| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 130 |
About two or three minutes later I heard the hunger grunt of a wild tharlarion and a moment afterward the piercing scream of a terrified girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 29 |
I thought I heard a slight sniffling, a grunt, a small doglike whine. |
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| 13 | 114 |
I heard it hit heavily behind me, and heard Kron's grunt of anger and fear. |
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| 25 | 83 |
I heard his grunt of satisfaction as he rushed forward. |
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| 25 | 85 |
It reached for me with a whiplike motion of its furred neck and I felt the long sharp white teeth rake my arm but at the same time I heard another squeal of pain and the grunt of horror from the man in wrist straps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 178 |
The men about the table began to grunt affirmatively. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 482 |
There was a grunt of agreement from the captains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 106 |
Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on pars... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 35 |
Half out of the water, then returning to it, I saw a great speckled grunt, four-gilled. |
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| 22 | 43 |
Rising from under the grunt swiftly was a long-bodied shark, white, nine-gilled. |
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| 22 | 44 |
It tore the grunt from the line and bore it away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 60 |
Such blood might attract the bint, a fanged, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa. |
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| 24 | 65 |
The danger, currently, of the bint and blue grunt, however, was not primarily due to any peril they themselves might represent, particularly as the grunt would not now be schooling, but due to the fact that they, drawn by shed blood, might be followed by tharlarion. |
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| 53 | 72 |
The grunt now schooling in the open moat, come in from the lake, could well be the posterity of grunt populations dating back to the time when the city was not in ruins but in the height of its glory and power. |
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| 24 | 61 |
The blue grunt is particularly dangerous during the daylight hours preceding its mating periods, when it schools. |
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| 24 | 173 |
It had been drawn to the area probably by the smell of blood in the water, or by following other forms of marine life, most likely the bint or blue grunt, who would have been attracted by the same stimulus. |
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| 24 | 174 |
It is not unusual for tharlarion to follow bint and grunt. |
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| 24 | 265 |
Another uttered an explosive cry, half grunt, half bellow, which, in rage and frustration, sounded across the marsh. |
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| 53 | 61 |
In it, as had been demonstrated, by the hurling of a haunch of tarsk into the waters, crowded and schooling, were thousands of blue grunt. |
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| 53 | 70 |
The grunt, following the mating frenzy, synchronized with the full moon, would return to the lake. |
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| 53 | 71 |
Given the habits of the fish I had little doubt but that this place was an ancient mating ground for them, for the grunt populations tend to return again and again to the places of their frenzy, wherever, usually in a lagoon or shallow place in a river, they may be. |
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| 53 | 73 |
The grunt in the moat were for a time an effective barrier, but surely Shaba and his men realized that it must be temporary. |
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| 53 | 79 |
"The wall of the grunt," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 684 |
I heard a grunt near me. |
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| 13 | 722 |
I heard him grunt. |
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| 22 | 13 |
Before each guests there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and, in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 38 |
"If various traders know Sign and some, too, have some smattering of some of these languages, what makes Grunt so special? Why is it he alone who is permitted to venture so deeply into the Barrens?" "Perhaps the savages feel they have nothing more to gain from Grunt," laughed the young man. |
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| 14 | 507 |
The Dust Leg, more than pleased, tried to get Grunt to accept at least one extra hide for the girl, but this, of course, Grunt magnanimously refused to do. |
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| 19 | 706 |
I lent my assistance to Grunt and Pimples, and, in a few Ehn, we had secured the goods about either on the travois attached to Grunt's pack kaiila or on my own pack beast. |
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| 3 | 2 |
"I am trying to locate the whereabouts of a trader, one called Grunt," I said. |
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| 3 | 6 |
"Do you know where this fellow, Grunt, may be found?" I asked. |
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| 3 | 125 |
"The trader, Grunt," I said, "you speculate has ventured northward?" "Yes," said the man. |
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| 3 | 147 |
"It will be my conjecture," said the man, "that he whom you seek, the trader, Grunt, is bound not for Fort Haskins, but for Kailiauk". |
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| 3 | 157 |
"Grunt is a peculiar fellow, and secretive, but, I think, inoffensive". |
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| 3 | 165 |
"If you wish to contact Grunt, I advise you to do so promptly. |
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| 4 | 7 |
"Why do you wish to find Grunt?" asked the driver, a young man with shaggy hair, cut short across the base of his neck. |
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| 4 | 11 |
"Grunt comes and goes, as I understand it," I said. |
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| 4 | 15 |
To accompany one such as the fellow, Grunt, of whom I had heard, seemed to me advisable, at least until I could learn the land and fend better for myself. |
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| 6 | 68 |
"Do you know Grunt, the trader?" I asked the fellow. |
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| 6 | 90 |
Unable to find Grunt, I feared I must enter the Barrens alone. |
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| 6 | 93 |
"Why do you wish to find Grunt?" he asked. |
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| 6 | 131 |
I was less fortunate, at various small camps and outlying farms, in obtaining information as to the possible whereabouts of a white trader named Grunt. |
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| 6 | 155 |
I was angry that I had not been able to locate Grunt, the trader. |
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| 8 | 1 |
Grunt I turned my attention from the apparently lovely young woman, though she was fully clothed, who was strung up by the wrists near the central block. |
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| 8 | 1150 |
"I have sought along the perimeter for one named 'Grunt'," I said. |
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| 8 | 1156 |
"This fellow, Grunt," I said, "is presumably a well-known trader. |
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| 8 | 1158 |
"It is my thought," I said, "that this fellow, Grunt, has many friends, that he inspires loyalty, that these friends desire to protect him". |
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| 8 | 1159 |
"If that is so," he said, "then this Grunt, in at least some respects, must be a lucky man". |
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| 9 | 1 |
We Cross the Ihanke "It is here," said Grunt, turning about on his kaiila. |
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| 9 | 4 |
"Here is one," said Grunt, "and there is another, and another". |
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| 9 | 12 |
According to Grunt such wands line the perimeter, though usually not in such proximity to one another. |
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| 9 | 14 |
Grunt now turned back on his kaiila to look out, eastward, over the broad grasses and low, rolling hills. |
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| 9 | 23 |
Because of its uncertain weather, the possible freezes and storms, and its harsh winds, this month had been avoided by Grunt. |
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| 9 | 33 |
Grunt sat astride his kaiila, a lofty, yellow animal, looking eastward, out beyond the wands. |
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| 9 | 40 |
Grunt's goods, on the other hand, of course, were distributed over his eleven beasts of burden, the kaiila and the ten other pack animals. |
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| 9 | 42 |
Grunt carried similar articles but he, as well, as I had not, carried such items as long nails, rivets, hatchets, metal arrowheads, metal lance points, knife blades and butcher knives. |
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| 9 | 53 |
I saw Grunt straighten himself in the high-pommeled saddle. |
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| 9 | 57 |
Grunt rode some twenty yards ahead, and then pulled back the kaiila, twisting its head back with the reins, wheeling it about to face us. |
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| 9 | 65 |
"Hei! Hei!" cried Grunt. |
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| 9 | 72 |
"Hei! Hei!" called Grunt. |
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| 9 | 75 |
"Hei! Hei!" urged Grunt. |
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| 9 | 89 |
Grunt, on his kaiila, had now taken his place at the head of the line, the pack kaiila behind him. |
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| 9 | 91 |
Grunt, I knew, had some special disposition in mind for her. |
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| 9 | 98 |
Grunt, I recalled, in urging his coffle forward, had not struck the lead girl, his lovely red-haired beast, with the lash, as he had several of the others. |
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| 9 | 106 |
"It is here," Grunt had said. |
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| 9 | 111 |
"It is here," Grunt had said. |
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| 9 | 117 |
I urged my kaiila forward again, after Grunt and the coffle. |
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| 10 | 1 |
I See Dust Behind Us "You are aware, are you not," I asked Grunt, "that we are being followed?" "Yes," he said. |
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| 10 | 14 |
Grunt was unusual in having traded as far east as the country of the Fleer and the Yellow Knives. |
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| 10 | 17 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
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| 10 | 29 |
"Accordingly," said Grunt, "you conjecture that the dust is raised by the paws of running kaiila". |
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| 10 | 37 |
"It is so obvious," said Grunt, "that you have noted it, but have not considered its significance". |
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| 10 | 43 |
"To raise dust like that, in this terrain," said Grunt, "you must ride across draws, rather than avoid them, and you must ride in a cluster, where the dust will rise, cloudlike, rather than rise and fall, in a narrow line, swiftly dissipated by the wind". |
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| 10 | 45 |
Grunt grinned. |
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| 10 | 54 |
"I thought they would," said Grunt. |
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| 10 | 58 |
"True," smiled Grunt. |
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| 10 | 63 |
"I have had trouble with them before," smiled Grunt. |
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| 10 | 78 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
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| 10 | 84 |
"No," said Grunt. |
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| 10 | 86 |
"We shall continue on, as we were," said Grunt. |
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| 10 | 89 |
"To be sure," said Grunt, "we should waste little time". |
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| 10 | 93 |
"Hei! Hei!" called Grunt. |
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| 10 | 97 |
"On!" said Grunt, with a gesture of his whip, wheeling about on his kaiila. |
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| 10 | 99 |
I drew my kaiila alongside that of Grunt. |
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| 10 | 101 |
"I do not think we should make a stand," said Grunt. |
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| 10 | 105 |
"If we were red savages," said Grunt, "we would run. |
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| 10 | 111 |
"No," said Grunt. |
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| 10 | 118 |
"No," said Grunt, not looking back. |
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| 10 | 121 |
"No," said Grunt, quietly. |
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| 11 | 1 |
Slave Instruction; It Seems We Are No Longer Being Followed "You seem apprehensive," said Grunt. |
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| 11 | 5 |
"No," said Grunt. |
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| 11 | 24 |
It was of wood, a flexible branch, about a yard long, cut by Grunt from one of the trees amongst which we camped. |
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| 11 | 263 |
"A pretty lot," said Grunt, behind me. |
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| 11 | 266 |
"See that girl," asked Grunt, "the one with red hair?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 11 | 275 |
"Why?" asked Grunt. |
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| 11 | 281 |
"No," said Grunt. |
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| 11 | 284 |
"If you were going to buy a she-tarsk," asked Grunt, "would its virginity matter to you?" "No," I said, "of course not". |
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| 11 | 293 |
Grunt then turned away. |
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| 11 | 294 |
"Grunt," I said. |
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| 12 | 9 |
"Hei!" cried Grunt, slapping the side of his thigh. |
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| 12 | 11 |
"It is clean work," said Grunt, "the work of Dust Legs". |
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| 12 | 15 |
"Relatively," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 29 |
"I see no kaiila," I said to Grunt, "no weapons. |
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| 12 | 31 |
"It was taken," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 34 |
"Are things usually done in this fashion?" I asked Grunt. |
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| 12 | 35 |
"This is not bad," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 38 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 44 |
"That sort of thing," said Grunt, "is cultural, with almost all of the tribes. |
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| 12 | 48 |
"There are various theories," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 52 |
"True," said Grunt, "but, too, I think it is generally understood that this sort of thing produces fear not so much as a desire for revenge, at least among the savages themselves". |
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| 12 | 58 |
"I think," said Grunt, "that it is done in the joy and lust of victory, that it ventilates powerful emotion, that it expresses vengeance and hatred, and, indeed, pleasure and life, and that it is done, too, to show contempt for the enemy and to humiliate him, thereby demonstrating one's own superior... |
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| 12 | 59 |
I regarded Grunt. |
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| 12 | 60 |
"In short," said Grunt, "it is done because it elates them, and fills them with power and joy". |
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| 12 | 66 |
I turned my kaiila to face Grunt. |
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| 12 | 69 |
Grunt laughed. |
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| 12 | 72 |
"It was for this reason," said Grunt, "that I left them in the camp". |
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| 12 | 78 |
"They are to be left as they are," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 83 |
Grunt and I looked at one another. |
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| 12 | 84 |
"Over here," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 93 |
"It is a present to me, from my friends, the Dust Legs," laughed Grunt, "the leaders of those who followed us". |
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| 12 | 96 |
"And a rich joke it is, too," laughed Grunt. |
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| 12 | 121 |
"You are stripped," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 123 |
"You wear leg-spreaders," laughed Grunt. |
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| 12 | 125 |
"As though you might be women," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 129 |
"Thus do the Dust Legs demean you," said Grunt, "treating you as no more than women". |
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| 12 | 132 |
"We are helpless!" Grunt, moving the reins of the kaiila, pulled the beast's head away. |
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| 12 | 142 |
"We have been tied by red savages! We cannot free ourselves!" Grunt stopped his kaiila. |
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| 12 | 147 |
"Yet, perhaps I could spare them this horror," mused Grunt. |
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| 12 | 150 |
"They left them in my keeping," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 152 |
"What are you going to do?" "Cut their throats," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 160 |
Grunt looked up at me. |
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| 12 | 161 |
"In this way, of course," said Grunt, "I get nothing from them". |
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| 12 | 163 |
"Do you think they might have some worth?" asked Grunt. |
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| 12 | 165 |
"They seem two stalwart, handsome lads," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 169 |
Grunt, from his saddlebags, removed two collars. |
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| 12 | 173 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 174 |
Grunt looked up at me. |
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| 12 | 179 |
"For the time you may account yourselves mere prisoners," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 182 |
"You will be put at the end of the coffle," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 187 |
"I assure you," said Grunt, "our friends, the red savages, both men and women, will find that quite amusing". |
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| 12 | 189 |
"But do not fear," said Grunt, "you will not be expected to bear burdens". |
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| 12 | 191 |
"It is the women who are the pack beasts, who will bear the burdens," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 193 |
"You will discover that there are some advantages to bringing up the rear of the coffle," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 198 |
Grunt looked about and found some shreds of shirts which, cut to pieces, lay about in the grass. |
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| 12 | 200 |
They regarded their new garments, decided for them by Grunt, with dismay. |
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| 12 | 202 |
"The red savages, as you may not know," said Grunt to me, though doubtless he was speaking primarily for the benefit of the Hobarts, "are rather strict about the privilege of wearing the breechclout". |
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| 12 | 204 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
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| 12 | 213 |
"For a slave, or a prisoner, to wear a breechclout might be regarded as pretentious or offensive," said Grunt, "an oversight or indiscretion calling for torture or, say, for being set upon by boys on kaiila, with war clubs". |
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| 12 | 217 |
Grunt cut the thongs binding the ankles of the Hobarts to the leg-spreaders. |
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| 12 | 220 |
Grunt mounted to the high saddle of his kaiila. |
10 |
| 12 | 227 |
"That way lies our camp," said Grunt, pointing. |
10 |
| 12 | 230 |
"Come along," said Grunt. |
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| 13 | 1 |
Blankets and Bonds; I Do a Favor for Grunt I lay on one elbow. |
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| 13 | 79 |
Had I not noted her glances, and the frightened turning away of her head when she had been discovered? Had I not sensed the slave in her body language, how she moved in the tunic, and turned, and straightened her body, and posed, pretending to be unaware of my eyes and those of Grunt, her master, up... |
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| 13 | 172 |
"The results of your body's testing, shortly after your purchase, were made known to me by Grunt, your master". |
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| 13 | 204 |
"If you should prove unusual in some respect, although this is extremely rare," I said, "we can, tomorrow, grind one of Grunt's trading knives into a lancet". |
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| 13 | 387 |
Grunt, in any case, as I knew him, would not be interested in punishing her for that action, as it had taken place when she was free. |
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| 13 | 390 |
Still, I would inform Grunt of this development. |
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| 13 | 625 |
"Grunt thinks you are worth more," I said. |
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| 13 | 627 |
I did not mention to her that Grunt thought he could get five hides of the golden kailiauk for her. |
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| 13 | 834 |
I did not doubt but what Grunt could get five hides of the yellow kailiauk for her. |
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| 13 | 910 |
"Why has your Master, Grunt, sent you to my blankets?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 1243 |
"I shall speak to Grunt in the morning. |
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| 13 | 1714 |
It was nothing, merely a favor for Grunt, of course, opening one of his new slaves, for the pleasure of men. |
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| 13 | 1844 |
I had merely done a favor for Grunt, my friend, opening a slimly bodied, red-haired girl for him, one of his slaves. |
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| 14 | 1 |
It is a Good Trading; Pimples; I Learn Something of the Waniyanpi; Corn Stalks; Sign; Grunt and I Will Proceed East The red-haired girl cried out in pain and fear, struck from her knees back in the grass by the plump, scornful woman of the red savages, a sturdy-legged matron of the Dust Legs. |
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| 14 | 52 |
Grunt was engaged in conversation with four or five of the Dust-Leg men. |
10 |
| 14 | 77 |
I recalled that Grunt had, two days ago, at another trading point, received five such rectangles for a similar mirror. |
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| 14 | 87 |
These, at any rate, were the sentiments of Grunt, who seemed popular with the Dust Legs, and, as far as I can tell, they are substantially sound. |
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| 14 | 97 |
On the other hand, I realized, and Grunt had made it clear to me, too, that one must not insult the red savages nor deal with them unrealistically, particularly in the light of other traders and merchants who might follow me. |
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| 14 | 100 |
One of the Dust-Leg men was examining, with great care, the hatchet which Grunt had shown him. |
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| 14 | 101 |
Grunt excused himself and rose to his feet. |
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| 14 | 103 |
Grunt went again to his stores and brought forth some packages, wrapped in waxed paper. |
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| 14 | 104 |
"Canhanpisasa," said Grunt. |
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| 14 | 110 |
Grunt and she then exchanged what I took to be appropriate civilities and compliments. |
10 |
| 14 | 111 |
She pointed to Grunt. |
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| 14 | 115 |
I looked at Grunt. |
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| 14 | 122 |
"I told her she was a pretty woman," said Grunt, "and now she is teasing me. |
10 |
| 14 | 126 |
Grunt looked about, the sweets in his hand. |
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| 14 | 130 |
Grunt offered him some of the sweets. |
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| 14 | 133 |
"Ah!" said Grunt. |
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| 14 | 137 |
"Be flattered," said Grunt to her. |
10 |
| 14 | 146 |
But it would not be the first time she had pleased one of Grunt's visitors. |
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| 14 | 147 |
Grunt watched the girl struggle to her knees. |
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| 14 | 152 |
Already I would obtain less for the small mirror than Grunt had for a comparable item the day before yesterday. |
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| 14 | 159 |
Grunt had now gone back to the coffle, where most of his girls huddled together, the chain on their necks, and removed Ginger, and Ulla and Lenna, the two Swedish girls, from the chain. |
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| 14 | 163 |
That the red-haired girl had not been named as yet was not a function of the fact that either Grunt or myself saw any difficulty with Millicent as a slave name. |
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| 14 | 169 |
Grunt now came forward, Ulla and Lenna bent over, one on each side of him, their hair in his hands. |
10 |
| 14 | 173 |
Grunt threw both of the girls to their knees near the sitting men. |
10 |
| 14 | 190 |
Grunt then drew in the grass, with the heel of his boot, a circle, some ten feet or so in width. |
10 |
| 14 | 193 |
Grunt then ordered her to stand in the circle, orders conveyed by Ginger, which, frightened, half crouched over, she did. |
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| 14 | 195 |
"Resist, to the best of your ability," said Grunt to Ulla. |
10 |
| 14 | 202 |
"Eca!" agreed Grunt, heartily. |
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| 14 | 203 |
"You, Lenna, my dear, now," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 219 |
"Eca!" commended Grunt. |
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| 14 | 220 |
"Eca!" "Remember," said Grunt to the helpless Ulla and Lenna, "you are to be totally pleasing to masters. |
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| 14 | 230 |
Grunt then sat down and began to talk with the other men, not the two still standing, as though nothing had happened, as though it had been only a bit of sport with two embonded sluts, only an amusement for the entertainment of his guests. |
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| 14 | 233 |
"Oh?" asked Grunt, innocently. |
10 |
| 14 | 236 |
I thought Grunt would get an excellent price for the two beauties. |
10 |
| 14 | 248 |
Grunt, of course, might have helped her, but he was engaged in business. |
10 |
| 14 | 295 |
Grunt, two days ago, had received five such articles for a similar mirror. |
10 |
| 14 | 299 |
Earlier today Grunt had fashioned a travois for his pack kaiila. |
10 |
| 14 | 302 |
The travois, I suspected, would be heavily laden by the time Grunt was ready to return to Kailiauk. |
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| 14 | 308 |
Between where the men sat and the coffle, a bit to the right, was the spread-out kailiauk robe under which Grunt had put Margaret, naked, her legs drawn up. |
10 |
| 14 | 313 |
It was a clever trick on Grunt's part. |
10 |
| 14 | 316 |
Was Grunt trying to hide her? I saw leather thongs put on the necks of Ulla and Lenna, the beaded collars thrust up to admit them. |
10 |
| 14 | 394 |
Grunt had joined him there. |
10 |
| 14 | 395 |
Grunt seemed reluctant to lift the hide. |
10 |
| 14 | 399 |
This was another of the names by which Grunt was known in the Barrens. |
10 |
| 14 | 402 |
Grunt excused himself and went to see what the man wanted. |
10 |
| 14 | 406 |
When she reached her master and Grunt her master put his hand under her chin and thrust up her head. |
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| 14 | 408 |
She saw the other kaiila, the men, Grunt, myself, the girls in the coffle. |
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| 14 | 409 |
Then she was stripped and knelt naked, before Grunt. |
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| 14 | 412 |
"Tarl," called Grunt to me. |
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| 14 | 428 |
"On your hands and knees," said Grunt. |
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| 14 | 430 |
"Good," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 431 |
She became Grunt's for three hatchets. |
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| 14 | 435 |
This did not matter, of course, really, for Grunt doubtless, if he wished to clothe the new slave, had an extra slave tunic or so among his goods. |
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| 14 | 438 |
To be sure, Grunt would not, I suppose, have minded throwing the tunics in, if they had been wanted. |
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| 14 | 451 |
Too, I suppose, if Grunt had wanted it, the red savage might have left him the other girl's shirt dress. |
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| 14 | 461 |
Grunt, a shrewd fellow, appeared to demur, and, indeed, even invited the fellow to examine the other girls on the coffle. |
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| 14 | 463 |
He did look for a longer moment at the red-haired girl but Grunt said something to him, and he turned from her again to speculate on what might lie concealed beneath the kailiauk hide. |
10 |
| 14 | 464 |
Grunt apparently did not wish to release the red-haired girl in a common sale. |
10 |
| 14 | 472 |
It was clear to him that Grunt, if he truly, seriously, wished to hide a girl, would presumably cache her, bound and gagged, out of sight, perhaps in a slit trench a pasang or so away. |
10 |
| 14 | 477 |
I hoped Grunt knew what he was doing. |
10 |
| 14 | 479 |
Suddenly the Dust Leg, Grunt speaking to him, broke out in laughter. |
10 |
| 14 | 484 |
He tried to walk about and peep beneath the hide and Grunt, with great apparent earnestness and seriousness, hurried about, tugging down the hide at the edges. |
10 |
| 14 | 494 |
What was going on, further, could not be clearly understood unless it is understood that the Dust Legs knew and respected, and liked, Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 496 |
Theoretically, one supposes, a high bid might be made on what lay concealed beneath the hide and then the hide, the bid accepted, might be withdrawn to reveal a wench as ugly as a tharlarion, but the Dust Legs knew, in the practical context, that Grunt would not do this to them. |
10 |
| 14 | 500 |
Grunt, he made it clear, must now either accept or reject that offer. |
10 |
| 14 | 501 |
It was, of course, accepted, and Grunt, with some flair, threw off the hide. |
10 |
| 14 | 511 |
"They are very pleased," I said to Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 524 |
"I think so," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 559 |
"I shall attend to the camp," said Grunt, looking about. |
10 |
| 14 | 565 |
Grunt was looking about, scanning the surrounding grasslands. |
10 |
| 14 | 596 |
"What did Grunt, who is your master, the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, call you?" I asked. |
10 |
| 14 | 889 |
* * * * "This is Wagmezahu, Corn Stalks," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 893 |
"Is the new slave satisfactory?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 897 |
I now understood why Grunt had been scanning the plains. |
10 |
| 14 | 903 |
If the Dust Legs knew of his presence in their country they had not chosen to do anything about it, perhaps in deference to Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 904 |
Grunt and the Fleer spoke largely in sign, this being easier for them than the attempt to communicate verbally. |
10 |
| 14 | 907 |
Grunt had shortened the coffle by two collars and chain lengths. |
10 |
| 14 | 931 |
Before he left Grunt gave him some hard candy and a fine steel knife. |
10 |
| 14 | 932 |
"You seem moody," I said to Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 938 |
"Very easily," said Grunt, "for they are much the same, and, too, you would be able to make yourself understood to the Kailiauk, and, to some extent, to the Fleer". |
10 |
| 14 | 952 |
"I do not know," said Grunt, "but I think it is because they were the last of the major tribes to master the kaiila. |
10 |
| 14 | 956 |
"I can teach you hundreds of signs in a short time," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 960 |
"I will be pleased to help you," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 961 |
"Grunt?" I asked. |
10 |
| 14 | 964 |
"He does not know you," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 971 |
"No," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 975 |
Grunt rubbed the back of his left hand from the wrist to the knuckle with his right index finger. |
10 |
| 14 | 1018 |
"Yes," said Grunt, "but, more generally, it is another sign which may stand for any white woman, and is often used in this way". |
10 |
| 14 | 1025 |
"But are there no women of the red savages themselves who are slaves?" "Of course, there are," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1043 |
"What is this?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1058 |
I had seen Corn Stalks make this sign in his talk with Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1059 |
Grunt's eyes clouded. |
10 |
| 14 | 1062 |
"You may have seen this sign," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1070 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1075 |
"Yes," said Grunt, soberly. |
10 |
| 14 | 1080 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1082 |
Grunt knew that I had seen them. |
10 |
| 14 | 1084 |
"It is all right," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1086 |
"It is all right," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1089 |
"Grass," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1091 |
"Height," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1098 |
"The spreading of light," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1102 |
"Three days," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1106 |
"Many," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1110 |
"Red savages," smiled Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1130 |
"You have an excellent memory," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1131 |
I had been, of course, as best I could, reconstructing portions of the conversation which I had earlier seen take place between Corn Stalks and Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1134 |
"Fast," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1140 |
"Kill," said Grunt, soberly. |
10 |
| 14 | 1144 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1148 |
"It is the sign for fire," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1154 |
"It does," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1159 |
"A wagon, or wagons, of course," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1163 |
"Three days ago, or some three days ago," said Grunt, "a large party of red savages, consisting of Kaiila, Yellow Knives, Sleen, Fleer and Kailiauk fell suddenly upon a wagon train and a column of soldiers, both infantry and cavalry. |
10 |
| 14 | 1194 |
"It is a horrifying thing," said Grunt, almost numbly. |
10 |
| 14 | 1198 |
"Heart," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1201 |
"The heart is on the ground," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1205 |
"My heart, too," said Grunt, "is on the ground. |
10 |
| 14 | 1209 |
"In actions of this sort," said Grunt, "our friends of the plains are seldom inclined to leave survivors, but perhaps they did, perhaps, say, some children, to be herded to Waniyanpi camps, to be raised with Waniyanpi values, suitable for slaves, or, say, perhaps, some females whose exposed curvatur... |
10 |
| 14 | 1213 |
"Male or female?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1215 |
"I do not think I would give much for his chances," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1217 |
"We should perhaps turn back," mused Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1225 |
"Smaller parties can be more dangerous than larger parties, at such a time," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1230 |
"Sometimes they are even left behind," said Grunt, "to track survivors who might have hidden in the grass". |
10 |
| 14 | 1232 |
"One might hope, of course," said Grunt, "that they would be sensitive to such distinctions". |
10 |
| 14 | 1234 |
"We are white," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1237 |
"Grunt," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 1240 |
"Perhaps," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1248 |
"It is a story hide," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1267 |
"You are not a trader," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1271 |
Grunt shrugged. |
10 |
| 14 | 1282 |
"No," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1285 |
"He paid a double tarn, of gold," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1287 |
"He did not even bargain," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1291 |
"What is your business in the Barrens?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1295 |
"Yes?" said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1300 |
"That is a beast of a medicine vision," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1304 |
"I have never seen such a beast," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1306 |
"You think it is now in the Barrens," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1311 |
"Are you a hunter?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1313 |
"The Barrens are large," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1320 |
"You are white," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1329 |
"It is already summer," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1346 |
"Two moons will be sufficient to return to Kailiauk," said Grunt, "if one does not stop for trading". |
10 |
| 14 | 1354 |
"It is then decided," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 1360 |
Grunt looked at me, puzzled. |
10 |
| 14 | 1367 |
"Tonight," said Grunt, getting up, "you may use Priscilla, if you wish". |
10 |
| 14 | 1369 |
"I understand," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 1 |
The Fleer "Here," said Grunt, pointing down from the saddle of the lofty kaiila, "you see the wagon tracks, the ruts?" "Yes," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 8 |
"Yes," said Grunt, "but its intent is not hostile, as I read it. |
10 |
| 15 | 20 |
"In a way it is heartening," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 27 |
"That would be the customary reading," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 31 |
Grunt shrugged. |
10 |
| 15 | 33 |
"Hold!" said Grunt, suddenly, tensing. |
10 |
| 15 | 37 |
"Do not reach for your weapons," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 40 |
"The hair," said Grunt, "is worn in the high pompadour, combed back". |
10 |
| 15 | 46 |
"Be careful," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 50 |
Grunt relaxed in his saddle and smiled, broadly. |
10 |
| 15 | 52 |
"He has no saddle," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 55 |
Grunt then, still smiling, clasped his left hand with his right, and shook it. |
10 |
| 15 | 57 |
"Kodakiciyapi," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 60 |
'Peace, friendship,' had said Grunt, 'Greetings, Friend. |
10 |
| 15 | 71 |
I was not certain that Grunt was wise in addressing him in the dialect of the Kaiila, for the Fleer and Kaiila are hereditary enemies. |
10 |
| 15 | 76 |
"Wopeton," said Grunt, pointing to me. |
10 |
| 15 | 80 |
"Do not move," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 82 |
"Stand straight," called Grunt to the coffle, which now, in our pause, had put down its burdens. |
10 |
| 15 | 86 |
I thought Grunt was wise not to have the girls look into the eyes of the Fleer warrior. |
10 |
| 15 | 122 |
Priscilla had not met his eyes, as Grunt had advised them. |
10 |
| 15 | 123 |
Grunt did not want to do business with the Fleer. |
10 |
| 15 | 140 |
None of them, as Grunt had advised, met his eyes. |
10 |
| 15 | 142 |
"Our friend," said Grunt to me, "is a member of the Blue-Sky Riders, a warrior society of the Fleer". |
10 |
| 15 | 144 |
"I would think so," smiled Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 146 |
"Yes," said Grunt, "the dark line of the earth, the overarching dome of the blue sky". |
10 |
| 15 | 151 |
"I do not think he means us harm," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 167 |
"The ear of his kaiila is notched," I said to Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 168 |
"Is that an eccentric mutilation or is it deliberate, perhaps meaningful?" "It is meaningful," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 187 |
Grunt had not permitted her to cut it, or even to trim and shape it. |
10 |
| 15 | 198 |
I could detect, subtly, now, that Grunt was tense. |
10 |
| 15 | 200 |
I found myself, too, probably because of Grunt, growing more tense. |
10 |
| 15 | 206 |
"I trust he will not want any of them," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 219 |
"Do not move," said Grunt to me, smiling at the Fleer. |
10 |
| 15 | 229 |
Grunt then lifted his right hand, the back of it near his right shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 232 |
"Yes," had said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 246 |
"I have always had good relations with the Fleer," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 252 |
"He probably has, on the whole, as good or better in his own camp," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 259 |
"The Fleer was impressed," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 261 |
"I am proud of all of them," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 263 |
"They are good stuff," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 273 |
"Your tutelage of them in submission and servitude, the instructional abuse to which you have subjected them," said Grunt, "may prove to be instrumental in saving their lives". |
10 |
| 15 | 275 |
"Good," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 276 |
I wondered why Grunt had administered so little, if any, of this form of instruction to his coffled properties. |
10 |
| 15 | 278 |
"Up with your burdens, my pretty beasts!" called Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 280 |
"He was probably left behind to kill survivors," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 282 |
"He was in the paint of war," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 284 |
"We were not involved in the action," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 286 |
"I fear so," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 15 | 288 |
"I think that is probably true," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 1 |
The Kur; I Meet Waniyanpi; I Hear of the Lady Mira "It occurred here," said Grunt, "obviously". |
10 |
| 16 | 9 |
"It could be worse than you think," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 19 |
"The attack presumably did not take place at dawn," said Grunt, "and, presumably, it would not have occurred late in the day". |
10 |
| 16 | 21 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 23 |
"That is it," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 26 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 41 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 51 |
"What is it?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 53 |
"What is it that you see in the grass?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 56 |
I threw the reins to Grunt, and dismounted. |
10 |
| 16 | 59 |
"No Fleer or Yellow Knife did that," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 64 |
"It must have been a survivor," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 68 |
"Then a wild sleen must have caught him," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 72 |
"So?" said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 76 |
"I see," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 83 |
Grunt looped the reins of my kaiila over the pommel of his saddle. |
10 |
| 16 | 85 |
I heard Grunt arm his bow, drawing back the stout cable, his foot in the bow stirrup, then slotting the quarrel into the guide. |
10 |
| 16 | 86 |
I shuddered, and quickly mounted the kaiila, taking back the reins from Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 91 |
I glanced to Grunt's bow. |
10 |
| 16 | 93 |
"What is it?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 97 |
"It will be, then, extremely dangerous," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 105 |
Grunt and I moved our kaiila forward. |
10 |
| 16 | 108 |
"Look!" cried Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 129 |
The paws of Grunt's beast thundered beside my own. |
10 |
| 16 | 130 |
"He is insane!" cried Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 154 |
"It is going to attack," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 158 |
Grunt did not discharge the weapon. |
10 |
| 16 | 160 |
The beast regarded Grunt, and then myself. |
10 |
| 16 | 163 |
"Contempt?" said Grunt, puzzled. |
10 |
| 16 | 166 |
"It is a beast," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 174 |
Then I returned to where Grunt, and the others, were waiting. |
10 |
| 16 | 175 |
"You should have let me kill it," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 177 |
"Why did you not have me fire?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 179 |
"Who are you, truly?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 271 |
"Death holds few terrors for those who have never known life," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 292 |
"Who are these people?" I asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 293 |
"They are Waniyanpi," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 296 |
I noted that none of the Waniyanpi lifted their eyes to assess the scantily clad loveliness of Grunt's chained properties. |
10 |
| 16 | 314 |
"The field is mostly cleared," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 317 |
"Are they still about?" asked Grunt, nervously. |
10 |
| 16 | 319 |
The object of Grunt's concern, potent as it was, did not occur to me at the time. |
10 |
| 16 | 333 |
"And you must understand," said Grunt, "the savages clear the field of their own dead". |
10 |
| 16 | 335 |
"It was a rout, and a massacre," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 340 |
"The settlers must have been wiped out, almost to a man," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 344 |
"Something in the neighborhood of six hundred soldiers then fell," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 347 |
"That is extremely interesting," I said to Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 351 |
"That they did not fall on the field does not mean that they did not fall," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 356 |
Grunt shrugged. |
10 |
| 16 | 417 |
"That would be the lad, the young man, who was with the column, the slave, one called Urt," I said to Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 418 |
Grunt shrugged. |
10 |
| 16 | 425 |
"It would be the Lady Mira, of Venna!" I said to Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 426 |
"Excellent! Excellent!" "Do you know her?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 430 |
"What is wrong?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 443 |
"No," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 447 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
Cuwignaka; Sleen, Yellow Knives and Kaiila "This is the lad of whom the Waniyanpi spoke," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 7 |
"Is this the fellow you thought it might be?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 13 |
"He is Dust Leg," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 17 |
"I have spoken Dust Leg to him, and Kaiila, and some Fleer," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 20 |
"We are white," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 22 |
"I do not think he will last much longer," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 30 |
"Do not consider interfering," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 33 |
"He is in the care of the Waniyanpi," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 37 |
"He is in the care of the Waniyanpi," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 39 |
"Do not interfere," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 43 |
"Do not," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 51 |
"Leave him," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 53 |
"It would have done nothing anyway," said Grunt, "but prolong his agony". |
10 |
| 18 | 54 |
"What is the significance of this lance," I asked, "with the cloth wound about it?" "It is a warrior's lance," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 58 |
"You are probably right," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 61 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 63 |
"We must be on our way," said Grunt, nervously. |
10 |
| 18 | 66 |
Then, too, this had seemed to disturb Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 69 |
"What are you doing!" said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 72 |
"Do not kill him," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 74 |
"Stop!" said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 76 |
"You understand nothing of the Barrens," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 79 |
"The Waniyanpi would have done so," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 81 |
"See the lance, the dress," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 83 |
"He did not support his comrades in arms," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 95 |
"No," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 102 |
"Stop," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 107 |
"Will you truly loose your shaft at me?" I asked Grunt, not turning about. |
10 |
| 18 | 110 |
"I do not wish to fire," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 146 |
"Now you have done it," said Grunt, glumly. |
10 |
| 18 | 148 |
"I?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 157 |
"Sleen, and Yellow Knives," said Grunt, "and Kaiila, too". |
10 |
| 18 | 162 |
The lance near him, too, that about which was wound the white dress, was, according to Grunt, a lance from that tribe. |
10 |
| 18 | 164 |
"I feared this," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 171 |
"That is camp smoke," said Grunt, "cooking for the evening meal". |
10 |
| 18 | 173 |
I now, for the first time, fully, understood Grunt's earlier noticed lack of ease. |
10 |
| 18 | 175 |
"They have superior advantages in numbers and arms," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 187 |
"The nearest are Sleen," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 195 |
"You are Kaiila," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 197 |
"We will expect you, then," said Grunt, "to intercede for us with the Kaiila". |
10 |
| 18 | 199 |
"Oh," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 202 |
"They may want only gifts," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 206 |
"Only generous gifts, hopefully," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 209 |
"What is your name?" asked Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 212 |
"Woman's Dress," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 215 |
Grunt spit disgustedly into the grass. |
10 |
| 18 | 217 |
"It means the same, only in Kaiila," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 231 |
"Smile," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 11 |
Grunt stood behind, his fists clenched. |
10 |
| 19 | 12 |
Near Grunt, on their stomachs, stripped, lying in a standard binding position, their ankles crossed and their wrists held crossed behind them, placed in a tandem line, head to feet, one after the other, were Corinne, Lois, Inez and Priscilla. |
10 |
| 19 | 68 |
"Sleen, tarsks, all of them," said Grunt, in Gorean, looking after the retreating Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 19 | 70 |
"The Sun Lances," said Grunt, "a warrior society of the Sleen". |
10 |
| 19 | 72 |
"The sign of the Urt Soldiers," said Grunt, "a society of the Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 19 | 75 |
"Two societies are represented among the Kaiila here," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 82 |
"That is a prestigious society," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 85 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 90 |
"Cheerfulness is indicated by the height of the heart, alongside the lance," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 93 |
Grunt had taught me much in the last few days. |
10 |
| 19 | 95 |
"Let them alone," said Grunt to me, quickly, putting his hand on my arm. |
10 |
| 19 | 98 |
"The Yellow-Kaiila Rider," said Grunt, "is Kahintokapa, One-Who-Walks-Before, of the Casmu, or Sand, Band". |
10 |
| 19 | 103 |
"He is not in the forefront, as you note," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 105 |
"That, I gather, is the case," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 109 |
"Yes," said Grunt, "when last I was in the land of the Kaiila, I met him in general council, with Black Clouds, Mahpiyasapa, civil chief of the Isbu". |
10 |
| 19 | 111 |
"I do not think so," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 119 |
"Yes," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 121 |
"No!" cried Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 124 |
Grunt struggled futilely in their grasp. |
10 |
| 19 | 127 |
Grunt's resolve to conciliate and pacify the savages seemed, in the heat of the moment, to have been abandoned. |
10 |
| 19 | 131 |
Grunt, however, had the good sense not to charge them. |
10 |
| 19 | 143 |
Grunt, at this point, in an excited medley of Dust Leg, Kaiila and Gorean, distraught and angry, entered again into remonstrance with the young warrior. |
10 |
| 19 | 144 |
"Kaiila," I said to Grunt. |
10 |
| 19 | 145 |
"Kaiila!" Grunt then shook his head, gathering his thoughts, and addressed himself, clearly and calmly, in Kaiila, to the youth. |
10 |
| 19 | 150 |
The Yellow-Kaiila Rider then said something to Grunt, and then pulled back his beast, retiring again to the background. |
10 |
| 19 | 156 |
Grunt and I watched as the young man's collar was tied on her throat. |
10 |
| 19 | 158 |
Grunt's fists were clenched, futilely. |
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| 19 | 166 |
"I do not like it," said Grunt. |
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| 19 | 210 |
He then turned his attention elsewhere, to the trade goods, mostly Grunt's, through which two of his warriors had been rummaging. |
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| 19 | 246 |
"Perhaps," said Grunt. |
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| 19 | 248 |
"She was meant for Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds," said Grunt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1 |
I Take my Leave from Grunt's Lodge "I am sorry," said Grunt. |
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| 17 | 127 |
What, too, if she were mistaken? Grunt, I thought, Grunt! He will know what to do! Too, he is a close friend of Mahpiyasapa. |
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| 54 | 181 |
This hypothesis is further confirmed by the fact that the Sleen, in trading with Grunt, Grunt making use of booties acquired from the Yellow Knives, offered him, in effect, the package containing both the Hobarts and their lovers. |
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| 54 | 291 |
Grunt, of course, received his five hides and Mahpiyasapa received the rare, red-haired woman he had, in effect, ordered from Grunt last year. |
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