in itself, was sufficient to reduce the subject to slavery, which condition deprives the subject of legal status, and rights attached thereto, such as the right to stand in co... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 82 |
Western industrialized societies on Earth optimally would be manned by metal creatures, sexless, smoothly functioning, programmed to tend, preserve and replicate the metal society. |
10 |
| 1 | 17 |
The left ankle of the girl, under the bells, the brown thong, the golden metal, was tanned. |
10 |
| 1 | 76 |
A simple band of iron had been hammered about her neck by one of the metal workers in the employ of Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
10 |
| 1 | 302 |
He uttered the password through the beamed, metal-sheathed door. |
10 |
| 1 | 444 |
Set on rocks, boards of metal some two feet in length, and six inches wide, exposed to the sun, are sometimes used by the nomad women in frying foods. |
10 |
| 1 | 669 |
The guard took the straps which had bound her ankles together, and, untying them, slipped them through the metal ring, glinting, sewn into the back of the leather collar of the harness, worn over the simple curved collar of iron which marked her, even should she be clothed, and her brand not visible... |
10 |
| 2 | 139 |
I visited one of the metal workers, to purchase a collar for my prize. |
10 |
| 2 | 142 |
"I took her from a slaver's camp," I told the metal worker. |
10 |
| 2 | 143 |
"I see her brand is fresh," said the metal worker. |
10 |
| 2 | 155 |
It is important for the girl's thigh to be held immobile; sometimes it is held by more than one man; sometimes it is bound to a wagon wheel; sometimes, in the house of slavers, a heavy, vise-equipped metal branding rack is used. |
10 |
| 2 | 161 |
This made it more plausible that she was a recent prize, abducted, as I had averred to the metal worker, from the camp of a slaver. |
10 |
| 2 | 299 |
I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine. |
10 |
| 5 | 49 |
Beneath her veil I saw the metal of her collar. |
10 |
| 5 | 469 |
I saw the close-fitting, obdurate metal, inflexible, with its lock behind the back of the neck, encircling it. |
10 |
| 5 | 472 |
She shook her head a little, arranging her hair, and then looked at me, saucily, directly, her fingers on the metal at her throat. |
10 |
| 5 | 722 |
Would Talena not have cut her throat, under the metal collar? And had I freed her would she not, soon, have fallen again to a man's collar? Her flight from the Sardar had not won her freedom. |
10 |
| 7 | 238 |
I looked at the men, the walls, the matted, dried kort rinds on the floor, near the metal dish. |
10 |
| 8 | 107 |
At her throat was a metal collar, no longer mine. |
10 |
| 8 | 176 |
Her hand shook, slightly, on the metal box of tea. |
10 |
| 9 | 23 |
At this end, fastened to a bolted band, fitted into a groove at the termination of the stake was a metal ring. |
10 |
| 10 | 366 |
I knew that the metal collar of a female slave, that obdurate circlet of steel, locked, which she could not remove, so contrasting with her softness, so proclaiming its vulnerability and rightlessness, often transformed even an inhibited, hostile, cold wench, hating men, into an abandoned, yielding,... |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 13 | 486 |
Metal leashes were snapped on the girls' throats. |
10 |
| 14 | 323 |
Hamid thrust and twisted the square of silk in the metal of my collar, and yanked it tight. |
10 |
| 14 | 529 |
In the heat the metal was expanded. |
10 |
| 15 | 185 |
It was the snake, many fanged, tiny bits of metal braided within the leather. |
10 |
| 16 | 1 |
Hassan and I Agree to Accompany T'zshal I held the line coiled, in my left hand, it tied to the handle on the metal, perforated cone, swinging in my right. |
10 |
| 16 | 51 |
I slowly drew up the metal, perforated cone. |
10 |
| 21 | 440 |
In its side there was a blackened hole, as though drilled; metal ran in droplets down the side of the ship. |
10 |
| 21 | 469 |
The opening must once have been the outer opening of a lock; it was rectangular; the exterior hatch was missing; there was twisted metal at the side of the opening, as though it had been wrenched away from rusted hinges; the beast crouched in the lock, peering into the storm. |
10 |
| 24 | 1044 |
I strode toward the sound of metal clashing in the distance. |
10 |
| 25 | 524 |
She turned, trying to pound at the metal that held her. |
10 |
| 25 | 607 |
She put her fingers to the metal on her neck, and then her hands on the chain. |
10 |
| 26 | 224 |
Two chains ran to his metal collar, on opposite sides, leading, respectively, to the stirrup of a mounted rider on each side of him. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 442 |
There are many sorts of collars; some, for example, are bands of metal, some rings of metal, some chains of metal. |
10 |
| 1 | 17 |
My neck seemed to wear a weight; I heard the soft clink, a tiny stirring, of heavy links of metal. |
10 |
| 1 | 20 |
Again I felt the weight, circular, heavy, on my neck; again I heard the small sound, the stirring, simple and matter of fact, of heavy metal links. |
10 |
| 2 | 7 |
A metal point jabbed into my body, at the juncture between my left hip and lower abdomen. |
10 |
| 3 | 547 |
Unfortunately for these entrepreneurs, their greed and lack of control over the metal shops resulted in the widespread proliferation of the dina brand. |
10 |
| 3 | 744 |
I loved him! I felt the metal of the cup beneath my full, pressing lips. |
10 |
| 4 | 88 |
I, grasping the pot with a rag and both hands, poured him a handled, metal tankard of the steaming black brew, coffee or black wine. |
10 |
| 4 | 132 |
My master extended to me his metal tankard. |
10 |
| 4 | 811 |
It had been placed there, burned into my thigh, by a hot iron, as I had screamed under the metal's searing print. |
10 |
| 5 | 798 |
I felt my wrist taken, and the metal of the wrist ring snap shut upon it. |
10 |
| 6 | 109 |
In the center of the hut was a large flat, circular piece of metal, on which, on legs, might sit braziers or the small, flattish cooking stoves, using pressed, hardened wood, common in the villages north and west of Ar. |
10 |
| 9 | 171 |
It made a harsh sound of metal and wood. |
10 |
| 9 | 173 |
There were two heavy metal snaps as the door above me was fastened shut. |
10 |
| 9 | 546 |
In some such hoes the socket is drilled and the staff is held in place by means of a pin, usually of wood, sometimes of metal. |
10 |
| 9 | 1237 |
I lifted the heavy hoe, with the stout staff and great metal blade, again and again. |
10 |
| 9 | 1824 |
She carried a metal goblet, and, slowly, in stately fashion, descended the steps to the ground, approaching Thurnus. |
10 |
| 9 | 1949 |
Thurnus then looped the sturdy, leather, metal-embossed sleen collar about her throat. |
10 |
| 9 | 1961 |
At a gesture from Thurnus, Sandal Thong, surrendering the sleen leashes to a man, who took the animals from the clearing, came to the cage and, with two hands, flung down the metal gate to the cage, locking her former mistress within. |
10 |
| 9 | 2053 |
But, too, it suggests that their lips meet, through metal and wine, or paga, as the case may be. |
10 |
| 11 | 340 |
Too, within the sleeve there is a plug, a rounded, metal cone, which must be unscrewed before the key can be inserted. |
10 |
| 11 | 366 |
The rings were linked vertically at five places by tiny metal fastenings; each ring, opened, hinged, terminated on one end with a bolt and on the other with a tiny lock; I slipped the small bolts into the four tiny locks; there were four tiny snaps; the rings, linked together, fitted snugly; each ri... |
10 |
| 11 | 466 |
I heard the pounding of a metal bar on the inner gate leading to the quarters of the slave girls. |
10 |
| 12 | 350 |
I wanted him to give me a cube of meat, honeyed, from the metal plate which lay near him. |
10 |
| 12 | 629 |
It was like a small, veined, metal leaf, narrowly ovate in shape. |
10 |
| 14 | 465 |
Suddenly, on my closely placed wrists, as I went to lift the cup, with a startling flash of metal and two swift snaps, slave bracelets locked. |
10 |
| 16 | 23 |
In harsh weather, and at night, these cages are often covered with tarpaulins; this tends to prevent undue weathering of the cage metal due to salt and moisture. |
10 |
| 20 | 283 |
A male slave, his wrists chained, separated by some eighteen inches of linked metal, pushing a wharf cart passed me. |
10 |
| 23 | 94 |
He then thrust them about the collar I wore, between the metal and my neck. |
10 |
| 28 | 343 |
I heard a pouch, heavy, filled with metal, strike heavily on the smoothed beams of the surface of the block. |
10 |
| 29 | 162 |
He took the heavy metal collar and closed it about my throat, over and about the lighter collar I wore, confining me at the ring, on the furs at the foot of his couch. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 514 |
They had round metal snaps. |
10 |
| 3 | 695 |
A slaver's man, pounding on a bar with a metal rod, called that the sales in the pavilion would begin within the Ahn. |
10 |
| 3 | 770 |
There were round, pierced metal balls at each end of the ankle chain, to prevent its slipping through the rings entirely. |
10 |
| 3 | 1258 |
The girl was sold for fifteen copper tarsks to a metal worker from Tor. |
10 |
| 3 | 1315 |
These chains were suspended from metal projections on certain of the tent poles. |
10 |
| 7 | 35 |
I walked through the streets of Lydius until I came to the small metal-worker's shop, one out of the main ways of the city. |
10 |
| 7 | 42 |
"There," said the metal worker. |
10 |
| 7 | 46 |
Ram directed the metal worker to saw away an inch and a half of the opened collar. |
10 |
| 7 | 63 |
I threw the metal worker a silver tarsk. |
10 |
| 7 | 67 |
The metal worker finished sawing the portion off the heavy collar Ram had worn. |
10 |
| 7 | 69 |
The metal worker looked at him. |
10 |
| 7 | 75 |
I signaled the metal worker to free Constance of the chain on her neck. |
10 |
| 7 | 235 |
He proffered to me a metal cup. |
10 |
| 7 | 244 |
I held the metal cup in my right hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 104 |
"He is of the metal workers". |
10 |
| 9 | 105 |
"He is not a metal worker," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 147 |
She made Thistle carry the metal bucket of gruel while she, with a ladle, filled the bowls. |
10 |
| 16 | 15 |
He braced it on his leg in carving, his fingers near the blade end where they might delicately control the movement of the metal. |
10 |
| 28 | 213 |
She was naked except for her collar and a leather-and-metal lock gag. |
10 |
| 28 | 215 |
I saw the curved metal bars, rounded, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, emerging from the sides of her mouth. |
10 |
| 28 | 265 |
The heavy metal door closed. |
10 |
| 29 | 3 |
The principles of the weapon, I assumed, were similar to those of a rifle, except that the missile would not be a slug of metal but something more in the nature of a tiny quarrel, some six inches in length. |
10 |
| 30 | 273 |
A steel dart, fired from one of the riflelike weapons, caromed about the steel walls, and then suddenly, twisting about, wheeling end over end, burst between the tiers and the wall, leaving an explosive scar of blackened metal in the wall, a foot long, and scattering about a shower of flaming splint... |
10 |
| 31 | 2 |
He indicated the metal door. |
10 |
| 31 | 7 |
One of the men opened the metal door. |
10 |
| 31 | 86 |
A metal panel slid up. |
10 |
| 35 | 85 |
It was fixed into the metal, welded therein. |
10 |
| 35 | 89 |
The metal was broken loose and twisted crookedly upward. |
10 |
| 35 | 225 |
The tongue of this lock had been placed about the steel collar, between the metal and the back of her neck, and snapped shut. |
10 |
| 35 | 860 |
The girl screamed as the hot metal brushed her calf. |
10 |
| 35 | 868 |
A dart hissed above our heads and rent in its explosion the metal behind us. |
10 |
| 35 | 869 |
I fired a dart and another Kur spun about hideously, scratching at the metal, and then, before our eyes, erupted as though it had engorged a bomb. |
10 |
| 35 | 1268 |
It fondled the metal device, looking at me. |
10 |
| 36 | 177 |
Gently, head down, she licked and kissed the metal. |
10 |
| 36 | 182 |
Then, delicately, touching the chain with her small, soft tongue she licked the metal. |
10 |
| 36 | 201 |
She bent her head to the chain and, delicately, sobbing with emotion, licked and kissed at the metal. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 358 |
I heard tiny scratchings at the metal, small movements against the metal, as though by numerous tiny bodies, each perhaps no more than a few ounces in weight. |
10 |
| 1 | 377 |
The girl on the platform, naked, kneeling, a metal collar hammered about her neck, the metal pole between her legs, grasping it with both arms, threw back her head and screamed piteously. |
10 |
| 1 | 382 |
The walkway's front edge was about a yard from the tiny, wooden, metal-sheathed, circular platform, mounted on the wooden, metal-sheathed pole, that tiny platform on which the girl knelt, that narrow, tiny platform which held her but inches from the tharlarion-filled water. |
10 |
| 4 | 756 |
The metal worker placed her wrists behind her in the wrist clamps, adjustable, each on their vertical, flat metal bar. |
10 |
| 4 | 764 |
The metal worker turned the apparatus, spinning the shaft, with its attached, circular metal platform. |
10 |
| 1 | 34 |
On the tray, too, was the metal vessel which had contained the black wine, steaming and bitter, from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enameled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on ... |
10 |
| 1 | 39 |
I remembered her from several months ago when I had first seen her, when she had had about her throat only a simple collar of iron, curved about her throat by the blows of a metal-worker's hammer. |
10 |
| 1 | 357 |
On its sides the walkway had metal ridges, some six inches in height, above the water. |
10 |
| 1 | 363 |
In the center of the cell was a wooden, metal-sheathed pole, some four inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 1 | 365 |
About this pole, encircling it, and supported by it, was a narrow, circular, wooden, metal-sheathed platform. |
10 |
| 2 | 31 |
I wore the tunic, and leather apron and cap, of the metal worker. |
10 |
| 2 | 55 |
I wore the garb of a metal worker. |
10 |
| 2 | 56 |
Usually girls, if not marked by a slaver, are marked in the shop of a metal worker. |
10 |
| 3 | 10 |
I wore, as I had the night before, the garb of a metal worker. |
10 |
| 4 | 94 |
I wore the garb of the metal workers. |
10 |
| 4 | 294 |
"Let her be taken to the nearest metal shop and branded," said the praetor. |
10 |
| 4 | 308 |
"You are not a metal worker," said Ulafi to me, quietly. |
10 |
| 4 | 609 |
From some eighty or so yards away, from the tiny shop of a metal worker, I heard a girl scream. |
10 |
| 4 | 666 |
He secured the top block, hinged at the left, to the bottom block, with a metal bolt on a chain, thrust through the staple on the lower block, over the hasp, swung down from the upper block. |
10 |
| 4 | 709 |
"Then bring her to the shop of the metal worker. |
10 |
| 4 | 714 |
I followed him to the shop of the metal worker. |
10 |
| 4 | 722 |
Did she not know she was branded? "Heat an iron," said Ulafi to the metal worker, a brawny fellow in a leather apron. |
10 |
| 4 | 725 |
"We always keep an iron hot," said the metal worker. |
10 |
| 4 | 739 |
"I have five brands," said the metal worker, "the common Kajira brand, the Dina, the Palm, the mark of Treve, the mark of Port Kar". |
10 |
| 4 | 759 |
He then shackled her feet on the rotating metal platform. |
10 |
| 4 | 768 |
The metal worker then, with a wheel, tightening it, locked the device in place, so that it could not turn. |
10 |
| 4 | 771 |
The metal worker drew out an iron and looked at it. |
10 |
| 4 | 783 |
"Yes," said the metal worker. |
10 |
| 4 | 789 |
"Surely," said the metal worker. |
10 |
| 4 | 798 |
"The iron is ready," said the metal worker. |
10 |
| 4 | 800 |
Ulafi threw the metal worker a copper tarsk. |
10 |
| 4 | 804 |
"You are of the metal workers, are you not?" he asked. |
10 |
| 4 | 806 |
He had told me earlier that I was not of the metal workers. |
10 |
| 4 | 809 |
I donned leather gloves and took the iron from the metal worker, who cheerfully surrendered it. |
10 |
| 4 | 828 |
While she still sobbed and screamed the metal worker freed her wrists of the clamps. |
10 |
| 4 | 830 |
The metal worker then freed her thighs of the rack, and she sank, sobbing, to her knees. |
10 |
| 4 | 831 |
He freed her ankles of the shackles which had held them at the circular, metal platform. |
10 |
| 4 | 861 |
"I wish you well," I said to the metal worker. |
10 |
| 4 | 865 |
I then left the shop of the metal worker. |
10 |
| 4 | 890 |
I had thought that some wench, probably one to be purchased in Schendi, would have been a useful addition to my disguise, as an aid in establishing and confirming my pretended identity as a metal worker from the island of Teletus. |
10 |
| 5 | 258 |
"You are not of the metal workers," he said. |
10 |
| 5 | 286 |
In that area he saw two assailants, a man and his female accomplice, subdued by one who wore the garb of the metal workers. |
10 |
| 5 | 287 |
Further, this deed was apparently performed with dispatch, a dispatch scarcely to be expected of one who was of the metal workers. |
10 |
| 5 | 288 |
Soon the fellow who wore the garb of the metal workers had left. |
10 |
| 5 | 292 |
"You were the fellow in the garb of the metal workers," said Ulafi. |
10 |
| 5 | 299 |
"If you knew me not of the metal workers," I asked, "why did you permit me to mark the blond-haired slave?" "I wished to see what you would do," he said. |
10 |
| 5 | 302 |
"Thus you see," said I, "that I am truly of the metal workers". |
10 |
| 5 | 304 |
"I knew you were not of the metal workers. |
10 |
| 5 | 310 |
"Too," said he, "that would have shown, had you done poorly, that you were not of the metal workers". |
10 |
| 5 | 385 |
The girl, very delicately, lifted her head a bit from the metal floor of the cage and, with her tongue, furtively, touched the bar. |
10 |
| 5 | 391 |
The girl then lay there quietly again, her head resting on her left arm, it lying, flat, elbow bent, beneath her on the sheet-metal floor of the cage. |
10 |
| 6 | 184 |
The line which Shoka now tied around her crossed wrists was already strung through a large, metal, gold-painted ring, one of two, which were mounted in the huge wooden ears of the kailiauk head which, high above the water, surmounted the prow. |
10 |
| 6 | 200 |
The golden metal rings, too, had been repainted. |
10 |
| 6 | 226 |
Her hands had been beside her thighs, their backs resting on the metal of the cage floor. |
10 |
| 6 | 228 |
When she had seen me look at her, she had looked up, quickly, at the square of sheet metal above her. |
10 |
| 6 | 542 |
Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vege... |
10 |
| 8 | 55 |
If inquiries had been made it would be recalled that he who had arrived in the Palms of Schendi had been, at least ostensibly, of the metal workers. |
10 |
| 9 | 27 |
"Are you of the metal workers or the leather workers?" she asked. |
10 |
| 12 | 300 |
"Paga, Master?" she asked, kneeling before me, the metal cup held before her, in her two hands. |
10 |
| 13 | 98 |
She lifted the metal cup from her belly and, turning her head to the side, pressed her lips against it. |
10 |
| 14 | 557 |
And when she wears the earrings, he can see the metal disappearing in the softness of her ear, literally fixed within it. |
10 |
| 14 | 558 |
Her flesh is doubly penetrated, her softness about the intruding metal, before his very eyes. |
10 |
| 15 | 320 |
"He arrived in Schendi," said Msaliti, "in the garb of a metal worker. |
10 |
| 15 | 323 |
"What metal worker or leather worker," he asked, "carries such funds?" "He is obviously a thief, doubtless a fugitive," said the officer. |
10 |
| 22 | 28 |
"The metal on your neck is hammered shut. |
10 |
| 23 | 242 |
The spacing and twisting of the links, in the motion of the metal, served well in lieu of teeth. |
10 |
| 23 | 243 |
There was an occasional squeak of the metal on the wet wood but the work, for the most part, was accomplished silently, the sound being concealed under the surface of the water. |
10 |
| 27 | 106 |
Here we did not know if it would have more value than metal knives or coils of copper wire. |
10 |
| 28 | 10 |
By its metal handles I drew it into the canoe. |
10 |
| 28 | 13 |
This one was a combination padlock, in which numbers, inscribed on rotating metal disks, fitted together, are to be properly aligned, this permitting the free extraction of the bolt. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 48 |
The leather worker, accordingly, does not spend much time envying the metal worker, or the metal worker the leather worker, or either the cloth worker, and so on. |
10 |
| 34 | 12 |
I heard the ringing of a metal-worker's hammer on metal, where simple straps of iron were being curved about the necks of beauties, their heads and hair over the anvil, these serving as temporary collars. |
10 |
| 1 | 418 |
On the coffee table, before him, there was a decanter of wine and a heavy, ornate metal goblet. |
10 |
| 1 | 448 |
"'Now take the goblet,' he said, 'and hold the metal against your body, pushing inward. |
10 |
| 1 | 450 |
I held the round, heavy metal against me, below my brassiere. |
10 |
| 1 | 455 |
I can still feel the cold metal against me, firmly, partly against the silk of my undergarment, partly against my belly. |
10 |
| 1 | 979 |
I heard a movement of metal in the door beside me. |
10 |
| 1 | 980 |
An instant later, as he had pulled the second lever, I heard a movement of metal within the door on Miss Henderson's side. |
10 |
| 2 | 10 |
They had dark metal shades with white-enameled interiors, and were protected by wire frames. |
10 |
| 3 | 18 |
I was intensely conscious of the heavy metal collar I wore. |
10 |
| 3 | 19 |
There was, attached to it, as I conjectured, hearing the tiny sound of its movement and its clink on the stone beneath my body, a smaller piece of metal, perhaps a ring of some sort. |
10 |
| 3 | 95 |
She approached me and, with the coils of the whip, tapped the metal on my neck. |
10 |
| 3 | 97 |
Then, with her left hand, she jerked at the metal piece attached to the collar. |
10 |
| 3 | 152 |
I heard the clink of the metal piece, presumably a ring, on my collar. |
10 |
| 3 | 203 |
The metal attachment, which I took to be a ring, lay against my chin. |
10 |
| 3 | 284 |
She turned the collar on my throat, so that the metal attachment, or ring, was at the back. |
10 |
| 3 | 286 |
She unslung the metal chain from her belt. |
10 |
| 4 | 19 |
She then removed the chain from her belt and snapped it on the metal ring attached to my collar. |
10 |
| 6 | 18 |
As the lovely sleeve of her robe dropped back I saw, on her left wrist, a heavy, metal-studded wristlet of black leather. |
10 |
| 6 | 37 |
"In this one," said the woman, indicating me, "there is a mark on the upper left arm, and in one of the teeth on the left and in the back, a bit of metal. |
10 |
| 6 | 172 |
It was she who had most closely examined me, she who had worn, beneath her silken sleeve, the metal-studded, black-leather wristlet. |
10 |
| 7 | 302 |
I thrust the tiny key into the locks on the slave bracelets and, with two small, heavy clicks, and an opening of metal, removed them from her. |
10 |
| 8 | 88 |
The metal door, behind me, was lifted and flung shut. |
10 |
| 9 | 14 |
"Slave! Slave!" called a small child, beating on the metal of the slave box. |
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 | 210 |
In such a wagon the girls are commonly chained by the ankles to a metal bar which runs down the center of the wagon bed. |
10 |
| 16 | 9 |
For example, one who is of the metal workers might not be permitted to work iron, but might be permitted to do such things as paint iron, and transport and market it. |
10 |
| 16 | 12 |
For example, a woman in the metal workers does not, commonly, work at the forge, nor is a woman of the builders likely to be found supervising the construction of fortifications. |
10 |
| 16 | 14 |
To be sure, certain skills tend to be associated traditionally with certain castes, a fact which is clearly indicated in caste titles, such as the leather workers, the metal workers, the singers, and the peasants. |
10 |
| 16 | 49 |
All need sandals and wallets, and clothes, and metal tools. |
10 |
| 25 | 292 |
A central metal bar, hinged at one end, near the wagon box, and locked at the other, near the wagon bed's gate, usually occurs in such wagons. |
10 |
| 27 | 367 |
There was a sound of metal, that of the collar with its ring, and of the chain, with its lock, depending from the ring. |
10 |
| 32 | 193 |
And they are grateful to the master that he has deigned to quench within them for a time the belly fires of the female thrall, which smolder within them even when not blazing, those fires which inform them of their bondage more even than the metal on their neck, the iron on an ankle, the lovely mark... |
10 |
| 34 | 28 |
The chains had been slipped beneath a long metal bar, set parallel to the wagon bed. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 199 |
There was the sound of the metal clapper in the narrow, flattish, triangular-shaped bell, the rustle of the chain and lock, the sound of the small, metal, sturdy, rectangular, locked coin box. |
10 |
| 1 | 127 |
I considered her ankles and thighs, the sweet belly of her, her breasts, and shoulders and throat, the loveliness of her, her face and eyes, the latitudes of her swirling blond hair, the shimmering, restless jewelry on her body, the metal locked on her wrists and ankles, her collar, the pearl at her... |
10 |
| 4 | 662 |
"That technicality can be swiftly remedied by a metal worker," said one of the men. |
10 |
| 8 | 24 |
There was a sudden sound, that of a short metal blade slipping from a sheath. |
10 |
| 10 | 137 |
We heard the sound of a bell, and then, a moment later, that of coins in a metal box. |
10 |
| 10 | 139 |
About her neck, chained, there was a bronze bell, hollow, flattish, with sloping sides, with a flat top and ring, and a slotted, metal coin box, locked. |
10 |
| 14 | 69 |
Also on the way home I purchased her a slave tunic and stopped at the shop of a metal worker, where I had her measured and purchased a collar for her. |
10 |
| 23 | 343 |
The snug metal bracelets there were jeweled. |
10 |
| 24 | 54 |
I regarded the objects, with their tiny belts and buckles, with their attached, sewn in, metal snap rings. |
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 | 249 |
You did not take me in your hands and force open my mouth, to look for bits of metal in my teeth. |
10 |
| 24 | 709 |
I then thrust her right wrist through the slave ring and, with the heavy metal snaps, sewn into the cuffs, secured her there. |
10 |
| 26 | 188 |
On its throat was a heavy metal collar. |
10 |
| 31 | 6 |
The gate is raised by muscle power, abetted by two heavy, drumlike weights which partially balance its weight, transmitted to the windlass by means of metal windlass poles, or bars, these being used to rotate the windlass. |
10 |
| 31 | 10 |
I pressed against the heavy metal pole, or bar, almost five inches in diameter, fixed now, like a spoke, in the shaft of the windlass. |
10 |
| 31 | 126 |
As I made my way about the windlass, treading the slatted, circular platform, with my fellow prisoners, thrusting against the metal pole, I saw, chained to the wall, and at one side, behind the water trough cut in the stone, their necks still fastened to their own poles, two other sets of prisoners. |
10 |
| 33 | 100 |
The links of the chain were some eighteen inches in length and a foot in width; the metal of the links themselves was as thick as a man's forearm. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 9 |
There was a screaming of metal as shearing blades, locked together, protested the stresses imposed upon them by the shifting ships. |
10 |
| 15 | 64 |
Too, the metal back of the blade, though not sharp, was narrow, and rectangular. |
10 |
| 15 | 65 |
I had not been bound to a large, rounded metal ring. |
10 |
| 16 | 95 |
A spear blade from the bulwarks, thrust down, struck down at me, but glanced off the metal, flashing sparks near my right cheek. |
10 |
| 17 | 73 |
From the chain there hung two objects; the first was a narrow, bronze bell, flattish and tapering, with a flat top and ring; when she moved it would sound, calling attention to her whereabouts; the second was a metal coin box, which contained a slot for the deposition of coins; the coin box was lock... |
10 |
| 17 | 308 |
"Please, please, Master!" I dropped the coin into the narrow, metal coin box. |
10 |
| 17 | 431 |
I heard the bell, and the coin, my coin, in the small, narrow metal box on her neck chain. |
10 |
| 17 | 609 |
I thrust another coin into the small metal box on the chain. |
10 |
| 17 | 720 |
The tether, from the heavy metal ring to the stout ring at the back of her collar, taut, holding her head up, was about eighteen inches in length. |
10 |
| 18 | 82 |
This lack of privacy, to be expected, given the lowly condition of the slave, is revealed even in details so obvious as almost to be taken for granted, such as the fact that slave kennels and slave alcoves are almost invariably barred, rather than given opaque portals, say, with observation aperture... |
10 |
| 19 | 285 |
"A collar!" she cried, touching the metal. |
10 |
| 20 | 618 |
The shop of every metal worker will have several. |
10 |
| 20 | 723 |
The collared softness of the dark-haired girl well set off the metal of the tray, and the small, multicolored glasses and bottles upon it. |
10 |
| 21 | 232 |
She then left the small, rounded metal cup on the tray. |
10 |
| 21 | 769 |
She, head down, pressed the heavy metal goblet deep into her lower abdomen, and then she lifted it to her lips and, holding it with both hands, kissed it lingeringly and lovingly. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 336 |
In another common form the "wadding" is a metal sphere, usually covered with leather, through which passes the metal locking bar or strap. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 295 |
For example, the leather workers would presumably be better at working leather than the metal workers, and the metal workers would presumably be better at working metal than the leather workers, and so on. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 103 |
It was some four feet, by four feet by four feet, formed of closely set metal bars, a half inch or so in thickness, except for the floor, which was of metal. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 46 |
There was shouting, and the clashing of blades, and the pounding of spear metal on metal-rimmed shields. |
10 |
| 40 | 139 |
There had been shouting, the clashing of blades, the pounding of spear metal on metal-rimmed shields. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 20 |
One of the great saws, heavy, eleven feet in length, with gigantic metal teeth, fashioned from iron timber braces, by the ship's Metal Workers, on its rope, was lowered over the side, to the men below. |
10 |
| 37 | 783 |
In more prosperous areas, generally farther from the waterfront and the warehouse district, metal locks, answering to metal keys, are more common. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 59 |
She will speak of cities, and secret places, of a metal box, a Metal Worker, of beasts, large, hirsute, and dangerous, of an underground workshop, of pride, ambition, and devotion, of warriors and slaves, of gold and steel, of cords, and silk, of ships and worlds. |
10 |
| 12 | 57 |
"There are metal worlds, large metal worlds," she said, "like small planets, inhabited by Kurii, rather like Lord Grendel, though he is not truly Kur". |
10 |
| 37 | 144 |
It had jointed metal legs, and a metal torso, but no obvious head, unless the head and torso were one. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 47 |
Anchored in the top of the wall were pieces of broken glass, shards of pottery, and blades, and, strung about the wall, were dangling strips of metal which would be difficult to elude, and which, if not eluded, would produce a jangling of disturbed metal unlikely to pass unnoted. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 301 |
At that moment, startling and shocking us, there was a sudden, unexpected ringing of metal on metal, a loud, sharp staccato of sound at the bars, consequent on the dragging of a metal bar back and forth against them. |
10 |
| 24 | 74 |
Far off I thought I heard the sounds of men, shouts, and the striking of metal on metal, often quick, and sharp, and sometimes so rapidly I could not distinguish the sounds. |
10 |
| 24 | 150 |
"When I awakened, in the kennel," I said, "I thought I heard the shouts of men, the ringing, far off, of metal on metal". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 84 |
At the edge of the walkway, by the canal, I saw a short, narrow, pointed, metal-finned, metal, cylindrical object, an arrow or missile of some sort. |
10 |
| 37 | 125 |
One does not expect the metal worker to be skilled at baking or the baker to be adept at metal work. |
10 |