| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 99 |
An enormous slab, perhaps fifty feet square, had slid upward and backward, revealing a great, dim, squarish tunnel beyond, a tunnel large enough for a flying tarn. |
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| 18 | 15 |
I must find that pit and tunnel, somehow fight my way to his side, enlist his support. |
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| 18 | 102 |
Turning it, I closed the great gate behind me, thinking it wise to protect the secret of the tunnel as long as possible. |
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| 18 | 103 |
Inside, the tunnel, though dim, was not altogether dark, being lit by domelike, wire-protected energy bulbs, spaced in pairs every hundred yards or so. |
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| 18 | 108 |
The first time I hauled on the one-strap, the bird would not move; the second time he lifted into flight, almost immediately scraping the ceiling of the tunnel with his wings, protesting shrilly. |
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| 18 | 110 |
Then, to my pleasure, instead of alighting, the tarn dropped a few feet down from the ceiling and began to streak through the tunnel, the energy bulbs flashing past me to form in my wake a gleaming chain of light. |
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| 18 | 111 |
The end of the tunnel widened into a vast chamber, lit by hundreds of energy bulbs. |
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| 19 | 5 |
The secret of the tunnel would be kept. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 154 |
The first man on the chain had now ascended the tunnel to the very source of the water, another tunnel. |
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| 18 | 167 |
In perhaps another two or three minutes I had reached the horizontal tunnel down which the tumult of the water had been fed into the vertical tunnel. |
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| 10 | 50 |
I was dimly conscious of being seized by the mouth of some large animal and being tugged through a round tunnel-like opening. |
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| 10 | 52 |
My breath had been driven from me, the tunnel allowed me no room to move. |
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| 10 | 55 |
For some time the animal, moving backwards, its prey seized in its jaws, scrambled through the tunnel. |
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| 10 | 56 |
It dragged me in a series of quick, vicious jerks through the tunnel, scraping me on its stone walls, lacerating me, ripping my tunic. |
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| 10 | 64 |
The whip cracked again, and another command was uttered, and the animal, its long hairless tail lashing in frustration, slunk into another tunnel. |
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| 17 | 75 |
As the slave works the tunnel, he crawls on his hands and knees, which bleed at first but gradually develop calluses of thick, scabrous tissue. |
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| 18 | 143 |
In the tunnel it rose to our ankles. |
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| 18 | 144 |
Then the first man on the chain supported his own weight, and the second, chains rattling, began to ascend the vertical tunnel, supported by he who was third, who now stood on the back of the fourth man, and so it continued. |
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| 18 | 145 |
Once the second man slipped, dragging the first down with him, and causing the third to lose his grip, but by now there was a solid chain of men in the tunnel, and the fourth and the fifth men held. |
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| 18 | 147 |
The water was perhaps two feet high in the cell, pressing upward toward the low ceiling, when I followed Andreas into the tunnel. |
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| 18 | 149 |
Andreas, Kron and I were in the tunnel, but what of the poor wretches on the chain behind us? I looked up the long shaft, at the line of slaves moving upward, inch by inch. |
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| 18 | 157 |
"Drag the last men into the tunnel!" I yelled. |
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| 18 | 173 |
At last each man of the chain was within the horizontal tunnel, though the last four men had of necessity been dragged to its level, for they hung limp in their chains. |
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| 18 | 182 |
Leading them in two lines, shackled behind me, we crawled down the horizontal tunnel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 33 |
Mul-Al-Ka swung the transportation disk suddenly down a side tunnel and, accelerating fiercely, flowed like sound down the tunnel for several portals and then stepped off the accelerator strips and, as the disk slowed and stopped, brought it neatly to rest at a tall steel portal. |
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| 28 | 18 |
And as I waited on the still disk in the darkness, my weapon ready, I suddenly saw far down the tunnel the sudden blue flash of an opened Mul-Torch and then its steady blaze, and then I saw another flash and blaze and another and to my amazement it seemed that these fires hung from the very ceiling ... |
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| 4 | 4 |
The passage was lit with energy bulbs, of the sort which I had encountered in the tunnel of Marlenus which led beneath the walls of Ar. |
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| 18 | 11 |
One afternoon, as I judged by the feeding times, for the energy bulbs always keep the Nest of Priest-Kings at a constant level of illumination, Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta and I were swiftly passing through one tunnel on my transportation disk. |
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| 18 | 18 |
I stiffened on the transportation disk and it nearly ran into the wall of the tunnel. |
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| 18 | 44 |
I swung the transportation disk in a graceful arc to one side of the tunnel to avoid running into a crablike organism covered with overlapping plating and then swung the disk back in another sweeping arc to avoid slicing into a stalking Priest-King who lifted his antennae quizzically as we shot past... |
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| 18 | 56 |
The disk flowed on down the tunnel. |
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| 18 | 64 |
The fact that I had nearly thrown myself and my two passengers off the disk at high speed onto the flooring of the tunnel did not occur to me at the time. |
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| 20 | 10 |
Mul-Al-Ka stepped on the accelerator strips and guided the disk from the vicinity of Misk's portal and out into the broad, smooth thoroughfare of the tunnel. |
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| 20 | 11 |
The disk flowed silently down the tunnel on its wide gaseous tread. |
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| 20 | 12 |
The air of the tunnel moved against us and the portals we passed slid behind in a soft blur. |
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| 24 | 47 |
Now, scrambling after me in the tunnel, I could hear the approach of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 27 | 38 |
I checked the sword in its sheath and left Misk's compartment, stepped to the transportation disk and swept silently, rapidly, down the tunnel in the direction in which I knew lay the Chamber of the Mother. |
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| 27 | 59 |
I quickly turned the disk down a side tunnel and began to hunt for a ventilator shaft. |
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| 28 | 13 |
Therefore it was much to my surprise when I heard a distant singing in the tunnel that grew louder as I approached and soon I slowed the transportation disk and waited, my weapon ready. |
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| 28 | 14 |
As I waited, the tunnel and, as I later learned, the entire complex, were suddenly plunged into darkness. |
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| 28 | 19 |
It was the carriers of Gur but far from the Gur Chamber and I watched with something of awe as the long procession of humanoid creatures, two abreast, marched along the ceiling of the tunnel until they stopped above me. |
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| 28 | 20 |
"Greetings, Tarl Cabot," said a voice from the floor of the tunnel. |
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| 28 | 63 |
And so it was a strange procession that followed the transportation disk, now happily piloted by Al-Ka, down the tunnel to the Vivarium. |
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| 28 | 138 |
"Did you know," I asked, "that I would return for you?" She shivered and looked ahead, down the darkened tunnel. |
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| 29 | 7 |
Through the very stone of the tunnel which lay outside Misk's compartment, now opened like a deep window, I could see the next large Nest complex which lay beyond. |
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| 29 | 8 |
I ran across the flooring of the tunnel and through the swath of nothingness that had been cut through the stone and looked on the complex. |
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| 29 | 74 |
My heart leaped! Ground fire! I could imagine Misk hastening to his tools and the vast assemblage of instrumentation in his shop, or perhaps sending an outraged Priest-King to some secret arsenal where lay a forbidden weapon, one to which Misk would never have had recourse were it not for the hideou... |
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| 29 | 75 |
The first ship to near the exit seemed to burst into a cloud of powder but the next four ships, and myself, who had fallen into line with them, pierced the veil of powder and found ourselves coursing through the tunnel back toward Sarm's domain. |
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| 29 | 76 |
There were now four ships ahead of me in the tunnel, fleeing. |
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| 29 | 77 |
With satisfaction I noted the width of the tunnel did not permit them to turn. |
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| 29 | 79 |
Some of the materials flew with such a force that gashes were cut in the obdurate cage plastic and the ship was buffeted and jostled but it cut its way through this jungle of flying parts and found itself again streaming down the tunnel. |
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| 29 | 157 |
I was particularly worried about guiding it back through the tunnel. |
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| 30 | 72 |
The exudate which forms on the mane hairs of the Golden Beetle, which had overcome me in the close confines of the tunnel, apparently has a most intense and, to a human mind, almost incomprehensibly compelling effect on the unusually sensitive antennae of Priest-Kings, luring them helplessly, almost... |
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| 31 | 129 |
To one side, though I scarcely noticed it at the time, I saw a vague, domelike golden shape, one of the Beetles which, undoubtedly confused and terrified, had crept into the room of the Power Plant from the tunnel outside, through the door I had opened for Misk and his Priest-Kings. |
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| 32 | 36 |
The very tunnel we walked in pitched and buckled under our feet. |
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| 32 | 197 |
With uncanny speed it seemed we almost floated to a tunnel entrance and I looked behind us and saw the ceiling descending with incredible softness, almost like a snowfall of stones. |
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| 32 | 294 |
Vika in my arms I followed the bounding body of Parp, whose robes seemed to lift and flutter softly about him as he almost floated down the tunnel before me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 59 |
It is one thing to roll about in a public bath or splash about in some pool or stream, but quite another to struggle for pasangs against a current in a tunnel channel with only a few inches between the water and the roof of the tunnel. |
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| 16 | 15 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup... |
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| 16 | 22 |
At last, at a given point in the tunnel, Harold disappeared beneath the surface and I followed him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 78 |
I supposed that now Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, would be in the holding cells beneath the ground level, perhaps being fed, some two or three Ahn prior to the sale; later they would be moved, with others, to the tunnel of ready cells, which leads to the block; there they would be adorned, ma... |
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| 11 | 28 |
The fourth level, though containing many retention facilities, is used for the processing, assignment, interrogation and examination of slaves; it can be reached independently by a spiral ramp and tunnel which does not pass through the area of the iron pens. |
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| 21 | 180 |
Ho-Tu came behind me, fiercely cracking the whip, crying out, "Hurry, Lazy Slave! Hurry!" I heard men in the tunnel laugh. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 124 |
Girls locked within this shed would not tunnel their way to freedom. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 19 |
With the subsidence of the sea and the shifting of strata, certain cubic pasangs of salt, in certain areas, became pressed into granitelike formations, through which one may actually tunnel. |
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| 25 | 28 |
Broken open, it proved to lead to a dark tunnel. |
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| 25 | 29 |
This tunnel provided a communication, under the desert, with the neighboring but small kasbah of Tarna, the desert chieftainess. |
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| 25 | 56 |
Hassan then turned and led the way into the tunnel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 45 |
We were in the tunnel leading to the block. |
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| 28 | 46 |
Another tunnel left the block. |
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| 28 | 51 |
He then went to the next girl, she on my left, farther down the tunnel toward the pens. |
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| 28 | 84 |
It was set against the right side of the tunnel, as one would look toward the opening at the foot of the block. |
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| 28 | 85 |
It ran almost the length of the tunnel. |
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| 28 | 86 |
The bench is at the right side of the tunnel as the slavers' men are mostly right-handed. |
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| 28 | 87 |
Thus, if a lash is used, the girl will be more conveniently directed toward the end of the tunnel near the foot of the block, toward her sale, rather than away from it. |
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| 28 | 88 |
It is, of course, seldom necessary to use the lash in the tunnel. |
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| 28 | 138 |
The occasional response of the crowd, however, carried through the tunnel. |
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| 28 | 179 |
But when our nerves had eased and we might seem to breathe a bit more easily, the coffle, as a whole, would be ordered to its feet and moved ten spaces toward the end of the tunnel. |
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| 28 | 184 |
I was now in the point coffle, that at the end of the tunnel. |
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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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| 28 | 202 |
The man with the tablet quickly thrust the girl in the house tunic from the tunnel to the foot of the stairs leading to the block. |
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| 28 | 211 |
From where I stood, at the end of the tunnel, I could see the ceiling of the Curulean, and some of the buyers, crowded in the higher tiers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 151 |
At the outer end of the tunnel, where one emerged to the outside, the ceiling of the tunnel was about four and one half feet in height. |
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| 27 | 141 |
One brushes snow from the parka before leaning down and moving through the tunnel to the interior of the shelter, but, in the shelter, the residue of snow would melt, wetting the garment. |
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| 27 | 146 |
The roof of the exit tunnel was about a yard high, at the inner end. |
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| 27 | 152 |
The general reason for the tunnel dimensions is to prevent wear and tear on mittens and clothing, which can be a very serious matter in subzero temperatures; a needle and thread in the arctic can be as important as a knife and a harpoon. |
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| 27 | 153 |
Another value of the tunnel dimensions, of course, is that one may emerge from the shelter with a weapon at the ready. |
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| 27 | 155 |
I began to move down the tunnel. |
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| 27 | 157 |
At the outer end of the tunnel, gently, I edged out the snow blocks which, for most practical purposes, closed the opening. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 92 |
"Tomorrow," said he, "meet her in the tunnel, near the junction between the central tunnel and the side tunnel to Storage Shed Four, at the fifteenth Ahn". |
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| 24 | 1 |
Another Girl in the Tunnel I stood again in the absolute darkness of the tunnel, the central tunnel of that network of tunnels under the lands of the mistress, by means of which various buildings, such as storage sheds, the incubation shed, certain of the stables, and the nursery, are connected. |
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| 23 | 1 |
A Girl in the Tunnel I stood in the absolute darkness of the tunnel. |
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| 24 | 3 |
"Wait in the central tunnel, near its juncture with the side tunnel leading to Storage Shed Four". |
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| 21 | 420 |
This tends to protect it against the tunnel air when it is carried to the nursery. |
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| 21 | 426 |
At the bottom the tunnel, in its center, is floored by a set of single boards, laid end to end. |
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| 21 | 432 |
The strings contain knots on the side on which the side tunnel occurs. |
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| 21 | 433 |
If one encounters, as in side tunnels, approaching the main tunnel, a fully knotted, dependent wall of strings, then one knows that a left-and-right branching is imminent. |
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| 21 | 434 |
This occurred in the tunneling under the domain of the Lady Florence only where the main tunnel was approached. |
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| 21 | 460 |
I stood in the tunnel, puzzled. |
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| 21 | 466 |
I turned away again and strode down the tunnel. |
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| 21 | 468 |
The tunnel was immediately plunged into total darkness. |
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| 21 | 469 |
I began to traverse the tunnel, toward the nursery, keeping my right foot on the center board. |
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| 21 | 472 |
I knew the tunnel well. |
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| 21 | 476 |
"I am in the mistress' favor! I am in the mistress' favor! I am a house slave, a house slave! I am not a stable slut! I am a house slave!" I continued down the tunnel. |
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| 21 | 483 |
I considered putting the hatchling down and turning on Taphris, raping her in the darkness of the tunnel to within an inch of her life. |
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| 23 | 2 |
It was the central tunnel of that network of tunnels under the lands of the mistress, by means of which various buildings, such as storage sheds, the incubation shed, certain of the stables, and the nursery, are connected. |
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| 23 | 11 |
"Will you meet me now in the tunnel?" she had asked. |
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| 23 | 21 |
"Will you meet me now in the tunnel?" she asked. |
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| 23 | 41 |
"Meet me in the tunnel," she said. |
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| 23 | 44 |
* * * * I stood in the absolute darkness of the tunnel, waiting. |
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| 23 | 60 |
"She wants me to meet her in the tunnel," I said. |
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| 23 | 96 |
* * * * I stood in the absolute darkness of the tunnel, waiting. |
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| 23 | 99 |
The junction to the side tunnel, also in pitch blackness, to Storage Shed Four was to my right. |
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| 23 | 100 |
Then, from several yards away, I heard, soft and light, the movement of bare feet on the central board, that guide board set in the floor of the tunnel. |
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| 23 | 122 |
"And did it not bring you before me, on your knees, in the tunnel, a cringing silk slave?" "It seems to have done so," I said. |
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| 23 | 156 |
"The tunnel is often used as a trysting place for slaves," said Kenneth. |
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| 23 | 186 |
Kenneth then led Taphris down the tunnel, his left hand fixed in her hair, his right hand holding aloft the torch. |
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| 23 | 187 |
The Lady Florence looked about the tunnel, and at the retreating figure of Kenneth. |
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| 24 | 2 |
"Go to the tunnel at the fifteenth Ahn," had said Kenneth. |
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| 24 | 7 |
"The tunnel is often used as a trysting place for slaves," had said Kenneth. |
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| 24 | 10 |
"May I ask, Master," I inquired, "as to why I am to go to the tunnel at the fifteenth Ahn?" "Because you are told to do so," he said. |
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| 24 | 14 |
"She is to be sent to you in the tunnel". |
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| 24 | 21 |
I now stood quietly in the tunnel, waiting. |
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| 24 | 94 |
"Why do you think you were sent to the tunnel?" I asked. |
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| 24 | 100 |
"I see that you well know why you were sent to the tunnel," I said. |
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| 24 | 101 |
"Yes," she said, "I well know why I was sent to the tunnel". |
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| 24 | 213 |
* * * * I made her scream and sob muchly in the darkness of the tunnel. |
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| 24 | 271 |
She then ran down the tunnel, sobbing, away from me. |
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| 24 | 272 |
I retrieved the bit of hair which I had put on the floor of the tunnel, and placed it in my tunic. |
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| 24 | 273 |
I heard her running down the tunnel, sobbing, away from me. |
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| 25 | 244 |
"What of the 'new slave,'" I smiled, "she who was sent to me in the tunnel?" Kenneth grinned. |
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| 26 | 163 |
"By the way," I asked, "where is that 'new slave' whom you sent to please me in the tunnel?" She looked up at me, frightened. |
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| 26 | 303 |
I, dragging the Lady Florence by the wrist leash, hurried down the smoothly sloping dirt ramp leading to the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 308 |
But some fifty yards into the darkness of the tunnel I halted. |
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| 26 | 318 |
I lifted her from her feet and sat her against one side of the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 331 |
Then, as she sat in the dirt, against the side of the tunnel, her crossed wrists, already bound, were fastened closely to her crossed ankles, now bound. |
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| 26 | 398 |
She ran behind me, gasping, uneasily, her wrists in my tether, her bare feet soft in the loose dirt of the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 417 |
"They are in the tunnel now. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 183 |
An escape trajectory, if one is dealing with a wily foe, can prove to be a tunnel of ambush. |
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| 47 | 232 |
This was the tunnel of ambush, as it is called. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 27 |
* * * * "This is the house of Kliomenes," had said Drusus Rencius, climbing the stairs to the narrow, heavy iron portal, recessed some feet back, at the end of a narrow tunnel, in the wall. |
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| 8 | 29 |
Above the entrance to the tunnel, and on its right, in the wall, hanging from an iron projection, was a narrow, blue-and-yellow banner. |
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| 8 | 38 |
He beckoned and I joined him in the narrow tunnel leading to the door. |
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| 8 | 49 |
He then thrust me in front of him, so that I, in the tunnel, was between him and the door. |
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| 8 | 51 |
I felt the stone of the tunnel beneath my feet, the steel holding my wrists helplessly behind me. |
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| 8 | 56 |
I could not do so, of course, because of the walls of the tunnel, and Drusus Rencius behind me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 2371 |
In a moment I had come to the low opening of the Al-Ka Tunnel, the first tunnel. |
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| 25 | 88 |
We will strip her and put her back in one of the tunnel alcoves. |
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| 25 | 115 |
"She is being taken into one of the tunnel alcoves now". |
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| 25 | 537 |
"Delka Tunnel, Alcove Twenty-One". |
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| 25 | 538 |
That would be on the left side of the tunnel, as one entered. |
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| 25 | 2358 |
It would be dark in the tunnel. |
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| 25 | 2373 |
In the light I could not detect whether or not anyone was noting my entrance into the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 1 |
I Take my Leave of the Tunnels; The Hostess; A Blonde In a moment I was into the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 5 |
The ceiling of the tunnel, in this part, I now on all fours, was about a foot over my head. |
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| 26 | 6 |
In parts the tunnel was carpeted, in other parts not, and one must move on the tile or stones. |
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| 26 | 7 |
There were leather-curtained alcoves here and there along the tunnel, the openings of which were circular, and about two feet in width. |
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| 26 | 8 |
Occasionally there was a small lamp within, its light detectable through the cracks in the leather curtain, and about it and under it, feebly illuminating the tunnel outside. |
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| 26 | 9 |
For the most part, however, the tunnel was quite dark. |
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| 26 | 19 |
Most of the alcoves, however, like the major lengths of the tunnel, were quite dark. |
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| 26 | 27 |
In the Delka Tunnel, in Alcove Twenty-One, the girl, Lale, I supposed, she now reduced to the modality of the she-quadruped, might be so waiting. |
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| 26 | 28 |
Too, in at least one of these alcoves, I recalled, though I did not know which one, in this very tunnel, there was a chained, gagged free woman. |
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| 26 | 30 |
I could hear something approaching me down the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 34 |
Then a fellow crawled past me in the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 56 |
The tunnel became more winding. |
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| 26 | 67 |
I conjectured I must be quite deep in the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 77 |
One of them, of course, which I found especially fascinating, would be that of a knife carried in the hand of a fellow crawling in the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 78 |
I continued crawling down the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 96 |
"Is there anyone else in the tunnel?" he asked. |
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| 26 | 105 |
I then turned about and began to crawl back down the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 109 |
If there was no one at the other end of the tunnel, I supposed I might just as well go out through the front door. |
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| 26 | 113 |
The voices were not those of fellows that one, or most folks, at any rate, would be likely to look forward to meeting in a dark alley, or, as the case might be, tunnel. |
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| 26 | 115 |
"Did a slave pass you in the tunnel?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 119 |
"Have you seen anyone else in the tunnel?" he asked. |
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| 26 | 120 |
"It is pretty hard to see anything in the tunnel," I said. |
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| 26 | 121 |
"Is there someone in the tunnel who is not in an alcove?" he asked. |
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| 26 | 134 |
I turned about and started down the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 136 |
"Keep the tunnel clear". |
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| 26 | 142 |
I moved back down the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 144 |
As far as I could tell there were only two of them, one at each end of the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 145 |
They were two in number doubtless to spring a trap in a tunnel. |
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| 26 | 151 |
As I had not emerged from the tunnel, or tried to emerge from it, they would assume that I was waiting within it. |
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| 26 | 152 |
They would also assume, presumably, and I had encouraged them in this belief, that their quarry might be in the tunnel and not in an alcove. |
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| 26 | 153 |
In a tunnel he might swiftly move in whatever direction seemed opposite danger. |
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| 26 | 160 |
It carried well in the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 165 |
The answering whistle, however, was still rather toward the end of the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 169 |
It was well down the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 186 |
Accordingly, in entering the tunnel I had determined, from the beginning, in the event it was unlighted, that I would prefer to arrange matters in such a way that the considerable risks involved be taken by the other fellows. |
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| 26 | 190 |
"Is there anyone there? Who is it!" I then heard another whistle, from my right, toward the entrance to the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 191 |
This was answered by one from my left, toward the end of the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 221 |
They would be thinking, I expected, only in terms of the tunnel and its walls. |
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| 26 | 222 |
I had, further, led them to believe that I was in the tunnel itself. |
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| 26 | 226 |
To be sure, there was not much room in the tunnel either, though thrusting could surely be dangerous. |
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| 26 | 250 |
"We will slide our knives, sheathed, along the tunnel floor," said the fellow at the right. |
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| 26 | 253 |
In a moment two objects, presumably sheaths, though I doubted from the sound they contained knives, with some buckles and straps, came sliding along the tunnel floor, one from the right, the other from the left. |
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| 26 | 265 |
I then heard some very ugly noises in the tunnel outside the entrance to the alcove. |
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| 26 | 564 |
Down the tunnel I could see a flicker of light, doubtless from a tharlarion-oil lamp. |
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| 26 | 566 |
I heard a woman gasp, seeing, I suppose, at least the first body in the tunnel. |
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| 26 | 568 |
I saw it reflecting on the other side of the tunnel, and a bit into the alcove. |
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| 26 | 569 |
She had then seen, a bit further down the tunnel, I suppose, the second body. |
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| 26 | 774 |
The one body in the tunnel was to the right. |
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| 26 | 781 |
In a moment or two, as we were near the end of the tunnel, we came to the back corridor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 650 |
It was dark within this portal, but I saw, it stretching backwards, what appeared to be a low, dark tunnel. |
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| 10 | 660 |
I could now hear, from some distance down the tunnel, the sound of something approaching. |
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| 10 | 664 |
I could hear claws on the floor of the tunnel. |
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| 11 | 34 |
"I think you will like Borko," had said my master, before I had seen the beast, when I had only heard him in the tunnel, and then entering the room. |
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| 28 | 10 |
Far above me, as at the end of some odd, vertical tunnel, I could see a circular opening, perhaps some seven or eight feet across, and, across this, in open sockets, there was a peeled, rounded timber, about which a rope was wound. |
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| 28 | 144 |
After a time it moved aside a bush, concealing a tunnel, and then dragged me after it, through it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 462 |
It could be done, of course, by men working under a shed, to protect them from missile fire, arrows, lead sling pellets, and such, or, say, more safely, and less exposed to sorties, by siege miners, through a tunnel. |
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| 2 | 10 |
I then followed him through a high, shedlike tunnel, walled with wood, about forty feet long, to the interior gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 48 |
"Information became available in the Cosian camp near Torcadino, conveyed by a supposed deserter, a fellow named Mincon," said our narrator, "of a secret escape tunnel being dug under the walls to the north, a low tunnel, like a countermine, over eleven pasangs in length, which had taken months to d... |
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| 40 | 57 |
Meanwhile, Myron, at Torcadino, girded himself for battle and led most of his men near the point at which the tunnel was to open. |
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| 40 | 60 |
Few, proportionally, would be able to escape back through the tunnel, and, of course, as they might strive to do so, in panic, screaming, hacking at one another, and such, further slaughter, and then of a simple sort, could be wreaked upon them. |
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| 40 | 61 |
Those who managed to escape back through the tunnel could then be dealt with at their leisure, as they would then be too few to resist even a modest set of coordinated assaults. |
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| 40 | 80 |
"But what of the tunnel?" asked a fellow. |
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| 40 | 82 |
"All night Myron and his men waited," said our narrator, "and the next morning, and the next day, but still the tunnel did not open". |
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| 40 | 86 |
"Myron, convinced that the tunnel existed, decided to open it himself, and from among his own engineers brought in miners and sappers. |
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| 40 | 92 |
"Myron, leaving observers at the supposed site of the tunnel, returned in great anger to his headquarters. |
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| 40 | 109 |
They discovered a hole and, probing about in it, discovered the concealed opening to a tunnel. |
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| 40 | 111 |
This tunnel led not to the north of Torcadino but to the south. |
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| 40 | 128 |
"In the tunnel, mixed in with the prints of the men, in the dust, were the numerous prints of small, bared feet". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 783 |
Perhaps this is the reason for the leash, I thought, that I not be lost in the tunnel, or injure myself against the walls, or flee in terror, madly, upon the discovery that the tunnel is shared by beasts, whose function is doubtless to protect it from any to whom its passage might be prohibited. |
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| 10 | 760 |
Within was a long, dimly lit tunnel, with several opened gates within it, some of bars, some of metal-sheathed wood, with tiny apertures some eight to ten feet above the floor. |
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| 14 | 1006 |
Then she had stood there, just outside the opening to the tunnel, "slave clad," her head lifted, her eyes closed against the light, in the full light of the sun. |
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| 32 | 23 |
"He will be trapped against the first gate, that sealing this tunnel," said the lieutenant. |
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| 33 | 24 |
"Guards are set at the tunnel entrances, of course," said the leader of the strangers. |
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| 37 | 578 |
There were four gates giving access to the walkway, that through which we had entered, and, across the pool, on the other side, three, each leading to a different tunnel. |
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| 37 | 614 |
Some, it seemed, had just entered it, from the tunnel leading to the nest. |
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| 37 | 616 |
Too, once they had come to the tunnel opening, which was beneath the surface of the pool, reached from the nest, on a higher level, on the other side, they may have seen the light from the lamps and torches on the water. |
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| 37 | 963 |
The moments taken for its identification, the lapse of attention to the tunnel entrance occasioned by its appearance, had been without cost. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 223 |
He was then aware of movements about his feet, and several of the tiny urtlike scavengers in the tunnel rushed toward the blood, crouched down in it, and began to lap it up, and one was caught by a hind foot and pulled squealing backward toward the newcomer, and Cabot turned away, and continued down... |
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| 55 | 29 |
Lord Grendel suddenly lifted his head, and the large, pointed ears turned, as one, in a given direction, cupped, leaning forward, intent, toward the open plain, that not so far from the hemisphere of rocks, amongst which lay, concealed, a womb tunnel, indeed, that very womb tunnel in which Lord Gren... |
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| 53 | 128 |
"It opens into a tunnel, shaped, smoothed," said Cabot, wonderingly, "and there are lights, soft lights". |
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| 53 | 142 |
They continued to traverse the tunnel, and encountered more of the growths adhering to the walls. |
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| 53 | 144 |
A small creature, urtlike, scampered past, yet Cabot suspected it was not the presence of such small denizens of the tunnel with which Lord Grendel was most concerned. |
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| 53 | 193 |
They continued to tread the tunnel, and the wombs became more frequent. |
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| 53 | 196 |
Cabot moved a bit to the side, to avoid stepping on what he took to be something dropped in the tunnel, a wad of cloth, a crumpled rag, a lump of tissue. |
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| 53 | 208 |
It was some minutes further in the tunnel, when Cabot stopped, and stared at one of the wombs, for it seemed to shudder, and heave. |
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| 53 | 233 |
At last they came to the end of the tunnel. |
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| 53 | 251 |
Cabot, now intent, began to examine the floor of the tunnel, near the exit. |
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| 53 | 252 |
"Here," he said, pointing to the floor of the tunnel. |
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| 55 | 51 |
"They are coming out of the womb tunnel". |
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| 55 | 55 |
As Cabot watched, he saw more and more of the humans emerging from the tunnel. |
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| 55 | 59 |
"What are they doing in the tunnel?" said Statius. |
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| 55 | 218 |
The two killer humans were not unaware of his arrival, and they, exchanging cries, something between speech and signals, ceased to prosecute their passage through the herd, and made their way back, almost as though through chest-high water, to the company of their colleagues, nearer the exit of the ... |
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| 55 | 258 |
"The print was doubtless hers, she having taken refuge in the tunnel, and the scratches were doubtless the results of her attempts to free herself of the light but effective impediments which constrained her". |
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| 55 | 344 |
"That is muchly how she lived," said Grendel, "at least in the tunnel. |
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| 55 | 357 |
"Let us bind her and cover her with blood, and put her in the tunnel for the scavengers," he said. |
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| 57 | 109 |
"We captured her, pinioned, ragged, dirty, and starving, in the vicinity of a womb tunnel," said Cabot. |
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| 63 | 136 |
It resembled that of a shrill, terrified, caught animal, something similar to that perhaps of one of the womb tunnel's scavengers suddenly seized in the teeth of a Kur infant. |
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| 64 | 112 |
After several days, miserable and half starving, still helplessly braceleted, she had stumbled upon a womb tunnel, in which she took shelter, and in which she managed to feed on the remains of small scavengers and compete with them for the nourishing blood ensuing so liberally from the rent wombs, c... |
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| 64 | 125 |
It was his group which had flushed the Lady Bina into the open, earlier, when she had been noted by Lord Grendel, Statius, and Cabot, in the vicinity of a womb tunnel. |
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| 64 | 137 |
Too, it is certainly possible that they remembered her from the pursuit of her in the vicinity of the womb tunnel and recognized that she might have been captured and put on their rope, and might perhaps have been more favored of food and caresses than they. |
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| 67 | 54 |
Commonly it helps to utilize snow-free, windswept rocks, but there were few to be encountered in his journey, save in the vicinity of the womb tunnel. |
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| 67 | 147 |
"After the supplies brought from the war camp, I have had little but berries, and, near the womb tunnel, some roots dug out from under the snow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 75 |
Shortly thereafter I located the ring and trap, covered with branches and leaves, and the tunnel entrance". |
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| 23 | 117 |
"Beneath the trap is a tunnel," he said. |
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| 23 | 236 |
"I will hide in the tunnel, and leave after dark," I said. |
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| 26 | 64 |
He would know where it was, it was somewhere here about, here, outside the palace grounds, the concealed entry to the secret tunnel which led to the garden. |
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| 26 | 65 |
With some fortune we might conceal ourselves in the tunnel until dark, after which it would be every man for himself. |
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| 27 | 1 |
We Have Departed from the Tunnel "Wade," said Haruki. |
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| 27 | 29 |
It had been dark in the tunnel. |
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| 27 | 33 |
The nineteen prisoners who had been sentenced to the straw jacket with Haruki had slipped, one by one, from the tunnel. |
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| 27 | 63 |
"One might even, over years, dig a tunnel," he said, "which might open into a garden". |
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| 27 | 72 |
"Why have you not left the tunnel?" "Those who have departed," he said, "did so individually. |
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| 27 | 93 |
In the total darkness, touching the sides of the small tunnel, in which one could not stand upright, I followed Haruki. |
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| 28 | 3 |
It was the third day following our departure from the tunnel. |
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| 38 | 33 |
"With more time," I said, "one might tunnel under the palings". |
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| 45 | 166 |
"There is the tunnel," said Haruki. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 180 |
Then I knew I was in a tunnel, the sides were about, the tunnel. |
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| 7 | 54 |
My group, the seven of us, were chained together by the neck and our hands were fastened together behind us, in slave bracelets, and then we were conducted down a long tunnel, until we reached a large, domed chamber. |
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| 7 | 181 |
I remembered the tunnel. |
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| 7 | 182 |
I supposed it must be the same tunnel. |
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| 7 | 188 |
The walls of the tunnel were white. |
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| 15 | 102 |
"Carry her downstairs, to the tunnel portal, and thence to the wagon," said Tullius Quintus. |
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| 15 | 105 |
Too, it is not unusual for them to have secret chambers and passages, at least one of which is likely to lead, by means of a tunnel, to another house, or structure, perhaps a quarter of a pasang distant. |
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| 15 | 108 |
I had not known, until then, that there was a tunnel portal. |
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| 15 | 149 |
I heard a grunting noise, as of large animals, and, from the conversation in the tunnel, I knew these heavy, bestial sounds must have been emitted from tharlarion. |
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| 34 | 191 |
"The monstrous creature thus formed, though part human, was no more acceptable to humans than a full-blooded Kur that had eaten and torn its way free from a sessile, tunnel womb". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 70 |
"You are in the tunnel, you left through the tunnel, you return through the tunnel," said the third man. |
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| 45 | 122 |
The first act was the surprise of, and murder of, the tunnel guard whom Thrasymedes and I had posted at our end of the tunnel, that tunnel which had been opened in the house of Tarchon, that through which mercenaries had sought to steal into the camp and overcome the gate guard, opening the gate to ... |
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| 45 | 131 |
We later discovered the body of the slain tunnel guard and the evidence of the killer's exit through the tunnel, within feet of the sunken metal rod, by tapping on which Tarchon had identified the point at which the tunnel might be safely opened. |
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| 43 | 95 |
Thurnock and Clitus then stood close to me, partly illuminated in the light of the small tharlarion-oil lamp which rested to the right of the tunnel as one might exit the tunnel. |
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| 45 | 60 |
Already we were keeping a guard at our end of the tunnel leading to the enemy camp, a guard with a bell which might be sounded at the first hint of an approach through the tunnel. |
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| 48 | 110 |
"The affair of the tunnel turned out badly for the mercenaries, costing them men and, soon, by means of the same tunnel, in your attack, the loss of the great catapults. |
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| 41 | 232 |
"What if there were but one tunnel?" I said. |
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| 41 | 234 |
"But what if the tunnel emerged within the walls, in the town itself?" I asked. |
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| 42 | 53 |
A dozen men, at my cry "Lamps!" had simultaneously invaded the house of Tarchon, to seize him, if he were there, and prevent any fugitives from retreating through the tunnel. |
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| 42 | 181 |
"The tunnel," said Thrasymedes. |
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| 42 | 184 |
"You suspect he is involved in this, that he was aware of the tunnel, which was opened within his domicile?" asked Thrasymedes. |
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| 42 | 186 |
"See the metal rod which he sank in his floor, used to convey sound into the earth, to mark the point where the tunnel might be safely opened". |
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| 43 | 3 |
Its light was dim, but extended some feet ahead, illuminating the tunnel. |
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| 43 | 11 |
"Will they send more men through the tunnel?" asked Clitus. |
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| 43 | 14 |
"The opening of the tunnel in the corsair camp will be guarded," said Thurnock. |
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| 43 | 17 |
I brushed aside a handful of dirt, fallen from the roof of the tunnel. |
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| 43 | 26 |
"One supposes," said he, "between the inner ditch and the camp, close to the inner ditch, to shorten the tunnel". |
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| 43 | 30 |
"What would satisfy the desiderata of concealment and the shortest tunnel?" "The inner ditch," said Thurnock, "where digging and the removal of dirt might take place unseen". |
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| 43 | 36 |
I slid shut the panel on my own lamp, and this action was copied, one by one, for several lanterns behind me, the tunnel progressively growing darker and darker. |
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| 43 | 42 |
In a few moments I saw the edging of the tunnel, that rimmed in a dim light, apparently that of a small tharlarion-oil lamp outside, and to the right. |
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| 43 | 44 |
Beyond the opening of the tunnel I could see what seemed a wide trench. |
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| 43 | 45 |
From the voices I did not think there were more than two or three men in the vicinity of the tunnel opening. |
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| 43 | 50 |
I stood back a bit in the tunnel, in the shadows. |
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| 43 | 72 |
"If things are splendid in Mytilene," I asked, "why should we return through the tunnel?" "I do not know," said one of the men. |
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| 43 | 74 |
"Keeping independent looters from the tunnel, who might hope to sneak into Mytilene and seize wealth prior to the general gathering and division of the spoils". |
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| 43 | 81 |
"Trust no one," I said, easing my sword silently from its sheath, emerging from the tunnel, and thrusting the blade to his heart. |
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| 43 | 94 |
Thurnock, Clitus and the others emerged, one by one, from the shadows, through the tunnel's narrow opening. |
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| 43 | 131 |
Then I said to my men, "Back to the ditch, back to the tunnel, back to Mytilene!" I moved away from the catapult at hand, as it seemed, foot by foot, to be painted with fire. |
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| 43 | 153 |
I then turned about and made my way back to the ditch and tunnel, to return to Mytilene. |
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| 45 | 137 |
"The tunnel guard was surprised," said Thrasymedes. |
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| 48 | 7 |
The tunnel leading from the enemy camp beneath the town walls, opening in what had been the dwelling of Tarchon, and the two ditches about Mytilene, the inner and outer ditch, would be gradually filled. |
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| 48 | 86 |
I recalled the guard at the tunnel opening, whom he had killed. |
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| 48 | 108 |
"He served them well, by obtaining access to Mytilene by means of the tunnel, and doubtless, too, by providing them with information as to the straits to which we were subjected". |
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