| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 |
I thought him dead until I received his strange message, more than twenty years after he had vanished. |
10 |
| 1 | 65 |
I widened my search, keeping that strange metal envelope with its blue ambience the center of my movements. |
10 |
| 1 | 71 |
It was a strange object. |
10 |
| 1 | 109 |
Tired of this strange business, I set the envelope aside and turned my attention to the chili, which was now bubbling over the small campfire. |
10 |
| 1 | 121 |
Perhaps only one man could open that envelope—he whose print fitted the strange lock, he whose name was Tarl Cabot. |
10 |
| 2 | 48 |
I felt like a child, knowing nothing, taken to some complex factory or store, unable to sort out his impressions, unable to comprehend the new and strange things that flash incessantly upon him. |
10 |
| 2 | 72 |
He straightened and turned to face me across that simple, strange room. |
10 |
| 2 | 90 |
I nodded, not wanting to speak, wanting him to tell me the thousand things I had to know, to dispel the mysteries that had torn me from my native world and brought me to this strange room, this planet, to him, my father. |
10 |
| 2 | 126 |
Indeed, there is a saying on Gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of Gor. |
10 |
| 2 | 171 |
Even the technology of the envelope with its patterned thumb-lock, the disorientation of my compass, and the ship that had brought me, unconscious, to this strange world, argued for an incredible grasp of unusual, precise, and manipulable forces. |
10 |
| 2 | 221 |
"And long ago I made the same strange journey. |
10 |
| 2 | 267 |
He did not wish to discuss the reason for which I had been brought to the Counter-Earth, nor did he explain to me the comparatively minor mysteries of the envelope and its strange letter. |
10 |
| 6 | 170 |
"This is the daughter of the Ubar Marlenus," said Nar, and added ironically, "She did not remember to thank you for saving her life, which is strange, is it not, for a rational creature?" "Silence, Insect," said the daughter of the Ubar, her voice loud, clear, and imperious. |
10 |
| 10 | 3 |
Kazrak's remark was in accord with the strange warrior codes of Gor, codes which were as natural to him as the air he breathed, and codes which I, in the Chamber of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, had sworn to uphold. |
10 |
| 11 | 89 |
She placed them firmly in my hands and knelt on the tent carpet before me, her eyes filled with a strange light, her knees not in the position of a Tower Slave but of a Pleasure Slave. |
10 |
| 18 | 105 |
I mounted the tarn, who was visibly uneasy in this strange environment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 |
He spun like a tiger with a sudden cry of rage in some strange tongue and I found myself seized in hands like steel and with great force hurled helplessly across his knee, my spine an inch from being splintered like kindling wood. |
10 |
| 1 | 94 |
As he performed this gesture, he uttered some formula in that strange tongue I had heard but once before—when I had nearly perished at his hands. |
10 |
| 1 | 102 |
He seemed tall, strange, almost of another world in that subdued light, in that quiet atmosphere of small, genial civilized noises. |
10 |
| 1 | 105 |
And in that sudden instant of startled, awe-struck silence, I heard him clearly, intensely, repeat in a hoarse whisper that strange phrase, "Ta-Sardar-Gor!" The bartender, a heavy, soft-faced man, waddled to the table. |
10 |
| 1 | 120 |
My touch seemed to snap him out of his strange mood. |
10 |
| 1 | 170 |
We shook hands, and I had the strange feeling that I might never see Tarl Cabot again. |
10 |
| 1 | 174 |
I walked for some hours, in spite of my fatigue, thinking, puzzling about these strange things of which I had heard. |
10 |
| 2 | 15 |
There was no love in my heart for the Priest-Kings, those mysterious denizens of the Sardar Mountains, whoever or whatever they might be, but there was gratitude in my heart, either to them or to the strange forces that moved them. |
10 |
| 2 | 62 |
It felt strange to hold it again in my hand, to feel its weight, the familiar grasp of the hilt. |
10 |
| 4 | 24 |
I caught a strange, unpleasant scent, much like that of a common weasel or ferret, only stronger. |
10 |
| 4 | 77 |
A strange sound escaped me, an incredible laugh. |
10 |
| 4 | 104 |
In that brief moment, in the tiny pool of blood I held, I saw not myself but a strange face, like a globe of gold with disklike eyes, a face like none I had ever seen, a face that struck an eerie terror into my heart. |
10 |
| 6 | 30 |
There were many things supposedly strange about Tharna, among them that she was reportedly ruled by a queen, or Tatrix, and, reasonably enough in the circumstances, that the position of women in that city, in contrast with common Gorean custom, was one of privilege and opportunity. |
10 |
| 6 | 109 |
As he eats and drinks with gusto on this occasion of his triumph, she regards him furtively, with a strange mixture of fear and pleasure. |
10 |
| 9 | 79 |
I must have seemed strange to them, a scarlet-clad warrior, bearing weapons, suddenly entering, a man from another city unexpectedly in their midst. |
10 |
| 12 | 135 |
"You are strange, too," she said, "like Andreas of Tor". |
10 |
| 13 | 11 |
"Strange," said he, "usually the Tatrix does not attend the Amusements of Tharna". |
10 |
| 13 | 40 |
Then, to my astonishment, the men of Tharna who were yoked in the arena, kneeling, rejected by their city, condemned, chanted a strange paean. |
10 |
| 14 | 42 |
I know this sounds strange, but I believe some animals have pride, and if any did, I knew that this monster was one of them. |
10 |
| 14 | 134 |
It did not take long for them to understand that the tarn, for whatever strange reason, was not going to attack me, and, whatever they considered my chances, it took only a moment longer to determine that it was my intention to free the bird. |
10 |
| 18 | 65 |
And, too, they told of the strange, new things that happened in the mine at the bottom of the central shaft, how men helped one another, and could find the time and will to remember a tune. |
10 |
| 19 | 96 |
And it seemed strange to me that this rebellion, this willingness to pursue the right as they saw it, independently of the will of the Priest-Kings, had come not first from the proud Warriors of Gor, nor the Scribes, nor the Builders nor Physicians, nor any of the high castes of the many cities of G... |
10 |
| 20 | 46 |
I wondered too at her treachery, her strange hatred of me, for somehow it seemed not to fit well with the lonely girl on the ledge, who had stood quietly gazing at the field of talenders while a warrior had gorged himself on the kill of his tarn. |
10 |
| 20 | 100 |
When we had reached an altitude of perhaps a hundred yards from the ground, as suddenly as it had come, the strange effect passed. |
10 |
| 21 | 264 |
Strange and cruel are the ways of Gor, I thought, where six small green stones, weighing perhaps scarcely two ounces, and a damaged helmet, could purchase a human being. |
10 |
| 22 | 73 |
"Why would you not keep me for your own?" It was a bold question, strange to come from this girl, once Tatrix of Tharna. |
10 |
| 22 | 77 |
"You are a strange warrior. |
10 |
| 22 | 144 |
And then, in the slaver's tent, Lara, who had been Tatrix of Tharna, told me something of the strange history of her city. |
10 |
| 26 | 9 |
They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna. |
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| 26 | 38 |
The sound of caravan bells is no longer strange in Tharna and strings of traders have found their way to her gates, to exploit this most surprising of all markets. |
10 |
| 26 | 73 |
It was not her intention to condemn her sisters of Tharna into interminable and miserable bondage but to force them to take this strange first step on the road she herself had traveled, one of the unusual roads that may lead to love. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 |
Torm had stumbled into more than one well in his life and no one who knew him would think it strange to find him sputtering about at the bottom of one. |
10 |
| 3 | 79 |
It seemed a strange name for a Priest-King. |
10 |
| 3 | 93 |
I found it strange that a Priest-King should fear a larl. |
10 |
| 4 | 26 |
He was a strange contrast to the severe regality of the majestic seat on which he perched. |
10 |
| 5 | 143 |
"Yes," she continued, "I, armed with my beauty, would come to the Sardar and wrest the riches and power of the Priest-Kings from them, for men had always sought to serve me, to give me what I wanted, and were the Priest-Kings not men?" People had strange reasons for entering the Sardar, but the reas... |
10 |
| 13 | 96 |
Indeed, even I myself, after my experience of the arthropod on the platform and the flat, sluglike beast on its transportation disk in the plaza, was growing accustomed to finding strange creatures in the Nest of the Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 14 | 46 |
"Strange," said one of the slaves. |
10 |
| 15 | 102 |
"It is very strange to me," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 13 |
I turned in rage on the tall, gentle creature who stood, unmoving, behind that strange table and that still form of the young Priest-King. |
10 |
| 18 | 112 |
He moved his forelegs in a strange parallel pattern, touching himself with each leg at three places on the thorax and one behind the eyes. |
10 |
| 20 | 121 |
She now saw herself in a strange garment. |
10 |
| 20 | 193 |
And yet it was not a strange thing, particularly not on Gor, where bravery is highly esteemed and to save a female's life is in effect to win title to it, for it is the option of a Gorean male to enslave any woman whose life he has saved, a right which is seldom denied even by the citizens of the gi... |
10 |
| 21 | 43 |
Then, as we crouched in the darkness of the far side of the chamber, the doors opposite us swung open and we observed two long lines of strange men, marching abreast, each of whom carried a Mul-Torch in one hand and in the other by a handle what resembled a deflated wineskin of golden leather. |
10 |
| 21 | 50 |
Most strange perhaps was the shape and width of the eyes, for they were very large, perhaps three inches in width, and were round and dark and shining, much like the eyes of a nocturnal animal. |
10 |
| 21 | 54 |
Then to my amazement, one by one, the strange creatures, disdaining the bars near the door began simply to pad up the almost vertical walls to the Priest-Kings and then, astonishingly, began to walk upside down on the ceiling. |
10 |
| 21 | 59 |
The strange procession to and fro up the walls and across the ceiling to Priest-Kings and back down to the floor continued for more than an hour, during which time the Muls who stood below, some of them having returned with a full vessel, never ceased to chant their mournful paean. |
10 |
| 22 | 138 |
"Even to those who carried Gur?" asked Mul-Ba-Ta, shivering at the thought of those small round bodies and the strange arms and legs, and eyes. |
10 |
| 23 | 55 |
And how was it, I asked myself, that the Golden Beetle had not already feasted on the delicate flesh of the proud beauty of Treve? And I wondered on the five strange protuberances that nested so grotesquely in her lovely body. |
10 |
| 24 | 58 |
And yet it seemed strange to me to think of the Beetle as pursuing its prey in these tunnels for hours, perhaps days. |
10 |
| 25 | 13 |
I thought for a moment I might clean it on the golden strands of the Beetle's strange mane but I discovered these were wet with foul, glutinous exudate, the source of that unpleasant, narcotic odor which still permeated the passageway. |
10 |
| 25 | 122 |
As I gazed on this strange assemblage of creatures in the tiered cases it seemed clear to me that I must be gazing upon one of the vivaria of which I had heard Sarm speak. |
10 |
| 25 | 141 |
As she gazed upon me her eyes held a strange light which I did not understand. |
10 |
| 26 | 239 |
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10 |
| 26 | 258 |
I wondered at the things she said to me for they seemed strange, perhaps more so to my ears than they would have to one bred and raised from infancy as a Gorean, one as much accustomed to the submission of women as to the tides of gleaming Thassa or the phases of the three moons. |
10 |
| 26 | 267 |
Yes, I said to myself, the words Vika spoke were perhaps not as strange as I had thought. |
10 |
| 26 | 293 |
She was a strange girl. |
10 |
| 27 | 294 |
It was strange to me to hear her speak of the powerful, golden creature Misk in such a way. |
10 |
| 27 | 339 |
"Strange is your kind," she said. |
10 |
| 28 | 21 |
I had not even seen him to this moment so intent had I been on the strange procession above me. |
10 |
| 28 | 63 |
And so it was a strange procession that followed the transportation disk, now happily piloted by Al-Ka, down the tunnel to the Vivarium. |
10 |
| 28 | 242 |
When we had constructed the ship we felt that now we had what might prove to be, in this strange subterranean war, the decisive weapon. |
10 |
| 29 | 168 |
A strange odor came to my nostrils before I could press the firing switch. |
10 |
| 32 | 159 |
Suddenly, through the rock dust, I could scent that strange narcotic odor. |
10 |
| 32 | 208 |
With one slow, strange bound I was at the door and threw the switch which was placed at the side of the door. |
10 |
| 33 | 2 |
It was a strange but rapid journey, and as we leaped chasms and seemed almost to swim in the cold air I told myself that Misk and his Priest-Kings and the humans that were engineers in the Nest were losing the battle that would decide whether men and Priest-Kings might, working together, save a worl... |
10 |
| 33 | 42 |
There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all castes, and even of castes ... |
10 |
| 35 | 12 |
About two hundred yards above the camp, toward the Sardar, whose crags could be seen looming in the background against the black, star-shattered night was a strange figure, outlined against one of the white, rushing moons of Gor. |
10 |
| 35 | 133 |
"But in the end," said he, "life is as real as death and there will be a return of the ultimate rhythms, and a new explosion will cast forth the primitive particles and we shall have another turn of the wheel, and someday, sometime, in eons which defy the calculations even of Priest-Kings, there may... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 |
In the long years that had passed since first I had come to the Counter-Earth I had seen many things, and had known loves, and had found adventures and perils and wonders, but I asked myself if anything I had done was as unreasoning, as foolish as this, as strange. |
10 |
| 2 | 22 |
I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 5 | 22 |
Kamchak saw that I had noticed the girl and chuckled, sensing that I might find it strange, seeing a slave so among the wagons. |
10 |
| 6 | 158 |
"It is strange," said Kamchak. |
10 |
| 7 | 92 |
With him had been a tall, strange man, broad of shoulder with large hands, a grayish face, eyes almost like glass. |
10 |
| 7 | 112 |
Elizabeth faced the tall, strange man. |
10 |
| 7 | 117 |
Looking at him she suddenly had the feeling, a strange one, that this man, in some circumstances and for some purpose or another, had assessed and judged many women. |
10 |
| 7 | 126 |
She did not take her eyes from the tall, strange man. |
10 |
| 7 | 133 |
Then, after some hours stumbling confused, terrified, hungry through the high, brown grass, she had seen two riders, mounted on swift, strange beasts. |
10 |
| 7 | 205 |
Yet it seemed strange that anyone, no matter who, would dare to use the name of Priest-Kings falsely. |
10 |
| 7 | 253 |
Perhaps in that moment Elizabeth Cardwell recalled the strange man, so fearsome, gray of face with eyes like glass, who had so examined her on Earth, before whom she had stood as though on a block, unknowingly being examined for her fitness to bear the message collar of Turia. |
10 |
| 10 | 169 |
He even reeled about roaring as though he were drunk and slapped the wheel of a neighbor's wagon for a minute or two until his laughter turned into spasmodic gasps and, making strange noises, he wheezingly fought to get a mouthful or two of air under his shaking ribs. |
10 |
| 11 | 180 |
It seemed strange to think of her, so wild and insolent, arrogant on the back of her kaiila, now a perfumed, silken slave of Turians. |
10 |
| 19 | 15 |
"You are aware, of course," I mentioned, "that the Pleasure Gardens of so rich a man as Saphrar of Turia may contain a large number of female slaves—not all of whom might be trusted to keep silent—and some of whom will undoubtedly notice something as unusual as two strange warriors wan... |
10 |
| 21 | 29 |
My heart felt grateful to the stern, fierce warrior, though he had been in the past days harsh and strange, half drunk with hatred for Turia. |
10 |
| 21 | 209 |
It had seemed strange to me that Kamchak, the resolute, implacable Kamchak of the Tuchuks, had so soon surrendered his assault on the city—not that I expected it would have been, if prolonged, successful. |
10 |
| 24 | 140 |
"It is strange," I said, "I did not even know of the wagon". |
10 |
| 25 | 761 |
"It is strange," I said, "that when the full blood of a man is upon him, and he sees his female, and he will have her, that it should be then that he is not a true man". |
10 |
| 25 | 866 |
"It is strange," she said. |
10 |
| 27 | 47 |
It seemed to me a strange act for a conqueror, for a Tuchuk. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 65 |
The man was a strange man, thought Kuurus. |
10 |
| 2 | 289 |
"There is another strange thing about that house I do not understand," said Portus. |
10 |
| 6 | 71 |
"How is it that you first serve wine to a strange man at the table of your master?" "Forgive Lana," said she, tears springing to her eyes. |
10 |
| 7 | 57 |
"It is strange," whispered one of the men-at-arms, "that Priest-Kings must act with such secrecy". |
10 |
| 7 | 62 |
"I have seen it," he said, "a hundred times and yet, each time, it seems to me more strange. |
10 |
| 9 | 90 |
There seemed to me something strange about these girls, though they were beautiful. |
10 |
| 10 | 81 |
"You are a strange one for an Assassin," he said. |
10 |
| 12 | 62 |
I did not find it strange that he had spoken to me. |
10 |
| 15 | 112 |
He was strange to the minds of those who watched the games. |
10 |
| 17 | 138 |
It had been a strange and eventful summer, fantastic in many ways. |
10 |
| 17 | 231 |
There was one point, however, in this strange summer which seemed to give me clear and adequate reason to rejoice. |
10 |
| 20 | 254 |
I thought it strange that that man should have been found with Hup, only a fool, Hup whose bulbous misshapen head reached scarcely to the belt of a true man, Hup of the bandy legs and swollen body, the broken, knobby hands, Hup the Fool. |
10 |
| 23 | 180 |
I heard the horrid scream from the room at the end of the hall, and a frightening roar, and strange noises, human, and snarling and feeding. |
10 |
| 23 | 190 |
About the walls of the room there was much delicate apparatus, reminding me somewhat of instrumentation I had seen in the Nest long ago; complex paneling, wires, disks; the dials, I noted, were adopted for a visually oriented organism, needles quivering against a metric of spaces; a cone was flashin... |
10 |
| 24 | 140 |
"Was the strange crossbow taken to the Sardar?" I asked, referring to the rifle in that fashion. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 87 |
But I felt there was something strange going on, for there must have been five or six headmen on the island with Ho-Hak at this time. |
10 |
| 8 | 850 |
"You are a strange woman," said I, "Telima". |
10 |
| 9 | 478 |
"It is strange," I said, "that a rence girl should have a golden armlet". |
10 |
| 10 | 177 |
This will sound strange, I suppose, but the workers of the arsenal, as long as they make enough to live reasonably well, are more concerned with their work, as craftsmen, than they are with considerably and indefinitely improving their economic status. |
10 |
| 10 | 240 |
Ashore my crews were roisterous and brawling but on the ships, strange as it is to relate, they were serious and disciplined men. |
10 |
| 11 | 523 |
He was a strange man, that larl of a man. |
10 |
| 16 | 90 |
Telima was a strange woman. |
10 |
| 17 | 322 |
I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds. |
10 |
| 18 | 379 |
"It is all so strange," she said. |
10 |
| 18 | 380 |
"What is so strange?" I asked. |
10 |
| 18 | 458 |
It is all very strange". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
I gather that my story is neither as unique, nor as strange, as it may seem. |
10 |
| 1 | 11 |
Women, among other goods, are acquired and brought to the markets of this strange world. |
10 |
| 3 | 22 |
The strange mark, drawn in lipstick, was still on the mirror's surface. |
10 |
| 3 | 59 |
But when the other had spoken to him, curtly, in the strange tongue, he had obeyed, and promptly. |
10 |
| 4 | 236 |
The strange sensation continued for some time. |
10 |
| 5 | 19 |
It was another world, a different world, one I did not know, one strange to me. |
10 |
| 6 | 183 |
It was as though he expected anyone to be able to understand his strange language, whether it was their native language or not. |
10 |
| 6 | 202 |
The language, though it struck my ear as strange, was not unpleasant. |
10 |
| 7 | 13 |
Considering the nature of the goods commonly found in Laura, rough goods for the most part, one might have supposed it strange that Targo was bound for that city. |
10 |
| 7 | 14 |
It was not strange, however, for it was spring, and spring is the great season for slave raids. |
10 |
| 7 | 477 |
He had a strange expression on his face. |
10 |
| 8 | 284 |
That seemed to me a strange question. |
10 |
| 8 | 574 |
It is strange. |
10 |
| 8 | 645 |
A mountebank, with pointed hat, with a tuft on it, in silly robes, with his painted clown's face, leading a strange animal, arrived at the compound. |
10 |
| 8 | 648 |
Targo consented, to our delight, and the small mountebank with the strange animal cleared a small space near the bars on the far side of the compound, away from the bars forming the common wall with the compound of Haakon of Skjern. |
10 |
| 8 | 779 |
I was filled with strange sensations. |
10 |
| 8 | 787 |
The girls were now waving to the mountebank and he, smiling and bowing, acknowledged our attention and then, with his large, strange animal on its chain, turned and left. |
10 |
| 10 | 442 |
Sleen are sometimes curious, and not infrequently resentful of the intrusion of strange animals into what they choose to regard as their territory". |
10 |
| 11 | 805 |
I had the strange feeling that they had seen me, and knew that I had seen them, as I had seen them, and sensed that they had seen me. |
10 |
| 11 | 1412 |
That seemed to me strange, but it was not what bothered me, as I lay there. |
10 |
| 11 | 1433 |
I had a strange dream, turning and moaning in the straw. |
10 |
| 13 | 839 |
In one moment, as I screamed, terrified, thrown rudely against my bonds, he had jerked his shield from the saddle straps and wheeled the tarn, with a cry of rage, a strange war cry, to face his foe. |
10 |
| 14 | 208 |
It seemed strange to me to think of such tarnsmen, such brutal, wild men, caring for such a small pleasantry. |
10 |
| 14 | 210 |
Cities and men, I thought, are so strange, so different. |
10 |
| 15 | 1304 |
It was strange. |
10 |
| 17 | 60 |
A man is a strange beast I think, for he both desires one woman and many women, and perhaps most he desires one woman who will be to him many women, others, delicious others, and yet always, too, herself. |
10 |
| 17 | 70 |
It seemed so strange, he, such a man, caring for flowers. |
10 |
| 17 | 80 |
I think, rather, he feared himself, and unusual emotions, strange, unaccustomed emotions, frightening him, which might have begun to well within him. |
10 |
| 17 | 231 |
It was the small man, who had touched me intimately when I had lain bound in my own bed on Earth, the small man who had threatened me in the hut in the northern forests, who had been the mountebank, the master, I had thought, of the strange beast, the terrible beast. |
10 |
| 17 | 403 |
The third body was strange, that of a large, and, I fear, most unpleasant beast". |
10 |
| 18 | 6 |
Even so, in the arsenal, Tersites, the half-blind, mad shipwright, builds a strange ship, to sail beyond the world's end. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1002 |
She, noble creature, so marvelous in her temptations and beauties, with the excellences of her mind and the determined prides of her heart, how strange that she, so much prizing her freedom, is made whole only as it is ruthlessly swept from her, that the true totality of her response, the fullness o... |
10 |
| 12 | 165 |
How strange and wonderful women are! How bondage exalts and levels them! To so many so alien are their inner selves and needs, how denied and feared! Some must learn ropes and the whip, and fearful obedience, before they crawl eagerly, gladly, begging, to the slave ring. |
10 |
| 14 | 18 |
I knew he did not, when outside of Ar, drink strange wines. |
10 |
| 14 | 262 |
It was not strange that the proud, intelligent women of the forest, and elsewhere, chose war with men, rather than admit the meaning of his strength and swiftness, the meaning of their own weakness and beauty. |
10 |
| 15 | 546 |
A man emerged, in strange garb. |
10 |
| 18 | 664 |
It would not be wise to coast a strange shore at night. |
10 |
| 19 | 138 |
They were strange allies, the men of Tyros, the women of Hura. |
10 |
| 22 | 98 |
His accent was strange. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 353 |
How fantastic, how strange, I thought, is the blood of beasts, and I realized, too, that I was a beast, and wondered on what might be the nature of those instincts which must be my own. |
10 |
| 4 | 18 |
It is not strange that the young men of Torvaldsland often look to the sea, and beyond it, for their fortunes. |
10 |
| 6 | 311 |
Upon reflection, however, it seemed to me not so strange that this should be so, in a bleak country, one in which many of the trees, too, would be stunted and wind-twisted. |
10 |
| 10 | 41 |
That Thorgeir of Ax Glacier had won the swimming must have seemed strange indeed to those of the Thing-Fair. |
10 |
| 10 | 298 |
"They are bondmaids," said he, "under the eyes of strange men". |
10 |
| 10 | 300 |
The girls wore their kirtles as they did not simply that the riches owned by Ivar Forkbeard might be well displayed, the better to excite the envy of others and brighten his vanity, but for another reason as well; the female slave, knowing she is slave, finds it stimulating to be exposed to the insp... |
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| 14 | 59 |
I saw then the Forkbeard, one hand on the arm of the strange giant, Rollo, leading him to the door of the small room. |
10 |
| 15 | 36 |
Offshore, some few yards, among the other ships, lay new ships, many of them, strange ships. |
10 |
| 16 | 173 |
The wiliness, the cunning, of a man who had lived more than a thousand years ago made itself felt in its effects a millennium later, in this strange place, deep within the living stone of a great mountain in a bleak country. |
10 |
| 16 | 183 |
"It is strange though," I said, "if that were the case, why this tomb would have been built". |
10 |
| 17 | 233 |
It seemed strange to me that men, only men, would dare to pit themselves against Kurii. |
10 |
| 17 | 300 |
Within me then, irrational, like lava, I felt the beginning of a strange sensation. |
10 |
| 18 | 643 |
It was strange, as it seemed to me, that it should be so. |
10 |
| 22 | 236 |
It was strange what he said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 609 |
"Strange," said Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 806 |
"Strange that at this time, too," said I, "the slave runs should cease, and the imperative, inexplicable, to surrender Gor should be served upon the Sardar". |
10 |
| 2 | 617 |
It struck me suddenly strange that he should be in the area of the bazaar, which, in the lower area in the city, is in the vicinity of the wells. |
10 |
| 10 | 296 |
"Strange," said Hassan, "that these matters should occur now". |
10 |
| 10 | 297 |
"Why strange now?" I asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 408 |
* * * * None, it seemed, at Red Rock had either seen, or heard, of so strange an architectural oddity as a tower of steel in the desert. |
10 |
| 12 | 282 |
"You are a strange slave," she said. |
10 |
| 12 | 294 |
"You are a strange slave," she said. |
10 |
| 12 | 488 |
"I have strange feelings," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 418 |
In the slave houses they are sometimes brought before the curule chair of the house master in their strange, unfamiliar garments. |
10 |
| 19 | 28 |
"Strange," said Hassan, "that I should imagine a Kur here in the Tahari". |
10 |
| 20 | 123 |
I think, Hassan, strange though it may seem, that we hold a cause in common". |
10 |
| 21 | 103 |
That is strange, I thought. |
10 |
| 21 | 256 |
Thus, natural enemies, a human and a Kur, in a strange truce in the desert, side by side, trekked. |
10 |
| 24 | 581 |
If I am late more than five Ehn I will be beaten!" "Do you not find it strange that a high slave should be sent to the north tower, to serve guards?" "I do not understand it," she said. |
10 |
| 26 | 1152 |
It is such a strange, helpless feeling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 30 |
"It is strange to you because it is unfamiliar to you," said Iskander, "but in itself it is no more strange than the mechanism of the crossbow, the mechanism of the lock. |
10 |
| 1 | 122 |
It was a strange world on which I stood, wide and unfamiliar, open, bright and clean. |
10 |
| 1 | 182 |
It is such a strange dream, so real. |
10 |
| 2 | 304 |
I then became aware, as I had not been before, in my fear, of a strange emotional and physiological response of which I had been the victim moments before, when I had begged mighty men to enslave me. |
10 |
| 2 | 305 |
My feelings had been flooded not only with terror but, mixed with them, with the feelings of terror, had been a strange, almost hysterical release of tension, of bottled-up emotion. |
10 |
| 2 | 656 |
I knelt helpless, an ignorant barbarian girl, naked and bound, who could not even speak to her captor, on a strange world. |
10 |
| 2 | 729 |
How strange it seemed. |
10 |
| 2 | 731 |
I had awakened, stripped and chained, on a strange world. |
10 |
| 2 | 774 |
Whereas it would have seemed unthinkable on Earth that a man could be so strong, so mighty, that a woman would walk at his heel, here, on this world, it seemed not so impossible or strange at all. |
10 |
| 2 | 834 |
I was in a thicket, on a strange world. |
10 |
| 2 | 899 |
Swiftly then did I reassume the position which I had dared to break, and again I knelt, though this time in an agony of terror, before the strange, mighty man, his legs spread, his arms crossed, who stood before me. |
10 |
| 2 | 991 |
With boys I had always felt in command, but with the strange, mighty man in whose power I now was I knew I was not in command. |
10 |
| 2 | 997 |
I lay nude on the grass of that strange world, in which I found myself in the power of a man other than I dreamed men could be. |
10 |
| 3 | 460 |
I was an English major, and a poetess! How was it then that I lay bound on a strange world, and bore in my flesh a fresh brand? How Elicia Nevins would have laughed with delight could she have seen me, her lovely, saucy rival, brought so low, even to a brand. |
10 |
| 4 | 745 |
I had been brought to a strange world. |
10 |
| 5 | 816 |
It seemed strange to me, that she had addressed me as Mistress, and her fear. |
10 |
| 7 | 1134 |
"It is very strange. |
10 |
| 7 | 1358 |
How I loved him! "Strange," he said, looking up at the Gorean stars. |
10 |
| 9 | 436 |
"It is strange that you have never felt the slave whip," said Turnip. |
10 |
| 9 | 484 |
I had had a strange dream. |
10 |
| 9 | 673 |
It seemed strange to me to think of the large Sandal Thong wanting to submit to the domination of a man. |
10 |
| 9 | 1136 |
A strange sensation came over me. |
10 |
| 9 | 1138 |
It is a very strange feeling. |
10 |
| 9 | 1208 |
I thought of the strange dream I had had, in which I, naked and collared, kneeling on tiles in a beautiful room, as though in a palace, had been strangely commanded to bead a necklace. |
10 |
| 9 | 2105 |
I felt very strange. |
10 |
| 9 | 2170 |
"Strange words from one such as you," he scoffed. |
10 |
| 9 | 2208 |
"It is a strange, helpless feeling. |
10 |
| 10 | 138 |
Too, once I had had a strange dream that dealt with slave beads, a meaningless dream I had not understood, in which I had been asked, strangely, to string such beads. |
10 |
| 15 | 191 |
It seemed strange to me, later, that we, together, had spoken so. |
10 |
| 18 | 124 |
Thereafter the free woman had seemed strange and restless. |
10 |
| 19 | 110 |
A strange state of consciousness seemed suddenly to come over me. |
10 |
| 20 | 430 |
"It is strange," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 69 |
Since they have everything, and anything, they want from her, and she is complete slave, and they total master, there is no struggle between them; she, accordingly, in a strange way, is prized and treasured; how many women of Earth, I wonder, are prized and treasured by their men; one can prize and ... |
10 |
| 22 | 365 |
And so, I thought, it is not strange the free woman and the female slave are seen differently, the one with respect, and commonly with indifference, the other with keen interest; the one with courtesy and esteem, the other with desire and passion; one as a citizen, the other as a delicious animal; o... |
10 |
| 23 | 52 |
"It is strange," he said. |
10 |
| 23 | 53 |
"What is strange, Master?" I asked. |
10 |
| 25 | 14 |
Iskander, of the physicians, had given me of a strange draft, which I, slave, must needs drink. |
10 |
| 25 | 29 |
"This seems strange to me," said Samos. |
10 |
| 25 | 139 |
It is not, for example, a strange message written upon a scrap of paper, calling attention to itself as a secret communication, challenging the curious to its unraveling, but apparently only an innocent necklace, beaded with wood, common, vulgar and cheap, fit only for the throat of a lowly female s... |
10 |
| 27 | 132 |
It seemed strange to me that they had met here, though I knew that they were friends. |
10 |
| 27 | 653 |
"It is strange," he said, "I have faced wild sleen and the steel of fierce enemies. |
10 |
| 29 | 236 |
Strange, collared, I was free. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 384 |
"Did you not think such a gift strange for a merchant and mariner?" "Forgive a girl, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 2 | 17 |
"Strange that you should speak of vain, proud beasts," said Samos. |
10 |
| 2 | 360 |
It is a strange feeling. |
10 |
| 2 | 371 |
"Strange, is it not," I asked, "that when the ship is nearly ready that this message should come?" "Yes," said Samos. |
10 |
| 2 | 372 |
"That is strange". |
10 |
| 2 | 417 |
"It is strange," said Samos. |
10 |
| 2 | 672 |
"He was given a coin," said Samos, "to speak of anything strange or unusual of which he might have heard". |
10 |
| 3 | 552 |
There was a strange, frightened look in her eye. |
10 |
| 3 | 874 |
"We are now slave girls on a strange world". |
10 |
| 3 | 1266 |
The latter garment, by Goreans, is regarded as a peculiarly strange one. |
10 |
| 4 | 219 |
It did seem strange that Centius did not move swiftly at this point in the game. |
10 |
| 4 | 466 |
Centius of Cos, it was generally understood, was a strange fellow. |
10 |
| 11 | 537 |
"It is a strange feeling," she said. |
10 |
| 12 | 537 |
"It is a strange feeling," she said, "being a slave". |
10 |
| 13 | 44 |
"That is strange," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 61 |
"That is strange," I said, "I wanted to discuss something with you". |
10 |
| 13 | 65 |
"They are so touchy and strange. |
10 |
| 13 | 89 |
"It is strange that so beautiful a girl has so few suitors," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 90 |
"Yes, it is quite strange," I admitted. |
10 |
| 14 | 338 |
"It is a strange feeling, being owned," she said. |
10 |
| 15 | 234 |
* * * * "It is strange," she said, looking up at me. |
10 |
| 15 | 412 |
"Strange," I mused, "that that should be so, and yet the facts are incontrovertible. |
10 |
| 15 | 561 |
"It is strange," she said, "we have talked of freedom, of liberation. |
10 |
| 15 | 565 |
"Yes," she said, "and I have found myself, with bondage strings on my throat, in a barbarian's tent, on a strange world". |
10 |
| 17 | 97 |
"Karjuk is a strange man," he said. |
10 |
| 23 | 67 |
"But that is strange, for they do not come in the winter". |
10 |
| 23 | 453 |
He was a strange man, who lived alone. |
10 |
| 24 | 416 |
"How strange it is to be helplessly owned," she marveled, "to be subject to sale or exchange". |
10 |
| 25 | 24 |
I looked about at the irregular and jagged shapes, weird and mighty, which loomed about us, of the pack ice, eerie in the deep shadows, and bright, strange light of the moons and snow. |
10 |
| 25 | 125 |
Though I thought him strange I admired him greatly. |
10 |
| 26 | 235 |
This seemed a strange time to engage in such domestic chores. |
10 |
| 29 | 153 |
"It is strange, Imnak," I said. |
10 |
| 33 | 16 |
Strange that I could converse with him, for he was only a beast. |
10 |
| 33 | 40 |
It was strange. |
10 |
| 35 | 916 |
The strange common project of two men, of diverse and antagonistic, yet strangely similar castes, an Assassin and a Warrior, had failed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 161 |
It is a strange feeling". |
10 |
| 5 | 365 |
"Does it not seem strange to you," I asked, "that Uchafu should offer two tarsks for such a girl". |
10 |
| 6 | 125 |
"Suddenly," I said, "I have this strange feeling, as though I were swimming and then, as though from nowhere, I found myself swimming with sharks, who silently passed me, not regarding me". |
10 |
| 8 | 85 |
The paga tasted a bit strange, but it was a local paga and there is variation in such pagas, generally a function of the brewer's choice of herbs and grains. |
10 |
| 8 | 108 |
My eyes felt a bit strange, scratchy. |
10 |
| 14 | 62 |
But few women could be more slave than she, entering fearfully the strange, empty house, and preparing herself for her master's pleasure. |
10 |
| 14 | 487 |
"It is a strange feeling, being a slave," she said. |
10 |
| 19 | 21 |
I found this strange. |
10 |
| 32 | 900 |
With the small knife he gashed my left thigh, making upon it a small, strange design. |
10 |
| 32 | 951 |
"The jungle,' said he, 'is a strange place. |
10 |
| 32 | 962 |
' It was a strange feeling. |
10 |
| 32 | 991 |
"Strange," I mused, "that in the dream of a naive Earth woman such details should occur, details such as the differential tension of the wrist straps in a beating and the extra stroke, given sometimes to remind a girl that she is a slave. |
10 |
| 32 | 994 |
It is strange that you should have heard of it. |
10 |
| 33 | 129 |
It is strange that the men of Earth are so seldom aware of the subtler beauties of women, but then they have not seen them in their full femininity, as slaves. |
10 |
| 34 | 393 |
"That is strange, isn't it?" I asked. |
10 |
| 34 | 394 |
"I do not find it strange," she said. |
10 |
| 34 | 495 |
"It is strange," she said. |
10 |
| 40 | 37 |
"It is strange," she said. |
10 |
| 42 | 25 |
"That is strange," I said. |
10 |
| 42 | 27 |
"I thought it strange, too," said Ayari. |
10 |
| 47 | 7 |
I had then heard, as I had once before, but had been unable to place the noise, the sound, that strange sound, as of a small wind moving leaves. |
10 |
| 53 | 121 |
"The Ua," said he, "seems a strange avenue of escape. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 269 |
"It was strange," she said. |
10 |
| 1 | 669 |
"It is strange. |
10 |
| 1 | 673 |
"It is so strange. |
10 |
| 1 | 781 |
Indeed, it suddenly struck me as not only strange that she had addressed this question, presumably a rhetorical question to me, but, too, that this was precisely the sort of thing which, for no reason I clearly understood, women of her political persuasion spent a great deal of time, excessively in ... |
10 |
| 1 | 798 |
How strange it then seemed to me that society should ever have developed in such a way that such delicious and desirable creatures should have ever been permitted their freedom. |
10 |
| 4 | 41 |
Surely their bodies were graceful, curvaceous and vital; surely they were both unusually, even incredibly, beautiful; surely, too, both had been limited in their raiment to the rags of half-naked slaves; yet it was not these things, strange as it may seem, which so set them apart from other women; i... |
10 |
| 12 | 14 |
"It is their way of trying to be men, according to the quaint modalities of his strange world". |
10 |
| 13 | 855 |
You accosted a strange slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 65 |
"It is well for a girl not to drink with a strange man," she laughed. |
10 |
| 27 | 327 |
"It is a strange feeling, to have been struck by a man". |
10 |
| 33 | 75 |
She looked up at me, a strange light in her eyes. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 182 |
She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no... |
10 |
| 4 | 612 |
"You fill me with strange feelings, Jason," she said. |
10 |
| 7 | 184 |
Then I continued on my way, wondering why I had purchased so strange an item as a body chain, a form of jewelry obviously designed for the body of a female slave. |
10 |
| 24 | 322 |
I remember one of the girls, pulled sobbing and in pain from the rack, crying out, joyfully, "I am a slave girl!" How startling, and strange, seemed her cry. |
10 |
| 24 | 323 |
Yet I, too, later, after I had screamed and sobbed, and had been pulled, my thigh stinging from the iron, from the rack, and found myself alone, chained on the straw by the damp wall, was filled with strange emotions. |
10 |
| 24 | 324 |
Though I could scarcely admit it to myself I knew, with wild, strange feelings, that I was glad that I, too, had been branded. |
10 |
| 24 | 325 |
"You were born for the brand," I whispered to myself, "and now, incomprehensibly, wonderfully, on this strange world, it has at last been put upon you. |
10 |
| 26 | 39 |
This type of chaining, a double chaining, is usually done only by a man who is in a strange city, and does not know, fully, what to expect. |
10 |
| 29 | 138 |
"On the assumption that the pirates understood what was occurring," I said to Callisthenes, "does it not seem strange to you that they made no effort to interfere with the placing of the chain?" "It was guarded, of course," said Callisthenes. |
10 |
| 30 | 382 |
"To him I am only another female slave, a meaningless slut, doubtless already forgotten, with whom he pleasured himself one night in a strange holding". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 442 |
"Strange indeed can be the fortunes of war". |
10 |
| 17 | 145 |
"Were you free on your far, strange world?" "Yes, Mistress". |
10 |
| 17 | 476 |
"It is strange," she said. |
10 |
| 17 | 478 |
It is strange. |
10 |
| 19 | 641 |
"If that were my intention," I said, "it seems strange that I have just put my collar on you". |
10 |
| 19 | 773 |
"It is strange that you, a Gorean slave girl, should have made that mistake". |
10 |
| 20 | 1649 |
Strange that those so hypocritically enamored of physiological diversity are so maniacally determined to prevent the least intellectual diversity. |
10 |
| 20 | 1650 |
What is the adaptive value of an enforced unanimity, a molding of the mind more hideous than the shapings of skulls, the distentions of lips, the bindings of feet?" "Strange thoughts," I said, "for she whom I knew on Earth". |
10 |
| 21 | 597 |
Perhaps that sounds strange to many of Earth, but it is the Gorean way. |
10 |
| 21 | 599 |
The Gorean, on the other hand, would regard the man of Earth who might disagree with him in this matter as being strange or incomprehensible, and worse, perhaps even unworthy of his manhood, and certainly unworthy of a Home Stone. |
10 |
| 21 | 874 |
"Do you recall, long ago, in the restaurant, when I spoke to you, daringly, I think, for a then-unenslaved slave, of the dreams, strange then to my mind, which I had been having?" "I recall," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 897 |
"How strange I once would have thought it, on Earth, so long ago," she said, "had I been told that I would find my fulfillment only on a distant world—and chained by the neck to the slave ring of a master". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1157 |
Does it not seem strange, then, that no one would have a clear idea as to his location?" "That does seem a bit strange," agreed the fellow. |
10 |
| 13 | 1176 |
"It is not strange that you should learn this on a world far from your own," I said, "for your world is like a distorting lens, perverting even the most conspicuous lineaments of biological reality, nor is it strange that you should learn it as a stripped slave. |
10 |
| 1 | 851 |
It might, too, be nothing more than the account of a strange dream". |
10 |
| 1 | 871 |
He is afraid of this strange medicine. |
10 |
| 8 | 297 |
Indeed, at this time of the evening, it seemed strange to me that they would even be absent from the tavern. |
10 |
| 8 | 746 |
That is how these strange and untamed men, so different from those of her own gray, polluted world, would have it. |
10 |
| 13 | 445 |
I had ambivalent feelings then, part of me resenting that such as they, weaklings, should be in authority over me, and another part of me feeling unsettling, strange sensations, as I served them. |
10 |
| 13 | 1175 |
"Strange," she said, "that I should have learned this only stripped, and in the arms of a master, and on a world far from my own". |
10 |
| 13 | 1376 |
"It seems strange to think of serving a love master with the same proficiencies with which I must serve any other man, as a mere slave," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 1736 |
I have strange feelings in my body. |
10 |
| 19 | 565 |
"There is something strange about that," said Grunt. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 47 |
"Sometimes it seems strange to me," she said, "thinking of myself as subject to the whip". |
10 |
| 9 | 48 |
"There is nothing strange in it," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 92 |
"How strange it is to think of myself in such terms," she mused. |
10 |
| 9 | 95 |
"Perhaps it seems strange to you, sometimes, lingeringly," I said, "because you are from Earth. |
10 |
| 9 | 96 |
It is not strange on Gor, of course. |
10 |
| 9 | 519 |
"It is a strange thing," she said, "being quirted, or lashed". |
10 |
| 9 | 564 |
"It is strange," she said. |
10 |
| 9 | 620 |
"It is strange," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 101 |
That, still, seemed strange to me. |
10 |
| 28 | 51 |
It had seemed strange to me that the Yellow Knives, after the difficulties of taking the camp had been made clear to them, had not withdrawn. |
10 |
| 37 | 121 |
Helplessness and vulnerability seem strange shields; how implausible is gentleness as an instrument of diplomacy; what an unlikely weapon is her tenderness. |
10 |
| 41 | 58 |
"Do they not seem strange?" asked Hci. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 314 |
It was very strange. |
10 |
| 1 | 319 |
Perhaps that was what was so strange, my sudden disturbing sense of the radical difference between us, my sudden, alarming understanding of the momentous physical, psychological, and emotional dichotomy dividing us, dividing the sexes. |
10 |
| 2 | 418 |
How strange that thought seemed to me—that there should be men who might punish women. |
10 |
| 3 | 699 |
Where was I, what insights was I now privy to, what strange emotions, and troubling uneasinesses, now raged in my body; what was going on within me; what had become of me? Something spoke within me which lay deeper than the encrustations of cultures. |
10 |
| 3 | 856 |
How strange, and pernicious, I thought, that a woman should be made to feel guilty about being feminine, truly feminine, radically feminine! What a tribute this was to the effectiveness of contemporary conditioning techniques! In the world from which I came sexuality was not an ingredient but an acc... |
10 |
| 4 | 12 |
I had had a strange dream, mixed in with other dreams. |
10 |
| 4 | 348 |
I had had a strange dream, mixed in with other dreams. |
10 |
| 4 | 358 |
Too, at times, my schedule seemed a bit erratic or strange. |
10 |
| 4 | 378 |
Inexplicable and strange though it might seem, I decided that I was, truly, the Tatrix of Corcyrus. |
10 |
| 4 | 384 |
I had had a strange dream, mixed in with other dreams. |
10 |
| 4 | 395 |
I had had a strange dream. |
10 |
| 4 | 397 |
In the preceding dream I had been on my hands and knees on the tiles of a strange room. |
10 |
| 4 | 427 |
How strange are dreams! "I think she will do very nicely," said Ligurious. |
10 |
| 4 | 466 |
I then understood, I thought, the strange dream I had had. |
10 |
| 6 | 378 |
I would sometimes lie there miserably, twisting and turning, almost sobbing, afflicted with helpless feelings and strange, troubling emotions that I could scarcely begin to understand. |
10 |
| 6 | 780 |
What was there here, other than the tarns, which need not be closely approached, to be nervous about? "You seem strange today, Drusus Rencius," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 220 |
I then realized, with a strange feeling deep within me, something akin to fear and excitement, that on this world it was the naked women, or scantily clad women, women who would be slaves, or would be presumed to be slaves, women such as I, who must serve and please the men. |
10 |
| 20 | 197 |
"That is strange," she said. |
10 |
| 23 | 148 |
It had been done so naturally, almost reflexively! I felt suddenly shamed, miserable, and revealed, exposed, vulnerable, piteous, displayed! Why had I done that? Had it to do with the changes in me which had been wrought by Speusippus of Turia? Had it to do with those sensations which he had induced... |
10 |
| 26 | 213 |
How strange it was, I thought. |
10 |
| 28 | 79 |
For example, how do you act when you see his eye roving you, and you note indications of interest? Do you dare to seem to express outrage or resentment under his frank examination, do you feign boredom and mechanical compliance, that he may be tempted to turn you into a squirming slut begging for hi... |
10 |
| 32 | 172 |
What true man does not want to hear this word from a beautiful woman, one from whom it emanates appropriately? What true man does not desire the mastery, and absolute power over a beautiful woman? What true man does not wish to own, and fully, the most exciting woman he has ever seen, to have her at... |
10 |
| 36 | 712 |
"How strange has been the course of events," he said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 881 |
Indeed, it was somewhat strange that he was here, and certainly strange that he was seated at the table of Belnar. |
10 |
| 2 | 724 |
Then, as he picked up the kettle, a strange look suddenly came over his face. |
10 |
| 6 | 73 |
"I am!" "And you go face-stripped before a strange man?" he inquired. |
10 |
| 6 | 279 |
The jungles of the Anangoan interior serve as the setting for various fanciful tales, having to do with strange races, mysterious plants, and fabulous animals. |
10 |
| 6 | 711 |
"Does it not seem strange that you would have fallen madly in love with me at just this moment?" "Why, no, of course not," she said. |
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| 6 | 1225 |
It is one thing to do this in a city where one, and one's financial status, is reasonably well known, and quite another, as you may well imagine, to do it in a strange place before strangers. |
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| 12 | 520 |
I must soon, in the performances, I feared, hood the Lady Yanina, or perhaps, better, sell the wench to someone bound in another direction, and replace her altogether with another girl, presumably a slave, whom I might purchase somewhere, a girl it would be safer to take into Brundisium, one not fro... |
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| 14 | 275 |
I knew that even strange urts were often torn to pieces when they attempted to approach a new pack. |
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| 14 | 364 |
That would explain why a strange urt, though even of the pack's own species, would be fallen upon and killed if it attempted to join the pack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 294 |
Although this may seem strange to native English speakers, it is certainly not linguistically unprecedented. |
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| 9 | 242 |
"All I wish from you," he said, "as you are more experienced in the strange ways of civilization than I, is that you would have no objection to my selling a few things to raise money". |
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| 11 | 57 |
"To me," said the merchant, "it seems merely strange, or perhaps, at best, unmitigated trash, but then I am a simple man of business, and not a scribe. |
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| 12 | 35 |
"Is it not early?" "Something strange is going on," I said. |
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| 15 | 535 |
Strange it was that she should seem only now to be learning her collar. |
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| 16 | 319 |
"When I begged to be put on the chain—I do not know how I should tell you this—I felt a strange, incredible, shocking appropriateness or rightness about my petition. |
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| 16 | 1370 |
Several folks were looking at me in a strange way. |
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| 16 | 1764 |
"That seems very strange, does it not?" asked Hurtha. |
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| 21 | 101 |
"Does this not seem to you strange?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 2101 |
"This may sound a bit strange," she said. |
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| 26 | 958 |
It makes me feel so strange". |
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| 26 | 968 |
"Am I beautiful enough and sexually desirable enough," she asked, "to be a slave?" "That is a strange question for a free woman to ask," I said. |
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| 26 | 1212 |
"I have strange feelings," she whispered. |
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| 26 | 1798 |
"That seems a strange thing to say," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 304 |
My bare feet sounded strange to me, striking on the surface of the stairs. |
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| 3 | 307 |
The corrugated surface of the stairs, too, felt strange on my feet. |
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| 3 | 453 |
I felt strange, standing there in the ladies' room in the library, naked. |
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| 3 | 568 |
"Doreen Williamson!" That had seemed a strange way to inquire my name, surely. |
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| 6 | 325 |
What was so marvelous or desirable, really, about her unhappiness and hardness, her cruelty and frustration, that we, lesser women, should find it preferable to love? Why did she so hate us? Did our nature, and softness, contradict her views, showing them false? Perhaps that was it, that she in some... |
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| 6 | 459 |
That seemed strange to me. |
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| 7 | 94 |
I was startled, and a little frightened, even, by the strange, scaled, long-necked, placid, lizardlike quadruped that drew the wagon. |
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| 9 | 520 |
How alone I had suddenly realized I was here, on this strange, beautiful world. |
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| 10 | 391 |
It seemed strange to me, then, that I, the former Doreen Williamson, the timid, shy reference librarian, from Earth, should now be inquiring into matters such as my price. |
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| 10 | 487 |
How strange it then seemed to me that I, the former Doreen Williamson, of Earth, a shy librarian, should now be elated that she had some simple, independent value as a female, if only as slave meat! Then I realized how superficial was my view of this matter, even in so simple a business as vending a... |
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| 14 | 76 |
For example, we would not think it strange if a fellow of Earth, once in a while, drew forth his coin or stamp collection and spent some time lovingly pouring over it, scrutinizing and inspecting its items, and such. |
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| 28 | 77 |
"Is it not strange that a beast would have such fiber?" I asked. |
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| 29 | 654 |
"There were six men here, and three strange beasts, not sleen". |
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| 29 | 851 |
I felt confused, and frightened, but, too, elated, for I thought I understood then, by his response to the beast, that he had believed me, even when I had made what must have seemed so strange a claim. |
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| 29 | 1148 |
No longer then do you need to live in terror, shrinking back at every strange sound, every shadow in the darkness". |
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| 29 | 1618 |
The strange beasts were left for jards. |
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| 30 | 29 |
"Nothing!" Tela, undoubtedly puzzled by what she must take to be my strange behavior, lay back on the leaves. |
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| 32 | 151 |
It seemed strange to request permission to speak, in English. |
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| 34 | 304 |
It was with a strange feeling that I realized that even if I did not wish it so, even if I vehemently desired otherwise, my youth and beauty would continue to remain fresh and lovely for Gorean masters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 702 |
"You must be a strange one," he said to me, "to make do with a free female". |
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| 11 | 96 |
His interest is not to hurt her, which he would regard as a very strange interest, but to hone her, by the whip if necessary, into an obedient and delicious belonging, an attentive and devoted dream of pleasure, his own, personal, lovely, collared beast, his slave girl. |
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| 11 | 169 |
"Does it not seem strange to you?" asked Aemilianus. |
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| 21 | 1018 |
A supposed advantage of the normal-coffle practice is that the women, being marched naked into a strange city look about themselves and feel themselves especially vulnerable and helpless. |
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| 21 | 1245 |
Perhaps they will seem strange, even incomprehensible, to readers unfamiliar with certain aspects of the culture in question. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 300 |
"Strange," I said, "that it is I who have labored on behalf of Ar who kneel here in the sand, shackled, said to be a spy for Cos, and that it is you who are precisely such an agent who should stand here, above me, thought to be a partisan of Ar". |
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| 16 | 118 |
It was a strange feeling. |
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| 19 | 113 |
I heard the short-legged tharlarion make a strange noise and saw it lifted from the sand and shaken. |
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| 19 | 1296 |
"Please," she said, a strange note in her voice. |
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| 19 | 1422 |
"Do not let me go!" "A strange request from a free woman," I said. |
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| 19 | 1423 |
"I am having strange feelings," she said. |
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| 24 | 179 |
"A strange response from a free woman," I observed. |
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| 25 | 42 |
"Then later, as I realized I must await you here, where you had put me, and as you had put me, and for as long as you wished, I began to have strange feelings". |
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| 25 | 49 |
"Helpless here," she said, "I began to have strange feelings in my belly, and whole body, for you". |
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| 28 | 159 |
Plenius turned back, to regard me, a strange expression on his face. |
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| 28 | 248 |
It seemed to me that there had been a strange note in his words, one I did not understand. |
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| 31 | 176 |
And so, too, similarly, did we, who knew something of the power of Labienus and his strange practices, react. |
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| 32 | 144 |
This seemed to be surely strange, in this area. |
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| 37 | 263 |
"It is strange," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 191 |
For example, a woman would not wish to seem forward, nor, in effect, to be calling herself to the attention of a strange male, which can be dangerous on Gor, and a woman, a free woman, might be well advised not to respond to the accostings of a strange male. |
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| 3 | 567 |
Indeed, she had best be! But how strange that she, a free woman, would even linger in this place. |
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| 5 | 10 |
"It is strange," said Marcus. |
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| 7 | 427 |
"It is strange," I said to Marcus. |
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| 8 | 193 |
Similarly if she responds to a strange male this may be taken as evidence that she is eager to please a man and obey, two attributes which suggest her readiness, even immediately, for his collar. |
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| 14 | 33 |
"I am a woman," she said, "why should I kneel?" This seemed to me a strange response. |
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| 14 | 50 |
"As you are slave," I asked, "how is it that you are not kneeling?" "A strange question," she said, "coming from a guardsman of Cos". |
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| 16 | 16 |
"Strange," remarked Marcus, "that the prisoner has on his sleeve an armband with the delka upon it". |
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| 17 | 326 |
"Magic seems too strange and wonderful," he said. |
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| 18 | 156 |
"That seems a strange request," said the fellow with the lantern. |
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| 18 | 157 |
"Not so strange as you might think," I said. |
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| 19 | 124 |
"But she did not plan on meeting two strange fellows on the road," I said. |
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| 19 | 233 |
"Strange, then, Master," she said, "that we should meet in this reality, I, once a woman of Earth, as now no more than a kneeling slave before you, once a man of Earth". |
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| 19 | 552 |
"Do you think it strange that you, who were a free woman, should look upon your reflection, and see in it a pleasure slave?" "No, Master," she said. |
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| 22 | 437 |
This, I would suppose, is the result of their having imbibed, foolishly, but naturally enough from a strange environing, mechanistic, conformity-demanding culture, peculiar concepts of female beauty, promulgated largely perhaps by unusual men, which very few natural women could manifest or fulfill. |
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| 23 | 44 |
Marcus made a strange noise. |
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| 24 | 389 |
Too, folks do not just welcome strange slaves into their houses, greeting them and inviting them to share their kettles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 8 |
That is a strange feeling. |
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| 5 | 60 |
But I did not think they really thought it strange that one such as I should be here, nor did the guards seem to think so. |
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| 8 | 16 |
What a strange dream it had been! I could remember chains, and the cracking of whips, and others like myself. |
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| 8 | 89 |
What a strange dream! It seemed the basket flew! Sometimes it seemed I heard the smiting of air, as though in the beating of giant wings. |
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| 8 | 194 |
Had I dreamed the house, the pens, the chains, the wagon, the strange passage through cold, windy skies? Was I dreaming now? Was I delirious? Was I mad? Muchly had I been disoriented by the substance to which I had been subjected. |
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| 8 | 761 |
Rather was I concerned with women here who might be such as I! It was those with whom I must compete! How strange, I thought, what I had become! I wondered what my friends, Sandra, and Jean, and Priscilla, and Sally, might have thought if they saw me at a man's feet, clad as I was, tendering there t... |
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| 8 | 766 |
Was this truly so strange to them? It is not so hard to understand. |
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| 8 | 773 |
How strange, I thought, what I had become. |
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| 11 | 1450 |
It was strange to be kneeling so conspicuously before the dais, but neglected. |
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| 11 | 1690 |
It was a strange feeling. |
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| 12 | 119 |
How strange was my world, one on which one was expected to pretend to numbness and insensitivity, one on which one was conditioned to be ashamed of health. |
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| 12 | 172 |
That intelligence seemed strange to me, as it seemed her voice was quite near me. |
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| 12 | 338 |
Let their free women rant at them, contradict them, and attempt to make them miserable, for whatever strange reasons might prompt them to do so, but before them, before such men, I am only, and can be only, a slave. |
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| 15 | 12 |
It cast long, strange shadows about. |
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| 19 | 840 |
"I have strange feelings," she said, "when I address men in that fashion". |
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| 24 | 107 |
It was a strange feeling, being where I was, where it seemed so quiet, the sky so blue and calm, the clouds moving overhead, unhurried, knowing that not far away some terrible action might be ensuant, perhaps at the pens. |
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| 24 | 616 |
"It is strange that they were here," he said, musingly. |
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| 24 | 776 |
How strange it must have been for them, free women, to find themselves in steel collars, linked to other such collars, by chains. |
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| 25 | 20 |
It seemed strange that he would accord such courtesy and regard, such esteem, almost reverence, to one who was a mere peasant. |
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| 29 | 403 |
"What a strange effect you have upon me," he mused. |
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| 29 | 472 |
"Strange," he said, "that you do not cringe, that you do not try to flee, that I need not use the leash, to hold you here. |
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| 31 | 37 |
The men in the black tunics who had remained overnight in the quarters of the pit master, including their leader and his lieutenant, seemed to me strange fellows. |
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| 31 | 408 |
Suddenly a strange, ugly, total, eerie transformation seemed to come over the gigantic body of the peasant. |
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| 35 | 29 |
In this book, which is an unusual book, I think, and certainly violates many of the little rules and regulations, in their doctrinaire plenitudes, which so constrict the contemporary theory of the novel, beyond which many seem not to see, I have tried to tell the truth, even truths which may seem to... |
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| 35 | 30 |
Truth is a strange thing. |
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| 37 | 523 |
I feared these sober, strange men in their sable habiliments. |
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| 37 | 596 |
The lamps and torches threw strange shadows, which moved, as the source of light moved, sometimes giving the impression of a dark body stirring, even moving furtively, or quickly. |
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| 37 | 899 |
It was strange. |
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| 37 | 1092 |
"It is strange," said the pit master. |
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| 39 | 57 |
I thought there were strange things going on in Treve, of late, things I did not understand, but which made me afraid. |
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| 40 | 40 |
It seemed a strange time and place for such greetings. |
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| 46 | 102 |
Let others of us who long to love and serve, and obey, and be desired, dream of masters!—yes, masters!—our masters! He looked down upon me, and I realized that these things to him, a man of Gor, were not that strange. |
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| 46 | 202 |
"How strange that I should care for you," he said, "for that is what you are, truly, a mere slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 75 |
She did know that she was in a strange bed, in a strange room, and in a strange garment. |
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| 2 | 54 |
If so, why? How strange is memory! She was tempted to approach him. |
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| 2 | 104 |
Suddenly, unaccountably, before him, she felt strange, unusual sensations, which seemed to swell upward through her body, permeating, suffusing it. |
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| 3 | 1 |
How She Awakened in a Strange Room; She Finds That She Has Been Ankleted She stirred, uneasily. |
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| 3 | 14 |
She sat up, abruptly, gasping, in the deep, soft, luxurious, strange bed, and put her hands swiftly to her own body. |
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| 4 | 176 |
She felt a wondrous warmth, and a strange animation in his presence. |
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| 4 | 261 |
She remembered little more after that, until she awakened, considerably later it seemed, in a strange bed, clad in what seemed to be a hospital or examination gown, and wearing, on her left ankle, a locked steel ring. |
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| 4 | 485 |
It seemed a strange landscape, in its way, with gentle yellow trees nestled in a valley, and, in the distance, a range of scarlet mountains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1347 |
"It was done through agents," she said, "but at the behest of strange men, quiet men, sedate men, softly spoken men, men carrying unusual weapons, men with strange eyes". |
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| 12 | 554 |
"It is strange, is it not," I said, "that the deck watch failed to note such intruders, and that the alarm bar did not ring until men were pouring onto the deck?" "Do you think it strange?" asked the tarnsman. |
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| 33 | 323 |
"A strange ship! A strange ship!" Other men were rushing toward the high piers. |
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