Batta

In the morning of the 15th, we passed between Gilolo, otherwise called Batta-china and

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"Batta," a voice said softly, and Batta awoke, naked and sweating on a table in a strange place.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

This is -- it seems to be at least the first attack that we've seen on a tribal sheik, Kadhim al-Dulami, the head of the Batta tribe, a small but significant tribe here, part of the larger al-Dulami tribe.

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"Because, Batta, every now and then my dream fails to keep me warm."

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

"Dammit, Batta, they're grownup people, they can take care of themselves."

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins By the age of seven Batta was thoroughly trapped, though she scarcely recognized it until she was twenty-two.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

"Batta isn't even for sale," he reminded her, and then he reached out and touched her as she had never been touched, and she held him as she had never held anyone.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

When the brothers and sisters were there, Batta could pretend there was variety.

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Days passed, and in every day something different happened as the other children grew older (and married or didn't marry but left home anyway) but looking back, Batta felt that the days were all the same, after all, and the illusion of variety was just her mind's own way of keeping itself sane.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

That choice -- that was the choice that the real Batta made, staying with them.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979