| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 224 |
It was silent and settled on the rock platform, scarcely disturbing the light snow that was scattered on it. |
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| 2 | 103 |
"You may have her this evening if you wish," said my father, who had scarcely seemed to notice the girl. |
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| 6 | 134 |
Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarion poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth swung open. |
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| 7 | 81 |
Wordlessly Nar moved rapidly through the marsh, his eight delicate feet scarcely seeming to dip into the greenish water. |
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| 7 | 212 |
She had scarcely removed a braided loop from its hook when her eyes suddenly lit with triumph and a sound of joy escaped her lips. |
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| 7 | 224 |
"You are Talena," he said, tapping the dagger, "daughter of Marlenus?" "You see I wear the robes of the Ubar's daughter," said the girl, scarcely deigning to respond to the officer's question. |
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| 9 | 52 |
Once, however, Talena dragged me to the side of the road, and, scarcely able to conceal our horror, we watched while a sufferer from the incurable Dar-Kosis disease, bent in his yellow shrouds, hobbled by, periodically clacking that wooden device which warns all within hearing to stand clear from hi... |
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| 9 | 175 |
I had scarcely finished bandaging his wound when I was aware of a ringing on metal, and, lifting my head, I saw myself surrounded by mounted spearmen, who wore the same livery as Kazrak. |
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| 10 | 95 |
We had gone scarcely ten paces and Talena could hardly have been fastened in the wagon before we heard a female scream of pain and a bevy of howls and shrieks. |
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| 11 | 21 |
That night we brought the caravan into the palisaded keep prepared for Mintar by Pa-Kur, the Master Assassin, who was the Ubar of this vast, scarcely organized, predatory horde. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 33 |
I had scarcely stepped from the stones of the road when, coming down the road, each step carefully measured and solid, I saw a wide, hunched figure, bending under a gigantic bundle of sticks, strapped to his back by two cords which he held twisted in his fists in front of his body. |
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| 8 | 59 |
They were scarcely distinguishable from one another, an aggregate of grays and browns, so different from the thousand gay colors that gleamed in most cities, where each cylinder in towering splendor lodged its claim to be the bravest and most beautiful of all. |
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| 14 | 10 |
Like most members of my Caste, more than the monstrous tarns, those carnivorous hawklike giants of Gor, I dreaded such creatures as the tiny ost, that diminutive, venomous reptile, orange, scarcely more than a few inches in length, that might lurk at one's very sandal and then, without provocation o... |
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| 15 | 128 |
I could scarcely conjecture the hatred that seethed behind that placid golden mask. |
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| 18 | 5 |
The ore shafts are like narrow wells sunk in the stone and their platforms can scarcely accommodate a slave's sack of ore. |
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| 19 | 38 |
Armed only with ore and the picks that chip the ore from the walls we stormed into the quarters of Whip Slaves and guardsmen, who had scarcely time to seize their weapons. |
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| 21 | 264 |
Strange and cruel are the ways of Gor, I thought, where six small green stones, weighing perhaps scarcely two ounces, and a damaged helmet, could purchase a human being. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 38 |
The Older Tarl had guffawed in recounting this anecdote and was scarcely less pleased by its sequel. |
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| 6 | 142 |
Her voice was scarcely a whisper. |
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| 7 | 31 |
The second girl was tall, fragile and willowy, with slender ankles and large, hurt eyes; she had dark, curling hair that fell about her shoulders and stood out against the white of her garment; she may have been of High Caste; without speaking to her it would be hard to tell; even then it might be d... |
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| 11 | 121 |
Scarcely had they placed their weight on the disk when it began to smoothly and silently accelerate down the long ramp which led toward the bottom of the canyon. |
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| 13 | 40 |
Scarcely noticing us and clutching two scent-tapes in her hands the girl passed. |
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| 15 | 36 |
Scarcely were we inside when Misk touched a button I could not see several feet over my head and the door swung smoothly closed. |
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| 20 | 30 |
Neither of the Muls spoke further but they seemed plunged into a sadness that I found in its way touching, but yet I could scarcely refrain from smiling for they looked so precisely similar. |
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| 21 | 11 |
My eyes drifted upward and I froze for an instant and then, scarcely moving, touched Mul-Ba-Ta's arm. |
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| 25 | 135 |
She looked up and her eyes were wide and her words were scarcely a whisper. |
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| 26 | 142 |
She stood back against the rear of the case scarcely able to stand. |
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| 27 | 78 |
Its head was little larger than that of an ordinary Priest-King, or its thorax, but its trunk was conjoined to an abdomen which if swollen with eggs might have been scarcely smaller than a city bus. |
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| 27 | 188 |
I sensed a signal from the Mother, the first I had sensed, and it was scarcely detectable. |
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| 28 | 169 |
And a simple heat torch, as I had earlier learned, could scarcely mark the obdurate material. |
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| 29 | 95 |
Now, in the shattered rim of the plastic dome, scarcely protected against the rushing wind, I fought to regain control of the craft. |
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| 31 | 119 |
I had scarcely thrust up the latch when a burst of fire from a silver tube scorched the door over my head. |
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| 31 | 129 |
To one side, though I scarcely noticed it at the time, I saw a vague, domelike golden shape, one of the Beetles which, undoubtedly confused and terrified, had crept into the room of the Power Plant from the tunnel outside, through the door I had opened for Misk and his Priest-Kings. |
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| 33 | 11 |
From where Vika and I stood together on the rocky trail, now scarcely able to keep our feet on the path, we could see vast crowds, robed in all the caste colors of Gor, clustered outside the remains of the palisade, looking fearfully within. |
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| 34 | 12 |
Vika, as I scarcely noted, stepped back when I had said this. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 134 |
"Ho!" I heard, and spun to see the black lance fall and scarcely had it moved but it was seized in the fist of the scarred Tuchuk warrior. |
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| 4 | 6 |
It seemed scarcely had he passed than the kaiila had wheeled and charged again, this time given free rein, that it might tear at me with its fangs. |
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| 4 | 10 |
Four times the point struck me drawing blood, but he did not have the weight of the leaping animal behind his thrust; he thrust at arm's length, the point scarcely reaching me. |
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| 4 | 52 |
To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up... |
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| 6 | 21 |
She scarcely could look about her. |
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| 6 | 68 |
The girl's eyes looked at me, she scarcely believing the words she had heard. |
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| 8 | 204 |
To my amazement Elizabeth Cardwell, too, seemed rather pleased with the whole thing, though for what reason I could scarcely understand. |
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| 8 | 322 |
It was scarcely ten beats and Conrad had bound the struggling, scratching Tuka, slung her about the pommel, raced back, kaiila squealing, and threw the girl, wrists tied to her ankles, to the turf inside the circle of the boskhide whip. |
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| 8 | 492 |
Her hands were out, trying instinctively to maintain her balance; the bola weights were still snapping about her ankles in tiny, angry circles; in an instant she would fall to the grass; racing past I seized her by the hair and threw her over the saddle; scarcely did she comprehend what was happenin... |
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| 9 | 84 |
Many people scarcely glanced at us, in spite of the fact that we were theoretically blood foes. |
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| 10 | 276 |
One by one, clad in the proud arrays of resplendent silks, each in the Robes of Concealment, the damsels of Turia, veiled and straight-standing, emerged from their palanquins, scarcely concealing their distaste for the noise and clamor about them. |
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| 10 | 552 |
I scarcely noticed the blow had been smartly parried. |
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| 10 | 566 |
For more than a minute, while I scarcely dared to breathe and there was silence all about save for the ring of steel, I watched Kamchak stand there, heavy in his boots, his head seeming almost to sit on his shoulders, his body hardly moving save for the swiftness of a wrist and the turn of a hand. |
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| 10 | 567 |
Kamras, exhausted, scarcely able to lift his arm, staggered backward. |
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| 10 | 573 |
"Kill him!" But now, almost like a drunk man, Kamras was fighting for his life and the Tuchuk, like a bear, scarcely moving more than arm and wrist, followed him about, shuffling through the sand after him, touching him again and again with the blade. |
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| 12 | 394 |
Now, in the background, scarcely to be seen, was the figure of a warrior in scarlet cape. |
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| 15 | 100 |
He was eating a piece of bosk meat in the Tuchuk fashion, holding the meat in his left hand and between his teeth, and cutting pieces from it with a quiva scarcely a quarter inch from his lips, then chewing the severed bite and then again holding the meat in his hand and teeth and cutting again. |
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| 16 | 116 |
We had scarcely cleared the portal and set foot in the street when we heard a swift rustle of heavy wire and, startled, looking up, saw the steel net descend on us. |
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| 18 | 121 |
I now saw him leap to the wall and, scarcely looking about, run along and then leap to the swaying trunk of one of the flower trees and descend swiftly into the darkness of the gardens. |
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| 21 | 88 |
I lay there scarcely daring to breathe. |
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| 21 | 124 |
"I learned something of jewels," she said, "in the wagons of Albrecht and Kamchak—and there is scarcely a silver tarn disk's worth here". |
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| 21 | 323 |
He deftly removed the veil pins and she scarcely noticed, so terrified was she. |
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| 23 | 111 |
Scarcely had we cleared the ground before the wagons when the Paravaci bosk horns sounded again and another wave of kaiila and riders, lances set, raced towards us. |
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| 23 | 114 |
I estimated that there was scarcely a quarter of those living who had ridden with us to the defense of the herds and wagons. |
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| 24 | 215 |
"As it was," said Harold, "I scarcely beat you". |
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| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
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| 25 | 209 |
I noted she had scarcely sipped what she had been given. |
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| 25 | 801 |
Then she scarcely dared to move. |
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| 25 | 879 |
"This is scarcely the way to show respect for a lady," said the girl. |
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| 26 | 284 |
I was scarcely aware of the brief whimpering of the Paravaci as, twisting and turning on the rug, biting at it, holding his arm, his flesh turning orange from ost venom, he writhed and died. |
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| 26 | 391 |
"It is said," remarked Kamchak, "that the sword of Ha-Keel is scarcely less swift and cunning than that of Pa-Kur, the Master of Assassins". |
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| 27 | 134 |
Whatever she might have been before, a clock number, a set of records in a personnel file, an unimportant employee, with her salary and benefits, under the obligation to please and impress other employees, scarcely more important than herself, she was now alive, and free in her emotions though her f... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 278 |
My fingers scarcely seeming mine, scarcely able to move, touched the knot. |
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| 2 | 65 |
Scarcely a quarter of an Ahn had passed and the men who drank in that room had forgotten, as is the way of men, that a dark one sat with them in that room, one who wore the black tunic of the Caste of Assassins, who silently drank with them. |
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| 2 | 116 |
At last, bleeding and scarcely able to whine, Hup curled himself into a small, trembling ball, his head between his legs, his hands holding his ankles. |
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| 2 | 187 |
It was argued that the citizens of Ar could scarcely remain strong and fearless unless accustomed to the sight of blood, of danger and death. |
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| 3 | 203 |
"Aii!" I cried, though the outburst was scarcely in keeping with the somber black I wore, and an instant later the Tarn Keeper and the Saddle Maker cried out, and began to stamp their feet in the dust, and pound their fists against their left shoulders. |
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| 4 | 137 |
"I scarcely supposed," said I, "that you would permit a White Silk Girl to go alone on the streets of Ar". |
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| 4 | 147 |
I was amused, for she had run as a slave girl is sometimes taught to run, with rapid short steps, her legs almost straight, her feet scarcely leaving the ground, back straight, head turned to the left, arms at her sides, palms out at a forty-five degree angle, more of a dancer's motion than a true r... |
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| 4 | 183 |
It bespeaks the barbarian, the promise of pleasures so wild and fierce a man of the cities could scarcely conceive of them". |
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| 5 | 468 |
I stared at her, scarcely believing my ears. |
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| 5 | 608 |
Then, whistling, Al-Ka would pull the wagon out of the grove and Elizabeth would be on her way to Thentis, for delivery to the House of Clark, only another slave girl, naked and chained, perhaps lovelier than most but yet scarcely to be noticed among the many others, each day, delivered to so large ... |
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| 5 | 728 |
"Ho-Tu, Master Keeper," came the response, muffled, scarcely audible, behind the heavy beams of the door. |
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| 6 | 7 |
He scarcely glanced up from the game board at which he sat across from Caprus, of the Caste of Scribes, Chief Accountant of the House. |
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| 8 | 112 |
I did so, too, scarcely believing my nose. |
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| 11 | 289 |
"Is what I say not true? Is it not true that the women of weaker, conquered men, if permitted to live, have been kept only as the slaves of the conquerors, permitted to live only that they may serve the pleasures of victorious masters?" "I teach classics and ancient history," said Virginia, scarcely... |
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| 12 | 209 |
I'm sure, in the pain of branding, they scarcely felt the pain which might be attendant on his massage, trying to restore some feeling and strength to their aching limbs. |
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| 12 | 293 |
"I scarcely think so," said Elizabeth, adding acidly, "Mistress". |
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| 13 | 85 |
The thought went through me, bubbling to the roar of water passing my ears, that tomorrow I would scarcely be able to move; each breath was a cruel explosion in my lungs. |
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| 13 | 297 |
Mip, scarcely seeming to touch the one-strap with his finger, almost a tap, took the old bird from the perch and in a whiplike flurry of its wings it struck the outside perch and stood there, its old head moving alertly, the wicked black eyes gleaming. |
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| 15 | 251 |
"I have scarcely ever seen anyone move so fast," commented Virginia. |
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| 15 | 329 |
Grace and beauty, following Sura, and I would scarcely dare dispute such an authority, is mostly a matter of expression, both that of the face and body. |
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| 16 | 9 |
The High Council, with scarcely a murmur, agreed to the investiture. |
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| 16 | 247 |
I scarcely noticed. |
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| 17 | 401 |
Then, to my horror, I saw Elizabeth, her back straight, her step determined, walk straight to Cernus and then, slowly, as his mouth flew open and he seemed scarcely to understand what was occurring, pour the rest of the contents of the vessel of Ka-la-na directly on his head. |
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| 19 | 178 |
The crowd was taken aback, for such a wench would scarcely be presented on the meanest block of the smallest market in the city. |
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| 19 | 186 |
The auctioneer, subtly, or apparently so, then administered the Slaver's caress to her, but she scarcely noted the touch. |
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| 19 | 188 |
The crowd hooted and screamed for her to be taken away, while she looked at them in puzzlement, like a bosk cow, scarcely comprehending or concerned. |
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| 20 | 114 |
This was done to the Hinrabian girl, who, stricken with horror, seemed scarcely able to move. |
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| 20 | 189 |
"But," said Cernus, smiling, "since you are scarcely likely to be as skilled as I, I feel that it is only just that you be represented by a champion, who can play for you and give you some opportunity for victory". |
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| 20 | 195 |
"Perhaps a slave who scarcely knows the moves of the pieces," I suggested, "might play for me—if such would not be too potent an adversary for you?" Cernus looked at me with surprise. |
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| 20 | 254 |
I thought it strange that that man should have been found with Hup, only a fool, Hup whose bulbous misshapen head reached scarcely to the belt of a true man, Hup of the bandy legs and swollen body, the broken, knobby hands, Hup the Fool. |
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| 20 | 537 |
"I have moved Ubar's Tarnsman to Ubara's Scribe Four! What will you do now?" Hup returned to the table and, scarcely glancing at the board, picked up a piece and dropped it on a square. |
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| 21 | 118 |
"This is scarcely the time to go to Tor and buy slaves," smiled Ho-Tu. |
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| 24 | 283 |
I touched it, and, trembling, scarcely breathing, carefully, began to untie the knot, counting each bend and turn, each delicate twist and motion of the cords. |
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| 24 | 416 |
I turned, the room seeming to swirl about me, black and startling, and, scarcely feeling the tiles beneath my feet, departed from the court of the Ubar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
I took the triangular-bladed tem-wood paddle and moved the small craft, light and narrow, large enough scarcely for one man, ahead. |
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| 3 | 252 |
It had seemed the words had scarcely been mine. |
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| 5 | 192 |
After a time I saw one girl leave the circle, her head back, hair flowing down her back, breathing deeply, and scarcely was she through the circles of rencers, but a young man followed her, joining her some yards beyond the circle. |
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| 9 | 348 |
She hurried from one to the other, and the musicians as well, scarcely serving one before being summoned to another. |
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| 10 | 227 |
It is scarcely worth the risk of crew and ship, unless desperate, to win a hold filled with lumber or stone. |
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| 10 | 265 |
Silently, oars scarcely touching the water, we had moved from Cos, leaving her behind in the moonlight. |
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| 11 | 41 |
Though many were wounded, though all could scarcely stand, they leaped to gather up chairs and hurl them into the doorway. |
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| 11 | 529 |
I was scarcely listening now. |
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| 11 | 567 |
"I am grateful for your nomination," said Samos, "but I scarcely think, in these troubled times, it behooves he who is senior captain of the council to leave the city, voyaging abroad in search of peace when war itself looms at home". |
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| 13 | 65 |
When she had regained her seat, I said, "Your extraordinary beauty, High Lady, which, forgive me, your veil but scarcely conceals, is indeed worthy of a Ubar of Cos—" Lurius grinned. |
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| 13 | 156 |
"As you may not know," I said, "Claudius and the various forces of Henrius Sevarius are scarcely in command of Port Kar". |
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| 13 | 223 |
He seemed asleep, and doubtless scarcely noticed us. |
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| 13 | 377 |
The beat was, even now, scarcely being made. |
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| 14 | 76 |
The slaves, eager for the capture of the vessel by one of my ships, could scarcely be expected to row with their full strength, and the masters, knowing full well the ship might be taken, feared, under the conditions obtaining, to seriously abuse or slay the chained oarsmen. |
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| 16 | 193 |
One scarcely advertises such matters. |
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| 17 | 19 |
I had scarcely set foot on the deck when I saw, near the mast well, the boy Fish. |
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| 17 | 132 |
As I watched, the long, strung-out line of round ships of Port Kar moved past, tacking, scarcely using their oars, their small, triangular storm sails beaten from the north. |
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| 17 | 314 |
The tarn can scarcely be taken from the sight of land. |
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| 18 | 427 |
At night I was not even chained, but locked in a tiny slave cage, in which I could scarcely move". |
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| 18 | 833 |
"The dungeon of the hall of captains scarcely seemed the place to discuss the business of Priest-Kings". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 122 |
Not looking down, terrified, I seized the rope of sheets and, scarcely breathing, sick to my stomach, hand over hand, began to lower myself. |
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| 3 | 108 |
My eyes stung, I could scarcely breathe. |
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| 6 | 118 |
The small, fat, short man, he, plump and paunchy in the robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, scarcely looked at me. |
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| 6 | 336 |
I scarcely recognized it. |
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| 6 | 367 |
I seemed scarcely able to stand. |
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| 8 | 732 |
It had been part of the performance, but scarcely one to our liking. |
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| 8 | 756 |
He sent me to fetch it for him and I had scarcely been able to work it free of the wood. |
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| 8 | 1032 |
I could scarcely speak, so thrilled I was. |
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| 9 | 401 |
The girls remained still for a long time, scarcely breathing. |
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| 9 | 468 |
I could scarcely stand. |
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| 10 | 101 |
I could scarcely move my fingers. |
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| 11 | 73 |
She could scarcely walk. |
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| 11 | 187 |
In his hand he held something which looked like a pair of pliers, except that the claws were extremely slender, and bent in such a way as to touch one another, at the tips scarcely more than a needle's width. |
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| 11 | 330 |
I had scarcely touched the stew in the wooden bowl. |
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| 11 | 690 |
In our misery we scarcely noticed that he had unbound our wrists. |
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| 11 | 1254 |
It is not really a mystery that the Gorean slave girl, who is trained, seems to anticipate her master's moods, and that he scarcely need ever speak of desire to her. |
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| 12 | 95 |
We looked at one another, scarcely able to restrain ourselves. |
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| 13 | 28 |
We had run for perhaps an Ahn, when, gasping, exhausted, scarcely able to move, we had reached the edge of a large Ka-la-na thicket. |
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| 13 | 274 |
But scarcely more than a Gorean Ihn had passed before Ute, suddenly, with a look of terror in her eyes, began to fling dirt on the fire. |
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| 13 | 724 |
I could scarcely move my wrists and ankles. |
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| 13 | 799 |
Such strategies, as well, however effective they might be for free women, who can withhold their favors, waiting for better offers, are scarcely effective for slaves, for they are subject, at the master's pleasure, to "bondage caresses," which no woman can resist. |
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| 14 | 92 |
Scarcely anything would enter into the ceremony save that I was female, and he was male, and that I would wear his collar. |
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| 15 | 157 |
Yet she treated me no differently than the other girls, scarcely recognizing me in my work tunic among the others. |
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| 15 | 199 |
I could scarcely believe that it was I, Elinor Brinton, who so protested. |
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| 15 | 244 |
They looked at her, scarcely comprehending. |
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| 15 | 807 |
And then, as she scarcely understood, hanging half conscious in the fires of her pain, she heard him say, "Cut her down". |
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| 15 | 809 |
Then, by the hair, she stumbling, scarcely able to stand, he dragged her to the small, square iron box which sat near the whipping pole, and thrust her within. |
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| 15 | 1263 |
I suddenly saw, scarcely comprehending, the awe in their eyes. |
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| 16 | 41 |
But he had scarcely seemed to notice me. |
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| 17 | 81 |
I scarcely dared whisper to myself what might be the nature of those emotions. |
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| 17 | 227 |
I could scarcely pour the paga into his cup. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 64 |
Her first hold is scarcely a yard in height. |
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| 2 | 117 |
The tarn head at the prow, slightly rocking, scarcely moving, surveyed the beach. |
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| 3 | 172 |
I now recalled clearly what had been only a vague flash of memory, the recollection of something seen so swiftly it had, before, scarcely been noticed. |
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| 3 | 366 |
It was as though she scarcely understood that it was she who was being bid upon. |
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| 5 | 74 |
But scarcely had she made five yards when a dock worker, who knew her, seized her by the arm. |
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| 6 | 298 |
She was scarcely fit consort for one of my position. |
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| 7 | 355 |
Such bands of girls scarcely ever number more than twenty. |
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| 9 | 26 |
I could scarcely feel my hands and feet. |
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| 10 | 98 |
"I hoped to see you once more, but scarcely as I found you". |
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| 11 | 403 |
* * * * Scarcely had Marlenus flung his Ubar's Tarnsman to Ubar's Builder's Seven when we heard the cry at the gate. |
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| 11 | 632 |
I had almost forgotten the game we had scarcely begun, before we had heard the cry at the gate, heralding Hura's return of an escaped slave girl. |
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| 11 | 733 |
I could scarcely conjecture the helplessness and violence of her responses to Marlenus, should he deign to touch her. |
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| 14 | 231 |
They stood, scarcely moving, but I could sense the movement of the drum in their blood. |
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| 14 | 254 |
I would scarcely have guessed at the primitive hungers evident in each movement of those barbaric, feline bodies. |
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| 16 | 269 |
"If any man of Tyros falls," he cried, "ten slaves will die!" Scarcely had his words been uttered when he, himself, fell, an arrow from the great bow lost in the yellow of his tunic. |
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| 18 | 234 |
She can scarcely breathe. |
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| 18 | 235 |
She can scarcely whisper, hoarsely, piteously, begging for mercy. |
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| 21 | 141 |
But scarcely had the peasant giant cried out than, from the darkness about the stockade, and toward the forest, we heard the surprised cries, and screams, of startled, unexpectedly caught females. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 341 |
The congregation tensed and, scarcely breathing, lifting their heads, intent, observed the High Initiate of Kassau. |
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| 6 | 307 |
"Your hall," said I to the Forkbeard, "is scarcely what I had expected". |
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| 9 | 137 |
She could then scarcely breathe. |
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| 9 | 423 |
My left hand held her left arm; with my right hand I forced her right wrist behind her back; I thrust it up; she cried out, suddenly, with misery; I threw her to the furs; scarcely had she struck them, crying out, belly down, than I had clasped the fetter of black iron about her ankle; chained, she ... |
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| 10 | 100 |
Southern girls, incidentally, in my opinion, though scarcely as worked as their northern sisters in bondage, a function of the economic distinction between the farm and city, are often worked, and worked hard, particularly if they have not pleased their masters. |
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| 11 | 278 |
Scarcely had he swallowed it than he howled with nausea, and cast it up. |
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| 13 | 278 |
He could scarcely speak. |
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| 14 | 265 |
Below, covered with sparks, scarcely visible in the smoke, I saw Kurii looking up, cheated of their prey. |
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| 17 | 22 |
At Bjarni's shoulder, too, stood the young man, scarcely more than a boy, whom he had in that duel intended to fight. |
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| 18 | 90 |
I scarcely glanced at them. |
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| 20 | 122 |
Scarcely had it seen the flash of Tuchuk steel, the saddle knife, its blade balanced, nine inches in length, which had slipped from my sleeve, turned, and, hurled, struck him. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 199 |
She scarcely understands, now, the meaning of her collar". |
10 |
| 1 | 840 |
Now that her dance was finished she could scarcely move. |
10 |
| 2 | 117 |
An advantage of this municipal organization, of course, though it is scarcely a matter of intentional design, is that the water is in the most protected portion of the city, its center. |
10 |
| 11 | 17 |
We had scarcely moved, save to pass about a verrskin of water and a leather pouch of Sa-Tarna meal. |
10 |
| 11 | 82 |
During the day one can scarcely look upon it, for the heats and reflections. |
10 |
| 11 | 666 |
"Yet," said Hassan, "this seems scarcely a time propitious for the braceleting of wenches". |
10 |
| 12 | 428 |
She rose from the bed, scarcely able to stand, bent over, so much was her need upon her. |
10 |
| 13 | 22 |
Scarcely had Hassan and I, clad in the garments of guards, astride kaiila taken from the stables of Tarna's kasbah, emerged from the fortress's gate than, on the path to Red Rock, clouds of riders had swept before us. |
10 |
| 14 | 550 |
I could scarcely move. |
10 |
| 14 | 551 |
I could scarcely stand. |
10 |
| 17 | 166 |
It scarcely moved in the water. |
10 |
| 20 | 24 |
"We have scarcely the strength to carry the water". |
10 |
| 21 | 513 |
Scarcely had I fallen into the lock than I heard, loud, over me, the concussions of the weapon, firing five times; almost simultaneously the Kur leaped from somewhere within, from a nest of piping, and scrambled past me; its foot pressed on my shoulder; it peered out into the storm; it spied the bod... |
10 |
| 23 | 138 |
It would scarcely do for the Tajuks and the Zevar and Arani to begin fighting among themselves. |
10 |
| 24 | 355 |
She nodded, miserably, scarcely daring to move her head, for the blade at her throat. |
10 |
| 24 | 861 |
Sometimes it seems to me I can scarcely speak or breathe, I am so frightened. |
10 |
| 25 | 238 |
She could scarcely lift her arm. |
10 |
| 26 | 706 |
So I divided the whipping into a more strictly punishment portion, which was scarcely more than a token considering her laxities and offenses, and Klima, and an instructional portion, which would seem rather routine and perfunctory, and in its way, considering our relationship, profoundly unsettling... |
10 |
| 26 | 774 |
Surely it was scarcely commensurate with her lapses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 245 |
"You never knew you would meet a man who would satisfy your deepest needs," he said, "the hidden, profound, scarcely understood, secret needs which you yourself scarcely recognized". |
10 |
| 1 | 127 |
In this atmosphere, my blood charged with oxygen, I found that I could detect odors which had eluded me before; it was as though an entire new dimension of experience had suddenly opened to me; yet I suppose it was only that here, in this place, my body did not have reason to fight its world, shutti... |
10 |
| 2 | 108 |
I knelt exactly as they had placed me, scarcely daring to breathe. |
10 |
| 2 | 163 |
I could scarcely see; I fought blackness and pain and seething light; I was on my hands and knees in the grass, my head down; I tasted blood; the collar hurt my neck; I spit blood into the grass; he had struck me; did he not know I was a woman! He jerked me by the collar and chain to his knees; he t... |
10 |
| 2 | 188 |
In the pain I could scarcely comprehend it. |
10 |
| 2 | 260 |
I could scarcely move. |
10 |
| 2 | 956 |
I was aware, though would scarcely admit it to myself, that my movements, as I stretched, and moved my hands upon my legs, were performed rather differently than they would have been had I been alone. |
10 |
| 2 | 1248 |
How confused, and shamed, I was at the immediacy, the naturalness, of my act of prostration before him, and yet, on another level, scarcely daring to admit this to myself, I knew that I had, too, perhaps inexplicably, unaccountably, felt enraptured. |
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| 3 | 25 |
Was I not in his power, so much so that perhaps I was even, in some sense, a sense I scarcely dared conjecture, "his"? Was I not physically attractive to him? Why had he not forced me to serve him as a woman? He kept me under his dominance, strictly, and then, when I obviously ached for his touch, h... |
10 |
| 3 | 153 |
There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I... |
10 |
| 3 | 330 |
In some two or three minutes she was again taken and, to my horror, was, with pleasure and ruthlessness, again subjected to the indignity of the caught female, her second captor handling her with an audacity and simple physical proprietorship scarcely inferior to that of the first. |
10 |
| 3 | 449 |
I scarcely dared conjecture the nature of a girl who wore such a mark on her body. |
10 |
| 3 | 484 |
I could scarcely move. |
10 |
| 4 | 180 |
Now I scarcely dared move in it. |
10 |
| 4 | 458 |
I could scarcely breathe without stirring the bells. |
10 |
| 4 | 648 |
He took it, scarcely noticing me, and returned his attention to the map in the dirt, which was of importance. |
10 |
| 5 | 10 |
The street veil, worn publicly, is extremely bulky, quite heavy and completely opaque; the lineaments of the nose and cheeks are scarcely discernible when it is worn; the house veil is worn indoors when there are those present who are not of the household, as in conversing with or entertaining assoc... |
10 |
| 5 | 61 |
"It would scarcely do to run her in the Ta-Teera," said one of his men, standing nearby. |
10 |
| 5 | 303 |
I scarcely dared to whisper, for fear of moving my throat beneath the knife. |
10 |
| 5 | 543 |
"A wrist thong scarcely comports with the dignity of a free woman," said the captain to me. |
10 |
| 6 | 48 |
As I turned, hurrying, suddenly, frightening me, I realized the Ta-Teera had scarcely concealed me. |
10 |
| 7 | 247 |
Lehna struck her savagely across the back with the switch, and the Lady Sabina, whose thin undergarment shielded her from the blow scarcely at all, cried out with misery. |
10 |
| 7 | 349 |
In the belly of me, though I would scarcely admit this to myself, I did not object. |
10 |
| 7 | 865 |
I scarcely dared breathe. |
10 |
| 9 | 240 |
Had I not been a "good little girl" of Earth, though they would scarcely, the manipulators and would-be controllers, have used those words? I thought so. |
10 |
| 9 | 1970 |
I could scarcely move. |
10 |
| 9 | 2458 |
One could scarcely see the trees and road. |
10 |
| 12 | 182 |
He scarcely flinched, though the blows were cruel. |
10 |
| 12 | 760 |
I could scarcely squirm. |
10 |
| 12 | 769 |
Scarcely could we move. |
10 |
| 14 | 6 |
She scarcely moved, swaying, ankles close, arms over her head, wrists back to back, palms turned out. |
10 |
| 14 | 378 |
I could scarcely defend myself. |
10 |
| 19 | 105 |
I could scarcely hear myself speak. |
10 |
| 20 | 493 |
Submissively, with the sound of bells, those on my collar and ankle ring, I rose lightly to my feet, turned, and, excited, scarcely daring to breathe, barefoot, as a slave girl, led the way toward the Chatka and Curla. |
10 |
| 20 | 567 |
He scarcely moved. |
10 |
| 21 | 1 |
A Convoy Departs from the Harbor of Telnus; I Appear on the Cargo Manifest of One of its Ships I scarcely noticed as my wrists were braceleted behind my back. |
10 |
| 26 | 386 |
"Scarcely the way to transport a free woman," she said. |
10 |
| 28 | 369 |
Her legs were well exposed to the inspection of masters, and the sweetness of her breasts was evident, it but scarcely concealed in the wafting of insinuative, tantalizing fluff. |
10 |
| 29 | 82 |
I tried to get up, but could scarcely stand. |
10 |
| 29 | 128 |
I could see he could scarcely restrain himself from seizing me. |
10 |
| 29 | 239 |
"But I scarcely am physically free". |
10 |
| 29 | 246 |
"You are a secret dream, which I scarcely dared dream, come true to me, Master," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 520 |
She and the last two girls would have been extremely similarly attired; they all wore, or had worn, the male-imitation uniform which I gathered must be popular among such girls, girls apparently striving to copy a masculinity which hormonally and anatomically would be forever denied to them; better ... |
10 |
| 3 | 607 |
But that she had displayed her body as she did, even if in compensation for her fears, which she would scarcely admit to herself, indicated the strength of the drives against which she fought. |
10 |
| 4 | 419 |
I could scarcely hear myself shouting. |
10 |
| 7 | 216 |
She could scarcely breathe. |
10 |
| 7 | 227 |
"I scarcely think you are magistrates investigating my business," said I. |
10 |
| 9 | 274 |
"I scarcely think," said my captor, "that those names would have been given to you by an Indian". |
10 |
| 11 | 286 |
Now she could scarcely move. |
10 |
| 12 | 485 |
I could scarcely hear her. |
10 |
| 15 | 97 |
Imnak, since he had acquired Poalu, had scarcely glanced at his two white-skinned slave beasts. |
10 |
| 15 | 734 |
Similarly a girl who is only average, generally, so to speak, may, at the very glance of a given master, one who is special to her for no reason that is clear, become so weak and paga hot that she can scarcely stand". |
10 |
| 15 | 788 |
"One might be exhibited and sold before one scarcely knew what was occurring," she said. |
10 |
| 26 | 354 |
We passed, literally, within feet of savage snow sleen, and scarcely did they notice us. |
10 |
| 34 | 134 |
It could scarcely control itself. |
10 |
| 34 | 146 |
Its breath was hot in my face, and I could scarcely see it for the vapors of our mingled breathings. |
10 |
| 35 | 508 |
"I had scarcely time to conceal my features". |
10 |
| 35 | 875 |
Scarcely had we left our original corridor than we heard a great slam of steel. |
10 |
| 35 | 965 |
We had scarcely attained the second level than we heard the cry, "Halt!" Drusus spun and fired a dart, swiftly, from the hip. |
10 |
| 37 | 77 |
"You speak scarcely like an Earth girl," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 326 |
In a bit of yellow slave silk, backed into a corner, belled and barefoot, a collared girl danced, swaying slowly before the five men who loomed about her, scarcely a yard away. |
10 |
| 2 | 277 |
She seemed scarcely conscious of what he was doing. |
10 |
| 5 | 287 |
Further, this deed was apparently performed with dispatch, a dispatch scarcely to be expected of one who was of the metal workers. |
10 |
| 7 | 4 |
It was thus appropriate, I suppose, that the blond-haired barbarian, ignorant and untrained, scarcely able to speak Gorean, little more than raw collar meat, should have been taken there. |
10 |
| 13 | 184 |
She rose to her feet and, scarcely able to move, numbly, went to the alcove. |
10 |
| 16 | 44 |
I supposed she could scarcely be blamed. |
10 |
| 18 | 257 |
"He is surely a big fellow," I said, "but I scarcely noticed him". |
10 |
| 24 | 46 |
We crouched down in the water, our heads scarcely above the surface, shielded by the raft. |
10 |
| 27 | 202 |
For the first time then they begin to have some sense of the profound and explosive meaning of their beauty, biologically, socially, sexually, and its striking desirability, its latent value, things scarcely considered before. |
10 |
| 31 | 116 |
She was silent for a moment and then she said, so softly that I could scarcely hear it, and again in English, "I, though a woman of Earth, admit that men are my masters. |
10 |
| 32 | 269 |
"They are scarcely clothed," I said, "and the bit of rag they wear may be stripped away from them in an instant on the least whim of a master". |
10 |
| 32 | 742 |
'The girl begs to please her master!' I could scarcely believe that I had uttered those words. |
10 |
| 34 | 67 |
Did she not realize that she had seen in Schendi, in those brief moments, the slave she had for so long concealed within herself, that she had seen then, frightened, scarcely daring to recognize her, her own self? What cruelties could men inflict upon women, I wondered, which could half compare with... |
10 |
| 34 | 577 |
I could scarcely hear her speak. |
10 |
| 34 | 675 |
Then, perhaps scarcely understanding what is occurring within her, she sees the girl in the mirror has begun to dance. |
10 |
| 37 | 13 |
"I love you!" But he continued to treat her unremittingly with the discipline and harshness commonly accorded a fresh capture, not with the authority and rough affection commonly given to a girl who is so enamored of her master that she can scarcely be beaten from his feet with whips. |
10 |
| 42 | 13 |
Not a geographer, I could scarcely conjecture the riches and resources which lay about me. |
10 |
| 43 | 143 |
They could scarcely lift their arms. |
10 |
| 47 | 41 |
Scarcely had he spoken but the skies opened up and, from the midst of the black, swirling clouds, while lightning cracked and shattered across the sky and branches lashed back and forth wildly in the wind, the driven, darkly silver sheets of a tropical rain storm descended upon us. |
10 |
| 49 | 94 |
Scarcely had we beached the canoe and dragged it into the brush than the first of the many canoes rounded the southern edge of the island. |
10 |
| 52 | 27 |
"A lovely slave gift," said Bila Huruma, "a lovely token of esteem and good will, but scarcely sufficient to consolidate a matter as weighty as a political alliance". |
10 |
| 53 | 364 |
Then it seemed Kurii were all about me, yet scarcely aware of me, intent rather on the men at the wall. |
10 |
| 54 | 153 |
"I had scarcely known such friendship could exist," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 41 |
Dreadful, dreadful! But how exciting, too, it was for me to hear the proud Miss Henderson, she to whom I would scarcely dare aspire, she of whom I would scarcely dare dream, address that word to a man! Indeed, to be perfectly honest, I was thrilled to hear that word, that beautiful, socially exquisi... |
10 |
| 1 | 121 |
We scarcely knew one another, and yet she had used my first name. |
10 |
| 1 | 133 |
"Before you scarcely passed the time of day with me". |
10 |
| 1 | 272 |
"That was scarcely professional of her," I smiled. |
10 |
| 1 | 325 |
Then again I tensed myself, scarcely daring to move. |
10 |
| 1 | 326 |
The thought of the lovely Miss Henderson as a helpless Gorean slave girl, at the mercy of a man, so aroused my passion that I could scarcely dare to breathe. |
10 |
| 1 | 442 |
I could scarcely believe what I was hearing. |
10 |
| 2 | 212 |
I could scarcely imagine the joy and power a man would feel, having such a woman at his feet. |
10 |
| 4 | 31 |
I could scarcely breathe. |
10 |
| 4 | 135 |
I could scarcely believe how beautiful, how desirable, was the female slave lying before me. |
10 |
| 4 | 268 |
He is then useful to ambitious women who, at another time, might scarcely have dared to speak to him". |
10 |
| 5 | 129 |
I could scarcely move my body. |
10 |
| 6 | 144 |
She was the sort of woman a man of Earth would scarcely have dared to let enter his dreams. |
10 |
| 7 | 196 |
I could scarcely comprehend the feelings I had, feeding the beauty by hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 118 |
I scarcely dared to conjecture what tragic fate might have befallen her on this rude world. |
10 |
| 10 | 93 |
I had scarcely heard the knock myself. |
10 |
| 11 | 143 |
Her breasts hung lovely, sweet and full, scarcely concealed, within the thin brown cloth. |
10 |
| 11 | 354 |
I scarcely knew her. |
10 |
| 11 | 383 |
"I scarcely dare to speak of it," she said. |
10 |
| 11 | 478 |
"I scarcely think I need a necktie," I smiled. |
10 |
| 12 | 398 |
"Strip! Kneel! Knees wide!" Startled, terrified, scarcely knowing what I was doing, I found myself kneeling before the buyers. |
10 |
| 13 | 469 |
I could scarcely believe my eyes. |
10 |
| 13 | 511 |
That, of course, scarcely seemed proper in the context. |
10 |
| 13 | 548 |
"It is scarcely the sort of thing a girl publicly discusses on Earth," she said. |
10 |
| 14 | 98 |
"Today," she said, "I saw slave girls, meaningless sluts in collars, with scarcely a rag to cover their nakedness. |
10 |
| 15 | 63 |
I could scarcely see. |
10 |
| 17 | 184 |
If they were free, I, though a free woman, could scarcely dare conjecture my fate!" Again I struggled, and was again held helplessly and perfectly in the steel. |
10 |
| 20 | 39 |
I could scarcely lift them. |
10 |
| 21 | 30 |
"One can scarcely make a move in the stables without knowing that the little she-sleen is going to report it to the Mistress". |
10 |
| 22 | 367 |
"To be sure," said the Lady Florence, "to dance a naked slave in mixed company seems scarcely to comport with the dignity of a refined house, but remember, too, I am a hostess, and we have men present, and we all know what beasts they are". |
10 |
| 23 | 77 |
"I am scarcely master any longer in the stables," grumbled Kenneth. |
10 |
| 24 | 123 |
It would be scarcely dignified. |
10 |
| 32 | 393 |
"I am a slave, a slave!" Then she shuddered and shook in my arms, and I could scarcely hold her, and then she was crying, and sobbing joyfully. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 29 |
I pretended that I was exhausted, dazed, scarcely able to stand. |
10 |
| 5 | 38 |
The second fellow, tearing off his tunic, rushed to the sand and then, scarcely hesitating, rushed upon me, fists pummeling. |
10 |
| 5 | 75 |
I had had similar experiences, even with free women, after the stable bouts, though they, of course, had been more discreet, though scarcely more so, than the muchly revealed, ragged, excited, clustering, barefoot, collared slaves. |
10 |
| 7 | 105 |
Then she extended her right arm that I might see the armlets, bracelets and rings which scarcely permitted her flesh to be seen. |
10 |
| 8 | 148 |
The fellow who stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a tarsk bit in her mouth, and she fled back to the counter where, under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit the coin into a copper bowl. |
10 |
| 9 | 141 |
I could scarcely breathe. |
10 |
| 10 | 4 |
I was scarcely conscious of my movements. |
10 |
| 10 | 31 |
I scarcely understood what she was saying. |
10 |
| 10 | 195 |
It was true, of course, but I would scarcely have expected Miss Henderson to have said so. |
10 |
| 10 | 256 |
"I see that you are scarcely likely to prove to be an economic asset," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 373 |
"I am not a licking and kissing pleasure girl, one who can scarcely control herself and fears the whip". |
10 |
| 11 | 199 |
I can scarcely be near them without catching my breath, without feeling slightly afraid and trembling". |
10 |
| 11 | 394 |
How then I envied the Gorean brutes, to whom such questions could scarcely arise. |
10 |
| 15 | 50 |
I could scarcely hear them, though I stood at the foot of the couch. |
10 |
| 18 | 36 |
That scarcely seems what one would expect from the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
10 |
| 19 | 48 |
He could scarcely stand. |
10 |
| 21 | 160 |
He scarcely notices me and seems not even to know I exist. |
10 |
| 23 | 66 |
If so, it is scarcely in Ragnar Voskjard's interest, or in ours, or in the interest of our friend here, to be recognized as the courier of the topaz. |
10 |
| 23 | 79 |
He had scarcely paid her attention in the dance. |
10 |
| 24 | 324 |
Though I could scarcely admit it to myself I knew, with wild, strange feelings, that I was glad that I, too, had been branded. |
10 |
| 24 | 363 |
How bold she was! I myself would not have dared to admit such a thing to another woman! What might she think of me? I had not even, scarcely, dared to admit to myself, or recall, that in the arms of the fifth man my body had clasped his, and my arms, and I had, in the darkness of the hood, a moaning... |
10 |
| 24 | 366 |
Now, though I could scarcely admit this to myself, I feared, and feared correctly, that the first fires of a slave's passion had been ignited within me. |
10 |
| 24 | 368 |
I could scarcely believe my ears. |
10 |
| 24 | 481 |
She was from Earth! But what if, even though she were from Earth, she were a true slave, as in accord with her own avowals? Could such a thing, she from Earth, be possible, even thinkable? I scarcely dared even consider this possibility, for then she, a slave, could be mine! I determined, cruelly, t... |
10 |
| 25 | 18 |
I recalled that once she had told me that there was only one man on all Gor to whom she would rather belong than myself, and that he did not even know, or scarcely knew, of her existence. |
10 |
| 25 | 24 |
Accordingly she could be to him little more than any other slave, only another girl, self-effacing, deferential, scarcely noticed, who served him in the establishment of her master, Tasdron of Victoria. |
10 |
| 25 | 240 |
"What do you think of her?" Peggy straightened her body, scarcely daring to breathe. |
10 |
| 29 | 211 |
We nosed toward the sea gate, our oars scarcely entering the water. |
10 |
| 30 | 289 |
On Earth I had scarcely dared to touch her hand. |
10 |
| 33 | 136 |
I could now scarcely see the Mira and the Talender, so thick was the fog. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 506 |
She will not meet the eyes of the free woman; she is scarcely likely to leave her knees or lift her head; her body is bent and seems smaller; she seems to wilt and tremble; she tries to draw down the hem of her tunic; she grasps the edges of her tunic and tries to draw them closed, to conceal better... |
10 |
| 8 | 33 |
From the inside, then, scarcely taking my eyes from her, I dropped the heavy bar into place, in its brackets, securing the door from the inside. |
10 |
| 10 | 135 |
One could scarcely conceive of what such women would be later at the feast when, stripped or clad in rags, or perhaps insulted with a bit of silk, perhaps tied about their left ankle, they must, in the full exposure of their slavery, present themselves before strong men. |
10 |
| 10 | 168 |
Scarcely were they fast when Callimachus, followed by myself, and others, leaped over the rail. |
10 |
| 15 | 67 |
Then, angry, miserable, I again hung helplessly on the blade, scarcely moved some inches upon it. |
10 |
| 16 | 107 |
I could scarcely feel my pain, or the burns of the ropes. |
10 |
| 16 | 249 |
Scarcely had we climbed to the deck than the pirate ship to starboard, shifting, grated laterally along the flagship. |
10 |
| 16 | 263 |
I had scarcely seen his blade move. |
10 |
| 16 | 286 |
Scarcely had I ascended the heavy planking than, approaching rapidly, bearing down on me, I saw a medium galley, thrusting itself between the flagship of Policrates and Spined Tharlarion, the flagship of Ragnar Voskjard. |
10 |
| 17 | 140 |
Yet was this not something, that bespoken in her scarcely audible words, the slave of her, her slaveness, that she was a slave, which I, on one level or another, had long sensed in the beauteous Miss Henderson, even on Earth. |
10 |
| 17 | 266 |
She, confused and fearful, as a consequence of that interview, it seemed, had begun to sense her femininity, had begun to sense that she had value of a sort, that she might be lusciously special in a way she scarcely dared to recognize, and feared to contemplate, that she might be such that men migh... |
10 |
| 17 | 532 |
She could scarcely move in my arms, so held she was. |
10 |
| 18 | 93 |
It is little wonder then that slaves, in a situation where their condition is scarcely unique, and in a supportive, appropriate cultural matrix, where they are free, without being subjected to envious, vicious, hysterical criticism, to be themselves, tend, once the right master is found, to be relie... |
10 |
| 18 | 173 |
Timidly, and as though she could scarcely believe what was occurring, the girl in the yellow pleasure silk approached the dais. |
10 |
| 19 | 4 |
The children that we passed in the streets, playing at marbles or stone toss, scarcely glanced up. |
10 |
| 19 | 920 |
She now finds herself helplessly a form of woman she has been taught to regard as less than human, as only a property, as no more than a vended animal, a form of woman she has been taught all her life, from her early girlhood on, to look down upon and despise, a form of woman scarcely worth her cont... |
10 |
| 20 | 44 |
One would scarcely know that they were slaves, save, of course, that they wore collars and danced their beauty for men. |
10 |
| 20 | 432 |
Considering its bitterness, however, if I had not been drinking such a tiny amount, and so slowly, scarcely wetting my lips, I, too, would surely have had recourse to the tasty, gentling additives with which it is almost invariably served. |
10 |
| 20 | 1486 |
"You scarcely seem refined," I said. |
10 |
| 20 | 1617 |
From the woman's point of view, of course, she finds herself at the mercy of men of assurance, power, and virility, of a sort of which she had scarcely dared hitherto to dream. |
10 |
| 20 | 2024 |
"You would scarcely greet me," I said. |
10 |
| 20 | 2025 |
"It seemed you would scarcely deign to recognize my existence". |
10 |
| 21 | 803 |
"And," she said, "I think I now understand, which I did not at the time, that there was another reason, a deeper reason, scarcely realized, if at all, for making myself up and dressing as I did for our meeting". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 161 |
She knew little more than the fact that she was being displayed before men, though for what reason and to what end, I conjectured, she scarcely dared speculate. |
10 |
| 8 | 802 |
Then she lay quietly, scarcely moving, beaten, frightened, on the block. |
10 |
| 10 | 16 |
Some of these territories, apparently, had scarcely been penetrated since the days of the first white explorers of the Barrens, men such as Boswell, Diaz, Bento, Hastings and Hogarthe. |
10 |
| 13 | 360 |
"I scarcely informed my family as to my decision or whereabouts. |
10 |
| 13 | 1131 |
"I can scarcely begin to cope with my feelings," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 1233 |
"It is scarcely a scanty rag". |
10 |
| 14 | 6 |
The men at the trading point scarcely paid them any attention. |
10 |
| 14 | 462 |
The fellow, however, scarcely cast a glance at them, but they shrank back, under even so cursory an examination, fearing to belong to a red master. |
10 |
| 14 | 802 |
Then, suddenly, scarcely before I understood what I was doing, I opened my arms to him, overcome suddenly by the stirrings of my womanhood. |
10 |
| 17 | 293 |
What did he want? What could he want? I could scarcely dare conjecture what he might wish to exact of me. |
10 |
| 18 | 144 |
He rolled to his side, scarcely able to move. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 87 |
I scarcely dared to conjecture what it might be like to be even closer, say, within a few hundred yards of them. |
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| 1 | 463 |
It seemed now he would scarcely show his face but to the men of the tribe, and, in particular, to his brothers of the Sleen Soldiers. |
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| 2 | 76 |
Indeed, most speak it well in a matter of weeks, or two to three months at most, and many with scarcely the trace of an accent. |
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| 21 | 6 |
We could scarcely see for dust. |
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| 22 | 155 |
She was shuddering, and could scarcely utter articulate sounds. |
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| 23 | 85 |
Too, if other Yellow Knives should approach the area it scarcely seemed appropriate to have it lying about. |
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| 26 | 37 |
Some men have bled to death from wounds of which they, in the heat of battle, in the excitement and press of combat, were scarcely aware. |
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| 28 | 230 |
Scarcely a dozen arrows had fallen amongst us. |
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| 34 | 376 |
I scarcely glanced into the shallow valley, at the trees along the stream, the lodges hidden among the trees. |
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| 35 | 219 |
But my fingers could scarcely close on the beaded hilt. |
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| 37 | 443 |
Fearfully, scarcely able to move, she crawled out of the pit. |
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| 44 | 441 |
I think she scarcely understood that it could be Cuwignaka. |
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| 44 | 537 |
The warrior, looking upward, scarcely noticed Bloketu. |
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| 44 | 582 |
The barricades, too, to men on foot, though they would surely constitute impediments to their advance, would scarcely constitute insuperable obstacles. |
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| 44 | 882 |
"When, then, am I to be judged?" she asked, lightly, as though scarcely interested. |
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| 47 | 463 |
She could do little more than squirm in her bonds, and scarcely that. |
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| 47 | 514 |
Iwoso could scarcely move in the ropes. |
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| 50 | 7 |
It seemed they could scarcely stand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 277 |
Rather he was looking at me as though he could scarcely believe what he was seeing, as though I might be someone else, someone he perhaps knew from somewhere, someone he would not have expected to have found in such a place. |
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| 2 | 227 |
I conjectured that I, with my strength, would scarcely be able to move it about. |
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| 2 | 477 |
I could scarcely squirm. |
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| 3 | 223 |
For an instant I was so thrilled, so shaken with the significance of this, that I could scarcely stand. |
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| 3 | 258 |
I could scarcely conjecture what that might feel like laid to my body. |
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| 3 | 825 |
As he had left the room, though he had scarcely noticed her, Susan had knelt, with her head to the tiles. |
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| 4 | 89 |
I could scarcely breathe. |
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| 4 | 633 |
From Earth, I could scarcely believe the men of this world, in their power and naturalness. |
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| 6 | 378 |
I would sometimes lie there miserably, twisting and turning, almost sobbing, afflicted with helpless feelings and strange, troubling emotions that I could scarcely begin to understand. |
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| 6 | 391 |
As they thrust at one another and fended blows, moving with great speed and skill, in their swift passages, under the watchful eye of the referee, backed by two independent scorers, I could scarcely conjecture what would be involved in actual swordplay, with steel unencumbered with sheaths. |
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| 6 | 480 |
I got up and, almost as though in a trance, scarcely understanding what I was doing, went to the slave ring, that at the foot of the couch. |
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| 6 | 735 |
I could scarcely conjecture the effectiveness of the security that might be practiced within them, how helplessly the slaves might be confined. |
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| 7 | 85 |
How easily, I thought, might such a garment be thrust up, to my waist, over my hips! How vulnerable would be slaves to the attentions of masters! How might such women feel? I considered on the whole how I was clothed, or scarcely clothed. |
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| 8 | 4 |
I was scarcely aware of my surroundings, of where I was or what I was doing, or even of my feet touching the ground. |
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| 8 | 216 |
"Now more slowly, now scarcely moving, now use your thighs, and breasts more, moving all about it, holding it. |
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| 8 | 532 |
Emotions raged within me, furies and resentments lingering from my Earth conditionings, residues of masculine values which I had been encouraged to espouse and exemplify, and, released on Gor, welling up from deeply within me, from what sources I could scarcely dare conjecture, alarming me, disconce... |
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| 8 | 564 |
I scarcely dared think it, let alone speak it. |
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| 8 | 606 |
Scarcely never before, I think, had I been so in touch with my femaleness. |
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| 9 | 260 |
I had seen him privately scarcely at all since the house of Kliomenes and the inn of Lysias. |
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| 23 | 147 |
I could scarcely understand what I had done. |
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| 25 | 40 |
Yet he scarcely seemed to notice her. |
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| 26 | 55 |
If a free woman is present, for example, one is scarcely likely to tear the silk from a laughing, squealing slave and rape her on the table. |
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| 26 | 119 |
Our bodies could scarcely feel the lightness of the slave silk on them. |
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| 26 | 123 |
The alternative, of course, is so dreadful I scarcely dare mention it. |
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| 26 | 345 |
"But that is scarcely fair, Aemilianus," said a man. |
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| 29 | 271 |
I scarcely dared move. |
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| 30 | 397 |
"Hurry!" Shaking, scarcely able to stand, I followed Claudia, and Crystal and Tupa, into the yard. |
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| 32 | 185 |
Ligurious was truly a master; he had proved this with other women; similarly, in most circumstances, had he so much as snapped his fingers at me, I would have thrown my legs apart for him; this was not the modality though, for whatever reason, in which he related to this other woman; he seemed to se... |
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| 33 | 78 |
He scarcely bothered to note the opening of the sack, and the drawing forth of its helpless, gagged, bound, stripped occupant. |
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| 33 | 83 |
He pointed at the kneeling figure, dramatically, but scarcely looking at her, directing his attention more to the audience. |
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| 33 | 86 |
"Do not attempt to deny it, Sheila," said he, scarcely noting her. |
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| 35 | 62 |
On the other hand, did she not know that now I could scarcely bear to face him, that I, only Ehn ago, had been proven before him to be a natural slave! "You are not a free woman," whispered Susan. |
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| 36 | 153 |
I had then preceded him to his quarters, moving swiftly, but scarcely swiftly enough, it seemed, from the point of view of Drusus Rencius, striding fiercely behind me, like some impatient, grumbling larl. |
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| 36 | 654 |
There is no doubt that numerous, lovely, scarcely clad slaves, in the streets and boulevards, in the plazas and parks, on the bridges and amongst the towers, perhaps hurrying on errands, perhaps casting shy glances over their shoulders at young men, perhaps visiting or shopping with their masters, a... |
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| 36 | 1141 |
He gave me scarcely a moment to recover. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 115 |
Samos nodded to the guards, scarcely moving his head. |
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| 2 | 590 |
"I scarcely ever read all the provisions of the licenses," said Boots. |
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| 6 | 483 |
"I can scarcely control myself!" "You must struggle to do so, sir," she said. |
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| 6 | 555 |
"Consider how you are standing," said Boots, "half turned away from me, half crouched down, and holding your legs as you are, and with your hands and arms placed as they are, such things seem scarcely fair to me. |
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| 7 | 354 |
Simply in a man's presence, he scarcely noticing her, she can become soft with desire, ready, heated and needful. |
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| 8 | 28 |
"There is scarcely a silver tarsk here," snarled the leader of the brigands. |
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| 8 | 238 |
The first fellow, scarcely taking his eyes off the other, glanced uneasily about. |
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| 10 | 346 |
The Lady Yanina was not a foolish, panic-stricken Earth girl, new to bondage, its possibility scarcely having earlier entered her ken, frenziedly, absurdly trying to remove fetters from her body, but a Gorean woman. |
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| 13 | 174 |
The three sleen in the pit, snarling, tails lashing, their hunched shoulders scarcely a foot from the ground moved in a menacing, savage, twisting, eager circle about the center of their interest. |
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| 13 | 198 |
It now seemed scarcely to notice them. |
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| 14 | 416 |
What had once been only a hint, a puzzling, intriguing thought which I had scarcely understood, had, in the thicket of circumstances, in the crisis of an instant, become a coercive modality of action, that path upon which one must boldly and irrevocably embark. |
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| 21 | 292 |
"It would scarcely discomfort a neurotic urt". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 387 |
It is so tantalizingly beautiful and diaphanous that it seems to make a woman almost more naked than naked, and yet in such a way, driving a man almost mad with passion, that he can scarcely control himself, that he can scarcely rest, or think, having seen her in such a way, until he can put his han... |
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| 1 | 83 |
In a few moments she had parted her robes, and slipped them, first the street robe, that stiff, ornate fabric, and then the house robe, scarcely less inflexible and forbidding, from her small, soft shoulders. |
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| 1 | 331 |
Certain things which are not only common knowledge to slaves but even a normal, familiar part of their lives seem to be scarcely suspected by free women. |
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| 1 | 332 |
These are the sorts of things about which free women, horrified and scandalized, scarcely believing them, sometimes whisper, fearfully, delightedly, among themselves. |
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| 4 | 58 |
The tiny baby, not minutes old, with tiny gasps and coughs, still startled and distressed with the sharp, frightful novelty of breathing air, never again to return to the shelter of its mother's body, lost in a chaos of sensation, its eyes not focused, unable scarcely to turn its head from side to s... |
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| 4 | 322 |
She could scarcely lift it, let alone wield it. |
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| 5 | 348 |
Tula, scarcely lifting her head, pressed her lips to the sandals of Boabissia, kissing them. |
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| 7 | 25 |
Scarcely had we been permitted to sleep. |
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| 9 | 43 |
They lay between sacks of grain, not moving, scarcely daring to breathe. |
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| 11 | 138 |
Scarcely had I sold them the poems than they all hastened away, covetous, lucky, greedy fellows, lest I change my mind. |
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| 11 | 157 |
Surely that, capable of pulverizing a fellow, crushing his bones and popping him like a grape, could scarcely be worse. |
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| 13 | 108 |
I supposed that its spillage, a short, clattering rain of goblets, would scarcely be noticed in such an accumulation. |
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| 15 | 441 |
When she awakens she will discover she can scarcely move a muscle. |
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| 15 | 729 |
"Such letters may have their weight with those of Ar but would scarcely seem designed to impress Cosians". |
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| 16 | 739 |
I gather that she, in the customary, unquestioning self-centeredness and vanity of her youth, seemingly so inevitable in the young, has given little concern to your feelings, to your reality as an independent woman and human being, that she has scarcely thought of you, or understood you, in these wa... |
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| 19 | 373 |
And certainly the mere reading of it could scarcely convey the impact of hearing it proclaimed in the living voice, and particularly in a voice such as Hurtha's. |
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| 20 | 99 |
Yes, I thought, it is all there, the habitats of culture, the intricate poetries of stone, the incredible places where, their heads among clouds, common bricks have been taught to speak and sing, the meanings uttered scarcely understood by those who walk amongst them; yes, it is all there, in them, ... |
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| 25 | 1329 |
I have permitted you, a man I scarcely know, to buy me ka-la-na. |
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| 26 | 861 |
"Free women scarcely speak of it, except in whispers," she said, shuddering. |
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| 27 | 95 |
"Please no! Not here! Not like this! I beg you! No! Oh, oh, Master! Master!" I could scarcely hold her then, squirming, bucking, on her knees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 1471 |
"He can scarcely stand, he can scarcely hold his sword," said Sempronius. |
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| 1 | 23 |
I had actually begun work on the second garment, some two months ago, but, in touching it to my body, for it was the sort of garment which touches the body directly, with no intervening investiture, I had suddenly, comprehending its meaning and nature, begun to shake with terror and, scarcely knowin... |
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| 1 | 30 |
It seemed I could scarcely get my breath. |
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| 3 | 1064 |
But I could scarcely move. |
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| 3 | 1071 |
But I scarcely heard him, or understood him. |
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| 5 | 137 |
Then they put her in a tiny cage, where she could not exercise, and could scarcely move, and, heavily, abundantly, every two hours, using the tube and ball, and the cruel plunger, using rich foods and creams, which she could not taste because of the tube, force-fed her. |
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| 6 | 151 |
Though I would scarcely admit this to myself, I was thrilled to be branded and collared. |
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| 6 | 272 |
As that sort of thing was going on, we had scarcely dared move. |
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| 8 | 208 |
After we had eaten this morning, though I, so excited, had scarcely touched food, we were knelt in a line, facing one of the small doors. |
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| 8 | 394 |
I gathered from some of their remarks, somewhat indelicate remarks, scarcely fit for the ears of an Earth woman, or one who had once been from Earth, that under true male attentions I might prove to be utterly helpless. |
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| 9 | 244 |
I listened to the fellow behind us, scarcely understanding him. |
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| 10 | 561 |
To the Gorean, the piercing of the woman's ear, with its analog of penetration, and the fixing in it of earrings, chosen by the master, ornamenting her for his pleasure, is an act of power and claimancy scarcely less significant than her branding and collaring. |
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| 10 | 679 |
Ah, greetings, Borko! How are you, old fellow!" I would have screamed and reared up, but I was thrust back, helpless, half strangled, scarcely able to utter a sound, to the step. |
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| 10 | 681 |
To my terror, then, pushing over my body, to thrust its great jaws and head, so large I could scarcely have put my arms about them, into the hands and arms of my master, was an incredible beast. |
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| 11 | 7 |
Sometimes, I had heard, before nights such as this, a girl is kept in close chains, sitting or lying, scarcely able to move. |
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| 11 | 18 |
In the sirik adjustments often prescribed for a girl before a night like this she can scarcely walk, the vertical chain's lower attachment point being drawn up between her ankles, which are then separated by as little as three or four inches, and her wrists, too, before her body, are even more close... |
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| 11 | 200 |
I had been secretly thrilled, of course, but had scarcely dared, even to myself, to think of it as "belly dance," or, as the French have it, "danse du ventre," a term popular with some, with some perhaps as a euphemism, and with others as a sensuous way of expressing the matter, one with the same ob... |
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| 11 | 880 |
I could scarcely imagine what it might be to be helpless in their arms, and at their power, as a slave. |
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| 11 | 1010 |
I turned crimson, my head down, kneeling there, scarcely able to believe what I had heard. |
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| 11 | 1362 |
He had made me begin to feel sensations, though doubtless I was now ready for them, which had alarmed me, sensations which spoke to me of female helplessnesses, and of female helplessnesses beyond them, and perhaps even beyond them, intriguing, fascinating helplessnesses, helplessnesses dimly sensed... |
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| 11 | 1543 |
But then he gripped my hips so I could scarcely move, and pulled me tight to him, and was eager, surgent and eruptive within me! Then he withdrew, with something like a snarl and a smacking of his lips. |
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| 14 | 251 |
To be sure, when they returned, bruised and shuddering, scarcely able to walk, to the slave quarters, they had little doubt as to their femaleness or the power of their master. |
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| 14 | 363 |
He had, it seems, sensed, or understood, this transitory, swiftly rejected consideration, probably from some fleeting expression, or movement of my body, one I had scarcely been aware of. |
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| 14 | 412 |
I think I understood, then, how it was that girls came back to the slave quarters scarcely able to move. |
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| 15 | 60 |
I did so, and felt a heavy, rolled-leather wadding thrust back, behind my teeth, over my tongue, so that I could scarcely move my tongue. |
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| 17 | 346 |
I myself could scarcely believe what I had heard. |
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| 26 | 227 |
But I would be scarcely less helpless if I were in a tiny slave cage, through the bars of which he might thrust with his sword, perhaps a hundred short, sharp times, or, similarly available to him, for whatever he might choose to do to me, chained with my belly to a tree, my ankles and wrists fasten... |
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| 27 | 43 |
I could scarcely see the bars, it was so dark. |
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| 27 | 48 |
Far then I was from the shy, introverted girl of the library, she who had scarcely dared to admit, even to herself, even in the concealments of her most secret heart, that in her belly lurked the dispositions and nature of a pleasure slave! But now, openly, and whether she willed it or not, she was ... |
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| 27 | 305 |
Whereas this might be so small that it was scarcely detectable by a human, it might be more than adequate for a different sort of animal, something like a tarsier, or cat, or lion, something with different, more efficient nocturnal adaptations. |
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| 29 | 118 |
Surprisingly, however, and scarcely to be expected in such a stern polity, the city itself is ruled by a Tatrix. |
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| 29 | 392 |
One of the leader's two men had scarcely bent to unknot the bonds on Tupita's crossed ankles when he stopped, given pause by this utterance. |
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| 29 | 620 |
It seemed he could scarcely hold his sword. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1277 |
But then she is put through ecstasies that obliterate in storms of passion all but his conquest of her, ecstasies in which she can scarcely think and can do little but cry out and feel, turbulences impossible to the free woman, scarcely endurable raptures that enforce upon her the understanding that... |
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