| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 231 |
I, too, felt that it was important to take something with me, something which, in a way, was my native soil. |
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| 2 | 193 |
It was supposed that they were aware of all that transpired on their planet, but, if so, I was informed that they seemed, on the whole, to take little note of it. |
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| 2 | 198 |
"There is at least one area, however," said my father, "in which the Priest-Kings do take a most active interest in this world, and that is the area of technology. |
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| 3 | 54 |
Occasionally Torm would cry out in horror as I made a mistake, incomprehension and disbelief written large on his features, and he would then sadly take up a large scroll, containing the work of an author of whom he disapproved, and strike me smartly on the head with it. |
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| 3 | 233 |
I took it from him, this time being careful to take it near the leather loop, which I fastened around my wrist. |
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| 3 | 278 |
It sounded like something out of the Code of the Warrior, something which, if taken literally, would seem to encourage its believer to take not the slightest or most sane precautions for his safety. |
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| 4 | 41 |
The great tarn snapped his wings out, catching the air under them, and smoothly began to fly a straight course, his wings beating slowly but steadily in a cruising speed that would soon take us far beyond the towers of the city. |
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| 5 | 61 |
Presumably, it would be at least a matter of minutes before her identity was discovered, and, before that, she would take the poison provided by the Council. |
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| 6 | 124 |
"I will take you to the edge of the swamp if you like," said the insect. |
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| 7 | 25 |
"Take me with you," she begged. |
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| 7 | 53 |
"I do not take orders from the daughter of the Ubar of Ar," I said. |
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| 7 | 54 |
"You must take me with you," she said, eyes still downcast. |
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| 7 | 186 |
"Accordingly I can take no chances with you". |
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| 7 | 196 |
But then, shamefacedly, I admitted to myself that I had, while dragging her to the trees, intended to take her and that it had only been the sudden spell of her beauty which, paradoxically enough, had claimed my respect, forced me to recognize that selfishly I was about to injure or dominate what Na... |
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| 7 | 207 |
"I told you," I said, "I am not going to take any more chances with you. |
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| 8 | 44 |
"Take me back to Ar," said Talena. |
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| 8 | 60 |
The common soldier was watching with delight, perhaps expecting that he, too, might take his turn. |
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| 8 | 91 |
"Take what I can use," I said, sorting out the articles in the pouches. |
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| 8 | 193 |
"I can force you to take me," she said. |
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| 8 | 197 |
"Now you must take me with you or slay me," she said, "and I know you cannot slay me". |
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| 10 | 44 |
"Tarl of Bristol," he said, "do you take service with Mintar, of the Merchant Caste?" "If I do not?" I asked. |
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| 10 | 71 |
Her father was a goat keeper by the swamp forests of Ar, and I did steal her, but she begged me to take her from the village. |
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| 10 | 72 |
She foolishly ran away with me, thinking I would take her to Ar, to dress her in jewels and silks and give her quarters in the high cylinders. |
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| 10 | 168 |
"Take this thing off," she commanded. |
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| 13 | 51 |
Then, as swiftly as it had come, that nightmarish instant of immobility passed and I set my spear to take the jolt of the larl's attack. |
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| 13 | 107 |
"Take my hand," I said. |
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| 14 | 145 |
It might take a moment for the tarnsmen to realize what had happened. |
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| 15 | 31 |
Some of the most hideous fighting in the siege would undoubtedly take place far under the earth in the cramped, foul, torchlit confines of those serpentine passageways, some of them hardly large enough to permit a man to crawl. |
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| 15 | 155 |
"I have used the Assassin to take the City. |
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| 15 | 166 |
"If the Assassin should take the city," I said, "the rule of the Initiates will be broken, and eventually the horde with its loot will scatter, leaving a garrison". |
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| 15 | 169 |
"And," I went on, "when Pa-Kur falls, the garrison will be divided, and a revolution may take place—" "Led by a Ubar," said Marlenus, looking fixedly at the game piece in his hand. |
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| 15 | 181 |
"Can't you enter the city and take power?" I asked. |
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| 16 | 17 |
Sometimes the forces of Ar would drive the men of Pa-Kur back against the defensive stakes, and once they drove them to take refuge across the now constructed siege bridges spanning the great ditch. |
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| 16 | 66 |
"The siege might be lifted," I said, "if a force could take Pa-Kur by surprise, a force of some thousands of warriors attacking from the unprotected side of the camp". |
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| 16 | 88 |
"Take this ring," I said, giving him the ring that bore the crest of Cabot. |
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| 16 | 94 |
"Goodbye, Sword Brother," he said, and turned and left the tent, as if he might have been merely going to the tharlarion corrals or to take his post for guard duty, as in our caravan days. |
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| 17 | 32 |
This man claimed to be the Supreme Initiate of all Initiates on Gor and to take his appointment from the Priest-Kings themselves. |
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| 17 | 108 |
He stammered, holding it out to me, for me to take it back. |
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| 18 | 32 |
Why is this? Take it down in order that his tarnsmen may enter the city unimpeded". |
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| 18 | 54 |
"Where," I asked, "shall Pa-Kur take the daughter of the false Ubar to be executed?" The officer pointed to a distant cylinder. |
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| 18 | 56 |
"The execution will take place as soon as the girl can be presented". |
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| 18 | 64 |
I had managed to bring down the tarn wire of Ar; I had learned that Marlenus still lived and held a portion of the Central Cylinder, and I had found out when and where the execution of Talena was supposed to take place. |
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| 19 | 15 |
"Take what men of mine you will," he said. |
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| 19 | 126 |
Pa-Kur approached warily, confident in his superior swordsmanship, but, as I expected, determined to take no chances. |
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| 19 | 163 |
For each enemy who fell, it seemed three sprang up to take his place. |
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| 19 | 198 |
"Or take your sword again". |
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| 19 | 240 |
"I will take you to Ko-ro-ba," I said, "to my city". |
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| 20 | 58 |
I decided to take up quarters, at least temporarily, in New York. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 70 |
"I do not wish to take anything from you," I said. |
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| 6 | 40 |
For that matter, though I did not seriously consider the possibility, being without a city, in effect an outlaw, I was entitled in the Gorean way of thinking to take the bird or its purchase price in any way I saw fit. |
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| 6 | 139 |
She seemed to take no great interest in me, or her fate. |
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| 6 | 172 |
"They could not take you to Tharna as a slave," I said. |
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| 6 | 173 |
"Would the Tatrix not free you?" "They would not take me to Tharna," she responded. |
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| 7 | 39 |
"Take him," I said. |
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| 7 | 47 |
"You may not take her," I said. |
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| 7 | 115 |
I take this girl and leave you to the Priest-Kings". |
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| 7 | 116 |
"If you take her to Tharna," I said, "the Tatrix will free her". |
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| 7 | 117 |
"I will not take her to Tharna, but to my villa," said Thorn, "which lies outside the city". |
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| 8 | 43 |
If a sale had been made, the steward would take a number of pierced coins, threaded on a string hung about his left shoulder, hand them to the vendor, pick up his article and depart. |
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| 8 | 48 |
It was an intelligent precaution for Tharna to take, to keep an eye on the stranger, lest her hospitality be abused. |
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| 10 | 100 |
"I shall take you to the Tatrix myself". |
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| 11 | 105 |
He did not take his eyes from the Tatrix, wanting to strike at the first instant she permitted the blow. |
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| 11 | 148 |
"Very well," said Lara, and turned the glittering mask to the guardsman who had hurled the yoked Ost to her feet, "take him to the Chamber of the Urts". |
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| 11 | 196 |
"That is true," exclaimed Ost gratefully, eager to take his cue from so powerful a figure as Thorn. |
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| 13 | 33 |
Linna, in the dungeon, had told Andreas and me that a man of Tharna must attend the Amusements of Tharna at least four times a year, and that, failing that, he must take part in them himself. |
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| 13 | 102 |
I did not see it for I did not care to take my eyes from my opponent. |
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| 14 | 134 |
It did not take long for them to understand that the tarn, for whatever strange reason, was not going to attack me, and, whatever they considered my chances, it took only a moment longer to determine that it was my intention to free the bird. |
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| 14 | 153 |
For an instant, perhaps an unworthy instant, I feared the bird would immediately take to the skies, but though the metal was shaken from its leg, though it was free, though the spearmen advanced, it did not move. |
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| 15 | 68 |
It was a risk which I had decided to take. |
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| 15 | 178 |
Indeed, as I thought of the cruel Tatrix, of what she had done, I wondered if, in fact, I should not take her to Ar and dispose of her on the Street of Brands. |
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| 15 | 250 |
When I had eaten, she said, "Take me now to the Pillar of Exchanges". |
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| 17 | 26 |
"Take this," he said. |
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| 19 | 16 |
"Take me with you. |
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| 20 | 52 |
I knew the hatred of men is but a feeble thing compared to the hatred of women, and I wondered how much it would take to slake the thirst for vengeance of such a woman as Dorna the Proud. |
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| 21 | 60 |
"But," said the man, "the iron will take that out of her". |
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| 21 | 240 |
They had wanted to be sold to me—or, I supposed, to any man who would take them from the hated chain of Targo. |
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| 21 | 254 |
"Take the scabbard," I said to Targo. |
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| 22 | 81 |
"Then take me," she challenged. |
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| 22 | 181 |
I have sensed how a man in Tharna longs to take the mask from a woman, and I have suspected how much a woman longs for her mask to be taken. |
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| 22 | 219 |
"Take your pick, Master," he said, and backed out of the tent, shaking his head. |
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| 23 | 41 |
It was unthinkable that I should take this girl into the Sardar to be destroyed as I would be destroyed, that I should devastate this young life so recently initiated into the glories of the senses, which had just awakened into the victories of life and feeling. |
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| 23 | 54 |
"I cannot take you to the Sardar. |
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| 23 | 59 |
"I have no city to which I might take you," I said. |
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| 24 | 85 |
His dour personality, formed over the anvils and forges of his trade, did not take lightly to the enormity of what I had said. |
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| 24 | 193 |
"Why did you not take more men with you to the Pillar of Exchanges, Thorn of Tharna?" Thorn turned angrily in the direction of the voice. |
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| 24 | 207 |
"Take up your sword," she said, "in the name of Lara, true Tatrix of Tharna". |
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| 24 | 210 |
"I take up my sword," he said, "in the name of Lara, who is true Tatrix of Tharna". |
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| 26 | 71 |
Thus each silver mask will in time belong to a beast, though at first she is given some opportunity to determine whose yellow cords she will feel, on whose rug the ceremony of submission will take place. |
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| 26 | 73 |
It was not her intention to condemn her sisters of Tharna into interminable and miserable bondage but to force them to take this strange first step on the road she herself had traveled, one of the unusual roads that may lead to love. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 25 |
Their number is, of course, potentially infinite, as would be the number of possible phonemes in English, but just as we take a subset of sounds to be English sounds and form our utterances from them, so they take a subset of odors as similarly basic to their speech. |
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| 1 | 58 |
The contests I mentioned which take place at the fairs are, as would be expected, peaceable, or I should say, at least do not involve contests of arms. |
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| 1 | 61 |
Contests of arms, fought to the death, whereas they may not take place at the fairs, are not unknown on Gor, and are popular in some cities. |
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| 1 | 80 |
Thus one practical effect of the edict of the Priest-Kings is that each Gorean girl must, at least once in her life, leave her walls and take the very serious risk of becoming a slave girl, perhaps the prize of a pirate or outlaw. |
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| 2 | 2 |
It took not much time to purchase a small bundle of supplies to take into the Sardar, nor was it difficult to find a scribe to whom I might entrust the history of the events at Tharna. |
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| 3 | 53 |
Tobacco is unknown on Gor, though there are certain habits or vices to take its place, in particular the stimulation afforded by chewing on the leaves of the Kanda plant, the roots of which, oddly enough, when ground and dried, constitute an extremely deadly poison. |
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| 4 | 20 |
It seemed to take us a long time to reach the dais. |
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| 4 | 36 |
A frown crossed my face as I saw him take a pinch of tobacco from the bag and refill his pipe. |
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| 4 | 83 |
"If you want it, you must take it from me". |
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| 7 | 70 |
It might take days to pursue them all. |
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| 8 | 216 |
In the passageway, I extended my hand to her, that she might come and take it. |
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| 8 | 218 |
"Vika," I said, "come here and take the hand of a fool". |
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| 8 | 224 |
"Come," I said, "take my hand". |
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| 9 | 57 |
"Because she loved him," said Vika, "and did not wish him to take for his Free Companion only a lowly Passion Slave". |
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| 11 | 22 |
It turned a knob on its own translator and in a moment the air was filled with the sharp odors of what I take might have been a reprimand. |
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| 11 | 91 |
Muscular contractions in the abdomen take place with the result that air is sucked into the system through four small holes on each side of the abdomen, the same holes serving also as exhalation vents. |
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| 14 | 61 |
"We will take you there," said the other. |
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| 14 | 67 |
I could feel them gently take my arms and I accompanied them slowly down the hall. |
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| 15 | 82 |
"It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male Priest-King which lay... |
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| 15 | 114 |
How else could learning take place? This device is merely a comparatively considerate, swift and efficient means to an end that is universally regarded as desirable by rational creatures". |
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| 16 | 3 |
"I must tell you, Misk," I said slowly, "that I came to the Sardar to slay Priest-Kings, to take vengeance for the destruction of my city and its people". |
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| 16 | 72 |
"The Voyages of Acquisition," said Misk, "take place normally when we need fresh material from Earth, for our purposes". |
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| 16 | 176 |
"At any rate," said Misk, "it was not a risk we cared to take". |
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| 18 | 174 |
"Then give me my sword," I said, "and take me to him". |
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| 19 | 57 |
"It will not be easy with your tiny weapon," he said, "but Misk will be unable to resist you and so you may take as much time as you wish". |
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| 19 | 59 |
"It will probably not take more than half a hundred strokes to cut through". |
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| 19 | 75 |
They will take you to Misk and later will direct you as to the disposal of the body". |
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| 20 | 3 |
"We are instructed," said Mul-Al-Ka, "to take you to the Priest-King Misk, whom you are to slay". |
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| 20 | 136 |
"Take her away," said the attendant by the wall panel. |
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| 20 | 240 |
"Take me to Misk," I said. |
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| 21 | 35 |
There I directed them to take cover as well as they could behind some of the conglomerate material which had crumbled from the wall and lay at its base. |
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| 23 | 49 |
When I made a turn I would take the hilt of the sword, in order to protect the blade, and scratch a small sign indicating the direction from which I had come. |
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| 26 | 2 |
I still had not determined to my satisfaction that she might be fully trusted, much to her distress, and I would take no chances with her, for I knew who she was, the bandit princess of the lofty plundering Treve of the Voltai Range. |
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| 26 | 3 |
No, I would take no chances with this girl, whom I knew to be as treacherous and vicious as the nocturnal, sinuous, predatory sleen. |
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| 26 | 193 |
"Beat me if you wish," she begged, "but please—please—take me with you". |
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| 27 | 96 |
There, from a great golden bowl, about five feet deep and with a diameter of perhaps twenty feet, setting on a heavy tripod, he would take a bit of whitish liquid, undoubtedly Gur, in his mouth. |
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| 27 | 157 |
I wondered how long it would take to kill a Priest-King. |
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| 28 | 88 |
I wondered if I should take her from the case. |
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| 28 | 97 |
"I have returned for you, Vika of Treve—Slave Girl," I said sternly, "—to take you from the case". |
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| 28 | 148 |
"We burned what we did not take," said another. |
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| 28 | 152 |
"But," said another, "we will take our orders from Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba". |
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| 28 | 237 |
On the other hand, since Misk did not construct the craft large enough for him to stand in, I suspect he did not really wish to take part in its adventures. |
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| 28 | 245 |
If we had used it immediately, decisively, we might have wrought great damage, but neither of us wished to take the enemy by devastating surprise if victory might be won without bloodshed. |
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| 29 | 36 |
"Take care," she said. |
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| 30 | 174 |
Sarm, who was normally in the room, seemed to take great pleasure in Vika's baiting me, for he would stand by, antennae curling, as she would insult me, taunt me, sometimes strike me with her small fist. |
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| 30 | 183 |
Let her think over that, I said to myself, think over that—Vika of Treve—Pet Mul! I found myself wanting to take her body in my arms and shatter it to my breast, forcing back her head, taking her lips in the kiss of a master as though I once more owned her. |
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| 31 | 180 |
If I had dared to take my eyes from Sarm I might have looked about at the wonder of the Nest and the destruction in which it was being consumed. |
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| 31 | 217 |
The very globe and walkway seemed to lift and tremble but neither of the creatures locked together above me seemed to take the least notice. |
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| 31 | 218 |
Sarm's antennae lay immersed in the golden hair of the Beetle; his grasping appendages with their sensory hairs caressed the golden hair; even did he take some of the hairs in his mouth and with his tongue try to lick the exudate from them. |
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| 32 | 76 |
I saw that the last ship was preparing to take flight through the hole torn above in the ceiling of the complex. |
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| 32 | 182 |
"Take us to the plant of the Muls," said Misk. |
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| 32 | 199 |
I wondered how long it would take before it broke apart and scattered in a belt of dust across the solar system, only to bend inward at last and spiral like a falling bird into the gases of the burning sun. |
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| 32 | 284 |
"Quick," said Parp, who seemed suddenly afraid, "take her from the chamber before she regains consciousness. |
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| 33 | 21 |
It should take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice. |
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| 33 | 119 |
Who would believe them? Who would take the word of scattered vagrants against the word of the mighty Caste of Initiates? And, if he did believe them, who would dare to speak out that he did so? The Initiates, it seemed, had conquered. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 109 |
"Beware," I warned, "lest I take your words as insult". |
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| 5 | 43 |
A girl could take only so much, and then she would kneel to her master, her head to his boots, and beg for a bit of clothing, even though it be only to be clad Kajir. |
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| 6 | 109 |
"I don't know where I am—or how I got here—I want to get back to America—I'm an American citizen—my home is in New York City—take me back there—I will pay you—anything!" "Tell her," repeated Kamchak, "that she must learn Gorean quickly—and that... |
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| 6 | 144 |
"It is too far to take the bosk," I said. |
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| 6 | 180 |
"Take her to the wagon of Kutaituchik". |
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| 7 | 96 |
He did not permit her to take the seat by the desk. |
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| 7 | 126 |
She did not take her eyes from the tall, strange man. |
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| 8 | 16 |
I wondered on what Kamchak had called the games of Love War, said to take place on the Plains of a Thousand Stakes. |
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| 8 | 31 |
I had learned, to my surprise, that trade did occasionally take place with Turia. |
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| 8 | 35 |
The Turians, on the other hand, take in trade for their goods—obtained by manufacture or trade with other cities—principally the horn and hide of the bosk, which naturally the Wagon Peoples, who live on the bosk, have in plenty. |
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| 8 | 93 |
He was, of course, aware that no girl, Gorean or otherwise, could be expected to take lightly a sudden reduction to an abject and complete slavery, particularly considering what that would mean among the wagons. |
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| 8 | 98 |
I saw him take a slave whip from the wall and approach her, and then turn back and replace it on the wall. |
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| 8 | 632 |
"I will take you to Turia," said Kamchak. |
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| 9 | 19 |
Merchants also, in effect, arrange and administer the four great fairs that take place each year near the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 9 | 195 |
Even I, in spite of my preoccupation with the conversation of Kamchak and Saphrar, would have found it difficult, had I wished, to take my eyes from her. |
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| 9 | 380 |
"I will take it home with me," said Kamchak. |
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| 10 | 26 |
"Is it your wish," she asked, "that I run for the city?" She referred to a cruel sport of the young men of the wagons who sometimes take Turian slave girls to the sight of Turia's walls and then, loosening bola and thong, bid them run for the city. |
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| 10 | 51 |
"Take this," I said, "and go to Turia—find your people and be free". |
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| 10 | 140 |
I also knew a good training would take months, though much can be done with an intelligent girl in only a few weeks. |
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| 10 | 226 |
There was nothing living on Gor I knew that could take the impact of a tharlarion charge. |
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| 10 | 254 |
"Take the reins of my kaiila, Slave," she said to him, insolently throwing him the reins. |
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| 10 | 355 |
"I would like to take a look at this one," Kamchak was saying, jerking a thumb in the direction of Aphris of Turia. |
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| 10 | 367 |
"Let's take a look". |
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| 10 | 395 |
In short, in their various ways, something like seniority and skills determines, of two or more Turians, or two or more warriors of the Wagons, who will take the field. |
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| 10 | 463 |
"But how would I, a poor Tuchuk," Kamchak was moaning, "know anything of the sword?" "Then withdraw," said Kamras, loftily, "and I will take this Kassar wench slave to Turia". |
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| 11 | 19 |
"You will take what abuse any free person of the Wagon Peoples cares to inflict upon you," he said. |
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| 11 | 120 |
"What were you?" Then he turned his kaiila suddenly toward them and they would break and run screaming and laughing and then, like a flock of birds, take up once more the pursuit. |
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| 11 | 164 |
She tried to take Aphris by the arm. |
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| 11 | 196 |
The migrations of the forest hurlit and the horned gim do not take place until later in the spring. |
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| 11 | 348 |
"Take the quiva," said Kamchak. |
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| 11 | 350 |
"Take it," ordered Kamchak. |
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| 11 | 355 |
Aphris of Turia did so, defeated, kneeling before him and turning her head delicately to take the meat from his hand. |
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| 12 | 412 |
Kamchak, too, would not take his eyes from the woman. |
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| 12 | 418 |
Then he would take up a fist of chain, drawing her each time inches closer. |
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| 12 | 451 |
'She is yours! Take her! Keep her until tomorrow! Return her in the morning—when you are finished with her!'" Head down she laughed and sobbed. |
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| 13 | 152 |
"This is the first Omen," said Kamchak, "—the Omen to see if the Omens are propitious to take the Omens". |
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| 14 | 10 |
The bosk are hitched up and slaves, who might otherwise take advantage of the tumult, are chained. |
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| 16 | 68 |
I decided that I would nominate both Harold and myself for an Idiocy Scar and let the Tuchuks take their pick. |
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| 16 | 100 |
"After all, I can always visit the baths after we take the city". |
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| 16 | 101 |
"Take the city?" I asked. |
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| 16 | 123 |
"Take them to the House of Saphrar," said the first man. |
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| 16 | 314 |
The matter of the message collar had been a clever way of attempting to gain that end but, because of the shrewdness of Tuchuks, who seldom take anything at its face value, it had failed; they had then attempted to bring me down among the wagons with a Paravaci quiva, but that, too, had failed; I gr... |
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| 17 | 77 |
"If I succeed in slaying or escaping the monster in the pool," I said, casually, "I take it that I am then, of course, free". |
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| 18 | 19 |
The quiva had turned itself in my hand and my arm flew back, that I might take with me in my death the tormentor, Saphrar of Turia. |
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| 18 | 44 |
Then suddenly, the yellow, encircling cementlike substance had oozed from my limbs and I could take two or three free steps. |
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| 19 | 59 |
"It may take a moment to pick out one I like," he apologized. |
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| 19 | 60 |
"That is all right," I assured him, "take your time". |
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| 20 | 42 |
From time to time a tarn would descend or take flight from the roof of the keep. |
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| 20 | 70 |
"Here—take her!" "Very well," said the guard. |
10 |
| 20 | 96 |
"Hurry, take her!" The guard sheathed his sword. |
10 |
| 20 | 98 |
"Who are you?" "Do not ask questions," snapped Harold, "here is the girl—take her!" The guard shrugged and as he took Hereena from Harold I winced as the young man felled him with a blow that might have broken the skull of a bosk. |
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| 20 | 119 |
"Take the wench". |
10 |
| 21 | 48 |
As I entered I regarded the lofty double gates, and wondered how long it would take to close them. |
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| 21 | 115 |
Her father had refused to sell the shop to Saphrar's agents, and take his employment under the merchant. |
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| 21 | 196 |
"It will take time," she said, "and the walls are patrolled closely after sundown, and lit by torches". |
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| 21 | 205 |
I, of course, did not wish to wait a few days—or more—or however long it might take Ha-Keel to rest his men, square his accounts with Saphrar and depart. |
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| 21 | 311 |
"It would now be well," said Harold, "to take refuge under the wagon". |
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| 22 | 17 |
Do not take me wrong—I am rather fond, on the whole, of my hair—it is merely that one must, to be objective about such matters, recognize that it has, from time to time, involved me in various difficulties—beginning about my fourth year. |
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| 22 | 71 |
"As a commander," said Harold, "you may take what you want of any of this". |
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| 22 | 93 |
Take her back to her home and while we remain in the city, guard her with your lives". |
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| 22 | 152 |
"Take them away," he said, "put them in the Kes and chain them—put them to work". |
10 |
| 23 | 7 |
Harold and I would take a tarn each and he would go to the Kassars and I to the Kataii, begging their help. |
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| 23 | 81 |
The escaping Paravaci could now, on their kaiila, easily outdistance the herd and I did not wish the animals to be strung out over the prairie, at the mercy of the Paravaci when they should at last turn and take up the battle again. |
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| 23 | 90 |
"It will take the rider, if he gets through, seven Ahn to reach Turia and even if Kamchak rides with his full force the moment the rider comes to the gates of the city, it will be eight Ahn before their vanguard can reach us—and by then it will be too late". |
10 |
| 24 | 130 |
"It might take attention away from your hair," he mentioned. |
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| 25 | 244 |
"Can it be," she asked, "that the commander of a Tuchuk Thousand does not know what to do with a girl such as I?" I reached toward her, to take her into my arms, but I found the bowl of wine in my way, deftly so. |
10 |
| 25 | 277 |
"I will take care of the wagon," she said. |
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| 25 | 285 |
"If there is to be fighting tomorrow," she asked, "will you take part in it?" "Yes," I said, "I suppose so". |
10 |
| 26 | 65 |
It seemed to me that a full storming of the compound would take place within the Ahn. |
10 |
| 26 | 170 |
The young man did not move from his place, but set himself to take the charge of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 26 | 266 |
"Take me with you. |
10 |
| 26 | 444 |
"Do not tell me where it is," I said, "or I should feel bound to attempt to seize it and take it to the Sardar". |
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| 26 | 500 |
"Even," I said, "did you dare to sit upon it!" "I shall hope," chuckled Kamchak, "that the Priest-Kings will take no offense, but understand that such little bits of acting—rather well carried off, I think—were important parts of my deception". |
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| 26 | 502 |
"They will take little offense," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 80 |
"Take them," insisted Tenchika. |
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| 28 | 6 |
It would be at least another hour before I was ready to take wing for the Sardar, with the egg of Priest-Kings safe in the saddle pack of my tarn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 153 |
After each race Mip, in detail, would discuss my riding, making suggestions; before each race, he would explain to me what he knew of the habits of the riders and tarns I faced, which was almost invariably a great deal; he taught me to recognize for myself certain faults in other riders, certain exp... |
10 |
| 1 | 34 |
The procession and those who had been earlier at the pyre now stood back from it, some fifty yards or so, for the oil-impregnated wood will take the torch quickly and fiercely. |
10 |
| 2 | 236 |
"Perhaps it will take you time to find he whom you seek". |
10 |
| 2 | 296 |
A caravan of common slave wagons would take a year to go beyond the cities and return". |
10 |
| 2 | 298 |
"True," said Portus, "but commonly such raids take place on cylinders in given cities—the distances beyond the cities are great, and the prices paid for mere barbarian girls are less". |
10 |
| 3 | 24 |
Capturings of individual pieces and continuations take place much as in chess. |
10 |
| 3 | 193 |
The capture of the Player's Home Stone would take place on the next move. |
10 |
| 3 | 229 |
"May I take you to your home?" I asked. |
10 |
| 3 | 240 |
"You have won this! Take it!" I ran to him. |
10 |
| 4 | 227 |
The training, exhaustive and detailed, I knew would take months. |
10 |
| 5 | 284 |
"Sometimes it takes a quarter of an Ahn before the initial adjustments take place, basically the recognition that the sounds they spontaneously associate with the marks are actually the words of their language. |
10 |
| 5 | 425 |
Take the she with you. |
10 |
| 5 | 499 |
"I shall follow her," I said, "probably as a mercenary tarnsman, and attempt to take service with the House of Cernus". |
10 |
| 5 | 609 |
It was one day to Thentis by tarn, but in the wagon we knew the trip would take perhaps the better part of one of the twenty-five day Gorean months. |
10 |
| 5 | 617 |
I had decided to wait until the Fourth Passage Hand, that following En'Var, and then take tarn for Ar, where I would pose as a mercenary tarnsman seeking employment in the House of Cernus, but when the Warrior from Thentis, who resembled me, was slain early in En'Var, I decided to go to Ar in the gu... |
10 |
| 6 | 31 |
"Take yellow," he offered. |
10 |
| 7 | 169 |
On the other hand these men were slavers and not accustomed to take chances with merchandise. |
10 |
| 10 | 103 |
"I will take you to the pens now," he said. |
10 |
| 12 | 6 |
The next seven tarns, strung out, sped through the ring and wheeled in flight to take the next ring. |
10 |
| 12 | 105 |
The same perches that are used in starting the race, incidentally, are the perches which the tarns will take after the race. |
10 |
| 12 | 166 |
When she was permitted, later in her training, to leave the house more often, I was eager to take her to the races and the baths, though perhaps not to the Pool of Blue Flowers. |
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| 12 | 226 |
"Take off your clothes," she said. |
10 |
| 12 | 327 |
Take the others to cells of Red Silk". |
10 |
| 13 | 215 |
Take me to this place". |
10 |
| 13 | 233 |
There are few on Gor who will take their lives into their hands by confronting a Gorean Warrior. |
10 |
| 13 | 292 |
On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap... |
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| 13 | 294 |
"It will take time to accustom yourself to the harness". |
10 |
| 14 | 33 |
"You will take me to the Pool of Blue Flowers sometime, will you not?" "There are many lovely pools in the Capacian," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 34 |
"But you will take me to the Pool of Blue Flowers, won't you?" she asked. |
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| 14 | 45 |
"He has found numerous notes and maps, but it may take months to copy them. |
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| 15 | 184 |
They were the women of inferior men who had been unable to protect them; such men would be conquered when one wished; their women belonged to those who could take them, who would be the victorious; hence they were of slave stock, by nature; that this sort of thing had occurred always, and would alwa... |
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| 15 | 434 |
"Put him in chains," said Cernus, "and take him to the cylinder of Minus Tentius Hinrabius". |
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| 16 | 120 |
"I will take off the bracelets, but in order that you may attack me if you wish. |
10 |
| 16 | 245 |
"Take this," he said. |
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| 17 | 43 |
"Take off his clothes!" "Brand him!" "The whip!" "Put him in a collar!" "Now look here," I said. |
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| 17 | 238 |
It was true that Elizabeth was no longer needed in the House, nor had she been for a long time; Caprus had located the important materials and was copying them; I was needed, of course, to take the documents and Caprus from the house. |
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| 17 | 382 |
"It will take me from the sight of you! You black-haired, scarred—tarsk!" There were tears in her eyes. |
10 |
| 17 | 455 |
I assumed the agent of Priest-Kings, who would purchase the girls, might be eager to take them to the Sardar, or perhaps to Ko-ro-ba. |
10 |
| 17 | 616 |
I walked away from her and then took the slave goad from my wrist and hung it up again on its hook, where she might take it again if she wished. |
10 |
| 17 | 628 |
She looked at me blankly, and then, still clutching the doll, put out one hand, trembling, to take the bowl of wine from me. |
10 |
| 18 | 346 |
I passed through the level on which interrogations take place, the level of the kennels, and went lower in the cylinder, now far below ground, past even more iron pens and levels. |
10 |
| 18 | 366 |
I heard the guard take another swallow of the paga, a long swallow, and then he sat there again, holding the bottle. |
10 |
| 18 | 376 |
I put my hand on the bottle but he retained it long enough to take yet another swallow, and then two more, and then he reluctantly surrendered it. |
10 |
| 18 | 425 |
I returned to him; beneath the iron on his ankles and wrists, and on his throat, there were scars, like white bands, pale shadows of the dark metal; it would take months to form such scars, superseding the fearful sores that must first have been inflicted. |
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| 19 | 1 |
The Curulean The sale of Elizabeth Cardwell, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, with that of Cernus' other trained barbarians, did not take place on the first night of the Love Feast, though they had been transported to the cages of the Curulean early in the first day. |
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| 19 | 316 |
I found I wanted to take her in my arms and kiss the slave rouge from her mouth. |
10 |
| 19 | 418 |
"Is there a man here," asked Elizabeth, "who would not wish to take me in his arms?" The deafening response, "No!" shouted from thousands of voices, shook the amphitheater. |
10 |
| 19 | 479 |
"Take him away," said Cernus. |
10 |
| 20 | 163 |
"Take them both away," he said. |
10 |
| 20 | 306 |
She could not take her eyes from the boy. |
10 |
| 21 | 72 |
Should I not take my saddle this afternoon there would be few in Ar but would suppose that I had succumbed to fear. |
10 |
| 21 | 103 |
"Take dear Vancius," she was saying, "bind his wrists and ankles, and put him in a slave hood, one with a gag. |
10 |
| 21 | 280 |
This permits the men in reserve to move into the forward line to form a solid line, or, if the first line withdraws, to have space to take its place. |
10 |
| 22 | 135 |
Menicius, I saw, savagely dragged his bird back to the center of the flight path, cursing, realizing how Mip had waited to take advantage of his momentary surrender of the center. |
10 |
| 23 | 169 |
I let him reach the door, jerk it open, take his stumbling flight up the stairs, into the passage. |
10 |
| 24 | 128 |
"He tried to take refuge in the private compartments of Cernus". |
10 |
| 24 | 418 |
Why had this been done to me? Was this the reward for my services? And what of Elizabeth? Was it that Marlenus had looked upon her and so pleasing did he find her that he had decreed that she be reserved for the very Pleasure Gardens of the Ubar of Ar himself, to serve him as a silken wench, one of ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 201 |
"It will take long, will it not," I asked, "for barges so heavily laden to reach Port Kar?" "Yes," she said, startled, "it will take long". |
10 |
| 15 | 590 |
Doubtless she had expected to receive that kiss standing in the swirling love silks of the Free Companion, beneath golden love lamps, beside the couch of the Ubar of Cos; but it was not in the white, marbled palace of the Ubar of Cos that that kiss was to take place; and it was not to be received as... |
10 |
| 1 | 57 |
The bargemen of the Vosk will not take their wide, broad-bottomed craft into the delta. |
10 |
| 1 | 81 |
The best paper is on the outside of the roll, always, not to practice deceit in the quality of the roll but rather to have the most durable paper on the outside, which will take the most weathering, handling and general wear. |
10 |
| 2 | 44 |
"Take him!" she cried. |
10 |
| 2 | 46 |
It was pointless to unsheath my sword, or to take up a weapon. |
10 |
| 3 | 313 |
Take these ropes from his neck". |
10 |
| 5 | 166 |
I saw that more than one fellow, handsome, strong-faced, could not take his eyes from Telima. |
10 |
| 6 | 121 |
He would take no chances of the loss of such a prize. |
10 |
| 6 | 200 |
Then I saw another island take fire, one far to the right. |
10 |
| 7 | 110 |
She had now come closer to me, as I had indicated she should, and stood now where, if I wished, I might take her in my grasp. |
10 |
| 7 | 162 |
I would take rence from the island, and marsh vine, and make myself a rence craft. |
10 |
| 7 | 167 |
She, too, would make a craft, take a pole, and find her way deeper into the delta, doubtless to be accepted by another of the small rence communities. |
10 |
| 7 | 170 |
I saw her take one of the bodies by an arm and drag it toward the shore. |
10 |
| 7 | 186 |
She reached to take him. |
10 |
| 8 | 76 |
And when some growth had been cleared and an oar-master would dare to take his seat to call the time for rowers he, too, like the helmsmen, would taste in his heart the touch of the metal-piled shaft. |
10 |
| 8 | 77 |
And then none would dare take the place of the oar-master. |
10 |
| 8 | 116 |
With the noose of marsh vine I dragged him over the side of the hull, lowering him into the marsh, holding him until I felt the tharlarion take him from me, drawing him away. |
10 |
| 8 | 136 |
From the other direction I heard another voice ordering men forward, commanding his warriors to take the boarders in the flank. |
10 |
| 8 | 203 |
I did not take up the shield, for in climbing it would have encumbered me. |
10 |
| 8 | 320 |
"I have you all," I told her, "and the slaves at the benches as well! If I wish, I will take you all to Port Kar, as you are, and sell you. |
10 |
| 8 | 484 |
"Take him away!" I ordered Thurnock and Clitus, and they dragged Ho-Hak from my presence, taking him back somewhere on the second barge, among other bound slaves. |
10 |
| 8 | 524 |
"Build a raft," I said, "large enough for food and water, and more than two men, and what we might find here that we might wish to take with us". |
10 |
| 8 | 675 |
Thurnock then took the same long length of binding fiber, one end of which I had fastened about Midice's neck, and, without cutting it, looped and knotted it about the neck of the large, blond, gray-eyed girl, handing the coil then to Clitus, who indicated that the short rence girl should take her p... |
10 |
| 8 | 696 |
"As I recall," she said, "you are going to take us all to Port Kar, to be sold as slaves". |
10 |
| 8 | 770 |
"A slave," I informed her, "will take whatever abuse a free person chooses to inflict upon them". |
10 |
| 8 | 802 |
"Or," I said, "take you and show you well the meaning of a collar!" "Yes," she smiled, "or that". |
10 |
| 8 | 806 |
"I should take you," I said, "and break your spirit!" "Yes," she said, "I expect you could do that, if you wished". |
10 |
| 9 | 161 |
And even should she, somehow, fall, her men need only take ship, and then, when it pleased them, return, ordering slaves again to build in the delta a city called Port Kar. |
10 |
| 9 | 191 |
"You have no right," said she, "to take me from this world. |
10 |
| 9 | 194 |
"You will not take this world from me!" she cried. |
10 |
| 10 | 178 |
This is not to say that they would have any objection to being rich; it is only to remark, in effect, that it has never occurred to them, no more than to most Goreans, to take very seriously the pursuit of wealth as their universal and compelling motivation; being ignorant, it seems, they, like most... |
10 |
| 11 | 87 |
At the far edge of the piazza, in one of the bordering canals, nosing forward to take a berth between two tiled piers, we saw a ram-ship, medium class. |
10 |
| 11 | 295 |
"Take down these men," he said, "and keep them chained. |
10 |
| 11 | 340 |
"Perhaps," said Samos, "their lives may be spared, that they may take their seat on the benches of the public round ships". |
10 |
| 11 | 358 |
"Be it known to you, Ubars," said he, "that Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, now proposes to the council that it take into its own hands the full and sole governance of the city of Port Kar, with full powers, whether of policy and decree, of enforcement, of taxation and law, or other, pertinent to t... |
10 |
| 11 | 532 |
"Further," said Samos, "it should be one who has proved that he can take action, and who has in the past well served the council". |
10 |
| 12 | 104 |
I gestured for one of the men-at-arms to take him up and carry him away, which he did. |
10 |
| 13 | 36 |
"I shall then take my leave," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 136 |
"When will the gathering take place?" I asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 205 |
Then, with treasure ships, we shall return in festive voyage to the harbor of Telnus, where I shall take the arm of Lurius and with him drink the cup of the Free Companionship". |
10 |
| 13 | 213 |
"Take him away," cried Lurius, leaning forward in the throne, fists clenched upon its arms. |
10 |
| 13 | 422 |
I motioned that he might now take my oar. |
10 |
| 13 | 435 |
"Take the key," I said, "and release the other slaves". |
10 |
| 14 | 58 |
And this does not even take into consideration the longer, larger oar possible with the projecting rowing frame. |
10 |
| 14 | 122 |
I wanted it to appear that the other ships must take their cue to action from our own, as though, in fear and confusion, we had not even signaled them. |
10 |
| 14 | 250 |
I had little doubt that the Dorna, a somewhat lighter ship, with better lines and shorter keel, would be more responsive to her helm than the other ship and that, sooner or later, as the circles grew smaller, she would be able to wheel and take her foe in the stern quarter or amidships. |
10 |
| 14 | 260 |
"Helmsmen," said I, "take your course four points to starboard". |
10 |
| 14 | 272 |
"Helmsmen," said I, "take your course now for the treasure fleet of Cos and Tyros". |
10 |
| 14 | 351 |
"Take him away," I told my men. |
10 |
| 14 | 407 |
"Take then those that were with her," I said, "and distribute them to the extent of their number among our other ships, the twenty most beautiful to our twenty tarn ships now with the fleet, and the most beautiful of that twenty to the prow of the Dorna, and the other twenty set at the prows of twen... |
10 |
| 14 | 487 |
"Take the admiral away," I said to Thurnock. |
10 |
| 15 | 33 |
I was Bosk, who could do as he pleased, who could take what he wanted. |
10 |
| 15 | 62 |
"Take this lady," said I to them, "in a long boat to the largest of the round ships, one rowed by captured officers of the treasure fleet, and chain her there, with other treasures, in the rowing hold". |
10 |
| 15 | 87 |
"When the treasures have been checked, tallied, and appraised, which should take some four or five weeks," I told her, "you, with your maidens, in the chains of slave girls, will be displayed, together with samples of, and full accountings of, the other treasures, before the Council of Captains". |
10 |
| 15 | 696 |
"Take her," I said to Tab. |
10 |
| 15 | 699 |
"Take her away!" I screamed. |
10 |
| 16 | 148 |
"Take your ships and what men are left to you," said Telima. |
10 |
| 16 | 196 |
We had not expected the launching of the fleet to take place until the spring. |
10 |
| 16 | 208 |
"There is only one thing to do," he said, "and that is to ready our ships, take our treasure and slaves aboard, and flee. |
10 |
| 16 | 209 |
We are strong, and may take an island for our own, one of the northern islands. |
10 |
| 16 | 288 |
"Ubar," I heard, and I turned to take Telima in my arms. |
10 |
| 17 | 41 |
Each of my fifty sets of attacking tarn ships would be followed, by some half of an Ahn, by another pair of my tarn ships, which, hopefully, would be able to take a number of these come-about ships of Cos and Tyros from the rear. |
10 |
| 17 | 70 |
The common strategy with a round ship is to shear and board, because, normally, one wishes not to sink the ship but take it as a prize. |
10 |
| 17 | 72 |
And if the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros should use their rams, we hoped that, in the moments it would take to disengage the ram, the grappling irons and the grappling bridges might be brought into play. |
10 |
| 17 | 133 |
The lateen-rigged galley, whether a round ship or a ram-ship, although it can furl its sail, cannot well let out and take in sail; it is not a square-rigged craft; accordingly she carries different sails for different conditions; the yard itself, from the mast, is lowered and hoisted, sails being re... |
10 |
| 17 | 252 |
It is extremely difficult to take a tarn far out over the water. |
10 |
| 17 | 331 |
Why would one who had been a tarnsman of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, let one of Treve, a traditional enemy, take the saddle of a tarn before him? It would not do, of course, to tell him this. |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
"Take this prisoner," I told an officer, "and chain him below decks. |
10 |
| 18 | 117 |
How else, I asked myself, had he been able to take an oar on the longboat in the canals when I had gone to the hall of the Council of Captains, or been able to board the Dorna, or taken his place in the longboat that had ferried me to the round ship? I, too, was not unfond of the boy. |
10 |
| 18 | 173 |
Not speaking, I motioned that he should take his place at the side of the entryway to the great hall, where he might not be seen. |
10 |
| 18 | 328 |
Before nightfall doubtless more assaults would take place, and, in the first, or the second, or in another, we would surely fall. |
10 |
| 18 | 417 |
"He said," said she, "take this slave away". |
10 |
| 18 | 421 |
Guards who had formerly protected me would now, as they chose, take me in their arms, and I must well serve them or be beaten". |
10 |
| 18 | 430 |
I lived only for my hate and the dream that I might one day escape, and take vengeance on men". |
10 |
| 18 | 824 |
"Yes," said Samos, "and you were permitted to take the golden armlet, that Ho-Hak, with his men, would recognize you in the marshes". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 107 |
I made a rare phone call to my mother a few weeks after my graduation, thinking it might be interesting to take up modeling. |
10 |
| 6 | 149 |
I'm rich, and I assure you that if you take me there, you will be well rewarded". |
10 |
| 6 | 341 |
I could not take my eyes from the straps. |
10 |
| 7 | 156 |
That he might take it away if irritated, or dissatisfied with us, made us that the more eager to please him. |
10 |
| 7 | 443 |
They take her by the arms and command her to look into their eyes; then, if she is ready, so soon, in her eyes, frightened and tear-filled, they can see the slave longing for her collar, begging for it. |
10 |
| 8 | 389 |
There I would be leashed with the others again, the burdens would be redistributed, I would take up my share, and, carrying my burden as a slave girl, on the head, balancing it with one hand, I and the others, under guard, would return to the compound. |
10 |
| 8 | 569 |
I wondered if he would take me with him on journeys and sometimes, where no one could see, walking in the fields, though I were slave, hold my hand. |
10 |
| 8 | 635 |
"How different you are," exclaimed Ute, "since you have come to us!" "Do you think, El-in-or," asked Inge, "that I, though of the Scribes, might give pleasure to a man?" "Take off your camisk," I told her, "and I will assess you". |
10 |
| 8 | 677 |
Its mouth was huge, large enough to take a man's head into it, and it was rimmed with two rows of stout fangs. |
10 |
| 8 | 807 |
It has two players, who take alternate turns. |
10 |
| 8 | 998 |
"Targo would take my hide off to the backbone," he muttered. |
10 |
| 8 | 1185 |
If we wished, we would take you into the forests and teach you what it is to be a slave!" As she spoke she jabbed at them with her spear, and a stain of blood was brought through the fabric of more than one tunic. |
10 |
| 9 | 7 |
They stopped only long enough to lift aside some branches and take up the light spears, and bows and arrows, which they had hidden there. |
10 |
| 9 | 110 |
"The place of which of these," asked Verna, "will you take?" "I do not understand," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 119 |
"Whose place will you take?" asked Verna. |
10 |
| 10 | 27 |
I could not take my eyes from the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 321 |
"But, unfortunately for us, your capture was effected by slavers, and they wished to take you south for a better price. |
10 |
| 11 | 70 |
"Please!" "Take this slave away," said Targo. |
10 |
| 11 | 135 |
It was still dangerous, however, to take caravans to Turia. |
10 |
| 11 | 321 |
The only thing that I did not take into my considerations was the Gorean male. |
10 |
| 11 | 323 |
The only thing I failed to take into my calculations was that the Gorean male, whether by culture or genetic endowment, is unlike the typical man of Earth. |
10 |
| 11 | 342 |
Perhaps Targo wished to take our minds from the events of the morning. |
10 |
| 11 | 620 |
In acknowledgment of my skills, perhaps, Lana began to take me into her confidence, and, though I hated her, I became her friend. |
10 |
| 11 | 838 |
I wished to take this further precaution against leaving a trail behind me, a stain of odor on a twig, a dampness of perspiration on a leaf. |
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| 11 | 1098 |
Victorious, they roar with laughter and, hauling on the one-straps of their tarn harness, take flight. |
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| 11 | 1129 |
He would capture, and take by force, those that pleased him. |
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| 11 | 1131 |
On the other hand, if it should please him, it was said he could take a girl who was already slave and make her more a slave than a slave. |
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| 12 | 723 |
If he is a young tarnsman, and she is his first girl, he will take her back to his own city, and display her for his family and friends, and she will dance for him, and serve him, at the Collaring Feast. |
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| 12 | 724 |
If he is a brutal tarnsman, he may take her rudely, should he wish, above the clouds, above her own city, before even his tarn has left its walls. |
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| 13 | 64 |
"Ute, take me with you!" My hands now poised themselves over the silverish body in the water before me. |
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| 13 | 97 |
"We will take it". |
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| 13 | 438 |
"We must take it down quickly". |
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| 14 | 695 |
I saw him take an object from a warrior at his side. |
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| 15 | 261 |
"El-in-or," said Ute, "take these new slaves and get them work tunics, and then return them to me, and I shall assign them their duties for the day". |
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| 15 | 588 |
"Cry out," said Ute, "and the others will take you from him and get him a red-silk girl". |
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| 15 | 851 |
I saw Ute, through the slit, take one of the insects and bite it in two, eating it. |
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| 15 | 974 |
There was only one thing left to me, in which I might take pride, that I was not as other women. |
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| 15 | 1063 |
"Take off your tunic," said Ute. |
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| 17 | 74 |
We had begun to take long walks beyond the palisade, hand in hand. |
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| 17 | 135 |
He would take every shred of dignity or pride from me, as though a slave girl might be permitted either, and turn me into a thrashing, begging, maddened animal, a woman in heat, the lowest sort of female, a slab of worthless, helpless, writhing, enflamed, kicking slave meat. |
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| 17 | 275 |
"Take wine to the table!" Numbly, shaking, I took the vessel of wine. |
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| 17 | 303 |
There are generally other girls, collared girls, only too eager to take her place. |
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| 17 | 423 |
"Were you in a place where they could have you when they wished, and yet not seem to own you, nor risk identifying themselves with you prematurely, lest others take note?" "For months," I said, "I served as a slave in a paga tavern". |
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| 17 | 473 |
Bosk, I am told, set my price at twenty pieces of gold, that he might, as a merchant, take his profit on me. |
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| 18 | 18 |
I am not eager to take it up again. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 |
He did not take the Ubar's Tarnsman with his Spearman. |
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| 1 | 319 |
"She will take whatever name I give her," said Rim. |
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| 1 | 323 |
"Take him," said Samos, "to one of the large rooms, well appointed, in which we lodge slavers of high rank, of distant cities". |
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| 2 | 247 |
"Since we are friends, and have known one another for many years, Rim," began Arn, affably, "I am willing to let these two beauties go for ten pieces of gold apiece, nineteen if you take the pair, as they are". |
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| 2 | 270 |
"Perhaps you could take them to Lydius, and sell them there," suggested Rim. |
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| 2 | 481 |
"Take the slaves," she said. |
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| 2 | 524 |
"Take the two male slaves below, to the first hold," I said. |
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| 2 | 548 |
In the usual Gorean galley, lateen rigged, there is no practical way to take in, or shorten, sail, as with many types of square-rigged craft. |
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| 2 | 675 |
* * * * "Take the chains from their necks," I told a seaman. |
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| 2 | 695 |
"Take them to the lower hold," I said. |
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| 2 | 715 |
I did not think it would take long for the girls to discover that they were not alone in the lower hold. |
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| 3 | 150 |
I reached to my pouch, to take from it a golden tarn and throw it to them. |
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| 3 | 417 |
"Take her and chain her in the first hold," I said. |
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| 4 | 288 |
Now you take your vengeance on me". |
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| 5 | 92 |
"Take it to the kitchen area," I told her. |
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| 5 | 134 |
I did not wish to be inconvenienced by the amount of time, a day or so, it might take to have her once more in my chains. |
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| 5 | 335 |
"Take her". |
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| 5 | 341 |
"Take her below," I said, "and chain her in the first hold". |
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| 6 | 89 |
On the map, as nearly as we could, we traced, with various straight lines, what we would take to be the path to Verna's camp and dancing circle. |
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| 6 | 94 |
It is, doubtless, important to her that he do so, to accord with her plans, those plans by means of which she hopes to take vengeance upon him for her former capture and humiliation". |
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| 6 | 181 |
"Then," I said, "we shall have no choice but to take Talena by force". |
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| 6 | 252 |
I did not expect it would take long for Verna's girls to pick her up. |
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| 6 | 304 |
And who knew what political occurrences might take place in Port Kar? I was popular in the city. |
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| 6 | 324 |
We had made one alteration in our original plans, an alteration to take into account the arrival in Laura of the Rhoda of Tyros. |
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| 6 | 470 |
"We will take four arrow points for her," said the girl, "for returning her to you". |
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| 6 | 522 |
"If you obtained her," said Mira, "would you sell her back to Marlenus of Ar, for even more?" "It is not my intention," I said, "to take a profit on her". |
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| 6 | 888 |
"Take her to the wall," I said, "to where she is chained for the night in the sand". |
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| 6 | 942 |
"Yes," she said, "or slay me—should it please you!" "But I am a merchant," I said, "I would not wish to take the loss. |
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| 6 | 1070 |
Then I reached out to take her head in my hands. |
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| 7 | 41 |
She would take her place at my side. |
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| 7 | 306 |
The panther can climb, but it is accustomed to take its hunting scents from the ground. |
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| 7 | 374 |
* * * * "Take this captive," I told Rim, "back to the Tesephone". |
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| 8 | 14 |
There is more glory to take more slaves with fewer men. |
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| 8 | 19 |
We would take them easily. |
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| 8 | 45 |
One of the most delicate modes of enslavement, and requiring great skill, is to enter the stockade of the panther girls under the cover of darkness and then, one by one, hut by hut, following the sound of their breathing, to take them. |
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| 8 | 92 |
Still, I did not wish to take the chance that we might have missed them, or, even, that they might have withdrawn before our examination of the area, intending to return when we might be within the stockade. |
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| 8 | 110 |
"Let us sit down and take council," I suggested. |
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| 8 | 130 |
I did not know how long it would take for Hura, and her band, to reach our area of the forests. |
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| 8 | 137 |
Then, when they had tied shut the gate behind them, we would leap forth and take them, within their own stockade. |
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| 9 | 37 |
Yet she did not permit me to take my eyes from her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 113 |
"Let us take her!" "We shall take her," said the captain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 437 |
"Take it off! Take it off!" "No," said Msaliti. |
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| 24 | 238 |
'Take me into the canoe!" "You are where I want you," he said, "where the tharlarion may take you, within my sight". |
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| 34 | 977 |
"There are many ways to take a woman," I told her, "even many ways to take her without mercy". |
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| 43 | 46 |
"Save me! Save me! Take pity on me! I have been left here to die! Take pity on me! Save me! Please, save me!" "Have mercy on her, Master, please," begged Janice. |
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| 49 | 93 |
"Quickly," I said, "take the canoe to the left, take shelter upon that river island!" We took the canoe quickly to a narrow river island, almost a wooded bar, on either side of which, placidly, flowed the Ua. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 321 |
"If the slavers of Gor have decided to take you, my dear," I said, "they certainly will not sit about waiting for you to take a trip to the Caribbean". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 297 |
"It would take a hundred siege ships, and ten thousand men to take the stronghold of Policrates," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 133 |
Some, however, had been put in little more than scraps or twists of cloth, or shreds of rags, such as those on the body of the auburn-haired beauty in which Miles of Vonda had seemed to take an interest and on the body of the small, exquisite brunette of whom I had deigned to take note. |
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| 17 | 539 |
"Please! Please! Take me! Have me! Take me!" I then took her, and, almost instantly, in helpless spasms, sobbing, in joy, she cried out her slave's submission to me. |
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| 17 | 768 |
"Take me, take me!" she begged. |
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| 20 | 1067 |
"Oh, Master," begged Florence, "please take me home, and use me! Please, my Master, take me home, and use me!" "It has been a pleasant evening," grinned Miles of Vonda, rising to his feet. |
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| 20 | 1723 |
"Have me! Have me! Take me! Take me! Be ruthless with me! I am a woman, and your slave! Make of me naught but a despised instrument of your pleasure!" "Is that what you want?" "Yes, Master! Yes, Master!" Could this be the former Miss Henderson, of Earth? How she reminded me of the helpless sluts in ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 355 |
Gorean slave breeders, perhaps benighted in this respect, prefer what they take to be health to what they think of as sickness, and what they take to be strength to what they deem weakness. |
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| 11 | 289 |
"If you take her, however," he said, "take her, the first time, with gentleness". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 65 |
Some highly intelligent men who hold reading and writing in contempt, however unreasonably, enjoy buying a sophisticated, beautiful, literate slave girl, once of high caste, and take great pleasure in ruthlessly mastering every cell in her beautiful body; though literate, and doubtless initially con... |
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| 7 | 48 |
"I must simply lie there—" "And take your punishment—?" "Yes, and take my punishment—" "As a slave—?" "Yes," she said, "—as a slave". |
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| 7 | 902 |
"Else I might take the warpath, to take you, to bring you back to my lodge as a naked slave". |
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| 15 | 180 |
"Tomorrow," cried Hci, angrily, pointing his finger at Canka, "my father will take the woman! Tomorrow, by noon, he will take her from you, for the Yellow Knives!" He then, in fury, turned about and strode between the lodges. |
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| 54 | 70 |
"What name will you take? Have you chosen one?" "Will you take again your old name?" asked Canka. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 534 |
"That way," he said, "they may take you for a mere slave, perhaps not worth the time it might take to put you in a noose and conduct you to a sales point, and me for a poor merchant, perhaps not worth robbing. |
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| 9 | 465 |
"For example, I might wish to take you—" "Take me?" she asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 243 |
"You take her left hand and I will take her right," said Hurtha. |
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| 19 | 350 |
I kept an eye on the so-called Philebus, lest he take this opportunity to take to his heels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 203 |
"They deserve to have us take their world from them, to be thrust aside with words and writs, to be superseded by contrived legalities, to be relegated by statutes and slogans to the peripheries of power, to become trammeled, and crippled, and incapable of action, like tied sheep, bleating contented... |
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| 3 | 205 |
If they did want us why did they not take us, and make us theirs? I wondered, then, if there were a different sort of men, somewhere, the sort of men who might want us, truly, and take us, and make us theirs. |
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| 29 | 205 |
"Are you mad? To whom will you sell these pot girls, if not to us? Will you take these two back to Vacchi, to see if he will buy them back? Will you take the other three back to Venna?" "Deal with us fairly," said the small man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 984 |
"If I take you with me," I said, "I will take you with me utterly conditionlessly". |
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| 19 | 1236 |
How pleasant it is to make women slaves! How pleasant it is to light the slave fires in their bellies! And how different they then are, so transformed! Or is it cruel to kindle such fire within them, to so enflame their delicious symmetries, to take them out of themselves and turn them into somethin... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 23 |
"Take me from them! Hide me! Glory to the Delta Brigade!" None in the crowd, it seemed, dared echo this sentiment, but there was no mistaking its mood, one of sympathy for the fellow, and of anger toward the mercenaries, and there was a very definite possibility, one thing leading to another, that i... |
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| 22 | 388 |
"Take me home! Take me home!" she wept. |
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| 24 | 163 |
To be sure, Goreans tend to take their free women very seriously, though perhaps not as seriously as the free women are inclined to take themselves. |
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| 27 | 527 |
"Tell that slave to take off my clothing! How dare a slave wear such things! Let her be beaten or slain! Tell her to take them off!" "I think she will attract little attention in the streets," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1352 |
This is perhaps not so different from my old world, except that here women do not vend themselves, and take their own profit, but are rather vended by others, who take the profit on them. |
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| 11 | 1432 |
They preferred, it seemed, to take their women, perhaps to stalk them with stealth, as game, then to spring the nets or snares at some time of their choosing, some moment of unsuspected ripeness, or to seize them in capture strike, or to take them by theft, perhaps roping and gagging them in their o... |
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| 14 | 205 |
That is what I think of your condition, and what you really are, you free females! Take away your veils and robes, and we shall see what you are! There, see, you are no more than we, only more slaves! Yes, perhaps I had chanced to yield, to some extent, to the temptation to take a little vengeance o... |
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| 37 | 120 |
"Here, take scent, take scent". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 275 |
"But you never touched me, Master! Take me! Take me now! Take your slave! But you did not touch me, Master, why? Why?" "It was a test, slave girl," said he, "and you failed it miserably!" "How a test, Master?" "I thought I would give you some laxity, to see if you could handle it, to see what you we... |
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| 11 | 968 |
I am yours! I am ready! Be merciless! Be ruthless! Take me! Take me! "Perhaps you were curious," he said, "as to the modalities of discourse required of you at supper this evening," he said. |
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| 20 | 478 |
If we take her back to the village, they will take her away from us". |
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| 20 | 627 |
Toward dusk we will take a wagon, pick her up, and take her to the camp. |
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| 25 | 624 |
"Take pity on me!" "I will take pity on you with a whip!" called a fellow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 288 |
Amongst Goreans, though one may use a slave as carelessly, as thoughtlessly, and indifferently as one might take a drink of water, as one might take a belt to her flanks, as one might, the need on one, cuff her to her knees, it is common to take one's time with her, often a morning or an afternoon, ... |
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| 43 | 442 |
"Take it off, take it off!" she cried. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 70 |
What a liar was the collared slut! Could she have truly risked the switch, that she might be longer in my view? That she might be longer in my presence, that she might be nearer to me, that she might, for a time, in effect, despite the breadth of the deck and the height of the high watch, be alone w... |
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| 21 | 393 |
"Now coffle us," said one of the slaves, "by metal, by wrist, neck, or ankle! Take us ashore, chained! We will not escape! We cannot escape! We are ready! You have made us so! We beg only haste! You need not take us to the grass, or the high, dry beach! Cast us to the wet, drenched sand, use us, if ... |
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| 36 | 496 |
Some Warriors take pride in their inability to read, regarding that skill as unworthy of them, as being more appropriate to record keepers, tradesmen, clerks, and such, and some who can read take pains to conceal the fact. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 242 |
I extended my head to him, to take the bit of sandwich, but he drew it back, a little, so that I must reach farther forward to take it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 72 |
How I hated him, and all men, the masterful beasts who would take us in hand, own us, and do with us as they pleased! I stared after him, angrily, the callous brute, so tall and strong, with that easy, unhurried walk, the proud, high gaze before which men might take pause, the broad back, the narrow... |
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| 49 | 150 |
"Most take the road they are told to take". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 284 |
"Do you not see what has been done to me? Take me out of this terrible place! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen! A pen! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen for slaves, for slaves! Do you not know what is done with us here, what is expected of us, what we must do! Do you not understand the dirt, ... |
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| 9 | 5 |
Too, somehow, over the last two or three days, rumors had circulated in the camp of Yamada, rumors which, I supposed, only Pani would take seriously, but rumors which, indeed, they might take seriously. |
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| 20 | 608 |
Take now your chains of gold and assure your compatriots of the cavalry that as much or more awaits them when they take to the saddle in the name of Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
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| 49 | 184 |
Surely, eventually, an inquiry would take place when the Ashigaru who had conducted the slave to my chamber failed to report back to his station, but I did not expect this to take place immediately. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 441 |
"Take it away! Take it away!" she cried. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 255 |
Free women, in their unwonted arrogance, in their unwarranted, unconscionable, preposterous vanity, in their well-recognized stupidity, commonly take themselves to be far more beautiful than slaves, but it is difficult to assess this claim, even if one were to take it seriously, given the common imp... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 136 |
Take us aboard!" "I shall take the matter under consideration," I said. |
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| 32 | 21 |
What I did expect to take place, and what did take place, with various disorganized groups of the raiders, other than simple, precipitate flight, was either forming shield rings, circles of shields, which, in effect, immobilizes the group, or counterattacks in which the beleaguered group rushes into... |
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| 48 | 100 |
"Take this carrion," said Thrasymedes, "put it in a cart, take it to the beach, get it on a boat, and see that it is disposed of at sea". |
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