| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 7 |
Its jaws carried four tusks, curved like scimitars. |
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| 6 | 82 |
I tensed myself for the sudden lateral chopping of those pincerlike jaws. |
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| 6 | 146 |
It snapped again, and I knelt, the jaws passing over me as I thrust upward with the sword, piercing the neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 80 |
I withdrew my arm from the weak, aimlessly snapping jaws. |
10 |
| 10 | 55 |
For some time the animal, moving backwards, its prey seized in its jaws, scrambled through the tunnel. |
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| 25 | 76 |
I clung to the neck to avoid the snapping jaws, those three rows of sharp, frenzied white lacerating teeth that sought to bury themselves in my flesh. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 170 |
Then, with a force that might have been that of clashing, golden glaciers, Misk's jaws tightened and turned and suddenly Sarm was thrown to his back beneath him and in the instant Sarm struck the floor Misk's jaws had slipped their grip to the thick tube about which hung the string of Tola's silveri... |
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| 3 | 8 |
Their upper canine fangs, like daggers mounted in their jaws, must have been at least a foot in length and extended well below their jaws in the manner of ancient saber-toothed tigers. |
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| 25 | 2 |
They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag... |
10 |
| 30 | 72 |
The exudate which forms on the mane hairs of the Golden Beetle, which had overcome me in the close confines of the tunnel, apparently has a most intense and, to a human mind, almost incomprehensibly compelling effect on the unusually sensitive antennae of Priest-Kings, luring them helplessly, almost... |
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| 32 | 332 |
"Good," said Parp, not flinching, "follow me!" Vika screamed and I cried out for him to stop, but Parp dashed forward and threw himself into the jaws of the startled larl and it lifted him in its jaws and began to shake him savagely, and I was at its feet and thrust my sword between its ribs, plungi... |
10 |
| 2 | 76 |
But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation ... |
10 |
| 2 | 124 |
I might kill one larl, but then I should almost certainly die under the jaws of its mate. |
10 |
| 3 | 5 |
Then at the length of their chains they crouched, snarling, regarding me balefully, occasionally lashing out with a clawed paw as if to sweep me into the range of their fearsome jaws. |
10 |
| 9 | 236 |
Its jaws opened and closed once. |
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| 11 | 19 |
His head turned, his laterally opening jaws opened and closed slowly, his shoulders rustled and the two antennae twitched once as though in irritation, and then idly they began to examine the roof of the dome. |
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| 11 | 32 |
This may become more comprehensible when it is mentioned that Priest-Kings, with their cleaning hooks, their jaws and their tongues, often groom one another as well as themselves. |
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| 11 | 33 |
Hunger, incidentally, is indicated by an acidic exudate which forms at the edges of the jaws giving them a certain moist appearance; thirst, interestingly enough, is indicated by a certain stiffness in the appendages, evident in their movements, and by a certain brownish tarnish that seems to infect... |
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| 17 | 4 |
In fevered sleep it seemed I saw Sarm's great head with its powerful, laterally moving jaws hovering over me, that I heard the cry of larls and saw the burning pupils of Parp's eyes and his reaching toward me with instruments and a golden net, and I found myself chained to the foot of Vika's couch a... |
10 |
| 19 | 19 |
I calculated the distance between myself and Sarm and wondered if I could reach him and kill him before he could bring his jaws into play, or those formidable blades on his forelegs. |
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| 23 | 4 |
She wore only brief rags, the remains of her once long and beautiful garment, torn and stained by what must have been her terrified flight through these dark, rocky tunnels, running, stumbling, screaming, futilely trying to escape the pursuing jaws of the implacable Golden Beetle. |
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| 23 | 17 |
She was unmoving and her eyes seemed fixed on me with all the horror of the last moment in which the jaws of the Golden Beetle must have closed upon her. |
10 |
| 23 | 28 |
She was of the human kind and whatever might have been her faults, she could not have deserved this grotesque, macabre fate, the jaws and cavern of the Golden Beetle. |
10 |
| 23 | 43 |
I might move it from the filth of the Golden Beetle's den but it, until the creature itself was slain, would never be safe from its despoiling jaws. |
10 |
| 24 | 4 |
They seemed clearly some aberrant mutation of its jaws. |
10 |
| 24 | 9 |
The creature's head was even now withdrawn beneath the shell but its eyes were clearly visible and of course the extensions of its jaws. |
10 |
| 24 | 16 |
It lifted its hooked, tubular jaws before its eyes as though to shield them from the light. |
10 |
| 24 | 21 |
I would have expected it to retreat with rapidity, but it made no move whatsoever other than to lift its tubular, pincerlike jaws to me. |
10 |
| 24 | 27 |
This withdrawal on its part, of course, would not in the least prevent it from using its great jaws to attack, but it would, I supposed, somewhat narrow the area of its sensory awareness. |
10 |
| 25 | 1 |
The Vivarium My hands seized the narrow, hollow, pincerlike jaws of the Golden Beetle and tried to force them from my body, but those relentless, hollow, chitinous hooks closed ever more tightly. |
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| 27 | 127 |
Now did Sarm, the First Born, approach the Mother and dip his jaws too to the golden bowl and stalk to the Mother and place his antennae gently on her head, and once again the old creature's antennae lifted but this time they seemed to retract. |
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| 27 | 128 |
Sarm placed his jaws to the mouth of the Mother but she did not lift her head to him. |
10 |
| 27 | 132 |
Once again Sarm thrust his jaws at the face of the Mother and once again she moved her head away from him. |
10 |
| 27 | 150 |
With a speed that I still find hard to comprehend Sarm rushed upon Misk and after a blurring moment I saw them on their posterior supporting appendages locked together rocking slowly back and forth, trying to bring those great golden, laterally chopping jaws into play. |
10 |
| 27 | 169 |
Their jaws locked together, the great heads twisting. |
10 |
| 27 | 172 |
Misk's jaws no longer closed but he stood as if undecided. |
10 |
| 27 | 177 |
Misk removed his jaws from the throat of Sarm and stepped back. |
10 |
| 27 | 190 |
But Sarm looked about himself to the golden rows of immobile Priest-Kings who watched him and then, satisfied, he opened those great, laterally moving jaws and advanced slowly on Misk. |
10 |
| 27 | 271 |
He regarded Sarm and his cohorts, and his great laterally chopping jaws opened and closed once. |
10 |
| 27 | 352 |
Her great jaws moved slowly apart and I saw the long, soft tongue that lay behind them. |
10 |
| 27 | 358 |
Gently I placed my hand between those huge ancient jaws and with my palm I touched her tongue that she might taste what adhered to it. |
10 |
| 29 | 132 |
The massive jaws opened and closed once. |
10 |
| 29 | 136 |
His abdomen now dragged on the ground but he pushed himself toward me, jaws snapping, by means of the two forward supporting appendages and the remains of his posterior appendages. |
10 |
| 31 | 209 |
Slowly the heavy body with its domed, fused wings pressed past me, its tiny, tuftlike antennae extending towards Sarm, its long, hollow pincerlike jaws opening. |
10 |
| 31 | 214 |
I watched the pincerlike jaws grip and puncture the thorax of the Priest-King. |
10 |
| 31 | 221 |
I could not shut out from my ears the grim sound of the sucking jaws of the Beetle. |
10 |
| 31 | 229 |
Then in the last spasmodic throb of death Sarm's body broke free of the jaws of the Golden Beetle and reared up once more to its glorious perhaps twenty feet of golden height. |
10 |
| 32 | 180 |
With a cry of joy I rushed upon the Beetle and Vika and Al-Ka and Ba-Ta and their women joined me and together, kicking and pushing, avoiding the tubular jaws, hurling rocks, we forced away the globe of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 32 | 333 |
The body of Parp, half torn apart, neck and limbs broken, fell from the jaws of the larl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 7 |
I thrust with the spear, trying to force back the snapping jaws of the screaming animal. |
10 |
| 8 | 339 |
By the time Kamchak had cuffed the girl from the animal's neck and struck the kaiila's snapping jaws from her twice-bitten leg and returned to the circle, he had used thirty-five beats. |
10 |
| 17 | 27 |
It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised f... |
10 |
| 19 | 136 |
Hereena struggled furiously, unable to speak, the young Tuchuk's hands separating her jaws. |
10 |
| 26 | 201 |
The tawny hair hanging from their jaws was flecked with the foam of their agitation. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 169 |
The great laterally opening and closing jaws, of course, had not moved. |
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| 11 | 73 |
As the girl knelt the guardsman pulled back her head and held her nose while the smith, with thumb and forefinger, forced open her jaws and, spilling it a bit on her chin and body, poured a half cup of gruel into her mouth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 85 |
He could not have been more enclosed had he found himself in the jaws of the long-bodied, nine-gilled marsh shark. |
10 |
| 6 | 97 |
We saw one rencer screaming in the water, caught in the jaws of a marsh tharlarion. |
10 |
| 6 | 181 |
I lifted him over my head and threw him screaming into the jaws of tharlarion churning the marsh at the edge of the island. |
10 |
| 8 | 588 |
A huge tharlarion, seeing the image on the water, half rose from the marsh, jaws clashing, and then dropped back into the water. |
10 |
| 12 | 43 |
I felt my leg then caught in the jaws of an urt, like triple bands of steel, set with needles, and was dragged beneath the surface. |
10 |
| 12 | 46 |
I let it free and as it snapped at me I thrust its jaws up and slipped behind it, my left arm locked about its broad, furred throat. |
10 |
| 17 | 187 |
Overhead the white clouds swept past, like white, leaping tabuk fleeing from the jaws of the black-maned larl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 56 |
One dipped its head under the surface and, moments later, the head emerged, dripping, the eyes blinking, a silverish fish struggling in the small, triangular-toothed jaws. |
10 |
| 8 | 679 |
The upper two fangs protruded at the side of the jaws when its mouth was closed. |
10 |
| 8 | 735 |
The monster was now sitting quietly beside the mountebank, licking its jaws, half-asleep, its eyes empty and vacant, blinking. |
10 |
| 10 | 32 |
I shuddered at its mouth, and fangs, the upper two protruding downwards at the sides of its jaws. |
10 |
| 10 | 34 |
The strike of those jaws could, with one wrenching twist, have torn away the shoulder of a man. |
10 |
| 10 | 110 |
It howled and lunged for me, jaws snapping, great black, furred arms grasping. |
10 |
| 10 | 515 |
I screamed, thrust toward the wide, fanged jaws of the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 516 |
He jerked me back, cruelly, on my knees, and I saw the jaws snapping at me, saw the curved teeth, the hideous tongue and eyes. |
10 |
| 10 | 517 |
Again and again the jaws snapped at me, once grazing my body, as I was held just outside the perimeter of the beast's chain. |
10 |
| 10 | 655 |
The beast seized it about the throat, its great jaws biting at the throat and vertebrae. |
10 |
| 10 | 657 |
Then, with a horrifying snap of bone and tearing of flesh and fur the jaws of the beast bit through the back of the sleen's neck. |
10 |
| 10 | 667 |
"Do not feed! Do not feed!" The beast raised its head, half buried in the sleen's body, meat hanging from its jaws. |
10 |
| 11 | 791 |
The sleen lifted its long, triangular jaws and hissed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 546 |
In such a sea literally, in spite of their beams and chains, they can break in two, snapping like the spines of tabuk in the jaws of frenzied larls. |
10 |
| 8 | 285 |
I fought the heavy, curved steel jaws, but they had locked shut. |
10 |
| 16 | 206 |
He had not even entitled her to utter a sound when the very jaws would be upon her. |
10 |
| 16 | 210 |
Then it thrust forth its head and took her entire body, from her waist to the small of her back, in its jaws, and lifted it in the lashings. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 223 |
Even large bones had been broken, snapped apparently in mighty jaws, the marrow sucked from them. |
10 |
| 7 | 305 |
"Beware of the jaws". |
10 |
| 7 | 329 |
"Have you killed a verr here, and a bosk?" "And, in the hall," it said, its lips drawing back from its jaws, "last night a man". |
10 |
| 13 | 187 |
"I feel," I said, "as though I were walking into the jaws of a larl". |
10 |
| 13 | 192 |
"Could we not," I suggested, "simply leap naked into a pit of venomous osts, or, perhaps, race madly across the plains of the Wagon Peoples during a lightning storm, our swords raised over our heads?" "The trick," said the Forkbeard, "is not simply to walk into the jaws of a larl. |
10 |
| 13 | 450 |
It threw back its head and opened its jaws, eyes blazing, and uttered the blood roar of the aroused Kur; then it bent over, regarding us, shoulders hunched, its claws leaping from its soft, furred sheaths; it then laid its ears back flat against the sides of its great head. |
10 |
| 14 | 21 |
I saw another man-at-arms hanging from the jaws of a Kur. |
10 |
| 14 | 29 |
Then the Kur's jaws closed. |
10 |
| 14 | 154 |
I saw Ivar Forkbeard, his sword gone, lost in the body of a nearby Kur, his knife in his hand, one hand thrusting away and upward the jaws of a Kur, repeatedly plunge his knife into the huge chest of the beast. |
10 |
| 15 | 111 |
We looked down on the carcass of a dead Kur, its jaws opened, its eyes staring at the moons. |
10 |
| 17 | 196 |
We saw her fleeing before them, trying to escape the swift, terrible jaws. |
10 |
| 18 | 389 |
A heavy block of wood had been thrust into its jaws and, with leather, bound there. |
10 |
| 18 | 650 |
"We shall break the teeth from their jaws," he said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 282 |
Madly did the great marine beast thrash; its jaws distended, trying to disgorge its victim, but it was held by the teeth; it tried to bite through the body in its jaws but the body was wedged well within the jaws and it could exert little leverage. |
10 |
| 3 | 1 |
I do not Participate in What Occurs in a Courtyard; I Recover a Silver Tarsk The war kaiila, its claws, however, sheathed, lunged at the other animal, its clawed back feet thrusting with an explosion of sand away from the ground, its fanged jaws, bound shut with leather, striking at the man astride ... |
10 |
| 3 | 2 |
He thrust the jaws away with the buckler, and, rearing in the stirrups of his high saddle, slashed at me with the leather-sheathed curved blade. |
10 |
| 3 | 19 |
"Cut the leather from the jaws of your kaiila," said he. |
10 |
| 3 | 22 |
I discarded the exercise sheath, and, with the bared blade, parted the leather that had bound the jaws of the kaiila. |
10 |
| 3 | 211 |
The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ... |
10 |
| 13 | 389 |
To know a Kur one must, perhaps, in the moonlight, face it with an ax, smell the musk of its murderous rage, see the eyes, the intelligence, the sinuous, hunched might of it, the blood black at its jaws, hear the blood cry, stand against its charge. |
10 |
| 16 | 151 |
I saw the man screaming in the jaws. |
10 |
| 16 | 159 |
Its gills, like those of the lelt, are below and at the sides of his jaws. |
10 |
| 17 | 54 |
The tiny gills, oddly beneath and at the sides of its jaws, closed and opened. |
10 |
| 17 | 162 |
It erupted from the water not a yard from the raft, hurtling upward, ten feet into the air, towering over the boards and T'Zshal, with a cry of rage, and joy, and I, too, screamed, thrust the lance deep into the body and it turned twisting in the air jaws teeth rows like hooks back bent triangular t... |
10 |
| 17 | 227 |
Almost at the edge of the raft the great body lifted in the water, turning to its side, jaws dropping open, lunging, falling, biting, onto the beams, thrashing. |
10 |
| 17 | 252 |
We saw the Old One emerge from the water, rising up, more than a dozen feet of that great, mighty body rearing upward, water streaming from it, in its jaws the body of T'Zshal. |
10 |
| 17 | 263 |
I thrust my hand toward the jaws. |
10 |
| 17 | 265 |
I could not reach into the jaws. |
10 |
| 17 | 269 |
I shook my head and released the fin, lunging for the jaws which were held open by T'Zshal's body. |
10 |
| 17 | 270 |
My arm entered the jaws. |
10 |
| 17 | 274 |
Again I reached my arm into the jaws, grasping. |
10 |
| 26 | 509 |
Her jaws must have ached. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1779 |
The animals strained against the leashed collars, trying to creep forward, their eyes blazing, saliva loose and dripping from their jaws, the wet fangs shining in the firelight. |
10 |
| 22 | 593 |
Weakly I tried to push away the jaws that held me, long and narrow, with many fine teeth. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 176 |
I thrust the lance point into the rushing, extended, double-fanged jaws and it penetrated through the side of the mouth, tearing, the animal's face a yard up the shaft. |
10 |
| 26 | 197 |
"Tie its jaws, and bind it," said Imnak. |
10 |
| 26 | 201 |
"There! There!" The sleen squirmed but I, forcing it to its side in the snow, lashed shut its jaws. |
10 |
| 26 | 264 |
With the point of the lance I fended back the jaws of the wounded sleen. |
10 |
| 26 | 331 |
He ripped the meat from the blade, making away with it, his jaws cut by the knife's edge. |
10 |
| 26 | 339 |
In a raging, vicious tangle of whirling fur and snapping jaws the two animals fought. |
10 |
| 27 | 4 |
The reversion frenzy of our sleen had passed quickly, even by the time the first shelter had been constructed, but we had left it tied, loosening its jaws only to feed it, because of the presence of the wild sleen in the vicinity. |
10 |
| 29 | 56 |
There was no trace of blood on the tongue, or in the mouth or jaws, or on the lips or fur of the head you brought to camp. |
10 |
| 31 | 100 |
"Cooked meat weakens the jaws," it said. |
10 |
| 34 | 115 |
Then it threw back its huge, shaggy head and, jaws widely distended, its long fangs white, exposed, gazed savagely upon the three calm moons of Gor. |
10 |
| 34 | 147 |
Then its jaws reached for my throat. |
10 |
| 34 | 181 |
It bit its lips and jaws in pain. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 6 |
The jaws distended, more than a yard in height, with the rows of backward-leaning fangs. |
10 |
| 19 | 135 |
Its tiny forked tongue slipped rapidly back and forth between the tiny jaws. |
10 |
| 24 | 172 |
We saw the body of one of the raiders, seized in the jaws of a tharlarion, pulled beneath the surface. |
10 |
| 24 | 190 |
I saw one body move as though leaping out of the water and then saw that it was caught in the jaws of two rearing tharlarion, who fought for it. |
10 |
| 24 | 260 |
There would then be a sudden lunge, and the snapping of the great jaws, the fighting for the prey. |
10 |
| 24 | 266 |
The fourth, jaws distended, more than a yard in width, attacked the side of the canoe. |
10 |
| 24 | 288 |
He hurled more fish to another tharlarion, which, with a snapping, popping noise, clamped shut its jaws on the salty provender. |
10 |
| 29 | 225 |
Should the tharlarion submerge the tiny fish often submerges with it, staying close to it, but away from its jaws. |
10 |
| 29 | 227 |
Similarly the tiny fish can thrive on the scraps from the ravaging jaws of the feeding tharlarion. |
10 |
| 32 | 722 |
In the pool, clambering over one another, lifting their jaws upward were crocodiles, beasts like river tharlarion but differently hided and plated". |
10 |
| 32 | 736 |
'Have mercy on me, Master! Mercy, Master, mercy! Take pity on a worthless slave!' The wrist leashes then tightened, to plunge me forward into the lifted, waiting, lunging jaws. |
10 |
| 32 | 820 |
"Remember," she said, "that I was forced to do this, that I not be hurled to the waiting jaws of crocodiles, beasts much like river tharlarion. |
10 |
| 44 | 93 |
It had pearly eyes and black, side-hinged jaws. |
10 |
| 44 | 114 |
The side-hinged jaws opened and shut. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 197 |
I saw their heads raised, their eyes blazing, their long, dark tongues, triangular, their distended jaws, the two rows of fangs. |
10 |
| 3 | 217 |
I heard jaws snap not more than a yard or so below my head. |
10 |
| 21 | 19 |
Snout straps, too, coiled, used to secure their jaws, also lay nearby. |
10 |
| 21 | 405 |
Its tongue darted in and out of its mouth, licking sand from about its jaws. |
10 |
| 21 | 412 |
I looped the snout strap about its jaws and tied them shut. |
10 |
| 21 | 422 |
The head, with its strapped-shut jaws, rotated on the neck, some two feet in length. |
10 |
| 26 | 293 |
I took two snout straps, those of the sort used to secure the jaws of newly hatched tharlarion. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 17 |
Such a beast could take a leg from a man at the thigh, with a single motion of those great jaws. |
10 |
| 19 | 54 |
They had not relinquished their hold on the flesh in their jaws when they had been forcibly struck away from the leg, back into the water. |
10 |
| 32 | 12 |
"Should this complaint be brought again to my attention," said Kliomenes to the girls, "I shall have you cast naked into the jaws of tharlarion". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 111 |
It had not been able to fasten its jaws on me. |
10 |
| 16 | 115 |
I felt the jaws snap and scratch against the shearing blade. |
10 |
| 16 | 144 |
I knew that the fastening of those jaws, in a fair bite, could gouge ounces of flesh from a man's body. |
10 |
| 16 | 166 |
My left ankle was clasped in the clenched jaws, with those teeth like nails. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1159 |
The blood of the second hunter is red about his jaws and on the matted fur of his chest. |
10 |
| 15 | 180 |
There was blood about the jaws, and lips, of the kaiila, from where, earlier, he had jerked back on the jaw rope. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 7 |
A heavy branch, about eighteen inches long and three inches thick, had been thrust between its jaws, and its jaws tied shut about it. |
10 |
| 27 | 21 |
The hair about the lower jaws of many of them was stiff with dried blood, from the control of the jaw ropes. |
10 |
| 32 | 98 |
The Kur then lowered her and put his great jaws half about her waist. |
10 |
| 35 | 230 |
It pressed its great jaws against my face and, from its storage stomach, brought up water into its oral cavity, from which, holding it there, and rationing it out, bit by bit, it gave me of drink. |
10 |
| 47 | 382 |
The massive jaws of Zarendargar, inch by inch, Sardak held in his arms, forced the head forward. |
10 |
| 47 | 383 |
Then with a sound of tearing muscle and skin, and crushed bone, Zarendargar's jaws closed. |
10 |
| 47 | 384 |
Men watched, horrified, as Zarendargar, holding it by the neck, it half bitten through, in his jaws, shook the body, fiercely. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 347 |
I would not have wanted to see them leaping towards me, eyes blazing, fangs bared, jaws sopped with salivation, to seize me. |
10 |
| 30 | 413 |
Their jaws glistened with salivation. |
10 |
| 33 | 539 |
I heard the snapping of its jaws. |
10 |
| 36 | 957 |
Had I not seen through your subterfuges you might have been flinging yourself to the jaws of sleen, or guaranteeing the signing of your papers for the mines". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 192 |
It then tore the other sleen from its arm and thrust its jaws open and thrust its great clawed paw deep into the creature's throat, down through its throat, forcing its way into its body, clawing and grasping and tore forth, up through the creature's own mouth, part of its lungs. |
10 |
| 14 | 407 |
Its jaws came within a foot of me, and then it fell between the startled urts, it spinning about then, confused. |
10 |
| 14 | 429 |
An urt was clutched lifeless in its jaws. |
10 |
| 20 | 45 |
Interestingly, though its jaws were red, it did not seem to have been feeding. |
10 |
| 20 | 92 |
It lifted its eyes, regarding me, its jaws bloody. |
10 |
| 20 | 137 |
Its long, dark tongue moved about its jaws, licking its lips. |
10 |
| 20 | 398 |
An arm hung from its jaws. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 83 |
It is something like informing the hunting sleen, eager, hot from the chase, his jaws red with blood, that he should now relinquish his kill. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 681 |
To my terror, then, pushing over my body, to thrust its great jaws and head, so large I could scarcely have put my arms about them, into the hands and arms of my master, was an incredible beast. |
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| 10 | 695 |
Borko brought part of him back to me, in his jaws". |
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| 10 | 710 |
I was frightened with those huge jaws, the two rings of fangs, the long, dark tongue, over me. |
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| 24 | 481 |
"It is frightening," she said, "to consider the force, the power, of such jaws, which could do such things". |
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| 27 | 245 |
A drop of liquid fell to my face, salivation from its jaws. |
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| 29 | 322 |
Its mouth, jaws, now, were red with blood. |
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| 29 | 791 |
Armed only with their own teeth and jaws they regarded themselves as superior to it. |
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| 29 | 877 |
Borko sprang for its throat, seized it in his jaws, and clung to that great body, his back four legs tearing and ripping at its belly. |
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| 29 | 961 |
But he did not seem eager to again enter the range of the sleen's jaws. |
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| 29 | 1000 |
He had been probably protected by the width of his body, affording little place for the closing of jaws, and the sturdiness of his ribs. |
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| 33 | 295 |
Almost at the same instant I heard a sudden, bestial, deafening, screaming roar behind me and the movement of a huge body and my master was leaping to his feet lunging over the fire thrusting his sword into the darkness behind me over my head and I twisted and saw two great, hairy arms outstretched ... |
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| 19 | 93 |
Indeed, I was sure that many of them, with bodies, and parts of bodies, in their jaws, had sped away, toward the piers, or had gone out farther in the harbor, beyond them, or had even returned to the river, perhaps sometimes followed by several of their brethren. |
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| 19 | 238 |
I think it likely he would then have been seized in the jaws of some fish or other, perhaps one of the visitors from the river, drawn eastward by the traces of blood in the water. |
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| 19 | 38 |
I had also seen then, as I had come closer, the small head of the creature, small considering the size of its body, and the span of its wings, lift up, above the rence, with its long narrow, toothed jaws, like a long snout or bill, with that long, narrow extension of skin and bone in the back, balan... |
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| 10 | 59 |
"Torches!" The opening of its long, narrow jaws may have been as much as five foot Gorean. |
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| 10 | 64 |
A fellow rushed toward it, thrusting a lit torch into the jaws. |
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| 14 | 254 |
More injuries, I think, were suffered as the result of their thrashing about, the swift movements of those gigantic tails, the strokes of which could break legs, and hurl a fellow yards away, than from the laceration of numerous, white, curved, hooklike teeth, than from the pounding closings of thos... |
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| 19 | 94 |
Too, did she not understand that she had been put out for tharlarion and, considering her elevation from the sand, perhaps for just such a creature? Too, if she were not taken from the perch, so to speak, would she not, in time, perish there of thirst, hunger or exposure? Should she not eagerly welc... |
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| 19 | 108 |
The other stood its ground, opening its own jaws, hissing. |
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| 19 | 161 |
I saw the jaws of the ul, the winged tharlarion, open. |
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| 19 | 199 |
From what I had seen it would presumably try to pick me up in its jaws. |
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| 19 | 203 |
Rather it stalked to me and suddenly darted its jaws forward, its head turned. |
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| 19 | 204 |
I slashed at the jaws with the blade, and slivers of bone, and teeth, sprayed from my attack. |
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| 19 | 224 |
However, it began to advance, quickly, its jaws open. |
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| 19 | 751 |
The ul had reached its head down, its jaws gaping, when it saw me approaching, some yards away. |
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| 19 | 752 |
It then lifted its head, closing its jaws. |
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| 19 | 768 |
The creature tried to bite at me, to pull me from its wing, and I kicked at it, and thrust at its jaws, pushing them up, away. |
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| 19 | 774 |
Then the jaws opened widely, perhaps four or five feet in width, and reached for me. |
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| 19 | 776 |
I thrust the blade out, between the jaws. |
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| 19 | 777 |
The jaws snapped downward and the point of the sword emerged through the upper jaw and the lower jaw was tight under the hilt of the sword. |
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| 19 | 779 |
The creature, turning and spinning, hissing, tried to close its jaws. |
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| 19 | 783 |
It then, spinning about, climbing, tried to open its jaws. |
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| 19 | 784 |
I tried to turn the blade, to keep the jaws pinned shut. |
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| 19 | 817 |
I then, carefully, freed my sword from its jaws. |
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| 29 | 203 |
No sooner was the wood within its jaws than they snapped shut. |
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| 47 | 225 |
"On the other hand, it is not my idea of bravery to leap off precipices or fling oneself into the jaws of larls". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 188 |
The leader of the strangers struck wildly down at the first animal, slashing its jaw and the side of its face, turned to orient its jaws to its prey, cutting into it, with his blade, and the force of its charge struck him back and the beast, shoulders hunched, was on him, he on his back, screaming, ... |
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| 13 | 308 |
Then it left the water, rushing upward from it, erupting from it, and I saw its full body, shedding water, its neck extended, its jaws open, its forepaws down against its body, streamlining its shape, its hind legs extended, it leaping upward, then yards above the surface of the torn, dark pool, and... |
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| 13 | 324 |
Its jaws had been no more than inches from the feet of the free woman. |
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| 13 | 347 |
The slightest tug on the cord would spring the latch, dropping the floor of the cage, which was its gate, plunging her helplessly to the cold, dark waters below, to the jaws of the waiting beasts. |
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| 13 | 908 |
He was then like a lion in feeding, blood running from its jaws. |
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| 37 | 64 |
Saliva fell from the jaws of the larger animal. |
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| 37 | 131 |
They began to scratch at it, and seized parts of it in their jaws, ripping it. |
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| 37 | 190 |
The larger beast lifted its head from the leader of the strangers, its jaws flooded with blood, part of the body in its grip, it bleeding itself from the stroke of the leader's blade. |
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| 37 | 195 |
Then, suddenly, the larger animal, snarling, turning about with blurring speed, caught another man in its jaws, shaking him. |
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| 37 | 409 |
His hands and forearms were covered with blood, but much of it, I am sure, was from the fur and jaws of the urts. |
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| 37 | 863 |
One of the urts, an arm in its jaws, was swimming back toward the nest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 136 |
"If you will not use me," she said, angrily, "sell me to one who will! Sell me to one who is a man!" He turned then angrily, suddenly, to the slave but, at the same moment, there was a great roar splitting the silence of the camp and a dark, monstrous, violent shape leapt into the camp and Fel Doron... |
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| 22 | 613 |
If she had struck against it her leg might have been ripped from her with one savage snap of the jaws. |
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| 27 | 1028 |
The sleen lifted their heads from their feeding, looked upward, and then, their snouts bloody, thrust their jaws again into the mass of blood, cloth and meat under their paws, between the riders and the back of the wagon. |
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| 27 | 1089 |
The sleen were lying near the body of the translator, their jaws bloody, dried blood even on the fur of their throats. |
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| 27 | 2982 |
They are ruthless! They will stop at nothing! I can arrange an alliance with them! Their headquarters is in the city of—" A moment before this instant the camp was unexpectedly shattered by a great roar of fury, of howling, unbridled ferocity, and at the same time the great mound of beasts, h... |
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| 27 | 3002 |
One of the beasts looked up from a fallen body flesh dripping from its bloody jaws. |
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| 27 | 3019 |
Vengefully Kardok pointed to Selius Arconious and the free beast lunged forward, jaws slavering. |
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| 27 | 3020 |
It seized Selius Arconious by the shoulders and opened its great, cavernous, fanged jaws, and bent toward his throat, and the slave screamed, and suddenly, almost at her ear, almost like being enwrapped within a clap of thunder and a stroke of lightning, there was a loud report, the blast, of a pist... |
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| 27 | 3032 |
Kardok, reaching bloodied arms into the midst of the frenzied, intent gray sleen, drew them, first one, and then the other, twisting, snarling, by the neck, from the body of his fellow, one with its jaws still filled with fur and meat, and bit each, in turn, through the back of the neck. |
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| 28 | 148 |
Kardok, snarling, blood now bursting with air, hissing like foam, spreading about its jaws and fangs, looked about himself, from face to face. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 497 |
Did it truly think the struggle was for the weapon? Did it not understand that the struggle was for who should live and who should die? Suddenly Grendel released the weapon and thrust out his massive clawed paw and the fingers of his right paw thrust through the left eye of the Kur and the rest of t... |
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| 19 | 116 |
There was a flash of metal plating and joints as the device leapt past Cabot, pouncing on the startled, suddenly rearing sleen, its weight striking against it, then half crushing it, and then the machine, rising up slowly, pinned the sleen in place with its left forefoot and the right forefoot of th... |
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| 41 | 98 |
Cabot set his hands between the teeth of the trap and, sweating, straining, eased them a little open, and his hands were covered with blood and torn hair, and the sleen watched him, and Cabot, grunted, fighting for breath, and opened the teeth a bit more, and a little more, and then the sleen, with ... |
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| 2 | 50 |
Their jaws were large and powerful. |
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| 2 | 78 |
The jaws of the beast opened, revealing fangs. |
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| 2 | 386 |
The massive, fanged jaws before him seemed twisted into some contorted configuration. |
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| 5 | 268 |
That movement of the features which Cabot was learning was a Kur smile, appeared about his jaws. |
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| 8 | 33 |
Cabot conjectured the jaws could shake and cut a normal river tharlarion in two, that the tail, with a swift blow, might shatter stone or fell trees. |
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| 10 | 265 |
How frightening it must have been for her, thought Cabot, to put herself within the grasp of those mighty appendages, within reach of those massive jaws. |
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| 10 | 275 |
About the jaws of Pyrrhus Cabot noted the grimace he had come to recognize as a Kur smile. |
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| 17 | 17 |
Two Kurii were struck by these objects, one squarely in the chest, and he staggered back and lost his footing, and fell against the wall, and then, scratching at the wall, and turning, he regained his feet, and, in fury, raised his arms and sought to roar, but the sound was odd, half choked, air and... |
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| 18 | 121 |
And one need not, one supposes, remark further on the greater strength of the Kur, nor the massiveness of its jaws, the penetrability of its fangs, the capacity of its claws, particularly on the hind feet, to disembowel prey, and so on. |
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| 18 | 267 |
The other sleen was at Cabot's feet, snapping, when Cabot thrust the homely spear through its spread jaws, the point tearing through the left cheek of the beast. |
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| 19 | 15 |
The other sleen had its back to the escarpment, snarling, and then it sprang at one of the Kurii, clinging with its jaws to its arm. |
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| 19 | 29 |
The sleen, the Kur arm dangling from its jaws, lifted its head and regarded the strange new arrival. |
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| 19 | 83 |
The larl, irritated, puzzled, put its muzzle closer to the machine, trying to fathom its nature, and the mouth of the machine, very gently, opened, and took the throat of the larl in its metal jaws. |
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| 19 | 84 |
The larl did not understand this, for it sensed nothing alive, but then its eyes widened, and it tried to pull its neck free, but the jaws very gently, continued to close, as might have an electronic vice. |
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| 19 | 117 |
The machine then, as Cabot backed away, went to the bodies of each of the hunters, and, taking the head of each in the massive metal jaws, bit it away. |
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| 19 | 124 |
The machine then took up the huge body of the Kur in its jaws, held it dangling for a moment, while looking about itself, and then it shook it as though it might have been no more than a handful of rags, shook it viciously, and then flung it away, until it struck against trees, and fell to their fee... |
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| 19 | 125 |
The machine then turned to the Kurii about, and sat back on its metal haunches, catlike, blood on the steel of its jaws, its head up. |
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| 21 | 89 |
One reached it first, and thrust his muzzle into it, tearing it, ripping out gluts of meat, and gorging them, but then the other sleen was upon it, and the two animals rolled in the sand, in a frenzy of snapping, and clawing, and in moments the jaws of each were bloody, and gouts of fur had been tor... |
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| 21 | 136 |
The victor, encouraged, licensed, so to speak, widened her jaws, and thrust forward. |
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| 21 | 661 |
The gigantic machine then, as though in fury, closed its jaws about the waist of Lord Pyrrhus and lifted him from the sand and shook him, violently. |
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| 29 | 312 |
"See the jaws. |
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| 33 | 173 |
Cabot thrust away large jaws reaching for him, and then he, dragging his slave with him, clambered back onto the raft. |
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| 33 | 208 |
Again one of the predator's heads extended over the raft, jaws opened, reaching for Grendel. |
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| 33 | 209 |
He struck at it, and the ax was seized in the snapping jaws, and, with a wrench of the great head, flung away, into the water. |
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| 33 | 261 |
Cabot turned and, with the stick, jabbed at the second large head whose jaws, turned sideways, were reaching for him. |
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| 33 | 285 |
There was the massive body, the huge, paddlelike appendages, a powerful, elongated, snakelike neck surmounted with a massive head, with mighty fanged jaws. |
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| 33 | 290 |
The jaws of the machine, and its rows of arrayed knifelike teeth, were scarlet, bearing traces of the work it had performed below the surface. |
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| 34 | 274 |
"Not really," said Lord Grendel, wiping his jaws with a massive, haired forearm, "but they are about. |
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| 43 | 363 |
Cabot noted that his friend, Lord Grendel, was uneasy, and moist about the jaws. |
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| 44 | 155 |
Perhaps he was terrified into immobility? A grimace, a Kur smile, shown about her jaws. |
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| 44 | 160 |
Fur crackled outward, increasing his already massive stature; his large, pointed ears were flattened back like smooth knives against the sides of his head; his enormous jaws were open, and reaching forward; his fangs were spread in width better than a foot; his eyes were as kindled furnaces. |
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| 44 | 172 |
Grendel's jaws then closed a little more, and Cabot fully expected to see pounding, driven, surging blood, released, suddenly gush and spatter forth, drenching Lord Grendel and the grass for yards about, spurting from the opened throat of a half-severed head. |
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| 47 | 139 |
Cabot saw loops of gut loose amongst the beating wings, and Statius' foe, striking Statius' jaws away from his shoulder with a mighty blow, turned about, erratically, and tried to strike away. |
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| 47 | 140 |
Cabot saw fur and meat in Statius' jaws. |
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| 63 | 130 |
Lord Grendel's jaws were foaming with blood. |
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| 63 | 142 |
The leader of the cattle humans, blood about his teeth, where he had bitten his prey, was seized in the mighty paws of Lord Grendel, lifted high in the air, and then flung to the earth, this breaking the back and neck of the leader of the cattle humans, who was then, as Lord Grendel had not loosened... |
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| 63 | 147 |
Lord Grendel crouched down, jaws red with blood. |
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| 68 | 26 |
They clutched it, hot and burning, and crammed it into their jaws. |
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| 70 | 136 |
Blood was about his jaws where he had bitten himself in his pain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 14 |
It is a world that contains not only the beauty of grass and the blossoming of the talendar but the fangs of the ost, the coils of the hith, the jaws of the larl, the frenzies of flocking, feeding jards, the sudden, wrenching, twisting strike of the nine-gilled shark, the claws of the sleen, the bea... |
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| 18 | 35 |
He who would throw himself into the jaws of a larl may not be a coward, but he is surely a fool. |
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| 41 | 41 |
See the width of the head, the jaws". |
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| 41 | 51 |
The razorlike teeth aligned in two rows within the narrow, triangular jaws, too, some eighteen inches in length, can seize, shake, and tear the head from many varieties of shark. |
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| 42 | 5 |
My body began to numb in the water, and my legs and arms began to lose feeling and stiffen, and my arm slipped from the neck of the beast and I was separated from it, surely for yards, and then I felt it beneath me, rising up, and my body was gripped, firmly, gently, in those wide jaws, and lifted u... |
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| 42 | 8 |
My head above the water, the jaws released me, and I clung to the fur at its neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 368 |
I had the sense that those massive jaws might have been capable of biting through a beam, and could easily, like tearing paper, snap away a man's head, or woman's. |
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| 9 | 389 |
There was moisture about its jaws and the fangs were wet with saliva. |
10 |
| 10 | 676 |
A bit of lip pulled back about a fang on the beast's jaws. |
10 |
| 10 | 699 |
I felt massive jaws close about my head. |
10 |
| 10 | 702 |
The jaws seemed to tremble. |
10 |
| 10 | 708 |
Then the jaws were removed from my head. |
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| 17 | 49 |
In the race they commonly have their jaws bound shut. |
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| 21 | 148 |
The tharlarion, its jaws unbound, moved to the side, and bit at the tarsk as it lunged past. |
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| 21 | 150 |
The tarsk spun about to charge, again, but the tharlarion, apparently trained, interposed its body between the tarsk and the rider, its head down, jaws gaping. |
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| 22 | 122 |
We will break the tusks loose from the jaws. |
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| 45 | 212 |
Each took the hand of the other in his mouth, and I shuddered, as those massive, fanged jaws closed about the other's hand, but not even the skin was broken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 571 |
There was saliva from its jaws on my thigh, and under the softness of its jaw's fur, the jaws rubbing against me, I felt the curved knives of fangs. |
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| 14 | 202 |
The jaws of more than one lari, returning to its housing in the morning, had been stained, dark with matted, dried blood. |
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| 16 | 204 |
I have not felt myself as owned, as overcome and helpless, as the tabuk doe in the jaws of the lari, the young she-verr clasped in the talons of the tarn. |
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| 21 | 367 |
The long tongues moved about their jaws. |
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| 27 | 5 |
I did not wish to die under the jaws of sleen, nor writhe bound amongst leech plants, while a thousand eager thorns drew the blood from my body. |
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| 42 | 126 |
And now it was that day, tomorrow, so to speak, the morning of the day following the capture of the Panther Women, that following my menacing at the jaws of a large sleen, and its fortunate, if somewhat belated, restraint by the sleen master. |
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| 48 | 69 |
The jaws were half open. |
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| 48 | 120 |
Then I saw the larger beast rear up from that loose, spattering tangle of fur and blood, its jaws on the throat of the smaller beast, and, itself rent, torn, and bloody, its flanks and shoulders red with the furrows of claw marks, it lifted the smaller body half from the ground, and shook it, and sh... |
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| 48 | 121 |
It then lay down, its scarlet-flowing jaws still clenched on the throat of the smaller beast, whose body now lay across its paws. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 224 |
"The urt gains little by casting himself into the jaws of the larl. |
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| 11 | 249 |
Might not the rice wither and die in that darkness? Who knows the temper and appetite of the iron dragon? How long it has been since it has last flown! What if it is angry? What if it is hungry? What if it is insatiable? Might it not alight upon the palaces of Yamada as well as upon the holding of T... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 54 |
At that point the creature, looking up, eyes flashing, opened its jaws, angrily. |
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| 33 | 564 |
The jaws opened, and I glimpsed fangs. |
10 |
| 33 | 690 |
I saw the long, dark tongue dart forth and then back between those mighty jaws. |
10 |
| 33 | 701 |
In its jaws a head might be torn from a body. |
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| 41 | 31 |
"If the eyes blaze, the breathing quickens, the paws tremble, the claws extrude, the ears lie back against the head, the jaws open, and the fangs are moist, do not dally, but withdraw, politely, and respectfully, with all expedition". |
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| 42 | 63 |
A swift wrenching of those mighty jaws, I was sure, could tear an arm from my body. |
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| 50 | 206 |
The eyes of Lyris blazed, and her jaws parted, revealing fangs, and she snarled. |
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| 50 | 254 |
Kurik laughed, and I thought that there was movement about the jaws of Lord Grendel himself, what I took to be an indication of mirth. |
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| 53 | 126 |
The leash was of chain, of course, that Lyris, with one bite, with one snap of those jaws, might not part it. |
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| 60 | 31 |
One Kur regarded us, a trembling, bleeding verr hanging from its jaws. |
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| 61 | 151 |
"I command!" "No," came from Lord Grendel's translator, and I saw that this must have picked up, and translated, Kur from the box, for Lucilius was on his feet, an ax brandished, eyes blazing, jaws slavering. |
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| 61 | 586 |
I saw a flush of saliva at the right side of his jaws. |
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| 61 | 633 |
"Kill her!" cried Decius Albus, and one of the Kurii at the foot of the stands lunged toward the small figure, who brought up her parasol between them, and the Kur crashed into it, shook his head, seized it in one hand, or paw, and tore part of the silk away, and then crouched down, jaws opened, fan... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 551 |
At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q... |
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| 11 | 191 |
Who is courageous enough to swim the canals, or dive to the marshes, and perhaps into the jaws of tharlarion? We must be able to give an accounting of our actions and locations to any free person who might inquire. |
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| 33 | 128 |
There were wide metal jaws which briefly opened and closed. |
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| 33 | 129 |
The grip of such jaws could tear loose the side from a canal boat, or bite a rence craft in two. |
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| 37 | 97 |
I had no desire to be cast from the height of the delta wall into the jaws of waiting, clustered, thrashing tharlarion, churning about, anticipating fighting for a part of the wall's offering. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 45 |
"You will sail into the jaws of a seven-headed monster, the seven ships of the corsair fleet". |
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| 51 | 87 |
After the third coil the great head of the beast caught the left side of the stem deck in its fanged jaws, and bit into it, as though to fasten itself in living prey, as though the ship might be alive, and attempt to free itself, splintering planks and railings. |
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| 51 | 114 |
The hith's jaws had closed on a screaming swimmer; then the swimmer was drawn underwater, the place marked with bubbles exploding to the surface. |
10 |
| 51 | 181 |
Suddenly the huge, wide head of the hith, slick, wet, shedding water, rose more than twenty feet out of the water, some ten feet aft of the Tesephone, a body grasped in its jaws. |
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| 53 | 98 |
"You are rushing into the jaws of the larl," said Sakim. |
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