| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 159 |
I turned, just in time to seize the wrist of the daughter of the Ubar as she struck savagely down at my back with a long, slender dagger. |
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| 7 | 162 |
"You dirty, filthy, stinking, ungrateful animal!" Wild with anger, I picked up the dagger and for an instant felt tempted to plunge it into the heart of the treacherous girl. |
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| 7 | 220 |
The officer, a swaggering fellow whose helmet, though polished, bore the marks of combat, approached me, holding his sword to me, and seized my weapon from its scabbard and the girl's dagger from my belt. |
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| 7 | 221 |
He looked at the signet on the dagger hilt and seemed pleased. |
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| 7 | 224 |
"You are Talena," he said, tapping the dagger, "daughter of Marlenus?" "You see I wear the robes of the Ubar's daughter," said the girl, scarcely deigning to respond to the officer's question. |
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| 8 | 66 |
His hand drew Talena's dagger from his belt, and, manacled as I was, I could not have prevented the blow. |
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| 8 | 68 |
Talena had picked up his sword and struck off the hand that held the dagger. |
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| 8 | 167 |
I then tossed her dagger on top of the pile. |
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| 8 | 206 |
I removed the dagger from her sash and placed it in my belt. |
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| 9 | 42 |
I had no wish to awake to a dagger being thrust into my breast. |
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| 9 | 167 |
Talena seized her dagger from my belt and raced to the warrior. |
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| 9 | 168 |
I caught her braceleted hands as she was going to drive the dagger into his breast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 113 |
"If I loved you only a little less," she said, "I would find Talena of Ar myself and thrust a dagger into her heart". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 456 |
Incidentally, Turian warriors, in order to have the opportunity to slay a foe, as well as acquire his woman, customarily choose as the weapon of combat in these encounters, buckler and dagger, ax and buckler, dagger and whip, ax and net, or the two daggers, with the reservation that the quiva, if us... |
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| 3 | 107 |
"You dare to tempt me," I said, feigning anger, "as if I were of the Caste of Assassins or a common thief with his dagger in the night". |
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| 6 | 87 |
She was a captive female, and must, naturally, submit to her assessment as prize; she must also be, incidentally, examined for weapons; a dagger or poisoned needle is often concealed in the clothing of free women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 |
Guardsmen did not detain him, for he wore on his forehead the mark of the black dagger. |
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| 2 | 10 |
Yet none would stand in the way of Kuurus for he wore on his forehead, small and fine, the sign of the black dagger. |
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| 2 | 12 |
There are few men who have done great wrong or who have powerful, rich enemies who do not tremble upon learning that one has been brought to their city who wears the dagger. |
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| 2 | 37 |
Some fled from the tables, lest, unknown to themselves, it be they for whom this man wore the mark of the black dagger. |
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| 2 | 66 |
It was enough for them that he who sat with them did not this time wear for them the mark of the black dagger on his forehead, that it was not they whom he sought. |
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| 2 | 166 |
"I see you wear on your forehead," said the man, "the dagger". |
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| 2 | 171 |
Not taking his eyes from the man, Kuurus cut the straps on the sheath from the man's forearm, and with a small movement of his blade, threw the sheath and its dagger some feet to the side. |
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| 2 | 213 |
"For whom do you wear on your forehead the mark of the black dagger?" queried Portus discreetly. |
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| 4 | 45 |
"May I ask," inquired Cernus, "for whom you wear on your forehead the mark of the black dagger?" I would speak of these things, to some extent, with Cernus, for it was important, though perilous, that he should understand what purported to be my mission. |
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| 4 | 78 |
On the hilt of the dagger, curling about it, was the legend "I have sought him. |
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| 12 | 63 |
When I had left the House of Cernus I had removed the livery of the black caste and had washed the sign of the dagger from my forehead. |
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| 12 | 217 |
She was fairly complected but had extremely dark hair and dark eyes, very red lips; the movement of her exquisite body was a torment to observe; she looked at me with a slight smile, regarding the black of the tunic, the mark of the dagger; her lips were full and magnificently turned, probably a cha... |
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| 13 | 351 |
In Mip's hand I saw a small dagger, a throwing knife, of a sort manufactured in Ar; it was smaller than the southern quiva; it was tapered on only one side. |
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| 22 | 144 |
"Beware!" cried my fellow, he with the crossbow, and I spun to catch the wrist of a man striking toward my back with a dagger. |
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| 23 | 93 |
There, once more, I had affixed on my forehead the mark of the dagger. |
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| 23 | 98 |
"You wear upon your forehead the mark of the black dagger," whispered Cernus. |
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| 23 | 101 |
"Yes, Cernus," said I, "it is for you I wear the black dagger". |
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| 23 | 130 |
He reached humbly, brokenly, into his robe, drawing forth a dagger. |
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| 23 | 266 |
I washed from my forehead the mark of the black dagger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 492 |
In her tunic I saw, concealed, a small dagger. |
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| 18 | 495 |
I threw the dagger to one side. |
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| 18 | 535 |
In her teeth was the dagger I had seen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 107 |
He might carry a double-headed ax, but at his belt may hang a Turian dagger. |
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| 9 | 208 |
I felt the point of her dagger at the side of my neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 143 |
Ivar's dagger was at her throat. |
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| 8 | 153 |
The Forkbeard's dagger's point thrust slightly into her throat. |
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| 10 | 383 |
At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, twisted blade of a Turian dagger; free women in Torvaldsland commonly carry a knife; at her belt, too, hung her scissors, and a ring of many keys, indicating that her hall contained many chests or doors; her hair w... |
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| 14 | 3 |
The wooden shields of Torvaldsland no more stopped the great axes than dried skins of larma fruit, stretched on sewing frames, might have resisted the four-bladed dagger cestus of Anango or the hatchet gauntlet of eastern Skjern. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 308 |
"You have drawn your dagger," I observed. |
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| 5 | 872 |
I saw Hamid, who was the lieutenant of Shakar, captain of the Aretai, slip swiftly behind hangings, a dagger, bloodied, held within his cloak. |
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| 13 | 336 |
His hand was at a dagger in his sash. |
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| 15 | 84 |
"I jest not!" He wore desert boots, canvas trousers, baggy, a red sash; in the sash was thrust a dagger, curved. |
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| 15 | 92 |
He drew the curved dagger and slashed the light rope from our throats. |
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| 17 | 32 |
How was it, he holding the precarious sovereignty of our kennel, that he dared to sleep among slaves, who might win his kaffiyeh and agal, though they were only rep-cloth, so simply as the dagger, slipped from his sash, might enter his throat? The kennel master, though slave, too, is Ubar, with powe... |
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| 17 | 40 |
Beside him lay the lance; in his reddish sash was thrust the dagger of his office. |
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| 17 | 124 |
The dagger was thrust in his sash. |
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| 17 | 275 |
I got my hand on the hilt of the dagger. |
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| 17 | 276 |
The fish leaped again from the water and I had the dagger free, plunging it, ripping, into the gill tissue below its jaw, one of the salt-adaptations of marine life in the pit. |
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| 17 | 285 |
I could not release the dagger. |
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| 17 | 302 |
Bring me the dagger". |
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| 17 | 313 |
The dagger was thrust in the wood beside me. |
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| 17 | 321 |
Using the dagger as an awl, punching through the flesh, and the long lacing from the lance head, while Hassan held together the edges of the ripped furrows, I crudely sewed together the rent, bloodied meat before me. |
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| 24 | 352 |
I slipped instantly behind the girl, my hand over her mouth, my dagger across her throat. |
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| 24 | 397 |
I sheathed the dagger I had held her in obedience with. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1063 |
I supposed they might carry perhaps a slim blade, manageable to their small strength and weight, a poniard or dagger, but what if an assailant, such as the man in whose power I was, was simply to take it from them? I did not know it at the time but girls such as I was to be were not permitted to car... |
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| 2 | 54 |
I felt the point of his dagger beneath my chin. |
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| 2 | 63 |
My chin was very high, as the point of the dagger had left it. |
10 |
| 2 | 176 |
He slipped it free from the sheath and dagger, and doubled it. |
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| 2 | 195 |
I heard him replace the sheath and dagger on his belt, and put on the belt. |
10 |
| 2 | 211 |
He took from his dagger sheath the steel blade, narrow, about seven inches long, double-edged, evenly sharpened. |
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| 2 | 220 |
I felt the delicate, razor-sharp edge of the dagger on my throat. |
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| 2 | 247 |
What rivals we had been! I felt the edge of the dagger anchor itself in the outer layer of skin on my throat, preparing for its slash. |
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| 2 | 248 |
I felt the man's hand and arm, through the steel of the dagger, flex for the movement of his arm. |
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| 2 | 255 |
Angrily the bearded man stood up, sheathed the dagger, took up his shield, his spear. |
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| 2 | 342 |
The other man had said it to me after I had been beaten, when he had prodded me with the spear, before I had again knelt, though then struck and beaten, before the men, shortly before the dagger had been put to my throat. |
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| 2 | 527 |
The bearded man loosened his dagger belt, dropping the belt and weapon to the grass. |
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| 2 | 528 |
Then he walked, slowly, to his fellow, and similarly removed his dagger belt. |
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| 3 | 797 |
He unslung his gear, his sword belt, with weapon and scabbard, and the dagger belt, and, wrapping them in soft leather, put them to one side. |
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| 26 | 173 |
In moments he had retrieved the tiny dagger which lay there, in its small compartment, concealed behind a tile. |
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| 26 | 174 |
He cleaned the poison from the side of the dagger, dried it with a towel, as he had the needle, and then threw it to the side of the room, where lay her robe, which he had earlier discarded. |
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| 26 | 257 |
In this moment Elicia, springing to her feet, ran to the side of the room and picked up the small dagger. |
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| 26 | 259 |
She whirled, holding the dagger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 584 |
In his hand there glinted a dagger. |
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| 4 | 588 |
In his hand, his left, he clutched an object wrapped in fur; in his right he held the dagger, low, blade up. |
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| 4 | 590 |
He had turned the dagger in his hand as he had turned to face me. |
10 |
| 4 | 603 |
I heard the dagger cutting at the canvas. |
10 |
| 4 | 614 |
The blade of the dagger cut through the side of the collar of my robes and my hand then was on his wrist. |
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| 6 | 662 |
The point of the dagger was in her belly. |
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| 6 | 835 |
He had taken the rags he had worn about his hips and was, with what had been her dagger, punching holes in them. |
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| 7 | 7 |
"What do you want? Are you an assassin? You do not wear the dagger. |
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| 8 | 60 |
To this belt, on two small straps, hung a dagger sheath; the handle of the weapon was ornamented with red and yellow swirls. |
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| 9 | 38 |
"Perhaps now," I said, "you might succeed in striking me with your dagger". |
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| 11 | 114 |
Her own dagger was at her throat. |
10 |
| 11 | 147 |
"If the tarnsmen return before the afternoon of the first day of the passage hand," I said, handing the man who controlled her her dagger, "cut her throat". |
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| 35 | 590 |
"Between the third and fourth robes," I told her, "there is a sheathed dagger, concealed in the lining. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 365 |
I drove my dagger into the belly of one which was pressing past me, and in its rush, it hardly understanding that it was wounded, was carried, dragged, holding to the beast and dagger, for fifty feet among the Kurii. |
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| 53 | 366 |
I wrenched the dagger free and as another Kur, suddenly seeing me among them, truly seeing me, reached for me I thrust the dagger upward. |
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| 2 | 227 |
In the sash was thrust a curved dagger. |
10 |
| 4 | 687 |
He then went to the girl's head, taking the dagger from his sash. |
10 |
| 4 | 700 |
' Ulafi, with his dagger, but not cutting her, put it first to her right ear, and then to the side of her small nose, and then to the left ear. |
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| 4 | 702 |
"I'm sorry I lied! Forgive me, forgive me! La Kajira! La Kajira!" Ulafi stood up, replacing the dagger in his sash. |
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| 18 | 1 |
What Occurred When Court Was Held in the Palace of Grass; I Meet Bila Huruma; A New Plan Must be Formed "Do you have the dagger?" whispered Msaliti to me. |
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| 18 | 139 |
When I was near Bila Huruma I was to draw the dagger, slay Shaba and then, by prearranged plan, be immediately apprehended by askari guardsmen, to be placed under arrest. |
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| 18 | 144 |
"Why, yes," I said pleasantly, revealing the sleeve sheath, and handing him the dagger. |
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| 18 | 146 |
Then he nodded, and accepted the dagger, which he handed to an askari. |
10 |
| 18 | 181 |
I sheathed the sleeve dagger which, after the adjournment of the court, the askari had returned to me. |
10 |
| 18 | 200 |
I slipped the sleeve dagger loose. |
10 |
| 18 | 252 |
"Will you please replace that dagger in the sheath," said Msaliti. |
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| 19 | 37 |
Instantly I crouched, dagger drawn, blade up, my left hand, too, ready, in the on-guard position for knife combat. |
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| 23 | 459 |
Without speaking further, or attempting to draw his dagger, he leaped from the planks into the water, falling, scrambling up, and plunging away into the darkness. |
10 |
| 43 | 19 |
She also had, about her waist, a belt, with a dagger sheath, though the sheath was now empty. |
10 |
| 43 | 69 |
"Consider also," I said, "that she retained her belt and dagger sheath. |
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| 52 | 183 |
His hand darted to the hilt of the dagger sheathed at his hip, but he did not draw the weapon. |
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| 53 | 224 |
I scrambled, leaping, half crawling, to the place on the stones where Ngumi had, after putting me in manacles, dropped my belt, sheath and dagger. |
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| 53 | 236 |
Then, uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba, I leaped upon its back, and, an arm about its throat, plunged the dagger to its heart. |
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| 53 | 243 |
I thrust the bloody dagger between my teeth. |
10 |
| 53 | 293 |
My mouth was bleeding, as I had cut myself on the dagger clenched between my teeth. |
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| 53 | 295 |
I thrust the dagger through my tunic, it held in place, in the pierced cloth, by its hilt. |
10 |
| 53 | 308 |
I checked that the dagger was still caught in my tunic. |
10 |
| 53 | 359 |
I drove the dagger, torn from my tunic, again and again into its chest. |
10 |
| 53 | 370 |
The Kur roared with pain and I lost the dagger, it wrenched away as the Kur threw its claws to its face. |
10 |
| 53 | 371 |
It pulled loose the dagger howling. |
10 |
| 53 | 436 |
There stood Msaliti, an upraised bloody dagger in one hand, and, in the other, held high over his head, on its chain, a dangling ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 14 |
Then she had held her dagger to my body. |
10 |
| 26 | 20 |
He could not free his sword or dagger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 3 |
In the small fellow's right hand there was clutched a dagger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 36 |
The point of my dagger was in his back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 155 |
"You do not wear the garb of the dark caste, nor do you have the black dagger painted upon your brow". |
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| 7 | 6 |
To this belt was fastened a substantial, beaded sheath, apparently containing a stout, triangular-bladed dagger. |
10 |
| 8 | 201 |
He then resheathed his dagger and, extending his hand, locked his fingers about the string of pearls on the girl's throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 72 |
They are long enough to outreach a dagger-armed opponent and short enough, and maneuverable enough, to work their way, beating and thrusting, behind the guard of longer, heavier weapons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 144 |
"With a bludgeon? With a quicker dagger?" "With no means so crude," she said. |
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| 8 | 186 |
As soon as the man turned about, however, the leader leaped toward him, seized him from behind, his arm locked about his throat, and plunged a dagger, to the hilt, into his back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 342 |
"It takes more than fur and leather, and a dagger worn pretentiously at one's belt, to make a man," I said. |
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| 4 | 551 |
Her hand darted to the hilt of the dagger she wore at her belt. |
10 |
| 4 | 553 |
She, frightened, quickly removed her hand from the hilt of the dagger, crying out in frustration, in rage. |
10 |
| 4 | 561 |
I removed her dagger from its sheath. |
10 |
| 4 | 563 |
I then, with her own dagger, cut her clothing from her body. |
10 |
| 5 | 233 |
She wore, too, as she had last night, her dagger at her belt. |
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| 5 | 298 |
He then went to her and untied the strings which held the dagger sheath, with its small, narrow, sheathed weapon, with its ornamented, enameled handle, at her belt. |
10 |
| 5 | 300 |
"I am taking the dagger," he said. |
10 |
| 5 | 343 |
He threw the dagger, with its sheath, to the side of the road. |
10 |
| 15 | 152 |
His dagger I had thrust into his own heart. |
10 |
| 16 | 1216 |
I was pleased she no longer possessed her dagger. |
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| 22 | 279 |
Such a door, plus his own dagger, is the poor man's best insurance against theft. |
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| 25 | 766 |
I reached for my dagger, but it had been removed from my sheath! I stood there, wild, on the grass, between them, the two ropes on my neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 50 |
I recalled, too, in my training, how one of my master's men had shoved the point of a dagger a quarter of an inch into my belly, below the navel, and informed me how he could spill my guts into his hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 54 |
Her hand, held back, held a small dagger, of the sort which some women think affords them protection. |
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| 6 | 63 |
"Stop! You're hurting me!" The dagger fell to the floor. |
10 |
| 6 | 117 |
I then found her dagger and, carefully, with regard for her modesty, cut and divided her garments, removing fastenings and hooks from them. |
10 |
| 6 | 120 |
I then picked up her small dagger, and my pack, and the blankets, and again made my way toward my space. |
10 |
| 6 | 122 |
I also put the small dagger under my foot, and pulling up on the handle, broke the blade away. |
10 |
| 6 | 834 |
The sword is less akin to darkness than stealth and the dagger. |
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| 8 | 252 |
"After you disarmed me, and made me helpless, what did you do with my dagger?" she asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 27 |
He fingered the hilt of the dagger at his belt. |
10 |
| 18 | 84 |
I then withdrew my manacled hands from his neck and head and withdrew his dagger from his belt. |
10 |
| 18 | 85 |
With the dagger I cut the sword belt from him, disarming him. |
10 |
| 18 | 137 |
"Speak softly," I said, the dagger at my prisoner's throat. |
10 |
| 18 | 286 |
In a few Ehn I then lay, fed on biscuit and meat, armed with blade and dagger, clothed in a tunic of Ar, on the raft. |
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| 27 | 73 |
He did the same with his dagger. |
10 |
| 27 | 83 |
"If you wish," he said, "I shall plunge my dagger into my own breast". |
10 |
| 27 | 93 |
I stepped back, lest he lunge at me with the dagger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 9 |
Each of the twenty men carried a sword, a dagger, and a crossbow. |
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| 31 | 137 |
The lieutenant removed his dagger from its sheath. |
10 |
| 31 | 262 |
A gasp escaped me, and several of the other girls, too, for, on the forehead of the leader, fixed there, presumably this morning, was the image of a black dagger. |
10 |
| 31 | 265 |
He also drew his dagger. |
10 |
| 31 | 351 |
He then transferred the dagger he carried to his left hand and drew his sword with his right. |
10 |
| 32 | 11 |
On the broken skull within, on its forehead, distorted by the breakage, was a tiny black dagger, set there this morning. |
10 |
| 37 | 791 |
It, like the dagger, would doubtless be familiar to the wearers of the dark habiliments. |
10 |
| 37 | 851 |
The black dagger was still on his forehead, from yesterday morning. |
10 |
| 37 | 952 |
One could see the dagger on the forehead. |
10 |
| 37 | 1101 |
He then, with his thumb, wiped away the dagger on the lieutenant's forehead. |
10 |
| 46 | 373 |
"And I would rather plunge the dagger into my own heart". |
10 |
| 46 | 378 |
The point of the dagger was over his heart. |
10 |
| 46 | 416 |
He reached down and retrieved the dagger, which he replaced in its sheath. |
10 |
| 46 | 549 |
He apparently was quite clear about informing me of his displeasure that I had tried to turn the dagger against myself, even if it had been only my intent to relieve him of his dilemma, to resolve, at a stroke, so to speak, the fearful predicament in which he found himself, to protect him, to save h... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 662 |
He was red-haired, and was wiping a dagger on his thigh, which he then sheathed. |
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| 27 | 879 |
He stopped there, some feet before the wagon, the blade of his dagger at the throat of the dazed, disconcerted fellow he held. |
10 |
| 27 | 2626 |
A dagger was thrust rudely behind the outer binding of the gag, and slashed it away. |
10 |
| 27 | 2628 |
The soldier then, with the tip of the dagger, poked through the wadding, and forced it out. |
10 |
| 27 | 2884 |
A dagger was whipped from its sheath. |
10 |
| 27 | 2887 |
The dagger paused, wavering, the energy of the arm behind it revealing itself in the conflicted hesitation of the blade, narrow, bright, quivering, arrested by a sudden monitory glance from the officer. |
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| 27 | 2888 |
In this moment, Mirus, within the cover of this distraction, all eyes on the officer, the spokesman, the threatening soldier with the dagger, with a flash of robes, threw himself across the grass, toward the place to which the slave had earlier seen him glance. |
10 |
| 27 | 3250 |
"Then come and feast with us," invited Portus Canio, softly, his voice like a sheathed dagger. |
10 |
| 28 | 327 |
He was given, too, a sword, dagger, and spear. |
10 |
| 28 | 330 |
How different, thought the slave, the dagger, the sword, the spear, from the weapons with which Mirus had been hitherto familiar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 61 |
"There is little point in eying my dagger," said Pyrrhus, "for the sheath is locked, and you do not know the releasing touch". |
10 |
| 13 | 77 |
He reached to the sheathed dagger he wore at his hip, and Cabot prepared to defend himself, a second time. |
10 |
| 13 | 78 |
Why had he not drawn the dagger first, Cabot wondered. |
10 |
| 13 | 80 |
But the leader, as he was that, and we shall call him Archon, to utilize a Gorean title for a variety of civic officials, removed the sheath and dagger from the remains of the Kur harness he wore and handed it to Cabot. |
10 |
| 13 | 82 |
Cabot took the sheath and dagger from Archon and tried to draw the blade. |
10 |
| 13 | 90 |
The dagger sprang free from the sheath and there was a cry of wonder from Archon, and the others. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 404 |
There is no place in such a garment, for example, for a dagger. |
10 |
| 3 | 371 |
No hand is free, for example, to grasp a dagger, or slip powder into the drink. |
10 |
| 3 | 372 |
Long ago, in Turia, it is said that a free woman, armed with a dagger, disguised as a slave, attempted to assassinate a Ubar in his cups. |
10 |
| 12 | 33 |
They would on the whole be as much for hire as the Assassins, save that the Assassin, once the dagger has been painted on his forehead, signaling he is hunting, is loyal to a fee. |
10 |
| 12 | 335 |
I thrust Tajima back and strode to the figure on the platform, who had now loosened his robe and drawn forth a small dagger from the sheath. |
10 |
| 14 | 28 |
Sometimes an unarmed individual was to engage an individual armed, say, with a sheathed dagger. |
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| 23 | 210 |
Some, before the hunt, would use a woman, briefly, ruthlessly, unfeelingly, leaving her shuddering, crumpled, and broken, sobbing, at their feet, before honing the selected blade, one of six, before painting the dagger on their forehead, that crowds might part uneasily before them, that taverns migh... |
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| 23 | 211 |
For whom is the dagger painted? Seldom did those of the dark caste drink ka-la-na or paga. |
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| 23 | 237 |
I did not think the dagger was borne on their foreheads. |
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| 23 | 239 |
Had the dagger been in evidence men, even drunk, would have drawn away from them, regarded them, clutched at their weapons, however clumsily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 454 |
"What is Master doing?" The stranger was removing his dagger belt, from which he removed, as well, the dagger and its sheath. |
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| 1 | 115 |
The stranger's hands disappeared within his sleeves, and each hand emerged, a dagger in hand. |
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| 1 | 118 |
"They wore the dagger". |
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| 1 | 121 |
When hunting, it is common for members of the black caste, the Caste of Assassins, to paint a black dagger on their forehead. |
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| 12 | 178 |
It makes it impractical, too, of course, to hold a dagger, say, behind one's back. |
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| 12 | 421 |
"To paint the dagger," I said. |
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| 21 | 107 |
This makes possible the concealment, and the ready availability, of a sleeve dagger. |
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| 27 | 133 |
Tereus' hand went to the dagger at his belt. |
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| 33 | 348 |
It maintains stability in the high seas by the descent of a dagger board". |
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| 36 | 149 |
"The dagger has been painted," said the captain. |
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| 36 | 296 |
I saw on each forehead the simple mark, the sign of the black dagger. |
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| 36 | 309 |
Each returned the coin to his own purse, and then wiped from his forehead the dagger. |
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| 36 | 310 |
More than one man breathed then more easily, for those of the Black Court no longer wore the dagger. |
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| 36 | 578 |
"Aii!" he cried out, suddenly, and flung himself on his knees, beside the object, his dagger free. |
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| 36 | 595 |
He pulled his arm away from me, and the dagger swiftly parted the cord that held her head down, fastened to her feet. |
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| 37 | 580 |
"Friend Callias, loan me your dagger". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1062 |
In this way your right hand, which might wield a weapon, a dagger or staff, faces the stranger whom you pass. |
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| 21 | 152 |
The dismounted rider then hurried about the beast, and leapt on it from behind, seized its long hump mane, and plunged his dagger into its side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 17 |
They consider matters, bide their time, and, when ready, paint the dagger. |
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| 14 | 358 |
I had determined that as long ago as Brundisium This is particularly important if one is concerned with a short weapon, such as a sleeve dagger, a tunic knife, a hook knife, such things. |
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| 16 | 139 |
I wore my waist belt, with dagger, and the shoulder belt, with the slung sheath, and gladius. |
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| 21 | 279 |
I was aware, very much aware, should it charge, I would not have time to unsheathe even the dagger at my belt. |
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| 21 | 374 |
He loosened his dagger in its sheath. |
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| 21 | 402 |
He then, with his dagger, parted the strings which held the wallet to his belt, and cast the wallet into the brush. |
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| 21 | 404 |
He did not resheathe his dagger. |
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| 21 | 438 |
"Tal," said Tyrtaios, pleasantly, and plunged his dagger into the beast's chest. |
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| 24 | 51 |
"A pleasure, perhaps," I said, "familiar to those of the dark caste, when the victim first sees the dagger painted on the hunter's brow". |
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| 35 | 106 |
Hiza thrust her dagger back into its sheath. |
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| 37 | 62 |
"Free my hands, free my ankles," cried Darla, "and give me a dagger, a javelin!" "I like you as you are," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 71 |
Could it be, I wondered, that she was a female, truly a female? Tuza drew forth her dagger, and put its point to the bosom of Darla. |
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| 37 | 132 |
Tuza sheathed her dagger, slapped her thigh, and turned, laughing, to Hiza and Emerald. |
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| 38 | 35 |
He was bearded, wore a dagger and sword, and carried a spear, a hunting spear. |
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| 39 | 21 |
Her dagger had been drawn. |
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| 39 | 25 |
He slipped her dagger in his own belt. |
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| 42 | 146 |
How formidable she had seemed, in her freedom, her pride, her size and sturdiness, in her rude skins, in her barbaric ornaments, with her dagger and spear. |
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| 43 | 245 |
"I will do it," said a fellow whipping out a dagger. |
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| 43 | 256 |
"Sheathe your dagger, and return to your place". |
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| 43 | 266 |
"Put away your dagger, Rorton," said Genserich. |
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| 43 | 276 |
Rorton, clearly, could move his blade across Darla's throat before anyone could so much as draw a dagger. |
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| 43 | 309 |
"Put away your dagger, Rorton," said Genserich. |
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| 43 | 313 |
Rorton stepped back, away from Darla, and returned his dagger, angrily, to its sheath. |
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| 43 | 1129 |
"We must finish our business here," said Axel, lifting his dagger, catching the early afternoon sun on the blade. |
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| 50 | 823 |
"Would that we had a dagger," said one of the slaves. |
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| 51 | 120 |
"Is your dagger sharp?" asked Tyrtaios. |
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| 52 | 302 |
"Or I did not wish to dull the edge of a fine dagger, or I preferred to avoid the task of cleaning the blade, or such". |
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| 52 | 365 |
His dagger remained in its sheath, as did his sword, the gladius. |
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| 52 | 901 |
He removed his dagger from its sheath, and held it, lightly, by the tip of the blade. |
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| 52 | 1014 |
"What is Master going to do?" He slipped his dagger from the sheath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 103 |
At the same time the draymen, whom we had taken as peasantry, uttering the cry "Yamada," rushed toward the wagons, each bearing a dagger. |
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| 16 | 23 |
"For example," I said, "I would be curious to know if your sleeve dagger has a pearled handle". |
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| 20 | 556 |
In its hand, upraised, was a tanto, a stabbing dagger. |
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| 21 | 61 |
Surely, shortly thereafter, he had chided Lord Akio, when that noble person, presumably fearing for his shogun's life, had thrust his sleeve dagger into the neck of the assailant, severing the vertebrae at the base of the skull. |
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| 25 | 336 |
The entitlements appertaining to the black dagger are not bestowed lightly. |
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| 27 | 5 |
The only weapon I bore was a dagger, a tanto, relieved from the fellow I had dealt with following my exit from the stadium. |
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| 27 | 17 |
If the Pani had access to the lofty kaiila I would not doubt that the glaive would be designed additionally, like the halberd, with its hook, to dismount a rider, putting him at the mercy of the dagger. |
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| 29 | 55 |
I knew the black dagger was not easily attained; it is won in but one way, the ascent, as it is said, of the nine steps of blood. |
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| 41 | 112 |
"Sometimes," I said, "the best answer to a question is a dagger thrust between the ribs". |
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| 61 | 325 |
Some ascend the steps of blood and paint the black dagger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 275 |
On the center of his forehead was a small sign; an emblem or device; it was black; I supposed it had been affixed, or imprinted, there, with ink or paint; I was not clear as to its purport; it seemed to be a schematic representation of a particular object, an unsheathed dagger. |
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| 19 | 62 |
In his right hand he held a dagger. |
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| 19 | 64 |
He went to the window, and looked out, for a time, down into the street, and then lowered the dagger, and turned back to me. |
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| 19 | 76 |
"Yet Master took a drawn dagger to the window," I said. |
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| 23 | 229 |
He wore, as well, a wide, double-buckled belt, from which a dagger, in its sheath, was suspended, and ankle-high, cord-laced street sandals. |
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| 23 | 236 |
In black, painted or inked in place, small and delicate, on his forehead, was the image of an unsheathed dagger. |
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| 25 | 4 |
Two men, stripped to the loins, dagger in hand, were cautiously circling one another on the sand. |
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| 25 | 58 |
"Give me the dagger," said the imposing figure on the high couch. |
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| 25 | 59 |
The dagger was instantly surrendered to him. |
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| 26 | 27 |
Few will interfere with the hunting Assassin, sable-clad, dagger on brow, passing amongst them, going quietly about his work. |
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| 26 | 59 |
He is to devote himself to his skills, and to his tools, the dagger, the quarrel, the wire noose, the dart, the brewing of poisons, to deception, patience, disguise, and ruthlessness. |
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| 33 | 582 |
"It is too late," said Kurik, facing the beasts, drawing a dagger from his belt. |
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| 33 | 587 |
"Stay back!" said Kurik, brandishing his dagger. |
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| 33 | 589 |
"Away!" said Kurik, waving his arm, dagger in hand, in what was clearly a violent, desperate, shunning, warning, gesture. |
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| 49 | 171 |
"At least," said Kurik, "he does not have the dagger fixed upon his brow". |
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| 49 | 186 |
His hand was on the hilt of the housed dagger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 124 |
"look, lout, where you are going!" "Move to the side!" "I am here!" "Go about!" "I will not!" "Do so!" "Impede my way, will you?" "Watch your purse!" "Sheath your dagger!" "Beware!" "He has a club!" "They are drunk!" "Peace, peace in the streets!" "Call guardsmen!" "Guardsmen, guardsmen!" I heard a ... |
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| 33 | 507 |
Do they not mingle amongst men unnoted, until the hunt is nearly concluded, until the black dagger is placed on the forehead? Certainly he who called himself Pa-Kur spoke highly of the caste. |
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