| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 39 |
The planet, then, was smaller than our earth, and, given the apparent size of the sun, perhaps somewhat closer to it. |
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| 2 | 230 |
If the planet had been moved at all, and I knew enough to understand that this was empirically possible, it must have been brought into our system from a closer star. |
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| 6 | 2 |
As I dropped closer, I saw that the bridges were lined with the celebrants of the Planting Feast, many perhaps reeling home drunk on paga. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 34 |
The platform drew closer, and to the wonder of the crowd I went to meet it. |
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| 14 | 146 |
Another spear struck the wood, closer than the first. |
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| 20 | 85 |
I took the tarn closer. |
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| 24 | 146 |
And should the warriors have attempted to use the tarns merely to fire down on the crowd, they would suddenly have found the streets deserted, until the shadow of the bird had passed and the rebels could move another hundred yards closer to the palace. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 162 |
The Beetle drew closer, and I could see the mane hairs waving now like the fronds of some marine plant caught in the currents of its underwater world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 418 |
Then he would take up a fist of chain, drawing her each time inches closer. |
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| 12 | 421 |
Certain of these phases are very slow, in which there is almost no movement, save perhaps the turning of a head or the movement of a hand; others are defiant and swift; some are graceful and pleading; some stately, some simple; some proud, some piteous; but each time, as the common thread, she is dr... |
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| 21 | 256 |
The dust was closer now. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 611 |
Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by... |
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| 8 | 100 |
She leaned closer to me, smiling, putting one finger up to my shoulder. |
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| 11 | 163 |
Ho-Tu lifted the torch closer to the two cages. |
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| 13 | 5 |
It seemed she had vanished from the central cylinder, in those portions of it devoted to the private quarters of the Administrator and his family and closer associates, almost under the very noses of Taurentian guardsmen. |
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| 13 | 26 |
Further, abducting a wench from the Hinrabians, if a rather arrogant gesture, would not have brought Marlenus closer to the throne of Ar, nor would it have much hurt the city. |
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| 13 | 260 |
Mip moved a bit closer. |
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| 15 | 58 |
Her head went farther back, as her hands moved on the arms of the Warrior, as though once to press him away, and then again to draw him closer, and her head then touched the furs, her body a cruel, helpless bow in his hands, and then, her head down, it seemed she struggled and her body straightened ... |
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| 17 | 418 |
"Closer than I like," I admitted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90 |
The calls of marsh gants, a kind of piping whistle, seemed more frequent now, and somewhat closer. |
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| 7 | 110 |
She had now come closer to me, as I had indicated she should, and stood now where, if I wished, I might take her in my grasp. |
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| 8 | 103 |
The barges, during the afternoon, had been eased into a closer line, the stem of one lying abeam of the stern of the next, being made fast there by lines. |
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| 10 | 48 |
On one chair, some fifteen yards away, somewhat lower and closer the thrones of the Ubars, sat an officer, whom I recognized. |
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| 15 | 743 |
Telima timidly came closer. |
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| 17 | 73 |
Meanwhile, of course, the numerous bowmen, and the men at the springals, catapults and onagers would be keeping up a heavy fire, the more devastating, the closer the distance. |
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| 18 | 607 |
We heard the men climbing closer on the siege poles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 583 |
I heard the scream of the bird behind me, and the beating of its great wings, closer and closer! I stumbled, screaming, then running again. |
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| 6 | 171 |
He now came closer to me. |
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| 7 | 403 |
I watched the flat wagon rolling closer. |
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| 12 | 48 |
Surreptitiously, I moved, picking berries here and there, closer to Ute. |
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| 12 | 99 |
The music was coming closer. |
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| 12 | 248 |
I pressed closer to the opening, looking out. |
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| 13 | 507 |
In a few minutes it became clear that the sounds were becoming closer. |
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| 13 | 518 |
Then, to my irritation, even closer, I heard the din, and now part of it seemed to be coming from before me. |
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| 15 | 397 |
She knelt closer to him than she needed to. |
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| 15 | 1375 |
"Come closer," he said. |
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| 15 | 1380 |
"Come closer," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 48 |
The man whom Rim had identified as Arn, an outlaw, now came forward, passing before the two frames, closer down to the beach's edge. |
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| 3 | 67 |
There is little water closer to it than a thousand pasangs. |
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| 5 | 234 |
I went closer. |
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| 6 | 426 |
With her foot she kicked the dropped weapons closer the fire, away from my men. |
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| 9 | 369 |
"The moons are now risen," said another panther girl, edging closer to Verna. |
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| 14 | 309 |
The girls now put down their weapons and crowded about the bound figure of Marlenus, looking at him, inching closer, breathing heavily, not speaking. |
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| 16 | 198 |
It came closer. |
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| 18 | 214 |
Then, on the other side of them, closer to the sea, lay the gagged, helplessly thonged slave girls; then came the blankets and supplies of Hura's twenty-one women; then came the equipment of the fifty-five men of Tyros, almost at the margin of the animal fires. |
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| 18 | 517 |
The two lanterns were now closer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 209 |
They made the air even closer, burning the oxygen. |
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| 6 | 499 |
He might know the haunts of Kurii; he might know dialects of the north, some of which are quite divergent from standard Gorean, as it is spoken, say, in Ar or Ko-ro-ba, or even in distant Turia; the habits and customs of the northern halls and villages might be familiar to him; I had no wish to be t... |
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| 8 | 246 |
"Go closer," said the Forkbeard. |
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| 8 | 247 |
Almost noiselessly oars dipped, bringing us closer to the hull of Black Sleen. |
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| 14 | 106 |
The Kurii crept closer. |
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| 22 | 284 |
Somewhere, above that placid sky with its swift, white clouds, closer now, were Kurii. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 475 |
Closer came the men, stopping, starting, moving from one man to the next, down the long line. |
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| 14 | 216 |
The men were closer now, fastening on the prisoners the slave hoods. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 180 |
The effect of this, being for a time relatively at ease, and then being forced suddenly to move ten times closer to the block tends, suddenly, to whet one's fears and anticipations anew; when one, psychologically, in spite of herself, had begun to feel a little safe one is suddenly hurried even clos... |
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| 2 | 40 |
He stood closer to me than would have a man of my world. |
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| 2 | 45 |
Closer than this we did not, commonly, in my culture, approach one another. |
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| 4 | 622 |
When one of the men would lift his cup, I, or Eta, whoever might be closer, would, of course, hurry to serve him. |
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| 6 | 85 |
Then he held the cup closer to him. |
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| 6 | 94 |
"Come closer, little beauty," said Thurnus. |
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| 6 | 95 |
I crept a bit closer to him, on my knees, with the paga. |
10 |
| 6 | 238 |
Thurnus moved the cup a bit closer to him, maneuvering me into a yet more helpless position. |
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| 7 | 300 |
Some of the young men came to the line, to look us over at closer hand. |
10 |
| 8 | 103 |
It came closer. |
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| 9 | 753 |
"Closer," she said. |
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| 12 | 391 |
I snuggled closer to him. |
10 |
| 12 | 608 |
The lamp came closer. |
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| 15 | 221 |
I screamed and clutched at him, eyes closed, clawing at him, trying to bring our bodies closer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 344 |
Why one rudder rather than two? With lateen rigging one could sail closer to the wind. |
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| 3 | 1257 |
I moved through the crowds, to get somewhat closer to the block. |
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| 10 | 169 |
She wanted me in a position of maximum security, nearer the wall's center, closer to her headquarters. |
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| 12 | 216 |
They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik... |
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| 13 | 38 |
We inched closer. |
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| 15 | 1098 |
"But it is coming closer, is it not?" I asked. |
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| 21 | 326 |
"Thus," I said, "that is a situation in which a free woman is theoretically of more interest than a slave, but, upon closer analysis, the center of interest, even in such a situation, because of her latency, her womanhood, her helplessness, what can be done with her, is the slave". |
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| 22 | 249 |
"It is waiting for our closer approach," said Imnak. |
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| 26 | 209 |
"They are coming closer!" cried Arlene. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 444 |
She came closer and closer. |
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| 4 | 90 |
The masts of round ships are usually permanently fixed; those of long ships, usually single-masted, are removed before battle; most Gorean ships are lateen-rigged; this permits sailing closer to the wind. |
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| 6 | 56 |
Closer to shore one could mark clearly the traces of the Kamba to the north and the Nyoka to the south, but, given our present position, we were in the fans of these washes. |
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| 16 | 230 |
I thought that he might be dead but, as the dhow came closer, I saw him, possibly revived by the shouting and noise, raise his head. |
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| 27 | 52 |
One of the men on the platform gestured for us to come closer. |
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| 27 | 54 |
We paddled closer. |
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| 29 | 4 |
The blond-haired barbarian crept closer to me. |
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| 41 | 10 |
The shouting behind us came closer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 409 |
"He said to me, 'Come closer. |
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| 1 | 930 |
Miss Henderson lived closer to the restaurant than I. |
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| 27 | 251 |
"Bring a lantern closer," he said to one of his fellows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 7 |
"I will take you no closer to Lara than this," had said the fellow who had flown the tarn which had brought me to this place. |
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| 4 | 507 |
One thing seems clear to me, which is that the Gorean culture, for all its perils and occasional cruelties, is much closer to nature than certain other cultures. |
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| 8 | 60 |
He took another step closer. |
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| 25 | 153 |
"Victoria is closer to Port Cos than Ar's Station," said Tasdron. |
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| 32 | 273 |
"Do not come closer," I warned the pirates, "or his throat is cut". |
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| 32 | 357 |
I assumed they would think I would have emerged north and east of the channel, for that way lies closer to Victoria. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 148 |
"Closer! Closer!" called Callimachus. |
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| 4 | 7 |
It had been broken in the north, but here, closer to the southern shore of the Vosk, it had held. |
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| 17 | 608 |
Then I pulled her by the neck chain closer to me. |
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| 20 | 1785 |
Too, Goreans tend to be much closer to nature than at least the common urbanite of Earth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 128 |
He motioned him to come closer. |
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| 16 | 36 |
As we came closer we could see, here and there, and sometimes within the wagons, discarded and shattered objects. |
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| 17 | 588 |
"I would hope so," I said, "one that was framed with a closer regard for empirical reality, the actual nature of human beings, and such". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 68 |
"Let us ride closer". |
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| 1 | 87 |
I scarcely dared to conjecture what it might be like to be even closer, say, within a few hundred yards of them. |
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| 23 | 45 |
"That indicates, I think," said Cuwignaka, "that we may, at last, be closer to the center of Kaiila resistance". |
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| 27 | 14 |
"The Kinyanpi!" "Maybe it is smaller birds, a flock, much closer," said a man. |
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| 28 | 363 |
The Kurii, now, allied with the Yellow Knives, and supported by the Flighted Ones, the Kinyanpi, could systematically search the Barrens, unimpeded in their search for Zarendargar, and if an entire people, the nation of the Kaiila, should stand in their way, then what was it to them, if this nation ... |
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| 33 | 19 |
As we came closer she seemed suddenly to react. |
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| 34 | 63 |
"They are coming closer," said Cuwignaka, casually. |
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| 42 | 34 |
They were even closer now. |
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| 42 | 35 |
"Come closer!" I cried to Hci. |
10 |
| 43 | 421 |
Pursuit was closer than I liked. |
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| 44 | 705 |
Similarly a girl who is disinclined to so move, and pretends to be inert, perhaps being inspected by a customer whose collar she is not eager to wear, is likely to feel the slaver's whip upon her, and will then give closer attention, as it is her master's wish, to the beauties and provocations expec... |
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| 46 | 26 |
"Things were perhaps closer for you yesterday than you realize," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 527 |
Why did he not release me now? Why did he still keep me braceleted, like a slave? Could he not see that I was almost overcome with emotion? Could he not see my misery, my distress? Could he not see how overwrought I was? Could he not see the difficulty I was having, fighting myself? We were approach... |
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| 4 | 144 |
The crowds, from time to time, surged closer to the palanquin. |
10 |
| 8 | 536 |
Each step, too, was taking me closer to the room! I wished that I had never seen slaves, and the house of Kliomenes. |
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| 9 | 91 |
"Each of our victories," I said, "seems to occur closer to Corcyrus". |
10 |
| 13 | 76 |
There, of course, if she were found sufficiently pleasing, after perhaps a closer examination and trial, another collar might be put on her. |
10 |
| 16 | 128 |
The bells were coming closer. |
10 |
| 16 | 364 |
I was closer to Ar than I cared to be. |
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| 18 | 180 |
For so little I had been struck by the free woman, and tricked and frustrated in the chains! He pulled me closer to him by the leash. |
10 |
| 21 | 22 |
Not only would this bring me into areas of greater population concentrations but, too, it would take me closer to Ar. |
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| 30 | 80 |
It had two bowls, an upper bowl and a lower one, closer to the walking level, the water from the upper bowl spilling over into the lower. |
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| 33 | 147 |
Ligurious threw him a look of hatred and then came closer to me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 983 |
Yet one had the distinct impression, in the lovely conventions involved, that they were getting closer and closer. |
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| 1 | 815 |
I saw other girls moving closer to the tables, subtly taking more prominent positions, hoping perhaps thereby to be more visible to the men. |
10 |
| 2 | 981 |
Too, of course, the stab from a shorter distance at closer range, point-blank range, so to speak, is likely to be more accurate. |
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| 9 | 310 |
"Chino, bring a torch closer," said Boots. |
10 |
| 9 | 320 |
"Hold the torch closer," said Boots to Chino. |
10 |
| 14 | 252 |
I looked over to Nim Nim, a few yards from me, much closer to the pack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 128 |
We were now closer to the women. |
10 |
| 13 | 146 |
Now that we were closer I could see that the women were all on a single chain, fastened on it by side-loops, of the same chain, secured with sturdy padlocks. |
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| 20 | 115 |
I watched the walls of Ar grow closer. |
10 |
| 23 | 75 |
"Come closer," I said. |
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| 26 | 164 |
There was another whistle behind me, closer now. |
10 |
| 26 | 193 |
It was no closer. |
10 |
| 26 | 194 |
The whistle from my left, then, was a bit closer. |
10 |
| 26 | 245 |
I heard him come a foot or so closer. |
10 |
| 26 | 248 |
I heard the fellow on the left come a little closer. |
10 |
| 26 | 259 |
I heard them both coming a little closer. |
10 |
| 26 | 1763 |
We went a bit closer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 117 |
"It was a world in which men and women stood closer to the fires of life," he said. |
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| 6 | 677 |
I heard more of the hootings and noises, the sex calls, closer now. |
10 |
| 10 | 222 |
"Come closer," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 535 |
In Gorean culture, generally, it seemed to me that people stood closer to one another than I was accustomed to on Earth. |
10 |
| 10 | 536 |
In this way it was natural for men here, for example, to stand much closer to the scantily clad slave than the average man of, say, northern Europe, on Earth, would be likely to, to a woman of his area. |
10 |
| 11 | 749 |
I saw Inger inch a little closer to Tamirus, on her knees. |
10 |
| 11 | 1125 |
"Make her jump, for me!" laughed another, closer. |
10 |
| 11 | 1224 |
I could not leave the alcove of course, but I had been permitted slack, enough to kick, it seems, as in the throes of passion or, helplessly, as though to hold on for dear life, to clench my legs about a master's legs or, if I were pulled down, closer to the ring, his body. |
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| 17 | 83 |
We must now be closer to the square, as it seemed there were more people in the street. |
10 |
| 17 | 381 |
My former master thrust his collar, the chain attached, higher on my neck, closer to the chin. |
10 |
| 20 | 348 |
It seemed to me certainly that one might find such service closer to Brundisium. |
10 |
| 24 | 468 |
"It happened only a pasang or so from the walls of Venna," she said, "closer to Venna than our camp". |
10 |
| 29 | 802 |
"Come closer," said Hendow. |
10 |
| 33 | 4 |
Closer to me there were some trees and brush. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 770 |
It is common, incidentally, to coffle girls from behind, and usually while kneeling, to minimize bolting, and, I suppose, to increase trepidation, as the collars, with the snappings, and the tiny rustle of chain links, come closer and closer, until the girl, probably then to her relief, the suspense... |
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| 1 | 436 |
In a new flash of lightning I saw the stony plateau, much closer now, surmounted by the inn of the Crooked Tarn. |
10 |
| 4 | 101 |
Some of the fellows who had been reclining about the platforms then came closer to the platform where the fire was built up. |
10 |
| 5 | 2 |
"Closer". |
10 |
| 5 | 4 |
With a sound of chain she came closer. |
10 |
| 8 | 119 |
"Hold your hand out, closer, palm more open, for my examination," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 21 |
The only closer entrenchments were sapping trenches, partly covered with wood, leading directly toward the walls. |
10 |
| 16 | 121 |
She tried to scramble back, but I reached out and took her ankle, and then pulled her where I wanted her, closer, across the stones. |
10 |
| 18 | 199 |
"Stay closer to the wall!" I cried. |
10 |
| 18 | 200 |
"Get closer to the wall!" I saw another fellow, his hands on a large stone, it held over his head, turn and fall within the rampart, struck by a quarrel. |
10 |
| 18 | 339 |
I took advantage of this to pull in the flanks and send them back over the walkway, and then drew the fellows before me closer, freeing some, the lines then being shortened, to follow their fellows back. |
10 |
| 19 | 6 |
Indeed, the walkway for a dozen yards, closer to the landing, was covered by these boats, until the camp commander sent his own crossbowmen out on the walkway, to keep them their distance. |
10 |
| 19 | 153 |
"Do not come closer," I told him. |
10 |
| 19 | 165 |
He did not attempt to come closer. |
10 |
| 20 | 152 |
The ships were closer now. |
10 |
| 24 | 618 |
When Publia had been drawn closer to the rail two other fellows reached out and pulled her to the bow deck where they knelt her, in the shackles, in the harness, still attached to the chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 781 |
Closer and closer to my hand came the relentless upper jaw, until it was stopped, held by the guard. |
10 |
| 1 | 493 |
She came then even closer to him, on her side, frightened and excited, and, lifting her head, timidly kissed him on the knee. |
10 |
| 14 | 199 |
"The sounds will now be closer," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 207 |
"They are coming closer, they will grow louder". |
10 |
| 17 | 221 |
"The clouds come closer!" cried a fellow. |
10 |
| 19 | 38 |
I had also seen then, as I had come closer, the small head of the creature, small considering the size of its body, and the span of its wings, lift up, above the rence, with its long narrow, toothed jaws, like a long snout or bill, with that long, narrow extension of skin and bone in the back, balan... |
10 |
| 42 | 7 |
I then put her even closer to the wall. |
10 |
| 46 | 83 |
But then, he, too, was silent, as he observed the cloud of fellows behind us, now more than four or five, now something closer to a dozen, their numbers having been added to in our progress. |
10 |
| 47 | 50 |
"Yes," said one of the closer fellows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 32 |
"They may be closer," said a man. |
10 |
| 7 | 91 |
The sounds of the drums and trumpets to our right were now closer. |
10 |
| 8 | 971 |
Phoebe shrank back a bit, closer to Marcus. |
10 |
| 9 | 271 |
I myself moved closer to the platform, pressing even against it. |
10 |
| 20 | 329 |
I then removed the first of the other two collars from the box and, reaching out, put it on her neck, next to the other collar, but ahead of it, closer to the chin. |
10 |
| 20 | 336 |
This second collar I then put on her neck, next to the original collar, and ahead of it, closer to the chin, as I had the one a moment before. |
10 |
| 22 | 189 |
On the other hand, his mien seemed hostile, so I moved somewhat closer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 315 |
Closer and closer they came. |
10 |
| 24 | 22 |
Perhaps they had moved in stages, by night, coming closer and closer to the city, concealing themselves by day in ravines, now, at this time of day, making their dash toward the city. |
10 |
| 4 | 57 |
I heard doors opened, on different sides of the corridor, it seemed, getting closer. |
10 |
| 4 | 76 |
The doors, opening, were coming closer now. |
10 |
| 8 | 621 |
Then, a moment later, closer, I heard the same cry. |
10 |
| 8 | 645 |
I suddenly then heard again, this time so much closer and terrible, from somewhere to the right, perhaps no more than a hundred yards away, that dreadful shrill birdlike cry or scream. |
10 |
| 11 | 108 |
"Come closer," invited the man on the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 436 |
The wines themselves could be sweetened, but are normally served bitter, which taste, as I understand it, is closer to that of the original root, the sip root, from which they are ultimately derived. |
10 |
| 12 | 798 |
Closer grew the light. |
10 |
| 12 | 802 |
Of what use, I asked myself, would be my beauty, if beauty it was, or the helplessness of my sexual reflexes, taken as a matter of course in a slave, in a place such as this? But doubtless I would be assigned my duties! The light came closer. |
10 |
| 12 | 815 |
The light was now closer, and I could determine, clearly, that there were two figures in the passage. |
10 |
| 12 | 1024 |
He drew my head forward, closer to his. |
10 |
| 13 | 294 |
What if I should lose my balance? How could I protect myself? "Closer!" said the brunet slave. |
10 |
| 13 | 295 |
I came closer to the wall, looked, gasped, cried out in terror, and shrank back. |
10 |
| 14 | 1454 |
He crooked a finger under my collar and pulled me closer to him, holding me in place. |
10 |
| 14 | 1464 |
She, to my surprise, however, stood closer to him than I would have expected, and more close to him than I had, originally. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 15 | 96 |
"Bring the torch closer," said the leader. |
10 |
| 17 | 82 |
"For I am closer to you than he," he whispered. |
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| 19 | 296 |
He then faced the crowd and lifted his hands to the left and right, indicating the captives, now having been separated from the other loot and brought forward, closer to the crowd, both those in lines, they accounting for the largest number, and those kneeling separately, all bound, many in sirik, i... |
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| 24 | 517 |
She crept closer to the wall. |
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| 26 | 59 |
The guard's footsteps came closer. |
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| 29 | 468 |
She stood a little closer to him. |
10 |
| 29 | 640 |
She inched closer to him. |
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| 29 | 900 |
With her insult the free woman may have inadvertently placed herself closer to their grasp than she realized. |
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| 31 | 196 |
"Bring the lantern closer," he said to one of his men. |
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| 37 | 223 |
Some of us had tried to flee to the left, others to the right, whichever was closer to us. |
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| 37 | 947 |
It then emerged, again, closer to us. |
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| 37 | 988 |
"Let us get more men," said Gito, who had crept closer to the portal. |
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| 37 | 1007 |
He went under again, seemingly pulled down, and then, choking, spitting water, came again to the surface, closer. |
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| 37 | 1064 |
But it might have been to his advantage had he paid closer attention to the figure in the water for suddenly the thing behind Abnik rose up in the water and, at the same time, we saw the quarrel of a bow emerge and the cable snapped forward and the quarrel took the lieutenant in the side of the thro... |
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| 41 | 13 |
But I had wanted to press my hands against its solidity, knowing there was a world on the other side of the garden, and that I was then a little closer to it. |
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| 44 | 9 |
I also heard a stirring of straw, and supposed that she was pulled forward, presumably to kneel, as free men were present, closer to the box. |
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| 45 | 148 |
And surely I am not to be blamed if the slave in me was a little closer to the surface, a little more eager, a little less repressed than that in some others". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 44 |
She then stopped, and, in a moment, stepped back into an empty row, the next closer to the exit, still not taking her eyes from him. |
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| 7 | 184 |
She put her face closer to the polished surface. |
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| 7 | 208 |
But, she suspects, they were more likely frequently changed in order to preclude the formation of closer associations with her, associations which might lead to friendship, and, consequently, a possible diminution of the professionalism, the rigor, of the instruction. |
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| 10 | 37 |
The young charge was jealous of Tutina, of her power, her beauty, and her standing closer to the master. |
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| 11 | 127 |
"Bend down, here, near me," said the woman, "so that I may have a closer look". |
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| 15 | 58 |
Such women tend to be reflective and introspective, and tend thus to be in closer touch with their needs, desires and emotions than simpler women. |
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| 15 | 681 |
She moved a little closer to him, and then, suddenly, beggingly, impulsively, as if she scarcely knew what she was doing, put her head to his right knee, turning her head and resting the side of her face, her left cheek, on his knee. |
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| 15 | 754 |
Please do not hurt me more!" But he drew her closer to him, not cruelly, but firmly. |
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| 20 | 516 |
What did they know of men and the women in their collars? The older lad motioned that she should come closer, and then cautioned her to approach no more closely. |
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| 22 | 6 |
Goreans do not eschew emotion; eagerness, zeal, warmth, heat and passion are common with them; they tend to be vehement, hearty, cordial, enthusiastic, ardent, impetuous; they are quick to anger, quick to forget, quick to laugh; they do not pretend to subscribe to obvious falsehoods; they value trut... |
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| 22 | 32 |
"117," said the woman, leaning closer, reading the number on Ellen's breast. |
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| 22 | 498 |
The origins probably lie closer to the interests and desires of imperious, unconquered men, the pleasures and utilities to be found in the ownership and mastery of such delicious creatures. |
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| 22 | 564 |
She did not want to make her way to the sutlers for that way took her into the darkness, and into the tented areas, closer to the walls of the city. |
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| 24 | 660 |
Ellen, dancing, circumambulated the interior edge of the dancing sand, sometimes closer, almost within an arm's reach of the men, sometimes farther back. |
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| 26 | 1444 |
She tried to draw back, a little, but he drew her head, by the hair, a few inches closer to his body. |
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| 27 | 978 |
The hands of the other riders moved closer to their weapons. |
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| 27 | 1707 |
To be sure, it seemed closer now. |
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| 27 | 1936 |
Almost at the same time the nearer tarn, that which had supported the closer basket, that which had soared over the camp near the conclusion of the fray, took flight. |
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| 27 | 2342 |
Then she moved closer to the wheel and with the fingers of her braceleted hands delicately touched the collar on her neck, beneath the rope. |
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| 27 | 2737 |
They stayed with me, some yards away, they drew closer, silently. |
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| 27 | 2751 |
"They are closer now than is common, to a camp," said one of the soldiers, uneasily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 494 |
Then Grendel drew the weapon closer and closer to himself, inch by inch. |
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| 10 | 271 |
He gestured him even closer, and then moved the fur on his right shoulder, in which movement it rippled, wavelike, and uttered a soft sound to the girl. |
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| 13 | 20 |
There seemed to be some twenty or thirty of them which were now encircling him, none closer than thirty or forty feet. |
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| 13 | 42 |
Some of the females had now come a little closer. |
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| 13 | 56 |
The women are coming closer, he thought. |
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| 19 | 83 |
The larl, irritated, puzzled, put its muzzle closer to the machine, trying to fathom its nature, and the mouth of the machine, very gently, opened, and took the throat of the larl in its metal jaws. |
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| 29 | 317 |
The beast came a bit closer. |
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| 33 | 38 |
The slave crawled closer to the center of the large, rude raft, some yards in width, and lay there, supine, her left arm shading her eyes from the light, amidst the small store of supplies, one property amongst others. |
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| 33 | 112 |
"We are closer to land," said Grendel. |
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| 33 | 113 |
"Such things are commonly found closer to shore. |
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| 33 | 116 |
There is more forage closer to shore, for fish, for herbivores, for their prey". |
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| 47 | 11 |
One would do one's best to adhere to the surface and then, as possible, now and again, move a foot or two, at a time, closer to the center of the cap. |
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| 70 | 25 |
He then beckoned Ramar closer and the giant beast warily, reluctantly, approached. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 |
"Do not move closer," I told Constantina and Cecily. |
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| 22 | 531 |
The Ashigaru approaching from the central camp were now closer. |
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| 25 | 50 |
Is it honor and the codes, I wondered, which separate us from animals, or, rather, is it they which bring us closer to the innocence of the animals. |
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| 30 | 16 |
The lateen-rigged galley can sail closer to the wind, but, for a given length of yard, it exposes less surface to the wind. |
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| 36 | 39 |
"Come no closer," said Aëtius. |
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| 41 | 33 |
Still we were far from shore, and the sea sleen, as other forms of predatory sea life, tends to range the fishing banks, so to speak, shallower waters closer to shore where sea plants can get sunlight, these plants then forming the basis of a rich marine ecology. |
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| 42 | 55 |
"Comply," said Tajima, and he himself, followed by Pertinax, entered the water beside the hull, to roll the body of the sleen closer to the hull. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 36 |
We were lateen-rigged, as is common, this allowing one to sail closer to the wind. |
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| 2 | 105 |
"If you must," said the second officer, "go closer, look, and then flee, but it is pointless, and none will believe your report". |
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| 2 | 252 |
"Closer," said the voice. |
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| 3 | 197 |
"None closer," she said. |
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| 12 | 40 |
You are away from things, and seem closer to the wind, the clouds, and sunlight, and, all about, for pasangs, stretches the vast, encompassing ambiguity of Thassa, subtle and minacious, welcoming and threatening, benignant and perilous, restless, sparkling, and dangerous, green, vast, intriguing, be... |
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| 12 | 315 |
The voice was then closer. |
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| 14 | 194 |
In the water Durbar, the water red about him, gasping, confused, extended his hand to Seremides, who did not accept his hand, perhaps fearing the loss of balance, but motioned him closer. |
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| 14 | 296 |
"Closer!" he said. |
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| 14 | 297 |
I moved closer. |
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| 14 | 317 |
"Noble Callias!" grinned Seremides, moving a hort closer. |
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| 14 | 330 |
He crawled closer and struck again. |
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| 15 | 27 |
The border, so to speak, as far off as it might be in any case, tended to move, and with some periodicity; it was thus sometimes closer, sometimes farther away. |
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| 15 | 28 |
Charts, prepared on the basis of the reconnaissances of the tarn scouts, plotted these movements, and we moved toward the border, or edge, which, on the whole, was often closer than farther. |
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| 20 | 93 |
Both slaves, in the presence of the other, tried to spread their knees as little as possible, while still maintaining position, as though each might thereby seem superior to the other, as being closer to the position of a free woman. |
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| 21 | 133 |
"Have Aëtius instruct the helmsman to bring the ship closer to shore, a half pasang". |
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| 21 | 163 |
That we were closer to shore, whatever might be its advantages or disadvantages, did increase the tension on board, and various crew members, acting as spokesmen for one group or another, from one deck or another, urged minor officers to petition for a landing. |
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| 21 | 793 |
"Bring the lamp closer," I said to Alcinoë. |
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| 22 | 148 |
Shouts, and the clash of weapons, seemed closer. |
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| 22 | 294 |
On the other hand, it was easy to read the movements before us, to see the torchlight on helmets and weapons, to hear, drawing closer, the rustle of steel, leather, and accouterments. |
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| 23 | 10 |
Small as it seemed now, I knew, given the proportion of the mountains, and the high cliff it dominated, it would be mighty in closer prospect. |
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| 31 | 11 |
Most of the men, given the identificatory markings on sacks and boxes, carefully checked and recorded, accepted this explanation, and even welcomed the removal of their wealth from the ship, and its storing closer at hand, under conditions of greater security. |
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| 37 | 564 |
"Closer to two," I conjectured. |
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| 37 | 572 |
"Bring the lamp closer". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 599 |
"Come closer". |
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| 4 | 600 |
Then, while she chatted with the young man beside her, she pulled me by the hair closer, and held me, painfully, my face down, at the table, and wiped her hands, carefully and firmly, in my hair. |
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| 6 | 30 |
"They are coming closer," said Cara. |
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| 6 | 31 |
"Closer!" wept Portia. |
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| 10 | 1074 |
How close the edge seemed, the sharp drop much closer than it could have been in reality. |
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| 17 | 523 |
At the end of the day we were making our way from the tiers, descending toward the broad open area between the rail and the stands, from there to exit toward the wagon-and-cart yard, some adjacent inns, and some of the closer camps. |
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| 18 | 17 |
"Come closer," he said. |
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| 18 | 427 |
"Perhaps Master would care to gaze upon a slave closer at hand," I said. |
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| 18 | 979 |
Closer to Ar, the number lists the pasangs to Ar, with an indication of the direction of Ar. |
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| 18 | 980 |
Closer to Venna, the number lists the pasangs to Venna, with an indication of the direction of Venna. |
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| 20 | 131 |
I knew curiosity was not becoming in a kajira, but I crawled a little closer, and listened intently. |
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| 23 | 99 |
"Come closer," called Desmond of Harfax. |
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| 26 | 5 |
Four days later we were much closer to the Crag of Kleinias. |
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| 26 | 28 |
She was closer now. |
10 |
| 33 | 132 |
I gathered that his Kur was closer to Kur, than his Gorean to Gorean. |
10 |
| 42 | 67 |
He was, bit by bit, moving closer to me. |
10 |
| 47 | 78 |
Leaning forward I saw, approaching, Desmond of Harfax, followed by two Kurii, who occasionally bared their fangs threateningly, and growled, as men started to surge closer to their charge. |
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| 48 | 124 |
Back in the room, closer to the portal through which the newcomers had emerged, Kur struggled with Kur. |
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| 52 | 466 |
"Yes, Master," I said, snuggling closer to him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 92 |
How strange that I, lonely, lost in my uncaring world, aching for the touch of a man, should have pretended to indifference, disdain, and contempt! I think I was closer to myself than many, and nearer to the feet of a master. |
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| 7 | 68 |
The bars, too, are widely spaced, though not so widely spaced that a girl may slip between them, to enable customers, passers- by, and others, to enjoy a relatively unimpeded view of the goods to be offered later in the day A girl may be called to the bars, for a closer inspection, and she must, if ... |
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| 11 | 30 |
"Kneel to be watered, and fed, pretty beasts," we heard, this time closer. |
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| 16 | 214 |
She inched closer to me. |
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| 25 | 220 |
Had I been closer to the tangle I do not doubt but what I would have been drawn into it, been covered by it, and, wrapped in its coils, drained of blood, and whatever other life fluids from which the growth might derive nourishment. |
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| 26 | 231 |
I had heard several men had been killed near the wands, as the time of launching the great ship grew closer. |
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| 29 | 16 |
The group was coming closer. |
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| 48 | 48 |
Then the beast stood up fiercely, like a threatening, pulsating mountain, broad and braced, seething, its chest expanded, its paws spread, stood up to each tiny increment of its height, lifted its large, shaggy head angrily to the afternoon sky, and roared, a terrible roar, much like those we had he... |
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| 50 | 313 |
As he was rowing he was facing me, naturally, and the closer shore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 79 |
At closer quarters one might use quivas, saddle knives, or Anango darts. |
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| 2 | 161 |
The tarn stirred behind me, closer now, still to my right. |
10 |
| 14 | 96 |
"They are closer now," said Lord Akio. |
10 |
| 29 | 31 |
I could soon detect two far behind me but growing closer. |
10 |
| 30 | 117 |
I assumed this must have been either Tyrtaios or his colleague, probably the colleague, as Tyrtaios would more likely be in closer contact with Lord Yamada. |
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| 40 | 74 |
"Come no closer!" he said. |
10 |
| 42 | 314 |
"Stand closer to her," I said. |
10 |
| 47 | 246 |
Again, at the closer range, an arrow flashed from the bow. |
10 |
| 57 | 278 |
"Closer". |
10 |
| 59 | 248 |
To be sure, I would have preferred a different blade, the shorter, broader gladius, designed for closer work, for stabbing, for moving within the guard of heavier, longer weapons. |
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| 60 | 322 |
Fighting bodies were no longer interposed between Yasushi and Tajima and the foe at their portion of the bridge, nor, at the other portion of the bridge, that closer to the gate and the raked sand, between Lord Yamada and Nodachi and the foe. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 49 |
The situation is occasionally complicated by the fact that a street may have more than one name, depending on your informant, and, sometimes, it will change its name, depending on your location, a street having, say, one name closer to the piers, and another name closer to the markets. |
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| 15 | 256 |
He held me closer to him, tightly, by the arm. |
10 |
| 20 | 43 |
"Surely there is a closer fountain to Venaticus". |
10 |
| 27 | 91 |
"They are closer, Master," I said. |
10 |
| 29 | 10 |
I was grateful I had not been secured closer to the piers. |
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| 33 | 19 |
"Bring the lantern closer, lift it, illuminate the interior of the crate," said he who had admitted us. |
10 |
| 33 | 591 |
The three beasts, now illuminated from the side by the fallen lantern, it inert but still burning, to our left, the flame oddly vertical, the lamp horizontal, shuffled a pace closer. |
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| 39 | 105 |
"But perhaps I should limit your gruel, to reduce your weight by two or three minna, and trim your curves a bit, to bring you a little closer to what, for you, would be ideal block measurements". |
10 |
| 39 | 117 |
"First," he said, "snuggle closer to me, lift your head, lick and kiss my neck, and then press your lips to mine, kissing, as a slave". |
10 |
| 52 | 75 |
I knelt a bit closer to him than would be the normal distance. |
10 |
| 56 | 39 |
Drusus Andronicus, doubtless in view of the innocuous nature, the prosaic sociality, of this meeting, had brought a slave with him, who knelt unobtrusively, to be sure, but a bit closer to him than I would have supposed customary, Paula. |
10 |
| 56 | 129 |
Eve, happily, crept a bit closer to Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 57 | 96 |
"Scarcely," he said, "you are tunicked, and this way you are closer to me, and I can see more of you". |
10 |
| 61 | 1 |
The one seeming beast, it with the ax, as one would expect, had been rather behind his charge, but, as it came closer, and was less blocked from view, I was startled. |
10 |
| 61 | 7 |
"Bring the wretch forward, closer," commanded one of the Kurii in the box. |
10 |
| 61 | 32 |
Aelius, ax in hands, stepped back, closer to the stands. |
10 |
| 61 | 792 |
Kurii were inching closer, wary of the axes of Surtak and Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 61 | 809 |
One Kur crept closer to the Lady Bina, but she lifted her parasol, several exposed spines forward, and it slunk back. |
10 |
| 64 | 64 |
Closer to the center of the camp were private enclosures where free women might refresh themselves, bathing themselves or being bathed by serving slaves. |
10 |
| 64 | 105 |
I was certain the masters could have rented a yard much closer to the center of the camp, the shops, and such. |
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| 65 | 186 |
"I suggest," said the Lady Bina, "that some of you fellows bring those torches a bit closer and lift them higher. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 102 |
He came closer and closer and then suddenly, snarling, turned toward me. |
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| 6 | 139 |
The lantern was closer now, no longer lifted, but held lower, at waist level. |
10 |
| 7 | 48 |
There would be a silence, and then, a moment later, a sound, as of wood striking wood, coming ever closer. |
10 |
| 8 | 676 |
I noted, with apprehension, that the other ship was closer now, indeed, perhaps no more than a half pasang away. |
10 |
| 11 | 95 |
When an urt is sighted, the girl moves closer to the boat. |
10 |
| 21 | 97 |
But perhaps his presence on the walkway was a mere coincidence? In the vicinity of the bridge, when I looked again, he was much closer than I had thought he might be. |
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| 23 | 31 |
Would it not be terrible to place a slave in such garmenture, and then arrange to have her, so compromised, discovered? Who could so hate a slave? Perhaps a free woman? Perhaps the Lady Dorna? I pulled at the clothing, and feared I knew what it was, and then I rose and went closer to the small lamp ... |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 37 | 224 |
"Come closer," said the officer. |
10 |
| 40 | 68 |
"And some rumors, it seems," said the newcomer, soberly, "spread their wings closer to home, in the arsenal itself". |
10 |
| 40 | 145 |
"Yet I would feel better if Bosk were closer at hand". |
10 |
| 40 | 255 |
We will have to find a way to keep closer track of you. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 23 |
Twice, from the wall, we saw a mercenary slain by an officer, presumably in connection with some such reluctance or noncompliance, and twice we saw the officer die; in one case, men gathered about him, closer and closer, despite his protests, and, later, when the men dispersed, the officer's bloodie... |
10 |
| 57 | 55 |
The sides of the two vessels were coming closer and closer to one another. |
10 |
| 11 | 148 |
"No," I said, pressing my garment closer to my body. |
10 |
| 14 | 31 |
We had a fair wind, and, even if it were not so, the lateen-rigged vessel would be little dismayed, as it sails closer to the wind than its square-rigged fellows, commonly found in the north. |
10 |
| 14 | 39 |
I did include some closer villages on the map, but they exist only on the map". |
10 |
| 17 | 452 |
I then pulled her closer. |
10 |
| 20 | 71 |
"Stay where you are!" Uniformed, armed men had thrust through the rents in the canvas, pushing men closer together, until, in a moment, there was no longer an aisle in the tent. |
10 |
| 51 | 159 |
It turned about and, the mercenaries with spears continuing to fend off desperate swimmers, began to make its way back toward the two unharmed corsair ships, waiting closer to shore. |
10 |
| 53 | 266 |
"Let it get farther from the mother ship, say, midpoint between the mother ship and the four closer ships". |
10 |
| 56 | 13 |
"The observation ship of the corsairs, forward from the balance of the fleet, is closer now," said Clitus. |
10 |
| 56 | 15 |
"I want it closer," I said, "and I want the mercenaries to mass together, crowded, shield to shield, intent on naught but war, each hoping for his place on a ladder, each eager for a kill". |
10 |
| 58 | 34 |
"I am curious, Captain," said Sakim, "why you have persisted in holding our course for Sybaris and not the Cove of Harpalos, which is closer". |
10 |
| 60 | 32 |
"They are coming closer," I said. |
10 |
| 60 | 35 |
"The others with the amphorae, drift closer, too," I said. |
10 |
| 60 | 36 |
The two closer men stopped now and then, began to cast scraps into the water, these extracted by handfuls from canvas sacks worn at their belts. |
10 |
| 60 | 97 |
The six hooded fellows were drifting closer now. |
10 |
| 60 | 180 |
"You kill!" cried the first of the two closer fellows, backing away, not taking his eye off Thurnock and myself. |
10 |
| 60 | 182 |
This left the other closer man, and Ctesippus and Laios. |
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