| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 155 |
Almost simultaneously I heard the raucous cry of a patrol leader of Ar, "We have him!" They had followed my tarn, trailing it back from its feeding in the swamp forest, and now, like the points of a rapidly converging triangle, three warriors of Ar were closing in on me. |
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| 6 | 70 |
When I opened my eyes, I found myself partially adhering to a vast network of broad, elastic strands that formed a structure, perhaps a pasang in width, and through which at numerous points projected the monstrous trees of the swamp forest. |
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| 10 | 28 |
I became acutely conscious of the proximity of the several points. |
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| 16 | 42 |
Meanwhile, at several points in the city and at randomly selected times, picked tarnsmen of Pa-Kur, each of whose tarns carried a dangling, knotted rope of nine spearmen, dropped to the wires and the tops of cylinders, landing their small task forces of raiders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 186 |
No sooner had we reached the spiraling stone stairwell which led down from the wall than the six spears, their points describing a circle of perhaps a yard in diameter, struck the wall over our head with a splintering of rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 36 |
At last after I, sputtering and choking, had been duly cleansed and rinsed several times, and then it seemed several times again, the cage began to move slowly, mercifully, between vents from which blasts of hot air issued, and, eventually, it passed slowly between an assortment of humming projectio... |
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| 15 | 90 |
I puzzled on the machine in the room, the wiring that seemed to feed into the young Priest-King's body at eight points. |
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| 17 | 85 |
"The projection points for the Flame Death are located in the surveillance craft," said Sarm, "but the coordinates are fixed and the firing signal is relayed from this room. |
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| 18 | 114 |
I then realized that he had touched himself at the points of entry taken by the wires which had been infixed in the young Priest-King's body on the stone table in the secret compartment below Misk's chamber. |
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| 24 | 8 |
The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell. |
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| 30 | 187 |
This transfer of allegiance was apparently the result of long discussion and consideration by the group of Priest-Kings who had followed Sarm because he was First Born, but had at many points objected to his conduct of the War, in particular to his treatment of the Muls, his use of the gravitational... |
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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. |
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| 8 | 57 |
Such a thrust was worth two points for us. |
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| 8 | 66 |
His thrust was clearly, I acknowledged, worth three points. |
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| 8 | 210 |
There is a priority of honor involved in being first rider, but points scored are the same by either rider, depending on his performance. |
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| 8 | 222 |
As the day grew late points were accumulated, but, to the zest and frenzy of the crowd, the lead in these contests of arms shifted back and forth, first being held by Kamchak and myself, then by Conrad and Albrecht. |
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| 8 | 350 |
Had he been so, even were I defeated by Albrecht, as I thought likely, the points would have been even. |
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| 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. |
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| 8 | 567 |
"Three points for each," announced the judge. |
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| 9 | 132 |
It is fastened on the girl at three points, behind the neck, behind the back, and in front, at the waist. |
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| 15 | 12 |
Also, perhaps not unimportantly, many of Turia's mercenary tarnsmen found themselves engaged in the time-consuming, distasteful task of supplying the city from distant points, often bringing food and arrow wood from as far away as the valleys of the eastern Cartius. |
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| 17 | 10 |
Around the edge of the pool there were eight large columns, fashioned and painted as though the trunks of trees, one standing at each of the eight cardinal points of the Gorean compass; from these, stretching often across the pool, were vines, so many that the ceiling could be seen only as a patchwo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 130 |
At one or two points I noted the Player had made subtly ineffective moves, apparently sound but yet leaving weaknesses which could be, even four or five moves in the future, exploited rather decisively. |
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| 5 | 415 |
"Have you discovered the contact points," I asked, "from which they hope to extend their influence in the cities?" "Only one seems clear," said Misk. |
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| 7 | 145 |
Each was marked and sealed, but in each, at two points, there were valve openings, through which in flight I supposed two tubes might pass, one perhaps for oxygen and another gas used to sedate the occupant, and one to draw the carbon dioxide from the cylinder. |
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| 18 | 130 |
Even from the Physician's quarters we could hear, at various points in the House, the laughing and sporting of drunken slaves in their cells, drunken guards running down one hall or another playing jokes on each other. |
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| 19 | 146 |
Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these... |
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| 21 | 296 |
The Gorean phalanx, like its predecessors of Earth, consisted of lines of massed spearmen, carrying spears of different lengths, forming a wall of points; it attacked on the run, preferably on a downgrade, a military avalanche, on its own terrain and under optimum conditions, invincible; the Torian ... |
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| 22 | 396 |
It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 107 |
Some of the other basins are large enough to float galleys; these large basins connect with the arsenal's canal system, by means of which heavy materials may be conveyed about the arsenal; the arsenal's canal system also gives access, at two points, to the canal system of the city and, at two other ... |
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| 2 | 58 |
This was answered from various points about us, most of which were several yards away. |
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| 11 | 108 |
Each of these four points are guarded by great barred gates. |
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| 13 | 365 |
In a few strokes the heavy Rena had swung some eight points, by the Gorean compass, to starboard. |
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| 13 | 378 |
"Decrease the beat by five points," said the oar-master to the keleustes. |
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| 14 | 189 |
We saw the ship ahead of us trying to come about, but, before she could make four points of the Gorean compass, our ram struck the corner of her stern, skidding through and freeing itself, the ships, the Dorna's port oars inboard, grating together, and then the Dorna was clear, free, and we were dri... |
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| 14 | 200 |
If each of them could lure their two or three hounds astray, the odds of engagement at the truly critical points would be so much the more in my favor. |
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| 14 | 260 |
"Helmsmen," said I, "take your course four points to starboard". |
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| 14 | 277 |
Of the forty tarn ships in her escort, thirty, lured away, had pursued my ships far from the critical points. |
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| 17 | 39 |
Once more it would not be so much a question of absolute numbers of ships as concentrating superior numbers at strategic points. |
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| 17 | 171 |
I saw the lines of Cos and Tyros shortening, compressing their formations to bring more ships into play at given points. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1392 |
She had captured me, and sold me for a hundred arrow points! How humiliating, and insulting! I was worth gold! Gold! Perhaps Marlenus, her captor, would choose to put her on the block! Perhaps she would sell for a hundred arrow points! But I would bring gold, much gold! I looked about at the slave f... |
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| 4 | 163 |
Further, of course, we do little more, normally, with the large craft than arrive and depart, at given points. |
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| 5 | 102 |
There were, of course, numerous other points of damage on the ship, both interiorly and exteriorly, pitted, buckled plating and such. |
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| 8 | 926 |
A catch was two points. |
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| 9 | 428 |
It contained steel arrow points. |
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| 9 | 431 |
Verna gave six points to each of her girls. |
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| 9 | 433 |
She, and they, put the points into the pouches they wore at their belts. |
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| 9 | 435 |
Could it be that this, and this alone, was my price, that I had been purchased for only this, the points for one hundred arrows? But I reminded myself that I could not be purchased, for I was Elinor Brinton, for I was free! "Rise, Slave," said Verna. |
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| 9 | 499 |
"A hundred arrow points," I pouted, "is not enough!" I was startled that I had said this, and more with how I had said it. |
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| 9 | 526 |
But only a hundred arrow points! It was not enough! The door to the hut swung open. |
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| 10 | 326 |
"You cost only one hundred arrow points". |
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| 10 | 529 |
"I am a slave! A slave!" "A hundred arrow points is too much for such a slave," he said. |
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| 14 | 148 |
I looked up at the points, so far above my head. |
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| 14 | 174 |
My fingers would have still been several feet beneath the points. |
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| 14 | 509 |
He then turns to her, and points to the furs. |
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| 15 | 386 |
I then sensed something of the points of honor and of the nature of insults which scornful men, mighty warriors, might exchange. |
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| 16 | 9 |
I could see the points of the double palisade. |
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| 16 | 90 |
I could now see the moons beginning to rise over the points of the palisade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 324 |
If the exchange points became unsafe for either male or female outlaws, because of the others, the system of exchange points would be largely valueless. |
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| 2 | 477 |
When dealing with men, however, the girls usually demanded, and received, goods of greater value to them, usually knives, arrow points, small spear points; sometimes armlets, and bracelets and necklaces, and mirrors; sometimes slave nets and slave traps, to aid in their hunting; sometimes slave chai... |
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| 1 | 215 |
"Do you recall your price?" "Two steel knives," said the man, "and fifty steel arrow points". |
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| 2 | 321 |
Male and female outlaws do not much bother one another at the exchange points. |
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| 2 | 323 |
I cannot recall a case of females being enslaved at an exchange point, as they bargained with their wares, nor of males being enslaved at their exchange points, when displaying and merchandising their captures. |
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| 2 | 463 |
"A steel knife for each," I proposed to Sheera, "and twenty arrow points, of steel, for each". |
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| 2 | 464 |
"Forty arrow points for each, and the knives," said Sheera, cutting at the sand. |
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| 2 | 479 |
Sheera, and her girls, watched carefully, not trusting men, and counted the arrow points twice. |
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| 3 | 109 |
Those of Lydius pretend to much civilization, and are fond of decorating their houses, commonly of wood, with high, pointed roofs, in manners they think typical of Ar, of Ko-ro-ba, of Tharna and Turia, but to settle points of honor they commonly repair to a skerry in Thassa, little more than forty f... |
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| 4 | 197 |
I was sold for one hundred arrow points. |
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| 6 | 263 |
We had marked the points and line on our map. |
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| 6 | 470 |
"We will take four arrow points for her," said the girl, "for returning her to you". |
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| 6 | 475 |
I indicated that one of the girl's companions might remove four arrow points from the pack of trade goods. |
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| 6 | 534 |
"It is well for you," said the girl, lifting the four arrow points she had received for the return of Sheera, "that we have done business". |
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| 11 | 457 |
"I will give you a steel knife," said Marlenus, "and forty arrow points for her". |
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| 11 | 459 |
The knife and the arrow points were brought, and Hura took them. |
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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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| 15 | 209 |
Strung out in the march, perhaps eventually without points and scouts, they would prove easy game. |
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| 15 | 463 |
Doubtless there would be rear points. |
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| 16 | 11 |
There had been no flankers, no points set. |
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| 19 | 57 |
For one thing, I would have to pass exchange points. |
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| 19 | 452 |
They were beautiful, like points of fire, marking the camps of armies in the night. |
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| 21 | 3 |
They did so, in the yellow tunics of Tyros, sullen, ringed by the blades and spear points of my men. |
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| 22 | 531 |
"Be wary of exchange points". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 123 |
Scholars weight the pieces equally, at three points in adjudications, but I would weight the Ax four points in the early and middle game, and the Singer two, and reverse these weights in the end game. |
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| 4 | 34 |
The Gorean compass points always to the Sardar, the home of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 4 | 111 |
It sets near the top of the mast, enabling the man to see over the sail, as well as to other points. |
10 |
| 5 | 170 |
The spear points are large and heavy, of tapered, socketed bronze, some eighteen inches in length. |
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| 11 | 9 |
They were like points in the yellowish green cornea. |
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| 11 | 225 |
I saw spear points lifted among the crowd. |
10 |
| 13 | 77 |
I pushed away spear points with my left hand. |
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| 17 | 104 |
There were collection points to which such materials were brought, from which, by short marches, they were conveyed to the camp. |
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| 17 | 156 |
The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, ... |
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| 17 | 158 |
Four days ago I had seen a girl drive in which several sleen, fanning out over a large area of territory, had scented out scattered, hiding slave girls and, from various points, driven them into a blind canyon, where a waiting Kur had swung shut a wooden gate on them, fastening them inside. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 410 |
The kaffiyeh is a squarish scarf, folded over into a triangle, and placed over the head, two points at the side of the shoulders, one in back to protect the back of the neck. |
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| 1 | 779 |
Contact points, bases, had been established, it seemed, on the shores of Earth itself. |
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| 2 | 456 |
Her body stiffened, and she shut her eyes, as his hands, those of a Gorean flesh appraiser, informed, sensitive, professional, proficient, made swift assessment of the textures of her skin, varying at different points on the body, the tensilities of her musculature, the varying softness and firmness... |
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| 4 | 432 |
A man was riding by, the length of the caravan, one of the points. |
10 |
| 4 | 440 |
Reassured I was to see points riding out about the caravan, outriders, to guard against such surprise. |
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| 10 | 4 |
It was called the Silk War because, at that time, Turian silk first began to be imported in bulk to the Tahari communities, and northward to Tor and Kasra, thence to Ar, and points north and west. |
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| 10 | 6 |
Rather, with the control of watering points at the oasis, it is unnecessary. |
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| 10 | 7 |
To these points must come caravans. |
10 |
| 11 | 640 |
Against the wall, kneeling, stripped, bellies pressed tight against it, points of the scimitars against their backs, between their shoulder blades, chins high, against the wall, hands high over their heads, palms pressed tight against the wall, were four beautiful girls. |
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| 11 | 685 |
"The Kavar scimitar," he said, "points away from the body, to the outside, toward the foe". |
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| 13 | 70 |
Many salt caravans, incidentally, travel only between the districts and the local oases, while others travel between the local oases and the distant points, often culminating with Kasra or Tor. |
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| 13 | 71 |
Some caravans, of course, journey through from the distant points to the salt districts, accepting the danger and inconvenience of trekking the dune country, but thereby avoiding the higher charges of picking up salt from the storehouses in the local oases. |
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| 18 | 47 |
The corners are not used in the original placement, though they constitute legitimate move points after play begins. |
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| 26 | 20 |
Different bodies of men would leave the march at various points, as tribesmen returned to their lands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 232 |
She then, with the point of the scissors, at two points, ripped the hem she had earlier sewn out a bit, that in these two places it might appear the threads had broken; the hem then, in these two places, was irregular on my legs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 76 |
She again tried to step forward but this time the points of the guards' spears prevented her. |
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| 2 | 79 |
The points of the spears had gone through the cloth, and she felt them in her flesh. |
10 |
| 2 | 150 |
Again the points of the two spears pressed against her abdomen. |
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| 4 | 243 |
Unfortunately for red, however, the Ubar, a quite valuable piece, rated at nine points, like the Ubara, has been too early centralized. |
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| 10 | 62 |
"I was voyaging upstream on the Laurius," he said, "to see if panther girls had caught any new slave girls, whom I might purchase from them for arrow points and candy, for use in the tavern as paga sluts. |
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| 10 | 261 |
Why did it not yield? Two or three times, at certain points, I learned, the wall had buckled, but, each time, men managed to repair it in time. |
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| 11 | 22 |
Carved, the bone and horn of the animal can function as arrow points, needles, thimbles, chisels, wedges and knives. |
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| 15 | 620 |
"Be pleased that panther girls are not selling you for arrow points and a handful of candy," I said. |
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| 25 | 111 |
His interest tends to lie in given geographical points and landmarks. |
10 |
| 33 | 108 |
The temperature in the steel room, almost immediately, fell thirty or forty points in temperature. |
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| 35 | 528 |
"Yes," she said, "but humans are not allowed beyond those points". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 297 |
At various points, and before various portals, signs and countersigns were exchanged. |
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| 5 | 333 |
It was chained, at four points, to cleats in the deck, that it not shift its position overmuch in rough weather. |
10 |
| 6 | 85 |
"Two points off the port bow!" Men went to the port rail, and Ulafi climbed to the stern castle. |
10 |
| 6 | 360 |
Much kailiauk leather is processed in Schendi, brought to the port not only from inland but from north and south, from collection points, along the coast. |
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| 11 | 333 |
Slowly, watching the points of the two stabbing spears, I drew forth the two letters. |
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| 15 | 295 |
I ceased struggling, feeling the points in my flesh. |
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| 28 | 7 |
The river was generally two to four hundred yards wide at these points. |
10 |
| 42 | 36 |
Their teeth had been filed to points. |
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| 50 | 7 |
We must be thousands of feet Gorean, given the length of the river, the numerous plunging cataracts, and the plateaus and levels we had ascended, above sea level, above the entrance points, west of Ngao and Ushindi, of the brown Kamba and Nyoka into the green waters of Thassa. |
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| 56 | 17 |
This is fastened at one of the points of the shield. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 152 |
She then shook the straw, extinguishing it and, with her fingers, moved the bit of moss about, spreading it, and the tiny flame there dissipated into scattered glowing points which then, rapidly, disappeared. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 144 |
In virtue of the axes of the device and the various gears and pinions, and the joints, braces, fitted, sliding boards, notches and lock points, it can be adjusted to a variety of positions. |
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| 20 | 17 |
I felt the points of the two swords, through my tunic, against my flesh. |
10 |
| 20 | 80 |
I felt again the points of the swords of the two pirates at my chest. |
10 |
| 21 | 36 |
Between geographical points, of course, long coffles, sometimes pasangs in length, are not uncommon. |
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| 33 | 103 |
At five places in the river the chain could be opened, swung open on huge rafts, at which points there were guard stations. |
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| 33 | 110 |
Thus the chain, theoretically, could be circumvented at these points, the shallowly drafted ships being brought to shore and, on rollers, being moved about the terminal pylons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 23 |
"Wait! Bucklers and swords! Bucklers and swords, Lads!" Almost at the instant that he had spoken grappling irons looped over the bulwarks and snapped back, the points anchoring in the wood. |
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| 2 | 149 |
The longboat, almost noiselessly, the oars muffled, the wood wrapped with thonged fur at the fulcrum points, the oarlocks similarly served, moved away. |
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| 2 | 180 |
"But there will be other points," said a man. |
10 |
| 3 | 23 |
"Two points to port!" cried Callimachus. |
10 |
| 3 | 92 |
"Doubtless they are hammering at points where they know the chain was weakened in the night," said a man near me. |
10 |
| 4 | 36 |
Doubtless, too, other points of weakness had been similarly marked. |
10 |
| 5 | 83 |
Gorean merchantmen are often identified at these three points. |
10 |
| 5 | 158 |
"Two points to starboard! Stroke!" "Stroke!" called the oar master. |
10 |
| 6 | 30 |
"Two points to port!" called an officer. |
10 |
| 9 | 122 |
Other men, with spear points, scraped at the sand under the keel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 488 |
"Now, if one of these beasts were to touch the hand, or paw, of another, the hand, or paw, of each being open, indicating that weapons were not held, that the touch was in peace, at how many points would contact be made?" "At six," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 962 |
In this respect, however, it should be noted that most warriors use the parallel orientation with respect to both their war and hunting points. |
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| 4 | 31 |
The savages come sometimes to the trading points. |
10 |
| 4 | 119 |
The delivery points for slavers in league with Kurii shifted about on the surface of Gor. |
10 |
| 4 | 143 |
This made the females more difficult to trace back to their delivery points and, of course, tended, on the whole, to improve the prices one could receive for them. |
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| 6 | 34 |
It has occasionally happened that enemy tribes have preyed on such a herd at different points and only afterwards, to their chagrin and amusement, realized their proximity to one another. |
10 |
| 6 | 37 |
It is speculated that some of these smaller herds may be subherds of larger herds, separating from the major herd at certain points during the season, depending on such conditions as forage and water. |
10 |
| 6 | 126 |
Such girls, I gathered, from my conversations with the teamster with whom I had ridden to Fort Haskins, were sold at various points along the perimeter. |
10 |
| 7 | 7 |
He wore, too, kaiila boots, with belled, silver heel points, kaiila goads. |
10 |
| 9 | 42 |
Grunt carried similar articles but he, as well, as I had not, carried such items as long nails, rivets, hatchets, metal arrowheads, metal lance points, knife blades and butcher knives. |
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| 12 | 105 |
In more sophisticated devices, two, or even three, poles or boards are used, which can slide apart, and are fastened at given points by pegs or thongs. |
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| 19 | 349 |
Certain points only are here conveyed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 176 |
Others claim that they once lived in a flint-rich area and, prior to the general availability of trade points, conducted a lively trade in flint with surrounding tribes. |
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| 1 | 335 |
They prized many of the things of value which he might bring into the Barrens, the men relishing trinkets such as trade points and knife blades, and the women welcoming trade cloth, chemical dyes and drilled glass beads. |
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| 9 | 135 |
At certain points she ran a finger around and under it, adjusting it for comfort. |
10 |
| 12 | 327 |
I sent my men to nearby trading points, opened by the Dust Legs to any white traders. |
10 |
| 12 | 334 |
They were the inferior trade goods I had sent to the trading points, being returned. |
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| 28 | 315 |
This type of formation is generally not useful against an enemy which is protected by breastworks, pits or stakes, or a settled infantry, its long pikes set, fixed butt down in the turf, the weapons oriented diagonally, the points trained on the breasts of the approaching mounts. |
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| 30 | 9 |
Here and there, at points on our perimeter, Yellow Knives and soldiers, in fierce, brief exchanges, tested our strength. |
10 |
| 32 | 163 |
Some of them merely laid the cold metal points of the lances, or the sides of the lance blades, on her flesh. |
10 |
| 32 | 164 |
Others jabbed her, dancing, with the points. |
10 |
| 32 | 165 |
She lay in the dust, her hands over her head, her knees drawn tightly up, small, shuddering and trembling, helpless under the points. |
10 |
| 44 | 487 |
They plunged into the seething mass at different points on the trail. |
10 |
| 44 | 499 |
The barricade at the summit of the trail, with its sharpened wooden stakes, with their bloodied points, was even temporarily removed, to permit the rolling down the trail of a great boulder. |
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| 44 | 527 |
The man halted his kaiila only yards from the barricade, with its terrible, bloody points. |
10 |
| 44 | 595 |
Many lacked even points and were little more than featherless, sharpened sticks. |
10 |
| 47 | 498 |
"Do you see those dusts?" Hci asked Iwoso, pointing to various points in the west. |
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| 52 | 15 |
Points are scored. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 418 |
She did not know who it would be whom she would have to serve, who it would be to whom she would belong! The poor, soft, helpless chained thing! How callous and stupid are men! Too, I like she, as fortunes shifted in the matches, as points were won and lost, was torn back and forth in my conjectures... |
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| 6 | 419 |
Doubtless the men in the audience were intent on the bouts, observing the styles and skills of the contestants, tallying points, and assessing the play. |
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| 8 | 349 |
It has not been interspersed, at appropriate points, for example, by the expression 'Master. |
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| 2 | 127 |
He had been waiting near one of the checking points opening onto the piazza, that point through which I had entered. |
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| 2 | 335 |
Chino, followed by Lecchio, points out that their rich garments might be soiled, that their wallets might even be lost in such a scuffle. |
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| 2 | 1073 |
"Too, robes would make it easier to get a knife through the check points at carnival," I said. |
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| 4 | 183 |
Neither of these roads, incidentally, are "great roads," in the sense of being mounted in the earth several feet deep, built of stone like a sunken wall, the sort of roads which are often intended to last a thousand years, the sort of roads which, typically, are found in the vicinity of large cities... |
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| 10 | 354 |
I then checked her collar, and the attachment points of the chain, both at the collar and at the double loop where it was fastened about the axle. |
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| 12 | 282 |
Indeed, in many adjudication procedures the Tarnsman is valued at eight points and the Rider of the High Tharlarion at only two. |
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| 12 | 468 |
One might use alternate lines, or left or right spirals from given points, and so on. |
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| 14 | 22 |
We were prodded with the points of spears through a heavy wooden door. |
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| 18 | 10 |
Doubtless at a hundred points he could have brought the game to its conclusion, but he had preferred to dally with his opponent, divesting him of material, herding him like a nose-ringed tarsk helplessly about the board. |
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| 20 | 116 |
The rim at the top of the tiers seemed suddenly alive with helmets, with spear points and plumes. |
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| 20 | 210 |
Take them within the points". |
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| 20 | 349 |
I saw spear points lower. |
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| 1 | 200 |
There are many points which might be made here, but I will limit myself to three, which may be succinctly recounted: First, exemplified by what had just occurred, a woman may wish to feel its stroke in order that the reality of her longed-for bondage be impressed upon her; one does not, of course, w... |
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| 3 | 198 |
He was also the initiator of the oblique advance in Gorean field warfare, whereby large numbers of men may be concentrated at crucial points while the balance of the enemy remains unengaged. |
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| 11 | 28 |
He was, after all, even if perhaps a giant lout, from some points of view, a poet, and was entitled to some respect on that account, particularly if one was unfamiliar with his poetry. |
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| 13 | 230 |
As her number was 437 and there were only some one hundred or one hundred and fifty or so females in the chain, near the wall, I assumed there was probably one or more collection points elsewhere, perhaps nearer the Semnium, the Council Hall. |
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| 16 | 117 |
This was a different arrangement than had held the larger groups of women earlier, outside, at various points on the Avenue of Adminius. |
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| 16 | 1486 |
At night fires would be set and lanterns hung at various points about the siegeworks. |
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| 22 | 60 |
In places there were long diagonal cracks in them, marking stress points in the structure where the plaster had broken. |
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| 28 | 13 |
Through the remains of this roof I could see, framed in the wreckage, the blue sky, and, interestingly, in it, like tiny points, the light of the sun not obliterating them from this perspective, even in the daylight, stars. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 126 |
I had stayed at certain inns in the south, past which it had taken its march, taking five days to pass given points. |
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| 8 | 873 |
Women feel so helpless in such bracelets! This is, of course, one of their points, that she should have these feelings. |
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| 10 | 325 |
What defenders there were would presumably be summoned by alarms to threatened points. |
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| 12 | 188 |
These instructions pertained to the supply of information on various topics, matters pertaining to supplies within the city, the condition of the gates and walls, and which were the weaker and less defended points, the numbers of the active garrison, civilian and military, the relative distributions... |
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| 12 | 316 |
The hems of both the inner and outer skirt, doubtless in their shortenings, had been deeply serrated, each in a series of some seven or eight large, triangular points. |
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| 12 | 317 |
These points were alternated in such a way that those of the inner skirt appeared between those of the outer skirt. |
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| 15 | 190 |
This pulled her artfully contrived rags, with their points, higher on her legs. |
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| 15 | 279 |
"The entire ensemble, the points and such, and the varying lengths thusly achieved, and the consequent, now-and-then baring of your calves, and such, is extremely well done. |
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| 15 | 986 |
"The wall will be attacked at several points," I said, "to spread the defenders". |
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| 16 | 38 |
These are sometimes sheathed with tin near the points, again to make it harder to cut or chop them away. |
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| 17 | 24 |
As soon as the bridges struck down on the stone, at eleven points along the wall, from each of the somber, giant, looming, hide-hung towers, scores of men packed within rushed forth, spewing forth, erupting, like lava or steam and water breaking from the side of a cliff, racing, sprinting, descendin... |
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| 17 | 54 |
At both these bridges the charge was arrested by the bristling points of a braced, pike wall, two men to a pike. |
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| 18 | 519 |
First, many feel that they are much less secure than, say, slave bracelets, because of the diverse ratios involved, of wrist to hand, and of upper thumb to the thumb joint, at their location points. |
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| 19 | 38 |
It is not simply that the squares are more tactically flexible, being capable of functioning on broken terrain, and such, but also that they facilitate substitutions in the front lines, permitting the swift injection of fresh troops at crucial points. |
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| 19 | 54 |
Some of these lengths had turned, and hewn pilings, in an inch or two of water irregularly moving about over the now-upturned undersides of the lengths, like heavy, coarse wooden points, jutted up. |
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| 21 | 1020 |
Each, doubtless, has its points. |
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| 24 | 14 |
Two narrow beams, with attachment points for tackle, lay at the sides of the bow deck. |
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| 24 | 1026 |
The journey, of course, from many points on Gor to the Sardar is, at least in certain parts, dangerous. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 220 |
"There are no mere points of honor," I told her. |
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| 2 | 225 |
Let her not again speak of "mere points of honor". |
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| 3 | 38 |
They are simply the optimal routes between significant points. |
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| 6 | 47 |
Trade contacts are made by the rencers themselves, at their election, at established points. |
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| 13 | 393 |
Perhaps if some of you strip yourselves and raise your arms you might be spared, to be put in chains, to be taken, beaten, to trading points, thence to be sold as slaves, thence to be chained to benches, rowing the round ships of Cos". |
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| 17 | 89 |
"Where are the points, where are the scouts?" asked a voice. |
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| 28 | 211 |
"Too, with him, and with scouts and points, and whoever may wish to alert the others, there must be natural signals by means of which to communicate with the others". |
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| 28 | 547 |
The fellows who had clustered about Ina had now muchly finished with her, most of them going to various points in the small camp, to rest before we left. |
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| 29 | 264 |
Nowadays, too, as I have indicated, there are even branded slave girls in the rence, sometimes purchased at trade points, sometimes stolen. |
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| 30 | 10 |
Rencers sometimes, incidentally, trade for the arrow shafts and points separately. |
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| 37 | 165 |
Before we proceed two points might be made, one figurative, and one anthropological. |
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| 45 | 114 |
There are the equations of winds and tides, the silent turning of worlds on their axes, the movements of clouds, the descent of rain, the turbulent dynamics of gases, the freezing points of liquids, the melting temperatures of copper and iron, the migrations of birds, the habits of sleen. |
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| 46 | 84 |
I continued for a time in the camp, making my way among tents, and under open, roofed structures, like those of some markets, and under great awnings, through corridors of cages and kennels, past chains of women, the chains secured between great stakes, amongst slave wagons and cage wagons, past pro... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 895 |
If two dice are in play a "verr" and a "larl" would be equivalent on a numerical scale to ten points, or, similarly, if the dice are numbered, as these were, one would simply count points, though, of course, if, say, two sixes were thrown, that would count as "larls". |
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| 3 | 6 |
The game is usually set at a given number of points, usually fifty. |
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| 3 | 101 |
A catch scored two points for the master. |
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| 6 | 14 |
The public boards are posting areas, found at many points in Ar, usually in markets and squares. |
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| 7 | 105 |
This happened so quickly, however, that it was doubtless accomplished not by the fellows at the bells apprehending that those most inward in the city had ceased to ring but rather in virtue of some signal, presumably conveyed from the Central Cylinder, a signal doubtless relayed immediately, success... |
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| 8 | 33 |
It is true, of course, that sometimes wagons would congregate at meeting places near gates, the wagons, say, of various manufacturers and merchants, and then travel on the roads in convoys, as a protection against brigandage, but in such a case the wagons, having different points of origin, would no... |
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| 8 | 101 |
Such are found at various points in Ar, as earlier noted. |
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| 8 | 187 |
One may usually hire a lad from the district to direct one to particular points. |
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| 12 | 388 |
But such points, as I recall, have been hitherto noted. |
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| 17 | 77 |
There are many points in favor of the collar, besides those of history and tradition. |
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| 19 | 1273 |
At these points leather thongs were wound in and around the yoke. |
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| 22 | 276 |
"There are other sorts of points more involved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 76 |
It seemed likely, too, of course, that the door might be reinforced similarly at other points. |
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| 4 | 491 |
He seemed to be regarding me as might one who is practiced in such appraisals, one who, in effect, might be noting points. |
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| 8 | 456 |
It is not pleasant to have one's face nearly thrust into one's wastes and then, on all fours, be dragged by the hair to the back, right-hand corner of an area, where the keeper points meaningfully to the appropriate place of deposition. |
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| 11 | 1113 |
"I wonder what it might be, after the procession through the streets, you naked, in chains, on a chain neck-tether, conducted through the jeering crowds, goaded by spear points, hastened by whips, and after the public humiliations, would it be torture and the spear? Presumably not, as that is too si... |
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| 13 | 534 |
I could see the torchlight reflected on the points. |
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| 13 | 549 |
The points receded into the walls. |
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| 24 | 236 |
These were the two principal access points to the terrace. |
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| 34 | 140 |
From various points we heard him blowing blasts, on a reed whistle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 75 |
She had little with which to respond to simple, clear points having to do with fetal endocrinological hormonalization studies, hormonal inoculation studies, animal studies, and such, let alone the overwhelming cultural evidence with which she was confronted. |
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| 4 | 332 |
For example, on such a world, on this supposed other world, instead of adjudicating differences with, say, bombs and bullets, or thermonuclear weaponry, destroying life indiscriminately, irradiating soil, poisoning atmospheres, and such, points at issue might be adjudicated rather with the fire of t... |
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| 20 | 285 |
Or one of perhaps several points of rendezvous? Would Fel Doron be the next to leave the train? But why would Tersius Major have freed the tarns and baskets in his winged retinue? That seemed to make no sense. |
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| 27 | 1501 |
Speaking as though one might be on Earth, and ignoring the complexities of the Gorean compass, which points always to the Sardar, each of the four tarns, each with its suspended basket, went to a different quadrant, one to the north, the others to the east, south and west. |
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| 27 | 1502 |
At these points they alighted. |
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| 30 | 501 |
Two more points may be briefly enunciated. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 467 |
Lovely white women, on the other hand, are accepted as slaves, and are sometimes, at trading points, bartered for, usually with the skins of the Pte, or Kailiauk. |
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| 11 | 112 |
At certain points in this dance the whip snaps and the dancer reacts as though she was struck with the whip. |
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| 13 | 4 |
To be sure, there were doubtless a number of shuttle locks, giving access to the sport world at different points. |
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| 13 | 93 |
The men about put their weapons to the ground, the weapons facing away from him, as though he might be ringed with points arranged to defend him, or to be directed by him. |
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| 17 | 24 |
When one tried to defend itself from a sharpened stick three or four other humans, like sleen hanging on the flanks of a larl, drove their points deep into hairy bodies. |
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| 32 | 238 |
In a moment the tiny points of light had faded into darkness. |
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| 35 | 29 |
Whereas a Kur familiar with Gor, and the common, fearsome weaponry of the Gorean peasant, might have easily recognized these supposed pendants as weapon points, the smith, as far as we know, unfamiliar with such things, did not do so or, at least, pretended not to do so. |
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| 39 | 7 |
He could see spear points above the wall, where he supposed that a parapet of sorts had been constructed. |
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| 51 | 3 |
Lord Grendel and Cabot had trekked about Lake Fear, on its nearer side to the habitats, in order to recover and burn the remains of Lord Arcesilaus, whom they had expected to find dead in the cave in which they had left him, long ago, sorely wounded, but, too, to replenish a supply of weapon points,... |
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| 51 | 17 |
Cabot and Lord Grendel had had much better fortune with the smith who had fashioned the first weapon points, pretending, at least, that he took them to be ornamental pendants. |
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| 51 | 19 |
Each now bore a sack, containing hundreds of such points. |
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| 53 | 8 |
"We have brought arrow points," said Cabot, "a great many of them". |
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| 53 | 20 |
"We needed weapon points," said Lord Grendel. |
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| 67 | 36 |
It was now some five days after his departure from the ramparts that he heard an astonishing, unaccountable message, one somehow, as several others had been, on the great speaker system, a message which seemed to emanate, as they had, from a thousand points in the world. |
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| 81 | 34 |
"Earth-girl slaves," said Peisistratus, "are normally sedated on Earth, brought to collection points, stored in such capsules for the journey to Gor, disembarked unconscious on Gor, and then brought unconscious to the pens. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 15 |
This mode of orientation is not Gorean, the common compass of which, with its eight cardinal points, is oriented to the Sardar, the dark, walled, mountainous abode of Priest-Kings, but founded on the Gorean poles. |
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| 5 | 951 |
"Some hundreds of us were then soon within the walls of Brundisium," said a fellow, "and were conducted to the wharves, thence, over several days, to be embarked on various ships, toward points unknown". |
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| 22 | 368 |
Normally, of course, as an animal, and booty, the female slave on Gor has little or nothing to fear as power arrangements and assortments are determined at the points of weapons. |
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| 38 | 576 |
At various points along the wharf there were steps leading to its surface from the shore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 348 |
Some of the mutineers on the ramp, those a little behind the points of engagement, turned about, and fled up the ramp. |
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| 16 | 339 |
The arrow points, worked free, were saved, in small bags, worn at the belt. |
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| 22 | 305 |
I think many fell, thrust from behind, and many may have been the wounds inflicted by exposed weapons, edges run against, points buffeted, blades fallen upon. |
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| 24 | 167 |
"Whose slave?" "Your slave, Master!" Sometimes their own serving slaves, who have often been much abused, as is commonly the practice of the scornful free woman, set upon their former mistress, strip, and bind her, and lead her, leashed, to slave-gathering points, at a wall, or at major cross street... |
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| 30 | 42 |
In such a way the walled-in trail might, at selected points, as desired, be transformed into a blazing furnace. |
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| 30 | 43 |
The principle points in question were the approaches to the entrance and exit of the trail. |
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| 36 | 8 |
For example, exquisite Pani ceramics, intricate carvings, and dyed silks, produced in the castle shops of Lord Temmu might bring silver in Brundisium, and be sold for gold in Ar and Turia, and the silver from Brundisium, in Brundisium, of course, might be exchanged for sinew, arrow points, fletching... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 389 |
"You think of punishment," said one of the instructresses, "in terms of the switch, the whip, close chains, the denial of clothing, the affixing of a collar with points, a reduction in rations, being sent naked into the streets, being denied speech, being put in the modality of the she-tarsk, such t... |
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| 10 | 104 |
I did not want to live the rest of my life in ankle chains, my throat locked in a high collar, of weighty iron, with points. |
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| 12 | 5 |
The water entered the fountain through eight spouts, oriented to the eight major points of the Gorean compass. |
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| 18 | 978 |
For example, on the Vennan road, as it is called in Ar, a stone is erected midway between Ar and Venna, lists a number, and points in two directions. |
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| 45 | 90 |
At the high points in this sometimes frightening trek, for it occasionally negotiated ledges which I, sighted, might have been reluctant to traverse, I could make out the great portal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 114 |
Gor has its laws, its customs, its principles, its conventions, its proprieties, and its sensitivity, sometimes acute, to points of honor; but, to a woman brought from the slave world, it is likely to appear, at first, little more than a lawless savagery, a chaos of will and mastery, an unpredictabl... |
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| 15 | 457 |
I am sure there are many points on the Alexandra where it could not be brought about. |
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| 41 | 442 |
Points are assigned. |
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| 46 | 73 |
If I were not killed, I would be beaten for my beauty, if it were that, and then sold, if only for a sack of arrow points. |
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| 50 | 355 |
To one side, there was a steep wooden stairway, with broad steps, leading up from the beach to the level, where I could see something of the higher parts of the walls, and the roofs, of several small buildings, and the carved points of the palings of the stockade. |
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| 52 | 92 |
In a few Ehn I could see the points on the palings, and, later, in the grayness, the clearing beyond the door of the kennel, with the food trough to the side and near it the catchment, the small reservoir or water tank, where I had been permitted to drink yesterday, though only on all fours, and lea... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 121 |
"Would you like points inside the collar, or, perhaps, a high metal collar with points on the upper rim, so that she keeps her head up?" "A simple, plain, comfortable collar will do," I said, "as long as it is locked on her neck". |
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| 1 | 82 |
As well, of course, an aerial arm had much to offer from a number of points of view, such as raids, reconnaissance, communication, and, in limited numbers, the rapid and clandestine movement of small groups of armed men. |
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| 2 | 82 |
The points of the darts were clear of poison. |
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| 30 | 51 |
Travelers, coming and going, from various points, merchants, and others, shelter and refresh themselves at inns, and, accordingly, inns are likely to be repositories of information and what might purport to be information, repositories of rumors, news, reports, and conjectures. |
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| 35 | 44 |
Indeed, at certain points, there seemed to be a traffic of sorts from outside the camp into the camp, and from within the camp to the outside, this seeming to consist mostly of local peasants vending millet or vulos, herdsmen with a verr or a tarsk or two, some sellers of salted fish, for the sea wa... |
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| 38 | 22 |
Both a clandestine vanishing, or, unfortunately, if necessary, an explosive scattering, of fugitives from diverse points is likely to be more confusing to guards, and less easily tracked, than the traces of a single line of men, not yet scattered, availing themselves of a single aperture. |
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| 38 | 61 |
Smaller fellows addressed themselves to the earth about the palings, about this high, smooth fence, the points of which were fastened together with lashings several feet above our heads, some with rice bowls and others with stones, and their bare hands. |
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| 38 | 71 |
Men worked at various points. |
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| 38 | 79 |
The palings were lifted up a foot, carrying with them the lashings near their points, and then bent outward. |
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| 38 | 109 |
Together, now!" At various points, to my left and right, for others, too, had made progress such as we, I heard the soft cries and utterances, sudden and forceful, of desperate and straining men. |
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| 51 | 18 |
"While I was Lord Yamada's guest, I examined the palace with care, not simply to familiarize myself with the premises, but to seek avenues of escape, and note points of possible attack. |
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| 57 | 75 |
Fifty tarns, of course, might provide invaluable intelligence, telling attacks at carefully selected points, and, equipped with flame vases, threaten any number of structures, even the palace of Lord Yamada itself, with relative impunity. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 209 |
Although I never saw them I also understood that at various points about the city there were large underground cisterns, designed to supply water for months in case of a siege, in which case it was supposed that the Lena and Dacia would be dammed, diverted, or fouled, and the harbor blockaded. |
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| 39 | 50 |
"And rush through flames to the points of waiting knives, to the greeting of flighted quarrels?" "Surely we do not want to be burned alive!" I said. |
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| 61 | 502 |
I saw the eyes of the soldiers about us, but feet away, eyes narrowed, watchful, alit within the apertures of those fierce-seeming helmets, the openings so like a "Y" in shape, the lowered spears, the points threatening us, moving slightly, like the heads of a ring of osts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 60 |
The ideal points of purchase for grapnels, the likely targets of their application, had been partially sawed through, and, given the stress imposed by the straining ropes, these points, mostly railings, broke loose. |
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| 14 | 1 |
An Anomaly is Noted, a Day from Daphna "Ho," called down the lookout, from the ringed platform near the top of the single mast, "land, island, tiny, four points Ror!" Whereas I, in the interests of intelligibility, have often had recourse to directions apt to my native world, Earth directions, appl... |
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| 18 | 234 |
To the left, from the bow, some points to port, I saw a heaving and roiling in the water, several yards in length, and then it seemed as though there was a slow, swelling, rising of water, and it was as if a long, low, broad river of water had risen from the surface, and then, as suddenly and inexpl... |
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| 26 | 25 |
"Helms left, four points," I called to the helmsmen. |
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| 26 | 36 |
"Helms right, two points," I called. |
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| 26 | 44 |
"Steady, helms," I said, "two points more!" "The corsair gains," said Sakim. |
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| 26 | 53 |
"Left, two points!" I cried. |
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| 26 | 64 |
"Helms right," I called, "two points". |
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| 26 | 66 |
"Helms right," I called, "two points". |
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| 26 | 68 |
"Right," I called, "two points". |
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| 26 | 76 |
I kept the points to two or three, to keep the stern to the enemy. |
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| 26 | 83 |
"Helms left, two points," I called. |
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| 41 | 4 |
"Stone!" one cries, and points to the likely point of impact, to which spearmen rush, that the breach not be exploited. |
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| 41 | 37 |
It seemed to be the enemy's belief that their artillery would so reduce the effectiveness of the walls at so many points that it would be pointless to risk the hazards of a scaling attack, in which the advantages would be so clearly on the side of the defenders. |
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| 41 | 215 |
"Classically, ideally, one digs beneath the walls at many points, say, twenty to fifty. |
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| 41 | 218 |
When this is done successfully, the walls collapse at several points simultaneously, opening the town or city to the enemy". |
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| 41 | 223 |
"And one could rush our men to the limited point or points of danger," said Clitus. |
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| 45 | 110 |
I listened, and sometimes I accompanied observers, inspecting points to which I was led. |
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| 57 | 163 |
Given the movement of the decks, and our changes to the starboard side of the Tesephone, minimizing or eliminating points of purchase, the passage between ships was precarious. |
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