| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 89 |
From some others I heard the shuffling and squealing of animals, perhaps more of the giant urts. |
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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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| 13 | 59 |
Our driver was the man in wrist straps, he from the Chamber of Urts, who had first brought me into the presence of the Tatrix. |
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| 19 | 79 |
"We would be destroyed, trampled like urts underfoot". |
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| 20 | 51 |
Perhaps she would have had her thrown naked into the clutches of the insidious leech plants of Gor or have had her fed to the giant urts in the dungeons beneath her own palace. |
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| 26 | 24 |
Some silver masks were discovered even in the sewers beneath the city and these were driven by giant, leashed urts through the long tubes until they crowded the wire capture nets set at the openings of the sewers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 23 | 191 |
Already the bosk were growing uneasy at the smell of death and already the grass about the camp was rustling with the movements of the tiny brown prairie urts, scavengers, come to feed. |
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| 24 | 30 |
Certain cities, burned by the Wagon Peoples more than a hundred years ago, were still said to be desolate ruins between their broken walls, silent save for the wind and the occasional footfall of a prowling sleen hunting for urts. |
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| 18 | 206 |
"I had," he said, "shortly before the fire developed a strain of urts resistant to the Dar-Kosis organism; a serum cultured from their blood was injected in other animals, which subsequently we were unable to infect. |
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| 18 | 402 |
I could smell wet straw in the place, and the excrement of urts and a human being. |
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| 18 | 410 |
Each of his limbs, and his throat, was separately confined, each chained individually to the wall, each chain running to a separate ring bolted in the stone; any one of the chains would have been sufficient to hold a man; I gathered that this prisoner must be unusual indeed; I observed, further, tha... |
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| 18 | 413 |
As I did so I saw four or five urts run for various small crevices in the stone. |
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| 18 | 423 |
I looked on that small, trembling, skeletal body, the straggly hair, the sores; the mutilated ear; angrily I rose to my feet and searched about, finding some loose stone which, with my foot, I wedged into the several crevices through which the urts had darted. |
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| 18 | 439 |
I did not know what its shock would be to his system, after apparently months of torture, confinement, fear, poor food, the water, the urts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 108 |
When threatened from the outside, the men of Port Kar have, desperately and with the viciousness of cornered urts, well defended themselves. |
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| 9 | 501 |
I heard one of the giant canal urts twist in the water somewhere beneath me. |
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| 9 | 507 |
Somewhere I heard the squealing and thrashing of two of the giant urts fighting in the water, among the floating garbage. |
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| 9 | 571 |
"I am going to throw her to the urts," said Surbus. |
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| 9 | 573 |
"To the urts!" laughed Surbus, looking down at her. |
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| 9 | 575 |
The giant urts, silken and blazing-eyed, living mostly on the garbage in the canals, are not stranger to bodies, both living and dead, found cast into their waters. |
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| 9 | 576 |
"To the urts!" laughed Surbus. |
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| 9 | 641 |
Did she not understand that he would have hurled her bound to the urts in the canals? His hand lifted again, even more weakly, extended to me. |
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| 12 | 32 |
Already I could see the sleek, wet muzzles of urts, eyes like ovals of blazing copper, streaking through the dark waters toward the bag. |
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| 12 | 36 |
I heard an arrow flash into the water near me and heard a high-pitched pain squeal from one of the web-footed canal urts. |
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| 12 | 37 |
Then there was the sound of biting and tearing and thrashing in the water, as other urts attacked the injured one. |
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| 12 | 50 |
It disappeared beneath the water, dragged under by other urts. |
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| 16 | 326 |
I could see the shining eyes of urts, their noses and heads dividing the torchlit waters silently, their pointed, silken ears laid back against the sides of their heads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 187 |
Over her shoulder she had two small, furred animals, hideous forest urts, about the size of cats, and in her left hand she carried four small, green-and-yellow-plumaged birds. |
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| 13 | 358 |
"At the edge of a thicket to the northeast, days ago," said the second man, "we found the bones of brush urts!" "Yes," said the first man, "and, nearby, in this thicket, there is a small game trail". |
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| 13 | 360 |
"More importantly," said the first man, "brush urts tend to use such trails". |
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| 13 | 529 |
Some animals fled past me, away from the din, tabuk and brush urts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 710 |
Their catch, returned to the Tesephone, in a cage, covered with canvas, carried on the back of Thurnock, had been six, rather large forest urts, about the size of tiny dogs. |
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| 5 | 4 |
The urt shields were still fastened to the mooring ropes, circular plates, preventing small port urts from boarding the ship. |
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| 5 | 5 |
The urts which had been placed in the lower hold, before making landfall in Lydius, those which had figured in my interrogation of the panther girls, Tana and Ela, had been removed the following morning. |
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| 5 | 11 |
The girls, Tana and Ela, by my order, had not known that the urts had been thrown from the ship. |
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| 5 | 13 |
As far as the girls knew there were still urts in the lower hold. |
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| 5 | 226 |
They remembered, I supposed, the urts, and understood what might be done to them, as they were now slave girls. |
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| 22 | 440 |
Indeed, so jealous of their prerogatives were the caste of thieves that they often hunted thieves who did not belong to the caste, and slew them, throwing their bodies to the urts in the canals. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever... |
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| 1 | 24 |
She was a scrawny girl, not attractive, but with deep eyes, blue; and she was a superb scribe, in her accounting swift, incisive, accurate, brilliant; once she had been a paga slave, though a poor one; I had saved her from Surbus, a captain, who had purchased her to slay her, she not having served h... |
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| 1 | 143 |
How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground. |
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| 13 | 453 |
This cry, like a stimulus, acted upon the others, as well; almost instantly, with the velocity that the stranger signal can course through a pack of urts, this shriek was picked up by those with it; then, the hall filled with their horrid howling, eyes blazing, led by the Kur with the golden band, f... |
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| 14 | 183 |
Like panic-stricken urts thirty-five or forty men thrust through the hole, sometimes jamming themselves momentarily within it, some tearing the flesh from their bodies and the sides of their faces on the splintered wood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 768 |
He had wished to send men to Lydius to purchase her, and return her to Port Kar, that she might be, under his direction, thrown to urts in the canals. |
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| 5 | 771 |
"There are better things to do with a beautiful slave," I told him, "than throw her into the canals, to feed the urts". |
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| 7 | 384 |
We chained her nude in a dungeon, with urts. |
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| 7 | 438 |
We then stripped her and put her in shackles in the dungeon, with the urts. |
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| 14 | 45 |
There was a smell, as of humans, and urts. |
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| 24 | 96 |
Chained nude in a dungeon, in the darkness, among the urts, she had screamed for mercy. |
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| 24 | 98 |
If she fell into the hands of Samos I had little doubt he would have her bound and thrown to the urts, among the garbage, in the canals of Port Kar. |
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| 24 | 295 |
There were urts. |
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| 24 | 318 |
In Port Kar, doubtless, you would be given the Garbage Death—bound naked and hurled to the urts in the canals". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 292 |
From through the trees, on the other side of the camp, came what I took to be the sound of a bird, the hook-billed, night-crying fleer, which preys on nocturnal forest urts. |
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| 16 | 75 |
The top of the sixth tier and the bottom slats of the first tier are sheathed in tin, to prevent being gnawed by urts. |
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| 16 | 81 |
She is chained in such a way as to preclude movement which might tear at the mesh or break it, thus making possible the entry of urts, which might eat at her, lowering her price, and to preclude her tearing hysterically with her hands and fingernails at her own body, bloodying herself, perhaps scarr... |
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| 16 | 83 |
The open spaces between the tin-sheathed, wood slats on the first tier are covered, from the bottom, by cleated mesh, which prevents urts from entering from the bottom. |
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| 16 | 102 |
I was terrified of urts. |
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| 26 | 815 |
"What then, when I am emptied of information and can be of no further use to you in your strategies? What then will be done with me? Will I then be bound and thrown to the urts in your canals?" "Perhaps," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 652 |
It would be unfortunate if this potentiality were to be rudely terminated while they thrashed, bound, in the canals under the teeth of urts. |
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| 38 | 119 |
"In Port Kar," I said, "a girl who is not pleasing is not unoften bound hand and foot, and thrown naked, as garbage, to the urts in the canals". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 203 |
Here, too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, climbing, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths, and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles, and flies, and so on. |
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| 1 | 450 |
"I want to bind her hand and foot and hurl her naked to the urts in the canals". |
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| 1 | 452 |
"If she is to be bound hand and foot and hurled naked to the urts in the canals, it is I who will do so". |
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| 1 | 693 |
Urt hunters swim slave girls, ropes on their necks, beside their boats in the dark, cool water of the canals, as bait for urts, which, as they rise to attack the girl, are speared. |
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| 2 | 63 |
"She is not worth tying at the end of a rope and using in the water as a bait for urts," called out a man, the fellow who had first suggested that she be removed from the sales position. |
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| 2 | 70 |
"See if you can get two tarsks from the urts!" There was again general laughter. |
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| 3 | 62 |
They are called the she-urts of the wharves. |
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| 4 | 364 |
"I have done nothing!" "Where do the she-urts band?" I asked. |
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| 4 | 378 |
She-urts sometimes gather at such places for their pick of the remnants of feasts. |
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| 4 | 440 |
She did not wish to pass me, but yet, on the other hand, she did not wish to leave a vicinity where the she-urts were common. |
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| 4 | 448 |
I think she was not used to seeing how Gorean men looked at women, at least slaves and low women, such as she-urts, assessing them for the furs and the collar. |
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| 4 | 460 |
In a few moments, beside one of the canals leading down to the wharves, in the vicinity of the Spice Pier, we came on four she-urts. |
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| 4 | 531 |
"Do not fret your heads about her, my pretty, little she-urts," I said. |
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| 4 | 534 |
"Is it true?" asked the leader of the she-urts. |
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| 4 | 543 |
"I hope for your sake," said the leader of the she-urts to the girl, "that you are not a slave". |
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| 4 | 598 |
The four she-urts, with which the blond-haired barbarian had fished for garbage in the canal, stood about. |
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| 4 | 640 |
"Slave! Slave!" screamed the leader of the she-urts to the bound girl. |
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| 4 | 643 |
Then the she-urts who had accompanied me to the station of the praetor, kicking and striking with their ropes, fell upon the bound slave. |
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| 5 | 274 |
She had stolen a garment and concealed herself, unmarked and uncollared, among she-urts. |
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| 32 | 201 |
Monkeys and tree urts, and snakes and insects, however, can also be found in this highest level. |
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| 32 | 206 |
In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and land gim. |
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| 32 | 213 |
In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found, also, small animals, such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels, four-toed leaf urts, jungle varts and the prowling, solitary giani, tiny, cat-sized panthers, not dangerous to man. |
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| 32 | 214 |
On the floor itself are also found several varieties of animal life, in particular marsupials, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and ground urts. |
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| 57 | 171 |
"What is done in Port Kar," asked Lana, "to a girl who is not found to be fully pleasing?" "Commonly," I said, "she is bound hand and foot and thrown to the urts in the canals". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 203 |
"Do you think that the urts of the Voskjard will discontinue their nibblings at the chain because we choose to rest?" asked a man. |
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| 7 | 61 |
Yet I knew that in the end even the mighty larl, if chained, must eventually succumb to the attack of endless streams of hissing urts. |
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| 16 | 528 |
"A pair of neck-harnessed urts," I told him. |
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| 18 | 521 |
Too, there are urts there. |
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| 18 | 525 |
Sometimes, too, the urts run across my legs, or nibble at them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 144 |
After she had been emptied of information she might then be bound naked and thrown to the urts in the canals, or, perhaps, if we wished, kept as a slave. |
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| 2 | 296 |
Behind the man, in the stern, lay the bloody, white-furred bodies of two canal urts. |
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| 2 | 300 |
The girl moves in the water which tends to attract the urts and, if no mishap occurs, may be used again and again. |
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| 2 | 303 |
She knows that if she is not cooperative she will be simply bound hand and foot and thrown alive to the urts. |
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| 2 | 304 |
This modality of hunting, incidentally, is not as dangerous to the girl as it might sound, for very few urts make their strike from beneath the surface. |
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| 4 | 226 |
The girls were as quiet as tiny, silken field urts in the presence of forest panthers, being conducted in their cage between the ranks of the soldiers. |
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| 16 | 152 |
They would presumably classify it with sleen or urts, not men. |
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| 17 | 580 |
"Even if they think they are all urts, or lizards or clouds?" "I gather so," I said, "and in such a society the one who does not think that he is an urt, or, say, a lizard or a cloud, would be accounted insane". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 617 |
"They flee like urts". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 220 |
"So," he said, "it is the usual collection of she-urts and she-tarsks. |
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| 30 | 154 |
How, too, could I live in the city? I might try to live by begging and scavenging garbage for a time as do those vagrant free women sometimes called she-urts, but I, being collared, could never pass for one. |
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| 30 | 155 |
The she-urts often wear tunics almost as short as those of slaves. |
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| 30 | 159 |
These she-urts have their gangs and territories. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 330 |
In this I supposed they tended to make their presence among the urts less obvious to outside observers and perhaps, too, less obvious, or obtrusive, to the urts themselves. |
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| 8 | 143 |
"It could be urts," said a man. |
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| 8 | 145 |
Certain species of urts migrate twice a year. |
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| 8 | 151 |
Similarly urts of the sort which live on garbage cast into the canals will often, unhesitantly, attack swimmers. |
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| 8 | 157 |
There was at least one good additional reason, incidentally, for supposing that whatever might be perplexing the brigands was not urts. |
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| 8 | 158 |
The urts do not make their kills neatly and silently. |
10 |
| 9 | 115 |
I thought of vulos swarming forth to peck up scattered feed, of urts in the canals of Port Kar nosing swiftly toward emptied garbage, of sharks following a galley, of a larl lifting its head, to test the night air, of a sleen emerging from its burrow, silent, serpentine, hungry, intent. |
10 |
| 12 | 694 |
"Shall you be sold for sleen feed? Shall we contrive exquisite tortures for you, say, cutting off bits of your body and cooking them, and forcing you to eat them, until from the loss of blood and tissue, you die, or should we bind you and sew you in a sack, your head exposed, with rabid urts, or sha... |
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| 13 | 221 |
They helped to keep food out of the reach of urts, and, at night, could be used for sleeping. |
10 |
| 13 | 284 |
For some reason, not clear to me at that time, the urts seldom attack them. |
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| 13 | 329 |
They did tend to resemble the natural noises of urts. |
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| 13 | 339 |
Probably long ago, as some forms of urts became commensals with human beings, so, too, some humans may have become commensals, traveling companions, sharers at the same table, so to speak, with the migratory urt packs. |
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| 14 | 1 |
The Urts; How Nim Nim Was Made Welcome in the Pack; The Warrior's Pace "There!" squealed the small creature. |
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| 14 | 9 |
"Urts find way!" "Strip, enter the cubicle of the bathing cisterns," had said our jailer, five of his fellows, armed, behind him, before dawn. |
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| 14 | 261 |
Urts looked much alike from my point of view. |
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| 14 | 264 |
"There is," and he made a whistling sound, "and there is," and then again he made a piping, hissing, whistling noise, pointing out two urts. |
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| 14 | 275 |
I knew that even strange urts were often torn to pieces when they attempted to approach a new pack. |
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| 14 | 281 |
Urts tend to be myopic. |
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| 14 | 303 |
Nim Nim began to utter reassuring noises to the urts. |
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| 14 | 306 |
Perhaps, too, some of these were signals used by the urts themselves. |
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| 14 | 311 |
There was suddenly from one of the urts an angry, intense, shrill, high-pitched, hideous squeal. |
10 |
| 14 | 336 |
In fury I sprang towards him, tearing urts back and away from him. |
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| 14 | 342 |
Other urts pressed forward, many of them squealing and trying to clamber over their fellows, in order to reach what was now left of Nim Nim. |
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| 14 | 343 |
I then, my legs brushing against urts, backed from the pack. |
10 |
| 14 | 400 |
I wedged between urts. |
10 |
| 14 | 406 |
One climbed over the bodies of the closely packed urts, snapping and snarling. |
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| 14 | 407 |
Its jaws came within a foot of me, and then it fell between the startled urts, it spinning about then, confused. |
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| 14 | 408 |
I kept pushing through the urts, toward the other side of the pack, more than a hundred and fifty yards away. |
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| 14 | 419 |
Nothing could follow me through the urts. |
10 |
| 14 | 428 |
I saw a sleen rearing up on its hind legs, its shoulders and head emergent from the hill of swarming, clambering urts. |
10 |
| 14 | 431 |
Then it fell back under the urts, and I could no longer see it. |
10 |
| 14 | 434 |
Too many urts, seemingly intent upon me, crowded about me. |
10 |
| 14 | 463 |
I then began, again, to press through the urts, wading through the pack. |
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| 21 | 534 |
"Once, long ago," I said, "when you sought to consign me to the mercies of urts, I questioned you as to certain matters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1369 |
"'Up, up, I say, inert tarsks, vile, loathsome, somnolent slimy urts!'" cried Hurtha. |
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| 22 | 138 |
They cannot gnaw through walls like urts, you know". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 247 |
Among other things she called us "she-sleen" and "she-urts". |
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| 6 | 253 |
Often the urts, those tiny, swift, sleek, furtive rodents, bold in their familiarity with, and seemingly assumed privileges in, the place, would rush to food before we could reach it and, almost at our cheek, snatch it up and scurry away to their holes, through the narrowly spaced bars and small cre... |
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| 6 | 269 |
Then, a week or so later, we had our own tiny kennels, small and cramped, but dry, and above the level of the urts. |
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| 7 | 80 |
"Earth she-urts," said the Gorean girl. |
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| 29 | 823 |
"Do not send your pet urts before you. |
10 |
| 29 | 855 |
How superior he was to me! How right it was that I should in the order of nature be only the slave of such a man! "You fellows are some sort of urts, are you not?" asked Hendow. |
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| 29 | 863 |
"I have never seen urts so large!" called Hendow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 62 |
Some are fine enough to set for field urts and others stout enough for tharlarion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 108 |
"Days later," said the narrator, "two soldiers with clubs, hunting urts for sport, followed a large urt into a basement where it seemingly disappeared. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 891 |
Other types of throws are "urts," "sleen," "verr," and such. |
10 |
| 3 | 893 |
The chances of obtaining, say, three "urts" is very slim, like that of obtaining three "larls" one in two hundred and sixteen. |
10 |
| 10 | 140 |
"The men of Ar have become spineless urts". |
10 |
| 10 | 459 |
"The beast who was born to live on flesh is not to be nourished on the nibblings of urts," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 71 |
"We are not all urts," said one of the men. |
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| 14 | 729 |
"They are all urts," said a subaltern. |
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| 23 | 2 |
"Let it be spattered with the spew of urts!" He seized up the Home Stone from the plank on which it sat, the plank resting on two inverted wastes vats, of the sort used in insulae, in the park of the Center Cylinder, within which lies the Central Cylinder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 471 |
Urts on the other side of the barrier, the men approaching, the corridor dark, necessitating the bringing of light into it, he had apparently, probably with his own body, if not blood, lured urts back, close to the gate. |
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| 11 | 1119 |
Or, more quickly, you might be cast to sleen, or fed to starving urts, or be flung to the fangs of dry, thirsting leech plants". |
10 |
| 11 | 1126 |
Perhaps then, eventually, you would be forgotten, save perhaps by a warden and some urts. |
10 |
| 13 | 303 |
"Urts," said the female slave with the torch. |
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| 15 | 4 |
Sometimes an urt, a small rodent, not like the large urts in the pool, scurried past. |
10 |
| 24 | 446 |
She had been taken from the top of the tower before I had been entered into the concealed shoot which had sped me far below the city, to the net suspended over the pool, that to which the giant urts had access. |
10 |
| 25 | 14 |
His lower body was filthy as it seemed that one or more of the tunnels had been flooded to the height of a man's waist, to facilitate the entry of water urts and tharlarion. |
10 |
| 34 | 81 |
The black-tunicked men had had better fortune in another passage, where five urts had charged them. |
10 |
| 34 | 85 |
The men had then pursued the two wounded urts, following a trail of blood, until they had them cornered, quarrels hanging from their flanks, where they slew them, hissing and snarling, against a gate with further quarrels. |
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| 34 | 87 |
The bows had served, in their way, as shields, the urts snapping at them, clinging to them, permitting the defender to draw and hack at their stretched necks with his sword. |
10 |
| 37 | 325 |
Most species of urts are small, weighing less than a pound. |
10 |
| 37 | 374 |
But at that moment we heard, from down the passage, in the darkness, a hideous, but unmistakable human cry, which was followed, almost instantly, by a violent squealing of urts. |
10 |
| 37 | 375 |
"Urts!" cried a man. |
10 |
| 37 | 382 |
Ours, perhaps fearing to be separated in this place, we helpless, urts about, hurried behind. |
10 |
| 37 | 384 |
Also, in a moment, I could see a mound of twisting, squealing urts, clambering over and about something, biting at it. |
10 |
| 37 | 392 |
The lieutenant, the six men, two with lamps, stood back from the pile of frenzied urts. |
10 |
| 37 | 408 |
The fellow who had been pulling the urts aside now stood back. |
10 |
| 37 | 409 |
His hands and forearms were covered with blood, but much of it, I am sure, was from the fur and jaws of the urts. |
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| 37 | 412 |
The urts now dragged the body of the dead urt, now half eaten, its bones about, to the wall, where they continued their feeding. |
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| 37 | 417 |
Urts seldom attack their own kind unless their fellow behaves in an erratic fashion, as it might if injured or ill. |
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| 37 | 433 |
Urts still squealed and stirred to the side. |
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| 37 | 459 |
Too, the urts were quieter now. |
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| 37 | 472 |
He had then cried out, as though under attack, and, doubtless at the same time, during that seemingly agonized, hideous cry, fired into the urts at point-blank range, thereby killing or wounding one of them, and initiating the feeding frenzy. |
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| 37 | 477 |
He had killed two men in this fashion and, had the urts behaved differently, might have accomplished the destruction of one or two others. |
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| 37 | 511 |
The first was he who had been given the unenviable task of separating the feeding urts. |
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| 37 | 516 |
The urts had been much at him. |
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| 37 | 518 |
He had been left where he was, that the urts would be less dangerous, from a heavy feeding. |
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| 37 | 520 |
In this fashion, if the urts pressed on us again, there would be meat to interpose between us and their reawakened appetites. |
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| 37 | 538 |
* * * * "Where are the urts?" asked the lieutenant. |
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| 37 | 613 |
I heard urts in the pool below. |
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| 37 | 618 |
There were several urts in the pool area, I knew, and, save for their fellow, and what they had had of the man by the gate, they had not eaten for two days. |
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| 37 | 723 |
Urts began to knife instantly toward the vicinity of the pool over which the Lady Ilene was suspended. |
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| 37 | 752 |
It was he who had been the first of the two men who had refrained from attacking the sleen, and had later been bloodied, separating the urts. |
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| 37 | 758 |
Only a few feet below me urts were tearing at the bodies of Herminius and Titus. |
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| 37 | 761 |
But she seemed of no interest now to the urts. |
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| 37 | 765 |
I did not know, but I thought that the urts would not be able to reach her. |
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| 37 | 769 |
Now she had another role to play, I suspected, one which had doubtless been projected for her earlier, one independent of the entry of the determined, tenacious black-tunicked men onto the walkway, the role of a dangling lure, one which might serve, for some purpose, as a distraction to urts. |
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| 37 | 773 |
To be sure, she now seemed, as things had turned out, of little current interest to the urts. |
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| 37 | 776 |
It was, presumably, a fortunate one for the Lady Ilene, particularly if the peasant had underestimated the capacity of the urts to leap from the water. |
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| 37 | 795 |
Below me the urts were still feeding. |
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| 37 | 803 |
The urts continued to feed. |
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| 37 | 811 |
"Urts have taken him, under the water," called Abnik. |
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| 37 | 813 |
"Of course," said the pit master, "that through which the urts enter it, through their nest". |
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| 37 | 819 |
I did think it possible, as doubtless so, too, did the lieutenant, that the peasant might now, at this time, the urts otherwise occupied, successfully reach the nest, which would be above water, on the other side of the wall. |
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| 37 | 826 |
He had lost blood from the bites of urts, when he had separated them, near the closed gate, earlier. |
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| 37 | 828 |
The urts did seem to be feeding now. |
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| 37 | 836 |
In dealing with urts there are certain things to be kept in mind. |
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| 37 | 843 |
"The urts feed. |
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| 37 | 845 |
"Urts took him!" said Abnik. |
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| 37 | 849 |
Too, I supposed, in a short while, the urts about, it might be difficult to obtain remains sufficient to constitute convincing evidence to a fee giver that the task which had been agreed upon had been successfully accomplished. |
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| 37 | 850 |
Tensius first, who had refrained from attacking the sleen in the passage, but who had later separated the urts, removed his helmet and set aside his bow. |
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| 37 | 863 |
One of the urts, an arm in its jaws, was swimming back toward the nest. |
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| 37 | 906 |
The urts continued to feed, turning the two bodies about in the water. |
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| 37 | 927 |
"They are in the nest," said the lieutenant, "waiting for the way to clear of urts". |
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| 37 | 954 |
"Urts," said the lieutenant. |
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| 37 | 957 |
But if he had been killed in the nest, why had the urts not fed on him there? When I looked away from the water I saw that the lieutenant's attention was returned, intently, to the pool. |
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| 37 | 968 |
The latter hypothesis was an interesting one, as water urts sometimes secure prey under the water, saving it for later, rather as certain predatory beasts will bury a kill, or place it in a tree, to be finished later. |
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| 37 | 974 |
"If he had been killed by urts his body would have made that clear. |
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| 37 | 976 |
The condition of the body, on the other hand, shows that it was not attacked by urts until either it was dead or unable to defend itself. |
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| 37 | 1012 |
"Urts have him!" said the officer of Treve. |
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| 37 | 1045 |
I could see the urts below us, at the bodies near the wall, beneath where we stood. |
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| 37 | 1068 |
Abnik was now rolling lifeless in the water, lost in the midst of the urts and bodies. |
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| 37 | 1080 |
"Could he live in such passages?" "Perhaps, on urts," said the pit master. |
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| 37 | 1188 |
The urts were still feeding. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 798 |
But, instead, after but a moment, I find you an exquisite little slab of collar-meat, a willing, content, obedient little piece of flesh-trash, no different from thousands of other meaningless, silken little she-urts. |
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| 16 | 198 |
The rest of you worthless she-urts may be as you wish". |
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| 16 | 284 |
"Pot girls, kettle-and-mat girls, worthless she-urts, all of you! Some slaves are worth a Ubara's ransom. |
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| 16 | 800 |
Some men may not have had employment, or desired such, and now, like nocturnal animals, they came furtively from their insulae, like urts from their holes. |
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| 16 | 813 |
"She-urts!" cried the girl to Ellen's left, with a rustle of chain. |
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| 16 | 836 |
"Cement-shelf girls!" "She-urts!" "She-sleen!" "Pot-and-mat girls!" "Low slaves!" "Barbarians!" "Earth-girls!" "Bondmaids!" "Plow-thralls!" "Collar meat!" "Slave meat!" "Flesh-trash!" Such were the epithets that sped forth that evening from the throats of their fair rivals. |
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| 16 | 960 |
As soon as you spot a fellow with a wallet, whether he is misshapen, lame or whatever, of any caste, and smell, who comes within five paces of the shelf, kneel, call out, lift your hands, smile, wriggle, make yourselves as pleasant and congenial as she-urts can. |
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| 20 | 923 |
"You are all vain she-urts," he said, turning away. |
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| 27 | 3259 |
The bodies, Ellen realized, would be surrendered to nature, to wind and rain, to sleet and snow, to heat and cold, to sleen, to urts, to jards, to the vast, mysterious nature from which, long ago, they had sprung. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 675 |
Who knows, say, what might have been introduced into the container while he slept, which might have satisfied the sense of vengeance of outraged Priest-Kings, perhaps a coil of squirming osts, a live sleen, successions of urts each time he slept, which he might try to kill, and on which might feed, ... |
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| 21 | 305 |
"—to those who would kill her with needles, a corpuscle at a time, who would inject her with slow, agonizing poisons, who would feed her to urts or sleen, who would cast her to leech plants, who would roast her alive and eat her, and so on". |
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| 56 | 90 |
To challenge larls is noble, to stamp on urts is inglorious, even embarrassing". |
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| 56 | 91 |
"I fear we are the urts," said Cabot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 621 |
It is interesting, I thought, what may be the effect of will, and a given leader, on a course of events, how such things, will and a given leader, as though by magic, can generate storms, can shake the earth, may turn even urts into larls, jards to tarns. |
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| 5 | 679 |
Would the ultimate motivation of the conspirator not be the sanctity of his own skin? Frightened urts will turn on their fellows and lacerate them. |
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| 5 | 829 |
"'Loathsome she-urts, detestable profiteers and traitresses,' we cried, 'remain behind, be hurled to eels, be cast amongst leech plants, be weighted and thrown into carnariums, view the city you betrayed from the height of high impaling stakes!'" "'No, please!' they wept. |
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| 10 | 775 |
"And this one," said Tajima, who had had, from the beginning, as I understood it, reservations pertaining to the former Miss Wentworth, "as she would be unworthy meat for larls or sleen, may be bound and cast into the garbage pit for the delectation of swarming urts". |
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| 13 | 247 |
While some in the streets hunted urts to live, we enjoyed the most delicate of a hundred viands, the richness of a hundred rare wines. |
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| 15 | 263 |
"That should draw in bounty hunters," I said, "like zarlit flies to honey, urts to cheese, sharks to blood". |
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| 18 | 535 |
"It seems urts have been discovered in the stable," said Tajima. |
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| 38 | 397 |
To be sure, even such accommodations were likely to be far superior to those afforded on typical slave ships, in which the slaves were often supine and tiered, chained, wrists over head, ankles together, on pallets of slatted wood, enclosed by mesh, to keep away the urts. |
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| 38 | 399 |
The chaining arrangement, incidentally, is not only to keep the girls from tearing the mesh, which might allow the entry of urts into the space, but, also, to keep them from lacerating their own bodies, tearing at them to relieve the misery consequent upon the depredations of parasites, usually ship... |
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| 40 | 159 |
It is more like the crushing of lice, the extermination of urts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 93 |
This is not as surprising as it might seem, as the poison of the ost, as that of many poisonous snakes, is prey-selective, deadly against warm-blooded animals, such as tiny urts, its customary prey, or even larger animals, such as verr and tabuk, but harmless to other snakes, to certain forms of tha... |
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| 16 | 161 |
"They are all about!" "Does the larl fear urts?" inquired Lord Okimoto. |
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| 16 | 162 |
"A thousand urts may easily kill the larl," said Cabot. |
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| 24 | 348 |
"You protected me on the ship," he said, "from the sleen, Tereus, from the bullying urts, Aeson, Thoas, and Andros. |
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| 25 | 20 |
This mammal, which usually preys on insects and small urts, like several species of birds, is communally territorial. |
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| 33 | 21 |
"You need not compete with pier urts," I said. |
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| 33 | 291 |
"Leave the garbage troughs for the urts," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1830 |
Praetors preside in the markets, dispensing justice, while here and there, beneath their feet, in sewers, like urts, others wait for darkness. |
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| 10 | 1366 |
Amongst the animals portrayed on the poster, snow larls, large, striped urts, snarling sleen, performing tharlarion, prancing kaiila, there was another, where the poster was half torn. |
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| 11 | 169 |
"Then it was noticed one evening that the blinded beast was turning about, and moving, in time to the carnival music, when the kaiila were performing, and later, the striped urts. |
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| 15 | 210 |
Was it waiting for me to move? It would be difficult to catch urts in the sewers, so alert and quickly moving. |
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| 20 | 11 |
After a time, one is likely to encounter little but wild verr, and tiny snow urts, amongst the crags. |
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| 20 | 251 |
As noted, at the higher altitudes, there is little to be found but wild verr and tiny snow urts. |
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| 23 | 80 |
Higher in the mountains the urts have a mottled pelt, or one which is white. |
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| 37 | 217 |
"Titanic forces could be locked in battle," said Desmond of Harfax, "forces compared to which men are small, weak, and fragile things, little more than field urts scampering about in the grass, amidst the tread of trampling tharlarion". |
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| 45 | 139 |
"You are cowards! You are the sons of urts, the brothers of tarsk!"! There were no translators about, so neither the guards, nor Tiresias, could understand me. |
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| 51 | 207 |
"A dark cell filled with hungry urts, a garden of leech plants, smearing her with honey and staking her out for insects, ants, jards, or such". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 100 |
Some, armed with clubs, hunted urts by the wharves. |
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| 9 | 266 |
"We all know of defeat and flight," he said, "the sorry fate of the occupational forces, of the rising of the men of Ar, of screaming crowds, diversely armed, of fires, of the decimation and disruption of troops, the desertion of officers, the stranding of units, of frequent withdrawals under fire, ... |
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| 14 | 383 |
"Of what interest might we, or urts or sleen, be to such remote and powerful beings?" I asked. |
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| 21 | 494 |
"We will leave them," he said, "for the forest, for the winter, for rain, for snow, for wind, for urts, for sleen, for panthers". |
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| 24 | 100 |
"Her remains, by now, will be the feasting of urts and forest jards," he said. |
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| 25 | 375 |
Similarly I did not fear forest urts or tarsk, though the boar can be dangerous. |
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| 43 | 1263 |
"Leave it for urts," said Aeson, "or cast it into the river, for eels, for river sleen". |
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| 51 | 93 |
"They are little different from she-urts, to which they are inferior". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 42 |
There would not be much to see now, burned wood, ashes, perhaps rusted weaponry, perhaps bones, scoured by jards and urts. |
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| 19 | 108 |
"Attend me, field girls, miserable urts, barbarian beasts," said the Ashigaru. |
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| 31 | 198 |
The shogun would have me bound, and caged with starving urts. |
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| 35 | 42 |
After all, the fearsome larl does not build ramparts behind which to tremble, fearing the depredations of urts. |
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| 49 | 82 |
They are all urts. |
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| 56 | 8 |
Might there not be scraps of food in such a place, even scrapings from the sides of garbage bins? Might not such locations then be frequented by such an individual, or individuals, trying to survive like urts in the collapse of a society or civilization? I had located it and other such facilities in... |
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| 61 | 56 |
Indeed, had he emptied his holding and left it vacant, to urts and jards, he could not have brought five thousand men south. |
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| 61 | 803 |
"And even then," she said, "when Samos would have put me to the lash, even had me cast bound to the urts in the canals of the city, you did nothing, but requested that Samos deliver me to the city of my Home Stone, Ar, and to my father, Marlenus, as a free woman!" "He did so," I said. |
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| 61 | 1235 |
Do you think men are so willing to relinquish manhood, or so stupid as to submit like dumb animals to their impoverishment, belling, and slaughter? Even the mighty larl can be brought down by a swarm of squealing urts, but this does not prove the superiority of the urt to the larl, to the lonely, pr... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 250 |
"A thousand squeaking urts," he said, "could eat a tethered kailiauk alive". |
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| 9 | 371 |
"I want her fed to eels," she said, "flayed, cast to sleen, honeyed and bound down for urts! Let her sleep this night with leech plants!" "Is it true, girl," asked the dealer, "you spoke to this fine lady?" "Yes, Master," I said. |
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| 9 | 393 |
"What will it be," she asked, "urts, sleen, leech plants, nailing to a slave board, the flaying knife?" "Perhaps you would care to buy her?" he asked. |
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| 11 | 41 |
A free woman, stripped and bound, watches the water, and then, when the large, narrow, triangular, dorsal fins of the sharks cleave the water, men lift her, to cast her into the sea; on other occasions, she might, suspended by the wrists, be lowered, bit by bit, into a pit of starving urts who will ... |
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| 41 | 111 |
"One should keep meaningless sluts, she-urts like you, on a chain," she said. |
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| 61 | 772 |
I myself think you would well be bound and fed to urts". |
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| 65 | 198 |
At that point, from the darkness, a voice called out, "Deploy, Sleen of Mintar, the urts are in the trap!" Lucilius may have understood little of this, but the men with him were only too aware of the might of the merchant, Mintar, his vast web of agents and informants, his generous rewards for the a... |
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| 65 | 222 |
"We can wait until morning, and then, at our leisure, with a thousand quarrels, slay these thieving urts with impunity. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 175 |
Cast them to eels, feed them to urts, throw them to leech plants!" He then handed his whip to one of the other men, and stormed away, leaving the chamber. |
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| 3 | 357 |
The larl must pretend to be a verr, lest it be devoured by swarms of urts. |
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| 7 | 41 |
I would guess he wants to cut off her nose and ears, and feet, and then cast her into a public garbage pit, where she may then compete with urts for the peels of larmas and suls". |
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| 8 | 127 |
I did not wish to be tied in the woods and left for the feeding of wild sleen or the nibblings of urts. |
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| 11 | 55 |
As scavengers flee from the killing beast come to reclaim his prize, as urts speed from the path of the stalking larl, as bandits hasten to elude nearing, searching, avenging guardsmen, so the thieves, brigands, rowdies, miscreants, cheats, liars, cowards, and criminals of Port Kar, men without a Ho... |
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| 11 | 81 |
The canal urts, some of which are quite large, are scavengers, and live, for the most part, off garbage in the canals. |
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| 11 | 84 |
On the other hand, many urts, particularly the larger ones, are aggressive and will attack anything in the water. |
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| 11 | 87 |
The number of urts in the canals are reduced by licensed urt hunters. |
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| 11 | 94 |
The hunter, in the bow, his spear ready, watches for urts. |
10 |
| 14 | 214 |
I would, however, if only to avoid being thrown to the urts in one canal or another, try to remain alert to any plots or potential plots, suspicious allusions, or such, which might involve Adraste. |
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| 17 | 21 |
One claimed to have seen canal urts swimming in the vicinity of some shadowy, muchly submerged visitant to the Canal of Veminiums, presumably a shark or long tharlarion. |
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| 17 | 22 |
This was unusual because urts commonly avoid sharks and tharlarion, often fleeing from their presence. |
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| 24 | 60 |
I feared I might be bound and thrown alive to the urts in the canal. |
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| 27 | 210 |
"The urts are quick," he said. |
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| 38 | 136 |
"Do you not know who I am? I am Dorna, Dorna the Proud, first of the Silver Masks of Tharna! You will be roasted alive on spits, and your flesh cast to sleen! You will be thrown alive to leech plants! You will be fed to tharlarion, boiled in honey, caged with starving urts!" "Take her to her cell," ... |
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| 42 | 80 |
Then, from the other side of the barricade, now back several yards, I heard Pa-Kur cry out, "Be done with it! Swiftly! Sweep them aside like vulos, trample them like urts! Kill all! Spare none!" There was a scrambling, the sounds of slipping, of breaking wood, cries of anger, and death. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 78 |
"Now, corsairs, predators of the sea and land," I said, "you urts, enleagued with the shameless, dreaded Bosk of Port Kar, prepare to be slain in accordance with the justice of the great Archelaos, governor of Thera". |
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| 17 | 80 |
What tyrant is so stupid as not to do so? Urts and jards take care not to wake the larl on whose kill they feed. |
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| 21 | 55 |
Vulos are preferred to tarns, urts to larls. |
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| 58 | 213 |
They depart, masts now high, sails filled with the wind of fear, like terrified urts". |
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| 60 | 24 |
Something very much like that was done in Port Kar, as well, only a tethered, swimming slave is used to attract the canal urts. |
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