| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 |
I seized it, using it like a puny stick, striking at the great snapping beak that was trying to seize me, as if I were a scrap of food on the high, flat plate of the cylinder's roof. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 69 |
I expected its popularity was due more to its capacity to warm a man and stick to his ribs, and to its cheapness, a poor grade of Ka-la-na wine being used in its brewing, than to any gustatory excellence. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 8 |
On the first time they accompanied me I obtained a marking stick, used by Mul clerks in various commissaries and warehouses, and inscribed their appropriate letters on the left shoulders of their plastic tunics. |
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| 31 | 171 |
He swung this lightly, as easily as I might have lifted and moved a stick of wood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 217 |
There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious... |
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| 1 | 12 |
Seeing that I meant him no harm, he paused and lifted an arm, like a stick in a torn sleeve, and pointed backward. |
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| 5 | 67 |
Normally, however, the wagons are tied in tandem fashion, in numerous long columns, and only the lead wagons are guided, the others simply following, thongs running from the rear of one wagon to the nose rings of the bosk following, sometimes as much as thirty yards behind, with the next wagon; also... |
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| 9 | 51 |
Saphrar, eyes closed, was nibbling on a tiny thing, still quivering, which had been impaled on a colored stick. |
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| 9 | 65 |
This would be impractical, naturally, save for the detestable device of the golden bowl and tufted banquet stick, dipped in scented oils, by means of which the diner may, when he wishes, refresh himself and return with eagerness to the feast. |
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| 13 | 147 |
On the other hand on each altar there burned a small bosk-dung fire into which, like a tiny piece of kindling, had been placed an incense stick. |
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| 13 | 154 |
Each of the four haruspexes then, after intoning an involved entreaty of some sort to the sky, which at the time was shining beneficently, suddenly cast a handful of something—doubtless grain—to the pigeons in the stick cage. |
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| 15 | 91 |
When the wagons were to move, Tuka was to walk beside the cart of the sleen cage, drawn by a single bosk, and with a bosk stick guide the animal. |
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| 15 | 92 |
I once spoke harshly to her when I saw her cruelly poke Elizabeth Cardwell through the bars with the bosk stick. |
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| 15 | 95 |
"Where now is the pelt of the red larl, Slave?" Tuka would taunt Elizabeth, threatening her with the bosk stick. |
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| 17 | 46 |
The expression on his face was much the same as that I had seen at the banquet, when he had prepared to eat the small, quivering thing impaled on the colored stick. |
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| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
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| 28 | 8 |
I recalled how cruel she had been to Elizabeth in the long months she had been with the Tuchuks, and how she had tormented her even when she was helpless in the cage of a sleen, mocking her and poking at her with the bosk stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 64 |
The guard, with a heavy stick he carried, struck the bars viciously before her face and she cried out, jerking back and crouching at the rear of the cage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 |
In her hand was a curved throwing stick, used for hunting birds. |
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| 2 | 25 |
She did not lift the throwing stick against me, nor did she attempt to flee, but simply stood looking at me, watching me. |
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| 4 | 179 |
Some utensils were in the bowl, a wooden stirring stick and a wooden ladle, both carved from rence root. |
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| 5 | 58 |
In her hand she carried a throwing stick. |
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| 5 | 97 |
There were races, poling rence craft, and skill contests maneuvering the small light craft, and contests with net and throwing stick. |
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| 5 | 172 |
Then the man with the drum of hollow rence root began to drum, and I heard some others join in with reed flutes, and one fellow had bits of metal, strung on a circular wire, and another a notched stick, played by scraping it with a flat spoon of rence root. |
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| 9 | 291 |
Piles he had already commissioned from a smith; and Thura, on his command, this afternoon, with a bit of stick, had struck down a Vosk gull, that the shafts he fashioned, whether from Ka-la-na or tem-wood, would be well fletched. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 59 |
They were controlled by a bargeman, with a long whipping stick, who was ensconced in a leather basket, part of the harness, slung between the two animals. |
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| 8 | 80 |
The bargeman in the leather basket shouted out and slapped the two tharlarion on the neck with the whipping stick. |
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| 8 | 210 |
The tharlarion now turned slowly in the broad river, near Laura, and, under the stick, and cries, of their driver, began to back the barge against its pier. |
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| 12 | 328 |
I wished that I might have had a stick or switch. |
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| 12 | 478 |
I found a stick and poked her through the bars. |
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| 12 | 503 |
I still held the stick with which I had poked the blond-haired girl, she who had held my leash in the forest. |
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| 12 | 515 |
Suddenly I struck at her with the stick, and she flinched, but did not cry out. |
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| 12 | 534 |
I gave Verna another blow with the stick. |
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| 12 | 538 |
"Hurry," said Lana, "or we will be beaten!" I gave Verna one last blow, a stinging stripe across the shoulder, with the stick. |
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| 12 | 541 |
I cried out in anger, and turned, throwing away the stick, and ran back to the wagon. |
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| 13 | 41 |
"Bring me a tiny stick," said Ute. |
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| 13 | 43 |
She then chewed at the end of the tiny stick, sharpening it, putting a point on it. |
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| 13 | 165 |
She had also shown me how, with binding fiber, a log and a stick trigger, to make a snare large enough to catch a tabuk, but we did not actually make such a snare. |
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| 13 | 169 |
She had also shown me how to make shelters of various sorts and use a small, curved stick for striking down birds and tiny animals. |
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| 13 | 176 |
How pleased I was when I saw the small, pointed stick whirling in its wooden pit, and saw the dried flakes of leaves suddenly redden and flash into a tiny flame, which we then fed with leaves and twigs, until it would burn sticks. |
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| 13 | 226 |
With a sharp rock and a stick I started to work on the animals. |
10 |
| 13 | 238 |
After I had worked for a while, Ute, taking up a rock and a stick, began to help me. |
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| 13 | 412 |
She was trying, with a pointed stick, to round a pit in a new board for a new fire drill. |
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| 15 | 390 |
I had much abused her, throwing dirt on her and poking her with a stick in her cage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 135 |
I heard the cry of sea birds, broad-winged gulls and the small, stick-legged tibits, pecking in the sand for tiny mollusks. |
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| 22 | 136 |
Behind her, nude, proud, erect, golden rings in her ears, carrying a pointed stick, an improvised spear, came blond Verna, tall and beautiful. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 43 |
A flock of verr, herded by a maid with a stick, turned, bleating on the sloping hillside. |
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| 10 | 115 |
"Stick!" cried out Pouting Lips. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 313 |
Samos took a stick from beside the door, with which the jailer thrust the pan of water or food toward the shape. |
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| 1 | 318 |
Samos touched the shape with the stick. |
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| 1 | 319 |
Suddenly it turned and bit the stick through, eyes blazing. |
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| 2 | 228 |
Not even looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out, protecting her merchandise. |
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| 3 | 105 |
"You will tell the time," said Farouk of Kasra, "by the speed of your kaiila, by the circle and the stick, by the sun". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 191 |
My captor, with two lieutenants, sat over a map, drawn with a stick in the earth. |
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| 17 | 96 |
The tall man removed a marking stick from his pouch and, on the interior of the left shoulder, on its softness, of the auburn-haired girl, wrote a word. |
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| 17 | 100 |
Then he turned to me and, with the same marking stick, wrote on the interior of my left shoulder. |
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| 17 | 104 |
The stain of the marking stick would last until it was washed off. |
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| 17 | 112 |
I could still feel the press of the marking stick in my flesh. |
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| 25 | 180 |
Give me then your marking stick and your paper". |
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| 25 | 182 |
In moments her quick hands had accomplished this business and she surrendered to Bosk of Port Kar both the paper and the marking stick. |
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| 25 | 191 |
At last he laid down the marking stick, and, ruefully, viewed the paper before him. |
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| 28 | 190 |
A man stood near the end of the tunnel, with a tablet and marking stick. |
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| 29 | 18 |
He took a blunt marking stick from his pouch and wrote Gorean words on her left shoulder. |
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| 29 | 21 |
He replaced the collar and marking stick in his pouch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 697 |
Before him, thrust ahead of him on a control stick, her wrists braceleted behind her, was a naked slave girl. |
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| 3 | 698 |
There is a chain loop at the end of the control stick, which is about two feet in length. |
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| 3 | 711 |
At the other end of the control stick there is a leather loop. |
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| 13 | 87 |
"Another time," he said, cheerfully, "she beat me with a stick, calling me a good-for-nothing". |
10 |
| 13 | 235 |
"Did you not notice that she did not stick the knife into us?" he asked, secretively. |
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| 20 | 29 |
It is held in one hand and beaten with a stick held in the other. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 59 |
He had jotted these down on her back with a red-grease marking stick. |
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| 6 | 685 |
The scribe noted the physician's report in his papers and the physician, with a marking stick, initialed the entry. |
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| 7 | 6 |
"May I be of assistance to Master?" asked Uchafu, hobbling toward me, supporting himself on a knobbed stick. |
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| 7 | 178 |
Uchafu angrily raised the heavy, knobbed stick he carried. |
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| 27 | 75 |
We were within a stick-sided, palm-thatched hut in the fishing village. |
10 |
| 27 | 135 |
He put her on her knees there and then, indolently, lay down, on one elbow, between her and the stick wall of the hut. |
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| 27 | 140 |
With a tiny stick I prodded the fire. |
10 |
| 29 | 36 |
It did not move until I nudged it with a stick, and it then backed rapidly away. |
10 |
| 29 | 124 |
She poked at the fire with a green stick. |
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| 31 | 29 |
I doubt that anyone in the village knew more than a few dozen words of Ushindi, but Ayari, with his Ushindi, his gestures, his quick wit and a stick, with which he drew in the dust of the village, not only conducted his trading in a brisk and genial fashion but managed to gather valuable information... |
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| 32 | 170 |
The blond-haired barbarian stirred the fire with a stick. |
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| 47 | 79 |
Inside the stockade, given the feast of the village, the column would widen, spreading to cover in its crowded millions every square inch of earth, scouring each stick, each piece of straw, hunting for each drop of grease, for each flake of flesh, even if it be no more than what might adhere to the ... |
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| 57 | 103 |
The fork of the first stick goes to the back of the neck of the first girl. |
10 |
| 57 | 104 |
Another stick then is thrust crosswise under the chin of the first girl and tied on the fork, holding her in the fork. |
10 |
| 57 | 105 |
The fork of the second lashed stick is before the throat of the second girl. |
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| 57 | 106 |
Another stick then is thrust crosswise behind the neck of the second girl and lashed in place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 106 |
One of them, with a marking stick, made a notation on a paper she carried. |
10 |
| 6 | 156 |
I looked at the woman with the marking stick and the paper, clipped to its board. |
10 |
| 6 | 158 |
I saw the marking stick move, as she made a notation on her record. |
10 |
| 10 | 134 |
She held a marking stick in her right hand. |
10 |
| 10 | 139 |
Occasionally she would make a notation on one of the papers with her marking stick. |
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| 19 | 229 |
Barus put aside his tallying board and marking stick, and went into a nearby small building, an equipment shed. |
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| 21 | 32 |
We watched Taphris, on her hands and knees, carry a stick to the edge of the flame ditch and, shutting her eyes, drop it in, then quickly draw back. |
10 |
| 21 | 35 |
"Yes, Master," she said, returning on her hands and knees to the box for another stick. |
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| 22 | 426 |
Then, as she danced before him, he took forth a small pad and, with a marking stick, jotted notes upon it. |
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| 33 | 4 |
In the late morning we had asked directions from a surly, armed fellow herding two trussed women, a stick bound behind the back of their necks. |
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| 34 | 59 |
She was being guided by a pointed stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 165 |
I reached to my left and, from the rack on the gong frame, picked up the slender stick which reposed there. |
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| 18 | 166 |
On this stick was mounted a rounded, fur-wrapped head. |
10 |
| 18 | 167 |
I struck the gong once, smartly, replaced the stick, and leaned back in the curule chair. |
10 |
| 18 | 730 |
With the fur-wrapped striking surface of the stick, removed from its rack, I smote the gong, once, smartly, decisively. |
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| 20 | 1483 |
Am I not a pretty tasta?" A tasta is a soft Gorean candy mounted on a stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 795 |
I felt my ankles lashed tightly to the stick, the stick behind them. |
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| 1 | 826 |
The drawings are first traced on the skin with a sharp stick. |
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| 1 | 833 |
The pigments, commonly mixed with hot water or glue, are usually applied by a chewed stick or a small brush, or pen, of porous bone, usually cut from the edge of the kailiauk's shoulder blade or the end of its hip bone. |
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| 8 | 938 |
She, then, will be fastened in two of the triangles, the one attaching her to the woman in front of her, and the other to the woman behind her, one cross stick tied before her throat and another behind her neck. |
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| 14 | 788 |
"Then I saw him, suddenly, almost angrily, cutting a stick, and notching it with his knife. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 241 |
Such a cradle will often, in such a case, literally stick upside down in the earth. |
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| 3 | 37 |
The first five men who strike the tree, with their hand, or with a canhpi, a lance or coup stick, obtain high coups". |
10 |
| 18 | 291 |
At the feet of Watonka there was a slim, upright stick. |
10 |
| 18 | 292 |
In the dirt, about the stick, were drawn two circles, a larger and a smaller. |
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| 18 | 296 |
I looked up at the sun, and down to the stick and its shadow. |
10 |
| 18 | 316 |
Judging by the sun, and the shadow by the stick, I would have supposed that Watonka and his party should have been making their way to the council lodge. |
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| 19 | 134 |
On this small, raised place, too, was a stick, surrounded by two circles, a larger and a smaller. |
10 |
| 19 | 135 |
I take it that the measurement of time was being accomplished by this stick and the circles. |
10 |
| 19 | 139 |
"Why would they not simply judge noon by the position of the sun?" "The stick is more accurate," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 35 | 119 |
In the center there is a hole, in which the hot stones, passed in from the outside on a forked stick, are placed. |
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| 35 | 137 |
One cleans, with a knife or sharpened stick, even under one's fingernails. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 13 |
More than one man, pressing between the soldiers and clambering onto the wagon, sometimes unarmed, sometimes with a whip or stick, sometimes even with a knife, was seized and thrown back into the crowd by soldiers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 360 |
I drew forth from my wallet some papers and a marking stick. |
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| 22 | 338 |
With a stick I stirred it. |
10 |
| 22 | 353 |
With the stick I prodded the charred remains of the papers, crumbling them to black powder in the ashes. |
10 |
| 22 | 368 |
Then I threw away the stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 6 |
It was the remains of a caulked, woven-stick wall. |
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| 2 | 94 |
As soon as I had spoken she crawled over the flat stones to the ashes of the fire, and began to prod among them, stirring them with a narrow stick, searching for covert vital embers. |
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| 13 | 156 |
The marking stick was already in existence which would inscribe that number on her fair breast. |
10 |
| 16 | 1410 |
Similarly walking sticks and staffs often have one or more such compartments in them, reached by unscrewing various sections of the stick or staff. |
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| 18 | 154 |
We were now passing, they had been coming towards us, three sturdy lasses under the herd stick of a brawny male. |
10 |
| 24 | 139 |
Sometimes he poked her with a sharp stick, to hurry her along. |
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| 25 | 650 |
Better that a thousand times than names such as 'Tula' and 'Tuka', the names of slaves, of soft, perfumed girls who must helplessly serve in all things!" The hostess removed a marking stick from her pouch and removed the card from the cage frame. |
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| 26 | 287 |
I supposed the hostesses might enjoy having her do such things, perhaps monitoring her work with a whip or pointed stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 278 |
A sack was slung on a stick, the stick resting over his shoulder. |
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| 6 | 229 |
It had to do with "tastas" or "stick candies". |
10 |
| 6 | 231 |
The candy is prepared and then the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it. |
10 |
| 6 | 243 |
I then heard, it startling me, too, and frightening me, too, and even more than before, a stick beating savagely on the side of the wagon. |
10 |
| 6 | 271 |
We were then, in a minute or two, beyond the screaming of the woman and the intense, cruel beating of her stick. |
10 |
| 6 | 313 |
To be sure, she, with her stick, could not see me. |
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| 6 | 434 |
I would be naked to her stick or switch. |
10 |
| 8 | 62 |
"Out, out, hurry!" had said the man this morning, pounding with his pointed stick on the linked, metal mesh of the cage's roof. |
10 |
| 8 | 80 |
"Stop," had said our herder, he with the stick. |
10 |
| 8 | 85 |
"Now you two-legged tarsks," said the man, waving toward the container with his stick. |
10 |
| 8 | 155 |
His stick, held out, prevented us from running toward it. |
10 |
| 8 | 156 |
Then, amused, he lowered the stick, and we ran to stand near the fire, crowding about it. |
10 |
| 8 | 157 |
Blankets, too, rough and brown, were there, in piles, and, permitted, at a gesture of the stick, we seized them up and clutched them gratefully about us, drying our bodies, and our hair. |
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| 9 | 69 |
I saw Clarissa hastened in the shoot by the jab of a pointed stick. |
10 |
| 9 | 101 |
I saw her hurried up the ramp, with the poking of a man's stick. |
10 |
| 9 | 106 |
I cried out, protesting, at the poke of a stick. |
10 |
| 9 | 117 |
In his right hand, it resting on the top of the shoot wall to his left, he held a stick. |
10 |
| 9 | 120 |
There he put the stick in front of me, as a barrier, and I stopped. |
10 |
| 9 | 144 |
He tapped me twice, rather smartly, but not cruelly, not to hurt me, with the side of the stick, swinging it to his right, as I passed him. |
10 |
| 9 | 157 |
Here and there there was a man with a stick. |
10 |
| 9 | 564 |
I passed a man with a pointed stick. |
10 |
| 20 | 290 |
I knew I might risk a thrashing with his stick. |
10 |
| 29 | 64 |
I was only too pleased when the hooked stick reached out and drew the bucket and rope to where a man could reach me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 388 |
Among others boarding the flagship, too, in her improvised hood, naked, her hands, too, thonged behind her back, as I had fastened them earlier, being pulled on her leash by one free woman, being herded from behind, poked and jabbed, and struck, with a stick by another, stumbling, ascending the narr... |
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| 20 | 392 |
The other beat her with the stick. |
10 |
| 20 | 393 |
She struggled to her feet, and then, obedient to the leash, and trying to hurry before the cruel incitements of the stick, she ascended the plank. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 215 |
"But surely one must stick to a plan," I said. |
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| 35 | 23 |
We shall then put him on a road, with a stick". |
10 |
| 35 | 41 |
He could not grasp a marking stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 23 |
"I would have thought," said Marcus, "that Ar might have rejoiced these days to obtain even the services of a lad with a sharp stick". |
10 |
| 7 | 37 |
"We have been liberated!" cheered another, waving a Cosian banner on a small stick. |
10 |
| 11 | 427 |
"They are undoubtedly as ancient as the club, the stone, the sharpened stick". |
10 |
| 17 | 477 |
How inexplicable and marvelous to a savage might appear a match, a handful of beads, a mirror, a stick of candy, a tennis ball. |
10 |
| 20 | 672 |
A tasta is a small, soft Gorean candy, which is mounted on a stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 204 |
It is commonly mounted on a stick. |
10 |
| 12 | 67 |
More cruelly the woman is sometimes stunned by a throwing stick, a method which is used, I have heard, in a place called the delta of the Vosk. |
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| 12 | 302 |
I wondered how the woman in the darkness would feel, sweating, harnessed naked to a plow, subject to a whip, or crawling, perhaps hastened by the jabbing of a pointed stick, into a dark, low log kennel at night. |
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| 14 | 1103 |
"A vulo is a kind of bird, a tasta is a kind of candy, often mounted on a stick". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 149 |
The first instructrix had fetched a supple, springy, flat stick, about a yard long, some two inches in width, and about a quarter of an inch thick. |
10 |
| 7 | 152 |
When the first instructrix had finished she put the stick away in a nearby cabinet but then fetched forth from the same cabinet three long, supple, leather switches, giving one to each of her fellow instructrices, and retaining one for herself. |
10 |
| 12 | 210 |
Later she learned that it was a confection, a small, soft candy mounted on a stick. |
10 |
| 17 | 979 |
"Cosian spy!" "No!" "Who knows what may serve as a weapon," said a man, "a knife from the kitchen, a pointed stick, a stone". |
10 |
| 20 | 619 |
"You are not to utter a sound," said the older lad, "not the least sound, or we will put you on your back, and put a stick between your teeth and tie it there, so that you cannot close your teeth, and then bind leeches in your mouth". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 133 |
"The stick, the little stick," said the first Kur, and he turned slowly to his fellow. |
10 |
| 14 | 15 |
He was brought furs from which he fabricated a loose tunic, and was given a sharpened stick, some seven feet in length. |
10 |
| 15 | 25 |
Why should that be? Had men scouted the blonde and decided she would look well in the wrapping of a leather collar? If not, why would they not have killed her in the forest? Had Tula and Lana somehow discovered her, and did not know what to do with her? Did they not realize the danger of bringing he... |
10 |
| 15 | 26 |
The blonde's head was held back and the point of the stick was placed in her mouth. |
10 |
| 15 | 27 |
As her head was held, by the hair, she could not pull back, away from the stick. |
10 |
| 15 | 28 |
She was then thrown on her back and held down, the stick's point still in her mouth. |
10 |
| 15 | 29 |
A hand raised the rock, to use it, hammerlike, to drive the stick downward, through the back of her neck, pinning her by means of it to the ground. |
10 |
| 15 | 51 |
The pointed stick was still held in her mouth. |
10 |
| 16 | 17 |
Surely she remembered the pointed stick, and how she might have been fixed by it to the earth of a primitive camp. |
10 |
| 17 | 24 |
When one tried to defend itself from a sharpened stick three or four other humans, like sleen hanging on the flanks of a larl, drove their points deep into hairy bodies. |
10 |
| 18 | 115 |
He had as weapon only the long, sharpened stick, some seven feet in length, a common length for a Gorean spear, which had been given to him by Archon, and retrieved at the edge of the forest, near the shuttle port. |
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| 18 | 130 |
He elected, thus, to climb a small escarpment, some thirty feet from the ground, which would slow sleen in their ascent, and, with good fortune, allow him to defend himself for a time with the sharpened stick or pole, were the sleen loosed. |
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| 18 | 145 |
Cabot stood up, and struck the butt of the stick on the rocks at his feet. |
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| 18 | 251 |
"Do you think the pointed stick in your grasp is a weapon?" inquired one of the Kurii. |
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| 18 | 254 |
"Then I must make do with my pointed stick," said Cabot. |
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| 18 | 269 |
The first beast leaped upward, gained a purchase on the slope, and joined Cabot on his narrow ledge, until it was thrust back, over the edge, bloodied, with the stick, to slide to the foot of the slope again. |
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| 18 | 277 |
Cabot thrust at him with the pointed stick but the Kur grasped it and drew on it, and Cabot released it, lest he be dragged from the ledge. |
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| 19 | 110 |
He did not have even his pointed stick with which to defend himself. |
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| 19 | 116 |
There was a flash of metal plating and joints as the device leapt past Cabot, pouncing on the startled, suddenly rearing sleen, its weight striking against it, then half crushing it, and then the machine, rising up slowly, pinned the sleen in place with its left forefoot and the right forefoot of th... |
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| 29 | 246 |
While in the forest Cabot had procured a long, sharpened stick. |
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| 29 | 252 |
Eventually the stick's point might be hardened in the fire. |
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| 29 | 330 |
He then put the slave over his shoulder, her head to the rear, as slaves are commonly carried, and bent down to pick up his stick. |
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| 32 | 13 |
"And are you armed?" "With a sharpened stick, to serve as spear," said Cabot. |
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| 32 | 424 |
"You are strong, and have a sharpened stick," she said. |
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| 33 | 100 |
"That is carnivorous," said Cabot, picking up the sharpened stick he had formed into a makeshift spear. |
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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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| 33 | 261 |
Cabot turned and, with the stick, jabbed at the second large head whose jaws, turned sideways, were reaching for him. |
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| 34 | 80 |
Grendel put a stick on the fire. |
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| 34 | 86 |
"I brought it down with a stick". |
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| 34 | 99 |
Grendel nodded, and arranged a stick, supported on some rocks, near the fire, over which he hung the bit of cloth. |
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| 34 | 261 |
He thrust a slab of roasted meat toward Cabot, on a sharpened stick, and he then began, with his paws, juice running between the digits, and his fangs, to feed. |
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| 54 | 25 |
"Certainly," said Statius, "and stick gambling, and pebble gambling, and so on. |
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| 55 | 159 |
"Seldom would they need to fear the blow of a simple stick". |
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| 55 | 161 |
"But civilization," said Lord Grendel, "improves considerably on such things, advancing far beyond a stick". |
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| 55 | 163 |
"Surely far superior to a rude stick," said Lord Grendel, "is an article devised to fulfill a similar purpose, and far more effectively, say, a lovely, sturdy, pliant, attractively beaded, well-crafted slave whip". |
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| 64 | 151 |
The switch had done its work well, its supple, stinging slash, far better than its humble predecessor, the stick, which, less yielding, was more likely to damage a woman than punish and instruct her. |
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| 64 | 152 |
The stick was a makeshift device, crude and barbarous; the switch was an artifact, a boon of civilization, a tested, refined, efficient implement, one explicitly and intelligently designed for the management and improvement of slaves. |
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| 67 | 101 |
In one place he found a stick, partly carved, not yet drilled. |
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| 77 | 282 |
"How long can you run, little thing? Do you call that little stick you carry an ax? You cannot even reach me with it! You are human! I am Kur! Close with me! Close with me! Hold still! Stand! Fight!" Cabot circled, as he could, to the left, looking for an opening, but now Flavion held the ax more cl... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 295 |
These may be fastened in place, or be as simple as a stick held between the teeth, which the woman is forbidden to drop. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 264 |
He stood on the first step of the companionway, and carefully lowered the butt of the stick to the deck, under the water. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 156 |
One fellow was hawking tastas, which is a confection, mounted on a stick. |
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| 9 | 21 |
I felt a stick poke me. |
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| 10 | 950 |
"Yes," he said, and availed himself of a marking stick, and wrote something on the back of the note. |
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| 37 | 185 |
You thrust a stick against the ground and say you have felt the ground, and it surely seems so, but it is an illusion. |
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| 41 | 167 |
He drew forth no paper nor a marking stick from the chest. |
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| 45 | 266 |
He handled it as I might have wielded a stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 67 |
She would be a pleasant confection, a delightful candy, a moaning, gasping tasta squirming on its stick. |
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| 8 | 382 |
A small flock of verr, some twelve or so, were herded by, conducted by a small boy with a stick. |
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| 13 | 51 |
"Good," said the fellow with the board, the marking stick. |
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| 13 | 187 |
"What is she?" asked he who had been addressing me, of the fellow with the board, the marking stick, the papers, the notes, and such. |
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| 16 | 114 |
"One who is mad," I said, "may buy a paving stone with gold, barter a ship for a stick, a palace for a pebble". |
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| 21 | 18 |
Why had a fire been built? A small beast squirmed, bound on a stick, or spit. |
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| 21 | 89 |
In its grasp it seemed little more than a stick. |
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| 33 | 35 |
Then she was given a stick and set to the digging of a fire hole. |
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| 38 | 146 |
Whatever marked stick we might have had to cast in this game, I feared, was no longer within our grasp. |
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| 50 | 452 |
The guard then removed a marking stick from his wallet and I felt its soft point pressing into my left breast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 285 |
I will now to my room, obtain paper and a marking stick. |
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| 46 | 218 |
Cast down your illegitimate weapons, seize up your proper tools, the digging stick and rake!" "I trust he will not disarm himself," I said to Tajima. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 26 |
I continued to move forward, the guide stick at the back of my neck. |
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| 27 | 47 |
One was whittling on a stick. |
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| 27 | 59 |
I now understood better, though, as it later became clear, did not understand well enough, the purpose of the collar-and-stick arrangement that had puzzled me that morning, four days ago, in the black court. |
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| 27 | 61 |
The collar is locked about one's neck, and the stick, rigid, and more than a yard long, is held by the individual supposedly being guided. |
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| 27 | 70 |
In doing so, without being obvious, see if the two fellows we passed, to the left, the one whittling the stick, are following us". |
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| 27 | 120 |
It was not yet dark, but the fellow who had been whittling on the stick held his knife to my throat. |
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| 27 | 146 |
The guide stick, attached to the collar, dangled behind me. |
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| 27 | 166 |
He then reached about, and then apparently managed at last to grasp the guide stick, and, once again, it was perpendicular to my neck. |
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| 28 | 3 |
The guide stick, with its attached collar, buckled under my chin, was tight against the back of my neck. |
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| 28 | 41 |
I turned right, responsive to the stick. |
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| 28 | 87 |
Then I felt the rigid guide stick, fastened to the close-buckled collar, tight against my neck. |
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| 28 | 88 |
Any movement I might make would then be conveyed back through the stick, to the hand of Tyrtaios. |
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| 28 | 96 |
This involuntary motion was conveyed instantly through the guide stick to the hand of Tyrtaios. |
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| 28 | 120 |
I now knew my slightest tremor, perhaps not even visible, would be conveyed back to Tyrtaios, through the stick. |
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| 28 | 131 |
He could detect, through the stick, little more, I suppose, than my subtle agitation, which I was trying to subdue. |
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| 28 | 181 |
No sooner had Kurik vanished than I was pulled about by the stick and collar, and hastened, half dragged, back up the street. |
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| 28 | 183 |
I tried to keep up with him, half running, he now leading, the stick in his left hand, held behind him. |
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| 28 | 187 |
Why could he not, at least, have pretended to be from somewhere else, away from the Vosk, Corcyrus, Helmutsport, Besnit, Bazi, Tor, anywhere apart from Victoria? What a fool, a fool!" I fell, weeping, and, by the collar and stick, it turned on my neck, was yanked to my feet. |
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| 28 | 221 |
He removed the stick and collar from my neck and cast it aside. |
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| 29 | 89 |
"I could not help myself!" "The guide stick," he said. |
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| 30 | 105 |
"It was the trick of the guide stick. |
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| 30 | 216 |
To the side were a flat spatulalike spoon, and a pointed stick, a northern analog to the Turian eating, or dining, prong. |
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| 45 | 3 |
"Open your mouth," he said, "and stick out your tongue". |
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| 52 | 194 |
"Please untie me! Free me, I beg you, Master! I meant no harm! Do not let my master find me like this!" Drusus then drew my tunic down at the left shoulder, and, with a marking stick removed from his pouch, firmly pressing in the lettering, inscribed something on my left shoulder. |
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| 59 | 43 |
The door to the left had been thrown open and bright sunlight enflamed the doorway, and I heard the sound of men outside, and there was a sound of cheering, and an eager howling of Kurii, and two gates were flung up, one at the near end of the verr pen, to my left, separating it from its chute, and ... |
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| 60 | 155 |
"A knife will do," said Kurik, "or a pointed stick". |
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| 61 | 26 |
He held it as lightly as I might have carried a stick. |
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| 61 | 938 |
"Well," said the Lady Bina, imperiously, "bring paper, enough of it, and a marking stick, and a helmet!" "There will be no slip of paper for this one," said a quiet, menacing voice. |
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| 61 | 977 |
"Here is paper, and a marking stick, and here the helmet, as well. |
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| 64 | 34 |
"Good," I said, stirring the fire with a stick. |
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| 67 | 66 |
"She was somewhat mollified, of course," said Kurik, my master, "when he informed her of how he had rejected your offer, and left you bound on the street, his rejection of you inscribed on your bared left shoulder with a marking stick, for all to see. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 127 |
"Forgive me, Master!" The taverner's deputy, or acting deputy, carries a small marking stick. |
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| 27 | 145 |
"What is your stick against my steel? You have one leg. |
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| 29 | 49 |
Sometimes they conferred with one another, and underlined or circled given lines with a marking stick. |
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| 30 | 24 |
Of most interest, to most I gathered, were the large public boards covered with writing, which writing was occasionally changed by a scribe, walking back and forth on a platform, with a sponge and marking stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 133 |
A fellow with a stick was herding an immense tarsk past. |
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| 44 | 1 |
Attacks Diminish; Unrest in the Enemy Camp; The Most Dangerous Enemy I, with two others, with the long, stout forked stick, caught an upright of the ladder and thrust it back, several feet, where it wavered, and then tipped backward, and men, crying out, leapt free or fell backward. |
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