| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 110 |
That the punt might be used to bring men behind attacking rencers was quite improbable; further, had it been used, presumably it would have encountered rencers in their several rence craft and been thereby neutralized or destroyed. |
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| 4 | 151 |
"We Rencers," she said, "are independent people. |
10 |
| 5 | 66 |
I had been used in the fastening of the bridges, and in the drawing up and tying of rence craft on the shore, as other rencers, from distant islands, arrived for festival. |
10 |
| 5 | 70 |
Around the tenth Gorean hour, the Gorean noon, the rencers ate small rence cakes, dotted with seeds, drank water, and nibbled on scraps of fish. |
10 |
| 5 | 79 |
The morning was spent variously by the rencers. |
10 |
| 5 | 140 |
I gathered it was seldom the rencers, save for those on a given island, met one another. |
10 |
| 5 | 145 |
Then, the rencers clapping their hands and singing, Telima approached me. |
10 |
| 5 | 150 |
The pole, barkless, narrow, upright, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood at the very center of the clearing, surrounded by the circles of the feasting rencers. |
10 |
| 5 | 155 |
While she was doing this the rencers were clapping their hands in time and singing. |
10 |
| 5 | 189 |
The rencers laughed and shouted, clapping, cheering the girls on in the dance. |
10 |
| 5 | 192 |
After a time I saw one girl leave the circle, her head back, hair flowing down her back, breathing deeply, and scarcely was she through the circles of rencers, but a young man followed her, joining her some yards beyond the circle. |
10 |
| 5 | 213 |
I stumbled from the pole, making my way through the buffeting circle of dancers, through the laughing circles of rencers, shouting and clapping their hands, and made my way to Telima's hut. |
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| 6 | 12 |
Two men, rencers, ran past us. |
10 |
| 6 | 22 |
But we found rencers running toward us, men, and women, and children, their hands outstretched, stumbling, falling. |
10 |
| 6 | 35 |
We were buffeted by the bodies of running rencers, plunging toward the nets. |
10 |
| 6 | 53 |
My arm about Telima's shoulder, I moved her away, losing ourselves among the shouting rencers, the running men and women. |
10 |
| 6 | 54 |
Some of the men of the rencers, with their small shields of rence wicker, fought, but their marsh spears were no match for the steel swords and the war spears of Gor. |
10 |
| 6 | 63 |
I saw the nets on the two sides of the island had now advanced, the spears between their meshes herding terrified rencers before them. |
10 |
| 6 | 101 |
Near the oar pole to which I had been bound, some yards from what had been the circle of the dance, a number of rencers, stripped, men and women, lay bound hand and foot. |
10 |
| 6 | 104 |
These rencers were guarded by two warriors with drawn swords. |
10 |
| 6 | 128 |
We were buffeted apart by some five or six rencers. |
10 |
| 6 | 198 |
In the distance I could see, across one of the bridges formed of rafts for transporting rence, one of those I had helped to place earlier that very morning, stripped rencers, men and women, being herded by spears toward our island. |
10 |
| 6 | 205 |
There were no rencers there and, doubtless because of that, none of Port Kar, though I did see many torches, going to the place on the island where we had shortly before stood; then the torches there divided, half going to the left, half coming to the right, our direction. |
10 |
| 7 | 33 |
Within the net the rencers were clothed. |
10 |
| 8 | 83 |
The men of Port Kar knew, as I had not, that rencers communicate in the marshes by the means of such signals. |
10 |
| 8 | 86 |
For all they knew, they were encircled by rencers, somehow masters of the great bow. |
10 |
| 8 | 105 |
They had no way of knowing how many rencers might be in the marshes. |
10 |
| 8 | 294 |
As I walked back, from barge to barge, I walked as well among bound rencers, heaped and tied like fish among the benches of slaves. |
10 |
| 8 | 311 |
"I hate rencers," I told her. |
10 |
| 8 | 326 |
I found the child, a boy, perhaps of five years of age, blond like many of the rencers, and blue-eyed. |
10 |
| 8 | 333 |
In my heart there was hatred for the rencers, for they had made me slave. |
10 |
| 8 | 400 |
"Find among the bound slaves, the rencers," I said, "the one who is called Ho-Hak". |
10 |
| 8 | 489 |
I hated rencers, and all men, saving perhaps the two who served me. |
10 |
| 8 | 491 |
I hated him, and rencers. |
10 |
| 8 | 683 |
"The Peasants," cried out Thurnock, his voice thundering over the marsh, "are the ox on which the Home Stone rests!" "But I am of the Rencers!" she wailed. |
10 |
| 8 | 684 |
The Rencers are often thought to be a higher caste than the Peasants. |
10 |
| 8 | 724 |
"The Rencers," I said, "will doubtless help you live in the marsh, should you wish it. |
10 |
| 9 | 467 |
The rencers had not had the tools to remove it. |
10 |
| 10 | 50 |
I had not seen Henrak, who had betrayed the rencers, in Port Kar. |
10 |
| 10 | 56 |
The story was that they had been attacked by more than a thousand rencers, abetted by a conjectured five hundred mercenaries, trained warriors, and had barely escaped with their lives. |
10 |
| 10 | 68 |
He may have seen me that night, among the rencers on the island, but he did not place me, one who now sat on the Council of the Captains of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 10 | 337 |
It was Henrak, who had worn the white scarf, who had betrayed the rencers. |
10 |
| 12 | 17 |
It was Henrak, he who had betrayed the rencers. |
10 |
| 13 | 178 |
"Are you not the one who, in the delta of the Vosk, was overcome by vast numbers of rencers, and forced to abandon your barges, and a treasure of rence paper and slaves?" "This man is dangerous," said Lysias to Chenbar. |
10 |
| 18 | 609 |
"Rencers!" I cried. |
10 |
| 18 | 618 |
For an instant, white-faced, wild, I saw below Lysias, with his helmet with its crest of sleen hair, and beside him, with the string of pearls of the Vosk sorp about his forehead, the rencer Henrak, who had, long ago, betrayed the rencers for the gold of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 18 | 631 |
I did not think the rencers would any longer be at the mercy of the men of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 18 | 657 |
Thurnock and Clitus, with Thura and Ula, had gone for aid to the rencers, traditionally enemies of those of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 18 | 658 |
And the rencers, to my astonishment, had come to risk their lives for me. |
10 |
| 18 | 791 |
"I do not think it wise for Rencers," said Ho-Hak, "to be over long in Port Kar. |
10 |
| 18 | 818 |
The rencers, one by one, were climbing down ropes over the delta wall, returning to their small craft below. |
10 |
| 18 | 852 |
Disappearing now in the rence of the marshes, under the three moons, were the many small craft of the rencers. |
10 |
| 18 | 876 |
"The Rencers hate those of Port Kar,' I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 580 |
He had, finally, succeeded in making his way into the marshes, in the Vosk's vast delta, where he had been taken in by rencers, who live on islands, woven of rence reeds, in the delta. |
10 |
| 1 | 582 |
He had been instrumental in bringing the great bow to the rencers, which put them on a military par with those of Port Kar, who had thitherto victimized and exploited them. |
10 |
| 3 | 330 |
Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w... |
10 |
| 10 | 664 |
Many marksmen, warriors, peasants, rencers, could have matched my shooting. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 487 |
It is also inhabited by the rencers, who live upon rence islands, woven of the rence reed, masters of the long bow, usually obtained in trade with peasants to the east of the delta. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 192 |
Few but rencers can find their way about in it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 250 |
To be sure, it was possible to scout rencers, but normally this could be done only by individuals wise to the ways of the delta, in most cases other rencers. |
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| 15 | 38 |
Many of these had apparently been lured into the mire by rencers who had permitted themselves to be seen, and pursued, rencers who doubtless knew their way through the area, perhaps even drawing up safe-passage markers behind them. |
10 |
| 17 | 136 |
I could understand, of course, why the rencers might let some come through, that the spectacle of routed, defeated troops might have its effect on fresh troops, but, as far as I could tell, from what I could overhear, none of these survivors, or fugitives, had had any more contact with rencers, at l... |
10 |
| 6 | 36 |
"Rencers?" asked the officer, of me. |
10 |
| 6 | 38 |
Rencers live in the delta. |
10 |
| 6 | 42 |
And, indeed, the rence islands, inhabited by the rencers, as they float, are movable. |
10 |
| 6 | 44 |
Needless to say, this mobility can be very useful to the rencers, enabling them, for example, to seek new fishing grounds and harvest fresh stands of rence, their major trading commodity, used for various purposes, such as the manufacture of cloth and paper. |
10 |
| 6 | 47 |
Trade contacts are made by the rencers themselves, at their election, at established points. |
10 |
| 12 | 87 |
"No," I said, "over rencers". |
10 |
| 12 | 89 |
"Men of the right flank stumbled on a village of rencers," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 92 |
"Rencers are allies of those of Cos!" she said. |
10 |
| 12 | 93 |
The influence of Cos was strong in the delta, to be sure, there as it was in the western reaches of the Vosk, but I did not think the rencers would be explicit allies of Cos. |
10 |
| 12 | 105 |
"But you may lament for your allies, the rencers," she laughed. |
10 |
| 12 | 110 |
"Surely there were warning signals, cloth on wandlike rence stems, white, then later red, raised in the vicinity of the rencers' village". |
10 |
| 12 | 128 |
I had once known some rencers. |
10 |
| 13 | 122 |
They did not move with the silence, the stealth, of rencers. |
10 |
| 13 | 233 |
Long ago the rencers had learned its power. |
10 |
| 13 | 236 |
The combination of the delta, with its natural defenses, and the peasant bow, made the rencers all but invulnerable. |
10 |
| 13 | 239 |
"You are dealing with rencers". |
10 |
| 13 | 244 |
"It is by means of such cries that rencers communicate during the day," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 276 |
"You speak of simple rencers as though they were trained warriors, of ruses, of stratagems and tactics which might be the mark of a Maximus Hegesius Quintilius, of a Dietrich of Tarnburg". |
10 |
| 13 | 282 |
"Rencers!" scoffed a man. |
10 |
| 13 | 288 |
"With such perimeters set," I said, "I think the rencers will keep their distance—until dark". |
10 |
| 13 | 290 |
"It is shameful to be bested by rencers," said a man. |
10 |
| 13 | 295 |
I would not doubt but what agents, in the guise of traders, and such, have well prepared the rencers for your visit. |
10 |
| 13 | 302 |
"The rencers have attacked us," said a man. |
10 |
| 13 | 308 |
"How could rencers retaliate so quickly?" asked the officer. |
10 |
| 13 | 318 |
"We have no quarrel with rencers," said a man. |
10 |
| 13 | 372 |
"Surely, Captain," said a man, "we must dally, to punish the rencers!" "Then Cos would escape!" said a fellow. |
10 |
| 13 | 373 |
"Our priority," said a man, "is not rencers. |
10 |
| 13 | 383 |
"To be sure," I said, bitterly, "you will encounter the least resistance from the rencers to such a march, for it takes you deeper into the delta, and puts you all the more at their mercy". |
10 |
| 13 | 385 |
"The rencers are not done with you," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 386 |
"We do not fear rencers," said a man. |
10 |
| 13 | 467 |
I did not know how long the rencers would give them, perhaps until dark. |
10 |
| 14 | 64 |
By now what supply lines you may have had have probably been cut, or soon will be, by rencers. |
10 |
| 14 | 110 |
"What of the rencers?" I asked. |
10 |
| 14 | 153 |
"The delta itself is her weapon," I said, "and the rencers". |
10 |
| 14 | 189 |
"Rencers sometimes use such rocks," I said, "struck beneath the surface of the water, the sound detectable by holding the side of the head under water. |
10 |
| 14 | 194 |
"It is not now being used to communicate!" "We have not been troubled with rencers in several Ahn," said the officer. |
10 |
| 14 | 214 |
"What of the rencers?" asked the officer. |
10 |
| 14 | 226 |
"And that is why," I said to the officer, "you do not need to fear rencers now. |
10 |
| 14 | 228 |
It is not rencers who are within the ring, it is we who are within the ring! They will come later. |
10 |
| 14 | 325 |
Arrows, of tem wood, like the ka-la-na wood of their bows, not native to the delta, are precious to the rencers. |
10 |
| 14 | 328 |
In the case of the rencers this is to conserve arrows. |
10 |
| 14 | 336 |
The rencers had gone, at least for the time. |
10 |
| 15 | 3 |
It had been a supposition of my keeper that I might, somehow, be able to communicate, perhaps by glances or such, with rencers. |
10 |
| 15 | 8 |
Rencers had now chosen to pick their targets with care. |
10 |
| 15 | 15 |
Perhaps they had been gradually moved toward us, by the rencers, in effect, their herdsmen. |
10 |
| 15 | 26 |
The rear column, interestingly, had been the first to break, but its retreat had been stopped by rencers, apparently in great numbers. |
10 |
| 15 | 45 |
And always it seemed the rencers were about, like sleen prowling the flanks of a herd. |
10 |
| 15 | 46 |
"Cursed rencers!" I heard a man scream. |
10 |
| 15 | 47 |
"Cursed rencers!" "Stay down!" someone called to him. |
10 |
| 15 | 49 |
"Cursed rencers!" he screamed again. |
10 |
| 15 | 76 |
There might be rencers, too, of course, on the left. |
10 |
| 16 | 38 |
"Cos, if nothing else, even disregarding the rencers, controls the skies. |
10 |
| 16 | 47 |
Do not forget the rencers". |
10 |
| 16 | 90 |
"But," I said, "I think the only real hope of escape from the delta lies not with units but with individuals, or small groups of such, individuals who might with fortune, and with skill and stealth, elude rencers, the surveillance of tarn scouts, and the patrols of Cos. |
10 |
| 17 | 7 |
Oddly enough, it seemed few, if any, had encountered rencers in the marsh. |
10 |
| 17 | 14 |
Many had conjectured the rencers were only on the right. |
10 |
| 17 | 40 |
It was now clear, of course, given the references to Cosians, tharlarion, sleen and such, that this disaster was not that of the left flank, which had been struck by rencers, but a defeat suffered in the south, by the units attempting to remove themselves there from the delta. |
10 |
| 17 | 84 |
"They have defeated the rencers," conjectured another. |
10 |
| 17 | 87 |
Such, of course, could explain the recent apparent absence, or apparent withdrawal, of rencers. |
10 |
| 17 | 95 |
"There may be rencers there!" "Is it a trick?" called a fellow. |
10 |
| 17 | 103 |
"If not, where are the rencers?" asked another. |
10 |
| 17 | 135 |
I did not hear of them having been opposed, or harried, by rencers. |
10 |
| 17 | 145 |
I could not understand the absence of the rencers. |
10 |
| 17 | 198 |
I now, I was sure, understood the absence of the rencers. |
10 |
| 17 | 207 |
At such a time, which occurs every summer in the delta, the rencers withdraw to their huts, taking inside with them food and water, and then, with rence, weave shut the openings to the huts. |
10 |
| 17 | 216 |
Such hatching times, as might be supposed, are carefully monitored by rencers. |
10 |
| 17 | 271 |
I did not fear rencers during the time of the migration of the flies, which would presumably, in its several waves, take place intermittently, perhaps being completed in so short a time as a few Ahn, perhaps lasting as long as a few days. |
10 |
| 17 | 320 |
Indeed rencers sometimes paddle about amidst them in their light rence craft. |
10 |
| 17 | 324 |
Rencers usually attempt to destroy such an animal, as it represents a particular menace. |
10 |
| 18 | 4 |
Rencers are familiar with such techniques but seldom make use of them, except in trident and knife attacks. |
10 |
| 18 | 7 |
Rencers usually attack in their rence craft, formed of bound rence, using the almost ubiquitous rence for cover. |
10 |
| 18 | 43 |
Rencers sometimes even leave their huts during the final waves, racing overhead like scattered clouds. |
10 |
| 18 | 246 |
Rencers use it in smoothing. |
10 |
| 18 | 297 |
Although I must be on the watch for rencers, for example, I did not much fear them. |
10 |
| 18 | 299 |
The chances of running into rencers in thousands of square pasangs of the delta were not high, particularly if one were concerned to avoid them. |
10 |
| 19 | 26 |
To be sure, it is possible for a hunter to miss, and that is why the rencers do not use their own women, or their own free women, as bait. |
10 |
| 19 | 27 |
That she not be put out as tethered tharlarion bait is an additional inducement for the female slaves of rencers to prove particularly pleasing to their masters. |
10 |
| 19 | 75 |
The hatred of the rencers, it seemed, had been such that in spite of her comeliness, the usually most successful defense, and salvation, of the female, they had not sold her off, nor accepted her themselves, as a slave. |
10 |
| 19 | 420 |
Later, rencers, in force, attacked a column of Ar, that on the right flank of her advance into the delta. |
10 |
| 19 | 443 |
"Yes," she said, "but as it turned out, it did not matter, for the rencers do not even speak Gorean". |
10 |
| 19 | 511 |
"Rencers have seen fit to put you here," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 560 |
"Have mercy!" "I wonder if you realize how clever the rencers have been," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 699 |
"It would not do for rencers," I said, "to find this pole empty. |
10 |
| 19 | 948 |
"And I might be taken by rencers," she said, "and put out again for tharlarion". |
10 |
| 19 | 1214 |
I did not want rencers, or animals, to be attracted to the island. |
10 |
| 19 | 1465 |
To be sure, I do have some reservations pertaining to your character, but I think most people would, apparently including the rencers, who chose not even to keep you as a slave. |
10 |
| 19 | 1472 |
"The rencers did not enslave you," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 1637 |
"The rencers gave me water," she said. |
10 |
| 20 | 114 |
It might attract rencers, Cosian patrols, even animals". |
10 |
| 21 | 21 |
"Perhaps," I said, "when the rencers took you, after they had stripped and bound you, they permitted you to witness the burning of your barge?" She whimpered once. |
10 |
| 21 | 46 |
I had not known, incidentally, that the rencers now made use of slave hoods. |
10 |
| 21 | 49 |
Some rencers even charged tolls to freight moving through the marsh. |
10 |
| 21 | 51 |
Rencers had apparently discovered their delights. |
10 |
| 21 | 117 |
Such things are now doubtless spread throughout the delta, a bottle for a rencers' feast here, a veil there to strain water, somewhere else a necklace clinking, wrapped several times about the ankle of a fishing rence girl". |
10 |
| 23 | 1 |
Rencers "Hist!" said I. |
10 |
| 23 | 4 |
"Rencers," I whispered. |
10 |
| 23 | 11 |
I think the rencers might actually have landed on the small island and not detected our presence there. |
10 |
| 24 | 228 |
In the second place, if there is anyone around to hear you, it would almost certainly be rencers, and then, I suspect, it would be back to the pole with you". |
10 |
| 27 | 101 |
"Consider the rencers". |
10 |
| 27 | 108 |
"We are hunted by rencers," he said. |
10 |
| 27 | 163 |
"Yes," I said, "it was apparently taken by rencers, and burned. |
10 |
| 27 | 167 |
"And what of the Lady Ina?" "She was apparently captured by rencers". |
10 |
| 27 | 224 |
The odds of being detected, by rencers, by a patrol, by a tarn scout, by a guard at the edge of the delta, by someone, increased considerably with each addition to the party. |
10 |
| 27 | 293 |
"He thinks, however," I told her, "that you were done away with by rencers". |
10 |
| 27 | 478 |
They will believe that she was taken by rencers and presumably done away with, or possibly enslaved. |
10 |
| 28 | 193 |
Were it not for rencers and Cosians, patrols, and such, you might remain here indefinitely. |
10 |
| 28 | 201 |
"Would it not be simpler and less dangerous for me to simply report your position to rencers or Cosians? Should you not have been attacked already?" "But perhaps they are not yet in position to do so, and you are with us to track us, to mark our location and facilitate their attack". |
10 |
| 28 | 212 |
"Rencers," said a man, "use such signals". |
10 |
| 28 | 355 |
To be sure they would presumably accept her as a simple, lowly rence girl, and much had they suffered at the hands of rencers. |
10 |
| 28 | 410 |
The rencers use rence mats most commonly, or hoods made of rence, for these, screenlike, permit one to see out but are too small to admit the average sting fly. |
10 |
| 28 | 435 |
"It is surprising to me," he said, "that rencers are not scouring the delta to recover her". |
10 |
| 28 | 455 |
"It is my understanding that blond rencers are rare," he said. |
10 |
| 28 | 495 |
"Probably many," I said, "particularly before the deployment of the rencers. |
10 |
| 28 | 497 |
"The rencers were soon in position," he said. |
10 |
| 29 | 15 |
In our camps during the day, we had twice heard the same signal, alerting us to the passage of someone, in both cases, rencers, going about their business, fishing, gathering rence. |
10 |
| 29 | 263 |
Nowadays, with the great bow in the possession of the rencers, it was more customary to come openly into the rence to buy them, or bargain for them, with their parents, and their village chieftains. |
10 |
| 30 | 7 |
Nine days ago we had come across the sand island where the tharlarion drive of the rencers had taken place, followed by the rain of arrows. |
10 |
| 30 | 8 |
Most of the arrows were gone, apparently having been retrieved later by rencers. |
10 |
| 30 | 9 |
As I have mentioned, the arrows, of tem wood, are precious to the rencers, that wood not being indigenous to the delta. |
10 |
| 30 | 10 |
Rencers sometimes, incidentally, trade for the arrow shafts and points separately. |
10 |
| 30 | 17 |
It would not occur to them, or I hoped it would not, that fugitives might, for a time, retrace their earlier, luckless routes, those presumably now closed off by rencers from them, those which had proved so disastrous for them. |
10 |
| 31 | 42 |
These men are supposedly the most dangerous of rencers, being the truest of men. |
10 |
| 32 | 44 |
"I was seen by hundreds of rencers," she said. |
10 |
| 32 | 49 |
Not even the free women of the rencers veil themselves. |
10 |
| 32 | 202 |
These were probably survivors of that disaster, who had fled back to the delta, and, in effect, to the mercies of rencers. |
10 |
| 32 | 231 |
"It was given to him by rencers," said Claudius, "who took our word that he was Cosian, even though he himself denied it". |
10 |
| 32 | 232 |
"You have had dealings with rencers?" inquired Plenius. |
10 |
| 32 | 239 |
I suppose many perished in the marshes, some to the arrows of rencers, some to beasts, some to the sand, and such. |
10 |
| 32 | 242 |
"But you have had dealings with rencers?" pressed Plenius. |
10 |
| 32 | 243 |
"In the past few weeks," said Claudius, "the rencers have been combing the marshes for survivors". |
10 |
| 32 | 248 |
"That then," said Plenius, "was the nature of your dealings with rencers?" He would surely have noticed that their weapons were gone. |
10 |
| 32 | 261 |
Too, the women of the rencers like the bright cloth, and we were told, too, that some of them were to be cut into slave strips, or fashioned into ta-teeras, slave rags, for slave girls, such being, in their opinion, a fit disposition for such material". |
10 |
| 32 | 283 |
The rencers, noting our hostility to the Cosian, and accepting the possibility that he might actually be Cosian, permitted him to leave the holding area before us, presumably so he would have time to reach the Cosian lines before we could apprehend him. |
10 |
| 32 | 297 |
But now, I think, the fellows of Ar in the delta, if there are any left, are safe from rencers, or, at least, in no more danger than they would be ordinarily, for example, if they were so rash as to pass warning signals, and such". |
10 |
| 44 | 331 |
"You were ambushed by rencers," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 227 |
Was it for this that they had done their duty, was it for this that they had faced the delta, the tracklessness, the tharlarion, the insects, the hunger, the arrows of rencers, the blades of Cos? "Some of these lads, former "Cosians" and others," I said, "are apparently little better, still, than va... |
10 |
| 28 | 90 |
But even so, how odd, I thought, that those who did not wade in the delta, facing the arrows of rencers, the spears of Cos, the teeth of tharlarion, should profess their superiority over those who did, indeed, by their work and service sheltering and protecting those who, obedient to the subtleties ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 486 |
These troops, as planned, had been decimated in the delta of the Vosk, and largely lost, the prey of heat and insects, of salt water and quicksand, of armed rencers, of serpents and tharlarion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 350 |
The enemy they encountered, of course, was not the expected foe, but the delta itself, with its insects, heat, humidity, uncertain footing, quicksand, tharlarion, and rencers, denizens of the delta, almost invisible, subtle in warfare, masters of the bow and ambush. |
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| 31 | 21 |
She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of slavers at th... |
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| 31 | 22 |
The rencers often sell and trade in both directions. |
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| 11 | 9 |
In the marshes of the delta may be found the scattered, floating villages of the Rencers. |
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| 11 | 14 |
One gathers that relationships between the Rencers and those of Port Kar, relationships which are now warily cordial, were once strained. |
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| 11 | 15 |
It seems that the Rencers adopted the peasant bow, a weapon used in peasant villages on the continent to maintain and defend the freedom and sovereignty of the villages. |
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| 11 | 20 |
The Rencers, it seems, once predominantly hunters and gatherers, have now added transport and trade to their economic repertoire. |
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| 11 | 21 |
In transport, Rencers guide and maintain barges, poled, sailed, and drawn by large, swimming tharlarion, this linking, through the trackless marshes of the delta, the Vosk towns with Port Kar and the coast, and Port Kar and the coast with the Vosk towns. |
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| 11 | 26 |
Those who do not fall prey to the predators of the marshes are picked up by Rencers. |
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| 11 | 27 |
The Rencers will then brand their foreheads and keep them as rence slaves, which, as I understand it, is a most laborious and unpleasant slavery, or, swathing them with ropes, return them to Port Kar for punishment, a tarsk-bit for returning a less beautiful slave, and two tarsk-bits for returning a... |
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| 15 | 169 |
Tharlarion races in Venna were underway, Centius of Cos, guaranteed safe conduct, had won the kaissa garland in the Argentum competitions; an attempt to elevate and standardize cargo fees on the Vosk had failed; the migration of four-gilled parsit fish had begun; Rencers had raised the shelter price... |
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| 17 | 59 |
Outside the portal, one could see three or four of the small craft used by Rencers. |
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| 17 | 62 |
The rence islands on which the Rencers live are also formed of woven rence. |
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| 20 | 116 |
Where could one go, where could one escape to? I dreaded the marshes, with the sharks, the Rencers, the tharlarion. |
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| 26 | 4 |
Some men fish at night in the marshes, primarily Rencers, some trolling a small net, some fishing by means of torch and trident, the light of the torch serving to lure fish to the surface, within the range of the three-forked, barbed trident. |
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| 26 | 11 |
After the Rencers acquired the great bow, the peasant bow, which had taken place some years ago, the delta had become their undisputed domain. |
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| 33 | 16 |
Rencers commonly stand in them and pole them, but this was not practical for Bruno of Torcadino. |
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| 33 | 25 |
Rencers come and go like shadows. |
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| 33 | 156 |
Patches of quicksand, which are rare in the marshes, are sometimes marked by Rencers with yellow-tufted wands. |
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| 33 | 590 |
Rencers sometime set such markers in the marsh to warn of quicksand. |
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| 33 | 682 |
I must avoid Rencers. |
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| 33 | 688 |
In such a case, to whom would I be delivered? Rencers expect, as I once noted, to receive a tarsk-bit for returning a less beautiful slave, and two tarsk-bits for returning a more beautiful slave. |
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| 34 | 35 |
"Those who are not eaten, drowned, or caught by Rencers," said another. |
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| 40 | 86 |
"Rencers often contrive such things to discourage penetration into the delta". |
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| 46 | 63 |
To be sure, it was not clear how it would fare in those trackless marshes or at the hands of territorial Rencers. |
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| 47 | 365 |
Surely the delta was dangerous, with beasts, with Rencers, with treacherous, trackless marshes. |
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