| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 41 |
Whereas there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the growls of animals; they were ... |
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| 4 | 22 |
The throat-strap rings, corresponding to the position of the reins on the main saddle-ring, are numbered in a clockwise fashion. |
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| 15 | 33 |
Given the depth of the foundations of Ar's mighty walls and the mantle of rock on which they were fixed, it would be extremely unlikely that her walls could be successfully undermined to the extent of bringing down a significant section, but it was surely possible that if one of the tunnels managed ... |
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| 15 | 53 |
I wandered about the outskirts of Mintar's compound, which was separated, like many of the merchant compounds, from the main camp by a tough fence of woven branches. |
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| 16 | 44 |
On the twentieth day of the siege there was great rejoicing in the camp of Pa-Kur, because in one place the wires had been cut and a squad of spearmen had reached the main siege reservoir, emptying their barrels of toxic kanda, a lethal poison extracted from one of Gor's desert shrubs. |
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| 17 | 60 |
Near dawn, to the brave sound of tarn drums, a mighty procession left the camp of Pa-Kur, and as it crossed the main bridge over the first ditch, I saw in the distance the great gate of Ar slowly opening. |
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| 19 | 1 |
The Duel Marlenus and his men and I raced down the long stairs to the main hall of the Central Cylinder, where we came on the remains of the grisly feast of the tarns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 9 |
Indeed, even the main roads to Ko-ro-ba were a far cry from the great highways that led to and from a metropolis like Ar. |
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| 14 | 161 |
These pass from the throat strap to the main saddle ring, which is fixed on the saddle. |
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| 23 | 116 |
The main gate of Tharna hung open on its hinges, and small isolated figures scurried in and out. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 221 |
I told myself it would probably come for the head or throat, if only because these were, from his height, easier to reach and he would wish to kill me quickly and with little difficulty, for he would surely regard his main business as the slaying of Misk, who still lay, either dead or unconscious, b... |
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| 28 | 165 |
Former Mul engineers, trained by Priest-Kings, had constructed an auxiliary power unit and had fed its energy into the main system. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 |
Briefly, for those it might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role analogous to our north pole; the two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki... |
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| 19 | 79 |
We then examined other corridors and other rooms, and finally returned to the main hall and started off down another way, again encountering corridors and rooms; this we did four times, until we were moving down one of the last corridors, leading from one of the five main corridors off the central h... |
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| 23 | 194 |
The Kataii main force and the Kassar main force camped separately some pasangs from the Tuchuk camp and the field and would, in the morning, return to their own wagons. |
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| 1 | 29 |
Accordingly, the main divisions of the map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as our "north pole" the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move (Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first, Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (somet... |
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| 2 | 84 |
When I speak of Year Keepers and Singers it must be understood that these are not, for the Wagon Peoples, castes, but more like roles, subsidiary to their main functions, which are those of war, herding and the hunt. |
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| 8 | 15 |
My main interests, my primary objective, surely lay not in distant Turia, but with the wagons. |
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| 16 | 36 |
The foot knots were done with subsidiary rope but worked into the fiber of the main rope and glued over so as to be almost one with it. |
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| 19 | 82 |
At last we came to a largish room, but much smaller than the main hall, in which there were some seventeen beauties strewn about, all in Pleasure Silk. |
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| 20 | 137 |
As swiftly as I could I then explained to him the guidance apparatus, the main saddle ring and its six straps. |
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| 21 | 189 |
We stood on the wall near the main gate of Turia, through which I had entered the city some four days ago, the morning after the departure of the Tuchuk wagons for the pastures this side of the Ta-Thassa Mountains, beyond which lay the vast, gleaming Thassa itself. |
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| 21 | 206 |
The heavy merchant wagon was near the main gate now and it was being waved forward. |
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| 21 | 232 |
It was approaching the main gate of Turia. |
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| 21 | 353 |
The wall of a building off the main avenue collapsed flaming to the street. |
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| 23 | 6 |
Thundering behind each of us was a Thousand, which would continue on toward the main Tuchuk encampment, several Ahn away. |
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| 23 | 9 |
Then, on the path to the main Tuchuk encampment, Harold and I were each to join our Thousand, subsequently doing what we could to protect the bosk and wagons. |
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| 23 | 93 |
Both Harold and I then spoke with our men, each issuing orders that any man with us who wished might now withdraw from the wagons and rejoin the main forces in Turia. |
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| 23 | 119 |
"It is the Paravaci main body," said Harold. |
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| 24 | 13 |
I did ask Kamchak why, considering the probabilities that the Kataii and the Kassars would not have come to the aid of the Tuchuks, he had not abandoned Turia and returned with his main forces to the wagons. |
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| 24 | 33 |
Yet it seemed to me true, for Turia was the main avenue of contact between the Wagon Peoples and the other cities of Gor, the gate through which trade goods flowed to the wilderness of grasses that was the land of the riders of the kaiila and the herders of bosk. |
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| 24 | 173 |
His kaiila sprang from the room, bounding across the carpet in the next hall, and then thudding down a corridor toward the main entrance. |
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| 24 | 179 |
"Very well," I said, and we walked our kaiila at a stately pace toward Turia's main gate. |
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| 24 | 189 |
"If it were not for your dignity," I remarked, "I would settle these matters by racing you to the main gate". |
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| 24 | 198 |
"I accept your wager," he cried, kicking his kaiila toward the main gate. |
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| 24 | 200 |
At the main gate I overtook him and together we sped through it, slowing our mounts on the other side to a decorous pace suitable to our rank. |
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| 26 | 11 |
There were also, in the city, of course, hundreds of kaiila, though the main body of such mounts was outside the city, where game could be driven to them with greater ease. |
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| 26 | 23 |
"My own recommendation," Harold was saying, "would be first to fly my tarn cavalry over the walls, clearing them with thousands of arrows, and then, in a second wave, to fly dozens of ropes of warriors to the roofs of the main buildings, to seize them and burn the others". |
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| 26 | 94 |
Slowly, at a walk, he rode toward the main gate of the compound. |
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| 26 | 103 |
Then he gently moved his kaiila toward the main portal. |
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| 26 | 125 |
Not hurrying Kamchak walked his kaiila up the stairs of the house and, on kaiilaback, entered the main hall of the House of Saphrar. |
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| 26 | 126 |
In the main hall he looked about and then, Harold and I following, and the man with the two sleen, and the slaves with gold, and his archers and other men, he began to walk his kaiila forward, across the broad marble tiles, following the terrified Saphrar of Turia. |
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| 27 | 193 |
Outside the main gate of the palace of Phanius Turmus, Kamchak, on his kaiila, waited for us. |
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| 27 | 196 |
We turned from the gate, to ride down the long avenue leading toward the main gate of Turia. |
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| 27 | 203 |
Kamchak turned his kaiila and began to ride toward the main gate, the rest of us following. |
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| 27 | 221 |
"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 45 |
The basket of Cernus and my basket both had guidance attachments, similar to those of the common tarn saddle, a main basket ring corresponding to the main saddle ring, and six leather straps going to the throat-strap rings. |
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| 2 | 51 |
From where she knelt she could see the low-hanging tharlarion oil lamps of the main portion of the paga tavern, the men, the girls in silk who, in a moment, belled, would move among them, replenishing the paga. |
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| 7 | 112 |
I gathered that the main cargo, whatever it was, had already been unloaded, that it reposed in the small, heavy box, and that it was now on the way to the House of Cernus. |
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| 12 | 193 |
The guard braceleted one of Phyllis' wrists to the rail and then snapped bracelets on Virginia, confining her wrists behind her back; he carried Virginia down to the main level and set her on her knees there, before Flaminius and Ho-Tu; Elizabeth and I were in the background; then the guard went bac... |
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| 12 | 384 |
As I was passing under the main arch of the stadium, going to the broad street beyond, called The Street of Tarns because of its proximity to the stadium, I heard a voice behind me. |
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| 13 | 286 |
The racing harness, like the common tarn harness, works with two rings, the throat ring and the main saddle ring, and six straps. |
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| 13 | 292 |
On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap... |
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| 16 | 48 |
According to Ho-Tu, whom I had once asked about this, there were two main reasons for this; first, their training was peculiarly full and intensive; second, the prospect of being permitted to leave the house, particularly attractive to Virginia and Phyllis, who had known nothing of Gor save the Hous... |
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| 20 | 245 |
At this point, from the main entryway to the hall, there entered two men, shoved by guards. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 |
The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick, which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from this main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it ... |
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| 13 | 315 |
The main mast was a bit forward of amidships, and the foremast was some four or five yards abaft of the ship's yoke. |
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| 13 | 331 |
At that moment, from far above, from the basket on the main mast, came the cry of the lookout, "Two ships off the port beam!" "Out and ready oars!" cried the oar-master, running to his chair. |
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| 13 | 337 |
But then another cry, wild, drifted down from the basket on the main mast, "Two more ships! Off the starboard bow!" "Helm ahead!" cried Tenrik. |
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| 13 | 383 |
The officer, with a cry of rage, then turned and ran up the stairs to the main deck. |
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| 17 | 133 |
The lateen-rigged galley, whether a round ship or a ram-ship, although it can furl its sail, cannot well let out and take in sail; it is not a square-rigged craft; accordingly she carries different sails for different conditions; the yard itself, from the mast, is lowered and hoisted, sails being re... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 232 |
They looked at me strangely as I pushed at the main-floor button. |
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| 3 | 238 |
When we reached the main floor I fled from the elevator but, in a moment, regained my control, checked myself and looked about. |
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| 5 | 95 |
But if there had been survivors, where had they gone? Might they return soon? I returned to the main portion of the ship, and looked again at the great rents in the steel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 539 |
Gorean galleys commonly carry several sails, usually falling into three main types, fair-weather, "tarn," and storm. |
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| 7 | 81 |
It had been the main object of Rim's journey to Laura to arrange for their rentals and delivery. |
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| 15 | 464 |
They were not as far behind the main group as they should have been. |
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| 17 | 132 |
Doubtless his main concern would be to reach the sea, for his rendezvous with the Rhoda and the Tesephone. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 64 |
The main business of Kassau is trade, lumber and fishing. |
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| 13 | 27 |
It would not have seemed proper, at least in the eyes of Svein Blue Tooth and others, for a high officer to sit at the same table with a fellow whose main occupation was supervising thralls in the tending of verr. |
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| 17 | 159 |
Sleen are also used to patrol the large return marches of groups of foraging expeditions, those marches between the temporary holding areas and the main camp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 45 |
Sa-Tarna is the main staple of the nomads. |
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| 2 | 563 |
"By the way," I asked the officer, casually, though it was my main reason for visiting his office, "there was a girl of interest to me who, I understand it, was named Veema, and was at one time one of your guests. |
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| 3 | 138 |
Questioning nomads, doubtless to be found here and there in the wastes, and the inhabitants of various oases, many of them off the main caravan routes, I hoped, eventually, to obtain enough data or information to make it possible to find the mysterious tower of steel. |
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| 10 | 224 |
We are not on main trade routes". |
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| 11 | 70 |
The main swarms had passed but, clinging about us, like crawling spots on our garments, and in and among the hairs of the kaiila, in their thousands, crept the residue of the infestation. |
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| 15 | 48 |
The heavy garments of the Tahari, too, have as two of their main objectives the prevention of water loss, and the retention of moisture on the skin, slowing water loss by evaporation. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 52 |
We were never under any delusion that our main task was not the delight and pleasure of our masters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 71 |
It is not permitted to fight, or kill, or enslave within the perimeters of the fairs, but there is no prohibition against the buying and selling of merchandise within those precincts; indeed, one of the main functions of the fairs, if not their main function, was to facilitate the buying and selling... |
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| 2 | 649 |
The parsit current is the main eastward current above the polar basin. |
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| 2 | 652 |
The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen. |
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| 3 | 381 |
I turned my steps toward the main market. |
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| 3 | 995 |
"Tenalion has no intention of putting them on the main block in the pavilion," said the second. |
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| 4 | 101 |
The movements of the pieces are chalked on the left side of the board, in order; the main portion of the board consists of a representation of the Kaissa board and young players, in apprenticeship to masters, move pieces upon it; one has thus before oneself both a record of the moves made to that po... |
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| 7 | 35 |
I walked through the streets of Lydius until I came to the small metal-worker's shop, one out of the main ways of the city. |
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| 10 | 255 |
The center of the wall had been built across the main run of the tabuk migration. |
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| 10 | 319 |
He turned suddenly and, bolting, fled toward the platform and main buildings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 180 |
I saw her later leaning against the main mast. |
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| 6 | 564 |
The farmers about Schendi, as farmers in the equatorial regions generally, do their main planting at the beginning of the "dry season". |
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| 8 | 57 |
He took her over beside a wall, across from the main door, and close to a small side door. |
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| 11 | 146 |
There was a ventilator shaft, or slatted grille, over the main room, as I had anticipated. |
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| 13 | 532 |
I pulled her up to me, and, in the dim light of the alcove, filtering through the red curtain from the slatted grilles in the roof of the main room, wiped her mouth with her hair. |
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| 16 | 85 |
The area between these walls, the marsh waters diverted on either side, was then to be drained and readied for the digging of the main channel. |
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| 32 | 195 |
This is the fantastic green cover which constitutes the main ceiling of the jungle. |
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| 34 | 1074 |
I turned her about, and thrust her in the direction of our main camp, where Kisu and the others awaited us. |
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| 44 | 6 |
We were not now with the main group. |
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| 53 | 350 |
Again and again, then, the trunks of small trees struck at the barrier fending us from the main forces of the attacker. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 709 |
Then they had entered the main dining room, and were being greeted by the head waiter. |
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| 13 | 309 |
When departing from main roads such troops can be followed by bosk wagons or tharlarion wagons, bearing supplies. |
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| 21 | 433 |
If one encounters, as in side tunnels, approaching the main tunnel, a fully knotted, dependent wall of strings, then one knows that a left-and-right branching is imminent. |
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| 21 | 434 |
This occurred in the tunneling under the domain of the Lady Florence only where the main tunnel was approached. |
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| 25 | 31 |
He was one of the main tharlarion ranchers in the area. |
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| 26 | 265 |
I exited through the main entrance of the house and made my way rapidly about the house, taking the path leading to the stable area. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 494 |
Shortly afterward the attendant returned to the floor and let me out, through the main entrance. |
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| 4 | 4 |
She lay in the corner of the main room of the inn. |
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| 4 | 133 |
Several men in the main room of the inn wore masks now presumably to conceal their identity for various reasons. |
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| 4 | 260 |
"In the main room of the inn of Strobius," I said, "in the city of Lara". |
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| 4 | 631 |
"Let me in!" Within the inn I left the main room and went up to the second floor where, from one of the room's windows, I might command a better view of the street. |
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| 8 | 39 |
Four of them rose up, one going to the side door, one to the door to the kitchen, and two to the main threshold. |
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| 26 | 8 |
I had finished my supper in the room and had, leaving Callimachus and Tasdron in conversation, emerged through the now-opened door into the main room of the tavern. |
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| 29 | 179 |
"It is not just the sea gate," I said, "and the wall near it, and the tower housing the windlass, but the walks about the walled cove within, and the entry to the main stronghold". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 361 |
I then heard him laugh again, and then turn about and climb five stairs, which must have led to the main deck, from a short companionway. |
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| 11 | 212 |
The main purpose of slave garments, of course, is not particularly to clothe the girl, for she need not even be clothed, as she is an animal, but to, as I have suggested, "set her off". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 5 |
A distinction must be drawn between the side blocks and the central, or main, block, in a vending area. |
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| 8 | 889 |
On the other side of the door we found ourselves in a holding area, a long, shedlike structure ancillary to the main hall. |
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| 13 | 949 |
The main thing is to attempt to be fully pleasing to the master, in every way. |
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| 13 | 1555 |
"But the main thing, in my opinion," I said, "is the psychological effect on the woman, the bringing home to her, in clear, forcible and undeniable terms, the reality of her situation, that she is helpless, that she is at his mercy, that she, regardless of her will, is now his to do with as he pleas... |
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| 13 | 1599 |
"Now," I said, "I think you can see one of the main virtues of this tie. |
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| 19 | 582 |
"Doubtless when Canka returns to the main camp he will surrender her to Mahpiyasapa," I said. |
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| 19 | 622 |
"Go now," said Cuwignaka, "for, later, in the main camp, others may not be so lenient". |
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| 19 | 624 |
"You would then have a fine lead on others, in the main camp, days from here, who might wish to follow you. |
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| 19 | 640 |
"I am going to the main camp of the Kaiila," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 37 |
Archers concealed under robes and hidden among lodges lay between the Kinyanpi and our main forces, at the western edge of the camp. |
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| 28 | 344 |
It must have been indeed, as I had earlier conjectured, an excursionary probe to determine the test defenses, before the main force, held in reserve, was committed. |
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| 43 | 399 |
I did not speak Yellow Knife but I was reasonably confident as to what the main content of her message would be. |
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| 44 | 20 |
The posts, too, because of their position near the edge of the escarpment, commanded a fine view of the main, sloping trail leading up to the summit. |
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| 44 | 26 |
Not only would the girls command an excellent view of the prairie, especially to the west, and of the main trail to the summit, but those who might approach from this direction or ascend the trail should, similarly, be able to entertain an excellent view of the girls. |
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| 44 | 853 |
"Aside from the main trail," I said, "there is no easy route, not even a narrow path, to the summit of Council Rock". |
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| 45 | 45 |
"In any event, Mahpiyasapa and Kahintokapa maintain their posts at the main trail, and we have stationed guards at intervals about the perimeter". |
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| 46 | 87 |
There was little doubt their main party would reach the barricade at the summit in much of its full strength. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 5 |
"I would prefer," said Drusus Rencius, "that we had kept to the main thoroughfares". |
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| 16 | 38 |
Then I could see the main gate of the palisade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 454 |
It was the position which would be arrived at on the seventeenth move of the Ubara's Gambit Declined, yellow's Home Stone having been placed at Ubara's Builder One, providing red had, on the eleventh move, departed from the main line, transposing into the Turian line. |
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| 5 | 40 |
"I would, if I were you, light a small lamp or two, illuminating the main hall and perhaps the selected alcove. |
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| 5 | 43 |
"Light two lamps," said the Lady Yanina to one of her men, "one in the main hall and one in the first alcove". |
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| 5 | 57 |
"I would now encourage my men to sit about the table, there," I said, indicating one of the large rough-hewn tables, with benches, in the main hall. |
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| 5 | 262 |
She looked wildly out into the main hall. |
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| 6 | 1393 |
"We have performed in the main square," he admitted, "once even in the courtyard of the palace itself". |
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| 10 | 683 |
It is the main thing a slave is for. |
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| 18 | 262 |
I then conducted her, gagged and hooded, leashed and braceleted, back to the main levels of the palace. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 196 |
It constitutes, in effect, a set of corridors of death through which the cavalry must ride, in which it is commonly decimated before it can reach the main lines of the defenders. |
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| 10 | 5 |
These inert, suspended, desiccated weights, now little more than skulls and the bones of men, with some bits of cloth, fluttering in the air's stirrings, and threads and patches of dried flesh clinging about them, had been arranged in a line along the Avenue of Adminius, the main thoroughfare of Tor... |
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| 13 | 96 |
We came then to a barrier, several poles on tripods, set across the main way in Torcadino. |
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| 14 | 89 |
"Anything so simple as letters of safety could have been issued in the main hall," I said. |
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| 15 | 633 |
"The main forces of Cos are here," he said, "in the vicinity of Torcadino, now, at the moment, investing it". |
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| 15 | 644 |
"Why then, according to our information, and this is the second item of interest here, is Ar preparing, if this is correct, to launch its main forces northward toward Ar's Station?" "That would be madness," I said. |
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| 15 | 648 |
"The main forces of Cos are here, by Torcadino," I said. |
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| 15 | 649 |
"If the main might of Ar is sent northward there would be a free road from the trenches about Torcadino almost to the gates of Ar themselves. |
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| 15 | 652 |
"—That the councils of Ar do not know that the main force of Cos is here". |
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| 15 | 673 |
"And the main forces of Ar may be marching toward Ar's Station," he said, grimly. |
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| 15 | 687 |
They outline the dispositions of the main forces of Cos and the situation in Torcadino. |
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| 20 | 28 |
We could see the great gate, too, and the main road leading to it, the Viktel Aria. |
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| 21 | 79 |
"The main forces of Cos," he said, "are said to be advancing on Ar's Station". |
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| 21 | 90 |
"The main forces of Cos are as close as Torcadino," I said. |
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| 25 | 2354 |
The main egress, which served also as the entryway, would surely be under observation. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 266 |
Hearing the man, or one of them behind me, I then fled to the other stairs, and thence upward again, to the main level of the library. |
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| 3 | 295 |
I turned wildly right, toward the main doors again. |
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| 3 | 296 |
Perhaps the first man, he I had first seen, he whom I knew, no longer blocked them! But he was still there! I cried out in misery and darted across the open space, past the information desk and the office, past the periodicals and into the reading area, toward the main-level porch, overlooking the l... |
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| 3 | 300 |
I darted back again toward the main section of the library. |
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| 3 | 312 |
I hid between two of the shelves perpendicular to the main aisle. |
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| 3 | 315 |
They would know where I was! Again I must run! I leapt up, crying out, and fled again, irrationally, terrified, wildly, miserably, weeping, my every step again betrayed by bells, this time about the far end of the tiny side aisle between the shelves, away from the main aisle, away from where I thoug... |
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| 3 | 331 |
There, at the opening to my side aisle, in the main aisle, tall in the darkness, looking down at me, loomed a man, one of the three whom I had seen, he, I think, who had followed me about so quietly and tenaciously, originally to the lower level, up again by the other stairs, down the hall-like way,... |
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| 3 | 332 |
I leaped up and fled away from him, utilizing the narrow space at the edge of the porchlike upper level, between the safety banister and the shelves, to the second stairs, on the east side of the upper level, leading down to the main floor. |
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| 10 | 552 |
The main reason why a slave kneels, of course, aside from such subtle and complex considerations, is simply that she is a slave, and that that position, accordingly, is appropriate for her. |
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| 17 | 129 |
It was in five main divisions. |
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| 21 | 34 |
They make it possible to move between alcoves, and from alcoves to the rear of the tavern, without reentering the main floor area. |
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| 24 | 92 |
My main concern was that the guard could see what was going on. |
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| 25 | 184 |
I did know that the main body of the forces of Ar had marched north. |
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| 30 | 45 |
In the bottom of the door there was a larger opening, about three inches in height and a foot in width, through which pans of water or food could be slipped into the wagon, without opening the main door. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 97 |
I also knew that Ar, inexplicably, to my mind, had literally invested the bulk of its land power in that very expedition, and had done so with the main forces of Cos not in the north but in the vicinity of Torcadino. |
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| 2 | 106 |
I had urged him to march on Torcadino and confront the main body of Cosian forces. |
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| 2 | 142 |
Such a move, of course, might isolate the Cosian main forces, both depriving them of their support from Cos and Tyros and separating them from their fellows at Ar's Station. |
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| 2 | 149 |
The major objection, of course, was that this move exposed Ar herself to the main force of Cosians, which was in the vicinity of Torcadino. |
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| 2 | 153 |
I did not know where the main force of Ar was. |
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| 2 | 214 |
I then made my way back to the main building. |
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| 2 | 223 |
I was now on the left side of the front of the two-part main building, as one would face the building. |
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| 5 | 176 |
From what I had seen of the keeper, I supposed that his main interest in these matters would be to obtain his fees, if not in one way, then in another. |
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| 5 | 243 |
Yes, I thought to myself, that was probably the main reason she had been put here, that is it, not because it was an accident, the luck in a lot of six, or even really, mainly, because she owed more than the others, but because she had not been found pleasing by the keeper. |
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| 8 | 21 |
I looked back, toward the main building. |
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| 8 | 754 |
In the first pass I hovered the bird for a time, some fifty yards over a portion of the court on the top of the palisaded plateau, one rather behind and to the left of the main inn buildings, as one would face them, entering. |
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| 9 | 139 |
I had also considered trying to enter the city through its main gate, in the confusion, when it opened for sorties by the defenders. |
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| 11 | 209 |
It gives such numbers for Ar's troops at Holmesk as would mean that the main might of Ar is in the north, which is unthinkable. |
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| 11 | 223 |
Indeed, the Cosian main forces, which I assure you are not inferior in numbers to those of Ar, are probably now in winter quarters, perhaps a tenth of them in the vicinity of Torcadino. |
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| 11 | 250 |
"The main Cosian forces are here, at Ar's Station. |
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| 11 | 261 |
"I do not know the location of the main body of the might of Ar," I said, "but I suspect it is exactly where this report states it is, and that this report is apprising Artemidorus of the situation. |
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| 16 | 4 |
It had been perhaps obscured by the main gate's west bastion. |
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| 16 | 23 |
He pointed to the battlements over the main gate, higher than those on the wall generally. |
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| 16 | 79 |
I proceeded on toward the raised platform over the main gate, where the impaling spear, flashing in the sun like a polished needle, was mounted. |
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| 16 | 102 |
I hurried up the broad stone steps to the surface of the platform over the main gate. |
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| 17 | 106 |
I had taken up my post above the main gate, on the higher battlements, where the impaling spear was mounted, and the flag of Ar's Station still snapped defiantly. |
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| 17 | 568 |
I myself took one of the smaller portals at the side, to follow an interior corridor to the vicinity of the main gate. |
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| 20 | 10 |
These piers are the main harbor piers, between the inner harbor, that between them and the citadel landing, and the outer harbor, which leads to the river. |
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| 21 | 4 |
She led the main body of the flotilla westward. |
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| 21 | 7 |
Similarly, behind the main body of the flotilla, bringing up the rear, back a pasang or so, flying no colors, their markings concealed, were two galleys. |
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| 24 | 320 |
"The forces of Ar in the north," I said, "should move south with rapidity, before the spring, to engage the main power of Cos. |
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| 24 | 330 |
"But if you were the Cosian commander in the north," I said to Aemilianus, "you would surely, if possible, avoid engaging the main body of Ar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 32 |
I myself kept to the main corridor and, in a moment or two, thrusting open a door, entered into the main paga room. |
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| 1 | 1145 |
These were located at the southern edge of the camp, that direction in which lay, presumably, the main forces of Ar. |
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| 1 | 1148 |
Too, it would not be necessary to cross the main camp's air space, which is usually, and for obvious reasons, kept inviolate. |
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| 1 | 1149 |
The cots and defenses there, too, supplied something of a buffer between the main camp and the south. |
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| 1 | 1206 |
A pennon, one bearing the insignia of the company of Artemidorus, a sword grasped in the talon of a tarn, flew from the main pole, projecting through the roof. |
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| 1 | 1209 |
A tent, like this, incidentally, would not accompany the tarnsmen in their flights, borne by draft tarns, but would follow in the supply wagons of the main body. |
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| 1 | 1288 |
Such men may think with the quarry; they may bring up the rear; they may depart from the main search parties; they may conduct random searches, impossible to anticipate, and so on. |
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| 3 | 50 |
Then after three days, by which time they were eager to return to the main body, particularly after having seen two tarn patrols of Ar, I had bidden them farewell, and continued southward. |
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| 3 | 96 |
Perhaps he could treat with Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, commander of the main forces of Cos on the continent, if it were not too late, for a safe withdrawal from Torcadino. |
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| 3 | 98 |
Ar had not marched to meet Cos in the south but had invested its main forces northward. |
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| 3 | 436 |
Perhaps, too, the main body had left the winter camp, and was now marching toward the Vosk. |
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| 3 | 453 |
Whereas the main forces of Ar might be well rested in their winter camp, perhaps unexercised, perhaps grown sleek and fat, men such as these, foragers, rangers, scouts, and such, had probably had more than their share of alarms and labors, of suspicions and dangers, more than their share of contacts... |
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| 19 | 342 |
The main legal purpose of the brand, incidentally, is doubtless this identification of slaves. |
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| 36 | 104 |
"My main objective is to locate my friend, Ephialtes, and I think his wagon, and his goods, would be at the periphery of the encampment". |
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| 39 | 85 |
I considered the doors leading off the main paga room. |
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| 39 | 206 |
I looked about the main room, carefully. |
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| 39 | 291 |
I thought she would be safe there, surely more so than if shackled in one of the public holding areas off the main paga room. |
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| 40 | 1 |
News from Torcadino; I am Expected "Have you heard the news?" a fellow was eagerly asking another, outside, in the main paga room. |
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| 40 | 9 |
"The main force of Cos on the continent is at Torcadino". |
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| 46 | 268 |
Others, back from the main aisles, chained in numbered spaces on racks, observed me. |
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| 47 | 35 |
I ducked under a rope of tiny rep-cloth slave tunics, of various solid colors, and was again outside in the main aisles. |
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| 47 | 116 |
I was now making my way toward the main gate. |
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| 47 | 118 |
I stopped, and found myself then in the center of a large ring of men, some one hundred feet or so in diameter, waiting in the first concourse, near the main gate, surely at least seventy or eighty of them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 587 |
We would keep to the main streets for a time. |
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| 14 | 475 |
"I think those are the main items of interest," he said. |
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| 19 | 297 |
From where we were, over the white-washed wall, we could see the veranda of the main building, where it was nestled back, in the side of a hill. |
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| 19 | 686 |
"One night I, and two others, were serving not in the main halls, as we commonly did, but at a late supper, a small, private supper, laid in the very quarters of my master, Appanius. |
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| 21 | 572 |
I was freed of the hood and leashes outside the gate, this time the main gate, by means of which I had entered". |
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| 22 | 469 |
Cases have been reported where an enemy force has literally withdrawn from a city and some of its components have remained in the city, wandering about for a day or two, out of communication with the main forces. |
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| 24 | 57 |
"The slave is likely to enter through the main door?" I asked Lavinia. |
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| 24 | 77 |
I recovered consciousness outside the room, aware of sunlight and air on my body, how frightening that for a free woman, and realized I was being carried, hooded, wrapped in the toils of the net, on a man's shoulder, carried, carried as produce, or a slave, might be carried!" "You egressed through t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 901 |
Aynur looked after his route of departure, apparently a quite open one, through the inner gate, leading to the house, then doubtless through our quarters, then through the other gates, sealing off our quarters, and thence to the main portions of the house, and, eventually, out the main portal. |
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| 24 | 459 |
I saw one of the intruders from the group across the terrace, at the stairway, hurrying back to the main group. |
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| 29 | 211 |
The two guards from the pits, who had come with us, were back by the main portal. |
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| 42 | 33 |
I preceded her, directed by her, down the main corridor, and then into a side passage, past several doors, and then into a small room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 91 |
Some tinier carts, some drawn by hand, followed the main column, though doubtless not associated with it, rather merely hoping in its shelter to shield themselves from brigandage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 134 |
Sunlight, gathered and focused, was brought into the cylinder, as into at least the main habitat, by mirrors, from Tor-tu-Gor, or Sol, as these are the same star. |
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| 44 | 39 |
Certainly they had managed to bring humans from the sport cylinder into Agamemnon's cylinder, the main world, and had released, for better or for worse, the killer humans from their cages and training areas. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 6 |
The two-ring and three-ring are on the right side of the main saddle ring, and the four-ring and five-ring are on the left side of the main saddle ring. |
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| 12 | 246 |
"The men," said Tajima, "are brought food by tharlarion wagon, and, if they wish, they may visit the cook houses in the main camp". |
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| 16 | 5 |
The one-ring is at the top of the main saddle ring, and the four-ring is at the bottom. |
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| 19 | 177 |
We will return to the main camp". |
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| 25 | 275 |
I expected to find Tajima in the barrack assigned to the guards, whose dispatch and returns he would log, but instead I encountered him crossing the training area, toward the track which led to the main camp area. |
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| 43 | 67 |
It was now toward the tenth Ahn, the Gorean noon, and Lord Nishida and I were met on the main deck, amidships. |
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| 44 | 126 |
I then dressed, and drew my sea cloak about me, left the cabin, ascended the stairs in the companionway, and went to the main deck, and thence to the stem castle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 6 |
I had not been on the main deck. |
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| 3 | 947 |
Its auxiliary buildings, its stables, its stable yard, and such, like the main building, seemed similarly fallen into a state of forlorn desuetude. |
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| 4 | 6 |
I had not been on the main deck. |
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| 5 | 1 |
What Occurred on the Main Deck of the Great Ship; Tersites; A Storm is Imminent The sixth passage hand was done, the autumnal equinox had been marked in the scribal calendar of Jad, Se'Kara was done, and, as nearly as I could tell, it was the third or fourth day in the seventh passage hand. |
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| 9 | 220 |
The great hatch is so arranged that it may be moved by means of either, or both, of two windlasses, one inside the tarn area, the other accessible from the main deck. |
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| 9 | 238 |
The main deck, or most of it, I took it, was in the hands of mutineers, as many ran down the ramp, to try to free a tarn, sometimes to fight with others for the bird. |
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| 16 | 281 |
"The main timbers of the ship," said Tarl Cabot, "are Tur wood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 42 |
I supposed it had been intentionally separated from the main camp. |
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| 23 | 99 |
This was all a portion of Shipcamp, I supposed, though across the river, apart from the main buildings. |
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| 29 | 159 |
The leader would be with the main group, where she might apprehend, direct, and command. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 12 |
I had been permitted to meet them in the open, within the main gate to the grounds. |
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| 25 | 85 |
I knew that an unpleasant death of some sort was connected with this practice, but only now, recalling some casual remarks heard earlier, having to do with festivity and illumination, and recalling a glimpse of unusual objects, like cylindrical bundles, lining both sides of the avenue to the main ga... |
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| 31 | 1 |
The Inn Has Visitors Haruki had scarcely confessed his apprehension when, suddenly, with boisterous shouts and a rushing of bodies, several men crowded into the inn, hurrying through both the main entrance and, I gathered, the rear entrance, as they emerged into the eating hall through the door lea... |
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| 31 | 183 |
"Master!" cried Nezumi, as she was seized by the arm and yanked to her feet, and conducted, stumbling, weeping, outside, through the main entrance, where the rice cart, now heavily laden, I supposed, was waiting. |
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| 31 | 245 |
He whom I had taken to be the innkeeper, nervous, clutching his hands, went to the main entrance. |
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| 32 | 120 |
Arashi and Yasushi had the main room, the eating hall, muchly to themselves. |
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| 32 | 157 |
The main entrance to the inn had then been flung open. |
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| 42 | 56 |
Interestingly, there was, within the tent, a canvas partition which separated the main portion of the tent, in a linear fashion, from the area where the slaves were housed. |
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| 42 | 173 |
I had seen some chests, and bundles, in the main area of the tent, to the side, which observation I regarded as promising in this regard. |
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| 45 | 163 |
One cannot well cut one's way in through the main portal. |
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| 45 | 169 |
"As I see it," I said, "the main difficulty is being able to do something within the palace, if one should attain access to it, and, if one is interested in such things, coming out alive. |
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| 50 | 7 |
The main corridors were lit with lamps. |
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| 50 | 30 |
Tajima had paused before the entrance to a side corridor, to the left, one off the second of the two main corridors on the fifth level of the palace. |
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| 50 | 39 |
Pertinax and I then went to the wall of the main corridor, that on the west side of the palace, beside the entrance to the side corridor. |
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| 50 | 40 |
This would place us behind the two Ashigaru, should they advance into the main corridor. |
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| 54 | 3 |
We had occasionally, glaives ready, opened the door briefly, to reconnoiter the corridor, which led to the main corridor on the western side of the palace. |
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| 55 | 8 |
We edged slowly down the corridor, until we reached the main corridor on the west side of the palace. |
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| 55 | 11 |
The main corridor stretched out on both sides, and, as far as we could tell, was empty. |
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| 59 | 13 |
Nodachi had entered through the main portal, facing the dais, walked to the dais, bowed, and politely announced himself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 12 |
There seemed to be, on their part, on the part of Lord Grendel and Eve, two main motivations for their return to Ar. |
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| 68 | 450 |
In a few Ehn we were near the main portal of the restaurant, that giving access to the restaurant from the facing street. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 138 |
I had lost no time in leaving the kitchen, climbing the stairs, and making my way to the office of the taverner, the tavern master, my master, Ho-Tosk, whose office is on the second basement level of the tavern, one level above the kitchen level, one level below the level of the main floor. |
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| 10 | 139 |
Food is conveyed from the kitchen to the main floor by means of a dumb-waiter arrangement, platforms in a shaft, raised and lowered on pulleys. |
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| 10 | 217 |
How faraway was my former world! I climbed the stairs to the main level, and, looking down the corridor, past the area to the side, where most of the girls were caged, I could see the beaded curtain that led to the central area of the tavern. |
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| 18 | 62 |
Shortly thereafter I knelt again beside the table, Table Forty-One, near the far wall of the tavern's main serving area, and placed the small tray on its surface with the three goblets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 22 |
Several of the raiders had fled, presumably seeking to follow the route which had been taken by the raiders' main force, but they had encountered several of my men. |
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| 13 | 107 |
"You would make this case to your main force?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 168 |
In an Ahn or so I conjectured the main force of the raiders would have reached their destination, that point on the map designated as the location of The Village of Flowing Gold. |
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| 19 | 131 |
Whereas the main colors about were the peasant browns, in their variations, brightened with pins, ribbons and sashes, the colors of several other castes were visible, as well. |
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| 26 | 35 |
Had I kept a straight course I was reasonably confident that the next projectile, or its successor, would strike the Tesephone, perhaps crashing through the main deck, perhaps destroying a section of a rowing frame, in either case setting the ship afire. |
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| 29 | 253 |
"Leave us here!" "I have had a sturdy slave ring fixed in the main deck of the Tesephone," I said. |
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| 31 | 70 |
"I think it probable that the enemy's main force, or most of it, will march on Zeuxis in the morning," I said. |
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| 32 | 11 |
In any event the advance party, which we would let pass, remained on the road and was out of touch with the main group. |
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| 32 | 12 |
Given this arrangement, the advanced party might not even be aware, at least immediately, that the main group was under attack. |
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| 41 | 95 |
We were looking toward the many tents of the main encampment of the mercenaries, some two hundred yards behind the second of the two siege ditches. |
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| 52 | 120 |
Much depends, of course, on a variety of factors, the height of the mast, the type of sail on the yard, say, a fair-weather sail or storm sail, or such, and the point from which the observation is made, say, from the main deck or the height of one's own mast, and so on. |
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| 55 | 18 |
"Captain," called Thurnock, upward from the main deck, "the plankage has been prepared. |
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| 55 | 70 |
It, by signals, will remain in contact with the main body of the fleet, the four ships held in reserve". |
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| 58 | 83 |
I called down to the main deck. |
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| 58 | 164 |
Thurnock looked down to the main deck. |
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