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This made me decide it was all the more necessary to extract the truth by torture from two slave-women, whom they call deaconesses.
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This made me decide it was all the more necessary to extract the truth by torture from two slave-women, whom they call deaconesses.
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Then pull out another stone worth a thousand dinars and say to him, ‘Take this and set it, and give this ring to one of thy slave-women.’
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Mamelukes and slave-women and men-at-arms, all splendidly accoutred and weaponed for war.
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Do men really want subservient “slave-women” who subverts all her personal needs in order to please his?
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When her slave-women saw this, they shrieked aloud and told her father and mother, who in hot haste ran to the palace-roof and looking up, saw the magical horse flying away with the Prince and Princess.
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Presently the jeweller returned to his wife and said, “O Halimah,408 never did I set eyes on a more generous than this young man, and as for thee, thy luck is good, for he hath given me the ring without price, saying, ‘Give it to one of thy slave-women.’”
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One day, I went out into the garden with my slave-women and I stripped me naked and they likewise and, entering the tank, fell to sporting and solacing ourselves therein.
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Many had taken up with slave-women, whom they assisted in hoeing, and in consuming the produce of their gardens.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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Here, just as Oothoon indicts "hypocrite modesty" (6: 16) and not the active pursuit of sexual desireas the true model of "selfish" harlotry (6: 16-20), Stedman's slave-women do "not hesitate ... to pronounce as Harlots" those who refuse to follow the "laudable Example" of a sexuality that seeks unrestrained gratification (1790; 48).
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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