| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 14 |
Above the shield was suspended a helmet, again reminiscent of a Greek helmet, perhaps of the Homeric period. |
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| 3 | 193 |
Toward the end of my training I always fought with shield and helmet. |
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| 4 | 92 |
I caught a glimpse of a black helmet through the port as a warrior, still clutching a crossbow and mounted on his tarn, hauled up on the one-strap and flew from the window. |
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| 4 | 144 |
At his feet lay a helmet, shield, spear, and sword. |
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| 4 | 156 |
About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head. |
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| 4 | 165 |
I removed my helmet, feeling proud as I heard the approval of the Council, both in voice and by Gorean applause, the quick, repeated striking of the left shoulder with the palm of the right hand. |
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| 5 | 167 |
As I passed him, I saw his eyes wide in the Y of his helmet, as, in that split second, he knew I could not miss. |
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| 6 | 9 |
Once a warrior without a helmet flew near, drunk, and challenged me for the perch, a wild tarnsman of low rank, spoiling for a fight. |
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| 7 | 220 |
The officer, a swaggering fellow whose helmet, though polished, bore the marks of combat, approached me, holding his sword to me, and seized my weapon from its scabbard and the girl's dagger from my belt. |
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| 8 | 96 |
I didn't want to be burdened with a helmet. |
10 |
| 9 | 92 |
In a minute the rider appeared in view—a fine, bearded warrior with a golden helmet and a tharlarion lance. |
10 |
| 9 | 151 |
His face was white beneath his helmet as he wildly attempted to parry my devastating attack. |
10 |
| 11 | 62 |
He wore the black helmet of a member of the Caste of Assassins. |
10 |
| 11 | 72 |
I could not forget the figure on the throne, he of the black helmet, and I thought perhaps that he had noticed me and had reacted. |
10 |
| 12 | 7 |
I cleared my head as best I could, and into my uncertain field of vision moved a dark object, which became the black helmet of a member of the Caste of Assassins. |
10 |
| 12 | 8 |
Slowly, with a stylized movement, the helmet was lifted, and I found myself staring up into a gray, lean, cruel face, a face that might have been made of metal. |
10 |
| 12 | 54 |
That I swear by the black helmet of my caste". |
10 |
| 12 | 98 |
My hair froze as I heard the shrill, angry cry of another tarn; he was an enormous creature as sable as the helmet of Pa-Kur, his wings beating like whips, bearing down relentlessly on my captor. |
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| 15 | 49 |
Soon, my heart beating quickly, my features concealed by the helmet I had taken from the warrior in the Voltai, I approached the compound of Mintar. |
10 |
| 15 | 72 |
At last the weary figure of Kazrak, helmet in hand, bent down to enter the tent. |
10 |
| 15 | 74 |
He came through the opening, dropped his helmet on the sleeping mat, and began to unsling his sword. |
10 |
| 15 | 112 |
It was now dark, and as I wore my helmet, there was no chance of the casual observer determining my identity. |
10 |
| 16 | 10 |
I dyed my hair black and acquired the helmet and gear of an Assassin. |
10 |
| 16 | 11 |
Across the left temple of the black helmet I fixed the golden slash of the messenger. |
10 |
| 16 | 93 |
With a heavy heart I watched Kazrak loop his sword belt over his shoulder and pick up his helmet. |
10 |
| 16 | 96 |
In a few minutes I gathered together my own gear and put on the heavy black helmet of the Assassin, left the tent, and turned my steps in the direction of the tents of Pa-Kur. |
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| 16 | 104 |
It would be suicide to attempt to cut my way in, but Pa-Kur was in the environs of Ar, directing the siege operations, and I might, with luck, pass myself off as his messenger; who would be bold enough to deny entrance to one whose helmet bore the golden slash of the courier? Without hesitation I cl... |
10 |
| 16 | 120 |
Here I was admitted without question, as though my helmet were sufficient guarantee in itself of my right to be there. |
10 |
| 16 | 147 |
Had she been injured or drugged? Did she not recognize me? I stood before the cage and lifted my helmet from my head. |
10 |
| 17 | 98 |
It was as a warrior of Gor that I arose and donned the black helmet and the garments of the Caste of Assassins. |
10 |
| 18 | 21 |
I wore the garb of the Caste of Assassins, and on the left temple of the black helmet was the golden slash of the messenger. |
10 |
| 18 | 109 |
My helmet protected me as my head was roughly dragged against the granite of the ceiling. |
10 |
| 18 | 185 |
I removed my helmet and set it on the steps. |
10 |
| 19 | 18 |
He lowered his helmet onto his head and loosened his shield and spear. |
10 |
| 19 | 58 |
I threw off my helmet, flinging it down. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 130 |
I unbuckled the helmet strap and gently removed the helmet. |
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| 2 | 20 |
I noticed, a few feet from me, lying on the grass, a helmet, shield and spear, and a bundle of folded leather. |
10 |
| 2 | 22 |
The helmet was bronze, worked in the Greek fashion, with a unitary opening somewhat in the shape of a Y. |
10 |
| 2 | 79 |
I was puzzled that the garb, like the helmet and shield, bore no insignia. |
10 |
| 2 | 81 |
I donned the helmet, and slung the shield and sword over my left shoulder. |
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| 4 | 4 |
Yet why was the road untended? Why had it not been traveled? Why had Zosk of the Caste of Carriers of Wood acted as he had? Why did my shield, my helmet, my accouterments not bear the proud sign of Ko-ro-ba? Once I shouted in pain. |
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| 4 | 63 |
I pulled off the helmet and wiped the cold water from my eyes. |
10 |
| 4 | 65 |
I replaced the helmet, it bright, and then dark, running with rain. |
10 |
| 5 | 123 |
I resheathed my sword, fastened my helmet over my shoulder, lifted my shield and spear and set out in the direction of the Sardar Mountains. |
10 |
| 6 | 202 |
The eyes of the officer were narrow in the Y-like opening of his helmet. |
10 |
| 7 | 19 |
He removed his helmet, and sat on his heels in the grass, the warrior behind him. |
10 |
| 9 | 106 |
I leaned my shield and spear against the wall, set the helmet beside the table, unslung the sword belt, laying the weapon across the table before me, and prepared to wait. |
10 |
| 10 | 15 |
He looked at me, his gray eyes frank in the Y-slot in his somber blue helmet of Tharna. |
10 |
| 11 | 27 |
The warrior at the foot of the throne removed his helmet. |
10 |
| 11 | 93 |
There was a whimpering and a scuffling from behind me, and, to my astonishment, one of the guardsman of the palace, the tiny silver mask blazed across the left temple of his helmet, flung Ost, the conspirator, yoked and sniveling, to the foot of the throne. |
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| 16 | 9 |
As I passed over the pillar, a warrior removed his helmet, and signaled for me to bring the tarn down. |
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| 20 | 32 |
I walked across the compound and picked up a helmet which lay half hidden in the litter. |
10 |
| 20 | 35 |
I had sought equipment, but I had found only a scabbard and a damaged helmet, and soon the tarnsmen of Tharna would arrive. |
10 |
| 21 | 17 |
I thrust my sword back in the scabbard and took off my helmet. |
10 |
| 21 | 256 |
"And the helmet!" said Targo. |
10 |
| 21 | 259 |
Almost as an afterthought, he plucked the helmet from my grasp. |
10 |
| 21 | 264 |
Strange and cruel are the ways of Gor, I thought, where six small green stones, weighing perhaps scarcely two ounces, and a damaged helmet, could purchase a human being. |
10 |
| 22 | 200 |
"I noted by the blue helmet," he said, "that you were of Tharna". |
10 |
| 23 | 131 |
One side of the helmet had been cracked open, perhaps by the blow of an ax. |
10 |
| 23 | 132 |
The helmet straps, the leather inside, and the blond hair of the soldier were soaked with his blood. |
10 |
| 23 | 137 |
The helmet had largely absorbed the blow but the blade of the striking instrument had creased the skull, accounting for the flow of blood. |
10 |
| 24 | 150 |
Though he wore the blue helmet of Tharna I knew that it was Thorn. |
10 |
| 24 | 156 |
"Tal, Warrior," said Thorn, removing his helmet. |
10 |
| 24 | 198 |
He removed his helmet. |
10 |
| 24 | 217 |
"I am sure!" He removed his helmet. |
10 |
| 24 | 220 |
Another warrior removed his helmet. |
10 |
| 24 | 222 |
Yet another man took from his head the blue helmet. |
10 |
| 24 | 263 |
On the steps before the throne there stood a warrior, fully armed, who held in his hands the blue helmet of his city. |
10 |
| 24 | 264 |
Thorn lowered his helmet slowly over his features. |
10 |
| 25 | 11 |
Seemingly almost impassive, the golden-robed figure on the throne watched the two warriors moving backward and forward before her, one clad in the blue helmet and gray tunic of Tharna, the other in the universal scarlet of the Gorean Caste of Warriors. |
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| 26 | 91 |
"And should I ever again be tempted to be proud or cruel," she said, a smile in her voice, "I shall merely remind myself that I was once sold for fifty silver tarn disks—and that a warrior once purchased me for only a scabbard and a helmet". |
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| 26 | 93 |
"And a helmet," she laughed. |
10 |
| 26 | 135 |
My weapons and my shield and helmet are at hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 9 |
I wore my helmet. |
10 |
| 4 | 60 |
I lifted the spear and my eyes which must have been terrible in the apertures of my helmet were fixed on the heart of the man who sat upon the throne. |
10 |
| 4 | 79 |
I removed my helmet and threw my shield to the floor. |
10 |
| 4 | 143 |
I picked up my helmet and tossed it toward the dais. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 62 |
I could see he carried a small, round, leather shield, glossy, black, lacquered; he wore a conical, fur-rimmed iron helmet, a net of colored chains depending from the helmet protecting his face, leaving only holes for the eyes. |
10 |
| 1 | 66 |
I hung my helmet over my left shoulder with the sheathed short sword; on my left arm I bore my shield; in my right hand I carried the Gorean war spear. |
10 |
| 2 | 65 |
I also noted, about his throat, now lowered, there was a soft leather wind scarf which might, when the helmet veil was lifted, be drawn over the mouth and nose, against the wind and dust of his ride. |
10 |
| 2 | 113 |
He was dressed much as the first man, except that no chain depended from his helmet, but his wind scarf was wrapped about his face. |
10 |
| 2 | 121 |
Beneath it, however, partially concealed by the cloth, was apparently a mask of chain, presumably not unlike that of the first rider, the chain depending from the helmet. |
10 |
| 2 | 159 |
He drew the scarf down, from about his face, and threw back, over his helmet, a mask of dependent chains, and laughed. |
10 |
| 2 | 164 |
Now the rider in front of me lifted the colored chains from his helmet, that I might see his face. |
10 |
| 4 | 14 |
The helmet which I had slung over my shoulder was gone. |
10 |
| 4 | 59 |
The Tuchuk removed his helmet and threw it to the grass. |
10 |
| 5 | 14 |
I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ... |
10 |
| 10 | 435 |
He wore a helmet and carried the Turian shield, which is oval. |
10 |
| 16 | 143 |
Beside him there rested, lying on the dais, spear, helmet and shield. |
10 |
| 21 | 359 |
The metal net that depended from his helmet had been thrown back and his eyes and face were fearful to behold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 3 |
Vancius, of the guards, turned the key in the helmet lock that fastened the helmet on my head. |
10 |
| 21 | 136 |
"Bring the other helmet!" One of the girls presented Ho-Tu with another helmet. |
10 |
| 22 | 597 |
He removed his helmet, the arena helmet which had for so many months concealed his features. |
10 |
| 1 | 51 |
He picked up his short sword in its scabbard, his helmet and his shield. |
10 |
| 2 | 57 |
Kuurus had placed his spear against the wall behind him, and he had taken from his left shoulder his shield, his helmet and the sheathed short sword, which blade he had placed at his right hand on the low table. |
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| 15 | 113 |
For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ... |
10 |
| 21 | 2 |
"Murmillius is apparently victorious again," said Vancius of the House of Cernus, lifting a blind helmet and fitting it over my head. |
10 |
| 21 | 67 |
Within the helmet I smiled. |
10 |
| 21 | 88 |
Inside the blind helmet I could see nothing. |
10 |
| 21 | 99 |
"Now, Vancius," I heard, "you are mine!" I tried to tear the steel helmet from my head with my manacled wrists. |
10 |
| 21 | 113 |
I heard the key move in the lock, and felt air as the helmet was lifted. |
10 |
| 21 | 139 |
"It is such a helmet," said Ho-Tu, "that your opponents, the finest swordsmen in the Taurentians, will wear". |
10 |
| 21 | 147 |
He now took up the discarded helmet of Vancius and drew it on. |
10 |
| 21 | 155 |
Within the helmet I saw him grin. |
10 |
| 21 | 158 |
"Do not yet lock the helmet," said the leader of the girls of the Street of Pots. |
10 |
| 21 | 161 |
She then lifted the helmet from my head and kissed me. |
10 |
| 21 | 174 |
He set the helmet over my head, and Phais locked it, putting the key in my belt. |
10 |
| 21 | 184 |
I did not look directly at the man, fearing that perhaps he might note the nature of the helmet I wore. |
10 |
| 21 | 304 |
The end man stumbled in an attempt to turn to me and I passed the side of the blade beneath the helmet and was behind them. |
10 |
| 21 | 318 |
I spun and saw, standing beside me, on my right, sword drawn, in the heavy helmet of the arena fighter, with the small round shield, the sheathed right arm and shoulder, Murmillius. |
10 |
| 21 | 329 |
"Cernus had planned that I, too, wear the blind helmet," said he. |
10 |
| 21 | 333 |
"I, too," said he, blade flashing, "was destined for the sport of the blind helmet. |
10 |
| 21 | 378 |
Then to my surprise I saw, with us, fighting, a common Warrior, not a Taurentian, one whose helmet was not laced with gold nor his shield bound with silver, nor his shoulders covered with the purple of the Ubar's guard. |
10 |
| 21 | 394 |
I gave Ho-Tu the key to the helmet I wore, which Phais had thrust in my belt. |
10 |
| 21 | 395 |
Ho-Tu removed the helmet. |
10 |
| 22 | 601 |
Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians, removed his purple cloak and his helmet, and walked down the steps from the box to the sand. |
10 |
| 22 | 603 |
The man then ascended to the box of the Ubar, where he set his helmet on the arm of the throne. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 |
I had the Gorean short sword in its scabbard, my shield and helmet, and, wrapped in leather, a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows. |
10 |
| 2 | 38 |
I wore no insignia on my garments, nor on my helmet or shield. |
10 |
| 3 | 39 |
Ho-Hak looked at the garb of the warrior, the helmet and shield, the sword with its scabbard, and the leather-wrapped bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, with its roll of sheaf and flight arrows. |
10 |
| 6 | 41 |
I heard then from another side of the island as well the terrifying cry, "Nets, nets!" Then, as we milled and ran, here and there among us were men of Port Kar, warriors, some with helmet and shield, sword and spear, others with club and knife, others with whips, some with capture loops, some with c... |
10 |
| 6 | 45 |
With him there stood a tall, bearded helmeted warrior of Port Kar, the golden slash of the officer across the temples of his helmet. |
10 |
| 6 | 153 |
He fell to the matting, his helmet rolling, lost in his own blood. |
10 |
| 7 | 32 |
He was conversing with the bearded officer, tall and with the golden slashes on the temples of his helmet. |
10 |
| 7 | 41 |
One of the slavers, a man with a conical helmet, called the animal to him. |
10 |
| 7 | 48 |
The last two aboard had been Henrak, with his white scarf, and the tall, bearded officer, he with the golden slashes on the temples of his helmet. |
10 |
| 8 | 5 |
I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc... |
10 |
| 8 | 30 |
He had removed his helmet in the noon heat of the delta. |
10 |
| 8 | 68 |
The officer, bearded and tall, with the two golden slashes on the temples of his helmet, followed by Henrak, still with the scarf bound about his body, ran to the rail. |
10 |
| 8 | 111 |
In this situation, then, it was natural, expecting an attack on either the first or the last barge, that the officer, he of the golden slashes on the temples of his helmet, would concentrate his men in the first and last barges. |
10 |
| 8 | 195 |
I then took the helmet from my things on the rence craft, that without insignia, with empty crest plate, and lifted it until it cleared the side of the barge. |
10 |
| 8 | 204 |
I did place over my features the curved helmet, with its Y-like opening, of the Gorean warrior. |
10 |
| 8 | 295 |
I wore the heavy Gorean helmet, concealing my features. |
10 |
| 8 | 297 |
The helmet bore no insignia. |
10 |
| 8 | 448 |
I removed my helmet. |
10 |
| 8 | 776 |
Already, Thurnock and Clitus, in loading the raft, had placed on it my helmet, and shield, and the great bow, with its arrows. |
10 |
| 10 | 49 |
He was the one who had come to the rence islands, who had had upon his helmet the two golden slashes. |
10 |
| 10 | 59 |
Though his helmet still bore the two golden slashes, it now bore as well a crest of sleen hair, permitted only to captains. |
10 |
| 10 | 326 |
I saw Lysias, with his helmet, with the two golden slashes, with its captain's crest of sleen hair, on the arm of his curule chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 8 |
Then I saw that Lysias, with the captain's crest of sleen hair on his helmet, had not stirred from his chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 12 |
He placed on his head his helmet. |
10 |
| 11 | 317 |
As Lysias spoke he walked back and forth before the table, his cloak swirling behind him, his helmet, with its captain's crest of sleen hair, in the crook of his arm. |
10 |
| 11 | 330 |
Lysias stood scowling before Samos, his helmet in the crook of his arm, his long cloak falling behind him. |
10 |
| 11 | 371 |
Then Nigel, with lofty disdain and measured tread, carrying his helmet, departed the chamber. |
10 |
| 11 | 386 |
Another man behind him held his helmet. |
10 |
| 11 | 613 |
I gathered up my cloak, and my helmet, it with the captain's crest of sleen hair, and left the chamber. |
10 |
| 13 | 165 |
He carried, in the crook of his left arm, a helmet, bearing that crest of sleen hair that marks a captain of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 13 | 166 |
The helmet, too, bore two golden slashes. |
10 |
| 18 | 197 |
"At him!" cried Lysias, helmeted, the helmet bearing the crest of sleen hair, marking it as that of a captain. |
10 |
| 18 | 204 |
Then the shadow had donned a helmet, and it was almost indistinguishable from the others. |
10 |
| 18 | 548 |
Samos thrust his blade into the Y-shaped opening of a helmet, parried a spear thrust from his body, and met the steel of another man. |
10 |
| 18 | 605 |
Protruding from his forehead, its pile stopped by the metal helmet in the back, was the long shaft of an arrow, one that could be only from the peasant bow. |
10 |
| 18 | 618 |
For an instant, white-faced, wild, I saw below Lysias, with his helmet with its crest of sleen hair, and beside him, with the string of pearls of the Vosk sorp about his forehead, the rencer Henrak, who had, long ago, betrayed the rencers for the gold of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 18 | 673 |
Then he fell at my feet, his helmet rolling to the side, blood on the sleen-hair crest, that marking it as that of a captain. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 674 |
I saw one of the tarnsmen, yet mounted on his tarn, remove his helmet and wipe his forehead, and then replace the helmet. |
10 |
| 13 | 579 |
I saw the sun, for a brief instant, flash from the helmet of its rider. |
10 |
| 13 | 604 |
I saw his eyes, through the apertures in his helmet. |
10 |
| 13 | 618 |
My cheek lay against the metal of his helmet. |
10 |
| 13 | 769 |
He had a large head, muchly concealed within the war helmet. |
10 |
| 13 | 774 |
His helmet, with its "Y"-like aperture, was gray. |
10 |
| 13 | 775 |
Neither his leather nor his helmet were distinguished by insignia. |
10 |
| 13 | 1038 |
He, with his two hands, removed his helmet. |
10 |
| 13 | 1065 |
He fastened his helmet to the side of the saddle and, from his saddle pack, withdrew a roll of leather. |
10 |
| 18 | 86 |
I saw, for one moment, the helmet of the warrior, and his hand extended downward. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 145 |
Rim had not chosen to wear a cap, or headgear of any kind, even a helmet, to conceal his shame. |
10 |
| 14 | 104 |
He lifted his yellow helmet from his head and wiped his brow. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 133 |
To be sure, carved in wood, high on the chair, was the helmet with crest of sleen fur, the mark of the captain, but I could not rise from the chair. |
10 |
| 5 | 167 |
The helmet of Thorgard himself, however, covered his neck and the sides of his face. |
10 |
| 5 | 185 |
I could see Thorgard of Scagnar, in the horned helmet, bearded, crying orders. |
10 |
| 6 | 495 |
Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel... |
10 |
| 8 | 253 |
Then we saw Thorgard of Scagnar, cloak swirling, in his horned helmet, descend the gangplank. |
10 |
| 10 | 75 |
Should she, lying on her back, look back and up, she sees, on the wall, the shield, the helmet, the spear and ax, the sword, in its sheath, of her master. |
10 |
| 10 | 78 |
At the Thing, to which each free man must come, unless he works his farm alone and cannot leave it, each man must present, for the inspection of his Jarl's officer, a helmet, shield and either sword or ax or spear, in good condition. |
10 |
| 15 | 82 |
They were led by a large man in swirling cape, and horned helmet, a bearded man. |
10 |
| 16 | 153 |
Near the head of the couch, on our left, as we looked upon the couch, was, on a stone platform, a large helmet, horned. |
10 |
| 17 | 17 |
I could see the outline of his helmet, the rim of the shield, the spear, dark against darkness. |
10 |
| 18 | 406 |
Two were being dressed for the spit; two, as yet, had been untouched; blood was being drained into a helmet from the neck of the fifth. |
10 |
| 18 | 407 |
"Ivar Forkbeard!" cried the man holding the helmet. |
10 |
| 18 | 408 |
He lifted the helmet to Ivar. |
10 |
| 18 | 409 |
Over the helmet Ivar doubled and held his fist, making the sign of Thor. |
10 |
| 18 | 410 |
Then he drank, and handed to me the helmet. |
10 |
| 18 | 411 |
I poured a drop from the helmet, to the reddish, muddied earth. |
10 |
| 18 | 418 |
Then, taking the helmet back, and throwing his head back, he drained it, blood running at the side of his mouth, trickling to the fur at the collar of his jacket. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 246 |
At his saddle hung a conical steel helmet, oddly fashioned with a rim of fur encircling it, bespeaking a tradition in armory whose origin did not seem likely to be the Tahari. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 15 |
Both wore tunics, red; each, at his left hip, had slung a blade and scabbard; each, at his belt, carried an ornamented knife; the man behind him who stood over me had slung over his back a shield, of layers of leather and brass, and carried a spear, beneath the blade of which was slung a helmet with... |
10 |
| 2 | 16 |
The man who stood over me had put his helmet and shield to one side; the helmets of both would cover the entire head and most of the face; the helmets were cut and opened in such a way as to suggest a "Y". |
10 |
| 2 | 256 |
His fellow, the other man, already accoutered, even to the helmet, watched the man approach. |
10 |
| 2 | 258 |
The bearded man did not yet don his helmet, but stood near it. |
10 |
| 2 | 272 |
He carried a spear over his left shoulder, balanced by his left hand; from the spear depended a shield, behind the left shoulder, and a helmet; about his right shoulder was slung a pouch, which I gathered must have contained supplies; a bota of liquid, water I assumed, was fastened at his belt, on t... |
10 |
| 2 | 291 |
The newcomer grinned and slipped the spear to the ground, loosening the helmet and shield. |
10 |
| 2 | 292 |
The bearded man placed his helmet over his head, it muchly concealing his features. |
10 |
| 2 | 293 |
Carrying the shield on his left arm, carrying the spear lightly in his right hand, the helmet hanging, too, by its straps, from his right hand, the newcomer approached casually. |
10 |
| 2 | 408 |
He donned his helmet. |
10 |
| 2 | 446 |
The stranger's blade, now, loosed from its sheath, under the opponent's helmet, lay at his throat. |
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| 2 | 484 |
As my cry of misery escaped my lips the thrust of the bearded man's spear had passed to the left of the stranger's helmet. |
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| 2 | 557 |
He removed his helmet. |
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| 2 | 668 |
He picked up his helmet. |
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| 2 | 670 |
He slung the shield and helmet over the butt of the spear, suspending them behind his left shoulder, his left arm over and resting on the shaft of the spear, steadying it in place. |
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| 2 | 710 |
He regarded me for a minute or two, and then, from his shoulder, unslung the shield, and helmet, from his spear. |
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| 2 | 715 |
Then, carrying the helmet by its straps in his left hand and the spear, lightly, in his right, he turned and began to stride again through the grass. |
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| 2 | 946 |
He donned his helmet. |
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| 3 | 55 |
His shield and spear, and helmet, he handed to another. |
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| 5 | 605 |
The captain's helmet was brought to him. |
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| 5 | 621 |
Then he donned the helmet, turned, and left the tent. |
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| 14 | 192 |
Their leader, without helmet, but in cloak and medallion, indicated that the music should continue. |
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| 17 | 22 |
"What girls here," asked one of the men, who seemed imposing, in helmet and cloak, with four fellows, of the man with the lamp, a short, fat fellow in the merchants' white and gold, "are from the Clouds of Telnus?" "None, of course, Noble Sir," said the merchant. |
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| 17 | 25 |
The taller man, in the helmet, looked down upon him, menacingly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 337 |
In this match, however, a yellow Spearman and a red Spearman were to be placed in a helmet, covered with a scarlet cloth. |
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| 3 | 338 |
Scormus of Ar and Centius of Cos would reach into the helmet and each draw forth one Spearman. |
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| 3 | 344 |
The chief officer of the caste of players, with representatives of both Cos and Ar, would be waiting for them on the stone stage of the amphitheater, with the helmet. |
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| 4 | 75 |
That of Ar was on the right, for Scormus had won yellow in the draw; it had been his hand which, under the scarlet cloth, had closed upon the tiny, wooden, yellow spearman in the helmet, the possession of which determined the first move and, with it, the choice of opening. |
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| 6 | 37 |
I waited, standing, my helmet over my back, my shield behind my left shoulder, leaning on my spear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 501 |
"I wore boots, and a skirt and a short-sleeved blouse," she said, "and a helmet, of lightweight material, to protect me from the sun. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 22 |
I then jerked loose the helmet strap and, by the crest, tore away the helmet, backward, almost breaking the fellow's neck. |
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| 13 | 251 |
A net of linked chain, unhooked, dangled beside his helmet. |
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| 21 | 231 |
Terence, I conjectured, would not be willing to ride against Ar unless he had removed the insignia from his helmet and shield. |
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| 26 | 17 |
She cried out with fear as I seized the fellow by the back of the neck, thrusting my hand up under the helmet, and hurled him head-first into a wall. |
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| 26 | 242 |
I drew on the helmet of Orgus. |
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| 26 | 245 |
"How fierce you look, in the helmet," she said, shrinking back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 104 |
In his left hand, held against his body, there was a helmet, crested with sleen hair. |
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| 28 | 166 |
Callisthenes put his helmet beside the table, and threw back his cloak. |
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| 28 | 225 |
A tall man, carrying an unmarked helmet, entered. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 291 |
He carried a helmet in the crook of his left arm. |
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| 5 | 3 |
In the crook of his left arm he carried a helmet, crested with sleen hair. |
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| 5 | 153 |
He handed his helmet to one of the men about him. |
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| 5 | 162 |
Miles put out his hand and his helmet was returned to him. |
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| 13 | 12 |
Down the aisle, now, approaching, his sword in his right hand, his helmet in the crook of his left arm, came a large, sturdy figure. |
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| 13 | 26 |
He handed his helmet to one of the men with him. |
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| 13 | 92 |
Drusus Rencius handed his helmet to a soldier and climbed then to the height of the throne. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 175 |
Sometimes a lady's champion, as I understand it, might have borne such a favor, fastened perhaps to a helmet or thrust in a gauntlet. |
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| 21 | 273 |
The caped figure removed his helmet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 298 |
I slung my helmet over my left shoulder. |
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| 19 | 260 |
One of the figures in the purple cloak and helmet stood out from the others near the side of the road and lifted his hand. |
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| 19 | 376 |
"You are a Taurentian, are you not?" I asked a fellow in a purple helmet. |
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| 26 | 1669 |
Some warriors enter battle with no more than their battle straps, and their shield, helmet, and weapons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 211 |
"Too, I could put ostraka in a helmet for her, with five granting her use. |
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| 27 | 28 |
When I had knelt before a post, my hands behind me, chained back about the post, a helmet beside me, set in the sand, like a vessel, into which ostraka would be placed, men had come to look upon me. |
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| 27 | 29 |
They had come to see if they thought it worth their while, in the spending of their evening, to wait about for a time, to see me dance, and then, perhaps, if they were pleased, to drop an ostrakon into the helmet. |
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| 27 | 45 |
Surely they had responded well to the dance, and the helmet had been filled with ostraka. |
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| 29 | 25 |
"Five for each!" "We will give you three for each," said the leader, putting his finger on his helmet, which was beside him, upturned, in the grass. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 64 |
I did not know, but I suspected that on the peg outside, by its straps, there might hang a helmet. |
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| 4 | 105 |
In the light of the small lamp there, near the exit, I determined that the helmet bore the insignia of the company of Artemidorus of Cos. |
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| 5 | 505 |
He carried his helmet and the intriguing pouch which had caught my attention earlier, that which he had carried with him even in the room of the baths. |
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| 6 | 615 |
He put it down, by the wall, with his helmet. |
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| 7 | 38 |
I removed the burly fellow's helmet and clothing from the peg in the outer room. |
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| 8 | 3 |
I now wore the blue of Cos, the uniform of one of the company of Artemidorus, and carried the blue helmet, these things having been removed from the peg in the outer room of the baths. |
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| 8 | 16 |
It seemed he might hesitate a moment, but he took in my appearance, the blue of Cos, the insignia of the mercenaries of Artemidorus, the helmet, my weapons, indeed, two swords. |
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| 15 | 125 |
Not taking my eyes from the warder, who now crouched down, against the outside wall, her eyes wide with terror over the veil, I seized him by the back of the neck, below the helmet, and lifted his head a few inches from the floor. |
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| 15 | 127 |
I then struck his head, back, in the helmet, on the stones. |
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| 16 | 506 |
I would have thought Aemilianus, commander of the citadel, would have come to the wall, but I did not see the helmet with the crest of sleen hair. |
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| 17 | 135 |
This occurred to me as he spun about, blood gushing from beneath his helmet, falling back down the steps. |
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| 17 | 449 |
His helmet was gone. |
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| 18 | 122 |
"On the wall!" We now saw a tall figure there, behind the ramparts, one whose helmet was surmounted by a crest of sleen hair. |
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| 18 | 129 |
One could see no reaction from the fellow with the helmet, with its crest of sleen hair. |
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| 18 | 194 |
Its passage upward through his head had been arrested by the back of his helmet. |
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| 19 | 147 |
A solitary figure, with no shield, but in helmet, and with sheathed sword, approached. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 461 |
The fellow called Borton hurled his helmet down in the place, marking it for himself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 597 |
In his left hand he cradled a helmet. |
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| 24 | 600 |
The opening in the helmet was something like a "Y" in shape. |
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| 24 | 601 |
There was blood on the helmet. |
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| 24 | 606 |
But I had not seen him until now in the garb of war, in the leather of the warrior, the sword at his shoulder, his helmet in hand. |
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| 31 | 66 |
Each, following this ritual, had then donned his helmet. |
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| 31 | 261 |
He then, with two hands, removed his helmet. |
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| 31 | 264 |
The leader of the black-tunicked men now handed his helmet to one of the others. |
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| 31 | 591 |
"Aargh!" cried one of the bowmen reeling back, his face a mass of blood within the helmet, the quarrel slashing into the wall to the right of the prisoner, gouging the wall, showering sparks and the other, too, was buffeted to the side by his fellow, his own quarrel spitting, too, to the side, to th... |
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| 31 | 594 |
It had split the helmet and, in the instant before it had split, the metal had been flattened, the skull crushed within. |
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| 31 | 664 |
The bowman who had been struck lay to one side, his head awry, too far back, still in the helmet, half torn from the body. |
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| 32 | 9 |
The lieutenant, carefully, crouching beside the fellow, spreading the metal, removed the helmet from the first victim of the peasant, he whose head had been struck by the stone on the chain. |
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| 32 | 10 |
The lieutenant laid the bloody helmet to one side. |
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| 37 | 850 |
Tensius first, who had refrained from attacking the sleen in the passage, but who had later separated the urts, removed his helmet and set aside his bow. |
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| 37 | 1064 |
But it might have been to his advantage had he paid closer attention to the figure in the water for suddenly the thing behind Abnik rose up in the water and, at the same time, we saw the quarrel of a bow emerge and the cable snapped forward and the quarrel took the lieutenant in the side of the thro... |
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| 37 | 1087 |
The officer of Treve, crouching down beside the body, carefully removed the helmet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 50 |
Occasionally there was a flash, as might have resulted from the sun's being suddenly reflected from a metal surface, perhaps a helmet, a spear point, a shield. |
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| 16 | 828 |
This belt, and the scabbard, and the crest on his helmet, were yellow. |
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| 16 | 1126 |
His sword belt, scabbard and helmet crest were black. |
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| 17 | 949 |
He wore the common Y-visaged helmet, and carried a lance. |
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| 27 | 1625 |
"You look well on a leash," he said, fiercely, "on a rope leash, leashed like the bitch you are!" She was conscious in the swirl of a helmet before him, but the tharlarion, forced forward, struck into the man and he fell away, reeling backward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 134 |
In the midst of the Pani before the hut was a figure who wore a large, masklike helmet, whose features could not be discerned. |
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| 18 | 139 |
In ancient times, on Earth, surely in the Homeric era, at least, it seems the defensive accouterments of the warrior often consisted of a helmet and shield, and the offensive accouterments of a sword and spear. |
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| 18 | 140 |
Body armor was rare, and doubtless expensive, and, it seems, many warriors, even by preference, went into battle nude, save for helmet and shield. |
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| 18 | 149 |
For example, in two major wars on Earth in the Twentieth Century, body armor was generally unknown, with the exception of the helmet. |
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| 18 | 190 |
He in the helmet mask turned toward me, and I saw that the mask, in design and color, was garish. |
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| 18 | 204 |
It did seem to me that the fellow in the helmet mask, as it was the only contrivance of its sort in view, might be important. |
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| 18 | 335 |
The figure in the hideous mask-helmet, with the bloodied sword, gave a sign and several Ashigaru fetched brands from the fallen, now-smoking pavilion, and hurled them to the dried branches with which the hut was roofed. |
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| 18 | 386 |
The figure in the hideous, horned, masklike helmet removed it, and faced me. |
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| 28 | 458 |
"This man, whose head is still muchly in his helmet, is Lykourgos, and this other, he with the crossbow, is Quintus, so one or the other, perhaps both, are of the Assassins". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 50 |
I went first to Jad, city of my birth, city of great Lurius, our Ubar, where I had been enlisted and trained, but swords were plentiful there, and I was scorned, for my blade, with helmet and gear, was gone, having been bartered, in part, together with my last tarsk, for passage, for life, from the ... |
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| 3 | 681 |
The fellow looked at the mercenary, in his helmet, with his shield, and a spear whose reddened blade had recently drunk the blood of a foe, and then backed away. |
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| 9 | 389 |
The figure was in battle gear, and it removed from its head a large, winged helmet. |
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| 22 | 181 |
And, as a man fell, he was at the left of a Pani warrior, with a large, horned, face-concealing helmet. |
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| 22 | 187 |
I lunged upward and caught this darkly clad figure in the throat, below the black helmet. |
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| 22 | 193 |
"Hold! Hold!" called a familiar voice and the wave held, and washed a bit forward, and I knew he in the great, horned helmet was Lord Nishida. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 18 |
Beside you is a helmet, containing many small scraps of paper. |
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| 34 | 46 |
What one is to do is to take a paper from the helmet which bears a letter or the meaningless mark, and transcribe it onto one of the squares on the large sheet. |
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| 34 | 49 |
When a large sheet is filled, the last letter or meaningless mark placed in the last square, one replaces the scraps of paper in the helmet, shuffles them about, jumbles them, and then, with a new large sheet, one begins again". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 75 |
Beneath the jacket I wore a shirt, woven from the wool of the bounding hurt, and beneath the helmet a drawn cap of the same material. |
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| 2 | 166 |
It could have been the camp of a patrol or kill squad, but it seemed a tiny fire, not that serving several men, contented, sure of themselves, with rice boiling in the helmet. |
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| 4 | 200 |
He was a large man, with a wide-brimmed, metal-winged helmet. |
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| 4 | 265 |
We will boil it in a helmet. |
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| 7 | 213 |
"Lots were cast into a helmet, and drawn," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 163 |
Each helmet, of leather and metal, crested with a mane of animal hair, with its y-shaped opening, muchly enclosed a face, a face that might, in a moment, I supposed, be fearsome, and menacing, that might, peering out, aware of risk and war, of danger, of the moment that might part life from death, s... |
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| 9 | 228 |
One figure, alone, high sandaled, clad in a black tunic, caped, a blade at his left hip, a black helmet cradled in his left arm, approached. |
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| 23 | 233 |
In his left arm, cradled, had been a black helmet. |
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| 61 | 838 |
If there are two hundred fellows, say, who wish to participate, though you are under no obligation to do so, we will put two hundred numbers on slips of paper in a helmet, and give each fellow a slip of paper with a number. |
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| 61 | 938 |
"Well," said the Lady Bina, imperiously, "bring paper, enough of it, and a marking stick, and a helmet!" "There will be no slip of paper for this one," said a quiet, menacing voice. |
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| 61 | 977 |
"Here is paper, and a marking stick, and here the helmet, as well. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 219 |
"Do you seek to bribe guardsmen of Port Kar?" asked a man in the boat, bearded, with a silver slash on his helmet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 61 |
The common Gorean helmet, with its narrow Y-shaped opening, conceals much of the face. |
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| 31 | 7 |
"One fellow removes his helmet, straps it to his side, and puts on some sort of wig," said Aktis. |
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| 32 | 62 |
Well before the signal arrow had begun its descent, Thurnock had set a fresh arrow to his string and no sooner had the missile begun its descent than one of the corsairs, one in a crested helmet, knelt in the road, perhaps unclear as to what had occurred, and then collapsed. |
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| 42 | 56 |
"It is victory," said Thrasymedes, breathing heavily, two hands grasping the long handle of a double-bladed ax, one blow of which might have split the common shield or cleaved a helmet to the chest, "victory, quick and terrible". |
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