| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 92 |
I engaged and dropped the first of the tarnsmen to reach me and wounded the second, but was pressed back toward the rear of the cave. |
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| 15 | 35 |
Pa-Kur had not protected his rear with the customary third ditch and rampart. |
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| 15 | 41 |
I was not too surprised when I was not challenged; Pa-Kur's arrogance, or simply his rational assurance, was such that no sentries, no signs and countersigns, had been arranged at the rear of the camp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 196 |
The officer was the third man in the formation, and the other warrior hung several yards in the rear. |
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| 7 | 3 |
The warrior in the rear only lifted his spear, ready to cast it should a clean opening present itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 142 |
She stood back against the rear of the case scarcely able to stand. |
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| 29 | 46 |
I was within two hundred yards when I opened fire, attacking from the rear, away from the destructive cone in its bow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 95 |
One was circling to approach from the rear. |
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| 3 | 56 |
Angrily the Tuchuk pulled back on the reins of the kaiila, causing it to rear, snarling, pawing at the sky. |
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| 5 | 63 |
One of the most striking features of these wagons is the wheels, which are huge, the back wheels having a diameter of about ten feet; the front wheels are, like those of the Conestoga wagon, slightly smaller, in this case, about eight feet in diameter; the larger rear wheels are more difficult to mi... |
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| 5 | 67 |
Normally, however, the wagons are tied in tandem fashion, in numerous long columns, and only the lead wagons are guided, the others simply following, thongs running from the rear of one wagon to the nose rings of the bosk following, sometimes as much as thirty yards behind, with the next wagon; also... |
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| 8 | 338 |
To my dismay, as he returned racing toward the circle of the boskhide whip the girl, a fine wench, managed to sink her teeth into the neck of the kaiila causing it to rear squealing and hissing, then striking at her. |
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| 11 | 404 |
"Sleen! Sleen! Sleen!" I followed Kamchak down the steps of the wagon and, blinking and still sensible of the effects of the paga, gravely held open the large dung sack near the rear left wheel of the wagon. |
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| 13 | 52 |
She then went to stand by the left, rear wheel of the wagon. |
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| 21 | 23 |
Rank by rank the warriors on the kaiila, dour, angry, silent, turned their mounts away from the city and slowly went to find their wagons, save for the Hundreds that would flank the withdrawal and form its rear guard. |
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| 21 | 216 |
I looked down from the wall, and to my amusement, though I felt sorry for the distraught driver, saw that the right, rear wheel of the wide, heavy wagon had slipped the axle and that the wagon, obviously heavily loaded, was now tilting crazily, and then the axle struck the dirt, imbedding itself. |
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| 23 | 104 |
It was like a flood of kaiila and riders, weapons flourishing, that broke and piled against the wagons, the rear ranks pressing forward on those before them. |
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| 23 | 105 |
Some of the rear ranks actually climbed fallen and struggling comrades and leaped over the wagons to the other side, where they were cut down by archers and dragged from their kaiila to be flung beneath the knives of free Tuchuk women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 64 |
The guard, with a heavy stick he carried, struck the bars viciously before her face and she cried out, jerking back and crouching at the rear of the cage. |
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| 15 | 30 |
A girl in a tunic of white silk, gracefully, carrying a large pitcher of diluted Ka-la-na wine, approached our table from the rear, and climbed the stairs, delicately, and as though timidly, head down. |
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| 19 | 47 |
The girls, when brought to the Curulean, are braceleted and naked; they have been chained in slave wagons; they are brought to a large, heavy, barred gate in the rear of the large building, through which they are led; the bracelets are, of course, to secure them; the lack of clothing is simply to sa... |
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| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
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| 21 | 286 |
"Wait!" cried the leader, in the rear rank. |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 109 |
These defensive conditions dictated that the offense, putatively the male population of one or perhaps two rence communities, say, some seventy or eighty men, would most likely attack at either the first or the last of the barges, where they would have but one front on which to attack and little, or... |
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| 8 | 818 |
All my former hatreds of her began to rear within me, the wrongs which she had done me, and the degradation and humiliation to which she had submitted me. |
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| 11 | 57 |
I myself, taking with me two captains, went to a rear corner of the great chamber, whence, via a spiraling stairwell, the roof of the hall of the council might be attained. |
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| 17 | 36 |
As soon as the ships broke through the line they would spread in predesignated pairs, attacking where possible from the rear, but always conjointly. |
10 |
| 17 | 40 |
With their lines cut in fifty places, for no extended handful of tarn ships, part of a great line, could resist a close-set formation of sixteen tarn ships, I hoped that many of the ships would turn to face the attackers, now in their rear. |
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| 17 | 41 |
Each of my fifty sets of attacking tarn ships would be followed, by some half of an Ahn, by another pair of my tarn ships, which, hopefully, would be able to take a number of these come-about ships of Cos and Tyros from the rear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 422 |
I pulled back the curtains on the rear window of the bungalow. |
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| 3 | 441 |
Snarling and spurting the Maserati leaped into life, spitting stones and dust from its rear wheels, whipping about the corner of the bungalow. |
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| 3 | 458 |
I glanced into the rear-view mirror. |
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| 6 | 404 |
Two of his men thrust at the rear wheels. |
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| 7 | 539 |
She was bound tightly over the large rear wheel of our wagon. |
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| 8 | 215 |
There is no rear railing on the barges and the barge deck matches the pier in height. |
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| 11 | 1175 |
I leapt to my feet, and went again to the rear of the cage. |
10 |
| 17 | 2 |
"Hands to the rear. |
10 |
| 18 | 91 |
I saw the helmeted figure rear up in the saddle, and with an imperious gesture fling a dark, heavy object to the stone walk behind the wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 139 |
We took a table, an inconspicuous one, near the rear of the paga tavern, yet one with an unimpeded view. |
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| 3 | 308 |
The man who had guided the wagon from the rear, and had now locked the brake on the front wheels, went to the bound girl. |
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| 3 | 309 |
He unfastened the chain that bound her against the curved leather at the end of the pole, and, holding her by the arm, her wrists still tied behind her, led her to the rear of the wagon, and up the steps. |
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| 15 | 215 |
Then, quietly, from the rear, my hand would close over the mouth of the guard. |
10 |
| 15 | 452 |
They brought up the rear of the coffle. |
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| 15 | 463 |
Doubtless there would be rear points. |
10 |
| 15 | 470 |
The rear of the march was now open to me. |
10 |
| 15 | 475 |
Sixteen men of Tyros, in single file, brought up the rear of the march. |
10 |
| 15 | 478 |
I expected that men would now hesitate to bring up the rear of the march. |
10 |
| 19 | 41 |
I could not pin them inside the stockade without exposing myself, and doing so from the beach or shore, and then, of course, they might depart from the stockade secretly from the rear. |
10 |
| 20 | 45 |
Did he not know I would come for him? In the darkness, amidst the shouting, I went swiftly to the slave girls, prone and bound, near the rear of the stockade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 251 |
The rear wall, too, of the temple now caught afire. |
10 |
| 6 | 97 |
Aelgifu, in her black velvet, it creased and stained, discolored, the fabric stiff and separated here and there, brought up the rear. |
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| 14 | 182 |
His ax, and those of his men, had shattered through the rear of the hall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 37 |
The men would march toward the rear of the columns, before the rear guard. |
10 |
| 4 | 466 |
A cluster of them rode toward its head, another cluster toward its rear. |
10 |
| 7 | 197 |
His right, booted foot stamped forward, his body turned to the left, minimizing target, his head to the right, maximizing vision, his rear foot at right angles to the attack line, maximizing leverage, assuring balance. |
10 |
| 8 | 10 |
The kaiila I fed in the stable, where he occupied a rear stall, I watered it, too, deeply. |
10 |
| 8 | 290 |
My kaiila was tethered in the rear. |
10 |
| 12 | 43 |
A chain from the neck of the first, some ten feet in length, ascended to the pommel of the lead guard; a chain from the neck of the last, some ten feet in length, ascended to the pommel of the guard bringing up the rear. |
10 |
| 14 | 385 |
When the girl lies on her stomach, her head to the rear wall, she cannot prevent the door from locking behind her. |
10 |
| 18 | 46 |
Each player has nine pieces of equal value which are originally placed on the intersections of the nine interior vertical lines with what would be the rear horizontal line, constituted by the back edge of the board, from each player's point of view. |
10 |
| 22 | 87 |
One often feints with the point, dropping it, or lifting it, or moving it to the one side or the other, dropping or lifting, or horizontally, in war; but in sport accuracy and not deception is paramount; I observed the rider; I saw him smile; I saw the kaiila rear up; I saw the lance fall into posit... |
10 |
| 26 | 17 |
I saw the young khan of the Tajuks, in white turban, ride by, going to the rear of the columns. |
10 |
| 26 | 30 |
A great deal of planning, and organization, and hard work must take place before she first lifts her head to the buyers, looking out upon them, one of whom will own her, and she hears the first call of the auctioneer, he lifting his coiled whip behind her, "What am I bid?" In the march were Kavars, ... |
10 |
| 26 | 108 |
He was with the male slaves toward the rear of the column; he alone among them was not stripped; he wore his seraglio silk, the ruby necklace; they did not look pleasantly upon him. |
10 |
| 26 | 1268 |
In the march were Kavars and Aretai, Ta'Kara, Bakahs, Char, Kashani, Luraz, Tashid, Raviri, Ti, Zevar, Arani and, holding the position of the rear guard, with their black lances, Tajuks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1156 |
In the march, too, there occurred two platforms and, following, toward the rear, one wagon. |
10 |
| 5 | 673 |
When the four maids were coffled there was, thus, an empty wrist ring both at the head and the rear of the line. |
10 |
| 5 | 808 |
He turned away from the coffle and, moving the slashed silk of the rear wall of the tent with his hand, brushing it to the right, not looking back, disappeared into the darkness. |
10 |
| 7 | 257 |
One man remained behind, to follow the coffle, some yards to the rear. |
10 |
| 9 | 87 |
Perhaps she had not been fully pleasing for an instant to one of the soldiers, or to Clitus Vitellius, and had thus been struck, and put at the rear of the chain. |
10 |
| 9 | 88 |
Perhaps she was at the rear of the chain because she was the most beautiful, and her beauty was being saved for last; thus the chain would have begun with the beautiful Marla and then, with a surprise, finished with a girl yet more beautiful than the first. |
10 |
| 9 | 1161 |
I had expected to be bound, wrists behind my back, and tethered by the neck of the rear of Ladletender's wagon, to follow him, his slave girl, naked and barefoot from the village. |
10 |
| 11 | 305 |
"This is the rear gate," she said. |
10 |
| 18 | 179 |
It must have been behind the hanging at the rear of the alcove. |
10 |
| 20 | 14 |
After I had delivered the message to Belisarius, and had served to amuse his men, I had been returned to the Chatka and Curla, still hooded, and bound in the slave sack, as I had been brought from it, by the same men, through the secret door in the rear of the alcove. |
10 |
| 20 | 19 |
I looked behind the hanging at the rear of the alcove. |
10 |
| 27 | 297 |
I shrank back, my back against the rear wall of the alcove. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 54 |
Sorgus, with some forty cohorts then, seeing me deploy bowmen to his rear, broke for the hall and barricaded himself within. |
10 |
| 12 | 197 |
Imnak and I held the rear of the sled that it not move too rapidly downward. |
10 |
| 22 | 220 |
We nosed our kayaks on each side of the beast, approaching it from the rear. |
10 |
| 23 | 485 |
The man then put his weapons near the rear wall of the feasting house and walked, carrying the sack he had brought with him, to the clearing on the dirt floor. |
10 |
| 25 | 6 |
Karjuk stepped off the runners of his sled and called to his snow sleen, dragging back on the tabuk-horn uprights at the rear of the sled, by means of which he guided the snow vessel. |
10 |
| 25 | 12 |
Karjuk sledded alone; so, too, did Ram; Imnak and I brought up the rear with Imnak's sled, fashioned long ago at the remains of the wall. |
10 |
| 25 | 79 |
I then tied the two loose ends of the tethers about the base of the tabuk-horn upright at the rear, right-hand side of the sled. |
10 |
| 25 | 80 |
Meanwhile Imnak had similarly secured Barbara and Poalu to the left-hand, rear upright on the sled. |
10 |
| 29 | 12 |
Bringing up the rear, also with a dart weapon, was Drusus. |
10 |
| 35 | 1141 |
I stepped outside, into the arctic night, though bare-chested, to survey the rear of our position. |
10 |
| 37 | 36 |
I stood on the rear runners, lifting myself for a better look. |
10 |
| 38 | 13 |
No longer was he intimidated by the mountain which had once seemed to rear before him. |
10 |
| 38 | 38 |
Tied by the neck to the left-hand, rear upright of Ram's sled, clad in furs, was Tina. |
10 |
| 38 | 39 |
Tied by the necks to the left-hand, rear upright of the sled of Drusus, clad in furs, were the two beauties he had selected and chained in the complex of the Kurii. |
10 |
| 38 | 42 |
Tied to the left-hand, rear upright of my own sled, too, was a coffle line. |
10 |
| 38 | 44 |
It was a double coffle line; the last girl is placed on it first; the double line is knotted about her neck and then the two strands are taken forward; the fifth girl was next neck-knotted into the line and the two strands taken forward again, and so on; when the first girl is put in the coffle, the... |
10 |
| 38 | 51 |
I went to the rear of the coffle line and took the last girl on the line gently in my arms. |
10 |
| 38 | 181 |
The double line looped up to her throat from the left-hand, rear upright of the sled. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 393 |
I saw her with several other girls, behind the rear court of the Silver Collar. |
10 |
| 9 | 10 |
I had left the paga tavern by a rear door and then swung myself up to a low roof, and then climbed to a higher one. |
10 |
| 13 | 60 |
"I will be at that table," I said, indicating a table in the rear of the tavern, not far from a red-curtained alcove. |
10 |
| 13 | 785 |
I went to the place, near the rear wall, where I had left the blond-haired barbarian. |
10 |
| 23 | 373 |
"March to the rear," said the officer. |
10 |
| 44 | 108 |
As it turned toward them I cut another segment of one of its rear legs from it. |
10 |
| 47 | 93 |
Now, near the rear wall and spreading toward the center of the village, it seemed there was a growing, lengthening, rustling, living carpet of insects. |
10 |
| 47 | 108 |
Do not hesitate!" We struck aside more sticks from the rear of the hut and emerged into the rustling darkness behind it. |
10 |
| 50 | 91 |
Her gag, no longer necessary on her as an instructional or disciplinary device, was that which now packed the pretty face of the dark-haired girl, she who had been her second in command, who now brought up the rear of the coffle. |
10 |
| 51 | 138 |
And, in the rear of the room, there was another broad flight of stairs, leading upward to another landing and walk. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 994 |
A colorless gas, under great pressure, was being forced into the rear of the cab. |
10 |
| 3 | 298 |
She took the shackles from the rear ring and snapped them on my ankles. |
10 |
| 12 | 407 |
A collar was brought, one which had been lying at hand, with other accouterments, at the rear of the platform. |
10 |
| 12 | 511 |
The Lady Tendite smiled, and went to the rear of the platform. |
10 |
| 19 | 356 |
Borto lifted up the rear gate of the wagon and, with two hooks, fastened it in place. |
10 |
| 25 | 294 |
When the bar is freed and lifted they may then, still in their shackles, be removed through the rear of the wagon, the wagon gate being lowered. |
10 |
| 25 | 328 |
In moments I heard the lock rattling at the rear of the wagon. |
10 |
| 27 | 145 |
"Please, no!" She was backed against the rear of the stall. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 243 |
Tasdron then took the girl by an arm and thrust her toward a rear door, before which he stopped, the girl then standing beside him, to unlock it. |
10 |
| 28 | 87 |
Tasdron hurried through the rear door of the room, and down the corridor, to the alley door. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 158 |
Now, it seemed, they had failed, too, even to prevent the third fleet of the Voskjard from making an unimpeded entry into the waters east of the chain, from which position, of course, they could take the defensive fleet in the rear. |
10 |
| 8 | 377 |
I then went to the shattered window at the rear of the cabin. |
10 |
| 10 | 8 |
The Tais, which we feared might be recognized, brought up the rear. |
10 |
| 17 | 739 |
To the rear of the palanquin, in a double coffle of briefly tunicked beauties, display slaves, their hands braceleted behind their backs, had been the girl who now knelt before me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 52 |
A long, solid, heavy metal bar, hinged near the front, and locked in place at the rear, runs the length of the bed. |
10 |
| 4 | 53 |
The girls enter the wagon at the rear, crawling, their ankles chained, the bar between their legs. |
10 |
| 4 | 59 |
It was little more than a sleen cage, of heavy, wooden poles, lashed together, its rear gate fastened with a chain and padlock, set on a flat wagon bed. |
10 |
| 8 | 937 |
One adds additional women, hands tied behind them, to this arrangement by taking another pair of forked branches and fastening the rear fork about the throat of one of the women. |
10 |
| 9 | 61 |
He then rode about the rear of the coffle, and advanced, on his kaiila, along its left side. |
10 |
| 12 | 193 |
"You will discover that there are some advantages to bringing up the rear of the coffle," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 13 | 715 |
'You may look in the rear-view mirror, if you wish,' he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 717 |
' I looked in the rear-view mirror, terrified. |
10 |
| 19 | 10 |
Two other Sleen, too, then followed, who would bring up the rear, riding behind the column, some yards behind the captives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 207 |
"The Kinyanpi!" cried voices to our rear, the shout being relayed from man to man. |
10 |
| 28 | 303 |
I saw another man toward the rear, an archer, discharge an arrow, and leap to the side, to avoid a rider. |
10 |
| 37 | 148 |
I sat back, against the rear of the pit. |
10 |
| 43 | 6 |
We could observe them through the tiny aperture we had opened in the rear of the lodge, behind them, with the point of a knife. |
10 |
| 43 | 8 |
The two girls knelt behind the fire, between it and the rear of the lodge, opposite the entrance. |
10 |
| 44 | 500 |
This the rear guard of the Yellow Knives, packed against their retreating fellows, the rock on one side, the drop on the other, their eyes wide with horror, must watch bounding inexorably toward them. |
10 |
| 44 | 640 |
"They are probably in the rear, with the column," I said. |
10 |
| 45 | 62 |
We watched the darkness grow at the edge of the rear escarpment. |
10 |
| 46 | 157 |
Most of the Yellow Knives, of course, hemmed in by their fellows, on the front and in the rear, and on the flanks by the drop and the wall, must remain inactive. |
10 |
| 47 | 348 |
I saw that the claws of the rear appendages, or feet, of the monster on the barricade, had emerged. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 596 |
He then snapped his fingers and I leaped up and, at a gesture, preceded him into the inn, and up the rear stairs. |
10 |
| 28 | 176 |
It was locked in a small, shining, steel manacle, chain extending to it, attached to a ring, from the rear, and from it, from another ring, to the front. |
10 |
| 36 | 15 |
I was then, as a capture and a slave, on his shoulder, my head to the rear, that I might not see whither I was conveyed, carried helplessly over the threshold. |
10 |
| 36 | 159 |
I had then been carried into the room, over his shoulder, as a slave, head to the rear, helpless. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 540 |
I then brought up the rear, on my shoulder, her head to the rear, as a slave is carried, helpless, the Lady Yanina. |
10 |
| 2 | 537 |
"Where are you going?" But the hooded fellow had disappeared between the booths, going somewhere to the rear. |
10 |
| 3 | 253 |
These were near the back of the small inner sanctum, near the white hangings forming its rear wall. |
10 |
| 4 | 49 |
They were withdrawn several yards to the rear, behind us, as his men were behind him. |
10 |
| 8 | 117 |
"Titus!" called one of the brigands, emerging from a wagon, pausing on the steps at the rear. |
10 |
| 8 | 168 |
The two men at the rear doors of the wagons, on the steps, looked across at one another. |
10 |
| 9 | 493 |
"No," I said, "to the rear". |
10 |
| 9 | 513 |
I scooped up the woman and threw her over my shoulder, her head to the rear. |
10 |
| 12 | 280 |
A Spearman who attains the rear rank of the enemy has the option of being promoted, if promotion is desired, to either a Tarnsman or a Rider of the High Tharlarion. |
10 |
| 13 | 285 |
Sometimes it would rear up, straightly, unexpectedly, looking about itself, and then drop back to a smaller, more bent-over position. |
10 |
| 18 | 264 |
There I put the ankle rings on her, put her in the slave sack, tied it shut and placed it in the trunk, through the rear panel. |
10 |
| 18 | 325 |
A soldier lifted the shuddering Lady Yanina lightly and threw her over his shoulder, her head to the rear. |
10 |
| 21 | 366 |
In this fashion, it could be dropped from the front, rather than the rear. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 68 |
The rear entrance, or the entrance into a rear corridor, I did not think, should be too far beyond this point. |
10 |
| 3 | 329 |
"The units ahead of us," I said, turning about, "are the rear guard of the army, I take it". |
10 |
| 3 | 451 |
He dragged her, two stripes on her body, gray in the shadows, by the arm, back, and to the rear of the wagon. |
10 |
| 5 | 170 |
He then padlocked the other end of the chain to a stout ring, the central ring, at the rear of the wagon. |
10 |
| 11 | 213 |
She sat on the ground with her back against the right, rear wagon wheel, her ankles still bound together. |
10 |
| 25 | 2356 |
That suggested a rear exit. |
10 |
| 26 | 69 |
Perhaps I could simply leave by the rear exit, without difficulty. |
10 |
| 26 | 783 |
We came to the rear entrance. |
10 |
| 26 | 1095 |
"Not that! I mean— I mean—!" But I had swept her into my arms and carried her a few yards down the passageway and then into one of the side passages, where, protruding from a rear area, in a heap of litter and debris, mostly banked against a wall, in the midst of other garbage, refuse,... |
10 |
| 26 | 1099 |
I had not thrown her over my shoulder, her ass to the front, her head scornfully to the rear, as properties are commonly carried, such as sacks of grain and female slaves. |
10 |
| 26 | 1100 |
With my foot, not yet putting her down, I dragged the mat free of the garbage and trash, and kicked it back to where I wanted it, back further in the rear area, between the high walls. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 526 |
I stood toward the center and about a third forward from the rear of the floor, my arm still in the grip of Hendow, my master. |
10 |
| 11 | 1141 |
I was being carried as a slave is often carried, my head to the rear. |
10 |
| 21 | 34 |
They make it possible to move between alcoves, and from alcoves to the rear of the tavern, without reentering the main floor area. |
10 |
| 25 | 155 |
I performed obeisance, and then made as though to rise, to hurry to the rear portions of the tent, where my mat was, near Tela's. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
When groups are traveling together the wagons are often arranged in a circle, end to end, tongues inward, narrowing gaps between the "sections" of the improvised rampart, and chained together, the front axle of one wagon chained to the rear axle of the next, the camp, and the draft animals, and any ... |
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| 1 | 263 |
I then bent over, and backed under the rear of the wagon. |
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| 1 | 357 |
In the wagon ahead, briefly illuminated, I saw, swinging from its strap, slung over a hook on the rear axle housing, a narrow, cylindrical, capped "grease bucket," the handle of the brush protruding through a hole in the cap. |
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| 1 | 369 |
If she does not, of course, she, within the sack or hood, bears the consequences of her own actions, after which she is likely to be kicked or struck while still inside the sack, or beaten while still in the hood, after which the sack might be hung over the back of the fee cart or she herself bound ... |
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| 6 | 138 |
I had scarcely arranged my blankets and put the pack down for a pillow when I saw an attendant enter the room, carrying a stripped female, her hands tied behind her, over his shoulder, her head to the rear, in slave position. |
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| 8 | 494 |
I then put her to my shoulder, her head to the rear, as a slave is carried, and mounted the ladder. |
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| 10 | 20 |
Even the openings to the mines, now gated, and closely guarded, were further to the rear. |
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| 15 | 1069 |
I carried her with her head to the rear, as a slave is carried. |
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| 17 | 35 |
I had had the rear portions of the two catapults propped up, that the angle of fire could be flattened. |
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| 17 | 119 |
I have seen, too, wounded men being carried to the rear, their bearers unmolested, through clashing ranks, and other fellows pausing to loot a body, blades flashing about them. |
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| 17 | 460 |
He slumped back against the rear of the upper battlements, not far from one of the rings there. |
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| 17 | 484 |
Immediately following this signal the defenders on both the left and right began an orderly withdrawal, rear lines first, front lines backing, fighting, down the stairways closest to them, the two gate stairways, one to the west of the gate, the other to the east of the gate. |
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| 21 | 7 |
Similarly, behind the main body of the flotilla, bringing up the rear, back a pasang or so, flying no colors, their markings concealed, were two galleys. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1288 |
Such men may think with the quarry; they may bring up the rear; they may depart from the main search parties; they may conduct random searches, impossible to anticipate, and so on. |
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| 3 | 577 |
The tenth tharlarion brought up the rear. |
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| 9 | 39 |
Too, a small craft would normally bring up the rear of such lines. |
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| 11 | 27 |
"In the rear," said the officer. |
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| 13 | 22 |
Even from a sober military point of view, of course, given the suppositions of the men of Ar, it was natural to associate the barge with the Cosians, conjecturing it to be, say, one of their transport craft or a vessel of their rear guard. |
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| 13 | 70 |
Too, there were now many of their small craft about, brought from the rear. |
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| 13 | 137 |
"No," said he, "it is a vessel of the Cosian rear guard!" "Perhaps," I said. |
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| 14 | 243 |
I tried to turn my head, to rear up a little, as I could, to watch. |
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| 14 | 265 |
I tried to pull free, to rear up. |
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| 15 | 12 |
Too often these scouts and flankers, and rear guards, failed to return. |
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| 15 | 26 |
The rear column, interestingly, had been the first to break, but its retreat had been stopped by rencers, apparently in great numbers. |
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| 15 | 28 |
The rear column, then, had fled deeper into the delta. |
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| 19 | 1618 |
I put her over my shoulder, her head to the rear, as a slave is commonly carried, and carried her to the raft. |
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| 19 | 1619 |
I sat her down on the rear of the raft, its forward end half afloat. |
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| 19 | 1625 |
The other end of this strap I had already fastened securely to the rear of the raft. |
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| 24 | 121 |
The ankle stock is a simpler device, as the rear board is part of the bench. |
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| 24 | 144 |
I then inserted the rear board in the iron framework above the bench. |
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| 24 | 147 |
I then slid the matching board in place, frontally, in the framework, until its back flat edge was flush against the flat front edge of the rear board. |
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| 26 | 4 |
She sat at the rear of the raft, facing forward. |
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| 42 | 2 |
I had just emerged with Ina, she now again in the brown, sleeveless, calflength garment, the bracelets, the hood and leash, from the rear entrance of the Jeweled Whip. |
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| 44 | 238 |
The slave was a few yards to the rear, out of our way. |
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| 47 | 2 |
In such areas there are usually, at the rear of the sales area, some small, curtained dressing areas. |
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| 48 | 258 |
And then he threw her over his shoulder, her head to the rear, as is proper for a slave, and carried her the few yards to our camp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 110 |
Seremides now, at the rear of the platform, where the rear ramp ascended to its surface, extended his hand downward, to escort a figure clad and veiled in dazzling white to the surface of the platform. |
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| 9 | 75 |
Another guardsman quickly ushered her to the rear and down the large ramp at the rear of the platform. |
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| 1 | 145 |
She was being carried with her head to the rear, as a slave is carried. |
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| 1 | 221 |
She had been on a guardsman's shoulder, being carried, her head to the rear, as a slave. |
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| 3 | 521 |
He then, angrily, picked her up and threw her over his shoulder, her head to the rear. |
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| 3 | 1061 |
Some of these women, in their manacles, attached to the rear of the vehicles, thrusting and pushing, helped to hurry them ahead. |
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| 7 | 103 |
Then the High Council stood to one side, and Seremides himself returned to the point on the platform where the rear ramp, that near the Central Cylinder, ascended to its surface. |
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| 9 | 149 |
This other woman was then again granted the modest shielding of the penitent's garment, which she clutched closely, desperately, about her, and was conducted courteously to the rear of the platform, from whence she was permitted to leave. |
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| 9 | 495 |
That woman was conducted to the rear of the platform. |
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| 9 | 639 |
"Oh!" said she who had been the next to be assessed, then the first in the line, now, turned about, at the rear of the long line, stretching still across the platform, down the ramp, and across the Plaza of Tarns. |
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| 10 | 136 |
For a long time we could hear the music of the flute girl who brought up the rear. |
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| 11 | 106 |
The captain then strode to the rear room. |
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| 11 | 109 |
The ruffians who had assaulted the shop had not reached the rear room. |
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| 11 | 183 |
The officer left the fellow on the floor of the rear room, and signaled for two of his men to pick up the chest and follow him. |
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| 12 | 594 |
We paused before the rear door of the shop. |
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| 22 | 3 |
We were behind the great theater, near one of its rear entrances. |
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| 22 | 21 |
The fellow, with two others, had emerged from the rear portal. |
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| 24 | 425 |
I certainly did not want them sneaking about to the rear entrance and coming on the two slaves without warning. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 83 |
I was then removed, so bound and so enveloped, from the wagon; I was carried for a time, over a shoulder, my head to the rear, which somehow seemed, vaguely, to be the way I should be carried, however shameful or embarrassing I might find it to be; and I was then, at the end of this peregrination, p... |
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| 8 | 880 |
Unable to walk I crawled back, on all fours, to the rear of the cell. |
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| 8 | 1012 |
If nothing like that is provided one waits, or, if permitted, uses the back right-hand corner of the enclosure, as one faces the rear of the enclosure. |
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| 10 | 146 |
I gasped; hundreds of yards ahead of me, where the trail led, past several barred cells, and approached by a narrow, ascending trail, there was a startling, lofty, sheer edifice that seemed to rear up from the mountains itself, its towers lost among clouds. |
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| 10 | 834 |
He carried me with my head to the rear, as women such as I are often carried. |
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| 12 | 356 |
"In a rear room in the shop, shut away from the sunlight and bustle of the street, he met me amasked, I veiled. |
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| 16 | 55 |
In the left, rear part of the room there was a window. |
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| 16 | 442 |
He carried me to the rear portion of the divan, and placed me down upon it, on my back. |
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| 24 | 348 |
Perhaps it had been cut off in one of the buildings, a rear entrance sealed. |
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| 24 | 469 |
They had perhaps forced the rear entrance, and used this as an avenue onto the terrace. |
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| 37 | 36 |
The two groups might precede the men, forming a double wall in the passage, or, if the men wished, one group might precede and the other follow, in this fashion providing protection for both the front and rear. |
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| 37 | 485 |
I was more reassured by the fact that I was in a rear group. |
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| 42 | 81 |
I tried to rear up, but I was pressed down, rudely, uncompromisingly, just under my throat, by the hand which had governed my ankles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 21 |
The usual coffling order, for those whom it might interest, is not from front to rear, as was being done here, girls being selected almost randomly to be added to the rope, but from rear to front, the slaves keeping their eyes forward. |
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| 27 | 1571 |
How he hated her! Fel Doron drew Ellen, on her knees, to the vicinity of the left, rear wheel of the wagon, thrust her under the wagon, and then tied her leash about the rear axle. |
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| 17 | 1021 |
In a moment, still carried, helplessly hooded and bound, her head to the rear, as a slave is carried, she felt herself brought again into the sunlight, and up the few steps to the surface of the shelf, where she was knelt down, she thought near the forward edge of the shelf. |
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| 17 | 1092 |
The leash was then dangling before her, from its ring, and she gasped, as she felt herself lifted from her feet and put lightly to a man's shoulder, her head to the rear, again as a slave is commonly carried. |
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| 19 | 355 |
He then entered the ice room, picked her up, threw her over his left shoulder, steadying her there with his left hand, and left the ice room, she carried as a slave, as would be expected, her head to the rear. |
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| 19 | 519 |
Selius picked her up and put her on his left shoulder, her head to the rear. |
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| 20 | 1043 |
When she turned about she saw that the two tharlarion had continued on their way, toward the rear of the column. |
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| 24 | 340 |
In the back, they stood, some at the very poles at the rear of the enclosure. |
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| 27 | 377 |
Ellen, the wagon stopped, climbed one of the large, bronzeshod rear wheels, and, clinging to the side of the bed, her bare feet on a heavy, wooden, rounded spoke, looked backward. |
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| 27 | 465 |
Ellen saw the six riders, on tharlarion, in the hands of two of which were the leashes of two gray hunting sleen, which crouched down, their rear haunches trembling, as though readying themselves for a charge. |
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| 27 | 646 |
A rear corner of the vehicle was blown away. |
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| 27 | 939 |
The rope on her neck whipped behind her, sped by a rushing rear paw. |
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| 27 | 2459 |
There were front curvatures on the front plate, and back curvatures on the rear plate, such that, matched, each set of curvatures, in a circular fashion, encloses an ankle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 28 |
The first time the brunette had seen the interlocutor she had screamed and scrambled back, to the end of her chain, as close as she could to the rear wall of the stall. |
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| 18 | 124 |
Had his pursuers been unwary and unsuspecting men, or such beasts of another sort, he might have circled about and attempted, undetected, from the rear, to eliminate them one by one, certainly were they in single file and suitably separated. |
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| 29 | 330 |
He then put the slave over his shoulder, her head to the rear, as slaves are commonly carried, and bent down to pick up his stick. |
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| 35 | 107 |
Grendel came into the cave, and, toward its rear, put down the large, wounded Kur, with great gentleness. |
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| 39 | 9 |
One looks for isolated targets, at the rear, so that if one falls, others might not take immediate notice. |
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| 39 | 10 |
The ideal is to attack a loose, preferably straggling, single file from the rear, target by target. |
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| 39 | 14 |
"It was he who was to protect their rear". |
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| 39 | 43 |
Cabot, however, at the moment of becoming aware that his assault from the rear was discerned, looked for those individuals most ideally positioned for surveying the terrain, those not on the ground, and so the perceptive Kur on the pole, scarcely raising his paw to point, fell from the pole some twe... |
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| 41 | 28 |
"The rear leg on the left, the bloody leg. |
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| 43 | 490 |
"Put her head to the rear," said Cabot. |
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| 49 | 41 |
"The rear paw of the left side," said Grendel. |
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| 51 | 8 |
"Lord Arcesilaus bled here," said Cabot, pointing to the rear of the cave. |
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| 61 | 150 |
At this point, from the rear, there was a scream. |
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| 61 | 151 |
"The Lady Bina!" cried Grendel, turning about, and hurrying to the rear. |
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| 74 | 21 |
On rough ground other formations were more effective, smaller, coordinated groups of men, groups which, to the movements of standards, the blasts of horns, could break apart from other groups, rejoin, slip to the rear, be replaced with fresh groups, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 210 |
In this trap, held by its steel teeth, clamped deeply into his left rear leg, to the bone, bleeding and tortured, jerking against the stake and chain, then quiescent and silent, he would have died, of prolonged pain, or thirst. |
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| 5 | 1141 |
A march then followed him, first his own men, then the portering slaves, with their poles and baggage, and then Torgus, and the fellows from the ship, and then, bringing up the rear, a lovely coffle, fifteen shapely pack beasts, the girls from the ship. |
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| 7 | 86 |
I then put Cecily over my shoulder, her head to the rear, as a slave is carried. |
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| 7 | 109 |
She was over my left shoulder, her head to the rear. |
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| 7 | 115 |
She is carried as property, as though she might be no more than produce, and her head is to the rear so that, even were she not hooded, she cannot see where she is being carried. |
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| 7 | 122 |
In a moment then Pertinax had scooped up the Lady Constantina and had her over his shoulder, her head to the rear. |
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| 17 | 52 |
When groups of enemy tarnsmen, in their rear, or at the sides, would flight after our fellows, our fellows would simply flight away, and leave them behind, separated from their group, and thus, soon, spread out, to be exposed to the crossfire of tens and twenties who seemed to appear from nowhere. |
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| 20 | 112 |
There were five foes in the stable, two to each side, a bit back, and one at the center and rear. |
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| 28 | 46 |
Some had their slight shoulders to the two rear wheels. |
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| 29 | 49 |
"He followed the march, to protect its rear". |
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| 41 | 46 |
Its body is snakelike, and it approaches its prey silently, gliding, usually from the rear right or left, and propels itself, when making its strike, by the sudden lashing of its tail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1005 |
Shortly thereafter three men emerged from the rear, one the Metal Worker, a brawny fellow in a leather apron, and two others, strapping young men who, I took it, were his sons. |
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| 3 | 1089 |
' "I was freed of the rack by the two young men, and, each holding an arm, they assisted me, half carrying me, for I could barely walk, back through the shop, and the private quarters, toward a rear entrance, from which one might approach the stable yard of what had been the Inn of Ragnar. |
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| 22 | 242 |
Some sense of the situation at the front must have now been relayed to the rear echelons. |
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| 22 | 256 |
I saw Tarl Cabot leave his position beside Lord Nishida, and move to the rear, where I sensed some stirring, doubtless amongst some of our men. |
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| 23 | 43 |
Had it not been for the stubborn rear-guard action of Lord Nishida and others, later reinforced from the ship, and the hasty, nocturnal, massive evacuation of our trapped forces from the beach, it seems clear that the enterprise of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, whatever might be its nature, would have ... |
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| 33 | 45 |
Commonly a slave is held on her belly, over the left shoulder, her head to the rear, rather as other goods might be conveyed, sacks of sa-tarna, and such. |
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| 36 | 5 |
In the warehouse, on several long tables, set in rows, stretching back, toward the rear of the room, were spread varieties of goods, and such goods, indeed, overflowing, found their way to mats and cloths spread on the floor, amongst the tables. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 217 |
The man snapped on the dome light in the rear of the van. |
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| 8 | 578 |
I, and two others, were now at the back of the cell, by the rear cement wall. |
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| 9 | 386 |
He seemed to be measuring the distance between himself and the rear entrance, leading to the cage area. |
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| 9 | 425 |
I screamed in terror, sprang to my feet, and tried to run back toward the cages, but had moved not a step or two before I was caught in the rear portal by one of the fellows there, and held. |
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| 10 | 11 |
It could rear upright, freeing its grasping appendages for the manipulation of tools, but, as I would later learn, it could also move on all fours, using the knuckles of its forelimbs, with great speed, much faster than a man could run, or a woman. |
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| 10 | 134 |
The slave is commonly carried over the left shoulder, head to the rear, steadied by the bearer's left arm. |
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| 10 | 206 |
The front of the first floor, facing the street, was the shop of a pottery merchant, Epicrates, who, with his family, lived in the rear. |
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| 11 | 156 |
I immediately recalled the faded, half-torn poster, the remains of which were affixed to the wall opposite one of the rear entrances to Six Bridges. |
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| 16 | 12 |
If one wishes to remove a girl from such a wagon, one either unshackles her, or, more commonly, that she remain ankle-shackled, for example, in a camp, one lowers the back of the wagon and unlocks the bar from the coupling at the rear of the wagon, which, lifted, allows the girl to leave the central... |
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| 16 | 13 |
I moved toward the rear of the wagon and covered myself, as I could. |
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| 16 | 201 |
I did not take it to the rear of the wagon, as it seemed clear its placement was meant to bring me, if I wished its comfort, to the front of the wagon. |
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| 24 | 108 |
"Commonly it pounces from behind, and bites through the back of the neck, or, approaching frontally, sinks its teeth in the shoulder, and, with its rear legs, disembowels the prey". |
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| 29 | 30 |
The guard, backed now by the second Kur, the armed Kur, motioned that Lord Grendel should retreat to the rear of his cell, which he did. |
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| 32 | 65 |
There was then a commotion in the rear of the room, as a door was opened, and, in the threshold, feeling about, appeared, to my amazement, a figure I well recognized, one with which I had, in the past, become familiar, that of the blind Kur, whom we have decided to call Tiresias. |
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| 48 | 101 |
It was not clear for a moment what then occurred, but a concealed portal, at the rear of the audience chamber had opened, and some fourteen armed Kurii, led by Lucius, thrust their way into the room. |
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| 52 | 85 |
At the rear of the courtyard was a small, opaque, wooden gate. |
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| 52 | 87 |
The back wall was adjacent to an alley, access to which was provided by the rear gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 335 |
How utterly helpless we are! This is done, commonly, from the rear forward. |
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| 16 | 134 |
I stood near one of the halted wagons, which was waiting its turn to try the slope to the valley, beside its rear left axle. |
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| 16 | 142 |
At the rear of the wagon bed was a number of rings with coiled ropes. |
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| 48 | 120 |
Then I saw the larger beast rear up from that loose, spattering tangle of fur and blood, its jaws on the throat of the smaller beast, and, itself rent, torn, and bloody, its flanks and shoulders red with the furrows of claw marks, it lifted the smaller body half from the ground, and shook it, and sh... |
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| 50 | 405 |
Does that not make me more a slave? As I entered the gate, I could see, toward the rear wall of the stockade, something like a barracks or kennel, not unlike my kennel at Shipcamp, and, before it, within the palings, a clearing, which I supposed might function as an exercise yard, an inspection yard... |
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| 52 | 36 |
The slave who had been gowned was toward the rear of the line. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 47 |
Lord Temmu sat in the center of the dais, cross-legged, toward the rear. |
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| 9 | 90 |
What is behind him, and what does it mean? Too, I assumed General Yamada, from what I had learned of this mighty adversary, would more likely be at the front of his troops than in the rear. |
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| 19 | 149 |
His switch moved slightly, and the girl, tears on her cheeks, moved away, later to assume her position at the rear of the pen, kneeling, facing away from the gate. |
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| 19 | 228 |
Pertinax indicated the slave might return to her place at the rear of the pen. |
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| 21 | 173 |
"You were carried on the left shoulder of Tajima," I said, "your head to the rear?" "Certainly not," she said. |
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| 21 | 193 |
"I would be drawn forward by the lead tether," she said, "and should I try to hold back, it would draw forward, and the rear draw, then, at my throat, would draw back. |
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| 31 | 1 |
The Inn Has Visitors Haruki had scarcely confessed his apprehension when, suddenly, with boisterous shouts and a rushing of bodies, several men crowded into the inn, hurrying through both the main entrance and, I gathered, the rear entrance, as they emerged into the eating hall through the door lea... |
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| 32 | 3 |
Some of the intruders plunged through the door leading to the kitchen, to seek the rear entrance of the inn. |
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| 32 | 5 |
I heard buffeting, falling, and cries of anger, and a slamming and barring of the rear entrance. |
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| 32 | 37 |
Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who, concealed, shifted about and distributed their fire? Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who applied themselves efficiently, under conditions of limited vision, on a covered bridge, in a pass, or at the rear door of an inn not far from the North R... |
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| 32 | 61 |
Some of the bandits were in the kitchen, by the rear entrance, which they had blocked. |
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| 32 | 142 |
I did not know the fate of the bandits who had exited the inn through the rear entrance, nor, indeed, those whom the fellow I had taken for the innkeeper had failed to discern, when he had thought to inquire into the preparations for departure. |
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| 40 | 11 |
"I had thought we might cut the canvas, at the rear of the tent," said Pertinax. |
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| 42 | 53 |
He was then conducted to the rear of the tent, which was half collapsed, where he beheld four unconscious Ashigaru. |
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| 45 | 198 |
"The wisest of generals often commands from the rear". |
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| 52 | 10 |
Toward the rear of the chamber, fixed in the wall to the right, as one would enter, Pertinax had located a small metal object, circular, less than a hort in diameter, covered with a mesh of fine wire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 17 |
We moved back, toward the rear of the cell and the man unlocked, and opened, the cell door. |
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| 9 | 689 |
The cold waters of the river plunged through the bars, and swirled about me, and then, as I tried to rear up, and lift my head, as I could, it swirled about my head, and over my head. |
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| 21 | 31 |
I was then lifted to a man's shoulder and, my head held to the rear, as a slave is often carried, I was carried upstairs. |
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| 33 | 704 |
"There is a rear entrance," said Kurik, slinging the bow over his shoulder, seizing me by the arm. |
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| 39 | 40 |
We could not well then descend to the ground floor and attempt to avail ourselves of the rear exit to the building, even if we had wished to do so. |
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| 40 | 13 |
There were several other larger vessels, amphorae, and such, stacked, inverted, in the corners of the shop, and toward its rear. |
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| 57 | 93 |
I was not even put over his left shoulder, my head to the rear, as a slave is usually carried. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 123 |
This is commonly done, from rear to front, presumably so that the girl cannot see the approach of the rope or chain, and then she is added to the coffle. |
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| 6 | 189 |
I was lifted to the right shoulder of one of the men, my head to the rear. |
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| 11 | 135 |
Toward the rear some slave cages were strewn about, in one of which, perhaps for purposes of display, there was, curled within its tiny confines, a nude slave. |
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| 45 | 17 |
"Part the curtains in the rear of the canopied area. |
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| 45 | 35 |
Euphrosyne and I, as one, leapt through the rear curtains of the canopied area, were amongst the stern thwarts of the boat, and scrambled over the rail, and onto the pier. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 454 |
She tried to rear up, to see me better, but I thrust her back. |
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| 53 | 174 |
The ideal for an enemy contemplating boarding was clearly, if possible, to utilize two ships and draw alongside the target vessel on both the port and starboard side, thus permitting a simultaneous, coordinated attack, analogous to a land action in which an enemy can be attacked both on the front an... |
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