| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 159 |
"The Venna!" he cried. |
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| 17 | 161 |
There, far off, I could see my tarn ship, the Venna. |
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| 17 | 166 |
The Venna was under the command of the incomparable Tab. |
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| 17 | 422 |
"Tab!" It was the Venna, thrust through to free us. |
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| 17 | 423 |
I briefly saw Tab, sweating even in the cold, in a torn tunic, a sword in his hand on the stern castle of the Venna. |
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| 17 | 424 |
Then, on the other side, was the Tela, the Venna's sister ship. |
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| 18 | 636 |
"It is the Venna!" I cried. |
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| 18 | 637 |
"And the Tela!" Standing at the prow of the Venna, shield on his arm, helmeted, spear in hand, was Tab. |
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| 18 | 638 |
He must have brought the Venna and the Tela into the wind, cutting away even the storm sails, and risked the destruction of the two ships in the high sea, not to be driven from Port Kar, and then, when the storm had lulled, they had put about and raced for the harbor. |
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| 18 | 645 |
We saw the two ships, the Venna and her sister ship, the Tela, knife into the courtyard and swing about, their bowmen firing on the men running on the promenade and trying to escape about the edges of the courtyard. |
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| 18 | 718 |
We had supped and drank, on provisions brought from the Venna and the Tela. |
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| 18 | 816 |
From the height of the keep we could see the men of Tab, from the Venna and the Tela, here and there on guard. |
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| 18 | 945 |
I saw the Venna and the Tela in the lakelike courtyard of my holding, and the sea gate, and the canals, and the roofs of buildings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 |
"The Venna and Tela have arrived from Scagnar," she said, "with full cargoes of the fur of sea sleen. |
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| 1 | 46 |
"Very well," I said, "give the men time for their pleasures, eight days, and have the cargoes transferred to one of my round ships, whichever can be most swiftly fitted, and embark them for Asperiche, the Venna and Tela as convoy". |
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| 1 | 569 |
I saw, too, Tab, who was captain of the Venna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 58 |
"We proceeded from my villa to my house in Venna," continued the Lady Florence, speaking lightly with the Lady Melpomene. |
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| 13 | 59 |
"I, too, have a house in Venna," she said. |
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| 13 | 61 |
Venna is a small, exclusive resort city, some two hundred pasangs north of Ar. |
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| 13 | 82 |
"Perhaps I shall see you in Venna". |
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| 13 | 99 |
If she does retain a house in Venna she is sure to lose it soon. |
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| 13 | 101 |
She is probably in Ar trying to negotiate a loan, or sell the house in Venna, if indeed she still owns it. |
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| 13 | 330 |
I thought it would be desirable, from my mistress' point of view, to leave Ar in the near future, and make her way to her house in the resort town of Venna. |
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| 13 | 863 |
"Have no fear but what you will be well punished when we return to Venna," she said. |
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| 14 | 6 |
We were within her house in the resort city of Venna, noted for its baths and tharlarion races. |
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| 14 | 30 |
We had been in Venna now for five days. |
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| 14 | 33 |
This was the first night, since our return to Venna, that she had commanded me to her chamber. |
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| 14 | 39 |
Once, after our return to Venna, I had heard her discussing me with some of her women friends. |
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| 14 | 68 |
We could see the lights of Venna, too. |
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| 14 | 71 |
It is the preferred residential section of Venna. |
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| 16 | 1 |
The Perfume Shop of Turbus Veminius; I am Captured I knelt in the cool recesses of the shop of Turbus Veminius, a perfumer in Venna. |
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| 16 | 2 |
Venna has many small and fine shops, catering to the affluent trade of the well-to-do, who patronize the baths and public villas of the area. |
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| 17 | 4 |
When the tharlarion wagon had arrived at a house in Venna, I had been removed from the slave cage and slave sack. |
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| 18 | 18 |
Apparently the two men in the hire of the Lady Melpomene, those two who had originally captured me, and carried me to her house in Venna, returned for me. |
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| 18 | 33 |
I was on the porch of her house in Venna. |
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| 18 | 167 |
The Lady Melpomene of Vonda, incidentally, I had heard, for such stories reach even the stables, had fared badly in the tharlarion races in Venna. |
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| 18 | 170 |
As the story went, and my own knowledge, as far as it went, corroborated the story, she had wagered what were, in effect, her last serious financial resources, the proceeds garnered from the sale of her house in Venna, on the outcomes of certain tharlarion races. |
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| 18 | 175 |
She had had to flee from Venna under the cover of darkness, that she not be delivered to the mercies of her creditors. |
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| 22 | 37 |
She looked across the tables, across the space between them, to where three men sat, one of Venna, and two of Ar. |
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| 22 | 46 |
The fellow from Venna, clad in white and gold, was Philebus, a bounty creditor. |
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| 22 | 77 |
These papers are certified by the bank of Bemus in Venna, and are witnessed by the signatures of two citizens of that city. |
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| 22 | 85 |
"And I," said the Lady Florence, "herewith publicly sign this draft, marked in the same amount, drawn on the bank of Reginald in Vonda, and properly certified, made out to Philebus of Venna". |
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| 22 | 88 |
Philebus of Venna went to the table of the Lady Melpomene and took the draft. |
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| 22 | 93 |
This had been done by Philebus of Venna and the Lady Florence. |
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| 22 | 109 |
"That from the shop of Turbus Veminius in Venna". |
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| 22 | 126 |
They were the fellows who had, long ago, captured me in an alley in Venna and carried me, bound in a slave sack, to the house of the Lady Melpomene, where she had used me for her pleasure. |
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| 22 | 417 |
She spun from him and, crying, danced before Philebus, bounty creditor of Venna. |
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| 22 | 474 |
Brandon, a prefect of Vonda, and Philebus, the bounty creditor of Venna, seemed troubled. |
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| 22 | 551 |
I remembered her well from that night in Venna, in her house, when I had lain chained at her mercy, subject to her pleasure and abuse. |
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| 22 | 723 |
"I, too, extend my thanks to you for our business, and for the supper and evening," said Philebus, bounty creditor of Venna. |
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| 25 | 256 |
"Infantrymen from Vonda and Ar have engaged north of Venna!" called another man. |
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| 25 | 268 |
"Ar and Venna are faraway," said a man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 427 |
One of the most interesting examples of such a case occurred in Venna some years ago, in the vicinity of the Stadium of Tharlarion, where tharlarion races are held. |
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| 18 | 433 |
Outside the gate, lying in the dust of the road leading from Venna, bound hand and foot, was the girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 41 |
"This is the Lady Mira, of Venna," said the bearded officer. |
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| 5 | 43 |
Venna is a resort town west of the Voltai, north of Ar. |
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| 5 | 155 |
That I took to be the doing, and a tribute to the power, of the Lady Mira of Venna. |
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| 5 | 176 |
Once again I thought of the Lady Mira of Venna. |
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| 6 | 91 |
Already, early this morning, the Lady Mira of Venna, and Alfred of Port Olni, with their mercenaries, had left Kailiauk. |
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| 14 | 1185 |
I thought, too, of the lofty, veiled Lady Mira, of Venna. |
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| 16 | 425 |
"It would be the Lady Mira, of Venna!" I said to Grunt. |
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| 17 | 380 |
"I am the Lady Mira, of the City of Venna!" I smiled to myself. |
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| 17 | 664 |
"I am not a mercenary! I am the Lady Mira of Venna, of the Merchants!" I smiled. |
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| 19 | 790 |
Behind one of the partially burnt, abandoned wagons would be she who had once been the proud Lady Mira, an agent of Kurii, of the resort city of Venna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 202 |
"Too, I would be interested to learn of the whereabouts and condition of one who was once the Lady Mira, of Venna, who, enslaved, was sentenced by her red masters to reside with the Waniyanpi". |
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| 13 | 228 |
How marvelous and beautiful are women! How glorious it is to own them, to be able to do what one wishes with them and to love them! But then I thought soberly of she who had once been the Lady Mira, of Venna, who had once, as the agent of Kurii, been my enemy. |
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| 14 | 70 |
"How is she who was the Lady Mira, of Venna?" I asked. |
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| 14 | 71 |
The Lady Mira, of Venna, had been an agent of Kurii. |
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| 14 | 79 |
"The Lady Mira, of Venna?" asked Pumpkin. |
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| 14 | 283 |
"You are she," I asked, "who was once the Lady Mira, of Venna?" "Yes," she said, "yes". |
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| 14 | 442 |
"When I was free, in Venna, and elsewhere," she said, "I was desired and could not be obtained. |
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| 32 | 40 |
I had learned later from the former Lady Mira of Venna, whom her red masters had decided to make a Waniyanpi slave, that a small group of Kurii had apparently made its way, at least largely unopposed, from the field. |
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| 33 | 70 |
She had once been the Lady Mira, of Venna, an agent of Kurii. |
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| 34 | 103 |
There, too, risen now to her elbows, her hands still tied behind her, startled, was the slave girl, Mira, once the Lady Mira, of Venna, with whom I had been pleasuring myself. |
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| 38 | 16 |
There, near our things, stood my slave, who had once been the lofty Lady Mira, of Venna, an agent of Kurii. |
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| 39 | 92 |
"Is this she who was once the lofty Lady Mira who speaks," I asked, "she who was once the proud free woman of Venna?" "Yes, Master," she said. |
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| 39 | 444 |
It seemed not improbable that the former Lady Mira of Venna might bring that much in a bartering. |
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| 40 | 63 |
The Lady Mira of Venna, the free woman, I speculated, had never found herself looked upon in this fashion, with such awe, with such desire and admiration, with such rapture and pleasure. |
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| 40 | 263 |
The former Lady Mira of Venna now stood before me, a naked slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1 |
I am on the Viktel Aria, in the Vicinity of Venna I felt a hand on my shoulder. |
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| 16 | 362 |
"You are on the Viktel Aria," he said, "north of Venna, moving south". |
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| 16 | 374 |
Venna, I recalled, was some two hundred pasangs or so north of Ar. |
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| 16 | 383 |
"Venna," he said. |
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| 16 | 393 |
"Turn you over to the office of the Archon, in Venna," he said. |
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| 17 | 5 |
The street was apparently an important one in Venna, and led down to a market square. |
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| 17 | 16 |
It had been determined that my Home Stone, if I had one, was not that of Venna, or Ar, or of one of their allies. |
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| 18 | 56 |
"North of Venna," I said, "on the Viktel Aria". |
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| 18 | 247 |
The people of Venna paid me little attention. |
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| 18 | 252 |
I followed Speusippus of Turia through the streets of Venna, even through the great market square. |
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| 19 | 10 |
It was on the southern outskirts of Venna. |
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| 26 | 276 |
I recalled the free woman from Venna. |
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| 33 | 258 |
"I call my next witness," said Miles of Argentum, "located in Venna by my men, and brought here, Speusippus of Turia". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 287 |
Who would accept the Comic Father if he did not have his Turian accent, or the Desirable Heiress if she did not speak in the soft accents of Venna, north of Ar? What would the Timid Captain be if he did not, beneath his long-nosed half-mask, have those fierce mustaches to twirl, the formidable woode... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 120 |
"This is the Lady Cara, of Venna," he said, rather as though making a formal introduction. |
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| 15 | 613 |
The woman from Venna, with a movement of chains, rose from her belly to kneel beside his desk. |
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| 15 | 820 |
He looked down at the free woman, Lady Cara, of Venna, kneeling beside the desk. |
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| 23 | 103 |
"I am from Venna". |
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| 23 | 111 |
"Where did you come from?" asked the man from Venna. |
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| 25 | 110 |
That is certainly the case in Ar, in Ko-ro-ba, in Brundisium, in Venna, in Harfax and so on. |
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| 25 | 858 |
"What had begun in the vicinity of Lydius, as, with the possible exception of myself, a cage of free women had become, by the time we had reached Venna, on the Viktel Aria, a cage of competitive, amorous slaves". |
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| 25 | 859 |
"Was it at Venna that you were legally embonded?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 468 |
"It happened only a pasang or so from the walls of Venna," she said, "closer to Venna than our camp". |
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| 7 | 33 |
These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often, also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many, for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and other... |
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| 23 | 70 |
I had been told it was Venna. |
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| 23 | 81 |
"Is that Venna?" I asked. |
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| 23 | 91 |
"To the loading docks of Aristodemus," he had said, "outside the defense perimeter of Venna". |
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| 23 | 93 |
Venna is a small, lovely city, largely a resort city, north of Ar, on the Viktel Aria. |
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| 23 | 98 |
Tarn traffic, because of the conditions of war, and alarms of war, was currently extremely restricted in the vicinity of Venna, as, I took it, it also was in the vicinity of Ar. |
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| 23 | 123 |
It is here, now, at Venna". |
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| 24 | 16 |
The other chains of Ionicus, the "red chain," the "yellow chain," and so on, were at other locations, not in the neighborhood of Venna. |
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| 24 | 69 |
She had come with the chain east to Venna. |
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| 24 | 470 |
"A body was found, that of an official of Venna, an aedile, I think". |
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| 24 | 487 |
"As far as I know, there has not been a panther or larl in the vicinity of Venna in more than a hundred years," she said. |
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| 24 | 572 |
"Many in Venna," she said, "as I understand it, are alarmed at the killing, and the mysterious footprints. |
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| 24 | 581 |
The archon in Venna would be interested in putting his house in order before the taking of the auspices. |
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| 24 | 591 |
"Our chain will probably be used for clearing and deepening ditches at the sides of the Viktel Aria south of Venna. |
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| 25 | 15 |
Had I gone about the tent I could have seen the walls of Venna. |
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| 25 | 33 |
I wanted to see Venna, and the Viktel Aria. |
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| 25 | 70 |
From where I was, happily, I could see the walls of Venna, and, before them, the Viktel Aria. |
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| 25 | 77 |
It had been to the Viktel Aria, though not to this precise part of it, that before Venna, that, four days ago, five chains of the black chain, or "links" of it, as they are sometimes called, had been marched. |
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| 25 | 85 |
This decision may have been motivated, in part, it seemed, by an understanding that the auspices were to be soon taken, and would be likely to be "favorable," as the councils in Venna were eager to get on with the repair of the walls. |
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| 25 | 102 |
I realized then he must have been watching me stand there, Venna, and her lights, in the background. |
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| 25 | 176 |
Venna keeps her forces in the vicinity of the city. |
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| 26 | 10 |
Actually we were not far at all from Venna, only a few pasangs. |
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| 26 | 160 |
"Do you really think I am going to send you back to Venna?" he asked. |
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| 26 | 198 |
It had been going north on the Viktel Aria, toward Venna, in the vicinity of which lay the camp of the black chain of Ionicus. |
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| 26 | 218 |
He had been moving toward Venna, and the camp of the black chain of Ionicus. |
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| 27 | 22 |
He had been making his way, meaningfully, the blade in its sheath, toward Venna, and the black chain. |
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| 28 | 89 |
"If there is such a beast," said Mina, "what does it want of us?" "It is such a thing, doubtless," said Tupita, "which fed upon the aedile, outside Venna". |
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| 28 | 211 |
"He went toward Venna," she said. |
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| 29 | 52 |
Venna was not far away. |
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| 29 | 103 |
That is a city far to the north and east of Venna. |
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| 29 | 143 |
He came in from the Viktel Aria, from around Venna, last night". |
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| 29 | 205 |
"Are you mad? To whom will you sell these pot girls, if not to us? Will you take these two back to Vacchi, to see if he will buy them back? Will you take the other three back to Venna?" "Deal with us fairly," said the small man. |
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| 29 | 713 |
Most recently we found it on the Viktel Aria, south of Venna. |
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| 29 | 1633 |
Such might attract the attention of men about, or perhaps of tarnsmen aflight, even as far away as Venna. |
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| 29 | 1653 |
I was last! Last! Did he think I did not recognize him in the mask? Did he not remember me? Did he not even know who I was, he of all men! To be sure, Tela was before me, and she had led a much larger coffle entering the work camp of Ionicus near Venna, that of the black chain. |
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| 30 | 143 |
If, on the other hand, you wish to return to Venna, and the camp of Ionicus, go right when you come to Viktel Aria". |
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| 32 | 164 |
"Yes," he said, "for months, from Market of Semris, to Brundisium, to Samnium, to Argentum, to Venna". |
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| 33 | 236 |
"At the Viktel Aria, turning right would bring one to Venna, and the vicinity of the black chain of Ionicus. |
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| 33 | 240 |
Tela, Mina and Cara had planned to venture south, Mina and Cara hoping to be taken in hand by the scouts of Pietro Vacchi, and Tela hoping to find Aulus in the camp, before his return northward toward Venna. |
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| 34 | 137 |
"Tela would seek out Aulus, overseer of the work camp of Ionicus, near Venna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 388 |
It suggested the sorts of names not uncommon in many of the Vosk towns, however, names reflecting the cultural mixtures of many such places, reflecting influences as diverse as those of the island ubarates, such as Cos and Tyros, on one hand, and those of southern cities, such as Venna and Ar on the... |
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| 1 | 403 |
There were one or more work chains, I knew, in the neighborhood of Venna, to the south. |
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| 1 | 407 |
Thus, Venna, an ally of Ar, might employ such a chain, even though its master was of Cos. |
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| 1 | 408 |
I supposed that if the Cosians did not mind, there was no point in Venna, who could use cheap labor, becoming exercised about the matter either. |
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| 2 | 128 |
It had apparently left the Viktel Aria somewhere north of Venna. |
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| 2 | 131 |
I had encountered refugees from Ar's Station and its environs even south of Venna. |
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| 2 | 261 |
"I am the Lady Amina of Venna," she said. |
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| 2 | 334 |
"Are there others like you inside?" I asked the first woman, the Lady Amina of Venna. |
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| 2 | 342 |
"Have other free women entered the court, since you have been fastened here?" I asked the first woman, the Lady Amina of Venna. |
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| 2 | 498 |
"The Lady Amina of Venna begs to be tasted," she said. |
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| 2 | 556 |
"Please! Please!" cried the first woman, the Lady Amina of Venna. |
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| 3 | 103 |
"Perhaps you would like to try one of the luxury inns between Ar and Venna," he said. |
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| 8 | 765 |
It was there that several sets of chains had enjoyed the possession of fair occupants, whose names, as I had learned in the paga room from the Lady Temione, were Rimice, Klio and Liomache, all from Cos, Elene, from Tyros, and Amina, a citizeness of Venna. |
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| 21 | 1398 |
I supposed that Aemilianus might think that Cosian names might be better for slaves, whereas Calliodorus might tend to approve more of names more typical of the south, say, those of Venna or Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 169 |
I remembered the six debtor sluts I had redeemed at the Inn of the Crooked Tarn, the Lady Amina, of Venna; the Lady Elene, of Tyros; and the Ladies Klio, Rimice, Liomache, and Temione, all of Cos. |
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| 3 | 165 |
Even now, I supposed, he was keeping four women for me, a slave, Liadne, serving as first girl, and three free women, Amina, of Venna, and Rimice and Phoebe, both of Cos. |
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| 26 | 203 |
Raiding parties of the Wagon Peoples have been reported as far north as Venna. |
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| 28 | 503 |
"And of those five thousand, if there were so many, how many do you think could reach Holmesk, or Venna, or Ar safely?" "I do not know," I said. |
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| 37 | 395 |
"She is a slave now, and if she is returned to Venna she will be kept there, and serve there, as what she is, and only that and precisely that, a slave". |
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| 39 | 95 |
Once she had been the Lady Cara, of Venna. |
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| 39 | 116 |
Similarly, I did not know what might now be the name of the former Lady Cara, of Venna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 448 |
This would, I suppose, depress the market for stone in various cities, perhaps even as far away as Venna. |
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| 14 | 53 |
"He is liberated," she said, "and of the times! He knows my worth!" "You would not be insolent in Cos, or Anango, or Venna!" said a man. |
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| 16 | 187 |
"Toron, of Venna," I said. |
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| 16 | 189 |
"Toron, of Venna". |
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| 19 | 9 |
Venna, a wealthy town north of Ar, is known for its diversions, in particular, its tharlarion races. |
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| 19 | 10 |
Many of Ar's more affluent citizens kept houses in Venna, at least prior to the Cosian war. |
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| 19 | 11 |
To date, Venna, though improving her walls and girding herself for defense, had not been touched in the Cosian war. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 785 |
"This is the Lady Ilene of Venna," said the clerk. |
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| 29 | 797 |
The free woman, the Lady Ilene of Venna, was under detention, rather obviously as a ransom prisoner, as had been the Lady Constanzia of Besnit, now the slave Constanzia, owned by Henry, of the house of William, in Harfax. |
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| 29 | 871 |
There should be no difficulties in the matter, as we are one of the richest houses in Venna". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 206 |
Two others were sisters from a city called Venna, taken when returning from a pilgrimage to the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 12 | 445 |
How long, if I may ask, am I to work here?" One of the sisters from Venna uttered a small inadvertent noise, one of shock, startled at the boldness of the young slave. |
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| 12 | 524 |
"Do not speak his name!" warned one of the sisters from Venna. |
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| 12 | 535 |
"Do not forget you are a slave!" "Men are the masters," said one of the sisters from Venna. |
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| 16 | 1209 |
He is now stationed near Venna, and she cooks and serves in his quarters". |
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| 24 | 310 |
An auction house in Venna was once burned down, she had heard, when it was discovered that it had sold women with dyed hair, especially as the house had not called this to the attention of the buyers. |
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| 26 | 21 |
"I was sold to one from Venna!" Melanie said. |
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| 27 | 1313 |
It is said she became one of the loveliest house and stable slaves in Venna, a city somewhat north of Ar, famed for its tharlarion races. |
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| 28 | 402 |
"In some twenty days," said Fel Doron, "it is our hope to reach the Viktel Aria, near Venna". |
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| 28 | 404 |
Melanie, she recalled, had been sold to a man from Venna. |
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| 29 | 1 |
What Occurred Near the Viktel Aria, In the Vicinity of Venna The slave had run on ahead. |
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| 29 | 58 |
"That is Venna," said he. |
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| 29 | 59 |
"Ar is but two day's journey south from Venna. |
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| 29 | 60 |
Indeed, those of Ar often have villas in the vicinity of Venna, and enjoy the races there". |
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| 29 | 96 |
She cast one last look at the distant towers of Venna, and thought again of the former Lady Melanie of Brundisium, she sold at the festival camp, now doubtless a lovely, suitably embonded, obedient chattel behind those far walls. |
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| 30 | 152 |
I have been mastered! As she knelt to the side and the men spoke, not considering her, her mind drifted back, several days ago, weeks ago, to the approach to the Viktel Aria, north of Venna, and to a wood, and to an abandoned tarsk pen in that wood. |
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| 30 | 212 |
In the vicinity of Venna there were several caravansaries outside the walls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 891 |
A typical legend might be something like "I am Margaret, the slave of Rutilius, of Venna". |
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| 2 | 342 |
"Who is your master?" "Rutilius, Rutilius of Venna, Master". |
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| 3 | 161 |
"High cities?" "Ar," said he, "Turia, Ko-ro-ba, Thentis, Treve, Venna, and such". |
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| 3 | 163 |
"Most are tower cities, but less so Turia and Venna". |
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| 5 | 26 |
"The territory of Venna," said Cabot, "is not so great". |
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| 79 | 499 |
I would rather I had collared you amongst the collapsing walls of a burning city, that I had bought you off a block in Ar! A thousand times better I had discovered you for myself, in an exposition cage in Venna, or as you were being marched naked down the gangplank of a corsair in Port Kar, having b... |
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| 81 | 90 |
"If all goes well," said Grendel, "in the vicinity of Ar, perhaps Venna". |
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| 81 | 94 |
"Venna is not a high city," said Cabot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 431 |
They might have been of Ar, or Venna, or Telnus, from almost anywhere. |
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| 24 | 133 |
"Quintus, and Fabius," I said, "perhaps of Ar, or Venna, Telarion, possibly of Ar, Lykourgos and Tyrtaios, perhaps of the island ubarates". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 59 |
There were two major keeping areas, for female slaves, off two long corridors, one on the Venna deck, and one lower, on the Kasra deck, these two corridors, as others, apart from them, leading fore and aft, the length of the vessel. |
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| 7 | 103 |
Accordingly, I surmised that she might be in the keeping area above, that on the Venna deck. |
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| 7 | 106 |
The rectangular, sliding panel on the Venna keeping area, above, which opened from the narrow, third port corridor, was fastened shut. |
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| 7 | 108 |
The contents of the keeping area on the Venna deck were apparently not to be looked upon with impunity. |
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| 7 | 115 |
Having seen many women exhibited, on the public shelves, in the exposition cages, on the block itself, it did not seem likely to me that the women of the Venna keeping area would be more beautiful, or really that much more beautiful, than those I had seen in the Kasra holding area, those heeling pri... |
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| 8 | 108 |
Of late, in the cold, and half darkness, some of the girls, lesser girls, I took it, from the Kasra keeping area, as well as several from the higher area, the Venna area, warm-shod and well furred, had been released to serve about the ship. |
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| 10 | 10 |
I wondered if they were still feeding the slaves in the Kasra and Venna keeping areas. |
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| 10 | 39 |
I had made my way at times past the Kasra and Venna areas. |
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| 17 | 15 |
Often, in good weather, in the groups into which they were divided in the Kasra and Venna keeping areas, they would be brought to the open deck for an airing and exercise. |
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| 17 | 42 |
In any event, when the first group of the Venna keeping area was brought for its airing and exercise to the open deck, this Pertinax was usually about, interestingly, seemingly preoccupied with one duty or another. |
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| 17 | 81 |
The Pani did, of course, keep slaves, as the gifting of Saru would make clear, as well as the likely disposition, sale or such, if land were ever reached, of the lovely beasts normally housed in the Kasra and Venna keeping areas. |
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| 17 | 133 |
It had to do with a particular group of slaves, from the Venna keeping area, where higher slaves were commonly housed. |
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| 17 | 148 |
The hoods would not be worn, of course, in the privacy of the Venna area itself. |
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| 17 | 149 |
Perhaps that was why the observation panel in the door of the Venna area was fastened shut, and could not be slid aside, as that of the Kasra area, below. |
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| 18 | 64 |
"From the Venna area," she said. |
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| 18 | 65 |
"Then," I said, "the girls of the Kasra area dispose not only of their own wastes, but those from the Venna area, as well". |
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| 18 | 69 |
"Did you know," I asked, "that the higher slaves are housed in the Venna area, and the lower in the Kasra area?" "May I look up?" she asked. |
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| 18 | 78 |
"Would you like to be moved to the Venna area?" I asked. |
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| 18 | 161 |
"If others know my identity," she said, "why have I not been moved to the Venna keeping area?" "If it were up to me," I said, "I would keep you where you are, in the Kasra area, with low slaves, that you might the sooner learn your collar". |
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| 19 | 15 |
It must be miserable, I supposed, in the Kasra and Venna keeping areas, as well, the penned beasts sweating on their mats, in their chains. |
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| 19 | 24 |
If there were others, I supposed them to be mostly in the Venna keeping area. |
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| 20 | 8 |
Many men, were they now in Brundisium, in Venna, in Ar, would have been rich in coin, in silks, in perfumes, and jewels. |
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| 21 | 323 |
It seemed unlikely to me that the hooded slaves, however beautiful they might be, would be that much more beautiful than their chain sisters, in either the Venna or Kasra keeping areas. |
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| 21 | 411 |
Why, I asked myself, would Tyrtaios have us, several of us, attend the return of the slaves to the Venna and Kasra keeping areas? It was only later that I understood, or thought I might understand. |
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| 21 | 467 |
"On our way," she said, "we will pass the Venna area". |
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| 21 | 471 |
"How vain you are!" "Have you ever been in the Venna keeping area?" she asked. |
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| 21 | 482 |
"We are near the Venna keeping area," I noted. |
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| 21 | 500 |
Certainly I did not think that those of the Venna keeping area who had been brought unhooded to the deck had been much her superior, if at all. |
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| 21 | 520 |
"It sounds as though there are pleasantries within the Venna keeping area," she smiled. |
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| 21 | 645 |
I unhooked one of the small lamps from the ceiling of the larger, general portion of the Venna keeping area, and, lifting it a little, entered the smaller area, followed by Alcinoë. |
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| 21 | 745 |
So why then, I asked myself, would these women, those of a particular group, housed in the Venna keeping area, have been hooded? "Well," I said to Alcinoë, looking about, "what do you think?" "Perhaps, Master," said Alcinoë, "they were not hooded for beauty, but, rather, to conceal their plain... |
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| 21 | 749 |
"Surely," said Alcinoë, "several of the other slaves, of the Venna keeping area, never hooded, are every bit as beautiful". |
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| 24 | 202 |
It may be recalled that amongst the slaves of the Venna keeping area, supposedly the area of higher slaves, there had been a certain number of slaves which, when brought to the open deck, had been invariably hooded. |
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| 24 | 225 |
I had recognized her, to my astonishment, in the private area within the Venna keeping area. |
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| 24 | 238 |
There had been twenty slaves in the private section of the Venna keeping area, those who had regularly been hooded. |
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| 24 | 260 |
I did not expect to recognize all the slaves from the private section of the Venna keeping area, having seen them but once, in poor light, but I had little doubt I could recognize some of them. |
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| 25 | 120 |
I thought it likely she had not recognized me in the private area of the Venna keeping area, some nights ago, for the light of the lantern had fallen full on her face, perhaps half blinding her, not on mine, and not on that of Alcinoë, who stood back, rather out of the light. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 980 |
Closer to Venna, the number lists the pasangs to Venna, with an indication of the direction of Venna. |
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| 8 | 1211 |
Might she not be useful as a third or fourth slave in your house, to relieve higher, better slaves of disagreeable tasks? Perhaps she might do as a starter slave, for a son, or a gift for a son or nephew, returning from his studies in Harfax, Venna, Besnit, or Brundisium". |
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| 8 | 1406 |
And I had heard that the island accents of, say, Tyros and Cos, were clearly different from those of, say, Ar or Venna. |
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| 8 | 1785 |
"How, my dear," said the voice, "would you like to be chained to a loom in the mills of Mintar, with cropped hair, or be placed in one of the public laundries, or sent to the mines of Argentum, or the tharlarion stables at Venna?" "It will be done with me as masters please," I said. |
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| 9 | 82 |
Tharlarion races were regularly held at Venna, and other towns. |
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| 16 | 83 |
"We are north of Ar, on the Venna road," he said. |
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| 16 | 84 |
"We are bound for Venna?" I said. |
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| 16 | 118 |
"I think we are going beyond Venna," he said. |
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| 16 | 162 |
I had gathered that two or three might be purchased in Venna, though I knew not for what purpose, if we were proceeding to the Voltai. |
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| 16 | 194 |
The Venna road is smooth, but even so it has its irregularities. |
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| 16 | 223 |
"Tomorrow, we should reach Venna," he said. |
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| 16 | 224 |
"Have you ever been to Venna?" "No," I said. |
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| 16 | 269 |
On the Venna road, from Ar, there is usually a well every ten or twenty pasangs. |
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| 16 | 271 |
"Fifty pasangs to Venna," I said. |
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| 16 | 297 |
"I thought it might be nice to see Venna," he said. |
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| 17 | 25 |
Venna was far more permissive than Ar, for in Ar slaves, unless discreetly concealed, were not permitted in the stadiums, let alone theaters. |
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| 17 | 78 |
We had arrived in Venna early this morning. |
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| 17 | 135 |
"I have heard," said he, "there are tharlarion races in Venna tomorrow. |
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| 18 | 11 |
We had left Venna four days ago. |
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| 18 | 65 |
Jane and Eve had been brought to Venna. |
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| 18 | 180 |
* * * * Lykos was a spare fellow, dark-haired, familiar with the wicked blade, called the gladius, who had been hired by Astrinax in one of the camps between Ar and Venna. |
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| 18 | 191 |
So it was our last night in Venna, before leaving for the Voltai. |
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| 18 | 192 |
Astrinax would make one last try, it seemed, in one of Venna's larger, more popular paga taverns, The Kneeling Slave. |
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| 18 | 204 |
So I had learned, earlier in the day, that Astrinax would visit one of Venna's more patronized taverns, The Kneeling Slave, to search again for two or three fellows to join our small caravan. |
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| 18 | 636 |
In Venna I had seen nothing of Lord Grendel or the blind Kur. |
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| 18 | 731 |
We had left Venna four days ago. |
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| 18 | 824 |
We had left Venna four days ago. |
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| 18 | 825 |
The last night at Venna we had visited the paga tavern, The Kneeling Slave. |
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| 18 | 968 |
* * * * We had left Venna four days ago. |
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| 18 | 978 |
For example, on the Vennan road, as it is called in Ar, a stone is erected midway between Ar and Venna, lists a number, and points in two directions. |
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| 18 | 1094 |
How weak we are, how needful we are, once a collar is fastened on our neck! Would you be different, noble Mistresses, were one fastened on your neck? Of course, for you are not slaves! Once before, at a night camp, our second day from Venna, he had put his hands on me, as well, and thrust me, standi... |
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| 18 | 1142 |
The wagons, down the road, behind us, approaching from the direction of Venna, might not reach the six hundredth pasang stone until dark. |
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| 20 | 173 |
"Trachinos and his fellow, Akesinos, are outlaws, and lately in contact with their band, recently come from Venna. |
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| 20 | 259 |
They had been double chained to the slave post in the Venna camp. |
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| 22 | 100 |
The men continued to converse, about many things, things of interest to men, techniques of hunting, the best seasons and terrains, the politics of mighty Ar, the taverns of Venna, the Vennan races, the breeds of tharlarion, the kaiila and slaves they had owned, and such. |
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| 22 | 117 |
"Well," said Kleomenes, pleasantly, "there are many such vulos in Venna". |
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| 22 | 118 |
"You are returning to Venna then," said Astrinax. |
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| 22 | 123 |
The tusks of Voltai tarsk sell well in Venna". |
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| 23 | 49 |
In Ar, and even in Venna, I had seen several girls on their leashes, some naked. |
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| 24 | 10 |
"The signaling," said Desmond, "was from your band, from Venna, who have been with us for some time, at least since the six hundredth pasang stone of the Aqueduct Road". |
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| 24 | 45 |
"We will have her marked, collared, and sold in Venna," said Trachinos. |
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| 24 | 47 |
"It would not do, to have you return to Venna," said Trachinos. |
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| 26 | 87 |
"Lucius of Venna, of Ar, what?" asked Astrinax. |
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| 29 | 210 |
It turned out that he had hired, in Venna, two outlaws, in league with that band. |
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| 33 | 91 |
I stood there, back from the portal, and listened to the chatting of the guards, mostly dealing with racing tharlarion and the price of women in Venna, and the small noises of utensils. |
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| 44 | 67 |
Pausanias and his wagons may already be near Venna". |
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| 49 | 155 |
He claimed he wanted her to keep him warm at night, and that he would sell her in Venna. |
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| 49 | 156 |
I was not sure that we would reach Venna. |
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| 49 | 219 |
I did not know where Kleomenes had gone, as he left us in Venna. |
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| 49 | 221 |
The fellow who had decided to sell Chloe in Venna had apparently changed his mind. |
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| 49 | 236 |
Akesinos had remained in Venna, to hire himself out as a wagon guard, an honest guard, I hoped. |
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| 49 | 237 |
He had also invested some of his resources to obtain a share in a small tavern in Venna. |
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| 52 | 201 |
You may remember that the expedition was still short of guardsmen when it reached Venna". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 813 |
"The better slaves are housed on the next deck, the Venna deck, in the Venna hold. |
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| 51 | 55 |
"The two major housing areas for kajirae on the ship," he said, "are on the Kasra and Venna decks. |
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| 51 | 56 |
The stockade girls will most likely be housed on the Venna deck, and the more common slaves in the Kasra area". |
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| 52 | 809 |
"How I tried to drive the thought of you from my mind! What storms of hate and denial I invoked to banish you from my heart! Was not the thought of you, or your image, in the corners of darkened rooms, in clouds, everywhere, in rain, in shimmering leaves, in high, green, bending grass? What had you ... |
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| 52 | 814 |
Asperiche, were she a public slave, would have been housed in the Venna hold, and you in the Kasra hold". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 25 |
But then, might they not as well have wagered on a game of kaissa or tharlarion racing at Venna? What were the parameters of this game, if game it was? Could a number of Pani warriors, brought to continental Gor, somehow find their way back to the embattled homeland? Perhaps, if the unprecedented vo... |
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| 61 | 638 |
Moreover, she was not in the kimono and obi, and fitted with the comb and slippers, of a high Pani female, but might have been encountered in a salon of glorious Ar, on a boulevard in Turia, in a market in Argentum, at a song drama in Torcadino, at the races in Venna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 391 |
"I once, in Venna," said Decius Albus, "exchanged five girls for a bottle". |
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| 61 | 318 |
And, too, one does not kill kajirae, no more than one would sully or soil the rugs of Tor, or deface the intricate mosaics of Venna. |
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| 61 | 629 |
"Of our ally, Venna?" he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 250 |
"From Venna," she said, "not far from Glorious Ar". |
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| 4 | 258 |
Apparently she was from a place called Venna, somewhere in the vicinity of a place called Ar, even "Glorious Ar". |
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| 4 | 259 |
I certainly did not know where Venna was, or "Glorious Ar," but I had asked because the accents of Adraste and Fina had seemed strikingly similar. |
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| 13 | 70 |
"Do you know Decius, of Venna?" the voice asked. |
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| 15 | 169 |
Tharlarion races in Venna were underway, Centius of Cos, guaranteed safe conduct, had won the kaissa garland in the Argentum competitions; an attempt to elevate and standardize cargo fees on the Vosk had failed; the migration of four-gilled parsit fish had begun; Rencers had raised the shelter price... |
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| 25 | 73 |
Rather I arranged, through a brigand, Decius of Venna, to steal Luta after her purchase". |
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| 25 | 74 |
"So," I thought, "the name of the man with the scar is 'Decius of Venna'. |
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| 25 | 77 |
"I am no longer associated with Decius of Venna," he said. |
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| 25 | 110 |
"I was not pleased to learn that Decius of Venna, who failed me so egregiously in Brundisium, was in Port Kar," he said. |
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| 27 | 27 |
"Decius of Venna will no longer do. |
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| 32 | 89 |
"He realizes from the unusual affliction dealt to you that others, significant and informed others, other than Decius of Venna, who would presumably not have the resources to bring about such a result, seek the same goal as himself, obtaining the slave, Adraste. |
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| 33 | 52 |
Decius of Venna, as I recalled, had had something like ten men. |
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| 43 | 112 |
Perhaps Decius of Venna will allow you to have two or three silver tarsks, for your help in delivering the slave to him". |
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| 43 | 134 |
I saw Decius of Venna standing, clinging to a rail, shaking his fist, then his figure, growing smaller, was dropping behind. |
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| 43 | 167 |
The shearing on the one side of the boat of Decius of Venna had snapped oars but not torn open the strakes. |
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| 43 | 215 |
Somewhere behind, I supposed, the handicapped canal boat of Decius of Venna struggled in our wake. |
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| 45 | 147 |
I caught sight of Decius of Venna, emerging from one boat, followed by men, and Addison Steele, from another, with Florian, of the holding of Bosk of Port Kar, and Miles, too, of that holding. |
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| 46 | 68 |
Decius of Venna, and his men, undetained, had left Port Kar. |
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| 47 | 276 |
"I wonder," said Addison Steele, "what became of the rogue, Decius of Venna". |
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| 47 | 277 |
"Escaping in the confusion at the Skerry of Lars," I said, "I suspect he returned to Venna". |
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| 47 | 286 |
"'Decius' is a not uncommon name in the vicinity of Ar and Venna," said Addison Steele. |
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| 47 | 291 |
"I did fall into the power of Decius of Venna, briefly, in Brundisium," I said, "when slaves were being removed from the House of Anesidemus, lest they perish in the spreading of a great dock fire". |
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