| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 2 |
The ropes sawed into my flesh as the weight of my body drew on them. |
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| 12 | 59 |
Bound helplessly, without food or water, my own body would torture me by its weight dragging on the hand and ankle ropes, suspended a few inches above the roiling, muddy surface under the fiery sun. |
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| 12 | 79 |
I remember being afraid that I would never be able to use my hands and feet again, that they would never withstand the punishment of the ropes. |
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| 12 | 85 |
Then, mercifully, the ropes, not meant to sustain the weight of the heavy frame, broke loose, and the tarn triumphantly climbed skyward, still clutching me in his wild talons. |
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| 14 | 139 |
Now and again there would be a moment's giddy respite from the pain as one or the other of the birds failed to keep the ropes taut. |
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| 14 | 141 |
Then the birds would throw their weight again on the ropes, bringing another flashing wrench of agony. |
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| 14 | 142 |
Then, suddenly, there was a ripping sound as one of the wrist ropes broke. |
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| 14 | 144 |
When the bird drew again, there was a sharp pain as flesh was torn from my hand, but the rope darted off into the darkness, and I was swinging by my ankles from the other ropes. |
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| 14 | 146 |
The first guess would be that my body had torn in two, and the darkness would conceal the truth for a moment, until the tarnsman himself would try the ropes, to test the weight of their burden. |
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| 14 | 147 |
I swung myself up and began to climb one of the two ropes leading to the great bird above me. |
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| 14 | 160 |
My ankles were still fastened to the bird, and I quickly untied the ropes. |
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| 23 | 115 |
At several places in the city long ropes of smoke spiraled upward and then unraveled into vague, dark strands. |
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| 25 | 145 |
The carrying basket remained a moment on the roof and then, attached by its long ropes, interwoven with wire, it slid for a pace or two and lurched upward in the wake of the tarn. |
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| 14 | 33 |
With these he hurriedly conferred and then I saw him lift his arm and red war lanterns were moved on ropes to the top of poles, and, to my amazement, aisles seemed to open in the densely packed bosk before the men, herdsmen and herd sleen moving the animals back to clear long grassy passages between... |
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| 16 | 29 |
Two ropes led to the drum, a small rope to control its filling, and a large one to support it; the large rope, incidentally, has a core of chain; the rope itself, existing primarily to protect the chain, is treated with a waterproof glue made from the skins, bones and hoofs of bosk, secured by trade... |
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| 20 | 63 |
I turned and began to hack at the ropes that bound the swaying bridge to the tower. |
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| 20 | 72 |
The bridge began to rock and sag on its ropes and several men from the building began to thunder across towards me. |
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| 26 | 23 |
"My own recommendation," Harold was saying, "would be first to fly my tarn cavalry over the walls, clearing them with thousands of arrows, and then, in a second wave, to fly dozens of ropes of warriors to the roofs of the main buildings, to seize them and burn the others". |
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| 17 | 69 |
Suddenly the two girls on the ankle ropes jerked on their ropes and I fell heavily forward, spilling the wine to the stones. |
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| 17 | 93 |
A long rope, or set of ropes knotted together, ran behind the kneeling girls, with which their wrists were bound; another rope, or set of ropes tied together, fastened them by the throat, as in a slaver's chain. |
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| 7 | 49 |
At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa... |
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| 15 | 414 |
I have no men! I have no gold! I have only the garb on my back! Tarnsmen! Soldiers! The very men of the street! With torches and ropes! I barely escaped with my life. |
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| 17 | 38 |
I felt five or six more ropes suddenly looped about me, drawn tight. |
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| 17 | 39 |
Two girls had even, behind me, darted unseen to my ankles, and in an instant had looped and drawn tight ropes on them. |
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| 17 | 57 |
We were freed, save that two ropes apiece were kept on our throats, and a rope on each ankle, each rope in the care of one of the girls. |
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| 17 | 68 |
I felt the two ropes on my throat tighten. |
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| 17 | 83 |
With a laugh the long-legged girl reached for the tin cup, at which point I seized her wrists and sprang to my feet, swinging her off balance and, not releasing her, whirled her about, tangling her in the ropes, preventing them from being drawn tight. |
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| 17 | 89 |
I removed the ropes from my body, coiled them neatly, and dropped them inside the door. |
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| 17 | 97 |
"Kajuralia!" said the Warrior, cheerfully, getting to his feet, after checking the knots that bound the wrists of the last girl on the ropes. |
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| 19 | 325 |
About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer... |
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| 20 | 13 |
Near them, kneeling, her wrists and ankles bound with slender, silken ropes, knelt Sura, head forward, her hair touching the floor. |
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| 1 | 67 |
About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w... |
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| 3 | 18 |
Two ropes of marsh vine, besides my other bonds, had been knotted about my neck, each in the hands of a man on either side of me. |
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| 3 | 155 |
"He will not escape," said the girl, putting her fingers in the ropes that held my throat. |
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| 3 | 157 |
She shook the ropes. |
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| 3 | 163 |
"This bow, though," said one of the men holding my neck ropes, "is of the Peasants". |
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| 3 | 237 |
Each hour with labors, and whips and thongs, let us show him our hatred for Port Kar and those of that city!" "How is it," I asked the girl, "that you so hate those of Port Kar?" "Silence, Slave!" she cried and thrust her fingers into the ropes about my neck, twisting her hand. |
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| 3 | 313 |
Take these ropes from his neck". |
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| 6 | 199 |
Their wrists had been bound behind their backs and ropes had been tied about their necks. |
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| 11 | 263 |
About his left shoulder there were the two ropes of Port Kar. |
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| 11 | 555 |
"Further," said Antisthenes, "I would recommend that we do not even send one who wears the twin ropes of Port Kar. |
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| 13 | 500 |
Green hulls, sails, oars, even ropes. |
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| 13 | 508 |
I was followed by my men, who loosened the grappling hooks and ropes that bound our ships to the Rena. |
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| 15 | 77 |
I took two talenders which had fallen on my shoulder and fastened them in the ropes at her neck. |
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| 15 | 85 |
To put talenders in the neck ropes of the girl at the prow, of course, was only mockery, indicative of her probable disposition as pleasure slave. |
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| 17 | 99 |
Soon seamen were clambering out on the long sloping yard and, assisted by others on the deck, hauling on brail ropes, were tying in the long triangular sail. |
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| 17 | 233 |
The man on the height of the prow, his builders' glass slung about his shoulder, standing, his feet fixed in ropes, was waving his cap in the air. |
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| 17 | 359 |
I saw tarns leaping to the decks of the round ships, and I saw the knotted ropes being attached to the saddles, and picked seamen, experts with the sword, five to a rope, taking their positions. |
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| 17 | 362 |
Soon, behind me, there were some hundred tarnsmen, and below each, dangling, hanging to the knotted ropes, were five picked men. |
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| 17 | 378 |
Behind us I could hear shouts and cries, and the sounds of men dropping from their ropes to the deck, and of weapons meeting weapons. |
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| 18 | 31 |
The anchors were raised and the yard, on its ropes and pulleys, began to climb toward the masthead. |
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| 18 | 40 |
The tiny storm sail, swollen with the black wind and sleet, tore at the yard and the brail ropes. |
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| 18 | 521 |
Standing even on the mantelets under the tarn wire, with spears and swords, we thrust at the tarnsmen dropping to the wire, letting go of the ropes to which they had clung. |
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| 18 | 522 |
We heard grappling irons with knotted ropes fly over the parapet, scrape across the stones, and wedge in the crenels. |
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| 18 | 593 |
Again irons, on their ropes, looped over the parapet wall. |
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| 18 | 603 |
Suddenly more than a hundred irons with ropes struck the delta wall, wedging in the crenels, and I saw the irons tighten in the crenels and strain with the weight on them. |
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| 18 | 650 |
I then seized one of the ropes attached to a grappling iron wedged in one of the crenels and began to descend the outer side of the keep wall. |
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| 18 | 652 |
With other ropes the men behind would lower the girls, and then follow themselves. |
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| 18 | 818 |
The rencers, one by one, were climbing down ropes over the delta wall, returning to their small craft below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 213 |
The two extra crewmen, standing on the deck, threw great looped ropes over heavy iron mooring cleats fastened in the pier. |
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| 8 | 214 |
Then they leaped to the pier and, with smaller ropes, fastened to the same cleats, began to draw the barge close to the pier. |
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| 8 | 216 |
Once the ropes are secured the wagons may be rolled directly onto the pier. |
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| 12 | 718 |
Others, flying low and to the side, roped the girls as they ran, using their slender ropes of braided leather, familiar to all tarnsmen. |
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| 17 | 249 |
There, his wrists bound by ropes to rings, stood a bloodied man, head down, stripped to the waist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 509 |
With a creak of ropes and pulleys, seamen were hauling the long, sloping yard up the mast, its sail still secured in the brail ropes. |
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| 2 | 24 |
Others, on the deck, hauled on the long brail ropes. |
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| 2 | 537 |
Seamen now climbed to the high yard, loosening the brail ropes, to drop the sail. |
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| 2 | 550 |
The brail ropes serve little more, in the lateen-rigged craft, than to raise the sail to its yard, permitting its being tied there, or to drop the sail, opening it to the wind. |
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| 2 | 560 |
The brail ropes loosened, the tarn sail dropped, opening into the wind. |
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| 5 | 4 |
The urt shields were still fastened to the mooring ropes, circular plates, preventing small port urts from boarding the ship. |
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| 5 | 150 |
But where was Rim? It was near the ninth hour and, soon, almost within an Ahn, I wished to cast off the mooring ropes. |
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| 5 | 357 |
"Ready oars!" Seamen began to pull on the yard ropes to raise the yard. |
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| 11 | 3 |
From where we sat, cross-legged, across from one another, before the low table, I could see the tent ropes stretched taut to stakes in the ground, the drainage ditch cut around the base of the tent, the wall of saplings, sharpened, which surrounded the camp. |
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| 11 | 747 |
Yet, in their dreams, it seems they find themselves forced to surrender, totally, to fierce, dominating masters, masters emerging like welcome, long-awaited, long-sought beasts from another reality, imperious, hungry men striding into their lives with ropes and chains, looking for a capture, a woman... |
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| 12 | 165 |
How strange and wonderful women are! How bondage exalts and levels them! To so many so alien are their inner selves and needs, how denied and feared! Some must learn ropes and the whip, and fearful obedience, before they crawl eagerly, gladly, begging, to the slave ring. |
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| 14 | 28 |
Then, at a given signal, the panther girls within, abetted by the men of Tyros from without, would have, with clubs and ropes, and the butts of their spears, sprung to the attack. |
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| 19 | 30 |
With ropes and chains they had begun to fasten them together. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 149 |
It can be shortened or let out by reefing ropes. |
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| 2 | 154 |
Between the strakes tarred ropes and tar served as caulking. |
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| 3 | 334 |
The two other men stood ready with knives to cut the mooring ropes. |
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| 3 | 369 |
The two mooring ropes were flung free of the mooring cleats. |
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| 6 | 83 |
Eager hands vied on the dock to grasp the mooring ropes. |
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| 8 | 176 |
"You have no ropes to lower me to your boat," she said. |
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| 8 | 248 |
We saw mooring ropes tossed and caught. |
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| 9 | 298 |
Two ropes prohibited her from struggling to either a sitting or kneeling position, one running from her right ankle across the ice to a ring in the side of the shed, the other running from her throat across the ice to a similar ring on the other side of the shed. |
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| 9 | 314 |
Gorm unbound her and threw her over his shoulder; so stiff and trembling with cold, and stiff from the ropes, was she that she could not stand. |
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| 10 | 152 |
The outer corners of the second of the two drawn squares are marked with hazel wands; there is thus a twelve-foot-square fighting area; no ropes are stretched between the hazel wands. |
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| 15 | 145 |
"We do not have ropes, equipment. |
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| 22 | 58 |
Thyri returned down the gangplank, a yoke on her shoulders, from which dangled two empty baskets, on ropes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 313 |
Often I had to force from my mind the look on the face of the second slave, she called Vella, of triumph, as she, small and lovely, luscious, freed of the rack ropes, had sat up on the knotted ropes, after her testimony had confirmed that of others, of Zaya, the other girl, and Ibn Saran, sending me... |
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| 4 | 79 |
Too, she taught her skills useful to a Tahari female, the making of ropes from kaiila hair, the cutting and plaiting of reins, the weaving of cloth and mats, the decoration and beading of leather goods, the use of the mortar and pestle, the use of the grain quern, the preparation and spicing of stew... |
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| 6 | 1 |
A Slave Girl Testifies The bodies of the two girls, stripped, lay on the narrow rectangles, networks, of knotted ropes, on the racks. |
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| 6 | 2 |
The ropes, slung, were pressed down with their weight. |
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| 6 | 3 |
Their hands were at their sides, but ropes were attached to them, and fixed on the axle of the windlass, above their heads. |
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| 6 | 15 |
Ropes had been put upon me. |
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| 6 | 53 |
Her body, now, was lifted from the network of knotted ropes and hung, suspended, between the two axles of the rack. |
10 |
| 6 | 60 |
The axle of the windlass at the girl's head spun back and her body fell into the network of knotted ropes. |
10 |
| 6 | 61 |
One of the slaves removed the ropes from her wrists and ankles. |
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| 6 | 106 |
She hung in the ropes, taut. |
10 |
| 6 | 124 |
The girl's body fell into the network of knotted ropes. |
10 |
| 6 | 127 |
The ropes were removed from her wrists and ankles. |
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| 8 | 181 |
I must gather brush and kaiila dung and make fires; I must cook the stews and porridges, and clean the pans and the bowls; I must shake out the mats and sweep the sand in the tents; I must rub the garments and polish the boots, and leather; I must do the mending and sewing; I weave; I make ropes; I ... |
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| 10 | 115 |
She, too, cried out, helpless, twisting in the ropes that confined her fair limbs. |
10 |
| 10 | 118 |
"You leap in the ropes like a slave girl," he told her. |
10 |
| 10 | 199 |
Under torches men had labored, removing stone and sand in leather buckets on long ropes. |
10 |
| 13 | 31 |
Ropes were put on our throat; our hands were tied behind our backs. |
10 |
| 13 | 131 |
On ropes, hands bound behind our back, Hassan and I entered the lofty chamber. |
10 |
| 13 | 221 |
The ropes on our neck held us in place. |
10 |
| 13 | 236 |
I felt the ropes burn on my neck. |
10 |
| 13 | 460 |
The ropes burned on his throat. |
10 |
| 14 | 54 |
Then, with a knife, he cut the two ropes from my throat, and freed me of the binding fiber. |
10 |
| 16 | 33 |
These, drawn and pushed on carts, fitted onto wooden, iron-sheathed rails, are transported to the hooked lift ropes. |
10 |
| 16 | 34 |
These ropes run in systems to the surface and return. |
10 |
| 16 | 132 |
Again we took our ropes and cones, and bent to the labor of dredging for salt. |
10 |
| 23 | 40 |
Some five hours from the field, I slashed the ropes that tied his ankles beneath the kaiila and, thrusting up on his left foot, sprawled him in the gravel, turning him then to his stomach. |
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| 25 | 101 |
At the point of another lance, too, herded, ropes on his neck, between two kaiila, staggering, bloody, was Hamid, who had been the lieutenant to Shakar, captain of the Aretai. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1371 |
Bran Loort and the other lad struck me again and again with the ropes they carried and then I, sobbing, cut by the ropes, marked even through the tunic, was, by the leashes on my limbs pulled to a kneeling position before him, my arms held out from my sides. |
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| 3 | 373 |
Ropes were placed on my neck and belly, and on each leg, above the knees and at the ankles, and lashed tightly. |
10 |
| 7 | 685 |
They might beat me with ropes if I were not pleasing to them. |
10 |
| 8 | 55 |
Within the ring, too, were some eight sleen, tied on short tethers to stakes, at the sides; and a rack of meats, and poles, and ropes and whips, used in the training of the animals. |
10 |
| 8 | 197 |
The sleen outside had been fed and taken, by the men assisting Thurnus, on short ropes, to their cages. |
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| 8 | 285 |
On my hands and knees, miserable, in the hot sand, the rope on my neck, I looked about the training pit, at the rack of whips and ropes, the sleen tethers, the cages, the wooden barrier about the training area, and then, on my hands and knees, made my way through the sand and out of the training are... |
10 |
| 9 | 635 |
"Poor little Dina," said Thurnus, looking down at me, as the ropes were removed from my small limbs. |
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| 9 | 1311 |
I stood before them, ropes on my ankles. |
10 |
| 9 | 1314 |
I then stood before them, double wrist-leashed, ropes placed knotted on my wrists. |
10 |
| 9 | 1315 |
The ropes on my wrists and ankles, serving as leashes, were cut from the coils of rope brought to the field. |
10 |
| 9 | 1347 |
But my hands, held by the ropes on my wrists, could not reach the bottom of the tunic. |
10 |
| 9 | 1349 |
I tried again to seize the tunic but was prohibited by the ropes from doing so. |
10 |
| 9 | 1370 |
The boys yanked the ropes on my ankles, and, by their means, and by means of those held by the other two boys, those fastened on my wrists, I was turned and thrown to my stomach, in the dirt, spread-eagled. |
10 |
| 9 | 1375 |
I was jerked to my feet by the ropes on my wrists and stumbling, dragged among them, was conducted from the sul field. |
10 |
| 9 | 1383 |
I was held by the ropes before Bran Loort. |
10 |
| 9 | 1390 |
Again the ropes would not let me strip myself. |
10 |
| 9 | 1395 |
By the ropes I was dragged into the midst of tenacious, barbed brush, that thicket of such. |
10 |
| 9 | 1407 |
They hit me with the ropes and again we continued our journey. |
10 |
| 9 | 1475 |
The ropes on my wrists, holding them closely behind my back, were very tight. |
10 |
| 9 | 2117 |
To be sure we are helpless, in fact, in our ropes and chains, and in our bracelets. |
10 |
| 12 | 504 |
I feared their ropes and whips. |
10 |
| 12 | 728 |
Behind some of the beasts there were tarn baskets, on trailing ropes. |
10 |
| 12 | 785 |
I wanted to see, though I feared to do so, what was going on, the men who now owned us, their movements, the tarns, the ropes and chains, the slaves bound over saddles, and fastened at stirrups, the flames, the wild, racing, distorted shadows, the parapets and towers of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 860 |
I hoped the ropes on the basket would hold. |
10 |
| 16 | 218 |
Some attended to ropes. |
10 |
| 22 | 266 |
Outside and above decks we could hear shouting, and the sound of sprung ropes, as the canisters of flaming pitch were lofted from the deck catapults. |
10 |
| 24 | 61 |
Oh, I was sure that they were both excellent judges of women, yes, but of what sort of women, I asked myself, women stripped or lightly clad, women in collars or chains! And in what sort of venues had this superb taste in women been developed and honed? In the streets of Ar, seeing girls on leashes ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 11 |
The trap, weighted, just below the surface, is activated by two vine ropes, slung over tree branches, ropes which are drawn taut when two logs, to which they are attached, one on each shore, are rolled or dropped from a concealed scaffolding. |
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| 1 | 251 |
I conjectured that it must have been a marvelous moment when Shaba and his men, toiling with ropes and poles, wading and shoveling, brought their two craft to the clear vista of vast, deep Lake Ngao. |
10 |
| 1 | 342 |
There were some ropes and hooks, and heavy pieces of meat, to one side. |
10 |
| 1 | 693 |
Urt hunters swim slave girls, ropes on their necks, beside their boats in the dark, cool water of the canals, as bait for urts, which, as they rise to attack the girl, are speared. |
10 |
| 4 | 643 |
Then the she-urts who had accompanied me to the station of the praetor, kicking and striking with their ropes, fell upon the bound slave. |
10 |
| 4 | 752 |
Men stood by the mooring ropes. |
10 |
| 4 | 919 |
Mooring ropes were cast off. |
10 |
| 6 | 198 |
The deck was smoothed and white, ropes were neatly coiled, gear was stashed and secured, hatches were battened, and the brass and fittings were polished. |
10 |
| 6 | 703 |
She was then freed of the ropes on her. |
10 |
| 12 | 140 |
Wearing the aba taken from Msaliti, hooding myself with it, that my face and eyes not be seen, Sasi on my shoulder, rolled in a blanket tied tightly closed with ropes, I had acquired the lodging. |
10 |
| 15 | 329 |
"Put ropes on the sleen's neck". |
10 |
| 15 | 330 |
Two leash ropes were knotted on my neck. |
10 |
| 16 | 214 |
It was being drawn by dozens of men, wading in the marsh, pulling on ropes. |
10 |
| 27 | 3 |
From the scaffolding, a double row of peeled logs, about ten feet apart, with numerous connecting bars and crossbars, fastened together with vines, more than a hundred yards in length, extending out into the flowing waters, hung numerous vine ropes, attached to which were long, conical, woven basket... |
10 |
| 32 | 16 |
Sometimes we used rollers beneath the canoe, and hauled with ropes. |
10 |
| 32 | 1090 |
Sometimes they bind their girls with blue and yellow ropes. |
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| 33 | 1 |
What We Saw from the Height of the Falls; Tende Dances; We Enter Again Upon the River; I Anticipate the Surrender of the Blond-Haired Barbarian We thrust the canoe upward, Kisu and I at the stern, Ayari and the girls hauling on ropes at the forequarter. |
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| 41 | 9 |
We brought the canoe against the net, so that I and Kisu, too, each armed with a panga, might slash at the woven wall which had, on vine ropes, sprung from shore, lifted up before us. |
10 |
| 43 | 130 |
She still had the dangling ropes knotted on her wrists. |
10 |
| 57 | 109 |
The second girl in one pair, unless she is the last in the long line, and the first girl in the succeeding pair, unless she is the first in the long line, are fastened together by neck ropes. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 173 |
Then it was lifted up and swung, on a set of ropes, over the edge of the barrier and toward the center of the circular, sunken enclosure, whence it was lowered. |
10 |
| 3 | 188 |
One of the two men slipped a hook under the ropes that bound my ankles. |
10 |
| 3 | 194 |
Helpless I felt myself lifted higher and, on the system of ropes, carried out over the sunken enclosure, the floor of which was some seventy-five feet below me. |
10 |
| 3 | 225 |
I was hoisted up, on the system of ropes, then, to the barrier, and over it. |
10 |
| 3 | 229 |
Two men placed a large piece of meat on the hook from which I had been removed and, in a moment, on the system of ropes, had hoisted it over the barrier, out over the enclosure, and down to the animals. |
10 |
| 19 | 241 |
Borto untied the ropes at the foot of the sack. |
10 |
| 19 | 287 |
They were used in the stables for a variety of cutting tasks, ranging from opening feed sacks to shearing the hair of kajirae, which is unexcelled for the braiding of catapult ropes. |
10 |
| 27 | 133 |
To be sure, those are Gorean men and they may think in terms of ropes and collars. |
10 |
| 29 | 56 |
Such a camp, in effect, is a truce ground, where men of various allegiances may in safety bring what prizes may have fallen to their ropes and chains". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 146 |
This device, like some of the others, had doubtless been brought from the city, perhaps dragged forth by shackled men of Vonda hauling on wagon ropes. |
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| 4 | 395 |
She pulled at the ropes, and knew herself helpless. |
10 |
| 4 | 399 |
She pulled again at the ropes. |
10 |
| 4 | 411 |
Suddenly she reared in the ropes. |
10 |
| 4 | 430 |
"I am in your ropes," she shrugged. |
10 |
| 4 | 438 |
She pulled at the ropes. |
10 |
| 4 | 522 |
"No!" Then, struggling wildly, she tore at the ropes. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
I Make the Acquaintance of Guardsmen from Port Cos; I do not Take Action Against Miss Henderson; She is a Free Woman I hung in the ropes. |
10 |
| 18 | 57 |
When the ropes were cut from my wrists I fell to the floor but did not lose my footing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 72 |
Here and there, on the deck, there were buckets of sand, and here and there, on ropes, some of water. |
10 |
| 1 | 149 |
I heard the hiss and snap of our catapults, the twisted ropes snapping loose. |
10 |
| 2 | 24 |
We saw tension in the irons as men climbed the ropes secured to them. |
10 |
| 4 | 96 |
Almost simultaneously other men, on the Tina and Mira, with ropes and grappling irons, drew the ships more closely together. |
10 |
| 4 | 175 |
At the tops these constructions leaned back toward the masts, to which, at the top, they were secured by ropes. |
10 |
| 5 | 37 |
I cut two more of the ropes attached to grappling hooks. |
10 |
| 5 | 62 |
In moments I and the others, now some seven men, cutting at pirates, severing ropes, separated the two vessels and, as they slipped loose of one another, leaped onto the stern of the Tina, falling upon the pirates who had boarded her there. |
10 |
| 5 | 76 |
We sought our men in the water, throwing them ropes. |
10 |
| 5 | 188 |
Men on the masts of the Portia were unslinging the ropes which held the tops of the long, heavy planked constructions back against the masts. |
10 |
| 5 | 192 |
When they had done this other men, with shoulders and levers, and hauling on ropes, moved the platforms, which were on long, solid rollers, with their planked constructions, away from the masts, one to port, the other to starboard. |
10 |
| 5 | 198 |
But almost at the same time the planked constructions, on their platforms, were pulled downward by ropes. |
10 |
| 9 | 109 |
On either side of the bar, the Tina and the Tais, with stout ropes, four inches in width, strained, too, to free the Tuka. |
10 |
| 9 | 120 |
The great ropes strained. |
10 |
| 9 | 131 |
I left my position and, hurrying, ankle deep in sand and water, lowering my head to pass under the ropes between the Tina and the Tuka, made my way along her hull until I came to the river, and there entered the water, and swam about her stern quarters. |
10 |
| 9 | 138 |
The ropes strained again and the Tuka slipped back another yard. |
10 |
| 9 | 160 |
I felt her move beneath me, impelled again by the ropes and men, toward the river. |
10 |
| 9 | 290 |
The ropes by which the Tina and the Tais had drawn the Tuka from the bar were being cast off. |
10 |
| 13 | 2 |
The ropes on my wrists were tight. |
10 |
| 13 | 6 |
Then the ropes were drawn even tighter. |
10 |
| 13 | 7 |
My legs were then drawn back, ropes tight on my ankles. |
10 |
| 13 | 8 |
Ropes were adjusted. |
10 |
| 13 | 33 |
The ropes were tight. |
10 |
| 15 | 3 |
Mooring ropes were still being made fast. |
10 |
| 15 | 18 |
The ropes were hot and tight on my wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 15 | 53 |
In fury, in rage, unobserved, I tore at the ropes. |
10 |
| 15 | 59 |
I hoped I might be able to loosen the ropes. |
10 |
| 15 | 75 |
Though the ropes were thick and coarse, they were tight, and well-knotted. |
10 |
| 16 | 51 |
Swords slashed down at the mooring ropes. |
10 |
| 16 | 59 |
"Oars outboard!" I could see the pirate ship to my left, across the wharf, moored on the opposite side, its mooring ropes cut, backing away from the wharf. |
10 |
| 16 | 107 |
I could scarcely feel my pain, or the burns of the ropes. |
10 |
| 16 | 123 |
Pressing my legs and arms against the blade I could move upward to my original position, but no further, because of the ropes on my ankles, catching on the bottom side of the blade fixture, and it was extremely difficult and painful to hold myself that high on the blade. |
10 |
| 16 | 158 |
My left ankle, cut deliberately on the back of the blade, oozed blood, soaking the knotted ropes that held it. |
10 |
| 16 | 159 |
With the small amount of play given to me by the ropes on that ankle I must manage as best I can. |
10 |
| 16 | 167 |
I feared I might lose my foot but the heavy ropes, doubled and twisted, and knotted, like fibrous shielding, muchly protecting me, served me well, keeping the teeth in large measure from fastening in my flesh. |
10 |
| 16 | 169 |
It began to tear then at the ropes. |
10 |
| 16 | 178 |
I twisted against the blade, my ankles free, and, by the ropes on my wrists, swung myself up and behind the blade, getting my right leg over the upper part of the blade fixture. |
10 |
| 16 | 182 |
Ropes were on my wrists, but my hands were separated by, say, a foot of rope, as I had been bound on the blade. |
10 |
| 16 | 237 |
In an instant I had severed the bonds which held his ankles and, holding his arms, cut apart the ropes that bound his wrists. |
10 |
| 19 | 987 |
You might be bound with ropes. |
10 |
| 20 | 625 |
The usual devices to take a running woman are nets and ropes. |
10 |
| 20 | 1709 |
I have thrilled to the feel of ropes on my body, and straps. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 722 |
This product, crude and tough, may be used for such things as shields, cases and ropes. |
10 |
| 2 | 259 |
Two of my men were holding mooring ropes, one from the bow of the barge and one from the stern. |
10 |
| 7 | 77 |
"Ho! Ho!" called their drovers, riding behind them, swirling their coiled rawhide ropes in the air. |
10 |
| 8 | 194 |
He then went to the suspended girl and, thrusting up the ropes on her ankles, unbuckled the narrow, ankle-encircling black straps of her high-heeled dress sandals. |
10 |
| 8 | 320 |
In a moment the auctioneer had drawn the stockings from her legs, slipping them underneath the ropes on her ankles and discarding them in the flames. |
10 |
| 8 | 356 |
Anyone could see that! Then she hung, relieved, in the ropes. |
10 |
| 8 | 385 |
"Please, no!" "No!" she cried, and then hung, helpless and sobbing, in the ropes. |
10 |
| 8 | 408 |
At the same time the auctioneer was freeing the ankles of the girl from the ropes. |
10 |
| 11 | 110 |
You will learn to love the ropes and straps with which you are bound, for they confirm your bondage upon you. |
10 |
| 16 | 364 |
"The Fleer put ropes on them and dragged them away, into the fields". |
10 |
| 16 | 394 |
Rawhide ropes were put on their necks. |
10 |
| 17 | 68 |
Which is preferred may well depend on matters so trivial as the nature and lengths of the binding material available, for example, ropes, cordage, binding fiber, twisted silk, thongs or straps. |
10 |
| 17 | 752 |
I feared that I would be subject to ropes and whips, unsparingly applied if I were in the least bit unpleasing. |
10 |
| 19 | 287 |
I adjusted the packing ropes on the kaiila, securing the goods firmly in place. |
10 |
| 19 | 707 |
Pimples put the discarded coffle chains, and the manacles which had bound the Hobarts, on the hides of the travois, fastening them about one of the tie ropes. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 318 |
In a moment tarns had swept again from the ledge and then, seizing ropes and men in talons, at the very rock face itself, dragged dangling, screaming men from the sheer surface; ropes and men, tangled, were pulled away from the surface; ropes and men, torn loose from hand and footholds, unsupported,... |
10 |
| 39 | 301 |
The guide-ropes, or reins, of the tarn, as the Kinyanpi fashion them, seem clearly to be based on the jaw ropes used generally in the Barrens by the red savages to control kaiila. |
10 |
| 2 | 472 |
The boys carried rawhide ropes, and whips. |
10 |
| 3 | 322 |
Ropes had been put on the pole. |
10 |
| 3 | 323 |
Then, preceded by Cancega, with his medicine wand, uttering formulas, followed by his two seconds, with their rattles, the pole, pulled on its ropes, being drawn by several kaiila, was dragged toward the camp. |
10 |
| 5 | 3 |
Cows, which are lighter, are usually skinned on their sides, and then turned, sometimes by ropes tied to their legs, drawn by the kaiila. |
10 |
| 7 | 969 |
Boys, with ropes and whips, watch over the women. |
10 |
| 9 | 541 |
"That, I think," she said, "is where the whip, the quirt, the switch, the strap, the ropes, the collar, the blindfold, the gag, the chains, come in. |
10 |
| 12 | 26 |
They carried ropes and whips. |
10 |
| 12 | 29 |
Their ropes swung. |
10 |
| 12 | 38 |
"Hei! Hei!" called the young drovers, kicking their heels back into the flanks of their kaiila, waving their ropes, cracking their whips. |
10 |
| 12 | 40 |
"Hei! Hei!" cried the young drovers, ropes swinging, whips cracking. |
10 |
| 12 | 501 |
This is not unusual, incidentally, in a free woman, because deep womanhood, they sense, involves love, and love, for a woman, seems always to involve a bondage, if not of ropes and chains, of one sort or another". |
10 |
| 13 | 132 |
"Hei!" called two or three of the lads, lifting their coiled ropes. |
10 |
| 14 | 206 |
Surely it would be embarrassing, too, to Waniyanpi men, such as Pumpkin, if one of their females should tear off her clothes and throw herself naked to the feet of a red warrior, begging for the tightness of his ropes and the slash of his quirt. |
10 |
| 18 | 165 |
Within would be the pole, the ropes and the skewers, and, painted and bedecked, dancing, the young men. |
10 |
| 22 | 60 |
They may only put their ropes on you". |
10 |
| 22 | 257 |
The paraphernalia of the dance, with the exception of some long, narrow, braided ropes, had been removed from the pole. |
10 |
| 25 | 79 |
Ropes stretched between lodges can interfere with low-flight attacks and impede attempted landings. |
10 |
| 27 | 21 |
The hair about the lower jaws of many of them was stiff with dried blood, from the control of the jaw ropes. |
10 |
| 27 | 39 |
They would then, too, if they maintained their early attack pattern, strike into the ropes strung between lodges. |
10 |
| 27 | 44 |
Too, if the Kinyanpi were at heights of even fifty or a hundred feet, it would be difficult for them to fire accurately through the overhead network of ropes and cloths which we had suspended between several of the lodges. |
10 |
| 27 | 67 |
We waited, under the network of ropes and cloths. |
10 |
| 27 | 80 |
A tarn then was caught under the ropes. |
10 |
| 27 | 88 |
Another perished similarly, lances thrust upward through the ropes and cloth, until, bleeding, wounded again and again, he could be pulled down, falling to the ground, there to die under knives. |
10 |
| 28 | 92 |
In this short journey I had passed several kaiila, picketed under the ropes and cloths. |
10 |
| 28 | 106 |
Too, interestingly, female hair is prized for catapult ropes. |
10 |
| 28 | 150 |
Some of the other girls under the ropes and cloths were tied in more conventional fashions. |
10 |
| 28 | 220 |
Presumably we would await the attack of the Yellow Knives under the ropes and netting. |
10 |
| 28 | 321 |
"Fight! Defend the camp!" The lines spun about and the men of Mahpiyasapa, whooping and crying out, dust scattering, sped back under the ropes and between the lodges to engage this new enemy. |
10 |
| 28 | 359 |
I saw soldiers cutting down portions of the ropes and cloths. |
10 |
| 32 | 243 |
"I may need some help," said Cuwignaka, "in attaching the ropes, in placing the skewers in my flesh. |
10 |
| 36 | 33 |
Other ropes lay near us in the pit. |
10 |
| 37 | 550 |
Hci, swinging ropes, crying out, emerged, too, from the nearby grass. |
10 |
| 37 | 573 |
I then, with extra ropes taken from the pit, went to aid Cuwignaka and Hci. |
10 |
| 38 | 2 |
Ropes bound the beak of the bird tightly shut. |
10 |
| 38 | 5 |
Ropes, as well, encircled its wings, binding them to its body. |
10 |
| 38 | 29 |
Then I cast aside the coiled ropes, to a place among my other things. |
10 |
| 39 | 49 |
For example, tonight it will not be necessary to beat you again, with coiled ropes. |
10 |
| 39 | 299 |
I went forward and seized the guide-ropes of the tarn, near the beak. |
10 |
| 42 | 10 |
Behind each of us, strung together by neck ropes, swept five tarns. |
10 |
| 43 | 308 |
Then, not hurrying, the robe muchly about me, I moved the kaiila away from the lodge, drawing from the lodge, through the cut in its back, by means of the rawhide ropes attached to their handles, the two sacks. |
10 |
| 43 | 315 |
I felt the tension in the ropes, on either side of the kaiila, as I entered into the long lane, some two hundred yards in length, the sacks, their weight negligible for the strength of the kaiila, being drawn lightly behind. |
10 |
| 43 | 370 |
I turned the kaiila in a wide circle at the end of the promenade, the bags, like swift, twin plows, taut on their ropes, throwing up two trails of dust. |
10 |
| 43 | 374 |
The bags and ropes were covered with dust. |
10 |
| 44 | 46 |
Iwoso began to squirm madly in the ropes. |
10 |
| 44 | 50 |
Iwoso, irrationally, frenziedly, fought the ropes. |
10 |
| 44 | 62 |
On her neck, thrust up, over the ropes holding her neck to the post, she still wore Iwoso's collar. |
10 |
| 44 | 168 |
She thrust her body toward me, pressing it piteously, squirmingly, against the ropes that bound it to the post. |
10 |
| 44 | 406 |
"No!" cried Iwoso, squirming in the ropes. |
10 |
| 44 | 477 |
"No!" Lodges, with their poles, were thrown back and men emerged, dragging at the ropes of small travois, heavily laden with stones. |
10 |
| 44 | 504 |
She was helpless in her ropes. |
10 |
| 44 | 548 |
Iwoso's lovely, curved body squirmed inside the confining ropes. |
10 |
| 44 | 553 |
She pressed her body once again, futilely, against the ropes. |
10 |
| 44 | 562 |
When the first fifty riders had passed the chosen point on the trail the second barricade, bristling, too, with stakes, on ropes, was lowered to the trail, shutting off the upper segment of the trail as effectively as a gate. |
10 |
| 44 | 686 |
She squirmed in the ropes, helpless, unable to keep herself from being candidly viewed. |
10 |
| 44 | 733 |
Much of it was obscured by the narrow, coarse ropes which bound her neck back against the post. |
10 |
| 44 | 750 |
"She squirms nicely in the ropes," said Hci. |
10 |
| 44 | 800 |
She shuddered, a movement that affected her entire body, moving suddenly within its ropes, from her head to her toes. |
10 |
| 45 | 91 |
With it we set fire to the great bundles of brush, on ropes, which had been prepared earlier. |
10 |
| 45 | 92 |
These flaming bundles, on their ropes, were then hurled over the edge, to hang burning against the rocky face. |
10 |
| 46 | 9 |
Iwoso struggled briefly in her ropes, futilely. |
10 |
| 46 | 17 |
"Too, of course," I said, "your presence here, naked, in your ropes, tied like a slave, is calculated to be an incitement to the Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 46 | 88 |
I looked at the ropes left lying at intervals along the edge of the escarpment. |
10 |
| 46 | 134 |
The forty men in his party, including myself and Cuwignaka, then, on the ropes left along the edge of the escarpment, held by the members of the fourth group, under the command of Kahintokapa, lowered ourselves to the trail below. |
10 |
| 46 | 159 |
These were fired by the men of our fourth group, suddenly appearing at the top of the escarpment, that which had handled our descent ropes, that under the command of Kahintokapa, of the Yellow-Kaiila Riders. |
10 |
| 46 | 172 |
Ropes were thrown down to us. |
10 |
| 46 | 173 |
Our weapons and shields slung about us we then climbed these ropes to the height of the escarpment. |
10 |
| 47 | 312 |
The eastern face of Council Rock seemed covered with men and ropes. |
10 |
| 47 | 316 |
I looked down, at the ropes of men, not yet to the top. |
10 |
| 47 | 461 |
Her ankles were roped back against the post; at the waist, too, she was fastened to it, the rawhide ropes deep in her belly, and deep, too, in the notch behind the post; her neck, too, was tied to the post; and her hands, as well, in tight, rawhide loops, rather at her sides and slightly behind her. |
10 |
| 47 | 472 |
* * * * Iwoso gasped, and tried to turn her head away, her neck in the ropes. |
10 |
| 47 | 485 |
Iwoso then closed her eyes, in misery, turning her head away, her head held in place by the ropes under her chin. |
10 |
| 47 | 514 |
Iwoso could scarcely move in the ropes. |
10 |
| 48 | 29 |
Hci swung coiled ropes in his hand. |
10 |
| 51 | 3 |
Two stout ropes were on its neck, each slung to the saddle of a kaiila, on its opposite sides. |
10 |
| 51 | 6 |
Its upper body was almost covered with ropes, binding its arms tightly to its sides. |
10 |
| 51 | 39 |
He was then, shuffling in the dust with bloody feet, from which the claws had been extracted, bound helplessly, dragged on ropes and prodded with the butts of lances, conducted toward the lodge of Zarendargar. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 33 |
It is used for various purposes, for example, for insect whisks, for dusters, for cleaning and polishing pads, for cushionings, decorations and ropes, particularly catapult ropes, for which it is highly prized. |
10 |
| 4 | 489 |
They might indeed serve to keep others out, perhaps climbing upward, or descending on ropes from the roof above, but they surely served as well, and as perfectly, to keep me within! What is this room, I asked myself, is it truly my protected quarters, or is it, rather, my cell? I walked back to the ... |
10 |
| 12 | 109 |
"It is a ram," said he, "doubtless slung from a cradle, drawn by ropes, doubtless with a will by citizens of Corcyrus". |
10 |
| 14 | 200 |
I felt one of the tent ropes on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 27 |
Behind it, on long ropes, dangled a tarn basket. |
10 |
| 15 | 312 |
I stopped, seeing a bird take to the air, a tarn basket, on long ropes, trailing behind it. |
10 |
| 15 | 322 |
I saw ropes being fastened between the tarn and the basket now first in the line. |
10 |
| 15 | 358 |
I felt the basket move as ropes were fastened on it and jerked tight. |
10 |
| 15 | 415 |
The ropes and the basket creaked. |
10 |
| 15 | 431 |
I hoped that the ropes would hold. |
10 |
| 18 | 215 |
What would it have been like, I had wondered, to feel ropes on my body, a collar on my neck, the strong, commanding, possessive hands of a ruthless master exploring, me, caressing me as he pleased, owning, me. |
10 |
| 36 | 163 |
I pulled, futilely, at the ropes on my wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 36 | 219 |
"Not really," I admitted, shrugging in the ropes. |
10 |
| 36 | 371 |
I squirmed a little in the ropes. |
10 |
| 36 | 476 |
I squirmed in the ropes. |
10 |
| 36 | 543 |
I pulled at the ropes. |
10 |
| 36 | 591 |
I shrank down in the ropes, trying to make myself appear smaller. |
10 |
| 36 | 593 |
"Even now," he said, "still, when you are helpless, in my ropes, I find you exquisitely desirable, exquisitely beautiful". |
10 |
| 36 | 776 |
"Free me," I said, angrily, pulling at the ropes. |
10 |
| 36 | 801 |
I knelt back in the ropes. |
10 |
| 36 | 806 |
I found, then, that I had squirmed in the ropes, inadvertently, reflexively, my thighs moving. |
10 |
| 36 | 908 |
He left the chair and, crouching beside me, not hurrying, freed me of the ropes. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 930 |
Female hair is also prized, incidentally, for catapult ropes. |
10 |
| 5 | 194 |
It had been contained in a small chest of capture equipment, such as weighted slave nets, ropes, hoods, gags and manacles. |
10 |
| 6 | 802 |
They are particularly pleased when they can get their ropes on a juicy girl". |
10 |
| 6 | 855 |
"Sirs," she asked, "why is it that you are drawing forth coils of stout ropes from beneath your robes?" "Why to bind your pretty arms to your sides, and to put a good rope on your neck, my dear," said Chino. |
10 |
| 6 | 876 |
Let us get these ropes on you". |
10 |
| 6 | 981 |
We can have our ropes on her in a moment!" They then, apparently, began to hurry. |
10 |
| 6 | 1003 |
"We have you now!" cried Chino, he and Lecchio arriving on the scene, ropes in hand. |
10 |
| 6 | 1021 |
"Now if you will be so kind as to step aside, we will get our ropes on her". |
10 |
| 8 | 338 |
He then bent quickly, angrily, to untie the ropes on his ankles. |
10 |
| 9 | 22 |
After he had finished freeing himself from the ropes on his ankles, he had hurried to recover the cup which had been of such interest to the brigands. |
10 |
| 9 | 71 |
"No, no!" she wept, struggling in the ropes. |
10 |
| 10 | 59 |
"Wait!" she said, twisting in the ropes. |
10 |
| 10 | 67 |
"I am bound," she wept, twisting in the ropes. |
10 |
| 10 | 105 |
Perhaps you recall it?" She sobbed, helpless in the ropes, awaiting her beating. |
10 |
| 13 | 197 |
They threw ropes upon it. |
10 |
| 13 | 259 |
In a moment or two the Kur from the courtyard below, no longer dragging the part of a sleen, perhaps having finished it, or having had it dragged from him, was ushered past our cell, and prodded, its ropes then removed, a chain still on its neck, into a cell down the way. |
10 |
| 16 | 1138 |
Bina moaned, in her ropes. |
10 |
| 16 | 1156 |
"With stout neck ropes," said Belnar. |
10 |
| 16 | 1158 |
The purpose of the neck ropes, stretched from holes drilled near the top of the vat, is to hold the victim, whose hands are usually bound behind him, in place, preventing him not only from attempting to leave the vat but also from trying to drown himself. |
10 |
| 18 | 46 |
Put ropes on his neck". |
10 |
| 18 | 48 |
Then heavy ropes, suitable for confining him in the vat of oil, were put on his neck. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 4 |
The ropes on the necks had been tarred to protect them from the weather, an indication that it had been intended they should remain in place for some time. |
10 |
| 10 | 6 |
They swung creaking, a few feet off the ground, some turning slowly, backward and forward, at the ropes' terminations. |
10 |
| 13 | 64 |
Behind Boabissia, ropes on their necks, the captor's termini of these hempen confinements in the grip of Hurtha, came Feiqa and Tula. |
10 |
| 13 | 75 |
They, too, like Feiqa and Tula, had ropes on their necks. |
10 |
| 14 | 6 |
There were some two to three hundred new bodies hung now from tarred ropes along the Avenue of Adminius, in the vicinity of the Semnium. |
10 |
| 24 | 426 |
They make a practice of it, much as they might sell their hair to hair merchants or to the weavers of catapult ropes. |
10 |
| 25 | 763 |
But I felt then two ropes, from opposite sides, encircle my neck. |
10 |
| 25 | 766 |
I reached for my dagger, but it had been removed from my sheath! I stood there, wild, on the grass, between them, the two ropes on my neck. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 769 |
I heard the sound of ropes being drawn aboard, and a noise like that of wood pushing on wood. |
10 |
| 6 | 786 |
I then felt it in the very boards beneath me, it exciting me with the pressing weight and smoothness of it, its strength, its directness and awesome power, the force of the wind filling and shaping, and thrusting against, this large, extended, exposed canvas surface, transmitting its power through t... |
10 |
| 10 | 313 |
It was then secured on my body apparently by ropes, above and below my breasts, about my waist and below my knees. |
10 |
| 10 | 324 |
I squirmed helplessly in the tight blanket, in the manacles, in the straps and ropes. |
10 |
| 10 | 330 |
I heard the rattle of harness, sensed the attachment of ropes, the tying of knots, the drawing of them tight, their testing. |
10 |
| 10 | 358 |
It seemed the ropes suspending this object would hold, that the surface on which I was confined was not likely to suddenly give way. |
10 |
| 27 | 58 |
Once, my hands over my head, I had felt the tent ropes. |
10 |
| 29 | 459 |
"It is your fault!" cried Tupita, turning her head, in her neck ropes, toward me. |
10 |
| 29 | 487 |
"He is alive! My master is alive! He lives!" She looked at me, wildly, in her neck ropes. |
10 |
| 29 | 578 |
Without taking his eyes off the sleen, by feel, Mirus cut the ropes that tied Tupita to the railing, and then cut free the binding fiber on her ankles, and wrists. |
10 |
| 32 | 98 |
"Master," I whispered, begging, pulling against the ropes. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 223 |
In this fashion ropes are tied separately to the victim's wrists and ankles, these ropes then attached to the harnesses of two different tharlarion, which are, of course, then driven in opposite directions. |
10 |
| 16 | 306 |
The spear's point was now entered into the sheath, the sheath held in place behind the slave by her ropes, and the slave's body held against the sheath and spear by the ropes and belt. |
10 |
| 17 | 594 |
This time, as it swung back, I could see, along its shaft, the interior of the inclined shed that housed it, and how it was fifty feet long and slung in leather cradles, and the many ropes that controlled it, and the men drawing on the ropes, surely more than a hundred of them under that long shed, ... |
10 |
| 1 | 131 |
Ropes were found in the wagon and we tied them by the necks to the back of the wagon. |
10 |
| 1 | 336 |
The pole has one or more ropes attached to it, near its end. |
10 |
| 1 | 398 |
They had an extra tharlarion, three extra purses and three fellows, hurrying behind them, naked and bound, ropes on their necks, whom they could now sell to the master of a work chain, perhaps for as much as a silver tarsk apiece. |
10 |
| 1 | 496 |
Two massive ropes, better than eight inches in diameter, sloped down from the gate structure to the bridge, which allowed for the raising and lowering of a portion of it at will. |
10 |
| 5 | 136 |
"When our evasions failed to satisfy the attendants ropes were put on our necks, over our robes and veils, and we were brought to the keeper's desk. |
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| 6 | 745 |
Women's hair, long and silky, plaited into heavy ropes, is ideal for the cording of catapults. |
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| 8 | 776 |
Such, as I have mentioned, particularly in times of siege, though there is always a market for it on Gor, is highly prized for the making of catapult ropes. |
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| 9 | 57 |
The extension of her legs, of course, was such that she could not reach the ropes on her ankles with her braceleted hands. |
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| 10 | 10 |
It is ideal for catapult ropes. |
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| 13 | 35 |
It had had a sudden wild ring about it, as though she might suddenly, to her dismay, have felt ropes settle about her body, and draw tight. |
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| 15 | 11 |
We could hear, too, as though far off, the rhythmical shock of the battering ram at the gate, where men toiled at the hundred ropes, beneath the long shedlike roof which protected them and the ram. |
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| 15 | 29 |
Lady Claudia winced as the ropes were drawn about her. |
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| 15 | 32 |
She then knelt there, in the center of the cell, heavily bound, collared, the leash dangling down before the ropes bound about her. |
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| 15 | 627 |
"Oh!" "As I recall," I said to Lady Publia, "you recommended that the ropes be made tight". |
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| 15 | 636 |
"What is the meaning of this outrage!" demanded Lady Publia, squirming in the ropes. |
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| 15 | 1002 |
Some, on the other hand, look there, there is one, are drawn by ropes, drawn by men or tharlarion. |
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| 15 | 1005 |
There must have been at least fifty ropes, and fifty men to a rope. |
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| 15 | 1032 |
There was no blood about the hood or ropes. |
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| 15 | 1057 |
First, I separated the ropes a bit on her upper body and put my ear to her heart. |
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| 16 | 13 |
She had been quite cruel to us, I recalled, as our warder, and had much mocked Lady Claudia in her distress, when Lady Claudia, rather than she, had worn the ropes. |
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| 16 | 26 |
I looked over the wall and noted that the long, rolling, shedlike structure was quite near, beneath which the battering ram, on its ropes, was slung. |
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| 16 | 35 |
They are much more useful, in my opinion, at sea, as in, say, drawing ships within boarding distance of one another, the ropes then usually being attached to chains some ten feet or so behind the hooks. |
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| 16 | 303 |
I then removed the sword from the sheath and thrust the sheath up, between the slave's back and the ropes, and then forced the point of the spear up, high, into the sheath. |
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| 16 | 305 |
I then buckled the sword belt, making a new hole in the belt with my knife, tightly about the slender waist of the slave, up a bit, so it, too, was hidden behind the thickly coiled ropes. |
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| 16 | 333 |
The new slave, hung in the ropes, moaned her acquiescence. |
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| 16 | 521 |
Where was Aemilianus! How dispirited seemed the defenders! How listlessly they stood! How resigned to their fate! What preparations did they make for the towers? Did they think they now faced only fellows on ladders, fellows climbing ropes, the clinging, climbing, creeping, shouting swarms, stinging... |
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| 16 | 523 |
"The bridges will drop and you will think an avalanche of iron has spilled upon you! How shall you meet it? Let it spill on your heads? Clever fellows! Bring poles! Bring stones! You, fetch grapnels and ropes. |
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| 17 | 27 |
One, a foot thick and twenty feet in length, managed by ten men with ropes, mounted at an angle of some twenty degrees on an improvised pivot of heaped stone, swept the bridge an instant after it struck the crenelation, then tumbled off, used once, to fall behind the parapet. |
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| 17 | 73 |
While these things were going on hundreds of grapnels had looped over the wall and the ropes on them strained with swiftly climbing men, and the uprights of hundreds of ladders, like a forest, set themselves against the walls. |
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| 17 | 74 |
Between the towers men hurried cutting ropes, and, where they could, thrusting back the ladders with the long-handled tridents. |
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| 17 | 93 |
Cosians, sweating, their eyes wild in their helmets, reaching out from ropes, and ladders, struggled through, and over, the crenels. |
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| 17 | 139 |
Some of the bridges, but most not, were raised and lowered by ropes. |
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| 17 | 140 |
One whose ropes had been cut had its bridge hanging down, against the front of the tower, useless. |
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| 17 | 153 |
Two swung back on ropes and climbed through the crenelation, almost as though they might have been Cosians. |
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| 17 | 211 |
The slave who had been Lady Publia, its burden by means of the ropes, the sheath and sword belt, twisting wildly, throwing her head about as though bewildered, as though she would try to see through the hood, uttered a tiny, terrified, questioning, miserable, helpless noise, her oral orifice, of cou... |
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| 17 | 215 |
I then, lifting the spear up a bit, her head down, thrust her with my foot, in her ropes, with the sword belt and sheath, from the spear. |
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| 17 | 278 |
What effort it must have taken to force the long ram shed up this incline, how much more arduous must be the labor of those within the shed, hauling on the ropes, swinging the great ram upward! I could hear, too, between the heavy, periodic strokes of the ram, the blows of hammers and axes, and the ... |
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| 17 | 305 |
I withdrew the sheath from between her back and the ropes. |
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| 17 | 375 |
I looped the thong in and about the ropes at her back. |
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| 17 | 436 |
His presence there informed me that the slave, her upper body so wound about with ropes as to almost conceal her beauty, would be at a slave ring, behind and below the upper battlements, kneeling there, hooded and gagged, fastened to it by her leash. |
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| 17 | 466 |
I took the thong which had originally bound her ankles, before her seeming placement on the spear, that which I had later looped in and about the ropes on her back, and put it beside me on the stone. |
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| 17 | 467 |
I then, holding her wrists, and by means of them, moving them back and forth, as she whimpered, and drawing them more closely together, slowly worked her arms more behind her under the ropes. |
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| 17 | 468 |
I then, when I could, crossed her wrists and tied them with the thong, her arms still under the ropes. |
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| 17 | 489 |
Too, I stood next to a well-roped woman who, though hooded, and much covered in the upper body by ropes, would be likely to intrigue them. |
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| 17 | 490 |
She had lovely legs and the contours of the ropes about her upper body would not leave much doubt that luscious slave curves were the helpless prisoners of their coarse, serpentine coils. |
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| 17 | 596 |
Again I saw along the shaft of the ram, the shed, the men, the ropes. |
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| 17 | 636 |
The men on the ropes had not the leverage to swing it back, though they could try to pull it back. |
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| 18 | 206 |
At the same time a hundred ropes, along the wall, were thrown downward and men, one after the other, began to lower themselves to the landing. |
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| 18 | 229 |
Others clung wildly to the ropes, unable to move. |
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| 18 | 231 |
Some men below stood even on bodies trying to reach men above them on ropes. |
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| 18 | 257 |
Few descended now the ropes. |
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| 18 | 274 |
I saw some looking up, in fear, at the ropes, still dangling there, and pull away their veils, thrust back their hoods and put their hands to the collars of their robes. |
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| 18 | 287 |
Now that the wall was freed I saw more Cosians descending on ropes. |
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| 18 | 325 |
More descended on the ropes. |
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| 18 | 352 |
I saw small wrists being tied together and ropes being put on lovely necks. |
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| 18 | 504 |
Others were being lined up, their hands tied behind their backs, to form coffles, ropes being put on their necks. |
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| 22 | 9 |
She was pretty, lying on her belly, over the ropes, her head down. |
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| 22 | 26 |
She clutched ropes in the coils on which she lay. |
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| 22 | 38 |
I then kissed her, and let her lie back on the ropes. |
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| 22 | 66 |
"Yes," I said, "or perhaps ropes. |
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| 23 | 20 |
She was pretty, lying on her belly, on the ropes, her head down. |
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| 23 | 32 |
Then she was on her belly, sobbing, pressing down into the ropes, as though she would hide herself in them. |
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| 23 | 33 |
Her head was down, turned to the side, the side of it pressed against the ropes. |
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| 23 | 263 |
"On your stomach, head down, over the ropes," said the fellow to Claudia. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 587 |
Their bills unpaid, and their evasions not satisfying the inn's attendants, they had been taken, ropes on their necks, before the keeper. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Delta "Through the eye!" I screamed, struggling in the ropes, naked, they tight about my upper body, my hands crossed and bound behind me, fastened closely to my ankles, kneeling in the bow of the small craft, of bound rence. |
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| 5 | 4 |
I lay back in the ropes, on the sand. |
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| 5 | 25 |
After that first night, the small craft had been tied together, some of the ropes fastened ashore, to stakes. |
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| 10 | 48 |
I felt suddenly very helpless in the manacles, the ropes. |
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| 12 | 75 |
"From various things," I said, "from blows, from ropes, from harness, from the slash of rence, from the bites and stings of insects, from the fastening places of marsh leeches". |
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| 12 | 413 |
It would be hard to sleep tonight, for the ropes. |
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| 26 | 197 |
In those wars, as I understand it, the acquisition of female slaves was almost an afterthought, ropes being put on the necks of captured women, who were then, stripped, herded back with the captured kaiila to the wagons of the victors. |
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| 27 | 140 |
"I did not know, at the time I sought to assist the young officer, Marcus, of Ar's Station, in work for Ar, that Ar repaid her friends with ropes and the blows of whips". |
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| 28 | 440 |
"And found herself instead in your ropes?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 36 | 115 |
All of them, after all, were seen fit to be put in the ropes of masters. |
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| 44 | 346 |
I think they wanted her to stand on the barge, alone, waiting for the hands of captors on her robes, for their ropes on her body". |
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| 46 | 84 |
I continued for a time in the camp, making my way among tents, and under open, roofed structures, like those of some markets, and under great awnings, through corridors of cages and kennels, past chains of women, the chains secured between great stakes, amongst slave wagons and cage wagons, past pro... |
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| 46 | 194 |
She was also chained by the neck to one side of the wagon and a shackle was about her left ankle, below the ropes, attaching her to the central bar. |
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| 46 | 195 |
Beyond this there were several coarse ropes wound tightly about her body. |
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| 46 | 373 |
There, on pegs, and ropes, were hanging numerous slave garments, camisks, tunics, silks, and such. |
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| 47 | 8 |
The fellow was ahead of me tearing garments from pegs and dragging down ropes of clothes, trampling them underfoot, much to the consternation of the merchant. |
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| 48 | 221 |
He fell to his knees beside her, fumbling with the ropes, almost beside himself. |
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| 48 | 225 |
"How is it possible!" cried Marcus, tearing at the ropes at her ankles. |
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| 48 | 241 |
He tore the ropes from her neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97 |
Long ago, I had once entered the city through such a passage, its exterior access point reached by means of a putative Dar-Kosis pit, which passage, I had recently determined, descending into the pit on ropes, was now closed. |
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| 3 | 366 |
She wore ropes and performed on her knees, her sides, her back and stomach. |
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| 3 | 540 |
It is pleasant to have them in ropes, naked at their feet. |
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| 3 | 928 |
Phoebe, as I have suggested, was held to her master by bonds compared to which stout ropes, woven of the strongest, coarsest fibers, and chains or iron, obdurate, weighty and unbreakable, were mere gossamer strands. |
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| 4 | 5 |
He did not enter between the velvet ropes, forming their corridor to the roped enclosure within which rested the stone. |
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| 4 | 8 |
"Nor do I fear," said the brawny fellow, "the legions of Cos, nor her adherents or spies! I am of Ar!" He then strode between the ropes to the stone, which rested upon a plank, itself resting on two huge terra-cotta vats, of the sort into which slop pots in insulae are dumped. |
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| 4 | 15 |
The fellow then, not looking about, exited between the velvet ropes on the other side. |
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| 12 | 278 |
Also, it might be noted that many women are enslaved not simply because it is convenient to do so, the ropes are handy, so to speak, or because they are beautiful of face and figure, but actually because of their intelligence and sensitivity, qualities which appeal to many Gorean men. |
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| 13 | 229 |
I do not think Cos, in spite of their youth, will hesitate to impale them or have them at the ends of ropes". |
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| 14 | 59 |
What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip... |
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| 14 | 118 |
There had been many such, the soldiers appearing with their ropes, often late at night, bursting into houses, bringing their catches forth, in various states of undress and nightwear, to the waiting wagons. |
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| 16 | 59 |
His hands were bound behind him and there were some ropes, as well, about his upper body, binding his arms to his sides. |
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| 25 | 256 |
Hoods, gags, ropes, and such, were in the back, too. |
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| 25 | 553 |
He is well known, and would doubtless immediately be in ropes". |
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| 26 | 131 |
Why, then, should she not draw attention to herself , as she can, and in ways likely to be stimulatory not only to his sexuality but to hers, as well? Certainly slave garments, like bracelets, cords, ropes and chains, whips, the switch, hoods, blindfolds and gags, are arousing to the slave as well a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 14 |
It was not woven of those terrible ropes, sometimes used in punishment ties, in which a disobedient slave might find herself swathed from head to foot, ropes within which, in misery, she scarcely dares to move. |
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| 7 | 455 |
I had, of course, in chains, and in ropes, learned what such as he could do to me, how they could bring me again and again, gently, surely, cruelly, as it might amuse them, to such a point, to such a delicate, exact point, to the very threshold of release, to the very edge of ecstasy, to where I was... |
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| 8 | 874 |
I think it might have taken ropes or chains to pull me to them, or the snapping of the fingers of a rights holder. |
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| 10 | 410 |
It seemed the rings and the ropes might hold. |
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| 11 | 1873 |
Too, most easily by means of ropes, the tube might be ascended, and, in such a way, defenders might appear unexpectedly on any given level. |
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| 12 | 63 |
Looped ropes, for example, are extremely common. |
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| 12 | 839 |
I saw that my net had some ropes attached to it, which extended to a wall behind the walkway where the woman stood, behind what appeared to be the exterior wall of the well-like structure. |
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| 12 | 889 |
Then I turned back, blinking against the light, for I felt myself, in the net, by means of ropes, being lowered, and being drawn toward the wall. |
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| 13 | 213 |
Too, for what it is worth, intelligent women are commonly better looking than less intelligent women, a feature which is not without its appeal to masters, and one which makes them more likely candidates for the slavers' ropes and irons; too, they also tend to be more helplessly responsive in the ar... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 558 |
I undid the ropes which held the small wrists of the slave above her head, and then freed her of the belly ropes. |
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| 14 | 97 |
"Out oars! Row! Move!" The galley of Seremides kept its original heading, dictated by its towing ropes, while we were still, towing ropes slack, now almost across his bow, rocking in the water. |
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| 17 | 159 |
As mentioned, of late, ropes had been strung about the deck, rather in the fashion that such ropes are used in rough seas. |
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| 19 | 89 |
I suddenly cried out, in horror, "Seize the ropes! Seize the ropes!" Before us, the sea had opened, and, before the ship, with steep sides, there appeared a valley, water pouring down its sides, as into a vast hole. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 461 |
Tajima took the ropes and said to the slave, "I shall toss these ropes to the side of the hut. |
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| 47 | 283 |
Even as we cried out with astonishment and pleasure, and Lord Yamada, shaken, tried to grasp what had occurred, Nodachi thrust the companion sword amongst the ropes which fastened him to the post, and the ropes parted, darting to the sides, as though fleeing from the blade. |
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