| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 24 |
My first thought was that this must be the earth and the sun's apparent size an illusion. |
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| 2 | 39 |
The planet, then, was smaller than our earth, and, given the apparent size of the sun, perhaps somewhat closer to it. |
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| 2 | 241 |
One can't hide a planet the size of the Earth in our own solar system! It's impossible!" "You underestimate the Priest-Kings and their science," said my father, smiling. |
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| 3 | 48 |
These translation machines are a marvel of miniaturization, each of them, about the size of a portable typewriter, being programmed for four non-Gorean languages. |
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| 3 | 170 |
I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards. |
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| 3 | 255 |
Though the tarn, like most birds, is surprisingly light for its size, this primarily having to do with the comparative hollowness of the bones, it is an extremely powerful bird, powerful even beyond what one would expect from such a monster. |
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| 3 | 261 |
Disregarding the disproportion in size, the Earth bird which the tarn most closely resembles is the hawk, with the exception that it has a crest somewhat of the nature of a jay's. |
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| 7 | 32 |
She was surprisingly light, considering her apparent size. |
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| 12 | 117 |
I withdrew some of the lice, the size of marbles, which tend to infest wild tarns, and slapped them roughly into the mouth of the tarn, wiping them off on his tongue. |
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| 15 | 115 |
Mintar's tent was enormous and domed, similar in shape to others in his camp; however, not only in size, but in splendor of appointment, it was a palace of silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 23 |
Perhaps most I dreaded those nights filled with the shrieks of the vart pack, a batlike swarm of flying rodents, each the size of a small dog. |
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| 15 | 59 |
The rocky shelf on which we found ourselves was perhaps twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, about the size that a tarn chooses for nesting. |
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| 20 | 112 |
Why did I not leap again to his back and once more cry "One-strap!" Why did we not try once more? I slapped his beak affectionately and, digging among his neck feathers with my fingers, scratched out some of the lice, about the size of marbles, that infest wild tarns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 12 |
It was plain, but in its sheer size it possessed a severe, lofty grandeur. |
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| 10 | 36 |
The translator tapes, incidentally, are approximately the same size, but this is no help, since the tapes represent pairings of approximate equivalents, and there are several English morphemes not translatable into the language of Priest-Kings, and, as I learned, morphemes in their language for whic... |
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| 10 | 41 |
For all its size it moved with a delicate, predatory grace. |
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| 11 | 10 |
It seemed to me much like Misk except in size. |
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| 11 | 36 |
An analogue to listening to a translator would be to imagine words as pictures which, in the same type face and size, flash serially on a screen. |
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| 14 | 16 |
Considering the size of a Priest-King and the comparatively small scale of these operations I gathered that the reduction gearing on the mechanical appendages must be considerable. |
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| 15 | 3 |
There seemed to be very little heat from the bluish flame of the Mul-Torch but, considering the size of the flame, a surprising amount of light. |
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| 20 | 46 |
The room in which we found ourselves was substantially empty, and not too much different in size and shape from the room in which my processing had been initiated. |
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| 21 | 48 |
They were shaven and clad in plastic as are all Muls of the Nest, but their torsos seemed smaller and rounder than those of a human being and their legs and arms seemed extraordinarily long for their body size and the hands and feet seemed unusually wide. |
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| 23 | 38 |
These swellings, hard, round and smooth, seemed to lie just beneath the skin and to be roughly the size of one's fist. |
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| 23 | 63 |
From her flesh at one point I could see the gleaming eyes of a small organism, golden and about the size of a child's turtle, scrambling, trying to pull itself from the leathery shell. |
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| 24 | 3 |
It was about the size of a rhinoceros and the first thing I noticed after the glowing eyes were two multiply hooked, tubular, hollow, pincerlike extensions that met at the tips perhaps a yard beyond its body. |
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| 24 | 44 |
I hoped, considering the size and shape and probable weight of the creature, and the comparative tininess of its legs, that it would not be able to move quickly, at least not for a sustained period. |
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| 27 | 71 |
To one side I could see four Priest-Kings handling the knobs of a large scent-producer, about the size of a steel room. |
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| 28 | 193 |
"Surely you have noted the unusual lightness of the transportation disk for its size?" he asked. |
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| 28 | 203 |
"Response to gravity," I said to him, "is as much a characteristic of material objects as size and shape". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 55 |
Surprisingly the wagons are almost square, each the size of a large room. |
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| 8 | 54 |
* * * * On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches ... |
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| 9 | 22 |
This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous; it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air,... |
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| 9 | 395 |
The box was about the size in which a necklace, perhaps on black velvet, might be displayed. |
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| 10 | 467 |
The urt is a loathsome, horned Gorean rodent; some are quite large, the size of wolves or ponies, but most are very small, tiny enough to be held in the palm of one hand. |
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| 12 | 87 |
He looked at me shrewdly and, to my surprise, drew a tospit out of his pouch, that yellowish-white, bitter fruit, looking something like a peach but about the size of a plum. |
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| 18 | 106 |
We quickly found the exit, though it was only a panel some two feet by two feet, of a size for slaves to crawl through. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 281 |
I know this business well, the costs of information, organization, planning, acquisition, transportation and security, the care and feeding and training of the animals, the guards, the costs of the auctions, the taxes on sales, the deliveries to distant cities—and the staff of the house I spe... |
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| 5 | 237 |
Elizabeth had agreed but was startled when placed on a long table, actually of a size for a Priest-King, and found her head enclosed between two curved, intricate devices, rather like two halves of a bowl. |
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| 9 | 2 |
He was pleased with the size and complexity of the operation, which was indeed impressive. |
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| 9 | 19 |
The only difference between these facilities in the House of Cernus and such facilities in other houses would probably have been in size, numbers of staff and lavishment of appointment. |
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| 10 | 10 |
In the room, which now had no occupant, I saw an open wardrobe closet, some chests of silks, a silken divan of immense size, several choice rugs and cushions about, and a sunken bath to one side. |
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| 12 | 94 |
The differences among these tarns are not simply in the training, which does differ, but in the size, strength, build and tendencies of the bird. |
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| 12 | 397 |
I looked down at him and I saw, in those wide, simple eyes, of uneven size, no recognition. |
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| 13 | 1 |
Mip "I do not see how it could have happened," Nela was saying, bending over me as I lay sleepily on my stomach on the heavy striped piece of toweling, about the size of a blanket, her strong, dutiful hands rubbing the oils of the bath into my body. |
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| 13 | 197 |
He had a rather heavy, squarish face, large considering his size. |
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| 17 | 146 |
The great bird he rode was no racing tarn but its size, its swiftness, its sureness, its incredible power and ferocity made it a terrible foe in the wars of the suspended rings; indeed, never had it lost; many of the other tarns of the Steels, as well, were not bred racing tarns, but war tarns, ridd... |
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| 19 | 121 |
Still, given the size of the crowd, they seemed to have little difficulty retailing their goods in short order; they would then disappear down an exit, soon returning with more. |
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| 22 | 9 |
"It may be," said one, "for he is of the size and build". |
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| 22 | 86 |
The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst... |
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| 22 | 396 |
It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip... |
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| 24 | 493 |
Hup stood there on the roof of the cylinder, the wind blowing his hair, his eyes, of uneven size and color, looking up at us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 54 |
The major questions involve the number and size of oars that can be practically mounted, balanced against the size of ship required for the differing arrangements. |
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| 1 | 18 |
It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident... |
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| 10 | 251 |
She is famed for her vart caves, and indeed, on that island, trained varts, batlike creatures, some the size of small dogs, are used as weapons. |
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| 14 | 14 |
She has a rather straight keel, and this, with her shallow draft, even given her size, makes it possible to beach her at night, if one wishes. |
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| 14 | 32 |
Although the Dorna's true beam is sixteen feet Gorean, her deck width is twenty-one feet Gorean, due to the long rectangular rowing frame, which carries the thole ports; the rowing frame is slightly higher than the deck area and extends beyond it, two and one half feet Gorean on each side; it is sup... |
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| 14 | 33 |
The size and weight of the oars used will doubtless seem surprising, but, in practice, they are effective and beautiful levers. |
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| 14 | 59 |
To be sure, there are many factors involved here, and one might suppose triple banks following the model of the single-banked, three-men-three-oars-to-a-bench type, and so on, but, putting aside questions of the size of vessel required for such arrangements, we may simply note, without commenting fu... |
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| 14 | 104 |
The treasure fleet would have no way of knowing that I definitely knew her size and composition. |
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| 16 | 182 |
"What would be your estimate of the size of the fleet of Cos and Tyros," I asked Tab. |
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| 17 | 133 |
The lateen-rigged galley, whether a round ship or a ram-ship, although it can furl its sail, cannot well let out and take in sail; it is not a square-rigged craft; accordingly she carries different sails for different conditions; the yard itself, from the mast, is lowered and hoisted, sails being re... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 113 |
In one corner, hunched over, nibbling, I saw an animal, about the size of a small dog. |
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| 5 | 116 |
It seemed twice the size it had been. |
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| 5 | 155 |
It was a small bird, about the size of a sparrow, but it looked a bit like a tiny owl, with tufts over its eyes. |
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| 7 | 295 |
Yet the major differences between them and the men of Earth are not those of size or strength, but rather those of character and psychology. |
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| 12 | 442 |
These forts do not differ much, except in size, from the common border forts, which cities sometimes maintain at the peripheries of their claims. |
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| 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. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 710 |
Their catch, returned to the Tesephone, in a cage, covered with canvas, carried on the back of Thurnock, had been six, rather large forest urts, about the size of tiny dogs. |
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| 18 | 468 |
This is not simply because of their general small size, with consequent maneuverability, and speed, a function of oarsmen, weight and lines, but also because of this aforementioned capacity to rapidly reverse direction. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 220 |
The Initiates claim they have no size or shape or form. |
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| 4 | 12 |
The size of the average farm is very small. |
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| 15 | 177 |
It must have been the size of a tarsk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
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| 16 | 68 |
Like the lelts, they were, for their size, long-bodied, were capable of long periods of dormancy and possessed a slow metabolism, useful in an environment in which food is not plentiful. |
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| 17 | 47 |
The lelt is a small fish, long-bodied for its size, long-finned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 213 |
I did not know my wrist or ankle size in Earth measurements, for such measurements are not important for a girl on Earth as they are on Gor, but the interior circumference of the number-two wrist ring is 5 horts and the interior circumference of the number-two ankle ring is 7 horts; thus, my wrist s... |
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| 3 | 475 |
Yet, now, branded, for the first time I was acutely aware of the fantastic strength and size of even such boys, not even men, not even Gorean men, compared to my own diminutive strength and stature. |
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| 4 | 641 |
The camp, however, situated as it was, did not seem an outpost or guard camp; it did not command terrain; it was not fortified; it was too small for a training camp or a wintering camp; too, because of its size, so small, it did not seem a likely war camp; sixteen men quartered here, with two girls ... |
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| 5 | 361 |
Similar considerations may have a bearing on the smaller size and strength of women. |
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| 5 | 363 |
For, in the intricacies, and interplay of both natural and sexual selection, not merely a swiftness, a size and strength would have been selected for in women but an entire set of genetic dispositions; it seems inconsistent to suppose that evolution would select only for the outside of an animal and... |
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| 8 | 217 |
It is common on Gor for a girl emerging from a small cage, on her belly, or her hands and knees, depending on the size of the opening, at the feet of her master to remain, pending her master's instructions, on her belly or hands and knees. |
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| 13 | 146 |
Her collar size is ten horts. |
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| 13 | 201 |
I had not known my collar size on Earth, for I had not purchased garments with such attention to the neck. |
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| 15 | 142 |
"Your size exactly," she laughed. |
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| 19 | 19 |
I was in a torchlit anteroom, of large size. |
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| 22 | 47 |
The convoy, by its size, had doubtless attracted many such monsters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 118 |
Such an animal, charging, given its size, weight and speed, and the swiftness of its reflexes, is extremely dangerous. |
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| 15 | 724 |
It would also be proclaimed, of course, in such a situation, along with her weight and collar size, and such things, from the block, during her sale". |
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| 20 | 109 |
When game is scarce compensation can be sometimes achieved by reducing the size of the hunting group and extending the range of the hunt. |
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| 28 | 123 |
The ball on my own neck chain permits me only a very limited use of the track, since it is of the largest size in the arrangement, indeed, the most limited use possible. |
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| 28 | 130 |
"You cannot conjecture the size of the garrison then?" I asked. |
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| 32 | 12 |
"It was, of course, of a suitable size and distance from its star. |
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| 34 | 12 |
It was indeed an ice island, and one of considerable size. |
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| 35 | 235 |
"This is an adapted slave collar," I said, "though it is a size too large for you". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 267 |
"The size of his boats made portage difficult or impossible," I said. |
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| 1 | 309 |
In another room I saw, on the walls, arranged by size, collars, chains, wrist and ankle rings. |
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| 2 | 58 |
The auctioneer was now calling off her measurements, and her collar, and wrist and ankle-ring size. |
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| 16 | 64 |
I found it astonishing, and I think most Goreans would have, even those of Schendi, that a ubarate of the size and sophistication of that of Bila Huruma could exist in the equatorial interior. |
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| 29 | 13 |
A grasshopper, red, the size of a horned gim, a small, owllike bird, some four ounces in weight, common in the northern latitudes, had leaped near the fire, and disappeared into the brush. |
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| 29 | 25 |
This habit, and their size and coloration, usually brown and black, suggests a rock, and hence the name. |
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| 33 | 85 |
We could see the flotilla largely because of the size of its galleys and the number of its vessels, both canoes and galleys. |
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| 43 | 1 |
Talunas "See the size of it," said Ayari. |
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| 52 | 103 |
"The one with the size and temper of a kailiauk," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 195 |
I could sense the animals below me, their large size, the fetid smell, almost overwhelming, swirling upward, their energetic stirring, their twisting in and about one another. |
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| 5 | 170 |
"See my size and strength, my severity. |
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| 8 | 9 |
This could also, of course, have been determined from its size which, though small, was larger than would have been that in which women would be placed. |
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| 12 | 71 |
To my astonishment, in spite of the two men who held me, and their large size, I almost freed myself. |
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| 12 | 76 |
I was confident that had there been only one man he could not have, in spite of his size, held me. |
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| 12 | 118 |
Yet it was true that many such men, of masculine configuration and size, hastened to obey women. |
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| 19 | 48 |
Some small men, as is well known, are extremely fine fighters, though, of course, they do not have the size and weight to consistently best larger men, assuming that the distribution of skills is similar. |
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| 22 | 222 |
Slavers can tell a woman's collar size at a glance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 192 |
It was about the size of a fist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 125 |
"I can tell you my measurements," she said, "and my collar size, and the sizes of the wrist and ankle rings that will fit me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 879 |
"Yet something of its size, and of its awesomeness, and force, particularly within a lodge, seems evident". |
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| 1 | 1032 |
The tarn lance, it might be mentioned, as is used by the red savages who have mastered the tarn, is, in size and shape, very similar to the kaiila lance. |
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| 13 | 1479 |
"Such matters are public knowledge about slaves, as much as the color of their hair and eyes, and their collar size". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 153 |
Depending on the size of the lodge and the size of the hides available, a lodge will usually require in the neighborhood of nineteen or twenty hides. |
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| 40 | 19 |
The smoke hole, incidentally, because of its size, and the size and structure of the lodge, tends to be somewhat inefficient. |
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| 4 | 339 |
The Pte, in a herd of this size, moving as slowly as it must, and in virtue of the kaiila and travois, would be within reach for three or four days. |
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| 7 | 492 |
Similarly it seems men, with their strength, aggressiveness and size, would be better suited for the hunt, pursuing the swift, trident-horned, belligerent kailiauk at full speed than the slighter, softer women, and that the women, with their patience, their sense of color, with their small, nimble f... |
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| 7 | 652 |
First, the size of these gatherings, the enemy being massed, so to speak, tends to reduce the practicality of attacks. |
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| 12 | 220 |
"That hide," I said, indicating the smaller hide, "is about the size of a Tahari submission mat". |
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| 12 | 708 |
"You told me," she said, smiling, "that this hide was about the size of a Tahari submission mat". |
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| 14 | 78 |
Small bands of warriors, the sorts which make up common war parties, would not be likely to attack a force of that size. |
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| 14 | 141 |
"Have you noticed," I asked, "that males are better at dragging heavy weights across the prairie than women?" "We notice, of course," said Pumpkin, "that not all Sames are of equal size or strength". |
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| 19 | 127 |
"Also," said Cuwignaka, "presumably even a large war party would hesitate to attack a camp of this size". |
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| 21 | 52 |
The lodge itself, because of its size, would be conspicuous. |
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| 39 | 415 |
"Consider its size, Tatankasa, Mitakola," said Cuwignaka, in awe. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 |
The shorts were quite short, and, even without the panties, at least a size too small. |
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| 1 | 115 |
It was yellowish, and, to me, surprisingly heavy for its size. |
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| 2 | 230 |
In the side of the box facing me I could see two small holes, about the size of pennies. |
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| 2 | 231 |
I could not, however, because of the light, and the size of the holes, see into the interior of the box. |
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| 3 | 617 |
"By means of different garbs, then," she said, "it is natural that these important and fundamental differences be marked, the garbs of men being appropriate to their nature, for example, to their size and strength, and those of women to their nature, for example, to their softness and beauty". |
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| 6 | 677 |
His size and masculinity made me feel weak. |
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| 29 | 186 |
'Too, your figure would seem to be quite similar to what hers was conjectured to be, and you would certainly seem to be quite similar to her in general size, with respect to height and weight. |
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| 30 | 475 |
I could see many differences between us, but, still, the resemblances, in hair and eye color, in general coloring, in figure, in size and weight, and so on, were so close as to be almost frightening. |
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| 31 | 639 |
"It is the same size as the other collar," he said. |
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| 31 | 640 |
"I had your collar size from the Enterprises of Aemilianus". |
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| 32 | 154 |
I saw now that we were indeed very similar, in size and figure, in facial features. |
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| 36 | 541 |
What do you think is the meaning of your size and strength, your energy and agility, your dominance? Do you think it is all some alarming, inexplicable, statistical eccentricity? Can you not see the order of nature? Is it so difficult to disclose? Why do you think men make us slaves, and put us in c... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 401 |
This exaggeration in size and feature, I take it, is intended to be commensurate with their importance. |
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| 16 | 22 |
I retrieved a large grape, about the size of a small plum, from the table, before they could clear it away. |
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| 18 | 513 |
In a city the size of Brundisium, in an hour of confusion and tumult, with soldiers rushing about, coming and going with orders and reports, with agents sometimes in uniform and sometimes not, I did not expect to be easily recognized. |
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| 19 | 135 |
The whole business, in its manner of accomplishment, suggested an almost terrifying patience and restraint, given the size and needs, the ferocity and energy, of the entity involved. |
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| 20 | 7 |
The Kur, with that agility seemingly so unnatural and surprising in a beast of its size, descended from the ubar's box and interposed itself between me and the pathetic figure, now staring wildly upward, fallen, twisting and shuddering, moved this way and that, being pulled and shaken, being torn by... |
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| 20 | 15 |
Belnar, I thought, in spite of his size, and his ponderous bulk, had fought well. |
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| 20 | 123 |
I think not only, however, did they respect its size and ferocity but, too, trained sleen, that they were confused, that they did not really understand it, or how they were to relate to it. |
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| 20 | 132 |
"Look at the size of it". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 199 |
This formation makes it possible for a given army, choosing to attack only limited portions of the enemy, portions smaller than itself, to engage an army which, all told, may be three times its size, and, not unoften, to turn the flank of this much larger body, producing its confusion and rout. |
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| 4 | 288 |
She was about the same size as Feiqa, though perhaps a tiny bit shorter, and, like Feiqa, was dark-haired and dark-eyed. |
10 |
| 4 | 356 |
"From the size of the caravan, we conjecture the loot must have been considerable". |
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| 16 | 1533 |
In such areas, there was probably more than one in a camp of this size, public girls are kept, slaves for the pleasures of the soldiers. |
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| 18 | 131 |
"The caravan in which I was found was by all accounts," she said, "one of immense size, and presumably of great wealth". |
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| 18 | 139 |
Whereas Boabissia's vanity may well have been involved in this, clearly she did not seem to be of Alar blood, and, as I had heard, the caravan in which she had been discovered as an infant had indeed been one of size and presumed opulence. |
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| 19 | 37 |
Because of the caste of thieves there is probably much less thievery in Port Kar than in most cities of comparable size. |
10 |
| 22 | 414 |
Too, among them, opened, I saw an iron collar, woman-size, with its lock ring. |
10 |
| 22 | 416 |
Too, there were some manacles there, of a size appropriate to confine perfectly and helplessly the small, lovely wrists of a female. |
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| 24 | 322 |
He put to one side, taking it from a shallow pocket within the book's cover, a punched copper disk, on a string, rather the size of that which Boabissia had worn, and put it next to Boabissia's. |
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| 25 | 1588 |
Certainly for her size and weight, she was well curved. |
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| 27 | 53 |
"It is about the size of a slave block," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 25 |
The thing that had perhaps most impressed me about him, aside from his size, his seeming vigor and formidableness, was his eyes. |
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| 5 | 220 |
They just take belts they have at hand, and, finding one of the proper size, or approximately so, they put it on her. |
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| 6 | 566 |
I could feel its shape and size. |
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| 8 | 35 |
Compared to them, her size and strength, really only that of a woman, was, like ours, when all was said and done, simply negligible. |
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| 9 | 259 |
My collar size is eleven horts. |
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| 10 | 309 |
I had been gagged, and hooded and manacled, and put on my belly, because the first sight of such a beast, at close hand, I was told, not unoften, in its size and ferocity, and terribleness, produces a miasma of terror in a female, and she is unwilling even to approach it, whips being often necessary... |
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| 11 | 1067 |
It was identical in size and shape to the white ribbon I wore on my collar. |
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| 13 | 631 |
To have no needs, if, indeed, there were women truly without them, would be a tragedy, and if one had any need at all, then it would be only a matter of time until under Gorean tutelage they were revealed, deepened and enlarged; until they were imperiously summoned forth into the open for inspection... |
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| 26 | 3 |
These beasts are unexpectedly agile for their size. |
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| 29 | 80 |
There were more trees rather behind us, and to the left, trees which, from their size, had probably been there for years, antedating, and surviving, the structure, now in ruins, before which we were tied. |
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| 29 | 545 |
It circled the well twice, and then circled it again, increasing the size of the circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 25 |
Some of these edifices, as in Turia or Ar, are monumental in size, almost like vaulted, pillared stadiums, with dozens of rooms and pools. |
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| 6 | 23 |
To be sure, I suppose, then, one could get fewer spaces of the same size into the area. |
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| 8 | 46 |
They are light, however, for their size, as they consist mostly of frames supporting wire. |
10 |
| 8 | 116 |
There, in the palm of her right hand, was a small sack, bulging, seemingly weighty for its size, from the look of it, a sack of coins. |
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| 8 | 570 |
"My thanks, tarnsman!" he cried, not having expected a gratuity of such size. |
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| 9 | 271 |
Considering the size of the besieging force there were not as many women in the camp as might have been expected. |
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| 15 | 10 |
From time to time we could hear, and sometimes feel, through the floor, the impact of the Cosian projectiles, the great stones, some of which would weigh a thousand pounds or more, flung by mighty catapults, some the size of houses. |
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| 15 | 1010 |
They are heavy, it is true, but they are light, considering their size. |
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| 17 | 422 |
He was in age no more than a lad and she was a mature, fully grown, beautiful woman but in accord with nature's decisions, given the differential parameters involved, those of his size and strength, contrasting so markedly with hers of slightness, delicacy, softness, and beauty, he handled her with ... |
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| 20 | 233 |
In his hand, uplifted, about half the size of a fist, the sun catching its polished surface, was a yellowish stone, marked with brown. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1091 |
It had been strong enough to hold him, despite his size and strength, even when he had seen me, which occurrence had apparently caused him agitation. |
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| 1 | 1158 |
"Fellow," said I, "where lies the tent of Borton, of the command of Artemidorus?" I had approached the headquarters tent of Artemidorus himself, not only its central location, on a rise, and its standard, but its size making it prominent. |
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| 17 | 338 |
There are two general size ranges, a larger one for men and a smaller one for women. |
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| 19 | 38 |
I had also seen then, as I had come closer, the small head of the creature, small considering the size of its body, and the span of its wings, lift up, above the rence, with its long narrow, toothed jaws, like a long snout or bill, with that long, narrow extension of skin and bone in the back, balan... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 229 |
Behind it came several other tharlarion, resplendent, too, but lesser in size and panoply, with riders. |
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| 8 | 223 |
She had been slight but well curved for her size and weight. |
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| 9 | 792 |
When they were to move out they would pass through a certain station where a Cosian slaver's man, with a marking tape, would measure them for their collar size. |
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| 12 | 324 |
The poles themselves are usually marked off in segments, for different size collars. |
10 |
| 20 | 510 |
The differences tend to have more to do with the "cast" of the hand, so to speak, its general appearance, a function of a number of things, such as size, spacing of letters, linkages among them, length of loops, nature of end strokes, and such. |
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| 24 | 241 |
"It is his size, at any rate," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 652 |
It must have had a wingspan of some forty feet in breadth! It is difficult to convey the terribleness, the size, the speed, the savagery, the power, the ferocity, the clearly predatory, clearly carnivorous nature of such a thing! But the most incredible thing, to my mind, was that I saw, in the mome... |
10 |
| 10 | 49 |
He was a man not untypical of this world, in his size and strength. |
10 |
| 10 | 980 |
They vary greatly in size, as well. |
10 |
| 12 | 17 |
This mesh was thus capable not only of holding things of my size, and larger, but also things which might be considerably smaller. |
10 |
| 13 | 1172 |
There are a great many varieties of slave cages, with respect to the number of occupants for which they are designed, and, within such parameters, with respect to shape, size, and materials. |
10 |
| 19 | 65 |
The women were muchly of my own size, but even there, the ornateness of the robes, the height of the hoods, sometimes made it difficult to see. |
10 |
| 19 | 410 |
To be sure, parties of this size, with the bars sounding and such, were presumably rare on the loading docks. |
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| 24 | 605 |
In his size, his strength, his intelligence, his power, he had been fearsome enough, even then. |
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| 29 | 844 |
"She is about the size of Janice," said the other pit guard, he not holding the woman's ankle. |
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| 29 | 845 |
"What size ankle ring do you take, Janice?" "A two-ring, Master," I said. |
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| 29 | 849 |
I suppose she was not pleased at all to learn that she had this in common with me, that we might take the same size ankle ring. |
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| 31 | 431 |
It seemed that a draft beast of enormous size could have exerted little more stress on that metal. |
10 |
| 34 | 96 |
Its accuracy is controlled by two major factors, its shape and the size of the aperture through which the water drains. |
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| 44 | 276 |
This was not merely a matter of their much greater size and strength, enabling them to handle us as though we might be children, enabling them to do with us as they wished, nor was it a matter merely of the implacability of our bonds, denying us even the most meaningless opportunity to try to defend... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 237 |
The fact that she might have bit a little shorter, and a little lighter, a little slimmer, than many women had given her from a very early age a deep, internal understanding, more than that of many other women, of the size and power of men. |
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| 3 | 38 |
To be sure, they could not, for the size of the bed, have had fair limbs fastened directly against the dark wood of the posts themselves. |
10 |
| 8 | 49 |
To the right of its small gate, rather as in the cells, there was a mirror of polished metal, a large mirror for the size of the kennel. |
10 |
| 16 | 140 |
Such a collar, with its size and weight, perhaps four or five pounds, its discomfort, she was sure, in the house would have been used only as a punishment collar. |
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| 16 | 1062 |
There had been large, full-length mirrors, sometimes wall-size, in several of the training rooms. |
10 |
| 17 | 1152 |
It had been rinsed, but, from its size, she knew it could not be for feeding or watering, but must be for wastes. |
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| 24 | 123 |
When her attributes had been recorded, her height, weight, measurements, identifying marks, collar size, languages, literacy, skills and such, she had been asked about dancing but she had, of course, responded negatively. |
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| 29 | 18 |
A caravan this size, she conjectured, would not be the property of a single merchant, but doubtless of a number of merchants leagued together, traveling thusly for purposes of safety in what were doubtless unsettled, dangerous, troubled times. |
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| 30 | 702 |
Perhaps a collar is waiting for you, just the right size, snugly fitting, but not tight. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 193 |
We are not clear, given the small size of the moon, a mere several pasangs in diameter, how this was managed. |
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| 1 | 207 |
Size and strength are common features of the human male, and accordingly the human female, smaller and weaker, often seeks to secure and protect herself within the shelter of these features. |
10 |
| 1 | 216 |
Indeed, the figures of both were nearly, if not quite, at what merchants in these matters refer to as the optimum block measurements for their size and weight. |
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| 2 | 54 |
The fur of two were erected, increasing an aspect of size and fearsomeness. |
10 |
| 2 | 206 |
What if there should be some sort of field which might be activated by anything of its size, or genetic constituency? It backed away from the container, and stood up, again, as such beasts commonly stand. |
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| 5 | 30 |
"It is the size of a small country," said Cabot. |
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| 8 | 129 |
"And certainly not in size, shape, and appearance". |
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| 17 | 19 |
And about the top of the defile were now better than two dozen humans again hurling stones downward, stones easily the size of a man's head. |
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| 19 | 60 |
The hunting sleen was a much larger animal, and had been bred through generations not only for its hunting skills, but for size, ferocity, and aggressiveness. |
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| 21 | 605 |
Despite its size it seemed small there. |
10 |
| 32 | 17 |
Its size and weight were doubtless intended to provide stability on the lake, and provide some impediment to the efforts of large saurians who might emerge beneath it, hungrily, to tip or overturn it. |
10 |
| 46 | 30 |
"My smaller size," said Flavion, "facilitates my humble contributions, if contributions they be, to our cause". |
10 |
| 63 | 118 |
Lord Grendel had entered the herd unarmed, save insofar as a Kur can be said to be unarmed, given their size, might, agility, fangs, and claws. |
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| 70 | 5 |
It may also be recalled that his colleague, Ramar, so to speak, was a carefully bred domestic sleen, of unusual size and ferocity. |
10 |
| 75 | 10 |
On his back, slung in straps, was an ax, long-handled, but of a size manageable by a human. |
10 |
| 81 | 62 |
"One thing which might be mentioned," said Cabot, "though you have doubtless noted it in most of your sister slaves, is that almost all of them have the bodies of the natural human female, in height, size, shape, and such". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 48 |
I thought she was nicely figured, though the size, weight and texture of the tunic tended to conceal this to some extent. |
10 |
| 10 | 204 |
From the size of the figure and hints of the sheet it seemed clear that the figure within the sheet was that of a female, and, quite possibly, one who might stimulate spirited bidding. |
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| 12 | 38 |
This made sense to me, as whatever might be afoot in the forest would not be likely to be of sufficient size and potency to effect much success against Gorean cities with their own tarn forces, which might number in the hundreds and, as of old, in Ar, in their thousands. |
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| 12 | 180 |
Only later did I discover that there were beasts of such a size. |
10 |
| 14 | 55 |
It may shield a soldier but it cannot, even given its size, protect a tarn. |
10 |
| 14 | 65 |
Given the size of the tarn, the beating of its wings, and such, there is no simple way to protect it from arrow fire, either aerial fire or fire from the ground. |
10 |
| 14 | 74 |
Its massive size and wing spread may not be its only remarkable features. |
10 |
| 14 | 84 |
The mighty peasant bow, because of its size, obviously, could not be well used from the saddle. |
10 |
| 17 | 38 |
Too, the size of the group is unimportant if it cannot make contact with the enemy. |
10 |
| 17 | 39 |
And the size can be a handicap from the point of view of movement and supply. |
10 |
| 22 | 119 |
Too, of course, I did not know the size of the draught accorded to the slave. |
10 |
| 30 | 41 |
A ship of this stability and size, of course, might remain at sea indefinitely. |
10 |
| 30 | 71 |
"To begin with, it is difficult to attack, given its size. |
10 |
| 30 | 83 |
"The size, the weight," I said. |
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| 30 | 99 |
"The size of the vessel," said my informant, "is such as to house tarns, their tarnsmen, their tarnsters, their gear, their provender, and such. |
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| 30 | 112 |
It did seem to me that in a vessel of this size a double rudder might be impractical, and difficult to mount. |
10 |
| 30 | 113 |
Too, in a vessel of this size one would not, in any case, look for a delicate responsiveness to the helm, or helms. |
10 |
| 39 | 28 |
Lords Nishida and Okimoto, of course, were highest amongst us, but neither, surely, was fit to command a vessel of this size, might, and design. |
10 |
| 42 | 56 |
"See the size of it," said a mariner. |
10 |
| 43 | 25 |
Ramar was the consequence of a long line of domestic breeding, on a Steel World, of generations of selection, designed to produce size, swiftness, agility, ferocity, and cunning. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 130 |
The round ship, with its size and weight, though oared, usually by galley slaves, chained to their benches, relies more on its sails than a long ship. |
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| 3 | 7 |
I had been entered into the ship, naked and freezing, my ankles unbound, to permit me to walk, as I could, by means of a side port, of a size and sort with which I was utterly unfamiliar. |
10 |
| 3 | 67 |
This suggested to me, but did not prove, that this mysterious, monstrous vessel in which I found myself encelled, despite its size, was not a round ship, or, better, not a round ship as one usually thinks of such ships. |
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| 7 | 206 |
"Ice has been seen in the water," said Tyrtaios, "ice the size of galleys". |
10 |
| 9 | 103 |
The ideal weapon in closed spaces would be the crossbow, not only because of its size and maneuverability, but, even more, because the bolt or quarrel may wait patiently in the guide, the cable back, ready to spring forth instantly, at the press of a finger on the trigger. |
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| 9 | 264 |
In doing so, I became aware, as I never had been, of the size, the power, and awesomeness of the tarn, for I came within feet of one, whose head, far above mine, with its bright, glistening, dark eyes, was moving, alertly, from one side to the other, as though more puzzled, or curious, than anything... |
10 |
| 11 | 83 |
It was the size of a small galley. |
10 |
| 12 | 58 |
Some stones were the size of a man's fist. |
10 |
| 16 | 102 |
The enemy, I gathered, had not expected a vessel the size of the ship of Tersites, and many stood confused below, crying out, and shaking their weapons. |
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| 16 | 332 |
"At least," said Lord Okimoto, "its size, its appearance, its stamina, its range of flight, its terribleness". |
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| 19 | 91 |
The bow of the ship paused, teetering, as though at the edge of a cliff, and then, suddenly, it plunged downward, and slid to the side of that steep, pouring, liquid valley, and went over to her side, and continents of water poured over her, and then engulfed her, and she spun about, for all her siz... |
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| 21 | 344 |
What is the value? Is the stone in the box a pebble or a diamond, is the slave in the hood or sack a beauty or a she-tarsk? Hooded slaves may also compete in various games, as in locating objects scattered about a room, arranging objects by size or weight, threading beads, fitting puzzle pieces toge... |
10 |
| 37 | 272 |
Numbly, she turned, and retraced her steps, and then stood before him, head down, small before his size and power. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 161 |
I was sure, from the size of the house in which I had been trained, the city was large, at least by Gorean standards. |
10 |
| 8 | 727 |
I was to be sold in Ar! Given the size of the city, and its many markets, I supposed it constituted a major market. |
10 |
| 10 | 118 |
Was he telling the truth? The mien of the beast, the size, the fangs, the eyes, set forward in the head, suggested the carnivore. |
10 |
| 10 | 242 |
He would even, with all his size and might, accept abuse at her hands, patiently, unflinchingly. |
10 |
| 10 | 585 |
In this "Street of Stones" she had exchanged a single ruby, which she had earlier shown to me, proud of its size, cut, luster, and hue. |
10 |
| 10 | 692 |
The beast, with its size and weight, knelt across my body. |
10 |
| 10 | 778 |
And in a city the size of Ar there are many slave houses, many markets. |
10 |
| 11 | 119 |
How did I know the beast remained on the roof of the dwelling of Epicrates? It would be easy for something of its size, agility, and power to descend to the street. |
10 |
| 14 | 38 |
The coin stalls were, in effect, exchanges, as, in a market of the size of that of Cestias, in a city such as Ar, buyers and sellers from diverse cities might mingle and carry diverse currencies. |
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| 15 | 39 |
He seemed, in many ways, despite his size and appearance, more sensitive, more rational, more human than the Lady Bina. |
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| 15 | 184 |
I now knew this was not Lord Grendel for Lord Grendel was not awkward; for all his size, and power, he was remarkably graceful; his movements were as sure as those of a stalking sleen; too, he was dexterous; the same paw which might tear the iron handle from a gate could lift a pin from the floor, a... |
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| 18 | 814 |
Such structures are majestic, the products of, to me, almost incomprehensible feats of engineering, and I had wanted to express my wonder and awe at them, their size and massiveness, their efficiency, their beauty, the loveliness of the sky and mountains behind them, but I was not permitted to speak... |
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| 25 | 19 |
"I wager," said Desmond, "one of Teletus might see it as a ship, and perhaps one familiar with the rage, the size, the terror of tarns, see it as one of those formidable monsters". |
10 |
| 32 | 6 |
To our right, crouched on the dais, at its edge, before the curtain, was Lucius, whom I recognized, partly from his size, and partly from the glint of the golden chain from which hung his translator. |
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| 35 | 69 |
The next phase, which I have referred to as that of extermination, or virtual extermination, would be that of the now-augmented numbers of Kurii turning on the considerably war-reduced human population of Gor, perhaps in a hundred coordinated nights of massacre, perhaps in a set of campaigns, in whi... |
10 |
| 40 | 14 |
For all its size it moved with the sinuous, stealthy grace one might have expected of a smaller animal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 |
As we lay there, the size of males, and their strength, and how different we were from them, impressed me as I think it hadn't before. |
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| 6 | 390 |
I removed a Brundisium tarsk-bit, which is a large coin, the size perhaps intended to compensate for the slightness of its value. |
10 |
| 7 | 35 |
It seemed that this building, which I took to be large, judging from the size of the basement, or dungeon, was some sort of depot, from which supplies, and such, at least currently, would be taken north. |
10 |
| 9 | 312 |
Men do not overburden slaves, no more than they would overburden any animal of the size or weight of a slave. |
10 |
| 15 | 90 |
Perhaps it had arisen on some larger world, perhaps a much larger world, a world on which evolution might select for such massive size and power. |
10 |
| 21 | 23 |
The beasts, regarding us, were deeply furred, so much so I was not immediately sure of the size or form of the actual body. |
10 |
| 23 | 157 |
How imposing was the ship of Tersites! But how frightening, too, it was, in its brooding size, its vastness, darkness, and mystery. |
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| 26 | 216 |
"A spear would be better," he said, "if the lari were in flat country, in open country, and anticipated, but the size and weight of the spear impairs its utility as a hunting tool. |
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| 26 | 219 |
Similarly, given the javelin's smaller size it is less cumbersome, and easier to take through brush and thickets. |
10 |
| 29 | 42 |
Their size and strength did not seem well proportioned to what they were given to bear. |
10 |
| 29 | 141 |
I was not small, nor weak, for a typical woman, though I was far inferior in size and strength to them Doubtless they would define womanhood, and value, as they pleased, however eccentrically. |
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| 36 | 19 |
"Still," I said, "might there not be men in the party, if only temporarily?" "I think not," he said, "the size and depth of the prints do not suggest that". |
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| 39 | 517 |
It was a large, long, agile, sinuous, six-legged thing, brown with patches of black, massive, like an immense furred lizard, low to the ground for its size, its belly almost in the leaves, a large, broad, triangular head. |
10 |
| 42 | 146 |
How formidable she had seemed, in her freedom, her pride, her size and sturdiness, in her rude skins, in her barbaric ornaments, with her dagger and spear. |
10 |
| 43 | 569 |
Thus they might try to get their face into the pail, as might a tarsk, or, more likely, given the size of the pail, be fed by hand, a cupped-hand of slave pellets being poured into the up¬ turned mouths. |
10 |
| 46 | 27 |
How pleased I should be that I had escaped from the brute I hated, and now so terribly feared, but, too, strangely, and piercingly, I felt alone and incomplete, even lost, with each step, apart from him, apart from his attention, his size, power, and presence, almost as might, I supposed, a kajira s... |
10 |
| 46 | 66 |
I lacked their size, their power, their skills, their hatred, their masculinity, their ferocity. |
10 |
| 48 | 80 |
The defense of territory selects for size, power, and ferocity. |
10 |
| 52 | 969 |
I had long sensed he was a man not only of formidable size and strength, and virility, and desire, but of formidable intellect, as well. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 36 |
Forces of that size, in such a location, must be supplied from without. |
10 |
| 17 | 99 |
Five more times I observed General Yamada pierce the target, the arrows then clustered together, within what would have been the size of a fist. |
10 |
| 41 | 20 |
"Too," I said, "considering the size of the camp, the number of fugitives, and the large number of peasants, tradesmen, craftsmen, deserters from the holding of Temmu, and such, in the camp, one might pity the search squads. |
10 |
| 41 | 24 |
It must not be thought odd, or unprecedented, that a large number of strangers, so to speak, would be present in a camp of this size. |
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| 44 | 292 |
"The brutality, the size, the fangs of steel, the scales, the vast, skinlike wings, the ridged, spikelike tail, the claws of steel, the shining eyes about the head, the breath of fire?" "Yes, great lord," I said. |
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| 44 | 311 |
"You saw its size, its shape, the wings, its terribleness, the tail, the scales, the claws, its ferocity, its fangs, its breath of fire". |
10 |
| 46 | 32 |
The crowd was of a goodly size, and, day by day, village by village, town by town, it seemed the fame of the magician, or fraud, had spread. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 209 |
Then I was frightened, for I feared he might return the blow, and I did not doubt that such a blow, even if merely with the flat of his hand, that of a male, given his size, his strength, so much more than mine, might strike me to the side of the room. |
10 |
| 1 | 378 |
"I conjecture a number-two ankle-ring size," said the younger man. |
10 |
| 15 | 100 |
It was of a size made for women, a common slave sack. |
10 |
| 20 | 181 |
That supposition, it seemed to me, was well warranted, given the size and attitude of the beast, its apparent ferocity, its apparent menace, its seeming readiness to attack. |
10 |
| 24 | 9 |
The body hood is somewhat reminiscent of the common slave sack, if it were half its size, and open at the bottom. |
10 |
| 33 | 434 |
"Consider the softness, the lesser size, the contours of the body. |
10 |
| 41 | 162 |
The commonality for rationality is not determined by shape and size, by fur or skin, by hands or claws, but by cunning, by thought, by planning, by awareness". |
10 |
| 44 | 107 |
About the neck of Lord Grendel, on a light chain of red and yellow enameled links, hung a small, metallic device, about the size of a man's fist, which I assumed was a translator. |
10 |
| 52 | 122 |
Lord Grendel was almost twice the size of the men. |
10 |
| 63 | 291 |
This is not to deny that coffled women, proportional to their stamina, size, and strength, may not be as weary, worn, driven, and miserable as coffled men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 194 |
My name had been mentioned by the slaver's scribe before the sale, with my measurements, my collar size, my ankle-ring size, and such. |
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| 33 | 619 |
They are influenced by a number of things, such as the primary of the planet, the size of the planet, the period and nature of its rotation, the size and number of the planet's moons, winds and storms, and the configuration of coastlines and tidal basins. |
10 |
| 3 | 11 |
I heard the slaver's scribe, at his desk before the block, reading, droning, describing the next offering, my hair and eye color, my height and weight, my current name, my collar size, wrist-and-ankle-ring sizes, my training, of some weeks, which was largely restricted to what were regarded as essen... |
10 |
| 17 | 16 |
I recalled reports I had heard in the tavern of an alleged monster sighted some weeks ago in the delta, something similar, save for a greater size and a silverish color, to the leatherish, black, snakelike "long tharlarion," with which the delta teems. |
10 |
| 19 | 17 |
A natural, unapologetic, unassuming, unquestioned, taken-for-granted, powerful virility is common with Gorean males, presumably a consequence of the culture, which does not set itself, for political or social reasons, to diminish, undermine, cripple, and poison what otherwise would be a flourishing ... |
10 |
| 27 | 139 |
He now, supported by the crutch, glowering, terrible in size and mien, faced the third man. |
10 |
| 30 | 9 |
There were several structures lining this muddy street, most the size of huts, shedlike, brightly painted, with backward sloping roofs, to carry rain water away from the street. |
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| 33 | 166 |
Given its immersion, I was not sure of its actual size. |
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| 33 | 189 |
Perhaps the difference was the size of the canal boat, the number of men aboard, or even the complacency, or confidence, of those aboard. |
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| 35 | 56 |
If that is the case I would then be on the fifth floor of the holding, which, in addition to the passages traversed, would testify to the size of the holding. |
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| 37 | 105 |
I struggled helplessly in his arms, my size and weight so small compared to his, helpless in his grasp. |
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| 40 | 74 |
"One of iron, the size of a ship?" asked the newcomer. |
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| 42 | 41 |
Given the size, weight, and height of the barricade, that militating against its swift dismantling, and the unreliability of its footing should one attempt to climb it, a small number of men was sufficient, at least for a time, to defend it against a much larger force of attackers. |
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| 45 | 40 |
How well reminded I was then of the difference between my slightness and its dramatic contrast with the size and strength of men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 82 |
A single prairie sleen could bring down a kailiauk, but, given the size and danger of the kailiauk, the menace of its strength and horns, it will commonly attack one only in a pack. |
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| 23 | 20 |
The landsman may think of a ship as an object or artifact, little different, in essence, save in size and purpose, from a cabinet or chair, a wall or flight of stairs. |
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| 27 | 203 |
Also, take some planks and boards and nail them together, about the size of a large door, such that they may serve as a small raft". |
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| 41 | 9 |
The quarried stone from Pylos, serving as ammunitions for the three catapults of the enemy, each block being of approximately the same size and weight, was theoretically ideal for the use of this tactic. |
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| 41 | 12 |
Second, they were of an ideal size and weight, if not shape, for use with heavy siege engines. |
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| 41 | 34 |
In passing, it might also be mentioned that the heavy blocks used as ammunition, striking at the walls, or falling within the walls, particularly given their size and shape, were useful, in filling and repairing breaches. |
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| 43 | 2 |
"It was not dug for fellows of your size," I said, lifting the now-unshuttered dark lantern a little. |
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| 43 | 112 |
I had not before realized the size of the catapults, which, with their mounting on heavy wheeled carts, were something like three stories high. |
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| 46 | 42 |
It looks something like a peach, but is usually about the size of a plum. |
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| 48 | 63 |
If a tree is available, suitably situated, and of an appropriate size, it is cleared of bark, leaves, and smaller branches, and then used as a mount or frame on which to hang paraphernalia proclaiming the victory, usually helmets, shields, insignia, banners, standards, broken weapons, and such, take... |
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| 50 | 6 |
And if a contact of this size had been made with a reef, there would have been a hideous tearing and splintering of wood, like thunder at one's ear drum, a swift inrush of cold water rising to the gunwales. |
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| 50 | 69 |
The corsair fleet constituted a formidable foe at sea not only in virtue of its size, its number of vessels, but in virtue of its number of men, this enhancing its capacity both to board and resist boarding, and to mount frequent shifts of oarsmen, this enabling the vessel to maintain a high rate of... |
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| 52 | 109 |
"I turned about," said Tab, "and, circling, and charging, for the Dorna, for her size, is like a tabuk, stove in the hull of the nearest pursuer, but the ram anchored itself athwart the keel of the enemy, and before I could disengage it, my oars were being sheared, rudders torn away, and planking ru... |
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| 60 | 44 |
Such a thrust, with the force of a man of the size and strength of Thurnock, can, lifting a fully-grown man, plunge through the belly to the backbone. |
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| 60 | 71 |
"Harbor sharks!" These are a breed of sharks which, as far as I know, are found only in the Farther Islands, small sharks, seldom more than a foot in length, but they can vary from three or four inches, a size one could hold in one's hand, to a foot and a half. |
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