| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 27 |
The venture might be risky, particularly if I had to steal the tarn and elude pursuit, but, all things considered, an escape on tarnback seemed to me far safer than trying to cross the Vosk and make our way on foot or tharlarion through the hills and wilderness to the distant cylinders of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 8 | 18 |
Whereas there is status in the capture of a free woman, there is less risk in the capture of a slave; the pursuit is never pressed as determinedly in their cases, and one does not have to imperil one's life for a girl who might, once the Robes of Concealment have been cast off, turn out to have the ... |
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| 15 | 37 |
I looked behind me to see if there was pursuit. |
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| 15 | 256 |
"Of course," she said, "have you not wondered why there was no pursuit?" She laughed ruefully. |
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| 18 | 40 |
Pursuit was launched, the hills and fields combed without success. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 151 |
Cities, of course, would pursue the raiders from Treve, and carry the pursuit vigorously as far as the foothills of the Voltai, but there they would surrender the chase, turning back, not caring to risk their tarnsmen in the rugged, formidable territory of their rival, whose legendary ferocity among... |
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| 24 | 50 |
Apparently my conjecture as to the mobility of the Golden Beetle had been correct and the speed of its pursuit had quickly slackened. |
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| 24 | 53 |
I wondered at the nature of the Beetle's pursuit of his prey. |
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| 31 | 136 |
He was not yet aware of my approach, perhaps not believing I would be fool enough to climb the exposed walkway in pursuit. |
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| 31 | 223 |
I wondered if the hairs of the Golden Beetle, heavy with the droplets of that narcotic exudate, offered adequate recompense to a Priest-King for the ascetic millennia in which he might have pursued the mysteries of science, if they provided an acceptable culmination to one of those long, long lives ... |
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| 33 | 87 |
I had hoped that I might have used those moments, that priceless opportunity, before the men of Gor realized the restoration of gravity and normal conditions was occurring, to command them to give up their warlike ways and turn to the pursuit of peace and brotherhood, but the moment, before I realiz... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 314 |
At the count of fifteen, making no sound, not wanting to warn the girl, Conrad spurred the kaiila in pursuit, bola swinging. |
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| 11 | 120 |
"What were you?" Then he turned his kaiila suddenly toward them and they would break and run screaming and laughing and then, like a flock of birds, take up once more the pursuit. |
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| 12 | 506 |
He turned and ran, and I, drawing my sword, ran stumbling after him but in less than a moment or two I found my pursuit cut short by a string of tied kaiila being returned after having been released to hunt on the plains. |
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| 14 | 37 |
Suddenly, instead of giving pursuit, Kamchak drew his mount to a halt and behind him the rushing cavalries of the Tuchuks snarled pawing to a halt, holding their ground. |
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| 14 | 39 |
"Give pursuit!" I cried. |
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| 26 | 130 |
Our pursuit carried us from room to room, through hall after hall, in the great house of Saphrar of Turia. |
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| 26 | 133 |
In his own compartments the pursuit had seemed to end, for it seemed Saphrar had disappeared, but Kamchak did not show the least irritation or annoyance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 89 |
Yet I pressed on, ever gaining, each of my muscles suddenly charged with the excitement of the pursuit of her. |
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| 17 | 17 |
At that time a slave girl, a blond girl, sped by and the three slaves, stumbling, bleary-eyed, bumping into one another, dutifully took up her pursuit. |
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| 22 | 534 |
Menicius of Port Kar was now far in the advance but my tarn, silent, save for the crack of his great wings, eyes bright, blood on its beak and steel-shod talons, again took up the pursuit. |
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| 22 | 551 |
Ubar of the Skies did not hesitate but hurtled into their midst, beak rending, and then was clear; they turned in pursuit but four of them, caught in the wide loop of the Tuchuk rope, were cursing, cutting at it, while the tarns, suddenly startled, finding their movements inhibited, broke formation;... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 78 |
The men from several of these islands had cooperated in my pursuit and capture. |
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| 10 | 178 |
This is not to say that they would have any objection to being rich; it is only to remark, in effect, that it has never occurred to them, no more than to most Goreans, to take very seriously the pursuit of wealth as their universal and compelling motivation; being ignorant, it seems, they, like most... |
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| 14 | 137 |
I wished our pursuit to be tempting. |
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| 14 | 141 |
In another quarter of an Ahn I could count thirty ram-ships engaged in our pursuit. |
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| 14 | 152 |
I was puzzled somewhat, but not too much, that our pursuit had been so relentless. |
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| 14 | 153 |
I had flown the flag of Bosk, from the marshes, boldly, trusting that this incitement would encourage prompt and fierce pursuit. |
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| 14 | 155 |
I was puzzled only that the pursuit had been as relentless and prolonged as it was. |
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| 14 | 169 |
Some of the ships to the sides, perhaps having seen the flags with glasses from their stem or stern castles, also ceased the pursuit. |
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| 14 | 213 |
Then, in an Ehn, we were in pursuit of the last ship. |
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| 14 | 291 |
Accordingly, as soon as a sufficient number of my ships had returned to the treasure fleet, I set about organizing a pursuit of the missing round ships. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 327 |
I thrilled to their pursuit, and would elude them! Finally, when I was more than two hundred yards ahead of them, on a cruelly winding road, I switched off my headlights and drove off the road into some trees. |
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| 3 | 448 |
But there was no pursuit. |
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| 3 | 455 |
I had seen no pursuit. |
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| 10 | 304 |
We feared pursuit. |
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| 10 | 307 |
There was, however, no pursuit. |
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| 11 | 784 |
At times I would stop and listen for any indication of pursuit, but there was none. |
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| 11 | 823 |
I no longer feared pursuit, but I was now more aware than I had been of my predicament in the forest itself. |
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| 11 | 1094 |
Rask of Treve, as a raider true to the codes of Treve, that hidden coign of vantage of tarnsmen, that remote, secret, mountainous city of the vast, scarlet Voltai range, had not, in these circumstances, much pushed pursuit. |
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| 13 | 314 |
We had heard nothing more of pursuit. |
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| 14 | 426 |
Why risk one's life to obtain a free woman who might turn out to be as "ugly as a tharlarion" when one might, with no more risk, and perhaps less, because the pursuit is likely to be less fiercely pressed, pick up a lovely, easy-to-assess, well-curved slave whose selling price is almost guaranteed t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 393 |
He might be of use, should matters turn out that way, in my pursuit of Talena. |
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| 6 | 163 |
So, why might she not, provided the sale is secret, sell Talena to me, regardless of the outcome of her pursuit of Marlenus?" "Perhaps she would fear you would simply, for gold, return Talena to Marlenus," said Thurnock. |
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| 7 | 142 |
I swiftly leaped in pursuit. |
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| 7 | 149 |
My pursuit was quick, and hot, and I was close. |
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| 7 | 177 |
I surmised that the attacker, aware of my hot pursuit, would have turned within the thicket, and would have waited, bow drawn. |
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| 8 | 274 |
We heard the sounds of pursuit. |
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| 8 | 281 |
I heard the cries of pursuit, the sounds of branches being broken and rudely thrust aside. |
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| 8 | 297 |
I heard the pursuit, almost at hand, breaking through branches. |
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| 8 | 303 |
I plunged into the underbrush, hearing the sounds of pursuit. |
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| 12 | 206 |
The men of Tyros! I, like a fool, obsessed with the pursuit of Talena, blind to all, had forgotten them. |
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| 15 | 19 |
The sound of pursuit was close behind her. |
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| 18 | 138 |
Sarus and his men, pressed by my relentless pursuit, had moved much more swiftly to the sea than doubtless he had intended. |
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| 21 | 195 |
There was little point in prolonging the pursuit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 122 |
"We are a simple, peaceful folk," it said, "interested in the pursuit of agriculture". |
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| 15 | 258 |
If these had fed well before taking up our pursuit, they would not need food for days. |
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| 18 | 6 |
A sleen would no sooner mark out a girl for return to the pen than three or four others would constantly enter and disappear from his ken, often luring him into their pursuit, while the first slips free, in her turn later perhaps to save another similarly. |
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| 20 | 60 |
I, as expected, informed of this deed, took pursuit". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 590 |
There has not been a detection, let alone a pursuit, in three weeks". |
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| 1 | 894 |
Sooner or later the beast would become aware of the pursuit. |
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| 5 | 793 |
What if she had gone to Earth? I thought of her briefly amidst the hypocrisies and pollutions of Earth, on the pavements, reflected in the shop windows, in miniskirts or tailored suits, seeming a woman and yet in that raging, mechanistic, politically pathological culture, brought about by the organi... |
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| 11 | 625 |
I saw Tarna, the leader of the raiders, standing in her stirrups, scimitar high, urging her men forward, then joining in the pursuit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 339 |
It was natural that many of them should have leapt to my pursuit. |
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| 5 | 495 |
"If we act swiftly, we may mount satisfactory pursuit". |
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| 7 | 667 |
The hunters were now in pursuit. |
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| 8 | 93 |
Distracted by the first sleen, that in pursuit of Chanda, I had not even seen this sleen, whose brain was alive with my scent, circle me and approach. |
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| 12 | 540 |
I did not know if the men who had entered Borchoff's office were in pursuit of me or not. |
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| 22 | 130 |
The Jewel of Jad, like a living thing, leaped in pursuit of the fleeing vessel. |
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| 22 | 148 |
"It is as I feared," cried the second officer, he who had not been sanguine about the vessel's pursuit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 43 |
They concealed little and did little more than to excite the men and stimulate them to the beauty's pursuit, culminating in her rude assault, capture and unmasking. |
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| 4 | 621 |
I thought him now of the assassins for the trick with the canvas was but a variant of the loosened door trick, left ajar as in flight, a lure to the unwary to plunge in his pursuit into the waiting blade. |
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| 6 | 307 |
"And that you may appear more worth keeping about, and to facilitate your pursuit of the men," I said, "I will take the liberty of shortening your tunics". |
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| 35 | 428 |
With their guards they may travel much as they wish, or as they may be directed, in the pursuit of their employer's enterprises. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 101 |
"My pursuit of you was foiled," I said, "by the results of the drug you placed in my paga". |
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| 13 | 65 |
My stop at the paga tavern, I thought, would make it easier to elude pursuit. |
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| 14 | 662 |
"But would he not then, as a gentleman, scandalized, lift me hastily to my feet, embarrassed, implicitly belittling me, and encouraging me to the pursuit of masculine virtues?" "Would you fear that?" I asked. |
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| 22 | 2 |
I had heard no drums coming from the west, nothing to suggest that there was a pursuit of Shaba. |
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| 34 | 269 |
"Surely women, in the single-minded pursuit of certain goals, can treat other women, and men, in that way?" I asked. |
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| 43 | 139 |
In a few Ehn more they ceased the pursuit. |
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| 45 | 17 |
She had given commands in our pursuit. |
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| 46 | 3 |
The talunas, more than forty of them, plunged after us, brandishing their weapons, in hot pursuit. |
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| 54 | 54 |
"Did Msaliti not encourage you to venture in pursuit of Shaba?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81 |
It was, of course, a useful instrumentality to certain types of women in the pursuit of their political ambitions. |
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| 26 | 277 |
I had no doubt but what, in an instant, there would be swift pursuit of me and my fair prisoner. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 358 |
I would, at any rate, have a good start on any who might wish to give pursuit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 26 |
The preservation of the life of Reginald, or of another within, was not essential to the pursuit of my objectives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1289 |
"Even so," I asked, "was the vote unanimous?" "Unanimity constitutes an impediment to the pursuit of expeditious and efficient justice," said Kog. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 183 |
"They are mounting a pursuit," I said. |
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| 42 | 30 |
It seemed we had hardly seen the camp fall away beneath us but what red tarnsmen were aflight, plying their pursuit in our hurried wake. |
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| 43 | 421 |
Pursuit was closer than I liked. |
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| 46 | 145 |
Men withdrew even from the barricade to join the pursuit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 110 |
He is tempted, in the pursuit of his own schemes, motivated by greed, to betray his people. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 164 |
At the point of their steel I became enamored with the satisfactions attendant upon the pursuit of punctilious honesty. |
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| 6 | 879 |
"We must soon begin our fierce pursuit," Chino informed the audience. |
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| 6 | 948 |
"I think," said Chino to Lecchio, at the other side of the stage, "that it is nearly time for us to begin our fierce pursuit". |
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| 6 | 956 |
"Our fierce pursuit begins," announced Chino to the audience, and he and Lecchio began to describe a circle about the stage, carefully, bending over, hesitating now and then, apparently tracking the lovely fugitive. |
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| 6 | 1312 |
"If I had anything to do with them," I said, "to which I do not admit, of course, let us consider them merely as copper-bowl coins, coins such as might be gathered in the pursuit of your normal activities". |
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| 19 | 38 |
I did not know if these had been precipitated in the possible confusion attendant on the ringing of the alarm bars or if they might have been set by escaped prisoners, perhaps as a diversion, perhaps to cover their flight or to distract men from their pursuit, perhaps even turning them to more press... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 335 |
Many a caravan has saved itself by leaving lovely slaves behind in the desert, to slow the pursuit of marauders. |
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| 25 | 749 |
"I spotted a tabuk, and set off in hot pursuit, across the fields," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 437 |
He had not understood, however, it seemed, in his single-minded pursuit of his bloody goal, that there might be others of that kind about. |
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| 29 | 1047 |
"If we leave this fellow behind us, and he recovers, as he seems a very determined fellow," he said, "I would expect he would resume your pursuit". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 286 |
The Cosians seemed for a moment bewildered, but then, with a great cry, swarmed over the bodies in pursuit. |
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| 21 | 1041 |
Perhaps, even, they were ordered to strip and pose before the young men, to excite them to the pursuit of the delicious emoluments doubtless awaiting them at the conclusion of a successful voyage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 274 |
In this way, they will usually prove superior to isolated interlopers and, if need be, one may be dispatched to report or summon aid, while the other, or others, may attend to other duties, perhaps those of a pursuit or search, or maintaining a distant contact with the enemy. |
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| 3 | 392 |
It was then he speculated that you would least expect pursuit, that you would be most off your guard. |
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| 8 | 1 |
The Pursuit has Continued "I would speak with your officer," I said to the fellow, he tethering my ankles to a stake. |
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| 8 | 21 |
To be sure, the men of Ar, in their numbers, in their haste, with the relentlessness of their pursuit, only lately slowed, had not been in a position to take advantage of it. |
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| 9 | 87 |
"The pursuit draws to a close. |
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| 13 | 19 |
For days we had plunged deeper and deeper into the delta, in pursuit of Cosians. |
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| 16 | 70 |
"Or now fear the pursuit is too costly," he said. |
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| 19 | 700 |
I do not wish to spend the next several days, or weeks, attempting to elude their pursuit. |
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| 31 | 523 |
Accordingly I would take our next trek southwest, for they would, I supposed, assume we would continue south, or, fearing their pursuit, perhaps even move east, away from the point at which we had caught the lad spying on the camp. |
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| 32 | 305 |
He had undoubtedly soon discovered that the pursuit of which he had been the object had been discontinued. |
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| 40 | 52 |
"Still there are tarn patrols," said another, "and cavalries ready for prompt pursuit". |
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| 40 | 54 |
Cos was waiting for them, of course, and the pursuit was instantaneous. |
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| 44 | 197 |
"Flight, I am certain, would invite pursuit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 67 |
On the supposition that the latter action took priority the might of Ar in the north entered the delta in pursuit of the Cosians, in which shifting, trackless morass column after column was lost or decimated. |
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| 6 | 182 |
I myself could think of at least three, the failure to meet Cos at Torcadino, the failure to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and the unprepared entry into the delta, in putative pursuit of the Cosian expeditionary force in the north. |
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| 22 | 128 |
Too, he had reminded me that some folks, in particular, guardsmen, often disapproved of interfering with such a girl in the pursuit of her duties. |
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| 22 | 210 |
"My employer would not approve of her pursuit," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 217 |
But what if the tarnsmen of Treve, those in the vicinity, were in pursuit of the first flight? What if it had drawn them away? Could they hear the alarm bars behind them, in the city? Could they be recalled? Could a messenger catch up with them? How much time would it take to do so, and then return?... |
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| 7 | 458 |
An analogue may be noted, of course, between such torture and the treatment often inflicted upon the males of my old world by women of my old world, in pursuit of their own purposes. |
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| 10 | 995 |
Many hunters have lost their lives in their pursuit. |
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| 11 | 1871 |
Suppose a pursuit was hard-pressed. |
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| 12 | 74 |
In such a situation, where a male might expect to continue the pursuit of a free woman, who is, after all, at that point, still a free person, he might not wish to tire himself pursuing a slave. |
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| 24 | 147 |
"It is a second pursuit!" "Disperse! Disperse!" said a guardsman, near the balustrade. |
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| 24 | 218 |
The pursuit of intruders, I knew, was tenacious, relentless. |
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| 24 | 219 |
It would be important to the pursuit that the secret of the city be kept. |
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| 24 | 274 |
Had it not yet been fetched? And how would these goods, these loots, of precious metal, of soft flesh, of unusual fabrics, of rare spices, be transported whence these intruders derived? Did they think this would be easy? At any time the men of Treve might fall upon them! What an irrational and impro... |
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| 33 | 48 |
The hunters are used generally, of course, in the pursuit of fugitives, free or slave. |
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| 36 | 45 |
They had not been noticed in our haste to rush into the corridor, in our pursuit of the prisoner. |
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| 37 | 556 |
"If he was not within he would have left the gate down," said a man, "to make us believe he was within, to slow our pursuit". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 174 |
Thus she cannot break and run, an action which might prompt the beast's pursuit behavior". |
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| 13 | 203 |
Supposedly the tarnsman might thus be lured to the pursuit of an identifiably delightful quarry, something obviously worth owning, as opposed to a free woman who might, when stripped, prove to be as ugly as a tharlarion". |
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| 13 | 218 |
It is difficult to make judicious assessments, as you might suppose, given the brief amount of time at his disposal, time enough for little more than a glimpse, given the distance, the swiftness of the flight, the press of pursuit, and such. |
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| 13 | 330 |
Two tarnsmen of the city snapped by in pursuit of the fellow with the free woman. |
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| 13 | 331 |
They terminated their pursuit at the city walls. |
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| 13 | 335 |
"Now a pursuit will be organized," said another. |
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| 13 | 366 |
"If it is thought she is a slave the pursuit will be pressed less vigorously". |
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| 13 | 380 |
"In a few moments the pursuit, organized, will depart, following the raiders," said Laura. |
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| 13 | 479 |
The tarn then smote the air, leapt from the roof, soared for a moment, and then, wings beating, rose higher, leveled in its flight, and then streaked from the city, in a direction other than that taken by those in pursuit of the Trevean raiders. |
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| 19 | 677 |
She did not see any signs of pursuit. |
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| 26 | 683 |
"Tarns will be released later and put aflight, and thus pursuit will presumably be directed to the skies, which Cos controls". |
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| 26 | 816 |
There will doubtless be a pursuit. |
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| 26 | 819 |
This will be taken as the actual departure from the camp of the conspirators, and a new pursuit will be mustered. |
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| 26 | 1040 |
"He has stolen a tarn!" "Pursuit will be mounted!" called another man, from somewhere in the darkness. |
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| 27 | 5 |
Initially there had been a tarn pursuit of the trussed, gagged Tersius Major, he tied upright in a tarn saddle, clad as had been Selius Arconious. |
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| 27 | 8 |
A large pursuit had been soon mounted. |
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| 27 | 9 |
Whereas the fate of Tersius Major was at this time unknown, one supposed that, in an Ahn or so, the pursuit of the riderless tarns would be resolved, the tarns taken in hand, or, at least, that it would have been determined that most of them, for they would have scattered, had been riderless. |
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| 27 | 2309 |
It does not deter them, however, in the tenacity of pursuit; when hunting they will enter the water, and swim, unhesitatingly, single-mindedly. |
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| 27 | 3086 |
But all here now, even the soldiers, understood at least that much! If only she could convince the beasts that she knew nothing! Or that what she knew was meaningless and inconsequential, or no more than what others here, and doubtless others elsewhere, too, might know! If only she could convince th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 236 |
This may be an adaptation to facilitate heat loss in long-distance pursuit and pack hunting, or, again, it may have to do merely with preferences involved in sexual selection, or both. |
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| 1 | 580 |
Then began a nightmare of fear and pursuit, when time and time again she thought herself secure, and having escaped, only to be confronted with a new evidence of the proximity, seemingly ever more closely, of those who followed her. |
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| 16 | 94 |
The purpose of the bait is to cluster the prey, and keep it together, but the frenzy of the jangling must surely now suggest the need for speed in the pursuit, the noise perhaps signaling the escape and scattering of startled prey. |
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| 53 | 101 |
Had they realized the nature of the targets a pursuit would have doubtless been pressed with earnestness. |
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| 53 | 157 |
To be sure, occasionally, a confederacy of sorts is formed amongst such brothers, in pursuit of a common concern, but that tends to be frowned upon, and is supposedly rare". |
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| 57 | 9 |
"But Agamemnon would surely follow up his victory and press a determined, vengeful pursuit". |
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| 64 | 137 |
Too, it is certainly possible that they remembered her from the pursuit of her in the vicinity of the womb tunnel and recognized that she might have been captured and put on their rope, and might perhaps have been more favored of food and caresses than they. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 68 |
Why should she herself not have the wealth which she so ably diverted into the channels of others, an illusive wealth to whose passage she stood so near but from which she was yet so far? She seemed to me little more than an unimaginative creation of her time, a creature of ambition and egotism set ... |
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| 16 | 170 |
I cried out in rage that I was not a lone tarnsman, that I might immediately set out in pursuit of the fugitive. |
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| 18 | 5 |
Several were doubtless still in pursuit of fugitives. |
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| 18 | 171 |
The second major theory proposed to explain the ban of Priest-Kings on body armor is that the Priest-Kings, in their benign concern for human beings, one of the diverse life forms with which they stocked the planet, thought the banning of body armor would reduce injury and conflict, that it would le... |
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| 22 | 352 |
"You could have had your throat cut, and been thrust from the saddle to the forests below, shortly after the flight had begun, as soon as it became clear there was no obvious pursuit. |
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| 24 | 58 |
"I thought they realized my suspicions," I said, "and would wait to silence me, caught in the pursuit, and then return to their objective. |
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| 28 | 470 |
I had not furnished him with information as to the whereabouts of Talena, former Ubara of Ar, so was now useless to him, and he had revealed to me his identity and his interests in her pursuit, both matters he doubtless preferred to be kept unknown. |
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| 38 | 275 |
Perhaps I had done Licinius no great favor, considering he seemed ill equipped with forest craft, was seemingly unable to live off the land, hold a direction, elude pursuit, and such. |
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| 43 | 39 |
Its tracking skills had doubtless been evolved for the pursuit of game, but, in the domesticated sleen, often carefully bred for generations, they often proved of great value to humans. |
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| 43 | 72 |
How odd, I thought, had been that pursuit. |
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| 43 | 78 |
How unaccountable, how inexplicable, I thought, had been that stubborn, single-minded, unremitting pursuit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 22 | 205 |
This withdrawal tactic is designed to encourage a line to break forward, in pursuit, after which its irregularity may be exploited by an even, frontal counter and pursuit. |
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| 1 | 346 |
Informed that the invasion force had withdrawn into the delta, the forces of Ar, under the orders of conspirators, entered the extensive, treacherous wastes and swamps of the vast delta in pursuit. |
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| 3 | 700 |
Were such as I so common that we were not worth our pursuit? I was elated to be free of him, but frightened, as well, for who would now protect me? And, oddly, my vanity was offended. |
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| 17 | 249 |
"And yet the fleet soon desisted in its pursuit". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 1165 |
The results of addressing oneself to the pursuit of wild tarsk, I suspected, were difficult to anticipate. |
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| 26 | 42 |
"Bring her in," said Astrinax, and Trachinos and Akesinos darted from our side in pursuit of the fair quarry. |
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| 45 | 233 |
There will be a search, a pursuit in force. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 230 |
Many men at arms, for example, pride themselves on their illiteracy, regarding reading as a pursuit more appropriate to merchants and scribes than to those of the "scarlet caste". |
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| 31 | 18 |
It will be a raid, unanticipated and effective, over and done with before the enemy fully comprehends what has occurred, before any defense can be mounted, after which the raiders will slip away, returning to the forest, long before any pursuit can be organized. |
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| 41 | 428 |
"I thought the pursuit of a foolish slave might provide something in the nature of a diversion". |
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| 44 | 18 |
I resolved to go far enough inland to elude pursuit, and then, when sure of my escape, somehow cross the river, perhaps stealing a boat, perhaps building a raft, bound with vines, or even clinging to debris. |
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| 44 | 81 |
There was no sign of pursuit. |
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| 47 | 91 |
By now, given the recency of her flight, and the likely prompt detection of her departure, she would doubtless anticipate an immediate pursuit, if one were to be made. |
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| 47 | 92 |
Accordingly, if her backtrail remained empty, that would be taken to mean either that no pursuit was in progress or, more likely, that her flight had been successful. |
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| 47 | 93 |
If it were not successful, presumably, given the recency of her flight, and a prompt pursuit, a tracker or trackers would be close behind her, perhaps only some Ehn away. |
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| 48 | 58 |
But, too, more consciously, I did realize, even if I felt I could move, any swift movement on my part would be likely to trigger the pursuit response common in most predators. |
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| 52 | 489 |
Eventually Genserich, his task accomplished, although scarcely as he had anticipated, returned to the coast, the captured Panther Women in his custody, and Master Axel, with the sleen, Homines, had returned to Shipcamp, to report the outcome of his pursuit, which outcome would assure that the securi... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 172 |
And the distance, too, would serve well to separate the personnel of such an excursion from the shelter of their own walls, enabling their pursuit, interception, or encirclement. |
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| 6 | 178 |
I personally saw little benefit to be derived from the pursuit of such a policy. |
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| 11 | 197 |
"Had tarns not been withheld at the time," I said, "the exploratory force might have been better apprised of the position and movements of the enemy, and, warned in time, and retracted, spared its decimation, its rout, and the bloody, harrying pursuit to which it was subjected". |
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| 13 | 172 |
For the successful pursuit of this matter, of course, one required the services of a skilled reader. |
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| 25 | 334 |
Surely Tajima must have considered the possibility of pursuit. |
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| 27 | 166 |
"When in the stadium the tarnsman made away with Sumomo, Lord Yamada issued orders that Tyrtaios, his servitor, was to be asaddle within Ehn, in pursuit. |
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| 28 | 42 |
Pursuit, on fresh tarns, was soon mounted". |
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| 29 | 27 |
"I feared you overtaken, slain or captured, two tarns, rested and fresh, in pursuit". |
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| 29 | 28 |
"It seemed obvious that a pursuit would be mounted," said Tajima. |
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| 29 | 30 |
Unfortunately, given the surprising promptness of the pursuit, which I had not anticipated, a matter of little more than a few Ehn, this stratagem failed of its intended effect. |
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| 29 | 52 |
If there is a fault here, it is mine, for I too much gambled on surprise and seriously underestimated the alacrity with which a pursuit could be brought aflight". |
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| 30 | 253 |
We had certainly detected no evidence which suggested that we might be the object of a pursuit. |
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| 33 | 42 |
"A pursuit party?" I said. |
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| 33 | 44 |
"And we," I said, "are the object of its pursuit?" "I fear so," said Haruki. |
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| 34 | 10 |
"It is thought," said Yasushi, "that the bold tarnsman and his fair captive, Sumomo, outdistanced their pursuit and that she is now a prisoner in the holding of Temmu, the Wicked, or somewhere in a nest of demon birds". |
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| 34 | 12 |
"The pursuit was being successfully effected. |
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| 34 | 14 |
Then the gap enlarged, and the pursuit proved fruitless. |
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| 38 | 77 |
I wished, of course, to free as many men as possible, both for my own sake, to confuse matters, and make pursuit more difficult, and for theirs, as well, that at least some might make their way back to their villages. |
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| 40 | 115 |
The guards, as I had surmised, large numbers of them, would be arrested in their pursuit by the flames, and further discomfited when the roof's layered canvases, those in this portion of the tent, the ropes cut, would collapse. |
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| 57 | 67 |
In Daichi's absence, who now would read the bones and shells for him? Lord Nishida, I was sure, would urge pursuit; Lord Okimoto, I suspected, would advise restraint, until intelligence, and more intelligence, and more intelligence, might be gathered. |
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| 57 | 80 |
"That some groups might elude pursuit," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 130 |
But, then, what is a practical purpose? Is the pursuit of beauty, or pleasure, a practical purpose? Perhaps. |
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| 15 | 217 |
I heard no evidence of a pursuit, and conjectured that it had been abandoned, or that the pursuing vehicle, rather than risking the water, and the possible confusion or rebellion of its team, would utilize the ferry. |
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| 15 | 221 |
A pursuer, realizing a pursuit would take place, would presumably supply himself with strong, agile beasts, beasts of superior quality, a lighter wagon, and such. |
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| 20 | 171 |
We will do nothing threatening and will not dash away, perhaps activating a pursuit reflex". |
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| 37 | 120 |
I was pleased that I had not given away the location of my master's domicile, and was eluding any possible pursuit, but, in another way, I was frightened as I had been given no message to convey to my master, for it seemed clear, then, that Decius Albus, whose business Paula was discharging, was no ... |
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| 61 | 176 |
Too, they were favored by the House of a Hundred Corridors, the ambitions of which they, in their pursuit of power, were willing to further, which house, undeniably, had been enleagued with Lord Agamemnon. |
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| 61 | 281 |
This flight seemed to stimulate many of the Kurii, who, if undecided a moment before, were now precipitate in their pursuit. |
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| 63 | 131 |
He was also noted for the relentless pursuit of any who might threaten or despoil his caravans. |
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| 63 | 213 |
What pursuit could it possibly elude? Too, two kajirae, afoot, were chained behind the wagon, and the wagon, thus, must monitor and regulate its speed, lest, secured as they were, they be dragged, and injured, perhaps their necks broken. |
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| 63 | 214 |
"The masters," I said, "do not fear pursuit". |
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| 65 | 68 |
Too, there had been no obvious evidence of pursuit. |
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| 65 | 90 |
"If we passed the caravanserai, it would be a simple matter to renew the pursuit. |
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| 65 | 91 |
If we did not pass, how better to conceal the pursuit, than by appearing independently lodged, thus suggesting indifference or disinterest?" "It could still be a coincidence," I said. |
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| 65 | 98 |
"And again, and again, always fearing small sounds, an unrecognized step, an unfamiliar face? They will take a stand, one calculated to discourage pursuit". |
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| 65 | 198 |
At that point, from the darkness, a voice called out, "Deploy, Sleen of Mintar, the urts are in the trap!" Lucilius may have understood little of this, but the men with him were only too aware of the might of the merchant, Mintar, his vast web of agents and informants, his generous rewards for the a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 35 |
"Pursuit incapable of obtaining its object is equivalent to no pursuit". |
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| 3 | 363 |
The pursuit of perfection, which by definition is unobtainable, leads to pathology. |
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| 6 | 272 |
"There is no sign of suspicion, or pursuit?" asked the first voice. |
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| 25 | 133 |
What I did not understand was why a crime, serious as it might be, against a minor banking house in Ar, far away, thousands of pasangs away, should provoke so much interest in so many parties, and generate so seemingly relentless a pursuit of its perpetrator. |
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| 33 | 120 |
Certainly the vast, trackless, treacherous marshes would discourage invasion or pursuit; would they not constitute a barrier more immense and impenetrable than a thousand walls of stone? Shortly thereafter the three notes were repeated. |
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| 43 | 33 |
"Pursuit must be feared," said the man. |
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| 43 | 214 |
"It obscures vision, it impedes pursuit". |
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| 43 | 260 |
I heard Seremides once inquire as to pursuit. |
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| 43 | 271 |
"I see no pursuit," said Vas of Anango. |
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| 47 | 385 |
"Now secure, now honored, now cherished by her ally, Lurius of Jad, she need no longer fear recognition and seizure, the relentless pursuit of bounty hunters, the chains of guardsmen, the justice of Ar, the wrath of Marlenus, tortures and impalement". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 |
We have Eluded Pursuit; Two Bottles of Wine; Much Remains Unexplained; The Cove of Harpalos is Sighted "Would we had had our ram and shearing blades mounted," said Thurnock. |
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| 5 | 61 |
"We slipped between the two nearest ships, but they did not immediately turn and pursue us, but waited for four more ships, and then the six ships, together, began the pursuit". |
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| 7 | 44 |
"I can think of no one more zealous in their pursuit". |
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| 22 | 31 |
"Had I explained my purpose," he said, "I feared you would have forbidden its pursuit". |
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| 23 | 37 |
On the morning the corsair fleet, with its seven ships, was to depart the harbor at Mytilene in pursuit of the three Brundisium merchantmen, superstitious terror gripped savage crews. |
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| 25 | 22 |
Will it be here? If not, where is it? Did it return here after an unsuccessful pursuit of the three merchantmen of Brundisium, or go elsewhere? Is it still at sea? Might it not return here? Might not this be its new base?" "The first fleet, disguised as merchantmen, lay to in the harbor at Sybaris,"... |
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| 45 | 80 |
He might be just outside the portal, stopped, his flight arrested, waiting for me to rush through, reckless in pursuit, into the blade of his waiting knife. |
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| 51 | 8 |
I had no doubt that the other four corsair ships, possibly in communication by means of message vulos, were in pursuit of the Dorna. |
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| 51 | 27 |
"Until our oarsmen, exhausted and aching, could no longer draw an oar," said Sakim, "and our friends, with ten shifts of oarsmen, their pursuit never abated, could draw abeam, cast out their hooks, and swarm aboard". |
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| 54 | 36 |
"Their success in pursuit was their good fortune," said Thurnock. |
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| 55 | 50 |
"Doubtless, in its pursuit of the last two nights, it was not goaded by fire and iron," I said. |
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| 55 | 51 |
"Its pursuit would have been painless, it not having been necessary, or expedient, to alter its course or hasten its progress". |
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| 63 | 2 |
"Are there signs of pursuit?" I inquired. |
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