| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 10 |
Like ourselves, he finds his reasons for hating his fellow-men, but his reasons are different. |
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| 15 | 59 |
The rocky shelf on which we found ourselves was perhaps twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, about the size that a tarn chooses for nesting. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 164 |
And then we laughed together, neither of us able to restrain ourselves. |
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| 20 | 46 |
The room in which we found ourselves was substantially empty, and not too much different in size and shape from the room in which my processing had been initiated. |
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| 20 | 48 |
The only object in the room other than ourselves was a heavy, globelike contrivance, high over our heads, attached to a set of jointed extensions fastened in the ceiling of the chamber. |
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| 20 | 205 |
The Gorean man, as a man, cheerfully and dutifully attends to the rescuing of his female in distress, but as a Gorean, as a true Gorean, he feels, perhaps justifiably and being somewhat less or more romantic than ourselves, that he should have something more for his pains than her kiss of gratitude ... |
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| 29 | 75 |
The first ship to near the exit seemed to burst into a cloud of powder but the next four ships, and myself, who had fallen into line with them, pierced the veil of powder and found ourselves coursing through the tunnel back toward Sarm's domain. |
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| 32 | 37 |
We came to the hole where Misk and his fellow Priest-Kings and humans had cut through fallen debris and climbed out through it, finding ourselves in one of the major complexes again. |
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| 32 | 107 |
We ourselves did not find out about it until some technicians joined our forces in the Nest War". |
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| 35 | 102 |
"We must protect ourselves and those humans who live with us," said Misk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 343 |
"Let us sit down and enjoy ourselves," recommended Saphrar. |
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| 11 | 183 |
Kamchak had circled around and we found ourselves back at the slave wagon. |
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| 16 | 76 |
It was necessary only to walk through the archway and find ourselves on one of the streets of Turia. |
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| 19 | 68 |
Here we climbed several low, broad marble steps and passed down a columned porch and entered the central building, finding ourselves in a dim, lamp-lit hall, bestrewn with carpets and cushions and decorated, here and there, with carved, reticulated white screening. |
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| 22 | 101 |
I sprang up the steps, followed by Harold, and we soon found ourselves in the marbled entry hall of the palace. |
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| 26 | 339 |
Then, saying no more, Kamchak, the rest of us following, left the room, guiding ourselves by the distant, frustrated howls of disappointed sleen. |
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| 27 | 147 |
"That," said he, "the Kataii and the Kassars—and, too, in time the Paravaci—would see how we might be divided against ourselves and singly destroyed—and would thus recognize the need for uniting the standards, bringing together the Thousands under one command—" "That they... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 505 |
We crossed the partially rebuilt walls, Elizabeth and I, and found ourselves among cylinders, many of which were in the process of reconstruction. |
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| 5 | 628 |
In all things, it seemed to me, we manifest ourselves, each differently. |
10 |
| 6 | 121 |
There was a long, incredibly weird, horrifying scream, coming from far away, and yet seeming to penetrate the very stones of the hall where we enjoyed ourselves. |
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| 8 | 190 |
On the inside we had cut the loop and with a simple knot tied the two cords together, so that, when we wished, we might let ourselves out of the compartment without cutting the cord on the inside. |
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| 9 | 68 |
Ho-Tu turned into a side corridor and we found ourselves, to my surprise, looking through a huge rectangle of glass, some twelve feet high and perhaps fifteen feet wide; it was one of a dozen such panels I could see in the corridor. |
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| 14 | 138 |
We found ourselves in the hallway giving access to the large one-way glass, backed by metal grillwork. |
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| 22 | 495 |
My tarn struck the other two and in a moment, tarn goads flashing, talons clutching, birds screaming and biting, we found ourselves as in a clenched, winged fist of fury, beating and turning before the left center ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 53 |
My arm about Telima's shoulder, I moved her away, losing ourselves among the shouting rencers, the running men and women. |
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| 7 | 69 |
At my feet, half covered with the rence reeds with which we had concealed ourselves, lay Telima. |
10 |
| 9 | 36 |
We might well have congratulated ourselves on our catch of rence girls. |
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| 11 | 58 |
We soon found ourselves on the sloping roof of the hall of the council, shielded by turrets and decorative embrasures at its edge. |
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| 17 | 83 |
Indeed, we ourselves, until early this morning, had not a full comprehension of our plans, or, indeed, even the ships we would have to carry them out. |
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| 17 | 148 |
I knew Chenbar to be a brilliant Ubar and captain, but even he, the brilliant Chenbar, could not well have understood our plans, our dispositions and our ventures, for we ourselves, until hours before, had not known with what we might work and how it might be used. |
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| 18 | 56 |
And so, then, I asked myself, might we not then sing for them, and for ourselves as well, and could there not be, in some way that was hard to understand, but good, truth in songs? I went to the tarn that I had ridden back to the Dorna. |
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| 18 | 152 |
The boy and I built a fire, over which we might dry our clothes and by which we might warm ourselves. |
10 |
| 18 | 164 |
We looked about ourselves. |
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| 18 | 278 |
Heavy wooden mantelets, mounted on posts, were nearby, under which we might protect ourselves from crossbow fire from tarnsmen. |
10 |
| 18 | 550 |
We, panting, bloody, looked about ourselves. |
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| 18 | 584 |
"We acknowledge ourselves your slave girls!" screamed Telima. |
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| 18 | 858 |
"All men," said Samos, "and all women, have within themselves despicable elements, cruel things and cowardly things, things vicious, and greedy and selfish, things ugly that we hide from others, and most of all from ourselves". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 75 |
We found ourselves alone with ourselves, in the darkness, chained in the wagon. |
10 |
| 7 | 155 |
We desperately wanted to have something to cover ourselves, be it only a narrow, shameful camisk. |
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| 7 | 182 |
Following our meal we were taken to a nearby stream where we washed ourselves. |
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| 8 | 921 |
Suddenly there were three more sharp slaps of the sword belts and, crying out, protesting, begging for mercy, laughing, we leapt to our feet to busy ourselves. |
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| 9 | 232 |
We found ourselves now in a stand of the lofty Tur trees. |
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| 11 | 479 |
Lana and I, that night, thought them fools, and, satisfied with ourselves, went to sleep on the straw. |
10 |
| 12 | 95 |
We looked at one another, scarcely able to restrain ourselves. |
10 |
| 12 | 180 |
It is we who kneel before them, and know ourselves their slaves. |
10 |
| 12 | 336 |
We were alone with ourselves again, closed in the wagon. |
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| 12 | 606 |
I am not precisely sure why this is, but I suppose it must have to do with the understanding of ourselves as animals, as properties, and such. |
10 |
| 13 | 29 |
In this thicket, still tethered one to the other, we had thrown ourselves down on the grass. |
10 |
| 13 | 260 |
It would be pleasant to eat by the fire, and warm ourselves, while we enjoyed our open-air repast. |
10 |
| 13 | 312 |
By dawn we came to another large stand of Ka-la-na, in which we, wearily, concealed ourselves. |
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| 15 | 1115 |
We were her girls, and she wished us to present ourselves well. |
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| 17 | 167 |
For what place could there be for this other thing in the war camp of Rask of Treve? But mostly we sported and pleasured, hiding from ourselves this other thing, both of us perhaps not wishing to speak it. |
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| 17 | 197 |
I now belonged to this stranger, to whom I, and the others, had submitted ourselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 193 |
Twice in the Tesephone's own journey upriver, even with her shallow draft, we had gently ran aground and must needs use the poles to free ourselves. |
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| 8 | 89 |
They had only then realized, with full awareness, that we ourselves were now penned within the stockade, which might now serve as the same trap for us as it might have served before for panther girls. |
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| 21 | 109 |
We freed ourselves, and put those who had been our captors in chains". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 143 |
How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground. |
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| 10 | 66 |
"Let us, this afternoon," said Ivar Forkbeard, "give ourselves to strolling". |
10 |
| 10 | 68 |
In the morning we might find ourselves chained at the foot of cauldrons of boiling tharlarion oil. |
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| 12 | 37 |
As we honor this man we, in doing this, similarly do honor unto ourselves". |
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| 13 | 154 |
When the Forkbeard, and I, and other followers, many of them bearing riches, entered the hall we had been given a room to one side, in which we might wash and dry ourselves before the feast. |
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| 15 | 27 |
Sometimes we threw ourselves to the ground, among the fallen. |
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| 16 | 220 |
Here, hoping for others to do our work, we find only ourselves, and an arrow of war. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 138 |
We straightened ourselves. |
10 |
| 13 | 145 |
We again straightened ourselves. |
10 |
| 13 | 222 |
We could not free ourselves. |
10 |
| 15 | 150 |
"We order ourselves by the arrangements of skill and steel. |
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| 25 | 553 |
"But let us assure ourselves that this will be a common slave, one fit to sell north". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 89 |
Following Eta's example, to my pleasure, we prepared ourselves plates and cups. |
10 |
| 5 | 872 |
We readied ourselves. |
10 |
| 12 | 50 |
We were permitted to sleep late in the slave quarters, and manual labors, for most of us, tended to be curtailed in the early afternoon, that we might rest and prepare ourselves for the evening. |
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| 12 | 351 |
I, and the other girls, might not take such food for ourselves. |
10 |
| 12 | 376 |
Well pleased were we with ourselves, and I thought that I had been the best in this work. |
10 |
| 12 | 878 |
When the basket dropped from the parapet toward the courtyard we screamed, frightened, but then it swung below the tarn, and we felt ourselves being lifted high into the air, as though toward the moons of Gor themselves. |
10 |
| 14 | 56 |
Busebius, our master, sometimes, before ordering us to bathe and prepare ourselves for the floor, scattered a handful of hard candies among us. |
10 |
| 14 | 286 |
We garbed ourselves as "the hunter's catch". |
10 |
| 16 | 161 |
After this we had been permitted to clean ourselves as we could, with sea water and brushes. |
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| 18 | 14 |
When I had come to the Chatka and Curla I, and Narla, too, had been dipped and scrubbed, to clear us of ship lice and the residues of filth accumulated from the voyage and our consequent captivity; the dip was of water saturated with chemicals toxic to ship lice; we did not open our eyes or mouth wh... |
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| 27 | 615 |
If we have lost this, we have lost part of ourselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 152 |
"Tonight let us divert ourselves with the pleasures of slave girls and paga". |
10 |
| 9 | 21 |
"We content ourselves with prime hide. |
10 |
| 23 | 306 |
Ram and I helped ourselves. |
10 |
| 25 | 101 |
This habit, of course, tends to be less fruitful in a terrain of sea ice, such as that in which we now found ourselves, because of the bizarre, twisted sameness of much of the icescape. |
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| 26 | 304 |
"In the strait circumstances in which we now find ourselves enmeshed, I gather," I said, "that you have no intention of dying". |
10 |
| 33 | 30 |
Perhaps what is alien to us is only ourselves in a different visage. |
10 |
| 33 | 32 |
When we seek the unknown is it ourselves for which we truly search? Then I dismissed such foolish thoughts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 267 |
"Before the general alarm was permitted to sound in Port Kar, in the matter of apprising the wharves of the news of an escaped slave," said Ulafi, "we, naturally, conducted a search for her ourselves. |
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| 7 | 102 |
"We have strengthened our defenses," said Uchafu, "reinforcing the palisaded walls which shield Schendi from the interior, but we must not delude ourselves. |
10 |
| 12 | 273 |
In betraying it we betray no one but ourselves. |
10 |
| 19 | 195 |
Let us continue to think of our Ubars as men much like ourselves, only perhaps a bit wiser, or stronger, or more fortunate. |
10 |
| 19 | 196 |
That way we may continue to be comfortable with them, and, to some extent, feel ourselves their superior. |
10 |
| 23 | 318 |
"We must free ourselves," I said. |
10 |
| 23 | 391 |
"We can do it ourselves," said Ayari. |
10 |
| 23 | 456 |
Mwoga had informed us that there were only two to concern ourselves with, and that we might proceed with dispatch. |
10 |
| 29 | 46 |
We did not know who, or what, besides ourselves, might trek, perhaps at our side, in that lush habitat. |
10 |
| 32 | 19 |
We had only ourselves, and three slight-bodied female slaves. |
10 |
| 32 | 104 |
"It is appropriate that we should find ourselves fully at the mercy of our masters". |
10 |
| 32 | 317 |
In a sense, given the rigors of evolution and selection, the human contains in itself not less animality than his brethren whom we choose to place lower on the phylogenetic scale than ourselves but more. |
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| 32 | 333 |
In a rather different sense of 'animal', we sometimes draw a distinction between human beings and animals, that is, we take the category of animals and divide it in two, calling one sort of animals, ourselves, human beings, and letting what is left over, the other sorts of animals, count as the anim... |
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| 44 | 184 |
"Help us to rid ourselves of the talunas," said the leader. |
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| 49 | 81 |
"I think you are right about ourselves not being the object of the drums' call," said Kisu, "and for the reason which you gave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 264 |
The men, thus, had not apparently been concerned that we would, at a future time, be able to identify either themselves or the interior of the large structure in which we had found ourselves. |
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| 6 | 54 |
"Let us amuse ourselves," said the woman who had examined me. |
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| 7 | 517 |
How much easier it is to be objective about the constituents of the atom than about ourselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 352 |
But even if we should deny ourselves, and starve, and torture and frustrate ourselves, we would still, in the end, be ourselves. |
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| 11 | 355 |
Fearing ourselves does not make us not ourselves. |
10 |
| 11 | 340 |
In denying it we, truly, deny only ourselves. |
10 |
| 11 | 346 |
Perhaps we should consider ourselves images and inventions. |
10 |
| 11 | 351 |
Perhaps we should not be true to ourselves. |
10 |
| 23 | 67 |
If he is highly placed in some town on the river then his utility to Voskjard and to us would be considerably diminished if it were understood such a highly placed person was secretly in league with men such as ourselves and Voskjard". |
10 |
| 23 | 174 |
In attempting to conquer nature, we defeat only ourselves. |
10 |
| 24 | 397 |
At last we could stop fighting ourselves and pretending to be what we were not. |
10 |
| 24 | 398 |
We now, though women of Earth, could admit to ourselves what we were. |
10 |
| 29 | 48 |
"Our concerns, Captains," said Callimachus, "must now be with ourselves and our immediate dangers, not with the politics of Cos and Ar". |
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| 30 | 159 |
Only in remaining true to nature can we remain true to ourselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 52 |
"Do you not wonder, sometimes," asked he, "why honest men, honest folk, such as ourselves, permit pirates, and such, to exist". |
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| 4 | 55 |
If our flank were turned, too, we could no longer protect ourselves. |
10 |
| 11 | 225 |
"We must, for the time, deny them to ourselves," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 17 |
We had, against the protestations of Miles of Vonda, whom we left in command of the fortress, surrendered ourselves. |
10 |
| 18 | 316 |
What can any journey profit us, if it is ourselves whom we have left behind? "But I speak foolishly, my Master," she said, "for what can such nonsense mean to one such as you, one skilled in the mastery, Gorean in blood and power? How little has your own world prepared you to comprehend such lamenta... |
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| 18 | 501 |
We cannot help ourselves. |
10 |
| 19 | 620 |
"But however you are pleased to view these matters," I said, "it makes little difference to me, whether we think of ourselves as being of Earth or Gor". |
10 |
| 19 | 820 |
If we do not protest and fight, of what value to a man, we ask ourselves, will be our conquest? But, of course, I should not have fought you. |
10 |
| 21 | 52 |
Rather, as slaves, now taught by our master, we find ourselves, almost against our wills, considering how we might perhaps better serve and please him". |
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| 21 | 188 |
We then, from the tray, feeding ourselves, taking dates, and slices of larma and pastries, breakfasted and chatted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 366 |
Too, they regard themselves as more intelligent than ourselves, and as being a dominant species". |
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| 1 | 655 |
"They are much like ourselves". |
10 |
| 2 | 12 |
It was unlikely that we could have adequately defended ourselves against a sudden onslaught of such foes at that short a distance. |
10 |
| 8 | 889 |
On the other side of the door we found ourselves in a holding area, a long, shedlike structure ancillary to the main hall. |
10 |
| 12 | 142 |
"We have been tied by red savages! We cannot free ourselves!" Grunt stopped his kaiila. |
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| 16 | 255 |
"As they are not in the Teaching, we need not concern ourselves with them". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 219 |
Similarly, if we attempted to protect ourselves from aerial fire, by lifting our shields, we would be exposing ourselves to the Yellow Knives' plane of attack. |
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| 40 | 666 |
When we fight ourselves it is only we ourselves who must lose. |
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| 3 | 43 |
We then walked along with the group, some mounted and some, like ourselves, on foot, who, in effect, were following Cancega. |
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| 6 | 54 |
We then, on our kaiila, entered the draw, straightening ourselves on our kaiila as they descended the sloping entrance between the dirt sides. |
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| 9 | 536 |
How else can we be fulfilled? How else can we be women? How else can we find ourselves?" I was silent. |
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| 9 | 539 |
"But, of course," she said, "we wish to reassure ourselves that the master is a master, that he is a true master, that he is strong". |
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| 14 | 137 |
"We ourselves do not distinguish between males and females". |
10 |
| 28 | 15 |
We doubted that either Mahpiyasapa or Kahintokapa would much relish receiving direct advice from two fellows as lowly in the camp as ourselves. |
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| 28 | 217 |
As we could protect ourselves reasonably well with shields from simple, distance archery it seemed obvious, then, that our two enemies would act in conjunction. |
10 |
| 28 | 218 |
If we warded blows of Yellow Knives we could not, at the same time, protect ourselves from aerial fire. |
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| 28 | 237 |
We turned our kaiila about and, slowly, not hurrying, well pleased with ourselves, tired, but quietly jubilant in our victory, made our way back toward our camp. |
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| 30 | 181 |
In a few moments we had hidden ourselves in one of the lodges. |
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| 32 | 193 |
I think this is in the best interests not only of Hci but of ourselves. |
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| 39 | 432 |
"Let us draw the travois ourselves," said Hci. |
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| 40 | 37 |
"We have made ourselves your guests". |
10 |
| 46 | 134 |
The forty men in his party, including myself and Cuwignaka, then, on the ropes left along the edge of the escarpment, held by the members of the fourth group, under the command of Kahintokapa, lowered ourselves to the trail below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 91 |
As we removed ourselves from that area we passed the slumped figures of two guards, an overturned flagon near them. |
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| 15 | 349 |
But in this we frustrate nature, that of men and of ourselves. |
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| 24 | 25 |
I do not think the man would have minded it if we had spoken quietly among ourselves. |
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| 26 | 150 |
You have forced us to face this truth about ourselves, and admit it". |
10 |
| 26 | 328 |
"The usual rumors about a truce between ourselves and Cos," she said. |
10 |
| 28 | 162 |
We sprang to our feet and swiftly aligned ourselves, single-file. |
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| 30 | 677 |
They retreated on the street a bit, and then went south and east for a few streets, and then, suddenly, turning right, we found ourselves on Emerald. |
10 |
| 33 | 659 |
We had learned much; we had learned ourselves. |
10 |
| 36 | 669 |
They teach us ourselves, and we are left in no doubt as to what we are for. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 298 |
I thought rather the palimpsest was within us, the languages not so much forgotten as sometimes denied, that one dealt here indeed with deep and profound matters, but not really with obscure encipherments; rather one was here dealing with a doctrine written indelibly and ineradicably, indisputably a... |
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| 9 | 393 |
"She comes to us, does she not," asked Boots, "at a peculiarly opportune time, at an instant when we are struggling in desperate straits, at a time when we find ourselves in agonizing and desperate need". |
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| 13 | 62 |
"We make it our business to concern ourselves with strangers within our borders," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 63 |
Boabissia, a free woman, must wait for us, of course, while we pleasured ourselves with the slaves. |
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| 7 | 26 |
Even before dawn, when others were having their breakfasts, and later, in the vicinity of dawn, when the other wagons were preparing to leave camp, we had been urged to bestir ourselves. |
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| 14 | 85 |
We found ourselves in a reception room. |
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| 16 | 1137 |
I thought it possible that any guards who might have the duty of supervising our exit from the city, or perhaps the duties of inspecting or searching us, might, given the numbers involved, be somewhat lax or a bit less diligent in their efforts by the time we reached them, and we were not so far bac... |
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| 20 | 29 |
Indeed, we ourselves, soon, I thought, would transfer to the Viktel Aria. |
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| 20 | 69 |
Several of us availed ourselves of his provender. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 25 |
Oh, masters, master us, yes, masters, please master us! It is that which we need! It is that without which we cannot know ourselves! It is that without which we cannot be ourselves! What is a woman without a collar, be it only a strand of leather knotted on her neck! "Oh, yes!" I cried, as his tongu... |
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| 5 | 121 |
We could not rid ourselves of the food, even had we wished to do so. |
10 |
| 5 | 164 |
This was not simply because of the frequency and intensiveness of our lessons, and our finding ourselves in an environment where this language, it seemed, was simply, or primarily, spoken, but because of our motivation. |
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| 6 | 275 |
I am sure none of us would have cared to meet her, or find ourselves within the range of her wrath. |
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| 6 | 622 |
We might then, like other animals or goods, be subject to theft! We might be stolen! Thus it made sense that, if for no other reason, we might occasionally find ourselves kept, in effect, under lock and key. |
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| 8 | 73 |
I would later learn that they were in the exposition area, on the platforms, where we, the next day, would find ourselves. |
10 |
| 8 | 386 |
We found ourselves often standing, or sitting or kneeling, or moving or assuming attitudes, or pursing our lips, and so on, according to their commands. |
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| 11 | 1308 |
Otherwise we cannot be ourselves! I tried to push him away, sobbing. |
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| 24 | 657 |
Much as men might throw us pastries or candies, so, too, we ourselves, in turn, or our uses, might be given to others. |
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| 28 | 265 |
I laughed, and so, too, did Tupita, but then we looked about ourselves, at the sheer walls of the shaft about us, and up at the opening, doubtless wide enough, but, from here, seemingly so small, seemingly so far above. |
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| 29 | 1636 |
"For ourselves," said Sempronius, indicating himself and Callisthenes. |
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| 31 | 39 |
While Tupita and I busied ourselves in this fashion the men spoke of politics, of tharlarion, of war, and arms. |
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| 33 | 299 |
Perhaps this had suggested to the beast, by sight, and perhaps even by smell, that its presence was undetected, unsuspected, that we were unready, that we thought ourselves safe, that that was the moment to attack. |
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| 34 | 190 |
"Freed, we will destroy you, and then ourselves," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 150 |
All that was left then was ourselves. |
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| 5 | 154 |
We even found ourselves looked upon, in the cage, as though we might be slaves! At the fifteenth Ahn we were removed from the cage and knelt down, to the side, to the left of the keeper's desk. |
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| 9 | 256 |
Own us, dominate us! Enslave us, properly, so that we may love you as women are meant to love, wholly and irreservedly, totally, without a thought for ourselves!" She looked at me, tears in her eyes. |
10 |
| 9 | 257 |
"Is it so wrong to want to be ourselves?" "But there are hazards in slavery," I said. |
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| 19 | 51 |
We looked behind ourselves, wearily. |
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| 21 | 515 |
"I do not think we need now concern ourselves with matters such as intentional misrepresentations of caste, violations of decorum, arrogation of advantages, jeopardization of fellow citizens, and insufficiency of patriotism. |
10 |
| 24 | 281 |
Let this day rightfully redound to the glory of Port Cos, our brethren of the river, and let us rejoice with them, and with ourselves, for our deliverance. |
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| 24 | 1044 |
I no longer ventured to suggest that we sup together, or pleasure ourselves with slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 215 |
It was not possible, of course, for us to conceal ourselves. |
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| 3 | 501 |
"We have come from the camp of Cos," said Marcus, "where, at great risk to ourselves, we have spied for Ar. |
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| 9 | 96 |
We made little progress, it seemed, in closing the gap between ourselves and the alleged barge ahead. |
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| 23 | 9 |
We would, in any event, await the coming of darkness before addressing ourselves again to the marsh. |
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| 28 | 34 |
"We will move at night," I said, "feeding ourselves from what the marsh offers". |
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| 29 | 13 |
Each time we had lowered ourselves into the marsh, little but our eyes and mouth above the water. |
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| 32 | 237 |
Many, including ourselves, fled back into the marshes. |
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| 45 | 121 |
Nature cannot be undone; in attempting to undo her we undo only ourselves, and that, too, is in accord with her remorseless, anonymous, unconscious will. |
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| 47 | 71 |
"Let us take her now," said one of them, "and share the reward only amongst ourselves!" "Yes!" said another. |
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| 47 | 238 |
"The most dangerous lies," I said, "are those which we tell ourselves". |
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| 48 | 578 |
Also, even if we were recognized, I did not think that anyone would find us of particular interest in ourselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 19 | 319 |
We do not want our bondage, our joy in servitude, our submission, our love, demeaned by attributing it to something alien, something other than ourselves, something outside of ourselves, such as the will of the Priest-Kings, if such should exist. |
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| 2 | 173 |
I supposed that later, too, such as I might find ourselves chained. |
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| 3 | 14 |
We must, after all, have time to prepare ourselves. |
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| 3 | 25 |
Sometimes when men are to enter the garden, suddenly, or with little notice, such as guardsmen, say, in the line of duty, as in inspections or searches, a bar is rung, and we must find our body veils, and kneel, head down, and cover ourselves with them. |
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| 4 | 613 |
We were now being given time to ourselves, I suppose, kneeling there, the chain at our belly, that we might understand, and appreciate, the momentousness, at least from our point of view, of what had occurred. |
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| 6 | 241 |
Sometimes I, and others, were placed before the mirror, in a rag, or silk, and told to stand there, or kneel there, or sit there, and see ourselves as we were. |
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| 7 | 143 |
After all, cannot it be pleasant, or amusing, for them to observe us, while we, under command, perhaps reluctantly, perhaps in tears, reveal ourselves to them? Perhaps it was only in I that he was interested, as he might be interested in any of my kind, he what he was, we what we are. |
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| 7 | 309 |
It is interesting how our behavior changes, and so remarkably, when we find ourselves under the eyes of a man. |
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| 7 | 349 |
They were fanned into flame, until we found ourselves their victims and prisoners, frequently, helplessly, profoundly, periodically, recurrently dependent upon men for their quenching. |
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| 7 | 848 |
I had not attempted, or had I, to solicit such commands? There are, of course, ways in which women such as I, subtly, wordlessly, with a tiny movement of the body, a seemingly inadvertent placement of ourselves, a lifting of the bosom, a catching of the breath, the shyest of glances, the tiniest mov... |
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| 8 | 26 |
But how cruel he had been to me, after his first kindness, his first patience! How he had rejected me, and mocked and scorned me, how I had felt his foot, or the back of his hand, how he had thrust me to the tiles, how he would order me, angrily, to another, or even hurl me impatiently, sometimes in... |
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| 8 | 698 |
What if they, too, were here? Would we not, suddenly, find ourselves divided against one another? Yes, I thought. |
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| 8 | 712 |
We regarded the girls of this world as incredibly beautiful, from what we saw of them, but we did not really regard ourselves as so inferior to them, particularly as our training progressed. |
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| 8 | 740 |
Before them we prostrated ourselves, in our nudity and collars, to the very belly. |
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| 8 | 772 |
We would find ourselves separated, each from the other, each of us now with a different destiny and fate, each of us having now to relate to a man, and a different man, hopefully, and what might these men have in common, other than the fact that we were theirs, that they held total rights over us? B... |
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| 8 | 812 |
I did not doubt again then that in such a situation, we in silk and collars, and such, we, even we, who had been friends, would quickly find ourselves pitted against one another. |
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| 8 | 842 |
We had been brought here from a sexual desert, thirsting and starving; we had not known that men such as these existed; we had never been permitted before to be ourselves. |
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| 8 | 1022 |
We are trained to clean ourselves well, incidentally. |
10 |
| 10 | 325 |
Perhaps they did not wish them torn off by the beast! In the pens we kajirae, kneeling or crouching down, had sometimes put our hands through the bars of our kennels, trying to touch a guard, to call ourselves, whimperingly, to his attention, but this experience suggested, uneasily, a quite differen... |
10 |
| 10 | 580 |
And so we waited, and distracted ourselves with sweets and lies. |
10 |
| 11 | 337 |
On this world we found ourselves in a true world, a biologically natural world, a world in which nature was fulfilled, and celebrated, not outlawed, denied, and denounced. |
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| 11 | 341 |
Here we found ourselves in the order of nature where, biologically, we belonged. |
10 |
| 11 | 342 |
And here, too, at last, after having lived for years in a sexual desert, unhappy, frustrated, deprived and starved, we find ourselves in a land of plenty. |
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| 11 | 1353 |
How many women, I wonder, marry truly for love, and only love? Do we not consider many other matters—the finances of our potential spouse, his education, his family connections, his position in society, the likely location of his domicile, the presumed trajectory of his career, the prestige o... |
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| 11 | 1711 |
"This is not the time for us to amuse ourselves with a slave," said the man in the chair. |
10 |
| 13 | 933 |
Indeed, we must accustom ourselves to hearing it candidly discussed, particularly in situations in which our sale may be in question. |
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| 13 | 1379 |
Sometimes, too, we might find that we had, even in our sleep, all unbeknownst to ourselves, aroused their desire. |
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| 14 | 429 |
We must keep ourselves pleasing, in so far as we can, for masters". |
10 |
| 18 | 47 |
Strangers will reprimand us, and even strike us, if we do not hold ourselves well. |
10 |
| 18 | 142 |
On Earth, the garb in which we found ourselves, its brevity, its neckline, its lack of a nether closure, and such, would presumably have been regarded as scandalous, particularly in busy, public places. |
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| 19 | 238 |
"They are the intermediaries between ourselves and the Priest-Kings". |
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| 22 | 27 |
We want to feel ourselves as though we were nothing before his wrath and power. |
10 |
| 32 | 32 |
But what would even our beauty, and our hope to please, to be spared to serve, avail ourselves with these men? And we had perhaps, they might judge, seen too much. |
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| 32 | 38 |
We struggled to our feet, aligning ourselves, standing, the tallest first. |
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| 34 | 31 |
Where we were, in the headquarters of the strangers, there were, besides the pit master, the officer of Treve, the leader of the strangers, his lieutenant, Gito, and ourselves, the slaves, three men. |
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| 37 | 251 |
"Let us redeem ourselves!" cried the other. |
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| 44 | 276 |
This was not merely a matter of their much greater size and strength, enabling them to handle us as though we might be children, enabling them to do with us as they wished, nor was it a matter merely of the implacability of our bonds, denying us even the most meaningless opportunity to try to defend... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 7 |
We are taught many things, all of us, including ourselves. |
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| 13 | 698 |
They will imperiously enrapture us, and, as it pleases them, take us outside of ourselves with ecstasy. |
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| 16 | 1081 |
"But we find ourselves chained on a shelf," said Cotina. |
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| 20 | 471 |
"Let us keep her for ourselves". |
10 |
| 20 | 476 |
"It would be hard to keep her just for ourselves, as our secret," said the first lad. |
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| 20 | 480 |
"And keep the money for ourselves". |
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| 25 | 525 |
So, thought Ellen, it seems that there may be yet another reason, other than time, and impatience, for rushing the chains forward, weeping, crying out, begging for mercy, stumbling, under blows, herding them so cruelly with jabs and blows to the block, to their sale, that we may show ourselves as fr... |
10 |
| 25 | 1129 |
This is not surprising for we are both women and can come home to ourselves only at the feet of a man. |
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| 26 | 1146 |
How lordlike they are to their slaves! How much we are at their mercy! Men have made us dependent upon them, not only for our food and drink, for even a rag to wear, but, too, in other ways, ways far more profound, dependent upon them for the assuagement of cruel and desperate needs, needs routinely... |
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| 26 | 1234 |
We are grateful for his touch, and we cry ourselves his, again and again, in the blinding delirium of our joy, in the ecstasy of the mastered slave. |
10 |
| 26 | 1486 |
"Sometimes we tell ourselves what we think we should feel, but what we do not feel. |
10 |
| 26 | 1487 |
Sometimes we tell lies to ourselves". |
10 |
| 26 | 1736 |
Do we not fit together? Are we not two parts to a single whole? Are we not meaningless alone, but whole together? Are we not the lock to your key, and you the key to our lock? Only you can open us to ourselves, and only we can reveal to you the full meaning of your key". |
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| 27 | 2474 |
We find ourselves regarded, discussed, and commented on, at our rings, much as might be, on another world, in another time, dogs or horses, or on another world, in a later time, automobiles and motorcycles, except that human females, obviously, have a special interest for human males, even young hum... |
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| 27 | 3392 |
I wonder sometimes, on the other hand, if they understand us, or fully, our feelings, the feelings of the slave, the thrill for a woman of having a master, the rapture of being possessed, literally, how we desire to give ourselves up to them, the bliss we experience in our collars, our love. |
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| 30 | 450 |
"We cannot help ourselves, Master," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 |
But then we may console ourselves that we are siblings, too, to the diatom, to the smallest living thing, to the worm in the sea, the mote in the air. |
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| 5 | 45 |
The Agamemnon of whose name we have availed ourselves may, as we understand it, have been mythical. |
10 |
| 8 | 37 |
"Are we expected to prostrate ourselves?" asked Cabot. |
10 |
| 32 | 197 |
"If she were a slave," said Cabot, "it would be easier to assure ourselves that she would not contact Kurii and implicate Lord Arcesilaus and Peisistratus in the matter of treasonous plotting". |
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| 34 | 177 |
Its meaning is that we are women, and exist to be desired and sought, and that we wish, and wish desperately, despite what we might claim, to be desired and sought, and that we exist to be beautiful, and loving, for men, and that we exist to please and serve men, that we are the complementary sex to... |
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| 46 | 170 |
"First, we storm the nearest termination of the world, utilizing the grasps at hand, and attempt to avail ourselves of weapons". |
10 |
| 47 | 196 |
"Even we ourselves," said Statius, "regarded our attack as little more than an act of desperation, if not of madness. |
10 |
| 50 | 83 |
"We emerged, four hundred of us, surrendered, to avail ourselves of the amnesty". |
10 |
| 60 | 43 |
The only thing clear is that we must surrender our cause, and place ourselves at the mercy of Agamemnon". |
10 |
| 60 | 72 |
"Let us cast down our weapons, emerge from the forests, and place ourselves before great Agamemnon," said Flavion. |
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| 65 | 23 |
He will be put to death if we do not slay ourselves. |
10 |
| 65 | 24 |
Our only way to save him is to slay ourselves". |
10 |
| 66 | 13 |
Are we really to abandon our war and accept a defeat which we may ascribe only to ourselves? This seems to me not only an error, a dreadful mistake, but a lapse into abject madness. |
10 |
| 66 | 65 |
"We will clothe ourselves against the cold, build fires". |
10 |
| 77 | 216 |
We find ourselves unwelcome in the habitats. |
10 |
| 78 | 93 |
We cannot help ourselves, nor do we wish to". |
10 |
| 78 | 106 |
"The master who is fond of his slave," said the brunette, "would surely be concerned, at least to some extent, to assuage the needs of his property, to relieve the miseries of her tensions, to attend to her slave fires, which he has done so much to ignite and stoke?" "Certainly," said Corinna, "but ... |
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| 79 | 429 |
"But I have failed! It is what I am, a slave, and yours! Touch me, my master! I beg it! When first I saw you I knew you were my master! Did you not, as well, know I was your slave?" "It was no accident," said Cabot, "that we found ourselves together there". |
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| 79 | 658 |
"As an abject slave?" "Certainly," she said, "and the more abject the better, the more abject the more owned, the more helpless, the more possessed, the more as we want to be, the more as we want to know ourselves, the female of a master!" "Interesting," said Cabot. |
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| 80 | 236 |
Who are we to guess what humans would or would not regard as an improvement? So we contented ourselves with a simple restoration. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
In any event, we need not concern ourselves with Agamemnon as he had been dethroned, removed from the Steel World in question, and brought to Gor by exiled, devoted liegemen. |
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| 5 | 912 |
"We, and hundreds of fugitives, with loot, and baggage, and slaves, attached ourselves to these units, and clung to the perimeters of their camps," said one of the fellows on the beach. |
10 |
| 9 | 15 |
"Are we ourselves so innocent?" asked Pertinax. |
10 |
| 9 | 16 |
"Are we not, ourselves, in our way, guilty of betrayal? Did we not engage, enthusiastically and uncritically, in betrayal, pretending to be what we were not, engaging to deliver a stranger, whom we knew not, to an uncertain fate, one we did not understand, and which might, for all we knew, have prov... |
10 |
| 9 | 18 |
"I think," said Pertinax, "we have been betrayed not so much by others as by ourselves, by greed". |
10 |
| 9 | 380 |
"At last! Now we will receive our pay, be conducted to the coast, board ship, and, soon, brought first to an appropriate base, find ourselves again on Earth". |
10 |
| 9 | 474 |
"We could bathe ourselves," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 489 |
"But we concern ourselves, of course," said Thrasilicus, "not only with acquisition lists, but want lists, as well, and a new customer, whom we were muchly concerned to please, for various reasons, had specified a particular form of merchandise. |
10 |
| 10 | 797 |
"Now," he said, "we may address ourselves to matters of importance". |
10 |
| 18 | 97 |
"Should we not concern ourselves with Cecily and Jane?" asked Pertinax. |
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| 27 | 100 |
"Let us address ourselves to the road". |
10 |
| 28 | 136 |
We had assured ourselves thusly that they were well, or, at least, no more miserable than the others. |
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| 33 | 82 |
"A great darkness came suddenly over the moons, watch fires mysteriously ceased to burn, guards struggled to remain awake at their posts, we fought, crying out, and beating on drums, and blowing trumpets, to rouse ourselves, to stay awake, but we were overcome, and in Ehn we lay down to die". |
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| 34 | 57 |
"Some of us want more," she said, "want to be so wanted that we will find ourselves collared, want to be so desired, so lusted for, that he will be satisfied with nothing less than having his collar on us, with putting it on our necks and locking it there". |
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| 42 | 70 |
Tajima, Pertinax, and I, shuddering and miserable, then availed ourselves of blankets. |
10 |
| 43 | 134 |
"And," said Lord Nishida, "should we not account ourselves fortunate to be successors to the skills of one who commanded such a guard?" "Doubtless," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 649 |
I wept with misery that we could find ourselves so easily, and so helplessly, in the power of men. |
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| 3 | 661 |
I realized, again, a difference between ourselves and men. |
10 |
| 7 | 13 |
But amongst ourselves, the others, there were murmurs of discontent, these subsiding in the presence of officers. |
10 |
| 9 | 460 |
Then, by the will of whatever gods there be, by whatever names be theirs, we found ourselves, and gold, on a far shore. |
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| 16 | 103 |
This was no ascent of a few feet, to the deck of a common round ship, or that of the batten-sailed ships of the sort with which we had familiarized ourselves in the Vine Sea. |
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| 21 | 378 |
Do not make us show ourselves as what we are, slaves! Do not make us move so, as slaves! Do you not know what that does to us? To so perform before men! It arouses us, like slave dance, and teaches us we belong to men! It reminds us of what we are. |
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| 24 | 419 |
We then addressed ourselves to the trail, in the light rain. |
10 |
| 37 | 1075 |
Too, perhaps, we overspoke ourselves, or your mind may change, and the whim of one day be unknown to the whim of another day. |
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| 37 | 1516 |
After supper, and the slaves had cleared, and then washed, dried, and stored the dinnerware, and such, we addressed ourselves, each with his own slave, to the pleasures of the furs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 113 |
What is the point of beauty, if not to open doors, to bargain, and to enhance one's prospects? Were we not prostitutes, in a way, ready to sell ourselves, high-priced merchandise, for power, position, station, and wealth? You have probably guessed the nature of the "inappropriate literature" discove... |
10 |
| 4 | 709 |
Rawlinson knew what she had done to us, what she had forced us to feel, what she had forced us to suspect about ourselves. |
10 |
| 5 | 75 |
Here women such as I find ourselves a very real part of a very real world. |
10 |
| 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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| 7 | 45 |
But perhaps, too, there are no prisons, other than those we ourselves make, or will accept. |
10 |
| 7 | 46 |
It would be interesting if the walls we most fear, within which we feel ourselves the most constrained, within which we most lament, do not exist. |
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| 7 | 746 |
I had encountered something of these distinctions on Earth, and even in the sorority, in which we had tended to pride ourselves on our station, our aloofness, and, in a sense, our frigidity. |
10 |
| 8 | 688 |
We had no intention of selling ourselves cheaply. |
10 |
| 8 | 1200 |
To you we may seem lacking, to be simple, primitive, and barbarous, and, doubtless, in a way, we are, but these differences, I assure you, have to do with our history and background, not with what we are in ourselves, apart from such things. |
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| 8 | 1462 |
At the sorority my sisters and I, as thoughtful, informed individuals, had set ourselves to increase our wealth and advance our station in life. |
10 |
| 8 | 1463 |
Certainly we had not come to college in order to familiarize ourselves with Medieval French poetry, learn about Roman band instruments, and such. |
10 |
| 8 | 1477 |
Once again, as before, I was competing with other women for prizes we could not obtain for ourselves, but only through men. |
10 |
| 17 | 538 |
Then, wisely or not, but unable to help ourselves, we rushed to one another, they in the brief blue-and-yellow tunics, the Slaver's colors, the chain on their neck, joining them, and I. |
10 |
| 18 | 272 |
"Perhaps you remember how, on Earth," I said, "we might indulge ourselves as we pleased". |
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| 18 | 806 |
Is not our speech our delight, our pleasure, our joy, our recreation, our weapon, our instrument, our gift? Is it not that whereby we can make known our feelings, our hopes, and fears; that whereby we can express ourselves, plead our causes, make known our wants, needs, and desires, that by means of... |
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| 20 | 126 |
Soon we wish to improve ourselves. |
10 |
| 20 | 183 |
"We cannot well defend ourselves against eleven men," said Desmond. |
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| 20 | 266 |
I do not think it was merely that we knew ourselves safer with the wagons, though that was surely true. |
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| 27 | 148 |
We looked about ourselves, apprehensively, but there seemed little in the room to suggest a cause for alarm. |
10 |
| 31 | 123 |
We may, however, while it pleases us, amuse ourselves at the pretensions of a naive young woman". |
10 |
| 35 | 334 |
"If we were suspected," he said, "I do not think we would find ourselves at liberty". |
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| 51 | 7 |
Jane, Eve, and I busied ourselves with the final cooking, the readying of vegetables and salads, the arrangements of vessels and dishes, the setting of places. |
10 |
| 51 | 101 |
"Let us address ourselves to our feast," said Astrinax. |
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| 53 | 25 |
How much happier we are when we are permitted to express ourselves! Sometimes my master, when it pleases him, loosens the disrobing loop on my tunic, allowing it to fall to my ankles, ties my hands behind my back, and kneels me before him, while he reclines in a curule chair, allowing me to speak. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 245 |
That is interesting, considering the fact that we have been sold, bartered, and exchanged for millennia, and doubtless for millennia before the records of such transactions were scratched on bark, or incised into tablets of moist clay Is it so unusual to be exchanged for barley, or cattle, or sheep,... |
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| 6 | 208 |
We regard ourselves as a subcaste of the Merchants. |
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| 7 | 13 |
I suppose I should have resented my nudity, and such constraints, and being exposed to frequent, open, public, appraisive scrutiny, as the men might wish, as the animals we now knew ourselves to be, and, sometimes, being forced to take food and water on all fours, from pans, not permitted to use one... |
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| 9 | 51 |
We were brought to the deck, and then, when the ship had the beach abeam, and was a few yards from shore, we were plunged over the rail, and found ourselves awash in the surf. |
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| 9 | 120 |
We so arranged ourselves. |
10 |
| 15 | 171 |
We policed ourselves, so to speak, as no First Girl had been set over us, who would enforce order. |
10 |
| 15 | 386 |
We had been issued woolen materials, woven from the fleece of the bounding hurt, with awls and string, from which we were to fashion winter garmenture for ourselves. |
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| 15 | 674 |
How could we help ourselves, even if it were permitted? I whimpered a little, and then, suddenly, gasped. |
10 |
| 17 | 45 |
If escape is so easy, why do so few girls attempt it? Is it because we know ourselves slaves, and rightfully so? I looked up at him, as a meaningless slave to her adored master. |
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| 25 | 14 |
Goreans view themselves as within nature, perhaps as a part of nature; surely, at least, they respect her and love her, and it would never occur to them to scorn and deny her; they live with her, not against her; on the other hand, we commonly view ourselves as outside of nature, and surely, on the ... |
10 |
| 25 | 140 |
We must not be allowed to rid ourselves of the fluid. |
10 |
| 25 | 266 |
Usually we were permitted to feed ourselves, but sometimes we must eat on all fours, head down, not using our hands. |
10 |
| 25 | 283 |
We are to keep ourselves clean and well-groomed. |
10 |
| 27 | 14 |
We are to keep ourselves well-groomed, I recalled. |
10 |
| 30 | 65 |
We had warmed ourselves with carefully measured swigs of paga, from Axel's flask. |
10 |
| 31 | 60 |
But, too, how thrilling it is for us, as slaves, to know ourselves utterly helpless before males, our natural masters. |
10 |
| 35 | 134 |
We took ourselves then to be in the common modality of the slave, subject to no more than the usual restraints on our speech. |
10 |
| 37 | 114 |
We were even, following the meal of the mistresses, allowed to feed ourselves with our own hands. |
10 |
| 41 | 245 |
"Stupid kajira," said the voice, "do you expect us to serve ourselves?" It was Genak. |
10 |
| 50 | 344 |
Let it be so; we are slaves! But, too, I wondered, lying before him, bound, do we not want it so, and is it not pleasant in its way, finding ourselves helplessly subject to this deprivation and torment; is it not a reassurance to us that we are truly what we wish to be, slaves. |
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| 50 | 947 |
"Let them be themselves," I said, "and let us be ourselves". |
10 |
| 53 | 53 |
Even now I suspect several who had, of necessity, some sense of these things, having been utilized in certain actions, deliveries, and concealments, have been done away with, even creatures other than ourselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 107 |
Lord Temmu is our lord, and, as we do not recognize Lord Yamada as our lord, we do not see ourselves as in rebellion, and thus do not see ourselves as rebels". |
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| 6 | 157 |
"You would have us descend from the fortress, defenseless, unarmed, amongst hostile forces, as alleged rebels and traitors, humbly bringing supplicatory gifts, and place ourselves at the mercy of Lord Yamada?" "As friends, and allies," said Tyrtaios. |
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| 8 | 78 |
I went to the small shed, to the stores of which we were helping ourselves. |
10 |
| 10 | 129 |
"Had we devoted ourselves hastily and uncritically to the wagons," said Lysander, "I suspect there would have been few of us left". |
10 |
| 10 | 158 |
"But we need not, do we, discount ourselves?" I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 35 |
"We cannot protect ourselves from the lightning of the sky," said Lord Yamada. |
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| 21 | 282 |
Then we must rest and conceal ourselves, until the darkness returns, and our journey may be resumed. |
10 |
| 21 | 362 |
It was a patrol, perhaps the same which had been so close, that from which we had concealed ourselves. |
10 |
| 26 | 65 |
With some fortune we might conceal ourselves in the tunnel until dark, after which it would be every man for himself. |
10 |
| 28 | 24 |
"We trek alone, and, amongst others, keep much to ourselves. |
10 |
| 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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| 30 | 47 |
Our practice, until recently, had been to house ourselves in selected villages, some known to Haruki, and some scouted by him, in the daylight Ahn, and then move, again, at night. |
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| 38 | 154 |
We then, in the pourings of rain, in the flashings of lightning and the crashings of thunder, with startled, confused men rushing about, slipping a bit in the mud, scrambled away, to lose ourselves, as we might, amongst the corridors of tents. |
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| 41 | 87 |
"We will follow it in a tandem fashion," I said, "with an ample interval amongst ourselves. |
10 |
| 45 | 48 |
"I do not know," I said, "but I suspect we brought them here ourselves, in the ship of Tersites". |
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| 47 | 186 |
We then arranged ourselves in the vicinity of the arrow stand and the bow rack. |
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| 49 | 211 |
Second, we shall attempt to obtain a similar garmenture for ourselves". |
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| 50 | 209 |
It did not seem wise to me to attempt to pass ourselves off as the corridor guards. |
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| 50 | 247 |
"It is thus, with steel," I said, "that we certify ourselves". |
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| 54 | 4 |
We had opened the door the first time on the second day of our isolation, near the twentieth Ahn, both to reconnoiter and to rid ourselves of the bodies of the two dead Kurii. |
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| 58 | 1 |
We Will Arm Ourselves "I think," said Nodachi, a field sword across his legs, as he sat cross-legged in the trophy room, "Lord Yamada is in the palace". |
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| 58 | 223 |
It is up to us to discover the secret ourselves". |
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| 59 | 266 |
We indulged ourselves in a brief exchange. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 483 |
What would this new clothing do to us? How, in the tunic of a slave, can one be other than a slave? Do we not become congruent with our clothing? Do we not fit ourselves to our clothing? Do we not learn our self-image from our clothing? Do we not think of ourselves in terms of our clothing? Do we no... |
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| 1 | 301 |
Who did we fear and hate more, I wondered, they, or ourselves? I considered changing my plans for the morrow but then decided I would not do so. |
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| 1 | 319 |
Do we tell ourselves that it is annoying, feeling we should adopt such a posture, that it is expected of us? Would we not be more distressed, if we were not regarded? I feigned displeasure. |
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| 6 | 482 |
How our clothing expresses us, and how we understand ourselves in its terms, and now we had not chosen our clothing, but others had done so. |
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| 6 | 561 |
We put down our heads and addressed ourselves gratefully to the provender in the bowls. |
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| 6 | 577 |
Further, we were not permitted to speak, though we were free to express ourselves, if we wished, by small sounds, animal noises, whimpers, and such. |
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| 6 | 579 |
I think these strictures had two purposes; one was to punish us for our hitherto unruly behavior in the cell, regarded as inappropriate for kajirae, and, secondly, perhaps, to familiarize ourselves with a modality of discipline. |
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| 8 | 50 |
Too, women such as I were not encased in proprieties and conventions, not hedged in by society, not permitted to hide ourselves behind veils, or within cumbersome robes, not permitted to bargain, to tease and taunt, to barter our favors for social or economic advancement. |
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| 8 | 52 |
We were the most female of all women, the most basic and fundamental of all women, and would find ourselves in our natural place, there where we belonged, at the feet of men, their slaves. |
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| 27 | 155 |
To be sure, there will be time for us to pleasure ourselves with you first". |
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| 39 | 40 |
We could not well then descend to the ground floor and attempt to avail ourselves of the rear exit to the building, even if we had wished to do so. |
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| 42 | 155 |
And how thrilling, and fulfilling, it is for us to find ourselves in our place in nature! "If enemies wished to kill Lord Grendel," she said, "it would be easy for them to attempt to do so, in a hundred places, at a hundred times. |
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| 44 | 124 |
Yet, too, there can be an exquisite joy in being naked, perhaps, too, because it reminds us that we are slaves, and we rejoice to find ourselves the exposed properties of our masters. |
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| 44 | 125 |
How I pitied free women! What a joy to be collared, to know ourselves subject to being bought and sold, to be owned! I wonder if free women can know such a joy. |
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| 49 | 371 |
How excited and pleased we were to be slaves, free to rejoice in our attractiveness, free to revel in our beauty and its power, well aware of its effect on ourselves and others, no longer permitted, lest we be whipped, the curbs and checks, the ten thousand constraints and inhibitions, of the free w... |
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| 49 | 372 |
The collar freed us, giving us no choice but to be ourselves, slaves. |
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| 51 | 10 |
There, unseen ourselves, by means of a secret panel, we observed her, sitting, being shown varieties of rich cloths by slaves, from amongst which cloths she might choose, for the measuring and sewing of robes. |
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| 52 | 211 |
We are taught many ways to excite and please a master, ways that, when sincerely tendered, have their effect on ourselves, as well. |
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| 61 | 789 |
We knew ourselves the rightful properties of men. |
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| 63 | 218 |
We do not endeavor to conceal ourselves or hasten. |
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| 64 | 81 |
The bathing pool in which Paula and I were put to clean ourselves had a circular foundation of brick, and had a depth of a yard, or so. |
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| 64 | 83 |
We were conducted to the gate in the cage, following which we eased ourselves into the pool, Paula first. |
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| 64 | 245 |
"Dear, noble Surtak," said Lord Grendel, "Eve and myself, and the humans here, putting aside the slaves, do not regard ourselves as inferiors". |
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| 66 | 20 |
"Who would have thought," I said, "that we, once two women of Earth, our former world, would one day have found ourselves naked and collared, on a far world, shackled, owned by men?" "I am pleased to be a commodity, a property, an owned beast," said Paula. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 285 |
We learned how to move attractively, how to walk, kneel, lie, and rise attractively, how to clothe ourselves attractively, even given the tiny garments we might be permitted, and how to strip ourselves attractively. |
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| 12 | 8 |
We see ourselves and understand ourselves in terms of that relationship, just as we are so seen and so understood by free men. |
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| 1 | 41 |
No longer then can we bargain with our bodies and sell ourselves to advance our own prospects and fortunes. |
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| 4 | 7 |
And, psychologically, they enjoy seeing us as the slaves we are, helplessly caged, confined within the limits they have seen fit to impose on us, and, of course, from the slave's point of view, psychologically, we well understand ourselves to be the slaves we are. |
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| 4 | 32 |
We yield them position, withdraw from their path, efface ourselves before them, dare not meet their eyes, and kneel, if addressed, or looked upon, commonly with our head to the ground. |
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| 8 | 99 |
Our cargo, other than ourselves, was largely carvings and vessels of jade, a green gemstone, purchased in Brundisium, and apparently brought in as trade goods from afar, from, as it was said, "the World's End". |
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| 10 | 5 |
At other times we find ourselves looked upon with avidity, as might be savory dishes by a hungry man. |
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| 12 | 42 |
Before we enter upon the floor we inspect ourselves in a full-length mirror. |
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| 24 | 186 |
There is so much we do not know about the world to which we find ourselves brought as two-legged beasts, cattle of a sort, bipedalian livestock. |
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| 33 | 69 |
When we had availed ourselves of a canal boat, we were far more aware of tharlarion in the vicinity, turning in the water, emerging and submerging, sometimes circling the boat. |
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| 33 | 133 |
"We must make ourselves known". |
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| 40 | 30 |
Perhaps it pleases us even more than the masters to find ourselves naked beneath their tables. |
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| 42 | 6 |
"We need not concern ourselves then with new collars," said blonde Lita. |
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| 43 | 332 |
Euphrosyne and I recoiled in horror and struggled, but could not free ourselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 172 |
"Perhaps we should have retained the means to defend ourselves," he said. |
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| 5 | 59 |
"Let us not concern ourselves with the matter at present," I suggested. |
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| 7 | 107 |
We must avail ourselves of any opportunity which might serve to bring peace to our troubled waters. |
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| 9 | 77 |
"How can we know which village, of some sixty-three or so villages, will be attacked?" "By arranging the matter ourselves," I said. |
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| 15 | 16 |
"We thought ourselves rid of the raiders". |
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| 16 | 8 |
"Are there not more important matters with which to concern ourselves?" asked Thurnock. |
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| 26 | 128 |
It did not identify itself or demand that we identify ourselves". |
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| 29 | 152 |
"That was a feint of advertising," said Melete, "a joke, a way of calling attention to ourselves, an image designed to amuse the wise and impress the unthinking and ignorant, those few who were stupid enough to take it seriously". |
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| 36 | 77 |
Then Millicent said, suddenly, openly, "We cannot help ourselves!" "That comes with the collar," I said. |
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| 36 | 79 |
"We no longer own ourselves!" "When we are chained to our stake on the beach," said Millicent, "we whimper and beg!" "What have you done to us?" said Margot, distraught. |
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| 44 | 136 |
"Surely we can speak honestly amongst ourselves," said Thrasymedes. |
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| 45 | 171 |
What Merchant, what Metal Worker, what Peasant, would have it otherwise?" "Let us do our best," I said, "all of us, to give a good last account of ourselves". |
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| 48 | 157 |
There is dark work to be done, the work of blades, work to which we must address ourselves in Sybaris". |
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| 49 | 149 |
"Surely we could easily have rowed on, saving ourselves," said Sakim. |
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| 54 | 4 |
"It seems," said Sakim, "that we have Thassa to ourselves". |
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| 57 | 36 |
Given the railing of the Tesephone we could not well interfere with their work without unduly exposing ourselves. |
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| 60 | 313 |
"Let me then signal the crews and ready ourselves for departure". |
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| 61 | 40 |
Thurnock, Clitus, and myself, unlike the teeming jungle into which we thrust ourselves, striking, elbowing, and kicking, dragging at robes and tunics, shoving amongst bodies, had direction and purpose. |
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