| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 152 |
As nearly as I could determine from the map and my memory of the location of the Vosk and the direction I had been carried, I was somewhere in the Voltai Range, sometimes called the Red Mountains, south of the river and to the east of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 22 | 211 |
I laughed and spun the fat little fellow about and, with one hand on the collar of his robes and the other hand firmly affixed south of the collar, flung him stumbling toward the exit of the tent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 22 |
The land between the Cartius and the Vosk had once been within the borders of the claimed empire of Ar, but not even Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, when master of luxurious, glorious Ar, had flown his tarnsmen south of the Cartius. |
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| 1 | 24 |
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap... |
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| 1 | 42 |
Overhead a wild Gorean kite, shrilling, beat its lonely way from this place, seemingly no different from a thousand other places on these broad grasslands of the south. |
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| 2 | 72 |
In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure... |
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| 2 | 90 |
It would not, of course, be to the benefit of Turia, or the farther cities, or, indeed, any of the free cities of even northern Gor, if the isolated fierce peoples of the south were to join behind a single standard and turn their herds northward—away from their dry plains to the lusher reache... |
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| 8 | 4 |
The herds would circle Turia, for this was the portion of the Omen Year called the Passing of Turia, in which the Wagon Peoples gather and begin to move toward their winter pastures; the second portion of the Omen Year is the Wintering, which takes place far north of Turia, the equator being approac... |
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| 8 | 45 |
At last, seventeen days after the first snows, the edges of the herds began to reach their winter pastures far north of Turia, approaching the equator from the south. |
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| 8 | 635 |
The bosk were moving south with the coming of the spring. |
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| 11 | 188 |
I knew, of course, that it was spring and, in this hemisphere, most birds, if there were any migrating, would be moving south. |
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| 11 | 189 |
"South," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 388 |
I had heard it sung some two years ago by the bargemen on the Cartius, a tributary of the Vosk, far to the south and west of Ar. |
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| 21 | 295 |
Indeed, the Torian Squares, which I have mentioned, common among Gorean infantries, with their superior mobility and regrouping capacities, had, long ago, made the phalanxes of such cities as Ar and, in the south, Turia, obsolete. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 140 |
Tuchuks, in the south, as I recalled, had also used sleen to hunt slaves, and, of course, to protect their herds. |
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| 10 | 214 |
Three, which I encountered frequently in my voyages, were Teletus, and, south of it, Tabor, named for the drum, which it resembles, and, to the north, among the northern islands, Scagnar. |
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| 10 | 216 |
I did not go as far south as Anango or Ianda, or as far north as Hunjer or Skjern, west of Torvaldsland. |
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| 10 | 217 |
These islands, with occasional free ports on the coast, north and south of the Gorean equator, such as Lydius and Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, make possible the commerce between Cos and Tyros, and the mainland, and its cities, such as Ko-ro-ba, Thentis, Tor, Ar, Turia, and many others. |
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| 10 | 249 |
Both lie some four hundred pasangs west of Port Kar, Tyros to the south of Cos, separated by some hundred pasangs from her. |
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| 11 | 64 |
"And those," I asked, indicating other wharves, farther to the south, "are those of Nigel and Sullius Maximus". |
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| 11 | 111 |
The wharves of Chung, Eteocles, Nigel and Sullius Maximus, I conjectured, from the blazings along the waterfront on the west and south, would not fare as well. |
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| 11 | 130 |
I looked out over the city, at the arsenal, at the burning wharves on the west and south. |
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| 11 | 185 |
I knew that the fires on the wharves of Chung still blazed, and that they had spread northward to the free wharves south of the arsenal. |
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| 15 | 442 |
He lifted, heavily, to the dais on which my chair and table sat a heavy leather sack filled with golden tarn disks of double weight, of Cos and Tyros, of Ar and Port Kar, even of distant Thentis and remote Turia, far to the south. |
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| 17 | 80 |
My fifth wave, following the fourth by half an Ahn, consisted of two fleets of forty tarn ships apiece, one attacking from the north and the other from the south. |
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| 17 | 177 |
Following the fourth wave, its own attack timed to occur half an Ahn after that of the fourth wave, would come the fifth wave, the two small fleets of tarn ships, of forty ships apiece, masts down, who would initiate their pincers attack from the north and the south. |
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| 17 | 211 |
My fifth wave was divided into two portions, the pincer blade striking from the north under the command of the tall, long-haired Nigel with his fifteen ships, supplemented by twenty-five of the arsenal, and the pincer blade from the south under the command of Chung, with his twenty ships, supplement... |
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| 17 | 236 |
From both the north and the south, like distant black slivers knifing through the cold waters of Thassa, masts down, came the fleets of the fifth wave. |
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| 18 | 372 |
Surely she knew the fleet, as well as I, had been driven pasangs south, and would not be able to reach the harbor of Port Kar for another two or three days, at the least. |
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| 18 | 639 |
The rest of the fleet was still doubtless a hundred or more pasangs to the south. |
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| 18 | 963 |
To the far south and north, there was, as far as men knew, only the winds and the snows, driven back and forth, across the bleak ice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 8 |
From Lydius goods may be embarked for the islands of Thassa, such as Teletus, Hulneth and Asperiche, even Cos and Tyros, and the coastal cities, such as Port Kar and Helmutsport and, far to the south, Schendi and Bazi. |
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| 7 | 11 |
It does not have the breadth and current which are the terrors of the titanic Vosk farther to the south, well below Ko-ro-ba, though well above Ar, which is said to be the greatest city of all known Gor. |
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| 8 | 174 |
Indeed, it was such who had attacked Targo earlier, to the south, before he had added a confused, lost, wandering barbarian girl to his chain. |
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| 8 | 562 |
It seemed to me a simple, wild, lovely place, with the glorious air and sky, the forest to the north, the river to the south. |
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| 10 | 321 |
"But, unfortunately for us, your capture was effected by slavers, and they wished to take you south for a better price. |
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| 11 | 6 |
It was said to be a Turian custom, from the far south, which was spreading north. |
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| 11 | 132 |
It was fortunate, I gathered, for the economy of Gor, particularly the south, that the city had not been destroyed. |
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| 11 | 133 |
Much of the hides, the horn and leather which found its way northward came from Turia, obtained from the Wagon Peoples of the treeless southern plains, and many of the manufactured goods, and goods of price, which found their way to the far south, and even to the Wagon Peoples, were produced in, or ... |
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| 11 | 137 |
It was the best known of the Gorean cities below the equator, sometimes called the Ar of the south. |
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| 11 | 265 |
In the south even the free women of the Wagon Peoples wear nose rings". |
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| 11 | 267 |
"Even free women in the south," she insisted, "the free women of the Wagon Peoples, wear nose rings". |
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| 11 | 1276 |
The men of Skjern seldom ventured as far south, or as much inland, as Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning. |
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| 13 | 75 |
Ute was heading south and westward. |
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| 13 | 76 |
The tiny village, Rarir, in which she had been born, lay south of the Vosk, and near the shores of Thassa. |
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| 13 | 134 |
If I were to go with Ute, I would surely prefer to go to an exchange island, with some of the amenities of civilization, rather than to a rude village south of the Vosk. |
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| 15 | 325 |
Later, south of Ko-ro-ba, when I was caged, among the prizes in the hunting retinue of Marlenus of Ar, you, with another girl, whose name was Lana, much abused me". |
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| 18 | 54 |
I remembered her as I had seen her, in the swamp forest, south of Ar, with Nar the spider, and in the Ka-la-na grove, where I had freed her from the chains of a slave, only to put mine upon her; and in the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchants, in her collar, mine, and slave tunic, with Kazrak, my swo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 11 |
I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e... |
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| 1 | 122 |
I recalled her from the fields near the Swamp Forest south of Ar, in the caravan of Mintar, at the great camp of Pa-Kur's horde, as she had been upon Ar's lofty Cylinder of Justice, as she had been in lamp-lit Ko-ro-ba, when, with interlocking arms, we had drunk the wines of the Free Companionship. |
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| 1 | 253 |
"And hundreds of square pasangs, in the south and the west of the forest, I know". |
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| 2 | 522 |
"Half beat! Stroke!" As one, the oars dipped cleanly into the water, and drew against gleaming Thassa, and the Tesephone, lightly, began to turn in the water, her prow seeking the south, and Lydius. |
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| 3 | 33 |
Tabor is an exchange island in Thassa, south of Teletus. |
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| 3 | 35 |
My business was to go to Laura, and there bargain for a hold of sleen fur, which might be taken south for much profit. |
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| 3 | 65 |
Turia is a city of the far south, below the equator. |
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| 3 | 105 |
It is a port of paradoxes, where one finds, strangely mingled, luxuries and gentilities of the south with the simplicities and rudenesses of the less civilized north. |
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| 6 | 16 |
The Tesephone continued to move slowly upriver, between the banks of the Laurius, the fields to the south, the forests to the north. |
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| 6 | 26 |
"Your best gamble," I informed her, "would be to flee to the south, but there there is little cover". |
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| 6 | 174 |
Something similar is true of the Cartius, far to her south. |
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| 6 | 176 |
Ar remains substantially a land power, but the river traffic, on the Vosk and, to the south, on the Cartius, is important to her. |
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| 7 | 343 |
They did not know that soon, perhaps tomorrow, their camp would be stormed, and they would be captives, destined for the iron and the slave markets of the south. |
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| 12 | 78 |
Turia was called the Ar of the south. |
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| 12 | 107 |
There were Ubars to the far south, I knew, but their countries were often small, and lay far inland. |
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| 18 | 352 |
The pile of branches and driftwood was some twenty pasangs south of the camp of the men of Tyros. |
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| 18 | 458 |
Their sails, incidentally, are square, rather than triangular, like the lateen-rigged ships of the south. |
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| 18 | 470 |
Their ships are seen as far to the south as Schendi and Bazi, as far to the north as the great frozen sea, and are known as far to the west as the cliffs of Tyros and the terraces of Cos. |
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| 19 | 13 |
"Captain!" We stood some hundred yards from the palisade erected by the men of Tyros, south of it, on the beach. |
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| 19 | 27 |
Men now streamed past me, to scout the beach to the south. |
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| 19 | 55 |
For whatever reason, Sarus, it seemed, was determined soon, doubtless in the morning, to take his rafts south. |
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| 19 | 67 |
"He is alone," said a man, reporting back from the beach to the south. |
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| 22 | 530 |
"Follow the coast south," I said. |
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| 22 | 863 |
Perhaps she would be sold south to Schendi or Bazi, or north to a jarl of Torvaldsland, Scagnar or Hunjer, or across Thassa to Tabor or Asperiche, or taken up the Vosk in a cage to an inland city, perhaps eventually to find herself in Ko-ro-ba, Thentis or Tharna, or even Ar itself. |
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| 22 | 864 |
Perhaps she would be carried south in tarn caravan, or by slave wagon, and would be slave in Turia, or perhaps even in the wagons of the Wagon Peoples, the Tuchuks, the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 48 |
Another custom, long practiced in the far south, below the Gorean equator, in Turia, for example, is the piercing of the ears of the female slave; this custom, though of long standing in the far south, did not begin to spread with rapidity in the north until, again, it was introduced in Ar. |
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| 10 | 322 |
They feared the perfumed, silken slavery of the south; in the south the yoke of slavery is much heavier on a girl's neck; her bondage is much more abject; she is often little more than the pleasure plaything of her master; it is common for a southern master to care more for his pet sleen than his gi... |
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| 11 | 201 |
The Kurii, I gathered, did not wish to fight their way to more fertile lands south, but to reach them easily, thus conserving their numbers and, in effect, cutting Torvaldsland from the south. |
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| 1 | 5 |
No longer was it set with festive yellow and scarlet cloths, woven in distant Tor; no longer did it bear the freight of plates of silver from the mines of Tharna, nor of cunningly wrought goblets of gold from the smithies of luxurious Turia, Ar of the south. |
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| 2 | 16 |
In the northern villages, and in the forest towns, and northward on the coast, the women do not veil themselves, as is common in the cities to the south. |
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| 2 | 67 |
The trade is largely in furs from the north, exchanged for weapons, iron bars, salt and luxury goods, such as jewelry and silk, from the south, usually brought to Kassau from Lydius by ten-oared coasting vessels. |
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| 2 | 76 |
Trade to the south, of course, is largely in the furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish. |
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| 2 | 77 |
From the south, of course, the people of Kassau obtain the goods they trade northward to Torvaldsland, and, too, of course, civilized goods for themselves. |
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| 2 | 83 |
The nearest high initiate to Kassau was hundreds of pasangs south in Lydius. |
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| 2 | 159 |
The clinker-built construction, as opposed to the carvel construction of the south, with flush planking, is somewhat more inclined to leak, but it is much stronger in the high waters of the north. |
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| 3 | 132 |
It is taken by many to mark the border between Torvaldsland and the south. |
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| 3 | 174 |
They are less ornate and finely tooled than those available in the south. |
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| 3 | 181 |
They were rough, plain fetters, but they would hold her well, quite as well as their intricately wrought counterparts of the south. |
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| 3 | 330 |
Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w... |
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| 4 | 6 |
"There is plankton here," said Ivar, "that of the banks south of the skerry of Einar, and the temperature of the water tells me that we are now in the stream of Torvald, which moves eastward to the coast and then north". |
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| 4 | 33 |
It is a matter of their tradition not to rely on the needle compass, as is done in the south. |
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| 4 | 49 |
The Kaissa of the men of Torvaldsland is quite similar to that of the south, though certain of the pieces differ. |
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| 4 | 58 |
It did not take me much time to adapt to the Kaissa of Torvaldsland, for it is quite similar to the Kaissa of the south. |
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| 4 | 68 |
Among them, even more than in the south, Kaissa is a passion. |
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| 4 | 134 |
I recalled I had, many times, late in the game, regretted the surrender of the Ax, or its equivalent in the south, the Tarnsman, when I had simply, as I thought rationally, moved in accordance with what were reputed to be the principles of sound strategy. |
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| 4 | 148 |
About his neck was a golden chain and pendant, doubtless taken once from a free woman of the south. |
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| 4 | 204 |
The taking of the Hall, in the Kaissa of the North, is equivalent to the capture of the Home Stone in the south. |
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| 4 | 318 |
It is regarded as second only to the five-lash Gorean slave whip, used also in the south, and what among the men of Torvaldsland is called the whip of the furs, in which the master, with his body, incontrovertibly teaches the girl her slavery. |
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| 5 | 39 |
It was a popular variation in the south. |
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| 5 | 41 |
In the south, of course, the response is to the Ubar's Tarnsman's Gambit. |
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| 5 | 66 |
"The men of Torvaldsland," I assured him, "are not overly popular in the south". |
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| 5 | 68 |
"The men of Torvaldsland," I told him, "are similarly respected in the south". |
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| 5 | 267 |
Indeed, the men of the north think little of breaking apart objects which, in the south, would be highly prized for their artistic value, simply to obtain pieces of negotiable precious metal. |
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| 6 | 209 |
The brand used by Forkbeard is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south, where the merchant caste, with its recommendations for standardization, is more powerful. |
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| 6 | 321 |
It is oriented north and south. |
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| 6 | 381 |
"They seldom hunt this far to the south". |
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| 6 | 409 |
"You are of the south," said Ivar. |
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| 6 | 445 |
"You know, however, what I did in the south?" asked Ivar. |
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| 7 | 74 |
"Do you think you are a bondmaid of the south?" he asked. |
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| 7 | 240 |
"It could be, for those of the Kurii are quite rare this far to the south". |
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| 8 | 14 |
"You of the south think we of the north are barbarians?" she snapped. |
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| 8 | 53 |
Perhaps this is partly because, in the far south, the free women of the Wagon Peoples wear nose rings; perhaps it is because the piercing does not show; I do not know. |
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| 8 | 67 |
"Show me others, men of the south," said she, contemptuously. |
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| 9 | 31 |
Pet sleen are taught to heel; so, too, sometimes, are bondmaids; I was familiar with this sort of thing, of course; in the south it was quite common for slave girls, in various fashions in various cities, to heel their masters. |
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| 9 | 106 |
She had a fair throat, good shoulders; she was marvelously breasted; her waist was such that one could get his hands on it well; she might have been a bit broad in the beam but I had no objection to this; in the north it is called the love cradle; it was well adapted to cushion the shocks of an oars... |
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| 10 | 94 |
Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she know that the... |
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| 10 | 96 |
"A silk girl!' The expression 'silk girl' is used, often, among bondmaids of the north, to refer to their counterparts in the south. |
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| 10 | 99 |
More literally, the expression tends to be based on the fact that the brief slave tunic of the south, the single garment permitted the female slave, is often of silk. |
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| 10 | 110 |
She wore, indeed, a brief tunic of the south, of golden silk. |
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| 10 | 113 |
In the south the southern slave girl commonly regards her northern counterparts as bumpkins, dolts from the high farms on the slopes of the mountains of Torvaldsland; she thinks of them as doing little but swilling tarsk and dunging fields; she regards them as, essentially, nothing more than a form ... |
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| 10 | 163 |
Thorstein Camp, well to the south, but yet north of Einar's Skerry, was a camp of fighting men, which controlled the countryside about it, for some fifty pasangs, taking tribute from the farms. |
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| 10 | 302 |
In the south, a girl is sometimes sent to the market clad only in her brand and collar; not infrequently, upon her return home, she begs her master for his touch. |
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| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever... |
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| 10 | 317 |
The Forkbeard had brought one thrall with him, the young man, Tarsk, who, even now, followed in the retinue of the Forkbeard; it was thought that if the Forkbeard should purchase a crate of sleen fur or a chest of bog iron the young man, on his shoulders, might then bear it back to our tent, pitched... |
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| 10 | 640 |
I took it, from these indications, she had learned her collar in the south; probably originally it had been a lock collar, snugly fitting, of steel; now, of course, it had been replaced with the riveted collar of black iron, with the projecting ring, so useful for running a chain through, or for pad... |
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| 11 | 158 |
"We seek empty lands to the south, to farm," said the Kur. |
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| 11 | 202 |
There was little to be gained by fighting an action the length of Torvaldsland, and little to be lost by not doing so, which could not be later recouped when power in the south had been consolidated. |
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| 11 | 203 |
I had strong doubts, of course, as to whether a Kur invasion of the south was practical, unless abetted by the strikes of Kur ships from the steel worlds. |
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| 11 | 204 |
The point of the probe, indeed, might be to push Kur power as far south as possible, and, perhaps, too, for the first time, result in the engagement of the forces of Priest-Kings to turn them back. |
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| 11 | 206 |
All in all, I expected the invasion of the south was, at this point, primarily a probe. |
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| 11 | 264 |
It will be our hope to have such good fortune with our own crops in the south. |
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| 12 | 9 |
This sort of thing is done more effectively, in my opinion, in the south by means of flags, run commonly from the prow cleats to the height of the stem castle. |
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| 12 | 41 |
To a somewhat lesser extent, it might be mentioned, this is also cultural in the south. |
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| 13 | 16 |
On the long sides of the hall, on the north and south, there were long tables, with benches. |
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| 13 | 30 |
The red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldsland. |
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| 13 | 45 |
That had been a time of great raids to the south. |
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| 13 | 136 |
The Jarl's Woman, in the Kaissa of the north, is a more powerful piece than the Ubara in the Kaissa of the south. |
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| 13 | 137 |
This is not to deny that the Ubara in the south, in fact, exercises as much or more power than her northern counterpart. |
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| 13 | 138 |
It is only to recognize that her power in the south is less explicitly acknowledged. |
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| 13 | 280 |
His power would be the equal of that of a Ubar of the south. |
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| 13 | 308 |
From the doors to the hall, swung wide, now approaching, came four figures, Ottar, who had accompanied the Forkbeard to the Thing, two of the Forkbeard's men, with spears, and, between them, clad in rich robes of concealment, such as are worn in the south, even to the veils, the figure of a girl. |
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| 15 | 46 |
In their march south, the fleet of Thorgard of Scagnar would cover their western flank. |
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| 15 | 68 |
Their boldest move had begun most recently, the gathering of the Gorean Kurii, the initiation of the march to the south, the incursion into lands of human habitation, the beginning of the invasion from the north. |
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| 16 | 53 |
Each year their paint is freshened, commonly on the vigil of the vernal equinox, which, in the north, as commonly in the south, marks the new year. |
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| 17 | 92 |
The bosk were at the south of the camp. |
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| 17 | 93 |
They would, effectively, prevent the Kurii from slipping free on the south. |
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| 17 | 97 |
Near the center of the camp, but somewhat to the south and east of the center, like the verr, the tarsk, the bosk, was another herd of Kurii animals; it, too, resided in its pen, a wide pen, more than a quarter of a pasang in diameter, formed of poles and crossbars, lashed together; this pen, howeve... |
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| 17 | 100 |
The Kurii had been in no hurry to initiate their march to the south. |
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| 17 | 105 |
During this time, a hundred pasangs to the south, Svein Blue Tooth had set the rallying point of the men of Torvaldsland. |
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| 17 | 201 |
Near the center of the camp but somewhat to the south and east of the center, behind its poles and crossbars, lashed together, was a different herd of Kurii livestock. |
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| 18 | 126 |
"Do not permit Kurii to escape to the south," said Svein Blue Tooth to Ketil, keeper of his high farm, who had been famed as a wrestler. |
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| 18 | 493 |
"Recollect you, my Jarl," asked Olga, "the golden girl, she with ringed ears, from the south, who lost in the assessments of beauty to Gunnhild?" "Well do I do so," responded Ivar, licking his lips. |
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| 18 | 634 |
Single, or scattered, Kurii might, as before, forage south, but I did not think they would again regroup in vast numbers. |
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| 22 | 4 |
"I think," said I, smiling, "I will take ship south with Ivar Forkbeard, for I have yet to learn to break the Jarl's Ax's Gambit". |
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| 22 | 69 |
I do not think that in the south she had been forced so to work. |
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| 22 | 177 |
The trip south would be long. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 15 |
I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in... |
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| 11 | 411 |
Caravans with goods tend to travel the western, or distant eastern edge of the Tahari; caravans do, it might be mentioned, occasionally travel from Tor or Kasra to Turmas, a Turian outpost and kasbah, in the southeastern edge of the Tahari, but even these commonly avoid the dune country, either movi... |
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| 1 | 611 |
Such a path would take it below the eastern foothills of the Voltai and to the south. |
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| 2 | 652 |
The kaiila pens in Tor are outside her south gate. |
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| 3 | 131 |
"Achmed," he said, "will wait for you at the south gate". |
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| 3 | 317 |
Achmed, the son of Farouk, would be waiting for me at the south gate of the city. |
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| 5 | 406 |
My own recommendation, though it may be imperfect, given that I have not scouted the terrain, would be to depart, with haste, south". |
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| 5 | 407 |
"South," he said, "is Aretai territory!" "It seems unlikely they would expect you to move in that direction," I said. |
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| 5 | 426 |
They rode south. |
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| 5 | 642 |
It had been a stroke of brilliance, or of fortune, I surmised, to have brought the wench south. |
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| 11 | 13 |
Once, when a rising edge of blackness, whipping with dust, had risen in the south, we had dismounted, hobbled our kaiila and turned their backs to the wind. |
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| 11 | 174 |
To its east and south is mostly Kavar country". |
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| 14 | 72 |
It smoked, and burned oil, probably from tiny rock tharlarions, abundant south of Tor in the spring. |
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| 19 | 84 |
* * * * The march of Hassan had as its object not Red Rock, northwest of Klima, but Four Palms, a Kavar outpost known to him, which lay far to the south of Red Rock. |
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| 19 | 99 |
A consequence of Hassan's plan was that we were actually moving, generally, south and west of Klima, in short, for a time, deeper into the most desolate, untraveled portions of the dune country, far even from the salt routes. |
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| 26 | 233 |
After that, no longer of use to the agents of Priest-Kings, he could be sold south, into the Tahari. |
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| 3 | 529 |
It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely... |
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| 7 | 26 |
Armies and tarn cavalries might then move south. |
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| 7 | 43 |
The great margin of desolation which once flanked Ar on the north, just south of the Vosk, has not been maintained. |
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| 7 | 51 |
We had had no difficulty in traversing it, on the great road leading south to Ar. |
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| 10 | 48 |
It lies far to the south, in the middle latitudes of her southern hemisphere. |
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| 12 | 450 |
"It seems there was a distraction, a burning field some pasangs to the south. |
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| 17 | 59 |
It had burned itself out moving south and eastward in some eighteen months. |
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| 22 | 59 |
Occasionally they have been found as far south, however, as the shores of Cos and the deep inlets of Tyros. |
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| 6 | 14 |
I stood in the midst of fields south of the Laurius river, some forty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa, some one hundred and twenty pasangs south-southeast of the river port of Lydius, lying at the mouth of the Laurius river, on its farther side. |
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| 2 | 327 |
In the maelstroms south and west of Tyros shattered planking was sometimes found. |
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| 2 | 585 |
The herd of Tancred winters in the rims of the northern forests south and east of Torvaldsland. |
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| 2 | 667 |
"It was told by a man of the polar basin who had come south to sell skins at the Sardar". |
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| 3 | 53 |
It was true that the Kaissa of the north differed in some respects from tournament Kaissa in the south. |
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| 3 | 57 |
Most Gorean cities now, at least in the south, had accepted a standard tournament Kaissa, agreed upon by the high council of the caste of players. |
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| 3 | 87 |
"You speak clearly for one of the south," he said. |
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| 3 | 1142 |
For one thing, the fellow, this far south, probably had some conception of the values of the furs. |
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| 6 | 692 |
"I was seized and, though free, sold south as a slave". |
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| 7 | 10 |
"One in the south who meant me harm, who seemed a sleen master, had assumed your identity. |
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| 7 | 18 |
"It is known even in the south. |
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| 7 | 128 |
"Are there traders come south from the north?" asked Ram. |
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| 9 | 7 |
They stretched for pasangs to the south, grazing. |
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| 9 | 12 |
"Hides," she said, "thousands, not yet shipped south". |
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| 9 | 115 |
They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift, many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted, antelopelike quadruped of the south. |
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| 10 | 111 |
"One who is wise in the south may be a fool in the north". |
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| 10 | 115 |
"Perhaps I am wiser in the south," I said, "but you are wiser in the north". |
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| 11 | 5 |
Several guardsmen, too, their discipline broken, had sought supplies and fled south. |
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| 11 | 14 |
We lost some of these as they fled south but others we captured and chained, acquiring several longbows, which might be used at the latitude of the wall, and several hundred arrows. |
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| 11 | 209 |
The laborers, in various groups, laden with goods and gold, have filtered away, scattering, returning to the south". |
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| 11 | 222 |
"Captured guardsmen and hunters," I said, "released, given supplies, have also taken their way south". |
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| 11 | 249 |
Trees do not flourish in the land of Imnak and their needs for wood must largely be satisfied by occasional finds at the shore, driftwood, from hundreds of pasangs south, dragged from the chilled water. |
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| 11 | 484 |
"I would surely fail to reach the south safely". |
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| 12 | 223 |
He had traded furs and skins south more than once. |
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| 12 | 308 |
"I am from the south. |
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| 12 | 346 |
I could see the blue line of the Hrimgar Mountains in the distance to the south. |
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| 12 | 364 |
It is played not only by the red hunters, but in Hunjer and Skjern, and in Torvaldsland, and as far south as the villages in the valley of the Laurius. |
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| 13 | 64 |
"Men of the south must be approached so cautiously," said Imnak. |
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| 15 | 240 |
* * * * "What is slavery like in the south?" asked Audrey. |
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| 15 | 278 |
"If I should have you in the south," I said, "I would have you soon marked". |
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| 15 | 293 |
* * * * "In the south," I said, "there are many cities. |
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| 15 | 614 |
"It is my guess," I said, "that both Thimble and yourself will be traded south next spring for tea and sugar". |
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| 15 | 639 |
"How would I be taken south?" she asked. |
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| 15 | 642 |
"I think I would like to be taken south". |
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| 15 | 645 |
"If I were to be taken south," she said, "would I be sold there?" "Doubtless," I said. |
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| 15 | 893 |
* * * * "Please tell me more of the south," she said. |
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| 15 | 897 |
* * * * "Please tell me more of the south," she said. |
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| 15 | 916 |
"In the south," she asked, "would a master put me in a collar?" "It is quite likely," I said. |
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| 15 | 984 |
"There are, of course, many slaveries in the south," I said. |
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| 17 | 72 |
"After I sleep," I said, "I am going to return to the south". |
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| 17 | 99 |
"You are going south?" he asked. |
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| 21 | 25 |
Red hunters, for example, will often go about cheerfully stripped to the waist in weather in which many individuals of the south would find both a tunic and a cloak comfortable. |
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| 23 | 33 |
"It is coming from the south". |
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| 23 | 65 |
"Who from the south would come in the winter?" I asked Imnak. |
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| 23 | 139 |
Too, I had not gone south. |
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| 23 | 210 |
When I did not return south, it would be speculated I would go north. |
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| 23 | 330 |
I recalled her puzzlement, which I think was genuine, in the hall to the south, that which had formed her own headquarters near the now-broken wall. |
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| 24 | 124 |
"Flee to the south," she whispered. |
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| 25 | 9 |
The second sled was Imnak's, and the third was Ram's, brought with him from the south, which the men of the permanent camp had drawn to the camp for him. |
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| 25 | 29 |
Imnak pointed upward, back toward the south. |
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| 25 | 117 |
Sometimes, when one does become lost, as on a trading journey south, it takes months to find his way back to his camp. |
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| 27 | 111 |
It occurs also, of course, in the south, in the vicinity of the southern polar circle. |
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| 28 | 52 |
I had made her my slave in the fields south of the Laura. |
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| 29 | 28 |
"Greetings, someone from the south," he said. |
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| 32 | 61 |
"You wanted to close the tabuk off in their northward migration to drive the red hunters south and away from the area?" I asked. |
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| 36 | 6 |
Perhaps eventually a hunter would take a trading trip south and take them with him, bound, to dispose of them in, say, Lydius, with his furs and other trade goods. |
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| 36 | 160 |
Constance, the lovely blond-haired slave from Kassau, whom I had embonded in the fields south of the Laurius, knelt in the fourth row. |
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| 38 | 1 |
I Shall Return to the South I gently closed the door of the feasting house. |
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| 38 | 37 |
Ram and Drusus had their sleds, and, besides mine, there were the sleds of five hunters, men who would accompany us south, across Ax Glacier. |
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| 38 | 41 |
They were girls from the complex, some of whom had been free women, who would be taken south as trade goods. |
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| 38 | 123 |
"When I sell you," I said, "if I should sell you, I will sell you south, into a perfumed slavery". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 33 |
On it was the small vessel containing a thick, sweet liqueur from distant Turia, the Ar of the south, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it. |
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| 1 | 213 |
It was more irritating, of course, to realize that even considerable areas of territory above Schendi, south of the Vosk, and west of Ar, were unknown. |
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| 1 | 218 |
"And until the calculations of Ramani, and the expeditions of Shaba and Ramus, who had reason to believe otherwise?" "The rain forests closed the Cartius proper for most civilized persons from the south," I said, "and what trading took place tended to be confined to the ubarates of the southern shor... |
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| 1 | 239 |
"It could mean the opening up of a considerable number of new markets, the enhancement of trade, the discovery of a valuable commercial avenue for the merchandise of the north and the products of the south". |
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| 1 | 375 |
Tiny tharlarion, similar to those in the swamp forest south of Ar, dropped, snapping, from the bared hook. |
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| 1 | 742 |
It was also the home port of the League of Black Slavers but their predations were commonly restricted to the high seas and coastal towns well north and south of Schendi. |
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| 4 | 75 |
Similarly, it would not be wise to take one of my own ships, say, the Dorna or the Tesephone, south. |
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| 4 | 340 |
Also, though this would not figure in her thinking, she could, on the north, east and south, be trapped against the delta walls or at the marsh gates. |
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| 4 | 376 |
A narrower canal, somewhat south of it, is called the Ribbon's alley. |
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| 5 | 18 |
The trip south towards Schendi is a long one, consuming several days, even with fair winds, which we had had. |
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| 5 | 160 |
"A girl pushed me in the South canal a year ago," she said. |
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| 5 | 597 |
Their herds are usually found in the savannas and plains north and south of the rain forests, but some herds frequent the forests as well. |
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| 6 | 56 |
Closer to shore one could mark clearly the traces of the Kamba to the north and the Nyoka to the south, but, given our present position, we were in the fans of these washes. |
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| 6 | 175 |
Schendi, located in the vicinity of the Gorean equator, somewhat south of it, provides the ships with a convenient base, from which they may conduct their affairs seasonally in both hemispheres. |
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| 6 | 187 |
Schendi itself lay farther to the south, about the outjutting of a small peninsula, Point Schendi. |
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| 6 | 360 |
Much kailiauk leather is processed in Schendi, brought to the port not only from inland but from north and south, from collection points, along the coast. |
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| 6 | 550 |
The black slavers usually sell their catches nearer the markets, both to the north and south. |
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| 6 | 562 |
Being somewhat south of the equator it does have a dry season, which occurs in the period of the southern hemisphere's winter. |
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| 6 | 584 |
Into this less dense area, this "hole," so to speak, cooler air pours, like invisible liquid, from both the north and south. |
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| 6 | 609 |
In some eighteen months it had burned itself out, moving south and eastward. |
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| 7 | 26 |
It is adjacent, on the south, to a large market where river fish are peddled for consumption in Schendi. |
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| 7 | 112 |
"I did not know anything of this breadth and power existed in the south," I said. |
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| 23 | 42 |
He, like many in the interior, and on the surrounding plains and savannas, north and south of the equatorial zone, was long-boned and tall, a physical configuration which tends to dissipate body heat. |
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| 23 | 324 |
"Let us go east, or toward the jungles north or south," said a man. |
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| 32 | 494 |
"It seems I was in the jungles of South America, a continent on my native world, Earth, or perhaps it was some other world. |
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| 48 | 295 |
The other girls are from various cities in the south". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 30 |
The villa of the Lady Florence of Vonda lay some forty pasangs south and west of Vonda. |
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| 13 | 43 |
The expression 'Saleria', doubtless owing its origin to the meadow of Salerius, is used broadly, incidentally, to refer to the fertile basin territories both north and south of the Olni, the lands over which the confederation professes to maintain a hegemony. |
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| 13 | 73 |
Already troops have skirmished south of the Olni". |
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| 15 | 8 |
We were on a colonnaded porch on the south side of her house. |
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| 18 | 164 |
We did not, in the great stables, raise saddle tharlarion, though in the house stables, here in the mistress' villa, some forty pasangs south and west of Vonda, there were several saddle tharlarion. |
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| 19 | 390 |
"The south stables should be cleaned," said Barus. |
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| 21 | 252 |
He looked south. |
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| 25 | 258 |
"By what right have the men of Vonda intruded so far to the south?" asked a man. |
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| 29 | 1 |
We Move South; The Tale Told by a Strand of Hair; I Decide to Prepare the Lady Florence for Slavery "It is madness!" she said. |
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| 29 | 27 |
"You are going south". |
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| 29 | 42 |
"Why are we going south?" she asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 59 |
"There has been a major engagement, one long awaited," said the man next to me, "south of Vonda. |
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| 2 | 21 |
"Forces from Port Olni are within a hundred pasangs, marching south. |
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| 2 | 30 |
Defeating them we will return south to meet the forces of Lara, perhaps even here, in the sight of the ashes of Vonda". |
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| 3 | 298 |
It would be difficult to get them to the river markets, which lay beyond Lara, down the Vosk, and higher prices, presumably, could be obtained for them in the markets of the south. |
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| 4 | 46 |
Too, he had been, as I had ascertained, attacked by river pirates on the south bank of the Olni and, embattled, had bargained for his life and those of his men by delivering his goods and slaves to the assailants. |
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| 4 | 73 |
"On the south bank of the Olni," he said, "yes, it is true". |
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| 4 | 169 |
It lay well within the striking distance of a tarn cavalry, such as that which had been employed so devastatingly on the fields and hills south of Vonda. |
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| 6 | 69 |
It was established four years afterward, as an outpost and trading station, on the south bank of the Vosk. |
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| 7 | 2 |
"What am I offered for this girl?" It was a blond-haired peasant girl, thick-ankled and sturdy, from south of the Vosk. |
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| 19 | 74 |
Other generally respected coins tend to be the silver tarsk of Tharna, the golden tarn disk of Ko-ro-ba, and the golden tarn of Port Kar, the latter particularly on the western Vosk, in the Tamber Gulf region, and a few hundred pasangs north and south of the Vosk's delta. |
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| 26 | 140 |
"Warriors of Ar made hostel in his holdings, in their withdrawal to the south. |
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| 33 | 104 |
Too, there were guard stations at the terminal pylons, on the north and south shore of the river. |
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| 33 | 106 |
"He is at the south guard station," said Callimachus. |
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| 33 | 111 |
The south guard station was regarded as more vulnerable than the north guard station, because of its comparatively remote location. |
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| 33 | 114 |
I was pleased to hear that Callisthenes had taken up his post at the south guard station. |
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| 33 | 174 |
"Ten at the chain, and twenty in the vicinity of the south guard station," said Callimachus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 145 |
But they could not approach from the south in such force, for the south was guarded by the fleet of Callisthenes. |
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| 10 | 59 |
We did not think that the pirate vessels had been brought on rollers about the beach south of the chain's terminal pylons to the south. |
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| 2 | 11 |
The ship, with its momentum, drifted forward, south along the chain. |
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| 3 | 66 |
Twenty others lay to in the waters near the south guard station, which post was held by Callisthenes. |
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| 3 | 183 |
"His twenty ships, summoned from the south guard station, will be crucial," said Callimachus. |
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| 3 | 188 |
"I am only hoping," he said, "that the chain has not been cut south of us". |
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| 4 | 13 |
Even this far south, and from the height of the stem castle, one could not see the southern shore of the Vosk. |
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| 4 | 87 |
The Voskjard had been held at the chain in the south. |
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| 4 | 237 |
"Draw back to the south guard station. |
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| 6 | 144 |
These ships, advancing from the south, were clearly ships of the Voskjard. |
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| 6 | 147 |
Presumably it would have been brought, beached and on rollers, about the south guard station. |
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| 6 | 150 |
That the new ships of the Voskjard were bearing down now upon us, and in such force, suggested that they had not been opposed, that either they had been permitted to cut the chain and advance unmolested, or, more likely, perhaps, that they had been permitted to circumvent the chain by the use of the... |
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| 11 | 190 |
Needless to say, the camisk most commonly found in great Turia, the Ar of the south, as it is sometimes called, is that camisk which Goreans, generally, know as the "Turian camisk". |
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| 20 | 1784 |
Not until the last of the tiny birds disappeared to the south did the shield signals flash and the drums beat, the tarns take wing, the tharlarion begin to tread, and infantrymen march. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 44 |
It does not, for example, like certain flocks of birds, venture annually in roughly linear paths from the north to the south, and from the south to the north, covering thousands of pasangs in a series of orthogonal alternations. |
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| 2 | 194 |
"It is proposed that the Sa-Tarna quay in the south harbor be extended. |
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| 3 | 143 |
A fort remains at this point but the name, generally, is now given to the town which grew up in the vicinity of the fort, primarily to the west and south. |
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| 4 | 85 |
"They raid in the south and sell in the north. |
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| 4 | 86 |
They raid in the north and sell in the south". |
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| 4 | 123 |
"They are generally taken south and, apparently, transported over the southern passes". |
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| 5 | 95 |
"We purchased him in the south. |
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| 6 | 127 |
I had, earlier in the afternoon, on one of my purchased kaiila, scouted the terrain north and south of Kailiauk. |
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| 7 | 82 |
The kaiila were presumably from the northern ranches and would be sold in Kailiauk, and in the towns to the south. |
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| 8 | 395 |
This same standardization, in the region of the Tamber Gulf and south, along the shore of Thassa, tends to be effected by the golden tarn of Port Kar. |
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| 14 | 941 |
"Their country lies to the south and east of that of the Kaiila". |
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| 17 | 197 |
The savages on foot would not be able to stop the cavalry, and the pursuers from the south or southeast might be detained at the wagons. |
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| 17 | 223 |
The savages from the south and southeast had struck against the lines of infantrymen with their lances. |
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| 18 | 188 |
"Those to the south are Yellow Knives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 140 |
"And if it should fly to the south or to the east?" I asked. |
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| 44 | 654 |
Alfred, with his officers, and several Yellow Knives, began then, slowly, to ride south. |
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| 47 | 21 |
"They are riding south," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 127 |
"Corcyrus," said the girl, "is south of the Vosk. |
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| 3 | 128 |
It is south-west of the city of Ar. |
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| 15 | 374 |
"It sounds like an alarm bar, back in the south part of the camp," said a man. |
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| 15 | 383 |
"You will rendezvous with us in ten days, on the south bank of the Issus," said a man. |
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| 16 | 362 |
"You are on the Viktel Aria," he said, "north of Venna, moving south". |
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| 19 | 133 |
"In the morning we are going south," he said. |
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| 20 | 17 |
I was pleased that we were no longer traveling south on the Viktel Aria. |
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| 21 | 63 |
They were now being brought south and east, probably, from their shearing, for work in the mills. |
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| 23 | 24 |
"Is Lydius north or south of Kassau?" he asked. |
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| 23 | 27 |
"South". |
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| 23 | 327 |
The wagon would proceed east on the Argentum road, reach the Viktel Aria, and turn south. |
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| 30 | 100 |
I looked wildly south, down the Boulevard of Teiban. |
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| 30 | 102 |
As Clive borders the Teiban Market on the north, so Venaticus borders it on the south. |
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| 30 | 111 |
I continued west on Clive, and turned left, south, on Emerald. |
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| 30 | 211 |
"I would stay on Emerald or return south. |
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| 30 | 666 |
"To the south and west," I said. |
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| 30 | 677 |
They retreated on the street a bit, and then went south and east for a few streets, and then, suddenly, turning right, we found ourselves on Emerald. |
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| 30 | 679 |
Moving south on Emerald we came, after about an Ahn, to the Plaza of Tarns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 278 |
It is far south of the equator, so far south as to almost beyond the ken of most Goreans, except as a place both remote and exotic. |
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| 8 | 329 |
"In the south," I said, "far in the south". |
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| 1 | 156 |
Many goods, in particular wood, wood products, and hide, make their way westward on the Laurius, eventually landing at Lydius, later to be embarked to the south on the ships of various cities, lines and associations. |
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| 2 | 1005 |
It was filled with golden staters, from Brundisium, a port on the coast of Thassa, on the mainland, a hundred pasangs or so south of the Vosk's delta, one reported to have alliances with Ar. |
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| 6 | 212 |
It is south of Teletus and Tabor. |
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| 6 | 1379 |
"I am interested particularly in one given city," I said, "a port on the coast of Thassa, one south of the Vosk's delta". |
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| 11 | 85 |
I thought I owed at least that much to my old buddy of the south. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 58 |
It is located at the intersection of various routes, the Genesian, connecting Brundisium and other coastal cities with the south, the Northern Salt Line and the Northern Silk Road, leading respectively west and north from the east and south, the Pilgrims' Road, leading to the Sardar, and the Eastern... |
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| 1 | 77 |
She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental allies of the island ubarate of Cos. |
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| 4 | 34 |
I had little doubt that it was the current weakness and disorder in this area, attendant on the Cosian invasion, which had drawn the Alars this far south. |
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| 4 | 188 |
This was quite different from the Wagon Peoples of the far south. |
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| 15 | 390 |
"Do you know the name of the high officer of the Cosian forces in the south?" he asked. |
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| 16 | 1443 |
We would then trek south to Ar". |
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| 21 | 260 |
It was then my intention to go south on that avenue until I came to Wagon Street, taking it east to Turia. |
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| 21 | 376 |
We could go south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, some four or five pasangs, and then make a left on Wagon Street, taking it over to the Avenue of Turia. |
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| 25 | 844 |
Then, still sturdily encaged, but mercifully now only stripped, we were brought south. |
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| 25 | 1234 |
In the south, in the cities, in my opinion, because of the richness in history and tradition, and the much greater cultural sophistication and complexity, a female is likely to find herself placed under a much stricter and more exacting bondage than in the north. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 6 |
This is a much smaller town, south, and somewhat to the east, of Samnium. |
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| 10 | 568 |
They are worn even by some free women, I understand, in the far south, the women of the Wagon Peoples there, as well as, generally, by the female slaves of such peoples. |
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| 17 | 68 |
We had come from Samnium, which lies south and east of Brundisium. |
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| 24 | 591 |
"Our chain will probably be used for clearing and deepening ditches at the sides of the Viktel Aria south of Venna. |
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| 24 | 594 |
"How far south?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 79 |
These chains, or "links," of some fifty men each, had left the camp to the southwest and would, by a roundabout route, join the Viktel Aria some pasangs to the south, toward Ar. |
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| 25 | 94 |
Tupita, of course, had gone with the chain, south. |
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| 25 | 171 |
"Tomorrow," he said, "I am going out of the camp, to the Viktel Aria, and south. |
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| 26 | 219 |
But he was now coming south. |
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| 29 | 713 |
Most recently we found it on the Viktel Aria, south of Venna. |
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| 33 | 238 |
Turning left would take one south, toward the camp of Pietro Vacchi". |
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| 33 | 240 |
Tela, Mina and Cara had planned to venture south, Mina and Cara hoping to be taken in hand by the scouts of Pietro Vacchi, and Tela hoping to find Aulus in the camp, before his return northward toward Venna. |
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| 33 | 259 |
"Better for you I would suppose would be to go south," he said. |
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| 33 | 262 |
"Going south," he said, "you might be picked up by the scouts of Pietro Vacchi". |
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| 34 | 814 |
We would go to the Viktel Aria and travel south. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 |
The wagon was moving north on what, in this latitude, was usually called the Vosk Road, but farther south was generally known as the Viktel Aria. |
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| 1 | 32 |
To my right, in the line of traffic moving south, I suddenly heard cursing and the startled, protesting bellowing of a tharlarion. |
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| 1 | 38 |
I pulled my pack from the wagon I was trekking beside and, feeling about, locating the side of the next wagon moving south, felt around it, and went to the side of the road. |
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| 1 | 102 |
As I had anticipated the contents of their wagon was a miscellany of cheap loot, taken from other wagons, and from refugees moving south on the Viktel Aria from the vicinity of Ar's Station, on the Vosk. |
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| 1 | 133 |
"In the south," said the driver, from the wagon box, "there are work gangs. |
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| 1 | 152 |
There were angry shouts now from the delayed line, moving south. |
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| 1 | 403 |
There were one or more work chains, I knew, in the neighborhood of Venna, to the south. |
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| 1 | 427 |
I thought the brigands, all things considered, would be just as happy to go south to a work gang. |
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| 2 | 37 |
"What have you heard from the north?" "I have come from the south," I said. |
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| 2 | 50 |
"From the south," I said. |
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| 2 | 126 |
I had stayed at certain inns in the south, past which it had taken its march, taking five days to pass given points. |
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| 2 | 131 |
I had encountered refugees from Ar's Station and its environs even south of Venna. |
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| 3 | 152 |
That is 97, in the south wing, on the third floor". |
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| 5 | 49 |
"Doubtless you followed Cosians," I said, "or their suppliers, smelling booty, lured by the possibilities of spoils, by the supposed imminent passage south of men laden with the plate and coin of Ar's Station, men who might succumb to your claims of need and plight, hoping perhaps even to contract a... |
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| 5 | 494 |
It was in the south wing, on the third level, space 97. |
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| 6 | 1 |
Some Things which Occurred One Night at the Crooked Tarn There were one hundred sleeping spaces, or positions, on the third level in the south wing, although no space was numbered "100". |
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| 8 | 86 |
The effect was much like that of the curla and chatka, a portion of the garmenture, or livery, in which the wagon peoples of the south place most of their slave females, save that the curla, the cord, was black and not red, and the chatka, the strip, was of cloth and yellow, not of black leather. |
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| 10 | 104 |
"South, on the Vosk Road," I said, "at the Crooked Tarn". |
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| 10 | 428 |
I took it from a courier of Artemidorus, south of here, on the Vosk Road, at an inn, the Crooked Tarn!" "Hooded, and on a rope, I do not think you will learn much of our defenses," said a voice. |
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| 11 | 142 |
"He now holds Torcadino," I said, "to halt the advance of Cos to the south". |
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| 11 | 156 |
"I took it from a courier for Artemidorus at the Crooked Tarn, an inn, south on the Vosk Road. |
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| 11 | 186 |
"May I ask where the report claims them to be?" "The report claims they are in winter quarters at Holmesk, one hundred pasangs south of the Vosk". |
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| 11 | 251 |
She lacks the troops to penetrate south. |
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| 11 | 265 |
I would also suggest to you that there is indeed a Cosian invasion force in the south, and one that makes the one here look like a squad. |
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| 14 | 101 |
It was clear in the patterns of sunlight in the cell, that the cell faced south, the city. |
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| 15 | 361 |
"In the south," I said, "the women of the Wagon Peoples, even the free women, do not wear veils". |
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| 20 | 27 |
"Weeks ago it was smuggled from the city, and sent south to Ar, where, if all went well, it must now be". |
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| 20 | 37 |
I sent it south". |
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| 20 | 41 |
I sent it south in the wagon of a tradesman, Septimus Entrates". |
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| 20 | 42 |
"It may have escaped notice, then," I said, "among the innumerable wagons, the carts, the strings of refugees, and such, fleeing south". |
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| 20 | 295 |
The major land forces of Ar, I had gathered, were somewhere in the west, south of the river. |
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| 20 | 297 |
There had been no dearth of intelligence as to the desperate situation of Ar's Station, however, in this vicinity, east on the river, and south towards Ar. |
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| 21 | 1398 |
I supposed that Aemilianus might think that Cosian names might be better for slaves, whereas Calliodorus might tend to approve more of names more typical of the south, say, those of Venna or Ar. |
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| 24 | 214 |
It is in Ar, and the south, that it will not be known". |
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| 24 | 320 |
"The forces of Ar in the north," I said, "should move south with rapidity, before the spring, to engage the main power of Cos. |
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| 24 | 385 |
"Ar will destroy the Cosians in the north, and then destroy them in the south," said Marcus. |
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| 24 | 644 |
"Where," asked he, "do you think the northern forces of Ar are?" "South of the river," I said, "back, to the east, somewhere". |
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| 24 | 938 |
Many males of the Tahari, of course, are fond of fair-skinned slaves, and such, shipped south and east, bring excellent prices in their markets. |
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| 24 | 1000 |
The major route south was then, as it is now, the Viktel Aria, which by means of its camps and posts, Ar then controlled. |
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| 24 | 1001 |
Thus, supposedly, Ar could move north with ease, but it would be difficult for other forces to move south, unless challenging Ar for the Viktel Aria. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 152 |
"South! South!" called men. |
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| 17 | 155 |
Ask them if we should march south!" "No, not south!" cried a man. |
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| 32 | 68 |
We had moved southwest for two days after the visit of the young rencer to our camp, and had then adjusted our trek to the southeast, and then to the south, to reach the point at which I wished to exit from the delta, a point far enough from both Brundisium, on the coast, and Ven, on the south bank ... |
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| 1 | 2 |
"Yes, Master," she said, lifting her head a little from the dirt, where, before me, in the camp of Cos, on the south bank of the Vosk, north of Holmesk, she knelt, head down, the palms of her hands on the ground. |
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| 1 | 346 |
Young Marcus, with the consent of his commander, Aemilianus, formerly of Ar's Station, now amongst the refugees at Port Cos, had been given permission to track the movements of the Cosians in the north, and to convey this information to the major land forces of Ar, which were currently located at Ho... |
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| 1 | 368 |
Also, of course, the Cosians were presumably moving toward either Brundisium, which had been the port of entry of their invasion fleet, or south to join Myron in the vicinity of Torcadino, where Dietrich of Tarnburg, the mercenary, lay at bay, like a larl in his den. |
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| 1 | 1149 |
The cots and defenses there, too, supplied something of a buffer between the main camp and the south. |
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| 1 | 1293 |
My hope, then, was to wait until searches were taking place outside the camp, particularly toward the south, as they might in the morning. |
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| 1 | 1295 |
If possible, we were to meet on the road to Holmesk, to the south, in the vicinity of the village of Teslit. |
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| 1 | 1296 |
If this meeting proved impractical, the fellow near Teslit, whoever it might be, was to hurry south to Holmesk, there to contact the men of Ar. |
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| 1 | 1300 |
He himself, however, had insisted that he must be discounted, sacrificed without a murmur, and that I must continue on to contact the men of Ar in the south. |
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| 3 | 7 |
It was hard to believe that somewhere northward, perhaps somewhat to the west now, in the vicinity of the Vosk, was the expeditionary force of Cos, and somewhere to the south, beyond Teslit, in the vicinity of Holmesk, lay the winter camp of Ar, supposedly housing a considerable commissary and depot... |
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| 3 | 17 |
Teslit, a small village to the south, save for a family or two, had been abandoned. |
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| 3 | 20 |
Cos was to the north, Ar to the south. |
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| 3 | 68 |
Such imprudence would jeopardize his opportunity to convey his data to the south. |
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| 3 | 97 |
Dietrich's boldness and gallantry, the brilliance of his action, that of seizing Torcadino, Cos' supply depot in the south, thereby stalling the invasion, now seemed relatively ineffective. |
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| 3 | 98 |
Ar had not marched to meet Cos in the south but had invested its main forces northward. |
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| 3 | 172 |
I would trek south, toward Holmesk. |
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| 3 | 207 |
"You should have come south immediately," I said, "to the vicinity of Teslit, and from thence, after a suitable interval, expeditiously, toward Holmesk". |
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| 3 | 234 |
"It lies on this road, to the south," I said. |
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| 3 | 239 |
"They have come from the south," said Marcus to me. |
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| 3 | 257 |
In Teslit they would learn someone of my description had been recently there, but alone, and had then supposedly gone south. |
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| 3 | 391 |
It was he who speculated that you might be most easily found to the south, in which direction lay Holmesk, after the official searches had concluded. |
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| 13 | 170 |
"In the south," he said, "we often transport slaves hooded, or in covered cages. |
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| 13 | 334 |
A tarnsman, several hundred feet above us, coming from the south, wheeled in flight. |
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| 13 | 354 |
It then, in a time, disappeared, south. |
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| 16 | 48 |
"Seven columns, four to the south, three to the north, are intent on breaking out, even now," he said. |
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| 16 | 61 |
"You expect more in the south?" "Of course," I said. |
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| 17 | 15 |
If anything the attack on the left, to the south, had been more devastating than that on the right, perhaps because of lesser vigilance on the left, where no village had been encountered in the path of the advance. |
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| 17 | 20 |
"Four columns have been destroyed to the south!" cried a fellow. |
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| 17 | 40 |
It was now clear, of course, given the references to Cosians, tharlarion, sleen and such, that this disaster was not that of the left flank, which had been struck by rencers, but a defeat suffered in the south, by the units attempting to remove themselves there from the delta. |
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| 17 | 125 |
If anything, proportionally, the losses may have been heavier there than those incurred in the attempt to exit to the south. |
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| 17 | 141 |
"Look upon your brethren of the 17th, of the 3rd, the 4th!" "Lead us south, Labienus!" cried men. |
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| 17 | 150 |
"Lead us south, oh Labienus!" called a man. |
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| 17 | 156 |
"Not south!" cried another. |
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| 17 | 213 |
Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the south call them, originate in the delta, and similar places, estuaries and such, as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants. |
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| 19 | 1689 |
"We are going south". |
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| 19 | 1693 |
"But Ar is to the south!" she said. |
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| 19 | 1834 |
I moved the raft south, through the rence, under the moons. |
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| 19 | 1837 |
Too, it was in the south that my truer concerns of the moment lay, and I had determined to neglect them no further. |
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| 19 | 1838 |
It was in the south that Dietrich of Tarnburg stood at bay in Torcadino. |
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| 20 | 151 |
We had now been together for some five days traveling south. |
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| 28 | 101 |
"Ko-ro-ba," I said, "Telnus and Jad, on Cos, Turia, in the south". |
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| 29 | 9 |
We had been with the men of Ar for some ten days now, moving generally south. |
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| 30 | 14 |
The next day, having come far enough east to hopefully place Cosian patrols to our west, across our most likely route of exit, we began to move south. |
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| 30 | 16 |
They would assume, I hoped, that fugitives would generally move directly north or south from the point at which the columns were stalled, attempting to free themselves of the dangers of the delta as swiftly as possible. |
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| 30 | 21 |
We would not wish to continue east, of course, as this would bring us into territories controlled by Turmus on the north and Ven on the south, both polities favorably disposed to Cos. |
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| 31 | 523 |
Accordingly I would take our next trek southwest, for they would, I supposed, assume we would continue south, or, fearing their pursuit, perhaps even move east, away from the point at which we had caught the lad spying on the camp. |
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| 35 | 13 |
In this way I think they increased their chances of survival, particularly if going either east or south. |
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| 36 | 5 |
"It is one of the major coastal ports south of the delta," I said. |
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| 36 | 7 |
"Probably mostly those of the Cosians' expeditionary force in the north," I said, "that with which we traveled, south of the Vosk. |
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| 39 | 104 |
She had once been Lucilina, the preferred slave of Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, commander of the Cosian forces in the south. |
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| 40 | 111 |
This tunnel led not to the north of Torcadino but to the south. |
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| 40 | 112 |
Myron had men follow it and it led for pasangs south, until they found its southern termination, again caved-in and concealed, this time, of course, from the outside. |
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| 42 | 20 |
You risked your life by waiting for me south of the Cosian camp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 79 |
It was in the Metellan district, south and east of the district of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 1 | 95 |
Ar is the largest city of known Gor, larger even, I am sure, than Turia, in the far south. |
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| 2 | 63 |
We had learned, however, after the fall of Ar's Station, that the official rumor circulated in the south was to the effect that Ar's Station had opened its gates to the Cosian expeditionary force, this in consideration of substantial gifts of gold. |
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| 2 | 64 |
Accordingly, those of Ar's Station were now accounted renegades in the south. |
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| 2 | 72 |
Such things they had been told in their winter camp, near Holmesk, south of the Vosk. |
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| 6 | 148 |
Now, moving south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, toward the great gate of Ar, were several riders of tharlarion. |
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| 7 | 356 |
He fell twice in my view, after which incidents he was struck by spear butts and pulled rudely again to his feet, to be again hastened, with more blows, on his way south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 7 | 377 |
They then wheeled their mounts and began to move south. |
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| 7 | 388 |
Then they withdrew, south on the avenue, between cheering crowds. |
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| 7 | 404 |
But, in a few Ehn, with the passage of the Cosians south on the avenue, the crowd melted away from us. |
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| 10 | 135 |
We watched the coffle of prisoners move away, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 10 | 183 |
We walked on then, not speaking, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 14 | 741 |
Marcus and I turned about then, and continued as we had been originally, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 15 | 81 |
The atrium in the house of records, I had learned, was open to the sky, which opening, as in many public and private Gorean buildings in the south, serves to admit light. |
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| 19 | 218 |
It was not that he denied there was a place called "Earth" but he thought it must be somewhere on Gor, perhaps east of the Voltai Range or south of the Tahari. |
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| 19 | 351 |
In the south, the Wagon Peoples sometimes use the bola in such captures, the cords and weights whipping about the girls legs and ankles, pinning them together, hurling her to the ground, where, in an instant, before she can free herself, the captor, leaping from the saddle, is upon her. |
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| 22 | 461 |
In the areas of the market, stretching almost from the north to the south side of the street, the street is shaded by a large number of vine-covered trellises, creating bowers, which provide protection for the produce and, later in the day, shade for pedestrians. |
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| 22 | 478 |
She, after entering from the south, from a side street, had apparently hurried on ahead. |
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| 22 | 789 |
He then turned about and went south on Varick. |
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| 26 | 111 |
The Turian camisk, which is more demure, and is one of the few Gorean slave garments with a nether closure, is sometimes worn in cities, particularly in the south. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1362 |
"To the south," said a fellow. |
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| 11 | 1395 |
"But what matters it," asked a man, "the place from which she came, and whether it is a land, and where it might be, to the south, or elsewhere, or a world, and wherever it might be?" "It matters naught," said another man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 450 |
"And Marjorie?" "Sold south to Schendi, where she now serves a black master". |
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| 11 | 456 |
"Do you know her disposition?" "She was sold south to Turia, but the caravan was ambushed by Tuchuks, a fierce nomadic people. |
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| 12 | 202 |
Later, as others might replace her in her prison duties, she might be sold on the mainland, and thence south. |
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| 16 | 375 |
For example, the Gorean of Ar is not that of Cos, and both are clearly distinguishable from that of Turia, far to the south, and so on. |
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| 27 | 1501 |
Speaking as though one might be on Earth, and ignoring the complexities of the Gorean compass, which points always to the Sardar, each of the four tarns, each with its suspended basket, went to a different quadrant, one to the north, the others to the east, south and west. |
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| 28 | 409 |
The Viktel Aria is one of the great roads of known Gor, extending north and south of Ar for thousands of pasangs. |
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| 29 | 59 |
"Ar is but two day's journey south from Venna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 172 |
"There, in the distance," said Pertinax, "it is the holding of Temmu!" "Below," I said, "is the south siege camp, that to the south of the holding". |
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