| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 202 |
Several of them held crossbows; at least four others had spears poised; some boasted swords; but many of them carried nothing more than a chain or sharpened pole. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 |
Briefly, for those it might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role analogous to our north pole; the two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki... |
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| 1 | 29 |
Accordingly, the main divisions of the map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as our "north pole" the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move (Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first, Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (somet... |
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| 7 | 2 |
Beside the wagon, on a great pole fixed in the earth, stood the Tuchuk standard of the four bosk horns. |
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| 8 | 121 |
She leaned back against the wagon pole. |
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| 8 | 123 |
When Kamchak rolled out of his furs Elizabeth, involuntarily, shrank back, until the pole would permit her to withdraw no further. |
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| 8 | 128 |
He looked at her, her back tight against the wagon pole, clutching the pelt of the larl about her with her braceleted hands. |
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| 14 | 38 |
I saw that a yellow lantern was halfway up the pole below the two red lanterns. |
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| 14 | 50 |
I saw two yellow lanterns and a red lantern on the high pole. |
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| 21 | 17 |
In a few minutes the great pole of the standard had been mounted on the wagon and was descending the hill, leaving on the summit the burned wood and the black ashes that had been the wagon of Kutaituchik, surrendering them now to the wind and the rain, to time and the snows to come, and to the green... |
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| 23 | 149 |
And I looked and saw suddenly and my heart stopped beating and then I uttered a wild cry for from the left, riding with the Thousands sweeping over the hills, I saw the standard of the Yellow Bow, and on the right, flying forward with the hurtling Thousands, its leather streaming behind its pole, I ... |
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| 24 | 206 |
Beside it, fixed in the earth, on a pole, there was a standard of four bosk horns. |
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| 24 | 207 |
The pole had been painted red, which is the color of commanders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 32 |
Across the track, on the far side, I heard a judge's bar clang indicating that one of the birds had missed a ring, and a colored disk, silver, was hauled to the top of a pole. |
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| 13 | 324 |
The judge's bar, hanging on its chain from a pole on the dividing wall, was silent. |
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| 22 | 174 |
He pointed to a spot about a hundred yards away, on a small wall, built itself on the dividing wall, near the pole of the wooden tarn heads. |
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| 22 | 185 |
There was now but one tarn head left on the pole. |
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| 22 | 468 |
At the beginning there had been, on each set of poles, twenty wooden tarn head, five to each pole. |
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| 22 | 556 |
The last tarn head loomed on the pole. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 183 |
She unfastened the rence craft from the oar-pole which had served as a mooring and, slowly, drew up the pole from the mud of the marsh. |
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| 2 | 26 |
She had no paddle, but, thrust in the mud near her, was a long pole which she would use to propel her light craft. |
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| 2 | 54 |
She was handed the pole with which she had propelled her own craft, which craft was now tied to another of the rence craft of the men who had come from the rushes and sedge. |
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| 2 | 55 |
With the pole she began to propel my rush craft through the sedge, the several other craft accompanying us, on one or the other side, or following. |
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| 4 | 31 |
I had spent the night in the open, a foot or two from her tiny hut on the rence island, my wrists tied to my ankles, my neck tethered to an oar pole thrust deep through the rence of the island. |
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| 4 | 154 |
She had now turned the stem of the craft toward the rence island, which lay some pasang or two through the swamp, and, as I cut rence here and there, began to pole homeward. |
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| 4 | 162 |
I had expected her to bind me, as she had the night before, then tethering me to the oar pole thrust through the rence near the hut. |
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| 5 | 26 |
I stood with an oar pole at my back, bound to it for their inspection. |
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| 5 | 27 |
The pole, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood in a clearing near the shore of the island. |
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| 5 | 28 |
My wrists were bound behind the pole with marsh vine. |
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| 5 | 29 |
My ankles were also fastened to the pole. |
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| 5 | 30 |
Two other coils of marsh vine bound my stomach and neck to the pole. |
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| 5 | 63 |
I was left alone, tied at the pole. |
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| 5 | 68 |
Then, about the eighth Gorean hour, Telima had ordered me to the pole, where she bound me and placed on my head the garland of rence flowers. |
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| 5 | 69 |
I had stood at the pole the long morning, subject to the examination, the stares, and the blows and abuse of those who passed by. |
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| 5 | 100 |
Then the entire group came to my pole, with the exception of Ho-Hak, who went rather to speak with some men carving rence root and talking, on the other side of the island. |
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| 5 | 118 |
I stood numb at the pole, while Telima unbound me. |
10 |
| 5 | 120 |
Then I stood free at the pole, save that I wore the collar of marsh vine she had fastened on my neck, and a garland of rence flowers. |
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| 5 | 146 |
"To the pole," she said. |
10 |
| 5 | 147 |
I had seen the pole. |
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| 5 | 150 |
The pole, barkless, narrow, upright, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood at the very center of the clearing, surrounded by the circles of the feasting rencers. |
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| 5 | 151 |
I went to the pole, and stood by it. |
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| 5 | 153 |
Then, as she had in the morning, she fastened my ankles to the pole, and then, again as she had in the morning, she bound me to it as well by the stomach and neck. |
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| 5 | 190 |
But most of the time I was ignored, as much as the pole to which I was bound. |
10 |
| 5 | 207 |
I stood there at the pole. |
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| 5 | 213 |
I stumbled from the pole, making my way through the buffeting circle of dancers, through the laughing circles of rencers, shouting and clapping their hands, and made my way to Telima's hut. |
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| 6 | 7 |
The barkless pole stood alone. |
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| 6 | 59 |
She had been the girl who, this morning, had carried a net over her left shoulder, one of those who had taunted me at the pole, one of those who had, at festival, danced her contempt of me. |
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| 6 | 72 |
I remembered her well from the pole, and how she had traced the figure upon my shoulder, and how she had knelt insolently, tormentingly, before me, and had looked up at me, amused, and had put her hands upon my thighs, but had then, with the others, been ordered away from me by Ho-Hak. |
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| 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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| 6 | 82 |
There, under the light of marsh torches, I saw Ho-Hak, crying with rage, shouting, with an oar pole laying about himself wildly. |
10 |
| 6 | 84 |
Now, just outside the circle of his swinging pole, there must have been ten or fifteen warriors of Port Kar, their swords drawn, the light of the marsh torches reflecting from them, surrounding him, fencing him in with their weapons. |
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| 6 | 87 |
Ho-Hak, sweating, breathing deeply, wildly, his great ears flat against the sides of his head, the iron, riveted collar of the galley slave, with its broken, dangling chain, about his neck, clutching his oar pole, stood with his legs planted widely apart on the rence, at bay. |
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| 6 | 101 |
Near the oar pole to which I had been bound, some yards from what had been the circle of the dance, a number of rencers, stripped, men and women, lay bound hand and foot. |
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| 7 | 2 |
The men of Port Kar had set fire to the two islands, beginning at the farther edges, to drive any who might be concealed on them, perhaps having cut burrows into the rence or hiding in the center oar wells, across the bridges toward the central island, on which had been the pole of the dance, Telima... |
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| 7 | 25 |
On the island now, in its center, near the pole, there stood, packed together, a miserable crowd of prisoners. |
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| 7 | 82 |
I saw the pole to which I had been tied, the circle of the feast, the ruins of huts, the litter and the broken things, and the scattered things, and the bodies. |
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| 7 | 83 |
I returned to the raft and picked up Telima in my arms, carrying her to the high surface of the island where, near the pole, I placed her on the matting. |
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| 7 | 138 |
Before I left I noted, among the broken rence and other paraphernalia, some throwing sticks and such, the tunic of rence cloth which she had slipped off before me the night previously, before commanding me to serve her pleasure, before we had heard the cry "Slavers!" I picked it up and carried it, w... |
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| 7 | 167 |
She, too, would make a craft, take a pole, and find her way deeper into the delta, doubtless to be accepted by another of the small rence communities. |
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| 7 | 197 |
It was the boy who had brought me the bit of rence cake when I had been bound at the pole, he who had been punished for doing this by his mother. |
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| 8 | 89 |
Usually they fell far wide of our true position, for, following each of my fired shafts, Telima would pole us to a new point of vantage, whence I might again, when ready, pick a target and loose yet another of the winged shafts. |
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| 8 | 98 |
"Pole me to the fourth barge," I said. |
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| 8 | 145 |
She thrust the oar-pole deep into the mud of the marsh, and fastened the rence craft to this mooring by a length of marsh vine. |
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| 8 | 182 |
"Pole us to the barges," I said. |
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| 8 | 192 |
Then, silently, I motioned Telima to scrape the oar-pole on the side of the barge, just touching the planks. |
10 |
| 8 | 198 |
I had Telima pole us back away from the barge and I stood regarding it, for some Ehn, the great bow quarter-drawn, arrow to string. |
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| 8 | 262 |
I recalled I had been bound rather similarly at the pole early on the day of the festival, and then, later, on the night of the festival, when she had danced her contempt of me. |
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| 8 | 289 |
On the second prow of the six barges, only a few feet from the tiller deck of the first barge, it had been the tall, gray-eyed girl, who had held marsh vine against my arm, she who had danced with such excruciating slowness before me at the pole. |
10 |
| 8 | 306 |
I pulled the oar-pole from the mud at its side, and then, standing on the wide, sturdy little craft which Telima had fashioned from the rence I had gathered, I poled my way back to the first barge. |
10 |
| 8 | 452 |
"You fought well, Ho-Hak," said I, "on the rence island, with only an oar-pole". |
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| 8 | 478 |
"Eechius had given him rence cake when he was bound at the pole," said Telima. |
10 |
| 8 | 578 |
Once, when I had been bound at the pole, she had pushed up my head, that she might better assess the features of a slave. |
10 |
| 8 | 602 |
"And look up at me, as you did at the pole". |
10 |
| 9 | 280 |
I had given her a brief tunic of silk, briefer even than had been the rence tunic she had worn when she had taunted me at the pole, and when she had danced before me, which had been taken from her by the slaver after she had been netted on the island. |
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| 9 | 335 |
She had taunted me at the pole. |
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| 9 | 373 |
"Do you recall," I asked pleasantly, looking down into her eyes, "how some days ago, on the rence island, on the night of the festival, in the firelight, when I was bound at the pole, you taunted me in your dance?" "Master?" she asked, her eyes timid. |
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| 18 | 450 |
I found some beams and rope, and a pole, bound together a simple raft and through one of the delta canals, which were not then barred, made my escape. |
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| 18 | 546 |
I threw a man whom I had struck, even before he died, over the parapet, striking another, who, clinging desperately to the siege pole, carried it back in a long arc with him as he fell. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 258 |
The horizontal pole was a trophy pole, now with its stanchions; the pole, peeled, was formed of a straight branch, like the other trophy poles, higher, from which had hung the skins of slain animals. |
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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 | 489 |
The cage itself was hung from a horizontal pole, rather like a high trophy pole. |
10 |
| 15 | 610 |
She took us to that part of the camp near the horizontal pole, some nine feet high, resting across the two pairs of crossed poles, rather like a pole for hanging meat, or trophies, from. |
10 |
| 12 | 255 |
On the cart, as there had been on others, there was an exhibition structure; it consisted of a horizontal pole, parallel to the axles, this one about five feet above the floor of the cart, and its supports, fixed in the sides of the wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 257 |
The horizontal pole was supported by these, lying in their cradles, so to speak, crosswise, and was lashed to them. |
10 |
| 12 | 259 |
In a hunting camp such a pole is commonly lashed in the branches of trees, and is used to dry skins, display catches and such. |
10 |
| 12 | 260 |
Only from this pole, supported by the crossed diagonal poles, there hung no snared birds, no gutted tarsks, no drying skins of panthers or sleen. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 12 | 490 |
The pole was supported by two pairs of crossed poles, the whole structure secured with lashings; the entire arrangement was much the same as had been that of the trophy poles on the wagons. |
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 | 661 |
In peasant villages there is often a horizontal pole, set in its uprights, rather like a fence railing; it is usually either about a yard from the dirt, or some seven or eight feet above the dirt. |
10 |
| 14 | 187 |
In another place I found a horizontal pole, itself set on two pairs of poles, leaning together and lashed at the top. |
10 |
| 14 | 188 |
It was, I gathered, a pole for hanging meat. |
10 |
| 14 | 189 |
Oddly enough, there was also an iron ring, set in a stone, buried in the ground, beneath the center of the horizontal pole. |
10 |
| 15 | 164 |
There was the horizontal pole, itself set on two pairs of poles, leaning together and lashed at the top. |
10 |
| 15 | 165 |
I had thought, when first I had seen it, that it was a pole for hanging meat. |
10 |
| 15 | 166 |
The horizontal pole was about nine feet high. |
10 |
| 15 | 169 |
I stood there, beneath the pole, by Ute's side. |
10 |
| 15 | 171 |
"The girl's wrists," said Ute, "are tied together, and then she is tied, suspended by the wrists, from the high pole. |
10 |
| 15 | 175 |
"This is a whipping pole," said Ute. |
10 |
| 15 | 611 |
Near that pole, near the iron ring set in the stone, which was buried in the ground, Ute told Techne and I to kneel. |
10 |
| 15 | 742 |
My wrists were tied before my body, by a long strip of binding fiber, which was then thrown over the top of the horizontal pole. |
10 |
| 15 | 743 |
I felt my wrists pulled above my head and then I was jerked from my feet and hung, suspended by the wrists, from the pole. |
10 |
| 15 | 794 |
Again the leather fell and I gasped and twisted, hanging burning from the pole. |
10 |
| 15 | 809 |
Then, by the hair, she stumbling, scarcely able to stand, he dragged her to the small, square iron box which sat near the whipping pole, and thrust her within. |
10 |
| 15 | 955 |
Once two warriors, for a joke, tied my ankles together and suspended me, upside down, from the whipping pole, spinning me about, and back, until I vomited and cried out for mercy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 262 |
A pole extended from the front of the wagon, some eight or nine feet. |
10 |
| 3 | 266 |
The pole, projecting out from the wagon, isolated her, keeping her from other human beings. |
10 |
| 3 | 279 |
She moved her neck and head in the confinement of the chain and leather, at the end of the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 309 |
He unfastened the chain that bound her against the curved leather at the end of the pole, and, holding her by the arm, her wrists still tied behind her, led her to the rear of the wagon, and up the steps. |
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| 4 | 195 |
They took me to the banks of the Laurius where they tied me to a pole set in the stones, my hands over my head, my neck, belly and ankles, too, bound to it. |
10 |
| 5 | 104 |
I recalled how swiftly, how expeditiously, even Elizabeth Cardwell, who was a free woman, had been taken by them, and had been, when her vulnerable, helpless femininity was recognized, humiliatingly exhibited, bound to a pole, at the river's edge, where she had been purchased by Sarpedon, in whose t... |
10 |
| 18 | 238 |
For this reason a girl to be whipped is often suspended from a ring or a pole. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 49 |
Prior to his winning the swimming he had won talmits for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood, some fifty feet high, smoothed and peeled; for jumping the "crevice," actually a broad jump, on level land, where marks are made with strings, to the point at which the back heel strikes the ear... |
10 |
| 12 | 26 |
He had won a talmit for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood; it was some fifty feet high, and was peeled and smoothed; he had won one for "leaping the crevice," which was actually a broad jump, performed on level ground; one for walking the "oar," which was actually a long pole; two in c... |
10 |
| 1 | 599 |
I found her rence craft, the pole floating nearby. |
10 |
| 4 | 90 |
It rests on four poles, with two long, narrow poles, fixed in sockets, mounted in tandem fashion, serving as a single ridge pole. |
10 |
| 11 | 191 |
I had little doubt but what the Kurii, perhaps organized by Kurii from the steel worlds, were to begin a march in Torvaldsland, which might extend, in a generation to the southern pole of Gor. |
10 |
| 17 | 95 |
The northern pole of the camp would be left free, as a seeming avenue of escape, to lure embattled Kurii, should the tide of the war turn against them, into flight northward. |
10 |
| 18 | 95 |
He thrust out with the tent pole, using the spike at its top like a spear. |
10 |
| 18 | 96 |
Then he swung the pole, striking at me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 103 |
At the moment she writhed upon the "slave pole," it fixing her in place. |
10 |
| 1 | 104 |
There is no actual pole, of course, but sometimes it is difficult to believe there is not. |
10 |
| 1 | 105 |
The girl imagines that a pole, slender, supple, swaying, transfixes her body, holding her helplessly. |
10 |
| 1 | 106 |
About this imaginary pole, it constituting a hypothetical center of gravity, she moves, undulating, swaying, sometimes yielding to it in ecstasy, sometimes fighting it, it always holding her in perfect place, its captive. |
10 |
| 1 | 107 |
The control achieved by the use of the "slave pole" is remarkable. |
10 |
| 1 | 116 |
Her left hand was at her thigh; her right high above her head; her eyes were on her hip; frozen into a hip sway; then there was again a bright, clear flash of the finger cymbals, and the music began again, and again she moved, helpless on the pole. |
10 |
| 1 | 165 |
Still she remained impaled upon the slave pole, its prisoner. |
10 |
| 1 | 174 |
Samos, with a snap of his fingers, freed the dancer from the slave pole. |
10 |
| 5 | 310 |
I moved to my feet, and, kicking loose the pole which held the tent, slipped outside, drawing my scimitar. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 8 | 198 |
On a pole, beside the entrance of the tent, hung a water bag. |
10 |
| 8 | 302 |
I lifted the water bag from the pole, where it hung, outside the entrance of the tent. |
10 |
| 16 | 3 |
At each corner of the raft, mounted on a pole, was a small, oil-fed lamp. |
10 |
| 16 | 16 |
The weight makes it easier to keep the pole, which is long, submerged. |
10 |
| 16 | 237 |
I tried to save a second man, similarly, but he was taken from the pole, screaming, by the Old One. |
10 |
| 16 | 260 |
He indicated with his hand the direction the men were to pole. |
10 |
| 17 | 41 |
"The lelts remain with us," said one of the men near me, he, too, with a pole. |
10 |
| 17 | 208 |
The tail, like a twig, had struck loose the lamp pole, hurling it, spinning, flaming oil spilling, yards away into the circle of darkness outside the ring of lamplight on the dark, briny water. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 112 |
Near the central tent, almost as large, was a brown, turreted tent, with a pennon flying from a central pole. |
10 |
| 5 | 497 |
The captain struck at the heavy pole of the tent with the side of his fist. |
10 |
| 5 | 498 |
The pole, though it was deeply anchored, shook in the dirt. |
10 |
| 20 | 197 |
A man walked by carrying a long pole, from which dangled dozens of the eels of Cos. |
10 |
| 20 | 232 |
The large, yellow shield on the high pole in the harbor had already been hoisted and fallen, and, near it, the fire of white smoke had been lit. |
10 |
| 20 | 233 |
When the shield reaches the top of the pole in the harbor and is permitted to fall it is the tenth hour, the Gorean noon. |
10 |
| 21 | 60 |
The fire of white smoke had been lit near the shield pole, though it was not yet noon. |
10 |
| 21 | 62 |
On the height of the shield pole there was hoisted a scarlet disk. |
10 |
| 21 | 107 |
White smoke billowed from the platform near the shield pole, from whose height now swung a scarlet disk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 774 |
I went to the front of the booth, to the front margin of its selling area, bordering the walkway, and thrust back a shred of dangling canvas, it sewn to a broken pole, and then turned to regard them. |
10 |
| 5 | 75 |
I indicated the frozen north, the polar sea, the ice of the lonely pole. |
10 |
| 12 | 369 |
Some two hundred and forty different types of plants grow in the Gorean arctic within five hundred pasangs of the pole. |
10 |
| 12 | 406 |
"At least he has tied her to a pole behind the tent". |
10 |
| 12 | 430 |
I had noted that Arlene, her wrists crossed and over her head, bound, was fastened to the horizontal pole of a meat rack, supported by its two tripods of inclined poles. |
10 |
| 14 | 287 |
He pulled her from the tent, stumbling, to the pole behind the tent, that from which tabuk meat was sometimes hung to dry. |
10 |
| 14 | 288 |
A few days ago Arlene had been tied to the pole. |
10 |
| 14 | 289 |
Imnak fastened Poalu's hands over her head and to the pole. |
10 |
| 14 | 291 |
"What are you going to do?" Imnak, who had returned to the tent after fastening her in place, returned to the pole. |
10 |
| 14 | 360 |
"Please! Please!" Then her hands were untied from the pole, and freed, and she knelt at his feet. |
10 |
| 15 | 54 |
I cast down the switch, angrily, and then, a hand in the hair of each, dragged them back up to a half-standing position and then twisted them about and conducted them, they bent over, the head of Arlene at my left hip and that of Thistle at my right hip, to a place beneath the horizontal pole near I... |
10 |
| 15 | 571 |
"Be quiet," I said, "or I will take you outside, tie you to the pole and whip you". |
10 |
| 25 | 52 |
Sleen harnesses and traces are hung on a pole, thrust upright in the snow, to protect them from being eaten by the sleen. |
10 |
| 31 | 60 |
Then it dropped down to a pole in the scaffolding. |
10 |
| 31 | 61 |
It sat there for a moment, and then, lightly, swung from one pole to another, and then returned, dropping lightly, for an animal of its weight, to the floor before the platform. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 19 |
It hung from a projection on a pole, the pole fixed upright on the roof of a nearby warehouse. |
10 |
| 20 | 28 |
The girls stood beneath this pole, their small wrists locked in slave bracelets, fastened above their head and about the pole. |
10 |
| 1 | 45 |
My speculation that this referred to the pole of the Gorean northern hemisphere had proved correct. |
10 |
| 1 | 363 |
In the center of the cell was a wooden, metal-sheathed pole, some four inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 1 | 364 |
This pole rose, straight, some four feet out of the water. |
10 |
| 1 | 365 |
About this pole, encircling it, and supported by it, was a narrow, circular, wooden, metal-sheathed platform. |
10 |
| 1 | 366 |
It was some ten inches on all sides, from the circumference of the pole to the edge of the platform. |
10 |
| 1 | 368 |
One of the guards, carrying a long, wooden pole, thrust it down, into the water. |
10 |
| 1 | 369 |
The water, judging by the pole, must have been about eight feet deep. |
10 |
| 1 | 377 |
The girl on the platform, naked, kneeling, a metal collar hammered about her neck, the metal pole between her legs, grasping it with both arms, threw back her head and screamed piteously. |
10 |
| 1 | 382 |
The walkway's front edge was about a yard from the tiny, wooden, metal-sheathed, circular platform, mounted on the wooden, metal-sheathed pole, that tiny platform on which the girl knelt, that narrow, tiny platform which held her but inches from the tharlarion-filled water. |
10 |
| 1 | 384 |
She clutched the pole helplessly. |
10 |
| 1 | 387 |
She clutched the pole even more closely. |
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| 1 | 734 |
"The pole and platform below, on which is held prisoner our lovely guest," said Samos, "was suggested to me by a peacekeeping device of Bila Huruma. |
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| 1 | 757 |
How piteously and helplessly she had clung to the pole. |
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| 4 | 390 |
There are, of course, a variety of types of craft in the canals, ranging from ramships harbored in the courts of captains to the coracles of the poor, like leather tubs, propelled by the thrusting of a pole. |
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| 4 | 711 |
Bring, too, a pole and cage to the shop". |
10 |
| 4 | 754 |
It was supported on a pole, the ends of which rested on their shoulders. |
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| 6 | 664 |
Shoka, with a hook on a pole, drew Sasi back to the rail. |
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| 6 | 665 |
He put aside the pole, and, one hand about her waist, drew her to him, lifting her then over the rail. |
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| 6 | 668 |
Shoka then retrieved the pole and extended it outward, to draw the blond-haired girl back to the rail. |
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| 18 | 78 |
The commoner was ordered to have his fingers cut off and then be put upon a tharlarion pole in Lake Ushindi. |
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| 18 | 79 |
That his fingers be removed was accounted mercy on the part of Bila Huruma, that he be able to cling less long to the pole and his miseries be the sooner terminated. |
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| 18 | 94 |
It was conjectured that, when he was removed from the pole, if he were still alive, he would be more careful in his accounts. |
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| 19 | 64 |
The strings, fastened, behind their heads, led up to a pole at the head of the sleeping platform, where they were tied. |
10 |
| 19 | 87 |
He looked closely at the contorted figure, its discolored hands still clutching at the pole of the sleeping platform. |
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| 20 | 27 |
A pole, mounted on two tripods, had been fastened some six feet above the surface of the raft, and parallel to its long axis. |
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| 32 | 543 |
In the beginning I was tied on a pole, carried on the shoulders of men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 7 |
I felt the side of the pole against my belly. |
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| 22 | 48 |
"You there, Female," called a pirate, his eye roaming the crowd, "step forth!" The men holding the ship's pole, frightened, lowered it. |
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| 31 | 10 |
I pressed against the heavy metal pole, or bar, almost five inches in diameter, fixed now, like a spoke, in the shaft of the windlass. |
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| 31 | 11 |
My neck, in its collar, by a chain, was fastened to this pole. |
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| 31 | 25 |
The collars and neck chains keep men fastened to the pole, whether it is inserted within the windlass or not. |
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| 31 | 26 |
When moving about, the pin-and-lock device opened, the men will carry the pole with them. |
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| 31 | 27 |
When the pole is on the ground, and not lifted, one can rise no higher, of course, than on one's knees, with one's head deferentially lowered. |
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| 31 | 126 |
As I made my way about the windlass, treading the slatted, circular platform, with my fellow prisoners, thrusting against the metal pole, I saw, chained to the wall, and at one side, behind the water trough cut in the stone, their necks still fastened to their own poles, two other sets of prisoners. |
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| 32 | 25 |
The collar and chain which had fastened me to the windlass pole had been removed from my neck, but I wore still, on my wrists and ankles, the other chains from the room of the windlass. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 104 |
In the simplest case a series of holes is drilled in the pole and the girl's ankles are merely fastened on the pole at whatever separation the master desires. |
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| 8 | 419 |
Her wrists were then freed of the rope and taken behind her where they were fastened to a sturdy metal pole, a portion of the rack, by dangling slave bracelets. |
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| 12 | 102 |
The other ankle is then pulled to a corresponding position at the other end of the pole where, by means of another thong passed through another hole, drilled at that point in the spreader, it is fastened securely in place. |
10 |
| 12 | 106 |
In this latter sort of device the girl's ankles, fastened at the far ends of the pole or board, need not be untied and retied. |
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| 12 | 109 |
Sometimes they are used for the wrists, the pole or board then usually behind the girl's back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 253 |
Winyela now knelt on the pole and bent backwards, until her hair fell about the wood, and then she slipped her legs down about the pole and lay back on it, her hands holding to the pole behind her head. |
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| 3 | 254 |
She reared helplessly on the pole, and writhed upon it, almost as though she might have been chained to it, and then, she turned about and lay on the pole, on her stomach, her thighs gripping it, her hands pushing her body up, and away from the pole, and then, suddenly, moving down about the trunk, ... |
10 |
| 2 | 455 |
"It is a pole," said Cuwignaka, "a great pole". |
10 |
| 3 | 154 |
Thus, when the pole was set in the ground, amidst its supporting stakes, these circles would be at the visible base, or root, of the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 310 |
Later, when the pole was set in the enclosure of the dance, the thongs would be unwrapped and the two objects would hang beside the pole. |
10 |
| 2 | 16 |
You must see them! Too, in moments, the medicine party will go forth to cut the pole. |
10 |
| 2 | 243 |
Such cradles, too, vertically, are often hung from a lodge pole or in the branches of a tree. |
10 |
| 2 | 429 |
"To see the cutting of the pole," he said. |
10 |
| 2 | 436 |
"The pole," I said, "is used in this dance?" "Of course," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 2 | 444 |
"Who will select this pole?" I asked. |
10 |
| 2 | 452 |
"Who will cut down this pole," I asked, "chieftains?" "No," laughed Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 2 | 454 |
"Do you not understand the meaning of the pole?" "No," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 1 |
The Pole "How beautiful she is," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 3 | 120 |
This was to allow for the pole later being set in the earth, within the enclosure of the dance, set among its supporting stakes, to a depth of some seven or eight feet. |
10 |
| 3 | 126 |
It was she, herself, with the paint, the slave, who must proclaim that the pole was Kaiila. |
10 |
| 3 | 134 |
Thrice did Winyela, with the brush, as the pole was turned in the tripods, scarletly band the rotated surface. |
10 |
| 3 | 137 |
The three scarlet bands of paint were bright on the white pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 152 |
The paint was bright on the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 153 |
The three bands, each about four or five inches in width, and separated also by such distances, were painted in such a way that the bottom ring, or band, was about seven and a half to eight and a half feet from the base of the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 200 |
She then stood, held by the tethers, wildly, before the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 201 |
Cancega pointed to the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 204 |
Cancega again pointed to the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 205 |
Winyela then put her head down and took the pole in her small hands, and kissed it, humbly. |
10 |
| 3 | 208 |
Again Winyela kissed the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 220 |
She was now only a filthy slave, an ignoble animal, something of no account, something worthless, obviously, but nonetheless permitted, in the kindness of the Kaiila, a woman of another people, to attempt to please the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 222 |
Was this not suitable? Was this not appropriate for her, a slave? Winyela, kissing the pole, and caressing it, and moving about it, and rubbing her body against it, under the directions of Cancega, and guided sometimes by the tethers on her neck, continued to dance. |
10 |
| 3 | 226 |
"I think the pole will be pleased," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 229 |
Winyela, by the neck tethers, was pulled against the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 239 |
The tethers pulled her back from the pole and she reached forth for it. |
10 |
| 3 | 242 |
She climbed, then, upon the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 272 |
Winyela, helplessly, piteously, danced her obeisance to the great pole, and, in this, to her masters, and to men. |
10 |
| 3 | 293 |
Winyela was dragged back, toward the bottom of the pole, on its tripods. |
10 |
| 3 | 296 |
But already Winyela, of her own accord, breathing deeply from the exertions of her dance, and trembling, had put her head to the dirt, humbly, before the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 308 |
Her garments and jewelry, rolled in a bundle, were tied in what would be the lower fork of the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 315 |
I was reminded by these things of the medicine of the pole, and of the great forthcoming dance, projected to take place about it. |
10 |
| 3 | 316 |
The medicine of the pole and dance had intimately to do, obviously, with such things as hunting, fertility and manhood. |
10 |
| 3 | 321 |
Men were lowering the medicine pole to the ground and breaking apart the tripods. |
10 |
| 3 | 322 |
Ropes had been put on the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 323 |
Then, preceded by Cancega, with his medicine wand, uttering formulas, followed by his two seconds, with their rattles, the pole, pulled on its ropes, being drawn by several kaiila, was dragged toward the camp. |
10 |
| 11 | 112 |
In the center of this space was the pole which had been formed, some days ago, from the tree which Winyela had felled. |
10 |
| 11 | 114 |
Two forks had been left on the pole, one about ten feet from the ground and one about fifteen feet from the ground. |
10 |
| 13 | 6 |
"It is she, who danced at the pole," said another. |
10 |
| 18 | 165 |
Within would be the pole, the ropes and the skewers, and, painted and bedecked, dancing, the young men. |
10 |
| 22 | 256 |
In the center of the lodge, visible now through a hole torn in the brush, was the tall, slim, peeled, twice-forked pole which, days ago, Winyela had felled. |
10 |
| 22 | 257 |
The paraphernalia of the dance, with the exception of some long, narrow, braided ropes, had been removed from the pole. |
10 |
| 22 | 258 |
The pole itself had apparently been attacked with hatchets and knives. |
10 |
| 32 | 221 |
"The pole itself had been defaced and profaned, its trappings stripped away. |
10 |
| 32 | 228 |
"I will have the pole, myself and my manhood. |
10 |
| 32 | 230 |
"It takes some men two or three days to free themselves from the pole," I said. |
10 |
| 39 | 448 |
"It is not necessary to tie me by the neck to a travois pole, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 39 | 459 |
I then fastened her to the travois pole. |
10 |
| 39 | 479 |
I checked that the reins of the unbound tarn were bound securely to the right travois pole, looking forward. |
10 |
| 39 | 480 |
I then checked the slave's rope, that it was securely bound on the left travois pole, looking forward, and that a similar, uncompromising security was manifested in the neck-knot, at the other end of the rope, under the girl's chin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 211 |
"This may be done to music," said Hermidorus, "and, as you know, there are many versions to the post dance, or pole dance, singly, or with more than one girl, with or without bonds, and so on, but here we are using it merely as a training exercise". |
10 |
| 8 | 214 |
She began to writhe about the pole. |
10 |
| 8 | 218 |
Lift your hands above your head, palms to the pole, caressing it. |
10 |
| 8 | 219 |
Turn about the pole! Twist about it! Now to your knees, holding it!" He then cracked the whip again. |
10 |
| 22 | 20 |
This cover was placed over a frame which consisted of five poles; two of these poles, braced, crossed and tied together near the top, were at the front of the wagon; a similar pair was fixed at the back of the wagon; between these two pairs of poles there lay, across them, parallel to the long axis ... |
10 |
| 22 | 21 |
The tarpaulin, then, was laid over this long pole and held in place by its own two poles, resting against the sloping sides of the crossed poles at the front and back of the wagon. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 98 |
They are supported on a pole and the operator, holding the pole, supporting the figure, is concealed within the robes. |
10 |
| 18 | 505 |
The joining of the mirrors, facing outwards, was concealed by a narrow freestanding decorative pole, from which plantings might be hung, which pole, thanks to Boots, was now somewhat recessed in the niche. |
10 |
| 17 | 23 |
Once he fell, tangled in the chains that had linked the beast to the baiting pole. |
10 |
| 18 | 338 |
With the pole, using it as a lever, thrusting it beneath the vat and its large, raised fuel plate, I tipped, and then turned, the vat and plate. |
10 |
| 18 | 345 |
I struck a guard away from me with the pole. |
10 |
| 18 | 348 |
I struck another guard, sweeping the pole at him. |
10 |
| 18 | 357 |
He took the pole unpleasantly in his stomach. |
10 |
| 18 | 361 |
I flung the pole into a pair of aggressive guests, knocking them back. |
10 |
| 18 | 506 |
The casual observer would take the mirrored surfaces of the two opposite walls for a single, solid surface, that well behind the pole, at the back of the niche. |
10 |
| 18 | 507 |
The recessing of the pole, with the joining of the mirrors behind it, made it impossible, because of the angles involved, for an observer to see his own reflection in the mirrors unless, of course, he were to come into the niche himself. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 170 |
"It is mounted on a silvered pole. |
10 |
| 12 | 171 |
Near the top of the pole there is a rectangular plate on which there is writing. |
10 |
| 19 | 233 |
He indicated a small figure near the checkpoint, impaled on a high pole, lifted some twenty feet above the heads of the refugees. |
10 |
| 19 | 384 |
Only a few feet away, set off from the road a little, on our right, was the impaling pole we had seen from the cart. |
10 |
| 19 | 387 |
It had apparently been twisted and jerked until the point of the pole had emerged through the chest. |
10 |
| 19 | 388 |
It had then been drawn down the pole better than a yard. |
10 |
| 19 | 391 |
The pole itself was red with blood. |
10 |
| 19 | 412 |
I walked to the side where the pole had been set up. |
10 |
| 19 | 413 |
I examined the papers nailed to the pole. |
10 |
| 19 | 414 |
They were partly ripped by the wind, and were stained with blood, where the blood had run down the pole. |
10 |
| 19 | 471 |
I could also see the twisted, bent body of Ephialtes of Torcadino on the impaling pole, and the flutter of papers nailed to it. |
10 |
| 19 | 495 |
"What were the papers nailed to the pole?" asked Boabissia. |
10 |
| 25 | 1725 |
A familiar tie in a camp is to bind the slave hand and foot and kneel her under a branch, or horizontal pole, about which her hair is tied, this holding her well in place. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 220 |
In the country, impalement is often used, the pole usually being set up near a crossroads. |
10 |
| 1 | 335 |
In some villages, however, something approximating the old mortar and pestle is sometimes used, the two blocks, a pounding block strung to a springy, bent pole, and the mortar block, or anvil block. |
10 |
| 1 | 336 |
The pole has one or more ropes attached to it, near its end. |
10 |
| 1 | 337 |
When these are drawn downward the pounding block descends into the mortar block, and the springiness of the pole, of course, straightening, then raises it for another blow. |
10 |
| 1 | 340 |
The principle of the common quern is as follows: it consists primarily of a mount, two stones, an overhead beam and a pole. |
10 |
| 1 | 345 |
The upper stone has two holes in it, in the center a funnel-shaped hole through which grain is poured, and, near the edge, another hole into which one end of the turning pole is placed. |
10 |
| 1 | 346 |
This pole is normally managed by two operators. |
10 |
| 1 | 347 |
Its upper portion is fitted into an aperture in the overhead beam, which supplies leverage and, of course, by affording a steadying rest, makes the pole easier to handle. |
10 |
| 1 | 622 |
In a flash of lightning, illuminated clearly for a moment, I could see, over the palisade, hanging from its chains, from the crosspiece on the high pole, swinging in the storm, the huge sign with its emblematic representation of a bird, that with the vulturelike neck and the distorted, grasping righ... |
10 |
| 8 | 23 |
The great sign, on its chains, hanging from the supported, horizontal beam on the huge pole was quiet now. |
10 |
| 15 | 824 |
Accordingly, in this fashion, if there should be more than one such agent, Cosians would not know which of them was mounted on the pole. |
10 |
| 16 | 93 |
Turning, about fifty yards behind me, I saw the upright of a single-pole ladder jut from the outside over the wall. |
10 |
| 16 | 116 |
There, on a pole, defiantly, snapped a torn flag, bearing in yellow the single letter 'Ar' on a red background with, beneath it, a wavy yellow band. |
10 |
| 16 | 284 |
To be sure, given the weight involved and the smoothness of the pole she will be unsuccessful. |
10 |
| 16 | 321 |
The smaller probes, now, those of the scattered grapnels and single-pole ladders, had ceased. |
10 |
| 17 | 29 |
The second great pole was tied on two crosspoles and, by ten men on each crosspole, was thrust in place as soon as that bridge fell, and was held at an angle, like a railing, its sturdy barrier diverting the stream of attackers, causing many on the outside edge to be buffeted by their comrades to th... |
10 |
| 17 | 30 |
Many clung to the pole, as they could, and many strove to slip under it or climb over it. |
10 |
| 17 | 155 |
This startled me, as the battlements here, in the vicinity of the gate, were higher, surely, than even the long, bending single-pole ladders used along the wall. |
10 |
| 17 | 167 |
To my amazement then I saw two uprights of a ladder, a two-upright ladder, not one of the single-pole ladders, suddenly appear but feet from me. |
10 |
| 17 | 245 |
I wished that I had had one of the tridents or one of the sharpened, steel crescents fixed on a metal pole, useful in such work. |
10 |
| 18 | 567 |
"But if we should survive," he said, "you understand that we must attempt to apprehend the prisoner and see that the sentence is carried out upon her, even if it means only weights on her ankles and a sharpened pole on a pier". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 163 |
I had little doubt, from what I had seen, that it could pull the girl from the pole, or even, by means of the girl and her bonds, the pole from the sand. |
10 |
| 19 | 1655 |
"Why should I pole your extra weight?" I asked, picking up the pole. |
10 |
| 1 | 1206 |
A pennon, one bearing the insignia of the company of Artemidorus, a sword grasped in the talon of a tarn, flew from the main pole, projecting through the roof. |
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 |
| 1 | 1246 |
I did, before I left the tent, hang the slave beads I had shown the fellow outside over the nail in the tent pole to which Borton had attached his warning sign. |
10 |
| 7 | 13 |
He held to his spear, his eyes closed, using it like a pole, to keep his balance in the soft bottom. |
10 |
| 18 | 8 |
The attack unit usually consists of two men, one to pole or paddle the craft and the other to use the bow. |
10 |
| 19 | 11 |
I had, the day before yesterday, however, found an abandoned pole which proved useful in propelling it. |
10 |
| 19 | 12 |
The pole's gilding had been muchly burned away. |
10 |
| 19 | 50 |
Erected in the sand, there was a stout pole, upright, about four inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 19 | 51 |
This pole was about seven feet in height. |
10 |
| 19 | 52 |
Toward the bottom of the pole, about a yard from the sand, there was a rounded crosspiece, about a foot in length. |
10 |
| 19 | 53 |
This was inserted through, and fastened within, a hole in the pole. |
10 |
| 19 | 54 |
Above this crosspiece, something like three and a half feet Gorean above it, also inserted through, and fastened within a hole in the pole, there was another crosspiece, a longer one, about a yard in length. |
10 |
| 19 | 56 |
Had they been intended for the keeping of a man they would have been thicker, the accommodating pole then being proportionally larger. |
10 |
| 19 | 61 |
She threw her head back wildly, her hair falling back over the top of the pole, about at the base of her neck, looked up at the sky, and again screamed. |
10 |
| 19 | 63 |
It had alighted a few yards before the pole. |
10 |
| 19 | 69 |
More dangerous, at least immediately, were two short-legged, long-bodied tharlarion twisting about in the sand near the foot of the pole. |
10 |
| 19 | 106 |
It hissed at the tharlarion near the pole. |
10 |
| 19 | 123 |
She threw her head back, her hair back over the top of the pole, screaming. |
10 |
| 19 | 164 |
I saw her press back against the pole, even more tightly against it than she was held by her unslippable bonds. |
10 |
| 19 | 167 |
The ul stretched forth its neck to remove her from the pole. |
10 |
| 19 | 288 |
They were muchly encircled with thongs, by means of which they were then fastened to the pole and crosspiece. |
10 |
| 19 | 430 |
Also the very pole I was using for the raft had been gilded, though the gilding, when I retrieved it from the marsh, had been muchly burned away. |
10 |
| 19 | 555 |
"Yes," I said, "they do seem to be well held, fastened excellently to the pole and crossbar. |
10 |
| 19 | 630 |
I steadied myself with my left hand on the pole. |
10 |
| 19 | 699 |
"It would not do for rencers," I said, "to find this pole empty. |
10 |
| 19 | 706 |
I then turned away from her, addressing myself to the pole. |
10 |
| 19 | 712 |
I then dragged the pole to the marsh and, floating it, waded out a way, and thrust it into the center of what seemed a deep, promising channel. |
10 |
| 19 | 1075 |
I did not even think she could well use the pole, as it was a large, heavy one. |
10 |
| 19 | 1352 |
"When I was bound on the pole and you had touched me, as you put it, in the manner of the master, you apologized to me, and asked my forgiveness, do you recall?" "Yes," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 1660 |
"You cannot be serious!" I thrust the pole down into the mud and propelled the raft forward, and about. |
10 |
| 19 | 1673 |
I continued to pole the raft, silently. |
10 |
| 20 | 5 |
I put the pole down on the raft, leaped into the water, angrily, and waded to her. |
10 |
| 20 | 164 |
I then regained the surface of the raft, took up the pole, and continued my journey, she following on her tether. |
10 |
| 23 | 10 |
I was pleased that we had concealed the camp as well as we had, and that the raft and pole had been similarly concealed. |
10 |
| 24 | 228 |
In the second place, if there is anyone around to hear you, it would almost certainly be rencers, and then, I suspect, it would be back to the pole with you". |
10 |
| 26 | 166 |
"And I do not know if there is much difference between being tied on a pole for tharlarion or simply being bound and thrown to them". |
10 |
| 27 | 62 |
I seized up the pole from the raft in fury and strode back to the pool of sand. |
10 |
| 27 | 65 |
His hands reached piteously toward the pole. |
10 |
| 27 | 160 |
"The pole with which I rescued you," I said, "was from her barge. |
10 |
| 27 | 164 |
I found this pole in the marsh. |
10 |
| 28 | 439 |
She had tried to convince me of that, or something like that, I recalled, when she was pretending to be a rence girl, preposterous though that was, with her accent, when I had first encountered her on the pole, tied there for tharlarion. |
10 |
| 31 | 355 |
"Even the pole to which she was tied was uprooted". |
10 |
| 46 | 144 |
One of the women chained kneeling to a slave pole by the wrists clutched it as men rushed past. |
10 |
| 46 | 145 |
Another, backed against a slave pole, her hands chained together behind it, over her head, sucked in her belly and pressed, terrified, back against it. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 874 |
Her ankles were fastened to the pole, by means of a thong threaded through one of the apertures, near its bottom, her wrists by another thong passing through a hole a few inches higher than the bottom hole, and her neck by a thong passed through the aperture in the top part of the pole, behind her n... |
10 |
| 3 | 877 |
Her ankles are fastened some six inches or so from one end, and she is then, of course, secured, in one fashion or another, back or belly to the pole, as the master might please, at suitable intervals, by the wrists, belly and neck, the pole usually extending some six inches or so beyond her head. |
10 |
| 3 | 873 |
A slave girl was kneeling nearby, in a sort of improvised slave brace, a short, stout pole, drilled through in three places. |
10 |
| 3 | 876 |
I will mention two simple ones, first, the short, hollow tube, usually used with a sitting slave, whose wrists are tied, the thong then passing through the tube to emerge at the far end, where it is used to secure her ankles, and, second, the longer pole, drilled four times, used with a prone or sup... |
10 |
| 12 | 322 |
To be sure, it could be amusing to do so, particularly if it were useful in informing her that her freedom was likely to be brief duration, perhaps that within twenty yards an iron was heating for her, and a collar was waiting for her, with others, looped on a collar pole. |
10 |
| 12 | 323 |
The collars are usually closed on the pole, with the keys in the locks. |
10 |
| 12 | 325 |
A tape measure is usually used to measure the woman's neck, and then an appropriate collar is removed from the pole. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 139 |
She was forced down on her knees before the pole, facing it, and the interior of the pen, and then, in a moment, her wrists were lashed to the pole. |
10 |
| 13 | 145 |
"They will never get past the walls," said Nelsa, who had climbed up one of the racks, and was now some seven or eight feet above the surface of the roof, her feet on one pole, she clinging to another. |
10 |
| 22 | 623 |
She cried out, softly, piteously, her progress suddenly arrested by a tent rope, taut, running diagonally downward from its pole to its peg, anchored in the dirt, some feet from the tent. |
10 |
| 22 | 645 |
Occasionally a lantern was slung from a pole, a pool of light at its base. |
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| 23 | 297 |
The lantern was fixed on a short pole, at the front, left side of the cart, as one would look forward from the cart. |
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| 24 | 134 |
A list was attached to this pole, tacked there, a little above eye level. |
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| 25 | 555 |
Beyond being seen braceleted to a pole in the exhibition cage, on the basis of which the twenty-one bids were made, I was later seen elsewhere, in the festival camp, for Ahn serving wine, from the vat of Callimachus, the number on my breast for all to note, and even later, I was danced, and in the b... |
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| 29 | 137 |
Here Selius Arconious angrily kicked away two of the lower horizontal poles, and left one horizontal pole in place, which was about four feet above the leaves, wood chips, rotted straw, and turf. |
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| 29 | 143 |
In a moment or two he had returned to where she knelt before the pole, her wrists up, bound to it. |
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| 29 | 161 |
"Please, no, Master!" She struggled to her feet, before the pole, twisting about, wildly, pulling at her bound wrists. |
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| 29 | 165 |
She returned to her knees, facing the pole, staring ahead. |
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| 29 | 213 |
Too, she asked this as though quizzically, as though she might be genuinely puzzled to find herself on her knees, bound at the pole, or rail, as she was. |
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| 29 | 339 |
It is hard to participate in such a conversation when one is on one's knees, bound naked at a pole, and has a whip somewhere behind one. |
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| 30 | 172 |
There, to her misery, she was turned to her back and her wrists, over her head and back, fastened to a pole. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 43 |
Cabot, however, at the moment of becoming aware that his assault from the rear was discerned, looked for those individuals most ideally positioned for surveying the terrain, those not on the ground, and so the perceptive Kur on the pole, scarcely raising his paw to point, fell from the pole some twe... |
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| 18 | 130 |
He elected, thus, to climb a small escarpment, some thirty feet from the ground, which would slow sleen in their ascent, and, with good fortune, allow him to defend himself for a time with the sharpened stick or pole, were the sleen loosed. |
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| 21 | 94 |
A Kur, with a long pole, with a hook on its end, sunk it into the meat, and drew the meat, the sleen, Ramar, feeding and following, through one of the gates at the level of the sand. |
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| 48 | 12 |
They were deep in the forested areas between the habitats and the far villages, those toward the far pole, and Lake Fear. |
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| 48 | 17 |
These were the weapons which had been acquired by Lords Grendel and Statius, and the human, Tarl Cabot, in the vicinity of the far pole, that beyond the small villages. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 917 |
And better, surely, the degradations of collars and their fair lips pressed to the feet of masters than the slow, lingering death of the impaling pole. |
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| 5 | 1099 |
They are fastened to the poles in such a way that they dangle, swinging, from them, their bellies to the pole, their backs to the ground. |
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| 5 | 1124 |
I went behind one of the women, at the aft end of a pole, and carefully turned her collar. |
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| 10 | 39 |
Behind Lord Nishida, at the back of the platform, stood six of the "strange men," each armed with a glaive, the blade of which, socketed in its stout pole, was some two-and-a-half feet in length, and curved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 244 |
The hull of the galley was within two or three yards, and a wharfing pole thrust over the bulwarks, toward me. |
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| 2 | 249 |
I seized the pole and pulled myself to an unsteady footing on the wreckage. |
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| 2 | 254 |
The pole was being drawn inward, I lost my footing and my feet were in the water. |
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| 2 | 256 |
I clung to the pole. |
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| 2 | 258 |
I was afraid I could not hold to the pole. |
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| 2 | 259 |
I was afraid, half frozen, and numb, that I would lose the pole, and fall back into the water. |
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| 7 | 164 |
He had his marked pole, testing the water. |
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| 7 | 170 |
The fellow, Torgus, turned about and, with his pole, ascended the steps. |
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| 7 | 263 |
It was the fellow, Torgus, come again, with his pole. |
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| 8 | 92 |
One caught at a pole and snapped it apart with one swift, wrenching closure of its wide, double-fanged jaws, like a toothed trap door set low in that broad, viperlike head. |
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| 8 | 319 |
Now, a sack of gold might be tied about your neck, as you might be led, naked and bound, leashed, to the impaling pole, the sack to be cut from your neck and given to Seremides, as you are lifted, striving not to move, into public view". |
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| 19 | 104 |
It was Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman, who threw his weight, as that of two men, against the helm pole. |
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| 19 | 110 |
And Cabot, struggling at the helm pole, held the course west, steadily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 359 |
Shortly after dawn the lantern on its pole at the edge of the market of Cestias would be extinguished, and, a bit later, the market pennon would be hoisted to the height of the pole, above the lantern arm, after which, at the praetor's signal, guardsmen would open the market. |
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| 15 | 70 |
To one side, my right, at the far edge of the market, there was a pole, on which was suspended a single lantern. |
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| 15 | 115 |
I could see the lamp, on its pole, far to the right. |
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| 15 | 149 |
Across the plaza the lamp, on its pole, was still lit. |
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| 31 | 23 |
Sometimes the slaves, stripped, a rope on their neck, in the keeping of a master, are made to pole the light reed boats through the rence. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 379 |
Shortly thereafter two fellows passed, bearing a pole between them, from which hung gutted, salted harbor eels. |
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| 8 | 501 |
A mariner stood at the bow, amidships, and stern, each with his harbor pole. |
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| 10 | 35 |
The common military ensign is a metal standard, raised on its pole or staff, bearing its device, and, usually, identifying a unit, whether it be an army, a division, or a company. |
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| 37 | 192 |
Would we not be ideal for his purposes? So I must contact the employer and did so, with a hurled, note-bearing knife, cast from the darkness, which lodged itself in the center pole of his tent, not two horts from his head. |
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| 43 | 465 |
"We will tie her naked to a selling pole on the coast," he said, "and see what she will bring". |
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| 50 | 40 |
"See the high pole north of the dock, across from the stern of the ship. |
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| 50 | 42 |
I was sure that pole had not been there when I had been employed about the dock. |
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| 50 | 271 |
North of the dock, amongst some of the shops, and workers' huts, I saw the high pole at which was flown the long, some yards long, unfurled, wind- whipped, scarlet triangle of silk, which I had been informed was the "ready banner," the banner that was put in place three days before departure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 214 |
"Can you not see she is spent? Pity her, lest she perish at the pole!" "If she perishes at the pole," said the first girl, "it will be my doing!" The switch then rained down upon my back, and legs, and neck, and I scrambled to my feet, sobbing, seizing the pole. |
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| 39 | 187 |
I cried out, for the pole dipped down, unexpectedly, given our weight, but, after a few terrifying moments, Kurik had trod the pole upward to the higher roof, across the way. |
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| 11 | 1 |
I leaned against the heavy horizontal pole, chest high, inserted through the large, conical stone. |
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| 11 | 47 |
Too, sometimes a pole would snap. |
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| 11 | 54 |
The mill owner owned some thirty draft slaves, and those not chained in place to their pole, would usually be chained to the side, in the shade, where they might rest. |
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| 11 | 59 |
It seemed to me madness that they should be silked, and I was chained to a pole. |
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| 11 | 82 |
My two wrists were chained to the pole. |
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| 11 | 120 |
I thrust then, again, with a rattle of chains, harder, against the pole. |
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| 11 | 121 |
My pole sisters laughed. |
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| 11 | 155 |
I was miserable, leaning forward, thrusting at the pole. |
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| 11 | 160 |
I, despite my beauty and intelligence, my Earth origin, was chained with others, barbarians, to a mill pole. |
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| 11 | 166 |
I slumped at the pole, suddenly, suspended by my chained wrists. |
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| 11 | 207 |
I then gasped, as though in pain, and, momentarily, hung again in the manacles, my body partly on the ground, my wrists up, a foot or so from the pole. |
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| 11 | 208 |
Then, as though with great effort, my head down, I struggled to a kneeling position, and knelt behind and below the pole, my wrists raised, on either side of my head, held in the manacles. |
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| 11 | 216 |
But the switch continued to strike, and I clutched the pole in misery. |
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| 11 | 219 |
I was shuddering at the pole. |
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| 11 | 235 |
I, clinging to the pole, sobbed, my protesting body raging with pain. |
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| 11 | 255 |
Before we were chained in the kennel I had been well belabored by several of my pole mates. |
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| 39 | 182 |
"But if I am carried so," I said, "how can you see the pole?" "One looks ahead, to the destination," he said. |
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| 39 | 189 |
He then freed the pole, and pulled it up, and over, onto the roof, so that it could not be seen from below. |
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| 58 | 44 |
It is difficult to rise to one's feet when hobbled, and, without a display pole, extremely difficult to do so gracefully. |
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| 61 | 510 |
"Dare not obstruct the path of a free woman, not so much as brushing her sleeve, lest I summon the guardsmen of Ar and have you remanded to the nearest pole of impalement! Aside, all of you, now! I have business here! Stand aside, aside!" Men moved aside, even officers, lest her robes be touched. |
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| 65 | 193 |
I now suspected the nature of some of the mysterious objects carried in the wagon, paint, perhaps, in the cylindrical containers, and, surely, the pole and banner, which must have resided in the long, rectangular box. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 17 |
My attitudes and emotions concerning him swept from pole to pole, from horizon to horizon, in gamuts ranging from stinging humiliation at how he had treated me, I, a woman of Earth, educated and intelligent, a former acquaintance, now half-naked, collared, and marked, now an abject slave at his merc... |
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| 38 | 163 |
It was a holding pole, which, in the case of Dorna, served as a feeding pole. |
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| 38 | 168 |
The pole in Dorna's case served primarily as a feeding pole. |
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| 39 | 192 |
The guard then undid the swathing of ropes which had held the treated cloth so tightly about her body, and put her, kneeling, she held by Miles, at the pole, her back to the pole. |
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| 39 | 193 |
The guard then cinched the belly chain about her, pulling her back, tightly, against the pole, and then drew her wrists up, high, over her head, and shackled them to the pole. |
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| 33 | 16 |
Rencers commonly stand in them and pole them, but this was not practical for Bruno of Torcadino. |
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| 37 | 70 |
Sometimes several boats are tethered to one pole. |
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| 38 | 169 |
As it was used, in her case, the slave is knelt and her back is fastened closely against the pole by the belly chain. |
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| 38 | 172 |
In its way the pole is a rather severe reminder of one aspect of a pervasive understanding in Gorean culture—slave dependence. |
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| 38 | 183 |
When a slave would attend on Dorna, a man, usually Florian or Miles, was always present, even when they were not putting her at the pole or relieving her of its restraints. |
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| 38 | 185 |
"I will not eat!" had cried Dorna, kneeling, fastened to the pole, her wrists shaking the bracelets high above her head. |
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| 39 | 58 |
Toward the center of the room is a metal holding pole with a belly chain and wrist shackles". |
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| 39 | 99 |
It did not occur to me immediately, but I conjectured, a moment later, given the terror of Dorna, and the situation below me, the fire, the pole, the pool, and such, what must be occurring. |
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| 39 | 191 |
"Put her at the pole, belly chain and high-wrist shackling". |
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| 39 | 198 |
Links of metal scraped the iron pole. |
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| 43 | 268 |
Outside, and above, presumably on the pier, I heard Seremides say, presumably to a confederate who had been awaiting our arrival, "Raise a blue lantern and a yellow lantern, on the pier pole". |
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| 43 | 278 |
"The lanterns, one blue, one yellow, ascend the pier pole," said a man. |
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| 45 | 172 |
I also noted that the blue and yellow lanterns had been removed from the signal pole of the skerry. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 65 |
If a tree is not available, a trimmed, barkless pole may serve the same purpose, which is then denominated a trophy pole. |
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| 48 | 74 |
The body had been placed on the sharpened point of the pole, facing upward, and then dragged downward, worked downward, wrenched downward, slowly, bit by bit, perhaps by four men, until the pole's sharpened terminus, red with blood, now a dried stain, was visible, protruding some eighteen inches abo... |
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| 1 | 73 |
You have come to see if a pole of dried fish was missed, if a conical granary lies undetected, if an amphora of paga, buried in the sand, was overlooked". |
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| 45 | 164 |
"You will be hungry enough then to look forward to a crust of bread at the foot of an impaling pole". |
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| 48 | 58 |
At first I had taken it to be a stunted tree, with thick, uneven branches, then a trophy pole. |
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| 48 | 73 |
The naked body, now much fed upon by jards, had been impaled horizontally on the short, thick pole, which was no more than some five feet in height. |
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| 48 | 76 |
At the foot of the pole a lyre lay broken, its strings cut. |
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| 48 | 95 |
He then, with one foot, thrust the pole down. |
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| 48 | 104 |
I watched while the two men wearing scarves worked Tarchon's body free of the pole. |
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| 60 | 205 |
"Ask the lout with the large, clumsy pole to stand aside". |
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