| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 217 |
He wore another such instrument slung from his belt. |
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| 4 | 156 |
About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head. |
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| 5 | 2 |
My shield and spear were secured by saddle straps; my sword was slung over my shoulder. |
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| 8 | 207 |
Angrily I slung both bags of rations about her shoulders. |
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| 10 | 8 |
A bejeweled, curtained platform slung between the slow, swaying bodies of two of the broad tharlarions appeared. |
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| 17 | 76 |
A chain of gold was slung to Pa-Kur, who fastened it to the saddle of his tharlarion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 34 |
Then he began to fumble with the wallet which was slung from his belt, and removed a plastic envelope. |
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| 17 | 130 |
The man from the Caste of Builders then sat cross-legged on the ground and took from the pouch slung at his waist a tiny, cylindrical Gorean fire-maker, a small silverish tube commonly used for igniting cooking fires. |
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| 22 | 1 |
To the Tunnels of the Golden Beetle I slung the translator on its chain over my shoulder and went to the bars near the door. |
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| 26 | 228 |
I slung the key on its leather loop around my neck. |
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| 28 | 144 |
Some men from the Fungus Chambers carried on their backs great bags filled with choice spores, and others labored under the burdens of huge baskets of freshly reaped fungus, slung on poles between them; and those from the Pastures drove before them with long pointed goads huge, shambling gray arthro... |
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| 34 | 65 |
"Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 14 |
The helmet which I had slung over my shoulder was gone. |
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| 8 | 305 |
On the other hand, I knew, in this sport no time would be taken for such matters; in a few heartbeats of the kaiila the girl's wrists and ankles would be lashed together and she would be, without ceremony, slung over the pommel of the saddle, it the stake, her body the ring. |
10 |
| 8 | 322 |
It was scarcely ten beats and Conrad had bound the struggling, scratching Tuka, slung her about the pommel, raced back, kaiila squealing, and threw the girl, wrists tied to her ankles, to the turf inside the circle of the boskhide whip. |
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| 10 | 437 |
Over his shoulder was slung the sheath of a short sword. |
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| 12 | 432 |
"Tonight," she begged, "please, Master, tonight!" With a roar of triumph Kamchak swept her up and slung her, hobbled as she was, over his shoulder and she cried out and he, singing a Tuchuk song, was stomping away with her from the curtained enclosure. |
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| 14 | 6 |
During the day the rapid movements of these individually maneuverable units are dictated by bosk horn and movements of the standards; at night by the bosk horns and the war lanterns slung on high poles carried by riders. |
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| 21 | 253 |
Beneath the unbelted tunic of the Bakers, slung under my left arm, its lineaments concealed largely by a short brown cloak worn over the left shoulder, there hung my sword and with it, the quiva. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52 |
These he slung over his left shoulder. |
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| 3 | 22 |
The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a s... |
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| 3 | 214 |
The Vintner was picking up the pieces and putting them back in the leather game bag, which he then slung about the man's shoulder. |
10 |
| 4 | 83 |
Then, not speaking, the Older Tarl had slung the body over his shoulders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 66 |
Over her shoulder were slung the four birds she had caught in the marshes; their necks were now broken and they were tied together, two in front and two over her back. |
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| 13 | 258 |
"Very well," said the captain, gesturing to a scribe near him, with a wallet of coins slung over his shoulder, to pay the slave master. |
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| 16 | 147 |
I dressed, and slung the sword over my left shoulder. |
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| 17 | 233 |
The man on the height of the prow, his builders' glass slung about his shoulder, standing, his feet fixed in ropes, was waving his cap in the air. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 212 |
Two, over their backs, had slung something like a bow, except that it had a handle, much like a rifle. |
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| 6 | 220 |
The swords they carried in scabbards slung over their left shoulder. |
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| 8 | 59 |
They were controlled by a bargeman, with a long whipping stick, who was ensconced in a leather basket, part of the harness, slung between the two animals. |
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| 8 | 946 |
Soon I returned to the firelight, the heavy bota of paga, on its strap, slung over my shoulder, Ute and Lana, with theirs, behind me. |
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| 9 | 137 |
She slung again about her shoulders her bow and quiver, and took up again her light spear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 129 |
I now slung the sword over my left shoulder, in the Gorean fashion. |
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| 7 | 2 |
At my hip was slung the quiver, with sheaf arrows, twenty of them, of black tem wood, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the Vosk gull. |
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| 8 | 76 |
By twos, sleen nets slung between us, we moved to the huts. |
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| 12 | 137 |
Noble, great Ubar! And who would remember Talena, and her shame, after Marlenus, astride a mighty tharlarion, would have his triumph in the streets of Ar, panther girls in tiny cages slung on poles carried by huntsmen, and, walking beside his beast, naked and chained to his stirrup, their former lea... |
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| 12 | 187 |
Over my left shoulder, slung, was sword and scabbard. |
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| 14 | 147 |
How many were there? How did they seem? Which seemed most alert? Who did I suppose might be the most dangerous? At what height hung the hilt of the swords in the sheaths slung over the left shoulder? Which girls walked with their heads the highest, which carried their spears well? I looked at the mo... |
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| 15 | 273 |
About the neck of the last panther girl in the coffle were slung seven quivers of arrows, which I had taken from various prisoners. |
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| 16 | 245 |
The bottles of wine, brought by one of the paga slaves, were slung, knotted, about her neck. |
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| 21 | 100 |
Sarus reached to his wallet, slung at his belt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 515 |
The findings of Iskander of Turia matched those of the other physicians, but, to my astonishment, when he had replaced his instruments in the pouch slung at his shoulder, he said, "The wounds were given by blades of Tyros". |
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| 3 | 89 |
He took the purse of the burgher in black satin, and took, too, from his neck the silver chain of his office, which he slung about his own neck. |
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| 3 | 302 |
Forkbeard then, grinning, slung his ax over his left shoulder, dropping it into the broad leather loop by which it may be carried, its head behind his head and to the left. |
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| 10 | 77 |
Most of the men at the Thing were free farmers, blond-haired, blue-eyed and proud, men with strong limbs and work-roughened hands; many wore braided hair; many wore talmits of their district; for the Thing their holiday best had been donned; many wore heavy woolen jackets, scrubbed with water and bo... |
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| 10 | 415 |
"Drop your kirtles, and hitch them up!" Laughing, once more proud of their bodies, the girls of the Forkbeard insolently slung their kirtles low on their hips, and hitched them high over their calves, even half way up their delightful thighs. |
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| 10 | 431 |
It had been taken from a sack slung about the shoulder of Blue Tooth's officer. |
10 |
| 13 | 242 |
He fingered the tooth of the Hunjer whale, on its golden chain, slung about his neck. |
10 |
| 15 | 149 |
They had slung their shields and axes on their backs. |
10 |
| 19 | 19 |
It reached into a pouch, slung over its shoulder, and handed me a paper, rolled, bound, incongruously, with a ribbon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 67 |
The short sword, now slung over my left shoulder, in the common fashion, would be of little use on kaiila back. |
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| 5 | 625 |
Her figure, though not full, was completely female, beautifully proportioned, and sweetly slung. |
10 |
| 5 | 808 |
Her bare midriff, long, between the high, hooked vest of red silk and the low-slung, sashed chalwar, about her hips, some inches below her navel, was quite attractive. |
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| 6 | 2 |
The ropes, slung, were pressed down with their weight. |
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| 19 | 61 |
I shifted the water bag slung over my shoulders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 15 |
Both wore tunics, red; each, at his left hip, had slung a blade and scabbard; each, at his belt, carried an ornamented knife; the man behind him who stood over me had slung over his back a shield, of layers of leather and brass, and carried a spear, beneath the blade of which was slung a helmet with... |
10 |
| 2 | 51 |
I saw the black leather strap, wide, shiny, across his body, from which depended the blade slung at his left hip. |
10 |
| 2 | 271 |
He was similarly accoutered, with short sword, slung at the left hip, with a shoulder belt; a belt at his waist with a sheathed knife; heavy sandals, almost boots. |
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| 2 | 272 |
He carried a spear over his left shoulder, balanced by his left hand; from the spear depended a shield, behind the left shoulder, and a helmet; about his right shoulder was slung a pouch, which I gathered must have contained supplies; a bota of liquid, water I assumed, was fastened at his belt, on t... |
10 |
| 2 | 667 |
He fetched the pouch and bota which he had carried, and slung them both, this time, at his belt. |
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| 2 | 670 |
He slung the shield and helmet over the butt of the spear, suspending them behind his left shoulder, his left arm over and resting on the shaft of the spear, steadying it in place. |
10 |
| 2 | 712 |
He slung them about my neck. |
10 |
| 2 | 944 |
He gathered up the pouch and bota, and slung them at his belt. |
10 |
| 2 | 945 |
He slung his sword, in its scabbard, over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 2 | 1217 |
About the robes and over the hood and veils of the garmenting were slung medallions and necklaces of wrought gold, pendant with gems. |
10 |
| 5 | 233 |
He carried a sword slung over his shoulder, loosely. |
10 |
| 5 | 265 |
The camp's leader, he with the sword slung over his shoulder, who had come forth from his tent, looked at the soldier in whose arms the girl had been discovered. |
10 |
| 5 | 868 |
The soldier in charge of the coffle slung the scarf, loaded with jewelry from the coffers in the tent, over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 8 | 29 |
They responded to a key, slung on the string about the neck of Thurnus. |
10 |
| 12 | 134 |
Between them was slung fine wire, gently bending and swaying in the slow breeze of the hot afternoon. |
10 |
| 12 | 445 |
The leader of the intruders was handed a pouch, which he slung about his shoulders, and a sword. |
10 |
| 14 | 276 |
I fastened golden loops in my ears, and slung necklaces about my throat. |
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| 26 | 851 |
He then, not speaking further, freed the door of its control chain, slung his gear about his shoulder and, taking Elicia by the arm, conducted her through the portal. |
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| 29 | 100 |
He slung his shield upon his back, and tied his spear, too, beneath the shield's edge, upon his back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 130 |
Then he slung his shield on his arm, and unsheathed the blade slung at his left hip. |
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| 1 | 472 |
I slung a sword over my left shoulder, an admiral's blade. |
10 |
| 2 | 338 |
Instead of two side-hung rudders, or oars, it carried a single oar, slung at the vessel's sternpost. |
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| 3 | 201 |
About his shoulder he had slung some coils of braided rope, fashioned from twisted sleen hide, and, in his hand, he carried a sack and a bundle of tied furs; at his back was a quiver containing arrows, and a short bow of sinew-bound, layered horn. |
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| 3 | 366 |
Then, beside he who bore the standard of Ar, there stood one in the garb of the players, the red and yellow checkered robe, and the checkered cap, with the board and pieces slung over his shoulder, like a warrior's accouterments. |
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| 3 | 790 |
The next most valuable meat in the coffle was, in my opinion, the blonde, who was sweetly slung and exciting. |
10 |
| 3 | 1200 |
Some girls even note with care the apparent weight of the purses slung at the belts of buyers. |
10 |
| 4 | 497 |
Overhead, with some regularity, I saw tarns streaking from the fair, many with tarn baskets slung beneath them, men and women returning to their cities. |
10 |
| 4 | 687 |
A physician entered the booth, with his kit slung over the shoulder of his green robes. |
10 |
| 6 | 287 |
I then took what valuables and moneys there were in the chair, kept in the cabinets at its sides, and slung them, some scarfed and others placed in pouches, about the necks of the two slave girls. |
10 |
| 7 | 236 |
He had filled this from a verrskin canteen slung at his left hip, behind the scabbard. |
10 |
| 11 | 106 |
Sorgus emerged from the hall, his hands raised, his sword slung still at his hip. |
10 |
| 35 | 4 |
The other fellow, also in what seemed to be a suit of light plastic, with a heating unit slung at his hip, fumbled with the weapon, to insert another charge in the breech. |
10 |
| 35 | 60 |
In moments I wore one of the light, plastic suits, with hood, with the heating unit slung at the hip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 594 |
Coils of rope slung over the side cushioned the strakes of the ship, lest she grate herself on the boards of the wharf. |
10 |
| 20 | 10 |
I looked at the heavy linkage of the gold chain, slung over the iron collar and work chain I wore. |
10 |
| 34 | 683 |
The girl now was upon her knees at my feet, the tether on her neck slung back behind her to the slave stake. |
10 |
| 41 | 11 |
The trap, weighted, just below the surface, is activated by two vine ropes, slung over tree branches, ropes which are drawn taut when two logs, to which they are attached, one on each shore, are rolled or dropped from a concealed scaffolding. |
10 |
| 44 | 190 |
I slung the beads about her neck. |
10 |
| 50 | 48 |
I slung the panga at my left hip. |
10 |
| 53 | 65 |
The haunch of tarsk hurled into the water of the moat, slung on a rope, had been devoured in a matter of Ihn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 302 |
She had already removed the chain leash from my collar and, coiling it, slung it on her belt. |
10 |
| 4 | 70 |
They were sweetly slung, with truly feminine bodies, luscious and curvaceous. |
10 |
| 13 | 280 |
Sheathed swords, short, were slung at their left shoulders. |
10 |
| 13 | 284 |
Behind the right shoulder, slung on the shaft of the spears, were light packs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 9 |
Too, the left flank of our position was protected, still, by the mighty links of the Cosian chain, transported to the Vosk, slung between its pylons. |
10 |
| 9 | 315 |
Like most girls, either of Earth or Gor, she was short, curvaceous and luscious, sweetly slung. |
10 |
| 20 | 527 |
Coins, and personal items, and such, are usually, by free persons, carried in pouches, which are usually concealed within the robes of a free woman, or slung about the waist, or shoulder, of a free man. |
10 |
| 20 | 1141 |
With its strap he slung the small, lovely, curved, stringed instrument about her body, the strap over her right shoulder, the instrument behind her left hip. |
10 |
| 20 | 1211 |
She then did so, well exposed in the shreds of the tunic, the delicate lyre slung behind her left hip, her wrists fastened behind her, with Gorean efficiency, in her master's steel. |
10 |
| 20 | 1994 |
I then, with one motion, slung the loops over her head and body, and jerked back, straightening her body, and pinning her arms to her sides. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 170 |
I slung the scabbard strap over my left shoulder, in the Gorean fashion. |
10 |
| 1 | 1048 |
The other two mounted hunters still wore their lances in their shoulder loops, slung across their back. |
10 |
| 8 | 906 |
He slung these loops over his left shoulder and joined me, near the last girl kneeling on the line. |
10 |
| 14 | 29 |
The woman opened a rectangular hide envelope, a parfleche, slung on a strap over her shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 236 |
Some had cradles slung about the pommels of their saddles. |
10 |
| 6 | 121 |
We slung them about our shoulders. |
10 |
| 22 | 44 |
I slung the quiver over my shoulder. |
10 |
| 46 | 173 |
Our weapons and shields slung about us we then climbed these ropes to the height of the escarpment. |
10 |
| 47 | 218 |
I had slung my weapons about me. |
10 |
| 51 | 3 |
Two stout ropes were on its neck, each slung to the saddle of a kaiila, on its opposite sides. |
10 |
| 56 | 27 |
I took this neck rope, a long one, and slung it about the pommel of my saddle. |
10 |
| 56 | 38 |
I then slung some supplies on the kaiila on which the girl, tied, was mounted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 149 |
Some of these had canvas sacks slung about their shoulders. |
10 |
| 10 | 56 |
A narrow strap was then slung about my head and pulled back, deeply between my teeth, and tied tightly behind the back of my neck. |
10 |
| 12 | 109 |
"It is a ram," said he, "doubtless slung from a cradle, drawn by ropes, doubtless with a will by citizens of Corcyrus". |
10 |
| 14 | 37 |
The cage was slung now not from the ring on the wagon beam but from a rope which had been thrown over a high stout branch of a large tree. |
10 |
| 15 | 15 |
In the moonlight, not more than a hundred yards away, I could see the cage slung from its branch. |
10 |
| 15 | 37 |
He had some gear slung over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 31 | 671 |
He slung the string over my head and, by it, hung the key about my neck. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 793 |
There were two sorts, refined, adjustable strap racks, with beddings of flat, soft, crisscrossed straps, with sturdy stud-and-eyelet securing straps, and simple net racks, little more than sturdy wooden frames within which was slung a netlike webbing of rope. |
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| 8 | 303 |
Then I resheathed the blade, in one of the seven sheaths sewn on the common, supple leather backing, slung now from its shoulder strap, at and about my left hip. |
10 |
| 9 | 193 |
"Perhaps you could unmake it, and start in, all over again," I suggested, reaching to the multiple sheath of saddle knives slung at my hip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 298 |
I slung my helmet over my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 3 | 301 |
Two had shields slung at their back. |
10 |
| 12 | 30 |
I slung it, on its strap, over my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 165 |
Do you not sense that she is needful? Is she not sweetly slung? How would she look in slave silk? Will a numbered transportation anklet be set aside for her? Who knows? Perhaps it has already been done? "Oh!" said a bound girl, being brought to the group. |
10 |
| 19 | 18 |
"The blade was in the sheath, was it not," asked Boabissia, "and the sheath beside you?" "Yes," I said, "and the sheath was on its strap, slung about my shoulder. |
10 |
| 21 | 313 |
It was borne on long poles slung in tandem fashion between two tharlarion. |
10 |
| 29 | 174 |
The captain was in the lead, my sword in its sheath, slung on its strap, over his shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 369 |
I moved a little, to feel the tiny metal tag, slung on its tiny closed chain, the chain closed about my collar, move delicately, lightly, on my skin, just below my neck. |
10 |
| 9 | 202 |
The man then slung his end of my short chain, that whose lower hook was about the chain on my manacles, over the chain extending upwards. |
10 |
| 11 | 233 |
About my neck had been slung several strands of beads, large, colorful wooden beads, slave beads, of different lengths. |
10 |
| 11 | 369 |
Mirus had a canvas sack slung at his belt. |
10 |
| 17 | 79 |
My master had a double flute slung on his back. |
10 |
| 20 | 278 |
A sack was slung on a stick, the stick resting over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 23 | 89 |
It had not been until they were loading me, and four of the other girls, each of us tied within a tall, narrow leather sack, our heads exposed, the sack locked shut beneath our chins, into the cargo net, to be slung beneath a draft tarn, that I found out any specific information pertinent to my fate... |
10 |
| 24 | 28 |
My body, and even my legs, ached from the weight of the water bag, slung on its strap over my shoulder. |
10 |
| 26 | 18 |
Across his back was slung a shield. |
10 |
| 26 | 206 |
Over its left shoulder, there had been slung a strap, from which had hung a scabbard, the attitude of which had suggested only too clearly that it was weighted with a blade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 357 |
In the wagon ahead, briefly illuminated, I saw, swinging from its strap, slung over a hook on the rear axle housing, a narrow, cylindrical, capped "grease bucket," the handle of the brush protruding through a hole in the cap. |
10 |
| 1 | 361 |
Some Gorean "coaches," and fee carts, not many, are slung on layers of leather. |
10 |
| 1 | 368 |
For example, it has been noted that the same woman who makes a disgusting spectacle of herself as a free person traveling one way on a leather-slung fee cart is likely on the return journey, if then a slave, perhaps tied in a sack, or placed hooded, and bound, hand and foot, on the floor of such a c... |
10 |
| 1 | 372 |
To be perfectly fair, however, most Goreans, and not just free women, will prefer the simple, jolting progress of a springless wagon to the often more rapid progress of a leather-slung fee cart. |
10 |
| 4 | 11 |
On a hook, behind me, kept for towels, and such, I had slung my scabbard. |
10 |
| 16 | 26 |
I looked over the wall and noted that the long, rolling, shedlike structure was quite near, beneath which the battering ram, on its ropes, was slung. |
10 |
| 17 | 37 |
The first catapult slung its storm of missiles into the charging men, blinding them, denting shields, cutting clothing from bodies. |
10 |
| 17 | 594 |
This time, as it swung back, I could see, along its shaft, the interior of the inclined shed that housed it, and how it was fifty feet long and slung in leather cradles, and the many ropes that controlled it, and the men drawing on the ropes, surely more than a hundred of them under that long shed, ... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 564 |
He then, angry still, slung his sword belt and sheath over his left shoulder. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 22 |
"Paga! Paga!" called a fellow, with a large bota of paga slung over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 8 | 714 |
I handed Marcus his things, piece by piece, the sheath, with its knife, and the pouch, both for his belt, and the sword belt, with its scabbard and blade, to be slung over the left shoulder. |
10 |
| 19 | 334 |
In the softness of the dust, then amongst the vines, moving across the field, our tharlarion in stately gait, we approached the girl, she at the large wooden tank, filling the vessels which would be slung over her yoke. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 203 |
Sometimes I would see birds leaving or returning to whose harness were slung baskets, sometimes open, sometimes closed. |
10 |
| 9 | 218 |
More than once, sometimes in twos and threes, sometimes in tens and twenties, I had seen riders returning with bulging saddle bags, and sacks tied behind the saddle, and about the pommels, and with golden vessels, and candelabra, flashing in the light, slung from the saddles on cords. |
10 |
| 10 | 349 |
Surely it must understand one could go no further! The jailer took from his wallet, slung at his belt, a whistle, on which he blew a succession of piercing notes. |
10 |
| 19 | 27 |
I saw some of the captives, stripped women, hooded, being led forth, in their chains, from cage baskets, slung to the harnesses of the mighty birds. |
10 |
| 19 | 708 |
He had the water bag slung over his shoulder. |
10 |
| 24 | 718 |
One of the men with the officer, the captain, was clad not in the gear of war, but wore a blue tunic, and carried, on two straps, slung now beside him, a scribe's box. |
10 |
| 24 | 797 |
"Do you wish a record made of this, Captain?" asked the fellow in the blue tunic, he with the scribe's box, on its straps, slung at his left side. |
10 |
| 31 | 370 |
It had apparently been slung beneath his left arm. |
10 |
| 37 | 744 |
There was a quiver and bow slung at its back, a sword dangling behind it. |
10 |
| 37 | 1167 |
He touched his blade, slung over his left shoulder. |
10 |
| 39 | 110 |
He slung a sheathed sword about his left shoulder. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 85 |
She reached into the basket and took out the small clothespin bag, lying on the damp laundry, and slung this over her right shoulder, so that its opening was at her left hip, so that she, being right-handed, might easily reach into it. |
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| 16 | 253 |
He put the cup in a pouch, slung at his belt. |
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| 16 | 827 |
The man's tunic was scarlet, and he wore a sword belt slung across his body, from the right shoulder to the scabbard at his left hip, facilitating the right-handed draw. |
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| 18 | 89 |
The tarns were largely draft tarns, large, relatively slow birds, controlled either from a saddle or, by reins, from the tarn basket, slung below the bird. |
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| 18 | 480 |
She had seen other girls running errands clad as she, in their tunics, and back-braceleted, with a message capsule slung about their neck or tied to their collar, but this was the first time she had been so sent forth. |
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| 19 | 93 |
He wadded these papers, these documents, into a pouch, slung at his side. |
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| 22 | 645 |
Occasionally a lantern was slung from a pole, a pool of light at its base. |
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| 26 | 667 |
He had a sword, presumably that of a guardsman, slung at his left shoulder. |
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| 27 | 1055 |
In the distance, but turning now, obviously withdrawing, but not abandoning the field, were four more tarns, each with a tarn basket slung beneath it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 90 |
The beast then slung its rifle behind its left shoulder, to a harness hook, and seized the container with its long arms, but could not fully encircle it. |
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| 43 | 11 |
He saw the Lady Bina, dangling upside down, her ankles roped together, the rope slung over a hook on a pulley. |
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| 71 | 12 |
He also purchased some heavy chain, which he slung about Flavion's body, and by means of which he could tether him at night. |
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| 75 | 10 |
On his back, slung in straps, was an ax, long-handled, but of a size manageable by a human. |
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| 75 | 11 |
A pack, which might be shoulder slung, to lie at the left hip, had been left at the stable gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 444 |
Most had sacks slung about them. |
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| 5 | 1097 |
Sometimes captured panther girls, small bands of which occasionally roamed hundreds of pasangs to the south, were slung from such poles. |
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| 12 | 200 |
Between two sets of poles were slung ropes and a saddle, and in each saddle was a fellow who was being flung from side to side, and dropped, and lifted, and spun about, by others, and even, by ropes, on each side, being whirled about a vertical axis. |
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| 12 | 238 |
Indeed the only experience many women had with tarns was to be slung naked as one of a pair, one on each side, fastened to a saddle ring, or to be, if a single quarry, hauled aloft by a tarnsman's braided, leather rope and then, their clothing cut from them, to be put on their back across the saddle... |
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| 12 | 239 |
It was less terrifying, of course, to be bound in a tarn basket, slung beneath a tarn, usually a draft tarn. |
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| 14 | 61 |
First, it might be easily slung at the saddle, freeing the tarnsman's hands, for a purpose which will soon be obvious, the use of the bow, and, second, as in some arena bucklers, it would have a bladelike edge, thus allowing it to be used to cut at an opponent's body, ideally the throat. |
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| 16 | 27 |
In the side-slung saddle boot, on the right, horizontal with the flight, was the black, temwood lance. |
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| 16 | 112 |
I had substituted, instead, flighted targets, small, wooden disks, slung on ropes, carried beneath carrier tarns. |
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| 25 | 123 |
A scabbard, hooked to a buckled waist belt, or slung across the body, might be seized in combat, discommoding its wearer, perhaps pulling him off balance, or into the blade of a waiting knife. |
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| 25 | 125 |
If one is in a territory thought safe, of course, the scabbard belt is not unoften slung across the body, looped from the right shoulder to the left hip, if the swordsman is right-handed, and, naturally enough, looped from the left shoulder to the right hip, if the swordsman is left-handed. |
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| 26 | 182 |
The shuttered lantern he had slung at his saddle, on the right. |
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| 27 | 6 |
"Do you not march?" asked a fellow, a pack on his shoulder, slung over the haft of a spear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 |
Members of the Caste of Players are recognized by their red-and-yellow-checked robes, the worn board slung over their shoulder, the sack of pieces at their waist. |
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| 3 | 1318 |
Too, there was little light in my cell, only that from the small lamp, on its chains, slung from the ceiling outside the bars, moving with the movement of the ship, outside the opened gate. |
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| 16 | 104 |
Some grapnels, on knotted rope, were slung upward from the galley, but fell short. |
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| 24 | 59 |
A large cage, containing an enormous sleen, snarling and obviously discomfited, was slung over the rail, and lowered toward the wharf. |
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| 31 | 31 |
The boxes, on straps, and the sacks, on cords, were slung about the slaves, two to each slave, a balanced load, one strap or cord running from the left shoulder to the right hip, and the other from the right shoulder to the left hip. |
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| 37 | 1188 |
Callias then seized up one of the heaped comforters, spread it a bit, and then slung it to the side, on the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 296 |
In the vicinity of the Tenth Ahn, as I guessed, I was alone, several loops of chaining, and such, slung about me or wrapped about my body. |
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| 9 | 370 |
I could now see its furred chest, and could see, against the chest, the small device, the translator, which was slung about its neck. |
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| 10 | 74 |
How could one speak the language of a jard, a vart or tharlarion, even if they had a language? The beast reached to the small device on its chain, slung about its neck. |
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| 10 | 401 |
I next approached a fellow of the Leather Workers, or so I supposed, for he had several loops of harness slung about his shoulders. |
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| 10 | 402 |
I barely noticed that several of harnesses slung about his shoulders were slave harness, a form of ingenious harnessing in which a slave might be variously, pleasingly, constrained and exhibited. |
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| 21 | 68 |
Trachinos, claimedly of Turia, had his blade at his left hip, suspended from the belt slung over his right shoulder. |
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| 23 | 176 |
Trachinos was now behind Akesinos, and the coils of rope were now slung about his shoulder. |
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| 24 | 13 |
The right hand of Trachinos moved to the hilt of the blade slung at his left hip. |
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| 27 | 20 |
The three Kurii, Lucius, Timarchos, and Lysymachos, all had translators slung about their large necks, on golden chains, by means of which, doubtless, they followed the progress of the feast, and by means of which they might, if they desired, communicate with the humans present. |
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| 29 | 22 |
The guard, who now had the translator slung about his neck, presumably that it might be convenient, as I was about, reached back and, with a small mallet, removed from a peg, struck a hanging bar, which emitted a sharp, clear note, in response to which signal a second Kur shortly appeared at the por... |
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| 42 | 10 |
I bore no tray now, but a yoke, from each terminus of which was slung a skin of water and a haunch of tarsk. |
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| 50 | 79 |
Usually I was tethered, kneeling, by a loop of chain slung about the ring and the linkage of my slave bracelets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 159 |
It reposed in its greased scabbard, slung from its across-the- body strap, from, as I was right- handed, the right shoulder to the left hip. |
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| 9 | 297 |
Most of the heavier objects would be slung from the poles brought by the tunicked slaves. |
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| 16 | 139 |
I wore my waist belt, with dagger, and the shoulder belt, with the slung sheath, and gladius. |
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| 21 | 325 |
I was surprised he did not place it in the wallet slung at his waist. |
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| 29 | 61 |
Did they think they were men? They carried knives on a loop slung about their shoulder. |
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| 38 | 41 |
On the other hand I saw no tabuk, dangling from poles, nor skins slung over the shoulders of any of the fellows. |
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| 41 | 256 |
The flask was finished in one round, but I replenished the small metal cups more than once, pouring from the bottle, it suspended in its carrying net, slung on its strap about my shoulder. |
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| 52 | 691 |
"Yes, Master," she said, happily, and slung it about her shoulder. |
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| 52 | 973 |
"No," said my master, "a fool! Did you not see he carried, slung at the saddle, a crossbow, and quarrels?" "I did not notice," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 5 |
Both Pertinax and Tajima now had slung about their necks chains of gold. |
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| 50 | 159 |
In a moment the beast had returned to the threshold, the translator slung about its neck on a chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 150 |
Each had a short blade slung at his left hip, suspended by a shoulder strap. |
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| 9 | 169 |
His hand moved to the wallet slung at his belt. |
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| 23 | 232 |
He had been armed, a short sword in its scabbard slung from the left shoulder, rather than across the body. |
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| 28 | 1 |
The tarsk-bit struck into the metal cup slung about my neck. |
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| 32 | 20 |
On the knife ships the masts were down; on the round ships no canvas was slung to the yards. |
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| 40 | 3 |
A small pouch, on a string, was slung about my neck, over my collar. |
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| 46 | 172 |
Lord Grendel touched the translator slung about his neck, activating it. |
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| 49 | 22 |
Some were standing, their scribe kits slung over their shoulders. |
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| 50 | 11 |
His translator, on its chain, was slung about his neck. |
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| 53 | 199 |
He placed the leash, collar, and ropes in a large sack, which he wore at his left hip, slung from a strap over his right shoulder. |
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| 61 | 574 |
At this point, Lucilius, his translator slung about his neck, growled. |
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| 68 | 459 |
Most free Goreans will carry a purse, or wallet, usually slung on a string, strap, or cord, commonly attached to a belt, or girdle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 39 |
A taverner's man was collecting coins at a table, and putting them in the small, black coin box, slung from his belt, at his left hip. |
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| 21 | 10 |
He then placed the wrapping in the wallet slung from his belt, and gestured that I should leave the pantry, which I did. |
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| 27 | 25 |
This served to conceal the short sword, unsheathed, slung from the strap under the cloak, over his left shoulder. |
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| 35 | 74 |
The key and bracelets were then placed in his wallet, slung from his belt. |
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| 37 | 237 |
"Very well," said the Lady Dorna, in fury, reaching into her purse, slung at her hip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 19 |
Thurnock gave him water from a bota, slung over his shoulder. |
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| 44 | 69 |
"Tal," said Thrasymedes, in a work tunic, his double-bladed ax slung across his back. |
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