| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 197 |
"Tabuk!" The great predator wheeled in the sky, turning as smoothly as a knife on wire. |
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| 16 | 105 |
My legs and arms could not have been more useless if every nerve in them had been cut by a knife. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 20 |
Beside her, on the floor, rested a laver of polished bronze, filled with water, a towel and a straight-bladed Gorean shaving knife. |
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| 5 | 38 |
She then gathered up the shaving knife, the towels I had used, and the bowl and went again to one side of the room. |
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| 5 | 41 |
She then rinsed and dried the shaving knife and put it in one of the chests. |
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| 11 | 100 |
He reminded me vaguely of the blade of a golden knife. |
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| 14 | 98 |
Inside the cube there were canisters of Mul-Fungus, a bowl, a ladle, a wooden-bladed Fungus-Knife; a wooden-headed Fungus-Mallet; a convenient tube of Mul-Pellets, which discharged its contents one at a time following my depressing a lever in the bottom of the tube; and a large, inverted jar of wate... |
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| 20 | 100 |
Swiftly and efficiently he placed her wrists in retaining devices mounted in the cylinder and, with a small, curved knife, removed her clothing, which he cast aside. |
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| 33 | 60 |
Drawing a small knife from his pouch, the Initiate cut a strand of hair from the animal and threw it into a nearby fire. |
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| 35 | 17 |
Outlined against the largest of Gor's three hurtling moons was the black silhouette, as sharp and keen as a knife, of a Priest-King. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 55 |
It could not be evaded, but only countered, and countered it was by the Koroban steel in my hand, a sudden ringing, sliding flash of steel and the knife was deflected from my breast. |
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| 8 | 216 |
I was most fond, perhaps, of the balanced saddle knife, the quiva; it is about a foot in length, double edged; it tapers to a daggerlike point. |
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| 9 | 337 |
Even I had not seen Kamchak throw the knife. |
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| 10 | 450 |
The warrior of the Wagon Peoples does not use the short sword, probably because such a weapon could not be optimally used from the saddle of the kaiila; the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiilaback, is almost unknown on Gor; its role, I gather, is more than fulfill... |
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| 10 | 455 |
The important point, however, in the circumstances was that Kamras had proposed the sword as the weapon of his encounter with Kamchak, and poor Kamchak was almost certain to be as unfamiliar with the sword as you or I would be with any of the more unusual weapons of Gor, say, the whip knife of Port ... |
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| 11 | 320 |
We left Aphris standing there, clutching the knife, breathing deeply. |
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| 11 | 322 |
"I have a knife!" Kamchak paid her no attention now but was looking at his hand. |
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| 11 | 325 |
"I have a knife!" cried Aphris in fury. |
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| 11 | 336 |
"I have a knife!" cried out Aphris. |
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| 11 | 341 |
She threw back her hand with the knife to rush forward and thrust it into the heart of Kamchak but the coil of the whip lashed forth and I saw its stinging tip wrap four times about the wrist and forearm of the Turian girl who cried out in sudden pain and Kamchak had stepped to the side and with a m... |
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| 11 | 342 |
There he stepped on her wrist and removed the knife from her open hand. |
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| 14 | 59 |
Where they were not torn I saw that they had been pierced as though a knife had been driven through them again and again, only inches apart. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 2 |
In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr... |
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| 22 | 564 |
I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ... |
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| 2 | 118 |
Then the large man with missing teeth seized Hup's hair and pulled up the head, to expose the throat, holding in his right hand a small, thick, curved blade, the hook knife of Ar, used sheathed in the sport of that name, but the knife was not now sheathed. |
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| 5 | 26 |
Some locks, on the compartments of rich persons, or on the storehouses of merchants, the treasuries of cities, and so on, are knife locks or poison locks; the knife lock, when tampered with, releases a blade, or several of them, with great force, sometimes from behind the individual at the lock. |
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| 22 | 360 |
I saw that he had been given another knife, a tarn knife, of the sort carried by riders. |
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| 22 | 362 |
To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev... |
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| 22 | 405 |
I wore my sword; I carried the killing knife I had taken from the back of Mip; lastly, thrust in my belt, was the double-edged quiva, the Tuchuk saddle knife. |
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| 2 | 132 |
"Do not interfere," snarled the man who held the hook knife. |
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| 2 | 258 |
"And there are many in the High Councils of the City who, if forced to decide between the steel of the hook knife and the feel of gold in their pouch, will choose gold to steel". |
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| 4 | 62 |
"A knife on the high bridge," said I, "in the vicinity of the Cylinder of Warriors—at the Twentieth Ahn—in the darkness and the shadows of the lamps". |
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| 4 | 69 |
"This knife," said the Older Tarl, "was to have been yours". |
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| 4 | 74 |
The Older Tarl, taking the knife by the hand guard, withdrew it. |
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| 4 | 75 |
It was a throwing knife, of a sort used in Ar, much smaller than the southern quiva, and tapered on only one side. |
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| 4 | 76 |
It was a knife designed for killing. |
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| 4 | 80 |
It was a killing knife. |
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| 5 | 27 |
On the other hand, knife locks are seldom effective against an individual who knows what to look for. |
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| 5 | 150 |
On the surface of the ship, tall and thin, like the blade of a golden knife, his forelegs lifted delicately before his body, his golden antennae blown in the wind, there stood, with the incredible fixity and alertness of his kind, a Priest-King. |
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| 5 | 737 |
To this belt there hung the sheath of a hook knife, which was buckled in the sheath, the strap passing over the hilt. |
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| 6 | 4 |
Each carried, sheathed, a hook knife. |
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| 6 | 6 |
"These men are the champions among male slaves at hook knife," said Cernus. |
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| 6 | 25 |
The man whose arm had been marked was forced then to carry the sheathed hook knife in his left hand. |
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| 6 | 39 |
There was a cry and I looked again to the square of sand and the first slave, with the hook knife in his left hand, had plunged across the sand, taking a stroke across the chest, to strike his own blue line blow at his opponent. |
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| 6 | 53 |
I saw that the second slave, who was doubtless the better man at the sport, had slipped behind the first and, holding his head back with a powerful forearm, had decisively drawn his sheathed hook knife across the throat of the first man. |
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| 6 | 56 |
For some reason, the man with the whip took the slave's hook knife, unsheathed it, and drew it across the slave's chest, leaving there a smear of blood. |
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| 6 | 125 |
The slave who had won at hook knife had turned white, sitting far below the salt. |
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| 6 | 127 |
"The slave who lost at hook knife," said Ho-Tu, pushing a large spoonful of porridge into his mouth. |
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| 9 | 106 |
For example it is possible to breed a girl whose saliva will be poisonous; such a woman, placed in the Pleasure Gardens of an enemy, can be more dangerous than the knife of an Assassin. |
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| 10 | 90 |
There was a contest of sheathed hook knife, one of whips and another of spiked gauntlets. |
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| 10 | 106 |
The slave who had won at hook knife the night before, I observed, was again eating at the foot of the table. |
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| 10 | 109 |
There was a whipping strap looped about his belt, and in the belt, sheathed, was a hook knife, the hilt buckled down in the sheath, as was the case with that of Ho-Tu. |
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| 13 | 351 |
In Mip's hand I saw a small dagger, a throwing knife, of a sort manufactured in Ar; it was smaller than the southern quiva; it was tapered on only one side. |
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| 13 | 352 |
"It is an interesting knife," I said. |
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| 13 | 353 |
"All Tarn Keepers carry a knife," said Mip, playing with the blade. |
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| 13 | 355 |
"It was probably with such a knife as this," said Mip. |
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| 13 | 358 |
"Are you skilled with such a knife?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 366 |
I knew he could throw the knife before I could reach him, before I could hope to unsheath the sword at my side. |
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| 13 | 370 |
"Would you like to examine the knife?" asked Mip. |
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| 13 | 373 |
Mip tossed the knife underhanded to me, and I caught it. |
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| 13 | 375 |
I examined the knife, the balance of it, the hilt, the tapered blade. |
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| 13 | 378 |
I tossed him back the knife and retraced my steps along the narrow perch. |
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| 16 | 172 |
The fellow Ho-Sorl had flung down the ramp rolled for some feet, struck the wall at the turn, struggled to his feet and drew a knife. |
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| 16 | 173 |
Ho-Sorl immediately took a step toward him and the fellow screamed, threw down his knife, and ran. |
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| 17 | 202 |
Two members of the High Council, who had spoken out against the influence of Merchants in the politics of Ar, presumably a veiled reference to Cernus, were found slain, one cut down by killing knife and another throttled and found dangling from a bridge near his home. |
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| 17 | 507 |
His hand moved to the hook knife at his belt. |
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| 17 | 533 |
His hand was on the hilt of the hook knife. |
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| 17 | 568 |
His hand was still on the hook knife. |
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| 17 | 691 |
"He was once a slave," said Sura, "but he won his freedom at hook knife. |
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| 17 | 817 |
I thought of the powerful, squat Ho-Tu, with his hook knife and slave goad. |
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| 17 | 818 |
"He won his freedom at hook knife," I reminded her. |
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| 17 | 820 |
"The fights with hook knife I saw," I said, "were contests with sheathed blade". |
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| 17 | 830 |
"Is it only those who lose at hook knife who are fed to the beast?" I asked. |
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| 17 | 836 |
I remembered that the slave who had lost in hook knife had been wounded slightly before being taken to the beast. |
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| 18 | 4 |
"Ho-Tu, stop!" I pressed up and then, knowing his full weight was on the knife, I suddenly ceased resistance, removing my counter-pressure, and rolled from under him. |
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| 18 | 18 |
I had backed to the chest, resheathed my sword, and drawn forth the knife which had been thrown. |
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| 18 | 19 |
It was a killing knife, short, well-balanced for throwing, tapered on one side. |
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| 18 | 24 |
I looked at the knife, and the man. |
10 |
| 18 | 25 |
"It was with a knife such as this," I said, "that you slew a Warrior of Thentis on a bridge in Ko-ro-ba, in En'Var, near the tower of Warriors". |
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| 18 | 48 |
"Pick up your hook knife," I said. |
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| 18 | 49 |
Ho-Tu, not taking his eyes much from me, found the hook knife and lifted it. |
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| 18 | 51 |
I crouched down, the killing knife now held by the hilt in my hand. |
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| 18 | 59 |
Ho-Tu flung away his hook knife and rushed to Sura, tearing the goad away from her. |
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| 18 | 126 |
* * * * I found Flaminius, the Physician, in his quarters, and he, obligingly, though drunk, treated the arm which Ho-Tu had slashed with the hook knife. |
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| 18 | 131 |
"This is the sixth hook-knife wound I have treated today," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 276 |
"I was wounded," I said to them, "in the sport of hook knife". |
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| 18 | 492 |
Actually he was sent there to die himself by the knife of a killer. |
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| 18 | 493 |
His resemblance to a certain Koroban Warrior, perhaps Tarl Cabot, would make it seem clear, in the darkness of the night, that the knife had been intended for that Warrior, and a convenient clue, a patch of green, would lead to Ar, and doubtless then to the House of Cernus". |
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| 19 | 101 |
Beside me stood a man with pliers and a hook knife. |
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| 19 | 148 |
The pair was eventually sold to a collector for ten gold pieces; I trust the security of his Pleasure Gardens is superb, else he might waken to a knife at his throat and the demand for a tarn, and, perhaps eventually, in the rags of a slave, a seat on the bench of a cargo galley. |
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| 20 | 29 |
His manacles were removed and a naked hook knife was thrust in his trembling hand. |
10 |
| 20 | 31 |
"Show mercy!" The slave whom I had originally seen victorious in the sport of hook knife sprang to the sand and began to stalk Portus. |
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| 20 | 141 |
"Give her a hook knife," said Cernus to one of the men near him. |
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| 20 | 142 |
A hook knife was pressed into the hands of the mutilated girl. |
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| 20 | 143 |
She looked at the knife, and then at the bound Hinrabian, who shook her head slightly, tears in her eyes. |
10 |
| 20 | 145 |
The girl said nothing to her, but only looked again from the hook knife to the bound Hinrabian. |
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| 20 | 148 |
"Do not hurt me! Do not hurt me!" The girl approached her with the knife. |
10 |
| 20 | 151 |
She took Claudia's hair in her left hand and held the razor-sharp hook knife at her face. |
10 |
| 20 | 153 |
But the pot girl did not touch the knife to the Hinrabian's face. |
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| 20 | 158 |
The girl threw the hook knife from her and it slid across the tiles. |
10 |
| 20 | 229 |
With hook knife in hand, against a dozen blades, Ho-Tu would probably have rushed upon Cernus. |
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| 21 | 345 |
Ho-Tu, his hook knife dripping, a buckler on his left arm, now stood beside us. |
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| 21 | 347 |
"I think you will find," said Murmillius, "a sword is more useful here than your small knife". |
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| 22 | 132 |
I noted that Mip had been following Menicius, and when Menicius had swerved Mip had taken advantage of the opening thus presented and, like a knife, had plunged for the heart of the ring. |
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| 22 | 222 |
I jerked the small knife from his back. |
10 |
| 22 | 223 |
It was a killing knife, a legend carved about its handle. |
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| 22 | 284 |
I picked up the small knife which had slain Mip, that hurled by Menicius of Port Kar. |
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| 22 | 331 |
I took the killing knife from my belt, poising it in my fingers. |
10 |
| 22 | 337 |
Menicius of Port Kar is skilled with the killing knife. |
10 |
| 22 | 427 |
I was certain their riders had had orders from the box of Cernus to see that I did not win; it would be difficult for a single tarn to block a ring, but two together might well manage; further, in not taking the lead immediately, which I believe I could have done, I hoped to postpone the entry into ... |
10 |
| 22 | 612 |
I took his killing knife from my belt and threw it, blade down, into the sand beside the body. |
10 |
| 22 | 613 |
The scroll on the knife read, "I have sought him. |
10 |
| 23 | 134 |
The knife struck the back of the chair before which I stood, striking through the wood, stopping only with the hilt. |
10 |
| 23 | 193 |
Ho-Tu, his hook knife in his hand, entered the room. |
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| 23 | 227 |
There Ho-Tu, with his hook knife, had cut his own throat, falling across the body of Sura. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 5 |
One holds the stem of the plant in the left hand and, with the right, with a small, curved, two-inch knife makes a diagonal upward stroke. |
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| 4 | 98 |
The rence knife flashed through a stem and then I cut the tufted, flowered head, it falling in the water, and threw the stem on the rence craft, with the numerous others. |
10 |
| 4 | 106 |
The rence knife flashed through another stem, and I cut away the flowered, tufted head, and threw the stem in the piles on the raft. |
10 |
| 4 | 111 |
I trembled with fury, the rence knife in my hand. |
10 |
| 4 | 180 |
The rence knife, with which I had cut rence, she had left in the packet in her rence craft. |
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... |
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| 6 | 120 |
With a slave knife he cut the rence tunic from her and threw her, still partly tangled in the net, over his shoulder, and carried her toward one of the dark, high-prowed barges in the shadows at the edge of the island. |
10 |
| 6 | 159 |
Then he was running on me, knife high. |
10 |
| 7 | 8 |
By the time that dawn's gray knife had touched the waters of the marsh the work of the men of Port Kar was mostly done. |
10 |
| 9 | 105 |
There is even, in Port Kar, a recognized caste of Thieves, the only such I know of on Gor, which, in the lower canals and perimeters of the city, has much power, that of the threat and the knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 223 |
The whip knife is a delicate weapon, and can be used with elegance, with finesse; it is, as far as I know, unique to Port Kar. |
10 |
| 12 | 29 |
"Knife!" I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 30 |
I was handed a knife. |
10 |
| 12 | 33 |
I leaped into the cold waters, the knife between my teeth. |
10 |
| 12 | 38 |
Knife again between my teeth, pulling the bound thing from the sack, I shoved its head above the water. |
10 |
| 12 | 47 |
I got the knife from between my teeth and, with it, sometimes half out of the water, sometimes beneath it, thrashing and twisting, thrust the blade a dozen times into its hide. |
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| 16 | 249 |
"A knife," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 250 |
I was handed a knife. |
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| 18 | 645 |
We saw the two ships, the Venna and her sister ship, the Tela, knife into the courtyard and swing about, their bowmen firing on the men running on the promenade and trying to escape about the edges of the courtyard. |
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| 18 | 709 |
"He has a knife!" cried Luma. |
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| 18 | 710 |
Ho-Hak, carefully, approached Henrak, who held a knife poised. |
10 |
| 18 | 712 |
Slowly Ho-Hak's great hand, strengthened from years at the oar, closed on Henrak's wrist, and the knife, as the men sweated and strained, dropped clattering to the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 69 |
I took out a butcher knife. |
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| 2 | 70 |
I turned wildly, my back to the counter, holding the knife, but there was nothing. |
10 |
| 2 | 71 |
With the knife in my hand I felt more secure. |
10 |
| 2 | 81 |
I turned, grasping the knife. |
10 |
| 2 | 86 |
I ran toward the door, still holding the knife. |
10 |
| 2 | 87 |
At the door I stopped, clutching the knife, terrified. |
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| 2 | 118 |
I had seen on the patio that I could not carry the knife down the rope of sheets with me, for I would have to use both hands. |
10 |
| 2 | 121 |
Wildly I thrust the knife beneath the pillow on my bed and ran back to the patio. |
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| 3 | 147 |
The knife! Before the men had burst into the penthouse I had thrust it beneath the pillow. |
10 |
| 3 | 150 |
The knife lay where I had left it. |
10 |
| 3 | 151 |
On the satin sheet I struggled to move the knife, with my mouth and the back of my head, toward my bound hands. |
10 |
| 3 | 154 |
Almost choking, from the loop on my throat, I slid half out of the bed and felt for the knife with my feet. |
10 |
| 3 | 156 |
It was extremely difficult to pick up the knife. |
10 |
| 3 | 162 |
At last I managed to get the knife to the foot of the bed. |
10 |
| 3 | 165 |
I held the knife but could not use it. |
10 |
| 3 | 167 |
I began to saw at the cords with the knife. |
10 |
| 3 | 168 |
The knife, its handle braced against my sweating back, slipped four times, but each time I put it again in place and addressed myself again to my task. |
10 |
| 3 | 170 |
I took the knife and slashed the cord at my throat and the cords at my ankles. |
10 |
| 3 | 177 |
With the knife I cut the gag from where it lay about my neck. |
10 |
| 3 | 205 |
I remembered the knife. |
10 |
| 3 | 498 |
It contained my money, jewelry, the butcher knife I had thrust into it before leaving the penthouse. |
10 |
| 4 | 61 |
My hand tore the butcher knife from my handbag and I slashed wildly at him. |
10 |
| 4 | 65 |
I raised the knife to strike at them, wildly. |
10 |
| 4 | 67 |
The knife fell from my fingers. |
10 |
| 4 | 71 |
One of the men picked up the knife. |
10 |
| 4 | 82 |
The man whom I had slashed with the knife stood behind him, holding his arm, grinning. |
10 |
| 6 | 222 |
Several of them, besides the small swords, carried a knife as well, this attached to a leather belt. |
10 |
| 8 | 1123 |
One of the girls in the skins knelt before him, holding a knife at his throat, her hand in his hair. |
10 |
| 9 | 8 |
Each girl wore, too, at her waist, a sheathed sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 36 |
When I lifted it, Verna stood before me, her knife at my face. |
10 |
| 9 | 49 |
I had been gagged as one might have gagged a mere slave! Verna's knife was again in its sheath. |
10 |
| 9 | 105 |
Verna removed her sleen knife from her belt. |
10 |
| 9 | 107 |
I stood there, holding the knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 113 |
"I will fight you, if you wish," said Verna, "without my knife". |
10 |
| 9 | 116 |
Her knife was ready. |
10 |
| 9 | 120 |
One of the girls cried out and leaped toward me, the knife flashing in her hand. |
10 |
| 9 | 121 |
I screamed and threw the knife from me, and fell to my knees, my head in my hands. |
10 |
| 9 | 129 |
The girl, clad like the others in the skins of forest panthers, who had held my leash, and now again held it, she who had bound me, her sleen knife again in its sheath, thrust her face toward mine. |
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| 9 | 130 |
It was she who had leaped at me with her knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 136 |
She wiped the dirt and tumbled leaves from her sleen knife, which I had thrown from me, on the skins of her brief garments, and then replaced it in her sheath. |
10 |
| 9 | 294 |
On its front, near the top, carved, cut into the bark with the point of a sleen knife, was a crude representation of opened slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 12 | 737 |
With a small knife he cut the binding fiber that belted her camisk. |
10 |
| 12 | 739 |
He resheathed his knife. |
10 |
| 13 | 168 |
Further, it would have been difficult for Ute and I to have placed the log in such a snare, and, besides, without a knife, and wishing to move swiftly, tabuk would have been heavy game for us. |
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| 13 | 613 |
He then removed his tarn knife from his belt. |
10 |
| 13 | 614 |
I felt the knife between the camisk and the binding fiber that belted it on my body. |
10 |
| 13 | 615 |
There was a movement of the knife and the binding fiber whipped from my body and, in the rushing wind, the camisk began to tug, snapping away from me, and then it was high, about my throat, pulling at my neck, flapping and snapping. |
10 |
| 13 | 757 |
He then, with his tarn knife, from a piece of raw bosk meat, cut four small pieces of meat, which he placed in my mouth. |
10 |
| 15 | 303 |
And in the belt of the garment there was thrust a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 15 | 318 |
In her belt she carried a sleen knife. |
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| 17 | 374 |
I saw Telima held a knife. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 208 |
"I wakened to a knife at my throat. |
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| 1 | 358 |
"And, too," said Rim, "prior to my retiring to the Torian room, I would appreciate a sword, with sheath, a knife, and a bow, the great bow, with arrows". |
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| 2 | 317 |
* * * * "This one," said the panther girl, jabbing the suspended figure with a knife, "is interesting—he afforded us much pleasure, before we wearied of him". |
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| 2 | 347 |
At her belt she wore a knife sheath. |
10 |
| 2 | 348 |
The knife was in her hand, and, as she spoke, she played with it, and drew in the sand. |
10 |
| 2 | 376 |
She jabbed with her knife in the sand. |
10 |
| 2 | 384 |
She jabbed down with the knife into the sand. |
10 |
| 2 | 405 |
She jabbed at him with the knife. |
10 |
| 2 | 417 |
She jabbed the knife into the sand, to the hilt. |
10 |
| 2 | 450 |
Her knife was cutting at the sand. |
10 |
| 2 | 463 |
"A steel knife for each," I proposed to Sheera, "and twenty arrow points, of steel, for each". |
10 |
| 2 | 488 |
"This one," said Sheera, poking the other in the shoulder with her knife, "is not bad". |
10 |
| 2 | 511 |
She had now thrust her sleen knife into its belt sheath. |
10 |
| 2 | 741 |
Again the trees are blazed, but now, at the foot of the trunk, by the mark of a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 5 | 36 |
He had wanted to make small purchases, among them a new shaving knife. |
10 |
| 5 | 195 |
"Purchasing a shaving knife," said Rim. |
10 |
| 5 | 337 |
When we reached the Tesephone, less than a hundred yards from the slave market, the tide was at a knife's edge of its crest. |
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| 6 | 404 |
I dropped my belt, with sword and sheath, and knife, to the ground, beside the fire. |
10 |
| 6 | 845 |
"Rim has been kind enough," she said, "from the blade of an old shaving knife to supply a suitable implement". |
10 |
| 6 | 846 |
Rim, from his own pouch, handed up to her a tiny steel half crescent, ground from the blade of a shaving knife. |
10 |
| 6 | 867 |
Tina tossed the tiny knife back to Rim. |
10 |
| 7 | 195 |
When she saw me, she clutched, with her right hand, at the sleen knife in her belt. |
10 |
| 7 | 198 |
I knocked the sleen knife from her hand and rudely jerked her hands together before her body, securing them there with slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 7 | 216 |
I snapped off the rest of the arrow, and, with a knife, shaved it to the tree, that it might not attract attention. |
10 |
| 8 | 156 |
With his sleen knife he had pried the cork up a bit from the bottle. |
10 |
| 9 | 16 |
At her belt was a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 88 |
She drew the sleen knife from her belt sheath. |
10 |
| 9 | 92 |
I felt the blade of the sleen knife at my throat. |
10 |
| 9 | 94 |
"You were warned," said she, playing with the knife, "not to return to the forest". |
10 |
| 9 | 102 |
I again felt the edge of the sleen knife on my throat. |
10 |
| 9 | 125 |
She played with the knife, putting her fingertip to its point. |
10 |
| 9 | 132 |
Verna, idly, began to play at the side of my throat with the sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 136 |
"Are you not curious," she asked, "to know the import of the message?" I could feel the point of the knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 224 |
I again felt the knife blade at my throat. |
10 |
| 9 | 226 |
She replaced the knife in her sheath, and stood up. |
10 |
| 9 | 259 |
She fingered the hilt of the sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 273 |
She fingered the hilt of the knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 367 |
She wore at her belt a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 380 |
I fought, but two girls held my head, and Mira, laughing, with a small bowl of lather and a shaving knife, shaved the two-and-one-half-inch degradation stripe on my head, from the forehead to the back of my neck. |
10 |
| 10 | 3 |
He bent down, and with a sleen knife, slashed the binding fiber that fastened me between the stakes. |
10 |
| 10 | 117 |
At her belt was her sleen knife. |
10 |
| 10 | 262 |
He then bent down and, with his sleen knife, slashed the binding fiber that still fastened her left ankle to the stake. |
10 |
| 11 | 457 |
"I will give you a steel knife," said Marlenus, "and forty arrow points for her". |
10 |
| 11 | 459 |
The knife and the arrow points were brought, and Hura took them. |
10 |
| 11 | 494 |
With his sleen knife he freed the girl's arms and hands. |
10 |
| 11 | 532 |
He removed his sleen knife from its sheath. |
10 |
| 11 | 562 |
"Master!" Marlenus' hand indicated that the knife, poised, hesitate. |
10 |
| 11 | 575 |
The huntsman resheathed his sleen knife. |
10 |
| 12 | 188 |
At my belt was a sleen knife; at my hip, in a verr-skin quiver, temwood sheaf arrows, nineteen of them, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the vosk gull. |
10 |
| 13 | 66 |
"The knife?" I asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 317 |
I slipped the sleen knife from its belt sheath. |
10 |
| 13 | 322 |
I took her by the hair and pulled her head back, and put the steel of the knife at her throat. |
10 |
| 13 | 335 |
I did not remove the knife from her throat. |
10 |
| 13 | 339 |
I removed the knife from her throat, and she half collapsed in the coffle. |
10 |
| 13 | 369 |
I carried sword, sleen knife, and bow with quiver. |
10 |
| 16 | 98 |
She felt the blade of the knife at her throat. |
10 |
| 16 | 151 |
I handed my sleen knife to Vinca. |
10 |
| 19 | 66 |
I carried only my sword, in its sheath, and a short sleen knife, balanced. |
10 |
| 20 | 143 |
I heard, from one side, the laughter of Verna, and saw her briefly, a sleen knife in her hand. |
10 |
| 22 | 390 |
With his sleen knife he cut the knotted loop of coffle leather from her throat. |
10 |
| 22 | 391 |
With his knife he cut the binding fiber from her wrists. |
10 |
| 22 | 831 |
"No!" Ilene threw away the knife. |
10 |
| 22 | 840 |
With her knife, from the back, Rissia cut away Ilene's slave tunic, stripping her. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 140 |
Like a knife, reason is innocent; like a knife, its application is a function of the hand that grasps it, the energies and will which drive it. |
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 |
| 3 | 304 |
All men of Torvaldsland, incidentally, even if otherwise unarmed, carry a knife at their master belt. |
10 |
| 6 | 120 |
She felt the knife of the Forkbeard at her belly. |
10 |
| 6 | 343 |
With his belt knife, thrusting Pudding and Gunnhild back, Ivar Forkbeard addressed himself to the cutting of the meat. |
10 |
| 10 | 170 |
The knife had been removed from the sheath at her belt; she stood straight, but her head was down, her eyes closed; about her neck, knotted, was a rope, it fastened to a stake in the ground near the dueling square. |
10 |
| 10 | 221 |
"What do you expect to do with that paring knife?" asked Bjarni of Thorstein Camp, looking at me, puzzled. |
10 |
| 10 | 383 |
At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, twisted blade of a Turian dagger; free women in Torvaldsland commonly carry a knife; at her belt, too, hung her scissors, and a ring of many keys, indicating that her hall contained many chests or doors; her hair w... |
10 |
| 11 | 86 |
There was a knife scar under his left eye. |
10 |
| 18 | 422 |
He was cutting, with a ship's knife, a ring of reddish alloy from the arm of a fallen Kur. |
10 |
| 18 | 423 |
The knife could not cut the ring. |
10 |
| 18 | 438 |
He then, regarding her, cut the Kur collar from her throat with the ship's knife. |
10 |
| 20 | 122 |
Scarcely had it seen the flash of Tuchuk steel, the saddle knife, its blade balanced, nine inches in length, which had slipped from my sleeve, turned, and, hurled, struck him. |
10 |
| 20 | 163 |
I then, with the bloodied quiva, the Tuchuk saddle knife, cut her clothes from her. |
10 |
| 20 | 165 |
Then, with the knife, I knelt at the Kur's throat. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 404 |
The physician lifted the girl's long dark hair, touching the shaving knife to the back of her neck. |
10 |
| 1 | 514 |
He turned to the man beside him; he dropped the shaving knife into the bowl, wiped his hands on a towel. |
10 |
| 8 | 310 |
He went to the back of the tent and, with a knife, freed Alyena of her restraints. |
10 |
| 14 | 54 |
Then, with a knife, he cut the two ropes from my throat, and freed me of the binding fiber. |
10 |
| 24 | 362 |
The knife was still at her throat. |
10 |
| 24 | 376 |
She trembled, my knife at her throat. |
10 |
| 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 | 271 |
He was similarly accoutered, with short sword, slung at the left hip, with a shoulder belt; a belt at his waist with a sheathed knife; heavy sandals, almost boots. |
10 |
| 2 | 758 |
I shuddered, recalling the feel of the knife at my throat. |
10 |
| 2 | 1184 |
The blade of his knife was across my throat. |
10 |
| 2 | 1199 |
There was a knife at my throat. |
10 |
| 2 | 1205 |
I could still feel the knife at my throat. |
10 |
| 2 | 1232 |
The knife no longer lay at my throat. |
10 |
| 2 | 1235 |
He resheathed the knife and turned me, by the arms, to face him. |
10 |
| 3 | 699 |
He gestured back to the other man with the knife. |
10 |
| 4 | 174 |
My master drew out his knife. |
10 |
| 4 | 204 |
Once I removed the garment and she sewed the hem, where the knife had ripped it. |
10 |
| 4 | 380 |
I shuddered, remembering the knife at my throat. |
10 |
| 5 | 298 |
I felt, from the side, his knife slip beneath the veils at my face and throat. |
10 |
| 5 | 299 |
Then the knife's edge, I feeling it, thin, obdurate, pressed at my jugular. |
10 |
| 5 | 303 |
I scarcely dared to whisper, for fear of moving my throat beneath the knife. |
10 |
| 5 | 304 |
I felt the knife leave my throat. |
10 |
| 5 | 716 |
The man, with his knife, cut away much of the long, flowing white gown the girl wore, considerably shortening it, until it was provocatively high, ragged and exciting, on her thighs. |
10 |
| 5 | 738 |
He then, with his knife, shortened her gown, as he had those of the others, until its shreds, too, ragged and exciting, were high on her thighs. |
10 |
| 7 | 156 |
He then, with his knife, to her horror, cut away her cumbersome robes of concealment, until she was clad only in the last of her undergarments. |
10 |
| 7 | 159 |
"Sleen!" He then, too, with his knife, and ripping, in a ragged circle, about her legs, above the knees, shortened the undergarment. |
10 |
| 8 | 249 |
He drew out a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 8 | 260 |
He replaced the sleen knife in its sheath. |
10 |
| 8 | 269 |
The memory of the sleen knife was vivid in my mind. |
10 |
| 8 | 271 |
How foolish I had been! Had I thought, truly, I might escape? Did I not know that there was no escape for the Gorean slave girl? How merciful Thurnus, my master, had been! He had not hamstrung me, or thrown me as feed to his sleen! He had only struck me, and only twice! I remembered the sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 611 |
She drew from her coarse robes a short knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 614 |
She approached me with the knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 618 |
She then put away the knife, and stood up. |
10 |
| 9 | 1950 |
With an awl, brought by a man, he punched two holes, vertically, in the leather strap, and thrust the twin buckle-claws through the holes; he then took the long, loose end of the strap, for the sleen has a large neck, thrust it through the four strap loops, thick and broad, and then, with a knife, c... |
10 |
| 19 | 134 |
I felt a knife at my throat. |
10 |
| 19 | 150 |
The knife was drawn away from my throat. |
10 |
| 22 | 171 |
Now not only the flag of Port Kar but another flag, too, snapped on its line at the stem castle of the approaching vessel, hurling toward us, like a swift knife, its oars flashing. |
10 |
| 22 | 663 |
In his belt there was a bloodied knife, that with which he had slain the marine saurian. |
10 |
| 22 | 664 |
He drew forth the knife and looked at me. |
10 |
| 22 | 669 |
He drew back the knife, the blade in his hand, behind his head. |
10 |
| 22 | 689 |
He crouched again beside me and jerked the knife free from the wood. |
10 |
| 22 | 691 |
Then he thrust the knife again into the wood, a foot from me. |
10 |
| 22 | 693 |
"No," he said, "the sharks, the knife, are too good for you". |
10 |
| 22 | 698 |
"No," he said, "the sharks, the knife, are too good for you". |
10 |
| 23 | 46 |
He drew forth the knife at his belt. |
10 |
| 23 | 96 |
He then removed the knife from his sheath, plunged it into the wood a few feet from him, and lay down. |
10 |
| 26 | 264 |
"I have a knife! I will kill you! Get out!" "You have finished your bath," he said, "and are fresh and ready. |
10 |
| 26 | 274 |
She pulled at the chain on the door, looped in rings, holding the bolt in place, and cut at the door with the knife, hysterically. |
10 |
| 26 | 282 |
Within the room, miserable, brandishing her knife, stood Elicia. |
10 |
| 26 | 295 |
The knife clattered harmlessly on the tiles. |
10 |
| 27 | 306 |
Buttons, obviously, may be unbuttoned, or cut away with a knife, thus revealing the slave. |
10 |
| 28 | 379 |
He crouched beside her and, with his belt knife, cut away the strings which held the fluff about her. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 112 |
I did as I was told, and Imnak, with a large, curved, bone, saw-toothed knife, a snow knife, began to cut at a nearby drift of snow. |
10 |
| 26 | 254 |
He thrust the meat on the blade of the knife and then thrust the handle of the knife down into the hole he had cut in the ice. |
10 |
| 1 | 248 |
I went to fetch a knife from my weapons. |
10 |
| 3 | 663 |
The first carried a knife, the second, over his arm, carried some brief, white, platform tunics. |
10 |
| 3 | 731 |
When I had last seen them two slaver's men had been approaching them, one with a knife and the other with some brief, white, platform tunics. |
10 |
| 3 | 1168 |
The hunter, meanwhile, with a knife, had cut a length from the rope of twisted sleen hide which he wore over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 4 | 313 |
"Kill him! Kill him!" Guardsmen at the stage's edge, with shields, buffeted back a man who, with drawn knife, had tried to climb to the level where sat the table of the game. |
10 |
| 4 | 607 |
I dove at the sound, low, rolling, to be under the knife, feet first, presenting little target, kicking, feet scissoring. |
10 |
| 4 | 622 |
He cried out with pain and the knife had fallen. |
10 |
| 4 | 662 |
"He had a knife," pointed out the scribe. |
10 |
| 4 | 692 |
I remembered the coolness of his subterfuge at the back of the booth, waiting beside the rent canvas for me to thrust through it, thus locating myself and exposing myself for the thrust of the knife. |
10 |
| 6 | 557 |
The girl's knife was in his right hand; his left hand held her head, grasped by the hair, beneath the surface. |
10 |
| 6 | 565 |
The man put the knife in his teeth and, fiercely, smote the tharlarion. |
10 |
| 6 | 570 |
He thrust the knife he had held in his teeth in his belt. |
10 |
| 6 | 577 |
I saw the man take the tube of reed he had broken off and thrust it in her mouth; then the knife he carried, hers, lay across her throat; I saw her eyes, wild, in the moonlight, and then he, another bit of reed in his mouth, pulled her quietly below the surface. |
10 |
| 6 | 612 |
With the knife he slit the belt into narrow strips, improvising binding fiber. |
10 |
| 6 | 654 |
He looked at her, fingering the knife he had taken from her. |
10 |
| 6 | 906 |
With his knife he cut the rags from her hips and we watched them fall among the angry sleen who tore them to pieces. |
10 |
| 7 | 22 |
"The one I seek," I said, "is skilled with the knife. |
10 |
| 7 | 34 |
The sword of the warrior, commonly, is pledged to a Home Stone, that of the assassin to gold and the knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 108 |
"I have seen him use a knife," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 618 |
They were ancient when the first stone knife was lifted to the sun". |
10 |
| 13 | 223 |
She whipped a knife out from her furs. |
10 |
| 13 | 225 |
"I will cut you to ribbons!" I stepped back, in order not to be slashed with the knife. |
10 |
| 13 | 235 |
"Did you not notice that she did not stick the knife into us?" he asked, secretively. |
10 |
| 14 | 56 |
"She has a knife," said Kadluk. |
10 |
| 14 | 72 |
I dodged as the knife sailed past my head, narrowly missing Imnak outside. |
10 |
| 16 | 13 |
Imnak's knife had a wooden handle, some fourteen inches long. |
10 |
| 16 | 16 |
Bracing the knife permits force from the leg to be applied, whereas balance and control are not sacrificed, because the point is subtly guided by the movement of the fingers. |
10 |
| 20 | 44 |
The ulo, or woman's knife, with its semicircular blade, customarily fixed in a wooden handle, is not well suited to carving. |
10 |
| 26 | 125 |
Imnak ran toward her, snow knife in hand. |
10 |
| 26 | 139 |
The blade of the saw-toothed snow knife was at her throat. |
10 |
| 26 | 183 |
"Imnak," called Poalu, "you will need the knife and the ice". |
10 |
| 26 | 222 |
When the domed shelter is completed, as ours was not, the last block is placed on the outside and the builder then goes within, and, with the snow knife, trimming and shaping, slips it into place. |
10 |
| 26 | 225 |
The snow knife suffices, when there is time, to shape the dwelling. |
10 |
| 26 | 249 |
Imnak now, with a knife, cut down at the ice some twenty feet from the partially erected shelter. |
10 |
| 26 | 255 |
He poured the water then into the hole in the ice, about the handle of the knife. |
10 |
| 26 | 256 |
He waited only a moment, for the water, poured into the icy hole in the subzero temperatures, froze almost instantly, anchoring the knife with the solidity of a spike in cement. |
10 |
| 26 | 330 |
One of the larger animals circled the meat on the knife twice and then, suddenly, bit at it, to tear it from the blade. |
10 |
| 26 | 331 |
He ripped the meat from the blade, making away with it, his jaws cut by the knife's edge. |
10 |
| 26 | 332 |
There was then hot fresh blood on the knife. |
10 |
| 26 | 333 |
Another sleen, frenzied with the smell, ribs protruding from its fur, racked with hunger, hurried to the knife, licking at the blood. |
10 |
| 26 | 344 |
Other sleen ran to the knife. |
10 |
| 26 | 359 |
Imnak added the new blocks to the snow shelter and, with his snow knife, cut those blocks he needed to finish the low, domed structure. |
10 |
| 26 | 362 |
With the snow knife, on the outside, he trimmed and shaped the dwelling, and filled in the chinks with snow. |
10 |
| 27 | 7 |
Imnak had retrieved his knife, it having claimed no more victims. |
10 |
| 27 | 46 |
He took a long strip of baleen, about fifteen inches in length, and, with his knife, sharpened both ends, wickedly sharp. |
10 |
| 27 | 134 |
I heard Imnak replace the knife in its sheath. |
10 |
| 27 | 152 |
The general reason for the tunnel dimensions is to prevent wear and tear on mittens and clothing, which can be a very serious matter in subzero temperatures; a needle and thread in the arctic can be as important as a knife and a harpoon. |
10 |
| 27 | 160 |
When I emerged from the opening I, knife in hand, looked cautiously about. |
10 |
| 27 | 161 |
A moment later Imnak, knife, too, in hand, straightening up, emerged beside me. |
10 |
| 34 | 202 |
I had no knife. |
10 |
| 35 | 109 |
"You removed the screws from the grille with your knife," I said. |
10 |
| 35 | 558 |
I drew forth the knife at the belt of the garment I wore. |
10 |
| 35 | 562 |
I gestured with the knife to the bed. |
10 |
| 35 | 604 |
With the knife I cut the cord binding back her hair. |
10 |
| 35 | 613 |
Sheathing my knife and holding her by the back of the neck with my left hand I swiftly, but with some care, combed out her hair. |
10 |
| 35 | 620 |
With my knife I cut the thin shoulder straps of the sheathlike garment of greenish silk. |
10 |
| 35 | 621 |
With the back of the knife to her skin I moved the garment down and away from her, until it was at her ankles. |
10 |
| 35 | 622 |
She shuddered when the coldness of the knife blade moved against her flesh. |
10 |
| 35 | 623 |
She looked down at the knife, apprehensively. |
10 |
| 35 | 1152 |
With my knife I cut a length of her hair, about a foot in length, and crossed and tied together her ankles. |
10 |
| 37 | 130 |
They favor the spear and the bow, the sword and the steel of the knife. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 53 |
He had sheathed his jagged-edged knife, a fisherman's knife. |
10 |
| 1 | 228 |
"He is a black Ubar," said Samos, "bloody and brilliant, a man of vision and power, who has united the six ubarates of the southern shores of Ushindi, united them by the knife and the stabbing spear, and has extended his hegemony to the northern shores, where he exacts tribute, kailiauk tusks and wo... |
10 |
| 7 | 13 |
A long knife, unsheathed, was thrust into his sash. |
10 |
| 14 | 463 |
A free woman, captured, whose hair her captor unbinds, usually the first time by the stroke of a knife, a precaution against poison pins and other devices, knows full well by this act that she will soon be made his slave. |
10 |
| 16 | 161 |
"Logic is as neutral as a knife," he said. |
10 |
| 19 | 37 |
Instantly I crouched, dagger drawn, blade up, my left hand, too, ready, in the on-guard position for knife combat. |
10 |
| 19 | 46 |
I lifted my hands, dropping the knife. |
10 |
| 19 | 60 |
A knife, fallen, lay near him in the pit. |
10 |
| 27 | 125 |
She might, of course, be traded as easily as a sack of meal or a knife, or a bit of cloth, or a tarsk or vulo. |
10 |
| 29 | 16 |
Kisu, with a knife, was cutting a length from the rough, red-dyed cloth, plaited and pounded, derived from the inner bark of the pod tree, which we had obtained in trade some days ago at the fishermen's village. |
10 |
| 32 | 608 |
The priest, from a golden dish, lifted up a knife. |
10 |
| 32 | 611 |
All about me were the robes and feathers, the savage red faces; the thongs bit deeply into the flesh of my wrists and ankles; the singing, the drums, began to intensify in crescendo; they became deafening; the priest lifted the knife. |
10 |
| 32 | 633 |
"The priest, angrily, returned the knife of blue stone to the golden dish. |
10 |
| 32 | 898 |
From the box he then took a small, curved knife and a tiny, cylindrical leather flask. |
10 |
| 32 | 900 |
With the small knife he gashed my left thigh, making upon it a small, strange design. |
10 |
| 32 | 918 |
'You have been knife branded,' he said. |
10 |
| 32 | 941 |
'Master,' I asked, 'how could you know that the other girl, she in the other carving, wore upon her thigh a knife brand?' 'I put it there,' he said. |
10 |
| 32 | 993 |
Knife branding, too, practiced by some primitive peoples, is quite rare. |
10 |
| 41 | 8 |
Ayari, with his knife, slashed at the vines. |
10 |
| 45 | 47 |
With my knife I cut the skins from her. |
10 |
| 53 | 195 |
I saw Msaliti draw his knife and slip to the side. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 971 |
"But will there not come a time of screaming," she asked, "a time of rage, of lifting of the knife?" I shrugged. |
10 |
| 11 | 671 |
She handed the collar and key to an attendant, a husky brute with a knife thrust in his belt, who handed her a loose, white gown which she, fastening a clasp at her throat, donned. |
10 |
| 11 | 682 |
There were keys, and a knife, at her belt. |
10 |
| 12 | 49 |
The Lady Tima then signaled again to the burly fellow who, with a knife, from the back, cutting at the back of the coat, and at the sleeves, cut and tore away the coat. |
10 |
| 25 | 52 |
"In the pits of Ar," he said, "he has fought with the spiked leather, and with the knife gauntlets". |
10 |
| 25 | 142 |
Fortunately we did not engage with knife gauntlets or his head might have been torn from him. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 267 |
One might respond with a knife or sword. |
10 |
| 15 | 55 |
He turned her about and held her, a knife at her throat. |
10 |
| 15 | 64 |
Then, at his leisure, garment by garment, with his knife, seeming to enjoy having her progressively revealed to him, he stripped the Mistress. |
10 |
| 19 | 10 |
He slashed at me, on his back, with the knife and I seized his wrist with both hands and yanked him to his feet. |
10 |
| 19 | 17 |
I then, with two hands, broke his wrist and kicked the fallen knife to the side. |
10 |
| 26 | 163 |
He had fought even with the spiked cestae and the knife gauntlets. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 82 |
Was it because the flag of Victoria flew on our stem-castle lines? I saw the hand of Callimachus fall, almost like a knife. |
10 |
| 2 | 145 |
"Give me a knife," I said. |
10 |
| 2 | 152 |
"Here is your knife," I told the fellow who had loaned me the weapon. |
10 |
| 2 | 155 |
"The knife is sticky," said the man to whom I had returned it. |
10 |
| 4 | 94 |
Suddenly, as the enemy galley veered to knife between us, and the Mira men with poles, and, too, with oars, on our ship, and on the Mira, thrust the ships apart. |
10 |
| 6 | 77 |
I watched one of our archers, with a knife, removing an arrow from the wood of the stem castle. |
10 |
| 7 | 2 |
I discarded my sword, and seized up a knife from the deck. |
10 |
| 7 | 21 |
There was a movement in the water behind me, and I twisted suddenly to the side, turning, and catching the arm, its knife in hand, striking toward me. |
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| 7 | 25 |
I got the knife from my teeth and, under the water, thrust it, edge up, into his abdomen, and then drew it, deeply in him, diagonally, upward and to the right. |
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| 7 | 40 |
I saw a man stroking toward me, knife in fist. |
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| 7 | 47 |
I lifted the bloody knife in my right hand. |
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| 7 | 49 |
"For the Voskjard!" I grinned, brandishing the knife. |
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| 7 | 68 |
I put the knife in my teeth and swam slowly toward the Tamira. |
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| 8 | 1 |
I Conduct Business upon the Tamira; I Return to the Tina, Bringing with Me Some Things Which I Find of Interest I, knife between my teeth, in the water, clung to the starboard rudder of the Tamira. |
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| 8 | 25 |
I wiped the knife on my thigh. |
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| 8 | 29 |
I stood between her and the door, half-naked, the knife in my hand. |
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| 8 | 177 |
I slipped my knife in my belt. |
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| 8 | 239 |
I went to the leaden sheets and, with my knife, cut away the binding holding the sheets together. |
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| 8 | 344 |
I drew the knife from my belt and thrust its point a quarter of an inch into her sweet, rounded belly. |
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| 8 | 350 |
I placed my left hand behind the small of her back, so that she could not pull back from the point of the knife. |
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| 8 | 367 |
She looked down at the knife. |
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| 8 | 369 |
I removed my hand from the small of her back, and the knife from its ready and threatening location at her belly. |
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| 8 | 371 |
I placed the knife in my belt again. |
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| 8 | 392 |
These were being used to hunt for survivors, luckless fellows, struggling in the water, fishing for them with attentive leisure, with arrows, and with spear and knife. |
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| 8 | 512 |
My knife was thrust, point deep, in the wood above the berth, and to one side, to my right, where I might reach it, if need be. |
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| 8 | 532 |
I removed the knife from where I had wedged it in the wood above the berth, to one side and to the right. |
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| 8 | 535 |
I thrust the knife in my belt. |
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| 10 | 45 |
It would be difficult, once seen, to ever forget the massively scarred, misshapen countenance of Krondar, a veteran of many bouts with the spiked leather, and the knife gauntlets, in Ar. |
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| 20 | 1642 |
If castration makes them happy, who could be so heartless as to deny them this gratification? But to apply the knife, through discourse, and teaching, and law, to the innocent and unwilling is indeed offensive. |
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| 1 | 950 |
At other times, if the point becomes dislodged in the body, it is common to seek it with a bone or greenwood probe, and then, when one has found it, attempt to work it free with a knife. |
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| 1 | 1025 |
Detailed trimming and shaping is accomplished with a small knife. |
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| 7 | 103 |
Too often, I suspected, a suspicion of cheating at stones or disks, or a dispute over a slave, might lead to the flash of steel, the sudden movement of a knife. |
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| 8 | 199 |
He then drew the large, triangular-bladed knife from the beaded sheath on his belt and slashed the straps and uppers of the sandals, discarding them then in the flaming copper bowl at the side. |
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| 8 | 264 |
"No," she said, "no, no!" But one by one, slowly, the auctioneer's knife was cutting the buttons from the long, frontal closure of her dress. |
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| 8 | 287 |
The dress, then, by cutting with the knife, and ripping, was removed from her. |
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| 9 | 42 |
Grunt carried similar articles but he, as well, as I had not, carried such items as long nails, rivets, hatchets, metal arrowheads, metal lance points, knife blades and butcher knives. |
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| 9 | 43 |
The knife blades and long nails are sometimes mounted in clubs. |
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| 12 | 156 |
He tossed me the reins of his beast and, drawing his knife from a beaded sheath, slipped from the saddle to the ground. |
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| 12 | 168 |
Max Hobart lay back in the grass, gasping, the knife removed from his throat. |
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| 14 | 788 |
"Then I saw him, suddenly, almost angrily, cutting a stick, and notching it with his knife. |
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| 14 | 931 |
Before he left Grunt gave him some hard candy and a fine steel knife. |
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| 14 | 1053 |
"Knife," he said. |
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| 14 | 1055 |
Then one cuts a bite from the meat, to eat it, thus the sign for knife". |
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| 14 | 1121 |
The sign for the Yellow Knives had been the sign for knife, followed by the sign for fleer. |
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| 14 | 1122 |
I later learned the sign for knife alone would suffice for this tribe. |
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| 16 | 59 |
"No Fleer or Yellow Knife did that," said Grunt. |
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| 18 | 71 |
I crouched beside the lad, my knife drawn. |
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| 18 | 75 |
My knife was at the leather thongs binding the lad's left ankle to its stake. |
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| 18 | 100 |
My knife then finished cutting the thongs at the lad's left ankle. |
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| 18 | 128 |
My knife paused. |
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| 18 | 132 |
Then my knife finished cutting through the thongs on his left wrist. |
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| 18 | 145 |
I stood up, and sheathed my knife. |
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| 19 | 13 |
Priscilla made a tiny noise and winced as a Yellow-Knife warrior, kneeling across her body, tied her wrists behind her back. |
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| 19 | 20 |
The Yellow-Knife warrior now tied Inez's hands behind her back. |
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| 19 | 28 |
A Yellow Knife crouched near the girl. |
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| 19 | 45 |
Then the lance blade of bluish, chipped flint was at the Yellow Knife's neck. |
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| 19 | 46 |
He stood up, quickly, angrily, brushing the lance away, his hand at the handle of his knife, in the beaded sheath at his hip. |
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| 19 | 49 |
At a kick backward the kaiila would bolt forward, driving the lance into the Yellow Knife. |
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| 19 | 53 |
The Yellow Knife at whose chest the lance point was poised then stepped angrily backward. |
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| 19 | 55 |
Their tethers were being handed to another Yellow Knife, one mounted. |
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| 19 | 56 |
The leader of the Yellow-Knife party said something to the fellow. |
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| 6 | 111 |
We had only one knife with us, a cutting knife. |
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| 7 | 630 |
"I have met them, lance to lance, club to club, knife to knife". |
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| 24 | 57 |
The Yellow Knife jerked his kaiila to a halt, it rearing up, fighting the jaw rope, clawing at the air, and Cuwignaka, almost at the same time, leaped to its back, behind the Yellow Knife. |
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| 29 | 54 |
A Yellow Knife, afoot, rushed upon him, knife raised. |
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| 30 | 155 |
The Yellow Knife's lance took him low in the left side, hurling him from the kaiila, and then the Yellow Knife, with a whoop of victory, whirled away. |
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| 43 | 1 |
What Occurred When We Visited a Yellow-Knife Camp "You must make swifter progress in learning Yellow Knife," said Iwoso to Bloketu, in Kaiila. |
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| 44 | 346 |
"It is my doing! I told them! In my lodge I overheard this foolish slave mention the place and time of the council! I tricked him into loosening my gag! I managed later, before being dragged from the Yellow-Knife camp, to rid myself of it! I then, in Yellow Knife, informed my people of your future w... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 257 |
From the fellow's back there protruded the handle of a knife, the hilt of a particular sort of knife, that of a saddle knife, that of the sort common in the land of the Wagon Peoples, that commonly known as a "quiva". |
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| 2 | 123 |
I surrendered my sword to him, and the knife, too, I commonly carried, a quiva, a Tuchuk saddle knife, balanced for throwing. |
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| 15 | 581 |
"When you were going through our friends' pouches over there, did you find any small knives, such as a hook knife or a shaving knife?" I had a belt knife myself, which was sheathed on the sword belt, to the right, but at the moment I preferred something lighter-bladed, smaller and sharper, if it wer... |
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| 25 | 205 |
When I removed the pouch and knife from my knife belt, I doubled it, and held it to her, and she took it in her hands, and kissed it, as a slave might have the whip. |
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| 2 | 369 |
But a large paw rested gently on the arm that held the knife, and the knife suddenly turned red, and then gray. |
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| 13 | 29 |
At his hip was a knife, a Kur knife. |
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| 36 | 76 |
"The knife," said Cabot, "outreaches the hand, and the sword outreaches the knife, and the spear outreaches the sword. |
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| 36 | 77 |
Is the knife then less noble than the hand, and the sword less noble than the knife, and the spear less noble than the sword?" "No," said Grendel. |
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| 35 | 69 |
It is a war, knife to knife, a war without quarter". |
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| 14 | 358 |
I had determined that as long ago as Brundisium This is particularly important if one is concerned with a short weapon, such as a sleeve dagger, a tunic knife, a hook knife, such things. |
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| 35 | 83 |
Hiza leaped up, drawing her knife, but Tuza faced her, her own knife drawn, and ready. |
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| 37 | 122 |
We were standing by our burdens, I think about the eighth Ahn, awaiting the command to bear them, when Tuza drew out her knife, went to Darla, seized her by the hair, bent her head back, and put the blade of the knife to her throat. |
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| 9 | 28 |
My question is this, is it appropriate to lift the ritual knife when success, survival, even victory, is still possible?" "In such a case," had said Lord Okimoto, "lifting the ritual knife would be not only premature, but would be an error of action; indeed, it would be improper, and thus forbidden"... |
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| 57 | 80 |
"More than one Ubar has been slain by a knife thrust at a feast," said Lord Grendel, "the knife sometimes wielded even by a slave. |
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| 1 | 11 |
He replaced the knife, a kitchen knife, not finely ground, not hilted, not a war knife, not a killing knife, in his belt. |
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