| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 129 |
A brief exchange followed, like a chain reaction, neither man considering his moves for a moment; First Tarnsman took First Tarnsman, Second Spearman responded by neutralizing First Tarnsman, City neutralized Spearman, Assassin took City, Assassin fell to Second Tarnsman, Tarnsman to Spear Slave, Sp... |
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| 1 | 6 |
I like to think there may have been a Cabot in Bristol, one of us, who watched our Italian namesake weigh anchor in the early morning of that second of May, 1497. |
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| 2 | 8 |
It reminded me, with the vegetation and background and the classic serenity of the faces, of a Renaissance tapestry I had once seen on a vacation tour I had taken to Florence in my second year at the University. |
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| 2 | 45 |
I saw that the ring of red metal, with the crest of a "C," had been placed on the second finger of my right hand. |
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| 2 | 274 |
Why have the Priest-Kings been so lenient in this case—those who control this second earth? I think the answer is simple. |
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| 3 | 43 |
If I set the machine to, say, Language A and spoke Gorean into it, it would, after a fraction of a second, emit a succession of noises, which was the translation of my Gorean sentences into A. |
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| 3 | 73 |
I wondered, however, if the Second Knowledge, that of the intellectuals, might not be as carefully tailored to preclude inquiry on their level as the First Knowledge apparently was to preclude inquiry on the level of the Lower Castes. |
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| 3 | 132 |
Earth origin, incidentally, was not a part of the First Knowledge, though it was of the Second. |
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| 4 | 85 |
The second name, which would correspond to the use-name on Gor, is common property, a public sound not sacred or to be protected. |
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| 4 | 86 |
At the level of the Second Knowledge, of course, the High Castes, at least in general, recognize the baseless superstition of the Lower Castes and use their own names comparatively freely, usually followed by the name of their city. |
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| 5 | 146 |
I was more pleased on the second day and made camp in a grassy veldt, dotted with the Ka-la-na trees. |
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| 5 | 167 |
As I passed him, I saw his eyes wide in the Y of his helmet, as, in that split second, he knew I could not miss. |
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| 5 | 181 |
As we neared the fleeing warrior, I fitted a second arrow to my bow. |
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| 7 | 83 |
I held the daughter of the Ubar tightly as the insect righted himself, floating in the muck for a second, and then managing to free himself with his eight scrambling legs. |
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| 7 | 219 |
The initial velocity of a quarrel is the better part of a pasang per second. |
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| 8 | 146 |
"The ring," she said, pointing to the red metal band that encircled the second finger of my right hand. |
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| 10 | 188 |
Then, her eyes lit on the second object Kazrak had donated to the project of taming what he called the she-tharlarion—the slave whip. |
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| 11 | 118 |
I remember turning swiftly and seeing for the fraction of a second the butt of a spear crashing toward my face. |
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| 12 | 78 |
The sun swept into the sky again, and my second day on the Vosk began. |
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| 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 | 2 |
Its splendid, defiant shimmering cylinders loomed proudly behind the snowy marble ramparts, its double walls—the first three hundred feet high; the second, separated from the first by twenty yards, four hundred feet high—walls wide enough to drive six tharlarion wagons abreast on their... |
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| 15 | 75 |
Still I would not speak, not while he controlled a weapon; unfortunately, the first thing a Gorean warrior is likely to do to the stranger in his tent is kill him, the second is to find out who he is. |
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| 15 | 260 |
"On the highest ground in camp," said Mintar, "near the second ditch and across from the great gate of Ar. |
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| 16 | 97 |
I made my way to the interior perimeter of the second ditch, opposite the great gate of Ar in the distance. |
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| 16 | 116 |
Within the first wall of black silk, there was a second wall, but this time of iron bars. |
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| 16 | 119 |
I walked about the second wall until I came to a gate, where I repeated my story. |
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| 16 | 121 |
Inside the second wall, I was escorted among the tents by a tower slave, a black girl whose livery was golden and who wore large golden earrings that matched a golden collar. |
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| 17 | 17 |
The siege was in its fifty-second day, and the forces of Pa-Kur had breached the first wall. |
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| 17 | 18 |
It was being methodically razed in seven places, to allow for the passage of the siege towers to the second wall. |
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| 17 | 19 |
Moreover, hundreds of light "flying bridges" were being constructed; at the moment of the final assault these would be extended from the first wall to the second, and the men of Pa-Kur would scramble upward toward the looming ramparts of Ar's last defense. |
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| 17 | 20 |
Rumor had it that dozens of tunnels, unimpeded, now extended beneath the second wall and could be opened in a matter of hours at various places in the city. |
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| 17 | 49 |
The second major condition requested by the Initiates was that the city be garrisoned by only ten thousand chosen troops, and that the balance of the horde be allowed to enter the gates only unarmed. |
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| 18 | 108 |
The first time I hauled on the one-strap, the bird would not move; the second time he lifted into flight, almost immediately scraping the ceiling of the tunnel with his wings, protesting shrilly. |
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| 19 | 200 |
We engaged again, and twice my blade cut him; the second time I nearly had the opening I desired. |
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| 20 | 23 |
Such a man as Marlenus can never be second in a city, and the men of Ar were determined that he should never again be first. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 141 |
I set the second on the chain beneath him, and the third on the chain beneath the second. |
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| 20 | 57 |
The month of the autumnal equinox is called fully Se'Kara-Lar-Torvis, but usually simply Se'Kara, The Second Kara, or The Second Turning. |
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| 1 | 193 |
There—in spite of the locked doors and windows—on a coffee table before the settee, was a second manuscript, that which now follows. |
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| 6 | 195 |
The first, if necessary would engage me, and the second drive in on my right with his spear. |
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| 11 | 54 |
"Does the law of Tharna not give it the right to speak, Dorna the Proud, Second in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix, whose voice, too, was imperious and cold, yet pleased me more than the tones of she who wore the silver mask. |
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| 11 | 56 |
It was almost as if she challenged her Tatrix, and I wondered if Dorna the Proud was content to be Second in Tharna. |
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| 11 | 61 |
I thought that the woman in the silver mask, who had been spoken of as Second in Tharna, seemed to stiffen with apprehension at this revelation. |
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| 11 | 171 |
"What think you, Dorna the Proud?" asked Lara of she who was Second in Tharna. |
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| 14 | 209 |
The eyes behind the mask, which I saw in that split second, were hysterical with fear. |
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| 18 | 144 |
Then the first man on the chain supported his own weight, and the second, chains rattling, began to ascend the vertical tunnel, supported by he who was third, who now stood on the back of the fourth man, and so it continued. |
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| 18 | 145 |
Once the second man slipped, dragging the first down with him, and causing the third to lose his grip, but by now there was a solid chain of men in the tunnel, and the fourth and the fifth men held. |
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| 18 | 146 |
The first began his torturous ascent once more, followed by the second and third. |
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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 | 58 |
As might be expected there are related expressions for the months of the solstices, En'Var-Lar-Torvis and Se'Var-Lar-Torvis, or, again rather literally, The First Resting and the Second Resting of the Central Fire. |
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| 20 | 59 |
These, however, like the other expressions, usually occur in speech only as En'Var and Se'Var, or The First Resting and The Second Resting. |
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| 20 | 60 |
Chronology, incidentally, is the despair of scholars on Gor, for each city keeps track of time by virtue of its own Administrator Lists; for example, a year is referred to as the Second Year when so-and-so was Administrator of the city. |
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| 23 | 81 |
As at the Pillar of Exchanges the bird had haunted the vicinity and now, for the second time, its patience was rewarded. |
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| 24 | 136 |
Once more I noted that the walls bordering the avenue rose as the avenue narrowed, but this time, long before we neared the small iron door, we saw a double rampart thrown across the avenue, the second wall topping the first and allowing missiles to be rained down on those who might storm the first ... |
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| 24 | 138 |
The first rampart was perhaps twelve feet high, the second perhaps twenty. |
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| 24 | 219 |
You were first in the military games of En'Kara in the second year of my reign". |
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| 25 | 105 |
"That is true," said the second. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 10 |
On the second day of the second week of battle, after the forces of Sarm had withdrawn, I, armed with sword and silver tube, mounted a transportation disk and swept through the no man's land of unoccupied tunnels toward the Vivarium. |
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| 29 | 68 |
Two hypotheses would seem most likely to explain this phenomenon to them, first that I had fled the complex, second that I was nestled among them, and I smiled to myself, for I was certain that the second hypothesis would never occur to a Priest-King, for it was too improbable and Priest-Kings were ... |
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| 1 | 26 |
This manuscript, the third, was received, according to Smith, under substantially the same unusual conditions as the second, conditions which he kindly delineated in a preface contributed to that volume. |
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| 1 | 31 |
There was indeed a Tarl Cabot, answering the description of these accounts, who was raised in Bristol, and who attended Oxford and taught in the small New England college referred to in the first book, and who subsequently rented an apartment in midtown Manhattan at dates congruent with the accounts... |
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| 2 | 122 |
My heart sank for I heard another growl, that of a second beast. |
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| 3 | 17 |
My cloak and garments were torn from my back by the stroke of the second larl's claws. |
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| 3 | 25 |
My back felt wet with the blood from the second larl's claws. |
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| 3 | 35 |
One side of this area was formed by the sheer cliff which had been on my right and now curved about making a sort of cup of stone; the other side, on my left, lay partly open to the frightful drop below, but was partly enclosed by another cliff, the side of a second mountain, which impinged on the o... |
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| 5 | 155 |
Those of the High Castes of Gor are permitted by the Priest-Kings only the Second Knowledge, and those of the lower castes are permitted only the more rudimentary First Knowledge. |
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| 6 | 112 |
"If you go," she said, "return at least before the second gong". |
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| 6 | 137 |
Then came the second rumbling stroke of the distant gong, and Vika seemed to tremble in my arms. |
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| 7 | 31 |
The second girl was tall, fragile and willowy, with slender ankles and large, hurt eyes; she had dark, curling hair that fell about her shoulders and stood out against the white of her garment; she may have been of High Caste; without speaking to her it would be hard to tell; even then it might be d... |
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| 11 | 55 |
"None may see the Mother save her caste attendants and the High Priest-Kings," said Sarm, "the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Born". |
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| 12 | 181 |
I thrust one aside with my left arm and crushed my fist into the face of the second. |
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| 12 | 250 |
"I, too, have feelings," said the second man. |
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| 12 | 255 |
"No," said the second man. |
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| 12 | 258 |
"Follow me," said the first man and turned, and I followed him, leaving the room, the second man falling into stride beside me. |
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| 13 | 25 |
Second, they tend in many matters to have a penchant for complexity, regarding it as more elegant than simplicity. |
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| 13 | 53 |
"He is new in the tunnels," said the second slave. |
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| 13 | 59 |
"She was attractive," I said to the second. |
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| 13 | 115 |
"Priest-Kings," said the second slave. |
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| 14 | 75 |
In the first meal, Mul-Fungus is ground and mixed with water, forming a porridge of sorts; for the second meal it is chopped into rough two-inch cubes; for the third meal it is minced with Mul-Pellets and served as a sort of cold hash; the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly some type of dietary supplement;... |
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| 14 | 158 |
The Second, Third and Fourth Born, in the long ages, have, one by one, succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 20 | 82 |
"What was your crime?" asked the second attendant. |
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| 20 | 192 |
I smiled to myself, for I thought how incredible that I should find myself naturally and without a second thought considering going to the rescue of the worthless, vicious wench, Vika of Treve. |
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| 22 | 163 |
I supposed one of the reasons for the short blade was that it could clear the sheath a fraction of a second before a longer blade. |
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| 23 | 65 |
Carefully, methodically, I removed a second egg. |
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| 27 | 324 |
"I said nothing to him but I considered what he had said, and I thought on this matter, and at last—in league with the Second Born, who has since succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle, I set aside a female egg to be concealed from Sarm beyond the Nest". |
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| 29 | 47 |
To my joy I saw the metal blacken and burst apart like swollen tin as I passed beneath it and began to climb rapidly toward the belly of the second craft which I ripped open with a sizzling burst of fire. |
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| 29 | 50 |
The second craft shot wildly toward the ceiling of the complex and shattered on the stone ceiling, falling back to the ground in a shower of wreckage. |
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| 29 | 146 |
Now that it was not being controlled, it hovered where the second Priest-King, probably its pilot, had left it when he had come to investigate the fate of his companion. |
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| 31 | 80 |
"And you?" asked Ba-Ta sternly of the second girl. |
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| 32 | 331 |
The second larl, enraged, roared and crouched to spring. |
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| 33 | 3 |
Whereas it had taken four days for me to climb to the lair of Priest-Kings in the Sardar it was on the morning of the second day that Vika and I sighted the remains of the great gate, fallen, and the palisade, now little more than broken and uprooted timbers. |
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| 33 | 7 |
It was late in the morning of the second day, about the time that we sighted the black gate, that the gravitational reduction reached its maximum. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 177 |
The Gorean Ihn, or second, is only a little longer than the Earth second. |
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| 2 | 70 |
Until the youth has mastered the bow, the quiva and the lance he is simply known as the first, or the second, and so on, son of such and such a father. |
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| 2 | 112 |
The second rider had halted there. |
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| 8 | 4 |
The herds would circle Turia, for this was the portion of the Omen Year called the Passing of Turia, in which the Wagon Peoples gather and begin to move toward their winter pastures; the second portion of the Omen Year is the Wintering, which takes place far north of Turia, the equator being approac... |
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| 8 | 209 |
I was second rider to Kamchak, as Albrecht was to Conrad, he of the Kassars, the Blood People. |
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| 8 | 316 |
The judge had begun to count again, starting with one, the second counting, which would determine the rider's time. |
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| 8 | 382 |
"My second rider must ride". |
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| 8 | 485 |
I would release the bola in another beat as she took her second sprint to the left. |
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| 8 | 488 |
I released the bola, risking all, hurling it not to the expected rendezvous of the second left but to a first right, unexpected, the first break in the two-left, one-right pattern. |
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| 9 | 30 |
Such notching, I knew, is usually done to the ears of thieves; a second offense is normally punished by the loss of the right hand; a third offense by the removal of the left hand and both feet. |
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| 11 | 184 |
We decided to wager to see who would get the second bottle of paga. |
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| 11 | 290 |
"The Little Barbarian does not wish to become second girl in the wagon!" He gave Elizabeth's head a rough, affectionate shake. |
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| 12 | 217 |
There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious... |
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| 12 | 218 |
These various things, from time to time, would be used not only by himself but by others in the group, probably the second kaska player and the third flutist. |
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| 16 | 6 |
The baths of Turia were said to be second only to those of Ar in their luxury, the number of their pools, their temperatures, the scents and oils. |
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| 16 | 315 |
The second objective, that of obtaining the egg for themselves, was already almost accomplished; Kutaituchik had been killed and it had been stolen from his wagon; there was left only to deliver it to the gray man, who would, in turn, deliver it to the Others—whoever or whatever they might be... |
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| 18 | 95 |
I took the attack of the second guardsman by rolling on my back and flinging up my blade in defense. |
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| 20 | 124 |
I closed my eyes and it was over in a second. |
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| 21 | 42 |
I spent the night on the prairie and then, on what would have been the second day of the retreat, entered the city at the eighth hour. |
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| 21 | 53 |
The only person I saw more than once was a slip of a girl in Robes of Concealment and veil, a market basket on her arm, who, the second time, passed me, not noticing me. |
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| 21 | 260 |
I could now see the first Hundred, five abreast, and then the open space behind them, and then the second Hundred. |
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| 25 | 59 |
The second chain, that which I had first seen, fastened the Sirik itself, of course, to the slave ring, and, indeed, by the left ankle ring, as I had supposed. |
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| 26 | 23 |
"My own recommendation," Harold was saying, "would be first to fly my tarn cavalry over the walls, clearing them with thousands of arrows, and then, in a second wave, to fly dozens of ropes of warriors to the roofs of the main buildings, to seize them and burn the others". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 613 |
Elizabeth and I had arrived in Ko-ro-ba in the second month, and she departed on the second day of the Second Passage Hand, that following the second month. |
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| 2 | 222 |
"May I ask, Killer," asked Portus, "if you come to make the first killing—or the second?" "The second," said Kuurus. |
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| 3 | 119 |
To my surprise, the Player chose the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover Ubar Two, which seemed to me rather defensive, and surely cost him the possibility of a dangerous but promising counterattack, which would eventually, if all went well, culminate with his second tarnsman at his opponent's I... |
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| 3 | 121 |
The Vintner, however, did not seem to notice, but made the standard aggressive response, pressing his attack forward by moving Second Spearman to Initiate Five. |
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| 3 | 128 |
He was actually quite skilled, and would have played well among even gifted Goreans, to whom the game is almost second nature, but he was not of Player caliber, by far. |
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| 3 | 137 |
At one point, when the Vintner seemed hard pressed, I, and several of the others, noted that his hand strayed to the board, moving his Second Spearman to Builder Four from Physician Four, thus placing him on an open column. |
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| 3 | 139 |
"Watch out there! He moved Second Spearman to Builder Four!" "I did not," cried the Vintner—almost a shriek. |
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| 3 | 142 |
"His Second Spearman," he said, "should be at Builder Four". |
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| 3 | 170 |
"Second Tarnsman," said he, "to Ubar's Builder Nine". |
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| 3 | 178 |
He must defend, for his very life! With a trembling hand, the Vintner shoved his Second Spearman to the left, capturing the Player's First Spearman, which had not been defended. |
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| 3 | 184 |
Was this man not a Player? Relentlessly the Vintner forced through again with his Second Spearman, this time capturing the Player's Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion. |
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| 4 | 202 |
"It will not hurt much the second time," said Cernus. |
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| 5 | 114 |
Then, eyes closed, not moving, except the heel of the right foot, which beat the rhythm, she began to hum a Tuchuk slave song; on the second measure, her hands came to her hips and she opened her eyes, looking at me; on the third measure, her body began to move and, to the melody, she began to sway ... |
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| 5 | 683 |
I took the second thong and flipped it about her ankles, securing them together. |
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| 6 | 23 |
There was a shout from the men-at-arms and members of the House who sat at the tables as the second slave, he who had scored the first point, managed to leave a long streak of blue down the inside of the right arm of the first slave. |
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| 6 | 53 |
I saw that the second slave, who was doubtless the better man at the sport, had slipped behind the first and, holding his head back with a powerful forearm, had decisively drawn his sheathed hook knife across the throat of the first man. |
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| 9 | 46 |
One girl was dictating from a piece of record paper held in her hand and the other girl was copying it rapidly on a second piece of record paper. |
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| 9 | 56 |
I was much surprised when I saw, about four feet inside this door, a second door. |
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| 9 | 57 |
In this second door there was an observation panel, which slid back. |
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| 10 | 1 |
To the Pens We had soon passed through the two doors, the first being locked behind us by one of the white-gowned women, the second by the two guardsmen. |
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| 11 | 61 |
I and the Physician, and the guardsman, followed him up the iron ramp to the second level. |
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| 11 | 78 |
The second girl had been watching what had gone on. |
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| 11 | 81 |
The last girl on the second row might have been Greek. |
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| 11 | 179 |
The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w... |
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| 11 | 190 |
"You are mad!" said the second girl. |
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| 11 | 193 |
"Where are we!" demanded the second girl. |
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| 11 | 194 |
"I demand that you release us! I demand an explanation! Get us out of here immediately! Hurry! Hurry, I tell you!" Flaminius paid the second girl no attention. |
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| 11 | 198 |
"Let us out!" cried the second girl, shaking the bars. |
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| 11 | 200 |
"Let us out!" cried the second girl. |
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| 11 | 204 |
"Let us out!" cried the second girl yet again. |
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| 11 | 205 |
"What is your name?" asked Flaminius of the second girl, very gently. |
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| 11 | 345 |
"You beast!" cried out the second girl. |
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| 11 | 351 |
Flaminius then locked one on the girl's right wrist and then, her arms through the bars, bent her arms back, put the other bracelet around one of the bars in the gate, above the horizontal bar at the top of the gate, and, on the outside of the gate, about her other wrist, the left, snapped shut the ... |
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| 12 | 85 |
Such a man could never be second in a city. |
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| 12 | 136 |
Thus, in leaving the perches at the beginning of the race, the tarns pass first through three rectangular "rings," then come to the first turn, where they negotiate three round rings, two of which are at the corners; and then they encounter three more rectangular "rings" and then come to the second ... |
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| 13 | 113 |
Afterwards, Nela gave me the first rubbing, with coarse oils, loosening dirt and perspiration, and scraped me with the thin, flexible bronze strigil; then she gave me the second rubbing, vigorous and stimulating, with heavy toweling; then she gave me the third rubbing, that with fine, scented oils, ... |
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| 13 | 242 |
He then took a second goad, from a hook nearby, and handed it to me. |
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| 13 | 326 |
Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,... |
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| 15 | 178 |
In the second week, they knelt in the same fashion, but had been forced to repeat, out loud, incessantly, the ritual phrase, "I am a slave girl. |
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| 16 | 40 |
Murmillius, in the games, returned with more brilliance than ever and, on the second day of En'Kara, with superb swordsmanship downed two foes, wounding them again and again, until even the crowd did not regard them as worth slaying, at which time Murmillius sheathed his sword, turned his back, and ... |
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| 16 | 42 |
The Greens came in second, carrying three of the eleven races. |
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| 16 | 48 |
According to Ho-Tu, whom I had once asked about this, there were two main reasons for this; first, their training was peculiarly full and intensive; second, the prospect of being permitted to leave the house, particularly attractive to Virginia and Phyllis, who had known nothing of Gor save the Hous... |
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| 17 | 203 |
The first sword of the military forces of Ar, Maximus Hegesius Quintilius, second in authority only to Minus Tentius Hinrabius himself, was relieved of his post. |
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| 17 | 744 |
In less than an Ahn we had set up our board and pieces, and I had shown Sura the placing of the pieces and their moves, and had explained some of the elementary techniques of the game to her; in the second Ahn she was actually negotiating the board with alertness, always moving with an objective in ... |
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| 18 | 154 |
He handed me the second cup, though I wore the black tunic. |
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| 18 | 251 |
"At the games on the second of En'Kara, in the Stadium of Blades," said he, "I saw the High Initiate, Complicius Serenus". |
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| 18 | 282 |
"Go!" cried the second guard. |
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| 18 | 327 |
I could see the bread ovens in one wall; the long fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but, here and there, I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal; aside from this, the light in the room came from on... |
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| 19 | 239 |
The auctioneer then threw back the hood of the second girl, Phyllis. |
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| 19 | 251 |
As the auctioneer reached for the hood of the third girl, she turned away and suddenly, though chained by the wrists, darted toward the stairs; the slack in the chain was taken up in her flight and, on the second or third stair down, she was spun about and thrown to the steps, half on them, half on ... |
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| 20 | 424 |
After Hup's second move Scormus of Ar had looked for a long time at the board, and then at Hup, who was devouring his pastry. |
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| 20 | 462 |
"Surely you recognize," asked Scormus, curiously, looking up at him, "the Two Spearman variation of the Ubar's Scribe's Defense, developed by Miles of Cos and first used in the tournament at Tor held during the Second Passage Hand of the third year of the Administrator Heraklites?" Neither Cernus no... |
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| 21 | 108 |
"May I have him?" asked the second girl. |
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| 21 | 134 |
There was the sound of another trumpet, the second. |
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| 22 | 159 |
Second in the race was now the rider who wore the silk of the Silvers. |
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| 22 | 215 |
Second was the startled Menicius of Port Kar, the palm of victory snatched from his grip. |
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| 22 | 564 |
I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ... |
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| 22 | 567 |
Quarrel, automatically, had struck the second perch only an instant behind us. |
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| 24 | 31 |
Marlenus, I knew, could never be second in a city. |
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| 8 | 277 |
With the first length of binding fiber I tied her wrists behind her back; I then carried her and placed her, on her knees, on the second of the broad steps leading up to the tiller deck, two steps below that in which is fixed the chair of the oar-master; she now knelt below that chair, and to its le... |
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| 3 | 139 |
Then Ho-Hak took, from among the arrows on the mat, the leather bracer and fastened it about his left forearm, that the arm not be lacerated by the string, and took the small tab as well, putting the first and second fingers of his right hand through, that in drawing the string the flesh might not b... |
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| 7 | 19 |
At the prows of the second and third ships I saw two others of my tormentors, the blond, gray-eyed girl, who had carried marsh vine, and the shorter, dark-haired girl, who had carried a net over her left shoulder. |
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| 7 | 67 |
Then the second barge backed away from the island, turned and followed the first, and then so, too, did the others. |
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| 8 | 87 |
That the great bow was used they understood from the time I struck the second helmsman, pinning him to his tiller beam. |
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| 8 | 289 |
On the second prow of the six barges, only a few feet from the tiller deck of the first barge, it had been the tall, gray-eyed girl, who had held marsh vine against my arm, she who had danced with such excruciating slowness before me at the pole. |
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| 8 | 310 |
Telima, haltered, bound hand and foot, kneeling on the second broad step of the stairs leading up to the tiller deck, looked up at me. |
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| 8 | 318 |
I now could place that the sound came from the second barge. |
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| 8 | 325 |
I turned and made my way to the second barge. |
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| 8 | 484 |
"Take him away!" I ordered Thurnock and Clitus, and they dragged Ho-Hak from my presence, taking him back somewhere on the second barge, among other bound slaves. |
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| 8 | 548 |
Then I looked to the second prow, and the third, where were tied the large girl, blond and gray-eyed, who had held marsh vine against my arm, and the shorter girl, dark-haired, who had carried a net over her left shoulder. |
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| 8 | 554 |
"Bring the girls at second and third prow," I told them. |
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| 9 | 704 |
"I was second to Surbus". |
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| 10 | 83 |
When Tab, young, lean, gray-eyed, who had been second to Surbus, asked me what I would have him do, I had looked upon him and said, "Teach me the Sea". |
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| 11 | 68 |
"And along the wharves generally," said the second. |
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| 11 | 109 |
The large basins, just mentioned, are of two types: the first, unroofed, is used for the underwater storage and seasoning of Tur wood; the second, roofed, serves for the heavier fittings and upper carpentry of ships, and for repairs that do not necessitate recourse to the roofed dry docks. |
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| 11 | 393 |
"Bejar accepts the proposals of Samos," said a captain, a dark-skinned man with long, straight hair, who sat in the second row, some two chairs below me and to the right. |
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| 13 | 512 |
By the end of the second month the flag of Bosk, carried by one ship or another, was known from Ianda to Torvaldsland, and from the delta of the Vosk to the throne rooms of Cos and Tyros. |
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| 14 | 77 |
The principal alternatives, under these conditions, open to the men of Cos and Tyros would then seem to be, first, to use free oarsmen, which was not, however, traditional on round ships, or, second, to increase the ram-ship escort for round ships. |
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| 14 | 440 |
The fact that many women of Earth do not affect the veil is one of the reasons that many Goreans, who are familiar with the Second Knowledge, or have witnessed such women being brought in chains to the market, perhaps still in shreds of their Earth clothing, regard them as shameless, and as curvaceo... |
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| 17 | 50 |
This meant the first wave consisted of eight hundred ships, and the second of one hundred. |
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| 17 | 56 |
My third wave, following the second by an Ahn, would consist of a long extended line of round ships, some fourteen hundred. |
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| 17 | 87 |
We saw my second-wave ships sweep past, the pairs scattering themselves, each pair following its assigned task force. |
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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 | 170 |
But, behind them, low in the water, almost invisible, masts down, came the second wave of my attack. |
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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. |
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| 17 | 176 |
In the turmoil of the battle I had little doubt that they would be taken, at first, and perhaps until it was too late, as a second wave of round ships. |
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| 17 | 194 |
I had watched my first wave break in dozens of places the long lines of Cos and Tyros, and had seen the ships of the great fleet turn to face them, and had witnessed their vulnerability to the slender second wave of ships, each wreaking destruction beyond what might be expected of their sizes and we... |
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| 18 | 328 |
Before nightfall doubtless more assaults would take place, and, in the first, or the second, or in another, we would surely fall. |
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| 18 | 391 |
"And I was taught many other things, too," said she, "when I could read, even to the second knowledge". |
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| 18 | 960 |
Telima, too, of course, having been educated through the second knowledge in the house of Samos, knew that "world's end" was, to the educated Gorean, a figurative expression. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 622 |
The first "V" was lowest in altitude, and in advance of the other three; the second was second lowest, and in advance of the other two, and similarly for the third and fourth. |
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| 1 | 93 |
That was the second time in my life, to that time, that I remember crying. |
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| 6 | 40 |
And I remembered the second ship, the silverish one, that it had destroyed the first, and I remembered fleeing. |
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| 7 | 165 |
Lana's wagon was the first wagon; my wagon was the second. |
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| 7 | 169 |
One ankle ring is closed on the girl's ankle, the chain passed about the bar and then, on her other ankle, the second ankle ring is closed, securing her. |
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| 7 | 445 |
Many an angry young man of modest means returns, disappointed and frustrated, from the market, leading home on his tether the most that he can afford, an item of what he takes to be second-rate merchandise; but he discovers, perhaps after introducing her to the house, and tying her and giving her th... |
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| 8 | 439 |
On the second, third and fourth day I received the concluding shots of the series. |
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| 8 | 443 |
On the second day, after the shot, I had tried to speak to the physician, in spite of the guard, to beg him for information. |
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| 8 | 614 |
Inge was second, even though she had been of high caste, Fifteen. |
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| 11 | 9 |
I felt the second pain, sharp, followed by an unpleasant burning sensation. |
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| 12 | 15 |
It was a day in the early summer, the second day of En'Var. |
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| 12 | 290 |
Behind this first group of five girls there came a second group, it, too, with its huntsman holding the leashes, dragging his beautiful captives, and another following behind, occasionally lashing them forward. |
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| 13 | 16 |
The second part of the structure was a simple, curved fence of wands a few feet downstream of the first, forming the downstream wall of the trap. |
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| 13 | 343 |
"Besides," pointed out the first, "do you really think Haakon expects us to return white-silk girls to his chain?" "Of course not," laughed the second, slapping his knee. |
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| 13 | 346 |
"But what if we do not catch her?" asked the second. |
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| 13 | 349 |
"She seems intelligent," said the second. |
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| 13 | 351 |
"True," said the second, "though she seems clever, though she seems intelligent, though she has well eluded us this far, she yet built a fire". |
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| 13 | 354 |
"What is our plan?" asked the second. |
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| 13 | 358 |
"At the edge of a thicket to the northeast, days ago," said the second man, "we found the bones of brush urts!" "Yes," said the first man, "and, nearby, in this thicket, there is a small game trail". |
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| 13 | 359 |
"It is hard to hunt in a Ka-la-na thicket," said the second man. |
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| 13 | 361 |
"Yes!" said the second. |
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| 13 | 363 |
"There may be other trails," pointed out the second man. |
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| 14 | 1 |
I Must Submit This was now my second day in the secret war camp of Rask of Treve. |
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| 14 | 72 |
It was now the morning of my second day in the war camp of Rask of Treve. |
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| 15 | 629 |
The second one is lying". |
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| 15 | 850 |
The second day, too, I thrust the pan away, almost vomiting. |
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| 15 | 1468 |
I have been educated in the second knowledge, so I know of your world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 960 |
It was the second name to which she would answer; it was the second name which she would now wear; it was the second name which was now, by my will, hers. |
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| 2 | 167 |
The second offense, by a male, is punished with the removal of the left hand, the third offense by the removal of the right. |
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| 2 | 168 |
The penalty for a woman, for her second offense, if she is convicted, is to be reduced to slavery. |
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| 2 | 541 |
The Tesephone carried four sails, one sail of the first type; two of the second, and one of the third. |
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| 2 | 589 |
"We know nothing," said the second girl. |
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| 2 | 624 |
"I will tell," wept the second girl. |
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| 2 | 628 |
"I must," wept the second. |
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| 2 | 629 |
The second was not bad either. |
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| 2 | 631 |
The second girl, while the first feigned fury, put her head down. |
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| 2 | 645 |
"Ela," said the second. |
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| 2 | 709 |
In the forests, this afternoon, Thurnock and Rim, who were familiar with such matters, the first as a peasant, and the second as an outlaw of the forests, had set snares. |
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| 2 | 752 |
"What is your name?" I asked the second girl. |
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| 3 | 210 |
And we were now finishing second cups of paga. |
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| 3 | 271 |
I well knew what the punishment was for a Gorean female, following her second conviction for theft. |
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| 3 | 296 |
"You have been tried and convicted of the crime of theft," said the judge, "for the second time". |
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| 6 | 1 |
I Hold Converse with Panther Girls and am Entertained by Sheera On the evening of the second day out of Lydius I took a tiny lamp and went to the first hold, where many supplies are kept. |
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| 6 | 6 |
A heavy chain, about a yard long, padlocked about her throat, dangled to a ring, where it was secured with a second padlock. |
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| 6 | 354 |
Verna, I was certain, would not be so easily taken a second time. |
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| 6 | 708 |
"For the second offense," I said, "your right hand will be removed". |
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| 6 | 795 |
She handed me the coin a second time. |
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| 10 | 20 |
"I will be second to Hura," said Mira to Verna, "when her band arrives to command this portion of the forests". |
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| 11 | 557 |
The second penalty for an escaping girl, one who has fled before, is not uncommonly hamstringing. |
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| 13 | 53 |
In hunting one often fells the last of the attackers first, and then the second of the attackers, and so on. |
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| 13 | 141 |
I gazed upon the second girl, a blond. |
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| 13 | 289 |
I took the second girl by the hair. |
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| 14 | 109 |
I elected the second. |
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| 15 | 51 |
Gorean men, familiar with the second knowledge, regard the women of Earth as natural slaves. |
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| 15 | 139 |
As the moons were high in the Gorean night of the second day I regarded the prisoners. |
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| 15 | 143 |
I gestured to two of the paga slaves, the first girl, dark-haired, and the second, the blond. |
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| 15 | 279 |
Second, to the back of the ring, there is welded a closed loop. |
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| 15 | 281 |
Fourth, this chain terminates in a locking device, which may then be snapped shut, if one wishes, through the welded, closed loop on the back of a second ankle ring. |
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| 15 | 294 |
I then took the second Harl ring and closed it about the ankle of the next girl. |
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| 15 | 295 |
I then took the locking device at the termination of the first girl's ankle ring and snapped it shut, through the closed, welded loop on the back of the second girl's ankle ring. |
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| 15 | 297 |
I then extended the chain on the second girl's ankle ring to her right. |
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| 15 | 298 |
I then locked the third girl's ankle ring on her, and then snapped the locking device on the chain of the second through the welded, closed loop on the third girl's ring. |
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| 15 | 959 |
The first name, Ilene, had been a proud Earth name; the second name, Ilene, was only a Gorean slave name. |
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| 16 | 318 |
Slave pens are often filled with girls, second and third collar girls, begging to be sold. |
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| 17 | 6 |
From our coffle we had separated eight girls and chained them in pairs, left ankle to right ankle, running the Harl-ring chain of one to the second welded ring on the Harl ring of the other. |
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| 19 | 376 |
The women, one by one, did not seem to understand what was happening, but each, in turn, was struck twice, at an interval of a few Ihn, that the pain of the first blow be truly felt and understood before the second was delivered. |
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| 19 | 379 |
Then, one by one, the second blow fell. |
10 |
| 20 | 42 |
Holding his mouth, I thrust my blade into the body of the man who carried the second crossbow. |
10 |
| 20 | 236 |
I moved my blade back from the body of the second. |
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| 22 | 405 |
"I was second to Hura. |
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| 22 | 585 |
It was a gesture, was it not, worthy of a Ubar? As for the second objective, the freeing of the woman Talena, that was no longer important to him, no longer a worthy aim of a Ubar's act. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 324 |
Then the second and third man found, each, another coin. |
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| 4 | 318 |
It is regarded as second only to the five-lash Gorean slave whip, used also in the south, and what among the men of Torvaldsland is called the whip of the furs, in which the master, with his body, incontrovertibly teaches the girl her slavery. |
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| 5 | 233 |
Gorm, who seemed second to Ivar, and I, stood at the railing near the prow on the port side of the serpent. |
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| 9 | 44 |
On the second day, it had been thrust up only that the spike of a water bag could be thrust between her teeth, and then replaced; on her third day the coverlet was torn away and, with the scarf, thrown overboard; Ivar Forkbeard, on that day, watered her and, with a spoon, fed her a bit of bondmaid g... |
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| 9 | 72 |
The second of the sea sleen it had been which, with its sharp teeth, making a strike, but falling short, had torn away her green velvet gown on the right side from the hip to the hemline; a long strip of it, like a ribbon, was in its teeth as it darted away. |
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| 9 | 130 |
"I will obey you!" Ivar Forkbeard, experienced in the disciplining of women, did not deliver the second stroke for a full Ehn. |
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| 9 | 274 |
I would use her twice, the second time in the lengthy use of the Gorean master, that use in which, over an Ahn, the female slave or bondmaid is shown no mercy. |
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| 9 | 350 |
After this second horn of mead the Forkbeard, wiping his mouth with his arm, turned about and went to his furs. |
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| 9 | 446 |
It's purpose is only to warm you for the second". |
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| 9 | 452 |
"My Jarl," she asked, frightened, "is it the second taking of the Gorean master, to which you intend to subject me?" "Yes," I told her. |
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| 10 | 152 |
The outer corners of the second of the two drawn squares are marked with hazel wands; there is thus a twelve-foot-square fighting area; no ropes are stretched between the hazel wands. |
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| 10 | 249 |
In the second charge, though I do not know if it were elegant or not, given the proprieties of the formal duel, I tripped the shield bearer. |
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| 10 | 387 |
Accordingly there would be little field dunging to be done, there being no fields in the first place and no dung in the second; too, due to the absence of verr or bosk, butter would be in scarce supply. |
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| 12 | 28 |
He had come in, however, in second place in riddle guessing. |
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| 15 | 236 |
Behind the first Kur, some feet below, was a second. |
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| 15 | 241 |
The second Kur was some twenty-five feet below. |
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| 15 | 406 |
The second Kur dropped to the ledge. |
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| 15 | 408 |
It, too, with a sound of granite on metal, was fended away, this time by the shield of the second Kur. |
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| 17 | 132 |
I do not understand how they are earned, or what is involved in moving from the "second ring" to the first ring. |
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| 18 | 36 |
Twice, from behind, the ax swept laterally, once to the left, the second time to the right, chopping through the spines. |
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| 18 | 214 |
"Regroup! Spears to the second line!" A hedge of spears, projecting from the lines of men, men with axes between them, waited for Kurii, should they try to press their advantage. |
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| 22 | 185 |
The second reason is presumably simple. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 427 |
For the second time I saw four men, the same four. |
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| 2 | 439 |
On the morning of the second day, in the process of my work for Priest-Kings, I had entered the shaded offices of the municipal slave master of Tor. |
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| 3 | 169 |
I felled the second. |
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| 4 | 60 |
At a watering hole, from a nomad, I purchased Alyena a brief second-hand, black-and-white-striped, rep-cloth slave djellaba. |
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| 4 | 104 |
There are two desiderata which are crucial in these matters; the first is to minimize perspiration; the second is to retain as much moisture, lost through perspiration, as is possible on the body. |
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| 4 | 314 |
In his hand he held the second long, straplike lace. |
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| 4 | 319 |
I assumed he would not yet pull her ankles up and tie them to her wrists with the second straplike lace. |
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| 4 | 335 |
He then, with the second strap, pulled her ankles up, high, and tied them closely to her wrists. |
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| 6 | 66 |
"Let the testimony of the second slave be taken," said the judge. |
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| 7 | 313 |
Often I had to force from my mind the look on the face of the second slave, she called Vella, of triumph, as she, small and lovely, luscious, freed of the rack ropes, had sat up on the knotted ropes, after her testimony had confirmed that of others, of Zaya, the other girl, and Ibn Saran, sending me... |
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| 8 | 106 |
She wore a long, bordered skirt, with scarlet thread at its hem, which swirled as she turned; she wore a jacket, tan, of soft kaiila-hair cloth, taken from the animal's second coat, which had a hood, which she had thrown back; beneath the jacket she wore a cheap, printed blouse of rep-cloth, blue an... |
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| 8 | 229 |
"I was punished twice," she said, "once, early in the tents, when I dared to be insolent, a second time when I was clumsy". |
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| 11 | 190 |
A second common sort of mirage, more private than the first, but quite normal, is the interpretation of a mixed terrain, usually rocks and scrub brush, mixed with rising heat waves, as an oasis with water, palms and buildings. |
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| 11 | 446 |
His men, too, were lodged on the second floor. |
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| 11 | 478 |
"To the roof!" I took the stairs four at a time, climbing to the second floor. |
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| 12 | 11 |
To one side another girl, clad similarly, was replacing bath oils in a rack, with which I had been rubbed prior to entering the second sunken bath. |
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| 12 | 621 |
When he pulled it up the second time the fellow cried out for mercy. |
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| 13 | 413 |
Too, some Goreans, those familiar with the Second Knowledge, occasionally have some inkling, though an imperfect one, of certain negativistic, antibiological cultural pathologies of Earth, in virtue of which they suspect that some of the Earth women may have formed incorrect views on certain matters... |
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| 14 | 191 |
The second major function of the hood is to conceal from the prisoner his location, where he is and where he is being taken. |
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| 14 | 197 |
The second two functions of the slave hood, relative to the march to Klima, were specific to the march. |
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| 14 | 596 |
The second rider had been skillful. |
10 |
| 14 | 611 |
Clearly the second rider had been the finest. |
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| 15 | 28 |
In the double-pipe system fresh water is forced into the cavity through an outer pipe and the heavier solution of salt and water rises bubbling through the second pipe, or inner pipe, inserted within the larger. |
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| 16 | 237 |
I tried to save a second man, similarly, but he was taken from the pole, screaming, by the Old One. |
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| 18 | 143 |
"I would rather be first at Klima than second in Tor," he said. |
10 |
| 21 | 244 |
I dreamed of the ring he wore about the second finger of his left hand. |
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| 21 | 343 |
With his right hand he took the ring on his left hand, that on his second finger, and turned the bezel inward, so that the silvered plate set in the gold faced inward. |
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| 21 | 578 |
The first dial, I surmised, registered something equivalent to months, the second to weeks, the third to days, the fourth to hours. |
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| 22 | 36 |
I was not prepared to risk the second alternative. |
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| 23 | 140 |
The Tajuks had come for a war; at a word from their Khan they would, without a second thought, with good cheer, initiate this enterprise against the Zevar and Arani tribesmen. |
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| 24 | 652 |
On second thought perhaps not in chalwar and vest, in bangles perhaps, bangles and collar. |
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| 25 | 1 |
The Second Kasbah Falls; What Was Done to Tarna "Where is Ibn Saran!" demanded Haroun, in the flowing white of the high Pasha of the Kavars. |
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| 25 | 566 |
The noise was coming from the level above, the second. |
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| 25 | 576 |
"The second," I said. |
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| 26 | 95 |
In the second group from the front I passed two women I had earlier met, Lana, the tall girl, who had been the seraglio mistress in the kasbah of Tarna, and the other girl, who had served with her, in charge of the oils of the bath. |
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| 26 | 215 |
"I would rather be first at Klima than second in Tor," he had said. |
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| 26 | 357 |
An Ihn is slightly less than an Earth second. |
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| 26 | 472 |
The second reason a man accompanies the girl is to be the caller. |
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| 26 | 696 |
I had planned this interlude of discipline with some care, first, having in mind Klima, second, a simple instance of slave instruction, one fitted for a common, average girl, this to let her know how she would stand to me. |
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| 26 | 698 |
The second portion of the discipline was no more than an introduction to a common bondage, appropriate for an unimportant girl. |
10 |
| 26 | 701 |
The second twenty strokes would be easier to bear, with an accountable rhythm, and a more centered placement, from below the neck to above the small of the back. |
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| 26 | 702 |
The second set of strokes would be primarily to instruct her. |
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| 26 | 767 |
"Do you think the first well deserved, and the second instructionally appropriate?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 771 |
"But for the second," I said, "twenty strokes is not an uncustomary number, neither too few nor too many, suitable, one supposes, for an initiatory beating, an induction beating, a beating of welcome, a salutational whipping". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 91 |
The physician then, with the second fluid, again cleaned my arm, removing the residue of the second application of the reagent. |
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| 2 | 1167 |
I could see that, on the first carried platform, there were some five figures, those of women; on the second there were several chests and boxes, some covered with sheens of glistening material; in the wagon, under a loose canvas, were other boxes, but simpler and grosser in appearance, and poles an... |
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| 2 | 1222 |
The second palanquin was preciously freighted with chests and boxes, colorful and bound with brass and chains. |
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| 2 | 1224 |
I supposed that the procession was a wedding procession, and that the second palanquin carried rich gifts, perhaps the bride's dowry, or rich gifts to accompany her, perhaps to be delivered to the groom or his parents. |
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| 3 | 328 |
Second place was at stake. |
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| 3 | 330 |
In some two or three minutes she was again taken and, to my horror, was, with pleasure and ruthlessness, again subjected to the indignity of the caught female, her second captor handling her with an audacity and simple physical proprietorship scarcely inferior to that of the first. |
10 |
| 4 | 500 |
It was the second time in my life I had felt a switch. |
10 |
| 4 | 649 |
I wondered if he had had me first, or second, or third or fourth. |
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| 4 | 971 |
Should she attempt escape a second time, and be recaptured, she is commonly hamstrung, the tendons behind the knees being severed. |
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| 4 | 972 |
Almost no girls attempt escape a second time. |
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| 5 | 212 |
From the point of view of his father the bargain was a good one for Thandar was the youngest and least important of five sons; it was not as if his first or second son had been matched with a merchant's daughter; besides the match was politically and commercially expedient; who knew how ambitious mi... |
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| 5 | 672 |
Interestingly, the man snapping the wrist rings on the girls' left wrists did not put the first girl in the first ring, but the second. |
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| 5 | 711 |
"Do you have pretty legs?" asked the man of the second girl in the line. |
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| 5 | 720 |
"Do you have pretty legs?" asked the man of the second gowned girl in the coffle. |
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| 5 | 724 |
"May I speak?" asked the second gowned girl. |
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| 5 | 763 |
You do not know what it is to have had a slave girl until you have had me!" I heard a second wagon being driven from the camp. |
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| 5 | 764 |
I thought it might be one laden with produce, but, as it later turned out, the treasure freight of the dowry wagon had been divided between two wagons, the dowry wagon itself and another, the produce in the second wagon discarded, to lighten the load and make driving swifter. |
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| 5 | 772 |
"Do not forget Donna either," said the second girl. |
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| 7 | 1280 |
"My first name was Judy, my second name was Thornton". |
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| 8 | 272 |
I did not think he would be so merciful a second time. |
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| 8 | 299 |
Might I not bring a high price in a market? Too, I had little doubt that if I were so foolish as to attempt escape a second time I would be maimed, if not worse. |
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| 9 | 1703 |
I had little doubt that one or more had been broken; the second fellow lay inert in the dirt, blood at the side of his head. |
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| 12 | 386 |
"Hurry with the slave," said the second, his hand on my ankle. |
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| 12 | 422 |
The tarnsmen had approached from the dark quadrant, away from the moons, low, not more than a few feet from the ground, hidden by the shadows of the world, and then had, without warning, little more than a quarter of a pasang from the keep, swept into the air, the first wave striking at the wire, th... |
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| 12 | 475 |
I remembered this second passageway. |
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| 12 | 585 |
I then passed through the second gate. |
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| 14 | 385 |
Swiftly Bina thrust a scarf in my mouth, wadding it tightly, and fastened it in place with another scarf, pulling the second scarf tight behind my neck, and deeply between my teeth. |
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| 14 | 451 |
I saw he sat with a second man. |
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| 14 | 470 |
"You have been the object of an intensive and difficult search," said the second voice. |
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| 16 | 209 |
I heard the lookout cry out, from high above on the highest, the second, of the two masts. |
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| 18 | 7 |
I made my way toward the second balcony. |
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| 18 | 16 |
"I shall tell a girl, Master," I said, passing him on the first balcony, making my way to the second, which was the fourth level of the tavern. |
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| 18 | 30 |
I knelt before the table on the second balcony, placing the tray on the floor and quickly, deferentially, placing its contents on the table, the assorted meats and cheese, the sauces and fruits, and wines and nuts. |
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| 18 | 103 |
Whereas the first penalty is commonly only a severe beating, the second one often involves hamstringing, or the cutting of the tendons behind the knees; this cripples the girl and makes her generally useless save as a pathetic example to her sisters in bondage of the foolishness of attempted escape. |
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| 20 | 510 |
He cut with the keys, holding their ring, at the face of the second man of the tavern, who fell screaming, bloodied, reeling back. |
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| 22 | 103 |
"It is low in the water," said the second officer, he who had just come to the high deck. |
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| 22 | 110 |
"Let us take her!" The second officer continued to regard the ship. |
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| 22 | 131 |
Only the second officer, he also with the glass, seemed troubled, observing the fleeing ship with the glass. |
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| 22 | 148 |
"It is as I feared," cried the second officer, he who had not been sanguine about the vessel's pursuit. |
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| 22 | 153 |
"See!" said the second officer. |
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| 22 | 157 |
The second officer, too, observed it. |
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| 22 | 160 |
"Note the oars, Captain," pressed the second officer. |
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| 22 | 356 |
The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo... |
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| 22 | 543 |
I did not see the second ship, from behind me, from amidships, approaching. |
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| 26 | 688 |
"Now," said he, "you will serve me the second wine". |
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| 26 | 690 |
She knew the second wine which was commanded of her. |
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| 27 | 244 |
"And I," called Clitus Vitellius, "will fee the second round of cups!" "Cheers for the peasants!" cried a man, with bloody face. |
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| 28 | 150 |
Often the seats are not entirely filled until the second Ahn of the sale. |
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| 28 | 425 |
I could not, after the second blow, scream. |
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| 29 | 102 |
He carried me, my head against his left shoulder, over the bridge and toward the second bridge, leading to the Towers of the Warriors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 151 |
The blocks of the second row, those forming the second ring of the circular shelter, were slightly smaller than those of the first row. |
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| 3 | 3 |
He had won her in Girl Catch, in a contest to decide a trade dispute between two small cities, Ven and Rarn, the former a river port on the Vosk, the second noted for its copper mining, lying southeast of Tharna. |
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| 3 | 663 |
The first carried a knife, the second, over his arm, carried some brief, white, platform tunics. |
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| 3 | 798 |
"You will note, of course," said the dark-haired girl, second on the chain, who had worn the torn pull-over, "the nature of the garments in which we have been placed". |
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| 3 | 836 |
"Stand, Slave," said the second man. |
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| 3 | 995 |
"Tenalion has no intention of putting them on the main block in the pavilion," said the second. |
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| 3 | 1000 |
"Who of Ar would want them?" asked the second man, grinning. |
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| 3 | 1002 |
"We could sell them for sleen feed here," said the second. |
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| 3 | 1004 |
"Attend to the forty through forty-five platforms," said the second man, who seemed to have greater authority than the first. |
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| 3 | 1007 |
The second slaver's man regarded the four girls, who did not meet his eyes. |
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| 3 | 1062 |
The second slaver's man, who carried the whip, which he now uncoiled, unnoticed, I am sure, by the girls, indicated the blonde with his head. |
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| 3 | 1097 |
This man went to the second girl and jerked back her tunic, and to the third and jerked back her tunic, and to the fourth and jerked back her tunic. |
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| 3 | 1132 |
The food in the second stomach can be held almost indefinitely. |
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| 3 | 1180 |
Two sorts of beasts are kept in domestication in the north; the first sort of beast is the snow sleen; the second is the white-skinned woman. |
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| 3 | 1212 |
He did the same with the second. |
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| 4 | 121 |
There was a movement among some of the younger players to divide the sand in such a way that each player would have one Ahn for the first twenty moves, and one Ahn for the second twenty moves, subject to the same forfeiture conditions as the two-Ahn clock. |
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| 4 | 122 |
The point of this, I was told, would be to improve Kaissa in the second Ahn. |
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| 4 | 123 |
It was true that many times even masters found themselves in time pressure in the second Ahn, having perhaps only a few Ehn sand left for eight or ten moves. |
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| 4 | 182 |
It is, in the eyes of many followers of Kaissa, easily the second most coveted crown in the game. |
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| 4 | 413 |
On what would have been his twenty-second move Scormus of Ar, saying nothing, rose to his feet. |
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| 4 | 710 |
There was no stain of ink about the tips of the index and second finger. |
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| 6 | 259 |
Then, despite her protest, the first girl drew aside the last veil which concealed her features, and the second girl brushed back the final hood, revealing her hair, which was blond. |
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| 6 | 954 |
"Slave," responded Constance to her, confirming the former free woman as second girl. |
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| 6 | 956 |
"Yes, Master," said the two girls, the blonde and the brunette, first girl and second girl, yet both really new slaves, neither of whom had as yet even been branded. |
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| 8 | 61 |
Over her shoulder, across her body, was a second belt, from which hung, at her right hip, a pouch and, on a ring, a slave whip, its blades folded, and four coils of narrow, rawhide rope. |
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| 9 | 181 |
There are few Goreans who cannot speak it, though with some it is almost a second language. |
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| 11 | 355 |
I leaned to one side as the raking talons of a second tarn tore downward for me. |
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| 12 | 72 |
"Put on the second parka and its hood," said Thimble. |
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| 14 | 164 |
Imnak angrily unhitched the second animal, and rehitched the first one, that which belonged to Akko. |
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| 15 | 112 |
Unfortunately, before the coming of Poalu to the tent, both girls had been brought to the second stage of slavery. |
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| 15 | 113 |
The first stage is knowing they must obey, the second stage is needing the touch of a man. |
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| 15 | 499 |
The second reason for the bliss of many slave girls, that sequent upon the appropriateness of bondage for the beautiful woman itself, her female joy in being made to be true to herself, slave, was that, given the flesh transactions in a given city, sooner or later, masters tended to find girls who w... |
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| 21 | 95 |
In the second and third round I caught women of the red hunters. |
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| 23 | 100 |
The first is only terribly dangerous; the second is an incomparable foe. |
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| 25 | 9 |
The second sled was Imnak's, and the third was Ram's, brought with him from the south, which the men of the permanent camp had drawn to the camp for him. |
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| 26 | 150 |
Imnak placed the first block of the second row of blocks across two blocks in the first row. |
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| 26 | 191 |
Imnak completed the low, second row of snow blocks. |
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| 35 | 16 |
The second, however, might have been heard. |
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| 35 | 45 |
"You are right," said the second man. |
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| 35 | 49 |
It was the second man whom I must first reach. |
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| 35 | 57 |
I quickly sorted through the accouterments of the second man. |
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| 35 | 62 |
I then took the sack of darts from the second man and threw it, on its strap, about my shoulder. |
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| 35 | 965 |
We had scarcely attained the second level than we heard the cry, "Halt!" Drusus spun and fired a dart, swiftly, from the hip. |
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| 35 | 1277 |
"The second portion of the sequence, simultaneously initiated, triggers the destruction of the complex," I said. |
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| 35 | 1295 |
He depressed the second of the two switches. |
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| 35 | 1298 |
"The second switch was depressed," he said. |
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| 35 | 1301 |
"But it is a second destruct sequence," I said. |
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| 36 | 158 |
The girl Belinda, whom I had used on the steel plates of the corridor, while she wore her long neck chain, fastened in the overhead track system, knelt a few girls away, in the second row. |
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| 36 | 285 |
I bent and picked up the second glass. |
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| 38 | 48 |
She was Arlene; the second was Audrey; the third was Barbara; Constance was fourth; Belinda was fifth; she who had been the Lady Rosa was sixth. |
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| 38 | 135 |
I then went to the second girl on the coffle line, Audrey. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 105 |
The fork of the second lashed stick is before the throat of the second girl. |
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| 1 | 73 |
The first of these commonly occurs in certain of the Gorean enclaves on Earth, which serve as headquarters for agents of Priest-Kings; the second tends to occur in the lairs of Kurii agents on Earth; the first brand consists of a locked collar and, ascending diagonally above it, extending to the rig... |
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| 1 | 249 |
"It is fully as large as Lake Ushindi, if not larger," I said, "the second of the great equatorial lakes". |
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| 1 | 541 |
One press on the switch on the Tahari ring had activated the field, a second press had resulted in its deactivation. |
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| 1 | 769 |
I exited then through the second gate of the house of Samos. |
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| 4 | 64 |
They were being supervised by the second officer. |
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| 4 | 79 |
"We do not carry passengers," said the second officer. |
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| 4 | 707 |
"Tie her hands and fasten her at a dock ring," said Ulafi, to his second officer, and two seamen, one of whom was the fellow who had passed me on the walkway of the Rim canal, on the way to the pier of the Red Urt. |
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| 4 | 712 |
"Yes, Captain," said the second officer. |
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| 4 | 753 |
Two sailors, behind the second officer, carried a slave cage. |
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| 4 | 781 |
I think now, however, she clearly understood that Gorean men are not permissive, and that her second offenses in such matters would not be likely to be regarded with such lenience. |
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| 4 | 925 |
"Ready," called the second officer. |
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| 4 | 927 |
"Stroke," called the second officer, he acting as oar master. |
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| 4 | 932 |
"Oars inboard!" called the second officer. |
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| 4 | 947 |
The second officer, now freed of his duties as oar master, approached me. |
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| 5 | 1 |
We Ply Toward Schendi "Lesha," snapped the second officer to the blond girl. |
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| 5 | 44 |
I looked at the Earth girl, who had been left kneeling on the deck, the second officer having left her there. |
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| 5 | 76 |
Seeing that the pan was clean, Ulafi had then had his second officer commence her lessons. |
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| 5 | 84 |
The second officer now returned to the kneeling girl and, standing behind her, loosely, with a movement of the slave whip, looped the five broad blades of the whip about her neck. |
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| 5 | 107 |
Second, it impresses my slavery upon me. |
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| 5 | 641 |
I then threw the second blanket, the top blanket, over her, covering her completely. |
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| 6 | 122 |
"You do not seem concerned," I said to Shoka, Ulafi's second officer, who stood near me. |
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| 7 | 58 |
Uchafu even used second-hand collars. |
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| 11 | 362 |
The second letter which I had handed Msaliti lay now on the table before the man. |
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| 12 | 125 |
"We wished, a second time, to interrogate the blond-haired slave, before making contact, and, also, we were curious to see if you could find us by yourself. |
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| 12 | 498 |
Then the second stroke fell upon her and she screamed with misery, her grip lost on the ring, half thrown against the wall, scratching at it with her braceleted hands, the side of her face against the heavy boards. |
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| 12 | 500 |
Her body, sensitized by the first stroke, helpless, raw, aware, expectant, exposed, felt the second, as was intended, mingling with the burning echoes, the searing, throbbing wounds of the first, a thousand times more cruelly. |
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| 13 | 107 |
"Use now to me," I said, "the second of the two formulas, personalized, which you earlier used to me, when you had so foolishly thought yourself a free woman". |
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| 13 | 142 |
The price for the second cup, in the tavern of Pembe, was only a tarsk bit. |
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| 13 | 179 |
I nursed the second cup of paga. |
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| 13 | 199 |
Near that common key, which hangs on a peg, there is a second peg. |
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| 13 | 200 |
From the second peg hangs a slave whip. |
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| 16 | 149 |
Second, he might be killed". |
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| 18 | 77 |
The second, an askari, had killed another askari. |
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| 20 | 123 |
I thrust him back twice with the handle of the shovel, the second time plunging the handle into his solar plexus. |
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| 21 | 24 |
I could hear, slightly out of time, the softer entry into the water of a second set of oars. |
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| 24 | 132 |
Kisu had then freed the second blond-haired slave from the mud and, submerging her, she also bound hand and foot, rinsed her clean. |
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| 24 | 134 |
I placed the second girl forward in the canoe, so that her feet were at the head of the first girl, the blond-haired barbarian. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 27 |
When she has one child one bracelet is removed; when she has a second child the second bracelet is removed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 375 |
"Second slave," I told her, which, among the river towns, and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of indicating that I would take the black wine without creams or sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by the "second slave," th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1067 |
The second and third man to accomplish such a deed would then receive second coup and third coup. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 65 |
The extension on the neck chain of the first girl, who was also hooded, serves as a leash for her, guiding her, and her chain guides the second girl, and the second girl's guides the third, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 151 |
My second plan, or the second portion of my plan, involved the women from the Crooked Tarn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 42 |
Indeed, at least in my second usage of her, purchased with a second tarsk bit placed in the shallow copper bowl beside her, she had been put through fierce, severe, uncompromising slave paces. |
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| 9 | 640 |
"Oh!" said the woman who had spoken to the guardsman, who had been second in line, and now, turned about, was second to last in the long line. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 467 |
She stopped once, to look over her shoulder, and then, frightened, disappeared through the second hatchway amidships, that between the second and third masts. |
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| 9 | 205 |
The two lower areas had large traps, which must be raised, the first to provide its ramp's access to the second level, and that of the second level to provide its ramp's access to the highest level, the ramp of which led, once the great hatch, some yards square, was rolled back, to the open deck. |
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| 16 | 348 |
I will report one part of a conversation heard the evening of the day of the altercation in the vicinity of the warning ship, which altercation took place on the second day of the second week past the fourth passage hand, as it has some bearing on what occurred later. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 33 |
If you have attained, on the other hand, to the Second Knowledge, you understand it is alleged to be a different world, one of several orbiting Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-Home-Stone, but, even so, many of you, even with the Second Knowledge, remain skeptical, regarding it as no more than a myth or f... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 182 |
Is it not often the case that the first is concerned with the second, and the second with the third, and the third with the first, and in the center of all this, attending to the strands, rather like the urt spider itself, there is something which observes and waits. |
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| 22 | 66 |
"What might be the punishment," she said, "for a slave's second attempt at escape?" "There would be no second attempt," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 141 |
The second in line was she who had worn the maid's uniform, or what seemed such a uniform; third was she whom I had first seen in the torn evening gown; her legs were well revealed in her short tunic; then came the taller of the two young women who had worn the frivolous, boyish garb, apparently ado... |
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| 33 | 568 |
Almost at the same time I heard a shriek of dismay from the beast in the crate, and was aware, a moment later, of two other large, hirsute forms descending, forms in the darkness, away from the lantern, one leaping from the first level to the flooring, and the second swinging down from the second le... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 18 |
"How can there be a Second Knowledge?" "Many who are limited to the First Knowledge," said Sakim, "do not even know there is a Second Knowledge". |
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