| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 198 |
There was a loud noise, but I now think it must have been the sound of my own voice, a sudden frightened shriek for which I shall always bear the shame. |
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| 2 | 78 |
I wept, and he did, too, without shame. |
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| 4 | 125 |
I shook the thought from my aching head, made an unsuccessful effort to muster a decent sense of shame, failed, and was belting my tunic when the Older Tarl entered the room. |
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| 6 | 226 |
When she had spoken, her voice had burned with shame, and I sensed the humiliation she felt at having failed to save the Home Stone. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 96 |
"Do not shame yourself". |
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| 5 | 113 |
He had told me to throw myself upon it, to avoid my shame, to frustrate for once the will of the mighty Priest-Kings of Gor. |
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| 5 | 116 |
Nor shall I grovel to the Priest-Kings nor live the life of shame they have allotted to me". |
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| 12 | 30 |
"Yes," she said with shame. |
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| 14 | 179 |
But I knew even as I cried out that I was not free, and I burned with shame that I had so bespoke myself, for how could I be free when others in that gray city were bound? There was the girl, warm-eyed Linna, who had been kind to me, whose auburn hair was knotted with coarse string, who wore the gra... |
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| 21 | 82 |
They would not comprehend her feelings, her humiliation, her shame, her terror. |
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| 21 | 96 |
In many girls I would suppose the brand has little effect besides contributing to their shame, their misery and humiliation. |
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| 22 | 118 |
She laughed, and her face burned with shame. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 77 |
It would be, in a way, a shame to destroy them, for they were rather beautiful. |
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| 22 | 104 |
He extended his antennae toward the two Muls but they withdrew in shame. |
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| 26 | 19 |
She blushed with shame and hung her head, her hands before her face, and sank to her knees weeping softly, her body shaken with sobs. |
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| 33 | 124 |
And then with shame I realized how nearly I myself had come to betraying my fellow creatures. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 334 |
Their leader, to her surprise, seeing Kamchak, fell in shame to her knees before him, much to the fury of the Feast Steward; the others did so as well. |
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| 9 | 432 |
"Have you no shame?" The girl attempted to rearrange the folds of the veil, but could only hold it before her face, for Kamchak had ripped away the pins by which it was customarily fastened. |
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| 10 | 147 |
I saw Miss Cardwell's eyes close and her shoulders shake with shame. |
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| 10 | 473 |
Let him live in his shame, for so much the richer will be your vengeance". |
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| 10 | 525 |
"It is enough for him to shame you. |
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| 10 | 531 |
"No," said Kamchak, and his eyes were like steel, "better death than shame". |
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| 11 | 22 |
Aphris blushed from head to toe, enfolded transparent in the crimson flag of her shame. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 29 |
At the minor blocks in the small houses, or even the minor blocks in the Curulean, sales are conducted with a swiftness and dispatch that gives the girl little time to interest and impress buyers, with the result that even a very fine girl, to her indignation and shame, may be sold for only an avera... |
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| 15 | 216 |
During the next weeks and months the lessons of Flaminius were never again touched upon, except occasionally, for her amusement, by Sura, who would suddenly cry to one of the girls, at the same time brandishing the slave goad, such a query as "What do you want more than anything?" to which the girl,... |
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| 16 | 34 |
On the first day of En'Kara much of the old year had been forgotten, but there were three who could not forget it; Portus, who lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder; Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, now free, but who had endured the shame of slavery, and would perhaps never again permit hersel... |
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| 20 | 349 |
"Further, let no word of this shame be spoken outside this house". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |
I myself, perhaps because I had been raised not on Gor, but on Earth, did not, fortunately in my opinion, suffer from these inhibiting prepossessions; I could use the long bow with, so to speak, no tincture of shame, no confusion of conscience, without the least injury to my self-esteem; I knew the ... |
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| 3 | 235 |
"I say," said the blondish girl, "let us rather shame him and Port Kar as well. |
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| 3 | 267 |
I lowered my head, burning with shame. |
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| 3 | 310 |
I burned with shame. |
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| 3 | 356 |
My shoulders and head fell forward and, bound, I shook with shame. |
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| 4 | 29 |
Indeed, she used it to torment and shame me, using it, like blows and abuse, to increase my miseries. |
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| 4 | 115 |
I turned again to the rence, trembling with fury, with shame, and again, stem by stem, began to cut. |
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| 5 | 90 |
I looked away, burning with shame. |
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| 14 | 414 |
I saw that even the thought of that acquiescence to my command shook her to the core, but that she hoped, doubtless, by even the suggestion that she, so refined and high-born, might consider such an extraordinary concession, to shame me into a withdrawal of my command, and to purchase therewith dign... |
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| 14 | 434 |
She shuddered, and, humiliated, wept with rage and shame. |
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| 15 | 535 |
Enraged, red with shame, her fists clenched, in the brief garment of the Kettle Slave, the Lady Vivina stood before us. |
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| 18 | 937 |
"When you lost your images of yourselves, and learned your humanity, in your diverse ways, and shame, you abandoned your myths, your songs, and would accept only the meat of animals, as though one so lofty as yourself must be either Priest-King or beast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 143 |
"Please, no, Master!" And in her shame, writhing to his least touch, the once selfish, self-centered, haughty, spoiled Elinor Brinton, again conquered, found her joy, and glory, and then she again accepted herself as what she was, a slave girl, and in this acceptance, she lost all shame, and yielded... |
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| 9 | 68 |
I recalled with shame how I had, near the fire, placing my guard's hand in my binding fiber, encouraged my own ravishment as a slave girl, and how I had knelt, my hair falling about his face, to kiss him. |
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| 12 | 589 |
How I flushed scarlet with shame, and tugged to free myself. |
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| 13 | 140 |
"How could I go back and shame them? Should I present myself to them, as their daughter, with pierced ears?" she cried. |
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| 15 | 523 |
Humiliation and shame shone in the eyes of the dancing slave girl. |
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| 15 | 978 |
Gradually, in me, there built up a compensating hatred to counter my shame, and the brands that proclaimed me among the most unworthy and miserable of slaves. |
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| 15 | 1060 |
I put down my head in shame, by myself so bespoken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 135 |
Even the shame of Talena would not shame him, for he had cut her off from him. |
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| 1 | 99 |
I recalled, angrily, with a burning shame, the delta of the Vosk, when I, though of the Warriors, once, on my knees, begged the ignominy of slavery to the freedom of honorable death. |
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| 2 | 145 |
Rim had not chosen to wear a cap, or headgear of any kind, even a helmet, to conceal his shame. |
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| 2 | 147 |
Rim, and I admired him for this, had not chosen to deny the shame that had been placed upon him. |
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| 2 | 338 |
His head, too, was shaved, in the shame badge. |
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| 9 | 161 |
In her shame she had been put outside his house. |
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| 9 | 165 |
She was now, in her shame, alone, completely. |
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| 12 | 137 |
Noble, great Ubar! And who would remember Talena, and her shame, after Marlenus, astride a mighty tharlarion, would have his triumph in the streets of Ar, panther girls in tiny cages slung on poles carried by huntsmen, and, walking beside his beast, naked and chained to his stirrup, their former lea... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 180 |
Guilt is almost unknown in Gorean morality, though shame and anger are not. |
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| 1 | 447 |
I knew that Marlenus would keep her sequestered in the central cylinder, that her shame not reflect upon his glory. |
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| 10 | 401 |
"Kirtle their shame," she said. |
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| 10 | 403 |
"Kirtle your shame!" cried the Forkbeard. |
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| 10 | 490 |
"It would seem a shame," said I, "to interfere with his pleasure". |
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| 13 | 224 |
"You are a guest," I told him, "it would not be seemly for you, by your talents, to shame the entertainers, and thereby perhaps reflect upon the honor of your host, who doubtless has provided the best he can". |
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| 13 | 350 |
"Shame be upon you, you beasts!" she cried. |
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| 16 | 164 |
I would not shame him. |
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| 21 | 50 |
She is forced, to her shame, to do what she has, for years in the secret heart of her, yearned to do. |
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| 21 | 185 |
Swiftly did I inform my Ubar of the shame that Sullius Maximus had wrought upon the Ubarate. |
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| 21 | 199 |
"On the tenth day, on his arms and legs, and twice, transversely, across his right cheekbone, that his face be scarred and his shame known, I drew the poisoned blade, drawing blood with each stroke". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 572 |
What a waste, what a shame, not to take the full slave from a slave. |
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| 10 | 25 |
Only she now wore the name which she had borne as a free woman as a slave name, to shame her, given to her by her master, Hassan, the bandit. |
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| 26 | 316 |
There she lived, free but of no status; she was no longer recognized, in the sight of its Home Stone, as a citizen of Ar; she had not even the collar of a slave girl for her identity; she was kept sequestered by Marlenus in the central cylinder, that his shame not be publicly displayed upon the high... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 467 |
Had she faced me then, and I been unbound, I would have lowered my eyes and head, and, in shame, knelt before her. |
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| 3 | 702 |
Reddening with shame, I did so. |
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| 5 | 531 |
I closed my eyes, with shame. |
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| 9 | 231 |
What was I, truly? All the misery and shame of Earth suddenly swept through me! How unworthy, how contemptible, how despicable, how terrible I was! The negativistic conditioning of a world, of years of pathological conditioning, swept through me, that I might, as intended, be a stranger to myself, t... |
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| 11 | 416 |
"They shame me," I said. |
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| 11 | 426 |
I turned my head away, biting my lip in shame. |
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| 13 | 235 |
Tears sprang into my eyes; my body burned red with shame. |
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| 13 | 243 |
I walked, back and forth, turning, red with shame before the buyers. |
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| 13 | 446 |
He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,... |
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| 18 | 81 |
Even should she attain her own city, she will be kept there as a slave, for she is then a slave, or, more likely, she will be soon sold out of the city, after having been muchly lashed, that she bring no more shame upon it. |
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| 21 | 179 |
To an Earth girl, accustomed to the hypocrisy and weakness of the men of Earth, their shame, their inhibitions and pretenses, the Gorean male, in his honesty, his power, his lust, his manhood, is a hurricane of joy. |
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| 22 | 27 |
It would be torture to belong to her, not only from the shame of being forced to serve her perfectly, but because she would expect me to adopt her values and conform absolutely to them, values which involved her proud, determined independence of men, and her contempt of them. |
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| 26 | 8 |
In this way she sought to shame me. |
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| 29 | 232 |
Does that shame you?" "Not any more, Master," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 121 |
They will pity you for your shame and weakness. |
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| 1 | 452 |
She put her head to one side, in shame. |
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| 21 | 402 |
"How you shame me!" she wept. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 307 |
"That would have been a shame," said he, smiling. |
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| 48 | 263 |
Such girls usually are marched in a special position in the loot processions, behind and before banners which proclaim their shame. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 202 |
"Would you rather this be done on the platform of public shame in the great square of Vonda, where you might bring shame upon the Home Stone?" inquired the prefect. |
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| 2 | 53 |
Would I not hasten her to her feet, and strive to correct her behavior, attempting to educate her, to shame her, to improve her, into pseudomasculinity, or, better, jejune, androgynous postures and pretenses, or would I leave her on her knees, waiting, beautiful, and ready, where she belonged? Away ... |
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| 6 | 110 |
It was a great shame, I knew, for a female slave to even have to touch a male slave, let alone to perform such an act as to address him as Master. |
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| 7 | 9 |
I was still furious with the shame of it. |
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| 7 | 684 |
Shame she could understand, such things as the chagrin of a man who has failed in honor, but pathologically conditioned guilts, instilled neurotic anxieties, used as control devices to perpetuate sickened societies, were unfamiliar to her. |
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| 7 | 999 |
But if a woman should kneel before me and beg a collar would I not be terrified to enclose her lovely neck in its inflexible grasp? Would I not be afraid to own her, to assume the mighty responsibility of the mastery? Did I have the power, the strength, the courage, to be a master? Did I fear I woul... |
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| 8 | 22 |
Yet I think the tears were from frustration and misery, and from my shame, that I knew, in my heart, that I well deserved my beating, rather than from the mere pain of the harsh strokes. |
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| 9 | 71 |
"Shame!" said her companion. |
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| 12 | 506 |
I cried out with misery and shame. |
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| 13 | 676 |
I blushed in shame, that I had, though only for an instant, looked upon the girl as a slave. |
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| 13 | 784 |
It seemed a shame that he apparently kept her primarily as a display item. |
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| 16 | 310 |
"It seems a shame for a beautiful woman to waste her time with a silk slave," he said. |
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| 22 | 448 |
"Now I think that I shall truly shame you," she said. |
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| 22 | 450 |
"Now you shall dance," she said, "before a male slave!" "Oh, no, Mistress," begged Melpomene, "please, please do not so shame me!" The two women, the Lady Leta and the Lady Perimene, clapped their hands with pleasure. |
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| 25 | 180 |
"Do you think you can dare to put yourself so off balance with me? Do you think to shame me? Next time I will press my advantage with severity". |
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| 26 | 176 |
"You shame me in my own bed," she whispered. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 180 |
"Generally at first with chagrin and shame," she said, "then with helpless resignation, objective recognition and sober acceptance, and then with a liberating and unspeakable joy". |
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| 4 | 48 |
He did not wish to encounter the wrath of those of Ar, and he wished, doubtless, to conceal his chagrin and shame over the embarrassing termination of his business venture in the north. |
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| 4 | 132 |
Oneander had worn a mask, as had others in the loot camp, because of his fear of the anger of the men of Ar, concerning his trading venture with Lara, and, doubtless, because of his shame at his failure in that venture. |
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| 9 | 192 |
She was being sold! That which was of Earth in me told me I should properly cry out in shame and rage, and shed tears, as doubtless should a true modern male, that she, the innocent creature, should be so exhibited, so exposed, so humiliated. |
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| 13 | 111 |
You shame me". |
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| 30 | 284 |
"Aiii!" And I cried out with humiliation, and shame, and with rage, and pleasure and joy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 130 |
"Please, please, do not so demean me! Please do not so shame me!" "Are you a slave?" inquired her lovely keeper. |
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| 19 | 330 |
Some girls even fear to leave the house in their collars, fearing that on the streets, unveiled, scantily clad and collared, they might die of shame. |
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| 19 | 730 |
She cried out in shame, putting the side of her head down to the tiles, her fingers scratching at them. |
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| 20 | 608 |
How many have seen their legs? Has he, the brute, or he, the monster, or he, a mere, idle, casual appraiser of her limbs, or who? And not unoften, it seems, if only to conceal their shame, they begin, as it is said, "to court the collar". |
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| 20 | 609 |
Better than shame is to be joyfully shameless. |
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| 20 | 1478 |
Perhaps you have a headache?" "No, Master! No, Master! Feel me, feel me!" "Feel you?" "Yes, Master! I am ready to leap to your touch! Did you not see my response to the whip caress, when it was unexpectedly delivered, when I was sold in Victoria? I have slave reflexes, Master! I cannot help myself! ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 437 |
"And thus it is," said Pumpkin, "that your appearance can cause shame, and as it causes shame, it must be shameful". |
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| 1 | 1074 |
Thus will her shame before the other women be made clear. |
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| 8 | 519 |
No!" Then he released her, and she fell to her knees on the block, sobbing, crimson with shame. |
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| 14 | 189 |
Its primary value, and there is little other reason for permitting the slave to assume it, is to lead her to believe, and hope, that she may be accorded some tiny particle of dignity or respect, an illusion which then, to her shame and humiliation, may be totally shattered by the master. |
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| 17 | 395 |
"That is," said another, "until your shame has been covered". |
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| 17 | 396 |
"Shame?" asked the girl. |
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| 17 | 697 |
Even the marvelous beauties and profundities of human sexuality, I knew, incredibly enough, in some environments tended to trigger bizarre reactions of anxiety, embarrassment and shame. |
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| 19 | 473 |
Thus it did not seem that his disinclination to fight with me was motivated by any supposed indignity or shame in doing so. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 57 |
"Shame, shame," he moaned, rocking in the robe. |
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| 1 | 227 |
"You shame them. |
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| 2 | 359 |
"A shame of the Isbu," said Mahpiyasapa. |
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| 2 | 363 |
"You do us shame". |
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| 6 | 124 |
"I am a shame to my brother," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 6 | 141 |
"But I am a shame to the Isbu," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 7 | 110 |
It seemed a shame that Winyela was so miserable. |
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| 7 | 157 |
"Am I permitted to feel shame, humiliation?" she asked, angrily. |
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| 7 | 161 |
"Too, shame and humiliation, like chains and whips, can be useful disciplinary devices". |
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| 7 | 180 |
"Many times, in private beatings," I said, "such things as shame or humiliation will enter very little into the situation". |
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| 15 | 16 |
Such might shame or embarrass the recipient. |
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| 16 | 111 |
Rather than feel shame at experiencing them you should feel concern if you did not. |
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| 17 | 58 |
"It is shame for Canka. |
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| 17 | 59 |
It is shame for the All Comrades. |
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| 18 | 247 |
In his shame and sorrow Mahpiyasapa had not gone to the council. |
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| 18 | 264 |
Mahpiyasapa, in this time, in his shame and misery, could not bring himself to face his own people. |
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| 33 | 144 |
"You shame the Waniyanpi!" "I have not yet been given permission to rise," said Turnip. |
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| 40 | 722 |
Now perhaps I shall have you put out in shame, in the dishonor of a slave!" "You may do with me as you please," she said, softly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 118 |
"It is a shame," said the guard. |
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| 14 | 66 |
What if they were men of Corcyrus who wished to return me to the city, there to subject me to secret and horrifying tortures which might shame the agonies of an impaling spear on the walls of Argentum? I did not know whether to cry out or not. |
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| 18 | 72 |
"Do not so shame me," I said. |
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| 20 | 180 |
Too, if I were not a natural slave, was it not now time that he put me in a collar? I, a free woman, had been forced, to my humiliation and shame, to serve as though I might be a slave. |
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| 36 | 1174 |
"You shame me! You humiliate me!" "Yes," he said. |
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| 36 | 1188 |
I then, in the helplessness of my need, in shame and love, began to move. |
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| 36 | 1277 |
It is not limited, surely, to brief, ignorant, shameful, self-conscious couplings and gruntings in dark rooms, less to be esteemed because of the attendant vulgarity and shame than the honest couplings of heated, needful beasts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 695 |
Sometimes, in some cities, discovered, these fair pranksters are turned over to guardsmen, to be led in public shame bound and naked through the city, under explanatory placards, and then taken back to their homes. |
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| 6 | 103 |
It is usually interpreted by both sorts of girls, then, for a time, as a part of the "shame" of the collar. |
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| 6 | 110 |
Seldom now do they think, among themselves, of the "shame" of the collar. |
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| 7 | 361 |
What shall be our fate first, I wonder, to merely starve in simple dignity or to perish in shame from such humiliation?" "You are wrong about at least one thing, Boots," said Chino. |
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| 9 | 30 |
Perhaps, on the other hand, given his hatred, and the shame in which he seemed to live, he might not have found the cruelty of a brigand's knife that unwelcome. |
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| 16 | 992 |
"Do not think to suggest that I should dishonor my caste by stooping to shame this arrogant cripple. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 241 |
"Would you shame me?" she asked. |
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| 3 | 447 |
"I am Tula from your village," she wept, "she who was too good for you, she who refused your suit!" "You shame the village!" he cried. |
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| 3 | 461 |
As a male of her village it was his duty to discipline her for what shame she had brought on the village. |
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| 15 | 104 |
"Do not shame me by keeping me free," she said. |
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| 16 | 148 |
"Shame!" scolded the girl. |
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| 16 | 500 |
"Do you not know that I am here, that I can see and hear? Do not shock me! Do not disgust me! Do not shame me! Am I to understand that my mother is so weak and contemptible, so low, so disgusting, so despicable? Resist him!" "I am not attractive," she said. |
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| 25 | 253 |
I have learned too much! Why deny me the mark, the collar? Why do you so shame me? Put me in a collar, that what I now know I am may be proclaimed to the world! I want to be sold! I want to find a master! I am ready to serve, and fully!" "Be silent," said the woman who held her chain. |
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| 25 | 344 |
This doubtless has something to do with the naturalness of the institution, for it is a civilized enhancement of a fundamental biological complementarity, and the tendency of the slave, categorically dominated and uncompromisingly possessed, as she longs to be, to fall in love with the master, and t... |
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| 25 | 1366 |
"I felt drawn to you," she said, and then she lowered her head, as though in shame, "—as a female to a male". |
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| 27 | 194 |
Shocked at being discovered, in consternation, in confusion and shame, they may pretend inadvertence or innocence, but one then has them kneel, and openly continue such ministrations. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 506 |
My body was crimson with shame. |
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| 11 | 1586 |
But I was then, too, to my transitory shame, until I recalled I was a slave, and such feelings were required of me, more than ready for the next man, and then, more eagerly than I perhaps now cared to recall, I "danced" for him. |
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| 11 | 1591 |
I had then sunk back in a paroxysm of humiliation and embarrassment on the furs, overcome with shame, from my grotesque anti-sexual Earth conditioning, in which female merit is regarded as being threatened or diminished by any sign of truly deep sexual needs, or any evidence of intense, genuine inte... |
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| 11 | 1594 |
I belonged to my master, all of me, my thoughts, my love, my body, everything I was and could be! I lay there for a moment moaning in shame. |
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| 11 | 1622 |
Putting aside occasional episodes of chagrin or shame, understandably contingent on my Earth conditioning, as I was faced with various indisputable evidences of my vitality and responsiveness, I had found myself subjected to an astonishing variety of mixed emotions and feelings. |
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| 19 | 5 |
I put down my head, as though in shame. |
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| 19 | 16 |
I turned half away from him, as though in confusion and shame. |
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| 27 | 149 |
Would they not simply take off her clothes and punish her, and then hand her over to a praetor, for her proper disposition? Too, what could such a pretense gain her but the closing of doors on the truth of her being? But even if these things were not true, as she feared they were, she did not wish t... |
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| 29 | 278 |
Sheila, the Tatrix, said to be as beautiful as she was proud and ruthless, had apparently escaped for a time but, later, had been caught in Ar, actually, and amusingly, and doubtless to her shame and humiliation, by a professional slave hunter. |
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| 33 | 135 |
I knew, too, that even high slaves are occasionally subjected to such imperious uses, which in their way are delicious, just as they might, to their shame, frustration and pleasure, find themselves occasionally clad in rags and put to disagreeable tasks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 414 |
Perhaps, now, to her shame, to her humiliation, before her sisters in custody, her revelatory, astonishing, compromising advance would be rejected. |
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| 5 | 583 |
Then, as though she might suddenly have understood what she was doing, she lowered herself as flat to the tiles as she could, trembling with fear and shame. |
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| 8 | 192 |
Perhaps, then, she had sobbed with shame. |
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| 15 | 487 |
"How such women shame women such as I, who are weak and needful, and loving," said Lady Claudia. |
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| 17 | 740 |
"It is shame that I should die before them," said Aemilianus. |
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| 24 | 677 |
Was Publia, who was first, thought most beautiful, and thus led the chain, or was it perhaps that Claudia's crime, treachery, the betrayal of a Home Stone, and such, was thought most heinous, and that this explained her position, perhaps that of greatest degradation and shame? "I am curious," I said... |
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| 16 | 101 |
"Do you pursue your course because you fear, otherwise, court-martial, or disgrace, or shame?" "No," he said. |
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| 19 | 1797 |
"That you are sexually responsive, and could become significantly so," I said, "is no cause for dismay, or embarrassment or shame. |
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| 36 | 56 |
Thus might my captor amuse and delight himself, and shame and reveal me, and people might look upon me and say, 'What a beautiful, exposed captive! Perhaps she was of high caste, and now look at her. |
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| 44 | 300 |
She suddenly burst into tears of shame. |
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| 47 | 113 |
In both of these plans I wished to encounter Octantius, in the first, by a bold ruse, if he did not have the gold with him, to convince him of the dubiousness of his receiving it, thereby hopefully at least buying time, and, in the second, if he had the gold with him, perhaps to lure or shame him in... |
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| 24 | 279 |
"What a shame!" "What is a shame?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 106 |
"The usual things, quotations from various officials, testimonials of fidelity to both Cos and Ar, declarations of chagrin and shame by various men of note concerning the crimes of Ar under Gnieus Lelius". |
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| 9 | 183 |
Rather than witness the shame of Ar I should have plunged a dagger into my own breast!" "No! No!" cried men. |
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| 13 | 172 |
Putatively this might be accomplished in virtue of extensive conditioning programs aimed at demasculinization, programs which, if successful, will lead the child to suspect and fear himself, to experience shame and guilt at the very promptings of his own body and nature. |
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| 15 | 64 |
"Probably as much so," I said, "as when she was kept there, sequestered in her shame by Marlenus". |
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| 18 | 370 |
"But I am a master of flexibility," said the fellow, "I have enormous range, from one horizon of the theater to another, I have a grasp of nuance that would shame the infinite shades of the spectrum, in all their variations in brilliance, saturation and hue!" "Truly?" asked Marcus. |
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| 18 | 376 |
"You are craftier than a battering ram," he said, "and your subtlety would put to shame that of most tharlarion of my acquaintance, but this young man is serious". |
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| 19 | 638 |
"I realized what had happened! I was caught! I had been discovered! I was trapped! I was within the toils of a net! I burned with shame, with embarrassment. |
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| 24 | 129 |
Nudity for the stripped free woman is often attended with misery and distress, embarrassment and shame. |
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| 25 | 30 |
Apparently but moments before it had been red with excitement, love and yielding, and had then, in the sudden surprise and shame of her discovery, flushed scarlet, blushing literally from head to toe, and then, almost instantly later, in the tumult, had begun in terror to drain of color, she suddenl... |
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| 25 | 233 |
The slave wept in shame, and jerked at the manacles in frustration. |
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| 28 | 69 |
Long ago, when she had been the slave of Rask of Treve, she had been, I gathered, treated as something rather special, kept less as a slave than as a free woman kept, for his amusement, in the shame of slave garb. |
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| 28 | 88 |
Yet how unfair was this to the perceptive young, piercing the propaganda, scorning the public boards, recognizing without being told what was being done to them and their city, smarting with shame, burning with indignation, recollective of Ar's glory, the young in whom flowed the blood of their fath... |
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| 7 | 1037 |
I feared that he might have made it quite clear, even flagrantly so, to my shame and terror, what had been going on. |
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| 7 | 1092 |
I had wept with misery and shame for hours afterward. |
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| 8 | 28 |
And I had learned, too, to my dismay, and shame, what men could do to me, and what I could become in their arms. |
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| 8 | 178 |
Who had dared to put me in this garment? Surely I had not done so! A sense of acute embarrassment, and then of fury, overcame me! What right had someone to do this, to take such liberties, to so garb me, in so little, so pathetically, and so revealingly, and publicly, to so dress me, to so demean, i... |
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| 8 | 1018 |
Not before him, of all, he who was so precious and special to me, he who figured in my most helplessly lascivious and submissive dreams, he whose whip I had first kissed on this rude, beautiful world! Why did he hate me so? Why did he make me do this? Why did he wish to so grievously shame and humil... |
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| 11 | 130 |
Sometimes in the midst of such presentations, in effect, the dance of a woman as a woman, as herself, her true self, so brazen, so forward, so honest, and yet, too, so pathetic, so vulnerable, so needful, and, above all, so totally and unutterably different from a man, I had abruptly wheeled away, w... |
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| 11 | 920 |
My entire body, I fear, was a rage of subsiding arousal, and scarlet shame. |
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| 11 | 1430 |
"It is a shame that one had to pay for her," said another. |
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| 12 | 440 |
Surely he had tried to conceal his identity, that the shame of my rejection, which he surely must have realized he might risk, not be too publicly broadcast. |
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| 13 | 929 |
In a slave sexual vitality, uncontrollable responsiveness, then, is not regarded as a source of embarrassment, scandal, or shame. |
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| 14 | 380 |
"Do you think I might," she asked, "be beautiful enough to be—to be a—a slave?" "Shame," cried I, "free woman," scandalized. |
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| 23 | 11 |
I had wished her to burn with shame and humiliation in them but she had loved them. |
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| 23 | 12 |
Now it was I who wore them! I, though I was an actual slave, doubtless because I recollected my own intent, felt the very shame and humiliation which I had intended for her, but which she, infuriatingly, had simply refused to feel. |
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| 29 | 139 |
In the time of our peril, of our shame, of our sacrifices, we did not, of course, forget the name of Constanzia of Besnit. |
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| 46 | 115 |
"I have been collared here, and made a slave here! Surely now I am of Gor! How could I be more of Gor, than as a Gorean slave girl, hoping like other Gorean slave girls to be found pleasing by her master?" "You do have a beautiful face," he said, "perhaps the most beautiful I have ever seen, and you... |
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| 1 | 10 |
Only they have known how to make me naked to myself, truly, and to them, sometimes to their amusement, and to my consternation and amazement, my shame, and my misery, as well. |
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| 7 | 178 |
Then, laughing, pursuing her, running behind her, taking turns, striking one calf and then the other, the other two joined in the sport, and she fled weeping before them, on burning feet, crying out in misery, in shame, frequently and muchly stung. |
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| 10 | 361 |
"Do not those of your ideology dare to use that sacred, holy, terrible word, that word for nature's last and fiercest arbiter, that maker and unmaker of states, that creator and destroyer of cultures, singing songs of armies, and blood and steel, that ultimate and terrifying tribunal, with all the m... |
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| 11 | 139 |
"Shame on you, Mirus," smiled the woman, "for not giving this pretty little thing clothing, for making her serve us naked". |
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| 11 | 292 |
To be sure, there had been an intense sting of humiliation as she understood what she was to do, and that she must obey unquestioningly, and that her helpless service and abject obedience would amuse and gratify her master, but, after her initial confusion, shame and blushings, and stumbling once, a... |
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| 16 | 465 |
She would be one of those women who scorn feeling and vitality in others, and would try to shame them for their resources of sensibility, for their emotional richness, and their treasures of health. |
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| 17 | 890 |
She looked after him, tears in her eyes, tears from wanting more water but knowing she must not ask for it, and tears of shame consequent on his simple proprietary slapping of her belly. |
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| 17 | 931 |
In moments Barzak had rearranged the chains, that they not be twisted, and Ellen, to her chagrin, and shame, found herself facing the wall, at the back of the shelf, her hands still chained well over her head. |
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| 17 | 1171 |
Within the darkness of the hood her features, and her entire exposed body, as well, suffused with shame, with humiliation. |
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| 22 | 457 |
Doubtless he had business here, but it did not seem that it would concern a lowly slave, one he had discarded for a pittance, after teaching her pain, shame, and the meaning of her collar. |
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| 25 | 593 |
The test in her case, of course, doubtless to her chagrin, shame and embarrassment, would have had a negative outcome. |
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| 25 | 670 |
The woman cried out in shame, in misery, in wonder. |
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| 25 | 673 |
She cried out, in protest, in shame, in relief, in gratitude, in joy. |
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| 25 | 694 |
Did they dare guess how many? Did they really think they could shame a true man, a virile, rational man, one who thinks for himself, into not keeping a slave, should he be so fortunate as to acquire one? After once having had a taste of the mastery? No. |
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| 27 | 1320 |
I wished not only to shame her, but to have her fail miserably. |
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| 27 | 1322 |
Thus she would be not only humiliated that she must dance as a slave, but, beyond that, an excruciating shame for a woman, that she would be humiliated that she had failed to please, that she had danced so badly. |
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| 27 | 1326 |
And so it had been his intention to inflict upon her what he supposed would be the most miserable of lives for a human female, and particularly for one such as she, a life of unutterable terror, misery, lamentation, humiliation, and shame, the life of a female slave. |
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| 27 | 1352 |
And yet, in all, how many masters, to the chagrin of free women, come to care for their lovely chattels! And what, thought Ellen, of all this talk of humiliation, shame, degradation, and such. |
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| 27 | 1354 |
Certainly free women often, in their envy and jealousy, do their best to discomfit a slave, to shame and humiliate her, to treat her as a worthless, degraded object, and so on. |
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| 27 | 1358 |
But, of course, thought Ellen, we can feel humiliation, shame, degradation, and such things! Are we not slaves? We must obey instantly, unquestioningly. |
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| 27 | 1362 |
They can see to it easily enough that we burn with shame. |
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| 27 | 1369 |
And sometimes in the midst of our humiliation, our shame, our fervent beggings, our welcomed and sought degradation, we have experiences forever beyond the ken of the free woman, the raptures of the mastered slave. |
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| 27 | 1374 |
Are they not special? Were they not, would men bid upon them and buy them with such eagerness? A new slave, of course, might feel, at least at the beginning, what free women would like them to feel all the time, embarrassment, burning shame, acute mortification, and such. |
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| 27 | 1404 |
The free woman, one supposes, will experience humiliation, shame, and such, and, in performing this simple, lovely act, may feel degraded, and so on. |
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| 27 | 1414 |
And so Mirus, in having had Ellen called to the ba-ta circle, had intended not only to shame her, having her dance as a slave, but had expected her to dance badly, thus shaming herself as a woman, as well, and had then intended, in consequence of her presumed inept, blundering debacle, that she woul... |
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| 27 | 1424 |
"It was my intention, after forcing her to undergo the indignity and shame of a public sale, to buy her back". |
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| 32 | 345 |
"Shame, shame, shame!" shrieked the Lady Bina, and leapt up, and would have struck the slave, but was prevented from doing so by Cabot who, himself leaping up, seized her wrists, held them, and by means of them returned her to her place, kneeling, to the side of Grendel. |
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| 1 | 1011 |
Let them flee from the auction house, in rage and shame, as she is taken from the block with a fine bid. |
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| 18 | 113 |
It seemed a shame to waste her as a Kur pet. |
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| 32 | 335 |
"Do not shame her," said Grendel. |
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| 32 | 341 |
"Do not shame her," said Grendel. |
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| 37 | 22 |
Indeed, in some of these camps, dangling bodies could be discerned, where some Kurii, perhaps anticipating the wrath of Lord Agamemnon, had hung themselves in shame. |
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| 43 | 154 |
They can humiliate and shame the slave, particularly a new slave, or stir her belly, exciting her with her vulnerability and the profound meaning of her condition. |
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| 44 | 202 |
"You would so shame me?" she said. |
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| 45 | 18 |
It is an ensign of your treachery and shame". |
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| 45 | 59 |
Such garments can be a terror or a joy, a shame or an excitement, a misery or an exquisite pleasure, to those females who have no choice but to wear them, and have learned to be grateful, for even so little. |
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| 45 | 61 |
But soon she puts such misery and shame behind her, realizing that it is now what she is, a slave. |
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| 56 | 263 |
He was one of the few surviving officers, as most, if they had not perished in the fray itself, their ships destroyed about them, melting and fragmenting in the silent fields of space, had hung themselves in shame, some aboard their returning vessels, others, having made worldfall, in the groves abo... |
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| 57 | 127 |
"It seems a shame to burn and tear such sweet flesh," said Cabot. |
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| 57 | 130 |
Surely you would not reduce her to the unutterable shame of bondage. |
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| 69 | 50 |
One can well imagine their shame, their consternation, to be, say, on the streets, where they might be seen by strangers, and, in particular, might fall beneath the contemptuous gaze of free women, their eyes flashing in disgust and fury over their veiling. |
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| 76 | 13 |
Interestingly, the slave collar, which might be thought a badge of shame, is often regarded, rather, by its wearer, and certainly by men, to the jealousy, hatred, and envy of free women, as an indisputable emblem of female desirability, a token or insignia of appeal and interest, of attractiveness a... |
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| 77 | 13 |
But Cabot was considering the delicacy, sensitivity, and beauty of her features, the clearness of her eyes, the sheen of her hair, still somewhat shorter than would be ideal for her marketing, and the sweet, tender, vulnerable femininity of her, to which she might not yet be fully reconciled, but wh... |
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| 79 | 547 |
"Conceive of it," said Cabot, "first, the daughter of a Ubar a slave! Is that not shameful enough?" "Master?" "Consider the shame to the Ubar!" he said. |
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| 80 | 365 |
Cabot thought it a shame that the Lady Bina was a free woman. |
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| 22 | 547 |
Shame! Shame! Get up! Get up! You make me sick! You are disgusting! Disgusting!" She put her head down to the dirt, crying. |
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| 1 | 189 |
And, after that, I do not know what fate they might have planned for me, perhaps a hideous death, perhaps a wandering life of exile, beggary, and shame. |
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| 3 | 749 |
Some masters try to shame their slaves for what they cannot help, indeed for responses for which the master himself may have been significantly responsible, particularly if they have known them as lofty, frigid free women, now, by their will, reduced to begging animals. |
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| 3 | 751 |
It does help the slave, of course, to see herself as a slave, in misery and shame, as she recalls her former contempt for such things in slaves. |
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| 5 | 553 |
What an insult, profound and grievous, was this to his blood, and to the throne of Ar! He thus disowned her as his daughter, and had had her sequestered in the Central Cylinder, that her shame might be concealed from the city and the world. |
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| 5 | 849 |
"'Do not so shame us!' they wept". |
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| 8 | 246 |
"You, Cabot," she snarled, "are responsible for much of this! You, too, will answer for my shame, my humiliation! I will inveigh with Lord Nishida to see to it that you, too, are punished. |
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| 10 | 215 |
Whereas a Gorean free woman, used to extensive robing and veiling, reduced to bondage, and tunicked, not only face-stripped, now forbidden veiling, but revealingly clad, might almost die of shame to be seen so displayed, a girl of Earth is far less likely to have the same emotional response to brief... |
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| 10 | 223 |
Are they not, then, secret slaves, slaves awaiting their masters? So Earth girls brought to Gor must largely learn the shame and degradation of the tunic, which, however, is not too difficult to grasp when, shortly, they see the contrast between their garmenture and that of the free woman, and under... |
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| 10 | 224 |
Then they may learn to weep in shame at their exposure. |
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| 11 | 25 |
The Gorean free woman, as I understand it, who often mates while gowned, commonly refuses to reveal her "slave belly" to her companion, because of the shame of it. |
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| 15 | 72 |
On Gor pierced ears are regarded by many as a mark of shame and degradation exceeding even the brand. |
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| 15 | 293 |
"Do not shame me! Do not so demean me! It is a slave name, fit only for a barbarian brought here for the markets! Men will see me as a low slave! They will see me as no more than switch meat!" "I am now going to name you," I said. |
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| 18 | 160 |
The Gorean free woman then does not think of her body as something to be hidden for reasons of shame but as something to be hidden for reasons of propriety. |
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| 18 | 307 |
Although his face was a careful study in composure, there was a tightness about the jaw, a rigidity, that bespoke a rage and shame he was too proud to display. |
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| 18 | 359 |
Perhaps one reason the Pani are not prone to making prisoners is that it is thought that the prisoner might be expected, if honorable, to end his own life, to erase his shame at having fallen into the hands of the enemy, and thus, if this is so, he might as well be spared this indignity by being gra... |
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| 18 | 417 |
That they should serve such a feast while still free is thought to shame them excellently, and to teach them that even the glorious free women of the defeated are worthy only to be the naked servitors, and later slaves, of the victorious. |
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| 20 | 149 |
But what if he should only look upon her with perception, and scorn, and laugh? What if he would feel no guilt, no shame, but would see her in triumph as she should be, a female at his feet, in her place in nature, in a collar? Cultures seldom conform to the needs and desires of human beings, but wi... |
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| 22 | 557 |
Let him belittle and shame her, humiliate and scorn her, if it pleases him. |
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| 23 | 118 |
The last thing a typical slave feels in her bondage is shame. |
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| 38 | 287 |
But I had seen nothing in the glance of Licinius which had suggested shame or pleaded for pity and understanding. |
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| 8 | 271 |
"For the bounty on your head, pretty kajira," I said, "one might purchase a galley, and a dozen slaves whose beauty would shame yours, as yours, such as it is, might shame that of tarsk sow". |
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| 28 | 198 |
Who could think so? Does she truly think it a thing of shame? Surely her beauty is not a thing of shame, not a blemish, or crime, to be concealed from view. |
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| 33 | 164 |
And had not her belly, as that of a slave, pressed beggingly against my hand, until she, suddenly, realizing what she had done, that she had betrayed her need, and vitality, had withdrawn it, with tears of shame? She must, of course, learn the absurdity of shame, and that it was not permitted to the... |
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| 1 | 301 |
The shame of Talena infuriated proud Marlenus, obsessed with his name and honor, particularly as it became clear, later, in the northern forests, when Talena was put up for sale, that, hoping to be freed and returned to Ar, she had begged to be purchased, a slave's act, for in such an act one acknow... |
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| 1 | 312 |
She was returned to Ar, but Marlenus, in view of the shame she had brought upon his house, both in the matter of Rask of Treve, and her actions in the northern forests, removed the stain upon his honor by disowning her. |
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| 1 | 315 |
Thus, let the shame brought upon the name and honor of Marlenus of Ar be hidden away, if not forgotten. |
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| 2 | 52 |
We were an embarrassment, visible tokens of a state's shame. |
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| 3 | 273 |
"Why would he so shame the Ubara," I asked, "remove her robes of state, her veiling, and such?" I asked. |
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| 3 | 295 |
Did she truly think I was her friend? When, to her shame she divested herself of her robes, hoods, veils, and sandals, and was slave clad, I called to the men, 'She is ready. |
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| 8 | 379 |
One of the most interesting things about barbarian slaves, which may surprise many, is that few seem to understand, at least at first, the shame that is done to them by denying them the veil. |
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| 8 | 384 |
Then they are often forced to feel their shame keenly. |
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| 8 | 385 |
Commonly though, they, and barbarians, as well, come to revel in the lack of veiling, and, indeed, in the shame of their commonly brief and revealing garmenture, if allowed garmenture, become insolent in their shameful pride, so deplored by free women, of revealing their beauty, of both face and bod... |
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| 8 | 387 |
The free woman regards such garments as a degradation, an unspeakable humiliation, a badge of shame, fit for natural slaves, say, women of alien or enemy cities. |
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| 12 | 78 |
What right has one woman, only herself a woman, to so shame, crush, and mortify another woman? This is not the natural relationship of a woman to a man, but a cruelly humiliating, unjustified, unnatural travesty of a biologically ordained rightness. |
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| 21 | 332 |
Can she endure this shame, this humiliation, this uncertainty, being the one who does not know, while others look upon her, and perhaps remember, and know? Is not a paga girl, in an alcove, serving her master of the Ahn, more fortunate? She is likely to be well aware of who it is who is putting her ... |
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| 21 | 336 |
How they had laughed, when a spasm, to her shame, had rocked her. |
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| 21 | 338 |
Such a woman, commonly, in her misery and loneliness, in her shame and humiliation, in her uncertainty and confusion, begins to roam the high bridges, frequent lonely streets, and wander unescorted outside the city gates. |
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| 25 | 7 |
In this way, the two former highest, richest women in Ar, both traitresses, both muchly involved in the Great Treason, both wanted in Ar, both now slaves, were forced to confront one another, in their current humiliation, shame, and degradation. |
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| 25 | 110 |
In this way, the two former highest, richest women in Ar, both traitresses, both muchly involved in the Great Treason, both wanted in Ar, both now slaves, were forced to confront one another, in their current humiliation, shame, and degradation. |
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| 28 | 151 |
I wiped the tears from the cheeks of Adraste, and softly touched the eyes of Alcinoë, that her eyes not sparkle with her distress, and shame. |
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| 28 | 197 |
Must we always be content with a disarranged veil, the hem of a skirt, lifted about an ankle? Better the slave in her collar, given no choice but to be bared before masters! Does not the free woman, in her heart, yearn to cast aside her robes, and show herself as what she is, woman! Does she truly w... |
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| 4 | 160 |
Do not women wonder about such things? And what of Nora, and my enemies in the house? Would they be so different, barefoot in the sawdust, turned, exhibited, in the torchlight, being bid upon? "Shame! Shame!" said Mrs. |
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| 4 | 164 |
I felt tears of shame course my cheeks. |
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| 4 | 182 |
The shame of this expulsion would be general knowledge, and certain of our sisters, I thought I knew which ones, Nora, and others, would see to it that the cause of our expulsion would be well publicized. |
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| 4 | 590 |
Interestingly, though I would have told no one at the time, I was erotically charged, even in my shame. |
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| 4 | 627 |
Burning with shame, but yet, too, eager for food, I crawled to the scraps and, head down, without my hands, fed. |
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| 4 | 704 |
Certainly, though excruciatingly sensitive to our exposure and shame, we all strove to play our roles well, for we were all constantly under the exacting scrutiny of Mrs. |
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| 5 | 255 |
Rawlinson had discovered in my room, which she had seized, to my consternation and shame. |
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| 5 | 364 |
Bound, tears of shame welled in my eyes. |
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| 7 | 737 |
Accordingly, it was said that amongst many free women the taint of carnality was to be eschewed, even violently, as a thing of embarrassment and shame, unworthy of a free woman. |
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| 8 | 835 |
"They would see that I was sold elsewhere, in my shame and degradation". |
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| 8 | 1291 |
A word from her, a charge from her, would initiate a sequence of actions which might culminate in one's expulsion from the house, with the shame and ruin which might be consequent on such a disgrace. |
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| 8 | 1468 |
In this light, then, as suggested earlier, an expulsion from the sorority, with its shame, and such, would constitute a social calamity to be avoided at all costs. |
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| 8 | 2083 |
"It is a shame," said Menon, looking down upon me, "that the slavers consider little more than intelligence, beauty, and helpless, latent passion. |
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| 9 | 181 |
They are taught to fear manhood, and hold it as a thing of regret or shame. |
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| 10 | 795 |
How could I bear that they might look upon me now, in my shame and degradation, now no more than a barefoot, tunicked, collared slave? And what of them? How could I bear to look upon my former sisters, shamefully garbed, their necks clasped in the circlet of bondage? Yet I knew I would be thrilled t... |
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| 18 | 793 |
I so desperately wanted to speak to him, to return myself to his favor, such as it might be, to express my shame and sorrow at my overweening, unconscionable pride, my insolence. |
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| 18 | 1074 |
I recalled both Astrinax and Menon had thought I would be a good buy for such a place, a girl willing to wheedle and smile, to pretend to emotions of excitement and enthusiasm, one who could adroitly feign dismay and sympathy, one who would ply customers with drink, urge them to remain at the tables... |
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| 32 | 69 |
He was addressed by the machine, to the utterances of which he made no response, but crouched down, and lowered his head, as though in shame. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 201 |
It is said that a free woman might perish of shame if placed in a slave tunic, but, to a slave, such a garment, which she knows need not be accorded to her, may be a treasure, more precious to her than some assemblage of robes and veils to a free woman. |
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| 9 | 247 |
Then, as might be expected, free women denounce the tunic as a shameful garment, and attempt, in terms of it, to shame its occupant. |
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| 15 | 339 |
"Yes, Master," I said, squirming in shame, in conflict, and need. |
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| 17 | 25 |
How helpless I had been in their grasp! How angry I was with myself that I could not but respond as the least and most worthless of slaves! How I had leaped, and moaned, and whimpered, and begged for the least continuance of their touch! But how could this be? Was I not of Earth? And how lonely I wa... |
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| 17 | 77 |
How horrifying that I should be here, on a remote world, a marked, half-naked, collared slave! How incomprehensible and lamentable was my fate! I looked after him, enraged, and hated him! It was he who had brought me to this, to the indelible marking of my body, to the shame and degradation of a col... |
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| 35 | 78 |
It was bright enough for a man's paga feast, the sort at which stripped free women must dance as slaves and, to their shame, though they are still legally free, will be put to use as sluts before their collaring and branding. |
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| 38 | 53 |
"But it would be a shame for such a fine animal to die". |
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| 39 | 91 |
Soon, sometimes to my shame, I had wanted their arms about me. |
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| 43 | 209 |
"It seems a shame to waste slaves," said Genak. |
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| 43 | 1106 |
"Do not plead! Do not shame me! This is a matter amongst men. |
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| 52 | 155 |
A Gorean free woman, I thought, might almost die of shame at the mere thought of being placed in such a garment, but would learn to prize it soon enough if she were collared. |
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| 54 | 179 |
Is it only that they have failed to sully soil and water, refused to create poisoned atmospheres, refused to reduce and shame themselves, had no interest in ascending prescribed treadmills, placed in the midst of nothing, leading nowhere? Can the steps of a false journey not be retraced? It is possi... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 174 |
He, or they, had lit their tiny signal, and I, in the madness of my rage and shame, had failed to understand, and respond. |
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| 9 | 24 |
Little did it matter to them that a deed massive and potent in its might, a deed which might awe and shame better men, had been accomplished within their own lifetime, a deed the tale of which might be told for a thousand years. |
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| 29 | 332 |
I thought it a shame to waste the hair, as woman's hair, given its tensility and weather-resistance, makes excellent catapult cordage, much better than hemp and common cordage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 340 |
Why had he not melted away, quickly, shame-faced, looking down, or to the side? Surely he would not be where he was, continuing to regard me so intently, if he did not know me, or did not think he knew me. |
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| 3 | 98 |
"It seems a shame to waste a capsule on her," said the third man. |
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| 7 | 398 |
One was a violent rage at what had been done to me, a rage rife with shame, degradation, humiliation, frustration, and an acute sense of a lack of recourse, a sense of an utter helplessness, and the other, even stronger, was a sense of its fittingness. |
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| 8 | 49 |
Needs and passions, desires and yearnings, should be no more things of shame than health and beauty. |
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| 8 | 273 |
How can some, I wondered, pretend to be ignorant of the tensions, the cords of interest and desire, which attend the interactions of the sexes? Are they unaware of the radical centrality of sexuality to the human condition? Do they lie, or are they somehow ignorant, or inert, simply blind to the tur... |
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| 9 | 377 |
"I dare not repeat it, lest I swoon with shame". |
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| 28 | 144 |
"It would seem a shame to beat her". |
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| 49 | 473 |
"It is a shame to waste a fine ka-la-na," said Kurik, regretfully. |
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| 52 | 262 |
As I lay at his feet, lashed, sobbing, my skin aflame, my greatest pain, by far, was my remorse, my bitter shame and grief, that he had seen fit to beat me. |
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| 68 | 404 |
Her very presence would be a source of embarrassment and shame to them". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 57 |
Who but barbarians would taint their food, poison their atmosphere, foul their rivers, lakes, and seas, and crowd, despoil, and disfigure a lovely, innocent world, their own? Have they no understanding, no love? Have they no guilt, no shame? Have they no Home Stone? What is such a world good for, sa... |
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| 4 | 27 |
We are clothed, when clothed, in such a way as, in the opinion of the free women, to shame, humiliate, and degrade us, but, perhaps to the chagrin of free women, we soon grow fond of our tunics and collars. |
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| 7 | 262 |
Perhaps Bruno of Torcadino is a relative, and wishes to recover her, to restore her to the glories of her freedom, but, to avoid shame and scandal, wishes to do so surreptitiously. |
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| 7 | 293 |
What family could endure such shame? What a reproach is there, what a humiliation! She will commonly be kept in her collar. |
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| 7 | 296 |
At best, she will be hidden away, a humiliation, an embarrassment, kept from view, kept sequestered in her shame". |
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| 10 | 121 |
Would they not be the ones who hastily, in terror of recognizing even the suspicion of their own possible manhood, lift a hoping, kneeling woman to her feet and shame her, lecturing her on what she should do and be, as though they knew more than she what it was to be a woman, lecturing her on how sh... |
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| 11 | 323 |
Yet what woman, slave or free, does not thrill to the curious, admiring scrutiny of a handsome, powerful male who one day might prove to be her master? Ambivalences warred within me, excitement, rage, joy, warmth, shame, humiliation, pride! How dare these monsters take for granted, so easily and una... |
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| 11 | 649 |
When I had hurried to Master Addison on the walkway, I had, as had seemed appropriate under the circumstances, he being of Earth, and such, and I being confused and startled, and emotionally in tumult, astounded at seeing him, mouthed expected, prescribed bromides about despair, misery, shame, deliv... |
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| 13 | 13 |
She is clad, when clad, in a very distinctive fashion, one instantly and easily recognized, commonly in a brief, revealing tunic, a form of garmenture which would not only scandalize a free woman but plunge her into the throes of shame, consternation, and dismay. |
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| 25 | 66 |
At one time I might have believed that, but I had learned in Brundisium, and after that, from a thousand other asides and remarks, in the tavern and elsewhere, that Gorean society did not easily ignore the shame and dishonor which would inevitably accrue to a family's name and reputation should it b... |
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| 25 | 69 |
At best, if freed, she would be sequestered in the house, kept from public view that her shame not be broadcast. |
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| 25 | 71 |
"And it was desirable to keep secret the true identity of the slave, Luta, lest ambitious felons obtain her and not free her, but use her to extort riches from her family, threatening to otherwise make her shame publicly known. |
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| 31 | 109 |
It was he who had first been on the sand with him, who had been led away by attendants, dissatisfied, howling with misery and rage, screaming of misplay and injustice, drunk with hate, unwilling to accept defeat, humiliated by the loss of a drop of blood, the token of an ocean of shame, convinced of... |
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| 36 | 134 |
Her mood was one of shame and rage. |
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| 42 | 258 |
"Yes," said Seremides, "and thus they witnessed our noble prisoner's humiliation and shame, and perhaps even had the effrontery to think of themselves as her equals. |
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| 46 | 580 |
Had he not done this to me, to shame me, and make me an object of derision and ridicule, wanting me whipped? But the lash had not yet fallen. |
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| 46 | 675 |
I did then expect that he, finding some quiet, convenient place, one perhaps he had in mind, would soon put me to his pleasure, would enjoy me, as is the wont of a master, imposing my shame and degradation upon me, reminding me of my mark and collar, subjecting me to imperious slave use, forcing me ... |
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