| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 181 |
Few warriors will risk their lives to capture a woman who may be as ugly as a tharlarion. |
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| 9 | 47 |
Who would risk his goods in a situation of chaos? When we did pass an occasional traveler, we passed warily. |
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| 10 | 49 |
He would have had a man killed rather than risk the loss of a tenth of a tarn disk, so well he knew the codes of his caste. |
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| 12 | 18 |
"Perhaps you would care to risk another shot now. |
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| 13 | 19 |
Feeling that I had satisfied my curiosity and not wanting to risk a landing in the darkness, where a spear might dart from any shadow, I drew back on the one-strap and prepared to return at last to Ko-ro-ba, whence I had departed several days—an eternity—before. |
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| 13 | 47 |
Rather than risk casting my spear from the safe but unsteady saddle of the tarn, I leaped to the ground, just as the larl, furious that it had been discovered, uttered the paralyzing hunting roar and charged. |
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| 15 | 198 |
"Besides, few of the soldiers of Gor, barbarians though they might be, would risk the destruction of their city's Home Stone—the luck of their birthplace". |
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| 16 | 55 |
Also, Pa-Kur was not so much a fool as to bring the tributary Home Stones to his camp and risk disuniting his horde before the siege was completed. |
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| 18 | 78 |
I did know that sometimes the pathetic inmates of Dar-Kosis Pits, repenting their decision to be incarcerated, had managed to cut footholds in the walls and escape, but the labor involved—a matter of years—the death penalty for being discovered, and the very risk of the climb made such... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 5 |
Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, had been to such fairs to trade scrolls with scholars from other cities, men he would never have seen were it not for the fairs, men of hostile cities who yet loved ideas more than they hated their enemies, men like Torm who so loved learning that they would ... |
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| 8 | 18 |
Whereas there is status in the capture of a free woman, there is less risk in the capture of a slave; the pursuit is never pressed as determinedly in their cases, and one does not have to imperil one's life for a girl who might, once the Robes of Concealment have been cast off, turn out to have the ... |
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| 13 | 115 |
I couldn't turn and drive the spikes through him because I could not risk missing. |
10 |
| 15 | 68 |
It was a risk which I had decided to take. |
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| 17 | 19 |
They would strangle one of their fellows who thought of rebellion, rather than risk the flooding of the chamber. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 80 |
Thus one practical effect of the edict of the Priest-Kings is that each Gorean girl must, at least once in her life, leave her walls and take the very serious risk of becoming a slave girl, perhaps the prize of a pirate or outlaw. |
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| 8 | 151 |
Cities, of course, would pursue the raiders from Treve, and carry the pursuit vigorously as far as the foothills of the Voltai, but there they would surrender the chase, turning back, not caring to risk their tarnsmen in the rugged, formidable territory of their rival, whose legendary ferocity among... |
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| 16 | 128 |
"Then it did not lie there for more than three hundred years?" "Of course not," said Misk, "the risk of discovery would have been too great". |
10 |
| 16 | 146 |
"It could have been," said Misk, "but I could not risk that". |
10 |
| 16 | 176 |
"At any rate," said Misk, "it was not a risk we cared to take". |
10 |
| 20 | 197 |
The man then, after having been forced to risk his life, is seldom in a mood to use the girl other than as his slave. |
10 |
| 20 | 204 |
Also of course a Free Companionship might be refused, in all Gorean right, by the girl, and thus a warrior can hardly be blamed, after risking his life, for not wanting to risk losing the precious prize which he has just, at great peril to himself, succeeded in winning. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 218 |
"You would risk," I asked, "the herds—the wagons—the peoples?" Both Kamchak and I knew that Priest-Kings were not lightly to be disobeyed. |
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| 8 | 52 |
It was the Omen Year, and not a year, apparently, in which to risk war with far peoples, particularly not those of cities like Ar, whose warriors had mastered the tarn and might, from the air, have wrought great destruction on the herds and wagons. |
10 |
| 8 | 243 |
The problem of the young man, and perhaps the reason that he had not yet won even the Courage Scar of the Tuchuks, was that he had fallen into the hands of Turian raiders in his youth and had spent several years in the city; in his adolescence he had, at great risk to himself, escaped from the city ... |
10 |
| 9 | 435 |
I was pleased, though I would not have admitted it, at Kamchak's boldness, for it was a face for which a man might risk much, even death in the torture dungeons of Turia, utterly beautiful though now, of course, transformed with rage, far more beautiful than had been that of the most beautiful of th... |
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| 23 | 84 |
When, on the whole, the long-term balance of battle would seem to lie with them, there would be little point in their undertaking the risk of darkness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 140 |
"The risk is too much, sometimes as much as ten gold pieces". |
10 |
| 11 | 387 |
Excellent merchandise, some risk, but every likelihood of achieving a status of considerable value. |
10 |
| 16 | 212 |
Moreover, to bring a new faction into competition is an expensive business, and involves considerable risk to the capital advanced. |
10 |
| 19 | 136 |
"Verbina, she is," called he, "who so fears a man that she would flee him, at the risk of death and torture, White Silk and never before owned, yet certified ready for the chain of a master who would use her as she so richly deserves!" The crowd roared with amusement, enjoying the sport of the aucti... |
10 |
| 20 | 20 |
I could not understand why Relius and Ho-Sorl would make my cause theirs, nor why Sura, though I knew she cared for me, would so risk her life, now doubtless lost. |
10 |
| 22 | 446 |
I could have forced my way past the nonfaction rider ahead of me but, with the edged rings, it would be at great risk to both of us, and to our tarns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 85 |
Indeed, I surmised, there was risk enough, and great risk, coming together even in Se'Kara. |
10 |
| 17 | 153 |
Is anything worth so much as a human life? Is not the most abject surrender preferable to the risk of its loss? Is it not better to grovel as a slave, begging the favor of life from a master, than to risk the loss of even one life? I recalled that I, once, in the far marshes of the delta of the Vosk... |
10 |
| 10 | 76 |
They might find others to fight their battles and risk their lives for them. |
10 |
| 10 | 227 |
It is scarcely worth the risk of crew and ship, unless desperate, to win a hold filled with lumber or stone. |
10 |
| 17 | 118 |
Chenbar's brilliance at coming unseasonably, unexpectedly, against Port Kar, was not without its risk. |
10 |
| 18 | 658 |
And the rencers, to my astonishment, had come to risk their lives for me. |
10 |
| 18 | 879 |
"It was a risk I took," said Samos. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 426 |
Why risk one's life to obtain a free woman who might turn out to be as "ugly as a tharlarion" when one might, with no more risk, and perhaps less, because the pursuit is likely to be less fiercely pressed, pick up a lovely, easy-to-assess, well-curved slave whose selling price is almost guaranteed t... |
10 |
| 17 | 423 |
"Were you in a place where they could have you when they wished, and yet not seem to own you, nor risk identifying themselves with you prematurely, lest others take note?" "For months," I said, "I served as a slave in a paga tavern". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
"We do not care to risk you," said Samos. |
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| 15 | 112 |
We could not, of course, risk a fire. |
10 |
| 17 | 52 |
She could not risk a miss. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 180 |
Who would care to risk his life for a free woman, who, stripped, might prove disappointing, when, for less risk, he could get his capture loop on a known quantity, a girl who has quite probably been trained like an animal to deliciously satisfy the passions of a man, a girl who, responsive, helpless... |
10 |
| 1 | 251 |
"But I think the Kurii, who are rational creatures, will not risk full war until reasonably assured as to its outcome. |
10 |
| 5 | 281 |
Merchants will not care to risk their goods. |
10 |
| 7 | 630 |
If I had been Ibn Saran I would not have taken this risk. |
10 |
| 7 | 733 |
Ibn Saran would not have cared to risk giving me an Ahn's start on a fast kaiila. |
10 |
| 14 | 235 |
"The risk of some strangers slipping through would be too great". |
10 |
| 19 | 91 |
There was much risk, of course, attendant on either decision. |
10 |
| 21 | 64 |
No longer did it seem willing to risk leaving the trail to hunt for water. |
10 |
| 21 | 201 |
What prize, I wondered, could be worth the risk the beast had been willing to take, the price it had been willing to pay, its own life. |
10 |
| 22 | 36 |
I was not prepared to risk the second alternative. |
10 |
| 24 | 265 |
"Having a slave's beauty, you are likely to be at somewhat less risk than you might be otherwise, other things being equal, considering what you are". |
10 |
| 25 | 341 |
"Please! Please!" "There will be much risk," said Hassan. |
10 |
| 25 | 451 |
"We cannot risk it". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 841 |
Theft was simply a risk to which we were subject. |
10 |
| 20 | 202 |
Masters take little risk with their girls when they send them to the wharves. |
10 |
| 22 | 402 |
"My freedom, my station," she said, "puts me above the risk of such indignities". |
10 |
| 25 | 119 |
"Do you feel the enemy would risk a code book, or code device, on Gor?" asked Samos. |
10 |
| 26 | 661 |
Yet there would be risk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 25 |
"But can we take this risk?" he asked. |
10 |
| 4 | 605 |
I did not know this for certain, but it was a risk I must take. |
10 |
| 4 | 679 |
Would one risk one's throat and blood for a toy of wood or an ivory carving? "In that, and that alone," said the merchant, pointing to the object which the thief had held, and which he had dropped in our struggle. |
10 |
| 5 | 98 |
"You are too valuable to risk in the north". |
10 |
| 6 | 877 |
They crept forward, there must be no mistake, no risk of losing the prey. |
10 |
| 9 | 247 |
One might also note, at the risk of being politically suspect, that the sexes may not be absolutely identical. |
10 |
| 18 | 14 |
One would not risk a woman in our current work, even a slave beast. |
10 |
| 23 | 285 |
"Yet there seems much time and risk involved in recovering someone who is probably only a silver-tarsk girl". |
10 |
| 32 | 70 |
"We did not wish to risk the great fleet," it said. |
10 |
| 35 | 76 |
I knew I had at least one ally within, Imnak, who would risk his life to protect me. |
10 |
| 35 | 432 |
They can thus prosecute the insidious designs of their cunning patrons with little risk of detection. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 82 |
I did not wish to risk losing track of her. |
10 |
| 4 | 341 |
I did not think it likely she would risk stealing a boat. |
10 |
| 4 | 342 |
Even if she could handle a small craft, which I doubted, for she was an Earth girl, probably from an urban area, the risk of discovery would be too great. |
10 |
| 19 | 27 |
It had been my hope, of course, and a risk which Msaliti, for his part, would have had to accept, that I might, with the ring, elude his askaris, even if the room were surrounded. |
10 |
| 33 | 51 |
"Do you truly think that Bila Huruma," I asked, "who owns or is companion to perhaps hundreds of women would pursue you into the jungle at great risk to himself and his empire to get back one girl, a girl whom he doubtless realizes has by now been reduced to slavery, and has thus been rendered polit... |
10 |
| 50 | 77 |
She had been well conquered now, that beautifully delicious wench, and was now in his arms well owned, uncompromisingly devoted, and helplessly slave-responsive, a woman who had found her master, and certainly might now strive to serve him in just such a harrowing detail, even though it might be at ... |
10 |
| 53 | 457 |
He would not now risk more of his beasts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 566 |
"Are you not frightened that some of your "sisters" in your department will see you? Can you afford the risk?" She seemed momentarily apprehensive. |
10 |
| 11 | 63 |
"You should not have taken such a risk," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 70 |
"Why would you take such a risk, only for me?" I asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 272 |
"I cannot permit you to take such a risk," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 78 |
"You may risk a steel collar if you wish," said the Lady Melpomene. |
10 |
| 13 | 335 |
I did not wish to risk crawling on my stomach, over stones, under whips, perhaps for pasangs, to the nearest slave market. |
10 |
| 13 | 742 |
I suddenly realized that he did not wish to risk a slave. |
10 |
| 16 | 235 |
"You could risk slavery," he said, "expose yourself to possible capture, walk the high bridges at lonely Ahn, picnic in the country, go to paga taverns alone, take dangerous sea voyages". |
10 |
| 28 | 78 |
Though I did not think the guardsmen would arrive for several Ahn, even if they arrived today, I did not wish to risk encountering them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 116 |
Who would wish to risk his life, it is said, to carry off a woman who might, when roped to a tree and stripped, turn out to be as ugly as a tharlarion? Slave girls, by contrast, are almost never permitted veils. |
10 |
| 24 | 219 |
Who knows through what sales or changings of hands a girl who is mere property such as I might pass? You cannot risk that I might, someday, somewhere, if only by inadvertence, perhaps by a startled cry or gesture, or a too-eager licking at your feet, compromise your secret". |
10 |
| 29 | 83 |
"I do not wish to risk several ships and hundreds of men in such an unusual venture," said Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 29 | 108 |
"The plan is not only dangerous," said Callisthenes, "and I would not risk men or ships of Port Cos in such a rash scheme, but it is, at least as far as preventing the gathering of the river pirates goes, unnecessary. |
10 |
| 29 | 129 |
"You will do so at your own risk, my dear captain," said Callisthenes, grimly. |
10 |
| 29 | 172 |
"I will not risk a large number of men in this," said Callisthenes, "but I will tell you what I might do. |
10 |
| 32 | 136 |
"Are you so desperate for status among your fellow sleen," asked Kliomenes, "that you will risk such lies in this place?" I kept my head down. |
10 |
| 32 | 295 |
"It is a risk I am content to take," I informed him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 61 |
"No," said Callimachus, "it is the sport, and the risk, and the killing". |
10 |
| 2 | 115 |
"We are armed! Approach at your own risk! Identify yourselves!" I smiled, discerning his fear. |
10 |
| 4 | 213 |
He would not risk open battle, not even on even terms, with ships such as those of the Voskjard. |
10 |
| 16 | 282 |
If it were necessary to use my hands in the water I did not wish to risk losing the weapon. |
10 |
| 20 | 602 |
Indeed, some free women seem to be so modest, dallying and such, hobbling, and stumbling along, in their robes, that it seems that they would prefer to be peremptorily stripped by a slaver, rather than risk revealing their legs to fellow citizens. |
10 |
| 20 | 1593 |
Most free women, for example, do not need to ask permission to leave the house, need not explain their intentions and itinerary, nor need to report back by the sounding of a given ringing of the city's time bar, lest they risk a monitory lashing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 375 |
"If I were you," I said, "I do not think I would risk displeasing them". |
10 |
| 1 | 1064 |
The more danger and risk that is involved in a deed, on the whole, the greater is the concomitant glory of accomplishing it. |
10 |
| 2 | 54 |
"Such would have to be approached at their own risk," I said. |
10 |
| 2 | 325 |
"That is a risk I must take". |
10 |
| 2 | 365 |
Male slaves, from time to time, can receive opportunities to win their freedom, though, to be sure, usually in situations of high risk and great danger. |
10 |
| 19 | 487 |
"I will not risk my men in that fashion". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 33 |
Being close enough to sturdily fend the blow brings one, if one is afoot, and shieldless, normally, close enough to risk the strike of the shield. |
10 |
| 33 | 306 |
"It seems to me you took a great risk," I said. |
10 |
| 39 | 440 |
"It is well, unless we wish to risk losing her," said Hci. |
10 |
| 39 | 441 |
"Let us not risk losing her," I said. |
10 |
| 40 | 914 |
"Rewards, I assure you," said Cuwignaka, "will be commensurate with risk". |
10 |
| 42 | 43 |
"You will not risk all!" I said. |
10 |
| 43 | 355 |
Commonly a slave would be enclosed completely in the sack and a free woman, if no risk were involved in doing it, would be bound in the sack only from the neck down. |
10 |
| 45 | 102 |
Some men released their hold altogether on the rock, hoping to risk less in the terrors of the slide downward than in facing the Kaiila arrows. |
10 |
| 46 | 115 |
"Nonetheless," said Hci, "it is a risk I do not choose to take". |
10 |
| 56 | 67 |
"It was for this reason that my comrade sought me here, at great risk," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 505 |
In moral consistency, of course, in approving of the institution, he would seem to accept at least the theoretical risk of his own enslavement. |
10 |
| 3 | 506 |
This risk he would presumably regard as being a portion of the price he is willing to pay for the benefits of living in this type of society, which he regards, usually by far, as being a society superior to its alternatives. |
10 |
| 13 | 96 |
This was not a matter in which he wished to risk any mistake. |
10 |
| 14 | 96 |
He did not wish to accept the risk, it seemed, that I might attempt to escape, perhaps impulsively attempting to dart away into the darkness. |
10 |
| 14 | 123 |
The fees for their use are not contractually controlled, as are those of the regular camp slaves, but the fees of the camp slaves, of course, being fixed and almost nominal, tend to exert a considerable, informal influence on the market; they set competitive standards, ensure realistic pricings and ... |
10 |
| 16 | 16 |
I decided to risk a third day in the basket, to put even more hundreds of pasangs between me and Argentum and Corcyrus. |
10 |
| 22 | 17 |
I did not wish to risk my upper body being seen over the side of the wagon. |
10 |
| 30 | 673 |
On the other hand, we did not wish to risk being switched or lashed across the back of the thighs. |
10 |
| 33 | 831 |
We did not think that Ar would honor its treaty commitments with Argentum, that it would risk all-out war with the Cosian Alliance, in which Corcyrus was implicated. |
10 |
| 33 | 1027 |
In no way was it incumbent on you to risk your commission, your future, your honor, your life, on what must at best have been little more than a remote possibility". |
10 |
| 36 | 892 |
In two ways then may the risk, the danger, and the delicious seductive menace of her beauty be dealt with and managed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 443 |
Less risk is involved in playing for a draw than a win, of course. |
10 |
| 2 | 1158 |
"You are a brave man," I said, "to risk the wrath of Priest-Kings". |
10 |
| 5 | 53 |
In this fashion we will not have to devise hiding places for them, nor risk the loss of time, and perhaps noise, perhaps alerting Bosk of Port Kar, of their emergence from concealment". |
10 |
| 6 | 161 |
"Last year I did not have one, admittedly, due to some fearful inadvertence," admitted Boots, "but I would not risk that twice at the Sardar Fair. |
10 |
| 11 | 115 |
Who would want to risk one in such a foolish manner? Free women, on the other hand, being priceless, have for most practical purposes no value whatsoever. |
10 |
| 16 | 1005 |
"Risk not so much in this hall, I beg of you, Master," she wept. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 197 |
I had no wish to risk her in this place. |
10 |
| 15 | 496 |
"I would not risk men in such an unnecessary and gratuitous enterprise. |
10 |
| 16 | 369 |
They did not wish to risk meeting the eyes of the guard, calling attention to themselves. |
10 |
| 16 | 1162 |
"Few men will trouble themselves to steal a dried crust of bread, perhaps even at great personal risk, if a free banquet is set forth for them. |
10 |
| 22 | 401 |
It is understandable that many men may not care to risk their lives to obtain a woman who, when unveiled, may turn out to be a disappointment, one who is insufficiently beautiful to be a slave, one whose looks do not merit the iron and the collar. |
10 |
| 25 | 1442 |
She would prefer to complete her work here, where apparently it was tolerated, with the stealth of a drug, rather than go to the expense of employing confederates outside or take the risk of being recognized by others who might be in the vicinity of the victim's environs. |
10 |
| 26 | 184 |
There are, of course, tactics for fighting in the darkness, such as misdirection, the casting of pebbles to encourage an opponent to make a move, the use of back kicks, giving extension to one's striking capacity while providing a minimum exposure of vital areas, the attempt to lure a blow from a di... |
10 |
| 26 | 1494 |
"I could accept that risk," she said. |
10 |
| 26 | 1887 |
"A girl simply brought in would not face that risk surely?" she said. |
10 |
| 26 | 1916 |
Similarly, if one lives in a well-walled, well-defended city, one which is likely to resist attack and siege, such as Ar, one is less likely to risk the slaver's noose. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 614 |
At best, we might hope, against all hopes, at great personal risk, even mortal risk, it seemed, to escape from the chains of one master into those of another, in which case, of course, we would be a "caught slave," a modality that would be almost certain to assure us of the cruelest of treatments an... |
10 |
| 2 | 30 |
I lifted my eyes a little, but not so much as to risk, should he turn, encountering his. |
10 |
| 8 | 413 |
Too, they did not wish, particularly in the case of new girls, their stomachs turning and wrenching in misery, and terror, to risk disgusting accidents. |
10 |
| 10 | 47 |
"Would you risk your virginity here, in this place, at this time?" he asked. |
10 |
| 10 | 283 |
In such a matter, of course, the masters take little, if any, risk. |
10 |
| 10 | 342 |
I did not want to risk weakening its structure in any way. |
10 |
| 14 | 206 |
"She must want the position of first girl very badly, to risk stealing a pastry. |
10 |
| 20 | 290 |
I knew I might risk a thrashing with his stick. |
10 |
| 22 | 85 |
"Too," he said, "there is a question as to how much risk it is rational to take". |
10 |
| 24 | 118 |
If they had no concern for my feelings, had they, too, no concern with their employer's property, that they would subject it to such risk? Then I recalled that Ionicus of Cos had paid more for me, a great deal more, than is common for a female work slave, and that this had to do with his "amusement"... |
10 |
| 24 | 752 |
"He did not wish to risk being softened, or mollified". |
10 |
| 24 | 798 |
"I would risk all, for a love master," I said. |
10 |
| 29 | 1279 |
"In Alcinous the fellow did not wish to risk the jamming of his blade". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70 |
None of them cared to risk being that one. |
10 |
| 5 | 362 |
She could not risk falling. |
10 |
| 5 | 507 |
I supposed I should permit myself, if the occasion arose, to be bullied and humiliated, that I might not risk complications or delay in my mission. |
10 |
| 9 | 51 |
I had no wish to risk a quarrel's penetrating that beauty, which, properly refined and improved, would, in my opinion, not have shamed even the central block of the Curulean. |
10 |
| 9 | 493 |
"I bared them," she said, "because I did not wish to risk rejection". |
10 |
| 10 | 295 |
I have come here at great risk! I have a message for Aemilianus from Gnieus Lelius, Regent in Ar! Admit me!" There was silence from the height of the wall. |
10 |
| 11 | 66 |
She cannot risk not reminding him, of course, for it may be a test, and few masters forget such things anyway. |
10 |
| 11 | 231 |
"Why would Dietrich of Tarnburg risk this perilous intervention?" asked Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 12 | 127 |
"I had no wish to risk being hooded and chained in a crossing stall in Tyros, being used to breed quarry slaves for Chenbar, the Sea Sleen". |
10 |
| 13 | 210 |
"Do not risk your life for me," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 213 |
"It is for such that men most cheerfully risk their lives," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 725 |
"But we cannot risk being softened, can we?" I asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 100 |
Two were cut down and a third climbed back over the wall and leapt away, plunging to its foot, preferring to risk the consequences of such a fall rather than face certain death on the walkway. |
10 |
| 18 | 273 |
Other women chose not, either from fear or prudence, to risk this dangerous run. |
10 |
| 19 | 244 |
"On my own authority," called the officer, "and at my own risk, that of my life for yours, should this not be found meet by Aristimines, I again offer you the gold of Cos!" I sheathed my sword. |
10 |
| 20 | 36 |
"So," said Aemilianus, "though I did continue to hope, I would not risk the Home Stone. |
10 |
| 21 | 780 |
"Risk nothing for me, a traitress! You have too much imperiled yourself already on my behalf, so unworthy an object!" "Were you given permission to speak?" I asked her. |
10 |
| 21 | 1249 |
Accordingly, accepting the measured risk of some intrusiveness, I will append here, as it seems appropriate, rather than in a footnote, a few words by way of sociological amplification. |
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| 21 | 1266 |
Few men care to risk their lives to take a woman who, disrobed and unveiled, may prove to be worthy at best of no more than a kettle-and-mat sale. |
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| 24 | 337 |
Too, they are unlikely to withdraw to the terrain of the Salerian Confederation, for it will not wish to risk war with Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 501 |
"We have come from the camp of Cos," said Marcus, "where, at great risk to ourselves, we have spied for Ar. |
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| 4 | 63 |
This also explained, of course, the matter of the betraying message which I had unwittingly carried at great risk to Ar's Station on behalf of Gnieus Lelius, regent in Ar, that message which had identified me as a Cosian spy. |
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| 18 | 143 |
"I should have realized that you would take it back," I said, "that you would accept its responsibility, the risk that I might return for it". |
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| 24 | 166 |
"Presumably your master would not wish you to risk marking yourself, as that might lower your value". |
10 |
| 26 | 176 |
"If a fellow goes to considerable risk to steal a kaiila, and is successful in doing so, he is not going to turn it loose". |
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| 27 | 541 |
"And so," I said, "in spite of the pleasure which listening to your accent affords me I would rather forgo that pleasure temporarily, enjoyable though it may be, than risk impalement on its account". |
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| 29 | 28 |
I assumed it would test its mark before making a strike, but I did not wish to risk this. |
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| 37 | 181 |
They may risk their lives to obtain them. |
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| 47 | 62 |
On the other hand, your more powerful fellows, I suppose, would not wish to risk the results of your testimony being taken in court". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 377 |
At best she might, at great risk to her own life, succeed in obtaining a new chaining, a new master, and one who, in view of her flight, will undoubtedly see to it that she is incarcerated in a harsher bondage than that from which she fled, to which now, under her new strictures, she is likely to lo... |
10 |
| 7 | 547 |
"But we would not wish to risk her little feet, would we?" Marcus asked Phoebe. |
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| 8 | 245 |
Too, given its strength, ponderous tharlarion, together with numerous other beasts, wagons and such, could appear on it, as they had last night, for example, in staged battles, in which Lurius of Jad, by personal intervention and at great personal risk, again and again turned the tide, and triumphal... |
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| 8 | 665 |
More commonly, it is only the lowest slave, usually the newest slave, who must do this with all the others, whereas the others will address only their first girl as "Mistress," and, of course, any free woman whom they might, to their risk, or peril, encounter. |
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| 10 | 63 |
"You should not risk your life in such a way," I said, angrily. |
10 |
| 15 | 58 |
"No longer would Cos choose to risk her in public," I said. |
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| 17 | 151 |
"I think there is but one chance to recover my slave," he confided to the audience, "but I fear to risk it". |
10 |
| 18 | 318 |
"It is one involving great risk and small prospect of success," I said. |
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| 18 | 514 |
There is no risk there, no glory! That is not fair. |
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| 21 | 110 |
On the other hand, in Lavinia's case, clearly the guards would not wish to risk her approaching the Ubara too closely, even back-braceleted. |
10 |
| 22 | 290 |
"What if I should die of fear, not even daring to approach him?" "I am prepared to take that risk," I told her. |
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| 23 | 339 |
"I agreed to transport a Home Stone to Port Cos," said Boots, "not to risk traveling with one of the most fabulously desirable and beautiful women on all Gor in my train". |
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| 24 | 102 |
What else is there to do? Leap up? Run about, blindly? Strike into walls? Invite shackling? Risk cuffings, kicks, the whip? This is particularly the case if her clothing is removed. |
10 |
| 26 | 61 |
"You are too glorious and marvelous to risk," said Milo. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 981 |
But, then again, there is terrible risk in such matters. |
10 |
| 8 | 259 |
But even such women I suspected, in a world such as this, were at risk. |
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| 10 | 490 |
Who would wish to risk his life for a woman only to discover later in his camp, after her unveiling, that better than she might have been purchased for a few coppers from an itinerant peddler? Would he not feel much a fool? To be sure, he might be lucky. |
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| 12 | 440 |
Surely he had tried to conceal his identity, that the shame of my rejection, which he surely must have realized he might risk, not be too publicly broadcast. |
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| 14 | 827 |
I did not really wish to risk the wrath of the pit master. |
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| 19 | 38 |
Unauthorized strangers risk their lives by even approaching such places. |
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| 19 | 811 |
The information I wished I could not well obtain from either a free person, without great risk, or, indeed, from a slave either, for they would presume that anything so obvious must either be known to me or for some reason forbidden to me. |
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| 19 | 812 |
They would not wish to risk telling me what I wished to know. |
10 |
| 23 | 200 |
And if he cared for her, would he risk her, even in an abduction? The quarrels of pursuers might slay her as easily as him. |
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| 24 | 920 |
I did not want to risk being summoned in early. |
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| 24 | 922 |
We did not want to risk you spoiling our holiday". |
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| 29 | 245 |
Were it not for honor I would remain secretly, at the risk of my very life, in this city, to seek her, to somehow come into possession of her! Were it not for honor I would find my love, and fly with her! Kneel, head down!" The slave struggled again to her knees. |
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| 37 | 603 |
The lieutenant did not wish to risk either himself or his man by standing at the gate, lifting it. |
10 |
| 37 | 766 |
It was a risk, of course, which the peasant had been willing to take. |
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| 37 | 1097 |
"Even at the risk of losing the quarrel, and not having time to reload before a putative attack?" "Yes," said the officer of Treve. |
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| 40 | 347 |
"We will not risk that. |
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| 42 | 126 |
"Surely we are not prepared to take the risk," said the other. |
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| 45 | 79 |
I did not wish to move unexpectedly, suddenly, and risk being cut, by accident. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 361 |
"Do not those of your ideology dare to use that sacred, holy, terrible word, that word for nature's last and fiercest arbiter, that maker and unmaker of states, that creator and destroyer of cultures, singing songs of armies, and blood and steel, that ultimate and terrifying tribunal, with all the m... |
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| 13 | 245 |
"They do not want to risk them! Stay down, everyone! Stay down!" Ellen, standing among the flapping clothes, amongst the lines, between racks, shaded her eyes, straining to see into the distance. |
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| 17 | 202 |
After all, why should he risk alienating a possible customer. |
10 |
| 18 | 105 |
I would not risk a woman, even a slave, with such beasts. |
10 |
| 19 | 595 |
No free woman, surely, would wish to risk that. |
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| 19 | 739 |
Perhaps he purchased me for a purpose for which he would not care to risk a Gorean girl! She remembered the messages she had carried, the intrigues, the dangers in contemporary Ar. |
10 |
| 20 | 214 |
Perhaps they are now in an area which they regard as sensitive, an area in which they would not care to risk the bleating of a verr, the cry of a slave. |
10 |
| 20 | 684 |
"Do you think we wish to risk the village?" asked the older lad. |
10 |
| 22 | 77 |
If Ellen were a free woman, she did not think that she would have come to such a camp, unless she was prepared to risk her freedom. |
10 |
| 22 | 98 |
Surely I must warn her, thought Ellen, cruel and imperious as she is, of the danger in which she lies! Surely, as I, too, am a woman, I must warn her, that she not risk falling into the miserable fate, the helpless and terrible fate, in which I find myself implicated, that of a slave! Then Ellen lau... |
10 |
| 24 | 212 |
Certainly they bid hard enough to own us, they fight wars to possess us, they risk their lives to steal us, they fight for us, they kill for us, do not let them tell you you are not important and valuable! Each of us is different, and special. |
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| 24 | 747 |
Perhaps my records are in error?" I think we may grant, even within this narrative, despite the possible risk of a seeming impropriety, hopefully not one punishable, that Ellen had at least average, or reasonable, intelligence. |
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| 25 | 403 |
"If your bondage is important to you, and you understand it as your one possibility to obtain your total fulfillment as a female, you may always again expose yourself to the risk of the collar, disarranging a veil, walking lonely bridges at night, lifting the hem of a garment, as though to avoid soi... |
10 |
| 25 | 1109 |
Perhaps, say, a woman, doubtless a free woman, as a slave would be very unlikely to risk this, has irritated or annoyed a man. |
10 |
| 26 | 587 |
There would have been too much risk involved, surely, to justify a mere gesture, even for a Gorean. |
10 |
| 26 | 636 |
She did not wish to risk a cuffing for having neglected the position which was appropriate for her. |
10 |
| 26 | 1302 |
Men risk their lives for them; men fight for them; men kill for them. |
10 |
| 27 | 172 |
"They may be merchants, carriers of precious commodities, too rich to risk on the ground. |
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| 27 | 454 |
Let them see that we do not have enough for them to risk war. |
10 |
| 27 | 456 |
But I do not think that they will care to risk their lives for some biscuits, some blankets, a slave, a wagon, a tharlarion". |
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| 27 | 2797 |
"I will not risk my men," said the officer. |
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| 27 | 2842 |
"I will not risk my men". |
10 |
| 28 | 331 |
They were weapons such that with them man might meet man, weapons requiring closure, and risk, weapons requiring skill and courage, not engineer's weapons, not weapons with which the pretentious, petty, effete and craven might effortlessly outmatch and overcome the might of heroes, surpass and vanqu... |
10 |
| 30 | 88 |
She did not wish to risk discipline. |
10 |
| 30 | 618 |
Who would dare to do so? Who would take the risk? Alas, Earth, that world, how beautiful you might have been! How sadly you tread now toward your gray future, toward the goal of the beehive, toward the ideal of the ant heap. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 948 |
Gorean women are always at risk of the collar. |
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| 2 | 162 |
She is of the Steel Worlds! She belongs to the beast! She is his pet! Had he come to the Prison Moon, with all the attendant risk, merely to recover a pet? Cabot found this hard to believe. |
10 |
| 3 | 346 |
"I am prepared to accept that risk," she said. |
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| 5 | 105 |
This was true, as she had been, for most practical purposes, reared by nurses, maids, and governesses, none of whom would have dared risk their positions by more than a suggestion or a gently reproving word, easily ignored. |
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| 6 | 95 |
"Is it not better to use humans, a lesser life form, to probe for us, to do war for us, than to risk Kurii?" "Doubtless," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 14 | 13 |
They do not understand their danger, thought Cabot, nor the risk of being in my vicinity. |
10 |
| 20 | 140 |
"True," said Peisistratus, "he did risk much, and cannot have known that the hunters might not have soon returned, or, even if later returned, would have demanded their meal". |
10 |
| 20 | 141 |
"Interesting that he would so jeopardize himself for a mere human, put his life at risk against Kur custom," said Cabot, "and for one not even an ally, but for one the mere pet of another". |
10 |
| 21 | 617 |
"Surely it were better to send a champion against Lord Pyrrhus," said Cabot, "rather than risk himself, a Face of the Nameless One, in the arena". |
10 |
| 24 | 160 |
"Would you wish Peisistratus to risk his own life, and that of his men, to abet a brief, fruitless escape, a gesture of meaningless defiance, on your part?" "He is my enemy," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 24 | 268 |
Should friends not have dissuaded the evildoer from his actions? Should they not have anticipated it, and intervened? Should they not have suspected it, and reported its likelihood to authorities? Is there not a festering hotbed of criminal potentiality somewhere to be rooted out, from which soil an... |
10 |
| 25 | 32 |
There seemed to them little point in contesting the custody of a stray, particularly if there might be some risk in doing so. |
10 |
| 26 | 12 |
If we betrayed you, it was simply in not contesting your removal from the cylinder, at the risk of our own destruction". |
10 |
| 29 | 8 |
That was judicious of her, was it not? Perhaps her master was busy, and did not care to be annoyed? Perhaps she did not wish to risk having her permission to speak taken from her. |
10 |
| 46 | 31 |
"At great risk to his life, through closely set enemy lines," said another, "he came to us". |
10 |
| 46 | 32 |
"To fight beside you, for our cause," said Flavion, "justifies any risk". |
10 |
| 54 | 56 |
"We will risk all, on this bold stroke," said Flavion. |
10 |
| 56 | 122 |
"They do not wish to risk approaching us," said Statius, "while we have weapons, however few and inadequate they might be". |
10 |
| 58 | 60 |
"I would not put you at risk". |
10 |
| 60 | 21 |
"I learned it in the habitats, which I recently infiltrated at great personal risk". |
10 |
| 61 | 12 |
Who would risk a door-to-door, habitat-to-habitat, war?" "Agamemnon, if he were in your position, and had the forces," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 61 | 217 |
"I myself," said Lord Grendel, "am similarly dubious of such portents, but one hesitates to risk a great enterprise when the signs are against it". |
10 |
| 67 | 18 |
This risk, of course, would be welcomed by many Kur hunters. |
10 |
| 68 | 18 |
Cabot had little doubt that any harm done to him would be at great risk to an assailant, particularly with the power weapons to the side. |
10 |
| 69 | 162 |
"I would prefer not to risk him," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 70 | 101 |
"You would not risk having it with you". |
10 |
| 70 | 109 |
You desire them and are content with nothing less than owning them, and with utmost totality! You risk your lives to bring them to your feet in chains, to be mastered. |
10 |
| 80 | 234 |
Too, in this fashion, one does not risk changes which might be brought about by knife work, whether clumsy or not. |
10 |
| 81 | 25 |
In this way there was no difficulty in leaving a planet's surface, nor need they face dangers such as the exhaustion of the ship's source of power, the risk of its volatility, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 57 |
Few potential challengers then care to risk a refused challenge, as it is likely they cannot afford the slave, and must then retire in embarrassment. |
10 |
| 3 | 383 |
One wonders why some women place themselves at risk, why they undertake hazardous journeys and voyages, why they walk the high bridges at night, such things. |
10 |
| 3 | 800 |
Few would risk the open sea in an inauspicious season. |
10 |
| 5 | 556 |
"But he asked, again, and again, in his slow, childlike way, who now, be it only in name, ruled in Ar," said one of the men on the beach, "and the partisans took council, and decided to risk the disclosure, though they knew not what effect it might have". |
10 |
| 7 | 112 |
For example, one may not wish her to risk soiling the hem of her rich robes, or the brocade of her slippers. |
10 |
| 16 | 78 |
I suppose, to many, certain things might seem dreadful, the blast of the war horn, the thunder of tarn drums, the soaring descent to the attack, the scream of the tarn, the music of the bowstring, blood's lyre, with its song of death, but, too, to some, there is little which so speaks of life as the... |
10 |
| 19 | 201 |
"You would risk your life for her?" I asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 211 |
How is it that one would risk one's life for a soft, sleek, curvaceous little beast, one at whose least indiscretion, lapse, or failure to please one would put unhesitantly to the whip. |
10 |
| 20 | 57 |
"You do not wish to risk losing your man". |
10 |
| 20 | 118 |
"You put her at great risk," I said to Pertinax. |
10 |
| 22 | 51 |
Too, if he had had time to think, which seemed unlikely, the last thing he would wish to risk would be falling into the hands of vengeful captors. |
10 |
| 27 | 111 |
Only a fool would move then and risk a Ubar, or a Ubara. |
10 |
| 28 | 204 |
It would not do, of course, for her to share a wagon with contract women, but, on the other hand, as she was intended for a shogun, one would certainly not wish to risk her either in the mud and cold of the march, put her at the mercy of impatient whip-masters, who might mark her back, or place her ... |
10 |
| 28 | 462 |
He lacked the skill one would expect from a professional at dark work, and the other, he with the crossbow, did not risk a miss, preferring to leave the strike to the knife of his confederate, he himself then serving muchly as support, either for a second strike, or, more likely, to disconcert any w... |
10 |
| 38 | 236 |
Lord Nishida might be putting himself at some risk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 259 |
"Surely," said Tyrtaios, "the rational man weighs risk against gain, and recognizes that even considerable risk is more than outweighed by the prospect of prodigious gain". |
10 |
| 36 | 404 |
"It is a risk I accept, a risk I welcome," said the stranger. |
10 |
| 5 | 253 |
But, if he will not fight, if he is so craven and cowardly, so much a frightened urt, so enamored of his worthless existence, so unwilling to risk it in fair, open combat, that is his choice. |
10 |
| 7 | 52 |
Too, such ships may enter battle, and the female slave, who surely has her value, such as it is, no more than other goods is to be put at risk. |
10 |
| 8 | 18 |
What point to seize a ship, to risk one's life, when the prize, even if won, would be without profit? Only a fool would hope to steal a wagon without wheels, a kaiila which cannot be untethered, a girl whose chain he cannot loosen, a treasure which cannot be carried away. |
10 |
| 8 | 23 |
Surely that lacked all foundation in fact, and who, save the simplest and most gullible, might be deceived by so obvious and meretricious an enticement, so transparent a fabrication? And yet, I wondered, why would one of the seeming astuteness of Tyrtaios put himself so at risk, as he would be when ... |
10 |
| 8 | 96 |
Certainly one did not wish to risk a body, slipped from the ice, being dragged under the water and the hull before we might hurry it back to the ice, and break the stiff, frozen furs from its shuddering body. |
10 |
| 9 | 487 |
Cabot's interposition, at the risk of his own life, had won at best a few moments more of life for those he had sought to protect. |
10 |
| 14 | 208 |
I did not think he would risk throwing the knife. |
10 |
| 14 | 240 |
I did not think, again, he would risk throwing it. |
10 |
| 17 | 110 |
Why risk the theft of a slave when one might purchase one, perhaps better, at the local auction house? Prices are sometimes depressed, too, particularly in the fall and winter. |
10 |
| 17 | 131 |
Surely there were many others he might consider with less risk, and several of these others, at least in my view, would bring a higher price off the block than the blonde, not that there was anything in particular wrong with her. |
10 |
| 18 | 165 |
There is less risk then of another suspecting something, and bringing her stripped and shackled before the throne of Marlenus". |
10 |
| 21 | 108 |
The continental custom, on the other hand, makes it possible to draw the other off balance, and, obviously, if one is right-handed, one is more at risk from a fellow who might favor the left hand. |
10 |
| 21 | 155 |
"It is a risk," said Lord Okimoto. |
10 |
| 21 | 156 |
"Surely," said Lord Nishida, "you will not put to, and risk a landing". |
10 |
| 22 | 120 |
"You would not risk him," I said. |
10 |
| 30 | 14 |
We do not know how serious they are, but we cannot risk the loss of the cavalry". |
10 |
| 31 | 42 |
"I do not think they will risk that," I said. |
10 |
| 33 | 335 |
"I do not think Tersites would risk her east of the farther islands, because of Cos and Tyros, and it would be madness to bring her as far as Brundisium. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 253 |
One might risk one's life or die for a free woman because she is free, or because a Home Stone is shared, or because it is expected, or because it is thought to be a duty, or a matter of honor, but why might one risk one's life for, or die for, a slave? What could be the reason? She is no more than ... |
10 |
| 4 | 131 |
I was suddenly, for the first time in my life, vulnerable, at risk. |
10 |
| 8 | 2065 |
"Slaves, there," said Menon, "exist to loosen the strings on pouches, urge fellows to shower gold on the tables, to risk much, beyond reason, to pout and look away if there is evidence of hesitation or circumspection, to cry out in pleasure if an extra tarn disk is put in the plate, another card dra... |
10 |
| 18 | 1066 |
Had they thought to sway a Gorean male? Had they no sense of the discipline under which their chain sister had been placed? How dared they think of interceding, of interfering? Did they not know the risk they undertook? I supposed not. |
10 |
| 18 | 1076 |
Did they want me to risk the fields, the laundries, the public kitchens, the stables, the mills? And I remembered the test of the candy. |
10 |
| 37 | 31 |
"Obviously," said Desmond, "I am willing to risk much. |
10 |
| 46 | 68 |
In any event, it seemed clear that Desmond of Harfax's small assemblage of determined men was at great risk. |
10 |
| 49 | 445 |
And if not, if one were so boorish, or foolish, as to risk torture and impalement, one would not pay, anyway, as the free woman is priceless. |
10 |
| 52 | 251 |
I knew that some men, while professing to despise their slaves, scoffing at the very thought that they might find them of interest, would risk their lives for them, even die for them. |
10 |
| 52 | 266 |
How utterly different is the exalted, noble, proud free woman, suspicious and demanding, bargaining and calculating, insisting on her hundred rights, jealous of a thousand prerogatives! How strange then that men would be willing to risk their lives, even die, for the slave, no more than a collared c... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 121 |
It is as though some great voyage was contemplated, but the ships are small coasters, many of which one might not even risk to Temos or Jad, and they seem to move north. |
10 |
| 7 | 280 |
It was said they raised nothing, and made nothing, but were brigands without lairs, bandits who looted without risk, men who drew blood with knives of gold. |
10 |
| 8 | 226 |
As my resources had been considerably replenished the previous evening, I had breakfasted well, on larma, vulo eggs, fried sul, roast bosk, sa-tarna, and even black wine, the beans for which, I supposed, derived from the far slopes of the Thentis mountains, and may have been brought west at some ris... |
10 |
| 9 | 251 |
Who, it is said, would wish to risk his life for a tarsk? On the other hand, there is little doubt that the capture of a free woman, given the care with which they are guarded, the glory of capturing one, and such, is usually considered an estimable coup. |
10 |
| 10 | 115 |
"I suspect there was little risk of that," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 117 |
"It is a risk I chose not to take". |
10 |
| 14 | 208 |
It was said some men would risk their life to serve under him. |
10 |
| 14 | 214 |
We not only did not like where we were and what we were doing, but we were at risk, as well, for no reason we understood, from the hostility of apparently numerous, formidable, skilled foes. |
10 |
| 15 | 478 |
Who would care to risk an army, perhaps a war, by entrusting it to a single mount, to but one vehicle, to but one vessel? But Thassa, I supposed, vast Thassa, might lift her hand, and smash a fleet as well as a single vessel, and, I suspected, a mighty vessel might brave her wrath where a hundred co... |
10 |
| 17 | 120 |
And why do some of them join small caravans, and risk dangerous journeys to far places, or wander dark, unguarded streets, or stroll the high bridges alone, in the bright moonlight? Are they so smug, so sure of themselves, that they do not understand the perils of such things? Do they court the coll... |
10 |
| 21 | 151 |
I think it is madness to essay such a voyage, to embark so, thusly tempting the cruelties of Thassa, but those above me, higher in the rings, will risk much, even the cargo itself, which on this world is unique and invaluable, on the slim chance that the voyage will be successful. |
10 |
| 21 | 305 |
"You cannot risk that it is not," said Tyrtaios. |
10 |
| 37 | 202 |
Much skill and risk were involved in this. |
10 |
| 38 | 236 |
There is always some risk in that, particularly in daylight hours". |
10 |
| 43 | 243 |
"The risk is too great". |
10 |
| 43 | 479 |
"We will risk the forest, even unarmed and with Tiomines". |
10 |
| 43 | 486 |
"We cannot risk your contacting others, and following us". |
10 |
| 43 | 715 |
"Please, forgive us, noble guests," said Genserich, "but we would not wish to risk losing you in the forest. |
10 |
| 44 | 76 |
Had I ever been so aware of my half¬ nudity and the light metal circle fastened about my neck? I knew then that I must escape as soon as possible, at any risk. |
10 |
| 45 | 15 |
"I will risk it," I said. |
10 |
| 49 | 176 |
"You did not risk your life to pursue her in the forest!" "It is growing late," I said. |
10 |
| 50 | 277 |
One story was that slaves were held there who were too beautiful to risk holding in Tarncamp or Shipcamp, for fear men might mutiny to claim them. |
10 |
| 50 | 990 |
"Something which is important to one," she said, "something one does not wish to risk losing, something which one wants, something which one desires, something which one refuses to give up, something which one is determined to possess". |
10 |
| 52 | 316 |
"You would risk your life for a slave?" asked Axel. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 132 |
"As the holding is invested, and it seems hazardous to risk more troops below," said Lord Nishida, "it is anticipated that food will grow short". |
10 |
| 6 | 100 |
Rather than form a party to conspiracy and rebellion I then chose, as an honorable man, at great personal risk, and with profound sorrow at parting from my friends, to abandon your misguided secession from right and truth". |
10 |
| 9 | 84 |
This did not please him, but I did not wish to risk him against the enemy until I was confident he was fully ready, fully recovered from the harrowing rigors and exposure of his isolation in the mountains. |
10 |
| 11 | 90 |
"Why did you not risk me in combat?" he asked. |
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| 11 | 92 |
"And why did you not risk Pertinax in combat?" he asked. |
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| 13 | 33 |
"I am now needful!" "It is interesting," I said, "on Earth you could use the mere suggestion of sex, with its smiles and movements, as a weapon, a tool, as a device of business, use it in the interests of sales, contracts, and accounts, in the interests of opportunity, promotion, and advancement, an... |
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| 17 | 203 |
"Why risk two tarns?" he said. |
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| 18 | 64 |
"Lord Yamada will not risk me free and in command of the cavalry. |
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| 21 | 119 |
I had little doubt that Pertinax had claimed his Jane; on the other hand, there was much stir in the palace the next morning, for Tajima, I would suppose at great risk, had sought out Sumomo in her quarters, subdued her, and apparently carried her, bound and gagged, and wrapped in the blanket, from ... |
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| 21 | 423 |
"Why should he risk golden chains, and handsome prospective emoluments, not to speak of the wrath of the shogun?" "For what then?" she asked. |
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| 21 | 515 |
The use of Daichi to influence Lord Temmu is thought at risk. |
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| 24 | 82 |
As I may have mentioned, the failure of a daimyo to respond to the shogun's summons is considered an act of treason, putting at risk his own life and those of others associated with him, his family, his high officers, and his loyal warriors, and would customarily involve, as a matter of course, the ... |
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| 25 | 269 |
It is little wonder that men will risk their lives to join such fellows in the sky. |
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| 27 | 81 |
"I accept that risk," I said. |
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| 27 | 195 |
"Why does he march now? Why does he risk the intervention of the cavalry?" "So, why?" I asked. |
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| 28 | 34 |
With daring, and sustaining great risk, he fled with Sumomo, the shogun's daughter, rescuing her but a moment before she would have plunged into the pool of death eels". |
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| 31 | 67 |
"He is a fool, to risk his life and swords, to inquire after foragers". |
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| 31 | 79 |
"And soon risk a knife in the back," said Tajima. |
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| 39 | 37 |
It was then, we conjectured, freed deliberately; there would seem no reason for doing this unless it was in imminent danger of being overtaken; Tajima, then, must be afoot, and at risk of capture. |
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| 39 | 65 |
"You will risk a great deal more, should you attempt to free him". |
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| 44 | 163 |
I expected him to withdraw, rather than risk the decimation of his forces, the loss of towns and fortresses". |
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| 47 | 149 |
We had given the slave, Aiko, into his keeping, as there seemed no part for her in our plan, even if we had been willing to risk her in so dubious and hazardous a venture. |
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| 54 | 10 |
And who but Kurii might manage the enormous mechanical beast? Who else might risk bringing such a dreadful thing forth from its lair? Who else might dare to pilot such a thing? And who else would have the skills to do so? Most likely it would be supposed that we had failed to obtain an entrance to t... |
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| 55 | 66 |
"Nor I," I said, "but I do not choose to risk your life on the matter". |
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| 59 | 265 |
When one extends to the attack, one exposes more of the body, and risks more, but without risk there is no victory, only eventual defeat. |
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| 60 | 1 |
Swords Meet Amongst Flowers; The Insects are not Disturbed; A Gate is Sundered "Let us consider matters, here, on the raked sand," said Lord Yamada, "that we may not risk trampling flowers". |
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| 61 | 237 |
They will risk death to share the flight of the tarn. |
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| 61 | 248 |
It seems their service to Lord Yamada was a deceit, that their hearts and loyalty were always with the house of Temmu, that they had labored secretly on its behalf, at great risk to themselves, in the very midst of the enemy". |
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| 61 | 836 |
"That I might not be jeopardized, or put at risk!" she said. |
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| 61 | 1093 |
If I were you, I would not risk marking your wrists. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 685 |
"Friends," he called, "humans, astute and wise, skilled and loyal, beloved allies, you did note how I intervened to save the life of your lord, the great Decius Albus, how I, at great personal risk, thrust him aside, away from the line of a quarrel's flight, just as he was about, boldly, at risk to ... |
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| 2 | 125 |
"And why would they need such things? And they would scarcely wish to risk their discovery". |
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| 9 | 163 |
Each helmet, of leather and metal, crested with a mane of animal hair, with its y-shaped opening, muchly enclosed a face, a face that might, in a moment, I supposed, be fearsome, and menacing, that might, peering out, aware of risk and war, of danger, of the moment that might part life from death, s... |
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| 9 | 531 |
Why should a raider or slaver risk his life to carry off a free woman, who might turn out to be more ugly than a tharlarion, when he might steal a slave, where he can see what his capture rope encircles?" "I see," I said. |
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| 10 | 146 |
One need not risk one's life for them, raid caravans, fight wars, sack and burn cities, and so on. |
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| 15 | 307 |
And why was I surreptitiously removed from Market of Semris? I was not a free woman, selected for a collar in some distant town or city, whose abduction might involve considerable risk. |
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| 19 | 127 |
"One considers profit, one considers risk". |
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| 20 | 104 |
But how would she dare risk the wearing of the robes of the free? What of guardsmen?" "She is not a slave," said Lita. |
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| 30 | 440 |
I slipped into the tunic, for I did not wish to risk a command being repeated. |
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| 31 | 25 |
Perhaps she was of high caste, and had enemies, and her seller chose to dispose of her, to lessen the risk of having her fall into the hands of enemies". |
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| 32 | 112 |
"And risk having her cry out?" asked Kurik. |
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| 33 | 716 |
"Our friend may have thought the better of approaching you more closely, the barrier of fire, the risk of remaining longer in the house". |
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| 37 | 29 |
"Yes," she said, "and at considerable risk to myself, to see you, to keep our rendezvous". |
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| 50 | 364 |
"I am not going to put my hands into those folds and draperies," he said, "nor am I going to risk a slave". |
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| 51 | 64 |
"Few raiders, without independent information, from the baths, or such, would care to risk their lives to seize such a woman, one who might, when unveiled, dismay a male tarsk. |
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| 54 | 112 |
"Few Kurii, on Gor," said Lord Grendel, "will risk the bearing of a forbidden weapon. |
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| 56 | 49 |
"Surtak does not wish to risk more minions. |
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| 57 | 79 |
"It is a risk I would be prepared to take," said Kurik. |
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| 60 | 184 |
"The fee is good, and the risk is slight. |
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| 61 | 828 |
Do you think he would risk it?" "No," said Drusus Andronicus. |
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| 61 | 874 |
Offending males may expect to be summoned to a bridge, or field, at dawn; an offending or careless woman is subject to the risk of finding herself naked, chained at a slave ring. |
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| 62 | 179 |
He is unlikely to again risk insurrection amongst his cohorts over kajirae. |
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| 63 | 446 |
How could she ever respect me, or care for me, again, if she should find out what I had done? How could I risk losing her? With what hatred, and loathing, would she view me, if she should learn of what I had done! And yet it seemed I must speak to her. |
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| 64 | 95 |
And worthless, indeed! We are selected for our beauty, our intelligence, our passion, our needs, and our desirability! And we are clothed, if clothed, in such a way as to display us, to flatter our sex and show it as it can be, as men want to see it, exciting and vulnerable, ready and purchasable! D... |
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| 64 | 165 |
This was thought judicious, given the damage to the object and the attendant risk of an inadvertent contact with the spines. |
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| 65 | 231 |
What thief in his right mind would risk the impaling poles of the great Mintar? I am sure they did not know a cargo of Mintar was in question". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 319 |
Is there not an uneasiness, knowing that something, perhaps dangerous or predatory, might be behind you, and you may not look about? Does one not feel more at risk, more vulnerable, when one may not look about? "Zia," said the auctioneer. |
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| 3 | 366 |
It is repudiated only at one's risk. |
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| 5 | 104 |
Yet we will not risk it. |
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| 5 | 144 |
Had we been in a chain coffle, as is common in moving slaves, the risk of assault or theft would have been considerably reduced. |
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| 5 | 216 |
I did not wish to risk asking for permission to speak. |
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| 6 | 50 |
"Some risk their lives to protect the goods of men they do not even know; others, in the same situation, think nothing of seizing goods not their own". |
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| 7 | 146 |
"Why would you risk two staters of silver, weighty staters, staters of Brundisium, worth several silver tarsks of most cities, to recover a single slave?" asked he whom I took to be the leader of my abductors. |
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| 8 | 578 |
"Why did you leap overboard? Of what were you so terrified, that you would risk sharks, recapture, peasants, hamstringing, or being fed to sleen?" She turned, and looked up at me, tears in her eyes. |
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| 8 | 684 |
"And, even if we were willing to risk villages of rapacious peasants, armed with the great bow, we could not reach the shore". |
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| 8 | 703 |
We have realized we could not beat the corsair to the shore, so we have no choice but to risk all on flight". |
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| 10 | 94 |
Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous voyages? In the high cities o... |
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| 18 | 96 |
But why should he do that, unless it was important to keep that identity secret? And why should it be kept secret, if the matter was all clear, lawful, and honorable, that of bringing a slave back to her proper chains? Why not have recourse to guardsmen? And would it not be improbable to put two sil... |
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| 26 | 21 |
I do not wish to risk losing you". |
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| 29 | 42 |
In sporting events, there can be a leveling, one founded on wagering, a shared community of uncertainty and anticipation, a fellowship in a democracy of risk. |
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| 30 | 97 |
Many Goreans, like those of my former world, are fond of gambling, and this penchant for risk and effortless profit, with its excitements and uncertainty, takes many forms. |
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| 31 | 96 |
To speak briefly, four men, in turn, initially assured and eager, each confident, each intending to win several tarsks at the risk of one, such stakes generously granted, responded to the challenges of Bruno of Torcadino. |
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| 32 | 11 |
I had hoped that he, as was commonly the case, would have kept me with him, not wishing to risk my loss. |
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| 32 | 15 |
What had he to fear? But, of course, if all went well, I might have been recognized, certainly at the Golden Chain, did he patronize it, or I could have, in some way, surely at the Golden Chain, did he wish to recruit within it, even at the risk of the lash, called attention to myself, created some ... |
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| 33 | 279 |
"Each pasang of separation increases his risk of losing it". |
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| 34 | 67 |
"I was at great risk in the delta," I said, "helplessly caught in quicksand". |
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| 35 | 25 |
A slave out of reach may be a slave at risk, or even a slave stolen. |
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| 40 | 159 |
"Few would risk it," said Florian. |
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| 40 | 197 |
"And risk the welfare of fine animals, not to mention the wrath of sleen keepers?" said Miles. |
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| 41 | 76 |
Those rash enough or mad enough to risk ascent to their saddles were called "Tarnsmen," an unusual and fearsome breed of men. |
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| 42 | 84 |
Climbers, struggling upward, must risk darting spears and descending axes. |
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| 42 | 195 |
I gathered that Vas of Anango had not wished to risk killing me in the press of the celebrants. |
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| 45 | 105 |
Who shall gainsay that? What are two or three gold staters, even of Brundisium, compared to the wealth I suspect you seek, for which you risk so much, for which you strive and gamble?" "Great lady," said Seremides to Talena, "to the longboat! Now!" "Surely not, Captain," said Talena. |
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| 46 | 127 |
Why should he risk himself or an agent in her acquisition? Surely, as astute as he was, he would suspect a trap. |
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| 46 | 186 |
Who else would you dare risk before such a crowd?" Sensing the urgency of the matter, another taverner's man had joined the group, he who had chained and hooded me long ago, for my interview with a stranger, in the matter of the alleged Luta, supposedly the former Lady Julia Leta, of Ar, the strange... |
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| 46 | 350 |
"Paga will soon be here, but, in the interim, let us appeal to those of you with sporting blood, who do not fear to try your luck, who relish risk and hazard, who would not fear to bet a tarsk-bit, to win a copper tarsk". |
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| 46 | 654 |
"You risk much". |
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| 47 | 266 |
"It is a risk you must take," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 48 |
The risk would be too great. |
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| 8 | 70 |
Surely it would be unwise to risk being trapped in port, blockaded by superior forces. |
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| 17 | 269 |
"Risk is sometimes the name of life," I said. |
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| 19 | 25 |
Few fishermen will risk a long cast for two reasons, first, the extra bit of an Ihn that the net is in the air gives the opponent that much more time to avoid the net, and, second, the net, if avoided, may be lost. |
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| 22 | 89 |
"I could not risk approaching more closely, particularly as Ctesippus and Laios might recognize me from Sybaris". |
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| 23 | 39 |
Who would risk their lives on a blind ship? Who would be so foolish as to take such a ship to sea? The eyes of the seven ships were blackened over with paint, presumably administered from small boats in the night, possibly by means of paint-soaked rags or sponges fastened to poles. |
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| 32 | 74 |
The openness of the broad beach would deny cover to archers and we would not choose to attack in force as that would risk our men unduly, storming a fortified position, and might well reveal the paucity of our numbers. |
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| 33 | 95 |
"That is a risk you must take," I said. |
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| 35 | 3 |
"There is risk in adopting such a tactic," said Clitus. |
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| 35 | 4 |
"In war there is always risk," I said. |
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| 40 | 11 |
Why should they risk the loss of possible wealth? Take what you can of value with you, away from the town. |
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| 40 | 21 |
"I did not wish to risk having them trapped in the harbor". |
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| 40 | 56 |
"Even if what you say is true," said Thrasymedes, "it would be absurd to abandon the town and risk the fields. |
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| 41 | 37 |
It seemed to be the enemy's belief that their artillery would so reduce the effectiveness of the walls at so many points that it would be pointless to risk the hazards of a scaling attack, in which the advantages would be so clearly on the side of the defenders. |
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| 41 | 39 |
Such men prefer situations in which there is minimum risk and the prospect of maximum gain. |
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| 41 | 191 |
"On the other hand," I said, "I do not think, either, that he is eager to risk ordering paid troops, with no loyalty to anything but loot, to subject themselves to the obvious peril of a general assault on a still stoutly defended town". |
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| 43 | 146 |
Mercenaries, it seemed, as I had expected, were more interested in preserving their goods than in rushing off, possibly at the risk of their lives, to investigate what might be amiss with ponderous siege equipment. |
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| 44 | 113 |
The most obvious compromise would be one in which the command would manage to save face, seeming to have preserved power and surrendered nothing, while the mercenaries would, in effect, achieve their own aim, the aim of the most loot with the least possible risk". |
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| 46 | 73 |
"If you wish," I said, "it is irrational to risk the loss of property, particularly when it might have some monetary value, however negligible". |
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| 46 | 74 |
"True," said Thurnock, "why risk the loss of even a vulo, a verr, or tarsk?" "Females are the slave sex," said a man. |
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| 47 | 10 |
The corsair ships did not risk coming within range of the peasant archery but sent forth a small fleet of longboats to ferry their mercenaries to the safety of the ships. |
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| 49 | 77 |
Who would willingly risk the ships?" "But it was a mistake?" pressed Thurnock. |
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| 49 | 205 |
"Who but the bold and desperate will risk Thassa in the darkness?" "It is light now," said Aktis. |
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| 51 | 30 |
"Bring us about," said Sakim, "as though we, dismayed at our position, would risk all in a run for the open sea". |
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| 51 | 127 |
The other vessel had declined to risk its longboats. |
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| 52 | 62 |
"Rather it is I who should lament, had I profited from the risk you took, the sacrifice you hazarded". |
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| 53 | 19 |
"I think they do not care to risk another". |
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| 53 | 147 |
"I am thinking the enemy would be reluctant to risk more ships, and would much prefer to replace his losses with two prizes, the Dorna and the Tesephone". |
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| 53 | 225 |
"He was deferred to and his orders were promptly obeyed," I said, "even to abandoning men to the risk of drowning". |
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| 55 | 34 |
In this way, we now had not only a single platform for combat, but only two, not four, sides of our ships would be exposed to the risk of boarding. |
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| 55 | 59 |
"I expect them to do what is simplest, and exposes their ships to the least risk," I said. |
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| 55 | 63 |
"And those in the ships, the elite, risk nothing," said Thurnock. |
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| 57 | 92 |
"We are content that the risk be theirs," I said. |
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| 57 | 161 |
"No!" I heard, a long scream from the water, presumably from one of the mercenaries forced from our deck, or one of those who had earlier preferred the risk of Thassa to that of our crew. |
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| 58 | 143 |
From the point of view of the incendiaries, the torching of the ship must be arranged in such a manner as to put the enemy at the highest risk possible. |
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| 59 | 473 |
"You risk much," said Thurnock. |
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| 60 | 63 |
"Because the risk is great," he said. |
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