| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 21 |
"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 60 |
They spend much of the day in the water and, it is said, are more at ease in that element than the Cosian song fish. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 254 |
Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 21 | 164 |
Eteocles had fled; I had known him last to be in terraced Cos, an advisor to her Ubar, gross Lurius, of the Cosian city of Jad. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 716 |
No sign of a slave there! Others of her crew, and survivors, were in the water, making for Cosian vessels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 484 |
Free tarsk and roast bosk were being served, and Sa-Tarna bread and Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes of the Cosian terraces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 632 |
"There are passage papers here," he said, "and a declaration of Cosian citizenship, which is doubtless forged. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 158 |
"Your Cosian sympathies are showing," I cautioned him. |
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| 28 | 171 |
She had brought, too, paga, Cosian wine and water. |
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| 29 | 45 |
"Victoria, hitherto at least, has been primarily Cosian in her sympathies". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 70 |
The naval tradition of Cos is an ancient one, and many of the officers of Port Cos were native Cosians, mercenaries or veterans of the Cosian navy, on detached duty to the colony, that the interests of the mother island might be defended on the Vosk. |
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| 4 | 9 |
Too, the left flank of our position was protected, still, by the mighty links of the Cosian chain, transported to the Vosk, slung between its pylons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 895 |
"We obtain the beans, from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who, in turn, obtain them in the tropics". |
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| 33 | 831 |
We did not think that Ar would honor its treaty commitments with Argentum, that it would risk all-out war with the Cosian Alliance, in which Corcyrus was implicated. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 995 |
The Cosian infantry, meeting her on land in open battle, in force, would be crushed. |
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| 21 | 216 |
"Who knows? You might even be permitted to live, perhaps as a blinded, tongueless slave chained to the bench of a Cosian galley". |
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| 21 | 217 |
"Cosian?" I asked. |
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| 22 | 224 |
"Such fellows, at any rate, would seldom travel with an escort of Cosian spearmen". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 144 |
To be sure, many of its contingents were composed of mercenaries sworn to the temporary service of diverse fee captains, and not Cosian regulars. |
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| 4 | 34 |
I had little doubt that it was the current weakness and disorder in this area, attendant on the Cosian invasion, which had drawn the Alars this far south. |
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| 5 | 93 |
We were in the camp of the wagoners, one of those associated with the supply trains of the soldiers of Cos and the Cosian mercenaries. |
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| 6 | 35 |
I pondered the likely prices of a stuffed mushroom in a black-market transaction in a war-torn district, one turned into a near desert by the predations of organized foragers, in particular, the price of such a mushroom perhaps diverted at great hazard from the tables of Cosian generals. |
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| 8 | 87 |
"Cosian mercenaries?" asked Hurtha. |
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| 8 | 89 |
It did not seem to me impossible that some of the mercenary troops with the Cosian army might have doubled back to strike at one of their own supply columns. |
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| 9 | 3 |
"It will be more Cosian cavalry," said Hurtha. |
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| 9 | 15 |
"Cosian cavalry, I think," he said. |
10 |
| 9 | 51 |
In a moment, in a rush of bodies and blue, with the sound of weapons, the Cosian contingent had swept by. |
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| 9 | 52 |
To one side, off the road, a Cosian guard, mounted, lifted his lance in salute. |
10 |
| 9 | 65 |
Torcadino, as far as I knew, had been left at the mercy of the Cosian armies. |
10 |
| 9 | 66 |
The city was now used as a Cosian stronghold and staging area. |
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| 10 | 33 |
"If Torcadino were to be stormed, and fired, and these supplies captured or destroyed, the Cosian movements would surely be hampered, if not altogether arrested. |
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| 10 | 36 |
"The Cosian armies are in the vicinity," said Mincon. |
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| 12 | 185 |
Soldiers, in double file, wading, moving sometimes even over the heads of Cosian troops, traversed them". |
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| 15 | 150 |
I had once served on a Cosian galley. |
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| 15 | 153 |
"Yet," said he, "you were traveling with a Cosian supply train, using the cover of the train to move southward in troubled times. |
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| 15 | 214 |
Too, I suspect your ejection of the civilian population from Torcadino is not merely political, to appear to show concern, generosity, and mercy, nor merely expedient, to remove them from the city, thus conserving supplies and removing possible Cosian sympathizers from behind your back, but to incre... |
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| 15 | 390 |
"Do you know the name of the high officer of the Cosian forces in the south?" he asked. |
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| 15 | 395 |
"She had much freedom in the Cosian camp, given even her own quarters, in which the Polemarkos could call upon her. |
10 |
| 15 | 424 |
She is often carried about the Cosian camp in her closed palanquin by bearers. |
10 |
| 15 | 455 |
We want her to awaken quite soon, while still in the Cosian camp, and, awakening, to be fully appreciative of her predicament. |
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| 15 | 636 |
First, a movement of Cosian troops, originating in Brundisium, apparently several regiments, are moving eastward, parallel to the Vosk". |
10 |
| 15 | 771 |
"Perhaps a bag of gold, perhaps a hundred prize Cosian women?" "No," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 826 |
"Recently, on the Genesian Road, north of Torcadino, there was an attack on a portion of the Cosian supply trains, a massacre. |
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| 16 | 8 |
Letters of safety, aside from the difficulties they might involve me in with Cosian sentries or outposts, which might be considerable, would presumably not be needed by everyone entering Ar. |
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| 16 | 1488 |
We were then within the perimeters of the Cosian camp. |
10 |
| 16 | 1646 |
"This way, this way," said a Cosian soldier. |
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| 21 | 74 |
"Is it true," he asked, "that there are considerable Cosian forces in the vicinity of Torcadino?" "Yes," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 |
"It is here that the Cosian fleet landed," said another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 582 |
It is to a Cosian, some Cosian, that she will be sold!" Men, hearing this, slapped their thighs with pleasure. |
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| 1 | 235 |
Artemidorus was a Cosian, the captain of a band of flighted mercenaries. |
10 |
| 2 | 91 |
Victoria lies rather toward the west, in the reaches traditionally more subject to Cosian influence. |
10 |
| 2 | 99 |
I had been in Torcadino several weeks ago, indeed, at the very moment when the city, housing Cosian siege engines and supplies, serving as a depot and staging area for the eastward advance of Cos, had, in a daring stratagem, been seized by Dietrich of Tarnburg with no more than a few thousand mercen... |
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| 2 | 100 |
These had entered the city through aqueducts, literally over the heads of unsuspecting Cosian armies camped about the city. |
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| 2 | 106 |
I had urged him to march on Torcadino and confront the main body of Cosian forces. |
10 |
| 2 | 110 |
It also, in effect, seemed to negate the bold stroke of Dietrich, to slow the Cosian advance, and give Ar time to organize, to arm and march. |
10 |
| 2 | 142 |
Such a move, of course, might isolate the Cosian main forces, both depriving them of their support from Cos and Tyros and separating them from their fellows at Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 2 | 150 |
It was almost as though the officers of Ar were content to exchange Ar for a port, and one which, strictly, was not even a Cosian port. |
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| 8 | 356 |
Cosian beauties make excellent slaves. |
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| 9 | 8 |
We were just within the fringes of the Cosian camp. |
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| 9 | 37 |
The first portion of my plan had been to reach Ar's Station as swiftly as possible, which meant, in effect, to do so on tarnback, and in such a way as to gain immunity from the attentions of Cosian tarn patrols. |
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| 9 | 46 |
I had been immediately pursued and fired upon by flights of Cosian tarnsmen. |
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| 10 | 19 |
This was the most advanced of the Cosian siege trenches. |
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| 10 | 92 |
Those who were not of Cos, and were mercenaries, fighting only for their fees, and some loot, perhaps a female or two, and gold, would presumably not be much moved by appeals to Cosian heritages or patriotism. |
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| 10 | 212 |
I supposed he must be Cosian, natively. |
10 |
| 10 | 214 |
"Show us what a Cosian can do," said a man. |
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| 10 | 328 |
I assumed that at the distance I could not be heard in the Cosian lines. |
10 |
| 10 | 360 |
I saw his hand, pointing out, toward the Cosian lines. |
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| 11 | 216 |
"All that stands between Ar and Cos," I said, "is the presence of Dietrich at Torcadino, where he has seized Cosian supplies and engines". |
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| 11 | 221 |
"The Cosian siege train was captured within Torcadino," I said. |
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| 11 | 223 |
Indeed, the Cosian main forces, which I assure you are not inferior in numbers to those of Ar, are probably now in winter quarters, perhaps a tenth of them in the vicinity of Torcadino. |
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| 11 | 229 |
If I were Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, he in command of the Cosian forces on the continent, I would myself turn toward Ar, wasting no time at Torcadino, a subsidiary objective. |
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| 11 | 230 |
Dietrich would then escape, but he would not have the forces necessary to do more than harry the Cosian advance to Ar, and, once those forces are out of Torcadino, they might well be hunted down and dealt with, with only a fraction of the might of Cos". |
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| 11 | 250 |
"The main Cosian forces are here, at Ar's Station. |
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| 11 | 265 |
I would also suggest to you that there is indeed a Cosian invasion force in the south, and one that makes the one here look like a squad. |
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| 11 | 268 |
You must realize that even here the majority of the men who face you are not Cosian regulars but allies and mercenaries". |
10 |
| 11 | 274 |
"From cities interested in a Cosian victory," I said, "and, too, I suspect, from Ar herself". |
10 |
| 11 | 287 |
"'The bearer of this cylinder, who calls himself Tarl, of Port Kar,'" read Aemilianus, "'is a Cosian spy. |
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| 12 | 111 |
Some women, as you probably know, particularly those without money, stripped themselves and lowered themselves over the wall, surrendering to the first Cosian they met, selling themselves into slavery for so little as a crust of bread or a handful of gruel". |
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| 13 | 14 |
Accordingly I had given her a Cosian name. |
10 |
| 14 | 42 |
"We want you to put on a good show for your Cosian friends," said the warder. |
10 |
| 15 | 10 |
From time to time we could hear, and sometimes feel, through the floor, the impact of the Cosian projectiles, the great stones, some of which would weigh a thousand pounds or more, flung by mighty catapults, some the size of houses. |
10 |
| 15 | 386 |
If I were a Cosian, however, I think you would have done it somewhat less insolently". |
10 |
| 15 | 597 |
Too, thusly, it was now of a convenient length for a Cosian to seize it, should that eventuality occur. |
10 |
| 15 | 700 |
"Are you not a Cosian?" she asked. |
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| 15 | 795 |
"Yes," he said, "for example, on a Cosian sales block". |
10 |
| 15 | 809 |
"By nightfall you will probably be in a collar, licking the feet of a Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 865 |
"Think now on Cosian gold," he said, bitterly. |
10 |
| 15 | 867 |
"Let us show your Cosian friends how pretty you will look on the spear," he said, angrily. |
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| 15 | 924 |
Doubtless once, too, you thought yourself very clever, when you betrayed your city and accepted Cosian gold. |
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| 15 | 935 |
"Let that be the irony, if you wish, that today, of all days, when the citadel surely must shortly fall, when she is so close to rescue by her Cosian friends, but so far, that she, today, of all days, in full view of the foe, in justice and defiance, is placed upon the spear!" Lady Publia shuddered. |
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| 16 | 448 |
"Ah," she said, "I would that I were there, too, my master, but I fear that that pleasure, if pleasure it be, seeing me so, having me so, will go not to you, but, if luck be with me, to a Cosian". |
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| 16 | 452 |
It seems not unfitting, then, that you should belong to a Cosian". |
10 |
| 17 | 85 |
A Cosian, twisting, fell back from the wall. |
10 |
| 17 | 446 |
A Cosian, wounded, seeing me, tried to struggle to his feet. |
10 |
| 17 | 663 |
"Do not let them escape!" called a Cosian pointing downward. |
10 |
| 17 | 672 |
These men I saw, however, did not wear the blue of Cosian regulars but only armbands of blue. |
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| 18 | 36 |
Some bought their way out, which you could do, in the early days, before the Cosian casualties were high". |
10 |
| 18 | 74 |
"They are afraid of the Cosian ships, that the wall of rafts will be opened, that they will attack. |
10 |
| 18 | 245 |
A Cosian slid down a rope, shielded by the women. |
10 |
| 18 | 258 |
It could be seen from the wall even more clearly than from the landing, I suppose, the steady, blade by blade, stroke by stroke, expansion of Cosian territory below, its burgeoning from the gate. |
10 |
| 18 | 336 |
"They are taking the women!" cried one of the fellows, a few ranks in the Cosian press. |
10 |
| 18 | 338 |
There was a momentary hesitation in the Cosian advance. |
10 |
| 18 | 343 |
"The women are being taken behind you," I cried to the Cosians, "taken by those who have not even nicked their steel!" "Forward!" cried a Cosian officer. |
10 |
| 18 | 368 |
I saw more than one female slave, kneeling before a Cosian, her hands fastened behind her, put her head far back, to facilitate the insertion of the nose ring. |
10 |
| 18 | 479 |
The camp commander, he in charge of the Cosian forces at Ar's Station, had resumed his coign of vantage. |
10 |
| 19 | 102 |
"The harbor is closed with Cosian ships and the chain of rafts," said another. |
10 |
| 20 | 166 |
Suddenly I saw the flagship, knifing through an opening in the chain of rafts, literally sheer oars from the side of the Cosian ship put about in the harbor. |
10 |
| 20 | 167 |
I then saw another Cosian ship rammed amidships. |
10 |
| 20 | 168 |
The other three Cosian ships were trying to make a landfall at the sides of the harbor. |
10 |
| 20 | 172 |
The crews of the other two Cosian ships which had been in the harbor, those not injured, and that not run aground, leapt over the sides, and, waist deep, waded to shore. |
10 |
| 20 | 318 |
Indeed, it had been the second ship into the harbor, and the one that had rammed the Cosian ship amidships. |
10 |
| 20 | 354 |
"One Cosian ship has been destroyed in the harbor," I said, "and another has been disabled". |
10 |
| 21 | 33 |
The voices she had heard about her, for the most part, naturally enough, given the crew of the Tais, would have had Cosian accents, or accents akin to them. |
10 |
| 21 | 160 |
"Cosian ships?" he asked. |
10 |
| 21 | 162 |
"There were Cosian ships about". |
10 |
| 21 | 181 |
"I make it out to be Cosian," she whispered. |
10 |
| 21 | 487 |
Her begging for a Cosian collar but moments ago, and her open admission of the fittingness and rightness of her being collared, interestingly, would probably not be considered at all. |
10 |
| 21 | 1045 |
I supposed that, eventually, both Publia and Claudia would be vended in Cosian slave markets, As slaves they would have no Home Stones, nor native land, no more than a tarsk or kaiila. |
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| 21 | 1364 |
Even if she had once been a Cosian girl, even of Telnus, of good family and high caste, she would still, now, be a slave, and only a slave. |
10 |
| 21 | 1380 |
"A Cosian name," observed Calliodorus. |
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| 21 | 1398 |
I supposed that Aemilianus might think that Cosian names might be better for slaves, whereas Calliodorus might tend to approve more of names more typical of the south, say, those of Venna or Ar. |
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| 24 | 137 |
After the fall of Ar's Station the Cosian troops, and their allies, mercenary and otherwise, would have much more freedom. |
10 |
| 24 | 146 |
I wondered if he had managed to secure redemption from some passing Cosian, perhaps a comrade in arms who might have recognized him. |
10 |
| 24 | 324 |
"They are apparently intent upon destroying the Cosian expeditionary force in the north," said Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 24 | 330 |
"But if you were the Cosian commander in the north," I said to Aemilianus, "you would surely, if possible, avoid engaging the main body of Ar". |
10 |
| 24 | 439 |
After a Cosian buys you, of course, he can do with you what he wants. |
10 |
| 24 | 528 |
"What manner of slaves are those?" called a fellow on the pier, apparently, by his garb, a Cosian, to the keeper on the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 569 |
A Cosian merchant in the crowd cried out in anger. |
10 |
| 24 | 579 |
"Thus, by such means as provocative dress and habiliments, baring even her calves, hoping then to be taken for a lowly, beautiful, meaningless maid, by even refusing to cut her hair on behalf of the city's needs, an act by means of which she hoped to appear more attractive to strong men, more attrac... |
10 |
| 24 | 584 |
"I am a Cosian!" called out a fellow. |
10 |
| 24 | 587 |
"And this one," said the keeper, indicating Claudia, "betrayed her compatriots, declared for Cos and took Cosian gold for treason!" "But she is a slave now?" called a man. |
10 |
| 24 | 594 |
"And I am only a slave now! Please have mercy on a slave!" "She, too," said the keeper, "is to be sold to a Cosian". |
10 |
| 24 | 595 |
"Traitress!" cried a Cosian. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 283 |
The rencers, noting our hostility to the Cosian, and accepting the possibility that he might actually be Cosian, permitted him to leave the holding area before us, presumably so he would have time to reach the Cosian lines before we could apprehend him. |
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| 32 | 278 |
For the first time our captors then took seriously that the Cosian with us was a Cosian. |
10 |
| 40 | 75 |
The seizure of these materials in Torcadino, which had been serving as a Cosian depot for the invasion force, had been the prime objective of Dietrich in taking the city, he hoping then to forestall the Cosian advance and give Ar time to prepare itself for war. |
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| 1 | 83 |
"We were taken to the Cosian camp, near Ar's Station," she said. |
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| 1 | 350 |
If young Marcus, of whom I have grown fond, has a weakness, I would think it would be his moodiness, and his incredible hatred for Cosians, and all things Cosian. |
10 |
| 1 | 376 |
But in spite of the invitation seemingly flagrantly offered by Policrates, the camp commander, general of the Cosian forces in the north, said once to have been a pirate, rescued from the galleys by Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, a cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the forces of Ar had not struck, ... |
10 |
| 1 | 378 |
Perhaps, incredibly enough, they simply did not know the disposition, strength and location of the Cosian forces. |
10 |
| 1 | 448 |
He wore the uniform and insignia of the tarnsmen of Artemidorus, the well-known Cosian mercenary. |
10 |
| 1 | 1144 |
I then began to make my way toward the encampment and cots of Artemidorus, the Cosian mercenary. |
10 |
| 1 | 1303 |
I myself found it difficult to believe that the forces of Ar at Holmesk did not know, and with some degree of accuracy, the nature, the movements, the marching orders, and such, of the Cosian forces in the north. |
10 |
| 3 | 43 |
This party, except for myself, consisted of five men, mercenaries, under the command of a Cosian regular. |
10 |
| 3 | 48 |
They afforded me a priceless cover, for example, from the investigations, if not the sudden, unprovoked attacks, of Cosian tarnsmen. |
10 |
| 3 | 61 |
I had expected that I might find Marcus here, somewhere, that in accordance with his carefully laid contingency plan, we having become separated in the Cosian camp, thanks to my inadvertent encounter with the courier, Borton. |
10 |
| 3 | 70 |
To be sure, he himself, as he had made clear to me, with much firmness and in no little detail, back in the Cosian camp on the Vosk, was similarly ready, in such a situation, to be sacrificed, and cheerfully. |
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| 3 | 79 |
Even if he were not, I suspected that the commandant at Holmesk was as much aware of the position and movements of the Cosian expeditionary force as either Marcus or I. |
10 |
| 3 | 110 |
Yet that is what he had wanted, to inform the high command of Ar near Holmesk of the movements and position of the Cosian expeditionary force. |
10 |
| 3 | 314 |
Many mercenary companies consist of little more than rabbles of armed ruffians, others, like those of Dietrich of Tarnburg, Pietro Vacchi and Raymond, of Rive-du-Bois, are crack troops, as professional as warriors of Ar or Cosian regulars. |
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| 4 | 63 |
This also explained, of course, the matter of the betraying message which I had unwittingly carried at great risk to Ar's Station on behalf of Gnieus Lelius, regent in Ar, that message which had identified me as a Cosian spy. |
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| 6 | 9 |
"A Cosian?" asked a man, in a rence craft nearby. |
10 |
| 8 | 16 |
"Where are your fellows, the Cosian sleen!" he suddenly cried. |
10 |
| 9 | 89 |
"Now soon, sleen," gloated he, "will you see your Cosian masters beneath our blades!" I stood unsteadily in the water. |
10 |
| 12 | 156 |
But could this have been the case if Cosian forces had earlier entered the delta, in great numbers, to flee the vengeance of Ar? Would they themselves not have taken such craft, or destroyed them, as they could? Where do you think the sympathies of those in Turmus and Ven lie, with Ar, or Cos? Is it... |
10 |
| 13 | 36 |
"But your skin, my Cosian sleen," said he, "belongs to Ar. |
10 |
| 13 | 137 |
"No," said he, "it is a vessel of the Cosian rear guard!" "Perhaps," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 227 |
"Vengeance upon the Cosian sleen!" cried a man. |
10 |
| 13 | 292 |
"Or under Cosian command," said another. |
10 |
| 13 | 381 |
"Cosian sleen," said another. |
10 |
| 13 | 410 |
"We did not come to the delta to return without Cosian blood on our blades!" said a fellow. |
10 |
| 13 | 432 |
"Cosian sleen," he said. |
10 |
| 14 | 140 |
"Then you are Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 44 |
"There are Cosian regulars, as well," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 56 |
There is much Cosian sympathy in the north. |
10 |
| 17 | 42 |
Their every move in the delta, for days, had probably been reported to the Cosian commander, perhaps Policrates himself, said once to have been a pirate, by tarn scouts. |
10 |
| 17 | 158 |
"He is to blame! He is to fault! Kill him! Kill him! He is Cosian spy". |
10 |
| 17 | 159 |
"Cosian spy!" cried others. |
10 |
| 19 | 436 |
"I told them of my Cosian sympathies," she said. |
10 |
| 19 | 484 |
Thus we are allies!" "You admit that you are a Cosian spy?" I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 489 |
"I am a Cosian spy," she said. |
10 |
| 19 | 491 |
"I am a Cosian spy," she said. |
10 |
| 19 | 889 |
Surely she would remember that the men of Ar were to make me presentable before I appeared before her, during our little interview, that which had occurred on another island, several days ago, that in which I had learned she was a Cosian spy, that in which I had first noted that her ankles would loo... |
10 |
| 19 | 1708 |
"Do you not think they would like to have a Cosian spy in their power?" "Do not turn me over to them!" she begged. |
10 |
| 19 | 1722 |
"You could always explain to them, in chains at their feet, how you were actually a Cosian spy". |
10 |
| 19 | 1729 |
"Too," I said, "even if they believed you, I think you might learn that the average Cosian is no more fond of spies, of whatever side, than the average fellow of Ar". |
10 |
| 19 | 1847 |
Perhaps you could be chained to a ring in a Cosian brothel". |
10 |
| 20 | 114 |
It might attract rencers, Cosian patrols, even animals". |
10 |
| 25 | 160 |
"Interesting remarks," I said, "from a Cosian spy". |
10 |
| 27 | 76 |
"You," he said, "a Cosian spy, would grant me my life, and freedom?" "You are not a female," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 135 |
"I am not a Cosian spy," I said. |
10 |
| 28 | 107 |
"You are a Cosian". |
10 |
| 28 | 108 |
"I am not Cosian," I said. |
10 |
| 30 | 14 |
The next day, having come far enough east to hopefully place Cosian patrols to our west, across our most likely route of exit, we began to move south. |
10 |
| 31 | 114 |
"Too, he knew there was no retreating Cosian force in the delta, and he might well suppose you knew this, as well. |
10 |
| 32 | 71 |
I supposed that this late in the summer most Cosian regulars would have been withdrawn from the delta watch. |
10 |
| 32 | 75 |
To be sure, I suspected that he, or his informants, would not be likely to discriminate nicely between complete and selective surveillance, between closed patterns, such as manned perimeters, and random patrols, or even between Cosian regulars and mercenaries. |
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| 32 | 143 |
"There is a fellow running, a Cosian, and some fellows in the garb of Ar, how many I am not sure, are pursuing him". |
10 |
| 32 | 146 |
Perhaps they were actually Cosians, or mercenaries, dressed to lure in fellows of Ar, and the fellow, himself, might be of Ar, in the uniform of a Cosian. |
10 |
| 32 | 203 |
"You have lost us the Cosian," said one of the men. |
10 |
| 32 | 204 |
"He is not a Cosian," I said. |
10 |
| 32 | 219 |
I frankly doubted that there would be many folks from Ar's Station who would retain much affection for, or allegiance to, Ar, given Ar's abandonment of Ar's Station to the Cosian force in the north. |
10 |
| 32 | 231 |
"It was given to him by rencers," said Claudius, "who took our word that he was Cosian, even though he himself denied it". |
10 |
| 32 | 268 |
"What of the one you call a Cosian?" I asked. |
10 |
| 32 | 279 |
At our request, they found for him a uniform of Cos, probably one which they had been given as a diplomatic gift, or one of several for use in approaching Cosian patrols. |
10 |
| 32 | 287 |
"He is not a Cosian," I said. |
10 |
| 32 | 304 |
There, several yards away, looking toward us, was a fellow in a Cosian uniform. |
10 |
| 33 | 7 |
One of the bodies we had found had been that of a Cosian. |
10 |
| 33 | 8 |
Bounty hunters are not always particular about the heads they collect, and their paymasters usually, of course, have no way of telling the head of a fellow of Ar from that, say, of a Cosian or rencer. |
10 |
| 36 | 13 |
Marcus had given the Cosian uniform to one of the fellows in the hut. |
10 |
| 36 | 117 |
From Brundisium, a major port friendly to Cos, indeed, the port of entry for the Cosian invasion forces, it was convenient to ship loot, females and other loot, to Cos and the islands. |
10 |
| 36 | 159 |
I had been afraid Marcus, thinking her of Cos, and hating Cos and all things Cosian, would have cut her throat or injured her, but, fortunately, as it had turned out, she had not been of Cos, but from the vicinity of White Water, on the northern shore of the Vosk, east of Tancred's Landing. |
10 |
| 36 | 184 |
We then, together, continued on our way, toward Brundisium, in the vicinity of which lay the Cosian camp. |
10 |
| 37 | 1 |
Near the Cosian Camp "Thigh," I said. |
10 |
| 37 | 63 |
"Liomache," he said, "I also sold near Ar's Station, even before Temione, to a Cosian mercenary, whom she had apparently, months before, at the Crooked Tarn, tricked and defrauded". |
10 |
| 37 | 80 |
"The pretty Cosian, from Telnus?" "Yes," I said. |
10 |
| 37 | 287 |
I had not wished to bring Marcus and Ina to the wagon of Ephialtes, of course, for it was, for most practical purposes, within the Cosian camp. |
10 |
| 37 | 399 |
"The fellow who just used Rimice," I said, "he who made her yield so well, and in so short a time, was, I think, a Cosian". |
10 |
| 37 | 405 |
"She was, of course, before being reduced to animal status, before becoming a domestic animal, a Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 38 | 13 |
"You refer," I said to Marcus, "to the supposedly secret news, that which is not to be posted on the boards in the Cosian camp". |
10 |
| 38 | 21 |
"It has to do with something which I saw this evening, returning from the sutlers' area, on the road, near the Cosian camp". |
10 |
| 39 | 104 |
She had once been Lucilina, the preferred slave of Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, commander of the Cosian forces in the south. |
10 |
| 39 | 111 |
Then, tricked and captured, she had been smuggled out of the Cosian camp, to a nearby city, to find herself there in common chains as a common girl. |
10 |
| 39 | 128 |
This was not difficult for most mercenaries in the vicinity of Brundisium were not quartered in the city but in the Cosian camp. |
10 |
| 39 | 176 |
"It is a well-known Cosian perfume," I said, "'The Chains of Telnus'". |
10 |
| 39 | 178 |
"Cosian masters sometimes enjoy putting women of Ar, their slaves, in it". |
10 |
| 40 | 27 |
In the group there were dock workers, oarsmen, merchants, mercenaries, Cosian regulars, others. |
10 |
| 40 | 29 |
I did not see any Cosian officers present, or anyone who looked as though they might be interested in arresting the transmission of this matter. |
10 |
| 40 | 48 |
"Information became available in the Cosian camp near Torcadino, conveyed by a supposed deserter, a fellow named Mincon," said our narrator, "of a secret escape tunnel being dug under the walls to the north, a low tunnel, like a countermine, over eleven pasangs in length, which had taken months to d... |
10 |
| 40 | 70 |
"By morning," said our narrator, "the escaping tarns had been apprehended, but in their saddles, bound and gagged, were Cosian prisoners". |
10 |
| 40 | 74 |
It was later determined that these were the results of the destruction of the Cosian siege materials, the war engines, the wagons and supplies, which had been captured in Torcadino". |
10 |
| 40 | 76 |
As it had turned out, however, Ar had sent her major forces northward, had failed to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and then, supposedly pursuing the Cosian expeditionary force in the north, which had destroyed Ar's Station, had come to disaster in the delta. |
10 |
| 40 | 143 |
Indeed, it had been the port of entry for the Cosian invasion fleet. |
10 |
| 42 | 20 |
You risked your life by waiting for me south of the Cosian camp. |
10 |
| 42 | 88 |
I would not have encouraged Marcus, for example, to enter into lengthy discourse with local residents, Cosian regulars, or such. |
10 |
| 43 | 27 |
"Too, I gather your friend, this Ephialtes, or whatever his name may be, is a Cosian. |
10 |
| 43 | 29 |
"If I were you," I said, "I would not open my mouth so much in this area, at the perimeter of the Cosian camp". |
10 |
| 43 | 37 |
"You are just in a bad mood," I said, "because I have brought you to the edge of the Cosian camp, thus needlessly placing your life in extreme jeopardy". |
10 |
| 43 | 144 |
"He is a Cosian," said Marcus, looking back, murderously, at the innocent Ephialtes, who was puttering about the wagon, tightening one of the back latches of the wagon bed, I believe. |
10 |
| 48 | 12 |
Marcus was not in the camp, as he had hastened to the vicinity of the Cosian camp, to deal with the sutler, Ephialtes, for the slim, dark-haired beauty I had arranged, somewhat maliciously, to be sure, to be presented before him. |
10 |
| 48 | 203 |
"I can live for vengeance, deep and profound, terrible, vengeance against Cos and all things Cosian!" "Certainly," I said. |
10 |
| 48 | 204 |
I was actually a bit apprehensive that Marcus, who was something of a man of action, might rush over to the Cosian camp, slashing away at fellows doing their washing, and so on. |
10 |
| 48 | 331 |
"Surely you have known women in Ar," I said, "whose name was 'Phoebe'?" "It is a Cosian name," he snarled. |
10 |
| 48 | 348 |
Cosian women would not be sold here!" "She is from Cos," I assured him. |
10 |
| 48 | 352 |
Her accent was clearly Cosian. |
10 |
| 48 | 354 |
She was with Ephialtes, and others, moving westward along the river, with the Cosian expeditionary force. |
10 |
| 48 | 356 |
As for Cosian women, do not be naive. |
10 |
| 48 | 361 |
"She is Cosian!" he cried. |
10 |
| 48 | 362 |
"Cosian!" "A moment ago," I said, "you seemed much pleased with her". |
10 |
| 48 | 365 |
"Cosian!" he cried. |
10 |
| 48 | 368 |
"I hate Cos," he cried, "and all things Cosian!" "Do not be angry," I said. |
10 |
| 48 | 415 |
"And you are also a Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 48 | 420 |
"And in that sense you are Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 48 | 430 |
"I hate Cos," he said, "and all things Cosian". |
10 |
| 48 | 432 |
"And in the sense that you are from Cos, you are Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 48 | 436 |
"And accordingly," he said, coldly, "you will be treated as an animal and a slave, and a Cosian, and as my enemy". |
10 |
| 48 | 437 |
"It is fitting that I be treated as an animal and a slave, Master," she said, "for that is what I am, but is it fitting that I should be treated, too, now, as a Cosian, and as your enemy?" "You will be so treated," he said. |
10 |
| 48 | 528 |
On her then, through you, who are Cosian, I may vent my hatred and fury". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 320 |
His accent was Cosian, of course, but it was a high-caste Cosian accent, intelligible to all. |
10 |
| 8 | 326 |
This is not to deny that there were Cosian regulars, in Cosian uniform, in the city, in numbers. |
10 |
| 8 | 691 |
Phoebe herself, it might be mentioned, had very seldom been lashed, particularly since the day of Myron's entrance into the city when Marcus had finally accepted her as a mere slave, as opposed to a Cosian woman in his collar, to be sure, enslaved, on whom he could vent his hatred for Cos and all th... |
10 |
| 1 | 165 |
His slave, Phoebe, had been Cosian. |
10 |
| 1 | 252 |
"She is Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 1 | 271 |
It was no wonder that in rage he had vowed to make the lovely slave stand proxy for Cos, that he might then vent upon her his fury, and his hatred, for Cos, and all things Cosian. |
10 |
| 1 | 276 |
To be sure, she was Cosian. |
10 |
| 1 | 278 |
"Cosian slut!" snarled Marcus. |
10 |
| 1 | 295 |
"A Cosian slut," said one man to another. |
10 |
| 1 | 308 |
The ugliness of the crowd, its hostility, and such, was, I think, a function of recent events, which had precipitated confusion, uncertainty and terror in Ar, in particular the military catastrophe in the delta, in which action, absurdly, the major land forces of Ar had been invested, and the news t... |
10 |
| 2 | 63 |
We had learned, however, after the fall of Ar's Station, that the official rumor circulated in the south was to the effect that Ar's Station had opened its gates to the Cosian expeditionary force, this in consideration of substantial gifts of gold. |
10 |
| 2 | 71 |
As far as these men knew, of course, at least on the whole, the circulating rumors were correct, namely, that Ar's Station had betrayed Ar, that it was still intact and that it was now a Cosian outpost. |
10 |
| 2 | 102 |
"For a Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 377 |
As Marcus had undoubtedly anticipated the sight of the dance would have its effect on his little Cosian. |
10 |
| 4 | 64 |
Who knew what dangers might lie outside the walls? Too, they could always be overtaken by tharlarion cavalry or Cosian tarnsmen. |
10 |
| 4 | 79 |
"Cosian tarnsmen over the city!" cried another. |
10 |
| 4 | 83 |
Yet the appearance of Cosian tarnsmen over Ar indicated to me that Cos must now control the skies, as she had in the north. |
10 |
| 5 | 80 |
The extremely interesting thing to my mind would be the Cosian response to this offer. |
10 |
| 5 | 113 |
"It was given to me by a Cosian, in the shadows," said the man, wonderingly. |
10 |
| 6 | 78 |
"'If Ar desires peace, and would survive, if she desires peace, and would be freed of the onerous yoke of a tyrant, let her deliver to my plenipotentiary, Myron, polemarkos of the continental forces of the Cosian ubarate, some sign of her desire for peace, some evidence of her hope for reconciliatio... |
10 |
| 6 | 117 |
"I myself would block the gate," said a fellow, "before I would see her leave the city at the stirrup of a Cosian envoy". |
10 |
| 6 | 142 |
We saw a Cosian tarnsman over the city. |
10 |
| 6 | 161 |
"Last night, Cosian scouts, outside the walls," said a man, "distributed silver tarsks to the homeless, assuring them of the good intentions and friendships of the maritime ubarate!" "That is preposterous," said a man. |
10 |
| 6 | 182 |
I myself could think of at least three, the failure to meet Cos at Torcadino, the failure to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and the unprepared entry into the delta, in putative pursuit of the Cosian expeditionary force in the north. |
10 |
| 6 | 211 |
"She is Cosian," he said to me. |
10 |
| 6 | 228 |
"Another Cosian tarnsman," he said. |
10 |
| 7 | 15 |
Many folks held small Cosian banners which they might wave. |
10 |
| 7 | 37 |
"We have been liberated!" cheered another, waving a Cosian banner on a small stick. |
10 |
| 7 | 204 |
With a roll of drums and a blast of trumpets, and the distinct, uniform sound of hundreds of men coming simultaneously to a halt, the Cosian array arrested its march not yards from the forward ramp. |
10 |
| 7 | 290 |
"A Cosian joke," said another, "then to be removed from her when they wish". |
10 |
| 7 | 291 |
"Cosian sleen," said a man. |
10 |
| 7 | 299 |
"They are Cosian garments," said a man. |
10 |
| 7 | 397 |
Thousands of small Cosian pennons, together with pennons of Ar, appeared, waving. |
10 |
| 7 | 439 |
"You are Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 7 | 451 |
"But am I no longer to be your little "Cosian"?" she asked, laughing. |
10 |
| 7 | 452 |
"You will always be my little Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 7 | 454 |
"Spread your knees, Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 7 | 498 |
They will presumably be soon reduced in numbers, perhaps to handfuls of guardsmen subject to Cosian officers, if not completely disbanded and scattered. |
10 |
| 8 | 208 |
"Look," I said, "there is a woman in garments of Cosian cut". |
10 |
| 8 | 320 |
He was in the uniform of a guardsman of Ar, but his accent was Cosian. |
10 |
| 8 | 322 |
Even then they were under the command of Cosian officers. |
10 |
| 8 | 325 |
Perhaps the folks of Ar found this sort of thing reassuring, or, at least, less objectionable than if the fellows seemed a foreign garrison force, clad openly in Cosian uniform. |
10 |
| 8 | 327 |
Too, many Cosian mercenaries were in the city, with their identifying armbands, scarves, and such. |
10 |
| 8 | 786 |
But I did not think Marcus would tire of his little "Cosian slut". |
10 |
| 8 | 856 |
"You are Cosian," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 8 | 858 |
"You are Cosian," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 8 | 902 |
"And not to show fear before them you would stand your ground against two?" "I am Cosian," he said. |
10 |
| 9 | 60 |
Regular guardsmen of Ar were, as I have suggested, fellows of Ar under Cosian command, or, often, Cosians, in the uniform of Ar. |
10 |
| 9 | 114 |
"She will go to some Cosian," said another. |
10 |
| 9 | 161 |
Another was held by a Cosian counselor. |
10 |
| 9 | 190 |
The Home Stone is safe! The Central Cylinder stands! How shall we make amends to our Cosian brother? What gift would be great enough to thank him for our Home Stone, our lives and honor? What sacrifice would be too much to express our gratitude?" "No gift would be too great!" cried men. |
10 |
| 9 | 230 |
"She will go to a Cosian," said a fellow, bitterly. |
10 |
| 9 | 235 |
Phoebe, of course, had been Cosian. |
10 |
| 9 | 246 |
Talena seemed then prepared to dismiss another woman, for she had her hand half lifted, as though, with the customary small gesture, to do so, when one of her counselors, a Cosian, near her, in the uniform of a high captain, bent quickly toward her, his eyes glinting on the female in question, she s... |
10 |
| 9 | 253 |
In what the Cosian had said to the Ubara I had made out the expression 'slave curves'. |
10 |
| 9 | 255 |
I saw the Cosian's eyes still on her as she was manacled. |
10 |
| 9 | 320 |
"You are a Cosian puppet!" "I am your Ubara!" cried Talena. |
10 |
| 9 | 321 |
"You are a Cosian puppet!" said Claudia. |
10 |
| 9 | 323 |
"You even wear Cosian garments!" cried Claudia. |
10 |
| 9 | 350 |
"I am better than at least one," said Claudia, "Talena, who would be tyranness of Ar, save only that her Cosian masters will not permit her such power!" "Treason!" cried men. |
10 |
| 9 | 613 |
More than once I had seen a begging, tearful slave torn from the arms of a beloved master, to be bound and led away on a Cosian leash. |
10 |
| 9 | 654 |
The Cosian regarded her. |
10 |
| 9 | 792 |
When they were to move out they would pass through a certain station where a Cosian slaver's man, with a marking tape, would measure them for their collar size. |
10 |
| 10 | 18 |
Marcus and I, with the armbands of auxiliary guardsmen, saluted a Cosian officer whom we passed. |
10 |
| 10 | 152 |
They cheer while women who might be theirs are instead marched to Cosian ports. |
10 |
| 10 | 211 |
Certain gangs of youths, young ruffians, roamed the streets, affecting Cosian garments and haircuts. |
10 |
| 11 | 1 |
The Delka "Stop babbling, man!" ordered the guardsman, an officer in the scarlet of Ar, though his accent proclaimed him Cosian. |
10 |
| 11 | 9 |
Among the shards and wreckage, by count, there were seven bodies, all Cosian mercenaries. |
10 |
| 12 | 284 |
"A Cosian?" said Marcus. |
10 |
| 12 | 471 |
"Did you not observe his wringing of hands, his wailing unmanliness, his terror, his obsequiousness, not see too to what extent he would go to accommodate himself to Cosian will?" "It is true, Masters," said the girl, "if I may speak, as I gather I may, as you seem to insist upon treating me as a fr... |
10 |
| 12 | 482 |
"I would have scorned the Cosian openly," said Marcus, "or set upon him, and the others, with my sword". |
10 |
| 12 | 500 |
"You saw to what an extent he would go to accommodate himself to Cosian will," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 12 | 531 |
After all, we are, in our way, acting in support of Ar, the old Ar, the true Ar, and the officer, though obviously a Cosian sleen, was not a bad fellow. |
10 |
| 13 | 101 |
"He will not walk so proudly if he is beaten by a Cosian patrol," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 227 |
Was it for this that they had done their duty, was it for this that they had faced the delta, the tracklessness, the tharlarion, the insects, the hunger, the arrows of rencers, the blades of Cos? "Some of these lads, former "Cosians" and others," I said, "are apparently little better, still, than va... |
10 |
| 14 | 8 |
"Cosian sleen," I heard. |
10 |
| 14 | 719 |
"Ho!" I cried out, hailing a squad of Cosian regulars. |
10 |
| 14 | 756 |
"Like the Cosian propagandists, infiltrators and spies during the war?" he asked. |
10 |
| 15 | 10 |
These demonstrations, of course, had been instigated at the behest of Cos, and carefully planned and organized by Cosian agents. |
10 |
| 16 | 210 |
"He is a Cosian spy," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 10 |
Many of Ar's more affluent citizens kept houses in Venna, at least prior to the Cosian war. |
10 |
| 19 | 11 |
To date, Venna, though improving her walls and girding herself for defense, had not been touched in the Cosian war. |
10 |
| 20 | 172 |
"I did not know Cosian girls could be so pretty," said the slave. |
10 |
| 20 | 506 |
For example, Phoebe had a beautiful, feminine hand, but it was natural for her, and easiest for her, of course, to write in Cosian script. |
10 |
| 20 | 507 |
It was not that Cosian script, was illegible, say, to folks of Ko-ro-ba or Ar, but rather that it was recognizably different. |
10 |
| 23 | 325 |
"Too," said Marcus, angrily, "I did not know at the time that she was a Cosian!" "That does make a great deal of difference," said Boots. |
10 |
| 26 | 601 |
For example, the increasing resistance to Cosian rule in the city, the growing insurgency, the actions of the Delta Brigade, would surely have given her cause for apprehension, if not genuine alarm. |
10 |
| 28 | 103 |
To be sure, Cos could certainly count on those who regarded their best interests as being served by Cosian rule, and many of these were highly placed in the city, even in the Central Cylinder. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 180 |
"Your accent, too, despite the barbarian influences, and others, is substantially a Cosian accent, for it is there you learned your Gorean. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 3 |
Presumably, on the likely Cosian assumption that their enemies might be of Ar, then those enemies might naturally be expected to move toward that city, and, consequently, one supposed that Cosian searches, and attempts to apprehend fugitives, might be largely directed to the southeastern routes, say... |
10 |
| 13 | 402 |
"That is a Cosian name," said a girl. |
10 |
| 16 | 830 |
The yellow was part of the dress uniform of the occupational forces, as a whole, but was common in the Cosian military. |
10 |
| 16 | 908 |
Then, mercifully, the Cosian dragged the lead girl in the coffle away from the shelf and began to conduct her, her chain sisters perforce behind her, through the crowd. |
10 |
| 17 | 979 |
"Cosian spy!" "No!" "Who knows what may serve as a weapon," said a man, "a knife from the kitchen, a pointed stick, a stone". |
10 |
| 18 | 202 |
If a Cosian guardsman were in the vicinity they must work in silence. |
10 |
| 18 | 683 |
"I fear it is Cosian," said the girl. |
10 |
| 18 | 684 |
"Then you are Cosian!" said Ellen. |
10 |
| 18 | 686 |
"How I can be Cosian?" laughed the girl. |
10 |
| 18 | 687 |
"I can no more be Cosian than a kaiila. |
10 |
| 19 | 13 |
"Did he not pay his taxes? Did he not show deference to a Cosian?" "They are sweeping the city," said Fel Doron. |
10 |
| 19 | 15 |
Madness has infected the Cosian sleen. |
10 |
| 19 | 34 |
Myron, the polemarkos, was the commander of the Cosian, and mercenary, forces in the city. |
10 |
| 19 | 255 |
Had she not been confiscated? Did she not have a Cosian tag wired to her collar? Fel Doron took the lamp outside. |
10 |
| 19 | 395 |
Portus, taking his concealed tarn goad from its hiding place to one side, behind the loose board, entered the tarn cage in which he had placed the oblong, mysterious package before the arrival of the Cosian soldiers, and retrieved it from under the straw. |
10 |
| 19 | 398 |
Such things, Ellen gathered, were not permitted by the laws of the Cosian occupation. |
10 |
| 19 | 429 |
"Ambush and kill a Cosian sentry, precipitate the taking of hostages and reprisals by Cos? They could burn districts, slay thousands". |
10 |
| 19 | 437 |
"The forces of occupation are not all Cosian," said Portus. |
10 |
| 20 | 62 |
He was the Cosian subcaptain who had demanded documentation of Portus Canio, the subcaptain whose men had searched the loft, he who had confiscated her in the name of Cos, wiring the tag to her collar. |
10 |
| 20 | 76 |
Those not in the coffle were presumably camp slaves, associated with the camp, properties of the Cosian military, or perhaps, in some cases, of officers. |
10 |
| 20 | 621 |
"There is a Cosian retinue some ten pasangs to the west," said the older lad, working the back oar. |
10 |
| 20 | 716 |
Ellen, looking up, found herself before one of the Cosian camp slaves, this one a ravishing blonde, in a brief yellow tunic, with its small vertical, rectangular gray patch, in the vicinity of the left hip, that discreet emblem indicative of state ownership. |
10 |
| 20 | 880 |
He would have read her collar, she supposed, when he examined the Cosian tag wired to the collar. |
10 |
| 20 | 1036 |
One was the subcaptain, the Cosian officer, who had been in the loft of Portus Canio, whose men had ransacked it, indeed, he who had wired the tag to her collar, and who had spoken to her earlier. |
10 |
| 21 | 44 |
She wore no collar now, that of Portus Canio, with the tag attached by the subcaptain, having been removed some days earlier in the Cosian camp. |
10 |
| 21 | 182 |
She had scarcely understood the extent and power of female desire until that moment, at the feet of a mere attendant, a Cosian hireling. |
10 |
| 21 | 225 |
She gasped, for these were the figures of the Cosian subcaptain, known to her from the tarn loft of Portus Canio in Ar, and from the coffle, and Tersius Major, who had been in the employ of Portus Canio, and who had left Ar with them. |
10 |
| 22 | 270 |
In the festival camp there were many forms of merchandise, other than the flesh loot, such as she, of Cosian conquests, merchandise such as produce, meat, leather and metal work, cloth, cabinetry, artifacts, tools, weapons, remedies, wagons, carts, precious stones, and such. |
10 |
| 22 | 443 |
Amongst the men about one of the fires she saw, sitting cross-legged, in sedate, deliberative, sober converse with men in Cosian robes, not soldiers, one whose presence here was incomprehensible. |
10 |
| 22 | 445 |
He, too, was in Cosian robes. |
10 |
| 22 | 592 |
And what would be her punishment from the Cosian slave masters, for her foolishness, ignorance and confusion? And what if they thought she had tried to escape? As she was a barbarian, they might think her that stupid. |
10 |
| 25 | 852 |
Too, she recalled, in the Cosian camp, days ago, before being coffled, having been bent over and tied at a trestle. |
10 |
| 26 | 378 |
* * * * Surely, she thought, Selius Arconious knows something of these things! And he paid five pieces of gold, of gold, for me! Perhaps he had a hundred, and they were no more than tarsk-bits to him! What then does that make me worth? Must I not now reassess myself? Am I not again no more than a ch... |
10 |
| 26 | 655 |
But Portus Canio and Fel Doron, each in the garb of a Cosian guardsman, cautioned her to silence. |
10 |
| 26 | 672 |
"It was clever of you to publicly purchase this slave, with Cosian gold," said one of the men about, indicating Ellen, who remained immobile, tense. |
10 |
| 26 | 685 |
"The Cosian forces here will presumably march on Ar, to reinforce the occupation, and prevent mutiny," said another. |
10 |
| 26 | 692 |
"He is needed to give the people courage, to ignite them, to rouse them to war, to cast out the Cosian sleen and their allies!" "We need Marlenus of Ar!" exclaimed another. |
10 |
| 26 | 734 |
"I purchased a worthless slave with a plenitude of Cosian gold, thus felicitously insulting the state of Cos. |
10 |
| 26 | 735 |
I arranged matters so that suspicion would fall upon a tarnster, as soon as the news of the theft of Cosian gold would reach the camp. |
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| 26 | 814 |
"Some of our men, clad as Cosian guardsmen," said Fel Doron, "will raise a cry that the suspect tarnster has been seen. |
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| 26 | 820 |
In the general confusion, and disbandment, of the camp, the former prisoners and the rest of our men will go their hundred ways, afoot, some of the Cosian gold divided amongst them. |
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| 26 | 826 |
Ellen had seen many scarlet tunics in Ar, mostly those of mercenaries and Cosian regulars. |
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| 26 | 832 |
Doubtless that was wise in a Cosian camp, if they were not of Cos, even though the camp was in theory an open camp. |
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| 26 | 1045 |
"The fellow who had Cosian gold is trying to escape the camp!" said a tharlarion driver, coming into the circle of firelight. |
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| 26 | 1122 |
"Our friends from Port Kar and Ar's Station must yet flight tarns," said Fel Doron, "which should convince our Cosian friends that we, their undetected but suspected foes, presumed allies of the pursued tarnster, who presumably did not work alone, have also taken our departure from the camp, and sim... |
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| 26 | 1458 |
"It is one thing for me to send you to give pleasure to Cosian sleen," he said, angrily. |
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| 27 | 6 |
Accordingly the Cosian search for Selius Arconious had been at least temporarily abandoned. |
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| 27 | 529 |
"We recognize you as the tarnster who paid for a slave with Cosian gold, from the mint at Jad". |
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| 27 | 534 |
"We have no Cosian gold," said Portus Canio. |
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| 27 | 541 |
"I have little interest in the Cosian gold," said Mirus. |
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| 27 | 1053 |
Cosian men at arms, some armed with short bows, such as may be used with convenience from tarn baskets, which may clear the bulwarks and fire amongst the ropes, saddle bows, actually, such as are favored for similar reasons by tarnsmen, were drawing away, afoot. |
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| 27 | 1149 |
"He bought a slave with Cosian gold, that slave," he then indicating Ellen who, finding herself under the eyes of a free man, immediately knelt, not wishing to be punished, "gold seemingly of the trove which was diverted from the paymasters of the mercenaries in Ar". |
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| 27 | 1556 |
"Let me run as I am!" "You would run directly into the arms of a Cosian," said Fel Doron, "and then your ankles would indeed be bound, surely with the leash rope. |
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| 27 | 1581 |
"The soldiers will be Cosian regulars," said Portus Canio. |
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| 27 | 1603 |
When she lifted her head a little, she saw the bootlike sandals of a Cosian soldier not ten feet away. |
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| 27 | 1659 |
She saw a Cosian, his upper body, rise from the grass. |
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| 27 | 1670 |
A Cosian, helmeted, rose to his feet, carefully, his bow half drawn, some fifty yards away. |
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| 27 | 1745 |
"With Cosian gold," said the subcaptain. |
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| 27 | 1908 |
"Surely you have something to contribute to the solution of this mystery, the whereabouts of Cosian gold, you who are first here," speculated the officer. |
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| 27 | 2081 |
Tersius Major arrogantly, angrily, pointed the pistol here and there, jabbing it in this direction and that, threatening each man in view, Cosian or otherwise, in turn, reminding each in turn of its menace. |
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| 27 | 2102 |
It was quite different from the crossbow quarrels, of course, but, too, it seemed so much longer, and more slender, and lengthily feathered, than the arrows she had seen in the war quivers of Cosian archers. |
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| 28 | 202 |
Fortunate will be the woman who finds herself in his chains! I rejoice in her happiness, whoever she may prove to be, she who will one day wear his collar! "There was interest, as well, it seems," said Fel Doron, "in Cosian gold". |
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| 28 | 273 |
There have actually been skirmishes between them and the Cosian regulars in the city. |
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| 30 | 628 |
Sporadic resistance to Cosian occupation continues. |
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| 30 | 630 |
Skirmishes occur between crowds and the garrison forces, the mercenaries and the Cosian regulars, but, too, sometimes between the mercenaries themselves and the Cosians. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 36 |
We must certainly count at least one, for he was a male human, a Gorean, a confederate of the Kurii, whose name was Peisistratus, who was of Cosian origin. |
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| 79 | 201 |
It must not be supposed that the crews of Peisistratus, which composed somewhere between four and five hundred men, most of whom were still in the habitats, enjoying the festival, were all Cosian. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 143 |
And there was a Ubara in Ar, if only a Cosian puppet on the throne, Talena, a traitress to her Home Stone, Talena, once the daughter of the great Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, whose whereabouts, as far as I knew, were unknown. |
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| 5 | 433 |
That accent, I conjectured, was Tyrian, or Cosian. |
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| 5 | 589 |
"It was safer to be in the blue of a Cosian regular," laughed a man, "than in the satin robes of traitors". |
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| 5 | 608 |
Many troops had been recalled to the island ubarates themselves, others to the Cosian principalities on the Vosk". |
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| 5 | 911 |
"The camp of Myron had been overrun, but Cosian regulars, abetted by Tyrian contingents, and some allies, had regrouped and, well disciplined, and orderly, in their squares, had already begun the withdrawal northwest to Torcodino, and would from there march to the great port of Brundisium, where wou... |
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| 5 | 1082 |
His accent seemed Cosian. |
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| 28 | 301 |
Had she been of Ar and taken to Cos it was likely she would have been given a Cosian name. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 237 |
Odd that a Cosian long ship, another Cosian long ship, would be in these waters. |
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| 1 | 335 |
Gangs of youths, flaunting Cosian fashions, roamed the city, looting and vandalizing. |
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| 3 | 154 |
"I hate the name! I hate it! It is a Cosian name". |
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| 3 | 156 |
"And I am Cosian. |
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| 4 | 76 |
"I thought he was Cosian," snarled Seremides. |
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| 5 | 25 |
"On a Cosian warship only the officers are armed, until an engagement is imminent, and then weapons are distributed". |
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| 5 | 104 |
"Five days ago," said Seremides, addressing himself to the seeming rabble about, "without provocation, we were attacked by Cosian pirates, who attempted to burn our ship. |
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| 5 | 113 |
I was an oarsman on the Cosian patrol ship, the Metioche, out of Telnus. |
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| 5 | 115 |
You were in Cosian waters. |
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| 5 | 179 |
"This Cosian sleen," said Seremides to Lord Nishida, while not taking his eyes off me, "is an enemy, to be put to death, one who wished us harm, not to be tolerated amongst us". |
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| 5 | 186 |
"Did you not say, yesterday," asked Seremides, "that today this Cosian sleen was to die?" "That he was to live, or die," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 5 | 211 |
"Cosian," sneered a fellow. |
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| 5 | 213 |
"No," said another fellow who, I supposed, was Cosian. |
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| 5 | 216 |
"True!" said the fellow I took to be Cosian. |
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| 5 | 249 |
"I do not know this Cosian," said Seremides. |
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| 5 | 268 |
"The Cosian has proved he is afraid to fight," said another. |
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| 5 | 271 |
"Berths are limited, Cosian," said Seremides. |
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| 5 | 319 |
"You are Cosian?" I said. |
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| 9 | 227 |
I did know, now, there were eight Pani at the door, and one unarmed Cosian. |
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| 21 | 209 |
I am told I have a Cosian accent, but I am not aware of this, or not much aware of it. |
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| 22 | 277 |
I was Cosian, not Pani. |
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| 25 | 176 |
"Callias," she whispered, "Callias of Jad, Cosian, spearman, first of nine, guardsman, the occupation, the Central Cylinder". |
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| 29 | 44 |
"He is Cosian," said a fellow of Ar. |
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| 35 | 148 |
"I think you are Callias, of Jad, a Cosian, he who prevented the destruction of the great ship, he who plotted its escape, he who set designs in motion, he who engineered its flight". |
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| 36 | 28 |
Demetrion knew little more of the stranger, the Cosian, Callias of Jad, than the fact that he may have cost the harbor, or, better, its administration, a number of golden tarn disks, of double weight. |
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| 37 | 486 |
Then, fervently, desperately, the frightened slave, Alcinoë, the slave of Callias, of Jad, a Cosian, addressed herself to the belt of her master. |
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| 37 | 670 |
After all, I thought to myself, too, he is a Cosian, and everyone knows what Cosians are like, though to be perfectly honest I had never given much thought up to that point as to Cosians in general. |
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| 37 | 1494 |
"Callias, not surprisingly, has a Cosian accent". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 688 |
"A lovely Cosian name," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 20 |
Certain Cosian fashions and manners had tended to linger, even following the withdrawal of the occupation forces of the Cosian alliance. |
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| 8 | 23 |
"It has a Cosian ring to it," he said. |
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| 9 | 361 |
I do not mark it as Cosian". |
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| 31 | 122 |
"Cosian," he said. |
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| 33 | 125 |
It is much like struggling to understand a Cosian accent, and then, somehow, suddenly, it is understood. |
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| 40 | 19 |
She wore a work himation, of Cosian cut, with bare arms. |
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| 40 | 21 |
More to the point, perhaps, was the utility and comfort of such garments, and their popularity, which antedated the troubles in Ar, in particular, the occupation of the Cosian alliance and the tyranny of the false Ubara, Talena, brought to an end by the uprising that restored the current Ubar, a man... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 244 |
Euphrosyne's accent was Cosian. |
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| 10 | 245 |
Adraste's accent, like that of many others, despite her name, which was Cosian, was that of Ar. |
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| 13 | 87 |
"I think her name is Cosian," I said. |
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| 15 | 37 |
"It is not Cosian," he said. |
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| 24 | 16 |
Kira was Cosian. |
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| 36 | 71 |
This was the vessel which had engaged, and destroyed, the Cosian raider on the voyage north from Brundisium to Port Kar. |
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| 36 | 76 |
Bosk of Port Kar's smallest ship was the swift Tesephone, it also bearing a woman's name, though one of a rather Cosian ring. |
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| 44 | 12 |
"Men from Port Kar will soon be here," said Talena, "perhaps within Ehn, and I, before their arrival, will be embarked in a Cosian longboat, to be freed and honored in Cos, the guest of noble Lurius of Jad, my former ally and now my benefactor. |
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| 45 | 76 |
The longboat from the Cosian ship was across the skerry. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 |
"A Cosian," said Thurnock, not rising. |
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| 2 | 5 |
"A Cosian," repeated Thurnock. |
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| 4 | 14 |
"It is Cosian," I said. |
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| 6 | 300 |
This name, a familiar Cosian slave name, is pronounced, as many such names, in two syllables, in this case, as "Lah-ees". |
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| 7 | 49 |
"I should have been High Admiral of the Cosian navy," he said, suddenly, angrily. |
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| 19 | 173 |
We knew that the bow had been prohibited to the Peasantry of the islands by Cosian law. |
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| 20 | 137 |
To be sure, he had seen Cosian regulars in Sybaris, posted there presumably to remind Therans of the presence, and power, of Cos. |
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| 20 | 161 |
But the men turned away, and, one by one, looking about as if they expected to find a Cosian soldier at their elbow, left the tent. |
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| 33 | 2 |
"How then," I asked, "is it that you would attack the small village, Zeuxis?" "It is a nest of Cosian spies and sympathizers," he said. |
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| 33 | 56 |
"Surely then you do not hold it against us that we hoped to dissuade those of Zeuxis from their Cosian sympathies," he said. |
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| 38 | 5 |
He deems himself wrongfully denied the High Admiralty of Cos, the post of High Admiral of the Cosian naval forces. |
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| 39 | 7 |
We were at the high, heavily barred gate to the Cosian naval base on Thera, the base of the Fleet of the Farther Islands. |
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| 39 | 10 |
Interestingly, they, as the officer of the guard himself, were not in the habiliments of Cosian marines or in those of the city guard of Sybaris. |
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| 59 | 34 |
The Theran fleet under Nicomachos, anticipating land action on Chios near Mytilene, had embarked with numerous Cosian regulars aboard, which allowed frequent shifts of oarsmen, an advantage which the corsair fleet had itself hitherto exploited, this now, however, enabling the Theran fleet to equal, ... |
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| 59 | 268 |
The last float was followed by several ranks of Cosian spearmen. |
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