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| 11 | 58 |
I wondered if, on my own planet, there was not a similar market, invisible but present, and just as much accepted, a market in which women were sold, except that they sold themselves, were themselves both merchandise and merchant. |
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| 1 | 5 |
Nonetheless, such coincidences, even if they are only geographical, linger in family memory—our small challenge to the ledgers and arithmetic of an existence measured in bolts of cloth sold. |
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| 5 | 36 |
She had been sold in Ar on the Day of the Love Feast and had been purchased by an agent of my father. |
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| 5 | 91 |
"I did ride once before on the back of a tarn," she said bitterly, "to Ar, bound across the saddle, before I was sold in the Street of Brands". |
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| 8 | 186 |
"At best, I would be picked up by slavers and sold in the Street of Brands". |
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| 11 | 49 |
There Talena watched, thrilled, as girls, several of whom she had known in the caravan, were placed on the large, rounded wooden block and sold, one by one, to the highest bidder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 24 | 187 |
Then treacherously I was set upon and sent to the Mines of Tharna, and Dorna the Proud and Thorn, this Captain, seized Lara, your Tatrix, and sold her into slavery—sold her to the slaver Targo, whose camp is now at the Fair of En'Kara, sold her for the sum of fifty silver tarn disks!" "What h... |
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| 2 | 76 |
When the tarn is presented to a warrior, or sold to one, the whistle accompanies the bird. |
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| 6 | 215 |
She stepped out from behind me, proud but resigned to her fate, ready to give herself over to these wretches to be collared and chained, stripped and sold in the markets of Gor. |
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| 9 | 66 |
By this flickering light I could read the faded lettering on the door: Kal-da sold here. |
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| 15 | 174 |
"Within two nights," I said, "you will stand stripped on the block at Ar and be sold to the highest bidder". |
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| 21 | 240 |
They had wanted to be sold to me—or, I supposed, to any man who would take them from the hated chain of Targo. |
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| 23 | 164 |
There I was seized by Dorna the Proud and Thorn, her accomplice, and sold into slavery. |
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| 24 | 2 |
The sign 'Kal-da sold here' had been repainted in bright letters. |
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| 24 | 183 |
"The slaver to whom you sold her," I added. |
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| 26 | 91 |
"And should I ever again be tempted to be proud or cruel," she said, a smile in her voice, "I shall merely remind myself that I was once sold for fifty silver tarn disks—and that a warrior once purchased me for only a scabbard and a helmet". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 74 |
Although no one may be enslaved at the fair, slaves may be bought and sold within its precincts, and slavers do a thriving business, exceeded perhaps only by that of Ar's Street of Brands. |
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| 8 | 153 |
The results of these raids might be returned to Treve or sold, perhaps even at the Fair of En'Kara, or another of the four great Sardar Fairs, or, if not, they could always be disposed of easily without question in distant, crowded, malignant Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 37 |
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap... |
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| 10 | 17 |
Yesterday afternoon, for an incredible forty pieces of gold, four quivas and the saddle of a kaiila, Kamchak had sold Tenchika back to Albrecht. |
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| 10 | 109 |
"Sold?" "You said she had fat ankles," I reminded her. |
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| 10 | 118 |
Now, again, Elizabeth, visibly shaken, ill, realized that she might, should it please Kamchak's whims, be sold or exchanged with the same ease as a saddle or a hunting sleen. |
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| 10 | 119 |
She had seen Tenchika sold. |
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| 10 | 130 |
No, it was best that Elizabeth Cardwell believe I had callously sold the lovely Dina of Turia. |
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| 11 | 88 |
"No," said Kamchak, taking her hair and giving her head a friendly shake, "I would not have sold you for all the gold in Turia". |
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| 11 | 261 |
"They were sold," Elizabeth informed Aphris. |
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| 11 | 264 |
"I do not suppose I shall be fortunate enough to be sold?" "She would probably bring a high price," pointed out Elizabeth, hopefully. |
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| 12 | 290 |
"Will I be sold?" she asked. |
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| 12 | 495 |
I supposed that, on the whole, she was perhaps distraught because she feared she might soon be supplanted as first girl in the wagon, indeed, that she might soon be sold. |
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| 16 | 189 |
The wench I sold into slavery. |
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| 23 | 206 |
Aphris had, according to the woman, fallen into the hands of the Paravaci who had looted Kamchak's wagon; Elizabeth's fate she did not know; I gathered, of course, from the fact that Elizabeth had been sent to another wagon that Kamchak had sold her. |
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| 24 | 12 |
I knew that Kamchak was in constant touch, by means of riders, with the wagons of the Tuchuks, and so I did not speak with him of the looting of his wagon, nor of the fate of Aphris of Turia, nor did I deem it well to speak to him of Elizabeth Cardwell, for it seemed evident that he had sold her, an... |
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| 25 | 301 |
Even peasants pick up such women, using them in the fields, until they can be sold to the first passing slaver. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 139 |
At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl... |
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| 4 | 188 |
"I am only a girl from the islands north of Cos, taken by pirates of Port Kar, sold to a tarnsman, carried to and sold again in the city of Turia, and hence for twenty boskhides traded to the Tuchuks, where I was ringed and branded". |
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| 19 | 122 |
Among the crowd, though it was predominantly male, there were, as I might have mentioned, several women, perhaps one in ten or fifteen; many of these were doubtless rich, and of High Caste; some of them were probably interested in picking up a serving slave; kettle wenches, so to speak, would probab... |
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| 2 | 272 |
We have bred, captured, trained, exchanged and sold slaves for half a millennium. |
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| 2 | 309 |
"Men even go to see them sold, out of curiosity, for they either stand there, numb, not moving, or scream and fight, or cry out in their barbarian tongues". |
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| 4 | 191 |
"I was abducted, later sold to Turians". |
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| 4 | 193 |
"I was later sold in Tor," she said, "far to the north of Turia. |
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| 4 | 194 |
A year later, by slave wagon, I reached the fair of Se'Var near the Sardar, where I was sold to the House of Clark, from which house I and many others were fortunate enough to be purchased by the House of Cernus, in Glorious Ar". |
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| 5 | 497 |
Papers will be prepared on you and you will be transmitted to the House of Clark in Thentis, whence you will be taken by tarn caravan to Ar, where you will be sold privately, your purchase to be effected by the agents of the House of Cernus, under the instructions of Caprus". |
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| 8 | 61 |
Earth girls, I knew, were usually sold as untrained barbarians at inferior prices. |
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| 8 | 79 |
She was generally intrigued, though frightened when I spoke of the thing called the beast, and distressed when I mentioned the girls brought from Earth, to be sold as slaves from the House of Cernus. |
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| 9 | 24 |
Although there are some private show and sales rooms in the House of Cernus, and private auctions and exhibitions, intended to interest prospective clients, are held, most slaves, of the House of Cernus and others, are sold in one of the five public auction houses, licensed and taxed by the Administ... |
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| 9 | 27 |
To be sold from the Curulean great block is almost a guarantee of a rich master, and a luxurious pleasant life, though it be, of course, only that of a slave. |
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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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| 9 | 30 |
This type of thing is at its worst when large numbers of girls must be sold, as when a city has fallen. |
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| 9 | 31 |
Then, stripped, chained by the throat, in a long chain of girls, each separated from the other by about ten feet, secured not even by the dignity of a collar but only by a loop of the communal chain bolted or padlocked about her neck, each is dragged up the steps of the minor block, bid upon while a... |
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| 9 | 39 |
Female slaves, incidentally, are always sold barefoot. |
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| 9 | 43 |
At such private auctions, conducted secretly, Gorean slavers sometimes find it convenient to dispose of important, High Caste women without trace, sometimes even from the city of Ar itself, perhaps women who have lived proudly, luxuriously, not more than a pasang or two from the rounded, wooden bloc... |
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| 11 | 179 |
The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w... |
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| 11 | 359 |
"And when your training is complete you will be placed on a block and sold". |
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| 12 | 373 |
I also saw a booth where sandals were sold, cheap and poorly sewn, which the seller was proclaiming were of the same sort as those worn by Menicius of Port Kar. |
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| 13 | 132 |
She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade... |
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| 13 | 152 |
"I hope she is sold in Port Kar". |
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| 13 | 281 |
On the other hand, the business managers of the factions have little sentiment, and an unprofitable tarn, like an unprofitable or useless slave, is customarily sold or destroyed. |
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| 14 | 135 |
Between them they handled better than seventy percent of the flesh purchased, exchanged and sold in the city. |
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| 14 | 193 |
"I will have her hair shaved off," said Cernus, "and have her bound and hooded and sent by tarn to another city, Tor perhaps, where she will be publicly sold". |
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| 15 | 122 |
After two months of such treatment, Cernus, perhaps because he wearied of her body, or because he felt she was now ready, now at the height of her hatreds and miseries, ordered her sent to Tor, where, I heard, she was collared, marked and publicly sold during the ninth passage hand, that preceding t... |
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| 15 | 149 |
I recalled a girl once known, named Sana, who had been sold in Ar during those days, who had become the consort of Kazrak, once Administrator of Ar. |
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| 15 | 255 |
"Do you think we will be sold at the Curulean?" asked Virginia of me. |
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| 15 | 282 |
"I am unworthy of being sold at the Curulean". |
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| 15 | 365 |
But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a... |
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| 17 | 244 |
Let them think that they were to be sold from the block. |
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| 17 | 305 |
"You will be sold tomorrow!" cried Lana. |
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| 17 | 320 |
"Tomorrow," she said, "I will be sold". |
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| 17 | 323 |
"I do not want Virginia to be sold," she wept, "unless it be Relius who will buy her". |
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| 17 | 381 |
"I'm glad I'm going to be sold," cried Phyllis. |
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| 17 | 441 |
"Every girl," she said, "should be sold at least once in her life". |
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| 17 | 470 |
"Tomorrow, White Silker," she said, "you will be sold but Lana will still be in the House of Cernus". |
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| 17 | 481 |
"Yes," said Ho-Tu, "you will be sold tomorrow on the Love Feast". |
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| 17 | 647 |
"She was sold when I was five," she said. |
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| 18 | 540 |
"It will be time enough, afterward," said he, "for her to learn that she has been truly sold". |
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| 19 | 5 |
Many were the furious Gorean slave girls who found themselves, early in the Love Feast, forced to ascend the block while buyers were still waiting, before the larger quantities of gold would be spent, to be sold for prices less than they might otherwise have won for themselves under the conditions o... |
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| 19 | 42 |
Some girls, whom the House had determined late would be sold, arrive at the Curulean with a small leather cylinder tied about their collar, which contains their papers, which girl is then, by the staff of the Curulean, assigned a lot number. |
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| 19 | 66 |
One striking set of mosaics details a slave raid from its initial planning phases through the successful return of the Slavers, on tarnback, to Ar with their stunning victims; another picks up this story from the registration and training of prizes to the block of the Curulean itself; another record... |
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| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
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| 19 | 85 |
This was surprising because the hour was still early; I supposed the crowd this night would be unusually large, even for the fourth night of the Love Feast; none of the citizens had paid much attention to my being brought under guard to the box of Cernus; he was Ubar; it is not unusual on Gor for a ... |
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| 19 | 94 |
I wondered if Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, were yet in the ready cells, being prepared; I judged it unlikely, for they would probably be sold late, and would not be prepared until the sales were in progress; the last touches of their makeup might not even be made until minutes before they as... |
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| 19 | 139 |
A girl in the Curulean is seldom sold for less than two gold pieces. |
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| 19 | 146 |
Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these... |
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| 19 | 148 |
The pair was eventually sold to a collector for ten gold pieces; I trust the security of his Pleasure Gardens is superb, else he might waken to a knife at his throat and the demand for a tarn, and, perhaps eventually, in the rags of a slave, a seat on the bench of a cargo galley. |
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| 19 | 159 |
She was sold for twenty-five gold pieces. |
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| 19 | 163 |
Lana, I recognized, who was sold for four gold pieces. |
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| 19 | 250 |
"I wonder," he said, "how she will feel when she learns she has been truly sold?" "Put a sword in my hand," said I, "and face me!" Cernus laughed and turned his attention again to the block. |
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| 19 | 269 |
It was a tribute in its way, the honoring by way of awe this magnificent captive female, to be sold. |
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| 19 | 367 |
Inwardly I raged, but too I was overcome with horror, for I could not allow even in my imagination that the girls might be sold to one of Port Kar. |
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| 19 | 450 |
"The women are sold!" he cried. |
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| 19 | 455 |
"You shall! We have many sets of barbarians to present for your consideration and pleasure! Do not be disappointed! There are more! There are many more barbarians to be sold, beautiful and splendid lots, superbly trained!" The crowd trembled with excitement. |
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| 19 | 471 |
It was then she understood herself sold. |
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| 20 | 119 |
It is said that once, when a slave dropped a mirror, she had the poor girl's ears and nose cut off, and then sold the then worthless wench". |
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| 21 | 77 |
"What a man! That is his fifth opponent downed this afternoon!" "What of the girls sold at the Curulean?" I asked. |
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| 24 | 165 |
They were ordered to Port Kar, in chains, to be sold to the galleys. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 |
For example, I had even heard arguments to the effect that peasants used the long bow only because they lacked the manufacturing capability to produce crossbows, as though they could not have traded their goods or sold animals to obtain crossbows, if they wished. |
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| 3 | 82 |
Between Se'Kara and the winter solstice, which occurs on the first of Se'Var, the rence will be sold or bartered, sometimes by taking it to the edge of the delta, sometimes by being contacted by rence merchants, who enter the delta in narrow barges, rowed by slaves, in order to have first pick of th... |
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| 3 | 84 |
With the year's rence sold, the communities do not care to lie too closely to one another; the primary reason is that, in doing so, they would present too inviting a target for the "tax collectors" of Port Kar. |
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| 8 | 696 |
"As I recall," she said, "you are going to take us all to Port Kar, to be sold as slaves". |
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| 9 | 561 |
"I have sold her for five," said the proprietor, "to this noble gentleman. |
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| 10 | 276 |
Those I did not wish, for one reason or another, to free, I sold to other captains, or exchanged them for slaves whom I might free, several of whom, when freed, also agreed to serve with me. |
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| 13 | 236 |
Besides, I was not, considering that I was about to be sold to the galleys, in a particularly bad mood. |
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| 13 | 515 |
Even so I found myself pressed and, to ease the difficulties of wharfage and mooring rights, I sold many a round ship taken, and some of the inferior long ships. |
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| 17 | 296 |
He had cut a throat for that coin, to buy silks and perfumes for a woman, but one who fled with another man; Ha-Keel had hunted them, slain in combat the man and sold the woman into slavery. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 220 |
Several of my workmates were sold, and others, captured, brought in on tarnback, took their place, perhaps to be sold as well in their turn. |
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| 7 | 52 |
Even more important she had once been sold even from the great block of the Curulean. |
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| 7 | 54 |
We were hoping that she would be sold, but Targo was holding out for an extremely high price for her. |
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| 7 | 103 |
Targo sold two girls, and, with some extra gold, purchased two wagons and two teams of bosk, as well as supplies of water and food. |
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| 7 | 167 |
Targo had sold two girls. |
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| 7 | 266 |
I wished that Lana would be sold. |
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| 7 | 273 |
Strangely I gave little thought to the possibility that I might be sold. |
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| 7 | 291 |
And suddenly, the thought struck me, and seemed to shake me, as it had not before, that I was merchandise, that I could be sold, and would then belong, like a dog, or a cat, or a pig, to a master, and would then be his to do with as he pleased—perfectly. |
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| 7 | 322 |
Targo sold two girls that afternoon. |
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| 7 | 528 |
"You will learn when you are sold to him," said Targo. |
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| 8 | 66 |
He had sold four girls before reaching the banks of the Laurius. |
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| 8 | 107 |
And that, too, is the way they sell them, that all the world may know that they fell slave to females, who then sold them". |
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| 8 | 133 |
"He sold me". |
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| 8 | 235 |
"It would not be well to be sold in Laura". |
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| 8 | 236 |
"I do not care where I am sold," said Ute. |
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| 8 | 244 |
I suddenly became afraid that I might be sold in this river port to spend the rest of my life as the slave of a fisherman or woodsman, cooking and tending his hut. |
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| 8 | 245 |
What a fate for Elinor Brinton! I must not be sold here! I must not! One of the extra bargemen came and, with his heavy key, unlocked the large padlock that secured the gate of our slave cage. |
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| 8 | 561 |
I did not even have an objection to being sold in Laura. |
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| 8 | 589 |
There were sixteen girls in the chain now, for Targo had sold four before coming to Laura. |
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| 8 | 591 |
They were to be sold in Ar. |
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| 8 | 624 |
"Of all the slave girls sold, however," observed Inge, "very few are purchased for taverns". |
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| 9 | 493 |
I could indeed be purchased, and bought and sold. |
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| 10 | 59 |
That decision had alarmed me, but, too, it had appealed to my vanity, and I do not think I would have cared to have been sold as anything less. |
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| 10 | 282 |
They may be distributed or sold, as we please, to further our ends or increase our profits". |
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| 10 | 464 |
"I was not brought to Gor, was I," I asked, "to be a simple female slave, simply to be given, or sold, to a master?" "I told you," he reminded me, "that at the age of seventeen you were marked for abduction. |
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| 11 | 153 |
Indeed, even if a master does not leave the city, it is not unknown for him to send a girl to the private pens, that her value to him, and to others, if she be sold, might be improved. |
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| 11 | 771 |
And even if I should serve them, might I not then, that I might not fall into the hands of their enemies, or reveal their plans and plotting, be slain? And even if I did serve them, and they, in their lenience, spared me, I knew that I would be kept by them only as a girl, another slave, to be sold ... |
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| 11 | 850 |
Also, recalling that I had been sold for only one hundred arrowpoints, for some reason, irritated me. |
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| 11 | 884 |
"They sold me to a man. |
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| 11 | 1124 |
It was said that when he used a woman, he then branded her, with his name, as though she, once used, no matter to whom she might afterwards be given or sold, could truly belong only to him. |
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| 11 | 1164 |
I did not wish to be sold until we reached Ar. |
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| 11 | 1165 |
I wished to be sold from the great block of the Curulean Auction House. |
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| 11 | 1199 |
"She should be sold to a scribe," said the man. |
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| 11 | 1392 |
She had captured me, and sold me for a hundred arrow points! How humiliating, and insulting! I was worth gold! Gold! Perhaps Marlenus, her captor, would choose to put her on the block! Perhaps she would sell for a hundred arrow points! But I would bring gold, much gold! I looked about at the slave f... |
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| 11 | 1426 |
I was theirs, their slave! But after I was sold, then could I, though slave, conquer! What could a girl do locked in a cage with other girls, some of them perhaps almost as beautiful as she? I was a slave girl. |
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| 12 | 46 |
It would be weeks before we could reach Ar, where we would be sold. |
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| 12 | 151 |
"You have never forgotten your former master, who sold you". |
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| 12 | 153 |
What then did she expect, as a slave? It was no wonder that he had ridded himself of her, that she had been sold. |
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| 12 | 365 |
Once again we were goods, female slaves, on our way to be sold in Ar. |
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| 12 | 399 |
I wanted to be sold in Ar, to be free of them! I wanted to be a pampered, perfumed girl, with jewels and cosmetics and silks, the pet and favorite of an indulgent master, whom I might control. |
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| 12 | 415 |
I wanted to get swiftly to Ar, and to be sold, to be free of them all! I wanted to begin my new and pleasant life. |
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| 13 | 112 |
She, and the others, were sold to merchants, who met the slavers at a secret cove, buying from them their catch. |
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| 13 | 113 |
They were then transported overland in slave wagons to the Sardar, where they were sold at the great spring fair of En'Kara. |
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| 13 | 114 |
When she was sold, from the block, over the palisade, she could see the peaks of the Sardar. |
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| 13 | 116 |
Then she was taken by a master, with others of his slaves, again to the Sardar, again to be sold, to defray business debts resulting from the loss of a caravan of salt wagons. |
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| 13 | 122 |
To her horror, he had sold her. |
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| 13 | 793 |
I would probably just be sold, or given away. |
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| 13 | 816 |
"You should be sold to a peddler," he said. |
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| 13 | 824 |
"You are unworthy of being sold in Ar," he said. |
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| 13 | 825 |
"Perhaps you might be sold at a smaller town, a village, or a border outpost". |
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| 13 | 833 |
"I will bring a higher price if I am sold white silk!" "You mistake me, Lady," said he, courteously, "if you think that I am interested only in gold". |
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| 13 | 918 |
"Accordingly," I said, "I should be sold in Ar. |
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| 13 | 920 |
My price will be higher if I am sold white silk". |
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| 14 | 499 |
Often she begs to be sold to a foreign merchant. |
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| 15 | 48 |
"The first girl of the work slaves," said Ute, "had been sold shortly before my capture. |
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| 17 | 14 |
"Will they be sold in the Curulean?" asked a nearby warrior. |
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| 17 | 128 |
I loved him, I did not want to be sold. |
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| 17 | 205 |
I had been sold for nine pieces of gold. |
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| 17 | 210 |
* * * * I was sold from the great block of the Curulean, in Ar, for twelve pieces of gold, purchased by the master of a paga tavern, who thought his patrons might enjoy amusing themselves with me, a girl who wore penalty brands. |
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| 17 | 278 |
I was sold, for fifteen pieces of gold, to the house of Samos, a slaver of Port Kar. |
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| 17 | 282 |
Tellius, who would, upon occasion, need new girls in the kitchen, as others were given away or sold, was intrigued. |
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| 17 | 284 |
The subordinate, though in the absence of Samos, thinking to please him, sold me to Tellius for only fifteen pieces of gold, which price he had paid. |
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| 17 | 413 |
He sold me," I said. |
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| 17 | 424 |
"They may even have seen you sold," said Bosk. |
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| 17 | 428 |
"I once saw a most beautiful woman sold from that block". |
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| 17 | 434 |
"Rask of Treve," I said, "sold me. |
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| 17 | 447 |
I knew that he did not want me for he had sold me, but I was content in the knowledge that he, whom I loved, lived. |
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| 17 | 448 |
I did not believe that my master, Bosk, was correct in his conjectures that the warrior of Treve had come to Port Kar to find me, for he had sold me. |
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| 17 | 470 |
I am happier now, than I have been, though I still beg, upon occasion, that I might be sold from this house. |
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| 1 | 193 |
The strip which had been shaven on his head, from the forehead to the back of the neck, signified that he had been captured, and sold, by the panther girls of the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 194 |
It is among the greatest shames that a man can know, that he had been enslaved by women, who had then, when weary of him, sold him, taking their profit on him. |
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| 2 | 268 |
"These women could be sold in Ar," cried Arn, "for ten gold pieces each!" "Perhaps," said Rim, "but we are not in Ar". |
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| 2 | 339 |
"This was the exchange point," said Rim to me, "where I myself was sold". |
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| 2 | 392 |
I recalled that it had been by Verna and her band that Rim had been sold. |
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| 2 | 436 |
Rim had been captured by Verna and her band, but he had been chained, raped and enslaved not far from the very exchange point where he was sold, this very point. |
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| 2 | 476 |
It was not unknown that among the bands in the forests, a male might be sold for as little as a handful of such candies. |
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| 2 | 504 |
Such men tend to be sold in women's auctions, closed to free men, with the exception, of course, of the auctioneer and such personnel. |
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| 3 | 25 |
I must seek Talena! Thurnock, at my command, had this morning sold the two panther girls, Tana and Ela, at the slave market. |
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| 3 | 77 |
They would not be sold in Lydius, but, the cages emptied, would be taken by sea, chained in the holds of slave ships, to southern markets. |
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| 3 | 79 |
They had probably been sold near Laura, or along the river. |
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| 3 | 84 |
"What price did you obtain for the panther girls you sold?" I asked Thurnock. |
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| 3 | 372 |
She understood now, fully, that she was being sold. |
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| 3 | 406 |
"Sold to the captain!" called the man. |
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| 4 | 197 |
I was sold for one hundred arrow points. |
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| 4 | 273 |
It was something of a coincidence that the two girls had both that name, the one sold this morning, the other now chained before me. |
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| 4 | 351 |
She was surely as beautiful as she had been, when she had been sold in Ar. |
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| 6 | 36 |
"If they did not use you as their slave themselves," I said, "you would be soon sold". |
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| 7 | 105 |
Some of the panther girls themselves, when sold to new masters, might find themselves just such paga slaves, girls precisely such as they would have scorned upon first being brought captive to my camp. |
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| 9 | 285 |
"I would see Hura, and her high girls," she said, "sold as slaves to men". |
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| 11 | 65 |
She is simply an object, to be bartered, or bought or sold. |
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| 12 | 44 |
I, and my men, would have been raped and sold, summarily, had we not been rescued by the great Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars. |
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| 12 | 54 |
Verna was now property, to be bid upon, and bought and sold by any free man. |
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| 12 | 124 |
I was furious! I had failed to rescue Talena! She had been disowned! I and my men had fallen to panther girls! We would have been raped and sold slave had we not been rescued by the incomparable Marlenus of Ar. |
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| 12 | 131 |
Why had we not been raped and sold? Because we had been saved by Marlenus, the great Ubar, the Ubar of Ubars! He had saved us. |
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| 13 | 358 |
"You will be sold in Port Kar," I said. |
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| 14 | 189 |
It was for that reason that she would be sold in Port Kar. |
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| 14 | 249 |
We would have been raped and sold slave had not Marlenus, with almost casual insolence, rescued us. |
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| 15 | 156 |
When I was finished with her I would have her sold in Port Kar. |
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| 15 | 397 |
I would have her sold in Port Kar. |
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| 15 | 555 |
"How were you sold?" I asked. |
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| 15 | 556 |
"I was sold privately to Hesius of Laura," she said. |
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| 15 | 623 |
"You were sold. |
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| 15 | 758 |
"You will be sold". |
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| 15 | 801 |
"Do you ask that it be she who is sold in Port Kar?" I asked. |
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| 15 | 809 |
"I will tell her that she is to be sold in Port Kar". |
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| 15 | 819 |
"I asked for you to be sold in Port Kar," she said. |
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| 15 | 883 |
"It is you," I told her, "who will be sold in Port Kar". |
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| 16 | 318 |
Slave pens are often filled with girls, second and third collar girls, begging to be sold. |
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| 18 | 46 |
I would have her sold in Port Kar. |
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| 22 | 354 |
"Those who were crews from Tyros on the Rhoda and Tesephone," I said, "will be taken to Port Kar and sold on the wharves as slaves. |
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| 22 | 581 |
The men of Tyros, who had sought his capture, were mostly dead or to be sold as slaves. |
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| 22 | 860 |
"And then," said I, "see that she is sold in Port Kar". |
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| 22 | 862 |
She would be sold in Port Kar, a great slave-clearing port. |
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| 22 | 863 |
Perhaps she would be sold south to Schendi or Bazi, or north to a jarl of Torvaldsland, Scagnar or Hunjer, or across Thassa to Tabor or Asperiche, or taken up the Vosk in a cage to an inland city, perhaps eventually to find herself in Ko-ro-ba, Thentis or Tharna, or even Ar itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 276 |
He sold me to a salt merchant". |
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| 1 | 339 |
She seemed startled that she had sold for so small a sum. |
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| 10 | 89 |
In the crowd, too, much in evidence, were brazen bondmaids; they had been brought to the Thing, generally, by captains and Jarls; it is not unusual for men to bring such slaves with them, though they are not permitted near the law courts or the assemblies of deliberation; the voyages to the Thing we... |
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| 10 | 140 |
She had been brought to the Thing to be sold off. |
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| 10 | 332 |
They are not for sale, though many are sold from the platform. |
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| 10 | 361 |
One of the great fears of a slave girl is that she will be sold to a woman. |
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| 10 | 417 |
She gave the other girls crumbs of the pastry and permitted Dagmar, who was to be sold off, to lick frosting from her fingers. |
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| 10 | 424 |
Dagmar had, two months ago, stolen a piece of cheese from Pretty Ankles; she had been beaten for that, at the post, fastened there by Ottar and switched by Pretty Ankles, until Pretty Ankles had tired of switching her; too, she had not been found sufficiently pleasing by several of the Forkbeard's o... |
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| 10 | 426 |
Dagmar was sold. |
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| 10 | 567 |
Since the Nest War the probes of aliens had grown more bold, even on Gor; they had little difficulty in taking female slaves on Earth; gold, exchangeable for materials essential to their enterprises, was well guarded on Earth; it could seldom be obtained in quantities without attracting the attentio... |
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| 10 | 574 |
"I was sold in Ar," she said, "to a merchant from Cos. |
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| 18 | 510 |
"After the contest of beauty, in which, through the cheating of the judges, I lost, I was sold to the agent of another, a much greater one than a mere Rolf of Red Fjord. |
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| 21 | 58 |
Probably she will be sold in disgust. |
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| 22 | 145 |
When I returned to Port Kar I would arrange for an agent to buy her, if she had not already been sold to one who lusted for her and could pay her price. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 78 |
I probably would have sold her for a kettle girl. |
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| 1 | 280 |
"I am ready to be sold to a man!" she wept. |
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| 1 | 288 |
They are then sent naked to the block to be sold, in this state of cruel frustration. |
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| 1 | 539 |
When she is sold, then only, if the master wishes, he may say to her, "You may look into the eyes of your master". |
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| 2 | 128 |
There I had sold the bird, for I did not wish to be conspicuous in Tor, as I would surely be as a tarnsman. |
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| 2 | 146 |
Sometimes a girl is not branded until she is first sold. |
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| 2 | 171 |
The tarn I had sold in Kasra, for four golden tarn disks. |
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| 2 | 217 |
Sometimes they find themselves being sold in markets at obscure oases. |
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| 2 | 315 |
I wanted to keep her, save for some refinements, a free woman of Earth, wearing a collar, until she was sold. |
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| 2 | 321 |
I paused before a given stall, where light, walking chains were being sold. |
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| 2 | 368 |
Djellabas and burnooses, sleeveless, hooded desert cloaks, were being sold in another stall. |
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| 2 | 371 |
I passed another stall, in which mats were being sold. |
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| 2 | 390 |
She was being sold to pay her father's gambling debts. |
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| 2 | 406 |
Even if she were not to be sold by the magistracy of Tor I thought it not unlikely that she would fall to the noose of a slaver. |
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| 2 | 572 |
"She was sold for four tarsks," said the officer. |
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| 2 | 589 |
I was satisfied that he did not know to whom had been sold the girl Veema, 87432, Turian Pen Number. |
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| 5 | 583 |
"I know, Master," she said, "you will do with me exactly what you please, but I would bring a higher price, surely, if I were sold to a rich man". |
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| 5 | 715 |
I had later sent Tab, one of my captains, a trusted man, to Lydius to buy her, but already had she been sold. |
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| 5 | 787 |
If she did not kill her, she would have soon sold her, probably to a woman, or, for a pittance, to the most despicable master she could find. |
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| 8 | 215 |
"What happens to them?" "They are taken to oases, to be sold," she said. |
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| 12 | 89 |
The beauty of a woman can only be judged well when she is naked, as female slaves are sold. |
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| 12 | 100 |
"What," I asked the girl, "is the fate of the female slaves taken from Red Rock?" "Even now," she said, "under guard, in wagons, they are bound for the markets of Tor, where they will be sold". |
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| 13 | 243 |
She had been the proud free woman, sold at Two Scimitars, with Zina, the traitress. |
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| 13 | 244 |
It was difficult now to see in this lascivious, delicious slave, who seemed born to the collar, the proud free woman whom Hassan had earlier captured, and who had been later sold at the Bakah oasis of Two Scimitars. |
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| 15 | 5 |
Similarly, the heavy cylinders of salt, mined and molded at Klima, are carried on the backs of salt slaves from storage areas at Klima to storage areas in the desert, whence they are tallied, sold and distributed to caravans. |
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| 24 | 465 |
They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e... |
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| 26 | 21 |
Only some few hundred would journey as far as Tor, and those largely to conduct herded slaves to the fine markets of that city, which is the Tahari clearing house for slaves to be sold north. |
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| 26 | 29 |
Before the first girl, barefoot, nude, ascends the block, to be sold, much must be done. |
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| 26 | 71 |
We did not know to whom she had been sold. |
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| 26 | 152 |
"Will I be sold in Tor," she asked. |
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| 26 | 154 |
"You will be sold nude in Tor, from a slave block". |
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| 26 | 155 |
"To whom will I be sold?" she asked. |
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| 26 | 233 |
After that, no longer of use to the agents of Priest-Kings, he could be sold south, into the Tahari. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 28 | 131 |
Most girls are sold singly, but sometimes they are sold in groups, in matched pairs or larger sets, usually with a theme, such as blond hair or a given dialect. |
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| 28 | 165 |
If a Ubara of a conquered city, for example, were to be sold, it would, customarily, be in such a special sale, unless the victorious Ubar, he who had conquered her city and captured her, chose to have her sold, for his amusement, in a common sale and from an unimportant block. |
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| 3 | 543 |
When a girl is bought, of course, it is commonly because the man wants her, she, the female, and is willing to put down his hard-earned money for her and her alone, for she is alone; all she brings from the block is herself; she is a slave; she cannot bring wealth, power, or family connections; she ... |
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| 3 | 552 |
The girl who is bid upon and sold from the block wants to be bought because men have found her desirable, so desirable that they are willing to part with their silver, perhaps even with their very gold, to buy her; how miserable she would be to learn that it is only for her brand that she is valued. |
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| 3 | 653 |
These numerous anniversaries are deliciously celebrated, as they may be with a girl who is only a slave, and seldom forgotten; should such an anniversary be forgotten, should it be such that it is commonly celebrated, the girl redoubles her efforts to please, fearing she is to be soon sold. |
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| 4 | 275 |
I did not want to be sold! What a miserable, beautiful girl I saw in the mirror, the poor slave! How sorry I felt for that beauty. |
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| 4 | 956 |
Such a woman is usually, by intent, sold away from her city, delivered for a pittance to a foreign buyer. |
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| 4 | 979 |
In such forests, in certain territories, there roam bands of free women, the lithe, ferocious Panther Girls of Gor, but these despise and hate women not of their own fierce ilk; in particular do they revile and hold in contempt girls, beauties, who have been slaves to men; should such a girl, fleein... |
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| 5 | 836 |
It is a rare girl who, having tasted the mills or sul fields, does not beg her proprietor to be sold again on the open market, that she may attempt anew, and perhaps more successfully this time, to be pleasing to a man. |
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| 7 | 211 |
You will then be taken to the city of Ar and, from an unimportant block, in a cheap market, sold to the highest bidder". |
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| 7 | 226 |
She could be exchanged, or bought and sold, for whatever masters might wish. |
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| 7 | 629 |
Girls are usually sold under a name, it being easier then for the auctioneer to refer to them; too, for some reason, the intensity of the bidding often increases when a named girl is being vended; it makes, I suppose, the buying and selling much more exciting and personal; "See, Generous Buyers, the... |
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| 7 | 632 |
Tais was too fine a name for a slave; accordingly the lovely seventeen-year-old Gorean girl had been sold in Ko-ro-ba under the block name of Donna, a slave name calculated to excite Gorean buyers. |
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| 7 | 635 |
But Donna, though she had been adjudged fit for men and branded, was sold from the block in Ko-ro-ba to a visiting merchant, Kleomenes of Fortress of Saphronicus, who took her with him and gave her to his spoiled daughter, the Lady Sabina, as a woman's slave. |
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| 7 | 1149 |
"You can be bought or sold in any market," he said, "for a handful of copper tarsks". |
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| 7 | 1241 |
"I gave two away, and sold off three". |
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| 7 | 1243 |
"Sold?" "Yes," he said. |
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| 7 | 1258 |
"And yet you gave them away, or sold them?" "Yes". |
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| 7 | 1344 |
I knew I could be bought and sold for a handful of copper tarsks. |
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| 9 | 248 |
I am a pleasure slave, a pleasure slave! I should be purchased as such, and sold as such! It is what I am—a pleasure slave, a pleasure slave! I acknowledge this, and rejoice in it! I am a pleasure slave!" "Yes?" said Sandal Thong. |
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| 9 | 351 |
"Yes," she said, "I can be beaten, or sold or slain. |
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| 9 | 432 |
"I was sold once in Ar," she said. |
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| 9 | 925 |
There are many beauties, many of them even formerly free, who find themselves upon the block these days, being sold for a pittance of tarsks". |
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| 9 | 1174 |
"Have I not been sold, Mistress?" I asked. |
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| 9 | 1226 |
Today, I had thought that I was sold, and perhaps had been, but I did not know. |
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| 10 | 16 |
I was pleased that he had not sold me to peasants. |
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| 10 | 73 |
I had never been sold before. |
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| 11 | 28 |
I had been sold for six copper tarsks. |
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| 11 | 56 |
All he had left behind was she who had been Judy Thornton, six copper tarsks worth of sold she-slave. |
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| 11 | 397 |
She might be caught in the afternoon, enslaved in the evening and sold in the morning. |
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| 12 | 11 |
I was a different girl now from the one who had been sold for six copper tarsks to Borchoff, Captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
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| 12 | 41 |
The population in the slave quarters had changed somewhat; five girls had been sold to passing Turian merchants, affiliated with the keep, but, similarly, here and there, over the weeks, some six others had been acquired. |
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| 12 | 43 |
"You will not be sold, Dina," Sucha had said to me. |
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| 12 | 670 |
Had I been sold on Earth, of course, I would have counted as such a girl, a valuable slave, lovely, articulate, literate, highly educated, and such; on Earth, I would doubtless have brought my master a good price; on Gor, however, I was only another piece of illiterate collar meat. |
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| 13 | 8 |
Sucha, and others, had already been sold. |
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| 13 | 20 |
I had been sold before dawn at a slaver's camp on the outskirts of the city of Ar. |
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| 13 | 42 |
We were being sold in the auction house of Publius, on Ar's Street of Brands. |
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| 13 | 47 |
Did he not understand I was of Earth? I had been sold before, but not like this. |
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| 13 | 48 |
I was of Earth! Surely they could not truly be going to display me publicly and sell me at auction! I had been sold before, but privately. |
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| 13 | 102 |
Tonight you are to be sold". |
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| 13 | 168 |
We were to be sold. |
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| 13 | 173 |
But how could I be sold? They could sell the others, of course, for they were only common slaves. |
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| 13 | 269 |
I knew I had been sold by Rask of Treve to a slaver for fifteen copper tarsks. |
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| 13 | 270 |
The slaver who had purchased me had sold me to the house of Publius for twenty copper tarsks. |
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| 13 | 273 |
"Girl," said he to me, softly, menacingly, "you will, whether sold or not, spend this night in our pens. |
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| 13 | 391 |
I was being sold to the highest bidder. |
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| 13 | 392 |
And I knew that I was not being sold merely as a beautiful girl, for such a girl might have gone for twenty-one tarsks, but as something more, as a beautiful slave girl. |
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| 13 | 412 |
Before they had only looked upon me as merely another girl slave, to be sold from the block in her turn for a handful of copper tarsks. |
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| 13 | 439 |
How amused she would be, I thought, to see me being sold naked from a block. |
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| 13 | 440 |
"Sold to the Belled Collar for a silver tarsk!" said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 441 |
I had been sold. |
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| 13 | 466 |
I had been sold. |
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| 14 | 472 |
"I have sold you for two tarsks to these gentlemen," said Busebius. |
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| 15 | 100 |
She had seen me exhibited naked, and sold. |
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| 15 | 337 |
They may be bought and sold, and may easily change hands. |
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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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| 18 | 97 |
Does she not sometimes press her finger tips to her lips and then tenderly touch her finger tips to the claiming band locked snugly on her throat? She fears only that she may be sold, or given away. |
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| 20 | 589 |
Must I await him here, like a silken, caressable verr, unable to flee, observed in the day, chained at night? And if I were sold it might not be hard to track me, from master to master, by means of slave papers, merchants' records, and so on. |
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| 24 | 185 |
I must be silent, while men discussed whether or not I was to be sold. |
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| 27 | 63 |
I think several of them envied me my master, but I informed them that I was being taken to the Curulean, there to be sold. |
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| 27 | 83 |
"I sold her to a slaver," said he, "who specializes in the training of dancing girls". |
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| 27 | 686 |
I looked at the stout iron door, behind which I would be sold. |
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| 28 | 1 |
What Occurred at the Curulean The first time that one is sold it is the hardest. |
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| 28 | 10 |
Many girls have been sold here before. |
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| 28 | 13 |
On Gor, animals are commonly sold on blocks which are strewn with sawdust. |
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| 28 | 31 |
You have been sold. |
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| 28 | 32 |
* * * * Many girls dream of being sold in the Curulean. |
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| 28 | 113 |
The girl on my left, who would be sold after me, would be presented quite differently. |
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| 28 | 128 |
Even when a girl is not sold, if the sales have gone well, she is less likely to be whipped. |
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| 28 | 134 |
Most groups, however, are sold for field and kitchen work. |
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| 28 | 136 |
We did have two pairs to be sold tonight, one consisting of a singer and her lyre player, and another of identical twins, from the island of Tabor, named for its resemblance to the small Gorean drum of that name. |
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| 28 | 154 |
At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of the smallness of the house in... |
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| 28 | 158 |
The ideal, of course, is to be sold at the height of the sale. |
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| 28 | 163 |
Sometimes special sales, well-publicized, are held, in which as few as fifteen or twenty girls, of great quality or interest, are sold. |
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| 28 | 174 |
Each time we had moved one or two positions on the bench we knew that one or two of our sisters had been sold. |
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| 28 | 176 |
No girl ever grows completely used to being exhibited and sold. |
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| 28 | 180 |
The effect of this, being for a time relatively at ease, and then being forced suddenly to move ten times closer to the block tends, suddenly, to whet one's fears and anticipations anew; when one, psychologically, in spite of herself, had begun to feel a little safe one is suddenly hurried even clos... |
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| 28 | 196 |
I heard a roar of approval and I knew the girl on the block had been sold. |
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| 28 | 217 |
She was soon sold. |
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| 28 | 240 |
Then she was sold. |
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| 28 | 354 |
Yet he kept me as a slave! Perhaps it is only a slave who can be so bought and sold, and so desired. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 196 |
"Is she to be sold red-silk?" I asked Samos. |
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| 2 | 247 |
"Sold?" "Yes". |
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| 2 | 757 |
She would be soon sold off. |
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| 3 | 162 |
I did not know if the kurdah contained a free woman of high state or perhaps a prized female slave, naked and bejeweled, to be exhibited in a secret tent and privately sold. |
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| 3 | 173 |
They were being sold by merchants of Schendi, who had them from the rain forests of the interior. |
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| 3 | 433 |
Sales take place at night in the pavilion, from a sawdust-strewn block, under the light of torches, but girls may also be sold directly from the platforms. |
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| 3 | 434 |
Indeed, many girls are sold from the platforms. |
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| 3 | 438 |
These are usually sold in groups at wholesale prices in sales restricted to professional slavers, who will transport them to other markets, to dispose of them there. |
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| 3 | 460 |
Girls are not often sold from them. |
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| 3 | 477 |
She can be bought and sold. |
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| 3 | 716 |
I passed some booths where rep-cloth was being sold in bolts. |
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| 3 | 729 |
I recalled he had sold carvings to a dealer in curios earlier in the day. |
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| 3 | 744 |
Girls are seldom, if ever, of course, sold clothed. |
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| 3 | 850 |
Then they saw her sold. |
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| 3 | 1111 |
I remembered he had sold carvings to a corpulent, gross fellow, one whose booth had been set up in the street of the dealers in artifacts and curios. |
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| 3 | 1155 |
"We have been sold," whispered the dark-haired girl. |
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| 3 | 1196 |
There are many rich men at the fairs, and it is by far not the worst place in which a girl might find herself being sold. |
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| 3 | 1198 |
Certainly it is better than being sold from a cement shelf in a small town, from a sales barn in the countryside, from a dock in Schendi, and such. |
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| 3 | 1238 |
They would soon be sold. |
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| 3 | 1246 |
There is something charged and exhilarating about a slave market, the color, the movement, the excitement of the crowds, the bidding, the intensity, the lovely women being sold. |
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| 3 | 1258 |
The girl was sold for fifteen copper tarsks to a metal worker from Tor. |
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| 3 | 1269 |
She was sold for four copper tarsks. |
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| 4 | 325 |
I wondered who had bought the honor of Centius of Cos, to whom he had sold his integrity. |
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| 6 | 692 |
"I was seized and, though free, sold south as a slave". |
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| 6 | 709 |
"I was sold at Lydius," he said. |
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| 8 | 156 |
"Have you never considered," I asked, watching her, "what it would be like to be naked on a slave block, being sold to men, what it would be like to be a nude slave, owned, at the command of a master?" "No! No! No!" she cried. |
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| 10 | 53 |
"I sold the little slave whom you knew," he said. |
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| 15 | 617 |
"Audrey Brewster sold for tea and sugar!" she said. |
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| 15 | 645 |
"If I were to be taken south," she said, "would I be sold there?" "Doubtless," I said. |
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| 15 | 761 |
"On the block, of course," I said, "the girl is under the control of the auctioneer, who functions as her master while she is being sold. |
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| 15 | 787 |
Sometimes four hundred girls or more must be sold from a single block in a given night". |
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| 15 | 788 |
"One might be exhibited and sold before one scarcely knew what was occurring," she said. |
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| 15 | 824 |
"Are free women permitted to watch us being sold?" she asked. |
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| 15 | 830 |
It would be quite humiliating, one woman, a slave, being sold, while another woman, a free woman, observes". |
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| 15 | 987 |
"For I might be sold into them". |
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| 17 | 6 |
"I thought you had sold it to the dealer at the fair," I said. |
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| 17 | 7 |
"I sold carvings at the fair," said Imnak, "yes, but I did not sell this". |
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| 23 | 242 |
"Sarpelius and his men, before we sold them from the wharves as naked slaves, were persuaded to speak". |
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| 36 | 5 |
Some would be sold to traders in the spring; others might be kept in the camps, to serve the red hunters; they, male slave beasts, would be stronger than female slave beasts. |
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| 38 | 229 |
"And then I would have to go to whom I am sold, and serve him—and as a complete slave, in the fullest sense of the word". |
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| 38 | 245 |
"You could, currently," I said, "be bought and sold for a handful of copper coins". |
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| 38 | 264 |
"I have sold girls for all of those reasons, and many others," I said. |
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| 1 | 62 |
I had thought that he would have sold her, but he had not. |
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| 1 | 319 |
These, usually criminals and debtors, or prisoners taken in wars, then enslaved, are commonly sold cheaply and used for heavy labor. |
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| 1 | 683 |
"When his other women prisoners are put upon the block, let her be put there with them, only another woman to be sold". |
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| 1 | 684 |
"They will be sold as slaves," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 685 |
"Of course," I said, "let her, too, be sold as a slave". |
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| 1 | 756 |
I supposed that Bejar, or the slaver to whom he sold her, and the others, would mark her slave. |
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| 2 | 5 |
Had she never been sold before? She tried to turn away, and cover herself, her feet in the damp sawdust. |
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| 2 | 129 |
She opened her eyes, looking up at the ceiling of the warehouse in which she was being sold. |
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| 2 | 271 |
The girl had been sold. |
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| 2 | 293 |
She had been sold. |
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| 2 | 294 |
Vart gestured to the slaves at the windlass and they turned its large, two-man crank, and the girl who had been sold was drawn from the sales area. |
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| 2 | 297 |
I could see she had been sold before. |
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| 3 | 35 |
Who was the girl who had been previously sold? Ah, yes, the blond barbarian, purchased by Ulafi of Schendi. |
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| 3 | 36 |
The next two women sold had been a mother and daughter from Cos. |
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| 3 | 37 |
They were sold to separate buyers, as pot girls. |
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| 3 | 39 |
They were among the eleven women, including the blond barbarian, who had been sold by Bejar to Vart. |
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| 3 | 41 |
The crew and male passengers of the Blossoms of Telnus had also been sold by Bejar to Vart, but these had been auctioned by Vart in the morning, on the wharf blocks, as work slaves. |
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| 4 | 295 |
"Then let her be placed on sale outside the shop for five Ehn, to be sold to the first buyer for the cost of her branding. |
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| 4 | 296 |
If she is not sold in five Ehn then take her to the public market shelves and chain her there, taking the best offer which equals or exceeds the cost of her branding". |
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| 4 | 628 |
"She is a slave, sold last night to this captain". |
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| 4 | 717 |
If she was not soon sold for the cost of her branding she would be taken and put on the public shelves, large, flat steps, leading down to the water, near where the Central canal meets Thassa, the sea. |
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| 6 | 400 |
"Sold?" asked the blonde. |
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| 6 | 435 |
"You will be sold there," I told her. |
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| 6 | 760 |
It is regarded as an acknowledgment of their slavery, that they can be bought and sold. |
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| 7 | 188 |
"She has already been sold," he said. |
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| 7 | 198 |
I knew that he had not yet sold the girl, for she was still on his chain. |
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| 7 | 204 |
"I could have received sixteen for her and sold her for fifteen. |
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| 11 | 232 |
I was later sold in Port Kar. |
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| 11 | 245 |
"I do not even know in what market I was sold". |
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| 11 | 261 |
"By now, Bejar has doubtless disposed of the ring, which would be meaningless to him, and has sold the notes". |
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| 13 | 624 |
"I suppose," said she, "that I will be bought and sold many times". |
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| 14 | 393 |
I did not know such women could exist, until I saw several in Cos, when I was free, and some on the wharves of Port Kar and Schendi, after I myself, sold in a market, became a slave". |
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| 14 | 478 |
"A girl to be bought and sold, and abused for a master's pleasure". |
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| 20 | 39 |
"She was sold to a tavern keeper in Schendi," called the girl, "one called Filimbi". |
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| 23 | 126 |
"She is being sold to seal a bargain," said Kisu. |
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| 32 | 344 |
You may be bought and sold, whipped, treated as the master pleases, disposed of as he sees fit. |
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| 34 | 336 |
She may even be sold, if he wills". |
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| 34 | 352 |
"You may be bought and sold". |
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| 34 | 360 |
"Perhaps you will not think so," I said, "when you are put in chains and sold to a master who terrifies you". |
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| 34 | 373 |
"So you see, Master," she said, "though in some respects I am a slave object, an article of property that may be bought and sold, a thing whose desires, whose thoughts and feelings, need not be in the least respected, in another sense, that of feeling and emotion, I am so far removed from the notion... |
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| 34 | 594 |
You can be bought and sold. |
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| 34 | 965 |
I did not see fit to sell her that some ubarates had been sold to purchase a single slave. |
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| 34 | 1001 |
"You will doubtless be bought and sold many times, Slave," I said, "and will have many masters". |
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| 34 | 1016 |
Until then let her be bought and sold, and passed from hand to hand, subject to exchanges, and vendings and barterings; let her know the joys and miseries of diverse bondages; it did not matter, for she was only a slave. |
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| 48 | 170 |
She may then fear that she has lost the interest of her master, and that she is to be soon sold, that coins will change hands, and she will be hooded and led away, leashed, to some emporium devoted to the sales of such as she. |
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| 48 | 265 |
Such girls usually beg piteously to be sold to transient slavers. |
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| 51 | 219 |
It did not seem likely that she would be again sold. |
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| 57 | 125 |
"I will have them sold in Schendi," he said. |
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| 57 | 137 |
The talunas, last night, in a lot, had been sold to the black slavers of Schendi. |
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| 57 | 262 |
The man from the tavern of Filimbi, to which she had been sold after I had been taken from Schendi, some months ago, was but a few feet behind her. |
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| 29 | 115 |
"I told you," she said, "I told you in my room, before, I sold her! I sold her!" "But you did not tell the truth," I said. |
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| 1 | 834 |
"You were exhibited naked," I told her, "as women are sold". |
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| 2 | 238 |
"She is to be shipped to another world, one called Gor," he said, "where she will be branded as what she is, a slave, and then sold on the open market for whatever she will bring". |
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| 3 | 57 |
Thus we made her a slave and sold her. |
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| 3 | 63 |
But now, from this facility, as from others, they are simply scattered, after two or three days' training, to various markets, sold, for most practical purposes, ignorant and raw. |
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| 3 | 74 |
"She and the others, hooded and chained, have already been separated and sent to various markets, to be sold. |
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| 7 | 469 |
You love him!" Let them hope, however, that despite their lowliness and unworthiness, as mere slaves, meaningless properties that may be bought and sold, that their diligence, their devotion and lengthy, attentive labors may win for them at last a grudging smile, a commendatory, half-reluctant, roug... |
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| 10 | 147 |
If I were to be sold tomorrow I would find out when masters or mistresses were pleased to let me know, perhaps as late as the moment when a sales disk might be wired to my collar. |
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| 11 | 32 |
"Am I to be soon sold?" I asked. |
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| 11 | 36 |
"It is such a horrifying and degrading experience to be sold, almost incomprehensible". |
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| 11 | 37 |
"Have you ever been sold?" I asked. |
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| 11 | 223 |
"Do you know what your presence in this room indicates?" "That I am to be soon sold," I said, bitterly. |
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| 11 | 225 |
"How soon am I to be sold?" I asked. |
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| 11 | 233 |
"Do you wish to be sold?" she asked. |
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| 11 | 694 |
I was to be sold. |
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| 12 | 445 |
I was now naked, being sold. |
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| 12 | 532 |
I was sold for sixteen silver tarsks. |
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| 13 | 324 |
Indeed, we might be sold from the same platform. |
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| 13 | 564 |
"I was trained in the House of Andronicus," she said, "and sold in Vonda". |
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| 13 | 567 |
I was sold from the market of Tima. |
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| 13 | 845 |
"You sold your use for a drink of water?" she asked. |
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| 16 | 129 |
It is not unusual, on Gor, incidentally, for the articles sold in a shop to be manufactured on or near the premises. |
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| 16 | 249 |
Nothing else, you understand, is being sold, only the girl". |
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| 19 | 84 |
I am to be sold". |
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| 19 | 86 |
"I do not want to be sold," she wept. |
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| 19 | 125 |
Indeed, he had not kept her chained by the neck to her ring in the kennels for stable sluts this morning, a precaution which is not uncommon for a girl who is to be soon sold. |
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| 19 | 194 |
The mistress had, for some reason, decreed that she be sold. |
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| 19 | 205 |
Why had she had Telitsia sold? She had deprived me, and my fellow stable slaves, of a pleasurable object of male recreation. |
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| 19 | 235 |
Why had she had Telitsia sold? Telitsia was a good little stable slut, popular, comely and diligent. |
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| 19 | 237 |
Why had she been sold? Kenneth threw the key to Telitsia's collar to Borto, who caught it and placed it in his pouch. |
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| 9 | 49 |
I was angry, for I did not even know if Miss Henderson was to be sold, or if she had already been sold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 282 |
The distinction between the tower slave and the pleasure slave, though honored in some markets, some specializing in girls sold primarily for housekeeping purposes and others in girls sold primarily for the pleasures of men, is not really a hard-and-fast distinction; it is not absolute; indeed, it c... |
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| 7 | 80 |
For example, she may be placed in a white hood bearing the word "Sold" in red letters, a red tag, bearing the inscription, "Sold," may be wired to her collar, or the word "Sold" may be simply written in grease pencil on her body, usually, by convention, on her left breast. |
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| 7 | 78 |
Sometimes a woman who has been sold is not immediately removed from the platform but only, in one way or another, marked "Sold". |
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| 9 | 323 |
I thought how amused Teibar might have been, to have thought of me, his hated "modern woman," as he thought, being sold, and being sold in this place, a place fit for her, a sales barn, where tarsks, four-legged, and two-legged, like herself, were sold. |
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| 8 | 218 |
He well knew how to keep us in our place, did he not? And what a rich joke, I had thought, this was doubtless supposed to be, that I would find myself here, his "modern woman," in a place where really, more appropriately, and usually, not women, but tarsks, were sold! It was this place, I had surmis... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 916 |
Not only could my face and body, my beauty, if beauty it be, my dispositions, my talents, my capacities, my intelligence, my feelings, my emotions, my service, my pleasure, be sold! My heat, too, could be sold. |
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| 25 | 560 |
I am chained, I am stripped, I cannot flee! On this world I am a property, an animal! I am going to be sold, sold like a pig or horse! I am going to be sold! I am going to be sold! But of course I am going to be sold! I am a slave! How is it that I am here? How can this be, that I am here? Foolish v... |
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| 25 | 550 |
I am going to be sold! How can they sell me? I am a woman! But, ah, Ellen, she thought, you are a woman who is a slave! Thus it is that you may be sold, and thus it is fitting for you to be sold! There were twenty-one bids on me! There is thus interest in owning me, perhaps considerable interest! Hu... |
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| 25 | 520 |
She was going to be sold, sold! Her shoulder stung from the blow she had received. |
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| 25 | 571 |
I well know myself slave, and rightfully so, but I am afraid to be sold! Who will buy me? Who will buy me? I am afraid to be sold, afraid! Afraid! Ellen half screamed, and turned away, but it was not her arm which the first of the two attendants seized, but that of a woman not inches from her, kneel... |
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| 25 | 587 |
"She craved a collar, and now she will have one! Let her try to get it off! Be sold, slave girl! Be sold to the highest bidder!" Then Ellen recalled that the former free woman was now no more than she, only another slave, and she feared for her. |
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| 29 | 104 |
Few would have been accounted slaves, perhaps, but that was, in effect, what they were, the lovely daughter of a peasant, sold for sheep, the orphaned beauty put to work in the stables, the pretty domestic servant summonable to the manor's lord's bed, and such, and, earlier, thousands of beauties so... |
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| 31 | 21 |
She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of slavers at th... |
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| 8 | 972 |
Was it, in spite of its appearance, a high market? Perhaps, I thought, for how could one such as I be sold in any but a high market? Surely I was much too beautiful to be sold in any but a high market. |
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| 22 | 62 |
What does it mean? Is her master, perhaps absently, distractedly, not noticing her, or no longer thinking of her as a slave, as his slave? Is she to be sold? Has she already been sold? Although I had not expected to be thanked, I had, looking up, hoped to have from him some acknowledgement of my exi... |
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| 31 | 27 |
Chloe had changed hands several times in her eastward journey on the Vosk, town to town, but, in the end, she had been sold in the great clearing station of Victoria, from which point she had been sold southeast to Torcadino, and then, eventually, in Ar, where some agent of the Kurii had apparently ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 248 |
Would it not be a rare girl who has been sold but once? One is then concerned less with the fact that one is sold, for one knows one is a slave, than the quality of the market, the category in which one is sold, say, a pot girl or a pleasure slave, the price one may bring, particularly in comparison... |
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| 4 | 39 |
Often the item is not even aware to whom it has been sold, only that it has been sold. |
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| 5 | 245 |
That is interesting, considering the fact that we have been sold, bartered, and exchanged for millennia, and doubtless for millennia before the records of such transactions were scratched on bark, or incised into tablets of moist clay Is it so unusual to be exchanged for barley, or cattle, or sheep,... |
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| 5 | 254 |
I gather that this is not a great deal of money but I also know that some sold for less, although many sold for more. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 61 |
"Women may be sold to contractors," he said, "and contracts, then, may be bought and sold". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 55 |
I had been sold in Victoria, from the wharf market, and later, following being ferried across the Vosk and transported in one of four slave wagons south, ankles chained, with five others, to a central bar in the wagon bed, had been again sold, in Torcadino, as a work slave to a mill. |
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| 13 | 79 |
Oddly, at least to me, I had been not only frequently sold, as I have indicated, but was never sold within the same locale, within the same city, or such, as one would normally expect. |
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| 52 | 229 |
It was to be my vengeance on Paula for her being so preferred to me, my vengeance on her for having sold for a golden tarsk, for having been sold at the Curulean, from the central block!" "You would try to seize the affections of he for whom she, your friend, might care?" "I did not want his affecti... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 141 |
I suddenly realized, viscerally, in my belly, in every cell in my body, waiting on the ramp, that I was going to be sold, actually sold, really sold, as an object, as much so as a mirror or scrap of cloth! I had known, of course, that such a moment would come. |
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| 2 | 143 |
Did I not know I was a slave? Was it not clear enough, when I was released from the cage, and knelt, my head to the floor, my crossed wrists lifted high behind me for binding? Could there be any doubt about the matter when I knelt, bound, before the master, and, my head lifted, the whip was put to m... |
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| 2 | 154 |
"This is all a terrible mistake! Clothe me! Take this collar off my neck! I should not be here! This is not my world! I do not belong here! I cannot be sold! I am a woman of Earth! Of Earth! I cannot be sold! I am free, free!" He looked at me, puzzled. |
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| 8 | 280 |
I, how incredible it now seemed, sold! Sold as the object, property, and animal I now was! I had no more to say about this than any other vended beast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 22 | 13 |
In this city of canvas what could be bought and sold was bought and sold; copper met silver and silver met gold, and often enough, gold once more met copper; here, amidst concessions, exhibits, and emporiums, mingled with stalls, pens, brothels, taverns, markets, gambling tents, and theaters, friend... |
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