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| 11 | 107 |
Some of the other basins are large enough to float galleys; these large basins connect with the arsenal's canal system, by means of which heavy materials may be conveyed about the arsenal; the arsenal's canal system also gives access, at two points, to the canal system of the city and, at two other ... |
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| 12 | 8 |
At the base of the wall, extending for some twenty yards, there was a tiled expanse, which suddenly dropped off, sheer, into a canal, itself some ninety feet wide; we had closed off the canal, where it might give access to the city or sea, by sea gates. |
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| 9 | 26 |
We had seen that the canal was guarded by heavy metal gates, of strong bars, half submerged in the water. |
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| 9 | 31 |
Our girls, our slaves, wept at the poles, guiding the raft into the canal. |
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| 9 | 273 |
I threw a silver tarsk, taken from what we had obtained from the slavers in the marsh, to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort put in the pouring sling, and reeled out of the tavern, making my way along the narrow walkway lining the canal... |
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| 9 | 499 |
I trod the narrow walkway lining the canal. |
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| 9 | 501 |
I heard one of the giant canal urts twist in the water somewhere beneath me. |
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| 12 | 1 |
I Fish in the Canal It was late at night, two nights after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius. |
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| 12 | 11 |
Slowly they made their way toward the edge of the canal. |
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| 12 | 19 |
I, followed by Clitus and Thurnock, and others, leaped over the wall and ran toward the edge of the canal. |
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| 12 | 23 |
The others, now at the edge of the canal, with a heave, flung the sack far out into the water. |
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| 12 | 36 |
I heard an arrow flash into the water near me and heard a high-pitched pain squeal from one of the web-footed canal urts. |
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| 12 | 39 |
It was gagged as well as bound, and I saw its eyes wild, inches over the murky waters of the canal. |
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| 12 | 41 |
I brought it to the edge of the canal and one of my men, lying on his stomach, extending his hand downward, caught him under the arm. |
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| 12 | 68 |
"Where is our fish from the canal?" I asked. |
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| 12 | 101 |
"Since we brought you from the canal," I said, "we will call you Fish". |
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| 13 | 173 |
It had occurred the night following my rescue of the boy from the canal. |
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| 15 | 15 |
The ships, in a splendid, long line, filing behind me, the Dorna first, then the tarn ships, then the round ships, under oars, moved slowly through the city, following the triumphal circuit of the great canal, passing even before the chamber of the Council of Captains. |
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| 15 | 16 |
Flowers had been scattered in the canal, and others were thrown on our ships as we passed. |
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| 15 | 40 |
The wild crowds screamed and shouted, and threw flowers, and the flagship, oars dipping in stately fashion, took her regal path, ram's crest dividing flowers in the water, between the buildings lining the great canal. |
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| 15 | 123 |
For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal. |
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| 15 | 134 |
It had been on one side, a land side, of that last remaining fortress of Henrius Sevarius, that Lysias, Henrak, and others had emerged from a postern, carrying the heavy sack which they had hurled into the canal, that sack from which I had saved the boy. |
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| 16 | 286 |
Outside the holding, on the broad promenade before the holding, bordering on the lakelike courtyard, with the canal gate beyond, I ordered a swift, tharlarion-prowed longboat made ready. |
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| 16 | 298 |
The tharlarion head of the craft turned toward the canal gate. |
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| 16 | 315 |
He looked at me, wonderingly, and then the tharlarion-prowed longboat glided past him in the canal, leaving him behind. |
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| 18 | 634 |
From the height of the keep, we could see over my holding, even to the canal and sea gate beyond the lakelike courtyard. |
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| 18 | 635 |
Men were fleeing from my holding but, even more important, approaching down the canal, oars flashing, mast down, came a tarn ship, and then another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 406 |
"The heads were mounted on stakes beside the canal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 277 |
If it pleases you, wait upon me there, near the great canal gate". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 349 |
It loomed high and awesome, mighty with its strakes, proud with its uprearing prow, facing the sea canal. |
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| 2 | 351 |
Tersites had chosen to build the ship in such a way that its prow faced west; it pointed thus not only to the sea canal; it pointed also between Cos and Tyros; it pointed toward the world's end. |
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| 2 | 731 |
I saw the silken head of an urt in the canal, a few feet from the boat. |
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| 2 | 743 |
The canal turned then and I guided the craft about the corner. |
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| 2 | 745 |
It loomed high and formidable, over the canal, a slaver's house, a high, dark, frightening fortress. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 29 |
The official name of the canal is the Tangawizi canal, or Ginger canal, but it is generally called, because of the market, the Fish canal. |
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| 4 | 339 |
I did not think she would be likely to flee east along the canal walkways, for these were relatively narrow and, on them, between the buildings and the canal, she might be easily trapped. |
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| 7 | 25 |
It was on a canal, called the Fish canal, leading back from the harbor. |
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| 16 | 65 |
One of the most amazing evidences of its scope and ambition was the very project in which I was now unwillingly engaged, the visionary attempt to join Lakes Ushindi and Ngao, separated by more than four hundred pasangs, by a great canal, a canal that would, via Lake Ushindi and the Nyoka and Kamba r... |
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| 1 | 724 |
"Is he not intending to join the Ushindi and Ngao with a canal, cut through the marshes, which, then, might be drained?" "Work on such a project is already proceeding," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 727 |
"Such a canal would be an inestimable commercial and military achievement. |
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| 1 | 728 |
The Ua, holding the secret of the interior, flows into the Ngao, which, by a canal, would be joined with Ushindi. |
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| 3 | 4 |
I trod a walkway beside a canal, my sea bag over my shoulder. |
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| 3 | 58 |
Ahead, some yards, was a girl dark-haired, lying on her belly on the walkway, reaching with her hand down to the canal, to fish out edible garbage. |
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| 3 | 118 |
I tied her hands behind her back, and then took her by the ankles and held her upside down, thrusting her head and shoulders, and upper body, under the cold waters of the canal. |
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| 3 | 127 |
It was still rather dark in the canal streets with the buildings on each side. |
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| 4 | 51 |
"I saw two individuals, who may be your friends," I said, "on the north walkway of the Rim canal, leading to the vicinity of this very pier". |
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| 4 | 56 |
The praetor dispatched a pair of guardsmen, who moved swiftly toward the Rim canal. |
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| 4 | 140 |
"How did you come to be helpless and tied beside the canal?" inquired the praetor. |
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| 4 | 272 |
I saw one of the black seamen, the one who had passed me on the north walkway of the Rim canal, when I had been descending toward the pier, looking at me, curiously. |
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| 4 | 376 |
A narrower canal, somewhat south of it, is called the Ribbon's alley. |
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| 4 | 377 |
It was a bit past dawn and the paga taverns backing on the smaller canal would be throwing out their garbage from the preceding night. |
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| 4 | 384 |
The larger canals in Port Kar, incidentally, have few bridges, and those they have are commonly swing bridges, which may be floated back against the canal's side. |
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| 4 | 435 |
"Get out," said the girl in the white rag, "or we will tie you and throw you into the canal". |
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| 4 | 441 |
The buildings were on one side, the canal on the other. |
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| 4 | 461 |
They were on their bellies beside the canal, fishing for garbage. |
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| 4 | 483 |
I had wanted her to eat garbage out of the canal. |
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| 4 | 501 |
The four girls who had been fishing for garbage in the canal leaped upon me. |
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| 4 | 598 |
The four she-urts, with which the blond-haired barbarian had fished for garbage in the canal, stood about. |
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| 4 | 707 |
"Tie her hands and fasten her at a dock ring," said Ulafi, to his second officer, and two seamen, one of whom was the fellow who had passed me on the walkway of the Rim canal, on the way to the pier of the Red Urt. |
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| 4 | 717 |
If she was not soon sold for the cost of her branding she would be taken and put on the public shelves, large, flat steps, leading down to the water, near where the Central canal meets Thassa, the sea. |
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| 5 | 160 |
"A girl pushed me in the South canal a year ago," she said. |
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| 5 | 265 |
He was the fellow who had passed me on the northern walkway of the Rim canal, when I had been on my way to the pier of the Red Urt. |
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| 5 | 285 |
One of my men, Chungu, was hunting for the girl in the vicinity of the Rim canal. |
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| 5 | 548 |
"The very nearest thing to what I recently felt occurred on the northern walkway of the Rim canal, when you, not a vagabond, but a strong, free man, who had subdued both Turgus and myself, simply took me and used me for your pleasure". |
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| 7 | 27 |
These are brought literally through the harbor by canoes, moving among the larger ships, from the fishing villages of the Nyoka and then delivered via the canal to the market. |
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| 7 | 88 |
"Bila Huruma, Ubar of Lake Ushindi, uses them for work on his great canal". |
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| 7 | 97 |
"Most who work on the canal are not slaves," said Uchafu. |
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| 16 | 42 |
He had been put on the work levy for the canal of Bila Huruma. |
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| 16 | 81 |
Most of the workers on the canal were not chained. |
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| 16 | 105 |
"Surely there is resistance to the canal," I said. |
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| 16 | 109 |
"The canal is expensive," I said. |
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| 16 | 117 |
"She would stand to profit if the canal were completed". |
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| 16 | 137 |
"It is unlikely that such, however," I said, "could truly do more than delay the progress of the canal". |
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| 17 | 63 |
"You have had a taste of the canal," he said. |
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| 18 | 106 |
He was sentenced to the canal, to be put upon the rogues' chain, that he might now, at last, well serve his sovereign, Bila Huruma. |
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| 18 | 155 |
Should the great canal be completed we are well aware that this ubarate will become a crucial link between the equatorial east and west. |
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| 18 | 188 |
"I will have you immediately returned to the canal," he said, in rage. |
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| 19 | 120 |
Ayari, with whom I had shared the rogues' chain in the canal, had been generous in his help. |
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| 19 | 177 |
"Wear it in the canal," he said. |
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| 22 | 1 |
I Continue to Dig in the Canal I hurled mud from my shovel to the mud raft. |
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| 24 | 104 |
"Perhaps they will come again in a few days, to again attack the workers at the canal. |
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| 48 | 20 |
It had been he, with his confederate, Sasi, who had attempted to attack me in Port Kar, along the side of the canal leading to the pier of the Red Urt. |
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| 57 | 41 |
The moneys which I had lost when apprehended in Schendi, for seizure and transportation to the canal, had been returned to me. |
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| 57 | 61 |
"Will you continue work on the canal?" I had asked Bila Huruma. |
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| 57 | 63 |
When Lakes Ushindi and Ngao had been joined by the canal a continuous waterway would be opened between Thassa and the Ua. |
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| 57 | 65 |
One might then follow the canal from Ushindi to Ngao. |
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| 57 | 317 |
No longer now did Bila Huruma demand men from Schendi for the canal. |
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| 6 | 60 |
I had gone from Lara to White Water, using the barge canal, to circumvent the rapids, and from thence to Tancred's Landing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 5 |
Here and there, on the walks at the edges of the canal, men were moving about. |
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| 2 | 7 |
I saw, through the small, slatted window near me, a slave girl drawing water from the canal, with a rope and bucket. |
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| 2 | 66 |
On a gently inclined slope of cement leading down to the canal, the water lapping at her knees, there knelt a slave girl doing laundry. |
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| 2 | 128 |
Also, of course, sometimes the vendors, too, will merely tie up their boats near the side of the canal, particularly when the space on the cement is crowded. |
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| 2 | 129 |
The markets, thus, tend to extend into the canal itself. |
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| 2 | 187 |
Small boats now moved about on the canal. |
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| 2 | 200 |
One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no... |
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| 2 | 254 |
We felt the barge turn slowly in the canal. |
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| 2 | 288 |
I looked over the low roof of the barge's cabin to the canal beyond. |
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| 2 | 295 |
At a word from the man the girl, the rope trailing behind her, dove into the canal. |
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| 2 | 296 |
Behind the man, in the stern, lay the bloody, white-furred bodies of two canal urts. |
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| 2 | 298 |
I saw the girl swimming in the canal, the rope on her neck, amidst the garbage. |
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| 2 | 338 |
I looked beyond Samos to the boat and urt hunter in the canal. |
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| 2 | 400 |
I looked beyond Samos, to the canal beyond. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 59 |
Outside, in the canal traffic, I heard a drum, cymbals and trumpets, and a man shouting. |
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| 1 | 878 |
The last time I saw her Hassan had put her in the bottom of a longboat at Samos' steps, descending to the canal. |
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| 1 | 889 |
Outside I could hear the sounds of yet another troupe traversing the canal, with its raucous cries, its drums and trumpets. |
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| 1 | 1160 |
In a moment, with unhurried strokes, we were making our way down the canal, back toward my holding. |
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| 1 | 1161 |
The canal was dark now. |
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| 2 | 1068 |
"Perhaps he slew the individual from whom he stole the coins and then thrust the body into a canal," I suggested. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 107 |
Certainly it belonged not in the delta but in some canal or placid waterway. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 46 |
The Pani, I was sure, would be loyal to their lord, their daimyo, Lord Nishida, for that seemed to be their way, and a cornered mercenary, one with no hope of a higher fee or escape, much like the cornered seventy-pound canal urt of Port Kar, is a most desperate and dangerous foe. |
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| 13 | 39 |
The obstinacy of Tersites, a fair wind, and a fortuitous canal opening in the vines had allowed the ship to proceed too far, in the darkness, and then, the wind failing, the Vine Sea had closed about her, tendrils reaching to her timbers. |
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| 15 | 205 |
"Are you mad? Come about! Onto the ferry!" I knew that a waterway, a barge canal, separated east Market of Semris from west Market of Semris, and gathered we had reached that point. |
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| 17 | 21 |
One claimed to have seen canal urts swimming in the vicinity of some shadowy, muchly submerged visitant to the Canal of Veminiums, presumably a shark or long tharlarion. |
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| 27 | 9 |
In the canal a canal boat passed. |
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| 27 | 200 |
Bruno of Torcadino then, with foot and crutch, rolled the three bodies to the edge of the canal, and then, one by one, thrust them into the canal. |
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| 33 | 649 |
I suspected it had come from the side of the canal boat, from the right side of the canal boat, in the darkness, and somehow, in the mix of waters, that of the exiting freshwater flow of the Vosk, draining through the marsh, and the incoming, rising tide of the Tamber, had turned and moved behind me... |
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| 42 | 204 |
The holding's harbor itself, and the canal beyond the harbor, was bristling with canal boats. |
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| 42 | 228 |
Tethered at the side of the canal, near them, was an oared, half-covered, half-canopied, canal boat containing some nine or ten men. |
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| 11 | 3 |
The sides of buildings often seem to rise from the very waters of the canal itself. |
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| 11 | 5 |
In many places, windows, several feet above the level of the canal, may serve as coigns of vantage, and ports for the discharge of missiles. |
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| 11 | 38 |
The walkway on the Thieves' Way was some ten feet in width, on both sides of the canal. |
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| 11 | 39 |
To my left was the canal; to my right were buildings, some portaled with stout, carved doorways, their associated barred gates now open, to be closed at dark, and several housing open-sided stores and shops, furnished with folding, wooden screens, to be shut after the time of business, which, as wit... |
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| 11 | 81 |
The canal urts, some of which are quite large, are scavengers, and live, for the most part, off garbage in the canals. |
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| 11 | 117 |
Surely one would not wish to trip or stumble, or be jostled, into the canal. |
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| 11 | 119 |
So I kept a yard or so of the walkway between me and the edge of the canal. |
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| 11 | 129 |
My favorite was the "Thieves' Way," whose walkways bordered the "Thieves' Canal". |
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| 11 | 181 |
I glanced to the side, to my left, to the canal, and stopped, frightened. |
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| 11 | 196 |
I looked down, to my left, into the canal. |
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| 11 | 345 |
I backed against the wall to my right, away from the canal, that I might not fall. |
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| 11 | 375 |
How different he seemed here, easy, in a street robe, and sandals, on the walkway, against the so-different background, the walls, the canal, the sky. |
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| 14 | 214 |
I would, however, if only to avoid being thrown to the urts in one canal or another, try to remain alert to any plots or potential plots, suspicious allusions, or such, which might involve Adraste. |
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| 17 | 7 |
A week ago, Aglaia and I, on our way to fetch posters, had been abroad, beside the Yellow Canal, when she had cried out, pointing to her left at the water. |
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| 17 | 9 |
"Look!" "What?" I cried, hurrying to the side of the canal. |
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| 17 | 114 |
On the sloping canal landing, bordering the market, I saw several of the small rence craft tied to rings fixed in the landing, sometimes more than one craft to a single ring. |
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| 21 | 46 |
Then, looking away, toward the canal, I hurried past. |
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| 21 | 58 |
Two small boats moved past in the canal. |
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| 21 | 68 |
Another small boat slipped by, this one moving west on the canal. |
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| 21 | 69 |
Far off, ahead, I could see one of the small, narrow, colorful, wooden bridges spanning the canal. |
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| 21 | 83 |
I lay there in shock for a moment, and then, when I saw it, yards away, almost at the edge of the walkway, by the canal, I realized what had happened. |
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| 21 | 84 |
At the edge of the walkway, by the canal, I saw a short, narrow, pointed, metal-finned, metal, cylindrical object, an arrow or missile of some sort. |
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| 21 | 122 |
"Wait! Do not enter the water! Do not enter the water!" A small canal boat was close. |
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| 23 | 3 |
In the light of a small lamp, hanging over a nearby portal, I could make out the edge of a nearby canal, to my right. |
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| 24 | 60 |
I feared I might be bound and thrown alive to the urts in the canal. |
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| 24 | 90 |
"She was picked up, collarless, by guardsmen this morning, on the edge of the Canal of the Sea Sleen," said the fellow to my right. |
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| 25 | 112 |
I saw him on the bridge over the canal of the Thieves' Way. |
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| 26 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Marshes I now knelt, bound, in the bow of the small canal boat, and Bruno of Torcadino, in the stern, quietly, slowly, manipulated the single oar. |
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| 26 | 23 |
Would one explain one's intentions to a verr, a tarsk, a slave girl? He had rented a small canal boat. |
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| 26 | 55 |
We had not, as I previously noted, lit the small lantern on the prow of our canal boat. |
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| 26 | 59 |
Could I have done so I would have cried out, for something rose up under the canal boat, lifting it a foot from the water, and tipping it to the side, and then, scraping the bottom of the boat, it slithered away, to the right. |
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| 26 | 81 |
Perhaps, I thought, it is just as well that Bruno of Torcadino had refrained from lighting the small lantern on the prow of the canal boat. |
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| 26 | 109 |
I wondered if it might not have been something else, another canal boat, or, say, one of the small Rencer ships, made of woven rence. |
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| 26 | 120 |
I could not cry out, for what had been done to me days ago, before I had awakened near the Canal of the Sea Sleen. |
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| 27 | 1 |
What Occurred by the Canal of the Sea Sleen "Palace Street is too open for what I have in mind," said Bruno of Torcadino. |
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| 27 | 2 |
"Here, this should serve nicely, here by the Canal of the Sea Sleen". |
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| 27 | 3 |
Several days ago, after my miseries in an apartment, at the mercy of Dorna of Tharna, Addison Steele, and, I thought, a mysterious third party, which had remained generally concealed behind an ornate screen, I had awakened somewhere along the Canal of the Sea Sleen. |
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| 27 | 103 |
"When we are done with her, cast her into the canal," said the third man. |
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| 27 | 208 |
I looked toward the canal and saw a roiling of water, some thirty or forty paces from where we stood. |
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| 28 | 1 |
What Occurred After the Business by the Canal I was in the apartment, the domicile, of Bruno of Torcadino. |
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| 28 | 8 |
It was the evening of the day in which Bruno of Torcadino, at the edge of the Canal of the Sea Sleen, had recouped his finances. |
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| 31 | 19 |
I had also seen the movement of his sword at the edge of the Canal of the Sea Sleen. |
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| 33 | 2 |
We were no longer in one of the single-oared canal boats. |
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| 33 | 18 |
The previous few nights Bruno of Torcadino had essayed this journey, as previously, in a canal boat. |
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| 33 | 23 |
The canal boat is too large. |
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| 33 | 26 |
Why can we not do so, as well? A canal boat is easily seen and avoided, a rence craft not so. |
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| 33 | 68 |
The difference, I suspect, was in our vessel, the rence craft as opposed to a canal boat. |
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| 33 | 69 |
When we had availed ourselves of a canal boat, we were far more aware of tharlarion in the vicinity, turning in the water, emerging and submerging, sometimes circling the boat. |
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| 33 | 93 |
Then I could see, in its own lights, one at the stern, one at the bow, a large canal boat. |
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| 33 | 94 |
In the canal boat were some seven or eight men, mostly sitting. |
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| 33 | 124 |
Some yards before the canal boat the waters stirred, swelling up, and then parted, revealing, shedding water, a rising, monstrous head. |
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| 33 | 129 |
The grip of such jaws could tear loose the side from a canal boat, or bite a rence craft in two. |
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| 33 | 130 |
In the light of the forward lantern on the canal boat I saw the reflection of light on metal teeth and fangs. |
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| 33 | 136 |
It could easily evade and outdistance the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 141 |
It had responded to the signal of the man in the bow of the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 146 |
Very gently, I remaining still, Bruno of Torcadino moved our rence craft closer to, but to the right side and behind, the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 147 |
None in the canal boat, as far as I could discern, were aware of our presence. |
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| 33 | 154 |
Occasionally canal boats are stranded on a bar and one must disembark and thrust the craft free. |
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| 33 | 167 |
"Much cannot be helped, great lord," said the fellow in the bow of the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 172 |
Despite the might and horror of the object to which he addressed himself, there was neither reluctance nor apology, nor cringing, nor fear, in the tone of the man in the bow of the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 182 |
"I make no excuses," said the man in the bow of the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 186 |
The two lights on the canal boat, one at the stern, one at the prow, were reflected in the water, shimmering there, and were reflected, as well, from the metal plates or scales, of the hideous monstrosity but yards away. |
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| 33 | 189 |
Perhaps the difference was the size of the canal boat, the number of men aboard, or even the complacency, or confidence, of those aboard. |
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| 33 | 261 |
I was terrified in the bow of the tiny rence craft, so near now to the canal boat, and the dread thing of such terrible mien, illuminated in the light of the two lanterns. |
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| 33 | 306 |
"Do not fire," said Addison Steele, clutching the rail of the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 367 |
Some men, with torches and drawn swords clambered over the side of the canal boat and were wading about. |
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| 33 | 368 |
Two others, with armed crossbows, surveyed the water from the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 384 |
I realized I was being forced back toward the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 427 |
I was half carried, half dragged, to the side of the canal boat, and men reached down and hauled me aboard. |
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| 33 | 428 |
I knelt amongst the feet of the men, my head down to the deck of the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 430 |
"What of he who named himself Bruno of Torcadino?" demanded Pa-Kur of his men, who were now muchly returned to the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 516 |
One light was at the stern of the canal boat, the other at its bow. |
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| 33 | 537 |
"There was a room by a canal," he said. |
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| 33 | 551 |
At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q... |
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| 33 | 555 |
The canal boat was then behind me, listing. |
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| 33 | 662 |
In the attack of the Ul, the night before, the canal boat of the Assassin, Pa-Kur, had been muchly damaged. |
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| 33 | 668 |
Some of the canal boat's debris, given currents and such, had apparently taken much the same course that I had followed in my flight. |
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| 35 | 16 |
A moment later the propelling oar moved, and the canal boat was underway. |
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| 35 | 17 |
Given the noises of various males, presumably on occasional walkways, or possibly even in other canal boats, passing, I soon realized why I had been permitted to stand. |
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| 35 | 42 |
I was lifted from the canal boat and felt stone tiles beneath my feet. |
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| 37 | 33 |
How should I know where I was? I had been brought here, hooded, in a canal boat and only relieved of the hood on the walkway. |
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| 37 | 62 |
There was not much traffic here, even in the bordering canal. |
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| 37 | 68 |
They usually have a narrow landing with mooring cleats, but often they will have one or two vertical, colorful, thick, capped, metal poles, rising from the canal itself, to which boats may be tethered. |
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| 37 | 170 |
Miles raised his hand, waving, summoning the guard boat to the edge of the canal. |
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| 37 | 176 |
The boat came gently to the side of the canal. |
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| 37 | 199 |
I, bent over, my hands on Florian's wrist, was conducted to the edge of the canal. |
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| 37 | 245 |
He raised his hands from the canal boat, toward her, and she bent down, extending her hands, parallel, to hand him the coins. |
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| 37 | 261 |
The subordinate meanwhile slapped slave bracelets on her held wrists, and the officer pulled her down, into the canal boat, and put her to her stomach. |
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| 37 | 268 |
I felt Florian's sandaled foot against my fundament, pressing, and he gave me a vigorous push, and I, so impelled, half stumbled, half fell, into the canal boat which, even then, as Florian boarded, was drawing away from the walkway. |
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| 39 | 93 |
"What is the meaning of this? Let me go! Free me! What are you going to do? Stop! Stop!" One of the guards entered, one I recognized from the canal boat, carrying Dorna in his arms. |
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| 39 | 109 |
Two more men entered the room below, Miles, whom I knew from the holding, and he who had been the seeming officer on the canal boat, whom I shall refer to as "the officer". |
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| 41 | 91 |
"It seems the intruders hold the parapet and the top three levels of the holding, and are at the canal gate below," said Cella. |
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| 41 | 98 |
It made sense to me that the intruders were also at the holding's canal gate. |
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| 41 | 100 |
The intruders would presumably have reached the vicinity of the canal gate from the roof, by descending rope ladders similar to those used to reach the parapet. |
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| 41 | 111 |
The defenders then would be trapped between the intruders within the holding and those outside, at the canal gate. |
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| 41 | 222 |
"Slaves," said he, "utilize the back stairways, and make your way to the first level, to the inner vestibule of the canal gate". |
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| 41 | 223 |
I recalled hearing that intruders were in the vicinity of the canal gate, presumably to guard against Adraste's being slipped from the holding to safety. |
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| 42 | 1 |
An Alarm is Given; A Ruse is Enacted; The Bridge of Boats; A Large Canal Boat Casts Off "I hear it!" said Cella. |
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| 42 | 12 |
Then, would there not be time to reach the parapet, crush resistance, and reach the safety of the waiting barges? I and the other slaves, by means of a narrow, obscure stairway, one of those different from the open, broader stairwells which a column of men might ascend abreast, had now reached the i... |
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| 42 | 27 |
"So," I thought to myself, "the intruders within the canal gate are no longer content to wait, watching the portal, lest Adraste be ushered through to safety in the city. |
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| 42 | 35 |
I estimated that there had been some twenty men in the inner vestibule, to guard the barricade, and presumably some others, doubtless fewer, in the outer vestibule, to monitor the portal within the canal gate which, until moments ago, had not been approached. |
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| 42 | 127 |
Through the ruptured paneling we could see men turned about to face others, streaming in from the broken canal gate at the outer vestibule. |
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| 42 | 203 |
The canal gate, which had been forced inward by the rescuing men of Port Kar, hung awry on its hinges. |
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| 42 | 206 |
"That slave is naked," said a man, interposing himself between a canal boat and Vas of Anango. |
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| 42 | 223 |
Vas of Anango, then, I in his arms, stepped on the planking lying athwart the bridge of boats, that linking the aligned canal boats, that wooden paving which might be trodden by two men abreast. |
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| 42 | 224 |
By such a route, a relieving force, the lifters of a siege, men not crowded in hurrying canal boats, might approach, almost at a run, the landing of the holding of Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 42 | 269 |
At a gesture from Seremides, Vas of Anango lifted me up, and, with a jangle of bells, cast me into the arms of a fellow on the canal boat. |
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| 43 | 10 |
A small, single-oared canal boat, of the sort typical of Port Kar, was passing us. |
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| 43 | 38 |
Occasionally we saw a woman in a window of one of the buildings lining the canal. |
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| 43 | 45 |
Another canal boat slipped past us, presumably on its way toward the delta wall, perhaps even to the delta-gate market. |
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| 43 | 55 |
"There," said the man whom I took to be the leader of our crew, pointing forward, "the Southern Gate!" A long canal boat, much like ours, was near the Southern Gate, at a pier to its right. |
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| 43 | 99 |
It was true, another large canal boat, which had apparently been lurking outside the Southern Gate, now made its appearance, to the left. |
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| 43 | 115 |
The body, a moment later, toppled into the canal. |
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| 43 | 122 |
The others might go overboard, and trust that the canal sleen and the Tamber sharks have not yet scented the blood in the water. |
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| 43 | 158 |
There was a sudden rending of wood and the iron-reinforced prow of our canal boat rose out of the water, climbing the gunwales of the other boat, and then, after a terrible moment, plunged back into the water, scattered planking and timbers on each side. |
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| 43 | 175 |
The canal boat was buffeted to one side, and was washed back, and then, again and again, it was lifted, and then fell back, dropping between waves. |
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| 43 | 215 |
Somewhere behind, I supposed, the handicapped canal boat of Decius of Venna struggled in our wake. |
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| 43 | 225 |
The canal boat was not only tormented by the rain and spray, but, from the splash of the waves, had shipped water. |
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| 43 | 264 |
I awakened to a cheer, and, half an Ahn later, our canal boat scraped against wood. |
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| 43 | 310 |
Almost at the same time, Vas of Anango called out, "Boats! Canal boats! Six! Others, I think, behind them. |
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| 45 | 99 |
The note of a guardsman's canal trumpet carried across the water to the pier. |
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| 46 | 406 |
"Then strip her, and bind her, hand and foot and put her on the floor of the waiting canal boat, that bearing the design of the holding of Bosk. |
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| 46 | 513 |
Euphrosyne was doubtless on the floor of a canal boat, moored nearby, supine or prone, stripped, and bound hand and foot. |
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| 46 | 667 |
Then we stopped beside a canal. |
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| 46 | 682 |
A bit later, Addison Steele hailed a passing canal boat with its pilot. |
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| 47 | 223 |
"I managed to seize a piece of drifting wreckage, from Pa-Kur's canal boat," I said, "and utilized it to free myself". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | 24 |
Something very much like that was done in Port Kar, as well, only a tethered, swimming slave is used to attract the canal urts. |
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