| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 51 |
He lifted the weapon, wielding the heavy metal blade as though it were a straw. |
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| 18 | 82 |
Some contained worn sleeping mats of cold, moldy straw, some contained a few rusted metal utensils, such as kettles and pails, but most were completely empty, revealing no signs of life or use at all. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 54 |
The simplest and humblest village, and even the most primitive hut in that village, perhaps only a cone of straw, will contain its own Home Stone, as will the fantastically appointed chambers of the Administrator of so great a city as Ar. |
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| 10 | 46 |
Some twenty feet below the level of the door, in the absolute darkness, with brutal impact, I struck bottom, a stone floor covered with wet straw. |
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| 10 | 53 |
I smelled the wet fur of the animal, a rodent of some kind, the smells of its den, the soiled straw. |
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| 12 | 8 |
Some straw was scattered on the floor. |
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| 12 | 155 |
He sat on the straw, and smiled at us, a jolly, impish, shamefaced smile. |
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| 18 | 126 |
With a rattle of chains a small man with a wisp of straw-colored hair across his forehead snaked past the others and stood before me. |
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| 25 | 155 |
She would be given a mat of damp straw and a camisk, leavings from the tables of the dining rooms above, and lashings if she should dare to leave the room or shirk her work. |
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| 5 | 16 |
Her hair was very light, the color of summer straw; it was straight and bound simply behind the back of her neck with a small fillet of white wool. |
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| 6 | 94 |
Vika had unrolled a straw mat which she placed on the floor at the foot of the great stone couch in the chamber. |
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| 8 | 3 |
She had been lying on the straw mat at the foot of the stone couch. |
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| 9 | 2 |
This was unusual, however, for normally the Gorean slave girl sleeps at the foot of her master's couch, often on a straw mat with only a thin, cottonlike blanket, woven from the soft fibers of the Rep Plant, to protect her from the cold. |
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| 9 | 199 |
In that moment I sensed once more that slightly acrid scent which I had experienced in the corridors beyond the chamber, and I pressed my mouth hard into Vika's until her lips were cut by my teeth and I had pressed her back until only my arm kept her from falling to the stones of the floor, and I he... |
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| 26 | 169 |
There was no scarlet moss in the case but there was a straw mat on one side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 60 |
"Let's look at them," said Ho-Tu, picking up a small metal hand torch with a wick of twisted, tarred straw from the floor and thrusting it into the drum fire. |
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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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| 17 | 46 |
A wide area had been cleared in the center of the room, on which, over straw, had been spread some rep-cloth blankets. |
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| 17 | 102 |
I permitted her to go to the center of the room, where she stood, facing me, tears in her eyes, near the rep-cloth blankets spread over straw. |
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| 17 | 117 |
Then she was lying on the rep-cloth blankets, spread over the straw, beneath me, kissing me helplessly. |
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| 18 | 402 |
I could smell wet straw in the place, and the excrement of urts and a human being. |
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| 23 | 10 |
She was lying on the straw of a slave, but she had wrapped about her body the garment of a free woman. |
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| 24 | 146 |
They were perhaps the doors to the compartments of slaves, housing little more doubtless than a straw mat, a washing bowl, and a small box in which might be kept some slave livery and perhaps simple utensils, a plate and a cup. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 31 |
Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a... |
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| 15 | 731 |
"I have kept it hidden in the straw of my mat," said Telima. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 757 |
I rolled onto my belly in the straw and picked up a bit of straw and poked at the floor with it. |
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| 11 | 984 |
I lay on my belly, in the straw, in the cage in Ko-ro-ba, poking with a bit of straw at the steel plating. |
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| 7 | 340 |
These villagers would always spread fresh straw in the hut in which we would be chained for the night. |
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| 8 | 312 |
The compounds are formed of windowless log dormitories, floored with stone on which straw is spread; the dormitory then opens by one small door, about a yard high, into the barred exercise yard. |
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| 10 | 147 |
The beast now lay curled in its place, on straw. |
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| 10 | 419 |
The beast now crouched on the straw, its nostrils wide in the leathery snout, its eyes bright and black, the ears lifted. |
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| 11 | 160 |
Straw is spread on the metal plating which is the floor. |
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| 11 | 479 |
Lana and I, that night, thought them fools, and, satisfied with ourselves, went to sleep on the straw. |
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| 11 | 493 |
But there was little beauty in the pens, with their heavy blocks of stone and stout bars, and straw, and the smells. |
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| 11 | 535 |
"You may call the guard," she said, "for brushes and water, and fresh straw". |
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| 11 | 544 |
The guard brought fresh straw, and water in a leather bucket, and a heavily bristled brush. |
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| 11 | 545 |
My hands were unbound and, on my hands and knees, I began to gather the soiled, stinking straw. |
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| 11 | 550 |
I cleaned one half of the cage, taking out the used straw and scrubbing the plating. |
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| 11 | 554 |
At last my half of the cage was clean and I spread fresh straw there. |
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| 11 | 628 |
Once, when I got to my feet in the cage and walked across the straw, Inge, who was kneeling nearby, said, unexpectedly, suddenly, "You are a slave, El-in-or!" I leaped at her and slapped her. |
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| 11 | 632 |
Then, scratching and cursing, we began to roll and fight in the straw. |
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| 11 | 675 |
Lana rolled luxuriously on the straw. |
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| 11 | 679 |
Ute lay down on the straw. |
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| 11 | 691 |
I lay in the straw, my face pressed into it, feeling the obdurate steel beneath it. |
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| 11 | 715 |
I rolled over on my back in the straw and stared at the ceiling, more steel plating, the flooring of the cage in the tier above us. |
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| 11 | 731 |
I sat in the straw and sucked the candy. |
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| 11 | 746 |
I crawled away from Inge, and lay down on my belly in the straw. |
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| 11 | 749 |
I rolled over on my back in the straw and again stared at the ceiling, that obdurate steel plating, the flooring of the cage in the tier above us. |
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| 11 | 750 |
I lay there naked in the straw, feeling the steel plating beneath my back. |
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| 11 | 758 |
Odd, I thought, how Elinor Brinton, she who had been so rich, so elegant, so arrogant, she who had been of Park Avenue, she who had owned the Maserati, was now, on a distant world, only this, a common slave, naked, on her belly in straw, steel plating beneath it, behind heavy bars, caged, merchandis... |
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| 11 | 1023 |
I pretended to be asleep, on my side, in the straw. |
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| 11 | 1055 |
"Like us!" I whirled to face them on the straw, my back against the bars. |
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| 11 | 1066 |
I stamped on the plating beneath the straw with my heel. |
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| 11 | 1067 |
I cried out with rage, and picked up straw and flung it about the cage. |
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| 11 | 1077 |
I lay on the floor, naked in the straw, a helpless slave girl, the property of men, who must do as they commanded her, and wept, and wept. |
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| 11 | 1078 |
I mention two other bits of news, which, from the outside world of laughter and daylight, filtered into the straw-strewn, barred pens. |
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| 11 | 1178 |
I felt the steel plating beneath the straw. |
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| 11 | 1203 |
As lightly and beautifully as a cat, Inge leapt to her feet and returned to the straw at the back of the cage. |
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| 11 | 1225 |
I stood at the back, right-hand corner of the cage, on the steel plating, on the straw. |
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| 11 | 1234 |
I heard a girl move on the straw in the next cage, approaching the bars. |
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| 11 | 1265 |
Even though a token collar might be locked on my throat, it would be I who would be master! Sometimes, at night, lying in the straw of the cage, I would think of Verna, and when I did so, knowing her captured, destined for brand and collar, I would laugh to myself. |
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| 11 | 1372 |
I lay awake in the straw, looking up at the steel plating above me, dim, metallic, in the flickering of a lantern hung outside the cage, on a peg fixed into the wall on the opposite side of the corridor. |
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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 | 1396 |
I was better than all of them! I wanted only to be rid of them! I lay there in the straw, and recollected the forest north of Laura. |
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| 11 | 1409 |
I twisted in the straw, angrily. |
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| 11 | 1432 |
How he had appraised me, as I had stood helpless, naked, behind the bars, on the straw of the slave cage, his to be seen as he wished; how he had examined me, candidly, objectively, every inch of me, Elinor Brinton, female slave merchandise! How I hated him! How I hated men! How I hated most Soron o... |
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| 11 | 1433 |
I had a strange dream, turning and moaning in the straw. |
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| 11 | 1453 |
"Be silent," cried Lana, shaking me, in the straw. |
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| 11 | 1455 |
Then I saw Lana, and the straw, and the lantern on its peg on the other side of the bars, on the wall across the corridor. |
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| 11 | 1458 |
Then they lay down again, sleepily, in the straw. |
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| 11 | 1462 |
"Go to sleep," said Lana, and she lay down in the straw. |
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| 12 | 8 |
In the stinking straw they might have been soiled. |
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| 12 | 10 |
But now the dimly lit cells, the steel and cement, the stomach-wrenching heat and dampness, the close, foul air, the soiled straw, the stink, the crowding, the heavy bars, were behind us. |
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| 13 | 1072 |
It had only been to me that he had said, curtly, "No," so offending me! And he had looked at me, afterward, and I had tossed my head and looked angrily away, but when I had looked again, he was still observing me, nude, standing on the straw of the slave cage, and I had felt vulnerable, and frighten... |
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| 13 | 1165 |
At night, unclothed, when not being used, they were commonly chained in log kennels, small, low, sunken wooden kennels; the interior of these kennels would be a yard or so in height, and a yard or two in width; their length would be longer, to accommodate more girls; the girls would normally be mana... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 447 |
If found guilty in the court of the arsenal, the male thief would be sentenced, for a week to a year, to hard labor in the arsenal or on the wharves; the female thief would be sentenced to service, for a week to a year, in a straw-strewn cell in one of Port Kar's penal brothels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 |
It had turned lighter now, and more straw colored. |
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| 8 | 240 |
Outside the door of the compartment of her five bondmaids, curled sleeping on the floor, on their straw-filled mats, chained by their ankles, which area led into her own apartment, somnolent and bored, were four guards. |
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| 10 | 420 |
The girls sat, or knelt or laid on straw along the wall at our left. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 308 |
The cell had been cleaned, straw and wastes removed, rinsed down; most of the blood had been scrubbed from the stones; behind remained, here and there, only some stubborn, darkish stains; new straw had been spread; the kort rinds had been taken. |
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| 25 | 706 |
He entered the cell and, putting down his lamp, kicked and cuffed the girl, until she rolled in the straw, tangled in the chain, covering her head, her body half covered with straw, at the wall. |
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| 2 | 265 |
Then I threw her on her back on the straw, and used her. |
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| 2 | 275 |
I then, on the straw, again used her. |
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| 2 | 284 |
I cuffed her, and she turned, weeping, to her stomach, her head down, her tears falling in the straw. |
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| 7 | 12 |
I sat on the stone, on straw, soiled, which was scattered on the floor to absorb wastes. |
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| 7 | 21 |
I rejected the smell of moldy straw, of wastes. |
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| 7 | 143 |
I saw straw move within the cell. |
10 |
| 7 | 237 |
The light fell from the barred window onto the gray stones of the straw-strewn floor. |
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| 7 | 263 |
"Ho!" Across the floor, now wet with blood, and blood-soaked straw, the men, in their line, Ibn Saran remaining at the door, charged. |
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| 10 | 190 |
I did not think it would take her long to remove her clothing, draw her warm kaiila-cloth blanket about her and, drawing her knees up, fall asleep on the straw of her cell, which, under pain of death, she would shut behind her, locking it. |
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| 11 | 507 |
An arrow had fallen within the stable yard, striking through the straw in the storage stall at the right. |
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| 11 | 510 |
The interior of the stable yard was now well lit, by the blazing straw. |
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| 14 | 37 |
Tafa, sweet and warm, on straw, strewn over the cool stones, lay against me, in my arms. |
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| 14 | 42 |
The stones were broad, heavy blocks, cool, wet in places, over which lay a scattering of damp straw. |
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| 14 | 52 |
With his left and right hand he checked the collar at her throat, holding it with his left hand and, with his right, jerking the chain twice against the ring, then threw her from him, to the straw. |
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| 14 | 92 |
Watching me, catlike, Tafa lay on her side in the straw. |
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| 14 | 140 |
With some straw I wiped her mouth, cleaning it, for earlier, in her revulsion and terror, her horror at the place and manner in which she found herself incarcerated, she had from her own mouth soiled both herself and the cell. |
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| 14 | 145 |
Tafa, sweet and warm, on the straw, on the cool stones, lay against me, in my arms. |
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| 25 | 495 |
Then I pushed her ahead of me, holding her by the arm, stumbling through the straw and slime down the corridor. |
10 |
| 25 | 499 |
Against the far wall, chained by the neck, on straw, were more than a hundred slave girls. |
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| 25 | 601 |
I put Tarna, still sobbing, on the dank straw at the back wall of the cell. |
10 |
| 25 | 641 |
And in that foul cell, on the stinking straw, in the feeble light of the lamp outside, the once-proud Tarna, now only a nameless slave girl, chained by masters, struggled to please us. |
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| 25 | 656 |
The girl lay on the straw, curled up, the collar and chain leading to her throat. |
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| 25 | 659 |
She was beautifully curled on the straw. |
10 |
| 25 | 721 |
She broke a bit of straw between her fingers. |
10 |
| 26 | 872 |
I put her down on the straw. |
10 |
| 26 | 895 |
The girl sank to the straw, and looked up at me. |
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| 26 | 917 |
I looked at her in the straw. |
10 |
| 26 | 941 |
I touched her and she writhed in the straw, turning away from me, pulling her legs up. |
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| 26 | 968 |
She threw her head to the side, in the chain and collar, on the straw. |
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| 26 | 1002 |
"I am now on stinking straw," she said. |
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| 26 | 1137 |
Then she lay back and spread her hair back, about her, behind her on the straw. |
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| 26 | 1150 |
Her head was back in the straw. |
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| 26 | 1166 |
Rather, I, suddenly, with a larl's ferocity, thrust my lips to hers, cruelly, in the raping kiss of the master, and pressed her savagely back into the straw, against the very stones of the dungeon cell in which she lay slave, chained, beneath me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 835 |
At times I had been on the brink of surrendering myself to myself, acknowledging to my horrified conscious mind forbidden truths, long-denied realities, speaking of a venerable, long-suppressed, antique nature, one antedating huts of straw and limestone caves. |
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| 6 | 117 |
Through the straw of its roof and sides there was a considerable, delicate filtering of sunlight. |
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| 7 | 582 |
Some fifty yards from the line, in the darkness, between the straw huts, on their pilings, I stopped, and, wild, gasping, in the Ta-Teera, looked back. |
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| 9 | 156 |
I had dropped through the kennel door and, some feet below, struck the straw-strewn floor of the kennel. |
10 |
| 9 | 163 |
Wooden planks, covered with straw, lay over the bars on the bottom. |
10 |
| 9 | 197 |
The other slaves sat in the cage, on the straw. |
10 |
| 9 | 319 |
"We will see how you roll in the straw!" "If you are not good," said Verr Tail, "we will soon know. |
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| 9 | 482 |
We lay down in the straw, and were soon asleep. |
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| 9 | 517 |
My hand felt straw, and wood, and a steel bar, and the dirt beneath it. |
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| 9 | 520 |
The moons were full outside, and I rose to my feet in the straw. |
10 |
| 9 | 532 |
I lay down in the straw. |
10 |
| 9 | 539 |
I huddled in the straw, trembling. |
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| 9 | 1225 |
I had huddled in the straw, trembling. |
10 |
| 13 | 319 |
It costs only a pittance to maintain and train a girl in the barred, straw-strewn pens of a slaver's house. |
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| 17 | 16 |
I sat on straw, my legs drawn up. |
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| 17 | 20 |
The room was dingy, and smelled of musty straw. |
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| 17 | 46 |
I smelled the straw. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 366 |
The man of Earth thinks of the world as being essentially dead; the Gorean thinks of his world as being essentially alive; one utilizes the metaphor of the blind machine, the other the metaphor of the living being; doubtless reality exceeds all metaphors; in the face of reality doubtless all metapho... |
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| 7 | 38 |
She sat in the straw beside an anvil. |
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| 35 | 628 |
"A wench such as you would have to first learn your lessons in the dirt or on straw, or on a fur thrown over cement at the foot of a master's couch, under the slave ring". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81 |
When a man has once eaten of the meat of gods he will never again chew on the straw of fools. |
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| 6 | 502 |
Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris... |
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| 14 | 5 |
I do not think Sasi was too pleased when I carried the blond slave over the threshold and placed her on the straw by the slave ring. |
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| 14 | 128 |
How beautiful she was, lying soft and helpless in the straw. |
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| 14 | 135 |
"Oh," she said, "oh," suddenly, rudely, returning to a slave's reality, then understanding that she lay in straw, her back on a wooden floor, held in the arms of a man. |
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| 14 | 169 |
I put my lips, gently, to hers, and she lifted her lips to mine, tenderly, and kissed me, and then she put her head back to the straw and the floor. |
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| 14 | 610 |
"Crawl now to the straw, by the slave ring," I told her. |
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| 47 | 79 |
Inside the stockade, given the feast of the village, the column would widen, spreading to cover in its crowded millions every square inch of earth, scouring each stick, each piece of straw, hunting for each drop of grease, for each flake of flesh, even if it be no more than what might adhere to the ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 12 |
I felt wet straw beneath my body. |
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| 3 | 105 |
I fell to my stomach on the stone and straw. |
10 |
| 7 | 5 |
On the floor, on straw, was a blanket which I had been given. |
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| 7 | 90 |
I looked down at the straw, and my blanket, heavy and dark, upon it. |
10 |
| 7 | 336 |
Then she was at my feet, on the stones, kneeling in the straw, her head down, her hair before her face. |
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| 7 | 355 |
"Yes, Master," she said, "yes!" I prepared to hurl her to her back on the straw and stones, and treat her as what she was, a woman, and a slave. |
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| 7 | 520 |
But then, of course, I had never seen a girl of Earth, naked, in a steel collar, thrown to my feet in the straw of a Gorean dungeon either. |
10 |
| 7 | 552 |
I realized then she was waiting for me to take her by the arms and throw her on her back on the straw, claiming her, subjecting her to the ruthless domination, sometimes tender, sometime harsh, always uncompromising, accorded by a master to one who is only a miserable slave. |
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| 7 | 595 |
She was flung back in the straw, blood at her beautiful mouth. |
10 |
| 7 | 598 |
She then lay on her stomach in the straw before me, her upper body lifted on her elbows, her head down, over my feet. |
10 |
| 7 | 617 |
She then rolled from my feet a yard or so away in the straw. |
10 |
| 7 | 621 |
She looked up at me, smiling, her left knee raised, her hands beside her, palms up, in the straw. |
10 |
| 7 | 647 |
She put her head down to the straw. |
10 |
| 7 | 802 |
I did not speak to her but went to the dark blanket which lay to one side on the straw. |
10 |
| 7 | 803 |
I spread the blanket, which was heavy, and fashioned from the wool of the bounding hurt, on the straw. |
10 |
| 7 | 853 |
I leaned back against the wall, sitting in the straw. |
10 |
| 7 | 1052 |
Suddenly, surprising me, she rolled onto her stomach and, with her small fists, struck down at the blanket spread over the straw. |
10 |
| 7 | 1076 |
Again I sat down, in the straw. |
10 |
| 11 | 150 |
Then she had the bit of moss lit and, into it, she placed a straw. |
10 |
| 11 | 151 |
This straw, burning then at one end, served to light the wick of a small, clay oil lamp. |
10 |
| 11 | 152 |
She then shook the straw, extinguishing it and, with her fingers, moved the bit of moss about, spreading it, and the tiny flame there dissipated into scattered glowing points which then, rapidly, disappeared. |
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| 18 | 161 |
The homely smells of the stable yard and the barns, with their straw-filled stalls, are not really objectionable, when one grows used to them. |
10 |
| 18 | 163 |
I rather liked the odors of the stables and barns, such complex mixed odors, ranging from straw, and hay and leather, to the organic wastes of our huge charges, some four species of draft tharlarion. |
10 |
| 18 | 279 |
Not unoften he would bring one of them to my stall at night, where I was chained, and chain her by the neck, beside me in the straw. |
10 |
| 19 | 73 |
These were empty, but filled with clean straw. |
10 |
| 19 | 97 |
I lifted her into my arms and carried her to one of the stalls, where I placed her gently on the straw. |
10 |
| 19 | 102 |
I touched her brand, I fingered her collar, as she lay naked in the straw, looking up at me. |
10 |
| 19 | 191 |
She was a sweet little thing, a sweet little beast and slut, and was gasping, piteous and spasmodic in the straw. |
10 |
| 19 | 218 |
I wondered if free women, in their large, cold beds, had any cognizance of, or were even capable of a cognizance of, the experiences of their girls, chained in the straw of a cell, their grateful writhings, the kissings and sobbings, the thrashings and pleadings, of their despised collar sluts. |
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| 22 | 117 |
On the other hand the smell of their sweat and labors, mixed with the stable smells and that of fresh, crackling straw, and sometimes fear, for it is easy for a woman to fear when she is on a chain, particularly if she may have hitherto displeased he who is now, doubtless to her apprehension, her ma... |
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| 23 | 7 |
"Yes," I had said, miserable in the straw, lying on my stomach, sick. |
10 |
| 23 | 50 |
I had then sat in the stall, in the straw. |
10 |
| 25 | 232 |
Kenneth thrust me happily down the corridor and into the straw-filled stall. |
10 |
| 27 | 61 |
"Put now fresh, clean straw in the stall," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 63 |
Then she was standing in the stall, the clean, fresh straw to her knees. |
10 |
| 27 | 169 |
I crouched then beside her and thrust her back in the straw. |
10 |
| 27 | 201 |
We were in the pool of its light, lying in the straw. |
10 |
| 27 | 231 |
Two more lanterns were lifted, and unshuttered, well exposing the girl and me in the straw. |
10 |
| 27 | 244 |
Swiftly the Lady Florence, frightened, knelt in the straw. |
10 |
| 27 | 277 |
Then I threw her to her side in the straw. |
10 |
| 27 | 322 |
She lay back in the straw, the chain on her throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 |
I indicated a place on the straw, at the wall of the food tent, a clear place, between other couples. |
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| 3 | 5 |
"You are the first man who has ordered me to the straw," she said. |
10 |
| 3 | 133 |
"You know that!" I threw her then down to her back in the straw. |
10 |
| 3 | 216 |
There, at the edge of the straw, standing, was a large, uncouth fellow, in the garments of the Tarn Keepers. |
10 |
| 3 | 226 |
She looked up at him, from the straw. |
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| 3 | 236 |
Suddenly, to me, she seemed very soft, and very vulnerable, in the straw. |
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| 3 | 245 |
"Lie there now before me, thusly," said he, "in the straw". |
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| 6 | 109 |
Straw is scattered at the edges of the room, on the wood. |
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| 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. |
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| 24 | 359 |
"I enjoyed my rape," said a redhead, collared, in an ankle ring, and chain, lying near us in the straw. |
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| 31 | 50 |
Then we would awaken, to the straw, to the cold, to the stones, to the damp, cold, heavy iron of our chains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 18 |
Such girls, now, as it was late, past the nineteenth Ahn, would surely, at least for the most part, be chained in their basement kennels, lying on their straw mats, trying to sleep, clutching their thin blankets about their nude bodies. |
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| 20 | 797 |
Yet our myths are like walls of straw. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 616 |
Their anchors, they fear, are straw; their props, they fear, are reeds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 174 |
As a hurricane can imbed a straw in a post so, too, are compounded the forces involved by the speed of the stroke. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 298 |
There, kneeling on straw, trying to pull towards us, her wrists tied behind her back to a ring set in the wall, was a blond girl. |
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| 15 | 306 |
I then saw many wagons and could smell tharlarion, and straw. |
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| 26 | 108 |
Too, its comforter, blankets and pillow were a welcome change from the flat, straw-filled mat and thin blanket on the cement floor of the dormitory. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 701 |
Can fire not have a sense of its effect on straw? Are they not aware of the impact on a man of the mere sight of them. |
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| 13 | 3 |
Behind me, on his straw, crouched the small, narrow-shouldered, spindle-legged representative of the urt people. |
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| 13 | 158 |
Behind me, on his straw, crouched the small, narrow-shouldered, spindle-legged representative of the urt people. |
10 |
| 13 | 168 |
"Look, look?" squeaked the creature on the straw below me. |
10 |
| 13 | 169 |
It scratched about on the straw, backwards with its feet, while looking up at me. |
10 |
| 13 | 203 |
It then went back to its straw in the corner, poking about in it for scraps of food. |
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| 13 | 253 |
The representative of the urt people then scurried to his food and, by one edge of the tray, with a scraping noise of metal on stone, dragged it quickly over to his straw. |
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| 13 | 268 |
He suddenly scurried back to his straw, crouching on it, looking up at me. |
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| 13 | 275 |
It pretended to be examining its straw for lice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 214 |
Then again the ponderous, earthshaking, bellowing, grunting, trampling tharlarion ground cavalry charged, this time breaking through the walls like dried straw, followed by waves of screaming, heavily armed spearmen. |
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| 22 | 334 |
There was some straw in a corner of the room. |
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| 28 | 2 |
She moved in pain, in the straw. |
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| 28 | 10 |
She, wincing, turned toward me, in the straw. |
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| 28 | 43 |
"I am naked, and the straw is soft and warm, Master," she said. |
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| 28 | 65 |
She was lovely in the straw, at my feet. |
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| 29 | 179 |
I recollected, in particular, most recently, the former Lady Lydia, she who had been of the Tabidian Towers, that particular slave, how she had looked, the straw about her body, and in her hair, the chain on her neck, her eyes, her cries, her pleading kisses and touches, her utter helplessness, and ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 250 |
In this cell we bedded on damp straw, cast over the stone. |
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| 8 | 23 |
Too, was straw scattered about. |
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| 10 | 382 |
There was straw in the kennel, and a part of a blanket, a pan of water, and a pail for wastes. |
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| 13 | 747 |
That was the purpose of such places, whether they were within lofty towers, reached by graceful bridges, or near the wharves, close enough to hear the tide lapping at the pilings, whether they had a dozen musicians or only a single, dissolute czehar player, alone with his music, whether the girls we... |
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| 17 | 76 |
On my back, tied there, was a rolled pallet, filled with straw. |
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| 17 | 246 |
I could hear, beneath its narrow, sewn canvas surface, the crinkling of the straw within. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 285 |
The bone which had been within the meat lay to one side, with a tatter of rope, amidst straw. |
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| 12 | 9 |
I stood in a cell, on huge, flat stones, strewn with straw. |
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| 12 | 10 |
There was more straw piled in the corners of the cell. |
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| 12 | 26 |
She shrank back, naked in the straw. |
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| 12 | 33 |
She did pull straw up, about her thighs and waist, to help hide herself. |
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| 12 | 34 |
She now looked at me, wildly, kneeling, huddling in the straw, covering her body, as she could, with her hands. |
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| 12 | 39 |
Then she bent down further, making herself even smaller in the straw, looking up at me. |
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| 12 | 91 |
I sat down in the straw, facing the door. |
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| 12 | 159 |
I heard her move angrily in the straw. |
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| 12 | 350 |
She pounded her fists on the stone, the blows softened by the intervening straw. |
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| 12 | 392 |
I put the pan to one side, on the straw, on the stone, and looked at her. |
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| 12 | 444 |
I then flung her back, behind where we had stood, to the straw, and put her to my purposes. |
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| 13 | 107 |
The first time I had used Lady Claudia, the first day I had been in the cell, flinging her to my feet in the straw, I had taken little time with her. |
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| 13 | 110 |
She was over against the far wall, awake, wide-eyed, half covered in the straw, lying on her side, watching me. |
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| 13 | 111 |
At my signal she had crawled across the floor, through the straw, and then knelt before me, her head down, submitted. |
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| 13 | 112 |
I had taken her by the arms and thrown her again to the straw. |
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| 13 | 174 |
I then lifted her and took her back, and put her gently on the straw. |
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| 13 | 257 |
I held her in my arms, for a time, the naked spy, in the straw. |
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| 13 | 276 |
She crawled a yard or so away from me, and there, in the straw, on all fours, the moonlight on her back, faced away from me. |
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| 13 | 280 |
I reclined in the straw. |
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| 13 | 288 |
She then lay down in the straw, next to me. |
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| 14 | 65 |
She then lifted it and rose up, and came back, slowly, feeling her way with her feet, through the straw. |
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| 14 | 202 |
"Come here," I said, and pulled her, on her side to the outside wall, and lay in the straw on the floor there. |
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| 14 | 238 |
When it grew lighter, and I feared they might soon come for her, I left her at the outside wall, and went to my former place in the straw, and lay there. |
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| 14 | 241 |
I myself lay in the straw, perhaps too weak to move. |
10 |
| 15 | 2 |
He beckoned, coaxingly, to Lady Claudia, who was still near the outside wall, crouching there now, in the straw, numb with fear. |
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| 15 | 6 |
"Come, come," he said, advancing past me, lying in the straw. |
10 |
| 15 | 37 |
I watched, lying in the straw, my eyes half closed. |
10 |
| 15 | 90 |
It was not a mistake that I had lain in the straw where I had. |
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| 15 | 108 |
At that instant I lunged forward and the nearest guard had barely time to turn his head before I caught him, and his fellow, taking them together, striking them with great force, I sprinting, thrusting, they off balance, and blasted them back, one loosened, sprung quarrel skittering about the room l... |
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| 15 | 135 |
"Lie down," I said to the warder, "on your belly, in the straw, your head to the wall. |
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| 15 | 146 |
I then put the three guards together, in a corner of the cell, and heaped straw over them. |
10 |
| 15 | 188 |
I then went to stand near our warder, lying on her stomach in the straw, her head to the wall, her legs spread, her head covered with her hands and arms. |
10 |
| 15 | 431 |
We then regarded Lady Publia, kneeling there, naked, in the straw, her rags back over her calves. |
10 |
| 15 | 590 |
Lady Publia was lying in the straw, bawling. |
10 |
| 15 | 959 |
He had then, apparently for the first time, detected the bodies, muchly concealed with straw, which we had hidden at the side of the cell. |
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| 16 | 410 |
This thesis is borne out by the fact that the woman quickly enough, perhaps under the whip, in the barn, in the straw at the master's feet, in his chains, putting aside her lamentations and pretended indignation, admits her conscious entry into the trap, and then begs, now, after a long dereliction ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1789 |
"Perhaps yours would be a straw-filled pallet in a public kitchen or laundry, crawled to after a work day of fifteen Ahn". |
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| 31 | 583 |
Much the same effect is achieved when they are chained by the neck in a slave bin, on the straw, their wrists chained to their holding collar". |
10 |
| 36 | 127 |
And with respect to smells, I do not think the free women, either, would smell as well as they might, if, say, they were kept on straw, chained naked in slave cages. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 53 |
In such a room, assuming slaves are allowed in the building, there are usually two of these, one at the wall and one at the foot of a straw-filled pallet. |
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| 8 | 391 |
No sooner had he had Phoebe inside the door to our room in the insula than he had torn the sheet and veil from her and flung her on her belly to the straw-filled mat, then leaping upon her with a cry of joy. |
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| 19 | 639 |
It seemed I was afire! I choked with misery! I was naked! Men were moving about! They could see me! What of my reputation? I struggled! I was afraid! I was angry! I was outraged! I was miserable! I had been betrayed! I was helpless! I fought the net! I fought the net! But I could not free myself!" "... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 60 |
Near me, as I brushed aside straw, I discovered two shallow, bowl-like depressions in the floor. |
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| 2 | 63 |
I lay back down, in the damp straw, on my right side. |
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| 2 | 73 |
As it passed I saw some of the straw on my side of the door. |
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| 2 | 142 |
It is hard to comprehend such realities, the darkness, the dampness, the stones, the walls, the wet straw, its smell, the collar, the chains, the not being clothed. |
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| 2 | 184 |
I drew up my legs, and put my hands on my shoulders, huddling, making myself small in the damp straw. |
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| 4 | 350 |
We knelt, chained, unclothed, fastened together by the neck, in a primitive corridor, heavy doors to the sides, doors to damp, straw-strewn cells or kennels, from which we had been removed. |
10 |
| 5 | 39 |
One seldom goes, so to speak, in one moment, from straw mats and clay bowls to silk and gold. |
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| 7 | 656 |
Rather one might as well scold helpless, oil-drenched straw for bursting gratefully into flame at the touch of the torch. |
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| 7 | 685 |
How did she know he had not come to pick fruit, to pluck flowers? How did she know that he might not leap at her, and seize her, and gag her, and bind her, hand and foot, and carry her to the wall? How did she know that she might not, bound hand and foot, squirming, in a net, or bound on a rope, be ... |
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| 8 | 392 |
Toward the back there was a bit of straw and, I was pleased to see, a blanket. |
10 |
| 8 | 1019 |
In this cell, as was presumably intended, I had done it with straw and water. |
10 |
| 8 | 1021 |
The straw is left in the vessel. |
10 |
| 10 | 270 |
There had been straw in the cell, for my comfort and cleanliness! Even a vessel for wastes had been provided! Could it be that these men were weak, or, if not weak, that they were tolerant, understanding, and kindly? Then it would surely be easy to fool them. |
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| 12 | 122 |
What a frail straw was truth! So a blade of grass grew between the paving stones, one tiny, green blade of grass among the stones? Did they fear that so much? Grass is so beautiful. |
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| 12 | 129 |
The tiniest of sparks might imperil a mountain of straw. |
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| 13 | 1036 |
"Bringing food to the prisoners, replenishing cisterns, emptying wastes buckets, carrying fresh straw, cleaning cells, that sort of thing. |
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| 14 | 215 |
She had a pallet filled with straw, a dish for food, a vessel for water, and a wastes bucket. |
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| 14 | 216 |
The luxury of the straw-filled pallet was doubtless an acknowledgment of her status as a free woman. |
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| 14 | 669 |
"He might cuff you and throw you to the straw, where you might quickly learn what it is for a man to take his pleasure in you. |
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| 15 | 3 |
There was damp straw on the floor of the corridor. |
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| 24 | 253 |
This was not a place which might be destroyed by a single lamp, brushed by a sleeve from a table, or by the focused rays of a lens, poised over straw, waiting for the sun. |
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| 31 | 361 |
Fina, amongst us, kneeling in the damp straw, bound, moaned. |
10 |
| 31 | 419 |
The girls, kneeling in the straw, bound, neglected, to the side, I among them, were tense. |
10 |
| 31 | 421 |
Our knees moved in the straw. |
10 |
| 31 | 510 |
One of the girls sprang to her feet and ran toward the door, but she was caught there, and held for a moment, and then flung back, forcibly, cruelly, to the stones and straw. |
10 |
| 31 | 671 |
Gito was hiding himself in straw to the left of the portal as one would enter. |
10 |
| 31 | 720 |
He coughed blood into the straw. |
10 |
| 31 | 727 |
Another of their fellows lay in the straw. |
10 |
| 31 | 735 |
Flame flickered in the damp straw, then disappeared. |
10 |
| 31 | 738 |
The flame did not take in the damp straw. |
10 |
| 32 | 26 |
Gito was still half buried in the straw, huddled there, shaking, whimpering, to the left, as one would enter. |
10 |
| 38 | 127 |
This morning I had seen her lying at his thigh, in the straw, docile and timid. |
10 |
| 43 | 69 |
"Go to the straw by the wall," he said. |
10 |
| 43 | 93 |
"You have ten Ihn," he said, "to strip, and kneel where you are, on the straw". |
10 |
| 43 | 104 |
She was sitting at the wall, naked, on the straw, her knees drawn up, her head down, hair before her face, her wrists up, tied together, over her head, fastened to a ring in the wall. |
10 |
| 44 | 9 |
I also heard a stirring of straw, and supposed that she was pulled forward, presumably to kneel, as free men were present, closer to the box. |
10 |
| 46 | 8 |
He cast down the whip, into the straw. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 107 |
Still, in empty cages, or in sparsely occupied cages, while a man stands watch, with a goad, you will have ample opportunity, during long hours, to prove your value as a work slave, removing masses of soiled straw, shoveling excrement, scraping and scrubbing floors, supplying and spreading bundles o... |
10 |
| 19 | 308 |
She wiped herself with a handful of straw from the stall, depositing the straw in the wastes container. |
10 |
| 8 | 52 |
The kennel was furnished, for amenities, with some loose straw and a small, short, torn, thin, threadbare blanket. |
10 |
| 9 | 238 |
After a time she drew on her tiny tunic, and moved some straw about in the kennel. |
10 |
| 10 | 107 |
There was no straw in the cage, but she had been permitted to retain her blanket. |
10 |
| 11 | 780 |
Let those of Earth denounce and castigate straw for burning when it is set afire. |
10 |
| 16 | 101 |
It was within one of these basement rooms, ill-lit, musty, damp and straw-strewn, that the women were housed when not on the shelf. |
10 |
| 16 | 1192 |
"You know you must share the same straw with them tonight". |
10 |
| 16 | 1266 |
"We will tear you apart in the straw," said Cichek. |
10 |
| 16 | 1379 |
The floor was strewn with straw. |
10 |
| 17 | 1101 |
She was then led for several yards across this level, some sort of open, wind-blown, flat surface, and then found herself suddenly out of the wind, and, in moments, some yards within some straw-strewn, wooden-floored room, or area. |
10 |
| 17 | 1129 |
He then took her to the side and threw her to a bedding of straw. |
10 |
| 17 | 1139 |
She lay there for a time, quietly in the straw, not moving further. |
10 |
| 17 | 1141 |
What if a man were watching? She knew the effect that a naked, bound woman can have on a man, even such a woman half hidden, half buried, in a bedding of straw, such as that into which she had been cast. |
10 |
| 17 | 1146 |
She was on straw, certainly, and, it seemed, given low wooden walls to her left and right, in some sort of open stall. |
10 |
| 17 | 1151 |
What manner of place can this be? What animals, what beasts, what creatures, could be kept here, so high? As she explored, with her body, legs and fingers, behind her, as she could, hooded, her small wooden-floored, straw-strewn housing, which seemed clearly to be some sort of stall, she discovered,... |
10 |
| 17 | 1153 |
Her bladder had been crying for relief, but she had feared to soil the straw, even at the end of the chain. |
10 |
| 17 | 1158 |
Ellen supposed that she was not the first slave, nor would she be likely to be the last slave, to be housed in this narrow, straw-strewn space. |
10 |
| 17 | 1165 |
Then she lay again still in the straw, in the leather hood, naked, chained by the neck, her hands braceleted behind her, and sobbed. |
10 |
| 17 | 1210 |
It is they who will decide whether or not I will be given a sip of water, a bit of straw on which to sleep, a blanket to clutch about myself against the cold, a soiled rag with which to cover myself, if even they see fit to permit me clothing. |
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| 17 | 1225 |
Mirus, Mirus, she thought, now your vengeance on me is complete! There was suddenly a titanic snapping in the air yards away, and it seemed that a mighty wind exploded in the area, scattering and whirling dust and straw. |
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| 17 | 1229 |
"Tarns! This is a place of tarns!" She cried out in misery and, naked, hooded, wrists braceleted behind her, chained by the neck, scrambled to the far corner of the stall, bruising herself, and tried to burrow down in the straw, trembling, trying to hide there, trying not to move. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
Intrigue "Ellen," said Selius Arconious, chewing on a straw, leaning against the jamb of the great portal, leading to the platform outside, "remove your tunic, to the floor, slave paces". |
10 |
| 18 | 277 |
He was looking across the straw-strewn floor at an object near one wall. |
10 |
| 18 | 400 |
To be sure, where was there for a slave girl to run? The collar and chain, of course, were always there, beneath the straw. |
10 |
| 18 | 509 |
Why is it then that I writhe in the straw at the thought of him? Why is it then that I dream of his whip upon me, lashing me, claiming me, marking me as his? "Hold, slave girl," said a voice behind her, a man's voice. |
10 |
| 18 | 588 |
"The sight of you to a man," said Portus Canio to Ellen, "is like thrusting a torch into straw. |
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| 18 | 619 |
Good! And you may not have me! I am owned by another! Roll in your blankets and think of me! Moan in your sleep! Dream of what you cannot possess! Let your straw burn, handsome master. |
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| 18 | 795 |
Just yesterday she had sat in the straw, in the open barn area, sitting to one side of him, as he had worked nearby, and extended her left leg, partly bent, her tunic dropping away, split as it was, to reveal a good deal of thigh. |
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| 19 | 59 |
The birds drew back from the goad uneasily, angrily, and, against the far wall of that immense cot, that great cage, beneath straw, Portus concealed the mysterious bundle. |
10 |
| 19 | 82 |
Immediately the soldiers began to ransack the loft area, casting saddles and harnesses about, pulling down tarn baskets, emptying boxes, stirring, and probing, thrusting about, beneath straw with their spears. |
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| 19 | 102 |
Ellen went to her belly and, across the wet floor, through the opened gate of the empty cage, across the dry, straw-strewn floor, squirmed to his feet. |
10 |
| 19 | 157 |
"She is a low slave, a cheap slave," said Portus, "good only for the cleaning of cages, the scrubbing of floors, the carrying of water, the replenishing of straw, such things". |
10 |
| 19 | 312 |
"You might be easily used," said he, "on the straw of your stall". |
10 |
| 19 | 321 |
He had put her to her belly on the straw. |
10 |
| 19 | 395 |
Portus, taking his concealed tarn goad from its hiding place to one side, behind the loose board, entered the tarn cage in which he had placed the oblong, mysterious package before the arrival of the Cosian soldiers, and retrieved it from under the straw. |
10 |
| 19 | 495 |
Ellen had lain on the floor amidst this bustle, naked there, on the straw-strewn boards, bound hand and foot, neglected, the small, now-damp, folded tunic clenched between her teeth. |
10 |
| 19 | 506 |
She could feel straw beneath the side of her face. |
10 |
| 20 | 363 |
But the bird, the lance like a straw in its mighty bulk, struck the tarnsman and the other bird, grasping and biting. |
10 |
| 20 | 697 |
She was then lifted up and carried from the cave, and, some yards later, placed in the back of a wagon and covered with straw. |
10 |
| 20 | 699 |
Through the sack and the straw, she could detect the light of a lantern. |
10 |
| 20 | 786 |
In the light of the lantern the straw had been parted and the sack undone, and thrust down, at first just enough to view the tag on Ellen's collar, but then, as the interest of the sentries was apparently aroused, to her waist. |
10 |
| 20 | 804 |
A bit later Ellen felt herself lifted from the wagon and the straw, and placed on the ground, on her stomach. |
10 |
| 29 | 137 |
Here Selius Arconious angrily kicked away two of the lower horizontal poles, and left one horizontal pole in place, which was about four feet above the leaves, wood chips, rotted straw, and turf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 |
He sat up in the straw. |
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| 3 | 7 |
It had a wooden floor, which was covered with a heavy layer of straw. |
10 |
| 3 | 12 |
Cabot looked across the stall at the brunette, who was kneeling, her knees and thighs obscured by the straw, to his right. |
10 |
| 3 | 14 |
On this collar there was a heavy collar ring, and to this collar ring there was attached a heavy, black chain, which presumably was fastened to a ring or mount under the straw. |
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| 3 | 233 |
"Miss Pym," he said, "seems somewhat inappropriate, perhaps a bit prim, perhaps even pompous, does it not, for someone in your current circumstances, one who is kneeling in straw, one whose entire ensemble consists of a collar and chain?" "Very well," she said. |
10 |
| 3 | 313 |
So might a lovely tabuk doe be tethered in the straw, thought Cabot, though for such, lacking hands, a light strand on the neck might do. |
10 |
| 3 | 350 |
He took a large handful of dry, bristling straw and placed it, crosswise, in her mouth. |
10 |
| 3 | 356 |
He knelt beside the brunette and drew the damp, partly crushed straw from her mouth. |
10 |
| 3 | 357 |
Then she put her head to the side, and, fingering within her mouth, and spitting, she ridded herself of the residue of the straw. |
10 |
| 3 | 360 |
"We had little but straw to work with," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 365 |
I think you would have looked quite nice, bound, hand and foot, and gagged, lying in the straw on your chain". |
10 |
| 4 | 45 |
When the next day he came again with food and water, and to replace the wastes bucket with a cleaner vessel, the brunette crouched down in the straw, but did not scream. |
10 |
| 5 | 136 |
The two men then returned their attention to the girl on the chain, kneeling before them, in the straw. |
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| 29 | 106 |
Do not doubt that many women in aristocratic lines once thrashed in the straw of stables, moaned in closets, obeyed in kitchens, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 90 |
The collar-girl was an animal who might be put to the straw in a stable, and would not even be permitted within the refined precincts of the pleasure house. |
10 |
| 11 | 4 |
By nightfall, as these things go, before the beasts returned, the stable should be cleaned, fresh straw strewn about, deeply, and the feed and water troughs filled. |
10 |
| 11 | 39 |
She threw herself to her belly in the straw, facing away from me, and covered her head with her hands. |
10 |
| 11 | 80 |
He then turned about, and left her, and she collapsed to the straw of the stable, wracked with sobs. |
10 |
| 11 | 81 |
She shuddered in the straw, naked. |
10 |
| 11 | 116 |
Saru looked up from all fours, her knees and hands in the straw. |
10 |
| 11 | 212 |
"No," she said, looking down to the straw, "I am no longer a virgin". |
10 |
| 13 | 9 |
They were sewn of heavy, striped canvas, and stuffed with straw. |
10 |
| 13 | 10 |
When I had entered I heard tiny sounds in the darkness, whimperings, small noises of fear, here and there the movement of a body on the straw-filled mat, the rustle of a chain. |
10 |
| 13 | 365 |
She seemed pathetic, in the darkness, kneeling on the small, striped straw mat, her skin so white, illuminated in the light of the taper. |
10 |
| 19 | 182 |
Torches, in particular, would not be practical as a single torch, fallen into the straw, would result in the loss of the stable, and its housing for several tharlarion. |
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| 20 | 183 |
Hitherto she had been lying on her belly in the straw, her head turned to the side, in bara, her wrists crossed behind her, with her ankles crossed, as well. |
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| 20 | 190 |
I looked at the four fellows about, one struck by the quarrel, and three in the straw, the one now no longer moving. |
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| 23 | 91 |
I had seen them nestled in their straw-lined boxes. |
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| 38 | 651 |
There will be an abundance of straw in each stall, within which each will be chained by the neck". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 38 |
There was straw underfoot. |
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| 3 | 48 |
I wrapped myself in the two blankets and, shivering, burrowed down in the straw. |
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| 3 | 71 |
I opened my eyes, and rose to a sitting position, cross-legged, in the straw, the blankets down, so that my arms were free. |
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| 3 | 94 |
"There," I said, brushing some straw aside, and indicating where she might place the bowl, before me. |
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| 3 | 1423 |
She complied, and I could then well see her, back a bit, her ankles in the straw. |
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| 3 | 1450 |
She was lovely, in the dim light, standing in the straw, within the cell, the gate open behind her. |
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| 3 | 1531 |
I released her head, and lay back in the straw. |
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| 3 | 1547 |
I lay down in the straw and was soon asleep. |
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| 7 | 61 |
One could listen, too, for the rustle of chains, as they might move about, or thrash on the straw in their misery. |
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| 7 | 96 |
Each girl was stripped, but had been given a heavy blanket, which most, in the straw and cold, shivering and shuddering, held about themselves. |
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| 7 | 123 |
When I had slid back the plate on the observation panel of the Kasra keeping area, particularly of late, a number of its occupants, those who could stand, and not merely roll miserably about in the soiled straw, had not only flung aside their blankets and hurried forward, until stopped by their ankl... |
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| 8 | 109 |
Muchly were they pleased, these fortunate ones, to be relieved of the ankle chain, and be loosed from the dank, straw-strewn keeping areas, to which they would be later returned, to be again chained in their places. |
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| 19 | 93 |
The great ship pitched and turned as might a straw in a maelstrom. |
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| 26 | 4 |
To one side Pani archers, with their large, unusual bows, were plying shafts into silk-covered straw targets. |
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| 30 | 41 |
Other inflammables, pitch, and such, were cast over the walls from the outside, which, by a flung torch, a cast, flaming bundle of straw, or such, might be as easily ignited. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 11 |
I lay down in the cage, on my right side, in the straw, facing the back wall of the warehouse. |
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| 8 | 1432 |
Sometimes I twisted in my chains at night, moaned, and scratched at the straw and the wooden flooring, remembering one or another of them. |
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| 8 | 1972 |
"Now," said Astrinax, "let us suppose that the girl who has been given the candy wants to save it, to postpone the pleasure of eating it until later, perhaps to when her work is done, and hides it somewhere, perhaps in the straw of her mat, and you, unbeknownst to her, have observed this". |
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| 9 | 11 |
I lay down in the cage, on my right side, in the straw, facing the back wall of the warehouse. |
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| 9 | 27 |
I had no doubt I smelled, of the straw, and the dung of tarsks. |
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| 9 | 33 |
I made my way to the end of the cage, and emerged, out, onto the stained, straw-strewn floor. |
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| 10 | 288 |
That was from the soiling in the tarsk cage, lying on the straw, sleeping there, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 140 |
I am familiar with such places as I have brought slaves to them How they moan and cry out, and sob, when herded down the stairs to the straw, and rings! It is not pleasant to be confined in such a place, for they are often dark, cold, and damp, the straw soiled, the chains heavy. |
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| 5 | 212 |
Straw is strewn about. |
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| 5 | 259 |
I remember little about my sale, until near the last, the straw, the block, the torches to the left and right, the darkness in the house, the sense of faces and bodies, the calls of the auctioneer, the occasional responses from the house, the touches of the whip, helping me, guiding me, turning me, ... |
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| 7 | 1 |
I, and certain others, had been kept in that basement, or dungeon, at the foot of the stairs, with the damp, soiled straw, and the dim light, filtering in from above, in its narrow, dust-sprinkled shaft of illumination, for days. |
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| 7 | 16 |
I was now what I was, myself, and wholly so, though I was ankle-deep in straw, nude, on another world. |
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| 7 | 28 |
Sometimes a slave was taken to the side, and made use of, in the straw. |
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| 7 | 143 |
We knelt in the straw, naked, waiting, viewed. |
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| 7 | 166 |
She leaped to her feet, darted with a scattering of straw past the fellow in blue, and, scrambling, sobbing, stumbling, falling once, leaping up again, fled toward the stairs, at the top of which, high above, was the dark, barred gate. |
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| 7 | 173 |
As she was held, she could only look down, into the straw. |
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| 7 | 277 |
"Please, no!" the girl had cried, but the others had then seized her, thrown her to the straw, and beaten her. |
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| 20 | 177 |
"You have seen the loading of cargoes, the great casks, the bags of sa-tarna and suls, crates of bitter tospits, paga and ka-la-na packed in straw, medicines, salves and unguents, endless streams of supplies". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 99 |
He expects to find his cot, warm, dry straw, and raw tabuk on its hook. |
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| 12 | 418 |
"From the straw, from the pens," said an Ashigaru. |
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| 12 | 429 |
"What of the straw jacket?" asked an Ashigaru. |
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| 14 | 41 |
"You expected to bear the brunt of a shogun's wrath," said Lord Yamada, "exquisitely expressed over weeks with cords and irons, with needles and clamps, with flaming splinters, perhaps culminating eventually in the horror of the straw jacket?" "I did not know what to expect," I said. |
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| 16 | 101 |
"Of straw," I said. |
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| 17 | 95 |
The target was a bundle of straw, tied to a post, the bundle shaped into the likeness of a man. |
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| 17 | 101 |
"I arranged to have the target formed of straw," he said. |
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| 17 | 106 |
As we spoke, an attending Ashigaru was withdrawing the arrows from the post behind the straw. |
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| 20 | 35 |
I had heard that more than one individual had been summoned to the palace, thinking to be honored and rewarded, and had perished miserably in the straw jacket. |
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| 23 | 115 |
"The straw jacket is unpleasant," said Haruki. |
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| 24 | 23 |
"It is preferable, is it not, to the straw jacket?" asked another. |
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| 24 | 26 |
"The straw jacket will be for others, later". |
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| 24 | 57 |
"He will wear the straw jacket," said another. |
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| 25 | 84 |
I had heard that Haruki, with several others, was to wear the straw jacket. |
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| 25 | 86 |
I was familiar, of course, with the bulky, coarse raincoats of straw commonly worn by the peasants in inclement weather. |
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| 26 | 7 |
Release them from the posts and straw jackets, rope them together and I shall conduct them to the designated pen". |
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| 26 | 24 |
There were twenty prisoners, bound to posts, each heavily enwrapped in a bulky straw jacket, the sort worn by peasants in foul weather. |
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| 26 | 33 |
Soon the twenty were well bound, and roped together, relieved of the thick straw jackets, which remained by the posts. |
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| 27 | 33 |
The nineteen prisoners who had been sentenced to the straw jacket with Haruki had slipped, one by one, from the tunnel. |
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| 32 | 94 |
The sleeping loft, once the fire reached the straw matting, would erupt with flame. |
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| 35 | 10 |
I would not expect to be twice rescued from the straw jacket". |
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| 35 | 17 |
Too, the freeing of the fellows by the road, in the business of the straw jackets, I suspect, will be laid to my account, and regarded as confirmed by my flight. |
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| 38 | 95 |
None wore the straw jacket of the peasantry. |
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| 47 | 171 |
But, too, in virtue of your alleged skills, and my own curiosity pertaining to the accounts I have of you, we are putting aside the straw jacket, crucifixion, and such". |
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| 54 | 235 |
It would be as unavailing as an angry, absurd straw flung against a cliff of stone". |
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| 56 | 8 |
Might there not be scraps of food in such a place, even scrapings from the sides of garbage bins? Might not such locations then be frequented by such an individual, or individuals, trying to survive like urts in the collapse of a society or civilization? I had located it and other such facilities in... |
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| 60 | 163 |
"The straw jacket?" said Haruki. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 145 |
You can no more hold a promise than a sieve water, you can no more resist the temptation to gossip than straw, seeking one excuse or another, can resist flame". |
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| 7 | 3 |
I had the sense I lay on a closely woven straw mat. |
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| 7 | 231 |
I had the sense I lay on a closely woven straw mat. |
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| 7 | 248 |
I was kneeling on a closely woven straw mat, at the foot of a massive stone couch, covered with furs, in what appeared to be a large, plain, primitive room. |
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| 9 | 196 |
I then lay on my stomach, over a portion of the straw mat. |
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| 15 | 146 |
Shortly thereafter the men stopped, and there were more stairs, these ascending, and then, again, I was on a level, and sandals were treading planks and crushing straw. |
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| 63 | 20 |
How much is to be preferred the pillows and cushions of a tavern alcove, or even a straw mat beneath a slave ring! Looking back, in the far distance, I could see the tops of the high walls of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 239 |
The rumors of responsibility spread from village to village, from port to port, from island to island, spread like the wind, spread like raging flame through straw. |
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| 18 | 119 |
"In coils," he said, "encircling it, and crushing it, like straw". |
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| 31 | 28 |
"Close the gate! Brush! Flames! Fire arrows!" Some twenty fellows rushed to the gate and pulled it shut, tying the two, in-swinging leaves together, and another twenty hurried to the closed gate with thick bundles of brush, grass, and straw which they piled before the tethered gate. |
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| 31 | 31 |
But no sooner had they freed the leaves of the gate and swung them inward than the brush, dried grass and straw which had been heaped up in the threshold was fiercely burning, creating a wall of fire behind which we could scarcely mark dark, moving figures. |
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| 31 | 36 |
A few Ehn later the flames at the gate, from the bundles of brush, grass, and straw, had lessened. |
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| 41 | 158 |
He who draws the short straw is quickly and mercifully put to death, that his fellows may feed". |
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| 45 | 94 |
I lifted the lamp and noted the shredded bedclothes and slashed straw mattress. |
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| 45 | 124 |
The second and third acts, though the order was unclear, were the placement of a carpet of straw and a candle in both the 'Grain Room' and the 'Harbor Room'. |
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| 45 | 125 |
The candles were lit and would soon burn down to the straw, which, when ignited, would set everything within reach afire. |
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| 45 | 129 |
Later straw and an unlit candle were discovered in the external corridor. |
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