| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 3 | 170 |
I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards. |
10 |
| 3 | 197 |
On Gor it was not the case that a cavern-chested toothpick could close a switch and devastate an army. |
10 |
| 5 | 170 |
They swept toward me, about five yards apart, to close on either side of me, to force the wings of my tarn up and hold it for the moment they would need, trapped motionless between their own mounts. |
10 |
| 6 | 204 |
The mandibles began to close on her throat like the blades of giant scissors. |
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| 10 | 84 |
Mintar eased his great frame deeper into the silken pillows and motioned the strap-master of his tharlarions to close the curtains. |
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| 13 | 32 |
It crouched, holding its long, terrible body close to the ground. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 28 |
It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood. |
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| 3 | 10 |
Surprisingly, though the pasang stones told me I was close to Ko-ro-ba, stubborn tufts of grass were growing between the stones, and occasional vines were inching out, tendril by tendril, across the great stone blocks. |
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| 6 | 131 |
The girl was now quite close to me, and yet had not seen me. |
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| 19 | 104 |
I saw that the once close-cropped hair was now a shaggy yellow. |
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| 23 | 187 |
Once we reached the bottom of the wall we kept close to its base so as not to afford a target for further spear play. |
10 |
| 23 | 227 |
Lara, as mystified as I, ran along with the men, staying as close to me as the jostling crowds permitted. |
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| 24 | 145 |
It would be risky business coming close enough to bring talons into play. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 102 |
He turned and twisted but I kept with him, close, too close for him to use his disrupter cone. |
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| 2 | 40 |
I looked behind myself in time to see the great gate close. |
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| 5 | 59 |
As I had expected about her white throat there was fastened, graceful and gleaming, the slender, close-fitting collar of a Gorean slave girl. |
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| 8 | 207 |
She rose gracefully and put her arms about my neck and moved her lips close to mine. |
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| 11 | 92 |
Usually the breathing cycle, unless one is quite close and listens carefully, cannot be heard, but in the present case I could hear quite clearly from a distance of several feet the quick intake of air through the eight tiny, tubular mouths in Sarm's abdomen, and its almost immediate expellation thr... |
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| 22 | 165 |
The primary advantage I supposed was that it allowed the Gorean warrior to work close to his man. |
10 |
| 24 | 61 |
How was it then, I asked myself, that such a slow, awkward, clumsy creature, no matter how formidable at close range, could capture and slay an organism as alert and swift as a Priest-King? I moved Vika's limbs and rubbed her hands to see if I could restore her circulation to a more normal level. |
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| 24 | 72 |
Surely there would be time, if not to sleep, to close my eyes for a moment. |
10 |
| 24 | 74 |
The odor was now insufferable and close. |
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| 24 | 78 |
I cried out as I felt two long, hard, curved objects close on my body. |
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| 27 | 168 |
Sarm seemed to tremble and he struck with his other foreleg but this one too Misk seized with his other foreleg and once again they stood rocking on their posterior appendages, for Misk, having learned their strengths in the first grappling, and lacking the swiftness of Sarm, had decided to close wi... |
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| 27 | 170 |
Then, with a force that might have been that of clashing, golden glaciers, Misk's jaws tightened and turned and suddenly Sarm was thrown to his back beneath him and in the instant Sarm struck the floor Misk's jaws had slipped their grip to the thick tube about which hung the string of Tola's silveri... |
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| 27 | 326 |
She seemed not to understand my question and I was afraid for her as I saw her ancient brown carcass begin to shake with spasmodic tremors which I feared might herald the close of that vast life. |
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| 30 | 72 |
The exudate which forms on the mane hairs of the Golden Beetle, which had overcome me in the close confines of the tunnel, apparently has a most intense and, to a human mind, almost incomprehensibly compelling effect on the unusually sensitive antennae of Priest-Kings, luring them helplessly, almost... |
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| 30 | 129 |
"Close your eyes," whispered Parp. |
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| 30 | 135 |
"Close your eyes," whispered Parp, more intensely. |
10 |
| 31 | 21 |
When he was still out of range of the silver tube of Sarm but close enough, I hoped, to be able to hear me, I ran forward, throwing my hands high. |
10 |
| 31 | 178 |
If his first blow missed perhaps I could get close enough to strike but it did not seem probable his blow would miss. |
10 |
| 32 | 304 |
The larl backed away but the portal, in spite of Parp's efforts, now refused to close. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 26 |
Yet, at a close range, I had no doubt that I could slay the beast. |
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| 7 | 129 |
She remembered then only turning and starting for the door, and a sudden, peculiar odor, penetrating, that seemed to close about her face and head. |
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| 8 | 86 |
As I had followed him from the dais I had seen Kutaituchik, the interview ended, absently reaching into the small golden box of kanda strings, his eyes slowly beginning to close. |
10 |
| 8 | 215 |
The bow, of course, small, for use from the saddle, lacks the range and power of the Gorean longbow or crossbow; still, at close range, with considerable force, firing rapidly, arrow after arrow, it is a fearsome weapon. |
10 |
| 9 | 460 |
I saw Saphrar, a bit in the background, close his eyes and nod his head. |
10 |
| 10 | 147 |
I saw Miss Cardwell's eyes close and her shoulders shake with shame. |
10 |
| 10 | 429 |
I was a bit startled, not realizing he was so close. |
10 |
| 10 | 454 |
The saber, incidentally, is not only unpopular among the Wagon Peoples but among the warriors of Gor generally; it is regarded as being too long and clumsy a weapon for the close, sharp combat so dear to the heart of the warrior of the cities; further it is not of much use from the saddle of a tarn ... |
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| 18 | 46 |
One of the luminescent, white spheres floated by, quite close to me. |
10 |
| 21 | 48 |
As I entered I regarded the lofty double gates, and wondered how long it would take to close them. |
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| 21 | 273 |
"Tuchuks! Close the gates!" The officer looked up in alarm, and then he cried out to the men on the windlass platform. |
10 |
| 21 | 274 |
"Close the gates!" "I think you will find," said Harold, "that my wagon is in the way". |
10 |
| 23 | 71 |
We would remain close enough that small parties would not be able to approach the bosk with impunity again. |
10 |
| 23 | 74 |
But the Paravaci neither sent forth small groups nor contingents of archers, but formed and, en masse, riding over the bodies of their fallen comrades, began to approach the herd slowly, to move through it, slaying them as they went, and close with us. |
10 |
| 23 | 99 |
Harold and I determined to appear to meet the Paravaci in the open—before the wagons—and then, when they charged, to withdraw among the wagons, and close the wagons on their attacking front, halting the charge, then at almost point-blank range hopefully taking heavy toll of their force... |
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| 23 | 151 |
"Kassars!" I stood dumbfounded on the planking and saw the two great wedges of the Kataii and the Kassars close like tongs on the trapped Paravaci, taking them in the unprotected flanks, crushing the ranks before them with the weight of their charge. |
10 |
| 24 | 53 |
These warriors I stationed on roofs of buildings encircling the compound, as close to the walls as possible. |
10 |
| 24 | 57 |
If we could get the crossbows into the compound itself, perhaps even to the outside walls, we could for most practical purposes close the compound to entrance and escape by air. |
10 |
| 24 | 63 |
"Kamchak will close the gates soon," said Harold, "and then we shall get to work on Saphrar's house and that tarn roost of Ha-Keel's". |
10 |
| 25 | 540 |
She, too, laughed, standing close to me, her eyes bright. |
10 |
| 27 | 154 |
She stood quite close to him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 437 |
"I will close my fist!" "Do not close your fist," said Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar. |
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| 2 | 286 |
"I thought for a time," he said, "that they intended to sell at a radical loss until the other slave houses were forced to close, and then to recoup their losses with profit by setting their own prices—but then when I considered again the gold which sponsored the games and races honoring the ... |
10 |
| 3 | 231 |
He was a short man, with close-cropped brown hair, a squarish face. |
10 |
| 5 | 316 |
"They will not close with us," said Misk. |
10 |
| 6 | 8 |
I heard the crack of a whip and the command "Fight!" and saw the two men begin to close with one another. |
10 |
| 8 | 72 |
"What did you learn," she asked, "of the House of Cernus last night?" "I will tell you," I said, coming close to her and sitting down cross-legged. |
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| 8 | 150 |
"He holds me to no close schedule, and lets me leave the house when I wish. |
10 |
| 11 | 16 |
The only sanitation facility was an open metal mesh, supported by close-set horizontal bars, in the bottom of the cages, beneath which, some five feet below, was a cement floor, washed down and cleaned by slaves once daily. |
10 |
| 11 | 22 |
Sometimes I supposed a girl might wander too close to the bars and be seized, but, because of the bars, little could be done with her. |
10 |
| 11 | 128 |
Ho-Tu, holding the torch close, lifted the girl's head. |
10 |
| 11 | 303 |
Then he turned again to Virginia, putting his face close to the bars, speaking as though confidentially. |
10 |
| 12 | 210 |
I heard a woman moving close to me, heard the sound of slave bells. |
10 |
| 13 | 59 |
I knew that few men could, if a bath girl did not wish it, come close to them in the water. |
10 |
| 13 | 196 |
He was short, small, with close-cropped brown hair. |
10 |
| 13 | 226 |
Mip was a chipper fellow, and a bit dapper considering his caste and his close-cropped hair, for his brown leather was shot with green streaks, and he wore a Tarn Keeper's cap with a greenish tassel; most Tarn Keepers, incidentally, crop their hair short, as do most Metal Workers; work in the tarnco... |
10 |
| 15 | 20 |
About her throat, close-fitting and snug, there was a white-enameled collar, a lock collar. |
10 |
| 16 | 137 |
Virginia seemed rather grateful, and knelt quite close to Relius, who sat on the tier; in a moment she felt his arm about her shoulders and thus they watched race after race, or seemed to watch the race, for often I observed them looking rather more at one another. |
10 |
| 17 | 417 |
"It was a close one," she said. |
10 |
| 18 | 381 |
I saw him close his eyes and slump a bit against the wall. |
10 |
| 18 | 485 |
I felt the heavy steel close on my wrists. |
10 |
| 19 | 60 |
Within, the hood was, to my satisfaction, removed; when the large wad of soured leather was removed from my mouth I threw up against one wall; the guards laughed and struck me; the lights, lamps, though they were feeble, seemed very bright, and ringed with many colors; the hood had been dark and hot... |
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| 19 | 325 |
About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer... |
10 |
| 20 | 535 |
I saw that Hup now stood close to Sura, and once again, gently, he kissed her on the forehead. |
10 |
| 21 | 291 |
Moving back warily I remained as close as I could to the picket, but out of reach, hoping to draw yet another Warrior prematurely into attack. |
10 |
| 21 | 294 |
A close-formed military formation is difficult to maintain over rough terrain. |
10 |
| 22 | 396 |
It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip... |
10 |
| 24 | 507 |
Ho-Sorl permitted Phyllis to hold his left arm, and she did so, standing close to him, her cheek against his left sleeve. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 |
The long bow cannot well be used except in a standing, or at least kneeling, position, thus making more of a target of the archer; the long bow is difficult to use from the saddle; it is impractical in close quarters, as in defensive warfare or in fighting from room to room; and it cannot be kept se... |
10 |
| 1 | 67 |
About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w... |
10 |
| 4 | 44 |
Then, looking up into my eyes, smiling, close to me, her arms about my neck, she insolently wound the vine five times about my neck, and knotted it in front. |
10 |
| 5 | 25 |
Then the lithe girl stepped close to me. |
10 |
| 5 | 32 |
The lithe, dark-haired girl, standing close to me, traced a pattern on my left shoulder, idly. |
10 |
| 5 | 46 |
Then the other girls, too, came close to me, each to taunt me, with whether or not I would not rather serve them. |
10 |
| 5 | 65 |
In the early morning the other rence islands, four of them, which had been tethered close by, were poled to the one on which I was kept, and now, joined by flat rence rafts, acting as bridges, they had been tied to one another, now forming, for most practical purposes, a large single island. |
10 |
| 5 | 108 |
Then the lithe, dark-haired girl, slender-legged and provocative, stepped quite close to me. |
10 |
| 5 | 182 |
Suddenly, before me, hands over her head, swaying to the music, I saw the dark-haired, lithe girl, she with such marvelous, slender legs in the brief rence skirt; her ankles were so close together that they might have been chained; and then she put her wrists together back to back over her head, pal... |
10 |
| 6 | 73 |
And, too, how well I remembered her from the dance! It was she who had danced before me with her ankles so close together that they might have been chained, who had put her wrists together back to back over her head, palms out, as though she might have worn slave bracelets, and who had then said "Sl... |
10 |
| 8 | 114 |
Standing below the hull, quite close, in the shifting rence craft, I made a small clicking noise, a sound that meant nothing but, in the darkness, meaning nothing, would be startling, terrifying in its uncomprehended import. |
10 |
| 9 | 323 |
I remember Midice, who had already been branded, standing with her back to me and my standing behind her, quite close, with the collar, and placing it about her throat, then, decisively, closing it. |
10 |
| 16 | 133 |
The steps were close now, and then I heard a pounding at my door. |
10 |
| 17 | 30 |
The Dorna was thus leading a relatively close formation of sixteen tarn ships. |
10 |
| 17 | 40 |
With their lines cut in fifty places, for no extended handful of tarn ships, part of a great line, could resist a close-set formation of sixteen tarn ships, I hoped that many of the ships would turn to face the attackers, now in their rear. |
10 |
| 17 | 75 |
In effect, rather than do sea battle, they would attempt to close with the enemy and, via the rails and the grappling bridges, board her and fight what would be, for most practical purposes, a land engagement at sea. |
10 |
| 17 | 79 |
These ships would then, when free to do so, support the round ships in their battle, destroying tarn ships which might, unaware of the new danger, be attempting to close with them. |
10 |
| 17 | 365 |
In the turmoil below, primarily of tarn ships locked in battle, and the great round ships trying to close with enemy tarn ships, I saw, protected by ten tarn ships on each side, and ten before and ten behind, the flagship of Cos and Tyros. |
10 |
| 17 | 404 |
The defenders were swimming across to the other tarn ships of Tyros, now swinging about to close with us and board. |
10 |
| 18 | 669 |
By now the three girls, Telima, Vina and Luma, had been lowered from the height of the keep, and were close behind us. |
10 |
| 18 | 771 |
At the entryway to that passage leading to the kitchens he stopped, and then, as she laughed and kissed him, he, holding her close to him, in his arms, swept her, once the Lady Vivina, who was to have been the Ubara of Cos, now only a young, collared slave girl, in a brief, miserable garment, throug... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 288 |
He seemed too close to me. |
10 |
| 3 | 523 |
At the same time I felt a man's hands close on my arms from behind. |
10 |
| 4 | 207 |
One tube, accessible, close to us, on the right, about at my eye level, was empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 396 |
The retinue would pass close by. |
10 |
| 8 | 214 |
Then they leaped to the pier and, with smaller ropes, fastened to the same cleats, began to draw the barge close to the pier. |
10 |
| 9 | 283 |
Bright in the dark, star-strewn Gorean sky, large, dominating, seemingly close enough to touch, loomed the three moons of Gor. |
10 |
| 10 | 420 |
"It is close," said the man. |
10 |
| 11 | 872 |
The binding fiber, in its center, had been knotted about the chain of the bracelets, so that my hands were held close to my belly. |
10 |
| 12 | 10 |
But now the dimly lit cells, the steel and cement, the stomach-wrenching heat and dampness, the close, foul air, the soiled straw, the stink, the crowding, the heavy bars, were behind us. |
10 |
| 12 | 104 |
The drums, the cymbals, the trumpets, were now quite close. |
10 |
| 12 | 460 |
We would come close to the cages, and when they would reach for us, we would jump back. |
10 |
| 12 | 612 |
I crept close and took two handfuls of berries from her bucket and put them in mine. |
10 |
| 13 | 538 |
They were too close together, there were too many of them! A child saw me and he cried out and began to beat more loudly on his pan. |
10 |
| 13 | 854 |
My captor was trying to close with him, to bring him within the range of his own steel, his now-drawn, swift, unadorned blade. |
10 |
| 13 | 858 |
My captor then wheeled away, the other, his blade now drawn, trying to press close. |
10 |
| 14 | 101 |
I had expected to be close-chained. |
10 |
| 14 | 134 |
How brave men must be, I thought, to stand so to one another, so close, in combat so near, face to face, wrist to wrist, eye to eye, short, vicious, sharpened ringing blade to short, vicious, sharpened ringing blade. |
10 |
| 14 | 325 |
I watched Ena close the clasp at the left shoulder of the lovely white garment, fastening it on her. |
10 |
| 14 | 711 |
"Yes!" Now, with his two hands, he held the collar about my neck, but he did not yet close it. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 551 |
On the other hand, the lateen-rigged galley, with its triangular sail on the long, sloping yard, has marvelous maneuvering capabilities, and can sail incredibly close to the wind. |
10 |
| 5 | 200 |
"It is quite close," said Rim, secretively. |
10 |
| 6 | 438 |
She was still braceleted, of course, but now her hands, in the bracelets, with binding fiber, had been tied close to her belly. |
10 |
| 6 | 777 |
Even Sheera and Cara came close, to watch. |
10 |
| 7 | 149 |
My pursuit was quick, and hot, and I was close. |
10 |
| 11 | 260 |
His hand began to close. |
10 |
| 11 | 277 |
"Then," said he, beginning to close his fist on the flower, "it is destroyed". |
10 |
| 15 | 19 |
The sound of pursuit was close behind her. |
10 |
| 15 | 215 |
Then, quietly, from the rear, my hand would close over the mouth of the guard. |
10 |
| 15 | 778 |
The auctioneer, I expected, would close his fist on a price of ten gold pieces for her. |
10 |
| 16 | 66 |
There had been only two guards, and they were quite close to the camp. |
10 |
| 16 | 246 |
When we were close to her camp I removed the blindfold from her eyes. |
10 |
| 18 | 186 |
This shelter would protect them from arrows, should they come, from the forest, and, by means of the fires, should discourage the too-close approach of either panthers or sleen, which animals, in any case, seldom leave the forest, seldom prowl on the beach. |
10 |
| 18 | 459 |
They cannot sail as close to the wind as the southern ships with lateen rigging, but, on the other hand, the square sail makes it possible to do with a single sail, taking in and letting out canvas, as opposed to several sails, which are attached to and removed from the yard, which is raised and low... |
10 |
| 18 | 462 |
This is a valuable property in rough water close to shore, particularly where there is danger of rocks. |
10 |
| 19 | 75 |
"What are you doing here?" asked one of the men, crowding close. |
10 |
| 19 | 101 |
"Do not stand close to me," I told two men of Tyros. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 485 |
Though I was half motionless, though I could not close the fingers of my left hand, I resolved that I must burn from myself the vestiges of weakness. |
10 |
| 2 | 2 |
It was hot in the temple, close, stifling. |
10 |
| 2 | 151 |
I doubted that such a ship could sail as close to the wind as a lateen-rigged ship but the advantages of being able to shorten or let out sail in a matter of moments were not inconsiderable. |
10 |
| 2 | 326 |
Toward the front of the temple, behind the rail, and even at the two doors of the temple, by the great beams which close them, stood the men of Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 3 | 248 |
"Keep close to me the coins brought as offerings by the poor to the temple of Kassau," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 331 |
It has, too, the advantage that it is more manageable in close quarters than the peasant bow, resembling somewhat the Tuchuk bow of layered horn in this respect. |
10 |
| 3 | 332 |
It is more useful in close combat on a ship, for example, than would be the peasant bow. |
10 |
| 6 | 57 |
Men in the fields wore short tunics of white wool; some carried hoes; their hair was close cropped; about their throats had been hammered bands of black iron, with a welded ring attached. |
10 |
| 7 | 102 |
We were quite close to them; neither of them saw us. |
10 |
| 8 | 94 |
I hastily, as though frightened, made as though to close the flat, leather case of vials. |
10 |
| 9 | 136 |
"I beg to obey you! I beg to be permitted to obey you! I want to obey you! I want to obey you! I will obey you! I will obey you! I will obey you!" When he next struck she could only close her eyes in pain. |
10 |
| 10 | 525 |
Put your head back, close your eyes and open your mouth". |
10 |
| 11 | 281 |
A spear came too close to it. |
10 |
| 13 | 76 |
"Yes, it is I, Ivar Forkbeard!" The men-at-arms of Svein Blue Tooth were now uncomfortably close. |
10 |
| 14 | 163 |
At close range it can pierce a southern shield, shatter its point through a seven-inch beam. |
10 |
| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
10 |
| 17 | 166 |
Should any individual, either male or female, depart by so much as a yard from the line of march, or attempt to close the gap between himself and a fellow prisoner, the sleen prevent this. |
10 |
| 17 | 184 |
They were only gathering in another animal, perhaps a new one, wandered too close to the camp, or a stray, to be expeditiously returned to its herd. |
10 |
| 17 | 245 |
I saw his fists close and open. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 631 |
Her wrists were close together, as though confined by the links of slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 2 | 651 |
The weapon makers' street was close on the bazaar. |
10 |
| 4 | 103 |
The looseness of the garments, acting as a bellows in movement, circulates air about the body, which air, circulating, over the damp skin, cools the body by evaporation; the close weave of the garment is to keep the moisture and water, as much as possible, within the garment, preferably condensing b... |
10 |
| 4 | 228 |
I saw her eyes briefly close, relishing the feel of the stone floor, as she knelt back on her heels, on her knees and the tops of her toes; I saw her body straighten itself, exposing itself, drinking in the atmosphere of the room. |
10 |
| 5 | 15 |
She bent her knees, weight on her heels, lifted her hands, high over her head, wrists close together, back to back, on her thumbs and fingers, poised, tiny cymbals. |
10 |
| 5 | 405 |
Considering the extent of the terrain, and the likely numbers that the Aretai can muster, it will be difficult for them to encircle you unless you permit them to close with the caravan. |
10 |
| 5 | 469 |
I saw the close-fitting, obdurate metal, inflexible, with its lock behind the back of the neck, encircling it. |
10 |
| 7 | 10 |
My ankles, in close chains, were fastened to another ring, in the floor, before me, it, too, on a plate, bolted through the floor block. |
10 |
| 7 | 208 |
"Let us close the door, and lock it," said a man, "trapping it within". |
10 |
| 11 | 470 |
I reached to close the shutters. |
10 |
| 12 | 227 |
I stood close to her, our lips but an inch parted. |
10 |
| 12 | 524 |
I then threw her to the slave ring and, with the cords, tied her wrists behind her back, and then, passing the cord through the ring, crossed and tied her ankles together, pulling them rather close to her bound wrists. |
10 |
| 14 | 230 |
"To precipitate war," said he, "between the Kavars and the Aretai, and their vassal tribes, to close the desert to strangers, intruders". |
10 |
| 14 | 268 |
"Klima is close," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 113 |
This time it was close, surfacing not ten feet from the raft. |
10 |
| 21 | 337 |
I felt the hand of the Kur close on my arm. |
10 |
| 21 | 518 |
I tried to swing the hatch shut, to lock it, but it hung crooked on its hinges and would not close. |
10 |
| 25 | 58 |
* * * * It was on the height of the highest tower of the kasbah of Tarna that Hassan, I close behind him, cornered Ibn Saran. |
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| 26 | 485 |
All they know, when the doors close, is that she will be whipped. |
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| 26 | 920 |
I took the chain and collar in the cell, and locked it on her throat, over her close-fitting steel collar, that identifying her as mine. |
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| 1 | 22 |
I saw the grass, green and close, each blade seeming wide, blurred in its nearness. |
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| 1 | 156 |
The links were close-set, heavy, of some primitive, simple black iron. |
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| 2 | 46 |
But this man stood close to me. |
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| 3 | 225 |
There was a white-barked, fallen tree close at hand, within the camp enclosure. |
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| 3 | 812 |
I felt his arms close about me. |
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| 4 | 148 |
The slit made the garment, a rather snug one, easier to slip into; the two hooks, when fastened, naturally increased the snugness of the garment, drawing it quite closely about the breasts and hips; deliciously then, from the point of view of a man, the girl's figure is betrayed and accentuated; als... |
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| 4 | 187 |
Such a girl, in kneeling, does not close her knees before a free man. |
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| 4 | 563 |
In a few moments I felt the hands of the referee close on my arms. |
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| 4 | 624 |
Men tend to enjoy having their girls close at hand, you see, perhaps unobtrusively to one side, but in a place from which they may be easily summoned, and easily looked upon with pleasure, for the mere sight of a slave girl gives great pleasure to men, who in their way are glorious, dominating beast... |
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| 5 | 217 |
One of the warriors of the camp was close behind her. |
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| 7 | 74 |
I had noted that her gloves had been pulled down over her fingers, that the steel of the slave bracelets close on the wrist itself. |
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| 9 | 470 |
"You may close your knees," said Sandal Thong. |
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| 9 | 1083 |
They ranged from simple bands of iron, hammered about a girl's throat, her head held down on an anvil, to bejeweled, wondrously wrought, close-locking circlets befitting the preferred slave of a Ubar; such collars, whether worn by a kitchen slave or the prize beauty of a Ubar, had two things in comm... |
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| 9 | 1295 |
They were now close about me. |
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| 9 | 1718 |
The young man looked at him and, frightened, threw him the staff, not wanting to come close to him. |
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| 9 | 2098 |
They were close bracelets. |
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| 9 | 2373 |
I rose, standing in close bracelets. |
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| 9 | 2412 |
I felt Tup Ladletender's hand close more firmly on my arm. |
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| 12 | 191 |
I put my hand to the thin brown cloth, clutching it, as though to close it more, but I only moved it more tightly about me and higher upon my thighs. |
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| 12 | 211 |
I stood quite close to him, igniting the male in him. |
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| 12 | 394 |
Fina crept close. |
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| 12 | 784 |
Slowly then I made my way, inch by inch, through encumbrances, through the close, flame-lit darkness of the basket, the flickering light from outside oddly in small moving patches illuminating the flesh, the gold, within, to the edge of the basket, so that I might see out more easily through the int... |
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| 13 | 53 |
I had earlier been exposed in the exhibition cages, that prospective buyers might scan the merchandise at close hand, forming their suppositions as to its value, that their bids later, if they cared to make them, might be shrewd and realistic. |
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| 13 | 62 |
We were also kept under harsh discipline, close confinement and given slave training. |
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| 13 | 288 |
Then, suddenly, snapping the whip, he said, harshly, "On your back, one knee lifted, the other leg extended, hands over your head, wrists close, as though confined in slave bracelets". |
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| 13 | 316 |
I was very conscious of the sales disk at my throat; it was on a looped, close-fitting chain; I could not remove the chain; it was locked. |
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| 14 | 6 |
She scarcely moved, swaying, ankles close, arms over her head, wrists back to back, palms turned out. |
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| 14 | 40 |
That could be read, I understood, on the close-fitting steel collar I wore, a ten-hort collar. |
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| 14 | 320 |
I seized the close-circling steel on my throat. |
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| 14 | 440 |
There were fewer now in the tavern, and in another Ahn or two we would close the doors. |
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| 16 | 245 |
Looking up, we saw the heavy hatch close. |
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| 17 | 39 |
We could not kneel before the free males for we were in close neck collars, held closely to the wall. |
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| 22 | 244 |
The yellow rep-cloth I wore was wet and thin, and clung close upon me. |
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| 23 | 95 |
He then, by means of this improvised rope, tied my collar close to the iron ring on the wreckage, no more than an inch from it. |
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| 23 | 101 |
I was tied by my collar close to the ring. |
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| 24 | 249 |
The master, a free male, permitted me to close my mouth. |
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| 25 | 25 |
She knelt close to Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 26 | 41 |
The merchant would then fill her order, tie the merchandise about my neck, put the change in the leather capsule, close it and, sometimes with a friendly slap, dismissing me, reminding me that I was pretty, regardless of being a woman's slave, send me back to my mistress. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 550 |
For most practical purposes, except for a few small, close islands, of little or no importance, the mosaic ended there. |
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| 3 | 680 |
"Here, I think," had said Centius of Cos, "the hand of Philemon, unknown to himself, once came close to touching the sleeve of Kaissa". |
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| 3 | 1025 |
What man, truly close to a beautiful female, can fail to feel her in his blood, and want to own her? The slaver, I conjectured, knew his business. |
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| 3 | 1027 |
They were now close to the men. |
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| 6 | 693 |
"Why should these men wish to close off the north?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 213 |
Two woven canvas straps, some two inches in width, had been looped about the girl's throat and drawn close about it. |
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| 10 | 374 |
There would not be enough tabuk! The guards now crept more close, blades ready. |
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| 13 | 16 |
A mountain which seems very close, given the sharpness of visibility in the clear air, may actually be forty pasangs in the distance. |
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| 13 | 32 |
We were trying to move close to a large bull tabuk. |
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| 14 | 183 |
He still carried his right arm high and close to his body, his shoulder hunched somewhat. |
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| 15 | 1147 |
"I think it is quite close now," I said. |
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| 22 | 214 |
We brought our kayaks in close, to finish the animal with our lances. |
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| 23 | 74 |
Such sleen, together with the cold and the darkness, tend to close the arctic in the winter. |
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| 24 | 19 |
The white-skinned girls did not go close to the severed head. |
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| 25 | 28 |
Sometimes we bridged, carefully, leads of open water, broken open by the groaning, shifting ice, soon to close again, almost beneath our feet. |
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| 27 | 28 |
"I doubt if we could get close enough to them to harm them," I said. |
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| 27 | 220 |
"I think, Imnak," I said, "that I am close to finding him whom I have sought". |
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| 28 | 291 |
Our lips were quite close. |
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| 29 | 22 |
From what I could gather the girls were kept under close discipline in the complex. |
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| 30 | 146 |
He kept a close guard, covering himself well. |
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| 32 | 14 |
It was not so close to the star as to be a ball of scalding rock nor so far as to be a frozen spheroid". |
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| 32 | 61 |
"You wanted to close the tabuk off in their northward migration to drive the red hunters south and away from the area?" I asked. |
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| 35 | 326 |
"Keep a close watch," said the fellow. |
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| 35 | 461 |
Perhaps this level was being cleared for purposes of conducting a close search. |
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| 35 | 694 |
Suspicion, if any, would be most likely generated by the fact that she was not, under the security alert, in close chains, in a holding area. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 220 |
"Shall I close my hand? Shall I close my hand?" He looked about, well pleased. |
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| 1 | 385 |
She could not have been bound to it more closely if she had been fastened in close chains. |
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| 2 | 107 |
The crowd watched the auctioneer, who stood close by the girl. |
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| 2 | 222 |
"I will now close my hand!" he called. |
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| 2 | 223 |
"Do not close your hand," said a voice. |
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| 2 | 269 |
"I shall close my hand," said the auctioneer. |
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| 4 | 446 |
Then when she was quite close to me, she looked into my eyes. |
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| 5 | 465 |
I held her, and kissed her, and caressed her, keeping her close and warm beside me. |
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| 6 | 705 |
The sirik collar was close-fitting and would not, like a work collar, fit over the shipping collar. |
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| 7 | 62 |
He had kept a close eye on me. |
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| 8 | 57 |
He took her over beside a wall, across from the main door, and close to a small side door. |
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| 10 | 74 |
None were close to us. |
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| 12 | 373 |
It was about where a paga slave might kneel, close enough to be ready to serve at the merest signal, far enough away to be unobtrusive. |
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| 13 | 776 |
"Is her slavery close to the surface?" he asked. |
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| 14 | 34 |
Similarly the owner of kaiila or verr will commonly lock the stable or close the pen. |
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| 16 | 4 |
The noise is incredibly loud, or seems so, when one is close to it. |
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| 16 | 227 |
His ankles were also chained, a loop of chain holding them close to the vertical beam. |
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| 17 | 48 |
"But what do you have further in mind?" "Shaba, as one close to Bila Huruma, will be present in the court," he said. |
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| 18 | 159 |
First I thought it possible that some of the blacks in the room, besides Shaba and Msaliti, perhaps close counselors of Bila Huruma, might know Gorean. |
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| 20 | 130 |
Such a blow is usually given with a thrust of the butt of a spear, generally in the crowding of close combat when you cannot bring the weapon about. |
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| 23 | 248 |
One man crept close to us. |
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| 29 | 223 |
Normally they remain quite close to the water. |
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| 29 | 225 |
Should the tharlarion submerge the tiny fish often submerges with it, staying close to it, but away from its jaws. |
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| 33 | 123 |
Often, perhaps to their horror, they found themselves that very night hooded and gagged, locked in close chains, lying on their back, their legs drawn up, fastened in a wagon, chained by the neck and ankles, their small bodies bruised on its rough boards as they, helpless beneath a rough tarn blanke... |
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| 34 | 17 |
Even in the open, as I was, in a clearing among trees, it is hard to use one's spear to its best advantage, the animal stays so close to you and moves so quickly. |
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| 34 | 281 |
"By the same token, if women did not pay close attention to the wishes of men and comply with their desires, then men might be entitled to regard themselves as being treated as objects". |
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| 34 | 474 |
But did not her mistress know that it was she herself who was the lovely, frightened slave? Did she not know that it would be only she herself who would feel the blows of such a whip, or she herself who would see again the iron door of the dungeon close above her head? The blond-haired barbarian, my... |
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| 34 | 877 |
Then I took her by the hair and drew her close to me. |
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| 44 | 216 |
"We did not wish to be too close," said another man. |
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| 46 | 22 |
Pushing down their heads, they then, with pieces of vine rope, fastened both under the vine collars on the girls, tied down their heads, close to the trunk. |
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| 47 | 16 |
"Do not go too close," said the leader of the small men. |
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| 53 | 241 |
I saw the six digits of the paw close on the chain about Shaba's neck, and then the digits released the chain and the beast slipped back, limply. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 |
We were not really close friends. |
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| 1 | 907 |
The driver went to close the door. |
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| 2 | 213 |
"Close the crate," said the heavy man. |
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| 2 | 293 |
"It will be close," said the heavy man, "but proceed. |
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| 3 | 52 |
A female captive, a graduate student in linguistics, kept under close discipline, was acquired to teach me. |
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| 3 | 170 |
My hands, then, must be held close to the small of my back. |
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| 3 | 228 |
They then removed the rope from my belly, which had held the manacles close to the small of my back. |
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| 5 | 112 |
There, have yourself placed in close chains. |
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| 7 | 368 |
She knelt then, close to me. |
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| 10 | 127 |
Close the door behind you". |
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| 11 | 144 |
In the spark of light I had seen the glint of the collar, of close-fitting steel, about her throat. |
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| 11 | 471 |
"We girls," she said, her voice soft, the fingers of her right hand touching the narrow, close-fitting metal loop at her throat, "must learn the language of our masters". |
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| 11 | 481 |
She came close to me and lifted the tie. |
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| 11 | 485 |
I did not think I would mind having her arms intimately about my neck, even if but briefly, or having her so close to me, performing this simple, homely task. |
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| 12 | 390 |
"I shall close the bids," she said. |
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| 13 | 441 |
Sometimes when there is an especially beautiful sky many people will close their shops and men will flock to the high bridges to watch. |
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| 13 | 865 |
"It will be close chains for two days for you," she said. |
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| 13 | 867 |
Usually, in close chains, the wrists and ankles are chained closely together. |
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| 13 | 869 |
Usually after only five Ahn in close chains a girl is ready to serve delightfully and willingly. |
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| 14 | 31 |
Two of these days I had spent in close chains, being punished for my behavior in Ar. |
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| 16 | 136 |
The place of general stores is taken largely by bazaars and markets where, quite close to one another, in various booths, sometimes of canvas, one may find a large variety of goods. |
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| 16 | 201 |
I would not relish being whipped again, though presumably it would not be with the snake, nor being perhaps confined for another day in close chains. |
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| 19 | 5 |
I stayed close to the beam. |
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| 19 | 213 |
Kenneth, for example, was only too aware of this naive stratagem, and the errant girl would be whipped or shorn, or deprived of rations, or put somewhere by herself, her small limbs locked painfully in close chains. |
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| 20 | 109 |
I was half dragged, half pushed, by a crowd, Kenneth and Barus close to me, Taphris behind, through the barred gate leading to the sand pit. |
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| 20 | 239 |
Barus was close behind us, and then Taphris. |
10 |
| 21 | 467 |
I heard the trapdoor close above and behind us. |
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| 22 | 253 |
Melpomene then, sobbing, knelt, her legs close together, her wrists held crossed under her, as though bound, her head down, touching the floor, the bow of her back exposed, a slave girl awaiting punishment. |
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| 24 | 264 |
"Close your mouth," I told her. |
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| 25 | 171 |
The combination was swift and delivered at close range. |
10 |
| 25 | 192 |
"Do you think I fear to close with you?" I asked. |
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| 27 | 88 |
"Close your eyes," I told her. |
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| 27 | 89 |
"Pay close attention to your sensations, to the fabric, its brevity, its snugness, to the feel of it on your body, to the feel, too, of where it is not on your body, to what, too, it proclaims about the woman who wears it". |
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| 27 | 146 |
I stood quite close to her. |
10 |
| 27 | 147 |
I encircled her neck with the collar, but I did not yet close it. |
10 |
| 27 | 149 |
"Please, Jason, do not close the collar!" "Do you remember Telitsia?" I asked. |
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| 27 | 150 |
"Do not close the collar," she begged. |
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| 32 | 40 |
Each time she had knelt quite close to me. |
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| 34 | 27 |
About their ankles were close-fitting ankle rings, joined by a short length of chain. |
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| 34 | 83 |
I took my place in line, holding the Lady Florence close to me by her leash. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 33 |
"Oneander keeps a close counsel". |
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| 1 | 325 |
She knelt close to the wall, fastened by the neck and wrists tightly to the ring. |
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| 2 | 148 |
"I have never seen one this close before," I said. |
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| 3 | 220 |
I prepared to close the open shackle about her right ankle. |
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| 4 | 168 |
It was too close, for them, to the war zone. |
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| 8 | 1 |
I Have a Close Call in the Tavern of Tasdron; I Hurry to the Sales Barn of Lysander "Are there any more challengers?" I asked, wiping the sweat and sand from my face with my forearm. |
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| 8 | 38 |
"Close the exits," said the fellow to some of the men with him. |
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| 9 | 211 |
"I prepare to close my hand," called the auctioneer. |
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| 9 | 217 |
"I prepare to close my hand," said the auctioneer. |
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| 9 | 218 |
"I close my hand!" I owned Miss Henderson. |
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| 10 | 19 |
She began to weep, and I held her close to me. |
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| 11 | 252 |
It was simple, narrow, close-fitting, of gleaming steel. |
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| 14 | 271 |
Lola did not raise her head, but knelt there, her knees close together, in the brief slave tunic. |
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| 15 | 184 |
I did not think it would look bad in a close-fitting steel collar, properly inscribed, identifying her as mine. |
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| 20 | 20 |
It is too close to the wharves. |
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| 21 | 113 |
"And it is said, too," she whispered, coming close to me, the chain on her neck touching my chest, as she put her head over me, "that Glyco is not only a merchant but stands high in the merchant council of Port Cos". |
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| 21 | 140 |
"Slave girls must pay close attention to men," she smiled, "for they are her masters". |
10 |
| 21 | 155 |
She put her lips close to my ear. |
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| 24 | 130 |
She is intimately close to the male, even to the extent of sensual tactuality. |
10 |
| 24 | 318 |
She squirmed in the close confines of the loops of braided yellow cord. |
10 |
| 25 | 5 |
The close-fitting steel collar was lovely on her throat. |
10 |
| 25 | 64 |
Yet she was close enough to be promptly summoned, to serve instantly if aught might be required of her. |
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| 25 | 187 |
When she had placed these things on the table, she looked about, still kneeling, and saw me close the door to the room, locking her within, with us. |
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| 29 | 59 |
This is not to deny, of course, that the colony will not normally have a close tie with the mother city. |
10 |
| 30 | 281 |
I saw the close-fitting steel collar on her throat. |
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| 31 | 156 |
It takes less time to close the gate than open it, but that, too, because of the weights involved, the windlass stress and the need to control the windlass, requires a considerable effort. |
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| 32 | 169 |
I held it as though it might have been a hammer, and too close to its guard, which would, of course, in actual swordplay, impair its mobility considerably. |
10 |
| 32 | 197 |
My fellows, now in close chains and ankle coffle, from the room of the windlass, were being brought out to observe what was to be done to me. |
10 |
| 32 | 267 |
He was off balance and I reared upward, close to him, within his guard, seizing him and half turning him in the crook of my right arm, the blade in that hand. |
10 |
| 32 | 315 |
All things considered the ship bow is an ideal missile weapon for close-range naval combat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 2086 |
She came and stood quite close to me, within the circle of my space, close, as a slave may stand to her master. |
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| 1 | 151 |
Flaming pitch was flung at close quarters. |
10 |
| 1 | 164 |
We slid along the chain, then, the oars on our starboard side striking loose the wicker shielding of another longboat, too close to the chain, and spilling men into the water. |
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| 5 | 48 |
They were held close only at the sterns. |
10 |
| 6 | 12 |
There was a grinding astern and a dozen men from one of the Voskjard's pressing ships, close in the crowded waters, leapt aboard. |
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| 8 | 39 |
There was a close-fitting steel collar on her neck. |
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| 8 | 432 |
How beautiful she was in her collar, close-fitting, and of gleaming, engraved steel, which she could not remove. |
10 |
| 11 | 40 |
I saw her petulantly, impatiently, push another girl away from her, who had, apparently in her opinion, come too close to her. |
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| 11 | 114 |
"See those in the corner, those naked, and in close chains?" "Yes," said he. |
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| 11 | 116 |
"Were they in close chains in the pens?" he asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 121 |
"We put them in close chains only upon bringing them to this room. |
10 |
| 11 | 123 |
"The close chains, then," said he, "are in compensation for their being brought to an upper level". |
10 |
| 11 | 127 |
Close chains, even after only two or three Ahn, build up a considerable amount of body pain. |
10 |
| 11 | 128 |
Girls confined in close chains soon beg to be released, that they may then strive to better please their masters. |
10 |
| 11 | 131 |
The clothing worn by the girls ranged from the long, classic gowns worn by the girls from the walk, who had welcomed us with song, flowers and dance, on our entry into the holding, to the cruel, heavy scantiness of the close chains, and their brands and collars, of the girls brought up from the lowe... |
10 |
| 12 | 106 |
In such close harborage it would be possible to walk across the sea yard, moving from deck to deck. |
10 |
| 16 | 509 |
I then freed his leash from the upright but then, to his dismay, passed it again about the upright and, holding Kliomenes' head close to the upright, fastened him to the other end of the leash. |
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| 17 | 106 |
She did not close her tunic. |
10 |
| 17 | 137 |
What shrill responses from the unnatural and ugly, the entrenched and intolerant, the fanatical and close-minded, would have greeted such an admission. |
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| 17 | 810 |
I then turned the collar, slowly, carefully, on her neck, for it was high, thick and close-fitting. |
10 |
| 18 | 88 |
The analogy, incidentally, between the dog of the man of Earth and the slave girl of the Gorean male is a quite close one. |
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| 18 | 462 |
Her least insolence she knows may be rewarded with exact, swift punishment, such as the whip or close chains, nudity in the streets or public rental, or the deprivation of food. |
10 |
| 18 | 609 |
Then, with a small sound of bells, those on her close-fitting collar, she lifted her head. |
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| 19 | 64 |
In moments I had untied her hands from behind her and locked her small wrists, before her belly, as she knelt, in the close-fitting steel of the bracelets. |
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| 19 | 97 |
"I meant no harm!" I stood quite close to her, before her. |
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| 19 | 147 |
Imagine, however, if you will, her emotions if she entered that room as a slave girl, stripped and rightless, bearing on her upper thigh, just under her hip, the mark of bondage, her throat clasped in the light, gleaming, close-fitting, locked circlet of a slave. |
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| 19 | 648 |
"But it is close-fitting, of inflexible steel, and securely locked". |
10 |
| 19 | 1196 |
Lola, from a chest near one wall, fetched forth a mirror, which she held close to the tiles, that the prone slave might for the first time see the collar in which she had been placed. |
10 |
| 20 | 64 |
Too, of course, doubtless their master would keep a close eye on them, at least until he had managed to get a good price for them. |
10 |
| 20 | 187 |
In her yellow tunic and collar she knelt quite close to him. |
10 |
| 20 | 237 |
On her tiny, lovely wrists, inflexible and close-fitting, were wrist rings, each securely locked. |
10 |
| 20 | 668 |
She wore, of course, now revealed, a close-fitting, gleaming slave collar. |
10 |
| 20 | 877 |
I sensed the lovely little dark-haired slave kneel down quite close to me, behind me and to my left. |
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| 20 | 2105 |
She regarded me, through the bars, her face pressed close against them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 303 |
One tends to be most comfortable with such things, generally, when they are in close chains, with inch-thick links, or behind close-set bars, some three inches in diameter. |
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| 1 | 965 |
The parallel orientation, of course, would be more effective with kailiauk, which are usually shot at extremely close range, indeed, from so close that one might almost reach out and touch the beast. |
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| 1 | 169 |
Most Gorean scabbards are not moisture proof, as this would entail either too close a fit for the blade or an impeding flap. |
10 |
| 1 | 602 |
Whether they could pronounce it or not, or how close they could come to pronounce it, would depend on the sound and on the capacity of their own vocal apparatus. |
10 |
| 1 | 941 |
He rides close to the animal, not a yard from its side, just outside the hooking range of the trident, to supplement the striking power of his small bow. |
10 |
| 1 | 958 |
The reason for these different orientations is particularly telling at close range, before the arrow begins to turn in the air. |
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| 1 | 961 |
They may have some effect, of course, as I have suggested, at extremely close range. |
10 |
| 1 | 966 |
Also, of course, in close combat with humans, if one wishes, the perpendicular alignment may be simply produced; one need only turn the small bow. |
10 |
| 1 | 1062 |
This fits in, incidentally, with his glorification of close combat. |
10 |
| 1 | 1112 |
At close range it can be devastating. |
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| 1 | 1125 |
Accordingly, one's fellows are seldom close at hand to rescue one. |
10 |
| 1 | 1126 |
This is quite different from mounted warfare, where one's fellows are usually quite close and ready, in an instant, to sweep one up or help one to regain one's mount. |
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| 1 | 1292 |
"Was the vote close?" I asked. |
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| 2 | 121 |
"You had better close the window slats". |
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| 5 | 147 |
Such close confinements, even though voluntary and self-imposed, would surely be almost intolerable for them. |
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| 6 | 114 |
With her small hands, her tiny wrists in their close-fitting manacles, she seized the chain attached to the collar on her neck. |
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| 8 | 129 |
But let them rest content for, when the auction was done, men doubtless would drift back to their perusal; they would then be again subjected to the close scrutiny of masters; they would then be examined again, and closely, to see if they might be of any interest. |
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| 8 | 309 |
Furthermore, this close to the perimeter, only a few pasangs from the Ihanke, far from the normal loci of slave raidings, and slave routes, female slaves, particularly beautiful ones, are not abundant. |
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| 8 | 874 |
Peruse now, if you would, in the time remaining before we close, the lovely morsels, dainties for your delectation, fastened on the slave plates to the sides. |
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| 13 | 1605 |
I held her knees apart, not permitting her to close them. |
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| 13 | 1615 |
I withdrew my hands, permitting her to close her knees, which she did, immediately, clenching them fearfully together. |
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| 14 | 983 |
Others think that it means a man who goes straight or a man who is close to the earth, to nature. |
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| 14 | 1076 |
He then held both fists close to his chest, with the backs of his hands down and the index fingers curved. |
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| 14 | 1146 |
I cupped my right hand close to the ground, my fingers partly closed. |
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| 14 | 1151 |
I then held my fists close to my chest, with the backs of my own hands down, my index fingers curved. |
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| 15 | 218 |
He did not come so close to us that he could not, easily, drop his lance into the attack position. |
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| 15 | 222 |
He held his right hand near his body, with the palm down and the thumb close to his left breast. |
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| 15 | 285 |
"The site of the action, I gather," I said, "is quite close". |
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| 17 | 263 |
"Too," I said, "they would presumably not wish to give the infantry a chance to reform, to close its lines again and set up a solid perimeter". |
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| 17 | 297 |
Other stainings, pale and yellowish, mixed in the matting, were doubtless the dried residues of urine, doubtless from the close herding, or the hobbling and tethering, of numerous kaiila. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 33 |
Being close enough to sturdily fend the blow brings one, if one is afoot, and shieldless, normally, close enough to risk the strike of the shield. |
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| 1 | 86 |
It was very impressive to be so close to such beasts. |
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| 1 | 89 |
One must be that close for the lance thrust to be made or for the arrow, from the small bow, to strike with sufficient depth, to the feathers, either into the intestinal cavity behind the last rib, resulting in large-scale internal hemorrhaging, or behind the left shoulder blade, into the heart. |
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| 1 | 333 |
In another way, Grunt's familiarity to the Kaiila, for he had visited them last year, and was close to Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds, the civil chieftain of the Isbu, and his knowledge of their language, which closely resembles Dust Leg, garnered him a similar protection. |
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| 1 | 346 |
I stayed with Cuwignaka in a tattered lodge, donated by Akihoka, One-Who-Is-Skillful, a close friend of Canka. |
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| 1 | 456 |
Others might have welcomed it as a sign of bravery, a revelatory token of courage in close combat. |
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| 3 | 197 |
She did not dare close them. |
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| 4 | 75 |
I wondered what she would look like, stripped, in close chains, lying on her side, terrified, at my feet. |
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| 4 | 133 |
The lodge itself had been given to him by Akihoka, One-Who-Is-Skillful, an All Comrade, one of Canka's close friends. |
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| 4 | 282 |
"Miniwozan, then," he said, "was too close to the herd". |
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| 4 | 353 |
She will not get too close. |
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| 4 | 364 |
"Do not get too close to the herd," said Canka. |
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| 4 | 370 |
To be sure the greatest dangers were clearly borne by the hunters who must ride among the running beasts themselves, and attempt their kills from a distance just outside the hooking range of the trident, from a distance so close that they might almost reach out and touch the animal. |
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| 5 | 159 |
"You are too close to the herd," said Hci. |
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| 5 | 202 |
"The herd is too close," said Hci. |
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| 5 | 229 |
Picket them close to where you are working". |
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| 6 | 73 |
Our kaiila, not moving much, stayed close to us. |
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| 6 | 99 |
"I told you the herd was too close," said Hci. |
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| 7 | 252 |
"May I close my knees?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 12 | 203 |
I thought they would look well in close-fitting leather hobbles, twist hobbles, knotted on the outside of the left ankle, which she, her hands bound behind her back, would be unable to remove. |
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| 17 | 127 |
What, too, if she were mistaken? Grunt, I thought, Grunt! He will know what to do! Too, he is a close friend of Mahpiyasapa. |
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| 18 | 94 |
"He might see me!" "The Napoktan camp is not close," I said. |
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| 19 | 109 |
"Does there seem anything unusual to you, today, about the camp? Is there anything noticeably different?" "The herds have been brought in, close to the camp," I said. |
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| 23 | 66 |
It also makes it impossible for her to close her legs. |
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| 25 | 30 |
It seemed he had to hold it steady, close to him. |
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| 27 | 38 |
If the Kinyanpi attacked as they had before they would encounter, unexpectedly, sheets of arrows fired from close range. |
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| 27 | 42 |
This would tend to prevent, we hoped, not only swooping, talon attacks but also the close-quarters work of which the red savage, with his small bow, is fond. |
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| 32 | 86 |
The ankles of the cooks wore six-inch tethers, keeping them close to their pots. |
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| 33 | 37 |
I think they are bringing their searches to a close". |
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| 34 | 71 |
"Yes!" "They are quite close now, a few feet away," said Cuwignaka, casually, "a few feet to your right, in the grass, one a bit behind the other". |
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| 34 | 208 |
"The camp is quite close," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 35 | 219 |
But my fingers could scarcely close on the beaded hilt. |
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| 37 | 395 |
"The matter must be close," I said. |
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| 37 | 570 |
With some of the tether, close to the knot on her right ankle, I tied her hands together behind her back. |
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| 39 | 34 |
To be sure, it had been a close thing. |
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| 43 | 166 |
These sacks, by design, are a relatively close fit for a girl. |
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| 44 | 198 |
He stood quite close to Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 201 |
I think that, as a mature female, she had perhaps never been that close to a male, and certainly not in this fashion. |
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| 44 | 567 |
Disadvantaged were the Yellow Knives to be on kaiilaback in such close quarters. |
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| 44 | 848 |
I myself, at close range and with impunity, had scouted our position. |
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| 46 | 126 |
"Close your mouth," he said. |
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| 47 | 290 |
Such reins are not made for leading and the stroke of the wings, so close to my bird, was irregular, uneven and frantic. |
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| 47 | 381 |
Sardak flung his head back, to close the space between the skull and the vertebrae, his eyes like wild moons, but it was too late. |
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| 47 | 446 |
Not too late, however, were they to close off a hundred avenues of retreat, to interfere with a thousand escapes, to wreak havoc amongst a withdrawing, demoralized, terrorized enemy. |
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| 50 | 13 |
They tied their ankles together in the fashion characteristic of close hobbles, the ankles not crossed but parallel to one another. |
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| 50 | 77 |
But then, no more than the other girl, did she close them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 |
Then, for several minutes, the photographer moving about me, swiftly and professionally, sometimes almost intimately close, and giving me commands, the camera clicking, I had been posed in an incredible variety of positions. |
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| 1 | 445 |
Now close your eyes. |
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| 1 | 525 |
I went and stood quite close to him. |
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| 1 | 527 |
I did so, and he, moving behind me, and pulling the collar of my blouse out a bit with his finger, put his head down, close to the side of my face, by my neck. |
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| 2 | 512 |
"Close the container," he said. |
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| 3 | 693 |
How far this place seemed to me from the culture with which I was familiar, and yet how close was this place to my dreams. |
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| 4 | 82 |
They wore close-fitting metal collars and were chained together, literally, by the neck. |
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| 4 | 611 |
I saw the door close. |
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| 6 | 19 |
But why, then, if he were so wary of them, or fearful for my safety, had he wanted to come to this portion of the wall? It was he who had suggested that we come this close to those fearful monsters. |
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| 6 | 75 |
Their riders, or tarnsmen, were not in the immediate vicinity, but were, as is common, quite close, in this case in a guard station at the foot of the wall. |
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| 6 | 368 |
At one secluded point in one of the gardens I had paused and, pretending to adjust my veil, had stood quite close to Drusus Rencius, but he had stepped back, and looked away. |
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| 6 | 388 |
I had sat on the tiers, close to the fenced enclosure, thrilled. |
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| 6 | 440 |
I then stood quite close to Drusus Rencius. |
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| 6 | 675 |
I stood quite close to him. |
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| 6 | 785 |
Then why would you have so suddenly, so belatedly, have found my suggestion agreeable? Had something happened to make you change your mind? Why, too, earlier, did you seem so distracted, as though your thoughts were elsewhere? Too, of all these places on the wall, why did you bring me here, so close... |
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| 6 | 811 |
Drusus Rencius stood close behind me. |
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| 6 | 824 |
At one end the base chain was attached to a rather small neck ring, but suitable for closing about a woman's neck; at the other end it was attached to one of the subsidiary chains, about a foot long, and terminating on each end with a ring; those rings looked as though they might fit snugly about a ... |
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| 8 | 36 |
Its women, you will find, all things considered, are held rather close to the standards of slave perfection". |
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| 8 | 158 |
Kneeling before him, then, close to him, holding his legs she looked up at him. |
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| 9 | 222 |
Too, the common punishment for such a clumsiness is not the uncompromising, degrading severity of the whip dance but disciplines more prosaic in their nature, such as a restriction or change in rations, close chains or, most often, a switching or whipping". |
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| 11 | 128 |
He then approached me, and stood quite close to me. |
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| 11 | 215 |
"That is too close!" I said. |
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| 11 | 218 |
"That is too close!" I said. |
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| 12 | 10 |
"There was time, happily, it seemed, though the matter would be close, for the wagon to win its race, and sorely, as you know, did we need the grain. |
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| 12 | 12 |
Surely there would then be time, and time enough, given the distances involved, to close the gate. |
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| 14 | 148 |
He leaned close to me and whispered. |
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| 14 | 174 |
I felt those large hands close about it. |
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| 16 | 47 |
To my dismay I then saw the porter close the gates and thrust the great beam across, through its brackets, behind them. |
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| 16 | 151 |
It would not hurt to close my eyes, only for a moment. |
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| 16 | 156 |
I would close my eyes, only for a moment. |
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| 17 | 232 |
She wore a close-fitting steel collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 498 |
Similarly, her small, delicate wrists were close together, so close that they might have been linked by slave bracelets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 114 |
She stayed close to the side of the wagon, almost so close that I could reach out and touch her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 228 |
It seemed very close, terribly close. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 170 |
The fellows at the rafts were trying to close the chains, to close the harbor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 375 |
And he was still close behind me, quite close. |
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| 14 | 1452 |
Instantly I, trained, leaped to my feet and stood quite close to him, uncomfortably close, and held my hands a little behind my body. |
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| 14 | 1471 |
Still he put his finger under her collar, and, as she gasped, he pulled her even closer to him, indeed, quite close to him, "slave close," as the expression is. |
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| 31 | 654 |
"Blades! Close with him! Close with him!" cried the leader of the strangers. |
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| 46 | 218 |
"Shall I close my knees?" "Close your knees?" he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 576 |
"I shall close my hand! I shall close my hand!" called the auctioneer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 282 |
"How long can you run, little thing? Do you call that little stick you carry an ax? You cannot even reach me with it! You are human! I am Kur! Close with me! Close with me! Hold still! Stand! Fight!" Cabot circled, as he could, to the left, looking for an opening, but now Flavion held the ax more cl... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 36 |
You do not realize the danger which threatens you, what lurks in the brush, in the shadows, so to speak, so close, even at your elbow, and, too, far off, yet close enough, what crouches, watching, in the sky. |
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| 10 | 1284 |
It was indeed he of the Sul Market! He was close to me, very close. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 75 |
"Stay close to me," I said, "very close". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 79 |
By now the enemy ship was uncomfortably close, so close one could see faces at the enemy's rail, but it was not close enough to bring either its ram or shearing blades into play. |
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| 3 | 22 |
Few vessels on Thassa, I thought, could match its speed, or close with it at close quarters. |
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| 60 | 105 |
By this time the six hooded fellows with the amphorae were quite close, so close that they might easily overhear our conversation. |
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