| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 83 |
I stored this information away, hoping that someday it might prove useful. |
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| 28 | 242 |
When we had constructed the ship we felt that now we had what might prove to be, in this strange subterranean war, the decisive weapon. |
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| 30 | 168 |
The latter, of course, terrified, bewildered, would be of little service themselves, but they were offered as inducements to the males of Misk's forces to encourage their desertion; the girls were, so to speak, a bounty for treachery, and since the beauty of Chamber Slaves was well known in the Nest... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 22 | 16 |
It seemed to me that for once my hair might actually prove useful, a turnabout I contemplated with pleasure. |
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| 25 | 591 |
"I will prove to you," she said, "that your theories are false". |
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| 25 | 593 |
"I will prove to you," she said, "that a woman cannot be conquered". |
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| 25 | 600 |
"Well," said she, laughing, "I shall prove you both wrong!" "All right," I said, "we shall see". |
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| 26 | 448 |
"I have no way to prove that I come from Priest-Kings," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 322 |
"For some thousands of years they have, except for continual probes, usually tests to prove the sex of their Dominants, remained beyond the fifth ring. |
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| 11 | 388 |
In short I think they are both decidedly worth development, and should prove a quite profitable investment". |
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| 14 | 22 |
Women, I suspected, even proud, beautiful, intelligent women like Elizabeth Cardwell, secretly wish their men to be strong, and upon occasion to prove it to them, commanding them as mere females, giving them no choice but to do precisely as he wishes. |
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| 22 | 400 |
It seemed to me that combat on kaiilaback, and combat on tarnback, had much in common; I suspected that the small bow, though it had never been proven in battle on tarnback, might prove that it had worth in the Gorean skies as well as on the dusty, southern plains; I had further, in many nights of t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 503 |
Peace, my captains, might well prove profitable". |
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| 11 | 573 |
"Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intent... |
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| 12 | 106 |
That boy, I thought, may well prove useful to me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 138 |
Moreover, she might prove valuable if I wished to recruit the help of Arn, the Outlaw, he whom she had once drugged and robbed. |
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| 6 | 267 |
If it should prove necessary to storm the camp with slave nets, we would do so after a secret approach, striking decisively and fiercely from an unexpected direction. |
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| 6 | 732 |
I thought Tina would prove popular in the camp. |
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| 7 | 57 |
I thought their services might prove valuable. |
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| 10 | 61 |
"I thought they might prove useful in hunting for this one," he said. |
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| 15 | 209 |
Strung out in the march, perhaps eventually without points and scouts, they would prove easy game. |
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| 15 | 345 |
There was a large, rolled tarpaulin, which might prove useful. |
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| 15 | 352 |
Such an exotically vintaged wine might prove of value. |
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| 16 | 231 |
I had thought it might prove useful. |
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| 16 | 325 |
I thought that perhaps, at some time, it might prove useful. |
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| 18 | 254 |
I had suspected, as long ago as Lydius, that that fantastic little wench might prove of great utility to my enterprises. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 86 |
His sword was drawn, but it would prove of little efficacy against the great metal shields, the sweeping axes of the Kurii. |
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| 21 | 85 |
"I shall now," said the Blue Tooth, "if it be within my power, prove to be so good a friend". |
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| 21 | 100 |
It would prove indeed to be a great foe. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 189 |
It had entered my mind, too, that it might prove most profitable, under certain conceivable circumstances, to exchange her for information. |
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| 5 | 643 |
I had little doubt she would prove valuable. |
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| 9 | 180 |
Who would care to risk his life for a free woman, who, stripped, might prove disappointing, when, for less risk, he could get his capture loop on a known quantity, a girl who has quite probably been trained like an animal to deliciously satisfy the passions of a man, a girl who, responsive, helpless... |
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| 25 | 112 |
I thought such men might prove useful". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 650 |
The ceremonial taking of food from the hand of the man, as it had been done this evening in the camp, would prove to be somewhat unusual, though it would be reasonably common to be handfed, when it amused him, or thrown scraps of food. |
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| 5 | 140 |
It seemed not unlikely that the match would ultimately prove profitable and politically expedient for both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Salerian Confederation. |
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| 7 | 556 |
"It is my hope, too," said he, "that this beating will prove a useful initiation for you, given your antecedents and nature, into the condition of slavery". |
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| 22 | 361 |
In any event, the Gorean culture is designed to celebrate and enhance nature, not to frustrate her, not to sicken and poison her; in nature there is complementarity; there is dominance and submission; that is in the genes of a thousand species, including our own; if the dice of genetics ever, long a... |
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| 24 | 226 |
I wanted to serve him, and love him, and give him pleasure, and pleasure, and pleasure! I wanted only the opportunity to prove to Clitus Vitellius my love! I was sure the stranger saw my love for my master, even if my master did not! How complete, and helpless, and profound, is the love of a slave g... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 |
Should he discover the weakness of the Priest-Kings, or construct a depot adequate to fuel, to shield, and supply the beaching ships, there seemed little reason to suppose the invasion would not prove successful. |
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| 2 | 1 |
The Message of the Scytale; I Converse with Samos "The arrogance of Kurii may yet prove their undoing," said Samos. |
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| 3 | 186 |
Naturally this does not prove fruitful for either individual. |
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| 4 | 515 |
I hoped the supplies I had sent north would mitigate what otherwise might prove a catastrophe for the red hunters, the nomads of the northern wastes. |
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| 4 | 519 |
It was doubtless rather the invention of a red hunter, bemused at the request of the man of Samos, months ago, for reports of anything which might prove unusual. |
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| 4 | 521 |
Seldom would his jokes and lies prove so profitable I suspected. |
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| 9 | 216 |
A vaccination mark might prove indicative. |
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| 11 | 255 |
In time I thought both might prove superb. |
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| 15 | 506 |
Too, of course, if a relationship should weaken, or not prove enduringly satisfactory, the girl is simply put in cuffs and taken to a market. |
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| 15 | 507 |
The relationship which does not prove satisfactory is soon terminated. |
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| 21 | 180 |
"She will indeed prove to be a superb slave," I said. |
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| 38 | 176 |
What a bargain thusly would the formerly rich young woman prove to be! Fortunate then the fellow whose collar she would wear, at whose feet she would kneel, whose whip, held before her, she would gratefully reverence with the softness of her submitted tongue and lips. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 98 |
Should a girl prove sluggish in any respect, it is simple to put her under discipline. |
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| 4 | 28 |
It might not prove easy to retake her immediately. |
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| 5 | 61 |
I felt that she would, in time, particularly if put under sex conquest, prove superb. |
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| 13 | 775 |
It is my guess that she will prove satisfactory". |
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| 16 | 87 |
In the event that the central channel, when completed, would not prove sufficient to handle the overflow of Ngao, as seemed likely, conducting it geometrically to Ushindi, side channels were contemplated. |
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| 16 | 159 |
"One determines what one wishes to prove and then arranges one's principles in such a way that the desired conclusion follows as a demonstrable consequence". |
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| 18 | 55 |
But perhaps it would prove to be a spark which would, in time, illuminate a universe. |
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| 18 | 156 |
We now wish, as doubtless will other merchant holdings, such as our sisters, Schendi and Bazi, to accord you our best wishes and to sue for your favor, that our shipping and merchants may be permitted to prove themselves of service in your future ventures". |
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| 19 | 110 |
I might prove troublesome to him in the future. |
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| 27 | 109 |
I did not doubt but what they might prove useful. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 84 |
The desire of women to find love might yet prove fatal to their designs. |
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| 1 | 503 |
'And you, I think,' he said, 'with the proper training, exercise and diet, will prove quite worthwhile. |
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| 1 | 516 |
There was nothing I could prove. |
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| 2 | 332 |
That is how they prove they are true men". |
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| 7 | 978 |
It would be unfortunate if the last recourse left to men to prove to themselves that they were men was the carnage of contemporary, technological conflict. |
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| 8 | 26 |
"We prove our manhood by denying it. |
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| 12 | 164 |
"Prove to us that he is tame!" called a woman. |
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| 22 | 717 |
"She is raw, and untrained, and needs diet and exercise, and discipline," he said, "but I think that, in time, she will prove superb slave meat". |
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| 22 | 719 |
I conjectured that Tenalion thought it likely that the Lady Florence, too, under similar circumstances and conditions, might prove superb slave meat. |
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| 22 | 764 |
"See that you prove worthy of having been sold for a silver tarsk," said Tenalion. |
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| 34 | 325 |
Yet there was little doubt in my mind that the prissy, inhibited, somewhat pretentious Miss Henderson, who was, all things considered, a very lovely female, might prove to be quite attractive as conjectured, say, kneeling naked at the foot of a man's couch, chained there to a slave ring, perhaps by ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 413 |
"That you are a natural slave, Alison," I said, "does not prove that the women of Earth are natural slaves". |
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| 4 | 155 |
"That condition," said the innkeeper, "could prove temporary". |
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| 10 | 256 |
"I see that you are scarcely likely to prove to be an economic asset," I said. |
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| 11 | 267 |
"I will prove to you that I am a slave," she said. |
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| 22 | 127 |
But then that is one of the inconveniences of nature, that it can upon occasion prove a political embarrassment. |
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| 25 | 228 |
Though the Gorean coin girl is commonly one of several girls, one of a stable thereof, so to speak, sent daily into the streets to earn money as the chattels they are for their master, under the penalty of whippings or tortures, or death, if their day's work does not prove sufficiently lucrative, it... |
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| 29 | 62 |
"The chain was inordinately expensive," said Glyco, "and, I am certain, it will prove ultimately ineffective". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 190 |
"Let us hope that the time which we have invested in that work will prove itself to have been well spent," he said. |
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| 8 | 457 |
"And the first indications are that she may prove to be good, very good". |
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| 10 | 22 |
I had thought that it might, in certain circumstances, prove useful. |
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| 19 | 1007 |
She must do her best, now little different from thousands of others, many regarded as more beautiful than she, to make herself something special to a master, lest she prove less than fully pleasing, and be fed to sleen. |
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| 19 | 1225 |
"I think she will prove satisfactory," I said, "for the purposes for which I require her, those of a common slave, a low slave, one to be set chores about the house, and one from whom full domestic services will be required". |
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| 20 | 126 |
And, surely, such a league would prove detrimental to Ar's ambitions on the Vosk and in the Vosk basin. |
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| 21 | 99 |
"Yes, Master," she said, fervently, "yes, a thousand times yes!" "I shall give you an opportunity to prove yourself," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 679 |
Species unification, I suspected, would prove not to be a blessing, but a trap and a bane, a pathology and curse, a societal sanitarium in which the great and strong would be reduced to, or must pretend to be reduced to, the level of the blinking, the cringing, the creeping and the tiny. |
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| 2 | 37 |
"Our aid might prove invaluable. |
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| 2 | 356 |
Some female slaves, incidentally, have a pedigreed lineage going back through several generations of slave matings, and their masters hold the papers to prove this. |
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| 2 | 377 |
I thought it might prove useful in the Barrens. |
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| 8 | 123 |
It might prove adequate, I speculated, even for that of a pleasure slave. |
10 |
| 13 | 204 |
"If you should prove unusual in some respect, although this is extremely rare," I said, "we can, tomorrow, grind one of Grunt's trading knives into a lancet". |
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| 13 | 351 |
"You desired to prove your aunt wrong," I said. |
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| 13 | 353 |
"I would prove that I was independent, that I was capable, that I could achieve success on my own. |
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| 13 | 935 |
"Do you think, in time, you will prove to be a hot slave?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 1244 |
It will not prove to be in their interest to persist in this particular reticence". |
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| 13 | 1515 |
One expects a red-silk girl, for example, not only to be able to find her way about the furs, but, subject to the whip, owned and dominated, perhaps chained, to prove herself a sensuous treasure within them". |
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| 13 | 1700 |
"You are a new and ignorant slave," I said, "but your body is of interest, and I speculate that you will eventually prove to be not without promise". |
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| 13 | 1797 |
"But they will also prove to be the source of inordinate pleasures," I said. |
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| 13 | 1811 |
"Do you know, ultimately," I asked, "who will prove to be your one best trainer?" "No, Master," she said. |
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| 14 | 422 |
How else could the test prove significant? She cried out, thrown to her belly by the first stroke. |
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| 15 | 273 |
"Your tutelage of them in submission and servitude, the instructional abuse to which you have subjected them," said Grunt, "may prove to be instrumental in saving their lives". |
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| 17 | 336 |
She had begged then, in effect, to be given a second chance to prove her suitability for slavery. |
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| 19 | 19 |
Ginger and Evelyn were lovely prizes and the Hobarts would doubtless prove useful in heavy work and, as boys, minding the kaiila herds. |
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| 19 | 224 |
"Female slaves are often given names such as Wasna, Grease, or Cespu, Scab or Wart, until they prove themselves sufficiently pleasing to have earned a better. |
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| 19 | 234 |
"And see that you prove to be a perfect she-animal to him, obedient, shameless and devoted, in all things". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 548 |
What better than the whip to prove to us that we are owned, as we wish to be?" "The lash speaks clearly to you of your bondage," I said. |
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| 9 | 587 |
The buying and selling, and trading, and bestowing, and such, of women tends to increase, course, the possibilities of a fellow's chances of obtaining a slave whom he really wants, whom he would die for, as indeed they tend to improve the probabilities of the girl, as well, falling into the hands of... |
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| 10 | 10 |
"I think the discipline to which she was subjected will prove to be adequate," I said. |
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| 10 | 21 |
If a slave continues to prove recalcitrant, of course, she gains nothing by this. |
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| 13 | 117 |
"I will try to prove to be better than merely satisfactory, Master," said the girl. |
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| 14 | 433 |
Such women, unfulfilled as females, starved for male domination, I supposed, taken sternly in hand, stripped and put to a man's feet, might prove to be grateful and rewarding slaves. |
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| 19 | 14 |
"If I am not permitted to dance," asked Cuwignaka, "how can I prove to them I am a man?" "I am sorry, my friend," I said. |
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| 19 | 16 |
I knew that Cuwignaka, for years, had dreamed of entering the lodge of the great dance, there to test and prove the manhood from which his people seemed determined to preclude him. |
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| 30 | 50 |
The red savage is usually quite willing to grant that the enemy has medicine; it is his hope, however, of course, that his medicine will prove stronger. |
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| 33 | 449 |
How cleverly, then, this reminds the slave that she was never anything, even before the technicality of her legal embondment, but a slave!" "Do you think you will prove to be a satisfactory slave?" I asked. |
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| 37 | 258 |
Thus, if the offspring is female, she is likely to be attractive, and thus, eventually, she should prove to be of value on the auction block, and if the offspring is male he is likely to be powerful, and thus of greater utility in the performance of heavy tasks, for example, in haulage, in digging a... |
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| 39 | 473 |
"It may prove useful". |
10 |
| 40 | 818 |
If she does not prove satisfactory, she may always, then, be put out". |
10 |
| 41 | 116 |
"That we cannot prove that an explanation is absolutely correct does not, of course, entail that it is not correct". |
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| 47 | 183 |
An escape trajectory, if one is dealing with a wily foe, can prove to be a tunnel of ambush. |
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| 50 | 131 |
"I ask only," she said, "the opportunity to prove to you that I am worthy of being owned". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 480 |
"Can Mistress prove that?" she asked. |
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| 3 | 660 |
"He says he thinks you will prove quite suitable," she said to me, in English. |
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| 3 | 1055 |
I was sure I could prove to a man that I was worthy of a chain. |
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| 4 | 387 |
How extraordinary and marvelous this was! Too, I was not insensitive to the emoluments and perquisites of this office, to the esteem and prestige that might attend it, to the glory that might be expected to be its consequence, to the wealth and power which, doubtless, sometime, would prove to be its... |
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| 5 | 103 |
Indeed, I have no doubt that in the middle price ranges you would prove to be a desirable buy". |
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| 5 | 246 |
"And what do you think I would go for?" "Lady Sheila must remember," said Drusus Rencius, "that even if she might prove to be quite lovely, she is still untrained". |
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| 7 | 51 |
"Indeed, I had not supposed that the Tatrix of Corcyrus would prove to be such a beauty". |
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| 12 | 102 |
I was afraid as to what might prove to be my fate if a man such as Ligurious no longer had any particular or special use for me. |
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| 16 | 311 |
On the other hand, if you should prove to be a slave, as you doubtless will, this will save you some whippings for disrespect". |
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| 26 | 138 |
It is up to you to prove to them that you have the aptitude, the talent, the dispositions, the desires and reflexes to be even considered for such a slavery". |
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| 26 | 304 |
I, and, indeed, the other girls, had been given little or no opportunity to prove to the masters that the slave bells tied on our ankles were not an inadvertence or a mistake. |
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| 32 | 69 |
But it seems that now the former Miss Collins of Earth may yet prove useful in our plans". |
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| 36 | 42 |
I had little doubt but what she, now in a collar, would prove eager and cooperative. |
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| 36 | 695 |
But for the slave access to the surface of the couch is an inestimable privilege, and she enters upon its surface gratefully and in trepidation, deferentially, determined thankfully to prove to her master the probity of his judgment, by according to him thereupon subtle and complex raptures of sensu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 398 |
"Let me prove to you that I can be acceptable as a slave!" she begged. |
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| 1 | 498 |
If she should be the least bit displeasing, of course, or should prove recalcitrant in even a tiny way, she may be immediately disposed of. |
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| 1 | 747 |
If Samos had known she would prove this good he might have put her in bells or a chain. |
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| 1 | 780 |
"It is my hope, Master," she said, "that in time I might not prove totally unacceptable as a slave". |
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| 1 | 800 |
"See that you continue to prove adequate," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 884 |
Indeed, for such a strategy to eventually prove successful, it seemed not unlikely they would have at least the tolerance of the Sardar itself. |
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| 1 | 1072 |
"Does this slave," asked Samos, "give some indication that she might eventually prove to be at least somewhat adequate in a collar?" "Yes, Captain," said Dorto. |
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| 2 | 756 |
Similarly, of course, they would be less efficient in manifesting the results of the deeper competitions involved, those competitions in which women desperately strive against one another, each to prove themselves more desirable to men than the others. |
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| 5 | 376 |
After some days of sport and recreation at the fair, we may then, if we wish, from the fairgrounds themselves, take tarns to Port Kar, an expensive proposition to be sure, but one which your resources will doubtless prove sufficient to fund. |
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| 6 | 1127 |
I have been through so much! Please let me have it!" "My benevolence may perhaps yet prove my undoing," said Boots, reaching into his pack. |
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| 6 | 1261 |
"How would you look stripped and in a collar, and under a whip? Do you think you would behave much differently, then, than any other slave? Indeed, have you ever stopped to think about it? Have you ever wondered, secretly perhaps, whether or not you might have what it takes to prove to be even an ad... |
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| 6 | 1348 |
And if she should prove sluggish in her lessons, I will unhesitantly encourage her with the whip". |
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| 7 | 177 |
Did she not know that the prospective buyer might not prove to be interested in her, and that she might in the meantime, by lax postures or attitudes, be discouraging other occurrences of interest; too, what of the other slaves and the aesthetic integrity of the display line; too, the prospective bu... |
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| 7 | 187 |
She would doubtless make a splendid "golden courtesan" and, after performances, there was little doubt but what she would prove popular in the tents. |
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| 7 | 247 |
"At least you now have a golden courtesan," I said, "and I expect that she will prove profitable in the tent as well". |
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| 9 | 508 |
I had no doubt but what she might, if collared and trained, and brought into touch with her feelings, prove to be not only an adequate slave, but perhaps even a quite marvelous one. |
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| 10 | 197 |
Now, of course, now that she had been freed of the psychological chains, the confining restrictions, the imprisoning inhibitions of the free woman, I had little doubt that she, and perhaps even soon, would prove to be a helplessly arousable, helplessly yielding slave, a joy both to herself and her m... |
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| 10 | 733 |
In the case of Boots, such distinctions would occasionally prove difficult to draw. |
10 |
| 10 | 791 |
"You will prove to be an apt pupil, will you not, Lady Telitsia?" I asked. |
10 |
| 10 | 793 |
"I will do my best to please my masters!" "You will prove to be an apt pupil, will you not, Lady Telitsia?" I repeated. |
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| 10 | 798 |
"I suppose you will prove to be troublesome," he mused, grimly. |
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| 16 | 201 |
Further, if anything, in spite of our intentions and care in these matters, should prove to be truly amiss, perhaps because of some oversight or subtle inadvertence, have no fear but what it will be promptly corrected". |
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| 18 | 299 |
Secure the palace!" If the escape of the prisoners did not seem sufficient for that purpose the sudden knowledge that I was still free in the palace, and mysteriously so, should prove more than adequate to accomplish that end. |
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| 20 | 147 |
I know of no way to prove the existence of glory to those who lack the senses for its apprehension. |
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| 21 | 315 |
"I had thought that perhaps such theory might one day prove its value". |
10 |
| 22 | 349 |
"Even if I had the papers," he said, "I would have no way to prove their authenticity". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 212 |
"I trust you will do your best to prove yourself worthy of a slave collar," I said. |
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| 1 | 351 |
So, too, prove to be many Earth girls. |
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| 4 | 433 |
Not identifying with the women, or being accepted by them, and perhaps coming to bitterly envy the men, their position and status, their nature and power, it seemed she may have turned toward trying to prove herself the same as them, turning then to mannish customs and garb, attempting thusly, despe... |
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| 5 | 75 |
"Can you prove it does not?" "No," I admitted. |
10 |
| 5 | 359 |
Accordingly you are not to mutilate them or cause them permanent or serious injury unless they prove themselves to be, in some small way, at least, disobedient or displeasing". |
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| 16 | 621 |
"I suppose it would be difficult to say who, ultimately, under proper slave disciplines, will prove the most beautiful, but, clearly, now, at the moment, if these things are pertinent to the issue, you would bring the highest price". |
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| 16 | 803 |
"I think you will find that you will prove to be, and doubtless for some time, a much more frequent object of male aggression than she". |
10 |
| 16 | 1168 |
"If I chose to be, if I were in the least interested in that sort of thing," she said, "I could prove to be a quite—a quite tasty pudding for a man". |
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| 16 | 1836 |
I was confident she would prove to be fully pleasing. |
10 |
| 17 | 3 |
I did not think it would be wise to advertise my possession of letters of safety until it should prove impossible to proceed further without them. |
10 |
| 22 | 277 |
It would doubtless prove to be an effective barrier. |
10 |
| 22 | 398 |
And certainly this feature makes the work of Gorean slavers on Earth less burdensome than it might otherwise prove to be. |
10 |
| 25 | 219 |
Accordingly, if she should become lax or imperfect in her service, in even a tiny way, or if she should prove at some time to be less than fully pleasing, in any way, perhaps only in a slight way, perhaps detectable only by her master, let her be punished, and well, as much, or more, than any other ... |
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| 25 | 953 |
I think, in time, with training, they will all prove excellent upon the floor". |
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| 25 | 1362 |
"You were drawn to me because something within you seemed to sense, and delicately, that I might prove to be a sympathetic interlocutor, an understanding fellow with whom you might, assuaging therein to some extent your loneliness and pain, hold gentle and kindly converse". |
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| 25 | 1377 |
This, of course, might prove dangerous, for it might provoke an upsurge of nature, like a natural phenomenon, in which her order, artificialities then scorned and abolished, would be harshly restored. |
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| 25 | 1960 |
Tonight's receipts, at any rate, would probably prove quite gratifying. |
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| 25 | 2271 |
"Such does not prove, of course," I said, "that Gor is the ideal world, but it does indicate that Gor possesses at least one feature of the ideal world". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 289 |
I awaited the command to lift my head, to view my master, to greet him with joy, to prove to him that I was no longer a hated "modern woman," no longer a spoiled, pampered woman of a sick, antibiological world, that I was now only his, a female slave, vulnerable and exposed in the fullness of her wo... |
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| 8 | 394 |
I gathered from some of their remarks, somewhat indelicate remarks, scarcely fit for the ears of an Earth woman, or one who had once been from Earth, that under true male attentions I might prove to be utterly helpless. |
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| 9 | 76 |
I was sure she would prove a marvelous purchase for a man. |
10 |
| 9 | 486 |
I, a pleasure slave! Absurd! How reductive! How degrading! I wanted suddenly to prove to them that I was no pleasure slave. |
10 |
| 10 | 191 |
He has been kind enough to express his satisfaction with trivialities of his slave, that she has a beautiful face and form, and his belief that I may perhaps prove to be pleasing in more significant manners. |
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| 11 | 213 |
Her "legal freedom," we may speculate, would prove quite fleeting. |
10 |
| 11 | 866 |
One of them would prove to be the "lucky ostrakon". |
10 |
| 17 | 27 |
They may wait, however, in special, small, walled areas outside the temples, usually at the back or sides, where their presence will not prove distractive or offensive to free persons. |
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| 17 | 304 |
"An investigation might nonetheless prove you have no legal hold on her". |
10 |
| 20 | 265 |
Who could prove that he had been involved in these things? My own testimony, even if it were dragged out of me on the rack, would be only that of a slave; his men would presumably not betray him; and he could always claim that his tavern, the basement, and such, had been used without his knowledge. |
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| 30 | 86 |
"It seems she will prove so," said Sempronius. |
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| 32 | 212 |
"May I inquire," I asked, as unconcernedly, as lightly, as I could, "what may be your intentions with respect to me?" "It is my intention," he said, "at least for a time, to keep you as a slave if you endeavor to prove satisfactory". |
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| 32 | 213 |
"As an embonded girl," I said, "I shall, of course, endeavor to prove satisfactory". |
10 |
| 34 | 185 |
"Once collared, do we not prove satisfactory?" I asked. |
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| 34 | 770 |
She must continue to be all that a slave is to a man, and be subject, too, unhesitantly, to his whip, should she prove to be in the least displeasing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 360 |
She strives to be fully pleasing, in all ways, and hopes desperately that she will prove so. |
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| 5 | 398 |
"I think this will prove satisfactory, free woman," I said. |
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| 6 | 831 |
I was sure, now, that it would not prove necessary to run the fellow through, at least at this time. |
10 |
| 8 | 384 |
"And if I serve well," she said, "perhaps later I will prove worthy of the collar". |
10 |
| 10 | 227 |
My expectation, I then felt, that she would prove to be the most exciting and desirable of the two, was borne out. |
10 |
| 10 | 230 |
Who, eventually, would prove to be the best slave I did not know. |
10 |
| 12 | 395 |
A woman of Earth, if not beaten, and swiftly forced to learn her womanhood, would doubtless have held out for a time, confident that Gorean men, like those to whom she had become accustomed on her native planet, would prove to be weak, that they would yield to her. |
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| 15 | 470 |
Does she not prove that there may be free women, at least at a given time, in a given place, no matter how horrifying they may be or whatever one may think of them? To be sure, she has not been in the arms of a master. |
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| 15 | 1056 |
I wanted something, rather, which would prove to Lady Publia, even if to her profound humiliation, what she was. |
10 |
| 16 | 430 |
"Unless perhaps she might prove displeasing or in some way uncooperative". |
10 |
| 19 | 108 |
"It should not prove difficult," said another. |
10 |
| 21 | 91 |
The results of this investigation, I gathered, might prove to be inconclusive. |
10 |
| 21 | 211 |
"Do you think you would prove to be of any value to them as a slave?" "I would strive desperately to be of value," she said. |
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| 21 | 829 |
One common difference between rape on Earth and rape on Gor is that rape on Earth is usually over with quickly, and is unlikely to be succeeded by social and legal consequences to the enjoyed woman, whereas rape on Gor may prove to be, and often is, a prelude to enslavement. |
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| 21 | 1266 |
Few men care to risk their lives to take a woman who, disrobed and unveiled, may prove to be worthy at best of no more than a kettle-and-mat sale. |
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| 21 | 1414 |
I thought that there was something in the slave now called "Claudia" which would prove to be a precious, vulnerable, yearning love slave. |
10 |
| 22 | 16 |
On the other hand, if you prove to be in the least bit disagreeable, do not fear. |
10 |
| 24 | 577 |
"She was determined to survive the fall of Ar's Station, whatever might prove to be the fate of her sisters in the city," said the keeper. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 274 |
In this way, they will usually prove superior to isolated interlopers and, if need be, one may be dispatched to report or summon aid, while the other, or others, may attend to other duties, perhaps those of a pursuit or search, or maintaining a distant contact with the enemy. |
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| 1 | 529 |
That is one reason it is often carried on a loop over the left shoulder, that it may be immediately, lest it prove an encumbrance, or present an encircling strap an enemy may seize, the blade drawn, discarded. |
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| 1 | 838 |
It was supposedly the expression of the yearning, or hope, of a young girl that she may be so beautiful, and so feminine, and marvelous, that she will prove acceptable as a slave. |
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| 1 | 842 |
It was the sort of melody of which free women often claim to be completely ignorant but, when pressed, prove to be familiar, surprisingly perhaps, with its every note. |
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| 1 | 859 |
Yet, too, uncompromisingly, she was one with the music, and, particularly in the beginning, with the story, seeming to examine her own charms, timidly, as if, like the "Tina" of the song, she might be considering her possible merits, whether or not she might qualify for bondage, whether or not she m... |
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| 1 | 1118 |
It is their business to please men, and they well know it, not to prove impediments to their action. |
10 |
| 3 | 36 |
Certain routes, situations and times of year are optimal for certain purposes, and others are not, and might even prove disastrous. |
10 |
| 3 | 67 |
He would not dally foolishly in the camp of Cos, as I might have, in the event that it might prove possible to render some assistance to an imperiled colleague. |
10 |
| 17 | 285 |
This I did in the area of the gag strap, beneath the hood, on the right, that I might, as far as it might prove possible, protect my face. |
10 |
| 18 | 289 |
Too, it should prove useful when the chills set in, a predictable consequence of the venom of sting flies, when administered in more than nominal amounts. |
10 |
| 19 | 27 |
That she not be put out as tethered tharlarion bait is an additional inducement for the female slaves of rencers to prove particularly pleasing to their masters. |
10 |
| 31 | 449 |
I had done these things to her, of course, not only because I, personally, like most men, relate most powerfully, deliciously and rewardingly to women in the mode of nature, as master to slave, but because I thought this might prove to be in Ina's best interests, should the burning iron ever be pres... |
10 |
| 32 | 282 |
We would remove it from him as soon as it would prove feasible. |
10 |
| 40 | 123 |
"When it might prove safe," said a fellow. |
10 |
| 48 | 278 |
Also, I suspected that there might prove to be a good reason for accepting it. |
10 |
| 48 | 496 |
"It is my hope that I will prove pleasing," she whispered. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 113 |
I did not think she would prove slow to learn. |
10 |
| 3 | 417 |
I suspected she had been warned as to what might befall her if she should prove unsuccessful in securing a buyer. |
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| 6 | 197 |
"We must prove our desire for peace to the Cosians". |
10 |
| 8 | 231 |
On the other hand, she had speculated that he would prove to be an exacting, stern and strong master to the former Earth girl, such as she required. |
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| 10 | 361 |
Perhaps a moment's disquisition on this matter may prove illuminating. |
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| 12 | 43 |
Perhaps a last remark would not be amiss, one perhaps unnecessary, but one which might prove useful in obviating possible misunderstandings, a remark of some general significance, a remark pertaining to the whip, its significance and its employment. |
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| 13 | 173 |
It is a question, of course, as to the feasibility of these distortions, and the long-range consequences of them, if they prove feasible. |
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| 14 | 388 |
"Defend me, us! I demand it! Release me! You must! I beg it! The men of Ar have been defeated! No longer are they men! No longer are they mighty and masters! They are now nothing, they are all weaklings! You are of Cos! You must keep them that way! It is important to you to keep them that way! Arres... |
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| 17 | 437 |
"Even though these wonders could have been accomplished so easily by mere trickery, that does not prove they were!" "No," I said. |
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| 17 | 443 |
"But that does not prove it was used!" said Marcus. |
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| 19 | 784 |
"It has always been my hope that I might prove attractive enough to provoke such desire. |
10 |
| 22 | 131 |
On the other hand, the policy might prove useful, from my own point of view. |
10 |
| 24 | 33 |
I had also brought along some other articles, which I thought might prove useful. |
10 |
| 26 | 15 |
Too, certain matters might prove sensitive, and I saw fit to limit the number and nature of witnesses. |
10 |
| 26 | 180 |
I supposed he had destroyed it, as it might prove dangerously compromising. |
10 |
| 27 | 315 |
"With it on your wall, I have little doubt she will prove to be a most excellent slave, particularly if she has once felt it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 187 |
And my speculations, as I would soon learn, would prove correct, profoundly correct. |
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| 4 | 478 |
"On the other hand, if you prove superb, truly superb, you might eventually be shown a certain mercy, at least in the sense of being permitted to live". |
10 |
| 4 | 692 |
"You may prove satisfactory," he mused. |
10 |
| 8 | 197 |
I sought something to prove, or disprove, my fears. |
10 |
| 8 | 841 |
I wondered if women such as I, from Earth, might not prove to be of interest to many men here, or, at least, to some of them. |
10 |
| 10 | 715 |
To be sure, such defenses, in a kajira, are not likely to prove effective. |
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| 11 | 22 |
Was I good enough? Would I prove to be satisfactory? My experience in the pens had suggested that I might do. |
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| 11 | 1262 |
Let me prove to Master how good a slave I can be". |
10 |
| 11 | 1276 |
"Let me prove to you that I am a new slave," she begged. |
10 |
| 11 | 1277 |
"Let me prove to you that I am not totally worthless in your collar!" "Perhaps I shall make the decision tonight," he said, "after your ears have been pierced". |
10 |
| 11 | 1305 |
"You will endeavor to prove acceptable?" he asked. |
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| 14 | 752 |
Please, Janice!" "If the pit master should prove accommodating," I said, "are you prepared, actually, to go through with this?" "Yes," she said. |
10 |
| 14 | 1110 |
"Perhaps, if you were a slave," I said, "you might prove to be such". |
10 |
| 18 | 85 |
She then, so to speak, courts the collar, eager to reassure herself of her beauty, her desirability, her fittingness to be owned; she wants to prove to herself now that she does have some value, after all, as she had hitherto thought; had she been mistaken; had her arrogant surmise been no more than... |
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| 19 | 69 |
Beneath the protective, shielding casings of those stiff brocades were there not terrains and latitudes which, shorn of their armor, would prove as vulnerable and soft as mine? I was momentarily blinded by a flash of light, the sun reflected from a huge silver plate, perhaps a yard in width, held ov... |
10 |
| 24 | 714 |
Might she not be anywhere? On this world were there not hundreds of cities and thousands of slaves? No, from him she would in all likelihood be safe, unless her present master, if she might prove somewhat displeasing, might decide, perhaps as a joke, to return her to him. |
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| 29 | 260 |
"Your body may prove to be, as rumored, not without interest," he said. |
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| 29 | 304 |
But they will never compare with those of my love! To her gold, no matter how luscious and exciting might prove to be the curves of your perfidious, despicable body, you can never be more than a meaningless tarsk-bit of shaved copper!" The body of the slave shook, trembling with emotion. |
10 |
| 29 | 392 |
"Yes," he said, "I do not doubt that you will prove of interest in the furs, and to our friends, our guests, our business associates, as well". |
10 |
| 31 | 509 |
I think it required no great perception to understand that we beheld, unwilling though we might be, sensitive matters, matters which might prove delicate, matters which might deal, even, with states. |
10 |
| 33 | 37 |
"There will be little, if anything, to return to Lurius of Jad, to prove the successful discharge of our office". |
10 |
| 42 | 68 |
I hoped, of course, that this might prove to be an ordinary, if unusually daring, case of slave theft. |
10 |
| 43 | 122 |
She had been forced, many times, to show herself, to prove herself, helplessly, irreservedly, a female and a slave before me. |
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| 45 | 225 |
How could I convince him of the authenticity of my feelings? How could I prove to him that I was his, wholly, and in the most complete and perfect way a woman can give herself to a man, as his love slave? Unbidden then I lay before him, on my back, my bound wrists under me, nestled in the small of m... |
10 |
| 46 | 486 |
"Women such as you prove to be exquisitely pleasing," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 215 |
This was at least, she told herself, a small mystery, whose denouement, however predictable and disappointing, might prove to be of interest. |
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| 2 | 222 |
It was as though the blond woman did not really matter in these things, save in so far as she might prove useful. |
10 |
| 4 | 132 |
"But I suppose," he said, "you will prove capable of learning". |
10 |
| 6 | 49 |
To be sure, that conjecture, that intimation, that timid hope, might, she supposed, prove illusory. |
10 |
| 10 | 350 |
Prove to me that you are my master. |
10 |
| 11 | 40 |
And if she prove momentarily troublesome she may be disciplined as the slave she is. |
10 |
| 11 | 529 |
And whatever your problems might prove to be in the future, I doubt that boredom will rank high amongst them". |
10 |
| 13 | 203 |
Supposedly the tarnsman might thus be lured to the pursuit of an identifiably delightful quarry, something obviously worth owning, as opposed to a free woman who might, when stripped, prove to be as ugly as a tharlarion". |
10 |
| 13 | 637 |
And woe to the other girl if she should gainsay the first, prove troublesome or be in any way displeasing. |
10 |
| 14 | 102 |
Am I ready to beg? Surely I must beg, no matter how shameful, how demeaning, how revealing, this may prove to be! I pretended not to be willing to beg, and I was sent to the laundry. |
10 |
| 17 | 820 |
Ellen would later learn that slave girls would fight for a lipstick or an eye shadow, that they might enhance their beauty and prove more pleasing to masters. |
10 |
| 17 | 900 |
A man sees a girl he wants and his objective judgment as to the market worth of the given property can be clouded, perhaps by simple desire, a simple desire to buy and own, totally, a particularly delightful, curvaceous property, but perhaps by something else, too, mixed with desire, and powerful lu... |
10 |
| 18 | 107 |
Still, in empty cages, or in sparsely occupied cages, while a man stands watch, with a goad, you will have ample opportunity, during long hours, to prove your value as a work slave, removing masses of soiled straw, shoveling excrement, scraping and scrubbing floors, supplying and spreading bundles o... |
10 |
| 18 | 604 |
"False! False!" "So the little vulo would pretend that she is a figurine of ice, carved in the form of a slave girl?" "I hate you!" "But a touch," he said, reaching out, "ever so gentle, ever so soft, will prove to me, and to any who might be interested, that you are a hot little slut". |
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| 20 | 719 |
This distinction might occasionally prove to be of more than simply proprietary or identificatory relevance, for example, if one wished, in short order, to commandeer state slaves, to round them up and transport them, exchange them for goods or prisoners, and so on. |
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| 22 | 169 |
Ellen knew little of slave dance, for her first master, called on Gor 'Mirus', had determined that she would be only slightly trained, that she might be sold as a substantially ignorant girl, trained perhaps only to the extent that she might prove satisfactory enough to be permitted to live, that sh... |
10 |
| 27 | 295 |
Prove to me that you are my master. |
10 |
| 27 | 597 |
Might he not pity her, if only eventually, a former woman of his world, now a slave, helpless in her collar, as it might not occur to a Gorean to do? And did she not fear Selius Arconious whom she was sure would not be slow with the whip, should she prove in the least displeasing? And did she not ha... |
10 |
| 27 | 1002 |
She feared that the smallest movement, the tiniest sound, the most diminutive influence, might prove critical, like the smallest jarring, or jostling, like a small thing which might tip a balance, a carelessly dislodged pebble that releases an avalanche, the particle of static electricity which trig... |
10 |
| 27 | 1401 |
Let us take a simple example, in this discussion of supposed humiliation, and such, which may prove to be illuminating. |
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| 27 | 1536 |
"We have our own purposes, for which it would prove useful". |
10 |
| 28 | 134 |
"Prove to me that you are my master," she said. |
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| 28 | 202 |
Fortunate will be the woman who finds herself in his chains! I rejoice in her happiness, whoever she may prove to be, she who will one day wear his collar! "There was interest, as well, it seems," said Fel Doron, "in Cosian gold". |
10 |
| 29 | 75 |
Indeed, sometimes, as she lay in her place at his thigh in the night, begging his attentions, and failing to obtain them, she had, occasionally, petulantly, pettily, as in the morning before the attack of the beasts, challenged him to prove that he was her master, or to give or sell her to another, ... |
10 |
| 29 | 280 |
She recalled how she had challenged him to prove himself her master, to sell or give her to another, who might provide the master to her slave, to place her into the possession of one who was a man. |
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| 30 | 347 |
But they are only slaves, lovely properties, shapely beasts, purchasable goods, degraded articles of commerce, immeasurably beneath a free person, beneath the notice of a free person, save as they may prove to be of some service, convenience, pleasure or profit, such things, to him. |
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| 30 | 490 |
After all, he is looking for a free woman, not a slave, a proud, lofty, noble, free woman, one who will fulfill the customs of her station, and prove to be a suitable asset, particularly with respect to connections and career. |
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| 30 | 809 |
May I prove pleasing to him, my master! Behold, I hear him approach! I must hasten to the door, to meet him there, to kneel before him!. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 391 |
It had its role to play in what would prove to be an interesting and remarkable, if duplicitous and guileful, gambit of Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 633 |
Too, she would prove to have sexual latencies of a sort which, once ignited, once commanded forth, would put her helplessly, beggingly, needfully, ungovernably, uncontrollably, at the sexual mercy of men. |
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| 1 | 1336 |
Lash me, she thought, prove to me you own me. |
10 |
| 14 | 43 |
Too, he might have hoped that after a suitable interval his colleagues' work might prove unnecessary, for Cabot might in the meantime have succumbed to other terrors of the forest, presumably wild beasts of one sort or another, perhaps even to those dangerous prey animals of his own species. |
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| 24 | 63 |
"Prove you love me! If you love me, kill him! Kill him, for me!" "Because he does not love you?" said Grendel. |
10 |
| 34 | 107 |
"They may prove valuable". |
10 |
| 54 | 61 |
"If there should prove to be the least danger, or even a semblance of danger, you will be instantly informed". |
10 |
| 55 | 25 |
"The human in you may prove to be a strength". |
10 |
| 56 | 204 |
That these species could be allied at all would astonish Kurii, and the more so that their alliance might prove fruitful. |
10 |
| 56 | 206 |
A lowly human, thus, I fear, might prove a less embarrassing visitor to their great gathering, that beyond the small camps, where they were to await the ropes or knives". |
10 |
| 57 | 170 |
"And did it sometimes prove of use?" "Yes," said Flavion, more easily. |
10 |
| 61 | 27 |
Also, they had abundant resources, it seemed, which they did not mind squandering, doubtless in the hope that each would prove to have more to squander than the other". |
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| 61 | 32 |
"There are machines here," said Lord Grendel, "primarily in the habitats, but none I think which will prove effective here, for none could resist the direct discharge of a power weapon". |
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| 67 | 17 |
To be sure, as many had now mastered the bow, they would prove dangerous game. |
10 |
| 75 | 47 |
For example, given the "kill" command the sleen will locate and destroy the quarry, given a "drive" command, it will conduct the quarry to a predetermined location, or, if the quarry should prove recalcitrant, tear it to pieces. |
10 |
| 76 | 20 |
First, what many understand as "freedom" has never been essential to happiness, and may actually prove inimical to it. |
10 |
| 79 | 179 |
On Gor and in the world poetry is not the labored, esoteric possession of a delicate, pretentious minority, as it might prove to be in less civilized or more decadent climes, but is a matter of life, robust pride, and zestful living. |
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| 79 | 237 |
But such stratagems, often so effective with males, are unlikely to prove availing with an owner of her own sex. |
10 |
| 79 | 630 |
"See if I prove satisfactory. |
10 |
| 81 | 191 |
"Might the game, perhaps one of dozens, not prove interesting?" "There is no such game," said Cabot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 259 |
She had been one of the two women who had been enclosed with me in the small, transparent container on the Prison Moon, two who had been deliberately, carefully selected by Priest-Kings, with all their shrewdness and science, with all their malevolent expertise, to constitute exquisite temptations f... |
10 |
| 8 | 250 |
I was not yet fully clear on what, ultimately, that might prove to be. |
10 |
| 9 | 479 |
It helps them to understand that they are women, and that, as women, although they are women, they may prove to be of some value, however humble". |
10 |
| 10 | 131 |
"I am sure," I said, "he may prove of service". |
10 |
| 13 | 410 |
Could they not see the females as what they might become? Washed, combed, brushed, trained a bit, silked or tunicked, their slave fires ignited, taught to fear the whip, they might prove exemplary merchandise. |
10 |
| 15 | 31 |
That may prove quite instructive to her". |
10 |
| 15 | 303 |
The general reputation of the barbarian slave was that of a chattel who would soon prove to be hot, devoted, and dutiful. |
10 |
| 16 | 103 |
I thought this might prove of value. |
10 |
| 18 | 454 |
"And perhaps the honorable Pertinax fears she might prove successful in such endeavors?" "I think so," I said. |
10 |
| 25 | 98 |
For this he had forsworn vanities, or was it, rather, he would sacrifice all for what might prove to be the most evanescent, elusive, and alluring of all vanities, the vanity of vanities, power? I encountered another sentry. |
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| 25 | 122 |
This may prove an important wisdom in a perilous situation. |
10 |
| 30 | 104 |
They might prove of use, and are such as may be housed in the great ship". |
10 |
| 32 | 45 |
Though many who receive gifts prove too weak to keep them, I did not think Lord Okimoto was of their number. |
10 |
| 34 | 80 |
I had not thought the outcome of this gentle interrogation would prove other than it had. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 67 |
This suggested to me, but did not prove, that this mysterious, monstrous vessel in which I found myself encelled, despite its size, was not a round ship, or, better, not a round ship as one usually thinks of such ships. |
10 |
| 3 | 1335 |
Sometimes an item which appears promising in the exposition cage may prove less interesting on the block, and sometimes an item scarcely noticed in the exposition cage will enflame a battle of bids, much to the pleasure and profit of the house. |
10 |
| 7 | 117 |
Although many of the slaves were now filthy, and ill, and frightened, I had no doubt that, scrubbed and groomed, they would prove to be excellent merchandise. |
10 |
| 8 | 95 |
To be sure, the sea sleen, like its confreres on land, is an intelligent animal, and we did not think it unlikely that it might prove quite dangerous if it were attacked, or thought it necessary to protect a breathing hole. |
10 |
| 8 | 97 |
After the loss of the second man at the hull, the workers on the ice, most of them, those working close to the water, tied themselves together, that the error of a lost footing might not invariably prove fatal. |
10 |
| 8 | 264 |
"Might I not prove a pleasing slave, Master?" she asked, tears in her eyes. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
If they were not known at the World's End, then their judicious application in battle, reconnaissance, raids, and such, might indeed prove formidable. |
10 |
| 9 | 404 |
Perhaps, too, given the exigencies of their task, whatever it might be, and its urgency and prospects, whatever they might be, they had been concerned to move as swiftly as would prove practical. |
10 |
| 17 | 25 |
I used to watch, when convenient, the second group from the Kasra keeping area, for in it was a slave, a ship slave, whom I thought might one day prove to be not without some interest. |
10 |
| 19 | 176 |
She hopes to prove a suitable slave to him, attentive, humble, grateful, zealous, and skilled. |
10 |
| 21 | 457 |
Actually, it seemed very likely to me that, now that our voyage was much at its end, Tyrtaios, and doubtless others, would be anxious to enlist associates, for some end or other, to which end the prospect of a distribution of slaves might prove conducive. |
10 |
| 21 | 458 |
Accordingly, in such a case, it might be useful to force, as he had, beautiful, half-naked slaves to prove their heat, and need, before virile males. |
10 |
| 25 | 381 |
It is only in the purple booths, of course, that a girl may be tried out by a prospective buyer, and woe to the girl, should she not prove satisfactory. |
10 |
| 28 | 56 |
"Do you not think they might prove to be ready juicers, both of them hot little collar puddings?" One of the slaves gasped. |
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| 29 | 42 |
They have sought your service, paid for it with good coin, which you accepted, and brought you here, in trust, across vast, green Thassa, to the World's End, that you may prove your worth and earn your pay, that you may teach those of these islands the honor, the prowess, and might of the archers, s... |
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| 30 | 19 |
"Surely they may prove useful," said Tyrtaios. |
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| 36 | 419 |
He is respected by a hundred minor daimyos, and important in significant diplomacies, maintaining precarious neutralities amongst those who might lean to Lord Yamada, and perhaps, eventually, he might prove significant in the enlistment of allies". |
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| 37 | 1080 |
Perhaps she will not prove to be satisfactory". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 122 |
And even if such efforts should prove overtly successful it is not unlikely that some copies will elude the insecure and bigoted, and will continue to circulate, as an underground literature, if nothing else, hidden here and there, and passed secretly from hand to hand, a badge of understanding and ... |
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| 7 | 575 |
A week would not pass without my declining several offers for outings, afternoons or evenings, with such, while I would select from amongst such offers those few which I deemed suitable, those which might prove eventually to be to my advantage, those from suitably positioned young men, young men wor... |
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| 8 | 1149 |
I sensed that she was confident that her bondage, if she were clever, pouted rightly, and such, would prove to be a lax and light one. |
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| 8 | 1339 |
"I trust she will prove satisfactory," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 1348 |
"She will prove satisfactory," said the fellow. |
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| 9 | 87 |
"Such a slave upon occasion might prove useful". |
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| 10 | 927 |
I wondered if the beast was aware of how beautiful the Lady Bina actually was, how attractive she might prove to a human male. |
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| 11 | 172 |
Further, this suggested to the chief trainer that the beast might now prove susceptible to training. |
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| 16 | 172 |
If he were tangled in the coils of my beauty, such as it might be, fastened there, he might prove to be the slave and I the mistress! Much power I knew could reside within a collar. |
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| 18 | 190 |
It did not seem likely, however, that he would be successful, as few fellows, even of the Scarlet Caste, cared to enter the Voltai, particularly on some obscure mission which might prove to be of some indefinite duration. |
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| 29 | 101 |
"You, and through you, Jane and Eve, too, may prove useful". |
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| 35 | 280 |
"And that did not prove illuminating?" "No," he said. |
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| 46 | 65 |
Who else might prove unfaithful? Who else in a secret heart might harbor treachery? His plans, as well, had been, if not seriously damaged, certainly delayed by what he presumably took as the defection of Grendel. |
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| 46 | 89 |
In time I had little doubt that many would prove to be dangerously frustrated. |
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| 52 | 421 |
"It is my hope," I said, "that my Master, if I prove sufficiently pleasing, may grant me a garment". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 71 |
Was I not legally free! I was free! I behaved so, as I did, you must understand, merely in order to mitigate my fears, to face, taunt, defy, and deny them, to ridicule them, to prove them groundless, only that. |
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| 9 | 254 |
Too, of course, one may always hope that the prey, when brought to the camp and stripped, may prove a prize. |
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| 14 | 92 |
"I trust," he said, "the staters will not prove to have been poorly invested". |
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| 14 | 104 |
"I think you may prove useful," he said. |
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| 15 | 356 |
"I think, in time," he said, "you will prove to be a hot little urt". |
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| 26 | 119 |
Axel, I recalled, had mentioned another quarry, and, I had gathered, the laris withdrawn, this enabling the hunt of Axel, such a quarry, one apparently of interest to Lord Okimoto and Tyrtaios, might prove, eventually, to have some relationship to the fled slave. |
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| 34 | 62 |
"Then, my friend," he said, "depending on the situation, it might prove wise to withdraw with discretion". |
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| 43 | 496 |
And he did have the assurance that they would be unable to report back to their employer, whoever or whatever he might be, with an intelligence which might prove threatening to the great ship and its projected commission, errand, or charge. |
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| 51 | 118 |
"By means of which you will prove your worthiness, your dependability, your resolve, and loyalty". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 84 |
That is one reason many warriors require a captured free woman to strip herself, lest they run afoul of concealed devices, a scratch from which might prove fatal. |
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| 9 | 93 |
Action undertaken in such a situation may easily prove inopportune and unwise. |
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| 10 | 154 |
The peasantry may prove loyal to Yamada, if only through fear". |
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| 12 | 270 |
"And Lord Yamada fears the flight of the iron dragon might prove disastrous to both houses?" I said. |
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| 30 | 247 |
"She might prove interesting," said Tajima, "when they begin to burn in her belly". |
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| 30 | 715 |
As it turned out, this separation would prove fortunate. |
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| 36 | 57 |
You, the foreigner, are presumably a deserter from the holding of Temmu, the Wicked, and might have information of interest pertaining to the forces, dispositions, and appointments of the holding, and the other, even as a guide, or follower, might prove similarly useful". |
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| 40 | 90 |
That you did not immediately return the shogun's daughter to him, and his justice, might serve a similar purpose, or perhaps, more likely, while it might be assumed or alleged that she had perished, she might be retained, her curves suggesting that she might prove of slave interest". |
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| 47 | 85 |
"If it should prove practical," I said, "quite possibly". |
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| 61 | 1235 |
Do you think men are so willing to relinquish manhood, or so stupid as to submit like dumb animals to their impoverishment, belling, and slaughter? Even the mighty larl can be brought down by a swarm of squealing urts, but this does not prove the superiority of the urt to the larl, to the lonely, pr... |
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| 61 | 1268 |
"Rejoice," I said, "in such a market you might prove a genuine bargain". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 534 |
We had supposed this might prove a convenience for our small group, if it might prove desirable to contact one another, as if we would ever be interested in doing so. |
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| 20 | 52 |
I supposed this was rather futile, but it seemed to me, however naive or inept this stratagem might prove, that some such activity might prove to be in my best interest, and, possibly, in that of my master, if anything dangerous might be involved, which possibility, I hoped, of course, was not the c... |
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| 52 | 24 |
I had only wished to prove something to myself, to interest the fellow, to arouse him, and prove to myself that I could make him desire me, surely more than plain Paula, whom I would easily outdo, and then I, satisfied, the point made, having demonstrated my equivalence to, if not superiority to, Pa... |
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| 53 | 134 |
Might not the pause to reflect prove upon occasion to be a lethal error, the undoing of a combatant, a hesitation that might prove mortal in its consequences? The time when fangs lunge for the throat is not a time for reflection. |
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| 7 | 403 |
Surely I must prove to him that I was not a slave, that I was proud, noble, and independent, not a woman who belonged at a man's feet, not a slave! Without speaking, he left the room. |
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| 8 | 365 |
And Kurii have no objection to arming, and equipping, humans, provided we prove to be of service, transporting envoys and agents, carrying messages, probing defenses, obtaining rare materials, metals, chemicals, and such, scarce in the Kur worlds". |
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| 18 | 16 |
"But rest assured," he said, "the name on your collar will prove quite sufficient to have you returned to me should you be so unwise as to wander off or stray". |
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| 20 | 62 |
Too, by such actions, altering routes, and such, might I not prove a more elusive quarry, if I were a quarry? Frequent changes in itinerary, I trusted, might make me more difficult to trace. |
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| 28 | 44 |
May this path prove propitious". |
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| 28 | 61 |
Who knows what, at hand, baled and crated, might prove of interest? On these stones we shall try our fortune. |
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| 29 | 11 |
Bitted and back-braceleted, and slave, would one not prove delicious sport for the disorderly and unruly? Happily no free women passed the ring. |
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| 29 | 68 |
They prove to be excellent agents, well worth their pay". |
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| 33 | 143 |
Too, the slave, if she may be credited, has had some experience that might prove relevant". |
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| 37 | 50 |
"My new service, that of a house slave, is yet on probation, to see if I might prove satisfactory as a house slave". |
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| 39 | 194 |
"We will then go to the new rental I arranged, as I anticipated the possibility that a change in lodging might prove advisable". |
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| 46 | 126 |
You have contacts and connections, here and elsewhere, which might prove of great value to me. |
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| 46 | 135 |
I am humbled by his estimation of my possible value to his cause, surely exaggerated, and I am overwhelmed by the remarkable generosity with which he is prepared to reward one who would doubtless prove an unworthy servitor". |
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| 48 | 171 |
On a whim, should I prove in the least displeasing, or even if I were not displeasing, he could have me hooded and taken to a market. |
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| 49 | 119 |
Now, dear colleagues, and friends, it is time for the subtler aspects of our meeting to begin, in which we must attempt to establish how fair Mytilene and glorious Ar may prove to be mutually beneficial to one another. |
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| 52 | 228 |
I wanted to prove that I could do what she could do, that I could interest he whom she had interested. |
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| 52 | 231 |
"And thus prove yourself superior to her, by winning and then lightly discarding a prize for which she, herself, might scarcely dare hope?" "Too, Master Drusus once tricked me, made me seem a fool. |
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| 56 | 85 |
"I can understand the possible reluctance of Decius Albus to invest several men in an effort that might prove difficult to explain, if not scandalous. |
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| 58 | 60 |
"Phyllis," said my master, "if it should prove feasible, later, you might locate our wagon. |
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| 60 | 60 |
"I often thought you might prove to be a perceptive slave," he said. |
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| 61 | 233 |
Had I not felt it? "It will be used on you, unhesitantly," he said, "should you prove in the least bit displeasing". |
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| 61 | 673 |
"Behold, men of glorious Ar, noble defenders of her walls, valiant holders of her gates," cried Kurik, "the beast has struck your leader, your lord, the noble Decius Albus! The blow was treacherous, cruel, and unprovoked! What could be owed to such beasts but vengeance? Prove yourselves worthy of yo... |
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| 61 | 983 |
"I doubt that Grendel can be torn from the side of Eve, and both may prove to be of assistance to the Lady Bina, and will surely serve to guard her on her return to the wagon, in case any of the fellows recollect she lacks a Home Stone". |
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| 62 | 38 |
Such an arrogance might prove indiscreet, and might well put free women ill at ease. |
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| 67 | 11 |
"I betrayed our friendship! I was vain, foolish, jealous! You sold for more than I! You were found of much greater interest than I, by many masters! I wanted to prove myself your equal, indeed, your superior! If you could interest a master such as Master Drusus, could I not do so, as well? I sought ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 456 |
"Too," he said, "I thought a switching for you might prove beneficial. |
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| 8 | 812 |
Doubtless the men would beat her for that, if it should later prove convenient to do so. |
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| 9 | 31 |
Who knows? When a girl is ordered from the floor to an alcove she may find herself in the arms of one who may later prove to be her master. |
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| 11 | 323 |
Yet what woman, slave or free, does not thrill to the curious, admiring scrutiny of a handsome, powerful male who one day might prove to be her master? Ambivalences warred within me, excitement, rage, joy, warmth, shame, humiliation, pride! How dare these monsters take for granted, so easily and una... |
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| 13 | 236 |
"Should her identity be discovered," said the voice, "that she was the former Lady Julia Leta, might that not prove embarrassing to her master?" "Particularly," I said, "were her master of the Merchants, and most particularly if he should be a Merchant of Coins". |
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| 17 | 153 |
"I do not think he would prove such," I said. |
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| 23 | 22 |
What had become of me? I had not attempted to run, or escape, but how could I prove that? Would Ho-Tosk, or his men, or guardsmen, believe my story of abduction and interrogation? I felt oddly, cumbersomely, uncomfortably clothed. |
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| 23 | 33 |
I wore a large, loose, plaid, cotton shirt and a pair of jeans, the sort of commonly masculine clothing by means of which a woman of Earth might attempt to draw attention to herself, as though challenging men by donning their customary garmenture; or perhaps trying to prove that clothing is, or shou... |
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| 25 | 14 |
He had not even made me, by days or weeks of service, prove my worthiness to be accorded a garment, small and shameful as it might be. |
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| 35 | 174 |
Had one of the girls showed him insufficient deference, or dared to prove less than satisfactory? That was hard to believe. |
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| 37 | 1 |
I Prove to be of Service to Masters The smooth tiles of the walkway, one of many in Port Kar, somewhere in the city, were warm to my feet. |
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| 39 | 140 |
He hopes to take the cup as a trophy to the Black Court of Brundisium, that to prove his temerity and skill. |
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| 40 | 95 |
"They prove a lovely addition to the décor," said Miles. |
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| 42 | 266 |
Indeed, it was said, she had even, in the alcoves, occasionally dared to prove less than fully pleasing. |
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| 43 | 217 |
That would cost time, but would gain him men who might later prove to be sorely needed. |
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| 46 | 277 |
On the other hand, his obstreperous, ranting analysis of the situation did serve to apprise the tables of a hitherto generally unrecognized problem, one which might soon prove acute, particularly as a number of patrons were on the point of beginning, or continuing, their evening, rather than prematu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 140 |
"I shall look forward to Sybaris," said Aktis, "and I shall hope I may prove to be of service to you there". |
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| 5 | 51 |
"They may prove to be of use". |
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| 7 | 167 |
He will prove our most valuable ally. |
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| 18 | 211 |
Add to this the normal penchant of a woman to affect men and the very natural, human pleasure she is likely to derive from stimulating masculine desire, even without satisfying it, one has a concoction which well may prove inflammatory. |
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| 22 | 132 |
"Trickery, even when palpable, even when the scent is strong," said Sakim, "is difficult to prove". |
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| 42 | 165 |
If what I contemplate now comes to fruition, I think he will have no choice but, if he wishes to bring this business to a quick conclusion, to mount a scaling attack on the walls which, I suspect, will prove costly to him and, given the unruly and reluctant nature of his troops would not be likely t... |
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| 43 | 148 |
I hoped my stratagem would prove fruitful, that of bringing about a scaling attack on Mytilene, which presumably would be unsuccessful and inflict heavy losses on the enemy, losses which mercenaries would be unlikely to accept with equanimity. |
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| 44 | 15 |
Thus, the advantages of what might prove to be overwhelming numbers in the field are likely to be nullified at the wall. |
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