| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 48 |
That evening I dropped my pack near a rock platform and set about gathering some wood for a fire. |
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| 1 | 68 |
It was no longer funny, not if he was near. |
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| 1 | 214 |
I looked around and recognized the platform of rock near which I had set my bedroll. |
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| 3 | 15 |
And always under his table a brazier filled with hot coals burned near the feet of the scribe, perilously close to the scholarly litter with which the floor was strewn. |
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| 3 | 187 |
During my training with the sword, the Older Tarl cut me unpleasantly a number of times, shouting out, annoyingly enough, I thought, "You are dead!" At last, near the end of my training, I managed to break through his guard and, pulling my stroke, to drive my blade against his chest. |
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| 3 | 233 |
I took it from him, this time being careful to take it near the leather loop, which I fastened around my wrist. |
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| 4 | 7 |
I was on my hands and knees, trying to get back on my feet, too near the edge. |
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| 4 | 34 |
When he was near, he shouted to me, the words merry but indistinct in the rush of air. |
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| 4 | 42 |
The Older Tarl, who seemed pleased, drew near. |
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| 6 | 9 |
Once a warrior without a helmet flew near, drunk, and challenged me for the perch, a wild tarnsman of low rank, spoiling for a fight. |
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| 6 | 33 |
A spear shattered on the platform near me. |
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| 6 | 75 |
I shuddered as the beast paused near me, and I felt the light stroke of its forelegs, felt the tactile investigation of the sensory hairs on its appendages. |
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| 6 | 81 |
When I said this, the monstrous insect bent near me, and I caught sight of the mandibles, like curved knives. |
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| 6 | 134 |
Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarion poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth swung open. |
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| 7 | 158 |
We were near the Ka-la-na trees when I heard a slight rustle of brocade behind me. |
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| 8 | 100 |
When I returned to the glade, Talena was sitting in the grass, near the garments that had been ripped from her. |
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| 12 | 90 |
Near one of the green stretches I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-colored and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair. |
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| 12 | 91 |
As nearly as I could determine, we did not pass over or near the great highway that ran to the Vosk. |
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| 14 | 67 |
I felt numb, even my back, which presumably would have been a riot of pain if I had not felt myself near death. |
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| 14 | 87 |
Some five or six tarnsmen ran toward the wide opening of the shallow cave, but I rushed forward, holding the lance parallel to my body, striking them with almost superhuman strength and forcing them over the ledge near the mouth of the cave. |
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| 15 | 40 |
I brought the tarn down near the far ranges of Pa-Kur's tents, where his camp ended, seven or eight miles from the city. |
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| 15 | 68 |
I was searching for Kazrak's tent, which lay in the outer ring near the tharlarion corrals. |
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| 15 | 97 |
I went to his locker near the mat and got out his Ka-la-na flask, taking a long draught myself and then shoving it into his hands. |
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| 15 | 260 |
"On the highest ground in camp," said Mintar, "near the second ditch and across from the great gate of Ar. |
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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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| 18 | 17 |
In a matter of perhaps less than a minute I hovered over the summit of the interior wall near the great gate. |
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| 19 | 46 |
The point of the sharpened impaling post lay near her. |
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| 19 | 49 |
Now, helpless, Talena lay almost within the wing span of my tarn, so near to me and yet a world away. |
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| 20 | 43 |
I awoke, perhaps weeks later, stiff and chilly in the mountains of New Hampshire, near the flat rock on which the silver spacecraft had landed. |
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| 20 | 51 |
But then, on the ground near my boot, I saw it—a small object, a tiny, round object. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
Eventually we found what we supposed to be the ashes of his fire, near a large flat rock some nine hours' climb from the highway. |
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| 3 | 63 |
"Is your hut near?" I asked. |
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| 5 | 109 |
I placed a large flat rock near the head of the cairn and, with the tip of my spear, scratched this legend on it. |
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| 6 | 43 |
It is unusual to find a woman unescorted outside the walls of a city, even near the walls. |
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| 8 | 99 |
The sallow-faced man, clutching the folds of the hood about his face, twisted his head to the left and the right to see if anyone might be near, if anyone might have observed. |
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| 9 | 48 |
"Is there no Paga Tavern near," I asked, "where I can find rest?" "There are no Paga Taverns in Tharna," said the man, I thought with a trace of amusement. |
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| 9 | 105 |
I went to an obscure, deserted table near the back of the room, where I could face the door. |
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| 10 | 91 |
A rack of some sort was placed near the bowl of coals. |
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| 11 | 22 |
One such helmeted warrior stood near the foot of the throne. |
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| 12 | 4 |
The place was lit by a small, foul tharlarion-oil lamp set in the wall near the ceiling. |
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| 12 | 10 |
A food pan lay near my foot. |
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| 14 | 47 |
I stood near the platform now. |
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| 15 | 242 |
While I fed on the tarn's gift, the Tatrix stood near the edge of the rocky shelf, gazing out on the meadow of talenders. |
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| 16 | 109 |
His fellow stood near me, among the tarns, perhaps to watch me, perhaps to steady and soothe the excitable giants. |
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| 21 | 33 |
There was an iron brazier near the tree, which was filled with glowing coals. |
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| 21 | 184 |
Grumbling, the man went to fetch a leather bucket of water from the small stream near the camp. |
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| 23 | 120 |
We brought the tarn down on the walls near the gate. |
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| 24 | 23 |
Kron seized my arm and guided me to a table near the center of the room. |
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| 24 | 32 |
"Gold is more common here than bread," said Andreas, sitting near us. |
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| 25 | 131 |
I looked behind me and I could see that Lara now stood near, watching Dorna, and that behind her Kron and Andreas, followed by Linna, and rebels and soldiers, had ascended to the roof. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 221 |
I knew that it was near. |
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| 10 | 70 |
At that moment to my horror a large, perhaps eight feet long and a yard high, multilegged, segmented arthropod scuttled near, its eyes weaving on stalks. |
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| 11 | 62 |
"Are these holidays near?" I asked. |
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| 12 | 39 |
At that moment a human girl walked near and wide-eyed circled us, looking at me. |
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| 12 | 76 |
I think he had not forgiven me the start I had given him on the platform high above the canyon, near the elevator. |
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| 12 | 209 |
"I am kind," he said, "and it is near the Feast of Tola". |
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| 16 | 90 |
"Yes," said Misk, "as was the man from Ar whom you met on the road long ago near Ko-ro-ba". |
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| 17 | 13 |
"It is near the Feast of Tola," said Sarm, "and it is a time of pleasure and hospitality in the Nest of Priest-Kings, a time in which Priest-Kings are well disposed to all living things, whatever be their order". |
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| 21 | 54 |
Then to my amazement, one by one, the strange creatures, disdaining the bars near the door began simply to pad up the almost vertical walls to the Priest-Kings and then, astonishingly, began to walk upside down on the ceiling. |
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| 22 | 1 |
To the Tunnels of the Golden Beetle I slung the translator on its chain over my shoulder and went to the bars near the door. |
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| 22 | 81 |
Misk, the Muls and I now stood on the stone floor of the chamber near the door. |
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| 23 | 56 |
And Misk had said to me he thought I would be too late for it was near hatching time. |
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| 25 | 11 |
I wondered how many more such creatures might dwell in similar passages and caverns near the tunnels of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 25 | 112 |
When one of the attendant Muls happened to pass near the case the two little tabuk immediately froze, becoming almost invisible, and the mother, her bright golden pelt gleaming, began to prance away from them, while the angry male lowered his head against the Mul and trotted in a threatening manner ... |
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| 27 | 141 |
This time even before he was near her she again turned aside that ancient, brownish, discolored head. |
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| 28 | 93 |
I did not wish to return periodically to the Vivarium to feed her and I supposed, if necessary, some suitable confinement might be found for her near Misk's headquarters. |
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| 29 | 43 |
I broke into the open and the floor of the complex shot away from beneath me and I hung near the energy bulbs at the very apex of the dome. |
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| 29 | 75 |
The first ship to near the exit seemed to burst into a cloud of powder but the next four ships, and myself, who had fallen into line with them, pierced the veil of powder and found ourselves coursing through the tunnel back toward Sarm's domain. |
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| 30 | 126 |
Parp had now entered the room and stood near me, puffing on his pipe. |
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| 31 | 15 |
I myself was forced to walk perhaps a dozen paces in front of Sarm, who held his grasping appendage near the control box which would, he supposed, activate the golden net he believed to be fused into the tissues of my brain. |
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| 31 | 121 |
Another flash of fire burned near me, leaving a rupture of molten marble in the floor not five feet from where I stood. |
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| 31 | 124 |
He fired at me, burning a hole in the dome near him, exposing the power source, and the same flashing burst of fire tore at the area of the dome behind which I stood. |
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| 32 | 53 |
It landed near us. |
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| 32 | 95 |
I supposed the dust that clung to his thorax and abdomen, that adhered to the sensory hairs on his appendages might be distressing to him, more so perhaps than the fear that he might be totally crushed by one of the great blocks of stone that occasionally fell clattering near us. |
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| 32 | 96 |
"It is unfortunate," said Al-Ka to me, "that the alternative power plant is not near completion". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 43 |
If I were found on the plains near the camps or the bosk herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the domesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and sentinels by the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages with the falling of darkness. |
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| 2 | 73 |
It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a... |
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| 6 | 96 |
Kamchak picked up the clothing which lay near her on the grass. |
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| 6 | 101 |
The bound girl watched helplessly as the woman carried her clothing, all that she had of her old world, to a cooking fire some yards away, near the edge of the wagons. |
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| 7 | 21 |
Kutaituchik absently reached into a small golden box near his right knee and drew out a string of rolled kanda leaf. |
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| 7 | 25 |
We simply sat near him, cross-legged. |
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| 8 | 32 |
Indeed, when I had learned this, it had fired my hopes that I might be able to approach the city in the near future, hopes which, as it turned out, were disappointed, though perhaps well so. |
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| 8 | 194 |
As soon as Kamchak had agreed to Albrecht's proposal the children and several of the slave girls immediately began to rush toward the wagons, delightedly crying, "Wager! Wager!" Soon, to my dismay, a large number of Tuchuks, male and female, and their male or female slaves, began to gather near the ... |
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| 8 | 297 |
Near the animal, on the turf, a long bosk whip was laid in a circle, having a diameter of somewhere between eight and ten feet. |
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| 9 | 19 |
Merchants also, in effect, arrange and administer the four great fairs that take place each year near the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 10 | 8 |
Kamchak rode near the head of the Tuchuk line. |
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| 10 | 9 |
The standard bearer, holding aloft on a lance a representation of the four bosk horns, carved from wood, rode near us. |
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| 10 | 12 |
I could see, surprisingly near the forefront of their respective lines, the other three men I had first seen on coming to the Wagon Peoples, Conrad of the Kassars, Hakimba of the Kataii and Tolnus of the Paravaci. |
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| 10 | 13 |
These, like Kamchak, rode rather near their respective standard bearers. |
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| 10 | 195 |
A workman sprang a pair shut, and then opened them with a key, which he subsequently hung from a tiny hook near the top of the stake. |
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| 10 | 332 |
"Let the women be secured," called the first judge, who stood on a platform near the beginning of the stake lines, this year on the side of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 11 | 378 |
When the girl had finished and Elizabeth had given her a dipper of water from the leather bucket that hung near the door, Aphris extended her wrists to Kamchak. |
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| 11 | 404 |
"Sleen! Sleen! Sleen!" I followed Kamchak down the steps of the wagon and, blinking and still sensible of the effects of the paga, gravely held open the large dung sack near the rear left wheel of the wagon. |
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| 12 | 41 |
Already a large, curtained enclosure had been set up near the slave wagon. |
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| 12 | 166 |
Timidly Aphris rose and went to the thin rep-cloth blanket that was her bedding near the boots of Kamchak. |
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| 12 | 209 |
The Tuchuks, of course, were most in evidence, sitting cross-legged in circles rather about a large fire near the center of the enclosure. |
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| 12 | 257 |
Also, she may have feared more than death that if she failed in an attempt to slay him she would be plunged in the sack again which lay ever ready near the back, left wheel of the wagon. |
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| 12 | 423 |
Kamchak and I, and others, threw coins of gold into the sand near the fire. |
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| 13 | 88 |
"No!" But Kamchak was pulling her by the bracelets toward an empty sleen cage mounted on a low cart near the wagon, into which, still braceleted, he thrust her, then closing the door, locking it. |
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| 13 | 115 |
"There is a new kaiila I want to see near the wagon of Yachi of the Leather Workers' Clan". |
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| 13 | 117 |
He did not buy the kaiila near the wagon of Yachi of the Leather Workers though it was apparently a splendid beast. |
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| 13 | 127 |
While near Kutaituchik's wagon, on the dais, he also conferred with several other high men among the Tuchuks. |
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| 13 | 226 |
I must attempt—this night or some other in the near future—to purloin the sphere, to return it somehow to the Sardar. |
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| 14 | 61 |
They lay tumbled about, several on the dais near the wagon. |
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| 14 | 67 |
Near the center of the wagon, alone, his head bent over, on the robe of gray boskhide, sat Kutaituchik, perhaps fifteen or twenty arrows imbedded in his body. |
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| 15 | 101 |
Without speaking I sat down near him and watched him eat. |
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| 16 | 70 |
Harold had already taken up a position, looking about, near the edge of the well. |
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| 17 | 86 |
It was almost as if it were lower in the center and the edges higher near the marble basin, inching as high as they could toward our sandals. |
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| 17 | 94 |
To my surprise the pool, at least near the edge, was not deep. |
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| 18 | 8 |
I saw one of the vines hanging near me. |
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| 18 | 34 |
As nearly as I could determine the pool was thick, rubbery, gelatinous, only in the area near to my body. |
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| 19 | 36 |
Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o... |
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| 21 | 4 |
I had found Kamchak, as I had been told I would, at the wagon of Kutaituchik, which, drawn up on its hill near the standard of the four bosk horns, had been heaped with what wood was at hand and filled with dry grass. |
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| 21 | 93 |
It would be extremely dangerous, of course, to leave the city in the near future. |
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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 | 202 |
Tarnsmen would have little difficulty in finding a rider and mount on the open prairie near Turia. |
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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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| 22 | 109 |
Near him, in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls of yellow and red salt, on each side, sat many of the high men of Turia, clad in their finest robes, their hair oiled, scented and combed for the banquet. |
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| 23 | 80 |
In a moment, maintaining my saddle in spite of the leaping and stumbling of my kaiila over the slain bosk, fallen kaiila and screaming men, I gave orders to turn the bosk back and reform them near the wagons. |
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| 23 | 83 |
It was now near nightfall and I was confident the Paravaci, who greatly outnumbered us, perhaps in the order of ten or twenty to one, would wait until morning before pressing the advantage of their numbers. |
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| 24 | 74 |
I knew Kamchak had brought, over the past few days, several hundred bosk to graze near Turia, to use in feeding his troops. |
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| 24 | 124 |
"It would have been rather difficult to get near the gates of Turia for a fellow wearing the Courage Scar, would it not?" "Indeed it would," I laughed. |
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| 25 | 2 |
Within, a girl, across the wagon, beyond the tiny fire bowl in the center of its floor, standing on the thick rug, near a hanging tharlarion-oil lamp, turned suddenly to face me. |
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| 25 | 487 |
I went across the rug and sat down cross-legged near the fire bowl, and looked at the girl. |
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| 26 | 71 |
He lifted his hand and one who stood near him climbed to the wall about the roof and blew a long blast on a bosk horn. |
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| 26 | 297 |
I was conscious of Kamchak now standing near to me, and behind him Harold. |
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| 26 | 302 |
Near me Kamchak said, quietly, "Release the sleen. |
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| 26 | 313 |
He knelt down near the fragments, disgust on his face, fingering the stiff, leathery ruptured egg, some of the golden pieces broken from it. |
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| 26 | 357 |
Then Saphrar, merchant of Turia, struggled, pounding against the caked material near to him, to prevent his being drawn under. |
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| 28 | 7 |
There were several people gathered about, near the wagon of Kamchak, among them Tuka's master, and the girl herself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 353 |
In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of oth... |
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| 1 | 35 |
There were three who stood near the pyre; one wore the brown robes of the Administrator of a City, the humblest robes in the city, and was hooded; another wore the blue of the Caste of Scribes, a small man, almost tiny, bent now with pain and grief; the last was a very large man, broad of back and s... |
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| 1 | 55 |
Only one man remained near the smoking wood. |
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| 1 | 61 |
When the man near the smoking wood turned to face him, Kuurus descended the hill. |
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| 2 | 18 |
Her back against the bricks of a tower near the gate, a slender, slim-ankled slave girl stood, watching him. |
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| 2 | 28 |
At a paga tavern, one near the great gate, cheap and crowded, dingy and smelling, a place frequented by strangers and small Merchants, the Assassin took the girl by the arm and thrust her within. |
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| 2 | 56 |
The men who had been at that table, or near it, silently rose and left the area. |
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| 2 | 250 |
"Those of this house stand near the Administrator, and the High Initiate," said Portus. |
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| 2 | 330 |
Not speaking, but woodenly, she climbed the ladder and crawled onto the shelf near the tiny alcove marked with the Gorean equivalent of twenty-seven and entered, followed by Kuurus, who drew the curtains behind them. |
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| 3 | 42 |
I myself, when Centius of Cos was in Ko-ro-ba, might have played him on the bridge near the Cylinder of Warriors for only a pair of copper tarn disks. |
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| 3 | 50 |
There is also some money for the masters in the annotation of games, printed on large boards near the Central Cylinder, in the preparation or editing of scrolls on the game, and in the providing of instruction for those who would improve their skills. |
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| 3 | 55 |
In Ar, the high bridge near the Central Cylinder, housing the palace of the Ubar and the meeting place of the city's High Council, was held, and had been for four years, by the young and brilliant, fiery Scormus of Ar. |
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| 3 | 106 |
None of this crowd seemed much to object to my presence there, though, to be sure, none would stand near me. |
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| 4 | 7 |
The House of Cernus, I had heard, had interests in several of the Hurt Ranches near the city. |
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| 4 | 67 |
The Older Tarl, the Koroban master of arms, and myself had found the body, and near it, the patch of green caught in a crack in the grillwork of one of the lamps on the bridge, where perhaps it had been torn from the shoulder of a running, stumbling man. |
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| 4 | 126 |
"What was her number?" Cernus was asking Caprus, who stood near him. |
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| 4 | 145 |
She was dressed as she had been when first I saw her near the great gate of Ar, barefoot, the yellow slave livery, the unbound dark hair, the yellow collar. |
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| 4 | 194 |
A year later, by slave wagon, I reached the fair of Se'Var near the Sardar, where I was sold to the House of Clark, from which house I and many others were fortunate enough to be purchased by the House of Cernus, in Glorious Ar". |
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| 4 | 204 |
Cernus turned to Caprus, who stood near him. |
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| 5 | 176 |
Delicately, slowly, the gigantic creature approached me, seeming to move only the four supporting appendages, until it stood near me. |
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| 5 | 288 |
"When I look at it," said Elizabeth, excitedly, holding the sheet of plastic, "I just know what the sounds are—I just know!" "Of course," said Kusk, "but it grows near the Ahn of the fourth feeding. |
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| 5 | 624 |
I examined her knot, which I had tied about the handle of one of the chests near the wall. |
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| 9 | 28 |
As at many of the larger markets, there are Musicians near the block, and a girl is given enough time to present herself well. |
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| 9 | 49 |
One of them held the sheet up inspecting it, and I saw that it was a bill, which might be pasted against the wall of a public building, or on the public boards near the markets. |
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| 9 | 76 |
The two girls strolled near the glass and one of them, lifting her hands behind her head, studied her reflection gravely in the mirror, retying the band of silk which confined her hair. |
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| 10 | 3 |
A male slave stood near, a heavy band of iron about his throat, a whipping strap dangling from his right hand. |
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| 11 | 20 |
I noted that the females tended to remain near the center of their cage. |
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| 11 | 24 |
One or two girls I noted lay on the flooring mesh, their heads near the bars separating them from the males, their hair cruelly tied to the bars. |
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| 11 | 32 |
There was a drum fire near the center of the room on the floor. |
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| 12 | 22 |
Near the finishing perches, nine of which were standing for this race, were the areas reserved for the Administrator, the High Initiate, and members of the High Council. |
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| 12 | 47 |
I looked to the area of the Administrator and saw the Hinrabian disgustedly turning away, dictating something to a scribe, who sat cross-legged near the throne, a sheaf of record papers in his hand. |
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| 12 | 139 |
One man near me had apparently been one of the lucky few for he was leaping up and down screaming with delight. |
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| 13 | 101 |
In a secluded place, among the planted grasses and ferns, sheltered from view, I had lifted Nela from the pool and placed her on a large piece of orange toweling on the grass, near which I had left my clothes and pouch. |
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| 13 | 222 |
There had apparently been no tarns near the central cylinder during the time, and, according to report, no strangers were known to have entered the cylinder. |
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| 13 | 239 |
Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ... |
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| 13 | 314 |
The long net under the rings had been removed and rolled, placed with its poles near the dividing wall. |
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| 14 | 86 |
"Also," I said, "I would like to find out who slew the Warrior from Thentis, he who died on the high bridge in Ko-ro-ba near the Cylinder of Warriors". |
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| 14 | 115 |
The four guards were still posted near the door. |
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| 14 | 158 |
I heard a movement near us. |
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| 14 | 164 |
The guard unlocked the door and the kitchen slave, deferentially, entered, her head down, and placed the tray of fruit and wine on a small low table near the divan. |
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| 15 | 135 |
Near the chests of raiment and such were several folded mats and sets of love furs. |
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| 15 | 139 |
I used it sometimes myself, but at other times, sometimes alone, sometimes with others, would enter the room and sit near the back. |
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| 16 | 249 |
Near the railing of the front tier, I stopped. |
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| 16 | 273 |
I sensed Mip near me. |
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| 17 | 22 |
I dodged a hurled larma fruit which splattered on the wall of a cylinder near me. |
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| 17 | 102 |
I permitted her to go to the center of the room, where she stood, facing me, tears in her eyes, near the rep-cloth blankets spread over straw. |
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| 17 | 153 |
After each race Mip, in detail, would discuss my riding, making suggestions; before each race, he would explain to me what he knew of the habits of the riders and tarns I faced, which was almost invariably a great deal; he taught me to recognize for myself certain faults in other riders, certain exp... |
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| 17 | 202 |
Two members of the High Council, who had spoken out against the influence of Merchants in the politics of Ar, presumably a veiled reference to Cernus, were found slain, one cut down by killing knife and another throttled and found dangling from a bridge near his home. |
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| 17 | 297 |
At this point Virginia Kent put down her pitcher of wine, seized Lana by the shoulder, spun her about and struck her a rather severe blow near the left eye. |
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| 17 | 327 |
Near the pit of sand several slave girls, dancers, in Pleasure Silk were kneeling back on their heels and clapping their hands with glee. |
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| 17 | 374 |
"Don't look so disappointed," said a Red Silk Girl passing near her, carrying Ka-la-na. |
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| 17 | 638 |
She placed her bowl on the floor near me and then went back to the chest where the doll had been kept. |
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| 18 | 25 |
"It was with a knife such as this," I said, "that you slew a Warrior of Thentis on a bridge in Ko-ro-ba, in En'Var, near the tower of Warriors". |
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| 18 | 327 |
I could see the bread ovens in one wall; the long fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but, here and there, I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal; aside from this, the light in the room came from on... |
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| 18 | 365 |
I picked up a torch and lit it in the light of a lamp near the swirling iron stairs. |
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| 18 | 372 |
I heard the guard calling out from near the stairs. |
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| 18 | 385 |
"Near the door," he said. |
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| 18 | 386 |
"The other keys," I said, "were not near the doors". |
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| 18 | 395 |
Inside, very dimly, I could see a slumped, dark figure lying near the back wall, chained. |
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| 18 | 401 |
It had been nibbling at the scrapings of dried gruel caked in a tin pan near the prisoner's foot. |
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| 19 | 221 |
They stood near the center of the block, their leashes in the hands of the auctioneer. |
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| 19 | 323 |
"Is not Samos," he asked, "First Slaver of Port Kar with us this evening?" All eyes turned to one of the boxes near the front of the block. |
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| 20 | 13 |
Near them, kneeling, her wrists and ankles bound with slender, silken ropes, knelt Sura, head forward, her hair touching the floor. |
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| 20 | 141 |
"Give her a hook knife," said Cernus to one of the men near him. |
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| 20 | 222 |
I heard one of the men near me whisper to another. |
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| 20 | 253 |
The other man who had entered with Hup was, to my astonishment, the blind Player whom I had encountered so long ago in the street outside the paga tavern near the great gate of Ar, who had beaten so brilliantly the Vintner in what had been apparently, until then, an uneven and fraudulent game, one t... |
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| 20 | 345 |
I racked my brain, trying to understand something which seemed somehow but a moment from comprehension, something elusive, hauntingly near and yet undisclosed. |
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| 22 | 14 |
Near one perch there lay a dead tarn, a small racing tarn, its throat cut. |
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| 22 | 15 |
Near it, being tended for wounds, lay its intended rider, groaning. |
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| 22 | 46 |
With Callius wounded and tarns at, or near, their perches, the Steels would have no rider. |
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| 22 | 173 |
"Look," said the crossbowman, who stood near me. |
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| 22 | 174 |
He pointed to a spot about a hundred yards away, on a small wall, built itself on the dividing wall, near the pole of the wooden tarn heads. |
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| 22 | 409 |
There was a cry of dismay from those near my perch. |
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| 22 | 514 |
As I drew near, and then abreast of him, I saw madness and fury in his eyes. |
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| 24 | 249 |
"Yes," I said, "he who was Kuurus, and the double tarn I give you now I give for your victory over the Vintner long ago near the great gate of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 369 |
"Near what city," I asked, "did your holding lie?" "Near Ar," said he. |
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| 13 | 222 |
I recall seeing, crouched against the wall of a building near the postern gate of the palace of Lurius, a coarse-robed figure, foolishly come too early to sell his vegetables, suls and tur-pah, near the palace. |
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| 1 | 79 |
Rence paper is made by slicing the stem into thin, narrow strips; those near the center of the plant are particularly favored; one layer of strips is placed longitudinally, and then a shorter layer is placed latitudinally across the first layer; these two surfaces are then soaked under water, which ... |
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| 2 | 26 |
She had no paddle, but, thrust in the mud near her, was a long pole which she would use to propel her light craft. |
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| 3 | 79 |
Normally, as I may have mentioned, these communities are isolated from one another, but it was now near the Autumnal Equinox, and the month of Se'Kara was shortly to begin. |
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| 3 | 91 |
Why should there be so many rence islands in the same vicinity, even though it was near the first of Se'Kara? Surely the capture of one traveler in the delta did not warrant this attention, and, of course, the islands must have been gathered together even before I had entered the area. |
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| 4 | 124 |
"It is near the festival of Se'Kara," said she. |
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| 4 | 162 |
I had expected her to bind me, as she had the night before, then tethering me to the oar pole thrust through the rence near the hut. |
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| 4 | 177 |
There were two throwing sticks near the wall, where her sleeping mat, of woven rence, was rolled. |
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| 4 | 243 |
I could sense her lying near me, on her elbows, looking down at me. |
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| 5 | 27 |
The pole, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood in a clearing near the shore of the island. |
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| 5 | 231 |
She threw it to the corner of the hut, on her left, near her feet. |
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| 6 | 47 |
The tall, bearded officer, sword drawn, stood silently near him. |
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| 6 | 52 |
A man fell near us, his neck cut half through by the thrust of a spear. |
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| 6 | 101 |
Near the oar pole to which I had been bound, some yards from what had been the circle of the dance, a number of rencers, stripped, men and women, lay bound hand and foot. |
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| 6 | 136 |
A warrior of Port Kar, in the light of a torch held by a slave, was binding a girl near me. |
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| 6 | 214 |
His spear fell near me, dropping through the rence of the raft. |
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| 7 | 25 |
On the island now, in its center, near the pole, there stood, packed together, a miserable crowd of prisoners. |
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| 7 | 31 |
Near the net I saw Henrak, still with the white scarf tied across his body, still clutching the heavy wallet, filled perhaps with gold. |
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| 7 | 83 |
I returned to the raft and picked up Telima in my arms, carrying her to the high surface of the island where, near the pole, I placed her on the matting. |
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| 7 | 138 |
Before I left I noted, among the broken rence and other paraphernalia, some throwing sticks and such, the tunic of rence cloth which she had slipped off before me the night previously, before commanding me to serve her pleasure, before we had heard the cry "Slavers!" I picked it up and carried it, w... |
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| 8 | 59 |
The man himself did not cry out but the girl, bound near him, screamed. |
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| 8 | 272 |
I indicated a coil of binding fiber that lay near the foot of the rail, below the tiller deck, on my left. |
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| 8 | 329 |
She did, and then I ordered them both back to the tiller deck of the first barge, making them stand on the rowing deck, below the steps of the tiller deck, to my left near the rail, where I might see them, where they might not, unnoticed, attempt to free others. |
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| 9 | 13 |
She danced under ships' lanterns, hanging from the ceiling of the paga tavern, it located near the wharves bounding the great arsenal. |
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| 9 | 47 |
"It is Surbus," said a man near me, to another. |
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| 9 | 285 |
Kneeling quite near him, holding cord for him, fiber on her throat serving as collar, knelt short, dark-haired Ula. |
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| 9 | 287 |
Thura, the large, blond girl, gray-eyed, knelt near a pile of wood shavings. |
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| 9 | 431 |
I myself threw down, in one corner, near a slave ring, the Furs of Love. |
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| 9 | 487 |
I put one ring about the slave ring near which she had served me, and the other ring about her left ankle. |
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| 9 | 505 |
The buildings lining the canals on each side were dark, but, here and there, in the side of one, near a window, was a torch. |
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| 9 | 652 |
We came to the roof, and there, near its edge, holding Surbus between us, we waited. |
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| 10 | 2 |
It was now near the end of the first passage hand, that following En'Kara, in which occurs the Spring Equinox. |
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| 10 | 27 |
The official "Stone," actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar. |
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| 10 | 28 |
Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard "Stone" against it. |
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| 10 | 254 |
Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. |
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| 10 | 296 |
These preserves are usually located near rivers, in order to facilitate bringing cut trees to the sea. |
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| 11 | 60 |
"There are no ships from Cos or Tyros in the harbor," said one of the captains standing near me. |
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| 11 | 106 |
Many of these basins, near which, in red-painted wooden boxes, are stored large numbers of folded leather buckets, are expressly for the purpose of providing a means for fighting fires. |
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| 11 | 182 |
The man on the rack near me screamed in agony. |
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| 11 | 195 |
It amounted to the destruction of one roofed area where Ka-la-na wood was stored, and the partial destruction of another; one small warehouse for the storage of pitch, one of several, had been destroyed; two dry docks had been lost, and the shop of the oar-makers, near the warehouse for oars, had be... |
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| 11 | 198 |
The two slaves near me bent to the rack windlass. |
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| 11 | 220 |
A captain near me shook his head. |
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| 11 | 255 |
"There was little more to be learned from that one," said a voice near me. |
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| 11 | 293 |
Then Samos addressed himself to the Scribe near the rack. |
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| 11 | 312 |
It was near the Twentieth Hour. |
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| 11 | 420 |
Bemused, I had burned it in the tiny flame of the candle on the table near me, now little more than a twig of wick in a puddle of clear, melted wax, and then I had, with the palm of my hand, snuffed out the tiny flame. |
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| 12 | 36 |
I heard an arrow flash into the water near me and heard a high-pitched pain squeal from one of the web-footed canal urts. |
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| 12 | 71 |
There, huddled against the inside of the investing wall, naked, wrapped in a warrior's cloak, near the watch fire, sat the boy. |
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| 12 | 105 |
I then dismissed the men who stood near me, except Thurnock and Clitus. |
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| 13 | 225 |
Near him, leaning against the wall behind him, wrapped in leather to protect it from the dampness, was a yellow bow, the long bow of the peasants. |
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| 13 | 239 |
Near him there lay a trident. |
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| 13 | 258 |
"Very well," said the captain, gesturing to a scribe near him, with a wallet of coins slung over his shoulder, to pay the slave master. |
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| 13 | 453 |
Near him, grinning, were Clitus and Tab. |
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| 14 | 98 |
Fires were being stoked to heat pitch and stones; bundles of tarred javelins would be shaken out near the springals and light catapults. |
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| 14 | 117 |
Thurnock, near me, the tooth missing on his upper right side, grinned. |
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| 14 | 317 |
I snapped shut the glass of the builders and, by means of a slender rope ladder fastened at the masthead and anchored to a cleat near the mast well below, took my way down to the deck. |
10 |
| 14 | 422 |
Do not dare to stand so near to me! I am not a slave girl!" She was held by the two seamen. |
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| 15 | 20 |
Near me, chief among my prizes, exposed to the crowds, their hootings and jeerings, bound on the prow, ankles and wrists, neck and belly, like a common slave girl, was the Lady Vivina, who was to have been the Ubara of Cos. |
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| 15 | 444 |
Few, saving those immediately near me, saw it there. |
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| 16 | 131 |
She leaped up, and picked up the sword, which lay near the wall, where I had thrown it some hours before, when I had not slain her. |
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| 16 | 300 |
I saw her standing there, near the entryway to my holding, in the garment of the Kettle Slave, under the torches. |
10 |
| 16 | 397 |
"I have seen it," said a voice near me. |
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| 16 | 399 |
I looked about and, to my wonder, saw, standing near me, the slave boy Fish. |
10 |
| 16 | 432 |
"I see," said Samos, standing near to me, his voice indistinct in the wild cries of the crowd, "that there is indeed a Home Stone in Port Kar". |
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| 16 | 440 |
Near to me, tears in his eyes, shouting, was the slave boy Fish. |
10 |
| 17 | 19 |
I had scarcely set foot on the deck when I saw, near the mast well, the boy Fish. |
10 |
| 17 | 169 |
Several of the ships in the lines near the point where my task force had struck were now coming about to meet their enemy. |
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| 17 | 241 |
I crammed the last of the tarsk meat into my mouth and, chewing, climbed down the narrow rope ladder, fastened to the deck near the mast well. |
10 |
| 18 | 58 |
Standing near it was the slave boy Fish. |
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| 18 | 202 |
I kept, as well as I could, near the girls, that the backs of the men would be, in turn, kept toward the entryway. |
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| 18 | 237 |
"We are defending the keep near the delta wall," he said. |
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| 18 | 239 |
Near the bound girls he stopped. |
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| 18 | 296 |
The keep is near the delta wall of the holding. |
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| 18 | 725 |
She went and knelt near Tab. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 611 |
Near that pole, near the iron ring set in the stone, which was buried in the ground, Ute told Techne and I to kneel. |
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| 1 | 134 |
It was near noon. |
10 |
| 1 | 136 |
I reached over to the ash tray on the night table near the bed and lit a cigarette. |
10 |
| 1 | 138 |
A stuffed toy, a fluffy koala bear, lay near the foot of the bed. |
10 |
| 3 | 344 |
Near the bungalows, north on the highway, there was a diner, which was open. |
10 |
| 3 | 507 |
Always the light seemed near, but it did not catch me. |
10 |
| 4 | 43 |
The men now began to bring, not gently, certain large square boxes from the truck, which they placed near the large, open hatch on the ship. |
10 |
| 4 | 50 |
The men unloading the truck began to unsnap the sides of the large wooden boxes placed near the open hatch on the ship. |
10 |
| 5 | 24 |
A small yellow flower grew near me. |
10 |
| 5 | 31 |
In the distance, near the yellowish thicket, I saw a small, yellowish animal moving, delicately. |
10 |
| 5 | 183 |
The silverish disk had now landed near the rent, half-buried black ship. |
10 |
| 5 | 227 |
I heard another rustle, near me. |
10 |
| 6 | 1 |
I Encounter Targo, Who is a Slaver I awoke in the morning, near dawn. |
10 |
| 6 | 26 |
Near me, startling me, there was a tiny movement in the grass and a small, furry creature, with two large gnawing teeth, skittered past. |
10 |
| 6 | 102 |
Two men stood near them. |
10 |
| 6 | 105 |
Near the front of the wagon, too, was a short, fat man, clad in a robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 6 | 122 |
The girls near the front of the wagon, immeshed in the harness, seemed apprehensive. |
10 |
| 6 | 248 |
I looked to the girls near the front of the wagon, immeshed in the harness. |
10 |
| 6 | 372 |
Near me, across from me, a short girl, with dark hair, very red lips, and bright dark eyes, smiled at me. |
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| 7 | 15 |
Indeed, the preceding fall, at the fair of Se'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains, he had contracted with a marauder, Haakon of Skjern, for one hundred northern beauties, to be taken from the villages north of the Laurius and from the coastal villages, upward even to the edges of Torvaldsland. |
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| 7 | 495 |
When we returned to the camp it was near dark. |
10 |
| 7 | 496 |
I was surprised to see, glowing near our wagon, a small, hot fire, banked with stones. |
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| 7 | 498 |
When we had been fed, we were allowed to sit near the wagons. |
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| 7 | 567 |
The new girl was placed in our wagon, near the front. |
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| 8 | 210 |
The tharlarion now turned slowly in the broad river, near Laura, and, under the stick, and cries, of their driver, began to back the barge against its pier. |
10 |
| 8 | 281 |
The one-eyed, grizzled guard stood near Targo. |
10 |
| 8 | 502 |
I found I wanted to look upon them, to stand near them, as if by accident, to touch them, as if inadvertently, perhaps in brushing past them. |
10 |
| 8 | 506 |
I did not object either, at the stream on stones, near the compound, to washing their garments. |
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| 8 | 648 |
Targo consented, to our delight, and the small mountebank with the strange animal cleared a small space near the bars on the far side of the compound, away from the bars forming the common wall with the compound of Haakon of Skjern. |
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| 8 | 740 |
Some of us stood near the tiny door to the heavy log dormitory, ready to run within. |
10 |
| 8 | 742 |
Most of us stood near the bars, but back some feet from them. |
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| 8 | 841 |
I liked to be outside the compound, and I enjoyed being near to the men. |
10 |
| 8 | 985 |
I took the hand of the guard near whom I knelt, and placed it at my waist, slipping his fingers inside the double loop of binding fiber that belted my camisk, that he might hold me. |
10 |
| 8 | 1034 |
I became aware, suddenly, that the hand of the guard near whom I knelt, his fist, was in the binding fiber that belted my camisk. |
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| 8 | 1038 |
He was lying on his back, looking up at me, kneeling near him. |
10 |
| 9 | 68 |
I recalled with shame how I had, near the fire, placing my guard's hand in my binding fiber, encouraged my own ravishment as a slave girl, and how I had knelt, my hair falling about his face, to kiss him. |
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| 9 | 229 |
They begin near the shores of Thassa, the Sea, in the west. |
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| 9 | 294 |
On its front, near the top, carved, cut into the bark with the point of a sleen knife, was a crude representation of opened slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 10 | 124 |
He stood near the bench. |
10 |
| 10 | 631 |
Then the man picked up a piece of wood, kindling, from near the fire, and struck the sleen. |
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| 11 | 854 |
I should have brought pieces of gold! Not arrowpoints! In my anger, I did not notice the man, standing back in the brush, near the shore of the stream. |
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| 12 | 5 |
My old camisk, long ago, had been burned near the compound of Targo. |
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| 12 | 241 |
Then we heard more music from outside, as more musicians, near the end of the retinue, approached. |
10 |
| 12 | 333 |
How arrogant and superior she seemed! How I hated her, and hated her! A spear butt struck at the wood of the wagon, near where we peeped out. |
10 |
| 13 | 4 |
It swam near the fence of small wands which Ute had thrust into the bottom of the stream, and turned back, as though puzzled. |
10 |
| 13 | 76 |
The tiny village, Rarir, in which she had been born, lay south of the Vosk, and near the shores of Thassa. |
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| 13 | 490 |
I had been well fed the night before, for I had stopped, hidden in the darkness, near a peasant village, where, from a pole, I had stolen a piece of drying meat, bosk flesh. |
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| 13 | 804 |
Perhaps in Laura, near the compound of Targo! "Are you," I asked, trembling, "a hireling of Haakon of Skjern?" "No," he said. |
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| 14 | 7 |
They crowded near. |
10 |
| 14 | 134 |
How brave men must be, I thought, to stand so to one another, so close, in combat so near, face to face, wrist to wrist, eye to eye, short, vicious, sharpened ringing blade to short, vicious, sharpened ringing blade. |
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| 14 | 185 |
There was a heavy metal ring there, near the top of the slight hill. |
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| 14 | 192 |
One, near the top, was about seven inches in width and about a half inch in height; the other, its top formed by a rectangular opening in the bottom of the door, its bottom formed by the iron floor of the box, was about a foot wide and two inches in height. |
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| 14 | 203 |
It was a low tent, and only near its center could a man walk upright. |
10 |
| 14 | 607 |
Another girl, one of four near me, besides Ena, again knelt behind me and again began to pass the narrow, purple horn comb through my hair. |
10 |
| 15 | 319 |
Rask of Treve, my master, stood near her. |
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| 15 | 610 |
She took us to that part of the camp near the horizontal pole, some nine feet high, resting across the two pairs of crossed poles, rather like a pole for hanging meat, or trophies, from. |
10 |
| 15 | 682 |
"No, Master, no!" Four men held me, naked, near the brazier. |
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| 15 | 809 |
Then, by the hair, she stumbling, scarcely able to stand, he dragged her to the small, square iron box which sat near the whipping pole, and thrust her within. |
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| 15 | 885 |
Once, two weeks after my release from the slave box, Rask of Treve passed near me, in the company of Verna, the panther girl. |
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| 15 | 1155 |
Angrily I, perfumed and rouged, belled and silked, turned and followed the other girls to the center of the camp, near the great tent of Rask of Treve, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk, on its eight poles. |
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| 15 | 1487 |
To my terror I saw him unroll heavy furs and cast them scornfully over the rugs near the small fire. |
10 |
| 15 | 1496 |
I then felt his face near mine. |
10 |
| 16 | 7 |
I was alone on the hillock, chained near its rounded summit. |
10 |
| 16 | 40 |
As I could, during the day, I had made it my business to pass near the tent of Rask of Treve, that he might see me. |
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| 16 | 301 |
I became then aware of a figure standing near me. |
10 |
| 16 | 305 |
It was near dawn. |
10 |
| 17 | 239 |
In a warehouse, near the piers, I knelt, head down, at their feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 622 |
With a moan she ran from us, to a place near the wall, near which she was, at night, chained in the sand. |
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| 15 | 453 |
I had seen, near the front of the march, Sarus, leader of the men of Tyros, and, near him, Hura, and her lieutenant, Mira, who had first betrayed Verna, and then Marlenus. |
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| 1 | 122 |
I recalled her from the fields near the Swamp Forest south of Ar, in the caravan of Mintar, at the great camp of Pa-Kur's horde, as she had been upon Ar's lofty Cylinder of Justice, as she had been in lamp-lit Ko-ro-ba, when, with interlocking arms, we had drunk the wines of the Free Companionship. |
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| 1 | 277 |
If it pleases you, wait upon me there, near the great canal gate". |
10 |
| 2 | 510 |
I saw Sheera, standing knee deep in the water, near the beach. |
10 |
| 2 | 702 |
They were handed down the hatch to the first hold, and then, by others, handed down the hatch to the lower hold, which lies near the fore quarter of the ship. |
10 |
| 2 | 703 |
I gave orders that they be placed on the sand well within the lower hold, near the stern quarter, far from the hatch. |
10 |
| 2 | 718 |
Had they heard movements in the darkness? Had they seen the gleam of tiny eyes? Burning at them from the blackness? Had one of them heard the breathing of tiny lungs near her face in the darkness? Had another felt fur brush against her calf, or tiny feet scamper unexpectedly over her bound body? Bot... |
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| 2 | 731 |
They knelt, as before, near the rings to which they had been chained. |
10 |
| 3 | 2 |
We were jostling through crowds near the docks of Lydius. |
10 |
| 3 | 26 |
It is quite near the wharves in Lydius. |
10 |
| 3 | 79 |
They had probably been sold near Laura, or along the river. |
10 |
| 3 | 114 |
It was now near noon. |
10 |
| 3 | 115 |
"Let us return to some paga tavern near the ship," I suggested. |
10 |
| 3 | 139 |
We took a table, an inconspicuous one, near the rear of the paga tavern, yet one with an unimpeded view. |
10 |
| 4 | 406 |
We were standing near the counter of the proprietor, which is to the left of the door, as one leaves. |
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| 5 | 1 |
We Enter Upon the River It was now four days following my arrival, the master of the Tesephone, in the harbor of Lydius, near the mouth of the broad, winding Laurius River. |
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| 5 | 18 |
Near a piling, small and delicate in the mud, she had found a talender. |
10 |
| 5 | 42 |
The sensuous little slave was now standing near to me. |
10 |
| 5 | 73 |
When she was off the wharf to which the Tesephone was moored, I saw her cast a look over her shoulder, and begin to run between the bales and boxes near the warehouses. |
10 |
| 5 | 148 |
I heard Cara, off near the stern quarter, singing. |
10 |
| 5 | 150 |
But where was Rim? It was near the ninth hour and, soon, almost within an Ahn, I wished to cast off the mooring ropes. |
10 |
| 5 | 156 |
In the Laurius, and particularly near its mouth, there are likely to be shoals, shifting from day to day, brought and formed by the current. |
10 |
| 5 | 159 |
My men idled near the thwarts. |
10 |
| 6 | 59 |
The chain dangled to the floor, where it lay, half coiled, near the ring. |
10 |
| 6 | 191 |
It was the ship from Tyros which had been moored near the Tesephone in Lydius, the same which had cast off, following the departure of the Tesephone from Lydius. |
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| 6 | 387 |
I stood near the fire, and lifted my arms, that they might see I held no weapons. |
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| 6 | 427 |
"Sit," she said to them, indicating a place near the back of the wall of stakes, "and face the fire". |
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| 6 | 434 |
The girl now sat down across from me, cross-legged, near the fire. |
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| 7 | 108 |
It was now near the twelfth Ahn. |
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| 7 | 160 |
Another arrow struck near me, with a quick, hard sound, followed by the tight vibrating of the arrow. |
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| 7 | 370 |
There were some boxes, some kegs, near one of the huts. |
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| 8 | 70 |
I could make out the shape of Arn's head, near me, as he waited. |
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| 8 | 175 |
"Panther girls," said one of Arn's men, "commonly return to their camp near dusk". |
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| 8 | 302 |
An arrow struck near me. |
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| 10 | 140 |
"She is near an exchange point," said Verna. |
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| 12 | 142 |
I was now near the Tesephone. |
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| 13 | 37 |
They ran toward me as I had wanted them to, near the edge of the river, in the shortest line, away from the trees. |
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| 14 | 53 |
Doubtless, too, near one of the exchange points, they would attempt to locate and seize, or purchase, Talena, the former daughter of Marlenus of Ar. |
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| 14 | 222 |
The moons were now near the height of the sky. |
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| 15 | 99 |
If I could make it so that the panther girls feared to leave the camp, and, in the marches, would insist on remaining near the long slave chain, putatively protected by their numbers, the men of Tyros would be, for many practical purposes, deprived of the services of their otherwise dangerously effe... |
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| 15 | 101 |
If the panther girls were in their camps, or near the slave chain in the march, it would be much simpler for me both to approach and withdraw. |
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| 15 | 469 |
I left them bound hand and foot, and gagged, near the trail, where I might get them later. |
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| 16 | 10 |
Eight men of Tyros I felled near the front of the column. |
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| 18 | 161 |
Under the orders of Mira, the twenty-four slave girls in their coffle knelt on the sand, near the water's edge, in the position of pleasure slaves. |
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| 18 | 191 |
I could not well fire into the palisade without approaching near the water, without leaving the shelter of the forest. |
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| 18 | 199 |
The men of Tyros began to sing, standing near it. |
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| 18 | 318 |
It was near the twentieth hour, the Gorean midnight. |
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| 18 | 333 |
It was near the tenth hour, the Gorean noon. |
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| 18 | 437 |
But they must be near. |
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| 20 | 45 |
Did he not know I would come for him? In the darkness, amidst the shouting, I went swiftly to the slave girls, prone and bound, near the rear of the stockade. |
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| 20 | 115 |
Some six men of Tyros, near the center of the stockade, some fifteen yards from the gate, were engaged with blades, striking at one another. |
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| 21 | 38 |
She broke away from Turus and ran and knelt before Sarus who stood, still, near the fire, haggard, angry, his blade in his hand. |
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| 22 | 13 |
Near them, similarly bound and in throat coffle, though still in the skins of panther girls, were Verna's women, who had been captured long ago by Sarus in Marlenus' camp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 14 |
I saw that, near some of the patches of moss, were pieces of flint and steel, near others tiny piles of iron pyrites. |
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| 2 | 8 |
Near her, bored, was a slender, blondish girl, looking about. |
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| 2 | 244 |
Several of these stood on raised platforms, on the right, near the front of the temple. |
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| 2 | 327 |
Many of them were giants, huge men, inured to cold, accustomed to war and the labor of the oar, raised from boyhood on steep, isolated farms near the sea, grown strong and hard on work, and meat and cereals. |
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| 3 | 21 |
A fisherman cringed near me. |
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| 3 | 185 |
The fire had now climbed well unto the roof and had taken hold on another wall, near the railing, against which the women, earlier, had stood. |
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| 3 | 344 |
I ran to the yard of a tavern near the docks. |
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| 4 | 106 |
Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on pars... |
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| 4 | 111 |
It sets near the top of the mast, enabling the man to see over the sail, as well as to other points. |
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| 5 | 233 |
Gorm, who seemed second to Ivar, and I, stood at the railing near the prow on the port side of the serpent. |
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| 6 | 78 |
He then stood on the prow, near me, sweating and grinning. |
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| 7 | 84 |
This is a stout post, outside the hall, of peeled wood, with an iron ring near the top, to which the wrists of a bondmaid, crossed, are lashed over her head. |
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| 7 | 85 |
Near the bosk shed there is a similar post, with a higher ring, used for thralls. |
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| 10 | 74 |
The man of Torvaldsland never leaves his house unless he is armed; and, within his house, his weapons are always near at hand, usually hung on the wall behind his couch, at least a foot beyond the reach of a bondmaid whose ankle is chained. |
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| 10 | 89 |
In the crowd, too, much in evidence, were brazen bondmaids; they had been brought to the Thing, generally, by captains and Jarls; it is not unusual for men to bring such slaves with them, though they are not permitted near the law courts or the assemblies of deliberation; the voyages to the Thing we... |
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| 10 | 170 |
The knife had been removed from the sheath at her belt; she stood straight, but her head was down, her eyes closed; about her neck, knotted, was a rope, it fastened to a stake in the ground near the dueling square. |
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| 10 | 627 |
I was on my way to the shopping booths, those near the wharves, where the best merchandise is found, when I stopped to observe the shooting. |
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| 13 | 172 |
Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea... |
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| 13 | 211 |
Near him, beside the high seat, sat his woman, Bera, her hair worn high on her head, in a kirtle of yellow wool with scarlet cape of the fur of the red sea sleen, and, about her neck, necklaces of gold. |
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| 13 | 247 |
Men left the back tables; men crowded about; even the thralls and the bondmaids, astonished, disbelieving, crowded near. |
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| 14 | 7 |
Near me a man screamed. |
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| 14 | 37 |
A great Kur ax swept near me. |
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| 14 | 77 |
A girl, kneeling in the dirt, near the long fire, saw him, and ran screaming away. |
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| 14 | 91 |
I saw the Kur who had pursued the bondmaid now again going toward that holding area near the door. |
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| 14 | 159 |
Near one wall I yanked a spear free from the hands of a fallen man-at-arms. |
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| 14 | 212 |
Kurii now encircled the group of men near the western wall of the hall. |
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| 14 | 215 |
I saw Ivar Forkbeard standing among the huddled men near the western wall of the hall. |
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| 15 | 9 |
Climbing down, I had seen Kurii moving about, but near the front of the hall. |
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| 15 | 176 |
A rock struck near me, shattering into the granite of the mountain, scarring it. |
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| 15 | 183 |
It has the shape of a spear blade, broad, which has been bent near the tip. |
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| 16 | 50 |
Torches, unlit, in wall rings, were still illuminated as we passed near them. |
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| 16 | 148 |
When he looked down, torch lifted, upon the bones and fragile cloths of what had once been a hero, when the myth had been shattered, the crystal of its dream beneath the iron of reality, I wanted to stand near him. |
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| 16 | 150 |
But I would stand behind him, and near him. |
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| 16 | 153 |
Near the head of the couch, on our left, as we looked upon the couch, was, on a stone platform, a large helmet, horned. |
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| 17 | 18 |
Near us, behind us, stood Gorm, Ottar and Rollo, and others of Forkbeard's Landfall. |
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| 17 | 31 |
In the night of the attack he, at the Forkbeard's encampment near the Thing-Fields, with an ax, had slain a Kur. |
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| 17 | 41 |
On another world, lit by the same star, in another place, dawn, too, drew near. |
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| 17 | 97 |
Near the center of the camp, but somewhat to the south and east of the center, like the verr, the tarsk, the bosk, was another herd of Kurii animals; it, too, resided in its pen, a wide pen, more than a quarter of a pasang in diameter, formed of poles and crossbars, lashed together; this pen, howeve... |
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| 17 | 201 |
Near the center of the camp but somewhat to the south and east of the center, behind its poles and crossbars, lashed together, was a different herd of Kurii livestock. |
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| 18 | 93 |
The tent sagged near him. |
10 |
| 18 | 116 |
Near the verr pens we found chained male slaves, picked up by Kurii on foraging expeditions, and used as porters. |
10 |
| 18 | 454 |
We made our way toward Ottar, who stood near the burned, fallen tents of Thorgard of Scagnar. |
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| 20 | 8 |
It was near dusk. |
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| 21 | 214 |
"He called you 'Bosk of Port Kar,'" said Ivar Forkbeard, standing near me. |
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| 22 | 82 |
The Forkbeard, who had sat near me through the hours of the lonely contest, clasped me about the shoulders. |
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| 22 | 207 |
Thyri, who had boarded earlier, stood near the bench of Wulfstan, where, already, he gripped an oar. |
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| 22 | 208 |
Near the mast, chained to it by the neck, eyes down, knelt Telima. |
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| 22 | 220 |
Near him, kneeling beside her master, behind the line of his heels, was Bera, one of his girls. |
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| 22 | 315 |
I went for a time to stand near him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 659 |
I took her ankle, and crouching, kissed it, on the top, and then pressed my lips to the bottom of her foot, near the instep, then beneath and behind the shin, then again, twice, near the bottom of the foot, at the instep. |
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| 17 | 203 |
The Old One rose, twisting, near him, near the forequarter on the port side. |
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| 25 | 598 |
It did have a bit of dim light, particularly near the bars, that furnished from a small tharlarion-oil lamp situated a few feet away in the corridor, but, on the whole, it was mostly in shadows, and darkness, particularly near the back wall. |
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| 1 | 15 |
I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in... |
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| 1 | 474 |
"Near the rock, dead," said Ibn Saran, "blistered, blackened by the sun, dried, weighing no more than a child or woman, was a man. |
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| 1 | 500 |
The dancer whirled near us, then enveloped me in her veil. |
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| 2 | 110 |
I followed them as they would be going to the market streets, near which was the bazaar. |
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| 2 | 224 |
The vendors come early to the market, leaving their villages outside of Tor in the morning darkness, that they may find a yard of pavement, preferably near the market gate, to display their wares. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1454 |
Thurnus's hut was near the center of the village, near its clearing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 172 |
I went near to her, but not so near that she could touch me. |
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| 48 | 185 |
We would return to our hidden canoe, beached near the river, near which we had concealed many of our supplies. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 7 |
She came to stand quite near to me, near my left shoulder. |
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| 25 | 292 |
A central metal bar, hinged at one end, near the wagon box, and locked at the other, near the wagon bed's gate, usually occurs in such wagons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 216 |
Then I lay down on the smoothed deck, near the starboard rail, and, near a coil of mooring rope, fell soon asleep. |
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| 16 | 285 |
There is commonly little danger of eels near Victoria, save near the shadows and shallows of the wharves themselves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 442 |
Never before had I seen the shield of Kahintokapa outside of its shield cover, even when I had first seen him, long ago, with Canka and the members of the All Comrades, near the site of the battle of the wagon train, near, too, where the mercenaries had fought, and Alfred had escaped with a continge... |
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| 44 | 561 |
My count and that of Kahintokapa, near the trail summit, near the barricade, tallied exactly. |
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| 54 | 167 |
Near the field of the massacre and near the place where the soldiers and red savages had fought they, with two girls, Ginger and Evelyn, whom they had muchly desired, as long ago as Kailiauk, were taken from Grunt by Sleen warriors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 340 |
"And you were petty, proud, and pretentious, and you took delight in discomfiting me," he said, "putting yourself near to me, speaking lightly, condescendingly, carelessly, and how you moved, as though unaware of what you were doing, those little gestures, and turnings, and then again putting yourse... |
10 |
| 2 | 519 |
When the door had closed two snap-fastenings had shut, one near the top of the door and one near its bottom. |
10 |
| 4 | 672 |
I then fell asleep where I had lain down, near the bottom of the couch, near the chain and slave ring. |
10 |
| 6 | 377 |
I had formed the habit, for no reason I clearly understood, of sleeping near the foot of the couch, near the slave ring. |
10 |
| 8 | 579 |
"Kneel here," said Drusus Rencius, indicating a place near the back entrance, near some garbage cans. |
10 |
| 8 | 584 |
I knelt near the back entrance of the inn, near the garbage cans. |
10 |
| 36 | 16 |
Within he put me on the floor, on the tiles, not gently, near the foot of the couch, near the slave ring. |
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| 36 | 160 |
He had put me down on the tiles, near the foot of his couch, near the slave ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 54 |
Also, from near the box, in front of it, near where his feet would rest in driving, he picked up a tharlarion whip. |
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| 25 | 60 |
"Oh!" said a woman, near me, half rearing up on a mat, and I saw her eyes, startled, for an instant, and that she was blond, and that her flesh appeared interesting in the light, and then she, the chain on her neck fastening her to the slave ring near the mat, was thrust back on the mat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 592 |
He was standing back, near the wall at the back of the tavern, near the threshold with the beaded curtain, that through which I had entered. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 753 |
I then made three passes near the Crooked Tarn, two over the palisade, over the tarn wire, and a third near its bridge and gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 31 |
The camp of Ar near Holmesk, incidentally, was situated on, or near, the same site as had been the camp of Harfax two hundred years ago. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1270 |
I indicated a position near the yoke and the buckets, near the tank. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 406 |
He must not tell that I was near the wall! He must not tell that I was near the wall! I had been quiet and obedient. |
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| 7 | 699 |
She must not learn that I had been near the wall! That is why I had not resisted, why I had not cried out, of course, because I had been near the wall. |
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| 7 | 957 |
There was, near my mat, as there were also near other mats, a heavy ring, set in the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 102 |
There were seven sockets behind the shelf in the wall of the building, overhead, in which horizontal poles might be fixed, and there were matching sockets near the front of the shelf, into which vertical poles might be placed, from which arrangements of poles, joined together and reinforced by addit... |
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| 27 | 2624 |
The officer returned to the center of the camp, near the wagon, near the place where a woman, or, better, a girl, had been subjected to diverse usages suitable for one such as she, one who was slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 463 |
The seventh challenger had not interfered, but had remained crouched, with his weapon, near the far wall, near the gate through which he and the others had originally entered. |
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| 32 | 404 |
* * * * It was near the second Ahn when Cabot, stirring, sensed a presence near him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 93 |
"Quarters have been prepared for you, near the shore, near the cots," said Tajima. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 |
A bowl lamp did glow at the serving table, near the kitchen gate, near the paga vat, near the goblets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 20 |
Jane, Eve, and I were kneeling a bit behind and to the side the diners, Jane near Astrinax, Eve near Lykos, and I near the Lady Bina. |
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| 8 | 561 |
So what did it matter, if it were near the Tenth Ahn, noon? Was that, in some way, important? One girl, one of the brunettes, went to stand near the bars, sideways, fingering her hair. |
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| 15 | 17 |
Why had I done that? I knew what I was to do, elude guardsmen, and go to the market of Cestias, near the praetor's platform near the coin stalls. |
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| 15 | 198 |
What then, I wondered, is wrong with this terrible thing, scarcely a body's length away? Why is it so tentative, so uncertain? Then again, as it had from time to time, one of the moons, white and cold, the only one now visible, was discernible, if only for a moment, but the moment was enough to tell... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 116 |
I had stayed rather near the center of the walkway, as I had been frightened by the nearness of the urt that had suddenly appeared, so near to me in the water below. |
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