| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 103 |
"Some call them the forest girls," said Ute, "others call them the panther girls, for they dress themselves in the teeth and skins of forest panthers, which they slay with their spears and bows". |
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| 8 | 258 |
We, and the wagons, passed between wooden sleds, with leather runners, on which there were squared blocks of granite, from the quarries east of Laura; and between barrels and hogsheads of fish and salt; and between bales of sleen fur and panther hides, from the forests beyond. |
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| 8 | 1114 |
These were forest girls, sometimes called panther girls, who lived wild and free in the northern forests, outlaw women, sometimes enslaving men, when it pleased them to do so. |
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| 8 | 1177 |
"I am Verna," she told them, "a panther girl, of the High Forests. |
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| 8 | 1188 |
They had been bound by panther girls. |
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| 9 | 199 |
I was nothing with these proud, free, dangerous, brave women, these independent, superb, unfearing, resourceful, fierce felines, panther girls of the northern forests of Gor. |
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| 10 | 322 |
Accordingly we used panther girls, Verna and her band, to acquire you". |
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| 10 | 365 |
"I confirmed your identity at the compound," said he, "during the performance of the mountebank, and, of course, surveyed the entire area and planned, in effect, the raid of the panther girls". |
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| 10 | 438 |
"Why doesn't he follow the panther girls?" I whispered. |
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| 11 | 753 |
The panther girls taught you that, and the man in the hut. |
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| 11 | 780 |
I even found myself, once, when passing through the high Tur trees, at the circle, where the panther girls had danced. |
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| 11 | 808 |
The forest panther is a proud beast, but, too, he does not care to be distracted in his hunting. |
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| 11 | 847 |
Then I was frightened, for what if the girl would slay me, or sell me herself secretly, to hunters, or give me to panther girls, who would make me their slave, or sell me. |
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| 11 | 883 |
"I was stolen by panther girls," I said. |
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| 11 | 998 |
The panther girls in the forest, and the man in the hut, had taught me that I was slave. |
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| 11 | 1041 |
I remembered the panther girls, dancing under the moons of Gor, and how they had writhed helplessly beneath those wild moons. |
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| 11 | 1397 |
I recalled Verna, and the panther girls, dancing in the circle. |
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| 12 | 106 |
A hunt master, astride a monstrous tharlarion, holding a wand, tufted with panther hair, preceded the retinue. |
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| 12 | 107 |
He wore over his head, half covering his face, a hood formed of the skin of the head of a forest panther. |
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| 12 | 262 |
Standing below this pole, obviously exhibited as a trophy of the hunt, alone on the cart, her skins knotted about her neck, her wrists bound behind her back, her hair fastened over the pole, holding her in place, was a beautiful panther girl, stripped, her weapons, broken, lying at her feet. |
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| 12 | 266 |
On each, similarly, wrists bound behind her back, stripped, her hair bound cruelly over a trophy pole, stood a panther girl, each more beautiful than the last. |
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| 12 | 269 |
Women cursed, and screamed their hatred of the panther girls. |
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| 12 | 272 |
Panther girls were hated. |
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| 12 | 275 |
Standing outside the range of the whip they would then spit, and curse and scream their hatred of the panther girls. |
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| 12 | 281 |
A huntsman came now, holding in his hand five long leather straps, dragging behind him five panther girls. |
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| 12 | 370 |
I recollected with satisfaction my witnessing of the captivity of Verna, the panther girl, but I recollected with much less satisfaction what had occurred in the slave wagon, when Inge had so decisively bested me; when I had learned that she could beat me, if she pleased, and would, should it please... |
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| 15 | 302 |
And then, to my horror, the brief, tawny garment of a panther girl. |
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| 15 | 356 |
"That is Verna," said Ena, "a panther girl from the northern forests". |
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| 15 | 885 |
Once, two weeks after my release from the slave box, Rask of Treve passed near me, in the company of Verna, the panther girl. |
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| 15 | 1178 |
At his side, cross-legged, sat Verna, the panther girl, who was served by we girls as might have been a warrior. |
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| 16 | 155 |
And as I gasped, and wept, I saw, suddenly, in the shadows, watching me, Verna, the panther girl. |
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| 16 | 297 |
I had little doubt but what the magnificent Verna, leader of the panther girls, would bring her comely prize, apparently only another common slave, in a work tunic, successfully to the northern forests. |
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| 18 | 20 |
I have heard, too, that the girls of Verna, chief of the panther girls, were freed in Ar, surreptitiously, and are believed to have escaped northward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 418 |
"Panther girls," she hissed, "do not make slaves!" It did not seem opportune to mention to Sheera that, aboard the Tesephone, nude, chained in the first hold, in gags and slave hoods, were two panther girls. |
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| 7 | 98 |
The paga slaves would doubtless, at first, much fear the captured panther girls, and, of course, the panther girls would much despise such slaves. |
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| 13 | 338 |
"I was afraid! The men of Tyros might kill me! The panther girls might kill me!" "Whom do you fear more," I asked, "the men of Tyros, the panther girls, or your master?" "I fear you more, Master!" she whispered. |
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| 1 | 193 |
The strip which had been shaven on his head, from the forehead to the back of the neck, signified that he had been captured, and sold, by the panther girls of the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 254 |
"A band of panther women captured you?" I asked. |
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| 2 | 13 |
They were panther girls, captured. |
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| 2 | 46 |
Now, behind him, similarly clad in skins, their hair bound back with tawny strips of panther hide, were four or five other men, men doubtless of his band. |
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| 2 | 96 |
The two captured panther girls had now been removed from their frames. |
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| 2 | 133 |
They still wore the skins of panther girls. |
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| 2 | 203 |
I thought I detected the slightest movement in the shoulders of one of the panther girls, their heads to the sand, the branch lashed behind their necks. |
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| 2 | 213 |
"Let us see these females," said Rim, gesturing with his head to the secured panther girls. |
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| 2 | 216 |
They were both blond, and blue-eyed, as are many of the panther girls. |
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| 2 | 224 |
The girls knelt proudly, angrily, while the brief panther skins were swiftly, rudely, cut from them. |
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| 2 | 238 |
She was indeed beautiful, perhaps more beautiful than the panther girls. |
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| 2 | 317 |
* * * * "This one," said the panther girl, jabbing the suspended figure with a knife, "is interesting—he afforded us much pleasure, before we wearied of him". |
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| 2 | 320 |
We were a mere ten pasangs from the exchange point where we had, the preceding day, obtained two panther girls. |
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| 2 | 328 |
Another panther girl, behind the man, struck him suddenly, unexpectedly, with a whip. |
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| 2 | 337 |
In it, too, hung a miserable wretch, put up for sale by panther girls. |
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| 2 | 340 |
The panther girl, Sheera, who was leader of this band, sat down in the warm sand. |
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| 2 | 354 |
It interested me that the panther girls showed her no more respect, nor attention, than they did. |
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| 2 | 356 |
I was not interested in the purchase of men, but I was interested in whatever information I might be able to gather from panther girls. |
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| 2 | 362 |
Panther girls are arrogant. |
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| 2 | 373 |
It is said that panther girls, conquered, make incredible slaves. |
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| 2 | 401 |
They were not my purpose in coming to the exchange point, but I did not wish to leave them at the mercy of the panther girls. |
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| 2 | 406 |
"You," she said, "have worn the chains of panther girls!" "It is not impossible," conceded Rim. |
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| 2 | 415 |
"Panther girls," said Rim, "do not make bad slaves either". |
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| 2 | 433 |
Each band of panther girls customarily has a semi-permanent camp, particularly in the winter, but, too, each band, customarily, has its dancing circle. |
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| 2 | 434 |
Panther girls, when their suppressed womanhood becomes sometimes too painful, repair to such places, there to dance the frenzy of their needs. |
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| 2 | 453 |
More specific information I expected to obtain from the captured panther girls on board the ship. |
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| 2 | 454 |
Panther girls generally know the usual territories of various bands. |
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| 2 | 475 |
There was little sugar in the forest, save naturally in certain berries, and simple hard candies, such as a child might buy in shops in Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, were, among the panther girls in the remote forests, prized. |
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| 2 | 532 |
"Bring up from the first hold the two panther girls," said I to a seaman. |
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| 2 | 593 |
"We are panther girls," said the first girl. |
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| 2 | 637 |
"We are panther girls! Do you think we would tell you anything?" "Release their hands," I said to a seaman, "and feed them". |
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| 2 | 655 |
We are panther girls!" "Bring candies," said I to a seaman. |
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| 2 | 669 |
We are panther girls". |
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| 2 | 677 |
It was now the next night, that following my first interrogation of the panther girls, the night of the day following that of my acquisition of the two male slaves. |
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| 2 | 721 |
They had been proud panther women. |
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| 3 | 25 |
I must seek Talena! Thurnock, at my command, had this morning sold the two panther girls, Tana and Ela, at the slave market. |
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| 3 | 73 |
We passed, too, through goods which had been brought downriver from Laura, and would pass through Lydius, bales of sleen fur, and bundles of panther hides and tabuk pelts. |
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| 3 | 78 |
We also passed a chain of male slaves, brought downriver from Laura, shaven-headed wretches, taken somewhere in the forests by fierce panther girls. |
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| 3 | 84 |
"What price did you obtain for the panther girls you sold?" I asked Thurnock. |
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| 3 | 91 |
They had been panther women. |
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| 3 | 166 |
"I have the four gold pieces from the selling of the panther wenches," said Thurnock. |
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| 4 | 173 |
Then, one morning, when I was lying on my stomach beside a stream, drinking, I lifted my head to find myself surrounded by armed panther girls. |
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| 4 | 271 |
It was the same name which had been that of one of the girls I had had Thurnock sell this morning, one of the two panther girls. |
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| 4 | 433 |
The panther girls had understood her well. |
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| 5 | 5 |
The urts which had been placed in the lower hold, before making landfall in Lydius, those which had figured in my interrogation of the panther girls, Tana and Ela, had been removed the following morning. |
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| 5 | 102 |
And there were panther girls, too, who would be swift to pounce on an escaped female slave. |
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| 5 | 270 |
"A panther girl," he said, "as you may have guessed. |
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| 5 | 283 |
"I did not know that a panther girl could fall to an outlaw," said Rim. |
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| 5 | 284 |
"Especially," I added, "a panther girl such as this one". |
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| 5 | 297 |
She was a panther girl. |
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| 5 | 301 |
"Is it true, Girl," I asked, "that you are the enemy of Verna, the panther girl?" "Yes," she said, sullenly. |
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| 6 | 1 |
I Hold Converse with Panther Girls and am Entertained by Sheera On the evening of the second day out of Lydius I took a tiny lamp and went to the first hold, where many supplies are kept. |
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| 6 | 30 |
"If you fell to panther girls," I asked, "what do you surmise would be your fate?" Inadvertently her hand touched the brand beneath her white woolen slave tunic. |
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| 6 | 33 |
She knew as well as I the contempt in which panther girls held female slaves. |
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| 6 | 85 |
She was no longer a panther girl. |
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| 6 | 104 |
He expects panther girls to flee from him and his men. |
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| 6 | 113 |
"Do you expect to deal with panther girls?" he asked, smiling. |
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| 6 | 121 |
"It is not uncommon for panther girls to first make contact," said Rim, smiling, "with a hunting arrow in the back". |
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| 6 | 134 |
"But," said Thurnock, troubled, "have you considered that they, the panther women of Verna's band, might keep the girl we have released?" "I have considered that," I said. |
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| 6 | 158 |
"Panther girls are dangerous," I said. |
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| 6 | 182 |
"What if there is an objection," inquired Rim, "raised on the part of Verna, and her panther girls?" "We have more than enough slave chains for Verna and her entire band," I said. |
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| 6 | 199 |
"It is not impossible," said Thurnock, "they are concerned with common trade, panther hides and sleen fur, and such". |
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| 6 | 231 |
We would now make camp, putting sharpened stakes about our camp, to protect us from animals, and the nocturnal attacks of panther girls. |
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| 6 | 234 |
"Panther girls," said I, "are not likely to slay a braceleted girl". |
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| 6 | 256 |
I did not think that it was a forest panther. |
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| 6 | 382 |
We remained back from the fire to make it more difficult for the panther girls, were it their intention, to slay us from the darkness with arrows. |
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| 6 | 411 |
She was truly a panther girl. |
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| 6 | 423 |
The panther girl, her head high, strode into the camp. |
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| 6 | 432 |
If the fire were suddenly extinguished they would, for an Ehn, for all practical purposes, be blind, at the mercy of the panther girls. |
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| 6 | 436 |
I saw something white move in the darkness, stumbling between two panther girls. |
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| 6 | 437 |
A panther girl holding each arm, she was thrust into the camp. |
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| 6 | 450 |
"She was once a panther girl," said the girl. |
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| 6 | 451 |
"She was once Sheera, the panther girl". |
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| 6 | 488 |
The girl facing me was blond, and blue-eyed, like many panther girls. |
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| 6 | 504 |
He would not be likely to address himself to a panther girl unless she was stripped and knelt before him in slave chains. |
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| 6 | 531 |
"These woods," said Mira, "belong to panther girls. |
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| 6 | 542 |
"These are the forests of panther girls. |
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| 6 | 579 |
The former panther girl would learn to perform well the menial tasks of the female slave. |
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| 6 | 587 |
As far as those in Laura knew, or those in the forests, with the exception of the panther girls of Verna's band, we were what we seemed, traders in fur and hide. |
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| 6 | 763 |
"Perhaps we can bring you back a little panther girl from the forests". |
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| 6 | 972 |
"I am no longer a panther girl," she said. |
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| 6 | 1095 |
The body of Sheera, once the proud panther girl, now only a collared slave, branded and rightless, an animal, naked, chained, leaped submissively, uncontrollably, to the slightest touch of her master. |
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| 7 | 9 |
The panther, when hungry, or irritable, hunts. |
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| 7 | 56 |
They were interested in picking up panther girls. |
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| 7 | 75 |
They would not fail to appreciate captured panther girls. |
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| 7 | 101 |
My men would swiftly teach the panther girls their collars. |
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| 7 | 105 |
Some of the panther girls themselves, when sold to new masters, might find themselves just such paga slaves, girls precisely such as they would have scorned upon first being brought captive to my camp. |
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| 7 | 204 |
This panther girl would warn no others. |
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| 7 | 228 |
"Where is the camp and dancing circle of Verna, the panther girl?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 248 |
Normally panther girls move and hunt in small bands. |
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| 7 | 264 |
Soon, perhaps within two or three days, more panther girls might be entering this portion of the forests. |
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| 7 | 306 |
The panther can climb, but it is accustomed to take its hunting scents from the ground. |
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| 7 | 323 |
The thigh of tabuk was tended by a squatting panther girl, who, from time to time, picked bits of meat from it and thrust them in her mouth. |
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| 7 | 330 |
I saw, clearly, no other panther girls in or about the enclosure. |
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| 7 | 345 |
I had learned from Grenna, my prisoner, that an unusually large band of panther girls, under a woman named Hura, was even now advancing toward these areas of the forests. |
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| 7 | 351 |
Additional numbers of panther girls, entering these countries of forests, might well confuse or complicate my plans. |
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| 8 | 2 |
There is no such saying pertaining to panther girls. |
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| 8 | 9 |
Outlaws move well in the forests, moving, like panther girls, with swiftness and stealth, and leaving little trace of their passage. |
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| 8 | 18 |
They might be panther girls, but they were only women. |
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| 8 | 45 |
One of the most delicate modes of enslavement, and requiring great skill, is to enter the stockade of the panther girls under the cover of darkness and then, one by one, hut by hut, following the sound of their breathing, to take them. |
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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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| 8 | 91 |
I did not think that panther girls laid in wait outside, for we had made a careful examination of the area before we had entered the stockade. |
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| 8 | 101 |
Panther girls would not have left them. |
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| 8 | 104 |
"There is no sign of panther girls," he said. |
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| 8 | 124 |
"The panther girls were fortunate in their spoils," said one of Arn's men. |
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| 8 | 142 |
Further, we did not know from whence the panther girls might return. |
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| 8 | 175 |
"Panther girls," said one of Arn's men, "commonly return to their camp near dusk". |
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| 8 | 185 |
The panther girls, in all probability, would not return for another Ahn or two. |
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| 8 | 230 |
I heard the shouts of panther girls. |
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| 8 | 237 |
"Back!" At the gate there were four panther girls, thrusting with spears, held in their two hands, prodding us back. |
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| 8 | 255 |
Then he was pulled from his feet, and I saw a panther girl, a blond girl, her hair wild, leap toward him, her spear lifted in two hands. |
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| 8 | 257 |
Two beautiful panther girls bent to him. |
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| 8 | 273 |
I heard more cries behind us, of panther girls in fury. |
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| 8 | 275 |
Panther girls are swift, fierce hunters. |
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| 8 | 286 |
The Gorean slave trap is not held by a simple, heavy spring as would be the trap for a panther or sleen. |
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| 8 | 312 |
I opened my eyes and saw about me the ankles of several panther girls. |
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| 9 | 14 |
I saw a woman, in the brief skins of the panther women, turn and approach me. |
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| 9 | 71 |
I had been bound by panther women. |
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| 9 | 152 |
Mira, too, like several of the other panther girls, was beautiful, but her beauty was hard, and there was a cruelty in it. |
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| 9 | 177 |
I had little doubt that panther girls, in disguise, perhaps veiled, in Robes of Concealment, or perhaps even as scantily clad, haughty, brazen slave girls, knowing their collars were meaningless, occasionally penetrated towns such as Lydius or Laura. |
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| 9 | 186 |
In the shadows, about, I could see other panther girls, ornaments of gold dully glistening on their shapely limbs. |
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| 9 | 219 |
"We have also taught her," smiled Verna, "as only panther girls can, the despicability of men". |
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| 9 | 243 |
"We were following an enemy panther girl," she said, "one less skilled than yourself, of the band of Hura, who would take my land from me". |
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| 9 | 272 |
"Any panther girl," she said, "who falls to men deserves the collar". |
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| 9 | 274 |
"There is a saying among panther girls," she said, "that any girl who permits herself to fall to men desires in her heart to be their slave". |
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| 9 | 275 |
"I have heard," I said, "that panther girls, once taken, make splendid slaves". |
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| 9 | 307 |
Some of the panther girls, at the edge of the clearing, with their spears, stood restlessly, watching me. |
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| 9 | 360 |
And I, who was to have been such a hero, so clever, so noble and brave, so victorious, now myself lay helplessly bound in a clearing in the great northern forests, the prisoner of fierce panther girls. |
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| 9 | 365 |
She was barbaric, a panther girl, a beauty. |
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| 9 | 369 |
"The moons are now risen," said another panther girl, edging closer to Verna. |
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| 9 | 425 |
Mira now, the others following, crying out, tore away the scraps of panther skin that had yet concealed their beauty. |
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| 9 | 427 |
Now, moaning, crying out, the she-beasts of the forest, the panther girls, hands lifted, clawing, began to stamp and dance beneath the fierce brightness of the wild moons. |
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| 9 | 443 |
Then, about me, the panther girls, circling, swaying, began a slow stalking dance, as of hunters. |
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| 10 | 54 |
"I have information," I said, "that, soon, there are more panther girls entering this portion of the forest. |
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| 10 | 102 |
"You are not the first to fall to panther girls," he said. |
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| 11 | 118 |
The others were treated, for the time, more as panther girls. |
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| 11 | 120 |
The panther girls, in Marlenus' camp, though they were kept chained, were permitted to wear the skins of panthers. |
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| 11 | 141 |
She tried to stand as a panther girl, but he had laughed at her. |
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| 11 | 143 |
One cannot stand as a panther girl in such silk. |
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| 11 | 408 |
There were two short choke straps on her neck, each held by a different panther girl. |
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| 11 | 445 |
"I am not one of your girls! I am Verna! Verna, the outlaw woman! Verna, the panther girl!" "She is pretty, isn't she?" asked Hura. |
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| 11 | 446 |
"A lovely girl," said one of the panther girls, holding one of the choke straps. |
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| 11 | 482 |
Watching, too, circled about, were Verna's girls, in their panther skins, chained together by the left ankle. |
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| 11 | 493 |
A huntsman, one of Marlenus' retinue, cowled in the head of a forest panther, stepped behind her. |
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| 11 | 578 |
The other girls, too, were frightened, Verna's girls, in their panther skins, chained by their left ankle. |
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| 11 | 624 |
Outside, the panther girls were waiting for them. |
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| 11 | 882 |
I reminded myself that it was said that panther girls, once conquered, made excellent slaves. |
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| 11 | 966 |
I reminded myself that it was said that panther girls, once conquered, make excellent slaves. |
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| 12 | 39 |
I and my men had fallen to panther girls. |
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| 12 | 124 |
I was furious! I had failed to rescue Talena! She had been disowned! I and my men had fallen to panther girls! We would have been raped and sold slave had we not been rescued by the incomparable Marlenus of Ar. |
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| 12 | 130 |
And I, and my men, would return to our businesses, empty handed, our heads bearing the shaved degradation swath of panther girls. |
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| 12 | 137 |
Noble, great Ubar! And who would remember Talena, and her shame, after Marlenus, astride a mighty tharlarion, would have his triumph in the streets of Ar, panther girls in tiny cages slung on poles carried by huntsmen, and, walking beside his beast, naked and chained to his stirrup, their former lea... |
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| 12 | 156 |
I was interested in seeing again the delicious, quick-handed little Tina, Rim's lovely slave, Cara, and in particular a former panther girl, a proud, sweet-bodied, dark-haired girl, who wore my collar, who had found herself helpless in my hands, whose name was Sheera. |
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| 13 | 190 |
"What happened," I asked, "to my men, and slaves?" "The men," she said, "with the exception of one, whose head wore the swath of panther girls, were chained in the hold of the Tesephone. |
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| 13 | 191 |
The women, the four slaves, and he who wore the swath of panther girls, were taken, with the majority of the men of Tyros, into the forest". |
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| 13 | 333 |
"Panther girls!" she whispered. |
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| 13 | 351 |
"It would not be well for you to fall into the hands of those of Tyros, or the hands of Hura's panther girls". |
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| 14 | 14 |
It might have been torn from the neck of a panther girl in a struggle. |
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| 14 | 25 |
To this feast, as honored guests, would have been invited the panther girls of Hura's band. |
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| 14 | 27 |
At the height of the feast some dozen or so panther girls would have overpowered the guards at the gate, presumably drunken, and opened the gate. |
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| 14 | 28 |
Then, at a given signal, the panther girls within, abetted by the men of Tyros from without, would have, with clubs and ropes, and the butts of their spears, sprung to the attack. |
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| 14 | 59 |
But first, I expected, panther girls would choose to exact their dues. |
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| 14 | 61 |
This night, I conjectured, was reserved for the cruel rites of the panther girls. |
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| 14 | 87 |
I returned to the camp of Marlenus, and easily picked up the trail of the men of Tyros and the panther girls of Hura's band, and the trail, too, of the wretches, chained, they drove between them. |
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| 14 | 96 |
Panther girls, proud in their skins and gold, with their light spears, strode about. |
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| 14 | 124 |
Individuals, panther girls and men of Tyros, now, idly, some still eating food from the supper fires, entered the conquest circle. |
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| 14 | 215 |
By this time the men of Tyros, and the panther girls, had all gathered about in the conquest circle. |
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| 14 | 221 |
The panther girls of Hura's band, more than a hundred of them, entered the circle. |
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| 14 | 225 |
I looked down into the circle, with its fires, with its men staked out, with the men of Tyros sitting about its edges, with Marlenus helpless beside the brazier, the man from Tyros, with the leather glove, crouching beside it, with the panther girls, beautiful, numerous, lithe, in their skins and ne... |
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| 14 | 229 |
The panther girls put down their heads. |
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| 14 | 233 |
It was few free men who had ever looked, unbound, on the rites of panther girls. |
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| 14 | 247 |
I, and my men, had been outwitted by panther girls. |
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| 14 | 252 |
It might have been a rite not of women, but of she-panthers! How starved must be the lonely, hating panther women of the forests, so gross is their hostility, so fierce their hatred, and yet need, of men. |
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| 14 | 268 |
The woman, I realized, looking down upon the panther girls, has an imperative, enormous need. |
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| 14 | 291 |
The dance of the panther girls became more wild, more frenzied. |
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| 14 | 334 |
"Brand him!" Several panther girls, their skins torn away in the dance, held the thigh of Marlenus. |
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| 14 | 340 |
The panther girls looked up from where they knelt beside Marlenus. |
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| 15 | 7 |
Two panther girls were swift on her trail, running easily. |
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| 15 | 11 |
The panther girls ran easily, loops of binding fiber loose in their hands. |
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| 15 | 14 |
Panther girls enjoy the capture of escaped female slaves in the forests. |
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| 15 | 22 |
Panther girls hold slave girls in great contempt, and treat them with great cruelty. |
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| 15 | 23 |
Slave girls, many of whom have been forced to yield themselves totally to a man, are an object of hatred to panther girls. |
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| 15 | 24 |
They represent what the panther girl most fears and hates, her sex. |
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| 15 | 26 |
Panther girls, whose life is predicated on the hatred of men, are not likely to look leniently on such women. |
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| 15 | 28 |
Strangely this is not regarded as relevant by panther girls. |
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| 15 | 29 |
That a girl may have fought to the last moment with the last ounce of her strength to avoid being conquered is of no interest to the panther girl. |
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| 15 | 32 |
The panther girl understands only when it is she herself who has been captured and taught her womanhood, only when it is she herself who finds herself in the strong arms of a man who, with or without her consent, makes her wholly feminine, who forces her to yield to him, who is her conqueror. |
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| 15 | 56 |
Swiftly, lightly, the panther girls sprang into the tiny clearing not five yards from her. |
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| 15 | 62 |
She looked at the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 63 |
One of the panther girls, elated, strode to her and tied a length of binding fiber about her throat, tightly. |
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| 15 | 93 |
I looked at the two panther girls, being led away. |
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| 15 | 95 |
How furious they were, proud panther girls, to be led into captivity, helplessly, by a mere slave girl. |
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| 15 | 98 |
The panther girls were their guides, their hunters, their scouts, their shields. |
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| 15 | 99 |
If I could make it so that the panther girls feared to leave the camp, and, in the marches, would insist on remaining near the long slave chain, putatively protected by their numbers, the men of Tyros would be, for many practical purposes, deprived of the services of their otherwise dangerously effe... |
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| 15 | 101 |
If the panther girls were in their camps, or near the slave chain in the march, it would be much simpler for me both to approach and withdraw. |
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| 15 | 103 |
Too, it should produce dissension between the men of Tyros and their allies, the lovely panther girls of the northern forests. |
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| 15 | 104 |
That day I took nine more panther girls. |
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| 15 | 113 |
I cut pieces of meat from the animal, and gave them to the paga slaves, to thrust into the mouths of the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 119 |
One long length of binding fiber, captured from a panther girl, served to tie all their ankles. |
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| 15 | 126 |
They feared the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 131 |
The camp had not moved, but it was clear to me that the panther girls were now alarmed, and that their ventures from the camp were more conservative and timid. |
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| 15 | 133 |
There had been, too, angry responses by the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 144 |
"Put on the skins of panther girls," I told them. |
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| 15 | 158 |
"You make lovely panther girls," I said. |
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| 15 | 159 |
They even stood as panther girls. |
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| 15 | 163 |
One of the stripped panther girls, furious, struggled in her bonds. |
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| 15 | 164 |
She was outraged to see a paga slave clad in the skins of panther girls. |
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| 15 | 165 |
The dark-haired girl, the paga slave, in the skins of panther girls, leapt to her and seized her by the hair. |
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| 15 | 173 |
The dark-haired girl stood over the panther girl, the switch upraised. |
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| 15 | 174 |
"Do you, naked slave, have any objection?" she asked the panther girl. |
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| 15 | 175 |
The panther girl, shaking her head negatively, eyes frightened, shrank back in the coffle. |
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| 15 | 177 |
I went to the three paga slaves clad in the skins of panther girls. |
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| 15 | 210 |
There were six panther girls guarding the camp. |
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| 15 | 212 |
The paga slaves, in the skins of panther girls, in the darkness, would approach one of the guards. |
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| 15 | 222 |
To the best of their knowledge they were the only panther girls in the area. |
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| 15 | 239 |
She strode among the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 251 |
In my camp I had the dark-haired girl and the blond unbind the ankles of the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 256 |
The panther girls were now tied together by the neck and by the left ankle. |
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| 15 | 273 |
About the neck of the last panther girl in the coffle were slung seven quivers of arrows, which I had taken from various prisoners. |
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| 15 | 274 |
At the site of the old camp I had the red-haired girl order the panther girls to their backs. |
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| 15 | 287 |
I looked at the panther girls lying on their backs, at the site of the old camp. |
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| 15 | 290 |
"Extend your left legs," I told the panther girls, "and bend and lift your right knee, heel to the ground". |
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| 15 | 323 |
"A single panther," wept another, cringing, the ankle ring fastened on her left ankle, "could kill us all!" I did not respond to them. |
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| 15 | 327 |
Then the captive panther girls, fearing her, stood well. |
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| 15 | 359 |
The fists of the chained panther girls, sitting chained on the grass, were clenched. |
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| 15 | 361 |
"We are panther girls!" cried the blond girl in the ankle ring. |
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| 15 | 374 |
I heard the slap of the switch twice behind me, and cries of pain from panther girls. |
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| 15 | 403 |
They were beautiful, the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 421 |
Men of Tyros, and panther girls, flanked the lines of slaves. |
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| 15 | 423 |
Apparently the men of Tyros, and the panther girls, feared to free their hands. |
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| 15 | 426 |
Others, lighter burdens, were carried by certain of the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 428 |
Four panther girls, with switches, hurried the lovely, tethered, braceleted bondswomen. |
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| 15 | 436 |
Panther girls have little patience for those of their number who fall slave. |
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| 15 | 439 |
Then there came six panther girls, who had been of Verna's band, in their skins, and then, still in lipstick and earrings, still in her bit of slave silk, came Verna, and then, following her, came the other eight girls who had been of her band. |
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| 15 | 448 |
It was no accident that Verna, garbed and adorned as she was, as a pleasure slave, had been tied among panther girls. |
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| 15 | 451 |
The remaining slave girls, who had been girls in Marlenus' camp, brought north for the recreation of his men, were safely tied behind the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 457 |
The men of Tyros and the girls of Hura had had scouts out, flanking their line of march, panther girls. |
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| 15 | 472 |
I carried with me four of the seven quivers of arrows taken from panther girls. |
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| 15 | 477 |
By the time a panther girl, looking back, screamed, fourteen had fallen. |
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| 15 | 481 |
There the dark-haired girl and the blond girl, two of my paga slaves, stripped the new prisoners and I, with Harl rings, part of the freight carried by the panther girls, not speaking, fastened them in the slave chain. |
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| 15 | 787 |
The red-haired girl, first girl in the camp, she who held the switch, was now up, stretching like a she-panther, yawning like a she-larl. |
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| 15 | 788 |
She, though a former paga slave, pulled the skins of panther girls about her body. |
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| 15 | 841 |
"Let me beat her," said the blond girl, one of the panther girls, in her ankle ring. |
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| 15 | 875 |
The panther girls, in their chains, laughed. |
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| 15 | 885 |
I heard the red-haired girl addressing the panther women. |
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| 15 | 896 |
The red-haired girl, then, aided by the other two paga slaves, took the panther women to the nearby stream, that they might drink and get water to mix with their slave meal. |
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| 15 | 972 |
"Remember that you are beautiful slaves!" "We are not slaves!" cried one of the panther girls. |
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| 15 | 973 |
"We are panther women!" I went to one of the boxes, that which contained uninscribed slave collars. |
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| 15 | 977 |
In tears the panther girls lifted their burdens. |
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| 16 | 12 |
The panther girls were apparently now terrified to leave the column. |
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| 16 | 17 |
Looped loosely about my right wrist, so that it would fall when my hand was held downwards, was a thick, wide strip of panther skin, twisted in its center. |
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| 16 | 18 |
The arrows which had struck the men of Tyros had been those of panther girls, taken from my captures. |
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| 16 | 21 |
The others had fallen to the arrows of panther girls, of which I had acquired a great number. |
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| 16 | 37 |
Even the panther girls in charge of the coffle of captive females struck them less now with the switch. |
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| 16 | 53 |
The panther girls with the switches looked about themselves fearfully. |
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| 16 | 92 |
As my right hand did this the loop of panther skin, twisted in its center, fell from my hand across her face. |
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| 16 | 104 |
She knew only that she knelt, stripped, blindfolded and bound, before a harsh female interrogator, one whose uncompromising strictures and imperious tones could only be interpreted as those of a leader of a large and important band of panther women. |
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| 16 | 183 |
Again I thrust the heavy wadding of fur deep in Mira's mouth, and tied it securely in place with the strip, twisted, of panther skin. |
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| 16 | 222 |
They let the panther skin then hang about her neck and wound the wadding about it, that it might be soon replaced. |
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| 16 | 227 |
She was to betray the panther girls of Hura's band. |
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| 16 | 230 |
I had had my slaves, captured panther girls, bring it along, carrying it in our slave caravan. |
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| 16 | 232 |
I did not expect it would be drunk by all of the panther girls, but, if I could deprive the men of Tyros of more of their dangerous, beautiful allies, it would be to my advantage. |
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| 16 | 233 |
"Tomorrow night," said Vinca, "you are to give the wine to as many of the panther girls as is possible". |
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| 16 | 241 |
"Yes!" "Bring skins," said Vinca, "that we may now disguise this slave as a panther girl". |
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| 16 | 294 |
I watched my slave, Mira, smiling, jesting and pouring wine for many of the panther girls of Hura's band. |
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| 16 | 309 |
The panther girls, chained together, had one another for warmth, and the tarpaulin. |
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| 17 | 1 |
I Add Jewels to the Slaver's Necklace I strode among the unconscious bodies of panther girls. |
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| 17 | 12 |
The chained work slaves, under their switches, began to gather up the unconscious panther girls and carry them and place them on the grass in a line, their feet at, and vertical to, what would have been an extension of the coffle line. |
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| 17 | 19 |
Then, to their horror, and that of the girls of Hura, it had been impossible to rouse many of the panther girls, indeed, all who had last night drunk of Mira's proffered wine. |
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| 17 | 49 |
In a few moments I discovered, kneeling in the tent, her back to me, with drawn bow, a panther girl. |
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| 17 | 75 |
She was leading, by the arm, a stumbling, half-conscious panther girl. |
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| 17 | 85 |
Their clothing, weapons, pouches, everything was removed from the panther girls. |
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| 17 | 117 |
That had left, by my count, not including Hura, seventy-nine panther girls. |
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| 17 | 138 |
One of the panther girls was on her feet, wild, hysterically trying to force the slave bracelet from her left wrist. |
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| 17 | 144 |
Some had been disturbed by the crying of the hysterical panther girl, which had doubtless seemed to them far off, and something having little to do with them. |
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| 18 | 77 |
In the brief skins of panther girls, they ran to the water and waded in it, the cold salt water coming to their calves. |
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| 18 | 83 |
The panther skins, of course, had stood well the strikings of branches and the tearing of the closely set thickets of their flight. |
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| 18 | 84 |
In the midst of the panther girls, now futilely fighting her bonds, was Verna. |
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| 18 | 89 |
Behind her came the balance of her girls, in panther skins, and behind them, concluding the coffle, slave girls who had belonged to Marlenus and had served him, and his men, in his camp. |
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| 18 | 99 |
I gathered that Mira still stood high among the girls of Hura, that her part, or her knowing part, in the drugging of the large number of panther girls in the former camp was not understood. |
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| 18 | 130 |
Doubtless she believed I worked with a band, perhaps a large one, of panther girls. |
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| 18 | 167 |
* * * * During the afternoon I observed the slave girls, tied in pairs, by the neck, each pair under the guard of a man of Tyros and a panther girl, gathering driftwood and, from the forest's edge, broken branches. |
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| 18 | 171 |
Sheera and Grenna, both former panther girls, formed another pair. |
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| 18 | 241 |
I noted that, as I would have supposed, and had been anticipating, that the girls driven forth now to gather wood for the fire were not panther girls. |
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| 18 | 242 |
Panther girls knew the forests. |
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| 18 | 243 |
Panther girls might escape. |
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| 18 | 246 |
They had been tied together earlier to hunt wood, and were isolated in the slave line between Sheera and Grenna, both panther girls. |
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| 18 | 285 |
From far off, in the forest, came the snarling cry of a panther. |
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| 19 | 51 |
Perhaps, too, Mira had informed him that he was stalked by hundreds of panther girls, claiming to have seen evidences of this in the trek. |
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| 19 | 121 |
Had I come for her? "I think I know him," said Hura, the tall girl, long-legged, with black hair, leader of the panther girls. |
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| 19 | 134 |
Angrily, the panther girls, breathing heavily, eyes flashing, restrained themselves. |
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| 19 | 135 |
I gathered that Hura, and her girls, proud panther women, were not popular among the men. |
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| 19 | 273 |
"He and others made me give drugged wine to our women!" Hura turned on her, like a she-panther. |
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| 19 | 335 |
I need have no fear at the moment of the bows of panther girls. |
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| 20 | 124 |
Other panther women, too, were being cut free. |
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| 20 | 141 |
"Our bowstrings have been cut!" wailed a panther woman. |
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| 20 | 145 |
"We must escape!" cried one of the panther girls. |
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| 21 | 147 |
Several held, by the arms, or hair, a stripped, squirming panther girl. |
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| 21 | 152 |
They leaped to secure the now-unresisting panther women. |
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| 21 | 159 |
At that point she had, too, encountered Vinca, the two paga slaves, Ilene, and my own slave chain of panther women. |
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| 21 | 183 |
I examined the panther women, now supine, now tightly bound, before the fire. |
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| 21 | 193 |
Hura, and Mira, too, were panther girls. |
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| 22 | 11 |
Others carried merely knives, or light spears, taken from Hura's panther girls. |
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| 22 | 13 |
Near them, similarly bound and in throat coffle, though still in the skins of panther girls, were Verna's women, who had been captured long ago by Sarus in Marlenus' camp. |
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| 22 | 125 |
He wore the yellow of Tyros, and, about his shoulders, a cloak, formed of panther skins. |
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| 22 | 126 |
About his throat was a tangle of leather and claws, taken from panther women, with which he had adorned himself. |
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| 22 | 138 |
The proud leader of the panther girls had not escaped. |
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| 22 | 148 |
The once-proud panther woman, the now-trembling slave dared not raise her head. |
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| 22 | 204 |
Yesterday, she had returned of her own free will to the beach, and in her power, a captive panther woman, whose name was Hura. |
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| 22 | 209 |
It was removed from the throat of Verna, panther girl of the northern forests. |
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| 22 | 251 |
The panther girl fled to the arms of the oarsman. |
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| 22 | 294 |
Then Verna turned away from him, in the skins of a panther woman. |
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| 22 | 579 |
He would bring with him as slave Hura and Mira, panther girl leaders, who had sought to accomplish dishonor upon him. |
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| 22 | 769 |
Doubtless now, alone, somewhere within the forest, in freedom and solitude, there was a panther girl. |
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| 22 | 797 |
"This woman," said I to Thurnock, indicating Rissia, "remained behind in the camp of Sarus and Hura, when many of her fellow panther women were drugged". |
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| 22 | 876 |
They wore the skins of panther girls. |
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| 1 | 137 |
Samos of Port Kar had purchased Talena, as a mere slave, from two panther girls, obtaining her with ease in this manner while I had risked my life in the forest. |
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| 1 | 221 |
When I had returned from the northern forests I had resolved not to look upon Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, whom Samos had purchased from panther girls. |
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| 1 | 301 |
"Rask of Treve gave me to a panther girl in his camp, one named Verna. |
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| 13 | 255 |
The Forkbeard then went to the heavy leather sack and, ripping the leather away at its throat, poured onto the dirt, lustrous, scintillating, a shower of jewels, mostly a deep blue, but some were purple, and others white and yellow, the carved sapphires of Schendi, each in the shape of a tiny panthe... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 723 |
She, a girl of Earth, had been swiftly caught by Panther Girls, and displayed, tied, roped, to a pole on the banks of the Laurius, hands over head, ankles, throat and belly bound to it, a beautiful, taken slave. |
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| 5 | 724 |
Sarpedon, a tavern keeper from Lydius, had bought her from Panther Girls. |
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| 5 | 880 |
He seemed a silken panther, lithe, tensed for the spring. |
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| 26 | 1196 |
I would not forget Ibn Saran, lithe, like a silken panther. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 979 |
In such forests, in certain territories, there roam bands of free women, the lithe, ferocious Panther Girls of Gor, but these despise and hate women not of their own fierce ilk; in particular do they revile and hold in contempt girls, beauties, who have been slaves to men; should such a girl, fleein... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 262 |
He had worn at his loins the pelts of the yellow panther. |
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| 19 | 49 |
In the center of the room, on a high platform, some nine feet high, supported by eight poles, sitting, cross-legged, naked, save for the panther teeth about his neck, was not Shaba, but the ubar, Bila Huruma. |
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| 19 | 184 |
He sat upon the high platform, above the others, solitary and isolated, the necklace of panther teeth about his neck, the lamps below him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 139 |
"It could be a panther come from the woods, or a strayed larl," said one of the men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 487 |
"As far as I know, there has not been a panther or larl in the vicinity of Venna in more than a hundred years," she said. |
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| 24 | 489 |
"They were not the tracks of a panther or larl," she said. |
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| 29 | 872 |
"Do it again! Make them seem to speak!" The leader of the beasts, then, in fury, and in some inhuman, snarling, barbarous, fierce tongue, something like the roar of a lion, the hiss of a sleen, the snarl of a panther, yet clearly, frighteningly, an articulated stream of sound, some form of modulated... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 477 |
I had seen panther girls in the north, in their desire to repudiate their own nature, and in their envy of men, adopt such a posture. |
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| 27 | 994 |
Then, when he got his hands on a meaningless little blond chit, a true slave in every hort of her body, named El-in-or, he gave me away, to a panther girl named Verna, to be taken to the northern forests. |
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| 27 | 995 |
I served panther girls, too, as a domestic slave, and was later sold, at the coast, where I came into the collar of Samos, of Port Kar". |
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| 27 | 3303 |
And is it not natural to suppose that the lighter labors might descend to the slighter beasts, the softer, prettier beasts who stood in need of male protection, those less fitted for war and long treks, those less wisely pitted against the mastodon, the cave bear, the panther, the stranger, those wh... |
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| 2 | 174 |
Sometimes the head is bitten free and the spurting neck is covered with the predator's mouth, which is then drenched with the imbibed, flighted blood; another way is shared by certain other forms of predator, such as the larl or forest panther, in which the prey is seized, say, at the shoulder, and ... |
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| 7 | 36 |
It moves in the wind, in the churning sea, in the sheetings of rain, in the cry of lightning, in the tremors of the earth; it whispers in lava scalding the affrighted air; it prowls with the panther; it soars with the tarn; it bounds with the startled tabuk". |
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| 47 | 137 |
This modality of aggression, interestingly, frequently characterizes the feeding attack of the smaller Gorean forest panther. |
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| 49 | 15 |
The forest panther sometimes drags its prey into a tree, presumably to keep it safe from smaller predators, or from scavengers. |
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| 5 | 543 |
She had once been captured and enslaved by the tarnsman, Rask, of Treve, but he, having become, however unaccountably, enamored of a blond barbarian slave named El-in-or, gave her to Verna, a leader of Panther Girls, who took her to the northern forests. |
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| 5 | 1097 |
Sometimes captured panther girls, small bands of which occasionally roamed hundreds of pasangs to the south, were slung from such poles. |
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| 5 | 1100 |
The poles are carried by female slaves, a great insult to the panther girl for they despise female slaves. |
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| 5 | 1102 |
When they are returned to civilization, the captured panther girls, most of whom suffer from repressed sexuality, are stripped, branded, and collared, and taught their womanhood. |
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| 7 | 199 |
Too, the human is unfamiliar prey to most carnivores, the panther, the sleen, the larl, and such. |
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| 14 | 11 |
One-on-one combat can be stylized amongst the Pani, and may proceed rather formally, for all its sudden swiftness and violence, alternating with an almost unnatural stillness, reminiscent of a larl or panther, intent, immobile, subtly quivering, before its attack. |
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| 1 | 300 |
In any event, Rask, perhaps in amusement, or to show his contempt for her, gave Talena as a braceleted, leashed slave, to Verna, a panther girl of the northern forests. |
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| 25 | 229 |
I was given away, and, to show his scorn, to a woman, Verna, a Panther Girl of the northern forests". |
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| 25 | 248 |
"I was taken to the northern forests," she said, "the slave of Panther Girls. |
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| 25 | 431 |
"Rask of Treve did so," I said, "and the Panther Girls of the northern forests". |
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| 29 | 77 |
Why were Panther Women, or Panther Girls, so different, so hostile to men, and to themselves? Did they hate a womanhood which they lacked, or doubted they possessed? Was this a matter of pride of some sort, of striving to realize some sort of an unusual image? Why had they fled to the wilds, to fors... |
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| 29 | 71 |
I recognized the large, strong, fierce women as Panther Women, or, as the men will have it, Panther Girls, for they seem to think of all women in terms of the collar, either presently or in the future. |
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| 29 | 171 |
Whereas the Panther Woman, or Panther Girl, as other free women, commonly holds the slave in contempt, and is cruel to her, she seems to hate her less, on the whole, than she hates either the free male or the typical free female. |
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| 29 | 185 |
On the other hand, the Panther Women, or Panther Girls, hating men, are less likely to see the slave as a rival. |
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| 38 | 158 |
"I find it hard to believe that you have come this far, surely at the cost of time and coin, for a handful of Panther Girls who, as they are Panther Girls, are likely to be less appealing than your average she- tarsk". |
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| 9 | 136 |
"That is a forest panther," he said. |
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| 9 | 163 |
"That is no forest panther!" said a man. |
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| 14 | 255 |
Perhaps some might be apprehended by Panther Girls, and exposed on the coast, bound provocatively to stakes, to be sold to the crews of passing ships. |
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| 14 | 433 |
"Perhaps," he said, "the ost, the sleen, the hith, the panther, the river shark, the lari, was created in their image". |
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| 21 | 198 |
Rather, here, in the forest, one would not wish its whimperings, shrieks, or squeals to attract the attention of, say, a passing sleen or panther". |
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| 25 | 376 |
I had heard of Panther Girls but did not think there would be many, if any, about, this far north. |
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| 25 | 379 |
Should I encounter Panther Girls I thought I might join their band. |
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| 25 | 382 |
Panther Girls were free women. |
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| 25 | 384 |
Woe to the slave who fell into their hands! I did not understand the hatred of Panther Girls for slaves. |
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| 29 | 72 |
I had heard that Panther Girls, subdued and taught their collars, made excellent slaves, grateful, devoted, loving, obedient, and passionate. |
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| 29 | 78 |
Had not ice been noted in the Alexandra? One thinks of Panther Girls much farther south, perhaps in the basin and environs of the Laurius, not the Alexandra. |
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| 29 | 126 |
I gathered that my captor, this large, sturdy, blue-eyed, widely shouldered, blond-haired, harsh, strapping woman was first in this small contingent of Panther Girls so unaccountably in the vicinity of Shipcamp. |
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| 29 | 138 |
Three Panther Women, carrying their spears, approached. |
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| 29 | 140 |
"How small and weak she is," said one of the Panther Women. |
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| 29 | 144 |
I looked beyond the three Panther Women, and saw the two neck-roped slaves, one a blonde, like my captor, and the other a brunette, rather like myself, kneeling down, close to one another. |
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| 29 | 152 |
Neither dared meet the eyes of any of the Panther Women. |
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| 29 | 153 |
"Heads down," snapped one of the Panther Women, the one who had not yet spoken of me, and the two slaves lowered their heads. |
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| 29 | 156 |
I suddenly realized it was this other woman, and not my captor, who was first in this tiny band of Panther Women. |
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| 29 | 164 |
Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls. |
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| 29 | 167 |
Others, thought to have promise, were sent naked into the forest with a spear, to kill a panther, and return with the bloodied skin about their shoulders. |
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| 29 | 169 |
The panther is dangerous, elusive prey; it is territorial and aggressive; and in such a situation it is seldom clear who is the hunter and who the hunted. |
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| 29 | 170 |
Panther Girls are commonly filled with hatred; they commonly resent and hate men, whom it seems, oddly enough, they appear to envy and attempt to emulate, but, interestingly, perhaps even more, they commonly resent and hate typical free women, perhaps because such women are too female, and too unlik... |
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| 29 | 211 |
"We could trade her on the coast, for a vessel of ka-la-na," said one of the Panther Women. |
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| 29 | 237 |
"They rob us," said another Panther Woman, angrily, she who had been muchly silent. |
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| 31 | 11 |
Not long after having fled from the wands, I had fallen captive to a small band of Panther Women, unaccountably in the vicinity of Shipcamp. |
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| 31 | 23 |
"I do not trust men," said another of the Panther Women, Hiza, whose dark hair was cut as closely as that of a metal worker. |
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| 31 | 24 |
"Let us move quickly," said the fourth of the Panther Women, blond, broad-shouldered Emerald, looking uneasily toward the forest. |
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| 33 | 69 |
Sometimes, in concert, bands of Panther Women will attack a small caravan in the forest or an outlying trading post on the coast. |
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| 34 | 28 |
"Panther Girls," I said. |
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| 35 | 84 |
Tuza crouched like a panther, the blade of her knife at her knee, blade upward. |
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| 35 | 112 |
"Perhaps," said Hiza, "you should have fought, in the way of the Panther Women". |
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| 36 | 6 |
"Panther Women, who tend to be large and fierce for women, often hold smaller, weaker women as slaves". |
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| 36 | 13 |
"While you seize one Panther Girl, binding her helplessly, another might drive her javelin into the back of your neck". |
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| 36 | 17 |
"It seems unlikely," he said, "for Panther Girls seldom league themselves with men, for before men their bravado fades, its fraudulence becomes transparent. |
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| 36 | 23 |
Sometimes Panther Girls trod the forest barefoot. |
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| 36 | 24 |
Too, a ruse might be in play, to suggest fewer Panther Girls than are actually with the party". |
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| 37 | 63 |
"Let us do contest," cried Darla, "in the manner of the Panther Women!" "I would not soil my javelin on you," said Tuza, "pretty Darla". |
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| 37 | 79 |
She looked then much less like a Panther Woman, than a woman. |
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| 37 | 134 |
Tula, Mila, and I stood near our burdens, frightened, mere women, feminine women, so unlike the mighty Panther Women, so unlike that we could be to them as naught but despised slaves, women of the sort which men immediately think of in terms of a brand and tunic, women of the sort which men think li... |
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| 37 | 136 |
I had thought that Darla, who was large and strong, was the fiercest, the mightiest, the most formidable of women, the bold and daring leader of a dangerous band of Panther Women, women to look up to, women before whom other women might kneel in fear, women not unlike the masters themselves, women n... |
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| 37 | 184 |
Who would suspect a handful of Panther Women? Indeed, who might even know they were about? We know the forests, and their ways. |
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| 37 | 187 |
We can hunt like the panther, and strike like the ost. |
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| 37 | 189 |
Too, Panther Women do not range that far north, and it is late autumn. |
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| 37 | 215 |
"When a Panther Wbman has been found displeasing to her leader," she said, "it is our way that she be punished, and you have not been found pleasing to your leader". |
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| 38 | 5 |
Our attention, I fear, had been on our own business, pursuing a small group, some four or five, of Panther Girls. |
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| 38 | 12 |
He, with Homines, would retain contact with the quarry It had apparently been the speculation of Axel, or, more likely, that of Tyrtaios, that Panther Girls, if they were in the vicinity, might note the fled slave, and, naturally, would not be averse to acquiring her. |
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| 38 | 15 |
In this way, following the scent of the fled slave, it was possible that one might locate the Panther Girls. |
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| 38 | 16 |
Indeed, the slave, if encountering Panther Girls, might even have been foolish enough to call herself to their attention, perhaps hoping to elicit aid, perhaps hoping, even, to be enlisted as a member of their band, and not simply taken in hand as she would be, as the slave she was. |
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| 38 | 91 |
"This," said the leader, indicating the slave, "was once a Panther Girl". |
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| 38 | 92 |
"She does not look like a Panther Girl," said Axel. |
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| 38 | 98 |
"She is too soft, too feminine, too attractive, too desirable, too beautiful to be a Panther Girl," said Axel. |
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| 38 | 132 |
There are only three Panther Girls. |
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| 38 | 149 |
"You are hunters," I said, "but it does not seem that you are after tabuk, tarsk, bosk, or panther". |
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| 38 | 231 |
"I am sure," I said, "you did not venture this far north merely to snare three or four Panther Girls, perhaps poor ones, for the slave block". |
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| 38 | 264 |
It was hard to believe she had once been a Panther Girl. |
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| 39 | 68 |
"It is not Panther Women," said Mila, observing the pandemonium in the camp about us. |
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| 39 | 158 |
Was this, I wondered, a mere convenience, such lacing being at hand, or was it intended to be informative, as well, reminding the proud Panther Women that they, too, were women. |
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| 39 | 175 |
The Panther Women whimpered and wept as they were dragged by their hair to their knees before the leader. |
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| 39 | 178 |
"Behold," said the leader, "Panther Girls!" "They look like slaves to me," said a fellow. |
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| 39 | 181 |
"Behold Panther Girls," said the leader, "as is appropriate for them, as they should be, helpless, naked, and bound". |
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| 39 | 279 |
"Do you think it wise," said Tuza, rubbing her wrists, "that we should be granted such freedom? We are Panther Women". |
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| 39 | 280 |
"Do you still think you are Panther Women?" asked Donna. |
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| 40 | 2 |
"The foolish barbarian, naive little fool that she is, was picked up by the Panther Girls, as we had hoped. |
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| 40 | 6 |
"The Panther Girls were greedy," he said. |
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| 40 | 144 |
We heard the roar of a panther, but it was far off Too, the coffle and Donna, in whose charge it was, were accompanied by two guards. |
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| 41 | 274 |
One was that there seemed to be no relationship between the fellows who had captured the Panther Women and the sleen master and his fellow. |
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| 41 | 490 |
Now it was my opportunity to scorn, and torture, him I then became aware, lifting my head a little, that Donna, two guards, and the four prisoners, the Panther Women, Darla, Tuza, Emerald, and Hiza, had returned to the camp. |
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| 41 | 493 |
It pleased me to see the proud Panther Women laboring, as might common slaves. |
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| 41 | 494 |
I heard a panther roar, from somewhere in the forest. |
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| 42 | 1 |
It was the morning of the day following the capture of the Panther Women, the appearance of the sleen in their camp, my experience with the beast, and its recovery by the sleen master. |
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| 42 | 21 |
Twice I had heard the territorial roar of a forest panther, happily far off But I had also heard, at about the second Ahn, the movement of some beast near the camp's periphery. |
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| 42 | 126 |
And now it was that day, tomorrow, so to speak, the morning of the day following the capture of the Panther Women, that following my menacing at the jaws of a large sleen, and its fortunate, if somewhat belated, restraint by the sleen master. |
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| 42 | 152 |
No longer did they seem proud Panther Women, but rather, now, only women, the captures of large and powerful men. |
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| 42 | 155 |
I had been caught, first by the Panther Women, and then by the attackers, as simply one slave amongst others, as might be one kaiila amongst others, and then, I suppose, in a sense, by the sleen master and his fellow. |
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| 43 | 4 |
"Apparently it has to do with the Panther Girls," he said. |
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| 43 | 6 |
The Panther Girls had been knelt near the center of the camp. |
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| 43 | 101 |
"And it was for that purpose," he said, briefly glancing behind him, and to his left, where Donna knelt, in her scarlet tunic, "that a given slave, a former Panther Girl, indeed, one once of your own band, was obtained, that she might abet our search". |
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| 43 | 106 |
"She still thought herself a Panther Girl, despite being neck-ringed, and pretended to angry resistance, and defiance. |
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| 43 | 125 |
"A former Panther Girl, she well understood how this would mark her out, how conspicuous it would make her, and how it would make clear that although she might be in the forest she was no longer of the forest". |
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| 43 | 147 |
That is the common fate of a female prisoner, and surely, now, it was clear that the Panther Women were such prisoners. |
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| 43 | 189 |
"Are you Panther Girls?" asked Genserich. |
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| 43 | 249 |
The former Panther Girls, now slaves, Darla, Tuza, Emerald, and Hiza screamed, and tried to pull back. |
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| 43 | 421 |
The cluster of men then broke apart, withdrawing from the place of deliberation, in which had been considered the fate of four women, who were no longer Panther Women. |
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| 43 | 494 |
And why should I not accompany him, my friend? It was no longer practical for him to return with the quarry, and, in fact, he had not sought the quarry itself, but the Panther Women to which the quarry, luckily, had led us. |
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| 43 | 495 |
Nor was it practical to return with the Panther Women either, for they were in the keeping of Genserich and his band. |
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| 43 | 700 |
The hands of the former Panther Girls had been unbound, but they remained kneeling, on the neck rope. |
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| 43 | 898 |
"It is a large panther," said Genserich. |
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| 43 | 935 |
"None we could hear," I said, "but one easily detected by many animals, by the panther, the lari, the sleen. |
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| 43 | 994 |
It may be recalled that this arrangement had been put in place by either Tyrtaios, or Lord Okimoto, to support Axel, and take action, if he were fortunate enough to make contact with the Panther Women. |
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| 43 | 996 |
We expected a small group of Panther Girls, and perhaps one or two mercenaries". |
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| 43 | 1045 |
"Those four were the spies," said Axel, "once Panther Girls". |
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| 43 | 1099 |
So, too, I thought might a tabuk be uneasy in the company of a panther, a verr at the side of a sleen. |
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| 45 | 74 |
"Fortunately for you," he said, "she is not a Panther Girl, familiar with the forest, adept at concealing her presence, and trail". |
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| 46 | 8 |
My original flight, disrupted by Panther Women, and fearfully terminated by the foiling arrival of a menacing hunting beast, had now been resumed. |
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| 46 | 62 |
How lonely it was in the forest! Is it an escape, I wondered, to be dragged down by beasts, and eaten? Is it an escape, I wondered, if one starves, or freezes to death? Is it an escape, I wondered, if one manages to do nothing but change collars? I no longer feared being captured by Panther Women. |
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| 46 | 65 |
Too, what if I should encounter Panther Women, others, south of the river? I was not such a woman. |
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| 46 | 68 |
Men do not hate women such as I, but Panther Women, for some reason, do. |
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| 46 | 72 |
No, I knew enough now of Panther Women to avoid them. |
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| 46 | 126 |
Both the sleen and the panther can leap well over their length, and may be found on stout branches several feet above the ground, but neither is a climbing animal, as one commonly thinks of climbing animals, probably because of their weight, which would render many branches precarious, either becaus... |
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| 46 | 136 |
One could enter or leave this opening at either end, and, though the opening was quite narrow, it was large enough for me to enter, and, at the same time, I was sure, too narrow to admit either a sleen or panther. |
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| 46 | 137 |
How frustrated they would be, did they discover me, that they could not reach me! In time a panther would look for new game. |
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