| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 4 |
Across the city, from the walls to the cylinders and among the cylinders, I could occasionally see the slight flash of sunlight on the swaying tarn wires, literally hundreds of thousands of slender, almost invisible wires stretched in a protective net across the city. |
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| 15 | 80 |
I leaped across the tent and clapped my hands across his mouth. |
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| 2 | 72 |
He straightened and turned to face me across that simple, strange room. |
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| 3 | 237 |
The wind swept across the flat, circular roof, tugging one toward the edge. |
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| 4 | 90 |
There was a rush of wings outside the window of my apartment, and the Older Tarl flung himself across the room and dragged me to the floor. |
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| 5 | 21 |
There was now an empire of Ar, a robust, arrogant, warlike polity only too obviously involved in the work of dividing its enemies and extending its political hegemony city by city across the plains, hills, and deserts of Gor. |
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| 5 | 42 |
She had risen and walked across the room, her feet bare on the stone floor, and dropped to her knees before me, lowering her head and lifting and extending her hands to me, the wrists crossed. |
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| 5 | 91 |
"I did ride once before on the back of a tarn," she said bitterly, "to Ar, bound across the saddle, before I was sold in the Street of Brands". |
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| 6 | 25 |
I lunged for the center of the platform, breaking under my foot a small ceremonial basket filled with grain, kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing the fermented red liquid across the stone surface. |
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| 6 | 167 |
But across the marsh, with his swift prancing stride, came Nar, and in his mandibles, held gently but firmly, the daughter of the Ubar Marlenus. |
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| 8 | 61 |
With all the weight of the heavy manacles on my wrist, I struck him across the temple, and he sank to his knees. |
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| 9 | 9 |
Somehow her happiness was contagious, and, almost as though we were not mortal enemies, we talked to one another and joked as we made our way across the plains. |
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| 12 | 108 |
High on a sunlit mountain ledge, the sable tarn dropped me to the sticks and brush of its nest and set one steel-shod taloned foot across my body, to hold me steady as the great beak did its work. |
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| 14 | 37 |
Marlenus set the Home Stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war. |
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| 15 | 98 |
He drained the flask in one drink and wiped his hand across his beard, stained with the red juice of the fermented drink. |
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| 15 | 260 |
"On the highest ground in camp," said Mintar, "near the second ditch and across from the great gate of Ar. |
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| 16 | 11 |
Across the left temple of the black helmet I fixed the golden slash of the messenger. |
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| 16 | 17 |
Sometimes the forces of Ar would drive the men of Pa-Kur back against the defensive stakes, and once they drove them to take refuge across the now constructed siege bridges spanning the great ditch. |
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| 16 | 25 |
On the tenth day of the siege small engines, such as covered catapults and ballistae, were flown across the ditches by tarn teams and soon were engaged in artillery duels with the engines mounted on the walls of Ar. |
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| 16 | 28 |
It began several hours before dawn, as the giant siege towers, covered now with plates of steel to counter the effect of fire arrows and burning tar, were slowly rolled across the ditch bridges. |
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| 18 | 83 |
After I emerged from one of these caves, I was surprised to see my tarn across the pit, his head tilted to one side, as if puzzled. |
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| 18 | 85 |
I raced across the pit. |
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| 19 | 79 |
He strode majestically across the roof. |
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| 19 | 166 |
During this time Talena, though bound hand and foot, had struggled to her knees, and she watched us fight, her hair and the folds of her robe blown by the wind that whipped across the roof of the cylinder. |
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| 19 | 168 |
Suddenly there was a sound like thunder and a great shadow was cast across the roof of the cylinder, as if the sun had been obscured by clouds. |
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| 19 | 176 |
Across the bridges of the great ditch, rivers of warriors were flowing. |
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| 19 | 245 |
"If you did not," I laughed, "I would throw you across my saddle and carry you to Ko-ro-ba by force". |
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| 19 | 250 |
Then, in accord with the rude bridal customs of Gor, as she furiously but playfully struggled, as she squirmed and protested and pretended to resist, I bound her bodily across the saddle of the tarn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1 |
I Buy a Girl Out from my scabbard leaped the sword and I splashed across the cold stream, making for the grove of trees across the way. |
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| 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. |
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| 3 | 10 |
Surprisingly, though the pasang stones told me I was close to Ko-ro-ba, stubborn tufts of grass were growing between the stones, and occasional vines were inching out, tendril by tendril, across the great stone blocks. |
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| 3 | 55 |
I sensed that he was considering how quickly he could get to the ax bound across the bundle. |
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| 4 | 36 |
Then I saw it, on its six short legs, undulate across the road, like a furred lizard, its pointed, whiskered snout swaying from side to side testing the wind. |
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| 5 | 100 |
It was becoming light now, and dawn was breaking across the gentle hills that had sheltered Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 6 | 41 |
As I was pondering these matters, I observed, approaching me, but not seeing me, in the distance, moving across a green meadow, a dark figure, that of a woman. |
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| 6 | 69 |
When he brings home his captive, bound naked across the saddle of his tarn, he gives her over, rejoicing, to his sisters, to be bathed, perfumed and clothed in the brief slave livery of Gor. |
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| 6 | 179 |
Approaching across the meadow, ankle deep in the wet grass, were four warriors, helmeted and carrying spears and shields. |
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| 9 | 28 |
"Welcome to Tharna!" he said, and fled across the bridge and into the cylinder. |
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| 9 | 106 |
I leaned my shield and spear against the wall, set the helmet beside the table, unslung the sword belt, laying the weapon across the table before me, and prepared to wait. |
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| 9 | 154 |
Even the proprietor slept, his head across his folded arms on the counter, behind which stood the great Kal-da brewing pots, at last empty and cold. |
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| 11 | 93 |
There was a whimpering and a scuffling from behind me, and, to my astonishment, one of the guardsman of the palace, the tiny silver mask blazed across the left temple of his helmet, flung Ost, the conspirator, yoked and sniveling, to the foot of the throne. |
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| 13 | 19 |
The spear struck me, too, again and again, in the back and across the shoulders, but I stood, somehow strong in the yoke, like an ox. |
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| 13 | 150 |
He savagely struck me across the face with his coiled whip. |
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| 14 | 6 |
Mingled with calls for the tarn, occasional taunts and jibes carried across the sand. |
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| 14 | 135 |
The voice of the Tatrix drifted across the sands. |
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| 14 | 208 |
The golden arms of her robe, the hands gloved in gold, were flung across her face. |
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| 15 | 153 |
I watched the clouds scudding across the darkening sky, listened to the wind whistling among those lonely ridges. |
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| 16 | 103 |
Thorn seized me by the wrist shackles and dragged me across the top of the pillar to one of the three tarns that waited. |
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| 16 | 115 |
The Tatrix walked across the pillar, regal in those tattered robes, and stood over me. |
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| 16 | 116 |
She pointed across the plains, toward Tharna. |
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| 16 | 118 |
The voice of Dorna the Proud drifted across the pillar. |
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| 17 | 118 |
Kron's wrist chains struck him across the cheek and ear, and the bread flew from his mouth. |
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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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| 19 | 101 |
I walked across the bar of the windlass and dropped to his side. |
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| 19 | 103 |
He held that great hammer in his massive fists like a lance across his body. |
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| 20 | 32 |
I walked across the compound and picked up a helmet which lay half hidden in the litter. |
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| 21 | 194 |
I slipped the blade of my sword between the girl's cheek and the hair that was bound across her mouth. |
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| 22 | 111 |
He scattered my council and defeated my armies and took me and stripped me and bound me naked across the saddle of his bird and then, with a great cry, he carried me to his city, and there I, once proud Tatrix of Tharna, wore his brand and collar". |
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| 23 | 216 |
"Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" cried a voice, and I saw a small man, thin with a wisp of sandy hair across his forehead, press through the ragged band of rebels that confronted us. |
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| 24 | 3 |
Also, smeared across the letters, written with a finger, was the defiant rallying call of the rebellion—"Sa'ng-Fori". |
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| 24 | 103 |
Across the room she was serving Kal-da to the men whose cups were lifted to her. |
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| 24 | 111 |
"If she lives—" agreed Kron, looking at the innocent girl across the room. |
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| 24 | 136 |
Once more I noted that the walls bordering the avenue rose as the avenue narrowed, but this time, long before we neared the small iron door, we saw a double rampart thrown across the avenue, the second wall topping the first and allowing missiles to be rained down on those who might storm the first ... |
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| 24 | 246 |
A long plank from the scaffolding of the barricade was brought and we laid this from the threshold across the floor. |
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| 25 | 109 |
Then Dorna the Proud looked at me those yards across the roof. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 247 |
Misk seized me and with the harrowing speed of the Priest-King leaped across the room, buffeting the case I had occupied ten yards across the chamber, bent down and flung up the trap and, carrying me, darted into the passage below. |
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| 2 | 67 |
The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's, can range from knifelike slits in the broad daylig... |
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| 3 | 24 |
I examined my shield and saw ten wide furrows torn across its brassbound hide surface. |
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| 4 | 21 |
Our footsteps echoed hollowly across the great stone floor. |
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| 4 | 145 |
I followed it across the tiled circle which seemed harmless now that Parp had left. |
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| 4 | 155 |
Then seized by an impulse I sat myself down on the great throne in the Hall of Priest-Kings, drew my sword and placed it across my knees. |
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| 5 | 94 |
Her fingernails clawed across my face. |
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| 5 | 282 |
Almost instantly, reddening, Vika regained her composure and straightened herself, tossing her head and brushing back a melody of blond hair which had fallen across her forehead. |
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| 6 | 4 |
The temperature of the water which sprang from the wall tap, I learned, was regulated by the direction in which the shadow of a hand fell across a light-sensitive cell above the tap; the amount of water was correlated with the speed with which the hand passed before the sensor. |
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| 6 | 13 |
The meat was a steak, cut from the loin of a bosk, a huge, shaggy, long-horned, ill-tempered bovine which shambles in large, slow-moving herds across the prairies of Gor. |
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| 8 | 184 |
I looked at her, standing across the room, lovely, facing me in the dim light. |
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| 15 | 15 |
Looking up I saw Misk, disdaining the rope, bend himself backwards through the aperture in the ceiling and, step by dainty step, walk across the ceiling upside down and then back himself nimbly down the side of the wall. |
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| 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. |
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| 22 | 6 |
Still holding the Mul-Torch in my teeth because I wanted both hands free I began to make my way toward Misk, hand and foot, across these metal extensions. |
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| 22 | 80 |
Then, clutching me securely, he scampered away across the ceiling and backed down the wall. |
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| 23 | 40 |
I wiped the back of my forearm across my eyes. |
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| 25 | 61 |
My limbs shaking, clouds of yellow and red fire moving in tangled afterimages across my field of vision in the darkness, I struggled to my feet. |
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| 26 | 217 |
"Please, Master!" She rushed across the case and into my arms. |
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| 26 | 218 |
I held her for a moment and kissed her and her kiss met mine wet and warm, sweet and hot and salty with the tears that had coursed down her cheeks and then I threw her back and she stumbled across the case and fell to her knees against the wall on the opposite side. |
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| 27 | 259 |
A hideous splash of greenish fluid struck me in the face and I leaped aside, in the same movement shaking my head and wiping the back of my fist across my eyes. |
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| 29 | 8 |
I ran across the flooring of the tunnel and through the swath of nothingness that had been cut through the stone and looked on the complex. |
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| 29 | 16 |
It lay across my path, perhaps thirty-five feet wide, perhaps forty feet deep. |
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| 30 | 102 |
Her face was transformed with rage and she struck me again, this time across the face. |
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| 31 | 17 |
At last I saw, far across the plaza, the slowly stalking figure of Misk. |
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| 31 | 20 |
And then we began to walk slowly towards one another again across the square tiles of that plaza in the secret Nest of Priest-Kings. |
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| 31 | 46 |
Sarm hurled the silver tube at my head and I ducked and heard it clatter across the tiles of the plaza for perhaps a hundred yards. |
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| 31 | 126 |
Then Sarm seemed to lose interest in me, perhaps thinking I had been slain, more likely to conserve the charge in the silver tube for more important matters, for he then began, methodically, to fire at the paneling across from the dome, destroying one area after another. |
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| 32 | 21 |
But the Priest-King paid me no attention, trying to move a great block of stone which had fallen across one of the supporting appendages of the dead Sarm. |
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| 32 | 87 |
Now Kusk, Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, and their women, slowly walked across the rubble to join us. |
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| 32 | 199 |
I wondered how long it would take before it broke apart and scattered in a belt of dust across the solar system, only to bend inward at last and spiral like a falling bird into the gases of the burning sun. |
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| 34 | 128 |
I wiped the back of my hand across my eyes. |
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| 35 | 18 |
"Wait here!" I shouted and I ran across the field and climbed the knoll on which it stood. |
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| 35 | 21 |
Across the left eye disk I could see the whitish seam that was the scar left from the slashing bladelike projection of Sarm. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 151 |
Four spears, with bronze heads, suddenly burst across the passage, emerging from circular openings, their tips striking into other small openings across the passage. |
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| 1 | 23 |
In the past months I had made my way, afoot, overland, across the equator, living by hunting and occasional service in the caravans of merchants, from the northern to the southern hemisphere of Gor. |
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| 1 | 67 |
I began to walk toward the dust in the distance, across the trembling ground. |
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| 2 | 59 |
Then for the first time, against the horizon, a jagged line, humped and rolling like thundering waters, seemed to rise alive from the prairie, vast, extensive, a huge arc, churning and pounding from one corner of the sky to the other, the herds of the Wagon Peoples, encircling, raising dust into the... |
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| 2 | 61 |
I saw the slender line of his light lance against the sky, strapped across his back. |
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| 6 | 6 |
Each of these, I was later to learn, wore on his forearm a tiny brand, in the form of spreading bosk horns, which guaranteed his passage, at certain seasons, across the plains of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 7 | 32 |
For him there could no longer be the swift races across the frozen prairie; the meetings in arms; even the dancing to the sky about a fire of bosk dung. |
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| 8 | 41 |
The winter came fiercely down on the herds some days before expected, with its fierce snows and the long winds that sometimes have swept twenty-five hundred pasangs across the prairies; snow covered the grass, brittle and brown already, and the herds were split into a thousand fragments, each with i... |
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| 8 | 243 |
The problem of the young man, and perhaps the reason that he had not yet won even the Courage Scar of the Tuchuks, was that he had fallen into the hands of Turian raiders in his youth and had spent several years in the city; in his adolescence he had, at great risk to himself, escaped from the city ... |
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| 8 | 304 |
The saddle of the kaiila, like the tarn saddle, is made in such a way as to accommodate, bound across it, a female captive, rings being fixed on both sides through which binding fiber or thong may be passed. |
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| 9 | 57 |
Across his face there were two long scars, perhaps from their delicacy the scars of quiva wounds. |
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| 9 | 416 |
There was a firm snap of the heavy lock in the back of the collar and the throat of Aphris of Turia had been encircled with slave steel! At the same instant Kamchak lifted her startled to her feet and turned her to face him, with both hands tearing the veil from her face! Then, before any of the sta... |
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| 10 | 2 |
Judges and craftsmen from Ar, hundreds of pasangs away, across the Cartius, were already at the stakes, inspecting them and preparing the ground between them. |
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| 10 | 3 |
These men, as in every year, I learned, had been guaranteed safe passage across the southern plains for this event. |
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| 10 | 14 |
The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,... |
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| 10 | 188 |
The two lines of stakes extended for more than four pasangs across the prairie. |
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| 10 | 244 |
I heard a cry from the Turians across the way. |
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| 10 | 251 |
A few spit and shook their small fists at the Turians across the way, who reciprocated with good-natured shouts and laughter. |
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| 11 | 6 |
The Kassar wench, who had been bound across from her to the opposing stake, had now been freed by a judge and she strode to where Aphris was still confined. |
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| 11 | 108 |
"Am I to be bound across the saddle?" she asked numbly. |
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| 11 | 235 |
Once, when rummaging through his things, Kamchak had kicked it across the rug for me to look at. |
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| 11 | 347 |
Kamchak then removed the quiva from his belt and hurled it across the room until it struck in one of the poles of the frame supporting the wagon hides, two inches in the wood, beside the throat of the girl. |
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| 12 | 212 |
To one side, across a clearing from the fire, a bit in the background, was a group of nine musicians. |
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| 12 | 214 |
One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean... |
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| 12 | 217 |
There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious... |
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| 12 | 298 |
Kamchak reached across Elizabeth and dragged the paga bottle out of my hand. |
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| 12 | 309 |
I held her by the shoulders and suddenly she turned herself in my hands and, as I was sitting cross-legged, threw herself on her back across my lap, her right wrist still chained to her left ankle. |
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| 13 | 181 |
She had been bound across a wagon wheel lying on the ground, her body over its hub. |
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| 14 | 71 |
Kamchak had gone to the body of Kutaituchik and sat down across from it, cross-legged, and had put his head in his hands. |
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| 14 | 125 |
Kamchak wiped his arm across his eyes. |
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| 15 | 8 |
Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea... |
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| 16 | 161 |
The other warrior, a strong, gaunt man, scarred across the left cheekbone, with shrewd, dark eyes, said nothing, but watched us, considering us, as a warrior considers an enemy. |
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| 17 | 10 |
Around the edge of the pool there were eight large columns, fashioned and painted as though the trunks of trees, one standing at each of the eight cardinal points of the Gorean compass; from these, stretching often across the pool, were vines, so many that the ceiling could be seen only as a patchwo... |
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| 17 | 84 |
I now looked across the surface of the pool. |
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| 18 | 54 |
I splashed across the center of the pool, literally swimming. |
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| 19 | 67 |
He made his way across some dark blue and yellowish-orange grass and came to the buildings set against one wall of the gardens. |
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| 19 | 189 |
He took one of the two remaining scarves and bound it across her mouth holding the first scarf well inside her mouth. |
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| 20 | 1 |
The Keep "By now," said Harold, "guardsmen will have searched the roofs, so it should be safe to proceed across them to our destination". |
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| 20 | 18 |
I was about to respond when I heard a stifled scream of horror and saw that Harold had hurled Hereena in my direction, across the space between the tree and the wall. |
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| 20 | 26 |
"Come along," he said, flinging Hereena across his shoulders like a thigh of bosk meat, and starting along the wall. |
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| 20 | 72 |
The bridge began to rock and sag on its ropes and several men from the building began to thunder across towards me. |
10 |
| 20 | 101 |
The other guard, across the dark roof, was bending to work with the tarn hobbles. |
10 |
| 20 | 107 |
The fellow came running across the roof. |
10 |
| 20 | 128 |
I shut my eyes as he vigorously struck it once, authoritatively, across the beak. |
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| 20 | 142 |
The slave rings on the tarn saddle are similar to those on the kaiila saddle and in a trice Harold, using the thongs streaming from the slave rings, one on each side of the saddle, had bound the girl on her back across the saddle in front of him. |
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| 21 | 14 |
At last when the wagon had burned and the wind moved about the blackened beams and scattered ashes across the green prairie, Kamchak raised his right hand. |
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| 21 | 91 |
Then I decided I had better move across the roofs in the opposite direction, find a sheltered roof, stay there until nightfall and then perhaps try to leave the city. |
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| 21 | 222 |
I looked away, across the prairie, bemused. |
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| 21 | 224 |
Then I noted, across the prairie, hardly remarking it, a streak of dust in the sky. |
10 |
| 21 | 340 |
I sat cross-legged under the wagon, my sword across my knees, watching the paws and legs of the swirling kaiila bounding past. |
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| 21 | 347 |
The roof of a building on the left was afire and smoke and sparks were being hurled into the sky and swept by the wind across the adjoining buildings. |
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| 23 | 43 |
I drew on the one-strap and took the tarn into the air, striking out across the prairie skies to intercept my Thousand on its way to the wagons of the Tuchuks. |
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| 23 | 124 |
I stood with Harold on a planked platform fixed across the wagon box of the wagon at our center, whose domed framework had been torn away. |
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| 23 | 217 |
There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar, dented in now and its contents scattered; and the large, gray leathery object which I had upon occasion seen Kamchak use as a stool, that which he had once kicked across the floor for my inspe... |
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| 24 | 27 |
There were occasional small creeks across the paths of the refugees and water was available. |
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| 24 | 173 |
His kaiila sprang from the room, bounding across the carpet in the next hall, and then thudding down a corridor toward the main entrance. |
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| 25 | 2 |
Within, a girl, across the wagon, beyond the tiny fire bowl in the center of its floor, standing on the thick rug, near a hanging tharlarion-oil lamp, turned suddenly to face me. |
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| 25 | 8 |
I could see a chain running across the rug from the slave ring to the sheet, beneath which it disappeared. |
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| 25 | 159 |
Gracefully, insolently, the silken yellow sheet moved about and across her body and fell from her. |
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| 25 | 487 |
I went across the rug and sat down cross-legged near the fire bowl, and looked at the girl. |
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| 26 | 2 |
Kamchak, Harold and I stood with several others on the roof of a building across from the compound. |
10 |
| 26 | 26 |
I closed my eyes briefly, and then looked back at the dim compound across the way. |
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| 26 | 126 |
In the main hall he looked about and then, Harold and I following, and the man with the two sleen, and the slaves with gold, and his archers and other men, he began to walk his kaiila forward, across the broad marble tiles, following the terrified Saphrar of Turia. |
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| 26 | 149 |
Kamchak did not seem disturbed at the wait, but sat like a rock, cross-legged before the opening, looking across it, until planks were brought, and then he, and the sleen, were the first to cross. |
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| 26 | 278 |
The Paravaci suddenly cried out in uncanny fear and shuddered and, to my horror, the golden sphere, which he had succeeded in wresting from Saphrar, was thrown a dozen feet across the room, and shattered on the floor. |
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| 26 | 336 |
Slowly, not hurrying, in his boots he tramped across the rug, toward the sound. |
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| 26 | 496 |
I recalled he had moved it about with his foot, that once he had kicked it across the wagon for me to examine. |
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| 26 | 498 |
"But," I said, my voice trembling, "you rolled it about—you would throw it to the side of the wagon—once you even kicked it across the rug to me that I might examine it". |
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| 26 | 527 |
"It will soon be time to hunt tumits," growled Kamchak, looking off across the grass toward the wagons beyond the walls. |
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| 27 | 137 |
Kamchak looked across the room to me. |
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| 27 | 220 |
She took his hand and he drew her to the saddle before him, where she turned, sitting across the saddle, and placed her head against his right shoulder, weeping. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 39 |
There was a cry and I looked again to the square of sand and the first slave, with the hook knife in his left hand, had plunged across the sand, taking a stroke across the chest, to strike his own blue line blow at his opponent. |
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| 18 | 1 |
The End of Kajuralia I leaped across the rouged square of silk, scattering the vials and beads that were the pieces of our game, flinging Sura to the floor, pressing myself across her body that she might be protected. |
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| 21 | 306 |
One man lunged for me, but stumbled across another fallen Taurentian and his fellow, moving forward, fell across him; rather than attack the men who had fallen, on whom the attack would be expected, I struck the remaining man, he standing, the leader, engaging him singly in the moment and felling hi... |
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| 1 | 37 |
The wood leaped suddenly alive with a blaze that was almost a burst of fire and the three men staggered backward, their forearms thrown across their eyes. |
10 |
| 2 | 15 |
A peasant moved away that the shadow of the Assassin might not fall across his own. |
10 |
| 2 | 161 |
He sat down, wheezing, across from Kuurus, and placed his hands deliberately on his knees. |
10 |
| 2 | 262 |
Portus hastily pushed his paga bowl up to his mouth, and swilled again, his eyes wary of the Assassin across from him. |
10 |
| 3 | 43 |
It seemed sad to me, that I, who knew so little of the game, could have so cheaply purchased the privilege of sitting across the board from such a master. |
10 |
| 3 | 168 |
He released my hand and sat back, cross-legged, his back straight as that of a Ubar, a smile playing across the corners of his mouth. |
10 |
| 3 | 194 |
"Do you wish to reconsider your move?" asked the Player, looking across the board, not seeing, but smiling. |
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| 5 | 15 |
In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually... |
10 |
| 5 | 161 |
Across the left eye disk there was an irregular whitish seam. |
10 |
| 5 | 164 |
Bracing himself against the wind, the antennae struggling to retain their focus on me, he took one delicate step toward me across the metal surface of the disk. |
10 |
| 6 | 7 |
He scarcely glanced up from the game board at which he sat across from Caprus, of the Caste of Scribes, Chief Accountant of the House. |
10 |
| 6 | 15 |
A blue line appeared across the chest of one of the slaves fighting between the tables, on a square of sand some twelve feet in dimension. |
10 |
| 6 | 53 |
I saw that the second slave, who was doubtless the better man at the sport, had slipped behind the first and, holding his head back with a powerful forearm, had decisively drawn his sheathed hook knife across the throat of the first man. |
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| 6 | 56 |
For some reason, the man with the whip took the slave's hook knife, unsheathed it, and drew it across the slave's chest, leaving there a smear of blood. |
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| 7 | 49 |
At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa... |
10 |
| 8 | 46 |
I kicked the love furs halfway across the room and sat down on the edge of the stone couch. |
10 |
| 8 | 146 |
Elizabeth had gathered up the love furs which I had kicked across the room and had spread them at the foot of the couch. |
10 |
| 12 | 9 |
I could see the netmen expertly moving across the broad stands approaching them, loops in their hands to tie together the bird's beak, to bind its curved, wicked talons. |
10 |
| 12 | 32 |
Across the track, on the far side, I heard a judge's bar clang indicating that one of the birds had missed a ring, and a colored disk, silver, was hauled to the top of a pole. |
10 |
| 13 | 14 |
The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securing of a female, preferably fr... |
10 |
| 13 | 317 |
I looked across to Mip. |
10 |
| 14 | 37 |
Then she knelt down on the mat, and I sat across from her cross-legged. |
10 |
| 15 | 102 |
Upon occasion, and it had happened early in Se'Kara this year, the arena is flooded and a sea fight is staged, the waters for the occasion being filled with a variety of unpleasant sea life, water tharlarion, Vosk turtles, and the nine-gilled Gorean shark, the latter brought in tanks on river barges... |
10 |
| 15 | 133 |
The training room was floored with wood, laid diagonally across beams for additional strength; one twelve-foot area of the room was a shallow pit of sand; against one wall were various chests of raiment, cosmetics and retention devices, for girls must be trained to wear chains gracefully; certain da... |
10 |
| 17 | 334 |
"Serve me wine," Ho-Sorl ordered Phyllis Robertson, though she was far across the room, and there were several girls nearer. |
10 |
| 17 | 607 |
I hurled her some feet across the room and retrieved the goad; it had stopped rolling and now, burning, had begun to sink through the stone. |
10 |
| 17 | 641 |
She returned to where I sat and knelt there across from me. |
10 |
| 17 | 656 |
She looked across to me. |
10 |
| 19 | 19 |
Particularly was I angered by the occasional large, flat blocks of stone placed across the streets, low enough to permit a wagon to pass over them, and separated by enough distance to allow the passage of a wagon's wheels, but surely a threat to a tethered fool, shackled and hooded, led on a chain b... |
10 |
| 19 | 23 |
Another strap stung my legs, across the calves. |
10 |
| 19 | 175 |
Now, however, as I saw her shuffled across the boards, stiff, wrapped in a worn, dark blanket, she looked dull, stupid. |
10 |
| 20 | 24 |
I looked across to Elizabeth, the chain of Cernus looped about her neck, staring numbly, woodenly, down at the tiles of the hall, half in shock. |
10 |
| 20 | 32 |
"Please, Cernus!" cried Portus as a long line of blood burst open across his chest. |
10 |
| 20 | 37 |
Whimpering, Portus was dragged from the sand, leaving blood across the tiles, and was taken from the hall. |
10 |
| 20 | 158 |
The girl threw the hook knife from her and it slid across the tiles. |
10 |
| 20 | 171 |
A Warrior in the hire of Cernus struck me across the mouth. |
10 |
| 20 | 296 |
Through the entryway, rather angrily, strode a young man, perhaps no more than eighteen or nineteen years of age, with piercing eyes and incredibly striking features; he wore the garb of the Player, but his garb was rich and the squares of the finest red and yellow silk; the game bag over his left s... |
10 |
| 21 | 302 |
Then the picket charged but, as I had intended, across the field of their own fallen. |
10 |
| 21 | 383 |
Now those Taurentians left in the stands suddenly failed to restrain the crowds and thousands of citizens were leaping into the arena and others were swarming across the tiers toward the box of the Ubar. |
10 |
| 22 | 113 |
I strode from the bird's side and made my way through the readying compound of the Steels until I climbed the stairs inside the low wall separating it from the area leading out onto the broad path leading to the starting perches; I dropped over the wall and made my way across the sand until I came t... |
10 |
| 22 | 241 |
Mip lay dead across the neck of the bird he had ridden to victory. |
10 |
| 22 | 320 |
I strode in the sunlight across the sand toward the starting perches. |
10 |
| 22 | 357 |
I looked across to Menicius of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 22 | 411 |
I looked across to the box of Cernus, Ubar of Ar, and lifted my hand to him, in mock salute. |
10 |
| 22 | 544 |
I heard an exultant shout from behind me and saw the leader of the tarnsmen signal his men across the dividing wall again, to meet me at the left center rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 551 |
Ubar of the Skies did not hesitate but hurtled into their midst, beak rending, and then was clear; they turned in pursuit but four of them, caught in the wide loop of the Tuchuk rope, were cursing, cutting at it, while the tarns, suddenly startled, finding their movements inhibited, broke formation;... |
10 |
| 22 | 581 |
Another citizen, rushing forward, oblivious of the crossbows of Taurentians, hurled a banner of yellow across the box of the Ubar; another such banner was thrown over the railing of the box which had been occupied by Complicius Serenus, High Initiate of Ar. |
10 |
| 22 | 594 |
And then, followed by his thousands, singing, across the sand, strode Murmillius. |
10 |
| 22 | 605 |
His sword across his knees, he took his seat on the throne. |
10 |
| 23 | 64 |
I had taken my seat on the chair of Cernus; I had drawn my sword, and laid it across the wood before me. |
10 |
| 23 | 141 |
We moved about the room, over the tables and behind them, across the square of sand. |
10 |
| 23 | 156 |
He wiped a bloody forearm across his face. |
10 |
| 23 | 227 |
There Ho-Tu, with his hook knife, had cut his own throat, falling across the body of Sura. |
10 |
| 24 | 7 |
Hup was sitting cross-legged on a chest across the room, his chin in his hands. |
10 |
| 24 | 68 |
It would be an independent faction, a new faction, cutting through and across the loyalties and politics of the older factions. |
10 |
| 24 | 489 |
Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 149 |
She said nothing, but knelt across from me, across from where I sat cross-legged. |
10 |
| 1 | 48 |
I did see a large, harmless zarlit fly, purple, about two feet long with four translucent wings, spanning about a yard, humming over the surface of the water, then alighting and, on its padlike feet, daintily picking its way across the surface. |
10 |
| 1 | 79 |
Rence paper is made by slicing the stem into thin, narrow strips; those near the center of the plant are particularly favored; one layer of strips is placed longitudinally, and then a shorter layer is placed latitudinally across the first layer; these two surfaces are then soaked under water, which ... |
10 |
| 2 | 10 |
Then, letting it drift, I put the tem-wood paddle across the craft, resting my hands on it, and watched her. |
10 |
| 3 | 327 |
She struck me savagely, across the mouth, flinging my head to one side. |
10 |
| 4 | 327 |
Suddenly, her hands in my hair, she thrust her lips savagely down on mine and, to my horror, my lips met hers, but could not withstand them and I felt her head forcing mine down and I felt her teeth cut into my lips and I tasted blood, my own, in my mouth, and then, insolently, her tongue thrust int... |
10 |
| 5 | 78 |
Then his mother ran to him and struck him across the side of the head, scolding him, dragging him away. |
10 |
| 6 | 29 |
We turned and ran again, stumbling in the torchlit darkness, across the woven mat of rence that was the surface of the island. |
10 |
| 6 | 44 |
He now had the large, white, silken scarf tied over his left shoulder and across his body, fastened at his right hip. |
10 |
| 6 | 45 |
With him there stood a tall, bearded helmeted warrior of Port Kar, the golden slash of the officer across the temples of his helmet. |
10 |
| 6 | 198 |
In the distance I could see, across one of the bridges formed of rafts for transporting rence, one of those I had helped to place earlier that very morning, stripped rencers, men and women, being herded by spears toward our island. |
10 |
| 7 | 2 |
The men of Port Kar had set fire to the two islands, beginning at the farther edges, to drive any who might be concealed on them, perhaps having cut burrows into the rence or hiding in the center oar wells, across the bridges toward the central island, on which had been the pole of the dance, Telima... |
10 |
| 7 | 4 |
We saw several running across the bridges, crying out, being whipped toward the torches by those of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 7 | 31 |
Near the net I saw Henrak, still with the white scarf tied across his body, still clutching the heavy wallet, filled perhaps with gold. |
10 |
| 7 | 40 |
A small domesticated tarsk, grunting and snuffling, pattered across rence matting that was the surface of the island. |
10 |
| 8 | 341 |
I drew forth the Gorean blade from its scabbard and, sitting on the chair of the oar-master, laid it across my knees. |
10 |
| 8 | 508 |
There was a streak of blood across her face where her lip had been cut by her teeth. |
10 |
| 8 | 540 |
"The raft is ready," said Thurnock, his body gleaming sweat, wiping a great forearm across his face. |
10 |
| 8 | 555 |
A grin broke across the face of Thurnock. |
10 |
| 9 | 368 |
Across the table I saw Ula, eyes timid, lift her lips to Clitus. |
10 |
| 9 | 656 |
The right hand of Surbus reached across his body and touched me. |
10 |
| 11 | 93 |
I could see, even at the distance, leaping from the prow of the ship to the tiles of the piazza, running across the large, oblique-looking, colored squares toward the Hall of the Council of Captains, the great Thurnock, with his yellow bow, followed by Clitus, with his net and trident, and by Tab, w... |
10 |
| 11 | 378 |
Slowly Samos drew his own weapon and placed it across his knees. |
10 |
| 11 | 380 |
And almost every one of the captains in that council drew their weapon, as had Samos, and placed it across their knees. |
10 |
| 12 | 22 |
One of the men, hit by the arrow, spun away, rolling across the tiles, snapping the shaft. |
10 |
| 13 | 238 |
He was working carefully on a net spread across his knees, repairing it. |
10 |
| 14 | 91 |
Then, rather bravely, the music drifting over the water, our oars at only half of maximum beat, we moved across the gleaming waters toward the large fleet. |
10 |
| 14 | 93 |
From the stern castle of the Dorna, then, with a long glass, that of the builders, I observed, far across the waters, the masts of the ram-ships, one by one, lowering. |
10 |
| 14 | 123 |
I heard more trumpets from across the water. |
10 |
| 14 | 147 |
My vessels, as though in terror, were keeping no formation, but apparently scattering across the southeast. |
10 |
| 14 | 331 |
In an Ahn I stepped across the plank thrown from the rail of the Dorna to that of the flagship of the treasure fleet. |
10 |
| 15 | 764 |
In rage I hurled the blade away and it struck the stones of the wall thirty feet across the room and clattered to the floor, and I sank to my knees weeping, my head in my hands. |
10 |
| 15 | 781 |
"Midice!" Then I rose to my feet, and stood there, and shook my head, and wiped the sleeve of my tunic across my eyes and then, catching my breath, I walked to the bottom of the stone couch and sat down, my head down. |
10 |
| 16 | 342 |
Even before the man in the bow had tied the tharlarion-prowed longboat to a mooring post at the piazza, I had leaped up to the tiles and was striding, robes swirling, across the squares of the broad piazza toward the great door of the hall of the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 17 | 93 |
It was fall, and the wind was cold whipping across the water. |
10 |
| 17 | 94 |
Clouds scudded across the sky. |
10 |
| 17 | 141 |
Behind them, scattered across the cold waters of Thassa, I could see the pairs of the second wave proceeding, swiftly gliding, oars dipping, toward the long lines of yellow and purple sails in the distance, yellow for Tyros, purple for Cos. |
10 |
| 17 | 173 |
Behind my second-wave ships, I saw, scattered in its long enveloping line stretching from horizon to horizon across Thassa, their small storm sails pounded by the wind, the third wave, that of the round ships. |
10 |
| 17 | 360 |
And besides these seamen, each tarnsman, tied to his saddle, carried a shielded, protected ship's lantern, lighted, and, in the pockets of leather aprons, tied together and thrown across the saddles, numerous clay flasks, corked with rags. |
10 |
| 17 | 391 |
As he sank forward I wrenched free my sword hand and, holding the sword still in my fist, struck him a heavy blow across the jaw with my fist. |
10 |
| 17 | 404 |
The defenders were swimming across to the other tarn ships of Tyros, now swinging about to close with us and board. |
10 |
| 17 | 407 |
I heard a voice from across the water cry out. |
10 |
| 18 | 146 |
And Thassa beneath us was suddenly streaked with the cold sunlight of Se'Kara, and the bird was across and through the storm. |
10 |
| 18 | 184 |
Heavy leather strips were bound tightly across her mouth, doubtless holding a heavy packing within, probably rep-cloth. |
10 |
| 18 | 232 |
There was a splash of blood across his face, staining the left side of his face, his short, white, cropped hair and the golden ring in his ear. |
10 |
| 18 | 408 |
My head was placed across an anvil and, about my throat, was hammered a simple plate collar. |
10 |
| 18 | 522 |
We heard grappling irons with knotted ropes fly over the parapet, scrape across the stones, and wedge in the crenels. |
10 |
| 18 | 594 |
And across from the keep, on the delta wall, boldly, there stood crossbowmen, now without fear, for our arrows and bolts were gone, to cover the climbing men. |
10 |
| 18 | 755 |
I reached across and seized her by the arms, and drew her to me. |
10 |
| 18 | 815 |
We found cloaks, I that of the admiral, and we followed Samos from the room, across the tiled yard behind the great hall, and into the now-opened keep, and climbed behind him to its height. |
10 |
| 18 | 963 |
To the far south and north, there was, as far as men knew, only the winds and the snows, driven back and forth, across the bleak ice. |
10 |
| 18 | 974 |
And then, on the height of the keep, looking out across the city, we watched the dawn, beyond the muddy Tamber Gulf, softly touch the cold waters of gleaming Thassa. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 183 |
I looked across the room. |
10 |
| 3 | 192 |
Sick, I turned away from my reflection in the full-length mirror across the room. |
10 |
| 3 | 401 |
On the mirror across the room. |
10 |
| 3 | 476 |
Hysterically I drove across the fields, twisting and turning, accelerating. |
10 |
| 4 | 99 |
An ointment was brought, and he smeared it across the two cuts. |
10 |
| 4 | 157 |
As I watched it, it seemed that lights began to flicker on its surface, and then it seemed that tendrils of light began to interweave across its steel, and, before my eyes, it began to change in color, turning a grayish blue, streaked with white. |
10 |
| 4 | 195 |
A sealing door then slid across the closed ramp, it, too, locking in place. |
10 |
| 4 | 241 |
But shortly thereafter one of the men in a black tunic, wearing sandals with metal plates on the bottoms, stepped carefully, step by step, across the steel plating. |
10 |
| 5 | 176 |
I turned away from the forest and began to run across the field, blindly toward the horizon, over the grass. |
10 |
| 5 | 209 |
I screamed and splashed across. |
10 |
| 5 | 238 |
There were some white clouds scudding across the sky. |
10 |
| 6 | 42 |
Elinor Brinton was alone, wandering across the fields of what world she even knew not. |
10 |
| 6 | 362 |
And about her body, in a broad loop, passing over her left shoulder and across her right hip, was a wide, heavy leather strap, which was bolted into the wagon tongue. |
10 |
| 6 | 372 |
Near me, across from me, a short girl, with dark hair, very red lips, and bright dark eyes, smiled at me. |
10 |
| 7 | 86 |
Rask withdrew his men and, in moments, the captured girls bound across their saddles, and many of the other goods of Targo thrust into their packs, they took flight. |
10 |
| 7 | 484 |
Once again I found myself, with the other girls, chained in our wagon, moving slowly across the Gorean fields toward Laura. |
10 |
| 8 | 28 |
We sat there for several minutes, and then, eventually, we heard Targo haggling with a barge master for passage across the river. |
10 |
| 8 | 62 |
The cost for transporting a free person across the Laurius was a silver tarsk. |
10 |
| 8 | 68 |
Also forward on the barge was a slave cage, and two guards, with the sides of their spears, herded us onto the barge, across its planking and into the cage. |
10 |
| 8 | 73 |
I held the bars, and looked across the river to Laura. |
10 |
| 8 | 81 |
There must be someone in Laura who could return me to the United States, or who could put me in touch with those who could! There were other barges on the river, some moving across the river, others coming toward Laura, others departing. |
10 |
| 8 | 84 |
The land tharlarion can swim barges across the river, but he is not as efficient as the vast river tharlarion. |
10 |
| 8 | 94 |
Lana saw this and shrieked out, hooting at them across the water. |
10 |
| 8 | 95 |
The men did not even look at us, moving slowly across the current toward Laura. |
10 |
| 8 | 161 |
Lana looked across the cage. |
10 |
| 8 | 191 |
We were now better than two thirds of the way across the broad river. |
10 |
| 8 | 474 |
My guard, however, with a great laugh, seized me and, like a naughty child, threw me across his knee. |
10 |
| 8 | 826 |
Tomorrow we would leave the compound and begin the overland journey across the river and southeast to Ko-ro-ba, and from thence to Ar. |
10 |
| 8 | 903 |
One of them pointed across the grass to the fire between the wagons. |
10 |
| 9 | 191 |
I cried out, suddenly, when a branch, unexpectedly, struck me across the belly. |
10 |
| 9 | 194 |
With the free end of the leash she struck me five times across the back. |
10 |
| 9 | 246 |
The girl turned and sped across the carpeting of leaves. |
10 |
| 9 | 360 |
The moons fled across the black sky, burning with its bright stars. |
10 |
| 10 | 16 |
Across the room, his back to me, bending over a shallow pan of water, with a towel about his neck, was a small man. |
10 |
| 10 | 434 |
I looked to the boards, shuttered across the window. |
10 |
| 10 | 506 |
Suddenly, with fury, he, with his full strength, slapped me across the side of the face, literally knocking me from the bench and against the wall. |
10 |
| 10 | 509 |
He knelt across my body and I felt my hands jerked behind my body. |
10 |
| 10 | 519 |
Then, angrily, the man threw me backward in the dirt, across the room, on my side. |
10 |
| 10 | 576 |
My hair fell across his sandals. |
10 |
| 10 | 632 |
The wood broke across its neck. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 11 | 908 |
"We will join him across the river, at the night's camp". |
10 |
| 11 | 977 |
When, that night, after taking a barge across the Laurius, loaded with lumber, we found Targo's encampment, I was happy. |
10 |
| 11 | 1074 |
I shrieked with misery and ran across the cage, flinging myself into its back wall, pounding on it, and then I sank to my knees by the wall and, in rage and frustration, weeping and screaming, pounded on the steel plating of the floor. |
10 |
| 11 | 1107 |
No woman, it was said, could be brought to the city, save as a hooded, stripped slave girl, bound across the saddle of a tarn. |
10 |
| 11 | 1435 |
How pleased I was to be free! And then suddenly I turned and, behind me, some eight or ten feet away, standing, not speaking, tall in the blue and yellow robes of the slaver, still partially hooded, the band of leather across his left eye, was Soron of Ar. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 12 | 109 |
Across his back there was strapped a quiver of arrows. |
10 |
| 12 | 287 |
I saw the lash fall across the back of the blond girl, she who had held my leash in the forest, who had been so cruel to me. |
10 |
| 12 | 356 |
"Move your feet," said the girl across from me. |
10 |
| 12 | 538 |
"Hurry," said Lana, "or we will be beaten!" I gave Verna one last blow, a stinging stripe across the shoulder, with the stick. |
10 |
| 12 | 657 |
I saw two girls now fleeing across the grass, away from the wagons. |
10 |
| 12 | 683 |
Two more girls fled from the wagons, across the fields. |
10 |
| 12 | 691 |
Then, suddenly, from under the burning wagons, across the fields, there fled dozens of girls, running in all directions. |
10 |
| 12 | 715 |
Another would fly low and to the side of the running girl, and a beat of the tarn's great wings would send her rolling and sprawling for a dozen yards across the grass. |
10 |
| 12 | 722 |
In moments her garments flutter down among the towers and she is his, bound on her back across the saddle before him, his prize. |
10 |
| 12 | 741 |
He gestured that she should lie on her back across the saddle in front of him, crossing her wrists and legs. |
10 |
| 13 | 74 |
We had stayed in Ka-la-na thickets by day, and had moved across the fields at night. |
10 |
| 13 | 542 |
Then, in the sunlight of the bright morning, late, almost at noon, I fled from the thicket, across the grass of the open field. |
10 |
| 13 | 553 |
I cried out with joy and fled across the grasses. |
10 |
| 13 | 575 |
I began to run, madly, frantically across the grasses. |
10 |
| 13 | 582 |
I screamed and began to run, madly, irrationally, across the grasses. |
10 |
| 13 | 623 |
He bent across my body and I felt my crossed wrists lashed to a saddle ring. |
10 |
| 13 | 625 |
I lay there on my back before him, my body a bow, bound helplessly across his saddle. |
10 |
| 13 | 711 |
But I knew, too, tied across his saddle, that I was ready to do so, that I wished to do so, that I was piteously eager to do so. |
10 |
| 13 | 719 |
I felt the one-strap of the tarn harness jerk tight across my body, and, suddenly, taking my breath away, the great bird screamed and began to beat its wings, and the saddle pressed up against my back, and I, upside down, saw the conical huts of the peasants drop away below us, and the bird, stroke ... |
10 |
| 13 | 723 |
My hair fled back in the wind, across his left thigh. |
10 |
| 13 | 840 |
He was met with another war cry, and suddenly, only feet from us, another tarn streaked past, and I heard the forcible, tearing scrape of a broad, bronze spear blade, its blow turned, sliding across the metal-bound, layered, boskhide shield of my captor. |
10 |
| 13 | 865 |
I heard the talons tear across the shield. |
10 |
| 13 | 974 |
But how frightful to be in a collar! But I knew that from the first moments, when he had bound me across his saddle, I wanted his collar. |
10 |
| 13 | 1084 |
"No," he said, "I expect you did not know then that you would soon be at my mercy, tied naked across my saddle". |
10 |
| 15 | 188 |
How pleased I was to see him bring back yet another girl, bound across his saddle, a new prize. |
10 |
| 15 | 450 |
I approached him, across the low table behind which he sat on the rugs. |
10 |
| 15 | 610 |
She took us to that part of the camp near the horizontal pole, some nine feet high, resting across the two pairs of crossed poles, rather like a pole for hanging meat, or trophies, from. |
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| 15 | 891 |
The tarnsmen, in their flights, did not have much luck, and many were the times when they returned, their saddle packs empty, their saddles bare of helpless beauties lashed across them. |
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| 16 | 191 |
Across the back of her dark hair I could see leather gag straps. |
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| 16 | 245 |
Then Verna, with the light chain leash, lashed her suddenly, sharply, across the lovely, rounded backs of her calves. |
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| 17 | 54 |
Immediately, on the body of the girl across from me, there was a reticulated pattern of shadows. |
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| 17 | 208 |
Then the basket jerked forward, on its leather runners, and skidded across the clearing, and then, swung below the tarn. |
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| 18 | 69 |
I looked across to the delta wall, bordering the marshes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 844 |
He then, with his right hand, brushed hair across her face and mouth, and drew her to him, thrusting his lips across the hair to hers. |
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| 18 | 443 |
Together we picked our way down the beach, across the stones, across the soft sands, until we came to the side of the great accumulation of branches and driftwood which we had earlier prepared. |
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| 1 | 18 |
The pieces, weighted, seemed tall on the board, casting their shadows away from the flame, across the flat arena of the game. |
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| 1 | 136 |
I glanced across the room. |
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| 1 | 202 |
His head would have been placed across the anvil, and the metal curved about his neck with great blows. |
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| 3 | 29 |
I did not, on nearing Lydius, fly the flag of Bosk, that bearing the head of a bosk, black, across a field of vertical green bars, the famous flag of Bosk, from the Marshes. |
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| 3 | 193 |
There, lost to the bustle in the tavern, oblivious to the music, sat two men across a board of one hundred red and yellow squares, playing Kaissa, the game. |
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| 4 | 4 |
He unfastened her, and she preceded him across the floor, between the tables. |
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| 4 | 125 |
I sat down, cross-legged, across from her. |
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| 6 | 314 |
I rose to my feet, the arrow well refeathered, and set it to one side, across two rocks. |
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| 6 | 434 |
The girl now sat down across from me, cross-legged, near the fire. |
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| 6 | 721 |
When she had been passed about the circle, stumbling, her hair across her eyes, the fillet gone, she stood again before me. |
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| 6 | 1034 |
She threw herself at me, across the sand, her fists raised to strike me. |
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| 6 | 1054 |
With my hand I cuffed her brutally across the mouth, blasting her head to one side. |
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| 11 | 3 |
From where we sat, cross-legged, across from one another, before the low table, I could see the tent ropes stretched taut to stakes in the ground, the drainage ditch cut around the base of the tent, the wall of saplings, sharpened, which surrounded the camp. |
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| 11 | 33 |
Never as yet had the two sat across from one another. |
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| 11 | 318 |
The test may be as simple as removing a girl's tunic and telling her to walk across a room. |
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| 11 | 410 |
Further, at two places, across her shoulders and belly, her arms, with coils of binding fiber, very tight, were pinioned. |
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| 11 | 667 |
Marlenus and I, Goreans, sat across the board from one another. |
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| 11 | 813 |
He took her and held her across his knees, cradling her in his left arm. |
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| 11 | 826 |
I could see, from across the tent, the tiny shadows, where the small golden wires were thrust through the softness of her ear lobes. |
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| 13 | 35 |
Shouting the war cry of Tyros, blades drawn, they ran toward me across the sand and pebbles of the northern shore of the Laurius. |
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| 13 | 68 |
"There is safety for you," I said, gesturing across the Laurius with my head, "if you reach the other side". |
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| 15 | 793 |
Slowly, stiff-legged, the red-haired girl walked across the wet grass to the dark, dew-stained tarpaulin, to pull the pegs. |
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| 15 | 878 |
Swiftly, across the back, in rapid succession, she delivered Ilene's last four stinging stripes. |
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| 16 | 86 |
I knelt across her body, one leg on either side of her, pinning her, confining her movements. |
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| 16 | 92 |
As my right hand did this the loop of panther skin, twisted in its center, fell from my hand across her face. |
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| 16 | 155 |
Mira, staked out, blindfolded, felt a woman's strong hand take the blood from her thigh and smear it across her belly and about her body. |
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| 18 | 35 |
His men, fifty-five men of Tyros, some falling, made their way down the beach, across the stones, to the edge of the water. |
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| 18 | 185 |
Across the open side, wood was gathered for animal fires, facing the beach. |
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| 18 | 224 |
The tunic of Tyros, in a tight roll, was tied across my back. |
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| 18 | 307 |
I looked across the beach, some two hundred yards, to the palisade. |
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| 18 | 408 |
I looked out to sea, across the vast, placid waters of Thassa, now bright with oblique moonlight. |
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| 18 | 504 |
Dimly, far off, across the water, I could see two lanterns. |
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| 19 | 20 |
I could see a group of five men, one with a torch, making their way toward me across the beach. |
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| 19 | 24 |
The group of five men picked their way across the stones toward me. |
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| 19 | 256 |
The men then, in a standard Gorean procedure knelt across their bodies, pinning the girls' arms to their sides, leaving their own hands free. |
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| 19 | 277 |
"I will tear out your eyes! I will cut your throat! She-sleen! She-sleen!" Sarus struck Hura, with the back of his hand, suddenly, knocking her head to one side, splattering blood across her teeth. |
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| 20 | 241 |
I caught him at the gate and, with my fist, sword in it, struck him across the face. |
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| 22 | 7 |
From the blankets I looked across the beach, to the stockade, which had been that of Sarus. |
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| 22 | 12 |
With them, coming slowly, too, across the sand, to where we waited for them, were Sarus and his men, chained, and, bound and in throat coffle, stripped, shivering, Hura's women. |
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| 22 | 134 |
She wore a branch shackle, a thick, rounded branch, some eighteen inches in length, notched toward each end, and with supple tendrils, fitting into the notches and about her fair ankles, tied across the back of her legs. |
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| 22 | 171 |
It was to you that I submitted in the forest!" I looked out across Thassa, to where the Rhoda and Tesephone rocked at anchor. |
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| 22 | 346 |
He wiped his forearm across his mouth. |
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| 22 | 503 |
The wind, sweeping across the beach, was cold. |
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| 22 | 576 |
He would thence return to Ar, Hura doubtless bound nude across his saddle. |
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| 22 | 790 |
I heard Ilene's switch strike Rissia twice across the back. |
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| 22 | 863 |
Perhaps she would be sold south to Schendi or Bazi, or north to a jarl of Torvaldsland, Scagnar or Hunjer, or across Thassa to Tabor or Asperiche, or taken up the Vosk in a cage to an inland city, perhaps eventually to find herself in Ko-ro-ba, Thentis or Tharna, or even Ar itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 298 |
Two ropes prohibited her from struggling to either a sitting or kneeling position, one running from her right ankle across the ice to a ring in the side of the shed, the other running from her throat across the ice to a similar ring on the other side of the shed. |
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| 10 | 495 |
To my surprise, he stopped before a dark-haired girl who sat with her legs drawn up, her arms about them, her ankles crossed; her cheek was laid across her knees; she seemed startled that the Forkbeard stopped before her; she looked up at him, frightened, and then put her face again down, across her... |
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| 2 | 13 |
She wore shoes of black, polished leather, which folded about her ankles, laced twice, once across the instep, once about the ankle. |
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| 4 | 31 |
Sometimes they use the shadows of the gunwales, falling across the thwarts, judging their angles. |
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| 4 | 158 |
She stumbled across the loose deck planking and stood, hair before her face, before us. |
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| 4 | 260 |
One girl who did not care to feed was struck twice across her back by a knotted rope in the hand of Gorm. |
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| 5 | 46 |
"Now we will not be forced to wind the signal horns across the water". |
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| 5 | 146 |
Others, jeering across the water, lifted up plates and candlesticks. |
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| 6 | 295 |
"Hurry, lazy girls! There is a feast to be prepared!" The bondmaids, Thyri and Aelgifu among them, fled, like a frightened herd of tabuk, across the short, turflike green grass, to the gate of the palisade, to be put to work. |
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| 6 | 494 |
Then invited within I had been seated across from him in the place of honor. |
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| 7 | 296 |
It slumped forward, over the couch half falling across the body of a hysterical bondmaid. |
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| 8 | 41 |
In my opinion the goods of Ko-ro-ba were as good, or better, than those of Ar but, it is true, she did not have the reputation of the great city to the southeast, across the Vosk. |
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| 9 | 183 |
I jerked her about, and to me, and threw her on her back across my knees. |
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| 9 | 195 |
"Mead!" called Ivar Forkbeard, from across from me. |
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| 9 | 297 |
She lay on her side, in misery, across great blocks of ice; she could lift her head and shoulders no more than six inches from the ice; she could draw her ankles toward her body no more than six inches; small chips of wood, in which the ice is packed, clung about her body; she was bound, hand and fo... |
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| 10 | 19 |
Then, at the elbow, I broke it across my right knee. |
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| 10 | 434 |
He then walked across the shed, still holding Dagmar by the arm, and threw her to her knees. |
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| 13 | 13 |
The men of Torvaldsland, thus, look across the table at one another, not one down upon the other. |
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| 13 | 23 |
The line, so to speak, imaginary to be sure, but definitely felt as a social reality, dividing those above from those below the salt, was uniformly "drawn" across the width of the hall. |
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| 13 | 192 |
"Could we not," I suggested, "simply leap naked into a pit of venomous osts, or, perhaps, race madly across the plains of the Wagon Peoples during a lightning storm, our swords raised over our heads?" "The trick," said the Forkbeard, "is not simply to walk into the jaws of a larl. |
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| 13 | 215 |
Two other men, to settle a grievance, had had a tug of war, a bosk hide stretched between them, across the long fire. |
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| 14 | 178 |
I saw, across the room, the leader of the Kurii, it with the golden band on its arm. |
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| 14 | 226 |
Then again the Forkbeard's voice, through the smoke, the sparks, suddenly half choking, drifted across the hall to me. |
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| 15 | 371 |
Again the shield struck me, like a hammer, the striking surface of which is more than a yard across. |
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| 17 | 57 |
Across the valley, there were others, men, waiting, too. |
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| 18 | 67 |
The handle of its ax smote down across the handle of mine, forcing me to one knee. |
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| 18 | 92 |
The Kur, backing away, with its right arm, reaching across its body, tore up one of the tent poles, wrenching it free of the earth, the tent. |
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| 18 | 130 |
"Across the camp is the true rally, hundreds of Kurii! All falls before them! This was a ruse to draw men here, permitting Kurii to regroup in numbers elsewhere!" My heart leaped. |
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| 18 | 442 |
She moved, lying across it, on the body of the Kur. |
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| 18 | 524 |
Thorgard of Scagnar, raiment torn, bloodied, a broken spear shaft bound behind his back and before his arms, his wrists pulled forward, held at the sides of his rib cage, fastened by a rope across his belly, herded by men with spears, stumbled forward. |
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| 20 | 117 |
With his left paw the beast brushed her, rolling and sprawling, twenty feet across the stone. |
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| 21 | 120 |
"This pretty little trinket, this pretty little bauble, I keep for myself!" He then took Hilda in his arms and, holding her across his body, kissed her. |
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| 21 | 199 |
"On the tenth day, on his arms and legs, and twice, transversely, across his right cheekbone, that his face be scarred and his shame known, I drew the poisoned blade, drawing blood with each stroke". |
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| 22 | 67 |
They walked slowly, bent over, placing each step carefully, that they not lose their balance, heavy skins, bulging and damp, across their shoulders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 279 |
In an instant I was on her, kneeling across her back, my left hand across her mouth, pulling her head up, painfully, and back. |
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| 1 | 221 |
She felt a length of chain dropped across the back of her thighs. |
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| 1 | 233 |
She was conscious of the departure of the ship, and the grass beneath her body, and the chain lying across her legs, and the steel of the wrist-ring. |
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| 1 | 650 |
I reached across the table and took her in my arms, and dragged her, turning her, and threw her on her back on the table before me. |
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| 1 | 853 |
She cried out with misery as she was dragged by the ankle across the floor and thrown over two of the small tables. |
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| 1 | 862 |
She, too, was thrown across the tables. |
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| 2 | 134 |
As a portion of my assumed disguise, uncollared, lashed on her back across my saddle, had been the body of a naked girl. |
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| 2 | 561 |
The quirt fell, viciously, across her shoulder. |
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| 4 | 20 |
The light silk was held across the bridge of her nose, where, beautifully, its porous, yellow sheen broke to the left and right. |
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| 4 | 66 |
At night, when the caravan made camp, I would lift Alyena from the kurdah, and, sweeping her across the saddle and lowering her, drop her to her feet in the gravel. |
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| 4 | 296 |
With a cry of rage, shrill and vicious, the female slave leapt toward him, slashing him across the face with the quirt. |
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| 4 | 305 |
He then stepped back, jerked her ankles from under her and flung her to the stones, and knelt across her back. |
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| 4 | 338 |
He struck her across the face, with the quirt, as she had struck him, twice. |
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| 4 | 477 |
Several of them held their scimitars, unsheathed, across the leather of their saddles. |
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| 5 | 441 |
"One cannot march naked girls across the desert. |
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| 5 | 442 |
You would have been chained and, individually, or in pairs, put across saddles". |
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| 5 | 619 |
Her gaze focused to the last moment on a spot across the room from her, and then, suddenly, on each spin, her head snapped about, and she again found the focus. |
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| 5 | 864 |
By the hair he yanked her across his saddle. |
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| 7 | 13 |
I looked to the door, some twenty feet across the stone floor; it was of beams, sheathed with iron. |
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| 7 | 205 |
Even a light stroke of such a blade, falling across an arm, would drop through the flesh, leaving its incised record, a quarter of an inch deep, in the bone beneath. |
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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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| 7 | 286 |
I smiled, seeing, in the confusion, the blood, drop by drop, slip to the door of the cell, move across the stones, out into the hall, and through the threshold, then up the twisting, narrow, concave stairs. |
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| 8 | 32 |
In the neighborhood of noon, moving slowly, in the yellow and purple striped burnoose, with sash, water bags at the flanks of my kaiila, sacks of pressed-date bricks tied across the withers, kaiila bells ringing, calling attention to myself and my wares, I left the oasis. |
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| 8 | 67 |
The leader, his scimitar across his saddle, rode first, his burnoose gentle, swelling in the hot wind, behind him. |
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| 8 | 282 |
I then put her on her back on the mats, and, kneeling across her body, I pinned her in place. |
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| 10 | 66 |
Surely, in but a few days, word that Aretai tribesmen had destroyed, or attempted to destroy, a well at Two Scimitars would spread like fire across the desert, inflaming and outraging men from Tor to the Turian outpost, merchant fort, and trading station of Turmas. |
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| 11 | 381 |
Alyena waited for us, bent, face strained, bearing across her small shoulders the weight of the water. |
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| 11 | 494 |
We ran across the roof to the walled stable yard. |
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| 11 | 587 |
The leader sat back in the saddle, burnoose swelling in the wind, light, wickedly curved scimitar across the pommel. |
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| 12 | 39 |
The kaiila crop of a guard had struck me across the mouth. |
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| 12 | 522 |
Kneeling across her, pinning her arms to her sides, I then, with the other scarf, tied the wadding securely in her mouth. |
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| 12 | 563 |
I then set a large mirror across the room from her, that she might see how beautiful she was. |
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| 13 | 8 |
Our feet, to the knees, were wrapped in leather, but, in many places, in making our way across the crusts, the weight of our bodies forced us deeper than this into the crusts. |
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| 14 | 2 |
The lash struck again across my back. |
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| 14 | 50 |
An urt scampered across the stones, disappearing between two blocks of stone in the wall. |
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| 14 | 66 |
An urt skittered past her, having emerged from a crack in the floor between two stones and moved swiftly across the floor, along one wall, and vanished through the crack which had served as exit for its fellow a few moments earlier. |
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| 14 | 135 |
Foot by foot, slowly, across the floor of the cell, she slipping, screaming, struggling, I drew her toward me. |
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| 16 | 204 |
Then, suddenly, hurling itself from the water, the great body, thrashing, fell across the raft, twisting, the mighty tail flailing and snapping. |
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| 16 | 238 |
I saw lights across the water, another raft, approaching. |
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| 17 | 162 |
It erupted from the water not a yard from the raft, hurtling upward, ten feet into the air, towering over the boards and T'Zshal, with a cry of rage, and joy, and I, too, screamed, thrust the lance deep into the body and it turned twisting in the air jaws teeth rows like hooks back bent triangular t... |
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| 17 | 175 |
"Ah, Old One," crooned T'Zshal, softly across the water, "we meet again". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1957 |
He crouched down and, with the back of his hand, struck her across the mouth, leaving blood across the side of her face. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 37 |
She looked across the tables, across the space between them, to where three men sat, one of Venna, and two of Ar. |
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| 23 | 126 |
"Now, Slave," she said, imperiously, "serve my pleasure!" I reached with my right hand across to her right ankle, and with my left hand across to her left ankle. |
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| 27 | 319 |
Now, perhaps he reasoned, if she could not be enticed to kneel across from him at his table in the honorable resplendent robes of free companionship she might at least, perhaps, more appropriately, crawl to him naked, on her belly, under the whip, across the tiles of his slave quarters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 331 |
There, at the opening to my side aisle, in the main aisle, tall in the darkness, looking down at me, loomed a man, one of the three whom I had seen, he, I think, who had followed me about so quietly and tenaciously, originally to the lower level, up again by the other stairs, down the hall-like way,... |
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| 9 | 285 |
I looked down into some of the faces below me, behind the railing, across the dirt, across the tarsk run. |
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| 28 | 10 |
Far above me, as at the end of some odd, vertical tunnel, I could see a circular opening, perhaps some seven or eight feet across, and, across this, in open sockets, there was a peeled, rounded timber, about which a rope was wound. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1594 |
I swiftly then made my way toward my previous destination, a point on the wall of the terrace, which wall was, across an expanse of terrace, to the right of a bridge leading from the terrace, which bridge was, across an expanse of terrace, to the right of the balustrade. |
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| 24 | 955 |
I could see the bridge across the way, that across which the free women, in coffle, had been marched, their arms held up, closely behind them, the elbow of the left arm grasped by the hand of the right, the elbow of the right grasped by the hand of the left. |
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| 37 | 672 |
The other fellow, he with the lieutenant, looked across the pool, to the portal across the way. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 406 |
But Grendel who had anticipated this device hurled himself to the sand below this flighted granular torrent, and swept his bar across the sand, striking the now-again-turned attacker frontally across the legs, some inches above the ankles, and the attacker, with a bellow of agony, fell forward into ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 100 |
"Stay a bit, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," said Lord Nishida, and I sat down, cross-legged, across from him, across the small table, and watched him pour himself, and then me, a tiny cup of sake. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 70 |
"Ho! Move!" The first stroke of Tuza's switch was across the left shoulder, and the second a lashing sting across the back of the thighs. |
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