| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 63 |
I would find him! Some fifteen minutes passed, and I was growing cold, angry. |
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| 18 | 153 |
Some fifteen tarns were feeding on the remains of a dozen or so guardsmen, detaching and devouring limbs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 79 |
The working day is fifteen Gorean hours, or Ahn, which, allowing for the slight difference in the period of the planet's rotation, would be approximately eighteen Earth hours. |
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| 20 | 134 |
The great bird stalked away from me, about fifteen yards, and then turned, looking at me again. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 262 |
"Fifteen Ahn," she said. |
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| 27 | 260 |
In an instant I was again on guard, my vision cleared, but I saw that Sarm was now some fifteen yards or more away and was slowly turning and turning in what must have been some primitive, involuntary dance of agony. |
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| 28 | 31 |
"We have waited fifteen thousand years for this moment," it said. |
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| 33 | 21 |
It should take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 74 |
* * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, i... |
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| 8 | 310 |
She would receive a start of fifteen beats of the great heart of the kaiila, after which she would be about half way to the lance. |
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| 8 | 314 |
At the count of fifteen, making no sound, not wanting to warn the girl, Conrad spurred the kaiila in pursuit, bola swinging. |
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| 8 | 361 |
At the count of fifteen, with incredible speed, Albrecht, bola now whirling, spurred silently after the fleeing Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 8 | 443 |
Then she had doubtless run from the bola several times before, perhaps as many as ten or fifteen. |
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| 8 | 471 |
By surprising her I had gained perhaps ten or fifteen yards. |
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| 8 | 478 |
"Fifteen!" called the judge, and I streaked on kaiilaback from the circle of the boskhide whip. |
10 |
| 10 | 234 |
I straightened up and saw that the lines of the tharlarion lancers had, with much pounding and trampling of the earth, with shouting, with the hissing of the great beasts, stopped short, abruptly, some fifteen yards or so behind their line of stakes. |
10 |
| 10 | 574 |
"Slay him!" howled Aphris of Turia! For perhaps better than fifteen minutes, patiently, not hurrying, Kamchak of the Tuchuks shuffled after Kamras of Turia, touching him once more and ever again, each time leaving a quick, bright stain of blood on his tunic or body. |
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| 14 | 60 |
There were some fifteen or twenty guards slain, mostly by arrows. |
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| 14 | 67 |
Near the center of the wagon, alone, his head bent over, on the robe of gray boskhide, sat Kutaituchik, perhaps fifteen or twenty arrows imbedded in his body. |
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| 16 | 26 |
It was a rather wide well, perhaps about fifteen feet in width. |
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| 17 | 67 |
If it were a school of fifteen-inch Gorean pike, for example, I might kill dozens and yet die half eaten within minutes. |
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| 23 | 60 |
I knew that in little more than fifteen or twenty Ehn his forces would be lost, dissipated among the wagons, and yet surely the Paravaci must be met and fought there as well as on the prairie. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 44 |
At the wall on my right there were fifteen slave rings. |
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| 9 | 68 |
Ho-Tu turned into a side corridor and we found ourselves, to my surprise, looking through a huge rectangle of glass, some twelve feet high and perhaps fifteen feet wide; it was one of a dozen such panels I could see in the corridor. |
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| 12 | 115 |
I did note that a young slave girl, however, perhaps about fifteen, with a coin given her by her master, did purchase a small candy from the little Hup. |
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| 12 | 173 |
For about fifteen days Virginia and Phyllis, while the other captive Earth girls had been removed to an iron pen, remained in the tiny cement, iron-gated cages, so constructed that the inmate cannot at any one time fully stretch her body; over a period of time this builds up a considerable amount of... |
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| 12 | 309 |
When the smith arrived, he took, from a rack in the wall, two narrow, straight bars of iron, not really plates but narrow cubes, about a half inch in width and fifteen inches in length. |
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| 13 | 49 |
All the girls in the Pool of Blue Flowers cost the same, except novices in training who would go for ten or fifteen copper tarn disks. |
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| 15 | 109 |
Murmillius always fought alone, never in teams, and in more than one hundred and fifteen fights, sometimes fighting three and four times in one afternoon, he had never lost a contest. |
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| 17 | 27 |
Here, unexpectedly, I ran into a pack of some fifteen or twenty girls who, shrieking and laughing, surrounded me in a moment. |
10 |
| 19 | 122 |
Among the crowd, though it was predominantly male, there were, as I might have mentioned, several women, perhaps one in ten or fifteen; many of these were doubtless rich, and of High Caste; some of them were probably interested in picking up a serving slave; kettle wenches, so to speak, would probab... |
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| 19 | 286 |
"Two hundred and fifteen," called out a high officer in the cavalry of Ar. |
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| 19 | 433 |
The last bid he had received had been an astounding fifteen hundred pieces of gold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 |
The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick, which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from this main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it ... |
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| 6 | 84 |
Now, just outside the circle of his swinging pole, there must have been ten or fifteen warriors of Port Kar, their swords drawn, the light of the marsh torches reflecting from them, surrounding him, fencing him in with their weapons. |
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| 10 | 30 |
Medium class for a long ship, or ram-ship, is determined not by freight capacity but by keel length and width of beam; a medium-class long ship, or ram-ship, will have a keel length of from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet Gorean; and a width of beam of from ten to fifteen feet Gorean. |
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| 10 | 48 |
On one chair, some fifteen yards away, somewhat lower and closer the thrones of the Ubars, sat an officer, whom I recognized. |
10 |
| 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 | 143 |
My estimation would be that approximately fifteen hundred only are the long ships, the ram-ships, those of war. |
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| 12 | 28 |
One of the bodies Thurnock had struck lay dark, sprawled on the tiles, some fifteen yards from the gate; the other lay, inert and twisted in the shadows, at the very portal itself. |
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| 14 | 67 |
Of the forty ram ships, twenty-five were heavy class, and fifteen medium class. |
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| 14 | 144 |
I watched a burning javelin from the lead ship of the pursuers arc gracefully and smoking through the air and drop hissing into the water some fifteen yards to my right, abeam of the stern. |
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| 14 | 330 |
The Dorna, by contrast, carried a free crew of two hundred and fifteen men, most of whom were well trained with weapons. |
10 |
| 15 | 576 |
He was perhaps seventeen, she perhaps fifteen or sixteen. |
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| 16 | 189 |
Of the forty-two hundred, fifteen hundred would be galleys heavy class, two thousand medium-class galleys, and seven hundred light galleys. |
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| 17 | 14 |
Lastly, I was pleased, though astonished, to accept the service of thirty-five ships of two of Port Kar's Ubars, twenty from the squat, brilliant Chung, and fifteen from tall, long-haired Nigel, like a war lord from Torvaldsland. |
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| 17 | 211 |
My fifth wave was divided into two portions, the pincer blade striking from the north under the command of the tall, long-haired Nigel with his fifteen ships, supplemented by twenty-five of the arsenal, and the pincer blade from the south under the command of Chung, with his twenty ships, supplement... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 |
Yet on this world I am a fifteen-gold piece girl, more lovely than many, yet far excelled by many whose stunning beauty I can only envy. |
10 |
| 2 | 110 |
But some fifteen feet below me was a small terrace, one of hundreds projecting from the sides of the building. |
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| 3 | 200 |
I kept, usually, some fifteen thousand dollars, and jewelry, at home. |
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| 3 | 435 |
In it were fifteen thousand dollars and jewelry. |
10 |
| 6 | 100 |
At the front of it, standing on the grass, were some fifteen or twenty girls, unclothed. |
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| 7 | 31 |
It seemed not unlikely that one of Targo's village girls, if trained and brought to Ar, might net him from ten to fifteen, perhaps even twenty, gold pieces. |
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| 8 | 614 |
Inge was second, even though she had been of high caste, Fifteen. |
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| 8 | 1140 |
Her girls, perhaps fifteen of them, complied. |
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| 9 | 89 |
"Fifteen," I told her. |
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| 9 | 90 |
"My band," said Verna, "consists of fifteen. |
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| 9 | 93 |
"Some groups are smaller, some larger, but my band," she said, "as I wish, numbers fifteen". |
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| 12 | 292 |
There had been fifteen girls, five on the carts, and two of the tethered groups! All of Verna's band had fallen captive! There now came a great shout, and I squeezed even further forward in the wagon, to peep out. |
10 |
| 12 | 475 |
Verna's girls, the fifteen of them, stripped, were housed, crouching and kneeling, in small, metal slave cages. |
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| 13 | 252 |
Ute worked for more than fifteen minutes, bowing the drill, sweating, her eyes fixed on that tiny, blackened pit in the wood. |
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| 17 | 278 |
I was sold, for fifteen pieces of gold, to the house of Samos, a slaver of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 17 | 284 |
The subordinate, though in the absence of Samos, thinking to please him, sold me to Tellius for only fifteen pieces of gold, which price he had paid. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 345 |
I could recall that once, it now seemed long ago, this girl, in a marvelously staged sale, with all the skills of the great auction house, the Curulean, in Ar, had, with two other girls, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, brought fifteen hundred gold pieces. |
10 |
| 4 | 349 |
Now this girl, once Elizabeth Cardwell, of Earth, now a paga slave in Lydius, would bring only fifteen to twenty-five pieces of gold. |
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| 7 | 339 |
Her band, most reports agreed, consisted of some fifteen women. |
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| 8 | 5 |
The fact that we numbered ten, including myself, and that the girls of Verna's band numbered some fifteen, and that they were skilled with their weapons, and dangerous, dictated the nature of our approach. |
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| 13 | 220 |
I saw the shark turn again, this time from some fifteen yards away. |
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| 16 | 72 |
In desperation, to my pleasure, some fifteen men of Tyros entered the forest. |
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| 20 | 115 |
Some six men of Tyros, near the center of the stockade, some fifteen yards from the gate, were engaged with blades, striking at one another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 343 |
"I will give you fifteen," I said. |
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| 5 | 323 |
I could see, from the shore, black and dark, more than a dozen small boats, containing perhaps ten or fifteen men each, moving towards us. |
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| 6 | 520 |
Each log is ten to fifteen feet long, and commonly about eight inches to a foot thick. |
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| 10 | 190 |
I doubted that a girl should be put in a collar before she was fifteen. |
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| 14 | 201 |
The leashes were some fifteen feet in length, allowing in this radius one Kur to hold several captives at once. |
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| 20 | 14 |
It rises some fifteen to twenty feet from the water. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 48 |
A nomad boy of fifteen will often have eaten meat no more than a dozen times in his life. |
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| 2 | 105 |
The wages for a caravan trip, which often takes months, commonly will last the fellow about ten days, or, if nursed out, some fifteen days. |
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| 2 | 106 |
They are, of course, a rather pleasant ten or fifteen days. |
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| 2 | 389 |
One brown-skinned girl, dark-eyed, no more than fifteen, kneeling, her wrists and ankles tightly chained, looked up at me. |
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| 2 | 475 |
"Fifteen?" he inquired. |
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| 7 | 46 |
On the trip to Nine Wells, in the company of Achmed; his father, Farouk; Shakar, captain of the Aretai; Hamid, his lieutenant, and a guard of fifteen riders, I had seen the stone, led to it by Achmed. |
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| 8 | 30 |
That would give me a start, I speculated, of some fifteen Gorean hours. |
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| 8 | 91 |
These tents, typical nomad tents, were small, some ten feet in depth, some ten to fifteen feet wide; they were supported on wooden frames; the ground, within them, leveled off, was covered by mats. |
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| 14 | 38 |
On her throat was a heavy cell collar, with ring; attached to the ring was some fifteen feet of chain, it attached to a plate near our heads. |
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| 15 | 82 |
Thus, in the end, all told, only fifteen had survived the march. |
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| 16 | 18 |
The floor of the brine pit, in most places, is ten to fifteen feet below the surface of the water. |
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| 20 | 56 |
I saw them indent the bag; the spread of the digits was more than fifteen inches in width. |
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| 26 | 36 |
Some fifteen hundred men, who had surrendered, now wore the chains of slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 133 |
From the age of fifteen I had enjoyed giving them orders, as an equal, but not quite. |
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| 9 | 1185 |
It had not rained in fifteen days, and it had been dry, too, before that time. |
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| 13 | 24 |
I brought Rask of Treve, my captor, fifteen copper tarsks. |
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| 13 | 267 |
"But can the house let this little beauty slip its collar for a mere fourteen tarsks? Say, no, Noble Sirs!" "Fifteen," said a man. |
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| 13 | 268 |
"Fifteen," said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 269 |
I knew I had been sold by Rask of Treve to a slaver for fifteen copper tarsks. |
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| 28 | 37 |
It is perhaps fifteen feet high. |
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| 28 | 163 |
Sometimes special sales, well-publicized, are held, in which as few as fifteen or twenty girls, of great quality or interest, are sold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1258 |
The girl was sold for fifteen copper tarsks to a metal worker from Tor. |
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| 6 | 40 |
It stopped some fifteen feet from me. |
10 |
| 20 | 101 |
Although there were some fifteen hundred red hunters they generally lived in widely scattered small groups. |
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| 20 | 158 |
Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white-spotted blunt fin. |
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| 23 | 57 |
Sometimes one can hear them from as far away as fifteen pasangs. |
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| 25 | 69 |
It was about fifteen feet long. |
10 |
| 26 | 355 |
Some fifteen or twenty sleen had been killed, all by other sleen in the pack. |
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| 27 | 46 |
He took a long strip of baleen, about fifteen inches in length, and, with his knife, sharpened both ends, wickedly sharp. |
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| 34 | 74 |
It must have contained fifteen or twenty pieces of meat. |
10 |
| 34 | 160 |
Thoughtlessly the beast must have devoured fifteen or twenty of the hidden traps. |
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| 35 | 1007 |
Besides these there were some fifteen other slave girls in the room, frightened. |
10 |
| 35 | 1111 |
"There must be more than fifteen hundred of the hunters," I said. |
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| 36 | 7 |
I regarded fifteen women who had been in the complex, women being trained as Kur agents for work in their cause. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 153 |
"Fifteen," called out another. |
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| 3 | 15 |
They were generally windowless until some fifteen feet above the ground. |
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| 4 | 748 |
I doubt that she was struck more than ten or fifteen times. |
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| 7 | 36 |
Most of the girls were black, as would be expected from the area, but there were some ten or fifteen white girls there, and some two girls apparently of oriental or mixed extraction. |
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| 7 | 190 |
"Fifteen copper tarsks," he said. |
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| 7 | 204 |
"I could have received sixteen for her and sold her for fifteen. |
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| 7 | 206 |
Much as I would love to sell her to you for sixteen tarsks I must let her go to a previous buyer for fifteen. |
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| 11 | 149 |
I could look down into the room, some fifteen feet below, through the slats in the grille. |
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| 25 | 14 |
It had taken us fifteen days to reach the sill. |
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| 32 | 43 |
I suspected, from the degree of recovery of the jungle following the passage of Shaba and his men, that he was not more than fifteen or twenty days ahead of us on the river. |
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| 32 | 177 |
There are, however, more than fifteen hundred varieties and types of palm alone. |
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| 47 | 57 |
I watched the black, segmented bodies of some fifteen or twenty ants, some two hundred yards in advance of the column, approach the meat. |
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| 49 | 103 |
They were, many of them, long war canoes, containing as many as fifteen or twenty men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 91 |
On both the right and left, about level with my eyes, the sides of the container were perforated with fifteen small holes, arranged in three horizontal rows of five openings apiece. |
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| 15 | 120 |
I had received fifteen blows of the snake. |
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| 16 | 26 |
The woman of the Physicians, at the age of fifteen, in many cities, wears two bracelets on her left wrist. |
10 |
| 16 | 95 |
A wealthy woman may have as many as ten or fifteen signature recipes, each different. |
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| 16 | 169 |
It was five Ehn to the fifteen Ahn. |
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| 27 | 266 |
"And me fifteen," said another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 626 |
I then flung her down the wide, shallow steps and some fifteen feet into the street beyond. |
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| 9 | 73 |
She had gone for a mere fifteen copper tarsks. |
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| 9 | 104 |
"Fifteen!" I heard. |
10 |
| 21 | 282 |
It commonly takes fifteen to twenty minutes to bring a free Earth female to orgasm. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 185 |
On the deck of the Portia there seemed no more than fifteen or twenty figures. |
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| 12 | 206 |
Fifteen pirate ships have been destroyed. |
10 |
| 12 | 208 |
Some twelve to fifteen ships escaped. |
10 |
| 16 | 163 |
The weight, thrashing and tearing, must have been some fifteen or twenty pounds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1132 |
The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe... |
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| 8 | 112 |
During the course of the evening, from time to time, at irregular intervals, some fifteen or sixteen girls had been offered, in open bidding, to the crowd. |
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| 10 | 57 |
That must be raised by fifteen or twenty kaiila". |
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| 14 | 779 |
He did not put me in a leg stretcher until I was fifteen". |
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| 15 | 7 |
The distance between the two fires was probably some ten to fifteen pasangs. |
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| 16 | 122 |
Near some three of these wagons there was a small group of figures, perhaps some fifteen or twenty men. |
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| 17 | 53 |
A soft, braided leather rope, a trade rope, cored with wire, some fifteen or twenty feet in length, was looped some five times about the girl's left ankle, and tied, thence being run to the axle of the nearby wagon to which she was tethered. |
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| 18 | 156 |
Approaching from three directions were groups of mounted warriors, some fifteen or twenty in each group, lofty on their kaiila, barbarous in their paint and feathers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52 |
"It is probably about fifteen pasangs in length," said Grunt. |
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| 3 | 121 |
These forks would then be, respectively, about ten and fifteen feet high. |
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| 4 | 190 |
The lodge has a diameter of some fifteen feet. |
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| 4 | 343 |
One woman, working alone, can put one up in fifteen Ehn and strike it in three. |
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| 11 | 114 |
Two forks had been left on the pole, one about ten feet from the ground and one about fifteen feet from the ground. |
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| 18 | 39 |
Then once, when they were alone, when she was but fifteen and he seventeen, far from their camp, gathering berries together, he had been unable any longer not to see her as a woman. |
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| 33 | 61 |
There were about fifteen persons in the group, both men and women. |
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| 36 | 26 |
The rope was about fifteen feet in length. |
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| 37 | 95 |
The fifteen tail feathers are perhaps most highly prized. |
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| 37 | 96 |
They are some fourteen to fifteen inches in height, and yellow with black tips. |
10 |
| 37 | 146 |
Its evasive leaps, in the Gorean gravity, can cover from thirty to forty feet in length, and attain heights of ten to fifteen feet. |
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| 37 | 489 |
"It will presumably be moving with great speed and will be some ten to fifteen feet in the air. |
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| 47 | 108 |
There were eighteen of these beasts, that which had been a Kinyanpi mount which had come to us on the prairie, the two wild tarns we had captured by means of the tarn pits, and the fifteen tarns we had managed to secure in our subsequent raid. |
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| 47 | 204 |
Five riders had done so, when it had appeared suddenly, unexpectedly, behind me, in the vicinity of a Yellow-Knife camp in which they had been sojourning, where we had captured the fifteen tarns. |
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| 47 | 280 |
The arrow, fired from not more than fifteen feet away, entered the body of the rider on the right below the left shoulder blade and almost at the same instant Ubar of the Skies, screaming, with those hooklike, terrible talons tore the body of the rider on the left from the girth rope. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 1646 |
For that reason he paid fifteen tarsks for me, fifteen silver tarsks". |
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| 3 | 15 |
It was round and some fifteen feet in diameter. |
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| 3 | 51 |
I fled to the window, which was narrow, about fifteen inches in width. |
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| 5 | 281 |
"I would think," he said, "that you would bring somewhere between fifteen and twenty copper tarsks". |
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| 6 | 492 |
If I had been a slave, say, perhaps, a fifteen-copper-tarsk girl, that amount for which he had once suggested a slaver might let me go, I think I might have received a somewhat different treatment at his hands. |
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| 13 | 183 |
At the back of this wagon was an arrangement of beams, with a projecting, supported, perpendicularly mounted beam that extended forward, some fifteen feet in the air, toward the front of the wagon. |
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| 14 | 74 |
In fifteen Ehn both locks had yielded. |
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| 24 | 102 |
I recalled that Drusus Rencius had thought I might go for something between fifteen and twenty tarsks. |
10 |
| 26 | 436 |
A silver tarsk! I wished Drusus Rencius had heard that! He had thought I would only bring fifteen or twenty copper tarsks! And I was not even trained! "You did very well, Tiffany," said Aemilianus. |
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| 29 | 131 |
"It is now fifteen hundred gold pieces. |
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| 31 | 276 |
It was some fifteen feet in length. |
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| 31 | 349 |
He would play it out, or draw it in, as it pleased him, varying his perspective, and my distance from him, as I squirmed, and writhed and posed, from as little as an inch or two to the full length of the leash, something in the neighborhood of a full fifteen feet. |
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| 31 | 649 |
"I paid fifteen silver tarsks for you," he said. |
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| 31 | 697 |
"Fifteen silver tarsks," I said, "is a great deal of money to pay for a mere feast slave". |
10 |
| 31 | 698 |
"Yes," he said, "fifteen silver tarsks would be a great deal of money to pay—for a mere feast slave". |
10 |
| 31 | 700 |
"Do you really think," he asked, "that I would have paid fifteen tarsks for you, and had you brought here with your group, all the way from Ar, if you were only a feast slave?" "But that is all I am," I said, "only a feast slave!" He spun me about, to face him. |
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| 33 | 283 |
It had later been increased to fifteen hundred pieces of gold. |
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| 33 | 425 |
Now fifteen hundred gold pieces is a great deal of money. |
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| 33 | 731 |
The reward of fifteen hundred gold pieces is thus rightfully his. |
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| 33 | 912 |
"In this sack," said Claudius, "carefully counted, but assure yourself of the matter, are fifteen hundred pieces of gold, stamped staters of Argentum, certified by the mint of the Ubar". |
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| 33 | 925 |
"Fifteen hundred gold pieces," said Hassan, "seems a great deal of money for a mere slave". |
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| 33 | 945 |
"Kiss my feet fifteen hundred times, you luscious baggage," he laughed, "at least once for every gold piece you are costing me!" "Yes, Master," she cried, startled, putting down her head. |
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| 36 | 1629 |
"Who knows?" "You yourself," I said, slyly, maliciously, "in Corcyrus, as I recall, conjectured that I would probably bring only between fifteen and twenty copper tarsks". |
10 |
| 36 | 1650 |
"I paid more than fifteen silver tarsks for you," said Drusus Rencius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 129 |
"Fifteen lashes," he said. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 2 | 1729 |
"One out of fifteen," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 107 |
Similarly, she really had no work gang but the fifteen men she had picked up in Port Kar. |
10 |
| 3 | 125 |
Too, I was only one of fifteen men captured. |
10 |
| 3 | 222 |
I had merely been one of fifteen brought into her chains. |
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| 4 | 156 |
"In Port Kar," she said, "on my own initiative, and by means of my own plan, I took fifteen men!" "Doubtless you had some help in this," he said. |
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| 16 | 113 |
"And breached the gates of fifteen?" "Maybe," said Lecchio. |
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| 16 | 236 |
"Three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits," said Lecchio. |
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| 16 | 263 |
"It is only that two days ago, in the morning," said Chino, "in Pseudopolis, a sum of three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits was stolen from the vintner, Groppus, by three female slaves masquerading as free women, re... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 174 |
"In that purse," he said, "there were eighteen golden staters, from Tyros, three golden tarn disks, one from Port Kar, and two from Ar, sixteen silver tarsks from Tabor, twenty copper tarsks, and some fifteen tarsk bits". |
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| 25 | 621 |
Within this room there were some fifteen or twenty slave cages, some four to four and a half feet square, such confines dictated by the consideration that their contents are not to be permitted to stand upright within them, or stretch out, completely, within them. |
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| 29 | 98 |
There were now some fifteen or twenty fellows behind him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 22 |
"We are offering fifteen pieces of silver, fifteen solid, sound, unclipped silver tarsks," said the leader. |
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| 8 | 84 |
Here we had to wait while a group of fifteen tarsks, one by one, herded up the ramp, plunged into the fluid and swam to the other side where, scrambling out of the container, they shook themselves, and hastened down the descent ramp. |
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| 10 | 682 |
It had an extremely agile, active, sinuous body, as thick as a drum, and perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet long. |
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| 11 | 1558 |
I had lost count of the men, but there had doubtless been, counting my first use master, the full fifteen who had purchased winning ostraka. |
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| 13 | 1146 |
"There is a fellow at table fifteen. |
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| 20 | 276 |
The approaching fellow was some ten to fifteen yards away, to my left. |
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| 29 | 828 |
"They are dangerous!" The lips of one of the beasts, it very near now, only some fifteen feet away, drew back, about its fangs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 3 |
The towers themselves, which taper on the sides and back for stability, but are flat on the approaching surface, to make it possible to come flush with the wall, at that height were about fifteen feet in width. |
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| 17 | 19 |
What is more often done when time permits is to build portable wooden walls, some fifteen feet, or so, in height, with defensive walkways and loopholes for missiles, which are then moved in the path of the towers. |
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| 17 | 36 |
This, given the height of the openings, revealed by the dropped bridges, made it possible to fire at point-blank range, the shovel of one catapult containing a thousand bits of rock and metal, the shovel of the other a large boulder, weighing perhaps fifteen hundred pounds, requiring five men for it... |
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| 17 | 224 |
Armed with the spear, which is some fifteen feet in length, like a third- or fourth-rank phalanx spear, I reached over the wall and managed to get it against the top rung of the ladder. |
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| 19 | 2 |
Behind us, some fifteen yards back, the walkway was afire. |
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| 20 | 305 |
"Fifteen," said Calliodorus. |
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| 20 | 315 |
From the stem lines of fifteen of the ships, as far as I could tell, for some were out in the harbor, and blocked by others, there flew no colors at all. |
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| 20 | 409 |
Fifteen ships, mostly of Port Cos, were now at the piers, which, now, except for armed men, were mostly empty. |
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| 20 | 412 |
In orderly fashion, unchallenged, the numerous soldiers, guardsmen, armed oarsmen and such who had lined the inner side of the piers, facing the inner harbor, withdrew to the fifteen waiting ships. |
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| 21 | 293 |
"Ten ships of Port Cos, and fifteen others," said Aemilianus, "entered the harbor of Ar's Station yesterday afternoon, shortly before what would presumably have been the last attack of Cos on the piers. |
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| 24 | 886 |
Two of my older sisters had already been sold into slavery before I was fifteen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 284 |
There were perhaps a hundred men, here and there, within the enclosure, and some fifteen or twenty girls. |
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| 19 | 1789 |
"Perhaps yours would be a straw-filled pallet in a public kitchen or laundry, crawled to after a work day of fifteen Ahn". |
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| 25 | 15 |
Many slave barges, of course, carry no more than fifteen or twenty girls. |
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| 28 | 66 |
"There are fifteen of us," he said. |
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| 37 | 464 |
"Fifteen silver tarsks," he said. |
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| 46 | 89 |
There were now some fifteen of them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 532 |
There were now some ten to fifteen slaves in the circle. |
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| 4 | 58 |
I had heard that certain rich men had exchanged as many as fifteen high slaves, choice "flowers" from their pleasure gardens, trained even to Curulean quality, for a single tharlarion and wagon. |
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| 6 | 5 |
I doubted if there were more than fifteen hundred such in the city. |
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| 24 | 271 |
This may be done fifteen or twenty times in a row. |
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| 25 | 510 |
"And there are perhaps men," I said, "who would pay fifteen hundred". |
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| 27 | 328 |
I had already given fifteen pieces to Tolnar and Venlisius each. |
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| 27 | 334 |
Fifteen gold pieces each was a fortune. |
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| 27 | 338 |
I had then given fifteen each to Tolnar and Venlisius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 261 |
There was a wild cry, piercing, at hand, not more than fifteen feet above her, surely the loudest and most terrifying sound she had ever heard, as of some living, immense, monstrous creature, and she was in shadow and then not in shadow, in a shadow that moved and leapt and was shattered with bursts... |
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| 16 | 647 |
"I hope to sell you for fifteen". |
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| 17 | 370 |
Ellen was lying on the shelf, her eyes closed against the sun, when suddenly, almost at her side, there was a loud, swift, scuffling noise and there was suddenly something large, extremely large, and alive, at least fifteen or twenty feet long, and weighing easily several hundred pounds, on the shel... |
10 |
| 18 | 147 |
The first time, she stood alone within the lower portal, back in the shadows, cringing, miserable, terrified, for more than fifteen Ehn. |
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| 19 | 119 |
The gates are large, and heavy, and barred, some fourteen to fifteen feet in height, some ten feet in width. |
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| 22 | 262 |
To be sure, the lad, who must have been fifteen or sixteen, had doubtless, by now, enjoyed slaves such as she. |
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| 24 | 842 |
"I would think fifteen lashes," said Selius. |
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| 24 | 854 |
"Fifteen tarsk-bits". |
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| 25 | 63 |
"Oh, please, masters, let me out!" Selius Arconious, she recalled, had suggested that she be confined "straitly," and the scribe, to whom he had given some fifteen tarsk-bits, buying her blows, had found this not only agreeable, but, given his earlier rancor, eminently fitting. |
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| 25 | 590 |
"Untrained! Never yet collared! Let yours be the first! Marked last night! Fresh meat off the iron! Fifteen copper tarsks! Seventeen! Had but once, and then as a free woman!" There was laughter from the crowd. |
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| 25 | 967 |
"Twelve!" "Thirteen!" "Fourteen!" "Fifteen!" There was then again a lull in the bidding. |
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| 25 | 975 |
"I have fifteen! Do I hear more? My hand is lifted! I am preparing to close my hand!" "Twenty," said a voice. |
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| 26 | 571 |
She was led for some ten to fifteen Ehn. |
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| 27 | 1578 |
"Some fifteen or twenty on the ground then," said the spokesman. |
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| 27 | 2407 |
There had been fifteen soldiers in all. |
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| 29 | 238 |
"After the dance in the festival camp, when I was to be given fifteen lashes, ten for not having declared, however honestly, a proficiency in slave dance, and five for having spoken without permission, Master purchased the strokes, each for a tarsk-bit, and saved me the beating! How grateful I am to... |
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| 30 | 261 |
"That is, accordingly, a total of fifteen strokes". |
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| 30 | 263 |
"He paid fifteen tarsk-bits! One for each blow! Thus, he spared me the blows!" "Yes," he said, "I purchased the strokes, but only, you see, in order that I might deliver them myself". |
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| 30 | 293 |
"Fifteen," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 30 | 295 |
"That is fifteen!" But he gave her five more strokes. |
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| 30 | 368 |
She recalled there had been a bid of fifteen silver tarsks on her even before Mirus and Selius Arconious had entered upon their competition for a slave, the shapely, gray-eyed brunette being displayed and auctioned. |
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| 30 | 369 |
Fifteen silver tarsks, though, she thought, was surely excessive. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 310 |
In the tiny bit of light remaining she detected a large head, perhaps a yard across, wet, glistening from the water, on a long, thick neck, wet, glistening, the head some fifteen feet away, moving on the neck, weaving almost as might have the head of the giant hith, Gor's mightiest constrictor. |
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| 46 | 104 |
"Why not five, or ten or fifteen?" asked Cabot. |
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| 47 | 5 |
Few had managed to climb more than ten to fifteen yards onto the cap, from the cylinder surface. |
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| 74 | 116 |
He could split a post with an ax hurled from fifteen Kur paces, which is approximately twenty human paces. |
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| 78 | 147 |
Lord Grendel had won one of the agons of the ax in one of the festival games, splitting a post, at a distance of some fifteen Kur paces, which would correspond, approximately, to some twenty human paces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 412 |
I counted some fifteen, though it was hard to tell, at the distance, as they were crowded together. |
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| 5 | 705 |
There were, as I had earlier supposed, fifteen on the chain. |
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| 5 | 1129 |
I then, in order to make myself useful, put the fifteen neck-chained girls, who had arrived on the ship, to their feet, and arranged them in a line, one behind the other. |
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| 5 | 1133 |
Indeed, precisely fifteen such packages had been left, not attached to the poles borne by the fair porters come from the forest. |
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| 5 | 1141 |
A march then followed him, first his own men, then the portering slaves, with their poles and baggage, and then Torgus, and the fellows from the ship, and then, bringing up the rear, a lovely coffle, fifteen shapely pack beasts, the girls from the ship. |
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| 8 | 65 |
He approached to within about fifteen feet of us, and Pertinax and I, which seemed appropriate, rose to our feet. |
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| 37 | 66 |
In some fifteen Ehn she was alongside her long, readied wharf. |
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| 38 | 252 |
I had seen coffles, and sometimes more than one such linkage, after the fall of cities, which contained fifteen hundred to two thousand women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 628 |
It seems that a group of mercenaries, perhaps fifteen or twenty, with some women in tow, roped together by the neck, had determined to take advantage of the distraction my presence had brought about at the perimeter. |
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| 14 | 235 |
We were now some ten or fifteen feet apart. |
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| 22 | 225 |
The Pani archers took up their position some fifteen to seventeen yards before our line, some five to three before the infantry of the enemy. |
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| 28 | 10 |
The diners, at the small tables, some fifteen, those who had held the high watches on the great ship, sitting cross-legged, slapped their left shoulders with their right hands. |
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| 35 | 125 |
"Fifteen," said the angular fellow, "certified with the stamp of Ar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 56 |
The ceiling was domed, perhaps fifteen feet above my head. |
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| 9 | 92 |
"Fifteen," said the woman. |
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| 10 | 77 |
Then, straightening up, it seemed to growl, a guttural rumbling, some Ihn in duration, perhaps ten or fifteen, above me, and I shuddered. |
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| 19 | 68 |
There were some fifteen or twenty drivers, tending the ten or so wagons which had come to the clearing shortly after dark. |
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| 23 | 89 |
Shortly thereafter a vast, loose quantity of mud, some fifty paces wide, and perhaps fifteen deep, moved past us, before us, downward, slowly, then more rapidly, to plunge into the valley below, perhaps a quarter of a pasang distant. |
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| 27 | 83 |
The facility had contained fifteen slaves. |
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| 41 | 1 |
In fifteen days the revolt was muchly suppressed. |
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| 41 | 25 |
In any event, after some fifteen days, the fighting had diminished to an occasional skirmish in the halls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1 |
I had come to Shipcamp with the wagons, and something like fifteen hundred or more men. |
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| 29 | 2 |
I had not run more than fifteen or twenty Ehn when I stopped, suddenly, almost falling. |
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| 38 | 65 |
That would make fifteen. |
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| 43 | 839 |
The attackers had an original force of fifteen men. |
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| 43 | 995 |
"We followed the beast," he said, "but it was slow going in the night, and we did not anticipate fifteen men here. |
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| 43 | 1065 |
"We are days from the coast here," said the mariner, "and then, once we reach the coast, and are under sail, depending on the winds, it will be ten to fifteen days". |
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| 43 | 1075 |
"There are fifteen prisoners here," said Axel. |
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| 43 | 1109 |
"There are fifteen," said the mariner. |
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| 43 | 1113 |
"Fifteen throats may be cut within a single E hn ". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 227 |
"Let us then suppose," I said, "that fourteen or fifteen hundred men were committed to the ambush, and that this would deplete an already restricted home guard, and that these men are far from Yamada's major holdings, and are all afoot". |
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| 30 | 44 |
We were some fifteen days now from the palace of Lord Yamada. |
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| 31 | 13 |
Interesting, I thought, that a man so short should be in charge of at least fifteen ill-clad brigands. |
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| 46 | 62 |
Throughout most of human history on Earth, women were commonly mated at the age of fourteen or fifteen. |
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| 47 | 298 |
"Five paces before you could bring me within the compass of your blade, you would be greeted by fifteen well-fletched birds of death. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 16 |
I later conjectured we had left the wagon some fifteen Ehn ago. |
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| 57 | 254 |
"I do not think there are many," said Lord Grendel, "perhaps ten, perhaps fifteen. |
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| 60 | 7 |
Lord Grendel's conjecture to the effect that the numbers of Kurii in the vicinity might be some fifteen, presumably at most, had proved woefully conservative. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 222 |
There were few women in the tiers, perhaps fifteen or sixteen free women, and perhaps four or five slaves, who were silent, who knelt at the knees of their masters. |
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| 5 | 120 |
There were some fifteen or twenty slaves, several before us, and some behind us. |
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| 8 | 920 |
The long boat had now been righted, and some twelve or so men, perhaps as many as fourteen or fifteen, had climbed aboard. |
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| 9 | 52 |
I think that I had now been some fourteen or fifteen days in the kitchen. |
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| 24 | 271 |
"Fifteen," said the harsh voice. |
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| 34 | 54 |
"He paid fifteen copper tarsks for me". |
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| 46 | 565 |
I was a few moments into the dance, or behavior, perhaps fifteen or twenty Ihn, when I realized I had not yet felt the lash. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 76 |
The rowing arrangements mentioned were common rowing arrangements, a single rowing deck, with twenty-five oars to a side or fifteen oars to a side. |
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| 16 | 59 |
This phenomenon lasted for ten or fifteen Ihn, creating a towering mist, which then, slowly, dissipated, descending in a cascade of droplets. |
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| 16 | 91 |
"They seldom go beneath the surface oftener than every ten or fifteen years," said a man. |
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| 19 | 128 |
Most of the women were free, but some slaves were also in evidence, approximately one slave to every fifteen or twenty free women. |
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| 24 | 11 |
They may now have fifteen hundred men, mariners and brigands. |
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| 24 | 13 |
"How can several hundred men, perhaps now fifteen hundred, be sustained by the looting of villages, most of them small and poor?" I said. |
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| 27 | 6 |
"Red, fifteen," said the wheel master. |
10 |
| 27 | 207 |
"I have lost fifteen copper tarsks," he informed us, gloomily. |
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| 30 | 11 |
Our best estimates of the enemy's strength, given the increase in ships, and the manning of the earlier fleet, was in the neighborhood of fifteen hundred. |
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| 41 | 93 |
It was toward noon, the tenth Ahn, on the twentieth day of the siege, a bright, windy day, that Thrasymedes joined Thurnock, Clitus, and myself on a ragged, uneven portion of rebuilt wall, now, at this point, only some fifteen feet in height. |
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| 44 | 3 |
If the wall were high, there might be fifteen or twenty men behind him on the ladder, but he would still be alone, at the top of the ladder. |
10 |
| 53 | 196 |
Fifteen Ehn later I signaled the keleustes to cease the beat, and the Dorna and the Tesephone rocked on the water. |
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