| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 67 |
If he is highly placed in some town on the river then his utility to Voskjard and to us would be considerably diminished if it were understood such a highly placed person was secretly in league with men such as ourselves and Voskjard". |
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| 29 | 12 |
He himself had never met Ragnar Voskjard, nor had Voskjard met Policrates. |
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| 30 | 58 |
"How did you know that we were not the scout ships of Ragnar Voskjard?" We had, after all, known the signs and countersigns, and, presumably, those of the holding of Policrates would not be familiar with all of the men or ships of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 33 | 226 |
"Yet," said Callimachus, "if the Tamira were truly the scout ship of Ragnar Voskjard, and if she crossed the chain westward four days ago, and a rendezvous was made in the river, in the vicinity of the holding of Ragnar Voskjard, the times involved are not inappropriate". |
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| 18 | 36 |
That scarcely seems what one would expect from the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 23 | 6 |
"And how is my friend, Ragnar Voskjard?" "Well," said I, "and he, of course, inquires after your health". |
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| 23 | 49 |
"I had sent word to Ragnar Voskjard more than fifty days ago". |
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| 23 | 58 |
"For all you know," I said to Kliomenes, "I might be Ragnar Voskjard himself". |
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| 23 | 62 |
"At any rate it is certainly true, at least, that I am not Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 23 | 66 |
If so, it is scarcely in Ragnar Voskjard's interest, or in ours, or in the interest of our friend here, to be recognized as the courier of the topaz. |
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| 23 | 98 |
"Surely, too, none who were not of the party of Ragnar Voskjard, should they come into the possession of the topaz, would dare to bring it here. |
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| 23 | 155 |
I did not wish to kill the courier of Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 23 | 185 |
"Do even the slaves here know that I am the courier of Ragnar Voskjard?" I asked. |
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| 23 | 201 |
The classical question in this respect, almost universal on Gor, is "Wine, Master?" "Do you think, truly," asked Policrates, "that the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, fully rigged and fitted, can be here in twenty days?" "I see no difficulty in the matter," I assured him. |
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| 23 | 247 |
"She fears you," said Policrates, "for she knows you are the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 24 | 1 |
What Occurred in my Chambers, When Miss Henderson Thought me to Be the Courier of Ragnar Voskjard "Master?" she asked. |
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| 24 | 177 |
The true courier of Ragnar Voskjard, I knew, would be expected to handle women well. |
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| 24 | 195 |
"I acknowledge you as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard," she said. |
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| 24 | 218 |
I am not to be permitted to see the face of the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, no more than others, even though I am only a lowly slave. |
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| 24 | 226 |
Whereas the frightened, deferential slave had not recognized me sitting regally with Policrates and Kliomenes in the feasting hall, in the robes and mask of the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, I did not doubt but what she might quickly recognize my voice. |
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| 24 | 744 |
I must soon leave the holding of Policrates, theoretically to journey downriver to the holding of Ragnar Voskjard, that his fleet might be soon launched, that the two fleets, in fierce force, might overwhelm the garrisons of Ar's Station, and then of Port Cos, that the river, for hundreds of pasangs... |
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| 27 | 31 |
"You are the courier of Ragnar Voskjard," I said. |
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| 27 | 86 |
"Your identity is known, of course, to Ragnar Voskjard," I said. |
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| 28 | 92 |
I had been released after the testimonies afforded by Tasdron, who had made it clear to him that I, well known in Victoria, and having arrived from the east on the river, could not be the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 29 | 7 |
I wore the mask which I had worn while pretending to be the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 29 | 9 |
These had been given to me that I could convey them to Ragnar Voskjard, that he might use them in his entry into the stronghold. |
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| 29 | 10 |
It had been my plan to gather sufficient ships, primarily from Port Cos and Ar's Station, to simulate the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, who would be expected by Policrates. |
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| 29 | 11 |
It would have seemed simple enough, then, to have brought enough men into the stronghold, posing as the men of Ragnar Voskjard, to take Policrates by surprise. |
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| 29 | 22 |
"The fleet of Ragnar Voskjard," had said Callisthenes, "can never join with the fleet of Policrates. |
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| 29 | 74 |
"You have heard my plan," I said, "that we muster ships and, under the cover of darkness, posing as the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, enter and take the stronghold of Policrates". |
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| 29 | 142 |
"Does this lack of opposition or interference on the part of pirates as powerful and well organized as those of Ragnar Voskjard not seem puzzling to you?" "Yes," said Callisthenes. |
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| 29 | 150 |
"Do you truly think a chain will stop the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard?" asked Callimachus. |
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| 29 | 153 |
It was doubtless brought as a pledge of Ragnar Voskjard to Policrates. |
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| 29 | 154 |
It signifies, in effect, the agreement of Ragnar Voskjard to join forces with Policrates. |
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| 29 | 155 |
I do not doubt that the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, in a short time, will follow the topaz". |
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| 29 | 157 |
"Voskjard may be on the move now," said Callimachus. |
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| 29 | 164 |
"Voskjard must be met at the chain". |
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| 29 | 184 |
"Ragnar Voskjard," I said, "would come with a fleet, not one or two ships, and forty men". |
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| 29 | 222 |
I wore the mask I had worn when I had pretended to be the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 29 | 224 |
"I am the courier of Ragnar Voskjard!" I called. |
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| 29 | 227 |
"The fleet of Ragnar Voskjard is not due for ten days," called the man. |
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| 29 | 229 |
"It is only two days behind us!" "The Voskjard is eager," called the man. |
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| 29 | 236 |
"Now," asked Callimachus, "when they are waiting for Ragnar Voskjard?" "He is not due, in their opinion, for ten days," I said. |
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| 30 | 90 |
"Was it you, Jason, he of Victoria," inquired Policrates, "whom we previously entertained in our holding as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard?" "Of course," I said, angrily. |
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| 30 | 102 |
"Did your informant not make it clear to you that I it was who brought you the topaz?" "The topaz," said Policrates, "was delivered to us by the courier of Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 30 | 108 |
"I trust that you have not slain him," said Policrates, "for doubtless Ragnar Voskjard would not be pleased to hear that". |
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| 30 | 111 |
"You intercepted the courier, somehow, on his way back to Ragnar Voskjard," said Policrates. |
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| 30 | 113 |
"No," I said, "it was you yourself who gave to me the signs and countersigns, when I posed as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 30 | 140 |
"Do you still insist that it was you who entered my holding, posing as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard?" inquired Policrates. |
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| 30 | 149 |
"Nonetheless," I said, "it was I who entered this holding and deceived you, in the guise of the courier of Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 30 | 161 |
"I crossed swords with the courier of Ragnar Voskjard in the great hall," said Kliomenes. |
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| 30 | 166 |
"We have information," said Policrates, "that it was the true courier of Ragnar Voskjard who came to the holding, independently of the evidence that it was he who gave us the topaz, which stone presumably could have been only in the possession of the true courier". |
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| 30 | 170 |
Whoever had betrayed us must be, or be in contact with, the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, he who had tried to obtain the topaz from me on the wharves of Victoria. |
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| 30 | 174 |
Doubtless he did not wish to be bound to the shearing blade of one of Ragnar Voskjard's galleys. |
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| 30 | 181 |
"Do you still maintain the pretense of having posed as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard?" inquired Policrates. |
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| 30 | 230 |
"This fellow claims to have impersonated the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, and to have deceived us all," said Policrates to the girl. |
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| 30 | 233 |
"You were given to the courier of Ragnar Voskjard for the night, were you not?" asked Policrates. |
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| 30 | 265 |
I gritted my teeth, but how could I resist them? "Describe to me, if you were truly one who posed as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, the nature and furnishings of the chambers in which he reposed the night in which we guested him within the holding," said Policrates. |
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| 30 | 271 |
Let them, at least for the time, believe that they had received it from the true courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 30 | 292 |
I had learned on Gor, in the secrecy of a chamber in the holding of Policrates, when posing as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, that she was a true slave. |
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| 30 | 303 |
"And let us hope, for his sake, that the courier of Ragnar Voskjard is not harmed". |
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| 30 | 365 |
"To me," said Bikkie, "you seemed a true slave girl, fully, only when you had emerged from the chambers of the courier of Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 31 | 123 |
Doubtless this was to discourage the formation of an alliance among the eastern towns, and to prevent ships being sent to stop or delay Ragnar Voskjard at the chain west of Port Cos. |
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| 32 | 79 |
The other was the galley Tamira, captained by Reginald, he who is in the fee of Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 32 | 85 |
"The scout ship of Ragnar Voskjard," said he. |
10 |
| 32 | 87 |
I myself, in my unsuccessful ruse, betrayed, presumably by the Earth-girl slave, Peggy, had posed as a commander of scout ships, supposedly sent ahead by the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 32 | 88 |
Now, it seemed, so soon, the actual ship, or ships, though it now seemed there was only one, had appeared, conducted its business, and was now returning westward on the river, presumably to rendezvous with the Voskjard. |
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| 32 | 92 |
On the other hand, it seemed puzzling to me how the Voskjard's scout ship could have appeared in these waters if the chain had not been cut. |
10 |
| 32 | 111 |
"Once joined with the Voskjard," said Kliomenes, "we can fetch it forth from the towns, as it pleases us". |
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| 32 | 135 |
"He maintains," said the pirate who had conducted me to the room, he normally in charge of the crews of the windlass, "that he deceived both you and Policrates, and us all, by posing as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 32 | 152 |
"The courier, or he who posed as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, though not my equal, was not unskilled with the sword," said Kliomenes. |
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| 32 | 154 |
"Do not slay him, Kliomenes," said one of the men near the curule chair, "for he might be of use in bargaining for the freedom of the true courier of Ragnar Voskjard, who must have been captured by our enemies in Victoria". |
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| 32 | 161 |
"Thus," said he, "if you are truly he who posed as the courier of the Voskjard, you, too, must be not unskilled with the sword". |
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| 33 | 19 |
"If the Voskjard attempts to cross the chain in force," said Callimachus, "we will not be able to stop him". |
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| 33 | 54 |
Doubtless she revealed our plans to the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, or to a pirate in Tasdron's tavern, perhaps while moaning with pleasure in his arms, perhaps hoping to win her freedom by her treachery". |
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| 33 | 83 |
"It is a scout ship of Ragnar Voskjard," I said. |
10 |
| 33 | 97 |
"Perhaps the Voskjard fears the chain," said Callimachus. |
10 |
| 33 | 116 |
Yet we would miss him in the fray, should the Voskjard's fleet dare to approach the chain more directly. |
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| 33 | 125 |
"Perhaps the Voskjard does fear the chain," I said. |
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| 33 | 141 |
"Do you think the Voskjard will come?" I asked. |
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| 33 | 163 |
"It is conjectured," said Callimachus, "that the Voskjard is stronger than Policrates. |
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| 33 | 184 |
"And it is estimated that the Voskjard's fleet numbers some fifty ships?" "Yes," said Callimachus. |
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| 33 | 191 |
"And the fleet of the Voskjard can, at will, attack at any given point". |
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| 33 | 204 |
"It is then, you feel," I said, apprehensively, "in effect some thirty ships, those of Port Cos, against the fleet of the Voskjard?" "Substantially so," agreed Callimachus. |
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| 33 | 238 |
"It is the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1 |
We Bid Welcome to the Voskjard's Fleet; The Courier of Ragnar Voskjard; The Fleet of Policrates "There must be fifty ships in the channel," said Callimachus, snapping shut the glass of the Builders. |
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| 14 | 1 |
Ragnar Voskjard Meets Policrates; Ragnar Voskjard Learns that He is not First on the River Bound over the great, curved shearing blade I could see little but the sky. |
10 |
| 1 | 1 |
Ships of the Voskjard Most Gorean ships have a concave bow, which descends gracefully into the water. |
10 |
| 1 | 59 |
The Voskjard had not been able to break the chain. |
10 |
| 1 | 179 |
"Do you think the Voskjard will now withdraw?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 184 |
"When do you think the Voskjard will try again?" I asked. |
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| 2 | 50 |
"We have now, I suspect," said he, "taught the men of Ragnar Voskjard some respect for honest men". |
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| 2 | 178 |
"Then the Voskjard will not know that the chain is weak at that point," said a man. |
10 |
| 2 | 184 |
"The Voskjard has been delayed," said one of the men. |
10 |
| 2 | 187 |
"In a free battle, on the river, we will stand little chance against the swift ships of the Voskjard". |
10 |
| 2 | 191 |
"If the Voskjard should join with Policrates," said another man, "and the forces of Port Cos and Ar's Station are divided, no town on the river will be safe". |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 2 | 211 |
"Perhaps the Voskjard has given up," said a man. |
10 |
| 2 | 220 |
"Would you surrender the river to men such as Policrates and Ragnar Voskjard?" I asked. |
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| 3 | 44 |
"The first of the Voskjard's ships has crossed the chain!" cried another. |
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| 3 | 52 |
The galleys of the Voskjard, like most Gorean ships, were double ruddered. |
10 |
| 3 | 68 |
It was only these, we feared, who might be able to match the forces of the Voskjard in even combat. |
10 |
| 3 | 69 |
The ships of Ar's Station could bring numbers to bear in our favor, but we did not regard them, ship for ship, as the match of either a galley of the Voskjard or of Port Cos. |
10 |
| 3 | 163 |
"Ships of the Voskjard," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 165 |
"Apparently the Voskjard has more than fifty ships," I said. |
10 |
| 4 | 22 |
The Voskjard, as we had learned, had lost four. |
10 |
| 4 | 24 |
From my position at the starboard rail, near the bow, below the stem castle, I could not well see the arrangement of the Voskjard's formation. |
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| 4 | 25 |
"There are other ships of the Voskjard west of the chain," said a man, glumly. |
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| 4 | 29 |
The chain could now be cut with impunity, behind the shield of the Voskjard's northern fleet, that now some half pasang off our bows. |
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| 4 | 32 |
Acting on the information supplied by Callisthenes we had conjectured that the Voskjard commanded in the neighborhood of fifty ships. |
10 |
| 4 | 87 |
The Voskjard had been held at the chain in the south. |
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| 4 | 123 |
"Is that a well-known ship of the Voskjard," I asked. |
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| 4 | 137 |
"The wedge of the Voskjard approaches!" called an officer on our stem castle. |
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| 4 | 145 |
"The Voskjard is committed to the wedge!" I said to the man next to me. |
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| 4 | 149 |
"No! Look! It is the flank of the Voskjard which is now unguarded!" The Tais and her swift, lean sisters, emerging unexpectedly, circling, from behind our lines, stern quarters low in the water, rams half lifted from the water, wet and glistening in the sun, at full stroke, oars beating, drums pound... |
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| 4 | 164 |
The Voskjard's fleet was in confusion. |
10 |
| 4 | 169 |
How could Ar, I asked myself, compete with such men and ships upon the mighty Vosk? Laughable were the miserable, squat ships of Ar's Station when compared with the sleek carnivores of Port Cos or, indeed, those of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 4 | 178 |
To be sure, amidst the wreckage and crowding, and even grinding against the chain, the fleet of the Voskjard had managed to come about. |
10 |
| 4 | 181 |
The rams of the Voskjard's fleet swung toward the Tais and her sisters. |
10 |
| 4 | 186 |
"The fleet of the Voskjard has been marshaled," said a man next to me. |
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| 4 | 193 |
"The Voskjard has exposed his flank to us!" The Tina and her line moved forward. |
10 |
| 4 | 198 |
We, the line of our ships, had caught the fleet of the Voskjard in its right flank, as it had turned to confront and punish the Tais and her sisters of Port Cos. |
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| 4 | 199 |
This audacious act on our part had taken the fleet of the Voskjard by surprise. |
10 |
| 4 | 213 |
He would not risk open battle, not even on even terms, with ships such as those of the Voskjard. |
10 |
| 4 | 216 |
"The Voskjard will be angry," said another. |
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| 4 | 223 |
I thought it not improbable that the Voskjard had lost in the neighborhood of thirty ships. |
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| 4 | 226 |
I could not but think, bitterly, that if the Voskjard, truly, had had only some fifty ships, as we had gathered from the intelligences supplied to us by Callisthenes, we, if supplemented by the twenty ships of Callisthenes, yet to appear, would now have outnumbered him. |
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| 4 | 257 |
I noted the approach of the Voskjard's fleet, the ships moving in pairs, with more than a hundred yards between the pairs. |
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| 5 | 69 |
"They are men of the Voskjard," said another. |
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| 5 | 86 |
"She flies the pennons of the Voskjard," said another. |
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| 5 | 89 |
"She is captained by Reginald, in the fee of Ragnar Voskjard," I cried. |
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| 5 | 90 |
"She is the scout ship of Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 5 | 92 |
"She came to clear the way for the passage of the Voskjard east," I said. |
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| 5 | 93 |
"But," I said, anxiously, "was the rendezvous with the Voskjard's fleet at his holding or was it in the river?" "What difference does it make?" asked a man. |
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| 5 | 101 |
"It suggests to me that the rendezvous was, indeed, made in the river, and not at the Voskjard's holding". |
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| 5 | 109 |
Fifty yards astern we saw the jury-rigged ram of the Sita, a converted merchantman of Jort's Ferry, take a ship of the Voskjard in the stern. |
10 |
| 5 | 113 |
The Sita herself, extricating herself from her victim, sluggish, half-listing, underoared, was stove in on the port and starboard sides by ramships of the Voskjard. |
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| 5 | 120 |
A ramship of the Voskjard, her ram missing our port bow by inches slid rapidly past. |
10 |
| 5 | 128 |
"It is a ship of the Voskjard!" cried a man. |
10 |
| 5 | 138 |
It is a ship of the Voskjard! It has been taken as a prize!" "How could that be?" asked a man. |
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| 5 | 144 |
Did Ar's Station truly think to match such swollen, ponderous freighters against the swift, sleek menace of the Voskjard's warships? And to aggravate the situation the ships of Ar's Station seemed undermanned. |
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| 5 | 146 |
How attractive, how inviting, they must appear to the predators of the Voskjard! A mighty rock, then, suddenly, not more than ten feet from my bench, plummeted through our deck, splintering the wood upward, exploding it upward, in a shower of sharpened fragments. |
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| 5 | 165 |
In the delay a ship of the Voskjard had interposed herself between us and the Portia. |
10 |
| 5 | 173 |
The ship of the Voskjard lay to. |
10 |
| 5 | 181 |
"If we did so," said another man, glumly, pointing to the rocking galley of the Voskjard off our bow, "she would take us in the hull like a speared tarsk". |
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| 5 | 184 |
Grimly we watched the efficient approach of the Voskjard's ships, one to the port of the Portia, the other to her starboard. |
10 |
| 5 | 218 |
The ship of the Voskjard which had been lying to, preventing us from joining the fray, now backed away from us. |
10 |
| 5 | 242 |
She had been the lead ship of the Voskjard's first wedge attack. |
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| 5 | 244 |
It was said that she was a well-known ship of the Voskjard. |
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| 6 | 1 |
We Await Support from Callisthenes; It does not Come; The Third Fleet of the Voskjard; Again We Sound Our Battle Horns We saw the Leda of Port Cos taken full in the hull. |
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| 6 | 4 |
A medium-class galley of the Voskjard slipped past our bow, the tooth of her ram failing to feed, the water from her cleft passage, swelling away from her, forcing us to port. |
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| 6 | 12 |
There was a grinding astern and a dozen men from one of the Voskjard's pressing ships, close in the crowded waters, leapt aboard. |
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| 6 | 26 |
The ram of a Voskjard ship smote the jutting bow of the Leda. |
10 |
| 6 | 27 |
Men leaped from it into the water, mixing in the water with the striking oars of the Voskjard's ship. |
10 |
| 6 | 28 |
Archers on the Voskjard's ship, leaning over her gunnels, fired down on the struggling swimmers. |
10 |
| 6 | 32 |
Our ram, now, threatened the Voskjard's ship. |
10 |
| 6 | 41 |
Off the starboard bow lay a galley of the Voskjard, rocking on the water, seemingly somnolent, but we knew, in an instant, if we exposed our flank to her, she would come alive, springing to the attack. |
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| 6 | 53 |
We listened to the signal horns from the Voskjard's fleet. |
10 |
| 6 | 64 |
These five ships, this small, uneasy, slender line, were all we had to oppose the might of the Voskjard, surely still some twenty-eight or twenty-nine ships, now being marshaled off our bows. |
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| 6 | 95 |
"Stroke!" And the five ships of our small line sallied forth to meet the stately advance of the Voskjard's fleet. |
10 |
| 6 | 123 |
"The fleet of the Voskjard approaches!" "Callisthenes!" we cried, joyfully. |
10 |
| 6 | 134 |
"It can only be ships of the Voskjard," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 138 |
We could hear battle horns, now, from not only the forces of the Voskjard moving towards us, off our bows, but we could hear, too, the notes of battle horns drifting across the water towards us from astern. |
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| 6 | 144 |
These ships, advancing from the south, were clearly ships of the Voskjard. |
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| 6 | 150 |
That the new ships of the Voskjard were bearing down now upon us, and in such force, suggested that they had not been opposed, that either they had been permitted to cut the chain and advance unmolested, or, more likely, perhaps, that they had been permitted to circumvent the chain by the use of the... |
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| 6 | 153 |
Too, his information on the power of the Voskjard had proved haplessly inadequate. |
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| 6 | 158 |
Now, it seemed, they had failed, too, even to prevent the third fleet of the Voskjard from making an unimpeded entry into the waters east of the chain, from which position, of course, they could take the defensive fleet in the rear. |
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| 7 | 1 |
I Again See the Tamira; I Go for a Swim "There is the Tamira," said a man, pointing to starboard, at one Voskjard ship among others. |
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| 7 | 8 |
Voskjard ships crowded about the Olivia, the Tais and Tina. |
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| 7 | 16 |
The ships of the Voskjard so pressed about our three ships that they could not use their rams or shearing blades. |
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| 7 | 17 |
More than one Voskjard ship had been set afire by flaming pitch cast from another. |
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| 7 | 22 |
"For the Voskjard!" hissed the man. |
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| 7 | 39 |
Already the men of the Voskjard were killing survivors. |
10 |
| 7 | 42 |
"For the Voskjard!" he said. |
10 |
| 7 | 49 |
"For the Voskjard!" I grinned, brandishing the knife. |
10 |
| 7 | 54 |
One of the Voskjard's ships, in the press of battle, had struck her fellow. |
10 |
| 7 | 66 |
A ship of the Voskjard, a hundred yards away, back from the immediate press of battle, was aflame. |
10 |
| 8 | 10 |
This guise, doubtless, still served her well in her work for the Voskjard. |
10 |
| 8 | 101 |
"This is the scout ship of Ragnar Voskjard," I said. |
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| 8 | 140 |
More importantly, I gathered from her response what I had been truly after, that the Tamira had made her rendezvous with the Voskjard's fleet in the western Vosk, and not at his holding. |
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| 8 | 142 |
"The captain of the Tamira," I said, "is an important man, and much trusted by Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 8 | 144 |
"The rendezvous of the Tamira with the fleet of the Voskjard," I said, "took place then not at his holding, but in the river". |
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| 8 | 148 |
"Has Reginald boarded the flagship of Ragnar Voskjard since the return from the holding of Policrates?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 401 |
The tactics which seemed to me obvious in such a situation the Voskjard had not yet employed. |
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| 8 | 428 |
She had been the woman of Reginald, one of the captains of the Voskjard. |
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| 9 | 107 |
It was a well-known ship of the Voskjard. |
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| 9 | 116 |
Using this as a diversion the Tina and the Tais, with Aemilianus, and the crew and men of the Olivia, with captured pennons from prize ships taken earlier from the Voskjard, had permitted other ships, like sharks, to pass them, following the light of the Olivia, taking that light for the locale of b... |
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| 9 | 143 |
She was, it was said, a well-known ship of the Voskjard. |
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| 9 | 278 |
"In Tetrapoli I was again sold, to an agent, who proved to be in the fee of Alcibron, one of the high captains of Ragnar Voskjard". |
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| 9 | 350 |
"In the movement and clashing of ships, in the confusion, in spite of the diversion, in spite of the Voskjard pennons which we have flown, she has not lost us. |
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| 10 | 6 |
Shirley, whom I had taken from Reginald, captain of the Tamira, said once to have been of Tafa, hung at the bow of our lead ship, the Tuka, that vessel said to be a well-known vessel of the Voskjard. |
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| 10 | 21 |
I was certain that he had been the true courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 10 | 24 |
I did not know if the courier would be expected to travel with the fleet of the Voskjard or not. |
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| 10 | 52 |
We had then lain to, in the movement of ships, pennons of the Voskjard on our lines, should we fall within the light of passing lanterns. |
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| 10 | 58 |
Following the Tuka and the Tais, by prearranged plan, we in the Tina had then rowed southward along the chain until we came to the point where the northward-moving portion of the Voskjard's fleet, that which we had once mistaken for the support vessels of Callisthenes, had cut the chain. |
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| 10 | 72 |
By the time such a force might be raised in the river towns, of course, the fleet of the Voskjard would have reached the holding of Policrates, reinforced it, and participated in the development of new security arrangements. |
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| 10 | 79 |
By dusk we had come to the northern break in the chain, that produced by the second portion of the Voskjard's fleet. |
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| 10 | 114 |
Miles of Vonda had represented us, of course, as being the advance ships of the Voskjard's fleet. |
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| 11 | 227 |
"When do you think the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard will arrive at the holding," he asked. |
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| 12 | 51 |
It was he who was the true courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 12 | 53 |
Neither, however, seemed to me to possess the suggestion of power, or the presence, that I would have expected of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 12 | 54 |
The Voskjard, I suspected, was not with the fleet. |
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| 12 | 55 |
I had, indeed, earlier speculated from pirate strategies that the fleet had been under the command not of the Voskjard, but of a lesser man. |
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| 12 | 56 |
The Voskjard, I suspected, during the battle, would have contented himself with reigning in his holding. |
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| 12 | 65 |
"The courier of Ragnar Voskjard," said Kliomenes, "he in the mask". |
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| 12 | 68 |
"Is it Ragnar Voskjard?" I asked. |
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| 12 | 100 |
He who had been the courier of Ragnar Voskjard looked about himself, suspiciously, and then, with the others, entered the holding. |
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| 12 | 114 |
Suddenly, reeling, his sword bloody, I saw he who had been the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, his clothing torn, emerge wildly from the interior of the holding. |
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| 12 | 129 |
The courier of Ragnar Voskjard would not escape. |
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| 12 | 147 |
The courier of Ragnar Voskjard, then, bedraggled, his weapon gone, still masked, knelt before me. |
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| 12 | 153 |
"So you are the courier of Ragnar Voskjard," he said, grimly. |
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| 12 | 174 |
"He," I said, drawing the mask from the head of the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 12 | 183 |
In spite of this, and his resemblance to the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, I dismissed the possibility of his guilt. |
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| 12 | 186 |
Then, again, when we were betrayed, because of the small number of individuals who knew of our plans, and his resemblance to the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, and the injury, it seemed it must be he. |
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| 12 | 202 |
On the ruse of undertaking a mission of reconnaissance I then joined the fleet of the Voskjard". |
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| 12 | 203 |
"Where is the Voskjard?" asked Callimachus. |
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| 12 | 236 |
He had returned for his rendezvous with the Voskjard. |
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| 14 | 5 |
Spined Tharlarion, I knew, was the personal ship of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 14 | 17 |
Only recently, I gathered, surely only within a few Ahn, had the Voskjard become apprised of the fate of so many of his ships. |
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| 14 | 18 |
The wings of the Voskjard had been cruelly clipped. |
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| 14 | 56 |
"I am Ragnar Voskjard!" called the voice to my left. |
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| 14 | 58 |
"I am first!" said Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 14 | 61 |
"There is our agreement!" cried Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 14 | 63 |
"By what right?" asked Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 14 | 65 |
"I shall withdraw to my holding," said Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 14 | 67 |
"I did not come east upon the river to return with empty coffers," said Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 14 | 69 |
"I shall join you," said Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 14 | 72 |
"I do not care to contest it," said Ragnar Voskjard, bitterly. |
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| 14 | 74 |
"Yes," said Ragnar Voskjard, bitterly, "you are first upon the river". |
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| 16 | 46 |
"Back to the ships!" "Back to the ships!" called Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 199 |
A ship to my left, Spined Tharlarion, the flagship of Ragnar Voskjard, was aflame. |
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| 16 | 243 |
Policrates and the Voskjard are finished!" "Get me a sword!" said Callimachus. |
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| 16 | 270 |
"Fetch Ragnar Voskjard," he said. |
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| 16 | 274 |
Some forty yards away, across the water, some hundred yards or so out in the river, off the wharves, half afire, I saw the ship of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 286 |
Scarcely had I ascended the heavy planking than, approaching rapidly, bearing down on me, I saw a medium galley, thrusting itself between the flagship of Policrates and Spined Tharlarion, the flagship of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 329 |
"Greetings, Ragnar Voskjard," I said to him, "I have come to fetch you". |
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| 16 | 351 |
"It is amusing, is it not," I asked, "that the great Ragnar Voskjard is now naught but the prisoner of an ex-fighting-slave?" "Free me," he begged. |
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| 16 | 354 |
"What pay could compare with the pleasure of taking the Voskjard prisoner?" I asked. |
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| 16 | 362 |
"We have been rammed!" cried the Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 365 |
"We shall sink!" cried the Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 367 |
I stood up, the bound Voskjard between my feet. |
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| 16 | 390 |
I then, feet first, leaped downward into the water, landing near the floundering Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 393 |
The Voskjard grunted, and half choked, as I hauled him, partly by the neck leash, partly by his arm, over the rail of the flagship of Policrates. |
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| 16 | 404 |
Ragnar Voskjard tried to rise, but my foot, thrust between his shoulder blades, pressed him rudely back to the deck. |
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| 16 | 424 |
Free me!" cried Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 507 |
"We are sinking!" cried Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 511 |
"We are sinking!" said the Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 513 |
"And we are helpless!" cried the Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 516 |
"Mercy, mercy!" cried the Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 520 |
"Yes, my captor!" cried Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 524 |
It had not been visible, of course, to either Ragnar Voskjard or Kliomenes. |
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| 16 | 542 |
I did not envy Policrates or Callisthenes, nor Kliomenes, nor Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 17 | 141 |
And it had surely been made manifest to me incontrovertibly in the holding of Policrates, when she had thought me to be the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 17 | 820 |
"I was once given for the night in the holding of Policrates to he whom we, at that time, thought to be the courier of Ragnar Voskjard," she whispered. |
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| 18 | 149 |
I wore a mask identical to that which I had worn when I had first gained admittance to the holding of Policrates, when I had, long ago, pretended to be an agent of Ragnar Voskjard, he who was the bearer of the topaz. |
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| 20 | 339 |
"The citadels of Policrates and Ragnar Voskjard have been burned, I heard," I said. |
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| 20 | 341 |
The citadel of Ragnar Voskjard had been fled by its defenders, after the news of the battle at Victoria reached them, they knowing themselves too few to defend it against a concerted siege. |
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| 20 | 1461 |
"After being used by the courier of Ragnar Voskjard," she smiled, "in the holding of Policrates". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 182 |
"The pledge of the topaz was originally an agreement between river pirates, a pledge of mutual assistance and, in crisis, alliance, between them, those of the eastern and western Vosk, between Policrates in the east and Ragnar Voskjard in the west. |
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| 20 | 194 |
One part of the stone was originally held by Ragnar Voskjard, chief of pirates in the west, and the other by Policrates, chief of pirates in the east. |
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| 20 | 290 |
Most of these with me fought with us against Policrates and Voskjard". |
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