| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 15 |
Like most Gor compasses, mine contained a chronometer, and I took the compass, turned it over, and pressed the tab that would snap open the back and reveal the dial. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 120 |
My touch seemed to snap him out of his strange mood. |
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| 10 | 70 |
With a sinking sensation I heard the snap of a heavy lock. |
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| 11 | 87 |
I could not understand her remark, and my back felt ready to snap under the weight of the yoke. |
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| 14 | 39 |
I saw the great wings snap, smiting the air, the hurricane from their blow spilling slaves into the sand, tangling chains, as the great beast, lifting its head and smelling the open air, struck it with his wings. |
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| 15 | 64 |
With one last look at the Tatrix, the bird turned and stalked to the brink of that awesome ledge and, with a single snap of its great wings, leaped into space, its soaring shadow a message of terror to any game below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 15 | 43 |
In the front of this assembly, one by one, thin metal disks would snap into place, a light would flash as some energy transaction occurred, and then the disk would snap aside, immediately to be replaced by another. |
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| 20 | 129 |
The collar is normally worn snugly, indeed so much so that if the snap of a slave leash is used the girl will normally suffer some discomfort. |
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| 26 | 224 |
I turned the key in the lock and heard the firm, heavy snap of the mechanism. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 416 |
There was a firm snap of the heavy lock in the back of the collar and the throat of Aphris of Turia had been encircled with slave steel! At the same instant Kamchak lifted her startled to her feet and turned her to face him, with both hands tearing the veil from her face! Then, before any of the sta... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 223 |
But, from a central, guarded panel, and from individual transmitters, those of their owners, a signal may be transmitted which causes the two bracelets and the two anklets to immediately snap together at the flat plates, thus, even at a distance, binding the slave. |
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| 5 | 606 |
Al-Ka would then give her a collar to snap about her throat and she would do so. |
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| 12 | 101 |
The tarns were now being unhooded and they leaped up, with a snap of their wings, to their perches, numbered and chosen by lot. |
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| 13 | 325 |
Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at the end of the dividing wall. |
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| 16 | 88 |
There was a metallic snap and Virginia Kent, the slave girl, had been leashed by Relius, guard in the House of Cernus, Slaver of Ar. |
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| 18 | 128 |
"The games of Kajuralia can be dangerous," remarked Flaminius, swiftly wrapping a white cloth about the wound, securing it with four small metal snap clips. |
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| 22 | 370 |
I took the great tarn up with a snap of his wings to my starting perch, the fourth. |
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| 22 | 422 |
With a sudden scream and a snap of the wide black wings the War Tarn of Ko-ro-ba was aloft. |
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| 22 | 565 |
With a curse he jerked savagely at the control straps of Quarrel and that fine bird instantaneously responded and together Quarrel and Ubar of the Skies passed through the final ring; with a snap of his great wings Ubar of the Skies struck the winner's perch, seized it in his steel-shod talons and t... |
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| 24 | 173 |
They were chained in long lines by the collars, five-foot lengths of chain being used, with a snap at each end, each end fastening to a given collar, each collar, save for those terminating a line, being fastened on two sides. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 337 |
To my delight the tarn, with a snap of its wings, leaped from the hold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 126 |
I felt again the snap of the choke collar on my throat. |
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| 10 | 657 |
Then, with a horrifying snap of bone and tearing of flesh and fur the jaws of the beast bit through the back of the sleen's neck. |
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| 12 | 246 |
There was, outside, the snap of a whip. |
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| 12 | 250 |
Then I heard the snap of the whip again. |
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| 12 | 279 |
We now heard the snap of whips again, but this time the leather blades fell upon the naked backs of girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 64 |
I knelt behind her, and above her, on one knee, and, with a snap, fastened the slave collar on her throat. |
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| 8 | 264 |
At one side of the hut, where I could not see, I heard the heavy snap of slave manacles. |
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| 8 | 282 |
There was suddenly a great, heavy steel snap at my feet. |
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| 13 | 211 |
But its tail did not snap for the swift strike. |
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| 20 | 19 |
I heard the swift snap of the leaves of a crossbow, the leaping hiss of the quarrel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 200 |
The collars were of thick leather, some three inches high, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined; sewn into each collar, opposite the lock, was a large, welded metal ring; about this ring was closed the le... |
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| 10 | 572 |
Accordingly, I supposed, this very night, on Earth, there were completely unsuspecting beautiful girls, thinking it a night like any other, who would undress themselves and snap off the light, and retire, not knowing that they had been, perhaps for weeks, scouted by slavers; I wondered if they would... |
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| 11 | 282 |
It seized it, ripping it from the man, and, with a single snap of its teeth, bit the shaft in two, snapping it like I might have broken a dried twig. |
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| 17 | 194 |
A single snap could tear off a hand or foot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
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| 9 | 24 |
The man who had held the stake then took a snap collar, with chain and snap lock, about a yard in length, and secured the girl, on her knees, by the neck, to the stake. |
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| 1 | 174 |
Samos, with a snap of his fingers, freed the dancer from the slave pole. |
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| 1 | 218 |
This was a "common chain," sometimes called a "march chain" or "trekking chain"; it was not a "display chain"; in the "display chain," or "selling chain," the arrangement of the girls may be determined by a variety of considerations, aesthetic and psychological; for example, blondes may be alternate... |
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| 4 | 444 |
One of the kinsmen of Farouk went to the kurdahs of slave girls, hobble chains at his saddle pommel; he would rein in before a kurdah, throw the girl the hobble and order her, "Shackle yourself"; he would wait the moment it took for the girl to snap the small ring about her right wrist and, behind h... |
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| 6 | 63 |
He then threw her to the side of a wall, where another slave, pushing against the side of her neck, fastened a snap catch on her collar, securing her by a chain to a ring in the floor. |
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| 6 | 129 |
The slave there took her by the hair, holding her head down, and, between the back of her neck and the collar, thrust a snap catch, closing it. |
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| 7 | 128 |
There was a snap, as of gristle. |
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| 9 | 123 |
The collar, from behind, was put about her throat and locked; her head was jerked sideways as, by the collar chain, in the fist of one of Hassan's men, she was secured by the snap lock at the chain's free end, to the stake ring. |
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| 10 | 134 |
Its snap was only admonitory. |
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| 14 | 531 |
Then the key, forced, with a heavy snap, turned, freeing the lock bolt. |
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| 21 | 524 |
I heard the snap of the hand weapon. |
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| 25 | 525 |
I took her wrists and pulled them forward, to the two posts, some six inches apart, part of the branding rack, putting them in the snap bracelets which dangled there, one from each post. |
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| 25 | 527 |
It is quite easy to open and shut them, and it may be done with a snap of the finger, one for each bracelet. |
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| 25 | 528 |
As the bracelets are situated, some inches apart, of course, and as the snap is on each bracelet itself, at the wrist, the girl herself cannot get her finger, of either hand, on the mechanism. |
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| 25 | 533 |
She pulled futilely at the snap bracelets. |
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| 25 | 593 |
I freed her wrists of the snap bracelets. |
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| 26 | 813 |
I then drew her small wrists forward and locked them in the snap bracelets. |
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| 26 | 870 |
I freed her of the snap bracelets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 949 |
Was I not to bear his burdens? Was I not to carry the pouch and bota? Was I not to bear his shield? With a snap of his fingers and a movement of his hand he released me from position. |
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| 5 | 798 |
I felt my wrist taken, and the metal of the wrist ring snap shut upon it. |
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| 9 | 77 |
There was another snap of a wrist ring and the chain bore yet another jewel, the lovely, half-stripped Slave Beads. |
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| 9 | 2088 |
I awakened to the clear snap of slave bracelets on my wrists. |
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| 11 | 76 |
It closed with an efficient metallic snap. |
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| 16 | 92 |
He did not snap it shut. |
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| 18 | 177 |
The sack was drawn up, over my body; I sat, doubled up; my head was pushed down a bit; the sack was drawn shut over my head and, with a snap, locked shut. |
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| 26 | 210 |
He unlooped the long leash at his belt, with its slip ring and snap lock. |
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| 26 | 323 |
Quickly his large, efficient hands shortened the loop, sliding the slip ring to a snug fit, then securing it in place, preventing its backward movement, with the snap lock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 464 |
As soon as the locks snap shut on a girl's chain at the platform she is available to be bid upon. |
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| 4 | 608 |
If I could get him off his feet I might then manage, even in the darkness, regaining my feet first, to break his diaphragm or crush his throat beneath my heel, or, with an instep kick to the back of his neck, snap loose the spinal column from the skull. |
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| 13 | 9 |
More importantly, in the colder weather, the long bow would freeze and snap, unable to bear the stress of being drawn to its customary extent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 3 |
Ayari shoved it away from the side of the canoe with his paddle and it, with a snap of its tail, disappeared under the water. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 183 |
The snap was heavy, sharp, businesslike. |
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| 3 | 35 |
From her belt there hung a ring of keys and a coiled chain, with a snap. |
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| 3 | 36 |
On her belt, toward the back, on her right side, in a snap strap, hung a pair of steel manacles. |
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| 3 | 136 |
I saw the keys and the coiled chain which hung at her belt and, toward the back, on the right side, in their snap strap, the steel manacles she carried. |
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| 3 | 217 |
I heard jaws snap not more than a yard or so below my head. |
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| 3 | 232 |
He then, with a key, removed them from me and replaced them in the snap strap at his belt. |
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| 5 | 24 |
This collar, too, though much lighter than the former collar, had, too, a ring upon it, for the snap of a leash. |
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| 7 | 438 |
Yet I would be remiss did I not mention that even the most vital, animate slave, delightedly conversing with her master, knows that at a mere snap of his fingers she may have to tear aside her garments and serve him instantly as the lowliest, the most perfect, and the most abject of chain sluts. |
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| 10 | 182 |
My left wrist was pulled further then to the left, as she adjusted the chain on the left manacle, fixing the length of its play by a snap ring thrust through a link and about the couch ring. |
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| 11 | 561 |
Too, it is enjoyable, at a snap of his fingers, to have the girl remove it, or, indeed, if he wishes, to tear it from her at his whim. |
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| 11 | 568 |
How I then again envied the Gorean brutes who might order such a woman, at so little as a snap of their fingers, to strip to her collar. |
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| 21 | 336 |
I saw that either, at a snap of my fingers, would have thrown themselves on their backs on the boards before me. |
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| 32 | 43 |
The common Gorean leash, incidentally, unlike the simple strap I was using, has a lock snap and closes either about a collar or a collar ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 157 |
Detachable, but now attached to the chain at one point were two sets of clips, one of snap clips and one of lock clips. |
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| 11 | 204 |
"And if they should snap their fingers and point to the floor?" I asked. |
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| 24 | 54 |
I regarded the objects, with their tiny belts and buckles, with their attached, sewn in, metal snap rings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 |
I heard the snap of bow strings on my own vessel, returning the fire. |
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| 1 | 149 |
I heard the hiss and snap of our catapults, the twisted ropes snapping loose. |
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| 4 | 72 |
The strike, should it occur, I feared would snap our keel. |
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| 8 | 66 |
Unclothed, for example, she finds even the snap of a strap to one side, a foot from her body, or the simple slap of a switch into one's palm, quite significant. |
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| 16 | 115 |
I felt the jaws snap and scratch against the shearing blade. |
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| 19 | 443 |
For example, it can be useful in leading her about, either because of its ring, if it has one, to which a leash may be attached, or in connection with a leash with a snap lock, which can be placed about the collar itself; similarly it is useful, in connection with various forms of hardware, in faste... |
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| 20 | 2008 |
By means of small clips, snap clips or lock clips, it may be used to secure as well as adorn a woman. |
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| 20 | 2069 |
The chain was now secured with snap clips, which are usually perfectly adequate, as the girl, as she is chained, cannot reach or undo the snaps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 921 |
Some were attached to the collar rings by the links themselves, opened and then reclosed about the rings, and some of them were fastened to the collar rings by snap rings. |
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| 8 | 924 |
Girls are spaced on such a chain, usually, by snap rings. |
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| 9 | 58 |
He loosened the long, coiled whip fastened with a snap strap at the right of his saddle, and rode back towards us, along the right side of the coffle of barefoot, scantily clad, neck-chained beauties. |
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| 11 | 9 |
The collars and chains had been rearranged on the other girls, in such a way that, by an alternation of the position of snap locks and chain segments, a free collar was now at each end of the coffle. |
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| 12 | 170 |
He joined them, by means of snap locks, with a length of chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 314 |
I prepared to snap my fingers. |
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| 9 | 324 |
I would snap my fingers. |
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| 9 | 390 |
I snap my fingers and you must stand, prepared then to follow me, unquestioning, your will nothing, to your master's lodge. |
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| 9 | 701 |
"And when I am finished with you," I said, "I shall rise to my feet and snap my fingers. |
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| 12 | 179 |
The common leash has a snap clip, sometimes a locking one. |
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| 12 | 180 |
This snap clip has a variety of uses. |
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| 12 | 181 |
It can snap about a link or ring in its own leash, the leash then functioning as a self-contained collar-and-leash device, or about such things, say, as a collar, collar ring or neck bond, perhaps of rope or chain. |
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| 39 | 200 |
A warrior may secure such women with devices so simple as thumb-cuffs, like tiny, joined rings, and snap-lock, or pronged, tension-closed, nose-rings, with strands of wire, to fasten them together. |
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| 39 | 202 |
If the cities are long-time, hereditary enemies snap-lock, or pronged, tension-closed, earrings might be used instead of nose-rings, as a gesture of contempt, a pierced ear, or ears, on Gor, culturally, commonly, being regarded as the mark of the lowest, the most sensuous and the most despicable of ... |
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| 42 | 94 |
Another few yards and I must snap the reins of the tarn, kicking back at it, screaming, starting it forward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 404 |
There had been no mistaking the heavy, efficient snap with which the device's closure had been registered. |
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| 2 | 519 |
When the door had closed two snap-fastenings had shut, one near the top of the door and one near its bottom. |
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| 6 | 821 |
There, held by a snap catch against the silken lining of the great cloak, looped, in coils, there hung a set of light chains. |
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| 8 | 240 |
Occasionally he would snap this whip near a girl. |
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| 8 | 241 |
I did not doubt but what the girls on the tiles, if they were found sufficiently displeasing to the trainer, or too frequently required the admonitory signal of the cracking leather, would soon hear the snap of the lash not in their mere vicinity but on their own bared bodies. |
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| 26 | 48 |
Let every glance, every look and movement, signify to men the promise of untold pleasures, and if any of them should so much as snap his fingers, see that you fulfill that promise a thousand times and more". |
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| 30 | 423 |
It was hooked there, on the whip ring, the coils secured in the snap strap. |
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| 31 | 348 |
He stood up, then, and, with a snap, shook out the leash, and then, looping it, drew it back a bit towards him. |
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| 36 | 1333 |
Certainly I had heard it snap shut in the courtyard below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 484 |
He angrily returned to his place on the wagon box and with an angry cry and a fierce snap of the whip put his ponderous draft beast once more into motion, taking his place between two other wagons. |
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| 25 | 1560 |
If she really wanted to be in "the mood," she would be well advised to learn how to get in the mood as quickly as the time it takes for a master to snap his fingers or run her by the hair to the foot of his couch. |
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| 26 | 2042 |
Also, I think it does a girl good, and it had seemed to do this girl good, to hear it snap on the collar ring, either at the back of her neck, when she is to be back-controlled, or just under her chin, when she is to be front-led. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 |
The Whip I screamed suddenly under it awakening under it startled not believing it not expecting it the suddenness it was like lightning the cracking sound like the sky breaking the snap like fire my body wrenching I pulling upwards the chain on my neck I fell to my side I pulled at the chain then t... |
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| 17 | 60 |
Its snap was a lock snap, and it had been closed about the collar. |
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| 6 | 71 |
I suddenly jerked, and almost fell, uttering, startled, a stifled sound, my head moving, the gag straps pulling at the back of my neck, the girl in front of me almost off balance, the snap of the lash, too, had startled me, the lash had stung my calves, sharply, cruelly. |
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| 6 | 655 |
We did not even hear a man snap, "Position". |
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| 6 | 680 |
The snap had been so loud, so frightening, and the leather burned me so terribly! I had thrown my head back, gasping, sobbing out, wildly, fighting the ball in my mouth, in the hood. |
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| 9 | 199 |
From my left, from the rounded, wooden surface, there had come the snap of a whip. |
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| 11 | 358 |
It did have a snap ring on it. |
10 |
| 11 | 361 |
Tupita, with the snap ring on the leash, fastened the leash to my right cuff, and Sita fastened the other leash on my left cuff. |
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| 11 | 362 |
The snap rings on the cuffs themselves, of course, make it possible, if one wishes, for the cuffs to be linked together. |
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| 11 | 1393 |
I then heard the snap of a slave whip outside the leather curtain, rather close to it, and a girl's cry of pain. |
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| 23 | 25 |
I heard the snap of the whip and, together, we hurried forward, within the fence, toward the square tent, the overseer's tent, on a rise in the distance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 291 |
In a moment I heard the snap of the whip, and the cries to the beast. |
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| 8 | 581 |
From such a platform the bird, with a single snap of its wings, addressing itself to flight, is immediately airborne. |
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| 13 | 168 |
The observation panel then slid shut, with a snap. |
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| 17 | 256 |
But then men were screaming and leaping from it, up and down its length, and I saw it turn on one upright, doubtless more from their movements and the shifts in weight than from anything of my doing, and then it fell back, and I heard it snap and break. |
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| 18 | 149 |
The snap of the cable and its vibration carried even to the landing. |
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| 24 | 165 |
Normally slave girls, with a snap of the fingers or a wave of the hand, are dismissed from an area where sensitive matters are to be discussed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 70 |
Suddenly the beast slid back into the water, and, with a snap of its tail, turned and disappeared, beyond the ring of torchlight. |
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| 12 | 388 |
It is not like looking on the beauty of a female slave whom one may then, with a snap of the fingers, send to the furs. |
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| 13 | 518 |
I heard the snap of a whip. |
10 |
| 14 | 253 |
Few attacked men, except, here and there, to react, or snap at them. |
10 |
| 15 | 78 |
I heard the whip snap again behind me. |
10 |
| 18 | 248 |
I felt the movement of its departure in the water, from the snap of that sicklelike tail. |
10 |
| 19 | 114 |
I heard its back snap. |
10 |
| 19 | 734 |
Once I saw its entire body, moving with great speed, impelled by a snap of those huge skin wings. |
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| 39 | 53 |
On them were snap rings. |
10 |
| 39 | 194 |
Her wrists wore bracelets, and two of these, sturdy bracelets, one on each wrist, were locked in place and equipped with snap rings, permitting them to be joined together. |
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| 39 | 222 |
I then stood behind her, drew her wrists behind her back, and, by means of the snap rings on the two locked bracelets, fastened them there. |
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| 39 | 283 |
That is the sort of thing—the feel of the metal, its encirclement of the neck, the snap of the lock, realizing it is fastened on one, that one cannot remove it, and such—which women remember. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 707 |
They snap shut and are securely locked, the small, sturdy lock usually behind the back of the neck. |
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| 12 | 36 |
Then, perhaps after a fierce snap of the disciplinary device, she scurries to the furs, joyfully, to await him, he who may chain her helplessly for his pleasure, should he wish, her master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 23 |
Sometimes wings would snap and air would rush about. |
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| 31 | 476 |
We suddenly heard a second chain snap, that which had been on the left ankle of the giant. |
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| 31 | 494 |
Almost at the same time there was a snap of chain and the neck chain which was on the peasant dangled before him, from the ring on his collar, and he had turned about again, to face us, his eyes wild, saliva running at the side of his mouth. |
10 |
| 37 | 426 |
I heard the heavy, vibratory snap of the cable, but did not see the quarrel. |
10 |
| 42 | 88 |
I heard bolts snap. |
10 |
| 45 | 41 |
Then I heard the snap of a slave whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 69 |
Similarly, some collars, leather or otherwise, have rings to which such snap rings may be conveniently fastened. |
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| 17 | 987 |
Then, suddenly, there was the sharp snap of a switch across her derrière and Ellen cried out in pain, and humiliation. |
10 |
| 17 | 1035 |
On the front of the hood strap, before the throat, there was a ring, for the attachment of a leash snap. |
10 |
| 17 | 1037 |
But now she felt a leash catch snap about the ring. |
10 |
| 22 | 613 |
If she had struck against it her leg might have been ripped from her with one savage snap of the jaws. |
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| 24 | 336 |
She could not see the outside whip master, but she had no doubt that he was there, appraisingly there, ready to snap the whip in warning, or, if necessary, or thought useful, to put it to the back of a dancer. |
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| 24 | 630 |
There was a growl from the exterior whip master, and the snap of a whip. |
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| 26 | 44 |
She then heard a lock snap behind her neck, through the buckle rings. |
10 |
| 26 | 68 |
She felt something snap about the ring on the front of the hood. |
10 |
| 27 | 2145 |
Such a blow can snap the vertebrae. |
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| 27 | 2242 |
She thought of herself groveling and kneeling, at the snap of a whip. |
10 |
| 27 | 3275 |
At least, she was not in a lock leash, of chain or leather, or in a locked snap-leash that might be attached to her collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 174 |
There was a final, loud snap of the whip, and the dancer threw herself, half kneeling, half sitting, to the sand, and lifted one hand, piteously, to the fellow who had conducted his part of the whip dance. |
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| 13 | 69 |
Cabot exerted further pressure, but did not snap the spinal cord. |
10 |
| 27 | 22 |
"It is a sound which surely no woman ever forgets! Is it not the most meaningful of sounds, that snap, that click, as the collar is closed on one, and one realizes that it is now on one, and that one is collared?" "There are many meaningful sounds," said Cabot, "the snarl of the sleen, the roar of t... |
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| 33 | 252 |
But its advance was oddly, abruptly, arrested, and its gigantic paddlelike appendages churned in the water, but they did not move the tons of massive body forward, and then most of the body disappeared beneath the surface, almost as though drawn back, and down, and its head, on the long neck, rose u... |
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| 45 | 194 |
A throat may be bitten through in a moment, a sudden blow may snap the neck, a heart, even, may be gouged out in an instant. |
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| 67 | 77 |
He had feared to string the bow for days, for fear it would snap in the cold. |
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| 70 | 9 |
The sudden snap of the metal was followed, almost instantly, by a long, weird scream of Kur pain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 66 |
They are a softer wood, and, less rigid, more flexible, are more inclined to bend with the wind and the yard, and so, under certain conditions, violent conditions, less likely to snap. |
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| 12 | 351 |
Every chain can snap, every rope break. |
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| 27 | 112 |
I heard the snap of a switch and a girl's sudden cry of pain. |
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| 28 | 23 |
I heard the snap of a whip and a cry of pain. |
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| 30 | 48 |
Such blades are designed to shear away a galley's oars, thus crippling her, and preparing her for a ramming, usually amidships, which is a blow of considerable force, easily sufficient to rupture and flood the prey vessel, and occasionally sufficient to snap her in two. |
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| 33 | 157 |
"Thassa," I said, "will tear the sails from your ship, snap her masts, break her keel, crush her sides, lift her a hundred feet, two hundred feet, into the air, and then drop her like a broken toy, plunging to the waves below. |
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| 38 | 573 |
A command was barked, and there was a snap of the whip, and the coffle, the left foot of each figure first moving, began to move, approaching, paralleling the beach side of the wharf, several yards of which were now ablaze. |
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| 44 | 129 |
I could occasionally hear the snap of the canvas of the three large, square sails, adjusting to the wind, and the creak of the yards from which they were suspended. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 31 |
This had proved fortunate for, as later became clear, the massive press of ice on each side might snap apart even timbers as fearsome as those of the great ship of Tersites, might break them apart as easily as a child might snap the twigs of a play fortress. |
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| 9 | 95 |
I heard the snap of a bowstring above, and a fellow, on the flooring above, dark, briefly outlined in the light of a tharlarion-oil lamp, turned about, slowly, and then tumbled part way down the companionway, toward us, some five stairs. |
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| 9 | 216 |
I heard the splintering wood, the cries of men, the snap of a bowstring. |
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| 9 | 242 |
Several tarns, sensing the sky, the hatch now open to the far, bright stars, with a great snap of their wings, sometimes dragging saddle and harnessing behind them, disappeared into the cold night. |
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| 11 | 28 |
It flies at the mass but how shall it snap shut its jaws on the single victim it might manage, which it can scarcely note for less than a tenth of an Ihn, before another appears, and another. |
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| 12 | 373 |
I heard the spinal column snap, and thrust the form over the ring, and, a long moment later, heard it strike the deck below. |
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| 14 | 136 |
It then, dragging its burden of sharks, its victim still struggling in its jaws, dove, and the snap of that great tail, striking upward, tipped us, and then, striking downward, propelling that enormous bulk, clove our galley, and we were plunged into the water. |
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| 17 | 20 |
But did they not know they might be noted, and marked, well remembered by one fellow or another when, obedient to the snap of the whip, they might ascend the auction block? One fellow could not resist such provocation and seized a blond kajira, crushing her to him and raping her lips with the kiss o... |
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| 19 | 170 |
To the snap of a whip she will learn slave dance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 263 |
Too, I saw those large hands, and did not doubt but what they might, if he wished, snap my neck. |
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| 7 | 680 |
I heard the fire strikers snap more than once. |
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| 9 | 368 |
I had the sense that those massive jaws might have been capable of biting through a beam, and could easily, like tearing paper, snap away a man's head, or woman's. |
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| 15 | 53 |
In the very sight of such men I felt it natural that I should kneel and bow my head, hoping that I might be noticed, might be found acceptable, might be found such that they might deign to snap their fingers and indicate that I might follow them, hoping to be eventually awarded their collar. |
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| 27 | 246 |
Each of us heard the snap of the collar lock. |
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| 51 | 182 |
There was a clear, decisive snap, and it had been locked on me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 194 |
I heard the snap of a whip coming from the forest. |
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| 15 | 134 |
The fellow who had arrested our progress, then, with a snap of wings and a shower of dust, departed the field. |
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| 17 | 7 |
I heard the snap of his fingers, and I knew I must lift my head, that I might be regarded. |
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| 25 | 304 |
She might behave as before, should it be his wish, as it may be, but, too, if he wishes, he might snap his fingers, speak a simple word, point to the floor, or such, and he will have at his disposal something seemingly quite different, something free women can only enviously suspect, to their rage, ... |
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| 43 | 758 |
What I would have given to have her leaping, frightened, to the snap of my whip. |
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| 43 | 1100 |
I had no doubt the lari was well trained, but it had two trainers, not one, surely for some reason, and I knew that the training of such beasts might suddenly snap, unexpectedly vanish, and be as naught. |
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| 47 | 51 |
I imagined her, exhibited naked on the block, in chains, dancing to the flute and tabor, to the snap of the auctioneer's whip, her belly promising untold pleasure to the master who would buy her. |
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| 50 | 530 |
There was a ring in the back of the collar and, in a moment, by a chain and two snap locks I was fastened to a heavy ring behind me, set deeply in the logs of the kennel. |
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| 50 | 894 |
There was a snap of his whip. |
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| 50 | 897 |
I heard the snap of his whip, twice more. |
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| 50 | 899 |
There was another snap of the whip, and the slaves who were in the clearing, hurried back into the kennel. |
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| 52 | 936 |
The usual cast with such a knife is overhand, with a powerful snap of the wrist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 390 |
I heard a fan snap open and shut, twice, nervously. |
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| 12 | 432 |
I heard the metal fan snap open and shut. |
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| 15 | 54 |
"Behold," said Lord Akio, with a snap flinging the fan into a circle, and then, with a thumb, locking the blades in place. |
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| 21 | 371 |
I heard a cry of pain, the snap of mighty wings, and dust carried even to where I stood, wavering, looking backward. |
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| 25 | 124 |
Indeed, the waters of the pool still stirred, and more than once I saw the glistening back of an eel break the surface, and then snap away with a spattering of water. |
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| 29 | 412 |
"No!" There was a snap and the device, encircling her throat, was closed. |
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| 30 | 333 |
She heard a snap, and sensed something on her neck, about the collar. |
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| 43 | 144 |
"And how often, in my mind, I marched her naked on her leash, before me, on familiar, busy streets, pausing from time to time to exchange pleasantries with others, who were also walking their slaves, the slaves then kneeling, head down, beside us, while we conversed, until, with a snap of the leash,... |
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| 44 | 142 |
* * * Overhead was the snap of wings, like whips, and, below, on the parapets, flighted shadows darted on the walkways, and then, smaller, on the valley below. |
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| 47 | 248 |
The only sound had been that of the snap of the flat of a blade against a slender, narrow, swirling cylinder of wood. |
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| 61 | 130 |
That night, about the Twentieth Ahn, the silhouette of a tarn was cast briefly on the white moon, and, a bit later, the snap of mighty wings disturbed the canvas of several tents. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 470 |
I heard a snap, as it was fastened there. |
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| 9 | 204 |
I then felt leather about my neck, and the snap of a leash. |
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| 9 | 736 |
Then the thing, with a snap of its long, smooth body, had darted away. |
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| 11 | 47 |
Too, sometimes a pole would snap. |
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| 19 | 59 |
In the darkness I heard the snap of a fire maker, and, a moment later, by means of its tiny flame, the tharlarion-oil lamp was alight, and I saw the room about, flickering, yellow, eerie, and empty. |
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| 24 | 30 |
Shortly thereafter I heard the ascent of the dangling mounting ladder, the sound of restless talons on wood, and the snap of wings. |
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| 24 | 82 |
I heard the snap, and realized I wore a new collar. |
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| 37 | 90 |
"Let the whip snap," she said, "and you would writhe, and beg, as desperately and piteously as any other vended property, as any other toy offered for the sport of masters". |
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| 46 | 369 |
And, in the end, of course, they may simply snap their whip, so to speak, and put her back on her knees. |
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| 53 | 126 |
The leash was of chain, of course, that Lyris, with one bite, with one snap of those jaws, might not part it. |
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| 61 | 589 |
I myself thought they might snap a stout branch in two. |
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| 63 | 156 |
We cried out in fear for there was a sudden sound, striking us like a bludgeon, a sudden snap of wings, great wings, not twenty feet from us, over us, air rushing about us, buffeting us, we covered for an instant by a vast, fleet shadow. |
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| 63 | 272 |
We suddenly heard the snap of a whip, and a cry of pain. |
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| 65 | 29 |
He undid the gate, and we were thrust through the gate, into the water, and almost before we could turn, standing in the now-cold, waist-high water, we heard the gate close and the snap of the two heavy locks that held it in place. |
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| 67 | 39 |
At the same time I heard a snap, and my master's leash had been again fastened to the ring on my leather leash collar, fitted over my regular collar. |
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| 68 | 143 |
There was a snap of a whip from the kitchen, and a cry of pain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 162 |
"I imagine you would dance quickly enough," I said, "to the snap of a whip". |
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| 8 | 69 |
I loved the sound of the timbers of the ship, creaking, the sound of the long yard, responding to the wind, the occasional snap of the canvas. |
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| 8 | 183 |
There was a snap of canvas, and the ship surged ahead. |
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| 22 | 146 |
I heard the snap of a fire-maker and became aware that the Lady Dorna was igniting some of the powder she had deposited in the small fire tray. |
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| 34 | 100 |
"You are no different from thousands of others," he said, "dark-haired, shapely meat, block goods, begging, moaning beasts, juicing at a snap of the fingers, melting and ready as soon as a master deigns to look upon you. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 44 |
I heard an oar snap and then another. |
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