| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 224 |
It was silent and settled on the rock platform, scarcely disturbing the light snow that was scattered on it. |
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| 11 | 12 |
If I could have, I would in that moment have rewritten the past, would have selfishly abandoned the quest for the Home Stone—yes, willingly would have left the scattered hostile cities of Gor to face, one by one, the imperialistic depredations of Ar, if it were not for one thing—the gi... |
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| 12 | 90 |
Near one of the green stretches I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-colored and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair. |
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| 18 | 18 |
As soldiers scattered madly beneath me, I brought the tarn down. |
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| 19 | 40 |
With cries of surprise and rage, men scattered from beneath the suddenly descending gigantic shape. |
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| 19 | 113 |
Not even a scream came from that fierce blue combustive mass that had been a human being, and in a minute the flame had departed, almost as quickly as it had come, and a dust of ashes scattered from the top of the cylinder in the wind. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 53 |
Its stones and its people have been scattered to the corners of the world, and no two stones and no two men of Ko-ro-ba may stand again side by side". |
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| 5 | 64 |
"What of my father, my friends, the people of my city?" "Scattered to the corners of the world," said the robed figure, "and not a stone may stand upon a stone". |
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| 6 | 59 |
Why was the girl alone? Had her protectors been killed? Was she perhaps an escaped slave, fleeing from a hated master? Could she be, like myself, an exile from Ko-ro-ba? Its peoples have been scattered, I said to myself, and no two stones and no two men of Ko-ro-ba may stand again side by side. |
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| 12 | 8 |
Some straw was scattered on the floor. |
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| 17 | 39 |
Today, more than once, he had scattered the ore which, on my hands and knees, I had chipped from the narrow shafts of the mine. |
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| 19 | 54 |
No! We climbed to the second mine! How terrible those moments for the guards and Whip Slaves, to suddenly see, unchained and irresistible, the avalanche of wrath and vengeance that broke in upon them! Dice and cards and game boards and drinking goblets scattered to the rocky floors of the guard cham... |
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| 20 | 8 |
Almost all of them had been broken into by the slaves, and whatever they held had been taken or scattered. |
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| 20 | 29 |
Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men. |
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| 22 | 5 |
Cushions were scattered about on the rugs. |
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| 22 | 111 |
He scattered my council and defeated my armies and took me and stripped me and bound me naked across the saddle of his bird and then, with a great cry, he carried me to his city, and there I, once proud Tatrix of Tharna, wore his brand and collar". |
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| 23 | 104 |
Perhaps in time, however, the undisciplined but courageous bands of slaves would have been scattered and destroyed by the units of Tharna, save that the very revolution which had begun in the mines and spread to the Great Farms now flamed in the city itself. |
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| 26 | 106 |
I have wondered about the Priest-Kings and their power, their ships and agents, their plans for their world and mine; but most importantly I must learn why my city was destroyed and its people scattered, why it is that no stone may stand upon another stone; and I must learn the fate of my friends, m... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47 |
I supposed Torm might be anywhere, for those of Ko-ro-ba had been scattered by the Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 104 |
For some reason unbeknownst to me they have destroyed my city, Ko-ro-ba, and scattered its peoples. |
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| 2 | 76 |
But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation ... |
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| 14 | 181 |
"I dug this chamber myself," he said, "and day by day over the lifetimes of many Muls I took a bit of rock dust away and scattered it here and there unobserved in the tunnels". |
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| 16 | 22 |
"No," said Misk, "he is alive and so are others of your city, but they are scattered to the ends of Gor". |
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| 23 | 13 |
In one corner there were scattered bones and among them the shards of a human skull. |
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| 27 | 35 |
Had they not destroyed my city? Had they not scattered its people? Had they not destroyed men by Flame Death and brought them, willing or no, to their own world on the Voyages of Acquisition? Had they not implanted their control nets in human beings and spun the hideous mutations of the Gur Carriers... |
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| 28 | 12 |
The Muls, I supposed, terrified and confused, had scattered and hidden themselves in their cases, living on their fungus and water, while over their heads hissed the weapons of their masters. |
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| 32 | 199 |
I wondered how long it would take before it broke apart and scattered in a belt of dust across the solar system, only to bend inward at last and spiral like a falling bird into the gases of the burning sun. |
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| 33 | 2 |
It was a strange but rapid journey, and as we leaped chasms and seemed almost to swim in the cold air I told myself that Misk and his Priest-Kings and the humans that were engineers in the Nest were losing the battle that would decide whether men and Priest-Kings might, working together, save a worl... |
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| 33 | 119 |
Who would believe them? Who would take the word of scattered vagrants against the word of the mighty Caste of Initiates? And, if he did believe them, who would dare to speak out that he did so? The Initiates, it seemed, had conquered. |
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| 34 | 17 |
"My son," he said, "the people of Ko-ro-ba were scattered and none could be together and no stone of that city might stand upon another stone". |
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| 35 | 36 |
In the end, those humans who wished to remain on the surface had landed elsewhere, far from their native cities, and scattered themselves as vagabonds about the roads and alien cities of the planet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 |
Now there seemed to be fewer men and animals rushing past, scattered over the prairie; only the wind remained; and the fires in the distance, and the swelling, nearing roll of dust that drifted into the stained sky. |
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| 9 | 107 |
On this fire, at the beginning of the feast the Feast Steward had scattered some grains of meal, some colored salt, some drops of wine. |
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| 14 | 80 |
I saw here and there, among the rugs and polished wood bristling with white arrows, overturned boxes, loose jewels scattered, torn robes and tapestries. |
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| 15 | 8 |
Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea... |
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| 15 | 10 |
In the field the Tuchuks would counter the tarnsmen by breaking open the Hundreds into scattered Tens and presenting only erratic, swiftly moving targets; it is difficult to strike a rider or beast at a distance from tarnback when he is well aware of you and ready to evade your missile; and, of cour... |
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| 19 | 69 |
There were seven or eight girls, clad in Pleasure Silks, sleeping in this hall, scattered about, curled up on cushions. |
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| 21 | 14 |
At last when the wagon had burned and the wind moved about the blackened beams and scattered ashes across the green prairie, Kamchak raised his right hand. |
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| 23 | 217 |
There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar, dented in now and its contents scattered; and the large, gray leathery object which I had upon occasion seen Kamchak use as a stool, that which he had once kicked across the floor for my inspe... |
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| 26 | 87 |
Once or twice I heard swords ringing from within the walls, as perhaps some men, loyal to Saphrar, or to their codes, attempted to prevent their fellows from leaving the compound, but I gather, judging from the continued exodus from the walls, that those who were this loyal were scattered and few in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 |
These men of Ko-ro-ba, he knew, when their city had been destroyed by Priest-Kings, had been scattered to the ends of Gor but, when permitted by Priest-Kings, they had returned to their city to rebuild it, each bearing a stone to add to its walls. |
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| 1 | 49 |
The ashes, Kuurus judged, since the body had been wrapped in the scarlet leather of a tarnsman, would be scattered from tarnback, perhaps over distant Thassa, the sea. |
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| 3 | 15 |
When the city of Ko-ro-ba had been destroyed by Priest-Kings and its people scattered, no two to stand together, the girl had disappeared. |
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| 17 | 210 |
He was given a full military funeral; his ashes had been scattered from tarnback over a field where, as a general some years before, he had led the forces of Ar to victory. |
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| 17 | 225 |
Strangely, with perhaps one exception, each of the Hinrabians had had his throat cut, even the women; this was unusual, for the women of a captive caravan, regarded as portions of its booty, are almost always enslaved; the one Hinrabian whose body was not found among the dead, scattered on the plain... |
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| 17 | 539 |
I looked from face to face, and then I shook the knucklebones and scattered them, the four of them, on the stones at my feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 72 |
There are scattered, almost invisible, furtive communities of rence growers who eke out their livelihood in the delta, nominally under the suzerainty of Port Kar. |
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| 7 | 38 |
About the island there was much litter, the garbage from the feast, the remains of destroyed rence huts, broken boxes, torn rence sacks, shattered marsh spears, gourds, scattered marsh vine, spilled rence reeds, bodies. |
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| 7 | 82 |
I saw the pole to which I had been tied, the circle of the feast, the ruins of huts, the litter and the broken things, and the scattered things, and the bodies. |
10 |
| 10 | 127 |
But not in over a hundred years had the united fleets of Cos and Tyros challenged Port Kar, and at that time, because of storms, they had been scattered and beaten off. |
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| 14 | 170 |
Others were out of visual range, scattered somewhere on Thassa. |
10 |
| 14 | 286 |
Some of the round ships, intelligently, had scattered, but, of the thirty originally in the fleet, there were now twenty-two ringed with our vessels. |
10 |
| 15 | 16 |
Flowers had been scattered in the canal, and others were thrown on our ships as we passed. |
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| 17 | 141 |
Behind them, scattered across the cold waters of Thassa, I could see the pairs of the second wave proceeding, swiftly gliding, oars dipping, toward the long lines of yellow and purple sails in the distance, yellow for Tyros, purple for Cos. |
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| 17 | 173 |
Behind my second-wave ships, I saw, scattered in its long enveloping line stretching from horizon to horizon across Thassa, their small storm sails pounded by the wind, the third wave, that of the round ships. |
10 |
| 18 | 617 |
And now archers were running down the side walls, and leaping to other roofs, that every point at the foot of the keep might be within the assailing orbit of the string-flung missiles, and the girls, and the men, too, flung stones from the top of the keep down on the men trying to hide behind it, an... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 827 |
Targo's wagons, now in the number of sixteen, the additional wagons and teams purchased in Laura, were scattered about at various distances from the compound, forming, in groups of twos and threes, small, isolated camps for the guards. |
10 |
| 10 | 299 |
We abandoned our ship and scattered, fleeing with our cargo". |
10 |
| 11 | 1097 |
Such men do not care to venture creeping into the shadows of forests, pursuing scattered game. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 40 |
It is not unknown for them to be hunted down and burned alive, their ashes scattered in expiation by mourning Goreans among the charred wood and blackened stumps. |
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| 13 | 51 |
In a line behind him, on the beach, his men were scattered. |
10 |
| 14 | 10 |
There were boxes and debris about, and scattered ashes. |
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| 16 | 76 |
In all, throughout the day, the great bow had spoken forty-one times, and forty-one men of Tyros now lay scattered along the trail and in the forest, feed for prowling sleen. |
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| 18 | 141 |
Surely they had left behind, scattered, sprawled in helpless stupor, enough beauty to satisfy the Harl rings of almost any slaver's chain. |
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| 22 | 600 |
I looked at the uprooted, strewn logs of the palisade, scattered on the stones by Marlenus' men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 10 |
In the light of the burning hall, here and there, scattered in the dirt of the courtyard, we saw sprawled, scattered bodies, and parts of bodies. |
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| 1 | 151 |
It had burned, long and fiery in the Gorean night, on the stones of the beach, and then, in the morning it would have been ashes, and the winds and rains would have scattered them, and there would be little left, save the stones, the sand and the prints of the feet of sea birds, tiny, like the thief... |
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| 1 | 263 |
The population had been scattered, the city razed by the power of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 7 | 112 |
She, holding her kirtle with her left hand, angrily scattered the dung about the sul plants. |
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| 8 | 179 |
She looked to the floor; on it, scattered, lay her bracelets, her rings, the golden chains she had worn about her neck. |
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| 12 | 18 |
About them, some on the dais, and some below it, stood his high officers, and his men of law, his counselors, his captains, and the chief men from his scattered farms and holdings; too, much in evidence, were more than four hundred of his men-at-arms. |
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| 17 | 158 |
Four days ago I had seen a girl drive in which several sleen, fanning out over a large area of territory, had scented out scattered, hiding slave girls and, from various points, driven them into a blind canyon, where a waiting Kur had swung shut a wooden gate on them, fastening them inside. |
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| 18 | 154 |
Hundreds of men, in ragged, scattered lines, strung out laterally, accompanied us. |
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| 18 | 634 |
Single, or scattered, Kurii might, as before, forage south, but I did not think they would again regroup in vast numbers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 20 |
Tor, lying at the northwest corner of the Tahari, is the principal supplying point for the scattered oasis communities of that dry vastness, almost a continent of rock, and heat, and wind and sand. |
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| 3 | 211 |
The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ... |
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| 7 | 12 |
I sat on the stone, on straw, soiled, which was scattered on the floor to absorb wastes. |
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| 7 | 26 |
I detected the odor of kort rinds, matted, drying, on the stones, where they had been scattered from my supper the evening before. |
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| 13 | 65 |
The major protection and control of the Tahari salt, of course, lies in its remoteness, the salt districts, of which there are several, being scattered and isolated in the midst of the dune country, in the long caravan journeys required, and the difficulty or impossibility of obtaining it without kn... |
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| 14 | 167 |
Dew shone on the plastered walls of the kasbah looming over me, on rocks scattered on the desert. |
10 |
| 14 | 495 |
The birds scattered, squawking, as a Kaiila sped past. |
10 |
| 15 | 12 |
In Gor's geologic past it seems that the salt districts, like scattered puddles of crystalline residue, are what remains of what was once an inland salt sea or several such. |
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| 17 | 36 |
How is it, I wondered, that men survive at Klima, and that they do not die at one another's throats? I looked at the heads of the lelts, and, scattered among them, the heads of the pale salamanders, thrust from the dark water, attracted by the movement, or the awareness of the light or heat, of the ... |
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| 17 | 211 |
Bits of oil burned briefly on the water, scattered from the struck lamp. |
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| 21 | 398 |
Scattered about were men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 674 |
I looked about at the field, at the signs of battle, the discarded shields, one deeply punctured and cut, the scattered weapons. |
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| 3 | 118 |
Sparks scattered about. |
10 |
| 7 | 22 |
As geopolitical matters now stood a plurality of disunited cities, most of them rather small, lay scattered in the territories north of the Vosk. |
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| 12 | 567 |
Keys were scattered about. |
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| 14 | 56 |
Busebius, our master, sometimes, before ordering us to bathe and prepare ourselves for the floor, scattered a handful of hard candies among us. |
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| 24 | 292 |
The convoy had been broken and it had scattered. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 113 |
When the silk is unwrapped, of course, the message disappears into a welter of scattered lines, the bits and parts of letters; the coherent message is replaced with a ribbon marked only by meaningless, unintelligible scraps of letters; to read the message, of course, one need only rewrap the ribbon ... |
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| 3 | 303 |
These are scattered throughout the district of the fair. |
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| 4 | 616 |
Curios on shelves fell and scattered. |
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| 5 | 85 |
He indicated the western edge of the map, the terra incognita beyond Cos and Tyros, and the scattered, farther islands. |
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| 9 | 277 |
Certainly they were culturally distinct from the red savages, kaiila riders, of the countries north and east of the Thentis mountains, who maintained a feudal nobility over scattered agricultural communities of white slaves. |
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| 11 | 421 |
I looked away from her, out over the tundra, the loneliness, the blackened remains of the scattered logs which had been the wall, the ruined buildings. |
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| 12 | 135 |
They live generally in scattered, isolated communities. |
10 |
| 12 | 334 |
The herd, which in the grazing on the tundra, has scattered is reformed to some extent by the drivers. |
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| 18 | 67 |
The wind scattered the breath of the monster, dispelling the cloud of vapor. |
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| 20 | 101 |
Although there were some fifteen hundred red hunters they generally lived in widely scattered small groups. |
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| 35 | 3 |
I heard the dart enter his body and I thrust him back and away from me and I saw him, rent and scattered, burst apart. |
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| 35 | 966 |
Men scattered. |
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| 35 | 1090 |
Men from the complex lay scattered on the ice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 302 |
Then he scattered several scraps of fish at one time, in an arc behind the tharlarion. |
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| 32 | 237 |
Looking about among the slender, scattered colonnades of trees, exploding far overhead in the lush capitals of the green canopy, one is often exposed to vistas of one to two hundred feet, or more. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 63 |
But now, from this facility, as from others, they are simply scattered, after two or three days' training, to various markets, sold, for most practical purposes, ignorant and raw. |
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| 11 | 152 |
She then shook the straw, extinguishing it and, with her fingers, moved the bit of moss about, spreading it, and the tiny flame there dissipated into scattered glowing points which then, rapidly, disappeared. |
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| 27 | 229 |
"Even the tharlarion were turned loose and scattered". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 54 |
These river pirates were not, it must be understood, a few scattered crews of cutthroats. |
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| 6 | 109 |
Straw is scattered at the edges of the room, on the wood. |
10 |
| 6 | 118 |
How could one hope to find one girl among thousands, even tens of thousands, scattered throughout the cities and towns, the fields and villages, of Gor. |
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| 22 | 359 |
In the darkness he was cut with glass and soiled with scattered paga. |
10 |
| 26 | 142 |
Accordingly they burned his holdings and scattered his hurt and tharlarion". |
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| 29 | 270 |
The men were now in the water, swimming from the scattered wood, darting arrows piercing the water about them, then bobbing upward. |
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| 33 | 189 |
"Our ships are scattered," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 199 |
These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart. |
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| 6 | 33 |
The archers scattered behind the bulwarks. |
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| 8 | 539 |
In the darkness of the cabin, barefoot, stepping softly through the glass and bits of frame scattered on the floor, she went, as commanded, to the window. |
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| 20 | 368 |
Thus they will be well scattered, and distributed, over all known Gor". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 5 |
Below us there lay little more, seemingly, than overturned and scattered wagons, some burned. |
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| 16 | 39 |
Flour from rent sacks had been scattered on the grass. |
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| 16 | 114 |
We now approached other wagons, but scattered about. |
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| 17 | 96 |
In this respect, then, there is something in common between the cities of the "white world" and the scattered tribal villages of the "red world". |
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| 19 | 211 |
Hatchets, mirrors, knives and cloths, and such, were now much scattered about, on the grass. |
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| 19 | 784 |
Few tribes, most of which are usually dispersed in scattered bands, would be likely to wish to, or be able to, bring a force against them, some three or four hundred mounted men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 189 |
One's lodge, and robes, and possessions could be taken away or cut to pieces with knives and scattered to the winds. |
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| 6 | 56 |
"It is torn apart, destroyed, trampled, scattered". |
10 |
| 6 | 63 |
Bindings and harness were scattered about. |
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| 13 | 192 |
This made feasible the delivery of produce, something which would be correspondingly impractical most of the year, when the tribes had separated into scattered bands, and sometimes even smaller units, with temporary, shifting camps. |
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| 21 | 28 |
The men who were with us had scattered. |
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| 32 | 62 |
"They are disunited and scattered," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 36 | 18 |
The dirt from the pit is hidden under brush or scattered in the grass. |
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| 39 | 16 |
Its roof was gone, torn away and scattered when the concealed hobbling log had been jerked upward through it. |
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| 40 | 91 |
"They are vanquished and scattered". |
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| 44 | 138 |
I then, turning away from the ledge, not facing the west, began to coil some rope which was lying about, one of several such lengths which seemed, purposelessly, to be scattered near the edge of the escarpment. |
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| 46 | 158 |
Then, into this trapped mass, its arrow screens no longer in position, and many of them scattered and lost, sped hundreds of arrows. |
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| 47 | 216 |
Screaming, men scattered on their tarns. |
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| 47 | 510 |
"They are scattered. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1584 |
Those of Earth, in urban areas, may never have seen how black, really, the sky can be; perhaps they have never really lifted their heads to the sky; perhaps they have never noted, or cared to note, how sharp and bright the stars can be, how astonishing they are, how beautiful they are, remote, carel... |
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| 5 | 357 |
The next few pieces of meat I scattered on the tiles. |
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| 9 | 115 |
I thought of vulos swarming forth to peck up scattered feed, of urts in the canals of Port Kar nosing swiftly toward emptied garbage, of sharks following a galley, of a larl lifting its head, to test the night air, of a sleen emerging from its burrow, silent, serpentine, hungry, intent. |
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| 12 | 798 |
"The rest of you females," said Boots, clapping his hands sharply, "get back to your work!" Swiftly the girls scattered from his sight, seeking various labors. |
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| 13 | 187 |
It rolled in the scattered, bloody sand, twisting and fighting, the sleen hanging to it. |
10 |
| 20 | 54 |
The Kur then, snarling, scattered the reluctant sleen away with blows. |
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| 20 | 320 |
Rather, it took six brands, still flaming, from the sand, scattered from the fire plate, and set them upright, torchlike, in a circular pattern, about itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 23 |
Too, was straw scattered about. |
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| 33 | 296 |
In an instant I turned, wildly, on all fours, and, in the half darkness, the fire muchly struck and scattered, tiny flames about, from fiery brands and flaring leaves, saw two shapes, a gigantic bestial shape, and that of a human being, a man, locked together, swaying, clawed feet and sandals moving... |
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| 33 | 314 |
I hurried to gather the scattered brands, and other wood, and thrust them to the fire. |
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| 33 | 317 |
I scattered some and heaped dirt on others. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 273 |
The paucity of women, relatively, rent slaves even bringing a copper tarsk a night, had largely to do with the coming and going of the slave wagons, which tended to carry off most of the captures, apprehended refugees, women who had fled from Ar's Station for food, giving themselves into bondage for... |
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| 16 | 321 |
The smaller probes, now, those of the scattered grapnels and single-pole ladders, had ceased. |
10 |
| 16 | 502 |
Others scattered down the wall to meet the grapnel crews and the scalers, with their ladders. |
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| 21 | 334 |
I had scattered it behind mercenaries, to clear a passage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1226 |
There were some pretty, but sturdy, chains scattered near it, and a whip. |
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| 12 | 94 |
They, in their small, scattered communities, tend to be secretive, fiercely independent folk. |
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| 18 | 38 |
Indeed perhaps the men, scattered about, here and there, miserable on the bar, thought the flies had gone. |
10 |
| 18 | 43 |
Rencers sometimes even leave their huts during the final waves, racing overhead like scattered clouds. |
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| 19 | 1341 |
"Oh!" "Aii!" I said, suddenly, and, in the grip of my reflexes, in my spasmodic tumult, spun about, twisting, rolling in the sand, carrying her lightly, helplessly, with me, as though she might be a doll, and sand scattered about, and she, too, gasped, and then again we lay in the sand as we had bef... |
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| 28 | 1 |
Labienus "The camps will be small, scattered, and carefully concealed," I said, "even from the air. |
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| 35 | 10 |
Most of those with us had already, after feeding, scattered. |
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| 40 | 138 |
"Scattered to the winds," said the narrator. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 347 |
I noted that while Myron and his fellows scattered these coins about, Seremides, waving to the crowd, and Talena, lifting her hand, too, and the High Council, withdrew from the surface of the platform. |
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| 7 | 498 |
They will presumably be soon reduced in numbers, perhaps to handfuls of guardsmen subject to Cosian officers, if not completely disbanded and scattered. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 339 |
"You will be scattered, papers will be changed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 257 |
Conceive, if you will, the analogy of a once-haughty, once-vain princess, her armies now scattered and crushed, chained naked to the chariot of a general, being led in triumph through jubilant crowds. |
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| 19 | 658 |
She did see the lights of some scattered villages. |
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| 22 | 4 |
The music of czehars, flutes, and kalikas, from scattered bands of musicians, swirled throughout the gigantic festival camp, spread over pasangs. |
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| 25 | 972 |
She looked wildly out, through her fallen, dangling, scattered hair, into the crowd. |
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| 26 | 1383 |
We must count on their confusion, until the camp is broken, and thousands are scattered in a hundred directions". |
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| 27 | 9 |
Whereas the fate of Tersius Major was at this time unknown, one supposed that, in an Ahn or so, the pursuit of the riderless tarns would be resolved, the tarns taken in hand, or, at least, that it would have been determined that most of them, for they would have scattered, had been riderless. |
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| 30 | 339 |
And he threw her to his feet and, crouching beside her, she first, startled, on all fours, and then thrust to her belly, tore away her tunic, shred by silken shred, flinging these narrow, delicate, yellow, rent scraps behind him, they fluttering away to alight, scattered, like startled flowers, on t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 845 |
As the polities of Gor are largely scattered and independent there is, as would be expected, some variation in brands. |
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| 2 | 104 |
There were numerous glassine droplets scattered about. |
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| 5 | 335 |
"What could protect you from radiation," asked Cabot, "or from debris, of the sort which might be destroyed and scattered in a normal atmosphere?" "The habitats are shielded, of course," said Arcesilaus, "with several yards of slag, steel, stone, and such". |
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| 32 | 237 |
With the butt of his improvised spear he scattered the embers of the fire. |
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| 34 | 67 |
Cold water washed over the remains of the raft, now little more than loosened timbers, held in proximity to one another by strained, then slack, scattered strands of rope. |
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| 37 | 6 |
Occasionally, concealing themselves as they could, they passed small, dispirited camps of scattered Kurii, some maimed, some nursing wounds. |
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| 37 | 25 |
It was true, though unknown at the time to Cabot and his slave, that many of these small, scattered groups were indeed unaware of the revolution, or civil war, raging at that time in their world. |
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| 38 | 20 |
There, scattered about, were several humans. |
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| 39 | 8 |
He gathered, as was the case, the revolution was failing, the revolutionists being heavily outnumbered, and then, in their scattered, defeated, retreating groups, being punished back into a number of isolated, improvised strongholds, which might then be dealt with, one by one, almost at their leisur... |
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| 44 | 301 |
It was difficult to locate the insurrectionists who, in their small, scattered groups, moved frequently. |
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| 48 | 14 |
The rebellion, or insurrection, was now devastated, the revolutionary groups decimated, and scattered, in flight, pursued. |
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| 56 | 188 |
Cabot, and other humans, wonderingly, slowly emerged from the trenches, to thread their way through soft, furrowed earth, soaked with blood, through seared grass and lost weapons, amongst fallen, scattered bodies, contorted and awry, some blackened by fire, others dismembered. |
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| 63 | 156 |
Some of the Kurii were buffeted one way or another, but then the herd was muchly scattered, and Lord Grendel would not move from his place, which was near small, torn flesh, and Cabot walked to join him, presumably that they might die together. |
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| 67 | 16 |
Mostly they scattered, to live as they could, until the hunters, abetted by sleen, might find them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 |
Too, they lurk, like wolves, muchly concealed, amongst the scattered stones, some small, many mighty, of what, on Earth, is commonly referred to as the asteroid belt, on Gor, by those familiar with the Second Knowledge, as the reefs of space. |
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| 16 | 50 |
These devices may be used for a variety of purposes, identification of location, often important in the confusion of battle, signaling charges, retreats, maneuvers, rallying scattered troops, and so on. |
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| 25 | 132 |
Would they not now, scattered, defeated, haggard, desperate, frightened, half-starved, have sought flight? Too, they might well fear larls. |
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| 27 | 3 |
By evening the debris of these areas would cool into blackened wood and warm, gray ash, and these residues of the conflagration, extinguished, would be scattered about, broken up, and dragged by designated work gangs into the forest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 49 |
I, once a spear of Cos, even a first spear, leader of nine men, with hundreds of others, after the trouble in Ar, scattered, separated from our commands and units, withdrew to Torcadino, and thence, bribing and spending, and then by recourse to brigandage and banditry, made our way by long marches t... |
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| 3 | 25 |
Better put, they were lost men, scattered men, hunted men, men with few resources, outlaws, vagabonds, wanderers, many without a Home Stone, perhaps even having dishonored or betrayed it, rude men, rough men, dangerous men, mercenaries, of a sort, recruited by mysterious leaders, in an obscure cause... |
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| 3 | 811 |
The catastrophes in Ar had begun some days ago, hundreds of fugitives from Ar had scattered from the city, presumably most to seek the coast, and eventual security in the islands; and the six women in the camp might well have been from Ar, perhaps proscribed women, begging passage from Ar, even at t... |
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| 3 | 1130 |
'Search parties emanating from Ar and leagued cities use many such places as the village of Ragnar, scattered over thousands of pasangs,' he said, 'in their endeavors to track and apprehend fugitives. |
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| 15 | 53 |
The galleys, and the small boats, scattered, some being dragged over the vines. |
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| 16 | 141 |
Buckets of sea water were still being spilled over the starboard side of the great ship, where small, scattered red plants of fire sought to grow. |
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| 21 | 344 |
What is the value? Is the stone in the box a pebble or a diamond, is the slave in the hood or sack a beauty or a she-tarsk? Hooded slaves may also compete in various games, as in locating objects scattered about a room, arranging objects by size or weight, threading beads, fitting puzzle pieces toge... |
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| 22 | 169 |
Had these lines of skilled, hardened men, selected with care by the Pani, veterans, mercenaries, killers, bandits, brigands, and pirates, from enlisted crews, rural gangs, disbanded cohorts, and scattered free companies, not checked the enemy, few if any of our forces would have escaped death. |
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| 28 | 274 |
The village, or where it had been, was dark, but, as far as I could see, scattered about, to the south, were a great number of campfires. |
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| 32 | 47 |
I saw a number of Pani rushing toward the ship with torches, hurrying through scattered, subsiding flames. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 35 |
In this narrative I am to deal, at least largely, with certain dark matters, political and military, matters which few here suspect, matters certainly unbeknownst to the vast majority of you, you who, in your scattered communities, in your villages, your towns, and walled cities, inhabit this fresh,... |
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| 8 | 556 |
Later, the invaders flighted and the blood lust of an outraged citizenry largely spent, numbers of surviving profiteers and collaborators, as apprehended, were placed in several underground dungeons scattered throughout the city. |
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| 10 | 844 |
There are slaves for that sort of thing, hundreds, scattered about in various pleasure gardens. |
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| 10 | 1089 |
Here and there below, on a lower bridge, and on the street, I could see bits of the laundry, cast about, scattered, and crumpled. |
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| 24 | 73 |
Perhaps we might have scattered, or fled back down the slope. |
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| 26 | 359 |
Perhaps you will not be thrown to sleen!" The dust, scattered and stirred, was wet with sweat and tears. |
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| 45 | 52 |
Mighty boulders were scattered about, some jagged, and young, and some worn smooth by centuries of wind and rain. |
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| 52 | 454 |
It became reasonably clear, in Merchant councils, met at the fairs, that scattered, unusual purchases were being made, and that caravans were occasionally being embarked for obscure destinations, which would seem outside familiar markets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 270 |
Indeed, some of you here may have been amongst such unfortunate, needful wretches, then only scattered refugees". |
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| 15 | 84 |
Dust scattered about. |
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| 16 | 39 |
Shipcamp was much smaller than Tarncamp, but it contained its scattered range of structures, a hundred or more, and these were mostly north of the dock. |
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| 16 | 133 |
Rain had soaked her hair, and it lay about her head and shoulders, in scattered, bedraggled, unkempt strands. |
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| 25 | 156 |
It has its thousand rises and falls, its heights and valleys, its fallen timbers and rotting wood, its scarred, blackened trunks and scorched, lightning-fired wastes, its scattered boulders, its bare places, its flowered meadows and blossoming thickets, its crags and cliffs, its rills, and streams a... |
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| 38 | 154 |
"One hunts women where there are women, where game is plentiful, in cities, towns, even peasant villages, on traversed roads, on caravan routes, on pilgrimages to the Sardar, and such, not in the wilderness of the northern forests, not on the scattered, rocky skerries of Torvaldsland, not in the fro... |
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| 43 | 544 |
Some leaves and branches were being scattered about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 62 |
We presumed the birds dead, or reverted, and the men dead, or, scattered, possibly lost, or hiding, in the mountains, attempting to evade enemy patrols and kill squads. |
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| 1 | 86 |
Surely they had not fallen into consternation, nor had they scattered and fled at the first sight of so unfamiliar, obviously dangerous, and mighty a form of life as the tarn. |
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| 1 | 338 |
"Some of the command, surviving the attack, escaped on tarnback, these reporting later to the castle, and some others, it is conjectured, may have scattered into the mountains," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 3 | 50 |
Dried branches, dried leaves, and twigs, are sometimes scattered about the periphery of a camp, or sleeping area. |
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| 8 | 11 |
The warehouses in which I was particularly interested were the small, concealed warehouses, scattered about, whose location was apparently unknown even to many of the high officers in the command of General Yamada. |
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| 10 | 46 |
Many of the scattered draymen were visible in the fields, several yards off, watching us. |
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| 10 | 108 |
I saw wielded glaives below me, and men looking up wildly, scattered amongst the wagons, and daggers were brandished in vain. |
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| 10 | 165 |
Yamada's perimeters of defense are lengthy, and his reserves, if he does not fear the peasantry, may well be minimal and scattered". |
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| 13 | 169 |
Lord Temmu, as many in the islands, particularly in times of doubt and uncertainty, would consult the supposed deliverances of severally scattered bones and shells. |
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| 20 | 513 |
Summon Tatsu, reader of bones and shells!" Ah, I thought to myself, what message will be revealed amongst the scattered bones and shells, to be carried by Tajima and Pertinax to the holding of Lord Temmu where, doubtless, it will be confirmed by the noble Daichi? I thought it would most likely have ... |
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| 27 | 108 |
By now they might have been scattered about, transferred to any number of pens throughout the domain of Lord Yamada, where their labors might now be applied to the arrangement and care of the liquid meadows from which the shogun hoped to obtain his rice. |
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| 38 | 22 |
Both a clandestine vanishing, or, unfortunately, if necessary, an explosive scattering, of fugitives from diverse points is likely to be more confusing to guards, and less easily tracked, than the traces of a single line of men, not yet scattered, availing themselves of a single aperture. |
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| 61 | 83 |
"We have been informed the troops of Yamada are scattered, and most fled south, that he is vulnerable, and without support". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 178 |
"It would have occurred to Kurii, would it not," he said, "to recruit to their purposes not only particular agents, and scattered, small groups, but larger portions of the human population of Gor?" "I would suppose so," I said. |
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| 40 | 80 |
Whereas most Gorean cities share in, and respect, Merchant Law, the only common law binding scattered, and often hostile, communities, there are no provisions in such law for securing protections against one party's appropriation of another party's methods, processes, formulas, techniques, devices, ... |
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| 45 | 206 |
"Feed the animals!" he called cheerily to the first girl, and she, with a wide, sweeping motion, scattered the scraps between the tables. |
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| 53 | 21 |
Sometimes, partial and scattered, there are the remains of abandoned walls within the city itself, as in the Metellan district, one of the older districts in Ar. |
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| 60 | 29 |
The grass here and there had been soaked with blood, and parts of verr, organs and limbs, skin and heads, were scattered about the field. |
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| 64 | 62 |
As a number of wells were scattered about the grounds water was readily available, seldom more than a few Ehn from any marked location. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 23 |
"I think these tiny islets are temporary resting places for fishermen," I said, "transitory camps, scattered locations enlarging their fishing grounds". |
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| 17 | 74 |
Word had reached me at the Cove of Harpalos that the raiders outside Sybaris had broken camp and, as far as my informants could determine, were now scattered about, but proximately, some distributed within Sybaris and others beyond its pomerium, in the nearby countryside. |
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| 41 | 137 |
We were then silent, and looked over the wall, past the double ditch and the now-quiescent engines of war, the three mighty catapults, to the many tents of the enemy, plentiful in the distance, like scattered, disorganized litter. |
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| 49 | 37 |
Presumably outnumbered we might have scattered, slipped from their grasp, even withdrawn to the safety of Mytilene". |
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| 51 | 126 |
One of them had put out longboats, four longboats, which were now approaching the scattered, splintered wreckage of the first vessel. |
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| 56 | 47 |
It was clearly its intent to succor and retrieve goods and men, these scattered like detritus in the water. |
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