| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 76 |
My breath was short. |
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| 1 | 209 |
I fell to the ground, gasping for breath, suddenly asking myself why I had ran. |
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| 4 | 39 |
Fortunately, before losing consciousness, I drew on the four-strap, and the tarn leveled out and then lifted his wings over his back and dropped like a striking hawk, with a speed that left me without breath in my body. |
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| 5 | 107 |
"Why?" What could I tell her? That I had come from another world, that I was determined that all the ways of Gor should not be mine, or that I had cared for her, somehow, so helpless in her condition—that she had moved me to regard her not as an instrumentality of mine or of the Council, but ... |
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| 5 | 185 |
I drew back on the one-strap, and when we had climbed to a height where my breath came in gasps, I leveled our course for Ar. |
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| 6 | 104 |
The next remark took my breath away. |
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| 8 | 43 |
The officer cursed under his breath. |
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| 11 | 97 |
With a last flash of the finger cymbals, she fell to the carpet before me, her breath hot and quick, her eyes blazing with desire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 48 |
I fought for breath. |
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| 10 | 52 |
My breath had been driven from me, the tunnel allowed me no room to move. |
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| 17 | 55 |
Ost lay on the damp floor, his hands on his throat, gasping for breath. |
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| 18 | 158 |
"Get them out of the cell!" But my last words were drowned in a hurtling plunging cataract of water that shattered on my body like a great fist, knocking my breath out. |
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| 18 | 164 |
As soon as I had caught my breath, I shook the sopping hair from my eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 44 |
I heard Mul-Al-Ka draw in his breath quickly beside me. |
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| 25 | 32 |
I could feel the tremble of life in her body and the touch of her breath on my cheek made me happy. |
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| 33 | 86 |
"Now the Priest-Kings blow the breath of my sacrifice as a blessing upon you, letting it travel to the ends of Gor to speak of their wisdom and mercy!" There was a great cry of joy from the crowd and shouts of gratitude to the Priest-Kings. |
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| 34 | 4 |
I felt a sudden blow on my back and nearly lost my breath and twisted to see the gigantic, brawny Older Tarl, my former Master at Arms, who clapped me on the shoulders, his hands like the talons of tarns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 17 |
The girl stood gasping for breath, her body shaking and quivering, her knees slightly bent. |
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| 7 | 125 |
She heard the department head quickly suck in his breath. |
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| 8 | 550 |
Kamchak sucked in his breath. |
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| 9 | 407 |
I could see the quickness of her breath marked in the soft silk of her white and gold veil. |
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| 11 | 127 |
When Kamchak reached his wagon, the poor girl, gasping for breath, legs trembling, fell exhausted to the grass, her entire body shaking with the ordeal of her run. |
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| 12 | 307 |
She exhaled slowly as if fire might be sizzling out instead of breath and then she shook, a delayed reaction, as if she had been thumped five times and then began to cough spasmodically and painfully until I, fearing she might suffocate, pounded her several times on the back. |
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| 12 | 308 |
At last, bent over, gasping for breath, she seemed to be coming around. |
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| 25 | 541 |
I could feel her breath on my face. |
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| 28 | 20 |
When she had somewhat caught her breath I removed the collar from her throat and freed her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 158 |
My breath was deep, my heart filled with joy. |
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| 11 | 74 |
The girl tried to hold her breath but when it became necessary for her to breathe she must needs swallow the gruel; twice more the smith did this, and then the girl, defeated, swallowed the gruel as he poured it into her mouth, half choking on it. |
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| 13 | 85 |
The thought went through me, bubbling to the roar of water passing my ears, that tomorrow I would scarcely be able to move; each breath was a cruel explosion in my lungs. |
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| 13 | 96 |
She threw all her energies now into her panic-stricken flight; but the beauty of the rhythm, that powerful, even rhythm, was gone; her stroke was uneven; she lifted too much water; she missed a breath; she thrashed; but still she fled wildly for safety, kicking madly, trying to escape. |
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| 17 | 82 |
The other girls in the room seemed to be holding their breath. |
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| 19 | 99 |
The hood was peeled over my head and I shook my head and hair, gasping for breath. |
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| 19 | 115 |
Slaves on catwalks opened metal, shuttered vents in the ceiling, which is domed, and in the curved walls; I caught a breath of the cool air; outside I could see stars in the black Gorean sky; I could not see any of her moons. |
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| 19 | 353 |
In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of oth... |
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| 20 | 201 |
I held my breath. |
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| 23 | 51 |
There was paga on his breath but his eyes were sober. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 242 |
I gasped for breath, choking. |
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| 3 | 258 |
I shook my head, clearing my eyes, fighting for breath, and looked into his eyes. |
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| 8 | 57 |
My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body stood at right angles to the target line; my head was sharply turned to my left; I drew the sheaf arrow to its pile, until the three half-feathers of the Vosk gull lay at my jawbone; I took breath and then held it, sighting... |
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| 8 | 115 |
I heard the sudden intake of breath which marked the position of a man. |
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| 8 | 826 |
She drew a deep breath, there were tears in her eyes. |
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| 9 | 607 |
He lay there on his back, blood moving from his mouth, the chest of his tunic scarlet, fighting for breath. |
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| 11 | 447 |
And I think there were none then in that room who did not hold his breath for that moment, to hear the words of Samos. |
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| 11 | 490 |
I drew a deep breath. |
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| 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. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 155 |
I could not catch my breath. |
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| 1 | 166 |
I gasped for breath, and felt for the wall to steady myself. |
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| 3 | 510 |
I stumbled on through the woods, my feet bleeding, gasping for breath. |
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| 5 | 75 |
Barefoot, on the steel plating, buckled under my feet, the bolts broken, I entered the ship, holding my breath. |
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| 5 | 90 |
I leaned against a rack of piping, to catch my breath. |
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| 6 | 141 |
Targo drew a deep breath. |
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| 6 | 266 |
How I had relished the admiration of the men, the intake of their breath, their pleasure, their furtive glances, the irritation of the other women! And these women looked upon me, daring to, as I had upon those others. |
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| 8 | 527 |
I stopped working for a moment and took a deep breath. |
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| 9 | 412 |
I took a deep breath, and shuddered. |
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| 10 | 15 |
I took a breath, with difficulty. |
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| 13 | 588 |
The grass rushed swiftly past below me, and I could not touch it with my feet, and then it fled from me, dropping away, and then suddenly, in the rushing air, as I twisted and turned, buffeted in the blasts of wind, a prisoner of the forces, the physics, of the braided leather rope and the accelerat... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 15 | 412 |
Her features, and body, were breath-takingly beautiful. |
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| 15 | 700 |
I gasped for breath. |
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| 15 | 781 |
There seemed no breath in my body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 133 |
Then she took a deep breath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 311 |
When the oar lifts from the water she gasps for breath, only in another moment to be submerged again. |
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| 7 | 260 |
I felt, or thought I felt, a breath of fresh air. |
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| 8 | 258 |
I heard, too, the intake of breath of the Forkbeard, and of Gorm, and the oarsmen. |
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| 9 | 66 |
One must follow its rhythm, and, as soon as the surface is broken, expel air and take a deep breath. |
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| 10 | 503 |
She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, then opened them. |
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| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 838 |
She gasped for breath; her body was beautiful, her breasts lifting and falling, as she drank deeply of the air. |
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| 5 | 113 |
His hand was on her body, and she, writhing, weeping, with her heels, pushing herself, back scraping on the bark, climbed almost a foot up the slanting trunk, before he, taking her in his arms, through her veil, kissed her, fiercely, again and again, with the rape-kisses of a master, impressed on th... |
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| 5 | 813 |
She gasped for breath. |
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| 8 | 284 |
She took in a breath to scream, but before she could do so I had the scarf in hand and thrust it, wadded, deep into her mouth. |
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| 9 | 115 |
She took a deep breath; she closed her eyes. |
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| 12 | 62 |
My heart pounded; I fought for breath. |
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| 26 | 745 |
She gasped, she fought for breath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 187 |
All a dream! Then to my misery I remembered the man, being seized from behind, not able even to see him, my struggles, being held so helplessly, the cloth over my mouth and nose, his waiting for me to breathe, at last my gasping helplessly for breath, the terrible fumes, nothing else to breathe, not... |
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| 2 | 617 |
I felt his breath on my face. |
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| 2 | 685 |
"Wait! Please, wait!" Gasping for breath I fled after him, stumbling, sometimes falling. |
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| 2 | 797 |
My breath was short, my legs weak. |
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| 7 | 702 |
Again I shrank back among the pilings, holding my breath. |
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| 8 | 16 |
I smelled its breath, felt the heat of it on my flesh. |
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| 8 | 117 |
I felt its breath on my legs. |
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| 8 | 120 |
I fought for breath. |
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| 13 | 225 |
"Stand straight, suck in your belly, turn your hip out," said the auctioneer to me, under his breath. |
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| 18 | 100 |
It was not possible there for a girl to even step outside for a breath of air as it is in most taverns. |
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| 20 | 425 |
I caught my breath, but remained firm. |
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| 28 | 275 |
I heard an intake of breath from the crowd, but there were no bids. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 57 |
She wore trousers and a jacket of whitish fur, of the sea sleen; the jacket had a hood, thrown back, rimmed with lart fur, on which human breath does not freeze. |
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| 13 | 19 |
One's breath can freeze in a beard, leaving it a mask of ice. |
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| 18 | 39 |
The air was thick with vapor, like smoke, the condensing moisture in the monster's warm breath, like a fog, or cloud, on the water. |
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| 18 | 67 |
The wind scattered the breath of the monster, dispelling the cloud of vapor. |
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| 22 | 211 |
It was easy to see the breath from its nostrils, like a spreading fog on the cold water. |
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| 23 | 476 |
Suddenly, as they finished their performance, there was a breath of chill air that coursed through the feasting house. |
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| 24 | 347 |
My right hand felt wet and hot, from the heat and moisture of her breath. |
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| 34 | 104 |
Its breath was foglike about its head and fangs. |
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| 34 | 146 |
Its breath was hot in my face, and I could scarcely see it for the vapors of our mingled breathings. |
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| 35 | 43 |
"There is no breath. |
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| 35 | 44 |
If he were alive his breath, its vapor in the cold, would be clearly visible". |
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| 35 | 853 |
"Hold your breath!" I cried. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 105 |
"You should take your breath," I told him, "before you approach. |
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| 6 | 46 |
I drew a deep breath, relishing the loveliness of the smell of the spices, now stronger than before. |
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| 9 | 23 |
I did not have difficulty catching my breath. |
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| 23 | 303 |
"Take a deep breath," I told him, "and keep moving, for others must follow. |
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| 43 | 142 |
They gasped for breath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 156 |
How could any male, any with even a single drop of blood in his veins, any who still drew breath, look upon such a woman with gentility? She shook her head. |
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| 12 | 484 |
There was an intake of breath. |
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| 13 | 400 |
Then she said to me, sucking in her breath, turning her head to the side, "And what do you want of me?" "Everything," I told her, "and more". |
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| 13 | 669 |
When I had looked at the girl several of the other girls had quickly sucked in their breath. |
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| 13 | 702 |
I gasped for breath. |
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| 20 | 112 |
Slave girls, their eyes bright, their breath hot, tried to press themselves piteously against me. |
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| 21 | 334 |
Both drew in their breath briefly, briefly, too, closing their eyes, when the heavy lock was closed about their collar loops. |
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| 22 | 275 |
Holding the whip clenched in her hands, standing over the slave, gasping for breath, she stopped. |
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| 22 | 465 |
I heard the women, the Lady Leta and the Lady Perimene, draw in their breath. |
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| 22 | 613 |
The Lady Leta and the Lady Perimene drew in their breath with pleasure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 199 |
I can scarcely be near them without catching my breath, without feeling slightly afraid and trembling". |
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| 11 | 433 |
I felt the warmth of her breath on my thigh. |
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| 24 | 86 |
She had felt my breath at the left side of her neck, and on her left shoulder. |
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| 32 | 351 |
I gasped for breath, and then submerged, and swam underwater for the brush and trees, half sunken, which bordered the channel leading to the gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 98 |
She could doubtless feel my breath upon her body. |
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| 19 | 217 |
"And Master did not strike me as hard as he might have!" She drew in a deep breath, and put her head back, delightedly. |
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| 19 | 227 |
Then, sobbing, fighting for breath, she could only endure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 12 |
The large extents of wilderness on the surface of Gor and the absence of large-scale artificial illuminations, of course, permit starlit nights, almost anywhere, to manifest themselves with a splendor that would be almost breath-taking to one accustomed to the drab, half-gray, polluted, semi-illumin... |
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| 13 | 288 |
She controlled her breath. |
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| 13 | 709 |
'Yes, Sir,' I whispered, fighting for breath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 |
My breath was almost taken away by the incredible beauty of the former Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, once a debutante from Pennsylvania. |
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| 16 | 92 |
"Sometimes my heart palpitates and my breath quickens," she said. |
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| 34 | 145 |
She drew a quick breath. |
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| 37 | 99 |
The breath feathers, light and delicate, from the base of the bird's tail, are used, with the tail feathers, in the fashioning of bonnets or complex headdresses. |
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| 37 | 102 |
It is probably from this feature that they are called "breath feathers". |
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| 43 | 342 |
Let the girls fight for breath. |
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| 43 | 487 |
After I had caught my breath I climbed by the netting and girth rope to the back of my tarn and took my place there. |
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| 47 | 148 |
Could it be that, after all these years, the tactics of combat on tarnback remained so fresh, so vivid, in the eager, dark brain of my mighty mount? Could they be retained so perfectly, with such exactness, seemingly as terrible and sharp as in the days when they were first imprinted, high above gra... |
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| 47 | 159 |
As I had been trained to do I drew as deep a breath as possible before the dive began. |
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| 47 | 163 |
The tarn itself, it might be noted, does not draw another breath until the impact or the vicinity of the impact, if the strike fails to find its mark. |
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| 54 | 322 |
It means, rather literally, "the breath of day". |
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| 54 | 324 |
The expression is related, of course, to the vapors raised by the sun in the early morning, these perhaps, poetically and beautifully, as is often the case in the languages of the red savages, suggesting "the breath of day". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 109 |
Again I fought for breath. |
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| 6 | 208 |
My breath began to come more quickly. |
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| 6 | 210 |
Perhaps he had noticed the quickening of my breath, in the inward movements of the veil. |
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| 6 | 249 |
I drew a deep breath. |
10 |
| 8 | 273 |
I watched her, my breath almost taken away by her beauty. |
10 |
| 8 | 394 |
I put my fingers to my bosom, catching my breath. |
10 |
| 11 | 137 |
I felt his breath on the left side of my neck. |
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| 15 | 411 |
Suddenly there was a storm of wings and the basket, a moment later, was jerked forward, slipping along the leather skids and then, in another instant, taking my breath away for an instant, it was lofted like the others high into the air. |
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| 18 | 23 |
I felt his breath on my cheek. |
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| 33 | 535 |
I felt the hot breath of the animal on my breasts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 247 |
I caught my breath. |
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| 9 | 295 |
Nudity, of course, is also helpful, as it dramatically increases her sense of vulnerability, and then every inch of her skin and body is exposed, and aware, and alive to even the slightest breath of air, the tiniest fold of a cloth surface, to the least and gentlest touch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 155 |
I struggled for breath, clutching the four poems. |
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| 11 | 165 |
I had now caught my breath, nearly. |
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| 11 | 170 |
I took a deep breath. |
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| 19 | 329 |
"Also, I am catching my breath". |
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| 23 | 127 |
Feiqa, too, who was heeling us, I gathered, from the men turning about, the occasional intakes of breath, the various comments and observations, and sometimes the literal sex calls, some of the bold, obtrusive, hooting sort by which young men impolitely signify that something of extreme sexual inter... |
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| 25 | 242 |
"Some are hideous, some smell, in the fetid breath of some I almost choke and die, and yet I must serve them, unquestioningly, although a free woman, according to whatever their dictates and whims". |
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| 25 | 1787 |
As I had timed the matter she had not had a breath left at that point to exhale or blow the fluid from her mouth. |
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| 25 | 1790 |
No breath, however, can enter your lungs until you have first cleared your mouth of the fluid in it. |
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| 25 | 1795 |
"There is not really much point in holding your breath," I said. |
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| 25 | 1799 |
Then wildly, tears plunging down her cheeks, she swallowed the liquid and, choking, gasped wildly for breath. |
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| 26 | 271 |
Someone's lungs seemed to be clutching at breath. |
10 |
| 26 | 572 |
"What has gone on here?" she asked, under her breath, not really speaking to anyone. |
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| 26 | 1781 |
Behind her I was in an excellent position to see the looks she received, which were many, the admiring glances, the intakes of breath, the sudden delights at seeing such a female. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 |
It seemed I could scarcely get my breath. |
10 |
| 1 | 85 |
For a moment it seemed blackness swam about me, and I fought for breath. |
10 |
| 2 | 22 |
"Yes?" I repeated, as pleasantly as I could, catching my breath. |
10 |
| 3 | 239 |
My breasts heaved, as I struggled for breath, within the scarlet halter which confined them. |
10 |
| 3 | 1014 |
I tried to hold my breath. |
10 |
| 3 | 1017 |
I fought to hold my breath. |
10 |
| 8 | 198 |
I fought for breath. |
10 |
| 9 | 439 |
I had not controlled my breath well. |
10 |
| 10 | 336 |
Then, to my astonishment, the object in which I had been placed began to slide rapidly along the ground and then, in a moment, it taking my breath away for an instant, it swung free, and was rising. |
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| 11 | 503 |
He was proud of me! Too, there were conventionalized sounds, indicative of interest and approval, the intake of breath through saliva, certain sounds made with the tongue and lips, certain clickings and smackings, and such, of the sort that might cause a free woman to swoon with dismay, but are addr... |
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| 11 | 981 |
As the music concluded I performed floor movements, and the eyes of the men blazed, and fists pounded on the tables, and then the music was done and I lay before them on my back, my breasts rising and falling as I fought for breath, my body sheened with sweat, my hands beside me, palms up, my knees ... |
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| 11 | 1210 |
I was grateful, but, too, I could feel the heat of his breath there, it making me uneasy, and disturbing me, and I could sense the strength of his arms. |
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| 11 | 1235 |
I sensed his lips near mine, by the feel of his breath. |
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| 17 | 205 |
I heard the soft intaking of breath in several of them, in anticipation. |
10 |
| 21 | 47 |
I could smell his breath, heavy with drink, and garlic, and herbs, across the furs. |
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| 27 | 244 |
I almost choked, from that fetid breath. |
10 |
| 27 | 248 |
I felt the heat and volume of its breath on my face. |
10 |
| 27 | 282 |
I took in breath to scream. |
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| 27 | 283 |
But no sooner had I opened my mouth, widely, wildly, and took in breath to scream, than the creature, with his right hand, or paw, from beside him, took what must have been a small bag, filled with rags, and thrust it expertly, deeply into my oral orifice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 427 |
I pulled her head up then, so she could breathe, and she gasped for breath. |
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| 6 | 644 |
"Nothing, of course!" said the fellow, trying to get his breath. |
10 |
| 15 | 342 |
Lady Claudia caught her breath for an instant, suspecting then, perhaps, how attractive she herself might be. |
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| 16 | 201 |
I could fling her a dozen feet away at my will, or, if I wished, with a judicious blow, little more than a quick tap on the diaphragm, have her instantly on her back helpless, gasping for breath. |
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| 17 | 195 |
Another movement sped past, like a puff of breath passing my ear. |
10 |
| 19 | 28 |
In between the assaults we gasped for breath and crouched behind our shields, resting their rims on the walkway. |
10 |
| 21 | 535 |
She lifted her head, she drew in her breath. |
10 |
| 21 | 608 |
I drew a deep breath. |
10 |
| 21 | 703 |
I heard soft whistles, the intakings of breath, small, almost inadvertent gasps, and other tributes, somewhat more vulgar, things such as small clicks and the smackings of lips, to her beauty, noises which would generally be expected to greet the revelation of the beauty of a slave, rather than that... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1232 |
I was gasping, trying to catch my breath. |
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| 28 | 625 |
She spoke extremely softly, in an almost inaudible whisper, like a soft breath at my ear, but there was no mistaking the words. |
10 |
| 29 | 144 |
When he left, she looked after him, with a swift intake of breath. |
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| 36 | 129 |
Ina caught her breath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 352 |
"I yield me your slave!" Then she was trembling, and gasping for breath, clinging to Marcus. |
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| 21 | 48 |
"Catch your breath," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 391 |
It took my breath away, to look upon him. |
10 |
| 6 | 168 |
I heard exclamations from the men, the sudden intakes of breath, tiny sounds of surprise, murmurs of approval. |
10 |
| 6 | 255 |
I was still trying to regain my breath, from the exertion of my performance. |
10 |
| 7 | 443 |
Already I was within the throes of the helplessness, that helplessness which precedes the yielding, which heralds its proximity, which warns of its imminence, that helplessness which sometimes seems to hold one fixed in place, where one, as though chained to a wall, knows that there is no escape, wh... |
10 |
| 7 | 848 |
I had not attempted, or had I, to solicit such commands? There are, of course, ways in which women such as I, subtly, wordlessly, with a tiny movement of the body, a seemingly inadvertent placement of ourselves, a lifting of the bosom, a catching of the breath, the shyest of glances, the tiniest mov... |
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| 9 | 201 |
Once, a large formation, consisting of perhaps two hundred such creatures, wheeled about in diverse aerial maneuvers, sometimes in abrupt, breath-taking turns, and ascents and descents, sometimes breaking into smaller groups and then reuniting, as though converging on aerial prey, to piercing whistl... |
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| 10 | 80 |
I smelled its fetid breath. |
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| 10 | 249 |
I felt the hot breath of the beast on the back of my calves, and sensed the hot mouth, the teeth, at my heels. |
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| 10 | 251 |
The trail became steeper and my breath became shorter. |
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| 10 | 262 |
I tried to draw breath in, wildly, through my nostrils, even about the rag in my mouth. |
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| 10 | 281 |
I could feel the breath of the beast behind me, on my legs. |
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| 10 | 836 |
I held my breath until we reached the other side. |
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| 11 | 107 |
I sensed the breath of the beast on my calves. |
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| 11 | 141 |
I then lay before the dais, supine, gasping for breath, covered with sweat, even in the coolness of the elevation and wind. |
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| 11 | 1881 |
I tried to catch my breath. |
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| 12 | 1025 |
I could feel the heat of his breath on my face. |
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| 13 | 765 |
I could feel its breath upon me. |
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| 14 | 612 |
"Yes, yes!" she had cried, wide-eyed, gasping, fighting for breath, drenched with sweat, lying before me on her belly, on the stone. |
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| 14 | 1202 |
"I have been touched by a slave!" My charge stood there, unsteadily, out of breath, from the buffeting, not quite comprehending what had occurred. |
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| 18 | 301 |
Then, scarcely pausing to take a breath, she drained the bowl. |
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| 19 | 239 |
"So they say," said another, under his breath. |
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| 19 | 376 |
"Perhaps that might be done by filling up the golden bowls," speculated a fellow, under his breath. |
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| 24 | 472 |
In what seemed a breath later I saw guardsmen of Treve, swords drawn, burst onto the terrace, come, too, doubtless from the bridge. |
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| 29 | 577 |
He gasped, trying to regain his breath. |
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| 37 | 454 |
We gasped for breath. |
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| 46 | 134 |
I gasped for breath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 146 |
She caught her breath a little. |
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| 12 | 32 |
Ellen, sweating, almost fainting with the heat, the hot, dripping garment in her hands, knelt back for a moment, and, in the hot, moist, close, steaming atmosphere of the low-ceilinged room, gasped for breath. |
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| 15 | 5 |
She stood still, and fought to keep her breath, and to control herself. |
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| 16 | 684 |
Surely it could not hurt as much as it did! She could not stand it! It was impossible to bear! He must desist! She would do anything, not to be struck again! She gasped for breath, she could scarcely speak. |
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| 17 | 372 |
At the same time there was a powerful, feral odor, and she felt the heat of living breath on her body. |
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| 18 | 573 |
Ellen tried to catch her breath. |
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| 19 | 583 |
She gasped for breath. |
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| 20 | 159 |
Ellen then gasped for breath, and coughed, and wiped her face. |
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| 20 | 750 |
Then, her mouth still filled, she gasped and caught her breath. |
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| 22 | 385 |
She smelled a breath thick with paga, not the red and yellow wines from the vats, the wines which she and the others carried. |
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| 22 | 450 |
Never had she expected to see him again! She fought to gain her breath. |
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| 24 | 224 |
Ita returned, flushed, covered with sweat, and sank down on the rug, trying to regain her breath. |
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| 24 | 295 |
"Look in the mirror! See a slave!" Feike then stood up and lifted her arms, took a deep breath, and twirled, and stamped her feet twice into the rug. |
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| 24 | 556 |
There was an intake of breath in the crowd, a murmur of excitement. |
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| 26 | 970 |
He then lay back, his head back, trying to catch his breath. |
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| 27 | 1631 |
Before him stood Selius Arconious, his body bloody, filthy from war, his tunic torn and soiled, gasping for breath, regarding Mirus furiously, balefully. |
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| 27 | 2588 |
She sucked in her breath, in relief. |
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| 27 | 3111 |
She gasped for breath, in joyous relief. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 478 |
She would be helpless, of course, so near to him, so close as to feel his breath, the heat of his body. |
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| 1 | 1237 |
If not, she was sure she could soon make him so, by turning his own strength against him, by dividing him emotionally, and by arranging self-conflicts which would bring him, his own confused enemy, to an uncertain and anxious balance, where she might, by as little as a breath, so to speak, move him ... |
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| 2 | 309 |
"Masters!" cried the brunette, suddenly, squirming in terror, on the metal floor, and drawing up her legs, the breath of the beast hot on her body, "Masters!" Cabot was startled. |
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| 11 | 43 |
He could occasionally feel the breath of one on his neck. |
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| 21 | 453 |
Whatever the clue might have been, a pressing of a paw into the sand to gain leverage for a blow, an intake of breath prior to striking, a tiny sound of harness, perhaps even the slick, shifting of a grip, to take advantage of a less-moist, drier surface, Grendel threw himself to the side and the mi... |
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| 25 | 115 |
"Or perhaps the merest breath of a possible reluctance, the smallest suggestion of a mere hesitation in your desperate concern to be prompt and pleasing in all ways?" "No, no," she said. |
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| 29 | 262 |
He put down his head, and she felt his breath on her body. |
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| 35 | 52 |
He sheathed his knife, and struggled to regain his breath. |
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| 41 | 98 |
Cabot set his hands between the teeth of the trap and, sweating, straining, eased them a little open, and his hands were covered with blood and torn hair, and the sleen watched him, and Cabot, grunted, fighting for breath, and opened the teeth a bit more, and a little more, and then the sleen, with ... |
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| 41 | 99 |
Cabot then sat on the bloodied ground, trying to catch his breath. |
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| 75 | 27 |
She felt the hot breath of the beast on her body, the hairy snout, the licking tongue, the inhaling nostrils. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 3 |
I kicked my way to the surface, and was thrown yards to my right by the wash of water, and went under, and came up, again, and gasped for breath, half blinded by the water, still clinging to that massive, furred neck, and the beast's head was then, too, out of the water and I heard an explosive exha... |
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| 3 | 449 |
There was a change in the breath of Constantina. |
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| 34 | 119 |
If there was any evidence of their having tasted a berry, either on their tongue or breath, they would be beaten. |
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| 41 | 52 |
The mother, within the ring, has only a few Ehn within which she must bring the infant to the surface, for its first breath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 83 |
On the other hand, some, seen first beneath the surface, a detectable, sinuous, twisting, moving body, a foot or two below, would suddenly emerge, beside the ship, snouts raised above the surface, with an explosive exhalation of breath, and then a drawing inward of air, these come to open water abou... |
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| 9 | 247 |
Below, clearly enough, in the interstices of combat, men backed away from one another to look wildly about, struggling to regain their breath. |
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| 15 | 43 |
Briefly I drew in the first breath of the free air of Thassa which I had drawn since the night at the edge of the Vine Sea. |
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| 33 | 38 |
And when slaves were mentioned her breath quickened, and she leaned forward a little, that she might the more clearly sense the feelings of women such as she, far away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 49 |
Could my behavior, my promptings, what would satisfy me, what I would need, be wholly independent of my form of life, be unique amongst all living forms, merely accidents and oddities imposed upon me from the outside, beginning with the first flash of light, the first breath, the sobbing birth cry o... |
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| 7 | 144 |
How alive, I thought, must be the body of a slave! How alive to small things, a breath of air, a scent, subtle, scarcely noticed, the texture of a bit of cloth on her body, the feeling of a carpet or tiles beneath her bared feet, a rustle of chain in an outer room, are they coming for her, the weigh... |
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| 8 | 422 |
The hood was removed, and I drew in a deep breath, and shut my eyes against the hurtful light. |
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| 10 | 116 |
I caught my breath. |
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| 10 | 700 |
I felt the tongue, and saliva, of the beast, its hot breath. |
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| 10 | 895 |
I had no doubt that many a fellow's breath came faster, and his heart beat more rapidly, when he received such a note. |
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| 18 | 1027 |
I could hardly catch my breath before him. |
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| 26 | 56 |
The slave sobbed, and drew in a deep breath. |
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| 46 | 157 |
What move could be made? What could be done? The least movement, the least breath of air, might not escape vigilance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 44 |
I gasped for breath. |
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| 7 | 47 |
My knees had been weak, my breath had become short. |
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| 8 | 465 |
She had responded, as a slave, to the caress of a man's breath. |
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| 25 | 117 |
Then, as I opened my mouth widely, gasping, fighting for breath, I felt the spout of the metal vessel in my mouth. |
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| 25 | 119 |
I took a deep breath, sucking the air into my lungs. |
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| 39 | 37 |
Then, after a time, he pulled her head up, out of the water, and she looked at him, turning her head as she could, sputtering, coughing, water in her eyes, his hand tight in her hair, gasping for breath. |
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| 41 | 78 |
Certainly I no longer felt the heat of its breath on my back, nor was I any longer half- choked in the stifling reek of it, emanating from that deep, cavernous, fanged maw. |
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| 44 | 62 |
With what diligence and pleasure I had employed the soft arsenals at the disposal of a slave, her closeness, her breath, her smiles, her expressions, her lips, her postures, her attitudes, her words, and touch, to my advantage. |
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| 49 | 36 |
I felt her breath on my thigh. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 144 |
I heard an intake of breath in the crowd. |
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| 44 | 292 |
"The brutality, the size, the fangs of steel, the scales, the vast, skinlike wings, the ridged, spikelike tail, the claws of steel, the shining eyes about the head, the breath of fire?" "Yes, great lord," I said. |
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| 44 | 311 |
"You saw its size, its shape, the wings, its terribleness, the tail, the scales, the claws, its ferocity, its fangs, its breath of fire". |
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| 46 | 181 |
She was, I think, holding her breath. |
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| 46 | 188 |
Two tiny halves of a grain of rice lay parted on the girl's forehead, and she cried out, suddenly, expelling breath, and had fainted in the ropes. |
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| 47 | 45 |
"As it seems the holding is to be destroyed, in either case," said Lord Yamada, "either by the breath of the iron dragon or the torches of Temmu, one may as well be done with it, and free the iron dragon". |
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| 50 | 235 |
My head was buried in its fur, and I felt the heat of its breath on my neck. |
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| 60 | 98 |
Rather, startled, shaken, panting, gasping for breath, he regarded his antagonist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 291 |
My scalp still flamed, and I sobbed, trying to catch my breath. |
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| 8 | 273 |
How can some, I wondered, pretend to be ignorant of the tensions, the cords of interest and desire, which attend the interactions of the sexes? Are they unaware of the radical centrality of sexuality to the human condition? Do they lie, or are they somehow ignorant, or inert, simply blind to the tur... |
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| 9 | 698 |
I sensed I could not long hold my breath. |
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| 9 | 701 |
"Hold your breath! Do not breathe!" Things started to go black, within the blackness. |
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| 9 | 710 |
Was I not, in some way, however negligible, of some value, an investment of sorts, as the dealer had reminded the free woman? What if they miscalculated? What if I could not hold my breath as long as they expected? I began to despair. |
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| 9 | 720 |
If I turned my head to the side, and knelt in the cage, I could, between the laps of the water against the pilings, snatch a breath. |
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| 9 | 755 |
I had not slept, except for a momentary lapse, when my head sank beneath the water, and I awakened, and raised it again, immediately, to gasp for breath. |
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| 30 | 364 |
There was his breath, his tongue, his touch. |
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| 33 | 182 |
I could hear its breath. |
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| 33 | 453 |
"Surely then the beast is unnatural, a monstrosity," I whispered, in horror, in little more than a breath, an utterance intended only for the ears of my master, and scarcely for his. |
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| 33 | 606 |
I lay beside a box, against it, fighting for breath. |
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| 33 | 754 |
I gasped for breath. |
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| 44 | 96 |
I felt the breath of the beast on my shoulder. |
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| 46 | 258 |
I did not know what to do, and stopped, distraught, gasping for breath, at the side of the wagon. |
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| 48 | 88 |
She was at the bottom of the stairs, leaning against the wall, gasping for breath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 54 |
I then gasped for breath. |
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| 8 | 396 |
"There, insolent slave!" cried the woman, gasping for breath. |
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| 11 | 344 |
Then suddenly I stopped, startled, gasped, caught my breath, and nearly swooned. |
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| 11 | 359 |
I was breathing hard, gasping for breath. |
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| 15 | 85 |
"Am I to understand, noble Brindlar," said a male voice, "that this comely slave sometimes dawdles in the vicinity of your shop?" I caught my breath. |
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| 19 | 5 |
My heart leapt, my blood raced, I struggled to regain my breath. |
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| 33 | 630 |
I caught my breath. |
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| 38 | 28 |
I could feel his breath on my lips. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 17 |
"Hold, catch your breath," I said. |
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| 16 | 64 |
There was then a lengthy, auditory intake of breath which lasted several Ihn. |
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| 40 | 101 |
Then, shortly thereafter, a fellow in the garb of a guardsman, gasping for breath, stood outside the chamber, clinging to one side of the portal. |
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