| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 277 |
After all, suppose you should accept this tale, should learn of the Counter-Earth and of the Voyages of Acquisition, what could you do? You could do nothing, you with your rudimentary technology of which you are so proud—you could do nothing at least for a thousand years, and by that time, if... |
10 |
| 1 | 108 |
I pressed it with my finger; nothing happened. |
10 |
| 1 | 153 |
It would be mad, scrambling about in the darkness, but there seemed to be nothing else that would serve. |
10 |
| 2 | 1 |
The Counter-Earth I remembered nothing, from the time I'd boarded the silver disk in the mountains of New Hampshire until now. |
10 |
| 2 | 48 |
I felt like a child, knowing nothing, taken to some complex factory or store, unable to sort out his impressions, unable to comprehend the new and strange things that flash incessantly upon him. |
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| 2 | 134 |
"Yes," said my father, as if there were nothing incredible in this admission. |
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| 3 | 7 |
"Have I nothing better to do? Have I not a thousand scrolls gathering dust on my shelves, unread, unstudied?" "I don't know," I said. |
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| 3 | 18 |
Torm was of slight build and reminded me of an angry bird which enjoys nothing so much as scolding squirrels. |
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| 3 | 153 |
I did learn, casually from a Scribe, not Torm, that slaves were not permitted to impart instruction to a free man, since it would place him in their debt, and nothing was owed to a slave. |
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| 3 | 264 |
They fear nothing but the tarn-goad. |
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| 4 | 170 |
I had surely done nothing to warrant their commendation. |
10 |
| 5 | 58 |
I knew nothing about her, except that her name was Talena, that she was rumored to be one of the beauties of Ar, and that I was supposed to kill her. |
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| 5 | 119 |
"No, Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba," she said, "but you well know that I could do nothing that would diminish the worth of your gift to me. |
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| 6 | 63 |
My hands flung out, grasping nothing, and I fell headlong downward into the night. |
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| 7 | 56 |
After all, according to the rude codes of Gor, I owed her nothing; indeed, considering her attempt on my life, which had been foiled only by the fortuitous net of Nar's web, I would have been within my rights to slay her, abandoning her body to the water lizards. |
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| 8 | 18 |
She was nothing now but the abominated daughter of the villain in whose reign the Home Stone, the Luck of Ar, had been stolen. |
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| 8 | 200 |
"Nothing," she said. |
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| 10 | 6 |
It is a matter of caste, an expression of respect for those who share their station and profession, having nothing to do with cities or Home Stones. |
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| 11 | 8 |
I said nothing, knowing in my heart that I, in my way, had been responsible for this vast martial array on the banks of the Vosk. |
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| 12 | 13 |
The eyes, like glass or stone, revealed nothing. |
10 |
| 12 | 16 |
He said nothing. |
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| 12 | 122 |
That he might soon change his mind, particularly if he found nothing on the plains below, was only too obvious. |
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| 14 | 42 |
Without the sword there is nothing". |
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| 15 | 37 |
I reasoned that Pa-Kur had nothing to fear and consequently chose not to employ his siege slaves and prisoners in unnecessary and time-consuming works. |
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| 17 | 7 |
In despair I realized I had done nothing more than make clear the fact that someone was desperately interested in the whereabouts of the girl, and, if anything, this information would make Pa-Kur redouble his precautions for her security and doubtless attempt to apprehend the individual responsible ... |
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| 17 | 12 |
Yet nothing but the sight of my beloved would have brought me more satisfaction than driving my sword into the heart of the Assassin. |
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| 17 | 112 |
I suppose it was a gesture, nothing but a gesture, but, pitiful though it might be, it pleased me, and, to be honest, I did not expect to live to spend the coin. |
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| 18 | 88 |
Nothing was revealed to my eyes or to my touch, but there was the almost imperceptible odor of tarn spoor. |
10 |
| 18 | 117 |
Left without care for weeks, the tarns had had nothing to feed upon but one another. |
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| 19 | 97 |
I knew almost nothing of the fabled Priest-Kings, but I did know that something of the sort must exist, for I had been brought to Gor by an advanced technology, and I knew that some force or power lay in the mysterious Sardar Mountains. |
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| 20 | 48 |
Slowly, with agony, I began to believe that it had indeed been nothing but the cruelest of dreams and that I was now once again coming to my senses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 91 |
I wondered—an eerie suspicion that suddenly swept through me—if the Sardar Mountains might actually be empty—if there might be nothing, simply nothing but the wind and the snow in those gloomy mountains, and if men worshipped, unknowingly, nothing. |
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| 22 | 31 |
"Nor have I," she said proudly, making it clear that she would ask me for nothing, and expect nothing of me, not even her life. |
10 |
| 26 | 119 |
But why would Priest-Kings desire Tarl Cabot to come to their mountains? He is nothing to them, nothing to any man; he is only a warrior, a man with no city to call his own, thus an outlaw. |
10 |
| 2 | 75 |
There is nothing surprising in this inasmuch as each bird is trained, by the Caste of Tarn Keepers, to respond to a different note. |
10 |
| 3 | 61 |
"I have had nothing to eat in many hours". |
10 |
| 3 | 62 |
"I, too, am hungry," he said, "and have had nothing to eat in many hours". |
10 |
| 4 | 30 |
Then nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 53 |
Yet I could see nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 26 |
There was nothing extraordinary about him, unless perhaps it was a brow somewhat more lofty than is common, eyes that might have looked on sights few men had seen. |
10 |
| 5 | 57 |
"Because it was," said the man, "and there is nothing higher in virtue of which the will of the Priest-Kings may be determined or questioned". |
10 |
| 5 | 62 |
You are henceforth a man without a city, you are a warning to all not to scorn the will of the Priest-Kings—beyond this you are nothing". |
10 |
| 5 | 71 |
Was it on my account that a city had perished? Was it I who had brought disaster to its people, to my father, to my friends and Talena? Had I been too foolish to understand that I was nothing before the power of the Priest-Kings? Was I now to wander the forlorn roads and fields of Gor in guilt and a... |
10 |
| 5 | 107 |
I could make nothing of it, and threw it aside. |
10 |
| 7 | 94 |
"I accept nothing from the hands of Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," she said. |
10 |
| 9 | 9 |
"Nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 88 |
What struck me most about them had nothing to do with caste, but rather their lack of spirit. |
10 |
| 10 | 5 |
"I stole nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 32 |
The entrance itself was nothing more than a small, simple iron door, perhaps eighteen inches in width, perhaps five feet in height. |
10 |
| 10 | 41 |
There was a sound of sliding bolts and the iron door swung open, revealing nothing but darkness within. |
10 |
| 10 | 44 |
Suddenly I cried out in alarm, pawing at nothing, hurtling downward. |
10 |
| 10 | 85 |
"In Tharna," said he, "a man such as you can be nothing else". |
10 |
| 11 | 80 |
"I stole nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 98 |
I expected the Tatrix to intervene on his behalf, as she had on mine, but, instead, she said nothing. |
10 |
| 11 | 147 |
"Nothing, Beloved Tatrix," he whimpered. |
10 |
| 12 | 85 |
"A handful of bread for a song," was a common Gorean invitation extended to members of the caste, and it might occur on the lips of a peasant or a Ubar, and the poet took great pride that he would sing the same song in both the hut of the peasant and the halls of the Ubar, though it won for him only... |
10 |
| 14 | 181 |
And there were how many more, yoked and unyoked, bound and free, in the mines, on the Great Farms, in the city itself who suffered the misery of Tharna and her laws, who were subject to the crushing weight of her traditions, and knew at best nothing better in life than a bowl of cheap Kal-da at the ... |
10 |
| 15 | 43 |
Though I scrutinized the sky behind me, looking for those tiny specks that would be distant tarns in flight, I saw nothing. |
10 |
| 15 | 46 |
Yet I saw nothing. |
10 |
| 20 | 88 |
In the Sardar Range nothing grew. |
10 |
| 20 | 90 |
I took the tarn as high as I could, until his wings beat frantically against the thin air, but could see nothing in the Sardar Mountains that might be the habitation of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 20 | 92 |
What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the Priest-Kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initiates, their prostrations and... |
10 |
| 20 | 93 |
I could sense nothing. |
10 |
| 20 | 95 |
I could see nothing. |
10 |
| 22 | 124 |
For the first time in my life my senses were kindled—for the first time I could feel the movements of clothing on my body, for the first time I noticed how an eye opens and what, truly, is the feel of a hand's touch—and I knew then that I was no more nor less than he or any other livin... |
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| 23 | 98 |
The army of Tharna had struck here and there, at reported hiding places of slaves, but almost invariably they had found nothing. |
10 |
| 23 | 202 |
Several of them held crossbows; at least four others had spears poised; some boasted swords; but many of them carried nothing more than a chain or sharpened pole. |
10 |
| 24 | 254 |
I could hear nothing but the quiet, almost noiseless sound of my own sandals on the stones of the corridor. |
10 |
| 26 | 109 |
Who am I to challenge their power? I am nothing; not even a bit of dust, raised by the wind in a tiny fist of defiance; not even a blade of grass that cuts at the ankles of trampling gods. |
10 |
| 26 | 120 |
Could Priest-Kings, with their knowledge and power, have need of such a man? But Priest-Kings need nothing from men, and once more my thoughts grow foolish. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 25 |
Although the sensors and the mode of their application were fiendish and beyond my immediate competence to fully understand, they suggested nothing ultimately mysterious, nothing which might not eventually be explained. |
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| 30 | 74 |
The Priest-Kings themselves said nothing, explained nothing, to their dumbfounded human companions but merely laid aside their weapons and approached the Beetles. |
10 |
| 1 | 67 |
The contests at the fairs, however, I am pleased to say, offer nothing more dangerous than wrestling, with no holds to the death permitted. |
10 |
| 2 | 30 |
Their blind eyes were fixed on nothing. |
10 |
| 2 | 49 |
The rest is nothing". |
10 |
| 2 | 59 |
I encountered no animals, nor any growing thing, nothing save the endless black rocks, the black cliffs, and the path cut before me in the dark stone. |
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| 2 | 76 |
But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation ... |
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| 4 | 5 |
There was nothing in the lighting of the passage, or its construction, to suggest that the Priest-Kings' Caste of Builders, if they had one, was any more advanced than that of the men below the mountains. |
10 |
| 4 | 19 |
In this great dome there was nothing save that at its very center there was a high dais and on this dais there was a large throne carved from a single block of stone. |
10 |
| 5 | 103 |
I looked but I saw nothing other than the stone sides of the portal and on each side three rounded red domes, of perhaps four inches width apiece. |
10 |
| 5 | 145 |
"I would be the Ubara of all Gor," she laughed, "with Priest-Kings at my beck and call, at my command all their riches and their untold powers!" I said nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 204 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 6 | 47 |
"Why is there nothing but water to drink?" I asked Vika. |
10 |
| 7 | 80 |
I waited but nothing occurred. |
10 |
| 7 | 83 |
It of course occurred to me a hundred times that I was foolish, for actually I was conscious of having heard nothing. |
10 |
| 7 | 117 |
Although there was nothing now with me in the passage it had left its trace. |
10 |
| 8 | 19 |
"Nothing ever changes here," she said. |
10 |
| 8 | 26 |
There was nothing about them to encourage me to believe that the Priest-Kings, or King as it might be, were ultimately unfathomable or incomprehensible beings. |
10 |
| 9 | 52 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 77 |
"Nothing," she said. |
10 |
| 9 | 176 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 266 |
The slave girl was nothing. |
10 |
| 10 | 107 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 11 | 23 |
I heard nothing for the creature had snapped off his translator. |
10 |
| 12 | 190 |
They seemed to know almost nothing. |
10 |
| 12 | 229 |
Nothing might have happened in the last few moments save that one was breathing heavily and the other's face was spattered with his own blood. |
10 |
| 14 | 111 |
He would still hear nothing of this and seemed firm that I should not fall below ten. |
10 |
| 14 | 127 |
Misk said nothing for a long time, and then he dejectedly lowered his head, delicately extending his antennae to me for grooming. |
10 |
| 14 | 155 |
To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death. |
10 |
| 15 | 18 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 17 | 110 |
Accordingly with humans themselves so plentiful the construction of such a device would be nothing but an irrational misuse of our resources". |
10 |
| 17 | 168 |
"What if I claimed it was?" "Then I should reply," said Sarm, "that nothing below a Priest-King is truly rational". |
10 |
| 18 | 94 |
"You have nothing like the Home Stone in the Nest?" I asked. |
10 |
| 18 | 130 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 18 | 147 |
"I know nothing of these matters," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 87 |
I said nothing for a moment, but simply looked at the Priest-King who loomed above me. |
10 |
| 20 | 38 |
Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta said nothing but stepped from the transportation disk and, pressing the portal switch, opened the steel portal. |
10 |
| 20 | 142 |
"There is nothing you can do," said Mul-Al-Ka. |
10 |
| 22 | 39 |
"A heart for example?" "Nothing that will be of great use," said Misk. |
10 |
| 23 | 26 |
As I looked upon her now I felt strangely sad, and there was nothing left in my bosom of the bitterness with which I had earlier regarded her. |
10 |
| 23 | 35 |
I found nothing that could have caused her death unless perhaps a small puncture on her left side, through which some poison might have been injected. |
10 |
| 23 | 41 |
There was nothing I could do for her now, save perhaps hunt for the Golden Beetle. |
10 |
| 25 | 149 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 25 | 177 |
"It means nothing," she said. |
10 |
| 26 | 120 |
Nothing in the Nest is ever lost". |
10 |
| 26 | 212 |
"Is this," I asked, "how you chained men to your slave ring?" "Oh Cabot," she moaned, "Cabot—" Saying nothing further I stepped outside. |
10 |
| 26 | 239 |
|
10 |
| 27 | 275 |
Sarm said nothing. |
10 |
| 27 | 324 |
"I said nothing to him but I considered what he had said, and I thought on this matter, and at last—in league with the Second Born, who has since succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle, I set aside a female egg to be concealed from Sarm beyond the Nest". |
10 |
| 27 | 342 |
She said nothing for a time. |
10 |
| 27 | 347 |
I knew not how to respond to this and so I said nothing. |
10 |
| 29 | 41 |
I knew nothing of the armament of the ships of Sarm and I knew I had only the silver tube in my own craft, a weapon far outclassed in destructive potential by the gravitational disrupters mounted in the ships of Sarm. |
10 |
| 29 | 163 |
I thought I heard a noise and listened for some time, but there was nothing more. |
10 |
| 30 | 149 |
"Nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 31 | 131 |
I knew that somehow I must try to stop Sarm but what could I do? He was armed with a silver tube and I with nothing but the steel of a Gorean sword. |
10 |
| 31 | 145 |
Nothing from his position at the top of the globe, though it had been an ideal vantage point for firing the tube into the instrumentation. |
10 |
| 31 | 166 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 32 | 72 |
"Is there nothing that can be done?" I demanded. |
10 |
| 32 | 73 |
"Nothing," said Misk. |
10 |
| 32 | 187 |
"You can do nothing to help," he said. |
10 |
| 34 | 91 |
"There is nothing for me," said Vika. |
10 |
| 34 | 92 |
"Nothing". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap... |
10 |
| 1 | 49 |
They eat nothing that has touched the dirt. |
10 |
| 2 | 34 |
I would say little or nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 14 |
I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ... |
10 |
| 6 | 35 |
It was clear she could not believe her eyes, that she understood nothing, that she did not comprehend her surroundings, that she thought herself mad. |
10 |
| 6 | 112 |
"Anything!" "You have nothing," I informed her, and she blushed. |
10 |
| 7 | 24 |
He said nothing, nor did Kamchak. |
10 |
| 7 | 110 |
Elizabeth had looked, tears almost in her eyes, at the department head, but he seemed suddenly to her soft, pudgy, distant, sweating, nothing. |
10 |
| 7 | 155 |
I suppose, in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar, which claims suzerainty over the delta, exacting cruel tributes from the rence growers, great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves ... |
10 |
| 7 | 158 |
Saying nothing he handed it back to Kamchak, who seemed to study it with great care, and then, to my amazement, turned it sideways and then upside down. |
10 |
| 7 | 217 |
"What," I asked Kamchak, "would you do if you thought the message were truly from Priest-Kings?" "Nothing," said Kamchak, gravely. |
10 |
| 7 | 227 |
There was nothing more to be learned from her. |
10 |
| 8 | 1 |
The Wintering If I had hoped for an easy answer to the riddles which concerned me, or a swift end to my search for the egg of Priest-Kings, I was disappointed, for I learned nothing of either for months. |
10 |
| 8 | 103 |
Kamchak said nothing, but then he got up and from a chest in the wagon he took forth a goblet and filled it with an amber fluid, into which he shook a dark, bluish powder. |
10 |
| 8 | 135 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, of course, knew nothing of these things. |
10 |
| 8 | 237 |
Among the wagons he was nothing. |
10 |
| 8 | 397 |
Nothing simple, but something that, somehow, you can anticipate, if only to a degree. |
10 |
| 8 | 459 |
Undoubtedly! What could they lose? Nothing. |
10 |
| 8 | 585 |
When she had stood sideways I had favored the left, so that if the stroke was in error, the lance would miss the tospit altogether; but now, as she faced me, the stroke must be made for the center of the fruit; nothing else would do. |
10 |
| 9 | 303 |
But Kamchak said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 374 |
"It is nothing," said Kamchak, "only a trinket". |
10 |
| 10 | 18 |
It was one of the highest prices ever paid among the wagons for a slave and I judged that Albrecht had sorely missed his little Tenchika; the high price he was forced to pay for the girl was made even more intolerable by Kamchak's amusement at his expense, roaring with laughter and slapping his knee... |
10 |
| 10 | 141 |
"Would you like to learn," asked Kamchak of the girl, "to wear silk and bells, to speak, to stand, to walk, to dance—to drive men mad with the desire to own and master you?" The girl said nothing but shuddered. |
10 |
| 10 | 143 |
Elizabeth said nothing, her head down. |
10 |
| 10 | 226 |
There was nothing living on Gor I knew that could take the impact of a tharlarion charge. |
10 |
| 10 | 300 |
I know of nothing else precisely like them on Gor. |
10 |
| 11 | 171 |
"Is a Tuchuk too poor," she asked, "to clothe a miserable slave?" "I have many diamonds in the wagon," said Kamchak, "which you may wear if you wish—but nothing else will you wear until it pleases me". |
10 |
| 12 | 15 |
In Turia I had learned nothing, unfortunately, of the answers to the mystery of the message collar—or to the appearance of Miss Elizabeth Cardwell on the southern plains of Gor. |
10 |
| 12 | 161 |
"Well," said Kamchak, "what is it that a Turian wench would crave of her master?" "Nothing," said Aphris. |
10 |
| 12 | 286 |
"What does it mean," she asked, "that you have chained me?" "Nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 467 |
"Nothing," I told her. |
10 |
| 13 | 3 |
Aphris, knowing the ways of Gor and the temper of Tuchuks, was terrified, and said almost nothing. |
10 |
| 13 | 71 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 13 | 104 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 13 | 220 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 14 | 94 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 14 | 126 |
"He said it was now all he was good for—for this—and for nothing else". |
10 |
| 15 | 121 |
"Nothing important," I remarked. |
10 |
| 16 | 161 |
The other warrior, a strong, gaunt man, scarred across the left cheekbone, with shrewd, dark eyes, said nothing, but watched us, considering us, as a warrior considers an enemy. |
10 |
| 16 | 166 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 17 | 26 |
Nothing had yet broken the surface. |
10 |
| 17 | 61 |
That seemed foolish to me, but I said nothing. |
10 |
| 17 | 62 |
I certainly had nothing in mind so ridiculous as to hurl at enemies the one weapon which might mean life or death to me in my struggle in the Yellow Pool of Turia. |
10 |
| 17 | 64 |
I still had seen nothing break the surface to breathe, and now I was determined that my unseen foe must indeed be aquatic. |
10 |
| 21 | 164 |
The Caste of Bakers is not regarded as a high caste, to which one looks for nobility and such; and yet her father and her brothers, outnumbered, had fought and died for their tiny shop; and this courageous girl, with a valor I might not have expected of many warriors, weaponless, alone and friendles... |
10 |
| 21 | 210 |
Indeed, I respected his wisdom—withdrawing in the face of a situation in which there was nothing to be gained and, considering the vulnerability of the wagons and bosk to tarnsmen, much to be lost. |
10 |
| 21 | 247 |
"You can do nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 20 |
After we had taken the girl and the potter and wine vendor to whatever safety their homes might afford, we set out for the House of Saphrar, where, after some examination of the scene, I convinced myself there was nothing immediately to be done. |
10 |
| 24 | 195 |
"To the right!" I looked to the right but could see nothing but the side of a brick building. |
10 |
| 25 | 54 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 25 | 103 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 25 | 227 |
"Nothing that I care to inform you of," I said. |
10 |
| 25 | 348 |
I said nothing for a time. |
10 |
| 25 | 353 |
"It has nothing to do, I think," I said, "with what woman is actually slave or free, has little to do with the simplicity of chains or the collar, or the brand". |
10 |
| 25 | 424 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 25 | 752 |
"It means nothing!" I then began to kiss her foot, and the inside of her ankle, beneath the bone, and she trembled momentarily. |
10 |
| 25 | 847 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 26 | 7 |
We had said nothing, but I had gathered her into my arms and kissed her, then left the wagon. |
10 |
| 26 | 19 |
When I had left the wagon Elizabeth Cardwell, though she had said nothing, had been frightened. |
10 |
| 26 | 33 |
"We saw nothing". |
10 |
| 26 | 49 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 26 | 214 |
"He knows! He knows!" "Does it truly make a difference," asked Kamchak of me, "whether or not he shatters the sphere?" "Yes," I said, "there is nothing more valuable on all Gor—it is perhaps worth the planet itself". |
10 |
| 26 | 299 |
It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of Priest-Kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my friend Misk's life and its pur... |
10 |
| 26 | 315 |
My head down, I cared for nothing. |
10 |
| 26 | 450 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 26 | 522 |
"Almost nothing," muttered Kamchak, "for she is nearly worthless". |
10 |
| 26 | 533 |
"I have heard," said Harold, "that she does nothing but sing around the bosk and in the wagon all day—I myself would probably beat a girl who insisted on making all that noise". |
10 |
| 26 | 562 |
"I have nothing more to give," she cried. |
10 |
| 26 | 563 |
"Nothing more!" "It is enough," I had told her. |
10 |
| 27 | 159 |
Aphris said nothing, but she trembled and shook her head slightly. |
10 |
| 28 | 60 |
I said nothing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 415 |
My house is confiscated by the state! I am nothing! I am nothing!" Cernus meditated his move, his chin on his two fists, one above the other. |
10 |
| 1 | 28 |
They are silent, for at such a time words mean nothing, and would demean or insult; in such a time there can be for Goreans only silence, memory and fire. |
10 |
| 1 | 73 |
Kuurus said nothing, but only looked at the man. |
10 |
| 2 | 162 |
Kuurus said nothing but observed him. |
10 |
| 2 | 196 |
Kuurus said nothing. |
10 |
| 2 | 214 |
Kuurus said nothing. |
10 |
| 2 | 360 |
I mumbled something, but she would hear nothing of it, and suddenly feeling her in my arms I laughed and held her to me, and she laughed, and whispered, "I love you, Tarl Cabot," and I said to her, "Kuurus, Kuurus—of the Caste of Assassins," and she said, "Yes, Kuurus—and poor Vella of... |
10 |
| 3 | 109 |
"Very well," said the Player, looking out over the board placidly, seeing nothing. |
10 |
| 3 | 227 |
"How is it then," asked he, "that you have such riches?" "It means nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 4 | 2 |
Cernus of Ar, of the House of Cernus, studied me, his large face impassive, his eyes revealing nothing, like gray stones. |
10 |
| 4 | 121 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 184 |
Elizabeth said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 203 |
Elizabeth said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 207 |
"She is Red Silk but she knows almost nothing". |
10 |
| 5 | 175 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 209 |
"Nothing of her is known". |
10 |
| 5 | 227 |
Since Elizabeth and I were strangers in the Nest Serus had wanted us fit with the devices as a precaution, but, of course, Misk would hear nothing of it. |
10 |
| 5 | 321 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 409 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 428 |
"We ask nothing of you, Tarl Cabot," said Misk. |
10 |
| 7 | 17 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 7 | 33 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 8 | 184 |
"There is nothing like coffee and a good wench after breakfast," I told her. |
10 |
| 9 | 112 |
"They know nothing of men," said he. |
10 |
| 10 | 117 |
"You know nothing of the beast?" I asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 116 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 12 | 197 |
She said nothing but stood there, wrists braceleted behind her back, locked in place, watching the approach of the iron, observing the graceful, white-hot character at the iron's termination; she screamed uncontrollably when the iron marked her, firmly, decisively for about three Ihn; and then she s... |
10 |
| 12 | 246 |
"You know nothing of such matters," said Sura. |
10 |
| 12 | 253 |
She will know nothing except the care of bosk and the cleaning of leather". |
10 |
| 12 | 260 |
"Nothing can be done for them. |
10 |
| 13 | 28 |
Marlenus, I was confident, had nothing to do with the disappearance of the Hinrabian girl. |
10 |
| 13 | 43 |
Beneath the toweling Nela wore nothing; about her neck, rather than the common slave collar, she, like the other bath girls, wore a chain and plate. |
10 |
| 13 | 200 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 14 | 101 |
This suggested to me there might be movements afoot in Ar of which I knew nothing. |
10 |
| 14 | 112 |
Once as I walked about I heard the wild cry, a howling roar, of an animal, apparently large and fierce; I supposed it to be the Beast of which Ho-Tu, and others, seemed so frightened; they seemed to know as little of it as I; when I heard the cry an involuntary shiver coursed my spine; I felt the ha... |
10 |
| 15 | 113 |
For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ... |
10 |
| 15 | 124 |
There had been nothing clandestine about her sale, and it was unlikely that she would not be able to convince her master, eventually, that she was of high family in Ar and might be richly ransomed. |
10 |
| 15 | 175 |
The first week, surprisingly, consisted of nothing but the girl kneeling before the great mirror, in the position of a Pleasure Slave, for several Ahn a day. |
10 |
| 15 | 274 |
"I will have nothing to do with men," said Phyllis. |
10 |
| 15 | 413 |
"You have nothing to fear. |
10 |
| 15 | 425 |
"But now I am nothing. |
10 |
| 15 | 426 |
Only a caste brother, nothing. |
10 |
| 16 | 25 |
The slaves in the pens received almost nothing. |
10 |
| 16 | 37 |
I was furious but it seemed to me I could do nothing. |
10 |
| 16 | 48 |
According to Ho-Tu, whom I had once asked about this, there were two main reasons for this; first, their training was peculiarly full and intensive; second, the prospect of being permitted to leave the house, particularly attractive to Virginia and Phyllis, who had known nothing of Gor save the Hous... |
10 |
| 16 | 220 |
"I know nothing of them". |
10 |
| 17 | 101 |
She said nothing, but tried to turn away. |
10 |
| 17 | 249 |
Still it was better than nothing. |
10 |
| 17 | 592 |
I poked around in the chest but I could find nothing, so far, but tangles of beads and jewelry, some silks. |
10 |
| 17 | 639 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you have such a doll?" She said nothing, but returned the doll to its hiding place, beneath some silks and jewelry, at the back of the chest, in the right corner. |
10 |
| 18 | 37 |
He said nothing. |
10 |
| 18 | 173 |
"There is nothing holy about disease, about pain, about death". |
10 |
| 19 | 89 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 19 | 151 |
She did nothing to move the buyers but stood, head down, numb on the block until she was completely revealed. |
10 |
| 19 | 171 |
I myself, in spite of my predicament, found myself being awestruck, again and again, by the beauty, the performances, the dances of the girls who were, lot by lot, brought before us; how beautiful are women, how fantastic, how tormenting, how superb, how marvelous, how excruciatingly maddening, and ... |
10 |
| 19 | 182 |
The girl seemed to understand nothing. |
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 |
| 19 | 198 |
"Barbarians are nothing!" The auctioneer conferred with a market official, who kept lists of lot numbers and confirmed the bids and final sale with the buyers or their agents at the side of the block. |
10 |
| 19 | 245 |
Phyllis tossed her head and looked away, over the heads of the crowd, nothing but contempt on her face. |
10 |
| 19 | 371 |
I would not admit to myself, even in speculation, that such a fate might befall the helpless prizes now upon the block of Ar, years of miserable, unrelieved servitude, to live at the beck and call of masters among the most cruel of Gor, existing only to give pleasure to one to whom they would be alw... |
10 |
| 19 | 478 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 20 | 145 |
The girl said nothing to her, but only looked again from the hook knife to the bound Hinrabian. |
10 |
| 20 | 186 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 20 | 203 |
"Slaves do not play!" Sura said nothing. |
10 |
| 20 | 314 |
There had been nothing bold in his tone of voice, only perhaps impatience. |
10 |
| 21 | 4 |
Within the heavy metal casque I could see nothing. |
10 |
| 21 | 61 |
I said nothing for a time. |
10 |
| 21 | 74 |
"Nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 88 |
Inside the blind helmet I could see nothing. |
10 |
| 21 | 223 |
I am a man who is surely next to nothing, one unworthy of note. |
10 |
| 21 | 375 |
"You fight in wars," said Murmillius, "you know nothing of". |
10 |
| 21 | 398 |
I could make nothing of what they were saying. |
10 |
| 22 | 80 |
I approached slowly, holding my hands open, saying nothing. |
10 |
| 22 | 327 |
He said nothing. |
10 |
| 22 | 333 |
"I know nothing of what he says," growled Menicius. |
10 |
| 22 | 451 |
I had never seen him race before, and Mip had told me nothing of him. |
10 |
| 22 | 502 |
My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak awa... |
10 |
| 23 | 95 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 23 | 110 |
"You have nothing," said I, "Cernus". |
10 |
| 23 | 240 |
"It is nothing," he said. |
10 |
| 23 | 241 |
"If death is nothing," I said, "then the little that life is must be much indeed". |
10 |
| 24 | 83 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 24 | 85 |
Nothing more was known of her in Ar than had been known in Ko-ro-ba, or in the very Nest of Priest-Kings itself. |
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 | 198 |
The girl trembled, saying nothing. |
10 |
| 24 | 227 |
"They know nothing of slavery," said Marlenus. |
10 |
| 24 | 358 |
Ho-Sorl said nothing. |
10 |
| 24 | 384 |
"You come forward," asked he, "to claim your honors, your glories and awards?" I said nothing, but stood before him. |
10 |
| 24 | 389 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 114 |
Standing below the hull, quite close, in the shifting rence craft, I made a small clicking noise, a sound that meant nothing but, in the darkness, meaning nothing, would be startling, terrifying in its uncomprehended import. |
10 |
| 18 | 939 |
If you were not the highest, you would demand to be the lowest; if you were not the best, you would be nothing less than the worst; if there was not the myth there was to be nothing". |
10 |
| 3 | 69 |
For what other reason would one go to Port Kar?" For a long time Ho-Hak said nothing. |
10 |
| 3 | 127 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 3 | 270 |
In their eyes, and in mine, I could now be nothing, only slave. |
10 |
| 3 | 306 |
Strangely I felt small and nothing beside the girl, only chattel. |
10 |
| 4 | 34 |
Then, as casually as one might untether an animal, fearing nothing, she unbound me. |
10 |
| 4 | 100 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 129 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 202 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 263 |
"Know you not," asked she, with sudden insolence and coldness, "that I am a free woman?" I said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 291 |
Alone and slave, beaten and degraded, I found myself desperately in need of something, be it almost nothing, to indicate that I was a man, a human being, something that might, to some extent or degree, be worthy of respect or understanding. |
10 |
| 4 | 292 |
I think that if she, this proud woman, before whom I felt myself nothing, she my mistress, if she had but cared to speak a word of simple kindness to me I might have cried out with gladness, willingly serving her in all things she asked. |
10 |
| 4 | 306 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 36 |
"Would you like to serve me?" I said nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 39 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 41 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 104 |
The girls looked at one another, saying nothing, but laughing and poking one another. |
10 |
| 7 | 149 |
She said nothing, but knelt across from me, across from where I sat cross-legged. |
10 |
| 7 | 184 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 8 | 109 |
These defensive conditions dictated that the offense, putatively the male population of one or perhaps two rence communities, say, some seventy or eighty men, would most likely attack at either the first or the last of the barges, where they would have but one front on which to attack and little, or... |
10 |
| 8 | 196 |
Nothing happened. |
10 |
| 8 | 197 |
I heard nothing. |
10 |
| 8 | 506 |
I felt shamed, agonized, but I would show nothing. |
10 |
| 8 | 563 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 470 |
"Telima," said I, thinking of Ho-Hak, "why was Ho-Hak so moved, when together we spoke of the boy Eechius?" She said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 479 |
Telima said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 511 |
There was nothing of worth in Port Kar, nor in all the worlds of all the suns. |
10 |
| 9 | 541 |
I knew him to be pirate; and I knew him to be slaver, and murderer, and thief; I knew him to be a cruel and worthless man, abominable, truly of Port Kar and, as I looked upon him, the filth and rottenness, I felt nothing but disgust. |
10 |
| 9 | 579 |
I felt nothing but hatred, and an ugly, irrepressible disgust of him. |
10 |
| 9 | 649 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 705 |
I said nothing, but watched them. |
10 |
| 10 | 183 |
Why, I asked myself, should Cos and Tyros consider bringing their fleets against Port Kar? What had changed? But then I recalled that nothing had changed. |
10 |
| 10 | 278 |
I would purchase a strong man from the market chain on the slave wharf, and then, saying nothing, set him free. |
10 |
| 11 | 276 |
"But there seems nothing genuine?" he asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 280 |
"But these minions," he said, "they will know nothing". |
10 |
| 11 | 287 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 11 | 411 |
Also considered, though nothing was determined that night, were matters of taxation, the unification and revision of the codes of the five Ubars, the establishment of council courts, replacing those of the Ubars, and the acquisition of a sizable number of men-at-arms, who would be directly responsib... |
10 |
| 11 | 586 |
The captains said nothing. |
10 |
| 13 | 187 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 14 | 383 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 14 | 440 |
The fact that many women of Earth do not affect the veil is one of the reasons that many Goreans, who are familiar with the Second Knowledge, or have witnessed such women being brought in chains to the market, perhaps still in shreds of their Earth clothing, regard them as shameless, and as curvaceo... |
10 |
| 15 | 39 |
She said nothing. |
10 |
| 15 | 59 |
"I asked you, as I recall," I had reminded her, "if you had ever been in the hold of a round ship?" She said nothing. |
10 |
| 15 | 170 |
Even Tellius, the kitchen master, could say nothing. |
10 |
| 15 | 518 |
She said nothing. |
10 |
| 15 | 638 |
"It is nothing," she said, looking down. |
10 |
| 15 | 775 |
Nothing had mattered. |
10 |
| 15 | 820 |
She said nothing. |
10 |
| 16 | 16 |
"Nothing," she laughed. |
10 |
| 16 | 97 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 16 | 109 |
She said nothing. |
10 |
| 16 | 423 |
I said nothing, but faced the crowd for a long moment. |
10 |
| 18 | 661 |
"It is nothing," said he, "Warrior". |
10 |
| 18 | 874 |
"Nothing else?" I asked. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 204 |
They feared nothing, and needed nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 463 |
"Yes! I acknowledge myself a slave! I am a slave! I am a slave!" "And only a slave," inquired Verna, "and nothing other than a slave?" "I am only a slave," I cried, "and nothing other than a slave!" "Naught else?" she asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 46 |
A bit of ribbon, a color on an accessory, the proper shade of expensive lipstick, the stitching on a skirt, the quality of leather in an imported belt and matching shoes, nothing was unimportant. |
10 |
| 1 | 75 |
They were nothing. |
10 |
| 1 | 137 |
There was nothing unusual about the room. |
10 |
| 1 | 177 |
I knew almost nothing of these things, but there was no mistaking the lovely, deep, incised mark on my thigh. |
10 |
| 2 | 70 |
I turned wildly, my back to the counter, holding the knife, but there was nothing. |
10 |
| 2 | 147 |
There was nothing to reach for, or hold to there. |
10 |
| 3 | 39 |
Nothing was touched. |
10 |
| 3 | 105 |
I understood nothing of what he was saying. |
10 |
| 3 | 348 |
I had eaten nothing all day. |
10 |
| 3 | 443 |
I had seen nothing. |
10 |
| 3 | 446 |
Nothing seemed to be behind me. |
10 |
| 4 | 97 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 103 |
Again I said nothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 147 |
In my search for food I had found some utensils, but no knives, nothing to use as a weapon. |
10 |
| 5 | 181 |
In moments nothing had happened. |
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 |
| 6 | 22 |
Around me, soft, undulating, glistening with dew in the dim light, I could see nothing but grassy fields, seemingly endless fields, rolling and rolling, sweeping away from me on all sides toward horizons that might be empty. |
10 |
| 6 | 29 |
There was nothing to eat. |
10 |
| 6 | 84 |
There is nothing to be frightened of, I told myself. |
10 |
| 6 | 136 |
I gathered he had found nothing. |
10 |
| 6 | 140 |
He had seen nothing. |
10 |
| 6 | 151 |
But he must understand English! Another man came back, I suppose to report that he had found nothing. |
10 |
| 6 | 163 |
But I could understand nothing. |
10 |
| 7 | 2 |
I cost him nothing. |
10 |
| 7 | 299 |
And there is nothing, of course, which so enflames the virility of a man as the sight of a slave girl, let alone the thought of taking her in his arms. |
10 |
| 7 | 344 |
They taught me Gorean for hours a day, and, of course, I heard nothing but this language. |
10 |
| 7 | 378 |
"It is nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 7 | 424 |
Surely I would prefer to be owned by a woman, perhaps to be her serving slave, to brush and comb her long hair, to dress her, to adorn her, to fetch her cosmetics, to carry her messages and run her errands, but then I realized I did not want that at all! I did not want to be owned by a woman! But wh... |
10 |
| 7 | 451 |
How amused and pleased, I thought, would be so many of those I knew on Earth, to see me, Elinor Brinton, in such a situation, owned, striving to please a master! But, too, of course, I knew nothing of the duties of a woman's serving slave. |
10 |
| 7 | 459 |
He wished to assure the woman that he had had me for nothing, that he would not have purchased such an inferior girl for his chain. |
10 |
| 7 | 468 |
I was nothing. |
10 |
| 7 | 470 |
They, like I, were only slaves, stripped, their ankles chained, their throats in leather coffle, branded girls, nothing before one who was free. |
10 |
| 7 | 544 |
There was nothing unusual or different about it. |
10 |
| 7 | 546 |
There was nothing special about it. |
10 |
| 8 | 532 |
I was such that men would find me so desirable that nothing less than the full owning of me would satisfy them. |
10 |
| 8 | 533 |
I was so beautiful that they would settle for nothing short of having absolute power over me. |
10 |
| 8 | 805 |
"There is nothing much else to do in the villages," said Lana, who refused to try the game. |
10 |
| 9 | 63 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 67 |
"Is it true?" I said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 94 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 170 |
I had sensed nothing, and I gathered that most of the other girls had not either. |
10 |
| 9 | 189 |
I understood nothing of this. |
10 |
| 9 | 199 |
I was nothing with these proud, free, dangerous, brave women, these independent, superb, unfearing, resourceful, fierce felines, panther girls of the northern forests of Gor. |
10 |
| 9 | 264 |
I said nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 391 |
She said nothing, but turned angrily away, and led me from the post, following Verna and her band. |
10 |
| 9 | 407 |
I could see nothing but the darkness of the trees, and the shadows. |
10 |
| 10 | 135 |
I could own nothing. |
10 |
| 10 | 242 |
"I felt nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 248 |
I could say nothing. |
10 |
| 10 | 343 |
"It means nothing," I said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1006 |
She wishes to belong completely to a man, withholding nothing, permitted to withhold nothing. |
10 |
| 11 | 663 |
She was nothing, nothing. |
10 |
| 15 | 694 |
"Nothing?" "You are to receive nothing," I told her. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 152 |
But it would once have burned, and that was fixed, undeniable, a part of what had been, that it had burned; nothing could change that, not the eternities of time, not the will of Priest-Kings, the machinations of Others, the willfulness and hatred of men; nothing could change that it had been, that ... |
10 |
| 10 | 315 |
If the thrall had been nothing in Torvaldsland before, he was now less than nothing; his status was now, in effect, that of the southern male work slave, found often in the quarries and mines, and, chained, on the great farms. |
10 |
| 11 | 221 |
"What will you pay," asked Svein Blue Tooth, "for permission to traverse our land, should that permission be granted?" "We will take little or nothing," said the Kur, "and so must be asked to pay nothing". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 187 |
All a dream! Then to my misery I remembered the man, being seized from behind, not able even to see him, my struggles, being held so helplessly, the cloth over my mouth and nose, his waiting for me to breathe, at last my gasping helplessly for breath, the terrible fumes, nothing else to breathe, not... |
10 |
| 4 | 412 |
How could he permit this? Did it mean nothing to him that he had, the preceding night, taken my virginity from me? Did it mean nothing to him that he had, for long hours, pleasured himself with my body? Did it mean nothing to him that he had won me, that I had yielded to him, that I had surrendered ... |
10 |
| 2 | 1055 |
If I had had a weapon, a civilized weapon, even so slight as a small pistol, which I might have grasped, steadying it, with both hands, I might have feared less, but I had nothing, absolutely nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 768 |
He had made me love him! I loved him! And yet he cared nothing for me! "Don't you understand," I cried, "I love you! I love you! And yet you treat me as nothing! I hate you!" I shook with rage. |
10 |
| 4 | 1080 |
I wondered why my master had opened the corridor in the thorn brush; did I really mean nothing to him; was it nothing to him whether I remained in the camp, or fled into the darkness, to starve, or be devoured by beasts, or to fall into the hands of others? I suspected that, truly, it did mean littl... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 39 |
"I can get nothing out of her, if she knows nothing," snapped the girl. |
10 |
| 18 | 51 |
Nothing, nothing ever, could change that. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 137 |
"Nothing, nothing!" I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 254 |
"Nothing, absolutely nothing," she said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 560 |
"And my desires in this matter are nothing?" "Nothing," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 561 |
"Nothing?" "Nothing". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 151 |
"She, despite her cultural affectations, her upper-class diction, her formalities and haughtinesses, is nothing, nothing, clearly—is far less than any of us—is no more than a lascivious trollop. |
10 |
| 13 | 1364 |
You may know little or nothing of your master, or masters, other than the fact that he holds total power over you, and he may know little or nothing of you, other than the fact that your lovely hide is marked with the brand of the female slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 509 |
"One is one, and nothing is nothing," said another, "so one is left with one, which is one". |
10 |
| 17 | 511 |
"Nothing is either nothing or one," said another. |
10 |
| 17 | 512 |
"If it is nothing, then it is nothing. |
10 |
| 17 | 611 |
It cannot be refuted for, saying nothing, nothing can be produced, even in theory, which could count against it. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 585 |
"Have you nothing simpler, nothing plainer, nothing coarser?" I asked. |
10 |
| 3 | 940 |
We knew nothing, or almost nothing, of how we had come here. |
10 |
| 5 | 185 |
Too, I thought, surely it would be more fitting for women, in their softness and beauty, with their dispositions to submit and love, irreservedly and wholly, asking nothing, giving all, holding nothing back from the dominant male, their master, to be chained to a slave ring. |
10 |
| 5 | 241 |
"But, from what you know of me," I said, "do you think that I might bring a silver tarsk?" "As a Tatrix," he asked, "or only as another woman in the market, another mere female, up for vending, one about whom there is nothing politically or socially special, one who, like most others, will be priced... |
10 |
| 32 | 310 |
"Nothing," I said, "nothing, Master". |
10 |
| 36 | 1362 |
How many women are, that way, and to that extent? We are wanted so much that nothing will satisfy them less than taking us in hand, and owning us! We are that desirable! They want us that much! And they will have nothing less from us than the perfection they desire of a woman. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1524 |
"You are entitled to nothing, absolutely nothing," I told her. |
10 |
| 12 | 302 |
It seemed he had done nothing more than deliver his new Rider of the High Tharlarion promptly, and for nothing, into my prison pit. |
10 |
| 16 | 749 |
"It is nothing," said Petrucchio, as though it might really have been nothing, the bestowal of so priceless a right. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1279 |
She had nothing to fear from them, absolutely nothing to fear from them, unless perhaps, one day, she should become a slave. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 202 |
"Nothing! Nothing!" "They are bringing food," said a girl. |
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| 11 | 1593 |
I was only a slave! But thus I could be as free, and piteous, and begging, and lewd, and loving, and sexual as I wished! I had nothing to conceal, nothing to keep secret. |
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| 27 | 144 |
Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a free woman, as she had hitherto s... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 21 | 1334 |
Too, if nothing else it would impress upon her that she was a slave and that masters would think nothing of punishing her if she was not pleasing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 31 | 552 |
"Captives," I said, "are next to nothing, as slaves are nothing. |
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| 48 | 18 |
"I am nothing, worthless, only a slave! I must be shameless! No longer am I permitted to claim, profess, and attempt to retain, false dignities! That is for free women! No longer am I a free woman! That is behind me! It is gone, gone! I am now a slave! I am shameless! Yes, shameless, shameless! I am... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 216 |
Knowing they have nothing to fear from their own people, they pretend they are like the enemy, perhaps in the hope that then they will have nothing to fear from him, as well. |
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| 14 | 745 |
"That is her overt move, that things should proceed as though nothing had happened, as though nothing were afoot". |
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| 17 | 29 |
Why is there anything? Why is there anything at all? Why not just nothing? Wouldn't "nothing" be more likely, more rational, more scientific? When did time begin? Where does space end? On a line, at the surface of a sphere? Do our definitions constrain reality? What if reality does not know our lang... |
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| 20 | 34 |
"No," she said, "I understood nothing, nothing!" "Oh," I said. |
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| 20 | 36 |
"Nothing! Nothing! Oh, my master, thank you, thank you! Be kind! Be kind to your slave, she begs you!" I was silent. |
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| 24 | 205 |
What fool, who wants her, would not have her in his collar? And does she not wish to be so wanted that nothing less will satisfy him? Can she conceive of being so desirable? Does the slave in her not long for her master? Does she want, truly, an accommodating weakling, or a master? To which will she... |
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| 28 | 89 |
Perhaps there was not, after all, young and old, but rather those who were ready to work and serve, and those who were not, those who preferred to profit from the work and service of others, risking nothing, contributing nothing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 219 |
No, there was nothing unique or special about me, or, at least, nothing any more unique or special than characterized the others in the line. |
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| 7 | 474 |
No longer did I then, in those moments, care for the danger, or whether I cried out, or if he cried out, or about the guards, or who might enter the garden! Nothing mattered, nothing was real but the feeling, the sensations, the moment! I only then became aware of the might of him, too, as though mo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 264 |
"Then, Ellen," laughed the woman, "you are nothing but livestock, nothing but a pretty little piece of livestock, nothing but a domestic animal, nothing but a pretty little branded domestic animal!" Tears sprang to Ellen's eyes. |
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| 1 | 103 |
It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law. |
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| 1 | 109 |
She suspected nothing, absolutely nothing. |
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| 4 | 107 |
"I have no money, no wealth, I have no family, no loved ones, nothing, you can get no ransom for me! I mean nothing to anyone! I am a mature, middle-aged, woman. |
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| 8 | 118 |
She felt that this was true, but that there was nothing wrong with it, that this was nothing to be ashamed of, certainly not if that was what one truly was, if one were a slave, truly. |
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| 9 | 139 |
Tell us all about men and women, and social artifacts, and roles, and such things, how conventional everything is, and political and capricious, and how the human species, alone of all the other species, has no nature, and how genetics is meaningless, and biology false, and endocrinology irrelevant,... |
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| 16 | 10 |
These were not the sounds of animals, the roars, and growls, the bleating, bellowing, shrieking, howlings, and hissings of animals, nor the sounds of nature, nothing like the dashings of branches against one another, lashed by the wind, nothing like the pattering of rain, the tumbling of rocks, the ... |
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| 16 | 15 |
She continued to listen, dimly, determinedly, in English, and, in this way, reassuringly, she understood nothing, or, perhaps better, nothing she would admit to herself. |
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| 16 | 700 |
These considerations were nothing that Ellen understood at the time, and even if she had understood them, there was nothing in them, of course, to lessen the actual, miserable, fierce burning of the lash. |
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| 23 | 99 |
"Nothing, nothing, Masters!" said Ellen. |
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| 24 | 22 |
Early in her bondage, although she had understood that she had been enslaved, she had, perhaps oddly, not really thought of herself as being owned; perhaps she had thought of herself as being more a prisoner or captive of sorts; then, a bit later in her bondage, but initially while still in the hous... |
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| 27 | 2208 |
One might perhaps, however, for the sake of simplicity, distinguish between two general sorts of havings, first, those in which a master teaches a slave that she is nothing by simply using her as an at-hand convenience, a lovely convenience, often unconcernedly, often casually, briefly, abruptly, so... |
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| 27 | 3086 |
But all here now, even the soldiers, understood at least that much! If only she could convince the beasts that she knew nothing! Or that what she knew was meaningless and inconsequential, or no more than what others here, and doubtless others elsewhere, too, might know! If only she could convince th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 175 |
And I heard nothing, nothing!" "Secrets," said Cabot, "are lightly revealed by free women". |
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| 25 | 114 |
"It was nothing, nothing!" "Perhaps it was an utterance of defiance, of rebellion, or protest?" "No, Master!" she said. |
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| 34 | 120 |
She retires, anticipating nothing, suspecting nothing. |
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| 42 | 97 |
The throat of the Lady Bina, of course, was not constructed to utter Kur, nor would she know much of that language, saving perhaps to recognize some words addressed to her, and what Kurii might be in the facility would be unlikely to have translators, or, even, if so, would not be likely to have the... |
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| 55 | 135 |
"In a civilization the slave is a particular sort of thing, and understood to be that, and nothing beyond that, nothing further, or other. |
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| 73 | 168 |
A man wants nothing so much as a slave, and nothing so pleases a man as a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 71 |
"They do not much mind it," I said, "for they have known nothing else, nothing better. |
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| 4 | 253 |
"Nothing, nothing," she said, sullenly. |
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| 5 | 250 |
"It meant nothing to you?" "Little or nothing," I said. |
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| 5 | 1110 |
There was little, as far as we knew, beyond Tyros and Cos, some small islands, of course, usually spoken of as the Farther Islands, but nothing else, lest it be the World's End, the edge of the sea, supposedly the plunge into the abyss, nothing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 387 |
One cannot, of course, ignite needs which are not there, cannot set fires where there is nothing to burn, where there is nothing ready to burn, nothing eager to burn, nothing hoping to burn. |
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| 2 | 107 |
It is rumored that there were gigantic dragons of the sea, prodigious monsters, lurking beyond the farther islands, aquatic prodigies guarding the end of the world, set there by Priest-Kings, as one might post guard sleen about the perimeter of a camp, but this thing, in the glimpse we had had, was ... |
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| 12 | 509 |
"I saw nothing! I know nothing, Master!" she said. |
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| 12 | 524 |
I know nothing, nothing, Masters! That is the truth, Masters! Be merciful to a slave! She is collared, she dares not lie, Masters!" I looked to the tarnsman. |
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| 19 | 155 |
You must understand, of course, that there was nothing personal in this, nothing on the score of which I need castigate myself. |
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| 26 | 423 |
"As a mere slave," she said, "surrendering all, giving all, to her master, asking nothing, expecting nothing, of her master". |
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| 36 | 184 |
The Pani, discovering that the Initiates were not marketing their golden pans but expected to receive something for nothing, as it were, or nothing tangible, asked them to step aside, as they were impeding the way of honest tradesmen. |
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| 36 | 254 |
The buyers and sellers, and lookers-on, the dealers, the idlers, the porters, the curious, the men in the warehouse, I think, noticed nothing of what was passing amongst them, no more than trees, or rushes bending in the wind, might have noticed the passage amongst them of some silent, patient, sinu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 665 |
And I wondered, suddenly, what it would be to encounter a man so virile and strong, so powerful and lustful, that he would be satisfied with nothing less than my absolute possession, with nothing less than owning me, with nothing less than having me as his slave. |
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| 52 | 155 |
What woman wants to relate to a man by whom she is not so wanted, wanted with such force and power, with such demand and uncompromising will, with such desire, with such lust, that nothing less than her absolute possession will satisfy him? The master will be satisfied with nothing less than his sla... |
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| 8 | 1515 |
Allowed nothing else, and soon desiring nothing else, she accepts herself joyfully as what she is, a female, and a slave, her master's slave, her master's possession. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 791 |
"I owe you nothing!" "I expect nothing, and want nothing, from such as you," I said. |
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| 7 | 280 |
It was said they raised nothing, and made nothing, but were brigands without lairs, bandits who looted without risk, men who drew blood with knives of gold. |
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| 41 | 451 |
Thus, small, vain kajira, you see there is nothing of particular interest or nothing special about you". |
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| 50 | 159 |
And few women of my former world, I supposed, had ever found themselves the object of a passion so intense, so fierce, and demanding, that it could be satisfied with nothing less than their absolute possession, their ownership, with nothing less than their being the belonging of their master. |
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| 52 | 137 |
"A slave," he said, "has nothing, nothing with which to either pay, or repay. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 63 |
Further, I suspect we have nothing here which exceeds the technology of the Kurii themselves, and nothing here, by intent, which an average Kur, or human, cannot manage". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 31 |
What was to be known? Who would know it? Who was this "other" who knew nothing? How could one who knew nothing, who suspected nothing, who understood nothing, be the key to what must be known? And what was it that must be known, and why must it be known? I felt myself lifted in powerful arms, and th... |
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| 2 | 99 |
"Nothing," she whispered, "nothing," tears in her eyes. |
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| 32 | 113 |
"True," said the voice, "there must be no noise, nothing to attract attention, nothing to stir curiosity. |
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| 38 | 37 |
"I can think of little, or nothing, nothing of importance," I said. |
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| 63 | 238 |
"—Nothing, nothing," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 115 |
In this sense, as you go about your day, aware of nothing, thinking of nothing, shopping, chatting, dining, dating, and such, you may already, without your knowledge, be a slave. |
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| 11 | 325 |
Had I not been taught it? Why then had I not felt it, and thought it? How effective can it be, to lie to nature? What can be the test of truth, if not its consequences? I had retired one fall night on my former world, thinking of nothing, aware of nothing. |
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| 29 | 58 |
Why had he done so? Cared he nothing for me? How pleased I was that I had revealed nothing of the former Lady Julia Leta to my captors! How dishonorable he must be to have subjected an innocent, helpless slave to so frightening and painful an interrogation. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 290 |
"We do nothing, we noticed nothing," I said. |
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| 17 | 114 |
"So hoped! You cannot conceive how helpless is the female slave, how she can do nothing, how she belongs to others, how she cannot help what is done with her, how she has nothing to say or do as to whom she will belong, as to whom she will be traded, sold or given! Oh, Master! Master! I waited for y... |
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| 56 | 97 |
"Nothing, my friend," I said, "nothing". |
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| 59 | 66 |
"What of the leader of the pirates," asked my interlocutor, "the nefarious Bosk of Port Kar? Is there nothing of him there?" "I see nothing," I said. |
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| 63 | 167 |
"Now you are nothing to her, and she is nothing to you. |
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