| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 139 |
I think I will carry its simple, abrupt message burned into the cells of my brain until, as it is elsewhere said, I have returned to the Cities of Dust. |
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| 3 | 15 |
And always under his table a brazier filled with hot coals burned near the feet of the scribe, perilously close to the scholarly litter with which the floor was strewn. |
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| 6 | 226 |
When she had spoken, her voice had burned with shame, and I sensed the humiliation she felt at having failed to save the Home Stone. |
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| 12 | 67 |
My throat was parched, and, hanging only an inch or so above the Vosk, I burned with thirst. |
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| 12 | 89 |
Far below, I could see that the burned, dead Margin of Desolation was dotted here and there with patches of green, where some handfuls of seed had blindly asserted themselves, reclaiming something of that devastated country for life and growth. |
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| 14 | 9 |
He was a gigantic man, larger even than the Older Tarl, and in his eyes, wild and green, I saw the masterful flame which had, in its way, also burned in the eyes of Talena, his daughter. |
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| 15 | 173 |
"You are willing," I asked, "to turn the city over to Pa-Kur—that his horde should swarm into the cylinders, that the city may be looted and burned, the people destroyed or enslaved?" I shuddered involuntarily at the thought of the uncontrolled hordes of Pa-Kur among the spires of Ar, butcher... |
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| 16 | 39 |
Another was captured and burned. |
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| 20 | 15 |
The large contingent of mercenaries who had flocked to his banner were kept as work slaves for a period of one year, to fill in the vast ditches and siege tunnels, to repair the extensive damage to the walls of Ar, and to rebuild those of its buildings that had been injured or burned in the fighting... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 21 |
I asked myself, in a sane moment, if I should not seek shelter, and I knew that I should, but I could not—because questions burned within me that I could not dare to answer. |
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| 9 | 108 |
It almost burned my hands to lift the pot. |
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| 13 | 2 |
The white sand, perfumed, sprinkled with mica and red lead, burned my feet. |
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| 13 | 57 |
The silver yoke, hot from the sun, burned my neck and shoulders. |
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| 13 | 129 |
It was hot, like mine in the sun, and my hands burned on the metal. |
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| 14 | 179 |
But I knew even as I cried out that I was not free, and I burned with shame that I had so bespoke myself, for how could I be free when others in that gray city were bound? There was the girl, warm-eyed Linna, who had been kind to me, whose auburn hair was knotted with coarse string, who wore the gra... |
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| 17 | 2 |
A small, foul tharlarion-oil lamp burned at each end. |
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| 21 | 94 |
When the iron is pulled away and she knows the pain and degradation and smells the odor of her burned flesh, she is supposed to tell herself, understanding its full and terrible import, I AM HIS. |
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| 22 | 118 |
She laughed, and her face burned with shame. |
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| 23 | 79 |
What the slaves could not use or hide, they cut down or burned. |
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| 23 | 107 |
Certain portions of the city had been burned to exterminate the rebellious elements, and this cruel act of repression had only rallied confused and undecided men to the side of the rebels. |
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| 23 | 118 |
Outside the walls several small buildings had been burned. |
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| 23 | 195 |
Rubbish burned in the gutters. |
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| 24 | 259 |
The torches on the walls still burned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 |
I missed Torm and wondered if I would ever see him again, bounding about excoriating the authors of dusty scrolls, knocking the inkwell from his desk with an imperial sweep of the sleeve of his blue robe, leaping on the table in birdlike fury denouncing one scribe or another for independently redisc... |
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| 1 | 85 |
They were from the island city of Cos and had undoubtedly been captured at sea, their vessel burned and sunk. |
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| 4 | 59 |
I began to feel all the hatred of all the years that I had nursed against the Priest-Kings now uncontrollably, slowly, violently growing in my body, wild, fierce, those foliating scarlet vines of my fury that now seemed to encircle me, to enfold me, to engulf me, swelling, steaming, now writhing afl... |
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| 7 | 49 |
Vika's eyes were a sullen, smoldering, taunting blue; the blue of Lara's eyes had been brighter, as clear and, when not impassioned, as soft as the summer sky over Ko-ro-ba; when impassioned they had burned as fiercely, as beautifully, as helplessly as the walls of a raped city. |
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| 8 | 44 |
Perhaps one of the almost inexhaustible energy bulbs, which can burn for years, had as a simple matter of fact at last burned out. |
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| 8 | 49 |
I seized the bowl from her hand and hurled it underhanded up against the bulb which, though it had apparently burned out, shattered with a great flash and hiss of smoke and sparks. |
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| 8 | 130 |
It burned quite a bit. |
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| 8 | 210 |
I looked into those blue eyes and they looked into mine, and I wondered how many men had been burned, and had died, in that smoldering, sullen fire. |
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| 8 | 229 |
They were burned and still, shattered, and even the wall in their vicinity showed the seared, scarlet stain of their abrupt termination. |
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| 16 | 12 |
Tears burned in my eyes and my body trembled. |
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| 17 | 133 |
The wick burned slowly downward toward the hole in the pipe. |
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| 23 | 52 |
But still, as the Mul-Torch burned lower and I yet encountered no sign of the Golden Beetle, my thoughts turned ever and again to the still form of Vika lying in the cavern of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 27 | 16 |
Outside I thrust the red plastic garment I had worn into the first disposal chute I found whence it would be whisked away pneumatically to the distant incinerators that burned somewhere below the Nest. |
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| 28 | 148 |
"We burned what we did not take," said another. |
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| 28 | 176 |
It unnerved the Priest-Kings to pass unknowingly within feet of, say, a pale, agile fellow from the Fungus Chambers, who might be crouching in a nearby ventilator shaft with a heat torch, who might have burned their antennae for them if he had pleased; or to suddenly find themselves surrounded by a ... |
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| 28 | 241 |
To be so inhibited among a field of foes, none of whom suffered from the same inhibition, seemed to me a good way to get one's head burned off. |
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| 30 | 17 |
I recalled the man from Ar, met on the lonely road to Ko-ro-ba long ago, who like a robot had been forced to obey the signals of Priest-Kings until at last he had tried to throw over the net, and its overload had burned away the insides of his skull, giving him at last the freedom of his own mortal ... |
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| 30 | 120 |
Though my body burned from the whip, I was more hurt by the thought of Vika, surprisingly perhaps, hurt by the thought that I had known who and what she was all along, though somewhere in my heart I had always hoped I was wrong. |
10 |
| 31 | 121 |
Another flash of fire burned near me, leaving a rupture of molten marble in the floor not five feet from where I stood. |
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| 31 | 128 |
Then he fired a burst directly down into the power source and it began to rumble and throw geysers of purple fire up almost to the hole which Sarm had burned in the globe. |
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| 31 | 230 |
He stood thusly on the walkway at the top of the vast blue dome beneath which burned and hissed the power source of Priest-Kings. |
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| 32 | 325 |
He turned it suddenly and a jolt of fire that threw him five feet back into the cave leapt from that tiny instrument and the nearest larl suddenly reared, its paws lifted wildly, its fangs bared, its snowy pelt burned black about the hole that had once housed its heart, and then it twisted and fell ... |
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| 33 | 14 |
Even from where we stood I could smell the innumerable fires of their sacrifices, the burning flesh of bosks, smell the heady fumes of the incense they burned in brass censers swinging on chains, hear the repetitious litanies of their pleas, observe their continual prostrations and grovelings by whi... |
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| 33 | 24 |
Then I looked through the ruins of the palisade and over the fallen gate, at the smoke from the countless sacrificial fires that burned there, at the smoke from the swinging censers. |
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| 33 | 117 |
I hoped that those humans who returned from the Nest would not be hunted by Initiates and burned or impaled as heretics and blasphemers. |
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| 35 | 38 |
The body of Sarm, I learned, had been burned in the Chamber of the Mother, according to the custom of Priest-Kings, for he had been First Born and beloved of the Mother. |
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| 35 | 129 |
He had his antennae lifted to the white fires that burned in the black night over Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 72 |
During all this time, and torches had been brought, the hours of the night being burned away, Elizabeth Cardwell was not permitted to move, but must needs retain the position of the Pleasure Slave, knees properly placed, back straight, head high, the gleaming chain of the Sirik dangling from the Tur... |
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| 9 | 106 |
To one side there was a small altar to Priest-Kings, where there burned a small fire. |
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| 12 | 301 |
Then she had to breathe and a great draught of paga burned its way down her throat making her gasp and cough. |
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| 13 | 147 |
On the other hand on each altar there burned a small bosk-dung fire into which, like a tiny piece of kindling, had been placed an incense stick. |
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| 13 | 183 |
Fresh and clean on her burned thigh was the brand of the four bosk horns. |
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| 14 | 24 |
The wagons, in Turian raids, are burned. |
10 |
| 14 | 55 |
Among the wagons the tarnsmen would have found only slaves, women and children, but not a wagon had been burned or looted. |
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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 | 17 |
In a few minutes the great pole of the standard had been mounted on the wagon and was descending the hill, leaving on the summit the burned wood and the black ashes that had been the wagon of Kutaituchik, surrendering them now to the wind and the rain, to time and the snows to come, and to the green... |
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| 21 | 24 |
Kamchak rode his kaiila up the hill until he stood, that cold dawn, at the edge of the burned wood and ashes of Kutaituchik's wagon. |
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| 23 | 179 |
"We burned most of their wagons—those we could," said Hakimba. |
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| 23 | 181 |
"Those that pleased us—both of goods and women," remarked Conrad, "we carried off—of goods that did not please us, we burned them—of women that did not please us, we left them stripped and weeping among the wagons". |
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| 23 | 203 |
That night I found Kamchak's old wagon, and though it had been looted, it had not been burned. |
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| 24 | 30 |
Certain cities, burned by the Wagon Peoples more than a hundred years ago, were still said to be desolate ruins between their broken walls, silent save for the wind and the occasional footfall of a prowling sleen hunting for urts. |
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| 25 | 453 |
My face burned. |
10 |
| 26 | 287 |
Already it was like colored paper and peeling, as though lit and burned from the inside. |
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| 26 | 378 |
For better than an hour it burned and then the basin of the pool, now black, in places the marble fused and melted, was empty, save for smears of carbon and grease, and some cracked, blackened bones, and some drops of melted gold, what had been left perhaps of the golden drops which Saphrar of Turia... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 |
At last, when the wood burned only here and there, and what had been the pyre was mostly ashes and glowing wood, the men of a dozen castes, each carrying a jar of chilled wine, moved about, pouring the wine over the fire, quenching it. |
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| 5 | 605 |
Meanwhile Elizabeth would have built a fire and in it burned her clothing. |
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| 16 | 28 |
The doors are painted green and the pitch washed away, and the branches of the Brak Bush burned in a small ceremony on the threshold. |
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| 18 | 196 |
"Before the next passage hand," said he, "armed men broke into the Cylinder of Physicians; the floors we worked on were burned; the Cylinder itself was seriously damaged; our work, our records, the animals we used were all destroyed; several of my staff were slain, others driven away". |
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| 18 | 224 |
I stood there, amidst the ruined equipment, the burned walls. |
10 |
| 18 | 348 |
Always the thought burned through me, You, Killer, would never make a Player, and always I seemed driven by the black fear that would not speak itself but whose presence I could clearly sense. |
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| 22 | 510 |
"On!" Ubar of the Skies, like black fire, burned past one ring and another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 310 |
I burned with shame. |
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| 4 | 173 |
The bit of stem took the fire and with it she lit a tiny lamp, also sitting in a shallow copper bowl, which burned tharlarion oil. |
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| 5 | 136 |
Torches, oiled coils of marsh vine wound about the prongs of marsh spears, thrust butt down in the rence of the island, burned in the marsh night. |
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| 6 | 9 |
The marsh torches burned as quietly as they had. |
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| 6 | 196 |
Here and there, on the water, apart from the flaming rence island, I could see the flat, black keels of rence craft, which had earlier been cast off and burned to the water, to prevent them from being used for escape. |
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| 7 | 108 |
Only when I had unbound her had I noticed, on her left thigh, the tiny mark, which had been burned into her flesh long ago, the small letter in cursive script which was the initial letter of Kajira, which is the most common Gorean word for a female slave. |
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| 9 | 62 |
I had learned that beneath the hide of men burned the hearts of sleen and tharlarion, and that their moralities and ideals were so many cloaks to conceal the claw and the tooth. |
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| 9 | 106 |
They are recognized by the Thief's Scar, which they wear as caste mark, a tiny, three-pronged brand burned into the face in back of and below the eye, over the right cheekbone. |
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| 9 | 305 |
Her hands had been blistered from scrubbing and burned from the cooking, roughened and reddened from the cleaning and the washing of the bowls and goblets. |
10 |
| 9 | 433 |
An Ahn later, perhaps a bit more than an Ahn before dawn, the oil in the lamp of love had burned low. |
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| 11 | 266 |
His face was wide, and heavy, and muchly lined; it, like many of those of Port Kar, showed the marks of Thassa, burned into it by wind and salt; he had gray eyes; his hair was white, and short-cropped; in his ears there were two small golden rings. |
10 |
| 11 | 420 |
Bemused, I had burned it in the tiny flame of the candle on the table near me, now little more than a twig of wick in a puddle of clear, melted wax, and then I had, with the palm of my hand, snuffed out the tiny flame. |
10 |
| 11 | 533 |
I scratched with my fingernail in the wax, breaking up the bits of charred paper that had been the note I had burned in the candle flame. |
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| 15 | 311 |
And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 289 |
"Yes! Yes!" I said and threw the car into gear and burned forward, only to stop with a shriek of rubber, skidding some ten feet. |
10 |
| 6 | 241 |
Further, as I could see now, it had been burned at the edges and was, in another area, stained from smoke and rain. |
10 |
| 7 | 110 |
The camisks had been burned with most of Targo's other goods. |
10 |
| 7 | 163 |
One of the wagons had an ankle bar, and the other one was fitted with the ankle bar from Targo's damaged wagon, which he then abandoned and burned on the grass. |
10 |
| 11 | 1086 |
Koroban tarnsmen flew at all hours, in the high sun, in the cold morning, at dusk, even when the beacon fires burned upon the lofty walls, flew patterned sorties, and irregular sorties, but never did they find the elusive, marauding band of the terrible Rask of Treve. |
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| 12 | 5 |
My old camisk, long ago, had been burned near the compound of Targo. |
10 |
| 12 | 575 |
That could be told at a glance from the revealing scantiness of our garmenture, the designatory marks burned into our bodies. |
10 |
| 12 | 656 |
I saw a defender forcing the head of the girl whose hair burned into the dirt, extinguishing the flames. |
10 |
| 13 | 1047 |
The teeth in his darkly tanned, wind-burned face seemed large and white, and strong. |
10 |
| 13 | 1166 |
I did not want to be red and raw, and wind-burned, and awakened before dawn and worked until dark, and be kept in such a place. |
10 |
| 15 | 505 |
"Splendid!" Now the melody became more swift, and it burned like flame in the girl's slave body. |
10 |
| 15 | 697 |
I smelled the odor of burned flesh, my own. |
10 |
| 15 | 819 |
My thigh burned terribly, from the branding, and my back and the back of my legs still screamed from the cruel flames of the leather lash. |
10 |
| 15 | 1284 |
I threw back my head and the bells flashed at my ankles and wrists, and in my body the music, in its bright flames, burned. |
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| 16 | 58 |
And then my face went white with suppressed fury, concealing the scarlet rage that burned in my body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 |
His face was dark from the sun, and wind-burned, and sea-burned. |
10 |
| 1 | 16 |
A torch burned in a rack above and behind me, to my left. |
10 |
| 1 | 121 |
She had burned in my memory, unforgettably. |
10 |
| 1 | 378 |
The torches burned. |
10 |
| 3 | 367 |
Her thigh, still, must have burned with searing pain. |
10 |
| 5 | 114 |
Where could she flee? She could not even run to Lydius, her own city, for it was there, publicly, by judicial sentence, that the degradation of slavery, by the iron, had been burned into her body. |
10 |
| 6 | 73 |
When I again noted the lamp, it had burned low. |
10 |
| 6 | 905 |
The fire had burned low, and the guard had been changed, before we were finished. |
10 |
| 8 | 40 |
It is not unknown for them to be hunted down and burned alive, their ashes scattered in expiation by mourning Goreans among the charred wood and blackened stumps. |
10 |
| 11 | 164 |
At her throat was his collar, in her thigh, burned, his brand, on her body his silk. |
10 |
| 14 | 6 |
Its pilings, forming its stockade, had been broken in various places, and burned in others. |
10 |
| 14 | 9 |
In some places there was burned canvas, indicating that a given tent might have been set afire. |
10 |
| 15 | 874 |
Now her entire back burned scarlet. |
10 |
| 17 | 86 |
It was thrown to one side and burned. |
10 |
| 20 | 249 |
And, within the circle, lit by the torches, burned a fire. |
10 |
| 20 | 269 |
The fire burned higher now. |
10 |
| 22 | 436 |
"It is beautiful!" It was a tiny, three-pronged brand, burned into the face over the right cheekbone. |
10 |
| 22 | 939 |
On the western coast of Thassa, high above Lydius, on a remote, stony beach, a beacon burned, marking a place on the coast where there had once stood a stockade, where men had fought, where deeds had transpired. |
10 |
| 22 | 954 |
He looked back, noting in the sky the light of a beacon, one which burned on a deserted shore. |
10 |
| 22 | 956 |
Few would know why it burned. |
10 |
| 22 | 992 |
I myself did not know why it burned. |
10 |
| 22 | 1008 |
I myself did not know, truly, why it burned but it had seemed important to me to set it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 152 |
But it would once have burned, and that was fixed, undeniable, a part of what had been, that it had burned; nothing could change that, not the eternities of time, not the will of Priest-Kings, the machinations of Others, the willfulness and hatred of men; nothing could change that it had been, that ... |
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| 1 | 151 |
It had burned, long and fiery in the Gorean night, on the stones of the beach, and then, in the morning it would have been ashes, and the winds and rains would have scattered them, and there would be little left, save the stones, the sand and the prints of the feet of sea birds, tiny, like the thief... |
10 |
| 2 | 216 |
He bows and prays to the Sardar and lifts the burned meat to the remote denizens of those mysterious mountains. |
10 |
| 9 | 30 |
Hilda's face burned red with fury, but she kept her head high. |
10 |
| 9 | 165 |
"When you have burned your garments, every bit of them, then beg Gunnhild to set you about your duties". |
10 |
| 9 | 393 |
I wondered if the fires in Olga which, earlier, had burned so deeply, so hotly, could be truly out. |
10 |
| 13 | 217 |
Before the fellow in the fire could free himself he had been much burned. |
10 |
| 14 | 190 |
The hangings which had decorated the hall were now gone, burned away, the walls scorched behind them. |
10 |
| 15 | 101 |
The tent had been half burned, and poles were down. |
10 |
| 15 | 129 |
Beneath this redness burned the hall of Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 16 | 158 |
His torch lay on the floor, and, after some time, burned itself out. |
10 |
| 16 | 181 |
"Perhaps he was burned in his ship, which you have told me was called Black Shark". |
10 |
| 17 | 20 |
On a distant world, lit by the same star, at a comparable time, men turned in their beds, mercury vapor lamps burned, lonely, heavy lorries rumbled down streets, keeping their delivery schedules, parts of yesterday's newspapers fluttered down lonely sidewalks. |
10 |
| 17 | 32 |
I remembered finding the carcass of the animal beneath the fallen, half-burned canvas of the Forkbeard's tent. |
10 |
| 17 | 102 |
After their devastating victory of the night of Svein Blue Tooth's feast, in which his hall was burned, and the Thing encampments laid waste, they had formed their own camp, and set methodically about gathering supplies for their southern march. |
10 |
| 18 | 264 |
Even I could smell blood, mixing with the smoke of fires, where Kurii lodges burned. |
10 |
| 18 | 381 |
Ivar Forkbeard, followed by Tarl Red Hair and Wulfstan of Torvaldsland, heeled by the bondmaid, Hilda, picked his way toward the burned, looted tents of Thorgard of Scagnar. |
10 |
| 18 | 382 |
In the valley there burned, still, a thousand fires. |
10 |
| 18 | 454 |
We made our way toward Ottar, who stood near the burned, fallen tents of Thorgard of Scagnar. |
10 |
| 21 | 74 |
Many were the lamps, bowls on spears, which burned, and torches, too. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 263 |
I looked at the heavy, squarish face, burned by the wind and salt of Thassa, the clear eyes, the white, short-cropped hair, the small golden rings in his ears. |
10 |
| 2 | 337 |
When the pitcher was placed in the kiln this pigment would be burned, hardened, into the glaze. |
10 |
| 3 | 155 |
Some places a small lamp burned, high, near a doorway. |
10 |
| 5 | 219 |
Alyena was good, because, in her belly, though she still did not know it, burned slave fire. |
10 |
| 5 | 638 |
Too, in her belly, perhaps most important of all, burned slave fire. |
10 |
| 5 | 750 |
I recalled that once, in delirium, in weakness, when poison had burned in my body, I had cried out for her to love me. |
10 |
| 7 | 329 |
"And should you be so unfortunate," said he, "as to reach the vicinity of Klima, your feet must be bound with leather to your knees, for you will sink through the salt crusts to your knees, and, unprotected, your flesh, by the millions of tiny, heated crystals, would be grated and burned from your b... |
10 |
| 8 | 192 |
A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. |
10 |
| 10 | 396 |
"In a great pyre of brush I saw it burned. |
10 |
| 13 | 7 |
My back, and body, burned. |
10 |
| 13 | 460 |
The ropes burned on his throat. |
10 |
| 14 | 29 |
Rocks on the desert, and the sheer walls of the Salt Ubar's kasbah, looming above us, shone with dew, common in the Tahari in the early morning, to be burned off in the first hour of the sun. |
10 |
| 14 | 72 |
It smoked, and burned oil, probably from tiny rock tharlarions, abundant south of Tor in the spring. |
10 |
| 14 | 639 |
Our bodies were burned black by the sun. |
10 |
| 16 | 167 |
Only two lamps now burned. |
10 |
| 17 | 20 |
At the corners of the raft burned four lamps, mounted on poles. |
10 |
| 17 | 211 |
Bits of oil burned briefly on the water, scattered from the struck lamp. |
10 |
| 21 | 372 |
I smelled burned flesh. |
10 |
| 26 | 861 |
We three, Hassan, I and the girl, smelled the marked, burned slave flesh of her. |
10 |
| 26 | 1246 |
You burned me with the iron and made me your slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 427 |
I smelled burned meat, my own. |
10 |
| 3 | 485 |
But I suspected, and truly, that the mightiest bond I wore was not the strict, confining loops on my wrists or belly but the newly incised brand on my body; later, I suspected, even if coils of rope and heavy chains might be heaped upon me, or I should be confined in cells or kennels, the most compl... |
10 |
| 3 | 529 |
It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely... |
10 |
| 3 | 558 |
Accordingly, he had burned it into my flesh. |
10 |
| 3 | 775 |
Too, within, a small lamp burned. |
10 |
| 3 | 805 |
It was very meticulous, and clean, and deep, and lovely and delicate; it was incredibly feminine; it was as though my femininity had been literally stamped upon my body; it was as though I had been certified a certain sort of thing, which thereafter, no matter what I wished, or what I might be told,... |
10 |
| 4 | 61 |
The dew of dawn was not yet burned off the grass. |
10 |
| 4 | 811 |
It had been placed there, burned into my thigh, by a hot iron, as I had screamed under the metal's searing print. |
10 |
| 7 | 45 |
Wells were poisoned and fields burned and salted to prevent the approach of armies from the north. |
10 |
| 7 | 472 |
When the iron had been pulled from her burned, marked flesh she had been rendered, as was the intention of my master, and those in Ar, politically valueless. |
10 |
| 9 | 11 |
His companion, Melina, had taken the Ta-Teera from me and burned it. |
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| 12 | 474 |
Then, opening a door, I saw a new passageway, one in which there burned a lamp, hanging on a chain. |
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| 13 | 227 |
My back still burned from his whip. |
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| 13 | 235 |
Tears sprang into my eyes; my body burned red with shame. |
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| 17 | 59 |
It had burned itself out moving south and eastward in some eighteen months. |
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| 22 | 212 |
It burned in my nostrils for a moment. |
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| 22 | 265 |
The lamp burned out and we remained in the darkness. |
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| 25 | 2 |
His face was wind-burned and, in each ear, there was a small golden ring. |
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| 29 | 56 |
The lights of the city were strewn beneath us; above us burned the stars of Gor. |
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| 29 | 119 |
Only a small lamp burned in the compartment. |
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| 1 | 18 |
The remnants of a shattered species then, as a world burned below them, turned hunting to the plains of the stars. |
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| 3 | 519 |
I thought, of course, of the girl in the house of Samos and the raiment she had worn, which had been burned in her presence. |
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| 4 | 32 |
Incense was being burned and bells were being rung; there was singing and chanting. |
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| 8 | 129 |
There was a hearth to one side, in which wood burned. |
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| 9 | 342 |
The ship, burned to the waterline, was steered onto the rocks and fell awash. |
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| 11 | 207 |
"The wall, burned and uprooted, has been destroyed. |
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| 11 | 274 |
Buildings were burned. |
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| 11 | 277 |
The platform, too, had been pulled down, and had then been burned. |
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| 11 | 429 |
I watched them pick their way through burned logs and, in their characteristic gait, turn northward. |
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| 15 | 632 |
"Once captured and conquered, collared and silked, their thigh burned by the iron, thrown to a man's feet, they are as quick to kiss and lick as any woman. |
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| 27 | 194 |
Its eyes seemed to blaze, as though fires burned behind them. |
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| 31 | 219 |
"They recoil when struck or burned". |
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| 34 | 21 |
Already, I supposed, the troopships, with their hibernated marches, engines flaming, quiet in the near vacuum of space, burned their silent, purposeful way toward the shores of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 322 |
Here and there lamps and torches burned. |
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| 4 | 955 |
I looked at the brand, fresh in her burned thigh. |
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| 6 | 609 |
In some eighteen months it had burned itself out, moving south and eastward. |
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| 9 | 18 |
Too, the Bazi plague had burned itself out years ago. |
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| 11 | 2 |
A tiny tharlarion-oil lamp burned near the door. |
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| 18 | 54 |
And if the history of man, terminated, should turn out to have been but a brief flicker in the midst of unnoticing oblivions let it at least have been worthy of the moment in which it burned. |
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| 19 | 9 |
He carried a small lamp, with a shallow bowl, which burned tharlarion oil. |
10 |
| 19 | 59 |
The flesh had turned a blackish orange and, in places, had broken open, the skin peeling back like burned paper. |
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| 29 | 113 |
* * * * The fire had now burned low. |
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| 32 | 568 |
My old clothing, and my boots, which the girls, laughing, cut to pieces with small knives, were burned. |
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| 34 | 834 |
The fire had burned down. |
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| 34 | 1053 |
"Some cruel brute burned it into my flesh with a hot iron," she said. |
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| 48 | 11 |
I then went to the white male, who had been the captive of the talunas, released by the small people from his prison hut before they burned the taluna village. |
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| 48 | 111 |
Her eyes burned with hatred. |
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| 49 | 39 |
It was partially burned. |
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| 55 | 14 |
In places the tops of standing trees still burned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 |
A candle burned on the table, set in a small container. |
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| 4 | 188 |
That same mark, lovely and identical, was burned into her thigh. |
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| 5 | 177 |
Then she said, "Beware how you speak, lest you be lashed and burned with irons". |
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| 8 | 20 |
The blades, in their stroke, burned cruelly on my back. |
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| 11 | 573 |
The brand's marvelousness, of course, is not simply a function of its aesthetic enhancement of the woman's beauty, adding beauty to her beauty, raising her almost geometrically to a new dimension of loveliness, but was doubtless as much or more a function of its meaning; it marked the loveliness int... |
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| 27 | 11 |
"The house, and many of the buildings, were burned". |
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| 27 | 187 |
The lantern had burned out. |
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| 27 | 489 |
The lantern had again burned out. |
10 |
| 28 | 83 |
Her house, and several of her buildings, had been burned. |
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| 32 | 193 |
And they are grateful to the master that he has deigned to quench within them for a time the belly fires of the female thrall, which smolder within them even when not blazing, those fires which inform them of their bondage more even than the metal on their neck, the iron on an ankle, the lovely mark... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 65 |
"The market was burned," she said, "and the goods and slaves taken". |
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| 2 | 77 |
"Gone," she said, "burned, its slaves and personnel fled or taken". |
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| 4 | 270 |
"I discarded, burned or destroyed your luggage and your things," I said, "with the exception of what you now wear, a Ta-Teera and a collar". |
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| 6 | 18 |
The troops from Ar, tarnsmen, had not burned Lara. |
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| 22 | 228 |
"In the view of hundreds of those of Victoria these men, so few of them, burned and looted, laughing and with impunity, as it pleased them. |
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| 22 | 245 |
Men, unprotesting, fearful, saw their properties purloined and burned. |
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| 26 | 142 |
Accordingly they burned his holdings and scattered his hurt and tharlarion". |
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| 26 | 235 |
Perhaps they knew, too, of my outspoken displeasure at the wharves when the pirates had looted and burned there, punishing Victoria for having at that time refused their demands for tribute. |
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| 28 | 81 |
"The tavern has not yet been burned," I pointed out. |
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| 29 | 230 |
"There are towns to be burned," I called, "loots to be gathered, women to tie in our slave sacks!" "How did you pass the chain?" called the man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 502 |
* * * * The candle on the table had burned out. |
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| 15 | 46 |
When the town is suitably sacked, emptied of anything of interest, he will have it burned to the ground". |
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| 20 | 173 |
She would continue to be well marked as a slave by her brand, which was small and fine, and burned deeply into her left thigh. |
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| 20 | 185 |
There I shall arrange a loan and with this money return to Vonda, there to rebuild the burned buildings of my ranch". |
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| 20 | 339 |
"The citadels of Policrates and Ragnar Voskjard have been burned, I heard," I said. |
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| 20 | 348 |
"Not only have they been burned," said Tasdron, "but they will be dismantled. |
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| 20 | 1646 |
When man is burned, woman perishes as well, for both are bound at the same stake. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
The coals in the brazier to the left of the great stone couch had burned out during the night. |
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| 1 | 248 |
It, too, burned tharlarion oil. |
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| 1 | 649 |
Like burned animals they were wary of them. |
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| 1 | 1371 |
Then they burned again, as they had a moment before. |
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| 3 | 144 |
The fort itself, incidentally, was twice burned, once by soldiers from Port Olni, before that town joined the Salerian Confederation, and once by marauding Dust Legs, a tribe of red savages, from the interior of the Barrens. |
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| 4 | 208 |
They have only burned farms, and taken kaiila". |
10 |
| 8 | 771 |
"You are only branded slaves!" "Consider the mark burned into your own lovely hide," said Ginger. |
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| 14 | 1164 |
Wagons were burned. |
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| 16 | 5 |
Below us there lay little more, seemingly, than overturned and scattered wagons, some burned. |
10 |
| 16 | 32 |
It had either been torn away or burned. |
10 |
| 16 | 118 |
Some had been burned to the wagon bed, others missed a roof or a roof and wall. |
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| 17 | 571 |
"There is refuse to be gathered and debris to be burned". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 405 |
Her kiss, that of a female slave, burned on my lips. |
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| 22 | 85 |
We threaded our way among the lodges, some of which were burned. |
10 |
| 28 | 65 |
A task force of Yellow Knives had penetrated the camp, too, to that point, and it was they who had killed and mutilated the wounded, and burned the lodge. |
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| 29 | 74 |
Lodges, even, though not all of them, had been thrown down and burned. |
10 |
| 35 | 53 |
The high, hot sun of the Tahari burned in the sky. |
10 |
| 43 | 7 |
A small fire burned in the lodge. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 128 |
"This biscuit is burned on the bottom," he said. |
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| 32 | 132 |
There the slave mark would have been burned into her thigh. |
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| 33 | 686 |
Outside of Corcyrus, in a great field, have been found burned grass and three large, deep, geometrically spaced depressions, as though something of great heat and weight, perhaps some giant, heated steel insect or fiery mechanical bird, had alighted there. |
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| 36 | 583 |
I berated myself for my stupidity! I castigated myself for my madness! But I could not drive you from my mind! Ever more hotly burned the flames of my passion! And you are not even free!" "No," I said, suddenly, angrily. |
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| 36 | 905 |
The slave fires burned in my belly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 85 |
The brak bushes are burned on the threshold and the pitch is washed away. |
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| 3 | 169 |
"You and your fellows remain legally free, of course," she said, "though totally in my power, as complete captives, until a sign of bondage is burned into your pretty hides, or you are appropriately collared, or otherwise legally enslaved". |
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| 6 | 1224 |
I had much more money, my own, and some more I had helped myself to at the camp of the Lady Yanina, before I had freed her prisoners and burned the camp, but I had no wish to advertise the current weight of my purse at the fair. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 13 |
The village had been deserted, perhaps, judging from the absence of crockery, household effects, and furnishings, even before it had been burned. |
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| 2 | 86 |
Then they burned the village". |
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| 5 | 283 |
She fingered the small copper disk, on its thong, tied about her throat, that disk which had been found on her in infancy, when she had been found by Alars in the wreckage of a burned, raided caravan, that disk on which a "Tau" and a number had been inscribed. |
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| 8 | 72 |
The wagons had not merely been burned, that their cargoes might be destroyed, but, clearly, had been ransacked. |
10 |
| 8 | 178 |
We then began to thread our way among the burned wagons. |
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| 19 | 32 |
The thief's scar in Port Kar is a tiny, three-pronged brand, burned into the face over the right cheekbone. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 207 |
Eventually the tiny candle burned out. |
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| 3 | 14 |
The next day, after a troubled, restless night, and after hours of anxiety, misery and hesitation, I had suddenly, feverishly, burned it. |
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| 3 | 16 |
That the paper might be burned could not undo what was now transcribed in the reality of the world. |
10 |
| 3 | 918 |
A line of light, causing me to pull back, crying out, half blinded, burned forth from the object. |
10 |
| 5 | 60 |
I had now been branded, a small, graceful mark burned into my left thigh, high, under the hip. |
10 |
| 6 | 680 |
The snap had been so loud, so frightening, and the leather burned me so terribly! I had thrown my head back, gasping, sobbing out, wildly, fighting the ball in my mouth, in the hood. |
10 |
| 6 | 731 |
It was visible to all, as I was, on my left thigh, unmistakable and prominent, burned into my body. |
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| 7 | 46 |
"There are so many burned buildings here!" We saw that what she had said was true, peeping out. |
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| 7 | 47 |
It seemed, here, that an entire district, or streets, at least, of buildings, had been burned in this area. |
10 |
| 7 | 51 |
Here it seemed that burned structures must have been razed, and debris carted away. |
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| 13 | 460 |
I had recognized, of course, that such things as my garb, or lack of it, my brand, burned into my body, my collar, which I could not remove, placed on me by men, and such, and, above all, my condition, that of slave, had made me far more sexually stimulatory to men than I would otherwise have been b... |
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| 13 | 691 |
It was for him that they burned. |
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| 16 | 37 |
My ankles jerked, burned, in their rope loops. |
10 |
| 31 | 70 |
Surely he knew me! My belly burned, my thighs flamed. |
10 |
| 34 | 484 |
The slave fires in my belly had now burned low, but I knew they could be stirred into flame at a touch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 3 |
In the harbor, within the wall of rafts, there was the burned wreckage of several ships of Ar's Station, some burned to the waterline. |
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| 1 | 474 |
They are likely to be safe there even if the city is burned about them. |
10 |
| 9 | 41 |
The ears of the delicate Phoebe must have burned as she heard the snapping of wings near us and the shouting of ribald, raucous jests, of which her beauty and its probable disposition were the subject. |
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| 10 | 26 |
Then later, concerted with an attack, these supports may be burned or, more dangerously, struck away. |
10 |
| 11 | 247 |
He need not know, for example, the contents of the secret papers which I had obtained at Brundisium last Se'Kara, papers which I had swiftly burned. |
10 |
| 12 | 226 |
"And that pleasure would presumably remain mine even if Ar's Station were burned to the ground, and salt cast upon the ashes!" "Of course," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 849 |
It must have burned the back of her neck. |
10 |
| 15 | 970 |
There, spread before me, in the bright morning sun, under the clear blue sky, bright with glittering spear blades and shields, with nodding plumes, with the standards of companies and regiments, dotted with engines, here and there a tharlarion stalking about, tarnsmen in the sky, in serried ranks, s... |
10 |
| 17 | 296 |
I saw the bridges, burned through, collapse beneath some of them, plunging them to the ground. |
10 |
| 17 | 388 |
I then went to the wall and looked out, once more, on the vast panoply before me, across the burned, leveled ground, at the engines, the troops, the hulks and shells of buildings in the distance. |
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| 20 | 20 |
Fires, too, still, after all these days, burned in the city. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 419 |
"A rencer village was burned," she said, "burned to the water. |
10 |
| 14 | 276 |
The side of my face burned. |
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| 19 | 12 |
The pole's gilding had been muchly burned away. |
10 |
| 19 | 247 |
It was burned down almost to my hand. |
10 |
| 19 | 423 |
I was seized, and, though I was a free woman, stripped and bound! The barge was burned. |
10 |
| 19 | 430 |
Also the very pole I was using for the raft had been gilded, though the gilding, when I retrieved it from the marsh, had been muchly burned away. |
10 |
| 19 | 435 |
"A village was burned," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 618 |
The thongs had not cut into her, nor burned her deeply. |
10 |
| 19 | 1072 |
"Look," she said, "it is one of the poles from my barge! You can see the gilding there, where it is not burned away". |
10 |
| 21 | 20 |
Most of the gilding was gone, perhaps scraped with knives, or burned away. |
10 |
| 27 | 163 |
"Yes," I said, "it was apparently taken by rencers, and burned. |
10 |
| 31 | 115 |
Too, one of their villages was burned, unfortunately, which would naturally be taken as an act of war. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 30 |
He had burned it. |
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| 4 | 73 |
Furthermore, it had had the winter to restore its siege train, the original train burned in Torcadino, fired by Dietrich of Tarnburg, and, because of its recent success in the field, west of Ar, it could draw on thousands of square pasangs for its logistical support. |
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| 7 | 17 |
The night before last, the night of that day on which we had taken note of the postings, the gates of Ar had been dismantled and burned. |
10 |
| 7 | 22 |
"I had not thought to see the gates of Ar burned, not by her own," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 7 | 25 |
The great timbers then, shattered and separated, had been formed into gigantic pyres and burned. |
10 |
| 7 | 500 |
Her gates have been burned. |
10 |
| 8 | 516 |
The infant touches the pretty flame, and is burned. |
10 |
| 11 | 273 |
I saw citizens of Ar singing as their gates burned, as they tore down their walls with their own hands. |
10 |
| 11 | 280 |
"When the bodies are removed," he said, "I think I shall have this shop burned". |
10 |
| 11 | 461 |
"For all I care, traitorous Ar may be burned to the ground," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 6 |
"A barracks was burned last night," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 14 | 442 |
"I heard a barracks was burned last night," said a fellow. |
10 |
| 14 | 694 |
"Glory to Ar!" I was pleased to see that not all the youths of Ar were in the keeping of Cos, that in the hearts of some at least there yet burned the fire called patriotism. |
10 |
| 15 | 20 |
The papers had then been burned and the youths had withdrawn in triumph, singing songs to the glory of Cos. |
10 |
| 15 | 145 |
To be sure, his village may have been one of several nearby villages put to the torch, its supplies gathered in by foragers, or burned. |
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| 17 | 119 |
Two had been burned. |
10 |
| 19 | 380 |
Her skin was burned from the sun. |
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| 19 | 464 |
I regarded her short-cropped hair, the simple collar on her neck, her scanty rag, her reddened, roughened skin, blistered and burned, peeling and cracked, from exposure, from the sun, wind and heat. |
10 |
| 19 | 638 |
"I realized what had happened! I was caught! I had been discovered! I was trapped! I was within the toils of a net! I burned with shame, with embarrassment. |
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| 19 | 1118 |
I regarded her short brush of hair, the brief, tattered rag, scarcely more than a ta-teera, which was her only garment, the simple collar, no more than a strap of black iron curved about her throat, its small, right-angled, pierced terminations flush to one another behind the back of her neck, held ... |
10 |
| 19 | 1435 |
"Very much so," he said, "even in her present wretched condition, shorn, roughened and burned". |
10 |
| 20 | 663 |
I touched her lightly about the waist, and she moved almost as though she might have been burned. |
10 |
| 21 | 439 |
"'Do you think we should have our mad, rash boy, Milo, burned alive?' she asked. |
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| 28 | 12 |
Yet for these stones, and on account of these stones, these seemingly inauspicious, simple objects, cities have been built, and burned, armies have clashed, strong men have wept, empires have risen and fallen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 77 |
That blanket, it seemed, would be burned, and the wagon's interior scrubbed clean. |
10 |
| 10 | 547 |
The bottoms of my feet burned from the ascent to the lower level. |
10 |
| 12 | 13 |
I, or things such as I, would not be likely to be burned or cut in it, even if we struggled. |
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| 24 | 252 |
Whereas the buildings, and towers, might be burned out, it would be practical, on the whole, to do it only from the inside. |
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| 29 | 272 |
You are branded, branded, you perfidious, dishonest, corrupt, fraudulent slut—yes, at last, after all this time, branded, at last branded!—superb!—it is now done!—the slave mark is now on you, in you!—it has been burned deeply into your very body with the fiery iro... |
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| 31 | 333 |
He took him, half dead, burned, defaced, into his own house, showered him with gifts, improved his fortunes, treated him as a kinsman. |
10 |
| 37 | 233 |
The side of my neck hurt, where the cord had burned it. |
10 |
| 37 | 446 |
The side of my neck burned. |
10 |
| 42 | 140 |
"You are certain," asked the man, "that you wish these coins to touch your hand?" "Master?" asked Aynur, pulling back her hand suddenly, as though it might have been burned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 151 |
Then she squirmed, and writhed in misery, bound and held, crying out, weeping, begging for mercy, while the first instructrix, again and again, angrily, struck the bare soles of her exposed, fastened feet, stinging them until they burned like fire. |
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| 11 | 184 |
Certainly in her case, it was easy to note, indeed, one had but to look in the mirror, that her master had not seen fit to exempt her from that apparently optional mercantile and social convenience, from bearing, it burned nicely into her thigh, that lovely, small, simple token of her condition. |
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| 11 | 849 |
And then, toward morning, when the fires had burned low, and the room was gray, damp and cold, when those who had won them would be asleep, sated with the repast of pleasures derived from their winnings, their hands tied behind their bodies, their necks roped to the left ankles of their new masters,... |
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| 13 | 273 |
May her women be put in collars! May they, and her other slaves, be herded away! May her towers be burned and salt cast upon their ashes!" The approach of the second tarn, soaring, borne on the wind, its wings still, was silent. |
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| 16 | 108 |
It had been burned into her with a hot iron! She was branded, clearly and unmistakably marked! On her right side there was a bruise. |
10 |
| 16 | 208 |
She hoped that she would not be burned. |
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| 16 | 1343 |
It was later that night, when the market was mostly deserted, and several of the torches had burned out, that Ellen awakened, to a sound of chain. |
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| 16 | 1419 |
She feared that she, and doubtless the others, had burned on the shelf. |
10 |
| 17 | 17 |
The new slave, Jill, who had been a paga slave at the Iron Collar, had not been burned, but she, too, was treated, to protect her during the day. |
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| 17 | 519 |
So then, she wondered, would it be better to grow old, and flat, and withered, and tired, and die on Earth, free in some sense, or was it better to be young and beautiful, and healthy and eager, and richly and vitally alive, even though one might be put in a collar and have a mark burned into one's ... |
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| 17 | 1200 |
With what casual, thoughtless contempt I was used! Does he think I am a slave? But, of course, I am a slave! And how true that is, and how he has shown it to me! If I did not understand my brand before, that lovely, so-meaningful, incisive mark burned into my body, that mark which I cannot remove, w... |
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| 19 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Tarn Loft; One Must Make Haste "The shop of Bonto has been burned! He himself has been seized by Cosians!" cried Fel Doron, he of the employ of Portus Canio, bursting into the loft area, from the interior door. |
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| 19 | 10 |
"The shop of Bonto has been burned," said Portus. |
10 |
| 20 | 158 |
Once again the air burned with a choking, agitated smoke of grit and dust. |
10 |
| 20 | 591 |
"We do not want the village burned," said the younger of the two. |
10 |
| 20 | 958 |
Ellen's body still burned from the lashing, and the two strokes of the slave's switch. |
10 |
| 21 | 187 |
In her belly now, as she knelt in the grass, a rope on her ankle, burned slave fire. |
10 |
| 24 | 310 |
An auction house in Venna was once burned down, she had heard, when it was discovered that it had sold women with dyed hair, especially as the house had not called this to the attention of the buyers. |
10 |
| 24 | 687 |
And then in her belly, undeniably, as many times afore, there burned slave fire. |
10 |
| 26 | 1159 |
On her neck was a collar, and slave fires burned in her belly. |
10 |
| 28 | 229 |
Many Goreans also misunderstand the vaccination marks on many of us, taking them for a discreet slave mark, far inferior of course, in precision and beauty, to the various slave marks of Gor, usually burned into the thigh under the left hip. |
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| 30 | 633 |
Buildings are burned, stores looted. |
10 |
| 30 | 678 |
Remember them, such seekings, such devices, when you are chained naked in a Gorean dungeon, collared, with other slaves, a mark burned into your thigh, waiting to be brought to the auction block. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 122 |
The head of one of the cattle humans was burned away but inches from the chest of Lord Grendel, and another cattle human's chest was burned through, in such a way that a portion of Lord Grendel's harness was blackened, and hair singed from his shoulder. |
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| 2 | 210 |
They must, after sealing themselves to it, or by means of protective gear of some sort, doubtless to be reassumed later, have burned through a lock, or even the shielding of the satellite. |
10 |
| 2 | 323 |
One of them said something to his fellows, and several of them turned toward the burned, torn metal at the end of the hallway. |
10 |
| 19 | 9 |
In the clearing below there were, too, five steaming bodies, the flesh burned away to darkened bones, and three of the hunters had flung down their weapons, in token of surrender. |
10 |
| 19 | 75 |
The larl did not understand of course the menace of the power weapons, and their scope, so unlike single arrows, weapons which might have transformed him in a moment into a little more than a mound of burned meat, like a small mountain, smoking and bubbling, beneath a descending, gentle scattering o... |
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| 19 | 103 |
Then it was shut off and Cabot opened his eyes, and stood up, unsteadily, free, the severed, burned shreds of the net about his feet. |
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| 35 | 124 |
They attack and slaughter Kurii as they can, but are a slight match for them, and hundreds die on the steps of the palace, burned alive by power weapons. |
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| 36 | 89 |
"You would not prefer to run nobly up the palace steps and be burned alive?" asked Cabot. |
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| 43 | 132 |
"Get this terrible bell, and chain, off my neck!" demanded the Lady Bina, sitting on the platform, rubbing her rope-burned ankles. |
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| 43 | 443 |
"To be sure," said Cabot, "it seems a pity to think of that pretty little body disfigured and mangled, burned with irons, torn by hooks, coated with honey, and then put out, alive, staked out naked, helplessly, for the delectation of flocks of tiny, carnivorous song birds. |
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| 50 | 94 |
They were cut down, burned alive, from all sides. |
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| 63 | 155 |
The herd then, many of its members stung and burned, several now no more than smoking meat, confused and tormented, finally alarmed, wildly bleating, piteously squealing, began to hurry away. |
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| 68 | 54 |
"Were we to fire now the smell of the charge would linger, and brush might be blackened and burned". |
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| 69 | 105 |
Guards beside Lord Arcesilaus raised their weapons to slay him, but they were burned alive beside him. |
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| 72 | 15 |
Fire from various quarters burned into the grass. |
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| 79 | 499 |
I would rather I had collared you amongst the collapsing walls of a burning city, that I had bought you off a block in Ar! A thousand times better I had discovered you for myself, in an exposition cage in Venna, or as you were being marched naked down the gangplank of a corsair in Port Kar, having b... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 91 |
In some cases their stock has been confiscated by the city and their establishment burned to the ground. |
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| 5 | 185 |
The fearful destruction of the object not only destroyed it, but was such that it might have blinded one in whose hands it lay, or burned them alive. |
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| 5 | 571 |
More than once the surrender of cities has not been accepted, but they have been leveled and burned, simply because a banner had been unfurled. |
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| 5 | 929 |
"Fields were burned. |
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| 18 | 227 |
It burned lower now. |
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| 18 | 338 |
"They will be burned alive," said Pertinax, with horror. |
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| 18 | 379 |
I think the fellows in the hut were blinded with the smoke, and burned. |
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| 22 | 41 |
It was toward dark, and a fire burned nearby. |
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| 25 | 255 |
A lantern burned here and there. |
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| 36 | 7 |
The flames burned fiercely. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 402 |
"Their snouts were well burned in the south," said another. |
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| 3 | 1173 |
I recalled that when I, in my escape, had been descending the stairs in the cylinder, I had heard her, relieved of her gag, above, seemingly joyfully, gratefully, cry out the word 'Masters!' 'I burned your robes,' she said, 'that they might not give your scent to sleen. |
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| 4 | 43 |
He was a large, broad-shouldered, sinewy man, with a wind-burned complexion. |
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| 5 | 372 |
"I saw him burned," whispered a man. |
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| 10 | 32 |
Some cities have been attacked during the Waiting Hand, sacked, and burned, citizenries refusing to leave their homes, refusing to take up arms, at such a fearful, inauspicious time. |
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| 16 | 114 |
Our galley burned beside our hull, on the starboard side. |
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| 19 | 126 |
Coughing, eyes stinging, burned by cinders, I regained the platform and ring. |
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| 19 | 197 |
Her hair and body had been covered with soot and ash, her skin had been pelted with dust and scalding cinders, her tunic had been partly burned. |
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| 24 | 264 |
Her reddish hair, like a flame, burned to her very calves. |
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| 27 | 93 |
"It is likely to be burned," said Aeacus. |
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| 33 | 1 |
It is Now Morning in Brundisium The tharlarion oil had burned low in the lamps, and, outside, we could hear the sounds of the morning, the roll of carts, men calling to one another. |
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| 36 | 505 |
By the magic of such marks, the sorcery of small signs, we converse with those we have never met, touch dreams we could not otherwise share, at a glance rekindle flames which first burned in distant hearts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1068 |
Interestingly, to me at least, a slaver who misrepresents merchandise, for example, claiming former high caste for a girl who was actually formerly of low caste, or who tries to pass off a dyed blonde for a natural blonde, may be banished and ruined, his goods confiscated, his house burned to the gr... |
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| 8 | 1573 |
And I, too, screamed, but in pain, as the scalding kal-da soaked and burned through my tunic, and drenched my calves and ankles. |
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| 10 | 1172 |
If the Lady Daphne does not find these arrangements acceptable, her house will be burned to the ground". |
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| 18 | 463 |
"The prices here are such that the place should be burned down. |
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| 22 | 68 |
I think he burned for her. |
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| 35 | 224 |
"Until it was burned, and I, and others, were sold in the Tarsk Market". |
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| 48 | 247 |
When we could see again, we could see skulls, and blackened bones, and flesh, like soiled, burned rags strewn about the dais and the adjacent flooring. |
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| 49 | 62 |
I am told that burned, ruined flesh might be restored, that limbs might be regrown, that eyes, from one's own hereditary coils, might be formed anew. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 93 |
He did not know me! I meant nothing to him! Surely he must once have found me of interest, or I would not have been brought here, or the kef would not have been burned into my thigh, but he might have found hundreds of similar interest. |
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| 15 | 166 |
How are men to be paid, and wars waged, if not with gold? In any event, she who had once been "Eighteen" had now changed considerably, and surely was now better aware of the meaning of the mark which had been burned into her left thigh, just under the hip. |
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| 16 | 7 |
The barracks, the sheds and shops, the huts, the storerooms, the workshops, the arsenals, the bath houses, the food halls, the slave houses, the pavilions, large and small, had been burned. |
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| 21 | 228 |
The second beast lifted the limp, hairless, burned body toward us. |
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| 21 | 300 |
"If I do not return, it will be removed from the ship, and burned". |
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| 35 | 21 |
I propped myself up on my left elbow, and twisted about, to where I might see the remains of the fire, now muchly burned down. |
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| 50 | 216 |
Tears streamed from my eyes, and my cheek burned with pain. |
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| 52 | 98 |
Probably the stockade, too, then, would be burned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 225 |
"Fields have been lost, burned, acquired by the enemy," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 2 | 42 |
There would not be much to see now, burned wood, ashes, perhaps rusted weaponry, perhaps bones, scoured by jards and urts. |
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| 2 | 103 |
How many, I wondered, might you, in your indignation, have clasped in your talons and torn with your beak, before burned, and struck, you would have foundered, and screamed, and looked one last time at the sky? And I was not here either, dear fellow. |
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| 13 | 259 |
Buildings were burned. |
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| 13 | 482 |
Perhaps she unrolls a scroll and finds within it a slip of paper, "You are a slave," or perhaps on the very mirror of her vanity, drawn in grease pencil, she discovers an image, the small, lovely, cursive "Kef," much like the one which might be burned into her left thigh, somewhat below the hip. |
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| 18 | 3 |
Tears burned in his eyes. |
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| 23 | 230 |
"It was burned, and the message vulos and their keepers slain. |
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| 30 | 102 |
The ultimate success or failure of this inventive economic adventure was never determined, as the city was attacked by several neighboring municipalities, was burned to the ground, and had salt cast upon its ashes. |
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| 30 | 330 |
I do not want an 'I have been displeasing' brand burned into my forehead, for other girls to see, to greet with laughter and mock". |
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| 30 | 708 |
Occasionally common folk are beaten or killed, houses plundered and burned, women and stock stolen. |
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| 35 | 57 |
There were also three heads, scarcely recognized as human heads, or even as heads, for they were burned beyond practical recognition, mounted on three of the cart's vertical posts, rather as on stakes. |
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| 44 | 36 |
"Why should he not fear the cavalry? It lifted the siege, it ruined camps, it shocked troops into disarray, it disrupted supply lines, it burned storehouses, it spread havoc throughout villages, towns, and fortresses of Lord Yamada, it forced the withdrawal of his army, to protect the core of his ho... |
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| 44 | 52 |
"Our villages could be burned or accept the exactions of Lord Yamada. |
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| 44 | 174 |
His supply train will be burned. |
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| 46 | 462 |
"And then, in the end," said Haruki, who had long been silent, "men die, and villages are burned". |
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| 48 | 46 |
It would be burned from the sky". |
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| 55 | 95 |
There was debris here and there in the halls, unthinkable in a Pani dwelling, even discarded scrolls, some torn, and some blackened with soot, as though partly burned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 27 |
Indeed, a merchant who misrepresents his goods may have his business burned and his stock confiscated, may even be denied bread, fire, and salt, and be driven naked from the city. |
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| 33 | 729 |
"The house would have been burned in any case," said Kurik. |
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| 35 | 192 |
Hot tears burned in my eyes and my body stung, but, as I ran from the street at the side of the market of Cestias, toward Emerald, I was joyful. |
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| 39 | 50 |
"And rush through flames to the points of waiting knives, to the greeting of flighted quarrels?" "Surely we do not want to be burned alive!" I said. |
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| 44 | 201 |
"She burned my tunic," I said. |
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| 46 | 278 |
"It was taken by a she-beast," I said, "and burned. |
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| 59 | 80 |
How could he have given it to some, and not others? And what Kur, unacquainted with the beverage, curious, jubilant, in holiday mood, would refuse to accept a gift made so freely available, by so trustworthy and generous a host and ally? And so, in many cases, the amber swirl of liquid fire, for the... |
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| 63 | 5 |
The masters had been kind and wrapped our feet in wool, the wool of the bounding hurt, that our feet not be burned by the large, heavy, sun-heated stones of the Viktel Aria. |
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| 63 | 285 |
One does not want to bring female slaves to the market exhausted, spent, half-crippled, and burned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 153 |
Within the fire tray there was now a small mound of powder, some of which was gray, like ash, which had apparently burned, and some of which, not yet burned, was blue. |
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| 3 | 14 |
A house can be burned if it misrepresents its merchandise. |
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| 3 | 165 |
Too, my scalp burned, and his hand was still fixed tightly in my hair. |
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| 4 | 86 |
"It looks attractive, burned into the hide of a common girl," she said. |
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| 11 | 34 |
These are usually arched, small, and easily burned. |
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| 11 | 458 |
A slave dealer who falsifies his merchandise can be mobbed, and his emporium burned". |
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| 22 | 90 |
How I wanted to belong to him! My left cheek burned, stung from his slap. |
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| 24 | 188 |
A dealer's house can be burned to the ground for as little as not making clear the natural hair color of a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 61 |
"The village is burned," I said. |
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| 1 | 167 |
"And Nicosia is looted and burned," I said, "with impunity". |
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| 1 | 191 |
Nicosia is wounded, ravaged and burned". |
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| 1 | 224 |
Ships had struck, burned and looted, and then disappeared. |
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| 2 | 42 |
"And the village was sacked and burned, the inhabitants slain or carried off," said Thurnock. |
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| 5 | 14 |
The ax strokes in the gunwales were not fresh; the burned spots were wrong; a ship fire burns in sheets, not splotches; I conjecture a lighted torch had been held to the hull here and there, and briefly, for the resin and tar between the planks had not run. |
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| 7 | 123 |
Sybaris might be burned to the ground". |
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| 14 | 40 |
"Some raiders will construct rafts from the charred timbers of the burned ships, rig sails, and attempt to leave the beach," said Thurnock. |
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| 17 | 296 |
"Yes," she said, "it is one of several villages sacked and burned by Bosk of Port Kar". |
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| 20 | 50 |
The palisade is burned, the pomerium violated". |
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| 20 | 152 |
"Our villages will be burned". |
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| 20 | 153 |
"Without the bow," said Aktis, "it is far more likely your villages will be burned". |
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| 21 | 89 |
What other result is expected when guilty parties investigate themselves? "The Inn of Kahlir," I said, "was attacked, looted, and burned the very night I met you and the governor in Sybaris". |
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| 22 | 75 |
I had no doubt these were replacement vessels for the corsair ships I had burned on Daphna. |
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| 23 | 5 |
Two have been sacked and burned since the closing of the fair at Mytilene". |
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| 23 | 83 |
"It was burned and looted," said Xanthos, "presumably by the minions of Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 24 | 38 |
Farther away were the remains of the blackened, burned palings which had constituted the village's palisade. |
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| 25 | 8 |
I could see beyond the fairgrounds, to the west, the place where the long tent had been pitched, and later burned, the house of a meeting which, we had agreed, had never taken place. |
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| 27 | 54 |
We had burned the corsair fleet and left the corsairs themselves to perish, stranded in what may well be Daphna's most inhospitable region". |
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| 29 | 242 |
Indeed, it seems highly likely, thinking of the matter from a wagering standpoint, that our ships will be boarded or rammed, or burned and sunk, and that we may perish to a man, disappearing without a trace. |
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| 30 | 48 |
"They would not believe even Xanthos, from the village of Seleukos, which was last burned by the corsairs?" asked Clitus. |
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| 32 | 9 |
Perhaps, however, the corsairs, puzzled as they might have been by the lack of contact with the village raiders, now pinned within the palisade of the burned village, did not believe anything might be seriously amiss. |
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| 32 | 24 |
The son of Seleukos, headman of the village of Seleukos, recently pillaged and burned, with two of his village cohorts, crouching down in the grass, were within whispering range. |
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| 40 | 9 |
"If the town is abandoned it may not be burned. |
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| 41 | 72 |
On the second day, the ships in the harbor, large and small round ships, fishing boats, coasters, and sundry small vessels, were attacked, looted, and burned. |
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| 44 | 94 |
"Only the remains of the ships, scuttled and burned, when the corsairs first attacked". |
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| 47 | 3 |
Initially, in alarm and consternation, surprised by the swarming of peasants, their far camp burned, they had fled to the ground within the inner and outer ditch, taking what refuge they could within a circular shield wall. |
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| 48 | 2 |
One could still smell smoke from the burned tents of the enemy. |
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| 48 | 4 |
In this way, they need not be burned in gigantic pyres, costly of valuable timber, or, with a sorry expenditure of time and effort, buried in nearby, perhaps revered, land, certainly not within the pomerium of Mytilene. |
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| 48 | 123 |
I shall wrap it in soft folds of scented silk and have it burned in honor". |
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| 53 | 294 |
"It was wounded, torn, and burned. |
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| 59 | 32 |
"Due to the valor and skill of the noble Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, all hail to the sublime Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar, predator to shipping, burner of villages, ravager of towns and cities, has but recently been surp... |
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| 59 | 327 |
"The map was useless, and was burned, in fury and chagrin," he said. |
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| 63 | 197 |
"She may be dead already," said Thurnock, "seared and torn by tortures, impaled with exquisite slowness, her body burned and her ashes cast amongst the dung of tharlarion". |
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