| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 41 |
I was not too surprised when I was not challenged; Pa-Kur's arrogance, or simply his rational assurance, was such that no sentries, no signs and countersigns, had been arranged at the rear of the camp. |
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| 18 | 82 |
Some contained worn sleeping mats of cold, moldy straw, some contained a few rusted metal utensils, such as kettles and pails, but most were completely empty, revealing no signs of life or use at all. |
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| 20 | 67 |
Strangely, though it has now been six years since I left the Counter-Earth, I can discover no signs of aging or physical alteration in my appearance. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 30 |
Impatience, for example, is often indicated by a tremor in the tactile hair on the supporting appendages, as though the creature could not wait to be off; a wandering of attention can be shown by the unconscious movement of the cleaning hooks from behind the third joints of the forelegs, suggesting ... |
10 |
| 11 | 28 |
I would learn to interpret the emotions and states of Priest-Kings by such signs. |
10 |
| 11 | 29 |
Many of these signs would be far less obvious than the ones now displayed in the throes of anger. |
10 |
| 12 | 134 |
He was shaking with the signs I knew now to be associated with amusement. |
10 |
| 13 | 5 |
When surrounded by scent-dots one might suppose the Priest-King to be subjected to a cacophony of stimulation, much as we might be if environed by dozens of blaring radios and television sets, but this is apparently not the case; the better analogy would seem to be our experience of walking down a q... |
10 |
| 13 | 21 |
With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the Priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, a... |
10 |
| 13 | 34 |
I once asked Misk why the syllabary of Priest-Kings was not simplified, and he responded, "If this were done we would have to give up certain signs, and we could not bear to do so, for they are all very beautiful". |
10 |
| 23 | 59 |
I found I did not even have to stop and search for the small signs I had scratched in the walls of the passages to guide my way for as I ran it seemed I knew each bend and turn of that passageway as though it had suddenly leaped alive flaming in my memory. |
10 |
| 27 | 131 |
Well could I now read the signs of consternation in the rows of Priest-Kings, the startled antennae, the shifting of the supporting appendages, the sudden intense inclination of the head and body, the straining of the antennae toward the Platform of the Mother. |
10 |
| 28 | 175 |
Originally some of them had objected to this but after a few had almost stepped on the silent Gur Carriers, or wandered unbeknownst beneath them, some of the spidery humanoids being armed perhaps with silver tubes, their opinions changed and they became zealous to have the letter painted boldly and ... |
10 |
| 30 | 199 |
And I noted that some of Sarm's Priest-Kings were less golden than I had known them, having now a slightly brownish cast on the thorax and abdomen, signs I knew to be associated with thirst. |
10 |
| 33 | 84 |
Perhaps the Priest-Kings are exhaling now, I thought to myself, but the High Initiate had had more practice in the interpretation of signs than myself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 9 |
The Wagon Peoples are fascinated with the future and its signs and though, to hear them speak, they put no store in such matters, yet they do in practice give them great consideration. |
10 |
| 9 | 70 |
On the pack animals were strapped boxes of precious plate, gems, silver vessels, tangles of jewelry, mirrors, rings, combs, and golden tarn disks, stamped with the signs of a dozen cities. |
10 |
| 11 | 129 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, on the other hand, I was pleased to see, ran well, breathing evenly, showing few signs of fatigue. |
10 |
| 12 | 425 |
"I never knew a woman," said Elizabeth, her eyes blazing, showing few signs of the paga, "could be so beautiful!" "She was marvelous," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 175 |
I gathered that reading the signs was a subtle business, calling for sophisticated interpretation and the utmost delicacy and judgment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 |
I then knew that the two pieces of cloth I had encountered earlier had not been simple trail marks but boundary signs, warnings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 289 |
As well as she could, she destroyed all signs of our camp. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 200 |
On his large brown leather belt, confining the long shaggy jacket he wore, which would have fallen to his knees, were carved the luck signs of the north. |
10 |
| 7 | 349 |
Hura's band would find only an empty camp, and perhaps some signs of struggle. |
10 |
| 17 | 143 |
"Yes, Mistress!" I saw other girls beginning to move about, to show signs of restlessness. |
10 |
| 18 | 132 |
There were no signs of sails on the breadth of gleaming Thassa. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever... |
10 |
| 1 | 261 |
"When Priest-Kings, by fire signs, made it clear Ko-ro-ba was to be destroyed, I left the city". |
10 |
| 2 | 325 |
When the High Initiate finished his prayer, the other Initiates began to sing a solemn hymn, while the High Initiate, at the altar, his back turned to the congregation, began to prepare, with words and signs, the grease of Priest-Kings, for the anointing of the bones of Ivar Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 13 | 8 |
These pillars had been carved by craftsmen in the time of Svein Blue Tooth's great grandfather, and bore the luck signs of his house. |
10 |
| 16 | 63 |
He had been taught some rune signs as a boy, that he could understand important stones, for in these stones were the names of mighty men and songs of their deeds, but it had not been expected of him that he would be in any sense a fluent reader. |
10 |
| 18 | 220 |
The Kurii showed no signs of emerging from the shield wall. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 53 |
One oddity about it, from the point of view of one who reads Gorean, is that it possesses signs for only four of the nine vowels in Gorean. |
10 |
| 7 | 62 |
Some Taharic scholars, purists, refuse to countenance vowel signs, regarding their necessity as a convenience for illiterates. |
10 |
| 10 | 188 |
At the interior corners of her eyes had been the signs of sleep; she had yawned like a cat when kneeling to one side; her face, and her mouth, had revealed the heavy, sweet lassitude of the beautiful woman who is weary; when she had left, though she held herself erect, as an embonded girl must, ther... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1026 |
After a time, he moved about the small clearing and, with his foot, erased the slight signs of our camp, the few small signs of our sojourn in this tiny forest glade. |
10 |
| 2 | 674 |
I looked about at the field, at the signs of battle, the discarded shields, one deeply punctured and cut, the scattered weapons. |
10 |
| 2 | 1041 |
He had now, with the coming of darkness, taken up his weapons and erased the small signs of our brief camp. |
10 |
| 2 | 1042 |
That he had erased the signs of the camp, that he had taken these precautions, suggested to me that we stood now in a region within which there might be those who would be hostile to him, that at our peril we trespassed now in what might be a country of enemies. |
10 |
| 2 | 1110 |
He had already erased the signs of our small camp. |
10 |
| 20 | 39 |
I gathered, from what I had heard, that contacts had been made by men wearing masks, who spoke signs and countersigns. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 395 |
Small signs fixed on the platforms identify the flesh merchant, such as 'These are the girls of Sorb of Turia' or 'These slaves are owned by Tenalion of Ar'. |
10 |
| 9 | 254 |
How is it, they wonder, that beauties in tunics and collars, are obviously so much happier than they? And how is it that the beauties seem to prize the very tokens of their bondage, the bracelets, the collars, the lovely, revealing tunics, and such, considered so degrading by, and yet exercising suc... |
10 |
| 26 | 143 |
The storm had obliterated sled tracks and the customary trail signs of an afoot passage. |
10 |
| 35 | 20 |
I did not know what signs and countersigns, or signals, the white Kur might have had at its disposal to protect itself in this regard. |
10 |
| 35 | 28 |
Again, I did not know any signs or countersigns, or signals. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 297 |
At various points, and before various portals, signs and countersigns were exchanged. |
10 |
| 6 | 502 |
Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris... |
10 |
| 18 | 275 |
"I noticed externals," I said, "and I remember the things you told me of his signs of office, but my mind was more on Shaba, and yourself, than the Ubar. |
10 |
| 34 | 1029 |
While she quenched her thirst, and then knelt beside the fan palm, I destroyed the signs of our encampment. |
10 |
| 43 | 85 |
They show no signs of a struggle or of the abuse of their owner. |
10 |
| 43 | 87 |
"Their bodies, too," said Kisu, "showed no signs of lashings or bruises. |
10 |
| 44 | 198 |
"Ayari! Tende! Alice!" Unmistakably in the small camp I saw the signs of struggle. |
10 |
| 50 | 89 |
The formerly proud leader of the talunas was now well tutored in docility and deference, and already she was showing early signs of emergent growth in vitality and sensuousness. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 283 |
"Can you not see the signs?" "Men, and women, will prevent it," I said. |
10 |
| 7 | 282 |
A man of Earth I did not even fully register or comprehend these signs. |
10 |
| 7 | 418 |
Signs of which I had hitherto neglected to take active account now seemed clear to me, even the odor of her begging slave body. |
10 |
| 32 | 234 |
To be sure, the passion signs of orgasmic submission had been unmistakable and plentiful in her lovely body. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 243 |
It bore the signs of having been hastily evacuated. |
10 |
| 24 | 258 |
Such marks, and fillings in the teeth, are used by slavers as almost infallible signs of Earth origin. |
10 |
| 29 | 8 |
I knew the signs and countersigns for entry into the stronghold through the sea gate. |
10 |
| 30 | 58 |
"How did you know that we were not the scout ships of Ragnar Voskjard?" We had, after all, known the signs and countersigns, and, presumably, those of the holding of Policrates would not be familiar with all of the men or ships of Ragnar Voskjard. |
10 |
| 30 | 112 |
"It was from him, or perhaps from papers on his person, that you learned the signs and countersigns for admittance to the holding". |
10 |
| 30 | 113 |
"No," I said, "it was you yourself who gave to me the signs and countersigns, when I posed as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard". |
10 |
| 32 | 82 |
"The Tamira is carrying the signs and countersigns, as you know," said Kliomenes. |
10 |
| 33 | 89 |
More importantly, she would doubtless be carrying papers linking her with Policrates, such papers as the signs and countersigns whereby the actions of the joint pirate fleets might be integrated and directed". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 72 |
It seems the sealed documents pertaining to these signs and countersigns had been lost with the Tamira, that they were now in the mud at the bottom of the Vosk. |
10 |
| 12 | 75 |
Besides, strictly, surely, such signs were not necessary in the present circumstances. |
10 |
| 14 | 36 |
"How is it that the signs and countersigns came to be known?" demanded the voice from my left. |
10 |
| 17 | 327 |
"My body will be carefully examined, for the signs of your use". |
10 |
| 18 | 603 |
Further, it was made clear to him, and to me, that my body would be physically examined for the explicit signs of his victory. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 812 |
These signs indicate a tribal camp. |
10 |
| 1 | 1104 |
There are always signs. |
10 |
| 14 | 470 |
The first Dust Leg was now showing signs of impatience. |
10 |
| 14 | 956 |
"I can teach you hundreds of signs in a short time," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 14 | 957 |
"It is a very limited language, but in most situations it is quite adequate, and, because many of the signs seem so appropriate and natural, it can be easily learned. |
10 |
| 14 | 981 |
The origins of some of these signs are obscure. |
10 |
| 14 | 1032 |
"If the context is clear," he said, "the signs simply for a female slave may be used". |
10 |
| 14 | 1041 |
"The meanings in these signs are clear," he said, "the weaker who is held by the stronger, she who is subject to the whip, and she whose ankles may be spread at her master's pleasure". |
10 |
| 14 | 1081 |
These last signs had been used by Corn Stalks. |
10 |
| 14 | 1143 |
I followed this with the sign for many, and then the signs for white man and white woman, and for soldiers, and kaiila soldiers, or cavalry. |
10 |
| 14 | 1161 |
It is the same with many signs". |
10 |
| 15 | 44 |
He carried a long, feathered lance, and a small, round shield, a war shield, on which were inscribed medicine signs. |
10 |
| 15 | 135 |
The circles painted about the eyes and the line of lightning on the left forequarter were signs in the medicine of war. |
10 |
| 18 | 40 |
"His body shows signs of dehydration," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 587 |
These were the first signs of weakness which he had showed. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 233 |
Exploit markings and luck signs were painted on the flanks and forequarters of their animals, and ribbons and feathers were fixed in the braided, silken manes. |
10 |
| 3 | 187 |
These were signs, I supposed, for the Kaiila. |
10 |
| 7 | 84 |
Accordingly, the red savages enjoy showing them off, exhibiting them, displaying them, as signs of their prowess, their success, their wealth. |
10 |
| 34 | 215 |
"I will conceal, as I can, the signs of our encampment," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 39 | 345 |
"Destroy the tarn pit," I said, "and address yourself to the task of concealing all signs of our activities here". |
10 |
| 40 | 355 |
"Too," said another, "it might be difficult to conceal the signs of such an escape, so quickly". |
10 |
| 40 | 358 |
"If they are caught leaving, or if signs of their escape are found, it will be clear to the Yellow Knives, in either case, that they were here". |
10 |
| 41 | 37 |
"I see no signs of a tarn now," I said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 149 |
First, it shows absolutely no signs of untypical production, such as being cast rather than struck, of being the result of obverse-reverse composition, or of having been altered or tampered with in any way. |
10 |
| 1 | 170 |
It shows no particular, obvious signs of wear but its surface is less perfect than would be required to qualify it as being Uncirculated or as being in Mint State. |
10 |
| 1 | 172 |
Again there are almost no signs of wear and the detail, accordingly, is precise and sharp. |
10 |
| 6 | 221 |
When I had seen signs or emblems of this sort I had often, as though interested in something else, requested that we take our way down that street. |
10 |
| 30 | 88 |
I saw no signs now of the crowd and the animals. |
10 |
| 30 | 92 |
I saw no signs of the crowd and animals. |
10 |
| 30 | 230 |
Street signs in Gorean cities, where they exist, incidentally, are not mounted on poles. |
10 |
| 30 | 240 |
I did not know the streets by name in this area and even had I been able to read the signs, there were none written here on the corners of the buildings. |
10 |
| 36 | 766 |
My smallness, my contemptuousness, I had unwittingly flaunted before him, regarding such things at that time as signs of my depth and cleverness. |
10 |
| 36 | 811 |
I hoped he could not detect the signs in my body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 16 |
It was ringed with booths, and platforms, and stages and stalls, and booths, and platforms and stalls, too, with colorful canvas, with their eccentrically carved wood, with their fluttering flags, and signs, like standards, illuminated by lamps and torches, throngs gathered about them, and flowing b... |
10 |
| 2 | 1108 |
"The signs, it seems to me," said Samos, "suggest a calculated ambush and one in which your friend here was probably implicated". |
10 |
| 10 | 428 |
If there could have been any doubt about it such doubts would have been dispelled by the thick, black, stenciled lettering on the bag, giving a bold and unmistakable account of its earlier contents, together with their grind and grade, and the signs of the processing mill and its associated wholesal... |
10 |
| 20 | 336 |
These things, however, are signs of Kur pleasure. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 98 |
Most showed signs of fire. |
10 |
| 9 | 19 |
"It seems they have the signs". |
10 |
| 9 | 269 |
"Ho! Move!" We then drew again into the street and began to follow the rough signs painted on the sides of buildings to the wagon yards. |
10 |
| 10 | 15 |
"We have followed the signs," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 272 |
Too, I might have misread what seemed to be numerous and obvious signs of need in her. |
10 |
| 12 | 135 |
"There seem no signs of flames". |
10 |
| 16 | 777 |
"It is easy to detect, by infallible physiological signs. |
10 |
| 16 | 1301 |
It was, if haughty, quite good, and it showed, I thought, definite signs of slave promise. |
10 |
| 16 | 1542 |
The hooks are permanent fixtures, the signs may be changed, if one wishes to use them at all, depending on the error, deficiency or offense. |
10 |
| 24 | 56 |
Goreans are usually rather careful about such things as crests, signs, family emblems, and such. |
10 |
| 25 | 2339 |
The fellow who had been unconscious there, the free woman, the Lady Tutina, now chained half naked at his slave ring, she still unconscious, was showing some signs of reviving. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 63 |
There had been signs painted too, I gathered, here and there among similar signs, usually on poorer streets, or in alleys, where magistrates, less inclined to object, were also less prone to patrol. |
10 |
| 5 | 244 |
We are grateful for such small signs of recognition, even as dogs are. |
10 |
| 24 | 574 |
The archon is consulting augurs, to take the signs". |
10 |
| 24 | 590 |
"Probably not far, and for only a week or so, until the signs are taken," she said. |
10 |
| 31 | 257 |
"But in my pleasure at seeing you again," he said, "such signs, obvious as they might have been, I overlooked. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 |
Such signs are not untypical of Gorean hostelries, as many Goreans, particularly those of the lower castes, cannot read. |
10 |
| 1 | 354 |
Some of the lower castes, however, particularly that of the peasants, and particularly those in outlying villages, do entertain the possibility that such phenomena may be the signs of disunion among Priest-Kings and their conflicts, the striking of weapons, the rumbling of their chariots, the trampl... |
10 |
| 8 | 22 |
I could see only normal signs of activity. |
10 |
| 9 | 144 |
I did not, of course, know any appropriate signs and countersigns. |
10 |
| 11 | 26 |
By such signs I conjectured the paucity of rations in Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 12 | 189 |
I could not find out such things as the signs and countersigns. |
10 |
| 17 | 544 |
There were rope marks on her body, the signs of her spinning, jerking plunge to the hill, and then her tumbling downward, rather to her present location. |
10 |
| 24 | 12 |
On the other hand, whatever might have been the contents of the sealed leather cylinder delivered into his hands with signs and countersigns I did not know. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 34 |
"How is it that we have seen no signs of them?" "We have seen signs of them," growled another. |
10 |
| 1 | 891 |
Given this, it may be seen that, in a sense, the brand and collar, as lovely and decorative as they are, and as exciting and profoundly meaningful as they are, when they are fixed on a woman, and she wears them, and as obviously important as they are from the point of view of property law, may be vi... |
10 |
| 8 | 32 |
"Surely we would see some signs of them," said another fellow. |
10 |
| 13 | 10 |
Subalterns, with signs, deployed their men. |
10 |
| 28 | 230 |
"Garbage, feces, the signs of camps, too, should be considered," said a fellow. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 20 |
Heralds and criers, too, and carriers of signs, are not unknown. |
10 |
| 10 | 122 |
"Some even have signs about their necks," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 12 | 139 |
They are unlikely, however, to be long fooled, for the signs are clear enough, and, soon enough, the couple will be generally recognized as love slave and love master. |
10 |
| 14 | 735 |
"These signs are doubtless the works of only a few," said the subaltern. |
10 |
| 19 | 205 |
By such tiny signs may an Earth female be recognized amongst other Gorean slaves. |
10 |
| 21 | 205 |
And I had no doubt, Master, that the royal hussy had seen to it that such signals, such signs, such intriguing glimpses, such supposed inadvertencies, and such, had abounded!" "In this," I said, "perhaps she was not so different from you". |
10 |
| 22 | 619 |
Because there are many Goreans who cannot read, many stores, shops, and such, will utilize various signs and devices to identify their place of business. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 719 |
So, too, surely had been the blanket, and even the wastes vessel! Had I understood such things as evidence of a special status, of special treatment, of special consideration, either of myself personally, or, more generally, of my sort of woman in this place? Had I interpreted such things as signs o... |
10 |
| 7 | 1068 |
There are so many signs, the dilation of the pupils, the helplessness, the sheen of sweat, the oils, the smells, the mottling of the body, the erection of the nipples, such things. |
10 |
| 8 | 591 |
I thought of my old world, and its buildings, its streets, its roads, its signs, its crowding, its people, so many of them so wonderful, so precious, so many of them so miserable and sad, their mode of dress, now seemingly so unnatural, or eccentric, the vanities, the hostilities, the offensive, dis... |
10 |
| 10 | 500 |
Sometimes the names, or signs, are written on her body. |
10 |
| 10 | 631 |
Sometimes portions of these were barred, and signs and countersigns were given. |
10 |
| 10 | 767 |
For several minutes we made our way through a number of labyrinthine passages, occasionally stopping at various gates, which, after an exchange of signs and countersigns, were opened for us. |
10 |
| 13 | 895 |
Could he read in me my signs of growing helplessness? I was refined, I was delicate, I was sensitive! How could this be being done to me? But then I recalled that I was a slave. |
10 |
| 14 | 351 |
I supposed that if she were a slave, the signs in her manner of such breeding and refinement might be of interest to a master, not that they would make her any the less a slave. |
10 |
| 37 | 11 |
Their breathing was heavy, a sort of panting, as they padded along with us, but it was regular, and showed no signs of particular excitement. |
10 |
| 42 | 118 |
We must obey the slightest signs and indications. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 343 |
Thus it is natural to suppose that on such a world many cultures would bear obvious signs of their origins. |
10 |
| 16 | 494 |
Foolish slave, she thought, do you not know that you will not be permitted to hold anything back, but that you must yield wholly, and that there are infallible signs of such yieldings? She moaned, inwardly. |
10 |
| 19 | 677 |
She did not see any signs of pursuit. |
10 |
| 22 | 213 |
She could recognize, incidentally, several of the signs of the Gorean alphabet but knew only two or three of their names and sounds. |
10 |
| 25 | 423 |
Indeed, for all she knew, one or another of those signs might have had a significance more than merely numerical. |
10 |
| 26 | 904 |
Draw their seed forth, and leave no traces, for we do not wish them to be slain in the morning, signs of pleasure about their bodies". |
10 |
| 26 | 945 |
They guide you, she thought, through signs, even gagged. |
10 |
| 27 | 688 |
Famines, plagues, floods, storms, meteors, comets, eclipses, earthquakes, lightning, and such would all receive their interpretations, and would be dealt with by means of prayers, spells, mystic signs, the brandishing of fetish objects, the ringing of anointed, consecrated bars, and such. |
10 |
| 28 | 267 |
"No," said Selius Arconious, "lest she inadvertently, by signs of uneasiness, alert the beasts as to such suspicions". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 9 |
Signs, however, had been exchanged. |
10 |
| 13 | 10 |
Signs can be useful, if one is within a line of sight. |
10 |
| 13 | 12 |
Cabot was reassured that these signs had been exchanged. |
10 |
| 15 | 23 |
Already, with swift signs, he was clearly giving orders pertaining to the breaking of the camp. |
10 |
| 40 | 112 |
The slave was half kneeling, half sitting, beside him, on the grass, which still bore the signs of their tumult, and, later, rest. |
10 |
| 44 | 61 |
In this way, their use of signs and certain guttural signals was significantly augmented. |
10 |
| 51 | 172 |
How else could it have been managed? And he sent her ahead to Agamemnon, doubtless with signs, and countersigns. |
10 |
| 57 | 182 |
"The signs, and countersigns," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 61 | 217 |
"I myself," said Lord Grendel, "am similarly dubious of such portents, but one hesitates to risk a great enterprise when the signs are against it". |
10 |
| 61 | 218 |
"Clearly, surely," said Statius, "the signs are against marching tonight". |
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| 64 | 4 |
In all this time Lord Grendel had remained at her side, watching over her, tending her, while the governance of the camp was surrendered to the human ally, Peisistratus, and the rule of the insurrectionists' lines, the orders of the day, the arrangements of signs and countersigns, the inspection of ... |
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| 68 | 61 |
They feared to leave signs of their passage, seared brush, even the brief odor of a discharged weapon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 1 |
We Reach a Reserve; The Signs Vanish; We Will Wait After an Ahn we came to the edge of a deep ditch, some twelve feet or so deep, and as wide. |
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| 7 | 12 |
"The signs continue," I observed. |
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| 7 | 103 |
"The signs continue," I said. |
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| 7 | 161 |
We had been entered into the reserve now for perhaps the better part of an Ahn when the signs we had been following assiduously could no longer be detected. |
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| 7 | 165 |
"I think this is the last of the signs," I said. |
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| 7 | 377 |
"The signs have vanished," she said. |
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| 7 | 378 |
"Why do we linger in the reserve?" "Because the signs have vanished," I said. |
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| 7 | 382 |
"And signs are not to be risked?" she said. |
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| 9 | 121 |
By now, some five days after being met in one of the reserves of Port Kar, the yellow signs which we had originally followed east from the coast would have disappeared. |
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| 28 | 168 |
I have chosen, incidentally, in this narrative, as you have perhaps noted, to omit any explicit account of signs and countersigns. |
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| 40 | 43 |
Might not any captain discern such signs, and be wary? We looked back, at the shore, some two hundred yards astern. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 945 |
There was, for example, from the signs, a wainwright's shop, mostly for repair, I supposed, a Leather Worker's shop, probably for harnesses and traces, a Metal Worker's shop, probably mostly to furnish wagoner's hardware, and such. |
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| 12 | 326 |
So, I thought, he who approached, or his informant, had not only access to the watch order, but to signs and countersigns, as well. |
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| 21 | 201 |
It was written however, amongst the Pani, in an unfamiliar script, or set of signs, as it is, as well, I understand, in the Tahari. |
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| 21 | 268 |
"All signs," said Lord Okimoto, "are auspicious". |
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| 36 | 267 |
Such bands are usually signs of authority, worn by foremen, leaders of work gangs, first slaves, and such, though they may serve, too, simply to keep hair back, in place, away from the eyes, protect the eyes from the running of sweat, and so on. |
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| 36 | 505 |
By the magic of such marks, the sorcery of small signs, we converse with those we have never met, touch dreams we could not otherwise share, at a glance rekindle flames which first burned in distant hearts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 35 | 170 |
Thus, those who are attempting to unravel the message by means of considering the relative frequency of signs will have a difficult task, as some letters are represented by more than one sign and some signs represent no letter". |
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| 24 | 74 |
When we came over the rise, to a level place, where there were the ashes of an extinguished fire, and the signs of a small camp, I had quickly looked away. |
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| 35 | 130 |
"You recall the sheets with squares, on which you, and Chloe, inscribed various letters, signs, and such," he said. |
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| 35 | 160 |
The second level of concealment, of course, is that these seemingly meaningless signs are mostly related to the alphabet". |
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| 35 | 167 |
"Chloe can read," I said, "and she did not understand some of the signs on the scraps of paper". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 45 |
I also learned that there are infallible signs in a slave's body, signs of authentic response, which signs are easily read by Gorean males. |
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| 9 | 90 |
I had the sense that signs and countersigns might have been exchanged. |
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| 11 | 47 |
Certainly there were no signs that we were following a familiar path. |
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| 21 | 263 |
To me the script, which was cursive, was unintelligible, little more than claw marks, but, affixed to the paper, there were two seals, one which seemed no more than a patch of hair, interwoven with silver thread, and the other was in the script of the Pani, in which they transcribe their Gorean, muc... |
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| 47 | 77 |
Not being a Panther Girl I doubted she could read signs, even something as obvious as territorial spoor markings. |
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| 48 | 7 |
There were no signs of patrols from Shipcamp along the shore nor of the small sounding boats which might be testing the river or preceding the slow, stately journey of the great ship to the sea. |
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| 50 | 381 |
At the gate of the stockade, I think that signs of some sort might have been exchanged. |
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| 52 | 611 |
But why, I asked myself, should I be embarrassed by, or shamed by, or disconcerted by, signs of, and the obvious consequences of, health, life, hormonal richness, and vitality? Had not nature made me so, designed me to be a yielded, surrendered slave in the arms of masters? And in the collar, and in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 267 |
One supposes, of course, that the signs, like signs and countersigns, like passwords and keyed responses, would be regularly changed. |
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| 3 | 19 |
If there was someone there, in the darkness, I thought, he might be well aware that signs and countersigns had been compromised. |
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| 3 | 20 |
How else might the raid on the encampment been as deftly managed? An awareness of the signs would have been initially important, as much so, I supposed, as forged commands, bearing fraudulent seals. |
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| 21 | 256 |
'Is there anyone there? Speak the signs, or die!' My heart leapt. |
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| 39 | 36 |
Neither it nor the bird bore signs of war. |
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| 42 | 30 |
"It could be done with pass signs," said Pertinax. |
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| 58 | 7 |
"The signs are clear. |
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| 58 | 27 |
"We followed your signs," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 28 | 46 |
It bore no signs, but that is common in many Gorean cities. |
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| 33 | 662 |
I saw no signs of the employees of the house, he who had admitted us, he who had borne the lantern, and their two cohorts. |
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| 41 | 35 |
"If you read the signs aright," he said, "there will be no danger, even were you a male". |
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| 49 | 48 |
Some Initiates dabble in signs, omens, and such, the formations of clouds, the flights of birds, the eating habits of sacred fowl, the livers of sacrificial animals, and so on, but that work, which commonly pays less well, is usually surrendered to augurs, haruspices, and such. |
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| 60 | 22 |
I saw no sign that the two Kurii in the box with Decius Albus had shared in the conviviality, the signs of which were so obvious amongst their cohorts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 537 |
"What do the signs say?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 714 |
Does not such distress call itself to the attention of various marine predators, such as sharks? How avidly such then would hasten to inquire! "Now," said the keeper, "at last, you see the signs of confusion, and terror". |
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| 11 | 136 |
Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a scribe, perhaps to have a letter rea... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 72 |
"On the contrary," he said, "banners were flourished and emblems and signs were boldly displayed, both on helmets and shields". |
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| 23 | 84 |
Such, in any event, was to be gathered from the signs left behind by the bandits". |
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| 49 | 68 |
This leaves us with an attack by sea, but there is no evidence of such an attack, no bodies or equipment, no signs of disruption or bloodshed. |
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| 63 | 2 |
"Are there signs of pursuit?" I inquired. |
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