| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 16 |
How surprised I had been when she had appeared in the small room outside the Chamber of the Council, after my father! She had knelt at his feet in the position of the Tower Slave as he had explained to me the plan of the Council. |
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| 3 | 86 |
"The High Castes in a given city," said my father, "elect an administrator and council for stated terms. |
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| 3 | 144 |
A man who refused to practice his livelihood or strove to alter status without the consent of the Council of High Castes was, by definition, an outlaw and subject to impalement. |
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| 4 | 126 |
"We are going to the Chamber of the Council," he said. |
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| 4 | 128 |
The Chamber of the Council is the room in which the elected representatives of the High Castes of Ko-ro-ba hold their meetings. |
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| 4 | 132 |
Benches of stone, on which the members of the Council sat, rose in five monumental tiers about the walls, one tier for each of the High Castes. |
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| 4 | 154 |
Then, beginning with the lowest tier, each member of the Council spoke in succession, giving his name and pronouncing that he, too, accepted the word of the blond swordsman. |
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| 4 | 163 |
"Then," said my father, placing his hands solemnly on my shoulders, "in virtue of my authority as Administrator of this city and in the presence of the Council of High Castes, I declare you to be a Warrior of Ko-ro-ba". |
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| 4 | 165 |
I removed my helmet, feeling proud as I heard the approval of the Council, both in voice and by Gorean applause, the quick, repeated striking of the left shoulder with the palm of the right hand. |
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| 4 | 166 |
Aside from candidates for the status of Warrior, none of my caste was permitted to enter the Council armed. |
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| 4 | 171 |
With the Older Tarl I left the Chamber of the Council and entered a room off the chamber to wait for my father. |
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| 5 | 19 |
The soldiers, and the Council of his city, had succumbed to his blandishments, his promises of wealth and power for Ar. |
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| 5 | 24 |
Indeed, they had, in the fashion of Gor, driven my father's envoys from their Council Chambers with the whips normally used on slaves, an insult which, at another time, would have been answered by the War Call of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 5 | 32 |
I would not permit the plan of the Council to be followed completely, not in her case, even though she had agreed to play her part in the plan, knowing it meant her life. |
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| 5 | 37 |
He, in accordance with the plan of the Council, had need of a girl who would be willing to give her life to be avenged on the men of Ar. |
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| 5 | 55 |
Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelik... |
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| 5 | 59 |
According to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, exactly at the time of the sacrifice, at the twentieth Gorean hour, or midnight, I was to drop to the roof of the highest cylinder in Ar, slay the daughter of the Ubar, and carry away her body and the Home Stone, discarding the former in the swamp co... |
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| 5 | 61 |
Presumably, it would be at least a matter of minutes before her identity was discovered, and, before that, she would take the poison provided by the Council. |
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| 5 | 107 |
"Why?" What could I tell her? That I had come from another world, that I was determined that all the ways of Gor should not be mine, or that I had cared for her, somehow, so helpless in her condition—that she had moved me to regard her not as an instrumentality of mine or of the Council, but ... |
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| 5 | 132 |
Sana had insisted that I keep the pellet of poison which the Council had given her to spare her from the otherwise inevitable tortures that would follow the disclosure of her identity in the cylinders of Ar. |
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| 10 | 3 |
Kazrak's remark was in accord with the strange warrior codes of Gor, codes which were as natural to him as the air he breathed, and codes which I, in the Chamber of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, had sworn to uphold. |
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| 14 | 30 |
"I risked my life a thousand times and gave the years of my youth to the vision of Ar and its empire, that there might be on all Gor but one language, but one commerce, but one set of codes, that the highways and passes might be safe, that the peasants might cultivate their fields in peace, that the... |
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| 20 | 21 |
Marlenus, in spite of his heroic role in the victory, submitted himself to the judgment of Ar's Council of High Castes. |
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| 20 | 28 |
His appointment was confirmed by Ar's Council of High Castes, and his popularity in the city is such that it seems probable that in the future the office will be his by free election. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 37 |
This was as it should be, as I was of that caste, and had been since that morning, some seven years ago, when in the Chamber of the Council of High Castes I had accepted weapons from the hands of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and had taken the Home Stone of that city as my own... |
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| 3 | 39 |
In rare cases, one might have been permitted by the Council of High Castes to raise caste. |
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| 11 | 19 |
On the broad steps leading to the throne, there were curule chairs, on which sat, I supposed, members of the High Council of Tharna. |
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| 12 | 111 |
"The Caste of Physicians," she said, "under the direction of the High Council of Tharna, arranges these matters". |
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| 12 | 126 |
"When he was safe," she said, "I did my duty, giving myself up, going before the High Council of Tharna and confessing all. |
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| 12 | 129 |
"You should not have given yourself to the High Council," I said. |
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| 22 | 110 |
"In these dreams I had been proud in my palace surrounded by my council and warriors and then, shattering the roof like glass, a great tarn descended, bearing a helmeted warrior. |
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| 22 | 111 |
He scattered my council and defeated my armies and took me and stripped me and bound me naked across the saddle of his bird and then, with a great cry, he carried me to his city, and there I, once proud Tatrix of Tharna, wore his brand and collar". |
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| 22 | 141 |
I recalled that she had said something of a rug and cords in the council chamber of Tharna, when she had seemed consumed with rage, when it seemed she wanted to lash the flesh from my bones. |
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| 26 | 77 |
Kron remains in Tharna, where he stands high in the Council of the Tatrix Lara. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 120 |
I knew that Gorean caste lines, though largely following birth, were not inflexible, and that a man who did not care for his caste might be allowed to change caste, if approved by the High Council of his city, an approval usually contingent on his qualifications for the work of another caste and the... |
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| 14 | 157 |
The first five born of the Mother are the High Council of the Nest. |
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| 14 | 160 |
"Then," I suggested, "he wants you to die so that he will be the only remaining member of the Council and thus have absolute power". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 7 |
Most of the High Council of Turia, too, now reposed in Tuchuk chains. |
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| 22 | 123 |
"Neither did the Turians," remarked Harold, reaching over the shoulder of one of the high council of Turia and taking a candied verr chop. |
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| 23 | 88 |
Taking council with Harold, we dispatched a rider to Kamchak in Turia, informing him of the situation, and that we had little hope of holding out. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 255 |
"The Administrator is appointed by the High Council of the City and the High Initiate by the High Council of the Initiates of the City". |
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| 17 | 227 |
Cernus had been proclaimed, as the Taurentians lifted their swords in salute and the members of the High Council had stood on the tiers of the Council Chamber and cried out and applauded, Ubar of Ar. |
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| 2 | 190 |
Whereas it is only the men of high caste who elect members to the Council of the City, the gold of merchants and the will of the general populace is seldom disregarded in their choices. |
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| 3 | 55 |
In Ar, the high bridge near the Central Cylinder, housing the palace of the Ubar and the meeting place of the city's High Council, was held, and had been for four years, by the young and brilliant, fiery Scormus of Ar. |
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| 5 | 586 |
Surely there had been scandalized mention of her in circles even as august as that of the High Council of the City. |
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| 12 | 22 |
Near the finishing perches, nine of which were standing for this race, were the areas reserved for the Administrator, the High Initiate, and members of the High Council. |
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| 16 | 9 |
The High Council, with scarcely a murmur, agreed to the investiture. |
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| 16 | 14 |
It perhaps need only be added that now being a Warrior, and thus of High Caste, he was now eligible for a seat on the High Council of the city, and even for the throne itself, whether it be that of Administrator or Ubar. |
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| 16 | 32 |
It was also the day that, before the High Council and the Administrator, Cernus, of the House of Cernus, accepted the red of the Warrior from the hands of Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians. |
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| 17 | 202 |
Two members of the High Council, who had spoken out against the influence of Merchants in the politics of Ar, presumably a veiled reference to Cernus, were found slain, one cut down by killing knife and another throttled and found dangling from a bridge near his home. |
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| 17 | 214 |
Then, as I would have expected, within the month, there were rumors of peculation, and an accounting and investigation, theoretically to clear the name of the Hinrabian, was demanded by one of the High Council, a Physician whom I had seen upon occasion in the house. |
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| 17 | 220 |
The High Council receiving the promise of Minus Tentius Hinrabius to depart from the city, did not inflict officially the penalty of exile. |
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| 18 | 184 |
The Cylinder of Initiates demanded that the High Council of the Caste of Physicians put an end to our work, not only that it be discontinued but that our results to that date be destroyed. |
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| 18 | 187 |
The Cylinder of the High Initiate then petitioned the High Council of the City to stop our work, but they, on the recommendation of Marlenus, who was then Ubar, permitted our work to continue". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 368 |
"Further," said Samos, "let the council decree that any who fail to abide by the resolutions of the council, or act against it, be regarded, at the council's convenience, subject to her pleasure". |
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| 11 | 411 |
Also considered, though nothing was determined that night, were matters of taxation, the unification and revision of the codes of the five Ubars, the establishment of council courts, replacing those of the Ubars, and the acquisition of a sizable number of men-at-arms, who would be directly responsib... |
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| 10 | 1 |
The Council of Captains I took my seat in the Council of the Captains of Port Kar. |
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| 11 | 338 |
"Now hear," said Samos, "the proposal of the council, that Henrius Sevarius and his regent, Claudius, lay down their arms, and divest themselves of all ships, and men and holdings, and all properties and assets, and present themselves, stripped and in the chains of slaves, before the council, that i... |
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| 11 | 365 |
"Further," said Samos, "I propose that the council decree that all bonds among clients and patrons in Port Kar be now dissolved, to be reestablished only on the basis of mutual consent and explicit contract on the part of the parties involved, which documents, in copy, are to be placed with the coun... |
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| 11 | 414 |
It is true, of course, that the council already controlled a large number of ships and crews, but it must be remembered that these forces were naval in nature; the council already had its navy; the events of the afternoon had demonstrated that it would be well if it had also at its disposal a small,... |
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| 15 | 107 |
And now, in this very afternoon, my glories had been climaxed in the chamber of the Council of Captains, in which had taken place the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder, in which had taken place the commendation of the Council for my deeds and the awarding of its mos... |
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| 15 | 108 |
Even now, in my feast of celebration, hours after the meeting of the council, I still wore about my neck the broad scarlet ribbon with its pendant medallion of gold, bearing the design of a lateen-rigged tarn ship, the initials in cursive Gorean script of Council of Captains of Port Kar in a half cu... |
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| 15 | 117 |
For one thing, they had now formed a Council Guard, with its distinct livery, that was now recognized as a force of the Council, and, in effect, as the police of the city. |
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| 16 | 418 |
They followed me, and I left the chamber of the council, and, in a few moments, stood on the top of the broad marbled steps leading up to the hall of the Council of Captains. |
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| 4 | 130 |
"Ho-Hak," said she, "has called the nearby islands to a council". |
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| 4 | 134 |
"What is the purpose of the council?" I asked. |
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| 5 | 80 |
The men had sat in council with Ho-Hak, and there had been much discussion, much argument, even shouting. |
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| 5 | 86 |
After the council had broken up, one of the men who had been seated there came to regard me. |
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| 9 | 101 |
Nominally beneath these Ubars, but in fact much independent of them, is an oligarchy of merchant princes, Captains, as they call themselves, who, in council, maintain and manage the great arsenal, building and renting ships and fittings, themselves controlling the grain fleet, the oil fleet, the sla... |
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| 9 | 102 |
Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, said to be an agent of Priest-Kings, was, I knew, a member of this council. |
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| 9 | 148 |
But these islands were not united, and, indeed, the government of them was usually no more than a village council. |
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| 10 | 8 |
Accordingly I, who had been Tarl Cabot, once a warrior of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, sat now in the council of these captains, merchant and pirate princes, the high oligarchs of squalid, malignant Port Kar, Scourge of Gleaming Thassa. |
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| 10 | 9 |
In the council, in effect, was vested the stability and administration of Port Kar. |
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| 10 | 11 |
The Ubars were represented on the council, to which they belonged as being themselves Captains, by five empty thrones, sitting before the semicircles of curule chairs on which reposed the captains. |
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| 10 | 12 |
Beside each empty throne there was a stool from which a Scribe, speaking in the name of his Ubar, participated in the proceedings of the council. |
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| 10 | 14 |
A scribe, at a large table before the five thrones, was droning the record of the last meeting of the council. |
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| 10 | 15 |
There are commonly about one hundred and twenty captains who form the council, sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less. |
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| 10 | 16 |
Admittance to the council is based on being master of at least five ships. |
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| 10 | 18 |
These five ships, pertinent to council membership, may be either the round ships, with deep holds for merchandise, or the long ships, ram-ships, ships of war. |
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| 10 | 29 |
The "Stone" of Port Kar, tested against the official "Stone" at the Sardar, reposed in a special fortified building in the great arsenal, which complex was administered by agents of the Council of Captains. |
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| 10 | 44 |
The voice of the scribe droned on, reading the records of the council's last meeting. |
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| 10 | 46 |
Although there were some one hundred and twenty captains in the council, seldom more than seventy or eighty, either in person or by proxy, made an appearance at its meetings. |
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| 10 | 68 |
He may have seen me that night, among the rencers on the island, but he did not place me, one who now sat on the Council of the Captains of Port Kar. |
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| 10 | 70 |
I had seen Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, only once at the meeting of the council. |
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| 10 | 122 |
My attention was returned now to the meeting of the Council of the Captains of Port Kar. |
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| 10 | 133 |
The seaman, to his chagrin, was dismissed by a vote of the council. |
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| 10 | 136 |
The approximately one hundred and twenty captains of the Council of the Captains of Port Kar have, pledged to their personal service, some thousand ships. |
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| 10 | 137 |
They further control another thousand ships, as executor, through the council, which ships comprise the members of the grain fleet, the oil fleet, the slave fleet, and others, as well as numerous patrol and escort ships. |
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| 10 | 138 |
Beyond these ships there are some twenty-five hundred ships which are owned by some fifteen or sixteen hundred minor captains of the city, not wealthy enough to sit on the Council of Captains. |
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| 10 | 159 |
The wages of a sail-maker, incidentally, are four copper tarn disks per day, those of a fine shipwright, hired by the Council of Captains, as much as a golden tarn disk per day. |
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| 10 | 170 |
The Council of Captains respects those who build and outfit ships. |
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| 10 | 180 |
I would note, of course, that these weaknesses, or virtues, of the men of the arsenal are, of tradition, welcomed by the Council of Captains; without them the arsenal could not be as efficiently and economically managed as it is. |
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| 10 | 187 |
Now, crying to come before the council, was the mad, half-blind shipwright Tersites, a scroll of drawings in his hand, and calculations. |
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| 10 | 189 |
Once before he had been permitted to present plans to the council, but they had been too fantastic to be taken seriously. |
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| 10 | 193 |
I recall men shouting, "Many men could not all sit through the stroke of an oar! Would you have them stand?" "So great an oar could not even be held by the hands of a man!" "Two masts with their sails could not be quickly removed before battle!" "You will slow the ship if you deepen the keel!" "If m... |
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| 10 | 199 |
Tersites had also, it might be mentioned, though he had not presented these ideas in his appearance before the council, argued for a rudder hung on the sternpost of the tarn ship, rather than the two side-hung rudders, and had championed a square rigging, as opposed to the beautiful lateen rigging c... |
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| 10 | 285 |
My attention was then returned to the meeting of the Council of Captains. |
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| 10 | 295 |
The location of all such trees is kept in a book available to the Council of Captains. |
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| 10 | 315 |
I recognized him, he being a page of the council. |
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| 10 | 335 |
At that moment a man burst into the hall in which was sitting the Council of Captains. |
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| 11 | 2 |
Great chairs fell bounding down the tiers of the council chamber. |
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| 11 | 5 |
Feet were pounding toward the great double door, leading to the hallway beyond, leading out to the tiled piazza fronting on the hall of the council. |
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| 11 | 9 |
And I saw, too, that the Scribe who normally sat his attendance at the right arm of the empty throne of Henrius Sevarius, the Fifth, in the council chamber was gone. |
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| 11 | 15 |
But Lysias then, weapon at the ready, backed away, and then turned and fled through a side door, leading from the council hall. |
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| 11 | 30 |
"Gather up and guard the book of the Council," I told the Scribe who had been at the great table. |
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| 11 | 57 |
I myself, taking with me two captains, went to a rear corner of the great chamber, whence, via a spiraling stairwell, the roof of the hall of the council might be attained. |
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| 11 | 58 |
We soon found ourselves on the sloping roof of the hall of the council, shielded by turrets and decorative embrasures at its edge. |
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| 11 | 82 |
Slowly, moving smoothly, their oars dipping in rhythm, from various sides, we saw tarn ships moving toward the hall of the council. |
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| 11 | 93 |
I could see, even at the distance, leaping from the prow of the ship to the tiles of the piazza, running across the large, oblique-looking, colored squares toward the Hall of the Council of Captains, the great Thurnock, with his yellow bow, followed by Clitus, with his net and trident, and by Tab, w... |
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| 11 | 113 |
They had surely served to draw the captains of Port Kar into the ambush prepared for them outside the hall of the council. |
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| 11 | 116 |
I, and the three other captains, stood on the sloping roof of the hall of the council and watched the ships burning at the wharves. |
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| 11 | 126 |
"Tonight," I said, "the council must meet again". |
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| 11 | 138 |
"If they do not come," I told him, "tell them they will no longer be captains in the eyes of the council". |
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| 11 | 140 |
"It is the council," I said, "that is now the first power in Port Kar". |
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| 11 | 145 |
Escaping into and barricading themselves within the hall of the Council, most had saved themselves. |
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| 11 | 159 |
Further, if necessary, the Council of Captains, with its power, might intercept and impound their ships, as they returned, one by one. |
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| 11 | 165 |
Accordingly I wished for the council to consolidate its power in the city. |
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| 11 | 167 |
The council, I expected, itself composed of captains, men much like myself, would provide a political structure within which my ambitions and projects might well prosper. |
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| 11 | 169 |
I, for one, would champion the council. |
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| 11 | 179 |
Above us, in the chamber of the Council of Captains, I could hear feet moving about on the wooden floor, chairs scraping. |
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| 11 | 196 |
Some of those who had started these fires, who had been apprehended, now, under the torches, screamed on the racks beneath the chamber of the Council of Captains. |
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| 11 | 210 |
"In the streets men cry 'Power to the Council!'" "Excellent," I commented. |
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| 11 | 212 |
"An envoy from the House of Sevarius demands to speak before the council," he said. |
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| 11 | 222 |
"The council," I said, "will adjudicate his claims". |
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| 11 | 241 |
He had been one who had, with his crossbow, fired on the captains as they had run from the council. |
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| 11 | 259 |
"You were not at the meeting of the council this afternoon," I said to him. |
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| 11 | 286 |
"You did the council good service". |
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| 11 | 289 |
"Do you know who is senior captain of the council?" he asked. |
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| 11 | 303 |
I recalled the note I had received before Henrak had burst in upon the council, crying that there was fire in the arsenal. |
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| 11 | 308 |
Then Samos, who was senior captain of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, turned and left. |
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| 11 | 313 |
* * * * Lysias, captain, client of Henrius Sevarius, spoke before the council. |
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| 11 | 315 |
The Hall of the Council, this night, was surrounded by the men of the captains, who, too, patrolled the rooftops and the walks beside the canals for a full pasang on all sides. |
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| 11 | 318 |
"And so," concluded Lysias, "I bring you all amnesty in the name of the Ubar of Port Kar, Henrius Sevarius!" "Henrius Sevarius, the Captain," said Samos, speaking from his curule chair, in the name of the council, "is most kind". |
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| 11 | 320 |
"Henrius Sevarius, the Captain," said Samos, in measured words, "may, however, find that the council is less inclined to lenience than he". |
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| 11 | 328 |
"The captains of the council," said Samos, dryly, "have some one thousand ships pledged to their personal service. |
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| 11 | 329 |
And further, the council is executor with respect to the disposition and application of the ships of the city, in the number of approximately another thousand". |
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| 11 | 331 |
"The council commands," summarized Samos, "some two thousand ships". |
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| 11 | 333 |
"Perhaps," asked Samos, "you refer to those of Chung, and Eteocles, and Nigel and Sullius Maximus?" There was unpleasant laughter in the council. |
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| 11 | 335 |
"I refer to the ships of the minor captains, in the number of better than twenty-five hundred!" "In the streets," said Samos, "I have heard the cry 'Power to the council!'" "Proclaim Henrius Sevarius sole Ubar," said Lysias numbly, "and your lives will be spared, and you will be granted amnesty". |
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| 11 | 341 |
There was an angry cry of affirmation, and a shaking of fists, from those of the council. |
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| 11 | 350 |
"Is it true," he asked, "that in the eyes of the council Henrius Sevarius is no longer Ubar or Captain in Port Kar?" "It is," cried the voices. |
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| 11 | 358 |
"Be it known to you, Ubars," said he, "that Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, now proposes to the council that it take into its own hands the full and sole governance of the city of Port Kar, with full powers, whether of policy and decree, of enforcement, of taxation and law, or other, pertinent to t... |
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| 11 | 361 |
"Power to the council," said Samos, bowing his head. |
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| 11 | 362 |
"Power to the council!" cried the men in the tiers. |
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| 11 | 364 |
"Power to the council!" I sat still in my curule chair, smiling. |
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| 11 | 380 |
And almost every one of the captains in that council drew their weapon, as had Samos, and placed it across their knees. |
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| 11 | 387 |
Sullius Maximus stopped before the table of the scribe, and regarded the council. |
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| 11 | 398 |
I saw no reason, at the moment, to commit myself to the programs of Samos and the council. |
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| 11 | 404 |
As I thought it would, the group of proposals set before the council by Samos passed overwhelmingly. |
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| 11 | 405 |
There were some abstentions, and some nays, perhaps from those who feared the power of one or another of the Ubars, but the decision on the whole was clear, a devastating of the claims of the Ubars and the, in effect, enthronement of the Council of Captains as sovereign in the city. |
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| 11 | 406 |
The council met late that night, and much business was conducted. |
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| 11 | 408 |
Several committees were formed, usually headed by scribes but reporting to the council, to undertake various studies pertaining to the city, particularly of a military and commercial nature. |
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| 11 | 409 |
One of these studies was to be a census of ships and captains, the results of which were to be private to the council. |
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| 11 | 410 |
Other studies, the results of which would be kept similarly private to the council, dealt with the city defenses, and her stores of wood, grain, salt, stone and tharlarion oil. |
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| 11 | 413 |
The arsenal guard, presumably, would become a branch of the newly formed council guard, if such became a reality. |
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| 11 | 415 |
One might not always be able to count on the rallying of the men of individual captains to protect the council, as had been the case this afternoon. |
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| 11 | 416 |
Besides, if the council were to become truly sovereign in Port Kar, as it had proclaimed itself, it seemed essential that it should soon have its own military forces within the city. |
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| 11 | 417 |
One other incident of that council meeting I shall mention. |
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| 11 | 418 |
It was shortly past daybreak, and the gray light of Port Kar's dawn was filtering in through the high, narrow windows of the Council of Captains. |
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| 11 | 429 |
"Now that the council is sovereign in Port Kar," Samos said, his fist clenched on the arm of his curule chair, "might not peace be possible?" This puzzled me. |
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| 11 | 448 |
"It is my proposal," said Samos, "that the council approach Cos and Tyros, offering terms of peace". |
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| 11 | 456 |
Further, men might be willing to believe Port Kar now other than she had been, that the coming to power of the council would have reformed her. |
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| 11 | 471 |
"And," I asked, "do we abide by their acceptance? Would there then be truly peace between Port Kar, and Cos and Tyros?" "That," smiled Samos, "may always be taken under consideration at a future meeting of the council". |
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| 11 | 474 |
For one thing, the Council has newly come to power. |
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| 11 | 484 |
"You speak quickly," he said, "for one who is new to the Council of Captains". |
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| 11 | 491 |
Several in the council chamber gasped. |
10 |
| 11 | 497 |
"Let there be peace in the council," said the scribe behind the great table, that before the now-empty five thrones of the Ubars of Port Kar. |
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| 11 | 530 |
"It should be one," Samos was saying, "who has the rank of captain, and who is a member of the council itself, that the authenticity of the offer shall thus be made manifest". |
10 |
| 11 | 532 |
"Further," said Samos, "it should be one who has proved that he can take action, and who has in the past well served the council". |
10 |
| 11 | 537 |
"And," Samos was saying, "it must be one who is not afraid to speak, one who is a worthy representative of the council". |
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| 11 | 544 |
He was senior captain of the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 11 | 547 |
Let it be he who carries peace on behalf of the council to Cos and Tyros. |
10 |
| 11 | 550 |
I had not realized until then that I was valued in the Council of Captains. |
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| 11 | 557 |
"Let it be so," said various voices throughout the chamber of the council. |
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| 11 | 567 |
"I am grateful for your nomination," said Samos, "but I scarcely think, in these troubled times, it behooves he who is senior captain of the council to leave the city, voyaging abroad in search of peace when war itself looms at home". |
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| 11 | 573 |
"Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intent... |
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| 11 | 601 |
I asked myself if Samos thought he was so easily rid of me, one who might challenge him, senior captain, in the council of the captains of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 12 | 4 |
Until the formation of the council guard, the captains and their men would have for their responsibility the maintaining of watches throughout the city. |
10 |
| 12 | 5 |
Even before the emergency session of the council, the night of the unsuccessful coup, had concluded, slaves, instructed by men of the arsenal, were raising walls about the various holdings of Henrius Sevarius. |
10 |
| 12 | 88 |
"Of the Council of Captains?" he asked. |
10 |
| 12 | 107 |
If he fell into the hands of the council he would doubtless be tortured and impaled, or, perhaps, condemned to a seat on the rowing benches of the arsenal round ships. |
10 |
| 12 | 110 |
There was surely little to be gained in turning him over to the council. |
10 |
| 13 | 12 |
I put to them, the Ubars of Cos and Tyros, as well as I could, the proposals of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, that there would be concord, and doubtless an opening of commerce, between the two Ubarates and the maligned city in the Vosk's delta, my own Port Kar. |
10 |
| 14 | 360 |
I had, by agreement with the council, reserved to myself twelve shares of thirty divisions, as well as all slaves taken. |
10 |
| 15 | 15 |
The ships, in a splendid, long line, filing behind me, the Dorna first, then the tarn ships, then the round ships, under oars, moved slowly through the city, following the triumphal circuit of the great canal, passing even before the chamber of the Council of Captains. |
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| 15 | 87 |
"When the treasures have been checked, tallied, and appraised, which should take some four or five weeks," I told her, "you, with your maidens, in the chains of slave girls, will be displayed, together with samples of, and full accountings of, the other treasures, before the Council of Captains". |
10 |
| 15 | 92 |
"What will you do with us after we have been displayed before the Council of Captains?" she asked. |
10 |
| 15 | 97 |
The climax would occur in some four or five weeks in the formal presentations before the Council, and in the receipt of its highest accolade as worthy captain of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 15 | 102 |
In this very afternoon the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder had taken place in the chamber of the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 15 | 116 |
Meanwhile, while I had been plying the trade of pirate, the military and political ventures of the Council itself, within the city, had proceeded well. |
10 |
| 15 | 119 |
For another thing, the four Ubars, Chung, Eteocles, Nigel and Sullius Maximus, their powers considerably reduced during the time of the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius, had apparently resigned themselves to the supremacy of the Council in the city. |
10 |
| 15 | 120 |
At any rate, for the first time in several years, there was now a single, effective sovereign in Port Kar, the Council. |
10 |
| 15 | 124 |
Lastly, the forces of Henrius Sevarius, under the regency of Claudius, once of Tyros, had been driven by the Council forces from all their holdings, save one, a huge fortress, its walls extending into the Tamber itself, sheltering the some two dozen ships left him. |
10 |
| 15 | 126 |
Accordingly the Council, ringing it with double walls on the land side and blockading it with arsenal ships by sea, chose to wait. |
10 |
| 15 | 128 |
The Council, for the most part, in her calculations, ignored the remaining fortress of Sevarius. |
10 |
| 15 | 130 |
One of those therein imprisoned, of course, in the opinion of the Council, was Henrius Sevarius, the boy, himself, the Ubar. |
10 |
| 15 | 208 |
Indeed, he, a price on his head from the Council, had excellent reasons for concealing his true identity. |
10 |
| 15 | 249 |
I fingered the broad scarlet ribbon and the medallion, pendant about my neck, bearing its tarn ship and initials, those of the Council of Captains of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 15 | 346 |
I fingered the golden medallion with the lateen-rigged tarn ship, and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar in its half-curve beneath it. |
10 |
| 15 | 481 |
This afternoon I had presented her, with her maidens, in the chains of slave girls, together with portions of the treasures of the treasure fleet, and accountings of the balance thereof, before the Council of Captains of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 15 | 486 |
This afternoon, after returning from the Council of Captains, I had had her marked and collared. |
10 |
| 15 | 507 |
I had also had her maidens marked and collared, following the meeting of the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 15 | 649 |
"Admiral!" I clutched the medallion about my neck, with its tarn ship and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 15 | 817 |
"You, too," she said, "wear a collar!" I tore away from my throat the broad scarlet ribbon, with its pendant medallion, with the tarn ship and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 16 | 153 |
I picked up the broad scarlet ribbon, with its medallion, that with the tarn ship and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 16 | 195 |
The council and I had apparently miscalculated the damage done by the capture of the treasure fleet to the war plans of Cos and Tyros. |
10 |
| 16 | 297 |
"To the Council of Captains," I told them. |
10 |
| 16 | 309 |
The ship nosed through the canals of Port Kar toward the hall of the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 16 | 338 |
"I think to the Council of Captains," said one of the men on the walk. |
10 |
| 16 | 341 |
I saw bundles thrown down and arms unsheathed, and behind us, in throngs of thousands now, came the people of Port Kar, following us to the great piazza before the hall of the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 16 | 342 |
Even before the man in the bow had tied the tharlarion-prowed longboat to a mooring post at the piazza, I had leaped up to the tiles and was striding, robes swirling, across the squares of the broad piazza toward the great door of the hall of the Council of Captains. |
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| 16 | 343 |
Four members of the Council Guard, beneath the two great braziers set at the entrance, leaped to attention, the butts of their pikes striking on the tiles. |
10 |
| 16 | 348 |
Of the usual seventy or eighty, or so, captains of the approximately one hundred and twenty entitled to sit in the council, only some thirty or forty were present. |
10 |
| 16 | 350 |
The scribe, haggard behind the great table, sitting before the book of the council, looked up at me. |
10 |
| 16 | 360 |
"I petition," said I to the scribe, as though it might be an ordinary meeting, "to address the council". |
10 |
| 16 | 380 |
"Hear them! They are outside!" The men of the council lifted their heads. |
10 |
| 16 | 381 |
Through the thick walls, and the high, narrow windows of the hall of the Council of Captains, there came a great, rumbling cry, the thunderous mixture of roiling shouts. |
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| 17 | 11 |
Beyond this, we had three hundred and fifty ships furnished by the captains of the council who had not, prior to the time of the showing of the Home Stone, fled. |
10 |
| 17 | 13 |
My own ships counted in with these of the captains of the council. |
10 |
| 17 | 151 |
Surely many captains, of the council and otherwise, had done so, their holds filled with their chained slaves and secured treasures. |
10 |
| 17 | 217 |
With the glass I saw, on her stern castle, Antisthenes, that captain of the council whose name had been always first on her rolls. |
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| 18 | 3 |
The council will decide what is to be done with him". |
10 |
| 18 | 66 |
The hall of the council itself might now be in flames. |
10 |
| 18 | 117 |
How else, I asked myself, had he been able to take an oar on the longboat in the canals when I had gone to the hall of the Council of Captains, or been able to board the Dorna, or taken his place in the longboat that had ferried me to the round ship? I, too, was not unfond of the boy. |
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| 18 | 676 |
"The Council of Captains of Port Kar," said Samos, "has business with you". |
10 |
| 18 | 782 |
The council hall, though partly burnt, is not destroyed. |
10 |
| 18 | 831 |
"Why!" "Samos," said I, "was it from you that the message came, months ago, which I received in the Council of Captains, seeking to speak with me?" "Yes," said Samos. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 |
Indeed, he was First Slaver of Port Kar, and First Captain in its Council of Captains, which council, since the downfall of the four Ubars is sovereign in Port Kar. |
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| 1 | 23 |
I, too, was a member of the Council of Captains, Bosk, of the House of Bosk, of Port Kar. |
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| 3 | 51 |
In Port Kar, my city, the utilization of the facilities of the port is regulated by a board of four magistrates, the Port Consortium, which reports directly to the Council of Captains, which, since the downfall of the warring Ubars, is sovereign in the city. |
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| 6 | 303 |
In time I might become First Captain in the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 8 | 110 |
"Let us sit down and take council," I suggested. |
10 |
| 9 | 339 |
Who knew how high might have been raised the chair of Bosk? Perhaps there might even, in time, have been a Ubar in Port Kar, sovereign over even the Council of Captains. |
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| 12 | 18 |
Subsequently, they are commonly awarded to high officers or men who have especially distinguished themselves in the taking of the city, perhaps an individual who has led a sortie which successfully stormed a gate, or the first man upon the enemy's walls, or one who has captured a member of the city'... |
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| 12 | 19 |
In the latter case, if the council member has a daughter, it is common to give her to the man who has captured her father. |
10 |
| 12 | 27 |
And in Port Kar, I recalled, my political power, strictly, extended no further than my vote in the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 12 | 28 |
I was not even first in the council. |
10 |
| 14 | 54 |
It would be a great triumph in Tyros, to bring the great Marlenus, naked, in the chains of a slave, branded, before their council. |
10 |
| 14 | 325 |
Then, with music and ceremony, he would be presented before the High Council of Tyros. |
10 |
| 14 | 327 |
Sarus, leader of the men of Tyros in the forest, his captor, would then give him to the council. |
10 |
| 14 | 328 |
He would then be pronounced, by the council, slave of Tyros. |
10 |
| 18 | 478 |
Gods, meeting in council, decided to form a slave for themselves, for they were all gods, and had no slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever... |
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| 1 | 112 |
He stood high in the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 1 | 508 |
He had risen in the city, and had been for years the private physician of Sullius Maximus, who had been one of the five Ubars, presiding in Port Kar prior to the assumption of power by the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 4 | 78 |
In the chronology of Port Kar, it was early in Year 3 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 4 | 82 |
In that same year, in its spring, in Port Kar, the Council of Captains had assumed its sovereignty, thus initiating Year 1 of its reign. |
10 |
| 21 | 162 |
Sullius Maximus had been one of the five Ubars of Port Kar, whose reigns, dividing the city, had been terminated when the Council of Captains, under the leadership of Samos, First Captain of Port Kar, had assumed the sovereignty. |
10 |
| 21 | 165 |
Nigel and Chung were in Port Kar, though now only as powerful captains, high in her council. |
10 |
| 21 | 166 |
They had fought against the united fleets of Tyros and Cos and, without their help, doubtless Port Kar could not have won the great victory of the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the reign of the Council of Captains, in the year 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar. |
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| 21 | 168 |
The whereabouts of Henrius Sevarius, on whose head a price had been set, were unknown to the Council of Captains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 196 |
In many cities only members of the high castes may belong to the city's high council. |
10 |
| 5 | 197 |
Most Gorean cities are governed by an executive, the Administrator, in conjunction with the high council. |
10 |
| 9 | 1576 |
"I must then call the council," said Thurnus, "that we may consider what is to be done with you". |
10 |
| 9 | 1579 |
"Only the caste leader may call the council," said Bran Loort. |
10 |
| 24 | 26 |
"Clitus Vitellius of Ar, and his men," said the man, "by accounts rendered to me by Samos of Port Kar, of the Council of Captains, participated creditably in the action of the day before yesterday on behalf of the Jewel of Thassa". |
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| 24 | 29 |
The city is under the governance of a Council of Captains. |
10 |
| 25 | 5 |
Beside the man before me, the man with white, short-cropped hair, who was Samos of Port Kar, chief among the captains of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, was a slender, gray-eyed man, clad in the green of the caste of physicians. |
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| 27 | 491 |
"When the Companionship was under consideration by the Council of the Confederation," he said, "I slipped away, on tarn, to Fortress of Saphronicus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 57 |
Most Gorean cities now, at least in the south, had accepted a standard tournament Kaissa, agreed upon by the high council of the caste of players. |
10 |
| 5 | 92 |
Apprise yourself of the articles of the Council of Captains". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 153 |
"I bring you greetings from the merchant council of Teletus, that council sovereign in that free island. |
10 |
| 1 | 5 |
It was early evening in Port Kar, and I had supped with Samos, first captain in the council of captains, that congress of captains sovereign in Port Kar. |
10 |
| 1 | 156 |
"I think Samos, first slaver of Port Kar, first captain of the council of captains, has grown fond of a blond Earth girl". |
10 |
| 1 | 466 |
"He is a member of the council. |
10 |
| 1 | 468 |
This was the date of a naval battle which took place in the first year of the sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar. |
10 |
| 1 | 471 |
It was, currently, Year 7 in the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, that year, in the chronology of Ar, which was 10,126 C. |
10 |
| 1 | 472 |
On the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, in the naval battle which had taken place on that date, the joint fleets of Cos and Tyros had been turned back from Port Kar. |
10 |
| 6 | 328 |
"Yes, from the merchant council," he said. |
10 |
| 6 | 611 |
Schendi's merchant council, I supposed, could not be blamed for wishing to exercise due caution that a similar calamity did not befall their own port. |
10 |
| 10 | 41 |
It was said that even members of the merchant council occasionally took Kipofu into their confidence. |
10 |
| 15 | 288 |
There was also an officer there of the merchant council of Schendi. |
10 |
| 15 | 289 |
"Is this he?" asked the officer of the merchant council. |
10 |
| 15 | 337 |
"You had the cooperation of the council of Schendi," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 174 |
In council they have deposed Kisu and placed their leader, Aibu, in power. |
10 |
| 57 | 303 |
It is addressed to the council of captains, that body sovereign in Port Kar, of which I am a member. |
10 |
| 57 | 305 |
It is my expectation that the council will rule favorably on the pardon. |
10 |
| 57 | 309 |
"But why would the council rule favorably?" he asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 75 |
In the last year heavy import duties had been levied by the high council of Vonda against the wines of certain other cities, in particular against the Ka-la-nas of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 37 |
"Even now Ebullius Gaius Cassius, of the Warriors, Administrator of Ti, meets with the high council of Ti". |
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| 21 | 113 |
"And it is said, too," she whispered, coming close to me, the chain on her neck touching my chest, as she put her head over me, "that Glyco is not only a merchant but stands high in the merchant council of Port Cos". |
10 |
| 29 | 25 |
"The matter was important to the Merchant Council," said Callisthenes. |
10 |
| 29 | 69 |
"That is why I came to Victoria, to seek out Callimachus, that he might, in these dark times, with the topaz in transit, lend us his council, and his blade". |
10 |
| 29 | 137 |
"We have even received a protest from Ven in the council". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 1166 |
"The appointment was made earlier this afternoon, in a secret session of the High Council of the Vosk League," said Tasdron, "that body sovereign in the league, composed of representatives drawn from all the member towns". |
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| 20 | 1191 |
In a few days we of the council of Victoria will go down to the river. |
10 |
| 20 | 1216 |
"Tasdron," said I, "when the council arrives at the shore of the Vosk, it is my hope that I may be there". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
The signet ring of Samos of Port Kar, first captain of the council of captains, was displayed. |
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| 1 | 331 |
He was, after all, an agent of Priest-Kings, and, indeed, the first captain of the council of captains, that body sovereign in the affairs of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 1 | 610 |
"I bring you greetings," said Samos, "from the Council of Captains, of Port Kar, Jewel of Gleaming Thassa". |
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| 1 | 614 |
What would the Council of Captains know of such creatures, or of the warrings among worlds? He had not identified himself as being among the party of those forces arrayed against the ravaging, concupiscent imperialism of our savage colleagues. |
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| 1 | 693 |
"Can you speak on behalf of the Council of Captains, of Port Kar?" asked Kog. |
10 |
| 1 | 694 |
"Only on matters having to do with Port Kar, and then after a decision of the council, taken after consultation," said Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 697 |
The creatures, of course, would not be familiar with council procedures. |
10 |
| 1 | 1273 |
"Judgment was pronounced in accord with the statutes of the steel worlds," said Kog, "by the high council, composed of seventy-two members elected from among the representatives of the thousand cliffs". |
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| 1 | 1274 |
"The same council was both judge and jury?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 1299 |
Too, I suspected some of the council, even if they were not of the party of Zarendargar, would have recognized his value to the steel worlds. |
10 |
| 1 | 1306 |
"How do we know that you are truly appointed to fulfill the edict of the council?" I asked. |
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| 2 | 130 |
The only fully floating market authorized by the Council of Captains occurs in a lakelike area near the arsenal. |
10 |
| 2 | 132 |
On the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara in Year One of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, the year 10,120 C. |
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| 2 | 193 |
"The Council of Captains must meet in two days," said Samos. |
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| 2 | 208 |
Direct council support, for example, has never been petitioned by the Slavers". |
10 |
| 2 | 264 |
"I shall see you at the meeting of the Council in two days," he said. |
10 |
| 5 | 112 |
"We are sustained by the merchant council of Port Olni," said the woman. |
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| 19 | 109 |
"Yes," said Grunt, "when last I was in the land of the Kaiila, I met him in general council, with Black Clouds, Mahpiyasapa, civil chief of the Isbu". |
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| 19 | 426 |
That was on the decision of the council of the Isbu, presided over by Mahpiyasapa". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 96 |
"One would think that they would have been on their way to the council, if not within the council lodge, by then". |
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| 43 | 204 |
"The council of all the bands of the Kaiila, of the Isbu, the Casmu, the Isanna, the Napoktan and the Wismahi, of all the remnants of the Kaiila people, will take place at Council Rock at the end of Canwapegiwi". |
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| 44 | 103 |
"The great council of the Kaiila, of all the remnants of the Kaiila," she said, "of the Isbu, the Casmu, the Isanna, the Napoktan and Wismahi?" "The council?" I asked. |
10 |
| 44 | 346 |
"It is my doing! I told them! In my lodge I overheard this foolish slave mention the place and time of the council! I tricked him into loosening my gag! I managed later, before being dragged from the Yellow-Knife camp, to rid myself of it! I then, in Yellow Knife, informed my people of your future w... |
10 |
| 47 | 310 |
"Back to Council Rock!" Soldiers had established a hold on the eastern ledges of Council Rock, to which they had been climbing, those ledges opposite those above the trail, up which, slowly, medicine drums beating, medicine men dancing about the beasts, the procession of Yellow Knives, a few minutes... |
10 |
| 1 | 400 |
Other checks and balances are such things as tradition and custom, the closeness of the governed and the governors, multiple-family interrelatednesses, the election of chiefs, the submission of significant matters to a council, and, ultimately, the feasibility of simply leaving the group, in greater... |
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| 2 | 200 |
They came from the countries around Council Rock, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River and west of the Snake, a tributary to the Northern Kaiila. |
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| 7 | 622 |
There will be a council on the matter". |
10 |
| 7 | 659 |
"There is to be a council on the matter," said Bloketu. |
10 |
| 12 | 358 |
This was around Council Rock, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River and west of the Snake River. |
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| 16 | 279 |
"I saw the civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives at a council," she said. |
10 |
| 16 | 282 |
"It seems too early for there to have been a council," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 283 |
"There was a council," she said. |
10 |
| 16 | 285 |
I would have expected such a council to be correlated with the coming of the Pte and the gathering of Yellow-Knife bands for the great hunts. |
10 |
| 16 | 289 |
"Do you know the topic or topics of the council?" "No," she said. |
10 |
| 16 | 293 |
"Was the council before or after the raid?" I asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 296 |
"You are certain that you do not know what the council was about?" "No, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 16 | 304 |
"In this council," she said, "I saw the civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 18 | 178 |
"Why should he not be in the council?" she asked, not looking up. |
10 |
| 18 | 184 |
"Might he be in the council?" "It is possible," she shrugged. |
10 |
| 18 | 188 |
"If he is in the council," she said, "you will not be able to see him either". |
10 |
| 18 | 196 |
In my intense awareness of this being the day of the great dance, probably a function of Cuwignaka's almost overwhelming concern about it, and in my concern over the fate of Canka, and my concern with the information obtained from Oiputake, I had forgotten that this day, too, was the day of a peace ... |
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| 18 | 197 |
I made my way rapidly towards the council lodge. |
10 |
| 18 | 198 |
I did not know if I could draw Mahpiyasapa out of the council, or if it would be wise to do so, but I was confident that I could, somehow, if he were there, make contact with Grunt. |
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| 18 | 212 |
"The council has not yet begun". |
10 |
| 18 | 222 |
By now, however, I would have supposed they would have been within the council lodge. |
10 |
| 18 | 223 |
Surely the council was due to soon begin. |
10 |
| 18 | 230 |
"Today," he said, "the council will not hear the voice of Mahpiyasapa". |
10 |
| 18 | 231 |
"Why, today, will the council not hear his voice?" I asked. |
10 |
| 18 | 247 |
In his shame and sorrow Mahpiyasapa had not gone to the council. |
10 |
| 18 | 266 |
I turned about and looked again at the huge council lodge. |
10 |
| 18 | 269 |
Expected to attend such a council, of course, on the part of the Kaiila, were not only the civil chieftains of the various bands of the Kaiila but their high men, as well, the councils of the various bands, and trusted warriors, and men of probity and wisdom. |
10 |
| 18 | 277 |
I took my way from the vicinity of the council lodge. |
10 |
| 18 | 283 |
"He will then come to the council". |
10 |
| 18 | 307 |
I did not know if Bloketu would be permitted into the council or not. |
10 |
| 18 | 313 |
Iwoso, on the other hand, I supposed, would be required in the council lodge. |
10 |
| 18 | 316 |
Judging by the sun, and the shadow by the stick, I would have supposed that Watonka and his party should have been making their way to the council lodge. |
10 |
| 18 | 317 |
The council, as I understood it, was to begin at noon. |
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| 19 | 77 |
"Perhaps he thought the spilling of blood might not be auspicious shortly before the opening of a council on peace," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 19 | 87 |
"This incident occurred just outside the council lodge," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 19 | 92 |
"Watonka and the others were on their way to the council lodge?" asked Cuwignaka. |
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| 19 | 99 |
"The great men of the Kaiila should all be within the council lodge," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 19 | 104 |
"At the time for the council to begin," mused Cuwignaka, "Watonka seems in no hurry to be within the lodge". |
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| 19 | 141 |
"The council is to begin at noon," I said. |
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| 20 | 18 |
"Watonka has not gone to the council, nor have the Yellow Knives. |
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| 20 | 28 |
"Who says Watonka is not in the council lodge?" asked Hci. |
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| 20 | 30 |
I do not think it is his intention to go to the council lodge. |
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| 20 | 32 |
"Others were in the council lodge?" asked Hci. |
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| 20 | 72 |
"Agleskala," he said, "go to the council lodge. |
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| 21 | 18 |
"Get kaiila! Rally by the council lodge! Fight!" "Run!" cried another man. |
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| 21 | 51 |
The primary interest of the tarnsmen, I had little doubt, would have been the council lodge and the area about it. |
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| 22 | 103 |
"Toward the place of the council lodge," I said. |
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| 25 | 58 |
"Should you come again into contact with them," said Hci, "inform them that our forces may be joined near the council lodge". |
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| 25 | 120 |
"If you wish, on the other hand, to come to the area of the council lodge, to huddle there with the women and children, you may do so," he said. |
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| 25 | 121 |
"The way to the council lodge, at this point, is clear". |
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| 25 | 136 |
"Shall we go to the council lodge or flee?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 139 |
"If it should fly to the north or west," he said, "we shall go to the council lodge". |
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| 25 | 141 |
"Then," said Cuwignaka, "we shall go to the council lodge". |
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| 25 | 144 |
"We will go to the council lodge". |
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| 25 | 164 |
We left them behind, then, making our way toward the council lodge. |
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| 28 | 56 |
When I had left Grunt I had ridden a hundred yards or so away, to look at the remains of the council lodge. |
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| 28 | 61 |
It was little wonder that Watonka had not been eager to attend the council. |
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| 28 | 88 |
I looked again at the bodies, and arrows, within the remains of the council lodge. |
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| 28 | 341 |
Suddenly, too, starkly plausible, became such untypical anomalies of the Barrens as the meretricious proposal of a false peace, the spurious pretext of a council in order to gather together and decimate the high men of the Kaiila, and even the unprecedented sacrilege of attacking a people at the tim... |
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| 33 | 333 |
We will then proceed north and west of Council Rock, into the land of the Casmu Kaiila. |
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| 34 | 10 |
In our passage we had seen, to our right, Council Rock, rearing high, almost anomalously, out of the plains, prominent amidst a group of smaller, associated bluffs. |
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| 44 | 1 |
Yellow Knives Come to Council Rock "Oh!" said Iwoso, wincing, as I pulled tight the knots on her wrists, fastening them back and on each side of the stout post. |
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| 44 | 18 |
They were wedged deeply in a fissure in the surface of Council Rock, near the brink of the escarpment. |
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| 44 | 101 |
"How does the council go?" she asked. |
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| 44 | 102 |
"What council?" I asked. |
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| 44 | 105 |
"How did you know about the council?" I asked. |
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| 44 | 110 |
"No," she said, "for they might take you here, surprising you and surrounding you, you being isolated in this place, you being, for most practical purposes, trapped with little possibility of escape on Council Rock". |
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| 44 | 111 |
"It is doubtless well," I said, "that our gathering here, this council, is a closely guarded secret, that our enemies know nothing of it". |
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| 44 | 331 |
Not a pasang away, across the prairie, all attempt at concealment discarded, waves of Yellow Knives, feathers flying, dust billowing behind them, charged toward Council Rock. |
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| 44 | 333 |
"Now you will all die! Now you are lost! There is no escape for you! You will all be trapped on Council Rock!" "It goes as we have planned," said Hci to Cuwignaka. |
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| 44 | 349 |
"I told them about the council!" "That, my pretty, naked, roped Yellow-Knife slut," said Hci, "was in accord with our plans". |
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| 44 | 364 |
"You cannot escape! You are lost!" The Yellow Knives now, to be sure, swirled about the foot of the trail, that leading to the summit of Council Rock. |
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| 44 | 391 |
"But the council!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 392 |
"There was never a council," said Hci. |
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| 44 | 419 |
Two kaiila, with their riders, slipping and scrambling, slid from the trail and then, unsupported, flailing, turning in the air, the riders and their mounts separating, they fell a hundred feet, struck some rocks, bounded out from the escarpment and fell the final two hundred feet to the lower, slop... |
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| 44 | 455 |
Dozens of animals and many riders were forced from the trail, sliding and plummeting down the steep face of Council Rock. |
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| 44 | 497 |
Slowly, with difficulty on the narrow trail, some backing down, some turning, some falling, the Yellow Knives on the lower lengths of the trail, pressing back among their fellows at the foot of Council Rock, freed the lower ascents, enabling their trapped fellows on the upper reaches of the trail, t... |
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| 44 | 506 |
The stones had been gathered over a period of days and brought to the height of Council Rock. |
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| 44 | 853 |
"Aside from the main trail," I said, "there is no easy route, not even a narrow path, to the summit of Council Rock". |
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| 45 | 1 |
What Occurred at Night at Council Rock I felt the hand of Cuwignaka gently on my shoulder. |
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| 45 | 11 |
The back faces of Council Rock were extremely dangerous even in daylight. |
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| 47 | 2 |
It was now the third day in the siege of Council Rock. |
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| 47 | 104 |
Yesterday night the great beacon of brush had been lit on the summit of Council Rock. |
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| 47 | 107 |
Before morning, some singly, some in groups of two or three, under the cover of darkness, our tarns had been brought to Council Rock, there to be concealed within specially prepared lodges. |
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| 47 | 110 |
There, concealed by day and trained by night, and housed within striking distance of Council Rock, they had waited for our signal. |
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| 47 | 127 |
Council Rock fell away beneath me. |
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| 47 | 179 |
He would fall, I conjectured, through the Kinyanpi formation below, that formation being by now, I supposed, arrested by the other tarnsmen, those from Council Rock. |
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| 47 | 189 |
Our bold tarnsmen from Council Rock fought amidst circling Kinyanpi. |
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| 47 | 212 |
Perhaps they had feared less because the tarn bore reins, a girth rope, a rider, and had approached them from Council Rock. |
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| 47 | 312 |
The eastern face of Council Rock seemed covered with men and ropes. |
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| 47 | 319 |
I raced across the top of Council Rock, men behind me. |
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| 47 | 320 |
The Yellow Knives, on the western side of Council Rock, prevented by the mountain from knowing what had occurred in the air to the east, and on the eastern faces of the rock, singing their medicine, their hearing throbbing with the beat of drums, had not desisted in their procession to the summit; t... |
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| 47 | 435 |
We had been the bait, on Council Rock, to lure the Yellow Knives and soldiers into a trap, a trap which these other tribes, acting in coalition, were to spring shut. |
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| 50 | 25 |
Behind him, and standing about, as well, were the members of the council. |
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| 50 | 61 |
"This being a slave," said Mahpiyasapa to the members of the council, standing about him, "clearly it is not fitting that she be subjected to the honorable death of a free woman". |
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| 50 | 62 |
The members of the council nodded their agreement. |
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| 50 | 91 |
"These women are slaves," said Mahpiyasapa, turning to the council. |
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| 50 | 93 |
The council grunted its agreement. |
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| 50 | 167 |
I looked again then on the breadth of the Barrens, surveying them from the height of Council Rock, returning thereafter to my lodge. |
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| 54 | 18 |
It had been largely through Grunt's influence that Dust Legs had made the long journey to Council Rock, to aid the Kaiila. |
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| 54 | 42 |
"It is because of you," said the Fleer warrior, "that we came to Council Rock". |
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| 54 | 44 |
"Do you know," asked the Fleer warrior, "why we came to Council Rock, and, because of us, the Sleen came?" "No," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 54 | 101 |
We were now in a great victory camp, near water, within sight of Council Rock, some seven or eight pasangs in the distance. |
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| 54 | 309 |
These things were given to them as gifts by the Kaiila, in appreciation for the services rendered during the time of the war with the Yellow Knives and soldiers, for providing us with a tarn base within striking distance of Council Rock, and sheltering and supporting our men during the period of the... |
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| 56 | 119 |
With him, as well, was his friend, Wagmezahu, Corn Stalks, of the Fleer, who had come with the Fleer to Council Rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 552 |
The sack was to be opened, and she was to be presented to Claudius, Ubar of Argentum, and the high council, and high citizens of Argentum, at the climax of a great feast, to be celebrated two days from now. |
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| 31 | 785 |
"Tomorrow night, at the great victory feast," he said, "you will be turned over to Claudius, my Ubar, and the high council". |
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| 32 | 12 |
Tonight, at the feast, I was to be presented naked and in chains to Claudius, the Ubar of Argentum, and the council. |
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| 32 | 82 |
This will be presented to Claudius, the Ubar, and the high council, as the clothing of the Tatrix of Corcyrus. |
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| 32 | 84 |
The work of Claudius and the high council, of course, will be made somewhat easier by the fact that when the golden sack is opened at the banquet it will be occupied not by the true Sheila, but by you, her dupe and double. |
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| 32 | 288 |
"It will be interesting, tonight, to compare you, when you are both, naked and in chains, side by side, presented to Claudius and the high council". |
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| 33 | 5 |
At these tables were Claudius, the Ubar of Argentum, and members of the high council. |
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| 33 | 19 |
Two soldiers, from a side room, dragged the golden sack across the floor and put it before the central table, that table where sat Claudius, the members of the high council and other significant guests. |
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| 33 | 79 |
She was knelt then, bound hand and foot, naked and gagged, before Claudius and the council. |
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| 33 | 93 |
I think this was because of our very close resemblance, and, too, perhaps, because he found it almost impossible to believe that I was not the woman who had been drawn forth from the sack, who now knelt helplessly before Claudius and the council. |
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| 33 | 124 |
He then put Sheila again on her knees before the council. |
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| 33 | 222 |
The members of the high council and many of the guests looked about at one another, nodding. |
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| 33 | 313 |
"He, too," said Drusus Rencius, "could have been mistaken in this matter!" There was some laughter from some of the members of the high council, and from some of the others about the tables. |
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| 33 | 404 |
How could I make such a man weak? "The evidence is clear," said Miles of Argentum to the Ubar, Claudius, to the members of the high council, to the others in the room. |
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| 33 | 436 |
I recognize the right of Claudius and the high council to assurances in these matters. |
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| 33 | 464 |
"As you will note," said Hassan to Claudius and the high council, "the seal on this bundle has not been broken. |
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| 33 | 556 |
Members of the high council crowded about him. |
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| 33 | 569 |
"The descriptions tally with the garments brought to us by Ligurious," said one of the members of the high council. |
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| 33 | 571 |
"Menicius," said one of the members of the high council, looking up. |
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| 33 | 732 |
I am prepared now to be turned over, as a slave, the slave I am, to Claudius, the Ubar of Argentum, and the high council of Argentum, to face their justice". |
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| 33 | 935 |
"Are you prepared, now," asked Hassan, "to be turned over to Claudius and the high council?" "Yes, Master," she said. |
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| 33 | 942 |
"Do you truly think I brought you here," he laughed, "to turn you over to Claudius and the high council?" "Of course, Master," she said. |
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| 33 | 963 |
"It was never your intention, then, to deliver her to us?" asked a member of the high council. |
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| 33 | 1026 |
That responsibility was that of Claudius, the Ubar of Argentum, and the high council. |
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| 36 | 770 |
Yet, too, he had, with Menicius, risked his life in the camp of Miles of Argentum to free me, and he had sought desperately to protect and defend me in the inquiry with Claudius and the high council. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 82 |
In Port Kar this honor fell to Samos, first captain in the Council of Captains, and the council's executive officers. |
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| 1 | 95 |
Usually a sample performance, or a part of a performance, is required, staged before the high council, or a committee delegated by such a council. |
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| 2 | 589 |
"In the license," said the officer, "there is the provision that girls associated with companies such as yours, if slaves, may be commanded to the apartments and service of whomsoever the council, or a delegated officer of the council, directs". |
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| 1 | 29 |
A major victory in this matter was secured a few years ago when the caste of Merchants, which organizes and manages the Sardar Fairs, agreed to a standardized version, proposed by, and provisionally approved by, the high council of the caste of Players, for the Sardar tournaments, one of the attract... |
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| 1 | 32 |
, Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar, or in Year 5 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, in Port Kar. |
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| 1 | 40 |
Soon it would be Year Eleven in the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, in Port Kar. |
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| 1 | 42 |
Squat, brilliant Chung and tall, long-haired Nigel, like a warlord from Torvaldsland, had fought with us against the fleets of Cos and Tyros, participating with us in the victory of the Twenty-Fifth of Se'Kara, in Year One of the Council of Captains; they remained in Port Kar as high captains, admir... |
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| 1 | 929 |
, or Year 3 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar. |
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| 1 | 973 |
This had taken place in Year One of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, in 10,120 C. |
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| 2 | 15 |
There might easily have been fifteen thousand people in the great piazza, the largest in Port Kar, that before the hall of the Council of Captains. |
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| 2 | 118 |
"Do you not recognize him? That is Bosk, the Admiral, he of the Council of Captains". |
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| 2 | 124 |
I myself had voted in the council for the checking of weapons before entering the piazza during carnival. |
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| 2 | 378 |
In the crowd was an officer of the Master of Revels, with two members of the Council Guard. |
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| 2 | 569 |
Behind him were the two members of the Council Guard. |
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| 5 | 475 |
Samos had been in their service before he had become the first captain in the Council of Captains in Port Kar. |
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| 12 | 587 |
In the chronology of Port Kar, it was now Year Eleven, of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains. |
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| 18 | 254 |
What could it be? There was some message, it seemed, come from Belnar, for her ears alone, something having to do with some emergency, something perhaps requiring immediate consultation, perhaps even a conference of the high council. |
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| 21 | 200 |
"Belnar, and other members of the high council," he said, "have been conducting negotiations with individuals in various states, in particular, Cos and Ar. |
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| 21 | 241 |
Here I find slaughtered ubars, chaos and fire! I have assumed command in the city until the high council appoints a new ubar. |
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| 21 | 457 |
He did have, presumably, through Belnar, connections with members of the high council of the city. |
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| 21 | 458 |
Members of that council had doubtless been closely associated with Belnar in his various projects. |
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| 21 | 459 |
No new ubar, as far as I could tell, had yet been appointed by the council. |
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| 22 | 261 |
"Members of the high council of Brundisium, other than Belnar, are involved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 29 |
It is a rare council or citizenry that does not breathe more easily once the wagons have taken their way out of their lands. |
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| 10 | 5 |
These inert, suspended, desiccated weights, now little more than skulls and the bones of men, with some bits of cloth, fluttering in the air's stirrings, and threads and patches of dried flesh clinging about them, had been arranged in a line along the Avenue of Adminius, the main thoroughfare of Tor... |
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| 10 | 20 |
"Members of the high council, and lesser councils, and certain of their supporters," he said, "who favored the cause of Ar". |
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| 13 | 208 |
"Daughter of the matron Aglaia, Lady of Torcadino," she said, "of the Myrtos lineage, she high in the trade of spices, Confirmation Treasurer of the Spice Council of Torcadino, she of the Merchants". |
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| 13 | 230 |
As her number was 437 and there were only some one hundred or one hundred and fifty or so females in the chain, near the wall, I assumed there was probably one or more collection points elsewhere, perhaps nearer the Semnium, the Council Hall. |
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| 14 | 3 |
We were at the foot of the low, broad steps of the Semnium, the hall of the high council, which building, it seemed, might now serve as the headquarters of the new masters of Torcadino. |
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| 14 | 23 |
Her mother, before her capture, I had gathered, had been important, having been the confirmation treasurer of one of Torcadino's commercial councils, the Spice Council. |
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| 19 | 252 |
In the chronology of Port Kar, it was Year 11 in the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 542 |
Too, I recalled she had been contemptuous of me, and haughty and cruel to me, in Port Kar, scorning even the memory of my love, when I had been paralyzed, helpless to move from a chair, the victim of the poison of Sullius Maximus, once one of the five Ubars of Port Kar, before the Sovereignty of the... |
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| 20 | 218 |
The same year, in the chronology of Port Kar, if it is of interest, would have been Year 8 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains. |
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| 21 | 82 |
The body sovereign in the Vosk League, incidentally, at least as I understand it, is its High Council, which is composed of representatives from the member towns. |
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| 21 | 83 |
This Callimachus, I gathered, then, whoever he was, would be the appointee of that council. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 100 |
There had not been a major engagement since the battle of the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar, or, to use the chronology of Ar, 10,120 C. |
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| 21 | 61 |
"But, at that time, most likely," I said, "your fate was still to be decided by a council". |
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| 21 | 65 |
"And perhaps it was then, a few days later, by the council, that it was decided officially, and after due deliberation, after they had had a chance to assess your character with care, that you were not worthy of being a slave". |
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| 26 | 218 |
At this point the young high-caste women of Harfax had approached the high council of the city with a bold plan. |
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| 26 | 220 |
Although opposition to this plan was at first fierce the high council agreed at last. |
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| 31 | 212 |
"On behalf of Gnieus Lelius, regent in Ar, and the high council of Ar," said Labienus, "I, as their envoy de facto in the delta, express their regret for the misunderstandings between our states and peoples, and in particular for that resulting in a cruel and unprovoked attack upon an innocent villa... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 21 |
Gnieus Lelius, it seems, had been deposed, and Seremides, in a military coup he himself characterized as regrettable, had seized temporary power, a power to be wielded until the High Council, now the highest civilian authority in Ar, could elect a new leader, be it Administrator, Regent, Ubar or Uba... |
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| 7 | 94 |
"It is Seremides, and members of the High Council!" said a fellow. |
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| 7 | 95 |
Seremides, whom I had not seen this clearly since long ago in Ar, in the days of Minus Tentius Hinrabius, and Cernus, of Ar, with others, members of the High Council, I gathered, now, from the side of the Central Cylinder, ascended the platform. |
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| 7 | 103 |
Then the High Council stood to one side, and Seremides himself returned to the point on the platform where the rear ramp, that near the Central Cylinder, ascended to its surface. |
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| 7 | 337 |
"Peace, friendship, joy and love," called Myron, "to our brothers in Ar!" One of the members of the High Council, presumably its executive officer, who would have had been directly subordinate to Gnieus Lelius, the regent, in a civilian capacity, as Seremides would have been in a military capacity, ... |
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| 7 | 347 |
I noted that while Myron and his fellows scattered these coins about, Seremides, waving to the crowd, and Talena, lifting her hand, too, and the High Council, withdrew from the surface of the platform. |
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| 8 | 111 |
Seremides and most members of the High Council were in attendance. |
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| 8 | 112 |
Certain other members of the High Council were asserted to be indisposed. |
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| 8 | 502 |
"It is said that even numbers of the High Council, as a token, have come to the wall, loosened a stone, and tumbled it down". |
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| 9 | 160 |
One of these was held by a member of the High Council. |
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| 9 | 374 |
She turned to her advisors, as though troubled, as though seeking their council. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 54 |
The Palace of the Council of Captains is the usual meeting place of the Council of Captains, which body is sovereign in Port Kar. |
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