| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 27 |
Momentarily it was answered, once from about two pasangs to the west and once from about the same distance to the southwest. |
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| 19 | 138 |
That sort of thing would be effective only once with a given player, but in swordplay once would be sufficient. |
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| 20 | 70 |
Two or three times a year I have returned to the mountains of New Hampshire, to look again on that great flat rock, to spend a night there, in case I might see once again that silver disk in the sky, in case once again I might be summoned by the Priest-Kings to that other world. |
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| 1 | 132 |
I had seen the signature once or twice before, on some letters my aunt had saved. |
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| 1 | 137 |
Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an in... |
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| 1 | 157 |
An owl hooted once, perhaps a hundred yards to the right. |
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| 1 | 205 |
Once I saw two eyes in the darkness and screamed and ran from them, hearing the flap of wings behind me and the startled cry of an owl. |
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| 1 | 206 |
Once I startled a small band of deer and found myself in the midst of their bounding shapes buffeting me in the darkness. |
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| 2 | 8 |
It reminded me, with the vegetation and background and the classic serenity of the faces, of a Renaissance tapestry I had once seen on a vacation tour I had taken to Florence in my second year at the University. |
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| 2 | 213 |
"I once saw it happen," he said. |
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| 2 | 231 |
Perhaps it had once been a satellite of Alpha Centauri, but, even so, the distances still seemed almost unimaginable. |
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| 3 | 133 |
"Torm," I once asked, "why is Earth origin not part of the First Knowledge?" "Is it not self-evident?" he asked. |
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| 3 | 155 |
I once talked to my father about the matter, and he merely said that there were many things on Gor worse than the lot of slavery, particularly that of a Tower Slave. |
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| 3 | 172 |
Once I objected. |
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| 3 | 180 |
In despair, with my left arm I lifted another spear from the spear-rack, to try once more. |
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| 3 | 185 |
Once again, I was supposed to learn to wield the weapon equally well with either hand, but, again, I could never manage to develop the skill to my genuine satisfaction. |
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| 3 | 213 |
Once, when struck by the Older Tarl, I had cursed in Gorean, and he had laughed. |
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| 3 | 280 |
Almost immediately from somewhere, perhaps from a ledge out of sight, rose a fantastic object, another giant tarn, even larger than the first, a glossy sable tarn which circled the cylinder once and then wheeled toward me, landing a few feet away, his talons striking on the roof with a sound like hu... |
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| 4 | 78 |
In your veins must flow the blood of your father, once Ubar, War Chieftain, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, this City of Cylinders". |
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| 4 | 143 |
In the center of the amphitheater was a throne of office, and on this throne, in his robe of state—a plain brown garment, the humblest cloth in the hall—sat my father, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, once Ubar, War Chieftain of the city. |
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| 5 | 91 |
"I did ride once before on the back of a tarn," she said bitterly, "to Ar, bound across the saddle, before I was sold in the Street of Brands". |
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| 6 | 9 |
Once a warrior without a helmet flew near, drunk, and challenged me for the perch, a wild tarnsman of low rank, spoiling for a fight. |
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| 6 | 57 |
"Once we're beyond the swamp forest, I'll set you down on some highway to Ar. |
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| 7 | 5 |
Nar's mandibles opened and shut once in annoyance. |
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| 7 | 28 |
She stumbled again and fell once more into the water. |
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| 7 | 82 |
Once he stepped into quicksand, and his back tilted suddenly. |
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| 7 | 98 |
The mechanical voice spoke once more. |
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| 7 | 182 |
Yet now once again I saw her as a girl, this time as a beautiful girl, not to be abused. |
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| 7 | 230 |
"Are you Talena?" asked the officer, once again, patiently. |
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| 8 | 118 |
She walked about in the glade, pleased with herself, and twirled once or twice, delighted with the comparative freedom of movement she now enjoyed. |
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| 9 | 49 |
This practice, as once in England, is more than a simple matter of convention. |
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| 9 | 52 |
Once, however, Talena dragged me to the side of the road, and, scarcely able to conceal our horror, we watched while a sufferer from the incurable Dar-Kosis disease, bent in his yellow shrouds, hobbled by, periodically clacking that wooden device which warns all within hearing to stand clear from hi... |
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| 9 | 65 |
As I prepared to bracelet her for the night, she became practical once again, her optimism and good spirits apparently restored by the food. |
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| 9 | 152 |
Once I stepped back, gesturing to the ground with my sword, the symbolic granting of quarter should it be desired. |
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| 10 | 189 |
"What is the meaning of that?" "Surely you are familiar with a slave whip?" I asked, picking it up and, with amusement, slapping it once or twice in my palm. |
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| 10 | 203 |
Once or twice mounted warriors of the caravan had accosted her, but on reading her collar had backed grumblingly away, enduring with good humor her jibes and taunts. |
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| 12 | 50 |
It, if anything, would wipe out forever from her mind the offensive memory that she had once needed my help and had pretended to love me. |
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| 12 | 75 |
Once, to my horror, a scaled body crested under the frame, its glistening hide rubbing my body as it snapped its tail and suddenly darted beneath the water. |
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| 12 | 106 |
The beak, curved like an instrument of war, slit with its narrow nostrils, closed on my body, and I was once more the prize of a tarn. |
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| 12 | 164 |
And would it not also depend on how deep the bite of freedom had been felt by the bird, how ready he would be to be controlled once more by man? With my spear I could kill him, but that would not rescue me from the ledge. |
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| 13 | 26 |
It paused, lifted its wide, fierce head, some two or three feet in diameter, and uttered the hunting scream once more. |
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| 13 | 75 |
Once in a Dar-Kosis Pit, the Afflicted are not allowed to depart. |
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| 14 | 28 |
"I was once as young and brave as you," he said, "and perhaps as foolish—yes, perhaps as foolish". |
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| 14 | 131 |
Merchants must keep their friends on both sides of the fence, for who knows if Marlenus may not once more sit upon the throne of Ar?" I must have uttered a sound of joy, for Marlenus quickly placed his hand over my mouth. |
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| 14 | 140 |
I could hear the curses of the tarnsmen above me and saw once or twice the flash of the striking tarn-goad. |
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| 15 | 242 |
He drew the robes of the Afflicted once more around his gigantic frame and picked up a gnarled staff he carried. |
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| 15 | 243 |
He dropped the hood of the yellow robe about his face, ready to go, then turned to me once more. |
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| 16 | 17 |
Sometimes the forces of Ar would drive the men of Pa-Kur back against the defensive stakes, and once they drove them to take refuge across the now constructed siege bridges spanning the great ditch. |
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| 17 | 104 |
Still, the days in the tarn cot, gigantic though it was, must have been confining for that Ubar of the Skies, my tarn, and I knew he would relish flight, the chance to pit his wings once again against the fierce winds of Gor. |
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| 18 | 42 |
I spoke once more, in haughty tones. |
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| 19 | 2 |
The great birds, fed, were once again as tractable as such monsters ever are, and with the tarn-goads Marlenus and his men were again in command. |
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| 19 | 27 |
Once again alone, sick at heart, I loosened my spear and shield in their saddle straps. |
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| 19 | 101 |
"Die the Flame Death," repeated the old man, once again jabbing that long finger in my direction. |
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| 19 | 127 |
We met almost over the body of Talena, the tips of our blades touching alertly, once, twice, each sounding the other out. |
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| 19 | 131 |
I drove in once directly. |
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| 19 | 188 |
Pa-Kur had seen what I had seen, and now once again we faced one another. |
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| 19 | 210 |
There was only the sheer wall of the cylinder, broken once by a tarn perch some twenty feet below. |
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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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| 20 | 73 |
If I should once again walk the green fields of Gor, I know that I should attempt to solve the riddle of the Priest-Kings, that I should enter the Sardar Mountains and confront them, whoever or whatever they might be. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 14 |
So standing, the sun upon me, without thinking I raised my arms as in pagan prayer to acknowledge the power of the Priest-Kings, which had once again brought me from Earth to this world, the power which once before had torn me from Gor when they were finished with me, taking me from my adopted city,... |
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| 5 | 11 |
I longed for my city, and for my father, the magnificent Matthew Cabot, once Ubar, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and for my friends, the proud Older Tarl, my master-at-arms, and Torm, the cheerful, grumbling little scribe who regarded even sleep and food as part of a conspiracy to separate him from... |
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| 20 | 112 |
Why did I not leap again to his back and once more cry "One-strap!" Why did we not try once more? I slapped his beak affectionately and, digging among his neck feathers with my fingers, scratched out some of the lice, about the size of marbles, that infest wild tarns. |
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| 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. |
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| 26 | 91 |
"And should I ever again be tempted to be proud or cruel," she said, a smile in her voice, "I shall merely remind myself that I was once sold for fifty silver tarn disks—and that a warrior once purchased me for only a scabbard and a helmet". |
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| 1 | 64 |
It was enough to be once more his friend. |
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| 1 | 68 |
It was late one night, in early February, and we were drinking once more at that small bar in which we had had our first drink that incredible sunny afternoon some months before. |
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| 1 | 94 |
As he performed this gesture, he uttered some formula in that strange tongue I had heard but once before—when I had nearly perished at his hands. |
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| 1 | 103 |
Then without warning, with a bitter laugh, at once a lament and a cry of rage, he hurled the glass violently to the wall. |
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| 1 | 195 |
Perhaps, as Tarl Cabot once remarked, "The agents of the Priest-Kings are among us". |
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| 2 | 1 |
Return to Gor Once again, I, Tarl Cabot, strode the green fields of Gor. |
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| 2 | 4 |
In that state, as once long before, I had come to this world. |
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| 2 | 16 |
That I had been returned to Gor to seek out once more my city and my love was, I was sure, not the spontaneous gesture of generosity, or of justice, that it might seem. |
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| 3 | 117 |
I remembered once when I had feared thus in the mountains of New Hampshire, and how shamefully I had yielded to my fear and had run, a slave to the only degrading passion of man. |
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| 4 | 4 |
Yet why was the road untended? Why had it not been traveled? Why had Zosk of the Caste of Carriers of Wood acted as he had? Why did my shield, my helmet, my accouterments not bear the proud sign of Ko-ro-ba? Once I shouted in pain. |
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| 5 | 15 |
Again and again the lightning flashed, the thunder pounded in on me, and the darkness engulfed me once more. |
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| 5 | 113 |
He had told me to throw myself upon it, to avoid my shame, to frustrate for once the will of the mighty Priest-Kings of Gor. |
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| 6 | 3 |
Indeed, at least once in his life every Gorean is expected to make this journey. |
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| 6 | 16 |
Once I brought the carcass of a tabuk, one of Gor's single-horned, yellow antelopes, which I had felled in a Ka-la-na thicket, to the hut of a peasant and his wife. |
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| 8 | 18 |
Whereas there is status in the capture of a free woman, there is less risk in the capture of a slave; the pursuit is never pressed as determinedly in their cases, and one does not have to imperil one's life for a girl who might, once the Robes of Concealment have been cast off, turn out to have the ... |
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| 9 | 93 |
I did not much care for the prospect of emerging again into the cold, rainy night, of tramping once more through the streets, miserable, chilled to the bone, looking for a place to eat and sleep. |
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| 10 | 43 |
I glanced once more at the spears, smiled grimly at the guardsman, turned and, lowering my head, entered the small door. |
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| 11 | 168 |
"But," said Ost, hopefully, "I once spoke with her and I might recognize her voice if I were but allowed to live". |
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| 12 | 56 |
"I once wore the silver mask, Warrior," said the girl. |
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| 13 | 92 |
When the glove of gold once more lifted, the dread conflict would begin. |
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| 13 | 99 |
"Stranger," said he, "I intend to survive the Amusements of Tharna at least once more". |
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| 13 | 105 |
Once, twice, he charged, but pulled up short, seeing if he could bring me forward, off balance to meet the charge. |
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| 13 | 125 |
Once, twice more he charged, and each time I managed to block the blow, withstanding the shock of the crashing yokes, escaping the thrust of the murderous horns. |
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| 13 | 126 |
Once I was not so fortunate and a steel horn furrowed my side, leaving a channel of blood. |
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| 13 | 152 |
Once more I stood beneath the golden mask of the Tatrix. |
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| 14 | 212 |
And so for an instant stood the tarn, its head and beak extended, its wings snapping, its prey locked in its grasp, and uttered the terrifying capture scream of the tarn, at once a scream of victory, and of challenge. |
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| 15 | 25 |
Once one has been a tarnsman, it is said, one must return again and again to the giant, savage birds. |
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| 15 | 63 |
"Tabuk," I said quietly, once more turning it toward the open fields. |
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| 15 | 87 |
"I, too," I said, "was once in the talons of a tarn". |
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| 16 | 59 |
As soon as her wrists were free she was once again every inch the royal Tatrix of Tharna. |
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| 16 | 97 |
Slowly, though no strength returned to my body, my vision cleared, first in the center, and then gradually toward the edges, until I could once again see the pillar, the sky beyond and my foes. |
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| 17 | 21 |
Once, I was told, it had happened, to quell an uprising. |
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| 17 | 39 |
Today, more than once, he had scattered the ore which, on my hands and knees, I had chipped from the narrow shafts of the mine. |
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| 17 | 60 |
For once his voice was sad. |
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| 17 | 80 |
The slaves are never brought to the surface, and once plunged into the cold darkness of the mines never again see the sun. |
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| 17 | 81 |
The only relief in their existence comes once a year, on the birthday of the Tatrix, when they are served a small cake, made with honey and sesame seeds, and a small pot of poor Kal-da. |
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| 18 | 145 |
Once the second man slipped, dragging the first down with him, and causing the third to lose his grip, but by now there was a solid chain of men in the tunnel, and the fourth and the fifth men held. |
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| 18 | 146 |
The first began his torturous ascent once more, followed by the second and third. |
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| 19 | 26 |
"Thank you, Masters," said Ost, sniveling with relief, his face once more resuming that pinched, sly look I knew so well. |
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| 19 | 104 |
I saw that the once close-cropped hair was now a shaggy yellow. |
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| 19 | 140 |
Andreas had turned to go, but he hesitated, and faced me once more. |
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| 19 | 147 |
I think perhaps he had wanted to greet me once more, that he did not believe he would ever again have the opportunity. |
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| 20 | 10 |
In the office of the Administrator of the Mines, he who once had given the command, "Drown them all," I found a stripped body, slashed almost beyond recognition. |
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| 20 | 11 |
Yet I had seen it once before, when I had been turned over by the soldier to his gentle care. |
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| 20 | 44 |
As we passed over the Pillar of Exchanges, I remembered that it was there I had been betrayed by she who was once Tatrix of Tharna. |
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| 20 | 78 |
The mountains of the Sardar were not such a vast, magnificent range as the rugged scarlet crags of the Voltai, that almost impenetrable mountain vastness in which I had once been the prisoner of the outlaw Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, ambitious and warlike father of the fierce and beautiful Talena, she who... |
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| 20 | 102 |
Then to my wonder, the valiant creature began once more to climb, determined to regain the altitude he had lost. |
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| 20 | 107 |
Once again it would attempt to climb, ever faster, ever more fiercely. |
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| 21 | 2 |
Once more the terrified scream rang out. |
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| 21 | 14 |
I heard the scream once again. |
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| 21 | 98 |
On the other hand, I have known of several cases in which a proud, insolent woman, even one of great intelligence, who resisted a master to the very touch of the iron, once branded became instantly a passionate and obedient Pleasure Slave. |
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| 21 | 205 |
Perhaps I had once been in the trade? Actually, fifty silver tarn disks was an extremely high price, and indicated the girl was probably of high caste as well as extremely beautiful. |
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| 21 | 230 |
I wondered how many of them were bred slaves, and how many had once been free. |
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| 22 | 58 |
"Remember once you told a man not to beat me. |
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| 22 | 59 |
Remember once you said it was hard to be first in Tharna. |
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| 22 | 60 |
Remember that once you looked upon a field of talenders and I was too dull and foolish to speak to you". |
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| 22 | 73 |
"Why would you not keep me for your own?" It was a bold question, strange to come from this girl, once Tatrix of Tharna. |
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| 22 | 74 |
"My love is Talena," I said, "daughter of Marlenus who was once Ubar of Ar". |
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| 22 | 111 |
He scattered my council and defeated my armies and took me and stripped me and bound me naked across the saddle of his bird and then, with a great cry, he carried me to his city, and there I, once proud Tatrix of Tharna, wore his brand and collar". |
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| 22 | 235 |
And so it was that I took the cords from her hand, and in the same night Lara who had once been the proud Tatrix of Tharna became according to the ancient rites of her city my slave girl—and a free woman. |
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| 23 | 91 |
"One-strap!" I cried, and the tarn's monstrous frame addressed itself once more to the skies. |
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| 23 | 187 |
Once we reached the bottom of the wall we kept close to its base so as not to afford a target for further spear play. |
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| 23 | 228 |
Thus borne aloft, from street to street, in the midst of joyous shouting, weapons raised on all sides in salute, my ears ringing with the plowing song, once a song of the freeholds of Tharna, long since supplanted by the Great Farms, I found myself brought to that fateful Kal-da shop I remembered so... |
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| 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. |
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| 24 | 72 |
"I have come to place Lara once more on the throne of Tharna," I said. |
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| 24 | 77 |
Tharna would once more be the same". |
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| 24 | 133 |
I saw before us once again that broad, winding but ever narrowing avenue which led to the palace of the Tatrix. |
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| 24 | 136 |
Once more I noted that the walls bordering the avenue rose as the avenue narrowed, but this time, long before we neared the small iron door, we saw a double rampart thrown across the avenue, the second wall topping the first and allowing missiles to be rained down on those who might storm the first ... |
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| 24 | 151 |
Once again I began to approach the rampart. |
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| 24 | 228 |
Once again she graciously requested that the weapon be lifted in her name, and it was. |
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| 25 | 43 |
Once again her head fell to the stained chest of the Captain of Tharna and her body shook with sobs. |
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| 25 | 147 |
Once the sun flashed upon that silver mask. |
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| 26 | 17 |
As she ascended once more the throne no proscription notices were posted but a general amnesty was granted to all, both those who had espoused her cause and those who had fought for Dorna the Proud. |
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| 26 | 53 |
They knelt before her—once proud silver masks, now terrified and helpless captives—on the same sparkling sand that had so often been stained with the blood of the men of Tharna. |
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| 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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| 26 | 127 |
I am grateful to the immortal elements which have so conspired that I might once be. |
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| 26 | 134 |
There will be few to note the stranger who leaves the city, perhaps few to remember that he was once within their walls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70 |
I had a friend once, Andreas of the desert city of Tor, of the Caste of Poets, who had once sung at the fair and won a cap filled with gold. |
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| 4 | 146 |
Once more the distant and unseen gong rang out, and once more the Hall of Priest-Kings seemed filled with its ominous vibrations. |
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| 27 | 132 |
Once again Sarm thrust his jaws at the face of the Mother and once again she moved her head away from him. |
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| 31 | 135 |
I climbed the walkway rapidly and soon could see Sarm clearly at the very top of the dome, whence he had once displayed to me the majesty of the Priest-Kings' accomplishments, where he had once indicated to me the modifications of the ganglionic net by means of which his people had won to the enormo... |
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| 34 | 72 |
"I understand," said my father, "from what you have told us, that now once more a stone may stand upon a stone, that two men of Ko-ro-ba may once again stand side by side". |
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| 1 | 5 |
Once it had tried to carry me over the palisade into the mountains, but never again would I have essayed that flight. |
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| 1 | 75 |
The reason for this is not simply that here is a fine market for such wares, since men from various cities pass freely to and fro at the fair, but that each Gorean, whether male or female, is expected to see the Sardar Mountains, in honor of the Priest-Kings, at least once in his life, prior to his ... |
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| 1 | 80 |
Thus one practical effect of the edict of the Priest-Kings is that each Gorean girl must, at least once in her life, leave her walls and take the very serious risk of becoming a slave girl, perhaps the prize of a pirate or outlaw. |
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| 1 | 96 |
I myself had traveled in a ship of the Priest-Kings which had twice carried me to this world; I had seen their power so subtly exercised as to alter the movements of a compass needle, so grossly demonstrated as to destroy a city, leaving behind not even the stones of what had once been a dwelling pl... |
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| 1 | 97 |
It is said that neither the physical intricacies of the cosmos nor the emotions of human beings are beyond the scope of their power, that the feelings of men and the motions of atoms and stars are as one to them, that they can control the very forces of gravity and invisibly sway the hearts of human... |
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| 1 | 102 |
I am of the Caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes. |
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| 1 | 105 |
I have been unable to learn the fate of my father, my friends, my warrior companions, and my beloved Talena, she who was the daughter of Marlenus, who had once been Ubar of Ar—my sweet, fierce, wild, gentle, savage, beautiful love, she who is my Free Companion, my Talena, forever the Ubara of... |
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| 2 | 72 |
I had once killed a male red larl in the Voltai Range within pasangs of the city of Ar. |
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| 2 | 93 |
This allows each man to have a clean cast at the beast and provides some protection once the spear is thrown. |
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| 2 | 95 |
Once Last Spear casts his weapon he may not throw himself to the ground. |
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| 2 | 106 |
I once asked a Gorean hunter whom I met in Ar why the larl was hunted at all. |
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| 3 | 44 |
I hesitated, for how did I know but that the chains of the larls might be loosed once I was between them. |
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| 3 | 75 |
He puffed once on his pipe. |
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| 3 | 76 |
"Parp," he repeated, puffing once again. |
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| 4 | 127 |
He pounded it once sharply against the throne and thrust it into the wallet he wore at his side. |
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| 4 | 142 |
I walked the full ambit of the circle until I stood once more before the throne. |
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| 5 | 185 |
Once more the rounded domes began to glow. |
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| 6 | 18 |
I had tasted some only once before, having been introduced to them at a feast given in my honor by Lara, who was Tatrix of the city of Tharna. |
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| 6 | 36 |
The Older Tarl, who had been my mentor in arms years ago in Ko-ro-ba, had once told me the story of a free woman, desperately in love with a warrior, who, in the presence of her family was entertaining him, and whose wrists, unconsciously, had assumed the position of a slave. |
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| 7 | 60 |
I was gladdened to see once more the moons and stars of Gor hurtling in the sky above the dome. |
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| 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. |
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| 8 | 76 |
Once again I examined the six red, domed sensors, three on a side, which were fixed there. |
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| 8 | 151 |
Cities, of course, would pursue the raiders from Treve, and carry the pursuit vigorously as far as the foothills of the Voltai, but there they would surrender the chase, turning back, not caring to risk their tarnsmen in the rugged, formidable territory of their rival, whose legendary ferocity among... |
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| 8 | 193 |
And then she seemed to straighten and turned to face me, once again the old and scornful Vika, challenging, hostile. |
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| 9 | 164 |
I turned to face Vika once more, and I no longer saw the girl to whom I had been speaking but a woman of High Caste, from the bandit kingdom of Treve, insolent and imperious, though collared. |
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| 9 | 199 |
In that moment I sensed once more that slightly acrid scent which I had experienced in the corridors beyond the chamber, and I pressed my mouth hard into Vika's until her lips were cut by my teeth and I had pressed her back until only my arm kept her from falling to the stones of the floor, and I he... |
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| 9 | 236 |
Its jaws opened and closed once. |
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| 9 | 239 |
These two appendages, like eyes, swept the room once and then seemed to focus on me. |
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| 9 | 256 |
I looked once more at Vika, who lifted her hand to me. |
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| 10 | 46 |
I would learn later that in the ball at the end of its forelegs from which the smaller prehensile appendages extended, there was a curved, bladed, hornlike structure that could spring forward; this happens spontaneously when the leg's tip is inverted, a motion which at once exposes the hornlike blad... |
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| 10 | 96 |
Then the Priest-King ceased to rock and its antennae uncurled, almost reluctantly I thought, and it once again rested quietly back on its posterior appendages and regarded me. |
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| 10 | 97 |
Once again it addressed itself to the patient, meticulous combing of its antennae hairs. |
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| 11 | 19 |
His head turned, his laterally opening jaws opened and closed slowly, his shoulders rustled and the two antennae twitched once as though in irritation, and then idly they began to examine the roof of the dome. |
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| 12 | 228 |
Once more the two slaves, this time apparently without emotion, folded their arms and stood, legs apart, beside the dais. |
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| 13 | 34 |
I once asked Misk why the syllabary of Priest-Kings was not simplified, and he responded, "If this were done we would have to give up certain signs, and we could not bear to do so, for they are all very beautiful". |
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| 14 | 77 |
The Mul-Fungus, as far as I can tell, is not much different from the fungus, raised under ideal conditions from specially selected spores, which graces the feed troughs of the Priest-Kings themselves, a tiny sample of which was once given me by Misk. |
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| 14 | 103 |
I had naturally supposed the fluid to be simply water which it closely resembled in appearance, and once had tried to fill my bowl for the morning meal there, rather than ladling the water out of the water pan. |
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| 14 | 117 |
"Did you know," said Misk once to me, "that humans are among the most intelligent of the lower orders?" "I'm glad to hear it," I said. |
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| 14 | 119 |
"I once had a pet Mul," he said. |
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| 15 | 127 |
"Once," said Misk, "we rejoiced and lived, but now though we remain young in body we are old in mind, and one wonders more often, from time to time, on the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle". |
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| 16 | 80 |
I had once seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar, on the roof of Ar's Cylinder of Justice. |
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| 16 | 166 |
My old hatred of Vika now began once again to infuse my blood, and my hands ached to grip her and shake her until her bones might break and then throw her to my feet. |
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| 17 | 43 |
The antennae quivered briefly in anger and the bladelike structures at the tips of Sarm's forelegs snapped out and back, but then the antennae relaxed and once again the four hooklike grasping appendages at the termination of each foreleg lightly, almost meditatively, touched one another. |
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| 17 | 64 |
Its speed is controlled by the placement of the feet along double accelerator strips which lie flush with the surface of the disk; its direction is controlled by the rider, who bends and turns his body, thereby transmitting force to the lightly riding disk, the principles involved being no more unus... |
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| 17 | 83 |
"I once saw a man die the Flame Death," I said. |
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| 17 | 93 |
Most of them were simply filled with the passing scenery of Gor; once I saw a city, but what city it was I could not tell. |
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| 17 | 106 |
Once again I looked into the observation cube. |
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| 17 | 111 |
Once again I looked into the observation cube, and wondered about that unknown man, or what had been a man, through whose eyes I now looked. |
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| 17 | 118 |
"Is this what was done once on the road to Ko-ro-ba, to a man from Ar, who spoke to me in the name of Priest-Kings?" "Of course," said Sarm. |
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| 17 | 128 |
Then, satisfied that he was alone, he returned to the cave and emerged once more carrying what resembled a hollow pipe. |
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| 17 | 144 |
Then once again, aside from the blackened grass and stone, the scene was peaceful. |
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| 18 | 154 |
My fists clenched on the railing and bitterness choked in my throat, and the hatred I had felt for the girl of Treve lit once again its dark fires in my breast. |
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| 19 | 1 |
Die, Tarl Cabot Now once again I would have my sword in my hands and at last I would be able to find Misk, for whose safety I feared. |
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| 20 | 115 |
He then sprung her wrists free of the retaining devices and reclosed the plastic cylinder, locking her inside once again. |
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| 20 | 118 |
He shoved the globe up and a foot or so to the side and then with a quick movement reclosed it in such a way that once again its floorside aperture described an opening of approximately six inches in diameter. |
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| 22 | 103 |
He placed his antennae lightly on my shoulders and then lifted them and I held up my arms and he touched the palms of my hands with the tips of his antennae, and once again we had, in so far as we could, locked our antennae. |
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| 22 | 178 |
I turned to go but then turned once again to face the Priest-King. |
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| 23 | 4 |
She wore only brief rags, the remains of her once long and beautiful garment, torn and stained by what must have been her terrified flight through these dark, rocky tunnels, running, stumbling, screaming, futilely trying to escape the pursuing jaws of the implacable Golden Beetle. |
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| 23 | 10 |
I recalled vaguely that Misk had once said to me that in deference to the Golden Beetle it was given only free women. |
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| 23 | 58 |
Time and time again I stumbled against outcroppings of rock and bruised my shoulders and thighs but never once did I diminish my speed in my headlong race back to the cavern of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 24 | 8 |
The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell. |
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| 24 | 49 |
After a few Ehn I stopped again and once more listened. |
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| 25 | 8 |
The odor of the golden hairs still lingered in the passages and, fearing I might once again succumb to whatever drug they released into the air, I determined to make my departure. |
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| 25 | 46 |
On the other hand I had been informed, graciously, by the Muls who manned the portal that it might not be opened by them to release me once I had decided to enter. |
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| 25 | 92 |
Once in the shaft I rebuckled the belt about my waist and, still carrying Vika as before, began to climb. |
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| 25 | 129 |
She was very beautiful and the brief rags that were all that remained of her once long and lovely garment left little of her beauty to conjecture. |
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| 25 | 150 |
"I see," she said, "that even though I was once a proud woman of the high city of Treve you have not honored me with binding fiber but have bound my limbs only with the thong of your sandal, as though I might be the lowest tavern slave in Ar—carried off on a wager, a whim or caprice". |
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| 26 | 117 |
"Once," said the Attendant, "and it took several months, but there is no danger because we feed and water them from the outside". |
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| 27 | 79 |
But now this monstrous abdomen, depleted and wrinkled, no longer possessing whatever tensility it might once have had, lay collapsed behind the creature like a flattened sack of brownly tarnished golden ancient leather. |
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| 27 | 127 |
Now did Sarm, the First Born, approach the Mother and dip his jaws too to the golden bowl and stalk to the Mother and place his antennae gently on her head, and once again the old creature's antennae lifted but this time they seemed to retract. |
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| 27 | 139 |
Trembling, with none of that delicate grace that so typically characterizes the movements of Priest-Kings, he once again tried to approach the Mother. |
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| 27 | 142 |
Once again Sarm retreated. |
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| 27 | 156 |
Once more Sarm leaped to attack and this time a green-flowing wound sprang into view on the right side of Misk's thorax in the neighborhood of one of the brain-nodes. |
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| 27 | 167 |
Once again Sarm leaped in, his bladed projection lifted to strike, but this time Misk suddenly straightened himself promptly on the leg which had seemed to fail him and whipped his antennae back behind his head an instant before the stroke of Sarm's blade and when Sarm struck he found his appendage ... |
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| 27 | 168 |
Sarm seemed to tremble and he struck with his other foreleg but this one too Misk seized with his other foreleg and once again they stood rocking on their posterior appendages, for Misk, having learned their strengths in the first grappling, and lacking the swiftness of Sarm, had decided to close wi... |
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| 27 | 197 |
But then, from the Mother herself, behind me, I sensed once again the transmission of negation, and I heard on the translators that faced me, the simple expression "No". |
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| 27 | 233 |
"It is not done," he said, echoing words I had heard once from Misk. |
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| 27 | 258 |
And when the swift living blade of Sarm was still a full yard from my throat it met the lightning steel of a Gorean blade that had once been carried at the siege of Ar, that had met and withstood and conquered the steel of Pa-Kur, Gor's Master Assassin, until that time said to be the most skilled sw... |
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| 27 | 271 |
He regarded Sarm and his cohorts, and his great laterally chopping jaws opened and closed once. |
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| 27 | 331 |
Once again a sound came from my translator. |
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| 27 | 343 |
Then once again the voice of the translator was heard. |
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| 28 | 30 |
A thin voice yet strong, almost like that of something that was at once an old man and a child, rang out above me. |
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| 28 | 180 |
Once a brave Priest-King of Misk's forces was slain and the humans who had fought with him wept. |
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| 28 | 209 |
"On your old world," said Misk, "gravity is still as unexplored a natural phenomenon as electricity and magnetism once were, and yet you have mastered to some extent those phenomena—and we Priest-Kings have to some extent mastered gravity". |
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| 29 | 56 |
While they seemed to hang undecided in space, almost like puzzled cells in a droplet of water, I dove again, and the third ship broke apart as though it were a toy beneath a falling cutlass of fire, and I climbed once more, the flame of the silver tube stabbing ahead of me, hitting the fourth ship a... |
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| 29 | 72 |
For once I was sure I could outwait a Priest-King. |
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| 29 | 132 |
The massive jaws opened and closed once. |
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| 29 | 155 |
Once I bumped the craft rather severely into the wall of the complex and I could see the explosion of an energy bulb outside through my makeshift port, but I soon managed to bring the ship down safely. |
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| 29 | 162 |
I looked about myself, at the empty streets, the empty windows, the silence of the once bustling complex. |
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| 30 | 61 |
The creature Parp spent a great deal of time in the vicinity, puffing on that small pipe, keeping it lit interminably with the tiny silver lighter which I had once mistaken for a weapon. |
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| 30 | 178 |
Once I called angrily to her. |
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| 30 | 181 |
"For that," she said, "you will go hungry tonight!" I remembered, smiling to myself, how when I was master I had once, to discipline her, refused her food one night. |
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| 30 | 183 |
Let her think over that, I said to myself, think over that—Vika of Treve—Pet Mul! I found myself wanting to take her body in my arms and shatter it to my breast, forcing back her head, taking her lips in the kiss of a master as though I once more owned her. |
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| 30 | 195 |
Once I heard the hiss of silver tubes not more than a few hundred yards away. |
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| 31 | 18 |
How tender I felt toward the golden giant in that moment as I realized that he, though a Priest-King, had come to give his life for mine, simply because we had once locked antennae, simply because we were friends, simply because there was Nest Trust between us. |
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| 31 | 35 |
Once again, desperately, Sarm pressed the firing switch. |
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| 31 | 142 |
As he did so, I began to climb once more. |
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| 31 | 225 |
Once, as though by some supreme effort of will, Sarm, who was a great Priest-King, lifted his head from the golden hair and stared at me. |
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| 31 | 229 |
Then in the last spasmodic throb of death Sarm's body broke free of the jaws of the Golden Beetle and reared up once more to its glorious perhaps twenty feet of golden height. |
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| 32 | 77 |
I would have liked to have seen once more the surface of the world, the blue sky, the green fields beyond the black Sardar, but rather I said, "I choose to remain here with Misk, who is my friend". |
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| 32 | 81 |
I looked up into the huge, peering golden eyes of Misk, the left one lined with a whitish seam where Sarm's bladed projection had once torn it open in the battle in the Chamber of the Mother. |
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| 32 | 190 |
"Stand in the wind and see the sky and sun once more". |
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| 32 | 203 |
Moving as though in a dream, my foot touching the ground only perhaps once in thirty or forty yards, I climbed the circling ramp upward toward the elevator. |
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| 32 | 211 |
When the door opened I found myself once more in the Hall of Priest-Kings, though the great dome above it was now broken and portions of it had fallen to the floor of the hall. |
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| 32 | 239 |
He pounded on the arms once and the movement almost thrust him up off the throne. |
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| 32 | 241 |
"To sit once more upon the throne of Priest-Kings," said Parp, chuckling. |
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| 32 | 323 |
Parp stood framed in the doorway holding that tiny silver lighter with which it seemed I had seen him fumble and light his pipe a thousand times, that small cylinder I had once mistaken for a weapon. |
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| 32 | 325 |
He turned it suddenly and a jolt of fire that threw him five feet back into the cave leapt from that tiny instrument and the nearest larl suddenly reared, its paws lifted wildly, its fangs bared, its snowy pelt burned black about the hole that had once housed its heart, and then it twisted and fell ... |
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| 33 | 73 |
He jumped up once and came down, as though to illustrate a point. |
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| 33 | 167 |
They parted, and Vika and I walked between them, and through the ruined gate and palisade which had once encircled the Sardar. |
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| 34 | 3 |
Once again I saw that strong, lined face, that square jaw, that wild, flowing mane of fiery hair so much like my own, that spare, ready frame, those gray eyes, now rimmed with tears. |
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| 34 | 54 |
"I believe him!" Once safely down Torm came over to me and reached up and touched my shoulder. |
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| 34 | 68 |
I took the small stone in my hands and kissed it, for it was the Home Stone of the city to which I had pledged my sword, where I had ridden my first tarn, where I had met my father after an interval of more than twenty years, where I had found new friends, and to which I had taken Talena, my love, t... |
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| 34 | 190 |
Once more I looked to the Sardar. |
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| 34 | 202 |
Systematically and persistently I questioned these men of various cities about the whereabouts of Talena of Ar, hoping to find some clue that might lead me to her, even if it might be only the drunken memory of some herdsman of a vision of beauty once encountered in a dim and crowded tavern in Cos o... |
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| 35 | 119 |
"Once you spoke to me," I said, "of random elements". |
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| 35 | 122 |
"You spoke once of machines," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 28 |
I gathered that once, in his earlier years, he might have been a rider of the kaiila, that he might have been skilled with the bow and lance, and the quiva; such a man would not need ceremony; I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water a... |
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| 21 | 149 |
For four days I remained with the girl, and each day, once at noon and once in the evening, we would stroll by one or more of the gates of Turia, to see if the guards might now be less vigilant than they had been the time before. |
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| 26 | 560 |
Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo... |
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| 1 | 22 |
The land between the Cartius and the Vosk had once been within the borders of the claimed empire of Ar, but not even Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, when master of luxurious, glorious Ar, had flown his tarnsmen south of the Cartius. |
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| 2 | 1 |
I Make the Acquaintance of the Wagon Peoples As I walked I asked myself why I did so—why I, Tarl Cabot—once of Earth, later a warrior of the Gorean city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, had come here. |
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| 2 | 7 |
Now I supposed that I alone, of humans on Gor, with the possible exception of some among the Wagon Peoples, knew the nature of the mysterious object which once these two brave men had brought in secrecy to the plains of Turia—and, to be truthful, I did not know that even I—should I see... |
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| 2 | 17 |
And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of Priest-Kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of Priest-Kings that so limited their development, their technology? Onc... |
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| 2 | 29 |
If it turned out badly, what I did, I would have no defense other than that I did what I did for my friend—for him—and for his brave kind, once hated enemies, whom I had learned to know and respect. |
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| 2 | 71 |
The Wagon Peoples war among themselves, but once in every two hands of years, there is a time of gathering of the peoples, and this, I had learned, was that time. |
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| 2 | 102 |
The kaiila, once it eats its fill, does not touch food for several days. |
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| 2 | 174 |
The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n... |
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| 3 | 2 |
I might have thrown myself to the ground as the larl hunters from Ar, once their weapon is cast, covering myself with the shield; but then I would have been beneath the clawed paws of four squealing, snorting kaiila, while the riders jabbed at me with lances, off my feet, helpless. |
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| 3 | 30 |
Once, long, long ago, Ko-ro-ba and Ar had turned the invasion of the united Wagon Peoples from the north, and the memories of these things, stinging still in the honest songs of camp skalds, would rankle in the craws of such fierce, proud peoples. |
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| 4 | 61 |
He looked about him, at the distant bosk herds, lifted his head to see the sky once more. |
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| 5 | 10 |
I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend its broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the lead wagon. |
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| 6 | 38 |
She wore a simple yellow shift, with narrow orange stripes, of what must once have been crisp oxford cloth. |
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| 6 | 104 |
"No!" Then she tried once more to free herself. |
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| 6 | 110 |
I translated this once more for the girl. |
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| 6 | 134 |
"I once lived in lands where her language is spoken," I said. |
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| 7 | 14 |
At the edge of the dais Kamchak and I had stopped, where our sandals were removed and our feet washed by Turian slaves, men in the Kes, who might once have been officers of the city. |
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| 7 | 245 |
Once again Kutaituchik addressed his question to her, and I translated it. |
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| 8 | 47 |
Still farther north, another hundred pasangs, there was no snow and the peoples began to sing and once more dance about their fires of bosk dung. |
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| 8 | 95 |
Once he got up and kicked her with his furred boot, telling her to be quiet. |
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| 8 | 107 |
Once or twice that night, to Kamchak's annoyance and my own loss of sleep, she screamed, jerking at the chain, but we discovered that she had not awakened. |
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| 8 | 159 |
Kamchak made her walk back and forth once or twice, and spoke to her rather sharply about her posture, then, to the surprise of both Miss Cardwell and myself, he did not chain her, but told her she might walk about the camp unattended, warning her only to return before dusk and the release of the he... |
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| 8 | 170 |
Once, it might be noted, she returned from searching for fuel with the dung sack, dragging behind her, only half full. |
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| 8 | 242 |
I had determined, of course, to my satisfaction, having spoken with him once, that the boy, or young man, was indeed Gorean; his people and their people before them and as far back as anyone knew had been, as it is said, of the Wagons. |
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| 9 | 81 |
More than once we encountered a line of musicians dancing single file down the center of the street, playing on their flutes and drums, perhaps on their way to a feast. |
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| 9 | 82 |
I was pleased to see again, though often done in silk, the splendid varieties of caste colors of the typical Gorean city, to hear once more the cries of peddlers that I knew so well, the cake sellers, the hawkers of vegetables, the wine vendor bending under a double verrskin of his vintage. |
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| 9 | 94 |
Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp... |
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| 9 | 135 |
Indeed, the cloth, once loosened, may, if one wishes, be taken up and used as a slave hood, held in place by cords, secured about the girl's neck. |
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| 9 | 166 |
I recalled Kamchak had spoken of her once or twice. |
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| 9 | 286 |
The girl laughed merrily once more and turned to Kamchak. |
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| 10 | 150 |
Once outside, to my astonishment, he turned to me and said, "You were a fool to free Dina of Turia". |
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| 10 | 266 |
I once asked Kamchak if the Wagon Peoples had a justification for the games of Love War. |
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| 10 | 272 |
Now, looking on the approaching palanquins, I supposed that so once, in veil and silks, had ridden the lovely Tenchika, and so, too, as far as I knew, might have ridden the lovely Dina, had she not fallen earlier and otherwise to the chains of Kassar warriors. |
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| 10 | 547 |
"Watch out!" I cried, for now Kamras had recovered, and was once again approaching. |
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| 10 | 568 |
Once again, expertly, the sun flashed from the sword of Kamchak in his eyes. |
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| 10 | 574 |
"Slay him!" howled Aphris of Turia! For perhaps better than fifteen minutes, patiently, not hurrying, Kamchak of the Tuchuks shuffled after Kamras of Turia, touching him once more and ever again, each time leaving a quick, bright stain of blood on his tunic or body. |
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| 11 | 120 |
"What were you?" Then he turned his kaiila suddenly toward them and they would break and run screaming and laughing and then, like a flock of birds, take up once more the pursuit. |
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| 11 | 235 |
Once, when rummaging through his things, Kamchak had kicked it across the rug for me to look at. |
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| 11 | 239 |
I was a bit reminded of some of the loose, tumbled rocks I had once glimpsed in certain abandoned portions of the Place of Priest-Kings, far beneath the Sardar. |
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| 11 | 251 |
"You may sleep once more in the wagon". |
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| 12 | 2 |
More than once I was warned away by guards. |
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| 12 | 28 |
Once he might have been a great man and warrior but now, somnolent and fat, he thought of little save the contents of a golden kanda box. |
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| 12 | 31 |
I noted, following me, as I had more than once, a masked figure, one wearing the hood of the Clan of Torturers. |
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| 12 | 35 |
Once I thought to turn and question him, but he had disappeared. |
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| 12 | 197 |
She laughed with delight, as proud of the worn camisk as she might have been once of robes of white and gold. |
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| 12 | 228 |
When I returned with the bottle I had to step through, over, and once or twice on, Tuchuks. |
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| 12 | 249 |
Moreover, after the first day or two he had hardly cuffed the girl, though he had once beaten her rather severely when she had dropped a cup. |
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| 12 | 373 |
"Thank you, Master," said Elizabeth politely, and once more put her head on my shoulder. |
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| 12 | 391 |
Once at the foot of the stairs she stopped and stood for a long moment. |
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| 14 | 86 |
"He was once a great warrior," he said. |
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| 14 | 108 |
"Once he was a great man!" I nodded. |
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| 15 | 87 |
"Leave me!" Kamchak, once a day, at night, the hour in which sleen are fed, would throw the girls bits of bosk meat and fill a pan of water kept in the cage. |
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| 15 | 90 |
Once he pounded the rug on the polished floor in front of him and cried out angrily, as though to remind himself of some significant and inalterable fact, "She is Turian! Turian!" The work of the wagon was done by Tuka and another girl, whom Kamchak hired for the purpose. |
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| 15 | 92 |
I once spoke harshly to her when I saw her cruelly poke Elizabeth Cardwell through the bars with the bosk stick. |
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| 16 | 5 |
"I learned in Turia," said Harold, "in the public baths where I was once a slave". |
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| 16 | 24 |
Here, Harold disappeared again under the water and once more I followed him. |
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| 16 | 58 |
Yet I did not care to pursue again that underground stream nor, particularly, on some new trip to Turia, to swim once more against it. |
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| 16 | 178 |
"How is it," I asked, "that Ha-Keel of Port Kar wears about his neck a tarn disk from the city of Ar?" "I was once of Ar," said scarred Ha-Keel. |
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| 16 | 183 |
"You may ask," said Ha-Keel, "how it is that I, a tarnsman of Ar, ride for merchants and traitors on the southern plains?" "It saddens me," I said, "that a sword that was once raised in defense of Ar is raised now only by the beck and call of gold". |
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| 16 | 202 |
"I was once," continued Saphrar, "a perfumer of Tyros—but I one day left the shop it seems inadvertently with some pounds of the nectar of talenders concealed beneath my tunic in a bladder—and for that my ear was notched and I was exiled from the city. |
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| 16 | 301 |
"He said once," said Saphrar, "that he was told—" "By whom?" I asked. |
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| 17 | 19 |
I noted that the surface of the pool, shortly after we had entered, began to tremble slightly, and it was then once again calm. |
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| 18 | 16 |
"Yes, Tarl Cabot," wheezed Saphrar, giggling, "and yet you will, in an hour or so, when you are mad with pain and fear, try yet again and again to touch and grasp a vine, knowing that you will not succeed but yet again and again trying, believing that once somehow you will be successful. |
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| 18 | 22 |
Now he was putting his chin on the wooden shield and watching me again, once more giggling. |
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| 18 | 55 |
As soon as I had crossed the center I felt the fluids of the pool once again begin to gel and tighten. |
10 |
| 18 | 56 |
By the time I had reached the level of my waist on the opposite side I could, once again, no longer move toward the edge of the pool. |
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| 18 | 78 |
Then suddenly I heard his agonized cry and saw that beneath me, once again, there glistened the yellow fluids of the pool, moving about him, for the thing—perhaps thermotropic—had again, as rapidly as it had hardened, liquefied and swirled about him, the luminescent spheres and filamen... |
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| 18 | 97 |
He fell back from my blade, turned once and fell into the glistening, living liquid of the Yellow Pool of Turia. |
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| 19 | 112 |
"Not you!" "Yes," he said, "I," turning her about once again, routinely checking the knots that bound her wrists, taking her wrists in his hands, trying to separate them, examining the knots for slippage; there was none. |
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| 20 | 125 |
Harold once more had Hereena over his shoulder and was boldly approaching the tarns. |
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| 20 | 128 |
I shut my eyes as he vigorously struck it once, authoritatively, across the beak. |
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| 21 | 53 |
The only person I saw more than once was a slip of a girl in Robes of Concealment and veil, a market basket on her arm, who, the second time, passed me, not noticing me. |
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| 21 | 156 |
Once two guardsmen came to the shop, searching it as I expect most other structures in the city were searched. |
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| 21 | 255 |
I then looked once more over the parapet. |
10 |
| 22 | 16 |
It seemed to me that for once my hair might actually prove useful, a turnabout I contemplated with pleasure. |
10 |
| 22 | 46 |
The lance strikes the shield once for the commander of a Ten; twice for the commander of a Hundred; three times for the commander of a Thousand. |
10 |
| 23 | 28 |
Hakimba was adamant and it was with a heavy heart that I climbed once more to the saddle of my tarn. |
10 |
| 23 | 75 |
Once again our bosk horns sounded and this time my Thousand began to cry out and jab the animals with their lances, turning them toward the Paravaci. |
10 |
| 23 | 115 |
Once again Harold and I issued our orders that any wishing to depart might now do so. |
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| 23 | 217 |
There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar, dented in now and its contents scattered; and the large, gray leathery object which I had upon occasion seen Kamchak use as a stool, that which he had once kicked across the floor for my inspe... |
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| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
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| 25 | 677 |
I had little doubt that I could bring Miss Cardwell around quickly enough, if she thought me in earnest, for example, by a stroke or two of the slave lash, and would then have her crawling to me, to fearfully kiss the whip, lest she once more feel it, crawling to me aghast, petitioning to kiss that ... |
10 |
| 26 | 87 |
Once or twice I heard swords ringing from within the walls, as perhaps some men, loyal to Saphrar, or to their codes, attempted to prevent their fellows from leaving the compound, but I gather, judging from the continued exodus from the walls, that those who were this loyal were scattered and few in... |
10 |
| 26 | 156 |
Sitting in the place of honor, cross-legged, calm, on the merchant's cushions, on his personal dais, applying a bit of oil to the blade of his sword, sat the lean, scarred Ha-Keel, once of Ar, now a mercenary tarnsman of squalid, malignant Port Kar. |
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| 26 | 264 |
Ha-Keel stretched and blinked once. |
10 |
| 26 | 337 |
He stopped once beside the twisted, hideous body of Tolnus of the Paravaci. |
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| 26 | 362 |
"Please!" he cried once more, the syllable lost in the bubbling yellow mass that reached into his mouth. |
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| 26 | 378 |
For better than an hour it burned and then the basin of the pool, now black, in places the marble fused and melted, was empty, save for smears of carbon and grease, and some cracked, blackened bones, and some drops of melted gold, what had been left perhaps of the golden drops which Saphrar of Turia... |
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| 26 | 416 |
Once he turned to Harold. |
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| 26 | 452 |
"Once you spared my life, and we held grass and earth together, and from that time, even had you been outlaw and knave, I would have died for you, but still, of course, I could not give you the egg. |
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| 26 | 496 |
I recalled he had moved it about with his foot, that once he had kicked it across the wagon for me to examine. |
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| 26 | 498 |
"But," I said, my voice trembling, "you rolled it about—you would throw it to the side of the wagon—once you even kicked it across the rug to me that I might examine it". |
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| 27 | 18 |
Beside me, clad not Kajir but in the brief leather of one of the Wagon Girls, though collared, stood Elizabeth Cardwell; similarly attired and collared, I noted, standing a bit behind Harold of the Tuchuks, I saw the fiery Hereena; she was perhaps the only one of all the girls of the Wagon Peoples t... |
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| 27 | 48 |
Was it only because Kamchak believed, as he had once said, that the Wagon Peoples must have an enemy? —or was there some other reason, beyond that? Suddenly there was commotion at the door and three men, followed by some others, burst into the hall. |
10 |
| 27 | 133 |
It was hard for me to believe that this marvelous, collared beauty in my arms was once a simple girl of Earth, that this astounding wench, Tuchuk and Gorean, was the same as Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, the young secretary who so long before had found herself inexplicably thrust into intrigues and circu... |
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| 27 | 166 |
"You will once again be the richest woman in all of Turia". |
10 |
| 27 | 221 |
"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main... |
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| 28 | 28 |
She knelt beside him, and once when she dared to touch her cheek to his right thigh he good-naturedly cuffed the slave girl away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 149 |
I recalled a girl once known, named Sana, who had been sold in Ar during those days, who had become the consort of Kazrak, once Administrator of Ar. |
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| 23 | 151 |
It was a superb attack but I met it and drew blood twice more, once from the left side, once from the chest. |
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| 1 | 6 |
It had once been destroyed by Priest-Kings, but now it was being rebuilt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 494 |
I was no longer worthy of the love of two women I had known, Talena, who had once foolishly consented to be the Free Companion of one now proved to be ignoble and coward, and Vella, Elizabeth Cardwell, once of Earth, who had mistakenly granted her love to one worthy rather only of her contempt and s... |
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| 10 | 193 |
I recall men shouting, "Many men could not all sit through the stroke of an oar! Would you have them stand?" "So great an oar could not even be held by the hands of a man!" "Two masts with their sails could not be quickly removed before battle!" "You will slow the ship if you deepen the keel!" "If m... |
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| 15 | 514 |
But now my attention was on the girl Vina, once the Lady Vivina, once to have been the Ubara of Cos, now only female slave in the house of Bosk, he of Port Kar. |
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| 18 | 43 |
I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city once called squalid and malignant, but wh... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 313 |
Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, once of Earth, once rich, once spoiled, and cruel and selfish, now only a conquered Gorean slave girl, lay intimately, lovingly, in the arms of her absolute master. |
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| 11 | 278 |
I knew only I, Elinor Brinton, once of Park Avenue, once of the restaurants and boulevards of New York and the continent, now wore in my nose a tiny ring of steel. |
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| 11 | 1125 |
It was also said that he would use a woman only once, claiming that he had, he, Rask of Treve, in once using her, emptied her, exhausted her, taken from her all she had to give, and that, thus, she could no longer be of interest to him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 275 |
Perhaps surprisingly, once conquered, once they have learned their brand, once they have learned their collar and silk, they make the most helpless, the most incredibly delicious slaves. |
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| 12 | 161 |
Perhaps it is merely that her voice reminds him of that of a veiled, free woman, who once, in a distant city, treated him badly, one whom perhaps he once courted and who scorned him. |
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| 22 | 437 |
I had seen it several times, once on one who worked for the mysterious Others, a member of a crew of a black ship, once encountered in the mountains of the Voltai, not far from great Ar itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 485 |
We had not been much pleased at the insolence of the bondmaid with respect to the young thrall; once, we recalled, her taunting of him had almost cost him his life; I had intervened, and he had only been whipped instead; I had little doubt that Wulfstan of Kassau, the thrall, Tarsk, had many scores ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 1 | 229 |
And so it was that she, Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, then disowned, once my companion, was ushered into my presence. |
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| 1 | 641 |
"The beast struck once, and once only?" I asked. |
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| 2 | 13 |
She wore shoes of black, polished leather, which folded about her ankles, laced twice, once across the instep, once about the ankle. |
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| 18 | 210 |
Twice more were there charges, once by Kurii, once by men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 541 |
Twice more in the game was I stung with the switch then, once on the left arm, above the elbow, and once, more cruelly, on the right calf, when I, wishing to make no sound, not thinking the referee near me, lingered too long in one position. |
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| 14 | 239 |
In looking upon one of us, upon one of two lowly, exquisite slaves, he had been looking upon she who had once been the Lady Sabina, of Fortress of Saphronicus, once intended to sit regally at his side, gloriously robed, his free companion. |
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| 27 | 455 |
She looked to me once, that I might not reveal what had once been her identity. |
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| 27 | 487 |
"You were once Sabina, the daughter of Kleomenes," he laughed, "once promised to me in Companion Contract". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 468 |
Once a girl truly understands that she is a slave, and that there is no escape for her, once she understands it truly, emotionally, categorically, intellectually, physiologically, totally, deeply, profoundly, in every cell in her beautiful body, a fantastic transformation occurs in her. |
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| 10 | 145 |
We were served gruel, mixed with thick chunks of boiled tabuk, by the blonde, she who had once been Barbara Benson, now Thimble, and the dark-haired girl, who had once been the rich girl, Audrey Brewster, now the slave girl, Thistle. |
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| 35 | 433 |
Interestingly, and understandably, not all these women are Gorean; no; rather, many of them are from Earth, the world once my own, a world perhaps once as beautiful as Gor, now a more-neglected, grayer world, now a world too often dishonored, desecrated, and betrayed by her own children. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 519 |
The knot at the ring was a simple bowline, familiar to all who know the sea, brought to Gor perhaps hundreds of years ago by mariners who had once sailed the Aegean or the Mediterranean, perhaps who had once called not such ports as Schendi or Bazi their own, but Miletus or Ephesus, or Syracuse or C... |
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| 7 | 193 |
I recalled she had had an honest bid on her once at the market of Vart, once Publius Quintus of Ar, in Port Kar, a bid from the tavern keeper, Procopius, of forty copper tarsks. |
10 |
| 13 | 295 |
"Beneath the glaciers of your ice, the brittleness of those preposterous defenses you insist upon," I said, "are churning, searing subterranean lakes, the delicate, apprehensive magma of latent worlds, ready to burst forth, are you truly unaware of them, these undisclosed, molten, searing seas, thes... |
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| 13 | 569 |
I thought of a girl once known, one who once had been my free companion. |
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| 13 | 571 |
She had once been the daughter of Marlenus of Ar, but he had disowned her, for once, when she had been the helpless slave of the forest girl, Verna, she had begged to be purchased, a slave's act. |
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| 32 | 699 |
Sometimes under the blows or in fearful anticipation of them she twisted or changed position, once sitting, sometimes crouching, once on her stomach; most of the blows were across her back, but two had been delivered frontally, and two to her left side, and one to her right side. |
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| 55 | 27 |
I looked back once at the city, and once at the darkness in the sky to the southwest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 161 |
"You will now be beaten twice," said the Lady Gina, "once for having, as a frightened, ignorant slave, dared to lie to your mistress, and once for having desired to take a beautiful girl in your arms". |
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| 26 | 403 |
"It is where you once caught two slaves rutting in the darkness," I said, "and where you once, kindly, sent me a "new slave" to content my needs". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 46 |
They needed not know that he who had fallen had now risen; that once more the codes were kept with pride; that the cords with which he had once, with such pain and skill, bound himself, he had now sundered and torn from him, like an enraged larl emerging fiercely from a net now too frail to hold him... |
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| 29 | 102 |
Twice I had been demeaned by pirates, once in the tavern of Tasdron, and once in the Pirate's Chain, the tavern of Hibron. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 408 |
Did she not know she was neck-chained to a man's slave ring? "Suddenly," she said, "I see what you are doing! How amusing for you, to put what was once my own name on me as a slave name! How droll! How helpless his girl! How delightful, for that insensitive, uncaring, imperious beast, the master! Ho... |
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| 17 | 237 |
The kneeling girl, she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, once a graduate student in English literature at a major university in the New York City area, eyed the coin, fearfully. |
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| 18 | 586 |
"Then," she said, "late at night, on the Street of the Writhing Slave, I encountered one whom I had once known on Earth, one once called Jason Marshall. |
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| 20 | 199 |
The once lofty Lady Florence of Vonda well knew she was now in a collar, as much an animal now as the girls and the tharlarion she had once owned. |
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| 20 | 1201 |
In all that may later ensue, whatever it may be, do not forget that you once fought together, and once were comrades". |
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| 20 | 1640 |
Let it be gone! This is Gor! Gor! What was she to you, that tart I once was, dear Master, that you should have deferred to her? Did you never once point to the floor at your feet, and tell her to kneel? Why not? What mistakes the men of Earth make with the women of Earth! It is no wonder the women o... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1691 |
And thus was the former Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, once of Earth, once a debutante, once a lesser scion of position and station, of wealth and power, once an element ensconced within an economic and social elite, once a lovely occupant of society's highest tiers, now a property on a beautiful, sa... |
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| 1 | 123 |
The girl kneeling before me, once Elicia Nevins, once the lofty, beautiful and proud agent of Kurii, now only my lovely slave, reached for my sandals. |
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| 2 | 398 |
How could I explain to Samos the dark affinity I shared with one whom I had met only once, in the north, and long ago, with one who, clearly, was naught but a beast? I recalled the long evening I had once spent with Zarendargar, and our lengthy, animated conversations, the talk of warriors, the talk... |
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| 3 | 144 |
The fort itself, incidentally, was twice burned, once by soldiers from Port Olni, before that town joined the Salerian Confederation, and once by marauding Dust Legs, a tribe of red savages, from the interior of the Barrens. |
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| 17 | 328 |
In this, once the garments, and the tiresome robes of concealment, had been removed from her, once she had been exposed to the view of masters, fully, it had been determined that her face and figure, in themselves, did not militate against the plausibility of her being embonded; they were desirable ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 49 | 17 |
"As one of you was once the daughter of a Kaiila chieftain, Watonka, who was once a great warrior amongst us, and was once my friend, and one of you was once her maiden, I shall not have you subjected to tortures". |
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| 4 | 112 |
Slave girls, of course, once they have begun to learn their collars, and once they have begun to learn that they are truly slaves, and what it might mean, become very vain and proud over the piercing of their ears. |
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| 13 | 228 |
How marvelous and beautiful are women! How glorious it is to own them, to be able to do what one wishes with them and to love them! But then I thought soberly of she who had once been the Lady Mira, of Venna, who had once, as the agent of Kurii, been my enemy. |
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| 39 | 92 |
"Is this she who was once the lofty Lady Mira who speaks," I asked, "she who was once the proud free woman of Venna?" "Yes, Master," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 88 |
Twice, I knew, suddenly realizing it now, he could have stolen me from Corcyrus, delivering me to Argentum, once when we were on the walls near the tarn perches and once, later, when, my whereabouts unknown to Ligurious and others, I had been in the house of Kliomenes, braceleted, half naked and hel... |
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| 34 | 109 |
Sheila, who had once been the Tatrix of Corcyrus, now a slave girl, lay at the feet of Ligurious, who had once been her first minister, positioned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 |
She, now a love slave, had once been the ward of Chenbar, Ubar of Tyros, and once had been intended to be the free companion of gross Lurius of Jad, the Ubar of Cos, thence to be proclaimed Ubara of Cos, which union would have even further strengthened the ties between those two great island ubarate... |
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| 2 | 1137 |
"Twice, rather recently, I have heard from the Sardar," he said, "once some ten days ago, and once yesterday". |
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| 6 | 74 |
"Oh!" she cried, miserably, leaping up, once more pulling her skirt up, high about her face, using it once more to conceal her features. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 48 |
"Even if they boiled you in oil," said Hurtha, "as that is normally done, it could be done only once, or, at any rate, only once that would be likely to be of any interest to you". |
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| 25 | 1400 |
A hitherto frigid woman, even one smug in her arctic hauteur, one evincing an icy disdain, one complacently proud of her cool, pinioned passion, one contemptuous of her less inert, more vital sisters, once collared, once mastered, undergoes a radical transformation, one startling to those who might ... |
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| 26 | 395 |
She whimpered once, very definitely, very clearly, just once. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 140 |
It was speculated that she had once been a pleasure slave, that she had once been in a tavern, and had even, once, been first girl. |
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| 11 | 716 |
Teibar had done it on Earth, in the library; it had been done in the house of my training, shortly after I had arrived there; it had been done outside Brundisium, by the wholesaler there, and in Market of Semris twice, once when I had arrived there, by the men of Teibar of Market of Semris, and once... |
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| 26 | 112 |
To be sure, once was because Tyrrhenius had wanted to pick up a good lure girl and once was because Ionicus, working doubtless through an agent, one perhaps implementing what might even have been a standing policy, had wanted, as a joke, to put me at the service of men I had trapped. |
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| 29 | 54 |
Once we were in contact with the railing, once we could feel it hard against the back of our neck, we were roped to it, by the neck. |
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| 29 | 134 |
Perhaps he had once served in them? If so, that suggested he might have once been a slave or criminal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 479 |
She whimpered once, once again. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 325 |
She looked over to me, pleadingly, pathetically, the once-rich, once-powerful, once-haughty Lady Ina, of Ar, she who had been of the staff of Saphronicus, she who had been mistress of the purple barge, she who was confidante to, and observer for, Talena, once the daughter of Marlenus of Ar. |
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| 19 | 1387 |
Few men, once they have caught the scent of the mastery, and surely once they have tasted of its deliciousness, will even consider its surrender". |
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| 21 | 77 |
"Too," I said, "as I may once have called to your attention, it is not difficult to reform a woman's character, once she is in a collar". |
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| 44 | 307 |
Now, in virtue of the observation of the stranger, she had been once again entered into a condition of acute distress, being once again emotionally overwrought at the thought of what had been done to her, the decisively humiliating indignity of it, that her ears had been pierced. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 143 |
I thought of a woman, one now high in Ar, one for whom I had once mistakenly cared, a vain, proud woman who had once, thinking me helpless and crippled, mocked and scorned me. |
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| 19 | 233 |
"Strange, then, Master," she said, "that we should meet in this reality, I, once a woman of Earth, as now no more than a kneeling slave before you, once a man of Earth". |
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| 19 | 1272 |
I then lifted up the yoke, which, as I have mentioned, was thrice drilled, once in the center, and once near each end. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 732 |
And, too, once she had felt the whip, once it had made it clear to her what she was, once it had confirmed her bondage upon her, once it had imprinted upon her an understanding of what could be done to her, I did not think it likely that she would be eager to feel it soon again, even lightly, even i... |
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| 18 | 202 |
On the other hand, I must grant that the "free woman," once she is no longer free, once she becomes a slave, and learns her collar—once she is no longer free—and has now become a slave girl—will have her value—on the block, and in the kitchen, and in the furs. |
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| 7 | 137 |
We are to turn our eyes downward and to the left, and look upon it, seeing it once again, understanding it once again. |
10 |
| 11 | 267 |
Once or twice in the pens I had been given a candy, a hard candy, and once, a part of a pastry. |
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| 24 | 551 |
Toward morning he had once again drawn me to him and used me once more to slake his lusts. |
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| 29 | 135 |
"Perhaps the slave recalls," he said, "one who was once the Lady Constanzia of Besnit, one who once, when the mistress of a rich house, defrauded the house of William, in Harfax. |
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| 29 | 222 |
"Twice you have caused great injury to the house of William," he said, "once to the house as house, and once to the house through me, one of that house". |
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| 39 | 73 |
Too, I would suppose certain guards could do so, and, of course, the other pit slaves had seen him, at least twice, once in the cell, once in the vicinity of the urt pool. |
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| 45 | 25 |
It is one thing never to acknowledge oneself; it is one thing to pretend and hide; it is one thing to avoid meeting oneself; but it is quite another to forget oneself once one has met oneself; one cannot, so to speak, then unmeet oneself; one may hide from the truth; one may attempt to avoid it; one... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 444 |
"Once, and only once," she said, "I wore jewelry to class. |
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| 11 | 257 |
Conceive, if you will, the analogy of a once-haughty, once-vain princess, her armies now scattered and crushed, chained naked to the chariot of a general, being led in triumph through jubilant crowds. |
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| 20 | 223 |
She whimpered once, and then whimpered once, again. |
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| 23 | 176 |
"Perhaps she once entered a line, or a door, before you, not invited to do so, but as though it were her right?" "Perhaps she cast you a haughty glance, or once spoke shortly to you?" suggested another. |
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| 26 | 800 |
And quickly, frightened, Ellen put down her head and began to lick and kiss the sandals of Selius Arconious, once again a slave, once again reminded of the absoluteness of her bondage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 85 |
Lord Grendel's body shook, and Cabot feared, once more, as he had once feared it in the camp, that he might become something other than he would recognize, something terrible, fanged, merciless, stormlike, predatory, something unmitigatedly and primitively Kur, Kur as Kur might once have been, emerg... |
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| 1 | 633 |
Too, she would prove to have sexual latencies of a sort which, once ignited, once commanded forth, would put her helplessly, beggingly, needfully, ungovernably, uncontrollably, at the sexual mercy of men. |
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| 53 | 96 |
They had been fired on, twice, by Kur patrols, but had managed to elude them, once by taking refuge within a shambling herd of cattle humans, and once by slipping into an area within which it was unlikely, in any event, that power weapons would be employed. |
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| 70 | 176 |
Flavion reached to the weapon, in pain, grimacing, and then swung it to his shoulder, pressing the detonating mechanism twice, once point-blank at the large sleen, once at Cabot. |
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| 79 | 545 |
"How so?" "Once, enslaved, she begged to be purchased, a slave's act, and so, once purchased and freed, she was disowned". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 707 |
He then put his left hand in her hair, tightly, and, measuring her, carefully, deliberately, cuffed her once, and then again, once with the front of his hand, and then once with the back of his hand. |
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| 5 | 541 |
And then he asked who then ruled in name, and men feared to tell him, that it was she who had once been his daughter, before her dishonoring, and disownment, for the slur she had once cast on his honor". |
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| 17 | 23 |
Once collared her life has changed; once collared, her old life is superseded, even obliterated; it is beyond recall. |
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| 28 | 281 |
Does she not then, chained in her cage at night, try fruitlessly to tear the collar from her throat? Then, in the morning, after sobbing herself to a fitful sleep, she is ordered forth from her cage again, naked, on all fours, in her shackles, to be again abused and set once more to arduous, exhaust... |
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| 30 | 2 |
"There is much to be done," said Aëtius, once of the arsenal at Port Kar, apprentice to the mad, half-blind shipwright, Tersites, once of the same city, now an embittered expatriate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 184 |
"West," said Andronicus, once of Tabor, once of the Scribes. |
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| 7 | 257 |
I knew there was a pretty price on the pretty head of the slave, Alcinoë, once the Lady Flavia of Ar, once confidante of the former Ubara, Talena, but it was scarcely enough to enrich several hundred men, mariners and soldiers, Pani, and others. |
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| 21 | 219 |
To be sure, should I return her to Ar, I might collect a nice bounty on her, for she had once been the Lady Flavia, a traitress, once even the confidante of Talena, the muchly sought, false Ubara. |
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| 23 | 63 |
I had seen such a stroke more than once, twice in the early morning, in a park in Ar, once shortly after dawn on the Plaza of Tarns. |
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| 28 | 162 |
Let them learn well, I thought, what they are, the former Talena of Ar, once Ubara, and the former Lady Flavia of Ar, once her confidante, that they are now slaves, only that. |
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| 36 | 97 |
In certain circumstances, then, it seems not unlikely they might once more look to him for leadership, and once more follow him". |
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| 10 | 642 |
And so it came about that the former Allison Ashton-Baker, once of the upper classes of her world, once so superior and haughty, once so special and important in her own eyes, once one of the beauties of an exclusive sorority, at one of her country's most selective and expensive schools, now tunicke... |
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| 8 | 176 |
I, once Allison Ashton-Baker, once a member of a prestigious, wealthy sorority at an exclusive educational institution on the planet Earth, once a scion of the envied upper classes on my world, was helpless, and on Gor, a manacled, hooded, coffled slave! "Oh!" I cried, suddenly pelted with gravel. |
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| 5 | 81 |
Why are we commonly so radiant, so content? Have you not wondered how that could be? Many of us, once embonded, once brought to the feet of a man, find ourselves. |
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| 8 | 714 |
Perhaps some lowly clerk once in her employ, mistreated, despised, scorned, and overworked, had saved some money and thought it might be pleasant to have her, once so socially and economically superior to him, chained at the foot of his couch. |
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| 10 | 83 |
He had said that he was Grendel, high Kur, once from the world of Agamemnon, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, self-exiled from his world, that he might accompany and guard a woman, the Lady Bina, once, too, of that world. |
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| 10 | 1025 |
Two of her girls, large girls, for such are best at such things, had intercepted me twice, once a month ago, and once last week. |
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| 15 | 344 |
How humble, and hopeful, she is, at the feet of her master! Once, but only once, we were in the vicinity of guardsmen, two, one with a lantern. |
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| 18 | 1094 |
How weak we are, how needful we are, once a collar is fastened on our neck! Would you be different, noble Mistresses, were one fastened on your neck? Of course, for you are not slaves! Once before, at a night camp, our second day from Venna, he had put his hands on me, as well, and thrust me, standi... |
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| 46 | 101 |
For example, if those of Ar visit Treve, the banquet will almost certainly be served by stripped women once of Ar, now in the collar of Trevan masters, which courtesy is returned, of course, should those of Treve visit Ar, where the free men of Treve will be served by stripped women once of Treve, n... |
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| 5 | 4 |
How real it was! How simple it was to see, once looked upon, once dared to be looked upon. |
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| 15 | 690 |
On the other hand, many, it is said, "court the collar," and it seems to be the case that "tree captures," in their hundreds or thousands, as in the wars, the raids of slavers, the seizures of caravans, the depredations of pirates, the fall of cities, and such, once collared, once owned, find fulfil... |
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| 15 | 691 |
In any event, Gorean or barbarian, we were all women, and once collared, once owned, it seemed there was little to choose between us. |
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| 25 | 353 |
As a flaw, once fastened on a scent, and committed to it, it will ignore better, easier game for less desirable, more-difficult-to-obtain game; on the other hand, once committed to a scent, it is likely to pursue it relentlessly, which, if one is after a particular quarry, might be, I suppose, accou... |
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| 49 | 126 |
What will she be like when she has learned her collar? What will she be like once she is the victim of the raging slave fires we will build in her belly? What will she be like once she has been trained to please men? What will she be like when she has suitably dieted and exercised?" "I see," she sai... |
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| 46 | 440 |
For example, might not even a free woman be herded about, with switches, naked and chained? On the other hand, once their thigh has encountered the searing iron, leaving behind for all to see a lovely kajira mark, once they find their neck fastened in an attractive, locked metal collar, clearly a sl... |
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| 61 | 800 |
"You were always of Earth, the world of slaves and fools! I had once thought you a man, but how wrong I was! Though I had twice tried to kill you, once in tarnflight over the great Spider Swamp south of Ar, and once in its vicinity, with a knife, you neither slew me nor put me to the collar and bran... |
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| 7 | 76 |
But afterwards I was intent on visiting the indoor housing area, that I might ascertain the condition of a slave, a particular slave, Cecily, once Miss Virginia Cecily Jean Pym, whom I had collared faraway, on a steel world, concealed amongst asteroids, and, on behalf of my friend and colleague, Per... |
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| 13 | 247 |
"She is Gorean, once the Lady Portia Lia Serisia, of Sun Gate Towers, a scion of the Serisii, a banking family once of considerable repute and power in Ar". |
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| 29 | 97 |
"Twice," said Tajima, "tarnsmen returned, circling about, at a great height, and we must conceal ourselves, once in the reeds and mud near a small stream, once in leaves and brush". |
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| 41 | 85 |
"That is unlikely," I said, "for it would be examining the same path twice, once going, once coming". |
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| 49 | 154 |
Again she lifted her belly, and whimpered, piteously, once, and then again more desperately, more pathetically, once, again. |
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| 59 | 30 |
The other was Katsutoshi, whom I recalled from the village, where Nodachi had twice divided a grain of rice, once with the companion sword, and once with the field sword. |
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| 9 | 575 |
"But what if I were once a compatriot," I said, "once of your city!" "It matters not," he said. |
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| 9 | 51 |
Once I had not knelt quickly enough, twice I had forgotten to request permission to speak, and once, the worst time, I had dropped one of the metal plates and it had fallen, ringing and clattering, to the floor. |
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| 46 | 119 |
When I had been returned to the cages of the Golden Chain from the Skerry of Lars, I had, of course, recalled the beautiful slave, Dorna, once, in her freedom, called Dorna the Proud, once the highest of Silver Masks in Tharna, second only to the Golden Mask, Lara. |
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| 47 | 30 |
"That you, once from Earth, can be with me as you are, standing beside me, unconcerned, giving the matter no thought, that I, a woman once of your world, am unclothed, completely so; that I am totally naked on an open street, in public, beneath a lamp; that I am branded; that my wrists are confined ... |
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