| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 160 |
Had I won my freedom? Was it thus in the Amusements of Tharna? Or had the fierce, proud Tatrix now recognized the cruelty of the Amusements? Had that heart hidden in those cold, glistening robes of unfeeling gold at last relented, shown itself to be susceptible of compassion? Or had the call of just... |
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| 14 | 216 |
With a storm of wings the tarn smote the air and rose, in the sight of all, above the stands, above the arena, above the towers and walls of Tharna, and sped toward the horizon, the golden-robed body of the Tatrix clutched in its talons. |
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| 25 | 54 |
Through the darkened hallways she sped with the familiarity of long acquaintance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 36 |
The transportation disk sped on and none of us spoke for some time. |
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| 27 | 57 |
"Thank you, Noble One!" I cried and turned the transportation disk almost as if it had a vertical central axis and sped off. |
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| 28 | 230 |
It is much as if one sat still in a room and the world whirled and sped about one. |
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| 32 | 27 |
Together Misk and I, as the blue lavalike mass began to hiss over the rubble bubbling towards us, forced aside the great block of stone and Misk tenderly gathered up the broken carcass of Sarm in his forelegs and he and I sped toward the opening, and the blue molten flux of burning, seething, hissin... |
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| 32 | 210 |
The door closed and the contrivance swiftly sped upward. |
10 |
| 35 | 34 |
The ships that had sped from the Sardar had now returned, for, as I had feared, they were not made welcome by the cities of Gor, nor by the Initiates, and those who had ridden the ships had not been accepted by their cities. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
"Flee for your life!" I saw her eyes wild with fear for a moment above the rep-cloth veil and she had sped past me. |
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| 4 | 54 |
It sped toward me with incredible velocity over the handful of feet that separated us. |
10 |
| 7 | 74 |
Although there were risks involved I tried to translate as exactly as I could, letting Miss Cardwell speak as she would, though her words must often have sounded fantastic to the Tuchuks, for it was largely of a world alien to them that she spoke—a world not of autonomous cities but of huge n... |
10 |
| 8 | 160 |
She dropped her head shyly, and smiled, and sped from the wagon. |
10 |
| 8 | 307 |
Tuka sped from the circle. |
10 |
| 8 | 470 |
She was off balance but righted herself and with an angry cry sped from the circle. |
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| 8 | 525 |
With a cheerful slap I sped her back to Albrecht, who, angry, with the tip of his lance, severed the bonds that had confined her. |
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| 9 | 329 |
More girls approached rapidly, their feet taking small running steps in a turning line that sped forth from a small room in the back and to the right. |
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| 14 | 27 |
Then he bounded from the top step of the wagon onto the back of his kaiila and sped toward the sound of the bosk horns. |
10 |
| 18 | 115 |
Angry, I sped about the dome, not wishing to silhouette myself against the sky on its curve, lest there be enemy bowmen within range. |
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| 20 | 56 |
Harold sped along the bridge, Hereena in his arms, and disappeared into the keep. |
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| 20 | 60 |
I backed rapidly along the bridge and another quarrel sped past me, striking sparks from the stone tower behind me. |
10 |
| 20 | 151 |
Then I hauled on the one-strap and seeing Harold's bird wheeling about in circles against one of the Gorean moons sped to his side. |
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| 20 | 158 |
As we sped high over the prairie I wondered at how it was that Kamchak was withdrawing the wagons and bosk from Turia—that he would so soon abandon the siege. |
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| 24 | 175 |
I bounded down the stairs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, and sped through the inner and outer courtyard and out into the street, leaving the startled guards trying to salute me as a commander. |
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| 24 | 200 |
At the main gate I overtook him and together we sped through it, slowing our mounts on the other side to a decorous pace suitable to our rank. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 4 |
The other bird, which had buffeted it against the edge of the ring, spun awkwardly through, turned in the air, and under the savage command of its control straps, and responding to a yellow flash of the tarn goad, regained its control and sped toward the next ring. |
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| 12 | 6 |
The next seven tarns, strung out, sped through the ring and wheeled in flight to take the next ring. |
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| 14 | 175 |
"Begone, Slave," she snarled, and the kitchen slave leaped to her feet and sped through the door, which was closed behind her and locked by the guard. |
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| 17 | 3 |
"Kajuralia yourself!" I said laughing, and she, laughing, sped away. |
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| 17 | 17 |
At that time a slave girl, a blond girl, sped by and the three slaves, stumbling, bleary-eyed, bumping into one another, dutifully took up her pursuit. |
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| 17 | 21 |
"Kajuralia!" she laughed, wiggled free and sped away. |
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| 17 | 307 |
"I hope it will be Lana who will wear the leash of Relius," she said, and then, as Virginia Kent cried out and leaped toward her, Lana turned about and sped as though for her life from the room. |
10 |
| 20 | 117 |
"Bring the pot wench," said Cernus to a subordinate and the man, grinning, sped from the room. |
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| 22 | 488 |
"On!" The bird sped on. |
10 |
| 22 | 507 |
I sped on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 203 |
The rafts, the bridges, I thought, the rafts! Carrying Telima in my arms I sped about the periphery of the rence island, meeting no one. |
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| 7 | 205 |
She cried out with joy and sped from my side. |
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| 11 | 189 |
I nodded, and he sped away. |
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| 15 | 141 |
He sped away. |
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| 18 | 256 |
She sped down the passageway. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 772 |
Then he turned me about and, with a proprietary slap, sped me through the gate. |
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| 9 | 246 |
The girl turned and sped across the carpeting of leaves. |
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| 9 | 249 |
The girl turned and sped after the first. |
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| 11 | 462 |
"Oh!" I said, again sped through the opening with a swift, good-natured, stinging slap. |
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| 14 | 117 |
"Thank you, Mistress," I cried, and turned, and sped from the tent. |
10 |
| 16 | 32 |
I had then sped away. |
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| 16 | 474 |
"Yes," I laughed, "and one with pierced ears!" I turned about and sped down the hill to the shed for female work slaves. |
10 |
| 18 | 95 |
The quarrel had sped past, vanishing behind him in the night. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 93 |
With the men at the oars, ready, and others with the thrusting poles, she might be swiftly sped, if need should arise, at a word, into the deeper waters. |
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| 5 | 8 |
They had splashed beneath the water and then, in a moment, their snouts and sleek heads had poked upward, shining and dripping, and then, they, all six of them, noses like compass needles, smelling the land, had turned in the water and, tails whipping, leaving snakelike curves in the water, had sped... |
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| 5 | 175 |
She sped down the gangplank to kneel swiftly before him. |
10 |
| 6 | 373 |
She sped swiftly into the forest. |
10 |
| 6 | 771 |
Now she sped to my side. |
10 |
| 7 | 153 |
Twice more arrows sped from the underbrush, passing beside me, losing themselves in the greenery behind me. |
10 |
| 7 | 190 |
I had her! I sped forward. |
10 |
| 20 | 98 |
The spear, a Gorean war spear, its head tapered of bronze, some eighteen inches long, its shaft more than an inch and a half in thickness, more than six feet in length, sped from my grasp. |
10 |
| 20 | 225 |
But already two men, eager, blades ready, had sped toward Rim's voice. |
10 |
| 20 | 274 |
No quarrels had sped. |
10 |
| 22 | 464 |
She flung it to him, and sped down the beach laughing, toward the longboat that would take us back to the Tesephone. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 673 |
He sped from the room. |
10 |
| 5 | 189 |
Another javelin, and four more arrows, sped to the ship of Ivar Forkbeard. |
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| 6 | 479 |
"Yes, my Jarl," said she, and sped from his side. |
10 |
| 13 | 179 |
He looked after her, as she sped away. |
10 |
| 14 | 280 |
He sped to the northwest corner of the hall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 222 |
I gave the boy a copper tarsk, and he sped from me. |
10 |
| 7 | 226 |
His men, frightened, sped into the cell behind him, and, white-faced, backed themselves against the wall in a line behind him. |
10 |
| 11 | 570 |
Now another flight of the kaiila riders sped by beneath the roof. |
10 |
| 11 | 582 |
Orders were issued to these men and they, on their kaiila, sped away. |
10 |
| 11 | 586 |
He sped away, followed by a cloud of riders. |
10 |
| 11 | 620 |
Once, four Tashid soldiers sped by. |
10 |
| 11 | 633 |
The man, with a cry of rage, pulled his animal back, and sped into the darkness. |
10 |
| 14 | 495 |
The birds scattered, squawking, as a Kaiila sped past. |
10 |
| 22 | 86 |
It would be easy enough to judge that when the point sped toward me. |
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| 22 | 88 |
He was unwary; his attention was fully focused on his target; did he think I was a slave girl on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, standing, a tospit in my mouth for his lance sport? I moved to the side and, with both hands, a yard behind the point, turning, caught the lance; the rider, crying out, w... |
10 |
| 23 | 268 |
Then he sped upon his kaiila to his men. |
10 |
| 26 | 219 |
His kaiila, with a scattering of sand, sped from me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 138 |
The grass was richly green, alive, vast; the sky was blue, deeply blue, far deeper than I had known a sky could be; the clouds were sharp and white, protean and billowing, transforming themselves in the pressures of their heights and the winds which sped them; they moved at different heights at diff... |
10 |
| 5 | 466 |
Straight to the pavilion of the Lady Sabina sped the captain. |
10 |
| 7 | 581 |
I, and the other girls, sped, scattering, from the dirt line. |
10 |
| 8 | 82 |
I had almost fainted when a brown, sinuous shape sped past me. |
10 |
| 12 | 439 |
Men sped to their work. |
10 |
| 12 | 467 |
A girl sped past me, turning into another hallway. |
10 |
| 20 | 515 |
Then two others sped to him, and then there was a sword at his chest, where the tunic of the sailor had been torn away. |
10 |
| 28 | 76 |
The whisper was sped rapidly down the chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 206 |
I had arranged with Samos to have a ship of supplies sped northward. |
10 |
| 3 | 261 |
She leaped to her feet, frightened, and sped away. |
10 |
| 3 | 1335 |
"Yes, Master," she had said, and she had then leaped to her feet, frightened, and sped away. |
10 |
| 6 | 11 |
They followed her as she sped away. |
10 |
| 6 | 599 |
In their haste, and in their desire to overtake their lovely charge, they sped into the night. |
10 |
| 10 | 384 |
Floodlike, like a tawny, thundering avalanche, blurred, snorting, tossing their heads and horns, the tabuk sped past me. |
10 |
| 11 | 359 |
The bolt of a crossbow sped past my head. |
10 |
| 14 | 194 |
It sped past me and struck Naartok a cruel blow on the forehead. |
10 |
| 14 | 257 |
He made a wild animal noise and, wheeling about, in his fur boots, sped rapidly back toward the tent of Kadluk. |
10 |
| 23 | 120 |
He sped past me, and I braced myself, my arm drawn back, lance ready. |
10 |
| 26 | 286 |
One sped toward the shelter and leaped upward but I managed to meet its charge with the lance point and it, its face bloodied, twisted, the lance through the side of the mouth, and I managed to deflect its charge to the side and it fell, snarling, slipping free of the lance, to the side of the shelt... |
10 |
| 30 | 241 |
I sped toward those who held the tubular weapons. |
10 |
| 34 | 139 |
I stumbled backward, and it sped toward me, swiftly. |
10 |
| 35 | 316 |
I sped rapidly down the hall. |
10 |
| 35 | 855 |
The dart, like an insidious bird, sped to the steel, smoking, and pierced its outer layer. |
10 |
| 35 | 873 |
We sped forward, and, at the first branching in the corridor, turned left. |
10 |
| 35 | 977 |
We sped along the corridor. |
10 |
| 37 | 145 |
The ice split behind me, and my foot, protected in its sleenskin boot, splashed in water, and I thrust the sled up and onto solid ice, and, crying out at the sleen, cracking the whip, sped away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 49 |
The same wind which had pressed astern now sped us southeastward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 424 |
We sped on, the girl, naked, my former mistress, running and stumbling beside me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 255 |
She looked at us, once, and then turned about and sped away, the bell on her neck, on our business. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 145 |
Too, now, from the pirates' galleys, protecting their longboats, there sped a fierce counterfire. |
10 |
| 3 | 1 |
The Chain has been Broken in the North The long galley, some eighty feet Gorean, sped toward the chain. |
10 |
| 4 | 133 |
Flags, torn by the wind, snapping, sped to our stem-castle lines. |
10 |
| 4 | 149 |
"No! Look! It is the flank of the Voskjard which is now unguarded!" The Tais and her swift, lean sisters, emerging unexpectedly, circling, from behind our lines, stern quarters low in the water, rams half lifted from the water, wet and glistening in the sun, at full stroke, oars beating, drums pound... |
10 |
| 5 | 54 |
Arrows sped toward me, two of them, and caught, tearing, in the wicker. |
10 |
| 5 | 60 |
We sped down the deck. |
10 |
| 6 | 114 |
On the horizon, astern, like tiny dots, sped toward us a flotilla of ships. |
10 |
| 10 | 82 |
While vessels followed our putative course, and the balance of the pirate fleet, regrouping and repairing injuries, waited upon their return, we sped, in alternating shifts, day and night, toward the holding of Policrates. |
10 |
| 16 | 15 |
Showers of arrows sped like dark, linear hail over the heads of the charging citizens, striking into the startled, suddenly reeling, disordered crowds of pirates at the foot of the concourse. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 261 |
I gathered they had, more than once, been thusly sped from the hall by wrathful attendants. |
10 |
| 16 | 120 |
Given their distance from the other wagons and their distribution in the grass I took it that they had broken their column and sped away, as best they might. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 44 |
Then one of the lads sped his kaiila about the herd, heading it off and turning it. |
10 |
| 18 | 132 |
I sped on, toward the lodge of Mahpiyasapa. |
10 |
| 22 | 8 |
The kaiila sped away. |
10 |
| 24 | 52 |
The Yellow Knife, with a whoop of triumph, brandishing the lance, sped his kaiila forward, to turn it for another passage. |
10 |
| 28 | 321 |
"Fight! Defend the camp!" The lines spun about and the men of Mahpiyasapa, whooping and crying out, dust scattering, sped back under the ropes and between the lodges to engage this new enemy. |
10 |
| 29 | 85 |
The two Yellow Knives, suddenly, turned about and sped from Grunt. |
10 |
| 29 | 148 |
"Hurry!" cried the leader of the warriors, and, suddenly, they sped away, in the direction Cuwignaka had indicated. |
10 |
| 39 | 373 |
I had sped her on her way with a proprietary slap. |
10 |
| 42 | 105 |
Almost at the same time the flanking riders had, in seeming terror, in disarray, their formation lost, burst like a star about me and then, frantically, on all sides of me, as though I might no longer be of interest to them, wheeled their tarns about and, like their leader, sped away. |
10 |
| 44 | 565 |
The second barricade was defended by a fusillade of arrows sped from the small bows of Kaiila warriors suddenly appearing at the upper edge of the escarpment. |
10 |
| 44 | 606 |
Torrents of arrows sped from the height of the escarpment. |
10 |
| 46 | 158 |
Then, into this trapped mass, its arrow screens no longer in position, and many of them scattered and lost, sped hundreds of arrows. |
10 |
| 47 | 293 |
It sped away. |
10 |
| 47 | 318 |
In a moment tarns had swept again from the ledge and then, seizing ropes and men in talons, at the very rock face itself, dragged dangling, screaming men from the sheer surface; ropes and men, tangled, were pulled away from the surface; ropes and men, torn loose from hand and footholds, unsupported,... |
10 |
| 54 | 253 |
Then, with a smile, shouldering again the roll of kailiauk hide she was carrying, she leapt up, and sped on her way. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 254 |
"Thank you, Mistress!" She then sped from the room. |
10 |
| 15 | 173 |
Swiftly I sped away, in the general direction he had indicated. |
10 |
| 15 | 311 |
I rose up and sped as furtively and swiftly as I could toward the area from which I had heard the bird's scream. |
10 |
| 17 | 236 |
She then sped on her way. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1440 |
"Refugees, I suspect, will be sped on their way. |
10 |
| 18 | 108 |
"Female slaves," she said, noting them, as we sped past. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 134 |
Could an arrow, or the quarrel of a crossbow, not be sped between the bars, into my heart, even here in the pen? I lay back, frightened, holding the blanket about me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 137 |
It sped almost directly from Ar to the Vosk. |
10 |
| 16 | 95 |
Back there, however, a cluster of defenders sped to the place. |
10 |
| 17 | 112 |
The men I had sent to the west end of the land wall, past the west bastion, had actually sped by them. |
10 |
| 17 | 195 |
Another movement sped past, like a puff of breath passing my ear. |
10 |
| 17 | 597 |
A quarrel sped past. |
10 |
| 18 | 209 |
As shields were turned and lifted quarrels sped down from the walls and men screamed, twisting, hit. |
10 |
| 18 | 253 |
"To the gate!" Their swords bloodied they turned and sped to the vicinity of the gate. |
10 |
| 19 | 93 |
Indeed, I was sure that many of them, with bodies, and parts of bodies, in their jaws, had sped away, toward the piers, or had gone out farther in the harbor, beyond them, or had even returned to the river, perhaps sometimes followed by several of their brethren. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 230 |
"Arrows," said I, "sped from the peasant bow". |
10 |
| 14 | 297 |
Arrows sped across the bar. |
10 |
| 18 | 58 |
It was as though these small, furious flying forms sped through transparent tunnels in the air, separated from one another. |
10 |
| 46 | 323 |
I swiftly sped toward the place. |
10 |
| 47 | 28 |
He had miscalculated with respect to Ina, however, who had sped from him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 310 |
She was in such a hurry that she sped past the basket of laundry a pace or two, but then, suddenly recollecting it, hurried back, picked it up, and then, balancing it on her head with two hands, sped through the gate of the villa and up the path to the house. |
10 |
| 3 | 524 |
Then he had sped with her from the place. |
10 |
| 12 | 647 |
She rose up and sped within, covering herself as she could. |
10 |
| 13 | 202 |
The girl sped away. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 327 |
But the whip cracked again, and again I sped forward. |
10 |
| 10 | 340 |
I sped forward, again. |
10 |
| 19 | 519 |
Quickly I and some four or five others sped to him, to kneel at his feet. |
10 |
| 24 | 234 |
They sped past me. |
10 |
| 24 | 446 |
She had been taken from the top of the tower before I had been entered into the concealed shoot which had sped me far below the city, to the net suspended over the pool, that to which the giant urts had access. |
10 |
| 28 | 77 |
The flames sped from paste stone to paste stone, and the whole was then dropped to the side, flickering and smoldering. |
10 |
| 37 | 751 |
One man, Tensius, sped to the left. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 676 |
Had she not expected to return? Quickly she leaped up and sped the cart down the corridor. |
10 |
| 13 | 267 |
Nelsa sped past her, laughing, and clambered to the height of the nearest undamaged rack. |
10 |
| 16 | 836 |
"Cement-shelf girls!" "She-urts!" "She-sleen!" "Pot-and-mat girls!" "Low slaves!" "Barbarians!" "Earth-girls!" "Bondmaids!" "Plow-thralls!" "Collar meat!" "Slave meat!" "Flesh-trash!" Such were the epithets that sped forth that evening from the throats of their fair rivals. |
10 |
| 18 | 328 |
"She-sleen!" he cried, taking a step toward her, but she sped away. |
10 |
| 19 | 753 |
As she stood there in the basket, in the wind, holding to the side of the basket, the blanket clutched about her, being sped through the night, beneath the moons, she had an odd sense of contentment, and pride. |
10 |
| 22 | 596 |
And so Ellen sped toward the city of Brundisium. |
10 |
| 22 | 598 |
She felt men reach out and grasp for her, but she sped on. |
10 |
| 25 | 216 |
They carried sticks, and it was not without jabbings, pokings and blows, and impatient expostulations, that they sped their linked, disconcerted, intimidated charges, those lovely, chained she-animals, forward, presumably to a final staging area prior to their sale. |
10 |
| 27 | 7 |
Some Ahn later, somewhat before morning, several tarns had been released from holding cots and sped from the camp, this being taken in the darkness as the unexpected departure of enemies of Cos and Tyros. |
10 |
| 27 | 939 |
The rope on her neck whipped behind her, sped by a rushing rear paw. |
10 |
| 27 | 1154 |
"It is gone, sped," said Portus Canio. |
10 |
| 27 | 1614 |
An arrow she sensed sped past, like a whisper in the wind. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 111 |
* * * * Cabot left the blond at the shuttle port, to which he had returned her, listened for a bit, and then sped into the forest. |
10 |
| 21 | 454 |
He then leapt up, turned, and seized the startled Kur who had struck at him and swung him about before him, to interpose him between himself and the attacker in the vicinity of the platform, who had quickly sped forward, but now stopped, angrily, the bar lifted. |
10 |
| 31 | 2 |
"Come here!" She sped to him, lightly, swiftly, in her tiny tunic. |
10 |
| 38 | 8 |
With a roar of rage the Kur lifted its ax and sped toward Cabot. |
10 |
| 63 | 92 |
"He leaped over the parapet and sped below, to rescue the Lady Bina". |
10 |
| 74 | 36 |
Once a knife had sped past him, and lodged deeply in the wall behind him. |
10 |
| 79 | 793 |
"Hurry to his blankets!" The slave sped into the darkness. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 301 |
It was from one of its locks that his ship had exited, and sped to Gor. |
10 |
| 5 | 657 |
"Perhaps she was concealed, and sped to Cos," I said. |
10 |
| 24 | 61 |
"Your Pertinax would probably have sped here directly, and died," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 26 | 321 |
I loosened the guide straps and the tarn extended its head, snapped its mighty wings, spraying water back, and sped toward the shelter of the cots. |
10 |
| 38 | 31 |
Catapult stones, too, were brought aboard, in hundreds, and "heavy arrows," almost spears, which might be sped either singly, as from ballistae, or, from a springal, in showers, their flight propelled by a single fierce blow, that from a horizontal spring-driven board. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 128 |
The arrow had been sped from somewhere. |
10 |
| 13 | 53 |
It was clearly his command which had sped the great ship forward in the darkness, despite the warnings of Lord Nishida, with the consequence that she was now trapped, mired in growth, bound fast in thick, living cordage, bound in the garden of the Vine Sea, surely one of the most dangerous and beaut... |
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| 22 | 71 |
The galley's bow swung toward the beach, and Cabot, from the helm, called the stroke, and, water running from the lifted and dipping oar blades, the galley crested the night waters, and sped, like a gull, toward the torches and confusion on the beach. |
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| 22 | 312 |
The great flood of darkness, confused, proximate, rushing, pounding, imminent, was some five yards from our steel when Cabot cried out, "Down!" We all crouched down, instantly, and, from behind us, over our heads, into the confused, rushing mass of men before us there poured a rain of arrows sped fr... |
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| 30 | 37 |
When the deserters had sped down the trail, Lord Nishida had had a similar barricade erected at the height of the trail, similarly easily defended. |
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| 32 | 48 |
An arrow sped past. |
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| 33 | 331 |
"Go, see what is going on! Come back, and tell me!" "Yes, Master," she cried, and, barefoot, in her light tunic, sped toward the docks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 270 |
So I lay on my stomach, under the dome light, bound, as the van sped on through the night. |
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| 11 | 52 |
As the weeks had sped forth, however, particularly at night, when I was chained across the threshold of the apartment, at the head of the stairs, I had grown increasingly uneasy. |
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| 12 | 125 |
"Another killing!" "Wait!" I called, but she had sped past. |
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| 15 | 299 |
I fear I then lost what little nerve or courage I might have had, for I turned about, and, frantic, wanting only to escape, sped toward the perimeter of the market. |
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| 21 | 116 |
Then, emerging from under the wagon, half lifting the wagon with its passage, was a large, hairy, humped, four-footed form, shaggy and immense, and it sped past. |
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| 21 | 154 |
The dismounted rider then regained his saddle and he, and the others, sped about the wagon, raising dust, following the first rider, and the running tarsk. |
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| 36 | 56 |
She sped from the slave quarters. |
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| 38 | 5 |
A kajira, Chloe, sped past us, in the other direction. |
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| 45 | 37 |
In any event, I sped from the portal, aligning myself with where the imaginary Sixth Ahn would lie. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 15 | 136 |
In a moment they were gone, arrows launched, but, wheeling about, they returned from the opposite direction, and again loosed their missiles, and then wheeled about, again, and, approaching from the original direction, loosed another volley of missiles, and then sped away. |
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| 15 | 491 |
I had often been sped on my way with a smack below the small of my back. |
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| 25 | 25 |
Indeed, I sped amongst the trees. |
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| 25 | 48 |
I am loose, and running, and I sped on, again. |
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| 39 | 13 |
Hiza sped down the back trail. |
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| 44 | 57 |
I recalled that the lari and its trainers had been anxious to leave, and had sped away at the first opportunity. |
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| 52 | 465 |
"Free my ankles," I said, "and see to whose feet I run!" Axel undid the small lace with which my ankles had been tied together, and I, tunicked, my hands braceleted behind me, sped to my captor, knelt, and put my head down to his feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 39 |
The tarn sped on through the night. |
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| 2 | 62 |
Again the mighty appendages found their beat, and the bird again sped, with no altered signal from the straps, on the course I had set. |
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| 3 | 48 |
My foot snapped a branch, and my hand, without my thinking, sped my sword half from its sheath. |
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| 12 | 158 |
A more casual or less diligent observer might well have missed the quick, subtle gesture which may have sped some missive, probably with its ribbon, to the foot of the cliff on which the parapet was reared. |
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| 41 | 8 |
"Nonetheless, friend Haruki," I said, "have you located the unimportant, even despicable, slave, in whom Tajima has little, or no, interest?" We moved back a bit amongst the tents, as a squad of glaive-bearing Ashigaru, in double file, sped past. |
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| 46 | 197 |
"Run!" said the rich peasant to the girl, and she sped away. |
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| 47 | 257 |
Some of the deflected arrows, given the force with which they were sped, lingering even after the deviation suddenly introduced into their trajectory, had seemed to spring to the clouds, and others had bounded over the walls of the enclosure, or struck against the far wall. |
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| 54 | 129 |
"It must be destroyed!" Although we were placidly ensconced in a small room in the palace of Lord Yamada, we could sense from the screens, the shuddering of the dragon, as, first, a torrent of fire appeared on the forward screen, and, a moment later, it seemed a stream of light sped away, diminishin... |
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| 57 | 37 |
A thousand rumors must have sped about the islands. |
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| 61 | 694 |
Clouds must have sped from the sun, because the sunlight poured into the room, like fire, and cast the shadows of bars across the room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 42 |
The van sped on. |
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| 9 | 305 |
Surely there was no danger of confusing such creatures with the occasional slave who sped past, tunicked, hurrying amongst the cages, sometimes hooted at by the stevedores. |
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| 17 | 141 |
I then leapt up, and sped away. |
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| 20 | 237 |
Let us hurry to our houses!" At that point Lita sped away, but I remained, for a time, frightened, in the doorway. |
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| 26 | 220 |
But then I would be released, and turned, and, with a stinging, humiliating slap below the small of the back, sped on my way. |
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| 33 | 503 |
"Fetch something, a crate cover, or such," said he who had admitted us, addressing one of the two fellows with him, one of those who had pried open the crate, which fellow then sped away. |
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| 44 | 22 |
The driver, of course, even if waiting, could be sped away, dismissed by a word from another, informed that his services, following an alleged change in plans, would no longer be needed. |
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| 46 | 34 |
She sped along, partly on her knuckles, on the right of Lord Grendel. |
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| 61 | 153 |
Aelius had climbed toward the box but, before he could enter it, Lucilius, two hands on the great haft, wielded the ax, and the sundered head of Aelius spun far away, a small, dark cloud raining blood, and blood from the decapitated corse, sped by the fierce pressure generated by the frantic poundin... |
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| 61 | 248 |
I sped to the kajirae. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 252 |
I had been sped on my way. |
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| 8 | 821 |
It seemed clear that such an object, moving with its ship, sped swiftly against the planking of another vessel, might inflict damage, perhaps considerable damage. |
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| 33 | 362 |
Something else sped past me and entered the water not a yard away. |
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| 38 | 254 |
If he knew you were in the keeping of his enemies, what would your life be worth? In such a case, I would avoid the windows, for a quarrel, sped from the saddle of a gracefully soaring tarn might slip between the bars. |
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| 43 | 37 |
"Traffic sped to the wall," said Seremides. |
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| 45 | 38 |
But, ela, no way was open before us! We had scarcely sped three or four mad, wild, desperate yards when we were intercepted by the gathered men, seized by the arms, and faced back, toward the moored boat. |
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| 46 | 247 |
Whimpering, Euphrosyne took the goblet pressed into her hands, and sped back amongst the tables. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 78 |
The fellow who had been given the small disk sped away. |
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| 27 | 147 |
At the mention of the name 'Archelaos', she sped away. |
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| 29 | 13 |
"And find themselves in them," said Captain Tab, currently assigned the captainship of the Dorna, fifty-oared, larger and more formidable than the light, swift Tesephone, sped by twenty oars. |
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| 32 | 57 |
The arrow, with its shrill whistle, sped upward, farther and farther. |
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| 50 | 29 |
The Tesephone, turned about, sped into the fog, leaving the Brigand Island behind. |
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| 58 | 189 |
There were cries of wonder as the enemy ship sped past to starboard. |
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| 62 | 77 |
"Who," asked Archelaos, "sped the coordinates of the corsair fleet to Nicomachos? Who led him at just the right moment to the waters of Mytilene?" "Do you not conjecture implausibly, recklessly?" I asked. |
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