| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 81 |
When I said this, the monstrous insect bent near me, and I caught sight of the mandibles, like curved knives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 141 |
Those who wore the silver masks had risen to their feet, and the force of their cries pressed in on me like knives, the air itself seemed filled with the bedlam of their command, "Slay him!" I turned and walked slowly to the center of the arena. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 176 |
"It was like knives and fire," she said. |
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| 19 | 37 |
Some of them reminded me of shallow scoops, others of awls, others of knives. |
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| 30 | 9 |
I looked about the room, turning my head painfully, and saw that the room was some sort of operating chamber, filled with instrumentation, with racks of delicate tongs and knives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 169 |
The scars had been worked into the faces, with needles and knives and pigments and the dung of bosks over a period of days and nights. |
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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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| 23 | 105 |
Some of the rear ranks actually climbed fallen and struggling comrades and leaped over the wagons to the other side, where they were cut down by archers and dragged from their kaiila to be flung beneath the knives of free Tuchuk women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 29 |
Another form of lock difficult to guard against is the pit lock, because of the natural crevices in Gorean tiling commonly found in corridors of cylinders; when tampered with a trap falls away beneath the individual, dropping him to a pit below, usually containing knives fixed in stone, but upon occ... |
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| 12 | 372 |
There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca... |
10 |
| 13 | 363 |
"Are you familiar with such knives?" asked Mip. |
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| 17 | 819 |
"But in the time of the father of Cernus," she said, "when hook knives were sheathed". |
10 |
| 17 | 822 |
"The knives are sheathed now that the loser will survive to be fed to the beast". |
10 |
| 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 | 448 |
It is one thing to force a bird or rider into the padded bars, and another against the great, swinging knives that were now the rings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 202 |
She cut me with her beauty more painfully, more cruelly, than might have the knives of a torturer. |
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| 9 | 167 |
Others were calling for Whip Knives to be brought. |
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| 9 | 219 |
For was I not myself of Port Kar? Could we not do what we wished, taking what we wanted, as we had rence girls that pleased us, simply binding them and making them our slaves? I laughed, for I had been considering, aforetime, how Port Kar might fall, and yet she was my own, my own city! The two drun... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 147 |
In my search for food I had found some utensils, but no knives, nothing to use as a weapon. |
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| 8 | 1158 |
I shook my head in denial, No, No! Some of the girls were rifling in the wagons, gathering food, coins and drink, cloth, knives, whatever they wished. |
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| 9 | 109 |
All had removed their knives from their sheaths. |
10 |
| 9 | 203 |
And they could fight with knives and knew the trails and trees of the vast forests. |
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| 18 | 33 |
If you wish, we will fight with knives in the marshes". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 215 |
"Do you recall your price?" "Two steel knives," said the man, "and fifty steel arrow points". |
10 |
| 2 | 464 |
"Forty arrow points for each, and the knives," said Sheera, cutting at the sand. |
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| 2 | 477 |
When dealing with men, however, the girls usually demanded, and received, goods of greater value to them, usually knives, arrow points, small spear points; sometimes armlets, and bracelets and necklaces, and mirrors; sometimes slave nets and slave traps, to aid in their hunting; sometimes slave chai... |
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| 8 | 55 |
We could then stand over them with knives, preventing them from freeing themselves. |
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| 8 | 67 |
We unrolled the sleen nets and loosened the knives in our sheaths. |
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| 14 | 292 |
Vicious, sinuous, clawing, lithe, these savage beauties, in their skins and gold, with their knives, their light spears, weapons darting, danced. |
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| 20 | 148 |
"We do not know where he is!" "Take knives!" cried another girl. |
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| 22 | 11 |
Others carried merely knives, or light spears, taken from Hura's panther girls. |
10 |
| 22 | 818 |
"I ask the rite of knives," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 143 |
How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground. |
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| 3 | 334 |
The two other men stood ready with knives to cut the mooring ropes. |
10 |
| 4 | 142 |
They threw the net to the planking and, with their knives, began to slice the heads and tails from the fish. |
10 |
| 13 | 207 |
At the tables, lifting ale and knives to the Forkbeard, were more than a thousand men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 602 |
The strips are cut with knives, and it requires great skill to cut them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 461 |
I had always had a fear of steel blades, even knives. |
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| 9 | 1613 |
"Then," asked Thurnus, "it will be the test of knives?" In this the two men leave the village and enter, from opposite sides, a darkened wood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 22 |
Carved, the bone and horn of the animal can function as arrow points, needles, thimbles, chisels, wedges and knives. |
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| 14 | 97 |
Kadluk, I then understood, had wisely removed his gear, such as knives and arrows, from the tent before Imnak and I had arrived. |
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| 23 | 147 |
And I have mirrors, and beads and knives, and many other trade goods". |
10 |
| 25 | 116 |
He generally carries such things as hooks, fish line, knives, snare strings, and harpoons with him. |
10 |
| 27 | 166 |
Imnak and I, knives ready, the girls remaining at the hut, scouted the terrain in the immediate vicinity. |
10 |
| 27 | 179 |
We sheathed our knives. |
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| 33 | 101 |
It satisfied itself the sack contained no knives or weapon. |
10 |
| 35 | 1097 |
Then their suits were being slit with bone knives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 104 |
"If it were not for the askaris they would fall upon us with their slaughtering knives". |
10 |
| 27 | 16 |
More than one of the men now drew forth knives and threatened us. |
10 |
| 27 | 19 |
"We could use supplies, bush knives, and trade goods". |
10 |
| 27 | 106 |
Here we did not know if it would have more value than metal knives or coils of copper wire. |
10 |
| 27 | 107 |
The results of our trading had been two baskets of dried fish, a sack of meal and vegetables, a length of bark cloth, plaited and pounded, from the pod tree, dyed red, a handful of colored, wooden beads, and, most importantly, two pangas, two-foot-long, heavy, curve-bladed bush knives. |
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| 28 | 19 |
In the box, jumbled, were rolls of wire, mirrors, pins and knives, beads, shells and bits of colored glass. |
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| 31 | 38 |
We had obtained in the trading, for some knives and colored glass, several sacks of meal, fruit, and vegetables. |
10 |
| 32 | 568 |
My old clothing, and my boots, which the girls, laughing, cut to pieces with small knives, were burned. |
10 |
| 32 | 569 |
Outside the doorway, with large, curved knives, stood two huge men, warriors, I suppose, on guard". |
10 |
| 39 | 21 |
Streaming out from behind them, brandishing spears and shields, knives and pangas, crying out, plunging toward us in the water, were dozens of men. |
10 |
| 44 | 68 |
From loops on the belts hung knives and small implements. |
10 |
| 44 | 117 |
The small men then flooded past me, clambering on the web itself, and began to crawl upon the beast with their knives, cutting it to pieces. |
10 |
| 44 | 141 |
Then they had rushed past me and, with their knives, had boldly finished the creature. |
10 |
| 44 | 230 |
"They have spears and knives". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 578 |
But into those definitions did not enter, as I now recognize, hints of a nature formed by a harsh evolution, remarks pertaining to genetic dispositions selected for in times when the meadows were bestrode by the prowling tread of the saber-toothed tiger and the hills rang with the trumpeting of mast... |
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| 13 | 249 |
Its rider was mounted in a high, purple saddle, with knives in saddle sheaths. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 185 |
"Beware," said Policrates, "there are tortures in this holding to which you might be subjected other than the caresses of slave girls—the twisting of chains, of burning irons, of knives". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 203 |
Indeed, they often acted as intermediaries between the men of the settlements and the wilder tribes of the interior, such as the Yellow Knives, the Sleen and Kaiila. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 9 | 50 |
The butcher knives are usually ground down into a narrow, concave shape. |
10 |
| 10 | 14 |
Grunt was unusual in having traded as far east as the country of the Fleer and the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 10 | 23 |
"They are, then," I speculated, "Fleer or Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 10 | 48 |
"That dust," he said, "does not rise from the paws of the kaiila of Dust Legs, nor of Yellow Knives nor Fleer. |
10 |
| 13 | 204 |
"If you should prove unusual in some respect, although this is extremely rare," I said, "we can, tomorrow, grind one of Grunt's trading knives into a lancet". |
10 |
| 14 | 1112 |
"Kaiila, Sleen, Yellow Knives, Kailiauk". |
10 |
| 14 | 1121 |
The sign for the Yellow Knives had been the sign for knife, followed by the sign for fleer. |
10 |
| 14 | 1163 |
"Three days ago, or some three days ago," said Grunt, "a large party of red savages, consisting of Kaiila, Yellow Knives, Sleen, Fleer and Kailiauk fell suddenly upon a wagon train and a column of soldiers, both infantry and cavalry. |
10 |
| 14 | 1318 |
"To do so, you will have to pass through Fleer country, and the lands of Sleen and Yellow Knives," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 379 |
The other three groups, consisting of five children apiece, were taken by the Sleen, the Yellow Knives and Kailiauk". |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
Cuwignaka; Sleen, Yellow Knives and Kaiila "This is the lad of whom the Waniyanpi spoke," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 18 | 157 |
"Sleen, and Yellow Knives," said Grunt, "and Kaiila, too". |
10 |
| 18 | 188 |
"Those to the south are Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 19 | 22 |
The red-haired girl was on her hands and knees in the grass, naked, warriors, some on foot, some astride kaiila, Yellow Knives and Kaiila, gathered about her. |
10 |
| 19 | 44 |
One of the Yellow Knives standing about put his hand on the hair of the kneeling girl. |
10 |
| 19 | 50 |
Yellow Knives and Kaiila, hereditary enemies, tensed. |
10 |
| 19 | 52 |
One of the Yellow Knives near the fellow threatened with the lance said something to him. |
10 |
| 19 | 58 |
The Yellow Knives had their share of the loot. |
10 |
| 19 | 68 |
"Sleen, tarsks, all of them," said Grunt, in Gorean, looking after the retreating Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 19 | 71 |
"The painted prints on the flanks of the kaiila of the Yellow Knives?" I asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 72 |
"The sign of the Urt Soldiers," said Grunt, "a society of the Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 19 | 129 |
Two of the Kaiila drew their knives. |
10 |
| 19 | 211 |
Hatchets, mirrors, knives and cloths, and such, were now much scattered about, on the grass. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 254 |
"Make ready your arrows! Sharpen your knives! Sharpen your knives! We are going to make meat! We are going to make meat!" Slowly, through the camp, in the darkness, now crowded with men and women, rode Agleskala, the crier of the Sleen Soldiers. |
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| 8 | 33 |
"About the Yellow Knives? That they are going to send a delegation even into the camp?" "I have heard rumors, even today," I said, "about the possibility of a peace being arranged with the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 12 | 348 |
"The Sleen got me for two knives," she said, "and the Yellow Knives had me for a mirror". |
10 |
| 19 | 48 |
On the basis of her experience with the Yellow Knives she had told me that the three Yellow Knives in the camp are not civil chieftains, as is claimed, but war chiefs". |
10 |
| 28 | 363 |
The Kurii, now, allied with the Yellow Knives, and supported by the Flighted Ones, the Kinyanpi, could systematically search the Barrens, unimpeded in their search for Zarendargar, and if an entire people, the nation of the Kaiila, should stand in their way, then what was it to them, if this nation ... |
10 |
| 33 | 35 |
"Are there Kinyanpi about, Yellow Knives, soldiers?" "There are no soldiers nor Yellow Knives," she said. |
10 |
| 40 | 374 |
We were only waiting for Yellow Knives to come to the compound, that we might deliver them to them!" "The Yellow Knives would kill them," said a man. |
10 |
| 1 | 189 |
One's lodge, and robes, and possessions could be taken away or cut to pieces with knives and scattered to the winds. |
10 |
| 1 | 256 |
Shortly thereafter we were apprehended by a mixed group of unlikely allies, representatives of Sleen, Yellow Knives and Kaiila, who, in virtue of the Memory, as it is called, had joined forces to attack the wagon train and soldiers. |
10 |
| 1 | 451 |
From that time on he had seemed to live for little more than killing and vengeance, not only against the Yellow Knives but against any enemy, or reputed enemy, of the Kaiila. |
10 |
| 3 | 287 |
I did not doubt but what the Fleer and the Yellow Knives, and other peoples, too, might have similar ceremonies, in which, in one way or another, a similar profession might take place, there being danced or enacted also by a woman of another group, perhaps even, in those cases, by a maiden of the Ka... |
10 |
| 4 | 127 |
"Make ready your arrows! Make ready your knives! We are going to make meat! We are going to make meat!" This was a crier of the Sleen Soldiers, Agleskala, Striped Lizard. |
10 |
| 4 | 172 |
Yellow Knives often camp in open timber. |
10 |
| 4 | 388 |
"Make ready your knives. |
10 |
| 7 | 565 |
"It is rumored that there may be peace with the Yellow Knives," said Hci. |
10 |
| 7 | 596 |
"They were Yellow Knives," said Hci. |
10 |
| 7 | 605 |
They were Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 7 | 623 |
"The Yellow Knives are our enemies," said Hci. |
10 |
| 7 | 625 |
"Was it really the Yellow Knives who first contacted Watonka?" asked Hci. |
10 |
| 7 | 629 |
"I know Yellow Knives," said Hci, his hand straying to the long scar at the left side of his chin. |
10 |
| 7 | 635 |
She had been captured from Yellow Knives at the age of twelve. |
10 |
| 7 | 655 |
"I do not trust Yellow Knives," said Hci. |
10 |
| 7 | 660 |
It did seem to me plausible, if the Yellow Knives wished to sue for peace, and if they had contacted Watonka, or if he had contacted them, that it would have been done at this time, at the time of the gathering, of the dances and feasts. |
10 |
| 7 | 775 |
"It has to do with the Yellow Knives, does it not?" asked Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 7 | 786 |
"If one can bring about peace between our peoples, the Kaiila and the Yellow Knives," she said, "one would surely, in the prestige of this, be very important". |
10 |
| 7 | 821 |
For example, although the Dust Legs and the Fleer are enemies, as are the Kaiila and the Fleer, the Dust Legs have dealings with the Sleen, and the Sleen, in turn, trade with tribes such as the Yellow Knives and the Fleer. |
10 |
| 7 | 822 |
Thus, indirectly, even tribes hostile to the Kaiila, or normally so, such as the Fleer and the Yellow Knives might, quite possibly, have heard of Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 7 | 927 |
"Should he be successful in bringing about this peace, as we shall hope he shall be, he will doubtless be the recipient of many kaiila, perhaps even a thousand, gifts from both the Yellow Knives and the Kaiila themselves". |
10 |
| 7 | 937 |
"Do you think that there will be peace between the Yellow Knives and the Kaiila?" I asked. |
10 |
| 8 | 41 |
"I do not trust the Yellow Knives," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 43 |
"I have never had good relations with the Yellow Knives," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 47 |
He had not, on the other hand, had good relations with the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 8 | 52 |
"You do not seem overly fond of Yellow Knives," I observed. |
10 |
| 12 | 344 |
"The Dust Legs traded me to the Sleen," she said, "and the Sleen traded me to the Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 12 | 350 |
You then went for two knives, and then for a mirror". |
10 |
| 12 | 448 |
You went for a hide, and then two knives, and then only a mirror. |
10 |
| 13 | 30 |
"There is truly to be peace between the Kaiila and the Yellow Knives," said Mahpiyasapa. |
10 |
| 13 | 32 |
Even now civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives reside in his lodge". |
10 |
| 13 | 52 |
"I want her for Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 13 | 53 |
I and my fellows are going about the camp, gathering gifts for the Yellow Knives, kaiila and saddles, blankets, robes, cloth and women". |
10 |
| 13 | 57 |
"Neither you nor the Yellow Knives may have her," said Canka. |
10 |
| 13 | 174 |
Some larger pieces of vegetable and meat, we had, however, in the informal fashion of the Barrens, taken from the pot on our knives. |
10 |
| 15 | 45 |
Even so, he did not put his plan into effect until after Canka had refused to give her to his father, Mahpiyasapa, for the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 15 | 59 |
Hci, I think, would rather kill Fleer and Yellow Knives than master slaves". |
10 |
| 15 | 124 |
"I will give her to him, for the Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 15 | 180 |
"Tomorrow," cried Hci, angrily, pointing his finger at Canka, "my father will take the woman! Tomorrow, by noon, he will take her from you, for the Yellow Knives!" He then, in fury, turned about and strode between the lodges. |
10 |
| 16 | 266 |
"And perhaps most splendidly," I said, "it seems that there is soon to be peace between the Kaiila and the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 16 | 267 |
Even now civil chiefs of the Yellow Knives are in the camp". |
10 |
| 16 | 276 |
"I was a slave of Yellow Knives for a time," she said. |
10 |
| 16 | 279 |
"I saw the civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives at a council," she said. |
10 |
| 16 | 286 |
The Pte would be expected to arrive in the territories of the Kaiila before arriving in those of the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 16 | 304 |
"In this council," she said, "I saw the civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 16 | 308 |
"Have you seen these men in camp before," I asked, "the Yellow Knives?" "Yes, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 18 | 125 |
I wished to find Grunt, to query him as to the possible significance, if any, of the information I had earlier received from Oiputake, as to the identity of the Yellow Knives in the camp. |
10 |
| 18 | 196 |
In my intense awareness of this being the day of the great dance, probably a function of Cuwignaka's almost overwhelming concern about it, and in my concern over the fate of Canka, and my concern with the information obtained from Oiputake, I had forgotten that this day, too, was the day of a peace ... |
10 |
| 18 | 202 |
Knives were drawn upon me. |
10 |
| 18 | 215 |
I crawled back a pace or two, on my knees, keeping my eyes on their knives. |
10 |
| 18 | 217 |
They sheathed their knives and resumed their stance, arms folded, before the threshold of the great lodge. |
10 |
| 18 | 275 |
The Yellow Knives in camp could not be war chiefs. |
10 |
| 18 | 285 |
* * * * The three men, arms folded, standing in the vicinity of Watonka, who stood on a bit of high ground, near the Isanna lodges, I did not doubt were Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 18 | 298 |
Watonka, in marked contrast to the three warriors, whom I took to be Yellow Knives, seemed clearly ill at ease. |
10 |
| 18 | 303 |
Iwoso, on the other hand, like the other three, who were presumably Yellow Knives, seemed quite calm. |
10 |
| 18 | 334 |
"But I have reason to believe that the three men with your father, the Yellow Knives, are not as they seem". |
10 |
| 18 | 336 |
"I think they are not civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 342 |
"He thinks our guests are not civil chieftains of the Yellow Knives, soon to be our friends, but war chiefs". |
10 |
| 18 | 343 |
This was translated by Iwoso speedily to the three Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 18 | 348 |
"There is a slave in camp," I said, "a blond female who was owned by Yellow Knives for a time. |
10 |
| 18 | 352 |
These things, and what follows, were being translated, quickly, by Iwoso for the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 18 | 355 |
At this point one of the Yellow Knives put his hand on Watonka's arm. |
10 |
| 19 | 46 |
She was later traded to Sleen who, in turn, traded her to Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 19 | 65 |
One of the Yellow Knives, one of the civil chieftains, intervened. |
10 |
| 19 | 106 |
"The lodge contains the great men of the Kaiila," said Cuwignaka, "but Watonka, and the Yellow Knives, are not there". |
10 |
| 19 | 129 |
"When you saw Watonka, and the Yellow Knives," said Cuwignaka, "what were they doing? Think carefully". |
10 |
| 19 | 132 |
"The Yellow Knives were standing in the vicinity of a small, raised place, prominent among the Isanna lodges. |
10 |
| 19 | 173 |
"Was there anything else unusual about Watonka, and the Yellow Knives?" pressed Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 20 | 13 |
"The Yellow Knives with Watonka are not civil chiefs," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 20 | 14 |
"They have been recognized by a blond slave, once the property of Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 20 | 18 |
"Watonka has not gone to the council, nor have the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 20 | 29 |
"Shortly before noon," I said, "I saw him still in the camp of the Isanna, with the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 20 | 63 |
"Are you so fond of Yellow Knives?" asked Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 20 | 66 |
"You probably know Yellow Knives as well as any man in the camp," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 21 | 1 |
Yellow Knives One of the Sleen Soldiers, rising to his feet, spun awkwardly, kicking dust, the arrow having entered through the chest, its point protruding above his left hip. |
10 |
| 21 | 41 |
"Yellow Knives!" said the man. |
10 |
| 22 | 26 |
"It is under attack by both tarnsmen and Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 22 | 58 |
"If necessary, Wasnapohdi," I said to her, "fall on your knees before Yellow Knives, and tear open your clothing, revealing your breasts to them. |
10 |
| 22 | 97 |
"Yellow Knives," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 258 |
The pole itself had apparently been attacked with hatchets and knives. |
10 |
| 22 | 261 |
It was through these gaps that Yellow Knives had perhaps entered the lodge. |
10 |
| 22 | 312 |
"Yellow Knives have done this," he said. |
10 |
| 23 | 3 |
Five Yellow Knives, in single file, astride kaiila, moved quickly past. |
10 |
| 23 | 24 |
Her outburst might have alerted other Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 23 | 85 |
Too, if other Yellow Knives should approach the area it scarcely seemed appropriate to have it lying about. |
10 |
| 23 | 87 |
I saw no sign of approaching Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 23 | 108 |
"You are well tied for the pleasures of Yellow Knives," said Cuwignaka scornfully, looking down upon the supine, exotically bound suppliant. |
10 |
| 23 | 112 |
"Why should Yellow Knives be first?" I asked. |
10 |
| 25 | 3 |
We had mounted the two kaiila taken from the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 25 | 12 |
"Two Yellow Knives came this way," he said. |
10 |
| 25 | 17 |
"Was it your intention to attack the two Yellow Knives by yourself?" "Yes," said Hci. |
10 |
| 25 | 21 |
"These Yellow Knives had no further need of them," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 25 | 24 |
"Who slew these Yellow Knives?" asked Hci. |
10 |
| 25 | 57 |
"Those who slew the Yellow Knives," said Hci, "have they fled?" "No more than we," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 25 | 91 |
"Does he fight with the Yellow Knives?" "It had been my intention to kill him," said Hci. |
10 |
| 25 | 96 |
I think they were killed by the Yellow Knives who had been with them. |
10 |
| 25 | 97 |
It had been done not with arrows, but knives. |
10 |
| 25 | 98 |
Too, the Yellow Knives were gone. |
10 |
| 25 | 107 |
"The Yellow Knives must have taken her," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 25 | 112 |
Iwoso, for her part in the attack, would now be an important woman among the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 25 | 151 |
"What of these?" asked Cuwignaka, gesturing with his lance to the three white slaves who had been in the charge of the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 26 | 11 |
There were men afoot amongst us, too, both Yellow Knives and Kaiila. |
10 |
| 26 | 84 |
"Are you the slave of Yellow Knives?" I asked. |
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| 27 | 2 |
"The Kinyanpi! They are coming!" Several times in the afternoon had the battle whistles, formed from the wing bones of taloned Herlits, blasted in the air, and the feathered battle staffs raised and lowered, communicating their signals to the combatants, not only to the Kaiila but to the Yellow Kniv... |
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| 27 | 5 |
Not once had Mahpiyasapa, communicating his will by the whistles and battle staffs, permitted his brave, ragged lines to pursue retreating Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 27 | 7 |
Surely fresh Yellow Knives had, from time to time, swept into the combat. |
10 |
| 27 | 51 |
"Do you think the Yellow Knives will coordinate their attack with that of the Kinyanpi?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 27 | 62 |
We then turned to face the Yellow Knives, some three hundred yards away. |
10 |
| 27 | 77 |
"Watch the Yellow Knives!" I called to Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 27 | 88 |
Another perished similarly, lances thrust upward through the ropes and cloth, until, bleeding, wounded again and again, he could be pulled down, falling to the ground, there to die under knives. |
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| 27 | 93 |
The Yellow Knives had not moved. |
10 |
| 27 | 122 |
A single tarnsman, high in the sky, was flying toward the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 28 | 3 |
Before the lines of the Yellow Knives, some three hundred yards away, to the west, riders rode back and forth, with feathered lances. |
10 |
| 28 | 42 |
"The Yellow Knives have been quite successful," he had said. |
10 |
| 28 | 51 |
It had seemed strange to me that the Yellow Knives, after the difficulties of taking the camp had been made clear to them, had not withdrawn. |
10 |
| 28 | 65 |
A task force of Yellow Knives had penetrated the camp, too, to that point, and it was they who had killed and mutilated the wounded, and burned the lodge. |
10 |
| 28 | 73 |
One was the alliance and cooperation of the Yellow Knives and Kinyanpi. |
10 |
| 28 | 84 |
It was hard for me to believe that the Yellow Knives, red savages themselves, could have even conceived of such a thing. |
10 |
| 28 | 127 |
For the most part those herds had probably, by now, fallen to Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 28 | 168 |
She was the slave who, earlier, had been used by Yellow-Knives as, in effect, a lure girl, one used to distract or, say, entrap a warrior. |
10 |
| 28 | 184 |
No longer now were some of the Yellow Knives riding about, back and forth before their lines, moving their lances about, preparing their parties for combat, exhorting them, doubtless, to boldness and bravery. |
10 |
| 28 | 186 |
"Make ready your lances, make ready your knives," chanted Mahpiyasapa, riding before our lines. |
10 |
| 28 | 216 |
They would either keep their height and rain arrows down upon us or act in support of the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 28 | 218 |
If we warded blows of Yellow Knives we could not, at the same time, protect ourselves from aerial fire. |
10 |
| 28 | 219 |
Similarly, if we attempted to protect ourselves from aerial fire, by lifting our shields, we would be exposing ourselves to the Yellow Knives' plane of attack. |
10 |
| 28 | 220 |
Presumably we would await the attack of the Yellow Knives under the ropes and netting. |
10 |
| 28 | 221 |
This would make overhead archery more difficult for the Kinyanpi but would also give the Yellow Knives the momentum of attack. |
10 |
| 28 | 227 |
The engagement was brief, perhaps only four or five Ehn, and the Yellow Knives, howling and whooping, in full flight, speeding away, forsook the field. |
10 |
| 28 | 231 |
Of these, of those that had found targets, they reposed in the bodies of Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 28 | 241 |
At the crest of a rise, once again, suddenly emerging, silhouetted against the sky, were lines of Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 28 | 254 |
"It is not like Yellow Knives," said a man. |
10 |
| 28 | 293 |
"It is a medicine helper of the Yellow Knives!" cried another. |
10 |
| 28 | 337 |
Somehow they had come into league with the Kinyanpi and, perhaps through them, and in virtue of some special considerations, the nature of which I suspected I knew, been able to make contact with, and enlist the aid of, Yellow Knives. |
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| 28 | 339 |
The discipline of the Yellow Knives now became more meaningful. |
10 |
| 28 | 346 |
I looked wildly back toward the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 29 | 38 |
The Yellow Knives would have to make it through the confusion of slaves. |
10 |
| 29 | 39 |
"Yellow Knives are coming!" I cried out, pointing back. |
10 |
| 29 | 40 |
"Yellow Knives, to the west!" Mahpiyasapa looked about, wildly. |
10 |
| 29 | 48 |
The whooping of Yellow Knives was then upon us. |
10 |
| 29 | 83 |
"Away!" Grunt was crying, waving his arm aversively, at two Yellow Knives, mounted, looking at him. |
10 |
| 29 | 85 |
The two Yellow Knives, suddenly, turned about and sped from Grunt. |
10 |
| 29 | 114 |
"It was done to me five years ago," he said, "by Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 30 | 9 |
Here and there, at points on our perimeter, Yellow Knives and soldiers, in fierce, brief exchanges, tested our strength. |
10 |
| 30 | 26 |
The Yellow Knives opened their lines. |
10 |
| 30 | 30 |
"Yellow Knives," said a man, frightened. |
10 |
| 30 | 48 |
Mahpiyasapa had made a suitable adjustment, implicitly drawing a distinction between true and false medicines, the medicine of the Kaiila presumably being true medicine, and that of the Yellow Knives false. |
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| 30 | 72 |
"The medicine of the Yellow Knives is false medicine!" "What manner of medicine beasts are they, those portrayed on the masks?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 30 | 77 |
"The medicine of the Yellow Knives is false medicine," said a man. |
10 |
| 30 | 83 |
"If they did exist in the medicine world," said the first man, "they would not favor the Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 30 | 92 |
"Hold your lines, no matter what happens!" "Your medicine is false," cried Mahpiyasapa to the Yellow Knives, though doubtless they could not understand him. |
10 |
| 30 | 94 |
It is only wood and leather!" A horrifying sound came then from the ranks of the Yellow Knives and soldiers. |
10 |
| 30 | 96 |
It must have struck terror, too, into the hearts of the Yellow Knives and soldiers. |
10 |
| 30 | 106 |
Yellow Knives and soldiers pressed in. |
10 |
| 30 | 127 |
Two kaiila, bearing Yellow Knives, charged past. |
10 |
| 30 | 204 |
Our business must be done soon, before the return of the Yellow Knives and the soldiers. |
10 |
| 30 | 206 |
Then would be the time of the falling upon the slain, the time of the knives, the time of the trophies. |
10 |
| 31 | 17 |
We could hear the sounds of revels in the distance, where, together, Yellow Knives, soldiers and Kurii celebrated their victory. |
10 |
| 32 | 21 |
On the other side of it sat the three war chiefs of the Yellow Knives, those who had been earlier in the camp. |
10 |
| 32 | 55 |
"One would be enough to hearten the Yellow Knives," he said, "one would be enough to frighten and dispirit the Kaiila". |
10 |
| 32 | 88 |
When one of the soldiers or Yellow Knives wished one of these girls he simply unfastened the tether from one of her ankles and, when finished, put it again in place. |
10 |
| 32 | 112 |
"It is a dance of the Snake Society, a warrior society of the Yellow Knives," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 32 | 167 |
There was much laughter from the Yellow Knives and the dancers. |
10 |
| 32 | 254 |
"The Yellow Knives prepare to dance," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 33 | 50 |
"Now we are owned by Yellow Knives," she said. |
10 |
| 40 | 86 |
"He was killed," said Pumpkin, "by Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 40 | 87 |
"Now," said Carrot, "Yellow Knives are our masters". |
10 |
| 40 | 285 |
"Put them all out!" "Yellow Knives!" cried a man, near the door. |
10 |
| 40 | 296 |
We had not counted on the appearance of Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 40 | 324 |
Normally red savages are not interested in Waniyanpi women but I had little doubt that in the case of these two wenches the Yellow Knives would be prepared to make an exception. |
10 |
| 40 | 326 |
I did not think that the Yellow Knives would see fit to neglect them; only too obviously were they now ready to be put beneath the will of a man. |
10 |
| 40 | 328 |
I wondered if Carrot and Cabbage would object, if the Yellow Knives entered and, finding the girls of interest, and deciding to take them, tied them and led them away. |
10 |
| 40 | 352 |
"What about the Yellow Knives?" "Perhaps they could escape out the back," said a man. |
10 |
| 40 | 358 |
"If they are caught leaving, or if signs of their escape are found, it will be clear to the Yellow Knives, in either case, that they were here". |
10 |
| 40 | 369 |
"I do not want to be killed by Yellow Knives!" The Waniyanpi looked at one another. |
10 |
| 40 | 372 |
"That they may be turned over to Yellow Knives, you fool!" she cried. |
10 |
| 40 | 386 |
They drew their knives. |
10 |
| 40 | 396 |
"Where are the Yellow Knives?" asked Radish. |
10 |
| 40 | 407 |
"You did not truly slay the Yellow Knives, did you?" asked Radish. |
10 |
| 40 | 538 |
"She wanted us to bind our guests and turn them over to Yellow Knives," said another man. |
10 |
| 40 | 657 |
This is much stronger, in that sense, than being the slave of Kaiila or Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 40 | 865 |
"We can take the bodies of the Yellow Knives away," said Cuwignaka to Seibar. |
10 |
| 42 | 19 |
She, with three others, Inez, Corinne and Priscilla, had been taken from Grunt by Yellow Knives in the vicinity of the field where the battle had taken place between a coalition of red savages and the soldiers of Alfred, the mercenary captain from Port Olni. |
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| 42 | 22 |
This girl, however, had not been taken by Yellow Knives or Sleen; she had been taken by a Kaiila warrior, Canka; she was now Winyela, his slave. |
10 |
| 42 | 28 |
Accordingly we swiftly took to flight, the screaming of the birds, the smiting of their wings, serving further to alert the camp, both Yellow Knives and Kinyanpi. |
10 |
| 43 | 47 |
"Even the daughters of Kaiila chieftains are worthy only to be the slaves and maidens of Yellow Knives," said Iwoso. |
10 |
| 43 | 159 |
Quickly then, with knives, their clothing was cut from them. |
10 |
| 43 | 345 |
Surely some sort of high coup would be involved, dragging a high lady of the Yellow Knives, one of their own proud free women, in a sack, up and down, back and forth in their own promenade lane, like a common slave girl. |
10 |
| 43 | 398 |
She seemed to be intent upon communicating something of consequence to the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 43 | 401 |
"That will be sufficient, Lady Iwoso," I told her, in Kaiila, and then, with perhaps an overly dramatic gesture, but one whose effect was not lost on the Yellow Knives, I threw aside the robe I had worn. |
10 |
| 43 | 476 |
The Yellow Knives, below, looked upward in consternation. |
10 |
| 43 | 478 |
One of the Yellow Knives pointed to me. |
10 |
| 43 | 491 |
Several of the Yellow Knives, on their kaiila, were now on the large, flat surface of the rock. |
10 |
| 44 | 1 |
Yellow Knives Come to Council Rock "Oh!" said Iwoso, wincing, as I pulled tight the knots on her wrists, fastening them back and on each side of the stout post. |
10 |
| 44 | 55 |
I will make you rich among the Yellow Knives!" "What of her?" I asked, indicating Bloketu. |
10 |
| 44 | 109 |
It would not do, of course, for the beasts to learn of it, or the white soldiers of your people, the Yellow Knives, or the Kinyanpi". |
10 |
| 44 | 131 |
The movements of the white soldiers and the Yellow Knives, even from the time they had crossed the Northern Kaiila, four days ago, had been under surveillance by our scouts. |
10 |
| 44 | 326 |
"Yellow Knives!" we heard men cry about us. |
10 |
| 44 | 327 |
"Yellow Knives!" Men were rushing about. |
10 |
| 44 | 331 |
Not a pasang away, across the prairie, all attempt at concealment discarded, waves of Yellow Knives, feathers flying, dust billowing behind them, charged toward Council Rock. |
10 |
| 44 | 336 |
"Now you are done, Kaiila sleen!" At this point I could see only Yellow Knives but I did not doubt but what Alfred, the mercenary captain from Port Olni, with the remnants of his command, probably some three hundred cavalrymen, or so, following the engagement at the summer camp, was not far behind. |
10 |
| 44 | 337 |
Certainly, according to our scouts, he had been with the Yellow Knives at the time of the crossing of the Northern Kaiila. |
10 |
| 44 | 338 |
He would wish the Yellow Knives to make the first strike, doubtless, absorbing and presumably subduing the brunt of the resistance, thus sparing his own men. |
10 |
| 44 | 340 |
I did not think that the Yellow Knives would have disputed this plan. |
10 |
| 44 | 358 |
"The Yellow Knives approach incautiously, anxiously," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 44 | 364 |
"You cannot escape! You are lost!" The Yellow Knives now, to be sure, swirled about the foot of the trail, that leading to the summit of Council Rock. |
10 |
| 44 | 369 |
I did not think it wise that the Yellow Knives were urging their kaiila so speedily upward, and in such numbers, on so narrow a trail. |
10 |
| 44 | 394 |
"Waiting for Yellow Knives," said Hci. |
10 |
| 44 | 407 |
"Have you not brought the Yellow Knives here?" asked Hci. |
10 |
| 44 | 425 |
"It is to be expected that the Yellow Knives, seeing you, a high lady of their tribe, tied naked, as a slave, with a slave, will be incensed, that they will be outraged at this insult, that they will fight even more desperately, frenziedly and irrationally to free you, and thus, concomitantly, will ... |
10 |
| 44 | 447 |
On the trail below, only some twenty feet or so below the ledge, charging upward, Yellow Knives, four or five abreast, mounted on painted kaiila, swept toward the top of the trail, some hundred feet or so to our right. |
10 |
| 44 | 456 |
I saw one of the war chiefs of the Yellow Knives, whom I remembered from the summer camp, on his kaiila, slip over the ledge. |
10 |
| 44 | 457 |
Still more Yellow Knives, not clear on what was ahead, were trying to force their way upward on the narrow trail. |
10 |
| 44 | 458 |
Men fought to escape the edge, cutting at one another even with knives. |
10 |
| 44 | 459 |
But those at the edge, often, other Yellow Knives pressing forward, were thrust, even fought, from the trail. |
10 |
| 44 | 461 |
Bodies, those of kaiila and Yellow Knives, slipped from the edge, plummeting downward. |
10 |
| 44 | 472 |
The trail then, long and winding, visible in many of its lengths from the height of the escarpment, seemed choked with Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 44 | 474 |
We could even see many Yellow Knives, puzzled, milling about, near the foot of the trail, hundreds of feet below. |
10 |
| 44 | 484 |
Yet I think that more than a hundred and fifty Yellow Knives might already have perished, victims of that steep, dreadful trail, crowded from it, driven from it, trampled upon it, and some even falling under the weapons of their own fellows, fighting for space on the rugged ascent. |
10 |
| 44 | 489 |
Some finally plunged, rolling and bouncing downward, into the Yellow Knives far below on the grass. |
10 |
| 44 | 490 |
Yellow Knives raised their shields but this did little good for the potency of the stones lay primarily not in their capacity to cut or penetrate but to transmit their considerable force, bluntly, crushingly, suddenly, to the target surface. |
10 |
| 44 | 497 |
Slowly, with difficulty on the narrow trail, some backing down, some turning, some falling, the Yellow Knives on the lower lengths of the trail, pressing back among their fellows at the foot of Council Rock, freed the lower ascents, enabling their trapped fellows on the upper reaches of the trail, t... |
10 |
| 44 | 500 |
This the rear guard of the Yellow Knives, packed against their retreating fellows, the rock on one side, the drop on the other, their eyes wide with horror, must watch bounding inexorably toward them. |
10 |
| 44 | 502 |
It took perhaps a dozen men from the trail and then bounded down the rock face and, a few Ihn later, skipping and leaping almost like a pebble, possessing such terrible forces, yet seeming so small from this height, it caromed off the foot of the rock face and then landed, rolling and bounding, amon... |
10 |
| 44 | 567 |
Disadvantaged were the Yellow Knives to be on kaiilaback in such close quarters. |
10 |
| 44 | 573 |
He who had leapt his kaiila over the lower barricade was the second war chief of the Yellow Knives, he who had ascended the trail only Ehn earlier. |
10 |
| 44 | 578 |
In about an Ahn, in the vicinity of noon, we saw some three or four hundred Yellow Knives ascending the trail, on foot, slowly, conserving their energy. |
10 |
| 44 | 583 |
Further, the Yellow Knives, like other red savages honed to warlike perfection over generations of intertribal conflict, were fine warriors. |
10 |
| 44 | 607 |
In moments the shields of the Yellow Knives bristled with arrows. |
10 |
| 44 | 609 |
The small shields of the Yellow Knives, too, provided them with little protection. |
10 |
| 44 | 611 |
It did not take long for the assaulted Yellow Knives to realize that they were exposed to no ordinary rain of arrows, a shower soon finished, but something unnatural to them, something unprecedented in their experience. |
10 |
| 44 | 616 |
"See the Yellow Knives?" Hci asked Iwoso. |
10 |
| 44 | 630 |
"Doubtless they delayed their arrival, assuming that, by now, the Yellow Knives would have completed their business here". |
10 |
| 44 | 633 |
"No woman could love you! I hate you! I hate you!" "What do you think the Yellow Knives will do?" asked Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 44 | 641 |
"Their effect on the Yellow Knives is likely to be the more significant the more unfamiliar they are to them". |
10 |
| 44 | 654 |
Alfred, with his officers, and several Yellow Knives, began then, slowly, to ride south. |
10 |
| 44 | 659 |
"The Yellow Knives have sustained great losses," said Hci. |
10 |
| 44 | 677 |
"Do you think the Yellow Knives will withdraw?" "I do not know," she said. |
10 |
| 44 | 835 |
"Do you think the Yellow Knives will attack again, today?" asked Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 44 | 880 |
"That is thanks to the Yellow Knives," said Hci. |
10 |
| 46 | 17 |
"Too, of course," I said, "your presence here, naked, in your ropes, tied like a slave, is calculated to be an incitement to the Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 46 | 46 |
"The Yellow Knives," said Cuwignaka, coming over to where I stood, "are beginning to mass at the foot of the trail". |
10 |
| 46 | 66 |
"There are not enough soldiers to control the Yellow Knives," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 46 | 83 |
The Yellow Knives, probably some four or five hundred of them, with perhaps some fifty soldiers, were now climbing the trail. |
10 |
| 46 | 104 |
In a few moments the Yellow Knives and the soldiers with them, shielded by their screens, were passing beneath our position, advancing toward the summit. |
10 |
| 46 | 121 |
"A gag, if noted, might alert perceptive Yellow Knives," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 46 | 136 |
Then we fell upon the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 46 | 141 |
Then Yellow Knives, in sufficient numbers, had managed to turn and face us. |
10 |
| 46 | 144 |
Elated, Yellow Knives rushed after us, down the trail. |
10 |
| 46 | 151 |
Pursuing Yellow Knives, thrust from behind, unable to stop, rushed onto the lances. |
10 |
| 46 | 154 |
War clubs, shields and knives met. |
10 |
| 46 | 156 |
It now struck the Yellow Knives on the trail itself. |
10 |
| 46 | 157 |
Most of the Yellow Knives, of course, hemmed in by their fellows, on the front and in the rear, and on the flanks by the drop and the wall, must remain inactive. |
10 |
| 46 | 161 |
Many of the Yellow Knives and soldiers, rather than face this withering fire, lowered themselves from the trail, slipping and sliding, then, abrasively, down the side of the rock face. |
10 |
| 46 | 163 |
In moments then our groups, that of Hci and Waiyeyeca, and that from the barricade itself, met, Yellow Knives and soldiers slain or forced from the trail. |
10 |
| 46 | 171 |
"Yellow Knives on kaiila approaching the lower barricade!" called Kahintokapa, from above. |
10 |
| 46 | 174 |
By the time these Yellow Knives had dismounted and cast aside the lower barricade, it tumbling downward, breaking and shattering in its descent, and remounted, we were safe. |
10 |
| 46 | 176 |
There were many Yellow Knives left on the trail below. |
10 |
| 47 | 6 |
"The Yellow Knives, left to their own resources," said Hci, "would have withdrawn after the failure of the first day. |
10 |
| 47 | 50 |
"I am doing it to improve your appearance," he said, "much as one might water an animal before its sale, that you will look your best for the Yellow Knives". |
10 |
| 47 | 82 |
The Yellow Knives, in lines behind them, advanced. |
10 |
| 47 | 210 |
Perhaps they had feared less than might have Yellow Knives, Fleer or Kaiila, because they were more familiar with tarns than such tribes. |
10 |
| 47 | 310 |
"Back to Council Rock!" Soldiers had established a hold on the eastern ledges of Council Rock, to which they had been climbing, those ledges opposite those above the trail, up which, slowly, medicine drums beating, medicine men dancing about the beasts, the procession of Yellow Knives, a few minutes... |
10 |
| 47 | 320 |
The Yellow Knives, on the western side of Council Rock, prevented by the mountain from knowing what had occurred in the air to the east, and on the eastern faces of the rock, singing their medicine, their hearing throbbing with the beat of drums, had not desisted in their procession to the summit; t... |
10 |
| 47 | 323 |
Yellow Knives were not twenty-five feet below me, on the trail. |
10 |
| 47 | 325 |
I also saw, prominent among the Yellow Knives, Alfred, with soldiers, and a Yellow Knife I recognized as the third of the war chiefs who had been at the summer camp. |
10 |
| 47 | 339 |
Yellow Knives crowded back against one another, uneasily. |
10 |
| 47 | 354 |
They stopped, some ten feet from one another, alone, facing one another on the trail, between the barricade and the other beasts and Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 47 | 373 |
The medicine men of the Yellow Knives looked at one another, frightened. |
10 |
| 47 | 394 |
Yellow Knives shrank back. |
10 |
| 47 | 402 |
The Yellow Knives began to back downward. |
10 |
| 47 | 414 |
The Yellow Knives looked at one another. |
10 |
| 47 | 417 |
The Yellow Knives wavered. |
10 |
| 47 | 423 |
The Yellow Knives then turned and fled. |
10 |
| 47 | 424 |
Kaiila swarmed over and through the barricade, with clubs and lances, and shields and knives. |
10 |
| 47 | 426 |
Arrows were loosened from the height of the escarpment into the fleeing Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 47 | 428 |
Some of our men who were tarnsmen brought their tarns into the fray, raking down at the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 47 | 429 |
Yellow Knives, crowding, fleeing, forced many of their own number from the trail. |
10 |
| 47 | 435 |
We had been the bait, on Council Rock, to lure the Yellow Knives and soldiers into a trap, a trap which these other tribes, acting in coalition, were to spring shut. |
10 |
| 47 | 437 |
The Yellow Knives, in cooperating with white soldiers, had betrayed the Memory. |
10 |
| 47 | 442 |
Such alliances, those of Yellow Knives with forces such as those of the white soldiers and the Kinyanpi, threatened the delicate tribal balances in the Barrens. |
10 |
| 47 | 448 |
Iwoso was white with terror, roped to her post, seeing the retreat of the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 47 | 496 |
Some, I think, may have been slain by Yellow Knives who, in wrath, sensing perhaps a betrayal or fraud in them, had fallen upon them. |
10 |
| 47 | 497 |
It would be a long time, I thought, before Kaiila or Yellow Knives would be likely to again take such beasts for supernatural creatures, visitants from the medicine world. |
10 |
| 47 | 509 |
"The Yellow Knives are defeated," said Hci to her. |
10 |
| 48 | 3 |
I looked down from the escarpment to the victory camp below, where, yesterday, the Yellow Knives had had their encampment. |
10 |
| 51 | 10 |
"It is one like those who were with the Yellow Knives," said a man, "those defeated on the trail". |
10 |
| 51 | 22 |
When Cuwignaka and I had spied on the victory celebration of the Yellow Knives and soldiers at the summer camp we had counted only seven Kurii there, including Kog and Sardak. |
10 |
| 53 | 3 |
I had acquired her as a portion of my share of the loot from the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 54 | 100 |
The Yellow Knives had been defeated ten days ago. |
10 |
| 54 | 121 |
They were the four girls who had been taken from Grunt long ago by Yellow Knives, near the scene of the massacre of the wagon train, and the battle between the soldiers and the coalition of red savages, Lois, Inez, Corinne and Priscilla. |
10 |
| 54 | 122 |
They had been returned to Grunt after the defeat of the Yellow Knives, as a part of his portion of the booty. |
10 |
| 54 | 168 |
This was done at the same time as Yellow Knives had been appropriating Lois and three others of her sisters in bondage, Priscilla, Corinne and Inez. |
10 |
| 54 | 181 |
This hypothesis is further confirmed by the fact that the Sleen, in trading with Grunt, Grunt making use of booties acquired from the Yellow Knives, offered him, in effect, the package containing both the Hobarts and their lovers. |
10 |
| 54 | 202 |
I was reminded that the Kaiila, in spite of the stores acquired from the Yellow Knives, much of which had been their own, from the summer camp, must still do hunting for the winter. |
10 |
| 54 | 283 |
Canka, as a portion of his loot from the Yellow Knives, had taken five hides of the yellow kailiauk. |
10 |
| 54 | 309 |
These things were given to them as gifts by the Kaiila, in appreciation for the services rendered during the time of the war with the Yellow Knives and soldiers, for providing us with a tarn base within striking distance of Council Rock, and sheltering and supporting our men during the period of the... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 632 |
It was a world, I thought, on which men had never relinquished their sovereignty, on which they had never submitted to the knives of psychic castration. |
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| 13 | 4 |
Men and women, many in rags, brandishing knives and implements, mixed with soldiers, poured into the great hall. |
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| 16 | 92 |
I stumbled on through the darkness, my legs lashed to the thighs by the knives of the wind-whipped grass. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 313 |
"In any event," said Boots, "surely you would not be so cruel, so heartless, so insensitive, as to suggest that I even consider using the scissors, that cruel engine, those divisive knives, upon so wondrous an object". |
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| 7 | 416 |
I did have a sword and I had also purchased a set of Tuchuk quivas, their famed saddle knives. |
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| 7 | 417 |
The set consists of seven knives, one for each of the seven sheaths in the Tuchuk saddle. |
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| 9 | 193 |
"Perhaps you could unmake it, and start in, all over again," I suggested, reaching to the multiple sheath of saddle knives slung at my hip. |
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| 11 | 83 |
I approached, the multiple sheath of saddle knives at my left hip. |
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| 11 | 84 |
"May I present Tarl, he of the Plains of Turia, he of the Lands of the Wagon Peoples, master of the mystic quivas, the famed saddle knives of the southern barbarians, come to us at great expense and in spite of many perils by special arrangement with Kamchak, Ubar San of the Wagon Peoples!" "That's ... |
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| 22 | 121 |
"But who would pay to see knives thrown at a slave?" asked Chino. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 101 |
In one place there was a dead tharlarion, and the women, some crouching on it, were cutting it into pieces with knives, putting pieces of meat in their mouths, and hiding other pieces in their dresses. |
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| 21 | 137 |
What consolation is it for others if they should eventually discover that they live in a world of facts, if disillusioned they should eventually recognize their errors, living to see the harvests of their own foolishness, living to see their civilization split asunder, to see their world fall bleedi... |
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| 26 | 250 |
"We will slide our knives, sheathed, along the tunnel floor," said the fellow at the right. |
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| 26 | 253 |
In a moment two objects, presumably sheaths, though I doubted from the sound they contained knives, with some buckles and straps, came sliding along the tunnel floor, one from the right, the other from the left. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 888 |
Coins, or letters of credit, might be concealed about a wagon, but it is not easy to conceal quantities of flour, salt, jerky, paga and such, not to mention the miscellany of diverse items for the field supply of which one can usually count on the sutlers, such things as combs, brushes, candles, lam... |
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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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| 20 | 122 |
They were shallow drafted, low, like knives in the water. |
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| 21 | 598 |
With scissors, knives and needles free women might tear her to pieces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 240 |
"People of scaling knives, of throwing sticks, and fish spears!" laughed a fellow. |
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| 21 | 20 |
Most of the gilding was gone, perhaps scraped with knives, or burned away. |
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| 32 | 197 |
At least our fellows were not screaming wildly and loosing arrows from small bows into their bodies, attacking them with knives and hatchets, and such. |
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| 32 | 255 |
Then one night, on the sand, we awakened, knives at our throats. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 208 |
At least two of the other lads had knives. |
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| 10 | 237 |
"Sheath your knives," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 59 |
And there were the knives at its summit. |
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| 5 | 64 |
I had touched the wall, and looked up to its height, and the knives. |
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| 7 | 430 |
How, thusly, without the knowledge of the house, without the keys, the passwords, perhaps even friends within, could he hope to get me over the wall, or through the gate, past the guards? How could he even hope to ascend the wall himself, with the incurved knives at the summit? But he had said he wa... |
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| 7 | 963 |
And there was the wall, of course, and the knives at the top. |
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| 10 | 838 |
I saw, in the bottom of the depression, some forty feet below, numerous upward-pointing knives. |
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| 10 | 839 |
Perhaps the bridge was wide enough and sturdy enough for those accustomed to such things, but it seemed terribly narrow to me, with the drop beneath, let alone the knives. |
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| 10 | 841 |
But I did not think those surfaces were likely to be suspended over knives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 86 |
Then, one by one, she began to lift up and shake out the washed, damp garments, and hang them on the line, fastening them there, carefully, with the lovely hand-carved clothespins, for Goreans are prone to lavish attention even on small things, spoons, knives, cooking prongs, and such, anything to m... |
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| 19 | 350 |
Even the thongs that bound her seemed stiff with cold, and she feared they might cut her like frozen knives. |
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| 27 | 570 |
It ejects pellets, stones, small knives, or however you can understand this! Try to understand what I am saying! Please! It is dangerous! It can kill! It is like lightning! Like lightning! I know! Please believe me, Masters!" "Shall I demonstrate?" asked Mirus. |
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| 27 | 1468 |
Had she feared or resented men? Had she delighted in frustrating or tormenting men? Had she scorned men? Had she attempted to use them for her purposes? Had she attempted to twist their needs and use these needs, like knives, against them? In any event, the maneuverings, the fencings, the negotiatio... |
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| 27 | 3487 |
"Stakes and thongs await, and knives can be heated, old friend". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 20 | 70 |
Already in the tiers many six-digited paws were clasped about the handles of their knives, but, Cabot noted, many jurors were crouched down, knuckles on the tiers, their knives untouched. |
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| 1 | 450 |
She was unfamiliar with larger animals who had been turned against themselves, who were hampered, crippled, neutralized and vitiated by the knives of social engineering. |
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| 1 | 1324 |
He wants me, she thought, trying to hold her head very still, quite aware that if she made any sudden movement or made the least attempt to escape, it would hurt even more, and that he, if he wished, with a mere tightening or twist, could subject her to the torment of hundreds of tiny scalding knive... |
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| 2 | 44 |
Into the hallway now emerged ten or more of these large forms, in the hands of some were rifles, in the hands of others heat knives and double-bladed power axes. |
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| 20 | 104 |
"See the knives," said Cabot. |
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| 21 | 629 |
Suddenly, perhaps on released springs, sharp claws, like curved knives, a foot in length, sprang into view. |
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| 33 | 251 |
"I will fight, too," said Grendel, lifting his hands, from which the claws emerged, like knives, "for I am Kur!" "It is coming!" said Grendel, as one of the monsters, indeed, the first who had visited the raft, it seems, cleaved toward the raft, the water sliding from its back on both sides, sparkli... |
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| 35 | 31 |
While in the habitat village he also purchased supplies of various sorts, among them some biscuits and dried fruit, some vessels, some robes, three blankets, an ax, and two knives. |
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| 42 | 71 |
The lead animal, at the last moment, slips through a gate to the side, and the line behind it continues to move forward, and downward, to the great hammers, or to the ropes and slings, to be suspended, dangling, for the knives, such things". |
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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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| 48 | 23 |
The eight weapons would doubtless have made one of the insurrectionary groups more formidable than otherwise, say, that of Lord Grendel, but presumably the eight such weapons would have been of little avail against the full, massed power which might be brought against them by a reasonably large cont... |
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| 56 | 206 |
A lowly human, thus, I fear, might prove a less embarrassing visitor to their great gathering, that beyond the small camps, where they were to await the ropes or knives". |
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| 57 | 61 |
"Afterward," said Statius, "they withdrew to their place of ignominious gathering, the place of ropes or knives, and we could not follow up our victory". |
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| 57 | 138 |
"I am eager to see her under the irons, the pincers and knives," said Flavion. |
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| 80 | 97 |
"They would use knives," said Cabot, "and various metal implements, to cut tissue, relocate it, and such". |
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| 80 | 106 |
"Knives?" said another. |
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| 80 | 231 |
"Lord Grendel!" "Your barbarous knives," said the scientist to Cabot, "could not accomplish that. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 23 | 33 |
The knives of his hate were turned as much inward as outward. |
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| 23 | 221 |
It was said they were immune, like knives, to compassion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 372 |
Cabot ran to the ramp, climbed it two thirds of the way, and interposed himself between stricken mutineers and two of the Pani, who bore red knives. |
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| 21 | 118 |
I had had a glimpse of tiny, reddish eyes, a wide head, and a flash of four curved, white tusks, two like descending knives, two like raised knives, on each side of a wide, wet jaw. |
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| 33 | 96 |
The Grendel I had thought I had known, of matchless courage, integrity, and honor, would rather have perished uncomplainingly beneath the knives and irons of his enemies. |
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| 35 | 15 |
I saw no chains, whips, pincers, tongs, irons, boots, crowns, knives, and such, no miscellany of paraphernalia or furniture designed to produce pain of one sort or another, to one degree or another. |
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| 42 | 3 |
Three differences, or obvious differences, for I did not know what others might be being enacted privately, were that the container thought by some to be pertinent to the person of Agamemnon was now seldom publicly visible, the men in the Cave had been disarmed, even to knives, and policing in the C... |
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| 45 | 53 |
Might the knives of expanding ice in fissures have broken loose stones, some like small mountains? I wondered if, in its long past, the Voltai had witnessed the passage of oceans of ice at its feet, oceans which might bear ships of stone. |
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| 43 | 1290 |
This has to do with the softness and width of the paws, like broad, velvet cushions from which knives might spring, curved knives, for anchoring prey. |
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| 7 | 280 |
It was said they raised nothing, and made nothing, but were brigands without lairs, bandits who looted without risk, men who drew blood with knives of gold. |
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| 10 | 54 |
The long ships, of course, the armed war knives of the sea, seldom depart with slaves aboard, though they may return with them. |
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| 23 | 142 |
And the vessels of war were like knives in the water, swift, low, multiply oared, and concave prowed, armed with deck engines, rams, and crescent-like blades, which might shear away timbers and oars. |
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| 29 | 61 |
Did they think they were men? They carried knives on a loop slung about their shoulder. |
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| 36 | 40 |
"And knives, and javelins," he said. |
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| 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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| 43 | 787 |
Irons, knives, and cords are not the only means by which a helpless enemy may be tormented. |
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| 52 | 903 |
I had seen men playing near the dock, hurling knives into an upright plank or post. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 79 |
At closer quarters one might use quivas, saddle knives, or Anango darts. |
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| 1 | 238 |
"Might it not be a grander gesture to unsheathe the ritual knives, in their thousands?" asked Lord Okimoto. |
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| 1 | 446 |
"You think of ritual knives?" said Lord Nishida. |
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| 2 | 80 |
Saddle knives were in place, and, behind the saddle, one on each side of the small pack, was an Anango dart. |
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| 2 | 81 |
Although the saddle knives are balanced for throwing, most of my men preferred the darts. |
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| 2 | 110 |
Lord Nishida and Lord Okimoto might have considered ritual knives. |
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| 27 | 18 |
On the continent, street contingents, raised in times of need to supplement a city's standing troops, commonly make do with knives, clubs, sharpened poles, and stones. |
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| 31 | 136 |
Their swords and knives, however, given their exquisite smithing, were of considerable value. |
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| 32 | 26 |
Clubs and swords, knives, and one glaive, were in the grip of the intruders. |
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| 32 | 45 |
This lovely weapon was not possessed by the bandits, who, simple, ignorant men, made do, for the most part, with knives and clubs. |
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| 32 | 46 |
Indeed, might not ten men, each with ten arrows, match even a hundred, if that hundred could not reach them, and bore but knives and clubs? To be sure, shooting penned verr is poor sport. |
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| 44 | 237 |
"Get out! Escape! Go! Flee!" Lances shivered, and cast knives, quivas, caromed away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 263 |
But then I heard a scratching on wood, as though heavy, restless knives were drawn through it. |
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| 15 | 313 |
Should a holding device not be formed of sterner, weightier stuff? I then, again, heard the scratching, or drawing, on wood, as though it were being raked by heavy knives. |
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| 26 | 74 |
I have seen the plates of weapons and devices borne to the training chambers, the daggers, the balanced throwing knives, the easily concealed hook knife, the swords, the darts, the loops of wire, the chain garrotes, and, in particular, the crossbow and quarrel, the favored striking weapon of the cas... |
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| 39 | 50 |
"And rush through flames to the points of waiting knives, to the greeting of flighted quarrels?" "Surely we do not want to be burned alive!" I said. |
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| 54 | 124 |
It is almost certain to fall within the perimeters of permissible weaponry, knives, swords, pikes, spears, staffs, axes, and such, and most likely axes, for Kurii, like the men of Torvaldsland, are fond of the ax". |
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| 65 | 237 |
"Reluctant as I am to interfere in the activities of men, riddling bodies with quarrels, lopping off arms and heads, stabbing with knives and spears, splashing blood about, and such," she said, "such activities are, I gather, most enjoyable when properly motivated". |
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| 68 | 81 |
What better loot can one have than the women of the enemy, naked, and chained at your feet as slaves? "I should think," I said, "that men would fear to eat here, lest the waitresses, who may have access to materials in the kitchen, say, knives, might attack them". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 921 |
Of these, some with cupped hands or caps were bailing water while others, in water to their knees, stood at the gunwales and, with knives and clubs, were preventing others from boarding. |
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| 8 | 937 |
I looked out at the horror some yards away, at the rocking, awash, beleaguered long boat, the struggles, the knives and clubs, the bloodied waters, the screaming men, the stirrings about of inquiring sharks. |
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| 11 | 138 |
One shop dealt with weapons of various sorts, swords, daggers, balanced throwing knives, spears, darts, javelins, and such. |
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| 29 | 65 |
Each I suspected would be inimical to the other, easily to the point of knives and poison. |
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| 40 | 5 |
I heard knives plunged, slicing, into flat, rounded loaves of bread. |
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| 41 | 189 |
Two men with knives began to slash the ropes from our necks. |
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| 43 | 119 |
You are unarmed, save for mariner's knives. |
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| 45 | 62 |
Due to the danger of inadvertently encountering concealed poisoned pins or knives, they are usually stripped by the sword or knife, or ordered to tear away their own clothing and place themselves naked in a posture of submission before their captor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 33 | 78 |
"However," I said, "in your safe, uncontested passage to the sea, generously allowed to you, you may bear no arms, either offensive or defensive, no swords, no spears, no knives or axes, no shields, no helmets, no bucklers, or such". |
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| 42 | 11 |
In the vicinity, awaiting my signal, were some three hundred men, mostly citizens of Mytilene, armed with pikes, knives, spears, stones, axes, hammers, chains, and clubs. |
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| 57 | 18 |
"Keep swords, knives, bludgeons, axes, ready". |
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| 57 | 117 |
At the same time our men, bearing swords, axes, knives, and even clubs, rushed out from behind the screens, sure footed from the bits of nails fastened in their sandals and boots, and fell, like butchers on verr, on the numerous discomfited and often helpless foes, most unable to regain or maintain ... |
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| 58 | 58 |
"Who doubts the honor of liars, villains, murderers, and hypocrites?" "Should we not just present our throats to their knives?" asked Thurnock. |
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