| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 80 |
"In fact, in the First Knowledge, there is a story told to the young in their public nurseries, that if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin". |
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| 4 | 85 |
The second name, which would correspond to the use-name on Gor, is common property, a public sound not sacred or to be protected. |
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| 8 | 130 |
"Are you of Gor or not? I have never seen my father except on the days of public festivals. |
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| 18 | 62 |
I noted with repulsion that on the roof of the Cylinder of Justice there shimmered a public impaling spear of polished silver, some fifty feet high, gleaming, looking like a needle in the distance. |
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| 20 | 57 |
It was simple enough to feign amnesia, and what other account of those seven months would my world accept? I spent a few days in a public hospital, under observation, and was then allowed to leave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 26 | 59 |
The family, for example, had not existed in Tharna for generations, having been replaced by the division of the sexes and the segregated public nurseries. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 14 |
I would learn later that his agitation was principally due to his fear of contracting filth in this public place. |
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| 14 | 108 |
Washing-booths, incidentally, are found in all Mul-cases and often, for convenience, along the tunnels and in public places, such as plazas, shaving-parlors, pellet-dispensaries, and fungus commissaries. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 125 |
I did think, however, that it was somewhat unusual that they should appear in public unveiled, particularly with Kamchak and myself present. |
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| 10 | 297 |
The selection of the girls, incidentally, is determined by judges in their city, or of their own people, in Turia by members of the Caste of Physicians who have served in the great slave houses of Ar; among the wagons by the masters of the public slave wagons, who buy, sell and rent girls, providing... |
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| 10 | 298 |
The public slave wagons, incidentally, also provide paga. |
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| 11 | 266 |
"Do not fret, Little Aphris," said Kamchak, "when I am finished with you I shall—if it pleases me—put you on the block in the public slave wagon". |
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| 16 | 5 |
"I learned in Turia," said Harold, "in the public baths where I was once a slave". |
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| 16 | 59 |
It is one thing to roll about in a public bath or splash about in some pool or stream, but quite another to struggle for pasangs against a current in a tunnel channel with only a few inches between the water and the roof of the tunnel. |
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| 22 | 5 |
Certain of the Hundreds, delegated the task, had immediately, almost before the alarm bars could sound, seized many of the wells, granaries and public buildings, including the very palace of Phanius Turmus itself. |
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| 25 | 418 |
"I am going to the public slave wagon," I said. |
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| 25 | 425 |
"Am I not as beautiful as the girls in the public slave wagon?" she asked. |
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| 25 | 506 |
"It seems," I said, "that I will not make it to the public slave wagon tonight". |
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| 25 | 513 |
"Do you think," she asked, "that the girls in the public slave wagon are as beautiful as Vella?" "No," I said, "they are not". |
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| 25 | 568 |
"The girls in the public slave wagon," I said, "know how to kiss". |
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| 25 | 690 |
I thought of the girls in the public slave wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 49 |
One of them held the sheet up inspecting it, and I saw that it was a bill, which might be pasted against the wall of a public building, or on the public boards near the markets. |
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| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
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| 5 | 541 |
"Well then," said Elizabeth, "what are you ashamed of?" Then Elizabeth strode to her and, to the girl's horror, on one of the public high bridges, face-stripped her. |
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| 5 | 611 |
Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by... |
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| 9 | 24 |
Although there are some private show and sales rooms in the House of Cernus, and private auctions and exhibitions, intended to interest prospective clients, are held, most slaves, of the House of Cernus and others, are sold in one of the five public auction houses, licensed and taxed by the Administ... |
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| 12 | 377 |
I was approached twice by men who had small scrolls to sell, reputedly containing important information on forthcoming races, the tarns to be flown, their riders, their times recorded in previous races and such; I supposed this would be little more than what was publicly available on the large track... |
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| 13 | 131 |
He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following the mandate of the law, to liq... |
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| 13 | 132 |
She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade... |
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| 14 | 195 |
"No," said Cernus, "it must be public". |
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| 17 | 222 |
By the end of that month the other Hinrabians of Ar, in the face of widespread public anger, hastily liquidated their assets at considerable loss and fled from the walls of Ar, joining Minus Tentius Hinrabius some pasangs beyond the city. |
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| 24 | 206 |
"Shall it be torture and public impalement for you?" asked Marlenus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 340 |
"Perhaps," said Samos, "their lives may be spared, that they may take their seat on the benches of the public round ships". |
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| 14 | 436 |
It was now public to any who might care, even casually, to look upon it. |
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| 15 | 42 |
"Should I put you in a public paga tavern," I said, "doubtless hundreds of these would crowd its doors, that they might be served by one once destined to be a Ubara in Cos". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 569 |
Of what value, I wondered, is the virginity of a slave girl? Of what value is the virginity of a horse, or of a dog or cat, or pig? That I was a virgin, of course, that I was "white silk," was public knowledge. |
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| 11 | 30 |
"Yes, Master," I said, and went to one side of the large slave room in the public pens of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 11 | 148 |
The food was better in the private pens, where we were trained, than in the public pens of Ko-ro-ba, areas of which were available for rent to passing slavers, where we were housed at night. |
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| 11 | 149 |
In the public pens, state slaves are kept as well as the merchandise of slave caravans passing through the city. |
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| 11 | 150 |
A master of the city, of course, who might be leaving the city temporarily, could also rent space in the public pens, to board his slaves there. |
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| 11 | 157 |
We trained, during the day, commonly in private facilities, under the tutelage of pleasure slaves, but, in the evening, we would be returned to the long tiers of cages in the public pens. |
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| 11 | 165 |
I did not care particularly for the wooden bowls of stew and bread we commonly had at the public pens, but I was hungry and ready to eat even such, and with enthusiasm. |
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| 11 | 166 |
In the private pens we were given better food, lean meats and vegetables and fruits, and, if our group had trained acceptably, after the evening meal, before being returned, hooded, to the public pens, we would be given candies or pastries, or, sometimes, a swallow of Ka-la-na wine. |
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| 11 | 168 |
When we reached the cage at the public pens Lana and I had beaten her, preventing Ute from interfering. |
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| 11 | 313 |
Today, however, better than a year later, it was not uncommon to see a slave girl wearing, and insolently, such jewelry, even in public. |
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| 11 | 1290 |
In a few minutes I, pleased, knelt, naked, on the wooden platform in the large room in the public pens of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 12 | 313 |
I saw that the domed top of Verna's cage was set with a ring, so that the cage might be, if one wished, hung from the branch of a tree, or suspended from some supporting structure, for public viewing. |
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| 14 | 416 |
The sooner she learns that her body is now that of an animal, and is public to men, the better. |
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| 14 | 417 |
After a time, incidentally, the former Gorean free woman, while doubtless remaining sensitive to her nudity in public, if it is required of her, no longer misses the veil. |
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| 14 | 427 |
Some, doubtless, are secretly scouted in the public baths. |
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| 14 | 437 |
Whereas they must participate in public lamentations, if such are organized, they are, amongst themselves, secretly delighted, well pleased that one of the arrogant free women will now, as they, wear the collar, and must now, like them, fear the lash. |
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| 15 | 899 |
In the high cylinders, in Gorean cities, there are often public slaves who tend the central kitchens in cylinders, care for the children, but may not instruct them, and, for a tiny fee to the city, clean compartments and do laundering. |
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| 15 | 906 |
It is not pleasant, I fear, to be a public slave. |
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| 15 | 908 |
If she does not wish to prepare a meal, she and her companion may go to the public tables, or, should they wish, order a girl to bring them food from the central kitchens. |
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| 16 | 287 |
On Gor, of course, her relationship to the master is open, public, institutionalized, accepted, taken for granted, and celebrated, a matter of law. |
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| 17 | 426 |
"A most public block," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 317 |
They are then handed over to chieftains, for use in the public humiliation ceremonies to be inflicted upon the conquered city, for public rebranding and recollaring, and subsequent public distribution to high officers. |
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| 3 | 18 |
We had taken the Tesephone to mooring at a public dock. |
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| 3 | 98 |
Their sales will either be public or private. |
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| 3 | 104 |
Lydius is one of the few cities of the north which has public baths, as in Ar and Turia, though much smaller and less opulent. |
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| 15 | 284 |
The chain, of course, may also be looped about, say, a tree, or a pillar in a public building, and the locking device snapped into the welded ring on the back of the girl's own ankle ring. |
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| 22 | 504 |
"These men," said Marlenus, indicating Sarus, and his ten men, chained, "are to be returned to Ar, for public impalement". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 450 |
Such an act, by one such as she, was subject to public discipline. |
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| 21 | 179 |
Marlenus would have carried us to Ar for mutilation and public impalement. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 390 |
"I was purchased anonymously from the public pens of Tor," she said. |
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| 2 | 438 |
She was now in the public pens of Tor. |
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| 2 | 540 |
"These are the public pens of Tor. |
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| 3 | 316 |
Among them, I must pick up a girl from the public pens of Tor. |
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| 4 | 360 |
"All female slaves in the public pens of Tor are on slave wine". |
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| 5 | 730 |
She had cost me the tarn; it was worth ten times the cost of her body on a public block. |
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| 8 | 6 |
He was, however, informed on the public news. |
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| 8 | 18 |
In a short while, at the public well near the chamber of justice, I had filled my water bags and collected the latest gossip. |
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| 11 | 60 |
At Nine Wells, for example, there are two public baths. |
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| 11 | 295 |
Had Ba'Arub destroyed or fouled the public wells at Red Rock, those outside the walls of the kasbah, Hammaran would have been forced to retire in twenty-four hours, and perhaps lose most of his men on the return march to his country. |
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| 11 | 387 |
In leaving an oasis, of course, similarly, as a courtesy to the inn, and its hospitality, the bags are commonly filled not at the cistern, but at the public well. |
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| 12 | 22 |
Its palm groves had been cut down, its gardens destroyed, four of its five public wells caved in and filled. |
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| 24 | 251 |
Such a feature, of course, is very public, when discussing slaves. |
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| 25 | 162 |
Prolonged and hideous tortures awaited her, culminating in her public impalement, nude, upon the walls of the great kasbah at Nine Wells. |
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| 26 | 171 |
The garment she wore was incredibly brief, a rag; it was of brown rep-cloth, stained with grease and dirt; I had found it in the kitchens of Ibn Saran; it had been used in the cleaning of pans; I had ripped it at the neck; I had torn it, lengthily, on the left side, to reveal the marvelous curve fro... |
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| 26 | 1046 |
"The responsiveness of a slave," I said, "is a public matter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 18 |
In some cities the girl is unveiled, though not disrobed, of course, during the public ceremony. |
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| 5 | 835 |
Yet even such may find their utility, and indirectly serve masters, perhaps sweating in the public kitchens of the high cylinders, or laboring, neck-locked, at the looms in the cloth mills, or digging, chained with others, in the sul fields. |
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| 7 | 389 |
What had she then to look forward to but the degradation of the sales block, being exposed to men as a slave and being vended in a public market; being owned by a succession of hard masters, accustomed to the management of girls such as she; onerous work and strict discipline; and the continuous exp... |
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| 9 | 894 |
Girls more beautiful than I often slaved in the kitchens of great houses or, in state tunics and chains, scrubbed the floors of public buildings at night. |
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| 9 | 1007 |
Similarly, most public charity on Gor is administered through caste structures. |
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| 15 | 144 |
From what she had said I gathered the collar had not been made recently, that it had not been made following the sale in the house of Publius, in which my various measurements, those of a slave, had been made public. |
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| 29 | 11 |
Such rings are common in Gorean cities, in public places, and serve the convenience of masters in tethering their slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 247 |
"They may be found in the vicinity of the public tents near the amphitheater". |
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| 3 | 274 |
I was making my way toward the public tents in the vicinity of the amphitheater. |
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| 3 | 293 |
In a few minutes I had come to the area of the public tents, and there was there no difficulty in determining where the Kaissa lines were to be found. |
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| 3 | 295 |
I would stay in one of the public tents tonight. |
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| 3 | 302 |
This lack, however, is supplied by numerous public kitchens and tables. |
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| 3 | 306 |
There are some compensations in the public tents, however. |
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| 3 | 648 |
I would eat at one of the public restaurants set up in the district of the fair. |
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| 3 | 1307 |
I descended the stairs of the platform and turned my steps toward the public tent where I had, earlier in the morning, reserved a lodging for myself. |
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| 3 | 1336 |
"I did not know you were a slave in the public tents," I said to her. |
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| 4 | 533 |
In my pouch were the receipts and shipping vouchers for five slave girls, she whom I had purchased at the public tent this morning and four others, recently acquired on the platforms near the pavilion. |
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| 4 | 547 |
My favorite I thought would be the girl I had bought from the public tent. |
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| 6 | 70 |
Surely this was true, for her to travel as she did, not in public caravan. |
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| 15 | 477 |
"Too," I said, "at a public auction that sort of thing is difficult or impossible". |
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| 15 | 478 |
"Yes," said Audrey, "in a public auction, as I understand it, a woman is completely at the mercy of the men". |
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| 15 | 664 |
"But what of large sales, public sales?" she asked. |
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| 15 | 694 |
"But what of large, public sales?" she pressed. |
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| 15 | 938 |
When they do not use the public kitchens she must cook for him. |
10 |
| 15 | 939 |
If he does not wish to take advantage of the public laundries, she must do his washing and ironing. |
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| 15 | 989 |
There are the girls who staff the public kitchens and laundries. |
10 |
| 15 | 991 |
There are state slaves who maintain public compartments, and work in offices and warehouses. |
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| 15 | 1005 |
"The mills and the public kitchens, and such, are not pleasant," I said. |
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| 15 | 1006 |
"I do not want to go to such slaveries as the mills or public kitchens," she said. |
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| 35 | 348 |
The destructive device I sought, I was confident, would lie in an area beyond the reach of the overhead track system and, I conjectured, in an area not public to the surveillance system. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 296 |
If she is not sold in five Ehn then take her to the public market shelves and chain her there, taking the best offer which equals or exceeds the cost of her branding". |
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| 4 | 717 |
If she was not soon sold for the cost of her branding she would be taken and put on the public shelves, large, flat steps, leading down to the water, near where the Central canal meets Thassa, the sea. |
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| 4 | 870 |
"I am going to take her now to the public shelves". |
10 |
| 5 | 278 |
"It would be embarrassing, too, I suspect," I said, "for one of Schendi, and one who was a captain, too, to call public attention to the fact that he had lost a girl". |
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| 11 | 20 |
It is cheaper than renting space for them in the public or private pens. |
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| 14 | 771 |
"In time," I said, "if I do not return, you will both presumably be caught and put up for public auction". |
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| 32 | 1013 |
Is it so difficult to detect the failure of public philosophies? Are unhappiness, frustration, misery, scarcity, pollution, disease, and crime of no interest to those in power? I fear the reflex spasm. |
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| 34 | 726 |
She wore then, locked upon her neck, that for which she had yearned in the long years of her imprisonment, the sweet, liberating, uncompromising collar of public bondage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 80 |
"Let us not speak so in public," said the first. |
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| 10 | 42 |
Frightened though I was, I was pleased, in the lengthy process of the bath, which tends for Goreans to be a pleasant experience, and is often a social one, at the public baths, to rid myself of the stink of the pens. |
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| 12 | 335 |
The least valuable slaves are often female work slaves, purchased for the public kitchens or laundries. |
10 |
| 13 | 152 |
Such rings are common in public places on Gor. |
10 |
| 16 | 2 |
Venna has many small and fine shops, catering to the affluent trade of the well-to-do, who patronize the baths and public villas of the area. |
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| 19 | 328 |
The girls who are regularly shorn are usually slaves who work on the great farms or on the large, commercial hurt ranches, or low girls who are used in large numbers in such places as the mills, or the public laundries and kitchens. |
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| 22 | 27 |
Sometimes, however, particularly if in public, they will drink through their veil, or veils. |
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| 22 | 202 |
"Would you rather this be done on the platform of public shame in the great square of Vonda, where you might bring shame upon the Home Stone?" inquired the prefect. |
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| 22 | 232 |
Such women, thriftless, then indigent, on my old world, Earth, I supposed, might be supported indefinitely at public expense. |
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| 27 | 507 |
"Do not make my sexual responsiveness public," she said, "I beg of you!" "Why not?" I asked. |
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| 28 | 63 |
"Such facts," I said, "about women such as yourself, like their height and weight, and the coloring of their hair, are usually made public". |
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| 28 | 64 |
"Public?" she asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 228 |
It was no wonder Oneander made no public fact of his most recent itinerary. |
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| 4 | 477 |
Thus, one supposes, when some free women meet a free male, even under the most innocuous and benign of conditions, at banquets, in the market, at public gatherings, at the song dramas, and so on, they must realize, doubtless uneasily somewhere beneath their cumbersome robes and veils, that they are ... |
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| 8 | 3 |
I did not know how much a slave might go for in the market of Lysander, but I wished to have enough to be confident that I could bid realistically and effectively on one item of merchandise, should it be offered to the public. |
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| 10 | 158 |
Does one truly own a slave until she is at your feet diligently polishing your leather, looking up occasionally, hoping you will be satisfied; she does not wish to be beaten; until she is in your kitchen, preparing your food; until she is serving it, humbly, perhaps nude, as you might wish her then,... |
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| 20 | 12 |
Anxious, I had begun to search the public places of Victoria. |
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| 24 | 669 |
"Buy Beverly, please!" I have also seen girls attempt to influence their sales in public auctions, while being exhibited naked on the block, trying to present themselves particularly to a given man, but this disposition is usually curbed by the auctioneer's whip. |
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| 24 | 671 |
Indeed, in most public auctions, such actions on the part of the girl are for most practical purposes impossible. |
10 |
| 25 | 42 |
When he went about in public it seemed his shoulders were bent, his eyes bleared, his step uncertain, his hand unsure. |
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| 31 | 69 |
"This is a public place," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 206 |
She may be garbed, for example, in netting, as the "Hunter's Catch"; or she may be bedecked in jewels and leather, and shimmering chains, dancing under a whip in a tavern in Port Kar; or she may have flowers intertwined in her chains, as when she is awarded to a victor in public games in Ar. |
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| 11 | 213 |
In this sense slave garments may be as resplendent and complex as the robes of an enslaved Ubara, to be removed by the general who has captured her upon a platform of public humiliation, or as simple as the cords on a girl's wrists and a piece of rope knotted on her throat. |
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| 18 | 462 |
Her least insolence she knows may be rewarded with exact, swift punishment, such as the whip or close chains, nudity in the streets or public rental, or the deprivation of food. |
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| 19 | 379 |
It would not do for her for them to know that she, that lofty creature—mysterious in her robes and veils, perhaps known to them only as a proud slut being regally borne in a curtained palanquin, or as a shy, gentle creature absorbed in perusing scrolls in a library, or as a mere figure attend... |
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| 19 | 1016 |
A girl who is sold in a prestige market and, in the afternoon before her sale, placed with other lovely inmates within the chromed, ornate bars of an exhibition cage, has moved and posed upon the instructions of prospective bidders, is almost certain to bring a higher price than another girl, who by... |
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| 20 | 1168 |
"This time and place," he said, "seemed appropriate for making the first public announcement of the appointment". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 105 |
In any event, in one way or another, many goods pass through Port Kar, mostly honestly one supposes, and many merchants come to Port Kar, even from Cos and Tyros, with which we are at war, to trade, and sometimes, I suspect, to see what bargains might be found, what results might have accrued from v... |
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| 2 | 195 |
What division of this will be borne by public expense remains moot. |
10 |
| 2 | 205 |
"I think that I would favor granting the license," said Samos, "but that I would also insist on the restriction of the subsidy to such an amount that an attack by every mercantile subcaste in Port Kar on the public coffers will not be encouraged. |
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| 7 | 32 |
In most Gorean cities it is illegal to offer an unbranded woman in a public sale. |
10 |
| 8 | 10 |
In the central hall of the sales barn of Ram Seibar, which is open to the public, there are twenty-one blocks. |
10 |
| 8 | 27 |
One might as well be sold off a slaver's public shelf, in a city, or out of a cage, or kneeling in the mud outside a village, from a "slaver's necklace". |
10 |
| 13 | 146 |
On Earth at this very moment many women are held in public bondage, and many others, it is difficult to conjecture their number, serve in secret bondages. |
10 |
| 13 | 174 |
"Such information is public among masters," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 1479 |
"Such matters are public knowledge about slaves, as much as the color of their hair and eyes, and their collar size". |
10 |
| 13 | 1481 |
"Public knowledge," I assured her, "if anyone should be interested". |
10 |
| 17 | 688 |
"Better a collar in the cities," she said, "better to be abused and sold from a public platform, better to be a slave girl fearful and obedient at the feet of her master". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 164 |
The body of a slave, of course, is public, in a way that it would be unthinkable that the body of a free woman could be public. |
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| 12 | 607 |
She had heard, I gathered, of certain agricultural slaveries, and of slaveries such as those in the public kitchens and laundries. |
10 |
| 40 | 663 |
"A few moments ago," she said, "I for the first time confessed myself to myself a slave, a confession which I now acknowledge and make public. |
10 |
| 40 | 668 |
What I have done now is little more than to proclaim and make public that secret truth. |
10 |
| 48 | 24 |
They did so, frightened, public slaves. |
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| 48 | 26 |
The status of being a public slave tends to be an ambiguous one. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 14 |
In the past few days, gradually, I had been entered into the public life of Corcyrus, primarily in small things such as granting audiences, usually with foreigners, and making brief public appearances. |
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| 31 | 142 |
Did he truly think that an agonizing death, writhing on a high, narrow impaling spear, some twenty feet in height, unable to free myself, in a public square, or on the walls of Argentum, in public view, to the jeers and cries of a vengeful crowd was not to be feared? "I am Tiffany," I said, weakly, ... |
10 |
| 31 | 482 |
A beautiful woman on a leash, to whom he seems to pay little attention, in a public promenade, or in the circuit of a plaza, for example, muchly enhances his public image, concerning which Goreans are often quite vain. |
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| 36 | 654 |
There is no doubt that numerous, lovely, scarcely clad slaves, in the streets and boulevards, in the plazas and parks, on the bridges and amongst the towers, perhaps hurrying on errands, perhaps casting shy glances over their shoulders at young men, perhaps visiting or shopping with their masters, a... |
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| 4 | 31 |
This hair, as was attested to by witnesses, had been represented to the public as that of free women, with appropriate prices being expected. |
10 |
| 4 | 48 |
In my audiences, and public appearances, for example, and even in the court, I appeared without the veils common to the Gorean free woman. |
10 |
| 4 | 359 |
At certain Ahn I was expected to be in the public rooms of the palace and, at others, even at the ringing of palace time bars, for no reason I clearly understood, I was expected to be in my quarters. |
10 |
| 4 | 371 |
Too, I had not been challenged in the matter in my audiences, my public appearances, or even in court. |
10 |
| 5 | 83 |
There was a difference sometimes, I supposed, between the true and reputed characters of public figures. |
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| 6 | 105 |
Sometimes they are supported by rich citizens; sometimes they are supported by caste organizations; sometimes, even, they are sponsored by merchants or businesses, as a matter of goodwill and promotion; sometimes, too, they are subsidized by grants from a public treasury. |
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| 6 | 278 |
"Your official self and your personal self, or your public and private selves, seem quite different," he said. |
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| 6 | 314 |
The unglazed back of the disk bears the date of the event or performance and a sign indicating the identity of the original vendor, the agent authorized to sell them to the public. |
10 |
| 6 | 356 |
I particularly enjoyed the public gardens. |
10 |
| 6 | 722 |
"Too," he said, "in so public a place you might, unveiled as is a slave, be recognized. |
10 |
| 8 | 410 |
* * * * "As the house opens to the public at the tenth Ahn," said Hermidorus, "perhaps I should now take you to the office of Publius, who wished to greet you before you left the premises". |
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| 9 | 100 |
I, as earlier, apparently in accord with the public customs of Corcyrus, had been unveiled. |
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| 17 | 6 |
My platform was on the left side of the street, looking down toward the square, and at the forward corner, nearest the street, of a public slave market, some fifty feet in length, along the street, and some fifty feet in depth. |
10 |
| 17 | 40 |
I had been put forth to public view. |
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| 17 | 62 |
Here I was chained on a platform, my arms over my head, at the side of a public street, where hundreds might, should they care to do so, look upon me unimpeded and at length. |
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| 17 | 305 |
He must! Too, it had been discovered that he had sold slave hair to the public, representing it as that of free women. |
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| 19 | 13 |
After this he had taken me to the public trough where I, under his instructions, washed. |
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| 21 | 60 |
They are usually sold in multi-item lots in cheap markets and are usually purchased to be used in such places as the public kitchens or laundries, and the mills. |
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| 26 | 76 |
"Similarly, as a slave, your body is public". |
10 |
| 26 | 235 |
It is as follows: The Gorean free woman is commonly veiled in public. |
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| 26 | 236 |
Indeed, one of the fearful things that can occur to her, if she is captured or enslaved, is that she is likely to be "face-stripped," as the saying is, that the delicacy of her facial beauty will be revealed, that her features will be disrobed, literally exposed to public view. |
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| 33 | 373 |
That woman is not the Tatrix! She sat upon the throne! She appeared in public as the Tatrix! She sat in court as the Tatrix! She conducted business as the Tatrix! She was known as the Tatrix! But she was not the Tatrix!" "Let us not ignore the evidence," said Miles of Argentum. |
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| 35 | 26 |
It is one thing for a woman to know this, of course, and quite another for her to find it made the subject of a public demonstration. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 695 |
Sometimes, in some cities, discovered, these fair pranksters are turned over to guardsmen, to be led in public shame bound and naked through the city, under explanatory placards, and then taken back to their homes. |
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| 2 | 477 |
Such grotesquerie, such hideousness, is not to be tolerated in public view". |
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| 2 | 864 |
Some men think that the girls in the public purple booths are much the same as those vended from the private purple booths on other occasions. |
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| 2 | 924 |
On the other hand, work slaves, such as are used in public laundries, or in the mines, or mills, are often shorn. |
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| 6 | 85 |
It must be understood, of course, to fully appreciate what was going on, that the public exposure of the features of a free woman, particularly one of high caste, or with some pretense to position or status, is a socially serious matter in many Gorean localities. |
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| 6 | 97 |
Their features are commonly kept naked, exposed fully to public view. |
10 |
| 6 | 101 |
Her features, in all their sensitivity and beauty, so intimate, personal and private to her, so revelatory of her deepest and most secret thoughts, feelings and emotions, are now exposed to public view, to be looked upon, and read, by whomsoever may be pleased to do so. |
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| 6 | 393 |
Then, if you decide, in your nobility, to deny me even the briefest of peeps, what harm could possibly have been done?" "A splendid suggestion, kind sir," she said, "but where, in this fair meadow, at the side of a public road, will I find suitable privacy?" "Here!" said Boots, lifting up the veil. |
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| 6 | 435 |
"Here I stand by a public road, stripped as naked as a slave," said the Brigella, confidently, to the audience, "but yet am perfectly concealed by this wondrous veil". |
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| 6 | 670 |
"Phoebe on her knees, as naked as a slave, on a public road, crawling out of a man's robes!" laughed the Bina, pointing derisively at her. |
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| 6 | 718 |
"A naked woman," he asked, skeptically, "encountered beside a public road?" "Oh!" she cried in misery. |
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| 7 | 161 |
One form of tagging is fairly common, however, during sales, and that is tagging during auctions, or in preparation for large sales, as when the girls are in exhibition cages, before being brought, usually serially, later, before the public. |
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| 11 | 33 |
We thought we owed her this much in public. |
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| 12 | 742 |
In a different situation, of course, this might have constituted a suitable and humiliating punishment, involving a public reduction in her status, particularly before other girls. |
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| 14 | 132 |
Under such circumstances it would surely be difficult to conceal it from a crowd attending a public spectacle. |
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| 16 | 64 |
Indeed, you may even breathe calmly, if that should be your wish, for as much as though you were safe in your beds within your stone keeps, protected each by the vigilance of a thousand valiant guards, you are safe here, nay, safer, though even on a public road, for here you stand within the walls o... |
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| 16 | 1074 |
These rings may serve various purposes, such as the display of disgraced females destined for slavery, most likely debtors, or the public punishment of errant slaves, but their number is largely dictated by the occasional use of displaying captured, stripped free women of enemy cities. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 113 |
There, some fifty yards away, kneeling, huddled together against the brick wall of a public building, the wall composed of the flat, narrow bricks common in southern Gorean architecture, was a group of some one hundred to one hundred and fifty females. |
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| 14 | 40 |
The walls were adorned with mosaics, scenes generally of civic life, prominent among them scenes of public gatherings, conferences and processions. |
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| 16 | 1151 |
"Do you object to public drinking fountains?" I asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 1533 |
In such areas, there was probably more than one in a camp of this size, public girls are kept, slaves for the pleasures of the soldiers. |
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| 21 | 166 |
"It was done in a public ceremony. |
10 |
| 21 | 197 |
"When, next, do you think he might be holding public audiences?" I asked. |
10 |
| 21 | 242 |
Similarly one may bid upon them in public auction. |
10 |
| 22 | 384 |
Sometimes a new slave must be whipped into the streets, for she is ashamed to be seen in public with a naked face. |
10 |
| 22 | 386 |
That it should be seen in public, stripped, disrobed of the privacy of its concealments, is often traumatic for a new slave. |
10 |
| 23 | 162 |
I thought he would probably be a conscientious and dedicated public servant, perhaps even a gifted statesman. |
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| 25 | 333 |
Many girls are sold directly from slave houses, from cells and cages, from stalls in a bazaar, from public hawkings in a plaza, from open-air markets, from wagons, at festivals and fairs, from slave camps, in fields, at the edges of busy roads, outside city gates, and so on. |
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| 25 | 1437 |
Too, it could make it simple for guardsmen, acting on complaints, to bring her in for identification and questioning, these details doubtless, in her case, to be followed by a hearing and sentencing, an almost inevitable reduction to bondage and then perhaps, initially, while her disposition is bein... |
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| 25 | 1638 |
It was a small bottle of Boleto's Nectar of the Public Slave Gardens. |
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| 25 | 1641 |
This was one of the major wines, and perhaps the best, served in Ar's public slave gardens; indeed, it had originally been commissioned for that market; hence the name. |
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| 26 | 1627 |
She was, I assume, distinctly uneasy, if not stricken with fear, at the thought of being so seen, at least in public. |
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| 26 | 1641 |
For example, in public, she can be as jealous of her brief tunic as a free woman of her veil and robes of concealment. |
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| 26 | 1661 |
Normally, in public, a slave is clothed, however minimally. |
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| 26 | 1868 |
"For some women," she said, "the self-surrender of herself into the chains of the slaver is doubtless not only a courageous act but a marvelously beautiful and self-fulfilling one, being a public confession of her nature, and her joyful acceptance of, and recognition of, what, in the light of that n... |
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| 26 | 1889 |
"Something, surely, would have to be done with her, even if she were sold for a tarsk bit, as a kettle-and-mat girl, or a pot girl, or laundress, out of a cage in a public market". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 104 |
The public buildings, the law court and the "house of the Administrator," the locus of public offices, were similarly structured and adorned. |
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| 20 | 184 |
Citizenship, or its retention, on other than a nominal basis, in some cities, is contingent on such things as attending public ceremonies, such as an official semiannual taking of auspices, and participating in numerous public assemblies, some of which are called on short notice. |
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| 8 | 404 |
The exposition area was now closed to the public. |
10 |
| 10 | 817 |
Indeed, sometimes girls are stripped in public, even in the squares, because masters are so pleased to show them off. |
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| 11 | 62 |
There had even been some handbills distributed by boys about the city, and others, I had heard, had been tacked up on public boards. |
10 |
| 11 | 307 |
Their coupling is public, of course, in the sense that the master, or usually, masters, and sometimes others, whether in an official capacity or not, are present, to make any pertinent payments or determinations. |
10 |
| 11 | 548 |
"She is then to be not a private slave, but a public slave?" inquired Mirus. |
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| 11 | 669 |
I was a public slave. |
10 |
| 11 | 679 |
I stood there, then, in collar and beads, displayed, a tavern slave, a paga slave, a public slave, naked on a Gorean dancing floor. |
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| 11 | 738 |
"Thank you for your public confirmation in this matter," called Mirus. |
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| 11 | 1585 |
In such a usage, and public as it was, before Tupita, and others, I was well reminded that there was a steel collar on my neck. |
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| 13 | 300 |
A woman who regards herself as a beauty on Earth might, accordingly, find herself laboring in the public kitchens or laundries on Gor. |
10 |
| 13 | 440 |
To be sure, I was a slave, in my heart, as well as now, on this world, whether I wished it or not, such, and helplessly such, in all public legality. |
10 |
| 13 | 552 |
"Very well," said Hendow, and then continued on his way, through the curtain, out to the public area. |
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| 17 | 43 |
Some are private, for a reserved clientele, but most are public, and their facilities, for a fee, are available to all free persons. |
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| 17 | 167 |
Such things are common in Gorean public places. |
10 |
| 17 | 262 |
It had much excited me, in its style, beauty and graphicness, and in its simple, unquestioned, unevasive public representation, albeit in a political and commemorative context, of natural biological relationships. |
10 |
| 17 | 394 |
I hoped that my new master would permit me clothing, at least in public. |
10 |
| 17 | 421 |
The public places and baths would soon be closed. |
10 |
| 19 | 46 |
Kinship structures do not now figure strongly in Gorean public life, although in some cities divisions of the electorate, those free citizens entitled to participate in referenda, and such, remain based on them. |
10 |
| 20 | 149 |
Similarly they generally would not use them for the construction of temples and public buildings. |
10 |
| 20 | 151 |
Usually, of course, the free labor is paid, and with more than provisions and shelter, either from public or private funds. |
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| 20 | 225 |
Rather than bother with housing these fellows, many of whom are supposedly dangerous, putting them up at public expense, and so on, many cities, for a nominal fee, turn them over to a work master who accepts charge of them, theoretically for the duration of time remaining in their sentences. |
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| 20 | 257 |
A girl's first sale, at least her first public one, as mine was at Market of Semris, when she is exposed on a block naked to buyers, and such, is probably the hardest for her. |
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| 22 | 31 |
"My first public sale took place in Market of Semris," I said, "at the sales barn of Teibar, of that town. |
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| 25 | 40 |
On the other hand, I have never known a slave who was not, at one time or another, or in one way or another, particularly in public, outside the privacy of her master's domicile, concerned about her modesty. |
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| 25 | 42 |
Too, it is one thing to return at dusk to the pens with one's tunic parted a bit, perhaps even by inadvertence, after one has been treated like a stormed and sacked citadel, proud in one's desirability and bondage, and quite another to be simply out in public, wearing only a collar, a thong and a bi... |
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| 25 | 52 |
Interestingly the girl who may be excessively modest in public may be the same girl who, without another thought, at home, naked, in her collar, gives all of herself, shamelessly, unstintingly, joyfully, to her master. |
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| 26 | 116 |
We are useful not only in brothels, cabarets, taverns, public pleasure gardens, and such, but wherever there are strong men, wherever there are men who enjoy seeing a woman move before them excitingly, and beautifully, and as a total female. |
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| 26 | 122 |
Dancers have many uses on Gor, both public and private. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 482 |
The gold expended, of course, may be later expeditiously recouped from the public treasury, and the sale of goods, such as precious plate, rugs, fine cloths, tapestries, inlaid woods, silver and gold wire, art objects, jewels, tharlarion, tarsks, and women. |
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| 4 | 22 |
Sometimes public funds are lavished upon them, as they are objects of civic pride. |
10 |
| 4 | 61 |
It is thought to be very bad form, incidentally, to carry weapons in the baths, and, in large public baths, they must often be checked upon entry. |
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| 5 | 372 |
In a moment or two she had regained the kitchen, and, an instant or two later, clutching a small, partitioned hand-rack of small vials and pots, each in its place, she again emerged into the public area. |
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| 5 | 528 |
Many civilians, I believe, do not know why certain warriors, by habit, request their paga in metal goblets when dining in public houses. |
10 |
| 6 | 137 |
Now, however, she might be plucked as easily as a larma, one overhanging a public path. |
10 |
| 8 | 304 |
You made my garments such that they were mere covers, strips and pieces, such that I dared not move, lest I be lying naked in a public place, such, too, that they might be lifted from me at a man's pleasure". |
10 |
| 8 | 510 |
She had appeared at public functions. |
10 |
| 17 | 400 |
Such things are common conveniences in Gorean cities, in public places, and such. |
10 |
| 21 | 341 |
Indeed, a free woman who appears in public in violation of these standards of decorum, for example, with her arms or legs too much bared, may be made a slave". |
10 |
| 21 | 342 |
"There was no crime then," she said, "in my appearing in public as I did, even though, say, I wore but a single layer and my calves, ankles and feet were bared". |
10 |
| 21 | 791 |
"On the high spear of public, legal impalement, of course," I added. |
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| 21 | 947 |
There are a number of reasons for this, for example, they tend to eschew face veiling, thereby shamelessly exposing their features to public inspection, a convenience, incidentally, for woman hunters; they think little of baring portions of their body unthinkable to the Gorean free woman, particular... |
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| 21 | 1142 |
As I have mentioned the stage it would be remiss of me not to observe that free women are not allowed on the Gorean stage, because of its public and shamefully exhibitory nature. |
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| 21 | 1159 |
Why else would they wander the high bridges at night, why else would they take passage in small caravans, why else would they embark upon dangerous voyages? Many is the veil which has inadvertently slipped in public places, to be hastily and with obvious embarrassment readjusted and repinned. |
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| 21 | 1271 |
Too, as women commonly desire clothing, particularly when in public, and given the master's options with respect to their clothing, most slaves strive to be pleasing, lest they be publicly exhibited, perhaps fastened nude in slave yokes and driven about the city by children with switches. |
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| 21 | 1538 |
Did they look back, I wondered, on the days of their freedom, or did they look forward, perhaps with fear, to what might lie ahead, to their branding and collaring, to their sale, perhaps by public auction, to the hazards and duties, the labors and perils, of their new condition, to the strangers in... |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 29 |
For example, a private master, though he might be particular about such things, is less likely than a public master, in public, to administer discipline for, say, speaking without permission. |
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| 12 | 256 |
Sometimes this is done in a plaza, or other public place, with a public stripping by her master. |
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| 1 | 782 |
In a public situation, however, as in a paga tavern, it is advisable that the girl be very careful, at least in her master's presence. |
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| 1 | 1064 |
Alternatives to such rules are to be made clear in advance, say, by announcement or public posting". |
10 |
| 3 | 346 |
This tends not to be practical among members of the caste of Players, of course, as their ratings are carefully kept, and are a matter of public record. |
10 |
| 12 | 253 |
An occasional exception is the secret slave whom most believe to be still free, her true relationship being concealed, at least for a time, by her master's will, from the public. |
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| 19 | 1142 |
Many serve in the public kitchens and laundries. |
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| 19 | 1789 |
"Perhaps yours would be a straw-filled pallet in a public kitchen or laundry, crawled to after a work day of fifteen Ahn". |
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| 19 | 1855 |
"By making his own compartments, in virtue of the diligence, delicacy and imagination of your services, more exciting than any public brothel". |
10 |
| 26 | 227 |
The proceeds from the first sales of the girls, when they were first put up for auction, whether out of the city or within it, went to the public treasury of Besnit. |
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| 27 | 368 |
"Forced to appear on a public stage scandalously clad, or naked," she asked, "dancing, singing, saying lines, being struck with paddles, and such, your master all the time in the wings with a whip?" "If you like," I said. |
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| 28 | 527 |
"And he made public declarations to that effect," said Labienus. |
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| 39 | 291 |
I thought she would be safe there, surely more so than if shackled in one of the public holding areas off the main paga room. |
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| 47 | 241 |
"When last I saw her," he said, "she was naked and in chains, gripping a stirring paddle, slaving over a great tub of boiling water in a public laundry". |
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| 48 | 80 |
Sometimes masters, as a discipline for their beauties, have them go naked in public, but with their tunic, or ta-teera, or whatever, about their neck or wrist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 18 |
Too, posters, and such, usually hand-inked, are common in public places, usually put up by the owners or managers of palestrae, or gymnasiums, public baths, taverns, race courses, theaters, and such. |
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| 1 | 96 |
She has some forty public gates, and, I suppose, some number of restricted smaller gates, secret gates, posterns, and such. |
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| 1 | 184 |
"Fellows as handsome as he," complained the merchant, "should be forced to go veiled in public". |
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| 1 | 186 |
Free women in most of the high cities on Gor, particularly those of higher caste, go veiled in public. |
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| 1 | 197 |
First, she must go about in public, denied face veiling. |
10 |
| 1 | 290 |
Did she not know that she, too, if she were a slave, would be similarly subject to a master's pleasure? "This is a very public place," I said to Marcus. |
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| 4 | 35 |
These are conveniently available in most public places. |
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| 6 | 1 |
The Public Boards Marcus and I turned to the street for a moment, to watch a company of guardsmen, at quick march, hasten by, their bootlike sandals, coming high on the calf, resounding on the stones. |
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| 6 | 13 |
"Here it is," said Marcus, calling back to me, "on the public boards". |
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| 6 | 14 |
The public boards are posting areas, found at many points in Ar, usually in markets and squares. |
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| 6 | 31 |
"There is nothing to that effect here on the public boards," said the other fellow. |
10 |
| 6 | 54 |
"But it is on the public boards!" said another. |
10 |
| 6 | 96 |
"He is a tyrant!" From the public postings, I had now gathered that Gnieus Lelius was not likely to have been of the party of treachery in Ar, which I was pleased to learn. |
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| 6 | 119 |
"It is here on the public postings," said another, "over here". |
10 |
| 6 | 156 |
"He has not been seen in public in days," said another. |
10 |
| 6 | 172 |
"Do not respond to that," I said to Marcus, and drew him back a bit from the public boards, to the edge of the crowd. |
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| 7 | 4 |
It was now two days after we had read the first postings of the conciliatory message of Lurius of Jad on the public boards. |
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| 7 | 486 |
The acceptance of the sword would have constituted a public token of the surrender of Ar's forces, foot and cavalry, both tarn and tharlarion. |
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| 7 | 553 |
Indeed, I suppose that it had cost Talena much to be seen in public, barefoot. |
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| 8 | 34 |
But the formation of such convoys, too, are usually advertised on the public boards, this information being of interest to various folks, say, merchants who might wish to ship goods, teamsters, guards, and such, who might wish employment, and folks wishing to book passage. |
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| 8 | 100 |
"Here are public boards," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 8 | 140 |
"The wall seems very bare there," said Marcus, as we passed a public edifice, a court building. |
10 |
| 8 | 165 |
Incidentally, many buildings, particularly public buildings, in this part of the city, which was an older part of the city, were quite old. |
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| 8 | 294 |
In attending the great theater last night we had conceded to public opinion, or, more particularly, to the sensibilities of free women, clothing Phoebe modestly, or at least somewhat modestly. |
10 |
| 8 | 307 |
Private masters, for example, often relish the company of their slaves at such events, and public masters, so to speak, recognize the value of such outings for slaves, as stimulation and recreation. |
10 |
| 8 | 313 |
Slaves are not permitted at all public events, of course. |
10 |
| 8 | 330 |
Certain shops had apparently also been looted, though no mention of this had appeared on the public boards. |
10 |
| 8 | 1023 |
"This is a public street," she said. |
10 |
| 8 | 1029 |
"This is a public street in Ar!" His expression remained impassive. |
10 |
| 9 | 54 |
"She, too, it might be recalled," said a man, "appeared in public barefoot, in the garb of a penitent, prepared to offer herself to save Ar". |
10 |
| 9 | 387 |
Yet there was also the matter of your treachery to Ar, which only now, with reluctance, do I make public". |
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| 10 | 10 |
This had been admitted on the public boards at last. |
10 |
| 10 | 100 |
It would be as though the Central Cylinder wished to conceal the fate imposed upon them, as though they were afraid of its becoming public, as though it might not be legitimately defensible. |
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| 10 | 103 |
Too, of course, it hopes to enlist public approbation by the painting of the ears and noses, thus suggesting that any who might disagree with its policies must be mad or dunces, at best objects of caricature and ridicule". |
10 |
| 10 | 362 |
To a Gorean free woman, particularly to one of station, given Gorean customs, proprieties and traditions, having one's face bared in public, with respect to matters of shock, distress, embarrassment, and such, would be very much akin to a civilized woman of Earth's being put out naked on the streets... |
10 |
| 10 | 364 |
Although there is some variance from caste to caste, and city to city, it is common for free women to veil themselves in public. |
10 |
| 10 | 389 |
Accordingly, the delicacy, subtlety, sensitivity and beauty of her features is bared, exposed to the most casual public view. |
10 |
| 11 | 329 |
And during the day we had normal duties, guarding portals and such, or, when assigned them, rounds, usually in public areas, as today, where the inscribing of the delka would be more likely to be noticed. |
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| 11 | 387 |
"Better that the carnage wrought within the shop should seem such that those of Cos feared it to be known, that they were concerned to conceal it from the public". |
10 |
| 12 | 138 |
If this occurs, it is not uncommon for the master to attempt, at least for a time, to conceal this from his peers, perhaps treating the slave in public with sharpness and peremptory disdain. |
10 |
| 13 | 8 |
"If it is true," I said, "I do not think it will be found on the public boards". |
10 |
| 13 | 29 |
"To appear noble, well disposed, benevolent? To give the public baubles and toys, items of interest with which to beguile themselves? To create diversions, to distract Ar's attention from her defeat and sorry state?" "They did not do this before," he said. |
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| 13 | 160 |
There was some talk of greater "respect" for slaves, that they might be permitted to drink from the higher bowls at the public fountains, even the insanity that one might not be able to make use of them without their permission, thus turning the master into a slave's slave. |
10 |
| 13 | 243 |
"There is a crowd ahead," I said, "at the public boards". |
10 |
| 14 | 1 |
In the Vicinity of the Public Boards Before the boards, rather in a circle before them, there was a crowd. |
10 |
| 14 | 404 |
"What is new on the public boards?" I asked a fellow. |
10 |
| 14 | 457 |
"That is the first public recognition of the Delta Brigade," said a fellow. |
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| 14 | 645 |
Clutching her tunic about her as best she could, she then rose up and hurried from the place of the public boards. |
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| 14 | 683 |
"Glory to Ar!" I heard the ripping down of a sheet from the public boards and saw a young fellow casting it aside. |
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| 14 | 704 |
"I do not think I would care to be found in the presence of this delka," I said, "so prominent on the public boards, so freshly cut". |
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| 15 | 18 |
Marcus and I, knowing the movement was to take place, and, indeed, it had been on the public boards, had come to watch. |
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| 15 | 22 |
It had been he who, some days before, had cut the defiant delka deeply into one of the public boards on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 15 | 58 |
"No longer would Cos choose to risk her in public," I said. |
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| 15 | 81 |
The atrium in the house of records, I had learned, was open to the sky, which opening, as in many public and private Gorean buildings in the south, serves to admit light. |
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| 16 | 134 |
"Perhaps we are loyal fellows of Ar," I said, "who, as is presumably appropriate for those of the new Ar, hate the Delta Brigade, and are opposed to it, who see in it a threat to Ar's ignominious surrender, that is, to harmony and peace, who see in it a challenge to the imperious governance of Cos, ... |
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| 18 | 431 |
"Do you not know that the stone is now on public display," he asked, "for Ahn a day?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 18 | 455 |
"To a scribe to read the public boards!" "No!" said Marcus. |
10 |
| 18 | 457 |
I sometimes had difficulty with the public boards, particularly when cursive script was used. |
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| 19 | 41 |
Apparently she had come from some stream or rivulet, or public place, where she had been laundering, for she had had in her possession a basket filled with dampened clothes. |
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| 19 | 497 |
Perhaps this seemed fitting to Appanius, that the new slave, prior to her public embonding, should be so served. |
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| 19 | 998 |
"In the first way, doubtless," she smiled, "as I did not frequent the public baths and I doubt very much that rumors of my beauty were abroad in the streets". |
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| 21 | 84 |
Indeed, in a sense she was ignorant of its contents as Marcus and I, with Phoebe's expert assistance, as it turned out, had composed it yesterday evening, while she had been scouting the public boards for us, for any news that might be of interest. |
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| 21 | 85 |
It is best for slaves to approach the public boards in the evening or very early morning, when it is less crowded in their vicinity. |
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| 21 | 344 |
Is he one of them? How does she understand that expression, that smile? Is it meaningful? Does he think she is a slave! Does she redden beneath her veils? Similarly, the young man, seeing her in public, will remember her, and well. |
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| 22 | 145 |
Graffiti, too, in Gorean public places, as the markets and baths, is not uncommon. |
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| 24 | 90 |
"My body was not then public," she said, "not then as unimportant and scrutinizable as that of a verr or kaiila". |
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| 26 | 116 |
Sometimes a slave must go about naked in public, save for her collar. |
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| 26 | 118 |
On the whole, I do not approve of nudity in public, at least for private slaves, of either the bare-breasted or fully stripped variety, as it increases the risks, considerably, that the slave will be accosted, or even stolen. |
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| 26 | 525 |
From the point of view of the public, things would be much the same". |
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| 28 | 88 |
Yet how unfair was this to the perceptive young, piercing the propaganda, scorning the public boards, recognizing without being told what was being done to them and their city, smarting with shame, burning with indignation, recollective of Ar's glory, the young in whom flowed the blood of their fath... |
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| 28 | 98 |
Those who control the public boards, it is said, control the city. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 158 |
Or if these things lurked in the beauties of a biological heritage, here, at any rate, it seemed such an inheritance, such a heritage, might, at last, be spread forth in the light, a treasure no longer concealed, denied, in dank vaults, but put forth to gleam in public view, to be honestly what it w... |
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| 7 | 823 |
But it is one thing of course for one such as I to be permitted to bring sandals to one such as he in, say, the privacy of our precious intimacy, or before peers, where I might find myself honored before others, I and not they accorded this permission, or even in a public place, such as the baths, o... |
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| 8 | 769 |
Might we not even meet, perhaps while on errands, or laundering at a stream or public basin, and discuss those who held total rights over us? In their hearts, if they knew, I did not doubt but what they would envy me, how free I was here, and what I could do. |
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| 11 | 1021 |
Such an act, too, it seemed to me, would be to make too public certain secrets of one. |
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| 11 | 1113 |
"I wonder what it might be, after the procession through the streets, you naked, in chains, on a chain neck-tether, conducted through the jeering crowds, goaded by spear points, hastened by whips, and after the public humiliations, would it be torture and the spear? Presumably not, as that is too si... |
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| 11 | 1116 |
Perhaps then you might be nailed to the great gate or to the public boards. |
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| 11 | 1127 |
You might even be kept chained in the public tarsk pens, in the mud, for years, there to compete naked, mocked by all, for your swill". |
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| 12 | 209 |
I was, and had been, public to men; I belonged to them; I was subject to their regard and whim; I had been exposed as frequently and routinely, and, I suppose, as naturally and as appropriately, as any other sort of domestic animal. |
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| 12 | 420 |
Fortunately, a public palanquin was nearby, no more than a few yards away. |
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| 12 | 422 |
Thus I need not walk, and perhaps soil my slippers in the public streets. |
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| 13 | 1370 |
We are, in our way, public. |
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| 14 | 1185 |
"It is a common way for slaves to drink at public fountains, basins, and such". |
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| 14 | 1658 |
Slave rings are common in public places on this world. |
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| 18 | 142 |
On Earth, the garb in which we found ourselves, its brevity, its neckline, its lack of a nether closure, and such, would presumably have been regarded as scandalous, particularly in busy, public places. |
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| 18 | 151 |
In some cities, as I understand it, the state involves itself in such matters; for example, in some cities it is a matter of public ordinance that slave tunics may not be longer than a certain amount; this ordinance is presumably motivated not only by a desire to draw a clear distinction between the... |
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| 18 | 321 |
It was not merely that she was chained there, for safekeeping, but that it was a very public place. |
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| 24 | 435 |
Such things are not public information. |
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| 29 | 737 |
"In my house," he said, "it will be I who will first tie you to the whipping ring, who will give you your first public lashing". |
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| 41 | 31 |
I did not fear the public washing places, the shallow cement tanks where one might launder. |
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| 42 | 72 |
The prevention of slave theft is one reason for the presence of slave rings in public places, for the fastening of slaves to the foot of couches at night, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 109 |
Indeed, women of a status, or station, above her own commonly veiled themselves when appearing in public, particularly those of the high castes. |
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| 11 | 1088 |
She would doubtless attract much attention in a public cage. |
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| 15 | 428 |
Sometimes brochures and sales sheets for public postings are compiled from them by judicious selections. |
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| 16 | 531 |
Gorean free women, at least in the high cities, almost always wear veils in public, although some women of the lower castes are occasionally careless in this particular, permitting lax arrangements, and such, especially the maidens. |
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| 16 | 546 |
In removing the veil from a woman's face, one takes her from herself; one denies her to herself; one makes her public, so to speak, like a slave. |
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| 16 | 560 |
And how different was she, she thought, from the free women, they in their robes, resplendent in the glory of their liberty, she a stripped slave, chained on a public shelf. |
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| 16 | 728 |
In many public places there are slave rings, to which one may chain one's girls. |
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| 16 | 731 |
Conversation is seldom encouraged among slave girls in public places. |
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| 16 | 1088 |
She did not want to be chained on a public shelf. |
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| 16 | 1121 |
She, the whole of her, was chained on a public shelf. |
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| 16 | 1224 |
"Did you anticipate that you would one day be a slave on another world, publicly and legally, stripped on a public shelf, chained, affording small ministrations to the back of a man's hand?" "No, Master," said Ellen, pressing her lips to the back of his hand, softly. |
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| 18 | 136 |
Ellen was expected to run errands below, to shop, to do the laundry at the public laundering pools, and such. |
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| 18 | 201 |
She also attended to the laundry at the public pools, soaking, beating and rinsing garments, with other slaves. |
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| 18 | 638 |
For example, she was sent to different shops and places of business, and professional activity, but each time, of course, with some ostensible, public purpose, usually connected, at least officially, with her master's interests or work, a purpose which might be ascertained, for example, by guardsmen... |
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| 18 | 639 |
And then each time, she having discharged her public business, she would be, sometimes even near the Tower of Corridon, addressed from behind, and directed, always by the unseen observer, to a rendezvous elsewhere, in one place or another, at which point the small tube would be removed from her body... |
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| 18 | 644 |
Ellen was at the public laundry pools on a given morning, those local to her district, toward the ninth Ahn, something before noon, kneeling on a towel, working on the laundry for Portus Canio and his men. |
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| 19 | 710 |
In public places fountains often have several tiers, and almost always at least two, the bottom tier usually no more than a few inches from the ground or pavement, and, as would be expected, slaves, leashed verr, pet sleen, and such, are expected to drink from the lower level. |
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| 22 | 477 |
Did she not know her beauty was public? Had she not learned that, forcibly and clearly, in the Kettle Market in Ar, on Targo's sales shelf? It seemed she was being regarded as a mere, interesting, sleek animal, perhaps as a very special sort of tarsk or kaiila. |
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| 24 | 483 |
One of the interesting things from the Gorean point of view about most of the women of Earth is that they do not veil themselves; most go about, even in public, with bared features. |
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| 25 | 235 |
It was not merely that it was a festival camp, for it was not that unusual to sell women on holidays, and at times of celebration, sometimes with special advertising on the public boards, and such; it had to do, rather, with the sales being conducted not by a private house, but by a state, in this c... |
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| 25 | 701 |
Ellen wonders, sometimes, how many of her former colleagues, in their private lives, in their secret lives, repudiate the falsity, foolishness and treason of their public lives. |
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| 27 | 1424 |
"It was my intention, after forcing her to undergo the indignity and shame of a public sale, to buy her back". |
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| 27 | 1481 |
She kisses the chain with which he fastens her to a public slave ring, where she must wait for him. |
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| 27 | 2471 |
In cities, in public places, slave rings are provided, to which slaves may be attached while masters attend to their business, their purchasings, their visitings, or such. |
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| 27 | 2477 |
They may also, before chaining us, allow us to drink from the lower level of a public fountain. |
10 |
| 27 | 2479 |
In public we are expected to refrain from touching such a pan with our hands, and are expected to drink from it on all fours. |
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| 27 | 2490 |
Most slaves, incidentally, have a great deal of freedom, in moving about the city, shopping, running errands, inspecting goods at the markets, wandering in the bazaars, laundering at the public troughs, strolling about in the parks and on the avenues, such things. |
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| 27 | 2497 |
Slaves, incidentally, are usually not allowed in public buildings, and certainly not in temples. |
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| 27 | 2504 |
Amongst the boys in their little clouds or gangs, roaming about, looking for some "good ones" amongst the "ring girls," those chained to the public rings, there will occasionally be one or two older ones, who will carry switches. |
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| 28 | 37 |
Whereas the men of Earth, like the women of Earth, are commonly starved for sex, and are, consequently, usually the most obvious or most public victims of unsatisfied sexual need, there is little parallel to this amongst Gorean males. |
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| 30 | 49 |
Naturally enough then, that women of Earth not unoften so adorn themselves, and may appear in public so adorned, is taken by most Goreans, at least those who believe it, as evidence that they are slaves, and thus of their fittingness to be placed upon the auction block, appearing before masters to b... |
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| 30 | 642 |
How their lives will change! Talena, acclaimed by some as Ubara, denounced by others as traitress, is seldom seen now in public. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 86 |
Accordingly, public slave rings are frequently available in piazzas, plazas, squares, forums, agorae, and such, and along public streets, for the convenience of masters, to which their slaves may be conveniently chained. |
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| 1 | 1090 |
The container was transparent, and had there been wardens or guards, visitors or bystanders, the container's occupants would have been in public view. |
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| 3 | 56 |
She was a domestic animal; she might be chained in a public market, for the inspection of all and sundry. |
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| 11 | 156 |
"It is a standard collar, Master," she said, "but one similar to a public collar, as that of a state slave". |
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| 18 | 39 |
For example, Gorean free women are commonly veiled in public, at least in part, presumably, that their provocative lips not be publicly exposed. |
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| 18 | 40 |
Indeed, one of the things most dreaded by a Gorean free woman, particularly of high caste, is that they will be face-stripped and their lips exposed to public view, as though they might be those of a slave. |
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| 18 | 41 |
That slaves are not permitted veiling, and that their lips must be exposed to all, even in public, is regarded as one of the shames imposed on a slave. |
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| 20 | 199 |
Even in public she insults him, and shows him disrespect. |
10 |
| 23 | 104 |
I belittled him, in public. |
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| 43 | 279 |
To such a garment, in its scantiness, in its revealing suggestiveness, in what it says about its occupant, might not a full and honest nudity be preferable? Such a garment is a public proclamation that its wearer, by it so belittled and demeaned, by it so mercilessly exhibited, by it so blatantly ex... |
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| 45 | 72 |
How different it is from the gross, constricting, layered bundlings of the free woman's many robes and veils! And she surely cannot fail to be aware, and acutely, sometimes shyly, but surely happily, and soon even gratefully, though she might at first be reluctant to admit this, of the blatant publi... |
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| 61 | 249 |
"Despite his public demeanor," she said, "I think he is my only friend". |
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| 69 | 49 |
Whereas they think nothing of being bared before their master, who may keep them in no more than a collar, it is quite another thing to be nude in public, on the streets, in a market, and such. |
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| 73 | 249 |
It is itself, that is all, visible and invisible, public and private, secret and revealed, shown and concealed; it is as it was, and is, and will be". |
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| 74 | 19 |
He was familiar with martial dances from Gor, of course, which are used not simply for public displays, and such, but in the training of infantry, the turns, advances, withdrawals, the liftings and lowerings of spears, the rhythmic clash of blades on shields, the stamping of feet, the glittering of ... |
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| 76 | 15 |
The collar then is, in its way, a public certification of female excellence, a mark, like the brand, of special quality. |
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| 79 | 180 |
In any event, in the world, and on Gor, as well, poetry, like music, and song, is familiar, public, and popular. |
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| 79 | 569 |
She was then sequestered, and kept from public view. |
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| 80 | 50 |
The bondage of some Kur females was now public. |
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| 80 | 85 |
As the inquiry of the man of Peisistratus might have seemed to some readers somewhat anomalous, it should be mentioned that on Gor slaves are not permitted in many public buildings, rather as other animals would not be permitted in them. |
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| 80 | 107 |
"Our science," said Lord Arcesilaus, "is not public, as is yours, and as is, to some extent, that of Goreans. |
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| 80 | 286 |
If a woman's throat is bared, how does she know that a fellow, say, that one, sitting across from her, in a public cart, or such, is not idly fancying what it might look like in a collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 582 |
A tyrant state always wishes to disarm the public, for it understands its secret intents with respect to that public, and wants it at its mercy. |
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| 5 | 583 |
This disarming is always, of course, alleged to be in the public's best interest, as though the public would be safest when least capable of defending itself. |
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| 3 | 378 |
Too, as she had been of high family in Turia, her public bondage, exposure in triumphs, and such, afforded the populace much delight. |
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| 5 | 804 |
It would be far preferable to being pilloried naked, subjected to the blows and abuse of irate citizens, being publicly, ceremoniously, whipped, and then being transported out of the city, naked, standing, wrists lashed to an overhead bar, on a flat-bedded, public slave wagon, to the jeers of free c... |
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| 5 | 820 |
"Several, in the fighting, learned they were on the proscription lists, copies of which were posted on the public boards," said another. |
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| 9 | 401 |
"She is not used to public bathing," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 238 |
And so, slave-clad, she appears in public. |
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| 13 | 170 |
"I saw my name on a proscription list, posted on the public boards," she said. |
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| 13 | 241 |
Too, I thought his capture would be a coup of considerable dimension, and one whose fame would be soon registered on the public boards of a dozen cities, whispered about a thousand campfires, even as far north as the forests, but, here, too, I had, as yet, heard nothing. |
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| 13 | 280 |
Veiling was common amongst free women in public. |
10 |
| 13 | 284 |
In public dining the woman might feed herself discreetly, delicately, beneath the veil. |
10 |
| 18 | 157 |
Even Gorean women of high caste, who are commonly robed and veiled in public, do not regard bodies as shameful. |
10 |
| 18 | 159 |
They do, however, usually, regard their bodies as special and provocative, and exquisitely private, and certainly not for public viewing. |
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| 19 | 326 |
I had seen them in markets, awaiting their sale, and during their sale; I had seen them trekked in coffle, transported in slave wagons, reclining in cages, looking out at men who might buy them; I had seen them hurrying in the streets, bargaining with vendors, busy on the quays, laughing, and teasin... |
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| 22 | 82 |
"In a slave they are quite public, like eye color and hair color. |
10 |
| 22 | 500 |
Though a slave, technically, is not permitted modesty, few slaves are not eager for the merest shred of clothing, at least in public. |
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| 26 | 254 |
"The matter became public knowledge shortly after the rising of the people, the return of Marlenus," he said. |
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| 26 | 261 |
We did not discover that she had been embonded until the testimonies of Tolnar and Venlisius had become public. |
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| 27 | 25 |
This is not unusual, in public, with such women. |
10 |
| 28 | 183 |
Do they not commonly bear their faces? Are their shapely calves and ankles not visible in public? Consider the frequent scandal of their garmentures, beach, and summer wear, the shortness of skirts, and such. |
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| 38 | 246 |
The majority of public slaves, or, perhaps better, the slaves without private masters, camp slaves, kitchen slaves, laundry slaves, girls selected for trading and selling, girls from the slave house, and such, would be soon conducted on board. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 150 |
It is a common dream of public slaves, tavern slaves, brothel slaves, the girls of the laundries, the public kitchens, the mills, and such, that they should have a private master. |
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| 1 | 314 |
Accordingly, when she arrived in Ar, she was not returned to glory, to position and power, but removed from public sight, being sequestered, for most practical purposes, imprisoned, in the Central Cylinder. |
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| 1 | 366 |
Within the city collaborators, their names posted on the public boards, were hunted down, room to room. |
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| 3 | 1177 |
'He recalled me,' she said, 'and searched the public shelves, zealously, and found me, and purchased me. |
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| 3 | 1389 |
"But there are female slaves on the ship which are at the public use of the crew, and private slaves, as well". |
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| 3 | 1509 |
And sometimes, suitably braced, increment by transitory increment, the victim given food and water, the execution can take several days, during which time the victim is exposed to the jeers and abuse of the public". |
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| 5 | 177 |
Thus, she might not know that he, unbeknownst to herself, might have seen her, might have looked upon her now-bared face, a face now slave-bare, a face now denied the dignity and modesty of veiling, a face which must now be as exposed to public view as that of any other animal, a face recalled by hi... |
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| 7 | 20 |
Certain slaves interestingly, were brought into public view only when hooded. |
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| 7 | 115 |
Having seen many women exhibited, on the public shelves, in the exposition cages, on the block itself, it did not seem likely to me that the women of the Venna keeping area would be more beautiful, or really that much more beautiful, than those I had seen in the Kasra holding area, those heeling pri... |
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| 7 | 119 |
Some of the women, from the Kasra area, had, in former weeks, been put in the public pleasure chambers, chained beside their mats, for the use of the crew, but this availability had, at least for the time, been discontinued. |
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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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| 10 | 69 |
And in the public garden she only now becomes aware, following her master, heeling him, that the rich sequence of blossoms is not only arranged like music, with its color, tint into tint, shade into shade, tone into tone, to dramatically enhance the delight of a walk, but there is another music, as ... |
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| 12 | 491 |
It was almost as though the collar on her neck might not have been a public collar, say, that of the ship of Tersites, but, rather, a private collar, say, that of Callias of Jad. |
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| 17 | 107 |
So slaves are often chained at night, even in public barns. |
10 |
| 19 | 167 |
The free woman may be conducted to public readings and song dramas; the slave is to be at the foot of her master's couch, chained to his slave ring. |
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| 24 | 151 |
They were now with common slaves, public slaves, so to speak. |
10 |
| 24 | 295 |
Yet she had sat upon the throne, presided on public occasions, issued the decrees prescribed, and made the appointments recommended. |
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| 27 | 200 |
I thought him wise to remain in public places. |
10 |
| 34 | 110 |
"Perhaps some women are slaves, even there," I said, "and wholly, but the matter is kept from public view". |
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| 35 | 133 |
"Set the public tables!" called another. |
10 |
| 36 | 601 |
"What does her collar say?" As the collar was light, it seemed to me likely that it was a private collar, not a public collar, not, say, a ship's collar. |
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| 37 | 436 |
To be sure, most slaves are clothed, particularly in public. |
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| 37 | 504 |
I secured one of the public lamps, and reentered the room. |
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| 37 | 1302 |
"I have seen many dancers, even public dancers, brothel dancers, street dancers, tavern dancers, who were not as beautiful as you". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 121 |
In any event, various manuscripts pertaining to your world have appeared, in a variety of languages, on my former world, despite efforts to suppress them, to deny them to the reading public. |
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| 4 | 355 |
Rawlinson, "but low-caste women, in public, commonly do so. |
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| 4 | 487 |
"You would dare have us appear in public in less?" I asked. |
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| 5 | 58 |
Do we not serve in the paga taverns, sometimes nude and belled? Do we not, sedately tunicked, as serving slaves, assist free women with their complex ornaments, their perfumes, robes, and veils? Do we not gather gossip for them, and carry messages for them in their petty intrigues and assignations; ... |
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| 5 | 325 |
Your women are like public fruit, ripe, moist, fresh, and tempting, dangling within easy reach, harvested without difficulty at our pleasure". |
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| 7 | 728 |
I was not veiled in public, that men might not look upon my beauty. |
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| 8 | 152 |
The city or state, on the other hand, which has properties, farms, and such, as well as it support from taxes, often supports public festivals, concerts, performances, and contests, competitions, for example, of strength, speed of foot, archery, javelin casting, riding, singing, drama, poetry, danci... |
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| 8 | 168 |
How could such a world exist and not be known, or, I thought, is it known? Perhaps it is known, but as a guarded secret, official or governmental, to be kept from the general public? Is it the will of the Priest-Kings, the alleged lords of this world, I wondered, that the existence of their world be... |
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| 8 | 1413 |
Menon maintained a public eating house near the sun gate, so spoken of because it is opened at dawn and closed at dusk. |
10 |
| 8 | 1433 |
As is well known, free women are not permitted in the paga taverns or brothels, and it is dangerous for them to enter them, even for those bold enough to disguise themselves as slaves, but similar restrictions do not apply to the public eating houses. |
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| 8 | 1487 |
Gorean free women of high caste almost invariably veil themselves in public. |
10 |
| 8 | 1492 |
In public, it is easy to eat and drink behind the veil. |
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| 8 | 1785 |
"How, my dear," said the voice, "would you like to be chained to a loom in the mills of Mintar, with cropped hair, or be placed in one of the public laundries, or sent to the mines of Argentum, or the tharlarion stables at Venna?" "It will be done with me as masters please," I said. |
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| 9 | 209 |
I knew that camisks, and ta-teeras, were frowned on in the streets, in public. |
10 |
| 10 | 3 |
One launders the sheets at the public troughs, and later sprinkles them, and puts them under the handled irons, heated on the plate over the house fire. |
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| 10 | 194 |
Whereas chairs, benches, and higher tables are familiar to you, as in the public eating houses, and common in the north, such things are much more common on my former world. |
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| 10 | 203 |
Sometimes bills are posted on the exterior walls, as though in public places. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 22 |
How different we are, I thought, from those precious, glorious free women, at least of the high castes, in the cities, of whom I had often heard, who might faint with mortification should a sudden breeze disarrange a veil, or attack a fellow suspected of considering an ankle, or hire public avengers... |
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Lady Bina, in any event, as there was no sign of public concern or agitation at her removal from the House of a Hundred Corridors, as exhortations, alarms, proclamations, offers of rewards for her return or information leading to her return, and such, were not being broadcast throughout the city and... |
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| 20 | 26 |
They are more likely, if abroad, and waiting, say, pending the return of a master, to be chained to public rings, these frequently found in public places, supplied by the municipality as a convenience. |
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| 41 | 109 |
In many public places, particularly in the high cities, provided as a public convenience, there are slave rings to which a slave might be fastened while her master busies himself elsewhere. |
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Who would have dared to conceal the most coveted of jewels in the setting of a metal collar? And who, while thousands sought her in secret places, would dare to place her where she would least be suspected, in public, in a public tavern, almost within his purview, as a common slave?" "Few would know... |
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