| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 164 |
It was warm from the ashes, hard, substantial—a piece of reality. |
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| 2 | 101 |
My eyes suddenly noted her one piece of jewelry—a light, steel-like band she wore as a collar. |
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| 5 | 191 |
And now, down there, somewhere in that monstrous blaze of light, was a humble piece of stone, the Home Stone of that great city, and I must seize it. |
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| 6 | 192 |
"Where is the tarn?" I repeated, more interested at the moment in the fate of my fierce mount than in the ridiculous piece of rock I had risked my life to obtain. |
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| 10 | 200 |
She became interested in the caravan and would spend hours walking alongside the colored wagons, sometimes hitching rides with the strap-masters, wheedling from them a piece of fruit or a sweetmeat. |
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| 10 | 205 |
She cooked for us, kneeling by the fire, her hair bound back so as not to catch the sparks, her face sweaty and intent on the piece of meat she was most likely burning. |
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| 12 | 169 |
Almost as an afterthought I had included the Home Stone of Ar, that simple, uncomely piece of rock that had so transformed my destiny and that of an empire. |
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| 15 | 169 |
"And," I went on, "when Pa-Kur falls, the garrison will be divided, and a revolution may take place—" "Led by a Ubar," said Marlenus, looking fixedly at the game piece in his hand. |
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| 15 | 222 |
So saying, he picked a piece, the Ubar's Consort, or Ubara, from the board and dropped it into the game box. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 19 |
It was rumored they used men as one might use pieces in a game, and when the piece had played its role it might be discarded, or perhaps, as in my case, removed from the board until it pleased the Priest-Kings to try yet another game. |
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| 2 | 49 |
In the Home Stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or granite—the... |
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| 7 | 59 |
Thorn looked at me intently, puzzled, chewing on the piece of grass. |
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| 15 | 227 |
In its talons it held a great piece of meat, bloody and raw, which had been torn from some kill, perhaps a bosk more than twenty pasangs away. |
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| 15 | 228 |
It dropped the great piece of meat before me. |
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| 15 | 241 |
I offered a piece to the Tatrix, but her body swayed as though she were ill and I would not insist. |
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| 17 | 123 |
The last piece of bread I broke in two, taking half and giving the other half to Ost. |
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| 19 | 59 |
I climbed one of the great chains to the huge windlass set above the shaft and found myself among hundreds of cheering men, their chains struck off, their hands boasting weapons even if only a piece of jagged rock or a pair of shackles. |
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| 20 | 9 |
Not a piece of steel remained in the arms shed; not a crust of bread remained in the tubs in the commissary huts. |
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| 24 | 40 |
Andreas, who was stuffing a piece of bread in his mouth, responded, his words a cheery mumble. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 8 |
I heard a haruspex singing between the wagons; for a piece of meat he would read the wind and the grass; for a cup of wine the stars and the flight of birds; for a fat-bellied dinner the liver of a sleen or slave. |
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| 5 | 49 |
The dour women of the Wagon Peoples, I saw, looked on these girls with envy and hatred, sometimes striking them with sticks if they should approach too closely the cooking pots and attempt to steal a piece of meat. |
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| 7 | 154 |
Then, from within the collar, he drew forth a thin, folded piece of paper, rence paper, made from the fibers of the rence plant, a tall, long-stalked leafy plant which grows predominantly in the delta of the Vosk. |
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| 7 | 162 |
I smiled and took the piece of rence paper. |
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| 8 | 238 |
He did what work he could, helping with the bosk, for a piece of meat from a cooking pot. |
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| 9 | 46 |
"Perhaps," he suggested, "you would like a piece of roasted bosk meat?" I replaced the golden eating prong in its rack beside my place, shoved back the glittering dish in which lay several theoretically edible objects, carefully arranged by a slave to resemble a bouquet of wild flowers sprouting fro... |
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| 9 | 61 |
I would still, I told myself, settle for a piece of bosk meat. |
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| 9 | 101 |
My piece of bosk meat, roasted, had arrived. |
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| 9 | 129 |
The common camisk is a single piece of cloth, about eighteen inches wide, thrown over the girl's head and worn like a poncho. |
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| 10 | 50 |
I reached into the pouch at my belt and gave her a piece of gold. |
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| 10 | 52 |
Suddenly she began to shake with sobs and fell to her knees at the paws of the kaiila, the gold piece in her left hand. |
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| 10 | 100 |
They circled back to find a girl, free though still clad Kajir, clutching in one hand a piece of gold, waving after a departed enemy, laughing and crying. |
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| 10 | 513 |
"A piece of gold to Kamras for every cut!" she cried. |
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| 11 | 323 |
He seemed satisfied that the wound was not serious, and picked up the piece of meat which he had dropped, which he tossed to Elizabeth, who, in silence, ate it. |
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| 11 | 366 |
He fed her another piece of meat. |
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| 12 | 167 |
Hidden in the blanket there was a faded yellow piece of cloth, which she had folded very small. |
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| 13 | 147 |
On the other hand on each altar there burned a small bosk-dung fire into which, like a tiny piece of kindling, had been placed an incense stick. |
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| 15 | 100 |
He was eating a piece of bosk meat in the Tuchuk fashion, holding the meat in his left hand and between his teeth, and cutting pieces from it with a quiva scarcely a quarter inch from his lips, then chewing the severed bite and then again holding the meat in his hand and teeth and cutting again. |
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| 15 | 108 |
He handed me a piece of meat and I chewed on it. |
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| 22 | 141 |
They had found a long piece of rope and tied her hands behind her back and then had wound the same rope three or four times about the girl's waist, had securely knotted it, and were leading her about by it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 38 |
The odds are usually one to forty, one copper tarn disk against a forty-piece, sometimes against an eighty-piece, and sometimes the amateur who would play the master insists on further limitations, such as the option to three consecutive moves at a point in the game of his choice, or that the master... |
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| 9 | 46 |
One girl was dictating from a piece of record paper held in her hand and the other girl was copying it rapidly on a second piece of record paper. |
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| 19 | 149 |
The third lot was a High Caste girl of Cos who stood before us clad in the complete robes of Concealment, which, piece by piece, were removed from her. |
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| 3 | 186 |
Under other conditions I would have left at this point, but as I held the gold piece in question I knew that I would have to remain until the end, which, as some consolation, would be but shortly now. |
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| 3 | 238 |
He pressed the piece of gold into my hand and turned away, stumbling from me, reaching out with his right hand to guide himself along the wall. |
10 |
| 3 | 247 |
I stood there in the street and watched him go, in my hand holding the piece of gold which I had meant to be his. |
10 |
| 5 | 51 |
I now had, in effect, a piece of boskhide cord. |
10 |
| 5 | 600 |
Then she had lain down on a flat piece of rain canvas which Al-Ka and I had rolled about her, and, concealed in this fashion, we had carried her to the wagon. |
10 |
| 5 | 627 |
In such a small thing as these knots I was again reminded of the central differences in sex and personality that divide human beings, differences expressed in thousands of subtleties, many of which are often overlooked, as in the way a piece of cloth might be folded, a letter formed, a color remembe... |
10 |
| 6 | 104 |
The Home Stone, incidentally, is not officially a piece of the game, as it cannot capture, though it can move one square at a time; further, it might be of interest to note that it is not on the board at the beginning of play, but must be placed on the board on or before the seventh move, which plac... |
10 |
| 8 | 137 |
I have heard of a cup of black wine in Ar, some years ago, selling for a silver eighty-piece. |
10 |
| 12 | 399 |
Irritably I gave him a silver forty-piece, far more than enough to pay for the spilled candies, and strode away. |
10 |
| 13 | 1 |
Mip "I do not see how it could have happened," Nela was saying, bending over me as I lay sleepily on my stomach on the heavy striped piece of toweling, about the size of a blanket, her strong, dutiful hands rubbing the oils of the bath into my body. |
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| 13 | 39 |
She had wrapped about her a piece of toweling. |
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| 13 | 101 |
In a secluded place, among the planted grasses and ferns, sheltered from view, I had lifted Nela from the pool and placed her on a large piece of orange toweling on the grass, near which I had left my clothes and pouch. |
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| 19 | 154 |
There was only a two gold piece bid. |
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| 20 | 253 |
The other man who had entered with Hup was, to my astonishment, the blind Player whom I had encountered so long ago in the street outside the paga tavern near the great gate of Ar, who had beaten so brilliantly the Vintner in what had been apparently, until then, an uneven and fraudulent game, one t... |
10 |
| 20 | 356 |
Hup, as though shocked, leaped to his feet, turned a somersault, and bounded unevenly to the table, where he put his chin on the boards, trying to nibble at a piece of bread lying there. |
10 |
| 20 | 391 |
"Hup plays!" The dwarf seized a piece and shoved it. |
10 |
| 20 | 395 |
Hup picked up a red piece and studied it with great care. |
10 |
| 20 | 400 |
Then he put the piece down on the intersection of four squares, upside down. |
10 |
| 20 | 403 |
Then the boy shrugged and shook his head, and moved another piece. |
10 |
| 20 | 405 |
Without looking at the board Hup poked a piece, I think a Ubar's Scribe, with one of his swollen fingers. |
10 |
| 20 | 428 |
Then he shrugged and pushed his third piece. |
10 |
| 20 | 431 |
Hup leaped dutifully up and, crumbs on his mouth, seized a yellow piece and shoved it sideways. |
10 |
| 20 | 435 |
Hup cringed and, lifting his head timidly over the board, pushed a piece and darted away. |
10 |
| 20 | 441 |
Hup, who was waddling about the walls, was then summoned again to the board and he hastily picked up a piece and dropped it tottering to a square, and went back to the walls. |
10 |
| 20 | 451 |
"Observe," said Scormus to Cernus, as he moved another piece. |
10 |
| 20 | 452 |
Hup, singing some mad little song of his own devising, bounded back to the table, turned a somersault, and crawled up on the dais, whence he seized another piece in his small, knobby fist and pushed it one square ahead. |
10 |
| 20 | 476 |
Scormus would study the board and move a piece. |
10 |
| 20 | 477 |
Hup would come from somewhere in the hall, rolling, skipping or bounding, sniffing, gurgling, glance at the board, cry out, and poke a piece about. |
10 |
| 20 | 488 |
"Only too late did I realize its position in your plan, the feint of the four-piece combination covering your transposition into the Hogar Variation of the Centian, striking down the file of the Ubara's Scribe. |
10 |
| 20 | 498 |
Cernus seized the piece and righted it. |
10 |
| 20 | 527 |
Cernus angrily moved a piece. |
10 |
| 20 | 537 |
"I have moved Ubar's Tarnsman to Ubara's Scribe Four! What will you do now?" Hup returned to the table and, scarcely glancing at the board, picked up a piece and dropped it on a square. |
10 |
| 20 | 544 |
In one small hand he held clutched a tiny piece of yellow wood, the Home Stone of Cernus. |
10 |
| 24 | 251 |
Qualius smiled and took the piece of gold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 80 |
It was he who had given me a piece of rence cake in the morning, when I had been bound at the pole, who had been punished by his mother for so doing. |
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| 7 | 147 |
Then I shook out what food lay in the wallet, some dried rence paste from the day before yesterday, some dried flakes of fish, a piece of rence cake. |
10 |
| 8 | 379 |
I examined the broad arm of the chair, and, in the right arm, I found a sliding piece of wood, which I slid forward, it extending beyond the chair arm. |
10 |
| 9 | 288 |
Thurnock, though in Port Kar, had found a piece of Ka-la-na stock, and had been carving a great bow, the long bow. |
10 |
| 15 | 18 |
I had decreed that from my shares of the treasure, each worker in the arsenal would receive one gold piece, and each citizen of the city a silver tarsk. |
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| 15 | 521 |
From the sack at the side of my chair, that filled muchly with gold, I drew forth a small piece of folded, wadded cloth. |
10 |
| 15 | 526 |
"No, no!" she cried in fury, leaping to her feet, holding the piece of cloth. |
10 |
| 17 | 123 |
In the basket I wrapped the admiral's cloak about me, began to chew on a piece of tarsk meat, as much against the cold as the hunger, and took out the glass of the builders. |
10 |
| 17 | 190 |
I was cold in the basket, and I chewed on another piece of dried tarsk meat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 512 |
Targo then, piece by piece, from the leather pouch at his belt, handed forty-five pieces of gold to the chief of the two men. |
10 |
| 1 | 8 |
Yet on this world I am a fifteen-gold piece girl, more lovely than many, yet far excelled by many whose stunning beauty I can only envy. |
10 |
| 2 | 46 |
It was almost as if it were a piece of melted, steel chocolate. |
10 |
| 2 | 156 |
Another folded piece of cloth passed over my head. |
10 |
| 3 | 353 |
I had two sandwiches, from cold roast beef, on dry bread, a piece of pie left from the afternoon, and a small carton of chocolate milk. |
10 |
| 7 | 177 |
Now, chained, kneeling in a circle, we passed about, one to the other, a bowl of hot soup; then each of us was given a sixth of a round yellow loaf of bread, which we ate with our hands; then, before each of us, on the grass, the guards threw a large piece of cooked meat. |
10 |
| 8 | 699 |
Frequently, especially when it had performed well, the mountebank would throw the animal a tiny piece of bosk meat, this taken from a large pocket in his robes. |
10 |
| 8 | 702 |
And then the mountebank would give it its piece of meat. |
10 |
| 8 | 708 |
I threw only one piece of meat to the animal and that quickly. |
10 |
| 8 | 711 |
The piece of meat disappeared into that vast, fanged orifice and the large, round eyes blinked sleepily, contentedly. |
10 |
| 8 | 927 |
A piece which was dropped was fair game for any. |
10 |
| 8 | 929 |
The retrieval of such a piece was one point. |
10 |
| 8 | 930 |
Ute dropped a piece and Lana and I fought, each holding to a part of the fallen prize, rolling and tearing. |
10 |
| 8 | 961 |
The guard handed me a piece of meat and I took it in my teeth kneeling beside him, where he sat cross-legged, I lifting and squeezing the bota of paga, filled from one of the large jugs, guiding the stream of liquid into his mouth. |
10 |
| 8 | 993 |
He thrust a huge piece of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread into my hands. |
10 |
| 9 | 218 |
I was being delivered by women, another woman, but a weakling, one who was only a piece of merchandise, one who, on this harsh world, could be only merchandise, to my master. |
10 |
| 10 | 521 |
Then, from a hook on the wall, he took a large piece of meat, bosk meat, and threw it to the animal. |
10 |
| 10 | 631 |
Then the man picked up a piece of wood, kindling, from near the fire, and struck the sleen. |
10 |
| 10 | 637 |
Wildly the man bent down to the fire and picked up a piece of wood from the fire, burning, and thrust it toward the sleen. |
10 |
| 13 | 94 |
"Do you wish the piece of gold?" asked the chief of the delegation of Initiates, of the leather worker and his companion. |
10 |
| 13 | 99 |
Ute knew that the leather worker, and his companion, could well use this piece of gold. |
10 |
| 13 | 105 |
Further, on other years, there would be no piece of gold to encourage her to undertake this admittedly dangerous journey. |
10 |
| 13 | 108 |
The leather worker and his companion, reluctantly, yielding to her entreaties, accepted the piece of gold. |
10 |
| 13 | 175 |
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing Ute did, to my mind, was, with sticks, a flat piece of wood and some binding fiber, make a small fire drill. |
10 |
| 13 | 207 |
It was a piece of evidence which might betray us, which might set men upon our trail. |
10 |
| 13 | 409 |
I hated her! I threw the piece of binding fiber, which I had been carrying for the snare, which I had not set, into the brush. |
10 |
| 13 | 490 |
I had been well fed the night before, for I had stopped, hidden in the darkness, near a peasant village, where, from a pole, I had stolen a piece of drying meat, bosk flesh. |
10 |
| 13 | 686 |
And I was bound shamefully, cast over his saddle as though I might have been a piece of meat. |
10 |
| 13 | 757 |
He then, with his tarn knife, from a piece of raw bosk meat, cut four small pieces of meat, which he placed in my mouth. |
10 |
| 13 | 815 |
He had little more interest in me than in a piece of meat, which he had captured and tied. |
10 |
| 14 | 107 |
Ena went to a chest, opened it, and drew forth a folded piece of striped rep-cloth, a rectangle some two and a half by four feet. |
10 |
| 14 | 111 |
I did so, and to my pleasure, she wrapped the piece of cloth about me, snugly, and fastened it with a pin behind my right shoulder blade. |
10 |
| 15 | 445 |
Rask of Treve then threw me a piece of meat, that I might satisfy my hunger, for I had not been fed. |
10 |
| 15 | 498 |
"Do you know who she is?" asked Rask of Treve, eating a piece of meat. |
10 |
| 15 | 513 |
I continued to eat the piece of meat on which I had been feeding. |
10 |
| 15 | 1459 |
I am not a servile thing! I am not a piece of property! I am not a pretty animal that you can buy and sell! I am Elinor Brinton. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 157 |
"Builder to Ubara's Scribe Six," said Samos, moving a tall wooden piece toward me on the board. |
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| 2 | 2 |
"High on the beach!" His slave, Cara, in a brief woolen tunic, one-piece, woven of the wool of the Hurt, sleeveless, barefoot on the deck, graced by his collar, stood behind him and to his left. |
10 |
| 3 | 326 |
Each piece consisted of two curved, flattish bands, joining at the top. |
10 |
| 6 | 146 |
"I thought," said I, "that it would not be impossible that I might find use for that piece of property". |
10 |
| 6 | 625 |
She lifted a piece of folded leather, many particles of sand clinging to it, to me. |
10 |
| 6 | 674 |
"Whose gold piece is this?" I asked, lifting the double tarn. |
10 |
| 8 | 172 |
Arn was chewing on a piece of dry Sa-Tarna bread. |
10 |
| 11 | 738 |
He moved the piece. |
10 |
| 15 | 282 |
The Harl ring is a versatile piece of custodial hardware. |
10 |
| 15 | 484 |
Too, I cut each of them a piece of the dried, salted meat taken from the abandoned camp of the men of Tyros and the girls of Hura. |
10 |
| 15 | 493 |
Swiftly, frightened, she finished the bowl of slave meal and the piece of salted, dried meat. |
10 |
| 15 | 761 |
Yesterday I would have regarded her as a four-gold-piece girl. |
10 |
| 15 | 777 |
No longer would she be a mere four-gold-piece girl, standard merchandise on a Gorean slave block. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 50 |
There is, for example, not a Ubar but a Jarl, as the most powerful piece. |
10 |
| 4 | 52 |
Instead, there is a piece called the Jarl's Woman, which is quite powerful, more so than the southern Ubara. |
10 |
| 4 | 55 |
Similarly there are no Scribes, but a piece, which moves identically, called the Singer. |
10 |
| 4 | 64 |
The Forkbeard made great use of diversions and feints, and double strategies, in which an attack is double edged, being in effect two attacks, an open one and a concealed one, either of which, depending on a misplay by the opponent, may be forced through, the concealed attack requiring usually only ... |
10 |
| 4 | 117 |
I covered my piece with my own First Singer, moving it to my own Ax Five. |
10 |
| 4 | 122 |
The Ax is a valuable piece, of course, but particularly in the early and middle game, when the board is more crowded; in the end game when the board is freer, it seems to me the Singer is often of greater power, because of the greater number of squares it can control. |
10 |
| 4 | 136 |
Too, it seemed to me that the Ax, or Tarnsman, might be a valuable piece in the end game, where it is seldom found. |
10 |
| 6 | 355 |
He threw me a piece of meat. |
10 |
| 6 | 359 |
I tore a piece of meat from what Ivar had thrown me and held it to Thyri. |
10 |
| 7 | 89 |
He broke me a piece. |
10 |
| 7 | 224 |
The brains, too, had been scooped, with a piece of wood, from the skull. |
10 |
| 9 | 103 |
But Hilda the Haughty was a superb piece of female flesh. |
10 |
| 9 | 282 |
"Good boy," said the Forkbeard, and tore him a piece of meat. |
10 |
| 10 | 424 |
Dagmar had, two months ago, stolen a piece of cheese from Pretty Ankles; she had been beaten for that, at the post, fastened there by Ottar and switched by Pretty Ankles, until Pretty Ankles had tired of switching her; too, she had not been found sufficiently pleasing by several of the Forkbeard's o... |
10 |
| 13 | 136 |
The Jarl's Woman, in the Kaissa of the north, is a more powerful piece than the Ubara in the Kaissa of the south. |
10 |
| 15 | 107 |
A piece of rope, cut, lay to one side. |
10 |
| 15 | 356 |
A piece of granite, shattered from the rock, stung me. |
10 |
| 18 | 495 |
She went to a piece of tent canvas, which, casually, loosely, was thrown over some object. |
10 |
| 19 | 28 |
I stood, holding the piece of paper, rolled, bound with its ribbon. |
10 |
| 22 | 166 |
He put the two-piece, hinged, double ankle ring on her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 712 |
For example, the dark-haired slave, she who was one of the matched set, she who was charged with the careful pouring of black wine, was a piece of delicious woman meat, a luscious, if inadequately disciplined piece of female flesh. |
10 |
| 1 | 31 |
I took another piece of larma fruit. |
10 |
| 2 | 164 |
She was obviously untrained, a clumsy wench, as stupid and raw, aside from a few rapings, as an uncooked piece of bosk meat, a naive, ignorant wench, a wench obviously new to slavery. |
10 |
| 5 | 775 |
What a fool I had been to be willing to return such a luscious piece of female to Earth. |
10 |
| 13 | 289 |
What a beautiful piece of slave flesh Alyena was, so vulnerable, so feminine, but how could she have been otherwise when owned by Gorean men? The man on the dais languidly lifted his finger. |
10 |
| 26 | 52 |
The sheet is held in place with a piece of cord, looped twice about the neck and tied snugly. |
10 |
| 26 | 567 |
I thrust her, holding her by her arms from behind, on her knees, belly tight, against the flat iron piece over which the door swings, in closing. |
10 |
| 26 | 978 |
Understand clearly my beauty, my former enemy, now my slave, that I now own you, that you are my property, and you are no more than an animal to me, a piece of helplessly, arousable slave meat, with which I may sport and toy, with which I may amuse myself, and which I may humiliate and abuse, as I p... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 163 |
He then, upon this outburst, casually ripped away a large piece of the garment, stripping her to the thighs and, on the left side, when he discarded the piece of material, to the hip. |
10 |
| 2 | 17 |
The hair of both men was long; the hair of the man behind was tied back with a narrow piece of folded cloth. |
10 |
| 2 | 882 |
How could I make friends with him, kneeling so? How could I get him to respect me as a person, so desirably and beautifully positioned before him? How could I, so kneeling, so beautiful and small, so exposed and vulnerable, so helpless, so much his, get him to accept me as his equal? I bent forward ... |
10 |
| 3 | 30 |
Why had he not used me? I hated him! With a piece of stiff leather I fanned the coals in the brazier. |
10 |
| 3 | 120 |
I used a squarish piece of stiff leather to fan the coals. |
10 |
| 3 | 697 |
He cut a small piece of meat and put it between my teeth. |
10 |
| 3 | 710 |
He did not cut me a piece of meat to convey in that humble manner to his own mouth. |
10 |
| 6 | 109 |
In the center of the hut was a large flat, circular piece of metal, on which, on legs, might sit braziers or the small, flattish cooking stoves, using pressed, hardened wood, common in the villages north and west of Ar. |
10 |
| 6 | 156 |
To one side, against the wall of the hut, there rested, on a small table, a piece of plain, irregularly shaped rock, which Thurnus, years earlier, when first he had founded the farm, later to be the community, of Tabuk's Ford, had taken from his own fields. |
10 |
| 7 | 617 |
I did see a white ankle, not covered by a piece of canvas. |
10 |
| 8 | 23 |
Thurnus took a great piece of meat and threw it to the animal, which began to devour it. |
10 |
| 8 | 65 |
She sat on the boards, hunched over, her legs drawn up, and slowly wrapped a piece of white cloth about her bleeding calf. |
10 |
| 9 | 1554 |
"If she pleases you, run her down, and take her, son," is a not uncommon piece of paternal advice in a peasant village. |
10 |
| 9 | 1663 |
Looking up and back, my head down, I saw a piece of cloth in his hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 1666 |
He then secured it in place with a narrow piece of folded cloth which slipped deeply between my teeth. |
10 |
| 12 | 104 |
It was the last piece on the platter. |
10 |
| 12 | 129 |
I wore a brief, one-piece, brown work tunic. |
10 |
| 12 | 188 |
My body was not much concealed in the brief one-piece work tunic, and I wore a collar. |
10 |
| 12 | 670 |
Had I been sold on Earth, of course, I would have counted as such a girl, a valuable slave, lovely, articulate, literate, highly educated, and such; on Earth, I would doubtless have brought my master a good price; on Gor, however, I was only another piece of illiterate collar meat. |
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| 15 | 366 |
"Any piece of suitable slave flesh," said the Lady Elicia. |
10 |
| 20 | 646 |
"Do you want some pastry?" asked Narla holding a piece out to me. |
10 |
| 22 | 214 |
A hand seized me and pulled me to a piece of wreckage, some plankings from the ship's side. |
10 |
| 23 | 81 |
I stood on the shifting piece of wreckage. |
10 |
| 26 | 94 |
I had no doubt that Elicia Nevins, on the block, naked, under the auctioneer's whip, would sell for at least a piece of gold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 223 |
Too, it might be mentioned, if he should place a piece on a given square and remove his hand from the piece, the piece must remain where it was placed, subject, of course, to the consideration that the placement constitutes a legal move. |
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| 2 | 176 |
The girl watched, horrified, as one of the guardsmen took the clothing and, piece by piece, threw it into a wide copper bowl of burning coals. |
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| 3 | 59 |
For example, a piece which once in Ar had been called the "City" was now identified officially as the "Home Stone" even in Ar. |
10 |
| 3 | 90 |
I tore away a good piece of meat. |
10 |
| 3 | 149 |
I hoped the fellow from Torvaldsland would be able to buy a good piece of meat at the market. |
10 |
| 4 | 226 |
He looked at the board for a time, and then, not looking at Scormus of Ar, moved a piece. |
10 |
| 4 | 243 |
Unfortunately for red, however, the Ubar, a quite valuable piece, rated at nine points, like the Ubara, has been too early centralized. |
10 |
| 4 | 271 |
Centius of Cos had already lost a piece, a Spearman. |
10 |
| 4 | 281 |
Another piece now stood helplessly en prise. |
10 |
| 4 | 330 |
Scormus of Ar moved a piece. |
10 |
| 4 | 337 |
I noted, however, that he had not lost a major piece. |
10 |
| 4 | 366 |
No major piece had yet been moved by yellow, not an Initiate, nor a Builder, nor a Scribe, nor a Tarnsman, nor the Ubar nor Ubara. |
10 |
| 4 | 368 |
Not one piece had yet been moved by yellow from the row of the Home Stone. |
10 |
| 4 | 409 |
The power of this major piece now, in conjunction with the might of the Ubar, focused on yellow's Rider of the High Tharlarion. |
10 |
| 6 | 708 |
He chewed on a piece of meat, then swallowed it. |
10 |
| 11 | 292 |
I then put her ankles together, and, with a piece of rope, fastened them to the lower ring, that fastened in the floor of the whipping-frame platform. |
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| 12 | 88 |
I dropped the tiny carved tabuk which was mine, that which was my piece in the game. |
10 |
| 12 | 212 |
Thus, in a given piece of such ice, there is some seven times more beneath the surface than appears visible above it. |
10 |
| 15 | 918 |
"Do not think of the collar as a simple piece of jewelry," I said, "though it can serve that purpose. |
10 |
| 16 | 1 |
Imnak Carves Imnak sat in the corner of the tent, aimlessly whittling at a piece of tabuk horn. |
10 |
| 23 | 159 |
"Even a little piece of meat with friends makes a great feast". |
10 |
| 23 | 309 |
I took another piece of meat. |
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| 23 | 318 |
I know nothing!" I took another piece of meat. |
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| 25 | 74 |
I tied another piece of binding fiber, similar to that with which I had secured Arlene, about her neck. |
10 |
| 27 | 54 |
He then inserted them into several pieces of meat, one in each piece of meat. |
10 |
| 34 | 51 |
Then it threw another piece of meat down its throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 |
She wore a one-piece tunic of rep-cloth, cut high at the thighs, to better reveal them, her steel collar, which was a lock collar, and her brand. |
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| 1 | 370 |
The other guard, then, thrusting a heavy piece of meat on one of the hooks, to which a rope was attached, held the meat away from the platform and half submerged in the water. |
10 |
| 29 | 26 |
It is a very nice piece of natural camouflage. |
10 |
| 31 | 7 |
If that were known the bidding might be fierce upon her, the villagers being eager to capitalize on any dissatisfaction with her, hoping thus to acquire her as a cheap piece of trade goods, perhaps for transmittal into the interior. |
10 |
| 32 | 595 |
'No!' I screamed, when I reached the top of the platform, for I then saw, before me, a large, oblong piece of stone, a massive, primitive stone altar, discolored with huge stains of dried blood, with iron rings. |
10 |
| 32 | 1125 |
I took a piece of improvised binding fiber, a narrow strip of leather some five feet long, and crouched down behind her. |
10 |
| 34 | 155 |
I threw her a piece of meat, which struck against her body. |
10 |
| 34 | 591 |
"You are owned, like a tunic, a piece of cloth, a saddle, a sandal, you are owned like a tarsk or vulo. |
10 |
| 47 | 66 |
To my horror I had then seen the column turn toward the piece of tarsk flesh. |
10 |
| 47 | 79 |
Inside the stockade, given the feast of the village, the column would widen, spreading to cover in its crowded millions every square inch of earth, scouring each stick, each piece of straw, hunting for each drop of grease, for each flake of flesh, even if it be no more than what might adhere to the ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 62 |
She then, piece by piece, fed me small pieces of boiled meat. |
10 |
| 2 | 107 |
The heavy man then poured some fluid from one of the vials onto a piece of cotton. |
10 |
| 2 | 123 |
With another piece of cotton and some additional alcohol he sterilized the rubber diaphragm sealing the second vial. |
10 |
| 3 | 19 |
There was, attached to it, as I conjectured, hearing the tiny sound of its movement and its clink on the stone beneath my body, a smaller piece of metal, perhaps a ring of some sort. |
10 |
| 3 | 97 |
Then, with her left hand, she jerked at the metal piece attached to the collar. |
10 |
| 3 | 152 |
I heard the clink of the metal piece, presumably a ring, on my collar. |
10 |
| 3 | 183 |
I had been held by the two men at the edge of the barrier, to see the attack on the first piece of lowered meat. |
10 |
| 3 | 229 |
Two men placed a large piece of meat on the hook from which I had been removed and, in a moment, on the system of ropes, had hoisted it over the barrier, out over the enclosure, and down to the animals. |
10 |
| 3 | 359 |
She held the pan in her left hand and, with her right hand, picked out a piece of meat. |
10 |
| 3 | 363 |
"Feed, Jason," she said, putting the piece of meat in my mouth. |
10 |
| 3 | 375 |
She thrust another piece of meat in my mouth. |
10 |
| 7 | 17 |
I chewed on a piece of meat and drank from the shallow, chipped bowl of clay which contained the wine. |
10 |
| 7 | 67 |
I sat down again on the bench and fed myself another piece of meat. |
10 |
| 7 | 89 |
I took another piece of meat from the wooden bowl. |
10 |
| 7 | 190 |
"May I feed?" I took a piece of meat from the bowl on the table. |
10 |
| 10 | 184 |
She had done these things with the same habitual routine, the same lack of attention and concern, with which she might have hung up a piece of wearing apparel or replaced a comb and brush on a vanity. |
10 |
| 11 | 559 |
Most, however, permit the girl some garment, usually a brief, sleeveless, one-piece slave tunic. |
10 |
| 22 | 736 |
"She is a piece of property," he said, "an item of merchandise. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 158 |
It is by means of these clips that the chain can be transformed from a simple piece of slave jewelry into a sturdy and effective device of slave restraint. |
10 |
| 14 | 44 |
I removed a ten-tarsk piece from the lining of my tunic. |
10 |
| 19 | 68 |
Ten silver tarsks, usually, is regarded as the equivalent of one gold piece, of one of the high cities. |
10 |
| 19 | 73 |
One of the central coins on Gor is the golden tarn disk of Ar, against which many cities standardize their own gold piece. |
10 |
| 25 | 175 |
I then drew from my pouch a piece of silk. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 11 |
I clung to a piece of wreckage. |
10 |
| 9 | 386 |
My hand struck on a piece of wreckage. |
10 |
| 9 | 438 |
I then drew them through the water to a piece of floating wreckage. |
10 |
| 11 | 213 |
In this sense slave garments may be as resplendent and complex as the robes of an enslaved Ubara, to be removed by the general who has captured her upon a platform of public humiliation, or as simple as the cords on a girl's wrists and a piece of rope knotted on her throat. |
10 |
| 17 | 274 |
She was a female, with her own nature, rich, complex, and deep, with thousands of years behind her of sexual selection and genetic coding, of choices and love, not a piece of vacuous clay to be twisted into a grotesquerie by the intolerant and unhappy, not an empty vessel to be mindlessly filled wit... |
10 |
| 18 | 226 |
"Just as you own some piece of clothing, or the thongs to your sandals, so, too, do you own me. |
10 |
| 18 | 426 |
When his caravan leaves the city she is carried away with it, another girl, another piece of merchandise, in chains, bound for a distant market, and a master. |
10 |
| 18 | 454 |
The same girl whom he bought as a mere piece of slave meat from a sales block, for his pleasure, we shall suppose, when brought home, and put in a collar at his feet, turns out to be a highly intelligent, sophisticated, vulnerable and delicate organism. |
10 |
| 20 | 1919 |
I had had her as a meaningless piece of slave meat. |
10 |
| 20 | 2059 |
"It is a common piece of slave jewelry". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 316 |
Her Earth clothing, before her very eyes, piece by piece, was being destroyed. |
10 |
| 1 | 118 |
The brushing of the sides of the girl's neck by the dangling ornament is, in itself, a delicate stimulation of a sensitive area of her body, the sides of her neck beneath the ears; this area is quite sensitive to light touches; if the earring is of more than one piece, the tiny sounds made by it, to... |
10 |
| 1 | 714 |
From the long, leather tube, Kog removed what appeared to be a large piece of closely rolled, soft-tanned hide. |
10 |
| 6 | 142 |
Then I saw the small, chained hand of one reach forth toward a piece of roll. |
10 |
| 8 | 48 |
Immediately the slaver's man removed a long piece of rawhide, about four feet in length, from his belt. |
10 |
| 8 | 147 |
"A fair-skinned, red-haired barbarian beauty," called the auctioneer, "highly intelligent, exquisitely refined and of delicate sensibilities, a woman on her own world doubtless of class and station—but on this world, our world of Gor, only a meaningless piece of slave meat, a girl who will le... |
10 |
| 9 | 7 |
It came to the thighs of the slave girls, in brief one-piece slave tunics, of brown rep-cloth, with deep cleavages, in throat coffle, bearing burdens on their heads. |
10 |
| 11 | 258 |
Evelyn then threw each of the girls a piece of meat, throwing it to the grass before them. |
10 |
| 12 | 207 |
The breechclout of the Barrens, incidentally, consists of a single piece of narrow material. |
10 |
| 13 | 84 |
I supposed it was difficult to be a female slave, branded, half naked, muchly exposed in a tiny one-piece tunic, and on a chain, and having had some acquaintance with a switch or lash, and not be very much aware of the opposite sex. |
10 |
| 13 | 765 |
My ankles were crossed and tied together with a short piece of rope. |
10 |
| 17 | 465 |
It could be as simple as a narrow roll of knotted scarlet silk, or white, if the slave is at that time a virgin, or a piece of string or cord, or strip of leather, tied shut, perhaps looped six times about the throat, each time for one of the letters in the word 'Kajira', the most common expression ... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 139 |
Even a piece of cloth can be understood as such. |
10 |
| 2 | 351 |
More broadly, of course, it can refer to any piece of burning wood. |
10 |
| 12 | 691 |
* * * * I lay on my side and the girl put a tiny piece of pemmican in my mouth. |
10 |
| 18 | 106 |
You are a piece of property. |
10 |
| 27 | 17 |
"Let us mount up," said Cuwignaka, swallowing down a piece of pemmican. |
10 |
| 34 | 307 |
I cut off a suitable piece. |
10 |
| 38 | 59 |
I threw her a piece of pemmican. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 502 |
I watched in horror as Ligurious tossed the clothing, piece by piece, to one of the sleen keepers. |
10 |
| 1 | 52 |
"Who sold you this piece," asked the man, "a private party? What did you pay for it?" "It was given to me," I said, "by a private party". |
10 |
| 1 | 110 |
It might be a piece of art intended to be mounted in jewelry. |
10 |
| 1 | 111 |
It might even be a piece in some game". |
10 |
| 1 | 188 |
"The most crucial piece of evidence," he said, "however, suggests that it cannot be a coin". |
10 |
| 2 | 481 |
I felt a piece of cotton or cloth touch my back, above and behind my left hip. |
10 |
| 3 | 833 |
I picked up a piece of the yellow bread. |
10 |
| 4 | 80 |
They were barefoot and wore brief, sleeveless, one-piece tunics. |
10 |
| 4 | 221 |
He put a copper piece in the man's hand. |
10 |
| 4 | 515 |
I forced from my mind the memory of the slaves I had seen earlier, the girls in the street, in their one-piece, skimpy garments, heads down, kneeling, chained together by the neck, the girls in the market, in their chains, stark naked, kneeling, too, their heads down to the warm cement, being public... |
10 |
| 6 | 174 |
He had discussed the thing as though it might have been a mere, inconsequential piece of functional hardware. |
10 |
| 7 | 34 |
It was a gray, beltless, one-piece garment of rep cloth, with inch-wide straps over the shoulders. |
10 |
| 8 | 635 |
I rose from the bed, pulling down the edges of the brief, one-piece garment I wore. |
10 |
| 14 | 134 |
He was now wrapping a long piece of binding fiber about them, sometimes looping them both, sometimes taking it about only one ankle, sometimes snaking it about both ankles and securing it between both with tightly drawn loops. |
10 |
| 17 | 23 |
At the front of the outjutting beam, a piece of paper containing a legend, or advertisement, was nailed. |
10 |
| 19 | 15 |
He had thrown me one piece of meat. |
10 |
| 19 | 118 |
For my supper I had received only one piece of meat. |
10 |
| 19 | 120 |
He went somewhere in the room and returned with a piece of dried meat. |
10 |
| 19 | 243 |
I now lay in the trunk, in the darkness, helpless, finishing the piece of meat. |
10 |
| 20 | 128 |
You are a piece of well-curved slave meat. |
10 |
| 31 | 682 |
Sometimes a girl, particularly a new girl, must strive for days to earn even a narrow strip of cloth and a piece of string. |
10 |
| 33 | 945 |
"Kiss my feet fifteen hundred times, you luscious baggage," he laughed, "at least once for every gold piece you are costing me!" "Yes, Master," she cried, startled, putting down her head. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 6 |
"Piece by piece was stripped from Temenides," said a man. |
10 |
| 1 | 864 |
He withdrew the piece. |
10 |
| 1 | 1014 |
He interposed his own Ubar's Builder, which I then took with the Initiate, a less valued piece. |
10 |
| 5 | 344 |
I took a piece of meat from the table, one of the viands I had brought from the camp, a small tidbit of roast tarsk. |
10 |
| 6 | 305 |
"Could you not cut me off just a little piece," she asked. |
10 |
| 10 | 571 |
She put the piece of crust in her mouth and nibbled on it, slowly. |
10 |
| 10 | 634 |
Women, of course, may be diversely hooded, and with as little as a piece of opaque cloth thrown over the head, and tied under the chin. |
10 |
| 12 | 64 |
He could not take it with his Ubara, of course, sweeping down his Ubara's Tarnsman's file, because it was protected now by my other Rider of the High Tharlarion, that hitherto, seemingly innocent, seemingly uninvolved piece which had just happened, apparently, to be posted at Ubara's Scribe Two. |
10 |
| 12 | 262 |
Similarly, even if I had had the option in the circumstances, which I did not, I could not have brought my Builder to that square for defensive purposes without exposing it to the attack of the same piece. |
10 |
| 12 | 266 |
The defense of my Builder, on which I was relying, would in such a case have been negated by the placement of my own Home Stone, which would then have been inserted between it and the attacking piece. |
10 |
| 12 | 281 |
The Tarnsman is generally regarded as the more valuable piece. |
10 |
| 12 | 294 |
"Rider of the High Tharlarion," he said, replacing the Spearman now with the appropriate piece. |
10 |
| 13 | 317 |
I broke off a piece of the pit fruit and handed it to him. |
10 |
| 16 | 1188 |
The man moved the piece. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 24 |
The first piece of bread he threw to the woman who had been the first to unhood and face-strip herself, perhaps thereby rewarding her for her intelligence. |
10 |
| 3 | 34 |
I saw again a large straight-hipped woman seize a piece of bread fiercely from a smaller woman, one with a delicious love cradle. |
10 |
| 11 | 32 |
"Here!" said the fellow, firmly, thrusting a piece of paper toward me. |
10 |
| 16 | 27 |
On the cardboard there was a number, matching a number on a similar piece of cardboard now in my wallet. |
10 |
| 16 | 1659 |
Then, for several Ehn, he altering lines here and there, with a liberal abandon, subjecting the piece, it seemed, to immediate and amazing revisions, rampant and wholesale, doubtless justified by certain disputable if not heinous exploitations of poetic license, generously construed, I was regaled b... |
10 |
| 16 | 1734 |
"I think," said Hurtha, looking back, "I shall compose a poem, a mood piece". |
10 |
| 26 | 75 |
It was not a loud sound at all, but it was unmistakable, the sound of the movement of a piece of metal on the stones. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 426 |
The piece was excellent, in its melodic lines, its moods, and shifts. |
10 |
| 3 | 434 |
He drew forth from his pocket a tiny, soft piece of cloth. |
10 |
| 6 | 780 |
I felt then the encircling clasp of metal closed about my waist, and then, swinging up between my legs, another piece of metal. |
10 |
| 11 | 833 |
It is not exactly a story dance, but more of an emotional or attitudinal piece, more in the nature of a "role dance," a dance in which the slave dances as though she might be a virgin, but knows she is to be ravished, and that she is expected to be pleasing. |
10 |
| 20 | 160 |
He was given, however, only a flat piece of rock with a single character inscribed upon it, the first letter in the name of his native village. |
10 |
| 31 | 49 |
The stranger then picked up a tiny piece of food from his plate and indicated that I should lean forward. |
10 |
| 33 | 15 |
After he had begun to eat he had given me a piece of bread, thrusting it in my mouth as I was, by his command, on all fours near him. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 609 |
She did so, and I drew forth a tarsk bit from my pouch, this one not a separate coin in the sense of a round or square coin, but a piece of such a coin, a narrow, triangular, chopped eighth of a copper tarn disk, and placed it in her mouth. |
10 |
| 6 | 35 |
A large piece of cloth, probably her veil, had been thrust into her mouth and tied there. |
10 |
| 7 | 26 |
The striking of a piece of kindling on the tub, for example, rather on the left of the tub, seemed to cause distress to the bather. |
10 |
| 8 | 69 |
It was within the cot, tearing at a piece of meat, a haunch of tarsk, hung from a rope. |
10 |
| 8 | 480 |
I then, with a piece of scarflike cloth taken from my pouch, a wind veil, sometimes bound across the mouth and nostrils of a tarnsman, usually at high altitudes, blindfolded her. |
10 |
| 10 | 292 |
I emerged from the trench, and waving a piece of white cloth, which on Gor is a truce cloth, as it is on Earth, climbed, slipping, up the rather steep incline toward the base of the walls. |
10 |
| 12 | 330 |
But, to my irritation, a pan, into which had been ladled some meal and a piece of bread was thrust beneath the door with a rod. |
10 |
| 15 | 49 |
"The spear, my dear Claudia," she said, "is a single piece of solid, polished metal. |
10 |
| 15 | 227 |
"Oh," said Lady Claudia, interested, come now to my side, a piece of crust in her hand. |
10 |
| 15 | 711 |
I then thrust the small ball of tightly rolled cloth into her mouth, where, instantly, as it was actually a rather large piece of material, it expanded. |
10 |
| 15 | 727 |
But I pulled it forward, by the hair, and covered it, with a large piece of cloth from the guard's tunic. |
10 |
| 15 | 750 |
"The spear, as I understand it," I said, trying to recall the words of our warder earlier to Lady Claudia, "is a solid piece of polished metal, very long, and less than a hort in width. |
10 |
| 17 | 586 |
In this covered way, men passing him, from various parts of the citadel, presumably taking their way to the harbor area, on a piece of stone, broken from the inside of the way, his head in his hands, sat Aemilianus, bleeding. |
10 |
| 17 | 599 |
Aemilianus, with two retainers, remained where he was, below and to the left, he bleeding, sitting on the piece of stone. |
10 |
| 18 | 459 |
"Considering that it was struck with a large piece of building stone with great force at close range, splendid," he said. |
10 |
| 19 | 144 |
I saw a piece of the broken walkway, half submerged, off to the right. |
10 |
| 19 | 225 |
The piece of broken walkway which had been to the right was now back, a few feet from the torn end of the walkway, floating in the inner harbor. |
10 |
| 19 | 249 |
There I leapt from the walkway out, over the water, to the piece of half-submerged wreckage, cut from the walkway. |
10 |
| 19 | 259 |
The force of my leap had thrust the piece of wreckage out further, toward the piers. |
10 |
| 19 | 268 |
About the piece of wreckage on which I stood, then, were small boats from the piers. |
10 |
| 20 | 250 |
He pressed the piece of stone he had brought with him into his hands. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 546 |
I took a piece of tarsk from the platter. |
10 |
| 1 | 570 |
I took a piece of bread from the platter of the second assistant, as he came by again. |
10 |
| 1 | 1005 |
"A gold piece for her," said the burly fellow. |
10 |
| 1 | 1222 |
Also, fixed on the center pole there was a piece of paper which said, "Beware, this is the tent of Borton". |
10 |
| 17 | 119 |
In a few moments I had managed to piece together the latest intelligence, this from the north, from the right. |
10 |
| 21 | 81 |
I bent down and drew the lovely wooden piece, fashioned in the likeness of the neck and head of a gant, from the sand. |
10 |
| 21 | 84 |
"It is a lovely piece of work," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 126 |
I then thrust the large wooden piece, carved in the likeness of the neck and head of a gant, out into the marsh. |
10 |
| 22 | 99 |
Then I picked up a piece of the fish and held it out to her. |
10 |
| 28 | 56 |
"Who wishes this viand?" I asked, holding up the next piece of tharlarion meat. |
10 |
| 28 | 110 |
"Have some tharlarion," I said, offering him the piece of meat. |
10 |
| 28 | 128 |
"Have a piece of meat". |
10 |
| 28 | 170 |
I cut a piece and placed it in his hand. |
10 |
| 28 | 175 |
I cut another piece. |
10 |
| 28 | 348 |
I feared they might fight for her, as might ravening sleen over the first piece of meat thrown to them in days. |
10 |
| 29 | 253 |
I took another piece of meat and offered it to Plenius, but he refused it. |
10 |
| 29 | 293 |
I finished chewing on a piece of fish, and swallowed it. |
10 |
| 29 | 378 |
Looking about, we saw that Labienus had torn a large piece of bark from a stout branch, like a small trunk, which had been brought to him. |
10 |
| 29 | 381 |
I offered Plenius a piece of the fish, which he accepted, and we ate together. |
10 |
| 31 | 240 |
"My friend, Plenius," I said, "has, I think, saved some hard bread in his pack, a piece or two. |
10 |
| 31 | 254 |
"Ina," I said, "when Plenius is free, ask him if he would give you a piece of hard bread, for myself and my young friend here". |
10 |
| 31 | 260 |
She had with her a small piece of hard bread. |
10 |
| 48 | 452 |
"It is rare that the use of a hundred-gold-piece girl is handed about so freely". |
10 |
| 48 | 599 |
I shook it out, that Phoebe could see that it was a skimpy, one-piece slave tunic. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 714 |
I handed Marcus his things, piece by piece, the sheath, with its knife, and the pouch, both for his belt, and the sword belt, with its scabbard and blade, to be slung over the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 26 | 170 |
The Ubara then, bit by bit, piece by piece, looking at herself from time to time in the mirror, the slave standing back, removed her outer garments. |
10 |
| 3 | 102 |
A missed piece might be sought by any of the girls, scrambling about, on their bellies. |
10 |
| 8 | 297 |
Then, with a piece of cloth, we rigged a veil. |
10 |
| 18 | 18 |
"Not without a gold piece to start with," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 554 |
"Do you think an entire gold piece, say, a stater, or a tarn disk, would be too much in a cause to perpetuate and enhance the arts on an entire world?" "Not at all," I said. |
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| 20 | 270 |
Did they really think that the excitingness of a slave could be reduced by such a triviality as the addition of a few horts of material to a tunic? Did they not realize it would still be the single garment she wore, the one piece of cloth she was permitted, and that it would have no nether closure? ... |
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| 23 | 363 |
"I trust," said Boots, "that the purse I have received, which was unusually heavy, contains the equivalent of at least a gold piece". |
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| 26 | 171 |
When she had stepped forth from her slippers, she stood before the mirror, barefoot, in a one-piece, white, silken, wraparound sliplike garment. |
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| 27 | 350 |
, to one gold piece, say, a single "tarn". |
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| 27 | 351 |
Accordingly, on this approach, the equivalencies, very approximately, and probably only for certain cities, would be eight tarsk bits to a copper tarsk; one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk; and ten silver tarsks to a gold piece, a single tarn. |
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| 27 | 352 |
On this approach there would be, literally, 8,000 tarsk bits in a single gold piece. |
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| 27 | 364 |
I put the gold piece back in my wallet. |
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| 27 | 473 |
"Consider them paid for with moneys from the gold piece returned to me," I said. |
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| 27 | 747 |
"It is only a piece of rock," she said. |
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| 28 | 107 |
But, too, I speculated, there would be those of Ar to whom the Home Stone was a Home Stone, and not a mere rock, not a piece of meaningless earth. |
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| 28 | 225 |
He tore off a piece of bread. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 194 |
The culture here, though quite different from my own, I thought, seems all of a piece. |
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| 9 | 77 |
See, for example, this ignorant, presumptuous little slut, this meaningless little piece of slave suet trembling in her collar! I think she might well profit from a bout with the tongs and hot irons!" "We have some new male slaves in Pen 2 of the Ba-Ta Section," said another to her, he whose whip I ... |
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| 10 | 883 |
This was, as you might suppose, a piece of very frightening intelligence for me. |
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| 11 | 255 |
He tossed the next piece of meat to the second step. |
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| 11 | 269 |
He now held the next piece of meat between his fingers. |
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| 11 | 274 |
I put my head forward, delicately, to take the piece of meat, but he drew back his hand a little. |
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| 11 | 383 |
I took the next piece of meat. |
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| 11 | 386 |
He then held another piece. |
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| 11 | 388 |
I took the next piece of meat. |
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| 13 | 267 |
In her hand was the piece of cloth. |
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| 14 | 200 |
We had improvised it from a twisted, matching piece of brown rag. |
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| 14 | 1326 |
Were we regarded, because of what we were, rightly, as being worthy of less consideration than the delicate petals of a tiny blossom? Did they know us that well? Was our nature so obvious to them? Did they know, too, I wondered, that we were the secret enemy? Did they understand the secret war? But ... |
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| 19 | 67 |
They were so ornately, so complexly robed, whereas I had only my slave frock, that scandalously brief, muchly revealing, single piece of cloth, and my collar. |
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| 24 | 985 |
"We saved a piece of fruit for you," said the Lady Constanzia. |
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| 38 | 33 |
"A bar was found broken from the stone, and another, beside it, bent to the side," said the officer, his fingers poised over a piece on the board. |
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| 38 | 35 |
"Yes," said the officer, moving the piece. |
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| 38 | 93 |
The pit master moved a piece. |
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| 38 | 132 |
Terence thrust a piece to a new position on the board. |
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| 38 | 277 |
Some games are such, that the outcome depends not on the pieces of power, which may balance one another, but on the smallest move of the most insignificant piece on the board. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 86 |
It was apparently a celebration of some sort, perhaps one at the conclusion of some piece of business brought to a successful conclusion, or some piece of work that was now finished, and with which they might be well satisfied. |
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| 18 | 267 |
* * * * And so Ellen reached down and picked up the heavy basket of meat, which she must carry to the feeding area, a section within the housing for tarns, and set forth, piece by piece, climbing the wall railings, impaling it on the hooks, for the mighty birds, seven of them, due to return with the... |
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| 18 | 334 |
Let him stew, and cry out, and suffer! He cannot have me! I am not for such lowly sorts! Suffer, Selius Arconious, suffer! You cannot have me!" In the barred feeding area, the gate shut against the housing for returning tarns, Ellen put the basket of meat on the floor, and, moving about, and climbin... |
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| 2 | 217 |
But then she saw him to one side, waiting to buy an opera book, an account of the history and staging of the piece. |
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| 8 | 81 |
"A pretty little piece of collar-meat," he said. |
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| 11 | 123 |
I love him! "At least you have been given a piece of jewelry," said the woman. |
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| 11 | 264 |
"Then, Ellen," laughed the woman, "you are nothing but livestock, nothing but a pretty little piece of livestock, nothing but a domestic animal, nothing but a pretty little branded domestic animal!" Tears sprang to Ellen's eyes. |
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| 12 | 92 |
Another piece of the apparatus dangled before her, but it was, in a moment, on its hinge, drawn up between her legs. |
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| 13 | 547 |
At one moment a woman is free and priceless, and then, in another moment, suddenly, she becomes a very practical, tangible commodity, something very real and very factual, something with a specific value, like any other piece of merchandise. |
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| 15 | 310 |
"You poor, little, stupid, arrogant piece of flesh-trash," he said. |
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| 15 | 573 |
To be sure, the young, slim, sweet curvatures of her body were of a piece, of a whole, an indissoluble, coherent delight, from her small feet and ankles, to her calves and thighs, her hips, her love cradle, her narrow waist, and sweet bosom, to her soft, white shoulders and lovely throat, all a melo... |
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| 15 | 798 |
But, instead, after but a moment, I find you an exquisite little slab of collar-meat, a willing, content, obedient little piece of flesh-trash, no different from thousands of other meaningless, silken little she-urts. |
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| 16 | 33 |
Was there something on her neck? Had there been a tiny sound, as of the touching of one piece of metal upon another, or a tiny scraping sound? Something seemed subtly different about her body. |
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| 18 | 338 |
If a piece fell to the floor, they would hover above it, seize it in their talons, and then crouch over it, holding it in place with a taloned foot, while tearing it to pieces with their beaks. |
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| 18 | 348 |
She fixed another piece of meat in place. |
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| 19 | 151 |
"She is a poor piece of barbarian slave meat," said Selius Arconious, from his knees. |
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| 19 | 598 |
How fit then would such women be for the collar! Perhaps they might even, in the privacy of their own compartments, dare a necklace or bracelet, some piece of metal on their soft flesh, this subtly suggesting, though the suggestion would doubtless be frenziedly denied, an insignia of bondage, but su... |
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| 20 | 639 |
With another piece of rope she was trussed further, several loops put about her legs, above the knees, some loops about her belly, holding her bound hands more closely behind her, and various loops about her arms and upper body. |
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| 21 | 240 |
Could you not note its direction? Did I not hint such things to you? Why did you not listen? The Home Stone? The Home Stone of Ar is no more than a piece of rock". |
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| 24 | 28 |
But Ellen now, apart from her natural dispositions and deepest reality, fitting her for love and the collar, had come to understand herself on all levels, factually and honestly, as something which was owned, as something which could pass from master to master, as might any piece of property. |
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| 25 | 1078 |
"To be sure," said the auctioneer, "that is a high price to pay for this little piece of slave meat". |
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| 25 | 1084 |
"No," said the auctioneer, "she is a barbarian, semi-trained, a relatively common piece of chain goods, nothing particularly out of the ordinary, a fairly typical item of fleshstock. |
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| 25 | 1164 |
She turned her head toward the crowd, to see he who had bid so high on the miserable, pathetic piece of helpless flesh merchandise which was she. |
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| 26 | 151 |
"And why," he asked, "should one hate a pretty, curvaceous little piece of slave meat one owns? There would be no point in it". |
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| 27 | 490 |
Thus, on the symbolic level, where human sexuality luxuriates, thrives and flourishes, and aside from the obvious identificatory conveniences of Merchant Law, it was far more than a lovely piece of jewelry; it enhanced her beauty not only aesthetically but symbolically, overwhelmingly, devastatingly... |
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| 27 | 788 |
There are a number of "tethering slave bows," of course, for example, for fastening a slave over a saddle, a wheel, a piece of furniture, or such. |
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| 27 | 3330 |
She, on her belly, licked and kissed, deferentially, lovingly, at the hand that fed her, and then, eyes shining, lifting her face and opening her mouth, she delicately, gratefully, accepted another tiny piece of meat. |
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| 28 | 194 |
"I found her, as you have doubtless conjectured," said Mirus, "a piece of goods of some interest, an attractive item of livestock". |
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| 28 | 378 |
Then he cast the piece of metal far from him, away, out into the grass. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 |
Cabot shook his head, and tried to bundle his thoughts together, trying to piece a number of diverse shreds and particles into a coherent picture of reality. |
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| 10 | 176 |
"You like her?" "She has promise, however minimal," said Cabot, "as a piece of collar meat". |
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| 11 | 200 |
"In any event," said Cabot, "putting aside her skills as a dancer, which are doubtless considerable, she is obviously a luscious piece of collar meat". |
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| 21 | 81 |
There a Kur was bent under a large piece of meat, which he deposited in the center of the arena. |
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| 43 | 408 |
You, you lovely piece of goods, you delightful bit of merchandise, are worth coins". |
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| 61 | 86 |
"She is meaningless, nothing, only a female slave, no more than a piece of vendible collar meat". |
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| 63 | 140 |
The leader of the herd pushed his confreres back with the club, and raised it high over his head, to strike the torn, and bloodied, piece of flesh at his feet. |
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| 74 | 68 |
Cabot was pleased and threw her a piece of hot, greasy meat, which she clutched to herself, gratefully, and swirled away. |
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| 74 | 86 |
To one side, where she could reach it, through the bars, was a small bowl, in which lay a piece of fruit, and a crust of bread. |
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| 77 | 98 |
It was of solid metal, and of a piece. |
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| 77 | 147 |
On Gor, however, as I understand it, she is not purchased but bestowed, rather as might be a wreath, or a piece of gold. |
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| 79 | 368 |
"Please, no! I am trying to please you!" "You are not a bad-looking piece of collar meat, you shapely slut," said a man. |
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| 79 | 496 |
"You are a comely piece of collar meat," said Cabot. |
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| 79 | 620 |
"It seems, to me," she said, "that I am like a piece of fruit, in some lovely orchard, dangling on a branch before you, perhaps luscious fruit, certainly within reach, which you might pluck or not, as you pleased. |
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| 81 | 164 |
"Perhaps you are no more than a piece on their kaissa board," said Grendel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 155 |
She will learn what it is, for the first time in her life, to breathe good air, to look into a blue sky, to see an unpolluted sunset or sunrise, to eat fresh and natural foods, to relish the taste of fresh bread, to be grateful for a piece of meat fed to her by a master's hand, to put her tongue, if... |
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| 2 | 364 |
It is a one-piece, extremely simple, suitable for slaves, narrow, poncholike garment. |
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| 11 | 19 |
The common slave strip is a single, narrow, dangling piece of cloth anchored in binding fiber, double-looped about the waist of the slave. |
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| 35 | 147 |
The lovely creature, a comb in her hair, wore a muchly figured kimono, and a single piece of jewelry, which fell upon her breast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 51 |
One need not be a gold-piece girl or a silver-piece girl to be fulfilled in bondage. |
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| 1 | 41 |
One might have heard the clink of a goblet now and then, the scraping of a wooden trencher on a low table, sometimes the crack of a kaissa piece being struck down on a board in an aggressive move. |
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| 10 | 97 |
I could make little out of it, and, as I tried to piece together the shreds of my confusion, my fear, the noise about, it became clear to me that the shouting was a shouting of joy, and I heard hundreds of feet hurrying down the low corridor and up companionways. |
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| 12 | 536 |
She is not a poor piece of meat. |
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| 25 | 368 |
She had become an excellent piece of collar meat, perhaps worth even two silver tarsks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1081 |
I was aware of the laundry being lifted, and, piece by piece, cast from the bridge, doubtless fluttering to the street far below. |
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| 5 | 337 |
"That white, one-piece bathing suit," he said, "was amusing, so putatively modest, and yet so subtly expressive". |
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| 8 | 136 |
It would be dangerous to try to buy a sleen or slave, or a sul or larma, from a Gorean for no more than a piece of paper. |
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| 8 | 138 |
Sometimes the wealth of a city has been transferred from Jad to Ar, or Ar to Jad, in the form of a piece of paper, sewn into the lining of a robe. |
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| 8 | 542 |
"Listen to the branded piece of collar meat," she said. |
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| 9 | 220 |
I saw a twenty-tarsk piece put in his hand. |
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| 10 | 1323 |
"You are, as I thought, just another piece of collar meat". |
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| 33 | 112 |
She had been for them no more than a piece in their games, of value only for her possible effect on Grendel, but now, given his lack of concern for her, even his contempt for her, she was no longer even that. |
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| 41 | 159 |
Who would suspect a message concealed in a harmless deck of cards? It is not like a discovered, suspicious piece of paper with strange symbols or letters inscribed on it. |
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| 42 | 46 |
I saw a fang sunk deep into the meat, anchoring it, and then a huge piece was wrenched free, and the long, dark tongue wrapped itself about this, and thrust it back, into the toothed darkness, and, in a moment, I witnessed its passage, sliding downward, under the fur of the throat. |
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| 42 | 52 |
Such a piece of meat, even one much smaller, would choke a human; on the other hand, the structure of the human throat is such that it is capable of assisting in the utterance of a subtle and theoretically infinite variety of sounds. |
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| 52 | 354 |
"You may be worthless, but you are an interesting piece of meat, on which I intend to feast". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 94 |
What was I to him but another item in a ledger, another small, sleek beast, another piece of meat, slave meat? I wanted to speak to him, but the words had not come. |
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| 8 | 471 |
She was a worthless piece of collar meat, no different from tens of thousands of others. |
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| 13 | 134 |
On the other hand if she, usually a capture from a foreign city, falls slave all that is behind her, and she finds herself no more than another piece of vendible collar meat, auctioned off a block as one might auction a tarsk from the pens. |
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| 15 | 378 |
I supposed it must have been a large piece of ice, broken free, that it would be in the river, here in the Alexandra, this far south. |
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| 16 | 108 |
"There is little to choose from; it is merely one piece of meat or another". |
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| 22 | 147 |
"ft is unfortunate," I said, "particularly if she is a nice piece of slave meat". |
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| 23 | 63 |
Here, muchly bared, and owned, I was keenly aware of a gentle wind, the splash of rain, the feel of wet grass on one's feet, the scent of a flower, the texture of a piece of cloth, than I had ever been on my former world. |
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| 38 | 297 |
"You are a pleasant piece of slave meat," he said. |
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| 39 | 464 |
It was not as though they were prize kajirae, four-or-five-silver-tarsk girls, perhaps even some gold- piece girls, say, being disembarked from slave wagons, whose arrival in a city had been long awaited, perhaps even having been heralded by a great number of wall bills. |
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| 39 | 642 |
"This is a worthless piece of collar meat," he said, "sleen prey, thus a fled kajira. |
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| 41 | 439 |
"What a vain little piece of collar meat you are," he said. |
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| 42 | 6 |
Was I truly nothing but another slave to him, merely another piece of meaningless collar-meat, to be indifferently fetched from a pen, or block, by a coin? How I hated him! How I wanted his collar! Then I was afraid. |
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| 49 | 182 |
"You are, of course," I said, "a nicely curved piece of collar meat". |
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| 50 | 85 |
I knew I was not the sort of girl who went for a handful of silver, or even a piece of gold. |
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| 50 | 676 |
Now I saw that she was an incredibly beautiful woman, with a face and figure that might bring as much as a piece of gold off the block. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 33 |
Would the cards not be marked, the dice weighted? Might a hand not surreptitiously move a piece, or insert another? And who is to say on what tiny matters, a sedative pellet scarcely visible, a sliver of iron in the foot, might hang the performance of even the mighty tharlarion? Too, to my dismay, I... |
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| 30 | 94 |
For example is it not surprising, if one stops to consider it, that something of value, say, a fukuro of rice, or a slave, might be exchanged for a tiny piece of metal, of whatever sort? I had heard of one city in which the state had issued small black leather packets sewn shut, which packets were a... |
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| 40 | 59 |
"Who would not, in a dark game, sacrifice a lesser piece for one of greater value?" "You are more astute in the ways of statecraft than I had realized," he said. |
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| 59 | 211 |
Beware the too-vulnerable piece, for it may be unwisely seized. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 101 |
"Many kettle-and-mat girls, and pot girls, are extremely attractive in their way, and they are as begging, and hot, and helpless, on the mat as a two-silver-piece pleasure slave". |
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| 6 | 284 |
"Let them fight!" said the other woman who wore jeans and a sweatshirt, reaching out to impede the other, she who had interfered, who still held a piece of the evening dress in her hand. |
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| 24 | 147 |
"Surely at least some copper tarsks," I said, "perhaps a silver tarsk, perhaps, for a better slave, a piece of gold?" "Some pay in copper," he said. |
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| 30 | 219 |
He broke off a piece of the bread and held it out to me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 286 |
By the fourth day of her imprisonment her slippers and hose had been removed, and her garmenture had been reduced, piece by piece, to a short sliplike garment that might easily have been mistaken for a slave tunic. |
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| 7 | 112 |
"She is comely, a likely slut, a pleasant item, an attractive piece of collar meat. |
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| 9 | 58 |
Interestingly the slave, Adraste, the arrogant, pretentious piece of collar meat whom I remembered from Brundisium, was also in the tavern, though amongst the floor girls. |
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| 39 | 243 |
The officer shook powders from certain of the packets unto a piece of paper, creased the paper, and then went to the metal fire basket, where he deposited the contents of the creased paper unto the fire basket's wooden-handled heating tray. |
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| 47 | 223 |
"I managed to seize a piece of drifting wreckage, from Pa-Kur's canal boat," I said, "and utilized it to free myself". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 134 |
"Bread," I said, "a piece of bread". |
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