| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 156 |
About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head. |
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| 4 | 165 |
I removed my helmet, feeling proud as I heard the approval of the Council, both in voice and by Gorean applause, the quick, repeated striking of the left shoulder with the palm of the right hand. |
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| 5 | 2 |
My shield and spear were secured by saddle straps; my sword was slung over my shoulder. |
10 |
| 6 | 39 |
I cursed as an arrow creased my shoulder, as the tarn's great wings smote the air and the monster took to flight. |
10 |
| 6 | 111 |
The insect lifted one foreleg, the sensory hairs trembling on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 9 | 156 |
At last, terminating a frenzied exchange, I managed to drive my blade into his shoulder, and as his sword arm dropped, I kicked the weapon from his grasp. |
10 |
| 9 | 164 |
The warrior, who held his shoulder, blood streaming down from his hand, smiled bitterly. |
10 |
| 9 | 173 |
I tore some inches from the bottom of Talena's gown to make a bandage for Kazrak's shoulder. |
10 |
| 10 | 93 |
Before she disappeared, she called over her shoulder saucily, "You're not rid of me as easily as this, Tarl of Bristol". |
10 |
| 10 | 100 |
Her hair was in wild disarray; there were nail marks on her shoulder and four strap welts on her back. |
10 |
| 11 | 10 |
Talena leaned back against my shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 50 |
"She's beautiful," Talena would say of one as the auctioneer would tug the single loop on the right shoulder of the slave livery, dropping it to the girl's ankles. |
10 |
| 11 | 68 |
She gave me the change and leaned against my shoulder, claiming that she was weary. |
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| 13 | 12 |
Shielded among the crags of the Voltai, invisible except from directly above, I saw four or five small cooking fires, such as might mark the camp of a mountain patrol or a small company of hunters, perhaps after the agile and bellicose Gorean mountain goat, the long-haired, spiral-horned verr, or, m... |
10 |
| 14 | 169 |
I waited uneasily until he thrust his head past me, over my shoulder, extending his neck for preening. |
10 |
| 16 | 93 |
With a heavy heart I watched Kazrak loop his sword belt over his shoulder and pick up his helmet. |
10 |
| 19 | 128 |
Pa-Kur feinted, not exposing himself, his eyes seeming to watch my shoulder, noting how I parried the blow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38 |
I rushed over to him and without thinking seized him by the shoulder. |
10 |
| 2 | 29 |
With this weapon groups of men hunt even the larl in its native haunts in the Voltai Range, that incredible pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight feet high at the shoulder. |
10 |
| 2 | 57 |
In the bundle, wrapped inside the tunic and cloak, I found the shoulder belt, sheath and short sword of the Goreans. |
10 |
| 2 | 81 |
I donned the helmet, and slung the shield and sword over my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 3 | 131 |
Step by step, he approached me, the ax held over his shoulder with both hands. |
10 |
| 5 | 123 |
I resheathed my sword, fastened my helmet over my shoulder, lifted my shield and spear and set out in the direction of the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 8 | 43 |
If a sale had been made, the steward would take a number of pierced coins, threaded on a string hung about his left shoulder, hand them to the vendor, pick up his article and depart. |
10 |
| 9 | 87 |
In the light it was difficult to determine their caste, for they all wore the gray robes of Tharna and only a band of color on the shoulder indicated their station in the social fabric. |
10 |
| 9 | 156 |
There was a hand on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 113 |
I reared up under his body, heaving it on my shoulder, backwards, over on the sand. |
10 |
| 20 | 23 |
I thrust my weapon into the empty scabbard, buckled the sword belt and, in the Gorean fashion, looped it over my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 21 | 185 |
Targo and I regarded one another until the man returned, the leather bucket hung over his shoulder by its straps. |
10 |
| 23 | 42 |
What could I balance against her—my honor, my thirst for vengeance, my curiosity, my frustration, my fury? I put my arm about her shoulder and led her down from the hillock. |
10 |
| 23 | 51 |
She put her head against my shoulder. |
10 |
| 23 | 129 |
His gray garment with its scarlet strip of cloth on the shoulder was stained with blood. |
10 |
| 24 | 266 |
He unslung his shield and the long, broad-headed spear from his left shoulder. |
10 |
| 25 | 7 |
Hardly had my shield been penetrated when my sword had leaped from its sheath and slashed through the shoulder straps of the shield, cutting it from my arm. |
10 |
| 25 | 9 |
My spear had been driven a yard through it and the head had passed over his left shoulder as he crouched behind it. |
10 |
| 26 | 90 |
Her head was against my shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 33 |
At last there was a great creak and the vast portal parted a hand's breadth and then the width of a shoulder and the width of a man's body. |
10 |
| 2 | 63 |
The larl is a predator, clawed and fanged, quite large, often standing seven feet at the shoulder. |
10 |
| 3 | 7 |
They were gigantic beasts, superb specimens, perhaps eight feet at the shoulder. |
10 |
| 5 | 268 |
Her hand loosened the clasp by which her garment was secured over her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 7 | 23 |
Her hair had been braided and looped over her right shoulder; it was hard in the light to determine its color. |
10 |
| 9 | 161 |
I heard her voice over my shoulder. |
10 |
| 9 | 165 |
Casually Vika reached to the clasp on the left shoulder of her garment and loosened it, and the garment fell to her ankles. |
10 |
| 16 | 181 |
Misk touched me lightly on the shoulder with his antennae. |
10 |
| 20 | 114 |
This, with its clasp on the left shoulder, he fastened on the girl. |
10 |
| 22 | 1 |
To the Tunnels of the Golden Beetle I slung the translator on its chain over my shoulder and went to the bars near the door. |
10 |
| 23 | 37 |
These extended in a line along her left side, reaching from the interior of her left thigh to her waist to a few inches below her shoulder. |
10 |
| 24 | 38 |
With my right hand I lifted Vika to my shoulder and stood up. |
10 |
| 24 | 41 |
Walking backwards, Vika on my shoulder, the Mul-Torch in my hand, I slowly retreated from the cavern of the Golden Beetle. |
10 |
| 24 | 45 |
About an Ehn after I had turned and began to move away from the cavern, Vika on my shoulder, I heard from the cavern one of the strangest and most horrifying sounds I had ever heard in my life, a long, weird, frantic, enraged rush of sound, more than a rush of air, more than a wild hiss, almost a cr... |
10 |
| 25 | 90 |
With the other thong I bound Vika's wrists securely together before her body and placed her arms about my neck and left shoulder. |
10 |
| 25 | 94 |
I removed Vika's arms from my neck and shoulder and carried her in my arms down the shaft which led, to the best of my reckoning, in the general direction of the major complexes of the Nest. |
10 |
| 26 | 9 |
"I love you," she said, touching my shoulder. |
10 |
| 26 | 79 |
I heard her voice from over her shoulder and I could see her reflection in the side of the plastic case before which she stood. |
10 |
| 26 | 289 |
I heard her voice over my shoulder. |
10 |
| 27 | 58 |
I glanced over my shoulder and I could see the Priest-King still straining to sense me. |
10 |
| 27 | 256 |
I hardly saw it coming but an instant before its flight began I had seen the tremor of a fiber in his shoulder and I knew the signal for its strike had been transmitted. |
10 |
| 27 | 264 |
Sarm had thrust the stub of his foreleg beneath his shoulder and it seemed frozen there in the coagulating green slush that emanated from the wound. |
10 |
| 27 | 269 |
Glancing over my shoulder I saw the welcome, now standing golden form of Misk. |
10 |
| 27 | 270 |
He placed one foreleg on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 32 | 65 |
They met perhaps a hundred yards from where I stood and I saw the Priest-King place a foreleg on the shoulder of each and together they stood and waited for the final crumbling of the Nest. |
10 |
| 32 | 78 |
"Very well," said Vika, putting her head against my shoulder. |
10 |
| 32 | 85 |
With my right hand I gently pressed the sensory appendage which rested on my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 32 | 318 |
And Parp uttered a great sob, his head falling against the shoulder of his daughter. |
10 |
| 34 | 54 |
"I believe him!" Once safely down Torm came over to me and reached up and touched my shoulder. |
10 |
| 34 | 65 |
"Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself. |
10 |
| 34 | 111 |
"I know," I said, holding her head to my shoulder. |
10 |
| 34 | 124 |
She smiled and turned away and my father gently put his arm about her shoulder and led her away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
Over his left shoulder hung a bulging sack filled with what must have been the paraphernalia of his hut. |
10 |
| 1 | 16 |
Awkwardly, carrying his sack, the peasant turned and stumbled on, casting occasional terrified glances over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 1 | 66 |
I hung my helmet over my left shoulder with the sheathed short sword; on my left arm I bore my shield; in my right hand I carried the Gorean war spear. |
10 |
| 2 | 105 |
A kaiila, which normally stands about twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single day's riding. |
10 |
| 2 | 115 |
Over his shoulder he, too, carried one of the slender lances. |
10 |
| 4 | 14 |
The helmet which I had slung over my shoulder was gone. |
10 |
| 6 | 160 |
He signaled to a boy who carried a skin of Ka-la-na wine over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 6 | 161 |
He took the skin of wine from the boy and bit out the horn plug; he then, with the wineskin on his shoulder, held back the head of Elizabeth Cardwell with one hand and with the other shoved the bone nozzle of the skin between her teeth; he tipped the skin and the girl, half choking, swallowed wine; ... |
10 |
| 7 | 92 |
With him had been a tall, strange man, broad of shoulder with large hands, a grayish face, eyes almost like glass. |
10 |
| 8 | 229 |
I could see blood on the side of his neck, where it joins the shoulder. |
10 |
| 8 | 318 |
She must have been counting to herself because only an instant or so after Conrad had spurred after her she looked over her shoulder, seeing him approaching. |
10 |
| 9 | 139 |
A common light tunic, often of silk, because it moves easily on the body, fits loosely and has a single tie, at the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 9 | 141 |
The tie is at the left shoulder because most masters are right-handed. |
10 |
| 10 | 54 |
I sprang from the saddle of the kaiila and kneeling beside her held her in my arms, pressing her head against my shoulder. |
10 |
| 10 | 437 |
Over his shoulder was slung the sheath of a short sword. |
10 |
| 11 | 35 |
Kamchak had his arm about my shoulder, chuckling. |
10 |
| 11 | 54 |
Kamchak squeezed my shoulder and rubbed his nose. |
10 |
| 11 | 401 |
"Do you not recall," asked Kamchak, "what I then said to you—what I said at that time?" "No!" cried the girl leaping up, but Kamchak had jumped toward her, scooped her up and threw her over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 402 |
She squirmed and struggled on his shoulder, kicking and pounding on his back. |
10 |
| 12 | 64 |
Elizabeth turned her head over her shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 327 |
She seemed barely able to kneel and, at last, I permitted her to lean against me, and she did, her chin on my right shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 339 |
Elizabeth lifted her head from my shoulder and regarded me. |
10 |
| 12 | 343 |
"I didn't think so," she said, again in English, and put her head back on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 364 |
Miss Cardwell lifted her chin from my shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 373 |
"Thank you, Master," said Elizabeth politely, and once more put her head on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 389 |
Even Elizabeth had lifted her head now from my shoulder and was rising on her knees a bit for a clearer view. |
10 |
| 12 | 396 |
And then at last his hand was upon her shoulder and she threw back her head and lifted her hands and it seemed her entire body was wretchedness and despair. |
10 |
| 12 | 432 |
"Tonight," she begged, "please, Master, tonight!" With a roar of triumph Kamchak swept her up and slung her, hobbled as she was, over his shoulder and she cried out and he, singing a Tuchuk song, was stomping away with her from the curtained enclosure. |
10 |
| 12 | 433 |
At the exit he stopped briefly and, Aphris over his shoulder, turned and faced Elizabeth and myself. |
10 |
| 12 | 461 |
"Will you carry me over your shoulder to the wagon," she asked, lightly, "like Aphris of Turia?" "I'm sorry," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 509 |
Indeed, one of the vicious beasts even snapped at me, ripping the sleeve on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 151 |
I then noted that each of the four chief haruspexes carried, about his shoulder, a white linen sack, somewhat like a peasant's rep-cloth seed bag. |
10 |
| 13 | 211 |
He laughed and leaned over and slapped me on the shoulder. |
10 |
| 19 | 201 |
He scooped her up and put her over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 20 | 50 |
There was a quarrel on the guide and he threw the weapon to his shoulder. |
10 |
| 20 | 125 |
Harold once more had Hereena over his shoulder and was boldly approaching the tarns. |
10 |
| 21 | 218 |
Then, irrationally, he put his shoulder under the wagon box and began to push up, trying to right the wagon, surely an impossible task for one man. |
10 |
| 21 | 253 |
Beneath the unbelted tunic of the Bakers, slung under my left arm, its lineaments concealed largely by a short brown cloak worn over the left shoulder, there hung my sword and with it, the quiva. |
10 |
| 22 | 84 |
At that moment there was a scuffle and commotion at the gate to the inner courtyard and two Tuchuks, one laughing and with a bloody shoulder, were dragging a fiercely resisting, unveiled but clothed girl between them. |
10 |
| 22 | 85 |
It was Dina of Turia! The laughing Tuchuk, he with the bloody shoulder, hauled her before us. |
10 |
| 22 | 86 |
"A beauty," said he, "Commander!" He nodded to his shoulder. |
10 |
| 22 | 123 |
"Neither did the Turians," remarked Harold, reaching over the shoulder of one of the high council of Turia and taking a candied verr chop. |
10 |
| 22 | 158 |
Kamchak stood before the throne of Phanius Turmus, the purple robe of the Ubar over one shoulder, and looked at the overturned tables, the spilled cups, the remains of the feast. |
10 |
| 25 | 90 |
She sobbed and pressed her head to my shoulder. |
10 |
| 25 | 443 |
"I do not care," she said, putting her head to my shoulder. |
10 |
| 25 | 473 |
But my hand on her shoulder prevented her from rising. |
10 |
| 25 | 562 |
"The kiss of a Tuchuk slave girl!" Then she laughed and turned away, looking over her shoulder. |
10 |
| 25 | 871 |
She kissed me on the shoulder. |
10 |
| 26 | 16 |
He seemed humped in the half darkness, short of neck, broad of shoulder. |
10 |
| 27 | 14 |
In the palace of Phanius Turmus, on his throne, sat Kamchak, the purple of the Ubar's robes thrown casually over one shoulder, over his Tuchuk leather. |
10 |
| 27 | 220 |
She took his hand and he drew her to the saddle before him, where she turned, sitting across the saddle, and placed her head against his right shoulder, weeping. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 501 |
Then he had placed his antennae on us, one on my left shoulder and the other on Elizabeth's right shoulder. |
10 |
| 19 | 51 |
I heard two girls laugh and I felt my ankles seized and held while small hands thrust on my back, taking me by surprise and throwing me heavily forward; I struck my shoulder on the back of the cart and the booted foot of a Warrior thrust me from the cart and I fell to my knees on the stones; when I ... |
10 |
| 1 | 35 |
There were three who stood near the pyre; one wore the brown robes of the Administrator of a City, the humblest robes in the city, and was hooded; another wore the blue of the Caste of Scribes, a small man, almost tiny, bent now with pain and grief; the last was a very large man, broad of back and s... |
10 |
| 1 | 52 |
These he slung over his left shoulder. |
10 |
| 2 | 57 |
Kuurus had placed his spear against the wall behind him, and he had taken from his left shoulder his shield, his helmet and the sheathed short sword, which blade he had placed at his right hand on the low table. |
10 |
| 2 | 130 |
"Yes, Master," he said, "yes!" "Then you have money," said Kuurus, and stood up behind the table, slinging the sheath of the short sword about his shoulder. |
10 |
| 2 | 329 |
Kuurus threw the silk and chain over his shoulder and motioned the girl to move ahead of him and, numbly, she did so, crossing the room, going between the tables, and stopping before the narrow ladder at the right side of the high wall, in which were found the ledges with their alcoves. |
10 |
| 3 | 22 |
The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a s... |
10 |
| 3 | 60 |
I was surprised, and looked more closely, as the Vintner took the wallet filled with game pieces from the man's shoulder and began, with his stubby fingers, to quickly arrange the pieces. |
10 |
| 3 | 104 |
There was a Builder, two Saddle Makers, a Baker, and a Tarn Keeper, a fellow who wore on his shoulder a green patch, indicating he favored the Greens. |
10 |
| 3 | 116 |
The Baker looked over his shoulder and called down the street to some men gathered there. |
10 |
| 3 | 214 |
The Vintner was picking up the pieces and putting them back in the leather game bag, which he then slung about the man's shoulder. |
10 |
| 3 | 215 |
He then handed him the board, which the Player hung over his other shoulder. |
10 |
| 3 | 232 |
I noted the patch of the Greens on his shoulder. |
10 |
| 4 | 67 |
The Older Tarl, the Koroban master of arms, and myself had found the body, and near it, the patch of green caught in a crack in the grillwork of one of the lamps on the bridge, where perhaps it had been torn from the shoulder of a running, stumbling man. |
10 |
| 4 | 166 |
Without a word Elizabeth did so, standing and pulling the loop at her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 5 | 21 |
These keys are quite heavy and are carried over the shoulder, and can, if necessary, even function as weapons. |
10 |
| 5 | 131 |
With a flourish I unrolled the furs, spilling Elizabeth out, who shrieked and began to crawl away, but my hand caught at the loop on the left shoulder of her garment and she turned suddenly, trying to sit up, her feet tangled in the garment and I kicked it away and took her in my arms. |
10 |
| 6 | 68 |
She bent over my left shoulder woodenly, her body stiff. |
10 |
| 8 | 4 |
"I suppose not," she grumbled, slipping her slave livery over her shoulders, tying the slip knot on the left shoulder, and then, grimacing, rubbing her wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 8 | 31 |
I began to nibble at the loop on the left shoulder of her slave livery. |
10 |
| 8 | 41 |
She squared off against me, hitching up the loop on her left shoulder which I had loosened with my teeth. |
10 |
| 8 | 100 |
She leaned closer to me, smiling, putting one finger up to my shoulder. |
10 |
| 8 | 192 |
At last, about the seventeenth hour, she returned, set the beams in place and lay down beside me, putting her head on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 10 | 79 |
He scratched his left shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 2 |
"Blue! Blue!" screamed the man next to me, a blue patch sewn on his left shoulder, a pair of glazed blue clay plates clutched in his right hand. |
10 |
| 12 | 59 |
Generally, it was a small faction patch sewn on the left shoulder; the faction patches of the High-Caste women tended to be fine silk, and tastefully done; those of low-caste women merely a square of crudely stitched, dyed rep-cloth; some of the masters had dressed their slave girls in slave livery ... |
10 |
| 12 | 129 |
He wore a patch of golden cloth on his left shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 227 |
Elizabeth did so, drawing at the loop on the left shoulder of her garment. |
10 |
| 13 | 64 |
She looked over to the side of the pool where a small man in a tunic of toweling was standing about, a metal box with a slot strapped over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 198 |
I saw he wore a patch of green on his shoulder, indicating he was of the Greens. |
10 |
| 14 | 96 |
I took her gently in my arms and kissed her, and she put her head against my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 48 |
I glanced at Virginia Kent, who was now moving about the tables, in the incredibly brief silken slave livery, the pitcher on her left shoulder, held there gracefully with her left hand. |
10 |
| 15 | 168 |
"I'm being trained like an animal," said Elizabeth, putting her head to my shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 169 |
I held her head on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 228 |
Later, in the eighteenth week of their training, they were given brief silken slave livery, sleeveless, fastened by the loop on the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 16 | 54 |
Each of the girls would wear brief silken slave livery, sleeveless, the disrobing loop on the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 17 | 107 |
Then she nodded her head, and, reached to the disrobing loop on her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 17 | 119 |
"You will not escape," I told her, reaching to the loop on her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 17 | 297 |
At this point Virginia Kent put down her pitcher of wine, seized Lana by the shoulder, spun her about and struck her a rather severe blow near the left eye. |
10 |
| 17 | 322 |
The girl put her head to his shoulder and wept. |
10 |
| 17 | 345 |
He threw her bodily over his shoulder, her small fists pounding on his back, and carried her to Ho-Tu's place. |
10 |
| 17 | 347 |
Phyllis shrieked in fear, wiggling on his shoulder, pounding. |
10 |
| 19 | 272 |
"A hundred and twenty," said another, soberly, matter-of-factly, this man, too, a professional Slaver, he wearing on his left shoulder the sign of Tyros. |
10 |
| 19 | 321 |
"Three hundred and ten!" announced the Slaver who wore upon his shoulder the sign of Tyros. |
10 |
| 19 | 325 |
About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer... |
10 |
| 19 | 409 |
"Which of you would like to put me in steel?" The crowd roared and stamped, and its men rose to their feet, shouting, pounding their right fists on their left shoulder, in Gorean acclaim. |
10 |
| 19 | 469 |
She looked back over her shoulder, her eyes wide with horror. |
10 |
| 20 | 296 |
Through the entryway, rather angrily, strode a young man, perhaps no more than eighteen or nineteen years of age, with piercing eyes and incredibly striking features; he wore the garb of the Player, but his garb was rich and the squares of the finest red and yellow silk; the game bag over his left s... |
10 |
| 21 | 318 |
I spun and saw, standing beside me, on my right, sword drawn, in the heavy helmet of the arena fighter, with the small round shield, the sheathed right arm and shoulder, Murmillius. |
10 |
| 22 | 5 |
"I am of the Steels!" Each of those who charged wore upon his shoulder the grayish patch that betokened the faction. |
10 |
| 22 | 177 |
The Taurentian had the stock of the crossbow to his shoulder, waiting. |
10 |
| 22 | 179 |
He raised his weapon to his shoulder. |
10 |
| 22 | 216 |
Then all, save perhaps those closest to the noble Ubar of the city, began to cry out and cheer, and pound their fists on their left shoulder. |
10 |
| 22 | 428 |
Shortly before the first circuit of the track had been made I swept past the last bird, a nonfaction bird, whose rider, caught unaware, threw a wild glance over his shoulder as I, a shadow upon a flying shadow, hurtled by over his head and to the left. |
10 |
| 22 | 563 |
The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f... |
10 |
| 23 | 146 |
Then I drew blood, from the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 23 | 148 |
He tore his robe from his body and wore only the belted house tunic; the left shoulder was soaked with blood. |
10 |
| 23 | 165 |
He looked over his shoulder, saw the door from the hall which led to the stairs and passage leading to the chambers of the beast. |
10 |
| 24 | 317 |
She cried out, pressing her head to his shoulder. |
10 |
| 24 | 376 |
She leaped to her feet, swinging her manacled wrists at him but he ducked neatly and scooped her up, throwing her over one shoulder. |
10 |
| 24 | 377 |
She was wriggling madly on his shoulder, pounding him on his back with her chained fists. |
10 |
| 24 | 441 |
Elizabeth laughed and pressed her cheek to my left shoulder. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 860 |
Samos put, not without tenderness, a hand on the shoulder of Telima, and another on my own shoulder. |
10 |
| 1 | 67 |
About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w... |
10 |
| 3 | 66 |
Over her shoulder were slung the four birds she had caught in the marshes; their necks were now broken and they were tied together, two in front and two over her back. |
10 |
| 3 | 68 |
"He is either of Port Kar," she said, shifting the gants on her shoulder, "or he was intending to be of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 3 | 119 |
Angrily she threw the marsh gants from her shoulder and took the bow. |
10 |
| 4 | 324 |
In the darkness I could see the outline of her head, could feel her hair on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 5 | 5 |
Another girl, dark-haired, carrying a folded net over her left shoulder, said, "No, he will be mine". |
10 |
| 5 | 32 |
The lithe, dark-haired girl, standing close to me, traced a pattern on my left shoulder, idly. |
10 |
| 5 | 38 |
Her finger was on my shoulder, delicately. |
10 |
| 5 | 88 |
Strangely, to my mind, he carried over his left shoulder a large, white, silken scarf. |
10 |
| 6 | 44 |
He now had the large, white, silken scarf tied over his left shoulder and across his body, fastened at his right hip. |
10 |
| 6 | 53 |
My arm about Telima's shoulder, I moved her away, losing ourselves among the shouting rencers, the running men and women. |
10 |
| 6 | 59 |
She had been the girl who, this morning, had carried a net over her left shoulder, one of those who had taunted me at the pole, one of those who had, at festival, danced her contempt of me. |
10 |
| 6 | 72 |
I remembered her well from the pole, and how she had traced the figure upon my shoulder, and how she had knelt insolently, tormentingly, before me, and had looked up at me, amused, and had put her hands upon my thighs, but had then, with the others, been ordered away from me by Ho-Hak. |
10 |
| 6 | 76 |
The rence tunic had been half torn from her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 6 | 120 |
With a slave knife he cut the rence tunic from her and threw her, still partly tangled in the net, over his shoulder, and carried her toward one of the dark, high-prowed barges in the shadows at the edge of the island. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 8 | 290 |
On the third prow it had been the shorter, dark-haired girl, she who had carried the net over her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 9 | 330 |
As we walked, Thurnock following, carrying Thura, and Clitus then, Ula weeping in his arms, Midice put her head against my left shoulder, and I felt her tears through my tunic. |
10 |
| 9 | 550 |
Surbus threw the girl over his shoulder and went to the counter. |
10 |
| 9 | 567 |
He turned away from the counter now, taking the girl from his shoulder and holding her, bound, in his arms. |
10 |
| 11 | 263 |
About his left shoulder there were the two ropes of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 11 | 283 |
He nodded, and then turned, but stopped, and spoke over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 130 |
There was some polite striking of the left shoulder with the right hand in the room, which is a common Gorean applause, though not of the warriors, who clash weapons. |
10 |
| 13 | 258 |
"Very well," said the captain, gesturing to a scribe near him, with a wallet of coins slung over his shoulder, to pay the slave master. |
10 |
| 13 | 270 |
He folded the net carefully and dropped it over his left shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 349 |
It bears on its field the head of a bosk!" One of the slaves, chained before me, whispered over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 77 |
I took two talenders which had fallen on my shoulder and fastened them in the ropes at her neck. |
10 |
| 15 | 309 |
I felt her hand on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 314 |
Angrily I brushed her hand from my shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 406 |
There were cries of pleasure from the tables, and much striking of the right fist on the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 16 | 124 |
She laid her head on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 16 | 147 |
I dressed, and slung the sword over my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 16 | 169 |
A door at the side opened and Tab strode in, his sword over his left shoulder. |
10 |
| 17 | 113 |
The strap to which it was attached ran from my right shoulder to my left hip. |
10 |
| 17 | 233 |
The man on the height of the prow, his builders' glass slung about his shoulder, standing, his feet fixed in ropes, was waving his cap in the air. |
10 |
| 17 | 240 |
I let the builders' glass, attached to the strap about my shoulder, fall to my side. |
10 |
| 17 | 255 |
I took the glass of the builders, and its strap, from my shoulder. |
10 |
| 18 | 248 |
Vina ran to Fish, tears in her eyes, and thrust her head against his left shoulder. |
10 |
| 18 | 250 |
Telima approached me timidly, head down, and then, looking up, smiling with her eyes, put her head against my right shoulder. |
10 |
| 18 | 542 |
He raised his own to strike her but I had my steel beneath his left shoulder blade and had turned again before he could deliver his blow. |
10 |
| 18 | 731 |
Ula laughed and thrust her head against his shoulder, holding his arm. |
10 |
| 18 | 913 |
Telima put her head to my shoulder. |
10 |
| 18 | 971 |
"I wish you well," said he, over his shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 117 |
I ran back into the bedroom to seize something to wear but as I entered the room I heard a man's shoulder strike at the heavy door. |
10 |
| 6 | 220 |
The swords they carried in scabbards slung over their left shoulder. |
10 |
| 6 | 362 |
And about her body, in a broad loop, passing over her left shoulder and across her right hip, was a wide, heavy leather strap, which was bolted into the wagon tongue. |
10 |
| 6 | 365 |
Over my shoulder, about my body, was passed a heavy loop of leather. |
10 |
| 7 | 270 |
How beautiful they were in their brief slave tunics, with the loop on the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 8 | 432 |
I looked over my shoulder at the physician. |
10 |
| 8 | 695 |
With the other girls I applauded, striking my left shoulder in Gorean fashion, as the mountebank put his beast through its paces. |
10 |
| 8 | 946 |
Soon I returned to the firelight, the heavy bota of paga, on its strap, slung over my shoulder, Ute and Lana, with theirs, behind me. |
10 |
| 8 | 949 |
I felt the rough fabric of the camisk on my body as I moved, the pull of the strap on my shoulder, the heavy, swaying touch of the bota as, in the rhythm of my walk, it touched my side. |
10 |
| 10 | 34 |
The strike of those jaws could, with one wrenching twist, have torn away the shoulder of a man. |
10 |
| 11 | 252 |
I pressed my head against her shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 253 |
She held my head to her shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 276 |
"What man would want a woman with the pierced ears of a slave girl? And if I were not veiled, anyone might look upon me, and laugh, and scorn me, seeing that my ears had been pierced, as those of a slave girl!" I shook my head, and again pressed my head into her shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 298 |
I did not lift my head from Ute's shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 1468 |
Ute gave me a kiss, and put her arm about my shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 1469 |
I pressed my head against her shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 71 |
A guard then entered the wagon, with ten sets of chains and ankle rings over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 538 |
"Hurry," said Lana, "or we will be beaten!" I gave Verna one last blow, a stinging stripe across the shoulder, with the stick. |
10 |
| 13 | 48 |
She coiled the heavy strap and put it about her shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 187 |
Over her shoulder she had two small, furred animals, hideous forest urts, about the size of cats, and in her left hand she carried four small, green-and-yellow-plumaged birds. |
10 |
| 13 | 601 |
I felt my body dragged against the side of the bird, and then I felt my shoulder rub against the metal and leather of the saddle, and a man's leg. |
10 |
| 13 | 889 |
Once more, over my head, there was a flash of steel, and I heard a cry of pain, and then suddenly the other tarn veered sharply away, and I saw its rider, clutching his shoulder, reeling in the saddle. |
10 |
| 13 | 897 |
I had seen that his left arm, high, above the elbow, about two inches below the shoulder, had been cut. |
10 |
| 14 | 111 |
I did so, and to my pleasure, she wrapped the piece of cloth about me, snugly, and fastened it with a pin behind my right shoulder blade. |
10 |
| 14 | 300 |
Ena pulled away the clasp at the left shoulder of her garment, dropping it to her ankles. |
10 |
| 14 | 325 |
I watched Ena close the clasp at the left shoulder of the lovely white garment, fastening it on her. |
10 |
| 14 | 392 |
Even the common slave tunic often had a disrobing loop at the left shoulder, that it would be convenient for a right-handed male. |
10 |
| 14 | 720 |
I heard hands striking the left shoulder in Gorean applause. |
10 |
| 16 | 383 |
"Yes," he said, toying with his finger on my shoulder. |
10 |
| 17 | 84 |
Sometimes he would hold me in his arms, and gaze into my eyes, with such intentness and tenderness, with so soft a light in his eyes, that I, my head lifted, would be overjoyed, my love flooding forth to him, but then, frightened, I would put my head down, against his shoulder, in my collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 129 |
I now slung the sword over my left shoulder, in the Gorean fashion. |
10 |
| 2 | 488 |
"This one," said Sheera, poking the other in the shoulder with her knife, "is not bad". |
10 |
| 3 | 420 |
Suddenly, she stopped, and looked back over her shoulder. |
10 |
| 4 | 405 |
The girl looked angrily over her shoulder at Thurnock, and then poured paga. |
10 |
| 5 | 73 |
When she was off the wharf to which the Tesephone was moored, I saw her cast a look over her shoulder, and begin to run between the bales and boxes near the warehouses. |
10 |
| 6 | 577 |
Sheera looked at me, over her shoulder. |
10 |
| 6 | 762 |
I clapped my hand on his shoulder. |
10 |
| 7 | 192 |
She had been pinned to a tree by the shoulder. |
10 |
| 7 | 194 |
She had her hand at her shoulder. |
10 |
| 7 | 200 |
Some six inches of the arrow, five inches feathered, protruded from her shoulder. |
10 |
| 7 | 302 |
She looked back at me, over her shoulder, fear in her eyes. |
10 |
| 9 | 464 |
I felt Mira's teeth in my shoulder. |
10 |
| 10 | 11 |
The girl found her skins, and drew them on, tying them over her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 207 |
Her head will be turned slightly to the right, as though she would look over her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 429 |
She struck Verna in the shoulder with the butt of her spear, that of a free woman. |
10 |
| 11 | 462 |
She lay on her left shoulder, looking up at him. |
10 |
| 11 | 629 |
He clapped me on the shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 713 |
Her head was turned slightly to the right, as though she might wish, did she dare, to look over her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 187 |
Over my left shoulder, slung, was sword and scabbard. |
10 |
| 14 | 147 |
How many were there? How did they seem? Which seemed most alert? Who did I suppose might be the most dangerous? At what height hung the hilt of the swords in the sheaths slung over the left shoulder? Which girls walked with their heads the highest, which carried their spears well? I looked at the mo... |
10 |
| 15 | 378 |
Her head came only to my shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 835 |
She looked over her shoulder at the red-haired girl. |
10 |
| 15 | 843 |
The blond girl, tears in her eyes, shrank back in the coffle, shoulder stinging, and hid herself among the other girls. |
10 |
| 18 | 522 |
I took the slave whip from my belt and touched Tina on the shoulder with it. |
10 |
| 18 | 534 |
She had torn her tunic away from her left shoulder and ripped it to her waist on the left side. |
10 |
| 22 | 162 |
She put her cheek against my right shoulder. |
10 |
| 22 | 191 |
He gently kissed her on the shoulder, and she turned, gently, to him. |
10 |
| 22 | 252 |
He threw her over his shoulder and walked to the sand at the foot of the beach. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 39 |
Shoulder to shoulder, fighting, I saw Bjarni of Thorstein Camp and the young man whom I had championed on the dueling ground in the Thing. |
10 |
| 18 | 641 |
The Forkbeard and I, it had been, who had found the arrow of war in the Torvaldsberg, who had touched it to other arrows, which, in hundreds of villages and camps, over thousands of square pasangs of rugged, inlet-cleft terrain, had been carried to the free men of the north, that they might fetch th... |
10 |
| 1 | 515 |
The findings of Iskander of Turia matched those of the other physicians, but, to my astonishment, when he had replaced his instruments in the pouch slung at his shoulder, he said, "The wounds were given by blades of Tyros". |
10 |
| 1 | 692 |
I put over my left shoulder the scabbard strap. |
10 |
| 2 | 10 |
She wore, over her shoulder, a cape of white fur of the northern sea sleen. |
10 |
| 2 | 254 |
It was fastened at the left shoulder by a large circular brooch of silver, probably from Tharna. |
10 |
| 2 | 343 |
On the platform the men of importance, and their families, observed the High Initiate, among them, craning her neck, looking over her father's shoulder, was the large blond girl, in her black velvet and silver. |
10 |
| 3 | 171 |
Two of the men of Torvaldsland had, from their left shoulder to their right hip, that their right arms be less impeded, a chain formed of slave bracelets; each pair of bracelets locked at each end about one of the bracelets of another pair, the whole thus forming a circle. |
10 |
| 3 | 210 |
Then, with his boot and shoulder, he tottered the great circle of gold which surmounted it. |
10 |
| 3 | 215 |
Standing on the broken fragments of the circle, Ivar Forkbeard cried out, his ax lifted, and his left hand, too, "Praise be to Odin!" And then, throwing his ax to his left shoulder, holding it there by his left hand he turned and faced the Sardar, and lifted his fist, clenched. |
10 |
| 3 | 302 |
Forkbeard then, grinning, slung his ax over his left shoulder, dropping it into the broad leather loop by which it may be carried, its head behind his head and to the left. |
10 |
| 3 | 303 |
This loop is fixed in a broad leather belt worn from the left shoulder to the right hip, fastened there by a hook, that the weight of the ax will not turn the belt, which fits into a ring in the master belt. |
10 |
| 3 | 305 |
The sword, when carried, and it often is, is commonly supported in its own belt, looped over the left shoulder, which is, it might be mentioned, the common Gorean practice. |
10 |
| 4 | 226 |
I noted the blondish girl, the water bag now, wet and heavy, over her shoulder, going to the men of the Forkbeard, to offer them drink. |
10 |
| 4 | 266 |
"Feed her," said the Forkbeard, gesturing over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 6 | 105 |
He carried, on a strap over his shoulder, a tall, dark vessel, filled with liquid. |
10 |
| 6 | 412 |
The bondmaid, Olga, laughing and kicking, thrown helplessly over the shoulder of an oarsman, was carried past. |
10 |
| 6 | 568 |
"Do not forget Gunnhild," whined Gunnhild, pressing her lips to the Forkbeard's shoulder. |
10 |
| 9 | 189 |
But I thrust her up, holding her by the arms, into the hands of Ottar, who, laughing, threw her lightly over his shoulder and turned about. |
10 |
| 9 | 190 |
I saw her head and shoulders, and her body, to the waist, over his shoulder, her small fists pounding meaninglessly on his back. |
10 |
| 9 | 194 |
Pretty Ankles hurried past, carrying a great trencher of roast meat on her small shoulder. |
10 |
| 9 | 314 |
Gorm unbound her and threw her over his shoulder; so stiff and trembling with cold, and stiff from the ropes, was she that she could not stand. |
10 |
| 9 | 357 |
After half of an Ahn I saw her, delicately, eyes frightened, lift her head and put her lips to his shoulder; softly, timidly, she kissed him; and then looked into his eyes. |
10 |
| 9 | 376 |
She looked over her shoulder at me, agonized. |
10 |
| 9 | 405 |
I kissed her on the back of the right shoulder. |
10 |
| 9 | 410 |
She followed eagerly, trying to press her lips to my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 10 | 82 |
When the war arrow is carried, of course, all free men are to respond; in such a case the farm may suffer, and his companion and children know great hardship; in leaving his family, the farmer, weapons upon his shoulder, speaks simply to them. |
10 |
| 10 | 431 |
It had been taken from a sack slung about the shoulder of Blue Tooth's officer. |
10 |
| 10 | 456 |
One of his men took from over his shoulder a looped chain. |
10 |
| 10 | 459 |
He removed it from his shoulder and opened the manacles. |
10 |
| 10 | 597 |
Honey Cake, when last I saw her, dared to cling to his arm, her head to his shoulder. |
10 |
| 10 | 691 |
She looked once over her shoulder. |
10 |
| 11 | 89 |
He wore a collar of fur, dyed scarlet, and a long cloak, over the left shoulder, of purple-dyed fur of the sea sleen. |
10 |
| 11 | 311 |
Then he put his arm about my shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 172 |
Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea... |
10 |
| 13 | 331 |
You will bear the scar in your left shoulder". |
10 |
| 13 | 393 |
She had been carried weeping, over his shoulder, her brand fresh, aboard his ship. |
10 |
| 13 | 420 |
My heart bounded, my blood raced, I struck, again and again, my left shoulder with the palm of my right hand. |
10 |
| 15 | 84 |
He, too, tied at his shoulder, wore a yellow scarf. |
10 |
| 15 | 90 |
Ivar had thrust the yellow scarf into his belt; I looped mine over the left shoulder, fastening it loosely at the right hip; we left Thorgard's two men for the Kurii. |
10 |
| 15 | 376 |
The shoulder was like wood. |
10 |
| 15 | 417 |
One of them thrust his head within and half a shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 423 |
I rubbed my left arm and shoulder. |
10 |
| 16 | 217 |
I put my hand to his shoulder. |
10 |
| 17 | 22 |
At Bjarni's shoulder, too, stood the young man, scarcely more than a boy, whom he had in that duel intended to fight. |
10 |
| 17 | 226 |
Each of us tied about our left shoulder a yellow scarf. |
10 |
| 18 | 20 |
I wrenched free the blade of the ax, as it slumped down, breaking it free from its jawbone and shoulder. |
10 |
| 18 | 76 |
My blow fell against its left shoulder blade, dividing it. |
10 |
| 18 | 692 |
I slipped the quiver, with its arrows, flight and sheaf, over my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 19 | 19 |
It reached into a pouch, slung over its shoulder, and handed me a paper, rolled, bound, incongruously, with a ribbon. |
10 |
| 20 | 75 |
It carried, on its shoulder, a large, long, flattish object, wrapped in purple cloth, dark in the dusk. |
10 |
| 20 | 118 |
It lifted the ax, now over its right shoulder, gripping it in both hands. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 |
He came to me, bent over, tattered, swarthy, grinning up at me, the verrskin bag over his shoulder, the brass cups, a dozen of them, attached to shoulder straps and his belt, rattling and clinking. |
10 |
| 10 | 126 |
Her left wrist was locked in a slave bracelet and she was put, kneeling, against a wall; her left side faced the wall; the opened bracelet, that not closed about her left wrist, was snapped shut about a slave ring bolted in the wall, the ring was approximately at her left shoulder; her head was down... |
10 |
| 1 | 27 |
A veil concealed her muchly from us, it thrust into the strap of the coined halter at her left shoulder, and into the coined belt at her right hip. |
10 |
| 1 | 177 |
Then she took it from her left shoulder, where it had been tucked beneath the strap of her halter. |
10 |
| 1 | 640 |
The bondage knot is a simple looped knot tied in the girl's hair and worn at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 1 | 641 |
The girl approaches the master naked and kneels, the bondage knot soft, curled, fallen at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 1 | 661 |
She turned furiously, yet gracefully, extending a leg, touching an ankle, moving her hands up her leg, looking at me over her shoulder, and then rolled, and writhed, as though beneath the lash of masters. |
10 |
| 2 | 4 |
His shoulder on the left was damp from the bag. |
10 |
| 2 | 7 |
Without removing the bag from his shoulder, he filled the cup. |
10 |
| 2 | 14 |
When the whole skin is thoroughly cleaned of filth and hair, straps are fastened to it, so that it may be conveniently carried on the shoulder, or over the back, the same straps serving, with adjustment, for either mode of support. |
10 |
| 2 | 56 |
He bowed, grinning, the bag, swollen and bulging, damp on his shoulder, and, hooking the cup on his belt, backed away. |
10 |
| 2 | 67 |
The short sword, now slung over my left shoulder, in the common fashion, would be of little use on kaiila back. |
10 |
| 2 | 456 |
Her body stiffened, and she shut her eyes, as his hands, those of a Gorean flesh appraiser, informed, sensitive, professional, proficient, made swift assessment of the textures of her skin, varying at different points on the body, the tensilities of her musculature, the varying softness and firmness... |
10 |
| 2 | 561 |
The quirt fell, viciously, across her shoulder. |
10 |
| 2 | 654 |
His bag on his shoulder was now, again, damp, dark, bulging. |
10 |
| 3 | 211 |
The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ... |
10 |
| 3 | 308 |
Then, suddenly, looking over his shoulder, he turned, and fled. |
10 |
| 4 | 42 |
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of... |
10 |
| 4 | 208 |
Now her skin would be much more aware of such tiny things as a change in air movement in a room, temperature, humidity, and such; also she would now be more keenly sensitive to differences in textures with which her body might come in contact, such as the granulation of the stones on which her feet ... |
10 |
| 4 | 378 |
She looked back once, over her shoulder, at the male slave who had used her. |
10 |
| 8 | 38 |
A guard, holding his right shoulder, hurried by a lance tip, was thrust with them. |
10 |
| 9 | 55 |
The naked girl knelt beside her, frantic, timid, and reached out to touch her shoulder. |
10 |
| 10 | 171 |
She looked over her right shoulder at Hassan. |
10 |
| 11 | 640 |
Against the wall, kneeling, stripped, bellies pressed tight against it, points of the scimitars against their backs, between their shoulder blades, chins high, against the wall, hands high over their heads, palms pressed tight against the wall, were four beautiful girls. |
10 |
| 12 | 362 |
She lifted the crop, angrily, holding it behind her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 14 | 419 |
Time seemed measured in steps, the blows of the whip, the slow turning of the sun, over the Ahn, from one shoulder through the heat to the other. |
10 |
| 14 | 601 |
This time, the man, stumbling, trying to turn away, had been struck on the left arm, high, just below the shoulder. |
10 |
| 17 | 110 |
I put my hand on his shoulder. |
10 |
| 18 | 98 |
His right arm was about my shoulder. |
10 |
| 19 | 63 |
He moved the bag of water he carried to his left shoulder, it falling before and behind. |
10 |
| 20 | 54 |
Between the rows of fangs, the bag over my shoulder, I thrust the spike of the water bag. |
10 |
| 21 | 513 |
Scarcely had I fallen into the lock than I heard, loud, over me, the concussions of the weapon, firing five times; almost simultaneously the Kur leaped from somewhere within, from a nest of piping, and scrambled past me; its foot pressed on my shoulder; it peered out into the storm; it spied the bod... |
10 |
| 22 | 22 |
I could have rigged a flat travois with shoulder harness, to slip over the sand, loaded with water and food, and could have traveled at night, but I had decided against this. |
10 |
| 23 | 264 |
Then he turned again, and looked over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 24 | 994 |
I went to her and pulled down the rag from her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 24 | 995 |
With a lipstick, from one of the tiny drawers in the vanity, I inscribed Taharic script on her shoulder. |
10 |
| 25 | 431 |
He then took some tharlarion-oil and, as she shuddered, poured and rubbed it on her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 25 | 666 |
She extended her right leg, looking at him over her right shoulder; her toes were pointed; her leg was flexed, revealing to its best, delicious advantage, the curve of her calf. |
10 |
| 26 | 397 |
Then one, in Gorean fashion, struck his left shoulder, and then the others. |
10 |
| 26 | 533 |
She put her head against my shoulder, and then lifted it, softly kissing me. |
10 |
| 26 | 543 |
That seemed to puzzle her, but she smiled, and put her head to my shoulder. |
10 |
| 26 | 620 |
She spoke to me, her head turned, over her left shoulder. |
10 |
| 26 | 942 |
I touched her on the shoulder, and she shuddered. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 272 |
He carried a spear over his left shoulder, balanced by his left hand; from the spear depended a shield, behind the left shoulder, and a helmet; about his right shoulder was slung a pouch, which I gathered must have contained supplies; a bota of liquid, water I assumed, was fastened at his belt, on t... |
10 |
| 2 | 174 |
He unlooped the shoulder belt from him and cast it, with the scabbard and blade, to one side. |
10 |
| 2 | 196 |
I heard him lift the shoulder belt and regird himself with the blade. |
10 |
| 2 | 271 |
He was similarly accoutered, with short sword, slung at the left hip, with a shoulder belt; a belt at his waist with a sheathed knife; heavy sandals, almost boots. |
10 |
| 2 | 275 |
His tunic was cut slightly differently from theirs; there was a mark at the left shoulder, which theirs did not bear. |
10 |
| 2 | 400 |
The bearded man then threw me over his shoulder, and carried me to the circle. |
10 |
| 2 | 471 |
How I feared, and still fear, such men! How could a woman but kneel trembling before such a man? One man wheeled back, grunting, turning, and fell to his knees in the grass, and then fell, turning, to his side, lying upon his shoulder, doubled, hunched in pain, bleeding, his hands at his belly, his ... |
10 |
| 2 | 670 |
He slung the shield and helmet over the butt of the spear, suspending them behind his left shoulder, his left arm over and resting on the shaft of the spear, steadying it in place. |
10 |
| 2 | 710 |
He regarded me for a minute or two, and then, from his shoulder, unslung the shield, and helmet, from his spear. |
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| 2 | 719 |
In a market, in the crowding and jostling, for instance, a girl may follow so closely she pressed against the back of his left shoulder. |
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| 2 | 788 |
I wanted to run to him and put my head against his shoulder. |
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| 2 | 800 |
I lay on my side, the weight of the shield upon my shoulder. |
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| 2 | 945 |
He slung his sword, in its scabbard, over his shoulder. |
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| 2 | 1141 |
I knew that, in the glade, had he so much as put his hand forth to touch my shoulder, I would have sunk trembling, eager, moaning, helpless, to the grass at his feet. |
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| 3 | 32 |
Eta passed me again, a haunch of meat upon her shoulder, grease from it in her hair. |
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| 3 | 310 |
The referee called out a word, which I would later learn was "Capture," and slapped the man on the shoulder. |
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| 4 | 547 |
I was thrown screaming and squirming to his shoulder, and carried about. |
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| 4 | 551 |
It is a helpless feeling being held on the shoulder of a man, your feet unable to touch the ground; you are unable to obtain the slightest leverage; you are simply his prisoner. |
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| 4 | 554 |
I heard applause, the pounding of hands on the left shoulder. |
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| 4 | 924 |
I, naked, boldly put my head against the shoulder of his tunic. |
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| 4 | 1222 |
Then she gently pressed me back to the ground and, as I lay on my right shoulder, looking up, covered me with the thin blanket. |
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| 4 | 1237 |
I then rolled to my right shoulder, moving the blanket as little as possible. |
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| 5 | 49 |
I knew, too, that I was small, and might be easily thrown to the shoulder of a man. |
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| 5 | 233 |
He carried a sword slung over his shoulder, loosely. |
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| 5 | 265 |
The camp's leader, he with the sword slung over his shoulder, who had come forth from his tent, looked at the soldier in whose arms the girl had been discovered. |
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| 5 | 473 |
One held her shoulder, where there was a large bruise. |
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| 5 | 623 |
One rubbed the bruise on her shoulder. |
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| 5 | 868 |
The soldier in charge of the coffle slung the scarf, loaded with jewelry from the coffers in the tent, over his shoulder. |
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| 5 | 890 |
I tried to brush my left shoulder against him, but he, with his hand, roughly thrust me to the side. |
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| 7 | 585 |
Her head was back on his shoulder. |
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| 7 | 754 |
The boy who had captured Donna had now thrown her, belly down, across his left shoulder. |
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| 7 | 758 |
"Tie her ankles," said the lad who held Donna over his shoulder. |
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| 7 | 759 |
One of the other boys, who carried a ten-foot length of rope, with one end of the rope, crossed and tied together Donna's ankles, while she was still held on the shoulder of her captor. |
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| 7 | 769 |
The lad who had captured Donna, now that her ankles were tied, heaved her with a laugh over his shoulder. |
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| 7 | 772 |
The long end of the rope which bound her ankles trailed her over his shoulder. |
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| 7 | 928 |
She was carried on the shoulder of a brawny peasant lad. |
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| 7 | 1362 |
I began to kiss him gently about the shoulder. |
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| 8 | 209 |
The butt of the sleen whip struck me heavily, driven downward, between the shoulder blades, felling me. |
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| 9 | 60 |
The guard, who was the blond soldier, Mirus, whom I found most attractive of the men of Clitus Vitellius, after he himself, unlooped the coffle chain from his shoulder. |
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| 9 | 84 |
He stood behind her for a moment, and she pressed back, putting her head back against his shoulder. |
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| 9 | 607 |
That night Thurnus carried me, bound, over his shoulder, back to the village, and threw me down between the pilings of his hut. |
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| 9 | 1369 |
At the same time Bran Loort himself struck down at me with the rope he carried, striking me across the shoulder and neck. |
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| 9 | 1758 |
Bran Loort hesitated only an instant, and then he struck down, the staff stopped, striking across Thurnus's turned shoulder. |
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| 9 | 1914 |
This seems to be recognized even on Earth, given, for example, the fact of off-the-shoulder evening gowns. |
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| 10 | 37 |
"Raiders from Treve," said a man with a bandaged shoulder, in one of the wagons. |
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| 11 | 142 |
"You are very beautiful, Mistress," I said, over my shoulder. |
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| 12 | 126 |
I poured him a cup of water from the small verrskin bag over my shoulder. |
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| 12 | 168 |
I, curious, stood idly by, watching, the emptied water bag over my shoulder, my ankles in the dust of the courtyard. |
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| 12 | 208 |
I touched him with my finger, idly, and began to slowly, deliberately, insolently, trace patterns, tiny inquisitive, meandering, meaningless patterns, on his shoulder. |
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| 12 | 231 |
And certainly the patterns traced on his shoulder had spelled nothing. |
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| 12 | 557 |
Then he threw her over his shoulder and carried her lightly from the room. |
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| 14 | 18 |
I hurried to him, carrying the large bronze vessel of paga, on its strap about my shoulder. |
10 |
| 14 | 184 |
I did not even have time to slip the vessel on its strap over my shoulder. |
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| 17 | 96 |
The tall man removed a marking stick from his pouch and, on the interior of the left shoulder, on its softness, of the auburn-haired girl, wrote a word. |
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| 17 | 98 |
That was the word, I gathered, which he wrote on her shoulder. |
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| 17 | 100 |
Then he turned to me and, with the same marking stick, wrote on the interior of my left shoulder. |
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| 18 | 114 |
The free woman, then, as the guardsmen looked away, tore down her robes to the shoulder, revealing the collar, which bore, of course, the name of her master. |
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| 18 | 173 |
He threw me forward and I fell on the furs on my right shoulder. |
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| 18 | 180 |
I felt the sack being lifted through the opening, and then it was dragged along a wooden-floored passage; then he threw it lightly to his shoulder, and began to descend short flights of stairs. |
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| 20 | 189 |
He carried a long bag on his shoulder, tied shut. |
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| 20 | 192 |
From the lineaments of the bag, over his shoulder, I gathered she was naked. |
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| 20 | 226 |
He, with the back of his hand, struck me from his path, hurling me by the force of the blow to my shoulder on the boards. |
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| 21 | 189 |
The sailor threw me over his shoulder. |
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| 24 | 278 |
A large man, blond-haired, powerful, threw me to his shoulder. |
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| 26 | 775 |
She touched him on the shoulder. |
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| 26 | 851 |
He then, not speaking further, freed the door of its control chain, slung his gear about his shoulder and, taking Elicia by the arm, conducted her through the portal. |
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| 26 | 880 |
He threw me to his shoulder and carried me from the compartments. |
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| 27 | 35 |
His hand seized my tunic at the neck and shoulder and prepared to tear it from me, that I might be hurled to the floor at his feet, to be put writhing beneath the sharp discipline of his domination. |
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| 28 | 21 |
You smile, you turn, you walk, you lift your arms, you kneel, you lie upon your back at the auctioneer's feet, your knee lifted, your arms over your head as though braceleted, you roll to your stomach, you look up at him, over your shoulder; you respond to him, instantly, setting forth for the view ... |
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| 28 | 288 |
On his left shoulder hung the scabbard of the short sword. |
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| 28 | 316 |
Then one man rose to his feet, striking his left shoulder. |
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| 29 | 18 |
He took a blunt marking stick from his pouch and wrote Gorean words on her left shoulder. |
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| 29 | 59 |
With the straps, brought about the sides of the great shield he fastened my wrists apart, one on each side, about at shoulder level, at the edges of the shield. |
10 |
| 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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| 29 | 256 |
I kissed him, tenderly, on the shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 472 |
I slung a sword over my left shoulder, an admiral's blade. |
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| 2 | 562 |
I had noticed a bit of hesitation in him, a small movement in his shoulder, the sort of thing which suggests that a casual thought, unimportantly troubling, has occurred to someone. |
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| 3 | 2 |
He had a naked girl over his shoulder, bound hand and foot. |
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| 3 | 114 |
Over his shoulder hung the great ax of Torvaldsland. |
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| 3 | 201 |
About his shoulder he had slung some coils of braided rope, fashioned from twisted sleen hide, and, in his hand, he carried a sack and a bundle of tied furs; at his back was a quiver containing arrows, and a short bow of sinew-bound, layered horn. |
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| 3 | 279 |
The fellow in the furs, the rope coiled over his shoulder, apparently spoke little Gorean. |
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| 3 | 366 |
Then, beside he who bore the standard of Ar, there stood one in the garb of the players, the red and yellow checkered robe, and the checkered cap, with the board and pieces slung over his shoulder, like a warrior's accouterments. |
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| 3 | 914 |
The rawhide rope was looped about his shoulder. |
10 |
| 3 | 1109 |
How much?" It was the fellow from the polar basin, who wore no jacket, but fur trousers and boots, with the bow at his back, and the rawhide rope on his shoulder. |
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| 3 | 1168 |
The hunter, meanwhile, with a knife, had cut a length from the rope of twisted sleen hide which he wore over his shoulder. |
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| 4 | 687 |
A physician entered the booth, with his kit slung over the shoulder of his green robes. |
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| 6 | 37 |
I waited, standing, my helmet over my back, my shield behind my left shoulder, leaning on my spear. |
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| 6 | 201 |
More than one of them cast glances at me over their shoulder. |
10 |
| 6 | 415 |
I slipped my tunic over my head and looped the scabbard at my left shoulder. |
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| 6 | 553 |
His hand closed on the girl's left arm and dragged her swiftly, forcibly from the saddle, she crying out, startled, dashing her shoulder and headfirst into the water at his side. |
10 |
| 7 | 252 |
I sank to one knee, and then I fell on my shoulder to the stones of the alley. |
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| 8 | 14 |
I felt the roughness of the boards with my shoulder. |
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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 | 115 |
They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift, many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted, antelopelike quadruped of the south. |
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| 10 | 344 |
Suddenly a tabuk, better than eleven hands at the shoulder, thrust through the opening, buffeting men aside. |
10 |
| 10 | 378 |
They were led by a magnificent animal, a giant buck, fourteen hands at the shoulder, with swirling horn of ivory more than a yard in length. |
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| 11 | 237 |
On the hide shirts and parkas he had made them sew a looped design of stitching at the left shoulder, which represented binding fiber. |
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| 12 | 43 |
At the left shoulder, prominently, it bore the sign of the looped binding fiber. |
10 |
| 12 | 74 |
Both the parkas bore, at their left shoulder, the design of looped binding fiber, identifying them as the garments of slaves. |
10 |
| 12 | 415 |
Thistle looked over her shoulder, at me. |
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| 12 | 686 |
I felt her finger tips at my shoulder. |
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| 14 | 183 |
He still carried his right arm high and close to his body, his shoulder hunched somewhat. |
10 |
| 14 | 196 |
In the tent I scooped her up and threw her over my shoulder. |
10 |
| 14 | 267 |
At the opening to his tent he threw her over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 15 | 246 |
Then she lay with her head on my shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 16 |
It was off her right shoulder and held loosely on her by a casually knotted, narrow disrobing loop, fastened over her left shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 65 |
I was flung then from his shoulder, striking my own shoulder against a wall, and sliding down to the street. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 748 |
My left shoulder touched her right shoulder. |
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| 13 | 82 |
It can be worn, for example, on the shoulder or off the shoulder, with high necklines or plunging necklines, in open or closed garments, tightly or flowingly, and in various lengths. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 5 |
Marcus and I stood in the pit, shoulder to shoulder with others, before the low stage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 351 |
These women, these slaves, though animals, were being herded along, shoulder to shoulder, frightened, with the free individuals. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 121 |
The shoulder belt, if over one's shoulder, may be instantly discarded. |
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| 25 | 125 |
If one is in a territory thought safe, of course, the scabbard belt is not unoften slung across the body, looped from the right shoulder to the left hip, if the swordsman is right-handed, and, naturally enough, looped from the left shoulder to the right hip, if the swordsman is left-handed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 11 |
It can take a man's head off, but, in the thick of battle, shoulder to shoulder with one's fellows, one would seldom have the opportunity to employ it with such an end in view. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 194 |
"Please untie me! Free me, I beg you, Master! I meant no harm! Do not let my master find me like this!" Drusus then drew my tunic down at the left shoulder, and, with a marking stick removed from his pouch, firmly pressing in the lettering, inscribed something on my left shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | 407 |
I put my boot against the left shoulder of the kneeling slave and thrust her to her right shoulder on the rug. |
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