| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 22 |
In a matter of time Ko-ro-ba would be forced to match its comparative handful of tarnsmen against those of the Empire of Ar. |
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| 9 | 137 |
I have heard she has the temper of a tharlarion and a face to match!" Talena stiffened, her pride offended. |
10 |
| 10 | 13 |
"So," said the merchant, "Kazrak of Port Kar has met his match?" "It is the first challenge I have ever lost," replied Kazrak proudly. |
10 |
| 18 | 137 |
In that instant a great black shape hurtled into the fray, and the tarn had met his match. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 22 |
He had seen the swift engagement with his swordsmen and he was probably considering whether or not he could match my prowess. |
10 |
| 23 | 14 |
I think she thought she might require it to match her sash. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 127 |
"Not the least interesting aspect of this matter," said Sarm, "is the match". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 54 |
It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. |
10 |
| 8 | 275 |
I feared that Tuka would not run well, thus losing us the match, that she would deliberately allow herself to be easily snared. |
10 |
| 8 | 532 |
Had I not saved her? Were not the points between Kamchak and I, and Conrad and Albrecht even? Was she not safe and the match at an end? "The score is tied," said Kamchak, "and the wager is concluded. |
10 |
| 8 | 538 |
"The match is at an end," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 77 |
I found Turia to match my expectations. |
10 |
| 9 | 94 |
Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp... |
10 |
| 10 | 308 |
Yet I knew that beneath those Robes of Concealment many wore the shameful Turian camisk, perhaps the only time the hated garment would touch their bodies, for should their warrior lose this match they knew they would not be permitted to leave the stake in the robes in which they came. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 320 |
Their ships have sensing devices perhaps the match of our own; they scatter; they have weapons, primitive perhaps, but yet effective at ranges of a hundred thousand pasangs". |
10 |
| 19 | 122 |
Among the crowd, though it was predominantly male, there were, as I might have mentioned, several women, perhaps one in ten or fifteen; many of these were doubtless rich, and of High Caste; some of them were probably interested in picking up a serving slave; kettle wenches, so to speak, would probab... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 172 |
A small flame was kindled into which she thrust a bit of rence stem, like a match. |
10 |
| 6 | 54 |
Some of the men of the rencers, with their small shields of rence wicker, fought, but their marsh spears were no match for the steel swords and the war spears of Gor. |
10 |
| 6 | 56 |
Most, panic-stricken, knowing themselves no match for trained warriors, fled like animals, crying out in fear before the hunters of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 9 | 146 |
But only Cos and Tyros had fleets to match those of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 9 | 152 |
Only Cos and Tyros had fleets to match those of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 9 | 215 |
Her seamen were surely the match for any who might sail against them. |
10 |
| 14 | 324 |
They were slower than the ram-ships and, under any conditions, little match for them. |
10 |
| 15 | 2 |
I wore the purple of a fleet admiral, with a golden cap with tassel, and gold trim on the sleeves and borders of my robes, with cloak to match. |
10 |
| 16 | 181 |
Even had the fortunes I had brought from the treasure fleet been applied immediately after my return to the city, we could not, in the time, have outfitted a fleet to match that which must be descending upon us. |
10 |
| 17 | 74 |
It was my hope that my round ships, with their large, free crews, and their artillery, and their boarding potentialities, might be a match for even heavy-class tarn ships. |
10 |
| 17 | 195 |
Then, as the lines of Cos and Tyros had closed and deepened, to match formations with my task forces, the great encircling line of round ships had cast its net about them. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 154 |
I had outwitted them! Did they think to match wits with Elinor Brinton? Stupid men! I was safe! Something soft, folded and white slipped over my head, before my eyes. |
10 |
| 3 | 69 |
He threw the match into the ash tray. |
10 |
| 3 | 324 |
They would not find Elinor Brinton easy game! Whoever they might be, she was more than a match for them. |
10 |
| 10 | 155 |
With a small match, he lit my cigarette for me, and then his. |
10 |
| 10 | 156 |
He threw the match into the fire. |
10 |
| 10 | 496 |
He closed the small, flat golden cigarette box and struck a small match. |
10 |
| 10 | 498 |
The flame from the match was but an inch short of the cigarette. |
10 |
| 10 | 503 |
He brought the match toward the cigarette, and I bent forward for the light. |
10 |
| 10 | 504 |
The match dropped. |
10 |
| 11 | 1156 |
My training, I suspected, as well as my intelligence, would make me more than a match for any man, even the strangely attractive, powerful men of Gor. |
10 |
| 17 | 280 |
Tellius, the kitchen master of the house of Bosk, drunken, in a dicing match, in a paga tavern of Port Kar, had learned that there was an interesting girl, newly brought to the house of Samos, one who had been trained in the pens of Ko-ro-ba, one who wore the brand of Treve. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 106 |
"She would be an excellent match, would she not?" asked Verna. |
10 |
| 9 | 195 |
"So now," asked Verna, "how excellent a match do you think Talena would be?" Talena was now nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 338 |
It would have been an excellent match. |
10 |
| 11 | 664 |
No longer was she a desirable match. |
10 |
| 15 | 47 |
She, a girl of Earth, was no match for the women of Gor. |
10 |
| 18 | 327 |
The girls, tied together, stumbling, struggled to match my pace. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 153 |
When the first blood touches the cloak the match may, at the agreement of the combatants, or in the discretion of one of the two referees, be terminated; a price of three silver tarn disks is then paid to the victor by the loser; the winner commonly then performs a sacrifice; if the winner is rich, ... |
10 |
| 1 | 57 |
He knew himself no match for me in this game. |
10 |
| 4 | 46 |
The pieces, correspondingly, are drilled to match the pegs, and fit over them. |
10 |
| 5 | 202 |
Far behind us Black Sleen, reputed to be the fastest ship in the north, struggled, under oars and sail, to match our pace. |
10 |
| 10 | 234 |
To his credit, he had, obviously, not much approved of the former match. |
10 |
| 10 | 251 |
I had, at any rate, seen it done in an earlier match. |
10 |
| 14 | 211 |
Men, it seemed to me, could be no match for such animals. |
10 |
| 15 | 248 |
Even as a boy he had been a dangerous foe, in guile and wit the match even for an adult Kur. |
10 |
| 17 | 109 |
Few who have been invested in the scarlet of the warriors cannot match this accomplishment. |
10 |
| 21 | 101 |
I wondered if man could be so great a foe, if he in his own terribleness, his ferocity, his intelligence, could match such a beast. |
10 |
| 21 | 105 |
Could man be a match for such a beast? I wondered on what might be the magnitude of man. |
10 |
| 22 | 104 |
One must match them in strength, in intellect, in terribleness, in ferocity. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 212 |
From the point of view of his father the bargain was a good one for Thandar was the youngest and least important of five sons; it was not as if his first or second son had been matched with a merchant's daughter; besides the match was politically and commercially expedient; who knew how ambitious mi... |
10 |
| 4 | 201 |
It must match and betray my slave body perfectly. |
10 |
| 5 | 136 |
The pledged companions, the Lady Sabina of Fortress of Saphronicus and Thandar of Ti, of the Four Cities of Saleria, of the Salerian Confederation, had, as yet, according to Eta, never laid eyes on one another, the matter of their match having been arranged between their respective fathers, as is no... |
10 |
| 5 | 137 |
The match had been initiated at the behest of Kleomenes, who was interested in negotiating a commercial and political alliance with the Salerian Confederation. |
10 |
| 5 | 140 |
It seemed not unlikely that the match would ultimately prove profitable and politically expedient for both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Salerian Confederation. |
10 |
| 5 | 141 |
In the match, there was much to gain by both parties. |
10 |
| 5 | 163 |
Also, of course, visiting the villages presented the opportunity for publicizing the match and, doubtless, unobtrusively, in the feasting and celebration, for gathering the reaction, and general feelings, of the villages. |
10 |
| 5 | 194 |
Too, allaying my commiserations for the girl, for she had had no say in her companionship arrangements, was my understanding, conveyed by Eta, that she looked forward to the match and was much pleased by it. |
10 |
| 5 | 209 |
It was said she was much pleased to raise caste and would become, by this match, one of the high ladies of the Salerian Confederation, which was becoming powerful in the north. |
10 |
| 5 | 211 |
I supposed he was not too pleased at being matched with a girl who was not of the five high castes, but surely he could appreciate the commercial and political significance of the match, and would be pleased to serve his city by doing his part. |
10 |
| 5 | 326 |
Perhaps she had fled from the camp? Perhaps, for some reason, she wished to flee the match with Thandar of Ti, whom I understood she had never seen. |
10 |
| 9 | 1079 |
"Would you not like a smooth steel collar, one slender and gleaming, or perhaps ornamented and cunningly wrought, or enameled, perhaps to match your eyes and hair, one designed in color and workmanship to enhance your style of beauty, one perhaps measured or custom-fitted to the beauty of your own s... |
10 |
| 9 | 1768 |
Bran Loort was not unskilled, and he was young and strong, but no match was he for the grim and mighty Thurnus, caste leader of Tabuk's Ford, my master. |
10 |
| 12 | 693 |
The other ear, almost certainly now, to match its mate, would sometime be pierced, and I would then be a "pierced-ear girl," the lowest of female slaves. |
10 |
| 14 | 224 |
Their companionship had been an intended match of state. |
10 |
| 14 | 376 |
She was no match for me. |
10 |
| 27 | 525 |
I detest the politics which seemed to make such a match expedient. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 405 |
She could not begin to be a match for my strength. |
10 |
| 2 | 516 |
"The match is important," I pointed out. |
10 |
| 2 | 526 |
"The planet has waited years for this match," I said. |
10 |
| 2 | 530 |
Hostilities between the two cities were suspended for the duration of the match. |
10 |
| 2 | 541 |
I expected to have to pay a golden tarn disk for standing room in the amphitheater in which the match would take place. |
10 |
| 2 | 543 |
"If there was a crucial act to be done at a given time," said Samos, "and the fate of two worlds hung upon that act, and it interfered with a Kaissa match, what would you do?" I grinned. |
10 |
| 2 | 695 |
He will be no match for Scormus". |
10 |
| 2 | 725 |
"Do you know that Philemon of Teletus will play Stengarius of Ti, and that Hobart of Tharna will match wits with Boris of Turia?" "No," said Samos, ruefully. |
10 |
| 2 | 761 |
I considered the upcoming match between Centius of Cos and Scormus of Ar. |
10 |
| 3 | 22 |
The tunics of the girls are not removed, however, except those of the girls of the losing city, when the match has ended and the winner decided. |
10 |
| 3 | 24 |
A woman once bound and thrown to the girl pit, incidentally, may not be fetched forth by the young men of her city, except at the end of the match, and on the condition that they have proved victorious. |
10 |
| 3 | 312 |
"Whom do you favor in the great match?" I asked. |
10 |
| 3 | 325 |
I speculated on the effect which the draw for yellow might have on the odds in the match. |
10 |
| 3 | 336 |
Often, incidentally, the first move in a match is decided by one player's guessing in which hand the other holds a Spearman, one of the pieces of the game. |
10 |
| 3 | 337 |
In this match, however, a yellow Spearman and a red Spearman were to be placed in a helmet, covered with a scarlet cloth. |
10 |
| 3 | 673 |
Centius of Cos, in his tent, it was said, seemed unconcerned with the match. |
10 |
| 3 | 674 |
He was lost in his thoughts, studying a position which had once occurred a generation ago in a match between the minor masters Ossius of Tabor, exiled from Teletus, and Philemon of Asperiche, not even of the players, but only a cloth worker. |
10 |
| 3 | 693 |
There was nothing pressing until tomorrow's forenoon when the match would begin. |
10 |
| 4 | 13 |
It would be a good day for the match. |
10 |
| 4 | 26 |
Already, even in Port Kar, I had reserved a seat for the match. |
10 |
| 4 | 110 |
Also, of course, there were hundreds of men in the tiers who would simultaneously, unofficially, be recording the match. |
10 |
| 4 | 117 |
These spigots are linked in such a way that when one is open the other must be closed; the spigot turned by a given player closes his own clock's sand passage and opens that of his opponent; when the clocks must both be stopped, as for an adjournment of play, they are placed on their side by the chi... |
10 |
| 4 | 203 |
That he had chosen the Ubara's Gambit indicated the respect in which he held Centius of Cos and the seriousness with which he approached the match. |
10 |
| 4 | 321 |
Several men had bet fortunes on the match. |
10 |
| 25 | 93 |
Sometimes a man or woman runs before the sled, to hasten the sleen, which will normally match the guide pace. |
10 |
| 30 | 180 |
"He was no match for me. |
10 |
| 35 | 1106 |
Drusus, with a dart-firing weapon, joined one contingent of hunters, in their vanguard, to cover them and match fire with whatever resistance they might encounter; Ram, seizing up a weapon, joined another contingent. |
10 |
| 36 | 75 |
"I ran away from Copper Cliffs to avoid an unwanted match," she said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 416 |
I knew I could not begin to match the power and strength of her will, her stern character. |
10 |
| 7 | 871 |
Her small strength was no match for mine. |
10 |
| 13 | 531 |
"The ribbon is only to match my tunic," she said. |
10 |
| 20 | 105 |
It had been that match which had established my precedence among the fighting slaves of the stables in the vicinity of Vonda. |
10 |
| 20 | 106 |
It had been that match which had resulted in my being named the local champion. |
10 |
| 20 | 110 |
Another match, to hold the interest of the crowd, would soon be beginning. |
10 |
| 20 | 119 |
Another match was beginning. |
10 |
| 20 | 241 |
Another match was in progress. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 22 |
They are delaying now only to match their strike with that of the men of Lara". |
10 |
| 20 | 92 |
I knew myself no match for Kliomenes, or the others. |
10 |
| 26 | 246 |
"How then, as I am a worker on the docks, could I have had the leisure to develop skills with the blade which might be the match of yours?" Angrily Miles of Vonda thrust his sword back in its sheath. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 68 |
It was only these, we feared, who might be able to match the forces of the Voskjard in even combat. |
10 |
| 3 | 69 |
The ships of Ar's Station could bring numbers to bear in our favor, but we did not regard them, ship for ship, as the match of either a galley of the Voskjard or of Port Cos. |
10 |
| 3 | 172 |
"Sixty, a hundred?" "We can never match such ships in open battle," I said. |
10 |
| 4 | 156 |
I did not see how Ar, in her disputes with Cos upon the Vosk, could hope to match such ships and men. |
10 |
| 5 | 144 |
Did Ar's Station truly think to match such swollen, ponderous freighters against the swift, sleek menace of the Voskjard's warships? And to aggravate the situation the ships of Ar's Station seemed undermanned. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 935 |
Indeed, over long distances, in such snow, he could match the speed of the wading kaiila. |
10 |
| 1 | 1111 |
No Gorean weapon can match it in its rate of fire. |
10 |
| 16 | 389 |
I wondered if the horrors and crimes perpetrated on one another by adults could ever match the cruelties inflicted on children. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 5 |
"I do not think you are my match," I told him. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 6 |
Even the silken collar sheath, of one color or another, which was usually worn, selected to match a tunic, was gone. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 432 |
Apparently the arsenal champion, one of the best twenty or thirty players in Port Kar, had been no match for him. |
10 |
| 6 | 1207 |
She was an exquisite little slave, but not a match for the Brigella in beauty. |
10 |
| 16 | 999 |
"Ubar," said Temenides, "do not call for this match. |
10 |
| 16 | 1020 |
"Do not seek to force a match between us, Ubar," said Temenides. |
10 |
| 16 | 1021 |
"I will not consider a match with such a fellow, not with a creature of such outrageous deformity, not with one such as he, one who is, by all reports, at best naught but a harrowingly disfigured monster". |
10 |
| 18 | 24 |
His touchiness on the matters of Scormus of Ar and Centius of Cos, and the great match of 10,125 C. |
10 |
| 18 | 34 |
The fellow who had stood near to Bina during the match, he who would have cut her throat if she had erred in her behavior, speaking before the conclusion of the game, now cut her wrists free of the thongs. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 73 |
The soldiers of Cos, and their mercenary contingents, no matter how numerous, will be no match for the marshaled squares of Ar". |
10 |
| 4 | 296 |
To be sure, had the handles been armed perhaps he would have addressed himself to our match with much greater circumspection. |
10 |
| 6 | 130 |
"They are very good," said Hurtha, "though, to be sure, they are not a match for the stuffed mushrooms". |
10 |
| 26 | 623 |
The common sulfur match, on the other hand, so common on Earth, I have never met with on Gor. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 697 |
"Does she have a face to match this luscious form?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 29 | 124 |
One man of Tharna, it is said, is a match for ten from most cities. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 493 |
Doubtless we would seem prizes in diverse ways to the Cosians, the commander of the wall and a female who might hopefully, when unhooded, be found to have a face to match the excitements of her figure. |
10 |
| 24 | 326 |
"Although the Cosians outnumbered us ten to one, their numbers would be no match for what, I gather, is nearly the full might of Ar". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 700 |
How utterly marvelous are the Gorean females! How utterly different they are from the women of Earth! How impossible it would be for a female of Earth to match them! I watched the dancer then move to the next fellow, and turn about. |
10 |
| 3 | 725 |
How utterly marvelous, again I thought, are the Gorean females! How utterly different they are from the women of Earth! How impossible it would be for a mere, inert female of Earth to match them! Poor, pathetic, impoverished, deprived men of Earth, I thought. |
10 |
| 9 | 542 |
And sometimes the man's touch is no more than the match applied to this waiting tinder. |
10 |
| 16 | 37 |
Weaponwise, incidentally, there are men who can handle it so well that they are a match for many swordsmen. |
10 |
| 17 | 477 |
How inexplicable and marvelous to a savage might appear a match, a handful of beads, a mirror, a stick of candy, a tennis ball. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1353 |
How many women, I wonder, marry truly for love, and only love? Do we not consider many other matters—the finances of our potential spouse, his education, his family connections, his position in society, the likely location of his domicile, the presumed trajectory of his career, the prestige o... |
10 |
| 12 | 128 |
A match may be seen from far off in the darkness. |
10 |
| 40 | 89 |
"We have not yet concluded our Kaissa match," said the officer. |
10 |
| 40 | 92 |
Their current match had been set at eleven games. |
10 |
| 40 | 199 |
"The match is apparently of importance to you," said the pit master, bitterly, sitting down, cross-legged, before the board. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1058 |
"I cannot at the moment match that bid in ready coin. |
10 |
| 30 | 477 |
She must consider how her friends will view her, and the match, and what they will think of her, and say of her. |
10 |
| 30 | 487 |
Sometimes a free woman, who fears that her feelings for a projected companion, to her dismay and scandal, are more intense, suffusive, overwhelming and passionate than is proper for one of her status will withdraw from the projected match. |
10 |
| 30 | 489 |
Sometimes, too, a free man will withdraw from a match if he suspects that the woman's desires and needs are unworthy of a free woman. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 387 |
In particular, however, we should note that the English girl had been selected by her captors, the Priest-Kings, with particularly great care, and with all the expertise and wisdom of their advanced science, to be a match with the male in question. |
10 |
| 1 | 771 |
We recall that she had been selected as a match for the particular male in question, and that, thus, they would find themselves irresistibly and excruciatingly attractive to one another. |
10 |
| 1 | 796 |
Perhaps, he thought, she had been! Might not the Priest-Kings, with their wizardry, have inquired into such things, and perhaps, in the female's case, too, might they not have accessed her own needs, fantasies, and dreams? This match, he suddenly suspected, is too close, too well done. |
10 |
| 4 | 199 |
"It is clearly the match for a Kur hand," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 276 |
"And they are not a match for the speed or armament of Kur ships". |
10 |
| 35 | 124 |
They attack and slaughter Kurii as they can, but are a slight match for them, and hundreds die on the steps of the palace, burned alive by power weapons. |
10 |
| 36 | 88 |
"This is the only match we have, against power weapons," he said. |
10 |
| 38 | 23 |
No match had such been for Kurii. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 207 |
A Kur, unarmed, is a match for a sleen. |
10 |
| 2 | 15 |
It would match in well with the background, with attendant shadows. |
10 |
| 3 | 660 |
I am no match for a sleen. |
10 |
| 5 | 55 |
Life and death sometimes hung on the outcomes of a kaissa match, and war or peace. |
10 |
| 14 | 88 |
The saddle bow lacked the power of the peasant bow but it was practical from the saddle, and could match the rate of fire of the larger weapon. |
10 |
| 15 | 435 |
The purpose of the sword is not to fence, not to match blades, and not to exhibit skill, nor is its purpose to reach the enemy, nor even to cut him. |
10 |
| 16 | 16 |
These spatial habituations are then linked with a tendency to match velocity. |
10 |
| 38 | 53 |
And so in the mysterious ways of nature the match is made. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 119 |
Might there not be then some trap I did not understand, in which I might be the bait? How astonished I had been when it had become clear to me that the tarnsman, Tarl Cabot, did not fear Seremides, but, on the contrary, appeared ready to welcome an opportunity to match steel with him, and how more a... |
10 |
| 3 | 514 |
I could not have begun to match strength, nor try force, with her. |
10 |
| 5 | 203 |
"I am no match for it". |
10 |
| 5 | 231 |
Even were he, somehow, a match for the former Taurentian's skills, it would be wrong of me to accept his intervention. |
10 |
| 5 | 245 |
He knows I am no match for him. |
10 |
| 7 | 154 |
Fierce, green Thassa has met her match in my ship, met her master! Tersites teaches men how to sail in all seasons and weathers! Tersites goes where he wills; he asks no permissions, solicits no favors, dreads no threats, and fears no rebuke. |
10 |
| 9 | 285 |
Few could match him. |
10 |
| 16 | 303 |
"We cannot match them, ship to ship". |
10 |
| 17 | 219 |
"Perhaps they cannot match our speed". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 27 |
Rather they should choose and again match ostraka, hazard another turn of the wheel, another placement of the stones, another roll of the dice! We must serve our paga and ka-la-na modestly, of course, for the men must be kept at the games. |
10 |
| 8 | 1464 |
The route to these ends, the assurance of a future of comfort and influence, was obviously to contract a match with a suitable young man, one of wealth and family. |
10 |
| 8 | 2029 |
Membership, this presenting us as rare prizes in marital competitions, above lesser advantaged girls, much increased the likelihood of our obtaining an enviable match. |
10 |
| 17 | 47 |
These are bred for endurance and speed, but, even so, they are ponderous beasts, and no match for the more typical racing tharlarion, which is lighter and bipedalian. |
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| 27 | 250 |
From the wagons, days before, we knew the sort of men who might dare to mount and manage the bipedalian hunting tharlarion, the sort of men who, armed with a slender lance, would match themselves against Voltai tarsk. |
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| 27 | 345 |
"What a match, with such delightful charms, might you not have garnered for yourself". |
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| 39 | 32 |
The humans in the Cave, I am sure, would have been muchly pleased to have remained neutral in such an altercation, as a single human, or even two or three, was a sorry match for a Kur. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 144 |
How could I forget that? And she was not even a man! But I reminded myself that I, even had I wished to be so, could not have begun to be a match for her. |
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| 43 | 885 |
"I am not your match," said Rorton. |
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| 43 | 924 |
The wild sleen is agile and dangerous, but it is seldom a match for the bred sleen. |
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| 48 | 103 |
I thought it no match for the larger beast. |
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| 54 | 188 |
"I cannot match the pace of Master". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 11 |
"Which match other robes," I said. |
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| 16 | 28 |
"It is a better match for my robes," he said. |
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| 21 | 169 |
The slave struggled to match the pace of the men". |
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| 25 | 335 |
I feared he would be an unlikely match for the dangerously skilled Tyrtaios, who, I was confident, was of the black caste, trained in tenacity and guile. |
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| 27 | 65 |
"We are no match for gentlemen of two swords," he said. |
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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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| 59 | 275 |
He had spared Tajima and Pertinax, neither a match for his skills. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 760 |
"But it is said, as well," said Kurik, "that one would be no match for a larl". |
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| 49 | 92 |
The Sardar Fairs, so to speak, are treaty grounds, where lethal enemies may sit side by side, observing the great boards, where the match movements are posted. |
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| 60 | 208 |
I am no match for an Assassin, or warrior". |
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| 61 | 952 |
"Perhaps, one day," said Drusus Andronicus, "you will meet your match". |
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| 62 | 28 |
How many free women, I wondered, could match the slave in beauty? How many would dare to walk and stand, and move, as a slave, with such casual, unconscious ease, such assurance and womanly grace, the grace of a woman who knows herself so special and prized that she is collared and owned? Did they s... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 54 |
"Withdraw your match!" "It is not withdrawn," called the voice back. |
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| 43 | 173 |
She cannot match our speed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 14 |
Clitus varied such things from match to match, which made it difficult to anticipate, and thus compensate for, his moves. |
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| 57 | 21 |
Ideally, from our point of view, the enemy vessels would be unable to attack our 'fort' at the same time, this permitting us to concentrate our forces in such a way as to match, or nearly match, the width of at least a first boarding party on one side. |
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| 3 | 22 |
Few vessels on Thassa, I thought, could match its speed, or close with it at close quarters. |
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| 5 | 67 |
"I think few vessels on Thassa could match their speed. |
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| 7 | 51 |
But they were no match for flatterers and sycophants, for those at the ear of Lurius, for court intrigues, for plotting and patronage. |
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| 17 | 327 |
The verr is no match for the larl". |
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| 29 | 14 |
The Dorna, in my view, was the match for any of the seven ships in the corsair fleet. |
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| 35 | 174 |
"I would match Tab and the Dorna against any single ship of the corsair fleet," I said. |
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| 35 | 178 |
No single ship, or pair of ships, could match it at sea". |
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| 44 | 8 |
In this way, a single defender, or two or three, is a match for as many as the besiegers can place on a single ladder. |
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| 54 | 51 |
"I would match them for a time against any on Thassa". |
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| 54 | 55 |
"Our lads," I said, "however strong and skilled, cannot match frequent shifts of oarsmen". |
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| 58 | 66 |
"For an Ahn I would match her against anything on the sea, regardless of the enemy's frequent shifts of oarsmen". |
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| 63 | 81 |
"You miss competing with one whose skills with the bow match your own," said Clitus. |
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