| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 27 |
With annoyance, Torm poked through one of the enormous piles of scrolls and at last, on his hands and knees, fished out one skimpy scroll, set it in the reading device—a metal frame with rollers at the top and bottom—and, pushing a button, spun the scroll to its opening mark, a single ... |
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| 5 | 183 |
The tarn spun about and began to favor the injured wing. |
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| 6 | 34 |
The Guards were on the roof! I leaped after the heavily robed figure, seized her, spun her around and tore from her hands the stone she carried. |
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| 6 | 141 |
A shattering squeal of pain rent the heavy air of the swamp forest, and the tharlarion actually reared on its hind legs and spun about in pain, sucking the brown stump of its tongue back into its mouth with an ugly popping noise. |
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| 7 | 105 |
We had been wading for about twenty minutes when the girl suddenly screamed, and I spun around. |
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| 14 | 95 |
As I found a moment's respite, I spun to face him, hoping to have it out with the Ubar himself, but as I did so, the shackles that I had worn struck me forcibly in the face and throat, thrown like a bolo by Marlenus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 |
He spun like a tiger with a sudden cry of rage in some strange tongue and I found myself seized in hands like steel and with great force hurled helplessly across his knee, my spine an inch from being splintered like kindling wood. |
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| 4 | 79 |
My arm felt wet and trapped, and was raked with fangs and I was spun as the animal squealed with rage and pain and rolled on the road. |
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| 5 | 20 |
I spun about, shield before me, spear ready. |
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| 14 | 152 |
"The bird is chained! Attack! Kill them both!" In that instant the bolt gave, and the nut spun from the shaft! The tarn, as if it understood it was free, shook the hated metal from its leg and lifted its beak to the skies and uttered such a cry as must have been heard by all in Tharna, a cry seldom ... |
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| 15 | 124 |
She spun about to face me, her gloved fists clenched. |
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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. |
10 |
| 25 | 4 |
Both of us cast well and the jolt of the massive missile thundering on my shield spun me half about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 196 |
She spun to face me. |
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| 7 | 73 |
I spun quickly about, drawing my sword in the same motion. |
10 |
| 27 | 11 |
I had gone not more than a pasang or so when I spun the disk to a stop before another portal in the Hall of Commissaries. |
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| 27 | 35 |
Had they not destroyed my city? Had they not scattered its people? Had they not destroyed men by Flame Death and brought them, willing or no, to their own world on the Voyages of Acquisition? Had they not implanted their control nets in human beings and spun the hideous mutations of the Gur Carriers... |
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| 29 | 167 |
I spun, the silver tube ready. |
10 |
| 31 | 27 |
Two of the tiny hooklike appendages on his foreleg spun the power dial on the control box. |
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| 34 | 10 |
I swept him off his feet and spun him around and the robes flew from his head and Torm of the Caste of Scribes cried aloud in joy and that sandy hair wheeled in the wind and tears ran sideways down his face and he never lost hold of the scroll although he nearly batted the Older Tarl with it in one ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 134 |
"Ho!" I heard, and spun to see the black lance fall and scarcely had it moved but it was seized in the fist of the scarred Tuchuk warrior. |
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| 9 | 486 |
Aphris spun to face him, her right fist clenched, her left hand muffling her veil about her face, her eyes flashing. |
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| 10 | 324 |
She spun to face him, her fists clenched. |
10 |
| 18 | 98 |
I spun to face the Paravaci but he, weaponless, with a curse, turned and fled from the room. |
10 |
| 19 | 108 |
The girl's head flew up and she spun to face him, pulling to free herself. |
10 |
| 19 | 159 |
She spun to face him again, tears of rage in her eyes. |
10 |
| 21 | 303 |
I spun to the right just in time to turn the blade of a third man. |
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| 24 | 191 |
"Behind you!" I spun the kaiila and whipped my sword from its sheath. |
10 |
| 25 | 156 |
I spun about and to my astonishment saw that Elizabeth Cardwell had arisen and stood proudly, defiantly, angrily before me, as though she might have been a freshly collared slave girl, brought in but an Ahn before, bound over the saddle of a kaiila, the fruit of a slave raid. |
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| 25 | 581 |
Then she spun about laughing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 465 |
I spun about. |
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| 5 | 493 |
"Do you think," demanded Elizabeth, of both myself and Misk, "that a woman cannot be brave? Will you not honor her as you would a man with danger, not permit her to do something worthy of her species, something important and fine, or is all that is significant and meaningful to be reserved for men?"... |
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| 5 | 542 |
The girl screamed but no one came to her aid, and Elizabeth spun her about, peeling off layers of Robes of Concealment until, in a heavy pile of silk, brocade, satin and starched muslin the girl stood in a sleeveless, rather brief orange tunic, attractive, of a sort sometimes worn by free women in t... |
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| 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 | 197 |
She said nothing but stood there, wrists braceleted behind her back, locked in place, watching the approach of the iron, observing the graceful, white-hot character at the iron's termination; she screamed uncontrollably when the iron marked her, firmly, decisively for about three Ihn; and then she s... |
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| 14 | 152 |
The girl spun about and threw her head back, staring wildly at the ceiling, throwing the chain back over her head. |
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| 15 | 316 |
Then she spun about with a cry of rage and ran weeping down the corridor. |
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| 17 | 84 |
Then while the girls shrieked and the long-legged girl cried out in rage I swept her into my arms and leaped into the small room, where I dropped her to the stones and spun about, throwing the door shut and bolting it. |
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| 17 | 297 |
At this point Virginia Kent put down her pitcher of wine, seized Lana by the shoulder, spun her about and struck her a rather severe blow near the left eye. |
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| 17 | 479 |
She spun about. |
10 |
| 17 | 604 |
I dropped the doll, spun and managed to catch her wrist as she struck downward with the burning goad. |
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| 18 | 465 |
I heard a laugh behind me, and spun. |
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| 19 | 251 |
As the auctioneer reached for the hood of the third girl, she turned away and suddenly, though chained by the wrists, darted toward the stairs; the slack in the chain was taken up in her flight and, on the second or third stair down, she was spun about and thrown to the steps, half on them, half on ... |
10 |
| 21 | 246 |
I went to the next man and spun him about. |
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| 21 | 270 |
I moved swiftly drawing one Warrior or another after me, and he who was swiftest died first; I turned and spun, accepting or not accepting an attack, always to isolate a man; vaguely, as though far off, I heard the screaming of Philemon in the Ubar's box, the shouting of Taurentians; in a moment's r... |
10 |
| 21 | 273 |
One of the attendants with a whip struck me as I fought and I spun on him. |
10 |
| 21 | 318 |
I spun and saw, standing beside me, on my right, sword drawn, in the heavy helmet of the arena fighter, with the small round shield, the sheathed right arm and shoulder, Murmillius. |
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| 22 | 144 |
"Beware!" cried my fellow, he with the crossbow, and I spun to catch the wrist of a man striking toward my back with a dagger. |
10 |
| 22 | 571 |
Menicius, hit four times with iron bolts, spun and fell into the sand. |
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| 23 | 84 |
"Come back!" Then he spun and faced me. |
10 |
| 23 | 168 |
Then, suddenly, he spun and ran for the door. |
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| 24 | 341 |
"Of course, Companion," said she, "you beast!" She spun to face him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 179 |
I seized him and spun him about, breaking in his face with a blow. |
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| 8 | 125 |
When the torch first flickered I put the arrow into the heart of the man who held it, and he and the torch, as though struck by a fist, spun and reeled off the far side of the barge. |
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| 11 | 253 |
With a rattle of cord and chain the wheels spun back and the thing on the rack began to jabber and whimper and laugh. |
10 |
| 11 | 323 |
And then he spun about to face the Ubars, each, with men about him, on his throne. |
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| 12 | 22 |
One of the men, hit by the arrow, spun away, rolling across the tiles, snapping the shaft. |
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| 13 | 217 |
I was spun about and dragged stumbling from the high throne room of Cos. |
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| 15 | 655 |
I howled with rage and turned about, striking the walls with my fists and then, throwing off my cloak, spun weeping to face them, in the same instant drawing my blade. |
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| 17 | 392 |
I spun about. |
10 |
| 18 | 598 |
Then, to my amazement, I saw something, like a streak of light, leap from the delta behind the wall, and the leader of the crossbowmen spun about as though struck with a war hammer and dropped, inert, from the wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 517 |
Then I seized the cage and, on its chain, spun it about. |
10 |
| 12 | 519 |
Lana and I, laughing, spun the cage back and forth, and, when I could, I struck Verna through the bars. |
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| 13 | 847 |
As it was, it spun him, tearing the shield from his arm. |
10 |
| 13 | 876 |
When it spun onto its back, tearing upwards at its foe, I hung stomach downwards, my full weight on the lashings, seeing in terror the earth hundreds of feet below. |
10 |
| 13 | 890 |
His tarn spun crazily, and then, a hundred yards away, to one side and below us, turned and fled. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 579 |
One of them, without warning, with a single rip that spun her fully about, tore her slave tunic away. |
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| 20 | 242 |
He spun back, staggering, turning, and fell at the feet of Sarus. |
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| 21 | 56 |
He spun wildly and ran to Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, sword high. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 68 |
I turned and swept to the guard position, in the instant seeing the man's distance, and spun again to strike from my body, before it could penetrate it, the hurled spear of Ivar Forkbeard. |
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| 3 | 71 |
In the same instant I had spun again, in the guard position, to stand against the man with his ax. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 835 |
Then she moaned and turned away, and, as the music swirled to its maddened, frenzied climax, she spun, whirling, in a jangle of bells and clashing barbaric ornaments before the guests of Samos. |
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| 3 | 4 |
The kaiila, both of them, with the swiftness, the agility of cats, spun, half crouching, squealing in frustration, and again lunged toward one another. |
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| 3 | 7 |
He swept past me and spun his kaiila, then jerked it up short, back on its haunches in the sand. |
10 |
| 4 | 37 |
I laughed as I spun the kaiila, hearing her utter a tiny cry of rage inside the kurdah. |
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| 4 | 431 |
I spun the kaiila, and stood in the stirrups. |
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| 5 | 105 |
She dropped the churned verr milk, the bag's seams fortunately for her not splitting, and spun to face him indignantly, even as a woman of Earth, but her indignation, the instant she turned, gave way to fear, for he was towering over her, she not a free woman but a slave, not four inches from her. |
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| 5 | 810 |
Alyena now to a swirl of music spun before us, swept helpless with it, bangles clashing, to its climax. |
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| 5 | 867 |
"And my thanks!" He then spun the kaiila and, as guards swarmed after him, to our astonishment, leapt the kaiila, catlike, between pillars, through one of the great arched windows of the palace room. |
10 |
| 5 | 885 |
"Assassin!" I spun about, facing steel on all sides. |
10 |
| 6 | 21 |
Two brawny male slaves, stripped to the waist, spun the two handles on the racks. |
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| 6 | 60 |
The axle of the windlass at the girl's head spun back and her body fell into the network of knotted ropes. |
10 |
| 6 | 123 |
The handle spun back. |
10 |
| 7 | 290 |
Ibn Saran spun from the wall, his blade battered, nicked and dull, from pounding on the stone. |
10 |
| 11 | 627 |
We spun about. |
10 |
| 11 | 643 |
They spun to face him. |
10 |
| 11 | 694 |
We spun about. |
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| 23 | 263 |
The young khan spun his kaiila about. |
10 |
| 24 | 788 |
She spun to face me, her eyes flashing. |
10 |
| 25 | 19 |
Haroun spun about, his burnoose swirling, and, angrily, leaped to the dais of the Salt Ubar, and strode upon it, like a frustrated larl. |
10 |
| 25 | 166 |
* * * * Tarna, in her quarters, spun to face me. |
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| 26 | 287 |
"I hate them! I hate them!" She spun to face me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 205 |
Then it seemed the earth spun beneath me and darkness swept about me, rushing in upon me and I lost consciousness. |
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| 4 | 537 |
I spun, disoriented, terrified. |
10 |
| 9 | 341 |
Sandal Thong spun about, facing me. |
10 |
| 9 | 366 |
She spun to face me. |
10 |
| 9 | 1293 |
I spun and ran, but fled into the arms of one of the young males, who roughly threw me back to the center of the circle. |
10 |
| 12 | 496 |
I could not hide! There was no place to hide! I spun about, miserably, my back to the bars, moaning. |
10 |
| 12 | 534 |
I spun, running my hands along the door, to find a way to lock it. |
10 |
| 20 | 289 |
"Slave!" I spun about. |
10 |
| 26 | 134 |
She spun in the tub, agonized, covering herself, to face the tall guest. |
10 |
| 27 | 198 |
He spun another man about and the fellow had little time to register the large hamlike fist which rearranged his features. |
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| 28 | 95 |
Toward the end I would be spun almost free of them and then, in the end, I would be ordered, exposed save for the final silk, concealing my breasts and thighs, to lie supine at the auctioneer's feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 261 |
Some of the most brilliant games on record, incidentally, have been spun forth from openings now often regarded as weak or anachronistic. |
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| 4 | 587 |
The attacker spun to face me. |
10 |
| 4 | 625 |
I thrust the man I held from me and spun about, the cord cutting now at the back of my neck. |
10 |
| 7 | 208 |
I spun about. |
10 |
| 8 | 121 |
She spun about, in fury. |
10 |
| 11 | 351 |
She screamed, and he spun back, falling from the platform to the turf. |
10 |
| 11 | 365 |
I wheeled the tarn to the left and it spun, still interlocked with its foe. |
10 |
| 22 | 194 |
The kayak spun and then nosed forward. |
10 |
| 22 | 263 |
It pulled free of the lances and, sucking in air, spun and dove. |
10 |
| 27 | 165 |
The Northern Lights still spun and played in the sky. |
10 |
| 28 | 73 |
I spun to look at the girls, who, frightened of my fury, cowered together in the center of the cell. |
10 |
| 29 | 110 |
I spun about, to look down the hall, in the direction in which the cart was moving. |
10 |
| 30 | 276 |
I called out to Ram, who spun about, felling a man who would have struck him from behind. |
10 |
| 35 | 477 |
I spun about, covering him with the weapon I carried. |
10 |
| 35 | 851 |
The wheel on our side of the door, hummed and spun, locking the door. |
10 |
| 35 | 869 |
I fired a dart and another Kur spun about hideously, scratching at the metal, and then, before our eyes, erupted as though it had engorged a bomb. |
10 |
| 35 | 892 |
Then he spun away from us, roiling and spattering backward. |
10 |
| 35 | 965 |
We had scarcely attained the second level than we heard the cry, "Halt!" Drusus spun and fired a dart, swiftly, from the hip. |
10 |
| 35 | 1171 |
I drew her within the room, and spun shut the hatch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 103 |
"No!" she screamed, wild-eyed, as I suddenly lifted her from her feet and spun about, she knowing herself lifted helplessly into the path of the blow. |
10 |
| 4 | 271 |
His face turned white, and he spun about, and fled. |
10 |
| 5 | 2 |
She spun from facing him, and lifted her chin, turning her head to the left, placing her wrists behind her, as though for the snapping of them into slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 11 | 325 |
I spun about. |
10 |
| 34 | 7 |
Again it spun and charged. |
10 |
| 44 | 22 |
Immediately I spun about and ran to the edge of the trees. |
10 |
| 53 | 183 |
I spun about to see one of Shaba's men reel about and then plunge bloody from the wall's height to the stones below. |
10 |
| 53 | 238 |
I spun about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 793 |
She spun away from me, in fury and rage. |
10 |
| 2 | 269 |
He spun it onto the barrel of the revolver. |
10 |
| 13 | 685 |
I spun about. |
10 |
| 13 | 844 |
She spun to face the girl at the ring, who trembled. |
10 |
| 18 | 58 |
Then, in fury, she had spun about and left, robes swirling. |
10 |
| 22 | 417 |
She spun from him and, crying, danced before Philebus, bounty creditor of Venna. |
10 |
| 22 | 420 |
She then spun about and danced before Tenalion and Ronald, his man. |
10 |
| 26 | 221 |
He spun about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 109 |
The auctioneer spun to face the girl. |
10 |
| 19 | 12 |
I spun him about twice by the wrist and then, with this momentum, hurled him into a tower of nail barrels on the side. |
10 |
| 27 | 6 |
I spun about, near a pile of lumber on the wharves. |
10 |
| 27 | 136 |
He gasped, and spun about, turned by the stone. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 215 |
With a cry of rage I spun about and smote down with the whip. |
10 |
| 9 | 357 |
I spun about. |
10 |
| 10 | 203 |
I struck the sword from the hand of the pirate within and spun him about, seizing him by the neck. |
10 |
| 16 | 328 |
He spun to face me, the golden cordage of the captain in his right hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 231 |
He crouched down and extracted a tiny fire-maker from his pouch, a small device containing a tiny reservoir of tharlarion oil, with a tharlarion-oil-impregnated wick, to be ignited by a spark, this generated from the contact of a small, ratcheted steel wheel, spun by a looped thumb handle, with a fl... |
10 |
| 5 | 163 |
I spun another rock down the road, after the lines and wagons. |
10 |
| 8 | 416 |
There, with the help of another fellow, he lowered her into the heavy rack, and spun shut the sturdy vises on her left and right thighs. |
10 |
| 8 | 428 |
The vises were spun loose. |
10 |
| 8 | 563 |
The first young fellow then spun Evelyn about and hurled her a few feet from him, toward the door. |
10 |
| 8 | 623 |
She spun about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1 |
Yellow Knives One of the Sleen Soldiers, rising to his feet, spun awkwardly, kicking dust, the arrow having entered through the chest, its point protruding above his left hip. |
10 |
| 24 | 22 |
The kaiila again spun about, scratching, snorting, with an explosion of dust. |
10 |
| 24 | 31 |
I heard the two shafts crack together, Cuwignaka fending the driving point away, and then, to my dismay, I heard a swift, striking sound, and saw Cuwignaka struck from the side of the kaiila, and reeling and staggering backwards, then sprawling, his legs loose under him, to the dust, struck by the p... |
10 |
| 24 | 35 |
The rider spun the kaiila about, to his right, keeping his shield between himself and my arrow. |
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 | 141 |
"And kaiila!" We spun about on our kaiila. |
10 |
| 37 | 545 |
I then screamed and thrust at it, and it spun about. |
10 |
| 45 | 74 |
I spun and caught a lance being thrust toward me. |
10 |
| 47 | 176 |
It caught the second tarn about the neck, as it swerved madly, by the grasping talons of its left foot, and I was thrown about, upside down, the ground seeming to be over my head, and the two birds spun in the air and then my tarn disengaged itself, the neck of the other bird flopping to the side, b... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 464 |
"No!" She spun about, facing Hassan, who had now withdrawn a few feet. |
10 |
| 31 | 700 |
"Do you really think," he asked, "that I would have paid fifteen tarsks for you, and had you brought here with your group, all the way from Ar, if you were only a feast slave?" "But that is all I am," I said, "only a feast slave!" He spun me about, to face him. |
10 |
| 32 | 337 |
He spun me about, rudely, and thrust me towards the door. |
10 |
| 33 | 411 |
Drusus Rencius spun about. |
10 |
| 36 | 563 |
He spun about. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 845 |
With a toss of her head she spun away. |
10 |
| 2 | 20 |
Clowns tumbled; acrobats spun and leapt, and climbed, one upon the other, until, abetted by the gravity of Gor, they swayed thirty feet above the crowd. |
10 |
| 2 | 483 |
He spun the board about so that I might have yellow, and the first move. |
10 |
| 6 | 1274 |
She spun about, and with a movement of her robes, lifting them a bit from the dust, took her leave. |
10 |
| 8 | 292 |
"Are you still there?" Then, suddenly, with a cry of misery, the fellow spun about and broke into a run. |
10 |
| 20 | 242 |
The sleen, startling me, suddenly spun about, the five of them, six-legged, agile, sinuous and muscular, some nine or ten feet in length, and crowded about our legs, hissing, snarling, looking upward. |
10 |
| 21 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Apartments of Belnar; Leather Gloves I spun about. |
10 |
| 21 | 113 |
I had spun about. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
Surely she might better have cooked meat in the light of a cave fire, the thongs on her left wrist perhaps marking whose woman she was, or with sistrum and hymns, under the orders of priests, welcomed the grand, redemptive, sluggish flows of the Nile; better she had run barefoot on a lonely Aegean b... |
10 |
| 3 | 249 |
I spun about. |
10 |
| 3 | 430 |
Then it finished in a swirl and I spun and sank to my knees before them, my head down, my hands on my thighs, in a common ending position for such a dance. |
10 |
| 16 | 116 |
She spun to face the leader of the men. |
10 |
| 29 | 881 |
It spun about to seize Hendow, but he thrust at it with his sword. |
10 |
| 29 | 952 |
In this moment the leader of the beasts, which at times had been sitting back, almost catlike, observing, and at other times had been crouching, and moving about the fighting animals, waiting to strike, seeing its opportunity, leapt to the fray, seizing Borko's collar from the back, but, I think to ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 269 |
The wheel of the wagon, that to my right, spun slowly, free, the rain glistening in the lantern light on its iron rim. |
10 |
| 8 | 75 |
I spun suddenly about, the sword half drawn. |
10 |
| 15 | 960 |
I moved quickly toward him but then it seemed, suddenly, as though the world had burst apart, and I spun about, covering my head with my hands, and it seemed in that instant that the cell was filled with bursting stones and bricks, and there was a great sound, and Lady Claudia screamed, and one coul... |
10 |
| 17 | 135 |
This occurred to me as he spun about, blood gushing from beneath his helmet, falling back down the steps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 738 |
She spun away. |
10 |
| 1 | 1112 |
I spun about and fell to my hands and knees, men seizing one another over me. |
10 |
| 3 | 185 |
It spun about, immediately, moving laterally, crouching, every sense alert, its pack discarded. |
10 |
| 3 | 417 |
It was only when the ground had shaken near me, and I had spun half about, almost buffeted by a saddle tharlarion, and saw the running mercenary caught between the shoulder blades with the point of the lance, thrown then to the dust, rolling and bloody, and saw the tharlarion trampling the body, the... |
10 |
| 13 | 470 |
I spun about, in the rence. |
10 |
| 18 | 176 |
I spun about, lifting my chained wrists and caught the descending blade on the linkage between the manacles. |
10 |
| 19 | 760 |
Its flight was erratic and it climbed, and spun, and circled against me, the injured wing, air passing through it, burdened, too, with my weight, muchly ineffective. |
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| 19 | 1341 |
"Oh!" "Aii!" I said, suddenly, and, in the grip of my reflexes, in my spasmodic tumult, spun about, twisting, rolling in the sand, carrying her lightly, helplessly, with me, as though she might be a doll, and sand scattered about, and she, too, gasped, and then again we lay in the sand as we had bef... |
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| 20 | 1 |
I Decide to Impose Discipline She suddenly screamed, and I spun about. |
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| 26 | 292 |
"It could be dangerous!" I spun her about. |
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| 29 | 232 |
We saw the fingers, like iron hooks, disappear into the hide of the fish, and then, he stood, rearing up in the sand, lifting that great weight, and shook it, and the fish spun and rolled, and fell again into the sand, the skin, in a swath a foot wide, excoriated. |
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| 46 | 31 |
I spun about, and another fellow, who had now approached more closely, backed away. |
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| 46 | 44 |
I counted three and, without warning, spun and drew. |
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| 46 | 47 |
I spun about. |
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| 48 | 367 |
He then spun and faced me. |
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| 48 | 373 |
He then spun to face me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 587 |
Then, angrily, she spun about, dancing, to return to her former post near the wall side of the Wall Road. |
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| 19 | 344 |
As it was shortly before noon the shadows were small, and behind us, but she heard the movement of the feet of the tharlarion in the dirt behind her and spun about, frightened, immediately kneeling, putting her head to the dirt. |
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| 21 | 116 |
Sometimes I was even spun about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 216 |
Dorna, with an angry swirl of her silks, spun away, to return to the small table under the roofed defense work. |
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| 11 | 1819 |
At other times he spun about, accomplishing various numbers of rotations and partial rotations. |
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| 11 | 1864 |
I was descending in the tube and the rectangle of sky above me shrunk and disappeared, and, in a moment, even the dimness of light was gone, and I spun about, turning, crying out in misery, spiraling downward through the darkness. |
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| 11 | 1876 |
I plunged, and spun and slid downward. |
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| 19 | 937 |
He spun me about. |
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| 24 | 511 |
She spun about and fell against the wall. |
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| 31 | 655 |
But the stone on its chain, the peasant whirling with it, spun about and about. |
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| 34 | 27 |
The leader of the strangers spun away from him, in fury. |
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| 37 | 714 |
We spun about and saw the Lady Ilene, her small ankles tied together, her hands tied behind her back, a rope under her arms, swinging over the dark waters of the urt pool. |
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| 37 | 719 |
She spun about on the rope, squirming helplessly. |
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| 40 | 34 |
Suddenly the figure spun about. |
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| 46 | 81 |
He spun about. |
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| 46 | 152 |
He spun about, in fury. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1078 |
How her misery would mingle with the viselike grasp of the opened, then closed, spun shut, tightened, then locked-closed branding rack on her thigh, the meticulous, brief, carefully controlled, searing fury of the marking iron, the futile pulling at the light, attractive bracelets that held her hand... |
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| 12 | 72 |
She spun in her bonds, weeping, lashed. |
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| 18 | 621 |
With a cry of anger, Ellen spun about and hurried to the office of Portus Canio. |
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| 20 | 367 |
The two birds wheeled, and spun in the air, falling, climbing, screaming, falling. |
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| 24 | 479 |
Then, as she spun in the sand, to the music, she unwound the veil and put it down about her shoulders. |
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| 27 | 2293 |
She clung to the wheel to which she was fastened, and it spun beneath her, and she turned with it, and then, to her misery, she felt the wagon rock backward, and it was falling away, toward the ground, and she nearly slipped from the wheel to which she clung, and then, as the wagon heavily righted i... |
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| 27 | 2983 |
Ellen saw the horror in the eyes of the decapitated head as it spun away, twisting, through the air and Kardok discarded the jerking headless body and looked about himself. |
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| 28 | 136 |
"If you will not use me," she said, angrily, "sell me to one who will! Sell me to one who is a man!" He turned then angrily, suddenly, to the slave but, at the same moment, there was a great roar splitting the silence of the camp and a dark, monstrous, violent shape leapt into the camp and Fel Doron... |
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| 30 | 278 |
He then put the first stroke to her, and she spun in the ropes, to look at him, protestingly, in misery. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 66 |
He then spun his startled, squirming assailant about and brought his hands under the other's arms, locked his fingers together behind the other's neck, and began to press forward. |
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| 13 | 68 |
Cabot spun about, not releasing his hold, to fend other blows, the jabbing of the sharpened sticks, but none of the others approached. |
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| 17 | 12 |
At that point the first large stone, hurled from above, struck one of the Kurii on the shoulder, and he spun about, howling, holding his arm, which now seemed to dangle uselessly from his shoulder. |
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| 21 | 433 |
At the same moment another of the Kurii rushed toward the pet, who screamed, his bar lifted, to strike down, but Grendel spun about and flung his weapon almost as might a lesser creature have hurled a javelin, and it struck he who threatened the blonde in the back, emerging through his chest, and hi... |
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| 33 | 193 |
Another head, the shorter, wider head, on the shorter neck, emerged behind Cabot and he, alerted by the tiny sound, spun about, and, crouched down, jabbed at the head, over the slave's prone body, and the point of the stick, blackened, and fire-hardened, but perhaps over sharpened, intended not for ... |
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| 39 | 92 |
Then, suddenly, and Cabot had not seen it, another of the Kurii spun about and rolled in the dust, scratching at it, an arrow through its neck. |
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| 47 | 44 |
He took several more steps and suddenly his feet left the steel, and he turned about, helplessly, in the air, and he spun about, and tried to thrash toward the steel, and floated some feet from it. |
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| 47 | 123 |
One of the purple scarves freed an arm from the wing harness and groped for a hand weapon, as he spun about, loose, helplessly, in the atmosphere. |
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| 53 | 205 |
They had not moved more than three or four yards when there was a sudden, frightened squeal, and Cabot spun about, to see a flurry of fur and teeth behind him. |
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| 63 | 29 |
Lord Grendel spun about and Cabot feared his arm would be torn from his body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 445 |
She spun about, tears in her eyes. |
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| 4 | 246 |
I spun the key far out into the waves. |
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| 12 | 200 |
Between two sets of poles were slung ropes and a saddle, and in each saddle was a fellow who was being flung from side to side, and dropped, and lifted, and spun about, by others, and even, by ropes, on each side, being whirled about a vertical axis. |
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| 18 | 13 |
Enemies spun about, encircled, fenced by lances, thence to be pierced by arrows. |
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| 20 | 88 |
There was a sudden flash, almost invisible, and a shriek of gouged metal and a brightness of sparks and Pertinax, who was in the center, was spun half about, and almost lost the buckler, but then again had it in place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 673 |
"'Stop!' I heard, and spun about. |
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| 3 | 965 |
I then turned about, that he might undo the ropes that bound me, but he spun me about, rudely, and pointed to the floor, and said, 'Kneel there. |
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| 5 | 340 |
I spun about and saw that Philoctetes did not now seem as he had before. |
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| 16 | 251 |
As the first fellow passed me, I cut to my left, and hit the side of his neck, and his body, the head half gone, spun to the side, momentarily interfering with the progress of his fellow, a pace or two behind him. |
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| 19 | 2 |
I spun the Builder's glass in a circle, examining the same horizon, as ever. |
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| 19 | 91 |
The bow of the ship paused, teetering, as though at the edge of a cliff, and then, suddenly, it plunged downward, and slid to the side of that steep, pouring, liquid valley, and went over to her side, and continents of water poured over her, and then engulfed her, and she spun about, for all her siz... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 218 |
"Yes, yes! Then twenty!" She spun about. |
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| 10 | 1000 |
The lips of the beast drew back about its fangs, and it uttered a snorting exhalation of air, and then, three or four times, it leapt into the air and spun about. |
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| 10 | 1192 |
Had I been on Earth, and free, I would doubtless have spun about, and struck him. |
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| 21 | 145 |
One tarsk, snorting, spun about, head down, to face the riders. |
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| 21 | 150 |
The tarsk spun about to charge, again, but the tharlarion, apparently trained, interposed its body between the tarsk and the rider, its head down, jaws gaping. |
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| 23 | 18 |
"Oh!" I cried, and Desmond of Harfax spun about, seized my right arm, and steadied me. |
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| 24 | 2 |
Trachinos, who had gone a little ahead, about a bend in the trail, spun about, wildly, almost dropping the mirror he held. |
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| 29 | 67 |
He then spun about, hopping a little, which I took to be a sign of amusement. |
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| 30 | 2 |
I spun about, delighted, and rushed to Desmond of Harfax, knelt before him, pressed my lips quickly to his sandals, knelt up, and then knelt close to him, holding him about the legs, and putting my turned head humbly against his legs, rather as I had seen Mina do with Trachinos. |
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| 42 | 78 |
Before returning to the kitchen, that from which I had received the provender and drink, I heard harsh Kur sounds, and spun about. |
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| 48 | 362 |
Before the knife of Desmond of Harfax could fall Lord Grendel darted forward with the speed of a charging sleen, and caught Desmond of Harfax about the waist, lifted him, and spun about, hurling him several feet away, back, to the center of the room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 165 |
Tuza then spun about, and faced Hiza. |
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| 39 | 33 |
She spun about, suddenly, to plunge away, into the river, to swim, but her pursuer was too close to her. |
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| 39 | 49 |
We had spun about, to our right, confused, in alarm, trying to discern what was occurring, our burdens tumbled away. |
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| 43 | 770 |
She then spun about, laughing merrily, and hurried away. |
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| 43 | 1212 |
Genserich spun about, startled, twisting to the side, Donna screaming, and the blade of the flung javelin, a flash of steel, tore through the collar of his tunic, leaving a tatter of cloth and a line of blood between his neck and shoulder, and lodged twenty paces beyond, quivering in a small Tur tre... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 254 |
"Kill him! Kill him!" Then he spun about, cried out once, and then, in his heavy snow boots, plunged into the darkness, and, a moment later, I heard a cry, half of fear, half of misery, which was cut short. |
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| 13 | 456 |
Lord Yamada, on the other hand, I suspected, despite his alleged fear of its awakening, presumably manufactured for diplomatic reasons, would view such claims as preposterous, spun from no more than the fumes of benighted superstition. |
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| 25 | 275 |
Surely he knew she was not a slave! Crying out in confusion, and misery, Sumomo, obedient, bound and blindfolded, leaped from the board's edge into nothing, and plummeted downward, the skirt of her sheetlike garment torn high about her thighs, and was caught in the arms of Tajima, who threw her on h... |
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| 46 | 329 |
"Ho!" cried a voice, and we spun about. |
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| 50 | 237 |
The other Kur had spun about, rushed to the side, and now had the great Kur ax lifted, ready to strike, when two glaives were thrust into his body, again and again. |
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| 55 | 40 |
Pertinax spun about, glaive lowered. |
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| 60 | 328 |
One of Lord Akio's men raised his sword to strike Haruki, who stood there, a long, four-pronged garden fork, used for turning soil, bloody to the socket, in his hands, but the blow failed to fall, and the bearer of the lifted sword spun away, his blade lost, he grasping at a long Pani arrow in his t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 445 |
She then spun about, and hurried away. |
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| 17 | 101 |
Might she not be further incensed? And, too, was I not a copper-tarsk girl, a mere copper-tarsk girl? The free woman spun about, to regard the fellow who had spoken, he in the white and gold of the Merchants, and his robes well draped. |
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| 33 | 686 |
The beast leaped and spun about, and stomped, and turned again, and put its head back, and roared, lifting its paws to the rafters. |
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| 33 | 687 |
Then it spun about, again, and again. |
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| 41 | 203 |
I turned about, and, in that moment, Paula spun about, wildly, and began to run down the street. |
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| 46 | 132 |
Lyris spun away from the blocked portal, and regarded Lord Grendel, shuddering. |
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| 55 | 19 |
Lord Grendel spun about. |
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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 | 297 |
He spun about and, with the flat of his left hand, struck her savagely to the grass, and was then, again, resolute, in the guard position. |
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| 65 | 339 |
Lucilius roared with rage and leapt at Lord Grendel, with a mighty stroke of the great ax, but Lord Grendel crouched down and, lifting his own ax, gripped in two hands, or paws, struck upward, bringing the blade of his own ax into play, against the higher end of the shaft of the descending ax, and t... |
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| 68 | 181 |
The slave laughed merrily, and spun about, hurrying on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 77 |
How wonderful to belong, to be literally owned! And yet, sometimes, too, the collar has its miseries and terrors, for in it we are so vulnerable and helpless! To my left there was a sudden stir, and splash, in the water, and I spun about on the walkway in time to see a large urt submerge, it ears ba... |
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| 24 | 224 |
"Dolt!" she said, and then spun about, and hurried down the steps to the street. |
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| 33 | 292 |
The man in the boat spun about, suddenly. |
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| 42 | 189 |
Vas of Anango spun me about jerking the knife from my throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 29 |
If the net is being spun it can be spun only so long before the arm tires and weakens. |
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| 6 | 269 |
"Yes," she said, "handsome Master," and spun away. |
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| 27 | 2 |
The colored wheel spun madly. |
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| 27 | 5 |
Soon the wheel spun more slowly, and then its pointer stopped. |
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| 32 | 63 |
Then another corsair spun about, turned by the blow of an arrow. |
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| 41 | 41 |
On the eleventh day of the siege, on a gouged street, near the rubble of houses, Thrasymedes, seeing the startled faces of others, had spun about. |
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| 58 | 123 |
I spun about to see a great ship looming behind us. |
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| 59 | 287 |
Startled, Glaukos, short and thick-bodied, thick-legged, proprietor of the The Living Island, spun about to face me. |
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| 60 | 43 |
Thurnock, turning away, spun his staff, twice, and thrust at some imaginary foe. |
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